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London, England, 1808-10-25 00:00:00

WITCHCRAFT, MURDER 4- CREDULITY.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

NEWMARKET THIRD OCl't►Bf.R, OR HOCGIITON
MELTING, loos

11103/IAV, UCTiIIIER
Swerpstakes of i oop. cacti. T. M M.
Gement ihnver's 1.4•P00r, eit..1119.

Mr. Pay Bulrush, i t. !ill).
Maier Wileou's Junior), 7st 711;. -
Mr. Huworth's Laurette ;at. alb.
LA Foley's Aires, tat. 'lb.
bweroetekes of wogs tacit h. ft. AcriKa the Flat.
tiro. Givers-Hues John-ts'Gauitt, est. 71b.
M. of Rutland'. Ned, set. sib.
Mr. Lloyd'. Fitu, 7st islb.
Mr. Craven's Beau Nub, art 14 relay`, Cecilia, Ist.
each. Lan M. of B. C. 7nuip. h. ft.
IA Foley's Ca' van; itet..slb. apt Mr. Csavet*s•Beau Nash,
net. D. 1. Aar. ft.
Mr. Shateepeses Sir David, Sot tell,. @got D. of f;ralltin's
Mosirdia, 7st. alb. 11. C. Atop. b. it.
LI! Barryestre's Miranda, est. alb. apt Sir J. Slieilr)*s
Fenny, est. R. M. lon.. •
Mr. nbakespear's Zudier, test. agst Gee. Gower's Pelisse,
16st. Two-yr. old C. ;icor b. 11.
D. of Butlnnifs Rambler, est alb. a.,st Mr. Hosorth's
Laurette, eat. Ab. coms.
14 Derhugtau's Ituhens apt Sir C. Turner's Jock, est.
7th. emit. Across the Flat, eitugs h. 11
Gen. Grosvenor's Rifleman, set. 51b. net Sir C. Turner's
litrant.Ae, ail. D. 1. 15.A8. h. ft.
Mr. Vattaittart's Letwirigh, apt Ld. Lowther's Hylas, Set.
alb. each. Ab. M. eons.
Mr. Croft's Hart, est. gib art Mr. Gonldbern's
edit. Ob. Lost 3 51. of B. ('. 51415.
D. of Gra:lmes Pearl) ke, est. Mb. ree 7.4.,zt from 14 Lom-
as:es Hiles, Set. 716. Ac.na s tbr lg.. b. It.
LA. G. H. Cavendish's ic. 2.. r. true, Gen.
Grosveaor's Brier's, est. 760. each• Ten ••• •ofß. C.
b. It
Mr. Slieltespeer`o Hiscuunt, rer. 30p. from Sir C, Turner's
Casein Almadiaist s-t. alb each. Ab. M. soup. h. It,
Mr. Baleen's t:harLier, rec. tt. fro Mr. Goulberier Gris
otaldi, set. 71b. each. Acre,. the Flat, loop. b. il.
TV Lsl3•T.

