The National Register. — London, England, 1817-09-15 00:00:00

"•t beloved da . m:liter, whom she survived only three months. She died the It)th of February, 15.11, Aged 31 years. Of. • _ 11 It is well known that his Majesty's present malady originated from the loss of his flivourite daughter, the Princess Amelia. Many anecdotes have, at different times, appeared of what the King has said or done daring lucid intervals, most of which probably rest on 110 good authority. There is one, however, of an inter esting nature, which being indisputably autlienti, we have much pleasure in recording. In the cloisters of St. George's Chapel. Windsor, there is a tablet, which was erected by his Majesty's command, about four months after the commencement of his illness; at a time when the weekly bulletin of the Physicians was, " His Majesty proceeds favourably in his recovery " The Inscription placed on the tablet by the King's direction, is as follows : KING GEORGE the THIRD caused to be interred near this place the body of MARL - GAS . COMN, Servant to the late Puts( ESS AMELIA, and this Tablet to In erected la testimony of his grateful sense of the faithful services and attachment of an amiable young woman to his FORTENATE Discos Env.—On Monday, as M. Dias, of the Rent Recovery Office, Londonataill. near Calt-man-street, was removing the goods of Nlrs.J. Butler, ;4 widow, under thstrain fur rent,fruniQueett-st reel, w ark, lie discovered in an old bureau a secret drawer, containing Ital. in Bank notes, s ome memorandums, and a will of her late haSbaod, who ;lied in June, upa. An investigation is going on at Brighton of some gambling trans stations th:re, which excites considerable interest. It appears, that a finn, whose names are O'Mara, Pollen, Morley, and ('lake, lately engaged a man. named Wright, to act as a punter ton table called AP o ir, We C e, tont IF dear: the table was first carried to the back room of Donaldson's Library, where it continued tbr t h or Mar (lays, when Donaldson disclairged it from his premises. It met the same fate at a house in Broad-street, from whence the table was carried to a room over Walker's library, where a rent teas paid of twelve guinea:: per week. litre a gentleman lost 1251. be was thought a valuable pigeon, :ant in consequence u plan was laid to made him drank, and pluck Min by means of a false gable; unfor tunately for their designs, ‘Vright, the punter, Ilad, in tlt , meantime, tic-painted the gentleman with their nefarious intention, v ho thereby avoided the snare, and heft the room at the moment the firm thought he was completely in their power. If %)'right's testimony is to be re lied on. Walker, the librarian, was in the secret I he desi,ed the door to be bolted, that all should be private ; and on the gent eman com plaining he had been cheated of his 1251. he proposed on behalf of the firm, to allow him looL The affair stands for re- nvestigation but the evidence already disclosed has thrown 'a eh is light on the systan of gprabling, that the Magistrates of 0 e town have pat a stop to the Coburg and Loo 'fables at the variot:s public esta blishments. FORTUNATE SUPERSTITION.—Captain 'Stout, ef the Ameri can ship Her cales, which was ran on shore on the coast of Catfraria, 1796, as the only means of saving the lives of the crew, gives the following account of the super: titian of the Lascars At a period when the tempest raged with the ut most violence, the Captain directed most of the crew below, particularly the Lascars, to work the ptimpa. One of them , howea era was perceived combat up the gant;wac,w ith a liana. ket chief io his hand ; and, on twine qaestioneti what lie was about, he answered in a tune of voice that disr overed a per feel cordidence in the 111(15%11C that lie propos. d, that he was gOilig to make an utieiing to his 'flits -handkerchief (sa id lie) contains ii certain qualaity of rice, and all the rii. pees I am worth ; suffer me to attempt to lash it to the mizell top, and rely uvula it, air, it' 1 succeed, we shall all be pre served.'