The National Register. — London, England, 1809-12-03 00:00:00

'764 THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ~ r.. ... disposed to make a sland upon the Brenner. On the 4th inst. the advanced gnarl, - ot the troops tinder the com mand of his imperial Highness the Viceroy of Italy oc cupied Bruneggen. PROVINCIALS. DEC. 3: committed depredations in this country to the amount of e .rds of 200,0001. This Stokes, along with Edwards, nice of hi,: as. satiates in• the robbery, was sentenced to be executed at Car lisle on the 28th ult. At the Angel Inn, near the Old Bridge, Bristol, two French prisoners, both remarkably well skilled in the science of f el , c _ ine, agreed, in the course of the afternoon, to play with foils, *which proved to have been hardly capped. They mere engaged in the sport about live minates, IN hen on uvtkine: a both of their feet unfortnnately slipped, and the foil of cne c ent through the at hit of his antagnniq's eye into the hraiti, cart )ing with it a small portion of the skull. He died on the le:h ult, hiving rein:lNied in ri state of stupor from the veriod of the ac cident. The Jury tetureed a verdict of—Clievice. Medley, pro. ceeding from accident. • Some mornings :1(.1), a man went to the linuse of 11Ir. Holden, near Blackburn, Wrara icksiiire, to inform the famil v•that Mr. Holden's daeghter, a few miles off, had lost her child in a fit,. anti on going down stairs for a doctor, fell down and broke her Holden and his wjfe hurried away, and on their arrival at the place, found the story to he a fabrication, and on their return • home, discovered that their house was broke open and robbed of property to the amount of 301. The thief missed one drawer, in which was a large quantity of gold and silver. On Tuesday, a poor woman residing at Maidstone, went a few yards from - her house for a pail of water, leaving a child, about three years old, in her apartment. On her return, she heard the screams of the infant, and looking through the win dow saw its clothes in flames. In heragony of mind, she pulled the string which raises the latch of the door, with such Violence, that it broke, and she was then prevented from affording that assistance which its dreadful situation required : and before the door could be forced open, and the flames extinguished, the child was so dreadfully burned'that it expired shortly after • Last week, the wife of a labouring man at Ilarlaston, neat Derby, during the absence of ber husband, and the momentary , absence of her eldest child a girl of 12 years of age, took a blunt table knife and attempted to cut off the head of her inffint , (laughter, six months old, and actually effected her purpose, so • as to cause she ihfant's death In a few hours after, assigning as , a cause for this strlinge derelection frOm parental feeling, that,, she was pregnant by the Holy ChoSt ; she ib committato Derby' Jail, and is mentally deranged. , . It.tl TIJESDaY'S LONDON GAZETT4. Admiralty Officc, Nov. QS. I! I • - Vice Admiral Holloway, Commander in Chief at Newfound land, a letter from Captain Graham, of the Vestal, giving an. account of the capture by that ship, on the 19th instant, of the' French privateer brig L'fntrepide, pierced for twenty-guns, and• having a complement of one hundred and twenty five men, theist on her first cruize. .3 The 'Vestal has also re-captured the English brig Bellona t from Newfoundland to Jersey, and the English ship Fortitude, from the Brazils to Liverpool. Capt. Brace, of His Majesty's ship Virginie, has transmitted a letter from Capt. Sir Wm. Bolton, of the Druid, giving an account of his having captured, on the 13th inst. the French national brig I,e Basque, of sixteen guys, and one hundred and twelve men, commanded by Monsieur Liscourt, Lieut. de Vais seaux, bound from Bayonne to Guadaiope, Kith flour and other stores. And also a letter from Capt. Worth, of the Helena sloop, sAa. ting the capture, on the same day, of the Revenge Fr( oat. pri, vateer of St. haloes, pierced for sixteen guns, and with sixty one men on board. This Gazette also contains *a dispatch from Colonel Omni, dated Salamanca, Oct. 2, announcing the entrance of the Duke del Part ue's army into Salamanca. BANKRUPTS. Samuel Billings, Liverpool, hosier, to surrender Dec. 19, Re p and Jan. 9, at twelve, at the Glebe Tavern, John-street, Liver pool. Attornies, Messrs. Black Wilt and Makinson, Tem ple, London; 4nd Mr, Ascrat, Casei-street, Clapoalcitaire t Liverpool. MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT. TheirMinz