The National Register. — London, England, 1819-08-22 00:00:00

AtiGOST nrressary tnaek any question hot one, which was, whether King, the Muter. hail attest that ten inintites elapsed betweca the in. trialuction of the priamer to the room whets Mrs. item was and the lieu shriek of the womsr. Kin; he helicvol. The MagistrsteK then o.ireete:i that In. -eat .bruin b: cola dulled from s; ag:.tratz; roam to the ()thee. She was bran ht in by I..attheater. the Niarstialtuan. and If whficl.T. the tPlicyr. anti phse,ed in a chair clooe to the %Lurie. indef. She was gaudy %skated. Her sister stood ou ooe auk end her father on the other. The priwincr inaint..itird his compoatte—we could not perceive the slightest change in his deportment. Alderman Smith then calico upon her in the most compa.sion ate manner to give her evidene7 She NI; I, she was the wild of Henry Stem, and that her name was Maria—•• I arrived," said she, • 6 from Liverpool on Thursday week. an.l mit up at the sa. rteen's Ilene, Snowltill. I sent as letter to my linstiond to Pimli co soon after twelve o'clock, and in conseluenez of that letter he came between 6 and gin the evening, as well as tam recollect.— ;el y agitation was so great that I remember nothing of wunt oc curred after I saw him till I found myself en Dattitaloinew's hos pital undressed." Alderman Smith.—" Did you and yourself wound.hl?" Stent..—••Yos—l was wounded, principally in Me neck-.I also was wounded in the thumb." . . Aldammn Miuth—•• Were you not wonnkil in the breast ?" Mrs. steot—.•• I had a wound under my breast." - Alderman Smith...." You have no recollection as to what oc curred itnnietliztely_atler you saw your Lbband Mra. Stent.—" None whatever." Alderman 4ntith then observed to Alderman Ttothwall and Mr. Harmer. that what Mrs. Swat wanted in recollection ass f dip supplied by the evideniro of the waiters, and that there existed no doubt as to the manner in which the wounds were in‘hcted. The Alderman then Called upon. the Either of Mrs. Stent, and a aced him whether he would be answtrable for her appearance at the yrolecution of the pri.cner. It wai a painful duty, Al Li man Smith stUtl, to put such a question, but public duty required it [. M. Beecher, the father of Mn.o' Stert, said he hoped it would ncc b : rrt.i•ieil upon I . lie wad liVe.Pae to it, anti should nut except upon compulsion. fle Magistrate slid he night refuse to do so. Stent, who seemed in great agony, foolt her father by and whispered—" Oh, for God's sake, father, do rot t." .Vr. Beecher said, "My dear. shall not;' and then said to the V.igistrate. " Sir. I shall not do so." Iderinan Smith said, that every body regre'ted the dreadful calamity, and felt toe the prisoner in the strongest manner. A klennen Smith then said, that in the perthrmanee otitis duty, wast.bligtd to call upon the tither of Mrs. Scent to answer for het appearance upon the trial of the prisoner, u hum it wit. Lis duty to commit. Mr. Beeches' said, that he had no objecionso enter inteeecog nizances tir her appearane it it was uldf;..ettaty. (laving been told, that if security v.....s hot giver. she must remain is prison, the father iimitedi vely entered iota re:a„iii- LeICCS. II a .aid he was ile,binet-taak,r. tutu re.4.1...1 at No 53, b.retton Ground. %YestniMstrr. Ilirdsfiekl, the Oliecr, who produced tl,eknife with wl.ieh the stabs were etippoied to have been Milieu-I, tea • /hell IN/114d over to provcitte in the notne of t:e Kieg. an I Mr. Ma:eller *as made reponsi de for the appearance of I ra. St tint :Ors. Strut had retir.xl befoce.the exanittiation had proceeded to this length. Mr. !tanner, after some