The National Register. — London, England, 1821-01-01 00:00:00

Taylor, and was direcied to R. Singleton, at a place near Stevenage. It was evidently intended as the letter of Taylor and Martha Singleum, and wit as follows : " DEAR RICHARD,-1 have taken this opportunity to inform you, that your sister Martha is very well, and she hopes that her father and mother and all of you make yourselves as comfortable as the case will admit, and not to think that site will be left without a friend in the world, as that will never be the case while I have the use of my li.obs to work for her, and what we have done, we be;; will in tittle be overlooked. Please or give my love to :hem all, %%Inch l hope they will accept, and you the same. " Ask Cnarles if he w II come and live with me in tile spring it I send for him up; and please to send me all answer hack as soon as you can, as I don't know that 1 shall be in that put I of ',within, where I am now, very little while, so I shall expect an answer back by the latter end of the Christmas week. " nous your Ins ink sister, &C. RTII.I SINIALLTON." Crockwell, a beadle who had been lor suure time oi conversation with the deceased, give general vvidence of her state of mind, which he represented us not at all The father of the deceased was called in, but was slot questioned. Verdict—lnsanity. ♦n Inquest was also held before the same Jury, at the same noose, over the hotly of a new-horn infant, which had been found drowned in the basin of the Regent's Canal, in the Cny-road. A waggoner in the employ of Messrs. Pickford and and Co. s tated, that on Tnursuay morning last lw per ceived the Body of :he infant floating in the basin of the Catul opprhite his master's warehouses, and gut it out was (pine naked and appeared io he newly horn, and compktely knitted. There were no particular marks of violence about the body. This was the only evidence adduced, and the Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of—Found drowned. Vona* -*Sr- M ARLBOROUG Li STREET. On Friday, the whole of the panics concerned in the rescue of the five burglars, and the attack ou were brotialit up fur re-examination, whim they were all identified. Mark Herd, who was snppoved to he t h e leader of the gang, was 410111111 i as We hers. 11 %%110 knocked twit the lamplighter, at the Temple, and as one of Cite frost active in the rescue. They were remanded until Tuesday next. BOXING. . 1 0 10- The battle between Moss, the gipsey, and !lilt Edwards. the Bath butcher, took place on AVedoes day. for 60 guineas, on Hain • heath„ tour miles from Haslemorc, Bucks. Both had milled their way into notice, and Edwards was considered an elegant, rather than a powerful boxer. The gipsey on the contrary had proved himself u ruffian, who would not be denied. A ring of eighteen feet WaS the space for combat, and the men entered it very sweet upon themselves. Richards, the cricketer, seconded Ed wards, and one of the gipsey tribe seconded Moss.— Eetting even. i u the 144 round Edwards uncorked his adversary's claret, which lie w about copiously ; and Mils, %kit. Moored by a right-it:wiled triizer in tile hotly, which settled first blood and the knock ociwil. 2. The men got mire steady at their work, and a very gallant round was fougitt, after refl.:login,: counter hits at tile head. In roll ..y much ftltha . liishe took place on the part of the gipsey, who much of the Itanda I lac length slopped Ills atlVettaty . 3 action. by getting his head Whirr the lett arm, o ear in.; at it onlii be paid lye at the game. The Rol a ay, :;11t1 both litnkr 1. heir grou n d far a fresh loin looser The gioey placed a heavy hit on Eilwards's rig it which be did not Weal 10 !.I and bored hint down, twill were weak fi.sni the ricer oil the round, w hick was all for seven minutes. 