The National Register.
London, England, 1821-10-21 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

the child had been daily committing felonies. The ehildten
seemed .0 much on& r the contri.l of tlik infamous unman,
that they were afraid to speak the twill unt,llshe eat cc-
moved from the hal-. Little Bailey then told how they were
employed every day, being sent out to steal what they could
uud bring it home in the evialiog t wilco they could gel
nothing else, they stoic meat from time butches'., and vege.
tablet from the green emcees. She• had a pack of card•,
by which she told them their fortune in the morning, whether
they would succeed, or whethe, they would be taken by an
officer. _ _

Mr. Swnbcy observed, that since he had nttended this
office lie had never witnessed a vire of to much iniquity.
The prisoner wits nnnmitled for fusilier examination, when
the Mai.eitiate intim:ilea lie should desire the parish to pre-
set uie her fur the misdemeanor, in exciting these children to
commit felonies ; and the children are detained in custody
at present with the intention of having them prudu.ed us
itnesses against lu r.

Some disturbances have lately taken place in the
loan of Douglas and Peel, Isle of man. The corn dealers
having conspired, and put an unnecessary advsoce on the
prier of that article, the lower classes assembled and demo-
lished the houses of several bakers and Untie vendera. A good
deal of property was carried off by the mob, and wines and
spirits were set flowing hi the streets. As there were no
military in the island, the gentlemen in the different towns,
being joined by the half-pay otkcers, associated under the
command of Major Nicholl, late of the 91 tit regiment, and
having obtained anus and ammunition from the King's store,
they succeeded in restoring order, after wounding two or
three of the timers, and securing the ringleaders. Troops
have been ordered from England: the cons dealers have
lowered their prices, and the exportation of grain from the
island is inhibited for three months. On Friday se'nnight,
at 12 o'clock nt night, the Airmail:iv:dry and half-pay soldiers
were still on duty, and nil was quiet.
There is now sojoutning at Brighton a gentleman, 92
years of age, who was never befora ten miles from Lon-
don, and who, it is said, fr,luented an inn in Bishops-
gate-street daily for upwards of 60 years, and at which,
it is further reported, he latterly ailowed himself fire
bottles of port wine per diem, and that upon calculation
and proof it appeared he had actually drank at the above
mentioned house no less a quantity than 35,609 bottles,
or .57 pipes, of that generous and genial juice!
A MAN OF BUSINFAIL—One of the most auda•
cious robberies we have had to record for some time past
took place in the neighbourhood of Leicester, on Satur-
day morning lust. Between seven and eight o'clock a
young man, dressed in a smock frock, entered a close of
Mr. Unison, of Bistall, and drove therefrom eighteen
sheep, which he brought to market and sold to Mr.
Brown, a jobber, of Blaston, before
Milne morning. After he had disposed of his ill-gotten
booty, the depredator went to the Lion and Lamb inn,
where, having undisguised himself by pulling off his
frock, he partook of breakfast with the utmost composure,
and then disappeared, and has since not been heard of.
He had on a dark green broad cloth coat, and was other-
wise tolerably well dressed, having altogether the appear-
ance of a respectable farmers son. He said his name
was Forester, but where he resided Ile refined to tell. It
is said that on passing Belgrave gate he left his whip in
pledge for toll, which is very probable, as he changed a
Al. note after lie sold the sheep, to pay for the pens in
which he had exposed them for sale. We understand Mr.
Cialson, or his shepherd, had seen the sheep on the usual
place at seven o'clock in the morning ; so that it would
appear that the audacious thief bad cute' ed his close,
stolen his sheep, drove them two miles, got a purchaser,
received the money for them, regaled himself, and got
cl ear away, in little more ikiill two hours.
On Wednesday, the lath instant, at eight o'clock in
the morning, his Majesty's steam packet, George the
Fourth, sailed from Holyhead far Dublin with the mail
and passengers; when within a few leagues of Howth,
a frightful crash from the engine was heard, which, on
examination, proved that the main shaft had broken.
The vessel having become unmanageable, the signal of
distress was hoisted, and although several vessels were in
sight, only one brig came to her assistance, into which
the mail was removed. The George the Fourth remained
in that situation itinit the arrival of the Meteor steam
packet, which took her in tow to Holyhead, where they
arrived at half-past twelve that night.
MARGATE, OcT. 16.—We have here a resident, an
extraordinary character, Mr. John Gyles, who completed
his u9th year on Saturday last, and is now in perfect
health. Tins har:ly veteran has been a warranted gunner
in the service hi years and a half. He fired the first gun
when 11 airke received his flag; and on the Ida October,
1747, was in the general engagement with the French
fleet under that Admiral. 'the next actions was off
'Coulon under Boscawen, its 1759. The last service was
in the taking of the Dutch fleet, in the year 1770.
Gyles was the first man at Ramsgate Pier-head, when
the King sailed for the French coast, and gave his Mo-
narch three hearty cheers on the departure of the Royal
Sovereign yacht. lie walked alone from thus place
without even the assistance of a stick, which, in fact, he
never uses.

