The National Register. — London, England, 1822-12-29 00:00:00

which they were reprimanded by the defendant Hassey. The plaintiff said he was near 70 years of age, and not able to work as long as a yalliig Mail, but would work (ruin eight o'elork till tour. Hussey said lie was a saucy ra scal, and should work as long as the youngest man in t h e h u nse. The next day the plaintiff worked from seven to li ve , as usual, but on the day later ( Wednesday) did u m go to work. On that evening witness saw him in the rage, the place where felons and other prisoners were kept till they were sent to Maidstone gaol. There was no fire in the cage, nor bed, but some straw on the floor, which Was brick. There was no blanket or covering 41 . any kind. Witness brought some porrage from the workhouse. Palmer went with hint to let him in. The plaintiff said to Palmer," I low long do you mean to keep me here, yi' villain ?" Palmer said lie did not know. So I liornby stated, that on Thursday, the Inili of O. totter, lie saw the plaintiff in the cage through the bars here was no glass in the window. Witness went, at the p i a i o liirs desire, and brought him a great coat. Palmer went with him, and let him take in the coat. 'the plaintiff trembled and shook, and seemed very ill. Whets lie gut coat, he laid thrall on the straw im the floor. Palmer saw the state he was its, and gave hint nothing, but locked lino up. itlr. Butler, the pari•li surgeon, proved his having located the plaintiff for chronic ilieumatisin after lie was discharged; it might have been ceased by the cold to which he was exposed in the cage. The case for the plaintiff closed here. Mr. Adolphus addressed the Jury at great length fur the (bivalents in mitigation, but called no witnesses. TheJui y. after a short consultation, returned a verdict for the plaiiititi—Damages On the mormata of thursday about three o'clock, the maid-servant of the Rev. Ur. Beckwith, curate of 'l'd- E.soc, was alarmed by 3 noise at the window of an apartment below, and looking out, she saw the body of a wait about half way through the sash, and he was then pushing himself in the remainder of the way. Mr. Beckwith was ~t that nine io London, on a visit, and the only man in the house wur the parish clerk, who sit pt there. The servant went immediately to call bon, and having informed him of what she had seen, desired that lie would get tip and protect her and her mistress. Site then went to Nlrs. Beckwith's chamber, and had no sooner communicated the terrifying intent genCC t“ her, than ilia courageous young lady took a loaded pistol in one hand, and a candle in the other, and dvs:ring the servant to follow her, went down stairs. When came to the room into which the fellow had entered, she walked boldly in and saw him cowering down m one corner. She presented the pistol at him, and in a menacing tone told Mutt that if he moved, or otf L red any resistance she would shoot him instant iv.— By this time the honest parish clerk, who probably fearing that his ancient bones would stiffer from being esp .seil to the cold, had waited to put on h.s clothes, c .me shivering into the room, and seeing the triumphai.t pasture of his mistress, he advanced with more coo& donee, and Mrs. Beckwith still standing by with her pistol, the clerk and the seivant boan , i the thief hand and foot with cords. He was the next day Liken before a magistrate in the neighbourhood and coinmitted. Ile had, it appeared, lilted a five barred gate from its hinges and brought it across one or two fields for the purpose of using it by way of ladder to enable him to reach the windows. A little before four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon an &el:antiv dressed lady was obserted walking in a de jected state in the Birdcage-walk, St. James's-park. She looked at several of the trees with apparent earnest ness, and seemed quite insensible of the object of the mob who followed her, till she arrived opposite Story's gate, when she took a handkerchief and made it fast to a tree ; but finding the bough to which she attached it was not her height, she untied it again and fastened it to another much higher. She very leisurely tied it round her neck in the pros:nice of a large crowd of men and boys. who all the time watched her [notions; and spring- Sig forward, twisted it round in such a manner that the w.s entirely raised front the ground, and would have be..ii s rangled had she not immediately been cut down. —She then abused those around her in the grossest lan guage, saying, she was by birth Lady Carrington; that the King and th e Duk e of York had known her, but by oppression she teas deprived of her rights, and kit to wander forlorn and friendless. Site was, however, re cognized to he t woman well known in St. Jamet's ; she had been sipported by a noble peer, in splendid equipage and dignity, only a few years ae.o, and through some fault afterwards abandoned ; since which site has been seen about the streets, Irequeutly in a state of despon dency. A constable took her to the workhouse, until she can be got into Colic proper asylum. AFFECTING CIRCUMSTANCE.-- , Salmisy se'itniOt the corpse of an old woman was 101/11d tear a farlll - in the muir, a few miles from the village of Miry. The body being unknown, the circumstance was pmelaimed, on the following sahbath, in the parish churches of Beith and Dairy, in the hones of discovering smite trace of the unfortunate individual's connections A little Loy, the son of a tanuer in the neighbourhood, oil coming home from church, remarked to his father that the woman's plaid was " tine° like his granny's." The farmer, ratheralarmed at this information, hastened to the spot, and to his utter grief and astonishment, dis covered the corpse to be that of his aged mother. It would appear that she had left Iverue with the intention 01 visiiitie, her UM, and that, either overcome by fatigue, or misled by the darkness of the night, she had lost her way in the muir, and perished with the cold. When found, site was in a sitting p store on the side of a hido k, and had an orange, partly eaten, iti her hand. V A PRESENT.,..-A gentleman of AlalleilCSlCl, a few days ago, received through the post-office a packet, the charge I n which was iI. 14s. Mil. Oa being opened it was found to consist of a gown, value about which at+ is sent from the neighlirittritood of London, by a err s it to whom he had rendered service, as a present for tits wife. It is supposed the packet had been ;it tit ) a servant to send by the mail, and that the matt, not the distinction, bad ih glut he was attending to the nittitietiont Ili sending it by post. -- . ....,. A NATIONAL REGISTER T'. Olt Saturday evening, as one of the Reading coaches was proceeding to town, it came in contact with a chaise cart at Knightsbridge, opposite the Life G1.171111S barracks, the violence of wh i ch o ve rt u r ne d t h e c h a i se - car t, i n winch was the landlord of the Marquis of .Granby public-6(15e, and a person named Williams, who both received very severe ColltUbilMS, m consequence of rate of the wheels passing over them. They were conveyed F cote insensible, and now lie in a very precarious state. About an hour after the above accident took place, the leadttrs of one of Limpus's Isleworth stages took fright near St. Georv's Hospital, and rail with unceasing vio lence down the road. The swaying of the coach, on which were seven persons and four inside, was truly terrific. All attempts to slop them were unavailing, mint another chaise cart, standing exactly opposite where the former accident took place, locked in the fore wheel of the stage, and by that means the horses stop ped. The passengers, who had very prudently kept their seats, jumped off, but received very little injury in so doing. The coach soou after started, but several of the persons refused to proceed further with it. FlRE—Wavping was thrown imp considerable alarm on Monday night about six o'clock, by a fire breaking out on the extensive premises of Mr. Dent, shipchand ler, in llermitalm.street, which at first threatened great destruction : it broke nut in the warehouse, but by what means cannot be ascertained ; it soon spread to a quantity of oakum, which took fire, and burnt with great ra pidity ; the dexterity and exertion of the neighbours, who soon threw the whole property into the stree•, saved the premises trout being burnt to the ground by the raging element ; five minutes more, and it would have gone beyond their power. The Aldgate parish engine, the Imperial, Royal Exchange, and Phoenix, soon arrived ; hut we are happy to say, their aid Was dISIMISed with, and that the injury was confilied to the property only ; except that of Mr. Mills, a publican in the same street, who fell over one of the fiery butulles of oakum and hurt his head severely. SHOCKING OCCURRE6NCE.-011 Thursday last David Claim, a private belongilig to a detachment of the 3d Magoon Guards, stationed at Carlisle, pot a period to his existence at Hexham. The following are the circuit)• stamms attending this melancholy transaction f—lt ap pears that Clator had lately in riled a young woman of Carlile, to whom lie was passionately attached ; she, however, ;unit before and alter her marriage, had been in the habit of corresponding with another man, in the neialthourhood of Carlisle. This circumstance, it is beliesed, coining to the knowledge of Clator, he became extremely jealous, and greatly disturbed in mind ; his wife, in toe mean titne, having availed herself of the pioteciton of her mother, who resided at Hexham, went so live with her, declaring [that she could no longer remain with her husband. Claim now determined to pioceed to Ilexhant and demand his wile, with a fixed resolution, is case of a refusal, to shoot either her or himstlf, or both ; with which intent he carried with hint two loathal pistols. 