The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-21 00:00:00


THE NATIONAL REGISTER

OLD BAILEY SESSlONO.—oattntom)
Wm. Monroe, aged 67, by profession a surgeon, who
appeared a once respedable man,was conricied of steal-
ing two sheets, the properly of Thomas Attuiss iu the
dwelling house.
The written defence of the prisoner, couched in rem
peciftil language, detailed a short inshi,y of his disifesi,ed
itturtion.
"Ilse wife of the prosecutor recommended him to

mercy.
Richard Hughes was indicted for stealing a shawl
front the person of Elie Meth Rubinson Nicholls, a child,
the property of J. It. Nicholls.
Mr. C. Phillips elicited from the principal wirnets,
that ?7s. was demanded by hint as a cumin 'se.
Toe CWIIIIIOII Sergeant instantly agitated the pri-
soner.
George Haagen, a-genteel young man, was indicted
for stealing a quantity of pepper, the ir tawny of the
East India Company:
Mr. Holland stated the Case in the Jury, and observed,
that the young matt at the bar had been for seven years
in a confidential MRI3IIOIII in that establishment.
William Harding deposed, that lie wos an excise
officer, and attended at Black wall, and the East India
Ducks; on the 25th of February he f 1 three bags of
pelmet concealed under the fluor ; he was directed to
watch, and in order to ascertain who should conic to
extricate them !rota Om place witere they were dept-
'it. d ; he obeye'd his directions, and the prisoner cattle
the morning after leis observation and took the hags
abuse-mentioned, from male; the platik, part of which
he pot in his hat, and part in his pocket.
Mr. C. Phillips cross-examined the witoess.--It was
not a matter of course (or all persons making egress front
the docks to be searched by three different persons, but
that precaution was generally used ; hail known the
prisoner three years. and never up to this lime heard any
thing which militated against his character ; although it
was usual to search when clerks and Labourers went out
of the dock between certain hours, the prisoner had
frequently been allowed to pass the barriers without
molestation.

Another witness deposed, that it would be impassible
for any one to go out with bags of pepper, without being
searched and detected. to the winter quarter, when the
warehouses are not open, persons coimected with the
establishment were allowed to snake 'ogress and egress
without tinders g tire usual ordeal.
W. Brown, an elder ors the essablialithent, had known
the prisoner, as employed wt it, for a considerable
length of time, and tip to this transaction, never saw ally
thing to warrant suspicions against his character.
The prisoner called St%Crill respectable witnesses, who
siihstatimited the 0101111011 entertained by the last witness,
who was examined on the pail of the prosecution.
The Recorder 'rimmed up the evidence, and the Jury
rewrite(' a veritiet of godly.
J tailg istent—•The Court was bound in justice to pro-
tect the property of public establishments, as well• as
ytat of private individuals—freqiient delinquencies were
complaisied of ill the docks and East India warehousesa,
but in order to prevent a recurrence of them as touch as
possible, the judgment of the Court was—" That the
prisoner be com ;;; i t ted to the House of Correction fos
12 calendar lts, and there kept to bard labour ;"
and but for the account given of Isis previous good cha
richer, he would have met with a puoislinactit tar mute
mere.
William Guy stem I indicted for bigamy, having inter-
marroal with Julia Haley, on the 1411, of November,
1819, during the life t of his lawful wife.
it apprarof I he evidence on the part of she prose-
cuing iliai the prisoner was married al Meat Yarmouth
to Elizabeth TllOllll4Oll Capon, in the year '1795, and
that he combined to hit With her mud about lUur years
ago; 11. e then deserted her,Callie to London, and pur-
nt.(' Ills In:COI/Minn of a tailor, and soon atieswards. be-
came aerrainted with Julia Haley, through the iutro-
duction of her uncle, who was a foreman at the shop
where the prisoner worked, and to whom he paased
11.inself as a single mans and no the 14th of November,
1819, the prisoner was married to her, with the appro.
'Lanni or lire friends, at Shoreihich church. She had
borne the prisoner one child, and MIS 110 W pregnant
with a 'second, when the prisoner deserted her, taking
whit him souse of her wearing apparel, and .she was at
length paled to resort to the parish ()flick's of St.
OK parochial relief.
The IteCOrtlef SIN ttttt ed tip the case to the Jury, who
illstsittly returned a %ertlict of guilty, and the Rveorder
passed judgment ispon the priamier, commenting in very
a is terms noon the mny of the offence, which,
lie observed, embraced robbery, seilticrioli, and perjury,
and sentenced him to tw transported Inc scorn 'CAM

