The National Register. — London, England, 1811-09-08 00:00:00

NATIONAL REGIST E R. T MISCELLANIES. • The tamer to the enquiries yesterday morning, at Kensing ton Palace, respecting the Duke of Sussex, was, that his Royal Highness was better than he was yesterday morning. From a sudden indisposition of the Princess Sophia on,Thurs day, notwithstanding the carriages and horses were ordered for the morning airing at the usual hour, they were counter manded. - - - The Mausoleum in Cardinal Wolsey's chapel, intended as the cemetery for the Royal Family, is nearly completed; and it is expected that the remains of the late Princess Amelia, which at present lie under the private communion table in St. George's chapel, will shortly be removed and interred in one of the vaults of this magnificent structure. A SELF-CREATED KING.—rI late Philadelphia Journal con tains a singular account of a Mr. Lambert, mariner, of Salem, Massachusett's State, having taken possession, conjunction with two associates, of Tristan de Clh4ha, Inaccessible, and Nightingale Islands, lying in the Western Ocean. Mr. L. has published a proclamation, dated Feb 4, in which be declares his intention of founding'a settlement there; and says, that as the said is/ands have never been claimed by any power, he shall, from the above date, constitute himself the sole proprietor of them, not by right of conquest or discovery, but by the rational and sure principles of absolute occupancy. He has re-christened them the Islands of Refreshment. An Evening Paper of Friday has the following paragraph : el It is said that Mr. Jones Burdett is to came forward at the next election for the Borough of Southwark, and that he has been solicited to stand Candidate by several hundreds of the Electors." Vie believe there is not a word of truth in the statement. The Freeholders of the county of Huntingdon are forming themselves into an independent association for preserving the freedom and purity of election. George William Leeds, Esq. of Croxton, has announced his intention of offering himself as a representative for this county at the next election. Tut COMET.—This phenomenon has been seen from the me tropolis. I- was on Thurday evening very conspicuous from soon after dusk until half past nine o'clock, in a N. N. W. di rection, near the horizon. After having been about four hours below the horizon, it was again to be seen this morning in a N. N. E. direction, from half past two o'clock until nearly day-light. A few days since, a young gentlemen, who is presumptt•:e heir to a title, as well as one of the most considerable estates in Sussex, set off from the Metropolis, in company with a very youthful femal , !, on a trip to Scotland, supposed on a matrimo alai expedition. The young gentleman, who had previously exhibited sonic eccentricity of character, is aged 18 years; the lacy, his companion, has barely seen 16! Two ?r!slinien, who were badly wounded at the battle of Bar vosa, happened to lie in the field near each other ; and while the Surgeons were examining their wounds, one of them made a great outcry; when the other, with considerable non-chalance, sang out ,‘ What are you at, Pat ; what a roaring you keep ! do you think there's nobody kilt hut yourself ?" We some time since gave an account from the French Papers of the c 4pture of the Alacrity, Captain Palmer, by the Abeille French brig of war. The enemy, it is said, owed their success to this stratagem :—Having struck their colours, Capt. Palmer sent part of his men, under the command of the Second Lieu tenant, to take possession, when they re-hciisted their colours, and again engaged the Alacrity, which, in consequence of her force being so much weakened, was compelled to yield. A very singular rencontre occurred a few evenings ago, which deserves to be made public, as it shows the enterprize and ferocity of the Tiger, in a field of action that hitherto has been thought secure from his attack. The crew of the Kedge ree Da wk boat,while at anchor near, Sangor, in 7 l-Bth fathoms, were alarmed by the noise of a tiger, swimming towards them. I - le approached the boat, and having got so near as to reach it with his claws, attempted to get on hoard, from which he was prevented more by height of the gunwale above the water, than by any opposition from the crew, who were too much alarmed to exert themselves with effect. The tiger continued, accord.. ing to the report of the boat's crew, upwards of forty minutes, (two ghurries) alongside, frequently renewing his attempts to • climb on board. The marks of his claws remain distinctly visi ble on the planks above the copper.