0:1 arriving at her mother's he met with the refusal lie had anticipated, his wife rest>- . lately persisting in having no fulfiller communication with him. His leave of amence being naw expired, and and being in a state of the utmost distraction of mitid at his wile's conduct, he destroyed himself with one 01 the pistols which he had unfortunately brought with him for that purpose. The Tyne Mercury says—" The keel men of the Tyne continue to hillow weir occupations as usual, amid there appears little danger of a relapse. There is a large strain boat of a 34 horse power at present building at Howdon Taus, fur the put pose of giving greater facility to the In-tiling of ships of great burden without the assistance of keels, by towing vessels op and down the river. We understand the keeltucti have beeu taking the opinion of counsel as to the spouts being a nuisance to the na vigation of the river, and Mr. Brougham, it is stated, has given them so much encouragement, that they are determined to set apart weekly a small portion of their earnings in order to raise a fund, that they may try the question at the next sessions." A melancholy Aliin happened at Leicester, on Mon day aftesllo./11. Six boys, on their return from school, went to slide on a pond near the infirmary, when the ce broke and let them all in, and lour of the number were drowned. Thursday morning last, two men left a box at Simp ' son's coach-ollice, Rochester, to he forwarded to Lou dim. Mr. Aldersly, 01 Suomi, who was present at the time, having before observed the same persons at S rood, susi.ected something improper, and called in au excise man, who was passing, aoil communicated his suspi cions, that the box curtained cont raband goods; it w,:s accordingly opened, when the body of a matt was ex posed to view. Tile t ircunixtalice being made k nown, many persons soon collecten round the office, and one of them thought it was the body of his father, who had been buried iii Strom' church-yard no the preceding day. It was accordingly taken to Roches er workhouse, when it proved to be the body of 'Will lam Ileor tigum, en aged man, many years servant to die late Mr. Hog,hurst, of Strixxl, he body was re.interred on Friday, the o rate having been deepened ten feet. Three men, suspected of the rubbery were in the meantime taken into custody at Gravesend. They were tiavelling in a light cart with a good horse, and had tools, such as a and pickax, and a wrapper similar to the tune the 4, dy was shrouded in. They underwent an exauuivauoit t u Friday, at Ito• cuester, and were remanded. • • A few evenings ago, a root women, and her son, ten years or age proceeded in the sunlit troth Church Strewth nviiket towards their home al Pro'savior, Shropshire, a distance of Munn four miles, but the ‘iii letice 01 the tempos( was so great, and their fatigue so etre, ssive, that when willllll ab o ut rite hundred prds or their own lions-, they suck under the accunitilatilig ditticulties of their johrtiey. The shrieks of the whir w All were heard ity a cottager, shit wont to her as s‘talice, and she was witii difficulty reetti (Jed ; the Inner troy was tone dea•l and t..vo cooph• of Inv‘ is witch were by turn were alwr d‘ad, and euverd with Lad. . 411 Ditatst• FooTeAns.---On I Viday sennight, as Mr John Jackson, a pig jobber, - ho lodges at the house of Mr. Radinile, gamekeeper, in Wilthuore Fen , Lincolnshire, was rooming on horseback front Tattershall market, and had arrived within a shrt dis tance of his house, he was attacked, so early in the evening as a little before six o'clock, at the descent of Frogliall bridge, by three men on foot, who must base been purposely waiting for hint at the spot. Two of them made a catch at his bridle, whi•:11 be, with great courage, dexterously warded off by a vigorous use of tha butt end of hit whip, whereby, he so quickly knocked down one, and smutted the other, as to frustrate their attempt to stop him. %Vitae .\ir. Green was thus ac tively and closely engaged with two of the villains, the third aimed a blow at his head with a thick stick or bludgeon, which caused the blood to flow profusely front his face. lie then, clapping spurs to his little spirited horse, made his slay with all the ►peed he Ipossibly could, though a piece of road so extremely bad as to he almost impassable evert by day-light : and was enabled most mosideutially to effcct his escape from the stalent hands and diabolical designs of these three desperate as- sailatits. Sunday evening last, some daring villain entered the •table of Mr. Newton, farmer, near Market 1 . /telling, Lincolnshire, at the early hour of eight o'clock, and stole thereout his nag mare, with which the villain rode off in view of the man servant, whom he threatened to shoot if he made any disturbance ; and