THE COVENT GeruseN ASSAULT.—A true bill has been found by
the Middlesex Grand Jury against Mr. Charles Kemble, for an assault upon Mr. Charles Westmacott, at Covent-garden Theatre.
Se:sumo:1 eery Me ennst.—Henry Horrebow, a performer at Covent Garden, was charged yesterday, at Bow Street, with threatening the life of Mr. Shotter, the box-keeper of that theatre. The defendant, it was stated, had seduced the daughter of the complainant, who died last week, after having given birth to a child a fortnight since. The defendant WilS locked up in default of bail.
Brox s.—A correspondent of the Times (who, we perceive, though not so acknowledged, is a correspondent of the Herald also) gives an account of a terrible riot on Monday night. It commenced, it seems, at the Rotunda, Blackfriars Bridge, where Mr. Hunt had been lecturing. The mob, which was headed by a tricoloured flag, proceeded along Fleet Street and the Strand, carrying with it, of course, a large portion of the physi- cal as well as moral sweepings with which these streets commonly abound at the witching-hour, down Whitehall, and into Downing Street, where they halted before the house of that very inoffensive nobleman Earl Bathurst. A gentleman advanced into the balcony, and dared the mob with a brace of pocket-pistols. The mob howled, (and no wonder), until another gentleman stepped forward, and took the pistols from the hands itf his Bobadil companion, and then the mob cheered. By and by, seventy policemen marched down from Scotland Yard, under the com- mand of the brave Inspector Inglis, and the mob ran away. The Times' account adds, that a party of the Police drew up across King Stivet to prevent them from reaching the House of Commons, Parliament Street being thought the preferad/e way for gentlemen ragamuffins. The members of the House of Cenernons, be it observed, went home at nine o'clock. Such are the revolutions of London, and such the wisdom and valour that oppose them. Meanwhile, cutlasses are deposited at all the Police-offices, to behead the fugitives and prisoners after the staves have worked their work in routing those that attempt resistance.
POLICE VIGILANCE—On Sunday morning, a short time after three o'clock, the policeman on the station discovered that Mr. Mitchell's shop, at the corner of Beaufort Buildings, had been broken into. He reported the robbery to the Superintendent; by whom he was ordered to appear before the Commissioners. The policeman declared, that he had only walked to the Adelphi and back again ; that he left the shop undisturbed, and found it as described. He received a good character from the Superintendent ; but the Inspector having given it as his de- cided opinion that the burglary could not have been effected in less than half an hour, the constable was instantly dismissed, as a punishment for his negligence.
STREET ItonesEnv.—A man named Berry was charged at Lambeth Street Office, on Wednesday, with stealing a watch. It appeared that the prisoner and four others were among the crowd near Guildhall, when a mechanic named Andrews, who was standing near, was attacked by them,Yifted off his feet, and held by four of the men, while the prisoner took his watch ; and in the crowd the whole of them escaped. Query, where is the offence to be laid ? We have an Admiralty Court for the sea' and an Old Bailey for the laud but to-what jurisdiction is a robbery in the air to be referred ? • - SHOP ROBBERY.—Information- has been given at the Police Offices. of a burglary committed on the premises of Mr. Taylor, a jeweller and watchmaker, at Petty Curry, Cambridge ; when gold watches, chains, seals, and other property to the value of 3001. was carried off. HIGHWAY ROBBERY.—SiX men, Well armed, recently stopped Sir Richard O'Donnell and Mr. Brabazon Browne, who were travelling post to Dublin, at Leixlip. Having surrounded the chaise, one of them en.. tered, and took from Sir Richard various small sums of money and some letters. From Mr. Browne they took a letter containing money to a large amount. Sir Richard succeeded in concealing his watch ; but the Loughrea day-coach coming up, the fellows dropped the draft, and ran off, before they had searched the chaise, in which he had placed nearly 3000/. They were courteous enough to return the letters, at Sir Richard's request.
MYSTERIOUS CASE.—Two persons have been brought to Worship Street Police Office, for the supposed murder of an individual whose name is unknown. On Saturday week, a respectable person was observed to enter the house of the prisoners, and liquor of different kinds was pro- cured during his stay. After two or three hours, one of the prisoners fetched a coach ; and the deceased, apparently drunk, was lifted into it, muttering the while some indistinct expressions. The prisoner, who had called the coach, directed that the deceased should be taken to a par- ticular part of Pentonville ; but on reaching the spot, no one could be found who knew the deceased. The coachman returned, and then failed to find the prisoners, who were from home. As a last resort, he took the deceased to the nearest station-house : on opening the door, he was found dead. An officer then accompanied the coachman to the prisoner's house, and took them. They were afterwards heard to speak of money,. and agreed that the one who should be liberated should take care of it. The deceased appeared, by his dress, and the mark of an anchor on his left hand, to be a sailor. The prisoners' names are Edward Jem- mett and Alice Lunn.
Deardenous ESCAPE.—Andrew Haigh, a tall, powerful sailor, was charged at the Thames Police Office, on Monday, with beating a police- man, while attempting to quell a riot at a public-house in Gravel Lane, Shadwell. Haigh, when first seized, broke from his captors, and plunged into the Thames ; but was pursued in a boat, and retaken. He was fined five pounds ; and, in default of payment, imprisoned for a couple of months.
ExEctermen—John Gorman, who was convicted at the last Septem- ber Sessions at the Old Bailey of highway robbery attended with brutal violence, was executed on Wednesday morning, in front of the Debtor's Door at Newgate. In consequence of the state of the weather, the crowd was unusually small ; but among the persons collected to witness the spectacle, the eldest brother of the criminal was pointed out. Gorman. died penitent, and with great decorum.
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