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1 - a roe OP PI I . i It rPa Pt. Cm!. wet .fisi hiicb CORONER'S INQUEST. CARLItiI.F., AUGUST 18. NARRATIVE OF Tim NISI PRIM ACIIONS, TRIM) AT THE LATIL CAR LISLS ♦SSIZLI. WALTON V. LADL('W. • Yesterday, at three in the afternoon, ta la CT, Esq. Cl:4°ller for Surrey, held an inquisition at Mr. Buchanon's, the Masons' Arms, opposite Lambeth Ten-ace, on a view of the body of Miss Charlotte Burden the young lads who fell from a two pair of stairs window, and was killed, on Thursday last. From the evidence examined be fore the Jury relative to the unfortunate occur rence, it appeared the deceased was sister to Mr. Burden, of No. 8, Lambeth Terrace ; she had been a short time at his house on a visit, and her family resided out of town. On Thursday last the deceased 'hewed no signs of despondency, bus seemed to conduct herself in her ordinary manner. —She was seated about half past one o'clock at the two pair of stairs back room window, which was open, and looked into the back-yard. Two servants belonging to the family saw the deceased about that time, but observed tin more of her until the fatal accident took pl ace, which was first discovered by ;entleman (a visitor,) who being in the back pall.ur waiting the arrival of Mr. Burden, sud denly heard something tall iu the back yard, and going to see what it was. he beheld the deceased lying close by the wall which divides the nest house from Mr. Burden's, without signs of life; and by the near situation of the deceased to the bottom of the wall, she appeared to have fallen with her breast upon it. Mr. W.— and Mr. Morgan, Surgeons, being instantly sent for, immediately attended ; but their assistance was useless, the de ceased had expired. On examining the body, no bones were broken, but bruises appeared about the breast, and on opening the one, symptoms were ob served about the chest, which left no room to doubt the deceas , ..l came by her death in consequence of the dreadful blow received in her .1:11. Ni person having beui present when the deceased ill out of the win,.ow, no further fats of this dreadful ac cident transpired, further than that the deceased was stated to be cubic& to fits, and hat been seized with one while lately riding with Mr. lorgati, surgeon, in a single-horse chaise. The Jury, after a charge from the Coroner, re turned a verdid of Arc4eslal Death. A letter was stated, in a former account of this ac cident, to have been received by the deceased, from her brother; but, as nothing of the kind was ex amined at the ha; iisition, it is not noticed. The deceased was an amiable young lady, between 27 and 28 years of age. This was an action bretight against Thomas Lad low, near Knarsdale, on the border of Northumber land, for defaming the charafter of Jos. Walton, in saline that he had poisoned Robert Batter, two cows, and sheep innumerable, that he was a mur derer, a rogue, a thief, &c. that he had done all this repeatedly, deliberately, and without passion The Witnesses on this trial were rather suspicious ; William Lamb (a boy), immediately on takirg the oath, set off as if his lesson had been taught him, how that bread and butter had R. Baxter, and that the Plaintiff had given him that bleed arid but ter, &c. Isabella Lamb, this boy's moth:, spoke (but with much inconsistency) of a report prevail ing among the people of the orintr;, that Walton had poisoned Baxter with bread and butte', and that Leßow was the propagator of this report ; two or three other Witnesses endeavoured to prove this with aggravated circumstances, that the offence might appear to be from a mal;gaant intention, and that the Plaintiff was obliged to bring .he anion in order to preserve his life and well being Serje.utt Cote: ex 5. contended, that it was nothing sonic than abuse and ill nature on the part of the Defendant, and had ori ginated from a quarrel between him and the Plain tiff, some time ago; that the Witnesses had proved nothing further; that Will:am Lamb came meets like a school boy to say his lesson—" I low that T. Walton poisoned L. Baxter, and how that he poi toned two cows, and how that lie peisoned a dog, and how, and how,' just as if lie had been repeating Chevy Chace. That the Plaintiff poisorsed all the sheep in the country is not worthy of bclief from