The National Register. — London, England, 1819-06-27 00:00:00

1:';: •7 Yesterday, about two o'clock, a ina.t alarming. fire broke out in the printing-office of hlessra. Benslcy and Co., 80lt -mart, Fleet-street, which raged with excessive fary for a very considerable tulle. It totally consumed the printing-office, and has damaged the dwelling-house, as well rut, more or less, all the houses between Mr. Bensley's pre. i nl, e s and Gough square. It is supposed to have originated in an explosion of the steam en. , iae em ployed by Messrs in their printing-WTI:v. The French ,journals of the 17th contain an assu. ' ranee front Stockholm, that the negotiations which lave been carrying un in London, for the adjust meat of the long agitated differences between the Swedish and Danish Courts, are brought to a sue. tes.iful termination. The instrument drawn up by several Plenipotentiaries, had been bid before the King of Sweden, who, it was presumed, would im.. mediately ratify it. Denmark by this agreement is to receive a smaller sum, but a snore vs id security. We learn by accounts front Buenos Ayres of the middle of March, that the Govcrnment, in order to open the communication with Chili, which had been interrupted fir some tittle by the Caciques or Indians, had deemed it expedient to dispatch a considerable body of men into the n. i t er.or to restore it.. It ap pears there are two parties of the Indians: one attached to the cause of the Patriots, and another opposed to it ; the first of these have evinced a great desire to oppose the Royalists, and had scut notice to the supreme Director that should the Spanish armament, of which they had heard intelligence, make a landing in the River Plate, they would send a considerable force to repel the• invaders. In the absence of the regular troops from Buenos Ayres, the Blacks, who formed the militia of the glace, had been called upon to do duty ; it had been proposed to them that they should join the men sent against the ;adieus ; this they strenuously opposed, ; nil hut fur the energy of the Commanding ,Oilicer, disturbances would have been occasioned in conse quence. Monday afternoon, as the North Devon stage coach was coming to London to the Bell and Crown, Holborn, when two miles this side of Basingstoke, by some sudden jerk on the road, Thus. Hawkins, a very steady man, who had been fur a great many years driver, was precipitated from the box between the horses, and the wheels passing over his head, crushed it to pieces. Fortunately the horses stood still until the guard or one of the outside passengers took possession of the reins, before the inside pas sengers were acquainted with the accident. It female Artist is painting a portrait of the inte resting Circassian, the companion of the Persian Ambassador. She has a veil pleasing countenance. tier eyes are black and brilliant : but with respect to her beauty, that is in a great measure a question of taste, and to some persons it consequently would not appear as striking as to others. From what we have heard, we do not believe, if she were suffered to mix in company with oar fair countrywomen, that they would find in this Lady a formidable rival. A numerous meeting was hold on Monday at Dewsbury, in Yorkshire ; when resolutions and de clarations, similar in substance to those adopted at Leeds on the Monday previous, were agreed to. Si milar meetirms were also held the same day at Man chester and other places in Yorkshire and Lancashire. The people composing these different assemblies conducted themselves peaceably, and there was no occasion for calling on either the civil or military power. A circular his been distributed at Siock port and its vicinity, for the purpose of convening a meeting on Sandy Brow on Monday next, for the purpose of taking into consideration "what steps are necessary to beadopted to get our petitions to the throne, and of making a solemn appeal to the people of Great Britain, praying them to join us in forming a National Union, also the propriety of considering whether the people door do not poeseas the power of destroying the Bank —, being convinced that the main question to be decided is, whether we shall submit to an