The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-07 00:00:00

prism to 40s. observing that another dealer had given the price,
♦aughan considered it an imposition, and they quarrelled on
the subject.
Vaughan having withdrawn to a public.house with one of his
grave fraternity, was followed by the gravedigger, who, in
spit*, deossanced them to the people present as body snatchers.
To bury away the grossing anger of the audience, Vaughan im-
mediately retorted on the grave-digger. lle hesitated to .t to
straw that the grave-digger had received upwards of 701. within
the last three months, in the course of which time he (Vaughan)
bad been supplied with 43 bodies. The sensation produced by
this information on the public mind may easily he conceived.--
Muslrands,t wives, fathers, mothers, brothers. sisters, sons, and
daughters, rushed to the ground ; the graves were opened, and
ant many of their dearest relatives were gone from the tomb.—
distress and fury oommonicated with the populace who had
assembled around ; an attack was regolaily commenced upon
the house ander which a gateway leads to the burial ground,
and where the persons lived who hail the care and received the
fees fur interment, and presently not a pane of glass remained in
the front or at the back of the premises. Most probably the
rage of the populace would not have stopped here had not the
polic.r-oflicers of this olke interfered for the preservation of
the public pease.
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0• Thori;day meting t! grave digger was taken into cus-
tody, and brought before Wm. Bennett, Esq. the pre►iding
magistrate, who remanded hiss Tor further examination. When
this man vas brought to Ilse office, be and the officers were ear-
ronnded by an immense concourse, who rent the air with their
,assertions, and it was with difficulty he was preserved from
the veagerutee of °enraged feeling.
o.i Friday the work of opening the g was still going on,
which induced us to ei+it the spot, where we beheld a scene
revolting to all the common feelings of humanity. A large
concourse of people orowiting to the gate, which was guarded
by the patrole and parish officers, sod os the grimed were pre-
scnted groupes of relatives looking with dreadful anxiety to the
°lisping of each grave.
03 one side we beheld the wild extaey of a tender mother,
who had with her own hind+ dui out the coffin of her °net
darling child, and though its weight intimated that its (inmate
was nut fled, still the mother war not satisfied, the lid was .
gently opened, when she became convinced and frantic with
joy. On another side stood • youth. about eighteen, his eyes
fixed on Ilse ground, and his countenance shaded over with the
gloom of despair. lie had examined the graves of his departed
father, mother, and little brother, whose empty coffins were to
Lim melancholy proofs of the fate of their bodies. The whole
scene was distressing even to a bye @tender.
Waggett, the grave digger, was again brought be-
fore the magistrate, when Vaughan and another resurrection
In attended ; but they bad only to state, that the man who
was the immediate trader with the prisoner hail told them, lie
had received an impression, is wax, of the key to the ground,
from the grave digger. He was remanded for the ptodoctioit
of this witness.

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tONSR'S- INQUEST:

On Friday forenoon an inquest was held at the Burlington
ATM T , Chiswie.k, before Thomas Stirling, Esq. on the
body of • young lady, name unknown, who was picked up in
the liver Thames, between Chiswick and B
James Ifildyard, e•waltarinan of Mortlake, in Surrey. stated,
that about ten o'clock on the morning of Wednesday last, he
was going down the river in his boat, with a fare to London,
when off Barnes di re his son, whoa was pulling one of the
sculls, observed a body floating on the surface of the water.
Witness pulled towards it and found it to be that of a female,
but in such a slate of putrefaction that it would not have bee■
proper to have taken it into the wherry. He therefore waled a
boat from Chiswick, and the body was towed along, and placed
in a shell i■ the bone-booze. The deceased had on a bleak
bombasin gown made high, a pair of new shoes, white cotton
stockings with silk clocks, a lace cap, esti • Leghorn bonnet
and feathers ; she had a pair of glove► on, and in her right
hand was a whit* pocket handkerchief, grasped tight with her
lagers. She had no property about her, our any thing to lead
to a discovery who the deceased was, or W whom she was coo-
fleeted.

The Beadle said, that on roarsday morning a number of
persons came to look at her. anionst whom were two young
nom. One of them he understood had cot a lock of heir from
the head of the deceased. One of them lived in Hummer-
smiei.
The jurors expressed a wish to have that young open ex•
mined; aorl he WAS fetched by the beadle. He gave ids imam
John Lowhold Harry, a printer, residing at No. 86, Fleet-
market, but was on a visit to Hammetsroith. He adivitt..d
being with others in the place where the deceased lay, but
denied any knowledge of law, or eapressing a, wish to have
some of the hair, nor did he bear any one else whilst ha was
present. He cut none elf.
The Jury expressed themselves estiafied at the explanation,
and no further questions were asked.
The Reverend Thomas Freer Boweribank, M.A. view of
Chiswick, said, that in couseqnenoo-of reading an account, on-
the 15th of March last, that as Mr. Molus, residing in Fludyer-
street, Westminster, and two ladies, were amusing themselves
in a boat at Battersea-reach, one of them over reached herself
after a little pug-dog that bad fallen into .the water, and we%
drowned ; he had made inquiries in Floilyer-street for Mr.
!Bolus, thinking the deceared was that lady ; but no such per-
son was known there, nor in Iliad neighbourhood. He had
been unremitting in his endearoars to trace oat bee frieads,
but without success.
The Coroner said it was a melancholy circumstance that no
person claimed the poor creature; and, as there wan an evi-
dence to prove how she came in the water, the jury could re-
turn no other verdict than ...found drowned."
The Jury retained a verdict tothst etiece.
On Saturday week, as Mrs. Moore, wife of Mr.
Moore, attorney, L iiicaster, was sitting ,before the fire
with a child five weeks old in her lap, a spark flew
Wider her chair, which she entleavoinel to pm inside
tile fender with her font, when a light sliAwl which
she wore caudal fire, and she W 23 inst3titly enveloped
to flames. in her terror she threw toe child on a sofa,
and rail to the kitchen, in which was the hosekeep:r,
bill she, also terrified, ran into • the street calling lor
help; in consequence of this delay, before any person
arrived, Mrs. Nloorc was so clreadfrilly burned, that she
lingered its ex7ructating agony till Alunday evening,
when death put an end to her si.flerings.
Ott Monday morning last, about ten o'clock, as a poor
matt was crossivg opposite to Fleet-markei, a coach with
a pair of horses knocked him down, and the vehicle
passing oVl'r both his thighs, broke one of them ; lie
WJS plu d upon a shutter, and immediately conve)ed
SO St. Bartholomew's Hospital.