convgrsation with her, requested that she might he allowed to have an interview with her husband before his cone - Intel Mr. Harmer Said lie merely made the re qnest. Ile had not advised slat a electing shoMtl take place.. .kldennan Smith said it would be iumedsible to refuse it except of en the ground that the meeting would be too much calculated produce di , ti efts upon both side:. Mr. !tanner returned to Mrs. Stmt, and stated .he objection of the Magistrate. She beggcl•him to ;Tess it. The Magistrate then suggested that tne Compter would be the place tbr at Lunette, and said he should oll"tr no impedi e .e.it if the prisoner had no objection to the meeting. 'lra. Stmt was satisfied at h at ing .',lderniun Smith then addressed Stent.—ff On this ereasion,' he, " I should be extremey sorry to wound your feelings, y askirg you whether you had any deleice to make. Your So licitor. Mr. Harmer, advises you to say nothing.— I suppose you ..re willing to take his advice." The prisoner said, " Yes, Sir," and bowed most respectfully. Alderman Smith said. " We are anxious to grunt you every humane assistance. We understand that it is your wish to re. .pain in the Com; ter till your lila). We comply with that ai-h. The prisoner then was taken to the Coomter, accompatied by h's brother and Mr. Bryan. Mr,. Swot lea. conveyed to the bus y...tad iNIERVIEW RETWF.eII MR. AND MRI titinigh very strongly iitged i.nd reci.n sended h. bar iriends to delay her interview se hit her husband, until they were each recovered fuoin the agitation of the long mid alTecting ♦lamination of Wednesday, such was the uusicsy of Mn.. S tent to we him, that she could not he persuaded to defer her visit, hut wocld stop at t hes Compter on h. r ietetrit iron the Justice•room to St. Bartholomew's-hospital. Air. Teague, the Governor of the Compter, hissing no intima tion of her visit, was from home al the time, and Mrs. Stent was obliged to wait patiently in his a pattinvist a till his re turn, as none of the other's felt then a hes artallled to al low of the MU.' iew bi, ptrnri►siom. lbi las re turn, at 4 o'clock, he readily compliu d ith her review, but with the conditt ion that the imicusirw took place in his p e senee, and that hen husband consented to the inertia:. Mr. Stet., was accoidii.gly informed of his a ife's desire to We him, and replied he had no objection, hat wished that Done Mends he had with him should also be pre eat. Mr. Teague then showed Alas. Steed and lier siste r into the Committee room, o he, e het husband and his I. iends a etc also Immedi nWly introduced. Out his entrrinee she seized his hand, kissed him very nth etionately. and inquired, a lilt eat up. parent eitv•rues, attar his he..l;li, and how he had mime ills confinement. He replied to he r w ita kindness nod all:tbi• lily, but seemed enretully to avoid any thing like the ap pearance of retuning erection. The stru;tle wills himself was evidently great, a bile she press. d his hand unJ rued it with her tears. After some Nether coast rinetion, in which she inf. timed him ►he had been much fatigued in the hospital by the kitabirss of numetous friends, and the Vl4lls of ether presents from t otiosity, nnd thitt she u u •aut to go home to her father's to-morrow (l'hurialay ), she :Ward his permis sion to see him again ; to a hit Is he replied he had 41,12 übjer lion. She then moil, kissed him and took her leave. By 9 o'clock friday morning she wet at the Crompter, and again saw her luoloo:0, to the 'outwore of Mr. Teague; the Diterview was shout, and a her departure she obtained at, eotakiiit to see lier again. At neither e.f tin se lositi has Mrs. ventured the slit:Weal allusion to la•r elan misconduct, or her husliainl'sse.crity ; she seems at II aware that be is as yet WO Medi irritated vttninst her, and a ishis to accustom ►ilo to Lille tither Wilia.illi reseutownt. ILI. M ell DPR Co NFISI6E - IC.