The National Register.
London, England, 1816-09-30 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL TITC;ISTEII.

MIDDLES FX SESSIONS.

Tuesday, Sarah Sent/ sins !•ntTo the bar charged with cruelty
toward, her infant step-daughter, a child under 4 years of age.
Ti. partieutars of this shocking case have already brim fully
eciailed in the report of the proeeedit.gs before the magistrates.
The child hail hi en treated vs ith every :r :Tics of critelty,stml.
when dkroveied by the neighbours, was in a most einactated
state, nearly starved, and covered with wounds and !main*.
The present prosecution Is as instituted and carried on by the
parish officers of St. The Jury stow fount her Guilty,
and the Court sentenced her to one year's Impritonment in the
House of Correction.

Wednesday evening, between nine and ten o'clock, as •
young man, allot. mime ef Bradlee, lately from Taunton, So-
inersetsloire, was meturning firom Oxforttstreet. on his way to
his lodgings la New eat e-s: ref.?, he wil% erenstell, near the end
of Dynt street, St. Giles's, by a female, sexy genteely dressed,
who requested him to ;teem:many lorre to her lodgings.
he very prudently de.cliced. Font or five fellows immediately
came top and am mond! if him, by which he Vino detained for
some minutes. and, by sliming and hustling him, the villains
contrived to rob him of his watch, and ninon sr yen shillings in
' silver, with which they male their eseapc. Mr. B. rartionately
was advised bv a friend, with whom he had been, in the neigh-
bourhood of Argyle-street, to loave Iris pocketbook silk him
till next morning, which contained bank motes and bills to the
amount of between 901. and 1081.
'Wednesday morning one of the Exeter and Plymouth coaches,
heavily laden. in pea:sing thrologn Hammersmith, on its way
out of town, came down with a tremendons crash, in conse-
quenee of the fore axle-tree breaking. A minor, who was on
the outside, had his aim broken; aood one female was taken up
in a senseless state, dreadfully bruised, if not tietioally killed.
None of the other pasaenzers were Mort. 'Ulm coach hail pre-
viously run foul o• Hammersmith turnpike, and poor Jack,
after this, repeatedly assured the pilot that the vessel was going
crank to leeward, mail wood(' soon founder; his prediction, bow.
ever, was olisregattled by Cu dice; and when the vehicle fell
over, Jack had joist manned his yards to meet the accident like
a Eallant seaman, by saving (he female part of the crew, in
which manly service he hod his and shivered. Ile was con.
veyed to a neighbouring surgeon's to have his wounds dressed,
and submitted to a most painful examination of the wounded
limb with the characteristic coolness of his profeseion.
Susannah Hoolroyd, for poisoning her Intsband, underwent
the awful sentence of the law, on the drop, behind Lancaster
Castle, on Aliaiolay se'nnigfor, ;limit noon. She haul previously
ark nowlcolged the justice of her sentence, coin'. ssing that she
had ad 'stored Bee peiaom to her husband, with whom she
hail quarrelled a few days before ; but she denied haying been
goilty of poisoning the two children; her son, she said, died in
consequence of her husband innocently giving him sonic of the .
gruel which be had left ; and the nurse-child, she said, died a
natural death. She appeared very peo..tent. Her body was
given to the surgeons too dissection ; anti was afterwards buried
hellion, the Castle. She is said to have attributed her untimely
end to having formed an improper connection with another
man, by whom she had three children.
COIIONERS's IPigrEsTs.--Sept. Ss, an inquisition was taken at the
Bedford Arms roblic-house, C..-inden.town, upon the body of It.
Ayton, a boy only nine secl.s old, who died in consequence of being
suffocated unintentionally by its mother. The Jury, efttt examining
the body of the deceased, returned the following verdict.—" Dim/ ty
anffornlion, from the anxious care of the mother, by prating it too close
to her breNt.'

SHOCKING CONSEQUENCE, or SETIT7CTION.—AII Inquisition
was taken at the Queen's Head Tavern, Lower-street, Islington, upon
viewing the body of Mary Shaw, spinster, who threw herself into the
New 'River at Lrlirgton, opposite Duncan's Terrace, on Vs'exlnesdny
night last, and was hum' next morning near the archway by John
Lucas, the wanliman of the New River, who took the body out of the
water end laid it upon the haul:. Ile gave information to Mr. Manton,
the sexton, who conveyeal the body to the vaults of the parish church.
There were no marks of violence about the deceased, she was in a state
of pugnancy si hen she threw herself into the water; she had a watch
by her side, and car-rings in her cars. The Jury retuned a verdict of
Found drowned in Me waters of the Nem Pryer.