The National Register. — London, England, 1822-12-30 00:00:00

which they were reprimanded by the defendant Hussey. The plaintiff said he was near 70 years of age. and not able to wor k a s long as • yoneg man, but would work from eight o'clock till tour. Hussey said he was a saucy rascal, and should work as long as the youngest Mall ill the house. The next day the plaintiff stroked from seven to five, as usual, but on the day after ( Wednesday) did not go to work. On that evening witness lI4W hi si in the cage, the place where felons and other prisoners weir kept till they were sent to Maidstone gaol. There was too fire in the rage, nor bed, but some straw on Ilse fluor, which was Wirt:. There was no blanket or coveting of any kind. Witness brought souse porrage fruits the workhouse. Palmer went with hint to let him in. 'flue plaintiff said to Palmer," How long do you mean to keep me here. you ?" Pahuer said lie slid not know. Sa ttttt el Hoonby stated, that on Tlinrsday, the lOili of Ot Sober, he saw the pl. ' '(fin the cage through the bars here was no glass in site window. Witness went, at the plaintiff's desire, and brought I a great coat. Palmer went wills him, and let him take in the coat. 'the plaintiff trembled and shook, and seemed very ill. When he got the coat, he laid flown on the straw on the floor. Painter saw the state be was in, and gave him nothing, but lucked him sip. Mr. Butler, the 1111011 surgeon, proved U. having treated the plaintiff - for chronic rheumatism after he was discharged; it might have been caused by the cold to which lie was exposed its the cage. The ease for the plaintiff closest here. Mr. Adolphus address'•d the Jary at great length for the defendants in mitigation, bust called no witnesses. TheJniy, after a short cou•nitatioo, returned a verdict for the plaintilf —Damages ltd. On the morning of Thursday about three o'clock, the maid-servant of the Rev. Mr. Beckwith, curate of TO lingliasn, liisex, was alarmed by a noise at the window of an apartment below, and looking out, she saw the hotly of a man about hail' way through the sash, and he was then pushing himself its the remainder of the way. Mr. Beckwith was at that time in London, on a visit, and the only Milli in the house will the parish clerk, who slept there. The servant went immediately to call hiin, and having informed him of what site bad seen, desired that lie would gel up and protect her and her mistress. She then went to Mrs. Beckwith's chamber, and had no sooner coati tttt ticated the terrifying intelli genee in bier, than this courageous young lady took • loaded pistol in one hand, and a candle in the other, and desiring the servant to follow her, went down stairs. When she came to the room into which the fellow hail entered, she walked boldly in and saw him cowering down in one corner. She presented the pistol at hint, and in a menacing tone told him that if he moved, or offered any resistance she would shoot him ilstaittly.— By this time the honest parish clerk, who probably fearing that his ancient hones would suffer from being exposed to the cold, had waited to put on his clothes, came shivering into the room, and seeing the tri tttt pliant posture of his mistress, he advanced with more crisifi deuce, and Mrs. Beckwith still standing by with her pistol, the clerk and she servant bound the thief hand and foot with cords. He was the nest day taken before a magistrate in the neighbourhood and committed. He bad, it appeared, lifted a five barred mate f its hinge , and brought it across one or two fields for the purpose of using it by way of ladder to enable kiln to reach the windows. A little before four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon an elegantly dressed lady was ohscrved walking in a de jected state in the Dirdcsge-walk, St. Jatnes's•park. She looked at several of the trees with apparent earnest ness, and seemed quite insensible of the object of the mob who followed her, till she arrived opposite Story's gate, when she took a handkerchief and tinkle it last to • tree.; but finding the bough to which she attached it was not her height, she untied it again and fastened it to another much higher. She very leisurely tied it round her neck in the presence of a large crowd of men and boys. who all the time watched her inot;ons; and sming ing forward, twisted it round in such a manlier that she was entirely raised from the gtound, and would hare been strangled had she not immediately been cut down. —She then abused those around her in the grossest lan guage, saying, she was by birth Lady Carrington; that the King and the Duke of York had known her, but by oppression she was deprived of her rights, and left to wander forlorn and friendless. She was, however, re cognized to be a woman well known in St. James's; she had been sepported by a noble peer, in splendid equipage and dignity, only a few years ago, and through some fault afterwards abandoned; since which she has been seen about the streets, frequently in a state of despon dency. A constable took her to the workhouse, until she can be got into xnt e proper asylum. AFFECTING CIRCUMSTANCE.