—'llic Captain was going to order hint hack again to the pumps; but recollecting t hat by doing so he might throw bath Mai and his err nrtrymeu into a state of despoudency, and thereby Inso the benefit of their caertians, he acquiesced:— The Lascar thanked and he soon beheld the child of pre judice mount the tat tei slit ends without the least uppre. heitsion. He soon lashed the handket eltiet to the mizen aola mast head, fear less of all (hanger, and arrived in safety on the fleck, confident now, that WM God vv as the Captain's friend ; he went below to inform his brethren that he hail dune his duty. All the Lascars seemed transported with joy, embraced their vit Nous c ontranion, and then laboured at the pump wi :It increased alacrity and perseverance, as if they had en countered before neither apprehension or fatigue.—'l'o their unceasing labour was owing, is a great measure, the preser- eation of the people." Mr nu ER.—Mr. John Wakefield of orthn ids in Cheshire, a per ssn of great re..peetability, and carrying on the business of Salt lho p-ietor, he. been charged with the wriful murder of Richard iSlad aorks, a flatinen, employed on the canal in that neighbourhood, on Monday evening last. A woman servant, living in the house of air.Waketield was acquainted with the tleyeased; and as Mr. W. ad frequent occasions to leave home, he uniformly disenvered on his return that a cansiderableredewtiou had taken/since in the contents of his ale cellar, and his lartler.-1 lis siispioion teal on this female ; end on Monday hying Northwhich Wake, she took the cmiortunity with her friends, of availing herself of the foitivities of the itty.-- In the cycling, Mr. Wakefield finding that she had not returned, wmt tn look for her, and soon &mud them both, loite;ing about the remises, alt'aitt,ll he had fietpiently insisted on Maddoelui diseam. diming his vi•ils. Mr. Waketwl.l old bins to go about his business. and; in the end a <cede en mid, in which Maticlocks was knocked down. 11- tup and ran away. Mr. W. who had got a sword stick from the house, weedily followed hint ant: overtook hi m , an d i n thr re' -'"ages drawing the fatal swat on fro:il its sheath, he passed it throu;,ll the hotly of Maddil e dcs aho ran :.n..-!;e distance bethre he fell. Allow twelve o'clock, Ole deceased was Mond, some fifty or Liaty var;!.: f the place where he had received his wound ;he wa. net Glad, but in a fi.wmoinents he breathed his last The lumen terh occurrence, even at that lste hour, soon becarnegenendly k. own nettlierom bodv of Rumen collected, threatening a dreaded: vengeance. Mr. Wakefield barricadoed tile lower putt of - his house, selzul a doul k -barrelled gun, and stood on the defensive. The po liC officers ' however arneang, Mr. Woks field quietly surrendered him-elf. A Coroner's inquest was held on Tuesday when a verdict was found of—Wilful Murder, and on Wednesday n:orning the wretched man was lodged ill Chester county gaol, charged with the offence. On examinin,.• the body of aladdocks.n wastowertained, tit-:t the dit: had pi; reed his heart—another wound was 'lkon end, aka mortal. Madelocks, was a goo,: looking man, ai.;cti about 21 Lora Whitworth is preparing to return to England. The greater put of his baggage was last week con veyed to the Custom House in Hublin.—llis Execl- 1 , ...r.5y, as a proof or . his desire to encourage the trade 0' 'near:!, takes with hint two or three thousan 1 r4 4 .4u.1s worth cf 140. TUE NATIONAL REGISTER, SATURDAY'S POLICE. GUILDHALL. On Saturday, J. Warren wag brought up for final examination on acharge of robbing his employer, Mr. Amwnlield, of Norwich. a bombazine manufacturer, of upwards of .30001.—He was fully corn anneal. J. Perkins, ajourneyman plasterer, was brought up under the fol lowing charge:-.