SMUOGLING —An extraordinary seizure was made at
Inverness on Saturday week by the Excise. Mr. ling-
gan, Supervisor for the Beauly district (appointed in
room of Mr. France, who is ternoved to Inverness),
informed Mr. Davidson, acting Supervisor there, that
when off Arbroath, in the smack Rolls, he picked up
36 casks of gin, and had nut the vessel been labouring
under a strong gale, he could have secured many wore,
a number being seen Boating about. He gave information
at the same time, that a vessel (then supposed to be the
Janet, of Inverness) was seen to secure a number of the
Heating casks; immediately upon which, Mr. Davidson,
accompanied by a party, proceeded to search, and disco-
vered seventeen ca,ks concealed in a garden near the
New Bridge. There were no spirits found on boatel the
Janet, but she was seized on =COMA of not reporting the
circumstance, amid lodging the illegal part of her cargo in
the Excise eel s.
We regret to state that an unpleasant accident hap-
pened to the Tunbridge coach coining to London on
Saturday evening. It was upset at Brumley, anal the
coachman, and a lady, an outside passenger, were sc•
verely hurt. The rest of the passengers, both inside and
outside, received sonic bruises.

Dreadful Fire.—Ou Friday night last, about half pats
10 or 11 o'clock, a fire b►oke out on the south side of
Valentine Place, in the Surrey Road, about half way
between the New Cnt, from Westmins►er Bridge, and
the Magdalen Hospital. It began in an oil and colour
shop, and soon enveloped the house in flames. We
have not heard how it originated, or what was the fate
of all the inmates. One woman, we are toad, who was
in the third flour, after the flames had caught the lower
parts of the house, and blazed out of the windows around
her, threw herself down, and was caught in a blanket.
The fire rapidly involved every part of the house, and
communicated with the next. Assistance was promptly
sent for, and two or three engines soon arrived; but
either from want of water, or front ignorance, where to
find the plug, the firemen and the neighbours were con-
demned for more than half an hour to witness the pro-
gress of the conflagration, without being able to take a
single step to impede or arrest its course. About half-
past I I the fire was at its height. The long stream of
flame and smoke then appeared from Black friars as if it
arose from the Surrey Theatre. The two houses that
first caught fire were rapidly destroyed, and a third was
nearly burnt down, when (about twelve o'clock) water
was found, and the engines began to play, and in less
than half an hour the activity of the firemen had tri-
umphed, and the inhabitants of the neighbouring houses,
who !were trembling for their safety and beginning to
remove their property, were relieved from alarm or ap.
prehension. In the confusion we are unable to learn
the extent of the damage, or even to ascertain whether
any lives were lost. As far as we could see, only two or
three houses have been entirely destroyed, though others
may have suffered a partial injury.

On Thursday evening, the lslcworih coash, on its
arrival into the village, for the purpose of setting down,
•it their respective habitations, two females, one an
inside, the other an outside passenger. The coach hav-
ing arrived at the house of the former, the driver got
down, leaving the reins upon the backs of the wheel
horses, and before the lady could alight, the whistling of
some mischievous boy set the horses off; they ran
through the village with great speed, turning the sharp
corners of the streets with the saute exactness as if they
had been under the guidance of the most skilful coach-
man, but the vehicle was at last thrown over, and the
unfortunate female on the outside so dreadfully injured,
that she expired at one o'clock on the following morn-
ing. One of the horses was also killed.
Firs.--About 1 l o'clock on Wednesday night last, the
neighbourhood of Calthorpe-street, Brunswick-square,
was thrown into the greatest alarm, and on discovering
that the upper part of one of the new houses in that
street was on fire, and knowing that a man and his wife
had the care of the house and slept on the third floor,
the whole of the neighbours assembled, and the rattles
were sprung, and several persons kept knocking at the
door and called aloud " fire, fire " but receiving no
answer they broke open the dour, and proceeded up
stairs, when they extinguished the fire.

