The National Register. — London, England, 1819-04-11 00:00:00

APRIL 11. - - - were assembled; it appearing td the that Sachoun had failed in prrlllatling dusts to come heater the ships. We accordingly provided ourselves with additional presents, consisting of looking gloms and knives, together with sonic caps and shirts, and pro ceeded towards the spot, o here the conference was held With increawd energy. By the time we reached it, the whole were assent/4AI: those who had originally been left at a distance with their sledges. having driven up to join their somrades. The party now therefore consisted of sight satires, with all their sledges. and about so dogs, two sailors, Sachem*, Lieut. Perry, and myself. forming a group of no small singularity; not a liWe also incteuacd by the peculiarity of the sittuititin. on a field of lee, far from the land. The noise and chimonr may easily be coo ceived—the whole talking and shouting together. and the dogs howling, while the natives were flogging them with their long. whips, to preserve order. Our arrival produced a visible alarm, causing them to retreat a few steps towards their sledges; on this Sacheuse called to us to pull our noses, as he had discovered this to be the mode a rnendly salutation with them. This ceremony , was accordingly performed by each of us, the natives, during their retreat, making use of the same gesture, the nature of which we had not before understood. In the same way we imitated their shouts as wallas we could, using the same interjection. Aries,. yarn! which we afterwards found to be an expression of surp r ise and pleasure. We then advanced towards them while they halted, and pre sented the foremost with a looking glass and a knife, repeating the same presents to the whole as they came up in suoawitin. on seeing their faces in the glasses their astonishment appoiued extreme, and they looked round in silence for a moment at each other and at us; immediately afterwards they set up a general shout. succeeded by . a loud laugh. expressive of extreme delight, as well as surprise, in which we joined. partly from inability to avoid it. and silting also to show that we were pleased with our new acquaintances." COAL. TAX. [Extract from the Life of the Bishop ofLlandaff.) " It has often been the subject of my considera tion, the taking off the Tax on Coals carried coastwise, and used in burning lime.' I do not know the exact amount of the tax ; but I do know it is a great obstruction to the agriculture of the country. Lime is a useful manure for many lands, but espe cially for waste lands, which are covered with heath, furze, briars, Zkc. If laid in proper quantities on such lands it changes them without further trouble or expence into valuable pastures, and if the im provement is carried further these pastures become good arable land. " On account of the dearness of' coal, many mil lions of tons of limestone remain unburnt, which, if converted into lime, would be spread with the most beneficial effects both on productive and unproduct ive lands. Now if the duty should be taken off coals used in burning lime, much more lime would be burnt than at present. and in b ss than 50 years millions of acres would be brought into cultivation, which must without lime remain in the unproduct ive state they have hitherto been ; to say nothing of the increase of revenue front the increase of bar ley, employment of the poor,-&c." CHISINMY SMICILPICRS...—The following is an Ab stract of the Bill now before the House of Corn. coons :—The first clauses relate to the form of the Indentures of Chimney Swee?ers.--hidentures to be void, and penalties imposed on persons keeping apprentices under a certain age.—Penalty for em ploying climbing boys who are not apprenticed, ex. rept on trial for only with the consent of . _ Justices.—Penalty for employing females in climb ing flues —Penalty for putting or taking boys un der years of age as apprentice, or otherwise pur chasing or selling their service.—Boys not to be let out to hire, nor call in the streets.— Boys not to ex ercise their business of climbing before or after cer tain hours.—Flues hereafter to be built, to be con structed so us not to require coreing ; and to admit of being swept by machinery.—Requiring any child, apprentice, or person to ascend a flue, tOr the purpose of extinguishing fire, constituted a misde meanour. CAUTION To CLCROVMEN AND PARISH Orrt. ceas.—On Saturday last, a warrant was issied by Mr. Shelhearc, Coroner, to the Minister and Parish Officers of Great Worldham, Hants, directing them to take up the body of a man named Francis Ste phens, who died on Wednesday, from drinking nearly a gallon of beer in about a quarter of an hour, on the preceding Sunday. The Jury return ed a verdict—Died from excessive Drinking. The Coroner stated, that I lergymen, as well as parishes, were liable to presentment and fine, and also to in dictment, for naming a body to be buried without sending fire him, where the death was sudden, or had been occasioned by violence and from its hav ing been repeatedly done, he expressed his tietermi. nation to indict the first Parish Officers who should hereafter render themselves liable. unaev Assmes.