The National Register. — London, England, 1815-04-02 00:00:00

W - • threatened by some person., and t hension of their approach tatrlday night which jump from the windows °elite - ion. 7 His general demeanour being that of a won labouring under a paroxism of insanity, the worthy Alderman 'directed he should be tatt.to proper care •of •by the keeper of die. Compter, till his friends stiouid come forward to clalutjum. MA NISIoNsHOUSE. :Yesterday Mary Maid and. Matthias 'Mum were charged on auspicicin of coining. They were brought up in the custody otiterserest the officer, who, with Slay and Gulf. In cousetluence bi information they bad re. eeived tp , r4t them into custody, at their lodgiage in-Sparrow -court, Mi stories. Several imolen tuts for coinisig were tbund in their popenion, but, at the r. ot the Solicitor at the Mitt, their nutter *Lamina. skim was postponed. .PROPINCIAI, ASSIZES. SURRY. SMART V. GRACE. . • This was an action against the defendant. the widow of a C o Mewl. by a stone-mason at Guildford, for making a tomb-atone for her late h ishand. Mr Nlarryatt, fur the plaintiff, stated, that the plaintiff was a tjadesman at Guildford, and the Lady was the widow of .a Colonel in the army, who died et (Guildford •in the year 181 g. During the: fist paroxysms of her, grief, she wished"to skew her love au& regard ?Or her late husband, by erecting. a tomb to his oseloory. The plaintiff accordingly made a design, which. he .esigageti- to fmish Mar 301. or 351. The 'Lady furnisked-an inscription, but it was both badly written and badly spilt; but as as.he coaltl.make it out,. it was as fulfows " Gone! but whither? Data be cease, " Now his body rots away? " Was his soul a fragile piece " Of the same het finer clay : 41 Wliern', the soul ? Obtained: release, " That ut'er dies nor. eyer.dies. " While his body sleeps iii,peace, " Far away his spirit. flies. 4: " He's 40:0nit 60 bear his damn !" .1 This epitaph the Cleroman 4alieeted. ..as AsnetiOg.tliciasaaJi teriality of the soul, .awl wog idasotauffer.it.sabeitmdrilsed. akar, produced some delay, andat. lesigth.the Larly.tatassiit the umaameat not necessary, for having qyaoe.toirelandLand resmraed—sheALlallil declared that she would tot isaitelise tosubatone rat. all. giddier plaintiff bad completed iLexpt,puttirm it. p, rurrLitwas not-to bd expected he should lose Itis•Wiour because the anieur,of aJuidy'a , widowed affections had decreased by time. For defendant, Mr. Serjeant Best contended, that the tomb WO Oricred in 1811, and was not finished in October, 1814, and thal,i after v o tioreasonable a - deiity, • the holy. bad a rigitt to- emitter:naafi. •ti,c monument. He - ealled• three witnesses, to thew 'that the des lesoliost had made repeated eppticinions to•the plaintiff try proeeild .in the vrisek, -bat he deisyed It. They did not, however, prove-wry slirect•cowntertaturd, and the Jury feand a verdict for *the piaistitt —4-Damages, 311..105. ItOSINSON V. BenterrT. This was an action for a nuisance. The -plaintir hart altonse ehn the banks of the Thames, near Kingston, fiabieli bad a lawn extend flag down to . the-water. At the bottom of *this been -was a drain which came from a distillery of sweet waters...44lr. Serjeant Bent . slated, that the whole •of the refu s e water *hint pasted by this drain was merely the dregs of rose water, anti other . oderiferons tillations, which pare an agreeable odonr, and was:rather destrable than otherwise. 'rite deli:Want being possessed of an adjoining piece of gronerd, built three or tonr cottages, and also erected cer tain appeirdazes which ore equally necessary for cottages or palaces, and tamed the drains from them into the old drain—but they did sot convey rose wafer. ID short, the commodity they deposited undi r the noes of the plaintiff's family was inch as to render his, house a most uncomfortable a.itilittiOn.—The fact of the corruption Of the drain being proved, it was agreed that a verdict shenild be taken for tht pliintiff s ubject to an award, to determine how the drain might be altere4 so as riot to annoy the isisiatitt's A LOP. Thotnas Season, a narks!, aged Y 5, was indicted for the wilful • murder of his : wires Mild, Mat y Birch, in the parish of-Hoith Outgo. on tere.tantlit of Saturday, the ASO of,Jonsiaty -hot. It appeared from: the nvideoce o alid• the prisoner's eoutemiou, Allot di/Fief thee,- sense- ethic wife he took the child. 