The National Register. — London, England, 1819-11-14 00:00:00

T NOV. 14 SIR RALPH Au:nearness e.—A corre ndent at Maki observes, it is a disgrace to see t e state of s 7 the tablet over the tomb of the immortal , bercrom bie. 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 door 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 are covered with mud, and it threatens to full 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, erected 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 Bast, aborts 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 Wednemplay, 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 lous, 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 pa:ceiling of an extraordinary nature is about to take place at Brussels, in the shape of an action by Louis Buonuparte, against the reigning Sovereign of Belgium, lor the value of a country scat near Haarlem, with its domains and appenda ges, which the ex-King had purchased from. Ms. Hope. One of the chief questions in the cause will be, whether Louis bought the estate with public money, or out of his own peck ,et Mercy on us ! ho. should a cadet iii the I LAise of Ajaocio come honesty by suca a sum as 300000 florins? Another question, it is presuired, will be, whether, just pre vious to the present King's accession, the said pro perty wits in Louis Bonaparte. or to the French Goverinnent, viz. that of Mb own brother Napoleon, who had expelled him trout Holland tong enough before. __ DREADFUL ACCIDENT IN PLYMOUTH Doc': Tenn.—Tuere is no uuty more unpleasant to a public journalist, the ► that of recording the. cunti nually occurring instances of 11:1liRID calamity, par ticularly when they nikeilve not simply a tatal catastrophe to one tinily alma, but toe untimely decease.: tit more than one with disastrous accidents to many ()Oen,. A tem i ,orary dam had bee., con structed at the stern of South dock, for the pur pose of pro:ecting the workmen, who were pre paring ter putting in raw gates; about half past two on Weonesdu afternoon. it then being nearly half-tide, the enormous pressure of water, estimated at 500 tons, suthicaty broke through the dam, and, coming in contact with the shores supporting a bridge or brow across, ore which were telly or fifty persons passing and repas4ing to their duty, it ut• scantly ingui l med the w hole in the rushing flood, which continued in a atatu of most violent termenta timi for several minutes.. Many . bouts being near the basin, by dint of un timmon exertion the spec tators succeeded in rescuing and bringing ashore all who were visible, some with broken limbs, and others with severe emit usions, ante -g from the furious precipitation of the water, and the timbers with which the dam w:ts constructed. As some were missing, Mr. Smith, surveyor of the works, immediately removed the diving vessel from Ha unease into the basin, wl sere, notwithstanding the tnrpid condition of the water, and the confusion of of the scene, he promptly descended. After search at the bottom some little time, he brought up the body of Joseph Crocker, a caulker, one of the mis sing, but too lute we regret to say, to save his lite. Shortly afterwards it was ascertained that a seaman belonging to the ordinary called Libby, was mis. sing. Mr. Smith descen' d again in the bell, but wiViout success ; on the tide receding, he was found in a spot beyond th e reach of the diving bell. Thus by a circumstance-, in which blame seems imputable to no one. twt t lives have been lost, two had their limbs tiacturt d, and live have received contusions. A Coroner's Inquest has been held on the bodies of the unfit rtunate deceased, which re • .• • • • 11, THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Mr. Shorter, of Wych-street, Mr. Harris, of Broad -court, Drury-lane, Mr. Watling, and seve ral other venders of publications alledged to be se ditious, were on Tuesday served with e.r-ojficio in formation fur misdenumnours, in publishing certain seditious libels on the 7th and lith days of Sep tember last. The Earl of Lauderdale ii now on his way to town from Scotland. Lord Grey leaves • Howick next week. The Marquis•of Lanadown is expected from Italy on the 16tH, and the Earl of Essex on the 20th. Mr. fierney has been in town these ten daps Matthew Campbell., Esq..Collectorof the Customs at Pembroke, met with a serious accident on Friday sen nig u, whilst anxiously engaged •in givitu directions as to the management of all apparatus for projecting a rope to a vessel in distress, in the ttttt nediate vicinity of that place. Oh 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 he is in a fair way of recovery. An Irish orphan boy, possessing extraordinary powers