The National Register. — London, England, 1816-06-30 00:00:00

SA. rieui7ATlALs. Ron' rsTen rt.rctioN.--This contest closed, we understand, by sareentent, at live o'clock on 'flitirsdsy afternoon ; when 3lr. Mullett won by two votes.--At a tower before five Mr. Bar nett was three a head ; at fit e the numbers were-3arnett 408, Thomiison, 40G. On laturilly last two frigates were ordered to be laid down at Plymouth I)ock-yard, upon the largest scale of any yet built. They arc to be called the Lancaster and Portiand. Their main .decks are to be flush fore and aft ; to be built without ceiling (on Mr. Sepping's plan), to be tilled iu between the timbers, and to be rated at an gulls; they will, however, carry 60 gums each ; the long gum to carry ;,2.potiudets, and the short guns 42-pounders, besides one 68-ponuder. A poor barber ofl)orking, after being pumped of all he knew *f the character ul' a mall named Eitershank, one of his neigh bours, and which he t:Nefibell as none of the best, had an ac tion brought against him for defamation, flu the com mon pl eas on Sattriday, by said Ettershank, who was deprived thereby of an apprentice with 100 guineas premium.—The friends of the hoy went pitrposely to the shaver to obtain the infirm:oton ; and Sir V. Gibbs laid it down, that where information was sought, and given in a confidential manlier, the person giving the information was not liable in law to an action--The July fonnd a verdict for one shilling damages only.—isefore the ac tion %Volker, tiw barber, was requested to recant his assertions lint he declared like a hero. that he waled sooner have his pa t ! converted into a gallows, and have himself hung like a MO dog upon it, than go back fins what be had said. Tharstlay .1. ti.bigiton, a youth, was committed from Guild hall, charged with cutting the watch rihboa of Mr. Holmes, diltl Int/ulna three g0....1 seals and a key, while looking at the ruins of the fire in Altlersgate-street. A barbarous murder and robbery was perpetrated on Satur day night, near 'Vauxhall-bridge. in the vicinity of this town. A person who was tenoning home from the country slew the flash, and heard the rer,rt of a pistol ; but imagining it to pro ceed front some person amusing himself, it did not greatly ar nest his attention, and he continued walking down the side of the canal. Hut he had not w diked far before he perceived two turn bending over the body of a third, which was stretched on the earth On nearer approach, be inquired what they were about: instantly one of them. apparently an athletic maii, start ed up, seized him by Ills logs, and preefpitated him low the camel. lie struggled some moniente in the water; and when hie had just regained the hank, the *Wain heat hint or' the head with whet he snpposed the brat-end of a piste!. Concluding him to be entirely disabled, he returned to his associate, and, it is sapposeol, completed the robbery.. In the peacipitation of retreat, they left a pistol, which was Memel lying near the body. Meantime, the man got oat of the canal; and, with all celerity, proceeded to the nearest house to give the alarm. A party of turn Immediateiy proceeded to the scene of the murder. They fennel the man still extended on the ground, insensible, and we-I to' lug in his blood. Thee conveyed him to the Intii mars , ; but just as they reached it, the unfortunate man expired. Two men have been taken into custody upon suspicion ; and leave been remanded for examination. The murdered man is un known; but is supposed to have come li•our the cottony to pro ceed to America.—( Lirerpool Couri.r. ) Lately a fire broke oat en the premises of Mr. Dodger, of Scatted', near Bigelessvade, which consumed the whole of the barns, corn-stacks, hay, outhouses, &c.; the dwelling-house was mot injured, Six cottages were likewise totally destroyed by the flames. This dreadful calamity was occaeloned by a hot iron used in firing a colt bring thrown on loose straw, which in a few minutes set the whole yard in a blaze. By the humane direction of Mr. Walelegrave the cuttagee's who had lost their jennies are to take up their abode in Suuthill House until further arrenagements are made for them. • At the Lochliuo lime-works, Argyleshire, nn the L'lth ult. as some Or the workmen were employed in the interior of the kiln, the footing of one of them gave way; when D. Mac master fell perpendicularly intu a cavity, ai-el was inclosed to the shoulders with the burning shells. his fellow-workmen made every exertion to extricate him, but without etlect. With much personal risk, they got a cord passed below his arms, which, in pulling, broke twice. Then, to prevent the body from being