The National Register.
London, England, 1821-09-17 00:00:00

LANCASHIRE ASSIZES.

CROWN COURT.

MANSLAUGHTER.—John iiampson, aged Ig, was
• charged with killing James Naylor, at Walton, on the
• 16th of August.
The deceased and the prisoner had quarrelled about a
sovereign, and at last agreed to fight in regular rounds of
pugilism. In the fifth round, the deceased received a
bow on the right of the head, which laid him stunned
on the ground, but he persisted to fight, saying he should
come round again He was at length carried quite ex-
hausted and speechless off the ground, and died in a few
hours afterward. The surgeon had no doubt that death
had been causer' by the external violence applied to the
head. The fighting had been quite fair, and the deceased
had first begun it, and persisted in prolonging it.
Mr. Justice Bayley said, that by law no fighting was
allowed ; and if the blows given by the prisoner caused
the death, he must be found guilty.—Guilty.
The sentence was imprisonment for 14 days
John Robinson, aged 46, was convicted of manslaugh-
ter.—He had allowed his cart to drive on before him,
and in the middle of the street, in Liverpool, the horses
had trampled upon a child of Vo months of age. The
prisoner got the higl.est possible character for steadiness,
sobriety, and humanity ; but AIL Macdonald, the sur-
geon, shewed in the clearest manner that the bruises
given by the horses were the cause of death.
His Lordship expressed great regret at sentencing so
excellent t character to imprisonment for six months.
BURGLARY: Job Ellison, aged 20, was Charged with
having burglariously entered the dwelling-house of Thus.
Sandif,srd, a calico printer, at Tottington-higlier-end, on
the 18th of July, and with having stolen a watch, four
gold rings, four sovereigns, two guineas, a necklace, a
ruby, an amethyst, and other trinkets.
On the night in question, two men, one with a light
in one hand, and a pistol in the other, another with a
large bludgeon in his right hand entered the bed-chamber
of the prosecutor, at half past twelve. They demanded
where 'us property was, and he told theta, and gave them
some keys. They compelled hist' to get out of bed, and
open some desks for them. Upon his getting into tail
again, they fastened his hands to the posts of the bed.
Ohservina. while in the act of dairg so, that he had gold
rings on his fingers, they palled them off. They pro-
ceeded text to Miss Sandiford's rotor.): she •ATered resist-
ance, but was soon overpowered, and such trinkets as
were to be room! in her room were carried away. While
the robbers were thus occiipted, the prosecutor enntrised
to disengage his hands, and to escape out of the house to
alarm the neighbours. The robbers soon discovered
this, and fled. They were pursued, but not taken. The '
prosecutor went afterwards ni Black bona, in order to see
whether he could recognize any of the robbers. The
.prisoner he saw there at his mirk as a sawyer, but in a
light dress. lie was asked if he had a dark coloint d
dress, and was then satisfied that lie was one of the men.
Ile was more convinced no hearing him speak, for one of
the robbers had repeatedly spoken to him. The prisomr
had been seen near the place on the night of the rob-
hem—Godly—Death.
The i.ressecii tor hegged that liis Lordship would reco.'l-
- his: to mercy.

Cur:mu 70 PuttLlcArt,.—A circumstatre lately
occurred in the neiglitants hood of Bethnal-green. which
nay serve as a caution in the landlords of public houses,
not to refuse, under ap,.reheitsions of loss or i•ueonve•
nieuce, their ready assistance in cases where h 'man bie
is endangered by sudden accident. A !nail was taken
nut of the Regent's Canal with enure feeble signs of lite,
and was conv'ey•ed to a public.house in the iseighb mr-
hot.d, the landlfrd of which, ttotwithstandiug the lost
earnest Mire:Hies and ref inslranees, obstinately refused
every accommtalation and assistance, excepting what a
talkie in the (per skittle ground afforded, where the
small remains of vitality iu the unfortunate man beesul•
soon extinct. The landlord was severely eeprimmded
by a .7tagistrate, and was told that his licence htight not
lw renewed. I' is perhaps not stifliciently known that
the Royal Htimatie 1e ciety always rewards landlords and
every other person who lake in a body ler such cir-
cumstances, and pledges itself to indemnity the pat),
atiortiong stub humane assistance against all reasonable
charges for buual, in the event of tirade.

291

EXTRAORDINARY STEAM BOAT.

Union Steam Boat —Tbis boat, the most unique, and
perhaps the most splendid ferry-boat in the country, was
tried or. Saturday, and upon Tuesday began to ply regu-
larly at the ; and, were the piers such as
to admit of her touching theta at all times of nue, there
is no doubt but the intercourse by the ferry would be
rendered hiore frequent, in catisequet.ce of the increased
eta-don and safety of the conveyance.
The Union is a twin-'ioat, composed of two hulls,
each seventy.six feet keel, eleven and a half feet !tette,.
and a eleven and a hall• feet asunder. They are hand-
somely and sithstatitit.ll) built, am, ',tardier,
by !wag fortified with tem.; and the :anal(' atid eaten.
nun do owl: credit to the taste and skill of ..lt. Brown
(of Perth), the 'milder. Tie whole length upon deck
is ninety-two feet, aiiil L' e breadth about thirty-four.—
Thirty-two. feet :1 the one end is left about two feet
!ewer 111.111 the rest of the deck, a•:d railed in for e•tr.
riages and cattle ; and the daors at the middle of this
space are constructed as to serve for platforms in load-
ing and unloading. Twenty-two fret in the centre are
eccupied by the niachinety, an engine ieiug its each
beat, and the paddle-wheel acting in the canal If I..iedi-
ately between. The engines are of 15 rses power
each ; and as they arc connected with the sat•:e wheel,
they act conternooramantsiy. So stoma vdo t 'try work,
that even now, when the parts may be supposed to be
stiff, there is hardly any tremor in the :oat; and, when
the doors which inclose the machinery are slim, there is
very little noise. The paddle-wheel has wooden dams,
and is so divided, that tiniugh each half has ostly eight
floats, the whole acts with the saute smoothness as if it
had sixteen, and yet the power is not diminished.
Notwithstanding the immense size of the boat she
obeys her helm very easily. Tnere are two helm•, each
constructed of a rectangular iron plate, four feet and a
half in the horizontal direction, such three feet and a half
in the perpendicular. The tiller of each is almost ten
feet long, and requires two men to manage it properly.—
The machinery is so constructed as that either end may
go foremost; and thus the boat eau arrive aticl depart
without the tabour or space required for turning round.
The reversing of the notion is effected by reversing the
action of the valves of the engines. These are open, d
and shut by an alternate rod, mined by an eccentric
blotek oil the shaft of the paddle-wheel. "l'his rod acts,
upon a double :ever, fastened to the rockiitg shalt of the
valves; when it acts on the lower end of the lever, the
paddle wheel moves the one way, and wnen it ac:s on
the upper end, the wheel moves the other. The lever
is made broad in the middle, with a fl inge round it,
which retains the stud, oil the alternating rod during the
time that it is chaitaed from the one end to the other.
The rod is raised or lowered by means of a toothed sec-
tor, into which a pinion works. The two pinions are
on the opposite ends of a nal, wind pa,sei tinder the
index table, below which it has a bevel wheel, acted on
by a simila: wheel, connected will, the reversing index.
sly simply turning this Oulu:, tie boat passes in less
than one minute from ••lotion iii one direction to motion
in that directly opposite. The boat • sty be steered by
either hello ; and by working both itel.i.s at the !Wile
time, it :::ay be turned round in a vt•ry small compass.—
Indeed, though the boat t-,ect!,s ".are and unwieldy, yet,
in consequence of the ie.pelling power he Mg in the
centre, it can be turned in a much smaller compas that,
a less boat with two w:.eels. Its c•uuon, too, Militia a
breeze, or across the swell, is moult tn-te steady, as a
good deal of the disagreeable rolling of a two-wheeled
boat at ises from the unequal hold which its wheels take
of the water.

A dreadful fire broke out oil Monday roaming, a lit-
tle after twelve o'clock, in a large five-story house in the
Cowgate, immediately op:x.site to t...e iii-it of the Par-
liament-stairs, Edinburgh. I'he fire originated in an
apartment ou the scrotal floor, and, burning with gre it
fierceness, sotto commulticated to the floors above, and
the one immediitely h.hav, Al out half an Lour alter,
the stair, a wooden one, was cove-taped in flames; but
previous to this, all the iohalastauts, except one
in the third floor, escaped to the street, many of hem
half naked. The faintly which remained consisted of a
man named Batmen!' its, his wife, and three children.
Bannerman hittise.f leapt over o.e whitlow, with acidic!
M his arms, anti est•apiid with sonic ',light hurts; but
Ins wife was less fortunate; .titer tlt.•pl•iug a child front
the window, s!.e le.yed over herself with another in
her aims. 'l''•ey were all tnree tai •n tip alive, awl the
poor woman, who was far olvanced in pregnancy, was
canted to the iiifirmary tt oh one of Ole children, where
they soon after expireil. The oi!ter was taken into a
neeilthouring house, and survived but a few minutes.
Mr. Joseph Phillipson, limner of Algakirk Fen, left
Ilorneastle on his retur•. home nue evening during the
fair, in emnpany wits. three strangers, all on hors. hack.
When they came to a part of the road which is murh
overhung with trees, in the parish or Schrivelshy, one of
them called out, " Purl tap, dmi'l ride so fast ;" another
at the sante moment struck Mr. I'. a violent blow over
the side of the head, which brought him to the ground,
where he remained tor some time u•uscless. When he
recovered !ti•uself he found that his late companions bad
rubbed hint of his pocket-hook, contain' Ile aa, Mr.
Phitlipson is the ;iersoi who was robbed of 4001. on his
return to leak irk frein Boson,

