The National Register. — London, England, 1812-10-25 00:00:00

670 A letter from Deal says—" A murd..r of an atr , cions na.tire has just been committed on board of a ship lying in the Downs. From the best information I can collect, it appears that the deceased was Serjeant of Marines, and for some cause was ordered by the Lieute nant, commanding in the absence of the Captain, to walk th.e quarter deck, with a musquet on his shoulder, like a private ; this, it ap pears, he retused to do, remarking to the officer, that he migut put Trim in irons, or bring him to a,court mart•al if he chose, and if he should happen to be broke, it would then be time enough for him to carry a musquet. This reply see.ns to have irt tutted the son of Nep tune so much, that be went down below tor his dirk, and, coming again on deck, ran the unfortunate Serjcant through the b4dy, and he expired almost immediately." Another horrid murder was commit'el last Monday night at Long ford, a small village near Market Dravtr.n, Shropshire (about ten mies distant from the place where Mrs. Money and her servant mur dered Mrs. M.'s husband,) on the bodies ot Mr. Francis !truce, a farmer, and his house.keeper, who were both found onTuesday morn ing in their kitchen, wiAt their throats cut, and the house robbed. On Wednesday the Coroner's Jury sat, but no discovery had then been made of the wretches who had perpet rand the deed ; hut it was supposed to have been done before eight o'clock in the evening, as they generally retired early to bed. The blood had, however, been traced on a stile and gate at Morton, a distance of about a mile, which it is hoped will lead to some discovery. SHOCKING MURDER.—Saturday morning, a farmer's wife, near • Xingsbridge, Devon, was found murdered in the ki'clten, on the return of her husband from labour. Thl clothes of the murderer were found in the kitchen, he hiving, with great coolness, put on those of the master of the house. il close pursuit was instantly com menced by Mr. Lane and others, from K ingsbridge ; and, as it was judged probable that the villain had taken a route Westward. they proceeded to Plymouth. The Constables of Plymouth awl el Ply mouth Dock were soon on the alert, and vigilantly ex tniined tit: whole of the public-houses, &c. on Sunday, without etfict.— On Monday morning, however, although it blew a most tremendous gale, Mr. Lanedetermined to cross the New Passage, near Plymouth Dock, and seized the murderer in the Passage House, on the opposite side, at Torpoint, preparing to go into Cornwall. He had then on the clothes of the husband of the deceased, instantly confessed the fact, and was recognized as a well known pedestrian who had been in the habit of supplying the counties of Devon and Cornwall with ballads, &c. &c. He said that he approached the house in which the deceased Jived, and having ascertained the absence nt the owner, he entered the kitchen, found the woman busily employed about dinner, knocked her down with a broom-stick, took up a bill-hook which he stuck in her neck, and finished the business by cutting her throat with a pruning knife. That he then took 41. out of her pocket, and opening a drawer. Wok. out the clothes of her husband and put them on, leaving his own en the ground.—Being strongly suspected of the horrible murder of Margaret Huxtable, of Dadbrook, he declined answering the questions put to him ; said, that he knew he should be hung, and that, if he had • any concessions to make, he had time on the road, and should have some conversation with the officers :—Before he quitted Plymouth Dock, he was recognized by an officer, as having been sentenced to twolftars' imprisonment at Exeter, in the year lst)9, for attempting to violate and murder a child. The similarity of this latter case with the horrible circumstances attendant on the rape and murder of the un fortunate infant, Huxtable. render it a matter of considerable proba bility, that this wretch is the vile perpetrator of the latter deed a deed which, if considered in all its c‘reuinstances, is perhaps un. paralleled, even in the annals of at rocity. , FURTHER PARTICULARS. —TUeSday meriting, after requesting his uncle to be sent fur,. in the presence of whom, awl the said two on stables, without rompul&on or threats, he confessed the horrible act above alluded to, by sa3ing, " Well. I did murder the child ;" upon being interrogated as to the particulars, he farther stated, that, about six o'clock in the evening of the '2oth of January last, he met the child between Bell Cross and the 'looses ; that he entreated her to shew him the way to Sentr)-gate, and he would give her a penny ; she complied with his request, and proceeded over the atone vepi and stile leading to it ; that in the second field he took her out oft he path, went across that field Lao the next, where he attempted to violate her person, but could not dna it, in consequence of her cric, and • resistance; he then took a stick from the hedge, struck her twice on • the head, which he supposed to have stunned her, as she made uo more noise, afterwards intsileti her bead to pieces by large atones, and it being dark , he says, to be quite certain she was dead, lie felt is ith his hand, and found her brains IVerc te , ten nut ; he orip pill her of all herclothes but her stockings, which he ietended to have taken awry, but thinking them of lime value, left them in the same field, except the shift ; he then went to a peol, near Sent, y-gate, wal.hed Ms trowsers and his hands, end wiped them with the shirt, which he threw into the hedge ; he returned to his lodgings at Moreleigh, at about half past nine o'clock. lie is a man of small stature, about five het five inches Well, wilks lame of the left leg, lisps in his speech, sandy complexion. dirk tv:tr, and an aquiline nose, amid has altogether a most unpleseaot, tin liichliog HORKII) Ift:RDERS. 