The National Register. — London, England, 1811-08-04 00:00:00

44pp.. E NATIONAL REGISTER. •94 _ - They went to Covent-Garden Theatre together that evening• On the Wednesday following he went to the prisoner's lodgings again, when he found a horse and chaise at the door. The pri soner told him they were his, and asked him to take a ride with bim, which he agreed to, and they went to Hammersmith, where they had some refreshment, which he paid for. They 'returned to town, the prisoner telling him he had ordered din ner at a tavern in Fetter-lane, having a gentleman to dine with a nd invited him to join them, which he agreed to. They diced together, but no gentleman came. After dinner the pri soner ordered two horses to the door, which he said were his. 'they both rode to Paddington. and called ta on a Mr. Hogg prix.-ner invited Mr. H. to a tavern a t Paddington, to ke some wine, where the prisoner told him he had no money, and bor rowed et. of him. On their way home they stopped at the King's Arms, in Oxford-street, when it being very late, they staid there allnight, and breakfasted there iu the morning, and then returned the horses to Nelson's livery-stables, in Fetter lane. In a day or two after, the prisoner called upon him to .boi row some money, saying it was to pay for some shirts when at Oxford. He could not make it convenient, but went and borrowed the sum for hint. Not seeing the prisoner for some -time atter, he found hi:n out in Green-street, Grosvenor-square; lath , n, on his preEsinq him for payment of the money, he with much assurance confessed that he was not Rector of From ; that his •father was not Recorder of Exeter, but was a little Jarnif-r iu a village called }ew, near Exeter. He acknowledged that the whole of his statement to him was false. He had been si writer at the banking-house of Flood and Co. at Honiton, Devonsiin e, and by that means he knew his family and friends by liight only.—He was again remanded. in which were himself and the two Miss Somervilles, of the above place. The fellow had no weapon but a large clasp knife, which he thrust into the coach, and swore he would stab Mr. Morris if he made the least hesitation in delivering his money. He gave him two 51. notes and 45. He had nu sooner done with the Gentleman, than he said—" Ladies, don't be fri g htened ; I never did the least injury to a woman in my life, nor never will, dam'me ;as for your money, keep it yourselves—all that I shall ask from you is a kiss a-piece—if you grudge me that, I'm sure you are neither sensible nor good-humoured."—He then took his leave very civilly, declaring that it was the first rob bery he ever committed, and should be the last. He had spent all his money, he said, very foolishly, and that sum would carry him to his friends, and then he should have plenty. The whole transaction lasted near five minutes, yet no passengers came up. There was a footman behind ;he coach, but no attempt was thought of at the time, owing to the fright, for hav ing the fellow secured. SWINDLING.--A genteel dressed elderly man, accompanied by a girl about 15 years of age, whom he repreents as hi s s daughter, has committed divers frauds and felonies lately about London, and particularly at some of the principal hotels where he resided, and at most of which he obtained money by artifice, and at others decamped with portable articles. The offender called himself Sir H. Harding, Ctsionel Kinton, &c. under which assumed names he has fraudulently got possession of dif ferent articles of tradesmen's goods, most of which were traced to have been sold at a mock, or rig auction, conducted by Jews. l he swindler drove about town in A green-bodied chariot, which he got at Oxford, where he passed for an Under-Secretary in one of the Government Offices, and which was never Raid for. His visage is long and sallow, but his address is fluent and com manding. NAVAL CHIVALRY. The assaults of the American frivtc, upon our Sloop, remind us of the romantic and very differ ent behaviour of Captain, afterwards Lord UowE, in his engagement with a French ship of 74 guns. Bearing, in battle array, down upon the French man in a ship of 61. guns, he perceived a number 4,f • Ladies &Tithe quarter-clerk, gating on the Bri tish ship : desired his Lieutenant to inform the French Captain, by message of trumpet, that he allowed him a quarter of an hour to provide for • the Ladies a safe retreat below. At the moment the time expired, he commenced a most fu rious fire on the Alcide, causing her to sin render in half an hour.