The National Register. — London, England, 1821-12-30 00:00:00

MRS. INCIIBALD'S Gsave..—The remains of this celebrated lady, it is known, were deposited in the New Burying Ground, attached to the parish church of Kensington , and there has just been placed over the grave, a large and substantial but plain grave stone, with the following inscription ; neither in the form of the stone, nor in the character of the letters, &c, is there the least ornament:— Gloria in excel,is Dco. (Then u cross.) Sacred to the Memory Of ELIZABETH INCHBALD, Whose writings will be cherished While truth, simplicity, and reeling, Command public admiration; And w retired and exemplary life, Closed as it existed, la acts of Charity and Benevolence. She died August Ist, 3821, Aged 68 Years. Requiescat in Pace." The New Burying-ground is divided into com partments, which several divisions are numbered ; and it may not be uninteresting to add, that at the end of Mrs. lnchbald's grave are the figures 142, and that it is next to the grave of George. Charles Canning, eldest son of the Right lion. George Canning, over which there is an elegant marble monument. Information has been received at Lloyd's, from Messrs. Goodwin, Curling, and Co. the agents at Ramsgate and Deal, that the lighthouse at Dunge ness was struck with lightning during the storm in the night of the 22d inst. The lightning passed through the room, without injuring any person.— The building has a rent from top to bottom, visible at a distance of two miles. Sonic damage has also been sustained by the lantern and reflectors, so that it is feared the light may not be exhibited as distinct as before the accident, of which notice has been sent to the principal out-ports, in order to guard as much as possible against the consequences to the shipping in the channel. Last summer, a lady of Liverpool lost a very_ valuable piece of lace which had been sent to her dress-maker, and put to bleach on a grass plat m the outskirt of the town, at the back of a respect able dwelling house, well fenced with high walls; notwithstanding which, it disappeared in the course of the day. The only occupiers of the premises were a lady and a female servtnt. The most pain ful suspicions were excited, and all search and in quiry proved fruitless. Some time after, the bed room window became so bespattered, on account of a bird's nest been over it, that the lady engaged a workman to remove it, when the lace, which was of considerable length, was found neatly rolled round the inside of the nest, and although a little soiled, was nut in the least injured. A Nautical Thief Trapped.— On Saturday se'n night about eight o'clock in the morning, a young man, near Skelmorlie Castle, Scotland, by the help of a spyglass, descried a person seated on the keel of a small boat, in the middle of the Frith, between Bute and the Largs shore. No sooner was the cir cumstance known, than the people about the castle put off to his deliverance, which they effected. On reaching the land, it was discovered that the boat was the property of a fisherman belonging to Largs, and that the stranger thus providentially rescued from a watery grave, had, during the preceding night, stolen her away from the beach, together with four oars, a sail, and two empty casks, that had chanced to be left there. Of these the boat only was recovered. The fellow, it is said, belongs to Greenock and such an ingrate was he, that he made an attempt to carry off some decent apparel which his hospitable deli•'erers had clad him in while his own clothes were drying. On Sunday night, soon after 12 o'clock, the gas lamps in St. James's park and Constitution-hill, amounting to upwards of 500 were lighted for the first time, by way of experiment. The operation was performed b) 301amplighters, who accomplished the task in less than five minutes. They continued burning only for about half an hour. The works being tbund to be complete, they were again lighted on the following evening, as they will be every evening in future. On Monday morning the old lamps were removed, and in the course of the day the posts being dug up, by the evening scarcely a vestige remained, On Mninlay evenitur an inquisilion was taken at the 000 l Hoge, Itatchtt Highway, before J. W. finwin, Esq. Cormier, on the body of Jane Parkins. The deceased was an elderly woman, and kept a house for Mr. T hoe. Young, in 111oreton'*-court, Ratcliff Highway. •On Sunday night, between ten and eleven o'clock, she came boloe in a state of intoxication, and all intreaties used to prevail un her to go to bed were fruitless; on the family retiring to rest, she was left in her room on the groom! floor by herself, and nothing seen of her until Nlonday morning, about seven o'clock, when she was found lying on her face, quite dead, with her clothes on. Her right cheek was eaten off by the rats, as also the flesh off her right arm, and two of her fingers were gnawed by the same Vennill. Verdict—Died by excessive drinking. THE NATIONAL REGISTER SISLANCNOLY SHIPWRECK.—Th It MINERVA, OF LEITH.—.On Tuesday the 18th, the people of Ardrossan, and the surrounding country were thrown into much confusion and painful feeling, by the loss of the brig Minerva, of Leith, the property of Messrs. Stenhouse there, bound from Dublin to Glasgow, with upwards of 70 tons of grain. About six o'clock in the morning, the wind blowing very strong from the south, and the sea running excessively high, she struck upon the Horse Island, about a mile off the coast of Ardrossan. As soon as she was observed from the shore, a pilot, with the Egfinton life-boat and ten men, immediately went to her assistance. On account of the very high wind, and the tremendous breakers by which they were assailed, they found it impossible to approach the wreck ; and but for the ingenious suggestion of Alexander Reid, of the Mary Anne, of Irvin, to carry a fishing boat across the island, to which it was moored, they could not have got to the wreck at all. When they did approach it, it cons sisted of nothing but a rafter of spars and deals, provi dentially kept together by the eutanglement of the sails and cordage ; and from this, where they hail remained about four hours, they happily succeeded in rescuing from a watery grave, though much exhausted. Charles Gibbon, master, Martin Horn, seaman,and John Camp bell, a lad; Peter Porter, the other, who emnpleted the the crew, was drowned. It would he gratifying if this paragraph could he concluded, however serious the loss may be to the owners, by saying that the vessel was a perfect wreck, and that the cargo was completely lost. But alas! four other lives were lost ; one man, said to be a private, Rotten Clark, of the 78th regiment, who had purchased his discharge, and was on his way home, somewhere in Aberdeenshire, who slept in the forecastle, was doomed to instant death t he moment the vessel shuck. A woman, whose name is said to be Macklin, and who was on her way to join her husband, shout 20 miles from Glasgow, with a fine boy, about three years old, also perished. Mrs. Ord, of the Dublin Circus, where she had left her husband, and was proceeding to Glasgow on business, was the other sulkren It must have been a heart-rendM , sight to see these poor creatures sitting upon the deck , almost naked, and where they remained about two hours contemplating their approaching fate; Nladdin clinging with one hand, and grasping her be loved child its her other arm to her breast, till one tre mendous effort of the raging ocean swept the whole three into the immense abyss! I'he Earl of Glasgow (whose name most be ever coupled with all that is good as well as great) kindly desired that every attention should be paid to the fortunate survivors, who were coutliirtably put tip at the Ardrossan Hotel ; and that every care should be taken to prevent any of the small rem ims of the vessel from being plundered. A female body has since been brought ashore, and from some papers lound on her person, bearing the address or" Mrs. Ord, No. 9, Charlotte-lane, Glasgow," it is presumed there is no mistake as to the individual. A small box, containing the master's papers, has also been found. One of the waggons travelling between Bideford and Exeter was, last week, in consequence of the careless ness of some house iu the city of Exeter, in danger of its being burnt, with all its load. It seems that a large jug of oil of vitroil bad been carelessly packed and for warded by the wattgon, without the waggoner's having been made acquainted with its contents After they bad travelled a few miles, a smoke was observed to issue all of a sudden from the waggon, aed but for the wag goner's presence of mind its throwing every thing out as quickly as possible, it must have been destroyed. An appalling circumstance, the effects rif debauchery, happened at Lochee, near I)tmdee, on NVednesday the I9th inst. Two men having betaken themselves to a course of hlrd drinking, formed the wild resolution of trying their powers at originality in swearing, or who could give utterance in the most horific oath. The one having given vent to his conception, the oilier stood tits and princsted that his comrades oath was a inere trilk•, and said he wor ld give him a specimen; but Just as his lips were in progress to 11110tiftl the utterance, his month being stretched to the widest, and his righr arin raised on hihh, he was struck with tittutbitens and delirium, his face and Ins fitire exhibiting a frightful spectacle.— He was carried to the infirmary in the evening, and has since been discharged somewhat relieved. POACHERS. —v : , have already stated, that on Sundke night, the wit instant, lietwcen twelve and one o'clock, Henry Judd, gamekeepvr to Thomas Asheton Smith, Esq. accompanied by six assistants, were attacked in Ashdown Coppice, at Tedworth, in Hampshire, by a desperate gang of poachers, consisting of fire or six men, armed with guns and other weapons, one of whom shot at and killed Robert Baker, one or the assistant game keepers. Mr. A. Smith made every possible exertion to pursue the murderers, but not being, able to trace them in the country, he sent an express to Sir R. Biruic, at the Police Office, Bow -street, for the assistance of au active and intelligent officer. Taunton was dispatched, who has at length succeeded in apprehending t ten of the gang, who prove to be Edmund Steele and James Turner, two well-known men as labourers in that part of the country. They have undergone several examinations before the magistrates at Andover, and were finally committed to Winchester prison, on a charge of the murder of Robert Baker.—The prisoner, Steele, has turned King's evidence, and, from his confession, it appears that the gang of poachers consisted of five. The other three, not in custody, were all labourers, who worked in and about Andover. There is an old man in Montrose, John Halket, by trade a mason, who remembers the rebellion in 1745, and the visit of the Duke of Cumberland, which was impressed upon his mind by a circumstance which age cannot efface. lie and several other lads happened at that time, at a bonfire, to drink the healils of " Chadic." On this coming to the ears of the Duke, they were all whipped through the Loom, each buy led by his father, as a punishment for the crime. John is ..bout 84, is still healthy and vigorous, and delights in idling this ► and many other stories of the olden day. EXTRAORDINARY ROLDERY.