The National Register. — London, England, 1811-10-27 00:00:00

TII F DUKE OF CLARENCL Fxtract of a letter from Deal, dated Oct. 28.—" His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence arrived here to-day, about twelve o'clock, and at one went on board the Christian VII. Admiral Young's flag-ship ; all the ships in th e D owns fi r i ng a royal salute. with their yards manned ; after which he went on board the Naiad, Captain Carteret. His Royal Highness was attended by Lords Liverpool, Purtarlington, G. Grenville, Ash brook, Temple, &c. and a great nember of ladies and gentle men from Ramsgate, Margate, &c. He is entertained to-day by Admiral Foley, and intends honouring the assembly this ovenidg with his presence. He is accompanied by his daugh ter, Miss Fitzclarence. In mustering the crew on board the Naiad, his Royal High neis •recognised a seaman who had served under his command in the Andromeda and Pegasus, and, with a view to provide for him, he has requested Captain Carteret to let the man pass his examination, to qualify him as a warrant officer. It is re markable of this man, that he was stationed at the wheel in the action with the Boulogne flotilla, and had, therefore, a narrow escape for his life. and geneva, 594 p. kid gloves, 25 pair of men's silk ditto, 24 coloured si k shavAs. 113 yards black and coloured silks, 12 pair of womett's white silk stockings, 16 pair of women's coloured silk shoes, 144 yards of white crape , and two b o xes o f pl a yi ng card s ; also a luvger, in which the above goods were tran s p orte d, a nd her. materiAls, all which were delivered into the care of the Collector of the Customs at Hastings. The metropolis was visited on Saturday week, with one of the most intense fogs ever known ; the Bath and Exeter mail upset at Hammersmith, from the almost total darkness, but no person was hurt. The Southampton hull also overturned at Turn ham Green, by which the coachman and passengers were se riously hurt, and the coach incapable of performing the jour ney. Cloud' s Hammersmith coach likewise upset, but neither passengers nor coachman were injured. We stated in our last paper the extraordinary fact of a dead body having been arrested, for a debt of 751. on the day intended for its interment; we now understand, that, in consequence of one of the officers of the Sheriffs of Middlesex having been reported to have executed the writ, the Sheriffs have caused inquiry to be instituted into the circumstances of the case, and finding, that although the officer, when taken by the. Oahe& to the defendant's house ' w:iere he found the defendant was dead, did not in any way disturb the body himself. yet, that having improperly left it with the plaintiff, without having made any communication at the Sheriff's Office of the defendant being dead, the Sheriffs have dismissed such officer from his employ ment.—What not a little uggravates the offence is, that the oath of the debt is said to have been sworn when the debtor wall actually lying dead. A SEN SIBLE Doc.—A labourer, who is employed at one of the wharfs on the Surrey side of irestminster-blidge, delft his dog on Monday, In the presence of many spectators, to fetch him a pipe. 'Die animal, with a penny in his mouth. ran to the landlord of aopublic-house in Stangate-street, and draw d the money. The publican understood the nature of the errand, as the dog had been to him before on the same business, and having filled a pipe with tobacco, he lighted it, and put it in the dog's mouth. The canine servant, without delay, returned to his master, who took the pipe and applied it to his use. He informed the spectators at the same time, that the dog would take from them any money they had to give away, and like a faith ful steward, deliver it to' his employer. Several halfpence were then presented, which the dog accordingly carried to his Master. CURIOUS Novel.TY.—A man who holds a small farm near St. Albans, and who has ever been looked upon as a most eccentric ; being, made his enfre into the latter place on Saturday ee'nnight, I in the following manner, viz. mounted on a small cur; which was actually drawn by four large hogs. He entered the town at a brisk trot, amidst the acclamations ofhundreds, who were soon ' drawn together to witness this strange and uncommon spectacle. After making the tour of the market-place three or four times, he came into the Wool Pack-yard, had his svvieish cattle regu larly unharnessed, and taken into a stable together, where they were regaled with a trough full of beans and wash. They re mained about two hours in the town, during which dme he dis patched his business as usual at the market, when they were again put to, and driven home again, multitudes cheering him to the very end of the place. This man has only had these arli.