Fifty poen& for 2-yrs olds carrying a feather ; 3. are old.,
741. :,lb. ; 4-yrs olds, est. ;41b. ; 5-yrs olds, pat. Jill.; la
*14,,, ISt 7:4) and aged lot. toll.. Last .1 M. of It.
Tbe %inner, with his ,ogagettients, to be sold for stooge.
if demanded within a neater of' an hoer after the tare, the
owner of the secood horse being first emit nal, ••.e.
To be enteral at the King's Stable., Newmarket, on the
day before rimming, between Sieves aid One o'clock. En-
trance :tgs.
14 Jersey's Whistler, est. alb. apt Mr. c. Iy
HAMIPM.7I.I4itau, Mil of Tottarclla, ust. alb. Ali. M. alp.
Mr Fermor's Bri‘htou, est, apt Mr. Keikr.aaa's L'Hoile
de 'Venom 7st. nth. Arrow the flat, doors, b.
Mr. Iloworth's Casio, apt Sir C. Turner's Goody, est. 71b.
garb. Y. 4'. a wigs, h. ft.
Gen. GrairrawS May. apt Mr. Pantoe's Ita'Asita, e.l.
re,b. Two-yr old Coors... sop.
: Mr. Roererie's Wood-Memo, apt No C. Turner's Cootie
Abraham, est. 41k. each. R. M. loop, b. ft.
Mr. Peatots Chlorts, 41b. opt Gclo. GrOlivelletr• a.
Weudwell-heli by Whiteley, Pt. llb. Y. C.
1.4 hilmisiotrs Achilles, pet apt Mr. Lloyd's Foe, 7•t.
Two-yr old Course, sop. Oflby moat.
lai Lon tine's Toe, net alb. nv. top from Ld Barr!naorrli
Parities, est. db. M. touts, b.
14CDPIESDAY.
The dualey End Stalkye of ails. each, Zags. ft. To start
et the Ditch and rod at the Grote Post 1M end the Duke's
Stead.
Mr, Shaitespear's 'Arlin., 6 yr old, tat. alb.
D, ..I'Graftwe's 11o:del:di, 4 yr ad. eat. 701.
.11r. Bat aon's 'hattircr. syr old, est. 21b.
Mr. Kellerman 's-ll:Nude ds reitas, a yr old, est.
I.d. lanvilier's liylas 4 yr ut4,7 sl. fatb.
Gar. Grovresur's boa Canso, 3 yr old, 7et. ttlb.
Mr. Lake's Nysoplainsi. • yr old, 7 al. tuft,.
14 tirosseuor's Sootheara, Ayr old, 7.4. ;lb.
• Vassittart's Berbigh, a)c old, ;.t sib.
Mr. Lalhe's c. by Gouty, sot of Slecleinorselle, 1 yr old, Est.
D. o▪ f
Rellsal*s Rambler, apt Mr. I'ianior's Wren, by Waxy,
owl. elb. ault. Th. co-yr old t 'went, Amp. h. ft.
THER•IS4 4.
General Groomer's Ridemen, asst Sir C Coasts
Abraham, 80. alb arch. D. I. h ft
Me. Payee's Bulrush, apt. Mr. Valentines llorneatilla,
sot 4th. each. .Ih. 11. aloes. b. ft.
D. of Graftimes Vandyke, tot. 91. b. apt. Mr. Yeasittares
Raleigh, int nth. I M. 10.1... rs h. ft.
str Boma' liendlea, test. apt. Gen. Grosvenor's Don
t Dn. 311 T. M. M. loop h. ft.
Geo Grossaives May, Pt. elb upt. Mr. Lloyd's Zephyr,
3*t. Two-yr old C. loops. h.
1.4 Foley'. Weever, 7st. 911'. apt. Mr. Bouverar's Waal.
darmint„ 7st. alb. I'. M. M. -.rms.
IA henryr Limon, est. tolls. apt. Mr. Gralburn's Romeo,
7st. lAb. D. I. sop.

iIRIDAY.

Mr Vaasittart's Cerrycomb, apt. Mr. Shakcareare'. WM.
piarratea, fist. 411. each. Tie...yr uld e. trams h.
Gra C. rni.r's Rrixrs, Pot. 31b. sot. Mr. Paine 's Bulrush,
SM. 31% 11..!.. 1 soars nay. it.
Mr. Denkani's GaUtricay, sst esenailing . .
art. Capt. Armoires Gallowwy, not exceeding 131.. .
two yr. ant c. loop. h. ft.
Mr. Shake/Tram !WWII. art 1,116. set. Mr. Fertoor's err-
berms, sat. b. r. 'romp. h. ft. Off br rimarat.
Shakrapratir's Diarissat, rec. sues. tram Sir C. Terset's
l'eter Musky, vat. ;lb. verb, db. 51. troop h. ft.

