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The National Register. — 1814-10-23 (London, England)

PROI'INCIALS.  A destructive tire broke out on Sunday, nn the premises of Mr. "Cobbett, the political writer, at ReglinTton, in Hampshire. AU his barns, stables, 6:e. were burnt to ashes. The live stock, in• chub :g axen, horse 4, &e. were all saved. The property was insured. The fire was cansvd by a spark aveidestally catching thP thatch. On Sunday last, two stage coache4, on the Essex road, came in contact, and one of them (the Nelson) was tipQet. The passengers suffered severe!y. some of them being dreadfully bruised, but it does not appear that any Ore was lost. The accident was occasioned by a cantentiOnsbetween the tw° delvers! Suiting.--On Monday erenine a gentleman named Fibber, said to have been au Officer in the 26th infantry, 41,i1 .tispended from a tree in Loekswood, betwixt Watford and lekended. He had taken lodgings in Marlborough row, but had slept in them on.Satnr. day night only. He had letters of recommendation in his pocket to " some persons of disthletion; hnt his irunk, on being exlmined, con- tiineil but few clothes, and poverty is supposed to have caned  suicide. • A woman vras lately I,nnd murdered at Hareffeld, near Winillsor ; it is suppo•sed the horrid act was perpetrated by a footpad, as she Was robbed, and the ear-rims cat from her cars. ' Tuesday night, as Sao:. Pay, aged 15, was coining over Gritford Bridge, Bedfordshire, in a waggon, the horses ran away with it. The IA was called by his father to jump out behind : but Irani tun•itely iti his fright jumping out before, the wheels went over hint, and he was dialed on the Fpot. On I T n lay se'nuight, between four and five o'elock in the afternoon, a' Mrs Howes. wife of Mr. Howes, solicitor. of Noriliampfue, was re, toridnir to Bughrook, in company with a Miss Pirkins, they were stopped • by a villain near the side of the canal, who, with imprecations, de' ma:ided their money. Mrs. H. positively refused to give him any ; m. which he gave her a slap on the face, which she very spiiitedly returned. The vill sin then seized Miss Pirkins. threw her into the • he4g, ~and t..re her clothes : Mrs. H. immediately on his hack being tosva-ds her, caught him by ihe throat, and griped hint so tialnly, that • be beggod she would release hiin promi.ving that they should then proceed without farther interruption. The villain, however, on findi.,g hi•siself disengaged, immediately turned to Mrs. H. and said, " NuWe my lad I will be revenged of yon—l have a knife in iiv pocket, and I will have both ruir lives. and your money ", Abs. 11. replied, he -6httt&l n:1 h .ve her 'Hooey but with her life. A violent ensued, when Mrs. H. was again fortunate enough to, get such hold of him a; to ,
The National Register. — 1814-02-06 (London, England)

POLITICAL 1)1S2UISIIIO4V.  NATIONAL AMERICAN SUICIDE.  Tired of waging an inglorious land unavailing contest 1 v,ith the Lords of the Ocean, Mr. MaolsoN has lately ,eltenged his system. The disasters of France have humbled his tone, and.whilst the dangers of his situation corn- I . pel him to geve a reluctant acceptance to our pacific over- i tures, he revenges himself; on the unhappy beings who have blindly renewed his administrative authority and t subjectcl themselves to the caorice of as ambitious madman. He no sooner treats for p etc with us, than he de- I dares war to the prosperity of his country. The activity of 1 our cruisers, and tae blockade of her harbours had not re- 1 . e duced the trade of America, at least that portiot, or it which had survived former embargoes, to a sufficiently low ebb ! It continued to vegetate, and through the clemency of a generous foe, promised to weather the f.torm which the rash imbecility or corrupt instrumentality of the PILESTDENT had caused to bunt on the Atlantic : but this was not matter of satisfaction te this sincere and noisy patriot. He perceivoil ne advantage in allow in.; the people to profit by the vent which frequently offered itself for their commodities. He was %trilling to oppress them with taxes, but to allow them the means of paying thOse imposts' without disposing of their landed property, would, in his opinion, be too mild a treatment. Like NAPOLEON, he wished to be a sublime genius, and, like him, thought a total sacrifice ofthe true interests of his subject'; a certain sign of the depth and sub. Utility of his conceptions. Jealous of the celeleity of the Continental System, of which, however, he privately decieved himself the real inventor, he set his mind on producing a measure of equal folly and danger, which he vainly thought would create as much astonishment and adrairation arout-hout the world. Hence sprang the Non-Importation Act, which h time of peace, *eemed destined to draw down upon his couutry the hostility of every nation. Finding, hoirever, that other Powers knew how to chastise his presumption without going the length of war, and that the American ships, which he bed blindly conceived would become the sole carriers of the world, were not allowed any more liberty of trade than he granted, he perceived that in his eagerness to prove himself a great and profound politician he had missed his object. He saw that he had not only sacrificed ail the advantages with which the corvlitiou or neutrals supplied the Un'ted States, but that he had created a host of enemies who rendered trading even Ft Aeeeriean articles insecure. R. Vol. vi T. No CC C'X
The National Register. — 1811-11-24 (London, England)

