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

MURDER IN HERTFORDSHIRE. Oor readers will recollect that a barbarous ninrder was committed on the dila of Noven...ey hat, stoke Ike town of hroabourne, Heitfordshire, upon John Cooper, A native of tliesterford. Cambridge, a carrier who had travelled on that trod to and fro from I..Outioti about 40 rears. Every exer tion has been used in the neiTlitiourbood to bring the tom deten. to justice; bur notwitiostandior a aroma of ~111. has been offered by the county, no clue had been tliscovetol, Incept that two strange men had been such following the deceased down the load im the erelong the murder was com neftted. "Tlin Loudon police went to make inquiry, but were 1111SUC. e•tsfal ; sethaequeatly. however, the Worship Street officers ascertained that two higglcrs, well knots n 11111111 the toad, met the men alluded to aud recognised them to reside iu or near hpitaltields seat het, and that tlic had a loemi•l, d. Thi% rum banes" with the circumstance, that the deceased hid bet n attacked *table where he had put up near Newgate Market, a short time befit, e lie was 'tiered, left little doubt that they were the perpetrators of the horrid deed, and the Ingclers were in consequence brought to the office, and examined before the Nlagistrales. Jacob W. Ali) , sidd, that about half past nine o'clock on the evening of the dth oi November last, be was Ire Veiling with Isis horse auil cart flour ilioldes , lon to London; when lie ar rived about bine furlongs on I !lib side of Hoddesduis he saw the body of John Cooper, lying on the road. The Wily was pat upon a gate or hurdle, and carried to the nett public. house ; it was evident the deceased had been robbed, as both his breeches pockets had been wined inside out, and lie hash no propel ty about biro then; he newer travelled the road ithoot mons v, which war Well known. lii and about the London Nlactxts. John Sou soy, another higler, stated, that on the evening Jiitin Cooper was dercd, lie was coming from London with lois waggon and 'Cain; when about tau miles how Hod uesilou, it mats passed by him, and inquired how many miles to iloddesdou ; shortly afterwards another man ' , wised by him, and inquired his way to Hoilde.dou. When lie got through ‘Varinsley, ahem 11 tiles front the place where the two mru passed him, lie met than again reterning, walking very fast and whist hog : our. of them was :thout four feet seven inches high, and wore a light coloured jacket and smock frock ; the other wore a 1141 k coloured short fro. .k, and was somewhat taller. lie knew their faces well in London, but was not snf fieiently well acquainted with them to ask them any ques tions; lie thought it very si ngnlar to meet them in such a manner so far out of town. The murder was committed within the time they lint passed him and their passing him a second time. When he arrived in London, and heard of the murder, lie related the eh euinstanee publicly, and inquired for them, but he had not met with them since. Another higler met the same men on the road the evening ot the mm der, and described their dress in the same 1114 'r the last w itiirss did. They used to work in Spitaltichls, and do any job they mild get from any one. The Magisti airs sent fur Mr. Wordy, who had employed them, and examined him. He said he had been in the habit of employing them occasionally ; they had left him prior to the minter, but did not know where they went to. They were both single in , m, rather of dissolute habits, and uutrh addicted to d& inking when they had any money. Their chief employment was market portering, but they had nut been seen in the market since the marder was committed. SEDUCTION.