■On DA V,
After thr 11.3. ting.
Shlkor pram's Harpearatels nat. loth. apt. Mi. Vanait-
WV, Cerryessab, sit. Ab. M . 2001 11. ft.

lil4l 111. INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOOTH.. OCT. 0.
Arrived the rffritwixe, with dispatches frwin
Lisbon ; Skylark, from a cruise; and the 31e4lusa,
from Newfouoilland. haring ender her convoy the
fFnere transport. Captain Easingwood. from New
Brunswick, with timber for the Lock-yard; the
remainder of the fleet babe put into the western
p
Sailed the Sscagew, ou a cruise.—wind W.C.W.

IFILVOUTIf. OCT. 'ti.

Early yesterdaynu.rnia% the priviiiiSecretars of
Mr. Canning arrived heft, express fumn London.
A King's Messeiirr is also here; and the fried:or
Cattle packet is hrld iu readiness to start this morn-
ing for Gijon- with ihtn, charged with important
dispatches.

PLY o,lr. 22.
Came in the brig Mario, Captain Bit:bias. of
lbw: tpr Teignintiuth, from New Brunswick, with
_timber. She was Captured on the gOth inst. about
a mile from the Eddystone, and recaptiired the
same evening by the Acres revenue cutter, Captain
Kinsman. Ihe privateer which captured her is a
lugger of about thirty tons, armed with two swivels,
small arms, and 32 men, called the Break tr Day.
She was also captured the same evening. about
seven o'clock, by His Majestfaabip Brilliaat, the
..Icrice cutter iw company.
The Privateer, on her l::•t cruise, raptured the
Leeds .I/vreheurt, of:mid from Wcytimoth, for
Guernsey ; and the jaccess, of Milford; (coin
It oughall, for Southampton.
.trrirad the Jane. Graham, from Madeira : and
the Drie Gcbrodcrs, Schwartz, from St. U bes--she
sailed in company with sixteen others, and pouted
aboutalue days since is a gale of wind.