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, 4-c•  The Sessions House, in the Old Bailey, was broken open on Tuesday morning, and the office of Mr. Shelton, Clerk of the Arraigns, plundered of notes and other things, to the amount of 1201.: 301. of which were the property, of Mr. S.'s clerk. A young woman of the name of Fowler, of reputable con• nexions, was found dead in bed, at her apartments in Georgeplace, Oxford-street, on Thursday morning. She had left her home in Buckinghamshire about three months, and had been an inmate in a house of ill-fame at Charing-cross, from whence she lied, and, in a state of despondency, committed the ra,h act. The deceased committed the suicide with a razor, which was found grasped in her right hand. A few days since as some children in the parish of _Robertsbridge, Sussex, were at play by the brink of a well or pool, which was usually covered with slabs, but some of which had been removed, probably. by the horns of cattle, one of the children fell in, and although there was 22 feet of water in the wel:, and 14 feet of depth from where the child fell to •the water, it was providentially got up alive and unhurt, by a humane butcher, w ho dscended the well by a rope, and found the chili sitting oiL a piece of board that had been floating on the top of the liquid element. -About three weeks • since, a house at Christ-church, Hants. was actually set on fire by water, in the following extraordinary mairier :—On the premises of Mr. BelbiO, tnason,,a quantity of unslacked lime was laid, with some bundles of- laths,. Ste.- on it ; the tide came up unusually high, and inundating the lower part of the house, kindled the lime, which set fire-to the laths, ant conununicating with the buildings, burnt the whole to •the ground, with part of the adjoining house. On Tuesday evening last as the corpse of ayoung woman was conveying to the New Burying Ground, belonging to Lynn, io Norfolk, in order for interment, the procession had but rst ;:r • rived at the gate of the Chapel-yard, when a furious bullock ca:l-,e up the road, supposed to have been over drove, which made immediately towards the company assembled, who, to Shelter themselves from its ungovernable rage, retired within the gates, whets the animal attacked the coffin, threw it from the bier, and dashed it to the ground, until the coffin burst, and the corpse acoially rolled out of it, to the horror and affright of the spectators, which nny be more easily conceived than described. On the animal's ,!,•hartte a carpenter was sent fisr, and every endeavour used to inter the body with the accustomed decency and respect.
The National Register. — 1820-01-16 (London, England)

