The National Register. — London, England, 1819-04-12 00:00:00

API!! 111. wee oestiabled, k sprain w ice. that Inheiwe bad Mid in panniing then to mow Wan the ships. We accordingly ye ended whisdres obi addhlendpessoin ashy of looking poem end ninw, melba with wowwP nodshimPlAd nestleft Monde sbeipet, whew the swees was am widi ineeemed rams. the Ohre in senent it, the erhab were gmeondea those who Ind epee ii ha at a Menses wide Moak &dm, WwW *dna then sesindin The pity sow theedwe snd of wine, with ad their 'Wow end Ant ni dep. two nine, derisinsen Lietd. Tarry. sod myself, bong at pay of oonwell siddahrily We WM also increased by doe ponliedWed eitwoden, se a ibild dgm fads'. is Mud. The who mad elsernew oar easily be - epo. ceived—the when talking sad and the dip howling, while the Wires wou l :=L thli e ' rith their lug whip', to peelers eider. Our antral peldwead a risible Aiwa, sassing deire to nein a few swaps loweade desk siedw t on this Sachems ceded to us to rill ow own es In hod Aser rend this to be the node of friendly salundois with than This cesimmay wee anordingly performed by sedan' us, the warm, during their rearm, making used die sere psturn the nature of which we bed not before undelinsed. Ip dio mos way we imitated their thews as well as wihrti Mos the same interjection. pray which we toad to be an expreseson of surprise mod pleasure. w e p i s aikussed towards them while they halted, and pm- MOW Ikellmineest with a looking glass and • knife, repeating • die sane preents to the whole as they came up in toootosioll. Ob swing their faces in the glasses their astonishment appeared me ems. and they looked round in silence for • moment at each di sod at us i immediately afterwards they set up • general inewt„ soniesded by . a loud laugh, expressive of extreme delight, as trait sa surprise, to which we joined, partly from inability to maid it. and willing also to show that we were pleased with our new acquaiatances. COAL TAX. [Extract from the Life of the Bishop ofLlintlaff.] It has often been the subject of my considera tion, ' the taking off the Tate on Coals carried toistwise, 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, &c. If laid in proper quantities on such lands it changes them without further trouble 'or expellee into valuable pastures, and if the im provement is carried further these pastures become good amble 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 less than 50 years millirms 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 from the increase of bar ley, employment of the poor, &e." - - - CHIMNEY SWEEPUtII.-.-The following is an Ab stract of the Bill now be tore the House of Corn. mons :—The first clauses relate to the form of the Indentures of Chimney Sweepers.—lndentures 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 cept 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 ehasine or selling their service.—Boys not to 1•c 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 as not to require eoreing ; and to admit of being swept by machinery.—Requiring any child, apprentice, or person to ascend a flue, for the purpose of extinguishing fire, constituted a misde meanour. CAUTION TO CLERGYMEN AND PARISH O►/t- CLRs.—On Saturday last, a warrant was isried by Mr. Shelbeare, 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 prece3ing Sunday. The Jury return ed a verdict—Died from excessive Drinking. The Coroner stated, that. Clergymen, as well as parishes, were liable to presentment and fine, and also to in dictment, for suffering a body to be buried without sending for him, where the death was sudden, or had been occasioned by violence ; and from its hav ing been repeatedly done, he expressed his determi. nation to indict the first Parish Officers who should hereafter render themselves liable. SURREY Asstres.—The Assizes for this county terminated on t% ednesday evening. Lleven prisen ers received sentence of death, eight of whom were reprieved before the Judges left the town, and three are left for execution, namely, Wils n, Burnett, and Curtis. These men hase been convicted ofrobberies, under circumstances of peculiar atrocity, and formed part of the " Borough gang," that have so long been a terror to the counts. The whole of the ceavicts frnm Kingston arrived on Thursday night' at the prim in liorseraonger-lane. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. TAUNTON, (flosmastrt), Aram I. (UtforsMl Barr.] JINNI/UV. PALMIER. This was au actiub brought to removes flee sam of ma. under tiettunstatmes rather pecuiisr. Mr: fiergeint Paid. opened the ease—The parties, he said, were respectable farmers residing at Ashiuglon, io the county of Somerset, Whche the plaintiff was possessed of a certain close, among other lauds, tailed Broad Lees ; and the defeadatit, among other proprietors, of a field, called Fox Hole; these premises being divided by the river Yeo. In the smalls of Jane, 1518, a cow, the peopeay of the defendant died—the learned Sergeant believed of some con tagious distemper; and was, by the desire of the defendant, thrown into the river' at a place called Bulimia e.quity, the plaintiff's field being a little lower down she stream. In the course of a fortnight or three weeks, the decomposition of this eafenle produced elects so loathsome, that com plaints were made to the defendant; and M cousequenee of those complaints, the cow was taken piece-meal out of the river which was above the plaintiff s field, the cattle of the plaintiff, which were pasturing thew, drank of the water infected by the putrefaction of the cow, and in coaseq of so drinking, were seized with the same istemper of which the cow had died, by which distemper a considerable number of them were dettro)ed. It was to recover the value of the cattle so poisoned that the present action was brought. The learned Sergeant would show that the plain tiff had lust no cattle but those which, feeding it, Broad Lees, drauk of the infected water 1 and he would show that the defendant himself bad lost some of his own cattle, which feeding in Fox's Hole, also drunk of that water. If those facts were proved, he should be entitled to a verdict. John Fvoge was servant to Mr. Pamer, the defendant, in June, 1818. Remembered a cow of his master's dying; the beast was shinned by witness and others, and Snug into the rover at Ballraire-quay; the cow was found dead in the morniiii, rod thrown into the river about twelve o'clock at memo : smelt very much; sail the side Dear the ground looked black, as if it had mortified. John Holland remembered the cow's being throws into the river; the plaintirs cattle were all healthy at tbetime ; the wateriiig place of the cattle was below the spot 'where the cow was throwu in. John Cox was servant to the plaintiff; remembered the defendant's cow being iu the river; the water was monis, and frothy round the carcase. About '1 or eight duSs after the cow was thrown in, his master', cattle appeared to be ill; they were restless, and water ran from their eyes; a number of them died. None were ill but those ;Awn were kept lathe Broad Leese the rest were quite healthy. Knew th..t three of the defendant's oxen had died. which had been sed in Fox Hole. Some of his master's cattle were kilted, tu fame Mess front dying, While he was dressing one of the cattle so killed, a ciao( his master's came to him and licked his clothes and shoes, which were bloody ; the calf was taken sick, and was near dying; it teemed to have the same' complaint as the cattle that bad died. Charles Holland was* butcher by trade : saw the plaintirs stock before the cow was thrown into the river; rimy were in health; examined and opened some of the beasts that died the spleen was swollen to Eve or six times the towel dimensions, and the iutestion were in a state of mortifica tion. None of the pLintitr, cattle were ill but those oil the Broad Lees those me the other parts of the feria were *alter sick nor sorry.—A number of witnesses proved that none of plaintiff's cattle died but theme on the Broad Lees; end that all the cattle that died, t h ose of the defendant as will as those of the pla exhibited the rat* symptoms during their illness, which lasted ouly (ruin two to tea boom— When opened, the spleen and intestines of all were Maud in the IjUIC Stale. 