The National Register. — London, England, 1819-01-03 00:00:00

JAN. 3 SK ‘TING.—The Paris papers mention, that skating had co:I t :I./roved open tiw Canal De L'Oiti eti, on thiirsilsy last. Tlns pi erantions there taken for preventing the loss of life. by the !Ho ;skim: of ice double the skatiug season, are ex cellent. As soon ns the lee has become of a shirkers IV tempt skaters, trial 14 made of its strength ; and if diens appeact any hazard, the police will allow no person to venture ato it„ We have to record the saddest death of Thollll4 Le wit, who ba i lided the situatiou of Police !Magistrate :it the Hatton Garden °ace between 19 sail 20 years and was also thairtitan at the County Court of Requests ill Heats, itJlbuiii lie was in the 72;1year of his age, and never in ante d : he has be••ii in au ill state of health for son e. years, which made ills temper rather irritable, particularly when lie had ally chat el., brought b..fore hint by common inforosers, a d e „a pt i on tit vers ous n horn 1w abominated, though in some f e w eases lie ackitawledged them as a necessary evil. The i latt. r end of November last, he sent in his resignation of pollee niaAistr ite to the Secretary of State; his resignation was ae• elf pitd, and a sneer:Aar was appointed to 41.1 at the eimelosion of the yral , ‘fen l ursnay liiit Mr. Leach presided a• setting magistrate at Hatton liortieu ; lie appeared to he more tttoo fill, and In better health and inure even tempt r, than fur some inaillits before. At half past two o'cl,ek be left thr attire, and entered his cart lase, ace pained by a yonng lady his Meet:, on his retort; to his seat at Muswell Hfil ; uu ei ,t, t j ut: K e ntish 'town Charles Virgin, who ha I been formes ly nressriiger at the Pollee Wier, Hatton Garden, but who now tills another snout:ion rode up to the carriage to speak to his nil 111.1Aer, but receiving no answer, and seeing Mr. Leach leaning back in his carriage, lie was osleep, and was on the point of tiiiilll4 away when the lady railed wit to him, •• For God's sake, Charles, don't leave tele thus, I fear he is dying!" Virgin immediately opened the carriage dour, and wok Mr. Leach by the has I, Wiwi, he lire as cold as death ; he had lite, but was speechless awl i.sseusible : iu alarming state lie was carried into the Kentish Town Assembly Moollls, Inoue the most Colletetieut pla.•e near. Plry , a dans and surgeons were sent for ; Dr. Cooke of G tart Street, the family Pliprieiatt, and Surgeon Drew. shortly arrived Mr. Leach was stripped atilt pat to bed he was bled io both areas nod copped. and every possible remedy was hal recourse to, but without effect. Hr rootititted iu this state of lumen... Hardy till the time of his (loath, ahich oppenerl at till Thursday nigh!. Friday was to have beets his last day of ila.roli Garden. King Califles li. idler takieg two or three turns one morning in St..laineetepark (as was his usual custom), attended oily by tiro liake of Leetl. and my Len' Cherierty, walked up Constitution-lull, sod feom'thence into ilyde Park ; but just as he was cru s ting the road, the Duke of York's meth was nearly arrived there. The Inike lied been hooting that morning oil them:low-heath, and was returning in his each, escorted by a paity of guards, whir, as wine a,. they saw tile King, suddenly heited, and ernseipiently stopped the coach. The Duke, being werquaiated with the occasion of the halt, immediately got out of his coach. and, after saluting the King, said lie was greatly surprised to find His Majesty in mat place wits such a email aimed:ince, and that he thought His Majesty expu.ed liiineelf to statue danger. No kind of danger Amine; fur I am sure no man in England will take away toy life, to make you King." This was tile King's answer. The old Lord Curtnarty often mentioned this anecdote to his Mende.