The National Register. — London, England, 1821-05-06 00:00:00

ACCOUNT OP THE REGALIA. NOW EXHIBITiNO IX THE JEWEL-MOOSE, TOWER. The new impedel crown is about fifteen inches_ in elevation ; the arches, which rise almost to a point, in stead of the inelegant flatness of the former crown, are surmounted with an orb of brilliants, seven inches iii circumference. Upon this is placed a Maltese cross of brilliants, set transparently, with three pearls at its ex tremities, of remarkable size and beauty. The arches are wreathed and fringed with diamonds. Four Maltese crosses, formed of brilliants also, surround the crown, with four large diamond flowers in their intervening spaces. On the centre of the back cross is the ancient ruby, which was worn at Cressy and Azincour, by the Black Prince and Henry V. while that of the front cross is adorned with an unique sapphire, of the deepest azure, more than two inches long, and one inch broad. The ermine is surmounted with a band of large diamonds, emeralds, sapphires, and rabies, and immediately under these, a fillet of beautiful pearls. The lustre of this un equalled crown is heightened by a dark crimson cap of the fittest velvet; and its general effect confirms the opi nion of all who have seen it, that his present Majesty is the first British Sovereign who has possessed a diadem worthy of this proud and potent empire. node of its exhibition has most judiciously varied from the former custom. Instead of being partially shown by a small part of the ease being opened, the cover is now lifted oft, and the crown is entirely seen, on a white satin cushion embroidered with gold; while the circular motion of its stand enables the spectator leisurely to observe all its splendour and elegance. The ancient crown is still exhibited; but, though it has been repaired and beautified, has little attraction be yond its recollection, and the contract which it displays, kotli in shape and splendour, to the magnificence of the new diadem. The two orbs, the diadems, the Prince of Wales's crown, the five sceptres, and the confessor's st Iff have all bsien renovated, The ancient Gallic ornaments of the King's coronation sceptre 1 - . as Leen replaced by golden leaves, surrounding the large amethyst. each bearing the ruse, the shamrock, and the thistle, the symbols of the three kingdoms. The coronation bracelets have been newly enamelled, and the golden buckles and embroidered velvet straps added to the coronation spurs. The curtana, and the swords of temporal and spiritual justice, have lwen ornamvnted with new scabbards, of velvet splendidly embossed and embroidered, and golden mountings. The golden wine fountain, the silt-cellar, the model of the white tower, the communion chalice and paten, the eagle, the spoon, &c. of the coronation solemnity; the massive chased tankards, and the twelve salt-cellars, for the banquet in Westminster-hall, have all been re paired. To these 13st twelve, golden plates and spoons have been now for the first tittle added. The above is a very faint outline of the present state of the jewel-room, which, with the curtain and lining of scarlet cloth, whereby the splendour of the several articles is greatly heightened, never till now presented a specta cle so dazzling to beholders. ROEIL LONDON INFIRMaRY, For Curing Diseases of the Rye, patronised by his Royal Highness the Duke of York. On Wednesday the ceremony of laying the stone of an Hospital for the cure of the various diseases of the eye, took placed in Moorfields, at the east corner. near the Roman Catholic chapel. At three o'clock, the hour appointed, a vast concourse of people attended in anxious expectation of seeing the procession. The stewards and committee made excellent arrange ments for the accommodation of the public, but more particularly for the ladies. After a few minutes beyond the appointed time, W. Mellish, Esq. the president, and the stewards and committee, arrived, and were introduced to the different places appointed for them by the archi. tect and others in waiting. A triangle being previously in readiness, erected over the place where the stone was to be set, the architect stated that every thing was ready. A silver trowel was then hanged to Mr. hellish, and proper mortar brought forward. Some gold, silver, and copper coins, of the reign of George IV. were put into a glass bottle, which Were deposited in a cavity cut in the stone. Mr. Mellish then placed the stone regularly, having first spread the mortar with his trowel, and laid a brass plate over the coins, on which was engraved the follow ing inscription :—Aondon Infirmary for curing diseases of the _eye. Ft 1111 l ded by the late .1. Cunningham, T.E. A.D. MIX.CCXXL. Patron of the Infirmary, Field- Marshal H. R. H. Frederick Duke of York, K.G. '— Next follow the name of the President, Vice President, kc. Ater the ceremony concluded, the whole went in procession, and dined at the London Tavern. During a storm on Sunday, the 16th tilt. the lightning struck some trees near the New Church, Needwood, one of which, a pollard oak, it divided front the top of the trunk to the earth, throwing splinters four and five feet long to the distance of 25 yards; the top had been sawn oil, and branches surrounded the trunk rising ten or twelve feet above it, but none of them were injured : another tree, ft paces from the former, had the upper branches and one side of the trunk in a state of decay.