— Saturday sennight the corpse of an old womait was found near a faun house, in the muir, a few miles from the village of Dairy. The-body being unknown, the circumstance was proclaimed, on the following sabhath, in the parish churches of Beith and Dairy, in the hopes of discovering some trace of the unfortunate individual's connectioils A little boy, the son of a tamer in the neighbourhood, on coming home fermi church, remarked to his father !hat the woman's plaid was " unto like his granny's." I he farmer, ratheralarmed at this information, hastened to the spot, and to his utter grief and astonishment, dos. covered the corpse to be that of his aged her. It would appear that she had left Iverne with the intention of visiting her sou, and that. either overcome by fatigue, or misled by the darkness of the slight, she had lost her way in the muir, and perished with the cold. When found, the was in a sitting p .stare on the side of a hillock, and had an orange, partly eaten, in her band. pA Pagassur.—A gentleman of Manchester, a few days ago, received through the post-office a packet, site charge on which was 11. 14s. 10.1. 0,1 pring trriird it was found to consist of a gown, value about 12s. which was sent front the neighbourhood of London, by a per son to whom he had rendered some sett ice, as a preseut for his wife. It is supposed the packet had heen green to a servant to scud by the mail, and that the man, not knowing the distinction, had thought he was attending to the instructious iu wading it by post.- THE NATIONAL REGI -;:On Saturday evening, as one of the Reading coaches was proe:edi gig to to‘vo, it came in contact with a chaise cart at KOI:',111$1)t I.lp, opposite the Life Guards barracks, the violence of winch overturned the chaise -cart, in which was the landlord of the Marquis of Granby public-house, and a person named Williams, who both recei.ed very severe contusionv„ in consequence of one of the wheels passing over them. They were conveyed I tune inst,sible, and now lie in a very precarious state. About an hour after the above accident took place, the lead. rs of one of Limpus's Islewonli stages took fright near St. Geurge's Nominal, and ran with unceasiuq vio lence down the road. The swaying of the coach, un wkich were seven persons and four inside, was truly terrific. All attempts to stop them were unavailing. Milli another chaise cart, standing exactly opposite where the former accident took place, locked in the fore wheel of the stage, and by that means the horses stop ped. The passengers, who had very prudently kept their seats, jumped off, but received very little injury in so doing. Tote coach soon after started, but several of the permits refused to proceed further with it. FARE—Wapping was thrown into considerable alarm on Monday niaht about six o'clock, by a fire breaking out on the extensive premises of Mr. Dent, shipchand. ler, in Herinitave•street, which at first threatened great destruction : it broke out in the warehouse, but by what means cannot be ascertained ; it soon spread to a quantity of oakum, which took fire, and burnt with great ra. !inlay ; the dexterity and exertion of the neighbours, who soon threw the whole property into the scree saved the premises from being burnt to the ground by the raging element; five minutes wore, and it would have gone beyond their power. The Aldgate parish engine, the Imperial, Royal Exchange, and Philmont, soon amt td ; but we are happy to say, their aid was dispensed with, and that the injury was confined to the property only ; except that of Mr. Mills, a publican in the same street, who fell over one of the fiery bundles of oakum and hurt his head severely. SHOCKING OCCURReNCE.—On Thursday last David Clator, a private beloogiug to a detachment of the 3d Dragoon Guards, stationed at Carlisle, pot a period to his existence at Hexhant. The following are the circum stances attending this melancholy transaction:—lt ap pears that Clator had lately m flied a young woman of Garble, to whom he was passionately attached ; she, however, both before and after her marriage, had peen In the habit of corresponding with another man, in the neighbourhood of Carlisle. This circumstance, it is believed, coining to the knowledge of Clmor, he became extremely jealous, and greatly disturbed in mind; his wile, in the 111e1111 time, having availed herself of the 'inflection of her mother, who resided at Hexham, went to live with her, declaring [that she could no longer remain with her husband. Clator now determined to proceed to Hexham and demand his wile, with a fixed resolution, in case of a refusal, to shoot tither her or himself, or both ; witit which intent he carried with him two loaded pistols. CO:t anis tug a t h e r mot h e r', h e met with the relosal he had anticipated, his wife reso lutely persisticg iu having no further communication with him. His leave of ausence being now expired, and and being in a state of the utmost distraction of • tl at his wile's conduct, he destroyed himself with one 01 the pistol: which he had unfortunately brought with hint for that purpose. _ . . . The Time Mercury says—" The keelasen of the Tyne continue to follow their occupations as usual, and there appears little danger of 3 relapse. There is a large steam boat of a 34 horse power at present building at Ilowdon Paw, for the purpose of giving greater facility to the looting of ships of great burden without the assistance of keels, by towing 'Vessels op and down the river. We understand the kcelnien bare been taking the opinion of counsel as to the spouts being a nuisance to the na sigation of the river, and Mr. fltougham, it is stated, has given them so much encouragement, that they are determined to set apart weekly a small portion of their (railings in order to raise a fund, that they may try the questiou at the next sessions." A melancholy allot happened at Leicester, on Mon day atter:tom. Six boys, on their return from school, went to slide on a pond near the infirmary. when the ce broke and let them all in, and four of the number were drowned. Thursday morning last, two men left a box at Sims son's coach office, Rochester, to he forwarded to Lon don. Mr. Aldeisly. of Sirood, who was present at the time, having belore obsessed the same persons at Srrood, suspected something improper, and called in an excise man, who was passing, and communicated his suspi cions, that the box c iiiii dined contraband goods; it was accordingly opened, when the body of a man was ex posed to view. Tue circumstance being made know', many persons soon collected round the office, and one of them thought it was the body of his father, who had been buried in Snood church-yard on the preceding day. It was 3CCOrdlllejy taken to Roches er workhouse, when it loosed to he the body of William Herungion, n aged man, many years servant to the late Mr. Boghtirst, of Stoat!. The body was re-interred on Friday, the grave having been deepened ten feet. Three meat, suspected of the robbery were in the meantime taken into custody at Gravesend. They were travelling in a light cart win' a good horse, and had tools, such as a spade and pickax, and a wrapper similar to the one the body was shrouded They underwent an remain:thou on Friday, at Ru. climes, and were remanded. A few evenings ago, a pool woman, and her son, ten years of age proceeded in the storm from Chosen Stretton market towards their home at Prolsnomr, Shropshire, a d wanct of about four miles, but the v to hence of the tempest was so great, and their fatigue so excessive, that when within about fite hundred yards of their own house, they stink tinder the accumulatiog difficulties of their journey. The shrieks of the poor woman were heard uy a cottager, who went to her as sistance, and she was wills difficulty recovered ; the poor boy was guile dead; and two couple of fowls which were by barn were also dead, and covered with had. . ». 411 Hamm FOOTPAID".—On Friday •e g ht as Mr John Jackson, a pig jobber, wbo lodges at the house of Mr. Radmile, gamekeeper. in Wiklinore Fen, Lincolnshire, was tet rst;ng on horseback from Tattershall market, and had arrived within a shrt dis tance of his house, he was attacked, so early in the evening as a little before six o'clock, at the descent of Froghall bridge, by three men on foot, who must have been purposely w• g for hint at the spot. Two of them made a catch at his bridle, which he, with meat courage, dexterously warded off by a vigorous use of t h e ' bon end of hit whip, whereby, he so quickly knocked down one, and *tanned the other, as to frustrate their attempt to stop hint. While Mr. Green was thus ac tively and closely engaged with two of the villains, the third aimed a blow at his head with a thick stick or bludgeon, which caused the blood to glow profusely from his face. He then, clapping spurs to his little spirited horse, made his way with all the speed he !possibly could, though a piece of road so extremely bad as to he almost impassable ever. by day-light: and was enabled most providentially to eal•ct his escape from the violent hands and diabolical designs of these three desperate as sailants. Sunday evening last, some daring villain entered the stable of Mr. Newton, farmer, near Market Deeping, Lincolnshire, at the early hour of eight o'clock, and stole thereout his nag mare, with which the villain rode off in view of the 111411 servant, whom he threatened to shoot if he