—The Assizes for this county terminated on %‘ edneeday evening. Eleven prism. crs received sentence of death, eight of whom were reprieved I.etiire the Judges left the town, a•al three arc left tin execution, namely, Wilt n, Burnett, and Curtis. These men ha% e been convicted ut robberies, uuder circumstances of peculiar atrocity, and formed part of the " Borough gang," that have so long been a terror to the count. The whole of the convicts tram Kingston arrived on Thursday night at the pr.sou in iluncnionscr-lane. SUP tyenQNAt. siaisTrn. TAUNTON, (Snstihm , g l ), APRIL I. ‘lieforw Ale. JessMc Muse.) Mouses t Csiece. Thio,WM ell action liroweht to recover the sum of SIM. under eireviowtatices rather peculiar. Mir. Sergeant Pist.r opened the ease—The parties, lie said, were reapeetable farmers residing al Aahingtuu, in the county of Somerset, where the plaintiff was promessed of • certain close, amuses other lauds, culled Broad Lees ;and this defendant, among other p.oprielors, of a field,. calred ANS Hole; these premises, being divided by the river Veo. le the smash of Jane, la Iti, a cow, the property ..f stir :defeudaist died—the learned sergeant believed of smite run intones distemper; avid was, by the desire"( the defendant, thrown into the neer at a place called Buliinire.quay, the pteiatitrit field being a little lower down the stream. In the course of a fortnight or three weeks, the decomposition of this carcase produced erects so loathsome, that coin planar, were made to the defendant; and in cousequenee of thaw complaints. the cow was take. itivre-meal out of the river which was above the plaimidra tired, the cattle of she plaintiff, which were pasturitig there, druids ul Ilse water infected by the patrefactioss of the cow, aud is ronsequeuce of so drinking, were seised with the same i.temper of which the cow had died, by Which distemper a cowl ieralile number of them were destroyed. It was to recover the value of the cattle so poisnitesl that the present action was brought. The learned Sergeant would show that the plain. lir had low no cattle hut those which, feeding its Broad Lee!, drank of the infected water and he would show that the defendant himself had lost mfine of his own cattle, which feeding in Fox's Hole, also drunk of that water. If thme facts were proved, he should he entitled to a verdict. John .ge was servant to Mr. l'a.mer, the defendant, Is June, 1818. Remembered a COW of his master's dying; the beast was skinned b 1 witness and others, and (brag into the river at libillinire-quay; the cow was found dead in the maiming, and thrown Into the river about twelve o'clock at noun : smelt very much; and the side near the ground looked black, as if it had mortified. John Holland remembered the cow's being thrown into the river; the plaiiitirs cattle were all healthy at he time; the wisterias' place of the cattle was below the spot ober, the cow was throws' in. John COI was servant to the plaintiff; remembered the defendant's cow being in the river; the water was scusiamy• and frothy round the carcase: About '7 or eight days after the cow an, thrown in, his master's cattle appeared to be 11.1 ; they were restless, and water ran from their eyes; a number of them died. None were ill hut those which were kept in the Broad Lees; the rest were quite healthy. Knew that three of lice defendant's oxen bad died, which had been red in Fox tole. Some of his master's cattle were killed, to five them from dying. While he was dressing one of the cattle bu hdlg.', a calf of his master's came to tow and licked his clothes and shoes, which were bloody ; the calf was taken sick, and was Deur dying; it seemed to have the s;date complaint as the cattle that had died. Charles Bultand was a batch." by trade : saw the stuck before the now was thrown Mtn tee river; they were in health; examined and option! 'sonic of the besot, that died ; the spleen was swollen to five or six tinses the meal dimensions, and the intestiues were in a state of mortilica None of the pl..intilf's cattle were ill but those on the Broad Lees; th.,se ou the other ;Binh of the farm were neither sick nor sorry.