The National Register.
London, England, 1812-08-30 00:00:00

Ater. SO.

,:nxict• .r ne to po ;If WS Tr 31, was so krcat, that the
co It was crowde.: to ex..ess hv six o'clock o the m.jrruog
The trial of Lmnas and Edi.h Morn y oceup'ed the Court from
ei,:ht In :he mottling till two in ,he i,frell..on. The hall wa crowt4l
to .:ulf)cation, and the itear w (Acre e Edith Morow, the temaic
•r when first br ugnt to the !gar, had vril het re tier face, hut
, ,
it was ortere' to b• taken Mr Sue c tvered her face ::uric; the vc hole
of :!)e w:rh her nawlkerchiet, and nlnst tit. the time reclined her
n !he front r-4 the bar ThrotightLlT the whole of The awful
pr,,:,!eth0.....) she • rese. Yeti a !--ulien unmoved hardness. We unAr
rind ,hat, thi:no, her examination by th- matrons, she 'shed tears.
d,:es atm appear, front the time of r imprisonment, to have
~,r hew:ions of convicted. Last week, it seems,
-rchaseyi some articles of wearing apparel, aild sp .ke confidently
of hmeas on Sat urlay last. Lomas, from his fit st being takei.
int .sust,,.!y, to the period of trial, openly and unreserve,:ly confessed
the ..t%m, in all its circwnstanees.
EXZCV lON OF ' OmAS.-011 Mond ,v se'nnight, this man was
ex:ca" t: rite ea„ front of the tic • City Gaol, Chester. He was
co uc'e.t Castle about twelve o'clock, and, supported by
th, „on. ;Abb. , wa:keu to the boundary rtf the city, • here he was
r ceived by ! ~icy Sherdn, and p,aced in a cart, which was in wait-
t. . he -g pitt nu() the cart, the unhappy youth fell
ui• n ku-es, in winch prv.r ire he continued, pastong along Casa:
11ti.1..e-strati, an : Water,,.ate-street, until he arrived at the new
•in co.,rse o tit in half to hour he appeared on the drop,
In ;lie view •t a Inver c.'ocoursc of s.secrators t!..tit ever was witnessed
tlyttn An% similar occasion He was attended by the Rev. Mr. Fi• h,
Chaplain to the c..•noty g 01, who, In tit.: foreoon h
ay administered
to him the sacrinent, pcar t. ap, particularly attene to his situ-
at•on. Tie mai• bad all along ex oce,scd a desire rather to die
than live; alit', in iced, every part of 10, deportment evinced the sin-
ce, iry of nis coarition app,•ared particnlark tervent in his devo-
tions ti)itn When the rope was idaced round his neck,
he a 'dies-tea s'one words to t e surr-mu:ding multitude, warning them
to take example by hi.; present awhtl situatton. Just before dr cap
wis drawn ovei his ta::e, he s,uut,:d ;he executioner ; and when every
ni cessat) -,Ojti,uneitt had taken place, lie gave tin, signal -dropping his
liatinkerchicf,—i he platform lel!, and be was launched into eternity.

UDDITES.—A letter, of which the following is a copy, has
h :en received by the I-Lone Secretary of Stetel from a Cheshire
trate :—Mv Lord, Yesterday several of the Luddites from the neigh-
beurhoed of Mottram, the most diiturbed in Cheshire, and bordering
upon the litniderstield eeighbotirhaod, caiee before me arid teuk the
oath of alkgiance. I have reason to expeet tiett numbers wiii follow
the:r example; and under the conviction that your Lorcishlp will be
pleased to hear of the Lod efrects of the late Act of Parliament far
previewing th • adnum .taring unlawful oaths, ated of the prospect that
now opens of the set sous alarms e.hick, since the inide of Febrino y,
h been subject to, •.übsiding, I have taken the likerty of making
the above commuhication. I have the honour to he, &c.
BR t sTot, AUG (22 —The following moat disgraceful and inborn .n
conduct was witnessed last week this city. On Wednesday., -s one
of the serjeants of the Leitrim Mihtia was walking, between S anti 9
o'clock, through St James's Church. yard, he was accested by a man,
who asked him it ;le belonged to the Irish Militia reginie.nt qiiartered
in Bristel. Ills answer was, that he did. Ile then asked him how
he liked this country ; he replied, very much. He then began to
abuse the serjoant, by damning him and every one from his country ;
wain a second man came behind him, and with a carving knife, or
:stile similar instrument, cut the sinews of his right leg in so dieadful
a marthei, that the poor fellow has not been able to he removed front
the public hawse to which he was iminekleitely conveyed. The ser-
jeant recollects well th.• face of the man who spoke to him. His de-
position as to the facts stated, has, we understand, been properly taken
down, and we trust that the miscreants will he soon discovered. The
serjeant bears a most excellent character in his regiment ; indeed, the
eon luct of the whole regimenr, since they have been among us, has
been truly exemplary.
A shock* catastrophe occurred at Brighton on Monday,. in the
comme:sion of suicide by Mrs. Goldingham, a niece of Major. Ge-
n'-'rat NOW. at her residence in Dorset.gardens. The deceas;d,who
has left six % oung children to deplore the fatal act of their unthrtunate
mother, had been in a droei.ing way for some time; hut, excepting,
lit a solitary i:,stame, when she complained, in rather a strange man-
ner, of being unable to distinguish the letters in a book she held in her
hand, no suspicions were entertaUled of her being in any way mentally
deranged. About half past twelve o'clock site had left her parlour,
and .aired to her chamber ; the door of which soon after being thuild
I eked, and no answers being given to the questions put to her, her
brother, Captain Popham, broke it open. On entering the room, he
discovered his sister lying on her face, and westering in her blood.
Though hrlror-struck at the
.spectacle, he endear/ohm' to raise tier
up; and found that she had deeply lacerated her throat both on the
right and hit side with a razor, and severing the jugular artery, had
bled in the most peofuse manner. She was not quite dead when tiis-
covered, but her last sigh escaped her almost imniedia'ely alter. The
Coroner's Inquest was taken out a view of the body onTues,lay mt•rn ng,
and a verdict of lunacy returned. Mr. Goldinghann, the husband ut
the deceased, is abroad.

