The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-13 00:00:00

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Mr. Bowen, a reepectable licensed victualler, in Duke's
Court, Rowstreet, made an application on Thursday re
Sir R. hide, on behalf of two youog girls. who he said
had fallen under Isis notice In rattier • Onset:sr mangier,
and whom he was enxions to save from the ruin which
might swish them. if something were not done to ice
them beyond the reach of harm. He went on to state,
that early that morning, a decently dressed old
irisbwo-
mam came into tilshonse, the Queen's Head, accompanied
by two remarkably pretty-looking girls, one 13, the other-
years of age, and whilst they were taking some slight
refreshment, he heard the old woman [inventing that she
had it not la her power to ilo more for them, and wonder-
ing what wonld berme of them in " this large place,"
without money or friends. l'hr girls wept, and said they
mast beg their way home. This Induced him to ask
them some questions, and lie learned that the girls were
sisters, and natives of Skeleton Mallet, Soinersetsiiire, and
that about six years ago their mother deserted them, and
their father, who had formerly" been a seaman, retorned
to his old profession, treeing them *Moat destitute. By
the kindness of a distant relatiaa,dhey were apprenticed-
to a silk w t Slieplon Mallet, and they eemained•
there In comfort instil Monday last, when they received •
letter from their father, stating that he was just returned
from* prosperous vevage, sod wished tette them intake-
dixtely in Loudon. They obtained mine, sufficient to
defray their expenses to London from RAM, whither they
proceeded out foot, and monnted upon a stage co..cls.
Their good out Irish friend happened to be on the same
coach on her way from Ireland to London, awl they got
acquainted. They arrived in town on Wednesday morn-
ing, anal-the old woman left them to make their way to
Metiers* where they were to meet 'their fattier, bat In
tlie• evening she Hirt theta •aecideittally, sod the moment
they saw her they hunt into tears, and saidsrhey had lost
the letter which they received from their father, and were
rumble to find him. They, she staled, that having a
brother in the Ist regiment of (Wards, Hwy inquired of •
soldier whims they met if he knew him s lie said he did,
and inveigled them to • 'loose which they had
entomb to discover was a very had one, and when they
refined to stay, lie attempted to steal their handle, butt
was prevented by a crowd /ening about tbt door,•t-
traced by their mites. They had hot ed. in their peeler,
and were wanderlog they knew not whither when • thry
met the old women. She get them sledging for the eight,
and on 'Thursday morning happenedlo-litlepen4sis bodes .
to give them some breakfast.
Sir R; Blink said, he Was very glad Me.'Bowen bad
made the application, and immediately Sent fee the l
and after questioning them, gate them same room fat
present use, and proposed tharthey Should remake is Los.
duo for • few days, when be wand think of some arrange,
nicht for their benefit.
Mr. Hewett offered to keep littlest his owes Mose kw a
few days, but the gills expressed • strong antiety to gad,
home ; and while the conversation was going on, Mr. Con
bets, one of the overseers of St.Mertinti, i•• which parisb hid
Queen's Head ha situate, came in, anion being appealed to
by the Magistrate, Immediately gave them Sas. on behalf's"
see parish. Several gentlemen .presdist gave their bites,
and in a few mimeses the girls were is 110511e111110h of was.
amply sufflratent to tottery, them heeste. They, thanked
411seir-trenediteteet -whir sleepier ferneesdesei miff he-
Irishwoman was only prevented ,by tgis officers Ire
on her knees to pray for blessliga * " the bra
men." as she called them.
Sir R. Hittite complimented her highly upon the excel.
lens feeling she had shown.
The worthy host attic Queen's Head took the girls to
his house, gave them a dinner, and afterwards reported to
the Magistrate that he hail sees them safely off by a stage
CO/ell to Fiome, within 12 miles of Stigmata Mallet.
