The National Register. — London, England, 1819-04-19 00:00:00

APRIL 19• If rnio . PHO AI A John Leadheater, of Sheffield, expired of this dread ful malady on 'Toesday morning, after two days of in: describable and even unimaginable sufferings. 1 here is a secrecy about the access, the latency, the action, and the issue of this destroyer, almost as impenetrable as the realities of the invisible world, which we know to exist without the possibility of apprehending their mode of existence by any of our senses. The escapes from its visitation, undo circumstances when then: appears every probability that the infection has been directly commu nicated by the bite of a rabid animal, are as unaccount able as the exhibition of it in the system of those who have no recollection that they could have been inoecu tated with the venom through any means beyond touch ing what tuiy be touched with impunity by any body, The latter was the case of the deceased. lie had, at the utmost, carelessly handled a clog, that died of what is vulgarly called " the distemper," and through some imperceptible puncture of the skin, the contagion entered as quietly as a ray of light falls upon the eye, and was undistinguished among the millions of momentary sen sations that form the links of that chain of conscious existence, which is felt in the whole, while the pans are too minute and evanescent to be detected and separated by the most exquisite scrutiny. During the progress of his agonies, the deceased possessed perfect presence of mind, and, except under the highest paroxysms of in voluntary exasperation, manifested the most gentle, con. siderate and compliant disposition. Towards his wife he shewed a tenderness most affecting to die beholders, and indeed the horrors of his situation were softened beyond any thing that they had ever heard of persons so agonized, by the amiable and generous feelings of an unsophisti cated heart, frequently bursting forth with passionate expressions of gratitude, attachment, and good will. He seemed to die by too rapid a combustion of life, as if the flame that in the course of nature might have warmed and cheered existence for forty years to come, had all been condensed and expended in the space or two days ; sensibility being so quickened that a drop of liquid was as difficult to swallow as the ocean, and a breath of air as terrible as a blast of the Simoom. Letters from the Duke of Clarence give very un favourable accounts of the state of Hanover, u far as relates to domestic comfort. House rent his Royal Highness represents equally high as in Lon don ; and the expenses in food and raiment, in some respects still greater. " Hanover," his Royal High ness adds, " is no longer the same Hanover it was before the entre of the French troops." His Royal Highness concludes by declaring, that nothing shall prevent his return to Old England. . _ . Letters from Hanover, dated the 2d instant state, that the Intimt Princess Charlotte Augusta Loui•a, was interred on the 29th ult. The body was put into a coffin, covered with red velvet and gold fringe, and at midnight was placed on a bier, covered with black, where it lay in state. At one the funeral took place ; four Omit Trumpeters placed the coffin on the bier. The chief Mourners were Couut Mayo, and the General of Artillery Von Deiken, who represented their Royal High nesses the Dukes of Clarence and Cambridge. The coffin was deposited in the church next to the Elec tor Ernest Augustus. The Court Chaplain, Sexto, read the funeral service. Friday the Royal Family, &c. received letters from the Dukes of Clarence and Cambridge at Ha never; the contents of them are very favourable. The Duke of Clarence has recovered from his late attack ; the Duchess is gaining strength, and going on very well towards recovery. The Duchess of Cam bridge and the young Prince are going ou well in every respect. The letters are dated the Bth inst. _ _ _ . . Letters from Malta, dated the 1 ith of March, were received in town on Thursday, but they are wholly silent concerning the hurricane said to have happened there from the 7th to the 10th of the month, and which was stated to have destroyed property to the amount of 2,000,0001. sterling. Some i • fficulty having been experienced at Madrid and the principal cities in Spain in procuring salt fish on occasions when solemn fasts are observed, the Spanish Government, in order that an adequate supply might be obtained in future, hail reduced the duty on this commodity, which was before very high, to half of what it originally stood. The im portation at Cadiz and other ports has in conse quence been considerable. Letters from Baltimore, in America, state, that six beautiful Devon heifers, and a hull of the same breed, re just arrived there as a present from Mr. Coke, of Norfolk, to Mr. Patterson, whose daughter was so un fortunately united to Jerome Bonaparte. The paragraph from Vienna in the last Hamhurgh mail, relative to Prince Leopold, is, we understand, in a very material respect erroneous. it is true that his Royal Highness has porchased a house in the neigh bourhood of that city for the sum of seven thousand pounds sterling, but not for his own residence, as his Highness certainly returns to England in the course of next month. He will reside at Claremont during the summer, and at Marlborough-home, Pall-mall, in the winter. The house which