The National Register. — London, England, 1808-11-06 00:00:00

._:-,~ r •. NOV. 6. and, as we have 61 ; CI L to take his trial for t S here. Judith Cryer, a pc Id/ town, who earns her I a tali dupe. In the month widow, a boy 11 yea yob ness, this being obser rata i to the sorceress) she i persna who could rem $ 3 seined to see task ic "' of her uneasiness recu i me Miss Blvtb again th toth dertook to write to It ,tde was received front t . 1i! any description t the lett; with its usual append rind de,ouociation that the i len before he attained 14 noit be averted by four gui ups, appropriated as Miss in vain tnat this pool Tate lam a stun ; the sm ety, length obtained with I on leathern bag, and sew yof main untouched and sky the age of 14 years. ' the immediately carried tdeti directed, and if the de re. not occurred, the latti Sop- woman, would have r the prehension of thesorc hr' furtunate victim of It de to mut w the hell. and I CS to add, that s he looker rat Mary Bateman, not 'arty of her last mile actuall , Sir month., to defray th , the tifeetiag, the infamats; A circumstance has Mary Bateman that hi tore and surmise, and w the attention of the Mi In the month of Sep d au i er, near St. Peter's -sot and mother, who came lic taken suddenly ill, and of a complaint then sai [nun. eminence A hl' was call tertained, however, a cs of pressed with the !wile! ing at proceeded from saute deo v the stomach ; that be moult vessels in the house, as calm been in use, and expert again ly being all dead, and n least authorised to give this •ed up examined, and with ii out of unless by means inscrut s good marked, that Mary Ba ; miry with Miss Kitcht centre ness there, her anxiety briar males, kept her constar Snow- tare for the sister wile neigk• Doctor, Nliss myth, pi !It ant i 1k a.: discovered that at her property inn of so much sternal' only divided eight pear Y to he In manners, Mary 11 .h tird ante sedate and respect; inspec• " Seems a Saint a dear, have BitIGHTnN, OCT. lig deg' amused a fashionable a as pa' . two of his be.t charact m d the and Sir .irrity Mars:tiro erto"k voice and spirits, n o el st)le of excellence peer (;redo* tog %tr. Conhe again e: 101j011; Pedlar's- Misrsycnpliart he best flit uec equails , fasttio, of lte, taan the former. liet ever, b. became so e, be ba ll vuder the necessity of s earch B a le beutldt ' THE NATIOI4AL REGISTER. lated aho.r, ct famitiea to .York Castle, the offenze, The dark history does an eud inn,. aged widow, in Meadow-lant, in this livelihood by getting itp linen, wit another of April last the graodsnu of this poor .urs of age) had ocertAtined het• some uneasi erred by Wianifred Bond, (a kind of agen recommended to her Alary Bateman, as a mote the cause of her distress; Judith con ked woman, who having learnt the nature •onimended an application to Miss Blyth. ria being consented to, Mary Bateman un her dear friend. In a few days an ansn er is lady, w hien shocked poor Judith beyond .r contained a reproentation or a gallows, tdage, a rope, accompanied by the horrid grandson would he eA eciited on t 11 , ,! gallows years of age, and that his fate could only ineas being raised by the old woman, an Hlyth should afterwards direct. It was , r woman declared her inability to raise so , reeress wai inexorable; the sun, WrtS extreme difficulty, it way then put into a ;ed up in Jutlitlex bed, w here it was to re• unlooked at, until the boy had :Lttaiurtl The foraler part of these instructions were into effect, the money was deposited as :election and apprehension of the witch hail ter part, as far as * depended m► this poor been scrupulously observed; but the ap• .reress having dissolved the charm, the un her spells ventured on Saturday se'nnight, look for her money ; it is hardly necessary ed in vain—it was not to he found. •t content with plundering this poor widow fly prevailed upon her to wash for her three he expellee of the postages incurred in robbery.. been inentioned since the commitment of las given rise to no sa►all share of em cc- which ha,:tht, weary happy to say, ewaped lagistracy. Member, 1803, Miss Kitchen, a shop-keep mare, in this town, along with her s ister le over from Wakefield to vi►+it her, were id nil three of them died w ithin ten days, ►id to a he Cholera ',thew ; a Physician of lied in, to visit the last surviving sister, en , different opinion, and was so strongly im •F that their sickness and subsequent death poisonous den;; having been received int►► examined, with mach care, many of tb.• isked if any water for poisoning dies had •ssed a wish to open the body. The fisini no pessons . st hand who. thought thcm , elves is permission, t h ,• corpse was interred un it probably the opportunity of detection, hwilao wi,Jotii. It must be re ateman was on terms of the striilest inti ten, mei although she had no visible tstil y shout the fate of these unfortunate fe mtly about the house, and led her to pro m died first, a medicine from some couutr )erhaps. After the death of t' e family it 11 Nliss Kitkhen's hook► were missing, and diminished by plunder, that her creditors lee in the pound. _ Bateman is very plantible ; of nn appear tahlv, ; l ad, as Stinice;peare saya of Richard, when she mist plays the Devil." 31.