The National Register.
London, England, 1820-12-31 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

An amendment was then moved by the Duke of SOM ER-
Sat, to substitote, toe gold Seelfordenu medal, seconded by
Admiral Sir J Coffin, and cal tied unanimously.
Several other resolutions were adopted and carried uita-
nimoissly.
• Within these two or three years (says the Doctor in his
statement) paragraphs have apposed in different periodical
works, published on the Continent, as well as in this kingdom,
testifying the antiseptic qualities of the pyroligenous, or wood
acid. I have no recollection of any observation on such an ap-
plication of this acid. anterior to the experiments of Mr. Socket'.
This acid i., very easily and cheaply prepared ; the first distilledproduct of the wood, in that state denominated black acid, an-
swers the Lest when separated by lest from its tar and naptha.
More than 70 gallons of acid, sufficiently strong, are procured
from a tea of wood ; this quantity of wood is matey procured at
nos. per ton, delivered at the works. Supposing the expenses of
the manufacture to be equal to the purchase of the wood (and
which is making a very ample allowancsr, as the residual charms'
is equal in value to the wood employed), the value of 70 gallons
of acid will not exceed 20s. or about 3.1,t1. per gallon ; a gallon is
quite sufficient for 21 cwt. of pork, beet, and most annual sub-
stances, with the addition of a small portion of salt, not only
1 affording a considerable saving in this article, but also materially
contributing to the increase of flavour and nutritive
.quality.
Hams or beefs used this way require no previous soaking water
to being boiled, and when boiled swell in size and are extremely
succulent.
The ham tent for the Society's examination has been cured in
the ususl way recommended for Westphalia hams, tl e acid em.
ployed, instead of being smoked, two table spoonfuls of the acid
being added to the pickle • and when the ham Is to he removed
front the pickle, it must be well washed in cold spring water and
dried. and some of the acid applied over it by means of a
brush, and this repeated two or turee times at about a week's
interval.
Herrings Mr. S. cures with very little salt ; being well dried as
early after being caught as can be effected. they are then slipped
into a vat of the acid, and when dry, the stone process re-
peated a few times, suspending them like the manufactore of
minim. Mr. S. entertains no doubt, front the result of his ex.
perituents with herrings, that the sante process would answer the
other kinds of fish, as a salmon, cod, &e.; and hence, when
cooked, they are salted aecortling to each individual's ti—te. The
rod odour in dried salmon and herrings has been generally at.
tributed to nitre ; very frequently in tobacco, dissolved in a fluid
not very agreeable) is made use of in Holland.
I presume this acid would be found very useful on board any
vessel fitted out tin long voyages; it appears from calculations on
a small scale, dust one Hogshead of this acid would sallies to cure
six tons of fish, in such a manner as to retain most of their nutri-
tious quality ; but cured on board, when opportunities otgurrsal of
procuring them, independent of being an excellent substitute
for common vinegar in many culinary purposes on board.

CORONER'S INQUESTS.
On Wednesday a Coroner's Inquest was held before
C. Unwin, and T. Stirling, Es/ft. upon the body of Citas.
Taylor, who was killed near Mixon', o► Friday night.
The first witness examined was Thomas Bird, a
printer, who works for Mr. Run, he stated, that on suing
from his work on Friday night, about eight o'clock they
found the deceased lying on the side of the foot-path
in Rhodes-fields, at which time he was quite warns, but
had no pulsation. They did not at the none perceive any
wound, nor any weapon, but a short stick lying near
him, as was also his hat They took hint Hp and brought
him ►o the Whitmore Head public-house, at Hoxton,
where a surgeon was immediately sent for. Before the
surgeon arrived the person's present opened the deceased's
waistcoat and shirt, and saw a wound on his breast,
apparently made with a sharp instrument. There was a
corresponding hole through the waistcoat and shirt, and
the latter was very bloody. There were no other marks
of violence except a very slight bruise on the temple.—
The witness said they had not met any person near the
place.
Joseph Richardson, one of the persons who was with
the witness Bird, when they foniul the deceased, stated
exactly the same facts, with the additional one, that he
heard the deceased sigh as he was lifted from the ground.
A person who was not sworn stated, that oti passing
the same path-way on Friday night, a little before
eight o'clock, he was met by a man who struck at him
with a stick.

James Kennedy, a police officer, of Worship-street-
office deposed, that he saw the deceased's body on Sa-
turday night; that he knew it to be the body of Charles
Taylor, a bricklayer, whom he had known fur eight
years, but had not seen him fur the last twelve mouths.
lie said the deceased's lather had since told witness that
the deceased was thirty-four years of age, and that fur
some time back none Of his family knew any thing of
him. The witness also stated, that he had seen the
deceased's wile, who said the young woman with whom
he lived, and who since his death has committed suici,:e,
washer niece, and that her name was Martha Singleton.
Mr. Stirli:'g, the Coroner, attended in consequence of
a. anonymous letter he had received the day beiOre re-
lating to the transaction. He conceived that the ,letter
was a stateitient of facts, although without a ,signature,
and recommended that it should be read, at the same.
time stating that it could not, of course, be received as
evidence.
The letter was as follows :--
46 To ---- Suitern•, E.sq-
" read in the newspapers various ac-
connts respecting the unfortunate Mall who was found
killed in Hutton Fields ou Friday evening last, 1 beg
leave to state the following certain facts respecting him,
for the consideration of yourself and the Jury who may
hold the Inquest :
" Passing through the above-named fields on Friday
last, about eight o'clock, I met the deceased, who ordered
me to stop and deliver my money, which 1 refused. He
repeated, " If you make the least noise I will blow your
brains out." 1 replied, " If you touch me J have pistols,
and will shoot you." Whilst speaking, he made a kind
of thrust, or straight forward blow at me, which I par-
ried off with my umbrella, and he again repeated he
would " blow my brains out if I spoke a word.' I con-
tinued retreating backwards from the moment 1 met
him, and he followed, chewing a determination to close
upon we, notwithstanding I had itnewed my threat to
shoot him. The darkness of the night prevented my
discovering what he was armed with, but 1 felt that it
something rough which struck my umbrella, and con-
cluded he had fire arms, from his often repeated threat
to blow my biaiti; out.

