The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-23 00:00:00

SiIOCKING SUICIDE.

For some days pat• rumours of a most shocking occurrence
ha% place iii the• county of \orthunti•erland liaise
been ereia i i Otis wit n ; and a o ale Riff ly to state, that
the) bast proved to be but too trite. To our great surprise
Wt. lows .1 a word upon the subject from any or our
ourihetu com.spiiiiilraits, but we lieliese the tollouing perti•
(.01MS to be oral• coo reel :--On Tole►:lay last, two brothels
of the same of Younglioshand, respectable farmers, residing
at Ileekley. grange, near Alnwiek, were found king dead In
one of their own fields, with their throats cut. In the course
of the afterboon, one of them hail been superintending the
toen ploughing., wad hail given the men moires to unyoke their
houbl.S. Nlllll in was called into en adjoining field by his brit.
tlo cr. The men accordingly went home, and some rime ha slug
elapsed awl their masters not coming home at their usual
hour, a 'retch was instituted, when thei► bodies were found;
in the field into which the one brother hail called the other,
lying within twenty yenta of each other With their throats
en'. and a bloody sitar lying at the side of each. A Cot o-
ner's intinest was held on the bodies on V. ednesday, and sat
till one o'clock on Thuts•.tay ;owning, when it was adjourned.
It a;ail, met on Thursday, and sat the whole of that day, and
was again adjourned. The deceased were upwards of 00
years of age. in affloient circumstances, and inseparable cont.
Neircualk C/u•oxicte.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.—On the morning. of Tuesday se'n•
night, between nine and ten o'clock, while one of then' was
giving instriictiuns to it boy ploughing in one of their fields,
the other brother approat lied, and u.krd," Are pm ready i"
Being answered in the affirmative, they left the field together.
At dinner they were missing ; but this created little alarm,
' as accident or some unexpected business relative to the farm
might have occasioned their a bsenre. Evening arrived, and
they did not appear. This naturaily excited fearhil appre-
hensions ; and a servant was sent the way they had been
walking; when the dreadliddiscoveiy was made, that they were
no longer he cid-deuce. They were lying distant from each►
other only a few yards, near a ditch, each having his throat
cut, and a razor near his body. A watch was also found
beside one of them, from which it may be inferred that they
had resolved to die et the same moment. There was not the
least appearance of scuffle, nor any room (or suspieion that
they had been murdered by tithes.. A Jury was stint 1111 l fled
that usiglts, and continued to hold inquest adjournments inter.
veiling till Thursday night, when a verdict of fiqo de Sc was
returned. The lanniug stock and utensils were then valued,
and the bodies were buried at midnight un Saturday in the
cross roads near the chili-vb. Unseasonable as the•hour was,
the interment was numeruit,ly attended. All scented to
allow the justice of the verdict, though all seemed to lament
it. The ft iends oftlieeleeeased attempted to prove insanity,
but Celled entirely ; their greatest efforts being unable even
to establish previous melancholy. The act appears to have
been sonic time premeditated. A hair-dresser who way
caded before the Jury identified the razors found near the
bodies as having been brought to him to sharpen on the
Saturday berm e. This melancholy event, for whiele no stun.
f.tetory has been assigned, will lung remain in the re.
collection of all.

'FRE CAB 4LVA.—ilse following particulars of the loss of
the Honourable L44t India Company's ship, Cat Nara, nue
front a young officer, who was an eye witness of the metal.
eholy affair, and deeply partook of the sufferings of the nut mr.
tunste crew, as co: 1111 l unicated by letter to his frioutf, gentle-
mail of Lewes :

'• The commencement of our anisfurlones may be dated from
the ship's strikileg three tittles upon, the Hove Rock, or Hulot.
ton. For the first hour after the shock, we made but little
wales; bus the leak shortly gained upon ass at least nine inches
per hour, and doily increasing, it vsas necessary to keep the
point's constantly going fs. lnt Isle of Wight. In a short
time the crew mutinied, which, however, was quelled by the
example of punishment oil a few individoods. We at length
arrived at the Cope of Good II•ope ins tremendous gale, when
Mille night untie 22d of done, the leak soddenly increased to
two feet per I : every pump Ull 110:10 it was now in (must:tot
action, mid we tinnily expected to blander; here Captain
Dalrymple deter, ii ill eit to bear up fur Elonaloa , anti dock the
ship, wisest at .1 toselock, amt. we shuck 'spun the rock
small uninhabited island, or rather sand bank of Cargados,
%s fide running at the rate sit eight knots :said at 11.1 If nn hour.
It then being very slat k. we of connive expected every moment
would liaise been our last. %Ve all jammed out of bell its our
shirts, not having time to think of saving any usher article.
Poor Captain Dulaymple went down by my side; I was also
smiler Witter, but a seaman caught me by the hair of soy head,
Mill by that means saved me. llt ft the wreck about to else
o'clock, o bets the water had risen to the main hatchway, which
bending, very much, we expected every monscist would boost
sip. After the first shuck we cut our amiss and fore masts
away ; a sea yowl cleared the mizen, which went by the. board
at one dash; the scene %vas then linty dreadful beyond dr.
seription,somewillsbrokenarms,legs,orherds;lllshort,voice
a omitted in a gamier too shocking to relate. I frtunately,
with others, t• I t 111 as %. II ill a reef of ('oral rocks; and in
this Nsitic, wii at shirt MI only, load we to wade overpointed
rucks, to calls :e island, in shorn{ which our feet acne laterally
cut to pieces. llesi.h I our Captain, we lust our Surgeon's-
at a., vs Ito 'lid i sue coidd to cheer use sip, by assailing me he
vs as a good swilooner, said cools' save hints( It and oar ; but he,
alas! 'boor fcil.aw, perished. We scratched a hole wise one
lingers lM its. Naiad, and honied him, as did we oats' n ofurta.
lEite CUilltadVS all: Mime and half out the rock were
covered %A ills pieces of w teck. Providesatially some sheep,
pigs, u few barrels of beer. Nc. were washed ashore, and each
mats was altowanced to two ounces per day. We now con-
structed a sot t of twat. where every high tide washed over
our steeping place. Alter Laing tut slime at week, we con-
to iscal to repair the cotter sudivieutly to put to so a fin the
~LsanOtos, 220 nodes distant. After tottering up a prays we
set sail, via la the purser, sixth waIC, NIA eight v1'411411; it
Mew a heavy gale, and the sea roost:only breaking wcr u-,
oidiged •'s to lade out the water wish our loots. The Maw.
eienne frigate now hose in sight, at witch I know nut how to
describe our leeliosgs ; we ate, drank, danced, sod, in short,
I know not what w... did. We at insult arrived safe at the
Isle WTI:IIWe j when I vista wit till I/04111 ilic Hastisig., on the
711 i of August, and readied Out Lioglasad on the -tth of No.
veininr."

I.l.,•ohninit has been recently adopted by more than 500
familits in Magdeburg, 1.111114:11 way prove to the
mm(l4. heve nintnally engaged, by %um of honour,
,over to tal.eoli their h..is in Balutiuy ; but only to adopt the
minary cu.tont of lunching the head the eight hand.--
toot hr: .et ut modern retornicrs, in the .:one town, 1148 iiiitledi
CllTtliter lettero, inviting all ressons, partienlaily ladir., to
rtauuut.o ler the future all articleb of rit.shiuu cud luxury.

NOV. 5.9

I'UlJre.