— De. Kye g e's Arm-de/es. jolti,Colti hall, owner and driver of one of the Watford stage • coaches, who was convicted at the Policeaullice, litittoir e erarden, in tic penalty of eOl. for carrying mote outside pa setigers that is by law allowed. and elhiai convicuou, On on appeal, was confirmed at the hist assures, h wing refused to pay the penalty, lie was appre hended on a warrant from Datum-garden. and runtminctl to the Douse of Correction fur three months, when after Nome remeined there four days, he paid the penalty, and was dierlierged.--Jolui Moody, owner and driver of' oue of the tVindeinstage•eoeches, under the like circumstances, was apperliended nu u warrart, when lie paid the penalty, and aas theeliargel. We hope those examples will have the proper ',act. and pres'ent other., Lout nillusing such den getous preemie. On Wednesday, the (6th ult. was baptized at his own house, at Conley Green, nem itickniusworthi. (lens, by the Rev. F. Ihelg. sun, Mr. Christopher Leach, who very recentie attained his etiel year. llis parents having beeu Dissentere, appears to be reason he wet; not leuptieed in his youth. He is the oldest man now living is the parish of Iticktnersworth. On his attaining his 9atli year rue in vited all his children, grand children, and great grand children, to celebrate his birth-day. A few days since a dish of green pens, of full size, was gathered in the garden of Mr. Win. Johnson, of Royston. (leets, of which all the family, cousiding of five pereuns, partook at dimmer on Cariste tiros Day. A number of vagrants who were last week committed to Shiepton Mallet gaol, had in their poebeseten olo• hundred ypm ! Two of them in pierieider bad n their possession ee guinea* in geld, le half•guineae, arc 7a. piece, and a gold ring, tune 201. Bank of Eilgland note, two 101. three el. and one 11. ditto. a silver watch, chain, key, and seal, and a certificate of Greenwich hospital, at 151. per annufin One of the 101. notes was sewed in a coat collar. On Aloaday last, ti lad about 15 years of age, of the name of Adams, in the employment of Mr. James Nunes, was killed in a meaner peculteelj distressing to the feelings of his father, Whir was the involuntary instrument of his death. lie was assisting his thither to take the shall-horse out of a cart in which wets 13 sacks of Hour, and was direued by the tether to piece it prop under the back of the cart to prevent its tilting, when, before lie had finished doing so, the thee:mous parent released the shahs, and the contents of the cart fell upon the poor bay, and injured hint in su breathe) a manner, that titter languiehing about 3 hours, he expired. Extract of a letter, dated Ilueimantyres, Oct. 5 :—.• The arrival of the Trinidad transport, forming part of the expedition Merl Catlin, In the riser Plate, is already known to yon; that vessel wes received in teurapli by the people rif this city. It appears, however, that the commotion which led to the beparation of that vessel from the rest of the squadron, was the work of 21; persons only, and (hat the eemnintler ut' the [mop( on board, amounting to etre, hiesitate at joining the I:Meet:tidied causes New difierenees hate a r rit.ett L, tweet toi. pluce and Santa Fe, whither we are marching between ;Nee) and 3,rinti awe, and we greatly tear it repetition ot the bloody a:el.,* CIA: place there 1160 W i.lO yenta anti a half ago. slur :inane'., Ha you may here heard, ate not in the must nourishing stew. The Supreme director, Puerrydon, recently isdaed a decree, inipoeing a general coutribution in aid of the exigencies of the Srate, from the operation of which even the redilein English iner— cratits were nut exempted. This chiles of persoes, huwever, feeliag tedignitin at the ruceute, appealed tel the protection in' Bottle-. and resisted payment. Commodore Bowles espoused die nave uf his country men eo watmly, that he declared the lent to be in a date Of bluckane by British shine, and actually detaiind sense vessels in the entrance tut time harlieur: the English inerchams aridly succeeded in their object, though it lb not precisely knoae is what weeder the difference wee setued." W lee S Lie AG.