The National Register. — London, England, 1819-05-17 00:00:00

pootocript. .LONDON, MONDAY, .111AY 17. f• Ye•acrilay we received the Parisfapers or 'Thurs. ,day Lot. The 1:i1 g, on 11'..ttnesday, heard Mass ,in his apartmen ts, and afterwards presided. st a -Council of his Ministers. The Court of Astinesat ti'atitia•busily,esigsged in tlaa•t dal of Count 'Med. ,fret an .1 Cantata', charge.l with haring conspired to .cssessinate the•Dakoof U'ellingron.. The sitting „no the third day was chiefly occupied with hearing Atte evidence of - Count Woreneaff, 4We-du-Gasp ;(Iteneral,ao the•_Emperor ofilussia. ,kgrnat part of anhich mites, tn, his conversation with Lord-Kin .naird on she, subject. Further proceedings were rai d 'ourued to Wednesday....-Tbe , state of commove ,of the o isle of Bourbon is represented to be so , itepreued, that European goods have-latelpsold at 1 _fifty per cent. The French five per cents. 'lea off on Wednesday at 661,Sic. Bank Stook, 1,507 E 50e. A Dutch Mad arrived yesterday afternoon with .pepers to the 12th instant. The following Arc •eitrxcts: COPRIIH4GET, APRIL 27. ne :rain that the K:4; of Sweden intrude to No, afler the camp breaks VP, to tabr t.e PC:I t at Holtlewalla. Yestroday a CO:Hier arrie• d from St. Petershutgb, who came u it by tht way of Stock holm. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent left Carlton-house about 3 o'clock yesterday I.fternoott :for Windsor. Helga:: 'rapers Arrived o'► Saturday to the 20th of April. The House of Assembly, on the Ist, voted 16001. in support of the fisheries, to make up -the deficiency -irt the amount appropriated fur boon ties by the late House. The Bill for the establish ment of a Commercial Bank•lras passed the House of Assembly. The sum of 1000/. has been voted for the erection of a Ceilege in Halifax, agreeably to the reCommendation of the Governor, at the opening of the Session. On the .► ; 7th the General assembly wets prorogued to etlus fifth .July. Saturday niaetee►► hundred thousand ounces of silver, consisting of Spanish •tioilars and five•franc .pieces were conveyed from the Bank to the Decks at Blackerall,.beloaging.% the East India Company, -and put on board the -several vutwardebound Kest ludiarnen for Bombay, Bengal, and.Ckina. -were in strong wooded boxes,. ►ach box cuntainieg 6000 ounce:. DUELS AT GIBRALTEP. It was lately mentioned that several duels hail taken ,vaor between the.ollicers.of tlw Gish regiment, and the officers of tbe Uniterl . States. squadron which haildouched sit abraltar. The.following fle:ails of these affairs are ewortil hoot the Dirtfia Award On Monday awning, the vtd of March,Vr. Taylor, the Captain of an American merchant.sersel, ,was re tin fling to his leid#ings from the Theatre, at •ahnns half p Ist I I o'clock, sod when wishirt four drain' .of Ins house lie was .stripped by a sentry for.aiot having a • : (it is the outer of the -(nernor.fhai no pecion shill walk without carrying a light after, ten o'clock.) - Captain Taylor, being detained about half in hour, be , ic.idie inipa.tent, and• r.n towards the door of his which was only tea yards distant. The door was fast, an:L the.aentry seised him he W . 