ROBERT TAYLOR. —A complaint has been made at Union Hall
Office, by Waiter, keeper of Horsemonger Lane Gaol, of an attempt on the part of this man to assassinate him. Walter's story is, that he and his assistant found a bottle of brandy in Taylor's room, which he re- moved; and that while removing it, Taylor made a stab at him with a knife. The brandy and the brandishing seem to be admitted, but the object of the latter is not so clear as the object of the former. Taylor— wino appears to be a lying, swearing, drunken scamp—is lodged in- finitely better than nine tenths of the honest men of the kingdom either in gaol or out of it "He is Permitted to provide himself with any description of food he pleases, and his meals are regularly furnished from the inn in the neighbourhood of the gaol. He has two pints of porter a day. He is allowed to see his friends four hours each day. He has a sofa, and his own bed and bedding. He has been told that he was at liberty to have his writing-desk, and also a chest of drawers in the room, if he pleased, together with fire and candle. The room in which he is confined is 18 feet by 24, with two windows, look- ing to the east and west, and no person in it but himself. A female, whom he calls his wife, is permitted to visit him and go into _his room one day in each week, and to remain with him for the space of four hours. Taylor's room opens into a long corridor, where he has the pri- vilege of walking, without being intruded upon or interrupted by the other prisoners ; and be has also the liberty of taking exercise in the yard of the gaol:"* In a word, being a convict more than ordinarily ob- noxious, he is, as is always the. case in this country except where the offence is political, treated with more than ordinary courtesy. Let us
have no more of him !
• Quoted from h'alter's examination by Mr. Chambers, the Magistrate.
TUE Poon Male's Guannem,---lietherington, the. proprietor . of this- • little paper, was summoned to Bow Street on Thursday ; and, not ap- pearing, Mr. Alley requested the Magistrates to give judgment on an ez perle statement. The charge was the same as that previously pre- ferred,—" printing and publishing a newspaper without a stamp." • The Magistrates declined acting on Mr. Alley,s request, as only one summons had been issued ; but agreed to issue a second, with a memorandum' that if it were not attended to, judgment would pass notwithstanding. A.
short time after Mr. Alley retired, the following note was delivered to the Magistrates.
" 13, Kingttgate Street, Holborn, 21st July. " Henry Hetherington presents his compliments to Messrs. Halls and- Birnie, and informs them that it is not convenient for him to attend Dow Street to-day, however anxious he may be to hear what possible right they or Mr. William Guelph have to censurelds conduct, or call him to account. " Henry Hetherington is going out of town for a week or two, and he doubtless will hear further from Messrs. Halls and Birnig. iI. II. hopes that Messrs. Halls and Hirnie do not mean to give hint the trouble of going through the farce, the • mockery of justice,' to which he submitted a few weeks since. Messrs. Halls and Ilirnie may have no better way of spending their time, but Henry Hetherington con- siders his own by far too valuable to be frittered away by such ridiculous and dis- graceful proceedings."
It is strange that Government cannot see that the only object of such
a fellow is to obtain notoriety, and that they are most effectually serving him by their nonsensical prosecutions.
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