The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-23 00:00:00

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than the test, by repeated incisions with a knife and
pitchfork, male io the side and stomach, completed the
work of carnage. Finding her no longer capable of ad-
ministering to their horrid pleasures. they preeipitated
the misshapen circa,* into au aiticent river, and molly
inlormed a man who In «I near to it, that there wawa
woman drowning. Ile, pet baps, aware of their charac-
ter, or at least suspecting scamrttriu•!, told them he
would tint open the door.; ►bat if the woman was
drolneslhis asaistatice could be of nu use. They timid
gaititnu anhuitiaticc, and they retired; the'," hands ar•l
ners4nt Iryrirucd wish gore. When they had prw,
the man clone out ;and histnil what to bins appeared to
have once been a himian body,htii so mutilated as scarce
to retain the-semblance. They were arrested. cons tenet,
and received the punishment they ()sestet-el. +oily-eight
bows from die time sentence was passed were allotted
to them. A clergyman of the Roman catholic faith
attended, and we trust his constant minion runt
not bwt. We saw diem launched into eternity Woo:
thousands of spectators, from whom no groan of dissa-
tisfaction proceeded. and the awful solemnity of which'
cannot fail to teach that country a deep, long, 'east.•t.
lint we are fated to proceed in this painful task ; this
following sun beheld two wore pay the debt of nature
;or a crime, equal, if not superior in magnionde, to what
we have related. Singular, melancholy. and &radioti
coiticitletter--otte day, a men dies for ate spinier of a
woman ; the next, a woman dies for the wieder of a
man, and that man her husband I—her assistants, her
panders in sin and guilt, are her father and her /7et/ac, !
A family fend lone exis ed between the unhappy hus-
band and his wile's family, which they determined en
conefut:ing by daring the of of their sangwwry
rage. The husband had been from home, and had
drunk somewhat ton freely. On his retorts his wife
met him, and, Judas like, gave him the fond salittitiriti
of a kiss, drew him into the house; anti coiling her arms
round hint,• seated him iii her lap, whilst he► beosher
beat net his brains. Tile father, we haie heard, was
though reluctant spectator. On the trial every
circumstance was fully proved against the brother and
sister. We need scarcely add they stitf:red fur the deed.

DREADFUL Evrtcia or Ikitoirrsitsnc.—An Ingoisia
tion was taken on Monday. in the Worklunise lit st. Mary.
Kensington, before Thomas Slit ling, Esq. Coroner for the
County of Middle...kr, on the body of.lelin Golder, a child
two years and a half old, whose death was caused by eat-
ing the berriesof night-shade, not knowing them to ue of
a poisonous nature.-11 appeared 'from the evidence or
Hill and Martha Lindsay, both of Janies.street„
Kensington, nest door tieighhours to the parents of the
deceased, Hint they saw the deceased the preceding knorn-
ing 13 _o60:1 health, and that about four o'clock in the slier-
noon lie was at play in the fiebi, in company ',slob hit little
sister, ten years of n;e. and aoiue other children. Thu
deceased cot into the hedge. and began to pick the real
berries of the :debt shade, and shortly after be became In
a state of sielfoeution, from hut tog ate of the berries, as
was stropo.e.l, trent conic of them haying been tumid in his
hands. He•uss carried to the nearest collage, needigul
assistance cent for, and Mr. Nleeriman, Mr. Thompolkm.
and Mr. bemire, came and reentered all the assistance is
their power, but to nn effect g lie sttrsi.cd only abune ar.
hour and three gnu ter., such expired in the Riviiirct
stony.— Henry Georgr. of ekedocion, Siorgeon, depioed.
he 111.1 W t.ie berries; they are airrernie, and be had no
doubt butt Ilie,detesseil died in conseqnr lire of his having
ate the berries of night-shade.—Verdict—•' That the de
ceased came to his death front eating the poison berries of
night...bode, not knowing they were poisonous in their
nature."

With regret we flair the ha- of his 11aje4, 'a ship Erne,
0 it uus, cmit. T. ?sheets, C. 2., v. int tt atisfo,tu, e a.cciirrect
an the night of the 14 of Jure, on a reel' of roa L., uil. the
ble of SA. owo of the Cape de Verd4.strida. She a:l4 on
her punage In tberna4 of Afrw;i. -The accident s. S at.-
ea-boned by mistaking the Seitth fur the Esed end of the late
lif Sat. It blew seer fres% and -In SO minutes Or
shortly afterwards her nutinmwd fell, but fortituntel a ithasic
hurting the yaa I, Which %.:I MS the boon. the
man stand, by a hich, nt day•licht, the boat isas Imam bed,
and tlw wreck, %dea tun! atruck ton •cshtve Irng II front
the share, di ifted to within one Cibia leiiirsh of the Maud,
on a Inch he °dicer/bawl crew, mad a smolt gwadity of pro.
viaivats awl tacesweira, were landed, 11: rise' enuree of 'ha
night thearreek par nit. hut-the crew ateatidy persevering in
tinkling on by the remaino, they wc. e KII saved. The island
Ia inhabited only by about a (Innen adore.; an American
twig hound hi the etian of Putalconta, teok the officer% ion
ere* eg, in a fen days afterwards, and landed them at St.
•laga. where Capt. Salve,' chartered ;t aniad ,chiu,.wr for
Korbadnes, (rota's% Inch :shod they ersibaa 'fed lan tintopint,
awl arrived at Spithead on Saturday.
Ott Friday i.e oniAnt 3 ine;anehoirelreutrisc.nre took.
place. At Mr. afire), Hi' BilX3ll. near Stow..markt t,
W3l riding on the allat of his wagAats into the hatvest
field, the horse* proved restive. and in attimtpting to
jump °tr. he fell down, and the %sped (basing (wet his
hotly, he expired trey
Senn a1i0..? nii:loizial•na Smitt.:y, an alarntinc aceident
oevuried within I 41011 distance oi ('.oleheoi.r.
I list% lei, acd Landon wappits ittililenlyAnok Cm, u is
soposed front lightning; and a woman anal child, who
ai re pdawagera, had jilt& not eon it, and the bored
were starer!). taken out. when Owes• batrels-ofiptiiiiMilitirf
hieW up With a INIllet111(•11, hitt%
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