The National Register. — London, England, 1811-03-17 00:00:00

Fr -- Thomas Rust, of M Tavistock-square, oil- man. . .. William Bowden, of Downhead, Somersetshirc , dealer. Elizabeth Robe, of Plymouth-dock, milliner. John Longsden, of Stockport, Cheshire, timber-merchant. William Marman, now or late of Old Gravel-lane, Saint Gcorge's in the East, butcher: A files Ainscow and Robert Ainscow,of Clayton-in-k-Woods, Lancailiire, cotton-manufacturers. Thomas Sumner, of Bonds, Lancashire, miller. Richard Hughes, of the Poultry, goldsmith. • - Thomas Pearson, of New-road, St. George's in du East , grocer. • . Richard Selvray, of Bath, harness-maker. • William Mildrum, of Totness, Devonshire, linen-draper. Meredith Swancott, of Foster-lane, warehouseman. William Sharman, of Hockley, Warwickshire, corn-dealer. Abraham Hart and Phiiip Simons, late of College-street, Port sea, Hants, navy-agents. - Thomas Battye, of Lane, Almondhiwy, Yorkshire clothier. William Angustus Barttelot, of Portsmouth, perfumer. Thomas Sutton, of Woolwich, Kent, victualler. • Matthew Plaister, now or late of Huddersfield, Yorkshire, bl)ot and shoemaker. James Macneall, of Preston, Lancashire, linen-draper. Edward Kay, of Birmingham, brandy-merchant. • Thomas Higgins, late of Mere, Wiltshire, victualler. Charles Peter Melbourne and James Swan, of Old Bond street, paper •hanvrs. John Lewis White, late of Cannon-street, wine-merchant. George Sanders Prestwidge, late of Maid-lane, Southwark, surrey, brewer. Joseph Spencer, of Brighthelmstone, Sussex, linen-draper. CERTIFICATES —.gait. 6. Richard Fastham and Richard Marsden, of Clithero, Lanca shire, calico-printers.—Jacob Lazarus and Godfrey Alexander . Cohan, late of the East India Chambers, Leadenhall -street, mer chants.—William Harcourt, of Norwich, linen-draper.—Joseph Sykes, of Queer.-street, Cheapside, sugar-factor. —john Barker, late of Sedgley, Statiordshsire, nail-ironmonger. —John Wall, of oxford-street, hatter.—John Gibbs, late of Idaverfordvaest, wine-merchant.—Thomas Bentley, of Fenchurch-street, di y salter.—John William Mostran, of Buckingham-'street, Strand, plaistcrer.—James Askew, late of the Strand, straw hat-manu facturer.--Andrew WTood and Alfred Wood of Manchester, cotton-merchants.—Lawrence Ainsworth, of Withuell, and Bhilip Bennett, of Witton, Lancashire, cambric-manufacturers. —William Graydon Fairman, of the Old Change, worehonse man.—Richard Baillie, of Liverpool, merchant.---Edveard Bur ford, of Patriot-row, Bethnal-green, merchant. —Samuel Sar gent, of Bath, chinaman.—James Meek, of Liverpool, mer chant. —John Vaux, of Cushion-court, Broad-street, broken-- Christopher Leo, of Dowgate•hill, merchant.—Richard Read, of Lothbury, factor.—Arthur Chichester, of Ironmonger-lam:, merchant. • - THE N ATIONAL ,REGITEft. .. PROVINCIALS. A few es.tenings since, a sturdy villager betted a retailer of oysters, in Bury, half a guinea, that he would eat the contents of his basket (value Its. 6d.) although he had previously eaten 7s. worth from another vender; • which he won with apparent ease, leaving the oysterman a proof that he had brought lin goods to a bad masket. The total number amounted to 555. •Satarday se'nnight, about ten o'clock, a man and his wife, labouring persons, of the name o f Tod hian, of Long Ditton, Surrey, were returning from Kingston, where they had been at market they had some words, when the woman ran and flung herself into the Thames, and the husband, with intent to save her immediately jumped into the stream : 'both were in danger of being drowned, when a young`. man who had been in their company, named Walingham, went to their assistance, at the hazard of his own, and saved their lives. . On Tuesday se'nnight, a bargeman, near the floodgate on the River Lee,' at Bromley, discovered part of a human head above the surface of the water. He instantly hastened in his skiff to the spot, and exclaimed, " Here ts poor Mr. Flight!" The feet and legs being deep in Mud it Was with difficulty he got the body into the boat, and conveyed it 'to his disconsolate family ac Stratford. Mr. Flight was an eminent miller and mealman of that place ; and nearly a month ago he spent his evening at the sign of the Harrow, which house he left late in the*night, intoxi cated, and is supposed to have fallen into the river. .On the sth instant, Ann prowse, a pauper of the parish of Burgan, in Cornwall, who bad for some time been confined in a state of detangement, contrived to make her escapti from the persons who had charge of her, and to set fire to two dwelling houses at Burgan, both of which were entirely consumed ; the unfortunate woman then hung herself. She was found handcuffed, and the chains by which she had been fastened were on her person. . Bon:sc.