The National Register. — London, England, 1816-04-07 00:00:00

APIUt 7. The ROYAL FAMILY. THE QUERN'S DRAWING ROONl.—Thurslay her Ma jcscsty held a Drawing-riont at her Palace, for the Second time this season, which was very brilliantly at tended, although not extremely crowded. A great con course of spectators was assembled in the Park, we pre sume, in expectation of seeing the Princess Charlotte of Wales and the Prince of Saxe Cobourg. Besides the Royal Dukes of Clarence, Kent, Sussex, Gloucester, a nd Princess Sophia of Gloucester, the two latter of whom came in state, there were present the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Cabinet Ministers, the Lord Steward, anti most of the Regent's Household, the Master of the Rolls, Dukes of Norfolk, Grafton, Newcastle, and. Mod trose, Duchesses of Leeds, Manchaster, and Newcastle, &c. Ifatoterosr, Amt. 4.—The Prince of Saxe Cobourg and suite still remain here, nor IS the day yet fixed for his deforture. His Serene Highness occupies that part , cf the Palace distinguished as Grove House, fbrmerly the scanner residence of the Duke of Marlborough. Ilis Highnos attended divine worship at - the parish church on Sunday last, accompanied by Colonel Hartlenbroolie, the Lev. J. S. Clarke, &c. and has signified his inten tion of doing the same on Sunday next. Tats REtiENT . B COURT, &C. ()II Saturday the Prince Regent held a Privy Council which was numerously attended. At the close of this Council the Recorder was admitted, and made his Report of the Convicts capitally convicted at the last December and January Sessions. His Royal Highness was graciously pleasel to repreve all the unfortunate persons during pleasure. Wednesday, the Recorder made a further report of the convicts under sentence of death in Newgate, when J. Fancull, J. Caller, T. Turner, and T. Cover, were ordered fur execution Wednesday, the 17th inst. The others were respited during pleasure.—J. Swainey, alias Swiney, convicted at the Admiralty Sessions, was re ported and respited.. The general answer at Carleton House yesterday to the enquiries after the Prince Regent's health was-- " His Royal Highness continues bAter." We are glad the taste of the town is again for the beauties instead of the deformities of nature. GEORG' BIDDER, the mental calculating boy, at Spring Gardens, can now boast of du numerous a company as the Hotten tot Venus. A gentleman, one of his numerous visitors of yesterday, proposed. to him the question—How many drops are there in a pipe of wine, supposing each cubic inch to contain 4685 drops, each gallon 231 inches, and lift gallons in a pipe ? In less than two minutes, he an swered, 61,(il o. i CITY OF LONDON LYING-IN HOSPITAL On Friday last, the Governors and hriends of this humane Institution held their Annual Festival, at the City or London Tavern, when the Lord Mayor as Patron, took the Chair. The two Sheriffe, as Stewanls of the Met sing, were preverdel accompanying his Lonlehip; the one, Mr. Bell, by illness, and the other, Mr. Thorp. by his duty at the Sessions. Amongst the Royal toasts, his Lordship gave the Duke of York, Duke of Kent, and the Duke of SUSSLA, whose libexal patrottage to all Charitable, InstitutLens, deserved the most public acknowledg ments. His Lordeldp then proposed •• Health and an happy union to the Princess Charlotte," which was received with great applause. —The health of tins Patron, the Lord Mayor, was proposed by 1). I'. Watts, Esq. and acknowledged with every testimony of respect. His Lornship expressed his thanks in terms of peculiar animation, and zealous regard for the Institution, preying upon the company, the state of its funds, and the unlimited extent of its designs. • The usual procession of the Matson, and many of the women and their infants, who had receive' the benefit of the Charity, were then introduced, and the Secretary, in an appropriate address, appealed to the assembly for their generous protection of such living witnesses of their bounty; and paid ajest tribute of grateful thanks to the Lord Mayor, who, notwith standing his important and extensive duties, had thus allotted time for his paternal regard to the welfare of the industrious part of his fellow citizens. And in the course of his speech, alluded to an essential feature of this establishmeri, whereby the only qualification for the admission of patients is, that they are married, and poor; and that some of those presenaliad been relieved several times, and one of them eleven times; and that, out of the great number of children born, not less titan 1i45 Lad, wider the blessing of Providence, been recovered front suspended animation, commonly called still born, by the personal exertion of the late and prevent matrons, one of whom he then presented to the com pany as its hater-parents and benefactors. When the procession lied retired, the fulness of British hearts were awakened, and the Lord Mayor most happily adopted that moment for recommending the toast of " Permanence, and encreasing utility of the II °spite'," which was drielk standing, with more then usual marked' applause. It was then announixel, that the mull mode of making the collection personally would be die continued, as.'' that the Secretary would gratefully receive any volun. tary contribution at the table. The health of J. Wilton, F.eq. the venera ble Treasurer, was then proposed from the Chair, and in hie absence ac knowledged by the Secretary With a suitable benefaction. In addition to the official toasts, his Lordship gave, `* The health of Mrs. lleyky and the other Patronesses of this Hospital," that Lady having several years since given 1:800 as a verbal bequest of the late Alderman Ha)ley, or rather knowing it to have been his intention to make his former do nations a ctenplete Itotto. by annual gifts of luau each. The contri. buteons on the press nt interentiug occasion then becatne very liberal from all parts of the room, till a puree was made up of £634.—The business of the day was happily interspersel by several glees, well chosen and well performed by Mr. Joe. Smith and his party, and the cheerful nrhanity of the Lord Mayor acquired many friends to the cla rity, and deserved esteui for Itienvell. W• are happy to say that the 11011 of Sir Charles Monek, who had hea] inissiae for svate titue„ was overtalau at Itotford, ou Lis wily to Northumberland. THE NAT/ANAL REGISTEE. FEMALE FASHIONS FOR APRIL. Monattan Pnrss.—A round dress composed of cambric and finished at titillation] with a Windier of !own tacks, :oat a very richly worked flounce with a bradioc. he hack has just . . n , :_ss enough to g . :ve the dress an air of ease, without tfisgoisiti2 the contour. Long and very loose sleeve, w ;ill a very defiant anal. A shirt vichly trimin-il round the collar with la and thrown open at the throat, where it fasten• with gold and col al broach. Hair parted ou the forehead and &miser' low at the si les. Head.irress an exquisitely fatieirol lace cap, of a firm emremersimple, but uncommonly becoming: it is ornament ed svitti rows of lilac ribbon. l'ht;n goldcar-rings, and white kid slippers and gloves. OPEna Di:val.—White satin slip over which Is a white lace skirt. finished with satin tucks, and a rick flounce of deep World at the bottom. 'flag body is composed of white satin and white lace ; it is uncommonly novel and elegant. Tile siceye,whicb is lung, is also composed of satin mid lace, its form is original, and the manner in wlich it is finished at the ve list, is singularly tastef u l and elegaot. Ti:e hair is dispose:l so as to display the forehead, and falls in soft loose euris at each Ilead.dress, the Berlin cap, composed of white satin, lower part ornamented with u pr”fusion of beautiful short feathers, disposed with much taste and novelty. Th e Berlin cap is, in our opinion, the most generally becoming head-dress which has been introduced for some seasons. Necklace nod cross composed of pearl and amethyst. year' cur-rings. White kid gloves and white satin :dippers.. DREADFUL FIRE AT NEWFOUNDLAND. The following is an ext, act of a T.etter, from Plymouth to the Committee at Lloyd's, dated A pril 3 :—" I am sorry to inform you, that a ship is just arrived from Newfound land. and brings the melancholy news, that St. John's is bee of down. Report sari, that some of the families ate arrived in the vessel that brings the account." " Paters, hen. 17.—Retween the hours of eight and nine of the 12th instant, a Gee was discovered in the house of Edmund Walsh. in Gambier -street, about two doors front :hr south side of Duckworth-street. The inflammable ma terials of which the buildings of the town are constructed, excited the most alarming apprehensions. The wind blew furiously tom the suutb-east quarter, and rapidly bore the flames to the range of houses forming the north shit, of Duekworth-street, while the all-Jest/wrier , element elso ex • tended its ravage:. to the south, against the wind. and.west ward, towards the cluster of new building s lately erected on the extensive premises of Messrs. Crawfsl and Co. and by five iielocknn the morning of the I bth instant, all the build iligs between Sawyer's Corner, at the east end of Duck worth-street, and the new Methodist Meeting-house, at Gill's Shute, westward, and from the co. ner buildings on the King's Beach, facing the Ordnance Nl' liar& to the erec tions opposite Messrs. hunters and Cos. Watet-rtueet, comprising about ISO houses, were completely destroyed, In these a:e included the houses in the Custom-11011,e lane, north of Duckwcrth-street. The Custom-house and ad joining buildings happily and narrowly escaped. Oceasi. meal showers of snow and rain, that tell during the contla. gration, somewhat retarded the pi ogress of the flames; and the removal of one or two I:nuses in Water-street gi eatl v contributed finally to subdue the fi c Our limits w i ll nut allow us at this moment, to go into a very minute detail of the calamitous event. •• When the Names reached the north side of Water strcet, facing the premiss of Messrs. James Macbraire and Co. the immense body of fire, almost in contact (from the narrowness of the passage at this point) with the houses on the south side of the street, soon communicated theitlames to the front and roofs of those buildings. It was here that cr y cell ant Binary efforts were requited, and weie happily exerted; for upon the success of those eflorts depended the security of the most impoi tent part of the town. ••'l be volumes of fire detached from the mote immediate scene of destruction, and cart ied by the storm to buildings not in imminent peril,. filled the inmates with terror And dis may; and in the removal of their goods, considerable da mage has been sustained. 