The National Register. — London, England, 1822-10-28 00:00:00

Tth of Awaust I was *nested, and tin the follsrring day I saw Brookes in Culdhath-lielda prison. I saw hint at the Groves nor's house, and I went with him, Mr. Clarke, end an attorney. into the yard. Brooke , ' said to use, " Will you swear mat this is Clarke's hand-writtog at the back of the cheek?'' I said, "It is vile imposaible, for I have never seen the cheek since the trial." He said, " I suppose you know what I have diseased Clarke and the attorney to inform you." I said I did, and I understood by the papers that he bad destroyed the check ; that I had seen Clarke write very often, and if he had nut de attoyed it, and would thew it to our, and it was Clarke's writing, 1 would swear to it. Mr. Isaaemie and another twine in al this time, and Brookes and lie retired to a corner of the yard. Brookes after Nome time came to sue and said, that any 1.01411 gggggg ieation which I might have to make. might be made to Mr. Isiciesosi—" for really," added he," I assn so agitated in my mind that I don't kuuw what lam about." I then retired with Mr. 111114C11011. Mr. Tudd, a clerk to the batik of Hodson and Stirling, proved the payment of a check in the ionise of Clarke, Ull Ilse 18.15 of Del rusher. William Clillke was next called. Mr. Sergeant Pell objected to this witness being exa mined, on the ground that Le was not competent to give • evidence, lie being as interested person.—The teeniest Sergeant emit...wird, and cited a case in support of Isis argument, that a person whose Halite was alleged to be forged, was not only incompetent to prove the forgery itself, but could not even he examined to any collateral fact, which would tend to bring home the crime of foigety to the accused. Mr. Bullard and Mr. Mall followed on the same side. Mr. Alley and Mr. Clay/mail argued at length for the admissibility of Mr. Claike as a witness. Mr. Jastice Psi k decided that, under all the circum- Matters, Mr. Chat ke could out lie examined. Joseph Beckt 1111411111W1/111.-1 amclesk to Mr.Stretton's brewhouse. I went wills Mr. Clarke to the `louse of Cor rectiuis, sod .140 , Bsookes there. Claske isitrostured use to Brookes, aunt said he had brought one with him res pecting the business of which they had beer talking the day before. B, mikes Shen asked Cleo ke not to attend at Bow-street, •nd lee said he would hot if Ileuuk es would pay his law espences. This Brookes said lie sunlit do, anti paid into rosy hands 1:;01, in money mid hulk at short dates. I paid 1001. of this to Clarke, and SOL to the bro llies of Mr. Hdi, the :attorney, fur the piosecutor. Two letters, sworn to be in the prisonel's hand-writing, were then post it and read—one from the prisoner to Mr. Clitite,dried is out the lie use of Curs eetion, and the usher written by him, but signed by Clarke, and addressed to Sir R. Bunie. The former was written in a style of sup plication, and implored Clarke to visit him, and declared that he, and he only, could save him. His (Smokes's) fate was iu has Wilds, and he begged he would conic to him, as he lied a (tient who would do what was necessary between them. The oilier letter was expressive of an opinion on the part of Clarke, that lie had " iu sonic res pects been deceived," and a wish that Sir IL /Stride would allow hit's to will.diaw Isom any Wither ptoteedings against 'Looker,. The prisoner was then called upon for his defence. — He asserted and called Clod to witness that Mr. Clarke did pat his liaise to the check, and proceeded to give a detailed acemtint of the various trausections between the pa ties. He had discounted bills for Air. C., and a quarrel 1141'111X arisen bet arta" them, Cl4lke cuissuseneed pro ceeding* against him fur usury, but that was dropped. Tilts gave tier to actions sin hulls aides, and the couse qttemt proceedings are already before the public. He ascribed his preselit situatiou to Mr. Hill, the attorney, against whom lie said lie had intimated his intention to proceed for pet jury on a foe men occasion. He was 1110- ceelling to continent in yes y Pit Oil: 1411411dge on the con dor:l of some of the wi4isesses for tlic teiooa:coition, when lie was called to order by ilie Coital. lie concluded by pro testio4 his entire innocence. Joists Isaacson, ass attorney, was called. He was pre. aeon at the hint in .tee C Pleas, suit no question was then raised about the cheek tiring lorged. It was banded publicly about the Coot t.