—0 n Fridny evening Mr. Cooke auditory at the. Theatre. by appearing in •ters, ShNterk, in The Merchant of Venice, .casm,iu Low aln Node. ije was in goad the two characters were delineated iu a .uliarly his nun. Oil the follow ing even-. yzerted his efforts on the'e boards, us Sly nt, in 7'h. _Hnn of the World, tit au itu , mahle, hut considerably more unitteroos fore ite had fit:kiwi' his /lot scene. rteeedingl , , , hoarse, that he felt himself. ste . olustiitig in cousequeng.e, tat the amid t- • ' • 7Q9 . - . once, which he did, observing that an tioarsene:s with w taco tit late he had been afflicted, had suddenly seized him, but • teat pc had great hopes that it would be but of very ehort coat iiiiuire; Plaudits followed, and Mr. C. went on, and with great di!Pctil.ty to himself, as the hoarseness continued, finis:ird t‘.e arduo,,4 task he had undertaken. The *scattier yesterday was siiowt ry and, *aim Saturday, It rained incessantly from sun rise to Nilo set. 'to-day the sky has been unclouded ; the sit.i, therefore, ,as had great power, but a strong bri ere has preiloo inateit since dapbreak.-..-There was a numerous con;regatioit at !hi! Sew Chapel, or Chapel Royal, ye:terilay mount): , etch included HMO:. families of the first rank :vitt cinisequem,•. The, at the Caale this evenine, it 1, expected, wi 1 tie ele.anlly Attended and the Circus, from the attractive bill i t fate, pr raises to be crowded. The Prince is now drill. 'ex petted at tad Pavilion, thonirh 110 n o tic e is to when rill as r , Ye haws yet been merited there. Cooler, ANTIQUITIES —ln the c mrse of last month 111 r. Canning opened various barns sitt the u..ighbourtieo I iirStoile tienge, wider tile directiou Of Sir Its. h..r.1 Hoare, Bart au 1 with the aid and assistance of A. U. lambert, L.l. and found a 'lumber of curious remains of Celtic ornaments, such of bead., buckles, and broaches in amber, w and gold one of Whiejt, for its elegance and appropriate form, is at once a proof of the Mobility of the person fur whom' the harrow was raised, rind the elegance of ilie arts at the period of the interment, about 3000 years from the reseal period. e ther shape of tai, curious article is conical, aid the exact form of the barrow itself, which it was most probably intended to tizure. eke apiece of wood, imbricated in layerii, one ever the ► her, to the sum • mit of the cone, and covered who thin plates of pure gold, ant adorned with circles round the middle, and near ttie bottom with a triangular festoon about the lower edge, In which are two holes fora thread or wire to suspend it. . Pens:scat to Ft; 4 SS.—thi Thursday last, Mr. ilrynn i , jun. brazier, of Shrewsbury, for a wager, walked from the centre of the English Bridge to 'Church Stretton, a distance of 13 mites, in two hours and three-quarter, which he performed . wlth ease. Cite time 'allowed was three hours. in the afternoon of the following day, Mr. Piclodock, wine -merchant, also undertook to go eight miles in an hour; the ground chosen for the per formance twos the bottom walk in the Quarry, which wits strew ed with sawdust far the occasion. Considerable sums were de pending on the event, and Mr. Pickstock won with ease, in one minute and a half under the time. On Tharsday evening, the ?7th ult. Stephen Siinamas, a shep herd's boy, about eight years of age, took snelo r the rain in a cart shed, in /fusthperpolnt, where two large rollers were placed nue upon the other, the uppermost of w;iieh fell upon him, and unfortunately killed him apon the spot, A cbg which attended the deceased was the tut n ofleading - to the di,cosery of the accident, by repeatedly rimming home, and returning to the hovel, until he atiriielcd the attention of the boy's father, who as length followed the dog to the bore!, and there found his ill-fated son lying on the gronnd, with the fatal roller upon his head.-.—Verdict--Ircidental Death. 11Ah11))HIK1 MILTING. Thursday, partisan' to a public requisition, the glet Mitchell, Esq. convened a Meeting s of the Nobitit Get*. try; Freeholders, and Inhabitants of the County of SW/lamp on, at the Castle of IV inchester, to take lobo tiwireposidaratlon the propriety of addressing his Niijesty on the Convention of Cintra. The .leetii was both numerous and highly riespet:ttj t►le. 'the Nigh Sheri:t having. taken the Chair, Lord Northesk presented him- 'ir to the attention of the Meet ing, for.the purpose orproposin...; a ttesott►tion. fit felt that on A 9t,bject involving both the character and interests of the coun try, it would not be deemed a presumption in him to otrer to their consideration a motion, expressive of the wishes of the County of Hants, to request a fall enquiry into the causes: which led to that ditgraceful event, the Convetitiou of Ciutra. After these prefatory Vetaarks, his Lordship prep,►sed the following (testi! ion : nn humble so I dutiful Ad lret4 and Petition he presented to his .',lnjesty ,ricivres.iite our griefand regret at the Convention lately entered into by the Commauders gat iesty's tOrcrs in Portugal, and the Comrnatt•ler uf the French ,tritty in Lisbon; pray nig, his Alaje,t to :tote SOO) fall, rub lie, etre:dual inquiry into th.s Ira is:action, as will lend to the dhcovery uf all those mutes which pc hate.!d . All e• net to ijurious to the littuuar of this coUntri. and LAO *latest "iseitti Allies. 1. • . ~~ -- _. ~ . ~...R,.,R'. ..__ , - *....0.W., .