The National Register.
London, England, 1817-09-01 00:00:00

EXECUTIONS.

Coffin, the black, sentenced to death for a rape upon an
hifant, bit who was :espited last week, was executed on Mon-
day before the Debtor's door, Netvgate. Hr. aeknowli dged
the justice of his sentences, and died with every mark of sin-
cere penitence.
On Monday J. Harry, for murdering his wife, forfeited his
existence at Monmouth, in the presence of many thousand
.spectators. No sooner was lie convinced that he had no mode
of escape in this world, thou he sunk intoa sullen apathy, and
the whole of Saturday resisted every attempt to awaken his
fillud to a .lne•r.ense of his dreadful sitnation. His brother,
his son, and Isis friends, were forbade his presence. For a
time, too, he expressed great indignation against his brother,
who he asked to swear that the blood which was found in the
cottage at Dimino hail come from his nose, from a bleeding to
which, he wished him to say, he had been subject from his
iv fancy. The brother, however, resisted his entreaties, and
this, as he supposed sealed his fate. At length, by the cure_
milting exertions of the Chaplain, he was induced to confess
that lie killed her on the St outlay night by a blow on the tent-
;oil, with some heavy instrument, bnt not the stone produced
on the trial; and that when her spirit had fled, he employed
himself in clearing up those-traces which her blood produced.
Having partially accomplished this work, lie secreted the
hotly under the bed, and in the•garden buried some of those
clothes with which he had been lierforming the terrific labour.
The succeeding night, lie went to the Cross Wood side, and
there dug the grave in which he deposited her te111,11113,
hoping that he should this as ern suspicion. The albscuicg
eye of God, however, had witnessed his crime, mid by its
detection, brought him to that punishment in this world
which he however so justly merited. Let is hope, that
by .a sincere repentance, he had averted the wrath of
that dread Judge before whom) he had yet to render au
Recount of his misdeeds. The place iu which the nun der
was tcommitted 'is e‘tretnety wild and picturesgue : situate•
in the bosom of several lot ty hills, aid snrr•n:.uled hy wood,
it affords ample food for visionary speculation, in which
the few inhabitants of• the country are but too much disposed
to indulge. A strong degree of stiff istition scene'; still to pre-
vail among those poor ;people ; and even IbOW scarce a lone
cot ii to be met, in the front of which may nut lee seen nailed
a rude cross, which the OeClipant imagines is an invincible
harrier against evil spirits. The el ttage of Harry at present
remains closed; and at; the storm occasionally rides through
the Buckholt, it name derived from antiquity, it rouses/Hence
of the place having been celebrated as a retroat deer, the
surrounding cottage's imagine they hear the dying groans of
its late inmate borne through the troubled atmosphere.

falai MANIDTACTITRE.—On TUC hiy last thrce men
and a woman were committed to Wexford gaol, by A.
H. Jacob, who•were detected in the act ofmanufactur-
ing leaves of alder, hirelt, &c, so as to resemble the
various kinds of tea imported from China. 'About two
ltutalmd weight- of this deleterious article, together with
the sheets and blankets used in the process of dry;z,
wive lod -;-1 in the Custom-house stores.-.-( lfc.rjoiti
Meru!'!, )

LAM' INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, AUGUST V.

WADE 0. SCRWTON.
n will be recollected, that a Mr. C. Baseley earned Or urirkr eir.
etimstunces of great aggravation, Miss Ann Wade, a young leafy
of large fortune. and a Ward of this Court; for which contempt
his I.ordhip cominiutsi Mr. Baseley to the Fleet prison, where he
still remains. Application was made to his Loillship, that he would
LK: pleased to confirm the Master's Report, which contained a scale-
inent of Mrs. Baseley's property in a manner satisfactory to all the
par ties.
'Cie I .ord Chancellor confirmed the Master's Report and the settle-
ment of Mrs. Baseky. 's property.

EX PARTE COHEN IN THE MATTER Or LEE.
This was an application to supersede the Comniissiou which ?.:Ast
been issued against J. Lee, alias Leigh, on the ground ti at the bank-
rupt was a minor at the time of taking out the Commission 11111:r• t
him. There was an affidavit to that effect on one side, and one in
direct denial of it on the other. This day a person attended fret,
the Ilainhurgh Syr.agogue, lenchurch-street, with a sort of rts.
gi.try of Jewish babtisms.
Mr. hart said, the person was in attendance with the book of
registry. which his Lordship had expressed a wish to see. It was ;.e.-
portiv. that he should be examined immediately, as he was under
a peremptory engagement to celebrate a wedding at 12 o'clock.
The Lord Chancellor—lt would be cruel to keep the couple
waiting.
The Jewish Priest then put in his Register, and was called him-
self to explain it to his Lordship, and when be bail taken down the
Priest's examination,
The Lord Chancellor said—l have examined this man, and will
read to you how he explains this register. Ile says it is a private
book of his father's who is since dead, in which he made an entry of
all the c:rcumcisions which his father operated. At that time there
was no public registry of circumcisions. He explains it thus—" (10
the third day of the Passover, performed the operation of circum-
cision upon Joseph the son of NI aplithali, of the tribe of Levi, in
the yearof the world 5557—(which he explains to be the same as the
year 1197 of the Christian wra,) and may God enable him to educate
him, and bring him up in all that is good." He likewise says, that is
general. circumcision is performed eight days after the birth of the
child; and.when it is not, it is specially entered so in the registry,
and he finds no such special entry here.
Mr.• Horne said, this is not our Joseph Lee, alias Leigh, the son
of Henry Lee, of Bethnal-green.
The I .ord Chancellor a lust if Naphthali was Hebrew for Henry ?
To which the Priest answered in the affirmative. His Lordship
then said—This will not do ; you must take an issue to try whether
the bankrupt was an infant or not at the time the petitioning cre-
ditor's debt was contracted ; and ROW-4U Ac Priest) you may
to your marriage as fast as you eau.