A reprieve armed at llorsenuniiirAiine goal on Thuts,
day 111011. fur Charles lil/11111C. Who Was Cull‘lClCd at tile
Lit K 114421011 Assizes for highway robbery, and sen-
tenced to ne executed. His assoctine, Thomlas Hooper.
who was also tried and cons lewd at the same time, situ
sentenced to transportation lor seven years, was removed
int Finlay from Horse ))))) tuter.latie, and lodged in the
Niatilsione gaps, to await his trial for similar offences
committed in that contity.
Yesterday morning, a boat, in whirth was a lumber
of w •it and site,,, who had been on board the 1)oicli
vessels, 111 order to 01.02111 eels, was upset, by C 111 l tug 111
contact with a bars, laden with bottles. From tlie
activity of the watermen, &c. who saw the scculeiii, they
were all picked tip, with the loss of their porch .se, who
seethed, by the rapidity of their movement, to enjoy their
escape.
HORRID Nluancrt.—Oit Thursday last, the neigh.
liouritiod or Deal was thrOWll 11110 the greatest Collate,.
1101011. hi COIIIIr4IICOCC 01 211 atrocious winder. hasiiht
been couishukti no Mr. .ivisrph Bell, reading its the
s ieniity of the town. 'lite minder was CW11111111(11 about
nine o clock in the ev g, while the tiworiutiale matt
was sitting at sable. by a loaded gun fired Iroin without
side the window of the room HI whien Ite was. Time
persons have been arrested on suspicion.

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MR. (JAMAICA'S
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The catalogue of the LIBRART rsf their:nil* limbo
is just issued, front which we have made tile folleeritti
extract:—" Mr. Garrick. by his will. directed that his
rare collection of old plays. which had been tormed
with great assiduity. d g the course of his theatrical
life, should be deposited in the British Museum for the
use of the public ; au injunction which was fulfilled
soon after his decease in 17.99. Tie volumes. compositig
that collection, are uniformly bound and distinguished
by his initials.
The remainder of his books, with the exception of
such, to the value of one hundred pounds, as should he
chosen by his widow fur her own use, he lxmleallicsl tit
his nephew the Bev. Garrick, If mit* of Hendon. but
Mrs. Gaetck prevailed upon M r. Carrington Garrick up
dispose to her of the interest which he had acquired
therein tinder his uncle's will.
Towards the conclusion of her protracted life. Mrs.
Garrick presented the ft re.orr part of the G:eek and
Latin clas,ics, together with her numerous sod highly
valuable Italian books. to Christopher Philip Garrick.
Esq. at present the male representatite of the family.
The rest of the Library, comiderably augmented by
Mrs Garrick since 1779, Is how offered to the pidle,
with the exception only of bmiks to the value of oils
I !red arid fifty pounds bequeathed to the executors of
her will.