13 bronchi to the maiiard.heuCaptainJohnsyn, n-gl .w. -or ;he ti-1 tit, oiler heating the gentles store, which was s mitts hat entbellislictl at the exl:euee of the American, ordered C iptain Taylor to be convoitterl to the crib Al.erretosinktg wine time, the Ameritart 44ked . for pea, ink, and paper, which were retnied. - Several ru- Ay:cubic merchants intratred, and Captain Taylor, cing at last re!eased, demanded Capt. Johnson's ad „t! which. Le declined giving, nn Ilse Arnowd that he did not comiiirr the : Ametican of sufficient rankiin en tole hint in a-welling. Captain Taylor winced two days endeavouring to A t tin a meeting, when, being tinier a bond fur 6,0(i) .4' , Ita s to sai; by a siocific day: be was oblige) to le,ne , C,braltar. A lew days afterwanla a frigate, a shx)i), ..:•1:(1 a of wax, b'.lpitging in the Voited Slates, calla e!)%1":1 the Altditeir loran. When the officers, of this optic:run had herd 4441,c isantier in %emelt Capt. Taylor had been tr...itell, they drew lota which of site in should hi...lit Capt. Johnson of the atth, sod it•frll to the lot of Mr. 13aurci,, who had a meeting. end was wounded, -Id not dangerously. in the wino. Tile matter, 55 1, Capt. Taylor was collect - heti. would have rested here, _hut a new cause of offence occurred. which led to other /Joel. _ . _ Mr. Iltimphrys, tint lieutenant of the American hi rte, was spiting oft Iroin the. Ragxed Slot; abnut 111 a l o ' , ..tiack, um the ~kaizlit of tlx Jutrt of March. Ile re (mired the sergeant of .the guard to lower the bridge, who bait' he would ask the eillicer's permission, .(Ensign Nutt.) Mr. ii phrys, in the mean time, remained at the outside of the door,endsheanl.Mr. Nutt say, " Send the Yankeeist, and let us have a look at him." tOf this Mr. litimphru took am notice, as It was. not addressed to him. AVlien he entered the guard room, he found Mr. Nutt stretched on the conch, and he said to the Atnericau °dicer; "Su you waist to go . down." Li simplup replied, " When a gentleman speaks to me, 1 wislchim to address me on his legs ;" when Mr.'Nutt immediately jumped • up, and said, "By G—d, Sir, vou are drunk.;" .which, of course, offended Mr. Iluinphrys, arid he asked him-for his name e which Mr. Non refused to give. Mr. Humphrys then said, "'That can be easily found; but as.l atn obliged to sail to mor row morning foe America, you shall bear from a friend of mine." The frigate Untied Stales accortlingty sailed the following morniug. and Mr. Alonigoinery, the•sins geon of the Frit sloop of war, with the lieutenant .of: that vessel, went to Mr. Nutt's quarters to demand an explanation, which lie•would nut give. lie was then challenged by the surgeon, but he. refused to accept. The Americans then went to thetreasstoons of the 434th to vat .Ensign Nutt. They were received by a bee of the officers, who laughed at them, which se irritated the Americans oluit they offered to fight anv officer of the httli regiment. A dead silence ensued! and the Ameri cans receiving no rely called the whole.reginteut a par cel of cowards ; on which-Capt. Frith napped forward for die honour of the regiment, and said, he ovould meet either of the Americans to-morrow morning on the neu tral ground at. five_o'cleick, winces accordingly took place, stud Captaio '.Frith. received Dr. Montgomery's hall in the hip. The Governor °false Fort now ordered that no-officer should.go outside the harrier-gate ; and Captain Ballard, of the brie, ordered that on officer should leave the ship. not Ale. Stockton, first lieutenant,• who was Mr.