Auougyr 49.-08C11141. /101132.
Mr. Duthie being called upon by the Lord Chute/for for the
statement in.this case, of which he yesterday gave notice. said, that
the whole Amount of the property was 70,1301. from which, if
28.3311. were deducted, the remainder would be 41,9191. and that
sum divide.) into sixteen parts, was divided between Taylor and
Waters in the proportion of nine sixteenths to Taylor. and seven
sixteenths to Waters. Water's statement deducted from the 70,1501.
the sum of 34,1701 which left a remainder of 33,9801.
The Lord Chancellor said, the sum stated in the Master's Report
to be paid by Waters was 31,0001. and if that was right, and the
mortgage money of 36001. was admitted as being due to Wafers. se
much of that sum was ready paid into Court; and whetbm the
whole sum should be paid by Waters, Laid :he sum previously paid
be returned to him, or that the ruin for him to pay were a sum
minus. Cleat already paid peared to him, in effect, exactly the same
•thing.
Mr. Duthie said, that Waters had received seven-sixteenths of the
59311.

The Lord Chancellor said, that Waters clahued the whale of the
sun).

Mr. Duthie was apprised of that, but if so, Mr. Taylor would be
tlepriral of so much of the purchase money.
The Lord Chancellor denial the attention both of Mr. M.& 454
Mr. Duthie. Suppose (aid his Lordship) the whale sow triple
Master's t Mice was 30,0601. and suppose Taylor owed Waters 50001.
then 25.0001. would be to be divided between them. in the propor-
tion of nane-sNtecnths to Tavlor, and sevcri-sixtemtlis to Water%
Mr. Mills said the money had been puid into Court by Mr. Wt.ter,
in conformity to the Master's report, and raying e* L.s right to the
mortgage money due him by Taylor .
The Lord Chancellor.--.. Suppose there was no dispute, and that
the mortgage money was paid to %Voters, Waters would then have
to pay 34,0001. ; and if the mortgage money due to Waters was
not paid, Waters then would have 28,0001. that is 34,0.101-
minus the mortgage money, which would be just equivalent,
instead of the double operation of taking out and paying
in again. Let then the 28,0001. paid into Court rest there, Mr.
Waters undertaking to pay the difference, provided Sir Samuel
Romilly, who certainly made a very liberal offer of concession to
the other side, if they could but make a clear statement even tn.theis
own Counsel, should in the next seal establish Mr. Taylor's clam
to the disputed amount of the mortgage."
Atitr solll_ conversation between the parties, it was agreed, with
the approbation of the Court, that the question of the mortgage
should stand over to the .set‘ind seal, anti that the question thouisl
comprehend the interest as well as the principal of the money.

SIR H. nAVY'S SAFETY LAMP..-Air HUlTll•llrey May 11:.s
• made a farther discovery in regard to combustion, which will prove n
• v.:ry great improvement to his safety lamp. lie thus describes it A 3
a letter to the reverend J. Ilodgsan of lieworth.
" I have succeeded in producing a light perfectly safe and crone-
mica!, which is most brilliant in dltmovherea in which the flame oi*
the safety lamp is extinguished, and which burns in every mixture of
earburetted hydrogen gas that is respirable. It ronsis!s of a slender
metallic tissue of platinam, which is hung in the top of the interior
a the common hunp of wire pew, or in that of the twilled lamb.
It casts from t'4l. to is., and is in:pensbable. This tissue,. when the
common lamp is introduced into art explcsive atmosphere, bceetnei
red hot, and continues to burn the gas in contact with it as long as the
nir is respirable ; when the stmosphere again heroines explosive, the
flame is relighted. I can now barn any inflatimiLble vapour either
with or without flame at pleasure, and make the wire consume it
either with red or wltite heat. I was led to this restilt by (hemming
slow colisusion, without flame; and at last .1 found a metal
mado theme Lannless conibtations vi•ible."

The ntinabcr of travelling Preacher, among the Al rthodistit :s
i9llows

fn F.ngland .
ScoUand .
I rdand

•

27
hub

lAc of Man .

,Noarian Isles . . . 7
0;i foreign minions in Asia, 0!C W
indies.C...tish America, Newfwindland,
SesideSupeinttsocrarics . . •
.17
The total number of Nteinhers in ill:: Methedi.:
Conn • .cln in Great liritain is . • • in,6l+s
In the West Indies, Nova Scotia, other

Ineseas: in Great Britain .
I'onign :11 irsions
Total incase

• 22,297----21e;5n
• 2,005
• 1,200

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