The Statesman. — 1822-02-04 (London, England)

FOLLOWED RT CIDIL—It has rarely fallen to oar lot to record a man and more deliberate act of atrocity than the follutrist, fur the asthesticite of which we can Tooth. A mama the awe of Harris. residing in Queen-street, &Fa stone-square. and who formerly had bun clerk to sis ironmonger in Circus-street, New-road, inspected Gs fidelity of his wife, to whom he had been warded Is years. We deeline„ for very obvious' reasons, is die pro. sent stage of the affair, to make say comusiats epos the probability of his susicions heinit either well or illfoaaded ; they bad takes satEciatit possession of his mind to exciteltim to the double crime of snarler std suicide. lie had latterly been °sly an occasional visitor to his wife, and had sot *comber soak, weeks. Oa psi. day evening be called span het io 0111n-swats* finding that she was with a neighlmnring friend is fity, moue-place, he went there. and requested' her to csat home, as h• wished to speak to her snorkel to Lk& partner fur Wales, which he said was to toito place m the enspior morninff. Mrs. Harris imnplied with his request, and went home with him. They sat down to tea, accompanied by a child of sevea alright years aid, their adopted PO/I. in a short time Ire mot .thq child out upon an errand, and immediately drew oat a per* pistol, with which he shot at the onfortmeate emu. and severely wounded her. She atreitemmid .and ruled to the door, and at the moment the people of the boat, came to be; arsistaneo. he presenteJ another Distill to his MOM bead. and inflicted a anortul wooed. A smigtbowleg Surgeon, Mr. ',North, of Soyamour-place. knee diateiy attended, and paid every proper atteatioa to the woman. Her lower jaw was dislocated on use side.hal severely fractured. She is now under the can of Sr. linthrie and Mr. Xorth, and it is confidently hoped will do well. She is nufortnnately in the seventh smooth of her pretaaaey. The nature of the wound which the man himself had received. semiarid it islpsssillrts afford hint am assistance, although he liegerad fot any beers. (is thee morning of the same day. be gave to the clail I an accurst. list of what area firma Imo Mr pockets. cousistipg of six sovereiget, a watch. &c. Ha was a tai Meet *ma, in the pelage of life, and we wader. stead W. iscellear etattecttr. An Inquest will sit apoa the bodyloomorrew notkoists tatelevessdaktk. Warriaaa.—This halt been sanothet week of fair al pkasant weather, with time esceptian of the present der. which has been disposed to wet. Derief. IRMO of the eights I belomr Ilk thermometer has bees the freesia"' poist, as appeared in lode On Meshy well defined  S 4 341 as 4s 47 49  AS I Fair 40 1 Fair  4. i. s.. I 46 I ' itiady In consequence of theilgh winds en Saturday night and yesterday morning. considerable injury was sus. taineil amongst the shipping is the London Ducks.— The Buoys were 'broken adrift. and the ships were is a confused state on the water, and the sides were brakes and notch damaged. The sailors were at wed nod! a .late boar yesterday before they amid get lb. shipping in proper' order. tin the river below bridge. several small craft were 'nett, and damage to a magi, derable amount has been sustained. Two of the hands of a north cnantry trader, in endeavouring to secure the moor* of the vessel, were blown overboard, and perished. Above bridge. two barges were sask of Milbank, one of them laden with timber. la the neiglthoarlinod of the Edgware-road, a great oenber of houses were unroofed, inn the windows Moen out. On the Canal great dattitge was sustained, by the boats having bees tore fro,. tt eir fastenings, and the copings of the canal. together with dolma.. were mtteh injured. The numb beildiggcla ilarpeew fields have received considerable damage.;. ma ay of the bonus are completely unroofed, and the 'erections tN gether with due contents of the gardens, entirely destroyed.• The wall adjoining the Freemason's stdrod, in St. George's-fields. was blown does with a MOM lions crash, damaging the windows of the eclat+ house, and 11311111 of the buildings adjacent great is jars has been sustained to the buildings Is the lines real leading to (treat Dower-street, where a teach cot• tamping three perowns was Moon over; fortceately they escaped without say other irjatli than being ftrittasly ahrused. A keg elute' of paling ou tie' branch of the Surrey Canal w4A blown Jowl/. and floated along the stre4ses. In some ieldr. near Betisendsey-grao:e. several large trees were tore op by the roots, sod in the same nei,.:Lbourhood. in idir• tion to the damage dose to the windows, chimneys. and out buildings of an immense frontier of houses, at Dock•hearl, a large stack of chiewto were blown down, and a female domestic sleet• ing in one of the attics, narrowly esrdprd being crushed to death. tl.e principal bean having most providentially f‘li-n ;it that• position to intercept the weight of the rubhish. which \fetid otherwise have fa::en un the bed. It is sooweltrt singular Outgo did not distant er her s:tuauon for ur wards of two hours, after tar aim had takes place. 4".  rAt. Oa FriaaT winabig lad, istlistibeth, wife of Mt. C. ;sakiyu, of  London Edited, "Onto& and PoiG iat the OA eN •• TOR STATIMILII" and '6 rim Con. fir t von" (Si ‘414.0 Paper), No. 194, Mifflin& orponke Ci,inerei C I ins. K.