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humanity of a person resident in Anglesea street has , we are happy to hear , brought this affair before the Lord Mayor , and snatched the little victim from the brutal ruffian who was reaping a pro / it from his lingering murder . LONDON , Jum i . THE charity children , at the anniversary meeting at St . Paul's , were about 8 or 5000 , and the effect from their appearance may be considered as among the spccr tacles of great curiosityandperhapsof impression and use tooin Europe
, , , , , Dr . Huntingdon , the Warden of Winchester , preached . The children sung three psalms , and the singing people of the choir gave the Te Deum , the Jubilate , and the Hallelujah chorus . ' , ' June 2 . A singular circumstance happened in the vicinity of Grosvenor-square : A young man , dressing himself in one of the upper stories , accidentally saw a friend of his passing on the other side of the way , on wliich he threw open the window , and called out several times in a violent manner : tivo gentlemen obr
serving him without coat or waistcoat , and his shirt unbuttoned , hollowing out , concluded that he was disordered in his mind , and had-broke loose from his confinement , and immediately knocked at the door : on the servant opening it , ( for they were the only two in the house ) they rushed up . stairs . When they , entered the room where the young man was , they found him reciting a passage from Hamlet , " To die—to sleep—perchance to dream , " & c . which confirmed , their ideas . They immediately secured him , and , notwithstanding all that he and the servant could say for himthey forced him into a hackney coachand took
, , him to a private mad-house , where he continued till ihe evening , when his friends went , and with great difficulty obtained his release . What makes this affair appear very extraordinary , the young man never , in the whole course of his life , shewed the least symptons ' of insanity . June 14 . Captain H—of the guards , was found dead in his bed , at his house on Ham Common . Captain H—had been in the habit of taking Laudanum ; but on Mondayit appearshe took a dose too copious : for lie was found dead not
, , an hour after his servant had left him . The Coroner ' s Jury sat on the body on Wednesday , and brought in a verdict—accidental death . To this they were chiefly induced by the evidence of Ihe deceased ' s servant , who said he had been in the habit of taking Laudanum , and on Monday afternoon had emptied a bottle containing four ounces .
CLERKENWELL SESSIONS , JUNE 7 . SEDITION . Yesterday Joseph Stannart was tried upon an indictment , charging him with being a wicked , malicious , and seditious person , and devising and intending to stirup the minds of the people to withdraw their allegiance from his majesty ; with having seditiously spoken , and published , the following words : " . I wish for no . king—a king is a useless thing- —I wishthe king may come to the gallows—the .
, first king was a curse to this country . " Mr . Sylvester opened the ca ; . e on the part of the crown . Several witnesses were called on the part of the prosecution . By their evidence it ivas proved , that the defendant was a shoe-maker , resident at Barnet . On ihe 27 th of March last , he was at a public-house near Barnet , called the Dukeof York , in company with some soldiers ; the defendant began a conversation by damning all military men , and asked the soldiers whether they had been at St .
Aiban ' s to storm the dunghill ; he then spoke the words stated in the indictment : they said the defendant appeared to be sober at the time the words were uttered . Mr . Gurney addressed the court on behalf of the defendant . He called no ' witnesses . The Jury withdrew for a snort time , and returned with __ verdict— Guilty , The court took time to consider of the sentence . - ¦ ' - : a
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Home News.
humanity of a person resident in Anglesea street has , we are happy to hear , brought this affair before the Lord Mayor , and snatched the little victim from the brutal ruffian who was reaping a pro / it from his lingering murder . LONDON , Jum i . THE charity children , at the anniversary meeting at St . Paul's , were about 8 or 5000 , and the effect from their appearance may be considered as among the spccr tacles of great curiosityandperhapsof impression and use tooin Europe
, , , , , Dr . Huntingdon , the Warden of Winchester , preached . The children sung three psalms , and the singing people of the choir gave the Te Deum , the Jubilate , and the Hallelujah chorus . ' , ' June 2 . A singular circumstance happened in the vicinity of Grosvenor-square : A young man , dressing himself in one of the upper stories , accidentally saw a friend of his passing on the other side of the way , on wliich he threw open the window , and called out several times in a violent manner : tivo gentlemen obr
serving him without coat or waistcoat , and his shirt unbuttoned , hollowing out , concluded that he was disordered in his mind , and had-broke loose from his confinement , and immediately knocked at the door : on the servant opening it , ( for they were the only two in the house ) they rushed up . stairs . When they , entered the room where the young man was , they found him reciting a passage from Hamlet , " To die—to sleep—perchance to dream , " & c . which confirmed , their ideas . They immediately secured him , and , notwithstanding all that he and the servant could say for himthey forced him into a hackney coachand took
, , him to a private mad-house , where he continued till ihe evening , when his friends went , and with great difficulty obtained his release . What makes this affair appear very extraordinary , the young man never , in the whole course of his life , shewed the least symptons ' of insanity . June 14 . Captain H—of the guards , was found dead in his bed , at his house on Ham Common . Captain H—had been in the habit of taking Laudanum ; but on Mondayit appearshe took a dose too copious : for lie was found dead not
, , an hour after his servant had left him . The Coroner ' s Jury sat on the body on Wednesday , and brought in a verdict—accidental death . To this they were chiefly induced by the evidence of Ihe deceased ' s servant , who said he had been in the habit of taking Laudanum , and on Monday afternoon had emptied a bottle containing four ounces .
CLERKENWELL SESSIONS , JUNE 7 . SEDITION . Yesterday Joseph Stannart was tried upon an indictment , charging him with being a wicked , malicious , and seditious person , and devising and intending to stirup the minds of the people to withdraw their allegiance from his majesty ; with having seditiously spoken , and published , the following words : " . I wish for no . king—a king is a useless thing- —I wishthe king may come to the gallows—the .
, first king was a curse to this country . " Mr . Sylvester opened the ca ; . e on the part of the crown . Several witnesses were called on the part of the prosecution . By their evidence it ivas proved , that the defendant was a shoe-maker , resident at Barnet . On ihe 27 th of March last , he was at a public-house near Barnet , called the Dukeof York , in company with some soldiers ; the defendant began a conversation by damning all military men , and asked the soldiers whether they had been at St .
Aiban ' s to storm the dunghill ; he then spoke the words stated in the indictment : they said the defendant appeared to be sober at the time the words were uttered . Mr . Gurney addressed the court on behalf of the defendant . He called no ' witnesses . The Jury withdrew for a snort time , and returned with __ verdict— Guilty , The court took time to consider of the sentence . - ¦ ' - : a