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AreecTilliet CAUL eve SUICIrse.-011 Wetlntulay.lasti,
Hargett Gough, honsekeeper to Mt Posibens, of Kerner-
ton, near Tewkesbury, put a period to her existence,
doting the absence from I of her mister. by Wog-
Mg herself to the bedpost with • shawl. An nuttiest
was held on the body on Friday, before J. Cooke, Ell,
one of our comity coroners, and a verdict given (A—
ltmann,. The poor unfortunate stet was a native of
Newport, Monmouthshire, an* had lived as SCFV.IIII a
great her of years in a Comity of the highest respect-
ability in the neighbourhood where she committed this
'dreatiltd act. She ha,: alwals conducted herself wish
the strictest propriety, until she became acquainted, ditr.
log the last winter, with all ITIIOIIO/11, who had for a
long period hawked linen around the iiiii try, sad who
Wider a promise of marriage, induced het clindes'istely
10 quit a comfortable sititalion, in which she was touch
esteented• This tinstispec tog creature, h appears, con-
fi led in a villain, who, as snou as he could obtain from
her all her money. and the hest of her clothes, aban-
doned her, and lett her even destitute h( that good char-
acter which she hail jowly possesoed before she becalm
acquainted with him. Her former conduct, however,
was a sufficient ram sssss endation to obtain for• her the
situation she filled at • the time of het death ; but her
nt,tid was not strong enough to enable het to cmitt•tid
with the hitter reflections caused by the 'error Min which
She had wickedly been enticed. 'I he conscience of her
seducer, nufertimatelyi;"ii she only putiishment,wkch
awaits him in this world; thrrasii is is to ha regretted
that the weighty arm of the law cantiot.visit him with
a p ohnient adiguate to the enormity of his guilt.
STSLIPLE CHACZ..—A sweepstakes match, of filteen
sovereigns each, took place nu 'Tuesday between Captain
arks at dMe . Hamilton and Jeffers, of the S:•.invilett
unt. The start took place from itissietlehaiii Cul 'age,
hear Smith Miasma, to go to Hayeloti Hill, near Pinner,
:Middlesex, a distance of about twelve wiles across a
close conotry. The three, very well mounted, kept to-
44,ghee to Q.ddicin Hill. leavniA El: tret-nit the
'Here Mr. Hain thou sep..rated how his competitors, and
leach took a cliff:relit direction, but they were nearly
together ag out limhy Heaths, 'Captain Marks took.
the best road by the tie • tar for Punter Park, whilst
Mr. Hamilton vomited a steatite course through East.
end. 'The capons mot the match by urris mg at the
&tinted SOOI todr minutes before Mr. Hamilton. Mr.
Jeffery pulled up a lung way.ffutu home. It was dune
in 42 minutes.

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CORONER'S INQUEST.
ATTEMPrILD ASRASCINATION AND EUDIRQUENT Smcfltrlf
—4ln 'Fiseriky evening an inquisition was taken at
Worcester Arms POtilie House. George street, Mariebea--
ter. square, before Thou's* Stiriiiie, Esq. Coronet', ow theA
I body or Joshua Morland, individital atteinotost7
the ination of Sir Charles Ilempfylde, and who most
the instrument of ! is own death under the following Cl,.
atimst
Lary Storkes deposed, that her finalised had been serf.,
Yalu to Sir Charles liampfyide, mid she had been in the, •.
• habit of working a charwoman in Sir Charlet'. house ••
she was in the habit of selling apples, dm et the comer
of the square, about half past four on Mends, eftereee
she heard 'tie report of a p'stol, and•rome presort gas aitta!''
rd. " Oh;" she almost isnmedistely heard the report of '
second pistol; saw Sir Charles moving quickly to.strirda.
his own house ; heard Mho •' That d d I
has shot me." floe wife of the deceased had been the
housekeeper to C. Demplyltle•
Wm. Bayles at half-pest flint was passing down Matte
tagne-street, and Sir C. Bampfylde and another man with
their backs towards him, walking on the other side of the
way—there was w better man also walking In the same-
tine; bet • bellied' them Ste Cowles was walking. (rem
deceased ; heard the reports of Iwo pistols ; sew decenstS
fire the second pistol; his *rig was lifted, and directed
towards his face. •
fly a Joirvrisan—Dld•he rota away after aria, the finer , • -
pistol ?—isilhe stood with his back to the comb-way, sad ' •
fell on the curb stone.
After the examination of a number of whitetail*: which •
.flanintied to a late boor, the Jury returned a verdict of
.Mr de as.
" -The folteerlng statement of Menefeee of the wortuft is"
certified by the signainres of the Medical gentb.:ree who-
.are attending Sir Charles:—
" Sir Charles Berafylde has been emended by a 044
ball in the right side of the chest, which entered below '
. the shoulder near the stable, andhas lodged. The wooed
is tint at present attended by any troferoeirebleertrems,
but it is still one of a very ilangerons tendency."
AI it.earesretor Ereeees or PU•ILISM Weil-
nerlay morning, e'd instant, John Roberts and Charles
Matthletveohe (twiner a tanner's labourer, and the latter .
a stoekitivnakee, both of 'Few Iteshory, met in the
Mittoit Less, near Gineester, to decide by their fists I
quarrel which originated in a public-house on the pre,
ceding everting; whew, after several rounds of haft,' •
a hem), blow from Rdlorts noon the ear of hie'
adirerearyy mooed a conclusion of the brain, and killelt
him volts the aptel—Att ingrreu. was heliresit the body
on the follandsig da . before Mr. Besi..one'br. the Coins
nest fat ►• . soil a verdict of nienslanieflet
was telemeti. ire only easiest Robins, hat also attains;
Samos4 roe*" me of the seconds, and boles of them
hair bees. to Worcester tool. Role eta bring
a yeteogmis 11111y.eleil character, the melanehot
siemeiso lo width be now placed has elicited a general
fertile* of pity amemeall clangs of his neighbours : and
it will doubtless weigh numb in his favour, whenbennebt
to trial, Miss it'irroe with very great reluctance be was .""
prevailed twoe wittoomer its this Array. Feathers settlr, •
nal aiitt obit ofthelrerllol thia nufettimatt e•-•••
libn. tit wailieeetuoit in- preilismine 'he latter, anel
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almost diseged Rebus. Wets his woi rt. rn undertake it, •
Matthew/6'e muse of life for many years has been shelf !•-•
as, it is is bat dreaded. link fitted him for so sudden-en,"
appearance Were the tribunal of his Maker; be has left
a young wife% who is very neer the time of her confine..
weal—soil upon this rot creatorre's earnest'y begeing •
his aft persist its fits resolotion of fighting, wfien he
got up in •he looming. and hinting her intention of fol.:-
lowing him, in. order to endeavour to prevent it, he
threatened to murder her if she quitted her bed • and•
those deceitful words were the last she was destine:levee
to hear him utter! 1r 'peeretal feeling is not too much,
blunted in the breast of she einazonion mother of the
deceased—who was 1111 eve Wiltles7lllo thisfatal combat,
and ...Is bersef not utareqitents•• been a principal' actor
in similar rencounters--poeuga.N indeed Mugu he the
that it was in a great measure throdgh
instrumentality that the challenge was ..iveit; anti that
the flutist afterwards took ;Mice.
Mr. Hughes Ball and Nlereandotti were married on
Palm Sunday, iii roe church nlll.lllll. ' 0.1 the fogitiees
quitting I. Inn, they hurried with all convenient'
tilted to Edinburgh, where the solemn ceremony wet
to have been performed) rand where this young lady's
kind protector was waiting to receive them. Here some -
difficulties arose which were lint to be sommunted our
inc instant, and in order to put alt cad to all procraokt. ' •
nation, the edent Inters honied on to Haiti and ' •
that chinch, previous to the erreir ttttt y, the bens were '
published three times in one thy. The parties arrived at
Duff House, the seat of the Enrol Fife, late nu the •
Friday es ening ; and on the Sunday they were nuurimil '
brilie Rev. Mr.- Grant, who receited from the gialdere
bridegroom 100 guineas for hie trouble —The bride was •
)(melt away by the Earl of Fife, and the happy couple'
left his unlile mansion soon alter the eeranotly; acetrao
partied by the bride's mother.
Un S lay last, ahem; Iwo o'clock in the afrerfflon;
as a poor woman was effusing the Nilithead fields, at
Peckham, she was assaulted- by a villain in a padre'a
dress, who robbed her 0f.3;., and afterwards cut her
thro-it in a most dreadful manner : in attempting to de-
fend herself her arms were also severely cut, She was
found 011 Niniiday morning, about Ave o'clock, by a
watchman, almost dead from the effects of the toosstule-
and cold, and was conveyed by the beadle of Peckham')
to Crmherwell worelintise, where she received every-
possible attention, hill her recovery is at present very, •
doubtful. We understand it to be the inte:eifin of the ".
parish to offers reward for the apprehension of the vile-
lain
WILLIAM M.NAMARA, THE CELEBRATED lineere '
PEDESTRIAN.—.TIII9 m.an,wlin has been to the reeelps
oi carrying the post Lag too •1 Belfast in Crurahn awl
I a 'c performed, on Saturday, the extraordinary
Ulu tttttt A Milli and nue-eighth,
its ~fie i•eiir, six. minters. and 20'seconds. He says lie •
will wheel a harrow go miles in 94 hours—the' same •
time Russell walked without any such itowinbrsttee. •

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