any, much less from Master Itichai ason. who could not recollea lodging longer than three days d. Carlisle at any time, nor did he know the little place at the end of the sweet (the jail), although he had lodged there five weeks. The Serjeant thought the Defendant ought to be acquitted, egpeci.illY as shy l'laintill had neon fully acquitted Flom th Olarge of murder in the judgment of the country u, which he lives. These superstitious people believe, that, if a murderer touches the corpse of Ile person mur dered, the place so touched will it:surely bleed; accordingly they sent for the supposed murderer. and he went, forsooth ! hut, upon touching the corpse, no blood came. The Jeotre observed, that the elaintiff certainly was loaded with slander. altch was a very feel charge. and, according to the law, such a p. rein was entitled to some corn ' atio i. The Jury returned a verdia for the P i .14, damages el. WALTERS 1 , . Mt.tilt AS. 114 was a question teurbtrg th- unsoundness of a mare. On the 9th of February lasr, Walters, the Plaintiff, bought a mare of Mutt av, the I krenclant, for 311. 101. on condition that the mare proved sound ; after this purchase the Plaintiff went with the mare in a loaded cart from Brampton to New• castle; on his return the mare appealed quite lame, from a blemish nn the neat shoulder, and she was immediately returned to the Defendant, who re fused to take her. Lewis Jones was in the service of the Plaintiff; remembers the mare being brought home, and went with lwr to Newcastle; her load seas only tiu stone, and on her return snmethi tg k's tit t-I ;in going she was very well, but on tetutnu,n became quite Lune. John Holliday said he saw the snare short'', before Walters purchased her, at that time she had .t VC!' . sore shoulder; Ise saw the wound pinhed, and dead flesh appe *red tinde r it. Another Witness corroborated the above evidence. hlr.erjeant Coes:ELL, on the part of the De fendant, said, he would prove tic mare to be a, sound, when returned, as she is now : the blemis/. Proceeded entirely from a blister; and if this . was case of unsouadness, whoever has got 1 blow on his finger must be pronounced unsound. But, contrary to thin, the blacksmith that dressed the woteid, pronounced her to be a mare of a . good constitution; and, therefore, the W.II relty was, that it she had any disease at the time of sale, that would end in unsoundness, the bargain was rendered in• valid. o I believe (said the Serjeant), the Plaintiff got a mare at a cheaper rate, and wanted to get quit of his bargain." The Witnesses for the De fendant said, the Plaintiff observed the wound on the shoulder at the time of purchase, but did not think it of any consequence. A blacksmith de posed, he shoed the mare two years, and always considered her perfealy sound: believes she had a nip on the shoulder, but when let out, proved only to be skin deep ; and that in eight or ten days, she became well, and he believes the mare is now per fealy sound. Here the Jeuuv interrupted the evi dence, and said, it did not appear that this wound was the cause of any unsoundness. The Jury re turned a verdia for the Defendant. CITY Or CARLISLE U. WILSON, r AIRS AIRN, &C. This was an aaion brought by the Mayor and Corporation of Carlisle, to establish a claim of right, which they believed they possessed, of exa&ing pay ment of toll, for all merchant or other goods brought into or carried through Carlisle en horses, carts, waggons, or any other vehicle. at the rate of Id. for every horse load of goods, of two-pence for every cart load drawn by one horse ; of four-pence, if drawn by two horses, and so on, in proportion to the number of horses in each cart, &c. In March, 1800, the Plaintiffs went to the Defendants, and de manded Id. toll for a box of muslins carried by their coach to London ; this demand not being complied with, the Plaintiffs brought forward their claim last assizes, that it might be discussed in a court of law ; but as they had gone the wrong way to work, and demanded Id. for the box, instead of levying the cull according to the number of horses—the Jury gave a verdia fur the Defendants. This aCtien be ing brought forward again, its °lip& was to establish a claim of 2d. a horse drawing any cart, waggon, or other vehicle carrying commercial goods, as stated above. In