The National Register.
London, England, 1814-03-13 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS AM) OFFENCES.

Mr. Taylor, of Soff ham, the gentleman fired at on the highway
ro.ar Holl, died of hi• wound on the Weclin.)oli..y fe4)%%
Foams. charge/ the commis.sion of this 11muler1. has been
e(.ait:Ot:ed to V: 1.1. t

Extteet or a letter from ramsgate, March rery nalan-
ofy eiremastnece happened litre )es!ertltiy. Mr. Beau: oic,
I:tench:nate who bird for some time lit p' a sehoo! in this town, a few
ably% ago telt himself under the necessity of calling Iris *crediters to-
getaer, whch one of them threatemd to arrest Lim. '!'Lis had such
act (fleet upon the poor man's mi;11, that ve•terday afternoon, it is
believed, be julep( d off the Pierdiead, aid was drowned, as he was
ebserved to go there, and has not been st en since."
A case of cruelty, elisgraeetid to human nature, and scarcely to be
p“raileled since the days oOluther Ilrowthigg, has lately been dis-
covered at Eton. A poor boy, rtmed Mi at., whose mother is dead
tied his father gone at)road, Was pi t.% iotedy placed by 'him under the
care of a Mrd. anght'A, :it a certain :1110%N:owe per week.* This Mint-
man monster hot only beat him repeatedly, in a most unmeichltl
tnallner, but kept Lim so short a p wt.:* „ityirs, that' be has been se( n
lakiag raw potatoes from the hott-tronJt, awl a few.tiar since ac-
tually taking the bait from a mense-trep, in doing tthich lie st!verely
*tjured his lingerie-Which excited elamorees mirth from this female
flend. in a few darts after this Litter ch•eumstauee he died, and
itreparations were made for a pi ivate funeral, but a neighbour in-
"lerfering, a Coronet's .Ivry was sinenunied, and, after an inve•tiga-
tioa of twelve hours, druitig %%blab u surgeon declared his death v. ag
imputable to wounds and bruises received on his head and various
parts of his body, a verdict of Manstink- ht LT was returned ; and MI s.
H. was committed tv Aylesbury•gaul. to which it tas lit.ceB"rY to
tarry- her by the mast pri•ate way, to prevent her becoming a sacri-
fice to the irritated feelings of the-populace ; uor did this precau-
tion preserve her from the hustings and pelting of thuse who were
apprized of her renlvvil.
ROFIBERY.—On Wednesday mottling last, the house of Mrs..
Devines, of Arabella-row, Pimlico, was robbed of property to a
considerable amouut, by the folk:Wing stratagem :—Oii the after-
noon of 'inesday, a young, man, of decent appeariere, whO said bic
name was Jones, alai that hi-s father was a tradc•niau in the
.rtest applied to :di a. Devlin's, to hire her first door. Having agreed
'as to rent and other partieulirrs, he said tie should come that even-
ing, anti, iu the Wan time, referred Mrs. Deviees to his father for
a haructer. He said he 'should come home to sleep that night ;
and accordingly he came iu a hackney-coach, about nitre o'cL:ck
is the evening, bringitig with him a large beadle. Previens to
his going to bed, lie told Mrs. Devines should be under the tie-
comity o going to his office, one of those in the neighbonrhood el
Whitehall, by .six o'clock in the mornieg, and desired her, if' she
s!iould bear him going out so early, not to In, sin p. ised ; he said he
eliould be home to breakfast atmine o'clock, at which time he
%visited to have it ready. Accordingly, Mrs. 1)• heard the door open
and shut about six .o'clock in the meaning-, but supposinn it wre, her
new lodger gt.-;tag out, as he'siriel he should, she took no further
natire of it. On the servant going iitto.lis route, however, to get
ins breakfast ready,.ahe soon discovered Le had not gone empty
handed, for amongst the things which kid disappeared were tne
carpet and wimow-contains, a large piergla-re the
rouuterpanes, blankets, sheets, and pillow-rases, and various other.
articles. It is altneist netailess to say the villain did Hot come back.
The bundle was left behind) hut was found to consist of nothieg
but old rags., •