The National Register.
London, England, 1813-10-03 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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temperance, dangeimis alike to yourselves and the great question
which is the object of ymir zeal and exertions.
" When artifice wimps the seat of reason, calumny is ever the
weapon it wields. Faction uni!ormly decks herself in the robe of
purity, and proscribes whoever shall possess either the honesty or
Cmtiess to withstand the folly sod injustice of tier designs. Thus
you are told, awl falsely told, that your brethren, who differ from
the General Board, are enemies to their country, and apostates to
their religion! and that their object is•to deliver up their church,
in
chains, to the rapacious hands of power, and to sacrifice st the
&brine of the Mini ter, and for the grovelling purposes of self in•
terest, that faith whirls is no less dear to them from choice, than
hallowed by ties of s. cient hereAitary attachment.
" And, Genth men, from whom does tick interdict issue? from
Men who are repaying the influence which your partiality alone
conkrred by mis directing the efforts of yottr zeal, and seemingly, at
least, encooragiog a revival of that national infirmity, which for ages
has been the cause, and the prelude, of our fiegradation, and which
remilertal ns at all times, by our own miserable dissentious, the easy
pity or every lieSiglllllff SpeeillatOr."
We will now lay before out readers an extract from the Dublin
Evening- Pont, as a specimeu Of the manner in which the sett erectcd
advocates et the Catholic Cause think proper to treat a Catholic
Gentleman, whom they have in v.an attempted to bully out of his
loyllt v.
Did (lob or natare ever intend that a Nation should be adrisca
by such a thing. as thou as t %—Have you any endow-bents mentally
a: b,tdily ?--, Did any Toad eater—did any hi-smelly Eave-eropper,
that ever starved, for a day, on your hospitality--did he ever, in a
fuel attempt to soften your avarice, by app;ying to your vanity • -
did he el Er venture to tell yon, that ai.v 1111111411 being would resort
to your judgment, or be ruled by volir advice, in the most trivial
incident of human life?—Court fluttering Osriek—a little
powdeled popinjay—a smirking, &melee, ogling, well-dressed, fool-
tOppish, httle old nian—the companion of boy., of whoni lie
might be the grandfailter—a sketch via matt— a miser' even hi boy-
hood, and a beau in old age—the ridicule of girls, and men of sense
in person, vanity, foolishness, avarice, external pomp, and do-
plietic poverty, the very duplicate, the image of COAIES," &c. &c.

PROVLYCIALS.

A melancholy accident happened on Monday last. As the Row.
Ser. Patters n, of Bath, formerly of Stourbridge, was riding on
jtorseback, his horse took fright at a load of haze, at the Hall Way
/loose betweNi Worcester and Kidderminster, and he was unfor-
tunately thrown, and died almost irstandy.
On Monday, as some workmen belonging to the Worcester Canal
were digging a eelvcrt under the old City Wall, at Worcester,
Where formerly Sidhury- Gate stood, they fintud a sword, support d
to have lain there since the battle of Worcester, in the year 165 I,
And supposed to be the sword of I)uke Hamilton, who fell there,
and who lies buried in a parlour in the Cotomandry, near the spot
-where it was found. l'art of the hilt was gold.
A few nights ago, as an old woman was plundering a garden be
longieg to Mr. Bayley, of Dounington, Shropshire, she stepped
into a draw-well, about sixteen yards deep, with two yards depth
of water; upon rising to the top of the water, she caught hold of a
tongh part of the rock, and supporting herself, called out Mur-
der !' so lustily, that some of die neighbours got up, and called to
know what was the matter, when she answered, " Poor Molly
Mehreler is in the well."—They then gave tie alarm to Mr. B. who,
try me down a holder. suspended by a rope, extricated the poor
wretch from hef perilous situation, with no hurt save a good
di.e!:
Oa illorplay t, the parish officers of Hawkendon, Sntlblk,
we-e orplied to for the purpose of affording fiwther relief to Wm.
0:3410.p 4-Ik6 %sift. (who had for seven months past received an
it ,oAance of 6.. per week from that parish), in consequence of the
jatler hayiti4 been taken ill of the small pox ; when, upon inye.ti
gdt On, the utiVeri (why had some time suspicion thereof)discovered
that they had 4.oncealed in seven er eight different boxes, gold,
silver, anti copper, lamp than sufficient to fill a bushel measure,
apd tthicit aOmmuted to the sum of 1051 16s. told. viz in gold,
tot, I'4s. ; in silver, 591. 19s. ; aiiti in cooper, ss. 101,-d. ; besides
of weariut4 apparel, bottscbold goods, &c. of no jumbo-
-10e. .