support of this claim, they produced a written evidence, containing an inquisition taken in thu 25th year of the reign of Edward 111. in which it is found that the citizens had a right of exaaing toll for goods passed through the town. Two or three witnesses were called, who proved that the Corporation had. ever since they could remember, levied and received toll for goods passing through the city, according to the above rites ; that if they went through without unloading, they received a ticket on their entrance ; it they unloaded, the same goods going out paid toll again, according to the number of horses by which they are drawn. Mr. PARK, who was C , dnsel for the Defendants, did not wish to detain the Court any Ice7e: there being sufficient evidence to substantiate ti.e claim. The Jury gave a verdia for the Plaintiffs. SOMERSE ASSIZES. At the Assizes held last week at Wells, Mr. John Southerton, Attorney at Law, of %Vellington, the well-known Prosecutor of Penal Aftions against the tiergy and others, was found guilty, upon an ;Idol mutton filed against him in the Court of King's Bench, of having uritten threatening letters to a tam:titer of respeCtable druggists in Birmingham, for rhc purpose of extorting money from them, on a charge ul having schl pa:ent medicines without Stumps. Locus EWA NT•43L:.4%2 At. co% ELL e. SWZET.IVID3W. This was an Ik.atun brought against the Defend ant, who kfep. the Castle Inn, at Taunton, for net fulfilling an atrreement, by which she had under taken inanediod 7 to repair the house and premise. rented of her by the Plaintiff; but it appearing to the entire satisfallion of the Jury, that not • slight est hopntatinn of blame attached on • e;weet, for delaying the execution of her ngi c •nt ; but, on the contrary, that the work v completed as ,non as the nature of it would aumit, althotrh it took some wr,is to effett it, they made no hesitation in finding a verditt for the Defend an: . WINCIIII....STi..It, Ana. 20. C.. tg C0,.---A circumstance that occurred here on Tuesday night, has engrossed the conversation cf every tea table : A medical gentleman of Southampton, who had missed his wife from a country-house in the neigh bourhood, traced her to an inn here, and nn breaking open a chamber door, realised the suspicions he had entertained of her fidelity, by finding her in bed with All sllieit lover, who is of the legal - profession, and who was severely beaten by the injured husband As the affair will probably be subject of serious investi gation, we forbear at prcient to be more explicit.— (Sehidery journal.) A letter from Dover, dated on Sunday, says : " The alarm of invasion has consiaer.ably subsided in this neighbourhood. The several encampments, the fortifications, the increased number of ships of And the general vigilance and activity, inspire universal confidence:* The last Accounts (torn Constantinople state, that the most violent commotions still continue in Egypt, and that French influence is exerted in every possible way, to create divisions and disputes Among the rdspeetive powers, with a view to their again establishing a footing in that distrafted coun try. Some of the powers do not scruple openly to call up , .n the Trench to assist them ; hut the majo rity decidedly look up to the English fur every The French prisoners from Pondicherry, that came to this country, on board the Matilda cartel ship, have been embarked on board the Ardent, for the purpose of being landed at one of the cartel ports in France. The giriihly Castle, from China, which ship un fortunately went on shore in I:idlers Reach, on Fri d ty last, was not got off the ground without very considerable exertions on the part of the Commander and Officers. She now lies off Greenbithe, making eight and nine inches water in a quarter of an hour ; the pumps are kept constantly at work, and the boys are Alongside receiving her cargo as fast as possible. We are happy, however, to learn, that the last accounts state the leak to have decreased, and that there were not above fourteen inches water in the hold while the pumps are kept going. FR r.F: MASONS. _ Lodge of Free Masons fur the county of Dorset was held at the Antelope Inn, in Dorchester, in honour, of the birth-day of His Royal Highness the Prince of W A Les, Grand Master of Masons, by brother P A