The National Register. — London, England, 1814-04-10 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGTSTER. `snows"- Monsieur entered Nancy on the 19ih, and was. received ! with the- loudest acclamations of 46 Vive le Roi " Vive Monsieur'!" Spanish papers were received on Thursday to the 26th ult. They afford the'interesting news thrt King Ferdinand was to set. out from Valency on the 13th of that month. On the 9th he bad received from Buonaparte a certain num ber of blank passports. On the 10th he wrote a letter to the Regency, announcing his intended journey by the way of Perpignan and Catalonia. The intelligence was received ; with enthusiasm by the Cortes, but an incidental expres sion in the letter sra. , :illos, subjects, nr yassala) gave room to some remarks of ilk-approbation, obich sufficiently prove the watchfulness of :7;panish representatives_to preserve their constitution:4 liberty. Wc are happy to find by these r apers that Gerona, Olot, and Puy Ccrda are all deli vered from the occupation of the enemy. • The return of Lord and Lady Castlereagh is expected in the course of next week. The Grand Duchess of Oldenberg visited the Parka and Westminster Abbey, on Sunday, and during the week she has been to the British Museum, the Tower, St. Paul's Cathedral, Guildl!all, the Mansion House, 'and the Bank. At the latter place she expressed herself highly gratified with its magnificence. On the Governor of the Batik ex piessinghis thanks for the honour she had done them by her visit, her Highness replied, " sir, thank England, whose political consistency for the last - 22 years has been the salva tion of Europe." The Duchess has several of the Prince Regent's carriages and state attendants at ber command, and is treated altogether with a degree of attention and sremlour due to the Sitter of our magnanimous Ally the Emperor of Russia. Thursday her Highness viewed the liititaryAsylum, at Chelsea,she was received on her arrival by the Prince Regent, the Dukes of York, Clarence, Kent, and Gloucester, &c. After going over every part of these ' splendid establishments, the party partook of a sumptuous cold collation. On the return of her Imperial highness to Pultney Hotel, she received the visits of several distinguish ed characters, and after that she visited the Duchess D'An goaleme and Madame Moreau. A most unmeroes and respectable 'meeting of the male and female friends of the West London Lancasterian Institution was held Mon day at Freemason's Hall, Sir James M'lntnsh in the chair.—The report of the Committee appointed at a Gown' Meeting to carry into effect the objects of the Association was read, winch stated that there were 3) 000 children in the City of Westminster without the means of obtaining education. A member of resolutions were then voted by Mr. Whitbread, Sir F. liordett, the Duke of Sussex, the Rev. Rowland Hill, Lord Cochrane, Earl -Stanhope, Mr. Bur goyne, and others; nlao made eloquent appeals to the feelings of the company on the necessity of liberally subscribing to support so praiseworthy an institution. Subscriptions to a large amount were received, amo'ig NOrwli were, Mr. Rrnnuham ' 5 " l.; Samuel Whit bread. Esq. 501.; t ve guineas annually ;. Lady Elizabeth Whitbread, ten guineas, two unineas annually; Earl Stanhope, thirty guineas; J. Wedgwood,. Dig. thirty guineas; Sir Franck Burdett, lOW. three p r cent. stock ; Lord Cochrane, the sum due to his Lordship. for.the destruction or the enemy's ships in Basque Roads, in April 1809, amountiug to between four and seven hundred pounds.---The meeting then broke up. An act was committed at Plymouth on Satnrdly evening, whirls slims sack early depravity as rs shocking to limnatiity :—A boy, scarcely fourteen, was beating some of his little brothers end sis ters in a moat savage manner, when his mother inlerfering. and endeavouring to save tlicnefrom his brutality,. he suddenly stabbed Ler in the abdomen with „a knife he hod itilds hand. Medical ad vice was iwmedi.'tely obtained, when the wound was found to be so large, 1114 the bowels were actna'ly obtruding, and great feats are entertaineA of her recovery. She is the wife of a labourer at the Vitualling Mice, and has seven children, besides the yorme numoet who einnmitted this parricidal act, who is tniterally such a desperado, that a short time since be stabbed a knife into his awn Ile is, of course, committed to prison.. .