— The electric fluid passed from the top down the sound side to the earth, in some placev only bursting the bark, tit miters, splintering the wood to the depth of two inches, and in breadth three or four. On Saturday morning, Capt. G. Hanze, belong ing to the Dutch military service, was found in the privy of the Black Bull, Britonside, Plymouth, with three stabs under his left breast, and his throat cut in a most shocking manner. He has left a widow and child to deplore his melancholy fate. a .r- • THE NATIONAL REGISTER Pew. ---- THE MURDER AT HERNIt STRIET.—On Thursday a public examination of the men charged with the murder of Mr. Snow of the Preventive Service, took place at this once, before Richard Blrnie, Esq. the Sitting Magistrate. The prisoners are live in number, three having been admitted evidence fur the Crown. Their names are James West, William Beer, John Richardson, Thomas Richardson, and William Williams. David North, quartermaster of the Severn, employed on the preventive service, deposed to the circumstances of the outrage, in consequence of which Mr. Snow was killed.— He stated, that, after the officer was hemmed in by lb! smugglers, he attempted to get to his assistance, but such a heavy tire was kept up that he found it impossible, and was obliged to retreat. George Griffiths (on accomplice) swore that, owlllonday evening, the 30th of April, he was engaged by the prisoner James West, to assist in " working" (the phrase for running the cargo,) a boat that night at Herne Boy. Witness and a great number of other persons met that evening afterwards at the Grove Ferry, between Canterbury and the Reculvers, and proceeded from thence to the house of the prisoner John Richardson, where guns/old pistols were distributed amongst them, with about seven or eight rounds of ball cartridges to each armed man. It was arranged that those who were armed should cover those who were not, while they worked the goods, which were to be put into two carts provided fur the purpose. There were about 60 men in all their party. They then proceeded to the appointed spot itt a meadow at the back of some houses in Herne Hay, and arrived there at about a quarter before three o'clock on Tuesday morning.— Shortly after the boat landed, and at the 110111 C time witness saw two men who he believed were of the preventive service standing a few yards from them, rind lie saw one of them snap a pistol twice, but it did nut go off. His party then fired, and the man he had seen snap the pistol drew his cut lass and rushed in amongst them, and witness JAW no more of him. (This is supposed to . Mr. Sums.) They effected a landing of 63 tubs of spirits, which were conveyed away is carts. All the prisorien were present. The witnes, in answer to a question from Mr. Harmer, said, he fired himself six or seven times, but only with powder. He tore the bullet from each of ins cartridges-- Here the prisoners were observed to smile and toss up their beads as if in astooishineut. James Smith, another accomplice, stated nearly the same facts as the last witness. He admitted that he said nothing about the matter until he was in custody. Edward Howman, mho a party in the array, was next called, and described the plans of the sinu:glers more mi nutely than the others. By this statement it would appear that they are quite systematical in their operations, and act almost with the precision of disciplined men. It was, be said, sqrred upon that they should proceed to the spot in mall parties by dirreent roads, and arrive their precisely at the same period, and the armed men were then to form into two bodies of equal number, and to fall, one to the right and the other to the left of the place of landing, and tilos! without arms were to work the goods wider their protection. The landing of the goods was effected in this manner, a con stant firing 'being kept up. After the boat had pushed off, witness saw a man lying nn his buck on the beach, and railed out to hi.o" Halloo!" and he replied, '• l ain a dead man.