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24th February 1827

Borough of New Windsor

The Mayor requests the Attendance of the Inhabitants of this Borough at a General Meeting, to be holden at the Town Hall, on Thursday next, the 1st day of March, at Twelve o'clock at Noon, precisely, for the purposes of taking into consideration the Lighting of the Streets with Gas.
John Voules, Mayor.
Windsor, February 22 1827.




An excellent Pianoforte, by Broadwood, to Let. Apply to Knight and Brown, Library, Castle-street, Windsor.




Windsor and Eton

We rejoice to perceive that our worthy chief magistrate has appointed a public meeting, on Thursday next, to consider the propriety of lighting the town of Windsor with gas. His Majesty, we understand, has expressed his most decided approbation of this improvement; and Mr.Wyatville has communicated the King's most gracious intentions, not only to cause the Castle to be so lighted, but to afford every facility to the inhabitants uniting in the same plan.

The Rev.W.Roberts, son of the Rev.W.Roberts, Vice-Provost of Eton College, has been appointed to the living of Clewer, vacant by the death of the Rev.Dr.Foster Pigott.

On Friday morning, between the hours of two and three o'clock, some villains broke into the back premises of Beaumont House, Spital-road, the residence of Mrs.Lockman. Mrs.L heard a noise at the time, and rang a bell to alarm the servants, which fortunately had the effect of hastening the movement of the thieves, as they decamped only with a few articles of trifling value, stolen from the kitchen.

The calendar for the Berkshire Assizes, to be held at Reading, on Friday next, contains the unusual number of 43 prisoners for trial. The High Sheriff, Thomas Duffield, Esq., of Marcham Park, being so well known in the Forest as well as in the lower part of the country, we think it very likely that the cavalcade of horsemen and carriages which usually attend the Sheriff on his receiving the Judges at Sonning-lane (a little distance on the Maidenhead road), will on this occasion be excessively numerous.

We understand that Mr.Sergeant Peake is appointed to accompany Mr.Baron Garrow through the Oxford Circuit, and that they will open their commission at Reading, at nine o'clock on Friday morning.

A sparrow match for 20 sovereigns, will be shot on Tuesday next, at the Old Pipe House, Thorpe, Surrey. Mr.C.Oades undertakes to kill 40 sparrows out of 50, the birds will be box'd the regular distance. Betting of 6 to 4 against the performer.

On Wednesday evening as the timber waggons of Messrs.Osbourn and Caldwell, of Brentford, was returning home, the horse took fright, within one mile of Hounslow, and set off at a furious rate. The driver in attempting to arrest their progress was thrown down, and wheel of the waggon passing over him, both his legs and one arm were broken.

On Saturday evening last, as Mr.Richard Bradfield, of the Abbey Mills, was returning home from the Red Lion Inn, Abingdon, where he had been spending the evening, he fell down in the street , and instantly expired. An inquest was held on Monday by W.D.Belcher, Esq., mayor, when the jury returned a verdict of "Died by the visitation of God." The members of the corporation have to lament his loss as one of the body. He was likewise a governor of Christ Hospital, and a trustee of several charities in the town. He died in his 64th year.




In consequence of the publicity given in this and other papers to the diabolical act mentioned in our last, by which Mr.Pearman's farm at Mapledurham was destroyed, the stolen horse was recognised in the Old Bailey on Saturday, in the possession of Richard Webb, a carrier between Maidenhead and London. He was taken into custody, and examined on Monday, when he stated that he lived at Cookham, Berks, and was going to pay his rent at Reading on Wednesday morning, when he met a stranger at Bisham, about a mile and a half from home, with the horse in question, and bought it of him for �14. He produced a receipt signed by Thomas Grimshall, in corroboration of his statement. A letter was immediately despatched to Mr.Pearman, who arrived in town Tuesday evening, and the prisoner underwent another examination at Guildhall on Wednesday. Mr.Pearman applied to have the prisoner sent to Reading for examination, on the ground that it would be very expensive to bring all the witnesses upon the charge of wilfully setting fire to the premises and stealing the horse, to London. He said he had seen the horse; it was the one that had been stolen, and that the officers were sent in search of the prisoner before it was known that he had actually the horse in his possession. The prisoner had been seen within 500 yards of the place whence the horse was stolen on Tuesday, and also at a public house about a quarter of a mile from the premises that were burnt. He did not remember that he had even seen the prisoner before, but he understood he was in the service of his father about 30 years ago. - Sir Peter Laurie observed, that the crime of horse-stealing had increased to an alarming extent, and as the complainant believed the enquiry would be better prosecuted at Reading, he would order the prisoner to be taken there.




The public were much gratified to learn, that the Fair Mile road, near Henley, which, for many years, has been dangerous on account of the number of gravel pits so near the edge of it, is now rapidly improving. We believe the whole of the pits will be filled up, except three; which, on account of the immense quantity of earth required to fill them, cannot, at present , be done; but it is the intention of the commissioners to rail those pits round, in a secure manner, as to render an accident, with any vehicle impossible. The turnpike, at the top of the mile, will shortly be removed to Bix.




Aylesbury

The Marquis of Chandos, on Wednesday, presented in the House of Commons, a petition from the owners and occupiers of land in the Three Hundreds of Newport Pagnell, stating that the petitioners viewed with concern the efforts now making to prevail upon the Legislature to sanction the unrestricted importation of Foreign Corn, and praying for a proper remunerating price. The Marquis stated, that he most fully concurred with the sentiments expressed in the petition, and with the view the petitioners had taken of that important question, feeling that he did that a free trade in Corn would ruin a vast number of our agriculturists, as well as add greatly to the distress of the labouring class; and added, that without a fair and proper remunerating price, the English farmer could not exist in comfort or independence, or be enabled to assist the labourer who depended upon him for employment and support.




There was a good supply of cattle at the fair at Newport Pagnell, on Thursday, and but few buyers, on account of the scarcity of hay; the prices were consequently low.




Between 30 and 40 head of poultry, were stolen from the hen-house of Mr.Thomas Taylor, of New House Farm, Hemel Hempsted, on the night of the 20th instant. A reward of two guineas is offered by the Great Berkhampsted and Northchurch Association for the discovery of the offender or offenders.




On the 20th inst., an inquisition was taken before J.Charsley, Esq., coroner for Bucks, at Princes Risborough, on view of the body of a poor man named John Hedges, who on Monday morning was found in his master's stable, near to the house, quite dead. It appeared that he had been before attacked with apoplexy, and the surgeon being of opinion that such a fit terminated his existence, a verdict was returned accordingly.

On the same day another inquisition was taken by the same coroner, at Pightlestbow[?], on the boarders of the county, on view of the body of William Nanoway, in the service of Mr.Newman, a respectable farmer, who had been employed to drive a team at stone cart; it was the hindmost; but one of four other teams, and by some sudden impulse of horses set off on the trot; the poor man in endeavouring to stop the horse, slipped down, and the near wheel of the last, laden with stones, passed over his back, and fractured the spinal bone, which caused immediate death. A verdict of Accidental Death was returned, and a deodand of 1s on the cart wheel was found.

On the 22nd inst., another inquisition was taken by the same coroner, at Great Marlow, on view of the body of Moses Mossington, who on Wednesday night left the town to go on board a canal boat in the River Thames, but it having been discovered the next morning that he had not been on board, search was made for his body, which was found in about four feet of water in the river, but no evidence appearing to allow how it came there, a verdict of Found Drowned was returned. It was conjectured that he stepped into deep water whilst getting into the boat, and had used great efforts to save himself.