- 1,1tY.",;r11 ACCOUNI Ot . l-1E BATLI ES • OF THE 19Th u, AND SOTH ULT. The following is the French Bulletin cif the Battles of the 29t1i anuh. ft was scut ii: matui•eiipt, and it nitikt be ec totes •d to be Ccutal in point of remelt!' to any Bulletin eta pithliAleil by Buoiiiiparte. BUL I VIM. The Paiiian army had, =nth M crrh , an engeor meot with tie eneolv. te!4ted with it, atA it made 40:10 ptit.ot.eys. "I he action took plare itt tiVflt he;..: l .t of Pii!isit,, M,,r i tn l ntre, otticr points. The t neiry cietou.itiud a soqpeo:inn of aims for to hors their ()tit I , *.v:Licli waq gratittql t;:e:o. Eve, y hi•!11, ,•. 11;,iie that ilk Nl:ijesty. w!lo is eoviim: by furred tnitru'ors to the itssi:tar-ce of 'ht capital, plaf.t. the Cilenly tie; V. - C :11 tv.O (I.l*s. • On the tz9tli, the diy wL;e!i t a-tioa t-ck 'dace. the en. boons of the Lationa! !.-it:.v,l c,t JRIE:o. 4 t .b„noi,e,l hy thr prir. ,•:,,l e st.reets of that city nt the !ins de charge, too: to tlit• clit.s of I ie.:- rEittp..r•Tr/ fire to France and piandit. , of the wi.t.'et /Vote in the llorgin-- plettly beater'.'' ." The right wing of the enemy was cont. INIMICEPTED LETTFII. The Conmeks vri thin these 1e w days *tote . ..N.ov" a letter &wit the Empregh to Eltowaparte ; the following iS • liirt .1 the letter :- 4. dear son had last iiittht a very disinited Acep. He called cot several tinies opoo yen, and. it was with great he coffitt tie pacified. %%Then he awoke I presced Mite to ten UM what had inade hint so unea.y: he said he had iiretnut that bad tallea front his horse aid been kilted ; that tie saw it himself." 4' PROT'INCIA T. ASSIZES. .........aws...- . YORK, MARCH FL—James FtH6)V 4 was elumted with the wit. ful murder of Mr. John Taylor, of So to,o, near Moil. by shooting him with a pistol loaded w ith balls, on '1 itursday, the 24th of Feb. and acquitted. Roliert Turner was tried the fame :lay I , r the wilful murder of Margaret Appleby. The trial commenced at two o'clork in the afternoon, and continued until half past ten At ni4ht. The decea sed had filiated a child upon the prisoner, who yeas a small farmer at I.ow Wor,hal, in the North Riding. .The deceased was a pau. per in the workhouse at Yartn.. and came •to Stokesly nu the 251-11 • of February, for the purpose of atte.iding a meetiag of the justices, to get an order %twin the prisoner for the maintenance of the child. At this conduct the prisoner expressed much displeasure.. and en. deavonred without F net exs, to prevail upon her to go to the Malls trates, to unsay all . that She bad swot:;. Almost immediately aft , ' tAs he presented the deceased with a glass of rum and warm water which he himself brought Wont the bar of the public house ; !ilie drank the whole of it, and was instantly seized with the Most ex cruciating pain. She languished until the 14th of February, when she died. These circumstances, tceruther with the disappeatauce of the prisoner, who absconded befiite the death .of the deceased, and was at length found concealed at South Shields, formed the principal part of the evidence against him. No poison was finked , in her stomach. The jury retired about twenty minntes, and oa their return found the prisoner guilty. Sentence. of death was im mediately passed on him. John James, Of West 'Wittnn, in th e North Riding, wis.charg ed L with the wilful minder of William Ridley, of Middlesliam, sheriff's 1 1 officer, on the 24th of November, by stabbing hint in the neck with P. knife.. Wm. James, brother to the above, was chamed with Wing and abbetting in the said s murder. The evidence against the latter, however, only proved the use of express ions, which imported, that he had au ili will ,to the deceased, and was not sorry for his death : and his Lordship observed, that vsliatever , tinfaiourable impression they might give the jury . as to th e . obdu racy of his heart, they. slid not amount to a participation in the murder and directed the jury•to acquit him. Thomas Serjeantson, on the trial of John Ja m es; stated, that in enuargaciwe of an application from the deceased, who Was a sheriff's officer and an auctioneer, lie went with him to seize some hay and corn belonging to the prisoner. For this purpose they went to a field belongin. to the prisoner, in which the stack of was, which was sold by y e the deceased, they then went out of the prisoner's field to the barn of Mr. King, to which the corn of the prkoner had been removed. Witness went into King's field the ' first, and was followed by the deceased ; who was removing a bar A Pnifi 10. I I