The National Register. — London, England, 1822-09-15 00:00:00

PaurroN Gmo.—...Thie festival is perfectly —unique, there being no other of the kind in the king dom; it may be proper, therefore, shortly to explain its object and origin. The institution is of the standing of five centuries, and is confirmed by char ters granted by Edward 111., Richard I t , and Charles 11., whereby the burgesses were anciently enabled to hold certain pleas of land, Jtz. , within their own precincts, and are now required to renew their claims to the rights, privileges, and freedom, which belong to them in virtue of their charter, which franchises devolve every twenty years into the hands of the Mayor and Corporation, and be come extinct if not renewed at these periods. It appears from the record of the borough, that there have been 20 Guilds in five hundred years : that in the two first centuries they were held at irre gular periods, bet since that time, beginning with the teign of Henry VIII., they have been cele brated regularly without intermission, every twenty years. In the times when Guilds were instituted, it was the practice to commit all great affairs, spi ritual and secular, to the guardianship of some particular Saint ; in conformity with this super. *titian, Preston Guild was placed under the patro nage of St. John thr Baptist, and this King of feasts always begins the Monday next after the decollation of the Baptist. There was formerly in the city of York, and other ancient English cities, u Gilds Met.- catoria, or Guild Merchant, held by Royal Charter, at which it is probable that pageants, similar to those exhibited every 20 years at Preston, w,:re per formed: but in Yomk this ceremony gave way to the sacred drama of Corpus Christi, performed an nually in the public Streets by the fraternities of that city, and of which so circumstantial and ex traordinary un account is to be found in the Ap pendix to Drake's Eboracum. At Preston, time has diminished nothing of the splendour of this ancient festival, which is enhanced in value by the rarity of its recurrence, and of which the inclinations of the native inhabitants, resident and non-resident, dispose them to say esto perpetua. 'I he passage-vessels F.arl St. Vincent, Parkins, of Saithaimpton, and Ant, Summers, of Cowes, whiCh have long been in the habit of wearing navy colours, , had their pendants struck on Saturday last by the tide surveyor, on entering Cowes harbour, and no tice given them that a repetition of the offence would subj,ct each to a penalty of 5001 under the 2d see. Sd Geo. IV. e I 10. PILCHARD FISMERY.—Before the rising of the moon on Thursday evening last, two scans, belong ing to Mevagissey, shot upon some brimming fish, and were supposed to have enclosed lOU mounds of pilchards. The next morning, to their great dis• appointment, they found the enclosure to consist of from 40 to 50,000 mackarel. The circumstance, however, gave rise to a hope, that a large (body of pilchards were not f.r off; particularly as some fine fish were taken by the driving buts on Friday morning. The expectations of a successful season have been nearly destroyed. The weather of last week have been very unfavourable, and very few fish have made their appearance in the mouth of the channel. At St. lye's alone, there are ninety scans, which for the last six years have occasioned to their owners a heavy loss. A letter from Marazion of the 4th September says, there arc about thirty scans afloat in the Mount's Bay, which up to the time had not caught more than 350 hogsheads, but that the drift boats had been more than usually success ful, having taken on an average from 18 to 20 hogs sheads each.—Werlern Lunn:tarp. We are concerned to hear that the typhus fever, which was so fatal at the village of Eagle, near Lin coln, has not been eradicated, but is now equally alarming in th. adjoining village of Bassingham— live persons in the latter place have fallen victims to it, and others are suffering dreadfully. A great robbery was committed on the Ipswich mail, coming to town, on Thursday morning. A person inside the coach had the care of property, from four different banks, to the amount of forty thousand pounds, and having been obliged to leave the coach tier one minute, the bag was stolen. One thousand pounds reward was offered for the appre hension of the rubbers. A widow woman named Wilson, at the advanced age of seventy eight years, travelled from a village in Westmorland, on a visit to her son, who is land lord of the king's Head public-house, in Mansfield —The distance is taw hundred and eighty miles. which she perfirrmed on foot in five days, making an average of S 5 miles per day. CRUELTY To ANIMALS —A person travelling lately from Maidenhead to Marlow, saw lying in a ditch on the edge of a common about two miles from the former place, a bull, cruelly beaten about the head, and a fire blazing under him 1 The flames made the wretched animal move, otherwise the ob server would have considered him dead. The per son who opened a gate close by, said, in answer to the inquiries made of him, that the bull was obsti . pute, auc . l that the drove; was paling him up l REGISTER T# E NATIO: DRRADPUL A 17.11. 