—(Madras, March 16.) In a case at Nottingham Assizes, it was decided that a person detaining any property which may have been lost, after the offer of a reasonable reward, that is equal to 1-20th of such property, is guilty of friagy. On Friday se'nnight the Printers and Proprietors of Tke Dublin Evening Herald and The Freeman's Journal, received a long notice or letter, signed by Messrs. Kenunis, Crewn - aoli• citors, to attend at the Attorney-General's house, Stephen's green, on Monday, at three o clock, to shew cause why an in formation ex-cfficio should .not be granted, if any they h:id, why The Freeman's Journal on the Ist of August published a libel, and why The Herald on the 9th published also a hbel— to which they attended, accompanied by their Counsel, and were told by the Attorney-General they were to be prosecuted and tried next Term fur the report of Mr. Scully's speech at toe last Catholic Meeting in Dublin. We understand that a new arrangement is about to be made by Government for printing The Gazette. A house has been fitted up in Downing-street, for a large printing establish. meat, where not only The Gazette, but all Proclamations, Mani festoes, and other State Papers, issued by the Government, will be printed under the immediate inspection and controul of the Members of the Government respectively concerned. The la pers translated into foreign languages for circulation upon the Con inent will also be executed in this establishment, which will be placed, we understand, under the direction and superin tendence of a very respectable Gentleman long connected with the newspaper press in the interest of the Ministers. A model for a Printing Press has been prepared for the in spection of the Society of Arts, which appears calculated to add much to e ,pedition in the Impression, and greatly to diminish the manual labour connected with that operation. The frame is an oblong square, somewhat similar to those in common use ; the carriage stands in a line with the cheeks, one of which passes through its centre ; and the rtbs are segments of circles. The coffin is placed above, and close to the carriage, and is nearly of the same length; the same cheek goes likewise through its cen. tre. This coffin is made to admit twb forms at a time, and to move horizontally about the cheek already mentioned, present. ing, at the same instant, a form to receive the impression, and another for the application of the ink, and the taking off and lay ing on of the sheet. The rolling in and out of the forms, which are invariably to the same point, and the pullings are performed by a circular motion, and may be done by any person, even a blind man ; indeed it seems possible for a weight to accomplish the purpose. One revolution of a wheel rolls out one form, rolls in another, and pulls it with an unchangeable accuracy; for the degree of pressure which the form may require, and which is given to the first sheet, will extend to every sheet in the heap, without the smallest increase or diminution. It would appear that nearly the work of two ordinary presses might be done at the same time at this.—This ingenious improvement is the more remarkable, as it is the work of a person unconnected with me chanical pursuits. MANIAC.— A most interesting looking female, about 18 years of age, dressed in a style of fashionable elegance, attracted the attention of several persons yesterday morning in Bond street, by the singularity of her demeanour. She held in her hand a beautiful work-basket, in which were small bundles of straw, which she exposed for sale to the passengers, asking them, at the same time, if they would buy any matches? So extraordinary a circumstance soon drew a crowd round her, who continued to li,ten to her ravings for some time, and many, from curiosity, purchased her little bundles, for which she re turned the most grateful acknowledgments. At length, an elderly gentleman, in great agitation, forced 'his way through the throng, and, catching the female in his arms, he was, for a moment, lest in the greatest anguish. Several gentlemen offer ed their assistance, and a coach being procured, the unfortunate maniac was placed in it. To this she made no resistance, but continued crying her matches. She was driven to the h ouse from which she had wandered, in Baker-street. On Thursday last, Mr. Luke Cade, a respectable tradesman in Paradise-row, Chelsez, and who for neialy thirty years had been a tax-gatherer, revered by his superiors, and respected by the poor and the distressed, met his death by falling into a wine cooler full of hot wine. The deceased, on his return from at tending a vestry meeting on Thursday, employed himself in emptying a coffer of boiling elder wine into a cooler, after which, whilst wiping a copper, his feet slipped from a tub on which he was standing, and he fell backwards into the cooler of heated wine. He was unable from his age (seventy-five) to extricate himself, and he was rescued by three of his daughters, who had been alarmed by their parent's shrieks.* In this horrible situa tion, in which he was put to bed, he lingered until Sunday, when the hand of death relieved the- worthy man from his heart-rending sufferings. The deceased had the reputation of never levying a distress warrant; his heart was ever open to lend a fostering hand to the distressed, and the breath of slander had never ventured to approach him. Cribb's principal exercise is in following the athletic pecks. Wan Captain Barclay, at grouse shooting, at which he often gets dead beat. .4 ' • 141 1 ‘a