The National Register.
London, England, 1821-05-06 00:00:00

PEMBROSESHIRE GREAT SESSIONS.

MURDER.—William Roblin, a small farmer about
three miles from Haverfordwest, and who also keys an
alehouse, was indicted at these sessions for the wilful
murder of William Davis, a young man who formerly
lived with him a servant, but who left his place in con- •
sequence of the bad habits of the prisoner, and his fre-
quently ill using and heating his wife. In the month of
Sptember last, on a Saturday evening, the deceased and
his new employer was returning (win their work, and
overtook Roblin on the road, neat his own house, when
a violent quarrel arose !between the prisoner and the de-
ceased, which continued some time, and at length ter.
urinated in the former procuring a pistol from his own
house, with which he shot Davies thronab the head,
who died of the wound about three weeks afterwards.—
The facts appeared so clear against the prisoner, that the
jury pronounced him guilty, and the learned judge, after
an affectionate address, sentenced him to suffer death, on
Monday the 23d ult. and that his body should be dis-
sected and anatomised. The awful sentence of the law
accordingly took place on the above morning. He re-
ceived the sacrament from the hands of the Rev. J.
Thomas, the ordinary, and appeared to be devout. He
then shook hands with Mr. 'lllolllas, several other mi-
nisters, and all present. Ott the drop he was asked if
he had any thing to say, to which he replied, " No, I
have nothing to say—but Lord Jest), receive my soul !
save me a miserable sinner!" Just bettor the fatal mo-
ment, he was warned that he had but live minutes to
live, and if he had any thing to say u, utter it. " No;
I have nothing—l suNaise you WAIL me to witless
murders of which lam not guilty' Anil he continued
praying, " Lord Jesus receive my spirit," until he was
launched into eternity.

Great Performance —A horse belonging to Mr. Rich,
hatter, in Iliiloton, W:l3 backed to gallop rules 111 an
hour, on NVednesday, liir 100 guineas. The ground on
which the performance took place was front the eleven
mile stone turough Croydon to the eighteen ntilc stone.
The rider, a boy, was thrown, and the horse weut nearly
a mile beyond the boontlaiies; but the boy, unman,
mounted again, and completed tire Match, rilmtit INC airy-
three males, an fon; minutes and a 11.11 f %%itillil the given
tune. The horse was much distressed.

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THI INDIAN BAT, OA Voserems.--Captoin SW.
man was, while in Surinam, attacked during his sleep
by some of these animals and as his account of this
incident is somewhat singular, and tends to elucidate
the fact, we shall extract it from his own language from
his narrative. " I cannot here (says he) forbear relating
a singular circumstance respecting myself, viz.—that on
waking one morning 31/1111 four o'clock, in wy ham-
mock, I was extremely alarmed at finding myself wel-
tering in congealed blood, anal without feeling any pain
whatever. Having started up and rung for the surgeon.
with a firebrand in one hand, and all over besmeared
with gore;_ to which, if added my pale face, short hair,
and tattered apparel, lie might well ask the question
' Be thou. • damned—