31r. C. T Williams, on the part of the defendant, addres sed the jury at comiderable length. The question, the learned counsel said. was, whether the cows of the defeat dant bad actually died of it contagious disease. The jury had becu told that the water had been infected—infected to a degree which reodeted it nut only loathsome but deadly. If it had been so, would the latter have drank it ? Cows were very nice in drinking. There was a pond in the welly same field, from a hick they might have thank if they bad disliked the water oftberiser. But be bad stronger, grounds to go upon ; lie should prove beyond a doubt, that animal matter, in the highest degree putrid, was not in the slightest degree poisonous, when received into the stomach. He should prove, that such was the power of the gastric juices, that meat putrid, when swallowed, became purified after remaining a short time in the stomach. He should show that, even supposing poisonous mutter to have existed, it must have been so diffused in the present case as to render it impossible that the cattle-of the plaintif should 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 of the velocity of the current. The river was 30 feet wide, and the quan tity of water passing any given point at Bullmire Quay, w as 1,400 hogsheads a minute. Mr. James Parlour aas a farmer: held laud on the banks of the Yeo, lower down than that of the plaintiff; his cat tie drank the water without miming. Thomas Fern wasa farmer at West Caramel ; lost cattle in July last by the same distemper of wWO the plaintirs COWS died. Mr. Ilugh Stanton, Surgeon, said that, in bis judgment. is putrid carcass would not convey contagion. The moment putrefaction began, contagion cleated. Putrefaction began as -min as life was completely extinct. Animal substances, in the last stage of putrefaction, would not be injurious to life if taken into the stomach; they would create nausea, but would do no serious harm. If the putrescence which ended from the body of the cow had been concentrated in pail of water, It would not have been poisonous; diffused us it was, it must have been inlioxiuus. Mr. Sully, surgeon, Hr. Chichester, Mr. White, and Mr. Barrett, veterinary museum, concurred in the above opinion. Mr. Sergeant Pelt replied. This was indeed, the learned Sergeant said, an age of discuses les. Putrid matter was nut prijedicial to health? How did it happen, then, that per sons were liable to • eseneinal indictment fur exposing putrid 'distances in to*os and cities? He meant no disrespect to the iiirdical gentlemen who bad been called, bet speculation was wit to be oppased.to tact. There were peop eso spe •ulative as to think Shut children of 8 years or age received ao iujusy train working 16 hours a day is the cotton-ma He remembered that in Fran.* ((or France had its specs,. later►m weU as Taunton) a gtialeasaa Octal a large sun: 119 that be could ride a certain distance in a gives time. The speculators weal to work, and discovered that, from the resistacce of the air only, it was impomilik suc► a body could pass through the space in suc► a time. The gawkest+, however, was a bold matt, fur be rude his race sod won his wager. Philosophy was making its way at all points. We might now, like mad Tom. •. swallow the dead rat and the ditch dug," and yet receive no injury. We should soon, probably, exist without either air or water. Some in genious person bad contrived to doubt wMaber the plague was infectious. A putrid body would, no doubt, be a very facetious companion. ,The punishment of Mcarotins, a living body chained to a dead one, would be bagatelle. Let not him (the learned Sergeant) he shaiord to a living one (laugh front the ladies in c. urt). lie re petted philosophy, and admired improvement ; but was nap. eo convinced that si putrid carcass not nut unw holenwne, and that be should not toter bry coming in contact with it. The jury, without troubling Mr. Justice Best to Si. up. found is verdict far the defendant. At steafford Assizes a cause was brought ow at the suit of the A isotherm ies' company again/it the son of a man wholad been originally a gardener, but. who bat long exercised the business of anc-tesc• and pick-doctor t the too claiming w right of Ardowing the pretessiim of an apothecary, through hissing studieeerwider his renowned father. In the irromes ammation of the lather by Mr. Iniuncey, he was asked if he hadbecna surgeon? The withess appealed to the Judge if this was a proper answer, and whether be must reply to it; and at last said, " I am a &Ilea" Mr. Oisuncey asked him to spell this word, which he did at several times, via.—. " Syuegrosi," Slurp-we Surgmot," " &liana." Ale. Dago cry said, '. I am afraid Sir you do not often, take so mo t h time to study the cases which come before you as you do to mouser my question."—" Ido ant. Sir." N itsierolaW, he never employed himself as a gardener, but was a farmer tin he learnt his present hosiers.. Mr. Deanery said, 's Who did you learn it of ?"—" I learnt it of Dr. 1101 me. brother-is-law; he practised the t•arne as the Whitariseth I)octort, and they were regular physicians." Mr. Dirunecy, Where did they take their de. revs ?" Witness, " I don't believe they ewer took a degrre." Then were they regular physician?"