The National Register. — London, England, 1823-05-11 00:00:00

. NOW' ROL/AMP; • 2.7 . 11 e arrival of his Majesty's ship Elathertsf brings %otters Maid pow* from Sydney to the 23d of Setneenbcr. Cam lila*, the Colllttbal.ll4lCT. has returned toiEni t land4o ley lirfore the 'Admiralty the lull results of hie 'vegetal:o discovery on the western coast of New Holland, in com pletion of use performed by Capt.t.Flintlers. .1t must be gratifying In the misty respectaWe families video are looking to our possessions in the theAntipodeati syrinery as their Inoue retitletter, that almost every • urrival from Von Jackson 'nines iuf. • that thr ittoreqbe researches of the inhabitants extend inland, lire more arc they rewarded by ascertaining an indefinite vp istetice of film country ; and perhaps it is not sulli triently known 11131 the interior of New Holland yields in tip our instance to the beauty, excellence, and richness t.uf the fittest soils of Van [Newels's Land, with the dd . - Icence of • climate that will ripen the mantle, the. lemon, the 'dive, that invaluable grain the maize, and -similar bounties of tiatore. Tile last Sydney Cosec bring only general local in telltaence, but they bespeak by their appearance activity lit ail the nm vemenit-of-she-iettletiseitis. An :igrietil• tural Society Itas been formed, promising much Aran. lair to the territory: Sir'limmas Ilrisbane is its patron; apt some plea may lie COCIUeti Of the increasing her (f i'eapertable colonists, from ei g ht y gentkruets leaving vat dowo at Parantarta, st the first dinner of the esta. li.isinnent in August lass when upwards of was . iii•liscrib% r, to carry into :feet the purposes of the nit iblisinnott 1 The tiew.iformed s sittlement at Macquareie Harbour, eF ablisliedaas a eessantiary plaectof transportation fur the toifentling convicts, hail continued to snake a eitccessful wogress. 'lite coal here is found muted and easy of ac• mess, and Alte limber. both in quantity .aad quality, ti.swers every expeelatiote. As a rung ' that Cite. increase of luxuries keeps P3ee With the more solid improvement iu all the comforts of life. an advertisement in One of the Sydney papers invites ''asters of vosels, to pick (gauges for their seagatures fpiat the trees of a settler, at G.I. pet dozen. A very few l eafs since this estimable fruit was only Attainable mdse. etilutty at O. each 1 lobe satne.papec says, a home in Sydney is now s.dling colonial tobacco follrequallityt.the celebrated American yearn he •d it; its strength and peculiar sweetness. The bee-hire taken out by Capt. Wallis, of the 4:abaci, fortunately arrived safe, and four of their thickly populated habitations are now in the neighbourhood of Sythiey, where the valuable little colonisers seem to lose wine of their forces from their clottige of climate, but rather increase in drift amt hardihood. The 41WIter CR. peeterl to extend Isis four to twenty-live hives in twelve months, so congettiel to their prosperity and nature is iheir newly achnired land. _Those culla% ators of the vine who have selected proper bluetions have every prospect of being amply rewarded. Blasland brought over some tamples of Australasian .wine itt the Skipley, for sohirlirtsion 10 :ifie Society of ts, who have aw irded him the silver medal, in token of their apitrotratittli of its quality. title every other source of .iiteahh is obtaining due attention in the territory et large. the . prineioal feature snit distinguishes New South Wales, Immediately as it ICZat6 the interest of this country, is the peculiar, fine .avool of .its a:24. 