The National Register. — London, England, 1816-02-11 00:00:00

9 4.4 ..ARMY. . C4)1•01 4 EL OGILVIE. —ln consequence of a recent trans action which took place in Portsmouth. on the breaking up of the 2d battalion of the Bth, or Kieg's regiment, his 'Royal Higbnei the Commander in Chief has sigaified his displea sure at the conduct of Lieut.-Colonel Ogiltrie,in the following letter, a‘idrebsed to Major-General Gordon : lIURSE GUARDS, Jan. IL 18166 "Fort-1 have had the honoui of submitting to the Comma nder in thief vow letter of the 9th, and its inclosure, detailing the c!r4 tustance , attending the destruction of the colours of the 2il battalion of the late Bth King's regiment of foot ; from which it appears to his Royal Highne,s, that Lieut.-Colonel Ogilvie was the leader of this transaction ; that the Commander of the battalion was himself the promoter of this outrage against discipline and common decency. which would scarcely have been pardonable in the youngest Ensign in the army. The Commander in Chief has commanded me to express, in the strongest terms, his surprise and tThiCei n, that an Officer of [Acta-L(4onel o.ilvie's rank, whose service had caused his 'Royal Hiehness to form a knowable opinion of him, and to inttei Grin expectatiosts of his future distinction, should have pieckd himself so forgetful of his duty, and so regardless of his t n character, and that of the corps under his immediate command.. And his Royal Highness considers it a great aggra- Nation •of les otrence, his having sanctioned the moekety of placing sen:incls over the remnants of the colours, by which means maiong a private soldier participate in this mock and extrath dinaty breach of discipline, thereby rendering the act notorious to the whole battalion. The Commander in Chief -is disposed, on this occasion, to allow the merits of the faker to palliate the misconduct of the son ; and ti tun tesrect to the memory of the late General Ogilvie, and a c aisideration of his long and faithful services, his Royal 11 i, ; lniess will spate Lieut.-Cot Ogilvie the disgrace and fatal come uenies of a tr4al before a Court Martial ; but the Conimanuer in Chief desires that you will direct this letter to be inserted in all the order-books, and of the King's regt. of foot ; and that you will take care that its contents are forthwith communicated to Lieut.-Col. Ogilvie. " I have the hurinur to be, "Major -Gen. Gordon." " U. CALVEItT, Adj. Gen.' ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, 4r. AI the late Manchester Quarter Sessions, a clergyman and a sur geon were sentenced to three years' imprisonment, for having ad ministered unlawful drugs to a young woman in a state of preg nancy. A dreadful accident occurred lately in Gay-street, Bath. Miss Shuttieworth, a young lady of great respectability, front Lanca shire, UM crossing the street; when a horse, which had broken loose from the care of a servant, ran violently ag ainst her, threw her dim u ith her head on the curb-stone, and rolled over her. Surgical aid was instantly procured; but she was considered to be in a very precarious state. _ _ Al ea DU:J(I- - The last of the 14 poachers committed to Glocester prison for the murder of Win. Ingram, Col. Berkeley's game keeper, was one of the most desperate of the gang, named J. Penny, who was taken at Bristol on Wednesday se'nuight. Penny left Thornimiry al,out dusk in the evening, and reached Bristol by eight o'clock ; when he called on his wife, who is a wet nurse iu the family of a respectable tradesman : he had not been in the house more than un hour when Smith and Vieary called, and, to the surprise of the family, they learned that the supposed mur derer was in their house. He made a desperate resistance, and It required six men to secure him. He declared that he went to Bristol to murder his wife, tOr fear she might lead to a discovery ; but his in;.eniioas were providentially defeated. Thursday air Inquest µus held at the ked Lion,•Rosamond-street, CleikenweL, on the body of J. B, smett, who was reported to have poisoned iiiinseit. Being vety ailing, he was in the habit of taking a deal of . tautlantun. The su r o c o n w h o e•ain i ne d th e b o d y gave it as m 1 4'01)=011 that hi. death wa, caused by apoplexy:, which might have arisen from his eiinfoant habit of taking laudanum. Verdict ; Died by the visitation of God. . _ THE NATIONAL REGISTER. FFI3. 11. On Saturday morning the body of Mr. W. Lynch, only 2 years of age, son to Mr. Lynch, a wine.merebant, at 91, Great Russell- , street, Bloomsbury, was found drowned in the Thames, iet low water; the body had the appearance of having bee , everai days in the water ; but at what part of the river he was drowned could not be ascertained. That he committed the dreadful deed, was 'evident, from a note found in his pocket, written by himself, giving the person who shonid discover the body directions where to apply. it appeared before the Coroner's Jury. on e' idence, that he had been for some time past in a low and melancholy state of mind, but for which no cause could be as igned. They returoed a ver dict of Lunacy. A few days age, a fire broke out in French-street, Southamoton, - belonging to Mr. S. Craske, which lie had let to two men and men, strangers in the town ; and such was the rapidity of :he times,. that in the course of an hour the house was ill ruins. alit( the tiri had commenced on the adjoining houses. occupied by 11r. Ga. iwid and Mr. Bard, and also on the Mitre stables an I eoach-lioas , . , all of which were entirely consumed ; and, to arrest its progress, it was judged necessary to pull thwu three old lenose. adjoining. Mr. Garland escaped from his noose, with his wife and children. under considerable apprehensions for their face; hut, what has excited deep lamentation is, Mr. C. Ward (eldest son of Mr. Ward, Mas ter of the Academy near the tiny') fell a sacrifice to his active endeavours to stop the ravages of the flame's. He was assisting and directing the firemen, when a beam, which s•ipported a large bow-window on the first floor, fell upon him. 11. was dragged out a corpse, having sustained a severe fractnre in the head, shock ing bruises in the body, and was so much d.stigured, that it was not for some time after he was taken to St. Michael's church that he was known. The inhabitants are much indebted to the firemen for their active exertions, and to the South Hants Militia for pro tecting the property. 0 n Thursday Hills and Kingsw ell, two of She persons who rented the house where the fire commenced, were apprehended and examined by the Magistrates. touching the (ni l& of the fire. We forbear at present to state the circumstances which have cast suspicion of guilt upon them; they were such as to induce the Magistrate to commit them for another examination. They carried on the business of straw-bonnet-makers, and had ins sured their property for 1000!. the policy of which had been in their possetnon only two days. Legal Anecdote.—Some 20 or So years ago. the Western C ir cuit was attended by three Barristers. who were remarkable, the first for taking vast quantities of snuff—the next for being extremely passionate—and the other for incessant talking. Mr. 3—, then just beginning his legal career, happily charac terised them as 'mfg . -box, pepper-box, and ch,itter-bur. Some few years ago, an old farmer in the country was com plaining to his landlord, that " He began to think his wife a little too gay for him."—" Why, John," said his landlord. " you arc doing very well upon your farm, in these times ; and you know it is an observation throughout the country, that up corn ; up horn !" The Gout is universally allowed to leave the nerves affected for a long time, and it is perhaps a disorder of all others that leads a man to think whether he has not done something he ought not to have done For instance, it is said to be a terri ble disorder for an .1 ttorne# to be afflicted with. On Monday last, as the carter of Mr. West, of Bromley, was carelessly driving his cart along the Commercial-road, one of the wheels got into a rut: the driver began beating the horses with such excessive cruelty as soon created a numerous mob, who strongly deprecated the fellow's conduct; however, just at the time, Mr. West came up, got off his horse, and with the greatest ease immediately removed the cart from its situation. He then very coolly took the whip out of his man's hand, dis charged him, and ((love the cart home himself. The Carlisle Patriot says—" In consequence of the great de preciation of the price of tallow, candles are sold in this city at 9d. per lb. taking three pounds. Leather being also down in price. shall we not have cheap shoes RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK & Co. are induced to hope, from the. repeated instances of good fortune attendant on purchasers at their Offices, that they shall continue to meet with that liberal support, they have al ways experienced. .ICos. 18,616, 5,692, and 16480, Capital Prizes of 50,000/. ' 20,1,001., and 1,0001. were shared in the Last Lottery, at thr Officez, Comhill and Charing-Cross, where the y . respectfully solicite favors of the Publie, in the Lottery to begin Drawing on Valentine's Day: Scheme contains 2 Capitals of 2.5.000 Guineas in Gold, 2 of 20,000/., &c. and is famed on the original Syspan of nos K 131unis to a Prigs. I