The National Register.
London, England, 1814-07-24 00:00:00

• TILE NATIONAL REGISTER.

ifeCIDENTS _:ll\'D OFFENCES.•

Ye-tordav, Miss Watkins, of Knightsbrid:ze, was run over by a
1:1,,t0111 .11 11.1i111 fill speed down Constitotion Hill, St. James's
park, by whirl' accident her left arm was broken. The ruffian who
~reasiimed the mischief rode on without waiting to wititcss the el-
fvrts of his brutal negligence.
Smelly evening, ahuat ci,tht o'clock, a man observed an old
woman entet Mg one of dark private vaults under Somerset-house,
lu• cage. v led I enter the ulniimv cell, where be beheld to his a,-
r.olishinent the ulject of hi• infl ivy sittiig over the dead body of n man :
iaonedottely ticquaihted the beadle, and the old woman was taken
jut.. custody. From the various stories immediately in eircuhttion, The
pajaulace were so prejudiced agninst her thnt would have been torn
to pieces by the ni-b, only the constables protected her from their fury
The story ill circulation being that she enticed the deceased. it:to the
where she I.her outs:n-a or strangled him. On the Coroner's
i!:quest it .s as p: oved that the name of the deceisi d was Crawley,
0,111 they were buth paupers in a work-house the other side of the river,
:..nd that their b:isiness in the yJnlt was in pick up a few chips for their
fi:e, when the deceased fell in a fit of which he expired, end that she
wit‘ brio:jug him some water. 11,1 thinking he was dead at the time she
ilitrlct.d the attention ef the man who discovered her in thnt onfor•
ttindte situ:awn. The Jury returned their verdict --Died by the risita•
ti:sn of Gad. -

!Munnen.—Sunday se'nnight, lthont ten (.'cico:k, Mrs. Nnyce,
au aged ‘lottran, who resides at Fawley, in the New Forest. llamp-
s:tire, was barbarously murdered near her own residenee. The de-
ce:v.ed kept :t chandler's shop ; she was a wittow, and hall one ::on,
about twenty y ears a a!ze, %%lin, being from. home, she left her house
to 20 in search o him : not retnrning !tome at a late hour, some of
her neighbours went oat tit pnr.nit of her, and at two o'clock in the
morning site was fout.d in apparently a liti.less stale, in a field ad.
ioi:!in a lane where they. knew site world pass, with her head
,totekingly bruised; she remained insensible for several days, am)
NN hen she Calm' to lterself, site stated the attack to have been made
by a man in the tape, who name behind her and gave heirsbme vitdeot
blows with a stick or blndgeon at the back of her head, anti after-
wards dragged her into the field; but site did not see the man, and
of course conld not de-eribt• liiin ; she has since died of the wounds
anti the Coroner's Jury hayina, s:tt con the body. bronidlt in a verdict
of wilful murder against tics own son, who on Monday was conveyed
to Winchester Gaol by Vick( ry, the Itow-street officer. It ap•
peared before the Jury that the son courted a young woman, Rad was
about to marry her wham the mother had a very great objection
to, but h& persisted in paying his addresses to In r. On the night
when the hors dile deed Was committed he was proved to have been
vibitiag the voitog woman, and lie was seen by a m.rvant girl coming
out of the tied where his mother was found five minutes after gine
left her house. The motive for this barb:lrons act is supposed to
have bero that tli mother had lett her property to the son. but
if he nun tied the girl she objected to, she would alter her will anti
leave it aw-,Y from him,

Tininia, midshipman of the Unicorn- frigate, was tried at
Editi;iiirgli for ti,e miirdcr of W. Jones, a seaman of that ship, by stab-
bing. hin, with a dill. on the Pier of Leith. He way found guilty of
culpable homicide, a.ld sentenced to 14 years transportation.
A tire brake out nn Wednesday night, in the stables belonginz to
S. Longman, Esq. in New ()I inond.street, which in a short time
tot.olv cow:timed the whole building,i. The accident was occasioned
bv the ostler lea% can: le in the maiincr, comnsimicattd
to ?tine hay, and immediately set tiie to the ptemkes. Three valu-
able peri,lied in the tlaincs.

Nluttur.n.—A f Avner in .the nei,Abourhood of Tollamore, Philip
Crtentv, accompanied by two your: men, his sons, was, about one
o'clua: on the milling of the I'2th inst. on his way IS oniewartk. re-
turning froin a fair held the.precedenz they. Ile lead n( t, how ever,
proceeded many yards from the hottSe in which he had been, when
he wa., !net by a hand of villains : one of whom tipped him on the
bleniildcr ‘s ith his left hated ; and on the nrsospecting man's turning'
round, thinking some one wi)lied to speak to him, struck him e.ith
a spine, %%Inc% he held in his right hand. and felled him to the
ground. 'flee dastardly deed was seconded by his asqociates, sonic
of whom continued to assail their now helpless victim, while others
attacked the two youths ; of these, the one fortunately escaped
without much injury ; but the other was So Mulch bruised, that lie
meow lies in the Comity Infirmary with little hopes of his reco% cry.
The father expired on being carried to the honse of a surgeon.

Tn the Court of King's Bench yesterday, nothing ►►f an intere;ting
move orrnrre►l. 'nue Sittings ended, and the Court adjourned to-
ttit: let of November,

'The LADIES SEA-SIRE SHADE CALASH CHAPAU BRAS,
u't ful as a Garden or Travelling Bonnet, at Ins. each, is selling at
Cavendish Hon se, 44, Wiemore-street, Cavendi.h-square ; and every
article of Silk Mereerv, Hosiery,,Habcrdashery, &c. are selling
on the same terms as 1',.1 :\ i's.