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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1814. 



of the church, with the liveliest 

 satisfaction. He is frequently ad- 

 mitted at private audiences with 

 the Holy Father, and is occupied 

 with preparing for the press his 

 grand poem of Charlemagne, which 

 will appear in January, 1S15. It is 

 dedicated to the Holy Father." 



The number of French prisoners 

 who have been sent to France 

 since the conclusion of the peace 

 exceeds sixty-seven thousand men. 

 It is said that only nineteen conti- 

 nental prisoners of war (who are 

 Poles) now remain in this country. 

 The American prisoners in Eng- 

 land already amount to three thou- 

 sand eight hundred. They are 

 chiefly seamen. 



SEPTEMBER. 



1. A man named Joseph Hack 

 was brought before Mr. Birnie, by 

 May and Goff, on suspicion of 

 having murdered a woman named 

 Jane Ware, on Wednesday even- 

 ing, in the Kent road. 



This unfortunate wretch, when 

 he was brought up, presented a 

 most shocking^and disgustingspec- 

 tacle, having, after the commis- 

 sion of the horrid crime, attempted 

 to put a period to his own exist- 

 ence, by cutting his throat. 



The circumstances attending this 

 dreadful occurrence, as detsiiled in 

 evidence, were as follow : — ' 



Mr, Richard Mister, of Ber- 

 mondsey -street, stated, that he was 

 walking in the Kent road on Wed- 

 nesday evening, abouteighto' clock, 

 when his attention was attracted by 

 a noise he heard in a field adjoin- 

 ing the road : he immediately jump- 

 ed across the ditch into the field ; 

 and, lying near the spot, he disco- 

 vered an infant covered with blood ; 



at a little distance from the spot^ 

 he saw a man lying on his back ore 

 the ground; he took up the infant^ 

 and ran to the man : on his ap- 

 proach, the man lifted up his 

 head, and the witness perceived 

 his throat was cut. At this time 

 some other persons came up ; the 

 witness gave the child to one of 

 them, and knelt down and raised 

 up the head of the wounded man, 

 at the same time attempting to 

 stop the wound in his throat with 

 his hand ; he succeeded so far, that 

 the man recovered considerably, 

 and a paper and pencil being given 

 to him, he wrote as follows : — " I 

 give you my direction, my dear 

 Jane Ware is my true friend, — I 

 have a key in my pocket which I 

 will give you." Several persons 

 had come up by this time ; a hack- 

 ney-coach was procured, into which 

 the wounded man was put, and 

 conveyed to Guy's Hospital. 



Josiah Shergold, the officer, 

 stated, that having heard a woman 

 had been murdered in the Kent- 

 road, he went to the place, and 

 arrived at the spot whilst the last 

 witness was supporting the wound- 

 ed man, who was the prisoner Jo- 

 seph Hack. About fifty yards from 

 the spot where Hack was lying, 

 the witness discovered Jane Ware 

 lying quite dead ; her throat being 

 cut so deeply that the head was 

 nearly severed from the body. The 

 witness afterwards returned to the 

 spot were Hack was, and assisted 

 in conveying him to a hackney- 

 coach, and also accompanied him 

 to the hospital. In his way thither 

 he wrote with a pencil on a piece 

 of paper, " I am not so bad as you 

 think for, — you hurt me, — Jane 

 Ware lodges at No. 17, Norfolk- 

 street, Union-street." 



Mr. John Roberts, one of the 



