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London, England, 1816-05-10 00:00:00

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an Inquisition. was held in the Board-goorn at. rime London Ileipita, on.- view of the body of. John
HewleY, alosy only ix liana-old, who awe MX death,
in consequence of the cited nage of his sinter. .
George Rok live et Wentworth-
street, WhitechaPeL On tholfld Of April last, about
one o'clock in the day, I ins going down Rosa.lanit,,
Spitalfields, and beard a child screaming violently,;
crying out murder,:'-and begging for mercy : several
biotin appeared to'be struck, the sound. of which
lasted about three Minutes, , which induced me• to
lick. agiinat the door until it was opened by a man,
Whom I asked why be beet the child so cruelly He
'answered, it was no tininess of mine, he had flogged
him, and should. do it again, and abused me very
:much a woman then came out, who said one of
them held the boyilbile the other flogged him; both
appeared is a state of perspisation : on inquiry, I
found theirs names were Moles, and that the child
had been sent to the Hospital, where I went to see
him ; he was in a shocking state, and said he had
been flogged for not going up a narrow chimney,
which he had not power to do, being very lame. I
have seen both the man and woman since. at Late!
beth-street Police Office ; they said the boy was their
apprentice, and that they bad a right Ot do as they
pleaced with him.
Esther Jacobs.—l live at No. 5, White's-tor', SO!
talfields. Last Tuesday week I was at my father's
house, N% 38, Lion's•lane opposite to the house
where the deceased lived iheard violent screaming
from a child, which lasted about five minutes. Mr.
atilt was passing by the' door anti kicked it,. until
Mr. and Mrs. Moles came out. The latter had a
leather strap in her hand, and said she beat him, and
Would beat him again, and asked if that strap would:
hurt him I 1 knew there was a child civered
soot livingwith them not their own, and I am posi-
tive they are.the same man and woman I have seen'
in custody since at the Police Office.
Elizabeth Waare.?-I live at No. 8, Papian-street.l
Spitalfields. Some time ago Moles came to sweep a
chimney in the house where I •live. I heard him
ordering a child to go up the chimney, and he began
to beat lum violently. I tailed a woman who lived
in the next room to stop him, and followed her into
the room where 1 had seen the man beating the boy
with a large brush, and forciug -him to go up the
clumsier: I told him he was not the cbild'slather to
use him so cruelly; he replied, it was 'nothing to me,
and then pulled the child, who wits sense distance up
the chimney. *down again by the legs. The poor
creature's head was struck with 'heat force against
the hearth-stone, and he appeared in the most deplo-
'sable state.
J. Stuall:—l am pupil at the London Hospital.—
Last Saturday week the deceased child was brought.
I examined the body, and found a bruise on the fore-
head, and soother on the knee. There was an ex-
tensive MOnifiCatiOn, from about three inches below
:dig knee, on the leg and foot, of at least three days
standing ; and as the boy was sound end healthy in
other respects, I have no doubt these wounds cans- d
Ms' death.
, The Jury, who were composed of the most respect.
able inhabitants, with Mr. Downy the Ligh coicstftble,
for their foreman, having heard the Coroner's charge,
lesotediately returned a verdict of Witfirl Mailer
against the master sweep and his-wife, whq were in
custody, and , are now committed on the Coroner's
warrant.
Another Inquest was held, by the same Coroner
and Jury, on the body of Stephen Reid.
J, Dawson deposed, he lived at 37, in the Minnie:.
About one o'clock on Friday last, the deceased was
driving a horse and cart altatg Eishopsgate-street ;
horse-soldier was riding in full gallop after him, and
the latter's horse knocked down the deceased, when
'the wheels of the cart•he ruts driving passed over his
body, 'and he was taken up in a senseless state, and
carried to 'the house. of a Surgeon, who advised that
he should be carried to the' Hospital, which was
accordingly done t the soldier took no notice, but
galloped off at full speed ; he was dressed in a blue
jacket, trimmed with' yellow worsted lace. r the saddle
cloth was also blue, and trimmed with yellow and
he musthave known what happened: Thiketridersoe
was corroborated by•several other persons who had
seen the transactions
Mr. Santuel• Grimsdale, 'an. of Sun-greet, Bi.
shopsgate.street, said, the • was his servant,
be was about 45 years of age, and ban an excellent
character. On heeling that the 'oldies rode over
him intentionally, be gave iaformatien at the flecre;
ear), at War's Office, in order to ascertain who the
soldier might be; but as yet he had received no
answer.
