The National Register. — London, England, 1816-08-26 00:00:00

CASE OF GE V. SIR EYRE TE. A Pamphlet, under the above title, is now in circula- eon. It has been t *ovredly compiled by the friends of the individual, who has of late been the subject of much conversation, but whose conduct has until now been wrapt up in mystery. It is intendedas a defence; and although severahlocuments are with that view suppress ed, it contains evidence of improper and gross conduct on the part of Sir Eyre Come sufficient to justify the steps lately taken by the Executive Government respect iag him. It appenrkl from the evidence of several boys, a se, and other persons belonging to Christ's Hospital, that so fir back as two years betbre, he had twice enter ed the Mathematical School, and conducted himself in a very improper manner; but no particular notice wax taken of his extraordinary behaviour until the '2sth of November last; when he went into the school-room, and entered into conversation with several of the boys, prevailing on some of them, by bribing . them with money, to* whipped by hips, and afterwards permitted them to exercise the like discipline on hiniself. Mrs. Robinson one of the nurses, entered the room, expressed her sur prise and indigtsation, and sent for the beadle, who took *him to the Compter. On the following Monday Sir E. Conte appeared before the Lord Mayor, and being pri vately examined at the Mansion-house his Lordship dis missed the complaint ; and there is a letter from him to the Duke of York bearing his testimony to the fact. Sir William Curtis, at the time however of this investi gation said, that though acquitted of guilt, Sir Eyre Come ought to pay for his fully, and suggested that he should present 10001 to the charity. This Sir Eyre Come objected to do, because it might be attributed to an improper motive, and might be considered as a compro mise instead of an act of benevolence ; but ultiwately yielded to the pmponl, and sent a draft for 10001. hta blank cover to the Treasurer of the Hospital. This draft was returned by the Almoners, on learning front what source it came. Five months after dais the Commander in Chief instituted an inquiry into the case, upon which above tit) Noblemen and Gentlemen bore testimony to the occasional derangement in the fliculties of Sir Eyre Coote, and that it was in some degree hereditary in the flintily. The Board of General Officers appointed by the Commander in Chief made a Report unfavourable to Sir Eyre Coote. This Report is as follows: "May 17, 1816. "It appeareto rt, from a careful examination of the decla rations of the different persons examined at the Mansion-house on the Itith of April :Intl 15th of iblay, Ist as also of the do cuments furnished by Col. Bagwell (numbered from 1 to 27 in-...sive), to be established: 1. That Gen. Sir Eyre Coote was detected at Christ's Hospital, on a Saturday afternoon in the month of November List, under the cirenmstances detailed in evidence. " 2. That he had been there betine on the same errand. " 3. That, although there is ample testimony of very ec centris.antl incoherent conduct, amounting perhaps to derange ( mem of mind, yet, at the period when the aforesaid discovery occurred, he seems to have had such possession of himself as to be fully seu•.ible of the indecency of the proceeding, ao•f capable of adopting the most grounded and prudent means to avoid further disclosure. (Signed) " LvnEDOCI, Lieut. Gen. "H. FATS !., Major-Gen. " GEO. cooas, Major-Gen. Upon this Report Sir Eyrc Coote was deprived of his regiment, and of his military rank and honours. Such is the substance of the pamphlet that has just made its appearance, and which contains no less than be, octavo pages. The degradation which Sir E. Coote has since experienced is universally known. Tor LATE CONSPIRACIES.—it will be recollected, that the circumstance which first called the attention of the iotigistratcl to the conduct of the °dicers originated in an apilicatirn male t, Mr. Harmer, the Solicitor, by Vaughan, to go to Union-hall to defend G. Hubbard, wh ) was charged wi:h robbing a Mr. Richardson of his watch and . !'.eals. Hubbard W:t3, mh Tuesday last, tried scud acuitted at Guildford; though there is a man now in cus•oly on a charge of receiving Mr. Richardson's seals from Hibbard, knowing tJaem to be :inlen.