The National Register.
London, England, 1820-06-18 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

requested that he might be allowed to have a copy read
of an information which had been filed against him by
the Attorney-General. Ile made a similar application
aterday morning, but was nut attended to, as he had
no affidavit verifying the assertions which he made.—
He now informed the Court he held in his hand au
affidavit, which, with their Lordships' permission, he
would read. The affidavit stated, that the deponent
had applied for an office copy of the information, which
had been refused thin on account of his inability to pay
the customary fee, and that front this cause the officer
of the Court had refused to record his plea of " Not
Guilty." It was further slated, that lie had no means
of paying the fees, or of retaining professional assistance.
Baron Graham—Does your affidavit state punitively
that you are unable to employ counsel?
Mr. Edmonds—lt does, lily Lord. Mr. Edmonds
read that part of the affidavit in which this fact was
sworn to.
Baron Graham—Bui the Court will require a much
mare explicit affidavit before it can interfere. Yon must
state it in the usual terms, and then you may be allowed
to sue in prima pauperis. We can do no more.-
Mr. Edmonds—My Lord, I have been informed that
a custom exist* of reading the information to those who
carrot afford paying for a copy. It is, 1 believe techni-
ca:ly called granting ore.
Baton Graham.—lt is first necessary that you should
prticc«l as the Court has directed. lb nut take up our
Buie mineceasarily.
Mr. Edmonds.—l should wish then, my Lord, to be
lieu don the t.acts mentioned in the affidavit. It is hard
that a person should be obliged to pa y for a copy of an
information charging luau with all offence of velitah it is
probable he may he 'nowt not guilty.
The Court here interfered, and would not allow Mr.
Edmonds to proceed.

For some days past the inhabitants of the Kent.
road have been much annoyed and alarmed by loud
screams, which seemed to issue from a cottage in the
occupation of a woman of questionable character,
whose husband is confined in Horsemonger-lane
prison on a charge of forgery The shrieks were
continued daily almost without intermission, which
induced the landlord of the Green Man public-house,
and live or six others of the neighbours, to take
some measures to ascertain the cause. An attempt
was made to force the door, but it failed, and one of
the squares of glass was then broken, and a man
lifted up to the window. In one corner of the room
he beheld three poor children, the eldest of whom
was not more than eight years old, lying on a straw
pallet, and so exhausted with weeping and hunger
that the eldest could hardly reach the window; they
said, that their mother was in the habit of going
out early in the morning, and not returning some-
times all night, but more frequently for two days
' together, during which they were left entirely
without food, and locked up. The neighbours sup-
plied them with food for a day or two, during which
they kept a watch for the inhuman mother, who did
not return home till two o'clock in the morning,
and then she was quite drunk. A deputation of
the inhabitants, consisting of four persons, waited
on Alderman J. J. Smith, at the Town Hall, to
whom the case was detailed, and the worthy Alder-
man immediately advanced a sum from the City
Funds to be applied to their use, it' necessary, and
despatched Reeve, the Marshalman, to the house,
whose picture of their situation was most deplorable.
The parish officers have since taken the unfortunate
children under their care, but their unworthy parent
has disappeared.
A youth, named White, about thirteen years of
age, son of a shoemaker in Highfriar-street, New li
castle, fell from the Quay, near the Custom-house,
into the river Tyne, on Friday se'nnight. 'lwo
sailors, from vessels lying near, soon jumped in to
attempt his rescue, but neither being able to dive,
their endeavours were fruitless. A young seaman,
named Lewis, immediately plunged in, and suc-
ceeded in dragging the youth from the bottom. He
had, however, been upwards of ten minutes in the
water, and all appearance of animal life was entirely
suspended. He was immediately taken to a suitable
apartment in the Three Indian Kings tavern, and a
professiunal gentleman, named Dixon, was sent !lir,
who had been eminently successful in restoring
drowned persons to lot', and who had, in the same
house but a short time before, restored a person to
l►te under similar eireunistantes. Ile happily soon
arrived, and after proper preliminary treatment of
the body, succeeded iu inflating the lungs of tile
y owl g man with Ins own meuth, before the appara-
tus fir rt storing drowned persons could he procured
from the Town Court, where it is Ise, t. In a short
time his exertions to restore suspended aLimation
were crowned with success, much to the joy of the
afflicted parents ut the youth. A nutn. er of mer-
chants and tradesmen on the spot humanely ren-
dered every assistance in their power, and a
subscriptioa was set on foot to reward the young
svatual), who by his intrepidity had rescued the
youth flout a wati.ry grave
The situation of the South of Ireland is must dis-
tressing. lit the space of one fortnight eight Banks
have stopped payment, one of which has subsisted
nearly a hundred years, and others upwards of half
a century.

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THE NEWOATZ SPECTRIS!—A report lately reached
Mr. Brown, that some of the convicts under sentence of
death in Newgate complained of being visiied by a
ghost, which appeared to them at ten o'clock at night,
I and in a short time afterwards a regular statement of
what they called the facts was made out and sent to the
keeper. Mr. Brown sent back an answer, with which •
they were not at all satisfied. He said, that if they had
been engaged in prayer, and as sincere in their repentance
for their past crimes as they professed to be, the silly
apprehension of ghosts would not trouble them. One
of thetu d,clared that a ghost with red whiskers suddenly
appeared before him in a flash of fire, and after crying
out, " Henry Martin, when will you pay me the death
you owe ma' vanished in an instant! Another said,
that at the very moment the ghost appeared to him he
Was at his prayers, and although he prayed fervently the
apparition gave a loud knock, and said, "Jack, Jack,
when will you pay me the death you owe me?" The
departure was as sudden as the app,oach, and the smell
of brimstone was so shoot; that the unfortunate convicts
entertained no doubts as to the region from which the
ghost bad come, and to which it was about to lead the
way. Tile laughter to which those declarations exposed
the convicts, whatever effect it might have upon the rest
of the prisoners, did not remove the impression upon
their minds that Newgate was in the hands of the father
of darkness. They however thought fit, after having
• been assured by Mr. Brown that one of the fraternity
had been amusing himself at their cxpence, to make
some enquiry, and they succeeded in ascertaining that a
convict, named Hay, was the ghost, and the flame of
fire and the brimstone. Hay had taken it into his head
to try whether five men, who had not been afraid to
commit robberies day or night, would be afraid of a
sound and the light of a candle at night. There are five
condemned cells in one passage, in each of which there
is a prisoner. At tell o'clock, when all was dark, Hay
entered the passage, knocked at the door of one of the
cells, spoke a few words, and thrust a lightesl candle
through a hole, which is just Inge enotigli to, admit it,
and as sud•leilly withdrew it, to tne consternation of the
inmate, vs, ho creed out, "0 Lord, have imrey upon usl"
He did the same at the doors of the oilier film cells, and •
exclamations of fright were heard at each. He then
vole away, after having uttered a deep groan, which was
re-echoed hoot the cells. _

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Las 613F.AU.7171);314RERE PRILIPPII.--Vrere
anxious to rear a youth in the utmost innocence, seclu-
ded Mtn entirety front the world. Adjoining his pre-
raises was a garden, the door of which was Ks long
closed, that Philippe never thought it would be re-
opened. One day, how..ver„ clomig his absence, this
door flew Irons its fastening and his eleve, then S 8 years
of age, for the first time beheld a woman ; she was of a
corresponding age, and one °radiuses choicest be nines .
the youth, equity astonished and enraptured, flew
towards her ; tier timidity rather than her iticlinatiota
nude tier evade his approach ; and Phmltl, w, on his
return, found his eleve dejected and strangely agitated.
The cause explained, Philippe assured 'hut the object
he had seen was a bird; that there were many kinds of
them, but all dangerous, and should be carefully avoided.
Tneyouth, however, remained sullen and unsatisfied,
and curious to see another of the species, Pitilippe pro-
mised he would procure one that had been tamed,
which he should have a fair opl y of examining:
and, as it was his %visit to divert the mind 0, his scholar
from all thoughts of the fair sex, he prevailed (lion a very
plain and aged woman to come into his views and
submit to be exhibited. When the youth was iwroduced
It is easy to conceive how different were his sensations—
he clapped his hands, screamed and homed. to make the
old bird betake herself to her wings, but to no eflect he
discovered the trick, ani was eventualiv introduced to
and united with the firs, object of his afiVctions. This
story is drainstizeil in a popular opera on the French
sta;:,e ; and it IS now ro:iiimm, ii Pirls, In deuchninafe

oisea•,.r de !se•re Philippe
Curious fact in Ornithology.—A Turkey cock,
at Mr. John Fisher's Whiteleigh, near Preston, has
taken possession of a common lien's nest, containing

seventeen eggs.
Ports.—Lodgings being announced for single
gentlemen in a genteel neighbourhood, the other
day, with an N.B. that they would not be let to any
poet:, a gentleman was curious enough to enquire
the reason, when he was given to ir,derstantiby the
landlady, that the resolution she had fi,rnied aroso .
from her having let the lodgings to three different
poets in her time, who had only dotted the floor all

over with ink, spoilt her looking glasses with wicked
rhymes, crowded her door with duns all day long,
and run away at last without raying her a farthing
of her rent.

first stone of tt. charity school at Costessey,
which is to he erected ut the expellee of Sir
Jerningham, Bart for the education of the poor of
that place was laid on Thursday se'nnight.
Mrs. Kean accompanies Mr. Kean to America,
they sail for New York early in September, with Mr.
Price, the Manager of the New fork• theatre. Mr.
Kean intends to make a complete protZ!ssional tour
through the United States, and returns to England .
in about l!-? months,

SUN! MER CIRCUITS.
Floatc—Lord Chict Justice Alkou, and %Ir. Baron Wood.
NORFOLIL—LottI Chat Justice Dallas, and Mr. Juake
Miro) d.
VIII/LAND.—l.urd Chid Baron IticiutrdA, and Mr. Baron

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GetITOW.
W EST r. Baron Graham, and Mr. Justice Burrough.
NortTuEux.—Mr. Justice Bayley. and Mr. Justice Park.
Oxtroao.—Mr. Justice Debt. and Mr. Jusuce Itichartlwri,
The plague has again broken out in Tunis, and
Las already carried gif halt' the inhabitants.