The National Register.
London, England, 1818-07-06 00:00:00

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Wednesday Michael Noland was filially examined on
charges of issuing various 11. and 51. notes, purporting to be
the notes of a batik (called the Exeter, Souse; set, and IrelalllP`
bank) which failed some years ago. A great number of
tradesmen, who have received the notes in payment, ap-
peared against the prisoner, who in 'passing them off bad
represented himself as belonging to Sir i'raticlr Burdett's
committee. Anions; others the landlord of the Red Lion in
Prince's-street, where a committee is held, stated, that on
Tuesday is eek , the prisoner being in his house, said lie wanted.
to give money to a hand of itinerant musicians, and asked
change for o 51. note for the purpose. The witness, on seeing
that the onte he produced was a country note, at first hesi-
tated 4n giving him change; hut on considering that it was
election time, he thought all was right, and gave him 51. in
Bank notes.

The Magistrate informed the prisoner that the offence with
which he was charged was bailable, and that it he found two
sureties in 1001. each, and himself in 2001. for each case, and
gave 21 hours' notice, it would be accepted ; or in default
thereof, lie must be committed. 'file prisoner bowed, but
made no reply, and lie was committed.
Friday he was re•examinedive when the wife of LI, Sinlry,.
watelionaker, in Duke-street, Battersea-bridge, stated, that
on the 10th of March the prisoner bought a watch and seal of
her for 31. gave her a 51. note of the above Bank, for which
she gave him the change: Mr. Hands, gunsmith, of Green- .
wick, took a 51. note of the above Bank from the prisoner,,in
payment fur a pair of pistois. The wife of. Mr. Douglas, of
Peter-street, NVestminster, pr:litsellet, took a 11. note of the
above Batik from the prisoner, in payment for ...mut, prints.—
Several other persons deposed to suwlar frauds, and the pri_
sinter was fully committed.

There have het n redo utty discovered in the parish of Mot -
testssti, on the south side of the isle of Wight, the bones of
that stupetidou, animal supposed to be the Al a minoth, or Mae.
to don ; several of the vertebra, or joints of the hark bone,
measured Sti inches iu cirottinferenee ; they correspond ex-
actly 111 IC/1 so, colour, end texture, with the bones found in
plenty on the Ranks of the Ohio, In North America, iu a
ale called by the•lndians Big bone Swamp. Also, iu the
pal ish of Northwood, On the uoeth side of the island, the
boots of the 'crocodile have hero funnel, by the Rev alt.
1111g:tea, of :.•sretiort. They seem to have belonged to an
anima! ut that specie's, whose body did not criers d teelse
fee t in lenath. Their calcareous natlu.e is net alseicel . het
the bones ut the Ilastsdan (found on the south sole t.:l the
island) contain it oil.
An inquest as held at thesFiee Beth, Old Forel. on the Led/ of
master .1. Hunter, 14;e1 ten years. pupil at 1/r. Lindsey:, Academy,
at 11ow, who died by a pistol shot. 0. W. %lure, a know pupil,
said, that the deceased and himself borrowed a pistol to shoot at a
mark. in a field. !laving tenekd it. they retinal to their chamber,
when the deceased lay on Isis heti suseieng himself with a fiddle'.
AVitness placed the pistol on the window seat, and fel teao a dose..
horn which he WAN shortly aroused by the report en a pistol, and
perceived the deceased end on the weltenng in hes Wand, and
the (pistol lying by him. Surgical assistance was iavtanLy procured. .
but the earth WA.. dead. lie apprehends: that the Accessed had
removed the pistol titan where wetness had placed it, and laid it on
its limn the sticitoenlili.
the heel; that the how of the fiddle might have touched the trigger,
hi. baring
and cau
not the sed it to esl!ln le,
deceased had tin wouralis in his
r solo one of which. near temple, he had no dint, t eansud his
death. Venhet--.%,,:idelelpily "lint al";Itirg7:111',.i1:71.1r:111.
A eensi.4l:4ldc ferint at exists among the Mikes at Tipton. War
wickshire, and neiulthourhand. Without givin . their onspiuyer, any
misspelli
previiow notice, rat number left their work. with the view of
ng II eke m their wages.s and 45 of them have its consequence
been stet for two months to the llouseof Correction, for so leaving
without due notice given.
There w.ts lady gathered, at WarminAers a cowslip having
buds, all blown upon a sinzls sum.