The National Register. — London, England, 1822-10-07 00:00:00

W some on, suggested that the prisoner should be committed for felony, and nut for misdemeanour. It was right be said, that the public should know. that by the statute of Geo. 11. it was not necessary that any property should be obtained in conse quence of using a linen% to constitute the felony. The bare rising the threat, with the view of obtaining money, being iu itself sufficient ; and he iustanced two cases iu which he had himself bsen concerned, where parties under seek ciicum *bailee% had been sentenced to transportation. Upon this authority Sir Janes SIMI directed the prisonsr to be committed to take his trial for the capital offence. Cuntous APPLICATION.—A decent lookin; young man, apparently strongly agitated, was brought up as disorderly.— Ile had, it seems, been married just live months, and last Wednesday Isis beloved wife was safely delivered of a line chopping buy. On this unhappy discovery of h s wife's frail ties, the passion of the deceived husbant broke all bounds, an d l ie had conducted himself with a violenee bordering on in sanity. On first entering die room after the discovery, lie was an intensely infected, that lie went into a violent lit of hysterics, in wind' state he remained upwards of two hours, and be had since been so dreadfully agitated iu his whole behaviour, that his landlady. partly fur his sake, as well an for her own per sonal security, found it neeesiary to give him in custody. Sir James Straw treated him with great kindness, and upon his promise to reliant from going to the house, at least 'mail his wife should Ire able to bear his reproaches without danger to the lives of herself and offspring, directed him to be dis inherited. A person in the neighbourhood of Wisbeach, of the name of NVinkley, was taken into custody last week on • Charge of sheep stealing, whose apprehension was attended with some shocking circumstances. A farmer had lost 14 sheep, which wets supposed to lie stolen, and suspicion falling on this person, a warrant was hewed for Iris apprehension. The farmer who had lost the sheep, attended by a canashcble, called at the suspected person's house, when his wife informed them he bad just gone down the grounds. They went there in search of him, ■nd as soon as lie saw them, lie took to night, but being eleaely pursued, he threw himself into a dyke. However, fin.:ing there was not water sufficient in it fur his purpose, he drew a knife and stabbed himself in dilferent parts of the holly. lEv , .n after they had secured him, and were takirig Trim off in a cart, lie attempted it,ntin to destroy himself by thrusting the knife into Iris body. Ile was taken to a public house at ‘Vulpole, where lie lies ill of his wounds ; and though sonic of them are serious, they are not expected to prove mortal. Winkley was ■ man of respectable character and of cousideraLle business, and among the last that would bare been suspected of sheep stealing. CAPTUItt or A Sxutwcen.—A fir•.e cutter, cf go tons register, celled the /sis, of and from Fluseing, wits brought into Watering!. (.11 the Yi th silt. in charge of pail of the crew of the Richmond revenue rimier, Lent. blurris, by which vessel she was fallen in with on Sntitr day night or Sunday of Arnistown, and taken between the Salter and Titsker, after eliace of above six hours, during which she mitre' ed so li damage in her rigging flout the lite of the Richmond, as to render her escape impossible. She was also tojitreil jn her pact. The mem ber of persons taken (including the supposed Captain, who calls himself Gan en de Potter, and says he is a pas tenger) wan IS, the greater pall apparently foreigners, who have all been committed to gaol, and ue to be re esaiiiiiird. *Three hundred and twenty two half bales of tobacco, of 641105. each, and seventeen kegs of Geneva, were found on beard, all ►nugly made sip, with a 5111.111 rope altitelied to each, fur the runecuienee of car riage. The whole list been lodged in the Cuatuni-house Wee', . _ ErrrcTs or TIIF Brrs or A CAT. —About fortnight since, a poor wan, named Thomas Stewart, in the employment of Nlessi v. Ball and Co. Old Jessiy, on going to work iu the looming, discovered a strange cat secreted halisliti some !tunnel, in the warehouse ; and on bring desired to remove her, he was desired to tuns her into she Airco, when tile cat nit one of his fingers, which was in a trifling dew ee lacerated: butt the injury being so trivial, he :oak itu notice of it, nor wet e any all effects observable sill Fiiday last, when the poor fellow was visited with violent setchings, plins in his head, isle. and was incapable of swallow isig food, or any autidoie admi nistered lisin by his medical attendant, Mr. Blittlissayte, al Slimed - orb. lie because alarosaugly worse iii the course of Finlay night, and next moi min; lie betrayed sit ung