The National Register. — London, England, 1820-01-10 00:00:00

- - Au itiquieitton was taken on Saturday helots T. Stir ling, Esq. Coroner tor the county of Middlesex, at St. Giles's workhouse, on the busty of a pont' milornmate wretch, named Ilatchett, whose death was produced by the want of the commownteesserries of life, during the late inclemency of the season. The Jury took a view of the body; a m o re luathwine object CaMAO be described —a heap of bones, covered with rags anti filth.—Only one witne-s was examined: her name was Maxwell; atie resoled at 9, Swwwrisoents, Drury-lane. Her at.- rarance was very little better than the subject of the Inquest. Wittl,33 stated, that she was at 9, Stewart's rents, on Monday, and the deceased cattle to her place (cellar), and said, ^ Beset kind as to let me buil a potato or two, which F have got." Winless told her she might. Deceased then said, " I have no home to go to. and 1 shall be glad if you will let me stay and warm myself by the fire, and broil a piece of herring, for I am almost *tamed to death." Witness, seeing the deceased in such condition, toki her she might. Toe deceased said, that she should heceiwe Is. od. next day at St. Ann's workhouse, ant! after some conversation she asked wit ness it she might remain all alight in the cellar. Witness told her that she herself had no bed or covering, and she (deceased) war, welcome to lie on the floor, as she was compelled to do. The deceased thanked her, and they bah laid themselves down. On the following groaning witness got up and advised the demised to ph to St. Ann's workhouse for toe money. 'roe deceased said aim felt unable to get up; witness assisted her, but she could not MC. lii the coarse of the day the deceased expired. Inhumation of the circumstance was given .t the woiltigiusc, and lhe budy was rewoted thither. Nl'itatess was Of opinion that she deceased died front want of proper IHMOSilltielli, clothes, and f he se verity of the weather. Several of the Jury weir tai opi nion that she died from wait of proper s.uteriance,-Ue. Others thought she could not die for want of total, because site ate some potatoes and part of a herring un Monday night. Verdict—N.itura! death. A '1 aua ,CURT OP A GHOST AGIN , CONJUGAL FILIiLITII —NI'. Sailitiel Flitter, We lime.ttor uI tilt' Golden Sloth, was acquainted with a widOW lady rat excellent character, who resided to Cork. This lady was inconsoleable Ito toe death ut her tau baited or. slay was quit by her in sighs alid itteroiaill• littnenta nuns, a n d her pillow at night was moistened with the tears of tier borrow. Her nusbaird, her dear husband Was the contioual theme ut her discuurse,•and she seemed to live for no other object but to recite his praises, and deplore his loss. One mo r n in g her invent Fisher found her in a state of mental agitation, bordering on dist-action. Iler departed love, she said,. had appeared to her it. the night, and ohs% perempiorils ordered tier to einet the vault,. where his remains were deposited, and have the eOttin oveilett. Mr. Fisher remonstrated with her on the absurdity of the idea ; lie said that the iinensity of her sorrow had impaired her intellect ; that toe imailloVi was t,:e mere Creature 01 her iiitagisiatton 3 rim legged of her at least to postpone to some ILIUM period her intended visit to the corpse of her husband. 'the lady acquiesced fur that • in in his request; ben tile two succeeding mornings the angry spirit 01 her spouse stood at tier bed-side, aim with loud meisaces tepeated his co 11111 l and. S. !hailer, tnereliue, scot to the Seaton, Slid itiattaSbeingarranged. the w. eping widow and friend attended w the diSllllll vault the culhn was opened woo touch melon any, and toe lattilut itiatrusi it..toped down and kisseu the clay-cold lips of u r :coed hushaud. Ilaviiite reluctlantly parted i 11111 l toe lohoeed coriw, she spent the relit...older us the day its attn.& atigUISII. U.l Me GOCCeectilit; intirdiag Fts..er (woo imeneleii to is. lut kngland of mat day) calico to and ins atilicted friend adieu. Tile Illaid-seiv Ain WM loin the laity halt not yt.l. atlK 11. "' Tett her to get up,' said " I wish .0 give her a few words ot cumulation awl advice before sty departure." Ali! Sir," Wit' tile smiting mill, '• would be a pity to dis.uro toe new.titarileet toilide So early in the morning !"—" Waal. n e w-niartied couple 2 "' My mistress,sir, was imitated las. iii lit."