Skocing of Ilona.—A discovery has been recently
made why that useful animal the horse, has been sub.
ject to so much lameness by the shoeing of the smiths.—
The blame is not totally to be attributed to the shoer,
in commanding the smith to complete the shoeing of
the horse in a limited time, which consequently would
oblige the smith to put on the shoes before the iron is
cold ; and which, if the least degree of warmth is re-
maining within the iron affixed to the horses feet, must
unquestionably occasion them to become more heated
for hours, and produce a tenderness in the feet. Our
correspondent observes, that the shoes, when prolierly
made to suit the size and shape of the foot, should be
put into cold water for a quarter of an hour ; and were
proprietors of coaches and carriers to adopt this system.
the complaints of the badness of the roads would then
subside, from the improved state of the condition of the
feet of their cattle.

Marriage Loitcry.—lt has often been said, figitrat;vely,
that inartiage is a lottery; but we do not recollect to
have met svti h a practical illustration of the truth of the
simile before the Mllowing, «Rich is a fiee translation
of a❑ advertisement in the Lousiana Gazette :—" A
young man, of good figure and disposition, unable, dm'
desirous to procure a wife, without the preliminary tum-
ble of amassing a fortune, proposes the following expe-
dient to obtain the object of his wishes :—he otters him-
self as the prize of a lottery to all widows and virgins
under 32. l'he number of tickets to be 60U, at 50 dol.
tars each. But one number to be drawn from the wheel,
the formate proprietor of which is to be entitled to him-
self and the 30,000 doll trs."

Ott Wednesday last, the daughter of Mr. Honeyscet,
wheelwright, of Luton, near Chatham, aged 21, Way
missed from her father's house,and after a diligent search
(or some time, Was found in a well in Lutou•strt•et,
quite dead ; a disappointment in love is conjectured to
have been the cause.—Saine day, a sailor, belonging ut
one of his Majesty's ships in the river Medway, %Val
found hanging in a wood near 112Mb:um A note or
paper was Minot in his pocket, signifying that want of
employ had driven him to it; but as two sovereigns were
found in his pocket, and he was at that time in his
Majesty's service, it is believed that was not the real
cause.

In the neighbourhood of Hamilton, in Scotland, an
experiment was made this year to try the ditTerenc2 be-
tween the spade and the plough. A field was taken,
which was in beans last year, and oats the year before;
two ridges were dug and two ploughed alternately, awl
the whole was sown on the same day ; a part both nit
the ploughed and dug being drilled with the garden hoe:
the whole was reaped the same day, and being thrashed
ant, the result was, that the dug sown broadcast was to
the 'sloughed sown broadcast as 55 to 42. The dug and
dulled was as 204 to Igt, upon the ploughed and drilled.
The additional grain is not the only beneficial result
A oned by digging, as in this instance there was also a
great deal more straw. The land is free of weeds, and
will be easier billowed next year.

BOXING.

GREAT PUGILISTIC MATCH FOR 200 GUINEAS A SIDE, B.
?WEER NEAT OF BRISTOL, AND TILE GAS-LIGIIT MAN.
Castle Tavern, 0c.13, 1821.
Thomas Belcher, on the part of W. Neat ; and an
amateur on the part of Hickman, made a deposit of 25
guineas, to make it 100 guineas a side in the course of a
few days; to be a fair stand-up fight. Ilalf-minute time.
The match to take place on the 11th of December, ball
way between Bristol and London. An umpire to be
chosen on • ich side, and a refei re upon the ground. The
battledninivy to be ,2:11 guineas a side, and to be made
good a fortnight before fighting.
Immediately on the above articles being signed, five to
four was betted upon Hickman. Neat, it it said, will he
nearly two stone heavier than the Gas-light man. It will
be recollected that both of them have defeated Oliver ;
but with this vast difference, Neat won it with great
difficulty, after a long fight ; while, on the contrary, the
Gas defeated Oliver in twelve minutes, without giving
the latter boxer a shadow of chance. Neat has only ap-
peared once iu the prize ring; lie is a great favourite at
Bristol, and is one of the finest made men in the king-
dom. Neat is said to be much improved as to pugilistic
science, and it is a battle that will excite a great deal of
interest throughout the Fancy.

