The National Register.
London, England, 1809-06-04 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

JI:NE 4.

viCCIDEJM, OFFENCES, ifc.

Saturday being the last day of this Fair, in the evening it was
wiore than usually crowded. About ten o'clock a quarrel began,
In cailsequence, as we have been informed, of an Irish labourer,
who had been at play with a sharper, discovering that he had
been cheated ont of his money : the labourer demanded it back,
hich being refused, recourse was instantly had to blows; the
alsoilant, however, was beaten, and the aVair was supposed
at an end ; but about two o'clock in the morning the Irishman
returned to the charge, attended by from sixteen to tyrentylof
his countrymen, armed with bludgeons, and u e are afraid, with
weapons of a sharper k ; nor was the tumult quelled till be-
we,at !lye and si x o'e!ock, when the arri sal of the Tower Ham-
lets Militia terteiatttea it. The soldiers took into costody every
Ina-son w !to bine the least appearauce of haviog been engaged
;a it. We regret to saN, however, that two, ifnot three, lives
were hea ; one man had his head tut completely open by a stick,
attot aer. it is said, was literally ripped up with a knife.
• however dootitful the number ;of killed may be, certain
it ;s that thirteen men, most of whom are dreadfully wounded,
were carried to the London Hospital, four of whom were not
rN;wilcd to sot vi ye,
Iltnit.te Orates, WtriTlCHArnr..—flonday a long exa-
initiation took phice with respect to the late Riot. A wan of
the taunt of Williard Cole Was a prinri, al in the affray,
who carried a rugged pots with at cap of libel ty on the top of it;
from this cause a eiceral scene of confusion took place. Several
persons were mu,:h beaten awl taken to the London Infirmary
with little hopes of t%-covere. This Leader was committed to
the House of Correction, Kith eleven more, till the real state
of the %%voided men is asejrfaineir. Ten Were taleen to Shad-
Well Office, who were disposed of in the same way.
A womau of the name of Elizabeth Negard has lately been
making applicatioas at Lord Castlereagh 's Office, respecting
slime property ai Triaidad. A description of het person reach-
ing the Secretary of State's Office for the• Home Department,
there e as very little doubt but she was the wornaa against
s limn information had been reeeiyed from Trinidad, as having
rseaped from that Island, is consequence of her having mur-
dered a black lira, one of her slaves. In comeqUence, Mr. Pee,ler,
the Messenger, and Itivett, the now-street officer, attended at
Laird Castlereagh's office, en Thursday, with a warrant, granted
by the Earl of Liverpool, agni;aa her,"she being expected at
the off.ce en that day, and when she came they too!: her into
custody-. She underwent au examination before Cie Earl of
Liveipoult yv ben the substance of the charge received against
her ap peat eil to be, that h'r slave had stolen some fish, r which
offence she had large stones thrown at him, which bruised and
wounded him in a most shocking manner ; afterwards he was
thrown down a pralpice, when Milling- hiss nut dead, she is
said to have coat rived to deseml to him, and cut his head off.—
She requested to he tried in this country, which was refused,
and she has been sent off to Portsmouth, to be conveyed to Tri-
nidad, to take her trial there.
Co al Ett's sptresi-.—An Inquisition was taken Monday
at the Crown public-house, Duke's-court, St. Martin's-lane, be-
fere A. Cell; Esq. the Coroner for Westminster, on the mai-.
lotted remains of Mr. Joseph Smeeton, and Eliza, his wife, vy Ito
were burnt in their dw elliug-house in St. Martin's.lane, en Sit-
kirday Morning. The principal uitnels Was William Bird,
the senior of Mr. Snieetou's three apprentices, and by whose
promptitude end presence of mind, four others were prevented
from perishing. It appeared that Joseph Thornton, a watchman,
was the first who discovered the flames on the ground-floor, at
the hack of the house, us he was calling the half-hour after one,
up Chequer4ourt, intowhich a door opened at the back of the
laid house. He in vain attempted to alarm the famly, although
he rung and knocked with an his power. The flames a: this
time seemed to be confin.al to the ground-floor. It appeared by
the testimony of Bird, that his master and mistress slept over
the warehouse, w Web was on the ground-floor, Where the flames
were s .en raging by the watchman. l'lte yvitneSs was awaken-
ed by an engine passing- down the street- end he got up to go on
the top of toe house to see where the lire was. On op, using th?
bed-roinn door, ys hich‘ was in front no the second-dhow, he war
half suffocated with snake, and he broke open the bed-room
door where his tWo fellow apprentices slept, and also that of
Ann Farley, the maid servant, and be sent them all up stairs to
escape by the top cif the house Mr. Smeeton's brd-room was
down a private stairca,e, the door of which Dird also forced,-
and it fell to the bottom of the stairs with a great crash:, He
dared not attempt to descend the stairs, but continued to call
(0 Xastee 411.1 the Mane" re;fehe'd tr 'n, trig? he' Nl:tied the

staircase was giving way. The other three fugitives were nearly
enscless by sutfocation at the trap-door which admitted them to
the top of the Mouse, they being unable to open it, but Bird
forced it, and the four persons es.enped over the tops of the
houses. It was not known how the tire happened; the maid
servant .vent to bed at half-past eleven, and her master wag
then in the warehouse, and Mrs. Smeeton was in the drawing-
room, Mr.. S. had dined at Battersea ; but he %vas sober. It
was supposed he had gone We the ware-room to deposit a 2001.
note in an iron chest, which chest was got out of the ruins on
Saturday, and the notes it contained were legible. The unfortu-
nate couple had been married three months.—Accidental Death.
Sunday morning, about live o'clock, a man was discovered
suspended from a trot in Doh'. ich Wood. Ile appeared to be
about fifty years of age, WaS T.:01)(T corptilent, and had on *
smith's or farrier's apron. By the IcElid smtil that issued from
the body, he is supposed to have been. in that situation two or
three days. There was nothing about him that led to a dis.•
covery who he was; a farthing, a knife, :Aid a tobacco box,
being the whole contents of his pockets. ilO Invest was suns.
awned last evening to make Ow twtal inquiries.

PRICE OF STOCKS, PUIMIC FUNDS, &c.

Tn-- es:lay I Wed neg. •Thured. Friday. fktt:
ir•lay I Mondry.
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$ p•tr cent. Coespls 6S 1!..74 1671 4 6S to t GSil___ Sail
D.tto Scent
5 per cent. Navy
S per cent. imperial -
Annuities 25 years ditto.
b p.a cut. Irish 951
Annuie,os is ditto •
Ind. stoek,div.lol P. et. IsaS ilk.si 9 1591 ~..0
....
India iintide 119,tOpm 19,J7 pm 13.17 pm i 16,17 p..' 1:,1s p:lt -
South Sal. stock • i .... 1
BA II: st. div. 10 p. cent. 11.17 i D,SI !248
4 p•teen ni
t. Cons.
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3 p:!r crat. at•duc,ett....Ct:l 1(17ill tit ft tiTZ! iiii
.I..ear: Anus. cons.boyrs. 18, • -16 1
Omni:lca . }il pm II poi 1? ptii ti pm
Etcheluer 8i115,31 r. d. 10,13 prn 10,1.1 pm 9,t.3 pm 13,11 plv "),13 pm
LJttecy 'fi:itets., or . I . .
I.: on,. for•Ac-rott.-it ...... - IG•S i (lAN 6,) i
11.nd;AtIr Opeallg .' ' 1
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