The National Register. — London, England, 1818-12-28 00:00:00

410 AMERICAN PAPERS. 11111.1.1".1)(N11.1.E, Nov. 3. IwosAN PHILANTHROPY. —We occasionally meet wills traits of . Indian character. an iltsiolviestird Lind nolde,so lnt muse and generous, as to pro-hire in tha civilized mind mingled emotions of as onishment and delight. We all re at-miser hots Poelialsninas, when Captain Smith. one of the Milt settlers of Vnginia, nits taken I . ;lrvii%l . , aid about to he sacrificed, in:ignaiiiinously tendered her own life as a peace oTering to the wrath in her offended father, she vintlictise Piawhaisit ; anti how she at length, hy suppiication and en t, eat'. came tl 11'1,111.1.1.5re the losistenre sir his devilled vie_ ti a IV, &so reeol: pct. ashen Captain Rmith was afterwards iiiinnseil to .all by the hand of treachery, that at the dead of the night she gave Lint item nt the impending clam anti at tine most :remittent hazard effected his ( . ! , cape. Nor hive we forgotten Ille still more recent, but no less • commend., hle +minium of the C6lllllll Attaktillakulla, Attet the pet fiction: 1111.11.1‘iirl'It by the Cherokees nt the gammon of Fort situated ov.ir the Nliiscle-shoals on the Ten nesse' , river, this nishle Chief, always the flit-nil of peace and of white men, no sooner heard that Captain Stewast (*Oise ipiently •mitlicrit ageot of Iteliati affairs, doting the existence of Ilse colonial coveting •nt) had escaped death, than he has tened to the Rpm, and p orr li a ,, e ,l hint from the Indian oho honk Dips, giving by way of tansuin, Isis rifle, cloth •a, and all that lie could cominand. life of Captain Stewart brit g agrain 1111 , 11Are , l, for refflAill_ to aid the savages in their mein tiled redorlion of kort George, A ti•k1111.1 k tilla resolved to resew- his friend ft the perilous situation in which lie was placed, or pet esti in the attempt. He accordingly signified to ilk count ymen Illat lIP. intended to go hunting, and take his prisoner with him to rat venison. Having arranged ever, thing. they set mit on their journey—the distance to the fitintioi settlements was great, and suspicion of their design being soots e‘eited, the uttniso expedition was necessary to prevent being iiiertaken by those in pursnit of them. Nine days and nights did they travel through a dreary wilderness, never b.-fore travrirsod bat by savages and wild beasts, shap ing their • none by the son and moon, and subsisting nit what 014110- Ithrell in ?brit way, till they tell in with a party of ranger. scot out for toe protection of the frontier, who cosy dueled them in safety to the settlements. The incidetit we Are :doom to relate, (an imperfect account of which has heretnfore beets given), equally wills the forego ing, tlese.ves to be recorded. Duncan MeKrimmon, a resi dent of this town, was a Georgia militia man, in the service of the United States, during she late Sentinitlean war While sta tioned at Fort Gadsden, on the Appalechicula, lie one morn ing New fishing, and in attempting to return missed his way, and was several days lost ito the surrounding wilderness.— After wandering about in various directions lie was espied and captured by a party of hostile Indians, headed by the limp:set Francis. who 114.1 an elegant nuiforin, a tine brace of pistols, and a British cosnmissi )))) or Brigadier General, which he exultingly showed to the prisoner. Having obtained the Itiltiotidel ion they wanted respecting the strength and po sition of the American army, they began to prepare tor the intended sacrifice. Mt-Krim:non was placed at a stake, and the risColess savages having shaved Isis head, and reduced Isis body to a state of lily, formed themselves into a circle, and danced round him some hours, yelling ah the while most Isowrilsly . The youngest daughter of the prophet, who is 15 years of age, and represeatod by officers of the army we have conversed with, to be a woman very superior to her associ ates, was sad and silent the whole time—she participated not in the general joy, but was evidently, even to the affrighted prisoner. much pained at the savage scene she was comae/Jed to witness. When the fatal tomahawk was raised to termi nate for ever the mortal existence of the unfortunate McKrinsmon, at that critical, that awrul moment. !dilly Fran. cis, like au angel of mercy, placed herself between it and sheath, resolmely bidding the astonished executioner, if he thirsted for linmatt blood, to shed hers ; being determined, she said, not to survive the prisoner's death. A momentary pause was produced by this unexpected occurrence, and she took advantage of