za, D.P.G.M. ailing as P.G.M. in the absence of bro ther Sir Joan Lesrcn, P.G.M. occasioned by in disposition. After the Lodge was duly 04.0 and an appropriate charge from the ailing ihy( G.M. he, with the rest of the Officers, and malt/ Brethren from the different Lodges, in this comity, and visi•ing Brethren from other Lodges, to the number of 68, proceeded with music from the Inn to the church to hear Divine Service. The Rev. Brother 11. Rtcai- Man read the prayers, and the Rev. Brother G. T. BRICE, P.G.C. preached a very excellent sermon on the occasion ; after which the Grand Lodge return ed to the inn, where an elegant dinner was provided by Mrs. CA mit, and the usual toasts were given. The case of Brother Taos: A BELCUER, Vill was confined in the gaol at Dorchester as a debtor, was laid before the Grand Lodge, with the strongest re commendations ; and in particular it appeared, that Be was not entitled to the benefit of the late Insolv ent Ad, not having been in custody from the time of its operation. the Brethren present instantly entered into a subscription, and procured his release. Brother BELCH t a was then introduced to the Lodge, being desirous of returning his thanks ; but he was for a moment completely overwhelmed with joy and gratitude : he was the more affeEted, because he was enabled by his release to return home to his wife, who was confined by a dangerous illness. The bu siness of the day was conduEled with great decorum, and concluded with the order and harmony peculiar to Masonry. Yesterday se'nnight the Provincial Grand During the late boisterous weather, our cruisers off Brest have several times been blown from the French coast, and some fast sailing French frigates have immediately made their appearance to ascer tain their distance ; but no sooner has any of our ships been observed by them, than they have re turned, always chased by us to the outer road of Brest, where the fleet under GA PIT SILAUME con tinues to watch an opportunity to steal away and join the squadron at Isle d'Aix and at Ferrol, both, according to letters, ready for sea, having their top. sails bent for these last three weeks. The number of the en-.my'sships counted in the outer road of Brest last Monday, all apparently ready far sea, amounted to sixteen ships of the line, seven frigates, and four cutters. At Isle d'Aix there are only four ships of the line and four frigates ; and at Ferrol, the same number of ships or the line, .. ith three frigates. Though our vessels have suffered something in their sails and rigging during the late gales, they continue upon their station; and t le officers and men are all in good health and spirits, desiring ardently to fraternise with the subjeas of BON AFAR ra on the main, and to dub his members of the Legion of Honour, knights of the Atlantic. The march of the troops, on the Sussex toast, into barracks, has been countermanded, in order, as it is supposed, that they may he reviewed on the field by His Royal Highness the Duke of Yota, who is expetted to be at Hythe on Tuesday next, and at Eas. Bourne un the day following. If Li rats had not sheered off from our China fleet, it was the intention of our Captains to man their boars, andattaci one of his frigates. 'That tine ship, the 11,6erni I, of 120 guns, is now nearly finished, and will be ready for launching at Plymouth, early in October. She will be, without exception, the finest ship in the world. The painters and caulkers are now at work upon her. She has seventeen ports on each side of her three deck., which make a tremendous battery of 51 parts on a side, exclusive of the quarter-deck and forecastle; when launched, manned, rigged, and ready for a cruise, she may with truth be called the litihrnic the pride of the sea The two fir frigates go op so briskly, that it is hoped they will be laanched at the same time. We have great pleasure in stating, that Captain Issas Duct. woo commanded the ship Dick, of Liver? ml, li.ss received from the Uunderwriters the handsome compliment of Two Hundred Gui neas, in consideration of his good conduEt aal bra very in beating off a French corvette of 22 gu is, and 200 men, after a close affirm of three hours. List Monday, two men, father aril son, of the name of Reeg, were stopped in Stoni-house-lane, by the pa•rale constables of the boriuigh