The National Register. — London, England, 1818-12-28 00:00:00

MURDER IN HERTFORDSHIRE. Our readers will recollect that a barbarous murder was pe.llntitrr4 4111 the 4th of November hist, near the town of itioxboorne, Hertfordshire, 11 1 11111 John Cooper. a native of Chesterfiiid. Catuhridge, a cattier who had travelled oil that ru•d to and ti • f Lando,' about •W years. Every ever. thin has been used in the iseightionitiood to bring the - skiers to e ; hilt notwithstanding a reward of :MI. has !..en utter ed by the comity, uu tine Lad been discovered, except that two strange uu n had beets seen following the deceased down the road Oh the evening the murder was com mitted. The London polie•e went to s n ake inquiry, hot were online. siinsequently, however, the Worship Sireet officers m•cerbtiurd that two Nigglers, well known upon the road, met the men alluded to and reeoninsed then, to reside in or near Spitaitielill twat► el, and that they had absconded. This, COM' blued wills t h e eiieurnstaiice, that the deceased 11 id keen attacked in a sirMe Where lie hail put tip. near Newgate Ivlrrket, a short time befine he was muideied, left little doubt that they were periieliators of clay: horrid deed, and this li.ggleis wren in eon•rgoiuce !nought to the other, and examined before the Nl.igi,trat Ps. JACO!, Wesby sisal. that about half ;it•t nine o'clock on the cieuinu of the Itli oi November last, he WAS travelling With 114 harm. allll 4'411 front tiodilesdnii to London; when he ar• tired about boor 11,110.1ge on this side of Hudde•sdon lie saw the body of John Cooperoying on the road. The body was rot 11114111 a gate or Mollie, and e•artied to the next public• house ; it wa• evident the deceased hail been robbed, as both his hree•elies pockets had toren turned inside• out, and lie had IN° properly allow him then; he never travelled the road %ilium, money, which wits well known in and about the London ,larkets. 111111 S4IIVOIV, another higler, stated, that on the evening John Cooper was murdered, he was continti IEOIII I,olldoll his waggon anthem's 1 when about tno miles fi oni Hod desibm, a man passed by him, and inquired how many miles to ; shoofly afterwards anoint r man passed by him, and inquired his way to Hoildesslon. When he got through Warmsley, about II nide% from the place where the Iwo men passed 11.,n, he met them again returning, walking very fast and n hist : nor of them was ilhOW luurtret seven incises high, and wore .. liglii coloured jacket and smock fro( k ; the other wore a dap k colanred short frock, and was somewhat taller. Ile knew their faces well in London ' :nit was not stif tiriently well in:pi:tinted with them to ask them any ques tions ; he thought it very si ligular to meet them in such a manners() far nut of town. The 'winder was commit: e(! within the time they first passed him and their passing him a second time. When lie al iveil iu London, and heard of the liar, lie related the 'en runistillicc pablielv, and inquired for them, bin he had not met wills them since. Another Ingler met the ►AMP melt on the road the evening of the mill del, anti described their dress in the same 1,1111113 Cr the last viii rss did. They u►ed to work in Spitaltields, 41111 do any jot they could get from env one. I he Nlagisii aryl sent for Ali. Worth, who had employed them, anti es 000 oo ed him. He said he had been in the habit tif them occa.uatally ; they had left him prior to the murder, but did not know where they went to. They w e e r hoth single m .0, rather of disvolitte habits, and rout li addicted to tit inking %hen they had any money. Their chief einpl,iyinent was market porternig, but they had nut been seen in the nearket since the mitotic, was committed. SEDUCTION.