-A respectable attorney. of I iorset.street, Salisbury square, stated, that as he was fastening up his house on Friday night he heard a violent snoring in his t'cs cellar, and on examining it, he found the pris mer stretched at his length fast asircp. Suspecting he hod come with iment to rob his house, as he luul lost many articles of late, he had him t:. ken into custody. The prisoner had formerly done wane e ..re in his house. The prisoner said he went to see the ser vant girl. and while they were bitting together, they heard her mis tress coining down stairs. The girl said she did not know what to do with bun unless he went into the coal cellar, as her mistress looked all over the house except that part. lie consented to becon • (Tided there, and having had a drop of drink, he dropped off to slap. The Magist:ate asked him it he was a married man, to which the prisoner answered no. A shrill voice from the crowd exclaimed, " am his wife, your worship." and immediately, a very decent woman made her appearance, but without testifying the least jealoi anger at the conduct of her spouse. She said she knew he did ft g • to see the girl for the purpose of courting her, because the gig kna he was a loathed man.—He was hound in his own recognisi rum :o keep the peace in '2Ol. the Nlagistratc observing, that many out were robbed by workmen employed in them becoming actin. intact with the servant girls. lIA'ITON-GARDEN—SATURDAY. THE KING V. JOSEPH AND SAMUEL MOATE.—ThiII was au inthrmation by the Commissioners of Excise, against the defendants who are concerned in an extensive soap work at Knightsbridge. The information was laid under the 47. Geo 111. chap. 31. Sec. 7. which states, that, if any maker of hard soap shall not cut his soap into cakes or bars, out of the frames, 14 ithiN Ris floors atter it has been ',mired into them, he shall forfeit for every such offence, the sum of fifty putimis. Mr. Waleot counsel for the prosecution, culled Kobi rt Cole, an Eseise Officer, who deposed that, on Sunday the I:Ws July last, the delimil.ints had a boiling of soap ready, and that before ten o'clock on that day, it was poured into foot frames. On the 21st of the same months at 6 o'clock in the morning, the SOAP in one of these frames, remained anent. It had therefore hero in the Frame 189 hours, instead of 168 as limited by the Act. J. Crooks, another Excise Officer deposed to the same effect. Mr. Andrews, for the defendants, after cross examining. the Witnesses objected that the opposite side had failed to prove, that, the defendants actually were, " Makers of Hard Soap," on the day laid in the inforniation. The Nlagistrates held this objection good; and acquitted the defendants. CitAxtoLoor.—in one of the last sittings of the Academy at Rome, M. GM. Fort. Zamboni, demon strated in a dis.surtatimi on the Craniological system of 1)r. Gall, Ist, That it was contrary to Physiology; Qd, That the principle of it was fidse, erroneous, tend ing to materialism and finalisin, destructive of the li berty of man, and derogatory to the dignity of the hu man race, which, according to Dr. Gall, differs from brutes only in an accidental physical conformation.— The Diario di Roma says, that all this was proved by reasonings equally convincing and eloquent. This will doubtless surprise Dr. Gall, whose system, as he asserts, no more tends tomaterialism;than that of the very re- Fghius Lavaiter, who, it 11111 V he presumed, never thought Of ranking himself in the class of brutes. As in consequence of a late event at Boulogne, an opinion is generalize entertained that persons cannot be arrested in France for debts contracted out of that country, unless on a judgment obtained against them, the following iufbrmation has been received from the President of the Tribunal of Commerce at Calais:— • - (70 PC OF TO E F.SI DENT'S I. ETT F No person can he arrested in France fir a debt contracted nut of that country, although it is acknowledged to be due by the debtor therein, nor would evidence to that efe....ct be of any avail before the* Tribunal. But if a Bill of Exchange csn be obtained trom the debtor in France, and indorsed to a French House, and regularly protested, the