—di fellow has theasidaei:y 10 mitt age to blur decorum fit piedisirtee to a Hllii p•iiei, an ailveitiseirrent, notimincing he hat jog *old pea mt lit .41:4 Ile doer. En Illf tOIIOO It I Ina of die nmeistivice 1,, take trog• nisaiteir of %Mei a debits %iiil.llioii ill time 1.1%%, or tile % : " Be:dentin Brown. rat Foxli ilec, hereby gives notice, that he sold has wile, llantali Ihuro, w 'lobe Turner. illiternaker. of Hell, and delivered her ire a leiter, et the Cross, on 'lnability market. Nov.V4, 'ha." THE NATIONAL REGISTER. A few days ago a young wan was brought to Shad".ll Police Oilier, on a charge of bs-turdy, by the overseers of Poplar. awl the charge being proved against I he was set at large on condition that he would either marry the girl or allow a sum per week tin the main tenance of the child : he preferred the latter. and for the purpose of evading both the olish and tits girl, t ntertd on board a snip anicli was about to sai l. Wednesday morning he was p•oceeding towanls the ship with wine ; but on Lis way thither be dropped down, and instantly . ownial. Ili, body was taken into the work (where the gin is cwitiled) for a Coroner's it:yin:A. On Niers(lar evening last, about seven o'eln-k, as the Bev. Donis! Parkes, at• Charlea Street, flatten C:arden, was going along high Street, Bloomsbury, in his was home (non Oxford Street, lie was knocked down by a borne running at full speed, with the shafts of a chaise-cart banging Idiio in the harness: his head wav dreadful' , " frtetured. lie was varied in a lifeless state to the Jiiddlesrx I los. iti•al. where he !iligaefi in the greitte ,1 agety until 'Tuesday morn in t, when he expired, leaving a fanily of two sons and three deeiglis ten:. - Miss Emma Brown, a young lady, not 20 years of age, and entitled to a considlrable fortune when she came of age, and residing with her grandmother. Mra. Ashman, 30. Feitherstone Buildings. So. mers Towii, met with an accident on Wednesday lio.,wHeli tiiininat ed in her death on the Friday tidlowing. In washing a small slip of flannel, in which theri happened to he a rusty needy, it entered her thumb anti there broke ; it was not thought to be of Noy serious con sequence at the time, but next day it turned to a mortiticatioa. Me dical aid was in vain applied, and sae expired on Friday. Tim Ftat.tt.E Pueatnit —The female that si<ited the late un fortunate men in Newgate„ while under s.ditenee of death for litter ing forged notes, is in the constant habit of preaching in t'hapels anal Meetings. Site ascends the pulpit, att.:tided by a tall-man of a dark emnplexion, with a long beard. very much resembling a Jewish Priest. Ile first begins singing something about himself, but it is neither a psalm nor hymn tune; after which, t he holds forth for near an hour. The temale then rises and finishes the discours4 reniun ing all the time in the pulpit.— They have travelled together through mist parts of America. They preached a few days nnst at a Chapel in the Borough, and at other places. He has lately published an account of his travels during hu life.—The woman is dressed in the costume of a Quaker, and appears to be upwards of 60 years old. They are very shortly going back to America. A few nights past, they visitLal an obscure place of worship in niue Anchor Yard. Hos, mary Lane. During his discourse, ke took occasion to use a shuili tok., by taking our of the seck.u. one of the cavilles. declaring to the Congregation, while one spark of sin remained, they could not enter !haven; end various other equally singular allusions. It is sad to be :n the contemplatiare of Ministers to propose a very coiisiderable reduction in tie Windsor Establishment, soon after the meeting of Parliament. It is certain that the services of the greater part of his Majesty's prmait retinue will be dispensed with early in the moath of April. They have already received notices to that effect from lien. Taylor and Gen. Stevens. That the finances of the country require. every aid which tic mo skilful husbandr!! can ad uliniststr, i• now no longer disputed ; and we know of very few mea sures of economy which would be more generally acceptable to the Public than the reduction of the Patablishment in question. If splendid equipage. and costly ceremonials. could, in the slightest de gree. alLvtate tile malady which afflicts our venerable Sovereign, we would deem it •Agrilege to remove them. But it is known that his Majesty is not affected by external objects; and, to every feeling mind, the pomp by which he has been hitherto surrounded, appear ed little else than idle orientation. ROBBERIES AVIS Beatinattrms.