The National Register. — London, England, 1820-03-05 00:00:00

The metropolis was visited on Thursday morning with a tremendous storm of wind and hail. Between five and six ()limit the wind began to blow with great violence from the north-west, and speedily increased to a perfect hurricane, which continued unabated till nearly eight o'clock. The streets were strewed witk bricks and tiles, blown from the roofs of the houses ; on the south side of Lincoln's inn-square, a whole stack of chininie3 was blown down. In St. James's Park, several trees were torn up by the roots, a circumstance which reminds us of the propriety of suggesting that the vacancies, thus frequently occasioned in this shady retreat, ought to be filled up by }Amaing new trees from time to time ; otherwise there is a danger of its being, at no very distant period, completely denuded. On the river, the storm was felt severely. A num ber of ships broke from their moorings, drifted down with the tide, and, running against each other, re ceived considerable damage. Below Black wall, there are several slips on shore much injured; but they are expected to be got off on the return of the tide. A number of coal and corn barges have been also driven on shore, and a boy belonging to or.. of the latter is reported to have been lost. ‘Ve have Rut heard of any other accidents to individuals, with the exception of one of the guardians of the night, who received a chimney-pot on his head, in Petti coat-lane, but owing to the thickness of his hat, he escaped without any serious injury. During the high wind on Thursday, the driver of a cart stopped opposite the Gardeners, near Vauxhall Walk, to deliver a cask of vinegar. He had just got out of it when a large chimney pot fell front on:a of the houses into the cart, precisely on the spot which the carman bud occupied one instant before. The Editor of the Edinbuq.fh -'inTcsiitntletii was on Monday last fine 1 by the Court of Justiciary, ill the sum of 5i., for a paragraph contained in that paper, which was calculated, in the opinion of the Court, to prejudice the case of Gilbert M'Lcod, recently found guilty of libel, while under trial. Alexander Murray, compositor on that paper, and who was the author of the paragraph complained of, was at the same time sentenced to one month's im prisonm e n t. It was the late Earl of Bristol, and not the Duke of Grafton, whose will contained the injunction not to print the memoirs of his life during that of his late Majesty. The following is an authentic copy of the lust codicil : "By way of codicil, I write this with my own hand, and hereby give to my natural son, Augustus Hervey, the bolo, or chest, with all my father's manuscript writings the►eiu contained; and in ease of his death, I give the same to my brother, Win. Hervey, but with strict lupin.- lions bulk to our and the other never to print or publish them, or my Wiwi's memoirs, dining the reign Of hi, p4e aent Majesty, or for any time, or at any time, to give, or lend, us leave them to my brother Frederick, the present Bishop of Derry ; as witne , s my hand tiiis 2 th day of flay, one thousand bevel' hawked and seventy-nine. (Signed) •• IMPORTANT TRIALS —The trial of Sir F. Burdett for the letter sent to his Constituents on the Man chester business, will take place in Leicestershire on the 20th instant ;—that of Mr. Hunt fur the Conspi racy to overturn the Government, also arising oat of the calamitous sixteenth of August, which will take place at Yurk, is fixed thr the 16th instant. The verdicts of the Julies may be considered as re cording the opinions entertained of the Manchester affair; and they will therefore be looked for with great anxiety. Mr. Hunt has published a letter, addressed to all the persons who were present ut Manchester on the lfhli of August, in which he requests, that they will call Meetings in their respective rarislie..; and out of every hundred individuals attending the s•snte, to choose one who saw what passed at Manchester on that day, and who shall proceed to York, li)r the purpose of being a witness on behalf of himself and the other defendants. if this is done, he calculates that he shall have about 1,500 witnesses, every one of whom he intently to examine, in his defence, which he means to conduct himself. Should suck a course of proceeding as this be adopted, or permitted by the Court, the trial may last for a tOrtnight or more. llenry Harris, Esq. and kis brother, it is sail, have become the Patentees of the Dublin Theatre, and lively hopes are entertained, that by this connexion between the two Metropolitan Theatres, the most li beral encouragement will be given to performers, by an alternate employment of their talents at both. The following novel mode of gaining prizes took place on Candlemas-day, at the market stand of the hill of Kirrymuir, under the direction of James Cummine, baker, there. The articles to be com peted for were ten new wheel-barrows. The cumuli dates paid 6d. each, and were required to roll the barrow blindtidded from one pole, erected for the purpose, to another, at about the distance of our; hundred yariis, and the nearest to it carried off the prize. lu this wuy four were disposed of The circuitous routes, segments, and zigzag perambu lations of the different competitors, would have puzzled any disciple of Euclid, and utfortled great diversion to the employ assembled. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. DEATH or A WOLF:.—A wolf, which. we un. derstand, was scone lilac since sent by her Royal Highness the Duehe.is of York to the menagerie at Exeter 'Change, and was, on account of illness, confined in the hospital of the establishment, con- trived by some means a few days ago to escape from his confinement, and with a long chain fastened to his neck by a collar, succeeded in mounting on the roof of his prison. The wolf finding himself at liberty, passed along► the roofs of two houses, and through an open sky-light entered the house of Mr. Day, trunk-maker, in the Strand. In the rown he entered several men were at work, who, sur prised and terrified at a visit so unceremonious, fled rapidly, and closed the door of the apartment. The unfortunate animal then pushed his way through a window of the fourth floor, and lodged himself upon Mr. Day's sign -board, which is on a level with the window-stool. There observing an open window of the fourth floor of an adjoining house, he made a spring to reach it, but his chain had in some manner become entangled, and the poor creature failing in his object, fell with violence into the street. The blood flowed from his mouth, and after a few gasps the poor wolf perished. We have long wondered that the inhabitants of the Strand have not indicted the proprietor of Exeter Change fur a great and dangerous nuisance, which we think might remove the collection ot wild beasts to a situation more proper, and less liable to fatal accidents. SUIP LAUNClL—Thursday, the Hawke, a new third-rate, mts launched from the Dick-yard at Woolwich. Booths were erected on each side of the ship, which were filled with genteel company.— The Hawke is considered a very beautiful ship. The figure-head is u representation, larger than life, of the gallant Admiral whose name it is intended to commemorate, in the act of drawing his sword from its scabbard. licr burden is 1,738 tons; she is to carry 78 guns, and 500 men. Sunday night last about half-past seven o'clock, un alarming fire broke out at a private house, at the corner of liast-lane, Rotherhithe. The flames were first discovered bursting out of the garret windows, and seemed for sonic time checked. At eight o'clock they increased, and the fire beginning to spread occasioned great consternation in the neighbour hood, and communicated to the shipping that lay close to the river side. Engines soon arrived from all quarters, but in spite of their efforts it is feated much' damage was done. A great number of pick pockets, and other thieves, particularly from the Borough, soon repaired to the scene of desolation hustling and robbing every decent peeson that un fortunately came in their way. A (MEAT PERFORMANCE.•—A young farmer near Farnham, undertook on Monday, to go on foot 100 miles in :24 hours, for a wager of :20 guineas only. —His ground was a branch of live miles out of the Andover-road. He slid 20 miles in three hours and a quarter before he halted, and the 50 miles was done in 10 hours and a half, when the pedestrian ate heartily, and started again, having 13 hours to do the other 50 miles in. He did the next 25 miles in three hours and fifty minutes, and had more than two !lotus to do the last mile in, when he felt a little lame in the knee, which increased ; but he won by tbur minutes. A most ilarnt.t attempt et escape was meditated by the first class of felons confined in Staff rd gaol, and was to have been carried into effect on touch) ; It might have been attended with bloodshu d bait hat- the promptness with which it was checked. 'Else plait, it appears, was I's seiae the turnkeys in the act of unlock intz the first cell,door, take the keys, and farce their way out by main strength and numbers (to the rmo uu t of JO; to facilitate which they Ilan is reached the iron ballustrades of the staircase, so as in oe taken o u t Mime- Mately, and converted into dangerous weepons; but it was timely discovered, and the Mole class etinfined to their cells. Ulan' ins estigation, it appears to have origi n ited with shout half a dozen desperate characters who haul instigated Inc Hunt's apparatus fe: manufacturing his Radical Breakfast Powder hu.s been seized at his manufac tory, near Chrisitehureh, on the Surrey side of Blacktiiar's Bridge, by tho officers of the Excise.— The powder is made by roasting rye in the manner of 41)11:v, and then grinding it in a mill. lie intends trying the question at law with the Board Of Nlost of the Elections for Boroughs near Town will come on upon Tuesday next. County Elec tions must necessarily be later. On the whole, however, there will he fewer contests than ever were known, for the notoriously corrupt Boroughs cannot find ( 'amlidates. The bellman at I Tull has publicly announeA in the Market place, and other populous parts of that port, that a third gentleman is wonted as a candidate. What w►ll the University of ()Aim! say to the grave Sir William Scutt becoming the catspaw of a Noble Marquess, to stand as mere Locum TenCPIS ti►t a boy Itao age, and deliver over a seat in the IVcstern City (if he should obtain it) whcrt. caked on? 79 . I— - - BOXLVG. —.gm— A pitched battle for 20 guineas a side, was fought at tell o'clock on Thursday morning., in a nieatiotv belong. nig to Captain Swan, on the Mo-iidon estate, near Clamlls, Bucks. The combat-tots were John Apsley, J sawyer, of 16 stone, from Stavely, Oxon, (who had gni a Dante by beating a man who goes about the coun• try teaching boxing, calling himself the Game Chicken) and Burke, a navigator, of equal weight and strength The men entered a ring of 20 feet formed with hurdles hay-banded, at hall-past nine, and a manly fight of fire rounds in 47 iniiiiites followed. In the first round the combatants went fieicely to work, bat for want of measiirement they threw many blows away; those however which told, left an impressi tttt t and halite they had been at work three 'ninnies, they were so covered with claret that they were only know.' apart by yellow breeches and black breeches. 