* Witness did got stop to assist hien, but mentioned It afterwards to his companions, who said " It an, uoly a sham." James West was the master of the company, and paid witness seven shillings for his night's work. He fired twice or three times himself. ➢lr. Jones, the solicitor for the Admiralty, then requested that the prisoners might be remanded fur a neck, observing that his Majesty's law officers bad not yet determined whether they should be prosecuted fur the murder, or under the E tame for unlawfully assembling with arms, &c. Mr. Birine then ordered that the 1p r". ers should be brought up on Thursday nest. They 'sere all heavily ironed. PEMBROSESHIRE GREAT SESSIONS. MURDER.—William Roblin, a small farmer about three miles from Haverfordwest, and who also keys an alehouse, was indicted at these sessions for the wilful murder of William Davis, a young man who formerly lived with him a servant, but who left his place in con- • sequence of the bad habits of the prisoner, and his fre quently ill using and heating his wife. In the month of Sptember last, on a Saturday evening, the deceased and his new employer was returning (win their work, and overtook Roblin on the road, neat his own house, when a violent quarrel arose !between the prisoner and the de ceased, which continued some time, and at length ter. urinated in the former procuring a pistol from his own house, with which he shot Davies thronab the head, who died of the wound about three weeks afterwards.— The facts appeared so clear against the prisoner, that the jury pronounced him guilty, and the learned judge, after an affectionate address, sentenced him to suffer death, on Monday the 23d ult. and that his body should be dis sected and anatomised. The awful sentence of the law accordingly took place on the above morning. He re ceived the sacrament from the hands of the Rev. J. Thomas, the ordinary, and appeared to be devout. He then shook hands with Mr. 'lllolllas, several other mi nisters, and all present. Ott the drop he was asked if he had any thing to say, to which he replied, " No, I have nothing to say—but Lord Jest), receive my soul ! save me a miserable sinner!" Just bettor the fatal mo ment, he was warned that he had but live minutes to live, and if he had any thing to say u, utter it. " No; I have nothing—l suNaise you WAIL me to witless murders of which lam not guilty' Anil he continued praying, " Lord Jesus receive my spirit," until he was launched into eternity. Great Performance —A horse belonging to Mr. Rich, hatter, in Iliiloton, W:l3 backed to gallop rules 111 an hour, on NVednesday, liir 100 guineas. The ground on which the performance took place was front the eleven mile stone turough Croydon to the eighteen ntilc stone. The rider, a boy, was thrown, and the horse weut nearly a mile beyond the boontlaiies; but the boy, unman, mounted again, and completed tire Match, rilmtit I NC airy three males, an fon; minutes and a 11.11 f %%itillil the given t une . The horse was much distressed. 143 THI INDIAN BAT, OA Voserems.--Captoin SW. man was, while in Surinam, attacked during his sleep by some of these animals and as his account of this incident is somewhat singular, and tends to elucidate the fact, we shall extract it from his own language from his narrative. " I cannot here (says he) forbear relating a singular circumstance respecting myself, viz.—that on waking one morning 31/1111 four o'clock, in wy ham mock, I was extremely alarmed at finding myself wel tering in congealed blood, anal without feeling any pain whatever. Having started up and rung for the surgeon. with a firebrand in one hand, and all over besmeared with gore;_ to which, if added my pale face, short hair, and tattered apparel, lie might well ask the question ' Be thou. • damned— a'aiiirit of health: of goblin Bring'st with thee airs of heaven, or blasts from bell P " The mystery, however, was, that I had been bitters by the Vampyre, or spectre of Guinea, which is also • called the flying dog of New Spain, and by the Spaniards perrovolador ; this is no other than a bat of a mon strous size, that sucks the blood from men and cattle while they are fast asleep, even sometimes till they die; and as the manner in which they proceed is truly wonderfill, I shall endeavour to give a distinct account of it. Knowing by instinct that the person they intend • to attack is in aso I slumber, they generally alight near the feet, where, while the creature continues fan ning with hi, enormous wings, which keeps one cool, . he bites a piece out of the tip of the great toe, so very small indeed, that the head of a pin .could scarcely be received into the wound, which is consequently not. painful ; yet through this orifice he continues to suck the blood until he is obliged to disgorge. He then begins again t and then continues sucking and disgorging till he is scarcely able to fly ; and the sufferer hat often been known to sleep f rom time to eternity. Cattle they generally bite in the ear, but always in places where the blood flows spontaneously. Having applied tobacco ashes as the best remedy, and washed the gore from myself and my hammock, I observed several small ' heaps of congealed blood all around the place where I • had lain, upon the ground ; on examining which, the surgeon judged at least that I hadlost at least 12 or 14 ounces during the night. MONTHLY AGRICULTURAL REPORT.