The National Register.
London, England, 1821-01-01 00:00:00

TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER

An amendment was then moved by the Duke of Sox nit-
wit, 111 601,1'110e, Ine gold fiedfortlean medal, seeonde.l by
Adrenal Sir J. Guinn, and carried unimitimusly.
,Several other resolutions were adopt, unit carried unit-
ni ivototv,
• Within these two or three years (says the Doctor in his
statement) paragraphs have appeared in dilibrent petimlical
wo.ksomblislied on the Continent, as well as in this kingdom,
testifying the antiseptic qualities of the pyroligenous, or wood
mid. I have no lecolleettoa of any observation on such an ap-
plication of this tlettl, anterior to 11,0 expetimenis of :qr. Sock( U.
This acid is very easily and cheaply prepared ; the first distilled
Prittltiet Of the a ood, in that state tlauttitinatetl black arid, an•
savers the best when separated by nest from its tar and naptlia.
'fore than 70 gallons of acid, stiiiietently swing, ate procured
from ato of wood ; this quantity' of is readily procured at
los. per ton, delivered at the winks. Stroposirut the expellees of
the n•anufacture to be espial to the port 'lase of the wood (and
winch is making a very ample allowunot, us the residual charcoal
is equal in value to tin wood employed), the value of 7n gallons
of acid will not exec. ti 4t b. ur nbotn per gallon; a gallon is
quite sutilicitt for 2 cwt. of roil:, beet, and Want Zthinial huh-
-1411:11( es, with the addition of a small por,ion of salt, not only
affording a considerable saving in this article but aiso materially
contributing to the itiese..se of flavour alla 1111ltiliVe quality.
(lams or bedewed this way require no previous soaking in water
to being boiled, and when boiled swell in size atiii are extremely
euccuktit.

The-It. In sent for the Soy iaty's examination has been cured in
the thaw' ny rtromnientled for Westphalia hams, the ittid eat.
ployetl, insiend of 'tieing smoked, two table spoonfuls of the acid
bring added to the pickle ; and when the ham is to be removed
from the pielde. it must be well wielied in cold spring tv::t,:r and
dried. and some of the teal anl•licJ over it by site.u.s of •
btu 6, and this repeated 'Au or time tiniei at :bout It week's
interval.

11e...rings Mr. S. cures with very link ; being well dried as
early after being caught as can he effected, they are then dipped
into a vat of the acid, and when dry, the Sallle process re-
pealed a few times, suspoiding them like the manufacture of
citiolless. 31r. S. entertains no doubt, front the result of his ex.
pennants wuh borings, that the tattle process would answer the
outer kinds of fish, us a salmon., cod, &e.; and hence, when
coi•kod, they are salted according ti ca It individual', taste. The
red colour in dried salmon a.nd herrings, has been gait:rally at•
tributed to nitre; very frequently in tobacco, dissolved in 4 fluid
nut ler. agreeable) is made use of in Holland.
presume this acid would be fonnil very useful on board any
vessel tided out for king voymes; it appears front cakulations on
a small scale, that one of Lids acid would softie: to cure
six tons of lish, in aunt a manner as to retain most of their nutri-
tious quality ; but cured on bwril, a hen opportuniMis occurred of
mocuring them, independent of beim, an excellent su'lsti.ute
for common vinegar in many culinary !imposes on bead.

CORONER'S INQUESTS.
On Wednesday a Coroui'a Inquest was held before
C. Unwin, and T. Stirling, Esirs. upon the body tai Cnas.
Tailor, with was kited near tlttatun, on Friday night.
the first witness examined oat 1.11011111 Bird, a
printer, who ttorks for Mr. RAU, lie stated, that opt ~Ding
from his work on Friday night, about eight oclock they
found the deceased lying on the side of die lout- pain
in Rhodes-fields, at which time he was quite warm, hot
had no pulsation. They did not at the time perceive ally
'wound, inn any weapon, bin a short stick 10.12 near
him, at was ;tlso his hat They took him sip and hrotight
him to the ‘Vhitmore Head public-pause, at floxton,
where a surgeon was immediately sent fur. Reline the
surgeon arrived the pCf5011.$11rCla:111013elled the deceased's
waistcoat and shirt, and saw a wound tan his breast,
apparently made with a sharp instrument. There Was a
corresponding hole throush the waistcoat and shirt, and
the latter was very bloody, There were no tither marks
of violence except a very slight bruise on the temple.—
The witness said they had not met any person near the
place.
Joseph Richardson, one of the persona' who was with
the witness Bird, when they fumid the deceased, stated
exactly the same facts, with the additional one, that he
heard the deceased sigh as he was lifted hum tile wilfl.
A person who was not StVlllll stated, that at passing
the saute path-way on Friday night, a little before
etglito'clnek, he was utet by a matt who struck at him
stint a stick,

