The National Register. — London, England, 1808-10-16 00:00:00

TIM NATIONAL REGISTER. The late declaration against tythes had the sanction ofmonx 4 himest-liatries, not doubt ; hut every thinking man, who well an tierstotl the singular Constitution of our Society, and who knt i w the gravity and caution which shitald precede the recommenda tion of remedies for public evils, saw with some apprehension, the course that had been taken to clamour away the whole I) the System as the spring and source of general distress. It is very true, that if the Rack-rent Landlords thought that in endeavour ing to exempt themselves from the odium of oppression, and to cast it all upon a hod v' of men not perhaps half paid their legal' dues, the peasantry should take a part against T 3 thes, they would have desisted at once. But the invariable result of such i public proceedings is, that when sentiments and principles be come promulgated they sink into every mind ; they light upo , the brain of ignorance ; they descend upon and are compontided in the reveries of nonsense and folly. The man of education acts and thinks becoming an enlightened mind ; but the peasant, poor,. illiterate, and oppressed, thinks and feels as it is natural he should ; and when he finds a respectable portion of the gentry of the country pointing out as it were the canse of hlsoverq, and denouncing it, hi. pa.sions will not allow him to ho ld a truce with the supposed adversary to his happinescrand be will nut wait for the mild and circuitous remedy of thelaw, but become his own redresser. It is well for the public that the subject of tythes, or tather that the condition of the peasantry forms now an anxious sub ject of consideration is ith the Government. It «ill throw away all pretext fostilie intermeddling of ragged politicians with so dangerous and delicate an affair ; and it ought to suggest to those who might incautiously and most innocently have excited sensations in the peasantry which they did not foresee, to exert themselves with double 'zeal in suppressing such painful toast sequences of misapprehension and mistake. PROVINCIALS. MARC:Writ, OCT. I2.—The hunting and coursing season fotll - in the Isle of Thanet this morning. The hounds had smite sharp runs ; and repeatedly blooded the pack in good stale ; they boasted a large field, to which the Cross, the Lane, and the Acre, contributed a snug and friendly little party. Lotions, Potions, and Patent Coffins, were to he seen at the death. The Gentlemen wear their coats short and degegie, even in full dress. The crogeres, or extreme fashionahles, have the collar cut very low in the neck, and very long on the laprh•ls ; blue is the pre vailing colour. The waistcoat is of straw kerseytnere, single breasted, and very long, with atriangular openingat the bottom, which exposes the maw chain and seals dangling from the cen tre; fourteen yellow metal buttons confine the front, and three the packets. the rest of the outline consists of brown leather malt-ctooths, moderately lung topped boots, and a sugar-lo•if crown hat. The Ladle. wear white muslin dres,es of a walking length, and scarlet crake; the cottage bonnet of fancy straw, and jean boots. Parasols are exploded. Happily for the Be tted/cis they still base nu reason so complain ofyrtticoat govern ment! DRAWING a BADGER.—A man of the name of Thomas well known in West Kent for catching mole-, and viper , , ill the season, for the Apothecaries, brought a fresh badger in a hag to Wrotham last Fair, and having dug, a hole in a bank as deep as a baker's oven, he turned the badger to earth, and closing the mouth of the hole with his sack. offered to bring out the animal in his teeth, if the crowd *shah' rai..r him half-a-guinea ; which being prf•sently done, he entered the place with a short thick stick. The badger seldom relinquishes its iiittd, and he immediately seized the stick. Tom Lort then f I.,,tened his teeth on the 'mire of the badger's neck, and brought the anoint! forth with the stick in it 2. mouth, and having several times performed thi, exploit, retired with his friends to enjoy the produce of his dexteri t y. •NEWCASTLE, OCTOBER 10.—On Saturday evening last, about Hine o'clock, a most melancholy accident ba',pened in the River /pie. As the ferry-boat between Howden Pates:o4 Jar row was crossing to the latter place with a number of persons on board (►umeacenunts bay twelve, others fifteen), the wind Strong from the East, and consequently a great swell in the river, it itufurtunatel.,. Slled wiih water, and sunk when about tweet s yards from the Shure, ts% which the whole company would have ►uet a watery grave, had it nut been for the exertions of the Captain and crewel a sloop near the ploc*, who instantly got out their boat, and saved :he greater part of them. We under stand there were only three drowned. The greatest attention was paid to the survivors by some yersoos ut Jarrow, one of fb„., ~~ • .