- - 0; r7l44.day roarrinr, about /lace o'clock,! wan, w•bo ttce..l bu stow. to be Tbotu.4- TIE NATIONAL REGIWITit Wood, called at the watels-boaw,nf the Surrey-road trot, uh2re he isif.srneed Haskell, one ttf Ilse patrol. I:sat lie had been polls/ sit e onsiriler, and fs qacbled Inc mi It he taken berme ,k ut,Aiar,l.•, for the mute se of twiisiii.t en reswiss, owl ►t sting walls Aar.. Ilaskeit siecordso,4l‘ hisos,tht loos 10 tine •.lice, is Isere car w 11. t rralt CUiliptbUre llll..rlit •J Allen, lam i n . tlu frth of June hot, is hil•.! Uwe •ter, b called too Havol Lsalts, is cobbler in iltsol, , ..treet, town, :in I retail sled he would 1:11t1 Into one of Isio lung knit er., o hie h he did; Called ono piti:lA vimisiin Darned who lived %Valk her filen& iis Witt. Ist eel, nod al!ied her to 1::Ite a caulk with hon. 'l's cy 14P111 tots, use ithey • meadow, u•hr,e, near a • toor-we:.r, and %Viten. I here coosi.lerahle th•ria lie It:Jilted her wader the tea brisiost, %%ben the dropped iliatiu n+,: l skid. was reinuiltird. ‘ITON C;.IiIDEN. In our paper of hilt week we inserted an nernant of 1 a young woman apply isitt i.t u l,ua e its Geurgc-court. Ayless burysstreel, Clerkcom ell, for a Its in:, w hich she obtaitied. and was toms after put to lied mid netts erect of a liar fler health bein4 sudicteutly restore.l, she was on Saturday asnittined at 111.6 onice. deeeral alit,. isses were in ;mead ow's., ammo w bum were the woman sil the house where she I.l.lhed, 011 e of the female lodgers who followed and watched her, sad the nom who took up the boy.; these persons corroborated the print i pal parts of our former VT The litiacind, a sato of respectable appearance. also in truded; he ' , timed mach affected al his wife's situations.— From his statement it appeared that his wife, la consequence of ft severe hurt the held formerly received in berheud, was at times deranged, uad he clothd no otherwise account for her basing quilted a comfortable taste in the manner she had done, mid for her sebsestutiot extraordinary conduct, than by supposing she nail acted tinier the tolitaince of the unfit' lus • n;11„. malady to which she ate, subject. The. Xlaeistrate, metier all Lae circuistsfunt es, said he would admit the unfur tierste.ssonant to hail, on-het husband entering imn w recops uixance for 501., ant Hu4int Imo Isousekee i sets to join hint in 451, each fcr her coterie Appearance. The Ftwhand earnestly solicited the Nlagistrnie to take his security for the whole sum, nr i jor as a reason the deplorable state of lei family at home' one rim It having died since his wife left hint, and tw 0 ufhrn rat proweit I, 1,. slons,sisonsly ill, his 1.01 , 1:11re was in 1 of kshirc, awl 1,, 11.1.1 uu acquaintance aho were house keepers in Loudon Ina: he could ask to became had. Ti me AL,g,,tinto olo.er-cd, coin. miser/10'd his situation, but he could nut on this occasion deism t from the rept:sir coarse ; whenever he not his bail were ready, the unfortanote. woman might be liberated ; tall eacit site nstat 1'0111(11 In her confinement. The III:morn arrived on Sunday from the South American station, la.t from Rio Jaen io, a hence she milted on the Sth of J oar. she 141)&11 , 411unit two millions of dollars at Rio, from lam t, ;mil brought to England about 140,000 on Incr.. chi,tit'.:l4 count. Stec and the Aedromache, Capt. Shirr( If, hiv also treasure on