—A utritrier of witnelies !Novell that n.me of plaintiff's cattle deed hest those on the Broad Lees; and that all the cattle that died, those of the defendant as well as those of the plc mid, exhibited the 'mine symptoms during their Mann, which lasted inily from two to ten hours When opened, the spleen and iiitestines of till were found in the mime state. Mr. C. I Williams, on the part of the defendant, addres sed the jury at considerable length. The question, .lie learned counsel said, was, whet her the cows of the defer). dant had actually died of a contagious disease. The jury had been told that the water had been infected—infected to a degree which rendeied it nut mily loathsome but deadly. If it bud been so, would the latter have drank it ? tons were very nice is' drinking. There was a .pond in the very same field, from which they might have drank if they hail disliked the water of the river. But he had stronger grounds to go upon; he should prove beyond a doubt, that a • al matter, in the highest degree putrid, was out in she aligmext degree poisonous, when received Into the stomas h. Ile should prove, that sock was the power of the gastricjuices, that meat putrid, when swallowed, became purified after sesnainiag a short time in the stomach. He should show that, even supposing poisonous matter le have existed, it must have Dress MI diffused to the presets( cam au to render ii impossible that the cattle of the plaintiff shoukl have been in the slightest degree affected by it.. Mr. Edward Percy was a surveyor. Had made an esti mate of the average width of the river, and tit the velocity of the current. The river was SO feet wide, and She quan tity of sinter wowing icy given point at Bulliuire Quay, 5% as 1,100 bogsheadsa minute. Mr. Janie. Paviour was a farmer t Aselittand on the hanks of the l' en, loner down than that of the plaintiff; hie (tulle drunk the slater without suturing. Thomas Fern was a farmer ut West Cammel; lost cattle lu July list by the same distemper of w Inch doe plaintill's cows died. the. Ilugh Stanton, Surgeon, said that, in Ms judgment, a putrid carcass would nut convey contra-ion. The inomeiit putrefaction began, contogiutt ceitseds ' l'etrel:lr • began as .01111 as lie W.IB completely extinct. Animal so bytances, its the 1..3f stage of vetoed/omo, welled tom be Mkt riouy to life if taken into lice stomach; they winitt ci ea t.- nausea, but wowed do u., serums harm. If the pvir,scenee 55 hick estided f the hod. of the cow had drain concentrated io,. Oil of tauter, it 40411 d not 11..Ve been poisonous diffused as it as, it /MCA 11..11C Wee ai,cus. 11 r. Sully, surgeon, Dr. Chichester. Mr IVllife, and Mr. liorrett, veterinary surgeon., concurred i .1 lb • uhove oviumn. Mr. sergeam Pell f ibis was indeed. Ihr learurd !migrant soil, ritt age 0: discos e. ies. Putrid matter was out pr.JULI.CI.II to hen th ! I lois did it hams..., ilieti, that lICI ) 014 w ere battle to criminal isolictoieut for exposing poi s •bstancc• ill u. •u. 41111 CO ICS lie MCOlli di,relieco to I atedicni gentlemen *hu had been caned, but speculotion was 1114 to he opposed to tact. rime we... p,...p C totals.. a. to (hod, that children of S years or it A r seevived uoinjury trout yt tidy tog hollf lo day in the cotton. mins Ile remembered that to France (for Fraser bad a. rpecu- Ltwraas a ell as Taunton) a gentleman betted• a large sum It, that he cold ride a certain distance in a gismo time. The speculators swot to work, amid discovered that, from the reseitance of the air only, it wns impossible such a body count pass through the space in such A time. The geolleulr"l4 however, was a hold man, for he rude bis race sod 1 1 09 wager. Philosophy was milling its way at all ?piny,. %V.! salirht now, lake mud Tom, ow•Ilout the dead rat aid the ditch - dog," and yet receive no injury. Idle sborkl Soon, prob.shly, et ist bout ei Iher air or. watt& Some in k/elvish& petit* had resumed to doubt wheiher - the Oder uas isit'ertious. A. puts id body would, no doubt, he a very facetious companion. The punishment of !Neuronal. a livrirg body chained to a dead one, would be bagatelle. Let out him (the learned Sergeant) he eligioed to a Lying one Scion the In e. urt). lie re •per led philosophy. mod admired improvement s but was nut yet cony lured that a putrid carcass uus nut ants bolemme, nod that he should test surer by coming in coolant with it. The Jury, is itbout truutiliwg Mr. Justice Best to sum up, found a verdict for the defendant. At vtafford Assizes a came was 'wrought nn at the suit of the A been, ies' cometroy against the sou of a mars Is, bad been originally a gardener, hut who had long exercised the liminess ~f cue-Inch and quack-ductor ; the sun claiming a rig lit of following the prafession or an apoibeenrs, through having studied under his renowned father. In the creases aminai ion of the lather by Mr. Dauricey, he was asked if he had been a sue:.eon? The %titans appealed to the ,}edge if this was a limper PNIMer, and whether be must reply to it and at last said, •• I am a ;fervor Air. Dauncey asked him to spell this word, which he did at several , times. Tic "Sgirrgurii,"" Sargend"Sarga.d,'?".Yergultd:" Mr. Dann cey said, " I not afraid Sir, you do not aften take to IllaAlcia time to stu:ly the caws which come before ) as at yen do to answer my question."