The National Register.
London, England, 1818-06-07 00:00:00

GUILDHA LT,

rATEN,IV!! PFPRED(Tlll,4i.—Tuftflay J. Sit/11110114N It
soling man of respffetablis fatiolt, was brought up charged
with stealing various articles of property to the annonor of
39)1. Ifom the warehouse Of Nlocc Watinrd„ Gardeetse and
Co. INlartrilester dealers, in IVallintkstr,.et. I lie pi i.imer, it
arpeareti,oe is in the employ of the prOSeell'OTS for nine
n unthv, but had left their service about a fortaHit sluice
consegni-nee of their refusing to aie•ment his salary. A
f. of days after he had quitted them, something call(' to their
t_:;qw ledge which ted to a suspicion that be had robbed them,
.01 1131 t'ie trslitt van, was employed to apprehend
Titii officer discovered his lodgings to be at the ROW.
French Horn politic-house, where, with the landlotd.%
permission, he %Penciled his hoses and a cold:oar/Land foni,d
them tilled with !sown pieces, SIIHWIA, %carts and other ptu•
perty, all of whichbore the private marks of the prosecutors.
The same evening he OA the prisoner into custody, and
found on his person more article% of the saute description,
to' other wills several letters from two young women, .ae_
knowledging the receipt of divers handsome presents. He
also blend a number of ilnplicates of property pledged at
different itawnforint •rl. At the residence of Sarah Cable,
one of the yawng women minded to, Harrison found several.
articles, and, among others, it beautiful dress, which she said
the poisoner, who was about to antral her, had presented to
hoe to wear on the nuptial day. Toe other female Ann Fry,
re ided at Woke Newington. amt haul several dretwes,-&.e. in
her possessi fit. A sister of the prisoner living in Surrey,
had more goods, which %ere sold or given to her by her bro.
flier ; and the landlady of the Rose and French Horn had also
purchased a Considerable quantity of him. The whole of the
property traced by the exertions of Harrison was identified
by the prosecutors ; it amonnted in valise to about 801, bits it
'A as tali:ld:Ns:, that his depredations most .have been to the
-_,eount of at least 5001. Sarah (411e1 a very interesting
sattng girl, was present, and gave evidence as to the articles
,thich haul beau found in her possession. Her agitation was
ru tiolent as made it necessary to support her; and ;,t the
t eachesion el-her testimony, she fainted. The prisoner, who
--tas in tearsthe whole of the time, was taken Wow the bar
•,t.arly senseless.—He wasinflv committed for trial.
liArdON bAItDEN. _ _

Monday Dercey. pest-boy to Mr. Clare, or the
at Hampstead, was charged by his mistress with rub
.1; her of 201. in notes and cash. The prosecutria deposed,
cm Fri lay morning she brought a bag down stairs, eon_
Rank notes and cash to a consideratileiameum, which
:lie put into a drawer in her bar, but senu after discovered
v.at part of the, property had been stolen. Suspicion failirl
the prisoner, she had him taken into custody. W. Re. u,
a. the (Aker, deposed, TlM:Tater haii taken the prisoner
. .

