The National Register. — London, England, 1811-08-04 00:00:00

-THE - NATIONAL RECISTP,R. 84 lan afterwards flung the pistol in the soldier's face, and imme diately abseondcd. The unfortunate victim of askissination sur irived but a few hours, pot long enouith to telate the atrocious circumstance;' after *Lich he expired in great agony, leaving a widow and three children to larnept 'his fate. We have no doubt that every exertion will be made by G.vtrnnu•nt to dk- Cover and bring to condign puniihmeat the vile as:assin who perpetrated this most wanton loonier. PROVINCIALS. AGRICULTURAL_REPOItT FOR JULY. in The Wheat Hariest has very ge.perally commenced, and, parts of the home e district, much Corn has ben already carted ; the quality is very superior on the strong soils ; on the tender lands, in many parts., the ear is light from bllghts and ws. The Peas, whicli• are pretty generally housed, sulked much in most c:;unties by the lure—!hose WIT early SONV escaped this injury. 'file Beans are much cleared of the and are likely to be a good crop. 'A mote abundant growth of Oats, persapfi„ was never known throughout England, than That of the resent year. Potatoes turn ti productivtly in most parts. The 1-14 plantations are so much improytti, that the *peculators in the 130 rough now bet on the year's duly reaching 160,0001. _The heavy rains have proved unfavourable to the falloived lands, which do not caret' that husband-like appear ance which is expected at this season of the year. But few 'l'ur aip.growt rs hate succeeded in early plants, from the continued tavages of the fly ; the latter sowings, however, Inve given a pretty general plant. Hay has fallen Ance our last report nearly tts c ler ton. The late fairs in the midland c..unties have had a supplyof lean Beasts, hut the great abundance of feed has enallibd the drovers to nr.tintain the last month's high priers. titoro Sheep ate somewhat lower. Smithfield has been rather thoa of good bbcf for the last forznight, so thet prin.e Scctts and Devons, not exceeding fourscore stone. have commanded (sink ing the offal) foil 7s. per stone. Mutton, Lamb, and . Veal, be ingigeutiful, are lower in price. Wool kteps rising in tb••:4r.d, although the combination of jol‘sers flainst the new wool fairs operates at this time ativetbely to the ialmediate interest of the wer 1 1 :9 • A few days since a labouring man, engaged at ploughing in a field at Bignor, near Petw,.rth, Ginn .1 the plough obstructed by he.a-,ty stone, when he ol•taint d assistance and removed it; it is of marble, and beneath is a flight of steps of the sane, lead tog. to a large arched passage, where they discovered an entire Roman bath, with tesselated pavement in perfect preservation. The bath is of bexagonical form, surroundeJ with seats, in the centre is a metallic pipe; the bottom of the bath is about two feet below the pavement, and five feet wide; the tesietated 1/19or represents various figures in dancing attitudes, most beau tifully wrought. In digging further, they found a dolphin and various other antiquities of the moat c stly materials. It is stir posed. to be the remains of a Roman Palace. A Roman road has also been discovered leadiug through the field, and supposed to extend much farther. • On Thursday, a new erected powder e.1:11, in Rising Wood, *teat Favetsham, blew up with a dreadful explosion. There was only one man employed at the time of the accident, who was so shockinglr bruised that there is but little hopes of his tecovery. A foolish distwrbance happened at the Peterborough Theatre bn . Ftiturciay evening, owing to a gentleman refusing to uncover this lieail during the time that the orchestra performed " God !ape the Xing.' Immediately after the interlude, that air was Called; and the person (notwithstandirg the general cry of " Hats off") remained covered; a Lieutenant of the Marines itmitediately thatched it off for him, and - threw it on the stage ; k !truffle then ritstied:, which was followed by parties fighting id every directiOn. ' . On \\Wile:id:l7 se'nnight three boys, bc.tween the ages of nine and twelve years, who were employed to fril!litett the birds Who robbed the coin-fields rear Stilton, took it into their beads to kill somebody with the gun with which they were en ertisttd.: at d aecorditTi!,i tried the experiment on a woman passing thaeway, but as ii was only loaded with poWder she re &wed no other injury than in lier gown, which was a little burnt ; en their MUrn borne t Amwevet. they tut slugs out of a sheet of lead, and the . riel,-t .'n - vorriing took - their station in the fields, tmVthey On olfticil to fire at two children on their way to . tOfto, liOni Otatly alarmetl i Bed: 'and refused to go Ciiglitt, Ai tliey mist pass that way; until 'a•girl,.iihat 14. is sia of sage, told them to fear nothing' and fhlluw ber4 mei gilt did:: 'But, on the boys seeing than', they told • trod -ale had taken the children under her protection', ''• &On -Most answer for it, and immediately the eliksi bPy actV tputile Clete to her face, and shot