The National Register.
London, England, 1814-09-04 00:00:00

NATIONAL FIEGISTER.

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the oltjeccous of 111 rs. Hack. On this subject they disagrecO Oft
Sonday last, wid between that time and Wednesday evening it sp-
eared ifick had prevailed on his wife to content to her return.
It is %tippthed that at the fatal meeting on Wednesday he again
nrged his request, and having wet with another refusal, in a moment
of passion sacrificed his own existence and that of a fellow-creature.
UN 10V HA 1.1 Jennings as brought before Mr. Clvirabers,„
iivLogbourti, on an intortuati.di, charging Win with a breech ut the
Act of Porli,ment, he having sold certain printed books, the same Not
;tavrog the Printer's name in them. Coilingbourn slated, that on
Sundpe, the tell of Ati;ust, ssbast thy Rev. Mr. Toter was employed
in edif%itig the tohowers of Loatina :sontheott within the walls of her
chapel, the delend«nt was as employed in spreading the fame
of the Prophetess abroad, and that ut a cheap rate. His chaunt setting
forth, tio t any one, •r every one, might be supplied with the water of
lif (cmitaluod M the ir-i'phecies of the lmiy Joanna) on appLcatiot, to
him, fir the trifling wino of rate pet•ny. Nounbers became purchasers
of the inspired writings, and, unfortunately for the ve(.dor, Colltna
bourn conceived an loclination to edify himself by the taste of so pre..
cious, and, at the same time. so cheap a beverage. He, therefore.
became a purchaser, and, on exstniumg the holy work, finding there
seasno Printer's name oni the tide page, or elsewhere ; his thirst after
filthy lucre became insatiable ; the unfortunate Imi:dor of prophecies, in
which, how'. rc r, his own misfortune was n t hinted at, was summoned
and fined 51., and in default of payment committed for a week.

