The National Register. — London, England, 1818-03-08 00:00:00

ARON S Ii.:ONAPARTES REPLY TO LORD D.l. THURSI"S SPEECH. It was to be expected th.tt when the report of the &- bate on Lord Holland's motion in March last should come to the knoviijdgle of Buonteparte, he would either be ashamed or anqry at finding his veracityso pointedly impugned by a BritiSh minister. He has undertaken t o vindicate hituselti. and to retort the charge of misre presentation on those who alledged it against hint. A manuscript has fhotia its way to this country from St. Heleua, entitled " Observations on Lord Bathurst's speech in the Honse of Peers on the 18th of March, 1317." These otservations are Gtated to have been written in the early part of last June ; and they are preeeded by a sort of imprimatur, dated Longwood, Or!' October, 1817, and signed " Naro!con,' in which vpoloves of them, and desires that t' , c'y , nny be seen 1w the Sovereign and the people of England. I'l' re is a memorandum prefixed in the hand-writing of Ili's tranl, purporting that they (the original of this dupli .:•at.!, it may be tuferred) were sent .-ealecl to stSir?lital son Lowe, to the address of Lord-Liverpool, on the 7tl of that month. A large appendix of official papers is subjoined, containing copies of the restrictions made by the present Governor of St. tleietia, Sir Huds:m Lowe, and sonic letters of a correspondence between that officer and the persons acting as Secretaries to Bubnaparte. As he appeals to:tbe Sovereign and people of Eng land through the medium of the press, it is consistent ssith English fair;acaling, particularly toward a muslin captivity, that be should have the udvantsce to such an app,:d. The manuscript is now . published in English ; and the following is a short account ,:f it : _ _ The observations are written in the manner of those ;o:nments on the speeches from the British Throne, which occasionally appw.red in the Monitcur, while liaonaparte was ruler of France. They are desultory and .atrapt. like most of his proclamations and ha rangues He tales ()effusion in the outset to protest against the Bill in Parliament of the 11th April, 1816, which he calls an act of prescription similar to those of Sylla. lie denies the authority of the British Furlia merat tc piaci, him at the disposal of ministers, and to .irivest them with the right of placing. him under re strictions. Ile denies tle:ir power of delegating that . right, and then proceeds to argue against the restrictions themselves—uarnely, the detention at St. Helena ; • the name imposed of Gcneral Buonaparte ; the prohi bition of going abaoad on the island unless aecompus• .vied. by a British officer ; and lastly, the ulilif2,-ation of having ail letters which he may write or rereive opened and examined by the Britiilt authorities. He quotes in succession the principal statuments in .Lord Ba thurst's speech respecting the treatment to which he is subjected at St. Ilelcoa, and severaliy contradicts them in very round terms, entering ranch into detail occa sionally, and execrating the conduct of Sir Hudson Lowe, as capricious and cruel in the extreme degree. These arguments and des:Lunation:4 are strangely mixed up with. certain domestic disclosures respecting his personal condition, from which it appears thathe finds himself very .ill accommodated at . Longwood rouse, which ke describes as having been originally a barn, and as situated en the most unhealthy and ex pissed spot on the island, destitute of water, trees, shade and verdure. The Gus ernes, • whom he conti nually styles the commandant,havir.g reduced the range criginaby allowed hint ; having tbthidden him to hold c9uversations wit h.the inhabitants, or ge into any house; and having also insisted that an English officer most-ac company him when lie.rides out ; he was discontinued his fsvourite exercise, not having been on horseback for eighteen months. Ender the conditions prescribed for his cetrespendence, he will not write or receive any 'titer. Soot: is the dearness of living at St. Helena,- . +hat the stipulated allowance .of 8,0001. a year, divided by the number of individuals in his .establishment, will scarcely auystint to WI per heal per. dicta, which, he says, is " Rd:dices pay." The.flotir svasso b d lattedy, that he did not.taste bread fiat three months. Ile has betaken himself to a sedentary life his le g s begin to swell, and the..scurvy ha., attacked his gums. Ile de declares that there exists an intention to terminate his esis.enee by agonies as, pro: carted, as to make it apiwar :hat he died a natural rbsttli. Vltle LANK Tim.vrite.—A. comedy in .five acts, called the CaAVe ?j . C!eadomer, was performed, or its therattemnteti to be performed, at this theatre on Mon lay evunii.g, ihr the fiat time ; hut so wretched and enntemptibb: was the plot and langa.i,,“-c, that the pa -Zi,:nce of the audience was etch:lusted bctbre the third act, and the two last were performed in dumb show. - The curtain feilamidst.a hideous uproar. The piece is withdrawn. The Lotd Mayor, on Thursday, visited the Prince of Hesse Hombourg, and several other persons of dis tinction, and invited thinn to the dinner and ball at the . Mansion IitMSZ. on Easter Monday. Several of the Out-I)Lnc; have petitioned Parliament for :c Repeal of the Duty on Coats coast wise, and we nailer:A.lnd, that all the principal towns in tile maritime di:,4- . .c.tz =an '‘a eh the lame. THE NATIONAL. REGISTriI. 