The National Register. — London, England, 1817-10-20 00:00:00

HORRIBLE MURDERS ! • LOUTH. OCT. 9,—Tn the night of Tuesday, the Tth Instant, 'l'llolllRa Hall, aged about seventy, and Mary Grant his house keeper. of about the same see, who had many years resided by themselves in a very lonely cottage in ilieddlethorpe, about 12 miles from Louth, in Lincolnshire, were most inhu manely murdered by some diabolical monster or monsters in human shape, who entered the hack wall of the house by a breach made therein for the bloody purpose. 'I he dead bodies of these unfortunate victims were first discovered about three o'clock in the afternoon of Wednesday the nth instant, by some labourers, who experit'll Hal: to meet them, at a previous hour, to assist in some work in a drain, near his house, and who, after waiting beyond the time appointed for his attendance, proceeded to ascertain the cause of his ab sence by calling upon him, when, site, observing tarsi. quan tities of blood, which had streamed through the floors of the upper romps upon the floors and furniture of those below, they advanced op stair: into the two beil•chambers, hi OUP of at Bich they beheld the appalling spectacle of the mangled corpse of the hooskeeper, placed in a sitting posture upon the floor, with her back against the wall, having on her stays and tinder petticoat, and, in the other, the still noire ten itic object of her dead toaster, lying with his face upon the fluor, and ha vine on no apparel hut his shirt. Upon the arrival of the Coroner and jut y to view this scene of carnage, on the 9 , 1 i lost., the bodies, but more particularly that of Mr. Hall, exhi itited almost every conceivable mark of the louse sruzilioary barbarity. Many sa -age blows had been inflicted upon hi. head and face. an trireme 1 had been made to cut his throat, in defending which he was deeply stabbed in various parts of both arms. and one of his fingers was nearly severed by a ant ; iii his shoubleis, lees, mid thizdts he hod also many deep stabs; but the most unions attar:. ap pears to have been upon the truck of his body, where four sleep wounds were discovered, one large enough to 'Omit three or four fingers quite throirOi into the stomach, another on the left side of the naval, and two more (the fatal wounds) which penetrated between the ribs, ou the left side, through the left lobe of the lungs into the left ventricle of the heart. Dreadful blows had been inflicted upon the head and face of dm housekeeper, who was also stubbed quite through one of her arms, mid terribly stabbed in various lido r parts of her both, the fatal stab having been directed through her l e ft n ostril into the b aim 'rhos terminated the existence of those aged, harmless, and inoffensive people, whose struggles to save their list's against this nnirderons.attack must have been very great ; and there is hardly a doubt but the person or persons who committed these bloody deeds must have been wounded in the conflict, particularly as the prongs of a hayfork, which Hall used to keg p in his bedroom, were Mond near him newly broken from the shaf , , ami covered with blood; but neither the shaft nor any other instrument nhidi had been used in the murders could he :liscoveriol. The various scuba in the bodies seemed to have been inflicted by such a knife as hoteliers use in slaughtering cattle ; and, from some circumstances, it is sup posed that when the murders had been completed, the de linquents proceeded to minimise the house in search of mo ney and oilier valuables, as there were fotind upon the bed where flail hail shpt, a tea pot containing two 101. notes, and jest by the te s t-pot one other 101. note,and scattered upon the tloor, near the body, seven suing as in gold, and several silver table and tea--ponds : but that, soddenly alarmed by the songs and shouts of some persons who were returning try Hall's house from a harvest simper, between 11 and 12 o'clock in toe night of the .ders, the barbarians instantly extinguished their light, and