The National Register. — London, England, 1815-07-30 00:00:00

VIE NATIONAL REGISTER. ()lids M 4.7/ATVs Gaol of Newgate, maketh oath and totith, that at an interview which lately took place between the late convict Eliza /tett' rotilim.ft who was executed on Wednesday last, and her father (at which interview this deponent and the Rev. Mr. CorroN, Chap )ain of the prison, were both present), and on several other in terviews between them, prior to her execution, her said father or rently intreated her in the following words ' or words to the like ef fect (that is to say), ‘. Oh my dear child, when you come out on the gallows, tell every hotly that you are innocent, and then I can walk the r treets uptight as a mioi; but if you say yon ate guilty, 1 shall sever be able to hold up my head among the public any more," (Signed) bAIIUEL DAVIS. Sworn at the 111411M011 House, in the City of London, the St II day of July. 18 O. before (Signed) SAMUEL BIRCH, Mayor. The body of Elisabeth relining was removed to her fa tticr':;, in Eagle-street, Red Lion-square; several hundred persons out of curiosity went to see it. It wai strongly re ported, that the body was shewn for money ; but ou enquiry we find that to be incorrect. Thursday morning E4ward Harland and sinh Box, for forgery', tin 4erwent the sentence of the law, at the usual !dace of execution in the Ohl Halley. From the time that these unhappy men received notice of the period fixed for their suffering. they evinced the Winos, fortitude. Harland especially, who was a tvitgious character previous to his tem rtiencing his career of forgery, displayed au totem:mum degree of fi- in. nest, and, by his example and exhortations, tended in a great measure to produce that feeling of patience and resignation which was displayed by the wretched criminals on Wednesday mourning. Box participated In those happy effects of good precept, and at the moment previous to being turned off, they both expressed their (nil conviction of happi ness hereafter. I Lifland, who kept a school at I larnmersmith, has lett a wife and three children to deplore his untimely fate, and Box has left a wife and eight children. The crowd assembled was very trifling whets compared with ti melattchttly scene of Wednesday. The unhappy wen were attended by a clergyman or the ‘Vesleyian establishment, and by the Rev. Mr. Colon), the Chaplain of the Gaol. They were dressed In black, and were uncommonly well-looking men. They died without * struggle. PROVINCIALS. KENT ASSIZES. JULY 30. Lord ELLEINIIpROUGH, in slimming up, stated, that no perional fault vim alledged to attach in the defendants. It wepu, however, their duty to keep a watchful eye over their servant:, and vinplcy such.as wrthd he likely to execute their duty properl. In 041 in- Maitre he thought that sufficient negligence had occurred on the part of the coachman to render the defendant's liable, and the jolty , vould assess what the plaintiff might to have in addition to what be haul laid out,—The Jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff —l)a, lodges, 2601. NEWCOMI3 r. RtiOEßlrll AND OTIMAII. This was an action against the defendants, as proprietors of the MI Canterbury coach, for an injury which the plaintiff had sus sallied by the coach being overturned, near Dartford. airs Serjeant IlEsir, for tne plaintiff. *tided the ciremmstanees of 04e case for the plaintiff, as they were afterwards detailed in cal a:knee. rt appeared that the coach was much overloaded, both as passengers and luggage, and that the plaintiff was one of the Out. 4ti.le passengers, and was taken up at the Half-way-house. between she Bricklayers' Arma and Deptford. The coachman was stated by one of the witnesses to be in liquor at the time the coach started from the White Bear, in Piccadilly. In going down Ilse hill, near Dartford. about ten o'clock at night. the horse-% having no breech ing, and the coachman not having locked the wheel, the coach was driven down with its ordinary velocity, which soon became in creased from the declivity of the bill, until at length, at a turning in the road, the horses ran upon the bank, and the coach was over rained. The plaintiff was t'otual lying in the middle of the road, upon his back. incapable of motion, anti teas taken as soon as pos. stole to a neighbouring inn at Dartford, where medical advice was instantly sent for. It appeared by the evidence of the surgeon who was called in, that a great discharge of blood had taken place without any egternal wound, in consequence of a severe contusion of the perinamm, and that the plaintiff was confined