The National Register.
London, England, 1818-12-27 00:00:00

MURDER IN HERTFORDSHIRE.

Oor readers will recollect that a barbarous ninrder was
committed on the dila of Noven...ey hat, stoke Ike town of
hroabourne, Heitfordshire, upon John Cooper, A native of
tliesterford. Cambridge, a carrier who had travelled on that
trod to and fro from I..Outioti about 40 rears. Every exer-
tion has been used in the neiTlitiourbood to bring the tom-
deten. to justice; bur notwitiostandior a aroma of ~111. has
been offered by the county, no clue had been tliscovetol,
Incept that two strange men had been such following the
deceased down the load im the erelong the murder was com-
neftted.

"Tlin Loudon police went to make inquiry, but were 1111SUC.
e•tsfal ; sethaequeatly. however, the Worship Street officers
ascertained that two higglcrs, well knots n 11111111 the toad, met
the men alluded to aud recognised them to reside iu or near
hpitaltields seat het, and that tlic had a loemi•l, d. Thi% rum-
banes" with the circumstance, that the deceased hid bet n
attacked *table where he had put up near Newgate
Market, a short time befit, e lie was 'tiered, left little
doubt that they were the perpetrators of the horrid deed,
and the Ingclers were in consequence brought to the office,
and examined before the Nlagistrales.
Jacob W. Ali), sidd, that about half past nine o'clock on the
evening of the dth oi November last, be was Ire Veiling with
Isis horse auil cart flour ilioldes,lon to London; when lie ar
rived about bine furlongs on I !lib side of Hoddesduis he saw
the body of John Cooper, lying on the road. The Wily was
pat upon a gate or hurdle, and carried to the nett public.
house ; it was evident the deceased had been robbed, as both
his breeches pockets had been wined inside out, and lie hash
no propel ty about biro then; he newer travelled the road
ithoot mons v, which war Well known. lii and about the
London Nlactxts.

John Sou soy, another higler, stated, that on the evening
Jiitin Cooper was dercd, lie was coming from London
with lois waggon and 'Cain; when about tau miles how Hod-
uesilou, it mats passed by him, and inquired how many miles to
iloddesdou ; shortly afterwards another man ',wised by him,
and inquired his way to Hoilde.dou. When lie got through
‘Varinsley, ahem 11 tiles front the place where the two mru
passed him, lie met than again reterning, walking very fast
and whist hog : our. of them was :thout four feet seven inches
high, and wore a light coloured jacket and smock frock ; the
other wore a 1141 k coloured short fro. .k, and was somewhat
taller. lie knew their faces well in London, but was not snf
fieiently well acquainted with them to ask them any ques-
tions; lie thought it very si ngnlar to meet them in such a
manner so far out of town. The murder was committed within
the time they lint passed him and their passing him a second
time. When he arrived in London, and heard of the murder,
lie related the eh euinstanee publicly, and inquired for them,
but he had not met with them since.

Another higler met the same men on the road the evening
ot the mm der, and described their dress in the same 1114 'r
the last w itiirss did. They used to work in Spitaltichls, and
do any job they mild get from any one.
The Magisti airs sent fur Mr. Wordy, who had employed
them, and examined him. He said he had been in the habit
of employing them occasionally ; they had left him prior to
the minter, but did not know where they went to. They
were both single in,m, rather of dissolute habits, and uutrh
addicted to d& inking when they had any money. Their chief
employment was market portering, but they had nut been
seen in the market since the marder was committed.

