The National Register.
London, England, 1817-04-14 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, 4.c.

The Belgian Journals exhibit a melancholy instance
of human ignorance and superstition—a Belgian pea-
sant assassinated and burnt to ashes a girl ten years of
age, because he fancied her to be a sorceress !
The following paragraph from a Lancashire news-
paper, received yesterday, shows that tears of distur-
lituces still exist, and arise in other places as well as in
Manchester :
" At a special Sessions held at the I)ng and Partride in
Stockport. on Wednesday, it was nereed by the Magistrates,
to put in force the authorities vested in them for instituting
the Watch and Ward Art in that town, and places adjacent.'

MANCHESTER PLOT.
Abort twelve o'clock ai 11't thrtesday a :Manchester roach
drove to the Bow.street office. {{lilt three men in the inside,
heavily ironed, and chained together. They are brought to
ton non a charge of high Leeson. he coach our well guarded
both inside and without, The names of the prisoners are,
i.
is said, William Kent, John Plant, and James Leech. Tlo.v
all three lived in the neiglabouthrial of Manchester; one at
Rochdale, one at Middleton, and tom close to Middleton.
They *etc taken ut :Manchester on Finlay {Meek, the day op.
poling d for the general meeting, w lit it the million y and 'truce
appears(' so promptly to ii`rl'etsr tic nomerons assemblage
collected front all detections of the vicinity. These pi isuneis
write confuted in the New Bailey gaol at Manchester Li,
Monday last, when they toidcrvient an C2,l!nievAligfil pt C% jail.
to their traiiiffitis.ion to London. On the:r :at ival at Bow
strr t they were .bat itp LH two o'rlot k, %%lieu they were cat-
I„the aihee ••f the Home :secretary. col underwent an
examination bet'ore LOiil Sidman'', the Law o.ficers, Sir N.
aid other ogles,' iberbons.

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At the same time, Samuel Burford, John Lancashire, John
Robert, James Stiler4, Robert Kideings, Nathaniel Thurlton.
Edward. Conner, and Joseph Hdley, who were brought from
Manchester on the 31st, underwent a second examination at
the Home Office.

A Mr. Knight also, a manufacturer of Manchester, who on
Monday last was brought to London by the local police di-
cers of that town, underwent an examination before the same
authorities, at the same time. His trunk was taken to the
office, as it was understuod to contain articles essential to the
establishment of the charge made against him.

The proceedings continued till near six o'clock, when all
the parties were remanded to their separate places of con.
finement. Particular directions are given that they shall have
no communication with each other. The whole business was
conducted with much privacy, and no particulars of the evi-
dence are suffered to transpire.
On Thursday evening, W. Kent, J. Leach, and J. Plant,
who were brought to London by Mr. Parsons, the King's
messenger. were removed from the Brown Bear public-house.
in Bow-street, where they had been confined since their ea-
st ll ill ation at the Secretary of State's office, to the House of
Collection in Cold Bath-fields. At the same time several
of the others, who have been brought from Manchester to
London at other times, were removed from the different
orisons in the country, in the custody. of King's messengers
and Bow street officers. Mr. Knight, the manufacturer, was
removed from 'fothill.tields bridewell to Reading prison, with
two others. Mr. Bagley, with two others, was removed to
Dorchester prison. Mr. Bagley was a celebrated orator at
Manchester, and was taken into custody when in the act of
addressing a multitude, and was calling the attention of his
:mauves to the constables who were present to preserve the
peace; he was, says our reporter, in the act of crying out
behold the constables assembled to awe us, but they dare
not touch us, our cause is good, we are invulnerable," when
at that instant a party of soldiers received orders to march
io the plattOrm from which he was speaking; they surround-
, d it, took Mr. Bagley into custody, and marched him to the
New Bailey pistil). Mr. Bagley was brought to London a
short time since, in company with D mond, Ogden, and
Johnson, by Mr. Pi outiman and Mr. Hicks, the King's mes-
sengers. Mr. Bagley had been confined in the Horsemouger-
Ime prison in the borough. 'Three others were conveyed to
Gloucester gaol. One reason assigned for the removal of
;hese prisoners from the prisons in and about London is, that
they are so very full at this time.

