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

JAN. 1. NAUTICAL INTE .GENCE. The Loire frigate sailed some time ago from this country for Spain, with two millions of dollars, arms, Sec. for the use of the Patriots. On her passage, when off L'Orient, she was approach ed during the night by a large ship, which she soon found to he a 74 of the enemy, who poured a broadside into h.T. The Loite returned the charge, undismayed by the enemy's superiority, and continued a sharp action of half an hour with the 74. The Captain of the Loire, mindful however of the nature of the service upon which he had been sent, and of the risk to which it might be exposed in so unequal a contest, thought it prudent to sheer off, returning the enemy's compliment with a salute of a broadside. We are happy to hear, that the lass of the Loire in this gallant action is very inconsiderable, and that she pur sued her destination without having received any material damage. It is singularly fortunate for several of the most dis tinguished advocates of Spanish Independence, that the Loire frigate escaped the attempt of her powerful adversary. Viscount Materosa and M. de la Vega, Deputies from Asturias, and their Secretary M. Aug. de Arguelles, were on board the frigate, and had they been conveyed to France, might have shared the fate, of the Duke D'Enghien and others, who have been sacrificed to the ungovernable passions and fearless atrocity of the Ruler of France. The following is an extract of a Letter from Capt. Crabtree, of the John, bound to the Brazils, dated Madeira, N ov. 24 : " The Mutine brig of war, with part of her convoy for the Brazils, arrived here yesterday. The Fleet was dis persed in different gales. The stragglers are dropping in. The Mutine intends to sail to-morrow, with such ships as are collected. The Ben Letnond (a pendant ship) is here. None of the Portuguese vessels came out of Falmouth with the fleet. The fleet sailed from Portsmouth 2d November, put into Falmouth the 4th, and sailed the next day. The Afrii-an and Cork Convoys are gone past." The Orion man of wat lately ran down, in the Baltic, a large Russian ship during a gale of wind, and nearly the whole of the drew perished. POT.' C E. M ILLISO !LOU Gli-STREET.—A charge of an assault was pre ferred by Miss Louisa Manningham, a Cyprian of the first order, belonging to the Mary-le-hone corps, against a Mr. P —n, Gentleman of fortune. The circumstances N.:vie of a curious nature. It appeared that Mr. P. the defendant, was a very old acquaintance of Miss Manningham, and he called at ten o'clock on Monday night to pay her a visit. He was ushered into the Lady's drawing-room, in Mary-le-bone New Road, to await the arrival of his beloved ; when, to his mortification, at twelve o'clock, the arrival of Miss M. was announced 14 a thundering knock at the door: She alighted from a Gentleman's chariot, accompanied by the GentLman himself a gallant Major; and Mr. P. having refused to depart from the drawing-room, waited and received the fair Lady and her new gallant. The Gentleman ex changed angry compliments, and the Lady was upbraided for her infidelity, which she denied, and represented her origital paramour us an impostor, and no Gentleman. A general row ensued, and the object of battle was in the very midst of it, and somehow the fair one became injured in cue of her eyes by the reucontre, but it appeared altogether an accident, occasioned by her violent temper. Mr. P. was taken to the watch-house, and the Major was left in possession of his prize. PUBLIC-OFFICE, HATTON • GARDEN. —Thursday, Henry Lambert, late a pawnbroker, who had been burnt out in Port pool-lane, attended at this office, and stated that at nine o'clock on Wednesday night, three men addressed him under pretence of carrying a letter for them, when they inunediately thrust him into the kitchen of his late burnt house, bound him hands and feet with cords, gagged his mouth with twisted brass wire and cork ing pins transversely fixed; the cords which bound him were suspended from the ceiling. The villains afterwards robbed him of ten guineas and a metal watch, and went away, leaving the poor man in the utmost torture, in which he remained until Thursday morning, at eight o'clock ,when he was released, greatly exhausted. He had hardly any recollection of their persons, the tranasaction having taken place in the dark. Diligent search is, however, making to find them out, if possible. MA R LBO ROILTGH-STRE E l'.