The National Register. — London, England, 1814-12-18 00:00:00

DEC. 18. MISCELLANIES. THE. PRINCESS O F \V A LES.—A letter from Naples, dated Nov. .2 S , says—" The King yesterday reviewed 9000 infantry and six squadrons of cavalry. An elegant tent was raised for her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, in such a man• ner that she could have a full view of the manceuvres. The Queen of Naples accompanied the Pi incets The Officers of the English squadron, the Ministers of the Foreign Powers, and the first personages of the State, ns , embled to pay their re , peets to the Princess. After the review, with which she was hip,hly gratified, the Queen and her floyal Highness, fob lov-e('. by the who'e Court, proceeded to the splendid tent of kil!g Joachim, where a grand dinner was served up" A. a grand hat! given by the Pittice Regent, at Brighton, llst week, he wired when the clipper was announced, and the F uke of Clirence took the chair. The Prince regularly w i w at on - f cm the evening parties, during a I the time of his residence at Po ighton, leaving his guests to pro:ortg their iinuseinent to their own hour. Afzei. all the boasts of the French inanufacturers„the Mo -1,:!tto• confo7se , , that at the fair of Frankfort upon the Oder, Er.g!is,i) goods sorpassed all competition, even those of Pros niln;lfacture. Fine EngEsli cloths were sold there as low as ; : cr cents. taboo; Ed.) an ell. Ail the ktters fro-1 the out ports speak of the tremendons pies that have b:wit for some days past, and apprehend test con,ithraLle damage will be done, particularly on the F.Ll•tc:.n Ext7z , ....1 of a letter from Plymouth, Dec. 13.--" Diving the itole of last night and this morning it blew a tremen dous gale (rim the S. S. \V. and S. W. which occasioned the etr:ward be - utrd fleets in harbour Co ride very Nod.. 4 .1;0ut ti morning the brig Providentia, of London, w:tit a vatuable carg - o for Cadiv, parted her cabTe in the mouth of Cat...Y.tter, and went on shot e at Teal's Hill, on the rucks- near Queen Astte's Battet v, where she now lies with prospect of being got otl, her rudder and stern-post are gone, and l expect from her position that she is bilged and rocks th:ough her kittom. The weather having mode ratrd atom ten o'clock, and upon .the Achole favourable during the day, by great exertion, about one o'clock, half the cargo "as landed, some part of it with little or no da mage. and should the weather prove moderate,. there is very prospect the whole care) will be saved. The Whi ting, from Loudon, cut her cable, and ran into Catwater. The brig Georgiana par ted in the Sound, and got on board another vessel, by which-she 10_t her fore-topmast and bow sprit, and afterwards dot into the Pool without further da nrge. A vessel was wrecked near the New-stone, crew supposed to be lost, except three men who are discovered on that island, but no boat . has yet been able to•go off to them ; she is supposed to be from St. Michael's front the .great cluanti4y of fruit floating about ; the Yesssel is entirely to pieces. 1 galliot, under Swedish colours, is in ‘Vbitsand Bay, with signal of distress and distnasted, said to be laden with sugar and cotton from Liverpool for Stralsund. Pilots have been sent oft to her, -and :t is hoped she will be brought in. The weather is mote moderate, and wind veered mord to the westward." CURIOUS W AGM-4 atcly, nt Portsmouth, 111r.,6 abut, foimerly surgeon in his Majesty's service, now co halt pay, undertook for a wager of thirty-one guineas, to take out cighttf.n teeth, more or less carious, fuom patients 5 Oected for the purpose, without the aid of any instrument, or foice, with his fingers only, and ,nnattended by rail), in 2 minutes, which he performed, to the astonidoneot of ail CSC Id, in occen minutes. CORONER,S' INVIESTS. • An inquest was held on Saturday sennight, in Dublin, Gn the body of the fate Lord Menet, at which Alderman Bhutan' presided. The body was found stretched on the floor, with a pistol in each hand, the tore fingers of which were applied to tile triggers. It would appear that t: e unhappy Nobleman wits standing in the middle of The floor when he shot himself, mud that he fell against a table, upon one of the corners rt svhieh some blood was di,covered. It was the kit hand, pistol that he used. lie applied it to the left temple, and the bail p rssed through the head. The right hand pistol was dischsrged in the fall, and its contents, of er passing through a chair, lodged in a wooden partition under - the middle window of the chamber. Both instryruents were sand!, but must have