—Hall the (Meer, b:ing at Guildford at the time Hubbard was ac eniaed, declared he would again take him into custody es soon as he was discharg•d. This coming to Hubbard's 'knowledge, he applied to Mr. Serjeant Best, befi)re whom 'lv^ was tried, for protection. The Judge sent f r Hall, to know the grounds me which he presumed to detain a man whit had been aaptitted.—Hall said it was a charge entirely''oew. In the course of the investigation which hal taken pleee before Mr. Nares, it appeared that two men, named Flannaghap and Mars, were now suffering punishment on hoard the Hulks, having been convicted s• the la .t K itigSkOn Assizes of a burglary. The enqui ry into Ratliven, the Patrole's conduct, had, however, given rise to a suspicion that they were not the persons who had committed the burglary, but that Hubbard tt.:,- - tutdly broke into the house.—The Learned Judge, on bearing this statement, commended Hall 14 his conduct, who accordingly, as soon as Huhbard was discharged, agaia apprehended him, and took him before Mr. Cham bers, at Union-hall; who, on hearing thepartieulars, di rected the Officer to take the prisoner befLre Mr. Nares, by whom be was remanded till Wednesday next. Lily ii6zabeth Whitbread has taken Grove-house, Kmsington, which is undergoing great improvemenn * d alto-ations, preparatory to her Ladyship's receptiots. THE gATIONAI. REGISTER._ RIOT IN NEWG.ITE. Yesterday afternoon, a serious riot broke out among the convicts in Newoute, originating, we understand, atvfodows : Ayeraon, who an, visiting the prison, had his pocket picked tit his watch, upon which an order wee issued by the keeps for searching, the convict*, as well as those of their friends who were then with them, and that tto other visitors should be ad mitted until the watch aas recovered. The convicts on this part of the prison, who amounted in number to 110, chose to consider this order as an encroachment on their privileges, and, eut!toldesnal by their numbers, not only resisted all search, linf proct-edial to acts of violence and outrage. They took pos session of the common yard, whore they are allowed to take cam else, and sec thcr Meads, as well as the four wards where in they are confined, expelling by force the officers and tutu keys of the prison from that quarter of the building. Here they endeavoured to maintain themselves, and considerable alarm for some time prevailed, lest they should force the pas sages of the prison, and make their escape; but Mr. Newman, the keeper, having assembled all his (Myers, several shots were fired over their heads, and into different parts of the yard, rather with a view to create atarni amount them, than to inflict ally real inatity, which the Teeper was linuainely anxious to avoid; and at length they were driven out of the yard into the tipper part of their wards, of which they remained in pos ses.' having torn down the iron railing of the staircase, w ith the fragmeuts of which, and all !hut they could lay their tided* upon, they barricaded the entrance to their wards at the top of the stairs. The beepers having regained p0.,- session of the yards, several shot were again fired up the stairs, to intimidate and reduce the rioters to reason, but with nu (Meet; and Mr. Newman thought that it would be only iiskiug the lives of his own servants it' he Sllnt any of them up stairs to attack the convicts in their retreat, barricaded as they were and provided with iron bars. We have not heard that any of these infatuated wretches were kided by the tire-arms. One couviet who ventured to come down from the tipper wards, in order to lay hold of an iran bar, was seized by the legs, and dragged into the yard by the turnkeys. Mr. Newman, MIOII after the riot broke out, procur ed the , assistance of the city marshalenen and a number of yen stables, whom he so placed as to prevent the rioters from break ing prison, or escaping io any was by the roof. He also sent to the Lord Mayor and Sherifi's for instructions how to set ; but these gentlemen happened to be out of town. 