se'nul-ht, Danikl IVl'Crory, fuluil guilty at the last
,%!t.i4cs, of a burglary at I)44llivase, phere he heatietl rt
:,al tkveratloes; !utlL.l.erl the auel;11 sentence of thr. law,
tirstil at the uj the coluity/ 661. AhoNit
Auer) eie criminal appeared upon tlu: ocold, 4ttited in

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tried by the Rev.' Mr. Marshall, a Roma C n atholme clergy man, of
which communion he him.elt professed to he. '1 he manlier -in
which he appealed at the fatal tree excited every ewe% astmeishwent.
He ascended, not only without the slightesetkaree ofl
but with aLcrity, bowing around to the 11411•61 ed multitude in a
manner which seemed to impress the ide a of " a favourite sear.
player about to act his prim" He then produced a paper, from
which he read a denial of several mimes high liad been et 'pr.
U ated in the neialibourbood for elabtern eaerths last. Ile, however,
acknowledged his being conctaued in the burglary fro which be was
abort to suffer ; confessed the justice of his enteece, though in setae
immaterial points he declared rho evidenee agaihst him w.es 1,01
aet-
together correct ; and forgave prosecutor, v. ith whotn, at d ith
all men, he died ia peace. A distressing • cene how ensued Oil
the drop falling, the rope broke, and the untimely mail was preci.
pitated to the ground, whereby his ka was aloken. I" I told yea,”
said he. " this rope would neve; hang a man of my vi eight." It
seems, that he had actually hatalled the rope betine coining out of
the gaol. and remonstiated against its ,u After some delay,
he was borne upon the seathild, in a chair ; and another rope heal
procured, he %vas ;rani,' tied up. Notwithstandi,:a the trying scene,
he maintained Ins fortitude—observina. that it was provideutia, that
the accident of the rope breaking h id happened, since Ise had for-
gotten to notice the infamous deo:liter of Oavit 2, the King's evi-
dence, who, he said. had sworn many men's lives away; s. d, he
feared, would do the like avail). Whaii tureed ott the arrow; tiler,
the rope partly gave way, and it eats feared that be %void,' curi e to
the foamed again ; fortunately, this was not the case A= :er laz-
ing the usual time, the body was cut down acid delivered to his
friends.
The Hants Courier communicates tl a f Mow lug additional parti-
enlars with regard to the murder of G. Brethei - a traterman, at
Portsmouth, oil Wednesday selmiaht Three Fres prisoner*,
Francois Relit, Jean Marie Mize, and Daniel Dii Verve having
effected their escape front roi ton depot. engaged the utter-I.y of the
aeovealamed George Brothors, to take them to Ryoe ; witch
the Block-house, (aeeosding to their own assertions) they proposed
to the boatman to take than to France, promising ample, reward,
and liberty tee return immediately : but he, not to be rarrepted by
promises or reward, resisted their proposition, and iu cousaanenee
they stabbed him in sixteen places, (three of which wen' In. rtal)a •
and threw Win overboard. Frenchmen immediately direeleve
their coarse to sea, and were promptly pursued by several when spy,/
in one of %%Web were Lieut. Sullen:lk and three seamen eft Cen-
taur, at anchor at Spithead. In consequence of a heavy swell, and
bad matiagement, the Frenchmen w ere overtaken after a ran of abont
1:1 miles; one of the men belonging to the Centaur leap d irate., alaa
wherry among the Funelimen alone, when at the d'.4tance of se-
vera feet, arnica with nothing Ina the stretcher, with which l
knocked one of them down : they then sarreuilered. They were
taken on board the Centaur for the night, and on being searched, a
large sum of money was found about them in silver, and three
kt ices—one of them was very bloody ; and on Thursday selinight
they were delivered into the halide of the civil power, raid landed
at the sally-port. They were taken to the borough gaol, where
they is ere again examined. They confessed that Brothers was
hilted by two of them, but that the third was no further concerned
than in lending his knife to the other, when the waterman resisted
them. More money was here taken film) them, one having actually
concealed in his pantaloons under his hoots thirty-three
pieces. It appears. that by the manufacture of lave, toys, atc. the
prisneers accumulated a snfficiei t sum of money to procure a snit
of genteel clothes each, (besides the stuns taken troll) their persons),
dressed in which, they mingled with the crowd of visitors that were
walking in the depot, eluding by their metamorphosed appearance
the vigilance of the turnkeys and military centieels. Uu Theraday
an inquest was held en the body by R. Callaway, Esq. Coroner,
when the following depositions we re made :-
1 John Sullivan and Jeremiah Wells, both of Gosport, deposed,
that about haft past four o'clock on 'Wednesday senni:Jit, in the
afternoon, as they were going to Spithead, a little distance from
the month of the harbour, on the Block-hanse side, near Fehham's
gibbet, they descried a wherry steering about S.W aiong the hos-
pital shore, about one honored NitrtiS from them—the wherries then
abreast of each other—she wore almost immediately, and steered
S. E. directing her course toward., Sonalisea Castle. They then strw
a hat go overboard, and the people in the whertv all scumming to.
gether—they were foil; in munber—three persons besides this
wa-
tcrmrtti ; that they phalliy saw two or them use their arms as if
st,dmitig or beaming the-waterman, who was crying out very m
at the time ; arafin the course of a few seconds, by the united e
miaow* of 01 tkres'4 the Wzterulau wao thrown overboard. Ou seo°

