The National Register. — London, England, 1818-12-27 00:00:00

n ' ? ' . 2 i 0 , 1 Tuesday night, the proSecntrix went to the theatre, lint ill I h e wutr , e of the evening was followed iiv it n..4111111E, w h o informed her that tier house had liven ati•! Mai -every thing, sta. Its the greatest confusion. She aevordingls made all purodde lotstr, bottle, mid found the primmer with Irel fa her And brother in the kitchen, and lit r dressing ca.e lying on the hoar rinetarketi of All its cotttruts , amen; 0 trbich wort 131, in honk mites. Her drawers nod ntle.r ',Lees nt p•ctirit v wet e !broken open, and ttliandered Mei' coin erit•„ cousi•i ne of dre.ses, Vic. worth 391. and upwards; and the olds ac count she could ;et fl 1041 the neighbours was, that its the cooise of the evening wo men were observed to knock at the dour mid enquire for Nlrs. tiaville , The. prosecnti 1 ,,,,,e„ g . 1 1 ,1 some suspicion of the primmer, thought orouer. lo tare going to the play, to lock the d o se and take the ke% in her pocket ; $ll , l it therefore surprised her mark, when the said, the h.m.,e bah been robbed without um. kunw .intge and she s-nt for Lavender, who took the girl into custody. The girl said. that she got out at the parlour window intending to go to her parents, hut she met tan women with whom s ti r was acquainted, and they persuaded her to gn to the Queen's Palace to hear the hisuri. Here sire was aecosted by another man anti woman ; the latter nt wham asked if he' mistress was at lunne? She replied•in the negativt , anal the man went away ill a hurry. On her return house she 10'111.1 the house tubbed, and 'lie sent for her roller and brallier su •stav with her till her mistresa's.arrival, tie Magistrate thought she must k , :ow more of the traos aetiou than site seemed inclined to tell, and ordered bet to be committed for further examination. SIR PHILIP FRANCIS, K.B. On Tuesday evening, soon after eve o'clock, Sir Phil)) Fl Antis died, at hi% house in st.Jautes's Squire, after an Dines. of upwolds of bye annuli». An expiess Was Unto.- ittittely sent off to Mr. Fruntit, hitt son, who 'Sig no, l visit to toe Ertl of Bti.tol, at I. k worth .Perk, Suffolk. It is a sin. guitar coincidative, that this is the f. very •Itart period, in that .finer of St. J me re, viz.- - Lord Reanclia:no, Lotd Ainon, Lord Edeohorongii, 41111 Sir Philip Francis. This gentleman was born in Dublin, on the 2PI 0rt.1.740, old style. Dr. Francis Ili,. :Translator of ilorare was hi' -father; his grand .1111. 'Avis% John Matteis, thou of the Ca.lie dral of Lt.lNore, io Ireland ; and his great grandfather.johti Francis, I) eau of Leightin. The maiden name of his mother was Roe,a tleseentla.it fiom Sir 'Flioina, Roe. Sir Philip received the first rudiments of his education in Ireland. lit 1740 he time to England, and was in 1735 glare . at St. Paul's selomL In 1756 Mr. Vent yFoc,;‘ Get-wards Lord :*.sll , llland, gave hint a immll place an the Secretary ut State's ()thee. Mr. Pitt, who succeeded Mr. Fitz, patronized him, throngh the recommendation of Ilia secretary Robert Wood, iluit pat* image he was appointed tsry to (;mesa Mirk. in 1758. and via% pie , ent at th..;•aptiue aorl denmlitioo •or bose,h. 111176) hr was mule secret any to the Hari ,f A iiiteis.a , lor to Lisbon, o lien the 41:1PCII of Poelllgill %.11 , 1 married to her a.ede. In 17(13 lie was :11.11011liell he late 10014 Mwtiolip to a ronsitierable,poM ill the War Office, Which he resigned in 1772, iii conseipteoce of a dilfereore mith Vetconnt Barrington. The greatest part of the ye a at 17:2 be spent iu ravelliog through Hamlets, Geriumy, ll'e 1)/111, Fumes, nod limy. In about half a year altar his return to Dial:toil, Lord fortingtots did him the instice to -recommend kiln so Lord North, by whom hit name was ill. betted in an Act of Parliament 044;aed in imie, 1773, to be \I ember of the Cl/1111(A appointed for the Liovetentent of B' of iu e4nunnetiun w 'lV3rren IleNlititt% and three othet r. The record* or his lung ennteht with Mr. 11a•tings, the tinvernur.tienet al, a: e preset red in the Winks of Connell, tbo lirpotta of the Cnn n uittt•e, and in tlit. Journal,: of the Oniiiiions. Tin,. quarrel Kati previously inteasione.l a duel in India. when.on tin 17th t7SO, Mr. liastinio -.ht Sir Plclip threw:it the hod). lie lett IlenAal in I).,cein her, 17SO, pa sed tier incv.tlis at St. Helena, and an ved in Eticland in °ember, 1781. 