I%IANsION

Mr. Jones, of the Item.ll, applied to the Lord
ma, or to as.ist I • with a body of c....statiles, to iake
F 1104911 of house iu foi.toril) the property I.f it
worthy Alder:eau. He •tated, that a person, who had heeit
agent in the Ikons, upward...4.2o v.1414,11;1.1 taken pos•es,iklik
upon the •Jkorsiiit of beteg a partner, as well as oik the pre.
11.1.4. t. if having made o pin elkate of goods its it to ilk, .mount
of 2030:11. He alto said, that two gentlemen, w Ito were
the teal poreltaters of the g Is, had been 'Moved out of
the house by him who now held il, aided by five others. II
was apprehended, that in the hands 161 a person car.hle of
Purl' violence, the pm opetiy in the house, amoinktior, t
between tid.oool. and 70,0131. could not be very hel:111'1,
e.perially as he had, by his Own ;le nowledgment, sent out of
the house at night part of that propek ty. Air. doneslittel ell,
that the ease was of that class to which his Lord:hip*, atten-
tion was most frequently directed, and declared that he
should iirleimay his lorkl.hiji if 4 legal lll.,reAs tliiii.l.l he
institnwd in conseipteoce of his dirt-v.:ions its the p•olice.
Me added, that tgAttol had been offered to the ;seism' com-
plained against. as a comprissali for his services in the
.itnise. ace. ; and that the oder had been cheerfully conipl.ed
with at hist, but afterwards rejected. The house was now
shut up, aml the presein possessor hod no claim, either as a
1./littler or pikrehaser. The most etrecttial way of doing jos-
appoir,4l to Mr. Jones IC lit opposing lot cc to liner, if
• direct W41.1'4111 should Ire ojeetttl In.
The Lord Mayor speed that it would be a sit:smeary way,
bat refused In give %it:wiliest to ant proreeding of the
krod, A solicitor was the Iles Sall to whom stick a ease ought
to
he referred.

Hia Lnr4•hip volt to tis. a Iver.e ptCy, who politely
•nswered through a grate that he cuulJ nut wait upon hint.

BOW STREE f.

Jalllea Roberts, is pies:no:SO, in the employ of Mr.
Thu! ne, was ex:iodised 1/II a charge ut selling almanac k
withunt stomps. It appeared front tote evidence produced,
that this igoii,itile• 41111 116114%1'A practice has hero car. led on
to a very Pat ttetli 111-111 of the remenne as well as injuey to
the frir trader. Too i.4.e iht %lax been clearly made out,
the Magi•li ale was alwlll 10 et/11111dt Roberts so prison till
three mositlisoin cosisolonice with the Act ofParlianient, when
Mr. Rivin,tou, solicitor to tile Company or siatintiess, ititer•
ft red, and got the sentence mitigated to a week's imprison-
ment ; iutlmaling at the fiallit• tiler, Ille determination of the
Company., strictly to watch these mila w proe-eitings, and
in case of env Intone conviction, to euthree the fiill penalties
of the law. number et allll4ll4Cks l 111141111 the possession
of ((Miens exceeded 150 copies, subjecting hnn to a penalty
of 101. for each copy which he whiled, besides to three
imprisonment foi every separate Utietlee, in the sale
of the same. The stainp-anty on each alitiotiack is rue
ahillinr. and threepence.
your: manrespectable appearance, whose name
we 1111,1t•s.01,011 to be Cooke. was • 611111/11l Illta the other on
\londay' I y J. Kutart, au officer of Southwas k, charged by a
511.411 •of the name of tiny, with an attempt lo seduce him
to commit 111111.41er on the person of Mrs,' s. Stleata ;11.4 Sllll.
I opper,wiih•, in Flert-ingrket. He stated, that hay, who
Lad been in the lillll‘,o di.liett, %%311 111411‘1111, :WOO a lUI t•
night ago,siiiikr the wall. of the Mansiumdionse, asking :11111.,
when site prisoker stepped up to him, and asked him if lie
anted a job: his answer was yes; he was then requested to
rill in Istlarkfriars-sord, at his lodgings, and lie mild employ
tint; atter which the prisoner left the written particulars of
Ilia aiiilres•f.o. Li ai. with all Old woman se:sal:reps a stall close
by where the partied m• t. lie accordingly went, when the
',shames t Id 111isi there weir two persons he waisted to have
disposed of, that were liis properly, nod lall4h;:og a:
it, and that lie would point them out, Kay undertook the
aissassittation, anal had several wlet views with the prisoner,
he the c se of which lie had obtained front I a 21. and a
11. note, about Ss. in silver, a shirt, cravat, limihy, the
persons intended to be murdered were pointed not, and two
pistols were procured, balls, and flask of powder,(alluf which
were now prothiecd,l except the powder, which hr had
emptied while following the gentleman, which he had re-
peatedly dour, in the ileightmitiliwri on Fleet-mai Let.
Linsey, the °dicer, proved the state of Kay, mime his con.
nezion with the prisoner, to be extremely wretched, without
shoes, stockings, or shirt.
Tuesday, the investigation was resumed, and the prisoner,
in answer to the charge, nave the same account which he had
given the preceding night. He stated that Kay stood at the
front of the 31ausion-house, asking duns; and as he often
gave such fellows halt-pester and penny-pieces, lie stopped to
converse with him, with all him a ticket of
the society for the suppression of mendieity ; but he ac-
knowledged that he did not give hint a ticket, lle inquired
his business, and was intOrused that he was a gunsmith and a
Oslo: maker; and having it pistol that w:inteil repairing, he
asked I 'the wnitid repair it. thinking Kay, being out of
work, would do it cheap fur him. tie had lately bought the
pistols in Loudulrwall, for 11. 141. tor his brother, who re-
sides at Gairatt, and who haying frequetitly to travel to
Merton, &c., white there have beret so many robbeties lately,
*wished to travel iirincils Since he had purchased the pistols,
Ile hod the iiiisfJrititie to let one talk which put it so much
out of repair boat it would slut act. Ile left his ail eCtioll %%1111
tilt; Wilo tells hot gitecerlsread at the .%lausion?lionse,
for Kay to mill on him to eepatr the pistol. lir dewed giving
him any powder or the flask; he admitted gi%ing Kay she
Clothes ht. had stated, hot assigned his reason to be pine
charity, Kay having had only part oda skirt before. He du_
Hied giviag Kay the different scorns of money he had stated;
and said he Itadouly given hint two shadily. •
On his being asked by I;il.sile if he was any relation to
his masters, or had any expectation trims thesis, lie replied in
the liegalise to both questions; he stated publicly, that lie
Was not as articled tie.k, bill set cived asalary bunt them.
This was eutdii Hied by Mess's. Janie* and Henry SIICOts,
Who Ir% el e present ; and ho licit his rather sold In oilier
were also in their employ at Met ton, mud very Coustileratil its
their cuittidenec.

Kay W 4, and told so many eirctiiii.
stances V. %ter.. prOVeil Oil the .put to he ab,•nlult
False, and e.as alto4ellier SO iiitow.isteill,
that not the Nliglittbt credit Weiti attached to an) part et' hi,
narrative.

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the Alesrs. Shears spoke in the lii;„liest poy.ible term!!
of Ihr prisoner, .11•41 ',Mil, they did nut ht.lim,t• nlm cap.a:dellt
Snell .11 del, Jim did they believe any thing that had imam
said I .
Mr. Twitiii 4,1,14eil to the Magiitrwe for K 4y, Coleman, a nil
Kinsey to be livi.: In brit, to rUsocr ii hat buuldd ue brought
illgainot them at use SeSsiunb.
Ml'. Lituic agtted to the el tobatte:l 30 rile alb r bled to

'NIL NATIONAL REGISTER.

ii-ty awl Cnlviauto, bot not as to Kins.y, nhserving, that he
del 'int iee arty wilniz in 1114 con.loct. A. to Kay, the
111 ei• JOS illConlsiiielleietl, ;111 In tidies Mid
elteted by hint, exe,etlell Any thing he had " el.
The expre•se.l hittnelf at a Iwo; to devotion
for tho coowr.tcy, its object V/14 the I.re of 51r.
Cn,ke, the pits 0000 er, who na• of ewirse