consumed, they kept pouring water on him till lire was extinct. He endured, with heroic firinuess, for upwards of half an hour, the most excruciating pain. The following fatal and most lamentable event occurred lately at Kuclston, near Swansea, and ought to operate ae a caution to those who are in the habit of using poison to destroy sets or other vermin. Two youths, brothers, of the name of Hoskins, thaone 17. the other 19 years of age, being in a pro gressive state of recovery from a fever, requested their mother to give them, instead of a medicine prepared for them, some brimstone and treacle. A basin, coot: t ' g a preparation of arsenic for destroying rats, being placed on a elicit; and the unfortunate youths supposing it to be brimstone and treacle prepared for them by their mother, took each a portion of this deadly poison, and shortly after expired in the most exert'• dating torture. The following melancholy accident occurred on Sunday evening, on the River Swale, sear Faversham, Kent :—A party of persons. chiefly females, had spent the day in a water excur sion to Whitstable, and had arrived at Faversham Creek's Month, on their return home, when it was proposed to pruceed to Harty Ferry House to take tea. After stit) ing there until nearly nine o'clock, they all (being ten in Panther) re-embarked in a smail boat, and were in the act of going off to their vessel, which lay at :meteor near to the opposite shore, and to which they had itimost arrived, when the boat turned over. The ferryman crossing the river in his boat, at the same time, with eight passengers, went to the assistance of the unfortunate m'. fcrers, and succeeded in rescuing two men from their danger ous situation. They also dragged into the boat the lifeless body of one of the women. Proceeding in their humane en. deavones to save others, their own boat be ing under a pressure ()Gail, and he:clime still mote, from their reaching over the side, was almost tilled with water. Another party of young men im mediately pushed 01l lions the Ferry Way, in a third host, and happily sneers ded is baying the ferryman and the as hole ut his passengers, and al the two yummy men who were in the first boat. The reinuinder, viz. one man, six females, and an ia /*oat, met a watery grave! A tire took piece at Thorverton last week, occasioned by the negligent e a boy isitrasted in a stable with a lighted candle. The conflagration was su rapid, that lb houses were destroyed before the flames were extinguished. Several poor inhabit:Pita were left destitute of habitanous. Happily no live s were lost en the occasion. . _ Au inquest was lately taken at Tetimry on the body of Jane Hill, aged about six years, who was kilted by a quoit falling on tier bead ; by which her skull was so dreadfully flat:tared, that abe lived beta short time alter. Upon a very initiate investi gation, the jury returned a verdict of—Homicide by misadven ture; wholly diFapproving of the practice of playing such suites iu orm ar h public highway. TrIE NATIMAL REGISTEIL DISTURBANCES IN THE COUNTRY. Thr Bath mot Chriteohmft Gazette of Wednesday contains the following paragraph " CosimiTTED To FISHERTON oAol..—lfenry Slade, of Trowbridge, shearmati, charged with having committed riot and breach of the peace, in company with faller persons, on the 20th instant, at the house of George Elliott, a shearman at Trowbridge." We regret to find, from the same paper, that there has been also a disturbance at Chippenhain, but of a different charac ter from that at Trowbridge. The following is the acconut given of it in that Paper : " AYER AY AT CH/PI'ENIIAM.-011 the taming of Sunday so'hnight an affray of a serious nature occurred at Chippenliam, occasioned by a detachmeat of an Irish cavalry regiment quar tered in that tnon, ssho having been roughly handled by the inhabitants on a filmier similar occasion, were desirous of being revenged. Accordingly, having provided themselves with sprigs of shillebile (in some of which lead and nails had been inserted), they attacked every one who happened to be in the streets. To oppose these formidable assailants, many of the inhabitants collected in a body ; and, eller a hard strug gle, the I iibernians were driven to their quarters. Out of the townsmen, we understand, was so severely wounded as to be considered for some- days in imminent danger of his We. The windows of the Angel Inn, and of several respectable dwelling houses suffered materially in the affray." Exeesimaulsor.