—About a fortnight since a most beauti ful and accomplished girl, 18 veers of age, the only daughter of a respectable tradesman at Bath, eloped from her parents' protection with a Captain in the army and who, it seems, is already married. The afflicted father of the young lady lost no time in pursuing them, but it was not until Wednesday that, after a must difficult search, he succeeded in discoveiing that they had taken apartments in Manor Place, in the Kings Road, Chelsea ; and having made application at Bow Street, he procured Smith. and two other officers to accompany him to the residence of the lovers. On inquiry, finding they were gone out, but expected home to dinner, the father and officers placed themselves in ambush at a public house near opposite, where, after having waited upwards of three hours, they saw them pass on the op posite side of the road. The father, with the officers, immediately pursued, and overtook them, .just as they were entering the house where they resided. The anxious father directly seized his child, who, in all the agony of surprise and terror, clung to her lover for protection,who vowed no earthly force should part them ; and it was not without the utmost difficulty (the lover being of a powerful and athletic make) that they could be sepa rated. In the struggle the gentleman's coat was lit terally torn to pieces. The fuller and daughter, with the officers,l!toceeded to the public-house, tidlowed by the disconsolate Captain in tatters, when a scene ensued that baffles description ; the fitther entreating his child t o return to the arms and ease the anguish of her almost broken hearted mother—the lover imploring her, with tears not to fimrsrke him. This having taken place in a Public tap-room filled with spectators, the father, daughter and discomforted lover, with the officers, retired to a private room, and at length the two dormer, still accompanied by the officers draw off in a hackney coach, leaving the Captain voeiferating that he would immediately tidlow them to Bath, and assuring the weeping fair one she should Si oo be restored to tom. — This aflitir will no doubt f e roi s l, employ to the gentle men of the long robe, as the iiithee of the young lady more than once expressed hi.• determination to prosecute the Captain for seduction. UscoststoN INTIOHITY.—Copy of a letter to the proptictoa of the Lord Nelson Coach, Glasgow : " Gentlemen—Several years ago I defrauded you by bribing your drivers three different times to take me on your coach as a ha ' , ger, although I may be ashamed to own that it was not want that made me do so. I beg )co will accept of time 11. note enclosed, as an equiva i,au from our humble servant, THE NATIONAL REGISTER ARCTIC EXPEDITION. , I • The discovery 'hips Isabella and Alexander, after the SStli of July, the date of Captain Rosa's last dispatches from the Arctic Sea., being then in about the latitude 75. N. and 61. W. proceeded in a northern direction, but were soup !lapelled by a fourth bar tier of ire, which. after encrion. tering very ,•errom di theft i!i es and much danger, they site. reviled in to clog on the 7th of August. On the Oth, some natives were • °ell all the allot e to the eastward: and on the 15th Prince Reg. tie,. ti ty, in lat. 76 1.2. was discovered to be their apparent These Indians were with ninth difficulty communicated silk. h 'm o th John Sa ek call se , the E•goOnailx, who ace0:111111• 'hell the expi (lotion frail; I:110 tu!l, and who on this occasion displayed equal courage and address. On the 16th of August Ilie expedition passed, with an open sea, flout Priot.e Het/cot's Bay to a Cape in lat. 75, 57. N. lout. tie. 24. W., which was 111411114 i for his Royal Highness the Duk I' of Yin k ; the adios day made Cii.r Diidley Diggs of Baffin, and •orreot.vely pats. d Wolsiiiitiolin Whale, and Sir Token:is Smith's 501111.14, and Cirey's [.lands. On the 21st they made a cape which was named for his Royal Higline.s the Doke of Chi, enee Hese the land, which had fiom tire %V hale Smind taken a westeily direction, began:to wind to t:te .. , 11111, and Ms ships were it aiu one tiered with ice and fits. Their progress along chore was glow, but entire ZOM of Angus, they got as far as Liiiiicatiter Sound off Baffin, winch had twirls the appeal alive of a pa.sage, but proved to be an inlet. Olt the tat of September, Captain Ho,. took possession of that part of the coast in lat. 74. N. and bunt. O. W. sills the usual forms. It was found to be isitinlialsitr4. Tilt y proceeded uititont impediment along the coast, which I.lok 311 easterly t4irec • liott. Landed sg,iiu in 76. 