board, pissed Lind tochimie's tpra no, in the South Sens, hut his landship did not dis c ,ser tern the slightest intent of interruptia; e ither of the ships. II is Lorilsn-p's squadron appeared iii excellent 0 1 ; nod it '.s but justice to h 7 s Lorddiii, to state, that he tins not real' le , l to nay endue or imp:opt r means to titan his ships, hot on the contrary, in every lost ince of comp biint made to him by the mailers of ni-r. hant sliippoig, on any of their eves, having deserted to Min, he 'mitred the men *a be neat, itistani:e lent on *board their respeetive ships. The lilossont fill in with a whaler, the ne:mer of which related .a recent instance of thia condui t f his Lord ship, in ris,te. to linf the crew belong.ng to his ship. The statements in the American papers, therefore. TIM:Abe imor err 1 The fellow lug is a list of the minima: squadron In Chili, on the 9th of April last lite (late :vanish) 48 gu: s, land Corhrane, Captain Foster, El ig. Captain. (late Royal Navy), a completer nt of S5O m en , nearly till Emtish ; St. Mat tin, (kite Quinliei land, Indianian) 60 guns 480 men, English, Americans, and Chilaimee, Capt. Wilkinson, (late of the East India Cvnipany's service (t la. Jove, fi igate, (la te Nlndham I ndiaman) 52 eines, 333.1seii, English, Americans, and Chilainiee, Capt. (Mile (l..te of the Roy•I Navy) ; Cluschaboura (myrtle, 24 guns. Capt. Cal ter ; ( Lieut. of the Royal Navy), 200 men, Lit Itch, Arsie ricans, and t. adman.' ; Aricaiin hi ig, IS guns, Capt. Ramsay, (late Nlaster's- mate in the Royal Navy), 120 men, English, Ameritans, and L hilannes ; fiadveienu brig, ltiguns, Capt. Speigh, (Lieut. of the Royal Navy), 94 men, English, Amei icons, and Unionises; Knoat sloop of (late Eiiplish) not yet maestri, or ndicers appointed; Pu!ecton, i6 -Kau brig, net maimed, Captain unknown ; Chilano schooner, 10 guns, Captain Cull, (late a Lieut, in the Royal Navy), hot ally, 36 corvette, amid Cruzes!, 36 ditto; bulb I) Me at the Rio-de-la Plata, hits ly from North Aliso ire. '(tie following is a list of the Spanish *hipping at Lima, the 14th of relit oat y lasi :—Vaneanzar, 60 gun frigate, SGO men 8 Esmeralda 50 dill°, 360 nice. ; lies biota, 36 ditto, 210 men, Cleopatra, 39, sloop of w sr. 210 min ; St. Sebastian. e 6 con rite, tioo Mel) ; Penznela, 13 brig, 151 ; Jlayl o, IS ditto, 96 men, lately taken after a desperate en4ierinvoil whb the Resolution fiigate. atio4e were' tying in Mr roads of Callao, Lima, were badly maimed, and iu very had order. There -ere also a great number of pan-Inuits anti laotiehes, which are maimed, what wanted, by the crews of the shipping. The Itleosom left the Carole, Commodore Bowles, at Rio, p i t•parisig to go round Cape Hero. he Tyne and Pavans Ile were in the river Plata: and Andromache, Stoney, cud Icarus, were in the South Sea'. EXPERT Swtststen —A young man, a native of the island of St. Croix, lately came ver the sound from Crontuburg and Helsinghurg, and thus much outdone Leander and Lord Byron, who swain across the Hellespont. The distance from Abydos to.Ses tos is only an English mile, but the distance which I oni Byron and Lieut. Eikenprad !MU, in one hour and ten minutes, is estimated at four miles, because the strong current curried them away.— The distance between Cronenbur► and Hclsingburg is four English miles; but as the swimmer could not land at Helsingburg on account of the strong current and surf, he had to suits down to the village of Graves, two English miles further, making six English macs in all, which he did in two hours and tbrty minutes. A Danish officer and three sailors followed him in a boat, and never lost bight of him.. In the middle of the Sound he had to contend with.viclent waves and a high sea, which dashed over him. NORWICH ASSIZES. (Castinsedircas iat w*k.) MURDER.