—Sunday afternoon, the village of Pere, in Dorsetshire, and the neighbouring eountry, were the own into it great state ol'alarm, by several fires breaking out in the s illage of Byre at the tune time; and no doubt was entertained but they were intentionally done by some incendiary. A large wheat-stack, a malt-beau., two barns, and three houses, suet c all in flames and the suspicion was. that it was intended In Wan dow It the whole village. The Gentlemen of the county took the alarm, and were on the alert not only to extinguish the tires. but to discover the incendiary; and Bishop, the Ilow—treet officer (being at Wareham, which is seven miles from Bcre, to endeavour to discover the robber or robbers who lately broke open the house of Mr. Thomas there, and stole a considerable sum), was sent firto Bere.—The Othcer came with all possible speed, and al rived at Dere during the time time dames were raging ; be set abont endeavooriog to extinguish the fires, in which he seas materially assi-Ll by a man of the name of Porches; who, front his language and conduct, Bishop 5113- peeled was concerned in the diabolical crime, and that lie knew those who were; and the Officer's suspicions prayed cor rect; as upon an investigation as to the commencement of the fires, Parches was tekeu into custody; and being eaamined before a Magistrate, the evidence was sufficient to commit hint to Dorchester Prison on a charge of wilfully setting fire to tine wheat-stack. A roan of the name of Ilewitt was admitted an evidence against Porches.--The principal part of the property set Nee to, belonged to a Gentleman of the name of Borges. Some disburbances broke out a few days since at 'Prow. bridge, Wilts; the object of the rioters was, to show their hostility against the employment of souse newly established machinery for dressing kerseymeres. Some winausss were broken, and ierjory done to the doors and furniture of two or three houses belonging to manufactmers. Fortnnately the Magistrates succeeded in restoring tranquillity, and have committed one of the rioters to prison for trial. SPECIAL COMMISSION. • SATURDAY, JUNK 22.—This morning at nine, the Conrt reassembled? when judgment of death was passed on the fol lowing prisouers, who had been con v ifted of capital offences:— Aaron Chesil!, Richard Jessop,Joseph Easey,Thomasltouth,and Mark Benton, for burglary in the dwelling-house of Josiah Dewey, of Littleport ; also Thomas South, William Dann, and Robert Crab'', for stealing in the dWellin.,e-house of Robert Spceehley, of Littleport; also James Newell and Isaac Harley, fur robbery front the person of the Rev. J. Vachell, clerk of Littleport ; also John Dennis,John Jefferson, and Richard Rut ter, for a robbery from the person of Robert Edwards, of Ely ; also William Beamiss the younger, for robbery from the person of lingh Robert Evans of Ely: also :%aroa Layton, John Den nis, Richard Jessop, William Atkin, Sarah Hobbs, John Micky, John Cooper, and John Jefferson, for robbery from the person of William Cooper,of Ely ; also John Dennis, Aaron Layton, William Atkin, and James Cammell, ter robbery front the per son of George Stevens, of Ely; also William Beamiss the elder, and Aaron Chevill, for robbery front the person of Henry Tan aley of Littleport; also Jelin Ensey, John Walker, * Robert Butcher, and George Crow, for stealing in the dwelling-house of Rebecca Waddelow and Henry Marlin, of Littleport ; also William Beamiss the elder, and William Beamiss the younger, for robbery I.ann the person of Robert Cheeseright, Little port. Mr. Justice Abbott then addressed them to the following tercet " Prisoners tit the bar—You stand here, t persona in number, a melancholy example to all who arc here present, and to all your c oun t r , of the sad edicts of indulging in those brutal and violent passions by which you all appear to have been occulted in the comme.sion of the crimes of which you have been convicted. You seem to have thought, that by your own strength, and your own threats, you should net only be able to cippn.wi and intimidate your peaceable neighbours, but even to resist the strong ant of die law mat: How vain tbat thouitt, your present situation shows. It was suggested abroad. that yon ha il beeninduced to perpetrate these violent Outrages, by hard necessity and want; but, atter attending cloiely and strictly to the whole totem of the evidence, which has occupied the attention of the court for several days, there has not appeared in the condition, cir cumstances, or behaviour of any one of you, any reason to suppose that you were instigated by distress. By what motive, or under what Mistaken advice or disposition, you began to act in the way you did, is best and minim; only known to God and your own consciences. The preservation not imly of the good order and peace of society, the pre servati..a of life