The National Register. — London, England, 1821-10-07 00:00:00

318 OUTR:IGES IN THE COUNTY OF LIMERICK. Lots: attic, SEPT. 2G.—Sunday last, Denis Buckley, Cor trelMs Crowley, and two venter', who were crown %Antic ea at the lust County As,ires, returning home from this city, were attacked at ♦rdagli, and beat so unmercifully, that Brickley died on the following morning. Crowley mai the women escapist to New castle, where they were also maltreated, and it is stated, little hopes are enter tnitaa! of their recovery. As a meals of ensuring Buckley a safe retreat to Ilia home, he was WILL a circuitous route by water, and landed ut Foyoe's island, but such was the deter mination of the roilians wilt) projected his destruciton, that nu puss he could go by was left without observation. On Monday last as the mail cur was passing through Rath kettle, Bernard M•Ctrisky, a witness, returning from the assizes to Newcastle, was threibly dragged from it by a nurither of men from the town, and beat and mangled so severely, that his life is considered in r.,reat danger. On Saturday k.,), the Rev. Francis Langford, of t7astletown, in the barony of Pints Keary, inthis county, sent John Corneal, of It ingoroylan, and rome oilier men, to draw offtithei, agreeably to notice received front some laudeolders—whilst Corneal sent his companions tor looses and cars, lie was most inhumanely murdered, his head being severed from his body. The most active ITICILSUrtti are punning by the numerous respectable gen tlemen of that neighbourhood, to apprehend the perpetrators, who, it is said, have absconded. About eight o'clock, on Sunday evening, the house of Wm. Morgan, Esq, at the Abbey, near Shattagulden, was attacked by a large patty of fellows, who broke the drawing room windows, and hall door, but some shots being fired by t 1 e. George ittomn, they decamped, after firing five shots. All the male part of the family, except the young gentleman who acted so resolutely, were frail home. The object of the tuttians was to obtain flue SIMS. Sunday night an armed rattly of two hundred, many of them taming white bands on guar hats, attacked the village of Shasta • golden in this county, io s•-arch of tire alms. They feast went to the 1)os - tallier', and on being told that the family had no musket , they committed di earlfol depredations . , such .es breaking the fur niture, threatening to murder the inhabitnnts, &c. 'Posy next proceeded to the bridewell, and broke it open; thence to other houses, and after demolishing the doors and other windows of each they attached, entere I in a most hostile and menacing man ner, and took what arms they could get. They afterwanis pro ceeded to Gulden-house, the residence of the Rev. Gun Vincent, and demanded his fire rows, but on telling them he Lid not any, retired, flr - st having attempted to break open the half door with a sledge. It is to :,,w syn.: orie ...le to meet them with that reception they deserved, not having a single hostile weapon in the house. MURDER AT HIGHGATE. FINAL EXAMINATION OF BARRETT AND HIS WIFE. Friday being the day aucointed for the final exami nation of Barrett and his wile, on a charge of robbery at and to be re-examined on suspicion of the murder, they were bioie.rht tip (rout the House of Correction at an early boor, and at 9 o'clock the Justice Room W3S crowded to excess. The (*.Mowing appeared in evidence on Friday before Dr. Owen : Elizabeth Hopkins remembers on the morning that Sellers, Mr. Hale's watchman, was murdered, at about half-past six o'clock she was going with her husband's breakfast to a field where be was mowing for a Mr. Thompson, in liorusey-lane: on proceeding along she saw the prisoner Barrett turn down the lane, and he stopped to consider which way he would turn; he crossed a field called Ashbutt's field, exactly at the back of Mr. Hale's house, and near some hay-stacks there was a black man silting in a hollow; Barrett, who appeared as if he had left the black matt, crossed the field and climbed over a stile at the further end, and proceeded in a confused direction to the point where she hail first seen him ; the black man went away. She could not he mis taken as to his person ; she had known him previous to that morning. Dr. Owen remarked, it was under suspicious circum stances that a shirt with marks of blood upon the sleeve had been found under the hav stacks mentioned. It was found by a mail named Feld, who had it in his possession. A 111311 named Murphy had been appre hended on suspicion of its being his, to consequence of his