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the captain, surgeon, &c. of the 
Hermione frigate, was executed on 
board the Salvador del Mundo, off 
Plymouth. | 
About six o’clock, this morning, 
the debtor’s confined in Newgate 
were alarmed by hearing something 
fall into the yard, and afterwards 
a faint groaning, as. if from a per- 
son in distress. -On alarm. being 
given, Storer, a turnkey, went into 
the debtors’ yard, where he disco- 
vered two men, who had been em- 
ployed to watch at the top of the 
gaol during Sunday night, in a situa- 
tion too skocking to describe. One 
of them, of the name. of William 
Lec, had fallen upon an iron ball, 
which had taken off the top part of 
his skull, and dashed his brains out, 
which were scattered upon the pave- 
ment ; the other, of the name of 
Robert Simpson, had, if possible, 
suffered a still more shocking death, 
for he had fallen upon some iron 
spikes, one of which entered in the 
thick part of his thigh, and penc- 
trated a considerable way into his 
body! Medical assistance was 
called ; but it proved useless, as 
neither of them could have existed 
many moments after their fall. The 
only possible way of accounting for 
this melancholy accident is, that 
there is a small division at the top 
of the gaol, which they had to cross, 
and Simpson, the constant watch- 
man, and who has been watchman 
at Newgate ever since it was built, 
had that night unfortunately left his 
Janthorn at home; and it is supposed 
that, in going round the gaol, they 
must have forgotten this division, 
and their miserable death was the 
consequence. ‘Lhe coroner’s jury 
saton their bodies, and returned a 
verdiét of —Accidentally killed. 
26th. ‘Phis morning the following 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 1806. 
convicts were executed before the 
debtors’ door at Newgate: viz. 
Charles Louis Languis, Joseph 
Westwood, and Alexander Macken- 
zie, for forgery : J. Beasley, for 
returning from transportation be- 
fore his time had expired ; and James 
Vaughan, (a watchman of Mary- 
bone,) for representing himself as 
next of kin to corporal Leason, de- 
ceased, for the purpose of fraudu- 
‘lently obtaining prize money. 
28th. In consequence of some 
language used by sir Francis Bur- 
dett, on the hustings, at Brentford, 
in speaking of Mr. Redhead Yorke, 
the latter sent, last night, a letter to 
the baronet on the subject; and it 
being apprehended by their respec 
tive friends that a duel would be the 
consequence, Mr. Yorke was this 
day arrested, and obliged to find bail 
to keep the peace ; and we under- 
stand that sir Francis was obliged to 
give similar security. 
An attorney, named Dance, was 
brought up for judgment in the 
eourt of king’s-beach, he having 
libelled a Jew baronet, sir Manasseh 
Lopez, and was ordered to be im- 
prisoned twelve months in New- 
gate, and to be struck off the roll of 
attornies, 
29th. "A subaltern officer was 
sued for finery, supplied to his wife, 
by a milliner, in his absence; the 
lady, at the same time, living in a 
state of open prostitution with other 
men. ‘I'he cause was tried in the 
court of king’s bench; when the 
judge and jury would neither admit 
the articles supplied to be meces- 
saries, nor that a subaltern officer, 
‘under stich circumstances, should 
pay 146/. 13s. 3d. to support his 
wife ina state of abandoned profli- 
gacy. This was evinced by a ver- - 
dict being given for the defendant. 
3 DECEMBER, | 