--Thc shop of Mr. Solomon Davies, toliaconist, in the Borough, was catered a few nights ago, by some rubber, who, unperceived. carried cif a cask of snuffs value 201.—0 n Sunday night last, during the absence of Mr. Purtley and his family front his house, Grove Lane, ilorstanon„. , er Lane, some thieves broke into hi; house, and stole a qnantity of valuable silver-plate, linen, and other property—The premises of Mr. ebb• imthl , . glass manufacturer and cutter, Broad-wall. Lambe:h. were entered by wine villains, and a tier of beautiful and valnabh: cut-Klass decanters. and other ankles, were buried off.—!ln Wednes day night the house of Mr. Asiop, Baalzephion Place. liSOllollaSey. was entered by some rotb.•rs, by breaking open a door with an ism crow ; the wearing apparel and linen of the children, anti of Mr. awl Mrs. Aslop, Was carried oif, with a variety tai valuable proper ty, by the villains.—The (loose of Mr. Marsh, Union street, Lo rough timid, was broke open on Tuesday night; a host was rifled of its contents. vii. a Lank note for iwol., five smaller notes, and other valuable property. It is supposed that the robbers W. 1%! well ac• imainted with the pnanises and the habits of the family very thing else remained untouched.—On Wednesday evening :Mont dusk, a thief entered the shop of Mr. Golder. Lambeth Walk, an i carried off a piece of valuable oilcloth, with which lie escaped.—The shop of Mr. Barker. draper, 2R4. Holborn. was broke open a few nights ago, and robbed of articles of drapery to a very considerable amount. —On Tuesday evening, BS Mr. George Taylor, residing at Penton vile, was passing along the Islington Bowl. near Newington Green, he was hustled by a gang of six villains. Mr. Taylor being a very powtrltil man. he resisted ; but the villains succeeded in taking from his fob a gold hunting-watch. chitin Slot seals, and his umbrella. with which they got clear off Comindriims ate sit ;ouch io request at this season of the year, that a etnitenioorary Print has vcatnied to sport the foHowin :—" the sire of that once elegant promenade has been it-isselitglt has lately afforded the PIS blic considerable amusement !" . Ai IA 'Ail.' the la,t werk or um. graist, and especially wheal, has much Ctllleu in price, there ist ems every prospect di tt I alley thi• itv‘t gelieral average Allan have hero ascertaint the ports will lie elostal actaiii.t the iiitroiluetioll 4i wlie.o. That geuetai averitge will !e calculated in al I a 6 , 1111111.h'. 1 but iii the meat' time it has been taken for the tout weeks', all rail, past. At the end of the Hirst week, the average price of uh, nt %vas 81s. per quarter; at the viol of the •lel'ilo.4 week it W.V. 60'. LOCI. ; at the ..1111 411 tile 41114 at the roil of the font di week, 79v. 1141. As the priers 1.1 oilier grant have not fallen isi the silllle proportion, it is most likely that their importatiiies will be anon cal (runt putts he een the Eyth 4ile. BlilaMSo4. 'Flie Cm lof lirmilord 14:i lately in 444 •nt peril of hi+ life by a 6..11, belonging to t h e 1)oilse of Bedford. Hi. Loll WAS the it• its NUN, Wiled It iliAtilrd Isiwt Wilk it, horn. .1 , 141 tiatrsl•le.i upon 11611. Hi. 141.11511111 ec••aped is 11111 Cite dottiiiii's by geatmg limier the Suite the suspension of cart: payments by the Bonk of Ldatiil in Febrituiy, to the Ist ot Aptil, 1818, 1070 persons have been prosecuted by that hotly. of whom 808 beenhavt convicted capitally ; 503 of havirg notes in their passession ; end 100 hare hero rxpetices of otoseentiont have cost the Ilistis *257,1;01. V:, tit crease of foiecry may he ertheieti ti wt tile fuel that 121 carte prosecuted within the first three itiotitlis of last yeas! -- It is positively dociated, that on the very worn where the holly of Weller (whit had just htess executed for utteritig foyer d notes) was laid in the radio for jolt fluent, a ne4ousa. limo for other fotged notes tuuk place issaoug Ists Ws'etelsoi airsociates arid sat virtue! ItiGll' )111(1 Of TIN YKAR.