--" ! What ! the fitly who so adored lies husband, wou was t noted nightly buy his ghost, and Wit) yeinerday sal trncnl l yl.l;aed hit corpses Ndrely you r--.. Oh! Sir," smit hie maid, sty late matt poor nun, on In, theant bed, Walk toy oiliness promise Ma% she would utter Marry any mail alter lila ticCeale till he and she should uteet the I ;IlOti w iii, Ito IhMilot, tt gilt would utter ha ppeti till they Mel in Heaven anti you know toy dear Sir, you lewdly introduced them lit cash other, Wee tO face, yesterday. — My mistress, Sir, scuds you her compliments and thanks, together with this briile.cake, to distribute antolig yowl young friends." A very serious misunderstanding has occurred be tween the farmers of the I .arislies of Ilantield and Wa thyain, in Sussex, and the t aitielteepets of the Duchess of Dorset the tun par its hat Mg been on very had terms for a long while, the gamekeepers proceeded tO shoot sonic of the lurchets, and other poaching dugs, belonging to the tat titers, wiliest brought on very vio lent quarrels; and nearly the whole ocieltianirhood, taking op the cause oh the farmers, whom they regarded as greatly opmessen, the ganiekLeiteri had recourse ih she plan of brill:Lime the affair hetore the Nlagistiates, the loon of iliformationS, nit the charge to keeping all unlawful hived oh clo c o Ali accitlemal es rCliili shiner, which tended greatly in increase the alarm, was, that a detachment of the Ltd Registiviit of Guards stnideill ap peared in Ilertfield, where they were billeted, tan their way to Portsmouth, and Otis cue 1111 l stance was immediately colistrued into the ann.', all soiliwry liar the preservation of the peace. The atlray, hoe. , has subsided, it having horn detersimied upon to refer the disputed pout to Lind Witt. worth, 0.4 lois retsina limn Naples. 'Ott Saturday last, the Rev. Jeremiah Biunttothes, Clerk, A.B. was it 111111 l teit to the litecaory of Birlat*lnitat Si. Peter, in this County. sits the prellelltiiioll of henry Negus Burroualtes, of Birlinielsaut Si. Peter aforesaid, TIIE NATIONAL ItEGISTEIL On Monday morning, at Doncaster, two or three men. who were strangers, and call themselves Ranters, proclaimed through the streets that there would be a preaching in the Corn market, at two o'clock, at which hour a considerable number of persons had assembled ; and after the speakers had taken an elevated situation, and commenced singing, a constable informed them the Magistrates Would not allow them to proceed, when they quietly dispersed. An inquest was lately taken at Horton, on 'slew of' the body of John Wiggins, aged 20. it appeared from the evidence of Thomas Woodbridge, sun of Mr. Woodbridge, a farmer. at Studley, Bucks, that Wiggins was shepherd, and Jess) , Gomm, carter, to Mr. Woodbridge. They were sent with two wag gons, loaded with barley, to Mr. Field's, a =dater, at Theme ; young Woodbridge went with them to open the gates; the - barley' was delivered at Mr. Field's, who• brought out a can of beer, which Wiggins and Gomm, and three other men, drank. On.their way home, they stopped at a public-house and drank four or five quart' more of beer, so that Wiggins and' Grimm moon• became intoxicated. Woodbridge, who appeare.to have acted very praise worthily, in codeavonring to twort the consequence of the (idlers ' intemperance, obliged Wiggins to get into one waggon- w1.P.1 himself end Gomm tuck the direction of the two teams. After various nar row escapes, they.caree to a bridge at Carbagebrenk.. when the fore ..vheel of the waggon driven by Comm slipped stn the side of the b-. lt alge; the waggon was in Lonsegitence upset, Gomm and Wiggins thrown Lint° the water, awl Wiggins trtr , &celled. Vert '—iNclientally Iroweed.• Thursday an inquisition was held before T. Stir ling, Est:. Coroner, at the Queen's I lead, Islitigton, on the laxly of an infant recently torn. T. Hill de posed. that he found the deceased quite nak e d, lying on its back in the foundation of some intend.-J bail& ireit Back-mad, tslington: A turgeon examined the deceased and the Jury returned the following verdict.—That the deceased was born slive, anti diet! through the neglect (Wits mother. On the morning of the 19th ult a sloop, with coals, from Workington to the Isle of' Man, was forced by a violent gale into the bey of Luce, and ran aground between high and low waver-melt, on the shore of Gillespie:. When day-light appeared, the situation , of the sloop•was discovered f.ota tl.e shore, and every exertion was made to save, if pot- 1 Haile. the lives of a father and son, the only perilous I on board. A boat was sent for to the bey of Au- chinmuley, about a mile distaat, but the two men upon the rigging could not hear a word from the noise of the sea, nor be made to undetstar.d by all the signs that could be made to them, that the peo ple on-shore were bringing a boat to tl.jr relief. • The young man perceiving that the vessel must awn go to pieces, resolved to trust to his stir:mining. shook hands with his tliti...r, and said he would en deavour to 1 . , ,et a boat to save his life ; but, when near the sleire, a distant breaker overwhelmed h . ... 