The National Register. — London, England, 1809-07-23 00:00:00

JULY !S. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. New mar yet, high will take place on Thursday next. Vi'e understand that . Mr. NV. has betted Mr. F. the stun of IWO gui ea 4, thot !1- arty, or the. Flying Pientan, as he is called, ac.•lebrated and eccentric character, long known in this metre-- poll", will on that day stand on mile of the towers of Lambe Palace, and c. 11:, Hut Pudding, 111 Hot, so as . to be heard upon Battersea-liridge, by the persons appointed to decide the wager. It wai rottie few years ago performed by a Dustman. whl lo.idly bawled, Dust Ho ! Dust, and was distinctly Itc•lrd by a concourse of people. Tlie parties are allowed to tote nd4va!,tage of the tthid and tide on the occasion Bets an tw o to oiw in f.; your of oie fl% ing Pieman, and very tittle d c enteriain-d of 103 ;11a, : a,le a horse 1003 miles ia 1000 Suceeedi:ig l& ,ter,, utic :rile: to the Ii)• A', 0:I 1.1%. 'son with ease. A .f the vi ale of tartriri on Saturday at +'l is' walk the Barclay match of a • Ows•qtlid foi a wager of 30:1 guinea-. l'he over piece o: the common from his •ivn Ili; is a At..nt at:lli:tic man; but betting is consider aza;ns.t. Sir Robert ('ary - t t. l : near 3:1:1 miles io Ics. than three days, wit -tt w et fril from Loodoo to lidinburgh, to inform Kite Ja (1.:114 of Q.levn 2:OJC: lie had sevet al fall, mi ,•tre L ti;4,.. , 4)n the road, n hiet occasioned hisgoing battered an I bloti,i) ito the royal pres•ctice. Mr. , :ooper l'hornaill, an idtikeeper at Stilton, in Hunting d rode front that place to Lon,loa and back again, and also a sorool time ti io one duo. ; which n) :de in all 213 miles.--11(! ti..iertiork to ri !e this journey w ill; several hors in ! 3 hoar; ; bat p.. , rformed it in I.? and a quarter. O . Nth Ist 115 i, a young lady, who at Newmarket had !:ii I etto.i lera)l,. wager, that site could ride 1000 miles in 1 )t ) ) hours, finish .d her matt in little more than tWO thirds of th- time. At her coming in, the country people strewed flowers in 't;r way. 1 me+ \IAN - , a f•trtw.r, re.iiinz at Goring, near Walingford, rn in the ye:ir has olfered to It:Le!: himself for the sum zuineac, to walk lift; miles on the turnpike road in fif- W.'s, hoar,. 1.4 a!“ yelr lie performed a journey of fifty-two mile wit n that titue, after ...tog worked six hours in a hayfield; and two %ears ago he walked a mil,' in IR(' minutes, far a bet of a g •Ilon of beer ; he lately litA with f.l Cow-keeper near Tot tenli Court It o:td, as supct twentiant of the dairy and farm ; he is a sm tit :au-colas m an , i;:ttl -ojoys all his faculties—about lac ug • of fifty he manic,' a IV of forty, who produced ht n Len eh ;Wren. A , :ortricrt HT:rto ^:)vE --On Tuesday evening, the once Ceas, 'nine v eat, shone ft hright luminary in the pngilkti- 'rhool, paid the debt ui nalk.re, after a vory short not c, illl h iard a Gravesend bo.it, on his return to Lontion.— T iii i.ord r ;.n CLICr of the seiehce aod <lft rlj revival of scietiti pii4i!i:no conte4t. of ti- - an and Johnson, Hum pliriol and . -- alelidoza, aa.l inanv other cha.ol)ions of note, was one o;' the moit lifirthl:. is tht! ITI:laStiC long before the Game Chieken wae hit:eke:l into oltiec, or tike Bel he (41;lies, Crihs, (re flit %%ore SO InUA as heard of. ‘Vot:-o ,iod Scrnos, and ail the favourite boxinir groun di , were often score prao; e•ii; ; an!i the Duke of Jim riltun, a!nl all ail.. nohle amAt,-,;r s of the nially art in his day, wore frequent wiineses of his achl:-vrinenis. Tough as ti:c tree name he ho re, ;cid as lis fruit to the feelings of hii antagonifi 4, he was ahowed :o urn of the most troubie svue cir..tonier, to hij ri in the ColltC,t to:' ViCtOrY, awl to scre: , out his 1.10 - ,'.s •,vita a rapidity, d,,,c!,..ritv,aod effect, lardy equalled, and seltiotncr excelie•l, by men ;.t his weigin and year, d,:votc:i in the pursuit of pugilistic glory, he reAgned the profession of klucfici, and froni a an of war be ca'ue yn ofii,:eri,fp.t•oct on h.: ritief of London, in 'which situation tie conlueted ktots,lf for tamer time with much propriet v, never comiticnr;;n* . bol;/iLL.A, !.ut, like a w i4 . 4e ecru pir,:o/re, for the at taiffineot of ; never wielding the %%enpoes zc.se I:ot for the crlictormce of pcace. His goiek ege I.emned terror to the litit-fingered who &lit:, ply ahoui the II ink aid Eschnn, , ,e, on the lurk tor booty; and his keen .rent :.reltdly iu,sed the secret haunts of t•eamps, divers, and housebreakers. ?Ant, like .141:i . v a hero before litm , " his rare was ;'. and Deutip, the nni‘ersal vim tor, It ho, sooner or latter, levels all herots:u with the en,t—aril r a rriqg a few short rounds with putt C. - ab t in a illness, at last put in a Jii.ithill4 blow. l iWk`!