The National Register. — London, England, 1813-04-11 00:00:00

APRIL -1.1. . . children of brewers, or Deptford-dock labourers, or Corsican attorney+ I cr so, and risen to be great people, that then you could fancy and like them. IN ow, dear Sir, as lam one of those whom you may like, rriv do obliie me ; the Princess has been always good' and kind to st,e, though she is noble born ; and therefore out of love for me, though you cannot help hating her, do, pray, never speak another N vord in her favour; for I lead the boy; clear over or through th t e hedges, but you bring every bo d y into scrapes. You have brough Ars. Lisle into a scrape, and she has been kind to me ; you have brought a great many lords into a scrape, whom I don't know ; and %on have brought yourself into a scrape, whom I don't care about. * For they say, that all your friends shy yon now ; for they are never bare, while you ate smiling in their face , but y ou ma y be whet t iug a knife to cut - their throats ; or, what is worse, preparing a-charge to stab their reputation.. Oh, Sir! you are a dangerous man—do, pray, have nothing to do with our atElirs ; and, for Heaven's sake ! do not take the side of the dear good Princess. If yott most be meddling, do become iwr enemy, and then you may serve her, and oblige our bumble servant, NV M. AUST L 13 A 1 L ir These Sessions commenced Wednesday. hefore Lord Ellenboro u g h, the Lord Chief Baron , a n e l the City Otiicers. The whole of Frideiv was takea up in the trial of Sarah Evans, charged with sellbcatine Geerge Evans, her son, tour years and a half old, by tying a haedkerchiel round his neck, and throwing him into the New River, on the 'list February. The mass of evidence on this occasion would fill a newspaper; and we cannot give it Kett than by briefly abstracting the evidence, on a ease most' singular he its nature. The deceased was accounted a fine lively chile, and the body was sound in the New River, near C ;erk - en well, in a putrid state, on the 14th of March. The woman had' formerly been a prisoner in Coldbatn-tields ; and A ris, the late Go vernor, was the reputed father of the child. The priscner, according to the testimony of a number of witnesses,. had expressed loudly her distress, and her anxiety and solicitude to get the child into the W ork- IVAISC, she having had another of more tender years, awl the embar rassments of Aris had rendered him unable to suppert her of late. The child, ween bound, had a chambre handkerchief twisted about the neck, with a runnine, koat under the left ear ; and another hand kerchief-, containing half a brick, was tied round - the body. It had on a silk cep, a bee-gown, and shoes and stockings. The prisoner told dirlereet stories to ditlereot persons, that it was at Pancras Nursery-house, and then at her aunt's at Brotnpton, in all of which she was detected, and which at length she confessed, by acknowlei,ing sites hild to have been her's, and also the clothes, in separate confeesion, before the magistrates. These confessions were of the prevaricating order, and alleged that Aris, the father ofthe child, had caused a woman, whom he representa to be about to tike the child to his sister, to meet her - in Gray's-ion-lane on the Cl st of February, and to whom she delivered Wet. She ecounted for tellieg different stories about the child to the into; ference of Aris. Thomas Aris stated that he was formerly Governor of Coldbath fields ' , risen. He had a eesidence for the l - ist three months over the water. He knew the prisoner, and he recollected the child George, the deceased, .1/110, he understood was swirls to him about eleven menthe ago. Saw the prisoner about three weeks atter this, and asked if she hail sworn the child to him, when she confesses she had so done from necessity. Witness asked where the child wee, and shit in formed him by her sete, she having another child in her arms, which Silt Silid sh' lu lto nurse at seven sled lines pct week. Witness never eiw the prisoner after, until at ',Hatton -garden Office in March, charged with murdering the child. lie hae gone there n oluntarily t , iving heard the fact fen newspapers. He neve: - appoited to mee r brie, as stared, on the 21st et le-bite:ll. e iseie at %vent out home on that (ley with a person of th e name of jone:;, a H nd seldom en a Sunday. The story of a passage in the prisoner's cenfession, that his si:iter had been pointeil out to her at Clerkenwell, was also take, as his sister lived* itt Bucks, and had not been in London these 45 years. Witness attended every examination of the pi:st.hcr voluntarily, and had not been held In any recognizance to apeesr at the trial. On cross.-examination, witness stated the prisoner Ms his servant, after her imprisonment ; be was ouce very tamiliar with her, but he had seen her bet seldom, the last perhaps once in six months, awl for nearly two yeamonly once in Northampton-street. He had snpplied her with nieney formerly, but he has lately been dietressed himselfhe he . H d e had e ight children to keep, besides three of the prisoner's, but no intercourse with her to justify the imputation of his being the father of the last child. On looeiug at the handkerchief which was forma round the neck of the deceased, witness swore positively againSt the confession of tee prisoner, that he hover saw the handkerchief before, and that he never borrowed one of the prisoner, as stated. In defence, the prisoner, who till now h a s never shewn her f a ce, verbally echoed her confessions. She hail told falsities in the first in stance by Aris's threats. She delivered the child to a woman by his , detite, influenced by his threats, and 'fever she told where the chili was taken from her, he ( A is) would kill her. Lord ELLENBORORG4 lett the race to tee Jc.rv, an! they retie d tittree-tQuis, and re tweed . a vetshct NoL wie re. THE NATIONAL REGISTER: ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. 