having put a new shirt on, and in order that he should give an account of the old shirt he had left ea— It was, however, involved in mystery, and for want of es idence he was discharged. A bloody stocking was also produced here, and inspected, which had been found at Bat retes lodgings. The prisoner denied strongly that the witness, Mrs. Hopkins, saw hint cross the field, and climb over the stile. He went in the morning to tell the deceased's son that his father was dead. Dr. Owen asked the witness whether she considered that way which the 1)n: oiler Barrett was going, the nearest to Crotech.entl, where Barrett said he was going to, or would she have gone that way to Crouch end T _ . Witness said that it was not the way to Crouch-end.— She would not have gone that way, liad bile been going there : she siw him get over some fences. Barret was again asked whether he wished to say any thing ? Ile answered, all that he had to s ay was, that he was going to the deceased's son at Crouch-end, but he never went out of the road all the way, as God was his judge. Mrs. Hopkins said, he was drissed in a short shooting jacket, and the same dress as he had on now. Barrett said he had a nephew residing at Tottenham, and they had a pint of porter together at the Swan public house the same night. Mrs. Hopkins said that she afterwards saw Barrett, and she pointed hint ont to a mass as the person she saw under suspicious circuinstances on the morning of the murder • that man had remaved from Highgate, but he could b e found. _ A boy again was examined, and swore that lie saw a black man on the morning of the murder in a hollow near the lane in which Barrett pasted. A man named Lewis also saw a black man on the same morning; he was dressed like a sailor; he had been linking about in a vet), suspicious manner. The prisoners were next examined on the charge of robbery at Mr. Rothchild's, and fully committed for tri .1 on that charge, but remanded on suspicion of the murder until further enquiries are made into the affair. The prisoners in the course of the day were conveyed to Newg.ite. TIE NATIONAL ItEGIgTEIt A 'saw's° Ohctialtarce.—On Thursday-iffetneen the v icinily of Oxford-mail:et, Oxford-street, was thrown into considerable alarm and cousternatitin by the falling of three houses situated at the corner of John -street, • Oxford-mat ket. The shock was so ,udder , and tremen dous, that the persons residing in houses near the spot were so terrified, that they fled from their dwellings, and ran to ascertain the cause or the tremendous shuck which they hail heard. On arriving on the spot whet e the accident had happened considerable horror was ma nifested, as several persons were reported to have been kniried in the ruins, as two of the houses were inhabited. Inn sl•orttime they fortunately sticereded in resetting two Wolltell and a man front their most perilous situation, who had sustained considerable bruises. They were carried to the Middlesex Hospital. One of the females is an elderly woman near 90 years of age; fortunately Ito other person received any material injury. The work men were b t,ily eniployed during the evening in mum •the rubbish, and endeavouring to weenalt whether any other persons were in the rums. It happened extremely fortunate that several of the inmates were absent at the time of the accident. One of the houses is a complete pile of ruins, the walls of tit:: others only remain standing. ThiltSday morning, allOtit four o'clock, an alarming fire broke out in one of those retreats of poverty and wretchedness, situated in Church-lane, St. Giles's. The 'louse being a receptacle for the acconium dation of persons of the very lowest description, who take up their nightly lodgings, was much crowned. On the alLrtin of fire being given, a scene took place which baf fles all description. Men, womeh, and children, were seen running in all directions, in a half state of nudity, to escape from the devouring element, the poverty-stricken appearance of whom presented a must finished picture oh human misery. By the active exertions of the watchmen and other*, the fire was fortunately subdued, without extending its ravages beyond the house in which it began. On Thursday morning, about I I o'clock, Mr. W. Woodin, a master bricklayer,_ residing in Grub-street, %iris repairing the roof of the Louse belonging to Mr. Wheatley, a fruiterer, in CrovimAtrect, Fnisbury-square, when suddenly his foot slipped, and he was precipitated into the street, a height of 50 feet, and falling on his head, his scull was dashed