The design of the Littleport rioters to destroy the town of
fay by lite, has beau manifested by a discovery. made within
these few days, of a quantity of combustible materials,
which were found in the warrhonse of Mr. Garrat, a res-
pectable grocer of that place, secretly laid immediately un-
der the door where he kept his casks of gunpowder ; amongst
these combustibles was a piece of charcoal, the fire of which
appeared to have been providentially extinguished from tile
want of air.—Cambridgc Chronick.
Flu E.—On Friday, at half past 12 o'clock, a fire broke oat
at the shop of Mr. Rich, cheesemonger, Fleet-street, which
appeared first in the cellar, and was burning gradually until
the engines arrived and extinguished it. Nearly the whole
of the interior was consumed.
Sunday, during the time of Divine Service, a man, tolera-
bly well' dressed, was detected in picking a, gentleman's
pocket in St. Paul's Cathedral; but the gentleman, feming of
interrupting the congregation, suffered hint to go about his
business without any punishment.
An inquest was held at
the body of Johanna Waites, late servant to Mrs. Mackenzie,
of kussell•square, who died suddenly in Bond-street on Mon-
day night. Mr. Kiiinaird, surgeon, said, that lie was tailed .
to attend the deceased, and found her in a dying state. Ho
open. d a vein, but could get 110 blood, and she died in a few
minutes afterwards. Verdict—Died by the Visitation of
Gud.

Another Inquest was held at the same house on the body
of P. Hill, a seaman, who was found dead at the step of a
dour in Chmirles.street, Grosvenor-situate, on Monday morn-
ing. The deceased had come up from High Wycomb in a
cart, for the purpose of remising his pension at Greenwich;
he left the curt at Tyburn Turnpike, at three o'clock on
Monday morning, and on coming through Charles-street,
complained of weakness, and sent a woman to a neighbour-
ing public house for some refreshment, last he died before
her return. Verdict—Died by the Visitation of God.
DREADFUL AccIDENT.—An inquisition was taken on
Thursday afternoon, at the Ship, Millbank-row, Wrstnimuster,
before the coroner for Westminster, on the body of 1k idiom
Harvey, aged 20.
William Reeves, Lieut. R. N. deposed, that he resided at
the house of Mr. Hodges, time distiller, Mi!thank ; on Wed-
nesday afternoon, Mr. Well, the Deputy-governor of tilt
Penitentiary, asked lii.o and the deceased, if they would go
with him to London ; the deceased agreed, it' Mr. W. would
put han on shore at Riarklitais-bridge. We accordingly
took a`• funny," and put al; crossed the Thames, and find-
ing the boat too solidi, retained to Mr. Sawyers yard, and
took a larger boat with two sail-, called a skill, set sail, and
again crossed the litanies. The deceased 1:1111C1V01.1e3 to
tack, the mainsail got loose from the loop-bole of the thresaim,
and the deceased endeavoured to fasten it again ; but time
wind carried it away, the pole broke, the deceased fill on the
lee bide and capsized the skid., ami they were ail precipitated
into the wale,. He and Mm. It ebb swam t i they wire
taken up, the deceased could 114. t bM lin : lie he•.ud him call
to a gentleman named Sullivan, who was in aiwilier boat
about one tack before them, the deceased sappoi tett himself
above the water about two 'Moines, but sunk before assts.
Lance anis ed. He was of opinion, that the accident was
caused chiefly from the loop ho e not being " sea 5% mill,"
and pardy from Mr. Webb clinibiog up the mast. He should
not hose climbed the mast hime if, nut would any person who
understood the management of a mad.
One of the jury thought that Mr. Webb ought to be ex-
amined. - . .

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The coroner said, that lie bad received information that
Mr. Webb will so unwell that 11,3 a teigeun g.t%e 11u hives t
las recos en .
One of the jury said, he thon4lit the boat ought to be con-
demned; others %vete of opinion, that a deutland Nicht it
%%wild AIIIMer the same put ito,t mitt 'hake those persons who
t nut boats more cautious that they are pet teet in tackle.
divided upon the inotii•nuf the coroner, whi 'her
a ileodacd should by lard upon thv boat ur not. More than
twcvle were tur it ; anti they, a;ter log the body, which
Lay at the Ship, returned a verd.ct of—Accidental Death,
i.u.sed by the badness of the hAckte. and the unskilluluesa
of the patty ; with a deodau.l art t:te boat of 10s.
The deee.Abcd ia the 804 Of Jlr, Harvey, of rue Situ Tavern,
at Clapham.