The National Register.
London, England, 1811-05-12 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

second instalment being doe on the 20th of March. Upon an
application for the payment of the second instalment, the answer
was, that the Committee had not met for that purpose.
Lord ELL,. N ao Reyna—Take rule to show cause.
At one o'clock Lord ELLENBOROUGH sat at Nisi Prins,
at Guildhall, when some undefended causes and others of no
interest were disposed of.

POLICE.

THURSDAY, MAT 9.
' This morning J. Drakard, the printer of The Stamford
Journal, was brought up to receive judgment for a libel q the
military discipline, by publishing certain remarks in the said
• Journal, reflecting on th• system of flogging.
. Fie put in a very long affidavit, arid Mr. Bronham made a
most ingenious speech in his behalf.
The Attorney-General replied ; and the Court ordered him to
be brought up again on Friday, the 24th inst.
Mr. John Collier also appeared in Court to receive judgment
for a libel on the Commissioners of Taxes in Manchester ;
when he was ordered into tha custody of the Marshal of the
Lug's Bench, and to be brought up for final judgment-on Friday
the 24th instant.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—A man was charged with an as-
sault with intent to violate the person of a female chiid ten years
old, in the parish of Bloomsbury. The child in question was
at a Charity School, and the prisoner got her away from her
mother's door, and behaved in a r. anner too indelicate to de-
scribe. He then took her to a brothel, and the mistress of the
house to her credit, questioned the child whether it was her
father whom she was with, and on being answered in the nega-
tive, the interrogator charged the prisnner, and be was conveyed
to St. Gile's watch-house, and was on Monday committed in
default of bail.
At the above Police Office, on Friday, a man was
charged with audaciously assaulting a young lady who resides
in Nottingham -street, Mary-le-bonne, on Thursday evening.
The comrlai' ant was returning home from a friend's house
in Wimpole-street, when she was rudely accosted by the de-
fendant, and she extricated herself by c •liing the aid of a
watchman. Having got rid of the defendant, he itt.cked hes
again within a few doors of her home, and behaved in a manner
too idecent to describe He was giv, n in charge of a watchss
man,n and was held to. bail, to answer the complaint at the
Sessions.

The foundation stone of the intended new Bridge from Mil-
bank to Vauxhall, was laid on Thursday with great ceremony
by Lord Dundas, as repres.Attative of his Royal Highness the
Prince Regent; it was afterwards christened—Tee Regent's
Bridge. The Bridge will consist of seven arches, and will ex-
tend 9'20 feet front side to side.
The following is a copy of a circular which -bas been, we un- 1
derstand, very generally circulated throughout the kingdom.—
" the BOOK."--The convulsions and changes that have hap-
pened in the G—rnm—t, since the suppression of " The
Book," affords much choice of conjecture to the contemplative
mind as to what " The Book" coil tains, and what were the
motivei which originally promoted its complier to print it for
the public, and afterwards to bury it beyond the reach of the
public sight.—A printed book to be suppressed, and held in sub- . •
j, ctionby a public, thcer is a new feature in the annals of litera-
ture ; and yet it appears not to astonish by its novelty, nor to
alarm by the danger with wh it menaces the press.—Abused
orand insulted as the public h• e been on this subject, it must be a
matter of considerable gratification to learn, that a work, enti-
tled, " The spirit of ' The Book', or memoirs of Caroline Prin-
cess of Hasburgh," formed upon the ba:,is of the suppressed
" Book," is now presented to the public, which exposes every
fact and circumstance which distress has been compelled to sell
or to resign to pouic.-, and which power has been at such dis-
tress to conceal from the world--.-Until the perusal of this work,
it is hoped no premature or harsh opinion will be entertained of
4. .1 he author presumes to be found well deserving the
patronage of the rublic, and the approbation of mankind.
Ifis work comprehends the memoirs of many of the most
distinguished and illustrious persowge3, and will satisfy that
crethilim, ;Ind extravagant curiosity which has hitherto attached
such inestimable value to the slanderous volume, known by the
name of "The Dtlicatelnvestigation." rhi,; interesting and in-
valuable work is I,ublished this day, in three duodecimo volumes,
price 11. 55.; and may be had of Messrs. Allen and Co. No. IS,
Faternoster-row.—May 10, 1811.
Last week a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. BAltrY, of
Hoighing. on. near Lincoln which in a .short time a cottage, a
barn, 60 quat ters of corn, arid nine young beasts. It is supposed
to have been caused by a servant throwing out some hot cinders
and ashes from the oven, which were carried by the wind to
the crew-yard.
On Saturday seinnight, a drunken ruffian, who it appears is
the driver as well as the proprietor of the hackney coach,
No. 330, was convicted at the public-office, in Bow-street, in
the penalty of sl. for extorting more than his fare. He was also
held to letil for a gross assault on a lady, whom he took into his
coach, when he was is a state of brutal intoxication, and from
whose violence she was providentially rescued by the inter-
' ference of some persons who casually pasted.
On inquiry we find the accident of the death of the Scotch
Captain by a random shut front the :ihannotn, cf 38 guns, did
not happen on board the Rose in June American ship, detained
by the Shannon and Amazon, but on board another American
ship detained by those frigates, viz. the American ship Andrew,
from Bayonne, with wine and brandy, for New York. She
beitig a east sailer, endeavoured, by manineuvring, to outstrip
the Shannon and Amazon, on which they began tiring at Ler,
when one of the shot struck hint

BIRTH.
On Wednesday last, the lady of Eugenius Roche, Esq. la*
Editor of The Day, of a daughter.
MARRIED.
On Tuesday last, John Smith, Esq. of Brighton, Sussex, to
Miss Browne, daughter of James Browne, Esq. Banker, of the
same place.

DIED.
Thursday evening, in Newgate, Malcolm Craig, a Composi
tor. 'Phis person was one of eighteen unfortunate men who
were prosecuted by the Proprietors of The Times Newspaper,
about six months ago, for a conspiracy in endeavouring to ob-
tain an advance of wages, which advance, on account of the
high price of the necessaries of life, was then granted by- every
other Newspaper in London, Mr. Box, Surgeon of Newgate,
with that humanity for which he is so generally esteemed,
signed as petition on behalf of the unfortunate man to the
PRINCE REGEN T, who immediately granted him a tree pardon,
which arrived but a few hours before his death. He was an in-
dustrious peaceable man, and an excellent father and husband,
and has left a widow and four small children totally unpro-
vided for.
At Glasgow, on Sunday, Mr. John Fraser, ,of the Royal Bank
of Scotland, son of John Eraser, Lsq. of Antigua-street, Leith-
walk, Edinburgh.
On Thursday, the 2d inst. at Kelly, the family mansion of
his brother Arthur Kelly, Esq. where he went on Sunday last,
accompanied by his daughter, for the benefit of his native air,
to the great grief of his numerous family, Vice-Admir
liam Hancock Kelly. of Plymouth. it is difficult to do jus-
tice to the merits ef this excellent man ; his general goodness
of heart, his justness, his firmness of mind, and his zeal for
the service to which he belonged, and in which he spent al-
most 45 yea-, of fn;thfid and active duty, enabled him to bear
with manly fortitude the neglect of those who direct the helm
of our navy, in not accepting his repeated offers of service ;
but his all-wise Creator has been pleased to reward ,him
with a blessed and enviable death, having permitted him tfrex-
. pirc with the greatest serenity in the arms of his daughter, viiith•
out a sigh.

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