The National Register. — London, England, 1809-09-03 00:00:00

SEPT. 3. Diet the following message, relative to the pension which the Slates are to allow to the late King Gustavus Adolphus, his Queen, and children : " The period is now fast approaching, when a Prince, who lately governed Swedett, but whose claim to the Swedish crown has been solemnly cancelled by the unanimous resolution of the States wf the realm, must absent himself from his country. II is own spontaneous wish agrees on this point with w hat the public tranquillity and security require. His Royal Nlajesty has taken the advice of the Secret Committee on a subject of so much im portance; which, how ever, the state of publ;c affairs dries not yet permit his Majesty to communicate to the Diet, therefore confines himself at present to the question---' What pension or yearly allowance are the States of tile realm to grant to their late King, his Queen, and childreo ? whica question being answered, another will occur relative to the country, w hick it w ill be most proper to assign for the residence of Gustavus Adolphus and his 1;1144\ " His Majesty doe! - ; not deem ;t superfluous to add some obser vations which the States are to bear in mind in their deliberatio!: on this subject. The States cannot but be aware, that their de cision must bear the sialop of dignified generosity which becomes a noble-Minded nation : that misfortune craves respect ; and that humanity itself coMmands forgiveness and oblivion of the pa-t. — His Royal Majesty is anxiously desirous that the States of the Realm, by dividing the subject under discussion on these princi ples, should m. ,t his wishes, and, thus give a pledge to Europe of the purity of the motives which in.tuced Sweden to revive her System of Government, and renew the structure of the State. (Gazette (pile Did.) CUARLES." IRELAND. EXTRAORDINARY CASE. FROST THE DUBLIN PAPERS OF THE 22D INSTANT. Oa Thursday last at seven o'clock in the evcoing, as a man was passing by the lime kiln of I). Gosson, near ringias, he saw, in a hollow below the wall of the kiln, a person in a grey coat lying on his face on the ground. At first he supposvd him to he asleep or intoxicated, but after some time perceiving be did not stir was induced to examine more closely, when be found him apparently dead. Oit turning him on his hack to aseerlaio who he might he, a sight most awful and horrid presented to his view. The person was not dead, but on moving his coat, the whole surface of his body seemed a moving inws of worms; his face was much disfigured, apparently from some bruises in flicted either by blows or by a fall ; and from every aperture of .his head, his eyes, cars, mouth, and nose, poured innumerable worms, as if the interior of the skull were entirely filled with them. His eyes were dissolved, and the cavities, as well as these of his ears, mouth, and nose, were tilled with a white moving mass, more horrible and digusting than it is possible for imagination to conceive,. without oceular inspection. After some time, the miserable being recoverflstOlicient strength to walk, and so far recovered his recoilectioMatud voice, that he distinct ly answered several questions put to him ; he told who he w7::4, where he lived, &c. ; that he was returning home on a car the evening before, and having drank too lunch he fell oil', and lay Conned with the fall till he was discovered. He could not ac count for the wounds in his head, nor for his being so far .oti the road; bet it is probable he had received the contusion on his face from the fall. or perhaps the car had gone over him, and he had insen , ibly crawled to the place where he jay. The humidity of the air, and the heat of the weather, had rapidly brought on a solution of the solids in those braised parts alteady predisposed to putresceney, and now lying in contact with the moist earth. In this was speedily deposited the eggs of the iunumeiable insects, whose generation was as rapid as the pre disposing causes were favourable ; and thus, while the vitai powers rallied at the centre, and the • blood, yet circulating round the heart, preserved the vital principle, the es tremities, in which all pulsation had cea , :ed, were dissolving into their pri mitive elements, and the whole surface of the body exhibited a mass of animated corruption. lie was brought into as Out house, and laid on some hay ; the loathsome objects were re imovedt as far as that could be done; he was washed with spirits and vinegar, had cordials poured•down his throat, which he swallowed, though with some difficulty. In fact, every pre caution was taken by the worthy people by whom he was dis covered, but without effect; the putrescency rapidly increirted ; in a very short tune the •spasms