The National Register. — London, England, 1813-07-18 00:00:00

JULY IS. THE NATI which she TO( nded she wits particularly in want of. The woman, not suspt-ct i lig any had de.to, prorated it, and took it into her ploro ut c o nfinement, %, hen the prisoner threw her down, locked her ir, and made her escape towards Deal; but not nil .he had defranded a poor woman, near eighty years of age, of 21. \.ith %inch she gut clear A horrid murder was committNi on the body of Robert Fountain, n g irdtmer, of Waltham, Lincolnshire. a IThursday, the tst instant, by Fount: In, his wite, end Gemge T. Rowell, a cooper, who lodged at the house of Fountain. the tollowing particulars transpired before the Coroner and Jury :---The deceased. being suspicious of a criminal connection between Rowell and his wile, was so distracted in mind i‘s fiequentl:. to get intoxicated; about two months ago, the two latter agreed to take asvey his late by poison ; and the favoart.ble op portunity apneariog ota tl,'cilnesday evening, the :ioth nit. ti:ey gave hint four ounces of I:ruder:urn in ale i:nd vldei berry wine ; that quan tity, Itotever, appearing not to ha' e the desired effect, they gave inn) (.1 itt winces more the next day, which, according to the • pinions,el and Foreman, aka , opecetl tale body, caused his death. Mr. re nett, dru!lgist, apt Grinishr, otttuded before - the Coroner, and IcarlY rccnll.cted Itt. , well's purchasing a quantity of laudanum ( add;rl to which in . :dunce., the Jury havin , the cor.fession of the wretched woinau, I,r-ought in a verdict of Wiiyal :Murder apnnst tar and IL wul , and they have been committed to Lincoln: Castle to their tiials at the eiisuiug A most at roz,-loo.s murder was perpetrated at n colliery Wood- Fess, ovar Niikonni lA, in 12n:ill:shire, ou the tight between Thursday the 1:4 aod FrAav the 62(1 inktant. tuintiStig, about six o'clock, (is e ot the ws.- k men, on slesct nits g i:no the coal pit, dise.vered the corpse of Agnes Wot,oo, who ‘Vr moill al the sant colliery. lying at the bottom in a shickinciy m condit;on. hi r heat! neatly severed !rain h er body, which wlis stabbed in rldft.reut parts, and the ‘vli•:lt.: of bur person exhibiting a most frightful at pc..rancr. In the shed, or lodge, as it is calted, at the mouth in the lAr, a consider...isle yummy of hi ,d, sonic hair. a colt and 4,titvr articir• belongine to the deceased. Wert. fuund, tthich sla-'%%eil that the fortunate ‘voiatatt, ht. had been I..iss , ing sit cc ten o'clock the precedic7 eveoirg, had tuadc cosilersbia. resistance befure she was ob.:tied. Jail).* Jackson, a n collier a t Woodsess, to whom Agnes ‘N alsou was far mivaoced to meg nanev, is in clostody on suspition of the !loader ; awl a prve •gottion is going on, with the view of imporing into the citculustunots attend lairry this most barbarous affair. The Cambrian, a Welsh paper, stir; "In our last obiteary.tie men . fwned the sudden death of Mt. 'Flo i sinas Morgan, of the RPd-Uot, ferry-tide, at Swansea; and we are sorry to have to state, that fit conse clue:lee of an inqiiest held upon the body and a loboriuns investigation et the case. the w idow of the deceased, Ann Morgan, has beta com mitted to Cardiff goal, chat ged ou suspicion of killing and slaying her husband." On Tuesday an Inrinest was taken at Richmond before Charles Jeminett, Esti, Ccroncr for the county of Surrey, on the body of Mr. Ctark , on, aged 83, I..rmerly of Essex-street, Strand, but for several year. past n resident in Kew-foot-lone, Richmond. The cie&ased had for the !ast three mouths been solij-ct to fiepi, lit fits of despondency, (.reasioned by the sudden death of his niece, who resided with hint, uhst on Saturday last, at noon, in the absehce of his attendant, preci pitated hire elf from his chamber window into the area, by which he bake his thigh, ribs, and so bruised his skull, mid other parts of his body, 111,1 he expired atter languishing two hours iii extreme agony. The re:or:J.4l a verdict of I-WWII. 11-, nth-lined the Church S-1 vice on Itici.t.V mortilog, and draCa tea and spent the evening with S.IIIW trcisds, and appeared more tranquil and composed when be re torned _tome than for sonic tone preceding. It is said that he has he r:neathed a handsotne legacy to the poor of Sunbitry, in Alidcilesex, al iiongli nut at all connected with that parish. - A 113 r rAntas..---Monday week, a farmer Cmlney, treated a .v.duahie mare, his own property, in • the wrist brutal inanuer, without any provocatton whatever. 