SUPPRESSION OW FAIRS.-011 Thursday 1812 ts
pertinent to adjournment, a Petty Sessions was held • .
at Lambeth-atreet Office, culling on the proprietors
of certaist•lend in the parish of Bow, to shew by • .
what authority they held Bow fair annually. It be-
ing admitted that neither charter nor prescription •
could be produced, sanctioning the holding of this
fair, the Magistrates declared it to be illegal, anti
expressed their determination of suppressing it for
the future.-.. 13:, the decision of the Magistrates of
the Hammersmith division, assembled in Petty Sea-
sion,-Brook Green Fair, which used to commence on '
the Ist of May, and Parson's Green Fair, are now
forinally extinguished.
CAPTORS or Foua BoDY-STlALlntr.—Between one
and two o'clock on Sunday morning, four d-sperate re-
surrection site,, were detected in the burial place of the
poor, belmignig to St. Andrew, Holborn, at the bacla•uf
the winklioust in Shoe-lane. It scrim thlt in this ground
there is only one d e ository fur the remains of &ceased
poor, which is capable of holding upwards of 100 coffins,
and the purist., inaorder to guard against the snatchers, -
and prrst•r.e the bodies from• fallout; into the.r hands,
have had a large piece of iron, weighing between six and
seven hundred we►ght, constructed su as to lay on the
tops of the coffins, and Is lilted op and down by means
of a pulley. Notwitiistanding this excellent precaution,
a shwa lune since the plate was removed, and on Friday
night these %%retches paid another visit' to the ground.
but their operations it would appear were frustrated ; but
the patriot padlock wasbroke Isom the hook and another
put iii its place, so as to get an easy access to the eau's'.
finis stratagem was loiltmately disemered by Mr. flicks,
the sexton. who happened to pass the place; lie in con- •
sequence determined to have assistance, and he and the
watchman, fife. took their stat armed with a Won- •
drams% in a secluded• part of the burial ground, and at • •
about hail•past one o'clock in the morning four mitt
with sacks, shovels, kc. were seen getting over the wall
from Fitnnbtree-court, ono the groutid; they CaUttOtiely •
made to the place, and Marius unlocked the trap door, •
two of them gut down leaving' the flap open, and the
other two returned to the wall to keep a look out, and
to.alarns weir companions .shouldr there be necessity.—
Mr. Hicks- iiiiii ediately sallied Milli, and first Omen the
two loch in the grave,. by shutting down the tiros and.
putting the bar ;muss. Hating muted them, he and-
the it pursued the other two and took
They were conveyed to Gilispor-street Conuer, for the
purpose to undesguitty oltailllllJitO.l before a tnagtauate.
A dreadful accident occurred on the I rile instant. is a '
coal-pit near Valenciennes, by the explosion of an
iiiiii able gas, called its that part of Praiser, Jvagntlfn.
Nuirteren of the workmen were killed ; the state lit
which the bodies were found aggravated the melancholy
la snore of the spretac'e, for it is stated they could aunt lie
idemilied, as their limbs no lunjerreuuthhed WWI limbs
are in their natural state; tney were shrivelled, and their
parts drawn together.
It has been erroneously stated in the public papers
hat botiali rub;ter will make good glue, but the tact is,
it will never set to liardets. For a strong firm cheap
glue, nothing h..s yet been discovered supt ran to the.
best kind of that which is in get.eral•use; and stir a fine
clear irmsparent kind which will ur le glass, so as to
render the Iractnre almost imperceptible, nothings is •
equal to isinglass boiled in spiritsol wine.
Adout a fortnight since, a gfutlettaan, (a dealer in '
Cattle, Irmo Liverpool) who lodged at citurite's Quay,
proceeded to a respectable! tavern, where he
passed the A:telling. On his way home trodi the tavern,
tie was accosted by a eyinian..and in a few iiiiii tnes after
the usual compliments-which accompany introductions
of this dese'riptiott were over, the gentleman missed his
pocket bunk, contamiog 2001. She was uuntediately
.ectireil and .brouaht to O.? witichiloose,.. where she was
searcheil,.but 110thillg was round tin her.thel eoutol trod
to criminate her. Wools. she was hi confinement, a
message was brought to-the gentleman who lust his
nullity, stating that some of it was loosid, and on his
proceeding to the watehtmose, 471. was lidooeti to it,,,,
by wit, Ismail. Tile girl was subs gorully tried
the Recorder, hitind aw ty, and sentenced to be trans-
ported fur seven years. to come gurney id some 11110 r.
111.111011 given by. Ills girl, a W.11C11111.111; named Peter
Harris, 14,41 A taken music, Clialoily ; lie was searched its the
wasailitiouse. and on I.ls person was found 51)1. all in
bl. ,sots He has been hilly co iiiii ;tied to take his Mai
for bet.sit concerned in the above robbery.

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