The National Register. — London, England, 1817-06-02 00:00:00

JUTE A. THE PRINCE REGENT'S LEVEE. The Prince Regent held a levee on Thursday, which was numerously attended by the Cabinet Ministers, great Officers of State, Foreign Ambassadors sod En voys, Archbishops, Bishops, Dukes, Marquisses, and all the other gnidations of Nobility and Gentry among them were the Marquis of Tavistock, Lord Donnoughmore, and Sir Lumley Skeffington. Mr. Baron Garrow kissed hands on his new appointment. There were several presentations ; among others, the new Solicitor.Generul, Mr. Robert Gitlitrd, who received the honour of knighthood. Mr. Huskisson's coachman outrageously attempted to violate the necessary regulation fur carriages on these coccassions, and in his criminal obstinacy nut only flogged the constables, but the High Constable for endeavouring to prevent him.. He even had the temerity to stand a contest with the Life•.' Guards, by whom he was dragged from his box, and afterwards conveyed to Bow-street, where he was ordered to find bail, or be committed fur the several assaults. ELIZA DAVIES AND MR. NEALE. Our readers will recollect the circumstance of an aggravated case of cruelty towards a female in the neighbourhood of Golden-square, as srated in last week's paper ; since then, W. Neale has issued forth a laboured apology for his conduct towards Eliza Davies. The only part of his explanation at all worthy of notice, as the manner, in which he ehooses to describe the origin of his acquaintance with her—" Several years" says Neale, " Eliza Davies was locked up at Mr. Sander son's, a Sheriff'sofficer, in Leigh -street, Red 1 .ion-square, where sho requested me to cull on her. Upon, an in terview, she descended upon her knees, shed a deluge of tears, entreated, supplicated, and implored me to consent to become bail to the Sheriff, protesting in the most solemn manner, that, if she could not find menus to settle with her creditors before the return 'of the writ, she would render herself to prison in discharge of her bail. J was affected at her distressed situation ; I suf fixed myself to be over persuaded, and to yield to her earnest entreaties, upon an express promise and solemn engagement, that she would surrender herself in dis charge of her hail. As she had many other creditors, she could not safely return to her lodgings in Leicester square, and she entreated me to give her un asylum in my house fur a single night, which with great re luctance I consented to, having no permanent acconnuu dation filcher. The next day from the pretutbation of her agitated spirits, and her termr of bailiffs, she was taken ill, and I provided medical advice. " Soon after this period, the misfortune befel me which hasoccasioned great public sensat ion, and done me irreparable mischief, without any thing arising out of it to criminate me. She was ronumed to the workhouse, where she remained a considerable time, and when the period proper to render was approaching she ran away from her bail, assisted with the pecuniary collection, subscribed by some o!' th.: principal persons in St. James's parish, whereby I had the debt and costs to pay, in several actions, amounting to many hundred pounds, ihr a confirmation of which, amongst others, - I refer to Mr. A'Becket, Broad -street, Golden-square; and Mr. Vincent, Butiford-street, Bedford-square, the Solicitors to whom I paid the money. - How happened it, we would ark, that this destitute girl (fir she appears nmv only just thirty-two years old) should then have taken the liberty of sending fbr a stranger to her, not exacting such fitvours of him ? Something requires to be t'urther explained. Mr Neale observes, that he is ignorant of any specific c/urge against him upon oath, and therefore he entreats the public to suspend their judgment with regard to his case ; but he cannot be ignorant of the nature of the accusation now to be fastened on him, and which indeed, he repels not in the most satisfactory way. Mr. Neale has also caused the following letter to be circulated : TO THE EDITOR. SIR-Mr. Neale, a person residing in John -street, Golden-square, against wham a charge of extreme cruelty to a female has recanly been exhibited, having thought proper to introduce my pane into a paper which he calls his " Vindication," it becomes incum bent upon me to state, that the only transaction which ever brought me in contact with Mr. Neale, was one in which, as hail the the female whoa he is said to have ill used, he paid a sum of money into my hands, as S'olir.'tor tor one of her creators, in the year 1807.