The National Register.
London, England, 1811-04-14 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

PROVINCI4LS.
Writs of Enquirr from*the Board of Excise have been exe-
cuted before a respectable Jury it the Angel Inn here during the
Past and present week, for ticiencies in the Malt duties, when
verdicts were given against five defaulters to the amount of
17,5721. 14s. 9d. of which 9,5771. 10s. /id. was against the effects
of an opulent person lately deceased, and 4,9461.103. against the
affects snider a recent lemkrnptey. Three others from 9001. to
1:4001. Two agreed to compromise, and to pay all deficiencies
If not submitted to a Jury, which was *accepted There are
several more cases still td be investigated. Such atrocious In-
stances of misconduct and wilful corruption on the part of some
(lithe district Excise*Olficers have rarely been brought to light.
And the Revenue has been defrauded in Suffolk alone, it is cat-
imlated, to the amount of at least 10040001. annually !—.b'uty
Post.

There was a riot, on Wednesday, in North-street, Brighton,
tNetween a very strong party of the South Gloucester Militia,
?alarmed, and a part of the inhabitants of the town, The in-
terferenee of the Higlt•Constable proved insufficient to quell
the tumult.--The picquct guard was at length called out, and
tranquillity, but not without difficulty, restored and preserved.
The immediate cause of this affair has nut, as yet; been cor-
rectly. ascertained. '
Joseph Aslip, was last week fully committed to Ilchester
Goat, Somersetshire,' far a rape on Elizabeth Challinger.-4511p
Lad undivstood that she was going tit* meet her mother in the
evelg, and knew that she must pass through a mill-house on
Pr,:r way, where the villain concealed himself, and on her enter-
leg the place, he rushed out upon her, and dragged her to the
mill-pit, where the noise of the water prevented her cries from
being distinctly heard, and succeeded in accomplishing his bru-
tal perrise. The young woman is about 18 years of age.
A very singular discovery has been made at CulcheAer, re-
specting the sex of a servant who had lived thirty years in a
family in that town, as hoitze-maid and nurse. Having lately
paid the debt of nature, it was discovered, on examining the
body, that the deceased had been a male. No reason is assigned
for his haring asumed the female garb ; as he had never, like
the Chevalier I)'un, excited suspicion, or been the subject of
bets and law-suits.

Last week, a woman at Leighton-Buzzard, Beds, actuated
by motives of jealousy, formed the resolution of murdering her
hush:Lod. For this purposse she heated a quantity of lead in a
tobacco-pipe, and while he was a...leep poured some of the li-
uid into his ear, but it had not the desired ellect. The suf-
rer, however, has since laboured under violent mental de-
rangement._

• At the •Warwick Assizes, William Bradbury was tried and
convicted of sellin7 forged notes, and was left for execution.
kit is •an old utreuticr, arid is said to have been the cause of
vore than fifty persons having suffered cfath for uttering the
sante. • , •

- 1 ast weolt, as Mr. 13c11, of Louth, a woman, and a boy,
were crossing the Trent, the ferryman hoisted the sail, which
frightening Nlr. li's horse, lie leaped overboard, and dragged
his owner ani the ft.i. rymin into the river, where they were
drkr.v.ned. 'Mi.:. woman and boy sustained no injury.-

ACCIDENTS AND °HINGES.

EXECUTION.
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Robert Blair, Who was convicted at, the Old Bailey Sessions,
held in erebruary last, and who was. respited for seven days,
on Vtiedeesday underwent the sentence of the Law, opposite
the Debtors' door, Newgate. His friends, ft appears, made ap-
plication to the Prince Regent for a reprieve, under a promise
that such matter would be brought forward in extenuation of
the conduct of the culprit, as might lead to a commutation of
his punishment. Upon die most minute investigation of the
case, however, no circumstances were found aufficiently strong
to warrant an exercise of the Royal-mercy; tlu final order for
his execution was therefore given. He appeared on the scaffold,
attended. by two friends, with whom he shook hands before he
was turned off. Upon the whole he conducted himself with
becoming fortitude, and met his fate with propel firmness; He
was a young man of respectable connexions, and those who are
aware of the motives which led to the commission of the crime
for which be suffered, ascribe his guilt to the bad example t,e,
certain notorious characters with whom he was acquainted in
Newgate. His wife, to whom he had been married but nine
months, and who was a young woman of amiable manners and
qualifications, is said to have died yesterday morning at font'
o'clock of a broken heart. From the time she knew her hus-
band's fate with certainty, she was inconsolable.
John Gould, for the murder of wife, suffered the sentence of
the law, on Wednesday se'nnight, on the new drop, in front of
the county gaol of Stafford. •
There were some circumstances attending this trial which
are worthy of notice. This ysittlt married at au early age,wit h-
out any ostensible means of supporting a wife and family beyond
his own labour. He worked, it appeared, for his father, in the
character of a servant, on a small farm. Fiteling a family comi:lg
on, his wife being pregnant of the second child, it appeared that
he had used violent and cruel means of producing abortion,
namely, crushing or elbowing his wife in bed, rolling over her,
&c. By these means abortion was produced, and the unfortti
nate mother died in a short time after, the wife and offspring
sharing the same fate. Before she expired she declared, accord-
ing to the evidence, that ill-usage of the above kind had been
the cause of her death ; and on this circumstantial evidsnco
Gould was found guilty. On sentence being passed upon him,
he exclaimed that he was murdered. _

Gould, after being conv,yed back to his cell, wept aloud, and
his cries were heard by the whole of the prisoners in the jail.
He appeared incapable of receiving consolation. His sentknce
came like a thunder-bolt upon him, and deprived him of every
manly exertion. He was attended with unexampled assiduity
a:id kindness by a reverend and respectable Clergyman, who
volunteered his truly. Christian services to prepare him for the
last awful moment. All, however appeared to be without any
particular effect. He was susceptible of nothing hut grief ; and
when his time approached,.it was with difficulty that he was in-
duced to leave his cell. He could scarce contain himself as he
was led thriough the different courts to the lodge. He was in a
manner heaved up to the platform, from which his cries were
heard by a numerous and sympathising populace, to a consider-
ably distance. He was launched off about ten minutes after
twelve, and appeared to die harder than is usual.