The National Register. — London, England, 1811-04-14 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. PROVINCI4LS. Writs of Enquirr from*the Board of Excise have been exe cuted before a respectable Jury it the Angel Inn here during the Past and present week, for ticiencies in the Malt duties, when verdicts were given against five defaulters to the amount of 17,5721. 14s. 9d. of which 9,5771. 10s. /id. was against the effects of an opulent person lately deceased, and 4,9461.103. against the affects snider a recent lemkrnptey. Three others from 9001. to 1:4001. Two agreed to compromise, and to pay all deficiencies If not submitted to a Jury, which was *accepted There are several more cases still td be investigated. Such atrocious In stances of misconduct and wilful corruption on the part of some (lithe district Excise*Olficers have rarely been brought to light. And the Revenue has been defrauded in Suffolk alone, it is cat imlated, to the amount of at least 100 4 0001. annually !—.b'uty Post. There was a riot, on Wednesday, in North-street, Brighton, tNetween a very strong party of the South Gloucester Militia, ?alarmed, and a part of the inhabitants of the town, The in terferenee of the Higlt•Constable proved insufficient to quell the tumult.--The picquct guard was at length called out, and tranquillity, but not without difficulty, restored and preserved. The immediate cause of this affair has nut, as yet ; been cor rectly. ascertained. ' Joseph Aslip, was last week fully committed to Ilchester Goat, Somersetshire,' far a rape on Elizabeth Challinger.-4511p Lad undivstood that she was going tit* meet her mother in the evelg, and knew that she must pass through a mill-house on Pr , :r way, where the villain concealed himself, and on her enter leg the place, he rushed out upon her, and dragged her to the mill-pit, where the noise of the water prevented her cries from being distinctly heard, and succeeded in accomplishing his bru tal perrise. The young woman is about 18 years of age. A very singular discovery has been made at CulcheAer, re specting the sex of a servant who had lived thirty years in a family in that town, as hoitze-maid and nurse. Having lately paid the debt of nature, it was discovered, on examining the body, that the deceased had been a male. No reason is assigned for his haring asumed the female garb ; as he had never, like the Chevalier I)'un, excited suspicion, or been the subject of bets and law-suits. Last week, a woman at Leighton-Buzzard, Beds, actuated by motives of jealousy, formed the resolution of murdering her hush:Lod. For this purpos s e she heated a quantity of lead in a tobacco-pipe, and while he was a...leep poured some of the li uid into his ear, but it had not the desired ellect. The suf rer, however, has since laboured under violent mental de rangement._ • At the •Warwick Assizes, William Bradbury was tried and convicted of sellin7 forged notes, and was left for execution. kit is •an old utreuticr, arid is said to have been the cause of vore than fifty persons having suffered cfath for uttering the sante. • , • - 1 ast weolt, as Mr. 13c11, of Louth, a woman, and a boy, were crossing the Trent, the ferryman hoisted the sail, which frightening Nlr. li's horse, lie leaped overboard, and dragged his owner ani the ft.i . rymin into the river, where they were drkr.v.ned. 'Mi.:. woman and boy sustained no injury.- ACCIDENTS AND °HINGES. EXECUTION. ...-, Robert Blair, Who was convicted at , the Old Bailey Sessions, held in erebruary last, and who was. respited for seven days, on Vtiedeesday underwent the sentence of the Law, opposite the Debtors' door, Newgate. His friends, ft appears, made ap plication to the Prince Regent for a reprieve, under a promise that such matter would be brought forward in extenuation of the conduct of the culprit, as might lead to a commutation of his punishment. Upon die most minute investigation of the case, however, no circumstances were found aufficiently strong to warrant an exercise of the Royal-mercy; tlu final order for his execution was therefore given. He appeared on the scaffold, attended . by two friends, with whom he shook hands before he was turned off. Upon the whole he conducted himself with becoming fortitude, and met his fate with propel firmness ; He was a young man of respectable connexions, and those who are aware of the motives which led to the commission of the crime for which be suffered, ascribe his guilt to the bad example t,e, certain notorious characters with whom he was acquainted in Newgate. His wife, to whom he had been married but nine months, and who was a young woman of amiable manners and qualifications, is