The National Register. — London, England, 1811-02-24 00:00:00

TIE; NATION A L REGISTER. 124 EXTRAORDINARY CASE. Mr. Eoz ron,—l found the following curious fact solemnly attested in a " journal de l'Etnpire" which reached me a few days ago. I transmit it to your interesting paper as food to gra tify the curiosity of your readers, and to attract the notice of the learned and of the faculty. " After accurate inquiries we find that the following pheno menon took place at Toinville, in the second arrondissement of the Department of Meuse, about three mouths ago. A widow, of an advanced age, and c lied Marice Razor, had for two years bean in the habit of complaining of sickness. She felt incessant disgust at the appearance of food, and experienced internal spasms. 'llese symptoms were attributed to the - aneurism of some viscera ; but it was at last discovered that they were pro duced by the presence of a strange body in the stomach. She was at the termination of that period attacked with violent and painful vomitiugs,an.l at last brought up a living reptile be fore a number of persons collected t 3 assist her. " Alarmed at the appearance of this reptile, those persons pur enrl it in its flight and killed it. "When examined, it proved to belong to the class of I.izards. Its body was thin and length ened in its shape : its telour was a light grey, striped on the hack and yellow under the belly : it had four thin legs, each of which was terminated by five fingers with nails. Its head was of a triangular form, rather flattened towards the mouth. Its tail was short and its extremity tiliform. When it was crushed something like pus came out of it. This is the most correct description we have been able to obtain, a., mate of the witnesses were careful enough to preserve the Lizard, or attentive obser vers enough to be able to state exactly what preceded or followed this so - ange expectoration. Marie Ragot dit d at the end of October last, without its being ascertained whether her death was occasioned by the abode the reptile made in her stomach.— " This lizard, according to the description we Lave just given, appears to he the grey wall lizard. It is presumed that it found its way into Maria Ragot's inside whilst she slept with her uzouth open.". I have the honour to be, Yours, &c. MEDIC US. THE DUKE OF ALBUQUERQUE. On Monday night, Februayy 18, at half past eleven o'clock, at his apartments at Paddington, the Duke of Albuquerque, Ambassador Extraordinary from Ferdinand VII. to his Britan nic Majesty, died, after a short illness. The Duke had passed his life in military service: he was distinguished in the late war between Spain and France ; and during the present, he had not for an instant quitted the service of his country. Being with the Spanish forces in Holstein at the time of the first rising of his countrymen against Bonaparte, he immediately left that army, and, travelling through the whole of France, with great personal hazard, joined the armies of the Patriots. He was present, and distinguished himself, in all the principal battles that have beer. fought since t4t period; and had the singular good fortune ne ver to have sustained a defeat, when he had the power to direct his own operations. Cadiz was preserved by a rapid and skilful march, which he conducted in January, 1810. It was some consolation to the Duke, who added to all the qualities of a good officer, the purest and most ardent affection for his country, Ito have received, in his latter moments, the approbation of the Cortes, who owe -to him the seat of their deliberations.—His disorder wa.; a derangement of the most violent kind. He was seized with it on the Friday previous, and never had a lucid In terval from that day. His usual residence was at the Clarendon Hotel ; and on the first appearance of the disorder, he is said to have beat his own servants severely. This naturally excited as tonishment, fur his temper was usually calm and mild, and he had ever been one of the kindest and mo t indulgent masters. He then burst forth into a strain of invective against Bonaparte, su loud that he might be beard in the street ; " Moriar Napo leon" was his constant cry from the moment of his attack al most to that of his death. Medical aid was called in, and he was removed to Paddington, where his paroxysms were so vio lent, that it was with ditlicultyi he could be kept in bed. On Monday night, after a restless day, during which he bad scarce ly ever Ceased to cry out " Moriar Napoleon," he dropt into a short sleep, and a message was dispatched to Admiral Apodaca with the intehigence. It was thought his disorder would assume a quieter aspect—vain hope ! at half past eleven he awoke in a v orient paroxysm, and almost immediately expired.