the circuanstauce to Implore the pity of Ler ferocious father—who finally yielded to her wishes; with the intention, however, it is believed, of murdering them both, if lie could not sell AlcKriumion to the Spaniards, which was luckily effected in a few days after, at St. Marks, for aeren galbms and half of rum. As long as he remained a prisoner, McKrimmon's benefac tress continued to show him acts of kindliest+. New. the for tune of war has placed her in the power of the white pee. ple ; she arrived at Fort Gadsden not long since, with a iitumber of others that had snrrenciered, in a starving condi tion. We are gratified to learn, that a properreapect for her virtues induced flue commanding officer, Colonel Arbuckle, to relieve her immediate wants. McKrimmon appears to have a due sense of the obligation he owes the woman who saved Isis life at the hazard of her own—he left town last week to see her, and, as far as may he in his power, to alle viate her misfitrtnnes. It is also his firm determination, we understand, if site will consent, to make her his wife, and re side, provided he ran prevail upon her to do so, within the settled parts of Georgia. It thus appear+, that rode and nncultivated minds are susceptible of the finest sensibility, of the warmest attach• silents, of the most inviolable friendship ; and that they aoinetimes practise virtues which would do credit to a peo ple the most refined and entightene+.l.—Joarnal. A general Bill of all the Christenings and Burials, from Dee. 16, 1817, to Dee. 15. 1518 : Christened in the 97 parishes within the walls, 1,048; buried 4,804. Christened in the 17 parishes without the walls, 5,317; buried, 4,078. Christened in the 23 out-parishes in Middlesex and Surrey, 13,410 ; buried, 10,099. Christened in the its parishes in the City and Liberties of West • minster, 4,458 ; buried, 4,324. Christ- f N1a'e5...12.530 1 In all I Buria l ( Males... 9,888 •1 In all fused Fcmalcst 1 ,703 et, 2 331 Females 9,822 J 19,70 S Whereof stave died, • Roder two years of age....-s.ltit Sixty and seventy 1,50k5 Hetween two and five 1,815 Seventy and eighty 1,271 Yive and ten ROB Eighty and ninety 722 Ten and twenty 71 43 Ninety and a hundred... 173 Twenty and tttirty 1 l5l A hundred Thirty and forty I,SB $ A hundred and 0ne....- I Vorty and fifty.- ......... t.OlO A hundred and tw0...... 1 Fifty an.l sixty._ ...... Ettfis A hundred and eight... 1 ri:.iactl in the burials this year, 263. A market of ene name of hiller. ?chiding in the City road, tobk to ticwgatirmarket, on Wednewiday morning. a fan of 11m...radish. containing thirty sticks, of only one vear's growth. weign ,, ig. when trimmed for sale, 171 b., being nearly the weight of ont pound each stick. THE NATIONAL REGISTER IVESTiII INS TMe ELECTION. A meetine of the inhabitants of the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, was held at the Gun 'Tavern, Positive, al seven o'clock 011 Monday evening; it star vi ry vouas and respectably attended. Mr. Puller, in the a osetiee elf Mr. Butter, who oas prevented from pi e•iiling as hr had pi u. mi•eil, by si severe domistie affliction (wo understood death of his e was ea:lell to the child.; anii, after the II • solutions hail been teed n.er and VIII to the assemill%, . /tollhouse raw fore at ii and •puike to the foil lsstug flu et : H•• began he oust ving, that it was in the, room that he tit., had the hippy opportunity of meeting the Elerlt.r.: Or West. ntiuster, alien lie had been put in outlet ; and that it was with t reat pli atelier he SAW ill it on the pi eseto t.easitip 111.111% of the Milne leers Windb he had thin soca, together wilt vast seen 1111 l :a.ion at new and luniou. hle ours. Since that time, many momentum: event• foi the Elect in of Weeiniie..' •ter had happened. 'the first was, that the prosper: of di- vision among the friends of free.luisi, %illicit appeared On the day of nnetinetion, was 110 longer Ihr-object sit alarm a nd a p prehension; the noble 1141111. Wilkie had thr been brought forw•til was now ;it tidently awl wisely witletiawo. Had been his fate to ha% e contended with so 41111441 V, !PMl's', Awl der01111111•11e11 a mail .is the tudivithial oho pos•easeil it, he should have had one consideration with wh.eli to setisly WM •••11. In ease 0f victory, and that teas, that he not have driven Lord John Ittiso II into reheat and la tit eadait ; Lord Itti s / was already in Pan 'tangent. ;slid had deditiguishi d hill, self there in defence of the people; entl by retiring Gout the invent contest, bad arced with his usual gate, sense, a lel had continued those famous which Eneland and Enelislinien have a right to expert from lire lonise of Russell. 