ilecanieejl without their plunder. At present no clue has been found to trace the perpetra tors id this unparallelled outrage upon domestic security in the sites, boor of sleep. The coroner's inquest is therefore adjoiti ucd ; and it is to he hoped that such means Will be im mediately used us may lead to a spi•eity detection of the of- Gliders. Every person who regards his ono life and safety., and who resides at or in the vicinity of Thedillethorpe, should exert bin-elf in order to discover nity one who may have been recently wounded, or whose clothes may hove been marked with blood toidar suspicious circumstances, and make partimilar inquiries as to the cause of sec le wound or mark. A dog whieli Mr. Hall kept in his house in the night time, of a let•iviirus temper, Was fuueul ashen the discoverers of the murder entered, licking op the blood from the floor below ; what h souiew hat 11.11411 kettle, the dog was not but t, which h i doee. a siispicimi shut he either knew the 1111 l rilerers, or by some artifire eras 'pouted by Mein ; otherwise, in all Pro bas bility, he would have *tin( !.eel, and colt, r lease rept:lied, or bet Is killed ty them. - A man who was apprehend...al at Louth, upon sttapieion of Praying perpetrated the horrid murders at Theddlethoepe, was skin to the latter Oar- on Saturday se'nnight, and the Niagistrate aut.:lliad there to obtain all the evidence po.oble. The bodies of the unfortunate wietinis were interred at Theddletlnpe, the same day, after which solemnity a most impressive discourse Wits delivered by the Rev. S. Watit. The man was to undergo another examination bet Ore the hlagi,tratcs at Louth, on the Wet inst. The country is all alive to discover the perpetrators of the murders itOJIIIERY.On or about the 27th of Sept. a young man named Henry Boonaparte Orger. who lived servant with Mr. Liked!. of West Smithfield, abocunded with 6281. the property of his employer. Information of the robbery was given to God; the o!ficer of Unatti hall, who inimediately set out in search of the thief, from which he returned on Thu:-.llv, having succeeded in tracing him to l'aris, where, at the house ()Nile British ambassador, Go:TS:LW a letter which bad just been receivo4 from Orger, stating that he had been robbed by an historian who lodged in the same house. with hint, who had broken oven his trunk, and plundered it of 5301. and praying the aid wf the police for the recovery of his property.. This letter enabled 1 Got/ to trace Orger to his lodgings, where, on inquiry, he found that the thief 1144 really been plundered ; but it appeared that he had also been informed of Goes intendedvisit, and hail again absconded.— GaX trawl Li t t to flavre de Grace, and then learned that only a few hours before Orger had embarked on board a vessel which had sailed Lie Aa.- riea. The spring tide, was extremely high on many parts of the coast, firth on Saturday an d Sunda y se'nnighte but more partieuktrly in the afternoon of the latter day. its natural height on the north eastern coast was considerably augmented by a strong wind ('r e nt several points in succesdon from the wes.tward to the eastwanl of North, anti the effect was • tremendously heavy sea, which broke with: raging widen against the cliffs, and over the embankments, uniting, in ID ory places unoppoied to its fury, its whitened surge with the very verge of toe Lod. Front the precautions previously taken, we do not yet learn that any damage has lwen sustained on the Kentish coast, although fun the quaritil of wreckage driven on the shore, it is feared NOM.: worth has lawn lost at sw. The water, of the Thant a and Medway were also much ineveased from the impulse of the thrive winds, which, seed ing fryer the gvai northern ocean. hi:rig Stich a body of water, that the ilicrownons of the straits of Dover, with the head of sea kep t o n in the 'henna] below by the inclination d the wind to the west, will not le'an't efflux :it consequently ... Xdo along thd north-east cuaa, and influences the height of the TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER EXTRAORDINARY MALEFACTOR.