The National Register. — London, England, 1808-09-11 00:00:00

ble difficulty in awakening w _ de ceased was no more, hejumpela and exclaimed" Good God !" During the illness of the dec eased, no medical man was sent for. but she recollected hearing the prisoner ask her if he should send for a Doctor; to which she replied, he can do me no good. When the deceased was vomitting, she exclaimed to the witness, " 0 Betty. what bare I got on my stomach ? I wish I had taken an emetic long since." The Rev. Mr. Viss, the minister of the parish, said he had known the prisoner some years. On. the death of the deceased, some very shocking reports were circulated in Liverpeol against the prisoner; in consequence of which he thought it his duty to call upon him to inform him of them, that he might refute them, or bring the business to an investigation. The prisoner denied that the deceased had been delivered of a child; he said it was impossible for if she had he must have known it; and as to its being by him, he assigned rather an extraordinary reason, viz. that he had the most tender and affectionate regard for her, and as to her being poisoned, that was impossible; forshe had taken nothing hut what he bad given her, and he was, or ought to be, a judge of the composition and decomposition of medicine. The strongest thing he had given her, be said, was castor oil : he had given her a black emetic also. - The term black emetic he explained, by saying the discharge was black. The witness had more conversation with the prisoner, during which he gave some inconsistent and contradictory accounts of the transaction, particularly denying being out of his house when the witness saw him at the Atheneum, and conversed with him. This was investigated, in consequence of its being insinuated that be con veyed the child away at that time. The prisoner told him the deceased died the day previous (Saturday), and she died on the Friday. Jeremiah Steed deposed, that, about last Christmas, he was in crinpany with the prisoner, at the house of Dr. Trail, to sup per, w hen the subject of anatomy was brought up ; some draw ings of females, &c. were introduced, when the prisoner said he. *as skilled in anatomy and physic, and instructed some young men in it, particularly in the dissection of the womb, and by touching a certain µart of it, would cause abortion ; he had told a young man of it, and he bad evade an improper use of it. The Prisoner read a very long defence, in which lie strongly protested leis innocence, and attributed the prosecution to the re venge and malice of two women in Liverpool. Several women were called on behalf of the prisoner, who were intimately acquainted with the deceased, to prove that she was of a sickly habit of body, and that her increased size was dropsically, and that it was a family complaint, her mother having died of it. One of them lived as servant with the pri soner. On her cross examination, said, that on it being propo sed to tend for a doctor to the deceased, the prisoner smiled and said, medicines would not do her any good." The deceased frequently breakfasted in the prisoner's bed-room with him, and the deceased used to take the tea-things from her at the door. She thought the prisoner often took improperliberties with the deceased ; so much so, that one day she asked her if she was not going to marry the prisoner. Doctor Cason said that he had seen the stomach and uterus some days after the body was opened, in the possession of Mr. Hay, and gave a very learned definition of the disorders of the stomach, and the opinions of John Hunter, and other celebrated writers on that subject ; and he was of opinion th it the dis ordered state of the stomach took place after death, and the en larged state of the uterus might be attributed to other causes be sides the supposed expulsion. Upon his cross-examination, he said he was not an accoucher, and had not delivered any women. The trial lasted till past three in the morning, and the Jury acquitted Cie Prisoner. RIOTERS. SEPT. 5.---John Shepherd, John Rhodes, Joseph Sutcliffe, and John Turner, were indicted for having, with divers persons tn;kno wn, riotously assembled at Rochdale, and burnt - the prison on the Ist day of June. John Kershaw, an inhabitant of Rochdale, deposed, that at noon, on the Ist day of June, the town was extremely agitated by the entrance of a most alarming mob, to the number of about two hundred, which increased in the course of the day to about one thousand. Soon after they entered the toss!), ore of them mounted on a large stone, and harangued the mob ; he valid not hear what he said, but it appearei to please the mob in arneral, as they shouted and huzzaed several times. Dr. Drake a d Mr. Entw isle, the Magistrates, who la general conducted the busi ness of that part of the country, and who I*zside near there, came into the town, and addressed the mob in the most mild ani per- "Mc, • , . t 11. . _ THE NATIONWL • akenies him, and who. they told hint the de- SW 7 c- F r • REGISTER. --.....•••••• - • 1 suasive language, They behaved ver but refused to dir to the house wl swore in the w i stables. Two-tl night, maimed other violencee:. peaceable weavers ties. The special from the rioters, and they took fiv( However, as the; rescued. The wi sitting, were brol manufacturers of sorted to the room not intended to mained in the to prisoners and others puL and behaved very respectfully, but soon after the Magistranee were gone, they behaved in a very outrageous manner. net attacked the prison, in consequence of a number of shuttles be ing deposited in it for safety ; the doors of which bud been seps'' posed to be impenetrable, and set it on fire, which was under., stood to be impossible, so much of it teeing stone. They, how. : ever, contrived to demolish it so much, that it is now. merely ruinous walls. After they had set that on fire, they said they would go to the New Hall, the residence of Mr. James Royds, one of the principal manufactures, if he did not give them some money. Turner, who was admitted an evidence, said, he was stand. in; with Shepherd, opposite the prison, when it was on fire, where he observed, if any man attempted to put the fire onto he would endanger his life. Shepherd told him he got W. 404 1 Mr. Royds ; they went to Mr. Deardon's for money, where a guinea was thrown out to them; at one time, Shepherd asked if any man would go with him, to set Charles Trot's manufactory on fire. There being considerable doubts as to Rhodes and Sutcliffe, Mr. Park, in the most candid and liberal manner, acknowledge 4 it, and said, from the discretionary power vested in him, ail the part of the Crown, he should give up the prosecutioan against them. The Jury found Shepherd Guilty. ••••1116 Much alarm has been excited in Hull by a report, that an attempt was made on Thursday night to set fire to one or the powder magazines in the garrison, containing Powder sufficient to have blown up the town. About half past 11 on Thursday night, one of the (Twine's near the store-keeper's magazine (that • building which some years ago was appropriated to the reception of French prisoners), observed a man making towardsthe maga. zine across the ramparts. Having repeatedly challenged him, without receiving an answer, the eentinel fired ut him, but min ced him, and the fellow ran away. In about an hour after, the centinel again observed him, and at that time he was upon the roof of that part of the magazine which is on a level with the ramparts. He then challenged him again, without effect, and again ineffectually fired at him. Upon this he pursued I , lin with his bayonet, and had come within a short distance of him, when he unluckily stumbled over a heap of bricks, and falling down, the man got clear off. The other centinels on duty heard the reports of the musket, but saw no one; one of them .aid he heard a noise as if of some one climbing on the roof o f the maga zine ; and one man said, that a short time previous to this occurrence, he saw a light in an adjoining field, which seemed to be sparks proceeding from a flint and steel. An nditionel guard of seven centinels was placed round the magazine the remainder of the evening. A serjeant in the Royal Mammy Artillery Volunteers, boa discovered a method by .which an object may be hit whir* cannon-ball In the night time, with equal ease as in . open day. light, and was lately ordered by the Hoard of Ordinance to proceed to Plymouth-drick to try the experiment, which he did in the presence of Gen. Stephens and several other Officers; and _ _ has since received the discovery. This ingenl which a gun may he pole a thousand yards An inquest was last at Slimbridge, in the of Sublimate mercury, Ale d• se, the body wail , • 4 ,irei~ I ! • ~~ `ER. 563 • e, endeavouring to prevail on theta to dbperie. very civilly and respectfully to the Magistratm, isperse. The Magistrates in consequence west there they usnally transact their business, and fitness and about two hundred others special con. thirds of them were, in the course elite day and or bruised by stones being thrown at them, anti .xercised towards them. The rioters entered titer rers houses, and forcibly took away their shut* ial constables succeeded in securing some skittle* and deposited them in the prison for safety ; lye or six of the rioters before the Magistrates. ley were conveying them to the prison, tbey wet 4 windows of the room where the Magistrates were roken with large stones, being intended for Out )f the town and neighbourhood, who had all re— room where the Magistrates were for safety, ant injure the Magistrates. The Magistrates Te 4.• town till seven o'clock. At their departure Ow others of the mob pulled of their hats to them, • • d • f t I thanks of the Board and a reward fur the ;enious man has invented a qoadrant, by laid with suck accuracy, that he has hit * sdisiance and broke 14 by a..#41.11 1 4(4! t week held on the bodz i ei county of Gleneester . .lPli ♦ 2 , y, to procure abtul t iatrvillir vas buried Dear a •.