custody, he confessed lie had been in the habit of robbing
pis mistress for a considerable time, and that wills part at
..vhet he had stolen he bona h: clothes and a watch ; and what
had stolen out of the hag, he hid in the coal cellar, until
en opportunity offered for his takiug it away. On examining
,:!le cellar, he (mind al. 9s. aril three !Litotes, part of which
psesecutrie swere to have beets stolen from her, and the
ori•oner was fully commitied.
-.Vedneseee Vanier, a master chimney-sweeper. of Cha-
1-street, fe.i.l.egton, was charged by Miiry Carr, of the Broadway,
di ptfu a, with deeeining her son, 1 t years doge, Um. her, on pre-
*.enCe bt his apprentice. She stated. tire she had been left
..vielow with two children, which she maintained by selling Unites :A
• .'er.; that :Moat seven months ago her son was sedeced from her
::another boy, dering her absence from home, and •ia a dew days
.i.• he was b04111:1 apprentice from this ()thee to Peuifer, without
her krowledge, the child being first instructed to-till the Magistrates
that .1L; had neither lather nor mother, and theeit was his wish to be
a sweep. That as soon as she:discovered the circumstance, she re-
paired re his house to claim him, erne:Metier that so young a toy
coal not be legally bonnet without the consent of his parents ; but
Pottifer refused to deliver him up, and she watched au opportunity
and took him Maitre. E a few days after he repaired to Deptford,
and in her ahs. net -carried him off; telling her neighbours he had
settled with 'demetle.e. She was able to maintain and clothe him.
Laving a little caeital to work.en, an 1 wished to have him .under her
tern care. e!tild was never sent either to school or to chervil;
he had neti.ve s tint. Fleece, nor sto.kingi on. end was not allowed
'Sundays to was:t 07 'Llita himself; but was employed on that day •
,a sorting soot in ti. anat. whe-.: he usually had his victuals, and
at night slept on .rout lags. The &Sat:List strongly denied every
part of the charge ; mid said the: complainant only wanted to
• ,ee him easy now. ea he understood his business, in order to get
money front another master far him; that in the tint instance, his
mother dee; trted Lira :,11 Blackheath, where she lefr him to provide
fee himself. and that he did not know in what part of the world she
was its; and on this statement he was bound apprentice. The boy
net being present. the parties were ordered tea enema agein, and bring
`aim with them.
MAREIIORWIGH STREE'r.
T. Ward was churned with stealing a dead body. The sia•
fendent, who is porter at St. George's Hospital, was detected
in Arlington.street,4emerretown, with a male body in matting.
His load being heavy, he pitched it ; and on takiug it np
again, the arms and legs were visible. and come persons pass.
Inc, followed him, when he threw it OV or a wall, and in tele
off; but was pursued and taken. Lt his defence, he said, it
was a remit ry sobject, and lie was on his way to Dr. Brooltes's
with it, at ho had ordered it a week agu.—lie was.ordered to
Mid bail, and sent for Dr. Brookes for that purpose.
SINGULAR CH 41:GE.—A Mr. John Eagan charged his
Jeueliter, a girl of 19, with assaulting hint and threatening
ti.s life. The complainant stated, that the accused had ab-
sconded front her home in lielait,l, and she having been at--
..used of Witting a gentleman of 7UOI. lie mane to ',melon to
tied her, his residence in Ire land having been snatched for the
stoical proper;.:. Plank, the officer, fumed. her in Rieliag
Hoaseedane, when she denied her 130.'1., venom she had
3track...end threatened to plunge a knife into Mei if he made
an3"iseeotures. Capt. APCiatan was the person she was
charged s.:th •rehisiter mod who has a process against her in
•
Malin far th- f; luny . The debilities': was mili.red to find
bail,. and information was Avat to 1; a blin.
WORS nTh
saturdsy week, George Jlul.iu, eliareed with Tittering a
forged 11. note at the shop of ;MR Rogers, hosier, in Alders-
gate-street. was fully esominitted.
• Charles Lowman, one of the inmates of the Refuge for the
T;estittite, at Hesston, who ansconded with a snit of clothes
belonging to another youth in the !infinities., was fully cum_
mitt«l.
THREATENING To Weerle„ aft
Aloe:dile dressed lady, was charged before .Williain
son, Esq. by her husband Mr. J. G. Van Weede, n gentleman
residing in the City-road, with acting towards hint with great
wiolesiee, and threatened to murder him. The gentlemen
stated, that his wife god up in the middle of the night, went
to his demising ease mot took out a razor, whirl: she placed
tinder the ; he awoke, and she vowed she would des-
fro/ ,him—be escaped from her. 'she defendant said, she
• . ie....1.1.110r husband. They agreed tc

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UXION HALL.

