The National Register. — London, England, 1819-08-01 00:00:00

°43 LAW INTELLIGENCE. (num . A P CH %tiC.F.RY, SATURI) V. PILY Is. ItP:CTOR v. FUL IN IIAIIITANTIVOt 111. AW)#LAS'a Tilt ArOtITLE. Mr. H set moved ots the part 1,l the Ree.4farry Itristovr, the Rector of the parish iie At. T 1 11111 l it 4 A!rovil ,in the ity of lamrion. that the distil liersrdens and bllfliti of the pan ishioners trosters eerta;ii 1111111 Itlltllellt#4 of the ftbilii}ll:l profits 9f abich !het were in the receipt, Wight be °rile eel to produce and show to the plaintiff the, risminictets and !she deeds. ler a Melt sock lands and te- Powwow were lucid. The hill alleged, that alit :41t the defendants, the to piste's, It a st,etepiestionatily been in pos session of this property for a..sery ..cinisisierable period, ).ct the plaintiff insisted Cl:it three had been a misappli cation of Ike rent. atesijklotits; they had apialted them to wards the relief of rse tutor, bohemia they ought to.bave lieen applied toward, iisereastimi the living of the Rector. "he ylaiuliT insi•led 1154, jils,riglits coldd not be affected . he tiny length of lime ;, that he ans.aut hound by the neg ligence of Isis pi edercssors io claimingthe right in 41 11 e" and that there at es,/dich * privity between I and she defendants, that he.wai; entitled in are the muniments. !elle flints of the case..wete these :—A piouv 01411 Of list 1.4111 C of William Cdimpuness, Wrote. tisr Statute of Witls, l'ut by villor of he* privilege as a freemen of London, entitled in devise lands in niortmaln, in the )ear 060, in :the a I t‘i -.Edward,' 11., inve.by hisarill eight nmsksoirisiog rust I,i li,t tenespesits of StAlsomms's the Apostle to the r.er for tor the tante being, for the purpose: of saying for th e eclipse of .his sold, and in case.ef issue of John At Ire ‘j!le and Isabella, hie wife. Le gave the rents and 'mails of she tenements to Rector. The 4 1111 l ingeney h.eviug happened, the lieetorfeecanie entitled. in the year 1317, in slit seign of ueury VILL, an Act or Postilion at p.0....e.1 Riving to the %Aug all Arc property N. hick 114.1 been des tiled t o %opel,,kitiutas stwt, and under that act thi sr truessient4 had hero seized, ysiJ aiteceearda 1:145114•51 ont a pain in the ' , nose parish. In the yeas 114.41, 4411 r William Cooper, by .ortlrt of 'he Lords and Commons, ho, at that wee e tint grail encouragers of Rectors famed tt,r their luititv, again wok possesaion of these premises, and upon Slut it bring iestored to the parish, there 11 41 1 be to a suceesvioiselllerlorldown to the present .time, who had uniformly submitted to the application eel Ale fowls to Ille,p3or, without insisting upon their owls Aide toil. The plaintiff, however, was not disposed to tell ignisti his right, lint insists...l that the original iiitention of the donor ought to lie carried into effect in his frwour. Mr, Ws Slues ell, on the Giber side, observed, that in ge neral it was the dots , of nlZeclor to hoer the dead ; but the Rector Of 51. 'Omens accord more Jo take op the ashes and di!• inter the dead, than to leave them to their reside ys the,grace. lie hail slug down throng!' the generations 41 . time. %lark itges to Use y 4 4r 1:30, in order to uncover this Wilts Chamois - as, who lead given these eight 10 , 4111,p for masses fur.liis .;Notr. lit order to: Act it 11, estate in lineation, though it might not lie_wecissary to go through fire and water, vet it would cutaiiily be tie , ressary to go through filet for %MI leaped to Ate thr tenements, the great Sue of London had destroyed every restiee. deft wining, by their answer, stattal, that they, were the legal fordiers of this property, and under that %Me had laised money upon it by way of Annuity. s:klie Lord Chancellor said, he wrialil read thee gill mod answer, before lie finally determined on the rights of the patties. A very (-minus piece of mcch maims, of the nature of a pendulum-chiefs, the complesiou of which nos cost the asikst, M. Hoses, 2i years' I th. 6111, is now et hibitisis at Pain:. It 0.400 the eye IS dial-plat,:, great or sinail, which indi cate, Isk, the rge of the 11101111, the phases of that luminary, her rising, setting, and p.a.-a..e.to the trweldiat: the rands, and the golden number, fir a Li:11 the indices Emile their revolution in 19 years. 2d. The diurnal horary circle, tuh ei idcd into ll:irides anal seconds of time; the•citingandsel hu; or the in retard toe the iin-gualtly griever,. day is, the rar ; the i'ili-rences between true tbsil g in-an tittle; the: eoini• uic,lliter,; the solar cscle ; far. which purpose.: the ims inahc their revolution in 28 );cart. 3d. The annual InOtiOn 01 the cal th round the sun; that of the „th owl round Ilse earth; and the revolution of the cel• s hal alignsyn their olittledl order. 411. Tiae difference of lonaunde far 432 cities,exprereed by the diurnal tnoementofit circle of topper gilt, in Its Crepe Of which Is a dial-plate divided lino 24 flours, a ith a pointing of the mitaites Irons fire to five', and carrying the sun in the midear, is, pitch a marner, that readirg the maimed their cilia e, you may s:e Jet a husk the hour it is in each of thcat at the 'moment you insice the ess- Snintlion. This inreafout piece of machinery is put in inu lino by a counter-1141*ot weight of only (tlh. For arch cvage it sounds tlw qa , leArra :it:dhows, Ind that cuts, he stopped at a i:1 ; and in case the p• ndubmil acre 10 gotten lu be wound up, it sulsrt s, after haying repabed this ulna , - . Lila, to bring the minute-load t e its place. This simple ayerat inn remfies all the i•tl•er dials. The following oi/serrations, extracted from the valaable report of the " aoclety for toe Improve tarot of IN hon die. . " cipliue rind the reform:tools of Juvenile °fenders," arc dl,enina of the serious consi.l::rati iiii of Cr- ; and the recut disgraceful aceres of violee.ce nod plunder that sae- Irred at Wht•rll4l fair, and which, to a considaahle to it, :ire repeated et iimil it aaseintdages of people in the I vicinity of the inetropailb„ wilt, it is hoed, I • the Legi-lairai to itat.oribe it s o uthortty, in order tie t ionic fival au,iprtis•ou "In tiie Boon dinte Vie ieity ‘• of London, thrre are no leis then eigh: yvaau fair days in spa-e of tesrn nsotitas : every verb-. of delmucliery " anal lira:Maury is Irre encouraged ;nod promoted; mon " raid till the Loin met sirrs " nerve. ally twat uniitidat ait noel strained licentiousness. " (near fairs art . era ...tot :VMS, f. rnQ the meet oi " thararta:•, 44'1.1 tanish io pleatital harvest for 1 . 1 swindletr, aickt.ockets, acd.4ll a hop prey upon the cum • intg 'ay. It is di ha all I a fralarrille %haat rod O can he answered lay their iiiii cc ; :Isis malt for the " sale of iserekaiiilise they are nut required ; neith , r are they calculated to ern, curb a pervert, gor are they in " fact at alllostrunimatal in promoting trade. He knots by " exotrieme thai they Ike peace of the COI411:11111iit. OC lam on Ovid trouble to. the itiagistruter, and fill the " puld.c offices with e.nuplalats of Hun amen depredations. " These stem,, I.; be an aced reason fair their further r " tinusare : all the crofts of the agai,,istrae) to repress the " licentiousnesi whicb always pretaila hate Lien utterly " unsuccessful. and the mischief at press- ill arising from " them rat only be elricetwill d b: an a ntire .itiort,v--Arrort for 114.8. --fits NATION AS , REGISTER. VNIPEECEDENTED MURDERS• The folnwing extract from the confession of Isaac Witherhome. who was executed at RutEdo, New York, ursthe 4tii u( April last, for the murder of his six children. sin: two servants, cannot be read without exciting sentimeius of horror surd „astonishment et the commission olio uanatural and dcgaouia- • cal a clinic • •• On the night of the kith of March last, I was at the Buf falo Tavern, ,until it was about one o'clock, playing at cards, drinking swearing, and committing allalid sin and wickednea which this kind of company are in the habit of doing. By this time nay head began insulin with the effects of ardent liquors, ,sei much so, that 1 cua'd searegl; intake my nay home. I was just ensuring the gate of my hotis , ), when I received a Llow on the head witlue billet of wood. trona