Bones C I report having been circulated on Thursday,
that Mr. Ilorsley's child had been discovered, and that the robber
was in custody, a crowd was attracted in 119 w-street, and in the otiicc ;
it turned out, however, to he another stolen child, who tool been re-
covered ; a woman named Jtary Anne Gregory having been broug:d
to the tetee, charged with steeling Mr. Hedgway's child, only 19
months old, from ICent.sum, in the Borough.
Nisbet, the street keeper belonging to St. Clement
Danes. stated, that on Thursday afternoon about two o'clock, he oh-
serving a crowd of people assembled in the Strand near St. ('lament's
church, and going among them, found that the prisoner had been
stopped in c eisequence of her answering the dcei.ription given in a
hand bill of her having stolen a child ; and on his reading the printed
bill he also snspectcd her, and took her into custody, wTien she con-
fessed to Win that she had dropped the child in Champ:Ty-lm. and
on searching her he found a head which she confessed to being to a
necklace which waste the child. Ile soon after learnt that the child
had been found in Chancery lane.
Mrs. Plush, the wife of Mfr. I'llo4 n plumber, in Chancery-lane,
stated. that on Thursday afternoon between one and two o'clock se-
veral persons were collected ohout her hou:e, which she discovered
be in consquence of a chill having b.-cn left in her itasege, the
street door being open. The child was nearly dead V: ito cold. She
ww-ined it in a blanket and laid it bentre the tire, and in a short
time it began to recover. and shortly after a woman entered her house,
claiming the child a►s bar's; she was, however, determined not to
part with it till she. described it enoperly, which she accordingly did,
and the infant, on hearing her voice, raisAl Itimseileand knew in,
mo-
ther, who had been lis•racted since Tuesday afternoon at the loss of
him. The mother stated that she I, 'cps a lodging house in Kent-
street, in the Borough. On Tuesday aftenition she sent her son. 12
years of age, out with the child, and the prisoner met him in the
street, and obtained the child from him by a lase representation.—
She, her husband, and a friend were out till four o'clock the following
morning in search of the child ; they were out again at seven, and
had been in pursuit of her and the child nearly ever sine:. They
had frequently heard of her M St. (;iles'e. Westminswr. &c. The
child had been rubbed of its shirt. boots, petticoat, feather from the
hat, and necklace, only the froderemaining; and the feet, Andes, and
legs were a most s'iocking spectacle front SCAT:, and blisters. From
what came these were produced could not he ascertained, but it was
supposed they hail been occasioned by excessive cold. The prisoner
was committed fur further examination.
NTTON

H. Cooper wal fin illy evia,lll4 .1 and fully committed. on
anyivion of %leafing Intl bottle% of wine front die cellikr of
.11r. Fulferd, of CJlebrnok-row,l.lington.

RLBOROUGH STREET.

A singnlar charge of robbery was made on Monday against
Maria Cornish, servant to Mr. 11„,. Thatcher, of Edward-street,
Portman-square, by her neaskw. Mr. T. stated, that lie Was
from home with his wife//. eveeitig,aail Miss Stewart,
his lodger, had :one out also, desiring the plisnuer to keep a
good tire in her room ; and on her retnrn, about the same
time as witness, the fire ordered to be kept up was Ilal.-
NOlllllll.l was said about the house baying been robbed that
night; but in the treirliMg the prisoner alarmed the family by
stating, that she had found a lintehei's (leaver at the 1109 r of
S.'s dining room, 11441 sevisi;il ;dares had been broken
open. and also her box,
.I'lolll which several articles had licen
taken. Air. T.fuund his wine cellar had been broken (Veil,
and three lintiles take's away, and another half drank. On
Miss S.'s getting lip, she missed several articles of little value
nut of her drawing room, and two miniatures. Her dressing
Case hurl also been broken open ; there was tee money,
and the articles had been cart fulls replaced. The only
appearance of an entry was at the landing place on
site first floor, where tae mortar had been removed; and the
street door, which had been !tarred and bolted, the prisoner
said, was I.lllllld open itylse morning. There was no alarm
in the course of the niat. An ()diver ,sziiiiined the place,
and was of opinion, that it was only an appearance of robbery.
He Was convinced no person had enteied the window (tom
whence the mortar was torn. Had any thieves been there,
they would not have troubled themselves with the servant's
box, when plate untouched was lying about it. The prisoner
pleaded total ignorance, and said she had no followers, lec.—
Site was remanded, until the mystery shall he disclosed.