The Hospital Surgeon proved that the deceased
met his death in consequence of the injury he receiv-
ed as before stated.
The Coroner, in his charge to the Jury, observed,
it
,could not be one of those cases where the soldier's
imferious duty or strict orders compelled him to
drive furiously, and absolutely would prbv.ent hit
knowing what injury he had done :—here he was
alone, and must have seen the unfortunate man who',
was going before him ; if he had • accidentally done
it, be naturally would stop, and at least express his'
sorrow ; however, it rested with the Jury to return
what' verdict they should think proper.—Verdict of
filial Minder was immediately returned against the
`soldier, who is at present unknown.
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The people mentioned lately to have. been smo•
theted in a sand hole, near Twynholm kirk; in Gal-
laway, in cgesequence,of pan of the earth falling or.
them while asleep, were travelling from Ireland,
through Scotland, on their way home to Wales, and
being naturally anxious totaecomenodation till the
Monday foliwing, they earnestly solicited quarters
at several places in that neighbourhood, offering to
lisp4er it thankfielly, but were. uniformly refused ;
and from this disgraceful, inhospitable, and merciless
treatment, Were under the necessity of taking up their
quarteKs in the sand-hole, where they ell met their.
melancholy fate. Their..inhuman triattneit is the
more tenjestifuble, at the unhappy sufferers were
not travelling the eountry es`..vagrants, but on their
way home. The man was a discharged soldier, and
his wife played on sharp, by which they principally
supported themselves on.theil journey, but, in this rare
initance bf inlitunanitA *Pic had no.f,t4iTai to So*
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QUeer-sQuAnt...—Yesterday Was Coffins. one of
ifi!nteieatinotiieent the Repotrof she COMinitteE of
01 Hass of Commons on Mendicity, as tlie twit-
I was censmitted.to prison for expoaing himself
fare the door of. Mr.. Manning, in John-street,
Adelphi • foaming at the mouth, in sham fits, for the
purpose 'of exciting the commiseration 9f the pason.
gars a quantity of halfpence and silver were found
on him at the time,
SUADWILL•OFFICALCHARGE OF MORDINLYEE•
4erdiy Jobs .Slivers, Captain of•the Thames South
B:aman, and James dews, his Chief Mate, were,
I charged by Mr. R. Gibson, Of the West India Docks,
with the.murder of hisson, whowas an apprentice on
board that ship.--W. Temperton, carpenter; swore,
that on tile '29th of May, 1814, the ship sailed from
Gravesend for the Oast of Pere ; there was an ap-
prentice on board named Gibson ; be was well when
they sailed. ,About two or three months before he
died he was discovered to he ill wit:, a disorder in
hii hip ; he was confined to his hammock for about
a fortnight before he died ; he had been flogged be-
fore he was taken ill, whether by the Captain or not,
he did not know. He went to Mr. Gibson, tare boy's
father, the day the ship arrived, and informed him of
his death ; witness remembered the Mate striking the
deceased with a rope's end ; he had a shirt on, and
no jacket, and.had been handed out of his 1. immock.
After being beat some time he was let ge, and had
some black masks on his body, and in aboit three
Says he died. "Witness never heard the deceased
complain to the Captain Cr Mate, but he did to the
Doctor. He gave witness a letter to his father,
which the Captain produced.—John Yonnger, Sur-
geon to the ship, deposed, that he discovered the de.
ceased to be ill with a complaint in the hip joint,
about three months previous to his death ; it was a
scrofulous disease he communicated it 40 the Cap-
tain, who ordered him to attend him for three weeks
previous to his death ; but the medicines were giden
out by' the Captain. At that time deponent was
suspended from his office, as a punishment. havidit,
disagreed with the Captain. Witness further start*
the deceased wanted better nourishment than the ship
supplied, He had frequently seen the Captain punish I
the boys and men himself ; he frequently flogged
Gibson.-.-W. Peirse deposed he knew the deceased
complained of a pain in his thigh 4 he was very little
confined to his hammock, and was ordered to deck
the morning- before he died, stripped, washed, and
scrubbed 'with a broom, for dirtying himself, atter
having had physic by order of the Mate. The de-
ceused was walked from the half deck to the wind-
last ; he was very weak, and obliged to lay hold of
the bulwark to support himself. Witness added,
that the deceased Was flogged about a month before
he died by the Captain, for spilling some bread on
the half deck, when the blood came from him : he
was rope's-ended by Baxter, the Mate, with a et.,.•!
