The National Register. — London, England, 1813-10-10 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. • 1 1...f A in • Last week died, by a paralytic stroke, in an advanced age, and much lamented by all the fanners in the neighbourhood of Dorking, Sir Thomas Markethuuse. lie was wholly supported by the muni ficence of his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, who generously gave lain all the profits arising from the toll, on all kinds of grain, butter, egus, fowls, and bacon. He is said to have lived in three Kings reigns, without one day's illness, and what is very remarkable, never slept one night Iron home. He is succeeded in title and es tate by his sou who is in his minority. The budyae an elderly man respectably dressed, was found sts 'pebded to a tree in a wood, leading from the Harrow-road to Wait fial, by some boys who were nutting on Vednesday. By some papers in his pocket, he turned out to have lately been usher at a or hoot in the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell. His name was Le gart, and be was by birth a Swiss. Distressed citcumstances are supposed to have been the cause of suicide. MELANCHOLY CERCUMSTANCE.—Upwards of a fortnight ago, a boy, between eleven sad twelve years of age, disappeared from the J urgh of Queeusferry ; after public advertisement, and the most diligent search, no trace could be found to lead to a discovery of this mysterious circumstance till Monday sc'nnight, when some of the men hi the- employ of Itlmrs. Taylor and Suns, soap-boilers of that place, while clearing out a waste lee-receiver, found the skeles bin of the unfortunate youth. Nut a particle of the tlesh could be perceived,..the pent Crating lees having completely reduced it ; even . the bones we:v as .son as wax. This should be a caution to pros pricturs of such works to prohibit children from coming sitar them. • THE .HEBDOMADARY. 0 C Ittll ER. 647 10. The seventeenth St:nday tyke Trinity.. Epistle Ephes. iv. 1. St. Luke xiei, I.—St. Francis de Borgia.. educated in great piety by his father, and under the direction of the Archbishop ofZaragossa. Ile was sent to the court of Charles V. and married, but soon alter becoming a widower, he founded - a college ter the Jesuits, took the habit, was or dained priest. and retired to an hermitage, where he subjected himself to the meanest otfices of the house, begged alms r the rest, and cate chised the children. However, the great and merited reputivion of his talents forced him out of his retirement. He preached through all Spain with g reat success, and after sowing every where the seed of piety and ot her virtues, he reaped in Heaven the reward of his labours at a very advanced age.-1794. Kosciuscow taken by the Russians. The Sun rises at 6 h. So ruin. sets at 5 h. 30 mitt, .High water morn. 2 h. 31 min. Aerie ut 2 h. 51 mile Full Moon at 31 min. past 0, morning. 11. 3lnnday.—Old Michaelmas Day. St. Gummarus, born in Bra hant in the eighth century, was called by King Pepin to the court of France, and lived in the palace as if he had been in solitude : in vain the. allurements of pieasure, the dainties of the table, the liveliness of the assemblies, called hint loudly out of his small oratory ; his love fur retirement, prayer, and mortification, made him resist their entice ments. Ile was visited with the misfortiine of having a wee of the Worst tempt r imaginable, but he submitted, with a generous and exemplary patience. to all her provocations, considering her as a sick person under his care, and whose infirmity and incurable distem per sequired his compassion. After many years of this sort of domestic martyrdom. the worst, perhaps, because it seamed to be endured w Wand a reword in sight, he was called to that place where Ito fear of quarrels or scoldings can disturb the everlasting peace of the 1 , 11 1,- 1796. Spain under a fooli.ll influence, declares war ageitea England. 1797. Admiral Duncan defeats the Dutch fleet, and captures nine •Itips of the line.-1705. Died Dr. Amentons, the repu.ed inventor of that useful instrument called the telegraph (from the Greek, meaning ' 4 writing at a distance.") Ile was a Frenchman, but did not live to see his early scheme brought to perfection. Die Sun 'rises at 6 h. 31 min. sets at 5 It. 29 min. llzgli water morning at 3 h. te min. afternoon at 3 h. V 9 min. 12. Tuesday.—St. IValfrid, Bishop of York, in the beginning of the eighth century —1492. Columbus &stovers the place now called Son Salvador, one of the Bahama islands.-1537. Butt!, of Edward IV. at Hampton court.-1-798. Sir John Borlase reit's victory over the French orTory Island. The Sun rises at 6 h. 33 min. sets ut 5 h. 17 min. High water morn. at 3 le 47 min. afternoon at 4 h. 6 min. 1:;. Wedne.Fday.—The trinslation at' St. Edward the C'onfessor's body to the Abbey of IVestminster, where his tomb still ecneuirr r, loud ought to be looked at wkils the veLeration not only due to antiquity. but to the merits au departed gootl king of these realms. By a council held at Oxford, this day was appointed, in the ear 1221, to be kept holy throughout the realm, in mentury Dia prince whose public and domestic virtues had endeared him so much to his people.