The National Register. — London, England, 1814-06-05 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER._ mil tiered by him whom he esteemed as his 'friend—assisted - by many otheq, on lieholding of whom lie exclaimed with the greatest aitonishment F.t to Brute Such is the unhappy 'fate of inordinate ambition ; it alienates friends, increases enemies, destroys peace of mind, and, iu.a word, renders its •possessor miserable anst unhappy. The ideas of an ambiti ions man are ever crowded and confused with anxious in quietude. He awaits with vehement desire every antici pated opportunity of elevating himself above his fellow creatures, either by upright or sinister means. His carnal appetite is not easily satiated, nor does it ef- Terience that satisfaction a contented mind receives from even inferior supplies ; but as a carnivorous hatbar ian feeds deliciously on human flesh, so does the aspiring mind delight in lofty designs. His restless thoughts are wholly employed on temporal concerns and fading glory, whereby his soul is estranged COD, and in some measure deprived of that 'happiness which never decays. Envy and malignity follow in her train, accompanied with their retinue—unpleasant and ruinous consequences. This was the cause of Caesars un timely death. 66 As Caisar lov'd me, I weep. for him ; as he was fortunate, I re " juice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him ; but as he was am " bilious. 1 slew him : there are tears for his lov ; joy, for his for " tune ; honour fur his valour ; and death for his ambition." Brutus's speech to the Plebeians—Shakespear's Julius Orsar, Act z Scene 2. Let us, therefore, curtail our desires, that we become not the scorn and derision of society, as is the condition of a living character,—which shall form the subject of another essay— but by ei ery exertion in our power a% uid that rock on which so many have struck. _ Chapel Street, &Iliad, Manchester, blay :4, 1814. I. C. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING's BENCH, SATURDAY, JUNE 4. BANKS V. PING. The plait t'ff in this case, a respectable taylor, brought his action srecover v4l. for 'articles of cloaths furnished to the defendant's son. 'I he defendant having undertaken to pay, though at the time of Join , . so he expressed a wish that the circumstance should be conceal:A from the.knowledge of his sou. The defence set up was ;I denial ou the part of the defendant, of having taken any respon -%.l:iility upon himself; but at the tine the cloaths were ordered, he deetared to the plaintiff's foreman, who took the order, that his -son being now of age, and having a commission in the army, he ,watild not enga4e to pay for any more cloaths. The defendant's Christian name was Jacob, his sons was Jno. the plaintiff delivered a bill " Mr. J. Ping, Dr." This bill tie defendant returned, saying, it should have been made out to his son , on which the plaintiff altered the bill, and again delivered it" Mr. bin. Ping, Dr."—Lord El;enbo ough held this circumstance concheive, and the plaintiff m as uonsuited. A gentleman having made a bet of V)0 to 80 that a man could . not be found in a fortnight to go from Bow Church Cheapside, to Windsor, to go a mile out of NVindsor, and return, and proceed back to flow Chin hums, a distance of 52 mile;—the eels brated Rainer was selected for the task, and he started at lwelve on Wednesday night from Bow Church, reached Windsor at the rate of seven miles and a half an hour, and arrived at Hyde Park-earner-rate, on his return, at a quarter past seven o'clock, having nearly three miles to, erform in three quatters of an hour; from thence be walked until lie got thrnuelfSt. Paul's Church-yard when he made a start, and ran in, and won by four minutes and a half. Ho challenged all the world at any thing above a mile. Last .week at fit. Neat's, 4 hibouring man, named Read, led a policy belonging to Mr. Arnoid, .to the edge of a saw-pit, and mall .einin-ly Idaho it in, by which - means its neck was dislocated, and it rilmo,t instantly, The brute was only tined in the value of the 2.4uey and weuces, OLD BAILEY. Tuesday, Robert Hill was indicted for feloniously receiving three as.es, the property of the Right Hon. Lord Ellenborongh. The as es were stolen on the will 'if March by two men of the names of Oddy and Purvis ' the latter of whom was convicted at the last Kingston Assizes. They were sold to the prisoner much under vahte at the door of a pnblic-honse in Charter-I louse-late, and one