Star.
London, England, 1816-10-11 00:00:00

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rdTE OF THE CHILDREN EMPLOYEVIN
MANUFACTORIES.
' "mins INICEN Btr',Nie; A tiIaCKV.T COIIINUTTEZ Or rig
HAIM Or ColetllONS.
G to. • Lim AN Turint M.D. called in and examined.
You are by profession a physician ?—lan.
And. your experience is very extensive ?—lt is:
Supposing children employed in manufactories
• • from twelve to fourteen hours per day, at the early
ages from 7 to 10, do you conceive that they would
• sustain no injury in their constitutions ?—I think they
would 'sustain injury ; but I am not In the habit of
attending any manufactory.
What is your opinion as to the effect of confining
children to such occupations in'close rooms, from sir
years old to ten .or twelve, for 15, or 15 hours ?--
I think it would be prejudicial. . I
Would it he des,rable; in your opinion, that chil-
dren so confined during the week, should be calk:Ell
to religious or moral instruction on the Sabbath-day ?
A. far as their health is concerned, I think that they
had better be employed in the open air in exercise.
And take their education in the week time ?—And
take their education in the week time:
Does not your opinion, in answer to the last clues-
don, depend in some measure on the state of the
Imams, and the number ofchildren in each? Certainly.
It die lumber-of children be not . great, and they
• should be confined• Only two or three hours on the
Sunday, would that materially affect their health ,
I think not.
Do you think the proportion between the cubic feet
of air in a room. and• the number of persons
ploved in it, has an important influence on their
• health ?—Wry .neat.
Do you think 'Cis important to the health of chil-
dren and others, that the temperature of the rooms
In which they are. employed snould be comfortable,
and nearly uniform, consistently with being properly
ventilated I—l* think it is important, because one of
the diseases particulirly incident to children in to3nu-
• histories is scrophula, a disqase benefited by warmth.
.In a factory, the number in which being, in 1811,
..-. 873, and the deaths only three ; the number em-
ployed. in 1812, being 891, and the deaths only two ;
• • and the number employed in 1813 being 879, and
the deaths only two ; do such facts indicate the r tn-
plo•yment to be. healthy,, or otherwise I—l think the
.number of deaths to be.. very small in proportion to
• the numhers•employed; but I should not continue
• thdt no injury had been done to the health by the
confinement. • .
,lot if for a series of yeart. 4. similar number of
deaths occurred, would •not that be evidence of the
healthiness of the employment ?—Provided they were
employtd in' the manufactory to a late period of life,
certainly ; 1 mean that the confinemeq, althougn it
did not produce death during .4 short period of years,
might lay the foundation- of chseaseas
.by which life
snight be shortened.
• Would not you think that,. %Wilier, in town or in
the country, such a propottion-4 deadis. Issawo nut
o) eight or nine hundred, would be inconsiderable ?-r-
--.Very small certainly. -- - • • •
Do you think that a room in a factory.,. one hun.
drei feet long, five and thirty- feet .wide, and eight
feet high, containing eight: and twenty persons, the
• temperature of the air being •from sixty to sixty sir
degrees of the thermonitter, would bi a degree of
closeness injurious to health 1.-I should think the
. height of the room' insnfficient..
The room ventilated I—l think it would not be in..
jurious to health.
• -Have you had any practical experience of the of..
facts on the health of children employed in onanufae-
toriesd—l haves not. . •
From yonc general arid extensive observation
amongst the lower classes, of people, the labouring
classes, have you eves bad tenon to observe a want
• of affection and tenderness on the part of parents
towards their children ?•-a hate occasionally had
much reason to observe it. I have known a case, 'in
• which the parents refused to inoculate their children,.
or to have them vaccinated, because they hoped they
• might take the disease, and die of it..
• • Do. not you know, that there prevails in a great
part of die kingdom an opinion, that it is contrary to
the principles, of religion to convey to any child the
• smallipox by artificial means ?—There are tndividuali
. nolo have that opinion. •
•
Does it net extend over a great part of the king-
dom I—Not to al knowledge.
Do you mean to extend the want of feeling and af-
fection. on the part, of parents to their child, beyond
the single case you have mentioned of inoculation or
vaccination I—l did not mean to say that there pre-
vails a general disinclination in parents, by any means,
towards their children.
From the. general tenonr of your experience, which.
has been str.extentive, what has been the general im-
• pression -on your mind, of the feelings of the lower
sardels towards their children I—l think they are ge-
nerally affectionate.• •
•• Do you conceive that the employment of persona
In rooms where the proportion between each indivi-
• dual employed; to the size of the room, is as 12 feet
square and It feet high to one person, there being
1440 cubic feetof respirable air in such rooms for each
person, is likely to•injure the health of such pertens,
the rooms being ventilated properly by means of win-
dows open opposite to each other?—l should think
that a well-constructed room, certainly.
Do yob think that employment in such rooms such
proportions existing between the number of feet of air
and the numbei of person, employed, would be more
9r less healthy than employment in the rooms where
people work who are engaged to inferior tradesmen,
such as shoe-makers, tailors,- and people of that de:
etription 1.-Many inferior tradeintien are engaged in
small rooms, and therefore it is more prejudicial.
Have you at any period of your life had an °poor-
. tunity. of . practising-in any manufacturing coontry ?
I never practised in-hay manufacturing country.
Or been in the habit of attending any poor-houses
or manufactories in the metropolis have not: the
• greatest- opportunity I have had of seeing children
as been in conserence of. my 'being physician to the
-Westminster Hospital.
• .4kilowing sise manufactories to be regulated in the
• becrmanner you haveever met with or heard of, do
you think that•the number olchildren brought op in
them from an 'early age, and employed is the mu-
, illations dodo• usually followtd, for ten or twelve
litaas pet, day, would generally be found, when arri-
-.
. wed as the age of.maturity, to.bepusbeavoi of as much