at the inn front the middle of March, wh e n th e accident happened, till the Otter end of May, when he was scarcely able to have the place with his crutches; during which rime Itis expenses at the inn, and his doctor and nurse, amonuted to little short of i5O/. The surgeon• also stated, that he had seen about a week ago, and that lie was just able to walk with his crutches; and that in his judgment be would never be tree trout the accident as long as he lived. Mr, GURN EY thou addressed the Jury in mi.tig“ion of damages, but called nu witucests. . BURY ASSIZIN. Elizabeth Woßerton, of Ilungow, was indicted for the murder of Opaskes, six years of age. by infusing a quaetity of arsenic tom cake, of which he ate. The prisoner was the wite old farmer. and the mother of eight children, Mr. Clarke, of lneham was her uncle, and had, a considerable time since, advanced her a loan of 2001 informing her, at the same time, that he had bequeathed I:er in hiss will WI. For this generosity she soon after commenced a system of favonra, and frequently made • a nnmber of cakes, which she forwarded to her uncle, as presents, for his family's use. Some of these, however. not agreeing with his stomach, and many of them turning him sick, he at length requested the prisoner to refrain trom making such cakes. It appeared, however, that she had bet•u long in the habit of purchasing arsenic at the honse of• Mr. Long, apothecary at Betneay, lead gone there for the same purpose on the 23i1 of June last, mud bought more than her usual quantity. Her daughters, who were admitted as evidence against her, proved that they •ow her subsequently make a large cake, and forward it to her uncle. Upon its• arrival to him, however, he refused to taste from the fiormer objections he had made, notwithstanding the recom. mentlation of its excellence which accompanied the present. The cake, therefore, he lett at the disposal of his housekeeper, who, not wishing to use it herself, befloonght of the family of her son•in-law, Sparkes,• the father of the deceased, and sent it to him. Upon the receipt of, the cake, Mrs. Sparkea, 'who had five children, divided it amongst them.- - The deceased, her youngest child. had eaten a considerable portion before the others had tasted it ; and scarcely had the others began to use their part, when the deceased complained of dreadf►l tor tures in his stomach, and, after experiencing violent agony, expired in a few hours. The others, warned by the first alarm, desisted from eating. but *it till they experienced violent sickness. Medi cal aid, however, being called in. they were tecovered. The sum. gems who opened the body of the decra•ed proved, that the cake contained amnia sufficient to occasion almost instant death. The prisoner, in her defence, persisted in her innocence, and at one time ic tempted to attach the crime to her daughter, an interest ing girl, of fourteen years of age. Chief Justice Gibbs summoned up the evidence, and the Jnry found her Guilty.—Sentence of death was immediately pronouneed upon her, stud •n Monday she was emiveyed from liceeles gaol to Ipswich, where she was executed amid thousausls nfspectators. On her way from the gaol to the place of execution she evinced a fitm nevi borderiug ou carelessness, and to the lit moment asserted her innocence. LORI) COCHRAYE. SVRRY ASSIZES, CROYDON, THURSDAY. JULY 17. The Assi7es began Mere to day, but nothing of the least interest took place, except that tie Grand Jury found another Bill against Lord Cochrane, for breach of prison. To the bill last found he pleaded in abatement that he was Sir Thomas Cochrane, Knt. and not Thomas Cochrane, Esq. ; in fact, altliongli he was expelled tits Order of the Bath, vet he remained a Knight Baronet. Vise last BM was therefore spid.slied, and .t new one presented to the Grand Jury. John Rllem. 11'110 was convicted at Chelmsford Assizes of a rope, and left for execution, has received a respite during the Royal plea: sure. HORRID MI RDER.—A an of the name of Kilreavy, a prosecu tor at the Longford Assizes, who had been. on the evening of Mon day, the 10th inst. sent to Lord Forbes's for greater security, was, on his way into the town on Tuesday, carried ofi by some persous unknown, and not appeal ins as expected, the II ial in which he was concerned was put off. On Friday last be wa- !Mond murdered in a most shocking manner on the lands of Aughamore, his head bat tered with a spade or some such instrument, and 17 bayonet woond4 in differno parts of Ins bud,y,--I::enistilien Chronicle, ~~a.•i'w 491 JI sem liti et, 1111 lic 0 w T h; to a. i