additional bonnet) of taxes, or Borotightnongers and Usurpers shall submit in a Radical Re/eras." A requisition to this effect, it seems, the misguided persons who signed it submitted to the magistrate, who refused to call or sanction a meeting for any such purposes. The consequence is, the stirrers of the business have determined to take the whole responsibility on themselses by come ll ill g the meeting at their owit A very considerable district in the Canton of Zurich was desolated on the Bth inst. by a dreadful. hail-storm; the hailstones were of the size ofa nut, and some of them as large as a small apple. In 15 minute all the prospect of a beautiful harvest was at an end: corn, vines, pulse, every thing was de stroyed. The soil was entirely dentidci, and the trees, mutilated and despoiled of their leaves, pre sented nothing hut the aspect of winter. A great number of animals were kiilcd in the fields, and the birds fell dead from the trees; several men also were wounded, on of them mortally. TUBE NA rtoNAL ^t=cn•rt'P.R. coultr of CHANCERY. SAIViin4Y, Jury 46.• tax moons or w %LIP V. ?Mg ►•ARL oF MCI" rout. AND COUNT INUNNITN. Mr. Martin ua belirlt of the princess • f that the 'gallop which hr hid creepily mac nn lwholf or los Ito Cheat, he beard loose to postpone its hewn); for a folme day, as thee:or Kai of considerable i•ti poi timer. The loud Chaaerilor pied he 11..4 an olikttion pr 'tided A the holitur-f:eperal. who was cottoned for the I;efrodoote, acceded to the learned Caveat-I's application. Tne Sahritard3eper,d said that hr was nrl: aware wh had be , -u dated by Mr. Mill till woof l'illigiderahle ionoort• nine, lir therefore could not for oar mum of heatote to. his mutiwu, wkreh woe ar,oscd TN& t;uLiciluit-GcNrit4ll. AND 11 , bptile1 Jetirto‘ -, AID lag coasioaartoa Or Tut; CITY or LOIUQN. This imp.' taut cite which has already bren before the Omni, oat sAniii 'nought furn . ord this dab farming the bui ding of certain wharfs oa Milbank. ahem the Lord Chancellor, after heat lag Cl.l.lllar I uu b th tido., said that he felt that the. care voss of great public interest. and therefnre reques , teu licit the Sohcitoi-tleaeral nnu'Jilehty an time iu ua.akiug hat Repart, vai hit Lbrdsliair would tine iu a day or tti.l be crud) to give I.is judgement, and ia the noun time his Lurbbip begged have to oluPrve that the 10141141 cola. platiaed Uf I. colaidertal wallow le% ;IN .11 anuisauct,, Qi/Kg•C-SQO 4 I 4 4. revterJay Ann 114 , i4(mA:barged milli having cniered the spa! um, ui of John Brown, a private in tar ht leo. root 43 , in the day time, aDJ vtealing therefrom a boa containing his seating apparcl,aud tither article*, Wdl 111. rxamiliation ; hut in conic quence of one of the paicubrakeis, with whom she had pledged part of the propert.i , nut being in attendance, •tw wilt remanded. Boat:LARY.— Fr ON? night, or early ,PIOI rday Rimming, 'mar dar l ing villain s Wok,. oven the ilea bowie 9. Mr. T. Barton, fan hr, hear the green nu the Kent road, and without oi-tui Wog the FY , erected in carrying oW a feather bed, ho Niers, .he. tt:, a peat quantity of :must-1101d lineu, nem* appiii el, a few tclakrts, aud 141. iu notes, and escaped undiscovered. Matt 'NG A r INK F . soas'TAvratt.—Yestrrdays a numerous uiretiog of l.,diea and grutletnen took place, to consider td-Mr Oweo's pan, for a mode of perm:mem, and productive employment to time p.m." Th e Duke of Kent wash, the chair, sipported by the Duke id Sussex, nod attended by several prisons of divi Fiction, whim the sithject of the umetin4 was opened aud explained by the Noble Chairmin. Itisiolutions were, after aim explorat ti in of Mr. 0 weir's s lea s, bring explained by him, adapted, and a Commi: tee appointed to further thitu, was carried. The thanks of time MmAing a err then voted to the Chairman. Fraud.