—JnIm Pyetaft. of Wootwiek, In ebb enmity, watt 16141141 rd for the mortice of Juhn Pyci Aft, hi. ),rant Iliad, and for atieutptist/ to roismi his wife, EAR. 'Nesbit, nigh intent In kill her. The t hil(I it a Imo ird at Wevtuitit the 234 of Nlity 1.4, ru,l #thotit :# ofti:rvi;;;;i: an dopiest N 1.1 7, I.lhlll Letinr .lr. Pilunu, , eel - neer, 10.1 the pi moors o.iv fully euseiellt.-.11 for Inal. '.ti r. Henry Cooper, ouc of the compel for Ole error., the in a very eltle manner. roil Own proceeded in the istrititc4 the rrivetirr for 'he nosialtr or that . . cAiIA b) John Simon, r stnted, Unit- he lived at Ftirittenhall, Lott nit 4 11 Wor.te.l hit. nn the 13111 nt May Inst,'saut on' Shit t i olloning morning he went i 0 Ni;rwielt with )ti•uner • illAt Ise afterward. weci nil!. Lim to Mr. Pti • " druggist In Norwich, n use he requested to hat e three. pennyworth of arsenic. Prisoner said be- matted it to • 'leerily- the vermin in his garden. Ann Brown, slinpnomen at Mr. Patlnnire,' , atated, • That either on Friday, the l;lt, or theirrerlay, Mee 1311 i. of May lest, two men (one • very short moan) came to Mr. Purloiners shop, and the short man asked or three-pennyworth of arcenie„ swing that he wanted it to destroy tome Venni!, ; that she sold hi m sn a g quantity. and teflon looking at the prisoner she identified him as ',Meg the short viten, bet said she did not know his name.—His Lordship then recommeatted Oat cheiniste should, in entnre,ntic the names of persons who purchased poiso', end enter them in their day-book. Rose Wnery, of Westwirk, stated, that %he saw psi.. POttel'S wife and child in the roamer yard, Loot ru . and 6 o'clock in the evenirip of the IGO May, quill well—ric,g the wife and child wore taken ill about 8, and die child died a little before 10. "%flint'', went into pi kouesin 'Mums a little rifler 8, ohm, she fot.nd the poor woenteri dreadfully ill, and the dull 'very bed. Witness never Ails,/ a child so bad, the et es stared from the head, and the lips looked very dry. T::al about 4 o'clock in the inurnittl prisoner's wife inked for some tea. Witness took doh it the *mind, and paw something white in it, which she tub bed between tier fingers,end it appeared like pearl ash. Prirouer's wife complained of peat pain In her neck and stomach, and withers saw some meat Oh the table. Witen witness lino went in, Eliz. Pycraft said she had taken sone: of the meal, and drank come of the tea, mud Ara was what Iced made her ill, and that she gave the child a piece of the meat to stick. That witeerts wend again to primmer', house on the Moor:lay, an*rwlien slue was at the well, pri. easter came to her, and assed her to say " that she had ' taken some of the meat and (hark some of the ten, oe It world eo hard with him, for he an'l no one flee," That nitiwas sat, prisoner Realm *melte Wedestsday,wheweet lie culled her on one 'isle, end begged. o 4 her foam: •• sins bad taken some of the meat, and drank someSof the tern, or it would go heed with him, as his norther in law had fdonet since more white stuff in the tevpot raltlitte, !bat lie put some of the poison into the tea-pot oil the Snuclay uittbt before his wife wag taken ill, and that he pot the enough,. der in OR the Wednesday, and that he did it to get rid of his scife and chill, as he could not live with her. The morning the chill was to be taken nit. prisoner said t, • " Now I ant done, fur lilted go to Norwich tOee- Ile, and never come hack win," and at the sams-nine Isegfett of her to say she had taken some of the meal, antl dr disk some of the tea, as that was the Ce.ly smo g .ibeg mild save bins. That witness saw prisoner she Holiday after the child was buried, who asked krr whether she would go to Capt. Cooper's, anti sweat that his wife did it ? adding, that he would pay witness for her day's work. Wire r .