The National Register. — London, England, 1811-07-14 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. THE KING. The following was the Bulletin shown on Sunday last at St. James's Palace : t • , 44 Windsor Castle, July 7, 1811. " His MAJESTY IS in some respects a little better this week The following is the of Report of his Majesty's health on Saturday. the 6th inst. as presented to the Privy Council by the Queen's Council: 44 WINDSOR, JULY 6.—We the underwritten, Members of the Council appointed to assist her Majesty in the execution of the trusts committed to her Majesty, by virtue of the statute, passed in the .51st year of his Majesty's reign, intituled, " an Act to provide for the Administration of the Royal Authority, and for the care of his Majesty's Royal person, during the continu ance of his Majesty's ilness, and for the resumption of the ext r- • case of the Royal Authority by his Majesty,' having duly met together, on the 6th day of July, 1811, at the Queen's Lodge, fear to Windsor Castle, and having called before us, and exa mined upon oath, the Physicians, and other persons attendant upon his Majesty, and having ascertained the state of his Ma jesty's health by all such other ways and meads as appeared to us to be necessary for that purpose, do hereby declare and cer tify, that the state of his Majesty's health,at the time of this our fleeting, is not such as to enable his Majesty to resume the per sonal exercise of his Royal Functions. " That his Majesty's bodily health is but little disordered. • " That, in conseqrtence of an accession of mental disorder, Subsequent to our report of the oth of April list, a change took place in the system of management, which had been previously adopted for his Majesty's cure. His Majesty's mentathealth is ' represented to us, by all the Physicians, as certainly improved since the 6th of April. We are unable, however, to ascertain . what would be the effects of an immediate recurrence to any system of management, which should admit of as free an ap proach to Ilia Majesty's presence, as was allowed in a former period of his Majesty's indisposition. Some of his Majesty's Physicians do not entertain hopes of his Majesty's recovery quite so confident as those which they had expressed on the Oth of April. I'he persuasions of others of his IVlajesty's Physiciant that his Majesty will completely re toyer, is not ditriinished—and they all appear to agree, that there is a considerable probability - of his Majesty's final reco very; and that neither. his Majesty's bodily health, nor his resent symptorns, n br the . effect which the disease has yet pro " uced upon his Majesty's faculties, a ff ord any reason for think ' ' that his Majesty will not ultimately recovery. resent . (Signed) is CANTAUR. 46 E: Emu 44 Ethort. " MONTROSE. • " ELLENROROUGH " WINCHRI.SEA. "W. GRAN r. " AT LESIPORD. (A true Copy) " CUETWY ND." •, Irnmediately after the Report was made, his Majesty had a fresh access of paroxysms, and from that time, the indulgence which had been allowed his Majesty of walking on the Ter race, has, been withheld. _ . __ Mr. Howe, a gentleman pedestrian of eonsiderAle note started from Oxford-street en !slonday, to go to Bristol and re turn in 40 hours, with two resting houra allowed, but was os.. liged to resign at three o'clock on Wednesday on this side Read ing. vets , much distressed. DUEL. --Tuesday last a duel was fought in a shrubbery, near Esher, between Lieutenant Jarden and Air. Coleshill, a 'Volun teer Officer, in consequence of a dispute at a public place, where the Lieutenant was said to have behaved rather too freely to Mr. C.'s sister ; when the Lieutenant was badly wounded is the thigh at the first tire. Monday evening, Mr. Samuel Foot, Attorney, of Salisbury, met With a singular and very dreadful accident :—Examining some phials which had been set by with chemical preparations, he was induced to unscrew the glass stopper of one of them, filled with a white powder: the instant he had effected his pur pose, the powder exploded with wonderful force ; the phial was blown to atoms, his left hand torn in strips, the huger nails and bones being afterwards found quite bare, and he was obliged to undergo amputation at the wrist; his right hand was much shat tered, and the right thumb obliged to be amputated above the first joint ; his coat, waistcoat, and shirt were torn away in front, and he was very severely wounded in the belly, where it is apprehended some of the pnlverized glass has lodged ; his eves and face were greatly injured, and it appears he must have been instantly kills d, had lie _not been near the mantle-shelf, with his head inclined over it, in the under part of which shelf some of the bones were found. Mr. Foot sustained this severe injury, and has undergone the subsequent operations with won derful fortitude, which has materially contributed to his present favourable symptoms: he remains free from fever, so that there are hopes of his recovery, and also that his