The National Register.
London, England, 1818-04-27 00:00:00

SHERIFFS' wort, BELWORD,ROW, Arrtv. 22.

CaIM.CON.—vRAZER v. BRlM.Ltiasii.
This was a proceeding instituted to assess damages in the
care of j. Fraser, Esq. against W. Brittlebank, Esq. for
criminal conversation with Susan his wife. The defending
Ltd suffered judgment to go by default, and the damages were
laid at 10,0Uill.
Mr. Sergeant Best.addreased the jury. .The plaintiff, Mr.
Frazer, was a gentleman who had enjoyed an estate of con-
siderable value in the island of Bitchier, in the West Indies.—
The defendant was also a resident of Berhice. The plaintiff
and his wile were mined in 1802, and op to the year 1813
lived in the island in a statenf 'perfect conlulbial happiness
and affection. One sort anrl•three•daughters were the fruits
of their union. The plaintiff, doting his residence at iterbiee,
had unfortunately enterred into a speculation with a ,gentle•
man mussed Robinson, which failed, and in the year 1815 lie
returned with his wife to England. The defendant, who had
prevantsly been on terms of close intimacy with the plaintiff,
was now selected •s his mart e•acred fritird, and it was de-
%ermined upon that he should undertake the management of
• the property which the plaintiff hail left behind. Suck were
the circumstances of einbarra,ments in wile+ the plaintiff
was placed on his arrival in this kingdom, that while he go-
deavotired to procure a agitation in which he might lepair his
fortune, his wife went on a visit to Scotland. Soon after her
-absence he determined upon a voyage to India. Just, how-
ever, a: lie was about to sail, some of the difficulties under
which lie !ahourcii overtook hint, and he was arrested. His
•srife, who had already asanil•ested the utmost concern end
mffection for him in his troubles, hoard of the latter cirenni-
-stance, and without delay Clew from Scotland to, join him in •
hi, disappointments. They lived after this for some time in
Louden, and at length matters were settled, and hit Indian
:ter again dct,•ruuoed upon. Mir: Frazer, it Was ‘arratiguil,
was to_go out to Beatrice, taking with her one of the children,
::nil leaving the others to the care of a relative. She was to
take with her ahiLi a power of. attorney. aitittipun her arrival
in the Wiet ladies, the defendant was to undertake the mg.
nagetiteut adjusinient of the property and eoneerns ot• the
. plaintiff. •For ibis purpose, Mrs. Frazer lift Loudon for
while • the plaintiff pursued MA voyaau to India,
and Ihcue, soon utter his arrival, was appointed to a high
situation in the Island of Batavia. During the residence of
Mr. and Mrs. Fraser in London, the affection and harmony
!n which they lived was apparent to all who knew them
iuU-
matelyyor wise chanced to inset them in company. The•cir•
•lull stance of that separation-be had described, and which
-.vas necessary for the actual security of their own a►d child-
ren's happiness in a pecuniary way, was one of a heart-rend-
ing nature. In continuation of the strong feeltogs evinced
'if:Mrs. Frazer towards hor kasha nd,le produced two letters;
written in 1815, and in the strvugest terms ofiglection;
Such was the aomau, whim was made the victim (Chase de-
structir u by the defeurlant ; by him, wise, having entrusted to
him the management of his difmrest frietes.interests, took ad.
advantrge of the •peculiar enuba•rassmuents, and violated his
wife.
Several witnesses proved the affection of Vie anan and wife,
-mil utter a speech trom Mr. Gurney, the jury gave. 42:101.
411111.11gr0.

• SHOCKINr; Z:TR AG E.—On Sunday laz!, v.bont 3 o'clock in
afternoon, the neighbourhood of Field-lane and Aatiron-
hill was thrown into great alarm, in consequence of adespir.
rate attack made upon a man named Morris Calks), and his
wife and child, by a man named Jack Murphy. Cullen and
Lis wife were standing at the end of George-alley, when
l‘lorphy, with a hammer, rushed npon them, struck Cul,en
y!olt-iit Glow, and. rocked him dawn; lie next struck his
w. 1:e, und the child, which fell upon the ground, and kicked
A unmercifully • the place was covered with IA
_moil. The
!It-whims 1.3 now seined him, and he wit. cottve.ell to the
catch-horse on Satfron•ltilL Cullen was placed 0.1 shatter,
and carried to StAtartholoinew's Hospital Ire has not spoken
since lie ieceived the first blow with the hauteur; the wire
a d child were alsocarried to the hospital in a ininit dangerous
state. Murphy was the te. roe of that neighlrourlinuil.
extraurtliiialy cii con:stance lately ocetill-f II tilt the
ruatit. Thr Linnet revenue (.011(.1., was croimeig utt
il4stioigs, when she fell in %lilt and captuged the hugger Die
Vonporte, laden with 111/3 gallons of ,;roc. a, pepper, and to-
bacco. The•oniuggleis, II ito uumuet, inntpetl tututhe Lin-
net's boat, -iii.whh•li were a antl,hipleau and tail seatati,
with which they escaped, taking the latter whit them.
.1 lie
I.lliint was not in sight at the trine, and the remainder of the
boat- clew were on boat d the prize. Tliey ate supposed to
have made foriMiddleinityli. The vessel and carii: ..te valued
eI 20001.

