The National Register.
London, England, 1812-09-06 00:00:00

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PROT' IA CIA LS.
AGRICULTURAL iIEPOIa FOR AUGU.q.
The weather tor the Nist foitnight, l.a,iug proved favourahle fir
the Wheat harvest, the clue:. Darr of ,hat car" ...thin the Eastern mid
Home C•Autties bas been sate!y homed or sri.t Led. The Corn in the
Mi•ll..itd and Nor hero Districts is cotold much backwarder, that hut
little was even cot Iwtorn the begimii;:g of 1,1:4 week. Where the
Wheat stood up a fair reap, the sheaves prove heavy, and the grin
of .rood quality ; but where they have been laid, on rich soils, so that •
the weeds have grown luxiiri-mtly through them, which is too much
the c+-e with the slovet.ly husbandry in most of the Midland Counties,
the ear is foiled light, and the sample must, of course be
The Barley And crops improved so considerahly within the c. arse
of the month. as to prunsis no a full average crop. Platte r ease are
g ••eat crops in most districts, and s• are Beam, but the are
iliafound fit to cot but in very few places. The produce uf Potatoes is
every Where abundant. The Hop plantations of S.4sses and Farnham
Save rallied so Elwell as to promise full half a crop ; but in Kent theyand
continue geoerally unpromising. The second crops of Clover
Grass are heavy, and it' a favourable time centilitres for making them, a
reduction of the market prices tor Hay will he c natural consequence.
Sill Me'd his been well supplied through the month, and un te,ms
favourable to the butchers. Lean beats, particularly well bred
Scots, coil:ieue dcar; but the Sheep are found tomb lower at most
tai.s. The Woof-Markets, both Ifir long and short fl.:eces, are Inner.

As some labourers were a few days nen clequinc out a pit at Wood-
seaves, near Dr lion, in this county, they discovered a coat of
extending from the neck to the “irdle, which 'Mb. It is in
excellent preservation ; the leathern, thongs which buckle it on, *qui
the gkid or guilding on the seam-, being nearly as fresh as ever. As
a bAttle was fou4ht at Bloreheath, in the year 1.459, hetwsen the
indict] forces of the Mike of York and the Earl of Salisbury. and
those of the King conmilv.ided by Lord Audley, who was beaten,
about four miles from this spot, the coat possibly haye been
thrown away by One of the soldiers of the routed army...Sato?

Journal.
Our Mulder Acid Correspondent, under thejdute of the e7th alt
says :—" Last rriday se'nnight, about fifty men, all armed with guns,
went to the heuse of :Jr. fidwerd Hepworth, a farmer of Sheeprtdee,
eheut two miles from Huddersfield, and after breaking open his door
with iu iron emit, tie y demanded a gun ; hut on Ewing told he had no
fire-arms, they i ,sisted that he ehould reduce the price of his corn and
mill;; and then pro ceding to deetroy his furniture, they broke to
pieces his clock, tables. and every thin 4 of value in his holm: After
this wanton (-garage, they proceeded to stv .7ra 1 other houses in !het i
neighbourhood, where they eon:tented similar depredatioree and thee
dlspersed. e have now upwards of 1000 seliiiers in this town ; the
imelicans are very much distressed le teconnnodate them. There are I
only about thirty-Once public-hones in the town, so that each house
has, on an avtr.nzc, epwerds of thirty soldiers. How long Ole is to
continue we cannot tell."
A mermaid was distinctly seen about a mile from Eerier:tie on the f
tan ult. by a party of ladies and geetlemen who weie on a redline I,
excntsion. throwing to it some boiled fish it was induced to keep 1
awe short dieaece from the boat, and one of the party gieee the
leeing description of it : the heed front the crown to the chin. furies t
rather a long oeld, and the face seems to resemble that of. the :eat,
though at the same time, it is far more ii;ereca'ele; possessing a we:-
Fie softness, which refiders the whole set of features my interesting.
The tipper and beck part of the head appeared to be furnished with
something like Weir, and the tore part of the body with• something
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like ()own, betweca a very light fawn and very pale pink colour,
which at a distance had the I appearance of flesh. It has two
wnee each of which terminates in a hind with four fingers, come
re. cted to each other by means of n verye thin elastic membrane. The
indeed wed its arms with great aeility, and its motions iii L-eneral
were very graceful. From the waist it gredually tapered so es to ,
font a tail, which had tilt, appearance of being covered with strong,
broad pelished sea:es, which tiecationalfy reflected the rays of the
eon in a erg beautiful manner ; and from the bark and upper part of
the neck, down to the Line, the body also eppeared covered with
short, rotted. broad feathers of the colour of down on the fore part of
the betty. The whole length of the animal. from the crown of the
heed to the extremity of the tail, was supposed to be about five feet,
or five feet and a half. In übont ten minutes the animal gave two or
three 'Alleges in quick succevion, as if it were at play. After this it
give eentdden sprieg, appearing to swim away very rapidly, and in a
fdw seconds was out of sight. A medical gentleman of Exeter has
offered a reward of ,tol. to whoever may succeed in otching the inn.
Mal, and will bring it to him fur diueetiJa.

svirr. 6.

