The National Register. — London, England, 1815-04-09 00:00:00

THE -NATIONAL REG, APRIL 9. BUONAPARTE'S FATE ! AND EuRDPE'S DESTINY! ...e.ifi.p SIR,-My initials are known to many astrological students in this metropolis; perhaps your correspondent Cassandra Las met with them. 0 her calculation of Buonaparte's nativity I wish to ob serve, .hat the position she has selected, so far from giving either dianity or riches, would deny both ; and the native born under such horoscope would not survive infancy ! S o says Ptolemy. I have been attentively considering his real scheme of birth (14 deg. of Leo on the midhaven), and I trust, from a true analysis of the nature of the directions and transits of the planets through his future life, connected with the radical planetary indications, that the following predictions will in the end be verified : Buonapa , te will die_a natural death ! Buonaparte has yet more than ten years to live ! Buonaparte will always be a Sovereign ! I have good reason to think, Emperor of France ! So much for the Genethliacae part of the science : a word now on State Astrology. The trire of Jupiter and Saturn, from human signs, and in great strength of dignities, declares wisdom and peace to European councils, and announces to an anxious world, tbat at this awful crisis there will be No War ! Yours, &c. • J. W. P. Rent Road, April 8, 14 15. Andrews with tnneli pains; assisted' octigiontstly by the intertentlnre of Lord Ellenborough. She wept bitterly, and was twice token os,it of Court to recover herself. The prisoner was found Guilty,— Deal h. A hoary miscreant, a workhouse pinper, was capitally eonvietal of a crime at which, nature shudders, not a syllable of the ewidtuoe on which we can state. OLD BAILEY. -.....-- . The Sessions commenced on Wednesday before Lord rlienborough, Mr. Justice Chambre, the Lord Mayor and City Officers. . Richard Nayler was indicted for feloniously stealing a horse, the property of Zr. Maul, Surgeon, in Piccadilly, iik Mao 1813. Ths prisoner was in confinement on another charge of felony, when he was identified a few weeks since. At the time of stealing this Morse. he had a temporary residence at. No. 9.V, Park lane, and taking a tansy to the animal, as one which would suit his neice, lie sent his groom to the house of the prosecirtor to enquire about the docility of the horse, &c. and to request permission to have a trial in the Park, The prosecutors servant took the horse to Park lane, the next mcrning, for the said trial, when he saw the prisoner and another gentleman at the door. Nayler desired the horse might be taken to Howe's livery stables preparatory to the trial (where he said he had other horses standing) and his orders were complied with. The next day he sent a promissory note, payable at seven days, to the prosecutor, which, to use his own word=, " first opened his eyes ," and on sending to 22, Park lane, instead of finding Nayler, the house was full of clamorous creditors. The prosecutor never heard of his horse since The animal was but about half an hour in Howe's livery stables; and so far from the prisoner having any stand of horses there, lie was not even known by the ostler. Lord Ellenborough laid down the law, that to obtain the horse by fraud and deception, without . actual sale, constituted klony.— Goiltv—Death. _ . . . . . . Mr: Maul having nothing but pnblic justice in view in this prose cution, recommended the prisoner to the merciful consideration of the Court. Oldfield, a young man of twenty four, was charged with feloniously ravishing Eliza Willis, a child under ten years of age. The counsel for the prosecution submitted to the Bench, that the minor, under ten years of•age cannot consent to the violation of her person, as the law protects her infancy. This case excited much interest among the. auditory. The prosecutrix was a child one week tinder the age of ten, and on the '2C.AIi of February the prisoner met her at Chelsea, and after enquiring into the situation father • and mother, he allured her, by the promise of some silver, to an unfinished house, situated adjoining a lane, leading from Brompton Crescent, on the grounds of a Mr. Dennis, where he accomplished his purpose. We forbear to enter into any further particulars, by which. decency would be offended. The child gave her evidence under symptoms of grief and shame, which excited the most lively sensations in her beh.lG The facts were elltaeted flout btu by Mr. ~~~ ----- - MIMNIM MURDER.-FRIDAY. W. Sawyer was indicted for the wilful murder of Harriet Gaskeg at Campo Grande, near Lisbon, on the 27th of April, 1814. • The Attorney-General said, at the time of the transaction, llse prisoner was engaged in the Commi ssar i a t D e p ar t men t, in Lisboa, and in the same Department was a pi r on nateeJ Rikord, who bad resided with the deceased. The prisoner and her had lived together for some time, and that circumstance had created some uneasiness to Mr. Ricord. Upon the day of her death, there was considerable uneasiness in all the parties of the family, and this Mr. Rikord was called out to walk by a Mr. Green, in order to tranquilize his mind. On this occasion, the pri;'oner and this woman went likewise from the house, and Mr. Green aid Mr. Rikord went into the garden Ist search for them, but had hardly entered it before they be.srd the report of a pistol, and soon afterwards a second. Oi a; pioac i the place from whence the reports proceeded, they found ihe pri soner and the deceased lying upon the ground as dead ; it hutted out, howeret, that only the woman was dead, basing re,eiveil the discharge of a pistol through her head. It appeared also, that the prisoner had attempted his own life, but had not effected hia pits. .pose. I will now read the account given by the prisoner. which was given without any inducements or threats held out. It eensisas of two parts; the one was read over to him, and signed by him upon the same day on which it was made ; and the other was made the next day with eq u al deliberation, an d if these are confirmed he the testimony of witnesses, there can be no doubt that the decease - 4 came by her death through the means of the prisoner. which wilt constitute the crime of murder. You will find that the prisoner states, that the cause of her death was, " that she had taken part of a bottle of laudanum, and that they had agreed that . th e y s h ou ld each destroy the other! and that site, not having effected her oh ject with the laudanum wished him to destroy her first, and Them lodestroy himself." /slow, Gentlemen, it that • really be so, it is unquestionably murder. The first paper signed by the unfiwtttnate gentleman is dated the 28th of April. 1814, and lie therein says:— " I do think it proper to declare, while being of sound mind., slue the death of Harriet Gasketl was owing to her takingart of a hits tle of laudanum, and my shooting a pistol at her head. I then took the residue of said laudanum, and discharged two pi-tolo at my head, which - were not effectual ; this was at the ',ari l of imuse, whom I endeavoured to do se without any ,person being eceessary to it; and I further add,that it was agreed that we shou!d destroy eadcother but that she sub , equently desired that I should destroy her first." Tie: only remaining topic which it is nece , sary to allude to is,whetherthis man could be in his right mind ? If a mats, accused of murder et any other crime, shall be.shewn to have been at the time &person not capable of knowing right from wrong, he is not deemed by the laws of this country responsible for the acts he does; lint while, lne is the law of the country, and of humanity, let the Jury bewavelhat that they confound not the paroxysms of guilt, and the depravity uf the human passions, with the weakness and errors of insanity. Ne man discharges a pistol at the head of another, with that-compo sure which he would observe in the common transactions of man kind. The question is not, therefore, whether the act itself he an irrational, •improvident, and a frenzied act, committed in the-mo ment of extreme agitation, but whether the perpetrator were uwase that it was an act prohibited by the laws of God awl man. du this present case as far as I have been . able to obtsin information. ii have no reason to believe that any thing of that kind, amounting to a plea of insanity, can afford the prisoner any detelice, but that he has been merely carried away by the violence of his passions, and from some attachment having been shewn to her by the other per sons alluded to. With these observations, I havt. no doubt you will do ample justice in the case now before you. Six witnesses on the part of the proseentien were examined, and their testimony corroborated the opening speech Of the Attorney. General. An attempt was made to prove the prisoner insane, hat there was no evidenco to support that head. The prisoner being called on fin his defence, said Mar Loan—The severe wound in my throat renders me. incapable of distinctly articulating; I have, therefore, reduced to writing the very few observations with which I shall trouble the Court on this melancholy hammy. No one could feel a more slut re ren.e►.d (of Mkgii . .~ +'h ~ d4~ 41 . .