The National Register.
London, England, 1811-08-18 00:00:00

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Master .
Add , ~, the lunatic
of him, elope oved of the uncle of the lunatic as a
person to be Conimittee to his estate.
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ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES,. file.
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A young man, *blears of age, was committed few trial, on
Monday, from Marlborough-street,. on a.chargeof attempting to
diutder his own fatheti
Yesterday, Daniel Dawson, who is in CUStOyiy. on an indict-
ment, charging him with poisbning horses at Newmarket, was
brought to Marlborough-street-Office, and identified by virtue
of the Judge's warrant. On Mr. Berry, who attended is Coun-
sel for the prisoner, requesting to know the charge, the Magis•
irate acquainted him that the Bill of Indictment the prisoner
had now to answer, wax for the loss of the horses that were
poisoned at the Spring Meeting, at NeWstiarket, which, by the
9th of George the First, is a capital offence. Dawson protested
his innocence of the charge against Win, and was taken off for
Cambridge for tr al at the March Asseits. 'There Were iliterrent
*numerous assemblage of the Turf Nobility and .Gentry, with
a multitude of amateurs, low in the fancy.
Tuesday evening, about nine o'clotk, as six sailors Were re
turning from Chelsea College, where they. hid been cciaireybig
invalids, either through carelessness cr intoticatiou • the brat
was driven with such violence against the centre. arettof Lan-
don Bridge, as to upset it. when, melancholy to relate, four out
of the six of the unfortunate tUrtl Cittft'e erCtsVtled. • •
DREADFUL AecretleNT.....•A waft-hint* at Om nelithhotrbrigiti
of Golden-square, in going his roux& earty en Sunday morning
list4diacov.erid a ;nett
and
by Ae ieg from the ifesaa
1• MO 'taping ;le ." '• la gee.* thefilarrn; and the uhfortii.
sate sufferer was. cornteied to .the. Middksei -Hoipital., in a
state Of insensibility. On recovering, by the aid of proper re-.
wile. he= on fi is . lately returtrilig "'MI& India 'he
.. . his p otitis another man, which reying on
his spirits, he *seek* aeon after reeking to rest, on Satardoy,
under the impression of i horrible dream. He imagined.tilat
the pun with whoni she was then hiring stood at Ma Ned-side,
*iat a pistol In his hand, and threatened to take his' life. in a
patosysin of terror, heAthreed Worn his bed, threivr up the sash,
I .and jumped out at the window; when, finial on the railing,
I the sp&e entered hi, leg, and his head struck with such force
1 aealiiitt the pavement, that the scalp was divided by the blow.
Hopes are entertained that he will recover front the vround ;
but he hos slate exhibited symptoms of derangement. His
name IS Joseph :Harvey.
Monday Jane Cox was executed at Exeter, for the murder of
an Wegiblirtate chitd, pursuapt to Iret sentence. She addressed
the spectators at some length, and in a very audible manner ;
she repeated her former confession, with some farther particu-
lars respecting the means used by Tucker to prevail on her to
commit the hoffid deed, for` which the adknowledged she ought
to die ;:hut lameiAed that the person who had instigated her to
the commission of it was not also to suffer with her. .

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SktARTE tittitif) 114 'HE
A lb AWINLIPT.
'this was the petition of the bankrupt, praying that hl* aim-
fnisdon might be superseded, and the isetitioning treditorl band
astned to him ; and stated, that be Was a carpenter by trade,
ati that in January, 1810, the petitioning creditor issued the -
totninitsion against hitt upon an unsettled account of 1001:
Whereby be became the sole assignee, possessed himself of the
whole of the petitioner's property, which he imniediately dis-
toted of, even to the very bed that he and his wife tampon ;
that at the time of issuing the commission the petitioner pes-
messed property to the amount of 7801. and, except to the peti-
tioning creditor, did not owe 701. in the world ;—thal besides
the petitioning creditor's debt, debts amounting only to Al.
Were proved under- the commission; and that all his creditors
(except the petitioning creditor) had esvotii that they gl*dys
thOidered hitrt a solvent man, hod never any apprehensions of
their debts not being paid; 'OE had such an. Opinion of his In.
levity, that it never was their intenti6tt.to take any. hostile•
measures against him up to period 'Oen the cosurnialion
issued. The petitioner denied most positively that, he had
ever committed any get of hairtruptcy, In 'MA hi Wall
corroi.orated by the affidavits of MS sife. Wait', and doinia-
denied ►• an ctedithr,
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Seiner,
llantersiptcy, and that this _ by &
difeditor, for hi* own purpose*, and twit Mr Ike hen eat of the
fredbiettS at late% and, fberefetfe, tie trusted the prayer of the
"edition would be g`tattlkditsits futtegt esttent.
Sit titeitartlielkihilis and Mr:. toi the Othef hart& don-
elided that (bete -Stfilitsitinit pfbitt of the trading 6f the Mt-
itfiening ereditroei deb!, and of the al* of ininkrtipret to sustain
this e6birnissiorl; and that thereto/6 ft should beallewed to take
its coarse.
'rife Loa, Crtann*Lisin, knwevel, wdt of opinion, tokiet in
a case as this, when the Esininnission appeirred to' be Sued
out by a single creditori for his owu bestieftt alone, t/Pbre theuT44
be the muse satistaclory proof hot* of fhe petitioning ereditors
dept, and of the act of bankruptcy' with reset to fhe tridinf,
!bete sires no COtitrOVerii, bust hie thoneht the pr 6f 6f Mead of
liankrupt'ty insufficient; and therefore Mt directed thirt
The commission should be supetl4e4 wits eta`; thid as to
assigning' the bone}, he thoultfit if 'the kainikrupt doerld establish
the facts alleged in his petition, before a jury, he wcruldi set
that+ more satisfietion in an kicifion at last iitieign he outdderive
*cora an assignreent of the hot:4.