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toddy Worts indaosidnem of ceastitstion es .the I
children brought ep in the apitnteritt which those of ,1
the peasantry of this ebootry sootily are ?—Certainly
not.
You have mentioned the strophula as a-disease pe•
1 culiarly incident to children employed in manufacto-
ries : what is your ground for being of that opiainn,
and to what.cause du you conceive it, to be owing ?
--I conceive it to be owing to the confined air. in
whicns they have been kept, to the labour in which
they are, waged, to the want of proper exercise, and
to the impediments that these afford to: healthful
digestion. •
r., you think that a room in which the machines',
employed in Manufactories are continually at work,
and the usual 'quantity of dust which follows from the
working of those machines is constantly found, is to'
be compared, in point of salubrity, with one in which
only the same number of persons should be, and none
of the circumstances attending upon the manufacture
should' be found ?—I have no experience from which
I can answer that question..
From your general knowledge of the effect of such
a circumstance upon the human frame, do you think
that the confinement in a room, under such circusn-
'stances, is as healthful as confinement in a room in
1 which they are not to bi found ?—I do not think that
ii iust Opinion can be formed wig out experience.
Sir G. BLANC, Ban. M.D. called in aad exarined.
You are by profession a physician ?-1 am.
It is well known you have had much experience in
your profeuicn ?—I have. .
Supposing that children are employed in close
rooms regularly day by day, f0r.13 hours and a halt,
one hour and -a half beino occupied in meals, is it
your opinion that the children so employed, at the
early age et from six to twelve, would receive no in-
jury in their health i—lt is necessary I should pre-
mise, I have no experience as to manufactories ' • and
therefore my answer must depend on general ana-
logy. Fo.m what I have observed in the course of
my experience, for the last thirty-three years, in all
ranks, and from being twelve years physician to
one of the largest hospitals in London, I certainly
should say, it was greatly too much for the health of
children. My grounds of inference with regard to
1 the health of children is founded on the natural ap-
petency of all young creatures to locomotive exercise
and the open air; limn what I have witnessed in the
lower eiders, and particularly from the bills of mor.
tality in this town, in whichl. have observed in the
course of the last century, the mortality diminished
from one in twenty to one in thirty-eight; and upon
casting my eyes 'lrma the differentperiods of life, I
find that the great difference has arisen from the di-
• minished*mortality of children; and this diminished
mortality, I apprehend, has wisest front children
being broight up in purer air, with more cleanliness,
and greater warmth ; that cleanliness. warmth, and
ventilation, are the great cause of the health of young
persons and to which the great dimipution of morta-
lity iu this metropolis has been chiefly owing. The
dimmiitiqn of mentality in grown persons has been
Owing chiefly to the same causes preventing the ge-
neration and propagation of infections fevers.
If children at a very early age were to be confined
from fourteen to sixteen hours each day, though an
immediate indisposition might not take place, do not
you concei've that they would be prevented acquiring
,their toll growth and strength when arrived at main-
sky I—l am assuredly .of that opinion ; for the cosi.
sequence of confinement is to produce two or three
diseases, vihich are particuldtly produced by confine.
ment and want of eiercise—l mean rickets and me.
sentei io obsuuctionsi weakness of body and imbecility
of mind.
Those disorders are to be pirticularly apprehended
in children from seven to ten years of age?—Cer-
tainly that is the period of life-1 would say, from
birth to ten. -
Have you had any opportunity of seeing tlfe cone
dition of children in any of the manufacturing towels,
either lately or at an earlier period of life ?--I was
about twenty years in Buckinghamshire, and saw the
lace manufactories, which evidently havean injurious
effect o 4 the health of child-en. •
You conceive the employment of, children, under
ten years of age, from twelve to fourteen hours aday,
is particularly likely to produce those complaints, and
general 4 to be disadvantagious to their condition ?
Most assuredly. there is great length of time. in the
day I should conceive to be highly injurious.
To.what number of hours do you mean to refer,
when you speak of that great length of confinement?
1 think any thing above ten hours at that early age.
Do yon happen to know what number of children
in the lace manufactories were employed ?—I did not
enter into the detail; I was merely on a visit.
-Did you observe from their appearance that they
had sallow countenances and other indications of ill
health ?—I certainly did.
What was the apparent age of them ?—From seven
Of eight to fifteen. •
Did it occur to you to make any remark upon what
yoil conceived to be the cause of that sickly appear.
ante of the children I—l should say, it was confine-
ment in bad air.
Are you acquainted with the general state of the
stature of the people in that County ?—They are, not
the most robust, according to My observation.
. PrObably then you know, 'that by Act of Parlia-
ment they are allowed to takeinto the militia persqns
udder the standard of any other county in England ?
—I accounted for the stunted • growth and bad
health of both young and old in that county by the
walla of fuel ; and I have observed in the counties
where fuel abotinds they are most perfectly formed.
Then in fact the sicldy state of such persons does
not arise out of the nature of the work or their hours,
but from the want of that proper temperature neces-
sary to health ?—Not only temperature, but purity;
they exclude the air for want of warmth, and by that
the place becomes fool. . -
Does 'not the heat of fire contribute essentially to
the purity of the air ?--Most essentially; it affords,
both genial 'warmth and purification of the air.
Have you bad any practical knowledge of the
state of health of manufactories ?-None.
You never visijed any manufactories in London,
or in the immediate vicinity of London, in which
children are employed ?—No.
Have not the improveptents of ventilation intro-
duced info the Navy bad a most beneficial effect in
promoting the health of people in his Majesty's
navy t—The effect would appeal almost incredible;
cleanliness. and ventilation go beyond caloulation ;

the wot bitdly spoor -seed 'le to this Cgtiti
gaup &
‘,ltrlclatill Mention to the same, principles', in
the , be likely to be attended with the
sallte.bintricial consequences?—There is not s dopbt
of iv, to counteract the effect•of the confinement and
want of exercise. • • • •
.Is not these children being kept.in a state of nit**
lion, by walking backwaihis and forwards, likely to
be less prejudicial to health than if they wen! in a
sedentary state ?—.Mast-assuredly ; that exerciiie
caU-
ed loco•motive exercise is peculiarly. siaotary to

young people. • . • •• •
From your great • experience and practice,. the,
Committee would wish•to ask yea what is your opi-
nion as to the feelings of affection and tenderness on
the part of the lower *lasses towards their oispring ?
—I have seen a great deal of all orders, and I never
saw a want of *fraction on the part of .mothers; I
have seen hardhearted fathers. - . • .
Is there not, generally; a masked tenderness and
affection, that would induce parents tospurn the idea
of employing their children in any work likely to be,
prejudicial to their health ?-41 area clearly of that
opinion, as far as the knowledge. of . parents, goes.
They may not know what is salutary.
May it not happen, by those children beifig kept
employed not in hard labour, but in that kind •of
gentle occupation that gives exercise-without superin•
during too great fatigue, for 12 hours in a day, in
factories, where the air was pure and salutirY
That is a question that, from my want of knowing
in detail whit is the nature of the employment, I
cannot answer; if -it was • not sedentary, but loc.*,
motive, 10 hours would not be too much.
Must not 1 great deal of the power of performance
on the part of children depend on the nourishment
and clothing which they receive ?—Not • the least
doubt much must depend upon the quantity and
quality of food.
• May not, both in met and: animals, an increased
degree of maturity be attained in:consequence of the
food that they receive?—No doubt of it ; but diem
is a greater latitude in the human specie; than in any
other: a man, so speaking, is more • an animal of
mixed food than any other. • •
May not a child of 10 years of age, by being better
fed and better taken care of, be capable- of ,doing
more work, without injury..to his health,
of the same age could have done 20 years•ago
am clearly of that opinitift, front- the 'habits of life;
which I have watched with great
In referring to the powers of childmila. 44 we net
to refer, not to what they were; but to whae-they
wally are, from the improvements that hate
made t —No doubt of it. - ••
%••-•
Has it ever occgired to you, In crotemplite what
has been the increased.consamptionixif• animal food
within the last 50 years f4.--I•hasiefietteetlyetttended
to it, and I think with advantage to piinkind- parti.
culatly to the young.
Is not the increase of 'animillon4 to-young and'
old, ten times whatit was -501 ears ago I—lt, -hap;
certainly increased, bin I *odd think that was too
high a ratio ; klieg been incleased,' tin the benefit of
all aged persons, patticularly to the young.
In your observations, has not the consumption of
animal food greatly increased wain the _last stO
years ?—"lt has greatly increased. •

Has it pot greatly increased within tjws....last 201
