The National Register.
London, England, 1817-03-31 00:00:00

UNION HALL.

Dennis Coleman. a pauper, upw.irds of 70 years of age,
ar.d who has Cir so:r.elime pest been in Rotheillithe Work-
house, was brought before Mr. Chambers by the Overseers,
on a charge of Isastarily, preferred against him by EliAabeth
Smith, a pauper mitlcr 20. in the same workhouse. The
child being likely to beeoine charge:Ode to the parish, the
hlAgistrates ordered him to find serarities to indemnify the
Officers, and not being prepared to du sit, he was committed
to the House of Correction till the Sessions.
WORSHIP-STHEE'f.

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B. George was charged with a most atrocious assault on
two females named Cullom (sisters), on Sunday evening, in
Brick.lane. A gentleman, on interfering in their behalf, was
knocked, down by George, who was at last secured by the
watchmen.—The Alagisti ate ordered him to find bail.
During Divine Service on Sunday. a mob of about 1291
men and boys assembled in Hare-street Fields, Bethnal-green,
committing varions breeches of the peace, in defiance of the
Officers. -About a dozen of them, however, were taken, and
committed for want of bail.
Cr. Crew, W. Greenwood, and Gurley, who have
been repeatedly examined ft.r robbing their employer, Mr.
Dessauges, silk•ionnu Witmer, in Wheeler.street,Spital-lields,
of to the amount of 20it were brought up ; when thr
charge being made out to the satisfaction of the Magistrate,
they were fully committed.

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On the llth inst. a charge of blasphemy was exhibited
Before the in4;istrates at East Derehani, against Henry
for publishing a certain hand bill, entitled " The
Great .-Iss?..:e." This is the same person who published
the Loral Brunswick .9a Register, with a view to coun-
teract Cobbett.s 2d Pa:uphlct.
MANCIIERTER litorias.--On Friday, fifty three of the
persons who had been taken were discharged from the New
Bailey. The whole number originally lodged there amount-
ed to two hundred and tifty-one. Of these live were sent
t., London on warrants from the Seetetary of State. Nine
arc committed to Lancastie Castle for trial upon the 13th of
Chas. IL cap. a, " for conspiring with other persons, to the
timber of .3000 and upward+, to proceed in a body from
Blanchester to London, and to repair to the Prince itegeut,
upon pretence of presenting and delivering a certain sedi-
tious libel, pnrporting to be a petition, com:rlaint, and re-
monstrance; and for having, in pursuance of the conspiracy,
on the 10th of March, assembled, with several thousands of
other persons, at Manchester, with intent to proceed toge-
ther to London, in such excessive numbers as greatly to drs-
bleb the peace of our Lord the Kin, and to cause terror and
intimidation to his Majesty's well-disposed suOjeet4." This
is the charge against nine. Many others .I.e bound by then
recognizanees to appear at the Se-.slow. Same arc dis-
charged on engaging not to be concerned in seditious practices
in future. Others ou a recogisizaece of 401. to keep the peace
for twelve mouths. And ot het s were required to find bail, to
answer at the Sessions for their misconduct.—in dischai ging
the fifty-three already mentioned, the Chairman stated, that
though Government, taking compassion on them, hail merci-
fully ordered them to he di:charged, yet their five mono:whom
who had been won to London, would probably answer fur their
conduct with their lives. _ _ .

Tuesday sennight a numerous Meeting of the Freeholders
and Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall took I.lace at Boil-
min when an Adtlress to the Prince Regent %vas im intmously
•oted, expressive of their alitio:Tenee i. Om late imiterous
attack on his person. The li.glt Sheriff hail refused to
the Meeting, because the Inhabitants were. included in the
Requisition sent hint. Those who signed the Requisition,
however, sent round an invitation to the Freeholder, and In
hsibitants generally, and the abuse Meeting was accordingly
held.

SELLING A WlFE.—That most scandalous and disgraceful
priteefid practice of,selling a wife, with a Millar room' her
neek, was witnessed on Saturday last in the public market-
place of Kingston•npon-Thames. The husband bought a
new halter fu• Is. 3d. with which he led hit fair rib to the
l'own-hall; and having paid 2d. for toll, 0.1 right of selling,
she was knocked clown to a catintryin4n at the price of ls.
who led his very valuable prize off in triumph with the halter
scnnil her neck.—Onere : have not the M mistrates a power
of punishing the perpetrators of such disgraceful transac-
tions.

