The National Register. — London, England, 1819-11-15 00:00:00

NOV. 15 Sta It ALP II A BEHCROMBIE.A correspondent at Malta observes, it is a disgrace to sec the state of the tablet over the tomb of the immortal .‘bercrom tie. Our readers may remember that this hero was laid under the pavement of one of the bastions, or watch towers, at Fort St. Elmo, the dour of which was built up, and a marble tablet or slab sunk in it, with an inscription explanatory of the gallantry and worth of this illustrious man. At present the tablet is broken, the letters arc covered with mud, and it threatens to fall from its socket no sentinel is near the spot, though a couple are on guard at the elegant monument, after the model of the Temple of Theseus at Athens, elected to the memory of the late Governor Ball The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Camp bell, Esq• one of the Masters in the Court of Chancery, to be Accountant-General of that Court, in the room of Nicholas Smith deceased. This ap pointment is the best refutation of the report that his Lordship had conferred the Accountant-General ship on his son. A bank of oysters, seven leagues in extent, has been discovered near Bust, above Antwerp: they are of very good quality, and if they had a little more salt they would be equal to the English. They are brought to Brussels in such quantities, that they are sold for half a franc per hundred. Lady Carr, (the widow of the late Spenser Per ceval) accompanied by Miss Perceval (her daughter), was upset in her carriage on Wednesday,at Brighton. At a Court of Aldermen held on Saturday, it was resolved that a prosecution should be instituted against Mr. Alderman Waithman, Mr. Sheriff Par kins, together with Messrs. Thompson, Bumstead, Hunt, and others, for a conspiracy to obstruct the regular proceedings in the election of a Lord Mayor, at the Common Hall held at Guildhall on Michael mas-day last. A legal proceeding of an extraordinary nature is about to take place at Brussels, in the shape of an action by Louis Buonaperte, against the reigning Sovereign of Belgium, tor the value of a country seat near Haarlem, with its domains and appenda ges, which the ex-King had purchased front Mr. Hope. One of the chief questions in the cause will be, whether Louis bought the estate with public money, or out of his own pocket Mercy on us ! how should a cadet of the liaise 4jaccio come honestly by such a sum as 300,000 florins? Another question, it is presutred, will be, whether, just pre vious to the present King's accession, the said pro perty was in Louis Bonaparte. or in the French Government, viz. that of his own brother Napoleon, who had expelled him from Holland lung enough before. DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN PL's MOUTH DOCK YARD.—Tliere is no duty more unpleasant to a public journalist, the ► that of reconling the, coati nually occurring instances of human calamity, par ticularly when they involve not simply a tatal catastrophe to one individual, but the untimely decease., of more than one. with disastrous accidents to ma-y others. A temporary dam bad begs con structed at the stern of the South duck, for the pur pose of protecting the workmen, who were pre paring tor putting in new gates; about half past two on Wednesday afternoon. it then being nearly half-tide, the enormous pressure of water, estimated at 500 tons, suddenly broke through the dam, and, coming in contact with the shores supporting a bridge or brow across, on which were forty or fifty persons passing and repassing to their duty, it in stantly ingulphed the whole in the rushing flood, which continued in a state of most violent fermenta tion for several minutes. Many bouts being near the basin, by dint of uncommon exertion the spec tators succeeded in rescuing and bringing ashore all who were visible, sonic with broken limbs, and others with severe contusions, arisi ig front the furious precipitation of the water, and the timbers with which the data was constructed. As some were missing, Mr. Smith, surveyor of the works, immediately removed the diving vessel from Ha moan into the basin, where, notwithstanding the tnrpid condition of the water, and the confusion of of the scene, lie promptly descended. After search at the bottom stone little time, he brought up the body of Joseph Crocker, a caulker, one of the mis sing, but too late we rivet to say, to save his life. Shortly afterwards it was ascertained that a seaman belonging to the ordinary called Libby, was mis sing. Mr. Smith descended again in the Lell, but wit'tout success ; on the tide receding, he was found in a spot beyond the reach of the diving bell. Thus by a circumstance, in which blame seems Imputaide to no one. two lives have been lust, two had their limbs fractured, and live have received contusions. A Cormier's Inquest has been held on the bodies vr the unfortunate deceased, vvidch re turned u verdict of—Accidental Death. Crocker, Are hear has icti a wile and four children to lament his loz,s. The comp.hig huuw of the brcwery of John Dyson, Esq. a: Diss, wae. broken orn early un Thumlay worn ang, and upwards of 51. iu sth cc and coprcr mica. _ .. .. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Mr. Shorter,' of Wych-street, Mr. Harris, of Broad -court, Drury-lute, Mr. Watling, and seve ral other venders of publications alledged to be se ditious, were on Tuesday served with ex-officio in formation for misdemeanours, in publishing certain seditious libels on the 7th and 15th days of Sep tember last. The Earl of Lauderdale is now on his way to town from Scotland. Lord Grey leaves Howick next week. The Marquis of Lansdown is expected front Italy on the 15tn, and the Earl of Essex on the 20th. Mr. Tierney has been in town these 10 days. Matthew Campbell, Esq. Collector of the Customs at Pembroke, met with a serious accident on Friday len. nigbt, whilst anxiously engaged in giving directions as to the management of ati . apparatus kw projecting a rope to a vessel in distress, in the immediate vicinity of that place. On the discharge of the mortar used on that occasion, it rebounded, struck Mr. Campbell, senseless, to the ground, and, unfortunately, fractured his leg; but happily lie is in a fair way of recovery. Au Irish orphan boy, possessing extraordinary powers of speed, arrived in Swansea on Wednesday sennight, .mmit half-past nine; he left C 'Miff at half-past two, and started front Cowbridge with the Cambrian coach, alongside which he ran, heating the coarh,and perform ing a distance of full 46 miles in seven hours. He says that he can run a single mik in b minutes, but cannot a:roniplish with ease snore than ten utiles an hour; and aft r completing thirty miles, can start again as fresn as when it beaan. A reparation has taken place between a Peer of the realm and his Lath., which it i, hoped will not long cons thine, as the trienas of both parties are endeavouring to bring about a recooeiliatiou. The chararter of the fe male is irreproachatale ; the disunion arises solely tr o ut caprice. Dreadful Attempt at Suicide.—Friday morning AI r. Thomas Smith, sa.:dlur, of ti.a&ril-street, Bond -street, alter having breakiested with his wile, went out Kan. business. Whi n lie returned home he missed her, and lie i tttttt ethatriy searched for het, when upon hi:, enter ii the bed-r ,he thund her stretched upon the lied watt her throat cut from ear to ear in a wrist shocking ,issuer, and one of his razors with which she couumit ied the dreadful act, was found lying iii a bloody state close by her; the fluor was nearly covered with blond, and the unfortunate woman was in a total ,tare of in sensibility. A gentleman of the faculty immediately Juentltd, and succeeded in some degree in reviving her and stopping the blood, but he gave no MIAs of her reciivery„ and ordered her to be sent to St. Georges Hosimal, where she now lies in a dangerous state. It is said they were only about three years married, during which period it would appear that she, in a great mea sure, lauoured under the effect of jealousy, to which licr ~5 5 conduct in attempting her Isle is attributed. The authand Has been well known to be kind and affectio nate, and had invariably treated her with the greatest .mention. UNEXPECTED ACCOOCHIPMCND.