—The following is an extract of a letter of the 10th instant. from Bo login :—" Some weeks have now elapsed since a ma letae tor,whomatrocities in the history of human turpitude have had no parallel, expiated his crimes under the sen tence of an Assize Court in this town, by the guillotine. Yet though he acknowledged on the scaflidd the com mission of 16 murders, and amongst his victims two English travellers, a marked silence has been observed in the French journals; end 1 feel persuaded the occur rence has not been publicly known even at the short distance of Montrcuil and Calais. Is this tenacity for I national character consistent with the obligations of truth? Arc the Editors of the Paris Journals equally slow in giving circulation to:the ex-parte and unauthen ticated statements of sanguinary offences which some weekly papers at your side of the water set forth with such hideous colouring to the positive depreciation of the moral character of England, in the apprehensions of fitreigners ? But strange as it may appear, these pa pers, which an Englishman here can only consider as a compost of all the crime, fraud, and ligitation, real and imaginary, of his country, unrelieved by a single para graph in support of the interests and freedom of man kind, receive exclusive facility in this through every part of the Continent. But to return to my subject. This monster had not completed his 36th year. He mounted the scaffold with a marked determination to tshew that neither the:lawful rreparation, nor the con sciousness of admitted crime, could in the least affect he iron temperament of his nerves. lle was merely courteous to the clergyman who attended him ; and seemed most solicitous to redeem the recollection of his unequalled turpitude by the contempt of death, which he certainly manifested. It was evidently on his part a dramatic exhibition ; and a spectator, while he listen ed to the recommendation of the criminal to the stir rounding crowd, could not, until the machine effected its object, but fancy it was a theatric illusion. One im pression was acknowledged to be felt universally by the English who attended the execution, as to thehumane use of that revolutionary instrument, the guillotine, when compared with tile degrading anti torturing sus pension by the rope, which disgraces the extreme pu nishment ofour own country." ABRAHAM THOHATON.-Wc have already announced the arrest of this man, on a WI it of an appeal, at the snit of the next of kin of the late until tonate and lamented Mary Ash ford, for whose murder Thornton was tried and acquitted. The warrant wrs received en l'harsday week by Mr. Hack n-y, sheriti's officer of Lichfield, who, accompanied by Mar tin and Baker, two of his assistants, proceeded to Castle Bromwich, and fintliag Tionoton at the house of his father, took hint into custody, and brought him to the lock up-house in Bell-street, the same night. On the following morning, abort ten o'dock, he was conveyed, by Hackney-, in a chaise to Witt wick anti safely delivered at the county gaol Upon being info:tunic(' by the officer of the nature of his visit, we learn, he q uietly submitted, without attempting to offer the least resistaore. We subjoin a copy of the warrant molt r which Thornton was a p.o chentled :- .• WARWICKSHIRE TO WIT-'t Hon. Henry Verney, sheriff of the county of Warwick aforevaid, to John Hackney, and at his peril, to Thomas Martin, Jonathan Baker, and others, my bailiffs of the said country, and to the keeper of the gal of Cie said county, gTOCtillg. -•• By virtue of writ of appeal of nor Sovereign Lord the King. to me girected, I command you, and every of you, jointly and :4:virally that youor mem' you, take A brabau% Thornton. of Castle Bromwich, in the parish of Aston. near Birmingham. in the said aunty, la boater, it . he d h all be •foundin my bailiwick, and him safely keep, widow.' may have his body before the Lord the King on the morrow of ::11 