'rise second event (if that might he called an eve tit which Was OMy a ruinum) to which he alluded was, that :soothe' gentleman, whose name was truly illtistl butts, had also decliatal tit Mier. nipt the general 11111011. It was hard li, ,av that he b a st se olb. drawn who had never conic forward; but still lie ( !loos house) must congratolutte the meeting that they had net to behold in array against them tae :tame of Whubiead, a name which never ('Olllll he meet o irdl withoist exeitmg esteem mot gratitude iu tile Mind 41111 bosom of ..very huuea lenglieteni t e, At the name time lie would not compromise the cause which he had unterteken to .111,11011, neither would lie ever resign it NIIIICSA it were into beater Intuits. One objection against him was, that Westminster wanted a mote rational reformer; it was herd ttl sty' what was irratiOlia• in Slick A subject; for himeelf, lie was a moderate reformer, because lie would not step beyond euudrration in any thing. They too were moderate reformers, because, when they had found the remedy fur their et ievatiees, they were oillieg to apply it.— Sir ,F. Burdett had told a meeting at Liverpool that the Whigs had pi utilised to do every thing needfoil in the ease of reform; they were willing to make parliaments ietiniat, and to extend the right of suffrage to householders; and Wet be. ing the case, lie called the reformets united, all expression which had been lt Cavilled al. A sort of manifesto of their oppouents had appeared ilie other day in a public paper, ander the title of Westruitistetiaita, which was a %ely lung. bard, unintelligible word. It began, It is not the least ut modern weenier:, to have seen that the currull (he means ferule) chair of C. Fox should be aspired to oy candidates advtr tis. lug their pretensions in broken English." He scarcely knew what the writer of this peragi spit meant, unless it were a sarcasm on Sir M. Maxwell, whose answer to the requisition lately addressed to him will false, incorrect, and blokes. En glish. The writer then went un to say, that "it Was Il.s doe' wills Mr. Paul, and not his polities, which first made Sir F. Burdett Member for Westminster. This was au alssinule lie ; it wits his lung tried services in defence of their rights tii..t made the electors of Westminster return the best of men as one uf their tepreeentatives. He then pi oceededsse" They but offend their lungs in vaunting their weight in Westwein bier, unaccompettied by that something winch in the Neill, day of the conflict made iitaitifest the impatence of Jaconin ism, when left to itselt even in its supposed 51111,01 km," The hireling means that you were bribed to do your duty ; it was hardly requisite to contradict so base, so foolish, and sit insi dious 411 41•Str I ion, Calamine de Medici,. hail saul, that " a lie for three w ee k s was as good as limb," and their adversa ries acted upon such a principle; but he would nil allow this lie to 11111 for more than three days, bon would give it an early and positive contradiction. It is then hinted, that " brittle. Candlemas, be, Mr. Hobliouse, would be better instructed in election proceedings." Unfortunately, it' it was 'tweet that by that time he should learn to employ bribery, he must au ewer, that he had neither the. power nor the inclination to do it; besides, it' be had, tau elector of Westminster would allow him to exert either the one or the other. The last paragraph of this notable writer, on which he should comment, vontain ed this extiatardinary and impudent assertion—that " his elec t ion for Westminster, ler all the circumstances of the pre sent juncture, would be not a step inertly, but a stride"—to what ?—to revolution. If' by revolution were meant change, he hoped that it would ; that it would lead to a change of a men like. Sir M. Maxwell, fur one who would act and attests according to their ilirectiuns ; but if by revolution were meant the disorganization of civil society, the hireling scribe has said that which is not merely false, but that which he knew to be so ; if there were any men ft iends to social toilet, it was the meeting which he was addressing ; they weer de sirous of correcting the abuses of the present system, which, unless they mete corrected, would end in a total dielocatioli oldie system, amid that ruin mud bloodshed, and carnage, which was witnessed in Ireland; for he recollected that the blood-stained °lenge ribald was hoisted in London riuting the last elertion ; and he knew that there was one tudividitat who wished to see it