The National Register. — London, England, 1814-09-04 00:00:00

;72 on que:•l:y it capacity in the house of Dr. Bowen, ia Straud the Grueli; the fam e ily ansisteri of Mr. end Mrs. Bowen and fi ve c hildren--a cook—Mary hire, a wirsery Hayes. meet to witliess, who was housemaid in the family—and a Mrs. 3. i4l•Es, at: iii ate in the fami:e—and Maria R. Suster, a mulatto, it;:ess karat she purchased as a slave at the age of six years. St. Croix ; there was a child's hrd gown found near t ditch, which on !icily.; !..liewn to M rt. Bowen, she acknowledged to be her in ()pert v C the night previous to the thing being Som,d in the thick), ;01'4. ROLTES u•as ClniflOt d to her apartment through todispost titan Mrs• tfuwen and the mulatto servant alai Mary Price at- . teoded her, al! of whom have since kit the place, and witness diu not know e, here they v ere pliA• to. EMIR' d e prised. that she was housemaid in Dr. Bowen's fa milv ; ()met . site understood, accompanied them from Angelica, :tr.; she head d theta talk of going to Paris. On Tuesday night pre cediog the body of the child having been found, Mrs. Rogers was taken suddcttly ill, as she understood from her servant, through fright, saying she was alarmed at the noise of some persons breaking into the lions ; she continued ill all night. The Jury, after several hours investigation, returned a vet diet of Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown. A person with warrants, arrived at the Old Ship, Brighton, a few days ago, iu quest of :llrs. Rogers, Dr. Howell, Sce. in consequence of the suspicion: which had arisen on the Coronet's Inquest on the new-horn infant teat was found in the river Thames, on the Ittd Hear to Strand on-the-Green, Kew -bridge The visit however was an ineffectual one, tot Mrs. Rogers, Dr. Bowen, Mrs. Bower, their mu l a tto s eta too. ked, in the Eliza packet, Capt. Lind, on Tuesday se:might, and bail a speedy passage to France. The party arrived at the Oid Ship about ten o'clock in the morning of Tuesday, and :ailed on tide same et ening. Thursday an ituptest was held at the Distillers' Arms, in Great Safiiun hill, before George Hodgson, Esq. on the body of Margaret vine, whose husband, Thomas Byrne, is now in custody, on sus picion of having murdered her. After the Jury were impatmelled. they proceeded to the place where the body lay, which exhibited several black marks on vat ions parts of the body. ilarearet Dte:n dcposad, that both she and her husband, Patrick Dcnn, who lived in Back-ailey, Blue-court, Saffron-hill, next door to the deceased, carne about half past ten on Monday night. the tetd of Ana,nst, to the room of the dieeca , cll, for the purpase of drink ing a pot of beer together ; she knew the deceased and her husbaod about seven years ; the deceased was ill with a slight fever the pre ceding week, an waq confined to her bed five days. When witness anti her hu:,band went to Byrne's room he was in bell, and the de ceased sat by the tire smoakina her pipe; she appeared in liquor, but rot drunk. husband brought in two pots of porter; the first pot the to 0 men drank ; the second pot Byrne never tasted! of ; the deceased hat took of it. At half past ekven witness's husband tt ent home, atia fimovad hint about to dye o'clock, taking about half a pint of lo er that was left with her, and likewise the ca7tlle ; but din enti ring her own door the candle went out, mid she retntred back again to light it. The deceased! opened the door, gave t:itness a light, and shut the door after tier. Witucss did not sue Lir afterwards, unt:l between seven and eight o'clock next morning ; site went there to light a candle ; Byrne was gone to work. and the deceased was ling stretched on the bed, with part of leer clothes ott ; witness asked a little girl about eleven years of age, their daughter, what was the matter with her mother; the child answcted, " is very bad —she fell at the door, and her lip is all eta yoar father heat her, or had they any words? ' " No." The deeeased then turned round, and sat up in the bed, owl said, " 0 ! 1 am very had, Mrs. Dutm."—‘ , What is the matter with tots" ---d' lam runic& I ant undone, I never will do any enod " She took her hand off her mouth, and wittiest'. saw her Is • iiwutth shockingly cut, so that she turned away her face, anti could not bear to look more at it; she appeared so weak, that witness did not speak mote to her ; but she said that upon her soul tier husband did not touch her, but that she had a fall, and her last fall; she did not say where she fell. When her husband came home he got a coach, and witness and another woman assisted him to put her into it ; some of the blood from her mouth got on the breast of his shirt as he was eatring her to the coach she was then taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where she remained until last Monday, when she was brought home in a chair, and died about eleven o'clock next day, during which interval she was quite insensible. William James deposed that he was surgeon's pupil at St. Bartho lomew's Hospital ; that between ten and eleven o'clock on Tuesday morning, the €:3cl of August, he was 'called to the deceased; he %mot her sitting in a chair ; her lower lip was divided, and four o live of tile teeth of the upper jaw were out; she appeared undo THE NATIONAL _REGISTER._ _ • ~-. ~-. -: SEPT 4. the itiflueree of liquor, her