3. M D .', was blind of the right eye, and the lancet was api.heii, hut it was a hoggitic, Emma, :and both tell. 4. Edwards fought will mach gaiety and scielice 111 get at his oppioseiit', left eye, hut iw is iwid nail have it. Edwards bail toe best of in nod 001 li;lithiA, and die/piped A 10,5 fur. ord by a 114 . i1t hit ill the w end. • 5. A 141,0% led in tilt, ruuud , and knocked his adversary down by a heavy 1111 111.011 th..jaw, and it woo lion the li4ht ; for Edwards tieing crossed iii hoist, , like 1111. u. ao••oloerioo.. did 11111 ratiey it, and he comic vei y shy iii koing i.n after. Ile was thrown a cross-Watch k, and it wits even i lig, that he did nut Conte again. b. This ro 44444 I sided the fight in nineteen inittitlett. m„ s , %Vas the want beat ; but Mrs:lids rvidroily witoteil courage of be Mild out 11 ,se lost it. tilos. woo the bath Wby a sic:du blow, with which his advels.ary %scut duos', mid would not appear in time. A second !Litt Oa• fought for a louse of live ghOleal, lie twen a slue-dune Jett mull I wel%e-iaiiiie which was won try the Je 1.1 'eyed minutes. In Co,. lint round the Coltillt killitli ab uha r. tray walked away to wipe the blued oitilts owl the third 11.• Aare in. Mst.sucuut.tr OcchltaallClS.—At an early Ffnur on Friday itoning, the •otitow ma lamentable oectirience took place. .\I r. a respectable gentiematt re siding in Ormond Street, Voceie Square, JeConipiiitd his wife and two or his datte.itters to the iticalle, alto Thursday eve:11114, and reunited with them about 17 o'clock. The whole of the family retired to rest, except Mr. and Mrs. M. who retnanied no to have sititpL 5, when tome •amily diviste arose,ann Mr. M. 111 a passion stabbed I .ell Muhl toe lett breast Lit a sharp points. d knife that lay oil the table. No hopes arc cities Willed 0 hveotery. • THE NATIONAL REGISTER Wedoesday morning, about seven o'clock, Mr. Smith, of Saffron Hill, was returning to his residena; when he arrived at the end of 11',u•iiour Street, Soho, he was attacked by 7 mill:ins, who bustled Mill and knocked down;hint they then robbed him of his watch, &e. 11. 7s. in silver awl his hat; one of the rulhatis inn an old hat on Mr. Smith's head, expressing a hope that he would not catch cold; the attack was so very sodden, and the robbery was SO sours aCCOOIIIIIIIiICd, that Mr. S. had no opportuony of giving an alarm until it was too Irate, as the villains retreated dwell Newman Street. gurtGLAitsr.—Monday Multi, or ear!) , ou Tuesday morning, some villains, by means of forcing olf the shutters, entered the bar window of the Anchor and Hope public-house, Hrook-street, liatchtf, kept by Mrs. Jacks, and without disturbing the family, curried oli a quantity of weaving apparel, together with a small cask from the liar, containing ah.mit tour gallons of rum.. Ott Wednesday a poor labourer, who had jti4 arrived from Irelaud, was work attending till a bricklayer repairing the tiles of a home in Sulmotith Street, Spa fields, aseetided by Lite ladder to the top, .1,1(1 never been tat Mgt, before, he became so giddy that he laid Mond; down in tile gutter, and no ptisuasion could prevail on 114411 to get up; he lay in that situation several hours, until he was nearly frozen to death by the cold. '!'here was no entrance Irmo the roof into Ile house, and the men were ohliatirl to get a lolly rope and puny, by which he was lowered to the ground allure dead than alive front the lii4lll. Toe st,llit attracted the attention of the whole heighbotirliond. On Monday plain, about 9 o'clock, a most dreadful accident occurred at the house of Mr. Tony, Blue AticinuCtiort, NV iiitecross Street. Mrs. Alouy, woo is an elderly ia,:y, was stantlitiA close to a large tire tit the k itcite it, cooking sonnet hing for supper, when her clothes which were of a light kind, unfortunately caught the lire, aild she is as almost immediately enveloped in liames —some persons in the kitchen eiuleavoured to pot out the lire, but without avail, the coin us.oit was so Brea:, the titi'.ortnitale soberer ran in a state of frenzy into tl.e street, where the flames were extinguished by roliing her ketin.l, hut not before her clothes were almost burnt to a cinder, 31111 she dreadfully injured as to render her recovery dubious. A horse the property of Mr. Phillirnore, of Darset Street, was hacked on Wednesday for SO guineas, to trot one title in three minutes and 1(11 SCCOIItiS, Bileli being at tile rate of wore than 18 ittile4 on hour. Tne horse was backed at 5 to 4 to win, aiiil the grionul was 011 lila new road between 1 - lonitslow and Sunbury The house went tiff in great form, inning gone 50 yards back to: take the start when in action, and won cleverly, three • .to spa:. I'tues•ratAsr AIATC/1.—.1 short time since, Al r. 1). a gentlemaii of Gloucester, bating tuttlestaken for a wager to walk twenty miles in four hours, the match was decided on Tittostlay Litt at our Spa Walk. At nine o'clock Mr. 1). started in very gaud style, in toe presence of a 111.1110 Zr of spectators WllO W1:1:1 attracted to tile spot. At tile conclusion of his first tulle, he had gained seven minutes upon time, and be s, vs Welt had seen pre, ionsly upon 11111:4 had turned m his 1.1%0111%—. He won the tu.ueil oycouhple.otg this task witi/ apparent. ease in 3 hours and 5G nu. nuts, being nearly loin ani s wino the tone allowed. . _ SIGNS ♦ND TOKF.NS.—The 'people of Reading were s fo:..v years ago thronil 111tfl considerable uneasiness, by certain signs and tokens with which their bread became impiessco from the oven. One old lady could distinctly trace at the bottom of a loaf which site received, the anilines of a death's head and cross bones, and was so shocked at what she imagined to be a toost appalling omen, that she lisimetliateiy took to her hed. Another person, iii the bloom of hie and health, saw lillprlllted in the ittost legible characters " Died the 20th Sept." and concluded that fate hail taken iiiis mode of warning her of the day which it was appointed onto her to die. Tile bread of a third w.ts unasked in large, bin not bold icuero, the word " Resurgam. - 'flee amaze I purchaser showed tile loaf to an ingenious tiei.glillotir, who, dis carding tile idea of any supernatural agency, thought that tile word slight be a harmless device of the baker's to imitate psis wish that bread thigh► rise in price. The was of tile WhOIC parish were soon at work to account l'or these marvellous appearatices ; and the inquiry which ensued led 10 the hollowing simple, thotis,li certainly 1101 very creditable solution of the mystery. It appeared, that in consegitence of smile alterations in St. Giles's church-yard, several l.u•ge fiat slimes had become super fluous articles, since the persons o%er whom they had th.,ti placed had sunk iota the " marrow house" at so distiutt, period, that no friend lived to insist on the dca•l retatitiolug the little privilege of that sculptured filejacea, %%Alien ditty or affection coutnhooted to their illeilioiy. It happened that the churchwarden for the Lillie 'N.is chief baker of the town, awl be looked wait a loillll4 tyc on these nice hat loolisheil stones, for hie oven wanted lotonlio4. lle ilviirOvi lam! ►heal to 11111 a iise, and the coti•cipl;:lice %%as 11% •ihtOC By advices front Jamaica to the 12th ultimo, it appears that intelligence had been received there, to a late date, concerning the state of atfairs on the Spanish Main. The details are copious, and involved in stone confusion ; but it is evident that the Inde pendents are gaining strength. 'file Sit:tin:ads )li:tint:tined their superiority at 5..!,1 Lilt tile: end of Sep . ,einher ; but the arrival of a snail squad' on at Saranilla, and the expectation of another, was likely to transrer the superiority to Admiral Brion, and to enable him to attack the Spaniards should they ven lure out of Cat thagena. The price of poultry and provisions in most parts of the kingdom are very cheap, but this is very im material to the poor and industrious parts of the community, it • they have not the mcans to purchase theta. It however will enable the atliaent to dis pense their charity in a more enl.t•ied sphere than usual in their respective neii;hbourhuoils. '- _;; tonoon coarßets CORN EXCIIANGR, WEDNEBDAY, DEC. 27. We had a very large supply of Wheat at market this morning, roan the coasts of Essex, Kent, and Suiflk, the demand fur which was pretty brisk, and for even the inferior qualities last week's prices were obtaincal ; a few picked samples, however, obtained an advance of Is. per qr. 'f lie trade in Barley was brisk, having a few prime sampies at market. O a ts, although the market was abundantly supplied, obtained full as good prices as last week. In Beata, Yeas, he. there are no alteration. CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, Dee. 1/9. We had an abundant supply of W'heat at market this more- - ing, chiefly front the Essex, Kent, and Sutiolk coasts, for which the demand was brisk at our last pt ic2s, but a few of the finest samples obittincd a trifling advance. The trade in Barley was pretty bri,k at our last prices. The supply of Data was very large, but the demand not being proportionate, that article experienced a decline of ls. per quarter. In Beaus, Peas, &c. • there was no alteration. CORN