—" Id o not , Sit." II hams said. be never employed himself as a gardener, bat was a farmer till he learnt his present buiioc.s. Mr. Dauncey said , a Wbo did you learn it of ?"-..." I learnt it of Dr. Holier. my brother.in.law t he practised the same as the Whitwootts Doetois, and they acre regular physicians." Mr. Danneey. •• Where did they take their de,trecs?" Whites., " I don't believe they ever took a degree." Then were they regular pbssicians ?"—. No I I believe they were not, they wens only doctors." " Only doctors! acre they doctors In physic, or divinity /"..-" they doctored cows- mod other things, and humans as well." Judge to a itness. ••• Did yam ever make up any medicine by the prescription of a phyoi cian r—.. I never did." "Do you understand the charity ten they use fur ounces, scruples, and drachms ?" "I do not."--4 , Then you cannot make rip your prescriptioal fears reading them ?"—" I cannot, but I can make up as good medicines in my a ay, as they can in theirs." " What pro w:mugs' does an moire bear to a poundi"— (A paase)— " There are sixteen ounces to the pound, hut we do not go by any regular weight, we mix ours by the hand." " ito you bleed ?"—" Yes " " With a tleam or with a lancet?" - " With a lancet " " Do you bleed firm the vein or front the artery 1" " from the vein." " There•iS as artery somewhere about the te,sides ; what is the name of that artery." " I t!. not !argend to have so much learning no Mme have." " Cau you tell me the name of that artery r - Ido not know which you mean " " : .. aptioso thew I was to direct you to bred my servant, or my horse (wain* • laud forbid !) in a swim say. for instance, in the jugular where should you bleed lam ?"—" In the neck, to he sure." The Jury almost instantly returned a verdict for tbeplaintiCh —Damages WI. Esecertoa or ROBERT DCA N.-.. 011 Thursday morainr, . Dean, who was convicted for the murder of Mary-Amos Albert, was executed on the top of II wreinonger.lane gaol. An immense multitude was collected to -witness the execu . The unfortunate roan had been at prayer, with slight intermission, from the period of his apprrhension. It was needless to recommend devotion to him. Ile war un Wed. wiality visited by Lord Rocksavage and Mr. Sinclair, both of whom Travtd with He expressed much gratitude at their kindness. " They came." said he, " with Christka feeling to visit tlw poor wretch in his dungeon." Mr. Mann, the Chaplain had much conversation with him.• Dean regretted th..t as he was geeing to a place where there was nn gnashing of teeth, he had it nut in his power to take st ith him his beloved Sarah, who was now exposed to a wicked world. The Chaplain endeavoured to injure him to *petal of me little girl it hwe life he had taken away, and tout hint • she would meet him in a better world. "Nu Doubt, Said be, " Christ, who is now saving my soot, Is waiting for toe but I am sorry for poor Sarah, she is its* danges taus world." Mr. Mann rejoiced to bee him so fall os penitence, and told him with what happiness his friends would hear that no wish of escape from punishment bad passed his lips, n- r a murmur of complaint. " Why should I complain," sand he, w. know. big as I do that the change I am going to make is fur It. better ? Where is Voltaire now I—in Aril ; w here is Tom Paine ? In hell a God hare/nen, upon , them as he has upon me." Ills general appearance was th a t o f a man i ac , but on all subjects he *poise rationally, although often ineohe rew ly. After the sacrament had hero admiaiitered to hint he appeared impatient to leave tlw orld.and asked wheth er ' every thing was not in reiniii.ess for his journey ; un being told by Mr. Mann that some time war to be allowe d fo r preparation, " Preparation !" sold he, " who can say want preparation? - never was a man more ready to die." Mr. Moms having observed that the inepar: • nof the body, ism the soul, was what •lie meant, beau owiled—" Oh r said he, " I shall thin soon be point." Ile reflised to slam* op while Nov part of the ceremony in the Chapel was per forming, and lie frequently prayed aloud, with the greatest W hen the officers were striking or lass irons, he looked will!) , about, and ut Iwt fismg hi. r, WI the gal lons, lielielrrat ton anis it. Awl the r rucs•at as Ilse sky. The name of God tiros in his BOWS h glen Ire readmit the Plio Awns. He then said " God bless you all !" soat prastd in no loud a tone as to be heard by the crowd a riamoi the prison. At nine o'clock the drop fell, and he died alter a severe ruAsle. Au influenza prevails at present, which is very distressing to many iuJ,ividuals. It is eonfina4 chiefly to adults, who are attact.ed in general with a hart) cough and restlessness, and those of grog habits sutler much. The complaint is nut though the attack in the first instaucu writs the forertnifier of severe levet.