The National Register. — London, England, 1819-08-16 00:00:00

fa? L.IW REPORT. COURT OF t HANCF.RY. EX PAITE LORD DIGIT.) s TIIE MATTER Or THE DUCIIESI Or wourc).K. (LUNATIC PETITION.) Mi. tVingfield stated. dist this was a petition on the mot of Lord I iigby. praying Matte, as committee of the lunatic, the Diteh , ...ss Dowager so Nat io: k„ might be perniitted to file a bill fir the purpose of imerteining whether the present Duke of Norfolk was net bound to ;icy up arrears of an annuity of 3001. ut.ii of pin -money avisouoting to 7001. per annum, to which the Duchess was eutitled by i!i, seCiement, executed by t'te late Duke on tas I"lit:lags, and which had not been paid since the year 17r1. 14y a fonuer order ot the Court. it had been referred to Master Haney, to inquire s hether el.! petitioner o taht to continence a suit -alma etc Duke fin the recover) , of t 4 xe encase. The Mawcr'hail iiectod:ratly intpmed, and had reported that the I)uie was not liable, since he had coostently supported the Durbin , . anti bad pro v ided her with clothes and ether articles, for which pin-tuneey was generally understood to be set spot. The learned counsel, with all possible reopect for the opiMon of the Master, could not meow 1.13 the propriety of this n•po-t, which he believed to be founded anise* on mistake. It parceled on the sitpt,ositain that pin-looney was an allowance ferdothest and certaicl) . if that was the case, the Duke. having provided the lunatic with clo.hes. could not be liable kw any arrears. The real intetison of pin-money, however. was to provide a fund, tiot hw the purehate of dress, but for the actg. &Meal displey of that liberality and magnificence which were ex• peetod from females of elevated rank and forturie..auch as high-der prevents, costly preparations fix public eiddbitions.ac. But,tadependtsuly of this error in the principle on which the Master had founded his report, he conceived that the question was of use great import:lna, involving, as it did,* sum of nearly &Moot., to be decided tonally =Monty but that of his Lordship, lie men proceeded incite several caws applicable to the present, and endeavoured to establish the principle. that in all eases the husband, or his representative, was liable for arrears d pin- storey. unless it onild be 'lsom; that the wife had legally rilin. qulshed her claim to that alk,sance. If this principle was correct. there amid be no doubt of the Duke's liability to the present ease; for since the year 1714, the Duchess had not been competent to wave her claim. Mr. Sladwell Mllowed on the same side, and argued at consi derable length in support.of the Duke's liability. lie sold it was proposed to try the mattes Against the late Duke's executors, if his Lottlship should think proper to allow them. The Lord Chancellor said, the mil/ question before him was, whether the committee 'Mould be at liberty to file a bill for the recovery of these arrears alleged to be due to the lunatic, and he was of opinion. that the committee. if so disposed, should have that liberty. G Leine w, Ave 10 —During last week upwards of 300 people, being in the Royalty, were working in the Green, and behaved with great propriety during the whole time. Tie wages during that period was 1.., Is. 3d., nod Is 61. meeutdi..g to site eircumstanees of the families. During the II hue lime 3341 pe.b.mb, belonging to the Barony Parish, were emplo,ed ins loamy breaking Monet, on the same terms ; but, as it tipp..ared fora the application to the Committee far noi k , ilea tame was sit least double the number of pet iole ens plo ed 14 11114,4plifed employment.. they resolved to elaidnY a roosolemiltle mamber in addition ttethuse already emplo)ed, and. as .thriaunds were inadequate to continue this for a !mitt h vsf time. they resolved to dinsiuish the wages to 1%. a day. This detosimmatiaii was intimated to the people in the Grim, les early so Wednesday last, when they ape proved of the measure, .grad the whole returned to their work en Monday oseraing. , The people in the Quarry, however, belonging etstbe Barony, were not satisfied, and refused to work uoleis t iseie.foriner wages were allow ed them ; both paints batwing Mart . .Itt the breakfast hour yesterday, the Glasgow oues likewise struck work. Under these cir cumstances, and from o great number of people assembling in the Greets, the Magid MIPS and R. Hamilton, Esq. Sheriff Depute for the Cissids, took the necessary precaution fur keeping the peace. The cnostables and a detaclonela 'tribe 10th Diagonal. acre on duty, and the 801 h regiment in our imperil' were ander arras. The evening patoed without any at aerial dAurbance. Almost nine-tenths of the whole workers hese. 111 E nownine, expressed a desire to be employed as the rose Af wages offered ; and arrangements are makin: for their .re•eisple)ment. These from the Quarry revolted yenterdoy afternoon to wait upon the Rev. Dr. flora, to desire bins to call a meeting of the H. titan, of the Barmy, In ardor to grant them IsiAter wage-4.