Soul::. wheresoever the said Lord the King shall then be in I:np : Laid. t o answer sitfool, of the parish of Ilan t a , .. in the .county oi . Stafford, Namur, who was the &kat brother. and is heir of Mary Ashford, late of Langley, in the parish of t , aton Coldtield. in tor vrd bailiwick, spinster, &ceased ; of the said Mary Ashford, whe.eof he appraleth hint. Thereof fail not, as you will answer at your pail." The statute under which Thornton has been avtin taken into . , en•totly, in to der to molergo another '641, on at:ennui of the murder of Io ry Milford, iv an Art of the 3d of Henry VII. cap. I. It is said that he will be tried at-tire Courtof King's Bench early in the next month. To accommodate those persons in .the country who wish to chose their own Numbers, T. BLSH has set apat t the undermentioned Tickets, which may be hail at No. 4, Coruhill, eithe in Whole Tickets, Halves, Quarters, Eighths, nr :Sixteenths. No. 140 4,026 1,172 3,12 11 6.067 1:5 7,053 1,179 3,130 6,175 2:2 1.069 1,253 3,686 0,181 13 1,055 2,161 3,7 0 7 6,1K3 029 1.171 2,219 4.417 6,111 739 1,174 3,068 3,792 6,331 1,003 1,173 3,081 5.025 6,779 The following may be had at No. 9, Charing-Cross, either in Whole Tickets, Halves, Quarters, Eighths, or Sixteenths. 10. 139 1,172 2,011 3.135 6, tl2 213 1,173 3,009 3,672 6.173 214 1,1711 3.127 4,298 6,174 224 1, 1 77 5,138 6.003 8,152 .1,027 1,110 3,151 6,171 6,153 The present Lottery consists of 7,1(X) Numbers, Two Tickets of each .Nutulx , r,, containing Six Prizes of 20,000, Money and Consols, besides various other Ca pitals, and 5,700 Tickets have very peculiar advantages, for particulars of which see the Shcmcs, which are to he had grab: at BISII's Pffices, where (as avail) in the Last Lottery Contract, he sold Capitals trtatcr in Nutsber and Amount than any other °dice-keeper. I'III:SENT PRICE. - - Tickcc Ilalf £ul ' £l9 1 22 0 13 6 e . t . i .: 5 n Sixteenth 1 7 0 er 1401-Yaid duly amwend. PRICE OF BRF..kr). The highest price of the best Whcatcn Bread Throughout the me tropoli=, it stattxl by the Bakers to he 1441. the Quarteru Some Eakas sell the Quarters Loot from Id. to 3d. lower. OCT. 20. WeTttttt pate—This fair commenced on Friday se'nnight.when upwards of 160.000 sheep were penned. The day proved remark at& tine, and so brisk was the sale, that at 12 o'clock scarcely a coop remained unsold. The number of sheep penned did not amount to that of lust year by several thousands. hut the prices were full lOs. a head higher than at that time; ewes fetching from , tas. to 515., and lambs from 255. to Xos. The show of horses was very numerous, comprising an unusual number of yearling and 2 years old colts of the cart kind, the sale of which was rather brisk : they maintained very goad prices, and were principally purchased for the London market. There was an unusual number of nag horses of the middling class; those of the better sort were in great request, and of course fetched high prices. The quantity of flops on the liill exceeded what was expected. and the quality was excellent. High prices, however, are antscipatol by the growers, the stuck of old hops being exhausted. The quantity of cheese pitched this year occupies abtmt the u,ual space of ground ; and the prices which follow are according to the purchases made on Friday; tine old cheese from tuna. to Ws. ; coward from 435. to 455. ; halt' coward from 35'. to 40s. ; skim from 455. to 48s. Mons. Biot is returned to Edinburgh from the Shetlan 1 Islands. In Unst, as no proper place could be thund for making. the ob,erva tions connected with the trigonometrical survey, the fine instrument belonging to the Boanl of Ordnance waatherefore r.Anoved to the island of !talus, where there were just teats sufficient to slieter it and its attendants from the weather. From the inhahitan . s of Unit M. Biot received every kindness and hospitality they could bestow on him. MARRIED. T. 0. Travers, Esq. of the no n . Last India Company's Military Service, to Mary Peacock, %vont] dau. of C. 11. Leslie. Esq. of Wil ton, Cork.