T. tr,-.

TIM NATIONAL REGESTrii,

.dPF,IIR OF FL".ILLES'.

We have pnrposely abstained from giving any details of the
trials Altil of the murders, as only occupying
space with a string of unintelligible eirettnistanees, nod all-
soul judicial proceedings which as tet have thrown little
light on the transaction. The intolerable prevarications of
Madame Manson have been the print ipal cause of the eon-
fii•ion and otelay. She is now howevi r accuse+, of being a
particeps criminis though the final result is uncertain.
following letter gives a porspienous detail ot the scene of
blood, and as such we insert it.
EXTRACT Or A lETTER IN. VIE Count. t. PARI9. Amin 17.
•' Yen may remember that dausion (an opulent proprietor of
laiodez) struck the tirst bkiw whenoht v.rctchod victim was extended
ou the Lill:. Bastide, peireir.mg that his count:Ala:we grew pale,
and that hi. hand faltered, seizell himself the knife. exclaiming,—
' 71.14: :u ulair pee tear, :aim. rachkrer.'—'" You klic-d
not hew re slaughter, 1.!: uttenish him." .lausion, horrur.struel: at
his own crime, fled from the house and regaiued his :ibotle, _where his
wife was cap:cling him to supper: All his effirctsto assume appartzt
tranquility were unavailim; he ate nothing, nor replied to the clues,
tions pee to hint. About an hour afterwards a knocking wia beard
at the door; he went himself and enquired who wits there ? he was
answered,' Parades': And under the influence of terror, its opened
the door, rod saw ktissionner.. and another. • You have left the
work unaune, but it is too late to reintet : if you refuse sharing our
perils, we shall depre:it the body of Fitahha at yotr: doer to dispoie
of as yeti may judge best.' dattsion had no ..Iternative ; he took his
hat mod quitted, as he hoped, the house unpaeciveal by any 6ne.
-But Jausion, whose jealeury was proverbial at litlioact,
was not inattentive to thenrociaatings of her husband ; she ixoncrived
he was engtuacd in an alTair of gallantry, and foil:m.4 hint and his
coinpations at 'distance. tin se.sinr them enter iota the :liaises
RanNtl. (r.hich appears to have been c: eh:or:Aid celebrity to all
classes. at Illiodets),•her suspicious were env:stated iLtO Certuiety., and
she soul;lit after..a stone w beat against the door. -In the mean nose
Jainion was in tile kitchen, in tle midst of the assassins, and Alarlame
Manson was iust discureir.ll, and dragged into the room from the
eabii.ct she hrid been hid in. Niastide was furiously urging her mur-
der, when Madame Jausiun knocked loudly at the door, rallim; oat
Vt,yrutc, her husband's Christian name. Just= recognize her
voice, and 13ostide leas fer refesiag tier admistion,,bat Jau.sioa de-
viant! he knew her chata:tr so well. Ora' if the door was notoperwd.
she would rouse the witch: stuzet. On this representation site aaa let
in, in the view of conducting her to an adjoining closet, and pacify-
lug her by her husband's exertions; but she instantly precipitated
herself into the chamber, where she heard %vices : and you may judge
of he: dismay, when she found hereell in presence of a group of a;.
satsins.ef the corpse fresh murdered on the table. of her husband and
Basticie rtnigglin:.; with each other tin Madame Manion, who was
senseless or, the ,round, with .1“..T pantaloons crimsoned with
the blooduoliccted lathe pail."

