The National Register. — London, England, 1819-10-11 00:00:00

.~ OCT. I t. increased ;-. bite if the culprit l ' .lse reclaimed avid society irxil bewailed. (1101figh the e isin ... • he a ewbat increased ) will manor country, deep ed as it is in the suppres. stun of crime, cheerfully and thankfully einiirlhate to the promotion of its ado servility, and to the trefoils; u(tbuse by a hunEtinit security li is !seen invaded ? I 'hist that at uo very tbstaiit period, the euenniniell operivion of A new system would be felt ; a ill uut the otitis r;eiy ulna uomitioted discipline, in it. spread and • iiiration, if it deter the criminal, I.lVe us front his chare? The ceinuniption of our prison is great, and with proper and vigilant superintendence, in the primary necessary of life, by HIM-work alone, a great saving may be erected; the I.ender's profit should be ours; and in every thing possible ..he prison should contribute to itself; but labour, profitable or not, is the principle upon %hie% we should act, as the means of punishment and of reformation. I have ihu, taken the libort) of conveying my thought* to :. ou, feeling that it was dm: to your station, that you should have the Illeallb 4.11 giving them sour serious consideration; if taere be any thing good or th, r.l in c hat I hive sugge,ted, 1 know that it n ill :..tve the benefit of your representation and recoininendat 00000 , and that it will reciete an influence and is eight ft OM )4/11, which no effort of mine could pro duce; if not, I am sure In a frien 4, that you will at least appreciate the motives with *hid. I live achienised you ; • they wilt be mail iciitly explained in the evils skies 1• have dc,ci ILA, and in the obli,:ati )))) to remove then. I nm, dear air, every ino.t truly you's,- Staple-inn, Sept. I I, 1 1 s19. G. li. MAIN WAKING. Mud ill Serdlund.— reproaches which Dr. John son, its his journey to the Ilebrides, threw out against Scotland for its Want of wood, though perhaps a little exa' ,,, erated, were probably nut very tar loom the truth. That country, about a century before, Exit been cowered with old await! ; which, being considered by the pro. prietors as of no value, was allowed to fall two decay, wit' t any efTort to preserve it, while the introduction of sheep ellecitidly prevented the growth of young wood, Accorniti 4 ly, when the old trees fell down front age, the country became quite bare. But the reproachs:a of Dr. Joan-on, turned the attention of the Senish laud lord, to planting; arid Wassarty pins of Scotland, par tarly in Perthshire, be defect of which, Dr. John son complained has been .eointletely removed. The two greates planters of trees hi that county, and per- Italia mu Scotland, arc the Duke of Athol mid the Earl of Breatlalbane. Easalt-al- these noblemen, we arc in formed, has planted at least 61,000,000 of trees. . V o LENT ()tarmac B.—On Tuesday, about 2 o'clock, two ladies walking in the Regent's-park, were attacked ist indecent manner by one of those vile wretches who infest the town. A gentleman - coming in sighr, they called upon him for protecnon, but the miscreant bail got to a distance not to be overtaken ; however, he kept him in stew, and when he got into the New-road, induced a groom to take hint into a chaise, and pursued the fellow ; he soon C3IIIC Ur With 111:11, when he seized the scoundrel, and gave hint a most severe beating, to the satisfaction of a her of persons, who were very desirous to throw hint into the canal. The wretch is about 4u years of age, slow, and low of stature, marked with the small-pox; had on a blue coat, striped waistcoat, and white apron, and had the appearance of a porter or upholsterer's man. This description of hint is given to guard We pualic against the fellow w hereever he appears. Some time ago, a gentleman in Galloway, while walking over his estate, observed a peasant boy rapidly mounting to the top of a very bight tree, in search no (lout of a crow's or a pye's neat. Being concerned for t!te•little fellow's safety, as well as anxious to banish such usischievous intruders from his plantations, he bawled out ".Iloy ! you little scoundrel ! what are you at*it there? Come down immediately, and never let tit ilisee your face its this place again." The climber, alarmed at this address, rested himself upon a branch, and answered very " N 3! I was to collie (loon, you wad lick me." " No," said the entleman, " although yon well deserve to be punished, I wolit brat sou for this ofTence—so come down imme diately." "jay' as sore's deeth ye'll na lick me," re joined the ctilprit,7 ol atid I'll come dorm." " What ! yip., impudent rogue, do you presume to doubt my word, mid treat me like one of our )C411(101fellOWS:" Len," whimpered