'flue watch, toe robbery of. which has created all this disturbance, was not discovered; and we undenstansl that the couvicts endeavoured to capitulate, by proposing that they iilistatil be at all times al lowed to see their friends : but the keeper WTl:reed that they must implicitly submit to the regulations on this head appointed by the Magistrates and dodges. At one o'clock this ;horn ing matters remained precisely in this situation. In two of the wards all we. silent ; but in the other two there were lights, and the convicts were seen pacing about. About an hour be fore, a noise was heard, as if they were endeavouring to break through the wall towards the College ef Physicians in Warwiek• lane, but in a short time the noise ceased. Constables and of ficers were posted in all !farts where escape appeared posstole ; and it scented likely that the refractory wonld soon ha compelled to surrender at discretion, as they had tiothti.g but water wherewith to support their obstinacy ; while, if they attempted to set fire to the prison, they must fief that they themselves would be the first victims. The arms and honours of Mr. Justice Parke have lately been affixed in Lincoln's Inn Hall ; ins is usual when any member of that Society is raised to the Bench of Judges. The motto to his arms is—" Propieloake me commilio." Prompt, front Leith arrived an the river ma Sunday sennight, with 21 convicts, to be put on hoard the hulks, preparatory to tratirportation. The convicts were, us meal. confined in the hold. When the vessel was a little below Gravesend, Aix of them, who had contrived to secret tiles, by morns Of which they got rid of their irons, suddenly bur•t open the hatches, and rushed upon deck. At this time there were only two of the crew upon deck ; but being stout fellnws, and seizing the first weapons that Celine in their way, they kept the villains at bay until their coinrades came to their assistance; when, after a short conflict, the desperadoes were colusigned to their former abodes, where they were properly secnred. There were several pw-sengers on board the Prompt, who were great ly alarmed, as the mutineers threatened to minder them as well as the crew. Extract of a letter from BunfoOt, near Langholm (Diunfrieshire), dated the 16th August:— " As your two sisters, who had accompanied you to Carlisle, were yesterday returning to Langholin, in an open carriage, 4 Onsider cloud, or rather water.spont, burst upon Irvin hill. 'flue wood that overhangs the E.k apncare.l in ail instant as if growing in a lake ; the road was overflowed, every little brook swelled into a torrent, arid the thunder and lightning became trememlow. The coachmen, seeing no safety but in escaping front the desolation around him, drove furiously along. He had emir bridges, over the brooks and ravines which crosses the road, to pass. The wheels of the carriage were hardly off the 1:41 of Mein when it gave way, and the alarm which its littering gave the travellers was increased by the lightning having split, at nearly the snore moment, a large oak tree a ;M. in a few yards of them. I have just come hack from surveying the scene of desolation, and can hardly )et understand how they escaped. The road for several miles is entirely carried away ; all the bridges are broken ; and in the one which burst at the moment the carriage passed it, the waters !lave left a chasm between en and 60 feet deep. The effect of this storm, which lasted from a quarter past two o'clock till within a quarter of four, appears incredible. In the um row spot ss here it r aged. upwards of a thousand trees have been torn up b, the roots; and molt was its violence, that of the stones char formed the materials of the wall on the road-side anti of the bridges, hardly a vestige remains." SIIOCKINO OCCURRENCE.—On the 7th ofinne. as a Mrs. ['Utley was riding acmes the Gum Swamp. in North Camlina, where the a,ter wa s , but little more than knee deep, the beast on which she rode wa, stuwked by an allikitor, and ir..the struggle. Mrs. Batley waa thrown; and the moment site fell, the monster istizeal, bit, and WU-- giol her most horribly, of which wounds she died on the Loth of June. Her husband mid brother, who were near at hand, ran to her assist ance, and in rescuing the woman, one of the men re :rived a blow from the alligator without sustaining much injury, and mler shooting seven or eight times, they succeeded in killing he measured tt feet iii length. THE Ilictt storm STEAM-MIAT —in information has been ex hibited at this oilice by th., ‘Vatterman'a Company, ag uni't the pro. priet.irs of the ind steam-boat, on the authority of en ancient statute, which arts, "that no person or persons shall lei eligible to work a boat unless such p Tam or pennons shall have regularly served Utter apprenticeship." On S,sturiay, the sitting Ma.,ist•ate, Mr. Birni% received a lett:: from the Remembrunca in the City of latedon u?oii the suilj-et ; and he (Mr. ltirnie) appointed Tu,sday neat few the he of CAC crga.nent:, for and aiiiinst the L.lrmation. AUGUST 26 . VERY EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL. At the Mayo Axsisee, Honor Heacy was put upon trial' charged with the willful (11111141er, on the lath of Mey last, of the daughter of .1. Joyce, of W eetawn a ehild aged eight years, and with re ceiviag money under fala. pret -aces, J. Jot ee.the prosecute. ,iworn.