The National Register.
London, England, 1809-07-23 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS sIXD OFFEXCES.

littlstc It Co qTA stn.—Mr. nird, a jolly, well-fed eonsta-
bit. of the night, for Portsoken Ward, together with a young
man, whose name we could not learn, but who appents to have
been the .aliet of a nobleman, were charge:l by Mr. Nalder,
with d nalerly con-turt in the pariah watch-'.ions;, on the pre-
erediog ni let, n- well contra bones morel, us to the disturbance
of the paroehial iralicleillity. Mr. Nalder cmnplained, that
passing. on tuts du;y titc. ash the Ward, he was informed by some
person, that there w ere fine doings of fiddling; and dancing, gaing
un in the watch-house. Titit'!er he went, and font el the stran-
ger playing on n the Constable tejoved the music, the
batch- «u iu high gin's :tad reah round the door, probably j
prepaciag to exhibit " oat the tight Cantastte toe," the effects of
the waste resounding with such vivacity from an orchestra so
unusal. This outrage upon the solemn gravity of the midnight
huur, upon the decorum of the parish waten-!oomse, ;anal upon
the known and exec!l.l.ir stillness of Portsokett Ward, was not
to be endured. Tae voice of the paris.l szig;htirtgalcs was
drowned in the merry tones, and cauld not be heard in pro-
claiming the hour of the night. The Mr. Constllble Eird Seate4
on hi, (Oficial pereli, anti like the Ward aids presidency, 'U. ti ttic
jj3riaVallo2 was carping in full glee to the lively soot ds of the
cremuna, which roused him front the soneore duthe:ss or his si
tuai ion, like one recovering from the bite of a tarantula. Mr.
Battler, however, commanded EI NCr.! an] insisted on tak ine;
n way the fiddle. This the Constable resisted, and refused te
tetke any charge against the tiddler. further eopeared, that
es was pasting with ti friend, tindee the vs ind ,ws of 1
efreiin cnckanted erivtic!.. in the neizbboarLood, tete or two of I
• . • il 1k „. L •
• /:.• ...ere, ooser.e eg the I.;d.tte in hi.- Liao, ". 01111
plav a tune; and while he was in the act of encradia,be then;
wit .1 soft air, one of the Patro:e came up And look :sill to the I
Wo
ale-houte. 111 r. Constable BIM def.:titled his conduct, by
plow:ire, his iguorance as t a the riaraits duties tilt hk oaiee ; end
'aid, that although Mr. Naider had no taste for mabie, It was
not a,hatned to own that lie licd. He was often told, it was the
pri r liege of the Constable of the Nieht, to have a frieod or t
'with him, and be a little jolty. lie had censtantly heard the
women Of the town singing about the Ward at ail hours of the
right, and Mr. Nalder found no fault ; anal therefore he 51-s no
harm in a little Milt-am:Altai music in the watch-house, nn i had
ealy asked thew-nth-twat to play for hint " of Licer-
filay," hen N Icier came in and disturbed hin.—The mer;is-
trate after commending the vioeilenee of the Alai-shall, and giving
proper admonition to Mr. Bird and the Musician, tlis:ni.ed them.
Bow-Sraurr.—henry Westerman was examined on a charge
of feloniouly hat-marry ing with Eliza nedinaa, hi, foraicr.
*tire Janet being then alive. The propecutrix, veho is a 'ter,
bottag; woman, had been in the service of ::r. Johnson, late of ,
ow-street, Cover-it-garden, fur several years, where she bad
accumulated a small surf of money, when she became acquainted
with the prisoner, who passed for a sia;;ic man, awl who
diately after marrying her plundered her of Ler hard earei.n.;s,
cud then left her to the mortifying discovery of his having; for-
mer wife living. The ptisoner'siir.a marriage Leirg ;roved, and
that his wife was alive at the time the secoad took place, he was
S omnitted for trial.
A ,hocking murder was committed on l'ri!,%y ni;lit at St.
Westir!,;:ter, in the neighbaorhooil of Tothill
fields, by a woman on her hushand. The parties quarrellfal
to hilst iu bed, after each had returned frog) daily labour, and
the s ife sturek a knife in her busbantro hich eaased
.oriost instatitaniota death. The woman %vas ta:ten into eteitmly
end v. ill be exaciiwd after the Coroner's jury has sat on the
body of the (let:tate:l.
A Noting man of the name'of Freer!) shot him3elf throtrli the
bead, in the park, on Tuesday last. lie was found v. stli the
pistol in his halal, with his head tireaantly shattered. A
f,L,r.outr's Jury brou‘ht in a verdict of Lunacy.