-1 remain Sir, your's, &c. , .'Vag 2Sth It 17. AIIECKETT. A fliw evenings; back Mrs. Neale was going thnntgh Berheley.square, in being recot,mized by slime person, a considerable crowd had collected before the was aware of her imwediately began to thniiv ;;lth cn her. Si eral gensleme I interfered t.) no porpos..., until Mr. D. an came do trout the watchonse, with several cow aides, and, tie the prompt wets:mice of some mighty urs, res..u.Nl her a ter a de ; , crate strug gle, and Lou er wimp.' bona: in it e TI-II: NATIONAL REGISTER. GENERAL LACY. The following biographic sketch of General Lacy, whose fate has excites' so much iatertst, is extracted' front the Journal dr* Debut* " Dun Louis Lacy was born at St. Ruch, near Gibraltar. He is slot related to the .Lacies, so well known in Airstria uud Spain : he says he is of a more distinguished family. - Ws father, an Irishman by birth, was Major in the infantry regiment of Ultonia, and died leaving Ins widow with two children of a very tender nge. " Young Lary displayed even in• his, infancy a great mi litary disposi non, and , above all, an extraosilisiary originality. In 1790, thougli not more than fourteen years of age, lie was an officer, in the regiment of Brussels, in the Spanish sir. vice. In the ;tilie year, disgusted with the manners of his uncle, rather too severe with respect to him, he left his regiment at Ferrol, and set out for Porto, in Portugal, without money, and in circumstances worthy a hero of Gil Bias. He embarked on board a Dutch vessel ready to sail for the Alohiccas, when lie was overtaken and brought back by his uncle. He again joined the regiment at Brussels, and was distingiiished in the war against the French Itepialdie by the intrepidity and sang froiel which formed the basis of his distaste': " In 1796, when in garrison at Passages, lie had a real at tack of madness. lie seldom slept at Hight, but a few hours repose alter liillllllT stalked him. He could march for 21 hours successively without any other rest than the time necessary for •taking some nourishment, and on arriving he %%mild go to a bell. A favourite of Mars, he was not beloved by the fair, On the 31st of December, 1798, his regiment embarked for the Caoaries, lie being at that lime first Lieu tenant, with the rank of Captain and Adjutant. Preferred in all affair of gallantry to the Captain-General ofthe he was, from. some circumstance, banished by his rival's means to the Isle de Fee, whence be wrote to the General letters full of the severest aivvetives, and was brought before a Conned of War. _ . . " His military talents, and the almost habitual derange ment of the brain, induced his judges to euinimete the capi tal punishment into a yeat's imprisonment. His coudnet in prison convinced his keeper of his madness, aud Lacy was in consequence sent en re•traile to Cadiz. About the month of Oetouer, Iso3, he enlisted in the Cah regiment of Light Infintry ; and in 29 days after, being already a sericant, lie obtained a Captain's commission in the Irish Legion then forming at Alui iaix. " At Quimper, after an intrigue that would furnish an ex cellent subject for a comedy, lie married a young lady of a distinguished family. He was subsequently named he de Baltraion iu the army of Spain, but on his arrival at Ma drid he deserted, and was at the battle of Talevera where he commanded a brigade. lie afterwards eonmiauded the army of Catalonia, and was attended by his unhappy and respectable wife in all his dangers. '• Lacy was intrepid even to rashness, calm in the greatest dancer, and undaunted by any enterprise ; but he had no confine•, order, or prudence. He was an excellent partisan, but could never become au able General, mil still leas a forinidahle conspirator." 31 1 SCAL .1 N EOUS. Ths following is a correct statement of the Wilt of the late Rizht Hon. Sir. A. Thompson, Ent. Lord Chief 'Baron of his Majesty's Court of Exchequer, ate. fee. which was regis tered in the Prermr,ative Office, Doctors"Coinnions, on the l !tie iast. To his clerk, Mr. Rellainy, lie bequeaths the sum of saw. his gold stoek buckle and sleeve buttons, to be worn in reniembra.icr of him ; to his servants five guineas tack; and all other effects whatsoever to his sister, Mary 'I hosupson, spinster, whom he appeiuted sole executrix. She died &trim! the testator's I ite-tiose, and, in consequence, ailininis stration, with the will annexed, was granted to Isabella Reid Thonmp•on and Elizabeth Reid 'lliompvini, spinsters, his 'leaves, and only next of kin. The a ill is in his own hand writing, dated at Bath, the 221 of May, MO, and without witnesses. A gentleman who has been examining the different me teorogical 1111 l .ats in various parts of England, with a view to ascertain the cause of the appal mit errors in the Meteorological Journals, has found that one cause was, the wind is often so erroneously put down. The cardinal points on the weathercocks are in general put according to the compass instead of the sun ; therefore the north point is al XO degrees west of the due north, and all the others arc consequently wrong. A few days since, IL S. Milbourne, Esq. of Armatliwaithe Castle, iu ,hunting for an otter, started a tor, which the hounds tau to earth in Baron t odd. To the great surprise • Of the sportsmen, noon digging they found a litter of twelv e (.116,, nine of which are in Mr. 31ilbourne's possession. As so 1111 , 11CIPES a family necessarily requited a 111 l titmice of 5115 • :emitter., the hole affordeitainple testimony it the depredations that must have been committed in the neighbourhood upon knobs, geese, and fowls of all descriptions.