The National Register.
London, England, 1808-12-25 00:00:00

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POLICE.
Carturaskit..
ThursdaS, the infcirmationiagainst Mr. Wdodfalli printer; of
Pateruostersrow, came on to he heard; agreeably to adjourn-
ment, before Sir Matthew Mitcham. This information was to
recover a penalty of 20!. for not printing his name and place of
abode to a certain paper printed by him, or supposed Id be
printed in his printing-house. It was* large ptiSting-hill, eon=
taiuing libellous matter. The Duke of SasseX attended, to give
es idettee as to his knottledge of this MB and of Mr; Woodfall.
lie declared that he never saw Mr. Woodfall till that day; that
e knew nothing of the hill ranted, hoe the handLw riling of
the cover ; this hill having been sent under a cover directed to a
Mrs. Item. The only proof to substantiate this informatiou was
the evidence. of the Compositors and Pressmen in the employ of
Mr. VVoodfall, who could not swear that the hill proddced was
the same printed in raeir printing-office ; whets, after mtich al-
tercation between the Counsel on both 0(164, the Magistrate de-
tided, that the first information was ditt t,toved, and dismissed
it. it being then past four o'clock; the Informer desired per-
mission of the Alderman to postpone the hearing of the other in-
formations, as some of his witnesses oetre allsent. The flambee
bearing tsars by mutual consents poatponed to the ItOt of Jana
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ACCIDLNTS AND OFFENCESt
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PacrirtrirtsTlAL ESCAt&i.—A theifitleholy etent ntetirfed
Thursday at Pimlico, accompanied with very. •extraordinary
eircumstances. Mr. Man, a hair-dre4er, who resided in Kane-
14h-street; had, in consequence of is domestic misfortune, stif-
feted mental derangetnent ; but being; by medical:lid, recovered,
he some time since resumed hit occupation, Thursday morning
he atteirded, as usual, to dress and shaveseveral gentlemen in his
beighbourhowl, by whom he was touch esteemed: He had, in
nil, dressed and shaved nine of his eustomers, the last of whom
was Mr. Palmer, of Drury-lane Theatre, Immediately upon
his leaving Mr. Palmer, he returned home, without attending Id
any of bib other employers, and cut his throat with one of his
visors. The wound was so deep and extensive, that he died in
a few moments, The gentlemen with whom he had been, al
observed something very singular in his conducts and there is nol
doubt that, during the whole of the morning, he Was labouring
finder the terrible malady which induced him to put a period to
his existence. Each of the nine has reason, therefore, to be
thankful that the fatal razor was not applied to his neck before
the unfortunate maniaeraised it against his own.
An inquisition was taken on Wednesday, before A. Gen, Essi
coroner for Westminster, at the house of Mordecai Levi, a.lew
tioathets,man, in Brydges-street, Covent-garden, on the
body of
Mrs. Popham, who died by poison on Saturday evening. of
appeared by the testimony of Mr. Pophatn, husband of the de-
ceased. who is a gentleman of fortune, that Mrs. Popham rind
himself were in the habit of taking laudanum; and that on Sa-
turday evening Mrs. I'. sent her servant to procure two ounces
--she drank about an ounce and a halt' of the liquid, and died
in agony in four hours afterwards. Messrs. Stanton and Cavell,
Surgeons, were called in, and every means wete used, but in
vnin.—Verdict, Accidental death.
As Mr. Monroe; the Portuguese Interpreter, was coming
down the side of a ship, near the Cust -House Quay, at Pi}-
mouth, he slipped this foot, fell into the water, and was
drowned.

MARRIED.
Last Sunday, the tßth instant, at Christ-Church, Liverpool,
Mr. Stixotti, the celebrated Rope-Mower, to Mist. Cabanel,
IJaughter of Mr. Cabanel, Vauxhall, Loudon.

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On the 19th inst. at his house in Sloane-street, Patrick Home,
Esq. of Weddriburne, in the comity or Berwick, many years
Representative in Parliament for that county.
Wednesday -e'nninglit, at the age of 81 years, Hugo Meynell,
Esq. so, well known on the turf and in all the fashionable circle...,
for half eniury past. lie had been repeatedly attacked by
puralyt trokes. Ile has left a large property behind bins.
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