The National Register. — London, England, 1822-10-27 00:00:00

Id) of August I was ted, and on Ilse following day I saw Brookes iu Coldbath-tields prison. I saw Lim at the &screwier house, and I went wills him, Mr. Clarke, and an allot eery, into the yard. 'Smokes said to me, " Will you swear (heat this is Clarke's lialeils•Wretiug at the hack of the check ?" I said, "It is veto impossible, fur I have never seen the check since the trial." Ile said, " suppose yon know what I have die octet' Claike noel the aitueney to inform yon." I said I did, and I understood by the papers that he had destroyed the ; that I had seen Clarke write very often, and if' Ise had not de. ',toyed it, and would sliew it to me, and it was Clarke's writing, I would sweat to it. Mr. Isaaesini and another came in at this lime, awl Brookes and lie retired to a curlier of the yard. Brookes after some time came to sae ales' said, that any cone 11111 l ication which I might have to to ke, might be made to Mr. Isaar.seee—" tor added he," I got so agitated in soy mind (list I know *inn I sin about." I then retired with Mr. Isaacson. Mr. Todd, a clerk in the hank of Hodson and Stis hog, proved the leayeetent of a, Check ill the nasuc CllClArke, on the 1811. of Dee ember. Clarke was next called. Mr. Sergeant P 'II objected to this witness being exa mined, on the ground that 1:e was not competent to glee evidente, he bring all interested pe•e-sun.—The lea rued Srtgeaulcontended, mid cited ncasene support of his argument, that a person whose name was alleged to be rouged, was not only incompetent to move the forgery itself, but could not even be ec•inined to any collatei al fact, which would tend to bring home (lie velum of foe gee y to the aecused. Me. Holland and Mr. Platt followed 4111 the same side. Mr. Alley and Mu'. Curwuoll argued at length l'or the admissibility of Mr. Clarke as a winless. Mr. Justice Palk decided that, under all the circum stances, Olt. Cleo ke could not be exataiined. Joseph Becki.nliani sworn.-1 am clerk to Mr.Strettnr's brewl 1111 l I went with Mr. Clarke 10 Use House of Cur•- reetial, and saw Brookes there. Claike introduced me to Brookes, and said lie had brought use wills hien ;vs pectiog the business of which they had been talking the day 10-fsre. Biookes then asked Claike not to attend at Bow-sheet, and lee said he welsh' nut if Brookes would pay 1115 law expences. This Bounties said lie would do, and Niel into my hands in money mid hills at short dates. I paid 1004 of this to Clair, kr, and NU. to ilie bra , thee - of :14. Hill, the attorney. fur the pi user aloe. Two lei ter., a worn to lie in the prompter's hand-writing, wee e then put in and read—one f the prisoner to Choi ke, dated (loot the H. use of Core echoes, and the oilier written by Il i 11l bill signed by Clarke, used addressed to Sir K. Bionic. 'file former was %lilies' in a style eil sup plication, and implored Clarke to visit Min, mud declared that he, and he only, could save 16111. 111% (ISmokes's) fate was iti iii, 11.111113, 1111.1 lie begged lie wound come to him, as he isail a frixtid who would do what Was iii een•aly between thein. The tither letter was cart et...lye of au open iiiii on the peat of Cleo ke, that he had " in some res pects been deceived," and a wish that She It. Virile would allow loin to withdraw from any further peoceeditigs against Brookes. Toe prisoner was then called upon for his defence.— lir asst., led s le d called Gad to wnnru that Mr. Clas ke dill put his statue to the check, and I,'uceeded to give a detailed ace• of the varioas transactions between the pas lies. Ile had discounted hills fur fur. C., and is quarrel having arisen lii•lwee'li them, Claike commenced pro ceedeugs against him for usury, hilt that ear, dropped. This gave rise to art on both soles, and Ike cons... (local proceedings are already before the pulls. He ascribed Isis preseiit situation to Mr. Hill, the attorney, against whom lie said lie hind intimated his intention to proceed for pe.jni y on a former occasion. lie was pro ceeding 10 eummcut iu very strong language on the con duct of solute of the wittlesses for the piusrcuteuse, when lie was called no older by the Conti. Ile concluded by pro testing his etitile isitioCrore, Juhu 116.140011, all attorney, was called. He was re seal at the heal iu the Common Pleas, and no question was then raise•) abunt the Cheek being folged. It was 1141Ided punlicly about the (wars.