The National Register. — London, England, 1815-12-10 00:00:00

- THE NATIONAL REGISTER. aer we know no.more than that about five o'clock in the even in, a 04 wis heaccl nea . - the three Mies in Thomas-town demes e, by . 11 mail, who on running to the place. found Mr. Baker tourde ed on the .oad, having been shot through the body, and also through tie skull : the last shot must have been ifi re ,j rl,,se to him, as his cravat was burning, and his face covered w th gun d owder ; lie appeared to have received a des perate bl w in the cheek, which was laid open to the bone; the murderer, or one of them if there we e more, broke his girth in remounting. and left his saddle behind him on the road. A reward of 80001. has been offered by the Government of Ireland, for the discovery of the murderers of Mr. Baker, as Above stated THE LAND or PURITY !--New York Papers to the 'list of October contains a Ilng account of a transacti , m which has made a great noise in the United States, of which the following is the substance :—ln the early part of last winter, Governor Tompkins, on behalf o f the United States, applied to the several banks in Nem York, to advance him the sum 4400,000 dollars, and to take for their security treasury notes to the amount of 440,000, but was refused lle then applied to the corporation of the city, to know if the% would receive the same amount -1 treasui y notes and give their own bond to the banks as a secu rity fo. the money, The money was wanted for the pay or the militia, and the Committee of Defence of New York, to whom the p oposal of Governor ['Dawkins was referred, having re commended, on. !while grounds, that 'it should be complied with, it appearing to thein, at the same time, to be attended with no danger or inconvenience to the banks,.the proposal-was acce,•ted, with a proviso, that the corporation should be. at libert \ to %ell he tivasu:y notes, in the event of the money rot being repaid within a given. time.— l'he comptroller haying ac cordingly signed and deposited the corporation bonds with tha banks, dieW -his cheque for the sum of 400,000 dollars, with which he W.tited upon the Governor to complete the business, by dehe ing it, and - receiving treasury not 's. His Excellency took the check, and observed to the comptroller, that the trea sure notes were ready for him in an adjoining room, but that they wanted endorsement, to 'which operation he was unequal from fatigue and illness at that time, and being under promtse to go that night to Albany, requested that they migt lie where they were until his return, when he would immediately endo.ise and .ieliver them. The comptroller, taken by surprise, con sonted, and his Excellency having got the 400,000 dollars, set off, and although this transaction took place at last Christmas, the comptroller has not, up to the present moment ? been able to induce him to redeem his pledge ExEctiT tos.-Tuesdav J. Binstead, for forgery, and S. Hal liday, for burglary, were executed at the front of the Debtor's door, Newgate The former uttered a 101. note, purporting to be of the Chichester Bank, to Mr. Romainis, of Cheapside, which led at once to a discovery that he was himself the manu. facturer of the forgery, as well'as many others, all of which he confessed he had executed with a camel's hair pencil. He was but 22 years of:age. Halliday was under SO; and it was to his own concession of the robbery of Mr Nichols, of Edmonton with whom he had previously lived as a servant; that he owed his eon . vict ion. • l'he unfortunate man, after rifling the house of a quantity of plate, carried it to Newgate, to a person in confinement there, who pro m i se d t o dispos e of it. That person, • however, repre struted, that it was subsequently stolen by some of the other prisoners, and thus Hididay was depi ived of all particiration in the Korn of his guilt Their conduct, from the time of their conviction, was exemplary; and since the arrival of their death warrant, they exhibited tiw most . A enuine piety, and happy re signation. The previous night they continue , t together in u ceasing Kaye., and once . Or twice expresied a ‘yisit for the termination of their fate '11)6 behaviour, upon the'arrivai of the Slikriff;i, and the preparations for their execution, w.is strikingly firm, and they ascended the seaftidd withaboldness seldom witnesed upon similar occasions. They were attended by 44 ur Dissenting Clergymen, be,ides the Ordinary of the pi ton. Whit e ()rube scafibld, Qinstead requested that his hands .night not be applied to perwns who cattle tole rubbed for we:ls. mos r Anti H 1 FR E . LIBEL. Nothing farther can be required to manifest the lamentabli state of the public disposition, and the Police in Paris, than may be collected, not only from the tolerance, but the general approbation, there given to a recent publication, entitled " L' A ngleterre, rue a Londres, et duns ces Provinces. Par 111. le Mareschel de Camp Pi/lot, Cher. de St. Louis, et Offieier de la Leg-ion d'Honour."