'rilE NATIONAL REGIS' rat. OCT. apporanee. He strongly asserts he has no associate, but was the sole perpetrator of those bloody murders. HORRID NIURIIER.—NEW ORLEANS, Aug. B.—On the 0 2:1 o f July, the family et Mr. PIERRE DOUCET, of the county of opt._ 'onus, (Mr. D. and his Iciest son being absent from ll:gne ;) were murdered by a young negro man, .a show on the plantation. '1•h: children had lain down to take an afternoon's nap ; Mi„l a m e D o „ c " - .vas occupied in spinning, and had I . rotia the window onset ved he negro sharpening a broad axe . on they grindstone, • and ittartrtlig what lie was about, received f or answer, in a very ; .mpudelit ti nT , that he was preparing to run awt.y. The felt ow entered some !il aot time alter, with his weapon, and advancing upon his nu s i rev instantly cleaved oven her skull, and then repeated his 111 ace her face, and in o' her directions, without her doing any mor e th an to scream so as to awaken her eldest daughter la) itig asleep en the t:ihi e in the same room. The daughter dew, as by instinct, to the :it:t • her mother, but only came in time to receive t::e sante late. •U he n else by this time produced, brought out of another room a young o , wit> seeing the destruction destine arotuul, at once attempted his but was pursuAl by the negro to an a:!tacent fence, awl there it to to death. The negro then returned to the house, mord ea c I t h e h tt i e children in their seep, and collected all the victims into one pile. li e afterwards set out to catch the best horse on the plantation, pp., ',newly for the purpose of titght. The horse being s ome w h a t tractable, carried him to the f nee of a neighbour „a n. 4 sonic one ob serving the ledow,ashed what he was driing with the horse, he repheit, that some Spaniards had come and murdeted his mist Ass, &c. The enquirer and his companirins immediately proposed to go to the luose, and one of them being more suspicious !ban the rest, thought proper to seize the negro, who, after being detected in several lalsehOoeS, at I finding particularly that no tra..ks, atter a receet shower of 'ant, ca ul,' he shown of the Spaniards, confessed his eti tie. lie said that los father was a warrior, and that he had inherited the tam ly eiltrage ; that what he had before he would nor think of counting ; but it' they would only t him loose, he would let them see le:w many he could kill. The same littroinoiat atter del him thrimeh Its tit I ; on being sentenced to the gallows in two hours, he appi arid :inxic us to reach the spot ; awl when there, wont(' not %Van for the cart to be drove from under him, but told the bystanders to to cut et his way and let bun jump—which he did, into eternir). ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. FORGER Y.—R. Roserts, notoiious tor his escape some thine ~i nec front the Cold Bath Fields Prison, and In cotinethion wtttl Artita,,c, was brought up, in custody el the t fitters, wh o h ave been to stait land in seam!' of him. He is suspected of a tOrgery on the House of R - bans and Curtis. The LORD MAyoR did not g o into the ease on this occasion, but remanded the p . istri , er. On Friday lie underwent ano ther examination. Upon a m'nute investigatien of all the circum stances of the case, howevrr, it did not appear that there Wit.; any ground for the charge exhibited against Min he was the , etore tits charged. FATAL DUEL.-011 Wednesday and Thursday last, an inquest was taken by the Coroner of Portsmon.h, on the body of Lietnenant John li : ignetl, of the Marines, who was mortally wounded in a due', by Lieutenant William Sinai t, of the sa• e corps, on south Sea Colll- 111011, on the morning of Thupday, the Bth inst. of which wcund lie languished until Saturday the 10th, when he died. and Jane Haines del!" s_d, that the det:eased was brought to their cot tag', and that a pistol. bah was eXtVn tail flout hint b} a surgeon. The ball entered the right side, near the arm-pit, Mint WaS taken out of the lett shoulder. Lieutenant B. was subsequently con hd veyed to his lodgings in Hanbrook.row, a post-;:liaise.V+. 11:1,t ,A l a, proceeding to the cottage, le.t 4 said to the gentleman %On) 3 - . 01 c 41 lum, (Lieutenant . john O'Flanlon,) " ney,t " me cao WO say he was sorry for it. " The gentleman inliWered l Y in g the bed he Sa id, " I Ltill sorry for yen,Jack ;" and they both shed tears. He also said, " 1 d:schirged my pistol, didn't 1?" to which I.ieutenat O'Hanloh replied, " Yes, you thd." A. A übell, who nursed Lien tt , tint liagnell deposed, that she 1::(1 much e nversation with him, awl that he satd he i had 1 con woonee. l In a duel with Mr. Stte:rt, and that tie would have made it up Oil the ground, but Mr. :II; tort was wot agreeable. Lieutenant Da% et the marines, deposed, that having receivi l N! message from Lieutenant Sittatt, Ito WiNheil to set: In:, he w.ettd upon hien. He met him at the door of his lodging-house, in Stone streLt, and was instantly sainted with the following words, or to the etl'ect—" Day, 1 nal the most miserable wretch !" A her Lieutenan t t Day hut e‘pressed his sorrow on the eccasion, Lieweisai:t Stuai • ptared icto the patticulars o 1 di•pme whit It lout ieLently taken place lartt ern him and the d:cease . t. He sated, that as lie lN:IS •ahtuc to Irate fi r. at his lod...ings, he (Stu tri) obser:ed that Inc shouln ;mike a call on some one --- :a tenldle both K visneu here al:uded it Mr, will not he received " • 11 . 4. aiell immediately answert d, .. " nOW I Mr. S. t!xr• said how do yell shall nor be received r" \!rut Is hick Mr. IL rcpliCO, that 11•n\l /1 - 11d not allow 1111:1elt to he impeitioent:y catecniseit. Mr. s. rel .• 1110 1/ that he wmAti not allow himself ro lie bulhed. I—o Bagnell 1 _ then !, W hat ! call me bUl.y in my own • "1:16.it Mr. S. thereupon weo t towitrds the d hous door, ;old Mt. ti t Alowett e walk , ()( siomy iiirni ind~ ot 11! an s!( en