said to have died yesterday morning at font' o'clock of a broken heart. From the time she knew her hus- band's fate with certainty, she was inconsolable. John Gould, for the murder of wife, suffered the sentence of the law, on Wednesday se'nnight, on the new drop, in front of the county gaol of Stafford. • There were some circumstances attending this trial which are worthy of notice. This ysittlt married at au early age,wit h out any ostensible means of supporting a wife and family beyond his own labour. He worked, it appeared, for his father, in the character of a servant, on a small farm. Fiteling a family comi:lg on, his wife being pregnant of the second child, it appeared that he had used violent and cruel means of producing abortion, namely, crushing or elbowing his wife in bed, rolling over her, &c. By these means abortion was produced, and the unfortti nate mother died in a short time after, the wife and offspring sharing the same fate. Before she expired she declared, accord ing to the evidence, that ill-usage of the above kind had been the cause of her death ; and on this circumstantial evidsnco Gould was found guilty. On sentence being passed upon him, he exclaimed that he was murdered. _ Gould, after being conv,yed back to his cell, wept aloud, and his cries were heard by the whole of the prisoners in the jail. He appeared incapable of receiving consolation. His sentknce came like a thunder-bolt upon him, and deprived him of every manly exertion. He was attended with unexampled assiduity a:id kindness by a reverend and respectable Clergyman, who volunteered his truly. Christian services to prepare him for the last awful moment. All, however appeared to be without any particular effect. He was susceptible of nothing hut grief ; and when his time approached,.it was with difficulty that he was in duced to leave his cell. He could scarce contain himself as he was led thr i ough the different courts to the lodge. He was in a manner heaved up to the platform, from which his cries were heard by a numerous and sympathising populace, to a consider ably distance. He was launched off about ten minutes after twelve, and appeared to die harder than is usual. OLD BAILEY. - On. Monday night the Session ended, when sentence of Death was passed un the following prisoners, viz. Catherine Roach, alias Murphy, for littering a • counterfeit sixpence; Charles Turner, George Swallow, and James Driver, for stealing goods in a dwelling-house; and Juan Batista Peniza, for cutting and ;maiming. One was. ordered tn.be transported for life, viz. Win. Davis; twenty:one were ordered to be transported for seven years, viz. lilary. Clarke, Margaret Manning, alias Green law, Win. Nichol son, Samuel Bailey, Charles Crowder, Eliza 'Whitston, Mark Mary Smith, Wm. James, John Doran, Thomas Lam- Elizabeth liennissey, Eridget \'i; kin, Richard Bly, Thomas Gregory, John Gamble, Wm. Henry Davis, Henry I - hint, Charles - Tubb, Samuel Goodman, and Wm. Neale. Nino were switeiecedt to be imprisoned in the House of Cor reotion at Coldbath-fields for two years; fourteen for one year ; and seven for six calendar months. Eleven were ordered to be imp:iaotied in I`;ewgate tor various periods; six to be privateiy, and two to he publicly whipped. Three judgments were respitc-d ; six were •iined one shilling each and Aischaned; and 13 were discharged by proclatnation.—Adjourned to May 29. DIED. On Surn'ay last, at his house in Green Park-place, Bath, aged 83, Sir William Addington, Knt. who for upwards of 28 years was a Magistrate of the Public Office, Bow-street, in w!iich situation he evinced a spirit, fidelity, and zeal for the public good, highly honourable to his character. In the year 1;I5, at a Meeting in St:Pancras-fields, he was particularly active, and in the suppression of many riots (especially in those W . the year 1780) no Magisti - ate ever stood•more conspicuously ditinguished. In the memorable affair of Hadfield, he acted with that penetration and firmness, unshaken by popular fer ment, for which he was remarkable ; and although his judg ment at the time was questioned, and conduct severely com mented upon, the correctness and integrity•of both, were af terwards santioned, on the trial of that unfortunate man, by the Verdict of a Jury under the able diction of Lord Ken yon. Sir 'William withdrew from his public situation, but the treatment be experienced in this affair, was a source of dis quietude to hi in during his remaining days. • At Haretield, Mrs. Emery, of Donnington, Berkshire. At Bath, B. liollingworth, Esq. of Dalston, Middlesex. London : Printed and Edited by E. 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