of Ply mouth, with two apparently heavy b sgs, which, on os:ing examined, were frond to contain King's stores, viz. new copper, in cut-up sheets ; new bolts, pins, and hails, n. ver used. This led to enquiry, and a search at Dock, when one Carne, a publican, was detelted, and fined 101. by the Justices, and one Troby, a lodger in Caine's house. and upwards of twenty years past belonging to an office in the Dock-yard, was also deeded with King's stores, and sentenced by the Justices to three months' hard labour, in the county Bridewell. On the examina tion of the two Ruggs, before the Magistrates, they were fully committed to Exeter High Goal, to take. their trials at the next spring assizes. Too much praise cannot he given for the aEtivity (in the detec tion of these nefarious offenders) displayed by the Solicitor to the High Court of Admiralty at Ply mouth, aed for his laudable endeavours to bring them to condign punishment. A letter from Yaraluiitli, of the 18th, says, "On Monday evening we experienced a most dreadful storm ; it tore up by the roots and broke several trees ; the rain fell in torrents, and the thunder and lightning were incessant. he damage at sea was not so much as might be expeaed ; two small ves sels went on shore at Happishurgh, but will be got off. Early next morning. a large vessel, supposed to be a foreigner, was lost on frappisburgh sand.— The corn was most of it levelled to the ground." Last week died, in Hertfordshire, of a broken heart. the cause of which she would not reveal even to her nearest relations, Miss LLTITI A DAWK•I43, an amiable and accomplished young lady of fortune. Same day died. of a deep decline. Miss Lucy CAISLNTER, an intimate friend of Miss DAWKINS. They were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their deaths they were not divided. So we grew inertias, " Like to a douW,a cherry, seeming part; But got a union in partition, " Two lovely berries reou'deit on one stem " So with two seeming bodies, but um bcarti." • • YORE HERALt) OFFICE, Aso. 14 tIN. We have received the following letter this week from a correspondent at Bridlington. As its pub lication may lead to. a discovery of the parents or relatives of the child. and thereby relieve their anx iety, we hive thought it best to a/slrlalY this manner of making it known:. And we earneAly solicit the liditors of all the London, and also those of the Pro. vine: it Papers, to copy the iohe/r of this article into their respeaive Publications for the like purp.ne. Should it lead to a discovery of the carems or rela tives of the soy. communications from Civil, address- • ed to The Editor of Th. Y ark," will be carefully attended to, and who will esteem himself) amply rezompensed by being the mans of re lieving the distress ever to be irk on such occasions. " DEAR Su , Idridlington , Aug. 14, 11104. " I am informed there wu ar. advertisement three ir tour months back in sonic of the'Provincid Piper:, of a boy about ire or RIX years old, being I rat or stolen from its parriti There Ina; :onus one haul bound to a chimney swyeper ,of t by a man and a woman, who are not married, and who travel the country. The woman say: she is its own mother; but by many circumstancci, from the child's behavi o ur, willed : it much above the common rank, there are rent snspieinns of it being the child adverti,id. If it was in The York Kenai, should be much obliged to son to inform me of it; mar if you could by any means get intellizenc.“, as to lead to a dna. ,every, should be v,ry gl.d, as I think it would be a graU lisppilie4 conferred upon its parents, and a lasting Woman upon the child. " I ain, dear Sir, your. tic " " P. S. The child is greatly noticed for its behaviour; and Sir George Strickland, of Boynton, Hart. has taken it honithe chimney sweeper, and intends keeping it, if its real parsers cannot be found."—' Frogs tke York Ilenad.) THE TURF. YORK; SATLRDAT, ACC: Ig. York Free Handicap Stakes of 50g; each, b. ft.