The National Register.
London, England, 1819-10-17 00:00:00

I) HT, QV IN, wad another.

This was•an indictment iteanist the defendants for a
libel on Henry Hunt. After the putilieishun had been
proved, Mr. Him rose to addi ese the Juty. The Lord
Chief Justice inlet posed, by observing to him that this
was an indictment at the suit of the King, and the unva.
ried rule of the Court was, that where. that- was the ease,
none hue a Klng's Counsel should address- the Jnry.
Hunt persisted. The ClittlJastice threatened to commit
him. Hunt still persisted. Mr. Seal lett signed on the
subject. Hunt yet persisted. The Chief Justice nodded
to Mr. Scarlett not to notice him, and immediately called
011 the next cause.

Mr. Hunt collected Ins papers together, and left the
Court"!

lj)otue.

M ANSION-HOUSE.

DRAPE:RA-eft ATTFIteT TO ROB A HOC/St.—Three young
men, all ut a hoot are kiwis n to the police in a particular way,
wear brought up to suspicion ut haviug conspired and
attempted to rub the house of Mr. lux, decals', ofßridge-
street, filaelariars.
At the latter end of September, Mr. Wuntner, the City
Marshal, ordered -three men to watch HI the home of
Mr. Fox, in the night, it being expected that rubbers would
attack and attempt to plunder it. Drinks* ater, Forrester
the younger, and Dare, we'll futile house oar toe night up.
pointed, but all was quiet. They. were Writ assured tuat the
business was postponed to the next night, and that four able
fellows, who %mild feel no hesitation an cummtting murder,
were then to commence operations. The older. procured
the assistance of another. udicer, . named brown, w Ito is
expert in the use of weapons of defence, and look their
stations in a room ut the hack part of the house, to which
there aas a large a indow offshoot 14 feet from the g' mind.
They retimined.io their places a few hours before u footstep
was heard. At eleven o'clock a creeping noise ails heard
by them, arid a man wits seen descending firm the .cads
over the stables ado she yard, anu utibult nig the stable-dead.
Ile did not remain bug in the stable, and uu siis return avid
seri, to place a :udder against the wall. Three inbred fol-
lowed over the lead►, and upon dropping into lie yard,
advanced towards the kitchen a halms, %%bleb aas hulled,
and %Web they ti led to open mall constdriable v
hut ineffectually. They then placed thy ladder La the window
of the MUM w witch the ,hirers were et", limed, tad, after
short deliberation, our of them ascended, and gently taierd
the window, fhe officer► suppressed their breath, and the
rubber put cue font a tibial the ruoneand beat his body.—
He then drew hack It Illtte, and the ,tabors oho' led a fez
sparks arise from something its has baud.._ lie again obtruded
his burly huh tiy into the atom, and suddenly darted the
gleams of a dark lantern ',mod it.—Three ut the Mb en
were at mime dui:mice f.oNr the leiskluit, and Brown stood
close to it with a cutlao. rn his baud. The rubber glanced
round upon Linens all, anti exelaitniug, " Lord :" uropprd
into the yard. tfrown made a desperate cut at the initialer,
but he missed him, and struck the ladder. The companions
in the rotes prise all ruatwd through the stable door arid
escaped thiough the surd and the roach-house into the
Street. The palters email rot recognize any of them, for
the Might was dark, and the escape am effected in the
ta ink Itirg of an eye. It was in the pour, ut Bruno to hare
put to death the rubber who climbed the ladder, hut he
thought proper to hold back, in .expectatiou that all Ilan
robbers would enter. A person, a hie said he nuts or
accomplice in the projected nibbrry, gayer niformatimi awls
1111,01 Yet the coachman of Mr. Fax, and two desperate
characters.

Is he necoiant given of • the transaction it 'ayyra.s,
thal three month, before the Ii the attack wigs tu.s.de, it
had brendeterinineob this formidable rtitsih to colt Air. Ewe.
house. The iicknow waged accomplice, was She prism.
Kiected to admit tin I ind, and was fur tout 11111111.. t. 1.1.111:
by the COACblUali in the hay loft, un•ier o 49. a,
with direction, not to move uutit• lir br mu Ih.. ttttt
bolting the doors nit! E :mg lid't felt SOIMIOLUe..t...Ii.is. mi
making the entrance without tlie ~s.ostaine era frtewil, wL
was lurkeo tip I but the DUZV,=IIO,I of I.l.llmne• ❑1 ..a,
overruled. As sl.Oll as liir mishlr• mo..- bed been r
the i-liornumt sopped dibwu .front Laic hay fort, :sod hi sir,
sumilied as,tt s.•, which wit • tioakie.t.osia uu
aux let In his rumrail.s. 11 had been, he ans.!,
agreed urous that if thcie einta‘c of detection

