The National Register.
London, England, 1822-10-06 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

was excruciating to the deli Cato Chad, who was obliged to
be held down by fonr men whilst the fire was applied.
The father of thetroaecutdr stated, that he went with
the card of the surgeon to Mr. Syminongh, to request thet
his dog might be sent to be examined. He refused to
pen lit it to be taken from his home, notwithstanding the
most earnest req.test of the witness, hot said he would
allow it to be examined in his own linos,.. ' He treated
with some contempt the idea that it WWI mad, slid said it
ran about and played with his children, a thict which he
would not sutler it lie knew it to be mail. He said the
dog was a ferociona animal, that would Hy at any person
in the shop if they only spoke a loud word, and that he
kept it for the purpose of protecting his children, for the
times were so depraved that they could not go about with.
oat some protection.
Mr. C. Phillips, for the defence, stated, that be was
instructed to slate that there was evidence in Court that
would prove the whole cave to be unworthy of being lig.
tenrd to in a coon of justice.
S I witnesses, one of whom prevaricated greatly,
were then examined, with the view of contradicting the
evidence fur the prosecution, but the defence wholly
failed. The person who prevaricated was detained till
the end of the trial, in the custody of an Officer,
The father of Byounonds said, that his son was a boy of
great humanity, and never cosh) have acted as had been
described. He added, that the father of Hart had not,
when he called for the dog, told who he was, or the dug
should have been given up to him.
The defendant was found guilty.
The Recorder, in addressing the defendant, said, that
his father had shown great want of feeling towards the
poor buy, and he would now have an opportunity of
skewing whether he bad any feeling for his own son,
whom the Court were detersnined to punish with ity
proportionate to his offence, if remuneration were not
made. The Court, the Recorder added, would allow the
payment of 301. to the prosecutor as remuneration.
fltr sum was paid, Anil the boy fined a shilling and dis•
charged.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER S.—Richard Clerk, a Ash salesman,
in Billingsgate-market, and William ferry, his servant, were
indicted for haring wantonly assaulted an old Scutchman named
Furzun.

The complainant, it appeared from his own statement, which
be made with great eccentricity of manner, Is an excisem-n,
and on the day mentioned i■ the indictment he ventured into
Billingsgate-market, for the purpose of being some fish for
his dinner, but it was that day too high in price for his pocket,
and he was making the best of his way out, when the defend-
ants, the master and the man, seised him with their fishy
paws" and dogged hint to their baskets to buy. From the
manner in which he was seized, be thought himself in the
hands of robbers, and pot his hands upon his pockets to protect
them, which excited the laugh of the market, and he was im-
mediately marked out as the subject of a spree." Whilst
be was remonstrating with the two defendants for their con-
duct to a stranger, a Oying-fish gill bit him on the cheek, and
the whole place was in a roar at his confusion. lie tried to
make his escape, but the defendants, and a number of other
fellows, surrounded and prevented hint, hustling him from one
to another. knocking his hat over his eyes, and one of them
wished to possess bimself of some documents of 4,000 value,
which the prosecutor bad sticking ont of his bosom; nor was it
until they bad exercised every species of Billingsgate mamaal
wit upon hint, that they allowed bim to make hie escape sorely
bruised.

Mr. Adolphus, in an entertnioing epeeist', which be made in
behalf of the defendants, contended that there was no evi-
dence to convict them of an assault. There was at any rate no
malicious attack of the proseentor on their part. The seizure
of the person and dragging him to their basket noleru Wows to
induce him to buy, was only the ragged manner of enforcing
the claim of a tradesman. ff the Jury wished to know how
their ancestors used to solicit custom, they should go to Ril-
- where they would hunt the only remains of
those manners which were described in the new novel of the
" Fortunes of Nigel," to belong to the city tradesmen of the
reign of James the First. On that acoomit they ought to be
respected.
The Jury found both the defendants guilty, when the Re-
corder addressed them on the folly of snob conduct, and the
injurious effects of it to strangers on the market. When
would the ignorant see the policy of using courtesy to induce
person, of respectability to go to the market, instead of de-
terring them away from it by riot and brutality? The Court
viewed the outrage of which the defendant► had been guilty as
an offence against the good order of the market, and therefore
were not disposed to treat it lightly, and to teach the place, if
it were capable of being taught, that no stringer was to be
annoyed for their amusement, they fined the defendant Clerk
51. and Perry big maim, 40s.

BEST MODE OF LUSIITINO A FIRE.—FiII the
grate with fresh coals finite sop to the upper bar but one ;
then lay on the wood iii the usual manner, rather collected
in a 1/11113i titan acatteued. Oyer the woad place the
cinders of the preceding day, piled op as high as the
grate will admit, and placed touchy in rather huge frag-
ments, in ord,,r that the draft may hr free t 4 bit or two of
flesh coals may be added to the ciutte►s when once they
are lighted, but no small coal mast be threwn on at first.
When all is prepared, light the wood, when the cinders
in a short time hem ii iii g thoroughly ignited, the gas
rising float the coals below, which wall now he atiecteil
by the brat, will take tire as it passes through them,
leaving a very small portion of smoke to go op the chins.
ney. One of the advantages of nits mode of lighting a
fire is, that small coal is better suited to the purpose than
large, except a few pieces in limn, to keep the small
from falling out of the grate. A fire lighted iii this way
will burn all day, without any thing bring done to ir.—
When appuently quite out, on being attired, you have
iii a few minutes a glowing tile. When the sipper part
begins to rake it must be stirred, but the lower must not
be witched.

An awful and melancholy circumstance occurred at
the City of London Tavern, at the tt••neral meeting of
the friends of the Pension Society, on Wednesday inx!ll
last, for the election (I pensioners into that excellent
institution One of the candidates, B Gray, aged 74.
%vas suddenly taken ill of the room; the Dr. ittsulse,
tile chJirinan, not finding that. any medical gentleman
wig present, inuttediately directed that one should he
sent lor. Mr. Pugh of Gr.iceciiiirch street, attended,
hut before he liaised the poor man had expired. 011
the rebuilt of the elect being ki10.% ii, it was ascer•
tamed, he was one 01 the sucCesslial cailulidat(s. lln
widow will be a candidate at the next election in April,
when it hoped, from the pewit:telly of tier case anti the
respectabtl.ty of her claim, she will succeed.

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EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMBTANCR.

On Friday afternoon at three o'clock an inquisition was takes
before Jades Wright Garin, Esq. one of the coroners for Mid-
dlesex, at the rigs of the Ruse and Crown, in Colwell-street,
on view of George Clifford, •.ed 13, who destroyed himself
under the following singular circumstanoes :
The first witness, lit. Bonnel Williams, a surgeon, deposed
to the cousu of the boy's death, which, he said, was evidently
occasioned by hanging. All the means of resuscitation were
used fur nearly two hours without effect. lie Ltd no previous
knowledge of the deceased.

Mrs. Ann Bocock sworn.—l am housekeeper to Mr. W.
Vase. On Wednesday last, between one and two o'clock, 1
had occasion to go into the cellar for some water, when I saw
the deceased twisted tight in the jack towel, and in a kneeling
posture ; I was terribly alarmed, and shrieked out for assist-
ance, when my master and one of his men came down etaira.—
The demaased was released from the towel by my master after
much difficulty. I then went up stairs and ran for medical
assistance. The deceased was between 13 and 14 years of
age. I hare heard he had often before pat his head in the
towel, and twisted himself round till he was quite giddy, bat I
cannot state this on my own authority. . _

I,LOVAulowOraver.

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