The National Register. — London, England, 1814-11-13 00:00:00

'5O THE NATIONAL REGISTER. lion heiti. , tl•at al touching the adeowson, the Court are of ',pinion. that the zoon.l pat' of the contract may stand, tend that judg iiient therjorc tun,t be tor the pl , tintilf."--Tlttt‘ has finely been ruled, The le.;al and import:tot tight c.st Ect.lesiastica; patronage, by a distinc soleionly totjuth e ;eti between the ii.fhts of a pre-sent:okm and apputida . ..t to an od.:owsou in lee. I.lv thia decree., the Rev. Sir Henry 1: Dudley, Bart. hccoraes pf).oFSt.ql of the va:uable advoween ut the ltectory Bradt el. near the S-a, in Ktsex. POLICE. QI;EEN-SQUARE DFTON AT NO-BA I I.:N.—l : l l day, Cut hbert, of St. MArtites-lane, chemist. ts,is Fit:nnioutd, uu infortuatime respecting the sale of fire-works, called detonating balk ; and for selling than to a youth, Panted Thomas Clarke, on Saturday last, whitli paid) was himself Con• rieted on that day in the penalty of 't Os. h.r expluding some ut them in St. James's Park. Mr. Cuthbert was accompanied by lir. Cooper, 06Cli ist, previously convicted, and by the justly cele brated Ci:pirliti Vanity. The tact of the sa:e hat ittg !e'en proved, Nr. Fieldivg observed, :hat the wily renviining question was, whether these balls came within the meaning of the Act tal..ich related to "squibs, rot kets, or,otherfire-works ?" Ills opinion that they did wits strength en. .d by eveiN definition that he consulted, and every etymology that he traced. Ti.e word squib, the first part of the nominative to fire worlo, was defined by ionte-tur to be a small pipe Of paper, tilled with wild fire. It was a pyrotechnic, and in the furtherance of the art, the Act did not require gunpowder only to be used, for throughout the Statute the went gutipowder was raver once mentioned. It had refer ence to the creation of artificial e, not such as was displayed by mature in her common appearances. To go farther, squib was a species of what the Latinists called " Mini/Ma," which were thus defined by Littleton, 'fire balk, squibs, crackers." That these fulminating balls emitted flame was evident to every eye ; that they contained the lgueous element, Mr. Banks's experiment had put beyond a doubt ; and that they were ntischievons, it could not now be disputed. Captain Munby ndrebted that they through out flame, hut such flaree was not tire ; he, however, could turn such light into fire. Notwithstand ing Mr. Banks's mishap, he still inalittaieed that the explosion of a thousand t f these bads would not ignite eunpow der, except by the acci dental meeting of two particles ; au accident similar to thus which until occasioned the loss of many lives by the explosion of gunpowder mills. Ire had been turning his mind to the means of in - eventing such melt:lt - tehob, - mischiefs, rind he hoped soce to succeed. Mr. Fielding having spoken nut only of the wonderful power of fire, but of variotto species of fire now utiktiown, particularly the unextin gnishabie Greek fire, shot through tubes, and by means of which Callinicus preserved Constantineple, • Cale. Mitnby replied, that he could produce fire of" such hellish city4i6es" th:it the most rapid destrnetiou veould follow wherever it y..ftlt, slid that it was not only unextinguishable, but that water would i:,crcase its fury. This secret, however, was locked in his own bosom, it would never escape thence, except the honour and safety of his country required it. He spoke of another invention which he deemed the most valuable of all his labours, that wele constantly directed to tuf;:iry, by which mortars might be fired, although the rain were to descend in buckets. Mr. Fielding then pronounced Mr. Cu:hhert to stand convicted in the penalty of 51. laid costs. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE AIURDER AT MALI)ON. - - In our paper of Oct. SO, we Etated as much of this horrible mur ds'r as was then known. We are now enabled to communicate the following interesting particulars, front The . Thunton Courier. William Seymour, the young man su , peeted, had lately returned from sea, where he had been sent for anal-practices, and he was traced to Faint): idge Ferry, the same evening, where he had crossed; and as it afterwards appeared, had taken his course for Tilbury. Ow the road lie stopped at Pitbea, where he sold a watch ter vzs. and a wit of beer, and ‘vlsich has since proved to be that which was taken from the deceased. While the travellers, on foot and on horseback, were performing their part, the inhabitants of 111aldon, %villa a Coroner and a Jury, wore sitting upon the body, instituting the most minute enquiries. :Judge:on was produced, which was in a great measure, identi tied oy the young gentleman before mentioned, and by the account children mud °there, who had seen Si.yalonr s not a shadow of NOV. 18.. doubt remained but that itelsionn fell by the hands of Seymour. The murderer, after he Lad sold the watch, pursued his course or Til uttry Fort. One of the handbills, so industriously circulated, the next morning readied Pitsea, and the person of Seymour so correctly deserile that it was impossible to mistake, although he had artfully changed his dress. The yonsg man to whom Seymour .