30. N. long 66. 16 W. in en island near the/slain laud, u hich appeared to hest* 64'11 ILerently inhabited,— Het e the laud took a squills easterly direction, and the ships agaid stretched scrim to Ilia eastward. and determined the non'existritr.• of,Jailies's Island, laid down thr old Admi ralty chat's. After this they emitinn.id their course along the land to Cape Vl'aisit.gtiain, 01l 1)4. ,% Inch they found LI be in at 66. N. and long. 6J. W.. the strait being here 110 miles wide. Fe them:l.lle land toe k a westerly direction, until thrt• came Oil hilt' 30th Sept. to Cumberland Strait, which they 4seerinitied IP be betueen the la , ituiles 0E63. and 64. N. and lune. 65. W. On the 211 Oct. the expedition passed Warwick's Foreland, and on the 3.1 made Resolution island, having thereby com pleted their survey, and haying fully ascertained that nu passage exists Elam the Atlantic to the l'ite.fie Ocean, through Davis' stiaits and Illaffia's It • s , t, .iie!l tiny round to be bound ed land, extending In thototal: ;is lot,' as lat. 77. 55. in the lungilu .• of 77, W., and to :he sanest as far as the 84th de gtee, in the fit. of 71. N., ..tfi 1 4 . t,roolly surrounded by a chain of monotatutt. In it I pat t ..1 Itattiat's Hay did they ally current, or 11.4'1-wood, cx-ep.% a *mall piece of fir wi►h nail in it, and bearing the insrk of the adze and plane, which was sten in let. 70. 20 N. long. 78. W. near Cape Clarence. The depth of water, en the east aide and upper part of the Bay, WWI from 26 to 400 facioins ; and on the west aide very variable, from 50 to 1050 :ztlionis. Sobstances were brought up Isom this depth, and from every part of their !reek, as also water; awl specimens of mineralogy and of the annual and vegetable kingdoms hate been arcitilly preserved. mid slur attention paid to every sithirct which could emit' ibitte to the advancement sit nets. a 1 ...lowleilge or of science. Tip, iliseuveries on the magnet iieeille ate likely to be of the highest importance to navigation. C.sptain Ross has also noted in his join nal a most partividar ileacriptios of the newly discoverudll.llioll, and (deem, eir combinative concerning them; and it will certainly be licensed not the least interesting event of the Arctic Expedition, that ;I race of human beings has 114 . 01 found inhabiting the fiozen regions, between the lalltudes of 76. mod TB. noith, whe thought that the world to the south was ice—ii people of whom generation has succeeded genes Atkin, witl t ever it mug tasted the f mt. el the earth ; who had nu idea of e Sopa eine Being, never had an enemy ; and a hose chiefs had hitherto supposed themselves to be monarchs of the uni• On the 411. of October the ships bore tip for England, and on their passage home steered for Cape Farewell, in order to determine the latitude and longitude of that important head• land ; Intl on the nth, when within I tt miles of its situation as In down in the charts, !hey were overtaken by a violent gale from the north west, which obliged them to abandon that object and to part company. Both ships lost their guar. ter boats, hot received no material damage, 414 fell in with aelt other again on the 30th of Oetolp.r, and on that day reached the Shetland islands. Here tin y remained a few days, and on the 17th November arrived safe in the 'f ham. a, having performed the voyage M the short space of six months, without the loss of a man, and without even having had a man on the sick list. Captain Ross speaks in the highest terms of Lieutenant Pato, who commanded the Alexander, and of all the offi cers of both ships; and there not having been a single in stance of punishment during the voyage, is the best proof Mat can tie gisen of the steadiness and good discipline of the seamen einpio} ediu the expedition. LORD ELLENBOROU6 RN WILL—The property 141 by the Le:trued Lord, we ale told, exceeds 210,0001. To the pi esent Lord he has bequeathed 111,0001. per a 00000 1111 : to the widowed I..aily 2,0001. pt . r 4111111111; AIM to eachi tof the other children 1:,,0001. The house in St. JAIIMN'S 511114411 C, which is It free. is llittetCll to be sold, and also the Villa at (tot liatnitton. 