The National Register. — London, England, 1813-07-11 00:00:00

IT 11. TT ILLUMINATIONS. A General Illumination took place on Monday last, which were sewed on Tuesday and Wednesday. Nothing could exceed the lendonr of the spectacle presented by the Metropolis, which was y equalled by the joy and heartfelt exultation every where dis laved. To enumerate the various objects of attraction on this occasion would fill our Paper. Somerset-honse, the Horse Gnards, ‘srlton house, Apsley-house, and Fife-house, called forth universal tnitation. The East India House, the Mansion-house, and the ink, did not shine with all their acenstonwd splendor. The uses of the . Spanish and Portuguese Ambassadors were most con icuous, and were lighted up in a manner worthy the occasion. E NATIONAL RI3CISTVR io make his escape captivity_ The Judge observed, that escape from confinement , was no ex cuse for his entering on board an enemy's vessel; rotting but irri sistible compnlsion could justify such an act, otherwise all the British prisoners now in France might plead a similar justification for en. tering the service of an enemy: The Jury brOught him in guilty. awl Sir Win. Scott pronounced sentence of death upon him ; but Connelly was acquitted from want of proof of his being a British-born subject. JUT. A(3 spletul only e player ncca•i Carltc Admit. Bank, lionsv view. Fri the pi late Mr care t as the vt'ai IOW(' • Voted Minis that if 60, MO 6( loy gel.t army the wain , Tli any: w Irish Ina.; lie the Belli 1 4 '46% Pnil reco . LE to k saw] role 011 IV lON it the dear A Mich herd or C Ji wet boa NAL RECISTVR. 44 I 1 When called npon for his Mince, he said that Intrffig been th ree years con fi ned in a Fiend* prison, he had gone aboard the privateer e to make his escape from captivity. _ . LORD WELLINGTON. Friday a Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall, for le purpose of presenting an Address to the Prince Recent, on the ,te splendid Victory achieved by the Marquis of Wellington. Mr. HELL opened the business by observing, that it Was unneces sary to detail the circumstances of the glorious Victory of Vittoria, • the Common Council, in common with the people of England, doubtless impressed with the magnitude and glorious import *nee •; lie would, however, call their attention to a former Address, voted to his Majesty in that Court, expressing an ardent hope that 'Ministers would persevere in the came of Spain. He conceived kat Address was peculiarly honourable to the City of London ; and 'so, they could not on thii occasion refuse their consent to the lotion he was going to submit. Ile concluded by moving, "That loyal Addrs FR be presented to his Royal Highness the Prince Re on the great and memorable Victory obtained over the French limy near Vittoria, on the 21st of June, by Field Marsial .he Marquis Wellington, and the allied Army under his cont• tumid " The Motion Wa3 ;Mee) to, 'Mien a Committee was appointed to draw op the h lrcys, and having returned with the same, it was aeproved of, and ordered to be pre4ented by the City Officers. LAW INTELUGENCE. INDECENT JEST OF AN IZISH JUDGE. We take the following mild:lad attempt at witticism from an Irish Paper : COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. PARKED r. GIBBONS Mr. WITITFSTONE moved tbr an order to stop farther proceed- Inas oil the part of the plaintiff, until he gave security for the costs. Ile stated, that the plaintiff resided in England, where the Court liird nu juri.diction. and alleged himself to have been a partner of the late J. J. Bellingham, who assassinated Mr. Pereeval ; that Bellingham had sent over from Liverpool two hogsheads of horse hair to he sold in tl:ic country, upon his own fpeciai account, by Gibbons; and tlutt now, after the man was hanged, this Mr. Parker came, and alle?ing the partnership, brought an action to recovur the a , notint of the Horse-hair. . Lord NORRURV --" I perceive, Mr. Whitestone, that you want to keep thi, Porker in suspcn.qe, becawc his partner, Bellingham, Ham suspended."—Order granted. We should have expected that Lord Norhory would; in his high situation, have forgotten the jeQtine habits of the facetious Mr. Tolen ; we beg leave, :it the same tune, to remind him, that it suits only such men as 3efferies or Fonquier Tainville, to joke on the awful punishment of Ho' law, eperially in a ease so atrocious as the minder of Mr Pereeval, whose memory mill always be held dear, and be respected by all good, honest, and thinking men. COURT OF ADMIRAL An Admiralty Sessions, for the trial of offences committed on the MO seas. withm the jurisdiction of the Admiralty of England, was herd on Monday before Sir W. Scutt, Jhdgc Chambre, and a Bench of Civil Wiltshire, alias Riley, alias Bowers, and Charles Connelly, were indicted for piracy, in coinmitting open arts of hostility un board an American privateer, they being British-born subjects. It was proved that the prisoners had acted on hoard the American privateer the True Blooded Yankee, and that they had on board the Margaret one alter prizes. It also appeared, that when on board the Salvador D , •l Mnndo prison ship at Plymouth, Wiltshire con fessed himself an Englishman ; and it was proved by the necmary documents that lie was born at Piinaunth Dock. ACCIDENTS AND OFFANCIS. Emit AT Woot.wicts.—Between seven and eight o'clock on Thum day morning, the inhabitants of Wuokich were thrown into eonsterna non in consequence of prodigious volumes of smoke which enveloped the whole town, It was soon discovered that the white hemp store house, in the rope-yard, was on fire. The alarm immediately •Isread, and the engines were quickly on the spot. The drums beat to sem i , and upwards of 1000 artillerymen from the barracks arrived to assist in quenching the flames; but notwithstanding the most prompt active exertions, the fire continued to burn with irresistible rapidity tili nine o'clock, when the roof of this part of the bnilding fell in. The damage done must hare been considerable, and it is supposed that several thousand pounds worth of hemp and oakum have been de stroyed. The eanse of the fire has not yet been discovered, though various conjectures are afloat as to its origin. it is only a few months ago since a fire happened in another part of the buildings. We are sotry to add, that a flax-dresser of the name of Rison wus killed. Tim fire was subdued before elevrat o'clock. UNION-HALL. FonTtlicE-TELLERS.— Thomas and Stisan Stiff were charged by Jane Maylin with having defrauded her of Is. 6d. under pretence of laying open to tier the pages of the " Book of Yate." The proseen. trix stated, that having received information of the astonishing knowledge possessed by Mr. Stalin events yet unborn, from some of her female friends who had consulted him, the prosecutrix, after payment of 2s. ad. the introductory fee demanded - by Mrs. Stiff, was ushered into the sanctum of the learned Dr. Stiff, who, after haying enquired the day and hoar of the prosecutrix's being born, and examined with nice degree of aecnaracy the face of the celes. tial globe which stood beside him, in all due solemnity informed tint prosecntrix she was a single woman ; she presumed, however; bn suggest to him that he was mistaken, she having been married seine. years. He then stated that she had four children; but there again she had to set the cunning man right, who now aCCOOMI4 fur lees inaccuracy, by saying that the stars were so misty at the moment of her birth it rendered it a matter of extreme difficulty to read them. He however assured her she would soon be a widow, and after •a _ very short period had elapsed she would again be courted and wan by a gentleman possessing 'both riches and honours. With this as. %mance he dismissed her ; but ske not being quite satisfied with what she had received in exchange for her 2s. 6d. applied at Mk office to Mr. MIME, the Sitting Magistrate, who ordered D IN , and Mrs. Stiff to be confined in the priiun iu Horsemonger.lane, fer one month. BIRTHS. At Queen's-square Chapel, Bath, D. Stuart, Esq. of Kilburn-Lowe. 111iddlese,t, proprietor of the Courier newspaper, to Mary Napier Schaleh, only daughter of the late Major Sclallch • of the Hurd Artillery. At . MOnmoutli, the Right Hon. Lord Somerset, brother of the Duke of Beaufort, to Miss Molyneux, daughter of Major-General 'Molyneux, and niece of Sir Capal Molyneux, Bart. of Castledillos, in Ireland. DIED. At Warwick House, Mrs. Gagrin, for many years an affectionate and faithfol attendant on her Royal Highness nilleCSS Charlotte of Wales, whose last moment's were -solaced by the condescending and unremitting attentions of her Royal Hiehne , s, reflecting # lustre on the native goodness of her heart superior to al,l the appendages of her exhalted rank. At Tmibrige Wells, where he had gone for the recovery of his health, Mr. Huntingdon, t!..2 celebrated Dissenting Minister of Pro vidence Chapel. In his 77th year, Cr. Collins, Esq. nearly 51 years in the service of the Bank of England. Atter a confinement of 16 years to her bed, Mr.. P. Gibson, of Colchester, aged 78.