The National Register. — London, England, 1809-06-04 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. JI:NE 4. viCCIDEJM, OFFENCES, ifc. Saturday being the last day of this Fair, in the evening it was wiore than usually crowded. About ten o'clock a quarrel began, In cailsequence, as we have been informed, of an Irish labourer, who had been at play with a sharper, discovering that he had been cheated ont of his money : the labourer demanded it back, hich being refused, recourse was instantly had to blows; the alsoilant, however, was beaten, and the aVair was supposed at an end ; but about two o'clock in the morning the Irishman returned to the charge, attended by from sixteen to tyrentylof his countrymen, armed with bludgeons, and u e are afraid, with weapons of a sharper k ; nor was the tumult quelled till be we,at !lye and si x o'e!ock, when the arri sal of the Tower Ham lets Militia terteiatttea it. The soldiers took into costody every Ina -son w !to bine the least appearauce of haviog been engaged ;a it. We regret to saN, however, that two, ifnot three, lives were hea ; one man had his head tut completely open by a stick, attot aer. it is said, was literally ripped up with a knife. • however dootitful the number ;of killed may be, certain it ;s that thirteen men, most of whom are dreadfully wounded, were carried to the London Hospital, four of whom were not rN;wilcd to sot vi ye, I l tnit.te Orates, WtriTlCHArnr..—flonday a long exa initiation took phice with respect to the late Riot. A wan of the taunt of Williard Cole Was a prinri, al in the affray, who carried a rugged pots with at cap of libel ty on the top of it; from this cause a eiceral scene of confusion took place. Several persons were mu,:h beaten awl taken to the London Infirmary with little hopes of t%-covere. This Leader was committed to the House of Correction, Kith eleven more, till the real state of the %%voided men is asejrfaineir. Ten Were taleen to Shad- Well Office, who were disposed of in the same way. A womau of the name of Elizabeth Negard has lately been making applicatioas at Lord Castlereagh 's Office, respecting slime property ai Triaidad. A description of het person reach ing the Secretary of State's Office for the• Home Department, there e as very little doubt but she was the wornaa against s limn information had been reeeiyed from Trinidad, as having rseaped from that Island, is consequence of her having mur dered a black lira, one of her slaves. In comeqUence, Mr. Pee,ler, the Messenger, and Itivett, the now -street officer, attended at Laird Castlereagh's office, en Thursday, with a warrant, granted by the Earl of Liverpool, agni;aa her,"she being expected at the off.ce en that day, and when she came they too!: her into custody-. She underwent au examination before Cie Earl of Liveipoul t yv ben the substance of the charge received against her ap peat eil to be, that h'r slave had stolen some fish, r which offence she had large stones thrown at him, which bruised and wounded him in a most shocking manner ; afterwards he was thrown down a pralpice, when Milling- hiss nut dead, she is said to have coat rived to deseml to him, and cut his head off. — She requested to he tried in this country, which was refused, and she has been sent off to Portsmouth, to be conveyed to Tri nidad, to take her trial there. Co al Ett's sptresi - .—An Inquisition was taken Monday at the Crown public-house, Duke's-court, St. Martin's-lane, be fere A. Cell; Esq. the Coroner for Westminster, on the mai- . lotted remains of Mr. Joseph Smeeton, and Eliza, his wife, vy Ito were burnt in their dw elliug-house in St. Martin's.lane, en Sit kirday Morning. The principal uitnels Was William Bird, the senior of Mr. Snieetou's three apprentices, and by whose promptitude end presence of mind, four others were prevented from perishing. It appeared that Joseph Thornton, a watchman, was the first who discovered the flames on the ground-floor, at the hack of the house, us he was calling the half-hour after one, up Chequer4ourt, intowhich a door opened at the back of the laid house. He in vain attempted to alarm the famly, although he rung and knocked with an his power. The flames a: this time seemed to be confin.al to the ground-floor. It appeared by the testimony of Bird, that his master and mistress slept over the warehouse, w Web was on the ground-floor, Where the flames were s .en raging by the watchman. l'lte yvitneSs was awaken ed by an engine passing- down the street- end he got up to go on the top of toe house to see where the lire was. On op, using th? bed-roinn door, ys hich‘ was in front no the second-dhow, he war half suffocated with snake, and he broke open the bed-room door where his tWo fellow apprentices slept, and also that of Ann Farley, the maid servant, and be sent them all up stairs to escape by the top cif the house Mr. Smeeton's brd-room was down a private stairca , e, the door of which Dird also forced, - and it fell to the bottom of the stairs with a great