---About a fortnight since a most beauti ful and accomplished girl, 18 years of age, the only d tughter 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 lust no time in pursuing them, but it was not until Wednesday that, after a must difficult search, he succeeded in discover ing that they had taken apartments in Manor Place, in the King's Road, Chelsea ; and having made application at Bow Street, he procured Smith and two other officers to accompany him to the residence uf the lovers. On inquiry, finding they were gone out, but expected home to dinner, the fitther 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 en tent' thehouse where they resided. The anxious father directly seized his child, who, in all the agony of stirprise and terror, clung to her lover for pro ection,who vowed no earthly three should part them ; and it was not without the utmost difficulty (the lover being of powerful and athletic make) that they could be sepa rated. lit the struggle the gentleman's coat was lit terally turn to pieces. The baiter and daughter, with the officers, proceeded to the public-house, hollowed by the diseintsolate Captain in tatters, when a scene ensued that bathes description; the father entreating his child to return to the arms and ease the anguish of her almost broken hearted mother—the lover imploring her, with tears not to thisrke him. This having taken place in a public tap-room filled wits spectators, the father, daughter and discainthrted lot cr, with the officers, retired to a private room, and at length the two former, still accompanied by the ufli..ers (hose off in a hackney eoach, leaving the Captain vat iferating that he would immediately follow them to Bath, and assuring the weeping fair one she should s.ion be restored to him.— This atttir will no (twilit furnish employ to Cie gentle men of the long robe, es the &the: of tile yam) 4 is ty mote than once expressed his determination to joeurcute the Cemain for seauction. 1.; ..,LpM MON N T Itirv.---Copy of a letter to the pr, , p -tog of the Lord Nelson Coach, Glasgow •, • ,emea—Several years ago l deli ~tt by err drivers three dill rent thnes take lime on . as n ho •:(•••, al.hcog:i 1 m v • ushametl to tit that made me so. note eiclose - 1, as an erittiVa ' vant, THE NATIONAL REGISTER Alec TIC EXPEDITION'. The discovery 'hips Isabella and Alexander, after she I:•itti of July, the date of Captain K0r.'.1.10 iliwateha% from the Arctic Bras, laving then in about the latitude 73. N. and 10.11:itude 61. W. proceeded in a hes n dire.iion, but weris souls impeded by a lin' silk Iran ier offer, which after cocoos. tering very amines. didicullies and much danger, they suc ceeded in foiciug on the 7th of August. On the Jth, sense 941111C11 Were seen on the shore in the east N'All II: sell 011 the 13111 Prince Regent's Wry, in lat. 76. 12. was iliacovcred to be their apparent reaiilencr. These Indians were with mach difficillts communicated with, through John Sackeasise. the Esipiimans, who accompa nied the exp. tannin from Engl,inif, and whom& this occasion displayed equal coinage and address. On the 18th of August the expedition passed, with an open sea, from Prince Regent's Bay to a Cape in lat. 74. 57. N. long. 66.24. IV., whirl' wit• named for his Royal Highne.s the Duke Of York; the same day wade Cape Dudley Diggs of Baffin, linikiiere...vely pasai-d Wulsliobolw Whale, and Sir Tiloion. Smith's Sutiods, and Ciley'ft Islands. On the 21.1 they made i•ape a hich was named for Ws Royal Higlines. the Duke of Ciao rove Here the land, which had (win Ihr Whale Sound !Aro a western ly direction, begaii:io until to the wools, and the ships were again encumbered with ice and f igs. Their progress along Aare was slow, but on the 30.1 i of Angus, they got as far as tAlleiStr I' Sound ..11 Baffin, which had synch the appearance of a ',wiling-, bust proved to be an inlet. Ou the tat of 'September, Captain ftu•. took pu.se.siii• of Nat parr of the Coast in lat. 74. N. and long. ho. w. with the usual forms. It was found to be uninhabited. Tsley 'proceeded vs ithout impediment along the coast. which finny thence took on easterly direction. Lauded again in 76.30. N. long 66.46 W. ma an island near the tombs land, which appeared to hare hem recently inhabited. — lice e the land took a south castes ly direction, and the ships actin stretehed arrow to the mit