—Another Black, who promises to become as for midable as the renowned Midineur, exhibited at itinst a profes sor of the name of Cceey, at Shipton a few miles front Oxford, on Monday lait, tor a stake of fifty guineas and a purse of twenty. The Black, whose name is Mahone, is possessed of strength equal to illotineitx, and he combated a man who had won eleven successive battles. Seventeen sanguinary rounds were fought, and although C.,ney was a six-feet _pugilist, of proper 'donate strength, the hardihood and bottom of the Black got h:m the victory, after he had been hit about the head until every feature as destroyed. He did not display that quickness which practice will gift him with ; but he was Always lighting, and-at the latter part of the contest he succeeded in hitting away his adversary's science ; and be planted terrific hits, until coney was taken oil the ground, more beat than is usual in un.derts boxing. The winner is a musician, - born in England, of African parents. • He is under the protection of a Country Esquire, of the name of Stanton, and is equal to Horton, the pugilist. INVLRNESS, MARCH s.—We are sorry to relate a very me lancholy event which took place yesterday nor wing, opposite to Ness-Castle. Three men, who were conveying several ankerS of smuggled whiskey from the north to the south side of the Ness, having taken advantage of a small boat usually pulled across by means of a rope, t wo of them were unfortunately pre cipitated into the torrent, and were drowned, in consequence of the rope, which they were in the act of puffin:, having unfortu nately given way. ANLCDO re.—A Cheihire wags nor, who had got together a little estate seems to have displayed as much magnanimity as any hem; of antiquity. He found himself very ill, sent for a clergyman and an attorney, who both came in ac the Sallie time,, • and tound all his family 'seeping round his bed. The man of law having prepared hi-; pen and ink, desired to know how he would clause to leave his property ? The sick mail baring mus tered up sufaient strength for his last effcrt, spoke as follows • —" The house, and all the sticks in it, to Mary, my wife, as long as she live, and then divided among the rest on em ; the waggons and horses to Tom ; the ploughs and cows to Dick, with half o' the farm ; the other half ard a hundred pound to Will. Three hundred pound to Moll • the baffle to net. And now w rite lawyer, pray parson, cry wife, and bellow children; for, by the Lard, 17n dying The beauties of spring are not confined to the budding- sweets of nature, for our fashionable belles appears in the `. rosy hoe smiled hours" with renovated lustre and attraction. The trene elegance and celebrity of Hubert's R oseate Powder in re. inovini.; superfluous hairs on the face, reek, and arms, and rent dering tht A i Ain delicately fair, soft, and lovely, makes it now its great demand. May be had of the Proprietor, Q 3, Russell-stretto• Covent-garden; Rig e, 35, Bond-street ; Davison, 53, Fleet. street ; Dolma, 3, Cheapside ; and of all Perfumrs ; prig: 4si and 7s. •• • MISCELLANIES. - Captain W. B. Rider, who vas dismissed his Mujesty's ser vice for bringing home dispatches of importance from the Gene ral commanding at Curacoa, without orders from the Ni!val Commander in Chief at Jamaica,'lras been reinstated in his rank, by order of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent. That part of Mr. Woodgate's sentence (late Midshiprnan of the Tartarus), which inflicted the punishment •of two years soli nry confinement on linn, for a riot, arid using atnisive language to Captain Flinn, at the Plymouth :rhesatre, has been remitted by the Lords of the Admiralty. Ile has been publicly stripped of his uniform on the quarter-deck of theTartatus, and declared incapable of serving his Majesty as an Officer again. According to an. account. presentedlo the - House of Com mons, the specie purchased by the Payinasters-General of the Army, and sent abroad, from April' 14, 1810, to Feb. 11; 1811, amounts to 467,521/. 4s. 9d. The Whig Club Met on Tuesday last atthe City of London Tavern. Mr. Whitbread was in the Chair, and was supported by Lord Holland and other distinguished Members. On their healths being drank, they both returned thanks, expressive of their gratitude, mingled with - expressions of their political creed, in which they professed an attachment tcrgenuine Whig prin ciples. The names of several new eandi :laces for admislon were read by the Secretary, and some who had been recently admitted attended for the E st time. The customary toasts sy;=re..g4t3Mccian:ipanied by the usual applause. ...esday, a Court of Directors was held at the East India- House, when Lieutenant-General Sir George Ntir,7ent, Bart. was appointed Commander in Chief in India, and also a Mem ber in Council of the Bengal Government. 4