The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-23 00:00:00

TIM NATIONAL REGISTER.

Wood, called nt the watcli-house, of the Surrey-road !nut,
where be informed Ilaskett, one of the pallid, that he had
been gui:'y of imirM•r, and rt tl/11..,1tl he iniAt lie mkt
before a imsgisrate, foe the put ic,sc of mak
and stating 'with 11:4bk•Al 1111)11;411i I
In the ethic, a here he o great comp.-use informed Mr
Allen, that on the 6.1. of June lust, o tole at Leicester,
called on David Evans, a cobbler in flaiik-sirect, in that
town, tint reimcbted would lend bitn of his lotig
whirls lie did ; he ~eh caitcrt eat a )(wog 14 01111111 named
Nlary Stai ~ who lived a 11l her ft imith in Mink shirt, and
asked her to take a owith bon. Tttey went Imo the
Abbey-meadow, w bete, r a ..tout-wear, nod hell!
was a considerable depot of w,tt, r, h, slabbed her under Ihe
left breast, wilco site (hopped duwu at& died. lie was
retnaiultd.
HATTON GARDEN.

In our paper of last week we insetted an account of
a young woman applying at a him v in Grorgeormirt, Ayles-
bury-street, Clerkenwell, for a lodging, which she obtained,
and was snot, lifter put to bed and delivered of n lin. infant.
Iler health being rutleiently restored, slit was on Saturday
examined +it illlll Other. Several is Pm s-es o err in ;mewl-
liner, amongst o bong were the it iiman of the lows, %here ►he
• lodged, ove of the female lodgers who followed and watched
her, and the mair who took up t lie box,; their ilerilllls
col roborateri the principal parts of our former stir
a 111:w uF PeipeCi:ible appenranie, also at•
tended; he sa ruled mach affected at big wir's soon tom.—
From iiis start ment it appeared that- kis won., is conw•qurocr
of a severe halt site fail formerly received in her head, was
at !hoe. deraiggeil, and he gook' no otherwise account for her
haying quitted a c fortaltle house in the nimbler she had
'loam ;lid fur bet lieasit'rillrlll CAlNllllllinary conduct, than by
supposing she had +ivied tinder the influencc of the unfertto
nate malady to which she was subject. The 51;10:4r:tie,
gilder rill the circumstani es, said he would admit the ionfor •
Inmate wornau to bail, on her husband enteriug into a rerog-
nisatice fur 301., and ii iiting too houst•Leepers to join hint
in Y3l. each for her (more appearance. The husband
eat neetly solicited the 91agiatrau• to take Lis security for
,the whole suin, urging as a reason tie- deplorable state of his
at home ; one chid hay alg died since Isis wife lett
I us, and too others at present ty mg dangerously ill. Its
; esidelieg was iu yoi k•hire , and he 11.111 no al ipranitiince w ho
were Iroise keepers in London that he could ask to become
hail. The Magistrate olesersed, be id sincerely coin-
miso sled his situation, but lie could not on this occasion
depair froin the regular course ; o benever he and his bail
were 'catty, the unfortunate woman might be biresated ;
;till then she must return to ber confinement.

Expitax Stetxxxx.—A young min, a native of
the island of St. Croix, lately came over the sound
frotn Cronenburg and Helsingburg, and thus much
outdone Leander and Lord Byron, who swain across
the Hellespont. The distance from Abydos to Ses-
tos is only an English mile, but the distance which
Lord Byron and Lieut. Eikenprad swam, in one
hour and ten minutes, is estimated ut tour miles,
because the strong current carried them away.—
The distance between Cronenburg and Helsingburg
is four English miles; bat as the swimmer could
not land at Helsingburg on account of the strong
current and surf, he had to swim down to the
village of Graves, two English miles further,
making ais• English miles in all, which he did in
two hours and forty minutes. A Danish officer and
three sailors followed him in a boat, and never lost
sight of him. In the middle of the Sound he had
to contend with violent waves uud a high sea, which
dashed over him.

Tile Ow cunt tic Society of Liverpool having addressed
a letter, tha magi' their Chairman, to T. W. Coke, Esq. of
lloiklaarra, requesting his penalties' to enrol his name as
au honorary member of that Society, Mr. Cuke has ad-
dressed to the Chairman the lidlovri rag reply :
" llolkham. July 5, 1819.
"MY Dr.An Sta.—l am much flattered by the opinion
entertuned of me by a Society of which you are President, and
hal honoured by their wish to have me sunongst their 3lenrbers.
I beg you to express every thins that is proper tbr me on the
!object. My political sentiments are too well known- to require
to be expatiated upon, and my steady adherence to them Callallt
he doubted.

Ms./lilac-ma Ft/km—Friday morning, about halt
past twelve o'clock, a dreadful fire broke out at No. 37,
St. Macy-Axe, in the occupancy of a proprietor of baths;
so rapid was the 'impress of the dames, that the inha-
bitants escaped with difficulty, not bring able to preserve
any of their property. Three other houses soon caught
file, two of them were nearly. reduced to ashes before
water could be procured in any quantity, and the flames
"sere scarcely subdued by four oclock. The chief suf-
ferers are Mr. Sibley, Mr. Grooby, Ms. Nash, and Mr.
Tailor. Great damage was also sustained by the pre-
mises backwards.—Another fire broke cot about two
o'clock, at Mr. Paul's, undertaker, in Old 'Change,
which also communicated to the King's Head Inn and
wavnn office. The extensive stock in trade of Mr.
Paul was COTl3llllled, and we understand that eight
horses perished in the flames: considerable injuly was
also sustained by other pretutses.
Thursday a roan ascended the epire of Salisbury ca-
thedral, and sot astride the cross, a distance of 400 feet
from the ground, sung a snug, and shouted • Astley for
ever; the whole so andiule, that it was distinctly heard
by the spectators in different pa.ts of the city.
Po u opening
dinner at Cliatteely-lane, ou TlteMby. was attended bt
a select 'laity of amateurs, fifty in !Willi er, and the
claret flew copiously. The great Captain of the milling
forces supported the chair, and the steady and tried pa-
trician friends of Lindell. to keep the game alive,
ollered. to back Larkin, the lifi,goardsman, far lOU
guineas, against ally man in the world. lay Cribb. Sutton,
the black. said he was willing to fight any man and
make no lets; but he had het the means of bac/sin!:
hints. If. A hundred was subscribed for him in a few
and the snatch was made to fight on the 12111
of October. Betting to a considerable 3010111/1 followed,
at even, but SM. to 4001. ss swat the close offered upon
tar 6uardsmau. Twenty guineas aside were deposited.

H ASSIZES.
C6,lthwed from 414 Tr! tk.)

Nf11111)E11, John Py malt, of W. st wig k, in this comity,
was indie•lcd for the marolcr of Jahn Pactjt, bis infant
child, and roor ostiompoing lit vols.:1 his Eiir. Pyclair,
with listen, to kill her. '1 be child woos boiled al Wi st lek
obi the of Alay last, and 41,..iet a futurist
au Monett was taken Louie Mr. FOlgr ~,,, coorotier, and
the plisoner was folla cniiiratted fur total. %i,. /limo y
Cooooper, wee of the c .el lor the loioSeelitioon, npuoual
the case in a very rata manor', and lln•n plot ceded in
the pi usecuiiiiii agaiu•t the prosum o for the murder of the
child LIN calling the fullbw eng Viiliiesseit :
John Spoom r stated, that he hard at Foinilcoiloall, loot
was at %torstrol lair on the I:4;1; of 11a) last, moil wo the
following moraine he went to Neiaich with r -
that hr afterwards went minim lobo to Air. Polloonors. 4
druggist in Norwich, where lot• reel netted to have doer•,
penny %solidi of al sesoir. Puis•mer said he wanted it to
destroy the vermin in his gat-ohm.
Ann Brown, shop.. entail at Mr. Pm rand's, stated,
that either on Friday, the 141 h, or tlattorolay. Het
Cith, of May last, too men (one a sic'', short mar,
canoe to Mr. 11101., and the shots man
asked or Om c-t•eonyworth of arsenic, stating float lie
%salmd it to destroy some vermin; that she solar him that
quantify. and onion hooking at the poisoner sloe identified
I as beiag tile shunt nom, loot said she did not Linow his
Itione.—llia Lot olship then silmmiirlided that chemist*
should, in footoirc,ask the Dailies of forrsons who pusehasest•
poison, and etitei them in thorn MI) •bona..
Hss:. aet s, or Westwick, slated, that the saw p►...
srv:ei toile and child in Ilse cottage yard, between S and
6 o't too k iu vile evehing of the hilt May, quite well---lloat
the wits' and child watt• taken ill about 8, and the child
died a little before 10. Witness went into prisoner's
lonise a little after 8, when she (mind the pour woman
dreadfully ill, and the child very bad. Witticss never Raw
a child so had, the eves stared from the head, and the lops
looked very dry: Thil ;shoot 1 o'clock iu the trtorntat
prisoner's will• asked for some Ira. WillieSS look &Mil
the tca•pot. and saw intuit thing white iii which sloe rob-
bed bet wes ii her fingers, moil it appeared like pearl ash.
Prisoner's wife complained of Ri eat pain in her nick and
*lomat'', and a ittisss Saw some meat un the table. When
witness first went in• flit,. I'y craft said vile load token some
of the !Mat, and Ili-mil. some oft he tea, and Mal was what
had made her ill, and that she give the child a piece of
the meat to sock. 'flint witness want again to poisoners
house t•n the Ilundav, and when she Was at the well, pri•
scouter came In her, and asked her Ili say " (liar she had
taken some or the meat and drank some of the tea,' irso se
won/d go hard with him, for he did it, and no one else.'
That ss ion( a• saw prisoner again on the Wi cloesday.m hen
he milled her on one side, slid begged of her to say •• she
had taken hollie of the meat, and drunk some of Ilse tea, or
it %smold go hard with him, as his mutter iii law had found
some more white stuff in the tea pot;" adding, taut Ise
put some of the poison into Ihr tea-pot on the Misoday night
hetnre Ilia wife wait taken ill, and that Ire pm the remain_
der in on the Wednesday, and that he did it ill get rid of
his is Child, as be could not live wills her. The
morning the t•hild was to be taken tip, piismier said to
witioass., •• Now I am done•, for Isbell go to Not wick cos.
tie, and utter come back amain," and at the same lime
begged of lore to as she had liken some of the meat, and
drank roOlite of the tea, as that was the only thiog
could save Kim. 'That t. itnris saw prisoner the .Hnnday•
alter the child was lon.icol, who asked lour wiottlort sl a
would go to Capt. Cudgel's, and swear that his wife clod
it? adding, that he would pay Willies's for bar day's was k,.
Witness said, " intuit how can you ask me sited a thing,
after what y•nl have told trier"

This %%ittitss, amoti I.eiog cross examined by the pr;-..,
sonees conmiel, a.ritl, that hi a conversation eith ILL.'
prisoner, lie told her that he did it, and no one she, and
he 'tmid Hot mind being hunted for it if he Uud Loit
killed his sr ife as well a% Ilk child. The counsel fbr II e
prisoner attempted to prove that Mr. Pilgrim, the coro-
ner, is hen taking the inyurvr, sail to wathrbd, that he
would commit her if *he did not tell a better st.ry, hat %fie
afterwards ein rector' lieraelf by saying, he said (. 51i..1•141
commit her to the Cavite if she did not speak the l.fsta.
Judith Munsonri confirmed the testimony ul the last
witness.