SEDUCTION.—About a fortnight since a most beauti-
ful and accomplished girl, 18 veers of age, the only
daughter of a respectable tradesman at Bath, eloped from
her parents' protection with a Captain in the army and
who, it seems, is already married. The afflicted father
of the young lady lost no time in pursuing them, but
it was not until Wednesday that, after a must difficult
search, he succeeded in discoveiing that they had taken
apartments in Manor Place, in the Kings Road,
Chelsea ; and having made application at Bow Street,
he procured Smith. and two other officers to accompany
him to the residence of the lovers. On inquiry, finding
they were gone out, but expected home to dinner, the
father and officers placed themselves in ambush at a
public house near opposite, where, after having waited
upwards of three hours, they saw them pass on the op-
posite side of the road. The father, with the officers,
immediately pursued, and overtook them,
.just as they
were entering the house where they resided. The anxious
father directly seized his child, who, in all the agony of
surprise and terror, clung to her lover for protection,who
vowed no earthly force should part them ; and it was not
without the utmost difficulty (the lover being of a
powerful and athletic make) that they could be sepa-
rated. In the struggle the gentleman's coat was lit-
terally torn to pieces. The fuller and daughter, with
the officers,l!toceeded to the public-house, tidlowed by
the disconsolate Captain in tatters, when a scene ensued
that baffles description ; the fitther entreating his child
t o return to the arms and ease the anguish of her almost
broken hearted mother—the lover imploring her, with
tears not to fimrsrke him. This having taken place in
a Public tap-room filled with spectators, the father,
daughter and discomforted lover, with the officers,
retired to a private room, and at length the two dormer,
still accompanied by the officers draw off in a hackney-
coach, leaving the Captain voeiferating that he would
immediately tidlow them to Bath, and assuring the
weeping fair one she should Si oo be restored to tom.—
This aflitir will no doubt feroisl, employ to the gentle-
men of the long robe, as the iiithee of the young lady
more than once expressed hi.• determination to prosecute
the Captain for seduction.
UscoststoN INTIOHITY.—Copy of a letter to the
proptictoa of the Lord Nelson Coach, Glasgow :
" Gentlemen—Several years ago I defrauded you by
bribing your drivers three different times to take me on
your coach as a ha ',ger, although I may be ashamed to
own that it was not want that made me do so. I beg
)co will accept of time 11. note enclosed, as an equiva-
i,au from our humble servant,

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

ARCTIC EXPEDITION.

, I •
The discovery 'hips Isabella and Alexander, after the
SStli of July, the date of Captain Rosa's last dispatches from
the Arctic Sea., being then in about the latitude 75. N. and
61. W. proceeded in a northern direction, but were
soup !lapelled by a fourth bar tier of ire, which. after encrion.
tering very ,•errom di theft i!i es and much danger, they site.
reviled in to clog on the 7th of August. On the Oth, some
natives were • °ell all the allot e to the eastward: and on the
15th Prince Reg. tie,. ti ty, in lat. 76 1.2. was discovered to
be their apparent
These Indians were with ninth difficulty communicated
silk. h 'moth John Sa ek call se , the E•goOnailx, who ace0:111111•
'hell the expi (lotion frail; I:110 tu!l, and who on this occasion
displayed equal courage and address.
On the 16th of August Ilie expedition passed, with an open
sea, flout Priot.e Het/cot's Bay to a Cape in lat. 75, 57. N.
lout. tie. 24. W., which was 111411114 i for his Royal Highness the
Duk I' of Yin k ; the adios day made Cii.r Diidley Diggs of
Baffin, and •orreot.vely pats. d Wolsiiiitiolin Whale, and Sir
Token:is Smith's 501111.14, and Cirey's [.lands.
On the 21st they made a cape which was named for his Royal
Higline.s the Doke of Chi, enee Hese the land, which had
fiom tire %V hale Smind taken a westeily direction, began:to
wind to t:te ..,11111, and Ms ships were it aiu one tiered
with ice and fits. Their progress along chore was glow, but
entire ZOM of Angus, they got as far as Liiiiicatiter Sound off
Baffin, winch had twirls the appeal alive of a pa.sage, but
proved to be an inlet. Olt the tat of September, Captain
Ho,. took possession of that part of the coast in lat. 74. N.
and bunt. O. W. sills the usual forms. It was found to be

isitinlialsitr4. Tilt y proceeded uititont impediment along the
coast, which I.lok 311 easterly t4irec•liott. Landed
sg,iiu in 76. 30. N. long 66. 16 W. in en island near the/slain
laud, u hich appeared to hest* 64'11 ILerently inhabited,—
Het e the laud took a squills easterly direction, and the ships
agaid stretched scrim to Ilia eastward. and determined the
non'existritr.• of,Jailies's Island, laid down thr old Admi-
ralty chat's. After this they emitinn.id their course along
the land to Cape Vl'aisit.gtiain, 01l 1)4. ,% Inch they found LI
be in at 66. N. and long. 6J. W.. the strait being here 110
miles wide. Fe them:l.lle land toe k a westerly direction,
until thrt• came Oil hilt' 30th Sept. to Cumberland Strait, which
they 4seerinitied IP be betueen the la,ituiles 0E63. and 64. N.
and lune. 65. W.
On the 211 Oct. the expedition passed Warwick's Foreland,
and on the 3.1 made Resolution island, having thereby com-
pleted their survey, and haying fully ascertained that nu
passage exists Elam the Atlantic to the l'ite.fie Ocean, through
Davis' stiaits and Illaffia's It • s , t, .iie!l tiny round to be bound-
ed land, extending In thototal: ;is lot,' as lat. 77. 55. in the
lungilu .• of 77, W., and to :he sanest as far as the 84th de-
gtee, in the fit. of 71. N., ..tfi 14. t,roolly surrounded by a
chain of monotatutt. In it I pat t ..1 Itattiat's Hay did they
ally current, or 11.4'1-wood, cx-ep.% a *mall piece of fir wi►h
nail in it, and bearing the insrk of the adze and plane,
which was sten in let. 70. 20 N. long. 78. W. near Cape
Clarence.

