The National Register.
London, England, 1816-11-25 00:00:00

BETHNAL-GREEN POOi.
TO 14HE EDITOR.

Sta—As You hare in • your paper of Sunday last
published the statement of A. 8., I trust you will also
permit a, few observations on the said statement to reach
the public eye through the same medium. . •
It is by no means my intention to maintain a paper
War on the subject; I have neither time nor inclination
so to do: 'I
only •wish to warn A:11. (if his motives
are really pure, and he' is not acting the part of a
marked assassin) not to lend himself for the purpose of de-
Istdidg the uninformed and ignorant into a belief that all
which he states to have been given in the Police Report he
alludes to, as evidence, are facts, much ksi Clearly prot'ed. A
short period will throw a very different light on the subject,
atid prove that, in the first place 9251. of the Bethnal-green
Poor-Rate Yowl was not applied by Mr. Mercerosi to dis-
charge his lawyer's bills : and also .that the charge stated to
have been given in evidence to that honourable committee,
" that Mr. Merceron hid left a sum of nearly 5001." part of
the 1:1,0001. Mentioned by A. B. (and which was stated to
have pissed through Mr. Hermon's hands) " not satisfac-
torily accounted for," was and is totally unfounded and false,
no part of such suns of isearly 5.211. having ever passed throw:kat
banker's hands mentlinsed, not haying in any other may come ever
into Mr. Merceron's ; but, on the contrary, that ever y farthissx of
the 12,11004 emu swotted,* tea deputation from govermirsene to
their entire satilortioll. And, as a criminal prosecution is
aim 'tending, bn account ofsuclit Mae assertions against their
avowed autitcir, every real lover of truth, who is above being
actuated by private party motives, will feel it a duty to await
the issue of such production, instead of endeavouring to Mill
leid and inflame the public mind. The parish of Bethnal-
igieen has too Long been a prey to party spirit ; and it is also
ettdaat, that the whole is a struggle for power on the part of
these wholtave had recourse to nitsrepresentatioas and abuse
"Oast Mr..blerceran, instead of a sincere endeavour to he-
misfit the poor.
. •
Mr. Me-region stated to the honourable committee alluded
to, that he was perfbetly Well satisfied 'with the opinion en.
'enabled of his cumin& in Me parish in which he resides;
sett he had every remton,. with honest pride, 'to 'ay so; for,
notwithstaadieg every attempt to the contrary, the well-
founded opinion of a very great authority of as respectaisk inha-
bitants) as are to befound in the parish, is decidedly in his fa.
vlsitr; thisyiltiatVir hire to hate-been faithful and valuable to
them and eke parish in general:
London, Nov. 21, 016. • . .

A FRIEND TO TRUTH.

FIOT Alin COXBINATIOtI •MOMOST Tat REIPURRICCTION
Men.—Tuesday evening the inhabitants of Canterlinry-square
wefts estreatcly slimed; In 'cundeiplenc'e of a riot having
talEltnophsele at the huie of t(r Milliard, beadle to 'the dis-
secting room at Guy% .Hospital; whose family were attacked
t_iy a desperate- gang of resarrectish inch, Rad threatening
distrietiuu to the family of Mrs Millard, in consequence of
tru4r pr./shish:in, timplbying men in pro-
cdfilogssalsjft-ts for the stlidents at the hospital. The inha-
bitants having collected, the rioters signified that their allow;
awe mast beraised front four guinea, tkratx; that they would.
allow 1.4 Jay* for ao answer, and onus their demand was
caumnied wish, they Would pay the beadle ainisie severe visit i.
at the same time wishing it to be 'wide kndib; that
coutd command trade, bad u the times were; add in the

canary their payment was not less Wan 201; Os; sense dem.'
.ions. The snob became exasperated, and but for theinter-
ference of Ale: Millis d, would have torn them to pieces; they,
hcrwever, eve clear ttil, and •Mr. nliddrd applied to the Magis-
trates at Union-hall, where be pretered a warrant for their
Apprelneus*. Sunie of the phrty were held 'to bail a few
weeks age,.at the cumpjaiut atoll% Ashley Cooper for a sind-
lir offence.
STAMFORD BULL;RUNNIRO.—This animal, oo the 13th in-
stant, was; from the 'spirit "sad 'excellence' of the woolfox-
ledge ball, productive this year of More sport than has been'
known fora longtime. Numbers of persons were tosses‘ bat
happily nobody was seriously hurt. It was priucipally
stopped buts-running in the Cornhill and Beast-market. In
the afternoon the noble animal w.* baited in the Castle:
meadows, and was drowhed is Great: Whilst;
atroireing with a dog belonging to Pdr.,Gcsodlad, of Wens-
furd. Both bull and dog were deeply under water for two
•minutes; -vvlseh the latter rose with life, but the bull was
drowned. /Bleb an instance' Of ferocit7 and bottom, it is
said., is/maim record,' thoogh the Stitederd'bsill.running, on
the 13th Of.Novpulser, has existed 370 year, !—Ancient cus-
tom is pleaded as an excuse fur this barbarous sport; but we
sadist obseri6,•tharthis is one of those 'customs which is snore
honoured In the breach than the obSerslance.

Isiutieirro.--;,Siturdal an inquest was taken at the King's
Head; St. George's, Halsoversaquare, on the body of F. H.
, Weedom, a clerk in the York depot-othee, who was missing
iu the early part of the week, with a cousidera ble sum of too-
/icy belcitigiik to 'the establishment. The Jury, from the
evidtriceOf Mr. HgrFis; were of opinion; 'that the deceased
had fallen off the Waterrxisorkebritle MW the water whiles 10
0 state of intoxication, and they requested the Coroner would
we his uldueoce to get it repaired. The fullowiug is.copied
from the Coroner's notes:—" 'the Jury pre.sent, that the
Writer-works-bridge, Pimlico, is-in an iinpertect stare Of re-
pair, and highly prejudicial to the lives of his Majesty'S sell-
Jetta passing over the saint. Veidict,s- Found Drowned.
!lilt how be came into the water there was no evidence he-
tore ,thew to prove; but they were of oxinion, that lie tell
accidentally °tithe oridge into the' NI ROT. '
Aw inquisition was taktu on'lllkinday night last at the Red
Lion, Clargee-street, Yiccsddfy, octure H. Lewis, LIN •upon
the licitly of G. Field, aged dn, who cut his throat.—.llr. J.
Moody, of 2-1, Queemstreet, Mey•fair, surgeon, said that he
knew the deceased ; that he wad sent for to attedil him on the
12th instant, Ise having received a most violent contosiou ur
the head by a fall: lie applied leeches to the part, had in A
day or two he gut better, ;hid he ( witness) discontinued hi.
visits. He was sent ter again that auditing (Monti 4) rt ai
about half-past six o'clock ; he was informed that the deceased
had cat his throat: he went, and found I hilt oil the floor
in his bed room, which was eovercal with blood. His lisso.o
was cut so aliockhigly, that the !mud was nearly severed from
She body ;•the windpipe and the external Jupiter vein 'were
cut through, which was the rause of Ids death. He was of
opiiiii.ar that the deteasell's meat -was injured uy the fall to
received on the 12th instant, which Might have caused a tent
pornry dtltriam.. Veril,m—Cut his throat ia adt of *vitro-
vary delirium, cause.: