The National Register. — London, England, 1811-10-27 00:00:00

THE NATION Duncan, persuaded a tribe of Jukman, who lived on the Juan pore frontlet; to abolish the bon ible practice of moldering their female infants, by convincing them that by the Hindoo it was as criminal to kill even a fawns as a Bramin, and that the punishment denounced against the person committinglhe crime, was to suffer in hell fur as many years as there were hairs on his head. " The same Gentleman, when Governor of Bombay. heard that the Jarejah tribe, in the provinces of Guzerat of Cutch, committed the horrible crime of infanticide also. Through the agency of Colonel Walker, this tribe was convinced that it was as contrary to the precepts and religion of the Bramas, ;is to the dictates of nature to murder intants. The crime was loudly condemned by all other casts of Hindoos ? The Jarejah tribe solemnly engaged to refrain from the commission of it in fu ture. 6" In these three instances, the anliment urged was, that by the t' nets of the Hindoo religion. infanticide was an atrocious crime, punishable in this world and in the next. 'The crime was held in as much abitorrence by l iindn.a generally as by the Christians, and Marquis Wellesley f 'end the liramins and 'Pun dits eager to support hie proclamation. The Juhmars and Jan e. jahs. were convinced of the sin of infanticide, according to their notion I . sin., by the temperate reasoning of Mr. Duncan and Colonel Walker. 44 I o sacrifice the life of an infant, having no will.of its own, no pow. r of resistance, is contrary to the precepts of the flindoo religion. Ihe crime of 11'w-der is punishable with death by the Hisidoustan law."—(The Dug.) IRELAND. On perusing Lord Wellington's dispatch, the Reader will ob-. serve , that his Lordship mentions a gallant! affair in which the I.4th and 16th Light Dragoons, and the Light Infantry of the 51st regiment, were opposed to the Lanriers de Be:g, when our troops were distinguished by their usual bravery. On this occasion, the Officer who commanded the Landers and some Of his men were surrounded ; every effort was strained to make them prisoners, but the 01heti. without any hopes of escape emitinued to tight. All the exertions cf our gallzitA fellows to take him without injury to his person were in vain. Still he endeavoured to animate hi, men, and persevered in a desperate resistance; he refused quarter, and the British with reluctance • were, in their own defence, obliged went hint down. When he fell, he addressed them in English in' these words, " I AM 3.ITISFIED-AEMPAIBER I AM AN IRISHMAN, AND MY NAME Is ()TIN D&tin Even. Post.) RecoßD COURT, Coax, Oc . r. 14.—The entire of this day w as dedicated to the litigation of a family of the Murphys, ap parently warm farmerg, living at the Cross of Blarnt y. Here there were indictments and cross indictments, father against son, son against father, and brother against brother, on charges of assault and battery, &c. '1 he origiti of this family warfare was, the father snaking over a certain number of his acres and several cows on one of his sons, to entitle him to get in marriage I girl who had a dowry of 1001.; a private understanding exist ing at the same time between them, that on his receiving the for tune, he was to liana it over to the father, in consideration of so considerable a settlement being made on him. The son, after his marriage, thought proper to keep the hundred pounds to himself; and hence arose between hint and the test of the fa mily a warfare, which, as fit' as it has already gone, has put some pounds into the pockets of the lawyers, and the officers of the Court. When some three or four of the indictments were gone through, a negociation, through their agents, took place between them, and it was agreed to proceed no farther; and application was made for the consent of the Court, which con sent the Recorder would not give, .unless the parties submitted to the remaining indictments. His Worship gave his reason:- 13y an Act of Parliament, he said, the Officers of the Court were entitled to fees on every Bill ofjudictment—if the party accused were found guilty, or submitted, these fees they had to pay—in case of acquittal, the party acquitted, of course, was exonerated from thew ; and were they to come on the pfosecutor, it would debar persons from bringing offenders to justice; and here, then, in all cases of acquittal, those fees were,levied on the public. If, therefore, he did not oblige the parties to submit, those indict ments would be recorded as acquittals, and the fees thereon be paid out of the public money. The remaining indictments were tried, and the Recorder imposed suitable fines on stitch of the parties as were convicted. — • We understand that immense preparations are to be made immediately in the different marble quarries in the neighbour... hood of Plymouth, for the intended mole. It is said,that many months wiltbe occupied in preparing the materials, before the work cap .07)110114toe.: Afeatenois ;04.sivak of lees well* thou) ire USW REGISTER. PROVINCIALS. Mr. ThoinaaAird, in Kirkland of Maybole, is lo hisitst year. ' His eldest son was born 70 years ago, and his youngest on Sa turday sennight. A man, who has been lately travelling through the West of England. and obtained at several country banks drafts on Lon don for 81. upon eighteenpenny stamps, which sum he immedi ately converted into 801. by the addition of a y to the word, and a cypher to the figure, and discounted such bills at the Banks of the next town be visited, was, on Thursday week, taken into custody at Wolverhampton, and has s:nce been committed to Stafford gaol. Property to a considerable amount was found upon him. Four separate charges are already exhibited against him in the county of Stafford. At the late Quarter Sessions at Wakefield, T. Bateman was indicted for an assault on his wife. His Counsel objected to the case being gone into, on the ground that husbands had, by law, a right to beat their wives; that thercould not be tried for an assault, in such cases; but that the proper course was ‘ to exhi bit articles of the peace against them. The Bench recommended, and the prisoner agreed, to enter into articles to keep the peace, and he was discharged. • Lately, a poor man was convicted before the Magistrates of Lewes, in a penalty of 51.../..r shooting a hare. Oh saying be was unable to pay the fine ' he was asked if he had any !louse hold furniture? To which he 'kepi:cc', that he had !..x small children, and a pregnant wife ; to satisfy whose longings and to prevent any deformity of the child, he bad ventured to trespass by shooting the hare. On Sunday se'nnisht the following calamitous event took place at the residence of Mr. Pressick, near Loftus, in the '.orth riding of Yorkshire. A stack of hay, containing upwards of e 0 tons, which had been made up in too damp a st,,te, took fire, and the flames commun;cating to seven adjacent .corn-ricks, the whole were entirely consumed. The amount of the dan.age is estimated at 8001. To the distress naturally arising from this melancholy event, was added, the peculiar aggravation of the illness and death of Mr. Corner, of Whitby, ship-owner, and son-in-law of Mr. Pressick, at whose house he ban been con fined by indisposition fur several weeks preceding :he period al luded to; and during the whole of that time in which the atten tion of the family was absorbed by the contemplation of that calamity which threatened the destruction of the whole ses, was in a dying state, and survived only a very short time after the conflagration had ceased. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS..—A few days ago, as Lieutenant Wadley, of the Wilts Regiment, was walking on the beach, with a friend, near the Upper Hardway, their progress was ar rested by the sight of a miserable horse in the shafts of a cart, nearly dropping from fatigue and loss of blood. On inquiring the cause of its horrid appearance, they were apswered, th e owner had been beating is over the head with a stick, till it had broke, and had then glutted his revenge br thrusting the fragment up the nostrils of the beast, till it bled so profusely, that it was nearly exhausted. On expressing tligir horror at this conduct, the owner came with a bucket of *titer, which he dashed at the head of the animal, to staunch, if passible, the blood; accompani.al with blasphemous threats of future punish ment. The horse naturally threw back his bead, as the water approached him, upon which the enraged wrier seized him on both sides of the head, and held him, till be was tired of kiclt ing him on the chest and legs. tin the Gentlemen interfering, they received a volley of abuse. 'The following day information was laid before a Magistrate, at Gosport, in hopes that suet, bru tality would be legally punished.: The worthy Isilagistrate ex pressed the greatest abhorrence at the conduct described, and regretted that the act was not cognizable by law ! A Gentle man in the navy was witness to tli transaction, and he had written to the Magistrate alluded to, prior to his being waited on by the above Gentlemen; and it appears they have quietly to submit to the injury their feelings have sustained, as the laws of civilized Britain cannot, in this instance, punish the offender. Had Lord Erskine's Bill passed, such disgraceful scenes might have been prevented. BARBAROUS MURDER.—The following instance of atrocity occurred on inesday evening, in a field near St. Albans:—/t young woman, who lives servant with an inhabitant of that town, went to spend the evening with an acquaintance in similar cir cutnstances, residing in a gentleman's family, about two miles distant. On her return at night, she was accompanied about a mile by her friend, who then turned hack towards her home. The former, on her way to St. Alban's, called at a public house, with the landlady of which she was acquainted, and re mained chatting -there for about halt an hour, when two la ' bourers entered the tap-room, one of whom had a but.dle, which the young woman instantly recognized to be the same which her female friend had when she left her. She acquainted the landialiy of the circumstance,, and expressing a strong desire la - ~.~