The National Register.
London, England, 1821-10-08 00:00:00

lIHIRDAR AT HIGHGATE.

rINAL EXAMINATION OV BARRETT AND MR WIVE.
Friday being the day aopointed for the lioal CR3llil-
- of Barrett and his wile, on a charge of robbery at
Mr. lln hettild', and to be re-examined on stispielott Of
the minder, they were bontalit up from the House of
Corn clion at ao early hour, and at 9 o'clock the JU,LiCe
ROOlll VV:I, crowded to excess.
The following appeared in evidence on Friday before
Dr. Owen :
EfizMet b Hopkins remembers on the morning that
Sellers, Mr. Male's watchman, was murdered, at about
I alf-past six oclock she was going With her husband's
breakfast to a field where he was mowing for a Mr.
Thompson, in Mouses-lane: ou proceeding along she
saw the prisoner Barrett torn down the lane, and he
stopped to consider which way he would turn he
crossed a field calf: 1 Ashbutt's field, exactly at the back
of Mr. Hale's home, and near some hay-stacks there was
a black than sitting in a hollow ; Barrett, who appeared
as if he had left the black man, crossed the field and
ehmlied over a stile at the further end, and proceeded in
a confused direction to the point where she had fist seen
him ; the black man went away. She could not lie mis-
taken as to his person ; she had known him previous to
that manning.
Dr. Owen remarked, it was under suspicious circum-
stances that a shirt n oh marks of blood upon the sleeve
had been found under the hay stacks mentioned. It
was found by a Mali named Frehl, who had it iii his
possession. A man named Murphy had been appre-
hended on suspicion of us being his, in Coltscyneotc of
his having pm a new shirt on, and in order that he
should gue an account of the old shirt he had left off.—
It was, however, itivol% ed in mystery, and for want of
evidence lie was discharged. A bloody stocking was
also produced here, and inspected, which hail been
found at Barrett's lodgings.
The pri over denied strongly that the witness, 'Mrs.
Hold,. ins, saw him cross the field, and climb over the
mile. He went in the morning to tell the deceased's son
that Irk father was dead.
Dr. Owen asked the witness whether she considered
that way which the prisoner Warett was going, the
nearest to Crouch-cod, where Barrett said he was
going to, or would she have gone that way to Crouch-
end?
IVitness said that it was not the way to Cronch-end.—
She would not have gone that way, had she been gobig,
there: she s •w him get over sonic fences.
Barret was again asked whether he wished to say tiny
thing? He answered, all that he had to say was, that
he was wring to the deceased's son at Crunch-end, but
he never went out of the road all the way, us Cud was
his judge.
Mrs. Hopkins said, he was dressed in a short shooting
jacket, and the saute dress as he had on now.
Barrett Said lie had a nephew residing at Tottenham,
and they had a pint of porter together at the Swan public
house the same night.
Mrs. Hopkins said that she afterwards saw Hornell, and
she pointed him out 10 a Walt as the person slut saw
under suspiciwis ciretinistaoces ou the morning of the
murder; that man had reinaved Irons Highgate, but he
could be found.
A boy again was examined, and swore that he saw a
Wats! titan oil ti morning of the murder in a hollow
near the lane in which Barrett passed.
A man named Lewis also saw a black man on the
sante morning; he was dressed hke a sailor; he had
been lurking about in a very suspicious manner.
The priwucrs were next examined ou the charge of
robbery at Mr. Rothchild's, and fully committed for
trial ou that charge, but remanded on suspicion...is'.
murder until further enquiries are made into
Toe ',risotto/ it. tho course of the day wet,
Ntwpte.

