The National Register.
London, England, 1809-09-10 00:00:00

.S EPT . 10.

A serious affray took place on Friday night last. in the neigh-
bourhood of Forden-bridge, Sussex, between a party of smug-
glers, nine in number, and about half a dozen Officers of Ex-
cise, and their assistants. "1' he smugglers were attacked by the
oificers, whilst removing contr,ikand goods, on eighteen horses,
.heavily laden ; and after having been stopped, they commenced
an attack with cudgels and rumple ely got the better of the of-
ficers. The latter, however, got more assistance, pursued them
several miles, and took twelve of the horses and their lading.
Several on both sides were seriously injured, but there vsere no
fire arms used.

FELINE ANECDOTE.--The following- account, which may
afford an addition to the biographical anecdotes of the cats, oc-
curred not fourteen miles from Carlisle, and can be well authen-
ticated :—About six years ago, at a farm on the banks of the
Sark, not two miles above Gretna, a young woman was mar-
ried to a farmer, near Kirkgunzeon Kirk, in the Stewartry of
Kircudbright; and when her parents were given her nut.gate
as it is called in Scotland, io addition to their gift, she begged
of them to give her a favourite eat, which had two kittens :
this was granted, and the cat anti kittens were mounted along
with her upon the cart, which arrived at the farmer's residence
at Kirkgunzeon Kirk that evening. Puss, not satisfied with
her new quarters, next night decamped with her two kittens,
carrying them one after the other during the night, and hiding
them during the day, when, it is supposed she supported herself
with the scanty provisions she could procure. It was ascer-
tained, that she lost one of the kittens in the Langwood, parish
of Trocuire, about four miles from Dumfries, where she wa—
seen tw a days, and :ifter passing through Dumfries, she arrived at:
her old Lodgings, on the banks of the Sark, with the. other kite
.ten—having, on her return, travelled not less than forty miles;
it t welve days.

MILA!CIIOLLY CATASTROPHE —.T. L. a young man of
tho city of Londonderry, paid his addresses to a young womau
of the name of S. a Clergyman's daughter. This unfortunate
young woman had a child by him ten months before. and kept
it nnkno nn in an obscure part of the city. He promised fre-
quently to marry her, but deferred it oa pretence that his cir-
cumstances would improve in a little time. Some person,
however, wrote a private letter to his father, informing him
of the business, which his father, it. is prtsumed, spoke to him
of. After this he treated her with the greatest cruelty, and ac-
cused her of having wrote this letter; which she denied ; but
he, glad of the opportunity of being ofF, paid his addresses to
a Miss S. and was to'be married to her io four or five days.
•To amuse this new lady, he proposed givithor a party of pleasure;
the morning previous to which, the deserted young woman con-
trived to put a quantity of corrosive sublimate into each of the
howls of milk provided before breakfast, not thinking that it
would do more than prevent their evening's amusement. The
young man's brother and sister began to sip, but did not finish
all their milk ; he then came in a heat and drank up his and
w hat they left also. His brother and sister in a little time after
began to vomit. and continued unwell all that day. He returned
front the quay, where he had been, anent twelve o'clock, and
mentioned that he wasextremely unwell, and went to bed ; his
brother and sister got quite well and revived by Sunday ; but
sin Monday evening he was taken worse, and died on Thuriday
morning. Miss S. (w ho lived next door) as soon as she :veer tai tied
his fate, immediately drank an effusion of arsenic; his friends,
who Hereby this time aware of the means by which he Caine to
his death, sent for a Bailiff to take her into eti:tody. The
Bailiff went iu, and fottad her on her bed in much ugonv ; he
told her she must accompany him, in which she acquiesced,
and proceeded with him to the gaol, where she eapirrd on ad-
vancing lam the Hall. She left all her letters behind, and a
long letter to him, which she wrote some days before she took
the ar,enie._ She denied having written the letter to his father.

One port of her letter stated, that he had made an attempt to

destroy the child, by an infusion of opium ; she 'fatal al.u, tit'►t
she herself Neat with an iuteutiuu to poison the child, but could
nut Lind courage to do it.

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ACCIDEATS AXD OFPENCI.:S.
On Tuesday morning, about two o'clock, Collinobourn, one
of the' officers of Union-Hall, having received informatiori that

some persons had been conveyed in a wounded state to a house
in Belvidere-place, St. George's-fields, and that the report of
two pistols had been heard, he immediately went to the house
pointed out to him, and demanded admission : this was refused
by those in the house, and it was not till tie had attempted to
force open the dour, that he was admitted. The officer imme-
diately proceeded up stairs, and in the front room, on the upper
story, he discovered a young gentleman in bed, apparently its
great agony, inconsequence of a wound which tie had received
in the side ; in the back room, on the same floor, was a )(sung
lady in hid also, in a wounded state. Collin hours instantly
sent fur Mr. 'Wagstaff, a surgeon, who examined the wounded
persons. Ii appeared upon inquiry that the gentleman bad paid
his addresses to the lady for about three months; they had been
nut together the preceding evening, awl on their return to his
father's house, in a hacks ey coach, just before the coach reach-
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ed his father's door, he discharged a pistol at his companion, and
a second at himself. The gentleman is the son of Mr. Elliston, of
Belvidere-place, and the lady, a Miss Co!sou, whose friends re-
side iu the Borough. Several persons who had ti knowledge,
oft he transaction were exarninedlon Wednesday at Vnioa-Hall,
araongst whom the following were the principal :
hlulsten, driver of the coach No. 278, stated that he was
called oil' the stand in the Minories, on Monday night last, about
eleven o'clock, by a gentleman and too ladies, who ordered
him to drive to Crooked-lane, where. one of the ladies got
out. The gentleman then desired him to drive to No. 42,
.iu Belvedere-place, and paid him his fare, When he arrived
' within two or three doors of the place he was ordered to,
be was alarmed by the report of a pistol, and almost immediate-
ly after of another, and heard the gentleman exclaim, " Oh,
can you forgive me in your dying moments?" The lady answer-
ed, " Yes, yes, yes." He stopped his horses, and, getting oti
his box, ran to look for a watchman. On his return, he found
the coach empty; and a person informed him that the lady and
Gentleman were in the house, and that no harm was done. In
searching among the straw of the coach afterwards, be bad found
a pair of pistol bags.
Mr. 'Ca` tor, No. 42, Belvidere-plate, was sitting at sup-
per about twelve o'clock on Monday night, when he was
alarmed with the report of two pistols; he ran out to see what
%l as the occasion of it, and perceived a coach standing near the
door with no person on the box ; 'he went up and opened the door,
when by the light of the candle he perceived Mr. Elliston and
Miss Colson, the latter apparently fainting ; he shut too the door
again, and'going to the horses heath, drew the coach close up
to Mr. El'ision's door, and assisted in getting them out of the
coach ; Mr. Ellistou was begging to be forgiven, saying he had
no intention to hurt her; " she answered, yes, yes, I forgive
ymu." Mr. Taylor went for the surgeon, and on• his return, in
searching the coach, he discovered on the back seat aliistail. bul-
let; he saw no appearance of blood, but lierceived the maiks
of powder on the womans•dress.
Mr. Wartair, a surgeon, said he was called on Monday night
to attend town persons at Mr. /Allston's, who were supposed to
be dangerously hurt. He went and found Miss Colson sitting
On the bed, partly undressed. On examining her person, he
found she had received a contused w ouud on the right side, w hick
was very much contused and swelled; her clothes were perforat-
ed in several places, and from their appearance, and the a ppear-
once of the wound, he had no doubt it was inflicted ti ith tire_
arms. Having dressed her wounds, he was desired to atteiat
sir. Litataa ; he found him lyiag oa the bed ; he had a oomai
which appeared to have been ialiicted with a pistol bullet oa
his right side ; the ball struck upon his ribs, just below the
breast, and having fortunately taken a slannting direction, it had
not penetrated the abdomen. The wound was sery much in-
dame(' and swelled ; but the witness did not apprehend any ini-
mediate danger from that cause j from some expressions, boo -
ever, which- fell from Mr. 'Allston, he oats fearful he had taken
something of a poisonous lettere, and after beiag repeatedly •
pressed on the sooject, he acknowledged that findisig the bail had
ii not taken effect, tie bad centrived to swallow a considerable
1! quantity of opium. The witness did not coaceive either of the
1 psirties to be in imminent danger.
TUN E X.% M 1 !ii ATION or Miss COLSON.—Thii young I,af!v
not being yet in a state to be removed from Mr. Islistou's house,
i a Magistrate. attended fheie on Thursday to take her ex am inai i . 1 ga 1
relative to tho injury she received is Lilst in the coach with :NI es
4 Lhattln,
.1110 on Muudas eveniog last. Her statenieut was to the