J..41(.11 Kennedy. a police Mincer, of Worship-street-
office OCI/06Cd, (11/1 he saw the &ceased's body on Sa-
turday night; that he knew'it to be the body on Charles
Taylor, u bricklayer, whom he had known for cubit
years, het had out seen him for the last twelve
Ile said the deceased's lather had since told witness that
the deceased was tisirty-tortr years of age, and that for
omit: time hack none of his tathily khew ally thing of
lOnt. Tou witness also stated, that ha had west the
deceased's wife, who said the young MIIIIIIII with whom
he lit ed, and who sows; los death has coo iiii hied suici•le,
was her Meer, and that her 114111 e was Martha Singleton.
Mr. Stirling, the Coroner, attended its esossegitetto.r of
ou anonymous letter he had received the day helore re-
lating to the tratisactio3. lie cuocei:ed that the letter
was 3 f.l4lestielll of facts. although without $ signature,
and recui 1111111111111 l that it shotacl be read, at the sante
time stating that It could not, of course, be received as
et
The letter was as follows t•-•••
4. To 44..44 161114LINL Esq.
44 Silt dig read in the newspapers various ac..
COlllll § re!prelitig the utsliuttioate Mall who was found
killed in Motion Fields on Friday evening last. 1 [we
leave to state the following certatit respecting
for the consideration of yourself and the Jury who ma)
hold the Inquest
" Passing through the above-named fieldt on Friday
last, about eight o'clock, I met the deceased, who ordered
me 10 stop stud (Miser my motley, which 1 mimed, He
repeated, .1 If yuti make the least noise I will blow your
brains out." I replied." If you touch sue I
hate pistols,
anti will shout you." Wham speaktoa. he wade it kind
of thrust, or straight forward blow at Inc, which I par.
rind of/ with my umbrella, and he agent repeated lie
would ig blow Ill) brains Out if I spoke a word," I con-
tinued retreating backwards front the moment I met
him, and he 1011 owed, *hewing a determination to close
upon site, not witlistabiling 1 11441 It stewed any thaeat to
shout Into. Tile darksiess of the utgatt sto•vented my
discoveriog what 1w was armed with, WI I felt that it
something rough which struck my umbrella, and costs
eluded ha had lire arms, Irmo has often repeated threat
to bluar my brains out.

" Finding escape from apparently jintant desirnetion
impossible by any other means., I made a more sudden
spring hack, and filed tit him, Quin the distance (as
near as I judge) of tell or twelve !et t ; he received
the eilarte (a Indict) in his bridy, exclaiming, 4 Oh 1 I
lam killed I' leaned against the rail 3 a few seconds and
then fell.

" Had I not been convinced that the wound was
mortal, had there been the least hope of his recovers,
would have had the plickest possible as‘istance ; butt the
tholiAlt 'wide in a moment of the 'mist painful agi-
tahoot, had been too woe. I then left I and front
that time-till I cot nut of the fields I met no human
being. The truth (Willis statement may be in a niettastre
toritthorated by a further search for the bullet, which
I dotibt nth wilt be found, unless it passed through him.
"Toe very peculiar and coulticting feeling of the
moment, gratotith for illy providential escape, and sorrow
or the unhappy victim of his own attempted crime,
operated powerfully no my miuti, and tie:tether with the
p,oetitptiory nature of any tog:lam:4os in business, de.
me to leave the discovery to chance.
6' I did not conceal it front any idea of danger to my.
~elf from the arm lit justice. Self-preservation, the first
law of stator:, a vl the diet tes of my ov%m conscience,
justify an act by which the happiness of lily wife and
tallith ire preserved.
" Many It afoolla COSllleCled with business induce me to
withhold my name, but this relation of the woe Case
may be as much rvh.d on as if it were attested by the
must tiorptestionable names in London ; and I swear
to the inch of it. My object in writing to you is to
pr.oseist suspicion ill his haring been killed by rubbtors.—
Ftwn his deliberate 111131111i:1 lit attack, I believe him a
lir. etised thotpatl. To account for lily carrying pistols,
it may be necessary to state:. that this is the second as.
"atilt I have met with within four months, in the first
lit which l was rithtied of considerable property, and
and have sitter carried the for sell defence'