t h e force of which I tell prostrate on the . {round, aml lay alinida s..n.elees fur some minutes when Vawoke front nay delirium, I began to consi der, and thought sliet such cotide3 E mu a wale was too lunch to let pass unnoticed.; I therefore was determined to have revenge upon her, and ii space of half an hour, as near as I can ,recollect, I entleuvoureti with the stun of my wound, totraterl towanls the house, and the more is the pity, for the first {Ming that presented itself to nay view was the wood axe ! and lseing now prepared. like a butcher going to slaughter, I canoe to the bed where my whit and three children. were lying...- 1 did nut hesitate one moment, begat to cut and slash among these four. while they lay seeping ;—the first was my wide—the axe was buried in her bosout 1,-flie children clung so close to her that they were cut to adeaim. iti.4.1.1)y this time the ,bed was overflowed with human gine • the sound ,of these distressed sufferers alarmed my other dime childrens—alas ! what must have been nay feelings at this time ? they began to he much cui . :fitsed ; but I still.guraued inyadaughter until my wife anal six childom lay floating an t4eir.blood. The savage heart is never safistied • alter committing this humid act upon my own flesh and blooll, any two servants became the objects of my butchering heart ; nay haul some suspicion of my intention, and endett yened to make their escape through a back si:tdow in the lower part of the house—the old black woman being half in am' halt out, I run with my axe and cut her legs °War: she was going ,;qt at the window ; her daughter, at•l - ) had a ti:ntii.r feeliiig.rfar her mother. came to me and imploced mercy (ruin my hand ; but no, the Devil would not let my pawage soul stop liete, but I immediately put an end to their existence; this being done. • there then lay nine innoceiet persons floating in their own crimson gale. Still i,o.t being satisfied with what 1 bad already done. I first took the two servants and boil' a fire in the kitchen fire place, wine.) was large enough to 'bald-half a quarter el wood, then placing the woman on the back part of the tire, And the daughter on the front. 1 then went up stairs and brought down the bodies of any wife and children and burnt them likewise iil.letter dated Tunis, June 8, says—" The re- Yoh which looke out amongst the Arabs on the Iconfines of Tripoli has been suppressed. The plague having appeared in the Tunisian camp, the Bey pressed the General to hasten his return ; thelat- . ter entered auto negociations o ff ered on the part of the rebels, and upon receiving contributions in cat „tic, withdrew his forces, and arrived in Tunis yes , Aerday. DREADFUL EXPLOSION OF A COAL•NIINISr.-..011 Tuesday morning last, owing, it is reported, to some neglect or tnismanagenieut regarding the safety-lamps in the Sheriff--hill pit, at Gateshead, near Newcastle. oti.Tyne, .a dreadful explosion took place, by which nearly sn4etsons have lust their lives. Had the aouident happened an .hour later, it •is said about 100 persons would have perished. Eighteen of the unhappy suf ferers have bee!, interred is Gateshead church-yard, end 14 in the chapel-yard iatur.seanaining bodies have either laeengiven to tbeirresorairt frieriit;, or are nut yet taken trot of the pit. Anions the pour unfortunates, were Mice buys from Whitehaven, who had been taken there by their mother, arid obtained work, but were won after diAnissedi .their parent .sulatequently applied to those it. IllAlthigeniviit, aII I .14ain obtained employment for her oLaldreti, just in time to shave the melancholy fate that has belalirn their tellow.stillerers. The satire ,pit, tee believe, exploded about fuer )ears a. 60, wiser emis.'tle7.alile damage was dime. A dreadful fire broke nut on Tuesday afternoon in tire .agar-house of Messrs.-Craven and Shutt,, Nelson-street, Woitecrosiul, which f its first CollllllellrelllCllt burned aunt rapidly, there bring a great scarcity of water. The wholcof the interior of the stigar-housel it entirely eons , ' I tied, together with vaSi 11141111111 of I t 7,4 r. 1. Hill a moderate computation. 