The National Register.
London, England, 1823-01-06 00:00:00

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OeMesclay last, Mr. Cutter, the Coroner, and fininry.
aiming of tw.•lve respectable inhabitants, assembled ■t the
I Green Man T , on Illackhenth, to enquire into the death al/
J.llll{l Smith, Esq who was shot by a rubber on Sunday, the
22d ult.
Mrs. Jendma Smith, widow of the deceased, sworn. Oa
Smutty morning, the 22d alt. shout three o'clock, I was is
hcd with my titiabarol, and was awoke by a very strange noise.
I awoke my husband, and told him my suspicions, when he im.
mediately got up and put on his coat, and went into the adjoin-
Mg room, and I followed hint ; before I could get iota the room
I heard hint raise the sash of the window, sod at the same time
I hoard the report of a gun or pistol. The deceased immediately
screamed out, and emit LIU& shot ! I am shot through this
heart! lie then walked into the bed-room, and I observed •
Rohl deal of blood had Moved from the wound. He presently
told me he had seen a Juan in the garden, who most hare dies
charged a gun or pistol at him, and also another man under this
window, and that both immediately ran away. He said he did
not know either of them, but one appenred to be dressed in •
pepper and salt coat. Marna was im.•.ediately gives in lb*
neighbourhood, and proper ineditial mistime was. ehtniaird.—
The deceased languished from the time he was wounded until
Saturday night last, and then expired.
Rt. Clement Rose was then called sad sworn—l am a
laripha. Shout three o'clock on the morning of Sunday, the
darl2d alt. I was .called to the deceased ; I west imam-
'Gately to his residence, and found him on his bed; he had
been wounded by a gun-shot is the biceps muscle of the left
arm, was enveloped is gore, and in a very distressed slate.--I
continued to attend him, with M . Sheriff and Lucas, till
leis death, on Saturday evening last. Since his death I opened
the body, in the presence of the aforesaid medical gentlemen;
I discovered that the ball bad passed through the left ann.
entered the left side, passed undir across the chest, it then
dipped the thorax, fracturing the fourth lib on the left side, is
its passage wounding the left lung. passed out of the (bores on
the right side, and was found deeply seated me the eaiiha. I
am of opinion that the above wounds were the immediate Miss
of his dissolution.
Tire• investigation being closed, the Comer ausaurod ap tb•
evidence, and the Jury, without a moment's hesitation, returned
a verdict —" That the deceased had been inhumanly murdered
by some person or persons at present unknown to as hirers.

On Tuesday last, a horse in • gig. containing a lady
and a gentleman, took fright in Hyde-park, near ibe
Serpentine riser, and proceeded with peat velocity to the
ire ; oat si hich the animal slipped, and the violence of
the cu,scossion precipitated the lady out of the vehicle,
and so seriously injured lwr, that it Was some minutia
before site waSsofficiently reeliverel to be conveyed to a
*moon. Tiie gmetleisisto rectiscd a seVereconesisiciu ws
the temple, and the horse was much cut about the
knees.
Between 3 and 4 &chart in the afternoon of Christmas
day, the inhabitants of Handsworilf, near Birmingham,
were thrown into great consternation by an alarm being
given. th it a her of boys and girls were 'drowning till
the opposite to the gates of the Soho Manu-
factory, the ice me winch they had assembled liatieig
broken and let them in. A considerable number ol ;ser-
ous immediately hastened to time spot, and every assist•
ance wee promptly afforded in estricatina thelsiolisriumue
sufferers, and in endeavouring to reeovcr them as they
Were taken from the water. Though the means used-
to restore anima were in several instances successful,
we regret to add, that five out of the number were found
to be pass recovery. The parties who thus unhappily
lost their lives were two girls sod three boys, from 13 101
17 years of .ige, all of them belonging to (amide& of the
workitig
ttretx• Ice.—On Sunday a great number of per.
sons ...ere assenibled on the banksol she Regent's CHIA,
limn the City Road to Lime! ((((( se. to witness a novel
mode of connate the ice. so as to open the navigation of
craft, which have born delayed between the locks sere.
rap days. An old ferrate was procured, and clinkered, in
a similar way to the Greenlanders; at the stern. mons
plates of iron were fixed very strongly, and its the shape
of a kirk, three hawsers were then fastened to the ves-
sel, to each of which three horses were yoked nu !hove.
and Ivy these•theaiss the vessel cut through the its a
manner that surprised all who witnessed it. In tide
way the whole of the ice between the City lb. d, and
Limehouse-hole was loosened, and the craft were Cu.
abled to proceed thug far on their voyage.
CAtrtisg.—Oss Monday creating last, one of the sons
of Mrs. Woodman. residing at Green Elide ylesimiY.
had borrowed an old fowling piece, whicit the person
who heist it assured him was not loaded ; he was acorn&
ingly, in a cnviess manlier, doing •soinething to ilia
to when the piece went off, the situ tale being at the
ttttt mem poiined towards the wall of his house, but so
close to matte of his sisters, that WOW of the shuts re.
h.iiiieded, and passed thrusiah a shirt she was sewing.
The y g nvsit had a few minutes before been po g
the gun at his Waters jocosely threatening to sheen
them.

PEPESTRIAYIIII4.—J.Brown, a native of Salisbury, 40
years of ale, having he' a waxer of 11. that he would
pertorm 64 miles i.• 12 litlectro‘t hours, undertook the
ta-k on Friday last.'and started at li.illpast four in the
•g, f the Piteasaiit public house, in that city,
to the distance of a nirasor;:l mile, on iiie Old Sarum
road. fir went the hat two miles in 15 minutes, and
completed the whole task two inii.uies and a half within
time. Although lie ran the ert•ater part of it, and al.
lowed himself but a eery few minutes for refreihment,
he diddidappear notch ilktressed. fie declined going
to bed, sat down, drank, sang a song, and smoked a
pipe for half an hour, but by that tithe the effect of his
eXerlloll2 was such 111,011 hilt Ititibs, that he could not
walk home. A number of per.outs who had attended.
subscribed a small tutu for hint. He is a well suede
aii.lll4/1b With felliiirkilble ease and liantpees. •

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father went In pseud. of the prisoner, but be nbotowded,
and Ito woo not hoard of trosiii the month of Anita. last.
The father of the prosecutor, oud another alums, cow
firmed his testimony.
Mr. Jamie'. Boyle, rimmed op the evidence, and dui
Tory innuediotily foment she pristmer Gstilty —Death.

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