FXTEWSZVE linnatity.—Wm. Parke was brought up for ex-
amination under the following charge:-91r. Wunam Broomfield,
of New Bridge-street, Vauxhall, stated, that the prisoner, for a con-
siderahle tine just, had been employed by hint at a jcurneytuan.
On the mil) of May last, I'e discovered that his strong box bad
been plundered of ha contents, consisting of 3351. in Bank of Eng-
land notes ; the property was sure or. the preceding evening about
six o'clock. It was Li, custom to put the key of his tnonc•y box
into dig till in the shop, and he was induced to open the box for the
purpose ot• aae:ng that all was safe in oonsequenee of finding the till
opec, recollecting distinctly that he had skit it when he last placed
the key there. He was much alarmed when he dim:livered the rub-
bery, and immediately cwirtnunicatial the circumstance ut' his loss to
the prisorcr who was on the premiser, and engaged in carrying on
the business. lle prof...sisal to be much amazed at the event. ex-
pressed greet sorrow. and racomniended an active search for the rob-
ber. A few days aficrwarls the prisoner omitted to come to work as
usual, when Mr. Broomfield hearing that he was riding about in
hackney-coaches, and squandering away large siuusof .money, in•
formed the Police officers. I hall itnd Guff, of the circumstances of the
caae, and they apprehended him at a brothel, in Dover-street. Part
of the property was found upon his person, and he confessed that be
had con:witted the rabbi:rya—Committed.

ECUTION.--Jo...ph Davey, a young man, who was con.
eicted at the Session' in April last, for forging a certain or.
der for payment of 1201. with au intent to defraud Messr%.
Stephenson and Co., bankers, Lombard-street and Genre
Chapman, alias Claxton, Int having uttered as true, a forged
note, purporting to he that of the G rvernor mid Company of
the 1141,k of England, were executed on Tuesday rimming,
in front of the Old Bailey, in presence of a Irv; numerous
assemblage than has heel) observed for many years past on a
similar occasion. Both of the unfortunate men conducted
thutu.selves a ith great propriety, and met their fate with for.
wade.

FENsir.ox.-4 person talking to Permlon neon the subject
of the -criminal law of Frsuce, and approving of the many
eseentions tallish had taken place ender it, in opposition to
the arguments ut the Archbishop, said, " 1 maintain that
sneli persons are unfit to lice."—" BLit my friend," said Fr-
nclnu,
" you do nut retket, that they are still more unfit to
die ."

A few evenings back a waterman, in a state of inebriation,
imprudently attempted to row his boat, containing his wife
and child, thiotigh one of the arches of London bridge, at
high tide. The consequence was, that the boat overturned
and they were all precipitated iuto the water. The woman
held the child a. long as possible, when it was carried out of
her arms by the streilth of the current, and drowned.—The
in n held his wife tilt assistance came from the shore, and
fortunately saved them both. They were conveyed to a
neighbouring pnhtic tenure, but in such a weak state, that
they were unable to walk home.
While the funeral cf Mr. Lush, who lately died in the Tower,
was proceeding from the door, his aged wife stood on the threshold,
and drout down dead at the side of her luisband's CO:ffin

On Tuesday night an inque-A was held at the City of London rifo-
lie house, City-road, on the body cf Christiana Beams, aged 37.
The de teas was in tie employ of Mr. Tbomas, of Fleet—treet. A
young man named Blake, residing with Is:c father, in Sidney 4treet,
Islirgton, paid his addresses to her, but having at length discovered
that.the had been previously married, and had one child, he became
cent ut his attention. On Thursday she went t.) his sister's, at Bat-
tle Bridge, where alic was met by his father. who took her home to
his house. and there not being a spare bed, sat iap ; but the deceased
and Mr. li. jnn. acre left together. On Sunday morning she com
plaints' :if Mktg unwell, and at one e'clock was observed by the fa-
ther in a dying state, and a surgeon was sent for. N' could render
'no assistance, and she lingered till about three tie."eck. when she
-expired. On the. body being opened, about two ouncearElaudanum
were found in the stomach. Verdict—lnsanity.