itself, imperioosly calls upon the court to declare, that many of you nisi expect to undergo the full sentence of the law. It is some consolatien tothe court to be able to say, that in attending to and distinguishing the chases of each particular in d ividual, we have found in many of them circumstances which will warrant us in giving to many of you &hope that your lives will he owed. The gentlemen of the jttry have pointed out some of you to our attention: and in se doing they have acted with that mercitul disposition and accurate discrimina tion which they have shown throughout the whole of your trials. Such of You whose lives may, perhaps, be raved by the crown--that power . alone on earth who can save them—must not expect that you shall be dismissed front your offences without under going some severe punis'i mem. Many of you noet expect to be sent away for a greater or less portion of time, and a few even ter el° whole period of their lives, from that country wkose peace they have thus disturbed, and which they have thus disgraced. Human justice, however it may be administered, as it is always in this country with mercy, requires that some of you should undergo the full sentence, in order that others may be deterred from following the example of your crimes. You William Beamiss the elder, you George Crow, you John I t ennis, you bone Harley. you Thomas South the younger; Itt nie exhort you to prepare for that sentence: let me entreat you to apply your selves, durieg the short remainder of the time which can be allowed to you in tear , world, by prayer and penitence, to appease that Almighty power whoo )ou hat* offended: t i ddress rm.:wives seriously and fervently to that throne of girt, ti-onf which licrUsOr you may CAM 163 to find that mercy which cannot be extended to you here. You William licainisa the elder are a person whose condition in life ought to Lave taught you to restrain any unruly and turbulent disposition in your less enlightened neighbours, instead of becoming one of the most forkar4 in the perpetration of those offences which placed your town for .leveral days in a state of trepidation and alarm. You boasted, however, of your situation, and took with you your own son to be the partner of your crimes. Considering his youth, and the influence which voor evil example may be supposed to have had upon him, he is phseed among those who are recommended to the mercy of the throne. You ta, a , r o e Crow were one of the number who, at a late hour of the night, brae into the dwelling of two peaceable individuals against whom you had no muse of offence. One of them, whose age and infirmities were entitled to protection and respect, was subjected to your violence and. plunder: the other had the good fortune to escape fully by Hying from you. Your offence, therefore, is not merely that of which you have been convicted: you came there, not with that intention alone, but to destroy the life of Inc person. You John Dennis are also a per son whose condition in life might have taught you to restrain the wicked passions of others. You endeavoured , on your first i appearance n this place, to represent to the court, that you had been compelled by firm to leave the place of your dwelling, and give your assistance in plundering the inhabitants of this city. The Jury to whom this representation was referred did even, ou that occasion, repudiate the evidence: two other trials followed, and you were fiaund standing forward as the leader of that lawless hand which entered this city for the purposes of plunder and violence, and armed with a more dangerous weapon than the rest of your associates. You Isaac Harley were the first person who assaulted the reverend minister of your parish at his own door: you stood the first of that wicked assembly, and demanded money of him: and have ing ransed that moderato sum he Mired. you enforced from him the delivery of hie money by your dyer, bodily strength s forced your way into his dwelling, and compelled him and his tianilf to fly at that late hour for their lives. You Thomas South the youn ger appear to have been one of the most active in those wicked trans. actions which took place in your town ; von took from one of your neighbours the savings perhaps of many years; and then proceeded to mother, and forced him to part wit;i so cli sums as you and your law. less companions demanded. With a deadly weapon in jour hand. you afterwards went to tile house of an aged woman, and simok it over her head. In addition to these outrages, there are no less than four other eases in which the grand jury of your country have found bills of ine dictment against you. You then, the five whom I have addressed, Itt me again exhort you to apply yourselve s by peniteuce and,prayer to ob. tain from Heaven the parden of your crimes. ft now remains for me to pronounce on each and every one of you the awful sentence of death ;- end that sentence is, that you and ea.