" Finding escape from apparently instant destruction
impossible by any other means, 1 made a more sudden
spring back, and fired at him, Erma the distance (as
near as I can judge) of ten or twelve feet ; he received
the charge (a bullet) in Isis body, exclaiming, Oh !
lam killed !' leaned against the rails a few seconds and
then fell.
" had I not been convinced that the wound was
mortal, had there been the least hope of his recovery, I
would have had the quickest possible assistance ; but the
aim, though made in a moment of the most painful agi-
tation, had been too tnie. 1 then left him, and from
that time till I got nut of the fields I met no human
being. The truth of tltis statement may be in a measure
corroborated by a further search tor the bullet, which
I doübt
" The very peculiar and conflicting feeling of the
moment, gratitude for my providential escape, and sorrow
ur the unhappy victim of his own attempted crime,
operated powerfully on my mind, and together with the
peremptory nature of my engagentents in business, de-
te tttt i t tea me to leave the discovery to chance.
" I did not conceal it from ally idea of danger to my.
self from the arm of justice. Self-preservation, the first
law of nature, and the dictates of my own conscience,
justify an act by which the happiness of my wife and
family are preserved.
" Many reasons connected with business induce me to
withhold my name, hut this relation of the trite case
may be as much relied on as if it were attested by the
must unquestiouThle names in London ; and I swear
to the truth of it. My object in writing to you is to
prevent suspicion of his having been killed by robbers.—
From his deliberate manner of attack, 1 believe him a
practised footpad. To account for my carrying pistols,
it may be necessary to state, that this is the second as-
sault I have met with within four months, in the first
of which I was robbed of considerable property, and
and have since carried them for self defence "
The Coroner agreed ill the opinion of Mr. Stirling,
and suggested to the Jury the propriety of having the body
of the deceased examined more mtnutely. The Jury
immediately agreed in the propriety of a further exambi
nation of the body.
Mr. Heath, the surgeon, who had probed the wound,
then opened the body, and upon his return informed the
Jury that he had found a bullet amongst the ribs.
Mr. G. T. Heath, surgeon, of Hoxton, gave the fol.
lowing evidence was sent for on Friday. at about a
quarter before nine o'clock, to go the Whitinore•head.
saw the deceased there. lie was quite dead, but not
quite cold. I saw blood upon his clothes, and then
looked at his chest. On the left of the sternum, or
breast bone, 1 found a wound, which appeared to me to
be a stab, 1 passed nay probe sit inches into the wound,
which was wide enough to admit of my little finger.--1
I have examined the body again during the sitting of the
Inquest. I traced the wound through the upper part
of the heart, and found a pistol ball between the fourth
and filth ribs on the lett side of the spine. This wound
was no doubt the cause of the death of the decreased.
The Coroner then addressed the Jury ; who, after
souse deliberation, returned the following verdict:—
" That Charles Taylor, the deceased, was killed by a
pistol-bullet, on the eed inst. , but by whom, or under
what circumstances, the said pistol was fired, there was
no evidence adduced to the Jury."
On Thursday au inquest was held at the Rose and
Crown pubtic•house, llunhill-row, bellire C. Cowin,
on the body of Martha Singleton, the unfortunate young
woman who lived with Charles Taylor, the man that
was shot on Friday night in Rhode's Fields,
William Walpole stated, that he lodged at the Rose
Mid Crown. Ott Monday morning, at about eo minutes
after 10 o'clock, he was called upon by the landlord to
assist in getting into the room occupied by the deceased,
as the door WAS fastened inside. lie forced himself into
the room through the wainscoat partition. When he
got in he saw some blood at the brawn' of the bed. He
let in the landlord and smite other persons. The de.
ceased was in bed and spoke to die witness, to
to whom she said that she was dyitm lie saw a wound
in her neck. Site survived about eo goof te, after lie
first saw her. Mr..Fearey immediately ran fur a doctor.
Witness did not stay in the room the whole time the
deceased &mewed.
J. Pearcy, the landlord of the house deposed, that the
deceased had lodged at his house twelve weeks, and had
been introduced as a married woman. lie saw tlw
body of the deceased Charles Taylor aiSitorediteh church,
aml recogniaed it. The last time he raw 'Vas lor was ou
Tuursday ; but he understood that that person left the
house for the last time on Friday morning, Winless
told the deceased Martha Singleton, on Sunday tiiod,
that he thought the titan who had been killed at 'lox-
ton, was her husband. Site had appeared extiemely
uneasy front the first trunnelit of his absence, but on
hearing the intelligence she looked distracted. She ex-
pressed a wish to go and see the body that night, but he
told her it was too late, and appointed to go with her
next 1110(11illip The next morning, ut :so noliiites 'Aft(
ten, he went UV to her room to ask her While was ready
to got atter having in vain called upon her the p ninon
was forced, and he saw her in bed covered with the
clothes tit the ordinary manner. Seeing nothing yarn.
colas, he asked her to get out, bin no answer was summit.
The first witness told him that the deceased had blsd
herself, when the witness ran to a donor, who said
" he had no right to come." lie then sent for a coach
to take the deceased to the hospital, but before the coach
arrived the deceased was dead. Witness then spoke as
to the state of mind in which the deceased had beet*
previously to the catastrophe. She had at times talked
quite incoherently. Upon the whole he thought 4110
was not in a sound state of mind.
Juba 11311, a beadle, stated, that he called at the Rase
and Crown an Christmas day, a little after one o'clock,
the deceased was still lying in bed ; life was extinct.--
Ile saw some blood and a knife on the flour (the knife
3i,al a common table knife) coveted with blood. A pair
el scissors also la/ upon the floor. There was a lever osi
the table, eealeo with black. It was the writing of

Taylor, and was directed to It. Singleton, at a place near
Stevenage. It was evidently intended as the letter of
Taylor and Martha Singleton, and was as follows :
" DEAR RICRARD,---1 have taken this opportunity
to anginal yon, that your sister Martha is very well, and
she hopes that her father and another and all of you make
)ourselves as comfortable as the case will admit, and not
to think that she will be left without a friend in the
world, as that will never be the case while I have the
use of nay limbs to work for her, and what we have done,
we beg will in time be overlooked. Please to give my
love to them all, which I hope they will accept, and
you the same.
44 Ask Charles if he will come and live with me in
the spring if I send for him up ; and please to send me
an answer back as soots as you can, as I don't know that
1 shall be in that pal t of London, where 1 :1111 now, very
little white, so I shall expect an answer back by the
latter end of the Christmas wet k.

" Front your loving sister, &c.
" MARTHA SINGLETON."