Local. PoUcE.—Tke mode of protecting the
parish of St. Citric. York, from nocturnal depredations. is at once
so economical, and in other respects so worthy of imitation, that
too much publicity cannot be given to the means by which it is
effizted. l'he military arc bound by a voluntary engagement to
supply a patrol of two of their number to walk the parish every
night, and perform the duty of ordinary watchmen. The tour of
duty to each effective member of this excellent association reverts
but once in six weeks ; and when attendance is impracticable, a
mercenary is procured fur two shillings. On the outset of their
career they put to flight two nests of reprobates, since which time
the parish ass enjoyed the utmost security and quiet. A watch-
house for the accommodation of the patrol is now building on a
a, eat adjoining the church.
MIRACULOUS CIRCUMSTANCE.—[Front [he Phi-
lini•lphia National Ga:ette, of Sept. 131—Captain Howland,
of the sloop Rising Sun, arrived at Providence all Sunday
last, on the sth lust. lat. 37,47, long. 74,33, fell in with
a schooner bottonotp, her mast, and spars were alongside,
111,411 by the rigging ; her sails were blown or washed trout
the bolt rope. ‘Ve a eat on her bottom, to cut a hole
through, to see what site was loaded with. We cut a
piece of plank out near the rots, and were ,toptised to
bear a voice, like that of a female, ask, " lilio is that,
but very faintly. We answered, " friends," and asking
how many there were below ? she said, when the vessel
capsized she turned blatantly bottom tip, and all hands
were on deck except herself and the Captain's nephew
(Lewis Miers, of Charleston, Spoilt Carnimit), a buy
about II scars of age. We drew her out ; she was a
woman of cutout, about '22 years of age, wet, and her
flesh all parboiled. She caught hold of the rim•scuttle-
ring, and pulled the scuttle off, and went up into the
run, where we found her, with the water constantly
washing over her. She said probably some of the crew
might be in the forecastle. We went forward, on the
keel, and cut through into the forecastle, and found
nothing but a small dog, alive, jammed between the tim-
bers, and the forecastle full of lumber ; the rest, seven
in number, are supposed to have perished. She 54)5 the
schooner's name was Wake, orCharleston, South Carolina,
Captain James Hatch ; that she sailed from Boston on the
1 1i ult. fur Portland, where she arrived, and marled with
lumber ; had I I pipes of wine on deck, and a high deck
load of lumber ; that they sailed from Portland about the
17th for Charleston; that she heard the Captain say that
they were off the Capes of Delaware the morning the
vessel unfortunately capsized; and that on the 3d instant,
about ten A. sr. the gale commenced ; that they took all
sail in, and hove to, cut their deck load a-dsitt, and let
all go overboard ; that about eleven, A. 31. she capsized.
She states that her name is .‘tin Mat uy Holden ; that she
belongs to Warwick, K., L. ; that she was going with
Captain Hatch in the capacity of servant, to wait upon
his nephew, who was its a bad state of health. We took
her and the dog on board, gave her clothes and nourish-
ment; she is now very used.
Curious Oise.—An affair of a very extraordinary na-
ture Is about to come before the Court at Paris. A
Scutchinati, named William NPDougal, who was pur-
sued for uttering at Paris forged times of the Batik of
Scotland to the amount of 40,000 francs, fled to die Ne-
therlands, and took refuge in the Belgic territory. The
French governineut demanded and obtained that he
should be given up. M4Dougal was made prisoner at
Ghent ; and conducted by regular guards of relief to
Paris. However, people were not a little surprised to
see the prisoner soon after his arrival in the capital, ob-
tain all at once his liberty, saying that he was guilty of
that single crime far which our legisliturc has not pro-
vided a punishment. The fact was, that the person
who was brought to Pans was not the true William,
but his brother, James NPDongal, who had conceived
and executed the hardy project of setting his brother at
liberty uti the journey, by dressing himself in clothes
similar to those which the prisoner wore. It appeared
lie had followed the chaise in which hisibrother was,
on horseback, for some time, and it was at Courtray,
when the party stopped 4t a little inn, that he put ht ti
self in his place: James, therefore, was the person that
the police of the Netherlands delivered to the French
;;ens d'arines ou the frontiers. This curious case which,
before discussing the accusation, it will be necessary
first to prove the prisoner's identity, will be pleaded by
M. Chats d'Estrange.
A curious circumstance occurred a few clays since at
Castle Baring, in the county of Monmouth, the seat of
Charles Bannatyne, Esq. As Mr. the Hon.
Mr. Brockhursl, and Mr. Hens, were on a shooting,
excursion, the gun of Mr. Hells went off by accident,
lodging its contents its a thick holly bush, whence a
brace of pigs, of the wild boar species rushed out, mak-
ing a precipitate retreat to the innermost recesses of the
wood. Mr. Bannmytie fired at the hgliter coloured ani-
mal, but the shot seemed to make no impression; the
Hon. Mr. B. fired next, and by a judicious mancruvre
laid the animal prostrate. Upon examination it was
found to be a hog of the Indian kind, which it is sup.
Posed has, with its composite!), escaped item mom we.
gazette.