CORONER', !SOL E.T.  On Saturday seimight, an inquisition was held at Smith itt Essex, before C. G. Parker, E.4q. coroner, eit the view of the body ofJ. Mingay, a lien it appeared in et idence, that the deceased not being a poison qualified to carry a gun, for the purpose of killing guile, was, about tire o'clock in she aft volume of the e9th of last month, in Dag Wood, in the parish of DOdditigtoirst, with a goo, which he had lire) cif, vs hen 11.1aiiiket, the gamekeeper of Col. Hamilton, came tip by the side of the wood, within a rod and a ball or two sods,aud paid, "Hallo!'' 'lts you is it ‘Vliat are you iking e?—'the deceased n plied " as lie had said so Looker pus his gun to his shoulder, and filed both barrels at the aleceased, when a bolls I, with Milich one of the barrels ryas loaded passed almost through 11b1 body, and some small shut stenek his hand awl aril.. the deceased givtativil, and held his body, and Locket said "-If you olict to stir l'd blow ,your bloody blahs out."— The deceased replica, " You have killed isle ; I ant a dead man." Looker then weed array, and the deceased , tiaras soured to go home ; 1)111 when he got as far as Mi. Day's farm-house, about 011 e milel'llllll Dag IVoud, being very Hatch exhausted, lie wt'llt in, and stated what had happcntil to him. 'rite deceased was then conveyed home, )rile the pal ash of South Weald, and r. Butler, of Eirent • wood, .I.lls genii, extracted the ballet, and iiiessed the wound, but Intel stied the deceased, the' e was nu chatter or leis recovery, and recommended that Me: A rclidearon IVollastoti, • tot the inagistialrs rot Essex, be stmt for.— About it goat ter bellow eleven the same slight, on receiving iiitia 'nation, Mr. Woltastoto immediately loos ceeded to the house where the deceased was lying, took Lis deposition, and issued a wa mint for the appteliciision of Looks r. A 4:itarter be iot iltret•,ills I.olllll%%iisg mot the constable 111 might Looker into the presence of Ntiitgay, who, pointing to Looker, said, "'fbat is the man who shia the." Dot nig the lion Looker and the deceased weir ill use room together, Li.oher said to the deeeasi it " 1111 y didn't you r 1•11111, sit' thedeceased vi-ed " You would tr., give tile time," and the deevast•,l ahu " 1 don't say 0111 alost I 111111 d love gin out 01 the way." 1.01i151.1 also said 1114, 0W1411'4,0'11 11011 11, tiled lIIM goo at btu, mill he saw the brass; when the 111.f1•44..11 rel/111..11, " 111.11 Vl.l, illli103,11111•, because the gust tad,. 111111e1 11.3 N'lltlf Tae dee e.iscil also stated, that it was or 110 use L %chili:4llls ;;.1111 L.inkei, a• it was not loaned ; and rue di et as, also said to Looker, " 1 near 110 1:0,1111, 101‘1111'11:: yua, 111111 11 111, Will had he'll rmitap• I )tan..:.: has' shot you." The let ea-ett suer p.ali•il, mist tin person was w 111'11 111111 e soul. :ilitigisy Inlet trod unlit toe fuhlut, nig day, tin et died. The ciiiwi 1 livat tog tile evidence, and explaMing the bats to the. pity, le.aiive to the daft it tit kiwis tit bu suicide, &Wins, as Lis opioion, that Cary had to deter ..
The National Register. — 1823-02-16 (London, England)

AND ANOTIIER. Mr. C. Phillips moved the Judgment of the Coed on the defendants, found guilty of keeping a common gaining house, namely, No. 32, Pall-mall, for playing the game of fterysi at 110: r. Mr. Curwood, on behalf of Mr. Hagler, moved an arrest of Judgment, on the ground that a gaming house was not a nails • alto. at common law ; and also that Rouge et Nair was not se unlawful game, as described in the indictment. The learned counsel founded his law upon a dirge's in Sergeant Hawkins. cap. 2.1.—1 f the Court should be with him, he said, on those points, the indictment was had, and. judgment must be arrested. Mr. Platt, as counsel for Mr.llumphries, supported the  same objections. Thu Court held there was no grossed for arresting the judgement. The affidavit of Rogier was then put in sad read. The deponent said he lead been prneeouted the informer Woodretie for the sole purpose•of inducing 'him to pay a large sem of money. None tint persons of rink bad ever been permitted to play at the house No. 32, Pall-mall. 111 r. Humphries put in a similar affidavit. The affidavit of Mr. John Woodruff° was also read in sup• port of the prosecution. The deponent stated that he Lad seen the proprietors of the lions° win in one right 20001. Mr. Curwood and Mr. Platt addressed the Court in mitigation. Mr. Phillips, in aggravation, said. within the walls of these ' Louses there was not only drink to stupify the senses, but every other inducement to play. The peer end the apprentice might be seen together, and at these hells the worst passions were is conflict, whilst the demons who produced the discord stood around smiling and enjoying the trouble. It seemed le be the cursed peculiarity of gaming that the darker the horizon of the gamester was the stronger grew the stimulus to ruin. Otte set of profligacy and imprudeuce led to another, until suicide covered the most wretched among men. Ile had no personal feeling on the subject—but he firmly believed, on the deisinn of Court depended the question, whether parents in future might not have to deplore the extinction of their hopes, and the irreparable ruin of their children? The Cuurt being informed that four other prisoners, namely. Phillips, Oldfield, Benoit:, and Carlos, were also in waiting to ree.,..e judgment, ordered the whole of the defendants to be committed to the custody of the Marshal of the King's Bench. and brought up again tomorrow morning to receive ten lellCe•
The National Register. — 1817-12-22 (London, England)