dripping with blood in this country a so. He then quitted this etthject, and resumed his attack on Sir Murray Maxwell, who, lie said, was determined that the elect ors of %V eittminster should have him. "It would indeed be a forced marriage ; but lie. Serial resolved, notwithstauding to drag you to the altar, and to find a parson when he gets you there. Von, however, think that you have tio need of him. and as he is very kind, thank him as much as if you had." Mr. Houblionse then observed, that he had that day received a letter from a naval officer, for the truth of whose contents he could not himself speak, stating that " air M. Maxwell had held a lucrative sinecure during the whole war, viz. the Harbour Mastership of Stitinam, which, utter payment of a deputy anal other expellees, was estimated at 1,500, it.year. His friends say 1184 it was given I ' as a reward for his services in the rapture uf that co:ony ; but in reply it onglit to be stated, that many older auil dal riot guisheil °filet re who were then there, got nothing of the sot t, whilst lie was slimily afterwards appointed to the (.1).11- ,1111 ml a very tine frigate." This intelligence was sent to him (Mr. Hot ' be) as a positive fdet ; whether it out, so lie hail not yet had titne to illgnire ; they taught look into that most famous of all hooks to know more accurately, and if they ftniAl it Caen . , he would nut target to fed that truth also bEC Itii on 1111'11111.1i110. It is also intimated, dint the gallant Captain won hes eilit.iry claim on a sineetorr pl lather having' held u..r or :toil. n ear ; even if t:.41 were the Ird•C, lie did net wish 10 i.it the •ill• Or 111 e tether u l hr child, hut otly desired tliti he would b. content with b,s 1,5001. is year, aithont log In Cain 4or .I.OOD of 'thew vot•ti. Sir ‘l. Nlairo ell n:at have mistaken the applause I'llolll lux the api.:tihe of the people of Weßtfoitener ; hut the o Well he rec. iced ai the last election might to have elm .1 him of Knelt If, when he starlet' limier such Civimietole circumstances as ili,union ;mm Hg the friends of I lie tco; , le, he oas sill ini.thle, with all the Goveillllll.llt ill• 1111011-e, to G, t 11'01004 11.11 rued ; Wll4l. can he expect now, the IVivod. of fleet um are united, and not one voice can expecied C•r 10111 which is not extorted by force sad H .611,1i.w then cow-holed by es liottin.: them tueseiiwit,3llll advi.int; Ikeda to employ that aciivity. which, it it 411111101 sernlr them victory, woul.l at least biltlielll4illley were ving nt . it 'fit.' thanks of the meeting' Were the is vote:l to the Chair. inth, atter which the assembly dispeaseti in a quiet and orderly manner. C.WIT.II, PUNISHMENTS AND FORGERIES OF BANK Norr.s. TO TIIF: EDITOR OF TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. itys relactinst to nip n.lt. on public at tention. I cinik laat I smnild be culpably timid or indolent, it 1 slid not atwnnut e a circumstance communicated to ne by an antliority oil u hich I can rely. 11 diiant Weder in the Old Bailey, with Coale 111 . 1 ., and Di On Tne.alay, the 1511: in-I. lot eirculating forged 13411 k note., Ott the proof. of Ilia guilt, or the ex rethence of his e‘erntion, Ido tint emonee• to lemark ; but alter the cxcenti“ii I.!rt COI Wr WAS deli% Cyril for interment to hi. friends; and fined ihe eel y room inwlicelt was 1.1 iced th e otfin with that corpse.and &nine its en l iti iiii4iire in t h at mom f orge d K in k l ea e s have been :Mar, (I by hi. confedrates, and three pt-t !rove been appt clit•ittit•ti for no es, probably obtained at that plate, and sic committed for fur. then examination lot that offence. On this statement it woold be absurd to dilate. The con e' esiors ass as iOIIA ae kr( sittible. The facts demonstrate !lie total inefficacy of the punishment of death fur the sopa pression of such es lines. In all ramie and approachin g dims's...sinus they should not be forgot. They may II aid the efforts of the wise and good to prevail on the Legislature to abolish a punishment so salignioniy and unavailing; and to compel the Itaisk of England to resiline rash pay Clients, and to make :men improvements in their noses as will resider forgery snore difficult and detection .10ft certain, and as will protect the commnsiity from fraud, and preserve the unfor tunate ft OM temptation and from guilt. Finsbury Place, Dec. 24. JOHN MILKS. THE FOG.