1 139 • Sarah tletcher. for the murder of her new-born infant 'at Wandsworth, ens executed at the top of the New Prison. in Housetuonirr-lane, ca Monday, in presence of au immense crowd of spectators. This unfor tunate young woman was about nineteen years of age, tall in person. and wore an elegant dress of black silk ; she appeared perfectly re signed to her fate, and utter remaining a few minutes in prayer with tl,e Clergyman, she was launched into eternity, and the body, after having been suspended the usual time, was Cut down, and delivered over for dissectien. Sunday morning, about five o'clock, a fire was discovered to have broken out in the fourth story of that lnree budding iar Skinner-street, which was the capital prize in the City Lottery, valued at 25,001. and. which has since been called the Commercial Hell. it was.occupied by u Wine Company—by a new-invented Brewing Utensil Manufactory and by many ottierrz. The upper pelt *as held as chambers by pro fessioual men, and some few Merchants ; and it is stated to have had at least ‘2O cliff. rent inhabitants. From what cause the fire originated is not ascertained ; but it spread with such rapidity, that by half past six the whole building (six stories high) was completely down, the back walls falling into the body of the building, and the front-wall into the street, by which, we are sorry to hear, two firemen were severely braised. The upper punts of the two houses adjoining were likewise destroyed, and consideraide other damage as done. A most dreadful accident happened at the new works belonging tee the Leedon Dock Company, at the Hermitage-bridge, Wapping, on Monday evening last. As Mr. Thome., the engineer, was inspecting the machined, he perceived that one of the double keys which tasters the top of the large lifting-pump•rods was loose ; he ordered round a man to him Linen the platform, to drive in tit:• key tighter, which the poor fellow imp.ridently attempted to do without first ste-,ming the steam-anginne ; it appeers, that in striking at the key he missed his blow, and his arm getting entangled between the arms of the pump wheel, his head was suddenly drawn in. and in less than one moment he fell backwards load against Mr. Thorne's, with his head literally crushed to morns. Mr. Thomas's clothes and person were utmost co vered with the poor fel:. w's blood and brain'. The man has left a wile and three children to lament his loss. ARIITED. At Castle in, county Donegal, on the 18th ult. Mr. JamesM'Neever, aged 98 years. to Miss Moore, of the said town, aged 19. This gen tlaniait is in full possession of all lois mental and corporal faculties. Ile is an active .111,1 keen sportsman. He takes great delight in fishing In the river littrit, neat Castlefin, and is a very successful veteran angler. DIED. • . At Lyndhurst, Mr. Flower Archer, aged 813 years, for many years one of his.Maje%ty's Keepers of the New Forest. Ills funeral was a most ex traordinary ruie :--It was his express desire (while living) to be buried w;th al his clothes on, to be conveyed to the grave in his own cart, and that half a hi!..liead of strong beer, and cakes for every one present. .Mould follow the procession; and that his body should remain one 1i0..r on the clinch hill, in order that the cakes and beer might be dis tributed. Singular and eccentric as his desire was, it was rigidly ad hered tr,, and strictly observed. Tile half-hogshead of strong beer was ruled by two men, closety following the corpse, and was, with the distributed amongst All present. The concourse of people was very vreat ; and amidst such an assemblage of persons of every de : seription, the greatest order and decorum was observed. FITTON, 8, CORNFIILL, and is, COVENTRT.STRELPT, Respectfnliy acquaints the Public, be is appointed by Dr: Thornton to sell Tickets for the ROY AL BOTANICAL LOTTERY. With 40,0041 Tickets there are 10, 410 Prizes : the grand Prize is the Linman Gallery, a valuable Cot lection of ori;inal Betanical Paintings by the hist Masters, valued at £3.00. — The other Prize.; consist of different sets of the most splendid National Works on the same suitiect, illustrated with superb EllgfrilVingS. The Prises are satimatact. at Ilui•,uot), as the Plate Copper-. by Act of Parliament, are to be destroyed. Tirkets S pack.— ro be drawn Gth May. In comequense of the superiority of SALMON. 0D Y, and Co.'s PATENT SELF-ADJUSTING TRUSSES, the Patentees have been honoured with the following appointments :—His Majesty's Royal Navy, the Navy Hospitals and Deck Yards, the Board o of Or.l na7.ce, the Hon. the East I ndia Company, &c. and continu to re commend them to the Public on such liberal terms, which have never befge been °tiered, that tire full cost shall be letati.ed to Put chasers, it not approved, after any it'll!, wear, or damag.,, N B. Pei sons residing in the Country, sendwg the Cimumference of the Roki-y, in incites, just above the hips, may depend upon b.tiag accurately tine I. • MANUFACTORY, 0;2, STRAND. S;.:1 , 1 by al;p..-iutintlt, by 2..;:u5t.t013 La‘itadtal-streel. A