—Little fM mains fur report during the present season, hut a repe tition of our great, even super-abundance, its- unison with our want and misery. In the olden time, defici ency or waste, made woeful want; at the present mo mentous crisis, a plethora of all the good and fat things of lite has induced galloping consumptiots in the most vital and important parts of the body politic. Our state • physicians, and sundry consultations and,feelings of the public pulse, however they may disagree on the causes of the disease, and the peculiar importance of the symp toms, seem sufficiently unanimous in the nnlTpractica ble remedy—sending the patient to Bath, the English of which every one is able to construe. The weather has • been variable during the present month, hut. its present mildness and warmth, after the rains, will doubtless have a sudden effect on vegetation, which has not hitherto beet. forwarded: 'The late sown and thin wheats begin, to cover the ground, and to put on a luxuriant appear ance. The pulse and Lent corn crops in the early dis tricts make a good show, and the seed season will soon be finished in the north. All the operations of husbandry are remarkably torward, more particularly, the distreu of the times considered. Should the warm weather • continue, the grass crop will be general and abundant, Both fat and lean cattle, front the vast stocks; are at.. moderate prices, and the country is amply supplied with Irian pigs, pork and bacon. Valuable horses, always • scarce, are at great prices. Long wool is its request...- Hops are in great plenty, and a new crop coming- for ward. The weather has lately been more favourable for seeds and artificial grasses. The lambing season has been peculiarly successful. Duel.—A fleeting took place eaey on Monday morning, in the fields between Kilburn and Lord's Cricket-ground. The parties were Mr. 9—, a mesh- - cal man, and Me. B.—, a gentleman of fortune.— After exchanging two shots each, the seconds interfered, . and put an end to the affair. Mr. D— sustained a slight injury in the wrist. About nine o'clock on Sunday morning, a young mon•• about 24 years of age, having the appearance of a trades- • man, was observed walking in a melancholy manner by the side of the Regent's Canal, near the City-road ; his manlier attracted the attention of several persons; at length he j ped in, but was fortunately rescued from his perilous situation, and taken to a neighbouring public house, whine every attention was paid to him, his clothes dried, and he departed apparently reconciled its mind; hut instead of returning homewards, he went again to the same spot, and co gto the edge of the canal, with a knife he cut his throat from ear to ear, and fell head foremost into the water, whence he was taken • shortly after lifeless. The servants of Mr. Stephenson, of Cold Harbour, near Beverley, haying occasion to take some sulphur • and cream of tartar, a few eveninas ago, a parcel was produced which was supposed to contain the misusage, and two of the men who preferred the medicine in milk took the prescribed quantity. Not being able to find any treacle it. the house the other servants were prevented at that time from partaking; and a person coming into the kitchen a few minutes afterwards, found the word " Poison," in large letters, on the envelope of the sup posed mixture, which proved to be arsenic. Medical aid was immediately procured ; but in spite of every ex ertion one poor man died within tell hours ; the other is expected to recover. Had it not beets for the want of treacle, several more persons would have panai eta, and the consequences, would still be more foal. NVednestlay morning, Joseph 9.iy, a Waterman, be. longing to Vauxhall stairs, was thserort.rcil dead in his boat, floating with the tide abase Weitimnsier-btidge, with his head hanging over the side of t h e wherry. Is was at first snooker:et! by the passing waientien, that he was drinking water; but tin closer ro-pection, found the deceased a corpse. The bo.iy war, instantly conveyed to the workhouse, v..ltere medical ara..s.lllCe was ailinittiaa 6 red for two hours wo.t.out ripest. ~