symptoms of madness, Mirk as foaming at the month, gnashing his teeth, and making 'wises Slililldr lu the cat. The malady increased so fast lipon him, that Mr. 11. ad ised his being conveyed to sl. Thomas's Hos pital, whets• lie was attended by Mr. To iIVCIS aid oilier :medical gentlemen who used every art human skill coati' d, vise; haul all elorts puuvrd AlltWlVe t and the mitotic'. mate man died of the shockiii_ malady about two o'clock the saute day. Tile poor fellow lived I,i years with itlalists. Ball and Co. and has left a wile and tour await als;lsli en to lahtrut 111. huts, . . A kw u,,ye a4 O, I e v ni of a rearetahle merchant, m tale an :memo tytlll own lire loorfi...tos. Ile was 111 a state of Illegeldi detangemcnt at the time, and load ixen confiued in a private mad noun: 11l Iletttal green, Item whien M: made Ins escape la a Sllllllll4l' 11131111 Cf. He 11.411 111.1Ikell the hour at wntcit the luck- big up took place, and observed Mit immediately iodine that aline the bliperintendeins were more busily employ ed Mad at any odier. Oil the day of Ins ebcapc, lie conducted himself with more than ordinary discretion and calmness tinder the eye of the Governor, and re tired, When all was must deeply eugaged, to his room, where he dela Iterately look the cord from his bedstead, and fastened it to a window bar, let himself down and walked to a coach-stand, where he hired a chariot and Ordered the coachman to drive to the Nloituatictit. Ou tirriving at the M win lie all i titied anti pore:used a brace of pistols and powder atm' ball, and then restliliiiig his seat in the ch iriot, or.lereal the coacnotall ID time to itlooifi. Ids, to the liutlite of the Het. Mr. Devereaux, me Cmludic cleravansw Ila Vine, reached that debilitation, lie left a lever tor Mr. Deterenx, beggina that a spot in the burial ground in which tile Rev. gen:6lll:M usually officiated 'mould be gut en tip fur the reception of the Iltrotiy of the unfortunate writer. The chariot was out of Sight before the letter was read, and the poor usani..c had discharged one of the pistols at his own hotly. The ball outereu ateweeli the albs. He was taken back to t lie mad butuse, where every possible atteittom had been paid to bin it Is appieliesided that lie recto.. r. He lids been in Ole army matt', toil some years ago he was attacked with brain level, which iieribauently al lected his TIM NATIONAL REGIS' MATCH TO MAIDENHEAD, AND HACK TO KEN SINGTON.—Mr. Barnard West, the pedestriau, started at It o'clock nu Monday night last, to go from Kensington to Maidenhead-head and bark (48 toilet) in seven hours, for a stake of 1.:0 guineas. Betting was 6 and 7to 4on time. The pedestrian dill eight mile* in the first hour, right and a half in the second, and he halted at SI Josh, 19 miles of his II1411(.11, wide!' he did in two hours and thirteen iii ill tiles. He 'recited Maidenhead-bridge in three hours and eighteen minutes, fresh. He travelled on to Colithrook at the rate of seven miles an boor, and he halted at Brentford, having the last five miles to do in forty mientes.—He won the match with great difficulty, having three In June last Mr Hardy, keeper of Llchester gaol, lost two of his prisoners, convicted at the last spring asees, who succeeded in making their escape from the walls of the geol. One was retaken the saute evening : the other of the none of John flallct, evaded the various parties sent in pursuit of him in the neighbourhood of Kingsbury, Creech, and various parts of Dursetshire. In the course of last week Mr. (lardy received private information that he had been seen in the neigh bourhood of Hindon,and it was possible that Ilallet might be met with at NVoodbury-hill fair accordingly, nu Thursday week, Mr. Hardy, jun. and Pike, the turnkey of the gaol, we.e despatched its pursuit of hint, and on Friday afternoon, shoat half past two u clock, they succeeded in retaking him, liaviug found him ill a booth on the top of the bill, with a number of Gipsies, and lie is now safely lodged in Ilehester gaol. Great praise is due to Mr. Hardy, the keeper of the gaol, for the in defatigable eitertioas to retake this notorious character. • circumstance took 'dace which shows the singular depravity of the companions of flatlet. Immediately on its being known that he was in custody, one of the fellows rode oil' with a bright chestnut horse, which lie had been riding in the fair, and was at the time of his apprehension tied up alongside the booth, and with which the fellow escaped. 'f he passion of 1)e Luc, the natural philosopher, for music, was so predominant in his latter days, that a piano was placed by his bed side, on whirl' his daughter played great part of the flay. The evening of his death, seeing her father ready to sink into a slumber, she asked him- Shall I play any more ?"