The National Register. — 1808-10-30 (London, England)

OCT. 30.  in the day you eat thereof you shall surely die. The husband eat sparing, he did not like the taste, hut his illfated wife, less scrupulous, eat freely, they both became sick almost immediately and continued in the most deplorable situation for twenty-four hours : the wife lost the use of her limbs, and after languishing five days, died on the 24th of May, 1807, a victim of credulity': Perigo recovered, partially, but from that time to the pre-e.nt has never had the perfect use of his limbs. Part of the pudding was, by way of experiment, given to a cat, and it died ; some fowls also picked up other parts of it, and shared the same five. Coterary to the direction of Mary Bateman. Perigo applied 10 a surgeon in this town for advice ; and was told by him that he ha I taken poison, but fortunately not in a quantity sufficiently large to occasion his death. After the death of his wife, it is natural to suppose that the husband would have possessed sufficient,fortitude to emancipate himself from the fangs of this wicked woman ; this, however, was net tie, case, she had thrown her toils over him, mid though the wife might not have been, as she supposed, bewitched, it is pretty evident the husband was ender some such influence. From May 18, 7, till Wednesday last, the charm continued to operate, and the spell could not he dissolved. At one time he went to Manchester by the direction of this Jevabel ; at another he sent her one of Iris wife's gowns, air; site ermrived to coax or frighten him out of another gown, a yeti ireat, and the family bible ! And last of all she demanded from him half a freshet of wheat, with three seven shilling pieces inclosed. His (1-editors, at length, became impatient, and the hope, of getting any part of his property hack failing, he determined to brave all danger, and look into the ussterious hags-hut what roust have been his surprise and vexation to find iht the contents of these bags were not worth one penny ! ! Aid to find himself a pauper, without property, and with a ruined constitution. The bubble now burst : and after havinglept the business an entire secret from every soul living, his wife alone excepted, In: upwards of two years, he laid his hopeless case before some of his neighbours ; by their direction Mary Bateman was apprehended ; when brought before the Magistrates she in part confessed her delinquency, and admitted that there was no sum h person as Miss Myth in existence, but that the whole was a mere phantom, conjured up to forward her N ile purposes. The Magistrates have committed the offender to the House of Correction, whether to he tried for swindling practices, or to he removed from there to the County Caol,,there to take her trial for w ilful murder, NS c are not informed. On searching the house of this woman, (who has a husband and several children) the bed and some other articles, the property of William Perigo, amounting in value to about 10 or till were found, and will he restored to the owner. It is worthy of observation, that Mary Bateman is the per-on whose lien laid an egg, about two years ago, at the Bank, in this town, bearing this marvellous inscription, " Christ is coming.