The depth of water, en the east aide and upper part of the
Bay, WWI from 26 to 400 facioins ; and on the west aide very
variable, from 50 to 1050 :ztlionis.
Sobstances were brought up Isom this depth, and from
every part of their !reek, as also water; awl specimens of
mineralogy and of the annual and vegetable kingdoms hate
been arcitilly preserved. mid slur attention paid to every
sithirct which could emit' ibitte to the advancement sit nets. a 1
...lowleilge or of science. Tip, iliseuveries on the magnet
iieeille ate likely to be of the highest importance to navigation.
C.sptain Ross has also noted in his join nal a most partividar
ileacriptios of the newly discoverudll.llioll, and (deem, eir-
combinative concerning them; and it will certainly be licensed
not the least interesting event of the Arctic Expedition, that
;I race of human beings has 114.01 found inhabiting the fiozen
regions, between the lalltudes of 76. mod TB. noith, whe
thought that the world to the south was ice—ii people of
whom generation has succeeded genes Atkin, witl t ever
it mug tasted the f mt. el the earth ; who had nu idea of e
Sopa eine Being, never had an enemy ; and a hose chiefs had
hitherto supposed themselves to be monarchs of the uni•

On the 411. of October the ships bore tip for England, and
on their passage home steered for Cape Farewell, in order to
determine the latitude and longitude of that important head•
land ; Intl on the nth, when within Itt miles of its situation as
In down in the charts, !hey were overtaken by a violent
gale from the north west, which obliged them to abandon
that object and to part company. Both ships lost their guar.
ter boats, hot received no material damage, 414 fell in with
aelt other again on the 30th of Oetolp.r, and on that day
reached the Shetland islands. Here tin y remained a few
days, and on the 17th November arrived safe in the 'f ham. a,
having performed the voyage M the short space of six months,
without the loss of a man, and without even having had a
man on the sick list.

Captain Ross speaks in the highest terms of Lieutenant
Pato, who commanded the Alexander, and of all the offi-
cers of both ships; and there not having been a single in-
stance of punishment during the voyage, is the best proof
Mat can tie gisen of the steadiness and good discipline of the
seamen einpio} ediu the expedition.

LORD ELLENBOROU6 RN WILL—The property 141 by the
Le:trued Lord, we ale told, exceeds 210,0001. To the pi esent
Lord he has bequeathed 111,0001. per a 00000 1111 : to the widowed
I..aily 2,0001. pt.r 4111111111; AIM to eachi tof the other children
1:,,0001. The house in St. JAIIMN'S 511114411 C, which is It free.
is llittetCll to be sold, and also the Villa at (tot liatnitton.
'llle late Pier gave 1114,000 i. far the town tesitlester.
Luse ELLEN BoROUGII.II FUNER A 1.. —Toeml.ty morning,
soon after eight o'clock, the SCIIIiiiIIS of his I,orilsiiip tat te
removed f,sint resideisee in SI. J4,lleS'S Stplalr, ftlr inter-
norm At the Charter House. The 1.11.4.114t0n eons:stud t,l* 10
ilea an Itubsehael„ four un foot 14/11.1,1111; 1411111105 01 P./1111441S
I,Lfore the 'waist, drawn by six hors •s, six 11111 in wog l'iluellt
orawn by six horses each, and 20 NUMIMICII AIM Gentlemen's
eat iagrs, amongst which wets+ his Lot dshilt's carri•gc.
low rd by dm Bishop of Chestee's, the Marquis Catodcn's,
La: il Sid , the Hon. Mr. Law's, the two Clue t.J tl•l let's
And the other Judges of the Courts of Kit a Hew It and 1:4411.-
oll01) and usher it his Lordship's friend:. Ihe pti•-
,•ession inasaell along Pall Mall, the stiand, Fleet Stud,
Littigate H,ll, and arrived At tile Chart. r House soon inlet
• e o'clock. The Corpse was Liken tutu the elletliel, end the
initeral relenting was pet-folioed by the Nev. lii. Fisher.
Nearly the whole of the time a solemn dirge wAs tolael.
'Clie 4 Atilt was coy cried with sitiocrb co llama/ velvet, and Ina
i.„„1.411,1, juicingl in the Sillile vault MS Mr. buttuu, tits
louutivt of the ellartur•liuu3e.

