The National Register.
London, England, 1818-02-15 00:00:00

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ten o'clock, and remained there until the watch was gone MT 0-sir
duty on tile next (Suitably) morning.—Witness continued—Tile face
of Simmons was covered with blood. an& appear, d pi Ilaw.• lino
downwards in a gore of Wood, and had been turaed attorsa,t:s
upwards; her pockets had not been riled.—Mr. Win. Biter. biacher,
sworn..-I was with du:last witness when lie entered the euits,•, and his
evidence is perfectly comet and true.—Samh, wife of Will itin Itro-
die tlworn—l wasant.sing by the house of the defendant on sat may
night, about a quarter past ten o'clock, and saw the gate betia,
Bird's house open, and a women with a boy -tandii.g haort: it. Mr.
Lid's street door was a little often; I tli,covered it by the lamp which
was lighted. I was going to a butcher's shop to buy some inear.
Wica: I returned from the butcher's, the woman was goat, The
woman had a black bonnet on. I had no conception sli belon
the I.ouse.—Mfr. J. 1,. Bicknell, tun Attorney, resident at ~,.,.Lh.
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went is the house of the deceased about half ;intone o'clocl: on Sun-
day afiernomi. and searched to find the weapon the wounds 1,J.1
been iallictl with. Ile searched all over the! house, but could m t
fund any thing like it. In the attic, he found lying on the f..)cr.
a Bank of England ii. note. There was a trunk on the floor, whira
haul been rifled. It appeared that some person bad silt on a chair
which stood near the trunk, and had turned user every in the
trunk. There Wii3 .060 l{ number of letters lying about iii rantusiot:.
A bank stork receipt was lying on the bed. The tied had not been
lain ill since it had two made np ; but there was an impre,iion which
appeared to have been eaded by some one sitting on it. At this part
of the investigation the beadle told the Coroner diet tic wit:et:man of
lonslon-street (the street in which thedec...oaal resit!. d), named Sid-
ney, had found a candle and stick in dice liar of the deceased's house.
placed under a
.wotln apparently for ti,e purpo.e of setting;
tire to the house, and was placed there afire the murders w .re coin,
mitted. The brother of Simmons, who works at the ceni.nt manu-
factory, Bankside, went down to Greenwich, and stated. that 'mu sister
had in lice box, to hi+ knowledge, seven guineas, and some silver. It
is supposed that gold, silver. and bills.. were stolen by the %Waits.
belonging to Mr. Bird. to a great suminnt. The Coroaer slid, that
no evidence had been adduced es fix the murder on any Or ticttlar
person •, and if the Jury thought proper. as it wa, late (1 o'clock)
he would adjourn the it:quest to a future day. The Jury were of
opinion such a proceeding would be beat, and it was adjourned ac-
cordingly. The. Jury entered into recognize/ices of 401. each, to ap-
pear at the time appointed to renew the investigation.

The Gazette of Tin sday night, contains the prorni,e of a pardon to
any person concerned in the murders at Greenwich (except the amu,sl
perpetrators) who discover. told lota to the apprehension of the
murderer or murderers. A reward of snit guineas, with the s..me
exception, is added on behalf of tl•e iuhabiuuts of the parish of

11YDROPHOBIA.—An experiment which has hce:i recently
made in Fiance, seems to confrai what the German Journals
have already autionneed, that the alison plotlago is a remedy
against this disease. Teo cows hail been bitten by a mad
dog, and this remedy was applied to both of them. One of
the. cows could not he forced to take a dose stiff) iently strong;
andit perished in she excess of hydropholi a a few ilit)s
The other. whirls received the deepest and 'Host 'microns
wounds, but whirls was compelled to take .in adequate dose
of the dried plant, had no symptoms of the nsatads six weeks
altrr it was bitten. 'fbis successful experiment Reserves the
tot potion of the Govrrrment, and of every frietid oflotaumity;
and it is to he hoped, that whatever uncertainty remains as to
the efficacy of this simple remedy against se frightful a ilkc
ease, will be removed by experiments in oar hospitals within
the course of this y ear.

PonesEn NOTFP.—Alluding to the late case of Mr. Ranson,
a writer in the Dublin Journal says of Ireland—." We order
these matters better in this country : to the honour of our Na-
tional Bank, the principle en vthleli they proceed iv directly
the reverse of that of the Baal: of Eligland. Instead of de-
clining to communicate :heir secret, they take every possible
means to ilitt.rin the public ; itt.teati of demanding possession
of the forged notes, and punishing with itoprisonment and
expense the holders of them. they instantly return the nee
when such appears.—lnstead of the necessity of varying their
notes to deceive the fabricators, which is in meth deceiving
rbe public, they wish to preserve an identity of eh:side:ter,
by which the public soon beestne competent judges on a
question of genuineness f and its pl. re of e •ealatcut. they
have actually furnished the Postmasters, Magistrates, and
other respectable persons throughout the kitigtl , with fac-
similes or proof impressions of their notes, as permanent
standards fur public reference. Titus they base a security
to their Notes, beyond ev:.n what guineas could Foss( ss ; and
th? fabric:tuns, or ntierers, are detected on the first attempt'.
to deceive the public."

In coasenuenee of tonne depredations having been disco.
sered to hue taken irlaee in the vault belon4ing to the Bap.
list Chapel, in Fetter Lane, several persons, whose ft ietels
and lel:dives had been interred in the vault alluded 10,11411
obtained permission to seas rh for them; hut to their grief,
found nothing put empty coffin.. Mt. Some' vide, ot Stoners.
to w n ,wiva one of the applicants, lik wife aid child %1t0.% ere de*
posited there but a short time since, ale .11.0 gone and to
add his dist e,o, the funeral expetteik had rwarly deprived
him of his last shilling. The above circumstances, it I/111411A,
in toyed the proprietors to appoint M r. Petnbler, of:Shoe-lane,
and another person, to examine the callit; and out of 40 Cot.
tiers If were tnn n! without bodies. Soule of .la n 4 contained
.1 quantity of earth to avoid detection. 11 should be under-
stood, that the vault, to all appearance, is perteetly secure
the whole being under lock and key.

Towards the end of lest year, Mount Vegoaitts Uctoto to
throw out torrents of hV.. ; happily they frli Sipoii
heels of volcanic substances round the Hamlin. oft e voicaao.
Sit erosms Mu itutat.—A bout a fortaight ago the body of a ran
was Como, in the River, near Pickle Herring SLIM, Wit! punveyoi ;,)
the hone-house of St. John's Southwark. No persou coining fora i.r.l
to daim the copse, the Coroner laid an •Inquisition. There were
veral bruisa on the neck and face; but it being eir idynt that the
body mutt have lain in the water two or three week-i. it was supposed
that they were occasioned by it being driven with the tide agaiast Yes.
eels, amt a verdict wa= pro ounced of—" ?isund Drina nod." By a
memorandum found M the pocket of the deceased, it rppeared that
his name was Jones. The body was interred in the burial- of
St..lolin's, and for two or three days netaing transpired relative to
the bu-iness. At length Mr. Jones, a hatter in Ile, t.etreet, on seeing
the niciiierat.duai, recognized the...hand-writing of hi, own bait ,cr.
Mr. Rob. Jones. many year; a Merehaut in the Americ.i. an.i
burgh trades ; and rho having made arrangements ore cortune:Lial
voyage to to South A rnerica. taus Pe:noosed to have gone to I.ir.
there to embark. The last that was seen of him sy.o ..• Ivan of
Dci. • when, after continuing with friend till midnight. pnted
Lwite:bt!filz.,4l::lll,inandl
fi,,klibv.ctilii:tviOei tdtnijiaic}ilTi.):::)rtidvniLdrnigLr..at!,eillianti.
a lolgir.; for the night in the nighbourhoodef ams th.,l his
genteel appearance attracted the notice of some of the tics ur pepp-
tirurc, with which tint part of themettopoli.bWarinS, t
rubbed and murdered, and thrown into /le Hie.,

rtie inhabiusnts if Wolver:iampton +.• bestoweii a LC, I n 4:1
/3« paupers of thus town. bei:ig '• an outward and visible sign" a
their deomdency. t:cco:liion has. scared away :trine htuabeils
tketu thy imuyir list.