—Mr. Dixon, .resound to Sir P. Musgrave, Hart, also tuund a litter of seven cubs, a few days since, in the woods ;A.m . Eden Hall. In both instrnees the old ones escaped; and m the former, the old fox approached within a very It 'W yards of the spot where they were digging, stud though ft critically chased uhf by the hounds still returned, The Society at St. Peter's College, Cambridge, have joist received an unexpected and magnificent present 4 . 20,0001. from an unknown bilet:trim. The Masti-r and Fellows lately received lett-rs requesting their attendance in 11...0ni0n to receive the si AI the time and place appointed, they met the agent of the donor, whit atter regaling (hem with a handsome (linnet, tratisferrrd the above s for Site use of the society fir ever, saying it came from a gionleman aged 91, but %chose name would not he known till ohm his decease. The reason assigned Mr the gilt is the legacy duty being thus ,vended. 'fine Colle?e, it is slid, intent to appiy the interest of the 111011 voUlt• new scionarsbips, and anententing the income of •ino.• of their fellowship!. W. 6; 14155.1, Iraymait, who %% as hied %sill' Hooper and Cashman, for the attar k oa Mr. Beckwith' , house, Las brought tieforr. the Lot d Mayor as a vagrant, having brim found begging in Cheap•sile. He was worn ass ay to a skele ton. and said he had liven about for many necks its a most state, as lie viand get 110 1,1115.111y1111411. The Lord Mayor ord., redthat he shoOld he et . hoo . titied to lichtewull 611 .even d are, i nvrt:er to to: tegolJriy'liatt.ar4l to his thotopionshiret, atul osivssi d hitu AI teiii.tio Viet. , 111111 i he was et...lured 10 health, and Ibe.. ea i„ jCI ea ll itothent iu the country mi be watt too men Itn , ,tt it its Loudon to do liiim•t It'asey gout'. A ut Och 44 milxie stick mil be waved at Holloway. on Tot •d.,, thu ltlth of Jo: e, uettteen Chitties Co.heati, the lletasiuctl hear), wad Thomas 1114c1fui cr, the Waist/L*6lml. ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, etc. Mr. Ricitie of Liverpool, who was severely woundei by the overturning of a Liverpool coach, at the time whin another gentleman (Mr. Bancroft, of Manchester), lost his life by the accident, has recovered 7501. dinuagts u um the proprietors of the coach : the Jury being of opinion that the overturning was owing to intemperate driving. We are glad this award h as h e e l ' wade, since it will operate against the dangerously rapid movements of stage coaches running in opposition to each other. Tuesday night, at Tothill-fields Fair, a young woman named Ellen Al`Domiell was thrown out of a swing, and struck by another adjoining, which cut her head and dreadfully bruised her about the body. She was carried to the Westminster In firmary in a senseless state. Nu less than five others were taken there um!er similar circumstances, with broken limbs and otherwise bruised. Wednesday inoruing so:ne soldiers in tee Guards saw a man lying near the White Hart public-house, at Knights. , s ' bridge, on the ground ; on taking hint up they found be was • dead. He had been in the house a short time before, anffs having gone to the door, is supposed to have fallen down and • died. His name is Bayliss, of Paddiugton. About four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon as the Peckham and Camberwell stage was on its way from town, the fore 'aide-tree broke, and the coach was overturned opposite the Lying-in Hospital in the Westminster•road. An elderly lady who was inside received material injury, and was carried to u neighbonriug surgeon's. Wednesday a bricklayer fell from a scaffold in Kensington Gardens, which was more than thirty feet from the ground.— He was dreadfully injured, and was carried to St. George's Hospital almost lifeless. A child, about seven years old, belonging to Mr. Dollen, - at Whitechapel, strolled from her father's house on Tuesday evening, and getting amongst the crowd in the street where some fellows were playing at three pins, she was struck with the stick upon the temple with such force that her Life was despaired of. '1 lie whole of the gang who committed the robberies in the houses of Mr. Hanson of poste ick, and Mr. Shaw of Lingards, near Huddersfield. have been taken. Two of them (Mickle thwaite and Gartside) were hanged at the York Assizes, and three of them (Alillington ' Taylor, and Smithies,) were trans. ported. Oil the 27th iilt.Mr. Nadin took lip John Howarth, alias Jack o'th'Hole)—and last Monday night he took James Shaw, the last of the gam,, in the old 'Firropike-1 ((((( se, near Eccles ; and on Tuesday conveyed him to Huddersfield, when he was directly committed to York. This last ',intoner is de scribed to be an astonishing powerful man, whose strength and appearance were sufficient to affright any common Police Officer from the discharge of his duty. On the 17th inst. R. Fisher, keeper of the Artichoke Gate, at Bexley, was convicted in the penalty of 108. and costs, for demanding and receiving of Mr. E. Poolly, of Maidstone, victualler, a toll for a horse that he was leading to pasture. Aleauen.