fire periinacions boy, "but unless l/11 say as sore's deem, I'll mix come (loon the day." The g, , lnkt.lan, Who is a distitignished liumourist,.and is a member of the present Parliament, had now great diffi culty in preserving his gravity, and finding further re inowtrance vain , Ile at last fairly capituhaed with the eieitiy, and agreed to let him march WY with all the 1: moms of war. It is almost needle's to add, that the tyrins (alibis capitulation were better observed than some of those that have wade a greater noise in the world. The boy was disini,sed, with a trifling reward, and a strung injunction Hoer again to climb a tree, or bre.ik throtlgh 311 iilekbole—an injunction which, nu the part to the rising generation, will probably be attended to, when the birds cea,e to build, amid the wild clic:tries to r,pett. Au iuqui,ition wns taken on WedneAay at gibe floe A 1101,11* m F.a,t Smithtirl I, before J. W. Cowin, 1.,q. Connor, on the bud) of FA her Par;ont, It appeared that the deceased cohabited milli a young than of the name of James Bennett. hut some altercation having taken place, caused a separation; she came al stir fereitt (nines to Id- lilgin,o, entreating of hint to g , se bcr admittance, stating', that she had 1111 way of support, floor place tor rt.itleure ; he %%mild not heal keit 10 her entreaties but alums ordered her ell; she at lcoi,th, despairing of hi. dlisiz any thing for her, told him that site ss ould c • and hang herself at his door. Aloud:ly last he had occosion 111 I..ave home very eat I) in the morning; 011 golug out lie locked his door, and iu the interim the deceased cant.• and tiskrd thr 11.114,11,1,1 if lie ( neon. It) was at home; the Lind said twat he is as 1,1 /I, hot that he a ould be iu soon to break hist. 'l'll, deceased said I hat ,Le would go and sit on the sitlir•case ut roe r ttttttt door until he (ante 111 she acco, - tli:,4ly went op stairs, and the lantilad) took no further toe.ll I: Or ; 1144 1 CIIIIIC 50011 tlflrrNalds , llllll 011 going upstairs, the first anal? that presented itstll hi I wits Qtr deceased siepended hy it cord at the door. She has lin sucdastely cut noun, awl Air. Price, u surscuu, rcaiJiuY in THE NATIONAL REGISTER RaietsfAtighwas, was sent for, who attended, and aged every possible means to restore her, but to no purpose, as life was .aline(. it appearing by the evidence of several persons, that the decen•eJ sale% NI symptoms of derzotgensent previous In ht r cuainsititag the twit art, the Jun, returned a verdict, tint site bung herself, being in a state of temporary derange omit. On Wednesday last, W. Brackwell, a young wa terman, plying near the Custom-house put off from the stairs of that place for the purpose of running alongside one of the Gravesend steam-packets. to land passengers. The steam-Lunt moving at the time, he made rather a sudden. exertion to lay hold, in doing which, however, he imprudently jumped too far a-head, and lowered the stem of his own boat so much, that it caught beneath the wheel and works of the steam-packet, and he was instantly sunk be low the latter. Evesy exertion was immediately made to find the hodyf,-but it was not discovered until life was whoflt extinct. It appeared from bruises on the head end face, that the death was accelerated, . if not altogether effected, by the vio. lent concussion which he must have received on being dashed against the works. The unfortunate young man bore an exc e llent c haracter, an d was th e chief - support of an aged mother. A Coroner's In quest sat on the body, and pronounced a verdict of— Accidental Death. • An inquisition Wai taken at the Three Tuns, Thames street, on Tuesday, before . T. Shelton, Esq. on the body of a poor old creaturz named Mary Andrews. She had been employed with her husband in picking hops in Kent, where she had contracted disease from labour anti warn, and they set out for London in expectation of assistance from her daughter; they arrived at the Bo rough-market on Friday moruing, between 9 and to o'clock, in such a state of exhaustion, that the deceased lay down, unable to proceed any farther ; some humane persons assisted her into a public-hoose,•where she was permitted to remain till her daughter was fetched, but it did not appear that she had received any refreshment. The daughter took her as far as Londowtbridge, and her weakness increased so much that she was altoge ther unable to proceed ; her dam-Allier, therefore, seated her under the first covered recess on the Borough-side, which is situate in the parish of St. Olave, where she left her, and slid not again return till between 6 and 7 at night, when site found her in the sante place in shak ing fits. The woman's