'the aggregate pecuniary loss has been mode-attly es•i. mated at upwards of too,oord.; and about 1.500 petions have been driven to seek new a'.oles, in the most inclement month of a Newfoundland winter. To the seamen from the King's ships, and the troops from the garrisons, directed by their respective officers, every praise is due; tier it is to theirsteady conduct, in con junction with the efforts of the orderly and respectable in habitrats, that we itand indebted fur the preservation of the mpst valuable part of the town. I lere it becomes our in dispensable duty to state, that the bulk of the lower orders fd the community stood, during this 41icting moment, with their aims folded. surveying the disastrous scene with an apathy disgraceful to the human character. Many of this description, instead of contributing their eiforts to ar : rest the progress of the Names, or to aid the unhappy but: foci's, appeared to have no object but pillage : and the dis. tiess of their unfortunate fellow creatures bare, of course, been aggravated." At five o'clock Friday storm morning, the school-room of the York Military Asylum at Chelsea was discos ered to he on lire; and it was so near morning, that immediate assistance was af forded by the active exertions of the little objects of this noble charity,who, to the number of several hundreds, were cm ploy ca in procuring water; and, by the speedy arrival of enf eines flout town, by len o'clock In the morning the fire was ex tinguished, but not until a considerahle portion of the interior of the southern extremity of the main edifice was consumed 1131111 the d g-hull to the roof. About ten in the forenoon of Tuesday last, • chimney took fire in the hamlet of Belvoir Ley, commonly called Iteirearlee, near Eastwood, Notts, and such was the dreadful rapidity with which it raged, aided by a very high wind, that in spite "revery e ffort to the contrary, the flames communicated to some contr. gllOllll and some distant buildings, and, in less than two hours, eleven houses, a wheat-stack, a nay-stack, two barns containing corn and hay, and a framesmitlfs shop, were reduced to ashes and confused heaps of snioaising ruins. Etc e frames, iu the fraluestnith's shop were. destroyed, except the woodwork of one of them ; and in one of the barns a calf and a pig were con fined. 'the pig forced its way out, but the calf was burnt to death. And, to add to the calamity, the occupiers of the houses, all of them working people with &amities, tool not the opportu nity of saving scarcely a single article of furniture, or even clothing, except what they had ea. AoRICULTuRAL REPORT. The perpetual vici4situdes of the season, joined witAt the distress under which the farmers labour, have greatly retarded--indeed nearly pundysed—the operations of agriculture. The state of the weather, both in the last and present month, has occasioned bean planting to be very backward, which must have a similar effect on every • other branch of the seed business of Spring. Turnips have failed in some districts, and almost every where in point of quality. Sheep have suffered greatly from the severity and changeableness of the whether, and cattle keeping has been generally a business attended with difficulty; it has nevertheless been, during the present season, the only profitable branch to the corn fanner, and probably the saving of many from ruin, who have had the means and resolution to pursue it with spirit. In !fur Prt IvisioNe, &e..—There have been very extensive parcels of old tiovernintiit pros ision. thrown upon the hands of the dealers; they are now re-packed, and offering at such low prices, that it has hail the effect of farther depressing the prices of Beef and Pork, ss ith the exception of prune descrip tions. The prices of Bacon continues greatly reduce d But ters base been su creatly dein es-ed, that salsa eetilil only be effected by auction, and at reduced prices. The Bill now in progress in Parliament to place a duty of iris. per cwt if in British. and 255. Lf in a foreign ship, on foreizo Butter, will no doubt, in some degree, benefit the agriculturalist; more parts citlarly tile Irish ; but no eft( et ha- been as yet produced in the market. The holders are asking higher prices, but the trade has e not submitted to ally advance; the quantity of lo reigu Butter at market is very considerable, ASSIZE LVTELLIGEWE. KING‘TON, MAitcH 29.