a'aiiirit of health: of goblin
Bring'st with thee airs of heaven, or blasts from bell P
" The mystery, however, was, that I had been bitters
by the Vampyre, or spectre of Guinea, which is also •
called the flying dog of New Spain, and by the Spaniards
perrovolador ; this is no other than a bat of a mon-
strous size, that sucks the blood from men and
cattle while they are fast asleep, even sometimes till they
die; and as the manner in which they proceed is truly
wonderfill, I shall endeavour to give a distinct account
of it. Knowing by instinct that the person they intend •
to attack is in aso I slumber, they generally alight
near the feet, where, while the creature continues fan-
ning with hi, enormous wings, which keeps one cool, .
he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very
small indeed, that the head of a pin .could scarcely be
received into the wound, which is consequently not.
painful ; yet through this orifice he continues to suck
the blood until he is obliged to disgorge. He then begins
again t and then continues sucking and disgorging till
he is scarcely able to fly ; and the sufferer hat often
been known to sleep from time to eternity. Cattle
they generally bite in the ear, but always in places
where the blood flows spontaneously. Having applied
tobacco ashes as the best remedy, and washed the gore
from myself and my hammock, I observed several small '
heaps of congealed blood all around the place where I •
had lain, upon the ground ; on examining which, the
surgeon judged at least that I hadlost at least 12 or 14
ounces during the night.
MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT.—Little fM
mains fur report during the present season, hut a repe-
tition of our great, even super-abundance, its- unison
with our want and misery. In the olden time, defici-
ency or waste, made woeful want; at the present mo-
mentous crisis, a plethora of all the good and fat things
of lite has induced galloping consumptiots in the most
vital and important parts of the body politic. Our state •
physicians, and sundry consultations and,feelings of the
public pulse, however they may disagree on the causes
of the disease, and the peculiar importance of the symp-
toms, seem sufficiently unanimous in the nnlTpractica-
ble remedy—sending the patient to Bath, the English of
which every one is able to construe. The weather has •
been variable during the present month, hut. its present
mildness and warmth, after the rains, will doubtless
have a sudden effect on vegetation, which has not hitherto
beet. forwarded: 'The late sown and thin wheats begin,
to cover the ground, and to put on a luxuriant appear-
ance. The pulse and Lent corn crops in the early dis-
tricts make a good show, and the seed season will soon
be finished in the north. All the operations of husbandry
are remarkably torward, more particularly, the distreu
of the times considered. Should the warm weather •
continue, the grass crop will be general and abundant,
Both fat and lean cattle, front the vast stocks; are at..
moderate prices, and the country is amply supplied with
Irian pigs, pork and bacon. Valuable horses, always •
scarce, are at great prices. Long wool is its request...-
Hops are in great plenty, and a new crop coming- for-
ward. The weather has lately been more favourable
for seeds and artificial grasses. The lambing season has
been peculiarly successful.
Duel.—A fleeting took place eaey on Monday
morning, in the fields between Kilburn and Lord's
Cricket-ground. The parties were Mr. 9—, a mesh- -
cal man, and Me. B.—, a gentleman of fortune.—
After exchanging two shots each, the seconds interfered, .
and put an end to the affair. Mr. D— sustained a
slight injury in the wrist.
About nine o'clock on Sunday morning, a young mon••
about 24 years of age, having the appearance of a trades- •
man, was observed walking in a melancholy manner by
the side of the Regent's Canal, near the City-road ; his
manlier attracted the attention of several persons; at
length he j ped in, but was fortunately rescued from
his perilous situation, and taken to a neighbouring public
house, whine every attention was paid to him, his
clothes dried, and he departed apparently reconciled its
mind; hut instead of returning homewards, he went
again to the same spot, and co gto the edge of the
canal, with a knife he cut his throat from ear to ear, and
fell head foremost into the water, whence he was taken •
shortly after lifeless.
The servants of Mr. Stephenson, of Cold Harbour,
near Beverley, haying occasion to take some sulphur •
and cream of tartar, a few eveninas ago, a parcel was
produced which was supposed to contain the misusage,
and two of the men who preferred the medicine in milk
took the prescribed quantity. Not being able to find any
treacle it. the house the other servants were prevented at
that time from partaking; and a person coming into the
kitchen a few minutes afterwards, found the word
" Poison," in large letters, on the envelope of the sup-
posed mixture, which proved to be arsenic. Medical
aid was immediately procured ; but in spite of every ex-
ertion one poor man died within tell hours ; the other
is expected to recover. Had it not beets for the want
of treacle, several more persons would have panai eta,
and the consequences, would still be more foal.
NVednestlay morning, Joseph 9.iy, a Waterman, be.
longing to Vauxhall stairs, was thserort.rcil dead in his
boat, floating with the tide abase Weitimnsier-btidge,
with his head hanging over the side of the wherry. Is
was at first snooker:et! by the passing waientien, that he
was drinking water; but tin closer ro-pection, found the
deceased a corpse. The bo.iy war, instantly conveyed to
the workhouse, v..ltere medical ara..s.lllCe was ailinittiaa
6 red for two hours wo.t.out ripest.

IMPRESSED with n just •snd humane sense of
the calamitous results arising from the injudicious treatment of
a certain malady, and often entailing on its unhappy victim a
series of distressing and almost insupportable afflictions, Dr.
EADY respectfully calls the attention of those interested, to his
peculiar and most effectual method of cure, unlike the advertising
em etc of the day, or the equally criminal conduct of those "wko
hold the promise to the CAT, and break it to our hope." Dr.
EADY will not presume to pledge infallibility in every description
of case, but as far as human aid, assisted by medical and surgical
skill can be applied, he promises a ccuran, speedy, and perma-
nent restoration; having made every species of Syphilitic
affection and its venous titan of diseases the primary objects sf
Lis professional studies, and being nattered by the transcendent
success which has accompanied hie mode of treatment during the
course of a long and laborious practice, he is enabled to offer,
with the fullest confidence, pretensions at once the most hopeful
and encouraging. Innumerable instances can be adduced
Wu:tredve of the superiority of Dr. EATIY'S system, which has
been found to
.prevail, even where eminent talent, retained by
public institutions, has proved ineffectual. In addition to those
consolatory advances, Dr. tany will be found equally fortunate
in reviving the slumbering and debilitated energies of the human
constittitisin which embitter, and if not timely aniseed, fie-
queerly render tinge ory the very principal of existence. From
eig; th,Adatiz.z state of inanity by re-autmating the frame and
idliirding tone anti elasticity to the 'claim' organs. Dr. E.tny is
happy to convey the most cheering and poiuve a..stuauces that
the sufferers of both se'e' may be re..eued ; a stesdy perseverance
•in the means dictated being only rcquired.—Da LADY is con-
sulted daily, at his house, Dean Su.-et, Suitt', by patients of
boding*, Country letu.ts meet respectful attention.
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fr, No. 36, Dean Street, Soho, is a Private House, opposite
Mead's &red; one end of Dean Street leads into Gerrard street,
swirly u poeita the General Twopenny PostOflice, and the other
into Ux.ord stnille.—ekthice gratis to the poor.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

ALL IN ONE DAY,
11th of THIS MONTH, (MAY.)
TWO PRIZES of £21,000
And 100 Extra Chances for
TWO PRIZES of 220,200
Besides 4,005 other Prises.
SURE TO BE DRAWN 17th MAY.
Uncommonly CHEAP PRICES for the above splendid
Advantages, 17th MAY:
TICKET Chance £l4 14 01 6
1 QUARTER Chance& 17 0
HALF
SIXTEENTH TWEN Y SHILLINGS ONLY!
C3' No Classes I—Every Ticket put in the Wheel, each to be
drawn singly, each dividing its own Fate. and no other.
No reserve of Tickets! No suspense! Every Ticket or Share
purchased on or before 17th MAY, is sure to be decided that
Day, when ALL the £31,000 Prizes, and all the 4,003 Capital
and other Prizes, MUST BE DRAWN.
Tickets and Shares fir the 17th MAY only, are selling by
J. and J. SIVEWRIGIIT,
Contractors, 37, Comhill ; 11. Holborn; and 38, Haymarket;
where they sold in the Two last Contracts. ALL the £20,000
Prizes! also, 4,033, (Class B) £90,000 ! and by all their Agent
in the Country.—Schemes, with full particulars, gratis.

Frr or JRALOU sY.—Between eight and nine o'clock
on Tuesday night in Princes-place, White Hart-row,
Kennington, were thrown into great alarm, by hearing
screams from a house inhabited by a person named
Hawes, in that place. A crowd collected round the
door, and the noise continuing within, and nobody
coming to answer the repeated knocking at the door,
the people broke it open, and, on entering the parlour,
found Mrs. Hawes sitting in a chair, apparently lifeless,
and bleeding profusely from the head and neck.—
Hawes, her husband, was standing near her, and leaning
against the closet door. At his feet lay the stock and
barrel of a blunderbuss, which appeared to be separated
front violence. The first step taken was to procure as-
sistance fur the unfortunate woman, and Doctors Green
and Pratt were immediately sent for. They soon arrived,
and on examination found her head bruised and beaten,
and her neck also injured. They gave their opinion,
that the wounds were dangerous, but yet that, there
being no fracture, she might by care and quietness
recover. The poor woman, on recovering from her
ineensibility, stated, that her husband followed her into
the parlour, snatched the blunderbuss from the chimney-
piece, levelled it at her, and pulled the trigger, which
burnt the priming merely. She then described that he
locked the door, and beat her in the manner in which
she was discovered. al examining the barrel of the blun-
derbuss it was found loaded three inches deep.—Dawes
is superintendant of the watchmen its this quarter, and
has occasion to carry arms. Hawes was on Friday
morning lodged in the watch-house, and in the course of
the day brought to Union Hall, where, after undergoing
examination, he was committed by Mr. Evance, the
magistrate., until the state of the woman's danger can be
more accurately ascertained. Jealousy, it is said, was
the cause of the above violence. The man's general
character is that of a quiet and sober person.
On Thursday an inquisition was held at the Prince
of Wales public house, Kensington Gore, before Mr.
Higgs, coroner, on the body of s female child, found
in a coffin, in Gore-lane, on Tuesday last.—R. Ayres,
a lad aged .13 years deposed, he was playing with other
boys in Gore-lane, about t i o'clock on Tuesday morn-
ing, when his attention was attracted by observing a deal
coffin under an archway ; he and the other boys took it
out into Kensingstm parish, where they opened it. and
found it contained a child, bleeding profusely from the
back part of the head, which seemed to be broken In.—
At this moment the beadle, Mr. Collinett, came up, and
on being informed of the circumstance, nha told them to
take it back to the place where it was found, and to ap•
prise one of the constables of St. George's, in which
pari•hit was found. Witness did so, and lie soon
arrived and took it away. Witness did not know who
brought the child there. Some sawdust, flannel, and
wool were found in the coffin, and the child had a cap
on. The coroner enquired if any medical gentleman
had seen the body of the deceased child. Several of the
jury replied, that Mr. Oat is, the surgeon. had examined
it, and he was firmly of opinion it was born sine, and
no doubt its death was occasioned by the fracture of the
back pan of the head. He came to give evidence of
this, but Wita sent for to attend a patient. Mrs. Mary
Ayres deposed, she saw the child when brought into the
lane, and the main ol.enell. She examined it, and
found it bleeding very !resit from the back part of the
head, winch was beaten in—she observed the skin had
been torn from both the breasts and back of the hands.
The jury having deliberated fur some time, returned a
verdict—" That the deceased esti% found dead, with se-
veral severe marks of violencet but how its death was
occasioned there Was no proof before them."
In the night between the td and 3d inst, a thunder
storm burst over the church of St. Giles's, near Great
Torrington, which rent the lower on the water side from
top to bottom. 'Toe four pinnacles were knocked to
pieces; one of the stones, weighing 33Ibs. having been
picked up a field at some distance. The clock was
materially nljnrcd t the hand struck off; the belfry wits-
-110..vr the clock slue cud to a,orris' and the two
svest.end windows of the church much damaged ; the
bolt of the dour leading to the singing gallery was bent
double, and the ponds of the dune burst. The body
of the church escaped injury. The house of Mr 'I.
Cock was perforated through the roof by stories thrown
from the tower,thc window destroyed and another broken
—the damage is very considerable.
A fire lately broke out in a house in Penh, winch was
got under so quietly as namely in have been heard of,
it was accompanied by circumstances worthy of being
made public. Tne lady of the house going to a Indiana'
found the clothes in Haines. With singular presence of
mind she caught her child up, rail into the next rem.
where the rest of the children were, and carried them all
out of the house into an adjoining garden. With the
assistance of the maid, the only person in the house or
within Mitring, they wetted a carpet, which they threw
over the bed and extinguished the Haines. Th. the Intl
destroyed the wi idow, and was just corumuuicating
wtih the fluor, wino it was got under.

LONDON FASHIONS:
EXCUSE, CARRIAr:V. Dnass.—High dress de
Naples. of pale cerulean blue, with two rows of bread silk
fringe at the border; each headed by a roleau of white
satin. Mancberons forming a boerrelet, divided by white
satin. Mancberons forming a bounties, divided by white
satin; tripple Castile ruff of Bunnell; or Urliog's lace.—.
Bonnet of cerulean blue satin, lined with white, and Bur.
amounted by a fell plume of white ostrich feathers. Ridicule
of white satin, with blue and gold ornaments and chain...-
Slippers of Mee Oros•de.Naples ; white kid gloves.
FRICIICII PUBLIC PROIMADS DRESS.—Grey timeline
pelisse, trimmed down the front, round the border, and at
the manclicrons, with distinct full puffiags of the same colour
and material. The pelisse left open in front of the bust.—.
Marguerite coloured satin bonnet, edged with short white
marabouts ; and the bow of satin on the bonnet fastened
with two rows of pearls. Plain fichii of fine Indian muslin
worn under the pelisse ; slippers of grey kid; ridicule of
small beads beautifully wrought together, and lemon coloured
gloves.

Zutbs.
Mrs. W. Bell, of Aldersgate utreel, of a daughter.
Al Dulwich, the lady of I. I'. Mospratt, esq. of a son.
At Clapham rise, the lady of A. Goldsmid, es+ of a daughter.
At Manifold hill, Mrs. A. Beton, of a son.
At Versailles, the lady of Lleat.•gen. Fuller, of a daughter.
Mrs. I. Slegg, of Bernard street, Hansen square, of a son.
At Eaton street, Grosvenor place, the lady at Capt..). A. Willows.
of the Madras army, of a daughter.
At Kennington, the lady of Mr. rhos. Parratt, of the Castorn.isosse,
London, of a daughter.

D. Sutton, Jan. eaq. of Kensington, to Margaret, daughter of the late
T. Rogers, cwt. of Dement a.
Al St. Peel's, Covent modem, Edward, third son of W. Layton, mg.
of Woodhouse, Ely, to Mary Amelia daughter of the late C. Miller,
esq. formerly of Fort Marlborough,emicoulen.
At st.l'ancrss, W.Wilkes, esq. of Gray's inn square, to bliss Walker,
of Enstmi square.
At Stoke Newington, I. Blacken, junior, esq. of Newington, to
Martha. youngest daughter of the late Henry Allison, esq. of High
Wycomb.
At St. George's, Hanover square, Majnr A. Robson, 19th regiment,
to Eliza, relict of the !Me T. C. Prattle, esq. of Carlton, China.
Same place, Sit—Charles Gray, one of the judges of the supreme
court at Madras, to Elisabeth, second daughter of Sir S. C. Jurvoise,
ban. of Insworth park, Hants.
Mr. J. It. Robins, of Gower street, Redford square. to Sophia,
daughter of J. Aldridge, esq. of Golder's ball. Hampstead.
At Richmond, C. J. Monkhouse, esq. of Craven street, solicitor, to
Amelia Maria, only daughter of the late Rev. It. Sf.lafsse, of this
former place.

nin.
At his seat, Belle Vue, near Southampton, on bfonday the &Ph alt.
Sir Richard Rodney Ittigh, G.C.B. Admiral of the Red Squadron of
his Majesty's Fleet, &c. &c. aged 94.
At Margate wall, Derby sbirc.T. Swann, esq. late of New Basinghall
street.
At his house In Southampton street, Camden town, Mr. J. Patrick,
aged 68.
At her house, In Vpper Brook street, Grosvenor square, in the 86th
year of her age, the light lion. Lady Juliana Dawkins.
In Percy stud, aged 81, Mrs. Denby, wife of Col. Denby, and
sister to Mr. Bent, of l'aterooster row.
At Battersea, John Hodgson, esq. age. 80, many years malt distiller
of the seine place.
At thorncroft, near Leatherbsad, Mary, oldest daughter of James
Stirling, esq.
At her house, In Salisbury square, Mrs. Elizabeth Pritchard, in Ma
Ilith year of her age.
On Monday last, at the advanced age of 01 years, the Marquis of
Drogheda. From the death of his noble fattier, who died is 1768, he
inherited the titles of Earl of Di oghede, Viacouut Mouse, baron
Meßenoit in Ireland; and was himself created a Marquis of Ireland.
in 1791, awl a Baron of Great Britain in 1901. Ile was also 4 Knight
of at. Patrick. He is succeeded In his titles by his son, Chat lea Vis
coast Moore, now Marquis of Drogheda. The deceased was the oldest
General in the service, imp Colonel of the 18th Dragoons.
At Limon grove, Mrs. Peyton, widow of the late W. Peyton, cp.
Mr. A. Finch; late of Mlle end, aged 61.
At Merton, Surrey, in his 78th year, Mr. J. Newton, late of Merton
abbey, Silica printer.
daughter of Mr; Sanger, of Oxford street, aged I.
At liornsey,'lhomas, eldest son of the late J. Whitehead, e.t. at
Banksitle,nouthwark. aged 96.
In montage place, Russell square, aged Me, T. Wbtie, esq. clerk of
the Inner and Upper Treasury of the Cowl of Kitig's Bench.