frosts which have hitherto taken place, have not given the least click to the young wheats in either the - early or late sown ernes; both of which, in vueral, appear extremely promi:i•ig for the season. The great mildness and unusual open ness oft he weather during the whole of the month, has contri buted to keep the cattle stock longer out in the pastures than is commonly the by which the consumption of more expen sive winter fodder is prevented, which is a matter of great im portance to the farmer. The various sorts of green food em ployed for live.slock at skis period of the year, are also in most places good and abundant, which with the large supply of po tatoes, and other kinds of food, must secure the farmer, in a great measure, from the scarcity of cattlefodder doting the win ter season. The sheep on the turnips, and the fattening cattle stock on these and other sorts of food, have gone on particularly well, probably from the great warmth of the season. Though much grain has been threshed out in consequence of the advance in price, the supplies in the markets have not lately been so athundaut a; might have been expected. The granting of licences for importieg it from other countries, have seemingly had the effect of lessening; the exertions of the farmers nt home in getting it Inv in the usual quantity. The prices in the markets have con tinued much thesanue this week as in the preceding. Lean stock, both Of the cattle and sheep kind, but especially thelatter, have fetched unusually' high prices at the latefairs.--Fat Mock of all descriptions, but particularly hogs, is also sold at a high price. Not ;I ithstanding the openness of the season, tsar fully keeps up its price. • • --~- • Pont Herse Duty.—At a hearing on the 25th tilt. before the 3lagistrates of Newcastle, cn :to information laid by Mr. Charles Lowe, collector of the post horse duty, against Mr. Thomas Giles :tact William Wallace, it was determined, " That horses let by the Day and not by the Mile," are not liable to the duty chargeable on 'post horses. An appeal is made to the Sessious by the Collector. (• . On Saturday se ' nsight, Thomas Tomlinson, a young man; I about 24 years of age, a private in tht 6th Carabineers, gnat tered in Leeds. put a period to his existence by discharging a pistol through his head, which *occasioned his almost instanta neous death. It is supposed that the fear of disgrace impelled him to the commission of this dreadful act, which is much la mented by his regiment; for although young he had fought with distinguished gallantry the battles of his country. On the same evening a Coroner's Inquest was held on the body, 'and a verdict returned of felo de se. The corpse, in consequence, was seized by the civil power, and lodged in the prison until Monday night, when the remains of this unfortunate young man were taken about midnight to a short distance from the town, and buried in the lanes usually appropriated to this pnrpose. The body had scarcely been committed to its ignominious grave, when some of - the military, impelled by an attachmeet to their brother soldier, and encouraged by the populace, jumped into the grave, in the presence of the civil oflkers, and finding it impossible to get up the coffin entire, they took off the lid, raised the corpse from the , grave, and afterwards took up the shell, in which the body was a , , , ain deposited, and carried it to the new burying ground at the parish church, : w here it was interred with military honours. Saturday s'unight, a desperate attempt was made to break into Carlisle gaol, for the purpose of liberating Stokes, the rob her of the Wltitehaven bank, from prison. This fellow, aho his committed more depredations upon society than altruist any t other offender in the kingdom, was, some time ago, through the bumane interference of Dr. Blamire, removed from the con k/allied cell, to a rocm at the other end of the prison, in conse uence of his basing lost the use of his limbs. Acquainted with this circumstance. the villains, to effect their design, had sue * ceeded in perforating the wall about a foot square, immediately opposite the bed Sto ke; slept in, which was on the ground floor. Ila a few mieutes he would cyttainly have escaped, had they not ', ,-. beer) alartneil by a chaloe driving up to the gaol door about half vast five o'clock in the morning. Stokes is s.,id to be evtretnely • 440, Awl Ito the leader of aping ) R ho, it .is stwosed, have i. i } •