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

THE NATIONAL REGISTER,

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parish .of Ripnw, .aod diocese of Yolk, against the Rev.
William Newton, clerk, curate.of the perpetual curacy of !
l'att ley-brAge siforesai.t, for his protfigote life and conver
satioo, the crime of druukeuuess, and De.let ant
c aunts-
lei ial -duties.
The defendant bad hero upwards of thirty years curate of
aiist him slate,
l'ateley-bridge, and the articles admitted ag
that he hail, for several yeats past, been adiiii ted to 'roe.,
habitual, and excessivealruolkentiess had, fat diverse times.
been drunk a hile performing Di. Me sci vice in the chapel
or raiderhpidge-1.4, iii 1:". ,air chapel. and c ea here, I
uttered Mae, eat, impious, profane expressions—and had
also at sundry itinies refused to perform the duty below:elm(
to the curacy WI. I, required. Ihe articles weir
of fu
the
lly
provedhy many respectable a itnessce,, inhabitants
cnapelry, , and others. No defence was aered.
The Archbishop addicssed the Court in a short hut clo.
quei,t spei cli, w ith great energy and feeling, and concluded
• by 1 rininuocing and declaring the said William N ccsom to
be altogether unfit sod um% orthy to serve the said perviiii,l
curacy of Morley. • brid;:e 4. and for his crimes and Wieners
aforesaid, decreeing him to b. deprived of the said curacy :
.. and the same, with respei t to the cod W Ohtani Neeso
) b. votloat to all intents and purposes in law a ItalsoeNcrm., to

CANIBRILKIESHIIIE ASSIZES.

These Acsizes commenced on Tuesday, before Chief Justice
Dallas and Justice Burrough.
Thomas Weems, was indicted for the wilful murder of Mary
Ann Weems, his wife. on Friday. the 7th of May last, in the
parish of Wendy, in this county. The particulars of the horrid
deed for which this prisoner was vita, sec detailed fully at the

time,
About a year and a half ago tile decea.al swore a child to him,
upon a hieh he was apprehended by the parish officers, and com-
pelled to nitury her ; Weems left his wife immediately after, and
got work at Edmonton, where he became acquainted with a girl
to whom he promised marriage, and to enable himself to fulfil- it,
he reeolvcd to get rid of his wife; accordingly he returned to
Gadnianchester, and 1 i,der pretence of taking his wife to live with
him, they set of fir Edmonton ; hut on tie road lioni Wendy
to Itoystoa, he tn.'k her iii,. a tired :MI murdered her.—The wit.
ncsses having deposed to the chief htci the following voluntary
confession. which wit, made by the pli.oLer while in gaol, was
put in and read.:—
! After I had been at work with Mr. Atnirews about a month,
I got acquainted with a you.ig woman. named Maria Woodward.
I represented myself as a single titan. After being acquainted
with her I determieed to marry her, and to murder my wile. I
first thought of cutting her throat. In three or four days I
chanted my mind, and tletennined to hart; her.—This day week
(the Nlanday piece lia' tile murder) I Lit Edmonton for God-
tranehester.—On the. Friday morning I left Godmanchester with
my wife for Edmonton. about .s or 6 o'clock. After walking four.
teen or fifteen mike, she complained of being tired. I asked her
1 if she had not sonic toast in her pocket. which :he did not eat for
breakfast, and she said she had some. I said to her, if you will
\go in the Yield and sit &en and tart the toast, I will take a nap
till the coach _comes up. We sat down together, and she begun
to eat the toast. Soon at' er she began to eat the toast, I clasped
sly fiends round her neck, and said. t' now I tun going to be the
death of you." I clasped toy hands round her neck, and stuck
my two thumbs into her windpipe. She said, 't Oh, Lord l"
and that wal all the noise she made ; and I pressed her with my
thumbs till she sets dead, which was in` bout five mitiutes. I
then took the garter off her leg, and ti it round her neck ; I
then put her into a ditch, or 111011'2 like a drain, put some grass
over her, and then left her. 1 then intended to go to Edmonton,
and go to the clerk of the parish to put the banns in, and be mar-
ried. '—The prisoner. being asked it' lie had any thing to te.y to
the Jury. stated the bud terms on which his wife and liim:ell had
lived; that she swore herself pregnant by him, but never was
so ; that she had rubbed bha of money, and also of his wat di,
to give to another man whom she was acquainted with, and that
he cauld not live with her. That he gut acquainted with the
young woman at Edmonton, and a idled to n awry her ; but he
kncw he could not whilst the other wife was living. It then came
into his head. and-he determined to murder her.—'Tie Jury found
the prisoner Guilty, and he was ordered to be executed on Friday
-enuig.—The prisoner was in tears during the whole trial.

A French Paper asserts, which is not remarkable
for its accuracy, that at a late entertainment given
by the Prince Regent, there was a plate of peaches
that ,cast--filly guil, PIS
According to letters from Paris, the Duc de It icle-
lieu is about to take up his residence at Odessa, the
place of akutich he fortnerly was Governor, and
which is partly indebted to hint for its prese state
of prosperity. He has written to the superint ntend
ant of one of his estates there, to pretare every thing
for his reception. By private letters from Liver-
pool it appears, that the trade of that port is assum-
ing considerable activity: more than eO,OOO -bales
of cotton were sold in the course.of last week, and
ut an advance of .I d. to I 4d. the pound.
We understand that the Russian frigate Karns-
cbatka, commanded by Captain Golovnin. which
sailed from Portsmouth •in the month of October,
Isl 7, for the pnrpose of making discoveries in the
North Nellie Ocean, is on her return to Europe,
and may sbortly be expected to arrive at Spithead.
A correspondent informs us, that a turkey-cock
at Auchincruive, having lately shown an ardentbu de-
sire for hatching, was repeatedly prevented ; tat
length succeeded in securing hen's nest, contain-
ing a dozen of eggs ; and being allowed to remain
in peaceful possession, brought out four chickens,
the rest of the eggs, as is supposed, having been
bad. Ile was most attentive to the duty he had
taken upon hint when hatching, and afterwards
evinced the strongest attachment to his young pro-
geny, and on their being cruelly taken from him
became extremely de;ccted. Sham that period .his
spirits have rather revived ; and as he still shows.all
the desire in the world to be busily employed in
his
favourite pursuit, it is hoped be will not only be
gratified, Lut will be ultimately more successful.
On Wednesday last a match ut cricket was played
at Msrchwood, Hampshire, between eleven single
and eleven married women of that ph.te, whizh was
won by the haver by u considerable number of runs.
Thousands of spectators assembled on the ground,
amongst
.whom were some of the first respectability
.30 tasdann, to witness this singular. contest,