his threat so alarmed the man, that he dared nut pursue the thief. In the course of half an hour. the mare returned all over dirt ; it is supposed she threW the rider, and by that means got away from hint. The servant, hearing her in the yard, went out and replaced her in the statute ; bat yet strange to relate, she was again stolen by nine o'clock. when Mr. Newton coming home, missed the mare, and immediately pursued the rubber. It is suppo j sed that he was close at the villain's heels, ae the mare was left tied to a hedge about a mile from the premises. Mr. Newton, replaced her in the stable, and kept watch against fur ther attempts during the night. A horse, the property of the company of proprietors of the Mersey and Irwell navigation, was lately freed from further !ahem, and sent to graze away the remnant of his d-. 11. On IVednesday week this faithful servant died, at an age which has seldom been recorded of a horse : he was in his 62e1 year. 'lnc premises at Chard, in which the very large wool len cloth factory has for many sears been carried on, but which have been lately abandoned in consequence of the general decay of that important branch of trade in the West of England, have been taken by some manufac turers of parent lace. Upwards of 1,300 hands are to be itainteniately employed in this concern, which has been undertaken by some of the persons now or lately connected with a similar establishment at Tiverton. A steam-engine and gas apparatus are erecting on the pre.. mists, the latter bring for the purpose of furnishing gas, through the pure flame of which the lace is rapidly passed, for divesting it of its downy filaments. The net is subsequently sent to France, where it receives a rich and elegant improvement, by the addition of a curiously wronzlit foliage and flowers, and is then returned to this country, iti which, notwithstanding thiselaborate course, it amply realizes the hopes contemplated by the ingenious patentees. The utmost expedition is using in fitting up tile complicated machinery requisite to this undertaking. and the most scrupulous regard is observed in the regu lations& the workpeople, to prevent any COIIIIIIIUIIIC3IIOII by which the processes of the manufacture are to be conducted. DRS'ACCTION OP LoNG's lIOTEIL..-.-This splendid resort of the /user ran was consumed by fire on Saturday morning. In what manner the fire originated is not exactly known, but it broke out in one of the servants' roottis,at the upper part of the house, about two o'clock, and so rapid was the comet ttttt ication of the devouring element, that all attempts on the part of the inmates to check its prowess were ineffectual, and in a short time the whole tit the attic was in flames. Tne timely arrival of e igints, and spirited exertions of the firemen pre. vented its spreading to the adjoining houses, and in a much shorter time titan would have been expected the fire was subdued ; but not until it had consumed all the interior, excepting the ground flair and cellars. Coss. siderable property was saved, and we are happy to stale that no lives were lost. All the exterior wails are stand ; and they present a curious appearance from the water having frozen on the surface, and formed several INUNDATION. — O! Wednesday night, or rather on Thursday morning, about one o'clock, the residents in a house in Mortimer street, Cavendish-square, were tonal seriously alarmed in a very singular lU3IIIIC r. These persons retired to rest late at night, and they had no long been in bed before they were.alarined by a strange noise over their heads in the shore st-irs rooms, and presently water began rapidly drop . ing through the ceiling, &c. upon them. The butler instantly arose, and ott opening the door perceived torrents of water running in every direction towards him ; not knowing what to make of this extraordinary alarm, and supposing the house was 011 fire, and the engines were in lull play, he rushed into the room, and snatching his wife in his arms he rail down stairs, butt in his progress found no lire lie opened the street door and called the watch, who with several other persons entered the house, and I d all the up stairs monis full of water, and tin ex amitialion they ascertained it proceeded f a cistetn at the top of the house, which was left unlocked, and cumsequently rushed out, and with great violence forced its wry throtigq the toot into the trionas. Part of the fort ttttt re was destroyed, but no Maher injury appeared to base been dine. A young woman in the parish of Middlebie, I)tim. friessitire, has the lotiowitt e ; relations, all !using, with their faculties quite entire, amid cap dine of attending to their several employments, t. witty, two peat grand fathers, two gteat gramlitiothert, two grandfathers, two r,itt.l lnert, a stepfather and s.eputiother, and a lather and minim. II -- $ ? • . . -• 44 ~~ ~~ - -~ . ~~ I 11 I