Tin: L-iceiter inured says —" Oa Tuesday night last, about
half past ten o'elnek, a large barn, with a stable :adjoining,
situate in the fields betwixt the villages of Otd Daliy and
14 dloughby, in this county, and in the occupation of Mr.
Jellings, a respectable farmer' of the former village, was
totally destroyed by fire, together with about fit e or six
quarters of maitre-dit al wheat, nearly the saute quantily of
eats, which ',4ppened to be in the barn. and the gearing fur
four horses, which hung up in the stable, besides seine row
cribs and farming implements, which were in and about the
bitililings. There is too much reason tar helierieLf the eon,
tlagrat:on to have been occasioned by some wicked iiicen•
diary ; for the horses that hail been left tied in the stable, a:
the 11'1131 hour on- Tuesday evening, were tionaci in the
adjoining fields, after the fire, with their halters round their
wicks, as if they had been released prior thereto., owing to
same compunctious visitings still appertaining to the diabolical
mind of the author of It. The farm upon which the beddinga
stood, is, we understand, the property of Co: Earl of Radnor."
A few days since five voting women, accompanied by several
ehildra it, went front Alfristom in Sussex, to the sea-side, for
Ithe purpose of getting limpets among the rocks; het before
they had been long in the poranit of their object, they stutnhled
upon a keg of brandy, which they contrived to broach, and
to sip.of AO plentifilily, that they soon became tipsy, and so
bewildered, that they knew nut how to retrace their steps
back, and did not reach home until between 11 and 14 o'clock
at night. One (Attie yentn. ladies is notyet who:ly recovered
from the effects of her imprudence.
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CORONERS' IN VESTS.
A few days since, before 1). Green, Esq. Coroner of the
Soots of SomerAham, in littntingdonslore, an Tnquert nits
taken on a body found on the foregoing Saturday, in a small
wood or coppice at Ridley mini Fetatm, m ar St. less, with a
hat l lug on its face, as if in a somnolent state, with its arms
Cl derly folded arts.", rotating a pillow for its heart; but
which, on a closer inspeetiun, preseuted the most offensive

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and korritic spectacle imaginable. An empty, emboweled
trunk, a skull hare, bleached, and dissevered from the neck,
hands from the arms, arms from the shoulders, legs from the
thighs—ill having, hum exposure to a summer's heat, a
wiater's cold, and the ravage's of rapacious insects, animals,
and hilt's, melted down and totted asoir ler, leasing no traces
of the• once pleasing anxious being Ouch animated them all.
Neither es et e there letters, papers, or ;trope ity of any kind
(saving a silver hunting watch, and two razors, cased), found
upon the hotly; but by the initials "C. B." on a pocket
handkerchief, and stocking top, and the aid of one witness,
it was soon identified, and pt eyed to be that of the late Chas.
Blake, age*, 26, and reeentiy the unfortunate occupant of a
farm near Peterborough, front whence the pressure of the
present times precipitately drove hint, about 18 months since,
to tin obscure lodging at H noinvdon, which he wandered
from early one morning in the month of MAN' last, telling his
host, with apparent cheerfulness, '"That it' he returned not
to dinner, not to expect him until seem" Returning, however,
no more, it was supposed he had tied to America, being never
mote seen or heard of until the sad day above mentioned,
which discovered his remains on a well known spot, part of
an estate once fondly occuried by himself or family, and on
the identical spot where a father had some years past similarly
perished; and also a spot close to the residence of a beloved
object, comptiled on the very eve of a marriage to discard
him ; and a spot, %%here, alas! being obviously broken in
fortune, bereft of all friends, and" crossed in hopeless love,"
it is most reasonably presumed, that, in the absence of all
hope, and in a parczysin of despair, he destroyed himself
by laudanum, a small phial of which was found Ding by his
,tiff.

On Satin-day last an inquisition was taken at Bury, nn the
body of William I'.atfoot, of Thetford, who was found dead
in the snow on the preceding morning. He was 60 years of
e, and had beet. to Bury to accompany his son home, who
Met just been diseharghd from gaol. They had stopped at
the tolrgate inn, on their way home on Onirsday afternoon,
and proceeded on their journey in the evening, in on intoxi-
cated state; that the son being scarcely able to walk, his fa.
titer had prevailed neon him, when they were About 5 miles
ou the road, to ride his dickey ; fiat the son then left : is fa-
ther, and, after proceeding to Rymer, took shelter in an out-
house at a little distance front the real, where he remained
all night, lint did not interest himself about the fate of his
father, whom he had left behind. The poor old mute, after
proceeding about 4 mix!' alone, fell d amid seas 10,111 d in
the morning covered with snow. Verdict —Died through
weakness and the inclemency of the weather; and having
been inhumanly left in the road by his sou.
Wednesday an Inquisition was taken at the Salutation
Old Brentford, on the body of J. Snelling, 70 years of ago,
J. Benton stated, that the deceased and himself were riding
in a waggon from London to Brentford, the deceased WAS
stooping over the trunt of the 'waggon and fell headlong on
the grum.d. The wheels passed user his hody, and crushed
it so dreadfully as 1.1 curse his death the same evening.—
Verdict—Accidental Death.