FATAL AI isrAKE.—An unlucky circumstance oc.
cams: un Friday even ng oil Kerry end. In:lend Ilis 3la-
I jtstv's sloop of war iiedwitv tell in with the Harriet revenue
cruiser. Captain Mott stqtposing it 19 be Filitiggier. fired
sevettil shots into her, anti cu.:ft:lt:ell to slit rsi tier a eansitlerehle
time. it was not wail the traits of the Redwing were preparing
to hoard the Harriet. thnt the • tiralte discove:eil. One of
the crew WII4 killed. rle hee., hut very lately toms
t only tit her tirst e u.z:, was furlierl) u flinch
lugger, in whit+ erall tar is rit.4lPH. .11e phial: (1.1,t1111/1A ILe
ca taio of the Redwing in Es I het Iniag a smugglers
having rever bcture :seen het ou ts.ttist. The fisirx was braid
distinctly foe a eolisitientl„e tint, iti...11101.14r fhPre. and
upwarns of 40 shots were Si,ttl, by sei cited cheers
row each veaseJ.

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771 L L.ATE LIQUESTS.

The Coroner's Inquest on Richard 'limey has
delivered its verdict—the proccediogs which led to
the iriplisition, as well iis th i,ecarrerces ai.ring its
continuance, are • sul jccts ;:f e. osidert.tion,
and ay anii-ai.vcrts...lu;srt with att !! possibility
el f.4ivin4 Avl.t re tic derision ought to
t. ithout prejudice cr pr c; rsession.—W,t shall therr-'
fi,re iirtiece," tt kit I fief f the r. ,n-
-duct Gioernr-cr.t the pr• cession to
take the r aite tl•at was lirected;--seeinally, of the
oppositi,o to that rime 101 the l ait * F the pc, ;
thirdly, of the vi.dence on the ',Art the horse
Guards—and fourthly—of the tra"sactionsuooer the
Coroner's I iapiisition.

Flastr—ti/' the condppet f cm, ernment in or-
dorios:.; the Procession to take th” route that was
directed.—lt was well known that t.tt immense
number of persons of respectabilit.t, residing in
and around the metropolis, eterc anxious to pay
the last respect to the rievnory or their lamente.l
Queen, ly Her mpanyin:z her remains or the road.
A meeting ttf the Corporation of L-ntion had iren
held in which it was resolved that the Civic Body
(certainly the first in it»portance, wealth, and infhr-
mation in the world) should thrto an escort d'honneur
to the melancholy profession, from Temple-liar to
the opposite confines of the City—and yet Ministers
in total contempt of these wishes and resolutions--
wantonly to oppose the wishes of the pc 'l,le--tii-
rectet: that tic funeral should he skulke ' to thc.
coast, by a road peculiar only for its circuity :and
privacy. The ”tinisterial papers, in jostifieatit 0,
of the arrangement, rod in their ;:ttmhtment to
rights say " The Queen was the wife of
King, and every husband has t right t" rerol-
late the funeral of his wife,"—the styhistry of th.t
proposition needs not to I,e pointed out. The King,
as a King, can do no wrong—his linisters, cs his
advisers, •Ite accountable for all his errors—The King,
tot a men, had no claim to _try right over Iris wifi_,
living or dead—he had acted least of any thing as
a hushantl—he had in ohedience to his " inclinations"
driven her from i is bosom and her home—he had
torn from her her only daughter, and prevented
every intercourse with her—he hail It:ore than tacitly
approved the conduct of those who bud calumniate I
and falsely accused her, and he had enlivened with
the sunshine of his peculiar favour only those who
continued to persecute her ; anti these very glen
presumed to secure, in the last instance, their cha-
racter for consistency at the price of illegality, by
opposing the intentions and wishes of the people and
of her executors, regularly appointed by her last will
—a will made in the Irtuu,etrt of anativa, ticserticn,
pain, and tribulation—a will sanctified by her Chris-
tian forgiveness of all her enemies, even the very
persons of whom she so truly and so emphatically
declared, "Anti now at last they have destroyed rot.."
Sr coNDLY--(y' the opimition to the intended route
on the part of the People—For lrr pull est vox DI
the people generally judge correctly—the people
knew that the intended route was unjustifiable on
every ground of propriety, and the people (while
the principle of resistance to power if improperl;
exercisA, is recognized by the l evohuiurt, which
ilaced the present faintly on the Throne), Avill
praise for their successful exertion l'r pt.:vent
the contemplated outrage.

I HI liDl.le-Qf the violence of the llueNe Guards.
—The verdict of one Jury has declared this vi•denee
to be Moaomi; the verdict of the other has softened
it down to MANSL ; and I y the evidence of
the soldiers themselves, a limit. unnecessary sacrifice
of human lite has seldom been reeordel, One Life
Gllal4smati says, " We told the pecple to 6et out
of the way : they would net o'.,cy us, and we were
forced to cut away at theta." We should le very
glad to find out by what /am they were justified in
thus " cutting away." The Constitution, at the
very worst of periods—at those times the most no-
torious for the attempts ut inroad on the liberties
of the people— has Leo must j,:alous of the intro-