condition drew round her a considerable crowd, who were all very clamorous, and applied to the bridge-beadle, who immediately went to the house of Mr. Little, the assistant overseer of St. Olase, its Toolcy-street ; and Isom thence to Mr. Dut ton, another of the overseers, to whom he described the distressed situation of the deceased. Mr. Dutton came and viewed her, and offered to pay for a coach to convey her home to Shoretlitch, but could not find one. Soon after Mr. Little came, attended by a marshalman, and pledged himself to the beadle " that the WOl/1411 should Ike taken CJfC of;" but as soon as the beadle went away, she was mere!yy moved a few paces farther into the parish of St. Magnus, and there left with her daughter, who presently after went away, as she said, to fetch her husband,but she never returned. No further notice was taken of the deceased till about 12 o'clock, when a yosing woman named Kent, who resides in Bermondsey-atreet, saw her king on the ground, to all appearance dying; she raised her up, and when the watchman Caine round, she called his attention to her, but he refused to wooer any assistance, because, as lie said, it was a mistake between the parishes, and that she, having been first in S . Olave*s, established her claim for relief there. About 3 &dick in the morning she expired, and then the watchmen carried the body to the bone-house. It was afterwards opened by Mr. Vaux, a surgeon, who found a quantity of water on the chest, and the stomach quite empty. His opinion was, that with proper care the deceased might have lived, but the case was at all times hopeless. A gentleman oldie Jury desired to be informed whether any cf the patish othoers of St. Magnus were informed of the woman's state in the course of the night. lie was answered that a person had gone to the watch-house to tell the consta ble, but he did not attend. The Coroner sa.d it was a cruel piece of business, to say the least of it, and he would not hesitate to say, that the watchmen had be haved iii the utmost critninal manner. Indeed, this poor WOlll.lll seemed to have been nealected by the sew Id and the world's law. The room was then cleared, alai a warm conversation ensued respecting the propriety ul passing a vote of censure: the whole of the Jury ago td to it, but the Coroner gave it as his legal opinion, that such a step would subject them to the coaisequetices of all action, when the idta was abandoned, and they re turned a verdict of—Natural death. DONCASTER ST. LEVER.—The Jockey Club cided this race in favour of Antonio on Tuesday. and thus the acts of the Stewards became nugatory, and Mr. Lockwood, the judge, was correct. It turned out upon enquiry, that all the horses did absolutely start, except a restive one, and on Mr. Lockwood asking it' they were all ready, no answer was made to the contrary, and he said, " Cio."— l'Eirse, the rider trainer of Agricola, was WOO, bad place, and after going some distance he called out, it was no start, and palled up, and was fol. lowed by Sir "alter and others behind . The decision decides bets to the tune of many thousands. A few days since, a fine boy, aged Eve year.i, son n Blanch, of Hindringni tttt t t was playing to the brew iton,e, lie accidentally tell backwards into a tub 0 , laaling wort, and v.as so dreadfully rravlt,l, 111.11 tie languished in excinciating pails a ftV. and 'lwo k spired. eel The Fourth Anniversary of the Norwich Bible Assn ciation was held on the tl4th ult. the Rev. C. D. Were ton in the chair. It appeared from the Report read, diet this Institution, in the came of last year, had distributed 468 Bibles and 53 Testaments, making an aggregate of 6,120 Bibles and 179 Testaments since its commence ment: in addition to which it has presented 30t1/. to the Parent Society, in aid of its foreign objects. The sum of 151. os. 10d. was collected. Pitovineartst•Eacses.—On Tuesday hit, as seve ral labourers in the employ of Mr.Crowe,of Kettlestone, were working in s marl pit, one of the men, after (hiv ing his team out of the pit, incautiously left it to return back for his coat. In the interim the - horses went On. One of the nun accidentally looking upwards at the• inommit, and discovering the danger, immediately called to his fellow•labouters to clear (lie way. In an instant the side caved in ; the four Koran. with the tumbril and its contents, were all precipitated to the bottom, a dis tance of stteral yards. Fortunately this extraordinary accident was attended with no other damage than break ing a small part of the thiller's harness. • At Kenningliall Fair, on Thursday be'nnight, a great' many Sit ep and Lambs were disposed of, on lower terms than have recently been given. 