been strongly charged, us the reports were extremely load. lie the pockets we his•hordship some silver and a few i•Artnaternil papers a ere bomd. S”rtreen Ireland having examined the body, declaring himself of opinion, that " the deceased came by his death inconsequence of a ball having passed through the head above the, right ear." Matthew Ilawdon was the ftst witness examined. He said he was an attendant of the it. French, son of Lord Ftiench. He s.tw the deceased alive at two o'clock on Friday. He spoke to Lord Flreach at that hour, and was desired by his Lordship to wine his name to a • paper that lay on the fable, which he Rd. Witness asked what the paper was,. but received no other answer than that he arts to write lots name, under his Lordship's, and then retire. Lord Ffrench was continually walking backward and forward while witness was writnits. Ilk pace was extremely hurried. \Vbs.') witness had signed his narro., the deceased observed, that be had written very low. Witiress was in t h e mom about fi ve 'v i tiates . .11 e went into an opposite room, and eon.. . tinned there about 'it) minutes. lie came out and stood in the lobby, and talked to Richard Casserty, a servant. Ile re.nained in the lobby about eight or ten minutes, when the Mill parted witness. Ile went uR to Lord Ferench. or the room %here he as„ When be opened the door there was a thick smoke. The shot had been fired before he entered the apartment, lie went in so far sts that he observed Lord Drench covered with bloo d , Na,half an hoar atter it had slatted the paper. .On recolfeetir n he declared he heard two shots. lie was the tiesf in t h e rot an after ttles shots wets fired. . Mr. Pah:audit entuted ihe-room afterward'. Witres wa. Li, way illariat.d 2t • the shots. Ile thought t h.. v h ave b een by ~nn:e of 11,e lads unin•ing 1:,0111!•elvt , 5. of served, i n a that} the proliA,lny was, that a some per•Gn shot lii•nsel.r. NV ant •s, . f ler he aseettainerl what the matter wiis , 10111 Mr. liAtithlin that there wio: a dierolltil sielit in the nrxt loom. Mr. Sovvilr, Mr. P and witness, entered i.he room together. They ob-c reed that Lit Fircoeli wets to all appearances dead. Wittiest .easy Ftreneb about tt o'clock in .. ro i olt , at mtD atine ip s hotel, Mary-oreet, where he learned that hi• Lord-hip would breakfast in College. lle saw lii"Lordship two or three ti!•or s after, und it arts observed he looked very ill and tuneh deranged. Witness did pot believe any person was in the rAnea alter he signed the paper. After the evidence clt”ed, Mr. O'Dwyer addressed the Jury with much feeling. Ile could IPA conceive how it was possible to ruktaLe the state of the ill filed nob!eman's mind, alter the elear, circumst and em;current testimony which liaa given by :o many respectable w n esses. 'I he Jury after a few minutes' deliberation brought in the following verti;et We Clod that the late Lord Ferench Came by his dealt, ! by discharging a pist o l loaded %kith ball through his head, lasing ia the " same time in it s tale of insanity. o.l:l'lle.,•ilay Cironer's Inquest was hem at Bartholomew', llusvital, 01 the liody of Sarah Penten. The deceased re,ided ill Ft4lllt'l*-ta C oat, Fetter lane ; and some ditreience having arisen Item eels her her lots:rand, he seized the back part of a chair, With %%Lich he repeat e illy sun( k bet. She was taken to the I lospital, where 3:IC bog( tett till her death. The Jury, under all circttaistar•eis, retained their diLt—Mati , lattf.. , ,liter. Penton committed to Ntwgrite ha trial. Ott AVettnesdav, an ltiiitio‘t was held at the hitig sod Q;:eett. Cam• berwidi, on the - body of 'N. March, found still'iscated in a ditell in uric kfiel(i lane, NValwnith, on 'Alinidity last. lie was dour, 70 years -cid. Verdict • Are:dew:it deidli.—Satise day, an !wiliest was !trio tree Coed' and Horses. Clitswiek, on the body of a child, niturili E. M. berme Powt-t1 Price, E•i(i., found in its csitlin un the litre Mr. Mirreing's e!ni•es, where it !tailed out to hive been llye or six yeat'S. M. remembered tt,e Oectoperl being brinOt to Air. Moreing's about fire or SIX years since tioto Lt,ueltnr io Lake's err awl cart, 'and that it 0 a„ build the child was going to be borieil about ;lon miles Lake :Mem. bered bringing the cofFn from London to 1/r. M.'s ritalthouse, that gt.iill.nuait p a ying fur its card:4le; tint he never said for what porm,yr . the child was brought. It siplietv'ng, however that the ciii!rt 'mai a starnral death, nod that it had Lezit forgotten ) •thcre wits 4 . vtlul6t. died by the visitation of (Jud. TH NATIONAL REGISTER.