— Four miles. Sr T. Gamoigne's ches. bor.. Lenox ' 6 yrs 011, Sit. - Sir 11.1'. Vaue's br. boric, nail, 6 yrs o:d, 121 b. Mr. Gadorth's bay horse, by Traveller, out of Faith. yrs-A 7vt. - S.r Frank Standish's bay hors?, Duabory, 5 yes old, 7st. 1011) Sir it. Wino's bay colt, Auctio..cer, by likroluebvangh, oat nt E Lita tb , S.t art Mr. W hr. 611 v, li•unr.ttu, by Overton, out of Stray's dam. 7st. 111 b. two mites, 900 r. h. Pt. —Compr nne.ed. - 4 Ia a violent gale of wind, Litutenont Svstows, of the Mem, a very excellent officer, by a lee launch of the ship, had his feet so jammed between the ladder and quarter-deck, as to be oblige f to be sent to the Royal Naval Hospital (on the arrival of the liars at Plymouth) for cute. Yesterday the Jenos,ira lodiarran, lying off the entrance of the Boson, at, Blackwall Docks, broke from her moorings at cl da ifted ashore , when the tide left her, she fell on her side, and there are hat little hooes of getting her afloat again. Tue Jamaica is one of the largest In the tra...e, and has a my valuable cargo. Yesterday, about three o'clock, a boat, a itlt four passengers in it, eoming th.i.ugh London Bridge, on the ebb tide, VW, fro.n the violent fall oc the water, upset ; by which accident a mat and a boy were unfortunately lost ; the other two passenge-s, together with the watei.n in, were prrAidentially picked up by 'a boat from Billing,gate Stairs The unfortunate womaii, who was brat so violent ly by her husband on Se:.day night, in a court neat Northampton street, Cletkenwel - ', is not dead. A dreadful state of intoxicatina, and the wound. sbe received about the head and face, led many to be lieve she had expired, being apparently motionless. Yesterday she had, howev:r, recovered so far as to be out of danger. On Sunday morning four men, who app e ared to be mechanics, applied - to Mr. Doc, of Strand- la) e, who keeps boats to lett, and hired a four-oared cut ter for the day ; they were noticed by several per sons proceeding up the River, from their extreme outwardness in rowing and managing the boat, and on their return, about seven o'clock in the evening, when opposi .e Wandsworth Creek, one of them was observed by several persons from the shore to make a crud, as it is called, that is, missed his strcke with the oar, and fell backwards, not into the boat, but over its side ; the others were unable to stop or put the boat about, until their unfortunate compa nion, after several struggles, had sunk. Several boats put off, and continued to drag for a great while, without finding the body. We hope that this melancholy instance will teach persons who lett boats, not to entrust them to persons unacquainted .with rowing, or even without a regular watermark, as frequent mischief is experienced by such persons rowing against other boats, besides endangering their own lives. Friday morning, about one o'clock, a pAssengcr in one of the Gravesend I)nat>, in stepping aslant', unfortunately fell overboard, and rem timed on 1.. v water about twelve minutes. He was dragged out and recovered. Friday, the 10th instan:, as one of the Judge's servants was walking in the street, near the White Hart, Tauutoa (where he staid to refresh, on his road to the assizes at Wells), a lad rode up against him wilt such viol , :nce as caused his instant deAth : he was an old fait:dial servant. Verdia, A. e..tented DeatA. A most extraordinary circumstance occurred on the River 'names a few evenings s ace. as a barge WAS passing near to Hammersmith, a salmon, the weght of seventy pounds, leaped into the Large, in i s eagerness to catch at mytiads of anseas that were ::iskolg on the surface of the water. Last week, was committed to prison, Jein Per. dyer, blacksmi.h, Howburn Bridge, in the neigh bourhood of AbTdcen, accused of murdering his wife by shooting her in the breast, of wh,ch she .tied in half an hour after. It appeal; t h at several mitre people were wounded by the same ibcr. 6 but, for Obvious reasons, we forbear mewl suing :any of the circumstances of this unfortunate transatl Wednesday, a bullock broke from the king's slaughter house, at Devil's Point, Plyirmuth, and ran furiously along the beach through i•onehousc. In his mad career he tossed and gored ()Le of thu butchers pursuing him, as well as a woman and chili. An officer ot the royal marines h..d a um.- rsw escape; the animal stuck his horns iu his sash, , which, by the violence of the beast, providentially gave way, and he escaped. The bullo.k then made for the water; and the butchers driving some oxen towards him, they secured h;m, .m-strung him, aad then got him to the ktiliti.v..hous-.. auti swalseatched Wu. Fortunately no is 4$ were