'l o bo favourable prices it obtains here, and the high opinion tutertatitied of its qualities by our Shunt experienced manufacturers, =Matte to stimulate ,the growers to increased exertion. Ott Colonel Putty's ittetple of the Inlaid character of the 331 degre e, the latitude of Piht Jackson seems to be that in which the ,Pure Merino breed delight and !trooper 'wire titan itt ally other ; f o r although persi'vemisce will ultimately im prove the Roils of Vail Hientait's Litt& the settler ill -that island finds in his attention to the fine.woolied )'reeds, thiiictulties so comend with utiktionin in their more cougenial climate of New South Wales. MURDER OP MRS. DONATTY,-411 consequence of onnomieements of the ordeal et Deal, front on hoard the ..4Yarquit of Huntlw East , Intliaman, of a man of the tiarne of Doggett, who, it was stated, had .eosifesced himself to have been concerned in the nowder cf Mrs. Dintatty, hopes were entertained that the lierpetestors of this atrocious deed would have been at length hrott.lit AO justice; a furtherinvestigation of the CiICOMSISOCCI, however, leave this horrible transaction in tr much my.- tery as ever. Doggett, it appears, left this COMM) , 51)410 tht toinroler was co 1111 l tined —he shewed a restless disposition thronghont she triage, anti at leirolt, on his g.rnval at Canton. declared hinisell to have be en one °I t - ie it. the house at the time of the mitriler of riirt. Dummy, a.ititomrh not present at the moliteut the deadly wou n ds wereinfl•cted. In cimserptenee of .o.i!essitin it scat ShelifesOlSed:lo semi hint hacit to Eng land as quickly as possi ble, and the Marquis of Iliaaloy 'living the first ship sailing, he Was pill on hoard het -- 'When he arrived in the Do.vits., !Waive'', the Bow creet officer, was sent down to receive hint, and he was le-nt4ht to towit. Ott being taken below the testes, however, he completely disavowed all he had previously voluntarily Moaned to himself —solemnly asserting that he was as innocent of the crone as the Magistrates themselves—and that• he was induced to adopt a Crime, not hiariveiso front the ill treatment he irecvired on board the-ship it, winch be had sailed, and -.• a'Alellre:tti"retints to Eintlatnl, without piirsiiima the oyage. Itt this state of thiogs he has been remanded, ?intl• further inquiries are making; but there seems to be but little chance of obtaining any positive et idence his guilt. As he has voluntarily become his two ae yuaer, however, he will not he set at liberty till ample time slush have been afforded fur t statlitishisig his moo. cettoe. On Wednesday list the entertainment RA the .lAittutlon House, which was postponed from Easter Monday, in consequence of the extensive repairs iu th:tt building, took place. The Egyptian Hall was must superk 4 y tittea up for the occasion. -` - - ~ ~-- nit NATIONAL ItEG f' EXT2AOSIDTVARY Severn, of the Talbot, in the Tythits adjoittio‘Worcester, has in his possession 'a two-year-old store pig, which measures as flallows:— ,Alone the back, from tile sumo to the tip 41 the t oil, Vine feet ; height to the middle of the back, three feet, seven inches; girth at saute, reven 'feet thr , s inehes.— Tins extraordinary auiuual oat bred its Herefordshire, front whence he was purchased by Mr. Savers' about ten weeks since. He is allowed by competent judges to Ise of the itinst perfect symmetry; and although low in flesh, /lever having been fed upon any thing but turnips and p dairies, his present weight is estimated at forty-five score—when fat, it is calculated he willweigh sixty:five scOrr. DESTRUCTIVe FIRE.-00 night, soon after twelve (o'clock, an alarittiog fire broke o ut in t he premises of Mr. Disbrow, bookseller, in Castle Street, %Vissolsor, which sit a little time was completely burnt to die pound. The flames caught the adjoitting house, which was jost ditttal up for )slr.flioharil.C 4 oden , corn •taietttce was immediately given to theroot and Cavelry•Barracks for their assistance; their engines came hnottediately, but they could not get water in time. The•second house was consumed in a short time, and the wind being high, and every thing so dry, the flame communicated to itlr. Roherts's house, a very large gro• err's shop, which was won cousonted to the gm 00000 I.— The next alij doing home was Mr. Blunt's, saddler to hit Mojestv, which was shortly gutted. 'lite adjoi tt itt g house to Mr. Blittit's Was a widow W 0111311% of the name of %Vara. the half of whose house fell its ; and here the lift was got angler. The engines have been playing all Clay nit the premises. The wind shifted in area ttttt ning. !otherwise mall other houses would have shared the .same fate. Great damage is done to Mr. Knight the bookseller's house, which .W opposite, owing to !lie great, .bees of thrill:ones, and the engines wer e obli g ed to keep; constantly playing out it. Great praise is due to the Fit.; *Biers and Lite Guards for their assistance in every specs ; helping the people to move their goods, and al , awarding them afterwawls. was the toast a larateing 'fire ever known its Windsor, and trimly of Ike sofierers ,coulrl trot save any thing. A steeple chacelor 100 sovereigns a side took place on ISaturrlay between Capt. neediest' and J.S. Thtsselton, Ego, The start took place within two mi . :cool Oaking ham, too start of Windsor Forest, to coo to espot on Mai denhead Thicket, over thick encloseiltionrol. Capt. -B. was mounted on Mat celebrated I tttttt erThortt, and Mr. 'Thisselon rode hie grey mace. one of the best tol‘the Farley I I. The distance is about nine miles. its a Weight direction..and the race was a very severe otte.— ',Die competitors gallopped together, taktng across the country, with many hazardous leaps, until they reached Spotteshrook church, each makingahe best ot his way into the Bath 'Captain Beethant got into the road at Know le Hill, and los opponent a mile nearer Nlai olvithead, and they were together a mile front hutne stn the high road. All depended now upon &petit, and Thonthad• it. The Captain won the race by ab out 206 yards. • •1' itorrtwo Nlavcites.--Nlajar Richard Gosigh's two matches took place on Thursday last at Hinton Park, Surrey ; they were for 200 stovers 'gni each. The first snatch was to trot hit Amazonian mare three moles its el ven minutes, and to carry feather weight. The first mile was douse in three minutes and thirty-fire seconds. The second in three minutes and thirty-eight wounds — and the third in three minutes and forty seconds. 'Flue secon d match was to trot a horse , Lana fide his own pro perty, sixteen miles in one hour, and to curry 11 Mime. The match was dime river a two-mile piece of ground. It was a close-ruts race, and won w , th difficulty. IGit.t.oeetao.—The snatch for Major Andrew's Gal. loway, to do elevelontiles in half an hour, for a stake of 100 sovereigns, tad: place 00 Poiday morning very mug, ores a two miles circle. on the soothes it part of Broom Downs. The horse was rude by a boy of six s The match was won with great ease, and the horse was backed at ti to 4 to win. Peoes-rataxtn.