The National Register. — London, England, 1811-11-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONALREGISTF,R. .. 724 • - ' IMPERIAL _PARLIAMENT. HOTJaF. OF LORDS. 'TUESDAY, * NOV. This being the day to which Parliament was prorogued, their Lordships met accordingly. .As soon as the Lord Chanc ellor had taken his seat on the woolsack, the J3eputy Usher of the slack Rod summoned the Commons to attend at the bar of their Lordship's House ; when one of the Clerks of the House ap• geared, in the room of the Speaker. The Commission having been read, anthorizing the Commissioners to prorogue the Par- Itainent, the Loan Co.lB ct.t.Lott declared the Parliament fur ther prorogued till Tuesday, Jan. 7. Thus, according to a stand ing Order of the House of Commons, of the 18th of June, 1811, Which directs,'“ That all Petitions for private Bills be presented within 14 days after the first Friday in the next, and every fu ture Session of Parliament," the last day for presenting Yeti- Conti ill the next Session will be Friday, the 24th of January. • PROVINCIAL. . FOOT RACE AT YORK.—On Wednesday the celebrated pedes trians, Joseph Beal and Abram Wood, started to run four miles fur 100 guim as each, over the race-course, York. Weod took the lead, and kept it a mile, when Beal passed him, kept the lead, and won it in great style, beating his adversary about t:00 yards ; Beal run it in 21 minutes 12 seconds. This young man is only l 9 years of age, about five feet seven inches high, weight 9st. 31. The hettingat starting was five and six to four on Wood. A concourse of people were assembled to witness this race from all parts of Yorkshire and Lancashire. The ground was exceed ingly heavy, and much against the pedestrians. On the 19th of September last, Beal run Isaac ilunsworh, a Lancashire man, two miles over the same course, and beat him, ,considerably. 'Wood is also front Lzincashire, and some titre since run against John Brown, four miles, and beat his antagonist by 100 yards. The time it Was run in, was 20 minutes and ' 2 seconds. A countryman, residing near Lincoln, having lately had some fir-joists stolen from him, applied to a reputed conjurer, known by the name of the " Wise Man," of Spridlington Heath, to direct hint where to find them, who tcld him to examine, at a particular time, the premises one of his neighbours, whom he pointed out. On hia going thither, and mentioning on what authority he came to search for them, the honest cottager ex claimed, "That fellow is a great rascal; I should not wonder if he has got them himself on his own premises ; come along with me, and we will see." They went, and to the astonish ment of the deluded countryman, the stolen joists were found, as the other had suggested. The conjurer was in consequence apprehended, and has been committed to Lincoln Castle for trial. A woman, calling herself Maria Jackson, and a man named George Barnard, or Barnet, who is identified as having escaped front the hulks, being there under sentence of transportation, were a few days since apprehended by some townspeople of Saffron Walden, and taken before a bench of Magistrates, on suspicion of being s»u4shers, or titterers of baSe coin. On search ing the woman, there were found in her possession 90 three shilling Bank tokens, 260 base shillings, and 11.5 sixpences. The woman w convicted under the late Batik Act, for three months. 'lime man remains in custody, to be tried for the escape from the hulks. A melancholy catastrophe happened on Sunday se'nnight, near Arundel, Sussex. Some young men of that place took an excursion on the water in two boats, and as they were return ing in the evening, one of them upset, when by running foul of a ship's cable, two persons out of five were drowned. The names of the unfortunate youths are-Bowman and Hayne3, sons of respectable inhabitants of Arundel. IrrtposrrinN.—Several convicts on board different hulks have recently been discharged by warrants from the Secretary of State's Office, by virtue of petitions bearing fictitious signatures of Nla-v,istr,'tes and Gertlemtn of distinction, in town and coun try. The first discovery of this business at the Secretary of State's Office was in con-equence of a noted character having been seen at ' large iu the country, when he was known to have received sentence of transportation at a late assize. On a country Magistrate examining the petition, by virtue of which the convict was discharged, he was astonished at the forged signature of his own name, amongst the first people in the coml.. try. The signatures were dexterously managed in different hands. Another convict has been discharged from Sheerness by a similar fictitious petition. It is not known to what extent the evil has gone. AN AWFUL VtsrrATlON.