THE NATIONAL REGIS'T'ER

ALARMING OccuaitaNcE.—On Thursday afternoon
the vicinity of Oxford market, Oxford-street, was thrown
into considerable alarm and consternation by the falling
of three houses situated at the corner of John-street,
Oxford-market. The shock was so sudden and trensen-
dons, that the persons residing its houses near the spot
were so terrified, that they fled float their dwellings,
and ran to ascertain the cause of the tremendous shock
which they had heard. On arriving on the spot where
the accident had happened considerable horror was ma-
nifested, as several persons were reported to have been
buried in the ruins, as two of the houses were inhabited.
In a short time they fortunately Succeeded in rescuing
two women and a man front their most perilous situation,
who had sustained consideralite bruises. They were
Cirvied to the Middlesex Hospital. One of the females
is an elderly woutao near (Ni years of age; fortunately no
other person received any material injury. The work-
men were busily employed during the evening in n nuts.-
the rubbish, and code:lst-twit% to te:certao whether any
other persons were in the ruins. It happened extremely
fortunate that several of the initiates were absent at the
time of the accident. One of the houses is a complete
pile of mils, the se the others only remain standing.
Flkk.—On Thursday mornitig, about four o'clock,
an alarming fire bn,ke out in one of those retreats of
poverty and wretchedness, sitnatrd in Church-late, St.
Giles's. The 'louse being a receptacle fur the accommo-
dation of persons Mille very li,west description, who take
up their nightly Imlgings, was much crowned. On the
alarm of lire being git en, a scene took place which baf-
fles all description. Men, women, and children, were
seen miming in all directions, in a half state til nudity,
to escape from the devouring element, the nos ty-stricken
appearance of whom presented a most finished picture of
b 111-I II Misery. By the active exertions of the watchmen
and others, the fire was fortunately subdittd, without
extending its ravages beyond the house in which it begat'.
Ott Thursday morning, about I I o'clock, Air. W.
Woodio, a master bricklayer, residing in Grub-streel,
was repairing the roof 41l the house Iteloitging to Mr.
Wheatley, a indicter, in Crown-street, Foushury-square,
when suddenly his loot slipped, and he was precipitated
into the street, a height of 50 feet, and falling ou his
head, his scull was dashed to pieces.
lit the evening, of the 17th ult. the post boy convey-
ing the Dublin mails f Castlebar to Balboa was at-
tacked on the road within a tattle of the town of Bally-
vary, by two armed men, who dragged him oil his horse,
beat hint with relentless cruelty, and robbed hint of the
muds. A reward of 'm 1. has been tarred for their ap-
prehension. On the evening of the tOth ult. the post
boy conveying the Dublin bag from Raihkeal to Askea-
tou was attacked by Mtn armed men, who robbed him
of his mail, after treating him with similar barbarity.
Asceni of Mr. Gems—Ou Tnesd ty last upwards of
30,000 persons assembled in Black Rock Bottom, Brigh-
ton, on the adjacent hills, to witness the ascent of Mr.
Green, its his Coronation Balloon. The weather was
fine, and the atmosphere particularly clear, with a smart
breeze front the north-west. Twelte was the time an-
nounced for the ascent; but, 110111 some cause or other,
the public was kept in anxious suspense until eight mi-
nute., past two, es I the balloon was seen to rise in a
slow and majestic style. The aeronaut waved his hat
and was cheered by the spectators. From the weight it
bore, the halltom took it south-westerly direction, de-
scended so low as to admit Mr. Green to touch the earth
with one of it is feet, about a hundred yards from the
gasometer, whence he ascended. By throwing out bal-
last, however, it again ascended, taking a north-westerly
direction—that is, carrying tl r. tireen out to sea. The
balloon for the space of twenty-six minutes was visible
to the naked eye, and for a short time afterwards was
perceptible by the means of a telescope. Late in the
anernoott the mate of the Undy packet, Captain Clear,
arrived at Brigh•on' express Isom Seaford, with the in.
telligetice that NI r.Green with his balloon, had been
picked op at sea, about four miles front that place, by
the above vessel.

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A scene 01 desolation pre►ented itself on ►he coast near
Appledure and Bideford, on Saturday morning last. It
was strewed with the wrecks of property washed in by
the tempestuous waves. A vessel belonging ro Corn-
wall was made a complete wreck, and her crew dtow ti-
ed, but her sails and rigging were preserved through the
seal and activity of the mariners of the place. A ves-
sel, without any person on hoard, was also brought um;
and some men belonging to a Clovelley boat, were pick-
-01 up at sea, bin, by the huinaite exertions of the sail-
!
rs. were saved front inevitable death.
FATAL MARRIAGE'... John Kingston, a carpenter,
was lately married at Ansford, near Castle Carey, to
Mary Aldridge, a respectable young woman of the same
.place, and on his rising to go to work early on the fol.
lowing MOthilig, he observed to his wife that she
" looked ;:ale;" her reply wa•, that" she was very well."
In hall eu hour after, the milkman called as usual, but
could ut ke uo one hear ; this was observed by a female
neighlamr, who immediately went up stairs, and found
the mw-thatle bride a lifeless corpse.
Au inquest was last week held by Mr Clare. on the
hotly of John Hillier, a shepherd of Savernacle, near
Tottenham-park, Marlborough-forest. who, on Saturday
the 22d NIL. meeting with his sun-in-law, Henry Broad-
way, threw himself into a very violent passion, accusing
Broadway of acting cruelly towards his wife (deceased's
daughter), soon after which he was lound dead.—
Verdict,:—Died by the visitation of the Almighty.
Last week a flock of sheep, belonging to Mr. Kellam,
of Byton-upon-Dtansmare, mar (7 y, strayed into
a field of wheat which had been cut, and eat a qtaahtity
of the ears; in consequence of which two died on the
following due. *ori it was thought necessary to slaughter
nineteen,
Coale ''s._—On Sunday week a
7-^l'• -I)enver, in Norfolk,
at the White
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Earl Stanhope is pursuing the cottage-system tv a
great extent on his estate in Devonshire. Ir that
county the labourers build cottages of mad walls
and thatched, which are done at a very easy ex-
pense: his Lordships lets to the labourer as much
ground as will suffice for a house and garden, on a
forty years' lease, on condition that he builds a
house, in a specified time, of not less than three
rooms, and a cow-house, for 2s. 6d. per annum; he
also lets him as much uncultivated land as he can
manage, which is generally about five acres, some-
times more, on a fifteen years' lease, and for the
first five years, as it will be burdensome to him to
divide and subdivide the ground and erect fences, at
the rent of 2s. (id. per acre ; for the next five years
at 5s and for the last 7a. 6d. making en average of
5s per acre for the whole period: and this is done
with every prospect of complete success. So desir-
ous are husbandmen to obtain ground on these con-
ditions, that one labourer came from the extremity
of Devonshire for the purixtse, and his Lordship
had great satisfaction in complying with his request.
In consequence of the recent disgracefhl outrage
in Charles-street, Drury-lane, the gentlemen con-
nected with St. Giles's have determined to put a stop
to such disgraceful practices in future. At a meeting
which had been held, a resolution had been framed
and adopted that an extra patrol should be formed
at the expense of the parish, for the purpose of
parading this vile neighbourhood both night and
day ; and all suspicious characters are to be appre-
hended. The patrole is to consist of flaur respect-
able persons, who are to be dressed in a kind of livery;
two of them tare to parade and occasionally relieve
each other during the six days, and on Sunday the
other two are to be employed ; and it is hoped that
this mode pursued by the parish will not prove
ineffectual. The late circumstance of Thayers
being thrown out of a window in the above street,
gave rise to the institution of the above plan.
Fersak Acronaui.—On Sunday the 9th ultimo,
Mlle. Cecilia ascended in a ballon at Marseilles; the
event very nearly proved fatal to the intrepid he-
roine. The balloon having struck against a mast
became entangled, and lost its power to ascend, it
could not clear a neighbouring house without beat-
ing hard against a balcony. Mlle. Cecilia received
a violent contusion on her side, and a severe injury
to her hand. She was indebted for her safety to her
unshaken courage ; aware of the full extent of the
danger, and that she must be precipitated from roof
to roof, she determined to throw out the ballast ;
but having caught hold imperfectly with her wound-
ed hand of a sand-bag, the contents of which fell
into the boat : her courage enabled her to despise
this new accident. The balloon after much exer-
tion, was extricated from the mast and the house,
and taking a sudden spring, mounted majestically to
the height of 1,500 wises. The gas escaping in the
ascent through an aperture, the lady came down
sooner than she expected, at the distance of a league
from the timn. - -

Monday night a fire broke out in an uninhabited
qouse in Queen-street, Worship-street, Finsbury-
shuare, in consequence of a spark flying amongst
some shavings, which the carpenters had left in one
of the apartments. The house was completely de-
stroyed.
Two boys, of the ages of 14, wishing to see the
town and ships of Southampton, started from Salis-
bury last. Tuesday morning, and reached Southamp•
ton by four o'clock ; after rambling about, one of them
lost his hat in a boat in which he was cast away in
the river. Meeting his companion again, they kept
looking round the place all night without a wink of
sleep , started for Salisbury on Wednesday morning,
and having neither friends nor money they never
ate a morsel until their return to Salisbury next day
at 12 o'clock. Captain Barclay's match is a trifle
to this. _ _ _

Presence if Mind.—An Irish labourer, near
Richmond (Virginia) who was blowing rocks at 200
feet below the surface of the earth, had prepared
his match fur a blast, and was ascending in the
bucket to get clear of the explosion, when the rope
broke, and he fell 50 feet to his old place of labour.
He immediately clapped his hands on the burning.
match and extinguished it ! What an awful mo-
ment !
There are three brothers residing within the pa-
rish of Penicuick, near Edinburgh, whose united
ages make 259 years, and all of them enjoy their
full mental faculties.
On Wednesday last was said, by order of the Sur-
veyor-General of his Majesty's OtEm of Works, a
large quantity of valuable materials used for fitting
up the coronation, and some taken from the Courts
of King's Bench and Chancery. There was also a
great portion of the timber used for the acitsminno.
elation of the respectable Italian witnesses, in Cot-
ton-garden.
' By a letter from the agent to Lloyd's at Genor,
dated the 22d ult. all vessels bound there from Ma-.
tugal, Spain (including Gibraltar), the South 1
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Franco, and Balearic Islands, arc to be subjected to
tea days quarantine in the Guif of :vezzia.