0,1 the ilksalntion of Pa l tiamenr, iu 17Sl, lie was elected for Vermouth, iu the I.la o f W ig ht. Since that time his Parliamentary life ha. hero before the public. Oil the 29th October. lob, Hi% Majesty, at the recommendation of Lord Grenville, was pleabc.l to invest Lim with the Order a the Hath. On the 22 , 1 of the present th he expired, after having been reduced to a ►tote of extreure debility by all excruciating di%ease its the ,prostrate glanik, with which he had been fur several years afflict.. d, and from which his age pre eluded all chance of recovery. lie has left a son and two ilanchters, .Fr.incis, Mrs. Julne.on, and Stra.Lholniondeley. When be— tween 70 and.Bo,lse married Miss Watkins, a daughter of a clergyman. He hail been many years employed Rhone an historical sketch of his principal contemporaries. PrWe now find, that the Elligians, attributed to the late Lord Elleaborattgli, W. 1% certainly not written by his Lord • shtp ; but WAS understood at the time, and since, to be w:itteit by the present Lord Chief Jestice of the Common Pleas, I hell also one of the Counsel for Mu. Hastings. The Rev. Dr. Hallman, convicted of forging it.lisok (by using the :lame of h:r W. (.arrow),.and senteured to trails levitation, sailed on Friday se'ssuight from Sheerness, on !maid the Raring convict slop, bound to New smith Wales. The o mse of Pric•peet-place, St. Geoi ge's, was entered by means of skeletoti-ke•, doting the ob.:cove of t f. •Iy, ill Satin day se' glit, by (hire inch, who CarU rd off every article of plate they could eullect. Mr. J. retureird home atm t 11111 P leClock, and met one of the robbei coming wit mit at the street door, with a prier 1 114.% tinder his arni.— A t sight of Mr. J. he let it fall and ran assay. The glass wits shattered, and the noise alarmed the other t ohm" $l, who j!Int.11.11 tint of a window and escaped. On Saturday morning (se'nnight.) John Ring, Esq. of the town of Windsor. who was iavned by wine fiktids in London to spend a short Moe with them, booked himself for a ,place in the Windsor stage coach for that purpose. He took his seat in the coach at the appointed time, and was very jocular with his &how passengers until their arrival ut Hatnmenimith, where the stage stopped at the Hop pole tavern, when he was seized with a shivering all over his body, and lost all power. He was post tubed. and surgical assistance pro cured ; but although every kind aueutim, was Whittled hint, he died in a very short time. An iuquest was held on the body on Tuesday morning. Verdict—Died by the visitatien of Gurl. INTEISPHETATION.—%Vhen Lys Rose Retour was ex amined in Aston v. Elliott the Interpreter was desired to put some question to the witness resin:anti; one 'Cookson, a servant to Mrs. Ast in, when not taking , Cookson to be a surname, .be tr..nslated it fill de la (Cuisiniere. NATIONAL MYSTERIOUS Our readers will recollect that an extraordinary charge was recently made at Bow Street, against u young man of respectable connexions, named Henry Cooke, by William Key, who accused him of having employed and furnished him with tistols to murder Mr. Shears, proprietor of Cop Per-mills at Merton, and having a counting-house in Fleet Market. together with his whole flintily : Cooke wai Mr. Shears's clerk. The Magistrates considered the charge untimnded, anti liberated Cooke, who subsequently prosecuted Key, who is now under sentence of transportation. On Wednes day se'nnight, Cooke, who is about 18 years of age, died after an illness of e tea' hours, under circumstan• es of suspicion that he haul Len poisoned. The body was opened on Thursday last, wh,li it war ascertained that he died be poison. Thursday night an investigation was taken on the body at the Georg-e, in George Street, Christchurch, Blacktliars Road, betbre C. hamlet, Esq. coroner our Surrey, when evidence to the following elli.ct wits given : Mr. John Woman, of Christchurch, said the deceased had been several years his lodger. Tuesday evening last he came home at half-past six from the counting house complaining of sickness at the , stomach ; he vo mited very much ; the sickness continued violent, and he went to Mr. Pollard, u neighbour for medicine : he went to bed about ten. At eleven witness brand him more composed ; he saw no more of him until five next morning, when being awoke by a noise like the falling of some person he ran into Cooke's room, and found him prostrate on the floor, but not senseless ; he assist ed him into bed, and then called a servant to light a fire and make tea, the deceased having complained of extreme thirst. While drinking tea he said to witness, —" Those fellows put something in the beer."— About seven o'clock, a man who was going to Mr. Shears's mills at Nierton, called to know if Mr. Cooke, whose father was a foreman there, had any mes.eige to send ; deceased desired his fitther might be informed that he was very ill, but hopoc! to go to Merton on the Monday. Ten minutes afterwards witness went into his room, and timid him with his head out of bed over a basin, as if he had beets voluitting, and lying upon his side ;be gasped once and expired. At the time he mentioned " those fellows," he named no particular person.___ Mr. Woman further stated, that after Cooke's death •he waited upon Mr. Shears, at the counting-house, to inform him of the circumstance. and acquaint him with the allusions of deceased to the beer he had drunk, and to request the mug might be searched fbr. Mr. Shears's son made immediate inquiry fir the mug among the servants, who could not find it. He then called in the clerks, and desired they would endear Ger to find it, which they did immediately under the desk of de ceased. There appeared in it a quantity of white powder mixed with dirt. Mr. Shears sealed it up, and delivered it to witness, by whom it was transferred to Mr. Pollard. Mr. Pollard, of Christchurch, stated, that the de ceased applied to him on Tuesday evening, complaining of vomitting, and pains in the stomach and head. lie said that he had only drank a little table beer. The excessive vomitting continuing, witness again asked what he had taken; and he then said, that when he drunk the beer he observed white powder at the bottom of the mug, and•thought some of his companions had been blaying tricks Some medicine was then given to him, with proper directions; and he was desired by witness to send him what might be thrown from the stomach. He saw no more of him until next morning, when he was called in great haste, and found Cooke dead. Mr. Wetman delivered a tin mug to witness, which contained a quantity of white powder, and which being analyzed, proved to be oxyde of arsenic. lie subsequently op ned the body, and found in the .sto mach a quantity of similar powder, which he also found to be an oxyde of arsenic ; it had produced a great in flammation and ulceration in the stomach, ann occasion ed death. 1)r. Callaway was present at the opening of the body, and corroborated Mr. PollArd's testimony Mr. Shears, jun. stated, he had been indefatigable in his exertions to discover by whom the beer had been drawn whielt Cooke had drunk without success. lie had about 50 per9ans on the preinies, but could obtain no evidence upon the subject. Morgan Deasey was warehouseman and clerk to Mr. Shears. On Tuesday, at one o'clock, he dined with deceased ut an oating-house in the Old Iktiley. Wit ness returned to business, and deceased went another way, saying he had a place to call at betbre lie returned. Witness had been accustomed to drink a pint of table beer with the deceased after dinner : he waited te,r him a considerable t.ime and ordered the boy to draw some beer, which he immediately did in a pewter pot, and witness drank it. Cooke came in about three o'ckek. Witness shortly afterwards , went into the counting house, rith •the intention of havin g some beer with him : he saw the tin put which had been produced by Mr. Pollan] standing on the corner of the stow, full of beer to warm. Ile was immediately called away upon business: was . rosilivc that the mug was not on the stove previous to the entriutec of deceased. It w.w the same mug he usually drank out ot; and was gene rally placed under Cooke's desk. The witness not by whom the beer was drawn, nor by whom placed on the stove. If he had not been called away he should have drank part of it himself. Frederick NVilson, another clerk to Mr. Shears, re membered deceased complainiag, at five o'clock of being excessively sick, and said he had been so ever since finer o'clock ; he put his hand on his stomach, and said he felt a burning heat there. The Coroner observed, that the best evidence that could be produced had ken brought forward very fully. No doubt deceased had died in consequence of taking the oxyde of arsenic in the beer ; how it came there or by whom given remained unknown. All possible pains had been taken to bring forward every person likely to have any knowledge of the, circumstances. It re mained for the Jury to deliver a verdict according to the best of their judgments. The jury remained in consultation about font hours,. and at 1 o'clock on Friday morning returned this ver dict.—Died by poison, administered by souse person or - persons at present unknown. A very intelligent and enterprising gentleman, named Bodeck, has recently returned to England, after hay._ ing successfully explored the kingdain of the Ashantees, in which he resided for six months. During the first half of this interval, he we: incarcerated in a dungeon,. and expected hourly to be put to death.. The King of ' the Ashantees had hint often brought from his cell to the Palace, for the purpose of inquiring from .whence . he came and the purpose of his visit These interviews always took place in the dead of the night, and uputt one early occasion his Majesty became quite satisfied with regard to the intentions of the stranger, who was liberated, and for the last three months of his stay he resided at the. Court. he was treated with great kind ness. Antoeg the curious and valuable articles brought home by Mr. Bodeck is a Geographical History of the Ashantee Kingdom, in the native language, and an., uccoant of the travels and death of Mungo Park. He represents the King of the Ashantees as a must able and intelligent man. His observations and qnestions, , which were inceswit, displayed strong natural dia.. cernment and intelligence, aad he was particularly • anxious in his inquiries respecting the policy of the . European Guverntnents. Heavv FoGs.