The National Register.
London, England, 1808-11-27 00:00:00

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add to talents knowledg that
to kowlesubject oft e " dge zeal, to zeal
king-
ex-
trtion ; always mindful, he n
is a
dom which is not of this world 1" He is more---he is an
ambassador of that kingdom. •
If the Philanthropic. Charity is commendabie ;so also is
the Philanthropic Chapel. There is decency throughout
flee service of this sanctuary. It is nut here that, tuthe
satiric sarcasm of, Pope,
Light quirks of Music, broken and uneven,
Make the soul dance %von a jig to !leaven!
"Here, indeed, the decorum of devotion is consulted.
Those who are expected to juin the Hallelujahs of Heaven,
aro here iiivitc.-a to augment the Chorus of Christianity.
co:r:ilittee of the Philanthropic has erected a noble
chapel, a :..agitilicent building; but there are things which
s,;(nli to remain unaccomplished. Why is the Altar left, as
it i‘ ere, in its present destitute dilemma ? Why is there
suffered to exist a paltry. pew, a sort of monstrous
menagerie; anahaptist-like, immediately under the pulpit,
nuseing the clergy And disfiguring the chapel? These ob-
jections should be obserxed,these remissnesses remembered.
I hope, also, that the 'Gentlemen of this Institution will
do away the invidious distinction of Free seats.' Without
omitting the privilege of gratuitous admission, let t
obliterate the superscription of poverty. I trust they will
believe me when I assure them that letters of remonstrance
have been forwarded to me on the subject to which I now
alludes This intitnatioti, as to Free Seats, is to .be seen, I
know, at Orange-street Chapel ; but it behoves the mem-
bers of the Church of England to surpass the liberally of
Sectarists. Let the Philanthropic Society be the first to
establish, in this instance, an example of genuine religious
philanthropy.
Atm. 25, 1808.

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Nov. 23.-4 County Meeting was this day held at the
Castle of the City of Winchester, in pursuance of a requi-
sition to the High Sheriff of the County, signed by several
respectable Gentlemen, to consider of a proper person to
be nominated to succeed the much lamented Sir Henry
Paulet St. John Mildniay, Bart. one of the Members for

this County. • ..
Tim Meeting was very numeronsly ..ana respectably at-
tended. The Candidates were the Ilan. Nilham Herbert,
one Of the late Members in the Parliament,. and T.
lleathrote, itifi• eldest son of W. Ileatheote, Bart.
one of the old Members for the County in former Puha-

men ts.
The Hon. Mr. Herbert was proposed by Sir T. Miller,
part. seconded by Sir C. Mill, Bart.—Mr. Ileathcote was
proposed by Sir J. Pollen, Bart. seconded by Sir N. Hol-
land, Bart.
After the necessary forms were gone through, the late
Candidates, and Messrs. Portal!, Brown, and Barham, ad-
dressed the Meeting. Mr. Cobbett then addressed the
Freeholders, and after stating his disapprobation of the
hasty and indecent manner in which the county had been
called together, the late Member being scarcely buried,
called the attention of the Meeting to the various places 4
and pensions held by. several Members of the /louse of
Commons, the whole of which he distinctly enume-
rated, and, in partienlar,• the great patronage given.
to the Right Liononourable George Rose, whom he .was.
pleased to call the Dictator of the county of limits,.
and who, as Mr. Cobbett stated, had by himself and •family
already received three hundred thousandpounds of the pnb-,
lie money ; and requested the Meeting not to give their
votes to eitherof the Candidates, tulles they had a distinct
pledge from such Candidate, to oppose the growing evil
of pensions and places, and to maintain to their utmost
that most valuable of all privileges of the Constitution, viz.
the right of the subject to petition the Throne. Mr. Cob.
bett declared he would never give his vote to any man who
held a place, or who would not distinctly promise not to

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do so; and after most seserely censuring the conduct of
his Majesty's present Ministers, in the Answer given to the:
Address and Petition of the City of London, on the late
Convention, he concluded with an address to the audience
on the valuable privileges they were now about to
exercise.
Afterwhich, the Sheriff desired the friends of each Can-
didate to hold up their hats, which was done. The Sheritl
declared Mr. licathcote to have a majority, and the. Meet-
ing was then dissolved. The day of electiou is nut fixed..

CO RON EWS INQUEST.
An inquest was takes yesterday before Mr. Shelton, Coroner-
for the city of London, at the house of Mr. Newman, keeper of
New gate, ,m the body of Richard Neighbour, a capital convict.
for a detestable offence, who poisoned himself on 'Thursday
evict -
ing, hi Nee•gate. The following is thaesub.stanee of the evidence
adduced before the Coroner. At about eleven t'cloek on Thur. -
day night. an alarm was given from the prisoner's cell by another
convict of the name of Badeock, who had been put in with
Neighbour to keep up his spirits ; and on Clark and Suter, 1H o
of Mr. Newman 's men, repairing thither they found the deceased
violently afflicted with vomiting and purging. M r. Box, a sureeor, ,
residing in Ludgate-street, attended, and he quickly asceroained„
by appearances on an earthen utensil into is hich the afflicted.
man had vomitted, that he had takeu a quantity of arsenic. Mr.
Box stated, that on his arrival before twelve o'clock. the
vomiting had ceased, although the deceased attempted in vain
to do so. The Surgeon administered on emetic, with plenty
warm water, and more of the white powder (arseuic) wait
thrown up off the sick man's stomach,. Mr.. Box frequently
asked the deceased what he had taken, and how ha procured the
poison, but he declined answering such questions. lie was in a
very weak Mate on the arrival of the Surgeon, and on the latter
putting his hand on the heart of the deceased, he requested to 1 e
left_ and seemed altogether desi roes that he might be left
undisturbed. On examining the body the nextday, the Surget
discovered that the stomach and the intestines of the deceased
were very much inflamed, and from the quantity of arsenic
which he had•taken, part of his stomach was eaten away. Mr.
Box had aoaly zed the powders, which the prisoner had vomited
from toff his stomach, and he was positive it was the arsenic
which caused death. It appeared by the- testimony of other
persons, that after the prisoner had been locked into his cell at
four o'clOck, a pint of warm beer, with some gin in it, had bees
oven into him by his desire, into which he had, put tie
arsenic, part of the powders haying been found in the bottom
of the pot. Three men of the names of Thwaites, who re-
sides in a court in Holborn, II all and Kemp, and
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women, who had visited the deceased on Thursday. ei e
examined,. but it was not aseertaitied by what means the
arsenic was procured. It was proved that persons going
into Newgate were diligently searched, but a small pap( r
of pawders, might be conveyed to a prisoner so as to baffe
all diligence. -The deceased -had -hem informed on Wednesday
erenine, at seven o'clock, thnt he was left for execution on the
next Witinesday, when his fortitude failed him, and Badeock
was put into hie cell with him to cheer his spirits. He. after-
wards laboured under great depression of spirits, as was proved
by his friend', but he enjoyed his perfect faculties, until he
died at three o'clock on Friday morning, lie asked of .lebh,
one of the keepers who was left with him after Surgeon Boor
had departed to. place his head hiher, and or some cola
water, a pint, of which he-drank, and immediately expired.—
Verdict Seif-Mued:r.
The deceased will be buried in the cross-road at the cotter of
the Old Bailey, on to-morrow .

MA,R4IEb.
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'Oritlve 15th ingt, at Dunmore. near Londonderry, ,Tames Law,
Eq. of.:the Hon. East India Company's service, Bombay, to
Miss Law, yo•ungeit daugLaer of Wm. Law, E.

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