—Tuesday evening, about half past seven o'elnek, Mr. Julio Joshua It tittreee, of No. 11, Wood Street, Spital. fields, was attacked in the ll:whitey Road b . , a desperate gang of thieves, about .30 in 'mintier, who carried torches, and pretended to he following a Iliad boll ; he was knocked down a nd yow l ed of I l k watch and its appendages. Abort the same hour. . lir. Brey, of Rosemary Si. Cie' keit wellos as at tacked at the Corner of Felton Court, City Rililll, by three men, who robbed him of his watch, with %%Inch they escaped. The game reciting a gentlemen's carriage was blocked with marry others, at Whitehall, and a an of th eves with Medics coining round, miller the pretence of gi ing assistatice, eteee the carriage elassee. and a rich Spasii•h cloiak whieh lay on the sest.attil eel off with it. On Tuesday night, one of the Windsor Coaches, which comes to the Bolt-in -tun, Fleet-street, sots robbed. It seems that the thieves, during the intense fog, bad made an opening in the bout behind, and stole every parcel it contained. A carrier also, well known in town, in coming from IVinilsor, in attempting to cross Datchet's-bridge, missed the wall, and "hove his cart and horse into the Thames. II is horse was drowned, and his cart lost ; but he himself, by some acci dent which lie cannot explain, was preserved, and is at present in town. Several of the North coaches were upwards of four hours be yond their usuel time of arriving. Tuesday evening, during the tog, some daring villains entered the public house, the sign of the Barking Dog, corner of North-street, City-road. The thieves entered the chamber window by a ladder; they broke open a Benefit Society's box, from which tarty e 137., likewise two silver watches, two silver punch ladles, and a greet quantity of wearing apparel belonging to Mrs. Talbot, the landlady The villains have as yet escaped justice. A FEMALE MANIAC.—In the greater part of our lest week's im pression we alluded to a melancholy instance of self-destruction, ac companied by circumstances of a peculiar nature. The case now being too generally known to require further secrecy on our part, and a Coroner's inque-t having taken place on the lyelies, there is reason for withholding the particulars any longer front oar readers. It appeared on the inquest, which was held last eaturday week, at Anthony-passage.liciuse, by Mr. Evans, Coroner ces Siltash, beige a respectable jury, that Mrs. Snowden (the deceased) hired a wate.man on the preceding Thursaay, to take her, ker son, &Knit sev, , n years old, and an infant in arms, up the river to the mills near Antione. passage, where she occasionally resided. Oa arri , ing near t em as she expressed a wish to be landed, and this la Mg complied with, site discharged hint. This was in the vicinity of Ince-castle. As soon as the waterman was out of sight, she deliberately walked backwards into the water with her infant, and on her son's inquiring why she did so, and her replying that, if he did not go with her, he would be burned by fire and brimstone, seised his arm and threw him imo the water, at the same time wading deeper and deeper until she gad her infant were swallowed tip in the depth. tie son reiovered bin:- self and g ot ashore, in a state ofdistraction which may he more real . ), conceived than described ; and being discovered by . a woman who was near the spat, he conanninicated to her the event in tewful accents.— Some workmen were instantly dispatched to the spat with the forlorn hope of rescuing the deceased, but they came too late. The infect was found dead not far distant from the land, sod shortly after t e unhappy mother, whose body the receding tide had left on the shore. The Jury, after receiving this and some other evidence, brought in their verdict—Lunacy. On Wednesday last the bodies were interred in one coffin, in the burying ground of the Rev. Mr. Mends's Meet ing !louse, at Plymouth.—Plymouth paper. A Act. sundry last, the 'del kof a palish in Glou cestershire had to announce. that or such a day the Inertia'. bent w ould be reedy to receive the tithes of the said parish; and all persons then neglecting to pay theft 141. V el SI Idioms mould lei slivrith be exchequercd. t Awl al held out a viill more threatening menace—" that if they neglected their compefitioas they would all lu thwith be exa.cuted." Kin 4THFIELDSAY.—Orders ale tone down to expedite tl:e arrangenient• for bailditott the palmer for the Doke of Ue'- litigton. The u..• wand lon. , been mai rd, aml the lopping of ihe trees and retool% al of other ineimananres will commence •,tonedlatelp. In less film! lii) days 11. e pircha.e•ntoncy witl he pant into the hands of the Karl of Rivers. We air mach pleased to add, that never was there a bargain complcated so much to the %atisf.actiun of all the parties COW:fined. MM.