DIED.

goriddy list, Se his house in Queen Atermitteet Walt, the
Rev. Geo. Sfiai , Reefed of Seaten, in the county of Riftlend,
goo fit of Charier. Shaw Lefevre, !eq. M. P.
Lately, at Harewood, in the County of Yea f Shrivel Popple-
*ell, F.iej mNuit yeafs. Agent to the Right liciffotrable ord
FfiteSvcxxl.
Ir Carrinfen Tewn, J. Mills, Esq. this Gentlelhat Wis out of
the stir vivors Of the persons who were inuritited in What was
called tire Black-Hole, at Calcutta.
Mt. Darnley, a performer at the Margate Theatre ; he bad
expended the whole 6f his property on a proititste with whom
he Was unfortunately infatuated, who then leaving him for a
more favoured paramour, be destroyed hiritetlf by taking 900
drops of laudanum.
On Sunday last, in Harpur-street, Mrs. Elizabeth Dodson,.
relict of the late Michael Dodson, Esq.

On Monday last carne on before the Lord 014atiteint at Lin-
eOlitwri tin Hall, the petition of Mt. I‘Atther* Wailer, of Furze

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!ht direr tank *0 the &Miming detisitiol.—o That it Halts neirinfatestone, Etta, to supersede a. cattimit4on of
arriared that the eonduef of tlie prisiiner . 14aati6ably bankrupt, winch had. been unjustly taken out against Walt bY
mode to tbg Flee/eased, but that if had, not Pita- t%at he one Ezekiel Purcell ; when his Lordship ordered that thb corn-
had caused *a &Ott, •
ti• sficl AC therefore; • ; TOM to 'be inission'should be Superseded, at the-expense of Purcell; ;and
iiiiroisted• (risen hia,Majeetfi antic., end .t.O • MO- also, that he should pay all itie costs of the appliCation.
pable Of ever serying in tie 'lnd to . fLin n Thursday, in the matter of Le Heup, a lunatic, the Low
tie iitalsaliea fat the ipace 0148 months." • .:••••-• . •
CliaficeLmiadOlifitehed the repoit of the Master, In as fax as
• .—••—• .! • he approved of the *lle and uncle or fit
. persona to be the
. Committee to the person of • the lunatic ; • disapproving- of
If that part of it by which the Master selected Mr. Benja-
......einma— • held as the ‘ontinitte of. the estate of the lunatic; and, instead
otf hint etnetoved of the uncle of the lunatic as a fit and proper

tics, who swore that he never had been denied to wig creditor,
or .?biented himself from home, of fiad ester giyeri any direci•
dons to that effect. He further charged; that tlii proof of the
set of bankruptcy on *hit* die corrungsithine fouritied
in fraud and perjaoo.4lie oda 6f that sit ytatAttie by I wo-
man of the naive of Eli* Holarrib?, the liOnekkeeper and eyu
eubine of the petitioning Creditor Who had''fitOrti that lie
heard the bankriir desire his Wife:44oon not , tic street
door to atzybOdytilltirey4W**lnitAtis
to be degwd tik ialseeirei -11 me 'Merl ho wag
at hcnnt, aid fia partieulin to ant tit. lAuretife, and that he
absented himself lot dayi fruit kat honte fog fhe purpose
of avoiting eseditots, Sof& bf loltofit repeatedly called' dun+,
in his absence. I heat aftefiffertf ttetifivelfdenied On the
aZdivitti 6f te baittiOttpf, ifia 0w0,4 itniv air hit skepossri,
as also tin iliNtivrkt sit MAW 6,11 WV, lOW -seiort- he
Otver had hint dehic4l to • - iff affidavit of Mt.
I.o6rettee, *go ANN okitg "As fts'erfreernently' datied on the
bankrupt for payment of at •I of Exchange, but it did bet app
pear he had ever tiedfn
th#to. poonitk lit/iirqpirsolk Co it fef the petl-
inner, Contended thasi tberei If& legal roof of any a& of
...arblvrdsate4. art 4 exit this teirittkitsiv#t *far stied mil by a sitigle