The National Register.
London, England, 1811-10-27 00:00:00

IRELAND.

On perusing Lord Wellington's dispatch, the Reader will ob-.
serve , that his Lordship mentions a gallant! affair in which the
I.4th and 16th Light Dragoons, and the Light Infantry of the
51st regiment, were opposed to the Lanriers de Be:g, when
our troops were distinguished by their usual bravery. On this
occasion, the Officer who commanded the Landers and some
Of his men were surrounded ; every effort was strained to make
them prisoners, but the 01heti. without any hopes of escape
emitinued to tight. All the exertions cf our gallzitA fellows to
take him without injury to his person were in vain. Still he
endeavoured to animate hi, men, and persevered in a desperate
resistance; he refused quarter, and the British with reluctance •
were, in their own defence, obliged went hint down. When
he fell, he addressed them in English in' these words, " I AM
3.ITISFIED-AEMPAIBER I AM AN IRISHMAN, AND MY NAME
Is ()TIN D&tin Even. Post.)
RecoßD COURT, Coax, Oc.r. 14.—The entire of this day
was dedicated to the litigation of a family of the Murphys, ap-
parently warm farmerg, living at the Cross of Blarnt y. Here
there were indictments and cross indictments, father against
son, son against father, and brother against brother, on charges
of assault and battery, &c. '1 he origiti of this family warfare
was, the father snaking over a certain number of his acres and
several cows on one of his sons, to entitle him to get in marriage
I girl who had a dowry of 1001.; a private understanding exist-
ing at the same time between them, that on his receiving the for-
tune, he was to liana it over to the father, in consideration of so
considerable a settlement being made on him. The son, after
his marriage, thought proper to keep the hundred pounds to
himself; and hence arose between hint and the test of the fa-
mily a warfare, which, as fit' as it has already gone, has put
some pounds into the pockets of the lawyers, and the officers of
the Court. When some three or four of the indictments were
gone through, a negociation, through their agents, took place
between them, and it was agreed to proceed no farther; and
application was made for the consent of the Court, which con-
sent the Recorder would not give, .unless the parties submitted
to the remaining indictments. His Worship gave his reason:-
13y an Act of Parliament, he said, the Officers of the Court were
entitled to fees on every Bill ofjudictment—if the party accused
were found guilty, or submitted, these fees they had to pay—in
case of acquittal, the party acquitted, of course, was exonerated
from thew ; and were they to come on the pfosecutor, it would
debar persons from bringing offenders to justice; and here, then,
in all cases of acquittal, those fees were,levied on the public. If,
therefore, he did not oblige the parties to submit, those indict-
ments would be recorded as acquittals, and the fees thereon be
paid out of the public money. The remaining indictments were
tried, and the Recorder imposed suitable fines on stitch of the
parties as were convicted. — •
We understand that immense preparations are to be made
immediately in the different marble quarries in the neighbour...
hood of Plymouth, for the intended mole. It is said,that many
months wiltbe occupied in preparing the materials, before the
work cap
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REGISTER.

PROVINCIALS.

Mr. ThoinaaAird, in Kirkland of Maybole, is lo hisitst year.
' His eldest son was born 70 years ago, and his youngest on
Sa-
turday sennight.
A man, who has been lately travelling through the West of
England. and obtained at several country banks drafts on Lon-
don for 81. upon eighteenpenny stamps, which sum he immedi-
ately converted into 801. by the addition of a y to the word, and
a cypher to the figure, and discounted such bills at the Banks of
the next town be visited, was, on Thursday week, taken into
custody at Wolverhampton, and has s:nce been committed to
Stafford gaol. Property to a considerable amount was found
upon him. Four separate charges are already exhibited against
him in the county of Stafford.
At the late Quarter Sessions at Wakefield, T. Bateman was
indicted for an assault on his wife. His Counsel objected to the
case being gone into, on the ground that husbands had, by law,
a right to beat their wives; that thercould not be tried for an
assault, in such cases; but that the proper course was‘ to exhi-
bit articles of the peace against them. The Bench recommended,
and the prisoner agreed, to enter into articles to keep the peace,
and he was discharged. •
Lately, a poor man was convicted before the Magistrates of
Lewes, in a penalty of 51.../..r shooting a hare. Oh saying be
was unable to pay the fine' he was asked if he had any !louse-
hold furniture? To which he 'kepi:cc', that he had !..x small
children, and a pregnant wife ; to satisfy whose longings and to
prevent any deformity of the child, he bad ventured to trespass
by shooting the hare.
On Sunday se'nnisht the following calamitous event took place
at the residence of Mr. Pressick, near Loftus, in the '.orth-
riding of Yorkshire. A stack of hay, containing upwards of e 0
tons, which had been made up in too damp a st,,te, took fire,
and the flames commun;cating to seven adjacent .corn-ricks, the
whole were entirely consumed. The amount of the dan.age is
estimated at 8001. To the distress naturally arising from this
melancholy event, was added, the peculiar aggravation of the
illness and death of Mr. Corner, of Whitby, ship-owner, and
son-in-law of Mr. Pressick, at whose house he ban been con-
fined by indisposition fur several weeks preceding :he period al-
luded to; and during the whole of that time in which the atten-
tion of the family was absorbed by the contemplation of that
calamity which threatened the destruction of the whole
ses, was in a dying state, and survived only a very short time
after the conflagration had ceased.
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS..—A few days ago, as Lieutenant
Wadley, of the Wilts Regiment, was walking on the beach,
with a friend, near the Upper Hardway, their progress was ar-
rested by the sight of a miserable horse in the shafts of a cart,
nearly dropping from fatigue and loss of blood. On inquiring
the cause of its horrid appearance, they were apswered, the
owner had been beating is over the head with a stick, till it
had broke, and had then glutted his revenge br thrusting the
fragment up the nostrils of the beast, till it bled so profusely,
that it was nearly exhausted. On expressing tligir horror at this
conduct, the owner came with a bucket of *titer, which he
dashed at the head of the animal, to staunch, if passible, the
blood; accompani.al with blasphemous threats of future punish-
ment. The horse naturally threw back his bead, as the water
approached him, upon which the enraged wrier seized him on
both sides of the head, and held him, till be was tired of kiclt ing
him on the chest and legs. tin the Gentlemen interfering, they
received a volley of abuse. 'The following day information was
laid before a Magistrate, at Gosport, in hopes that suet, bru-
tality would be legally punished.: The worthy Isilagistrate ex-
pressed the greatest abhorrence at the conduct described, and
regretted that the act was not cognizable by law ! A Gentle-
man in the navy was witness to tli transaction, and he had
written to the Magistrate alluded to, prior to his being waited
on by the above Gentlemen; and it appears they have quietly
to submit to the injury their feelings have sustained, as the laws
of civilized Britain cannot, in this instance, punish the offender.
Had Lord Erskine's Bill passed, such disgraceful scenes might
have been prevented.
BARBAROUS MURDER.—The following instance of atrocity
occurred on inesday evening, in a field near St. Albans:—/t
young woman, who lives servant with an inhabitant of that town,
went to spend the evening with an acquaintance in similar cir-
cutnstances, residing in a gentleman's family, about two miles
distant. On her return at night, she was accompanied about a
mile by her friend, who then turned hack towards her home.
The former, on her way to St. Alban's, called at a public
house, with the landlady of which she was acquainted, and re-
mained chatting -there for about halt an hour, when two la-
' bourers entered the tap-room, one of whom had a but.dle,
which the young woman instantly recognized to be the same
which her female friend had when she left her. She acquainted
the landialiy of the circumstance,, and expressing a strong desire
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to know how they came by it. There being a- that time, how-
ever, no other men in the house, she was induced by her friend to
restrain her curiosity from prudential motives. Soon after, how-
ever, two neighbours 'came in, and being informed of the cir-
cumstance, they immediately asked them were they got it ? The
man who ,held it replied—" We have just picked it up on the
road, hut you are welcome to have it—we don't want it:"—
" No (said the querist), I must have a more satisfactory account
of t.le transaction," and immediately seized him by the collar,
while his neighbour recur d the other fellow. Both instantly
betrayed signs of fear, and their spirited assailants proceeded to
search them. Horror instantly usurped the place of suspicion,
when from the pocket bf one of them was brought forth a pair of
ears. with the ear-rings suspended from them. Little doubt now
re:flained that some unfertninate calamity had happened to the
other young woman ; and while one of their: remained in the
house, to prevent 'the escape of their prisoners, the other, accom-
panied by the young woman.went in search. They had proceeded
about half a mile, when, casting a look into a ditch by the road-
side, the young woman beheld t' :e lifeless body of her friend,
with her head completely levered from the trunk ; the blood
still slowly issuing, and her carless head lying by her side. Under
these cirurnstances, the pris•niers were removed to the county
goal, to abide the issue of a Coroner's Inquest."
CAUTION •ro Post...soy s.—Monday se'nuight, John Mat-
thew:, the post-boy employed to convey the mail from
H gbarn Ferrer, to Wellingborough and Northampton, was
convicted hef.•re the Rev. William Lockwood Maydell, Clerk,
one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for that county, of
having left the mail on the road, while he went into an adjoin•
ing ale-house to drink, and was committed to the. House of
Correction in that town, to bt. confined to hard labour for one
month, pursuant to the statute of the sth Geo. 111. cap. e 5.