—p'arley's Bristol Journal gives the following particulars of the murder of Mr. Thompson :—" Mr. '!'pomp- soil, who has a coal wharf at Lidbrook, having suffered con siderable depredations, had determined to keep watch• over his property on the night of Tuesday. About four o'clock on the morning of Wednesday, while he was on the look-out, he observed two women approach him, with sacks on their backs, whom he was induced to speak to • and on seeing, the name of his neighbour, Mr. Hall, of to; Bickner, (an adjoining parish) on the bags, lie asked them what they contained ; they said it was wheat • on which he took them in charge to his house, and immediately afterwards went to Eastheach.Court, the residence of J. navies Esq. to make himacquainted with the circumstance. His son, Mr. 11. Davies, instantly accompanied Mr. Thompson to Lidbrook, to question Rio women in custody ; sisal soon after they reached his house, tour men were walking through the ham. let (then about six or seven in the 'wrong?) who were known. to he the men who committed the robbery. Upon this Air. Thompson, went up to Win. Turner, whom he, with the as. sistance of Mr. Davies, instantly seized; hut Mr. Thompson told Mr. Davies, that if he would release his hold of Turner, and secure another of them, lie had power to bold Ina pri soner; upon which Mr. Davies resigned his arm, and was in the act of proceeding towards the others, when 'Fitruer took hold of 4 pistol or screw gun, which lie was in the constant listen of carrying about him, and was thou concealed umbr his frock, and shot Mr. Tholupsou, who fell dead on the spot; while, at the same moment, by a sudden spring of the 11.0 w aids erns, he gave Mr. Dirties a violent blow in the stomach, the shock of which laid him opeechleas for a few seconds on the ground; and though a few persons saw this transaction, they were so much appalled by the horror of it, that the Turners, taking advantage of their feelings, made to the shore of the Wye, where a barge lay, which they cut from her mom hip, and landed themselves on the opposite side of the river, while the other associates sought refuge by retie - back to the covert of the Forest of Dean. I's hiltin~6am alias Snapper, was taken in a tarn, at Howl hill, near Ross, on Wednesday sennight, aril conveyed from Less to Gloucester Gaup; and Richard Heath, Wier Settler, a stout ill looking fellow, sit his dwelling near West bery-upoieSevern, on Saturday evening, and conveyed to Gimlet ster Pri,oo. Richard Tomer is aged oboist 2 . 2 years. Information of this outrage having been conveyed to an iron work near Cardiff, a well selected party of the men, with a courageous leader, set oft for the Gildrems Wood, BMW Pro. tom k 1104 w orks, where Jonathan Criseket was employed as a wood eullier. O 4 arrislog at his cabin there, the party surrounded it, except their leader, who boldly entered in, and there saw R. Turner, %shout lie immediately challesited by acme., who at tint dented it ; I nit un his being teld that he Yeas ties mall they had come in search of, a. one of the patsy concerned in the iiimakr of Mr. Thomosou, here) longer con cealed ; ul ssleieh they took him ihto custody, aid lie was, accordingly, manly lodged in !Monmouth county ra.lle. Hie brother William, %%Au committed the murder, had hero there, hut had left it about thirty hoots for Neat'', %%here he m. as vort , tied, and, We 41V (Oki, 14101 just hopes of his a, pi eten-ion. "I hive are 'utilises ut the noes, of Dealt. 0;1 Mon lay Into ;dug. it chard Tttioer, afta.r a slight exasoi ra6 o beim r the liev.T. Prosser, 'Ma)or, and Edward Mar. t,u, FA+ (the broth: t• of sir. Hello Davis. who o .is knocked doss 'I hZ Wln. Till mr, r the murder of Mi. Tlmumisou) to identt6 his person, had the commitment made out , uud he was sent off, under the guard of two eonstaMe., in a iii•st chaise, t add to his associates la ar irrc in the cabt.lt of that comity." sS HEELING OE BARROWS Ott lite PAvEta Eirr.-3 y last, Jr.iies Dowsin , a ha.ser's man, twitimm in Westminster, oas tined 5 . r ow Ma Us. foot ptir , • and the Magistrate of Queen-mitt:lie, added, that he tumid double the penalty OR catch sepliiion of the obeli( e, nil, Jt amouuted to 31. as ditikted by l'adiatueut. - 175