—ltemensbers seeing Mi. Hill at Judge Best's cliamhers.—Ltsd nut resoliect Brookes saying lie had destroyed the cheek; was near enough to have heard u, if he had said so. Tha letter sent to Sir It. Millie by Clam ke was 11011 , 1..11 to witness, who said it was not the hand writing of Brookes. Pri soner was clerk to witness, and lies character Was always honest. P. letter containing a copy of the check, alleged to be ringed, we. produced, and sworn to be in the head writing of Turner, clerk to I:• • on. JAS. Touter more lie was clerk to Isaacson.—Brookra was managing cleik.—ltemeinhers Clarke Winging a hill to Brookes to get disconnteil.—Brookes was engaged milli company, and Clarke wrote a note up to hull, and desired winless to ask Brookes to let him have lour or hve pounds on the hill at that time—the rest would du tit a week or so. Bionkes eceutdingly sent down tour sovereigns, which lie gave to Clot Ise, and he went away. —Saw him again un the 117114—Saw Bi wiles give a check fur I• I. to Clarke, saying... Cl.uke you had better ens durse this check." '!he lumps* of the check was willies by Ili utikes.—Clarke did ennui so the cheek. \lr. Author bNos I: that lie 14.11 puveut, and heard Moltke! say •• Ciao ke, 14 tilt upon the cheek" and Ciaike leaned forward and *tote something, 11111 wiWess dad Slut keow Whet, Martin Nolan nate, an historical engraver, stated Ihat he wrote the hudy or the letter addr essed to Sal him:ll4ld Barone. Mr. Jiirtice Parke summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Tag Stumm. SPEAKILI.—As the brother of the proud Duke of Siinterset. who then filled the chair to the Douse of Cunuuohs. was returning from Wilt, his car riage was interrupted On the nmd by the hir;liaence and atutacity of a west country wanner. bictiaitant at the insult, he jtsinitrti out of his carriage, and began to lay about him with his gold-headed cane upon the head o. the weggoner, who, in his turn, soon plied his long whalebone whip so sharply, that his honour was glad to retreat, exclai l g--" Villain! do you know wiiii am ?"—" Noe replied the west Colllltry tisk er, U %Vito !west, after all ?"—" IVhy, shrub, I'm the Speaker f" —" Then why t'an's' the speak beton: t " PILDBSTKIAN AIATCII.—NIr. Abernethy, the Scots pedestrian, has completed his match to go from Loudon to Nottingham and hack, 'flaking a circuitous route of 260 miles, in four successive days, I sar THE NATIONAL REGISTEIt COIWNER'S INQUEST: On Ttesday last as intoirition was held at the Queen's Arms Tavern, Upper Kennington-lane, upon the body of Henry Savage, Esq. before Chute* Jrolll.lo, Esq. Coroner fur Surrey. Abraham Coward, Esq. brother-is-law to the deceased, sworn. —I resided in the same house house with hint for :some time part. lie has been intliaposed about four months, but has been only one month confined to his bed. About I I o'clock on last Sunday morning I heard the nurse who attendee him screaming violently in his chamber. I wt.tit to her assistance, and when I entered his apartment, I saw him in bed, bis head reclining a little to the left, the sheets and blankets were bloody, and a bloody razor was lying outside the bed-clothes. I was very touch agitated, but collected myself, mid perceived a wound in his throat. I believed him dead, but thought proper to send for Mr. Drysdale, his surgeon :• thnt gentleman was not then at home, but he arrived shortly afterwards when be pronounced the deceased dead. The deceased had been very low spirited since his indisposition, supposed to bans been occasioned by a negotiation going on between hint aid bin father, with a how he had been at variance : lie was evidently affected by it. I conversed with him on Friday night upon the subject, aid in quired if there were any means of accelerating a reconciliation, but be seemed rather to decline it. I raw him again ou Satur day night, but wan rather delicate in touching upon the subject. Mr. George Drysdale, surgeon, deposed—l have attended the deceased for some months past, he laboured under a con sumptive disease ; I saw loni on Saturday, Le was then evi dently deranged in his intellect, aid I thought be could not sur vive 2-1 hours. lie had been very much depressed io storks since his illness, in consequence of some disappininient in ad justing a difference beta et u him and his father, who ranks high in the naval service. On Sunday morning I called at his house, Mrs. Stone opened the gate, and showed me into his apartment. found him with a deep incision in his throat, and much blood rthout Li n t lying in bed. A rum, with which he committed the act lay by his side. The jugular vein was divided, and lie was quite dead, The wound cud loss (Anion , no donut were the cause of his death. The unfortunate catastrophe may he attributed to the neglect of his father : he wished to see hint before his death, but he declined an interview a i;h any of those friends who wished to bring about a reconciliation. I inter ceded tu).elf, but to no purpose. Mr. Coward then pulled out a letter, which he said was an answer to a letter written to the deceased's father respecting the fuderrl espences of the deceased, and lie proposed reading it to the jury , when the Coroner observed, that fatuity affairs bad not ing to do with the iuvestigatiou ; the chief object was to ascei fain the vote of mind of the dec,ased when he com mitted the deed. Mr. Coaard, however, read the letter : it was to the following effect:— _ . " Sot,—l beg leave to inform you, that I made your commu nication known to Miss Crump in the evening I metre,' your better; and in my hearing she mt . ed the .admiral of the same, and also asked him leave to send for his upholsterer concerning Irks funeral; when the Admiral ftew into a most violent pasiam, and protested that nothing of the kind should be done. I then in te: feral, with a hope of prevailing upon him, but he would oot hear what I had to .ty, but immectiately wait up stairs to his bed-wont, and there the matter rested. •• I all, Sir, your obedient servant, WILLIAM POIiCIIILL." The Coroner, on hearing this letter rs .d, observe I, that the Admiral would he an unhappy titan durin ; the rat °flits days. XII.. Coward observed, that the Admiral is now between Iv and 80 yearn old ; the deceased was his only child, and never had given hint any just cause to be of but tliat being reduced in an:um-Latices, it butt the Admiral's pride to tate any of his faintly so inipoveriblied. He could have helped the deceased if lie chose ; lie is now the third Admiral on the list. Elizabeth Mansfield, an old nurse, and Dr. Latham, deposed, the bust to the inlitui state of the deceased for some time past, the latter io the probability of a person so reduced in health and ►pints being setz..il with a temporary hisanity. 'flits was all the evidence produe and the Coroner, haring summed up to the .lury, ordered the room to be cleated. They (1011)e:toed &bout 10 minutes, and then announced their verdict, —•• That the deceased intcted a wound in his own thioat in a lit of insanity, which caused his death." NIELANCHOTYOS.:UitRijaics.--I . tie brig Williams and Mary, of Sunderland, arrived at I larsvicit 011 Saturday 111(011111v, with a cargo 01 coals; the saine afternoon, be tween one and two ti clock, It. Carr, the master, ace - paiiied by William Clarke, a seaman. and a Loy of the name or Bird, set sail iii like shills I.,Hat for the port of Ipswich, with a view to dispose of his coals at that place. The boat proceeded about two miles and a hall up the Orwell with a favourable breeze, bitt at Collimer Point a sudden and toast Violent squall caws on front the S.S.W. by which the boat was upset, and the unfortu nate crew were all drowned. The master was a married Mall, without a family; Clarke, an Ipswich Mall, has left a wile and two chiloreii, living at Sunderland; the boy. Bird, was the sun or a lighternian beloiring to Ipswich, and his father was on board the brig. Tiie boat was found, bottom upwards, upon die Ooze. Tile bodies of the milliners