-old the watch, with a laudable spirit, set out immediately iu pursuit of him, and after a search of several hours, durieg which he frequently beard of the eha. meter, yet he did not overtake him until lie reached the Crown, at Mucking. Here the murderer had entered, hod wits found sitting in the t p.rooni ; when the young man, fortified by the nature of his mission,told Sitytnour that he was a prisoner. Unarmed by a sense of guilt, Seymour made no resistance, but sulfured himself to be conveyed before the Rev. Mr. Newman, 4,r Burstead, who committed him to Chelmskril gaol. The same day the Coroner had summoned all the evidence which could be produced before him, by w ha:a the act was clearly traced to the prisoner; and it is impossible to desciilke the relief which the hilt t bitants of the town of Malden and its vicinity felt, when the informieion arrived. The stute of aliirtn which pervaded all ranks until that moment may be better couceived than described ; each expected to fall the iu•xt victim of the murderer's revenge. Pre•iously to the Coenter's'verrt!ct being given, the prisoner was taken to Malden, to be present at the exa mination of witnesses. Seymour at first appeared much agitated, but neither denied or cenfessed himself to be the more! 'ter. Before the examination closed, he appeared sotoething wore composed ; and on Friday he was inuch in the same state. The prisoner was taken into a room where the deadly instrument. lay upon the table ; a gr it Iron n who had paid particular attention to him, observed no murk of ex pression in his eyes, but a convulsive motion scented to agitate the muscles about the lower part of his cheek amid his lip. On being f)11 that the bludgeon was an old friend of his, he replied, " I see it :tow, isbut I. never saw it before." The prisoner is a remarkably fine young Man. Mr. Clark, of Broughton, in Cumberland, met his death in a dreadful manner, on Tuesday sesmight. He had been in the le igh. bouttood of Cockerniontle when he came up with a party of gen tlemen, in chase of a stag, which had been started at Dale:twin, near Penrith, from whence the animal made off with extraordinary speed. After passing through the streets of Carlisle and Cocker mouth, considerably in advance of his pursuers, whose lor,es were much fagged, Mr. C. being on a fresh horse, soon came up midi the animal near Eaglesford, where he had taken refuge in a coin-yard, apparently so worn out that he thought he could make but little re sistance, and was actually about to seize him, when the sti.g made a fatal spring at Iris adversary, and pierced him with Ili' hotns near the groin. Upon the gentlemen coming up, they did ev , ry tithe: to rescue kitn, but not before Mr. C. was a lifeless corpse. After having secured the stag, it was with considerable difficulty they even got his antlers disengaged from the mare's body. A horrid murder was committed near Altagh Wood, in tile Baron; of West Muskerry ; Cork, on Monday week. A tanner taunt:lt Gals !avail and Ins son, returhing from the wood, where they had . pur. e•hased a horse-load of timber, N.:ere attacked by live persons who crossed on them in the high road, and who appeared to have lain in • waiting for them, three of whom were armed with scythes, set in handles, like swords—two of them knocked tae old man down, an I gave him several severe wounds with these murderous A.:capon., and with large stones ; and the other three most barbarous;y but chered the son, who ied on the followisig clay. An Inquest was held on the beefy ; and one Hogan, a carpenter, has been identified by old Gallavin, as one of the perpetrators, and is in custody. A very thatgerotts gar; if robbers lately took post at Doutinun and Stillorgan, Ireland. At Dunki') three of them fined their residence, in communicatien with their Stillorgau _accomplices. They reconnoitred all the houses in the neighbourhood, which they determined to plunder. Taey sallied out and attacked the paeee gers on the road near Mitchum, who made a stoat resistance, and took M'Aialion, their leader, au old Gffender, primmer. Him they brought before Alderman Hone, who at the same time received infiamation that two others were concealed in a hay-loft, armed ;o the very chin. This terrible account nothing atfrighting a young man named Campbell, he immediately hastened to the La; •oft, folmwed by some of the Alderman's police patrole, and there seized two rubbers, wresting two cast -1 of pistols from them. Last week as some laricklayers were employed in repairing rn cld well iu the patir,ll of Parham Hachesto.Stifrolk, the earth siu! caved in, and instantly entombed a young man of the name of :Vas. who unfortunately was, at the moment of the accident, engager , in bricking up the decayed side. So great a mass of sod had falle» on him, that be could not be dug out till the Monday following, v h ri the body was found in au upright posteexe l completely embedded in sand.