—" Keep playing," said he, " keep playing." lie slept, but woke no more! About seven o'clock on Wednesday morning last, the inhabitants of Swan-yard, facing Somerset-house, were dreadfully alarmed at a great part of the street falling in, and exposing to view a most frightful chasm. Oil examination it appeared to have been an oil well co vdred in, and upwards of one hundred feet in depth, eighty of which are now full of water. Had it hap pened at night the loss of lives would have been very great, as this tremendous chasm is in the center of a vtry narrow thouroughlare, so that whoever might un for.vinately tall in could give no alarm. The hole is iii 1 circular form, about eight feet to &moiler. Many curious persons vis Mal it in the course of the day; it is now fenced riser, to prevent accidt ().1 Saturday moronic last three great fish, of the shale tribe, of emiritious Intik and 1111C1 11111 l 1011 appear :lller, were discovered 111 SllO4l water, close by the lesser Sdliee Islands, MI the county of ‘Vexiortl. They ap peared tnimit weakened try tlietr efforts to get its deep water, and two of them were secured with difficulty by the persons who discovered them, but the third es c sped. They were of a deep black colour all over ; the skill perfectly smoth ; one about 25. the other nearly 30 feet in length; the body, at the tidiest part near the head, 15 to It) feet in girth. They were almost iinine• diately cut up for the sake of the blubber, the quantity of which yielded above ',mt.) gallons of hoe clear oil. YARMOUTH, OCTOWIR 3.—Sunday last, being Michaelmas Day, the installation of the Nlayor, who the accustomed piablicand sumptuous dinner. was de layed until Monday last.—Atter the usual formal services at the church the Mayor, with the Corpo ration and a number of friends, adjourned to the tie.. Hall to dine, and were attended dinner by a very nume rous assemblage—in their way they were greeted by shoutina and by the ringing of the church bells, as 11413/11 a number of pieces of caution were laid upon the Quay and timed on the °cease/it—excepting these instruntents of destruction were under better management most me lancholy proof was given that it woul 1 he better to dia. pause waft tile latter custom—in the round of firing, I willeilColllmenced as the procession was passing 1.101111 R.ACIII-slreel, ion: of the guns burst, and wills ItS frag ments wounded several person., two buys very severely, title of whom, of the swine of .Moffat, died nit Wethies /lay ; a piece 01 . ttie gun struck 111111 on the fu:elicatl and fractured Ins sk uil in a shocking 1111.11111rt—li is a matter 01 wonder Mal 111.111 y tune' persons were not iiijora I, hut IS rifiljeCilllCll ill II 111051 ul the pieces 11110 woven the gun seas ShallerCil were dory ell 111/Waids, as SOllle were 101111 d at a COllSlller.ilde distance, one piece, weighing two pounds and a It tit', felt In the post office row, very near a young wool tit who was 54111111113 al a door wilit an infant nn tier arois—the spot where it fill is perhaps 300 yards trolls the plave where the gun was lyinA, and trout the iota, of the curve which it must 11.1%e inade to clear the houses and walls over which it travelled, the neighs which this tragment was projected could nut be less 111311 6do yards ; another fragment, weighing four viiiinds and upw.irds, tell upon the roof of toe Rev. F. Watson's house ; a pretty large piece was lutind to have taken an horizontal direction on the Quay and passed great istinibers without doing injury to any one. %Ve regret to announce the total destroetion by fire of the elegaitt cottage of G.:orge Purling, E-q. of Bradford, near Weymouth. Odi the eveaing nt Tuesday last, that gentleman entertained a large party of his friends at dm tier, and several of Ills visitors remained at tile house for • We purpose of forming a spooling party the lollowing day; but about seven o'clock they were alarmed by the cry of tire, and their peal security was handy sheeted healre rile whole was In flame*. Aloe's of the turtit Lure, and the greater pout oh the cellar of choice wines were saved. Toe cause of the fire has nut beet. ascertained, but it is conjectured to hate arisen limn the over-heating ot a Hue communicating with a hot dresser. A Coroner's inquest %vas held on Tuesday on the body of Mr. Thomas Craig, late a resp,crable linen draper rouoing in Oxfoid S treet, whose death was caused by a fall fitno the second Uuur window of his house on Sunday last, whilst in a mats of intax.:;:ataa..—Tlie Jury rotuned a vcoliat L.) that ages. sip ROBBERY OP THE Irswtc•t negocia. tion has been for some time on foot between the thieves who robbed the Ipswich mail-coach of the notes of Alexander and Co. to the amount of 31,1901. and some persons upon the part of the Bank. The thieves had signified, soon after the robbery took place, that the risk they ran, and the ingenuity their exercised in this hazardous undertaking, entitled them to a very great part of the sum they had made themselves masters of, and they made an exorbitant proposal to the concern, undertaking to restore the whole of the notes, upon the payment of no less a sum than 6,0001. in sovereigns, and an indemnity fr,nn all charges or demands. A refusal was given to the monstrous offer of composition, and the thieves, who were not afraid of detection, seemed careless as to the rejection of their terms, being men who have already made fortunes by enterprises of the kind, and perfectly well able to try the patience of those who are so unfortunate as to come within their reach. The efforts of the firm for the recovery of their notes were not remitted in consequence of their knowledge of the determined spirits of the gang to make the best of the robbery. The sum of 3,0001. was offered to them, upon condition that they would forthwith return all the notes, and the principals of the concern gave it to be understood that no larger offer should be made, and that the police should ci,:nmence their operations without delay, if those terms were not acceded to. The gang replied that they had already sent 3,000% iato , circulation, and that as that tnoaey was quite out of the tuestion they must lock to some profit fret% the notes still in their possession, and they accordingly demanded 3,0001 more as a recompense for their loss if they were to give up all they had risked their lives to ob tain. For some days the negotiation was kept up, but the bankers were playing a deeper game than the thieves. In all those places where their notes were in great circulation there was a " calling in," and it was pretty well ascertained at the time that none of the stolen property had been circulated ; the report to that effect having been made to those so deeply interested for the purpose of showing that they were not to be trifled with. On Thursday bills were posted on the walls, offering a reward of 5,0001. to thus.; who will give information either at Alexander's and Co.'s, or at Frv's and Co.'s S.. Mildred's-court. Poultry, so that the parties may be apprehended and convicted, and the property reco vered : ::0001. have been offered upon conviction of the parties without the recovery of the property, and the public have been requested to take no more of the Black Ink Notes of the Ipswich Bink without well knowing the persons from whom they receive them, as Alexander and Co. hail instructed their bankers in London to refer those who present such notes to themselves at Ipswich. The colour of the. copper-plate has been changed from black to red ; and at Fry's banking-house on Thursday some notes of the Ipso ich bank, which were presented by strangers were stamped with the words " Stolen— referred to Alexander and Co. Ipswich." These notes were returned to the persons who presented them, and it is calculated that the gang cannot pass more than a couple of hundred pounds worth of the paper, as-a general terror of the black notes predominates every where. NIADAME SAQUI OUTDONE. —At the entrance of Isabel of Bavaria into Paris, wife of Charles VI , a Bavarian fastened a rope from the top of the tower of Notre Dame to one of the houses within the Change Bridge; he descended dancing upon the rope, with a lighted flambeau in each hand; he passed between the blue taffeiy curtains,ornamented with large goiden fleurs-de-lis, which covered the bridge; he fixed a crown upon Isabel's head, and re-ascended upon his rope into the air. The chroni cle adds, as this was done in the night, he was seen • in all parts of Paris and its environs. It is with unfeigned regret that we have to an nounce the death of Charles, the youngesi son of Colonel Dixon, of Itainham, Norfolk, which took: place on the 11th ult., ut Megrim, near Lausanne in Switzerland, and was occasioned by his gun going off accidentally, while lie was stepping into his car riage, by which the whole charge was lodged in his side below the heart. The Marquis of Titchfield, that tn..). independent and patriotic young nobleman. took an opportunity of declaring at the Corporation Dinner at Lynn, that the recent appointment of Mr. Canning, who stands in u degree of affinity to his Lordship, being married to his aunt, will make no alteration in his Lordship's polilical sentiments, but that we will still remain an oiyonent of Ministers. This assn-. ranee must prove truly gratifying to the country, in which his Lordship h.i. excited sanguine hope and expectation. Th: petty way in which vanity displays itself in little thing% is veiy a 1111 l slug. livery hotly has hroll at of the auras termer, who co.nl.lsiai,l of the heat of wearing silver uotton-, when lie (mewl them to be •ported 11111, 0. ii;va ; iu like maonrr Di. Johli..Uti related All alireillote of II WAN will/ w.. 1 SU loud of 111%0401:4 Ull his udrbaai 4 oil I ac plisse lie po'usard, tliAt lie actually added her sper:: Li) it. ..,,,,