The National Register.
London, England, 1811-10-06 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, Efc.

Friday morning between five and six o'clock, John Flora
Wilkinson, who was conirnitted to Ipsw•ch gaizi the heyinning
of-last month, for a burglary, made Pis evit,:e from that prl•on,
by cutting a hole throudi the cell, in which 'he was confined,
into the passage leading thereto. from whence he proceeded to
open a strong barred door, by means of a wire which had been
previously third by him, to tht pin of the • sternal Ir4r, and con•
veyed through a crevice to the inside; having reached the yard,
he completed his escape with the as.istance of a short ladder,
which some workmen had been using, together with a sheet,
which lie threw over the top of the wall, an dropped from
thence a very considerable height, encumbcred with his irons,
into the adjoining garden of Sir W. Innes. In the evening-, how.
ever, lie was re-taken by Mr. Jonathan Waspe, jun. wandering
out of the path, in one ..f his fields, in the parish of St. Mary
Stoke, and is now well secured in his uld apartments.

—•tsilw"—

SINGULAR ROBBERY.
A traveller, in the hop line, was last Tuesday at Wisbech,
and observing in the travellers' tom at his inn that he had rid-
den his horse hard, and should like to give him rest by taking a
chaise to Spalding, and proceeding in the like way to Boston,
was accosted by a young man of genteel appearat ce arid address,
who told him he was going the same journey, in the timber bu-
siness, and should be happy to.joln Inm in the expence of a post-
chaise The pr: posal was readily agreed to; and at the White
Hatt at Spelding, it was determined they should sleep in a
double-bedded room together, for the purpose of rising early in
the morning to continue their journey. The Gentleman awoke
about five o'clock, and aroused his new acquaintance, who in-
stantly began to dress, and in a few minutes went down stairs,
but shortly after returned, in very great pretended distress,
calling out, " 0 Lord ! what shall I do ? I have lost my pocket-
book—l shall he ruined;" and whilst thus exclaiming, he stamp-
ed about in a most frantic manner. The Gentleman asked him,
" Have you lost any thing considerable, Sir ?"-66 0 yes," replied
he, 44 ninety-three pounds!"—" A serious sum, indeed ; it is
high time for me to sec if my book is not gone also. No—it is
here in my pocket, tied up as I left it last night. It is very sin-
gular that any body should enter the room, and take your book
and not mine." On opening his hook, however, the Gentleman,
to his amazement, found that the notes which it should have
contained were all gone, amounting to about 321. He then be-
gan to feel really as unhappy as the other pretended to be, and
immediately alarmed the house. The chambermaid was almost
confident that no person lied been up those stairs but the
two travellers. "It that is the case," said the Gentleman, "as
I have not yet been out of the room, I do insist upon being tho-
roughly searched, and every article I have about me." Both
travellers immediately underwent the examination, but nothing
was found on either of them. The Gentleman then began to
entertain suspicions of his companion, and inquired of him,
seizont 1w did business with in the town? Being answered, '6 Not
any body ;" he farther inquired, where, and of whom the young
man had taken the money which he said he had lost ? The an.
.severs to these-and a number of other questions being unsatis-
factory, he at once told hint he believed he was the thief who
had taken the money. After being threatened with being put
in charge of a constable, &c. the young man at length stam-
mered nut a confession, that, insttgaeed he believed by the devil,
he himself took the money, when he came up to bed in the
dark, overnight, and had carried it down that morning, and hid
it in the. upper part of the ehnise-housee where it was found ;
and Birig restored to the ownet, he, in cousicheretion of the
nuth of the offender, and believing it to be his rst offence,
after talking to him severely, let him sescape.

