The National Register. — London, England, 1814-02-27 00:00:00

FEB. 27. eta'. • THE INFAMOUS 110.4. X. M wily, the whole of the 111:-.tr000lis was thrown into a frraten, occasioud by a ruaioor, stating iirtt Buoaavirte had been killed it: battle 'h'it rile Ailtes bad entered ! ) gris t and that the white cockade had b•-rt generaltv worn ua France. I: was confidently asserted, that tw Others Imo in tows with the intelli4enee at the eiaire ot tie. ry Sirite, who landed at Dover,-in afiag of truce front To etieet to the imposition two persons actually came post tror. 9.a•, r, decorated with white cockades, and the chaise covet. e d 'I ;ley'rirove through the City about ball past elcver o'clock, toilowel anu twher of persons, huzzaing, but disappeared in the itete!•b - :•tirlt nil ot Fleet street. The eceollut ot the death t.f . Biiiihryaor 'mfrs. ei the ()aittiiiiti immediately to rise to 52 per ce, pia nuu u. Toe multit!rieS titot assembled at tip- Exhatige and Stock Ftit;ll.l.gs. N'i'le Bargains 'or stuck were made to an as. a.;:onitt, and liettelreirs re-sewed to the Man.ion-house await joi. t h e ; om i t teation tit tie joy fu! intelligence from L rd Bathurst to the Lord Alavor while at the west er d of the iowo, the Gave r n mei o otlice• were cr.,...eled with anxious engiiiii-rs. After sonic time h a d dap rd, no cortfirmati.,in o t ri viog troll the Government offices, t h e while was pronounced a 2rO•S Wilk:30011. °tuition' then decline,) to Y 7 and a half. '1 he 16110...i1l letter affords some further explanation of this m 4.1110112 " I ))=..r,, Frn. tt.—This morning', between two and 3 o'ch•ek, an eitpress 111% ed at Admiral foleN's from I)orer; whit 'a letter pm p-sing to be from Col. De Bourgla, Aid-de-Camp to Lord Calic , rt, announcing his art iral float France, with dispatchts of infinite impor taitre, natite;y, the deft at 4tiff death of Bonaparte, ntid entry 01 the Adird S,tyerci.tis into P„ris, in order that the Admiral night make the CliffllliOlivicati , ,n by te:egrap!), to London as scion as day-light op* prated. however, dispatched one of .his domestics at Doper, to a‘certain the coirectne,s of the statement, when it Was fifillai that a per•on in military- garb, wi•li a star and medal of merit arrived at th. Skip Inn this y tittig tthout vit o'clock and .tsted, that he was from Fiance, and Wal the beater of the intellig.nce Matte allurel to, a nd ordered a ch a ise and tour for L ndun immetliateely. II sp , rt• ed a bag of Napolem s-d'or ; but recolleve.d he had a Bank of Lop,. Lend mote or two to his Docket, where they had been 1) ing some and with them he paid his but at the Inn, and then de e ntrtwii fOr Lon. don ; but upon a stir being made by the Adtitittd and Coflectot . at Dover, a reference was had to the notes, • and. it was discovered thee were indorsed by a useicantile Grin in Landon, with the date 15th February, 18142 1 A Special Meeting of the Gentlemen belonginz to the Stock. Ex change, was appointed to be held On 'l uesday. attertition, sshich it is to . be hoped, will he the means of detectittg and briagieg to ju,tice the principals and agents implicated in this villainous affair. It has been • ascertained that one broker sold for his einp!overs in e;ir:v Nrt <if . Tuesday futention, .the enormous hum of ti:,(1,000i. in o:intium, sale, it is emanated, 04 a moderate calculation, produced a net prolit of 16,0001. The whole amount of the tratistcis in the cow - be of the day, it is said, exceeded a 1111;1{011 and it 1,114. A6u the Committee at Abe Stork Exchange for the Protection (..f Property aga:tist Fr:aids, %vas, iu the ci,tir‘a 4f Thors,i.iy, j o l lie d b y the Committee Mr General Purposes, and continued the isiee%tigatino till evening. Anu tither of respecoble Gentlemen welt examined, and such a body of evidence produced us cann..t fad to lead to a disco very of the principal actors in the late attroviasts transaction. A • munication was sein, in tilt course of the .dixration, to the hiectors of the iiiank iu attendance, apprising the,u or the prog.ess that had been made, and requesting their co operation. An application was afterwards made to the Lord Mayor and anc.tip,r to Bow-sireN; and, we understand, that a competent number of officer% have been order ed to be in readiness to act as occasion nt.a . reriaire. It i% repoited that several person% ate in custody on suspicion %,f beii.g implicaten in the conspiracy. The arrival of the t sp•ess from D o % et of Thursday morning, and all the industry that ttas used to influ% ore the Fonds had no sensilie etrect, all respectable holders of bills and ht(lek being deterred trout either buying sr suid nutlria, r nos done fir l ooney, bat all for the acciniat. The advance on Otiiiiimin at une o'clock (lid not exceed a half per cent. PRIZr, MONEY.--ONEHUNIiitED Titovs,VND POUNDS. HORNSBY and Co. had the singular pleagnre paying to the Public the above amount in t h e: lag Two Small Lotteries, and they milky no doubt. but they !Chan didtti hitt t• Fol tupe's tavourl to those uho honour them with their commands in the present Lottery, to be drown on FAIDAV NEXT. Hornsby and C 6 have on sate a entice selection of Cnpital Prizes in Tickets and Share,, at their Old Estahli%hed Office, v;, Condon, where all litwities4 in thi .