to pieces. In the evening of the 17th ult. the post boy convey ing the Dublin mails from Castlebar to Balling arts at tacked on the road within a mile of the town of Bally. vary, by two armed men, who dragged him oft his horse, beat him with relentless cruelty, and robbed him of the mails. A reward of 501. has been offered for their ap prehension. On the evening of the 10th ult. the post boy conveying the Dublin Lag front Raihkeal to Askea ton was attacked by four armed men, who robbed him of his mail, after treating him with similar barbarity. Ascent (if )Jr. Green—On Tuesday last upwards of 30,000 persons assembled in Black Rock Bottom, Brigh ton, on the adjacent hills, to witness the ascent of Mr. Green, in his Coronation Balloon. The weather was foie, and the atmosphere particularly clear, with a smart breeze from the north-west. Twelve was the time an nounced Inr the ascent; but, front sonic cause or other, the public was kept in 311):1006 suspense until eight mi nutes past two, when the balloon was seen to rise in a slow and majestic style. The aeronaut waved his hat and was cheered by the spectators. Front the weight it bore, the balloon took a south-westerly direction, de scended so low .15 to admit Mr. Green to touch the earth with one of his feet, about a hundred yards from the gasometer, whence lie ascended. By throwing out bal last, however, it again ascended, taking a north-westerly direction—that is, carrying Mr. Green wit to sea. The balloon for the space of twenty-six minutes was visible to the naked eye, and for a short time afterwards was perceptible by the means of a telescope. Late in the ufterinion the mate of the Unity packet, Captain Clear, arrited at Brighton, express from Seaford, with the in telligence that Mr:Green with his balloon, bad been picked up at sea, about four miles front that place, by the above vessel. A scene of desolation presented itself on the coast near Appledore and Bi.Leford, on Saturday morning last. It w.,s strewed with the wrecks of property washed in by tile tempestuous waves. A vessel belonging ro Corn wall was made a complete wreck, and her crew drown ed, but her sails and rigging were preserved through the zeal and activity of the mariners of the place. A yes :,el, without any person on hoard, was also brought in ; ..ml sonic men belonging to a Clovelley boat, were pick cd up at sea, Lou, by the humane exertions of the &A rs. were saved from inevitable death. FATAL MA R 1A02.-.-40h11 Kingston, a carpenter, was lately . married at Anstiwd, near Castle Carey, to Mary Aldridge, a respectable young woman of the sante place, and on his rising to go to work early on the fol. lowing morning, he observed to his wife that tlte "looked pale ;" her reply was, that " she was very well." In Italia!) hour after, the milkman called as usual, hut could m .kc no one hear; this was observed by a female neighbour, who immediately went up stairs, and found the new-made bride a lifeless corpse. An inquest was last week held by Mr Clare, on the body of John Hillier, a shepherd of Savernacle, near Tottenham-pat k, Marlhorough.forest. who, on Saturday the gtul nit. meeting with his sou-in-law, Henry Broad way, threw himself into a very violent passion, accusing Broadway of acting cruelly towards his wife (deceased's daughter), soon after which he was hound dead.— Verdict.—Died by the visitation of the Almighty. Last week a flock of sheep, belonging to Mr. Kellam, of Hyton-upott.Dunsmore, near Coventry, strayed into a field of wheat which hail heen cut, and eat a qualitity of the ears; in consequence of which two died on the following day, and it wls thought necessary to slaughter nineteen. _ _ ..... Caution against thinking to excess.—On Sunday week a young man named Haygartli, of Denver, in Norfolk, drank 18 glasses of gin in its neat state, at the White Hart Inn, Dawitliam : the consequence was, that he immediately became insensible, and continued alarm ingly ill till the folitiwing'llitirsday, when death put au and to his stiderio6s. garl Stanhope is pursuing the cottage-system to a great extent on his estate in Devonshire. In that county the labourers build cottages of mud walls and thatched, which are done at a very easy ex pense: his Lordships lets to the labourer as much ground as will suffice for a house and garden, on a forty years' lease, on condition that he builds a house, in a specified time, of not less than three rooms, and a cow-house, for 2s. 6d. per annum; he also lets him as much uncultivated land as he can manage, which is generally about