0 -447 emppEATHAjf. At the lest Kialton-Langley revel, which took place several weeks ago, some offence, it appears, was taken by some indi vidual of Langley at the conduct of some young men of Chit- penham ; since which time &desir' revenge has been es. brood ing, and during sassy a Saturday night there ha* been slight skirmishes at Chippealiain between a few of the patties. It was resolved, however, by the Langley people, that the good attempt should be made on Saturday evening the 7th inst. when a most barbarous aid blood-thirsty conlirt took place. For this porpose, it is supposed, that thirty or forty urea least have assembled dories the evening —many, it is con jernored, even hired for the occasion ! At about nine o'clock a pour fellow fell down in a fit near the Bear Imo ; severs! of the wretches here endeavoured to excite confusion, but no col lision took piece ; they did not gn fair enough to provoke • quarrel—it was too early, perhaps, fur their diabolical scheme. At about half-past ten, however, they commenced in an ob scure part of the town, called Tumber-street, where armed with bludgeons, they spared neither man, woman, nor child ! but indiscriminately attacked en who um* in their way. The cry of Murder ! called many how their beds, who, oncoming oat and enquiring what wee the matter, were immediately knocked down, beaten with sticks, and trampled upon. The alarm becoming extended, and larger numbers arriving, the assailants retreated to the lower part of the town. By this time, Mr. Moore, of the Duke of Cumberland, the respectable High Constable arrived, with • view to appease the strife, bat before he could well speak, he was felled to the ground, un mercifully beat, and soon after carried bowie senseless ; one eye was nearly knocked out, and his body dreadfully cut and brui ed. He now lies in a very distressing state, though free from danger. His brother was also several times knocked down, but received no serious Injury. olr. Hall, saddler, was called from his bed by the horrid cries or murder! which now proceeded from all parts : and without waiting to put on his stockings or his bat, be hastened, almost naked, to render as he thought, • fellow creature assistance ; but, within an hour and a half, after he went out, lie was found near the Ivy-house in • most deplorable state, bleeding to death ! scarcely an inch of his head free from cut or bruise. lie was taken home, and expired within • lew hours. 'His remains were interred in the church-yard at Chippenhatn. Miss Wstfield, who keeps a ladies boarding-school near the bridge, hearing a great noise, opened her bed-room window to ascertain the cause, when • harp stone was immediately thrown at her, and she was knocked backwards. Mr. Reynolds, a brasier, was carried home soun after twelve, braised from heed to foot. lie was heard praying most piteously for his life. Don't kill sic ! don't kill toe, Mountjoy said) and I will give thee a guinea :" but oo Mercy was shown to him—be died on Toesday eveaing. Unfortunately he was iusensible from the time be was wounded to the moment of Lis death, so that his deposition, which might have important, could not be taken. The wife of Pound, the carrier, in Toober-street, where the Rends commenced the affray, hearing her husband knodhed down at the door, ran out and was inbtantly felled ; and her blow, and the alarm for her husband, who was scarcely risen before he was beat down again, has had such an effect upon her (she being pregpaat), that serious apprehensions are en tertained fur her life. Mr. ldlatichard, the countable, was knocked down during the alfrsy, and received a severe contu sion on the head, and a blow on one of hyt eyes. James Roby was eat in a e:ioaking 1011311 Ct shout the mouth and eyes ; one eye is closed. In short, there are one and thirty men, women, and children, more or less wounded! The magistrates have been indefatigable in their-exertions to get at the perpetrat rs of the above horrid murders. Immense numbers of witnesses have been, and. a great number more remain to be eininined. %Vm. Cafe, Esq. the Coroner, arrived at Chippenliam, on Monday, about noon, and immediately itn pannelled a Jury from the most reepectable inhabitants of Chip penitent, and its neighbourhood, on the body of Mr. Hull ; they sat in the Town Hall until ten o'clock each night, and hare nut yet come to a conclusion each witness undergoes the closests examination ; no pains or trouble are stia:ed to sift the muter to the bottom. The same Jury will be sworn os the body of Mr. Reynolds. The following persons are already in custody, and warrants have been issued against several others:—Henry Knight and John Matthews, two respectable farmers of Langley ; Wm. Bryant, George Thomas, Jobs Thomas, Thomas Pearce, Charles Elms, James Isaacs, Jarues Langley, John Langley, John Moody Wallop, Isaac Mosta, Benjamin Sa;ter, Joseph Bayly, William Tanner, William Batten, Philip Cole, John Wood man, John Adderell, and George Bayley. all of Langley.— They all appeared careless of their situations when brat taken into custody, but their •as a very ♦isible alteration in their countenances after they beard of the death of poor Reynolds. The Goveruor of the New House of Correction, Devises, is on the spot, rendering his assistance. DtsciosTtnas DEPRAVITY.--On Monday last, Ben. Candler, late sale; to the Duke of Newcastle, was com mitted to Lincoln Castle, by Sir IL Heron, charged with a nameless offence. On the saute day was com mitted to me same pl ICC, by the Alderman ot . Gratithani, Arden, Esq. of Great Voltaley-street, Golden square, Lon.lon. charged with the saute offence; and on Tuesday was C011111111:legil0 the Castle. by the Alder -1114!t of qialltilalll, J. Doughty, ut Grantham, jaithr, charted with the e. A discovery of the &bona in eLlt: intercourse which had been carried on, it is stated, was made thromit the circumstance of a tester from Gran tham, intended for the valet at Chamber, but accident ally not thlthessed nn the outside, Whoa into the hands of the Doke of Newca,tle. His Grace, on discovering the itative of the coalman', proceeded with due caution fur furthering the purposes in justice, and the conse quence has been the canon iiiiiiiiii of use above persons to Lincoln Cecile for trial at the mat assuzes. The person committed as an Esquire. was. apprehended iit London atter the fiat eXatititi4tion ul tile others at Grantham, and was brought down its 441 e custody in one of ilie mail-coaches on Sundry morning, the 7th inst. We understand that be had apartments at Grit. them during the last huntiii ,eason There is now growing lii the garden of a gentleman be/ranging to the Dock-yard at Sheerness, a species I.f the gourd genus, the seed of which wait input:lit from Yarn INemeta's Land in the Dromedary store ship. it is called by the satires of the 1111411 ti 7 oparra, and hears A beautiful white &wet The gourd Is in the form of a bell measuring ten inches to Ictuth and iii•ittreit iu circumference. It Is consider e d a s a great curiosity, and probably the only one that ever Arrisca to perfection in this coentry. SOS • OLD B/ILDY.-(YuniD•r) SATURDAY. SEPT. 14.----HIODWAY ROBII4III. Abraham Henry, aged 18. was intlicteil„lor„ assaulting Samuel Douglas Engin, Esq. un the King's highway, and taking Wont his persUti a ould chain, value 101. his property.—Guilty. The Recorder adjudged him to be transporteif for the term of his Hattori life. Cornelius Reading and John Boyle were indicted for sielliiitt a bilk liriiiikercmet, the property ul *nitrtes Seardrield. Tie theft was clearly prottd against the prisoner ' Boyle, who roistiited ii, toot declared in tits deitticeittat lixaihsor had initlviie ludo w 'lnc Joy Mond bolo prisoiteib godly. The R...corder told the pitollirf, Ilia: torn saiaht de- . petid on it they would be seal out it site country. FortageY.--Itictierd JLuunl. a jotting titan, tiost res pectably attired was indicted tor feloiliously forging an indorsement upon a bank-post bill, tot the 'tighten' of 501. with totem - I, defraud John Limo Rogersuit. rr &Hand, for the prosecot;oo, stated the case to the Jury, He ohm:reed that this caw required peculiar attention, because it was one where, if guilt waskeovetl, • mercy could nut be expected to be extruded. Tile pri soner stated to Mr. Rogerson, the 'oust:cum ,'hat from his respec:rble connexion he was able to procure an eli gible situ:num under Government, but to order to set the machine at work, it was necessary to hate ail advance of 501. The prosecutor declined making a deiStosit, on which the pow de r said he might give Ism a 13ank post bill, which tie could not pert with, without his (prose cutor's) indorsenwitt. Conceiving this to be regular, oh' the Ist of Nig Mr. Rogerson repaired to the Ralik, and deposited 501. and gate the bill to the prisoner, hie in• dorsement on which' tite indic,lllell4 charged the prisolier with forging. He would be aide tit prone iii evidence, that the bill was delivered without iituoiseutem, and trace ttie p:tytnetit of it by the prisoner for a debt of 301. which constituted the uttering; zod he should also to able to bring home the charge of forgery to die pi-wooer. The witues•ea fully proved the case as stated. - .lry Mr. Bullard. and alter Justice ant had #ainnied up thellore, alter a short deliberation, raurited a verdict If Guilty— Death. A rontracrhs. for the supply oeen entered into of Brighton Poorhouse with good ox beef (clear of bone) at is. 10.1 per stone. This year there is a vast abundance of grapes growing. It is said there has nut been such a quan tity since the year 1782. EitSCUTlOn.