Vs VW llACrxrrV COACH' FA E 5.--011 Friday morning a else under
the New Hacknev Conch Act, was heard before Mr. Nares, Mr. Birnie
Sir W. Parson', and Mr. Sketchley. Mr. Hatchett, of the White
I lor,e Cel'or had summoned the driver Of a hackney coach, No. 878,
ier ahusinu him. Mr. H stated. that on Wednesday last lie ht. rd the
couch at Conduit-street, and went to Charles street, Cavendish-square.
for which the driver demanded one shillih g ; Mr H. asked hilu for a
ticket, he said he had none : Mr. H. said he would not pay him with-
out a ticket, and gave Isis name and address. The coachman abused
nini, but Mr. 11. positively refused to pay him without a ticket. and
alien some further abuse the coachman drove away. The Magis.ruies
infortm it Nlr.llletchett, that by the ;id clause of the new act, it is eti-
-Alec!, That no person or persons, who shall have hired any hackney
roach, shall be entitled to any redress, or he heard oo any complaint
or format' .ti which he may exhibit under or by virtue of any laws
relating to lit vuced iiaeiney coaches, whether any such complaint or
infOrmation be f r exaction, or fur misbehaviour, or fur any other of-
fence %Intl nrevcr, unless such person, previous to entering upon the
hearing thereof, shall produce to the Justice or Commissioners before
whom such complaint or information shall have been exhibited, Willa
one or more of the ticket, which lie shall have received or might or
ought to have received by virtue of this cct ; and that as Mr. Hatchet
had no teket to prlduce, the driver could not be punished for his
inisbeha tour. The :ilaiisirates also gave Mr. H. to understand, that
he was petit ctly light in refusing to pay the man without n ticket, and
stated, that in every case were the driver refuses to give the ticket ur
tickets required by the act the parties are fully justified in refusing to
p..y the fare. In cases of refusal the old law (Ist G. I. t. 57) which
imposes a penalty lion? 10.. I. stilt hold, good, as the tickets amity
sally where tits coach is hired curries the fare, the act being de-
fective in not imposmg any I:enisity upon the couchnuat tot tte6lect.
At, to give such ticket.
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que:•l:y it capacity in the house of Dr. Bowen, ia Straud
the Grueli; the fam e ily ansisteri of Mr. end Mrs. Bowen and
five children--a cook—Mary hire, a wirsery Hayes.
meet to witliess, who was housemaid in the family—and a Mrs.
3. i4l•Es, at: iii ate in the fami:e—and Maria R. Suster, a mulatto,
it;:ess karat she purchased as a slave at the age of six years.
St. Croix ; there was a child's hrd gown found near t ditch,
which on !icily.; !..liewn to M rt. Bowen, she acknowledged to be her
in ()pert v C the night previous to the thing being Som,d in the
thick), ;01'4. ROLTES u•as ClniflOt d to her apartment through todispost
titan Mrs• tfuwen and the mulatto servant alai Mary Price at-.
teoded her, al! of whom have since kit the place, and witness diu
not know e, here they v ere pliA• to.
EMIR' de prised. that she was housemaid in Dr. Bowen's fa
milv ; ()met. site understood, accompanied them from Angelica,
:tr.; she head d theta talk of going to Paris. On Tuesday night pre-
cediog the body of the child having been found, Mrs. Rogers was
taken suddcttly ill, as she understood from her servant, through
fright, saying she was alarmed at the noise of some persons breaking
into the lions ; she continued ill all night. The Jury, after several
hours investigation, returned a vet diet of Wilful Murder against
some person or persons unknown.
A person with warrants, arrived at the Old Ship, Brighton, a few
days ago, iu quest of :llrs. Rogers, Dr. Howell, Sce. in consequence
of the suspicion: which had arisen on the Coronet's Inquest on the
new-horn infant teat was found in the river Thames, on the Ittd
Hear to Strand on-the-Green, Kew-bridge The visit however was
an ineffectual one, tot Mrs. Rogers, Dr. Bowen, Mrs. Bower, their
mulatto seta too. ked, in the Eliza packet, Capt. Lind, on
Tuesday se:might, and bail a speedy passage to France. The party
arrived at the Oid Ship about ten o'clock in the morning of Tuesday,
and :ailed on tide same et ening.
Thursday an ituptest was held at the Distillers' Arms, in Great
Safiiun hill, before George Hodgson, Esq. on the body of Margaret
vine, whose husband, Thomas Byrne, is now in custody, on sus-
picion of having murdered her. After the Jury were impatmelled.
they proceeded to the place where the body lay, which exhibited
several black marks on vat ions parts of the body.
ilarearet Dte:n dcposad, that both she and her husband, Patrick
Dcnn, who lived in Back-ailey, Blue-court, Saffron-hill, next door
to the deceased, carne about half past ten on Monday night. the tetd
of Ana,nst, to the room of the dieeca,cll, for the purpase of drink
ing a pot of beer together ; she knew the deceased and her husbaod
about seven years ; the deceased was ill with a slight fever the pre-
ceding week, an waq confined to her bed five days. When witness
anti her hu:,band went to Byrne's room he was in bell, and the de
ceased sat by the tire smoakina her pipe; she appeared in liquor, but
rot drunk. husband brought in two pots of porter; the
first pot the to 0 men drank ; the second pot Byrne never tasted! of ;
the deceased hat took of it. At half past ekven witness's husband
tt ent home, atia fimovad hint about to dye o'clock, taking
about half a pint of lo er that was left with her, and likewise the
ca7tlle ; but din enti ring her own door the candle went out, mid she
retntred back again to light it. The deceased! opened the door,
gave t:itness a light, and shut the door after tier. Witucss did not
sue Lir afterwards, unt:l between seven and eight o'clock next
morning ; site went there to light a candle ; Byrne was gone to
work. and the deceased was ling stretched on the bed, with part of
leer clothes ott ; witness asked a little girl about eleven years of age,
their daughter, what was the matter with her mother; the child
answcted, " is very bad —she fell at the door, and her lip is all
eta yoar father heat her, or had they any words? '
" No." The deeeased then turned round, and sat up in the bed,
owl said, " 0 ! 1 am very had, Mrs. Dutm."—‘, What is the matter
with tots"---d' lam runic& I ant undone, I never will do any
enod " She took her hand off her mouth, and wittiest'. saw her
Is •
iiwutth shockingly cut, so that she turned away her face, anti could
not bear to look more at it; she appeared so weak, that witness did
not speak mote to her ; but she said that upon her soul tier husband
did not touch her, but that she had a fall, and her last fall; she did
not say where she fell. When her husband came home he got a
coach, and witness and another woman assisted him to put her into
it ; some of the blood from her mouth got on the breast of his shirt
as he was eatring her to the coach she was then taken to St.
Bartholomew's Hospital, where she remained until last Monday,
when she was brought home in a chair, and died about eleven
o'clock next day, during which interval she was quite insensible.
William James deposed that he was surgeon's pupil at St. Bartho-
lomew's Hospital ; that between ten and eleven o'clock on Tuesday
morning, the €:3cl of August, he was 'called to the deceased; he
%mot her sitting in a chair ; her lower lip was divided, and four o
live of tile teeth of the upper jaw were out; she appeared undo