debtor might be ;armed upon that Bill, as it would then become a mercantile transaction. (Signed) -" M. AIOURON." A person assuming the name of Captain Wallace, and stating himself to be one of the first fatuities in Scotland, has just been tried at the Court of Assizes at Paris. It seems that he gave a bill of exchange for 3or 4000 francs, but I....fused to indorse it. He was pursued to Boulogne, and threatened to be arrested, and was there accused of having stolen three napkins and a brush He was taken hack to Paris, where he was acquitted. This is probably the "soi-disant," Cap tain Wallace, better known than trusted, in the pur lieus of St. Jame's and Jermyn-street. It is said that the military establishment of the king dom of tlx Netherlands, is to be raised before the mid dle of next month, to 88,000 effective troops. The militia are, however, to be included in this grand total. Letters from the French frontiers, state, that the bar vest is iioished in the northern departments, and has flu. exceeded the general expectation. They talk of forming magazines ," magazins d'abandance") at Lille, .is well for the supply of the Arm• of Occupation, as to have at all times a sufficient supply of corn in case of need. 174(11rEqr nr Mn. DACV.—Yestcrday evening an inquest was held at the Rainbow. public-house, Temple bar, upon the body of this unfortunate gentleman, who put a isliotl to his existence in a hackney coach on Friday night, sit the tottom of Chanceiy-lane.— It appeared, by Ow evidence of Mr. l'erry, linen-draper, of Holborn, that the deceased had been known to him many years, that he was brought up to the medical prols:inn, but had latterly been a teacher in a re. pet acath my at Birmingham. plc came rutin that place on Mondry List, and called upon Mr. Perry the saute day, and it then ..ppeart-.I to kin), that there WelA semething very hurried arsi timett:ed in his manficr. The disturbed unite of his mind, was also remarked by a eentleman who ca. , !e from Birmingham with l:im M the coaeli. Ile was a li.i,•lßlor, and them did not apptar in hi, *fairs my ems:. for the tcrror and devondony uckaibrA to the hole fottod, in Lis po;ket. N'enlict—Luna.y. SEPT. 15. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Avgnst 29, 1817. THE Principal Officers his Majesty's Ordnance do hereby give Nuticc That Proposals will be received if their Office in Pull Mall, on or before dnesday, the 17th day if September next, jinni such Persons us may be willing to undertake the Supply ty . Forage fur the Ordnance nurses stotiuned :n the untlrrnientiontii Distlietx, to be delivered at thc Erperiee of the Cunt: clew, WoolwicL. Western. North Brit.:in. Sussex. Kent, exclusive of Woolwich.' Eastern. South %V'est. Ibr a riod of Six lifanthitfront the Ist October nett. The Oats to he good,sweet,dry, and clean, without any flare gf yor Mote• burnt Oats, and must not weigh less than 37 pounds per Winchester Bushel; the Hay to be sweet and dry, and delivered in Trusses if 34; pounds weight.—The Straw lobe good, clean, and dry Wheat or Rye Straw, and delivered is Trusses of 361bs. weight. The Prices to be paid for the respective Quantities of each Article akch may 6. delivered at the following rates. viz. lelior the Oats at cif hundred pounds, Avoirdupois weight For the Hay at sp hundred and twelve pounds. For the Straw at t , hundred and twelve pounds. The Proposals may be delivered separately or.jointlyfor two or ,no e of t lu said Stations, and it is expected that the Contractor shall - ceive the Stable Doug, which, daring the Period otitis Contract, may accumulate, making an allowance fur the same after Me rale of 4' Horse Week. Farther pi/ tieulaas may be known upon application to the Officers Commanding the Royal Artillery in each - District. and also at the Secretary', Office iu Pall Mall, aforesaid, any day betuct n the hours of Tot and Four o'Clock, where the Poll:was must be deli vered sealed up and endorsed, " Proposals for Forage," but no pru— poses can be admittei after the said 171 h al September, at Twelve o'Cloek at Noon aft& same day, neither wilt any Tender be noticed unless the Party making it, or an agent in his behalf; shall (Wend. By &der of the Board, R. 11. CRE It', Secretary. DIED. At Madrid, after a short illness, Barbara, the wife of Ranh°ho mey Frere, Esq. his Majesty's Secretary of Embassy at the-Otto man Porte. The marriage had been solemnized by proxy, accord ing to the usual forms; but Mr. Fiore having been detained at Con stantinople by the business of the Embassy, during Sir Robert Liston's absence, never had the happiness of seeing bier since their union.—After a long and painful illness, Major B. Poynter, aged 79 years. lie entered his ;Majesty's service in the year 1755, and served with General %Voile in America, and wa. in the memorable battle of Quebec.—At Paris, G. William, eldest son of G. 11. Sum ner, Esq. M.P. for Surry.—At Anelmethuld in Glenquaich, Perth shire, Elizabeth Murray. aged 116 years. She was in good health, and enjoyed the use of all her faculties till within a few days of her deaths. LONDON 11L1RKETS. CORN-EXCHANGE. MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. There WAS a liberal Supply of English Wheats this morning, rilajtor part new ; it was taken oft at a reduction Of 4s. to 3s. per quarter, and there is every reason to expect it will continue falling for sonic time. Fine Barley supports its price; inferior sorts unsaleable.—Bye, Beans, Peas, :and Oats, a mill sale at a reductim of 2s. per quarter since this day week.—llapesectl, and Linseed, little vu:iiitiott—!t is expected that flour will decline ss. per sack. Fit I DA sEPT. 19. We have had. a few fresh arrivals of Wheat since Mond!-, and we Mire to notice a further decline once that day at lull ns. per quarter for the pritne,t parcels, while inferior are almost unsaleable. —Oats are about 2s. per quarter cheaper, and Beans and Barley inert a dull sale on rather lower terms.—Mmt other articles meet a heavy side at Monday's prices. s. s. Wheat 4.0 a 50 Vine ditto Goa tia Rye 35 a 40 tine Barley SG a 48 Malt 64 a h 2 S. S. S. S. WhitePetele4s A 50 Poland Oat= 24 a 36 Grey Piiive 44 a4B l'OttOt ditto 2b a 34 Beans 4 ,0 a4B Fine Flour a ht,l Ticks Oaui PRICE. OF BREAD. The highest price of the 1)(44 Wheaten Bread throughout the me tropolis, is stated by the linkers to be 14d. the Quartern Some Bakers sell the Quurtern Loaf from Id. to V. lower. AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN PER QUARTER, IN ENGLAND AND WALES FOR TILE WEEK ENDING SEPT. 6 Wheat- 1 I R I I 1 Iye Rarity Onto Wars Pease E 3 4 51 4 14 7 34 5 48 4 • 13 SMITIIFIF.LII. PRICE OF mEAT, 3ioNnAy, SEPTEMBER 12. NED GATE AND LEADE WHAM a. d. a. (i. 1 11.:1d, of Cattle at Carcase s. d. s. d. 8eef......s 4a 3 4 Smithfield. Beef 26a 3 '2 Mutton-3 6a 4 4 Beasts, about-- 20111) Mutton-3 0a 3 8 Veal ...-5 Has 0 11 Sheep 2041 Veal 3Ha 5 4 BPork 3 a 5 0 Calves 340 York ......3 4 5 y Lamb... 4 ala . Pigs 5lO 1.anib....3 Sa 4 4 HAY AND STRAW PER LOAD. d. .C• B. d. Aver. t. s. d. (Hay 3 0 0 a 5 10 0 4 5 0 SMITIIFII:LD J Clove, 4,0 0a 7 7 0— sis 6 IStvaw t S Oat 16 0— 1 12 0 1;:.y 5 0 0 a 5 14 0 4 7 0 ST-JAM:ea Clovrr 4 0 0 a Cl 0 0 5 5 0 Straw 1 10 0 a 2 6 6 2 2 9 (Hay 4 4 0 a 512 0 5 2 wulrecoArEL.ol'kver 6 10 0 a 7 10 0— 7 0 0 (Straw 1 18 oat 40— el Ep AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR, - - Computed from the Returns made in the week ending Sept. 6is 335. :11. per cwt. exclu.,ive of the .Duty of l'utton— odd or payable tna:con on Importation theisuf tnto.Great Britain—( Setardais (o:Ate.) TRICE 01. STOCKS. Bank stock 3 per Cent. Reduced — 3 per Cent. Consols 7'43 4 per Cent. 5 per Cent. Navy 105 ii India Stock Ditto BOW./ (5 pt r Cent.) 74 76 pr. Exchequer Bills. 22d. per Day yo 54 pc i'cowls for Llng A acuities bO Lorinow :—Printed and .WlLk's, No. It?. ItErT IttliVectl St. ITUtt,tilll . 4 ('bunch nr.d Fetter Lanc. and foreardcd into the tnuntry by all BooLt>tgers, find Clult* of Cie ItoatL, frcc of iv ot.ge.