were discovered on Sunday morn ing by the mate of the brig, lying nearly altogether. The accident happening within the jurisdiction of Ips wich, the bodies were mulcted thiuo.r , and on the same alternood a coroner's ruyuest was held upon them, and a verdic. of Accidental Death returned. The Siockport Theatre opened last week. 011 the rising of tue curtain, Mr. Smithson came lorward to :1111101111Ce a calamitous event which had happened to the manager and the whole of his performers, in the general wreck of their property, whilst crossing the sands 110111 ()Nei Stoll to Lancaster, miring a gale of wind, in which they were suddenly overtaken by the tide. All their chests, containing their wanirohe, with a potion of the scenery, were set adrift, a saleable liaise drowned, and themselves and children narrowly escaped wish their lives. The appeal made to the audience for any defi ciency which must naturally have arisen in the dresses, IW.c. was very favourably received, and tinder every Mr. euitisiliiCe use piece went al l much liciter than could ilaVe been expected. IVe are nappy to hear that the greater part 01' the trunks, Bte. hate men recovered, al though issued injured.—lt may tun be generally known, that between Uivetston and Lancaster there Is ass extent of nearly 1b miles at low water, which abounds with chasinels and iiiii viti4 sands, on which gUitlei are ret:u• tarty paid by Government, and stationed at the time of crossiiif, 'or the proleClwil of the passengers. Tits vio lence of hie gale nail Omen the guide trusts hispostottid the party haviiig guise Lou far to recede, were obliged, at the peril of their i Ives, to cross the last channel without A ny proper direction. 44 - • - .I.IIN :34.5' A,CCIDENTE.-13rtwern twelve and one o'clock on Wednesday afternoon last, a most shocking accident happened in the shop of Mr. Dimbald, pawnbroker, Skinner -street, Somers Tow's, which had like to be attended with the most fatal consequences. At the boor mentioned, the neighbourhood was alarmed at an explosion in the shop; the window was shattered to atoms, and all the things therein strewed about, and several of the pledges on fire. On making inquiry us to tile cause, the apprentice, a lad about 16 )ears of age, was found lyina behind the counter, Ins lace all. disfigured with blood and gunpowder. It had been supposed for the moment that lie !sad blown his brains out. Surgeon Wakefield dressed the youth, who was in a most drploraLle condition, his face being all in ar shocking mass, and disfigured front gunpowder. No fire anus were loom' near hint at the time, and he was tint in a state to answer any quiestions put to him; but the supposition is that lie wit making some synibs, ass the cases which were intended to be filled with gun. powder were found near hint , but how tile fire co 1111 l u iiicated to the powder is not known. Tile unlortunate youth was afterwards Witco home its a hackiley coach by Mr. Teasdale, a constahle, to his father's house its Gnu sell -street, in a most shocking contlitiort. it is fe 'red he will lose his eyesight ; an.' if be recovers he will be shockingly thsfiatired.—Osi Monday last, a most shocking accident took place at %Vitt& Ruckind.bstm sin re :—A young matt, who had just attained the age of and was to base come into the possession of 5001. no that, his birth-day, went into his employer's (Mr. lan %) field, with a cart to fetch a load oh potatoes It being his birth-day, his itto7lier sent him his new clothes, clean linen, &c. in order that he might be greeted by a very great lumber of his friends, who had assetubleu at his house to men him, and celebrate the occasion ; but.. melancholy to relate, their festive joy was changed into the most agonising mounting, as, in the midst of their • joy and harmovy, his mingled body was brought in by some persons; toe 1101 - Se having taken fright, ran t ill, and he jmnping out, had not time to cleat the field bate before the moons animal Came through, and h e was crushed to atoms Ity the c-rt. His poor mother and the intended bride received a most indescribable shuck, and remain inconsolable. The 5061. was bequeathed him by his uncle 18 years since. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT HISHOATE A RCHWAY.-••• Fur sonic time past vast numbers of workmen have been employed in electing 311 almshouses near the Archway at Highgate, for the aged poor belonging to the Mercers Compatty, and its order to complete the buildings, it was found expedient to femme an unntettse VIII: of earth that • was dog front the road at the time the Archway was forming, and which has remained ever since standing, on the side ()I' the road. Fur some days ilia liar itaturs have been at work iii conveying it away and shooting it in another part of the road. On Saturday moaning Led,. whilst suite of the excavators wt re waiting for their taint to have their wheelbarrows filled by others who were digging at the bottom of the vast pile, ahe tipper part fell in with a irClPelithill3 crash, and five of the hat lemurs - were boned outlet it. .1 lie gioans of the sufferers were ellstincids heard by the other win k own, who with stir. 'wising alacrity set to work, and after digging some time succeeded in extricating lOW 01 the SilltfCtS Ake. 'liie nit It, all aged navigator, woo acted as foreman, and who Urn ,tipioyed in tile excavations at the Archway. and tole Regent's Canal, Was hound almost crushed to ' atoms, 7 . et sti I alive. flue unfortunate old man was taken nilt! 'aura- to the Archway 'revert', where lie received e.sry surgical aid that could- be obtained, but he (lied soots alter Irons the injures he sustained.—Oil Tuesday night an inquisition was taken at the Archway Tavern, benne T.Surling, Esq. Cormier, Ott view of the body. The Jury consulted tor a short lime, and returned • their sertlict—" That the death of thettlectased was tic. casiotical by accident." DREADFUL ACCIDENT.-011 Wednesday afternoon. • between torte and four o clock, Mr. Thos. Fiedgley, a respectable shopkeeper at Lewisham, Kent, throve up a light chaise cart, to the door of Messrs. Martin and 11. • Cutler, the cornlactors in Fleet -market. Havitig or dered some corn So the moruing, he called to take it house wi.h him. Mr. F. was in the act of putting the nosebag on t h e horses head, when the animal suddenly started off, and ran with alurunna speed up Fleet-market and along Bride-street, Mr. Fledgley still keeping hold of the shafis of the cart, and endeavournig to check the career of the infuriated home. When ooposite the noose of Mr. Goldsmith. Cliyillial, in New Bridge -street, Mr. F. was tudinottiately Jammed between his own and town cart mat was coming towards him; and, shocking to add, was killed on the spot. Mr. F. has left aon et and fait b y to bewail his untimely death. Ott Thursday• alight au niquisitiou was taken belore Shelton, the coroner, at the its(' Lion, Fuppits's•coutt, Fit:et-street, on the body, whet' the Jury, after a short deliberation, . returned a verdict—'• What the deceased cattle to his death by accident, and that the horse and cart were of the value of Us. 6:1." STRIST ROSIBRY.—A bout 6 o'clock on Vt r eiltiesd iy eventing last, as Mr. and Mrs. Payne of ni, were walkinc up the King's-road, on their way home from Gray's Inn-lane, five or six young fellows, who appeared in be at play with each other, at the cr ttttt r of Jotru.sir, et, ran against them, and threw theist both down ; JI r. Paytie was instantly rule red of his watch, and Mrs. Payne of her reticule, which contained 184. in tither, all old crown piece, silver thimble and frint knife, pocket handkercinel, and other trillitiz Articles. Before they bullieieuiLly recovered frosts their surpritE to discover their loss, the ruffians effected their escape. 't. A fire broke out between five and six o'clock on Friday morning last, in the upper part of Mr. Hedges, whole sale woollen draper, 49, Aldermanbuty. is. speedy arrival of engines, and a prompt soppy of water, en abled the firemen shortly to extinguish the flames. The persons Liken at the gambling-house, and com mitted to the House of Correction, Coldbath-fields, we understand, are all Frenchmen. Some persons are said to have co tttttt enced partnership with the jiino a wetk before the parues were put to the rent. T