New State I.ottery Office, No. 1. Cornhill, the corner, aext to
the Mansion -House.—Pinni NG and o. respectfully solicit the fa-
tours and patronage of their Friends and the Public at the above
Office, for which a License has been obtained, with a confident
expectation, or rather preposs, scion, that they shall have the
good fortune to distribute there a large proportion of Capital
Prizes. As, however, their Office is newly licensed, they think
it expedient to notice, that in the Act of i'arliament for the
present Lottery, Government, with a laudabe solicitude for
the security of the Public, have directed that the Original
Ticket of every numb. r divided into shares shall be depo-ited
at the Stamp Office, and that all such rickets (if drawn Priz• s)
shall be liable to be detained by the Receiver-General, until the
holders of shares of them shall have been paid. It is therefore
manifest, by the above regulati at that Adv, uturers may now
make themselves equally secure of? the l ayment of their Prizes,
it purchased at a New Office, as at any of the Old ones.—
As many persons contend for the loc..lity of lurk, and that
some situations are more propitious for the attainment of good
fortune than others, F'IDDING and Co. may be permitted to
state, that if a con ect estimate can be formed of the future by
a retrospect of the past, the situation of No. 1, Cornhill,"
must be pre-eminently fortunate, nor has any other in London
more extensively contributed to the benefit of mask nd. it is
the identical spot where Mr. Tnossas CUT acquired his im-
mense fortune, 240,0001. of which he approi•riated fur tte build-
ing and endowment of the Hospital in the Borougla, called after
his name. How may thow-ai.ds, therefore, have reason to
bless the place which provided him with the Means of thus ex-
ercising his benevolence ! And may it not be expecte% that
Fortune will atilt continue to dispense her ftvoors at these >Vra..
miSel 'Perhaps even the Reader May be' destiirett to 'XiqtYlre
wealth and independenceat this Niw Office: certain it is;theri
will be at least an equal chance as at any ot,'Ver, and PIDDINO
and C'o. will only add, that the orders of their Friends and the
Public shall at all times be punctually attended to. their prefer-
ence duly appreciated, and gratefully remembend.—No. 1,
Cornhill.

A few nights since, the Privy-Council Officc was broken open.
The-Officekeeper was alarmed by a noise in the upper part of
the Office, which awoke him ; he got a light immediately, and
went up stairs, and discovered that some person or persons had
entered by a window which had been opened by the parties from
the back premises leading from the ruins of an old house in
Downing-street, which was pulled down some time since for the
purpose of enlarging the Ea=t India Board Office. '1 hat plan
has been abandoned, and the Privy-Council Office is now where
the Fast India Board used to he held. The robbers decamped,
without stealing any thing, on hearing the Office-keeper stirring.
It is suspected, that the thieves narrowly escaped falling into a
iarge cistern of water, belonging to a water-closet, which was
close to the window where they entered.
Two persons, named Savage and Spurrier, who had spent
their evening (Tuesday) at a Society of Odd Fellows, near
Brooks's Market, being ton late to return home, slept together
at Guy's Coffee-house, in Holborn. On awaking in the morn-
ing, Spurrier found he had been robbed, and after consulting
with his friend, it was agreed to bring the case before the Ma-
gistrates at Hatton Gorden Office. No sooner, however, had
the circumstances been stated than the Magistrate suspected
Savage to be the thiet; he was accordingly searched, and (with
tin: exception of a 11. note whirl i he had changed in the morn-
ing) the whole property, amounting to id. was found on him.—
In his defence he =aid it •-va• meant s a joke; but the joke being
co seriaas, ne was committed to take t,is trial.
Emanuel Jose de Silva, a Portu uese sailor, is committed to
Newgate to take his trial for di, wilful murd •r Of John Doug:as
a Scotch sailor, by stabbing him in the back, a few nights since,
as hi: was going bonne to his lodgings in East. Smithfield.

MARRIED.
On Wednesday last, by special license. at Woolbeding, Sus-
sex, Lord Robert Spencer, to the Hun. Mrs. Bouverie.

DIED.

On the Bth ult. at Berlin, where he was on a visit to his bro-
ther, of which City he was a naiivq, the celehnlted naturalist and
traveller, Peter Simon Pallas, Counsellor of State to the Empe-
ror of Russia, in the 70th year of his age.
At Chiswick, aged 87, Lady Mary Cook, the aunt of the
Duke of Buccleugh.
At Guinaldo, in Portugal, on the Bth ult. Brigadier-General
G. D. Drummond.
At Elmswell, Suffolk, Sir H. Smith, Bart. aged 77, the last
surviving Officer present at the death of General Wolf, at Que-
bec, and one of his Aide-de- camps.
On Thursday last, Mr. J. Lendon, son of Mrs. I.endon, of
Oxford-street : his death was occasioned by his shirt communi-
cating with the candle when going to bed, by which he was so
much hurt, that he survive d but four days.
On Thursday, at Ashy, ick Grove, near Bath, aged 62, John
Billingsley, Esq. Author of the Agricultural Survey of the
county of Somerset. His life was one continued round of active
pArtieulat ly in agricultural pursuits, and ior the general
bene.fit of the country.
At Huhn I Herefordshire, aged 74, Mr. J. King: he
was gardener in the Duke of Norfolk's family 50 years.

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