—The Duke of Albuquerque will he lamented by Spain, as an :ardent patriot and a gallant soldier ; by England, as a firm friend and ally; and by mankind, as an honest man. MI SC ELLA.NIES. • We may hourly expect intelligence of the fall of Batavia. A division of Admiral DRURY'S squadron has been some time blockading it ; and the ulterior object which our troops at the Isle of France had in view, alluded to in General AIiERCROM• B 's dispatch, was the capture of Batavia. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, since the departure of Mr. A. Goldsmid, has, it is said, determined to get through the pre sent year, if poesible, without a loan. For this purpose twenty millie;:s of Exchequer Bills arc to be issued, in order to be fund ed in due season. Air. Sadler, the celebrated aeronaut, has prepared a balloon, which is nearly tini bed, larger than any that has been made, its contents being 33,51 u cubic feet, fo r the arduous uarertalaing of cruising St. George's Channel, for Dublin. He.wrill previously asccrid from Loudon in the balloon which he - used at Bristol and Oxford. A subscription has been commenced with considerable .suc, cess to defray the expences of erecting a Roman Catholic Cha pel, near C helsea Hospital, for the accommodation of such of the invalids as are of that persuasion. The amount of the ex pence is estimated at 2,0001. Tile new Comedy in rehearsal at the Lyceum is from the ele gant pen of Miss Chambers, the fair authoress of The School jOr Friends, which was brought out at Old Drury, and so sue cei,folly revived at the above Theatre on Tuesday last. The can-.e of so much disturbance in Ireland between the par ties called i':ararnts and Shanarests originated in a fight about a dray•jede. They received that appellation, it appeared, in a late trial in Ireland, in consequence of a man beiag hanged, who was prosecuted by a Shanavest, on which occasion an enemy of the delinquent said be would not leave the place of execution before be saw the Caravat, meaning the rope about the fellow's neck. The two parties have since entertained the greatest iv:is tility against each other, and are engaged in perpetual broils. The Shahan: s arc so denominated because they wore old waistcoats. • According to the last - accounts from Portugal, Junot was not dead, as reported, nor had his wound been of a dangerous na ture. It was merely a flesh wound in the neck. -. Henry Johnson is bringing out Blue Beard, .at-his D lin Theatre, in the same style and splendour as at Covent Gar en, with real horses introduced ill the Grand Pro ce s s ion, gat es. atc. ice. .R - •:,••-•• P. D. COLVILLE. The account. of this rfu•son, whose detention has • been made a subiect o! in the Ilcuse of Co:IL:lolls, is ex tracted front a ncw,paper; but we cannot voech for the authen ticity of the statement age ; he is a Frenc7arran of the aacicanc :!&htesse, and •unt z. Por tuguese, and was an officer in the Freoch Cavalry prior to the Itev , >futi: in. He was :In emigrant, hitt allowed to return under the General Aninety, and.w.is theri co loved as an agent of the Divectory, to the disaffected here, and the relit 1s in Ireland. In MS, he was ordered out of this count; y; tut during the Peace of Amiens, he returned with another agent of Napoleon, who sv.is conrerned with Despard in the plot to hiR Ma jeAy. Upon the harpy-detection of this conspiracy, he retut nod to France. Shortly after the re-conunen , :ement of hostilities, he was sent to kian:hurii, whers hie practices excited the at tentiin of the Solicitor to the Bank of k:igiand, and he iva , , one of the chief agents in the arrest of Si! (teorge Rumbold, the Briti.h Amba-sador, in that city. From Ilantburgh he went to Vienna, for the purpose already stated. In 1805,11 e again made his alikarance in this country ; and I ,, as then confined in gaol. 1 - k was liberated on Mr. Fox coming into admini.tration. He returned to i•rance, and was sent first to (h many, then to Po land, and afterwards to Spain. He was at Madrid the day of the massacres in May 1808, and then went to Paris lohded with booty, where he co:.tinued till ordered on a new mission to Hainburgh in 1809. He was next heard of as a Portuguese, at livligoLnil, where he had the temerity to pass himself off as an acct edited agent of Lord Liverpool. From this place he carried on a re':ular correspondence with Bourienne, the French Minis ter at Hamhurgh, whom he informed of what English commo dities were destined for that port, by which means they were coudemiled on arrival." Y