The National Register. — London, England, 1813-10-03 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL !MOISTER. 4 ,- since they were bound down to au assize which fair trader a profit so small as to be unexampled in any calling in the kingdom; and at the same time they d by the ChielMagistrate to have their assize settled wheat, an article in which they did not deal, and of which they had no control. They rearsented dship that considerable danger was to be appre- 1 fended to the peace of the metropolis, it' the assize of bread shuidd be actu a lly set by the price of wheat, because they could not cone tiune to supply their customers if a measure so oppressive should be :,ttempted. Lord Sidmouth said, it was impossible for Govern ment to interfere with the Magistrate whose duty it was to set the assize; but recommended them to represent the real circumstances of their situation to the Lord Mayor. He thanked them for the communication they had made, and assured them that he should take rare to provide for the peace of the metropolis. In the even ing of the same day there was a meeting of master bakers at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, which was attended by between 600 and 700 of that body ; when a resolution was entered into, that if the assize of bread was set from the price of wheat, the baker Conk! not continue to supply the public. Tuesday, the Master and Warden of the Bakers, with the Com mittee of Bakers, of the Company, attended the Lord Mayor, with their Solicitor, as his Lordship, finding the price of flour was still lept up, notwithstanding the decline of that of wheat, persisted in fixing the assize from the latter ; the Solicitor for the Company argued the case at some length, and a discussion took place, the result of which was, his Lordship adjourned the business until four u'clock,when, after consulting the City Law Officers, the price of bread was ordered to be continnzal the same us last week. A Court of Common Council is summoned to he held at Guildhall, to-morrow, " in consequence of a requisition received by the Lord Mayor, to take into consideration the present high price of bread, which has been kept up in an alarming degree unprecedented after so abundant au harvest, which Providence hal been pleased to bestow upon us." A general volunteering from the Militia will, it is said, be -ordered to take place, previous to the ensuing meeting of Parliament, and which, it is believed, will be the last under the regulations at present existing. General Vandatnme has been sent prisoner to the interior of Russia ; he met, on his journey, the execration of the people for his cruelties at Bremen, Hamburgh, &c. and his escort was scarcely able to protect him from their rage and resentment. Mr. Francis Seymour Larpent, Deputy-Judge Advocate in the Peninsula, was lately surprised and taken prisoner by a French piquet while riding with some young officers on the Pyrennees, admiring the grandeur of the SCCPC. The rest of the party escaped. Mr. Larpent is now at Bayonne. HUMANITY AND BRAVERY..--TIIC following act of bra vv.y and humanity, which has but few paralleli, is recorded of a French Officer who was taken prisoner at the surrcnder of St. Sebastian.—During the heat of the first attempt to storm the town, while the contest was raging in the most furious and deadly form, a French Officer saw an one (belonging to the Royals) fall wounded to the ground, exposed to the fiercest fire of the artillery. The Fiench Officer's sympathy was excited, and, rushing to the spot, through all intervening obstacles, be placed the unfortunate gantleman on his back, and conveyed him safely to the hos pital. Lord Wellington, with his accustomed regard for desert, has recommended him to the notice of Government. A circumstance, no less interesting, occurred about the same period. A Newfoundland do 4 was found by the side of his deceased master, (another Officer of the Bova's) tliPee•clays after the engagement. On the approach of the French party, employed to bury I:,c &ad, the f.tithful animal spewed considerable ferocity; but, being pacified at length, he per mitted the corpse to be 'moved, and followed it to the pave. The impressive fa.ct was convonei,ated to General ey, who iastautly adopted the uoble animal, and brough t to Engliusti. SIIADWICILL.