VOLUNT ARV' CONTF,SSION 01' J. LO .11 A
TAKEN BEFORE FAITHFUL THGnAS, ONI OF 111 S ITA-
J'EsTT'S CORON'ERS FOR. Tll3 COUSTY OF CHESTER,
APRIL. 14,- 1812,
Stateth—That his mistress, Edlth Merrcy, set him on to murder
his master, and he was to have all he hal. She toll him to a, in a
publ c-I•luse, in Haekel w, un Saturday :lino poor), the lith re Ato n.
to get some drink, en ! she would ger iliteei reads to kill him He;
master was gone t Audlevn, and she teld him (I. Lomas) that he
must not go to bed. He canie hon=e ::beet weive o'eeek ; as
soon as Its MA7tCI was F.,010. to ted and :Islet p. his irist tc%.% ty
to his room. He was asleep ; the awoke 1,1;71, awl trht 1:!,11
master was fast asleep, and he must coma end kill him He reiurer!
she went dowe stairs, atid afterwards ClTtle up again), and went (lowa
again, and he fallowe.l her. Sir • had ere the axe m. 0., a.,d erne e
into h;3 hand. lle eaid tt would be fund out. awl the} shietid he
sere to be hanged. She said site would see him safe, re! sw.; r
was fie. t askep in be;l, and would send the servant eirl to Lail hint
up. He (1.0m;:s) said, his master would awake betere he reached
the bet', and she said she would ge in first, and put up her haul if lie
was fast asleep, for him to come in and kill hire. She put her
hand up two or three times, and then said he must come in. He
(Loners) then went in, and his mistress held the candle, while he
st melt his master three times with the on his ived. Lt: tick
him the first time over his temple. After he had struck him three
times, he heard the servant wench, who slept in the next room, set
upon the floor, and he said the servant woman was o.rti ;on
which his mistrets wetted her tiger and thumb, and put the candle
out. He (I.cmas) ran away towards the door, and his master was
shouting, "Oh Lord I" His mistress turred hint' back again, and
said he must en agar p, as he had 'tot killed him ; she said lie most
kill hint. Then he went again, and struck at him in the dark- tree
or tour times, with the axe ; he thinks he only hit him once with
the head of it, and then he ran out of the parker. His mistress met
Sheaf in the house-place, aril opening took out a razor, which
she put into his hand, saying he must go and kill him out : lie must
cut• his threat. He reluse,l, but she gave him a bit of a push, and
said he must go. She then went thee, and he foliowed her with the
razor in his hand. She flung the out-door cl the house ope e and then
went into the room where the servant girl slept, and shut the door
after her, and he (Lomas) went into the parleur, Ht, waster wAs
coining off the bed backwards, amid he touched him, on Mitch his
mester rose up, and catched at him by the breast, and by his right
hand that he had titer razor in. (Lomas) sprung out of his arms,
and then laid hold of hie) by the head, as he was upon his knees, and;
cut his throat twice. Ile loosed him and ran, and his master fell to
tl:e floor, and lie went up stabs awl got into bed. After a while, the
servant girl, Hannah Evans, came up to him to shout him up. She
came and shook him, and he desired her to go down stairs, and to leave
the candle. Ile le,d the bloody shirt en, and he did nor put his arm
o:et of bed; be was afraid of her seeing it. He then got up, and put
his coat on over his Nom!). shirt ; he dried his bloody hands won his
waistcoat : he also put his smock frock on, and went down seri; s.
Velem he cane down wa=rs, the servant girl said, sochebody
detect her master, and he was desired to go in and see if he w.: (1...r1C1.
ire went to the parlour door and just peeped in, and said he tiumeht
wte... His mistress desired them to cell Betty Spode up, aiva he
atei the servant wench went and shouted her tip, and she came with
John Mears, lamer) Sandilarce, and Thomas Timmis. They went
sto trek et his master, but he did not. go in. T. Timmis cast e out
agent. eni j. Moors went in with the candle. He came out aeant,
aed that all went tcearl ue Mr. James Morrey, his master's brother;
and he returned with them back again, bringing Thomas Hall and
Joseph lienaingtoit with him. They went into the parlour. He
(Lomas) sat in the heuse. They came out again, and asked him
(Lomas) :o hunt firr some blies to lay hinrupon, He went up stairs
to his own bed-chumber, and brought down the window sheet, and
k'aVe it them. John Mors and Thomas Hall went away to search
lodging-he Mes, ar,d they came back again with Mr. Groom; Mr.
Doolev and ether persons. 3:)let Moors came into the house for a
pair of' scissars. He (Lome)) gave him them, and Ite saw Mr.
--Groom awl- Mr. Dooley• measiteng the teet in the garden, and tie
thinks Mr. Groom asked him ft): his shoe. He fetched it, and they
measured it, Mr. Dooley and sA illiam Hall came to him, and said
that they had some suspicion tat it le had been concerned in the busi-
ness. He sail he had not. They said he had, and asked him what made
his kmoek frock bloods . He s aid he had been bleeding some calves
and the mare. They asked him where his dirty shirt was ? He said
that was it he had on. Mr. Do( ley said, it did not; ook like a Lintylf
shirt, but- Ime stuck to it. They said lie must stri. He pulled e
his coat, and they turned his sleeves. There was some blood upon
the sleeves, and on a button on his breeches. Mr. Groom came down
the stairs, and asked him whether his box was not locked. He said
it was, and he asked to give him the key. He refused, and Mr.
Groom said he would break it open. He (Loofas) then went up
stairs with others, and his mistress was conveying the bloody things
out of the box. She was getting them away. He says, when he first
put them of)', he left them on the floor; and when he went up stairs
again, he put them into the box and locked it. He says, when h
went from murdering, his master it was dark, and he had cut kis ow*