Another Inquest WWI held the same day at the Anchor, at
Acton, on the body of E. Essex, waggoner to Mr. T. Wellia,
of Acton. The deceased was riding on the shafts, and tieing
intoxicated, he fell off under the wheels, which forced him
before it several yards before it passed over him. lie was
conveyed home, but died next day. Verdict—Accidental
Death, u ith a Dcodand of Is. ou the wheels.
Wednesday an inquest was held at the Mitre, Broadwall,
on the body of C. FusCer, a tny tor, but whiv hail been out of
work most part or the %sinter ; and since lalt Christmas his
parish altoued him 3s. per week, which was the sole support
of his wife and two children. Last week, his wife wasbroneht-to-bed,
broneht-to-bed, and the parish Mei eased his isension on that
account, to is. which he went to receive on Monday ; but was
so weak, that a woman who attended his wile in her
lyiugt-
in, went out of humanity with him to the workhouse, and
having received the money, they were rethrititte. home when
he dropped down in Gravel lane, and expired on the spot.
He had a sixpence in his pocket besides what he received as
above ; and it is remarkable, that a difference of odinion ex-
isted anions the Jury, sonic being for a verdict oi—Starved
to death.. it was, how ever, at length decided, in consequence
of his havin7 money in his pocket, that he died a natural
death. A Verdict was accordingly returned—Died by the
Visitation of Ga.l.

An inquest was held last week at Ketley, Somersetshire,
on view of the body of E. Lloyd. On Saturday sennight the
unfortunate man left his house at Keticy to go to his other
house at Dawley, promising to return in the evening. Be-
tween nine anti ten his dog returned, which alarmed his wife,
who, accompanied by a female, went in search of her hus-
band. On their arrival at his house at Dawley, they were
:old he left that place at seven o'clock. On going back again,
ut Bill's Hill, they found Mr. Lioyd standing with his back
against a gate, close to the road. He said he was almost
murdered ; that he hail heon robbed of ?Dl. and some
by two men at the top of the hill.—He described one man to
be much taller and bigger than the other. lie was taken,
home about twelve o'clock, he vomited much blood, and
expired soon after. This was the principal evidf'nee. Several
persons have been examined and discharged. The Coroner's
Jury adjourned the 20th instant.

Monday evening, about nine o'clock, an accident happened
in lii.hopsgate-street, threatening the most melancholy con-
sequences. A child, about eight year; old, was locked up
by its parents in the front room of the first floor, and by some
means set the place on fire. The crowd collected to the spot,
saw the child ineffectually endeavouring to opea the window,
till a poor, bat resolute wan, foi col open the dune, and res-
entail tie child, ss Ms its (loathes then a blaze. The fire, by
the exertions of this man, and others, was eventually sub.
tined, destroying only tile furniture of the room where it
began. •

There is reason to think that Lady Don:las, whose lament-
, able death was mentioned in the public paperS., did not die
by the actual effect id ii:2I)ICS, bat of a alarm, upon finding
that a part of her dress had caught fire. The boat'
was only
discoloured and scorched, not di,ligut et! in the least. Her
Latlysuip sus quite dead Witte tht surgeon could arrive,
from only the opposite side of the street ; and by all the
es silence that appeared, the surgeon gave it :IS his opinion,
and the verdict t r the Inquest was brought in accordingly,
that her Ladyship died by fright, and not by fire. It %v.,
proved, that live minutes was the utmost exteut of tittle front
the commenectnent of the accident mita her Ladyship drop-
ped 1110:1 the door, without one sign of life, idol before the
tire could be e‘tinguislictl. Her dress was not of a tine tex-
ture, but of black satin. Her littsband and nephew were
both in the dining parlour. as were two men servants; and
the} all, with het Ladyship's woman, alto was ;those stairs,
instantly assembled in the drawing rood', stud gave every

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asskt:lnce, but life was totally extinct, even before they
could reach her.

