The National Register.
London, England, 1808-11-06 00:00:00

THE NATIOI4AL REGISTER.

lated aho.r, ct famitiea to .York Castle,
the offenze, The dark history does an eud

inn,. aged widow, in Meadow-lant, in this
livelihood by getting itp linen, wit another
of April last the graodsnu of this poor
.urs of age) had ocertAtined het• some uneasi
erred by Wianifred Bond, (a kind of agen

recommended to her Alary Bateman, as a
mote the cause of her distress; Judith con-
ked woman, who having learnt the nature
•onimended an application to Miss Blyth.
ria being consented to, Mary Bateman un
her dear friend. In a few days an ansn er
is lady, w hien shocked poor Judith beyond
.r contained a reproentation or a gallows,
tdage, a rope, accompanied by the horrid
grandson would he eA eciited on t 11,,! gallows
years of age, and that his fate could only
ineas being raised by the old woman, an
Hlyth should afterwards direct. It was

,r woman declared her inability to raise so

,reeress wai inexorable; the sun, WrtS
extreme difficulty, it way then put into a
;ed up in Jutlitlex bed, where it was to re•

unlooked at, until the boy had :Lttaiurtl
The foraler part of these instructions were
into effect, the money was deposited as
:election and apprehension of the witch hail
ter part, as far as *depended m► this poor
been scrupulously observed; but the ap•
.reress having dissolved the charm, the un-
her spells ventured on Saturday se'nnight,
look for her money ; it is hardly necessary
ed in vain—it was not to he found.
•t content with plundering this poor widow
fly prevailed upon her to wash for her three
he expellee of the postages incurred in
robbery..

been inentioned since the commitment of
las given rise to no sa►all share of em cc-
which ha,:tht, weary happy to say, ewaped
lagistracy.

Member, 1803, Miss Kitchen, a shop-keep-
mare, in this town, along with her sister
le over from Wakefield to vi►+it her, were
id nil three of them died w ithin ten days,
►id to a he Cholera ',thew ; a Physician of
lied in, to visit the last surviving sister, en-
, different opinion, and was so strongly im-
•F that their sickness and subsequent death
poisonous den;; having been received int►►
examined, with mach care, many of tb.•
isked if any water for poisoning dies had
•ssed a wish to open the body. The fisini-
no pessons.st hand who. thought thcm,elves
is permission, th,• corpse was interred un-
it probably the opportunity of detection,
hwilao wi,Jotii. It must be re-
ateman was on terms of the striilest inti-
ten, mei although she had no visible tstil-
y shout the fate of these unfortunate fe-
mtly about the house, and led her to pro-
m died first, a medicine from some couutr
)erhaps. After the death of t' e family it
11 Nliss Kitkhen's hook► were missing, and
diminished by plunder, that her creditors
lee in the pound. _

Bateman is very plantible ; of nn appear-
tahlv, ;lad, as Stinice;peare saya of Richard,
when she mist plays the Devil."

31.—0 n Fridny evening Mr. Cooke
auditory at the. Theatre. by appearing in
•ters, ShNterk, in The Merchant of Venice,
.casm,iu Low aln Node. ije was in goad
the two characters were delineated iu a
.uliarly his nun. Oil the follow ing even-.
yzerted his efforts on the'e boards, us Sly
nt, in 7'h. _Hnn of the World, tit au itu,
mahle, hut considerably more unitteroos
fore ite had fit:kiwi' his /lot scene.
rteeedingl,,, hoarse, that he felt himself.
ste.olustiitig in cousequeng.e, tat the amid t-

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once, which he did, observing that an tioarsene:s with w taco tit
late he had been afflicted, had suddenly seized him, but • teat pc
had great hopes that it would be but of very ehort coat iiiiuire;
Plaudits followed, and Mr. C. went on, and with great di!Pctil.ty
to himself, as the hoarseness continued, finis:ird t‘.e arduo,,4
task he had undertaken. The *scattier yesterday was siiowt ry
and, *aim Saturday, It rained incessantly from sun rise to Nilo
set. 'to-day the sky has been unclouded ; the sit.i, therefore,
,as had great power, but a strong bri ere has preiloo inateit
since dapbreak.-..-There was a numerous con;regatioit at !hi!
Sew Chapel, or Chapel Royal, ye:terilay mount): , etch
included HMO:. families of the first rank :vitt cinisequem,•. The,
at the Caale this evenine, it 1, expected, wi 1 tie ele.anlly
Attended and the Circus, from the attractive bill i t fate, pr
raises to be crowded. The Prince is now drill. 'ex petted at tad
Pavilion, thonirh 110 notice is to when rill as r, Ye
haws yet been merited there.
Cooler, ANTIQUITIES —ln the c mrse of last month 111 r.
Canning opened various barns sitt the u..ighbourtieo I iirStoile-
tienge, wider tile directiou Of Sir Its. h..r.1 Hoare, Bart au 1
with the aid and assistance of A. U. lambert, L.l. and found a
'lumber of curious remains of Celtic ornaments, such of bead.,
buckles, and broaches in amber, w and gold one of Whiejt,
for its elegance and appropriate form, is at once a proof of the
Mobility of the person fur whom' the harrow was raised, rind
the elegance of ilie arts at the period of the interment, about
3000 years from the reseal period. ether shape of tai, curious
article is conical, aid the exact form of the barrow itself,
which it was most probably intended to tizure. eke apiece
of wood, imbricated in layerii, one ever the ► her, to the sum •
mit of the cone, and covered who thin plates of pure gold, ant
adorned with circles round the middle, and near ttie bottom
with a triangular festoon about the lower edge, In which are
two holes fora thread or wire to suspend it.
. Pens:scat to Ft; 4 SS.—thi Thursday last, Mr. ilrynni, jun.
brazier, of Shrewsbury, for a wager, walked from the centre
of the English Bridge to 'Church Stretton, a distance of 13 mites,
in two hours and three-quarter, which he performed.wlth ease.
Cite time 'allowed was three hours. in the afternoon of the
following day, Mr. Piclodock, wine-merchant, also undertook
to go eight miles in an hour; the ground chosen for the per-
formance twos the bottom walk in the Quarry, which wits strew-
ed with sawdust far the occasion. Considerable sums were de-
pending on the event, and Mr. Pickstock won with ease, in one
minute and a half under the time.

On Tharsday evening, the ?7th ult. Stephen Siinamas, a shep-
herd's boy, about eight years of age, took snelo r the rain
in a cart shed, in /fusthperpolnt, where two large rollers were
placed nue upon the other, the uppermost of w;iieh fell upon
him, and unfortunately killed him apon the spot, A cbg which
attended the deceased was the tut n ofleading- to the di,cosery
of the accident, by repeatedly rimming home, and returning to
the hovel, until he atiriielcd the attention of the boy's father,
who as length followed the dog to the bore!, and there found
his ill-fated son lying on the gronnd, with the fatal roller upon
his head.-.—Verdict--Ircidental Death.