crash:, He dared not attempt to descend the stairs, but continued to call (0 Xastee 411.1 the Mane" re;fehe'd tr 'n, trig? he' Nl:tied the staircase was giving way. The other three fugitives were nearly enscless by sutfocation at the trap-door which admitted them to the top of the Mouse, they being unable to open it, but Bird forced it, and the four persons es.enped over the tops of the houses. It was not known how the tire happened; the maid servant .vent to bed at half-past eleven, and her master wag then in the warehouse, and Mrs. Smeeton was in the drawing room, Mr.. S. had dined at Battersea ; but he %vas sober. It was supposed he had gone We the ware-room to deposit a 2001. note in an iron chest, which chest was got out of the ruins on Saturday, and the notes it contained were legible. The unfortu nate couple had been married three months.—Accidental Death. Sunday morning, about live o'clock, a man was discovered suspended from a trot in Doh'. ich Wood. Ile appeared to be about fifty years of age, WaS T . :01)(T corptilent, and had on * smith's or farrier's apron. By the IcElid smtil that issued from the body, he is supposed to have been . in that situation two or three days. There was nothing about him that led to a dis.• covery who he was; a farthing, a knife, :Aid a tobacco box, being the whole contents of his pockets. ilO Invest was suns. awned last evening to make Ow twtal inquiries. LIM) Irs Liyi; The McCall frigate, has captured a ri:311C11 tettcr of morgue, from Bovrdelux to Se! ,e-4.41, and sent her to P:y month. Tho Marti:l, Baker, arrirett at Martiaiwie, from eleuter, on the pa.csags captured a Froach schoor.er, from Brest, and c trjed I,cr into 1111 r: inique. The Sisters, Cameron, ati - keit in the Cl+ tires 11.....nerar1, salted 14 in company with the liatthland, B trclay, for Lk erpool, and itctty, N - Leat., for Belfast, and parted from them t tth, uti Tile; 1.. . _ The Esperito Aanto, Dos Santo, front Rio J:lneiro to River Plate,. is rapture& by one of Linier's cruizers, and carried iiito hoc ws TLe Busy privater, has heo.l taken b j the 11.oache Fresnix corvote, and ra- Oka ► by the Raven Sloop of war. The faint*; Mathews, fron .lAnnica to New Yerh, is lost near Cuba. Creo and earo saved._ tharv, rival tape Francois to Philadelphia, is totall.; List 04 gm last Um save d. The Alex:it:der :Ir.(' Sally, Swain, from to Piiiiadel.phia,v,hkli Porto Rico, in tlistreAA. 'nth. inued. _ . - - - The Youn::;.Tchn, Finer, that w...s is the ri.. - er 9!. Lawrence, ii been so nrucb damasel by t! ice, that [ix ihip has been coademued and the car :o sold. The brig Unicorn, Crel:;ldae, from to the ll'eQt Tidic., w captur I. by a cirvlti privateer, wit ilia thro! nWe: of ilarhadoei, anti afterwards chased by an Eng ish ertlizer epou Sab i, and total; Icen4 The I iarm.r, IN - :/rnont, from Keiala to struck on a t`P ;11: en l'uoiday night, aid tiPed with water, bet since t-ot oil add arrived dt Li% (limed, The Robert Bell, i'‘-oni Liverpool to Hilifax, h Icst at Lis,:outbu,neir A son II p irt. of tt e saved. iVexander, WA:4, from St. Thranas's to River St. mar ) 's and b ac k. conde:nnen and sol.l at S.tvaawth. _ Tile Ffe;tcli priv.ti:•ar Joleah, the' aid GS men, cut ont from un d e r thi.lotteriui of St. Duraingu the bu.lt uf Arg%) rrit . atv, arrived at Jamaica roth ult. The Friends. Fretlerlck, from Ne.wii•lrt, is cleiaint+A b; the 'A triaer gun brie, a!111 seat iiitu tho Ow: i!.:. The Harriet, Gardiuer, froal Jatnai.•.n, wa: lost :,ear Hook, the 20th of February. _ _ . _ The John, Mickie, from the Havanoll. to Biltiutoze, WAS loit 19th blarcb, en the Bahama.. Part of the cargo .41.• B!!rr . On the Bth ult. at the Cover!anent House, Mt:etre:ll, Cantata,, the Lally of Major-General Cordon Drummnd, Ufa. scn. Mary, the wife of George Moor, one of the turners of 11'.e cot ton-mill at Newark, has keen delivered oisix rhildrett, at three hirths, within the la , .t eightet n nil been alive. Whit is yet wore extrnordinarr, two era: d-mothers of the ;:bove children each had twins at their la.t MA RR lED. Cfn the 15111 ult. at Pe:crAitirr,h, Prince Georr. et o!der;l,r-rc, to the Grand Ducliei3 Cathuria:e. The nuptials AS ere cele:;: . ated with great festivity, Lately, Capt. It. Harvey, cf Clittrevsater Aline, aged sixty. four, to Miss It. Fr are, of Ow an place, aged nineletv yeats. Mr. John Green, of Arercliffe, aged sennts-onr, to Pitts. N. Fowler, of Shellield, aged sereat,v-three. • At High linyland, Nlooity l Wev:!ry Edge. net' seventy four, to Nliss Mot:ds, of C(ic) toa ‘Vest, aged bratty. Aree. DIED. On Friday evening, at Fort-place, Ferro idsry, the wife of Joserh Watson, L. L. D. On Monday last, at Hackney, in him 8?d year, Sameel b um . dv,.of the Ilorongh.—He had low , laboured ,:or!er great pai n o f body; which he supported with . true Christian fortitude, pa. tient:6; amt resignat ion. Oa Tuesday last, at Walthamstow, David 13areiry, or Uric', who wrOte the celebrated Apology fur .the Peoi;le (•;t:!,..J! fittakerad: • C. li -I