of speed, arrived in Swansea on Wednesday se'nnight, aleout half-past nine; he left Cardiff at half-past two, and started from Cowbridge with the Cambrian coach, alongside which he ran, beating the coach, and perform ing a distance of full 45 miles in seven hours. He says that he can run a single mile in 5 minutes, hot cannot at-complish with ease more than ten miles an hour; and after completing thirty miles, can start again as fresh as when he began. A reparation has taken place between a Peer of the r..alin and his Lady, which it is hoped will not long con tinue, as the friends of both parties are endeavouring to bring about a reconciliation. The character of the fe male is irreproachable; the disunion arises solely • from caprice. Dreadful Attempt at Suicide.—Friday morning Mr. Thomas Smith, saddler, of Stafford -street, Bond -street, after having lbreakfasted with his wife, went out upoti business. When, he returnee' home he missed her, and he immediately searched for her, when upon his enter ing the bed-routti, he found her stretched upon the bed with her throat cut from ear to eir in a most shocking manner, and one of his razors with which she commit .ed the dreadful act, was found lying in a bloody state close by her; the oor was nearly covered with blood, and the unfortunate woman was in a total state of in er.stbility. A gentleman of the faculty immediately iteaded, and succeeded in some degree in revising her ma stopping the Wood, but he gave no hopes of her recovery, and oldered her to be sent to St. George's where air !,..•%, lies in atk nee-rims stag. It As Mr. William Shippham ) of West Levant, was lately on his way to Chichester, on a spirited horse, named Waterloo (from his extraordinary services at that particular place, and indeed through the whole campaign), the animal took fright, and ran on the pavement, when both were thrown with a tremen dous shock. Mt. S. reeta‘cil sonic severe contusions, but t. now happil reLovering. It is a tact that the above horse received several wounds during the last caaniraign ; three officers were shot trout his back. one of whom fell dead. u said kw) were yawn' three %Vali niarrie,t, dtorm 4 wilco' period it would appear usa she, in a T reat II W.I. sloe, latantred guider the effect of jealousy, tovii.ieu err ras I cuuturct w alteml kt her life is au►ibuted. roe I,u4lialuti .la> bees, well known to 1w kind antialiecuts- ..w. anti ..a invariably trcatcti hrr with the greateo ..tention. UNEXPIECTED ACCOUCIIPMEND.—On Stinday a respectabie female, who had hitherto kept her preg nancy a perfect secret from her friends, was travel ling with another female in a coaeli from her resi dence at Chelsea to town, when on pawing at the top of Grosvenor Street she was suddenly taken very ill; her cenipitnion much alarmed homediately stopped the coach, anti requested the driver to go into St. George's Hospital;. and ask permission for the lady to be taken in, which being readily cant. plied with, she was accordingly taken in and put to bed, when in about a quarter of an hour she was delivered of a fine boy, having been only seven months gone. On Monday last the wife of a tailor in •Lincoln eloped with a serjeant of the Coldstream guards who was recruiting there. The Lady, after contracting as many debts as possible, pawned several household articles, and went. off with the whole of her hus band's money: The writer of the letter to Sir Robert , Mods (lately alluded to in this paper), proves to have been one of the Collegians; and he has fur this very reprehensible offence, been very properly expelled from the College. The late Lord Clonmel, who never thought of demanding more for an alfailadit, , used to be well ' satisfied with a shilling, provided it was a good one. In his time the Birmingham shilling, , s were current, and he used the tidlowing precautions to avoid being imposed upon by taking a bad one :—" You shall true answer make to such questions as shall .be de manded of you, touching this affidAvit, so help you God ! ! Is this a goods/tilling? Ara the contents of ~ TO TUB ADITOR. Siot,—lh answer to a paragraph in yourpeper of the .7th ult. alluding to a hand bill which you stated to have •been circulated on the morning of the Norfolk County meeting, I have to reply that I know nothing of suers hand-ball, that I did not even see it, or hear of it, nor did I (as it is asserted) join in she clamour which you .say that handbill produced. As yotrisave thought proper to insert the paragraph in question, which contains a foul aspersion on my cha !racier 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 contradict that statement, as far In it goes terconnect me either directly or indirectly with the hand-bill. Yours, Sr:. THOMAS. UTTINO.