The National Register.
London, England, 1812-08-09 00:00:00

PROVINCIALS.

The provincial papers of last week represent the crops as highly
promising, and only requiring warm and dry weather to bring them to
maturity.
A few days ago, while the ostler at the Bell Inn, Themas.street,
ssistol, was dressing a gentleman's horse, the animal- eink a emu to
his nose, tore it or, and actually ate it ! The man is now at the In.
firmary, where the wound will of course he cured.
Lately, a party of blind soldiers, on their march fr m Bognor to
York Hospital, under the command of Lieutenant Winton, of the but
V;_teran Battalion, were overtaken by Sir William Garrow, Salicito
General, who very humanely stopped his carriaee, and, with his • wit
lards, alivided laid helped them w th perter, brew: clicee, and
gave a 101. wee to the party to drink the King's health, and a present
to a poor wotnan and child belonging to the said party.
Last week a shark of considerable length. was caught with a strong
conger line, at Devil's Point, Stonehouse, neap Ph mouth Dock :
seven mackerel were found in his belly, :old it is supposed to lute
I been the same fish that the day before attacked a soldier ot the 1.. m.
cashire Militia, who was swimming in Mall Bay, and wounded him
severely in his lees. This should pperate as a caution to swimm; rs
who reside on the shores washed by the Atlantic, as sharks are net un-
frequent in the Channel, and at this season pursue, the shoals cf
mackerel and pilchards into th • bay • aud herbsurs.
James Carr alias Watson, aged Si, and James Brown. aged 'A, con,
victed at the late Assizes for the county ot Her tor titietiog
forge.( notes kncwing them to be tOrsed, were execute I on WediresilaY
'nothing. Their conduct front the time of passing sentence, to the
mom-.44. of execu'ion, eei.oed the most manly tirinnesf ; unmixed
with that unthinking hardiness, witieh is the result ot a long course of
criminal practices. The view of the fatal spot trout wh-nce they
were to bra adieu to all that's earthly, drew a montroary paleness over
the countenance of Brown : Carr, hoWeser, strove, by every attention,
t+r.keep up the spirits of his comoinion ; and when he telt the cart
thr.Viikg from meter thern, anxiously sought the, hand. of Brown,
which, having fount, he continued to wasp several moments after they
w, re suspended.
On We.!nesilay last, B .njarniet Rensh isv was execute.' near Notting'
ham, ter setting fire to a stack bel tigin, to Mr. Stanton, o
IC: Mg a vie), the vroperty ot Mr. Dodsley, la,thot Minstielo. About
eleven 'clock he was placed in a.cart, accompanied by the execu-
ii.ater. The colic urNe of spectators was unusually gre-it to witness
the awrul c.itastrophe When arrived at the gallows, and some time
had been spun: in devotion. Renshaw himself addressed the multitude
;or th space / f fitteen lo twenty minntes, exhorting them to avoid
evil couspany : such fortitude and composure were scarcely ever wit-
iiess:ed. Atter he was inflicd off, the noose of the rope moved under
his chin, and it Wjs deemed proper to put him into the cart, that the
p • hm,h! be adjusted afresh, after which he was turned off again. ,
limit:lSLE A cciore r.—Four free children belonging to Richar.(l
thou'', a tray I •ll ter, of Abbeydore, were cipsumed by fire in their
tother's cottage, on Thursday se'nnight. Their mother had hired her-
self at a neighbour's house to bake bread, and left her children in the
cottage, deli. ne the oldest, ho was oily five years of age, to. take
care of the others, the youngest of whom wu a sucking child. Jr
i.could not be known how the house caught fire, for th; whole was eta
conflagration 'Wore it was discovered,

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