% said, ts Jelin! how con )011 ask me sucli a thaw, after what you have toldrne i" This witness, aeon being cross examined by the pri sonres eouniwl, said, that in o conveisation with the ptisoner, he told her that lie did it, and 110 one else, an t he should nut mind being hanged for it if be had hoe killed his wife as well as his child. • The counsel for the prisoner attempted hi prove that Mr. Pilgri m , t h e reri,„ ner, when liking Abe inquest, said to Wilms*, that ne would commit b lier. erif4ilkl not tell a &We, slur', ba t M ae afterwards eurreeteillerself Is) saying. he said he sheep commit her to the Castle if she did nut speak the truth. Judith Mertisoo coafimed the testimony of the last witc pas. Sarah Fpnnner, rbolikrerer -at Worsted, wire of :atti Spooner, of FILW3II , nII4II, stat...if, that prisoner asl..ret' her to buy some poison ise March lest, stat;ine.thar he waisted it rn destroy the venting in hi, eariteC' I t rironer nein to Norwich oil the 1311. of May with witness's husband, to di ise the horse and cart home. That on the Monday after the chilli died, prisoner came to witness's hong', cost asked whether she had slot heard coy thing? Wittier, said yes, that his child 4% a% dead. Prisoner then said it was hissed abent that Old Itetty (moaning his wife) had polymer! it. .1 . 1141 on the Sunday et ruin=Niter the ehlll was buried, pi j43/14 t came to witness's house again, a,, I alter some ecnveriatiots begged if ...its:el.o tip keepasll secret. 'flint ' , limner then confessed to witness that Is. (prisoner) poisoned his wire and JOIIN Johnson, the Governer of the Gaut, permed that when he was returning loupe from the coronet . » Inquest pith the pi ironer, lie told WiltVe4ll Ihht eteSe persunt in whom he had plaeul rvenlidencr trust oft reiveil Ho: 31r. Dalrymple, an eminent snrze: u iit Norwich, ram then ellled, who said lie 114.1 head tae I sidenee, and had taken notch pains in the bitrief , ss, which 55.1 s inder,l very difficult. '11.44 he had lit aid the s)uiptoms, and ti l e ) might has i•eu (rum arsenic, hut that they might has e ht 14 1 .11 trom otltrr rasi•eA. That lie could not say how mock gist Me would Itro.f.ee destlr. 1:* t pet • , 011 Ins:1 eaten pork on which p0i.1,11 hail been log. pain at the pit of the stomach and 11110,11 Wo.ll , l4llMech.liely follow. 1 has witness proved that lie examined with particular care the the atnntarlt, isthilie treat and polisher infestint tont vitad not ili•envei that any of the parts had been M ineral by :remade. nor cool,' lie observe any marks of yin. hence uu the deceased. 'fins cet.ttenian aaSe i.ia Weigh e ti Oh great (-notion, ar,d 1:1 . 114Italy avvioctl bie log aby colutive opinion. His 1+01;131 , 11, 4f ter nttniny up the et jei ture j i ► "., v able in/swirl, directed the Jos!, if the) 114.1 do) doitiot to their nlin li, to lellllll 8 Veld:lCl ill iisVill!f (111briml.r,o, r. The Jory, after et.n.it!erisog the fiefs for lan mi.. insole?, returned a seriliet :• H 1.1.011.1.4) then palled the 45.1 tut .rntenrr or the Irtr open the p.i•nner, at at the same tm.e, in Ihe mist to•- prem.'s, manner, stsonely re( montemh d the wiett heel off• rider set i0 , 1•I), to r•arl t ovi.n the the4.lll et nut . for %haat he would, to a few isoul,, h4vc tuffer. It %%aa a