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the servant maid. simuld be murdered. There was au iron •
chest which contained. a ;reds deal of property, in a roma
near that lit winch the officers were stationed, and tools had
been placated for that is the event of the failure in the ex-
periment to unlock it. The• itsomeut the at* ers were
observed by the climber of the ladder, the %showe gang rm.;
off in the greatest consternation.
'1 he Lard hi.syur ordered that all the' witnesses should
appear early in the week to gist. esideuer. The prisunots
were remanded.

MURDER 47' eL.4I'TO.V.
Wb lately gave the particulars of a Coroner's In- - •
quest, which was held on the body of Anne Homes-
by, at Clapton, where she was •murdered by her:
husband. 'l'he following is the •confession of the
unhappy criminal, who has since surrendered him-
self into the hands of justice : .
CONFESSION.
Kent 'The voluntary examination and confession of
Cinque Poita. John Humesby, bricklayers-labourer —taken
to wit. by and before us, the under justices, of and
for the said Cinque Ports.--
Who renuretes that the letter before us, shall be opened and
rtud ; it is addressed to Mr. Liebman, Na 5, Dean-street, Sohn,
London ; its purport is a confect:ion of die murder of hie wife, in
consequence of having, on Tuesday evening -week, about the
dusk of the evening, caught her in the act of adultery, in a tow
hovel, opposite lus tather's house at Clapton—the exaniinatt -
roaompanied her wife home to her father% house; he was gone
on his wwch when they got home ; he, the prisoner, then told
the housekeeper, whose name his hurry, of the adultery of lite
wife: and alnioet directly after his wife and him had ass &Item.
tion about going to bed together, and heaving struck her sl4t-
ly with his open hand, she threatened if he did nut come to bah to
her, she would get up, and go with those she had left p and as
he had struck her, she soul& swear her life against him, and lie -
should lay in•goaland rot ' • and she would go and live with the ,
other man, whom she loved. After this, he walked in and out
the roam, two or three times ; and she declared, on his hesitati4g
to come to bed to her, with violent oaths, that she would be the
death of one or ether of them. He, then went for an ..xe that
lay in the adjoining room. close ty•her father's chest ; and, with
it in his hand, he challenged her to say so-again. She said.,
rather than suffer the usage she had, she would be the death of
one or other. At this instant, he struck heri upon the hone
with the back of the axe, slightly. She was then sitting on the
bed. pardy undressed, having previously seemed to attempt to
dress herself again. When she said, she would go :odic other WWI,
after the first blow was struck, he had just time to hese tear •
say, '• Oh : you know." and a second blow with the back of the
axe immediately followed. He dues not know whether he -
struck-her mote or not. She seemed to swoon on the right side,
and bled • ito as to be heard by him. He then took her by the
left arm, and pulling her to the left side of the Nal, kissed bar,
saying, *6 My dear, you was once my comfort, for a little time;
and now lam the death of you, and you of me." She was then
alive; and was so when. he left the room, and went to her Ili-
titer's chest and took a pound note out of it and escaped—having
threatened to the children and the woman (the housekeewr), lie
would be the death of them, if they made any noise; ohs must
have money. for a time, in order to repent, before he went away;
and, after leaving his wife bleeding.lte put down the name 4.414 e
man his wife had been connected with, and left it with the he
lie came to Woolwich about nine or ten o'clock tee
next morning, and was at Canterbury last Sunday--was at Dint,
yesterday, and has wandered about at different places, withutit -
any particular intention, till he came to Widmer. Ile bought the
jacket he has on at Woolwich, leaving a brown cloth cower, and
a pair of fustian trowsers there; having also bought the striped
trowsers he now wears, at Woolwich. He wishes to add, dud on
his wife's making an excuse that she had been dragged into the
cow-house by great force, by the wan he found her with, lie,
the prisoner, offered, if she would swear the rape vein.* him,
she would be forgiven; but she refuted, in oosiswesianguage,
saying, " She loved his little finger better than her husband's
whole body." iI.MIN HO.NIES/11'.
Taken and Signed, the 7th day of •
Octot.u, 1519, betbre us,

