The National Register. — London, England, 1809-01-15 00:00:00

5/3 Iroirfr *Hi or, ?4,9,, tvirtt4. ' • J .• • • at,froal 5!. t pek.t,oa, to make brass when mixed with cop ier, e,tcjosi has been used for painting. A censicet t nirtina . frfity of silver Vain, of Elizabeth, James, attl Ohnrles, iva§ . d:re% uplast week on a farm called Lan, in ti e pnriSb` rear Anertaiitt,' ittair Carmarthen. Tradition informs us, thalzvia racoon malt stood on this spot, during part of Croat 'to bitrotectOrsli i F . The fallow inz is the most singular instance of swindlin. vehie . ll recollect to have heard of for some time. On Satur day *e'imight, a genteel looking . man arrived at a town in 114. cestershir- in a citaise ; and after making many inquiries re• spectiag we inhabitants, he sent a note to the Clergyman of the parish, sa lug, that with his permiss:on, he would do the duty of the Cl arch on the following day.—The Clergyman cop senten, and aecordinely the stranger went through the variou duties af the day. Being in comparrY in the evening, he saki that he whs going to take possession of a living in Bromptoo Brian ; and onseried, that he should be rather short of money, if he could not get somebody to cash a check, (which he pro duced), on a London Banker. A Gentleman present offered to supply nim with cash fur it, vehich he accepted, and said that he was goine. irota the place, but should retera on the follow in Titurzday. In the mean time a person arrived at the same tow ii from Bat;I, and said that he was in pursuit of a man who had given him a cheek upon a London Banker, which was found to be el'au value; and, an mahing inquiry, he felt convinced the the strange Clergyman must be the inan he sought ; and an in terview coneinced hint that he was right. The supposed Clef gy.:nan framed some plausihl excuse for his conduct, and satis fied his pursuer by paying him the greater part of his debt, with the money . , it is suppo-ell s that he had obtained fromihe alio; Gentleinau. The item morning he left the town, and no tiding have since been heard of him. lie appeared about 26 years 0: age, an,lpos,es-ed an ert.,aging per3on and address; it is most probahie that ite isnot a Clergyman. On Tuesday se'nnight, a fire broke out in the house of Mr. Weathered, bridge-street, Berwick, but was fortunately got under betore doing an. serious damage—we understand it was occasioned by some straw that had been put up the chimney to prevent we - soot frau, falling upon the floor, and which, no: being taken out when the tire was put out, fell down and threat ened the w hole premises with an instant conflagration. Several persons lost their lives one night last week in attempt ing to return nonce from Whitby-market. Christopher Swal, s. a biark' milli, at Goatiand, about ten miles from Whitby, or his return, called upon his son at Sleirhts, who seeing his father determioed to i;roceed on his journey, undertook to accompair. him over the most difficult part of the road. Having travelled a ICW miles, the old man grew so faint that his son was under the necessity of taking him upon his hark. After encounterine the greatest diticulties, they reached the end of their journey, but not hetore the father had suffered so severely from the cold and fatigue, that he expired almost immediately on entering the boteht. 1 tie son was also reduced to such a state of weakness by the exvitions he had heed compelled to make, that his reco vc-v was for some time doubtful. Another victim to the seve rity of the storm, was a young worear of the nag:-.. - of Sellers, a resident in Goatiand; the most pressing entreaties of her t'.:ends at Whitby could tint prevail with her to stay the ; her constant reply being, that it' she did not go home. he . : mother wohtd conelade that something had happened to her. xio the evening °fine ISte, she was found sitting upon the snow on the moor, with her hoi F . ,e standing h , . her, and the bridle ill her hand, dearly perished to (Atli; hut on being taken to thrm-horse, sae soon reeovereti. She must have been exposeo to the severe storm not less t han 30 hours. A farmer Of Live:- ton, Rcithen also returning from Whitby, lost his life near Scalii.gdam, titan the incleihrocy of the iveather ; his body was fouod a few days afterwards und, r the snow ; th , people whoniscoveced him nv.H...,..irawn to the pot by otherving a stick placed upi ight in the snow, w hien taeasure it appear the deceased had adopted as a signal, when exhausted nature Lad heel) compelled to resign the hopeless contest. Two men have been found 'it) the 'Moor, near Cock Aloor-hall, in the rici , hbourhood of Sc,.rhorough, who had perished in .the storm . ;a.ltirday the 17th ultimo. 