• Bourne 's second, challenged Captain Johnson, of the 64111, for. using same oppmbrious language .Cafter the duel) to Mr..ffourne. They met on die rock at shad's Cave, and, alter excbauging one shot without ef fect, they were interrupted by a party of soldiers sent to seize them. This I,ie sailed over to Algeziras, where she remained for. some days, and thus ender4these un pleasant disputes. DRErIDFCL MURDER. •• A Piteekinstmterder was committed on the body of • fete:deo* Flistoy oe'rinight, in the parish of Wendy, Hots, • little after 10 u'elork, whirl. wee cliscuseied in a most singular nominee. About a year ago, a man named Thu*. Weems was married to the Jet raised at the perish chore.. of Ooddingtoneln liedfordohite lint it being a match of compulsion by the parish officer, she haviog previously sworn a child Whim, he left her immediately alter tilt completion it' the -ceremony, and trimmed to.his place, leaving her to go boftic lodise friends, which she did,.and It alit rwards torocci nut that she was not in a slam of piegtieney. On Monday the lid of .May instant, -he lilt Ethamiton, where he laid got a aline tips., hat the pg,p as e of going to Goditiairokester, w hem his wile teritiled,whom he had never lived with, to prevail un tier to go mid live with bon al EthaMillal. tau his road from Cotton towards Godetanchester, he fell to with a retain chants •swd got datoftithside to lioitinasitheeter, and the r seas a moan in . the chaise 11.110W11 IP Weems. la the course of COW/mita. • flog, Weems stated to the ~,an, that he wars going to God manekePter to get his wife to go and live with him at Edistunten;.bet that !brie was a girl at Edmonton he was Aetraillied -Wills, a eery Hie" Mil, whom. he liked anneh ' betteethen his wife. -awl Phonld, notch like to marry her. Ortifte Ina n agouti that. was impiessi lite, be being ants:licit map. Weenialeplied, that " when he hail gut his wire et Edomoton,.he should aeon be stile to get rid of dirt." Wtwsnaremaieed with his , wife at Ooduatirchesmr...tillfric. day, when they hotttleft that place early la tier morning to walk to;Ediricriton. They walked Isom Grodniasieliesier mike !put where the murder wawconuuitted, being oboist 1t mats, without motive. When they arrived at she fatal spot, gm stoppi cl: Use woman being theiltairk.liemelf dawn an .the grass by-the road side, about a mile horn Arlington.— While link', were resting here., a wanton gained boserniolsitird,ast Wendy, who was going to Roy ston, sow lbedleceesed sitting on the ground un Ike. right hand side, AMU Mr. Itussull'o fields, and Weems was ou the oilier side opposite his wife. Directly after *lie had lassoed, .be saw both Weems and tits wile go to Ifespele s tickle; they stood looking *hunt and appear as if they ' -were .noturing her, and she kept looking b a ck ar t thrill. When the got tofutd Hardt, icke's white gates, she lust sight of them all at.once, and teen. kept on her way to Royston. ~ As she was seternine .rront Roystrai, she met the same men near.llrstine, w lionoshe had Levert observed. She asked him what lie had dune with the young woman he had with him in the otornieg He said, " I It ft. her bedded; she is about spun op. I cannot settler any fur time, so I left lies. to get ui. by the coach." .Smoitandi Bird then.come °sweet the cough, red louked for. the ).sing woinah,.trist could not Pee her °amide or inside. Sliesa)s suiriething • stilts k •liet that the 4114.1 (Weems) hail done something wrong•tio the VI omen, tort be lead kitled her; she Wert en, Peal saw a relaltri hoeing in Mr. Wilteni.iiii's field, to whom she toll the rirennismeiees, and said trollies that " she *until go to the next field .