J. 13. BACKHOL*SE.
M. IlLxximwrini.

Deets.—On Monday afternoon, at four o'clock,
a meeting took place within a mile of Cheltenham,
on the Wincheoinh-road, between Charles Phillips,
Esq. of the Irish bar, attended by Colonel O'Neil,
and Henriques, Esq. attended by Major Pen..
rice, when, after an exchange ,of shots, the affair
terminated, and before leaving the ground, the
parties shook hands.—On the 7th inst. Mr. fell w,
nephew of Lord Exmouth, a • captain in the Lifa
Guards, war killed in a duel at Paris, by Mr. Walsh,
late a lieutenant in the same regiment. • The cause
which produced this event was the elopement of
Mrs. Walsh some time ago with Captain Pellew,
Lind who was with him at Paris, to which place the
injured husband fuliowed them. The first shot of
the latter gentleman took effect by hitting his ad-
versary in the head. Captain Pellew was killed on
the spot without having fired. The body, for a
considerable time, was refused admission at the ho-
tel where he lodged. We should be less violent in
our denunciaticris'of this murderous custom, if in
every instance the justice of the- case -guid,:tl the
event as nearly as in this.

A destructive fire brake out at the 11,-;ltse of Capt.
Turvit, of Stoken Hundred, six miles from Coln.
brooke, on Saturday night, which was occasioned by
a servant-maid setting- tiro to the furniture of her
mistress's bed, in which she slept during. the
absence of the Captain and his lady in France. In
a few minutos the house, which has been lately buiit -
and moat elegantly furnished, was ou tire in all parts, ,
and at this time a youn., maa named HumberAsne, -
a servant, leaped on the root' of the stabling•
broke both his legs, and was besides so much hurt
that he t-annot survive. The south-westerly wind
drove.the flames to the coach-house and stabling,
the whole of which was built of wood and in less
than- two hours the whole was one mass of
It is said that no part was insured.

We learn that Lonl Somerville died on the
instant at Vevay, Switzerland: his I.ordb:lir, it is
said& will be buriol in Glvcotta3ltirc..

Th., famed Amet•can frigate, Chesapeake, a mock
cf their navy, which became the Shannon's
glorious prize, and was condemned .at Plymouth,
Juts been purchased by Messrs. PtiThman and Holmes, ,
of PortEnouth, who are under bond to Government,
to break her up the next spring. She has been
;_brought round to Portsmouth harbour, by Captain
George Goble, of Bosham, with a crew of 19 men
. only, under jury masts, in the most scaman,like
-runnel., arta. is a great object.of attention among
nautical men.. She is, unquestionably, us fine a ship
. tts eve." swam ; her timbers are remarkably. stoutt ;
her upper deck is 174 feet in length, and 41 feet 6
inches. in. the midships; she mounted 54 guns of
• Leavy Mend, and was the Shannon's superior in
every respect but discipline. Capt. Sir I'. Broke's
manseuvre Of boarding her under cover of the
smoke of the second broadside, was what they did
re expect, nor were prepared for, and to this may
b.., attributed the happy rosult which has covered
the Captain, oflit!ers, and crew of the Shannon, with
immortal honour.
Letters, silted Sept. 21., were received on Tittles
, day from. Cadiz In that city and its vicinity, the
yeliow.fever still raged with undiminished violence.
On the
.2.,31 and 24th of September, dr, sleuths at
Cadiz were from sixty-six to sixty-eight tacit duy.l
In the Isle of Leon, on the 231, the deaths were..
.119. It Was reported at Cadiz that. the. fever had
made its appearance in the City.of, Cordova. The
Hornet, from the United •States, with despatches.
was off.adiz on the 21st ult., but the state of the
(city nos allowing her to anchor there, she had pro-
. seeded to Malaga. -The grand expedition was post.
.iatned 'till the beginning of January ; this is the
earliest day named in any of the letters, but a very
general belief prevailed, that its objects were wholly
abandoned.
Applications fur the benefit of the Insolvent Acts
of New York seem to increase daily; the lust Albany
Argus contains about 450 notices, from which it is
. presumed the yearly applications.amount to nearly
• 3,000.

Dr. EATCLIFFE.—One evening as this Gentleman
was sacrificing in a tavern to the purple god, to
whom lie was as much devoted, as to the god of phy-
sic, a Gentleman entered. in great haste, a most
breathless—" Doctor, toy wife is at the point of
death, „make haste ; come with me." " Not till I
have..cmished my. bottle, however," replied the Doc-
tor. The man, who happened to be a fine t:thletic
fcllow, finding entreaty useless, snatched up the
Doctor, and carried hint out of the tavern. The mo-
ment be set the Doctor upon his legs, he received
from him, in a very emphatic manner, the following
threat " Now, you rascal. I'll cure your wife in
revenge."—The Doctor kept his word.
The ship Kamtscha-ka, which was sent two
years ago by the Russian Government, under the,
command of Captain Golownin, to •Kamptschatka,
and the Kurile and Aleutian islands, arrived safe at
Cronstadt on the 17th ult. from its voyage. The ship
Kutusow, Captain Hagemeister, belonging to the
American Company, who arrived rtt:Cconstadt on
the 19th ult. with a rich cargo, after an absence of
three years. This ship visited the Spanish ports on
,the coast of America, Callao, Acapulco, -&e. and
comes last front Batavia. In the course of a month,
the Company will send two other ships to its settle-
ment on the north-west coast of America.
A new yacht is now building fur the Prince
--Regent at Portsmouth, which fire elegance will
~probably surpass every thing of the kind. The
first artists are employed in the embellishments;
and it is understood that the gilding of the erne-
.nicnts alone will cost nearly 1,0001. The burden of
the vessel is 281 tons, anti the upper deck is 103
feet in length. She is to be called the Regent, and
her head will be an immense bust of that illustrious
personage, supported by full-length figures of Bri-.
tannia and Neptune. The vessel will be launched
.in the spring of next year.
It is eith pinto' feelmgs that we record the follow-
ing tragical story, the settle of winch was in toe neigh-
bourlinod of %Voitlil :—Early on Sunday worn ng, as
two of the gamekeepers belonging to J. A.S. Wortley,
'Esq., mere going their WWI folilldp, they perceived*
,lour men ahprodelting on the high road, who thel
supected were bent on unlawful sport. I'hey
,would h,aa concealed themselves in a. contiguous quarry
jo watch their motions, but, believing themselves al-
ready seen, they proceeded on till they met, when one
of them familiarly accosted the first of the company
(whom he knew) by saying, " Well, my lad, thou ham
got thy gun with thee this morning. and (stroking Ilia('
on his waistcoat,) plenty of 'Melts too!" The fellow,
.ittnne.d:ately replyiwg. "What, do t ou went to rob toe 3-
.preaented,his Niece psi jlive4, the contents passing com•
idetelY through the .bpdy of the keeper lie had tin
sooner fallen, than they all instantly attacked his compa-
nion, and knoeLd him down with the blot-end of tits;
gnu; while they were beating hint with sticks a cry of
" Stick him, k 1 ;
stick in," was overheard by the unfor-
tunate mats who was already wounded; the sound sud-
denly rousing him to a vigorous effort, lie maaagerl to
_seise his sou. and w level it at the group as they were
engaged in the barbarous attack 11pUll his comrade. The
shut took effect capon one of theta, and brought I •
down, when the saltet three innuealLtudy lied. The

eamek"eper, being released, though dreadfully bruised,
crawled ma cottage nut kr distant, and spread an alarm.
Warrants were immediately procured, and search matte.
The man who had been shot by the first keeper was
' in bed at his own house, shit is likely to recover ; an-
other (the 111.111 who shot the keeper) was apprehended,
and brungitt yesterday to ShtHl-Id gaol ; and the re-
maining two have akocondeti. They all resided in fife
neiehbouring village of Grenoside. 'The keeper, who
fell tinder the attack of the whole gang %IS Hot danger-
ously hurt, but his wounded collea4l3e, we are grieved
to add, died yesterday.—*ffield Ocl. 14.

There is a set of thiaves now lurking about variou
parts of the town, who, when opporunity offers,
steal the locks off gates an•i doors which are occa-
sionally left open. They find n realy sale for those
in iron shops which are known as fencer in different
parts of the City and Westminster.
Turner, in a letter from Wales to his principal
backer, says he has lamed himself in the knee in
training. so that the fight with him and Martin,
on the 26th instant, is not likely to take place.
The 100 guineas is deposited on both sides, there-
fore there must he a fight, or ii>rfeit.
The battle between George, the black servant of
a Captain Smith, and Sam Arnold, a noted wrest-
ler and boxer, from Gloucestershire, took place
yesterday at Thorn, about six miles from Black-
water. It was a severe fight of six rounds, in 30
minutes. In the fourth round George got his left
jaw pot oat of the socket, besides the loss of two
double grinders ; and in the sixth and last, his jaw
41:11, and he was carried away. Both were hide-
ously beaten,land Arnold, although a winner, could
not walk.