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THE NATION,

ing this, the deponents hauled their wind, and made towards them
with an intention to give assistance to the waterman; but on see-
ing the body thrown overboard, they .lirected their course towards
that. the other boat continued steering S. E. When they came
40 yards of the body, the water for several yards around was
colonred with blood—by this time another wherry came up, in
which were George Coward, of Portals, and Thomas Leyton ; with
their assistance the body was taken into Coward's boat. They ob•
served no appearance of lift, but distinctly saw three wounds ap-
parently from a knife, one on the list's cheek, another in the neck,
mid another a little below on the breast. Wells timber deposed,
that he proceeded in Coward's boat, having the body on board,
after the delinquents, who still confirmed sit cling S. E. at a dis-
tance of five miles from then], the wind then strong at DI. E.; from
bad management, they were soon overtaken.
Benjamin Terry, a constable, deposed, that he received into his
custody, from on board the Centaur, FrancOis Relit; Charles Danze,
and Daniel Du Verge, and conveyed them to tie. Borough Gaol ;
and that the two clasp knives produced by him, he received from
Lieutenant Pryce, of the Centaur. Relif owned the one which
ma: bloody : Danze ()wiled the other. Both of them voluntarily
confessed to this deponent, that they had made use of their knives
in cutting !he deceased. And Relif being asked, it it was he that
gave the wound in the throat, said, he did not know where it was
1i cut. Du Verge said, lie knew nothing about it, for he sat in the
stern drets, and steered the boat.
Lieut. Sullock, of the Centaur, deposed, that as be was going off
in the jol:y boat, on the 22d inst. he was hailed by two wherries,
and in!ormed they were in pursuit of three Frenchmen, who had
murlerkd a waterman, and were attempting to make their escape
in a wherry, which was then standing towards Southsea Castle. He
311 tartly boarded one of the wherries, with three men, judging the
wherry, with three men's assistance, would sooner come up with
them than his boat; and after a chase of one hour and a halt, the
distance from Portsmouth being 16 miles, they came up with the
I:ietichmen and took them into custody; on coming np with them,
one of the CeltaurN men jumped into the Frenchmen's boat, when
one of the Frenchmen knocked him down • upon which this depo-
nent ealed out, t° If you hurt that man I'll shew you no quarter,"
and in a few minutes the Frenchmen were overpowered ; a large
clasp knife was fonnd on one of them, which was kept by one of
the Centaur's men open for protection, till they arrived on bond
Cie Centaur ; it had the appearance of blood upon it. There was a
great quantity of water in the Frenchman's boat, which he sup-
poses was shipped in consequence of their bad management. He
observed no blood in the boat; it was probably washed off by the
number of seas she shipped.

It is necessary to state, that the real name of the Frenchman,
who called himself Daniel Du Verge, is Jean Lonis Sera. A scan
of the name of Daniel Dm Verge is now on board the prison-ships,
but has no knowledge whatever of the circumstance.
Relifhas writtea a letter to his brother, a prisoner at Forton, in
which he laments the trouble he has been brought into. He begs
Lis brother to write to his father and mother. and requests him to
help his recollection of the circumstance of his having, some years
ago, at St. Maloes, saved the lives of two Englishmen, and if lie
should bear in mind their names, to get Captain Woodriti to pub-
lkh them through the country, that the men, who afterwards came
to England, may see and acknowledge it. He says he shall (lie
broken-hearted before the winter is over ; and concludes, with re-
(posting that Captain Wootirift will be se kind as to appropriate
the run of one donble Louis (about 455.) and 11 dollars, to the
tan By of the unfortunate man, Brothers.
Mince writes to a friend at Porton, also lamenting his situation,
and begs his wire in France may be acquainted with the particulars.
Sera writes, that he has the greatest dread and horror upon him,
and states, that he did not lift up his hand against Brothers.
Helif was a common seaman, and has been confided in this coun-
try seven years and a half; Danze, also a seaman, has been in this
counts y about six months; and Sera, who was a boatswain, about
seven months.