The National Register.
London, England, 1822-09-29 00:00:00

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An inquisition was held ou Monday last, al the Christopher
Eton, before John Chusley, Esq. oue of the Coroners for
the county of Bucks, in cousequenee of the death of the Rev•
Edwin Helbed. The Coroner and Jury proceeded to •iew the
body, end having proceeded to the Christopher Ina, the °saint-
nation of witnesses proceeded.
Jobo Lewis deposed that he wu servant to Lord Craven, end
was in attendance at Eton upon his Lordshio's three sons, and
upon the deceased. The )(mug gentlemen only arrived, for the
Drat time at Eton on Saturday, where they were placed under
the Wag (tithe deceased, who ouzo on Friday. on Sunday morn-
ing, about seven o'clock, M r.ll. accompanied by the three young
geodeuen, went out. The deceased returned and breakfasted
at bis lodgings, and witness heard him say, that the young gee-
drama were to breakfast with a master of Eton school, and then
be examinsd. After breakfast the deceased dressed himself,
and went to church. When be returned about one o'clock he
looked melancholy, About two the yogi% gentlemen weal to
dinner, and the deceased went to his own room, saying he should
dine out at six. Witness remind down stairs till sic o'clock,
expecting to be called, and surprised that Mr. Milted did not
ring, he then went up and found the parlour and bed-room
doors shut, lle opened the bed-room door, sod there saw the
deceased lying, as semi by the Jury, quite dead sad pale, and a
razor in his right band. Mr. Hotbed bad been tutor to the
three young gentlemen about six or seven years. During the
last month witness had occasionally discovered a melancholy
frown open hie countenance, which he mould not attribute to
any particular circumstance. He had not given less utifaction
to Lord Craven, and he was beloved by every body. On Sun-
day morning the deceased did not spa* as usual to witness,
looking very dull. Oa the previous Saturday he looked as
usual.

The Rev. George Romney Green deposed, that the three
sons of Lord Craven were with him on Sunday morning, from
ball past seven to a quarter past ten, for the purpose of being
examined preparatory to their entrance at Eton school. The
boys were employed in writing sash an exercise. About a
quarter pet ten Mr. Hathed came to see what progress they
had wade. Upon looking at their exercises the deceased ex-
pressed him•elf disappointed. He asked if that was all they
had done ; and said, " they had done better with him." Wit-
ness replied, He thought the boys hid done as well as could
be aspersed, considering their situation ;—he was a stranger to
them, and they were perhaps under the influence of alarm.—
' They had been slow, but ►ery correct." Witless walked to
Eton with deceased, after morning service at St. George's
chapel. The deceased frequently, expressed great anxiety
about his pupils. After a pause, witness endeavoured toobange
the subject, asking deceased If he knew who would he the new
Warden of New College? His answer was in an altered tone,
and with an altered look, and his words were .o this purport :
I don't trouble myself about these things now, my mini is
solely occupied its my boys." Witness was surprised at the
answer, to which he replied in a very low and faltering •oire.—
He was evidently mach depressed.—The deceased resumed dies
subject of his pupils before they parted is college.
Mr. John Stratford, surgeon of Eton, was called to the de-
ceased about six o'clock on Sunday evening, and on entering
the chamber found him quite dead, the body lying as viewed
by the Jury. The jugular vein and the external carotid artery
were divided, and a dreadful hemorrhage had ensued, which
was the cause of his death.
The Jury deliberated a Mr minutes, and then delivered their
verdict—" That the deceased canoe by his death by his own
baud, in g fit of temporary derangement."

L. Owen was executed at Carnation last week
for a highway robbery and attempt to murder, near Llanrwst.
It well attended with some singular circumstances :—So super•
stitioos sad prejudiced are the hornet Welsh inhabitants of 'het
" mountain region," that no carpenter in that tows could he
procured to make a gallows I and at last the job was under-
taken and completed at Pwllheli. It was brought to Morita
Sciont, in the dead of the night ; but there was again a serious
dilemma, for no one 000ld be engaged to erect the fatal tree—
and it would not have been erected had not the sheriff em-
ployed his owu servants in the work. Other difficulties still
presented themselves—a cart must be bad to convey the coo-
vict, anti accordingly the cart of a carrier was fixed upon for
the ptrepose, but the woman to whom it belonged, with tears
in her eyes, besought the sheriff' not to bereave her of her
bread, for if the cart was taken, no one would in future suffer
their goods to be conveyed by it. This appeal was irresistible,
and it was given up. At last the name was taken from the
cart of • respectable innkeeper ; tho vehicle was coloured
dark, and the culprit was carried in it. W hen the execution
was over, there was not an individual who could muster up
courage to take down the gallows, arid it was standing a few
days ago, to the great terror of the neighbourhood—male and
female, The prisoner's mother, we hear, wee present at the
execution, anti fainted away. She was with great humanity
conveyed away in the sheriff's carriage. The horror which
was depicted on the faces of the multitude, when the *retched
man was turned olf, is said to he indescribable. The hang-
ing's, in returuiog to Chester by the mail, was recognised by
the passengers, who joined in the general turn out ; the coach-
man was obliged to give him an ejectment ; and not till then
would the passengers proceed.
NIKO:ST.—On Thursday last, and, by adjourn-
ment, on Friday. a Coroner's inquest wus held at the Boar and
Grove tavern, Deptford, on the body of Michael Higgins, aged
2c, whose death was occasioned by receiving blows in a pugilistic
eneounter.—A servant of D. W. Harvey. Esq• of Loampit Hiil
House. Greenwich, stated, that he saw the deceased and a Young
num, Milled Jones, pinto a field to fight a pitched bottle. A
ring was tormed—the decea-ed entered the ring and stripped.
Jones also stripped, and they shook hands. Each was attended
by a second, and a person stood with a watch to keep the time.
As soon as the parties shook hands, they exchanged blows. The
deceased hail the best of the battle during the three first rounds ;
in the fourth lone. hit thedeceased a severe blow on the temple.
which sent him staggering. They fought fin about a quarter of
an hour, when the deceased exclaimed, " I will have no more of
it." He then looked very ill, and soon became insensible. He
was carried to the Bricklayers' Arms, front thence to the pis.
pensary House, and alterwaida to his mother's, where lie expired.
—The Jury retired for a short time, and returned a verdict of
Manslaughter against Jones, the principal, and Ifillary and
Turner, the two seconds. Tuner has abbe: muled-. 4004. and
Hillary were committed to Maidstone gaol.
The executor of the Rev. Peter Beauvoir, late of
Downham Hull, in the county of Et.sex. paid last week the sum
of:N.o4loh to the Stamp Mime. being the duty tut 720.00rt1..
payable to the residuary legatee. Itieliard Benyon, now Richard
tenon de BeallYtlit. This forturiote legatee was no relation to
tee testator. Above Sodeeil. were otherwise left in legacies—.
The illllllCl%,e property wits bequeathed by t'e tettator indepeei-
dent of Ida freehold estates, which are of considerable yaks*. lit
addition to this prodigious wealth, the testator possessed. said to.
Mined till the day of his death, a living of 300 L a year

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EXECUTION
OF THE IMCHELLE COASPIRATCRS.

(PROM A PRIV ATE LiTTER.)
PARIS, SEPT. 23.—About eleven o'clock the walls
of the different public buildings were covered with
the " Arret de la Cour Rovale de Paris," announc-
ing the condemnation of Buries, Pomier, Goubin,
and Itaoulx, four sub-offioers (serjeants and serjeant-
majors) of the 45th regiment of the line, for cousin-
. racy, treason, &c. Almost at the same moment, and
simultaneously through the entire of the city of
Paris, the same Arret, adding, " that it would be
carried into execution that day on the Place de
Greve," was in the hands of the hawkers, who cried
it about the streets precisely as " last speeches" are
announced in London.
Up to two o'clock half a dozen mounted gendarmes
were the only military on duty in the Place de
Greve; but strong detachments of the same descrip-
tion of force, horse and foot, were posted at all the
commanding points in that quarter. In the Place
du Chatelet, particularly, a numerous body was
drawn up. I proceeded towards the Conciergerie.
The people were crowding towards the place of exe-
cution. No symptoms of sympathy for the miserable&
struck my eye. In a cafe, within twenty yards of
the guillotine, officers were playing at billiards, the
shops were open—the passengers laughing, enjoying
themselves—showmen were exhibiting—and low
gaming going on even where I passed. A great
crowd had assembled round the prison of the Con-

cierg,erie, to which the condemned had been removed
between the hours of five and six o'clock in the
morning, under a guard of 50 mounted gendarmes.
On their reaching that, their last human living
abode, they were placed ig a chamber very different
from the condemned cells attached to English gaols.
It is well hirnished, and contains a clock that strikes
the quarters, which consequently intimates inces-
santly to the unhappy sojourners in that melancholy
apartment, that their meanest!, already numbered,
"ire fast expiring; but neither that circumstance,
nor the presence and wearied exertions and exhorta-
tions of the clergymen by whom they were attended,
produced any effect upon the contemned men. They
are said to have been all of good families, snore par-
ticularly Buries and Uaoulx. In the course of the
morning, one of the Judges of the Criminal Court of
Paris had an interview with them, which lasted
nearly two hours doubtless he endeavoured to pro-
cure from them some information respecting the plot
for which they were to sufier, or that to favour their
escape from the Bicetre, which had been detected.
No one believes that they gave the slightest infor-
mation respecting either, although the journals may
probably assert the eontrary. From the moment of
their conviction, up to that of their quitting the
Conciergerie for the place of execution, they mani-
fested constantly the samelovity, or rather volatility,
accompanied by allusions to their unhappy fate.
About two o'clock five hundred soldiers of different
regiments marched into the place, preceded by
drums, and formed a square. Numbers of mounted !
gendarmes issued from under the porch of the Hotel
du Ville (or Mansion-house), which is the centre ofl
the eastern side of the place. The only persons al-
lowed to remain near die guillotine, except the exe-
eutioner and his assistants, were the people who
crewded the footway by the front of it ; on the edge
of which, mid within two yards of the scaffold, sat a
number of women, although made aware that they
would be deluged with the blood of the condemned
at the moment of execution! About half past two
o'clock the two waggons left the Place de Greve for
the Conciergerie, under an escort of gendarmerie.
The executioner (a.tall, elderly, decent-looking man,
wearing a fashionable blue silk handkerchief on his
neck, and a black straw hat) followed, leaving behind
him a small, rough, white slog, called a ',tube, who
took his post on the scaffold at the top of the ladder.
The animal appeared as watchful as those dogs
which you see on waggons in London. The crowd
continued incessantly to increase—new bodies of the
gendarmerie traversed the place. About 50 of the
gendarmes &elite finally marched in, and remained
stationed near the scaffold. The usual amusements
of a mob went on. Four o'clock at length arrived,
and there being no appearance of the sad cavalcade,
the hopes and doubts of the spectators were excited.
This continued until within five minutes of five
o'clock, when a hackney-coach, attended by some gen-
darmes, drove rapidly across the place, stopped at a
tavern exactly opposite to me, and a person dressed
in some suit like a clergyman descended from it, and
entered the tavern. " Ali ! there is no hope !" said
a French gentleman near me ; " that is a Greffier of
the Court, or Rapporimr, whose office is to see the
sentence executeit, and to make a report of it. In
another quarter of an hour you will see the misery'.
tics themselves." Five o'clock struck, and yet they
Lad not arrived. A t that moment the coup d'cril
was strikingly awful; the whole area of the Place
de Greve, and as much of the Quai de Greve as I
could see, were filled by a dense crowd, now incapa-
ble of increase. So irre,istible was the force produced
by the sligtheat motion, that the soldiers were me.