Fatal Mistake .—A Mr. Bridge, a Gentleman very
ifond of field sports, resident near Dorchester, met
with a serious loss a few weeks since. On his leav-
ng home fur Church, he was followed by a lad who
had the care of his dogs, who said the meal was ex-
hausted, and that the dogs would be starved. Ile
requested, therefore, to know what was to be done--
'• Hang the dogs!" exclaimed Mr. Bridge, in an
angry tone, vexed at the abrupt and unseasonable
manner in which he was addressed. The lad made
no reply, and returned to the house full of sorrow
and surprise. The angry exclamation of his master
was taken tar a peremptory order: the poor lad,
with un aching heart, lost not a moment to carry it
into execution; and Mr. Bridge, on his return home
from Church, had the misfortune of finding his fine
brace of greyhounds and a leash of the best spaniels
in Dorsetshire, hanging dead. in his stables.
One evening last week an owl flew in at the
back window of the Brewer's Arms, Milbank Street,
Westminster, during the time the company 'were
regaling themselves, supposed to have come from
the Abbey, and on Sunday evening a partridge flew
in at the same window.

An affecting anecdote is related in the French
Papers :—A young man took a dog into a boat,
rowed to the centre ref the Seine, and threw the
animal over with intent to drown him—the poor
dog often tried to climb up the side of the boat, but
his master as often pushed him back, till overba-
lancing himself, he fell overboard. As soon as the
faithful dog saw his master in the stream, he left the
boat, and held him above the water till help arrived
from the shore, and his life was saved.
SHOOTING EXTR.AORDINARY.—Ir. 'Pyler, of Gol-
den-Grove, late in tile Commissariat Departmetn, has
betted Cdpiaiti Twycross, of Laburnum Cothge, three
hundred guineas, that lie kills the most gatne in t writ-,
tv-one sitertssis e days, the former to he confined to the
county of Norfolk, the latter to that of Suftoik. They
start as soon as the prerarations can be completed, pro-
bably in a lew days. Mr. T. from Cromer, and the
Captain from Lowestoff, and they are to cross the
country towards Thetford, and rendezvous there on.tbe
evining of the 21st day. Captain Twycross has 'long
been celebrated for his excelleutpointers, and perhaps'
is on that account backed 6 is, 4. Still Mr. Tyl •T is
an unerrinsisheasant shot, and his friends are no less coo-
fident of his success. Both gentlemen must be tolerable
markwiten, whets we add, that 51. has been receited to
return =guineas if the loser bag less than sou head,
=elusive et sabbils.

The Sporting Magazine, jest published, contains a'
lever dated Norwich, Sept. which states as follows:
-s--" A mare, the property of a gentleman in this neigh-
bores/mod, was Lately attacked apparently with a violent
fit of the chnlic. The remedies usual in bad cases were
immediately applied, but without producing the smallest
effect. The poor animal endured the most excruciating
agony for Ift or 18 hours, when a mortification ensiled,
which soon put a period to its sufferings. On opening
the stomach it wag found to contain tierce balls, con-
taining the stones of haws perfectly concreted, and each
of them larger than a Wale' list, which obstructed a
passage to the viscera, inasmuch is that the medicines
were found in the same state as they were poured down,
immediately above them. Another mare was attacked
icohe same way the following day, but the symptoms
*ere less violent, and, by the application of strong re-
medies, she WAS recovered. Au old man, who has been
Ott the premises set etal years, informed use he remem-
bered the death of a horse having once before happened
from a sinstiar seine irok."
The High Sheriff of Essex has declined conipli-
arce with the requisition for calling a County Meet-
ing to tal:e into eunsiderarion the lateproceedings at
Manchester,

LONDON : Printed and Published h.• the Prurrietn•,
JOHN TWIC4i, at the Ogles, 76, Fleet-Street, sthe,e
ill Letters to the Etliter, &c. (Lost-paid), ow be
addressed.