—On Thursday night a large party of young folks assembled at the house of Mr. Gregory. a builder, residing in Hertford-street, Fitzroy square, to supper, after which they passed the night in dancing. singing, card playing, and other amusements; at eleven o'clock, a young man knocked at the door, which was opened by a servant ; he said he brought a cloak for his young mistress. as the night was cold. He was desired to sit down on a bench in the hall, and the servant left him there, and went up stairs. Shortly afterwards a second man arrived with a hackney coach, who said he was ordered to take his master and mistress home. The servant, who was not acquainted with the names of half the company,crediting what was told her, went up stairs again, and suffered the two strangers to stand at the stair-head to listen to the music and singing, with which they appeared highly delighted. Mrs. Gregory, being informed by her servant that there were two young men beldw stairs waiting for some of the company, ordered her to give them their supper and plenty to drink, which was done accordingly. The vil lains then took the opportunity of completing their de sign. They stole four silver table spoons, a silver sauce boat, knives and forks, eight top coats, several cloaks, shawls, pelisses.and hats, besides a number of umbrellas, muffs, tippets, and other articles, all of which they car. ried off in the coach which was in waiting, and the watchman shut the coach door and wished them a good night, having no suspicion of the robbery. The robbery was not discovered until the company were breaking up, when not a hat, coat, cloak, umbrella, &c. could be found. The two servants were missing, and, too late, it was discovered that they did not belong to any of the company. MURDER.—About ten at night, on the Bill instant, Timinas Evans, blacksmith, of Rhydrendig.iiil, in the parish of C3lOll, Cardiganshire, was most inhumanly murdered. Three persons have been committed to Car digan Gaol under the Coroner's warrant, a verdict of Wilful Murder having been returned against them.—A murder has not been committed in that neighbourhood within the memory of the oldest person; and such was the sensation felt on the present occasion, that above 40 men came voluntarily on the Sunday morning (thought the tiabbath is perhaps more religiously respected in that vicinity than in most places) before a magistrate, and requested that they slibold he sworn in as special consta bles; and they searched that day almost all the houses in the neighboorhood. The result was, that the three men were apprehended and committed. MURDER.—In the month of July last, John Dale, a respectable travelling hawker, from Flash, in Stafford shim, being on his circuit of business, and not returning home at the expected time, his friends became alarmed for his safety. His father sent in search of him, and all trice was lost at a public-house at Winkbourn, about three miles from Southwell, where he was last seen. An active nullity and search was set on foot in the neighbourhood, when the belts of his pack were found near a wood in Winkbourne, and which raised a strong suspicion that he was murdered, yet the body could not be found. A few weeks afterwards, some labourers sheering in a field adjoining the Sigllle WOCKI found a yard-wand and walking-stick, which were also identified to belong to the deceased. This naturally strengthened the suspicion that the poor man was robbed and mur dered, amid altlitingli a diligent search was made for the truly, it could unit be found. The father could not set mind at rest, and accordingly, in the early part of last went over again to W mkbourne, and on Tuesday , morning, he, accompanied by some persons of the vil lage, entered upon another search for the body. They •• ranged the wood for a considerable time without being able to find the object of their pursuit, until at length, • on coming to a skirt of the wood (next to the corn-field where the wand and stick were found), they observed the earth in one part of the dirch to he somewhat raised, mum which a minute search was made amongst the thickets, and in a new secoods, to the astonishment of all present, the mangled corps was discovered concealed about a foot and a half within the ground. Here the feelings of the distressed father, may • more readily be imagined than described. No time was lost in convey ing the body, which was in a forward state of decay, to a proper place. The deceased hail on all his clothes, except his shoes and hat. His pocket-book, contain lug three one-pouird notes, was found in his side-pocket, which the murderers had missed. It is supposed the deceased had in his possession goods and money to the amount of about 701. He left the public-house in IVinkbounie about eight in the morning of the 14th of July, arid it is thoughs he was murdered half an hour afterwards. Frmn the marks of violence which re- • mained visible upon the head, it is believed the horrid deed was perpetrated with a bludgeon. An inquest was held on the body oil Saturday, by J. Holmes, Esq. Co roner, when a verdict was recorded of " Wilful ;nosier against some person or persons unknown." On Mon. day the remains were conveyed to Flash for inter ment. The deceased, who was in his !JEtill year, bad on.y been married about six weeks previous to the murder, and whose disconsolate widow, thus barba rously robbed of an affectionate husband, has since re sided at Chesteifield. A considerable number of tradesmen of Barnstaple hare been most egregiously duped by a fellow who came to the town, about twelve months since, and took care punctually to pay his bills for some time after his arrival, by which means he obtained sufficient credit to enable him to accomplish an extensive scheme of fraud. Oit Saturday last, being two days previous to the appointed day of payment to every one, he decamped, leaving the discomfited tradesman minus about 10t.11. The fellow bas with him a woman, about 30, whore• he calls his wire; he appears tio years of age, and called himself B but since leaving, has assumed the name of Browne, he is about five feet five inches high, rather thick set, !allow complexion, with an apparent stillness shoot the tit-ek, , and has the appearance of a respectable Portuguese Jaw. t Ur always tlrc4ictl in a blue isce.tt ceat auJ ttOWSCN. ,t" ! '1 A i.l ■ I G n ' • t