Although the following re...
The Times, 1824-11-18T00:00:00

Although thle followiing relation may be viewed by some as scarcely descrving credit, it may be relied on as authien- tic; the circumstances recorded in it took place in the cotunty of Flint, about 80 years back. A woman having been convicted of a capital crinme, was ordered for execu- tion, anid was actually hanged. Having remained suspended duiring the usual time, she was removed fromn the scaffold, and carried into the church; it was soon discovered that the vital spark was not totally extinct, and means were imme- dliately adopted by her friends for the purpose of fully re- storing animaticn. The executioner having bee-n informed of what wasgoing on,and apprehendhilgthat heshleuld inmur censure for the incomplete performance of his sanguinary duty, repaired to the church with an intention to despatch the woman. The females, hiowever, who were around the body, became furious when acquainted with the hangmnan's design,and immedliately attackinig him nwith the mnost violent rage, he was obliged to fly for safety up the steps which led to the belfry: tlssther his piursuers feilowed him, and seiz- ing him by the2 heels, they dlragged him down the sairs, and so much injured hiim that his death was the conse- quence. In the mean time the body of the woman was carried away, and the measures for restoring life ultimately prove-l successful. Bttt perhaps the most astonishing por- tion of this narr-ation yet remains to be told: this woman, a.ho inight be said to have experienced a resurrection from the grave, not long afterwards actually commnitted another crime of which she was convicted at the next assizes, and for which she suffered death. The sheriff, in this instance determined that the initention of the law shouldl not againi be frustrated, caused a grave to be dug close to the gallows, in wvhich the corpse was immediately buried after thie exe- cution was carriedl into effect. Extract of a lettcr from Constantinople, October 11, 1824 :-" Lord Straigforil is expected to leave us to-day. The prizes taken at Ipsara arrived two or three days ago, about 40 or 45 sail, but not more than 12 or 15 are decent square rigged ves- gels; the rest are small schooners, scampavias, &c. It is reported that another engagement took place last Wedlnesday aod Thursday, between Seio and Alitylene, in whiclh the Turks have been beaten with great toss: some say the 'T'urks have lost two or three frigaaes; the Capitan Pacha escaped with two or three vessels into the Darda- ncUcse. The Greeks:re said to Ila-le sliffned lery anucb ; a C'uptain (as they say) has made an affidavit in the Frexch Chancery, that he saw 14 0reek vessels go (town in a few days. WVe may perhaps be more ' algiornu,' notwithstanding all the vaunted successes of the Greeks, and look upon thc ultimate result as doubtf'ul. If they can raise loans, they may protract the struggle; the Turks are buiding frigates and sloops in diffterent places, and can soon replace those lost, but they have no seamen. 't'he Porte has given Tescares to pay for provisions, &c., furnished the garrisGns irn Lhe Morea; these are now in course of payment. Those bills drawn in dollars are paid at the rate of 64 per SP., leaving a loss of about 33 per cent. Thiey have given notice that they wiii not pay any more." T'he N7ew York Gazette of the 13thi of October says- " tessrs. Stanley, Wortley, and Denison,'A embers of the British Parliainent, have arrived in Boeton from Canada, on their way to New York." These gentlemen travel too rapidlv to obtain any very accurate knowledge: If their object is merely amusenment, that may be answered. SEDUCTION AND RoiaDER.-.(From the Dublin Star.) -Perbaps the whole history of crime in this country furnishes no parallel to the iniquitous case we now lay before our readers. 'he criminal is MUr. J. J. P 0 , a voting man, about 23 years of age,.a coonexien of one of the most wealthy and distinguished mer- cantile heuses in the kingdom-a house, in whose very namne even so much respectability centres, that he who bears it finds it not only a passport into any society, but a letter of credit throughout the com- mercial world. On Thnrsday afternoon, the absence of Mr. P. first excited fears that lie was a party in the elopement of a neigh- bour's wife, a beautiful woman the mother of three children, the youngest of which is a babe only a few weeks old. On Tuesday night, it seems, the guilty pair hired a job-carriage, and filled it with trunks containing money, plate, and other valuables. The lady, Illrs. 11! ? 5o5 * , had not been long seated with her para- mour, wvhen, accordinlg to the driver's account, she burst into a f'sod of tears, and upbraided him with his and her own crime. They took a route which inclines their respective friends to believe that they have gone to Waterford, there to take shipping to America. The distraction of the husbantd of the unfortunate lady mocks the force of lInguage; he left Dublin yesterday morning, accompanied by some friends,in pursuit and other parties arealsoin questof tbeoffenders in various directions. Butthe adulterous intercoursc of' Mr. P. with the wit' of his confiding friend is but one division of his enormous guilt ! He has not only robbed a most respectable and once happy man of his beautiful and accomplished partner and a Pursery of children of their mother, but he has avaQleI himself of his connexion with one of the first mercantile families in Dublin, to ob- tain large sums from almost every merchant with whom he had been intimate I Nay, he has induced the lady, as well as to diabo - nour her husband's bed, to rob him of his money, plate, end other property. On the very day they abscouded, Mr. P. borrowed of the man who was that night to be the victinc of'his periidy a sum of 1701. The Bank of Ireland was, a few days prer-.ously, taken in to the amount of 7001. The respectable house of George Thomp- son and Co., of Temple-lane, wine-merchansts, have been defrauded of 6001. Other hoases lost equal or much greater sums. A house in Letnster-street, that of Air. Deane, loses nearly 30Pl.; but. in thct, the recentness of the discovery renders it but too probable tbat these are minor transactions, in comparison with those which mav be discdosed during this day's inquiries. The wbole of the pro- perty, amounting to many thousands of pounds, has been carried off' tseveral Dublin merchants will each give, we understand, a hundred pounds for Mr. P.'s apprehension. We regret to say thee the male offbnder's mother ia overwhelmcl by her sorrow; her life, it Is feared, may yield to her pTesent deep affliction. Owing to her being of the Protestant religion, Mir. P. was reared in that persua- sion, though his fatber was of the Society of Friends. FIRE INr ST. ANN'S WATCM-HOoUSE, BLACXFaIARS- About two o'clock yestardsy morning this watch.housc was dicover- ed to be in flames by some of the firemen of' the Royal Exchange, who were on duty in the viciniEy guarding the ruins of thepremises of hlessrs. Wilkinson and Co. Raspberry, one of the firemen, pro. cared the keys, and rushing in, found the fire to proceed from a quantity of furniture and goods which were deposited there on the previous night for safety. With considerable exertion and difficulty, after deluging the place with water, the -flames were subdwed, having destroyed the lock-up rooms and some trifling articles of furniture. From the opening formed lay the disastrous fire in Fleet-' street, a fine view is afforded of she hr;utiful steeple of St. Bride's, ef' which it is hopsed due advantage will be taken in rebuilding the premisels. An open ad direct conimunization, much wanted, may be formed from the north in the approac h -to the church, and this ex. ample of pure archltecture continue to be aiewed from a favourable point: white little or no ground will be lbat, and the general appear- ance of the nelghbourlioosd may be considerably improved.