The National Register. — London, England, 1814-01-09 00:00:00

3) VIE NATIONAL REGISTER. Crantlitina and 'Leicester. tit% Gliieetiie D•ll.e 01 itiitlan(l pi e sented the first Address. as Recoiller of the ; and the Lei cester Address was delivered iav Air Sty . leant Vairnt.ni, lievorder Leicester, on which ()evasion W. Walker, h.tl, Itiyor of Leicesto received the honour of Knighthood After the Court hal bloke sip. the I)idse of Rutland gave s;i:entlid (limier to the ;Winfrey , o; the two eorp.ir,,tions, where, ii! tht it reque't, the infant M.irgiii.; of Granby was brought into do room by Lord Robert when his health was drools entliii blait if - ally with three. JAN. 6.--To Our anxiott% solicitude to convey to the public the part:- eitlars of what transpiies at this mansion, we omitted to state ir the report 01 the christening, the i,ame of the infant 11.1orgnis o (iroithy. lie Was baptized by the nano• of tieorge rederick Th e h ouse con t a i n , mo re th a n 2:4) uhu partake dad; of the festivitit s. The eistern 01'1)110(11, under the managentent of Mr. Douglas, ad ministered in the servants-hall on Tuesday to the household and to nantty, latid many a brave fellow prostrate. The passages of the bruise reinintled one of a castle taken by storm, and the young Mat quig, the Noble I lost, and the Prince Regent wet*. toasted until ar ticulation ceased. Many were found the ut xt day in the subterra nevus passat:es of the castle, with symptoms ut recoverim.: animation The pinch wits not out at ten on Wednesday morning. This cistern, according to the history of the county, was tided with cordial whet/ John Duke of Rutland, father of the present Duke, W. 1% horn. The silver cistern is 16 feet in eacumfet cure, hold; tin gallonv, and is a .tateldess piece of workmanship. Ale, at tie- rate of 21 strike to the hogshead, is emv making, to be kept till the young Marquis become • of age by the blessing of Providence. The festivities will cease to-mot row, when his Royal Highness the Prince Regent and his Royal Brother will leave lit Ivoir Castle for Burleigh, the seat of the Earl of Witrkel-ra. Tittle will 1w otter house again at the Castle on Monday, whet) the Duke's oirth-day will be kept in the usual style of old English hospitality. There will by a hall in the e‘ ening of that slay. on which occasion the amiable hostess of the castle condescends to lead ,low n th% first dance with the tenantry of the noble hotr:e. The kind coudeseen sion of the Doke and Duchess is beyond all praise. We are into! teed the Royal Prince will go bunt Butleigh on Sun day, to Procket Hall, the seat of Lord MellnJuine. IFTETAII.NSTER SESSI MS. JAN. J. Friday these S:ssions ended, when the following personlitrectived -entertcc, viz. Francis Millar and James Browne, tried on Thursday but then ac quitted on an indictitent for picking pockets about the doors of the Theatres, for want of full evidence, and now tried on an indictment, chargin4 them with being found in the attempt t ) commit Ihe like of fence, which Wil.lnrched to he C ti fined for six months. fimmas !Int for six months. George Henry Uremia'', for stealin , a hal in a .itop at Tothili-fields to he Coi flied six inimilik.—George Wright, for an assattl . , &c, Iwo boys in Drell' -lane Tueal re on tin! .5.1 i inst. to be i,,, 1 „, 8 „ ll ,. ( 1 1110iiii, , y, a Mull y° youth, for s., aling at St. James's Palace, in November a silk handLeichiet; from ilie pock-t of it boy, nant 13).11ing, which was firund about the prisoner's tic. k, hitt dais alter, bv a anv-street officer, pictured by the boy. On his trial, thug aied father of the Prisoner mark a must al tilling sum; ication to the Bench on behill of his abandoned and only ci illd. whom he had in vain put into divers situations to get hint away rum had company. lie had himself served for 14 yea; s irreproach- Ably in a Government other, and laitly took pit-sage for the Wekt In dies in order to take his son wi,h hint, and whom he beseeched liberty •iow to take out of this country,never to return on the moat solemn un -I,rinling. The Bench were touched wit:l this most piteous scei , e, and he Jury having irquitted the Prisoner, pro forma, he was handed to' the lather ani uu uthcer. THE LATE FOG. The dewity of the atmosphere Miring the day, and tl,e heavy fog at night, wide!' prevailed dining the whole of last week i , London, and many miles round, has been very rcluatLahle, alai :las occasioned several accidents. On Monday se'nuight, the mails anal other coaches were delayed ;in unusual long time. (.;iasgow coach, which should reach Stamfard by eight, did not as;Tive us. Torsilay outil two in the afternoon, and the York ate., Edinburgh not until four. y of the coaches %vele overtortsed ; that York mail twice, neer Wake, notwithstanding the guard anc Itssen4ers walked to keep it in the load. The Maidenhead coach, on its return from town the same cvuoileg, missed the road, oval . Hartford bridge, and was overturned. Lord Ila .t ;ink', was among the passel:ger , . and leceived an irjory by the isreideat A young girl, named tiriffiths, daughter of a pith:lea') Dep , .