years ?—Certainly, according to my qbserv,atidn., .
And that has had $ material influence en ape
strength sail health of the people ?-4 saprtse . that
that has had some share in the decreased, mortality
which apprars.

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Elisabeth Ward, the girl who receieed.sintence
death at the late York Asiizes„ and has. since been
twice reprieved, is to be transported to Botany Bay
for life.
William Hodgson, the youth who refeisied sentence
of death about twelve months ago at .York, for a
rape, and whose sentence was -iskalwards Commuted
for military service, has been allowed purclusi out'
of the army, and is working for his kirwiec master at
Leeds. . . . . •
Monday seven male ftwicts aceresemoved (rim
Bury Gaol, to be put on board the hulks at Ports-
mouth, viz. Jaw; Glee', Jame, Eightree; William Sim/t-
-om; and Robert Simfteoe, to. be transported for seven
years ; and George Tome, George Faisvards,- any) flat=
Pleasant: (the boy conflicted of setting-fire to Mr.
BRADLEY'S premises at to be transported
•
for life.
Wednesday se'nnigri7thi- following dreadful
cident happened at lnverury ;,-,A shopkeeper, after
selling a girl some gunpowder,had just. put•it into a
Bask, while he most imprudently smoked a pipe'.of
tobacco, when a spark. from k conuflunieaterh with
the powder, which instantly. ,expioded, carrying up
two of the joists from the floor above, where a turret
of powder was placed, which also blew up,.carrying
off
,the roof of the house. The poor man and the
girl are both so
.touch injurtd, that they are not ex.
pcctedto recover.
•
A BAROARODS ASSAULT.-11 few even?iigs ago, IC
young lady named Orton, whb resides at Limehouse,
upon returning home between eight and nine o'clock
from a visitto her friends.inWhitechapel; was as-
united by a man of respectable appearance in Auk
neighbourhood. - She wit passirig through
_Suffolk-
street, when she observed a person in an obscure part
of it. who seemed to be waiting fior.son?e acquaintance.
I She was under rio alarm in conseqtrence of the time.
of the night and the respeCtable dress of the :teak' er,-.
and accordingly did not hesitate to proceed towards
Liatehouse. • Wise man looked ether. as she plialsl,
and said, 6. Are not you Saralt Orlon PP Before ad'
bad time to reply, he seized her and threw her to
the ground. She was unable to tall tor assistance.
Her assailant was not satisfied with what he had
'done & be made several plunges u:t her side with a
sharp instrustept, and lett her in a ~state of insensi-
bility. The sufferer reached
,fier , house mid% great
difficulty, and having occasion for pro.*
fessional mistimes, u.pargeou was sent 'for, who
found that three :hind: had been afflicted acrou'the,
ribs, one of wAlch was. very near tieing fatal. Some
danger-was apprehended, but the patient is no* re
'covering.. She suspect ,i).tat. the :assault proceeded
from revenge, but it chavyiced"tht rot bery was
in die' contemplatioh of Ipukerha. ccampitted it, for
she had money in-heelletre. at the 'tape, and a silk'
umbrella in .her hand,- and site Test none' of her pro-
perty, She also suspects 'edit; thehatisirian was, but
refuses to mention a same, in. the appreheneon that
the imputation anigltt.fall upon-an innocent pess`an.

g„FREct4

The ',Cowin( fit a fuller *canon of the attedtpt it
Tontbridge-Walla than that gitro in the Ivrait hill

of
assault, $t
andgi had
;-
It will he eecollected Isar Readers, die
Report of the Kent July Quarter Sessions, we
the particulars of a case
3,l2inst Bob:mice. ," by which it iprears,
Boniface., who rented a house next el 'or to
Inn, liinhiltige Wells. beionging to Mr. Beam,
a spirit merchaht, residing in Lornlon, was f's
guilty of an assault nn the latter, and after Fat
trifling fine, v.eis discharged on sureties. Mr. Eet
well, besides the house above.mentianed, has ali.„
dpen.ri:bulde ptirloepNeretwy
in 'i'unbridgc
on ewz_.
day, he would receive his retie, Item hit etver?
nants. From the dreadful oecuirence whic;;
taken place; it appears, that tile thirst for
had been long rankling in the breast of
and that day was fixed on by him to glut the ,
passion, by the destruction of Bramwell. He
; cullingl y, on the day. appointed (Saturdays. r
quested the favour of an inhalaitant to accompari
hit• to the New Inn, as a witness to his paling.
rent. saying, that it would be a great satisfactica,
him, to preveat any subsequent misunderstanding
equivocation, which, .from the animosity imam
existing between him and his landlord, might possit
arise. Under a promise that he would not,
any disturbance, or do any thing unpleasant on
partt the friend consented to the request of
and between four and five o'clock in the 41
they together entered the room in which Mr. Be,
well was. The latter was sitting at a table with w;
and fruit before him. In the room were also
therGentleman; and Mr. Soper, the landlord at
, Intl. Mr. Boniface said, " I am ceme to pay i
rent ;" and laid the amount down, near Mr. Bee
Well, who taking up the notes, passed to him asi
of wino, and then proceeded to count over the sot
At this time, Boniface was standing opposite M
Bramwell, he drew a pace or two back (-
by the perspi trreheut), and after exclaiming, si,%,
Mr. Bramteill, you have taken a false oath -
me," he drew a horse pistol from under hit
frock, and fired it at the head of his victim. Oa
ing Mr. Dram well fall on the floor, Bniiiiac;
another pistol through the window into Ile
conceiving (as it is supposed) that the bast she,
. .
completed., his .purpose._ Mr. Etern ell, on Pi
teken lig:Ckhibited every appearance est being
,lorived-of !Wei the *coniebas of the instrutneet et
I having meta tidar lies fight eye ; but medical
; siseahce.' beiea inteneidiattilty. preieuted, even
in the power of stiild. was, ueed, and the wound„
are happy toleaen, was found not to te! merie,4ll
wretclied•man who bid committed the desperate;
sat hinsselfschaWil in a chiiiivith great apparent,
posute, we sey apparent, for we CA mint imagine
the-gratificetion of the demoniac rpitit ui ,
even if kbat gratification had been ovtrirte be
death of iti.ohjeCt, could have deadened tee.
to the pangs of guilt. He exptessed teem
failing in his purpc,se, nor did he make ant ar
to escape.e.bur surrendered himself with the •
readiness, though ,in the
,dreadful contusion
ensued, his escape amid not have been ditlicult.
was alien before a Magistrate, who, after a,
'elaminatiOn; folly committed him to Islaidstone
te-talte fiis triStal the nes: March Assizes. We
glad to Ids.' that Me- Bramwell is consikeed
.of:danger.,
..WANTON A4ICKEDNICab. —Mosidity es emit=
premiee boys at Ridgeway, near Plyritouth,
&cried up one of their companions in a
mariner,'went about that nefghbourhood knockeg
the doodbf the inhabitants, for the purpose of
ing whoever might come out to them. In the
cise of this dangerous frolic, thej4way.laid we I
Ann Gaude, aged
,17, a parish apprentice to Fe.
Litpton; as she was going from Underwood how
her master's, at Colebrodk, at a spa' v. here
to piss near Plympton-Mary Church, wheat octal;
party came up. and cried out to her to take ;eel
the Devil was over there. The poor girl thinking
harm, went on, when just as she came par
church.yard, the monster in disguise suddenly,
his appearattee, sprung ar, and caught her by
shoulders. The ,dreadt ul consequence was, that
,sbock overcame her, and she instantly fell alongt
road .in.A. violent fit, while the perpetrators tilt
der4 ran tiff, leaving her to her fate. Here she iesi
'scantly found, to the state described by a labautingr
returning from his work, and being joined by two(
casual passengets, they took the sufferer and.
her back to Underwcied, wheie she remained,
eight o'clock iii the evening till four o'clock the'
morning, in the most violent convulsions. She
became a little composed, and as her reason r
she gave an account of what had passed, as •
in an hour or. two she suffered a severe relapses
has continued, though ceder medical care, e 1
ingly ill ever since, the fits returning at intere.lll
every three or four hours, so that she is stalk'
danger.