—Yesterday was the commission-day for holiliinz the Assites for this county, and the Judges arrived shirinz tile course of the afternoon. calender prisontri is heavy : there are five vases or ourikr, uueut• which is for parricide. CROWN lif4) E. Franc:* Richards,,a pauper in Litnibeth poor haw; was ea. piralts couv;ca•d, under Lord Ellenboroneh's art, of stabbing and vatting William Dibley. prosecutor-was the bal;6- the wur:, bonne, and nth Jan. he 'snit I.) the prisoner to tell hint to appear before the committee, 'bete having been some com plaint in tile .nzainst him. The twisetter refused to attend, and swore he would stab any per!on whoa slioutd attempt to forte him. lite prosecutor attempted to lay kaki of him, when the - prisoner made several thro-.ts ae hiiu with a knife, one of whicler went through the scalp between the flesh and the skull. POLICE. HATTON-G A RDEN. Monday, J. P. Drury, late an officeri;;he City Militia, who has been examined at Worship-street, Queen-square, and Bow streetoni sarious charges of telony, was charged with breaking into the Chambers of Messrs. Long and Anstin, in Gray's lan, and stealing eight gold watch seal s , seve n o f w hi c h were found at a pawrilnoker's in Charing-cross. Several Gentlemen, rela tives of the prisoner, represented to the magistrates the lament. able state of derangement of the prisoner's mind; that his halt= pay was tint. a year; and that it svas their wish to get him into some place of refuge. He was committed to the infirmary of the House ot*Correction, in order to be got into ilic New Bedlam, in St. George's Fields, the magistrates promising to sign his pe tition. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. Monday, P. Street was fully committed on nine distinct eliarzes of burglary, s iz. stealing from the coach-house of Sir W. Ithtekett, in Berkeley Mews, a box-coat, &e. ; from the sta bles of Gen. Barton, in Montagne Mews, a ails er watch; front the stables a the Hon. S. Eardley, a quantity of wearing appa rel and four saddle cloths; from the stables of Lord Roseherry, a a ateh, Mid three 11. notes; from those of Col. Gallica, in Ed ward-street, Portman-square, three tetrspootts and a quantity of apparel; in those of 'Airs. Collin., of Maneliester-square, quantity olopparel, sheets, &e. ; in the house of Mr. Fidler, in Little Mary-le.botine-street, a quantity of apparel, a box, and a tea-chest ; from the stables of G. Jennings, rsq. of cmm aug h t .. place, six pair of stockings, and a pair of boots and shoes ; and lastly, from the stables of the Earl of Macdonald, a WI. note, six shirts, &e. Saturday, Irebb, who calls himself a horse-dealer, and who is a n eil-lnown character, underwent another examination, on suspicion of being concerned with a gang of three oilers Not known, in breaking.open. i■ disguise, the lioLbe of 31cs. Brume. t, of Entry, near Sandwich,on the yd ult. The p . eisoner, and one °ibis companions who is nut known,are suspected to have gone to the Swan lon at West which is completely across the country, and seventy miles from t ab _ try, where it is supposed they divided the bo o ty. Th ey arr i ved there about nine, on horseback, themorning of tbastb alt.; they ordered breakfast and a tire in a room which they wished to have to themselves, as they had some private business to trans act; but Crittle, the landlord. ts lio attended to give evi dence. having suspected they acre had characters, although he did not allow other customers to co into the room, did not re frain from going himself, or sending It servant in. On his going in, he observed timr parcele of bank notes ; three of them were of the Bank of England, and one of them country notes; on ' them was the syllable " and," but what the last syllable of it was, whether it was Sundown, Sandhurst, Sandwich, agc. he could not say. Jamestoodwiti, the ostler, recognised the prisoner awl his companion, whom lie did not know; they were in a very dirty rate vi hen they arrived, from mud on their clothes. They said their horses lied been very hi treated where they had been all night, nothing having been done to them. tv hen they left, they took the road towards Croydon. N s ickery produced L. ink mites to the amount of 4:31. which he found upon the prisoner, when he ipprebiarded Lim, some of them Sandwich notes. Committed fur tin titer examination. John Fr wts uas charged with attempting to steal a hackney coach and horses from the door of a public house iu Charles-at. Covent Garden,on Saturday se'imight. The prisoner had only been ti•seharged at the IVestmitister Sessions en Saturday morn ing, on a charge of stealing a coach and horses bona the Opera, and taking them to the green-yard. The charge failing in proof against hint, lie was discharged; however, on Its leaving the office, he was assailed by a crowd of hackney coachmen, who indicted summary punishment on him by parting him a ith mud ; they then dragged hiul to a putty, and pumped NAM lII* Cyril sousidoolkio Woo.