-011 Sunday a respectable female, who had hitherto kept licr preg• mute) , a perfect secret from her friends, was travel. ling with another female in u coach from her resi dent* at Chelsea to town, when on rising at the top of Grosvenor Street she was soddenly taken very ill; her companion much Maimed immediately stopped the coach, and requested the driver to go into St. George's Hospital, and ask permission for the lady to be taken in, which being readily coin. plied with, she wits uceurdinAly taken in and put to told, when M about a quarter of an hour she was delivered of a tine buy, having been only seven months gone. Ott Saiiii,y last an invest was taken at Ilappisburgh, to this calmly, before John Pilgrim, Gerr. Coroner, on view of the body of Ann Bates, the infant child of l'hoinas Rates, who was so dreadfully burnt the pre ceding day, in consequence of being kit alone in - their cottage, as twoceasion almost Mersin death. The Jury, after minutely inquiring into the circ 1111 l stances, returned a verdict of Accidental Death; but they, as well as the Coroner, were of opinion, that the mother had been very careless ' and there One gate her a severe reprimand for .eaviog her illicit,' child in her cottage so unlinnected. And on Wednesday last another inquest was taken at Stokesisy, 'mime the sante Coroner, on view of the body of Robert Hales, a pauper its the Rollesby poordiouse lle was about ffit years of age, and wai Aloud its a lila ah ditch on the Monday preceding. 'rile Jury, atter wee. considering the evidence adduced, were of opinion, that • We deceased, in going from the poor-house, and wishing its shorten the 4111311CP. endeavoured to walk on a plank laid across the ditch I• 4 the accommodation of foot ressessgsss, and accidentally fell ions the water ; but being so far advanced in years, was usable to extricate bitsivelf. Verdict, Accidental Death. .'A run l d semen , us. made a few days ago in the lie glibimrliocd of Wilithy. As some out. uere Anna the rucks on the sea coast, they disco. ered, Jinni two miles south of the town, a 111311 in a cavity of the rock. :those theta, apparently at wink. It struck hi. oii.ervs-rs that he was about no good, and that he in ti.i either he engaged its sittlygling, or in the fabrication cif rase Cont. Under these impression they deemed st proper to go e wlirrnuation in the excise, and no time hot its making the iticessar% srarch. A met little asnm 55.15 soots Mond cut in di ruck; it contained a lin•-,,race anti cam metal attire, with the apparatus sised its ilettilling spirits, but Ito liquor was. funnel. The snore of she meow!. w e re suture, nd luda.d its the ISrt tae ; , tut toe unto wie lead been rug led its tile ill'eit Mimed,so l ar. On Monday last several labourers commenced breaking up t .e ground far the erection of a qraciiiiii barracks, satiate Oa the new line of road leading to Eccles. The quantity or land peer chased is 10 acres, and when finished will sufficiently mown° ate 5,000 attn. TO nix £DI7OR. Sta,—ln answer to a paragraph in your paper of the ith ult. alluding to a hand Lill which you stated en havtr heen circulated - on the morning of the Nor folk County meeting, I have to reply that I . know nothing of such hand-hill, that I did not even see it, or hear of it, nor dill I (as it is asserted) join in the clamour which you say that hand-bill produced. As you halt* thotight proper to insert the plragraph• in rioemioo, %%Inch coolants a foul aspersion no toy cha. racter and conduct, I expect you will do me the justice of giving a place in your next paper to this letter, in which I thus positively contridiet that statement, as far :is it goes to connect me either dirvetly or indirectly with the hand-bill. Yours, &T. TIIWI As. UITING. Ashwell-Thorpe, Nov. m i l l 1819 . We have inserted Mr. Uniii,t's letter because we wish . him to have fair play. We are not in the habit of stating facts unadvisedly, nor of throwing out aspersion on the characters of India duals. Truth does sometimes compel us to record circumstances which may he disagreeable to the partles concerned, but of a wanton rink:flour to malign the character or mi,reprebeht the conduct of any one, we defy this person 111, produce all instance. Mr. tkina says that " he knew nothing of the band-611i. nor did he see it or hear of it," Who ever said lie d:d ? Our words were that " a hand-bill was generally vi reo. Lied on the g, of the County Meeting, which was designed and intended to raise a !amour against Mr. Coke." How it came into Mr. Uiting's head to plead not guilty in so very vehement and angry a tone to a charge which was never made against him, can only be known to himself. Let him have the 101 l ad— vantage of his plea. Hut when he denies having joined in tLe clamour against Ur. Coke, we must request hie pardon if we prefer the evidence of our own eyes and ears to his dunal, however peremptorily given. It appears the love of political discussion is grow-- ing with the distress of the times. Daring tie last six weeks, six new Heading-rooms have started in Paisley; two are beginning in Greenot.l ; and one just forming in Johnston has 120 members. Till lately one of the Paisley Reading-rooms averag(4 about 86 members, and a box, in which occasional visitors put id. a time, yielded about 21. a quarter. The readers now amount to 174, and it is expected the box will yield 51. this quarter. The new weir eties average from 120 to 200 members. At the Castle of Exeter List month, an action wag brought by a poor man, named Jdlll.'S ‘Voodrow, against James Hoodd, Esq. a magistrate fur the county of Devon, for false imprisonment : the ma gistrate let judgment go by default, and the Jury, ua ler the direction of the •Under-Sheriff, Ralph Barnes, Esq. assessed the damages at 1001. Mr. Ilmn renetrtii h srppHcalwu 1.,r a rule to sliew cause why a chill tall inhumation should 'hilt be tiled against certain iiiiiiyi,luals, Magistrates Or Manchester. This application WAS as unsuccessful as one which he made a few drys since; nor was lie more fortunate in another and still stranger application woieh lie urged, namely, mat the Judges should direct the Attorney or Solicitur-Geneial to move for a criminal information, .4t.titist the Magistrates. The Judges, without licsita 1. lima, refused theapplication. Mr. limit, it brims, has, either horn a confrileace in known powers,-Or a you ' tempt of the Gentlemen of ihe Bar, made 'a eery sill, resolution never to contain his Arras ro the discretion or atalties of a "hired advocate" The Judges have explained to hint that they will suffer noise but a Bor.. rusher to mote for a criminal inforiiirtiotu, and without expressing an opiharo Ilpoll the or propriety of tills rule of Court, we cannot but look upon Mr. hunt as 001 crilictiog much• wisdom in lousing L 0 butimit. to it. The Wigton county address has been transmitted by the High Sheriff to the Earl of Thanet, to be presented to the Itcgent. Nu artifices or magiste— rial inuati, were resorted to for signatures; and up wands of 6,000 respectable and iadepentletit gentle. uten — and yeomen. spontaneously signed• their a 1• dress. 0 4 , Friday seentiglit aft inquest was held at Kenning. li,II, before 'Wm. &nuke, Gent. Coroner, on the hotly , of David Bowers, who the same morning was-driving a cart and walking by the side, u hen the horses took fright in the street, add in attempting to tto l i them he became entangled in the harness and was thrown down'• when the wheel pasting over his body, lie was so dread hilly injured, that he died shortly after. Verdict, Aces* dental Deatn. On Saturday evening, about siw-o'clrxic, as a lady and genklusnan were timing through Ikreliam in a irg, it wing dark, they cattle in contact with a cat t which had , , een very int i nudently left on the tirtiinke.o.ad, an d were nowt, when the gig was entirely demolished, but. happily' the travellers escaped with a few slight bruises. Tile horse rail furiously away with the shafts fur seterat nodes b,fore he was secured. DISAPPOINTIIIRNT.—A•sItort time sit ce a marriage betwcen a biIdiVIIIT and A Wilny. I idt „ resident in a market town in Notitilk. Tile V'Cre pliblistird.. and the day fixed Inc their .:,i i ipy union ; the intended bride, hating removed ~r ,401)tkallIll chattels to the residence of the II .1 ,I1 , 161:11 Cillaigell her mind, lima toe Reverend • •Getitlenta.. his fees, ordered her furitititre, Ece. back U lii kit the parish ; winch cimunistaneea had e fLet tin the timid of the intended ;ititleitroom, -tat lie stitimion, and was seen RUNNING 111 fh igererat .parishes along :he seacoast, a considerable th.tanceSsoss. home, and 11411 GM since Leen heard el. -. r, .._.:-...1....._ ,