The National Register.
London, England, 1809-10-29 00:00:00

0.1,T. 21.

SPIRITED ACTION.—Your men, the names of Burgess,
Leigh, Robinson, and- Kemp, were convicted at the last Quar-
ter Sessions, for the county of Chester, of steaneg fowls, be-
longing to Win. Lose, publican, is Bre4;burs.. The felony was
detected by the vigilance and spirited conduct of . Lieutenant
Calp,s, of the 38th Regiment, stationed- on the recruiting see
vice at Stockport. who happeaing to be out partridge shooting,
nt a small distance from the spot from whence the fowls were
stolen, discovered them in the net -of .iecreting something.
which, from observations he had before male, he conceived to'
be fowls: and when they had made off with their booty, hr
went to Lowe's house to give iuformation..—There being no
person ready to pursue them, Lieut. Cross very gallantly under
took this service, and followed them for near three miles,. partli
over fields, and whil,t the four nteu were all together, near to
the town 6f Stockport, he advanced towards them, and com-
manded them to surrenikr, threatened to fire upon any one of
them that should attempt to escape. He marched them before
the justice, (keeping at a proper distance in the tear of them'
with his loaded gun), 'where they were severally searched, and
fowls found upon three of thrill, which were identified by the
owner, on the trial. The consequence was, that all Nur was
sety-enced to imprisonment..
A few day: ago-Mr. Edmunds, of Comstone Water Head,
Lancashire, shot an Eagle tl) log, very near. Swaithwaite, in
(umberland, which measures across, when. the wings are ex-
tended, five feet and a 'half. An eagle had been seen iothat dis-
trict for thirty years before.
A most daring robbery was committed early on Sunday sen-
night, in the house of Mr. Wm. Perry, a relsectable shop-
keeper in Merthyr-Tydvii, Glamorganshire; which, it is
pretty accurately ascertained was effected by a single indivi-
dual.: baying broke into the house, he regaled hjmself with a
giblet pye and a bottle of porter, and after packing up a va-
riety of articles, the villain put a hurting coal within the fold;
of a table cloth, and placed the same in the drawer of a table,
which he shut up closely, and by thus excluding the admission
of air, fortunately prevented the effects his nefarious intentions
had anticipated, and probably preserved the whole family from
destruction.

On the 13thinstant, as T. Gascoigne. Esq. eldest son of Sir
T. Gastoigne, was hunting with Lord Scarborough's hounds,
near Worksop, in leaping his horse over an uncommon hedge,
he was throiin, when his back came with great violence against
# large branch of a tree, so as to effect the spinal marrow..., and
Instantly parnlize his lower extremities.. He was conveyed tf;
the house of Sir T. White, in the neighbourhood, where,
ithstanding the ,ablest surgicial advice, he languished till
Thursday last, when he expired.
Monday morning, a man .having the care of a cart loaded
vi ith manure, going up Highgate-hill, went to sleep on the
Omit, when by a sodden Jolt he was thrown off, and the wheid
going over his body, killed him on the spot.
There is now residing in Stafford a man. of the name or.
Wotan, who is at present married to his twenty sixth wife, and,
has, by the whole, 73 children, and is 105 years of age, and:
his present wife is now pregnant.
wo melancholy accidents happened n few days ago, at. Leigh,
near Tunbridge. As Hish Davis, the London Carrier, was
coming down Ring-hill, near the village, one of his horsesticired
him in the stomach nod knocked ma. down, when the. waggon
went over him and killed him on the spot. And on the tse)
Jost, when meat and drink were distributed among the pe4ple,,
a boy, who was forbidden by his father to partake of the bounty,
banged himself.
On Tuesday last, the following eircurrstiince happened to Mr.
Sinton, of the Shield-field-mill, near Newcastle. !laving
stopped the mill and ascended one of the wand: to adjust the
sail, the hrack suddenly giving way, he was carried round upon
the arm of the mill for near a quarter of an hour. ills dis-
tressing and dangerous situation being perceived. by the prople
at Pandora Dean• mill, assistance was iiieedily tent, and he was
taken off without having received any bodily injury ; it waF.,
however, a considerable time before he recovered his recollec-
tion.

Last week an elopement took place from a village on the
western borders w,f Norfolk ; the gallant is a ,on of a Rev. Di-
vinlN the heroine almost 17, a daughter of a widow lady, hav-
ing a fortune of :30,000f.
A woman of the mime of Tesson, 81 years of age, hung her-
self last week in a barn near her dwerng, at Peterburougtl
- Extreme poverty is stippeeed to ..have been the chase ut Uit:'
act. .