The National Register.
London, England, 1808-08-07 00:00:00

AUGUST 7.

fling, uiiich cat ried away one of the sails and the back, nearly
blew tin' the roof on both sides, burst the two iron hoops with
the win.l shaft, injured the wind wheel, and split the wind shaft
from the neck nearly to the tail and gudgeon, and set the roof
on fire in two places ; then descending, it tore up the trap-doors
awl three boards adjoining, without doing any further injury to
the miller's father, who was sitting about 18 inches from the
trap doors at the time, than scorching his hands; his watch
%%as also stopped. Another man was coining down the ladder
fr:rai the upper room at the time, who did not receive any in-
jacy. It blew both the doors of the round-house open, and
too a large piece f:om the bottom of the shaft.
fevers may be e xpected to be very prevalent during the pre-
Sent hot weather, it may not be unserviceable to remind our
Headers, that .cast, 'taken frequently in small quantities has
hitherto been found an excellent remedy.
A labouring woman, at lsleworth, laid her child in the grass,
to sleep, while she pursued her work ; on her return she found
that during her absence a snake had attacked and killed her

A STO N ISII I NG PRODUCE.--A part of Tweedmouth common,
rontainin;t• about twenty-three acres, the property of James
Yor,ter, Poqinaster of Berwick, was bought a few years
fiAo for four :n•res of which have this season produced the
antaving q.noitity of 150 U stones of hay. It stood so thick
in the held, that the mowers would not cut it down at the ordi-
nary prices.
lion' TO at.r,lcr PAPER FIRE PROOP.--tuunerse any kind
tit h.,per i❑ a strong solution of alum water, then thoroughly
dry it: immerse, and dry it again and neither tire nor candle
ill hum it.

HOME CIRCUIT.
HERTFORD ASSIZES, TUESDAY, AUG. t

George and Thomas Shepherd and William Freeman, were
indicted for stealing on the 1-.2th of July, three !liver tea-spooos,
a -I! ver poach ladle, a glass pepper castor, and a wine glass,
from the l'edlar's Arms Public-house, ou Hertford Common.

Cnrwood, as Cotorsol for the prosecution, called for the
serious attention of the Jury, inasmuch as this case was attended
uith singular circumstances, and it would he a question of the
iiacntiuu of the prisoners, for of the fact of their taking the ar-
ticle, alleged, there could be no doubt. Of the three prisoners
at he bar, Freeman %vas the son of a most respectable trades-
man ; the tu o others were brothers, the eldest of whom was
pia n:o..a. than IS, and the other Ili years of age ; they %%ere the
f.ntis of a getaleomn of great respectability and of large fortune, •
;Ind mere nearl•,. allied to persons who had held a must exalted
units in the country. Ln pity to the agonized feelings of their
telati yes, 1w could not be expected to state more explicitly their
sminectinns ; they here, under their father's will, though nei-
the, t t them was the eldest son, to inherit a fortune of `20,000t.
each oil coining of age. The facts of the case uere very short.
On the VOth ut Jets' the three prisoners left London as early as
II"' "-dock in the morning, on horseback, and took the road to
llrtttord. They called at several public-houses, and drank at
eara. u ;vole of their conduct, in hard rioting and drinking,
v%as not ta.it of persons decorously pursuing their pleasures in a
inainicr betittiog their stations in life, but rather that of persons
gt% ing way to the unrestrained pursuit of their irregular ca-
prices. They anis et! at the house of the prosecutor some time
ill the foreamn, where theN had some ale and bread and cheese,
and soon iiCtec departed. Immediately after they were gone, the
hapllattv missed the articles stated in the indictment; she gave
the al.trin to her ‘.41-diaud, who pursued them, and they were
apiirc:iended iu IValtham Abbey Alarshes. They were search-
ed, and the articles found upon them. With respect, therefore,
to th.• fact, there could bena doubt; but the question would be,
with what 'locution they took the articles. The Learned Coon-
" said it was not every taking against the will of the owner
which was a felony, hut it mu•t he done with a felonious Wen-
tiln--55itlt an inten:ion of secretly taking front the owner witn
view to convert it to the use•of the taker, with no design of ever
accounting with the (miler. It the Jury helieveit they acted
with that intention they must tied them guilty. But it, forth-
11.11ely for the prisoners, it should be thought that they did it as
a mad frolic, in the wildness of momentary whim', with an in
tention of returning the articles, it would be no felony.
he 'mallard of the Pedlar's Arms proved the fact as stated.
IV Itch he pursued the prisoners, in company v. ita a constanle,
the% ►ccre found in Waltham Abney A'arshrs. They were there
th:ir horses backyard and forward. fie addressed
them, and said they were the persons who had taken his spoons.