'Liz loss sustained 1.-,,n0e1., the greaur hart ul which is, him ever. eu ,llled. It extruded its ravages into DlJOCAO..itreel, and at one time great fears were entertained fur the White! Swao-inn, in IVhitischapel, the lower part of die yard joining the sugar-house. Happily no lures were host ; and no serious personal injury occurred. Ditring this scene of distress, several pickpockets-were actite among the crowd, which was immense, and one gentleman lost his gold uatcn aid seals. We frequently hear of fatal eccidents occurring from mistakes, ming to individuals swallowing deadly poisont instf ul. of intio , :ent drugs ; on read iug the of liating details, we lament that no legisla tive enactment has yet been framed to preserve the lives of our fellow-creatures ; as, from ignorance or habitual carelessness, they are cootiamdly eitposed to danger. Lord•Larlisle, in his Letter to the Ilea. William Vernon, just published, mentions the fid lowing calamitous instance, which occurretl..in the neighbourhood of his residence in Yorkshire " The wife of a respectable and industrious fanner, intending to give Ler fitur ebiklren, the eldest about eleven yt4sys of age, some maul of tartar, unfortu nately administered to.each a quantity of arsenic, which, from the whiteness of its minim too closely rcsembisa.l the innocent ingredient. The amino quentm was, that Latins; any medical a id co uld ar rive, the poison had taken its full effect, and the per son sent for ,related to nii!, that he finmd the mother in a state of approaching derangement, three of the children dead on the flour, and the fourth just ex piring in her arms !" Mr. Kean the Actor, is seriously indisposed in the amptry. Mrs. Kean its been bent fur esprf?ss, aktd ha ktt tgyn to atte n d urn her husband, AUGUST 1. 11(111.11111L1S 4 , 17 - 1 T -11P7' .11' .ISSASSIII.ITIO.I* 740' " Maccir+Tfirtd ie. liffic,„ July 24. " We have received the fullok% ing letter from Mr. Birch, the Stallion polka-officer Newrastk-under-Lrat, "'Addy "Venice*. Jvly tn. !il ,-- 111% e arrived here %ilk Hari the Preach er, w h o m I 4111 Cull% eying through Cougletun and Cheadle, to Stoc►rort. ' I Nut, in ha.le, m. liontioßLL ATTLXPT TO AssAril - NATE BIRIM , Tab CUM• tat F. " )3irrh arrived with the -pi;l,oner at Stork port about eight n'elot k p. in., and conveyed kilo to his 11 , 11sP. eitelinistatieit sins 501111 know u, AIM the house as (miekly beset with notoliers, el lin made use of the inost daring language. 't'hn. situated, lin ch deemed it neces sary to take ad'ire of Air. Lloyd ; 111111 for this purpose, tinder disguise, Ile went out at the bark door of his haase ;Mont I! o'vlotk. Mr. Lloyd WAS 1101 to he found, tuts' Birch, on his n•tara home, being lintel timely!, theognized by our of the Iteil , rsaae, 1, was immediately sumo tell, dad Irerived roll tent, of .a Maio' its LU liriorst. The iialt fortarati ly look a Gleanable ilia re and lodged in his left aide. The alarm brine 05611. 4 11 "I . "'" Ags 'rut lu Manehesier, ;mil A 119015 fir 1.7011 AC he. neve) arrived soots isliens4itl*. and peace was testortd for the Hight. " Three persons ha.r•e been taken op, and this morning underwent an exaniinalion befine Thomas Wm. Tatten, the Rev.. I.;l:siles Prescott, and Pelel NIA' slaw!, Esq. Tarr• are .rensativiiii for a loather hearing. " Haul:ion was sent to the Lock-op-house, and was af terwards admitted to bail. July 24, 8 c.dof tnesiieliger minim Vk e SitiCkpot t is just returned. Bitch iN still alive, but Mr. killer; the ourrieon, lies not 4 4 1 yet been able t.i extract ;lie brll ; •e -riew opprekviisions are cult" - the WOllll.l is saurlai. " Hlllll6Oll 1.4 stated to have expire:Azad deep regret fir Dircli's midden', and .aid he did not a fah ru have been taken to Stockport, and %VW+ it iiitendi d he should. ex pe c t e d to f ia%.e by the Defiance roach to till 4 100 11, awl a in waiting to prevent him going further. Am.:her lisie,of road had been clicnien for hn cOil\ey ance to Stockport, by the NlAkichrster Cobitra coach, which finis through 'Lichfield, Newcastle and Congleifin. It it:almost needless