'rite number of Horses was sniall, and prinCpally of an inferior kind. At the above lair, Mr. Harvey, junior, of Rudham, was • acc nted by a stranger, who asked him whether be would sell his horse; Mr. H. haring replied in the affirmative, the man begged permission to ride the ani mal a little way, to which assent was given : the fellow i 1111 l iediately rode off full speed, and nothing has been heard of hint nor the horse since. A 'reward has been .• offered for his apprehension. Sunday last an inquest was held at North Lophant, . Before William Ihnuke, Gent. Coroner, on the body of Mary Shaw, aged 83, who on Friday was walking iu the road where a boy was driving a flour cart, and looking behind at some children, the cart went riser her, and she died on Saturday afternoon. Verdict, Ac cidental Ikailr. On Michaelmas-Day, IVm. Rogge, Esq. was sworn into the (Mice of Mayor of Lynn. In the morning the Corporation attended Divine Sen ice at St. Marga ret's Church, where an appropriate Sermon was deli% ered by the Rev. Edward Edwards, the Corporation Lec turer. In the afternoon the Mayor gave a sumptuous dinner at the Town-hall to upwards of 200 Gentlemen, among o ham were the Members fur the County, the. Earl of Orford, Sir M. B. Foikes, &e. In the evening there was a splendid ball, which was kept up by the beauty and fashion of the town and neighbourhood till a Lite hour. The Rebecca of South Shields, Luntlin, master, front Onega bound to London, with deals, &c. stranded to the southward of Yarmouth Pier, having previously struck on the Scroby Sand, where she lost ittr mirky, and received other considerable clamors. Two vessels from the North, with coals, struck on the Scroll Sand this morning, and Lave sunk. Two others (names unknown) also struck, and have got off. Ott Tuesday List the Anniversary Meeting of the Suffolk Anxiliary Bible Society was holden otthe Shire hall, Ipswich, the Hey. Edward Griffin in the chair.— The Society has issued in the past year 1.683 Bibles and 903 Testaments, and since its institution 214,214.1 copies. The cash received for the past year was 1,1061. IBs. 10d. and with the sale of books, left the s of i,0051.(i5.7d. in Isciul. This imintation was recened with great satis faction.- The collection at the doors amounted to up wards of 351. and a third donation of WI. was received from an anonymous blend to the Institution. Our Butter and Cheese Fair commenced on Saturday last, but no business was done, owing to the sellers ask- Log as high a price as 725. per firkin for prime dairies, hut on Monday afternoon sales were effected at front Sas. to (its. 61 but those terms did not usekea clearance, as many dairies were taken Komi unsold. One meal cheese sold at G.I. to id. per lb. and Bet 20. to 36d. — Cattle Fair was thiolv attended. Olt Thursday last Thomas Clay, Eri. was sworn into the office of Alderman (or Chief :Magistrate) of Bury, fur the year ensuing. On this occasion he gate a most elegant entertainment at the Guildhall to nearly 200 persons, amongst whom were his Grace the Duke ul Grafton, Lund Easton, NI. P., John Merest. M. l'., John Harcourt Rind!, l;-q. Cul. %nil.. hrooke, Col. Wollaston, the res dent Clergy, and many other gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood. The dessert, and n ines, served fr ttttt the Angel Inn, were of the best quality, and did great credit to the pro % ider. The following is an extract from a Parisian paper entitled, " Le Journal des debatm :" •"fhe meeting of Reformers held at Nerwieli, and at which ' they bloated the Alinisters and Nlagistrates of Manchester. was brought about by the intrigues of a member of the Opposition, the richest landed proprietor in England, Mr. Coke. It was composed of no other than persons under the orders of Mr. Coke, • who is proverbially called King of Norfolk ! Within these few days. Goo or the prinapal iMashitancs of the city of Norwich • have united in disavownig the dolatation of the ralett de Mors- sicur Coke." ! ! ! Gi:T Race for 100 Guineas.—A eportiag Gig Match took place on the Alum road on Monday, be tween Mr. Briggs and Captain Stime, who should trot their hoises farthest in one hour. with 14 atone in the gig. A piece of ground of I similes, and an inditler,nt road, marked out.. The parties started at opposite ends at the same time, and there was not :,t) yards di!fercnee between them at the eight miles, the -Captain having the lead. The eight miles was done in J. 3 minutes, and the winner was backed to do the finuteen miles. On the umpires comparing their watches midway, Mr. Briggs was declared the winner, he having done, within a few yards 13 miles and a half, and the. Captain, whose horse broke into a iiallop .141 1J miles with the two torus.