Wednesday afternoon an Inquest was hell at the Spotted
Hog in Strand lane, upon the body of Mr. J. Hall, foreman
to Air. Wyat, the (milder, who died in consequence of having
thrown himself down the area, opposite the Audit Office, in
Somerset-house. After hearing the evidence, the Jury ca-
pressed their entire satisfaction of the mental ineaparlty
which influenced the unhappy man at the time he committed
the :let; and they repaired to the house, and viewed the
body; after which they returned to the Spotted Dog, and
found a verdict—That the deceased was in a temporary state
of derangement at the time he threw himself into the area,
by which 4.ircumstanee his death was occasioned.
Monday morniag Capt. Lightfoot, of Country-place, Kent.
road, shot himself through the head with a pistol bullet.

Sunday morning a young man, who had applied for a bed
the preceding night at the Golden Anchor, Limit r East
Smithfield, was found with his throat cut in a most shocking
manner, and a large knife lying near him. He was conveyed
to the aindon llospital, without hopes of recovery.

On Tuesday evening one of the Oreenwich stages upset •
at Charing•cross, in consequence of one of the hind wheels
coming off, by which accident the driver was precipitated
on the pavement, and broke his leg. There were no passen--
gees either in or out at the time.
IMPOSTER.—For so-ne (lame past a man genteely dressed,
and who stated himself to have been a tradesman of the higher
order, bnt reduced through the general distress, has been
making applications at the houses of several Gentlemen at the
west end of the town, and 'wing, of a good address and prepos-
sessing manners, he told so piteous a tale that it seldom failed
to procure him money. This person was apprehended on
satmalay in the act of begging at the house of a Nobleman in
Grosvenor.square ; and on examination before Mr. Baker,
one of the Magistrates for the district, it appeared that he
was a gross impostor, whose name is on the Chelsea Pension
List at a shilling per day ; and that lie has received lbs. per
week from a Benefit Club since last April.
ASSAULT ON THE OFFICERS OF THE THAMES POLICE.—.J.
Craigie, one of the Surveyors attached to the Port Mahon,
lying off Queenliithe, attended before Capt. Richbell, oh •
Saturday, and stated, that on Thursday evening last he left
the ship, arcompanied by four waterinen, and rowed as far
as Vauxhall, and returned by Lambeth, where he was abused
by several persons who were standing on the shore. He canto
down within about 100 yards of Westminster Bridge, when
he crossed over to the north shore, and proceeded towards
the bridge. He went through the second arch, and as soon
as lie gut ft rim tinder the bridge, four large stow es were
thrown at him from off the bridge ; three of the stones felt
astern of the boat, and one fell close to the after oar. Mr.
Craigie stated. that he had no doubt if either of the stones
had Mock the boat it would have sunk her.
ATTEMPTED ESCAPE FROM NENVGATE.—A prisonernamed
BOWNI, who had been capitally convicted and reprieved,
made an attempt to escape on Monday evening from New-
gate. On the exclusion of strangers from the prison, Le Rei,
one of the turnkeys, had his suspicion excited by a very tail
person in remade attire, who was one of the first to get into
the inner yard. The dress was a black gown, and a bounc-
ing French bonnet. Le Roi communicated his suspicion to
the principal turnkey in the lodge. The lady made the at-
tempt to pass into the street with others, when Bishop recog-
nized the features of the prisoner Bowen. He told him ho
should not like to he 'twitted to a lady, but it was his duty
to (Hain her. Bowen was formerly valet to a noble earl.
At eleven oclock at night he was sent off in the Caravan,
with 2h other convicts, for Portsmouth. With the exception
of two or tin cc, these men hal been ail respited fi ton deat!i.

RIOT IN ST. Gicts's.—ln consequence of various Gentle-
men giving information of their h ring been attacked and
forcibly robbed of their property, the Vestry of St. Giles's
issued peremptory orders to authorise the watchmen to ap-
prehend all women found loitering at the corners of streets,,
as it is throng!) their means stolen property is generally made
away with. To put this order into execution, some of the
most active and expel ienced officers, comprising Roberts,
Putman, Clarke and Whets, formed themselves into a bode,
and with a number of watchmen sallied out on Sunday night.
In the short space of ILI minutes they apprehended 1.12 pros-
titutes, whom they were escorting to the watch-house, when'
they were attacked by a formidable gang of thieves, armed
with sticks, who, in a short time, rescued the prisoners, and
would in all probability have murdered the watchmen anti
(Avers, had not some of the most respectable parishoners
come forward and lent their assistance. One watchman,
ironed Crawley, who has lateiy made himself very active
in the aepreltension of these villains, was marked its a par-
ticular oirject of their vengeance, mil was most brutally as-
saoltcd. One of the villains was apprehended most diead-
fully lacerated and lodged in the watch-house. On Monday,
he was taken helot a tne Magistrates at Marlborough-street,
where he was immediately recinznized as a highway-robber,
and committed to prison fur want of bail.