—How could BuRKE, :Ind how could WALTEIt SCOTT after him, exclaim, 66 that the age of chivalry was gone ?" ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, A son of Mr. Ttimcy, of the Flour-mills, near the Red 1 House, Surrey shore, a fine boy, eleven years of age, was drowned on Thursdal,r, by dipping off a bank on his father's premises. A Coroner's jury sat ort the body on Friday, and re trilled a verdict—AccidetUal Death. Thrit•s,'.ay afternoon, a party of the 18th Dragoons having gone iato the ThAries, at Hampton-court, to bathe, one of them fed into , a hole, and was carried off by the stream; another plunged after him, but in endeavouring to save his companion, Was unfortunately drowned. The bOdies Were found soon after ;wards at Ditton, each having fast hold ache other. On Saturday, a ma-; presented notes of tJte Ramsgate Bank to the amoont of on the house of Roharts and Co. the agents in town, requesting Bank of England Notes in ex-- Change. Toe clerk recolleesed that Rathsgate Bank notes to the Same amount had been prelvnted and paid in the morning,' • and on examit:ation they i proved to be part of? parcel amount ing to 8000 i. se:ft from allVigh . te to London by the coach about a . year ago, and lost. The man vihb preisented thein said ne *as a porter at the Gun Tavern, Billingsgate, but on inquiry no inch person could be found. A most extraordinary robbery was committed on Thursday tvening last, On Hounslow Heath, by a single footpad, who hopped the coach of Surgeon Morris, of Marlborough-5y eet, and Edited by E. ROC:FIE, and Published by JOIIN FISHER, No r, Pickett-street, Strand, near 'l'emple-B4r, all the Newsmen, the Clerks ef Roads, ani Booksellers throughout th United li.►ugdum, fzue of postage, izto Sid• per (porter! Loudon : Printed a and forwarded by las eaulterait 10e. •••,. "". BIRTHS. - - On Wednesday, in Newman-street, Oxford-street, Mrs. C Kemble, of a son. On Friday last at Wrottesley, the seat of Sir J. W rottesle ys Bart. I,ady Caroline Wrottesley, of a son. A t his Lordship's house, in Cavendish-Square, the Countess of Enniskillen, of a daughter. At Fair Oaks, near Petersfield,•Hants,the Hon. -Mrs. Clarks Paget, of a son. In Clifford-street, the Right I-lon. Lady-Arandell, of a son. At Morden, Surry, the Lady of G. Ni..Hoare, Esq. of a son. On the 29th uh. at Hill, neat Southampton, the Lady of Ni cholas Nugent, M. D. of a daughter. On Tuesday last, at her father's house, at Great Berkhamp stead, Herts, the Lady of John Winter, jun. Esq. of a son ami daughter. Mrs. Joseph Latham, of Winchester-row, Paddington, of twins (boys). MARRIED. C. Grantham, Esq. Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, son of T. B. Grantham, .Esq. of Stamford, to Miss Emily Fortescue, youngest daughter of the late Right Hon. J. Fortescue, and sister to Lord Viscount Clermont. At Port Glasgow, on the 29th July, James Campbell, Esq. Major in the service of the East India Company, to Miss Anne Cunniogilame, second daughter of John Cunninghame, Esq. of Port Glasgow. Suddenly, re=aerday se'nnight, at Richmond, G. Townshend Ferrars, Mai quis Townshend, Earl of Leicester, Viscount and Baron 'FONVIIShend, Baron De Ferrars, of Chartley, Earon Dour chier, Lovaii:e. Basset, and Compton : he was born April 18, 1753, and had but recently succeeded to the Marquisate, but had long ei,joyed the honour, of t:ie Prerage, having succeeded his mother as Baren de l''crrars of Chartley so long since as the 14th of September, 1770; and being created Earl of the county of Leicester the 19th of May, 1784: some family afflictions of a pecularly painful natu:-.• are supposed to have contributed to hasten his deatL : he is succeeded in his titles and estates by his son G.orgu, Farl of Leicester, and Baron Chartley, with whose name the public is well acquainted, on account of certain odious litigations. Aged 69, at tho residence of Sir Wm. Skeffington, Bart. in Beaumont-street, Devonshire Piace, Catherinee .losepha, Lady • Skeffington, after a lingering indisposition of five years. At Pvh, Wm. Faeltener, Esq. aged 88, having filled the office of Secretary to the Board of Tratle, and Clerk in Ordinary of his Majesty's Most lion. Privy Council upWards of 35 years. ft At Thurnhatn, Kent, in the 56th year of his age —lTplold, of a locked jaw , brought oa 1;y cutting his toe trail too closely. I