The National Register. — London, England, 1815-04-16 00:00:00

.. v - in winch the•dreadful serue.had taken place. Nothing fwdd be more horrible than the spectacle they presented. The wile lay near the fire-place, with her head nearly severed from her bode, two stabs on her breast, an: a large incision in her arm ; white the linsband lay at a short distance from her with - his throat. eut most diva:tinny. The floor "was drenched with blood from one ' , rid to the other. The Jury having returned, the Coroherproceeded to examine witnesses-- . Edward Wir.hoin,' son to. the doecased. was first examined. He deposed, that he was eight yeAira and a half old Friday,• about ir ;1' CIOCk, his talk:Art.36k the Carving knife and sharpened it on a h:.ichers' steel, he then laid tt large walking stick on the table, rhid said he would murder The first prison that came into the. room. Ahoot halt past one witnesses mother got up In go down struts, %i lien his lather went between her and the door, locked the door and pat the key in his pocket. At this time witnesses little sisttr, about six )ears of am and his little brother about four years Mil, were in the twin'. • His mother then'snifl " What are you going to do With me ?" " soon let you know," said the tank r, holding the carving knit'e in his hand. They then walked up and down the room Bestial times, ;old at last his mother ran to-the door and beat it violently with her fist, eallieg for help. -His father-then seized her and gave ' her a stab en cacu breast with the carving knife, and then cut Ler head nearly off, that it hung down behind. Witness and his We brother and Sister cried 'murder'! His father stood over his moth. r a few to nu t: s after he had done the deed, and then, hearing pride coming up stairs, he walked to the middle of the room, and taking oil neckerchief cut his own throat and instantly fell. Sewn afterwards some persons forced open. the door and sent for a Sur geon: witness's father was still alive, but died In tewminutes.— Witness's father, the night before, took' the carving 'knife from the knife-hox and struck himself violently on the breast - three Man With the Ahout twelve . months back he was coufined 1u,41.111ta1, Green mid•hom - r - a month. ..On comings from thence, however, he conducted himself very quietly, and working at his traie as wiener till hit week, When lie shewed symptoms of insanity. Orrilittraday night a man sat up with line, hilt the man went away in the morning and the deceased went-to work in making a waistcoat. They hail iodized in the house about ei4lit weeks: His father 'mid mother had not quarrelled. Wituless did not think his father would have tsar. died him and kiliittle'brOther and sister even if the people had not come up. - This child gave his eviditiolio and satisfactorily, that the Coroner did not think it necessary to call anymore witnesses to prove the cause of tai' death of the miliappy . prople. George Sleet; the brother of Jane Waehorn, deposed,•that she had beets Married to Woe. %Vedic:li aboutlifteen yens ; .041- were boVt about thirty Om years of age. • • Scnew that the defeated wasin•ac mad-house twelve months ago: was sent for last week, and found him evidently labouring under mental derangement : heard him say, that they would be all hanged, drown, and quartered before the morning, and made into a fire. Had not the slightest doubt that at the time the act was committed he was incapable of knowing • what he was about. This was all the evidence (miles'. The Jnry found the following verdict :--•' The deceased Jaw firaghoen came to her death by the rio lint act of her husband Irm. Waghbrn, the said Wm. Wagliorn died by his Ammon hand, bid at the time lie committed both awls he Was incapable el judging between right and Wrong." The children have been Fent to the worklinuse: they are -ex WI:R•1y interesting, and exhibit an uncommon intelligence for their nn Nlonlay evening an Inquest wag 110(1 on the body of Lady Ably Fitzgerald, at her house in Charlea,itrect. kley-square . , death was occasioned bv - her clothes .catehinit tile. It ap 14'1'11 in evidence. that on last Saturday night her ladyship was ilittioe in her drawing•room alone, and about nine o'clock the ser villas mere alarmed with a violent scream and ringing of the bell ; they ran up, and (timid her Ladyship standing near the door, cove leped in games ; the butler wrapped the hearth-rug round her, but it being ton etiti, it did not answer the desired end ; on which the fltinc . .4 were extingui s hed.b v t h row i ng w . iter on h er. T he few re niannoic clothe.' .:1:e had l e ft were t orn off, and she still kept call ing out for water. as,,ittance was immediately provided, but she expired at six o'clock in the morning. There were no great narks of the effects of t h e fi re , Sh e was of a wea k an d detente row:tuition, and in the b9tii rear of her age. The Verdict on the was Avcidental P‘alh, by I,cr clothes taLin.; fire.