EXCHANGE, MONDAY, JAN. 1. We had a large supply of Wheat at market this morning. conAsting chiefly of what remained over from last week's markets, having bad but few anivals from our own coast during the last weeks the finest samples met a dull sale at our last prices • but the inferior desciiptions were a trifle lower. The trade in Barley was rather brisk, and last week's prices were readily obtained. We had an abundant supply of Oats at market (although but few fresh arrivals) for which the demand was not very brisk, consequently a trifling depression was experienced. •In other articles there is no alteration. CUitlttAT l'er 11 MCI ;ES OF GR, stet. Nicaure 1 MO ISY• Y. S. S. 32 a 54 3il a 63 I :s a 30 ,IN 1:014 TI ,1 Eight Rush WauN 3g a 54 36 a 63 2S a 30 E IV LEK, FRIDAY. 5. So 32 a 51 36 a 63 28 a 30 Red W heat . White Rye Bro!., or Buck Wlieat Mirky Rile Malt Feed Oats .treworl'olallddo New Tick Beath!, Old ditto New l'igoetio ditto Pease Grey ver lait 28 a 32 23 a 27 46 a 53 20 u 23 22 a 27 a 30 34 a 36 J 9 a 31 SS a 42 3U a 34 310. a 374 2S a 32 23 a 28 46 a 53 20 a 23 22 n 26 27 a 30 34 a 36 32 a 34 38 a 42 SO a 34 &P. a 317. 23 a 39 23 a 28 46 a 65 , 4 0 a 22 22 a 25 27 u 30 34 a 36 • 32 u 34 38 a 42 30 a 3$ Y5l. a 37:. AVI:tI-I41: 11 .1: LoRN , Per t2u,srter, 11i the L *el* e istrutigne Disiricts of ENGLAND slid WALES. fur Week eliding . Dectinber 23d, extracted front Saw. do's Gazette. 11"licat... 53, lld Barley... 164 8ea5tt4......364 114 • Rye .... 31, WI I Oats.... 10, 1 , Pease ... 404 Id BROWN OK 1)0 )IU6 tli. Average Price Iron; the Returns wade in the Week ending Wediiradav lam. 3 I*. 1141. per e‘%l. ye or tint %. ilia:li of k I.ol+ Per Sack of five Su4llel4, or 2'ollEs. Monday. s. s. Mmaay. a Fine Eti4o.4t Flour .'tt a 55 American fluor ... 38 a 40 Secouils ditto .... 45 a 50 per lircrel of it rot. 104. to Is. id. the o.iartetti Lnal. tv.c. per 1111 s. Town Tallow Ws Od Os Od 1100 Russiiso, Od White dirt,, —s lld o 0 I'd Melted Slat' OOs 041 541, 00 Ditto Rough OOs Od Greaves . . . . Vas Od Good Dregs . . D. fhl Curd Soap . . . 104 s Yellow Soap . . 86s Alutded . . . . 9s, 10, GEL—Moulds, 19.. 00. Ld Cur ready money. 1%11,4,5 IALL. , Dll PRICE Or FAT, verst.of 81b. IVltitechapel Market 3. 34 St. Jame's Market 34 3 I Clare Market . . Oa Od 6 Gd Average-3s. 9d. Price of Candies, per dozen, NJ. per duzeu allow PRICE OF HOPS. New Rap, per cwt. New Bags. per ew r. • ' Keat . 91 Os to 51 Os I Sussex 21 2* to 21 14s New Pocket;, per cwt. Keut . 2' 104 to 51 SA I I:,*ex . 01 Os to 0! Os So:*ex •21 5s to 31 10s Fat ottani SI Os to 7. Iss RAW H I IM;S. Best Ileifen and Steers, per atone . .. 3s Od to 3s id NI 'kifing ... Ordinary • Ss 2tl to 2s 44 English II orse .............. Market Calf, each ShearliNs, V011ed...... • . ---•-•-, DOWNS .. 3s 3d to 4s 6d Lambs ....... ..... ........ Os Od to Os Od S.llll WIELD 31,1111 i ET. • .4 4 1 1 /INIM - FRIDAY, DEC. 29.—We had a pretty PM supply of prim* Beasts at market this morning, the demand tier wliten sas brisk, and rather better pries;: were obtained. .`diuton was also a trifle dearer, hiving n large supply of the primes: description at mar ket. Pork and ‘'es.l fully out tined our last prices.—Tae business in the flay onarket was out very brisk, but mere was no ult.ration either in llay, Ciorer, or straw. s AIONDAY, JAN. I.—There was a large supply of prime Beasts ut market this min hing, at:demand for winch was not so brisk as last week, consequently a small mtlation was expe tienced. Mutton was ale ph: auto', anti cheaper. t)i Pork we way a.l the same. but Vein supported our last pliecw—The bu siness ni the Hay-market was pretty brisk; but there is no alteration in our homer prices. the milownig is a eutii.ct sia.cinent of the prices and numbers at market:— Nils-1 . . of KAT, exch...., in the Hial, hie!, Cothil,t‘ of Head, ['mita 11-. and and Is IS oral ai lou t Id , p„ lb.--rer IO ON DA 5. Beef is 411 to 53 4d Mutton 4s 4.1 to 33 4d l-amb Us 0.1 to us Od Veal 5s ti.l to 75 Oil Pork 4s t,d to iv 2:1 11...5el Di Cattle at mai kit. Be ISIS 'Stare') and Laniliss l'egs Cal* CS lb EN,DAT. Ilver 4% 01 tit SS 611 SlllllOl4 4. 2.1 to S• Ga Lawb U 04 to U. 40.1 Veal of lid to 7, lid Porl. St 4l to tis I/11 II d 1.1 Latile at \la: i•r t. . . . •1) z.'iet•l, and Lambs 3 I I'l4 I lf Ist► 1.. t }l4y . 1 423 i ~ . - . Ow aft MI I til \.* (k o as- -110