DEC 27

POLICE.

MANSION HOUSE.

A person of respect 4 tileappearhoce,n.:.mtd.Robert Mrackie,
was exan:in.•:l upon 0 ch.irge of krt./141g forged and tittered
Ilio acceptance of Richard Stephens Taylor, Equire, f'u•
Stl.

Messrs. Hubert and Mamid, of Cortihill, stated, that some
time iu the month of April last, Ibe ill honer came into their
shop to select a quantity of goods, tnr which he said he would
gise in payment the acceptance of all eminent solicitor, pay-
able at one of the first banking houses. The proposal was
agreed to, and the selection was made to the value of 611.
ITs. 2d. ilaviiig ordered the goods to be (Lawaided to the
place at which he then resided he requested Nlessrs. Hilbert
and Maraud to draw a bill for the bunt on Mr. Richaid
Stephen• Taylor, the solicitor, of Gras's lon. This was done,.
and in the course of the same day he returned with. the bill
accepted, " Richard Stephens Taylor, payable at Messrs
Praed's amid Co bankers, Fleet-street." The bill was lodged
iu the ordinary way with the bankers of Mt ssrs. Hubert and
Mainid, mid as regllidt ly paid by Mess's. Praed and Co., no
suspicion whatever hissing arisen as to its genuineness.
The ibseovery that it was a forgery did not take place for
some month*. The prisoner was then nut to be found.
Mr. Richard Stephens faylor, ul they's Inn, deposed that
he knew nothing whatever pf the bill to question, nor had lie
ever accepted one for the prisoner. lie hail some knowledge
of that person a few years beck, when a disagreeable eir-
cumaiance of a similar kind took place, which however the
witness was led to pardon.
The prisoner was fully committed.
BOW STREET.

Several buts-hers of Clare Market were convicted of follow.
ing their business on the Lord's Day, commonly called Sou-
day. It appealed that the shops were opened, the meat
exposed for sale., and the bistelters caking oat for pmcliaseis
as on other days. Niue of the butchers and one green-
grocer who Were situntrtanrel, di4l not attend. The Magis.
trate desired Unit sumnionses might be issued, and then if
they did hot attend to them, warrants slumid be issued,
to apprehend them. The prosenstiohn were at the snit
of Mr. Denew, the Churcligrarden of St. Clement Danes.--
Mr. Nesbitt, the streetskedlmr, gave evidence against the
butchers.

On Tuesday, a young woman of respectable appearance,
professing herself to be a servant, applied to Mr. Hirais
to punish a young woman, whose name she stated to he
Charlotte Say, who had bewitched her with brimstone, and
hail exercised the black art towards her; and last of all, had,
with the assistance of two men, exercised Freemasonry to-
wards her, and had made use of such means and such lan-
guage that it would nit he proper for a female to I eprat ;
and she further complained, that she was not uf►le to relieve
herself from their control, and was thereby prevented from
keeping her ;daces of service , and was therefore deprived of
getting her li
Tue Magistrate endeavoured to compose her mind, and to
convener her that slip was deceived in supposing that any
person or persons could bewitch her, or interfere, or intheence,
(it control her conduct in the %ray she described ; brit she
ass not accessible to persuasion or conviction, and nothing
would satisfy her but a warrant against Charlotte Say, although
she confessed she did not know where to find her, and all
that site knew oilier family or conneximis was, that her aunt
lived at the howse of Miss Linwood's exhibition, at Leicester-
*goitre.
Two fellows named Backhouse, alias Bacchus, and Leroyd,
alias Rodney, were on Thursday examined en a charge of
being concerned in stealing from the Exeter mail a parcel
of Bank notes, ter• the amount of 1,6001. They were re.
committed.

George 17.41ter and William Ranmerstots were committed
for cutting don n a waggon lead of the holly hedge round the
garden of Mr. Johnson, Mtaswell Hill. They had ens down
a great deal in me to wantoourtss ; the rest to sell for (21sristmas
deeora t ions. _

Mr. Thomas liarrowell. a coachniaker, of Long Acre, was
convicici iu ilir pcuslty Of 10s., fur causing one of his cat-
riages to be placed in Ilse street, opposite to his house, for the
►pace of two 110(116.
UN lON HALL.

A midtlle•aged man, of most respectable appearance, sc.
eompanied by a female of equal appal ent acepectabillty,
applied on Wednesday to the Sitting Magistrate, and re-
quested that an :Atlas it might be adniiiiistvi ed to his female
companion, w lin. lie stated, was his wife. Ills application, lie
said, arose from the following circumstances :—Abetat three
yearn' ago lie folioed the matrin ((((( ial contract, and at that
time carried on a business of considerable profit, and was
po ( s sss rd of a handsome ptopctry ; his wife unhappily became
addicted to a habit of excessive thinking, and when in a slate
ut intoxication freipiently insulted his ctistioners and tiffullfiell
Ili* !rivals. The carets of her imprildrut conditet speedily
appe.,red ; his shop was descried. bis friend!' abd11(1011V(1
and be was rapidly approaching 4 NI4IC of 111111. when Iris wire,
appalled by She ill irsvrvt, (bier 11l i l led upon refoiniation.
stud was desirous of Miming herself by an oath never again
to indulge in di inking either wine m spirtionos
The Magi•trule lamented She tinnier propensily of the appli-
cant's wits-, and co 11111 l ended the spit it of termination she bad
shown, lost declined the ad 11l i l iistratiou of the oath, which
was the object of the appiicali tttt .
GARI)EN.
. .

Wednesilly it ;wither discharged from the second battalion
of the Culd•treain guards, gave tbr bdlow log information at
this Mike. About In or Iv days ago hr received his depilig rye
and 110111 e money, and meeting with IN') solders discharged
hoot the 18111 light dragoons, who %etc going to Nottingham,
died utilise place as well as his, tile!, weir to It avt 1 together,
hilt temained a euitple of nights in tom u, until all their ..... tie/
was nearly spent in 'hulking; when they itgleett lo pirt
dusk, to dt•gutse Ihentselse►, and tub the ti st traveller they
met with, tied, if 11143'14,4H), to ;hunk 1114 aceord.
ingly set wit with that intent, in to state• ill inel,l n ;y. Atter
going three miles from town, it teas then 'loci ;toned to stop
the hest peismi they met; but informant basing somewhat
reenseicil Rom the state of drititketititss !toy kept him Uri,
Alum. to dissuade them hum their put pose•. F.toling they
were determined, he I,ild he would base no hand in it. '1 toy
with Ititil sticks, and Ie•ll him foe t tad ;
iip which sidle hr was shortly tif.er found by a ratter, who
arought him to town. The the two encoders are
kept Si (let. 11 e understand Utls 11.1111)1.11ed tin the Plight Mr.
Tpi)lor wn• mill murdered. .14111Osick, the stillest, is
g.;tie in pursuit of titem..._______

QUEEN SQU.%ItE.
M. Junes was charted by Airs. saivulie,m lady°, prcperty;
restkl.ilw, in Wallace Piace, Motile°, nu SII4pICIOII of I Obbiug
her li..oNe ut pruiwriy to Ilse ammo ul t.ttlwctu 401. anti oul.
tinder the lulluwing cticumalaucc.--a .

n'? ' . 2 i

0,1 Tuesday night, the proSecntrix went to the theatre, lint
ill Ihe wutr,e of the evening was followed iiv it n..4111111E,
who informed her that tier house had liven ati•! Mai
-every thing, sta. Its the greatest confusion. She aevordingls
made all purodde lotstr, bottle, mid found the primmer with Irel
fa her And brother in the kitchen, and lit r dressing ca.e lying
on the hoar rinetarketi of All its cotttruts, amen; 0 trbich wort
131, in honk mites. Her drawers nod ntle.r ',Lees nt p•ctirit v
wet e !broken open, and ttliandered Mei' coin erit•„ cousi•i ne
of dre.ses, Vic. worth 391. and upwards; and the olds ac-
count she could ;et fl 1041 the neighbours was, that its the
cooise of the evening wo men were observed to knock at
the dour mid enquire for Nlrs. tiaville, The. prosecnti
1,,,,,e„g. 11,1 some suspicion of the primmer, thought orouer.
lo tare going to the play, to lock the dose and take the ke%
in her pocket ; $ll,l it therefore surprised her mark, when the
said, the h.m.,e bah been robbed without um. kunw
.intge and she s-nt for Lavender, who took the girl into
custody.
The girl said. that she got out at the parlour window
intending to go to her parents, hut she met tan women with
whom stir was acquainted, and they persuaded her to gn to
the Queen's Palace to hear the hisuri. Here sire was aecosted
by another man anti woman ; the latter nt wham asked if he'
mistress was at lunne? She replied•in the negativt , anal the
man went away ill a hurry. On her return house she 10'111.1
the house tubbed, and 'lie sent for her roller and brallier su
•stav with her till her mistresa's.arrival,
tie Magistrate thought she must k,:ow more of the traos-
aetiou than site seemed inclined to tell, and ordered bet to
be committed for further examination.