The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-15 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

IVesinesday, Wm. Moles, a t.hintney sweeper, who was in-
dieted at the but Old Bailey Sessions for the murder ofJ. -
hog% Ilk :apprentice, aged five years, and acquitted, hut de-
tained, was indicted for an on the Soltlie child, stud plead-
ud Not Guilty.
Ms. related scver3l (-sews of atrocious yr inience on
the part of the priwaser tow.ts ds the deceased, which were fully
• contirms..l inct idn siee.

. Elizabeth Ware pi uv ed that she 11;11V the prisoner striking at
the chilli's lees with brush to tutee hint up acl o i 11l 'icy, which
.he was •utablr to ascend, and diva dragging hint 'loon by
she leas, sad dashing hint with violence upon the door.
basalt Rte es corroborated this testintoro., and added, that
the pri,uto r declared he would scar the iuy oat what he gut
-hint Inoue. .

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• Aline Chandler proved that the prisoner came to her house
.in 11 liitcehapel, Ole the 2-3410 f ,Ipril,witli the deceased boy and
another, to sweep a chimney, into which he put up the former,
who stuck iu the due for nearly nil 11011 r. The pi isoner was at
length prevaile'd-upuit to get to the top of the chimney and es.-
-tricate the child, which he did with loud imprecations against
him. The moment he got Mtn down lie knocked him against a
chest of drawers iu the room ; and when the child, almost sense-
less from the blow, was endeavouring .to recover himself, lie
kicked him across the chaiMter; and in this case, as in the foe-
mer, repeated his asses eration, that he would serrehins oat when
lie got him home.
Mary Craig, who lived next door err the prisoner, proved,
that on helping the wife of the latter,. who wets drunk, into leer
aIWII ittalSe, she saw the child out the ground near the prisoner,
sell° desired him to get up, which he was unable to do without
the assistance of a stick. Wetness hooked at the boy's leg,
whielt she found greatly swollen. At her suggestion the pi i-
sinter relished the wounded part with ointment; and a heu the
hitter 'Mind the boy still unable to wall, he dashed him on the
=round. .
t.. halts and Esther Jacobs proved their having. on the 23d
of April, a bile accidentally passing near the prisoner's house,
been alarmed with screams and coins of murder and mercy.
Rohs kicked in the door, and upbraided the prisolier and his
wile with their umiatural a NM The latter held a strap iii
her band, with which she avowed she had Ismit heating the
child, tutit repeattAl that she would do so again.
The prisoner, out tieing called upon for his defence, put in a
moisten paper, cont.iining a general deaial of the charge, and •
stating, that lie aas the victim of persecution. He did nut call
any witnesses.
'fate Coart summed up, and the. Jury instantaneously return-
ed a verdict of Canty ; :u.d the J11.14r, after severely
auunad-
ve rtii.g on his gnat, sentenced Mau to Two Years Imprison-
otemi.

Friday. John Chick, John Clements. and John Waffington
:were toirv:etert of otto mg forced Hunk 3s. Tokens, Nell know
in: them to be forged. the prisoners were all young men
from IS to 23 yew:. of age. Each was :enteiii ed to one y ear's
imprisonment : an,:rat the expiration of that period, to fiad se-
curity for 100 years.
- R. sting, the wife of John !lotting (better known as
Jack (etch). %t As iurk.ted i.y her Ini•baail for violently assault-
ing him. —(:uilty.Sentenced to fourteen days imprisonment.
This l'i/Se excited much mirth in the Court. To a question
from the. Learned Chairman, " What trade arc you i" the Pro-
secutor replied. " I am the finisher of the law, Sir!"
Thomas Frankland, a notorious character, nas indicted for
. stealing a pair of • stockings, the property of Elizabeth Wood.
The fiefs were shortly these : Mrs. Wood, on going to bed,
%%lien hallm.dressed, discovered the prisoner concealed tinder
ber tied, wilen she gave the alarm, and the stockings were found
upon Wm.—Guilty. Sentenced to seven years' transportation.

Nothing can more effectually prove the fally of reject-
ing the means of vaccination to eradicate small-pox, and
of adopting any inoculation of it upon the score of its se-
curity to the individual, than the fact of its contagion
being preserved in clothes, in papers, and in buildings,
thr an unknown period of years. Mr. Turner, in his
History of Thibet, p. 219, affords an ample proof of this
lig*/ remark:--" The late Tishoo Lama, when the small-pox
broke out nmung the inhabitants of the immense monas-
tery in which his palace is contained, removed his court;
and the capital, Tishoo Loombo, remained three years with-
out inhabitants, that it might be no longer contagious.
)3y all these cautions, the Lama remained free front the
saiall.pox till the :,ge of 46 ; at that time he made a visit
to China, whose Emperor, anxious to pay him divine ho-
nours, made a grand entertaintmmt for him in the Gar-
den of Gardens. Soon ;Alpr tLis, the Lama Was zcized
with the small-pox, and died."—Sce Appendix to Lord
Macartney's Embassy. _

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Daily experience also proves in London,•that the rooms
—AI beds, bundles of papers, drawers, coaches, old clothes
:c!l...ips, and any other articles, connected with any small-
pox patient many years past, unlc..ss thoroughly cleansed
at the time, will open tic pandora of.contagion.

The practice ()f the French, in keeping alive their
institution for educating yanag men tier the office of.
Consul, .as mentioned in the French Papers, is highly.
praise-iverthy, and deserving of imitation by the Bri-
tish Government. It has been by such vigilance in the
clucation of diplomatic characters that the French Nc-'
poeiators have generally succeeded in carrying their;
p;,int:;, in preference to all other-competitors in Cabinet

In i-,11 aavertisement lately in a Dublin Paper, there
_ippearetl an offer of an hou.e and land, together with
sperking iiecommodati.ms ; in which it Wak; stated,
tea .t whoi.ver might take the premises, should have per-
without fitrther leave—to shoot hints# • • •
late I lows ger Countess of Conytighain has died,
itinnenseiy h ; for, to the asteniehmerit of her Terre..
rentaiives, no less4lian one Hundred and fifty thousand
guineas have been found securely deposited in leather
.bags, within her rrivato closet.
The .111eining Chronicle says, that, tho?gli.the office of
Reoeiver-'General of Cornwidl has been given to Opel
Si` Talion, the emoluments of it are to pertiin to Gen.
.11 '4. • do mt coni.prOend this

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OFFENCES'.

ATTEtIFT AT ROM:FDA AND MUM/I:N.—A few days since,
between three and four o'clock in the tiftertioon, a daring at-
t. 'opt at robbery and murder was ONltle 1111011 the wife of John
Fletehet, SID hOhtSttiollb htholleer licin4 Dear to Mr. fryer's of
Ite ed's Farm, WI ittle.—!tirs. Fletcher, while sitting alone in
her home, her liiishatid being employed in the fields, observed
it strange man pass the hack window which looked into her
garden, and, sespcctitig Itis•intentions, tau to the door for the
purpose of fagening it ; whelk the man lot col it open and gave
her a violent blow with his list, which nearly knocked her down.
On ri.coveting herself, a souffle ensiled, in which her gown was
much torn by the villain in his endeavours to get at her pockets.
Airs. P succeeded inpi lining him by the Iva between the dour and
bill, where she held him a short
sistance from without, as she knew there were several men at
work within a few roils of the house, but in which she was un-
fortunately dissapointed. The fellow then said, it' she would let
I Mitt give !lima shilling lie would nut hurt her; to which she
objected, and called out " Murder," at the same time forcing
her way out of the house, with gre.d resolution, to alarm the
neighbourhood; site was, however,overpowered, and inhumanly
dragged to a corner of the garden, where the wretch stamped
upon her body, and kicked her about the head in a most brutal
manner; after %I Melt lie thought it prudent to retreat, leaving
his unfortunate victim weltering DI her blood, and almost in a
lifelesss state. (Inc of Air. Pryers men on going into hi. mas-
ter's yard, fortunattely heard her groans, andimmeiliately repair-
ed to her assistance. Patties mete i ttttt letliaielyformed and sent
in different directions in seateli of the brutal villain; bat for
the ',resent he has escaped the v igilauce ofhis pat •ners. Mrs.
Fletcher is able to swear to his persou ; and from the dcscrip-
thin she gi % I'S Vt. him, nn daub rokains of hi, being appre- '
liended, as his person his well known.
A shucking murder was perpetrated Montt one o'clock on
Thursday morning last, in a field near Harwich, called the
Cross-path field. Pour sailors belonging to the Active revenue
cutter, of that port, had been at the King's .Arms roadie-house, 1,
drinking, where ;Also w'he're souse soldiers; on quitting it, they
proceeded to another on the road , and un their return through I
the abut e field they were attacked by eight soldiers, without
any previous who,assaulting them with short bludgeons,
knocked the sailors down; among whom a man named Wilkin-
son received so severe a blow, that he died in a short a time.
A distres•ing accident oconri ell aboutfive o'clock on Frilay
morning, io a field belonging to Mr. Rhodes, cow-keeper, at
West 1:11,1. Part of it new hay .iirk hail been built 011 the foun-
dation of an old one, near where a number of hay-makers
•iially slept : the hay suddenly gave way, knocked down the
bare, and eight persona where unfortunately buried in the linos.
They were with great difficulty extricated from their potions
situation, all seriously injured ; one man so dangerously, that
he was removed to itanipstead workhouse, where his lite is de-
spaired of: