The National Register.
London, England, 1820-05-15 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

W Riet.inztoo 1 br lead lop airily beets w Ilse service of 11
respeetable kentlesisail of Clir,..ter. and some time ugo
Bunted Is uonine ' with a girl them lasing its the Arch-
desicou'r. sl•t sire, nt Cliddiuginu. Bring Wand in the
Imipe there, at an imsensimisole hour at night, lie was
hurtled oust ; the girl was sits ass ords discharged, and she
now, we me told, pregnant by him. Her name is Es-
ther Crewe, ut ilerwke J•uses: also in custody.

Lord Norbury recently visited the new post
Ake, Dublin, and cotnplimelted some of the in-
mates upon the style of' their apartments. He was
told that the situation would be comfortable enough
were it not for the noise of a certain description of
females," who made the most hiddeous uproar all
night! To which his Lordship replied, " This is
not tole wondered at, or prevented, as they are
only waiting for the Males."
AbAtt half-past Cur o'clock on Saturday morning,
as some brick makers were going to work, they
found, thrown into a ditch, close to the tit t-path
adjoining the great public road, at Edward's Place,
Kensington, the hotly of a female intimt, quite
naked, with its throat cut across. They carried it
the Beadle, who caused it to be brought to the
parish poor-house, for a coroner's inquest.
At. Curnarvon theatre, last week, one of the
actors personating (irindoff, in the Miller and his
Men, while in the act of throwing off his disguise,
in which he wrestles, the pistol in his belt got
entangled in some part of his clothing, and dis-
charged its wadding into his body, below his ribs:
he fell instantly. Surgeon's were called in, and
his wounds dressed ; the unfortunate man was in a
state of great agony, but we are informed he is
in a fair way of recovering.
Mr. Harris intends opening the Dublin Theatre
under his patent in October. He is at present
making engagements, and with a good company of
performers, cannot fail of having a profitable season.
Thursday forenoon a child, of the name of Anne
Cox, six years of age, daughter of a poor widow,
being sent by her mother fur a jug of water, from a
cistern in a stable-yard in the rear of the Flying
Horse, in Grub-street, Chiswell-street, overbalanced
herself, and fell in anti was drowned. The cistern
was for the purpose of watering the horses; it was
only four feet above the groun, and six feet of it
were sunk in the ground, and it contained six feet
of water. The child not returning, the mother
went to the yard to see what kept her, and not
seeing her, on looking into the cistern she took a •
stick and stirred the water, and found the body of
her child buried in the mud at bottom.
The boar frosts last week and the cold bleak
winds have done much injury to vegetation. The
wall fruits and young currants and gooseberries have
been much injured.
As Mr. %% Mien' Taylor, of aufield, Hefts, was.
sitting in a Cotter-room in the City, about ten o'clock
on Tuesday night, the servant called him out, telling
him that there was a gentleman at the door who wished
to speak to him. Mr. Taylor went to the street dour,
where he met a gentlemanly-looking man, who laid
hold of hint by the hand and shook it, asking him in
a friendly manner how he did. Immediately after one
of his companions came up, and putting his hand over
Mr. Taylor. s shoulder, pulled his pocket-book out of the
side pocket of his co,t, containing two 20. and fire
51. Bank of England notes, and both ran away. Mr,
Taylor gave in:into:l6cm of the robbety, and the
number of the Notes, at Hamm Garden Police
Office. It is suplx,sed that they had been previously
in the Coffee-room, where they heard Mr. Taylor's
112,11 C mentioned, and saw what he was possessed of.
Au inquisition was taken on Tuesday at the London
Hospital, before 'John Esq Coroner,
on the body of Elizabeth Richards, aged our wars,
the.only child of a poor mal named Tuby Richards
of No. 2. Aide's-buildings, Itosemarv•lane, whose
death v,:4 call:NO by her rlothe taking fire during the
temporary absence of her noutier. She was taken to
the Hospital, where she died shortly afterwards. Ver•
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