Another inquest was held at the .:acne house, en the body of J.
arim.ton, who was found by a labouring man in the Shepherd and
S:tepherdee-tields on 'Tuesday mowing.. about Tout o'cloek,with his
lama cut nearly front ea, to ear. The neec.iled was employed by
his brother. who is a cabin: t maker in Crown-street, Finsbury-squarJ:
who on Saturday night paid him 11. wages, and he bad not boen seen
afterwards until found dead. It further appeared that the family
had been sithjat to insanity. Verdict acc..mlingly.

An infamous hand bill was on Monday circulated in the neigh.
bourhuod of Drury-lane, aecusing a por'.:-butcher of the horrihle
practice of porch:Lang dead kw oun bsdies to use as a substitute fur
pork; told this most tmprobable caltur.ny drew. a inismitied multi-
tude to the spot, where they indulged in wanton ext., 0.4 to a Lite.
hour.; and it was with. no little difficulty that the peace officers were
able to Ewe the preinisys from destruction.
Thursday Morning a Richmond steam packet boat met with a slight'
accident at Chiswick, on its passage to lstmdon, owing to one of the
rods of the v(&sel breaking. The pastrrii;:rs were conveyed to town.
in boats. happily no injury was rustatucd by any person on board.
Con.iderable diversion was allbrded to several water parties on
Wednesday, by the appearance of a porpoise, of a proditnous size,
between./ .ondon and Blackfriars.Bridges. A great many shots were
fired at it without Amt. The sport bad nearly been attended with:.
fatal accident. A nuiskrt.shot passed through the hat of a gentleman
who War n a boat, within an in,ll of his head.
. . .

An uatowartl accident lrinpenal on Monday night to the Mtirchi-
onessof C. ortiwalEs, while alighting from her carriage, at the Prince's
grand party. The coachman baying slackened the reins, the hoists
moved on, when her ladyship fell with her side against &step; by
which she was se :::cur hurt as to be rendered inser.sible for a time.
She was carried by the Marquis and assistants into the house, where
proper restoratives being ort.tiod„ she speedily recovered.
The 'Tribunal of Police, at Parts, has Pried, to a considuable
amount, several wine nicreiacts and tavern kaTers far ?e ...tenting
their 'fhe liquors were orderesi.to be thrown it:o the street.
A bate, containin„; nearly tonOl. is. English r-,:tl coin, was lately
picked up nom low water mark, on dr.c af h..s.e'tt ncat Ileal, by
a Lustom House o:ficer, who was patrolint; :.!;at eohst. It is stipppsA
to have been thrown overboard by. borne ,T,ltg4rling boat whilst elias
ed. A claim has been thrown in for the money in question, but
upon what ground tee 'l3ve no: heard.
Monday mornix, %Ir. T. Moore, a half-pay aMiler, residing hi
Orchard-stre-t, W....ti.iineter. attempted to put an end to his exissenee
by thwart; !Mild]; with a pistol. The report was head I y therers
vant, who instaltly went into the room. and found him lying en the
floor bleating profusely from a wound in his side. • A surgeon was
calbed in ; who, on examination, (mot shat the bellhad taken a
slanting direwx ien. and p used .through see side between bis ribs.
I lopes are entertained of his recovery.
A dreadful accident took place at Wentworth House, Yorkshire,
last week. Four girls (sisters; having ascended a swing chair, the
chain M w'aich it was fixed being fastened at each end to a stone
lanip-post, their weight brought crown a ledge stone, which fdl upon
when one of i.i. r•irl, was "tined instantly, and the other
three ta ere terribly cre.saed,''ene hav'mg both faleihs and enetl._r a kg
broken.
A horse belonging to Mr. Batchekr, of Brighton, a fen days since
yin away with a cart, and went over to the cliffnear the Crescent,
a perpendicular descent of about to feet. The cart was dashed Ft
pieces; but the animal escaped apparently unhurt, and was led home
immediately niter.
The late fine weather has enabled many farmers to
sow their Lent grain,which the wetness rf the weether
their petting tu r.t the usual ••=tc. •