—Ao endertaking to go front London to the WEI mile stone not the York road, and back in three days, was comunetoced on Thursday morning, for 100 sovereigns, by Mr. \Vest, the peilestsiati, He anted at four ii pluck, and went to Colliei's End, 24 miles to breakfast. He halted at Rockland, 33 miles, at one o'clock, and passed dir.osigh Huntiogolou at dusk, and laid down at ten o'clock at Norman Cross, consplet hog his first day's work , and its good ordo r. He is'ac comptiotied Ivy one horseman cooly. • • BIRTHS. Mmulay tag, at isllogioo, the lady of A. W. lAw, esq. chief °dicer of the lhat. Company's dap klythe, of .1 lIRII jld r. At Camberwell grave, Mrs. It. kelly,.of a daugkter. • At Cultl:Otto wells, Mts. Ata)4.. ! 4.1.. ... • Al N.a gi.geet. her.t. Mrs. W • A/blown of a son. The lady of Mr. Wm. Palmy, of Wiudaur plate. City road, of a sun. At Margate, Mel. J. White, of a sun. At Nausbary, Ilene, the lady of J. t nob, esq. of a sun. 1 Mrs. (Aortas, of Illshopento strict. of I aOll. MARRIED. On Saturday last, at Brig Woo, St. Leger MI, esq. to Miss Nugent, daughter of the law I. Nugent, eel. of Kitsont. On the Mil of Nuecosbor IPA, at Ibilefabod, Major Murray, of his Maiofy's 111th regiment, to Silts Amelia Itrowne, daughter of Sannwl Browne, e... tote of the General l'ust-offlee, London. At Islington, Mr. W. Middleton, of b, Albioar p ace, to Sarah, third slaughter ..1 the late I. Ostroff, esq. of Newington peal.. At ter of Jorirs, •l St. Slortin's lane, to Sus. Dna, only doogitter of Mr. NI. Govt., of Claplon. At lie. o.•ar t.anterluiry, 1. PAlnseston. esg. of llornerton, to Anna I'ri.cilla, )utw. '• lat 1. csq. the Pirattm, liaCkLley. DIED. On Wellnesiay last,.at his house on Vele place, Ilammoorsuritb, Won. esq. in the 391 year ul his al i t. .limes Shaw,es r. of 01111ug4WI, in the coronty of Norfolk, la ills 39111 year. on Saturday last, B. W. D. Cooke, eaq. of AlltTley ilrangs. In the county of York. Lately, at her residence, Westerloatio, Kent, Mrs. Ann Defoe, aged 83 yems. otonteliffe William, sun of Mr. Sheldon, of Mount street, Oroarettor Sir Robert Kio:smill, hart. of Sidonooton, Hants, la the Sid year of his age. s At tits house in Red Lion square, Dr. Haworth. 80, STRAND. A 'MEW MAZER; Oa, SECOND EXPERIMENT. A lintrittnarwhoshaving first tried on himself And euttlligli4l joivie—the in ischievou se If Resoled to inasbarce opportunity pit. And operate nein on the beard ofthe Cat t rhe place of I minor adapted to suit, There s tood in the room then a highirolish l cl Boot, I n which Mutat ire Jet of pre-etninent hue Displi4M the fine fame of reflection to 'view. Now seiaingpoor Pnes, to the bright Error he bore bet The Moakey her shadow then , gleamtag.before her, And answer'd htr struggles with chatterand blows, Her phi: while he soisp'd from herears to her nose! The Cat, thus essaying in vain at resistance Ann mewing, in pititul plaint, for assistance, With wonder the same operation n6w w Perforni'd in i or sliewn , by the Jet of cl ot! In front of the Boor then, as if to explain it The method of shati s.g, how best to attain it, 'The act ofinrcrepeirsing with gvin.anctgriegrat, The Ape cleared the Cat of each hair on he free Ands grange though it seems , yet the frolicsome elf Was much more successful with Poe' than himself. 4: The BRAYER adroitly concluding Ilis4craping..- 1 41:ite Starry's , with the lessef her whiskers *wapiti g"..1 The Monkey . in triumph the potion' now sought. And Cat and bright BOOT to a eromigniag bought, Who saw what this Sarlierbarl thlS WM about. Anil hail'd his essay with a raptusolOsbout Of mirthful surprise :a—the mange Inddent backing The merits-of WAstunt's miparallerd Mackirig. This Sag Shining and Brilliant IlLaciiirto, Prepared by • ROBERT WARREN, 30, Strand, London; and sold in every Town in thisKinfidons. I.lnurn. in 'Bottles 6d. tod. ltd. and rad. each. Also rams BLACKING. in Pots 6d. sta. lisd. oath. A Shilling Pot of passe is equal to Four ts. Bottles of Liquid. Ask for WARREN'' Blacking. 