eye-sight will be preservi d. - A few weeks since, in ploughing up a field at Whhington, six miles from Cliche-1111am, and two from Frogntill, the pro perty of H. F. Brooke, rsq. a most beautiful tesselated pave ment, more perfect than any hitherto found, was discovered. Mr. B. immediately made known the important discovery to Mr. Lysons and other gentlemen conversant in this branch of antiquity, who are rives employed in collecting and examining these fine remains. '1 lie scite (f a villa, 150 feet in length, has been most accurately ascertained : seven difkrent rooms have been clearly traced, and the pavements are enriched with draw ings, in the highest state of preservation, of Neptune, Orpheus, animals, birds, fishes, &c. An hippocaust, or sweating-rootn, with its flues, and several pillars of confiderabit magnitude, are to he seen. Whatever part of this interesting scene can be removed with safety, has been presented by Mr. Brooke to the Museum. A CASE or REAL Dirritzss.—A Gentleman, who was in a respectable banking and mercantile line, from which he was lately reduced by unavoidable misfortunes, with a wife and eleven children, bad been endeavouring by his industry to sup port them, when he was seized with a severe illness which ren dered him unable to follow his employment. To maintain his family in this cilaress, he was obliged to dispose of almost every article they were possessed of; and his wife, who is near being confined of her twelfth child, is destitute of the necessaries which her situation requires—withoer even bed or linen, except what has been borrowed, and the rest of the family are in a si milar state of distress. To alleviate this mi,ery the present ap plication is made to the generous and humane, from whom sub scriptions will be received by the following persons, who will give every information respecting the truth of the above state ment:—Mr. Ross, 8, Lombard-street; Mr. Paterson," Lud gate-street ; Mr. Dick, Bookseller, 9.4, Holywell-street ; and Mr. Ogle, rook.seller, 295, Holborn. . VAUXHALL.—TheProprietors of this rural retirement, seem so grateful fur their extensive patronage, as to he exercising their , ncy to produce something novel in each successive week. Not content with the abundant terrestrial beauties of their gardens, and the celestial beauties who trip lightly through their mazy bowers, they are now invoking the naiads to join the nymphs, and by a superb aquatic display, to give every jovial soul, a chance of being in his element !—Among the company on Friday evening, we noticed the Duke and Duchess of York, the Dukes of Kent, Cumberland, Cambridge, and Gloucester, &e. Saturday se'nnight, a pour man, agent to a Welch cattle• dealer, returning home from Tewkesbury, lost his pocket-book, containing Bank-notes to the amount of 2641. between rushleye green and the Holly-bush, on the Ledbury-road, which was picked up by a pedlar and his wife immediately afterwards. On his returning to seek after it, finding the pedlar, he conveyed him to Tewkesbury, where he and his wife were searched, but as no traces of the property were found upon them, and they persisted in knowing nothing of it, they were liberated; but a person, where they lodged the following night, overheard them in bed, planning how they should dispose of the money, and had them apprehended in the morning, when the whole sum was found sewed up in the lining of the tap, and was afterwards restored to the owner. MISCELLANIES. The Prince Regent, it is said, intends to honour Mr. Per ceval with his company at dinner on or about the 20th inst. The Secretary of State has issued a Circular Letter to the • Colonels of the British Militia, desiring them to explain to the men under their command, that they cannot be called upon tinder the Militia Interchange Bill, for services out of Great Britain, for any longer period than two years successively, and that having once performed that duty, they cannot under any circumstances, excepting those of actual invasion or rebellion, be again employed in Ireland, until the expiration of six years. . The Officers, in point of pay, are to be placed on the same footing with the Officers of the Line. The Prince Regent has also Ordered that the bounty of two guineas be paid to every non commissioned cfficer, drummer, and private man, who shall voluntarily offer and take the oath prescribed, and that those disabled in actual service shall be entitled . to the same advan tages as the Regulars. It is said, Earl Stanhope has an invention for a new mode of TrAgraving, that will, in his mind, make. forgery impossible. Thuriday, at a Court of Common Council, held at Guild hall, 'the Thanks of the Court, and Freedom of the City, in closed in a gold box, and a sword, value 100 guineas, were unanimously voted tp Lieut.• General Sir William Carr Beres 'turd, for the distinguished ability displayed by him in the glo rious battle of Albuera. The Thanks of the Court were also voted to the whole of his Majoty's forces engaged on that day.