The National Register. — London, England, 1822-10-06 00:00:00

same on, suggested that the prisoner should be committed for felony, and not for misdemeanour. It was right he said, that the public should kuuw, that by the statute of Geo. 11. it was not necessary that any property should be obtained su conse quence of using a threat, to constitute the felony. The bare rising the threat, wills the view of obtaining money, being in itself autticient ; and he instanced two cases in which lie bad himself been concerned, where parties under such ei. - cum- Stances bad been sentenced to transportation. Upou this authority Sir James Shaw directed the prisoner to be committed to take his trial for the capital of f ence. Clinton* APPiteaTioN.—A decent lookin; young man, apparently strongly agitated, was brought np as disorderly.— He it seems, been married just five months, and last Wednesday his beloved wife wets safely delivered of a finis chopping boy. On this unhappy discovery of h s wife's flail ties, the passion of the deceived Isuahand broke all bounds, and he bad conducted himself with a violence bordering on in sanity. On first entering the room after the discovery, be was so intensely affected, that lie went iuto a violent tit of hysterics, in which state Ise remained upwards of two hours, and he had since been so dreadfully agitated in his whole brhavionr, that his landlady. partly fur his sake, as well as for her own per sonal security, found it necessary to give him its custody. Sir James Shaw treated hint with great kindness, and upon his promise to rettsiin front going to the house, at least until his wife should be able to bear Isis reproaches without danger to the lives of herself and offqsriug, directed bins to bo dis charged. A person in the neighbourhood of Wisbeach, of the name of Winkley, was taken into custody last week on a charge of sheep stealing, whose apprehension was attended with some shocking circumstances. A farmer had lost 14 sheep, which wet e supposed to be stolen, and suspicion falling on this person, a warrant was issued fur his apprehension. The farmer who had lost the cheep, attended by a constable, called at the suspected person's hostile, when his wife informed them he had just gone down the grounds. They went there iu seam!' of him, and as soon as he saw them, he took to Night, hut being closely pursued, he threw himself into a dike. However, buslng there was not water sufficient in it for his purpose, be drew a knife and stabbed himself in different parts of the body. Even after they bad secured him, and were taking him of in a cart, he attempted again to destroy himself by thrusting the knife into his body. Ile was taken to a public house at Walpole, where he lies ill of his wounds ; and though some of them are serious, they are not ekpeeted to prose mortal. Winkley was a man of respectable character and of considerable business, and among the last that would base been suspected of sheep stealing. CAPTURE or A SMUOGLER.—A fine cutter, of SS t,ms register, called the /sir, of and from Flushing, was brought into Waterfoid, ou the 27th ult. in charge of pail of the crew of the Bit/mond revenue cringer. Lieut. Morris, by which vessel she was fallen in with on Satur day night or Sunday tar Armstowis, and taken between the Salter awl Twitter, after cliace of above six hours, during which she solfereil so much damage in her rigging from the fire of the Richmond, as to render her escape impossible. She was also injured in her hull. The num ber of persons taken (including the supposed Captain, who calls himself Garrets de Potter, and says lie is a pas seller) was LS, the greater part apparently foreigners, who have all been committed to caul, and are to be re examined. Three hundred and twenty-two half bales of tobacco, of 641bs. each, and seventeen kegs of Geneva, were found ois board, all snugly made up, with a small rope attached to each, fur the convenience of car riage. The whole has been lodged in the Custom-house stores. EFFECTS Or THE Bars OF A CAT.—About a fortnight since, a poor man, named Thomas Stewart, in the employment of SICX4,II. Hall and Co. Old Jewry, on going to work in him morning, discovered a strange cat secreted behind some lumber, in the warehouse ; and on being desired to remove her, he was de.ired to turn her into the street, when the cat bit one of his fingers, which was in a trilling degree lacerated; butt the injury being so trivial, lie to,k no notice of it, nor were any ill effects observable till Finlay last, when the poor fellow was visited with violent retellings, pains in his head, arc. and was incapable of swallowing food, or any antidote admi nistered him by his medical attendant, 31r. Mails way e, *1 Shoreditr h. Ile became alarmingly worse in the course of Friday night, and neat morning lie bets • et, strong symptoms of madness, such as 111411161 g at tic mouth, gnashing Isis teeth, and snaking noises similar to the cat. The malady increased an fast upon him, that NI. 11, advised Isis being conveyed to St. Thomas's Hos pital, where he was attended by Mr. Ttascrs add oilier medical ;gentlemen, who used every art human skill could devise; but all efforts proved abortive, and the Idus-tu n tie man died of the shocking nsalady *bout two o'clock the Maine day. Tile poor fellow lived 13 years with MCSSIB. Ball and Co. and has left a wife and four small children to lament his loss. A few days ago, the sun of a respectable merchant, made an attempt upon his own life in loorfleltls. lie was in a state of inetital derangement at the time, and had been confined in a private mad house in Bethnal green, 111)111 which lie made his escape in a singular manner. lie had marked the hour at which the lock ing up took place, and observed that immediately before that time the allperiiitelidents were more busily employ ed than at any other. Oa the day of his escape, lie conducted himself with more than ordinary discretion and calmness tinder the eye of the Governor, and re nted, when all was most deeply engaged, to his room, where he deliberately took the cord from his bedstead, and fastened it to a window bar, let himself down and walked to a coach-stand, where lie hired a chariot and ordered the coachman to drive to the Monument. On arriving at the Monument lie alighted and porelased brace of pistols and powder and bail, 31111 then resuming his seat iii the ch 'riot, ordered the coaclitomi to dose to Mouth:lds, to the house of the Rev. Mr. Deeereux, the Catholic clergyman. iiasih g remiket that destniation, lie left a letter for Mr. Deserenk, begging that a spot in the biotal gr din which tile Rev. gentleman usually officiated should be given tip for the reception of the l ttly of the unfortunate writer. Tile chariot was out of sight before the letter was read, and the pour maniac had discharged one of the pistols at his own body. The ball catered btweett the tins. II was taken back to the mad house, where evcrviiossible attention had been paid to hint, but it is apinctiended that be CJIIIIM recw•er. 11e has been in the artily and navy, Lut s years ago lie was attacked with brain low, which perwanenny Itcrtd his mind. . TILE NATIONAL REGISTER MATCH TO MAIDENHIAD, AND SACK TO KILN sIuoToN.--Me. Bernard West, the pedestrian, started at It o'clock on Monday night holt, to go from Kensington to Maidenhead-head and back (48 miles) in seven hours, fur a stake of 2ho guineas. Betting was ti and 7to 4 oil time. The pedestrian did right miles in the tient hour, eight and a halt in the second, and lie halted at SI melt, 10 miles of his match, which he did in two hours and thirteen minutes. He reached Maidenhead-bridge in three hours and eighteen iii 11l lam fresh. He travelled WI to Colebrook at the rate of seven miles an hour, and he halted at Brentford, having the last five miles to do in forty minutes.—He won the ;match with great difficulty, baying three minutes to spare. In June last Mr. Hardy, keeper of Ilchester gaol, lost two of his prisoners, convicted at the last spring assizes, who succeeded in making their escape from the walls of the gsel. Oae was retaken the sante evening : the other of the name of John Hallet, evaded the various parties sent in pursuit of him in the neighbourhood of Kingsbury, Creveb, and various parts of Doraetshire. In the isoaree of last week Mr. Hardy received private information that he had been seen in the neigh bourhood of Hindumand it was possible that Hallet might he met with at Woodhury-hill fair accordingly, nu 'lliursday week, Mr. Hardy, mum and Pike, the turnkey Si the gaol, were despatched in pursuit of him, and on Friday afternoou, snout half past two o'clock, they succeeded in retaking him, having found him in a booth on the top of the hill, wills a number of Gipsies, and he is now safely lodged in Ilchester gaol. Great praise is due to Mr. Hardy, the keeper of the gaol, for the in defatigable exertions to retake this notorious character. A circumstance took place which shows the siugular depravity of the companions of Hallet. Immediately on its being known that he was in custody, one of the fellows rode off with it wight chestnut horse, which lie had been riding in the fair, and was at the time of his apprehenaioa tied up alongside the booth, and with which the fellow escaped. The passion of Dc Luc, the natural philosopher, for music, was so predominant io his latter days, that a piano was placed by his bed aide, on which his daughter played great part of the day. The evening of his death, seeing her father ready to sink into a slumber, slur asked him--" Shull I pier any more?"—" Keep playing," said he, " keep playing." He slept, but woke no more ! About seven o'clock on Wednesday morning last, the inhabitants of Swan-yard, facing Somerset-house, were dreadfully alarmed at a great part of the street falling in, and exposing to view a ISIOSS frightful chasm. On examination it appeared to have been au old well co vered in, and upwards of one hundred feet in depth, eighty of which are now full of water. Had it hap pened at night the loss of lives would have been very great, as this tremendous chasm is in the center of a very narrow thouroughlare, so that whoever might un fortunately fall in could give no alarm. 'The hole is in a circular form, about eight feet in dial!), ter. Nlany curious persons visited it in the course of the day ; it is I now fenced over, to prevent accith Oil Saturday moritiog last three great fish, of the whale tribe, of eIIOIIIIOUS bulk and uncommon appear ance, were discovered in shoal water, close by the lesser Salter Islands, off the county of ‘Vertiorel. They ap ' peared much weakened by their efforts to get in deep water, and two of them were secured with difficulty by the persons who discovered thim, but the third es c yeti. They were of a deep black colour all over; the skin perfectly smoth ; one about 25, the mher nearly 30 feet in length ; the body, at the lidless part near the head, 15 to 16 feet in girth. They were almost Mime• diately cut up for the sake of the blubber, the quantity of which yielded above 200 gallons of fine clear nil. YARMOUTH, OCTOBLR 3 —Sunday last, being Michaelmas Day, the installation of the Mayor, with the accustomed poblicand s porous dinner, was de layed until Monday last.—After the usual formal services at the church the iklavor, with the Corpo ration and a number of friends, adjourned to the nev flail to dine, and were attended tinnier by a very nume rous assemblage—in their way they were greeted by shouting aod by the ringing of the CIII/fall bells, as usual a number of pieces of cannon were laid upon the Quay and filed on the occasion—excepting these instruitimta of des:ruction were tinder better ►management most ❑w laticholy proof was given that it would be better to dis pense with the latter custom—in the round of hrtug, which commenced as the procession was passing Minn Itegem-street, else of the guns burst, and with its frag lIICIILS wounded several persons, two boys very severely, true of whoops, of the name Of Melia, tiled oil Wednes day ; a piece of . the gun struck him on the forehead and nactured his skull in a shocking manse r--it is a matter of wonder that many in ire sunsuits were not injure r, but it is conjectured that most of the pieces into winch the gun was shattered were driven upwards, as souse were found at a considerable distance, one piece, weighing two pounds and a half, fell iu the post office row, very near a young woman who was standing at a door with an infant in ner arms—the spot where it fell is perhaps 300 yards 11031 the place where the gun was lying, and trout the tor* of the curve which it most have made to clear the houses and walls over which it travelled, the height which this fragment was projected could not be less than ($6O yards ; another fragment, weighting tour pounds and upwards, fell 'upon the roof of toe ltev. l' IVatson's house ; a pretty large piece was round to have taken an horizontal direction 011 the Quay and passed great numbers without doing injury to any one. IVe regret to announce toe total destroction by fire of the elegant cottage ul (i.forge Purlitig, Esq. of Bradford, near Weymouth. On the everting or Tuesday last, that gentleman entertained a large party of his Iritirds at dm tter, and several of his visitors remained at the noose Mr the purpose of forming a shooting party the following day; but about seven o'clock they were alarmed by the cry of lire, and their personal security was hardly ellected fre:ore the whole Wall its Hones. Much of the !immure, and the greater pit of the cellar of choice wines were saved. The cause Of the tire has not been ascertained, but it is conjectured to have arisen limn the over-treating of a Rue communicating with a hot dresser. A Coroner's inquest wits held on Tuesday on the body of air. Thomas Craig, late a respsetable linen draper roadiag in Oxford Street, whose uisath was catosia by a fall limn the second floor window of his house on Sunday lain, whilst in a suite of intoxication. Jury returned a verdict to that I'9 Rowney OF THE IPSWICH negocia. tiou has been ter some time on foot between the thieves who robbed the Ipswich mail-coach of the notes of Alexander and Co. to the amount of 31,1901. and some persons upon the part of the Bank. The thieves had signified, soon after the robbery took place, that the risk they ran, and the ingenuity they exercised in this hazardous undertaking, entitled them to a very great part of the sum they had made themselves masters of, and they made an exorbitant proposal to the concern, undertaking to restore the whole of the notes, upon the payment of no less a sum than 6,0001. in sovereigns, and an indemnity from all charges or demands. A refusal was given to the monstrous offer of composition, and the thieves, who were not afraid of detection, seemed cureless as to the rejection of their terms, being men who have already made fortunes by enterprises of the kind, and perfectly well able to try the patience of those who are so unfortunate as to come within their reach. The efforts of the firm for the recovery of their notes were not remitted in consequence of their knowledge of the determined spirits of the gang to make the best of the robbery. The sum of 3,0001. was offered to them, upon condition that they would forthwith return all the notes, and the principals of the concern gave it to be understood that no larger offer should be made, and that the police should commence their operations without delay, if those terms were not acceded to. The gang replied that they had already sent 3,000:. into circulation, and that as that money was quite out of the question they must look to some profit from the notes still in their possession, and they accordingly demanded 3,0001 more as a recompense for their loss if they . were to give up all they had risked their lives to ob tain. For some days the negotiation was kept up, but the bankers were playing a deeper game than the thieves. In all those places where their notes were in great circulation there was a " culling in," and it was pretty well ascertained at the time that none of the stolen property had been circulated ; the report to that effect having been made to those so deeply interested fiir the purpose of showing that they were not to be trifled with. On Thursday bills were posted on the walls, offering a reward of 5,0001. to those who will give information either at Alexander's and Co.'s, or at Fry's and Co.'s St. Mildred's-court. Poultry, so that the parties may be apprehended and convicted, and the property reco vered : 20001. have been offered upon conviction of the parties without the recovery of the property, and the public have been requested to take no mere of the Black Ink Notes of the Ipswich Bank without well knowing the persons from whom they receive them, as Alexander and Co. had instructed their bankers in London to refer those who present such notes to themselves at Ipswich. The colour of the copper-plate has been changed from black to red ; and at Fry's banking-house on Thursday some notes of the Ipso ich bank, which were presented by strangers were stamped • with the words " Stolen— referred to Alexander and Co. Ipswich." These notes were returned to the persons who presented them, and it is calculated that the gang cannot pass more than a couple of hundred pounds worth of the paper, as a general terror of the black notes predominates every where. MADAME SAQUI 0111 DUNE.—At the entrance of Isabel of Bavaria into Paris, wife of Charles VI , a Bavarian fastened a rope from the top of the tower of Notre Dame to one of the houses within the Change Bridge; he descended dancing upon the rope, with a lighted fl.tmbeau in each hand; her passed between the blue taffety curtains,ornamented with large goiden fleurs-de-lis, which covered the bridge ; he fixed a crown upon Isabel's head, and re-ascended upon his rope into the air. The chroni cle adds, as this was done in the night, he was seen in all parts of Paris and its environs. It is with unfeigned regret that we have to an nounce the death of Charles. the youngesi son of Colonel Dixon, of Rainharn, Norfolk, which took place on the I Ith ult., at Megrus, near Lausanne in Switzerland, and was occasioned by his gun going off accidentally, whi:e lie was stepping into his car riage, by which the whole charge was lodged in his siale below the heart. The Marquis of Titchfield, that truly independent and patriotic young nobleman, took an opportunity of declaring at the Corporation Dinner at Lynn, that the recent appointment of Mr. Canning, who stands in a degree of affinity to his Lordship, being married to his aunt, will make no alteration in his Lordship's political s.nitiments, but that we will still remain an opponent ut' Ministers. This assu rance must prove truly gratifying to the country, in which his Lordship has excited sanguine hope and expectation. The petty way in which vanity displays itself in little flung , is very atisitsini4. Every hotly hill, Itwrd of the afros tamer, mitt° enitiplaisied ut the heat Or WMArisitc surer l.ulton•, when lie lti 1111 l I them to be spurred 111 , 410. tired ; u. like manner Dr. Johnson related an anecdote 1 of A ittisa Wilk) MIMI SO fond of displaying on his sideboard all the mate lie possesscd, that be actually added hi* gners to tt. . ,;:_. • ~~ f} -