of the animals was afterwards found in the prisoner's possession. In de fmce, the priSoner said he had bought them of a man named Wil liams, at Cvoydon,— Same day, the Records r passed sentence of death on the follow ing priqmeis, viz : - James Stanfuld, Samuel Knight, and James Knight, for ste:diug in a dwelling-house ; Iletiiy Lye, for burglary; John Field, alias Jonathan Wild and Michael Bcrry, for a similar offence ; William Marshall, alias Mashiter, for a burglary ; Thomas Alexander, for sty aling goods privately in a shop; Mary Dnim, and Mary Leonard, tur ; William Pritchard, for stealing in a dwelling-house; and Francis Turner and John Robinson, for like offences. Isaac Saunders, Andrew George, John Williams, Henry Hart, James Bainbridge, and Thomas Jones, were ordered to be tranl ported far life.--Amelia Hatfield, William Powell, John Hickey, and Robert Hill, for 14 years.—Ann Riley, James How, Julio Nicholas Brown, Charles Edward COX, Barbara Nichols, Charles Frederick, John Newman, John Fullwell, Robert Tucker, Eleanor Brown, William Atkins, and Charles llarns, for seven years.—Two were sentenced to be imprisoned in Clerkenwell Bridewell for two years ; six for one year, and twelve for six calendar months ; twelve were sentenced to various periods of imprisonment in Newgate; six were fined I‘. each, and discharged; seven were ordered to be pri vately whipped, and fourteen were discharged by pioclanral ion. Friday, a man by the name of Bevis, of Hook, near *FiteWield, Hants, who -had been married only a few weeks, tilt his wife's throat in so shocking a manner as to occasion her instant death.— Insanity is the cause acsigned for this most dreadful act. James Pearce, a haw kcr et pamphlets, is committed to Ilchester gaol, Somerset, for the murder of James Elliott, landlord of Rack house, about seven miles from Taunton.. The prisoner had been drinking in the house the whole day (Friday se'imight), and becom ing riotous, the landlord endeavoured to appease him ; and about eleven o'clock urg ed him and his companion to go t o the beds pre pared for them. Shortly after this, the prisoner took down a fowl ing-piece tom a considerable height on the wall, and discharged the contents into the body of the deceased, near the groin, and he al most instantly expired. Verdict, Wilful Murder. 'rue deceased has lett 4 wife and three children. Some villains broke into the cottage of an infirm old man, named Bloodworth, at a v illage a few miles from Peterborough, in the night of Saturday se'nni4lit, and entered the room in which the old man and his wife wane iu bed. After demanding their money, they plundered a chest, of which :hey obtained the key, of bills and cash to the amount of 501. the bard earnings of these poor people. ExEcurtoNs.--Monday morning was executed, in Irma of the Debtor's door, Newg,atc, W. H. Botterill, who was convicted at the last A PHI Sessions of tattling a fo r ge d Bill of Exchan g e.—The fate of this main innate young man is an awtnl lesson to the Whs. cretion of youth. and of the eonsequerce of improper company. linsuspiriona anti unguarded, lie became a prey to the allurements of the designing, and he has fallen a victim in the dawn of manhood. He was only twenty-three years of age, eight of which he has served in the Navy. On Saturday last, Wm. Wilson, convicted at the Cheshire As sizes. of setting fire to a barn belonging to Mr. Butler, of Tiverton, in that county, underwent the dreadtid sentence of the law behind the city gaol. He appeared. to the last, perfectly indifferent to his awful fate. He ate a very hearty breakfast, and cotimmed eating bread and cheese nearly all the way to the gallows. He continued to assert his innocence of the crime for which he suffered, up to the last moment of his existence. On being brought to the cart, which was waiting for him at Glover's Stone, he laughed for some time, which, he said, was at the thoughts of being so well guarded ; a very numerous mititary escort, as well as the regular posse of constables, having been drawn up to attend him to the place of execution. He remarked, that they were making as touch fozs as if there were a hundred men to be hanged. He was in his 70th year, and served many years both in the army and navy, and is said to have carried many h onou rable scars with him to the gal lows. Previous to his being launched into eternity, he delivered a paper to one of the spectators. containing reflections s)ti toe proe . cata;a, on the trial. 1 JUNE 5• 'A: