The National Register. — London, England, 1812-09-13 00:00:00

5 74. Tuesday night. at Margate, a most extraor.!inary phenomenoo appeared in die Heavens A large ball of tire made its appearance from the South, and Hew rowardsalic North : it had a long tail, and Margate was as light as it the sun had shone during the: time it passzd over it, which was about h alt a minute, when it tell towards she sea. The same was also secs from the metropolis. Extract from a letter, dated NottinJiatn, Sept. • :—" The troops at Nottingham were removed into Yorkshire a few clays ago, and the sprit of insubordination evinced itself (not quelled, but checked) by a riotous assembly, which took place this day in the market place, under the pretence of lowering the price of bread. The mob was 'leaned principally by women, but urged on b.,. a large collection of men : serious consequences were apprehended by the odiabitants. Luckily, however, a tresh detachment of troops having arrived (as it is presumed uhexpectedli ), and being called out by the civil au thority, order was restored." A most melancooly occurrence took place on Thursday, the glib id'. at Conway. in North \Vales : Fourteen men, belonging to t iat place. who had been employed to finish the loading of a fiat lyio. At' that port, bound for Liverpool, with paving stones, left the vessel in a small boat, about ten at night, to return to Conway ; in about three quarters of an hour after, the Master of the ves : 4o heard the showings of the unfortunate men, as if the boat had upset,' but the wind ran so high, that it was impossible to render them any assistalice ; lie continued to hear their voices tor halt an hour, when atter one general cry, all was silent, and they, no chadat, met a watery grave, as the boat was found fu!l of water next morning ; part of their apparel was picked up in the course of the day, hut n ne of the men have yet beeii found. The distress into which the town of Cooway has been thrown by this melanclioly. event, may be imagii.ed when it is statccl, that the unfortunate sulKrers have left eleven widows and 3.; children to bewail di. it untimely fate. HORRID hof UR DER .--SOlUe jocularities haring passed on Sunday. at dinner, between a young wan and the wde of a fi.lnnorn.er, of the name of Dodd, resident at West Ham, Essex. the husband, enra - 2.ed at who. he construed into an improper familiarity, plunged a ;toile, with which he was eating, into the heart of the unfortunate iivoman.; her death was instantaneous. Dodd was immediately se,:ured.and take,n to the watch-house, wlience lie will be brought to answer heti,re judicial authin ite for so ,theadful a rashness. 1 Eros, Seie. s.—An ass:odt of the most atrocious triture Was •C9DIMIIICCI last Wednesday evening, by tour private soldiers of the Cariow militia. these men had come into the Union No. kept by Mr. Fi:zgerald, and called tor a tankard of ale; but becoming very .noiq, the quatter-niaster-serjeant of their regiment, who !tar petted to be in the house, took their ale from them, and placed it within the bar; this irritated th.in excessively, and one of the number drew his bayonet upon the cinarter.nnoter, who quitted the house to fetch a the of soldicrs ; and in the interval their ale was returned to them. Afterwards they . appe,red more cotnposed ; but this was the prelude of a silt more 'totem gust of passion ; for having drank part of the One of them took the tankard-in his hand, and all four ad roi:irr to the bar, the mini that•held the tankard first threw its eon .teii.s into Mr. F's face, aid sulking him with the tankard, brought h.rti to the ground ; the other three then drew their bayonets, en t_ll p0u40,1 such fury, that he was left upo n the floor. weltering in his Wood, .sith Dv!t 1 ver that seven de.toerate wounds upon his head. A •person of respectability who was 4,tant:ii-g by, but had never opened his lips to these desperado!s; received three sounds on his le:ad thot4h,of a less serious nature. Fitzger:lld, who is in an advanced stateof pregnancy, was a w:t,iess of this barbarous scene, and the cry of " Murder !".frequent ly repeated, brouelit a number of persons from the street ; ainanga othcis t Quarter-master Greazley, of the 15th regiment of Hussars, - who ~e;znig a bltic!geon, fell upon the assailants with so inu,.ll ipirit -m eti;:ct, as to ttrivc them from the bar, and in the end, .fipni the - Atter the house had been ch2ared of these Carlow men ' one of them, Thohi ns Roden, returned for his cap, which had fallen trout his hca► itt the ; this man was taken into custody, and is held to trail to tike his trial at the next Q.iartcr Sessions. Tile . three ethers escaped, tot they are known. _ _ Mr. r. though shockinginly lacerated, has been pronounced out of ganger; hut a fslualt., the w ite of J. Tlynnas, a neighbour, who had ,been fqr some t•n,e in a wok state of health, anti who witnessed the ta:enc of horror, was s' much alarmed, that she took to her bed and died )egerday.. LANCASTER ASSIZES. RATTY V VicKERS —This was an assault cause. The plaictiffi „an at.Lotirtan? at Iliiiichester; the &fel:elan: k 7, publican tlwre. f ' apoearcA from the evidvnce given on the that a 'lumber o: pCrsmis had assembled at the ttei - eiv.ant's house, to " cOntMertu•rate the birth-day ht the lat. Right Hun. William Pitt ;" and the Nair:ill; on coming ihto the room, had niatie use of some ex;o.. 3i )11, (41 seeiog picture. of that •gent)eman, which did out 3 grec witn rhu! . !eas ot ;;.e. land! .rd and his friends. The plaintiffsoon after pi p.,sed a t..asr, in the name (.f BeTngitam caught the Lieruic! an - ear; he in.- threw a glass of water us bce, alit:, to cool him still more, emptied a jug of water THE NATIONAL REGISTER. over him. A scuffle ensued, in which the defendant acru.liy bi t a pert of one of the plaintiff's ears off. Veidict fur the plaktiti,— Damages JO'. ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES'. It was stated in the Freeman's Journal some days ago, tiro a Mr. Campbell, of Druncondra, near Dubiin, had been shot by the Lead of his wife in A fit of insanity, and that *she immediately attempted to destroy herself with another pistol. This horrible statement was officially contradicted next day in the same paper, so far as re garded the unh:snpy widow ; the verdict of the Coroner's Jury being, that Mr. C. " being insane, shot himself with a pistol." Wednesday evening, reel( us to the commencement of the per. fermance at Covent-Garden Iheatre, a sage? (belonging to the Victorious, 74) in the one shilling gallery threw a live dog from thence into the pit, and which fell upon the shoulders of a lady, tut fortunately without doing her any injury, Ind without materially hurting the dog. He was immediately apprehended and taken to Bow-street, but the lady not appearing to make any cemelaint he was discharged with a reprimand.—Tuesday, the same sailor wa; again apprehended and neemnilted for trial, on a charge of stealing a pair of shoes from a shop in Flat-street. On Sunday morning, about six o'clock, the perm who keeps the gate at the entrance of the courr-yard of the Admiralty, discovered a man lying on his back, and weltering in his blood, at the bottom of the area of the new house, which has recently bean erected for the residence cf one of the Members of the Board, and has no railing rr guard of any description. On going down to theemhapry individusi, he was found to be altnest insensible; and on farther inspection, it appeared that his skull was fractured. He was taken to Middlesex Hospital, where he died on Tuesday morning It appeared the the. ceased had bean at a dinner on Saturday, drank freely, and was return ing to hs home in Westminster: his name is Forster, and he has left a wife and five children.. There appears a little mystery as to the manner in which he came by his death, as the ]dace where he was found is in the right-hand corner of the Admiralty, with au ascent of tour steps ; and from the remoteness of its situation, is completely out of the way of all persons. It seems not a little surprising that he should have come from the street to this place. UNION- L —Dr. L. a Clergyman, who keeps an academy in Sur rey, applied to t he Siting Magistrate for advice, under the following cir cumstances: A voting man, named Ken: pain, some time since ai • plied to him to be engaged as an assistant ; and, having settled, as to terms, tee. he said he could have a recommendation from a respectable clergyman in Dublin, whose name WiS not unknown to Dr. L. and with whose recommendation he declared he should he perfectly satiatitd. Kemp sin was accordingly token into the family, and a few days after the Dr. received a letter, purporting to he from the clergyman alluded to, strongly recommending him. This perfectly satietied Dr. L. and some days passed over, at the end of which, he was surprise i at re caiv ing a second letter, signed with the clergyman's name, staring cir cumstances in a very different 'manner to what the first letter had done. This letter also, was in a very different hanit-writing to the first, and he immediately sheaved it to Kempsin, who, on rene ieng it, acknowledged the first letter was not written by the clergy mm, but by his brother, who was in the army, and author of the w re called " The Spirit of the Book," Dr. L. upon receiving this neer mation, immediately wrote to that Gentleman for an explanite who answered his letter, and acknowledged that he had certainly prat the character in his brother's name, at Kempsin's request, believing him a deserving man. Here the matter rested; and soon after Rue- Sian gentleman reline to board at Dr. L's, tar the purpose.of being in. strutted in tha English language. A few days after his arrival, whilst sitting at dinner, Kee:pain quitted the table, as if unwell, ant. went up stairs ; he soon came down again, and was asked if he would take any thing, by Dr. L. ; he, Irwever, declined, sayieg a walk in the garden would recover him. He went into the garden, and it wie; soon discovered that he had left that and the premeses altogether. , Suspic'i'ons arose, and on going up stairs - into the Russian's apartment , they were confirmed ; a closet in his room had been forced open, and a pocket-book containing a brilliant broach, worth one hundred guineas, and a pound note, were taken away ; as were also a silver watch, and a pair of pistols. Nothing belonging to any other person Melte family was missing,; and the R nasian being informed that the thief, if tale n and convicted, would probably sufnr death, would net permit any attempt to pursee Mtn. This occurred on the 4th of A agust last, and Dr. L. had since written to the gentleman who gave Kentpsin the character, and had had answer from kiln, in which he expressed regret at Ketnpsin having so conducted himself, informing Dr. L. hat he had since, as lie was iniermeta, been seen at Liverpool , and no e edit had taken his departure for America. Under these circuit:- AllCeS, Di. 1.. wished to know of the Magistrates, if there could be env •ste p taken by which he might recover the property, or the va;ue of'it. The M agiat rate informed hint, ne might if he chose, summon the , erson who had given him the character of Kempsm, befure him, and weuld -convict him in the penalty for giving him a false character. rte en4aht. also, if he thought proper, commence an actim at law against him for the valu" of the goods lost.. Dr. L. said, he would take a day or two to consider which course he would adopt : . PROVINCLUS. SEPT. 13: r SE AC tabil Vatui brans of yo' MerC will friP and gat Taal Ctt