two inches thick. For a day or two previous to the
death of the deceased he was not able to do his occa-
sional duty-, and about four o'clock in the afternoon
before his death he was brought upon deck, and ap-
peared much weaker than he did before he was dog-
ged. Withers stood by the windlass, and the deceased
requested him to inform his father how he had been
used, if he vied. This ship was then near rlie
pago Islands.e—JesittaThorn, sn apprentice on board
the ship, swore, that Gibson, the deceased, was very
weak for two months before be died ; he was twice
flogged within these two months of his degh by the
Captain ; the first time he was lashed -ta a gun, his
breeches taken down, and flogged with a cat until he
bad black marks. About a fortnight before he died,
he was flogged a second time for spilling bread, as
before stated. Witness remembered the deceased
WAS, on the day before his death, brought upon deck
by the Mate, and by him flogged from the half deck
hatch to the fore chains, after which he was scrubbed
with a -broom, and water thrown upon him with a
pail. Witness further stated, that. the deceased WAS
flogged for dirtying himself, which he thought he
could not help. owing to his weakness ; be cried out
during kis punishment-4, 0, pray, Sir, forgive me I"
The deceased was nekeil when he was washed and
scrubbed, and had niarki of violence on nis back ; he
went back alone, Ind died in the half deck the next
morning.--John Thomas, a black man, cook of the
dip, swore, he recollected the deceased being brought
,upon deck the morning before he died. He died
under the deponent!: hammock about five o'clock in
the morning, having had no assistance from the
Copula or Mate that night. When witness turned
out sa the morning, he discovered the boy was dead.
The deceased was thrown overboard about three
o'clock in the afternoon, in the usual manner, after
having bad the service read over him.—Mr. ALLEY
*particularly begged the Magistrates to grant a further
heating, in consequence of the absence of two mate-
rial witnesses, when the Magistrates deferred the case
until Wednesday, 22d of May.

ALARMING FIRRII IN SNIFOLIC...—BURT, MAT 7.—On Wed-
nesday night some sheds, in which eight bullocks were fattening,
on the premises of Mr. Graf, of Hadlelgit, were discovered to
be in James,. and sot* beanie a heap of rubbish; fortunately
the bullocks were preserved., but an out-Louse belongitig to Mr.
Ling, a gardener, in which were a number of fowl', &c. were
totally destroyed. The same morning a barn btionging to
Mr. Glanfiekl, of lviartleshant Nall, near Woodbridge, was aet
Are to; a malt has been taken up on suspicion, and committed.
A few days since a cottage at Groton was entirely consumed ; as
was a haulm stack, on ti v premised Di'. Mr. aurrison, of Sin--
worth. On Friday might a barn at •Drinkston, the. property of
1. Grigby, Esq. was wilfully set on fire;!and;covutonied. On
Saturday night a barns belonging t? Mr./tollinson, o.fStatia:tig.
field, was de.troyeti. Same night 'a fire 6was4setaiered on the
ykeiuises of Mr. J. Poke. M Wickluttn•brook, alien bars and
Other out buihlings., With a knack of wheat and one of beaus, fell
.a prey to the names. TWO Ate mattiogsoifices were lately dis-
t
covered on Are at tioverhill, whic:i -were •ertinguisbed by the
Inhabitants. On Wednesday Morning a fire broke out at the
office of Mr. Royal, in St. Michael's' Udall, which anal got
under, after burning a beg.of *num— During the nightof Wed-
nesday, a Are was discovered on ihe premises of Mr. Hustler, of
Godshall, Suffolk,• which raged so furiously that in a short time a
barn, neat-house, and cart-lodge, together with forty-Ave coombs
'of wheat, a quantity of straw, some live &c. were con-
sumed. here is strong reason for thinkiug the abixe Were wil-
fully set on fire. Saturday a, thrashing machine, beloog:ag to
Mr. John Fenton, of Whehtetbam, was set on tire on the pre-
mises of Mr: Sarjeent, of Cock:Avid, -Suffolk, and entirely COG.
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the workehops
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ioay A fire broke out in the premises of Mr. Long
f liminster, which threatened truction to the body
, but through the activityfif tWtthabitants was gut
consuming the prem!ses In wSteb it Coutqaenced, and
)ps of a cooperage adjointifia*Mtaining property to a
st, a part. of whirls only
ay a Ara was discovermi
.wo iihros occupied by
7Alc Zettlebuson, during 4. t men wbp bad
giqr chair Irene sofaswbieh &gimp
V) a KM% *Pi**t ey Idifakiet on arcs