(tieing the glare where stir sew them Mahe ..arising), rsol sec it' stir could discos els What helideil the young is au." .She passed through Om pie a lietal, she riaw•Weeni. std his wife gain, anal ineusediarely disro. I rid the young woman lying in the diten„lier lace •oritrly flat to the ground, her shawl over her !Mee, rrd her bonnet on the albrie I.:. her body was "overact all over with grass, which was Ore% til over her bprlonsdp-foll: only a foot grid oar of her fitment moat Le seen ; !Mon were masks no She grass by the stitch, a. it' there had born great struggling rood rolling shout, sisal Mete was Om titter of • imirs's.friet hum the plate where lie grass was mudded Wont to the spot t%lllore • the linty lay. She called to the man in Mr. 1 . /akin/lOWA In Caine; t:icty removed the grass, and on esainiaing • LONDON : Priuted awl Publo,ball by the' Prrprittne, JOHN IWIGG, at the Mice, PC, Feret-Street, %twat tll Letters to the Laitor., aka. (rost-pawl), must ha a !drawled. THE NATIONAL ReGisTEn. UM' 17. Cie . body, her getter was found round her neck ii4d very light.; she had the fellow garter on 14441 left leg; she was quite dead and black in the face. 1 , ...,4.4 .111 i immediately aside after the siippoved mint ter. r, v Ito eas apprehendeil in a waggon. .Inforioation ut the body being found was sent to the Coroner for the conoty I 14e.arrived at eight o'clock in the evening, and he had scairely tinialod swearing the jury before a chaise arrived, in 44 hieli ant Wrenig. The jury sat till heivvetn.nnedidd Iwo o'clock on Striiirday torn sting, and, atter taking a body of evidence, they let It, d a verdict of.Wiyol Murder against Thoma s Weans, the bn.bsnd of the de . eased, wheswaa e ))))) uilted upon the Coroner's warrant to•the county gaol to take his It ial at the. next asvieolt. We trader/nand the prisober Net wade a full ronfessiononul described the means IT-winch he perpetrated:the horrid deed. Vial). At Id• home in llovflaotlfstreet, Fitatoyoqatre, the lady of Madre, rtq. of a son. A9arricD. Or Ihe.24fh of October Leon, at Trtalfistopolb.rept. rdwerel .fut-f 4 Toole, 7th tegienceit eluding ballet: Infafarey, and tre0,fe,41,,,,„:er .•i Itrisefht, so Anne, ettles4 neuilficr of ibt.lein I•eter beittue,e6l, a t:.c. toostp . l Wee, Losolosa. At Patty, fdidilhaex, the flew. FA Harden, to Maria, daughter at be late 4.4'. Blanekunltagen, eras. of Aiiisteidern. At the Joliet of 1116 Excellency Sir CII/llra Maul, the Billfish At , latraador at Paris, Limey Fred. Lockyer,lay. at Plymouth, Ireatm,..., LePs Aline EliSahtth Luny, eldest daughter of the late %PI-Curry, esq. of Southamptoo. " " ' ;al liarLae). limonite, wily sem of John Waltham, mm. of FINV!hVI, near ltriblul, 10 I.lizabadh, younvett tt.tughtut ut the late Wet. too►,, etq. of ('•rote street, Ilaekney. ..At 51.J-.Weds, John. accood son of.the late J. Ilasfem, ooq. of Cah nek, blBlitodiblie. 10 Agana Maria, daughter or the late iter, Beltasis, DA). hector of Vantudea, and tear of tiasiltleu and A.... ampsteol, lk•rlr. Ptapit..to, Mr. Thomas Watson, of Wimbledtm, to Ann, liar only danghter of Al rs. Coombe", oI" ph.l tn, ay. Al V. mahout, the Her. J. It. %%allusion, to Mary Antrim, youngett &Bighted' of Lulouel Gladsome'. Ditb. Al lie loose is Devonehue.place,immes Tama, ext, fa the 73d 'tor of bib oge. . At 1C....;0t5, Wi'llim rimy, em. after an illness of many years. At hi. maim 's home, Great Mai low, Baas, Joseph Italia, mi. Lap• lain in the Nest Kent militia, agedlitt. Alter a prottacird illnea►, borne with exemplary Christie. patieace anti resignation, steel 76, Zachairiti CNDb , Gnotkinaii, of Watteattld, ks all. atms) of ..hulk. At E.hei, ilra..lloglies, wile of Cant. Al Pee klia.n, Joseph %t illianuuu , accord 20110 f Mr. Joseph William. lea, of nonilph lan. , nen 16. . At her suns etsi(l;ne ^ e,N7w Shoreham. Sete.x, Hannah, widow of Ilse litto.E. If Ayslou, tui. Of Lekertia pit tr 4.. ton Don 913arIiaS. CORN•EXCHANGEentirsaY, MAY tt. There was a good deal of Wheat left over team IVedneakty, and good supplies from Suffolk this morning, but having no darnand very few =lot were effected,' and Wheat fell 2s. per quarter. Foreign Barley is very dull anlclisaper. Vats Jun— o* fresh Corn can meet with a sale, and that at lower prices than on Wednesday. In other articles there is no alteention. CORN-EXCHANGE, Nloriday, May i We had a good. supply of Wheat • to day from our own coast, winch nese. ry in sck, and from 3w to as. cheaper. Fo• reign B •y is not very 14enEful this: morning, gat t;otw•ith. 'tending , r Licti the price of thct article is is. per qr. !weer. We had a good supply of Oats. tlmpr!ine samples of which sold freely, but at lower prices by fall ft. per qr. from last week. Beans fully support.tbe prices of last weak. In other inticies More is no alteration. CURRENT PRICES OF GRAIN FOR THE WEEIi. Winchcrter Measuce of 1410 liusheis. Lso. I s iDs..7. s. 'OO a 06 e. 3 a 74 26 n 4'2 itollo.l Y. I. S. :i a 63 Reel Wheat .. While Kyr lirank, or Buck "Wheakt ft. Hey Pale Nlialt •. CO a 64 63 is 2 38 a 42 •63 a Pe 46 a 42 ' 37 a 42 1Y a 3a 514 44 6 PD a 24 24 a 21 52 a 46 a 4$ a 51 a .46 a 46 404 a 414 S 7 n 44 Si a 40 .58 a 6.5 18 a 26 24 n 29 ST a 46 •-• 48 n 54 37 a 43 32 a 39 304 n 65 19 a z 5 Y 4 u 1;0 8? a 46 41 a S 4 Feed Oats lire% orPultuid do. New. Wick Wan, . (114/ ditto New Pigeon ditto Hailing Pease ... (Srey Prate• 41apesred per Iss:t a 40 a 46 4,0 L a 441. Y .- 40 a 46 401 ■ 441 S7l! "'MELD MAIMIs T. ^tviownAT, May 17.—We had bat a short emply of beasts this morning at market, in consequence of chick the business was brisk, and Beef was dearer than last .week. The thew of Sheep was pretty large, and sake- were effected very freely at full .last week's prices. Veal end Polk remain es.before, and dull iu wale.—'!'lre business in the Haysuerket was brisk, anti the prizes of lan week were fully supported sor Hay. Clover is brisk in wsle at out leas prices. straw remains nominally as per last quu upons. Subjoined is a correct statement of the numbers and prim at math' : Pittch-..4 Al EAT, of the Oral, which consists ' Hest, Eutrail,, and Hale, and is worth. about Id. per some of Slb. Ms3NDAY. /11111 DAY. 'Beef 44 6.1 to ha • 4.1 I Reef 4, 6.1 to 54 2 1 Nlottou 0.1 to 84 81 I \lnrtoa Ss Ogi to 7a 01 Laiub 64 01 to Is 4.1 Landt 5; Oil to 7 4.1 %rtil 34 Od to Gs 8.1 ' 11eal 5s Otl to 8, KI Pork St Oil to 6; tigl I Pork. . 13+ Oil to th 141 Head ut Cattle at Market. Ilead•Oltattleot Ahtke • Bega,ta . . 2.350 ' . . • sb ea p an d L aal b a 314r.v and Lambs VA* PgA• . . . 2.50 I Pigs CaHec • 200 Calves Hay 11A1'.NIAltK1I. - - - - .t 5 0 0 to /41 1 0 . • - 10 0 0 to 10 0 - • - • ti 10 0 to 13 6 0 CI,;, er Straw 160