The National Register.
London, England, 1821-04-22 00:00:00


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M U KUL/U-0o satorday last, a number of young per-
sons of both sexes in the humbler walks oflife, were
assembled at a wedding at Boscastte, Cornwall. During
the festivities two volitig men, named Nicholas James
Guard, and Henry I loskyn, disagreed on some trifling
subject, and both being heated,sevcral angry expressions
passed between them. Guard, who is a shoemaker,
suddenly left the company, and going home, took onejof
the knives used in his trade, and hating concealed h
Gum observation, lie waited in the neighbourhood until
he taw Ho.kyti in the street, when he rushed towards
him, and soddenly thrust the knife into his side. The
stroke was Os en with suck deadly force, that the weapon
separated one of the ribs, and pierced the heart of the
sitifortunate victim, who tell dead at the murderer's feet
w ninon Lateral,: a word. The brutal monster instantly
fled; but as the horrid act was committed in the public
street, an alarm was given, and the ruffian was refused
admittance into seevral flown where he successively
sought shelter. Fitting himself hotly pursued, he en.
tered a garden and endeavoured to conceal himself in a
•corner ; but being discovered and surrounded, he was
compelled to surrender, and was secured. The ruffian
has since been committed to the county prison to take
his trial for the murder The deceased was but to years
01 33e.
EXECUTION...4)n Wednesday morning, at g o'clock,
the following persons, left for execution at the Lent
a.sizes for the county of Surrey, were executed on the
top of Horiemonger.lane gaol, viz. Thomas Meyers and
William Jarvis, for uttering forged Bank of England
notes, and Jesse Sangwell and John Lambell, for a daring
and atrocious burglary at the house of Mrs. Green, on
.Engletield.green. The crowd collected was immense;
a number of persons having got on a pile of loose stones
lying in the Hay-yard, St. George's-fit:lls, owing to the
.pressure they gave way, and many persons were much
bun : two were laid to have had their legs broken.
EZSCUTI °N.—York, April 14 —A few minutes before
twelve o'clock, thus clay, Al ichaet Shaw was executed at
the drop, behind our castle, for burglary. Although
nothing of aggravation marked the conduct of this man
at the time of the robbery, except his heitig armed with a
large knife, yet, from what subsequently transpired, it
it was clear that he was au old offender. W nen !the
constable attempted to take him into custody, he made I
a desperate resistance with a large iron crow. In his
house was found a plan of that which he had robbed;
and a false wall was also discovered, between which,
. lola the outer wall of his house. was a repository for his
ill lotten goods. Thirty-four slteleto-r keys, belonging
to Sliaw, and some of the stolen property were found
buried hi a wood, near to where he lived. This unfor-
tunate malefactor was in the .57 t h year of his age, and
has left a wife and a numerous family to lament his
fate. He prayed very devoutly during the whole of the
tnne he was upon the drop. At a quarter past one
Mt sat. Brown, alias Win, Morley Stubbs, aged 23, who
at the last assizes was convicted of a gross assault and
highway robbery. was executed on the new drop,
erected neat to the city gaol, opposite to the Old Bailhill.
The offence for which the young man was executed was
a very aggravated highway robbery. We cannot con.
elude without stating a most disgraceful occurrence on
this melancholy occasion. Previous to the culprit being
brought to the gallows, the executioner suspended the
curd, after which, with apparent glee, he exclaimed to
the populace, " Some of you come up and I'll try it r-
une o'clock the unfortunate man was conducted to
the drop. The executioner, in a bungling manlier, and
with great difficulty (being in a state of intoxication)
placed the cap over the culprit's face, and attempted
several times to place the rope round his neck, but was
'suable. He missed the unfortunate man's head with
the noose every
stone that lie tried. The cap was each
time removed from the- malefactor's face, who stared
wildly round upoti the spectators. Horror and detest-
ation seemed to puma& every breast ; and there were
cries of " shame, shame! he's drunk. Under Sheriff

do your duty I" But the Under Sheriff (Mr. Hewley
Graham) dill not offer to interfere in this disgusting oro-
reeding. Mr. Rylati, the humane governor of the pi!,
much affected, advanced to the limn of the drop, and
entreated the populace to preserve silence. which they
did immediately. The executioner, however, was not
able to perform his duty, without the assistance of the
jailer and one of the sheriff s officers. No sooner was
the unfortunate sufferer launched into eternity, than
the executioner was assailed by the populace, with
shouts of execration, and s,veral called out," Hang him
—hang Jack Ketch—he's drunk 1" &.:c.
A cheauttt horse, lately belonging in the Duke of
Hamilton's stud, was matched agaillst time, oil Nlonday
sennight, for a considerable sum. to go from Lancaster
to Preston, round the Market-place of that town. and
buck again. a distance of 44 miles, in lour hours, which
:the poor animal WAS 011 the 'Milli of winning in the
highest style, having but two miles to perform in three
quarters of an hour, whet' the rider struck him with his
whip between the ears, and both fell, but recovered in
sufficient tune to conic to the starting•pust bill an hour
within the given time.
Feu.? RACE AOAINST Mfr.—Thursday afternoon
John Halton, of Stokesley, in the North Biding of
Yorkshire (who beat Beal at lark), perfiamed his
match of ten miles and a quarter within the hour,
in grand style, near Doncaster. lie ran a measured
mile in and out, in the north road, through Don-
caster Bar to the foot of Lady Pitt', Bridge. The
. 4 match we understand, was for six hundred- guineas,
and he won it with great eas '1 he performance
as under :--
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This great pedestrian entered into the taith yenr
Lis ts;..,e on It.unti.ty last.