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London, England, 1814-11-13 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

lion heiti., tl•at al touching the adeowson, the Court are of
',pinion. that the zoon.l pat' of the contract may stand, tend that judg-
iiient therjorc tun,t be tor the pl,tintilf."--Tlttt‘ has finely been ruled,
The le.;al and import:tot tight c.st Ect.lesiastica; patronage, by a distinc-
soleionly totjuthe;eti between the ii.fhts of a pre-sent:okm and
apputida...t to an od.:owsou in lee. I.lv thia decree., the Rev. Sir
Henry 1: Dudley, Bart. hccoraes pf).oFSt.ql of the va:uable advoween
ut the ltectory Bradt el. near the S-a, in Ktsex.

POLICE.

QI;EEN-SQUARE

DFTON AT NO-BA I I.:N.—l:llday, Cuthbert, of St. MArtites-lane,
chemist. ts,is Fit:nnioutd, uu infortuatime respecting the sale of
fire-works, called detonating balk ; and for selling than to a youth,
Panted Thomas Clarke, on Saturday last, whitli paid) was himself Con•
rieted on that day in the penalty of 't Os. h.r expluding some ut them
in St. James's Park. Mr. Cuthbert was accompanied by lir. Cooper,
06Cli ist, previously convicted, and by the justly cele-
brated Ci:pirliti Vanity.
The tact of the sa:e hat ittg !e'en proved,
Nr. Fieldivg observed, :hat the wily renviining question was, whether
these balls came within the meaning of the Act tal..ich related to "squibs,
rot kets, or,otherfire-works ?" Ills opinion that they did wits strength-
en. .d by eveiN definition that he consulted, and every etymology that
he traced. Ti.e word squib, the first part of the nominative to fire-
worlo, was defined by ionte-tur to be a small pipe Of paper, tilled with
wild fire. It was a pyrotechnic, and in the furtherance of the art, the
Act did not require gunpowder only to be used, for throughout the
Statute the went gutipowder was raver once mentioned. It had refer-
ence to the creation of artificial e, not such as was displayed by
mature in her common appearances. To go farther, squib was a species
of what the Latinists called " Mini/Ma," which were thus defined by
Littleton, 'fire balk, squibs, crackers." That these fulminating balls
emitted flame was evident to every eye ; that they contained the
lgueous element, Mr. Banks's experiment had put beyond a doubt ;
and that they were ntischievons, it could not now be disputed.
Captain Munby ndrebted that they through out flame, hut such flaree
was not tire ; he, however, could turn such light into fire. Notwithstand-
ing Mr. Banks's mishap, he still inalittaieed that the explosion of a
thousand t f these bads would not ignite eunpow der, except by the acci-
dental meeting of two particles ; au accident similar to thus which until
occasioned the loss of many lives by the explosion of gunpowder mills.
Ire had been turning his mind to the means of in-eventing such melt:lt-
- tehob,- mischiefs, rind he hoped soce to succeed.
Mr. Fielding having spoken nut only of the wonderful power of fire,
but of variotto species of fire now utiktiown, particularly the unextin-
gnishabie Greek fire, shot through tubes, and by means of which
Callinicus preserved Constantineple,
• Cale. Mitnby replied, that he could produce fire of" such hellish
city4i6es" th:it the most rapid destrnetiou veould follow wherever it
y..ftlt, slid that it was not only unextinguishable, but that water would
i:,crcase its fury. This secret, however, was locked in his own bosom,
it would never escape thence, except the honour and safety of his
country required it. He spoke of another invention which he deemed
the most valuable of all his labours, that wele constantly directed to
tuf;:iry, by which mortars might be fired, although the rain were to
descend in buckets.
Mr. Fielding then pronounced Mr. Cu:hhert to stand convicted in
the penalty of 51. laid costs.

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE AIURDER AT
MALI)ON.

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In our paper of Oct. SO, we Etated as much of this horrible mur-
ds'r as was then known. We are now enabled to communicate the
following interesting particulars, front The.Thunton Courier.
William Seymour, the young man su,peeted, had lately returned
from sea, where he had been sent for anal-practices, and he was
traced to Faint): idge Ferry, the same evening, where he had crossed;
and as it afterwards appeared, had taken his course for Tilbury. Ow
the road lie stopped at Pitbea, where he sold a watch ter vzs. and a
wit of beer, and ‘vlsich has since proved to be that which was taken
from the deceased.
While the travellers, on foot and on horseback, were performing
their part, the inhabitants of 111aldon, %villa a Coroner and a Jury,
wore sitting upon the body, instituting the most minute enquiries.
:Judge:on was produced, which was in a great measure, identi-
tied oy the young gentleman before mentioned, and by the account
children mud °there, who had seen Si.yalonrs not a shadow of