ward, and determined she nntrezistence ofiataes'a leland, laid down in the old Admi ralty charts. After this they continued their course along the land to Cape Waleiog.i.ein, oti Davis, which they found to be in lat. tia. N. and long. CO. W., the strait being here 110 miles wide. From 'teener the land took a westerly direction, 'ill they came on the 30th dept. to Cumberland Strait, which they ascertained to be between the latitudes °fel. aud 64. N. and lone. 6.5. W. _ . _ On the 2il Oct. the expeili ion passed Warwich's Foreland, and en the 3.1 made Revoluben Island, having thereby com pleted their survey, and laving fully ascertained that no patimace .-xisls tiow the Atlantic tr. the l'ar•fie 0( tau, through Davis Straits and Baffin's Bey. which they found to be bound ed land, extending to the tenth as far as lat. 77. Ai. in the longittide of 77. W., and a the west as far as the 84th de gree, in the let. of 74. N., and generally surrounded by a chain of iimmitains. In no part of Baffin's Bay did they tad any current, ipr di ifi-woad, except a small piece et fir with a nail in it, and hearing the mark of the adze and plan*, which WAV seen in lat. 76. 30 N. lung. 78. W. near Cape Clarence. The depth of water, en the emit side anti upper part of the Bay, was front 20 to 400 tattoins ; and on the west side very vat table, front 50 to 1040 :at toms. Substances were brought np from this depth, and fiont every part of their track, II also water;%anri specimens of mineralogy and of the annuli and vegetable kingdoms have itern tstelully ',reserved, and due attention paid to evilly . . . subject vs hich could emit, lbw, to the advancemt-nt o f natural knowledge ur of science. discoveries ou the magnet needle are like!) to be of the kitties! importance to navigation. Captain Rose has also noted is his journal a meat particular description of the newly discovered nation, and °fever) , cir rnuistanee thrill; and it will eel molly he deemed not the least interesting event of the Ar tie Expedition, that a lace of hoiden beings has been Wend inhatritiog the rumen regions, between the latitudes of 76. and 78. smith, vi be thought that the world to the south was ice—a people tit whom generatioe has succeered generation, without ever having tasted the t' nits of the earth ; who had tie idea of a Supreme Being, never had an 'twiny ; and whose chief, hail hitherto supposed themselves to be metierchs of the uni• ver.e. On the 411, of October the ships bore up for England, and on their passage home steered for Cape fat eviren, is other to I determine the latitiole and longitsde of that impel taut head land ; not on t h e 9th, when within 18 miles of its situation as IMO tiONO in the enacts, they were overtaken by a violent ask - from the north west, which obliged thesis to atm i.don that object and to part company. Both ships lost their rmar• ter boats, hut received no material damage, aid fell in with • *eh other again on the 30th of October, and nn that day reedier, the Shetland islands. Heir !lacy resmaineu a lee days,and ou the 1711, November arrived .ate in the 't helm s, having parOellied the voyage in the ellart space tit six mem he, without the loss of a luau, and et idiutit even having had a man on the sick list. Captain Ross speaks in the Isigl.est terms of Lieniona:it Parry, who commended the Alexander, and of a.l lOU nth. cern of both ships; and there not having !Well a single in stance of punishment during the voyage. is the first pie f that cats lie given of the steadiness and good disiciplitie at the seamen employ ed in the expedition. LORD EtfasuottoLnti's %Vii.r...—The property kit by the Leaf lie.' Lord, sse.ire told, exceeds 2.1 O,OJOI. To the niesent Lord he has bripiratlird I o,oirai. per annum ; to the widowed Latil, 2,0001. lot r annum ; 411,1 to rash of the other child' cm 1:),44101. 'l - he house in St. Jatties'A Stinwre, o hien it a tire. Mild, is die evict! to be sold, and al..' the at champion. (lie late I n ert save ISMUOI. far the tool , esiiltmer. LORD EL LEN So Rol WS 1.1'15 f.. .1.1,t 11101611 g, 111100 riles rigid o'clock, the of 11.. Lurd.nlp utie 00000 sea riono test.lence to Si. James's Sip.aie, tor inter. ten let at the Ca:tiles Noose. The lir uressimi coi;sodrd ot Iti omit on tu.strilock, four out loot INuat 11Ig pinnies of isiliel • , t l•iie lite h. arse, tit it urn toy sis hue , 5, %IX 111011111.1ig cossell• 5 by sift 11.,110.5 1.401, Anil 20 Noiriviiirn and 6e.ntealtli'. al • taw's, a.uuugsl w lute tri if Ills Lordship's cat i•tpy. - 1„.„,i b s Ib. Bishop of Chestet'a, the Marti n 's Goi,d. is's, Lu d Sidon/110e-, the Bois. 1 11. Lass's, the two C.ori-Jusiiers 411 , 1 the utiles judges 111 Ih. COlll - 1s of fioig s lir n. h and Cow. ,ilOll Pleas, stud 01114.1' Lis 11.01.1.141p'. the pro re.si,,o ra•ard along Pal! ‘l,ll, Illi• SI rand , I•'i eel Stirel, Int ig.tit. FIJI, nod ii.t ni tat. Chat It r House !mutt alit' Ter Corpse was I .tit is into the chapel, and I lie 'anew refroholy is as peit•doiril try ter Her. 1)r. rishri. N. as ly the 'sr ,ow of we time a Pule uilt tinge 5% As eii. I lie Lodila 44v es it a :topes 1.1 VILDIISOiI Vtltel, and his Lordship Lilco le:1 in the same Yana as Mr. Sutton, Me flounder of the Chatter-house. POLICE. MAN‘ION HOUSE. A pernn of respecta. , h•apprara.nce,unmed Robert Markle, lea. examined upon a eliatge uf hawing forged anal uttered the aereplanee of Rieltaid Stephens Taylor, E.olitire, fur 111. 175.24. Alessrs. Hobert and linund, of ('orithill, stated, that onus time iu the mouth of April lost, the prisoner came into their s h op to saint a q uantity of roods. for which he said ha would give in p0y1114.111 Ili. acceptance of an eminent solicitor, pit). ante al our of the jirst banking houses. 't he proposal was agreed to, and the selection was made to the value of nal. 17r. 211. Having ordered the goods to be forwarded to the place at which he then resided lie requested Messrs. Hub er t anal Mound to draw a bill for the moonlit on Mr. Richard Stepheii- Taylor, the solicitor, of Gray's Inn. This Will thine, and iu the course of the same day lie returned with the bill accepted, " Richard Stephens Taylor, payable at Messrs Praed's and Co., bankers, Fleet.street." The bill was lodged in the ordinary way with the bankeit of MI sirs. Hubert-and Mound, and a• regularly paid by !desire. Praed and Cu., tie suspicion whatever Staving arisen as to genuineness. The il.seuvery that it WAS a forgery did not take place fur some months. The prisoner was thee, not to be found. :Mr. Richard Stephens t isylor, of Gray's lon, deposed that be knew• nothing whatevel of the bill in question, nor had he ever accepted into for the prisoner. lie hail some knowledge of that person a few years back, whet, a disagreeable eir cuinetance of a similar kind took place, which however the• witness was led to pardon. The prisoner was fully committed. BOW sTILEET. Several hoteliers of Clare Market were convicted of follow ing their business on the Lord's Day, commonly called Sun. day. It appeared that the shops were opened, the meat exposed for sole, and the butchers calling out for purchasers as on othrr dor. Nine of the butchers and one green grocer who wete summoned. did not attend. Th e m ag i,. trate tir%trutl that amotitooses might lie issued, and then if they did oat attend to them, warrants should be issued. to appre:iend them. The pioseentions were at the suit of Mr. Donew, the Churchwarden of St. Clement Danes.-- Mr. Nesbitt, the street-keeper, gave evidence against the butchers. Ou Tuesday, a young woman of respectable appearance, professing herself to be a servant, applied to Mr. Birnie to , pisuisli a young woman, whose name she stated to be Charlotte Say, who had bewitched her wills brimstone, and had exercised the black sit towards her; and last of all, bad, 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 not be proper fur a female to repeat ; and she farther complained, (list she was nut able to relieve herself from their control, atid was thereby preveuted keeping her places of set vice, acid was therefore deprived of getting her living. The Magistrate endeavonreil to compose her grind, and to convince her that she was deceived in supposing that any person or persons could bewitch, her, or intertei e, or influence, ur control her conduct in the way she described ; hut she was 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 tied her, and all that she knew of her family or connexions was, that her aunt lived at the house of Miss Linwood's exhibition, at Leicester square. Two fellows named 11.sekhoosse, alias Baer bus, and Leroy( , alias Rodney, stele oil examined on a charge of being concelised in stealing from the Exeter snail a parcel of Bank notes, to the amount of 1,6001. They were re committed. George Fisher and William Ranmeraton were committed for cwt !lug down a waggon lead of the holly hedge round the garden of Mr...IOIIIIMM, Howell Hill. They had cut down • great deal in mere wantonness ; the rest to sell for Chi llamas decor,' ions. Mr. Thomas Harrowell, a coachnialer, of Long Aere, was convicted in the penalty of ins., for causing one of his cats riages ►o be placed in thy street, opposite to his house, for tne space of two hums. UNION HALL. A middle-aged man, of most respectable appearance, ac companied by a female of ripial appaient icspeetability, applied un Wednesday to the Sitting Magistrate, and te guested that an affidavit might he adminkicied to his female companion, who, he stated, MAO lies wife. His application, he said, arose from the following cite ttttt stances ;—Aliotit dive years ago he honied the matrinionial contract, and at that time carried Oa a busine.s of consideratile profit, and was lao , sllll‘ell Or a handsome pi opei ty ; his wire iii.happil) beraisie addicted to a liah it of excesi.is e drinking, and a hen in *iodate of intoxication rreqt,ently insulted his customers and offended Ins nit tiels. The effects or her imprudent conduct speedily appe,,ted; his 'Mop was tlest Ited, his liiti.ds abandoned hint, wool he was ravioli) al , preaultiog a stale of ruin, au.,. his u ite, appal; .d is) the pluvcel, d.ltimutrd upon a is formation. wool was desirous of hinifitt.; !wised* by au 04111 never again to indulge in di hiking either nine ui sot aititits The l‘lacisdrate hunt fisted it, homer pi opensii) of the appli cant'. tilt, and commended the spit it ut I, los imition she tiAil shown, lot declined the adroinisnatiuu of the oath, %MI II was the object ur the application. 11A ITO (iARDEN. Wrdoesd ty it ' , oldies' dist:barged ft tote the Second ba , talion of the Col , 6:oval,' gave the 1.1100 ill 1111Y1 II atioat at list. Ober. Atontit 10 tor Ig dais ago he rrrt II t 1 b.. 411..ehnige and 1 , 01111. 1n0t.t . ., and noveto.g 9 ttio Iwo Nolo:el% 110.4+4r:1,41 bum the Itith light tit n 1 MOIR, %// 10 were Loisig to their 11411% , t. Ware a• writ ai hi. , thr, Neil. ilaso I lot, tt.tt, hot it•ioxi.trol *1 coops.. 01 night. in 1 0 0.11, 01011 all Ihrit 1"0"e9 %vas 11111•11 I ot do unkitok; 010 is they 8441(101 to rrt 1.1.1 at iluak, In aisotir.e and lob ( WI they 1111'1 1,101, 411111, I' 111.1'1 80,1 1 . 1 , I . • b.) at coot,. ilozu net 1191 aUI. Ow isaitul, in a 2141 V ill 11111 ullt ly. Al.t.r goiog 0011, oto tOO 0, it 0 Ala Ili l• 11 Ilt•1 I 1 11.1 lit dlO /.1 11 11 ,hr fin, person lbey met : loot 1010.0,a01 Is,, %set; .uric. rrrOveleil Ito ti Ihr .liar ot tit tothoont-s• Un y At p 1 111111 nl, 1 OVe to Ilk: 1 111411e 111. w room Ibtu propose. 1.7..04ing 'hey well. tie:room:col he.atd hair is, 1..001 u. it : 710 y 11 , co dii4rltell holt %%Mt thruitoo A. , acrd telt him fot t•ttl ; ‘‘ltitis NtJie Ur t%.,t• I.lll`iti) it , t I 10o:ot by a tail. r, eolad 1001401 Imo 10 Inwu. The away.. 01 tilt' Iw.. rho mho. are kepi cret o e nuolethiand nos 11.1 101 l I'll 11/ 011 lust' 11101 1 • rayoul *no. robbed and ontoodervd. the Whet 1, la ul QU LEN SQUARE. _ i%I. JUMPS wA. Cll.ll 1.(1 uS Nsr. :.I.l%licr t il, Indy of pri reify, 114,10.1111 ft ill %V 111/1411 1.,1' O t 1.0 SII•pICIMII 1.11 1111,1)1,1 her liusspe of pruilesty to the auulut.t ut Int*eeti 441. mud 4UI. nude. List tullu‘% ell cuseuganctA DEC 29 414