The National Register.
London, England, 1809-10-15 00:00:00

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PUBLIC OFFICE, BOW-STD PET.
The folios ins persons have been e%stiained at the Pnhlir-.tr•
fire, Bow-. trert, anti ()Merril tit filid bail. for riat•lus rwiduet
it Covrotattlen Titeatre:—kVilliau3 I:toe-tem; Charles P.
rock. 4 of Clicapsile Silrerthetroe, of Kenji. g
oft ttiv~l
Pits; Samuel S;allaril, of S6;1111,1'1(4.1; Ali x.:,ifilet Ckyteke
!'horns Waugh; a young lad of the uapie Palasure; nml a Mr.
Scots.

An uafortunate rnania7 was brought forward in the custody or
constalite for the rogniz..nre of she hLagi-statit under lb/ Ing•
lithe holy tiscuoistapre* follo ing.

A poor working shoe-maker a the Parish al St. Paul':
Coyest Garden, represented that a few days ago, a decent ISO,.
MM. I%' iso had beet' a tolger in his house, urged hs s .01e motives
for n hich he no' arcoOnt, hod swallowesd a quantit., or
8-he was seized in the street with the consequeat
fects, and taken to Covent Garden watch-house. P. ofessionall
asOstance was obtained for r immedweiy, hue sh bid cite".
niurh of the poison, :tad was so long tooter it• (team opera,-
lions, that all skill proved useless, awl she died in a few bourn.
Front the watch-house she was rdjmat:dy conve‘ed•to het
lodgings in the house of the witness preparatory to her interment,.
On Thursday evening the unhappy wan wow its ciostedv ramie
to the room in which the dead body la +. , said he was a acquoits..!
ance of her's, asked for some drink, and szoil to- should noA,
quit the place ultil his wife should come, and for whom, at hi•
request, the witness sent. Ile then Said be wanted to see another
female lodger in the house; but as there had beets some. dispute
between them, the witness declined calling her. When the Wife
came, on her entering the room, the unhappy man drew a pistol
from his pocket 'obviously with an, intent to shoot her; hut
the witness snatched it from him. flf• then took nut another
pistol and IevrIINI it at her. hot the witness iminc.diatAy pre-
sented at bins the pistol, of which be had just disarmed him,
threatened to shoot him ir.he attempted to present it at any per.
son in the room. This created a momentary diversion of the
'Prisoner's purpose; and some other persons then coming hit"
the room, be was disarmed, and secured. On examining the
pistol.l,. each was found to be loaded with powder ;tad three

The Prisoner declared big intent was to have first shot his
wife ant! afterwards himself, and then hur-t into a w Ott and
incoherent train of expresions, accontp.tnied by •sticb frantic
actions as left no doubtof his insanity.

From other evidence, it appeared that the Prisoner was le
p.irter at the gulden-cros, Charing-cross, was formerly no
acquaintanee of the deceased, for whom he had a strong attar-fi-
r:lnt, and lamented his marriage with his present wife; vort it
wric also .chewn that the deceased had attempted to poison the
wife of.the Prisoner, by giving her poisoned liquid a rep,
le!liCh most fortunately the wife, suspicious of her iinteltimi;
threw into the fire, and thus escaped. The failure of this at—
tempt was supposed to have urged her to suicide.

• On Tuesday night, about eleven o'clock, as the watch.man of
Dean's-Yard, Wrstminster, was going his round, he found on
the steps of one of the hoarding-hol:es, a Lady in great distress
of mind, and apparently 'just from her chancther, tivingnava
long white night-gown, which, may hereafter lead toll. dis-
covery of her person, &c. Her entreaty to the watchman
was in a faiignage nwt tinders-toad. She was taken t 1 thiz pah-
lic house adjoining., and. pnt to het ; hut to the great astonish -
!merit of the people of tto house, in the Morning-she was gone,
leaving nothiog h. hitiil her hut the-gown she bad yin when taken
in, ou..which there are Initials and a for. erirotiet; •: •
A yonng lady, the da IR,hter of an eminent werehant in the city,
'eloped .en Ftifia_y inttrallig lag, with ao Enx igen.nt, who, for.
ttpwnr4s of tw_o_years, hat, Sued offpreigh clerk in
kot' se. c of the fu hives have
. - et
ht4i, coy .re lie young any wants uut en, .sveewt nt*
being of 'age, whet/ she will come into uncontrouled possestloa.
of a fortune of 10,0001.

',dated and Published, at and for J. B. BELL .1. ')E t' A MP, 11, Cetheriae-street,Strand, London; and forwardel
o'clock every Sunday Morning, by
est all the Newsmen, the clerks of Roads alit SookseNers, threasgheut the !Jailed iiimploke, Frew ulpintalr, duei.it) Csunttl, istloo. per Quartet.