An artful and villuiuous plot, accompanied 11
the most unprecedented instances of-credulity that
ever engaged public attention, was yesteriiuv cle-
weloped before the Magistrates, at the !loathe s-
office. in this town. The parties were Mary bate.
man. of Cauiplield„ neap this town, and illiam
Perigoi and his wife, of Brantley ; she, the witch.
moil they the dupes. It appeared that in August.
180 G, au application was made to this woman by
Perigo to cure his wife of a complaint which was
not stated or the examitietion, but which we saps
pose to be what is calved ateongit people of her
rank" nervous," mid amongst their betters, .4 the
hip."—Mary, with becoming modeNty, declined to
Undertake the cure herself ; but said, that she had
a friend at Scarhro7' a Miss Blyth who could
.4 read thestars," and collect front them the litiou -
lodge requisite to remove all corporeal and mental
maladies, and, us a ercliminary Step, required, that
Perigo 's wife should send her Haunch peLticoat to
Miss Blyth, in order that she might from that ar-
ticle of dress collect u knowledge of her disorder :
The petticoat was sent, and a propitious answer
retuned, wherein it was required, that the medium,
Mary Bateman, through which all coinmunicatiou
betwixt the astrologer and the patient was to be
made, should have four :mince notes presented to
her, and she was in return to give Perigo four other
guinea notes, inclosed in a smell hag, into which,
it either his own curiosity. Of the st-11 stronger
curiosity of his wife, shoubl induce them to look,
the charm would be broken,_ stud sudden death
would he the conk-pence. • Strange as it may ap-
pease the wife of l'erigo never looked into the en-
chanted bag to the day of her death. Sorel after
the four giniu•as had been giveu to Mary Bateman,
a letter arrived froru St:ail:an', directing that ano-
ther guinea should be paid into her hands. Similar
requests) were repeated and complied With, tali
forty guineas had been thus eetorted from these iii-
&tinted people, under i- promise, however, diet
they should, by-and-by, he allowed', to open the
hags, and these bags, they were told, would be
found to contain all :be itiosico they bed advanced.
About six months had now exeired, and the
business of fraud and delesiou still sent on. Miss
Blyth could not, while certain planets ruled, sleep
on her own bed; and in order to promote the com-
fort of the .o wise woinan," Perigo was to buy her
a new bed, with all the neceseary uppoudages, end
send it to Mary Bateman, through whose hats& it
was to be transmitted to the nymph of Scarbro.
The bed, &c. which cost eight pounds, were bought.
and lives, to the amount of thirty !towns more,
paid at various times into the hands of the im-
postor. Unbounded in her extorticns, she “ent
demanded a set of china ; this was also funtiehed
to her; but she complained that tire tea-cannister
was not sofficiently handsome to set before the gen-
teel company kept by a lady of her dishes-tine, and
demanded a tea-caddy in its stead; which dentaed
was also complied. with.
Perigo and his wife, thus drained of all the tno-
ney they had in the world, and all the stints their
former good credit had enabled them to robe, and
the wife's health still goofing worse ruther than
better, they !meanie impatient to look into the'
mysterious hags, and' extract from them* the wealth
they contained. 'their dominoes impatience pet.-
biddy became troublesome, when, as it should
seem, to silence thyir importuoitv, Mrs. Bateman,
received, as she said, a packet fiorn Scarborough ;
this packet contained a powerful chaen, which was
to be mixed up is a pudding, to* prepared fur
the purpose, and of which Perigo and his wife were
to eat, hut on no account to allow aay person -to
partake with them. They did eat, and there is but
too touch reason to suppose, that this vile %MOSSO
had said within herself, .. in the day you eat there-
of, you 411411 surely die." The husband/ate sparing,ly,
be did not like the taste, hut his ill-fated wife, less
scrupulesis, ate freely; they both became sick al-
most immediately, and continued its the most de-
plorable situation for twenty-four hams; the wile
poet tine use of her limbs, and, after languishing
live days, died on the tub of May, 1807, a victim
of credulity. Penen recovered, partially, but from
that time to the present has never had the perfect
use of his blithe. Part of the pudding was, by way
of experiment,' given to a cut, and it died ' • sense
fowls also picked up other parts of it, and shared ,
the same fate. Contrary to the direction of Mary
Bateman, Perige applied to a Surgeon its this town
for advice, and was told by him that he had- hike')
paiwnb but fortunately net in a quautity auffeciently
large to occasion his death.
After the death of his wife, it is natural to sups
pose that the husband would have possessed suffi-
cient fortitude to emancipate himself from the
fangs of this wicked woman ; this, however, was not
the case; she had thrown her toils over him, and
though the wife might not have been, re she sup-,
posed, bewitched, it is pretty evidei 1 husband it Lie
was under some such influence. Front May, 1807,
all Weduesdav last, the charm coutanued to
operate, and the spell could not be dissideed.—At
one time lie wait to Manchester. by the direction
of this Jezebel ; at another hi sett' her one of his
wife's gowns; again she contrived to coax or
frighten hint out of another gown, a petticoat. and
the family Bible ! And last of all she demanded
from him half a bushel of wheat, with three sei eis
shillings pieces inclosed. His creditors at length
became impatient, and the hopes of getting any
part of his property back failing, he determined to
brave all danger, and look into the mysterious bugs
—but what must have beets his surprise and vexa-
tion to find that the et.ateuts of these liags were not
worth one penny ! ! And to fiord himself a pauper,
without property, and with a ruined constitution.
The bubble now bunt; and after hasiug kept
the business an entire secret from every soul living,
his wife done excepted, for upwards of two years,
lie laid his hopeless case before some of his neigh.
bourn • by their direction Mary Bateman was up-
prelier:ded ; when brought before the Magistrates,
she in part confessed her delinquency. pad admit-
ted that' there was no each 'lemon as Miss Myth in
existence, but that the whole was a mere phantom,
conjured asp to forward her vile purposes. The
Magistrates have committed the offender to the
House of Correction, whether to be tried for swiss&
ling practices, or to be removed from there to the
County Gaol, to take her trial fur wilful Mur-
der, we are not informed,
• Ou searching the bows of this woman. (who has