The National Register. — London, England, 1815-08-20 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. The tieighhourhood of Ik Berke, on Sunday afternoon, the tint was visited by a most dreadful storm ut thunder and retuning, by such tremendous torrents of hail, that neat .50 in of stand hoe VI heat were complefrly thrashed ; the set fire to three e„6l WWI. ►ich were de-troyed ; the. ci4norge is estimated ut nimartis 0 1 IWO!. sfiern,,on, .t poor wonian, ah.) had been renpimt in a field a t Wi , ,terslow, near tinitstitary. lighted a lite in the whrat stoblite to ihe water in her tea kettle. The stubble being very drv, and the 1 . rot tiliwina briskly, the flames spread quickly ori every sire, nod 1,..f0re their progress could be stopped, cruibuturd, ;it ah..aves and in :taasiatg ys'aeat ttre atuduce of tive acres. POLICE. UNION HALL r TO t. , 4 Cif A ROT. or 11,. II ItY.-ofl Mondlly, JIIII O A P siley, no sej ..eattuan, was brov . tiht before T. Leaner., Esti eliarged with u huts platy, muster the following circumstances :—lt appeared that the psi s was, on Thursdav se'tthozht, discharpcd from the I.eandu r, at Part-ut nth, and a' ri Ve 4l i nlondott the same es ening In the Borough W. 0.1 bailed by (601111 g C%prtau, and Jack allowed himself to he rouitai.;. d to a loslginz in Dover street. Here he passed about two Hers to great good topmost-, and was preparing to take his leave, wheal. t o lei: grest dismay, on applying his limit to fits pocket, lie missed urtecti pounds its batik notes, which he had when he entered the house. Ile immediately charged his fair companion with the robbery, a hid' she denied ; when, without further arAutnetit, he oliserted that, as he had fawn eolibed in that house, in that house he would find an in d-ounits for his I ass. He imniediately seized the teacher bed, the most valuable thing in the room, and was bearing it off, when the outcries of ;f i e l a dy brought a man to her aid, and who stoutly opposed Jack's exit with his load. 'I lois opposed, he laid down his borthen and cons tacnced no attack on his opposer, whom he soon laid on the Soot, and restimine leis load, betook it to a pawstbr Lees, sod demanded fourteen pounds on it. The passotbroicer enquired how he cause by it, and Jack told him the whole story. The pawnbroker round little diffictity in convincing biun he had done a tong, and he again took op his bed and ea tied it back *gal.". Bet Isere a ditTerent reception awaited him ; the Man whom be had beaten claimed the bed. and was waiting with cioff, the officer. to w boon he gave the unfortunate sailor in charge for a teluu3.—The Magistrate, on hearing the ease, ordered Jack to be dis ch;o•lred. and issued a svarramt cur apprehending the lady. ATIF NIPT AT MURDI.II —The steward of Guy's Hospital hayi ng given information at this thrsce, that a man had been brought iota the hospital with his throat cut, in a most dreadful masnier, one of the Ala gistrates, attended by May the officer, went to the hospital to examine him. The ratan could but just articulate; but from what lie was able to state, it appeared he was a seaman, and had been lodging at No 5, Mug-street, Deptford. On S t tardily se'oinight, whilst at his lodging, two foreign soldiers entered his apartment, seized him, threw him down on the floor, and one put a handkerchief to his mouth, whilst the other cut his throat with a razor i.l a most shocking mime r.--They then rised his pockets of what money he had. and made their escape. The eau of :lie landlord of the house having occasion to go lip stairs, di:co vered the toduntunate mon lying senseless on the floor ; a surgeon was sent for, the wound was sewed up, and he wits cons ey*d to the hospital, where he still continues, very slight hopes bring entertained of his reco very. May has since been down t.) Deptford, making enquiries, and searching after the perpetrators of this atrocious act. ,On searching the s..;tortutuute man's spartment, 'Mar discovered a rnz r, covered with Wood, on the handle of which the 'tame of John Search had been se*atelted. This and sonic other circumstances have given a clue to she (slicer, and there is little doubt but the villains will ere long dis euverel. Jackson, and a gentleman named Mortimer, a Lieutenant in the Navy, were situiliwiled before the bittln Aingi,trate. by Mr. T. (rent, a gentleman of tOrtune, clarged by him near having violently twittert him and Atruck biro. _ ..... Mr. Grath suited, that h.iving hail a di , pitte with lir. 'Mortimer, one slight ia,t week, lie was surprised by a sisit from Mr Jackson the lid iiwving morning, before he had caittod his chamber. 11 r. hick son ‘ltlS, request, shewn into the complaiiiant's bed-rot:u, when, biter a:Riding to the dispute of the preceding cvening, hr liainied over a Irlt" from Mr. contaiiiiiit: a eialleage. This the cianiplrs:;tant refused to accept, upon which Mr. jacksou called Lim cowaid, and ap plied several other opprobrious epithets to lam, accompanying the ill language with biers. Mr. Grant, resenting this roii.i 3alutatimi, re turned it, and a battle ewsued, in the course GI whit-4 Miatiiiier, wlso had wily been waiting in the anti•rolitn, entered and joined iii the awnisi:t. The ciattpsailiant being naked bed seimul a s•ick to defend hiusse,l ; this, howevs.r, WW taltn it (011 i d iihAt ally to his own beck and rihs.