—ln this, audk cions work, Gen. Millet enters into a minute account of the laws, customs and manners of our United Kingdom at large, and into 'the smallest details of the domcsttc and moral ceconomy of caes class of society ; a task for which his opportunities of observation particularly fitted him, inasmuch as he can neither write nor speak a word of English, and had the good fortune, during almost the whole of his residence in this country, to be an inmate, in close cos tody, on board a prison-ship, moored in the river Medway, entitling himself to this distingahed residence, by having broken, more • than once, his solemn parole d'honneur ! It was during this confine ment, we presume, that he collected the materials of this excellmi work ; and also found leisure to put to paper several other curious observations, which he was desirous to have published in England ; but the general himself gives us to understand, that these essays looked unluckily like lies, so barefaced and flagitious, that even Mr. Brougham declined to notice them." One or two extracts from,this profligate publication will be sufficient to hold up the in famy of its author to the abhorrence of mankind. FRENCH PRISONERS OF WAR.—The General sets out by stat ing, " that 150,000 Frenchmen hare polished in tortures ox board oar prison-ships during the lust two wars." Now, as if is well knows that not above one in ten of the prisoners has died, the total num. ber in the prison-ships must have been 1,500,000, and would re quire to hold them above 2000 sail of the line, but as not quite halt' the prisoners ever were confined in ships, it follows that wa must have taken 3,000,000 prisoners from France in the last 2 years ! of whom not less than 300,000 have died, 150,000 in tortures, as above-mentioned. In a subsequent passage, M. Pillet thus supports this general view : " In the first war, 30,000 prisoners _died in the course of five months, of hunger; and I myself saw, at Norman Cross, a little. corner of burial-ground into which 4000 had been huddled. Every day hundreds of men died, either starved to death, or poi.voned . by the bad qualities of the provisions. Out hunger no longer knew any bounds. We kept the dead bodies of our comrades for five or six days, that we might draw their rational One day my • Lord Cordower, Colonel of the Carmarthen militia (quere,Cawdor,) which was, guarding the prison at Porchester, having occasion to enter the prsiou, tied his horse to the rails; in ten minutes the horse was torn to pieces and devoured. When my Lord came out, he was surprised not to find his horse, and would not believe what had happened to him, till lie was shewn the bowels and skin, which a miserable starved wretelifinishrd devouring in his presence ! An enormous butcher's dog, and indeed every dog which entered the prison, was eaten in the same way!" The General seizes the appropriate moment after this recital, to exclaim--" Truth guides my hand, and the authors of all oar woes (the English) cannot deny my assertions!!!"—The subseqent ex tracts will not improperly hand over this truth-depicting General to the indignation of our insulted countrywomen. ENGLISH Womm—Gen. Met, it seems had discovered that there are born in England three women to one man; and ha explains this excess in females very satilfactority, as necessary, not to increase the immense; consumption of women that takes place ; which mode of consumption, however, he states as a very simple and effectual one, being no other than thatof murder! Take hi 4 own .voids -" The degradation of women (wham the English amiably call the .nferior species in the creation) has arisen to such a pitch that the . murder of a married woman by her husband is an event of which the Tribunals hardly ever think of taking cognizance of, unless some times for the parposes of whitewaThing the husband, where the cir cumstances oldie case have been so notorious, as to make any noise s Perhaps it will he thought I exaggerate, when I say, that it appears by the public Papers, between December ISO 7 and June 1813, 171 wives weae murdered by their husbands ; but the fact is as (tertain as it is easy of proof; but what is surprizing is, that for these 171 murders there was but one person punished ! It is impossible ex aetly to cakulqtq the number of secret murders, but one year with another they must amount to many thousands!" The General next takes a review of the dress, &c. of our fair vountrywomen, which, which with his realiar gallantry, is thus described DEC. Jo.