The National Register. — London, England, 1813-02-14 00:00:00

1. 1. 106 On Sunday the following Bulletin was exhibited at St. James's Palace:— V%. I N DSOR CASTLE, Feb 6.—" In the early part of last month His 111,4 Es i y was tindeu some degree of excitement, but he has since re loom ti hi former Dispatches were on Sunday received by Government from the Mai-T.lls of WELLINGTON, but they contain no intelli• genre of importance. Lisbon papers to the 27th ult. state, ttat the :NM: quis of \V ELLSNGToN Abrantes on the 22d, on his return to head-quarters at Freynada, where he was expected by ti:e 24,1 r It is continued to be asset ted, that forty or sixty thousand of the enemy's troop!: are under orders to return to France, but it is believed a part of their cavalry only will be withdrawn. A new Guerilla Chief, a monk, of tha name of NEBOT, has obtained some consider able advantages over detachments of SUCHET'S army in 'Va lencia ; and upwards of 500 of the enemy are stated to have ati eady deserted, and repaired to the standard of this Patriot. A reinforcement of troops from Sicily is reported to have landed at Alicant. The Committee appointed to examine into the merit of the Petition complaining of an improper return for Wey mouth and Melcombe Regis, tmerabled for the first time on Wednesday. Mr, Sedeant PELL stated the case on the part of the Petiti....ners, who, he said, complained of treating, cor. option, and undue interference on the part of some Peers of the Realm, and of his Majesty's Ministers; the persons charged with improrer inteiference, ale the Duke of CuM BERLAND, Lord Rtv EitS, and Mr. CHARLES LONG. The pro perty upon which some of the electors arc represented as Laving voted, is the hundred and forty-ninth part of the sixty-eighth part of the fifth part of a sixpenny rent.--If the ri;4lt to vote on such a modicum of property should be es taLlished, it has been calculalcd that the privilege of voting fir Weymouth and Meleombe Re;is, may be extended to 220,640,000 individuals! • It would appear from the following circumstance, that Covcrntneut have themselves in view some plan for the re lief of the Irish Roman Catholics :—A meeting lately took place between CHARLES BUTLER, Esq. c.f Lincoln's Inn, the Catholic Banister, and Lord CAsrLL EAGH, at the Special desire and invitation of that Noble Lot d ; when his Lordship requested Mr. Bu'i LER to furnish the heads and provisions of a 1311 to repeal all the restrictions now affecting the Ca tholic Body, in such a manner as Mr. BUTT. ER conceived would he satisfactory to i;l1 concerned. The sketch of this it is said, will soon be ready to be submitted tu Parlia n t. The cotton track, it appears, has revived in a most extra ordinary degree in England and Scotland. Goods are buy ing up with avidity, wherever they can be found, and the prices are rising rapidly. One horse at Manchester has purchased 80,000 pieces, and another Q 5,000. • It is reported, that Justice Grose has retired from the King's Bench on a pension, and that Justice Gibbs is to go to the King's Bench from the Common Pleas. The Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland gave judgment on the t 9th ult. against the demurrer to the plea of justification put in by Chief Justice Downcs, in bar to an action brought against him. by H. E. Taaffe, Esq. one of the gentlemen arrested about twelve months since, under the Proclamation of the Irish Government against the appoint ment of Catholic Delegates. There was a difference of opi nion among the Judges; Mr. Justice Fletcher, a very dis tinguished lawyer, holding that the demurrer ought to be allowed,. and, of course, that the action should proceed; while the three other Judges, Mayne, Fox, and Lord Nor bury, chief, held that it should be over-ruled.. The action by this deciion. • MISCELLANIESL ' FEB. 14 A female, dressed in the first style of fashion, who stated her name to be Williams, and who is very respectably connected, was last Wed nesday charged at Mai Iburough-street Office, with stealing a valuable shawl from the shop of Mr. Price, a linen-draper in Oxford-street. The prisoner, accompanied by another female, also elegantly attired, entered the shop together on Monday evening, and from their appearance and manners, they would not have been suspected of dishonesty. Whilst one of them was busy looking over some articles, the prisoner s as ob served by a person in the street, looking through the shop window, to take the shawl in question from off the counter, after which she contrived by degrees to conceal it under her scarlet 'Jamie. This discovery was communicated to the shopkeeper, who detained the prisoner as she wag leaving the shop, and found the property upon her. The prisoner was fully committed fur trial. RT.BOROUGH•ST EET.