—" No ! I believe they were nut, they sumo only demos's." " Only doelors I were they dieters physic, or divinity 1"—" they doctored cows and east things, and @amino as well." Judge to witness. " Did yr" ever make up any medicine by the prescription of • physt • ciao?''—" I never did." " Do you understand the charac ters they use fur ounces, scruples, and drachms 1" I do nog"--" Then you cannot make upoyour prescriptions from reading theM 1"—" I cannot, but I can make up as good medicine , in cry way, as. they Gm in theirs." ' 6 What pro. portion does an ounce bear to a pound ?" [A paassi-- " There are sixteen ounces to the pound. but au do DM gm by any regular weight, we mix ours by the lured." " Do you bleed ?"—" Yes." " With a Seam or with a lancet r " With a lancet." "Do you bleed from the vein or ftswas the artery ?" " From the vein.* " There is an amity somewhere about the temples; what is the name of thee , artery." " I des not pretend to have so much 'enrols' as some Misc." " Can y ou.leil me the name of that artery 1" —•• Ido not know w kith., on memo." " Suppose then wasto direct you to bleed.avy servant, or my horse (which Got forbid I) in a vein, say.-for instance, in the jugular where should y sru bleed him ?"—" In the neck, to be sate." The Jury almost lustaatly reamed a-mini:4lov the plaistillt —Damages 201. Enact/slow or Roams? Death—On Monday moralag,. Heats.. who was convicted teethe warder- of Mary-Alms Albert, was executed on the top of liorsemoriger-lane gaol. An imaienw multitude wancoßeeted so witne.s the eseets non. The .unfornanate man bad been at prayer, with slight iuterrnission. from the period of his apprrhenstoo. It one aeedleas to recommend devotion to him, lie was on Wed aeiday visited by Lord Roc Lsavage mid Mr. Sinclair. both of whom prayed with bias. Ile expensed- much grainede at their kindness. "'Obey came." said he, " with Christian feeling to visit the poor wretch in hisdnageen." Mr. Mama, the Chaplain bad mesek einnersatios with him. bran ' regretted that as he was-going to a place where three was so. gnashing of tee. h, he had it nut in his power to• take with him his beloved Sarah, who. was now exposed to a wicked world. The Chaplain curlew/oared to iudace him to speak of lite little girl whose life be bad taken away, and told 15,., she would meet him in a better world. "Nv diarist: said he, " Christ, who is now saving my soul, is waiting for me but I am sorry fur poor Sarah, abe is in a dinsgerous world." Mn Moil rejoiced to see him so .full of peniteaee, and told him with what happiness his friends-wouldbear that ao wish of neap, from punishment had passed kis lips, aura murmur of complaiut. Why should 1 complain," said lie," know. ing as 1 do that the change I am going forsake is fur th e better ? Where is Voltaire now ?—is bell : w Isere is Torn Pantie ? in hell : God have mercy upon them as be bar upon me." Ilia general appearance was that of a maniac, but on all subjects he spoke rationally, although often hicube renly. After the sacrament had been administered to hint. be appeared impatient taleave the worldonad asked whether every thing was not in readiness for his journey t• on being told by Mr. Mann that some time was io be allowe d fee preparation. " Preparation !" said he, " who can say I want preparation ? —never was a man more ready to die." Ildr. Mans havingobscrved that the preparation ot tare b„dy. not the soul, was what- he meant, Dean sailed—" Oh!" said be, " I shall them soon he going." He refused to nand hale any part of the ceremony in the Chapel was per forming. and he frequently rayed aloud, with the greatest fervour. When the officers were striking oil his irate, he looked wildly about, and at last fixing his eyes on the • gab lows, he bent towards it. And then giant at the sky. The name of God was In his mouth w hen he reached the phi form. lie then said " God bless you all !" and prayed in in /crud a tone as to 1w heard by the crowd around the prison. At nine o'clock the drop fen, and he died after a severe struggle. An influenza prevails at present. which . is very distressing to' many individuals. It is confined chiefly to oaths, who are attacked in general with hard cough and restlemness, and throe c.f. w ok's habits suffer much. The complaint is NI f eta l, though the Busch in the first instance teens the forcruttny of severe fcvcr.