✓l'Cl.ll.~. The great tunnel through the !oily hill called itatiNiqe, over which the high road passes from II udderstHil, in Yorkshire, to Manchester, and t: hicii forms one of tbe great chain of hills that separate; the counties of "York :1114 Lanca , ter, is at length cote pletcd. It k several years since this great work of human labour awl ingenuity I, whirlt forms the third line of water cora y Well ileie tr. 0 great mantiracttiring coontied tre now coniwc.tei!) was begun ; it has been inure than once ar ,-eted in it 3 progress, arid indeed almost abandoned, portly froin i ;ecuniary exhaustion, and partly from the great difficulty of the iintlertakine,, nri•ing from the extraordinary depth of the cloud beneath the surface, the great quantity of water which cquired to he drawn ow, and the looseness of some part of the , tri.ta through which it passed. It is, in truth, a stare** w In the town of Ulverston there is a dog, which has been taaght the manual exercise, which he goes through with the .;reatest pr .mptness. His manceuvres are performed with a set.ill hazel rod instead of a musket. tl shocking Murder was committed on Tuesday night, on tug road leading from the village of Pepper, New Forest, Heats, to Goring, by two fellows, on the body of a Smuggler, Who was conveying some property in a tilted cart, in company With a little girl. his daughter. The ruffians demanded the mates money, but having a quantity of guineas about him to convey to Portsmouth, he refused compliance with the robbers request, when they beat him with bludgeous until he was deprived of life, and got at his property, leaving the little girl bound in the cart, and after taking off the horses and turning them loose ow the Common, the villains decamped. At the Staffordshire Quarter sessions, a poor girl, who wan. deaf and dumb, in swearing her child, afforded the Court con siderable amusement. She contrived to make herself understood by signs. After two hours elaborate disquisition, during which the Bench divided in opinion, the man was discharged. On Monday last, as Mr. Pierce Walsh was takiuga walk on the banks of the Isis. near Abingdon, where he was engaged to dinner, lie fell into the river, and for want of timely assistance.' was unfortunately drowned. Mr Walsh was Solicitor for Ox ford, and by his conduct desersed;y dined the good will of his fellow citizens. An inqui - sition was taken by the Coroner, on. Thu rslay. Verdict —Aceidodal Death. On Sunday se'nnight a nian was committed to LEW.; prison, for stealing hats from the Old Methodist Meeting during the morning service ; and ano thcr person was committed for disturb.- log the congregati.in at Holbeck Chapel, during service. A w rot; V t fo ts.- --Oa Sunday se'noight, Edward K or Kit, a carman of Trutt), as he was proceeding up 1304mi0, street, to a snot on which he had appointed to light a man whet had affronted him, in a, paroxysm of rage, fell down, and in stonily expired. Coroner's verdict-- Vhilation of God. SURREY QtrdßTEll SESSIO,VS. Susanna linskison was indicted by the parish of St. Jithrt's,, Bermondsey, for an imposition on the Keeper of the Work house of that Parish, by falsely alleging herself to be iu t stale of pregnancy.—lt appeared that the prisoner was a professed pauper, and was perfectly conversant with all the stage trick.. so necessarY to render her profession alvantageous and produr live. Amongst Cie most eminent of her performances, was tin of assuming all the anguish MibCry of a woman in the p:in i ;f. of labour, in which, it was allowed on all hands, she proved at, excellent actress, and often gleaned a most plentiful benefit, b., her ability in a heart-rending display, from the credulity of humane perions commiserating her situation. In the charge now exhibited against her, it was stated, that in the month of 11lay last she was provide/Wang seized w ith the pains of Labour in College,treet, and was reaping all the benefits A% hich providence pound in on her from the hands of the charitable. when one. more humane than the rest procured a hackney coach to convey her to the workhouse, in order that she rei,,et obtain the requi site assistance her state reqvired. Wi;11 the aid of some females she was conveyed to St. John's Workhouse, w here even. atteno s tion was paid to her, and ti here an old Fdy named Shuff/65ettant, '- the nurse of the house, prepared to rr der her every nrces-nry aid, and by the obstetric skill of their v orthy :taster, the pntient !as was happily delivered of a combersoter ors -cleat, %Ilia wabffi. very ingeniously moulded into such a fort) as w .s hest . to deceive the unwary. She was ch , ,r.l after v well, and wits preparing to take her depa. arc, hen the 479