• I mall under training six months, and it is real) , truly surprising to what a high state of docility and tractability lie has brought them. A Gentleman on the spot offered him 501. fur the con cern as it stood, hut it was indignantly refused. About one o'clock on Sunday afterubon, a smart shock of an earthquake was felt at Comrie, Perthshire, accompaeied with a consitleralile noise. COUNTIATZIT DOLLARS.--A considerable number ere now in circulation, of the date 1804: they are welf executed, but sound badly, and are likewise very deficient in weight. SwINDLING.--.Lately at Paris, a man named ThiPrting, tail ing himself Baron de PK:cheers., aed ambassador fro h i Denmark. to the Court of Wirtemberg, was sentenced to three &months imprisonment, and a fine of 1000. francs, for having abused the credulity of several shopkeepers, by means of au imaginary I credit and fortune to which his made pretensions, and under pretext of the consideration attached to his rank, audehe deco ration which he wore. All the Innkeepers and Publicans of I-Tampetead, were on Tuesday summon. d hef .re the Jus ices, at Fiat on-garden, ier entertaining people drink'ng in their lenses on eunday last, during Divine Service. 'tile Innkeepers insisted on their right to entertain travellers, &c. expellees. All were dismissed, on payles e l SilVergose last week 3d. per ounce in bullion.. their 1 'HE NATIONAL REGISTER. • TO Liii. The following seizure of contraband goods was made on Sunday se'nnight, on the beach in the parish of Bexhill, Sus.,ex. list_ OR — 6 ‘ T-li. T2e,l viz.:-32G cask, of brand and list_ 594 pair of women's MISCELL AN lES. In a work recently published in Germany, under the title of 44 Memoranda of the Prussian Army," we read, that that army, at the opening of the unfortunate campaign in 1806, was com posed of 277,000 infantry, 40,000 cavalry, and 13,500 artillery and engineers: greed total, 338,000 men. The Pads Papers inform us, that the new French coinage, upon the decimal system, goes on with great activity. On the Ist of April last, it amounting to 709,498,539 francs; of which, to the amount of 250,599,480 francs was in gold. In the five months preceding the Ist of April, the recoinage was to the amount of 86,628,979 francs. The village of Wungen, Duchy of Luneburg, was on the night of the 13th entirely swept away, by the sudden overflow of the Elbe. Of 250 peasants, its inhabitants, scarcely a dozen escaped, and they owed their preservation to going to the upper stories of their cottages. Many of the buildings nearly entire, with some dead bodies, were floating and picked up at a dis tance of forty miles from the spot where the place stood. MRS. CLARKS.—.This lady, of darling notoriety, has once more made her appearance in the public prints. It is stated that a Lieutenant Armstrong had been tempted to introduce his wife to Mrs, Clarke, in order to give her the countenance of female society. upon the promise that she would procure him a good appointment. The Lieutenant, in a letter which he has published, states, that he has performed his part of the contract, and that it now remains for her to fulfil her stipulation. It is hardly necessary for us to comment upon the absurdity of con ceiving that Mrs. Clarke can have any possible influence in the dis , oral of any public situations. While the Duke of York was viewing the new engine built for Chelsea College, on Wednesdaymorning in St. James's Park, a fellow was detected with his hand in the pocket of his Royal Highness. He was secured. His Royal Highness said he did not know whether he had left his gold snuff-box at home, or who• ther he had lost any thing or not. Wednesday, John Miller was committed for trial from Bow street, for picking the pocket of NI r. Brown, of a valuable silk pocket handkerchief, in St. James's Park, at the time the power of some engines were being tried before the Dukes of York, Kent, and Cumberland. The prisoner was seen taking the handkerchief out of the prosecutor's pocket by one of the patrole belonging to the office; he' immediately took him into custody. The circumstances which lately took place at the Crown inn, Portsmouth, have been the cause of a very severe afflictien in the person of Mr. Bradbury, the Clown, who was in the morn when Lieutenant Crofton attempted to deprive himself of life. The horror-striking sight Mr. C. so momentarily pre sented—with a razor in his hand lacerating his throat, the blood from tvhich flowed out upon Mr. Bradbury's arm, had such an effect upon Mr. Bradbury's mind and imaginat ion, ad to have since deprived him of all reason, and he is now in close confinement. The person of the name of Crofton, who has committed such atrocities at Portsmouth, is not of the rank of Honour able, nor Is he known to any of the family of the Baroness Crofton. Three Clergymen, of the diocese of St. David's, have lately been censured and reprimanded by the Bishop, for having signed the Testimonium of a Candidate for Orders, contrary to their knowledge of the facts therein alledged; and were cautioned against a repetition of the same offence, on pain of supension from their Ecclesiastical functions.