- o of you he takenfrombence to the, place from whence you came, and from thence to some place of mom don, where you are to be hung by the reek until you ere dead. And as to you William Bearniss the elder, Geerge Crow, John Dennis, Isaac Harley, and Thome" gout!' the younger, apply to the God of mercy, that he would have merry on you." During the whole of this awful sentence the prisoners were deeply affected, and were taken from the bar ill agony of ea lei. Joseph Lavender, who lied been convicted of stealing ammo silver spoons, the property of the Hey. John Vaehell, was then brought up, and prayed the benefit of clergy, according to .the statute. Mr. Justice Abbot addressed the prisoner. He told him that he had imen found guilty of stealing a part, though a very small part, of the property of the Rev. J. Vachell.which was carried away by a most violent and outrageous asiembly. It had not appeared, however, that he was one of those who first broke into the house. Had that fact or any thing had:ng to that con clusion, been proved against him, the cowl would have been called upon to pronounce a sentence as severe as the case re quired. Considering, therefore, all that bad been brought against him, and drawing a favourable conclusion, they sentenced hint to be imprisoned in the gaol of that city for 12 calendar months. The prisoners who were allowed yesterday to enter into re cognizanees for their good behaviour were then brought up am( di,charged. The remainder or the prisoners being put to the bar, Mr. Gurney stated, that he was instructed ou the pert of the Croon not to preret aaly proseention agairst them. 1 hes were there. tore immediately discharged by proclaanation. The court the• rose, and the special commission was concluded. SENTENCES. WO.horn fteantiaa the elder, George Crow, JAI) DCTltti3. Isaac Har4 ley di,: younger, and Tllolllli*Rah the younger—to be exi.vutal os Friday, the vith of June. Aaron Chew.% Joseph Raley, John .Tdrerson; Richard Jeaop, Newell, reprieved, to be transported for life. niched Rutter, reprieved, to he tranaponed fourteen yearn. Mark Renton, John Easey, and John Walker, reprieved, to be ported for *even yksra. ... • ' _ . William Atkin, William Iltsmi:* the younger. Robert Dutcher. James Corinne:l, Robert Cmlib. John Cooper, illiam Dunn. Sarah Hobbs, Aaron Layton, John Pricko—Do. imprisonment in Ely gull twelvg months, The iicistcnees being passed, the Special Commission was dissolve& by proclamation. Trial - - Capitally convicted - I.artenies - . . Acquitml • - - I tincharded on Recognizance Do. by Proclamation - r Total . . -71 -47 At the close of this Assire, Mr. rhi ktian, the thielJnotiet of the Isle, addrestad the Court. The only part of his spree& possessed of general interest was as followc— . _ " In my inquiries into the original cause or motive of ihes♦ extraordinary crimes, I find certainly that they cannot be at tributed to a spirit of disatfection to the Government pre ail , ing in this isle: since I hate ha.l.a knowledge of it, I heave never heard that a seditions meting, pnblication, or expres sion, has existed within that time, et did ever exist heroin my connexion with it : all hitherto bat e concurred in awe senti ment of loyalty and rei recoup fur the Constitution of their country. The conduct of the rioters cannot be attributed to want or poverty ; the prisoners were all robust men, in hill health. strength, and vigour. who %sere receiving great wages and any change in the priee of provisions could only lesion that superfluity which, 1 tear, they too frequently wasted i• drunks mess. The great suns these deluded men levied by their shoc►iag robberies were not intended to atiiird assistance to their families: hot were to be speed in liquor, and thus to btir appiied rs fresh fuel to the dame* of their fury." Bt:HKFLEY PoActtrns.—On Thursday sc•nnight, T. Mamas' D. Lotig. J. Jen klus, J. Roach, T. Collins, 5. Reeves, W. Penny, J. hurley, and R. Grove, the itiue remaining poachers whet had betni capitally convicted at the last Oloueevter Assizes, \.s " being pre , ent at, and of aiding and assisting in," the a ilfid murder of W. Ingram, near Berkeley, hut whole sentence of death had been, on Ike humane recommendation of the Jury and the prosecutor, commuted for transportation fur lift, a (ye removed from the County Prison, for the &rpm of bchsg Cm. Mediated} sent to Nolv .Quilt Wok). -~