toadd, that till, horrible attempt at assassination l u re produced the most alarmiug • iiensation iu thiN par t of the country." ANOTHER ACCOUNT. In the evening of Ft Way last, about a quarter before ten o'clork at meld. %Ven. Birch (whir is assistant deputy constable of Stockport, and who has made himself °Amn ions to the reformets by 11.11, log taken Sir (Amite , ' Wolsely into custody, dill also II Ulll !Ming lIIC ;minim sent In Lon don with the Brucli-warrant against Parson Harrison) having brought Harrison to Stockport, the cneumstance soon brume kiism 1 , , And a cunsiderable crowd 11:41.4 Milled Birch's house, where his psisuner was serums/. Several threats having been made rise sf by the mob ilia: they would pull Bitch's house down s and b berate Harri son, Birch telt it prudent to consult the Bev. Air. Prescott, (a Alagistrate) as to what course lie !Mould adopt .with re gard to his ;simmer, under the circumstances. iOu bh way to Mr. Prescott's, and within a few yards flout that gentleman's house, Birch was accosted by a man who calls himself Joseph George Bruce (il lICIP.C4I not much known in Stockpot t, but who stab:, that he came lately trout Lundon, and last hoot DeWitt, and who loss been for a few weeks assistant to Hari ismi in his school of trim in, and is also designated as ' Secretes y to thr,Stockport Be- Society..) Thisllllllll entered into conversatiusa with Birch, and two other persons iredirtice's company joined them. Bruce kept Birch engaged in conversation, mid breasted hint so as to prevent his going 011, and the other two were passthe towards tirch's rear, alto then began to feel himself wassfe, and meditated a retreat ; pal tic a !arty so, to: a conshierable vowel were very near ahem : however, before lie had time to deride co any step, one of the two men lint CI 4 nosh pistil , the bullet itoso wloch passed into Wire ll's breast, about the pit of the stonier'', sod took ■ sloping direction towards the I itla side. Birch screamed and leaped over the garden wall of a Mr. Lloyd, and reac•ited the house of Dr. littler befiire lie fell the throe mended. The ball has not yet been extracted, but hopes are autertainA t h at the wounded nasew.may re cover. Three men (one of +chola is Bruce) have been 14 en ' into custody and hays undergone a lung exai ll ill atiou this day before Ike Rev.. C. Prescott, a. Toile's, and P. Mardatid, Esqrs.; 2of them, viz. Bruce coal persmi of Ike name of David Davies, (who was one of the three present when the shot was fired), are remanded; the thirst bas been discharged. The person alto used tee pis tol has not yet been identified, from the stale oh the wounded man rendering it nut advisable he should be die ing bed. A troopsaf horse marched into Stotkpost very early this !homing, sad the town umusinsquiet at ihis hour. Hai twin 4. as brut liberateakipott boil ; in 51kt1. and Biter sureties, one an :501, 4 -We other two in • 4201. each. ti a'cluck.p.in., July 21, EttECOTIoN Of Bev/Amax Niost.r.---Tliis Ito fortstodte ohm, who was beisvccii.So and tio,r4..,rs of Jett. 1/1414t1 went die sentence of th e la.w shortly alter k o ' clock Oil Wednesday morning, at theilWal place it the Old Batley. lle.tvas convicted last ses.tons (tiatetlitr with au decniispitce, mewed Mary.-Strowii), of hating stolen front Nlr. Jeremiah SICCIC, simiselltr, of Tower-1011, thr(mgh the otedinnt of a boy of Ictuler age, named %V. Squires Smith, whom he had seductal into the COll ttttt s sion of tic's of delincinclicy, a vast quantity of wooilt it cloths. lie was visited earls• in the 1111/11111% by the Ito . Mr. Cotton and Mr.l33lter, and isimeasszsl pellet:lly resitgned, Lot he became more agitated as the a ttliii moment approached. Indeed. sr• great W:l5 his li•at of death ► that it was (mind tweessart• to torts sh hint wt:l► wine. The SulrShcnlfs, Nlessisl Pullet► and Ttitm r, attended on the nee: Sion, and \tr. Baker soopt,rted the miltdopy man in the scaliOld, where J new txeeuuoncr (Boning, the re-4,sildr prison .114 milted to that Utrlau eholy ft, e 'win; indispsed) poi-owlet' the awlul ccn ninny with necessary lira.ticss. died