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London, England, 1816-12-12 00:00:00

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4 Mr. Beckwith's. shop, and with which Mr. Platt
IM wounded, es the other. He traced the notes
gives in payment ter them with the name of Watson
oo them, which tie witness had himself written.
Hooper said, he received the pistols at Ni. fJ, Gray-
stoet-place, from young Watson i Preston was pie-
sent it the time. The prisoner here wile an incon-
sistent account of the milliner in which be became
possessed of the pistols. He denied that Watson
said a word to him about them. or offered them to
him, but tn.ntioned that he understand he was to
take the pistols into his pnssession. AU the prisoners
was remanded till Saturday.
Intelligence was received by the Limo Mayon,
that a person, who very cloielLresetnbled the de.
scription given of Watson, jun. and whose. °endow
appeared extraordinary, was yesterday apprehended
at Bramwell, a village near Cambridge, and had
undergone an examinatios before the Ma Or of that•
town. He was first observed in a pablEc. ouse by a
milkman, from whom he appeared veg. melons to
learn whet-was going on in the Metrop His sot
coed examination was to have taken place yesterday.
The Loan Mayon immediately wet •an Offices to
Cambridge with the necessary instructions.
Last night, the LORD MAYOR having received in-
. formation that a servant had been in the company or
4%1/won, junior, somewhere in the neighbouplood
of Zas4 Smithfield, and had given the pledge of %e-
-ditor e 0 him in a public-house, where he was is the
disguise cf a pailur, ordered Brown,"the Officer, to
td the house and snake inquiries upon the subject.
We understand that the Officer ascertained that a
report tif that kind was very prevalent amongst the
people of-the neighbourhood. He -took into custody
the seresust..who was stated to have taken the oath,
and conducted him to the Old Bailey, where the
LORD 'MAYOR examined him. It is expected that a
public examination of this person will take place
en a future day.
An observation of considerable importance fell
from the Lotus MAYOR in the course of the exami-
nation yesterday. He said, he bad reason to believe
that it was the intention of the leaders of the rioters,
after procuring all the arms they could in the City,
to return to the Meeting in Spa-fields, and put them
into the hands of all who chose to join them.
Bow.sr asee.—A great number of communications
both oral and written, have been received respecting
persons resembling young Watson. Among them
yesterday, was one from Lord Cranborne at Het.
field. 'Hertz, his Lordship having dispatched George'
Bonney, the principal and active constable of Hat.
field to London, in consequence of a young man
answering the description of young Watson. being
is custody there. Beasney arrived atihe Office yes.
terday morning, and stated the whole of the suspi-
cious circumstances to Mr. linters, the Magistrate.
Among them was the mark under his eye, as men-
tioned to the description of young Watson. The
history of the young man having been suspected to
be young Watson, Mr. Beasney stated to be, that on
Monday night last lie arrived at Hatfield, on horse.
back, and pat up at the Salisbury Arms Inn, which
ii the principal inn in the town ; it was then observed
that he had drinking freely. He got into cons.
parry with Mj Lowden. a master farrier of that place ;
lie had acwrine and water, and Mr. Lowden had
some brandy and water, which he paid fur. He
talked in it very wild way. He asked Mr. Lowden
if he knew young Watson ? Mr. Lowden replied he
did not. He observed he thought he had dune per.
fcctly well, in which Mr. L. appeared to agree with
him, for the purpose of heating all he had got to
say, suspecting that he was young Watson. He asked
Mr. Lowden if he was staunch in the cause ? Mr.
Lowden assured him he was. Alter this some unin-
teresting conversation passed, and Mr. L. took the
first opportunity of getting out of his company, and
communicating his suspicion to Mr. Townsend. the
landlord, of his being young Watson, and the con-
versation which had passed. Mr. Townsend coin-
cided with him in his suspicion, and when he was
about to leave the house he had him properly secured
and kept till Mr. Beasney, the constable, who hap.
petted to be from home, arrived.
On Tuesday be underwent a long investigation
before Lord Viscount Cranborne, when the account.
be gave of himself was, that he lodged in Fleet
Market, and was a butcher by trade ; he mentioned
several butchers he had lived with as a journeyman.
the last whom he said he lived with was a Mr. Suit.
lord, in the Islington. road, whose service he left
about three weeks ago, when he paid him 416 which
he owed him : this was to account for his being pos.
sessed of a large sum of money, having evidently
been poor up to the 3d instant, en which', from the
pawnbroker's duplicates being found upon him. he
.had been pledging an umbrella and other trifling
things and on the Sd instant he had pawned property
at' Mr. King's shop in Fleet Market. He accounted
for haying more money than be had stated be received,
teem. Mr. Stratford, by saying he bad found a sum
• of 'Money last week, as he MU meeting from &pleb.
in'Surrey. • He said lie had hired the horse ,tst the.
Leaping Bar livery stables, in •Blackfiriseionadoit:4
Ile safe his name John Bader.
On Mr. Beasley's arrival in London, be stated,
that he lost no time in making the necessary inqai.
ries, 'to ascertain if he was the man be represented'
himself to be, and toned that a young man of the
name of John Butler bad lived with them but 1416
Stratford, whoa' he lived with, denied. that be owed
Or paid him £l6, when beleft his employ three weeks
ago ; *therefore his account of his possession. of !part
of Iris money is evidentlyr false. AAS Bit of Eng-
land note, which was in his possessions was traced to
bate hem paid by him at the awry( Cotterel, a
pawnbroker in Shoe•lane, in redeeming a wattle,
latish be had pledged en the 3d inst. with the name
of Colonel Hay on it. Mr. Bonney found his lodg.'
Jags to be in SeacoaLbute, Snow Hill, which :Ea.
searched, but footed so money, nor papers of any de.l
saiption of inspeetance--he only found some clothes,
at, on inquiry at the bespin_g Bar livery stables,
in Blackftiars Road, be fen* utler bad bleed the
bane there. '
Mr. Srairtherahe, the moftter of_tbe yard. stated;,
that on Monday morning, about coma Welpetk;
Ender, as 'descitbest by: Bitax,y, cad* end asked 'to
hire a bone, obit he not Ininiiinthim. requital a 16.1
!gimes, to wkiit he teplletl, thik if he left a lon Vl'
money in his bands-it . would be of good as a refs.
ream ; Mr. Sasorthwaimassenced to this, and Butler