made any disturbance ; and his threat so alarmed the man, that he dared not pursue the thief. In the course of half an hour. the mare returned all over dirt; it is supposed she threw the rider, and by that means got away from hint. The servant, hearing her in the yard, went out and replaced her in the stable; but yet strange to relate, she was again stolen by nine o'clock. when Mr. Newton coming home, missed the mare, and immediately pursued the robber. It is supposed that he was close at the villain's heels, as the mare was left tied as hedge about smile front the premises. Mr. Newton, replaced her in the stable, and kept watch against fur ther attempts during the alight. A horse. the property of the company of proprietors of the Mersey and Irwell navigation, was lately freed from further labour, and sent to grate away the remnant of his days. On Wednesday week this faithful servant died, at an age which has seldom been recorded of a horse: he was in his &ad year. The premises at C n ard. in which the very large wool. len cloth factory has for many sears been carried on. but which have been lately abandoned in consequence of the general decay of that important branch of trade iu the West of England, have been taken by same manufac turers of patent lace. Upwards of 1,300 hands are to be immediately employed in this concern, which has been undertaken by some of the prisons now or lately connected with a similar establishment at Tit erton. A steam-engine and gas apparatus are erecting on the pre mises, the latter being fur the purpose of furnishing gas. through the pure RAIN of which the lace is rapidly passed, for divesting it of its downy filaments. The net is subsequently sent to France, where it receives a rich and elegant improvement, by the addition of a cunously wrought foliage and tlinvels, and as thou returned to this country, in which, tiotwiaistatitling this elaborate course. It amply realizes the hopes contemplated by the ingenious patentees. The utmost expedition is using w fitting up the complicated machinery requisite to this undertaking. and the most scrupulous regard is observed in the regu. lations of the workpeople, to prevent any communication by which the processes of the manufacture are to be conducted. DaIaRtICTION OW LONG'S HOTEL.—This splendid resort of the/feat/0o was consumed by fire on Saturday morning. In what manlier the fire originated is not exactly known, lint it broke out in one of the servants' rooms, at the upper part of the house, shout two o'clock. and so rapid was the communication of the devouring element, that all attempts on the part of the inmates to check its progress were ineffectual, and in a short time the whole of the attic was in flames. The timely arrival of engines, and spirited exertions of the firemen pre. vented its spreading to the adjoining houses, and in a much shorter little than would have been expected the lire was subdued ; hut not until it had consumed all the interior, excepting the gr I floor and cellars. Con siderable property was saved. and we are happy to stare that no lives were lost. All the exterior walls are stand ing ; and they present a curious appearance from the water having frozen on the surface, and formed several icicles. INUNSATION.-01) Wednesday night, or rather on Thursday morning. about one o'clock, the reridents in a house in Monimerstreet,Cavenclish-square, were most seriously alarmed in a very singular manlier. These persons retired to rest late at night, and they had sin long been in bed belote they wcte alarmed by a strange noise over their heads in the above st. irs rooms, and presently water began rapidly drop,ing through the ceiling, fec. upon them. The butler Instantly HOW, and on opetutig the door perceived torrents of water running in every direction towards him ; lint knowing what to make of this extraordinary alarm, and summing the house was on fire. and the engines were in full play, he rushed into the room, and snatching his wile in has antis lie ran down stairs, bitt in his progress found no fire. He opened the street door and galled the watch, who with several other pt.rsons entered the house, and found all the up stairs counts full of water, and on vs annotation they ascertained it proceeded from a cistern at the top of the house, which Was left sitolocked, and con,:eqiicittly rushed out, and .with great viol-ace forctli i!s way tlirinigh the roof into the monis. Part of the furniture mss destroyed, but no further injury appeated to have been done. A young woman in the pariah of Mirldlebie. Dum friesshire. has the following relations, all living, with their faculties quite entire, and capable of attending to their several employments, namely, two great grand. Gathers, two rem granilmoihets, two gratidlailters, two gratidtionthers, a stepfather and stepmother. 3ts.l a fattier ,tad mother. , _