—Saturday the 7th inst. W. Costetio, aged 30, wile bad been found guilty at the lite Assizes 'for being one of those concerned with Brown in the alattaction of Miss Gerold, was executed at tallow's green. Fitsineurice, otherwise Captain Rock, who had pleaded guilty as the trial, was to have suffered with Costello. hot he none respite(' the evening before. Costello, who bad been convk4vd principally 011 the testimony of Mr. Goold, continued to the fiat to declare his innocence, not only of the above crime, but (deny connexion with, ur any other outrage committed by, the Whitt, Boys. The history he gave of his mislortune to persons who conversed with hies in the gaol previous to ping to-execution, was this—be was 'relative of Brown's and was we:trues to Met for five years, up to September, 1821 ; he then left bias ft e for the purpose of assisting bis brother, whose wife then died, leaving a large family. •He then continued in the practice of babitd of industry, and, as he declared oh the scalfuld, knew nothing of the %balletic" or Miss Geoid till the morning after.— He slept, he declared, on that night, and it was endeavoured to be established on the trial, with his brother ; sod Foal:situ rice, wbo pleaded guilty, frequently alone Was heard to declare the innoceuce of this unfortOnate man. Before going oat to exe cution, he ob it to a person in the gaol—•• An not these queer laws that make a man's life depend on the oath of oils witness?" He also asked this person whether be thought theist was much pain in the punishment he had to undergo I but being a.aared there was not, mid that it was only instentaosocs, it af forded him consolation. The only thing that he seeinsd to ap prehend was, the first sight of the hangman, and the tying up of bis arms ; but being reasoned with ou these points, he acqui esced in their propriety, and esaumed his usual tummies ; and when the executioner MOO to tie his arms be pot them so far back that the tightness begrime extremely painful t• lira in his progress to the gallows. His manlier of going to and at the place of execution was such as to awaken the sympathy and ex cite the astonishmeitt of all, even of those who guarded him. some of whom were observed to shed tears. H. wee firm► to the last, and Whim wa4 observable that ouprestuning confidence, which could arise from no other source but the innocence of his heart, and his conscious freedom from the crime for which be suffered. His attention to the clergyman who accompanied him showed him to be deeply impressed with feelings of true piety : he died blessing his prosecutors, and begging the p , f the people. He *as a well-looking man, with ratter a soft and open countenance, and had Dothan daring or deter mined in his appearance. The crowd which attended the •xe swine was not aumeruus.—Corik Paper. On Saturday last a young man named John Brad shaw, aged 22, came by a very dreadful death in therm:tory of Mr. Howestb,ed Lostuelt, near this town. He was cleaving one of the wheels in the carding room, when his band was drawn into the machinery ; the test of his body iostently fol lowed, and was mangled in a manner which it chills the blood to think oi. His head and both arms ware severed in • moment from his body. and the shivered fragments of his frame lay scat tered about the room in hideous contagion. He was en Mee trious workman, and had accumulated "boat 21. which he in tended to spend in enjO,ing use emnsements of Preston Guild this dreadful casealty,lioweser, made it nsicestsry to ippropriat• the money to the very opposite purpo • of consiatting his re maim to the tomb.—Peestoi Chreakie. In Cantletawo, isle of Mao, a few dila alto, a Awe es;;, l4 , young fellow, not thirty years of age, named Wt .m Preston, io the employ of Mr. Quayle, brewer, r..isiza 'owi ng 0. the edge of the masking vat, to *pair the alidia.kry wbigb th e malt descends from an upper floor into, the vat, over-halatteed iei r r d a : d of w fo as ur p f r et and t : ipita a ted lt h ai e f id de r'l 4 be rose intoti we immediately wjrh his heed end neck abOve the water, sod though instamthetto2ll assistance was latforded,wee whole of his body was so Asa* fully scalded, that, gee di e d i n cons id era bl e agony sbootVim o'clock the Sine evening. After having been estrieated twfielk. the v:..."•81 walked home leaning ou the arm of the brete44llll. .lsersasit ot.iearo limo two huodfed yards. ; .