The National Register. — London, England, 1808-10-09 00:00:00

OCT. 9. academical'-habits, and in black scarfs, hands, nod gloves, walked from the Combination-room, accompanied by the Chief Mourners, into the Hall; and after moving round the body, which was in the midst, they took their seats, the Chief : 1 41oUrners being placed on the right nod left of the Master. Se veto! Epithalamianst in Greek and English verse, the effusions of reverential respect, were placed on the pall, and were read with the most sympathetic interest by his former associates in study. An anthem was chained by the choir. After which the body was raised by the bearers, and a utast solemn pro cession was made round the great qoadrangle of the College, troni the Hall to the Chapel. On entering the Chapel, n hick was illuminated, the Lord !Bishop. Chief Mourners. and the Members of the College took their places, and the choir performed an anthem. The Lord Bishop then read the lesson, and the procession moved in the same order to the grave, which ki at the foot of the statue of Sir Isaac Newton, and curround rd by tlint:e of the illustrious persons which chi- College ha; produced. When they had taken their stations around the grave, and the body was ready for interment, the funeral anthem was perforated by the chair in the adjoining Chapel, during the most perfect silence, and with the most solemn erect. The service wa, now read by the laird Bishop with such an awful, dignified and impressise pathw as we nester witnessed ot.::n. former solemnity of the kind. He was himself over helineil by his feelings; and he communicated the sympathetic emotion to every listening friend of the deceased. The senior wenilicrs of the College who had lived with the Professor in hattits of endearing intercourse for thirty years, and si ho had the hest means of estimating the height and variety of his at aininents, shed tears of sorrow over the grave! and the whole issenibly displayed a feeling which bespoke the sense they enter tained of the loss that not only their own society, but the lite -ary world had suffered by his death. The following was the inscription, engraved in brass. on his RICA RIMS • PORSON. • A PUD • CANTARRIGI ENSES • LINGUAE • GRA I.CAE • PROFESSOR • ET OLL. • TRIN. S. • S. • ET • IND.. OLIM. • SOCIUS APUD • LONDINENSES • INSTITUTIONIS • LITTERARIAE 111111.10THECARIUS • PRINCIPB • NATIJS • VIII. • CAL • lAN. • MDCCI.X. • 1)13IIT. • VII. • CAL • OCT. • MDCCCVIII. NAUTICAL INTELLIGENCE. r.stou T to, OcT. 2.—We are in hourly expectation of sail either to Spaiit or Italy. The cavalry raimot hit embarked in lime, they nal therefore follow us. Our expedition consists of I Idoo infantry and 5000 cavalry. The staff is not yet coin. p,etely appointed. This may produce some delay.. We are at tended hy a larger force of artillery than ever accompanied a !•iinilar expedition. Our infantry consists of Guards, Ist Ilat valion, 1000 strong; Royals, 3d ditto, 800; 14th, Yd ditto, .00; 23d, 2il ditto, 700; 26th, Ist ditto, 1000; 27th, !Idditfo, 400; Sist, 2d ditto, 800 t 43•1, Ist ditto, 1000; 51st, lit ditto, IWO ; 59th, 211 ditto, 700; 700, Ist ditto, 1000; Bh*, 2d 800 95th, part of the Ist aad2d ditto, 800; la the shale 11,200. Lieutenant-Ceneral Sir David Baird. Commander in Chief ; Major-GClieral Maaningbans ' Second in Command t Major-Ce ;lend Warde ; Nlnjor-Oetteral !Workmate; Brigadier-General `lade; Brigadier-lieueral Cranford; Colonel D'Urban, Deputy Adjutant-General. The artillery are provided with the new invented guns, to be carried by mules when the march of the army lies through the mountains. The Royal Waggon Train are also to be complea tell With males on their arrival. The transports are provisioned for two months, from which some conjecture we are going into the Mediterrenean. But Irons what has transpired through the Stall, it is to enable these ships after our dellarcation, to pro ceed to Portngal to receive the troops there and conve) theta to any other point Ihere they mav he wanted. LiGUT% I No.--;-thi the 13th ult. the Sultan, of 74 guns, ('apt. Griffith, lying at Port Mahon, !Winn - ea was struck " ith "Of' 'ling, in a clay that was truly an ittl and terrific. The Officers were at dinner, when, in a moment, the ship received a dreadral shock, as though a ball of fire had %track her, and had gone quite through, making an explosion in its passage Its fowl as the explosion Ma quantity of gunpowder. The °dicers, as it were luvoLmtanily, rushed out of their cabins, and discovered that it THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 655 bad struck thejib boom, killed seven men, badly wouileiv.i till ee others, and conducted by some of the iron-work, ran along. the jib-boom, tore it to pieces, struck the cap of the bow -1)6% shivered it, and then fell into the water. TllO three poor fel lows who were wounded wzre dreadfully ittaneled The water tonate sufferers were soon- of the heat searneo•in tlie ship. ACCIDENTS, 01 riNCIA, &e. I DARING BURGLARV.—Countess Mocion's Home, iu R a k. street had for seveml day., been surroto-ded by - a set of sus. picious fellows, who general met ablut eu.k. Tht• sees:mt. maid entrusted with the care of the house, ha. tor taken t.tt Ice of them, gave information at Marthorou street 0 7a . e. Ar cordingly, on Wednesday night, three Police °dicers, well pre. pared tv itb arms, went to the house, nod at ei;fht o'clock they sent the servant out; after which they secreted theta-elves is a closet adjoining one of the ratons, having pro- idea themselves with a candle. Soon after the departure of 1:1:` servait the kitchen hell was rung several times, and not being, ansn erect, the ringing was followed by a hard knorkins, at the door. 'not thieves thinking there was no per-on in the h o use, he e sk. , th e door open, and nett) to the room ad joinine the closet where 1.. e officer: had concealed themselves, when the latter rushed opt upon the robber-, %On were five in number. A battle imme diately ensued, and in the watt• the candle was pat nut. (tie of the Officers had just time to discharge his blunderbuss, Lia shot one of theta in the left arm; the shot nent through tile bone. Thus rudel : :.,sailed, the robbers attempted to make their escape through the back pail of the house, by jumping oft the first door, a hieh leads into Park-taw ; iu the attempt one of the thieves broke his leg, and na.i immediatelt secured. The man that had been shot ran down South-street, and fuming down a Alens where there was no thoroughfare. lie tt.ir also taken—the other l bree est•:l pert. One of them must have received a severe wound, as the cutlass was covered with blood, a n d those taken had not Leen touched by it. The too men who It been taken, it ap pears, are reputed house breakers. They were taken to Mount-street watco aouse. As suon as the man that had been shot was brought in, he dropped down, said (aimed from the loss of blood. Medical assistance is as immediately procured. One of them is not expected to recover. SnocKixt: Sint - Aux.—An Inquisition was taken Itt three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the White Bear, before A. Cell, Esq. Coroner for ‘Vestminster, on the body of \lr. Brooke, an eminent stock- b oker, iu the nbove street, %he pat a period to his existence on the preceding day.—The prin cipal witness to prove the fact of the suicide nos the cook? maid of the family. It appeared, that Air. Brooke • had, been observed in a very dejected state for some dais, and he had been seen walking about the street nt an early hour in the wornii4r, a, cery unusual thing. This dejection was supposed to have arts( re entharra-t , ment, in consequeuce of Mr. Brooke having spe. eulated to a risk tt hich turned out to a disadvantage, hesities bif having been a material suferer by the late failure in the city. lie had been walking out on Friday moruing, and on his return home, he spent some time in looking at hisrpers. Oa a su t h.i t the cook-maid heard the report of n pil•tol,in the ptivy ; on going there she round her master weltering in his biwid, his head shot to atoms. It was a horse pistol, supposed In .ba%e hem loaded with too or more slugs, and so 4:Loomed slits powder, that the barrel was knocked kW pieces, said cue att i c. slugs bad penetrated Ina inches into an opposite hall. The deceased was a man universally respected. from his arability and upright dealings Be was the Agent of the Duke of Let ds, and had the partial manat4ement of that Nobleman's estates.— fie has left an amiable otter olfe and four children, tne .I ievt six year: of age the day of Ittis unhappy event, and iv te,. 1 )1 , ( n was to have been celebrated in the evening Verdict Last Sunday night two of the felons confined in Netv_ace. succeeded in filing off their irons, and esca ►plug from their eel , reached the wall which enclosed the yard, from cehich no f them leaped, but fell and broke 'his b.tek : the other one tub' !scored. littt. it. • On Friday morning, at his hous,• in Crafton•street, the 1.1d7 of Viscount liiiichingbrook, of.i daughter. '01E1). At Itoeitampton, Miss A. K. Markham, sixth daughter 0 ^ 0.4 late Archbishop of York. _ _ On Wednesday morning, the 28th ult. ut hum, near Lout% aged 41, John grant, Esq.-one of the trim e • e..• and grazier.; in linroltii•hire ; Navinu; r.e.irly i&M.4 oflautlr in occupation at the time of his death.