'the hits were round and awkward, and lifter bitting each other away several limes, Ansley WAS cleanly dropped by a blow on the lett ear. The round lasted II minutes. 2. ?severe and determined figliiiire, to the advantage o( Apsley, who flattened the h taro. of lii• adseiv.l, ' s nose and sent forth the claret, as a imire wunlil from a vein. This did not slop Burke, who finight away until they closed, and in ii Wrestle Apiary ear 11110V/11, and all tour peepers were damaged. A I.ol4tllrylltatt Wllll a huge staff here entered the ring to stop the fight, by order of a neighboliiing J ustice, who could not :mewl because he had the gout. The man willed a paper wit of his pocket, au I said he should read the Riot Act, which calmed great merriment, and that was . the only notice he was taken of. and lie sal himself down anti saw the other part of the tight. 3. The men had Aot their wind again during the hustle, and a good r I was folight, which terminated by Burko being &melt In- if hit putt the side. 4: A slashing round, rather in favour of Burke, who had rather ielo,t day-light. Heavy round blows were or. chanced, dll.l Apsley was thrown a heavy CritsA•blitlitek. 5. Apsley seemed slimmest, yet lie was halt' bent from the fall. Ile had the best of the first part of ih,s long lanitill. Atter many blows were exchanged, the weaving asstem was tried in a close, but 'wither be: awake to it, they separa ted and tinned to Inning again, us lien Apsley received a blow on the temple, which in a minute lett him without a glimmer of sight. lie cracked a rib of his antagonist in retain, and lie was thrown in a close, which gave victory to Burke. Roth men were led oIT the s ; round very ill. The match between Martin and the Bristol Cali. babe was made on Tuesday evening at L.ribbs, after the Sparring, to light in three weeks. Sixty pi?. netts each are deposited in Cribb's hands. Robert Burn is matched to fight Oliver for 800 guineas aside, on the 20th of April. Five guineas aside are deposited. Thistle'ootl continues in good health. and ap parently cheerful. He eats heartily, and converses freely with his keepers on indifferent subjects. lie is quite reserved, however, on the subject of the clinics with which he is charged, except that he continually asserts that he shall prove an alibi by numerous witnesses. Ile asserts that the woman at whose house he was seized, knew nothing of hint whatever, and had never seen hie. but the day be fore, when he took the lod g i ng . Earl Talbot has made very coasideruble improve me•tts by draining the Pluenix Park, near Dublin. Whilst lately directing the work, Lord Norbury, taking his ride, came up. Lord Talbot observed, " I wonder, my Lord, none of my predecessors ever thought of draining the Park."--" Uh ! your Ex cellency," replied Lord Norbury, " they were better employed—they wev,itraining the nation !" There have been scveral'arroneous accounts pub lished respecting Arthur liListlewood. his father was a respectable Surveyor and Civil Engineer in Lincolnshire, where his brother is a Gentleman of considerable property and consequence. Thistlewood himself served his time n an apothecary in Newark upon Trent. lie afterwards had a Commission in the Militia, and was quartered a cansiderab;e time in Lincolnshire. He married a Lady who had a fortune of 20,0001. the greater part of which he lost at play. After her death there appears a k llama in his history. He was inn rsied a second time to another amiable Ludy, the daughter of a respectable grazier and butcher at Horneastle, who had sonic property It is said his hither in-law, in conjunc tion with other friends, offered to provide for hint if he would abandon his radical connections altoge ther ; but this he declined, and his present situation has been the consequen,e of tat listeniN to their advice. M CLANCHOLY Accurevr —Oa :Sunday as the pupils of the 'Lev. .1. Warntiard, of ham, near Dorking, Surrey, were amo,ing them. selves with the various sports of the play-ground, au arrow, neitlter bolted nor barbed, was playfully aimed at a lad nanasi Nlosely (only sou of a gentle man of that name,. residing at Leatherlicad) and struck hint below the knee ; he was observed to look eery ill, and was carried into the house, when it appeared that a nerve had been injured, by which a lockadjaw was almost instantly produced, anal, not. withstanding the most eminent medial assistance, be expired in less than hours. On a uesday last, a man named .lofferson„ while employed in cleaning out a ditch, at Rickerby, lound ten pikes, wrapped in an old apron, buried in the cavern ; when and wby concealed there, must l e d to omjecture. , 1 .. I 1 1