- Ashwell-Thorpe, ' Nov. 10th Mg. We hive inserted Mr. Uning's letter because we wish. him to have fair play. Weare not in the habit diming facts unadvisedly, nor of throwing out aspersion on the 'characters of individuals. Truth does sometimes compel us to record circumstances which may be disagseeablo• to the panics concerned., but of a wanton endeavour to malign the character or misrepresent the conduct of aoy one, we defy this person to produee an instarser,• Utting says that " he knew nothing of the hand-bill. nor did he see it or hear ofit , ," Wks ever said he did? pur words were that' " a hand-bill was generally circu lated bra' the morning-of the County Milt-sing, which was designed and intended to raise a clamour against ,Nlr. Coke." How it came into Mr. lining's head td plead not guilty in so-very vehement and angry a tone to a charge which was never made against him, can wily be known to himself. Let him have the full ad. vantage of his plea. Bait when he denies having joined in the clamour against Mr. Coke, we must request.his pardon if we prefer the evidence of our own eyes and ears to his denial, however peremptorily giant. • It appears the love of political discussion is gv6M.• ing with the distress of the times. During the last six weeks, six new Rcading-rooms have started in Paisley; two are beginning in Greenock; and one just forming in Johnston has 120 members. Till lately one of the Paisley Reading-rooms averagi d about 86 members, and a box, in which occasional visiters put a time, yielded about 21. a quarter. The readers now amount to 174, audit is expected the box will yield 51. this , quarter. The now soci eties average from 120 to 200 members.. At the Castle of Exeter last month, an aetion was • brought by a poor man, named James Woodrow. against James ltoodd, Esq. a magistrate for the county of Devon, for false imprisonment : the ma gistrate let lodgment go by default, and the Jury, - under the direction of the Under-Sheriff, Ralph Barnes, Esq. assessed the damages at 1001. NI,. tt0,.1 renesskil ins appticatiota for • rule to •shew cause wily a criminal infromation should not be filed itaitisi certain individuals, Magistrates of Nlatichester. his application was as-onsuecessfid as one which he 'Jade a frw days since; nor was he more fortunate in another soul sai l stranger application .w..ich he usgedd • namely, that the Judges should direct the Attorney or Solicitor... General to tnove • for •a criminul tofomuttscia • :luau's, the M.tgistrates. • The Jiklees, -withoot hesita tion, refused the application, Mr. °wit, it seems, has. rithrr from a confidence in ins own powers, or a con e tempt of the Gentlemen of the Bar, Millie a very silly resolution 'lever to comistit his alfalfa flu the•eliscretion Or irs of a ''hired advocate " The Judges •havo explained to tout that they will suffer none hut a Bar r er ut move for a I information, and without • expressing an opinion upon the wisdom or propriety of tills rule of Court, we cannot but look •opnii• Mr. limit Lis 'tot evincing much svisdoin Lin sefustitg to submit to 11: The Wigton county asllress has been trintstaitted by the High •Sheritl to the Earl of Thanet, to be presented to the Regent. No artifices or magiste rial mean.; were resurroil to for signatures; and up wards of 6;000 respectable and i dependent gentle- Men and yeomen , spontaneously signed their ad dress. Oo Friday senniuht an inquest was held at Kenning.: hall, before Wm. Ittooke, Gent. Coroner, on the•body of David Bowers, who the•same morning was driving a , cart and walking by the side, when the horses took fright in the street, and in attempting to •top them he• became entangled in the harness anetwas thrown down• when the wheel passing os•er his body, , he was •o dread. fully injured, that he died short:rafter. Verdict, Acct. dental Death. On Saturday evening, about sistw'clotk, as a lady and gentleman were , drUing through Derelians in a gig, i t being dark, they cams. in contact• with a cat t which had teen very imprudently left on the ttirnpike-road, and were upset, when the gig was entirely demolished, but h tppth the travellers escaped with a few slight bruises. The horse ran furiously away with the shafts for several miles before he was secured. DISAPPOINTMENT.—A short time since a marriage was contemplated between a tratchelor artd a widow lady, resident in a market town in Norfolk. The hatiliS were pitblkhed, and the day fixed for their happy union ; the intended bride, having removed her goods and chattels to the residence of the bridegroom, •tn a sudden changed her mind, 'mid the Reverend tientleinaa his fees, ordertd her futtliture, /to. back ' • ^. •4-