4t the Pt tty Sessions at St. Albans, a few days sinre
Saudi Litchfield was charged before the Niaeistroies with,
elidatigerim, the life uf her iufatit bastartlchilti, by leaving
in St. Johan's Wood, about a mile distant, from St. Albans.
exposed to the inclemenry of the weather, and destitute of
nourishment. The evidence against the prisoner went to
prove, that the-child had been left in the wood for two nights
sod tin eedays; that there-was nu road or path near the place,'
and that the child's perilous situation -was providentielly dis-
covered by aonan who was accidently walging.hy the side of
the wood with his dog, and who-was indeced, by the dog's,
standing at something in the wood, to go the spot, where he
discovered the child faiiitls er) lug, and almost lifeless. The
woman halt lain in of the child at the -workhouse of St. James,
Westminster, about nice weeks before, and on her coining
into the neighbourhood of A1b...J., called uliousomeor
her relations anti informed them that her child had been
Wiled three weeks before,bet hiving been previously been in
the fields with a child iii her MAP tilt, same afternoon, and
her breasts being discovered to be 101 l of milk, a suspicion
arose that she was the t ttttt Antral mother of the child, which
nitintately proved to be the case, for on being traced and ap-
preheuned at her brother's hone, about three miles otf, she
confessed the fact, mid pretended to !save gone twice into
the wood tostieklo theintiint ; but no credit was given to her
statement, aud she was COlMllitted to the Liberty Gaul to take
her trial:it the next assizes.

George Dunk, lately convieted.sit Maidstone fur forgery,
but who has been reviled slitting hi.. Ilajests's olea.ute, in
consequence of the intercession made by the Lord Nlayor to
Baron Wood, is the youngest of .sixte en suns, anti ui aged
father (upon the verge of 70) tesides near liawkliurst, and
has always conducted himself in a ereditable manner, as have.
also All his other Children, till the Nosing man abov einentioned
was intleced, through bad connections, to go to London shoat
Christmas last, in search of employment, and lie there fell
into the hands of the fabricator. of forged note be w hich
ineaushe was brought to his:present situation, and whirls had
so neatly Wing:mud its an ignominious death.—Fuelling
Paper.
Packets are preparing to saii regulatly. from Little
Hampton,. M Sussex, to tinv,re-de-Grace, by.whicli the this.
lance between London and YaiiS will lit. considerably Lhurt-
cued. _ _ _ . .

W. Knighton, whostaatila charged with having administered
poiemo to three of his relation% and a boy, at Art:entitle, near
Kitaresboroagir, with au intent et• destroying diem, lies Uccn
taken and euutinittettto York Castle for trial.

Tuesday morning the neightourluxtl of Drury-lane was throwr.
into- tit- greatest contusion, ni consequence al. yciong man named
Capps having attempted to kill his parints with a large carving.
• hue. It appears that he is connected with a desperate gang 01
: .and on Friday, after robbing the lmse, broke twact his
father's ribs with a sledge hammer, and beat fns mother at different
times about the head. so :woo occasion the loss of sight. On Tuesday
morning he came home, and was smutting in the shop this father
being :leo- h milker), when Mr. Capps, sem wiy is about :n years
old, came in, and began w upbraid turn • the monster immediately
drew a large knife out M a.heuth, and would have killed him on the
spot, had rut S.Furunan, the constable of St. Giles's' happened to be
pacing, who ran into the house with a drawn sword, and secured
hint. Before he could be carried to the watch-house, be broke
twelve squares of glass and a sociable carriage which was in the shop.
Thursday morning a young man was walk* along I ligh-s noel,
Whitecluq el, and in eonsequence of en orarn„v-peel coining under
his toot, he slipped down, and 11;s head dashed against a butcher's
block, which nearly killed litui or, the spot :.he was carried by
Smith, the street-keeper, to the Londo t I lospitol. where lie died:
Es. i.t: to W. Stewart, 'l'. Gt•rry, U. Watildlow,G. Hiaiketh,
and Margaret Dowd, were eseeum.l at I.ancaiter tm Satunkey
pursuant to their sentences at the least ' They all appeared
I....intent at the fatal drop, .and behaved. ltj because their unhappy
situation. _ _

H xit; LEToN TAN.—On Saturday March, 98, died the celebrated
stallion llamblcumian, ruin 2ti years of age. Le i‘ie; titr best
runneraif his day, and sire et litany winners.—•lfis match at York,
with Diamond, whom he beat, is among his most celebrated feats.
Aloutlav, at a Meeting of Sir Hobert Wilson's friends, at the Three
Tons, Jimough, Mr. Benjamin h",i.,,erton, of Twice-greet. had his
left-hand ewe pocket rut p
o(i; it contained his orkel-book, in which
were Rank of b bills
ughtad W the atuQuut of 251. and tot:irk' Papas
of value.