-I'lm.y appeented a delegadiaa. as Dr Burns very p-opes ly refused le speak to the trued. Ile referred the dation.' to Mr. Herder., tie ageat -for the betimes. They accordingly procie.,ed so that Gemlemaa's Mice in Glassford street ; but finding him from lierne, they removed. to the Green and dis piled, after appoimin,g a meeting this day to take further measures. The military were &oder arms must of the aftellll/00. T00TT41465 MATCH.—Mr. Haines's grey 01•14., Which trotted 54 miles it 5 Lours, on the Lea Bridge-road, a few weeks snare, started oil tiohday morning at Kingsland, to I. 4F4 miles in roar Daiwa, which she pea harmed easily at ((intim Atom Mike. tat ted 31 .. Ix 4111 Bit was draws: twice, and the match was son easy, an tao miles over, ,et within the given lithe to wia a neva Time was barked at 3 to 4 on %foaling. A GREAT FIND '-Smith, the street-keeper of Fleet -street, brought up a man of 'he name of Thomas BArrett, who sells brooms and brushes ~bunt the streßss. The poor fellow had picked up a smuU trunk in the Strand, opposite Waterloo bridge, and was &reedy set upon by a parcel of ,leas ; some claiming part of the property, and ! others offering to buy the contents of the trunk, whith was lucked, %Insight unseen The brush soaker would have nothing to do with them ; and asking permission to leave his brooms i , Exeter change, he was making the best of his way home . with his supposed treasure ; but was followed, sur rounded, and attacked by the Jews, from whom he was with difficulty rescued by Smith, who, bearing his story, brought him before the Magistrate, The trunk was opened with great ceremony by Hawkins, I t Marsitalcaan ; and the poor fellow's countenance leng:Leliti with chagrin, when its contents pr...vJel t.. : :ium buns and two pieces of sugar -art'. • THE NATIONAL REGISTER. C4.5E.S Ut . 11EDROPIJOHLA. On the 3tl of April a matt bron4lit a dog to the house of a person in the town of Carrickfergus, and requested to have him tied up !or a tVw hours bil he would be leaving the town ; adding that he W3V a strange dos' that had followed him. This retitled was complied with, and the dog was tied up in a shed, where he eat some bread greedily, but soon after bro:se loose, and entering the house, c..taghi a woma❑ by the arm a fink above tic wrist, which he emititatiel '6'l hold fast with his teeth, till her son struck him several times with a stick ; after which he eveaped from the house, and wok the roach towards I slandinaExe. At the village of Eden, about one mile from Carrick. terms, he bit a boy about seventeen years of age above the riOt eve-brow ; and at }idiom, a girl of the same age, also above the tight eyebrow. The wounds of the children bled much, be.lig dreadfully lacerated—the dealt of the boy's temple was literally bitten away ; about an hour afterwards the haggled parts were cut away by a medical geolleatimi, at least as touch as could be done without great danger to the eyes, and proper dressings were applied. The arm of the woman was also dressed the same errening, its a similar manlier, but she refused to let any flesh by cut away ; :he, however, consented on tde following day. The wounds of all were dresses, daily, and purged much matter, but on the morning uf. . the 18th, the girl became subject to vomiting ; there was much bilious matter, anti her CtltllllCll.ll'Ce presented a melancholy wildness. Site became alarmed at the least noise, or the light of a ur when approached suddenly, and complained of her throat, which was nevertheless, on the nurrmint of the day she died, when a gentleman gave her sixpence as a reward, :•he drank near a pint of water without much difficulty or dread.— On the day she was iti reeled she was bled. also afterwards —the blood, was eery florid, and throughout the disorder ner pulse varied from 8u to 158. She was unusually calm, and talked of her death as certain, with great firmness—.she died on the morning of the 21st. Oa the evening of the Tbt It, the boy became affected suddenly, on seeing a dog pass by on the road ; he also vomited, and complained as the foriner, was at times calm, minded his usual sports, at others, especially latterly, outrageous, cursing, and the like, and crying that cats and dogs were et gto bite I * ;he was also bled, and the blood unusually florid; he died our the morning of the 30th ; had been very outrageous on the preceding night. The arm of the woman healed up about the I eth of Mae, but was still rather inflanietl.; from the first she had taken mercury freely. On the n:glit of the 16th she rested little, from a pain that went from her thumb up to the shoulder—on the 18th it was evident that she was affected, and her countenance was overcast