—Lady APR;t, lO . - 4.1r . A*.-44111% ), • - 4 • Nils Otilw 4~. _. _." ..,.Ts _._4 TITE NATIONAL REGTSTER. Mary fit7gerald was many years one of the Maids of Hollow to her prese►►t Majes!y, uqttl she wes superainiuted ; she was sister to the late Earl of Bristol,. an;i Bishop of Derry, and mother_ to the *info: tmaate George Hob. Fitzgerald. who was executed about thirty years ago in Castlebnr, Ireland. ei►arged with being. acecesacy to the murder of Patrick Randal M Donnell, an npstart attorney-. Mr. Blackburn, the attoiaey, of Leeds, who was convicted of forgive deed stamps at the late York Assizes, wa• executed on Sa. wide'', last. Abous a (patter before twelve, the Under St►eritls. and utiter.utficers jtrstiee, went to his ern. He imiliediatelv walked with t h tni to the fatal p'attni in, accompanied also by the Rev. Ur. Hamilton, of Leeds, Mho prayed with him nearly a quartet of a* hour on the scaffold, and he was a few minutes afterwards laiturbed into eternity. DEATH 11Y FRIGIfT.—A sineular circumstance octnrred Wednesday last, at the house of a Noble Lcid, in the sitiefthoue hood of Chelsea :—Two eats having committed depredations UM the larder, by gratifying their appetites with a fowl, the fionstkeeper ordered a footboy to destroy tht m. n accomplishing the dextrine tion of the last ordinal, he found considerable difficulty in its piteous moans, while tinder the bands of its executioner, operated in au poWerful a turoner on the nerves of the lad; that he observed to his fellow-servant, . 4 he felt so shocked at killing the cats, that he motray never kill another as long as he lived." A short time after this ors. nervation. his countenance became changed, he was enable t stand, and his whole nlas cf Wood appeared affected. Medical advice was called to his assistance, but be expired the nest morning in St. George's Hospital. RECENT ATTEMPT TO STEA T. inE Cnoww.—Tuesday MARGARET MoortE was brought before the MAgistrateS of Lamheth Police Office, and undervi•ent a final examination, charged with attempting to at► all the Crown from the Tower.---A number of respectable persons, how evpr, who had known the prisoner several years, were in attendance, to prove thin she was deranged in her wind. This being fully ptoved, she was immediately discharged. The thunder-storm which passed over the metropolis nn Thursday, about two &Clock, was n►atked in its termination by an awful and most violent explosion, which took place immediately over two houses its Frtderick•plaee, Goswell.etreet•roed : the electric fluid took its three• tion through, chimney of No. 13. causing havoc in most of the rooms, but particularly in the parlour, where it destroyed a looking-glass VA other artteles of furhiture : it then forced its way throne) the patty wall, and eventually sub tided in the kitchen of No. 14. The *lawn excited in the neighbourhood was considerable fur the fate of the init.. bitants, but, we are happy to state s they have providentially escaped without personal injury. Bt EtTJIS. On Friday htst, Stratferd-place, her Grate the Duchess of St. Albans, of a con and heir. ' Ors Good Friday; . the lAdy or S. FL Morey. E.g. of the Priory. S.iff,lk. of a dibghter; and „hot is very singular, on the birth-day of both pateht:. On IlTontiav morning, at St. George's Church, Ilsnover square, Lord Edward O'Brien, to Mies Mailmen, elAtti l s,t dstighter rrf \lr. Matintert, of Lower ros% onor-strer t , rutd of t7orshatu House, Wilts. After rim cerernoll the happy couple get off fur the Countess of Orkney's seat in licrks. Just rublislied itt 4 volt , . 14r.50. price 22.. .THERESA; or this WIZAnD's Fare, a Romance, by a Mcsuber of the haler Tesrple. Minted fur A. K. Ni WM A N and C. Leatitlthall•street. Wlnie may be had the following - p.d.di)hed this dear; Afisrri I I • AND pi EA SIT RES OF MAIRIAWNY ; or, the First Husband and the Second, 4 cols. 14s. WALTlilt DE MONDARY, a Romance, by Kramer, Yd edition. 4 rola. 204 e.nr . tri• ; Or, the Graie of Antoinette, a Romance, by L. S. Stan hipe, 4 vols. [nice u.N. BARON OF FA I.CONP rRo, by Britlget Bluemantle, S cols. 15s. DANT° F.Rovs SRL nvre, it SC. , tlish °.2 vol,. 105. 6 6 1. BAC 111'1.005 Jot ['NA r. er , ited by Migs Byrn. Author of the 1:::lislisileal," 4c. &c. ;; YOl. 10, 6.!. r ~_,,,x