-1399 Coroua;ion of Henry IV. ► • The Sun rises at 6 h. 33 min. sets at 5 h. 25 min. High ts oter looming nt 4 h. 25 min. aftt•rtioi , so at 4 h. 46 min. ' 14. Misrsdaq.—St. lli•hop of Ron:e. Ile lived under the despicable rt len of the elfioninate Ilelii.obalus, and after about five years of administration tae bend of the church, in very difficolt Pines; and w h ere St. Peter's boat was tossed upon a dreadful sea of persecurion, lie received t!:e ern 4ls of marl. rdluda , guns faV5. --- 146 1 6. William the Conqueror began his reign. Ih.ruld was killed at the Battle of Ilastitltts. 'I Sun rise% at 6b. 37 min. sets at sh. t:3 min. High water morn. ut 5 h 10 min. alterip.on at 5 h. 33 min. 15. reiday.—St. 'Merest', a native of Avila it. Spain. She wit‘ af flicted duriitg her lite with severe atiticks, but her paf.enye was so Urea!, that in the middle of her excruciating suiteratices, s!iv leas often heard to exclaim Aniplius; nut lta, out nmri. " .M111;re still : to suffer, or to die." She died in 1..)8:4---70 beinfe Christ, birth of Virgil, whiew name 'tell front the Verge/ite. or sevra stars, comp . :coons in the nocturnal sky at the i;onceitt ut h's birth. 'llw Sun rises at G h. 39 lain. sets at 5 It. 21 nth , . water mornitto nt 6 h 3 lain. atteit , oon at (; 16. Saturdau.—St. Gallus, bred in the 1,1 %irtuei end t practice of wortification. under the ereas ('f.!tutian, in ti he afterwards found a retired abode among the roma:it lc val, craggy rocks of the Alps, and settling there in a sinall lieratuat led a most exemplary life, and died in the seventh cetiter), aged 1651. Charles 11. landed in France, at Fecatup iu Normandy.-- I ; If'Q fi age d'9l. --1 4• • CIIT BLiINESA'. A Court of Common Council %%as held on Monday. at Guildhall, pursuant to requisition, to take into consideration the high price of bread. Mr. Griffiths opened the business by 'marking on the present mode of fixing the Assize, which he considered inefficient; he vin dicated the bakers from the aspersions tlirown out against them, and said they were in general poor, although hourly accused with de franding .the people. The tritth was, that the flour-factors and socalman were the pen Nons who reaped all the proilt—they were the persons who combined together for the porpose of robbing the public. lie therefote thought that the Legislature ought to 'grant a control over the mealman and corutactor, which did not at pre sent exist. He concluded with a motion, " an application be male to Parliament, for a Bill to revise and reduce to one Act, the several laws for regulating the assize and price of bread; and to eon4fer the propriety of introducing a clause, to compel the corn factors and 'fiefdom' to return to the Lord Mayor the quantity of wheat and tjonr bought and sold by them, in like manner as i 3 now done by the bakers, fled under the like control. And that a Com mittee, consisting of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and one Member • !roan each Ward, do take the same into consideration." • Mr. S. Dixon thought the mover of this resolution, before he ' called on the Court to agree to it, should have proved ,some speci fic eircuinstanceshould have made out a clear case—to justify them in adopling the.measqrc. He deprecated restrictive la=ws commerce, or the interti-ring with any branch of trade, and was con vinced that Not all the art *or power of man, wou:d be able to com pel individuals to give up a commodity for less than what they be . heved to be its valpe. Alderman Wood said, no description of tradesmen acted with gre . ater humanity to the poor than Imkers, of which he had frequel:t in/latices in his Ward, and no persons were repaid with so much - obloquy.. He censured the assertion of Mr. Griffiths, that " the sncalmen anti corn-factors were combined together to rob the pub ., tic r surely it was not right, that a Gentleman in a public a-sctn- Lly make knell an assertion. What interest could the bakers have in .a collusion with the mealmen? Aud with respect to the cornfgetoys themselves, if one of them would not sell his flour an other wdald—and, in so numerous a body, it was utterly huposA. 41t. that guch a combination could exist. - Several other Members spoke at length on the question, and the prevailing sentinient being contrary to the motion of Mr. Griffiths, the same was negatived, and instead thereof a Committee was ap pointed, consisting of all the Aldermen, and one Common Council man out of each Waril, who were directed "to consider whether any a: n l what means can be adopted to offer a better supply of bread tq the Metropolis, than at present, and to report the result of their deliheralion to the Court." The expression robbing the public," as applied to the comfit:- tors and mealman, wag retracted by Mr. Griffiths, who acknow -1.4,41gd he lod expressed himself unguarded in tuing it. 0