by a gloomy wildness ; she talked sensible, and in a most feeling manner respecting her children. She was like wise bled, and the blood equally florid as the others, her pulse varying from 90 to 130 As the coniplaiiit in creased, the lost all appetite, but complained of a violent thirst, and a contraction in the upper part of her throat, but did not complain of any pain there ; expressed an aversion to water and all other fluids, which, when she latterly even attempted to swallow, was sure to bring on a convulsive spasm ; though she once or twice eat a little bread and butter, she even became so averse to fluids, that she calmly requested that no water rsor the like might be even -offered, yet declared that a quart of cold water could not quench her thirst. She was alarmed if approached close or suddenly, and even the appearance of water made her shudder with a shriek; at times the spasms of her throat and tinder jaw were violent and frequent ; latterly, she sometimes talked incoherently, and when she attempted to swallow any thing had to spit it out. She died a little after eight o'clock, oil the morn ing of the 23d, without ally great or remarkable struggle. itrad, y fortnight died at Gainsbro,' in the prime of life, of the hydrophobia, Mr. liner's; wpm* oc two months ago he was playing with a small dog ee his own house, the animal seized his lip, and not ang syrup. toeas of the direful malady was discovered until Sunday fortnight, whets he because raving mad, and expiated on the nest day. Another of those horrible instances of canine madness occurred last Alootlay, at No. 1, Owens -court, Goswell street-road. liarriot Locke, from Gloucester, a young woman in service at a gentleman's house near High bury, was bitten in the foot by her master's dog, It weeks ago, at which time another female servant and the footman were each bitten by the same dog. CMS. tier. had been applied to the bite, but apparently to no etfect. Out Friday last, she wits very much indisposed, and told the good woman with whom she lodged. that she thoietht she was about to he attacked by a rheumatic Icier. On Sunday she isas seized vs:tit sympi ;;;;; s of madness, which increased hi the eviiiiinz to such a degree, that during the paroxysms, the exertions of six men were required to pietism her tearing iterielf to pieces; her shrieks were most appalling, they resembles' rather the shrill tote of a hound than any thing I all, and could hr distinctly heard at the New-river. She had several lucid intervals, during winch she seemed perfectly sensible, and qiitte aware of her awful condition. Site most touchingly lamenterl to the bystanders that she had not iseeti win to the sea-side to be cured, then perceiving that tile heads of the persons round her were covered with the foam from her h, she said." she hoped it would not hurt them, and begged them to take care. :est she should bite them when in the fit." Then she VIM el cry, " Now it is touting on." The paroxysms ,old their return. which were repeated with visitations dreadful to describe, till four o'clock on Nfondsy iriling, when she expired—a most terrific and include sing spectacle. From this sad end of one of the three persons bitten, it is hoped that every precaution has been t•. ken to avert from the other two the attack of this fatal I~I9CJ<!. AUGUST lit PETITIONS OP FORMER TIMES. In the year 1644, when Charles I. and his P a rli ament were at 6stie, two remark a ble Petitions were present d to the House at Commons. (Joe was from the Porters. it, thousand as they gail its number, exclaint;lig against " the prevalence oleo adverse, malignant. blood -suck ing, rebellious party, who insulted the Privileges of Parlia ment and fomented the Irish Rebellion ; which, if not punished, they should be forced to extremities not fit to be named, and make good the saying—Neccuity has no law. Thu,' had nothing to lose but their rises, which they would willingly expose in defence of the House of Co 11111 l ons, occur.' lug to the Pr , testatioti." The oilier Pctirion was in th.! name of rawly thousands qf Poor People iu and al t the City of London ; this was in fact from the Bcganrs, who declared "'That their oppressinsai were so great, by means of the Bishops and Popish Lords, that they knew not where to get bread; want and necessity, breaki ng th e bounds of modesty, would force thou to lay ho bl oil the next re medy to remove the disturbersof the peace, and the hin derers of the happy proceedings, who ou g ht to Le public: said open to the world ; and they cried out for the Lords sake to be heard—i hat their religion, laws, and welfare might be pit coasts in their sight ; that the cries of toe poor might bless them." Poison of two young Ladits, ly toting Bridr-raAr.— The following, st.oritient is copied from a inoritini., paper, to toe editor of which it was sent by a corres pondent, who states " his autholity to be unquestion able." It will be observed, that no place is specified as to where the horrid transaction. it true, occurred " The neighbourhood of this place bus been throwl into the greatest constettiatMa imaginable, by an act to t more atrocious than it is to be lamented. About I, days ago, the daughter of an opulent farmer was ma:- tied ; and upon that occasion hi ide.cake, as usual, sv..s sent to an the acquaintance and friends of both panic: , among mitt rs, a portion was brill to a young lady A i •0 had been courted by the brother of the bride, but 1.1 consequence of some faintly matters had rejected his a•:- dr...tses, and she was now upon the eve of marriage to a trWst deserving young gentleman ; but, alas I what a strange compound is the human heart! The discardtd lover, stimulated to rnenge, no doubt, by the success his rival, fullovved the boy who was sent wi‘h the parer', took it trout him, and desired him to return home, 5.1%. iug he would leave it as he passed the house, which was on teat way to town, whither he was in the habit cr going esery esesiing, lie accordingly, in fortherance his diabolical intentions, went into a druggist's she ; , and there purchased a quantity of sugar of lead; whence he went to an inn, and there with a quill scoord out little pieces of the cake, and filled the holes with me poison; at the same time he scraped down the wn+ t. crust or sugar on the top of the cake, and °thigh-I .t with the poisonous substance. The packet was lima sent to the young lady, who at that time had a yotn.i.; female friend with her, who was assisting her b, m r nuptial preparations. On retiring to bed, each of young ladies ate some of the cake, and in less than Ott minutes after, both were seized wi t h t h e must emir id sensations an d pains. The house, of course, was !.,- s•antly alarmed, and medical. assistance sent for; I.t.t alas! for the bride it came tort late; she died in the most excruciating agony • the other yet sues iv, s, in a e state of delirium, but is not expected to recover. i'tt s the joy and comfort of several respectable families Is turned into the most painful grief, by the and wretched young man, who has just coulessLd hos crime, in feelings apoarenly awakened to a setts? of Coe enormity of his guilt. Ile has been committed son. to await the result of tae Assizes." 4 Mysterious Case.— About a isiontls since a vc•i'4 wmnau of interesting al/IV:II:MCC and address, acid .•.‘r. more than 2U years of age, applied at a house in (;eor;..i - court, Aylesbury-street, Clerkenwell, for a 10,1014 t. represented herself as a strai.ger in London, come ul town for a short time to attend sonic b..,mets iu (Ala.:- eery, and wanted a lodging for a month or so. As sipe offered to pay her rent is advance, no further was made, and she was ac conieu„slated with 4parttrfr.:•-. It was soon discovered, lit.wever, by the femaks = house, that she was wen far aJtaiieWsl is a state o Fci.- nancy, the circumstance was mentiesell to her, a::a she did not attempt to deny it ;.an .apsitheciary et the neighbourhood was spoken to, to arena' her in her confinement, winch event occurred in the early part of last week, when she was saiely delivered of a fine infant. The faintly, bosses er, were surprised to see her on the next day ty and dressed. She was remonstrated wita on the :Linger to which she exposed herself, but made light of it. This and other circumstances drew the attention of the people of the house more particularly towards her, and no the evening of Friday last, the nth flay alter she was put to bed, she was obserseil to quit the liou:e with a small box under her arm Curiosity induced a Mrs. Baker, the w.fe of a respecable pi inter, and a bmiale liicger in tile house, to follow h.•.. They watched her through several stri.ets leading to the New River; when near Sadler's-wells she attempted to throw tile box over the parapet into the river, bin either her s:relight or her resolution failed her. Site continued her way to the fields, where site sat down its a retired spot, opened the box, and took something from it, which she tied up in a bundle. She then took Lox and bundle, and deposited them at the door of a rtspectable house near the spot, and was about to leave them there when Airs. Baker and her companion cause up and interrupted her. On opening the box tiny found, as hey expected, the infant in it, quite naked, amid gasping .Ir breath : the bundle contained the child's clothes. A - 11 ehulall was called, and the inhuman mother was akell to the watch-house. On serration her, there sine found in her possession Bank of England and ',uary Bank-notes to the amount of upwards of 1,0001 she was taken to the watch-house for the night, prepa ratory to her being taken before the :Magistrates at flat tun-garden the next day; but on the following morning