1 ' A illorking ..tfair happened on Thursday last at Dowghte no,,r Welling, Bucks. Fourteen men were at work tae v..t.,ch is 100 feet deep, when an impending cliffgave •• • • - * d of them, with two earls and four I v ay • 4,1. _one seven "itielfb' the iren were dug out on the same day, tw o of whom W1TP11735! tre.f)ri ? list THE NATIONAL REGISTER. J.A.T. 15 - IL Ile the Seventh man was protected by a cart, and. is nm hurt. horses. although not kilted, were rendered useless. nifecting scene occurred at Southend, Yorkshire, abnat six o'clock last Wednesday seennight. During the violence of Lae storm, five of the Humber pilots took a .wall iroat, with the intention of going .aboard their pilot-boat, lying off the garrison. Jupt as they put off, a wave struck the biiat, which instantly was upset in the sOit of a number of people, and only two were saved. Last week some persons amusing themselves with a rifle-piece, on the Salford side of the Irwdl, a bail from it entered the window of a house in Strangcways, struck oil ine head of a ailit's doll king aside, and passed through 10 the If-irk yard.— Providentially at the time the shot wac hied, the mistress of the nouse was stooping to sweep the hearth, otherwise it must have proved fatal to her. Several children were playing in the yard at the time. The danger of this practice has been becore pointed out, from similar hazard atn - iining it. A very melancholy aer;dent happened a few (lays ago At Sharperion ford, on the Coquet River. As a poor blind man named Howey, with his- son, a lad about twelve years of age, ,sere in the act of crossing the Ford to Woodhall on a small gal loway, , it is supposed the ice coining down very rapidly, hail . inoeked the animal over, and the poor man being unable to render himself or son any assistance, both were unfortunately drowned. TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE. Downing-street, Jun. 10, ISO 9. Dispatches, from which the following are extracts, were, on the tith instant, received at the office (If Lord V iLcontit Castle reagh, one of his Maje3ty's Principal Secretaries of Stale, front Lieutenant-General Sir John Moore, K. B. Commander in Chief of his Alaje6ty's Forces employed in Spain : Bencrente, Dec. 28, 1803. Since I had the honour to address you upon the 16th, from Coro, the Army has been almost. constantly marching through snow, and with cold that has been very intense. The weather within these few days, has turned to rain, which is much more .nacon►tortabie than the cold, and has rendered the roads ahnost impassable. On the 21st the Army reached Sahagun ; it was nece,,sar% to halt there in order to refresh the men, and on ae connt of provisions. The information 1 received was that Marshal Soul t was at Saldana with about sixteen thousand men, with posts at o m; the river frotn Cuarda to Carrion. The• Army was ordered to march in two columns at eight o'clock on the night of the `3d, to force the bridge at Carrion, And from thence proceed to Saldana. At six o'clock that even ing., I received information, that considerable reinforcements had •arrived at Carrion from Palencia, and a letter from the Alartbn is tie lit Itomana infor►ned me, that the French were advancing from Madrid, either to Valladolid or Salamanca. It %vas evident, that it was toe► late to prosecute the attempt upon Soult, that I must be salisfied with the diversion I had occasioned, and that I had no time to lose to secure my retreat. . . The next morning Lieuteamit-General Hope, with his own Ii vision and that of Lieu 0 oust-General Fraser, marched to Thijorga. I sent Sir David Baird with his division to pass the river at 'Valencia, and followed L. ieut.-1 ktneral Hope on t he 251 h ith the reserve and the light brigado , :, by Mljorga, ValderaB, Benevent , . The• cavalry, under Lord Pa ,et, followeil the reserve on the 26th ; both the latter corps entered this place sesterday. We continue our march on Astorga. Generals Hope and Fraser are already gone on ; Sir David Baird proceeds to morrow from 'Valencia; and I shall leave this with the reserve it the same time ; Lord Paget s ill remain with the cavalry, to lye us notice of the approach of the enemy ; hitherto their tufantry have not come up, but they are near, and the cavalry is round us in great numbers; they are checked by our cavalry, which have obtained, by their spirit and enterprise, an ascend-. ancy over that of the French, which nothing but great superiority of numbers an their part will get the better of. The diversion made by our march on Sahagun, though at great risk to ourselves; has been complete ; it remains to be seen what advantage the Spaniards in the South will be able to take of it ; but the march of the French on Badajoz was stcpped when its advanced guard had reached Talaveira de la Reine, and every thing dispmable is now turned in this direction. The only part of the Army which has been hitherto cng,a.-ed aith the enemy, has been Or; cavalry, and it is ImpoiFible tor 1 ,~ . r