—An investigation at the above office in'o the late dangerous riots among the Chinese Lascars, io which three men vi ere.. killed, and about 17 wounded, terminated ou Tuesday, w ith the cilia mitment of six of the ringleaders The followinz is an abstract of the most material evidence : , A. Gola, Superintending of natives of India atated, that in a place called Kingl)avid's Fort, there were :About L-00 Chi! e e in the bar racks belonging to the East India Company. Of these there we two sects, one called the Clienies, the ether the Chin-Chao. On visiting their barracks about eight o'clock on the nmrning Of the 18th ult. he found them in a state of entire hostility ; onc sect fight ing the other with knives and implements of every description. He immediately directed the gates to be slog to pi event the of fenders from escaping. He then sent for and procured the as, ist ance of several of the police officeim, on seeing whom approach, the contest in a great measure subsided. The officers immediately proceeded to disarm them of their weapons, which, by this time. they attempted to couccal. On searching their chests and ham— mocks, all their knives, 4:c. were taken away. One man was -foond dead, with his bowels ripped open. Sever were cart led to the London Hospital, severely wounded, two of whom are ,ince dead. The Chenies overcame the Chin-Chou by superiority of numbers. The winless was informed that a cutler, on Towur was employed to make instruments fur the Oicilies. He found his name was Ciamer : he acknowleged that be had recently sold two sets of large knives to them, and had been commissioned to snak e, them a farther supply, which his workmen were then eXcectiura These the witness saw : they were large knives, with wooden han dles, the blade about the size of a common cutlass. Cramer being. • apprised of their intended use, promised they should not he'de livered. Several of the Lunen; were afterwards stonpeil at the Barrack-gate, in the act of bringing such instruments with them, which they delivered up, nut without some struggle, and an at-, tempt to use them against the officers for making the seizure. The origin of this affair appears to be thus, by the evidence of the parties :—A Chines being at play with a Chin-Choo, they guar. relied about Is. 6d. which one had lost and refused to pay : they came to blows, and on a sub - sennent day tilty rene.wed the combat with knives. Too Sugar, a Chin-Chop, now in the hospital, is alleffed to have begun the contest, by calling to liii sect to Mum and fight the Chenies. Hence it appears each sect can4lit the con tagion of quarrel from these two, when the reneonuter became. general. Of thaw in custody, three have been discharged for want of evi dence. The toriAiving are to take their trial ) viz. ,4ipni, Appong, Ch ong, and Pen. r BIRTHS. At Mordea Lodge, Sarrey. the Lady of G. Mare, Esq. of a son, MARRIED. At High Wycomb, Henry Watkin Williams Wynne, E. j : i.r Majesty's Envoy Eatraordinery and Minister Plenipuselitlur, at Dt..-s den, to the Hun. Hester Smith, daughter et Lord Carrington. At Marybone Church, the gerr. C. Spe ncer, of Great street, to Amelia, eldest (lunettes. of SIF Wru. Bevcbey, nt . Jlurky. street, Can DIED. Suddenly, as she was sitting iu a chair, in her shop, In de North. street, Chichester, Mrs. Palmer, a maiden lady, aged 70 years. On Monday last, at Pennington House, near Lymington, Hants, R. Mann, Esq. Admiral of the Red, of his Majesty's Fleet. Lately, at Brighton, Sir E. O'Brien, a character of much notoriirty in many parts of the country. SPYIUNQ AND AIAuDEN'S LICNION ACID FOR SAUCE, &C. This Acid for the table (which, from its being a Inc powder combined with the fragrance of the Lemon Peel, would be generally apprecei of If ft was better kwo %is) has been mostly confined to perilous of high rank, and only requires a trial anti suqicient publicity to become general whenever Lemons are u aoteit for domes tls erposts. ''here is a direction on the bottle for Punch, Lemonade, &c. Ac. ft sold at the followittr, Italian Warehouses:—Thomas, Brown, and Bali, Bund-street; Markor and Aveling. Piticaiiilly Price. lisymarket ; Pre and Barclay, Oxford-street ; Plaistow, ; Stilton, St. Jain&s-street . . W est, tiinir-oreet, Soho Lazenbl. F.dwaril-%treet, Portman-square; kawllnsive.fireat Porti•md-street Atkin-um:llan-ger, amid We , t. Otfordo.t reet ; Davis crow It 114. sell-street: A veling Gloucester -kireet, Bkontsbury; W right, Lamb's Coodpa.. stroct; Powell and Son, She'd and Son, Marebunt, Holborn Hurennalle. fit, Paul's Church-yard: Hale and Feaaers, Poultry; Crabb, Lesithard-street • 'ilk, Sircbia-lane and Cornhill; Wir , L•-a(leairtil-street;Stokes, kencliureb.stieet, Grecory,Gracechurcb-street; Young, Wapping: Nimrod, Firer-street itim • and Hodson, Strand ; - Dr orgists, Confectioner., aaj Pie :to ounce the saints or is ;muffs. Princec•A reet, WrOonip , ter ; it is ttlin cold by latent Medicine Waiebuteaec in bottle; 9c. RI. Snrilig and Mantles en lb; wrappers. as op otl pp POLITE. "..~u._..~..... OCT. S. way di.tressing, leaves to the tai other trade or c were threatens( by the price of over the price ( to his Lord 4