—Charge of Felony Extraordinary.--A young Gentleman of fortune, and the son of a man of distinction, was on Friday charged at this Office, with a misdemeanor in feloniously attempting to steal a pocket-book from the pocket of a gentleman re siding in Park-street. The prosecutor stated, that on Tuesday evening he attended a lecture on electricity, at No. 3, Pi incess-street, Hanover square, where 'JO persons or more were assetuh:ed. On his right sat a lady, but no one was on his left, and the prisoner sat behind him. To give effect to the exhibition, the room was darkened for about a quarter of an hour, and during this time the prosecutor felt some one attempting to ransack his pockets, by cutting his coat, as he supposed from what lie felt. Oil the room being lighted again, he pet his hand towards his pocket, and lie felt that his coat bad bran cut, and putting h►s hind into his left hand pocket, which contained his book, he found it cut at the bottom, and the aperture was nearly hirge enough to let the book through. lle turned round to the prisoner, who had just drawn his right hand across his body, and introduced it into the pocket of his small clothes, and challenged hint with having a pair of scissars, or some cutting instrument in that pocket. The prisoner produced the contents of his pocket, which amongst other things contained a pen knife. The prosecutor also stated, that his book had been turned in his pocket, so as to be more easily taken out. The ninvistrate observed, them was sufficient evidence to send the case for further investigation, and the prisoner was held to bad. It was stated in defence, that the aperture was in the scant of the pocket as if worn out. Bow-STRELT.—Henry Johns, lately a sub-sorter i♦i the Post-office, and Mrs. Griffiths, charged on suspicion of stealing letters containing bank -notes, were placed at the bar ; when, by consent of the Solicitor to the Post-office, they were discharged, the evidence to be produced against them not being considered sufficient to bring home conviction. Monday, Henry Sayer underwent an examination at Guildhall, on a charge of uttering forged checks, and obtaining on them various sums cf . money. They purported tube drawn by Messrs. Kay and Freshfield, solicitors, on the house of ilobarts, Curtis and Co. The Clerk to an emi nent Counsel stated, that the prisoner came to him with a brief, with which he was to leave three g.tineas, and tendered a check, requesting to be paid the difference. The Clt rk paid him 41. and went to Mr. Abbot's for the remainder ; here he was informed that the pri•a• er had Just been, and rendered a check in the same manner, on which the dif feiet.ce was paid hint. On the Clerk's return, the prisoner had taken his departure without waiting for the change.—The cheeks were then takeu to the bankers', and proved to be forgeries. The prisoner it appeared, had committed similar frauds at the offices of several other Barristers. He is a young man of a very decent appearance, and it appears had been clerk at a banking-house. The briefs were drawn by hituself.—On being brou,;lit into Court he wept bitterly, and refused tc. say any thing ur his defence —He was remanded for further examination. A mcst daring attempt at robbery and murder was made between five and six o'clock of the morning of Sunday last, on the highway near Thorpe's Mill, at Market Deeping. As Mr. Palmer ' carrier, Li.Awixt Boston and Stamford, who is also the landlord of the Royal Oak public-house in the latter place, was proceeding with his cart to Stamford, having with him as passengers, Mrs. Parr, of Deeping, and her infant, three footpads came up to him, one of whom, whilst the others seized the horse, without parley, discharged a pistol loaded with two balls at Palmer, ne of which entered the fleshy part of Palmer's left arm, while die other passed close to Mrs. Parr's face. Fortunately Palmer was better prepared for defence than these wretches anticipated, having a pistol with him, which, though wounded, he instantly presented at his assailants, threatening to blow their brains out it they did not immediately desist fr o m assaulting him, for the villains then attempted to drag Palmer from the cart. On seeing the pistol in his hands, which unluckily would not go off, they thought it advisable to retire with all possible speed, and nothing hat since been heard of them, except that they proceeded towards Market Deeping.. k abaits THE NATIONAL REGISTER.