--M•Ytiago relp.rreer that in leitti, motel Cheesier IX. the eneeterne ot be ;:tholle Go. yraue tome the 1 , 1 of January took 1,141.1'. Bet 111 ,t 1:'1., they Vkltitaril mete by the !totted) days of thee hteredi. We:le re vare' In tI o (Ate esthete era, he eteltlee, tient the ,Dahl an asithre ve d veer tied swing the modern. mode ar (tote, :tong Doming to the Tolerable Deck toe EuYli>h Hitturidee. On Suturebey last. a genteel looking man, an undergrada .4 of the sister University, was apprehended at the Bull in , en. o charge of littering ringed notes. It appears he came to Cling. idle by the L) nn coach, and immediately upon Lis alloy:el, be gave a one •pnanil note of the Bank of Englaiiel to the !tenter to get change, w Melt the man fortunately ear. i. 4 19 the Itmik, %, here, ailkst ,11• 4 10 , it was pi om. 1111 l all a forzers ; upon the porter's retort) to the Bull, lie tit is: totted the enema.. stance in the heating of the emiclitimu, who rec.:lee ea Ii at he himself had changed is note for the same person, and :bat be emild not possibly want salter; this ciretten:lance exe.ted swirl/late and, two° examination, this note was Memel a Si 1.1 lII' a forgery. A came tble tieing proctored, tie pasty aas humediately t skim into eustody, attends person and pommel . trait examined; in the latter wore lotted about filly notes of the satin. destriptiOn. 11 1. stoutly dmeital that the portinanlean belonged to Mai, hut Hafartaaist. ly a key seas Canal in his pocket that filled the lot k. In the mean time, another man who passed as his servant, was detected ill *diet ing grottier forged note in the pure hale of it lion of :shoes, who, together with his pretended master, was comntined to pi ison. We understand that the pi incipal has been extensively engage dtin eonnitercial matters, and is respectably counected, and out altogether unknown to more than one respectable weather of the University . Cumbridze Independeni Press . The Manager of the Edinburgh theatrejas a preliminary excitement for the new Once of X. Y. Z, caused buts, tam rainiog ei n . se m i c e . baler., nf a glarin; size, to be posted about the city. These noyeterione puffs so iliSelOril the nia. gists - ates, that they summoned the lull slickers tede, e them, when the latter luckily eerie able to prove that ,there was no seditious or treasonable signal linking under the whimsical pfieat it ! Last week JOllll Palmer, Esq. and Mn. Gibson, ..f Wood. bridge, %vete aitnisma thews( Ives showbiz in a ti. 1.1, some distance OOHS the snarl, they ObSerVe.! II L..1.11111.111A11, allo WAS in a chaise, drive up near the hedge, and thinly MA10(111014 out of the chaise over into a davit in the tie Id, aged in a e. u. Mee., manner get into the chaise 4111 111 aye off it.a quick rate. They were It'd from curiosity to gn to the si ot.and ou getting the !hint , ~it of the ditch, they appeareel to Ito packages tor •ilver or other vaiiiable WOW:II), :Mel (/Ile 114.1 it said on it, stilt; the initials "J. T." on a svAl. 'flee) onsp«ited some twittery hail heel) cummitted, and immediately cave infor• illation of the eir. iiinstaitre At Lambeth Sri ei t Office. It is said that the Battle is using all its inge unity to MS cover the fliblicators of forged times; ni, if they are in a diiiatit country, which is extremely pr. halile, io 01Jtmu a., knowledge of the means by which suet. a valita'ale My., ?a non is carried on, mad of those who a:e par icularly in terested in the sectirity of the earn. Paivate letters flout Atisterelain convey the afflicting intel ligence, that Ilia individuals are thiss.ng in that i its, Mos it Is supposed were drowned datitt; the el nse fog