breath. smelled ut i stitching tier lip ; she had no finals of violence o). ai y pat t of her body, except a sl i ght mark of no con,cquEnee on lits - ,!.:odder; she hail no fracture, but was in 8 hiutt fever ; she .is put to heel, and °Meted to be kept as quiet po, , ni , e. and not to lit- alloAe4 to speak to any bod,, on :,ecoin.t of het tip, xeept to her husband, awl to be kept en a 10%v mi:k diet. Witne..s was Winne d that 'he tOI the nurse that she met the accident oy 'leder a heavy loatl of nyst. rs, on which uo particular examination took pace, i n two or thri..t . day.: her fever hie' eased ; her linsbantl app?ared very attentive 10 her. On Monday, when 'tress called to see her, he lent Pied that her husbaud had tat.eti her aay.wiAtont his kho w . tching the uurses that she v..olid be happier to die at home with It, r children. He had since ixatrincd the body, and found no other Ina; ks hot %vh..t proceeded !rem ply refaction. The Jury, after :+ long investir,atiou, it:Willett a verdict—Died by the Visitation of God. An inquest was Mir.Mint:too, on Thorsday, An the b o d y of George Best, who was 1011fili hanging on a tree --Ve•r;list, Lnt►aey. We understand t!►e decea..ed was one (if tie deluded din. ciples of Joanna Soutl►cott, and had just been attending one of her conven t ides. DRLADTUL FIRE.—On Sunday evening, about seven o'clock, a mast extensive and .lreadful tire broke otit at the mustard and oil mills of Messrs. Wardle, situate at Bankside, Southwark. It is v:ell known that those istemises formed a part of a range f what t and buildings, extending front the end of Bankside to Londen a ri y, a They were principally appropriated to trade and merchandise, and the property they coatained was immense. The flames -extended wit!t almost inconceivable rapidity, and unlortunatelv , at the time the acci dent occurred, the tide was gouts! down. A pile of flame soon spread over the building, which was seen ten nr more miles trom By nine o'clock five wharfs fronting the Thames forancd one tremen ch us fire. The tide being down, it was impossible 'o •cmove t•veral coal barges filled with coals. and the cons:quence was, thev so n wok fiie, and added to the flames ' which appeared, when at the hig ! a:st extent, awfully grand. Nothing has been seen in Loreical since die destruction of Diury-lane Theatre, equal ro this fire. Tla!re was a long range of rapid flame, which threatered destruction to the whole Fne of building up to the bridge. 'rho oil in the mustard inaaufac. tory blazed with great force, and vast quantities ran into the water, spreading on the top to a considerable distance. By the return ot the tide, :he owners and proprietors of craft or the hank were ea.abled to tow the barges further out, and aad it not hoc:. ter that circumstance !limy more would have been destroyed. The t. at engines got up to the fire as soon as possible, and played with y: eat etiect. Nearly all the engines in London wete also playieg oa shore, and by eleven o'alack the devouring element was effia.auaily checked, but not tuel the range of whails, so late the scene of industry and cenimerce, lead been reduced to one wide extended iMn. The conflagratitei orieneetea as before stated, in the mustard nod oil-mills of Messrs. Wardle, Lea Lingard. It is supposed to have kindled from the iron-work of the mach 7 nery being over-heated by friction, and cominutocating to the adjoining wood-wcik, which suddenly caught the and burst haalt whir an irresistible force and rapi !ity. The premises, which have been more or less injun:(l, and the greater part burnt to the eh:tied, are tee oil-roilk of Messrs. Wardle, whit all the property they colitained the extensive corn-tlietory cf Messrs Ilammoek and Co. Pad thoseof Messrs. Hair and Wiegs, where the loss is supposed to be most con sideravale in that of ostensive granaries and flour warehouses ; .lottes's iron foundry, and C; wading itild Co.'s logweod mil', It dycieg ma nufactory, and the watehowes of Messrs. Evans, malt aid hop merchants ; Hill's cc-rd wharf; four barges , viiieh were mooted re the river, containing npw.,nds of sixty eleild; on of Leak, with aeven or eight old wooden hauses, all inhaboaat bt poor familica. fortonately 'no lives were lost ; but may persons vs' re so much hurt as to he :ea t to the hospital. Me horse in a private stable avms burnt, and very little of an immense property has been saved. The loss falls heavy on the Fire Offices. A fire hroke out at eleven o'clock on Tnes&;a' night, at the Veneer Manufactory, Batter . ..ea, which raged with tineatieguishable they for three hours and a halt, consuming the whole stuck and pre. mists. MURDER IN CORNWALL.— John Shim and Richard Rogers were on Monday last committed to Budniin Gaol, for the tutmler of Joseph Burnett and Walter Davies. The prisoners and other men, all privates in ti n ' :18th rel.Timent, (nr its march from Petidennis Castle, to embark for America, lagr , ed behind at Lostwithiel ; the two not named got drunk, aid Le prisoners nut being able tti pr cure a cart to carry them, became enra!Ted at the disappeintment, loaded their aims, and proceeded' to act ontraeTowly, whelk 64 1 were met by Burnett, who was town serjeant, Iyho saki be "ffiii" take them into custody. On this, one of the pri , oners tired at him; the hall passed through his body and broke the back of Davies, %%ho stood behind him. . - ~ ..