1 LONDON 114RXISTs. -- . CORN EXCHANGS,'Monnar. Mgr's. Our pplies of Wheat and I tearidataidosdatte thill su grain barely sonnets last al 'a risme On ke odire of White Wheat 11:trtv Ilis.. We WSW OWE at that price. In gIOSSOOPIAPINk urirtainArginutsia ties horn out Ira asitogapas big Bab aro y than •on last Monday,,loadelleti Gala thew kw al , but it is in good Amami CORN EXCHANGE. Wswatzeuttr. MAY 7. The market ippaar. Tuber steady at our quotations of Monday; such sales of What as have been dons were at our quotations of that day. Barley is as dear as on but market day, aad Oats at .the opming of this day's marketiupported the advance of Is: per quarter, winch took place at the close of hew market. In Beans aud Peas there is no variation worth noticing. Bonded gat* maintains its price of Monday. and the market has scarcely varied from that day. CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, MAY 9. The arrivals since our last report have been but trifling, and the consumers this morning axe asidaatly hanging back from pur chasing, which has occasioned scarce any business to be be lout this morning—such few samples of wheat as were disposed of ob tained Wednesday's prices, and Barley remains the same as on that day. lasts are•also without variation, and the same will apply to Beans and Peas, in which no business has been done. eti !WENT I'RICI Per W incise ES OF GRAIN FOR TI der Mei•oure of Elzht Bashi NOIIIIIIA Y. WIIISMIDSO. 41 a 56 44 a 56 *53 a 60 5'4 a 601 35 a 66 55 a lio 10 a 34 SU a 31 f t a 42 34 a I '2 53 a 63 al a 4 125 a 27 . 23 a 27 29 a 36 23 a S 6 .;.'oa 113 i I So a 33 32 a 33 1 .32 a 35 ge a 28 30 a 38 18 d 41 i 18 a 42 34 a SS 34 a S 8 VV. a sot. 215/. a 30,. E WEEK, Old Wheat .. • • New lted Wheat New White do Rye Barley • •• • Pale Malt ..•••• Feed Oats ....• • Brew orPoland do. New Tick Beaus OW ditto New Pigeon ditto Rolling Pease (trey relive • Balloted per last se. FRIDAY. I. a. 41 a 36 a 60 5% a 66 $Q a 31 $1 a 42 6$ a 63 25 a 27 S 8 a VS le a 3a $2 a 35 38 a 38 18 ■ 42 ad a Sti 281. a VI. AVERAGE PRICE OF CORN, Per Quarter, of tlieTwei- Maritime Districts of ENGLAND autl %VALES, fur ti.e Week euiLiug May 114, extract .d Ift/111 SSI iljdli) Wiieat... iia 1J I Barley... Ms 2ii I Beaus 4.1 1141 Oats...: 24s Od I Peas ... 1144 I'IOCL OF itOUR, Per Sack of live ur Nora. tt Nutiaay. s. h. 1110m1.0. 9 i• Fine English Flour 60 a 65 I Norfolk iirSnrolk . 43 a 49 Secowii ditto .... 40 a -Li We. tCulla;sy 5U at C,Zi BREW, 041,, to Ud. the Q., , iertei is 1 1.41% itKOWN OK MUSCOVADO SUCrAIt. Average Pries:Tres Ike matte in the Week ending Wednesday last. us.. SO. pCl' CWILVICIUSIVe ikr SMITHFIELD MASKET• Faway. MAY 9.—ileef has declined about •d. per etone from lands,. but in other meat we :can quote no alteration. Them busihess doing is not very considerable. -6 statement at the prices is a fair supply, but the In- The following ion correct._ una numuer at market:— PRICE of 'MEAT, occlusive of the Ofial, which consists of Head, Eni,ails.and Hide, mud is worth about Id. per pouutl.—Per stout of 61irs. man mitv• roost. Beef gs Oil io -4, 'B4Bret lt. Ai i In 4. 44 Mutton 4: 04 to 4s El& Miltioti Ils Od i u 44 o 1 Lou, as 4d to 61 Od Lamb or • 'J to b Od Veal 4. W to Al A to gs 64 Veal 4s 61 to 61 41 Pork 4% oir-i bd I Ptak As Od to is Od Ikeda Cat , brat m'arket. Egad of Catt le at Market. Beasts ..... 2.221 Beasts Sheep Pie. Calves • 2OO I Calves LON DON : Printed and Published by the Proprietor, JOHN TWIGO, at the Office, 76, Fleet-Street, where all Latter. to the Editor, (poet pawl) mist be addressed. "7.