¶Uld, on I:m . lc:turn to Lomiati the rising path leading to the blidgt over the Surly Caved, and tell into the Canal, Nei was drowned. On the Tuesday night, a watchman, in the pat ish of Marybone, kit ,dowii an area, while crying the hour, and was fonod the next morning witli his Leek bri.dico ; and onTlitirsday night a Sierjeant rc- Jooging to the West Kent Militia. garrisoned in the Tower, fell pito tl e river from the wharf, and was drowned, There has heel' no lest awe of sorb a fug, as at present pervades the metropolis extending to the fl:stauce of Orly miles ronnd, since the earthquake at Lisbcr in November, At that time this country was visited by at fog, which had not been equalled fur a century brfore ;IA which lasted about the same folic. Saturday se'nnivlst, betweei. i3' bolus of two and four, the oli , curitv was greater thrill it hat: e ; at all during tl.e day time since the conunencenirnt. Thu t wl-04 e q ually hail with any Mit preceded, No person,: were tI n Itch as absolute business compelled. F•lv hackney coaches it worth while to pis . , and such as did had an assklatit to 411 111 i horse., or drove only at is walking }nice. The cry of— in 1! 'l' ke care ! IsVhere are Non? resuntlikil in all directions in • s!reet.— About I'2 o'clock at slight, the fog be g an to clear • • a • ;t,r.Jay last, thatik Gott', the inetvo?olis g9nplettly flee A' • .1111•0 ACCIDLATS AND OFFENCES. 11xvrisonotNAny C se.—On Wednesday evening, the wife of Al r. Mann, who keep , the AT .rgois of Granby public-house, in Gray's. modne, lett her home, telling her busbanu that she had got an order fur the Sans Pare 1 Theatre, and was to take a lemale friend with her. Tietw..en ten and eleven o'clock a j Anneyitian Inaer, whom the husband I; new, called, and told him that t ii wile Ihid been extremely ill, mid had been conveyed to an ar;thecary's in Fleet-street. Ile also (1, that, instead of a female, he himself had been with her to the the litre. Ali. M. lop.tened to the t, found his wife in a state of insee,aibil ty ; and the opil ion of the Alodical Gentleman was, that something of a narewic eature had been admitii-teied to her. Ile also informed Mr. M that she had been conveyed to the shop by alive men, who slat d that the, had hrought her from a house of ill fame, but refused to tell where thy lonise %v.'s situated, or to give any account of. themselves. Mr M. took her home ie. a hackney coach, and the nest morning the biker called to enquire atter er s elfare, when Mr. M. tawnier, him that she died ut three o'clock. On examining the hods, some seveto licuises were tumid on her thighs and shoulders.—Mr. M on Thursday, staled the mysterious circumstance at Bow-street Office, when the baker was Min for ; but he persisted in the statement he had made to Mr. Mann, :Hid evinced no symptom of guilt. lie w -s. therefore, dismissed ; but dim. cted to attend before the Coroner's Jury. The Inquest was behl op Fri,lav ut the house of Richard Coombes, the slat) i the White Garduns, Gray's-inn-lone, be lure Geol;.:e limlgson, E.g. The Jury assembled at one o'clock, and alter byttn4 sworn, sent to the Alitiquis ui Cirunby ittailic.house to take view of the body. The Surgeons opened Ole b ,, dv, and the head, the better to alcer iaio the cause of her death. This operation took op alit Enter, (luting ante the Jun had to wait in an anti-toom, and ;liter Joking a view of the boos, hey returned to the jury-room at the Whi!e Mr. jallleS Chemist, in Fleet-strect, said, that about hall-oast ele ten o'clecl. ou Wednesday night, he was sc ttt fur to the Son Hotel, neil. Temple-bar, where he was biliwined !here was a Lady in a most .la:,gerous state, having been taken suddenly ill. Ile i.ccoidingly etit to the bo il s', and in the pad uir, stretched on a sofa, lie saw 11itt t:eceased lay in a state of i nse n si bility, Mrs. Perry, c inisttess of the house, two servant maids, and the ionvneyman bak r, where the cinly persons beside in the room. Ou esaminiug the di ceased, he became alarmed at her state, and lie sus pected that she had t..ken, or that there was somethieg improper ael ministered to I.er; he supposed she had taken laudai,um, hut on looking round tl e room, he saw nothing except a bottle and two glasses. which stood on the table, in which there was the appearance of some wine. fle communicated his opinion of her danger, and be was re quested by the other parties to permit her to be ti..ken to his house to save her charucier, inid that her husband might be scut tor, as it was a house of ill fame. To this request he consented, and she was re moved to his house ; he sent tor Mr. Owen, a surgeon, in Chancery- Jane, who, When he saw her, was of opinion it was an upoplectill tit*,