The National Register.
London, England, 1819-09-06 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Prince Leopold arrived on the 233 alt at Kin-
rare, the seat of the Marquis of fluntly, by whom
he was entertained with :•cottish cheer, in a style
worthy of that hospitable Nobleman.
Sir Arthur Pigat, we are concerned to state, is
seriously ill at Eastbourne.
The contract for the lottery was concluded on
Thursday. Sivewright is the successful contractor,
having acceded to the terms proposed by Lord Li-
verpool, which were 14/. u ticket

Gen. Dcvcreux is said to have nrrived at the
Tavistock-hotel, Covent-garden, from Ireland.
The hop-picting oil. commence generally next
week : the duty is now laid at 200,000/.
We understand that it is in eontemplation to
erect, by subscription, upon Acunbury Hill, Here-
tOrdshire, a rough mussv coltron, to commemorate
the battle of ‘Vaterli.o. The Governor's of GuY's
Hospital have patriotically given the site and stain:
thr the purpose. We- presume this- pillar will be
similar to that upon Bryddir hill, in Shopshire,
built to commemorate the battle of Lord Rodney:
There appears u complete reconciliation het..veen
Sir Francis Bartlett and Major Cartwright, whom
the worthy Baronet denominated his. venerable
friend, in his speech on Thursday, in f;tilace yard
Mr. 11, Unitise was introduced in the Tavern to the
Major, by a mutual friend,- previous to the Meeting,
with whom he conversoil thr some time on the sub-
ject of Parhamentary Reform.
Mr. Harmer, the solicitor, accompanied by Mr.
%Vest, ot, the Strand, left town for Lancaster late on
Tuesday last—the flintier to give his professional as-
sistance with r. Pearson to Mr. Hunt. They
were to arrive at Lancaster on Wednesday night.
The Judges were to open dm ir commission and at-
tend divine service at Lancaster on IVednesday ; but
the Grand Jury were not to he sworn until Thurs-
day morning, when it was the intention of Mr.
Hunt, oH the calling of the Grand Jury, to chal-
lenge such persons us might ha proposed us members
of it, against whom it was intended, in their caprei-
of Magistrates or members of Yeomanry corps, to
prefix bills of indietinent umler Lord Ellenborough a
Act, in consepieuce of the unhappy proem:Rugs at
Manchester.

BattintoLomFw FAIR —This annual. festival of
proffig!ey and conlwion commenced on Friday, with
till ifs gaudy splint:lour. A short time before I
o'clock, the Lord Mayor proceeded in state fr. In the
Mansion-house, and after stopping according to old
custom, and partaking of a cool tankard with VI%
Br iwn, the keeper of Novgate, the cavalcade moved
on to the usual place in Smithfield. when the costo-
mary ceremony took place, and the amusements im-
mediately CoiIIIIIPIICed His Lordship was received
with u mixture of applaose and disapprobation. In
consequence of the violence that ha: been committed
at some of the fairs near the metropolis, his Lord-
ship pro ideal all a Iditiiinal number of constables to
preserve the 'albite peace.
DISTRESSING CASE —On Wednesday afternoon
last, as Bwkle Jaekson, two officers in the
eat-
ploy of the Mendicity Slane ty, were coming through
the fields at the back of Sadler's-wells, they observed
an interesting letimie strAcheil across the path, quite
mute, and apparently dead : they were about to go
for a surgeon, wilco the poor creature IhOgan to :dion,
niptonlS of retoroing animation, and accordingly
they took her up in their :walls, and conver.ii het to
house la the neighbourhood, where, after tataiag
sone refreshment, she was able to accompany them
to the office, in Red-Lion-square. he gave her
name, Mary Smith, and said, that her husband, by
trade a bricklacer, had been dead about three months
when, being unable to support herself, air three chil-
dren, she hail left the latter in Woolwich poorhouse,
anal proceeded on foot to her husband's parish at
Ditnstable ; but the overseers refused to relieve her,
unless she brought down her vhillren. According
ly, she was eompelled to retrace her stens to town
without a firilting in her pockets, and bud reached
those fields, when nature being quite exhausted she
fainted away, and would have died, had it not been
tier the timely iliterference of the officers. The gen-
tlemen in attendance gave her foikl, and half 11-criiwn
for her present support, till she can be passed to her
tinnily us tomfurtably as is in the power of the So-
ciety.

Last tset a boy. named Paton, about 14 years
of age, residing at Cairtibeildie, near Perth, whilst
amusing himself with a double pik?ltook, nnEmtu.
/lately swallowed it. The barbs of the hook
fastened sit tar down in the throat, that no instru-
ment could be applied to onlix than. In this state
otiurture the boy was brought to Verdi with the
end of the brass chain hanging out of his mood),
but nothing t tlectual could be dome fir Liar. Im•
median:ly a number of people (Tenet, a subset iption
for him, and he win: sent (aim Wednesday /14(3'-
110011 for the Inl;rIllary of Edinburgh, tvlere he
arrived on 'cliursility. it consultation was to Ix
held oa his cue initzediately.

CASE 4941, HENRY sritxr.
. The Public hate :dread* Ikea, made at gisainted with
the faei, that some lifter:if mini humane unlit iiliials, cum..
iseraiititi the melancholy sitilai:tm into valtiea the nit-
fioa mime Stem has plunged himself, !iv attempting the
life of his wife, hats uniicnak li vl secure for
him the best defence possible, on thedat of hits approach-
ius I Ttie arrangemeils for ilits up to mu
pri•-ent period, hate been enitnentkv successful.
a..treeahly to his oquest, still tiulaintt ill the
G It•t:i.r-s:ti et Giminer, where he cmiducit liiitiselt with
t• e itri•atest propriety, and ilevives nearly the %stele of
his time lir retains( and devni iiiii al exercises. lie is.,
114/%1 ever. ccrasinitufy engaged iii imparting instructime
to his less informed eintipattoms iu prisitit. Ltioil the
whole, altlittsub his firmness has never forsaken him, he
.111:1i111.11115 a tlt'j (*led spirit. lIIIIIt rto lie has been
iou-
stautlt ti.iterl by his wife, who is now 111 a perftet state
of contalcsceiice ; hilt lie has on IM occasion Whatever,
since the nielatscholywhich has placed hint
•tie'l ass lid jettlrildy, reit:cell the .lightest desire to
r new his eol,lidencr ttith, 1111'.testlillhis frelithts in
ne ; in (Jet. he 11.1 s for mtitie liay's plat directed, that
Saelit should not lie admitted to his .eparisient.
1 11 re is, however, another rails'', which Senn:. to actu-
ate the mind of Sieni,and he desprenls wider it the 'a
as one of those elreatifol results of hi, wife's
His father, tt lin i• aged hot littirprlideltt Mail, it ap-
t •ars. Iv after the Iran,triton at
the S.I acre's Elead, ondertitok the inaitagi titel.l of his
son's affairs. In perf..ritiiiig these Moir>, a few day's
mire, Ilia 1.1.1 is. it 11;111 lie 111j1,1.111r filar 10 1J:1 lentil bb
and dis'ocate hi• hip so tfiniteron-It, that uinrnti-
catio.l, it is ao..re:tendeil, tt ill ensue. Th.. 411 Onitinc
pos'uce a kind 40: ,p.ot in the mind of his soli.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales seem.
to have relinquished her intention of visiting th.e
country•, though she 11;.d transmitted directions t,
make the necessary- l•reparations for her arrival.
Iler Royal highness has since sent an order for su-
perb humesses for six horses, which have been corn.
pleted accordingly, toil are to he sent to Italy,
where the Piincess, it is said, will coulinue tt re-
side.

INSOLVENT DEBTOR'S COURT.—On Thursday a
debtor named Fenlon was opposed by his creditor, on
the ground that he hal not accounted fi)r near 200 i
which he had received fur a curious purpose, namely,
that of procurin4 the old gctilleman a matrimonial
connexiim. The debtor stated, in answe, to inqui-
ries, that he had expended the money in procuring;
meetings, lx:tween the creditor and diGrent ladies
with whom he was dcsirtins of uniting in wedlock.
One of the ladies was a black, and at, ut a particular
occasion the creditor danced upon the table ft.r
amusement of a large party of females ,it Richmond:.
The investigation of these tranSart ions aflinled much
mini' in Court. The opposition failed, and the
debtor was dirch:trtelt- •
_ _

Toe lona c Itchylnert of Bolton sent an mid:Ns
to *%.r rt questang permission to draw him out
of the town, which was pressed so urgently, that he
yielded to their wishes; after which the male lle-
14mm-it solicited the tent des to resign their charge
to them, lint'. they in the manlier convyyeil
hint until they were tat by the It:limners of Man-
chester.

The Mancheste • 37ercury says, " Mr. Campbell.
a Special Constable brought to the. Itiarmary front
his residence, in the vicinity Neer ttel.latte,the day
after the late tumultuous Meeting, died there on
Nlomlay lust, from the violent treatment he expe.ri-
enceol from the mob on the Uitli alt "
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1.1 I.krge -mo.. charged ui .k.kchi.kl Al f.•111‘,. b. Over:err.,
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Illehh••.1 :Ind se•iStiol; 'tlllk.u! b kolritk.troot
.k de. on.kkl: A. the Or •r.a...r, 1 Wrrvet., Av latw,
c.. 11 .tut, ell.ttge •UI Ii 110. as :kr - i..rekl• skt.ll to their
; •411.1 it iito4l.l lie well I.r 1,.r ..hikkkkek, to consider
whether the evikence, of instsistts.ot nibl c mu Settle.
town. p,.ea 5, if c called me d. 1.14.1 to the
odic.. of o.er-evr, exerk i.es hi. ono kli,crraims la, to
I r •uro mid "u4ht mot to ikk,litute or resist henk
hot um go.”I llaorver this utav he, it I. rert.on
that the •• p•nr.s theitt led h. obekheer.., in .ull,Ol (11l
l'.; am.. mail,' I). I h eithiell Ire chat.ekt to the
'ark,h, if the ItAte i. fouod improper or u..just on Appeal
ta, \ 1031. 101.101.

Ili )
t, I tcly (mini pill ai the S•mtersel Assize,
for iimerrieniiist the w.,-cr-meek in itti.k uI Ett:ttatill.
Jones,. according in is tkel..r.,omii. ors induesd
hrsi n C .111111111 ilie crime cif whirl. ll.' has het n fourcl
whs, .onl for %%inch lie ss il! prnie.,b t seethe r Jul igoemi.
j death, through r x rem, pioem, ; and hut iiia Once
iiiie cimpeele.i w.th the u y ri. ceplyd wiefers of fie-
ileums linirs. lie was so much in their 'Hiner that he %v.:
ii a impose. compelled font Pme to tinx to p.•rseiL re .11
hr n•f.tons trithc. Fle is atry re•prciJiile tioni!y
in limo, tile heettpatit•tt
cle,tr.tx.•N and copper-1,1,de printers for titmly the
tylloic of the hest cetunry. A coin se of idle bahits aunt,
Itssip:won ha+ broo.:ht t.is solitary disgrace oil a WOVs
city stie.e.settts