4Yr theihoees, -and • *Weed its •Atead against tit:Amor, frac t mine the skull and jaw, :anti miming al most immediate death. The prisoner appeared pertiody immusitok during the whole trial ; but when the irerdiet .and sentence . ws.re pro: . otinced, he wept and threw hitinelf Son lisedloor in ibelgeestest -despair. NV EX FORD. Brititet W 41,11, for transmuting water into whi,ikey, woo eenteneei to be transported for seven veers. Thifweatan went welt tievesince with a jar. which she carried .eider a Lew cloak, to have. it &led with wlikkey; and having received it, pretended to examine her pockets for money of•whieltalieseid she bud-not tilfieient ; she then dexterously handed another jar, of a•sindlor ace, to the sliemiteeper, defining him to teal the cork and she vi mild retied) inantedi.drly for it. The jaw having lain in the shop fur some time, crested o stivi eion ; and on examination it proved to have been filled with-water. She was detected in endeavouring to practise a similar freed eat IWO' ther part of the town. TIM NATIONAL REGISTER that it was the spry- II - had Induced hint to II DEVON. Simnel Norton wax found guilty of the Courtier of his mixt►eos, near I).iettuoor„ and executed at• Exeter on Thilllrcday ttttt mers, for admini,ieering poison to his master ; Mr..iiteltard Den ning of (/fiery, was also kit fur execution, ACCIDENTS AND OTFENCES. ATTEMPT TO r i rE AL ThEritOWN —A singnl it and most dating at. • tempt to ate. I IltitiCrosua at itheitteek tine, nr t Iterl'issver ' was made oil Friday, under p re t ex t o f v i ew i ng . th e R ega lia, th e dt.iinquent ittiamce,!aned risedete seiture•of tile diadem, ley thrusting her rem .through I the iraisintransivich Aire pined for -security, the pt , was,'however ' 'eeudeted futile, by' the Crown brine much 400-leigge to admit Tefisaing iforeed -through them, and though much 'braised by alremioleoceoof. the - grasp, yet fortunately acne of the jewels wete.steset. 'like female Appointed to exhibit the-Regalia fainted, • eusithwatilins instantly elven, theilwattiasi seemed, and cost. - veyadl (nom site Tower. in •a batkuey corals to the Police Office. •it r ES7MIWSTER 4ESSIONS. .............. Wellitesslay lheAlessions eommeneed-at the Guildhall, •Westinin. eteribefore -iitlliawitilisinwaising,•Esq. Chairman, and a Bench of .Jeatiees.-11wOissiernan addressed the Grand Jury, in his charge .Itossebinst She late disterbanees or riot, in the metropolis, which ne essaneilyiansbefect, Wie 'goblin feeling, in *saes of criminal proseer. liens i so reeentty after the -civil 00ft111101i0113 ; but the more • th e - sniedsef ibe Jury-were-kept • abstratted from such considerations, Abe better would - Hwy discharge. their dray to the public--:-an idea Aie strongly impresaed-en their minds—Adding. that the populace ,Twere-deceived iirtheir eencelitions of the lowa against•risters ; es e n h4lve •Riet-aetiStb -of t George •I.• chap 5. made it-a eapital offence to h-lirsik.iibto prieMe heases as-well as religions ones • hot . the sooner eire.l44e.coamnotiens were forgotten the better.—iVni. Underwood - an- ostler, -was tried ler an assault on Jame Bird, a pnblican , in th e neisitbou;heod of Eirasvenor.square.—lt appeared that the parties, I,sorisi4e playing at dominoes. got to words, and then to something like • blows, in cotoeynitire of Bird denouncing 'Underwood as a duet i Baud in the sonliNevallich took plaee, the prisoiter seised Bird by the aose, with his mouth, and literally bit lithe end of it ! 13ii d ap peared% the box. and prove-td his case, on which the jury found a Verdict of Guilty, and the Court sentenced Underwood to six months Imp: isonment. 'Tint LATE Dr+runniNcEs.--Tlie Grand Jury - found true bills against Thomai. Hobbs mid William Adolplins Horne, for riotous :oonduct, in breaking windows of the Committee Rooms belonging to the house of Commons. They are not charged capitally, only IS ilk misdemeanour. The parties are ont on bail. The indictment preferred hgainst John Currie, the man who was foliowed from Sir Joseph Banks's house to a public house in Hain. ntidge•street, St. and apprehended with a bundle of Sir Joseph's paper+ on bi,n, my' thrown out. after a considerable inves tistatimi sir Jtisepli's butler very tidly examined, as to all the eirennistanees of the disarm-OA occurs that took place hontin and within the house. It appeared, that the mob mistook Sir Joseph's house for that of Mr. Hanks, the Member. The indictment against Currie was not for 'tealinr, the papers found Upon Liao, butler I Visdettleatwur ) iu being guilty of riotous icuaduct, *Ailimmagoamair...i./10.12 .01.110 , 1b+.y. ~'~~~ F . • ; ; Allan