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POLICE.
NTANSION HOUSE.
Mr. Drinkaltl, churchwarden of Allhallows, Barking, com•
plained to the Lord Mayor of the inconveniences sustained
by pariateshi getting the signataie of two Magistrates to the
removal of paupers. The beadle had attended nu
one case, seven do rs at the Mansion House, and on another
four, before an Alderman could be pun:tired. Thins ',melt
ripener WAS thrnav on the parishes, and lie had an idea of
petitioning the common Council about The Lord Mavcir
regretted that the Magistrates were so reluctant to attend to
their Aire, and observed that he bad cmsetiuics aunt W
twelve: Aldermen before he could get 011 ed

MOW STREEr;
Flienbeth Dixon. a woman about SO yects or age, who had
been at the Socialy for the Sopprossion of Alemlieity, was
brought to the office. The Society hail supplied liar with food,
and one of the member:ref that Board ituderb.ok to pay her
passage by the waggon I. Chester, and met her at the Castle
and ralcou inn ler that purpose. where he gave her Ss to mita
•ist her uu the road, besides supplying her with striae. pro-
vision's, and left her out the point of setting tuf with dad
wogviiii. Ina day or two she was agaiu 1.01.111. t begin/1 twar
Put man-square, which was her previous banal. in cons,.
quence of this, she was pot into the.kan•is of a eunstable ; in
her pocket was found 3.:5. Xliesentiesiron who attended on
belivif of the Society stated, that though they were disposed
to show every indulgence to suffering loth:mace, they mete
on the other baud as firmly brut on pituishistg.fraud and hy-i
puerisy. The Magistrate fol!y cowinitted her as a vagrant
to the nexteessimis, mid said site might be. prosecuted fur eh.
tabling motley ender false pretences, and, if-found guilty,
would fp ohably be transported. for 7 years.
IVe•lnestlav , AS W. Baring, Esq. of Louth Hall Dorschleire,
Wag passing through-Droiryelaneilie was rubbed of his pocket-
bmk. He had taken it .out to look at some rnemoritehlumil
aii.l ia.a few minutes after, the two deuce's belonglil. to this
office, who happened to he near the spot, asked him if he had
nut been tubbed. He instantly discovered that he had lost
his pocket-book. The officers then pursued two well known
charactetseluse to him, and succeeded in securing S. Taylor,
alter lir had made a desperate resistance, and Mr.Baritios
pocket-book was found upon him. He was brought up atu)
committed for triel.-

MARLUOROUtiII STREET.
J. and A. Jervis. brothers, and Ann Fletcher, their house'
keeper, were examined on the following charge : —Anthony
weut to a pawnbroker's in Mary.la bootie, and presented a
silver spoon fur pledge, hut the WWI finals% on the handle a
splemliderest, put several iptestions to him respecting it, and
finding be was.miable to give a satisfactory account, had Inns
taken into custody. fie then confessed that he gut it from
Mrs. Fletcher, his brother's honsekeeper, in Little Maker•
street. In consequence the officers went to Joseph's house.
and after acquaiuting, .him with his brother's apprehension.
they asked leave to search his house, which he opposed
strongly. Fletcher auempted to appease bite, declartug that
it was at her instance his Lowther went to pledge the spoon.
.the constables then searched, and in sue or the rooms found
an old chest full of silver spoons. forks, and other articles.
Jeseph seemed much astonished, and declared that he wale
ignurant of there being such property; but Mrs. Fletcher
did not seem to relish the joke, and the otlicer lodged them
in the watch Isouse.—Joieph said, in delenet, that at the flaw
of Hy depark fair, a luau came to his house in a mysterious
manner, and lett him a bundle of plate, which he desired him
to take care of till lie shootd call fur it. Months rolled oni
and thus ecirawdmary personage nut caliing tiur ha plate, it
is:is placed in our boa, a lucre it was found, fors:defy. He
was nut au are that any part of it had been touched by either
Ids brother or Mrs. Fletcher, and his object in denying it to
the officers was, because lie slid not wisa hos person ►bould
know he had it. Fletcher said, site knew of the plate, and
believed it came into their possession.in the manner already
described. Whenever she wanted money she pawned wine
of it, without the knowledge of the elder Jervis. Anthony
corroborated her testimony, and as the case was still invelved
in snuck mystery, they were ordered to he remanded. They
are both shoemakers, and Lace hither to been deemed•Jteues/
and industrials& Mill.