—Friday afternoon a man, having the appearance of a gentleman, went into the shop of Nir. Grant, a watchmaker, in high-street, Ahlgate, and agreed for the purchase of a double bottomed gold watch, No. `251, upon a diamond, for 251., for which he tendered in payment a bill of exchange for 501. purporting to Le drawn by a porton of the name of Maund, and payaLle at Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith's, dated the Ist of ;,lay last. The man called himself Dr. Williams, saying he was from the country, and was at the Swan with Two Necks, where be invited Mr. Grant to call on him at ten o'clock. Ali this Mr. Grunt incautiously believed, parted with his watch and 251. in change, and on inquiry at the bankers, nothing is known of the par. ties, nor was he known at the inn. Mr. Grant ap plied at Bow-street Office, bat• no assistance could be rendered him. Transaction in Mc Borough —Mrs. Kirby and her children on Wednesday arrived at home, to the great satisfaction of the neighbourhood. It appears that she and her husband quarrelled on the road, ire con sequence of which Kirby returned home, and she and the children pursued their was down the court try to beg, but did not go to Woolwich as was ex pected. The man is now nearly . weli... DREADFUL SUICIDE.-00 Monday afternoon, about four (Ali ck a well-dressed gentleman was observed walking along Chandos-street, in a very agitated in ut ucr; at length he turned round the corner of Code court, Strand : he advanced towards the door of M:. Donaldson, broker, seemingly with an intention of ente;- trig, but finding it shut, went to the opposite door tat being also shut, he stood a few minutes on the spot, feeling in his pockets, and taking a lancet front a box, he pot it to his throat, and cut it in a dreadful manner from ear to ear, and in a moment the pavement was cimered with blood. He fell hack and wassupported by Robinson the beadle, who was passing by. Mr. Morris, a surgeon, attended, but the unfortunate gentleman had injured himself so dreadfully that he was mkt dead.— Some papers, a set of surgeon's instr •nt., with three half-pence, were found in his pockets His body was taken in a shell to Mr. Bartlett's, undertaker, where he was shortly after owned by his friends, from whom it was understood his name was Brotherhood, son of the Rev. Mr. Brotherhood, of Desborniegh, Northampton shire, a surgeon of Crown -street, Soho Tuesday afternoon an inquest was held at the King's Atllls, Chandoastreet. on the body. On :Monday list, the deceased went into the coffee-room in Castle-cam?, anti requested Mrs. Grimaldi to lend him a sharp knife to bleed himself, which she refitseo, lie left the place. and shortly afterwards 'stencilling was heard is fad, and, on looking up the sn o rt, deceased was dashing his head on the pas ement, with his legs in the air ; he got up and walked on. When he arrived near Mr Donald. son's, the broker, he mewed his steckkerehtef," and with a lancet, after a sudden start r I, inflicted a sleep wound. lie ailerwards took off his neckkerchief, and cut his throat again ; he then staggered about he yards and fell back, the blood flowing profusely It was useless to render any medical assistance, .• Mr. Bell, of the Cross Tavern, said, the deceased hid occupied apartments at his house since February last lie was sometimes sere collected, and at other times flighty. Within the las five years he had run through ark jakagaje sum, though . r. now he *as iti %cry itailsertt circumstances. His Ciro r and brother are reripectable clergymen in Northampton shire, am! bite owl (rinds .ire c:rtt-r When u oi t ig tr, b.•d ur Sunday rrrl•trstecl !lel! .10 look into bedroom the toll.iwing ocirititigr. 11 - a:11M a At.(l, " Art yoit going to. It ill ourcelf r 11.1 reptscd, •' No, permits ‘stirl talk moot of that do it ti, !vat, but it was impossible to sAy chat might 1-ie trot ill) the following 4t Aix a'••6:r•k, though he getierdlty-stept tili rle% en, soil asked Mr. 13,•11 if his Retort lurk had come (mean i scum, money iron, the (motive.) Se% erol pawnbrukets' etiplic...teb were prontaersl, (110— I 11!4Ja.tly. A long letter from lord Cochrane, dated in Fe bruary, from onboard the squadron off Va!lranian, was yesterday received in the city : a great portion• of it refers to the ANdstasuiche British frigate. It will Le remembered, that his Lordship made several inquiries of the Commaoder of the United States sloop of war Ontario, regarding the former vessel, as to the quantity of specie on board, and to whom • it blonged. Iu the communication to which we allude, his Lordship states, we understand, unequi vocally, that be certainly would have captured the , British frigate, had he not been constrained by the Government of Chili, as he firmly believed that the specie on board of her was actually Spanish pro; erry ; but the Chili= authorities were too well disposed towards the English to risk their displea sure, by making un attack on the Aad,tmusche, al though they might have considered themselves, justi- - tied in so doing. I a PONTANT INFfIIt TION.--Od Friday morning. gentleman, named Edmunds, waited on Mr. Birnie, the sitting Magistrate, at the Police Office, Bow street, and informed him that he had just re ceived a letter •from Colonel Flint, at Liverpool, stating that the country in that vicinity was in a. very alarming state. Upwards of 800 men bad as , ambled together, many of them armed, and ap parently with every disposition.to commit violence, but every necessary preparation had been made to preserve public peace. Mr. Birnie thanked the gentleman fur the information, atop immediately conveyed the iutelligence by letter to the Under Secretary of State ter the n ne Department. We are happy to hear that the number of persons above alluded to is exaggerated, and that their object is Rot connected with politics. We understand that they had in view to attempt rescuing some persons in ciistcxly for a violation of the law,. but no douLe their attempt has been frustrated.. A letter from Beauvaivof the ltlth inst. transmits , the following facts, which may furnish M. de Lam fayette with the nteaas of supporting the opinion expressed by him, as to the favourable state of public morals :—A young v.-oinan threw herself, with her infant from a wiedow. A sick man, weary of lite, did the same.. A woman was shot dead as she was passing through her garden, to warn her daughter not to appear before her father, under evident symp toms, of improper conduct. A love-sick youth whose marriage was opposed by his mother, came to Beauvais on the 12th instant, sold his watch, bought a pistol with the money, and blew his brains Gut . An ancient President of popular Societies, the Sieur Legras, a most assiduous reader of the worst books, drowned himself. At the present moment, the- Court of. Assize is employed on the trial of a para. cide e only 20 years eld, who, while his mother was. at her prayer, fractured her skull with a blow of a hatchet, and to screen himself from detection, .set fire to the house. Important affairs appear at this time to engage the Cebinets of the great Powers. Their .rvlicitude is particularly exercised regarding the dittiTences between Spain and Portugal. Persons well informed pretend that the following project of cession and division is at present under dis , :ussion:—Portugal is to be united to Spain,. which-will cede to linglaud the island of Cuba and two ports on the coast of Portugal and Spain. This project appears extraor din:my, but it may have some tlmulation. At any rate, there is a rumour on the subject among diple— matie people. In order to indemnify Portugal, Spain is to cede Monte Video. Russia has made new applications to Spain to obtain the islands of Majorca and Minorca; and it is expected that, in the present situation of alEtirs, she will succeed in • her object. There are in finvign papers aritnvother intitnatiors of intended Royal marriages, but there is aorneshing mysterious in the following paragraph, which we find in a Manheim paper:—" The Princess Louisa, second daughter of Prince Louis of W'ir►emberg, will, it is said, be married to a Monarch, who, how-, ever. is not yet mentioned, although there are nrt at present many Monarchs unmarried.' Wednesday iit'neittlit Ike Reetnrs We,. at Ww Til. huirv, Eweit, the re.iilence of the Rev, Ede aril V: TAP, was brnkt n and t.f tell vr4teiite, trinkets, phte,tiatnaiik linen, et at lilt apiiart.i, and etSt r twolierty, on the 101011 W (4 at leas? he 'ere p a , t of the house was titled nievel3 tido,/ %itintiliii.,er.d at linnet the (niftily weir in tlir lioi.ae at the tine, no t,oi,e was heated. Three stispieinuts loAing men, eArr,..n.4 latgr bundles, were traced u far as Floistow au Tau. Way, where the due was lost.