IRELAND.— I HE LATE DR. BLATE. —An inquest has been held at Derry on on the body of the late Rev. Dr. Black, Vike was drowned by throwing himself from the bridge of that city into the river. Verdict—lnsanity. It was proved in evidence that the deceased had stiffered for some time under a depression of spirits, and was apparently deranged. The Rev. George Hay, Presbyterian Minis.. ter of the Congregation of Derry, one of the witnesses ea,.. *mined before the Coroner, deposed, that at different periods during his intimacy a lib the deceased, he has had, among other subjects, conversations with hugs respecting the act of suicide, and that the deceased hail uniformly and always tit_ press( d his opinion to be, that the 4(4 w,i MR' Of the greatest nitmorality and impiety : and that lie knew his pi aches as a clergyman to be always to refuse his attendance at • funeral of such as committed such an act ;and that he knew two instances in particular where he refused to attend himself, and also advised deponent to witaliold his attendant. , as this was the only mode they had as clergymen to show their horror and detestation of the clime: That i.. June last, a short time before the meeting of the General synod, the deceased said, lie thought it would be wise to make an onal enactment in the regulations of the Widows' f mot, that the widows of those clergymen who committed sun ide or duelling should be deprived of all twitch.' of the laud ; to which deponent observed, that it would iatt: for what appeared to him to he a case that was sees ever to occur, and it world be well that such things shonld not he " ever named amongst us,"—in tabicusentietieat the deceased immediately acquiesced." MV.
The National Register. — 1813-03-07 (London, England)

ROWLAND HILL. In a fit of delirium, Sir WILLIAM threw himself out of the upper window of a house where he was quartered, and was killed on the spot. The dejection of spirits, and unhappy disposition to suicide, first a!)?eared in Sir Wt Ltd AM after his return from Walcheren, and it is said to have been occasioned by witnessing the miseries to which Lis countrymen were subjected in that wretched expedition. On Tuesday evening,soon after the SPEAKER of the house of Commons had read the Princess of WALES'S Letter in the House of Commons, letters were sent oft by the Lord CHANCELLOR and the Earl of LivEaPooL, to her Royal Highness at Blackheath. The Princess answered the Lord CHANCELLOR'S letter the same night, but we did not understand that the Earl of LIVERPOOL received any answer to his letter. On Wednesday, at one o'clock, a Cabinet Council was summoned by the Lord CHANCELLOR, to take the letter he had received from the Princess into consideration. The Cabinet met at one o'clock, at the Foreign Office, and continued sitting till three. A copy of the Letter sent by the Princess of WALES to the SPEAKER of the House of Commons was likewise transmitted to the Lord CHANCELLOR, but his Lordship did not lay it before the House of Peers, having, as is said, considered that his duty prevented him. Since the Letter to the Prince REGENT was made public, the Princess of \V AL ES has not been allowed to see the Princess CHARLOTTE at all.  Mr. JOSEPH GROVE, late Manager of the Windsor Theatre, with Mr. SYDNEY, has again taken the Brighton concern, and it is expected that his exertions will be even more fortunate than they were last season, which was more productive than it had been for many years. Marshal Jourdan has been recalled from Spain. It is stated that on his arrival at Paris, he was confronted with another Marshal in a manner unexpected by him, when a disclosure took place, which terminated in his arrest. Several vessels have arrived from Holland, and by one of them a letter from Rotterdam has been received, which states positively that Dantzic bad fallen. Another from Amsterdam mentions, that the Russians had entered Berlin.
The National Register. — 1813-04-25 (London, England)

TUE NATIONAL REGTSITR.  APRIL 25.  On Wednesday sesonight.. about ten o'clock, the side wall of Mr. arson's flour warehouse, in London-road, Liverpool, tHI with a readfid crash. Every floor broke dow:t, destroying all the procity on the premises. The persons in the house %ter! Mr and I.s. Barton, and one daughter, who hail r..tired to bed. They n.pt on the first floor, and were precipitated into the cellar. The ei libohrs immediately crowd .d to the spot, and on forcing the iont door, discovered Mrs. Barton clinging to a wooden prop, iving miraenion 1:v escaped unhurt. It was nearly two It tir., how:ter, befitre they discovered the dam :liter, a girl of 13, who wits •ialisiderably injuir but not dangerously ; and about a quarter of 3 hour afterwards the body of Nlr. Barton was got out of the 1 tin., .fcless. The principal room in the warehouse ha.l been generally aced for exhioitions, at the time of the fairs held in that nei2libourmod, anti we understand was .just engaged for a similar purpose, when the eonscquences might have been still more calamitous. SUICIDES —Thut.sday, a roron.l's log es.t iat on a young lasso of ,pectable connexions, who had been brought up a surgeos., amid c. as 'bout to enter the nav3 in his professisesal c•spacity, bit ii..t Atittritig eenyiper underivisor rtu nin ttion h free the %door thy Board, it preyed on his siorit., :said he wdllnwed poison. Va., diet, Lunacy,--Aft" her inquest war, held. and a similar t retorned, on an unfortui•Hte voting creoure, otik twenty, nod 4 ao i teresting .poeasanee. la ely tinder the ; rote, is it of a loan f t'srttiue,. who being deserted and in distress, she connuitie suicide by talking poison. _  Mraese.wwl he circumstance of a child having been found in Vipond's Pood, t Harleston, in ,tortnlk, has led to a very melan• elm!, and inapressie vitacropo- . Every exertion ‘‘ as m.de. on the ,part of the Coronet's Jury. and aim) th.t of the Rev. Archdeacon Old. •ershaw, the Magistrate, to offset a discovery ; not ‘iti,o4n,..lng which, the only tha• coold by returned, was that of - Watul roulette against some person or pennus unkof.wiloiwAigainst Mar? Tierrei, however, one of the I ur women who had been esaminvii, very strong susiticion *till existed. 81te wr, :T. ef;:1•.•-quence, tasen net .*e Mr. Oldershaw tl r. .0 io foul tinses.siieruarris, but to no effect. Still lr, I •.t : mit, and' the caneral feeling, were ten against [nor, thst the Magi,Liste eouH not rest s.:•i-Aert without lar•ii,,r investigation ; and a day was accordir.tilq appointed Mt that purv.e. But the ()kW' o the Appo.rtment w defeated. The unhappy wrv'A took poison a.ii'y nn the moninr -1 Satutrlay sennight, ann died its the course of a f'tw hours, A Coroner's Inquest was held upon the bo,iy on the follov.iug 11r:today, when the ,yurxgave in their VOlPAint+:l6. vela de se; and on the same evening, oink seven o'clock, she was buried in the road, with a stake driven through her body, in the presence of a vast concourse of people.
The National Register. — 1813-02-21 (London, England)

FEB. 21  corrupting the morals. The dreadful infliction of embowel.. at present left to the discretion of the executioner. It had been practised on general Harrison, the regicide ; who, when his bowels were ri.,ped out, leapt up and struck the ex. cwioner :--also in the reign of El zabeth, (au the fourteen conspirators with Babington :—and in the feign of the first Edward was int-hoe-I upon David Prince of Wales, on account of the bravery with which he had defended his country against the invasion of Edward ; awl on William Wallace, for the valour and obstinacy with which he opposed the British arms. The next thing :o which he ohjected, was the corruption of blood, which was a- very dilthrent thing from the usual cases of forfeiture. The lauds and property were not forfeited to the Crown. which was in• sllted : nor to the public, whose laws were violated ; but to the next suoerior lord of the Al.s Mr. Justice Blackstone had in several places reprobned this custom. The first zit:orlon on the Privately Stealing Lill was then put, when The SOLICITOR G aNta At. rose, (he said) not to oppose the motion, but to otter a few observations. He differed on the subject of corruption of bleo ; he thought it a wholesome penalty ; men who clud, b.: influenced by no laws human or divine were (it was well koowv) frequently impressed with the le.:r •of bringing any harm on the relatives and their posterity. It was a motive strong enough to arrest the arm of suicide itself. He commented on the case of the water pirates, and said that there never was a clearer case,_ nor one more aggravated in its, circumstances. The Jury had, indeed,- drawn up a petition for mercy ; but .it was well known that. English Juries w, re susceptible of mercy, and were not inaccessible to the representations of friends and relat tons. Mr. F ANK LA N D defended the criminal code of England. _. Mr. G ARRuw evlained ; and a few remarks from Mr. B.161.111;11ST hiving called up Sir SAMUEL Roraft.i.v, the latter took the opportunity.of solemnly declaring, that he had no knowledge, whatever of the author of the petition to the Regent which had been the subject of animadversion. After a fetv words from Mr. RYDER • letVe was given to bring in the Bill. Sir S. ROMILLY also obtained leave to bring in Bills concerning the punishment of High Treason and Felony. On the motion of Mr. HILLY AnatNo-roN, the House resolved itself into a Committee, to consider the Acts for regulating the wages of Artificers and Labourers, for the ritrpose of framing a Bill. After some conversation between ?Ir. TilomEsoN and Mr. H.. AppiNcToN, it was resolved to repeal the Act. as. far as it related to tit • settling and regulating of wiles by the justices.—Leave was given bring .11 ato Bill fur that put pe,e.—Adj arned.  ling was