The National Register. — 1812-01-26 (London, England)

JAN. MS.  Hatton, Allen, and Clark, the three men in custody on suspicion of being concerned in the attempt at robbing Mr. Pryor's hoese, were again examined, when Sarah Wilkins not bring able to id ee,t:f y any of them, they were discharged. George Mannam, a clerk in the banking-house of Messrs. Birch and Chambers, Bond-street, was taken into custody at bandgate, near Hythe, in Kent, at ten o'clock on Wednesday, and on Thursday underwent ae ersmination at Ma:ll.3rough-street, on a charge of ab,conding with property to the amount of several thousand pounds. The prisoner was committed. CONFESSIW; or !“vßDEß.—Thomas Kenna, a deserter from the Coldstream regiment of guards, charged with ti'e murder of a woman near Waterford, in company with wieen he had been previously seen, has been arrested, and has con•essed the crime. He said he had met the woman on beard a ship on his passage from Bristol to Cork, on his way to visit his friends on a furlough, and formed an intimacy with her ; ' that she induced him to desert, promising to put him in possession of some property left to her by a relation in the North of Ireland ; that he bad :accompanied her so far on the way, when his mind being tormented by his reflecting on his desertion, he reproached the woman as being the can,e! An altercation ensued, in which he gave 'her a blow with a stick, that brought her to the ground, and then, as he expresses it, " he was tempted to finish her," and effected that horrid purpose with a stone. ATTEMPT AI SuICIDE.—Mrs. H. a respectable woman, residing in Eaton-place, Eaton-street, Pimlico, attempted to put a period to her existence on Tuesday, by suspending herself from her bed-post by a handkerchief. She had been in a state of temporary insanity, and from the alarm of her children, whom she had sent out of her bed-room when she attempted the suicide, the landlord of the house want up stairs, and, on perceiving, through the key-hole, the unfortunate wo• man hanging, lie burst open the door and delivered her. Surgical aid was procured, and the unfortunate woman was saved. She was put into a state of coercion, and is likely to do well. EXEcturioN.—At the Regent's Court, on Fridev, the following were ordered for execution on Wednesday next :—Edward l'hillips, John Frazer, William Habberfield, Paul Whitehead, Edward Hall, alias Campbell, and W. Higgins, agree Fowler.  New Novels, published by Allen and Co. The Monk's Daughter; or Hypocrisy Puni,lied, in three vole. price 15s. in boards. 13y Mrs. Itainilt.n. The Capricious Mother; or, Accidents and Chances, includin; the Adventures of Andrew Glassmore, in three vols. 15s. By a celebrated Author. Published by Allen and Co. 15, Paternoster-row. Of whom may be had, lately published, 1. The French Emigrants ; or, The Suppositious Heiress, an interesting Novel, in two vols. los. by Mrs. Hamilton. 2.. A Winter at St. James's; or, Mod.rn Manners. InterFp,:rsed with interesting Memoirs of several Persons of 'Distinction, and exilibiting extraordinary Scenes now acting in High Life, in fou: vol,. 11. By Mrs. Hamilton. 3. A Peep into the Thuilleries ; or, Parisian Mal. By the Author of Adela de Senange, two vols. 10s. in boards The bpirit of " The Book or, Memoirs of Cat.oline, Princess of Hasburgh, third edition.  Just published, price 10s. ed. hl.iin, or One Guinea brown or cll,mred in a superior manner, a Print, entitled MPS of PUDDI being the last drawing of that d,st:iiguished palins the late W. H. BUNBURY, Esq. The size of the Print, which is a series of five Plates, is eight feet by twelve inches, consisting of Thirty-six Chatacters in a Country Dance. To the admirerse the Humourias, thi; latter production of Mr. Bunbury's pe eil, will be a most desirable acquisition. Published by John Robinson (late of 72:ccadilly), at his TnnbridgeWare and Perfumery Witre.bouse. N 0.5, iV.largaret-street, Loteudish-. 94uare and :lola by