—ltemestsbers seeing Mr. Hill at Judge Best's eisainimrs.— Dal not recollect Ulm/ken saying he had destroyed the rhea ; was near enough to have heard it, if lie had said sit. Thai letter sent to Sir It. Hinter by Clarke was 11411111.11 to willies'', who amid it was out Slit head writing of Brookes. Psi suttee was clerk to witness, and his character was always honest. A letter containing a copy of the cheek, alleged to be forged. was ilioduced, and sawn to be in the hand writing of 'Turner, cleik to Isaacson. Jas. Turner swore lie was clerk id Isaacson.—Brookes was managing clerk.—Heinentm • Clat ke ',tinging a bill to Brookes to get discounted.—Brookes was engaged with company, and Clatke wrote • lime sip to hint, and desired a noes* to ask Brooke,' to let him have tour or bye pounds tin the Intl at that time—the rest would do in a week or so. Brookes accordingly sent down rum auv_ereigos, which lie gave to Claike, and l i e went away. —Saw him again uu the Init.—Saw Biookea give • cheek for It I. to Clarke, saying. " Clot ke you had liens r en dorse this check." 'atigen of the check was wittiest py Bioukes.—Clarke did eusluime this cheek. Mr. Arthur swore that lie was ptesent, and heard Broukea say " Clat ke, wine upon the cheek" sod Clam ke leaned forw•rd and *tote somethiug, bus witness slid not know what. \laitit' Nolan hate, au historieal engraver, Plated that lie wrote the uudy of the letter addressed to Sir His:Mud Blume. Mr. Justice- Paike summed up ilse evidence, and the July I eturned a verdict of out guilty. Tar SILENT SPEAKER.--Ai the brother of the proud Duke of Sulk r3CI. who Olen filled the chair to the house of Coatittottsi was returnith4 from Bath, his car rtia_te was intetropied out the road by di? tirialigeuee and audacity of a west cutntuv Wjgaolll're I isiliguatit at the insult, he jumped out of his cat riage. and began to lay about hint with his gold-headed cane 1.11,011 t he head 111 the weggoner, who, to his turn. snout plied his long whalebone whip so sharply, that his honour wits .lasi to retreat. exelaituing—" %%Maio ! do you know s. utt I t "—•' Noa" replied the west country er, " Who becst, after all ?"--.. Why, sitrall. the Speaker I " —" why thdit'A the Spniik'belorvt." GREAT Pe.DESTKIAN red.—Nlr. Abernethy, the Scots pedestrian, has eittopleted his match to go limo London to Nonnigham and bad:, waking a circuitous route of 21i0 macs, in lour successive days. . rt- THE NATIONAL REGISTER CORONER'S INQUEST. On Tuesday last an inquisition wss held at the Queen's Arms Tavern, Upper Keenington-lane, upon the body of Hersey reilip Savage, Ecq. before Charles Jeinmet, Leg. Coroner for Surrey. Abraham Coward, Esq. brother.in-law to the deceased, sworn. resided in the same house house with pest. He has been indisposed about four months, but has been only one month coulined to his bed. About II o'clock on lest Sunday atoruing I heard the nurse who attended bins screaming violently in his chamber. I went to her assistance, and when entered his apartment, I saw him in bed, his head reclining a little to the left, the sheets and blankets were Woody, and • bloody razor was lying outside the bed-clothes. I was very much agitated, but collected suyeelf, and perceived a wound in his throat. I believed WWI dead, but thought proper to send for Mr. Drysdsle, his surgeon : thsit gentleman war nut then at borne, but be arrived sootily afterwards wee.' he pronounced tee deceased•deari. The deceased had bean eery tow spirited ' biome his indisposition, supposed to have been occasioned by a negeciation going un between Wm and his father, with weeds lie had been at variance : lie was evidently sheeted by it. I sernversed with hit* on Friday night upon the subject, and in quired if there were any means of accelerating a reconciliation, but lie seemed rather to decline