1, and he never appeared again upon the surface orate water. The bout came in-time to Wave the father, who had not left the sloop more than ten minutes, 1 when the mast iit l overboard , an d she became a , complete wreck. STAG FlusiT.—A curitiusoecorrence.--(In Tues day, the `2lst ult. (St. Thomas's Day), as usual, a stag was turned out from Blenheim park, the pro perty of the Duke of Marlborough. .t direeted its Bourse towards %Vie:Man, and fruit. thence it took the high road and proceeded to Osfurd ; met then followed one of the twist btasutitui and picturesque sights that can be imagined. The sta . :: and dogs in close pursuit, followed by a great numbe: of well known and experienced sportsmen. prmeelaul up the High-street as tar as Bruzennose College, when, to the no small astonishment of hundreds til.spectit tors, the stag took reruge in the chapel, during di vine service, where it was killed, suns ceremonie, by the eager dogs. On the vlitli ult. as Mr. Pirlilermit , e, a respectable farmer, was reit !!!! ing front Brritstaple-market, with a considerable sum of money tit his pocket, lie Watt thrown by his horse over the bridge, and has not yet la en Mond. It is suppose:l Witte persons held a ro l e across, and by lining it up when he was itassithc, frightened t h e spirited al ttttt rl ; and thus, by an idle frolic, caused his untimely and lamented death. lie hiss left s Wile and Me small children so bewail his loss. tirtiarday night, about set en o ' clock, as the Michel l Is ge was going along near the Red Cop, at 11011i:way. • 111311 who was a passenger on the coach 104 from the I. ot t tttt I the rimil, amid was kitit•dill,talltilleti(Wly. Tile deceased oli named Marsh. The drucasvil 5' ,s when ID a pobia: holi,e fur the Coroner's inipiesi.—Auntsa lite o'clock die S.IIIIC emu g,JattleS Kittititato, timer 01 the Wailing suite, tot its way to too ti, tell from his 1141 N into the 01.01, and the wheel passeri to er li s laxly and killed hum.. 'l he tl , e:ased was itelfectly sober at the . anti is soproted OP have been .n:arkeii wins a lit of apoplexy. 'Die hinges being at liberty. set tilt in bill ttallop, hut were liwiiii surly MO; led by n 11111114( .14.itils1 a sa.caose headed with hay, a .4 the 11.15WItgrrs ste.taisied no it Jury. Ihe accident itappeued beta vett Coithatml. .11111 Loaigi4J. Ail ox, of the short•liorned •Lincoltishire breed, was killed at Lyn.' last week, which, when Ili tog, NaS ill fat two inches its beialtt, and weighed CSU ,tuna tit Mary Wright, a person who practised on the credu lity of others as a fortune teller, was found dead in her bed, at her lodgings in Mount-sheet, Plymouth, on Thursday morning. Two females, wishing through her means to pry into futurity, not being able to gain admittance by knocking, broke open the door, when they found her as abate debcrihed. An inquest haven{ been held on the body, the Jury returned a verdict— Died by the Visitation of God. On Saturday week, as a poor labouring man was returning home from Bristol to Bedlam', thrones Piiglefs-field, he was accosted by two fellows, with a denitnd of money or life. The poor man, having pi/- chased a new jacket with part of his wages, had but !4. remaining, and this he refused to glee up. One of the fellows hereupon knocked him down, and rifled his pockets of their whole contents, furth.•r insisting wOO% the soirender of his new jacket, for which one of them gave him his own in exchange. Arriving home„ and searching the pockets of the ill.crxiditinned wrap( .r of iniquity, the poor titan was agreeably• zotonisliNl if. find in it a ten-poimil Bank of England notet--doulitl..ss, a recently nude prize, obtained from some less fig %imam On Saturday an inquest was held at the Art el Inn. on view of the body of a new-born malt • child. when, after a full investigation, the Jury returns d a vim diet of Wilful Murder against Rosalie Churcoda a native of Switzerland, the mother of the infant : and the Cu. rover, in consequence, issued his warrant for cr lnmittiug -her to gaol, hut at present she is 100 ill for retreival. Gil Friday night last the dwelling-hours of Mr. Barrel!, botcher, of Thurston, was broken into, and robbed of all the meat which had been preparo•d for sale on the tol:owing day at our market. On the :Tel ult. the White Ilan Inn, at Middenhall, iwoubierglarionstly entered, and robbed of &lee hams,. two pigs faces, and a piece of dried bacon.