The National Register.
London, England, 1813-08-15 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Tuesday ita,ruirig about !tine o'clock, the undermined works of a
eatery at Bradley, Stu to II in and completely buried
seven of the men• and three boys; three others escaped with
An icylest was taken on Friday at the Swan-With-two-Necks,
Fara:ll6V, on the body of Joseph Lemon, a youth of seventeen, who was
shot by Thomas Moi,n, a private iu the 9th Light Dragoons, whilst
Narrow ink in a fie Id, on Wednesday evening. It appeared in evidence
that a serleant and flow privates were escorting a deserter fro,ru the
Sa, ov to Northampton; and of their arrival near the eight-mile stone
from London, Moon and one of iis comrades had occasion to stop a
hide, lAA the party went on. Moor, who was fresh with liqu r.
seethed to be taint_ a level into a field, and he discharged his carbine,
when the ball wen. throsiodi the body of the deceased. The party
went on, lot Ntx. Collins, the master of the boy, overtook them at
Whetstone, act! 'seemed 51oon, whose piece was found unloaded. Ile
was taken before N. Conant, Esq. at Finchley, :old committed. The
Jury renorned a verdict of wilful murder against Moon.
The following tvnly affecting occurrence was communicated to
' us by a Donegal correspondent :—At Rooney's Liana, near that
town, on Sunday week, a young malt, named Scott. while bathing,
• ininudently ventured in beyond his depth, although an inexpe.
• rienced svor. limner. His brother, who was a spectator antis danger
ft•oto shore, Wilt in to his assistance, and the title advancing rapid•
we're both struggling with the waves, when their sister, a
fine girl or ei-hteen yeats old, inrejly imagined she might effect their
_deliverance, and rushing in,. thug were all three lost, in the sight of
'their atred and agonized introit ts on slime.
•Ex e Lel „ iday at half past seven o'clock,
Aztobatt Fo,trortain and G. 'l', It4wril,,.convicted at the late Lincoln
assizes, of .tv isoniog the busbies d ot A. Fo,unt•oio, were lilac n in a curt
to ihe 'usual place of execution, in the neighhombood of Lincoln,
where they j-ined in prayer with the clergs mail for a short time, rind
act, ascended the fatal steps with more resolution and co mposure than
-could-he .ex.pected from persons in their
•The ropes
were stain adjusted, and they were jaunt:lied into eternity. After
lit'oneing the usual time, •he bodies were removed to a building
in the Ca•tle• void, 1(1. dissection. nowo persisted to the last in
elenv;og that ire knew to what puopo.e the laudanum was to he
tm‘olie.l; whilst hi railer in guilt cootimied to assert, that they
• both leed fn:vent cony,- rsalions upon the subject. and that he knew
•ssl en he got it that it was to poison het husband. Rowell was
a n.otive of Meltai-Morshr..y, at which place he bore a very had
Irartur ; awl frou 111i)7 to 1409, lie worked us a cooper with
hai A who trequently told him, when reproov-
rrig him fir lis had pr.!ctices, " that lie was fearful, when lie kit
hi- servitude. it would he his lot to steer the vengeance of tf.e law."
'nos lici, us ro:ol i ro young man was also to have been mar-
d to the eldest thniehter if the onfoitiinaie Fountain, hay Mo. paid
arlii.eses to her for sine timo. He Was of a slim make, and con-
i.ido-raoly -pitted with the •mall pox. •
• ExErmON OF WILL[ Of CO11!1/4WALL.—TIIP Judge having corn-
' plied with the ter.piet of the Maristrates, adverted to in our report
• ufthe As• ize proceedings at CliernstOrd, in our last, the prisoner
was brought Che Imsfold to Woodford in the gae.l caravan. by
• bal.-past nine o'clock on Monday morning. The necessary prepa
titti‘in- for the cm-cotton havisto been pre% irnisly matte, the High
Niles ill, with the 111 a ,:stratus: and Civil Power, were ;n attend:owe
ait, au eally nonr ; anti op ward of 3,000 of the inhabite:nts of Wood-
ford and eeightiornitig pal ;sties were collected on the occasion.
The prisoner attended divine service at Chelmsford on.Snnday
last , and although lie has continued to exhibit the saiae outward
appearanre of Intrelihoort, assinned fortitude seemed a r that time
i)e much shaken, rani was near Esinting in the ehoreli; •Imt triton
blintz' removed into the'air, he resumed his rn•mer *. He
• 'atreeworols expreseel Iris 4;isinelnu.tion at benig shut up alone in
his cell. The keeper of the gaol had very properly secured him
Flute conviction xt Oh a straient wakteoat, and whet!, the usual
in•is,m diet was orfereki the prisoner, he refused it, saying that lie
'strait not thy or hungry enough to eat dry bread, or drink water.
thpon his mrrival, at Woodford, he was insuic;fiately placed in a pri-
vate room wittr the Rev. Mr liebbel ; Janet, notwithstanding the
ge,'oes endr.wout S of Ihust Gt'OnC111;111.111.' not OrjV ikchtged nu.king
a y conre‘Sihil, Dort steadlAstly rei'itse.4 to ioi'i 111 prayer. Coll-
111 :C .same had constantly used prior
to his eousietion--77::a /a . had aiothiax to sail but was ir,a,:cent of the
to foe tv4iek. he was go ;. to .cu fr. Them. were .:ako the last
word. he !stet re:t unfit I toe . and at five minutes. "before
e:vven he was lannehed into elemity. l'he lady. -after hanooiror
She toola;. ti •.0, was de,ivered into the hands of the proper parties
iy to the sentem.e ; the surrounding
to wetit-l.n..cont'-a:.;n:L..L.Lion and i)ropeit:ty.

TUES DA Y'S LONDON (J AZ

A letter from Captain Gregory, of the Electra
capture of the Gr..% ler, American privatecr sc. 1•
14 guns, and having one long '24, and four 1:1-pounders, with jsxty wen.

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