—At Batley, after a two months courtship, Mr. .1. Chap. pel, aged 66, to Miss Letitia Newsome, a fine blo m m soaiden of 19.—The venerable bridegroom has been married three times.—At Mount Pleasant, in the King's County, the Earl of Destrrt. to Ca therine. eldest duu. of M. N. O'Conner, Esq.—At Bath, .1. Steel, Esq. of Cockermouth. Cumberland, to Frances. youngest dmi. of the Rev. R. Coxe, Rector of Sodbury, Gloucestershire. end 'View of Bucklebury, Berks. DIED. At Skelton Castle, Yorkshire. the seat of John What-rob, m.r. suddenly, Mr. Bland, of Surrey-street. —ln Watling-stmt, aged (et, Mr. G. Coltman. of the Bank of England.—lt Southwood. Highgate, aged fos, A. 'I .angford, Esq.- Aged 0, 13. Epston. Ego. of Mildred, Berkshire.—ln Fleet.strect. aged .58, Mrs. Elenor Beliire. widow of Mr. It. Denim, H.N. surgeon.—A few days ago, at Lyminnton. Mr. C. Curtis. a comedian of considerable pro vincial fume. am.i a relative of the Xemble family.—Near I.neken, in (below Countries, of apoplexy. Mr. I.atourtcur de 1 t Manche. Ex Com entionalists, and oar of the former Directors of the French Republic--lle is the third of the French Exiles who have died within a few months in those provinces. LONDON MARKETS. CORN-EXCIi ANGE. 111111 A V, Ot.:7091:1t t 7. We have had a fen , fresh arrisals of Wheat since Monday, and tome quantity mmained over Innet that day's market. Beal fine par cels are taker off on much the same terms. hut inferior are lower.— Barley, Beans, and Oats. fully reach our last quotation.—ln othse articles we have no alteration to notice. MONDAY, OCTOBER IL There was a large supply of new Wheat this morning from Essex and Kent, and fine samples were taken off by the mill , rs at the early p.rt of the market at last Monday's prices • t inferior and ordinary/ so t experienced a heavy sale.—Fine Malting Barley being in de m intl. fully maintained last weeks prices. but "very other description is almost unsaleahle.—Boiling Pease support their price; likewise Grey l'ease.—'flier• were several fresh arrival o: English Oxt, a hiat sold at a reduction of Is. per quarter.--Bye and Bean little va. riation.—Rapeseed and Linseed as per last quotation. 5. 5. a. a. Wheat 39 aet l White Pease's a 63 Fine ditto a 63 96 Grey l'enst 37 a4O Rye 34 aeo limns 4o aso Fine Malty 28a 52 Ticks 3B a 41 Malt 66 a lit Oats • l6 a 30 Pokuld Oats t 4 IS l'utaioe ditto 22 a a 25 Fine Flour 75 IS Second ditto 70 2 75 Rope Seed4SL a 5 I. AV EtIAGE PRICES OF -CORN PER QUARTER. IN E NGL ....N J . ,04.-ycAin.rs TOR TIM WEEK ZI4IIIXO OCT. 11* Wheat. I Aye I Barley Oats I:enr. Pcaae ir,ll 4•1 44 , 10 42 6 27 11 I 1 4710 42 5 IF MEAT, MONDAY, OC - ,PPO(E. 0 .SMISI4FIf:I.II3. NE W GAT C s. d. s. cl. fiends of rattle at Beef 30& 4 0 Netiiitfii'ld. Mutton 3 6 a 4 6 Beasts, about..... 5,040 1 Veal 4oa 5 0 S.etii 117,6,1 Pork 3$ a 5 6 Calves 5lO Lamb... o 0 a 0 0 Pigs 240 _ .'OIII4R 20. LNDLYADENHALL. Carcase F.. tl. Beef (;a Sf Mutton_; n a 3 1 Veal 50 a 4 b Pork 3l a 5 8 Vanib 5 0 a 4 4, HAY AND sTRAwI'EItIA)/s1). Z.,. d. Z. s. d. Aver. -C. s. t?. Pliny 300a3 50-- 4 2 6 (lover, 4 0 0a 7 0 0— 610 0 [Straw 1 10 0 • 1 13 0— 1 14 0 fltay 3 15 0 a 5 5 0— 4 10 0 Clover 6 4 0 a 0 0 0 o 0 Straw 4 1 17 032 5 0 2 3 15 0 a 5 16 0— 5 6 0 Clover (. to 0 a 7 10 0 6 10 0 ISualw 1 IS 0a 2 4 0 2 1 0 SMITHFIELD Sr. JANT.II.II VJIIITECIIAPEL AVERAGE I'ItICE OF SUGAR, Computed from the Returns made in the week ending 00.13.i3 57s (41. prr cwt. exeltudve of the Duty of CUSIOI4:3 ).aid or puyahle therein ou Importation thawf into Great Britain—(Saiii , tiois Ctu4k•.) PRICE ON STOCKS. Bank Stock 2(3 3 per Cent.fteduced 62i 3 per ('ent. Consols B2l 4 per Cent. ex div. 981 5 per Vent. Navy icii India Stock Ditto Bonds (5 per Cent.) 114 116 pr. Erchiluir Billu, 2iii. per Day 36 31 Con.ol. tor Mti Long Alit:ttilie LONI , ON :-I'rintetl ant! ntibra.htll 1y 11. Wtura, No. I``-'. hetwctn St. Dunstan's Church and Fetter Lane, and torwarded into the Country by all New.Aw.n, liookselicrs, and, Cluks uf the Rouse, (tie of rostap.