his highness has purchased THE NATIONAL nrmsTrn. at Vienna is not at any season intended for himself, but for his brother, to whom he has made a tesent of it. Letters from Petersburgh of the tath ultimo mention, that Prince Gustavus of Sweden (son of King Gusta vus IV.) hat obtained permission of the Emperor, his uncle, to proceed to England, for the purpose of coin pleting his I:tulies at Oxford. It is said that a great Po. testate has settled upon Prince Gustavus all allowance of two thousand pounds sterling per annum during the residence of the latter in England, and that on the re turn of his Royal H ighness to the Continent lie is to espouse his cousin, a Prnieebs of Hesse Cassel, who, if rumour be correct, has lamely rejected a matrimonial alliance with the new Sw. dish l)vnamty. After narrating the military parades, &e., at Richmond, in America, in honour of the 2nd of February, a journal says—" A melancholy catas trophe closed the day. CoL W. Tatham, so well known in England and this country for his acquaint ance with civil engineering, who has been residing in this city for two or three years, but whose utility was considerably arrested by an unfortunate habit to which he bad become addicted, was destined on that day to breathe his last. In a moment of intem perance, as he stood by the piece of artillery which was firing the evening salute, he exclaimed that he wished to die. As the second gun was about to fire, and immediately after the commanding officer had given the word, " fire !" Colonel Tatham pre sented himself in front of the muzzle of the piece, and by its discharge, his abdomen was almost lite rally blown to pieces. His body was raised a few feet in the air by the explosion, and he fell upon his face without uttering one word that was heard by the by-standers. Colonel Tatham died without any family : circumstances had stripped life of much of its attractions in his eyes. He was a man of great information, of great genius, and of great resource of mind : bet to this melancholy end he has arrived." Accounts from Cadiz on Monday state, that the Viceroy of Peru, in order to preserve a communica tion with such ports as were occupied by the Pa triots, had given notice of his intention to purchase several ships, which were to be armed ; and as Lima had been thrown open to the British trade, he had no difficulty in procuring vessels. Several of them were of a large tonnage. BEVEL, Feb. 20, (March 4.)—The navigation hitherto has not been closed—a circumstance that has not occurred iu the recollection of the oldest person here. The Select Committee on the Melbourne Port Petition, which have met every day since the ad journment, terminated their labours on Thursday, and came to a re , olution, that the Sitting Members were duly elected. The spirit of emigration from Portsmouth con tinues unabated. Every packet for Havre conveys numerous passengers destined for America ; and not less than 500 Englishmen are supposed to be now at Havre, waiting for a fair wind, many of whom have been there upwards of a month. About 70 persons, chiefly artisans and mechanics, with women and children, amounting in the whole to at least 200, have embarked during last week, intending to pro ceed atom Havre in an American brig belonging to Baltimore, which has been taken up exprissly for the purpose. The expenses of the voyage are to be defrayed out of a fund which has been accumulating for some time past by a small weekly subscription, and the total charge for each passenger is said to be less than 41. _ _ Extract of a letter, dated Madrid, March el : " According to the information contained in the commercial adviees, it would appear that the Vice- Royalty of Mexico may be considered to be in a state of tranquillity ; the Patriot bands having almost entirely disappeared, and those that remain arc timid from the smallness of their numbers.-- With regard to affairs in Peru, they do not wear that tranquil appearance. It is said to be menaced by formidable armaments, both by land and sea; and it is supposed that the succour expected from the mother country will arrive too late to save Lima. Six millions of piastres, and also consider able quantities of rochiueal and other valuable arti cles of merchandise, had arrived at the Havannah and would be immediately shipped for Cadiz." THE ARCHBISHOP OF JERUSALEM. Syrian Committre.—A Meeting was held on Thursday at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose of taking leave of the Archbishop of Jerusalem, on his return to his native country.—Lord Teignmouth in the Chair Mr. Pratt stated, that the subscription which had been raised amounted to upwards of 4301. sterling, 1001. of which had been presented to the Archbishop that morning. The Archbishop, in a long speech, which was interpreted by Mr. OWen, returned the meeeing los most since e and hear►felt thanks and expressed his gratitude for the generous hospitality with which he was received in Ln gland.—The Archbishop intends ]casing England in a fcw days. 423 New CATHOLIC CHAPFL.