The National Register. — London, England, 1812-04-05 00:00:00

IN NM= =!IIMUMMAA=== IP , MO ~lfl ils.. . to be presented to Parliament, praying for pecuniary assistance along with a renewal of their Charter, was at present in his possession, and whickhe desired permission to read for their approval. The Petition was accordingly read, and consulted to by a show of hands; after which the Chairman returned thanks to.the comp:my for the arprobation which they had shown towards the measures proposed to be adopted, End adjourned the Court. a . ----- PROVINCIALS. MON lIILY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. The Wetness and changableness of the weather have occasioned a catching and difficult seed season, which will probably be two or three weeks later, in most parts this spring, than usual. The late drought ' was too quickly followed by wet and otherwise unfavourable weather. Nothing yet sown but beaus, peas, and a few black or early oats, of Which little is said, front their n ot being forward in growth. Wheat, in general, looks well, excepting where it is too forward in the grass, and upon cold wet soils, where much of the plant has perished, from the too great moisture of the winter season. Accounts from various quarters, of a disapprobation of spring wheat; in some few, of a breadth of wheat unusually large. Broad-cast wheat extremely foul and weedy, where the land has been at all neglected. The spring cattle crops continue to improve. Turnips, upon the whole, have 11.-Id out well. and bay has been in great plenty; straw short in quantity. It las been an unthri -, ty sea son for all out-door stock, and the rot in sheep havit prevailed, more or less, throughout ; the lambing, in coin se, has not li•eti attended with the usual success. tore cattle rather ,carce and clearer, prefer ence generally given to the Scotch. Fat stock' dearer. Stor:.• pis de clining in price, from the advancing price in cont. Cows bz.yond all former price. From the vast prices demanded fur good cart horses, the custom of substituting bullocks is gaining gio:ind iii many parts. The wool trade continues as More, execepting some 4thlitiordl briskness in the demand for fir.. flee,es. A gardener at Glasgow practices a mode of destroying caterpillars, which he discovered by accident. A piece of woollen- rag had been blown by the wind into a currant bush; at , d when taken out was found covered by the leaf-devouring insects. He immediately placed pieces of woollen cloth in every bush in his garden, and found next day that the cattet pillars had unistersally taken to them for shelter. In this way he destroyed many thousands every mining. Monday week last, at midnight, about :oily men, numbers of them armed .with pistols and other weapons, entered the shearing mill a William Thomson and Brothers, at Rawden,' about seven miles from Leeds. Six or seven of the men, principally armed, seized the watch man, and held him on the Boor. The commander ordered those who were not enzagt:d in this service, to " go to work," and they proceeded to destroy the shear ' of which they bn - Ae from thirty . ..to torty pairs, and materially injure d the machinery. 'l - 11-v then assembled on an ad joining eminence, and after answeting to tlior nun:bets, dispersed in stantly. The proceeding was perfo; II:A in about twenty . minutes ; in the course of which the depredators ,IrittryeLl thirty-six windows, and injured three pieces of line woollen cloth. ::.od on Wednesday niOn the finishing shop.; of Mo.srs. Dickens, Carr, and , liattn, were entered, and eighteen pieces of fine cloth, dre,sed by machinery, torn and cut into shreds. Lately, Corporal Lennie, of the Ilifeshire militia, was found . on the road between Stonehaven and Bervie, nearly covered with slow, and with life almost expended. He had been left in Aberdeen, in charge i.. of the barracks, to deliver them over to the 21st regiment, and set out, with some of his comrades,' in the afternoon, for Stonehaven, which he reached about eight at night. He soon after left that place dote, and as he had only got to the distance of three miles from it, he m ust have remained among the snow fur upwards cif nine hours, daring a very intense frost. ' Under an unremitting application of ' the means for restoring suspended animation, hg was with difficulty reco vered. When OM discovered be was taken to Uras. He bad no re collection of any thipg after having lift Aberdeen, when , he said, he was extremely fktiOcd: It is probable, that the covering of snow protected him eonilft • rably from the effecti of the frost, otherwise he must have fatten a victim to the cold. • RELIEF WITHOUT DANGER OR INCONVENIENCE, Warranted, and the full Cost returned, if not approved of after any Trial, Wear, or Damage. SAMON, ODY, an' Co. 21/2, Strand, London, PATENT SE L F -AD.) USTING TRUSS - MANUFACTURE RS to his Atiljesty's Aoyil Navy the lion. East India Company, &c. &c. warrant their Trusses; *About any Strap whatever, superior in ease and effect to every other inventiori on th . :, aboveterms, and con fi dently recommend a trial to 41 those who pro, r perfect ease and security to the galling application of the coinmot Tru,s.—Sold by appolntment, by Maw and ;: A rmstropg, Leadeithall-strect ; :It the Manjactorv, and in all the prin cipa&TUo L:3 iu Etie.rmi.—Alerclita:ts and C.lptalUs . supplied on liberal THE NATIONAL REGISTER. PROVINCIAL ASSIZES. SURREY. -,APRIL 6 KINGSTON, APRIL I.—. Adam, Lee, Thomas Lee, and Eleanor his wife, were indicted for a highway robbery, by stopping Elizabeth Col lier, on the 21st of October last, and forcibly taking. from her her cloaths, pockets, money, 3tc. The prisoners were three gipsies, and the case excited a considerable degree of interest, on account of the cruel manner in which the prose cutrix had been treated. Elizabeth Collier, when called, was in a very languid and debilitated state, from the ill ugage she had received. She stated that she li v ed at Horsham, in this county, with Mr. Giles. On the morning of the 21st of October she was sent to Walton, by her mistress, and on her return home she saw the three prisoners. The woman gipsy asked her if she would have her fortune told ? She replied no, she knew her for very well. Immediatejy the prisoner Thomas Lee came up to her, and caught her by putting his arm round her neck. The other came up, and dragged 'her towards the park paling of Sir John Frederick's park. While the men were dragging her, the woman kicked her seve ral times. They then loosened a paling from the park, and dragged her through the aparture into the Old Park. Here they abused her very much, by beating her violently. She fainted away, and when she recovered she found that they had stripped her of her gown, pockets, petticoat, &c. and left her almost naked. She made a noise, but they were not gone, and they returned back again, and told her if she mad.: any more noise tilt) , would murder her. She then described the dress of all the three.—She said that Thomas Lee, the ta;ler gipsy, had more hair and Whiskey. They were taken the next day, and she recognized them again, eitcept that :he whiskers of Thomas Lee had been shaved eft Another witness proved, that she passed:the same place shortly be fore, and she saw tho three prisoners near the spot wh ich the p rosecutrix had described as the same of the robbery. • For the prisoners an alibi was set up ; to *wort which a great num • bee of witnesses were called. 1 The Jury found all the prisoners Guilty. LAUNCESTON: Wyatt, of Fowey, was tried at these Assizes, for the nrardf.r and robbery of Isaiah Falk Valentine. The prisoner kept a public house in Dock, called the Jolly Bacchus, from whence he removed in November last, to the Rose and Crown, at Fowey. The dpeceasel person of the Jewish persuasion, Wah in habits of inti mac y with tile prisoner. About the kith of November, two letters were aedressed to Valentine (then in Dock) by the prisoner, desiring him to come down to Fowey, where he (the priscnerl had some buttons, or guineas, to dispose of. Relying on this statement, Valentine. accordingly went hwn on the 19th of the same 'onth; but on his arrival, instead of introducing lialentine ' as he had proposed, to the persons whom he h a d stated as dealing in coin, the prisoner contrived to amuse and deceive hint, in various ways, until Monday evening, the 25th of, Novenfo!r, when, under the pretence of taking him (Valentine) to Captain Best, • he led him to a place or quay called the Broad Slip, in Fowey, and pushed him into the water, where he first suffocated, and then robbcd him of ::601. which be afterwards deposited in a heap of dung on his own premises.—No doiiht, whatever mild be entertained of the pri soner's guilt, front a l o ng but strong train of circumstantial evidence; and after a trial of eleven hours' continuance, he was found guilty of felony and murder, and sentenced to be hung at Launceston. DERBY. These Assizes were attended by great crowds of persons. One of the most dangerous gangs of nightly depredators that has infested Eng land for many years has been broken up. They were formed by one John England, who resided at a little stone-house, the fir on the right hand on entering Derby, from Nottingham. This gang was wholly made up of deserters, with the exception of England, w ho, as a brewer, labourer, and petty-huckster, wed every art for the purpose of finding a cover for the rest. lie never went out himself with his comrades to plunder, but always p.inted out the object ; and his concubine (wite of one Matthew Bush, of Wessington, who was the principal witness against one of the depredators on these trials, and who was attempted to be seized as a deserter as he entered the 1111), provided them with caps, masks, and other things necessary for disguise: He used to have a share of the plunder; but at length he outwitted himself. Three of these depredatbrs, James Tomlinson, Perceval Cook, and John Eng land, were put to the bar, charged with entering a dwelling-house, at midn;glit, on the 23d of December, and robbing Mr. Hunt, at 0.;brol:- mill, of thirty-five one-pound - notes, and several other articles. Ihe prisoners were found guilty. Cook and Tomlinson were then convicted on another indictment, of the robbery of the house of Mr. Brentneal, at Lock-grange. RECEIPT TOR 13774iNISHING THE CONSUMPTION or I:vault...n making bread, put three pounds of rice to a stone of flour. 'll-:• rice must be boiled soft, beat to a perfect pulp, and mixed with the flour be fore it is quite cold. Rather more yeast and salt are required than usual. Bread tli!.is prepared will keep moist fur a fortr.l&ht, is very plea ant feed, and cxuemzly uutricious.