—Slaw night the meat safe of John Swale, Esq. was broken into. when a eidelle, shoulder and neck of mutton, two brace of partridges, a hare, a pheasant, and a rabbit were stolen. Wanestlay last an inquisition was taken at Brantford,. by Sparrow. gent. on the bodies of :I'. K. Harvey, aged la, and G. Pinner, aged u :tie, who the day hefi.,•e beteg sliding on a pond, the ii•e broke, and they were both drowsed.—Verdicts, accidental dead'. A-wontan went into a shop a few days s'nce to buy some grcceries, which sne selected to the aitionet of 4s. Cd. and tended a 21. note in payment. Thu person who served her suspected she wattled the change fur the purpose of lutarding, and said, " Good women hate you heart: tits.a shillings will soon pass for M. only."— She said, " I have got 201. in silver at home, sad will get rid of it. if that is the care." She then wont home and got the bag. and after getting rid of the silver. declared she would hoard no more. The bearding of silver gives great encouragement to coiners, auto there is hole doubt but a great deal of that 110 C/ heardeei is bate • coin. The fol:ewing is an extras: of a letter to his ••••fe from a convict sent from Ipswich to Botany Rev, dated Sydney, February 7i. 1819 :--'• have a • try good p ace, and a good toaster: we never work on , Stinuays„ or in the engin. I expect stem to be foreman in the Jb I flutter inyeli to sty I um the best own in the. country; therefore. could h I _ace the• opportunity o f getting off the stores, -i•could have ally wages I like to ask ; bt.t th..l 1 cannot do, under -four years, valets you could come over to take Inc off.- !al my .presetst iituation I ge: no wales, lon thaw ten :lotto-half pound's of flour and ten and a half poundso: beef weekly, and a suit of ck.thcs.stielt as they -are,. every six ....... tots ; so pa I of lily Meal 1 t..`1110 lOW 111 C lea awl and pay any fodaitigr, where I sot v cry caution:dile for is. per week. ship that is 11 tw coming. to Eitalatid bas got alt fink; to the Secret-try of State or send nut a member of wrialeii 10 their htistum&, by the next ship. • L made ap i dication dim you, hot was told I had beeieso little while ie the country, that it cuuid not he granted. unless L bad blemish* a certificate of my genital character from home ; but, it 1 conducted pro l e (It , by the neat order, 1 surely should be. 1 which will ire ei g ht ur tell months then the present date. 1 can assure you this Is a far better country for a working man 111211 England. A man that will make himself useful, and is off the stores, may car,, 21. per week , even a 111.1 h at tar tttttt g day-labour 'cot hate ha. per tray. I w.sit it lead been poss;ble bee t.tti to nave C ttttt C Deer Will. roe : I could have got into oissinerr directly. Here are two wills 110 W standing still ter want or tenants; it takes but a small e:Tiaal to get into business here, of Ole bakers all go to market and bey their wheat, poncl pay the miller Is. per bushel for grinding; if dressed is. (el. Atl grain is sold in 111 C market, ley the bushel, ofi the earls that bring it, tiro same as they do the Well at your market. Peaches are Id. per dozen, and lesson twee a penny." On Thursday se' Ott an inquest was taken at EJst • Basuto, in Norio It, Itelore John Pkrion, Geol. Co. roner, on view of he hotly of H. Kerrey, a child about eighteen ln old, who died is rousetructice of hat. mg been severely borne V, relict—.lcesseental tieash.— On the following day another itiquest was eict, !metre the Sallie Coroner, out ItICW of the body of A. Et i ttt lail, 'a child ouly twt Ice [vomits old, whip was must tiratl 111 bed by the slde of her ttttt ther early that t ttttt Mug. The Jury, after exalitlitilig the body, and ale) alit wiineso•- • said as there del um .1 1 pear any livirks of toleoce ois toe deceased. returned a ‘ettllCl—Died by the lla.launu lot . Gll4l —And 1/11 Srnniay last auu,hrr unquiet dues lalo-is atlibefore the emits C rev, tin view of e.“•. nom) 01 Edward Cleircii, a lad anout eiau yeas of won w..s Iron lira the preceding day its a piece of w ore called Rl,llrshy' Broad. It appeared Ili evideliee that .his boy It al been to school, and ilede.l.l of iellirlllll4 at lii caul 11,110 in tile eveentig, went tote hleusad to and the ice tail mg way he fell in. ..n4 every ae.orelt Was shade for Ism , hair he 11 . 14 ruts Pt '1 , 14, till the tiOlowitia ttt3tttt its. V rdict—Acoacutal d‘4141.. ; 4....1 • 1,