'flue p •tir animal was drawiou a es.tt out of a deep hole, when the owner took a large hedge-stake, nod with Irsth hands heat her about the loins, and afterwards struck rust one 1,1 her eyes. lie then suffered the aisitnal to remain in that state several Lours., with its eye banging down and bleeding from the s9cket, and 0 young foal sacking by her side, witiic..;l" permitting it (*artier to Locr p'sse any of the &Nees of humanity. Net long since, •the sautes man teat .me of his cow till she sliti i rrit ridf .and died ; and kicked a lit ne..p over the inotith and rest? in such a brutal manner that it was tvtiortly altos found dead iu the field. Bum mity Sitoiders st .the re peated recital of these acts of cruelty, mid calls on the ore !cr some enactment to protec! car doincAic animals from the out ege of stell inhuttaa: monger,. ONAL REGISTER. TUESDAY'S LONDON UAZEITE. ADMIRALTV-OFFICF, JLILY 19, 1613. Copy of a letter from Captain Adam, of his Majesty's ship the In vincible, transmitted by Rear-Admiral Hallowell to J. W. Cro ker, Esq. His Majesty's Ship Invincible, off the Coll de Ba lagner, June 8, ltsl3. Si R,—ln pursuance of your directions to take the ships and ves se!s, named in the margin*, under my orders, and to co-operate vvith Lieet.-Colonel Prevost in the siege of the fort of the Coll de ll:dopier, I have the honour to inform you, that the troops were landed about noon of the 3d instant, and the Lient.-Cohmel imme diately invested the fort, the riflemen of Dc Roll's raitionent, slid other light troops, being pushed close up to the walla. The lot t is situated in a most difficult pass, threenlb which the hi h road from Tmtosa to '1 arragona winds, it is absolutely the key of the only road for cannon into this province, from the nest war-J, without going round by Lerida. It is armed with t i pieces of es-Joance, including two ten-Melt mortars, and two .howitzers; an the surrounding heights are so diffiellit of access, that it hits been a work of the greatest labour to establish the uccesAry bat. teries before it. Two six-poundta - field-pieces and a howiteer were landed on the evening of the 3d instant, (bagged up, and placed on the ridge of a steep and rugged mnnntain, to the S. E. ef the flirt ; two pounders were added to the former by noon of the next day. The whole remained u n der the command of Lieutenant Curbyn, First of the Invincible, .having under his orders a detachment of teidship men and seamen from this ship, and a most excellent foe was kept up from them, which considerably damaged the delenees of the fort, and checked its fire upon our working parties. In the mean time three Spanish eappunders were landed, and two more gnus, of the same calibre from this ship to begot up by the high-road to the foot of a very steep height, on the crest of t, , hich the breaching battery was to be constructed, at about 800 yards - from the eastern face ot the fort. in the afternoon of the -Ith inst. the fort was summoned to Mr. render ; and the Cemmandaut. auswered, that he vhould defend- the ;dace cometitted to his charge. Moing tau night of the 4th, every exertion was used to hring thee:lma np the (till, and to complete the breaching battery ; Vit, as it could not be complete:l by daylight, the /nen were witlidraWn. The ! , cameo amt marines %A ere traded early to the afternom of the - ).th, andearried up the stores for the battery, under a brisk flie of shot nod shells from the fort. The three Spanish 24-pounders, notwithstandiug their immense size and weight, were .coeveyed up the side of the hill, vier the most difficult and rugged ground, by the united exertions of the • seldieri, seamen, and marines, sunder the immediate direction of Captain Carroll, of the Volcano. The two eh :lit-inch mortars were brought as far alone the road as was practicable before dark ; and the iron 2-1-pounders were conveyed to the foot of the hill as soon • as it was dark. The work of the battery advanced rapidly, although it wits cescary to till all the sand-i•;:2 sat the brave' of the hill, and I was in confident expectation that the battilry mould opea soon after day-light ; but by ten o'clock the rain fill in torrents attended by the most violent thatakr and lightning I slime t ever witueased. Th e irrin fity d,t ammunition which had- been brought up for the tivioit ir, cypsei situations, made it the more avrtitl,and the enemy .kept Hp an incessant fire of and grapeahot„ In defiance of all the-e oir•-taeles two of the gulls were got high enoneh up to meant on the platfinans, hut all our exertion was sin• equal to place then: there, owing to the N. iuteoce of the rain, and the eXeeFAVe difficulty of a:oil:bra in the mirene: darkness of the night. From the Faille TC7SCII. IGo, the mortars could not be In otralit II forward, an,t at's?.r a eight of theanost excessive iabouv. we had the mottitiaation of being obliged to retire ; the officers alai inch being quite worn out. - Tile weather continued very bed urtil the aftereenn of the Gth instant, when a party was lauded, and she inertias were it fee ward before daylight the St adsteu an'l marines were on the pile, and mdl the eons mere ',heed on the bat tete r , :idy for ernintieg. The two mortiir% opened shnn after day -liglJ, and tikt shrill' e enowii with ureat precision, by Liens. Jame‘, of the 110;,a1 Marine Artil lery. landed film the Stromboli), who winked the tocriar. uitb hi, party; and go fire trn:q Cer4to.liatitty w I,auni, d "lilt e eel ient of vet. This untied tieee made very conmiter.ible pression on tee feat: expenseemioaziee vies blown isle and the ► ceeme's fire wan very much stirelseivit • Thames, Volcano., Striatibolaillenne, and eight assn-lansta. , - 433