it. I saw Win again on Satur day night, but was rather delicate in touching upon the subject. Mr. George Drysdale, surgeon, deposed , —I have attended the deceased for some soothe peal, be laboured under a con sumptive disease ; I saw bite on Saturday, he was thee evi dently deranged in his intellect, and I thought he could not sur vive 21 hours. lie had been very much depressed in spirits since his alums, in consequence of some disappoiutnient in ad justing a difference between 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. I found hen with a deep incision in his throat, and much blood about hint lying is bed. A ream, with which lie committed the act lay by his side. The jugular vein was divided, and he was quite dead, The wound and less of blood, no doubt were the sauce of his death. The unfortunate catastrophe way he attributed to the neglect of his father : he wished to nee him before bin death, but be declined an interview with any of those friends who wished to bring about a reconciliation. I inter elided myself, but to 110 purpose. Mr. Coward then pulled out a letter, which he said was an answer to a letter written to the deceased's father reepectiog the funeral espences of the deceased, and lie proposed read* it to the jury , when the Coroner observed, that family •Wairs bad not Mg to do with the investigation ; the chief object was to ascertain the state of mind of the deceased when he com mitted the deed. Mr. Coward, however, read the letter it was to the following effect : ••Sia,---1 beg leave to inform you, that I made your commu nication known to Miss Crump in the evening 1 received your better; and in my hearing she informed the Admiral of the same, and also Joked him leave to send for his upholsterer concerning lehe funeral; when the Admiral flew into a most violent peasion, and protested that nothing of the kind should be done. I then inteufervel, with a hope 01 prevailing upon him, but lie would not hear what I had to say, but immediate 4 • wens up stairs to hie bed-room, and there the matter rested. "I am, Sir ' your obedient servant, r`ll I LIJAM I'OllC tf I L 1,." The Coroner, on hearing this letter read, observed, that the Admiral would be an unhappy man Miring the rest able dip. Mr. Coward observed, that the Adie rap is now between 70 and Stu years old; the deceased was bib only child, and never had given him any just cause to be offended; but that being reduced in circumstances, it butt the Admiral's pride to .see any of his family so impoverished. He could have helped tile deceased if lie chose; lie is now the thud Admiral on the list. &Malted' Mansfield, an old nurse, and Dr. Latham, deposed, the filet to the infirm state of the deer-abed for some time past. the latter so the probability of a person se reduced in health and spirits being seized with a temporary insanity. This was all the evidence produced, and the Coroner, having summed up to the Jury, ordered the room to be cleared. They delibt.trae d about 10 minutes, and then announced their verdict. •—•• That the deceased inflicted a wound in his own Olivet in a lit of insanity ' which caused hat death." Mal LANCHOLYUCCUKRENCE.—Tite brig fridiao anal Mary, of Sunderland, armed at Harwich till Saturday 11101.11111 S!, with a cargo of C 0313; the same Mitt I ))))) 11, be tween one and two o'clock, It. Carr, the master, iteel/111. pained by William Clarke, a seaman, and a boy of tile name of libel, set sail 11l tile ship's ieiai lire the port of Ipswich, with 2 view to dispose of his coals at that place. The tam proceeded about two miles and a hall up the Orwell with a I Avowable breeze, but at Collimer Point a sudden and most violent squall Came un from the S.S.W. by which the boat was upset, and the oakum 'late crew were all drowned. The master was a married wait, without a family; Clarke, au Ipswich man, has kit a wile and two children, living 31 Sunderland; toe boy, Bud, was the soli of a lig,liternian beloilAine to Ipswich, and his lather was on I•oard the brig. Tue WA was found, bottom upwards, upon the O.ize. Tile bodies of the soil . ..lets were discoveled (111 Sunday morn ing by the male of the brig, lying nearly al•ugeilier. llie JeCillelll happening wnbim the jurisdiction of Ips wich, tile holies were relliOVed thilher, 310 till the 113111. e alieriloon a coroner's bullies( was held upon diem, and a scribe : «I Accidental Death returned. 'lice Stockport Theatre ouetierl las - . week. On the rising 01 tite curtain, Mr. Smithson callie lot ward to announce a calamitous event which hail Isappelied to tile inJIIJ A t.T and like whole of lice perlormeis, tit tile gencial wreck of their property, whilst crossing the sands limn Ulteistou to Laiiiercer, titiritiA a gale of wind, in which %lir) , were suddenly tn. riaketi by the tide. All their clivsis, comaining their %% anirobe, with a portion of the scenety, were set mink, a 14144 ( 11de hntse drow nen, and (her it:nes and children ilarinwl4 escaped with their The appeal made 10 the audience Mr any defi• cleticy which must naturally hate tile messes. Six. was %cry favourably received, anti under et ely vim• CUIIIIIIIIIICe hie piece Weill Off much better 1131 e Well etilhetell. We are happy to near that the greaser pan it the 1 ks, fee. hate txtu recut erect, al thotogir moth injureu --11 or iy 11411 tic w et n Umerates) and Lancaskr their Is ills eXtellt of nearly to titles at low wales, which lib: ds wills eh iuucla and nviving.sainls, oil which guides air redo• I. fly p,itl Cimer iiiii eat, and ina.nnied at the time or lor the pru.eClll,ll of the liASSellp,l7l. TIIS VlO - hie it ,le had inneit the iconic hum hispostosiel the party ha% ing µnee too far 10 tteelle, were Obilgell, at use peril of their live., tU efUsS the last CII.IIIIICI Wltilolll any proper di/cotton. I ..,.,, _. 343 AcCIDENTS.—B•tween twelve and one o'clock on Wednesday afternoon last, a Most shocking accident happened in the shop of Mr. Drinbald, pawnbroker. Skinner-street, Somers Town, which had like to be attended with the most fatal consequences. M the hour mentioned, the neighbourhood was alarmed at an 'explosion in the shop; tile window was shattered to atoms, and all the things therein strewed about, and' several of the pledges on fire. On making inquiry as to the cause, the apprentice, a lad about 16 years of age, was tumid lying behind the counter, his tact all disfiAured with blood anti gunpowder. It hail been supposed for the moment that he hail blown his brains nut. Surgeon Waktfield dressed the youth, who ryas 111 a most deplorable condition, his face being alt in a shocking mass, and disfigured hum gutirowtler. No fire arms were found near him at the time, and he was nut in a state to answer any questions put to him ; but the supposition is that be was making some swaths, as the cases which were intended to-lie filled with gun powder Wel e found near him, but how the fire commu nicated to the powder is not known. The unfortunate youths was afterwards taken home its a hackney coach try Mr. Teasdale, a constable, to iris •lather's house its Guswell.streer, in a most shocking condition.- It is feared he will- lose his eyesight; and if he recovers he will be shockingly thsfiarired.—On .Nlontlav last, a most shocking accident took place at Wing, liuckingliann. shile:—A young man, who had just attained the age of 21, and WAS to have come into the possession of 5001. tan that, his birth-day. went into his employer's (Mr. Hart's) field, with a cart to fetch a load of tesiatnee It'•. being his births-day, his moitier sells him hit hew clothes, • clean linen, /kc. in order that he might be grecieti by very great number of his friends, who had asseinblett at his house to uteri him, and celebrate the occasion; but, melancholy to relate, their lecive joy was change:l into the most agonising mourning,. as, la the midst of lister • joy and harm o ny, bis.mangled hotly was brought in by some persons; the horse, having taken fright, run oh, and he jtimpirg out, had not titne.to elm the field gate before time litmus animal cause through, amid lie Was crushed to atoms by the cart. Hit poor niother and the intended bride received a.most indescribable shock, and remain incont,olable. The soul. was- irequeatitsd hint by his uncle 18 years since. DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT HIOMGATZ A ROM AT For some time past vast numbers of workmen have been employed in electing 39 almshouses near the Ambit/a:a. - at Highgate, for the aged poor belonging to the Mercers' Company, and in order to c ;dew tile buildings, it was found expedient to remove rs iiiiiii ruse pile of rata, thlj3 Was dog from the road at the time we Archway was forming, and which has remained ever since standing on the side of the road. Fur some days the hat igatons nave been at work in conveying it away and shootitig it tit anoilitr part of the road. On Saturday morning lint, whilst some of the eXCJVstOril were W.1111116(41? ilrerr 111111 to hare their wheelbarrows filled by oilier, who weer lugging at the bottom attic sasepile, the rimier part ft II in with a tremendous crash, and fit e of She 110 ig3;f,rs were buried under ii. The poins of the sufferers were distinctly heard by the other workmen, who with sol• prising alacrity set to work, amid after digging some time succeeded in extricating lour of tile so:tilers alive. The fifth, an aged navigator, who acted as foreman, and who had been employed ill the - excisations at tile Archway and the Hegt•tit's Canal, was tumid almost crushed to atoms, yet sit I alive. foe utifortunate old man was take,' mi a abutter to the Archway Tavern, where he received every surgical aid dial could be (Attained. Ito he died soon alter noun the' itijurres he stistaintd —On Tuesday night an inqiusition was taken at the Aiclisvay teloie T,S.Oling, Esq. Cu 1111 l er, on view of the body. The Jury consulted fors short iime, and recur edit their verdict—" That the geoids of the decreer(' wet oc. - casioned by accident." DREADFUL ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday af:enionii, - between t:iree and hour o clock, Mr. Thos. Flottglev, respectable slitTkeetwr at Lewisham,' Kent, drove up a. light chaise cart, to the door of Messrs. Mirrtin and H. Cutler. the cotulactors iu Fleet-market. paring or dered some home with him Mr. F. was in themet of putting Ilse itosehaA on the horses head, when the animal. tioldenly started off, amid rail with alai-tome, speed tip lileet-inarkee and along Britl e x-street, Mr. Flottgley still kcelimit hold of the steals of the cart, and eorleavourtng tocliecic Idea Career of the infuriated hor.t. When opposite the se of Mr. Goldsmith, ciiyinott, in Netv lirldge.street, Mr. F. was unfortunately janititeml between his own atilt a • town cart trial Was cointoz towards him ; and, Clocking to add, was killed on the spot. Mr. F. has left awi e • and family to bewail his untimely death. Oti Thorstia/- inght au 111V1111111111 Was I.o(en tiefiire Mr, Shrimp, it. 4 coroner, at the lite' Linn, Ptippin's•court, Fleet -covet, on the body, when the Jury, .Itvr a short dellher moo. re;toritetl a verdict—" Tilat the deceased came to 6,4 ileum by aCcident, and that the Iroise and cart were of the tahie of 2s. 64." STRKE &eke k on %Verities,' iy eveictig last, as .\I r. awl Mrs. Pique of Theob i'd's-rnati, were walkout; tip the Kills's-road, on their way home froin tira)'s inn-lane, five ur sum young fellows. who • arpeared w be at play with each totter, at the curlier 4.t . • Joini.strret, 'au agaiitta them, and threw thew hoot down ; Mr. Payne was instantly rid, 4.41 of his w.hch„ and Ars. Payne of her reticule, which contained Is.. siher, sit 4,141 crown piece, sheer and loot knife, pat ket handkercitief, vu hl rituier trHuh .trade., licture they sufficiently recovered from tlitor sagon t.: to discover Lilt If loss, the ruffians ellected Ilwir escape. A fire broke out between five and six o'clock on Fri lay Inottilog la.t , lit the tipper part of Mr, floug,, s, sale woollen riraper, 4g, Aldertatiothuty. Toe 5ic....•i!!.• arrival of engines. 3i141 opr pt suppiy of water, vii aided the firemen shortly ill ex:mums:l tile flumes. The persons taken at the gainblina-lionse, and c - coined to the notto• of Correction, Coltiliwth•ti:ll!), ice ontlerstatl,see all Frestehaseto..Some persons are s.11(1 to have coutatetteett partnership vi.b ihrii,s a WCI.I:. irrhoiC - tits partici' were put to the twat. • • •