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

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The great tunnel through the !oily hill called itatiNiqe, over
which the high road passes from II udderstHil, in Yorkshire, to
Manchester, and t: hicii forms one of tbe great chain of hills
that separate; the counties of "York :1114 Lanca,ter, is at length
cote pletcd. It k several years since this great work of human
labour awl ingenuity I, whirlt forms the third line of water cora-
y Well ileie tr. 0 great mantiracttiring coontied tre
now coniwc.tei!) was begun ; it has been inure than once ar-
,-eted in it 3 progress, arid indeed almost abandoned, portly froin
i;ecuniary exhaustion, and partly from the great difficulty of
the iintlertakine,, nri•ing from the extraordinary depth of the
cloud beneath the surface, the great quantity of water which
cquired to he drawn ow, and the looseness of some part of the
,tri.ta through which it passed. It is, in truth, a stare**
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In the town of Ulverston there is a dog, which has been
taaght the manual exercise, which he goes through with the
.;reatest pr .mptness. His manceuvres are performed with a
set.ill hazel rod instead of a musket.
tl shocking Murder was committed on Tuesday night, on tug
road leading from the village of Pepper, New Forest, Heats,
to Goring, by two fellows, on the body of a Smuggler, Who
was conveying some property in a tilted cart, in company With
a little girl. his daughter. The ruffians demanded the mates
money, but having a quantity of guineas about him to convey
to Portsmouth, he refused compliance with the robbers request,
when they beat him with bludgeous until he was deprived of
life, and got at his property, leaving the little girl bound in the
cart, and after taking off the horses and turning them loose ow
the Common, the villains decamped.
At the Staffordshire Quarter sessions, a poor girl, who wan.
deaf and dumb, in swearing her child, afforded the Court con-
siderable amusement. She contrived to make herself understood
by signs. After two hours elaborate disquisition, during which
the Bench divided in opinion, the man was discharged.
On Monday last, as Mr. Pierce Walsh was takiuga walk on
the banks of the Isis. near Abingdon, where he was engaged to
dinner, lie fell into the river, and for want of timely assistance.'
was unfortunately drowned. Mr Walsh was Solicitor for Ox-
ford, and by his conduct desersed;y dined the good will of his
fellow citizens. An inqui-sition was taken by the Coroner, on.
Thu rslay. Verdict —Aceidodal Death.
On Sunday se'nnight a nian was committed to LEW.; prison,
for stealing hats from the Old Methodist Meeting during the
morning service ; and ano thcr person was committed for disturb.-
log the congregati.in at Holbeck Chapel, during service.
A w rot; V t fo ts.- --Oa Sunday se'noight, Edward K
or Kit, a carman of Trutt), as he was proceeding up 1304mi0,
street, to a snot on which he had appointed to light a man whet
had affronted him, in a, paroxysm of rage, fell down, and in-
stonily expired. Coroner's verdict-- Vhilation of God.

SURREY QtrdßTEll SESSIO,VS.

Susanna linskison was indicted by the parish of St. Jithrt's,,
Bermondsey, for an imposition on the Keeper of the Work-
house of that Parish, by falsely alleging herself to be iu t stale
of pregnancy.—lt appeared that the prisoner was a professed
pauper, and was perfectly conversant with all the stage trick..
so necessarY to render her profession alvantageous and produr-
live. Amongst Cie most eminent of her performances, was tin
of assuming all the anguish MibCry of a woman in the p:ini;f.
of labour, in which, it was allowed on all hands, she proved at,
excellent actress, and often gleaned a most plentiful benefit, b.,
her ability in a heart-rending display, from the credulity of
humane perions commiserating her situation. In the charge now
exhibited against her, it was stated, that in the month of 11lay
last she was provide/Wang seized w ith the pains of Labour in
College,treet, and was reaping all the benefits A% hich providence
pound in on her from the hands of the charitable. when one.
more humane than the rest procured a hackney coach to convey
her to the workhouse, in order that she rei,,et obtain the requi-
site assistance her state reqvired. Wi;11 the aid of some females
she was conveyed to St. John's Workhouse, w here even. attenos
tion was paid to her, and ti here an old Fdy named Shuff/65ettant, '-
the nurse of the house, prepared to rr der her every nrces-nry
aid, and by the obstetric skill of their v orthy :taster, the pntient !as-
was happily delivered of a combersoter ors -cleat, %Ilia wabffi.
very ingeniously moulded into such a fort) as w .s hest .
to deceive the unwary. She was ch,,r.l after v
well, and wits preparing to take her depa. arc, hen the