'llle late Pier gave 1114,000 i. far the town tesitlester. Luse ELLEN BoROUGII . II FUNER A 1.. —Toeml.ty morning, soon after eight o'clock, the SCIIIiiiIIS of his I,orilsiiip tat te removed f,sint resideisee in SI. J4 ,ll eS ' S Stplalr, ftlr inter norm At the Charter House. The 1.11.4 . 114t0n eons:stud t , l * 10 ilea an Itubsehael„ four un foot 14/11.1,1111; 1411111105 01 P./1111441S I,Lfore the 'waist, drawn by six hors •s, six 11111 in wog l'iluellt orawn by six horses each, and 20 NUMIMICII AIM Gentlemen's eat iagrs, amongst which wets+ his Lot dshilt's carri•gc. low rd by dm Bishop of Chestee's, the Marquis Catodcn's, La: il Sid , the Hon. Mr. Law's, the two Clue t.J tl•l let's And the other Judges of the Courts of Kit a Hew It and 1:4411.- oll01) and usher it his Lordship's friend:. Ihe pti•- ,• ession inasaell along Pall Mall, the stiand, Fleet Stud, Littigate H,ll, and arrived At tile Chart. r House soon inlet • e o'clock. The Corpse was Liken tutu the elletliel, end the initeral relenting was pet - folioed by the Nev. lii. Fisher. Nearly the whole of the time a solemn dirge wAs tolael. 'Clie 4 Atilt was coy cried with sitiocrb co llama/ velvet , and Ina i.„„1. 4 11,1, juicingl in the Sillile vault MS Mr. buttuu, tits louutivt of the ellartur•liuu3e. DEC 27 POLICE. MANSION HOUSE. A person of respect 4 tileappearhoce,n . :.mtd . Robert M r ackie, was exan:in.•:l upon 0 ch.irge of krt./141g forged and tittered Ilio acceptance of Richard Stephens Taylor, Equire, f'u• Stl. Messrs. Hubert and Mamid, of Cortihill, stated, that some time iu the month of April last, Ibe ill honer came into their shop to select a quantity of goods, tnr which he said he would gise in payment the acceptance of all eminent solicitor, pay able at one of the first banking houses. The proposal was agreed to, and the selection was made to the value of 611. ITs. 2d. ilaviiig ordered the goods to be (Lawaided to the place at which he then resided he requested Nlessrs. Hilbert and Maraud to draw a bill for the bunt on Mr. Richaid Stephen• Taylor, the solicitor, of Gra s 's lon. This was done,. an d in the course of the same day he returned with. the bill accepted, " Richard Stephens Taylor, payable at Messrs Praed's amid Co bankers, Fleet-street." The bill was lodged iu the ordinary way with the bankers of Mt ssrs. Hubert and Mainid, mid as regllidt ly paid by Mess's. Praed and Co., no suspicion whatever hissing arisen as to its genuineness. The ibseovery that it was a forgery did not take place for some month*. The prisoner was then nut to be found. Mr. Richard Stephens faylor, ul they's Inn, deposed that he knew nothing whatever pf the bill to question, nor had lie ever accepted one for the prisoner. lie hail some knowledge of that person a few years beck, when a disagreeable eir cumaiance of a similar kind took place, which however the witness was led to pardon. The prisoner was fully committed. BOW STREET. Several buts-hers of Clare Market were convicted of follow. ing their business on the Lord's Day, commonly called Sou day. It appealed that the shops were opened, the meat exposed for sale., and the bistelters caking oat for pmcliaseis as on other days. Niue of the butchers and one green grocer who Were situntrtanrel, di4l not attend. The Magis. trate desired Unit sumnionses might be issued, and then if they did hot attend to them, warrants slumid be issued, to apprehend them. The prosenstiohn were at the snit of Mr. Denew, the Churcligrarden of St. Clement Danes.-- Mr. Nesbitt, the streetskedlmr, gave evidence against the butchers. On Tuesday, a young woman of respectable appearance, professing herself to be a servant, applied to Mr. Hirais to punish a young woman, whose name she stated to he Charlotte Say, who had bewitched her with brimstone, and hail exercised the black art towards her; and last of all, had, with the assistance of two men, exercised Freemasonry to wards her, and had made use of such means and such lan guage that it would nit he proper for a female to I eprat ; and she further complained, that she was not uf►le to relieve herself from their control, and was thereby prevented from keeping her ;daces of service , and was therefore deprived of getting her li Tue Magistrate endeavoured to compose her mind, and to convener her that slip was deceived in supposing that any person or persons could bewitch her, or interfere, or intheence, (it control her conduct in the %ray she described ; brit she ass not accessible to persuasion or conviction, and nothing would satisfy her but a warrant against Charlotte Say, although she confessed she did not know where to find her, and all that site knew oilier family or conneximis was, that her aunt lived at the howse of Miss Linwood's exhibition, at Leicester *goitre. Two fellows named Backhouse, alias Bacchus, and Leroyd, alias Rodney, were on Thursday examined en a charge of being concerned in stealing from the Exeter mail a parcel of Bank notes, ter• the amount of 1,6001. They were re. committed. George 1 7 .41ter and William Ranmerstots were committed for cutting don n a waggon lead of the holly hedge round the garden of Mr. Johnson, Mtaswell Hill. They had ens down a great deal in me to wantoourtss ; the rest to sell for (21sristmas deeora t ions. _ Mr. Thomas liarrowell. a coachniaker, of Long Acre, was convicici iu ilir pcuslty Of 10s., fur causing one of his cat riages to be placed in Ilse street, opposite to his house, for the ►pace of two 110(116. UN lON HALL. A midtlle•aged man, of most respectable appearance, sc. eompanied by a female of equal appal ent acepectabillty, applied on Wednesday to the Sitting Magistrate, and re quested that an :Atlas it might be adniiiiistvi ed to his female companion, w lin. lie stated, was his wife. Ills application, lie said, arose from the following circumstances :—Abetat three yearn' ago lie folioed the matrin ((((( ial contract, and at that time carried on a business of considerable profit, and was po ( s sss rd of a handsome ptopctry ; his wife unhappily became addicted to a habit of excessive thinking, and when in a slate ut intoxication freipiently insulted his ctistioners and tiffullfiell Ili* !rivals. The carets of her imprildrut conditet speedily appe.,red ; his shop was descried. bis friend!' abd11(1011V(1 and be was rapidly approaching 4 NI4IC of 111111. when Iris wire, appalled by She ill irsvrvt, (bier 11l i l led upon refoiniation. stud was desirous of Miming herself by an oath never again to indulge in di inking either wine m spirtionos The Magi•trule lamented She tinnier propensily of the appli cant's wits-, and co 11111 l ended the spit it of termination she bad shown, lost declined the ad 11l i l iistratiou of the oath, which was the object of the appiicali tttt . GARI)EN. . . Wednesilly it ;wither discharged from the second battalion of the Culd•treain guards, gave tbr bdlow log information at this Mike. About In or Iv days ago hr received his depilig rye and 110111 e money, and meeting with IN') solders discharged hoot the 18111 light dragoons, who %etc going to Nottingham, died utilise place as well as his, tile!, weir to It avt 1 together, hilt temained a euitple of nights in tom u , until all their ..... tie/ was nearly spent in 'hulking; when they itgleett lo pirt dusk, to dt•gutse Ihentselse►, and tub the ti st traveller they met with, tied, if 11143'14,4H), to ;hunk 1114 aceord. ingly set wit with that intent, in to state• ill inel,l n ;y. Atter going three miles from town, it teas then 'loci ;toned to stop the hest peismi they met; but informant basing somewhat reenseicil Rom the state of drititketititss !toy kept him Uri, Alum. to dissuade them hum their put pose•. F.toling they were determined, he I,ild he would base no hand in it. '1 toy with Ititil sticks, and Ie•ll him foe t t ad ; iip which sidle hr was shortly tif.er found by a ratter, who arought him to town. The the two encoders are kept Si (let. 11 e understand Utls 11.1111)1.11ed tin the Plight Mr. Tpi)lor wn• mill murdered. .14111Osick, the stillest, is g.;tie in pursuit of titem..._______ QUEEN SQU.%ItE. M. Junes was charted by Airs. saivulie,m lady°, prcperty; restkl.ilw, in Wallace Piace, Motile°, nu SII4pICIOII of I Obbiug her li..oNe ut pruiwriy to Ilse ammo ul t.ttlwctu 401. anti oul. tinder the lulluwing cticumalaucc.--a . 114