The National Register.
London, England, 1812-10-18 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

OCT.- Isl.

MOST MIRACULOUS ESCAPE.

[FROM .A CORRESPONDENT

On -Yriday morning, the 2d ihst. between the hours of one and two,
the son of Mr. Jacob Joseph, of 13, Sorwrset -street, who is not quite
sight years old, called to the servant and his brother, with when he
slept to the attic story, and told them his rather and mother were
murdeted, and begged them to make t reit escape. The beivaw dew
sired him to go to sleep b'.tt the child, still positive that he lent
heard his ruorher stabbed three time, got out at the window, and
walked on the coping of more than twetee houses, towards White.
chapel, near .200 feet. He clienb,fd several higher ascents,' and de-
scending the same, Larne to the era' of that row of honi:es ; he them
took a leap from thence about 20 feet lower, and alighted on the top'
of a bick place, behind the Three Tuns Inn, I'V hitechapel. He bit?.
'posed the roof to be timber, but it proved to be a sky-light, through.
which he fell on a flooring, by which means he was dreadfully cut
and bruised. It is supposed he 111116 t have been s'unned from the
fall, for in that stateht remained till four o'clock. The child thouelit.
`he had been asleep • for he says the first tiring lie heard was the
watchman's' eallihg thel hour; he then got lip and found a flighfof
stairs which he descended, but was prevented canting to the street.
' by a paling of boards twelve wet high ; he then endeavoured to
climb,. but, was so week and sore from the bruises,• that he tell three
times. The child then says he went on his knees and prayed the.
Almighty to assist him, after which he again tried to ascend; and suc-
ceeded in reaching the top, trout which pliwe he ealled the watchman
to help him down ; he begged linn'• to talc! him' to Gulston-,,qua'e,.
t...ut he had the inhumanity to retus-, supposing hint to belong La
some Irish persons in the heighboui hood ; he, howe.er, helped num'
down, and in that state th child walkei to the bowie of Mr. I.az
32, Gulston-square, to whom he r.'late It' above, s.O his rather
and mother were hotir dead. We are nappy sa)ing it was .oily a'
dream, as the family are-all well, and no attempt ‘vh !fryer was mad.
on the house. It is initaealous that tue child escaped w'Alt hit ; !le
is so tar recovered as to' be able to widk about. He um) had un
night-cap and gown.

ACCIDENTS AND- OFIENCES.

An invalid, of the name of Chanson, was lately cont.. mid At Pry
for attempting to murder his master. He ha,! nu !wove( as Ord ?ha
scatleld than he stabbed in the throat the priest, while exhorting li in
to die like a chtistian. }lv then pierced the executioner's heart, who
died on the spot, and compelled his as keine to leap from the scarld,,
by which he broke bothh• his legs. He then. almost aeverrai his own
head from his body.
An Armenian diamond merchant, named. Boljhat,- was, on the tid
fuly attacked by four robber:, near 14 anheim, who, atter stripping
him of a bag containing several diamonds, cut his thrort, anti threw •
the body into the Rhine. The water being shallow, tome fi•liertneo
descried Boljhat, and carried hint in a state of imensitelly into the
city, where a skilful physician sewed up his w tied. Oh his c it-
valescence, he made deposition of the robbery before a M-gistratet
and described one of the persons who had used him so batbarou-ly
be hare-lipped. The Magistrate departed, and shortly atte: returned
in company with M. Folsche, an eminent jeweller, whom llottjat -
recognised to be one of the robbers. . What renders the circuniatance
more remarkable is, that Boliljat had letters of recomineedattoo ter
Folsche, who, apprised of his being on the road, thus waylaid and
attempted to assassinate his intended guest. The diamonds have since'
been sound in Folsche's house! and restored to the Armenian ; they are
valued at 18,0001. sterling, Boljhat brought them train Persia to
Russia; but despairing of a sale there, on account of the war, was
proceeding to Paris for a purchaser.
On Mr. Blackman's arrival, on Monday last, as a candidate, at
Kingston-upon-Hull, a wag.gave it out that lie was an African, on
which the mob set fire to his coach, and burnt it to ashes. Mr. B. in
consequence left the town.
Friday. Thomas Light, alias John Jones, alias Thomas Knight,
who was lately indicted at the Middlesex Sessions, for stealing dead
bodies for dissection, but evaded trial, was. with his accomplice, cue
of his bail, named Patrick Harnett, charged at Hatton Garden otti..:e,
with stealing three dead bodies out of the parish of Sr. Pancras or St,
Gi:es. The ;prisoners were fortml with the bodies in their possession,
and were remanded tier future examination.
A yoing man named Anderson, late collecting clerk to Messrs.
Hales and Co. brewers, is in custody on a charge of hawing embezzled
70./1. which he had received in trust for his employers.
. Fitzgerald alias Marti..., the man btought Arum on board the Ceres,
at the Nitre, upon his own confession of murdering the Marrs and
Williamsons, is now, beyond all doubt, innocent of both those horrid
transactions ; it appearing from the result of the investigation made
at the instance of Mr. Read, at Bow-street, that at the ;hod the above
murders were committed, Fitzgerald was Len, it% on board the Alba-
tross, transport brig, employed in bringing bullocks for the army and
navy, from Tangiers to Cadiz. Since being confined in Cold-
bath-fields Prison, be has 4hawi evidnai symptoms of m 044 de?
singenlant,