THE N4TIONAL_REGISTER. ~6 estimassster-m-sssoz- ---. duly accepted. After the bill had been accepted, witness received ano ther letter sign d Do eeliall and Co. recommending another customer. Mr. Xobree, house agent, proved, that the acceptance, 1 1 / 4 4%Doughall and Co. was the prisoner's hand -writing, with which he was well ac quainted. John Brooke, clerk at Me ssrs. Esdaile and Co. bankers, proved that he presented the bill, the subject of this indictment, for acceptance, at No. 51 Great Hermitage-street, and h e received it again bearing the acceptance. He called there again an left the bill for payment on the 26th of December last, but the said bill was dishonoured. Elizabeth Baddon, who let a counting-house and parlour to the pri soner in Hermitage-street, proved that he went by the name of Thomp son, and she had never heard of the name of M'Doughall as belonging any firm there. A youth named Sibbert had officiated as the clerk of the prisoner, about six weeks after he had taken the lodgings in March, 1811. The husband was also called, who merely echoed the testimony of hisstvife. The „prisoner's defence was, that he was invested by M'Dougall, who'belonged to the firm, to use his name on all occasions ou business, and 'he had thus acted upon this occasion. To substantiate this defence, a man named Jennings was called, who described himself as a resident at Bow, and as having a warehouse in Wapping. This witness said he bad made a sale for the prisoner, in which he understood front the prisoner the firm was Thompson and Baddon ; but he knew nothing about hi'Dougliall. Alexander Broughton, a loose kind of character, to use the words of the Judge, stated, that he lived in Rose and Crown-court, Moorfields. He described the firm in Hermitage-street, to consist of M'Doughall, '1 h 'mpson, and Haddon. He had done business for them, for which he received notes, and he had often seen the three together. 'Ms witness underwent a rigid moss-examination by Mr. ALLEY. H., confessed he had a multiplicity of residen.tes within the few last. months—that he Lad been in pri so n latel y about accepting a bill, and that ke had also been in prison on a charge of fe:otty a few months ago.: He had been a warehouseman in Wood-street, but he could not name one respectable house in London he had ever done business with, escer!ng Tray-and Co. in some short street, he did not know the name of. He came there at the request - of the prisoner's brother, who was himself a prisoner in Coldbath - t itlds, and Jennings, the last witness, was the bearer of the request. This was the only attempt at proof that such a name as M'Doughall lived itt Hermitage-street. The JUDGE observed, that if a man wrote. a fictitious name on a bill, with intent to defraud, no such person belonging to the stuosed or real firm, it was a forgery. Guilty —Death. . APRIL 12 Mr. WILKIE'S EXHIBITION of AI.L PIC TT F. HAS PAINTED, including several which have never appe:ktc : Letote the Public, W ILL OPEN, at No. 87, Pall—mall, on MONDAY the 20th of APRIL. The EXHIBITION at the BRI FISH GALLERY, Pail-mall, will be RE-OPENED TO-MORROW, for the Exhibition of Mr. West's Picture of our SAVIOUR IN THE TEMPLE, and for the Exhibi tion and Sale of the WORKS' of BRITISH A RTISTS. By Order, VALENTINE GREEN, A. R. A. Keeper. The Subscriptions for the Print of Mr. West's Picture continue to be received at the Gallery. 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The QUARTERLY GENERAL MEETING of the Members of this Society, will he at the CROWN and ANCHOR TAVERN. in the Strand, on FRIDAY NEXT, at Seven o'clock in the Evening pre- cisely, to Elect the Officers and Committee for the ensuing year. The intention of this Society is to prevent, as much 35 po! si!rle, the losses which Merchants, Bankers, Tradesmen, and others, freq-,ently suffer from the depredations of Felons, &c. and to adopt he null effectual means of bringing such delinquents to ju-tics,who are too frequently suffered to escape pu nishment, from a fear of the expense md trouble attending a prosecution. The proceedings of the Society (the great utility of which must be self-evident) have been conducted on those principles ever since i , s institution, large sums of money having been expended in Rewar(ls, Advertisments, and Hand-bills, numerous offenders cons good to justice, and the Members reimbursed their expense of prosectrion. S. S. 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LIGTII' WATER-PROOF BEAVER HATS.-17R.ANIS and SAMUEL EVELEIGH, No. 46, Queen-street, Southwark , respect fully inform the Public that they manufacture superior proof Beaver Hats on an entirely new principle, warranted io re' t the effects of rain and all kinds of clamp, retaining the it 41ape and b ean:), much longer than other hats (the nap wearing free to the [), ,Lnn rcL ai n e ntly combining the advantages of lightness .ind durabilif by Francis Eveleigh, No. 50, Cheapside ; and by many of the 1 ble Hatters iu Town and Country. ACCIDENTS, OFFEACLS, On 'Friday night last, between twelve and one o'clock, the stable of Air. Rob( rt Wardell, .No. 2, Westbourne-place, King's-road, Chelsea, was entered by some rt,ffians, most likely with the intention of steal,ng a very valuable mrre the property of that Gentleman; but being inter ropteJ, they contented themselves with taking away a most handsome saddle, with quilted flaps arid jointed stirrups. It is hoped that the re doublcd activty of the watchmen in the neighbourhood will prevent any farther :el empt at depredation. We understand that an equivalent reward has been offered in order to detect the perpetrators of the theft. .Svicioe.—A young woman, 'named Annis Reeves, not more than 18 years of age, de. troved herself with arsenic, on Wednesday morning, in George-place, Oxford-street; this unfortunate g i r l left her friends in Yorkshire ont a few weeks ago, with an . O ffi cer, since g one to Por tuyal, and ha d thrown herself on the town for support, INQUEST. —On Monday an inquest was taken before Thomas Com incline, Esq. Coroner, on view of the body of J. Bayant, about ten years of age, apprentice to Thomas Mixemen Bronville, chimney sweeper, whose death was supposed to have been occasioned by the inhuman treatment of his master. The body, by order of the Coro ner, had been carefully dissected by 4 surgeon, who being unable to discover the smallest symptom of violence, the Jury returned a verdict, vied by the visitation of God. Some time after the Jury were dismissed, three Gentlemen from Newent (in consequence of a paragraph in the Gloucester Paper), came forward, and detailed such ill-treatment on the part of the master, that Bronville was again taken into custody ; an i committed.to jail for the murder. He was tried at t he Gloucester Assizes, found guilty, and ordered for execution. DUBLIN, APRIL 4.—This morning, between three and four o'clock, the Newry fly-coach was. stopped by .a strong band of robbers, who, without any intimation, fired into the coach, but without injuring any of the passengers. They proceeded to hand out those in the coech, one by one, and with the most dreadful imprecations, made them deli ver up all they possessed. There were two ladies, Mrs. Hamilton and daughter, whom the robbers obliged to kneel down in the road, de claring they would shoot them instantly ; one of the gang, however, interfered, and even declared he would not allow their baggage to be touched. However, the Captain of the banditti ordered every thing to be carried off. Money, watches, trinkets, clothes, every article was plundered. The Rev. Mr. Beresford was in the coach, and is said to have lost 2001.; another Gentleman lost 60014 and it is tho u ght that the villains carried off with them, altogether, more than 20001. in cash and property. 1