The Corourr agreed in the opinion 01 Mr. Stirling,
and insgaesied to the Jury the propriety of having the body
of the deceased examined more minutely, The Jury
immediately agreed in the propriety of a further exam!.
nation of the body.
Nit. Heath, the surgeon, who had probed the wound,
then (melted the hotly, and upon ha return informed the
Jury that he had found a bullet ammigst the ribs.
Mr. Us. T. Heath, surgeon, of fluxion, gave the fol.
lowing ev Alice :—I was sent for on Ft iday, at about a
riti trier before nine o'clock, to go the Whitmore-head. I
saw toe deceased there. He was quite dead, but not
quite cold. I saw biouct upon his clothes, and then
looked at his chest. Ott she left of the sternum, or
breast bone, 1 found a wound, which appeared to me to
bts a stab, 1 passed my probe six inches into the wound,
which was wide enough or admit of my
1 have egaqiined the body again diving the sitting ut the
!ugliest. I traced the wound throteelt the upper part
of the heart, and tumid a pistol ball between the fourth
and fifth ribs on the left side of the spine, This wound
was no iltaibt the cause of the death of the deceased.

The Coroner then addressed the Jury ; who, alter
some deliberation, returned the following verdict
" 'fhat Charles Taylor, the deceased, was killed by a
pisiol.hullet, on the evil inst., hut ay whoa), or under
what circuotsidliCCF, the said pistol was fired, there was
nu evidence adduced to the Jury."
Ou Thursday an Hiquest was held at the Rose and
Crown pub.ic. house, liunhill.row, before C. !Litwin,
on the tabiy of Martha Singleton. the nolortunate young
%VoMillt WWI lived with Chinks Taylor, the man that
A. 1% shot on Friday ni4ht iu Rhode's Fields.
William 'Walpole stated, that he lodged at toe Rosa
and Crown. Oh Mottoes mot niug, at about LW mingles
after 1(1 o'clock, he was called upon by the landlord to
assist in stetting into the room occupied by the deceased,
as the dour was listened inside. lie furred himself into
the room through the wainscoat partition. When lie
gut in he saw some blood at the Winton of the bed. He
let in the landlord add sonic tidier persons. The de•
ceased was in bed and spuke to the witocss, to
to whom site said that she was dying. Ht, saw 4 won nd
in her melt. She survived about Qh 10.111111 es after he
first saw her. slr. Fearcy immediately ran fur a doctor.
Win.ess did not stay in the room tile whole time the
deceased survived. _

J. Pearey, the landlord of the house deposed, that the
deceased had 1414eu at leis house twelve weeks, and had
oven introduced as a married woman. tie saw the
bode of the deceased Charles TaYlor atSluireditelt church,
sod recognised it. The levt tints he saw Taylor was on
Tiotirstlity; but he understood that that person lea we
house for the last Niue on Friday morning, Willie,.
Witt tilt lleetnikti Martha hingletim • nit Sunday night,
that he thuttgat the WWI who Nil Well killed at
ton, was her husband, She had appeared esnomely
tiono,:sy front ilia. first noniron of his absence, but nit
Steering the intelligence site looked distracted. She ex.
pressed a wish to go and see the hotly that night, Inti he
told her it teas leii late, awl appointed iu go with her
next morning. Toe itext 'wonting, at et) inintites after
ten, hr n ant tip to her roust) to ask her if she was ready
its ;Jo l alter having iu vain called upon her the p ninon
uas lined, and lie caw her iu bed covered with the
clothes in the ordinary manner. Seeing whit% pants
eitlar, he asked ilet its get up, but nu answer was returnd.
I'lw Inst unties% told him that the deceased bad bled
herself, when the witness ran to a doever, who said
"hr loud tin right to come," He then sent for a coach
In take Ole deceased to the hospital, but before Ilis coach
arrived the deceased was dead. Witness then spoke Is
14)14 Wale of mind in which the deceased had heels
previously to the catastrophe. Site hail at times talked
quite incoherently. Upon the whole he thought s4OO
was nut ins sound fhlte of It ind.

lit:1411s lil3l he called at the
atittl Crowst on chrlitioaa day, 3 little alicr one (kiwi',
ili.trawd W 35 &till in bed g
He caw (Mille blood 311 d 3 k tuff) 1111 illy fif,f.r (the knits
4as e columon utile Knits) co‘elccl with blood, A pair
vi scissors also lay 'llion iha fluor. There was a Irtterun
the table, ar,tl.:(l with blatk. It was the writit% of