—The Nletropolis has been visited since Tues . -. y wills fogs, nearly equal in int versity to those experienced about live years age. 'floe darkness on Tuesday was so very great as to be attended with extraordinary inconvenience; hat it geedual:y increased, and about four o'clock iibecatue • impossible to discern an o'sject at the dietetics. of a t'w paces.. 'Elie carriages and wig.telis movie, aloi,g the streets were not discernible from the flag-ways, and the passengers on the latter derived very little aid from the lights in the windows, or iu the lamps, as must of the shops , from fear of accidents, were shut, and several of the latter „ere extinguished by the fog ; even those which slid barn afforded but a very kettles-. twinkling light, not visible until a near appru iris. Tue co.:clout-1r aliy;lated from their boxes to lead their hot sea, hod ; the link buys weir. in great numbers to offer their assistairec ; but with every possible care and precaution, the passellgeta, on foot and in carriages, seldom succeeded in making their way without mistakes—anti horses and carriagrs f cquieutly deviated from the street to the dig ways, to the traminect danger of the passengers. The noises made by the people is the streets were frightful; some shrieking Rota terror when Jorpriaed by the sudden approach of a horse us a carriage, and others calling oat to their fellow tray. Hers, to Marts theirs , of danger, or anxiously ingot:Mg their way In many cases . Ike company deserted thuir carriages, which remained sta- • tienarv, the coachmen lint kno%ving, Mhere tl,ey were. l'arloi l s sums, Roar half a crawl; to ten .billingson ere obtained 4 by link boys tin• roudolvitiag a carriage through a siiios .• street. In the theatres, the actors on the stage %sure seat r ely visible to the andience ;Mid evert private houses, through eloiced a n d well fornisleed with tires, were tilled and darkened , by this siowelcoore visitor. bitATICAL CRUISER.— Extract of a letter from Messrs. Andros War droll and (0., Agents to Lloyd's at Nladeira, dated Nov. 2). IrilH , to James R. Oxberty,sEsii. Agent „for Lloyd . ..at I tihi anar ; We beg to you of au outrageous robbery, which he been lately committed by a pirate on the English schooxer Sir Tho. . rims Hardy, bound from Gibraltar to Trinitletf, which ocertsiontal that vessel to put in here, in order to reptsr her alamase, wad afford lbw crew and passengers an opportunity of renewing their stock of pro- . visions and clothes. 'file occurrence took place on the ath inst. iP , lat 35. 444,.10ng. 8. The pirate plundered and destroyed about one. . third of the cargo, part of which, and the ship's store . he threw ova.. board, cut someol the rigging, and siali.ertis) two ganlemen what., o were passengers, 11r.. Smith and `• Ir. H ill, to shackle, and an sullbcating confinement for several hears, from winch lie rel ai = them to undergo a mock execution. which was attended with may Pannnl tarciunstance of reality except the loss of prey: that he granted them, but not until tie had taken front them ev..ry thing valuable they possessed. 'f oat such u freelioeter may not escape this. . vi4ilance of our cruller,, we subjoin, for their information, 1144 : 4 dtscription of hint an his vessel as we have been able to obtain. The vessel is a painted black, with a white streak, t,Jr black quarter-cloths, and is light and high out ufthe water, but her guar s/snare nut reaL She 11:1E lt billet-Lead, four windows in the ge:111., Wiel a star painted on one side of ouch of the outer ones.. She is Aare; can built, awl s supros to have been u schooner rased upon. He: hoiden is aid to be about 300 tons; and die carries siste, n istlb carrounade , with too Imo at least. T.ie pirate coomounling call s lii.n.,c'dAlrueitl.s. He speaks Etighsh very well, is ruttier a sloot nian, and has a most malicious cast in his eye-. this first officer bus , bluish excriscen,:e under his left eye; and in the cabin the:is is a pic t urerrengravingoftheAmeti:•ansthuonar Kempt ei t pturiug_six sail of British vesse;s. T: at schooner privateer & arml i ke K - 4tt , war.aneLwas winuniuuled ity roan of the/tame of Atwell - a, who i 3 said to be married in Baltimore. When otte pirateattneked the Sir 'llionias !lardy he hail a flag lurietual dins. Woe winte blue, and never thawed any other. He e l .tel not pretend to L e a n Insurgent, • but boldly declared himself at war with all mitions. We 14811 re-. • Mice if etc above, which is ail we Wald learn, may lta4l 1, 0 bi s.. ,:apturc,