following eirect :—She ha been acquainted with Air. Llistm)
about three months; for some reason which does not appear;
however, her friends did not approve of the eonoectimi : they
passed the afternoon of Sunday together at a fciend's
,ho6e.
when she took an opportunity to sage,est to him the propriety of
patting an end to their acquaintance, assigning, us a mascot, that
her friends were averse to her receiv;og the addresses of any young
man ; be appeared extremely hurt, arid. remonstrated It ith her
somewhat warmly; before they parted, however, he seemed re-
conciled to her, and she consented logo on the following morning
(Monday) with hint and a female friend, with whore she was
going home that night, to the Tower; he accordingly called for
them on Monday morning, at the house of her friend, in Crooked•
lane' and they went to the Tower, and after wards to the Royal! y
Theatre They passed a very pleasant evening, and on their re-
tort took a coach in the Mimics, and set down her friend in
c rooked-lane as before stated ; when they got into the Borough,
nstead of directing the coachman towards Newington-gate, near
'.s hick l•er friends reside, he ordered him to drive down Virtv-
lane, and on her ohserving that that was not her way home, he
said he wanted to call at his father's; after some pause, he asked
her if she still continued in the same resolution which she had
e ‘ pressed the evcnieg before, of breaking off their acquaintance ?
She answered him in the astir native, and observed, that " as it
was the wink of her friends than the intercourse between them
should cease, the 'miner it was put an cod to the better it would
he for 1)0111 parties." !Its soon after ucutested her to look out
'of the coach and see whereabonts they were. She did se:, aol
N, bast looking out thought she heard a rutting behind her in the
coach; .turning herself round quickly, site saw the pistol iii his
• hand, and, in attempting to take hold of it, it wet)! n9'. She tli.l
pot immediately perceive she was woco.led, and 1 a.most instantly
sifter saw the flash of another pistol, w hich s'le thought he had
pointed at his own head. She soon after discovered she wits
wounded, and told Mr. Eliston, who c xclainud, " then we are
both dead people ;" and called to the coachman to drive to No.
42, his father's house. Ile frequeotly W•gged her forgiveness,
saying he had no intention to hurt her, and she repeatedly as:aired
him she did forgive him. She did not conceive that he had any
Intention to injure her, but thought his determination was to
• destroy himself.
Bete this singular afriir mutt rest till Mr. Elision is sufficient-
ly recovered to allow of his being interrogated. I 1 is recovery,
however, is considered as very doubtful. • •
A Coroner's inquest sat yesterday at Knightsbridge on the
'body of a genteel mail, t) hose name turned out to he Shutter, a
clerk, w ho was found suspended to a tree, in the Park, on Fri-
dav morning. The deceased was owned at the Inquest by his
brother, and it appeared that his ixtravaz:once had made him
nimble to account for mono \ received by virtue of his employ-
ment, which ha I caused a depression on Iris mind, and was
the cause of suicide.

No, 4, Cornbill, and 9, (;haring-cross.—T. BIM begs leave
In remit)d the Public., that the State Lottery begins and flu kbes
Drawim: the TOth of next month ; Wig it is the i)l3i v• !Amen
that will be drawn this ear.—The Scheme is perfectly novel,
highly approved, aol the more it k known the more it i. ad-
mired ; it contains, 4 Prizes of '20,003, 4 or .5,0:10(4 or t.),o:y),
Bof 100, 12 of 500. (Ste.. &c. The whole of which %vitt be
tided in One Day ; therefore a speedy purchase is necessat
while Tickets and Shares may be had in g7eat variety at the
above old established Offices. Persons in the country may be
supplied, the same a, if present, by sending their order., (post
or carriage paid.) accompanied with gotta bills, cash, bank
notes, or post office orders, to either of Iltsu's Offices in
London. No. 4, Cornhill, or 9, Charing-cross.

BIRTH. •
At Melton Mowbray, on •thet 4th inst. Lady Elizabeth Nor-
':Mai of a daughter.
MA RRI ED.
Lint wrek, as Bassenthwaite Hawes, near Keswick, Cu Tiler,
kind, Mr. John Hirherk., to Miss Mary tell, both of that place.
On Thursday, at Cobham, Jasper Vaux. Esq. of Queen Anne.
street West, to Miss Conibe, driest dati.,4hter of Harvey Chris-
tian Cambe, F..41.* of Cobham Park, Alderman, stud M..P. for
the City of London.
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