—Thursday Jack Baker, alias Turnbull, was brought up for his second examination on a charge of being one of the parties concerned in the late burglary in the house of the Countess of Morton, in Park-lane, three of whom were capitally convicted at the last Old Bailey Sessions. The Prisoner admitted he was of the party, but alleged that he was 15 first seduced to that profligate way of life by M'Coy, who turned King's e videuer, and was one of the witnesses against his accom plices at the last Sessions at the Old Bailey. Ile was fully committed for trial. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES. Monday whilst a young man of the name of Stevens, Servant to Mr. Tibbalt, of' Charlotte-street, Portland place, was sliding on a pond at Paddington, with a youth eight years old, his master's vephew, the ice broke. and the former fell in and was drowned. The youth was with difficulty saved. A ouiig man of the name of Younger was also drowned un Sunday.. in the Park ; and two boys met the same fate in the Hampstead road on Saturday - . On Tuesday last, a person belonging to Drury-lane Theatre / who had mounted by a ladder to the top of that building, mmith intention to sweep off the snow, fell, and ex traordittary as it may appear. pitched on a great quantity of snow in the waste ground near Brydges-street, without sustaining any serious injury. Suict D E.—On Wednesday night a Lady and Gentleman got into a hackney-coach at the stand in Oxford-street, opposite Rat hbone-place, and the Lady was set down in Warren-street, Fitzroy-square. The Gentleman ordered the coachman to drive him to a public-house at Brompton, but, on his arrival there, he was found lifeless, having cut his throat in a shockin P . manner with a pen-knife. The deceased was a Lieut e nant of Marines, • and is supposed to have committed suicide in - cobsequence of some losses at play. • Friday a great crowd of people gathered round the house of a Mr. Hunt, a tinman, in Chandos-street, eovent- g arden, pa the supposition that a girl, who had been his servant, had last her life through beating and starvation, as was very universally circulated through the crowd. in the evening, the popular in dignation rose to such a height, that several panes of glass were broken in the house by the mob. Police Officers tvere called in, and the crowd was dispersed. Au inquest . was then held at the Crown and Thistle, in the same street , before Anthony Gel,. Esq. Coroner for Westmieiter. The substance of the evidence was, that Ann Fane, the dreeased, was a girl about 15 years of age, and had been a pauper in the Workhouse at Lynn, in Nor folk, in consequence of her having been the orphan chilli uf poor parents. She wa.; taken a short time hack inli) this srv.ets. of Mr. H. as an apprentice. She was thought b' her 111.4 res.. to be an untoward girl, and at different times reerived (.111 ter Lion. From what cause it did not appear, but she fetl into a dangerous state of ill-health. Dr. Merriman, of the Western dispensary, prescribed for her at different times, but she always in the company of Mrs. H. A relation frequently visited her, but always in the presence of Mrs. H. but nothing particu lar came out. A neighbour had frequently heard the girl cry out, and there were the marks of blows upon different parts of her person. But Dr. Merriman was of opinion that there was not any appearaace whatever of injury, such as was sufficient to have occasioned the death of the patient, either internally or externally ; and this deceased having been for some time ill, the verdict was-Died - a Natural Death. BIRTHS. At Gloureoer, on the 'nth ult. the Lady of Captain John NV Doneli, 6th Royal Veteran Battalion, of a son. Thursday morning . , the Lady of John Gosling, Egg. of Glou cester Place, New Road, Mary-le-Bone, of a &tighter. MARRIED. On the '2oth ult. the Rev. James Paterson, M id rnas, to Isabella, daughter of the late Mr. Win. Gordon, merchant, Aberdeen. At Lea - es, on the ,20th instant, Captain Preseutt,of the sth Dragoon Guards, to Miss Mary Falkiner. On the 27th inst. at Newington, by the Rev. Mr. Dickenson, Miss Ann Wilkins, daughter of Captain llenry Wilkins, of the bland of Guernsey, to Mr. Wrn. While Adams. DIED. On Monday, Mr. William Wyatt, master of the Castle Inn, at Windsor. • • Ou the 15th instant, at Dartmouth-place, Blackheath, Mrs. Farrington, wife of Captain Farrington, of the Royal Artillery, aged 24 At his brother's house, at Bombay, on the 12th of March last, Captain George El phitciton, of the lion. Company's in wry service, youngest son of the late Alexander - 11phin,t , m, Esq. Avocay, k:acliolnirgl).