—Said,lie became auquanted with the paisuuer when severely afflicted waft rheumatism, seven wattle before the murder charged in the indictment, in consequence of being infurnted of her skill in the insnamment of various diseases ; that in prescribing for him, chic vi ected hint to purchasa• six-peney worth of arsenic, which he did, and mixed it with other ingredients, and applied it, without success, to the part affected. Sarah Joyce sworn.—ls mother of the deceased child goner came to her house on the night preceding her death ; she took the child in her lap, and kissed her ; she ap peared to he i iiiii \ieated. and was offered a bed, nhich she accepted : in the morning, at nine o'clock, she scat the child to witness, who was at a neighbour's boost, saying she wanted to sec her witness mute, and asked the prisoner what she wanted. Prisoner replied, that it was only to tell her what the might lone told before, but she did not wish to alarm her, vie. that her child was to die 6°6h—that she would eet sick within-two hours, and die before six o'clock that evening-'-that at all events, elsept she (the prisoner) could save them, the father or the child should die—and she put it to the witness which she would ra ther lose, her husband or her child ? Witness replied, that if either lutist go, she would wish the child to be the one • but asked why she should say her tine little girl, that was in good health, was to die rla prisoner answered, that, although she sapposed she saw her very well, it was not her child that was there at all, but her shadow , , as the child had been (wet-looked-0 sups rstitious eeprewion in use amongst the ig rant).—Witness consented to put the chikl under the pries ner's care; • witness immediately went to sou thee child, and found her very ill and severely griped ; die soon afterwards discharged quantities of green stuff from both her stomach and bowels: witness told prisoner how the child was affected, who replied. it was so best, and that those were the pro per symptoms. The pri s oner then directed witness to get 28 half crown pieces, and to tales them and the child towards Nlerrisk, about four miles front Westport, where the money wits to be th.lown against the wind : and if it was ten ivcd, the child wouldliee, but if not, she certainly would die. Witness accordingly procured the money, and. accompanied by the child's aunt and the primmer, scrout as directed.— W hen they came to a small river near Murrisk, the prisoner infornied the aunt that she should return home; for that if the passed the river, she would be in as great danger as the child : she therefore returned, and the prisoner then called to witness for the 2 8 half-crowns, with which she ran away furiously out of sight. Upon her return. being asked what she had done with the money, she answered, that she had thrown it against the wind—that it had been received—sand that the child would recover. The prisoner who brought home the child, who continued all the way in great agony, Laying out for drink, which was si palled from every pool of water they passed : the erneuations of green tel. /Wee matter were frequent, and the child now complained princi pally of her throat, which she aid was burning. Witness proposed to prisoner to call ins physician, to which prisoner objected, saying, " For what did I roues front Castlebar last night, at ten o'cloak, but to :Ave your child ?" She died about six in the evening. Brides t Muegens, maid-servant, confirmed much of what had been sworn by tile fowler witness: and added, that the child slept with her the night before her death ; that s h e gut up and went to school, from whence she returned at nine in the morning, in perfect health : prisoner called to witness about that hour for a jug of water ; the child came to her afterwards for more water for the prisoner ; and again for a to -cup and some salt for her, all of which she guve. Honor M•Greal, the child's aunt, corroborated all that come within her knowledge of the foregoing facts; and further stated. that the pri soner told her that a girl in the town had n the child ern e,-;1 rye that she would recover if a piece of the girl's gown was burnt and given the child to drink. This was also done; the child died soon after. when the prisoner fell into a lit, foamed at the mouth, threw out some blood and was very violent. Surgeon Nicholson, of the South Mayo Militia, saw the child dead, and has no doubt that her death was occasioned by poison—by arsenic, be believed—but, upon opening the body, he could not discover a par dcle of it. It. Kelly proved, that he lodged in the prisoner's house in fits:deb:tr, during the last election ; that in a quarrel with her husband, who is since dead, she nil she would have satisfaction, and put an end to his life in a short time ; site then took a tea-cup full of water, and taking mei from her boecen., with powder of white or yellow colour in it. mixed some of it in the cup ; the husband Hung it against the wall.— Witness asked prisoner what she had put into the cup. She replied. as much poison as would kill a hundred men. Ile asked what she would have done if she hail poisoned the man. She said, if he had taken it, she would have cured him. Witness took up the paper, and gave the powder that remained in it to a dog, which died shortly after. Here the prosecution entkel, and the whole auditory appeared to have been stnick with horror at the itinnense turpitude of the prisoner's con duet. There was nu defence made—no Counsel employed for the pri loner—nor any croas-examination of the witneeses thst had been pro duced against her. The unfortunate woman was not, however, alto gether abandoned : every favourable suggestion that presented itself, every argument that could be advantageously relied on for the pre servatioe of her life, was humanely brought forward by the Judge (W. C. Smith, Bart.)in an impreesive charge to the Jury. His Lord ship argued, that es:denee was entirely circumstantial, and should not be received as conclusive ; that there was no direct testimony that the prisoner had administered any draught to the deceased; that it was de cidedly her interest to 'preserve the child's life ; that so far from har bouring malice towards thc deceased, there was evidence that she had caressed and fondled her; that she certainly did not contemplate the crime of murder ;and that, as the Counsel for the prosecution had laid the intdinnent in two ways, it might be concluded, that even they felt it would be difficult to sustain this charge : and further, that when the child dicel a the prisoner laid fallen into a fit, not fictitious, but real; and lawly, that it was very doubtful whether the prisoner was in a bar.* state of mind. These were the paints principally dwelt upon by the Learntd Judge, toga rid of the capita charge. His Lordship thought that the indict ment for raisin . .:. money under false pretences was supported, and a con% ieti,n for cher Oilier. would he justifiable. The Jury retired for about to minutes, when they retruned a verdict of G•tilty upon both indictments. l'he prisoner way then sentenced to he hanged on Thursday last ; but the Judge on tlutt morning respited the execution till the bth of Sep haulier. CAPTAIN G• %9T.-- - 1 his 0tii..11...kr, this penitent eon. vict, Was executed at Mar)borough, on Monday at noon, amidst a vast colic.wrie of penile. His eon!' ition was so sincere and •o edifying as to excite tutiversal sympathy. 'this aceimat is conta'ned in a private letter, with a view of which we have been favoured— /risk Paper. CLoNmrL, A. 14.—Hcrr:ek and wet e this morning tried separately for a conspiracy to minder the Litt Mr. Bai.m, and convicted on the cleanest evidence. _ A TAR IN iIISTR FsS.-. lit the Kilkermy ASbizea, Bartley Hartford was capitally convicted of a highyLy rubbery. On In lug broti,4ht up to receive srivenee, be said, in the tine language and style of a sailor, i" fives true he committed the robbery; but he was driven to it by necessity, belie s:arvisig, and tint h. ving a penny to buy any thing; that lie !T o s ue d the gemlennut three of the ten.nenn) s he 104 l'rous hint, avid tae half notes—that it was the tirat offence he ever comninted—had served 13 years in tile navy, and with Dna Nelat.n at the celebrated battle of Trafalear. 'ibis candid statement excited a considi rabic degree ut• commiseration ip the hearers; and the Grand Jury applied to lave his NIRItIiCO of death commuted to transportiition.