—On Thursday week, Moody, a poor man who conveyed turf from the fens to Nlildenhall, in Suffoll:, full from his boat into the river, and was drowned, be fore any nssktancc could reach him. On the body being con veyed to the public-h use u 4 ar the water-side, in Mildenball4 the landlord of was standing at the door, he peremptorily refused, with many horrid oaths, to receive the body iuto the house ; but scarcely had he tittered them, when he was seized with a paralytic stroke, that deprived him of speech and the use of one side, and in that state he still continues. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—On Monday morning, whilst two men in the employ of Mr. Roles, were at work in a fielo adjoin ing Caen Wood, near Kingston, a decent looking elderly man, dressed in black, attracted Weir notice in the' next field by hii gestures and incoherent conduct, sometimes reading and kneel ing, and at other times half undressing. The labourers watched hint into the wood, when he drew from his pocket a cord, which he fastened to the branch of a t ee, after having made a nooze , a nd when in the act of hanging himself (having got the cord about his neck), the two spectators rtished urn him, and re leasUci hint front premeditated death. The unfortubate man lately resided at Totteridge. Distress is supposed to have beets the cause of ti# rash attempt. IRELAND. between the hours of twelve and one on Monday night, and during a heavy gale of wind,-. the following fatal event occurred in a lane near the Square, in Waterford. The family of Pierce Power, an indu , tripus and respectable cooper, were in bed hi a titian house attached to one of considerably greater elevation. In one bed were the parents, and in another three boys and a young girl, all in the same room, enjoying an unsupected sere nity that r. pose which youth and labour bestow. At the time mentioned, part of the gable of the higher honse was instanta neously thrown (!own on the roof of the lower house, which it irtly forted on the bed where the children lay, crushing two of the boys to immediate death, and so bruiting the other that he Chin aftei. expired. An oaken Chair, which stood near where the girl lay preserved her life, by supporting that part of the bed which was above her. The parents sustained in* personal injury, and it is beyond the power of language to describe the anguish of their hearts ! The ages of the boys were about four teen, eight, and four years. l'A NA TICISIV . • . .* A foreign journal has the . following relation :—" Matthew 1 Lovat, a shoemaker, ;a Venice, presents an example of religious melancholy, equally extraordinary as deplorable, His first act of insanity was in i-nitation of the early Christians, to disarm the tempter by muttli citing himself. Shortly after, he conceived that C;od had ordered him to die upon the cross ; and he imme diately began to employ himself in preparing all the instruments of his martyrdom. rot more than two years he meditated in ,s;:enct• upon the tneints lot executing his purpose. At List the fatal clay arrived ;no p. - eparat ion 1e...A been ()met. d Locat was r.,,vned with thorns, of which three or tour 17:1:etratsql the ex terior skin. lie seated himself on the middle of the cross, ad justed his feet to the bracket at the bottom, passing a nail of 13 inches in length. asough thent with a hammer r Ile next tied . himself on the cross round the body, and, provided with two other_long and sharp nails, he pierced them through b th hands by placing the point in the centre of the palm, and knhcking the head ingainst the floor. otter this he raised his hands towards tin: place where he intended to tix them, and put the nails thrimgh holes he had before-perforated, to the extremity of their in;th. He had previously inflicted a deep wound in his side with a shoemakers knife, in order more closely to represent the suifierings of the Redeemer. Nothing now remained but to ex pie himself to view. I .ov.tt had contrived ropes to let liitltstif forward.; and it several strong motions of the body, the cross fe ; ing tin. edge of time window, easily sii; . ped and tt it ontsi,k, restrained ht' a cord. In this situation he remained finale hours. Early the next moilling the neighbours were asto nished at , th'e speztacle that presented itself, His countenance pale, but calm ; his body naked, and covered with blood; he ap peared, notwithstanding his strean king wounds, to he superior to pain. The populate ran crowds to see so very extraordinary a sight.: He was at length cut down, and conveyed to the Impe rial School, under the direction of M,.Penzieri. None of his numerous wounds proving mortal, he was cured of them. but not of kis folly. 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