Crockwell, a beadle who had heen (or some ' ni
conversation with the deceased, gave general evidence of
her state of wind, which he represented as not at all
sane.

ihe father of the deceased was called in, but was not
questioned.
Verdict—lnsanity.
♦n Inquest was also held before the same Jury, at
the same house, over the body of a new-born infant,
which had been found drowned in the basin of the
Regent's Canal, in the City-road.
A waggoner in the employ of Messrs. Pickford and
and Co. stated, that on Tnursday mottling last he per-
ceived the body of the infant floatitm in the basin of the
Canal opposite his master's warehouses, and gut it out.—
It was quite naked and appeared to be newly born, and
completely limited. There were HO particular marks of
violence about the body.
This was the only evidence adduced, and the Jury,
after a short consultation, returned a verdict of—Found
drowned.

liolice.
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MARLBOROUGH STREET.

Oti Friday, the whole of the parties concerned in the
rescue of the five burglars, and the attack on Alarsden,
were brought up for re-examination, wh.ta they were
all identified.

Mark Herd, who was supposed to be the leader of
the ;tang, was idcnnfied as ti:e person who knocked
down the lamplighter, at the Temple, and as one of the
'host active in the rescue.
They were remanded until Tuesday next.

BOXING.
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The battle between Moss, the gipsey, and Bill
Edwards, the Bath butcher, took place on Wednes-
day, for GO guineas, on Ham-heath„ four miles from
Haslemore, Bucks. Both had milled their way into
notice, and Edwards was considered an elegant,
rather than a powerful boxer. The gipsey on the
contrary had proved himself a ruffian, who would not
be denied. A ring of eighteen fe.et was the space
for combat, and the men entered it very sweet upon
themselves. Richards, the cricketer, seconded Ed-
wards, and one of the gipsey nibe seconded Moss.—
Betting even
In the first round Edwards uncorked his adversary's claret,
which dew al t copiously; and Aloes in boring seas /pored
by a right-handed teaser in the body, which settled first
blood and the knock downs

2. The men got more steady at their work, and a very
gallant round was fought, after exchanging counter hits at
the head. In rally much rullianisni look place on the
part of the gipsey, who displayed much of the Randall tac-
tics. Edwards at length stopped his adversary's art ~,,,, by
getting his head under the left arm, and weavinx at it until
he paid him trick and tie at the bleeding game. The gipsey
got away, and both broke their ground for a fresh turn loose.
The gipsey placed a heavy hit on Ltlvi arils's right side which
ha did not seem to relish, and bored him down, both were
weak from the exertion of the round, which was all fijili fur
seven minutes. _ _

3. Isto4 was blind of the right eye, and the lancet was
Applied, but it was a hogging round, and both tell.
6. Edwards fought a Ito much gaiety and science to get at
his opponent's left eye, but lie would not have it. Edwards
had tile beet of in and out ti4hting, and dropped Moss for-
ward by a neat hit in the wind.
t 5. Muss led in this round, and knocked his adversary down
by a heavy bit upon the jaw, and it won Imo the light ; for
Edwards being crossed 111 leading, like many of his superiors,
did not fancy it, and he was very shy in going in Mier. lie
was thrown a cross-buttock,and it was even betting that he
did nut come twilit.
6. This round ended the fight in nineteen minutes. Most,
was the worst beat; but Edwards evidently wanted courage.
or lie could not have lost it. Muss wnn the battle by a slight
blow, with which his adversary went down, and would nut
appear in time.
A second li, ht was fought for a purse of live guineas, be-
twen a nine-mime Jew and a I welve-stioie Countryman,
which was won by the Jew in saves. minute,. In the Urn
round the Count:yin:in deliberately walked away to wipe
the blood oil his nose, and Um the third he gave in.

MELANCHOLY OCC U 14 hbie au early hour on
Friday tutu milownig lamentable occurrence
took place. Mr. M—, a respectable gentleman re-
siding in Ormond Street, Queen Square, accompaund
his wife and two of his daughters to the theatre, on
Thursday eveimig, and returned with them about
o'clock. The whole of the family retired to rest, except
Mr. and Mrs. M. who remained tip to have supper,
when tome airily dispute arose, and Mr. M. 111 a pabSloll
stabbed himself under the left breast won a sharp imam d
knife that lay on the table. Nu hopes are eutertamed u
teem ery.