—Thursday evening, above 200 Gentlemen, friends of the maguificeut Catholic Chnpel, building in Mtmrfields, dined at the London Tavern, in iltoopsgate-strcet. The Duke of Norfolk, who took the chair, wits ornotnpunied by the Rev. Dr. Poynter. the Earls of Surrty and Shrewsbury, Lord Clifford, Sir George Jerningliani, Sir Henry Inglefield, and several - others of the Catholic Nobility; also by the Archbishop of Jeru salem, and several persons of distinction not Catho lics. The object of the meeting was to promote sub scriptions for dcfrayibg the expcnces of the Chapel, and they amounted in the course of the evening to upwards of 12001, The Corporation of London have l‘berally granted the freeholdof the ground in Moor fields, on which the Chapel is building. Miss Kelly has been playing at the Durhim aud Sunderland Theatres with very great success. A considerable degree of sensation has been produced at Sheerness, by the stoppage of the Rink at Mat-place. It was the only establishment of that description there ; and, as may he expected, many persons will suffer. ROYAL norm—Monday being Easter Monday, the Royal Slag Hounds were appointed to Hunt. Al ink field Plain Itein4 the place appointed for the deer to he , taill• ed, a numerous assemblage of sportsmen were in at tendance at an early hour, together with several hundred on foot, and great numbers in chaise -carts, &c. At half past ten o'clock a remarkably fine deer wns tinned out of a cart for the day's sport, by the Royal hontsmar. Immediately the deer started with great speed across the plain towards she wood, to St. Leonard's Hill, taking to the left towards the New Lodge, where he ran with very great speed through the enclosures to the Thames, and crossed it near Surly Hall. The sportsman and hounds were in consequence obliged to make for the town of Windsor, which they passed through to the great amuses ment of the inhabitants and passengers, atid also through Eton. Soon after the chace was resumed across the country, making for the bath road, to the left of Salt Hill, leaving &intrude to the right, crossed the Ux bridge road, taking to the right through the fields and enclosures in the line for IVatford, in Hertfordshire. The deer then took his course rather to the right, and passing on some distance, it was taken near Harrow, after a most excellent ruts of upwards of four hours. Most of the sportsmen were knocked op and thrown out. There were but very few up when the deer was taken. Diunig the chace the deer crossed seieral canals. Cute Jin• Supenliiiors.—Miners are known to be a sit perstitiatis race. Their supeistition, however, is some times made a pretext for idleness. There is a recipe for curing this species of the disorder. In •note extensive mines in Wales, the men frequently saw the Devil ; and when once he had been seen, ;he men would work no more on that day. This evil became serious, for old Belzehub repeated his visits so often, as if he had a de sign to injure the proprietor. That gentleman at last called his men together, and told them it was very cer tain that the Devil never appeared to any body who had not deserved to be so terrified, and that as he was deter • mined to keep no ropes about him, he was resolved to discharge the first wait that saw the Devil again. The remedy was as effectual as if he bud turned a stream of holy water into the mines. Redundancy of Populalion.—A few days since a poor woman of the naute of Wood, who resides iu Queen street, Russell-street, Brighton, was delivered of two fine girls ; the same woman, two years ago, had two boys. These children are in goad health, as well as four others previously born, making a total of eight, which the father and mother, whose eartiings at present are hut eight shilling,: a-week, have to support, without any other relief than the payment of the rent of the small house they live in, which is allowed by the parish of Balcombe. Anecdote of dibas Dlirra, Crown Prince of Persia.— Abbas Mirza, Crown Prince of Persia, is one of sins most temark able men of our times. lie was born in the year 1782, and every one expects great changes when he ascends his father's throne. His intercourse with learned Europeans; his speaking the English and French languages very fluently ; his introduction of the European military system and discipline, and forming on that system a body of tut thousand infantry, and 3 considerable corps of artillery, and other measures, dis play a mind of no common order. Abbas Mirza isnot a mere soldier, but his finer qualities render him still more %sunlit; of the throne. Moritz Von Kotze. bus relates the following honourable anecdote of hint : ‘• The Russian Ambassador," says he, " perceived in the garden belonging to the Prince, a projecting corner id sit old wall, which made a very ugly contrast with the rest, and disfisured the prospect. lie asked Abbas Ainza why lie did not have it pulled - down ? •'Unly think," replied the Prince, I have bought this garden Itorn several proprietors in order to make something ma:mini-cot ; the proprietor of the place where the wall projects is au old peanut!, the only person who positively roused in sell me his piece of land, as he would not part with it at any price, it being an old family posses sion. I must confess it is very vexatious, hut, notwith standny, 1 tumour him for his attachment to his fore fathers. and still more for his boldness in refusing it me : bunt will wait till au heir of his shall be more reason able." On Saturday last a man named Harbour was appre hended for stealing t►wo horses, on the previous night, from the Earl of Albemarle, which hr offered for sale near I tits, in Norfolk, for 7/. 105. when the value of thent was estimated at 120 guineas. i