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• MIK
On the 9tb inetant, at Latairisialaule, die Lady el
Hawker, of a daughter.

1)11311,
September 2r., at Horton, La Ms 87th year, Sir .Robsit
ning, Bart. K. B.
September 30, at !minim* House, Hants, aged nig
ward Hulse, Bart.
Sunday, in little Dean's-yard, In the 85tk year of MI
Bev. Witham 8e1.,t D.D. one of the Prebendaries of die
state Church of Westminster.
At Lanark, on the 85th ultimo, aged 16, Thonr.l,
son of Mr. Lamb, writer.
As Kiloyth, in the StA year of his age, Dr. Thomas
" Ac Brighten, on the 7th instant, in her sr..i year,
eldest 'of Joirph Marryatt, -.4. M.P.

PRICE OF STOCKS YESTERDAY.
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Ditto d0n...61111 69 Imp. s per• Cent.-
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pfr Cont. Navy 921iiii Cone. for act. 61 et
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3hirntrisl.o MARKET, ockOtig 11.
Beef 41 01 to 5s 0: I Veal as 94 ul 6 :
Mutton 4s Od to 5s Ot Part as 04 to Si .
Beasts 760--Sbeep and Lambs 6,1140 —Calves 150-4V'
HAY AND STRAW, PER LOAD.
Meadow Hay- 41 O• to 51 5a j Clover 51 Os to 71 10.
Straw 11 161 to al es.

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Morning .. a - Si ruin. suer S
Afternoon • . . . 58 ...:. ...A.:.::%$
• j.0N11514; Prlinal by Liv at. Paw r, litekerritit*.
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UM Fit/re ••• ..• egvost Ilia
fed the New lon, • as the pine sse-r. e, on Sett
he would receive his reee, from hi: tug.,
s. From the dreadful occurrence
n place; it appears, that tile thirst for rote;
been long rankling in the breast of boo° ov
that day was fixed on by him to glet the h,
ion, by the destruction of Bramwell.
~,e
ling! y, on the day. appointed (Saturday% r loco
led the favour of an inhalaitant to acconlisi
to the New Tnn, as a witness to his • • r"
t .t
saying, that it would be a great satisfactito A
, to preve4t any substquent misunderstanding
ivocation, which, .from the animosity lc,
Ling between him and his landlord, might met,
e. Under a promise that he would not nee VI
disturbance, or do any thing unpleasant et.
re the friend consented to the request of &, if ,
between four and five o'clock in the 41 „
r together entered the room in which Mr. Ben'
1 was. The latter was sitting at a tabh. with
I fruit before him. .In the room were also err
r. Gentleman; and Mr. Soper, the Landlord e A
Mr. Boniface said, " I am ceme to p3l
t;" and laid the amount down, near Mr. Bee'
who taking up the notes, passed to him aB4 Ae
wino, and then proceeded to count over usenet PI
this time, Boniface was standing opposite 14
unwell, he drew a 'pace or two hack (mimic.
the persymo present), and after exclaimiegoiNe /
• Bramtrill, you have taken a false oath's
," he drew va horse pistol from under hisses I
ck, And fired it at the head of his victim. Oa* 54
i; Mr. Bramwell fall on the floor, Brailfae ~
tuber .pistol through the window ii,to d,e au.
areiving (as it is supposed) that the first aka, "r
mpletech lore .purpose.- Mr. Er:,rn is on ',;
•
ten 'up, eanuateu every appearance of being fat
i'ved-of !Wei the *conieins of the instrameit opt
,D
ving entered OSA( his right eye ; but medial
tune.' being, inteniscliatAy. procured, evert ei,
the power, of 441. wee used, ani the v:ound,
e happy tolearn, was found not to te!
retched•man who bad committed the desperate
t hinuelfscleWil in a chiiiivith great apparent
lune, we sty apparent, for we C:inoot imagine
e-gratificeticei.of the demoniac rpirit of rev
:en if gratification had been oereelete by •
.
!ath of ft.;ohjeet. could have deadened leek. 3
the -pangs of guilt. He exptessed tere
iling in his purpese, nor did he make any Pee, • I
escape.:bur surrendered himself with the glee ~
artiness, though ,in. the dreadful coniusioo
isued his escape amid not have been ditficuk.
as taken before a Magi'strate, who, after a
:amination; folly committed him to MaidstoneG • .
-take fats tridt *al the nes: March Assizes. We
lad to 'Mai Abet. Me- Bramwell is consiAered
r:dangere,
WANTON V. r 1 evenintuse
rentice boys at Rlcleesvay, near Plymouth, WA
ierAed up one of their companions in a frighth
ianneriNent about that nefghbourhood hosing
dooribl the inhabitants, for the purpose of tetO
ag whoever might come out to them. la the
ise of this dangerous frolic, thelbway.laidou
Lon Gaude, aged
,17, a parish apprentice to F :
ailpton; as she was going from Underwood howl
er master's, at Colebrodk, at a spefahere stet;
a piss near Plympton-Mary Church, whea ocean
arty came up,
,and.cried out to her to take ;mil
he Devil was °Vet there. The poor girl thinkinga •
iarm, went on, when just as she came oar •
burch.yard, the monster in disguise suddenly cal
lie •appearattee, sprung ar, and caught her by
boulders. The .dreadl ul consequence was, that¶t.
bock overcame her, and she instantly fell along*
..in.,.a. violent fit, while the perpetrators trli
teed ran Of, leasing her to her fate. Here she WA
;Wally found, io the state described by a labouring -
.eturning from his work, and being joined by two .•
:anal passengers, they took the sufferer and c
aer back to Underwciod, whele she reniiinedis
right o'clock in the evening till four o'clock the
morning, in the most violent convulsions. She
became a little composed, and as her reason!
she gave an account of what had passed, as a•
in an hour or two she suffered a severe relaptes
has continued, though ceder medical care, e
ingly ill ever since, the fits returning at iniertalt
every three or four hours, so that she is still it.
danger.
BIRTH.
On the 9th inetant, at Longparish -House, die Lady of :‘.•
Hawker, of a daughter.
DIED.
September 20, at Horton, to Ms 87th year, Sivßabin
nine, Bart. K.B. •
September 30, at Breamore House, Hants, aged 7r, Sk
ward Hulse, Ban. .
Sunday, in little Dean's-yard, In the 85th year of !shirt
Rev. D.D. one of the Prebendaries a Oil '
elate Church of Wedmonster.
• At Lanark, on the 35th ultimo, aged 16, Tholun,
son of Mr. Lamb, writer.
At Kileyth, in the stA year of Ms age, Dr. Thomas 14-
" Ac Brighton, on the 7th instant, in her VA year, 6
eldac,gaegluerof Joseph Marry att, Esq. M.P.
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