which we re f...tidy noticed bad prevailed there. In the night of Thersilav stotsuight a post•elialse was stop ped near DartfUnd by the keeper of Dartford Balitewell and a ssistants, when, on searching the chaise, they found the bodies of a lad 17 yearaof age, and of .111 infant, that lead been recently disinterred. Three men who were with the bodies were secureel . -' and on imptiry tho corpse of the bay proved 10 be that of Henry, son ut Mr. Stroud, landlord of the h rig of Poised'. at Gravesend, which had beeu interred at Nli,lud ou the lath inst. 0,1 Tile:day' night last, Mr. R:binson, midshipman of the S et, stationed at Brennistairs liw lite pi es cotton of slung• 1 ..hng, fell over the cliff at a •burt distaace from that place, . and a.l. taken tip dead. James Stewart, seaman (Attie same I snip, and on the same stationotiet with a 1;1111:le ,ICeillell I, bor it I with the tike fatal result: tic is, however, vary ill, and not espected to •Iltili Vt . . 'llte account ite• gives is, Heat '4lr. Ro- Litigate left him near Bowls-!ray, with the ititetition of pro w-.ding to Broad-tans; sliut Hy alter war I: he h..nself fell over the cliff, awl bring ron.iderably min , ca l, his groans altraCiell the attention of another party seat lilt to relic re bins stud Iris ea:amnions; the night wii extremely dar k, mod, titer some seat eh he was found and cone eyed back to the estabiisliment. The absence of Mr. Robinson now excited a suspicion that smile accident might have happened to him; . search WAS renewed. and his body fonotl iiiiiii iit'riess, Ileac. inc in the water, with his lead literally .1....1ied in pieces. .. Thursday morning, between four and fire o'clock, a dreadful end alarming lire broke out at the house tied shop of Mr. Ready, oilman, Swan Alley, East Smithfield. (In the premise 3 lay a imanti.y of gunpowder, which, in less than an beta, blew up with a dreatiful explosion : they haul no tithe to remove it, through the rapidity of the thene•s. The shop and warehouses are entirely consumed. Hap pily no lives were lost. it will b.: se,:n by out letter front the Com-Exchan4e, that tl.c price! of Wlteat I-, by this week's return, only one Cambia. , in the tillatteT above the puce, at whia: importation is prohibited. Tic exports will, theretare, remain open lon fonagn importatiesu till rue peritea arrive lie striking another average .r the prices. Private haters from Calcutta to the: e 9tli of July have been received in the City, and by them we learn that several ships had been taken up there for the pur pOSe of fOrWartillig reinforcements to Ceyllti, Althua„ol the military there. were getting the better of the:aa... tires, still further supplies were cuusidered necessary, ANSIUSTER AND ARDUTHNoT.—(Froin the Inde pendent Chronicle of the 4th Dec.—The A ash odic ( f etmemee) Whig, on the subject of these persons, says, " We have the following titcts from a gentleman wl o : heard and paid attention to the evidence in tie, case of ' Ambrister, l/ti the trial of It. C. Ambrister a copy of a letter in hia own hand writing, addressed to Governor Cameron, of the Island of New Providence, was found on hoard a schooner, and given in evidence. The wri ter, It. t*. Ambrister, stated in this letter to that Go vernor, that he had organized and dispatched live bun- . dreg Indians to light the American forces under Gene ral Jackson, and that LC war about tutring a reinforce ment. It was also proved, that he was at lion leggy Town, on the Sewabee River, where he herd of the battle of Mickaseli, and that he t!:eu iold the Indians and Negroes Mit to run but to light, and that they kid given back far enough already. It was also proved en this trial, that this man, .knibr:s er, made th • Indians anti Negroes many presents, in order to g..ia their confidence; and that he 'used every exertitat to cies e and to confirm an av:raion to t;:e Amare.:airs. lie was in cutupttny with a letter when taken, wiii , h attvitei t.ie 1 Indians to fly, as they would be des.ro ed. He welt, taken at night by the sc.:tint:l en his post!!