• Finseh trawacted iiitb 4tul didp;i THE NATIONAL REGIinER. LAIC INTELLIGE!•CI. COURT OF KING'S lIENCI-1, Tituitsrmy, FILL 1-1. LADY PERCkWAL'S ACTION. • THE xlt V. MITI7OI-t1). Pt, This WAS an indictment against the defendant, John Mitford, Eq. at the instance of Lady Perceval, for perjury. The perjury as ai leavd, arose out of a transaction which env readers may rec o ueet„ as it has caused considerable sensation. In the month 61 A pill last year, three lettt rs appeared in the Newspaper called " News," edited by Mr. Phipps, purporthig to be a correspnodetwe betwetn the Claucellor and Secretaries of State, and Lady Anne on behalt of her Royal Iliahness the Ptinee,s of respectii,g an increased estahli,hinent of her Royal Highness's honsrlioltt. These letters Mr. Phi; ps asserted, he had received from Mr. Mit turd, who said he had brought them from Lady Percev;tl fnr in.er- As soon as the letters appeared, Lady Pt rceval denied that itford had ever' received them from her, and asserted that they were forgeries , . She sent for Mr. Phipps, anti wi:lied him to state that they were forg,eries, without any further explanation, That he insisted that he would state the maimer in which he became pos ses,el of them, lie xecordim.7ly published in his paper a statement of the transactious between liimseir and Mr. Mitfold respecting these letters. For this statement, Lady Perceval, in Trinity Terns last, applied to the Court of King's Bench for a criminal Molars tion, and upon sliming cause again t that rule, Mr. Milford nuide affidavit, that on or about the 31st of Match last, Lady Perceval sent for him, and told him tint she had letters of great conselptePre to .puldidt, and that she thotc:ht Mr. Phipps the tit 111411 for it ; that it was a dangerous experiment they were about to make, but that , omething must be done to rouse the spirit of John Bud, which begat' to to compel their to give the Princess of Wales an increased establislant nt—that she farther asked him, whether, if the wA.st came to the worst, he had any objection ta go to a mad-house for a short time, as he must be out of the way alter their publication? to which he consented. Site added, that the reason forthis was lest he should- be called to the Bar of the Hoti.e, which womb' be very inconvenient as lie knew PO 11111d1. Upon chewing caase :ntainst the rule, and upon Leading this affidavit—rule was dis charged. The I►regent indictment was•now. preferred against Mr. Milford for tl►is affidavit ; and the allegation of the indictment averred tl►e whole of this statement to be false. r. Iloit, having opened the nature of. the prosecution, with obseivatiuns nu the nattitc of the evidence, to he called iu support of it, Perceval wa' produced a% the first witness She stater) thit Mr. Mitrord ‘r.t,i a relation of the Lundy ; and that she was cinica voitring to procure him a sitnation. She flog) most po:itivviyde ilk(' that she had evur citipluyed him to carry t! n: ietters in (Int.*lion Mr. Phipps for publication, or that she ever saw them be ore hvy ‘'ere start to her in the new spAmr. She then seta for Mr. Phipps, and endeavoured to persuade hir.i to contradict w; ihuut any detail of cireamstauces, alto wished to save the name of )1i; rad from auy disgrace. On cross-examination by Mr. Ailey, site admit tea that Y1::' WM.! au(l • sent to the newspap-rs many paragraphs in resvect ta the af fairs of the Princess of Wales—that Mitford was her agent for that •piirpose. Several letters were then put into her hando, whichtine admitted to be her hand-writing. They were read, and by them it appeared that her Ladyship was a must active and bold writer far the newspapers ; that .he bitterly envei4herl against the squeamilli ness of the Editor of the Star, because he was afraid to Mscrt her articles; wit' she deplored that her lettera be mutilated, a:A that " the snake MIOHM he cot asunder wi.eit the venom would have stung , o effectually where they intended without beimt trio !loos." 'ln other letter' slie insisted that her letters shied(' antler no nuyila- tion, but Amin he incerted such as she gave it, except such eye pres!ions . ai . were strieily libellous. It.a!so appeared, that after the 'allegol forgeries were published, that bite wrote a letter to r,lr. 'Phipp-, desiring , to see trim at Pcreeval Lodge, as by a little e:4.11- ,41ch:01 communicaljun t the rectification tnizht. be hest effected. In 'the iirii r, if is with Mr. Phipps, she denied that she uaid he the ) !•av ioor of herself and familv, and that in a few years her sore %rook; , . Trooailly be in office, siciittii Mr. Phipps should have his reward. A Air..SpeeehlyandMr. Ilardeastle, together with Mr. biett Pcrceval, lt 'stated, that alley the publication of the. f,rgvd letters, they Ntittnyd's lodgings to bring him to I.rack.ficat!l; grit at first he 'denied having given thg letters to Phipps, but that afte;wards tie half Steen bribed by Colonel Bloomfield ti do it. Mr. Aliey then addressed th Joey WI LChilif of the defcnd-mt, in