—The uproar occa•ionrrt by the coolest, brought Mr. Grant's servant, and the people of the house lici stairs, witty interfered and put an end to the total ct. 4t CO/Malik *aa broil foe mid the part irS given 111 Nlortimur and Mr—Jackson declined entering into any explore, lion, the Magi.iiiite therefore ordered them to liwt bail to complaint at the Session•. %Vol. Hall was ell.irgett by Collingbotyst, the ()Ricer, it. obstruct. log him in the discharge td his duty, whilst at Vauxhall. on Nionday, the 14th inst. Colling,hourn stated that the Hardens were unusually crowded on the niglit above mentioned; in the course of the evening a young man, ut genteel appearance, came up to the done keepers. and insisted on entering the gardens without pas ins ; the door-keepers op. posed him, but in vain—he knocked them (loan, and triode good his entrance. CAlitigbourn being near the spot, was called, and the nutter being pointed out t o hi m , lie scam put hits out of the earneno again, Just as he had put him WitktMt Fide the gate, the prisoner came up mid interfered, and urged the y4,ung limn to •trike the officer, de. chiming if any inc was to coder Lim, he would knock his brut, s net, ufficet or no officer. Cullinghouvn, blving disposed of his other charge, now took hold at flail, for obstructing hint in his duty ; Dail put self in a Imstere fur fgluing, and the officer several Coliiinbourn, however, succeeded in pinioning his arms. and took hita to the wetchlitmse. Cut ingbourn declared it was no personal feeling which induced him to being this charge, but the fretpient obstructiona they met with in their duty, rendered it necessary. The &fencing attempted to justify his conduct, en tf e gremid that more violence was used by Culliugb urn, in turning the intruder our of the gardens, than was necessary.—Thy magistrate ordered the Defendant W find bail Sat answer the complaint of the °Meer at the Sessions, 130 W Si R EET Thursday, John Jones, alias Elms, a Waif %shot** been obtaistiog various sums of n ttttt ey I.y einplo ) n.g little boys to deliver parcels pnr. porting to he brought to Condon by mail and siege coaches, &voted to Lord fcjwydir, Mr. Shaw I .elevre„ Mr. Lep:ever, and various odors, but which, on exateinatton, only contained gr:tss, was pot to the bat, when Mr. A. Allusion, ot the Secretary of Stale's Office 'or Fortiges, Atlairs, stated, that on the 11th of 11114 C a buy delivered to boo a Letter, which was enclosed an order on H At u me rsi e% and Co. t h e .b an i erto for 101. purporting to be drawn by Thomas Alen, belonging to ill. E. cise Office, and asking for :11. to be advanced on the ()Met. Mr. Mix. ton asked the buy who he was sent bt, when he described the prisoner, and said he was waiting fur him in The Park. He accompanied the boy to the spot, and the boy tan tiff Mr. M. on presemitg the draft, was informed it was a forgery. T. Diy. the boy, attended, and identified the prisoner. Mr. Allen stated, that the letter Was not his writing, nor did he send to Mr. Muslim) au order fur 101. The prisoner WAS (Idly committed. BhRTH. en Friday. the 12th instant, ut Wansteat:liouse, Emir, Mrs. Leos ‘Vclfes:ey, of a son. DEATiag. Suddenly, in a ret of appoolexy, on Saturday seannight, at his holm in Stratford-place, Aubery li.eattelerk, Doke of St. Alban's, Earl of Burford, Baron Very, and Baron Haddington. His Grace was Here. ditury Gland F1110)1414' of England, and Register of the Oise; of Chan , eery. Born Aug. '4l, 1765 ; Slitcreded his father Auheey, the late Duke, February g, 180 ; married, first, Jule 9,178 H, Misr. Most..., a rick heiress, by whom (a ho died Attalla 18, 1800) he had issue s Mary, now Lady Drerhurst ; secondly, lie married August 11, 1801. Louisa Grace, third daughter of the Lady Lmisa Manners, and niece to Was Tollemache, Earl of Dysart —Heir, his Grace's inlet's -on, bora about nine months since. The late Dulte had been in a declining state of health fur some tone previous to his decease, his Grace being sub , ject to great internal (lability, and sudden spro , modie allfeks in the bead and stomach. Previously to the day of his death, he had kept'" Ili, bed for nearly a week ; but, an the (Inv of the final result, he re. (narked that lie telt himself much better; the attack was iustrintatite Otis's , fatal. On Friday senniglit, in the 77th year of his nee, Me. ohert Lewin, a respectable and fluid estemned tomer, of Little Waltham, Essex, He attended Cbelinsford market on the above day, rather in an intik. posed state, and. upon Lis returring home, fell from his horse in a fit, and expired belOre ii.edicai aid coulti he oht On Sunday last, tir.S.van, farm.:r, I.i.iga.e Soffolk ; whil s t walk. ink to apparent good health, he was net b. a neigtibour, who enquired how lie did—to ushich Mr. S. answeirst, • 1 thank God. I never watt better." No sooner had the ret•ly escaped his lips, than "iu the twihkiine of MI eye" he c:ittelit livid of his f r ki,e, a nd sack tbe eaith to bit:mit liJ this AIIG. 20. rc- ea Imr of 1.1 . ter 0. 6 iu- rr• u:t uC