PUBLIC EXPENDITURE.

533

The Twelfth Report of the Committee of Public Expenditure
presents no new peculation or default of enormous amount, yet it
explains the elisting condition of some of the old ones : and in rela-
tion to the new discoveries which it makes, it may be observed, that
.11.:Ivitesty and negligence 10.4 not their character when they are
evinced only in the waste or fraudulent appropriation of small sums;
and there is, theretbre, much in this Report. with which the nation
ought to be acquainted, that the neople at large
ben may be.in a condition
to estimate truly the mtrits of the men who have n engaged in their
service.
The Commissioners state in the opening cf their Report, " that the
two sums stated to have been irregularly and improperly drawn from
the Pay Office in May, 1799, and July. 1800, were paid by Mr. Steele
in February and April, 1807, with interest upon both, from the day of
their issue, to that of the re-payment."
Barrow's defalcation in the Navy Pay Office, remains at about
5,0001. ; and himself having absconded, he has become the subject of
an out law ry.
Hunt, the late Treasurer of the Ordnance, remains also indebted to
the public to the amount of 89,8771.
The case of the late Mr. Fordyce, Receiver-General for Scotland,
is a iemarkable one. This person's whole defalcation amounted to
about 50,0001. ;• but the Lords of the Treasury have come to the sin-
gular cleterminatirm, that his estate shou'd be relieved of so much of
his debt as was occasioned by the failure of the house of Messrs.
Douglas and Cockburn, amounting to upwards of 13,0001. Mr. For- ,
dyee having been induced to place his money in that bank by the re.
commendation of Lord Roein4liain. To this we have no objection
whatever ; but common justice requires, that if Fordyce's estate is
to be relieved from the
y' 3,0001. the estate of the Marquis of Rocking-
ham, who made him ace the money in Douglas and Cockburn's
hank, should oe made liable to that debt.
The following is the account of Mr. Goldsmid's defalcation :
•6 Due from Mr. Goldsmid, at the time of his
death, on account of th.: departin.nts of the Pay-
master-General OP
Treasurer of the Navy .
Treasurer of the Ordnance -

2.7,856 H
- 3b8,765 1
- 90,000 0 0

Total - -466,62 i ic2
" Paid into the Bank of England since Mr. Gold-
stuitt's death by the inspectors 01. his Estate, on
account of the' debt due to the Pa) niaster„Ge.
neral - - 9 1
Treasurer cf the Navy 184.595 14 2
Treasurer of the Ordnance 45,000 0 0

Total • - 9.33,2:32 3 3

Remains due - - 253,3'29 9 2

The cage of Lord Tyrawley is a flagrant one. It app-ars that " the
barracks and the 80ar..; of NVorks of Ireland for some :cars, until the
19th of Oc ober, 1t2.03, were under the direction and superintendance
of Lord Ty rawley, a: First C,annissioner : his son, Mr Cu*, bring
the Treasurer. The Barracks were then seonratcci from the Board of
Works, and incorooried Nlith those of Great Britain, :ma the Board
of Works was arrang.d in some dcgre- on a ditnrent establishment ;
but Lord T y raw ley and Mr. Cufre ceased to have any connexion with
either of the branches.
" The annual accounts from the (25th of March, 1796, to the I 9th
I.f Ot:tob-r, 18d:3, were then outstai.diog, and silt delivered in for
audit ; and the sums of moue) issued to the Treasurer on account,
during that perioJ, appear fr nn the I`2th Re:.ort of Commissioners on
ket:s, Gratuities, &c. p. 7. to amount' to 1,5:35,(2311."
It aopears farther, that from the year 1603 to the Ist of July of the
present yea,, almost incessant applications have been made to Lord
F$ Fa \s ley, to bring this account to audit ; and hitherto w shout effect,
ext:ept, iodee(l, it was presented on the Ist of July, the last period of
extension mentioned in the Report.
But the most remarkable of all is what follows :-44 Lerd Tyrawley
receives an allowance, as late Barrack Master General, of '2,0001. a
year. Mr. Cuties allowance, as late Treasurer of the Barrack Dc.
partmant, was .1001. a year, until the time of his death, which
happened Lock'. Both these allowances have been paid out of a giant
annually voted by Parham: an along with the Military Estimates."
Mr. Chinhery's case follows, atr.4 is the last in the Report. This
mall is a ,'et alter to the amount of nearly 80,0001. and we cannoitie t help
i.oticing, withwitht he st rom.est reprehension, t hat his ii rogul .rs were
stated by the Commissioners of Audit to the Lords of the *Fria otry,
so lung Ago as August, It:03 ; but that their representations " were
no' sudicteotly attended to. We think, in oonunon honesty, tittle-
f,re, that the Lords At the freasury, through whose negteci Chistar•
iv's detalc tion became so great, should be answerable for all the
sums oi herwisc lost to the public, after the representation made by
.' the Auditors of Public Accounts.

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