five acres, some times inure, on a fifteen years' lease, and for the first five years, as it will be burdensome to him to divide and subdivide the ground and erect fences, at the rent of 2s. (id. per acre; for the next five years at 5s and for the last 7s. Gd. making an average of 5s per acre for the whole period: and this is done with every prospect of complete success. So desir ous are hushandmen to obtain ground on these con ditions, that one labourer came from the extremity of Devonshire for the purpose, and his Lordship had great satisfaction in complying with his request. In consequence of the recent disgraceful outrage in Charles-street, Drury-lane, the gentlemen con. nected with St. Giles's have determined to put a stop tosuch diseracefut praelees in future. At a meeting which had been held, a resolution had been framed and adopted that an extra patrol should be formed at the expense of the parish, for the purpose of parading this vile neighbourhood both night and day ; and all suspicions characters are to be appre hended. The 'emote is to consist of four respect. able persons, who ars: to be dressed in a kind of livery; two of them rare to parade and occasionally relieve each other during the s;x days, and on Sunday the other two are to be employe s 1 ; and it is hoped that this mode pursued by the parish itr ll not prove ineffectual. The late circumstance of Thayers being thrown out of a window in the above street, gave rise to the institution of the above plan. Female Aermmaul.—On Sunday the 9th ultimo, Mlle. Cecilia ascended in a ballon at Marseilles; the event very nearly proved fatal to the intrepid he. roine. The balloon having struck against a mast became entangled, and lost its power to ascend, it could not clear a neighbouring house without beat. ing hard against a balcony. Mlle. Cecilia received a violent contusion on her side, and a severe injury to her hand. She was indebted for her safety to her unshaken courage ; aware of the full extent of the danger, and that she must be precipitated from roof to roof, she determined to throw out the ballast; but having caught hold imperfectly with her wound. ed hand of a sand-bag, the contents of which fell into the boat: her courage enabled her to despise this new accident. The balloon after much exer. tion, was extricated from the mast and the house, and taking a sudden spring, mounted majestically to the height of 1,500 toises. The gas escaping in the ascent through an aperture, the lady came down sooner than she expected, at the distance of a league from the too n. Monday night a fire broke out in an uninhabited qouse in Queen-street, Worship-street, Finsbury shuare, in consequenee of a spark flying amongst mine shavings, which the carpenters had left in one of the apartments. The house was completely de stroyed. Two boys, of the ages of 14, wishing to see the town and ships of Southampton, started from Salis bury last Tuesday morning, and reached Southamp ton by four o'clock ; after rambling about, one of them lost his hat in a boat in which he was cast away in the river. Meeting his companion again, they kept looking round the place all night without a wink of sleep , started for Salisbury on Wednesday morning, and having neither friends nor money they never ate a morsel until their return to Salisbury next day at 12 o'clock. Captain Barclay's match is a trifle to this. Presence of ,Iliad.—An Irish labourer, near Richmond (Virginia) who was blowing rocks at 200 feet below the surface of the earth, had prepared his match for a blast, and was ascending in the bucket to get clear of the explosion, when the rope broke, and he fell 50 feet to his old place of labour. lie immediately clapped his hands on the burning match and extinguished it ! What an awful mu mem! There are three brothers residing within the pa rish of Penicuiek, near Edinburgh, whose united ages make 259 years, and all of them enjoy their full mental faculties. _ _ On Wednesday last was sold, by order of the Sur veyor-General of his Majesty's Office of Works, a large quantity of valuable materials used ibr fitting up the coronation, and some taken from the Courts of King's Bench and Chancery. There was also a great portion of the timber used for the accommo dation of the respectable Italian witnesses, in Cut ton-garden. By a letter from the agent to Lloyd's at Genoa, dated the 22d ult. all vessels bound there from For- , tugal, Spain (including Gibraltar), the South et France, and Balearic Islands, are to be subjected to ten days' quarantine in the Gulf of Spezzia.