her dead' 66 the g rim : . spot ! On seeing what they lus4done t zan away+ : -but were: soon taken, ass stre•rinsv lodge - din 'Huntingdon gaol, to take their trial at the mixt Assizes; which come on in about a fort night. The Coroner's inquest, whieh gat on the body, brought in a verdict of manslaughter. The unfortunate deceased was an apprentice to a lace-maker, at antral' 'Village niltr Stilton; and the boys lived at Stilton, one of them is thrson of a post- Mall, the other of a farmer. Only two were committed for tad. On Tuesday last, as Mr. Botting, son of Mr. Botting, of Infield-place Farm, near Lewes, was dressing the lame foot of a bullock, the v.ciotis beast kicked him so violently near the sto mach, that a mollification ensued, and brought on his pre mature death, o:t Saturday last. The deceased was .about 22 Year.; of age, and his loss is greatly regretted by all who knew him. Monday, as Mr. John Jennings, a farmer, of Kingsclere, Hants, was shooting rats, near a barn, a boy who was.'attettding him Unfortunately got behind a hedge, which his master did not perceive, and &lug at a rat, the contents of the guirentered the lad's breast. and he expired in a few hours. On Monday a most daring robbery was committed near Ger rard's-cross, by a footpad, on Mrs. Oldarre and. child, of Bucks, in the middle of the day, as she was returning home from Dat chett, where she bad been on a visit to Mrs. Jones, when a fel- low jumped out of one of the woods, stopped the chaise, and robbed her of about 17s. and all the child s pocket money, as well as a bundle containing the child's clothes, and got clear uff : fortunati ly she had secreted siz one-pound notes. FATAL. Enitirry.—A few days since, J. Sadler, a labourer, of V.Totton Underedge, after drinking three pints of gin at <me public•house, went to another, and laid a bet he would drink a quart more, one half of which he took at a draught, and in a few minutes finished the other, w i th as little ceremony. He then began to boa+t of the feat, but was soon interrupted by the stronger reprover Death, who snatched him to his rude embrace without a moment's warning. ~/ S UMMER ASSIZES. Oxrost).—At the Nisi Prins bar an issue, Simms and others 1-larward, Clerk, directed by the Court of Exchequer, WaS tried before. Mr. Justice Le Marc, and a Special Jury, to . ascertain whether a modus of 6 , t. for ever; acre of land in the palish of Marston, near Oxford, was payable to the Vicar in lieu of small tithes, when,. after the examination of several witnesses, att:i the production of very ancient documents, the Jury found a verdict negativing the existence of any modus, and establishing in consequence the Vicar's right to the tithes in, kind. At the Isle of . Ely Assizes, holden at Wisbech, on Thursday the Itith inst. before Edward Christian, Esq. Chief Justice of the Isle, John Bolding was convicted of assault, with an in tent to commit a rape upon Elizabeth Young, a girl of about II years of age, at Chatteris ; he was sentenced to be imprisoned in the jail at Ely for one year, and to stand in the pillory once at Wisbech and once z.t Ely durin g that time. Michael Whiting was indicted under Lord Ellenhorough's Act, for administering poison with an intvnt to murder George Longman and Joseph Longman,. at Downharn ; but the two prosecutors not appear-, ing, although bound in recognizonces so to do, the prisoner was remanded till next Assizes.—The Civil Side presented 'Joanna of importance. At the Assizes for Northamptonshire, which ended on Wed nesday, John Clayton, for stealing a mare, the property of Mr. Rhodes, of Red-hill, Nottinghamshire; David Vye, for steal ing above the value of 40s. in the dwelling4mthe of Wiles. Denton, of tiigham Ferrers; and Jolm Wilson, the elder, and J o h n Wils o n, the younger, for burglaries in the house .of John Brooks, of Morton Pinkney, received sent e n ce o f d eat h , b ut were afterwards reprieved. Janies Cox, for stealing from the person (ff George Tuckey, a watch, tope transported for s::ven years ; Henry Hayes, for ,attemoting to ravish Ann Blencowe, was sentenced to two yeamimprisonrnent, and the pillory. At the Assizes held on Tuesday se'nnight, at Winchester, the following prisoners received sentence of death; viz. George Gnllever, for stealing a black mare, the property of Peter Pin nick ; Win. Cobb, for stealing a poney, the property of Wm. Youtig ; NArni. Stanley, f or stealing a poney, the proper! ) , o f Newman;James Thomas Griffiths, for stealing two bars of copper, the property of his Majesty; Thomas Bowler and Wm. Braker, for assaulting Robert Burge on the highway, and tak ing from him a Wincanton note, a bank token, &c. They were all reprieved before the Judges left the city. At Nisi Prius, the most important trial was that of the King v. John Pottinger, Edmund Boghurst, and James Ford. The defendants were concerned in repairing Hilsea Barracks, near Fatima, and it was clearly prayed, that the defendant s had dr.' fralscled govvrnthent to a lar g e amouutt by wills oia materials , . - - - - -J