'CALAMITOUS HIM On Sunday morning, a few minute!• kdice six o'clock, an alarm of tire was given at the }loose of Mr- Wheakr (late Mr.Coflis), grocer,46o, Strand, corner of liewies-court, nearly opposite Hungerford-stroet. Shouts of " Fire !" bCcame general:from one end of the Strand to the other, that in a few minutes after the first alarm a sit jl t. .ef the must heart rendingdo scription took place. :—.men and women were seen rushing out of doom. in their night clothes, and children actually in a smite of nudity. At the house of Mr. ‘Theatee, a sight more dreadful was witnessed ; at the front window, second floor,was observed Mrs.Wbeater, with a of ;1:1 in her aria ; she leaned out of tho window, holing the eltiM by its clothes fin. a considerable time, endeavouring to excite the attention of perms under neath to catch the child. She dropped the infant, and it fell upon the 11-ads of the crowd ; at the moment she loosed the child, a blaze and volume of smoke rushed through the a indow where Mrs.Whcater stood; she was not afterwards seen, and therefore must have fallen a victim to the flames. The child was only a' floe month.; old, was sucking; at her breast. ,In alXott a minute after the child dropped front-the window, one of the shopmen of Mr. 1V heater, whose name is Tasker, was seen at the window of the third,floor, which was completely enveloped in fire and smoke, seeing no hopes of relief from his perilous. situation, he threw Ithaself out of the window ; he tell upon his head, which was cut open, his limbs were broken, and instantly expired; the body was carried to St. Martin's workhouse. Be fore it was carried from the ground, anether of Mr. Wheater's shopmen, named Lloyd, fell upon the pavement ; he had throw.n hims'elf out of the third floor back window, his -fall was broke by his dropping upon a projection, but i,e was injured , to dreadfully, that no hopes are entertained of his recovery He was carried to . the shop of Mr. Watts, chemist, in the neighbourhood, who ordered the man to be takes to Westminster In firmary (as he could render him -no service), which was accordingly done. At the back of the house, Mr. Wheater was found, nearly insensible, on the ground. He had thrown himself through a back window at the top of the stairs on the. landing of the first floor. lie was injured very much by the' all ; his inquiries after his wife and child were truly distressing. His child was shown to him ; Ids little CNA were but t, and his head cut, though not dangerously. A neighbour had the child to suckle it. A great number of fire men resided in Hungerford street, and they were very promptly on the premises; but no water could be got fin- three quarters of an hour ; and the flames were communicating with the greatest rapidity to the houses of Mr. Ashman, pawnbroker, Mr Buckingham, brush-maker, _and Mr. Rowley, car ver, gilder, and picture-frame-maker. The firemen were running from plug to plug, and no water could be got, while the thieves were busily empioyed in plun dering the premises, and earryiresplf the property. Very few of the parish constables had l. Arrived, and one of them sent to the Ilorse Guards, requesting some soldiers to keep-the mob from the buildings. In about a quarter of an hour afterwards, part of a company of the guards arrived, .and were placed at the disposal of the civil authority. Propertrto a great amount has been carried away by the thieves. The family of Mr. Ash man had just time to ercape front the house before it was in a general conflagration from the cellar to the ,garret. One of the famale servants was actually drag ged out .of the house by a constcble( Nettleton); she had only her night clothes on, and wi4ed to put other clothes upon her: but if she had remained a minute longer, she must have been destroyed. Mr. Ashman head a number of gaols in his house, se- - yeral of which were loaded, and were heard to go oft Two men were observed carrying off several guns from ; the premises they were pursued r by a constable along Piceadily, but efii.cted their eselipe. Two other persons were stopped by an officer of Marlboroogh-street Po live, with .a quantity of stolen: Fzorerty. The houses of Mr.•.Wheater„ Kr. Ashman, Mr. Buckin.Jiam, and Mr. •Powley, were entirely destroyed by half past eight o'clock in Sbv mornings, and all the property (except a few trifling things which were car tied into St. Martin's church yard)was destroyed. Tim engines were not supplied with water until seven o'clock .The flames entitimicd their ravages chiefly at the houses in./ lewits's-eourt, at the back of the. dove six houses which were chiefly occupied by. poor persons which were .before nine o'clock completely gutte I. The poor occupants had but very little flux. to g..:t out of their ilwellinxt, and therefore could save hut very 'dale of their property. he children were carried into St. Martin's church yard,and wrapped in blankets their apparel havire! been consumed. The extent of tliisaiwkl and melancholy disaster is no' vet known; the followieg is already ascertained : —Mrs. \Vile:Jr: was burnt to death shopman, funned stn:geon,-lhared the same fate. Another thop man, named 'Talker, was killed in .leaping from the • third {lcier window, and another, named Lloyd, is so dreadfully injured by throwing himself from a window, that he is not expected to live. Mr. Wheater is in a dangerous Mate,. cod . the Chia is not expected to reco ver from the injuries it has received. No other pet suet is missing. l'he vakie -of the property destroyed) is incalculable. There is no positive proof how the tire commenced : but it is generally stated to have been caused in the following manner :—On every Satte•d4y, the flue for the purpose of warming St. Martin's is lighted, and on last Saturday night it was noticed by the inhabitants of Church-court, and Hewitt's-court, that the chimney of the church emitted large sparks at' fire, some of which were carried into the air a ern: !cr bale distance before they were extinguished, an.l sonic fell on the tops of the liJuses in an ignated stat,.. Mr. Whcater's statement is as follows :—1 Ic awoke onSinulay uiorising about 6 o'clock, and found hi:: cham ber fill of smoke; he awoke his wife, and told her to get up or she would be burnt to death. Ile leapod out of bed, and ran up stairs to alarm his shop:nen ; he aim down stairs again, and cull not see his wife and child for the thick smoke that filled the place ; he sup. posed that she had ran down stairs ; he attempted to go after her,"but was prevented by the flames issuing yp the stairs; he ran back and got to a window at the top of the landing place, when he could go no f u rther. tic forced the whitlow out of his arms, and put his head through to get air, as he was almost suffocated : as soon as be had recovered himself a little, he found the flames had reached his legs, which beeza to burn; lie had time only to recommend himself to the protection of his Maker, and threw himself through the window frame. At 1 i o'clock on Sunday' morning the body of Mrs. Wheater was get out of the ruins, a dreadful spectacle. The body of the sh6pman was seen a short time after wards behind a chimney, between two hull burnt pieces of timber, where it was suspended in the view of the spectators, a most appalling sight, and was got out its the course of the day. BaTH.—We dread reading accounts from the coast ; ,as we fear the violence of the storm on Tuesday and IVednesdey nights must have caused deplorable effects among the shipping. In this city and neighbourhood, it raged with tremendous fury, thunder, lightning, hail, rain, and wind, successively vented auounding horrors ; -in various parts of the city houses were par tially unroofed, the . vane on the Abbey tower, after braving many a boisterous gale, was blown down ; ti newly erected wall 130 feet in length, near the road leading to Claverton-down, was levelled with the ground, and the river has overflown its banks, and it is at a very unusual height. Almost innumerable trees have been rotted up in dells park, and some in °reit ardleigh park. .Fartuborouet church, we hear, was unroofed, and two of the turrets blown down. The Portsmouth mail was completely upset by the violence of the wind, about three miles from Salisbury; but though there wore six passengers, we are happy to hear no one received the least itury. Letexersa.—Wednesclay night was one of the most boisterous recollected for years past : mueh.tiamage has been sustained in this town, and many parts of the country. Our Correspondent, at Leughbomugh, informs us, that a severe shock of an earthquake was felt in that town, and several of the neighbouring villages, between the hours of one and two on Thursday morn ing, which, combined with the high wind, did much damage, and entirely demolished a new-erected un finished Meeting-house, belonging .to a usethoductica/ sect, under the denomination of Ranieri. LLOYD'S BEAUTIFUL DOUBLE-COVEREI) OVAL SHAPE BEAVER II ATS, quite a new manufacture. excelling all othent ever made on the usual plan. are far superior in Colour and shape. which they retain to the last. and will out-wear in any weather or climate, three of them, or the pretended patenttSsfk. o pernicious to the head. The unqualified and increasing repu tation the-e Hats are daily acquiring have already cat.ctw a number of paltry imitations to be held out to the Public. wli are positively *scared that the Inventors and only Manufacturers of the unrivalled and universally admired Double-tottered. Beam. Hats. on the im proved Oval principle, are H. and.*. LLOYD, And Cu. ,of irs. NEritiATE SritEvr, price 255. ST. PATRICK'S D I.Y. J. and J. SINT KWRIGHT congratulate their friends and the iniblicon , site wadi of tie First nsy's Drawing, only a filar of the rmnor.Capital l'rizes having ireen drawn. J. rind J. mg:- WRIGHT to 3of them in 33 Shares : viz. I 3.;20 Ion!. 2.03 em. They.hve on the next Day's I )ruwing„ whia wi!l he an Tirr:s. n AY, the 17th March. to add One, Two. or rul Three of the Zu o rvui. Prizes. •THEnt Aim YET IN THE Witrxr. 111117:1 7 . 01: -7o,noo1.! Sixty-five other Capitals—a full Preportion t f the Stuall Prizes—..ad fires oe tine old Port Wine extra for Blanks. Tickets attd S'uures are on Sale at their Ohl Fortetu:.:e Offices. 57, CON.VIIILL ; 1 SR, HA Ymmtkrr ; •11, 11u1.1R3RR ; 14t, oxrct au STREET. iTrawn the First Day of •Dratring, Prize of One. Thousairl Pounds, 'w sold in Sharer. by HouNsaY and C0..--.niurely; Oac . Half, One Qua:- ter,one Eighth, and Two Sixteenths:. the ;H o ld ers of;lic said Shares arc most respectfully informed, they may rcocivc their Prize lottey immediately, . at t h e ' Old-establisileil Office of Iloa.NsaY and Co. 26, Corn_ hill, where Tickets and Shares arc Selling, warrant:A Undrawn, fo; the Served Day's Drawing, the 1 - , tk March. -