Sarah !Timmer, shopkeeper at Worsted, wife of J.lin
'poorer, of Fundenliall, stated, thin prisoner asked her to
buy some poison he March hest; staring that he wanted it
to destroy the vermin in hlv garden. Prisoner went r•
Not wieh on the 19th of Jlny with witness's linsinsud, no
ise tie horse and cart home. That on the Monday
after the chit(' died, prisoner tame to witness's hone, and
asked whether she had not hefted any thins? It fitness
said yes. that Ida child was dead. Prisoner then said it
was kissed about that Old Betty (meaning his nil') hint
poisoned it. That on the Sunday evening after the child
was buried, prisoner came to witness's house again. and
after some conversation begged of witness to k. ep all a
secret. That prisoner (hell t•onJessed nu witness the, he
(prisoner) poisoned his wife and chid.

John Johnson, the Governor of the Gaol, -proved t!,eg
when he was returning home from She coroner's intsneit
with the prisoner, be told witnes► that those persons in
whom hr had placed confidence lied thecrived him.
Mr. Dalrymple, an eminent surgeon fa 7*m ich, wag
then called, who said he held licaid the evidence, and had
taken much pains iu the business, which was indeed very
ii. ficult. 1 hat lie had braid the ilyiimptutits, and ihifisivt,
the) might brie !nisei' limn arsenic, but that they might
have arisen hum other tenses. That lie could net •av
how mulch arsenic would pled miss death. If a pcisen lie d
eaten pot k en which poison haul !,ern pelt, pail, at the vit
of the stinsiaa•k and timid wauktiiiiii alcly follow. 'flits
witness proved that Ise taunting it wills particular rare the
gullet, the stomach, with the trcat :mud smaller intestines,
but cenlit not di•eove► !hal any of the pints had het n in.
jitred by assesitc. nor would he vliserve cams marts. of es,"
lowa as, the dreesheal. Tin. gentleman gliVe his eViiivilet
wills greateaution, and certainty avenled giving an) ►p:.
culidise °photon.

Hi. after summing up the ',shit ner in a eery
aide matins I-, directed the Ji+r), if the) lia;1 arty 40,011 it.
their minds, tu rents* a verdict in favour of the pa i•on. a.
The Jar), altar estestat!erittg the facia for /moat ten mi-
nutes, relisi tl a vet diet 111 Guilts..
His Lmd•hip then pe••ed the a•.rtal sent( nets or the 14w
npott the ri•tater, art at the state tome. ill Ilir mast
res. -is* tamstser, sit tittl:ls• eroattowntlt 1 the antc:let,
err, tide, rrrieu•l% to ro±r die (-time lor
ss laich he could, iu i :en huur,, hart: tu It NY a

clings. his Lordship sai•erved, of all idlers, the mast on-
rrat uked and stomas al, mid he folly airs eed with Ilie
Jar, a• so the vs/silks r his Is they had retisitted. He seas
ordered tin eapeusiiits ass Ilie folloaina I\lollo4y. and his
bad) to he deli•eied user to she misspells far dissertioss•
The sishmasei did 1101 appear at all istii.,sed daring Ilse
Dial. %shirts la•ted sir boors, and heard she •el 'doily pro-
hothead a ithuut the smallest change ill his countenance.

rAtCTTION fIV JOHN PVCRAFT AT NORWICtt..-.Thio elan
WAS nil 1114.0‘day last, in conformity vials the sentence of
the law,' csecuted its trout of 11w tiltire.l ttttt se, in the pre-
m her of several thno:ouels of spectators. The • euries'ilY
which soundly. on elo•se occasions, collects a vast crowd
of I elude togetlwr. Witt, doubtlu.s, .isicrenscol in the pre-
mise instance, l else unfortunate object of it being slime.
iptly iblaaltod in peroon, situ scarcely four feet in height.
Alice hanginit far one hour, his hotly was delivered to the
for 4isseetints ---We are credibly juror's:est, that
very 1141.10 after the trial, lie not only aelstsonledged that
he elniteuitted else horrid Art fur which he wit about to
suffer. hot th,st br Cl•llaimly Aid administer roixon In Ilia
essject being to el,stroy theses both. Tho linkman,
roan, we ass informed, became eery penitent sONIIt little
lime paint In r‘etalloll. •he was town id Neigh Wel-
shalt, in titer county, of honest and indostrions parents.
He seas, as we ace informed, about 45 yea's °loge.