- OCT. M. of On hoar in the n ater. On Monday se'nnigtif Gentlemattbf this town for a consider able wager, ran fifty yards, lilt l\ 'big a man upon his back witty weighed list. ttgainsi •inothier, who, without any weight, ' was to run 100 yards. The former beat by about eight yards, A person present, thinking himself swifter than he who had lost, proposed to run the same distance, which was immediately ac cepted, and won by the same Cieatleition, carrying the ab ove . weight,. by Moo yords,, Ann Moor, a poor woman of Tutburv, in Staffordshire, has lived upwards of 14 mouths* without food ! The teitimonv of the woman herself was ,of course discredited, and she consents d to he remoyed too, neighbour's house, to be watched for any lei gth of time that was deemed sufficient to give a colour of Iraqi to her report. Tbis•lva4. accordingly done, mid she was cdostantiv watched for Vi.days and nights, and revilarly visited by three surgeons once or twice a day. Till the end of 14 doss she did not even drink any water, which she hail been accustomed to do in very small quantities, w hen she felt a tutu-ea at her stinich. She now finds that this is removed by wet ing her tongtic with' damp cloths, by which she escapes the pain of st%allomioi:: as before, which was very considerable. Durini, the length ("of time of the above 14 numthsahstinence, water, and tea, without eithrr milk or sugar, bud been her only beverage. She ha- beer lit' bed the whole of the time. lice pulse is very little tinder thoi standard of good health, but, as may t,e expected. her frame excessively reduced. A..ei this extraordinary woman i- still 1;,i,1• : . we recommend her case s to the attention of the Fact. he, mid doubt not that they will consider her as a subject de.,erk leg of very * minute consideration. AA a countryman last week was nutting in Catslield Great Wood, he found the nuts so plentiful that he soon half filled s sack, by the weight of which his progress of gatheri n g e %%ar so much impeded, that .he found it necessary to get rid of his in cumbrance, by leasing it, as he thought, in a place of set-mil:,, until he should have increased his stork, by means of a :4:101:1, from distant hazels, and proceeded accordingly : but unluckily in the interim n black, from a neighbouring barrack, engaged in a similar pursuit, discovered the repo-itory, and afterexamin ing its contents, resolved on possessing it ; but in order 4s give a colourable pretence to the posses-ion, he into recourse tirthn following, whimsical stratagem. He stripped off his clothe s , and, after concealing them, seated himself naked on the rick, where he remained, clutched op, till the return of the country man, and by his grimaces, and the yells which he set up to give effect to the part he was acting, on the poor fellow's approavh. so terrified him, that he hounded from the wood like a deer, and, happy in his escape, left his nuts, without re i grot, to he cracked by the Devil, on whose territories, at the moment of hi• panic, he believed he had been trespassing. Muogo, tacit plca-ed with the success of his trick, bore away the prize, and site cir cumstance has caused no. inconsiderable share of mirth in t h e. neighbourhood. Last Monday evening, about seven o'clock,• Mr. Ambony (a traveller from Manchester) was stopped on. the road, about hull way between Wallingford and Reading, by a footpad. Who demanded his money, which Mr. Anthony •resolatelv refused, when the footpad succeeded in dragging hint out of his gig, and a desperate beutfle ensued, in w hick the footpad was knocked dow::, and probably would have been secured, had not another appeared, whit presented a pistol, and shot Mr. Anthony through rite left breast, and he fell they then proceeded to rifle his pockets, but fortunately •be had put his pocket-hook, which contained bills and notes to a considerable amount, into his gig box. ,Wheit they had got every thing out of his pockets, sonic' horses were heard at a short distance, and the villains made MI. Through the kind attention of two (gentlemen, Mr. .Anthony' was conveyed to Reading, where great hopes are entertained of hi recovery. A most melancholy accident happened at a coal pit, neat Kimbleworth, Cumberland, belonging to Messrs. Walker, toy the explosion of sulphareous air, Which unfortunately killed four persons, viz, .Georgellague, Thomas Hague, John J a rvis, and William Firth ; the two former weile farther and son, and it ii:Lt added to the distress of the scene was, they were found locked en , eackother's arms---a striking itiSlitOCe.ol parental and fat ) al ' fection in the agonies of death. • The Magistrates of Warwickshire Wee on's rasolotL.an, at 'late Sessions, that Statutes for hiring sersetets hista eln tond • to promote idleness and im morality among servants and accoord , " jngly have recommended to masters ..of servants in hubandry - s not to attend Such' Meeting., our to hire stairnuts w.iUont . - meters. . 1 ..11P4 trif:d • , _ awl) r • r ~~ = .....t.