in his throat prevented his *Allowing; he gradually became insewible s and at twelto TILE NATIONAL REGISTER. o'clock the next day he died, in a state of total putrisolittion, having lived in that dreadful situation twelve hours, from the tune he was first discovered, and the gretY ter part of that period in full possesion of his senses, so mitt'. en. that lye inqu red eagerly after his pocket, in u Welt he recollected he had put some money, and which to a small amount was Lund. That Herod, Sylla, Sze. were devoured by worms, whilst Set alive, are facts recorded by the ancient historians, and that the worms , engender in the flesh and in nada, tic. is also true ; but those are not parallel cases, as they were the effects of t lie morbid preden u-s.and specific disorders. The only case in modern times,perhaps, a hurnau being living antler such circumstances, is recorded in the romantic adreature,. of.lscerre Viand, and even here the in ciflent throws a degree ~ fdiseredit on the authority of the n ork, although it was attested by the annexed allidavis of perswns who liad see') it. Vet in that ca ,, e the worms had only engerdertd ha the lower extr-mities, while the head and the viscera, !trees .ary to animal life, were free. But here the most essential or i .;!ln of the animal ee r;oiny was dissolved, while yet the living beii:g walked and talked. PllOl4-1 : I S. 561 MONTHLY RETORT FOR AUGUST. The Wheat Harvest has tient-1y closed in all but the most Northern Districts, and, we !egret In add, with sit' very favour able prospect as to its average produce. The blight and mildew have much injured the ear in the Eastern District, and in the 'inure Counties the grain in general has suffered severely front the inclemency of the weather. Oats and Beans pr ye the best it - no:. Barleys are generally thin. The Potatoes have been he; , etitted by the late rains, and are now expected to yield abun dantly. The late sown Turnips have planted well, awl 34 has. the Rape, intended for seed. Clover Seed is not peck Ito rise well, from the too succulent state of then) on free growing Th.snith the crops of Huy hnve been 'hoc , in most countries, the defect is in 8, considerable meaSup! compensated i,V!•' • great crops of lattermath grass that have Fucereckil. 'flit Hop plan tations in Kent and Sussex, though cleanzed by the heay.y are not expecPd to grow more than half a crop; the 'ear's duty not laid at more than 53,000/. The Meat Markets continue reasonable. Lean Stock is on the advance, particularly f. -• store beasts. Horses of most kinds are cheaper. The Vool ,Market keeps steady, at last mouth's prices. • LANCASTER ASSIZES. - DREACII OF PROMISE OF 314aRIAOr, AND AVARICE. 11Lt.1IE WARBRICK. This was a case which excited such an uncommon degree 'of interest, that many of the Ladle; of Live! pool left tlrlt in order to he u resent at a trial which promised so highiy fo gratify their curiosity. Mr. Serjeant Cocked, in his address to the Jury, cs4ured them it was with infinite regret he stated a rwe of as much injustice, inhumanity, hardship, and cruelty tow .crds the as I'M' he remPmbered to have heard of in and he va NAlrlW` , ell he derendant should have occadioeed the poor, staering to conic into Court, auk by me::ns of a .lur‘ , tie payto-nt o' a debt which he had contracted under cirrumstanies hien froze his Wood with horror. The plaintiff, ee hatever tee; condition in life was, had been most cruelly tr. ate:l Ov the dere. - dani. She a young woman of great personal :Of rartieof, a d oer neiss , fortune had been her exee-sive fondness for Ito nograti f.Ui ma,,— a man, who, for a long period of time, had dr, •• e more from this poor deluded young creature. She hid he n (0.14 • of him to distraction ; and the defendant I ta i . i m g or he re. ealevess, had drawn almost every siypenc , she had ti to her, under pretence of alrection, fondne4, and endenrovent ; !.9 URIC! so as to occasion her to he distresed, and to pa! t it . _ her , property, And even pledge the ttifle she had. Thl4 If 'lain had been for some time living, in the town •f w' , ,ere • she nal a confectio n er's shop, and by her gains in than sa.efe, slipplied this ungrateful man with moitey,fnr a considtrafo ti For a year and a half he hoarded at her house, ate at hem and received in her society w hat be was 'pleaded •'4l ' much comfort t but which he haml now clit(vforgottei.. ale had been in trade, but he afterwares•w ent into the 3tt. rezimeut of Dragoons. She a,sistcd him in the purchase of wbeu hi* own friends would not 'emits him Ay idt The Learned Serjeant-said be was not fond of deetiue , out tvtritt epithets, but no language could paint the defendata prier,* CIAOUIA OWII IClWl's, however) would Feint - suit him im a , • • • •