The National Register.
London, England, 1818-09-28 00:00:00

l'Hr NA rION At REG I.iTE ft.

DISCOVERY.—On Tuesday last Mr.
Mnrkland, the Magistrate of CZ:leen Square Police
Office, Watt revested by a ge:itleatitn to attend on an
olicer's widow residing at Bethnal-green, at any con-
venient time, fur the inirpose of administering an oath.
and signing an affidavit, authorising her to receive her
husbar.i:s pension. the lady beim; bed-ridden and• un-
able to attend herself. Mr Marivland accortY.ngly re-
paired to the lady's dwelling on Thursday morning
last, and after performing his necessary duties, in
the course of ecnivcestior,„ trora various eireurastan-
ces, discovered that s'.:e nits hid Rant, and instead
of being a Captain's widow, she was the widow of at:
Admiral.
ONioNs.—The rie and fall t•F this valuable vegeta-
ble has been almost as rapid as the rise and full of mo-
dern empires. A Kentiih horticulturist, in the early
part of the seasoe, sold the produce of twenty acres fur
more than twenty thottiawd Fo7f :ids. This article was
thea worth twenty fire shillings per bushel ; but at
Reading fair, lust week, they were purchased wholesale
for less than five shillings ; so that onioas, contrary to
the usual custom. brought tears in the eyes of the yen-
dur, rather than the buytr.
The revenue is so rapidly improving, tho.t tliere will
be no necessity for funding or rating any loan fur the
service of the ensuing year.
Thirty-fire prisoners have been cepi'ally convicted
during the present Sessions, cons,:quently they await
jadgment of death, which will be passed on aim') at the
termination ef the Se.ssiuna, which is likely to take
place on 'Wednesday neat : —forgery, 13 ; burglary, 4;
housebreaking, 2 ; stealing in dwelling-houses, ;
horre-stealing, 3 ; sheep--stealing, '2 ; stealing privately,
4.—Total 35.

Thursday morning six field artillery waggons, from
the grand depot ut Woolwich, conveyed the Duke of
Curnheiland's funlicure37,.lbag4age to I)eptfbid, under
the escort of the Iluyal Artillery, to be pat on board a
ship tin- Hanover.
On Thursday the Ship Owners of Great Britain had
their anniversary dinner at the city of London Tavern,
which was numerously attended by the rrincipal ship
owners of the port of Loudon. John Wm. Buckle,
Esq. was in the chair. Some excellent glees and fa-
vourite songs were giver, by Messrs. Lt...ete, Taylor,
Tyrrell, and King.
A canal from Paris to Dieppe, which is of no small
interest to the commercial intercourse of Englund with
France, has been undertaken by a company of rich
capitalists. Their project is now under consi,leratim in
the Bureaux of the Minister of the Interior. It is to
be terminated by PM.

blenders mail has arrived, from which it appears,
that the fellow who attempted to assassinate Mr. Cock-
rell has saved the law the trouble of his death, by
hanging himself
By a careful examination of the returns of Members
to the house of Commons, as publishe I in the Gazette,
we find that the number of new members amounts to
one hundred and ninety-three, form;ng nearly a third of
the House.—At the election in 1812, there were 12
new Members.

Among the extraordinary rumours now afloat on the
Continent, it is said that Russia is to be divided into
three parts, the North, West, and South, over which
Alexan&lerwill place his three brothers, with the title of
Kings, while he remains supreme head of the wl ole.
The vast extent of the Russian Emp'r has suggeAted
this idea, and there is probably no other ground for the
speculation.
Lord Ertel:borough, we lament to state, still conti-
nues so seriously indisposed, that his resigastion is ex-
pected • ethre the comm:ncement of Michaelmas Term
Mr Kean means shortly to add to tit number of his
lis' of dram,;tie characters, those or Oresles in The
Disfre.s.vea .114ther, and Jaffier in Venice Pre‘erred.
Illundm is re-engaged at Drury Lane T- eatre, on
his own terms, to perthrm whenever his old enemy, the
gout, wi.l permit him to appear on the stage.
- The two leading charact:rs in Lewis's .4de/ti;//oa
will shortly I.e personated by :Miss Somerville and by
a %.r. Howatd Payne., who calls himself the American
Ilosc•ius.

fir. M!tntin, the anthor of the blustcrin,;:mcl Filc-
ccssful of Bert am, has pr:•.thiecl new traictll
drama, w!lich private report speak:; most f...,.ourably,
and which 13 sail to be hilortly tbitltcora:ng at Cuvcut
Garden Thcatie.

• OFF 1e! OF ORD.V.I A'ept. f 23, 18 18. ,
()nicer: if Ilis 114e:flys Orrtnalicc
do hereby give the .Ift will be rove:vett at thLie
aftv:. A:if Atoll, cn yr brj;,.lralu'egrin•vntap, the 7th day elf o..toter
:!e.rt,ji VAS such P.n. a t as wan be ir;hiri, to undertake the Supplyql
CA NDLES.
15r trader of tMs Den rJ in 4 nt, far it 11..ri.-d of three Years. de-
I• ,inal ajtie the )4il:it,.th II of the,p.st Yr•:r, tip.% of
tl,ee lNenths. the of (Uhl., Pat 1,71.
p'es ‘,l- the rowed.... to if it/Tried ?any rimed
nt Me Pr:neipal Storekeeper's (Vet!, to Cse r.
toget.er with the Terms and Cion'itiews
fhe Cent, art. may In: known ut the Seri-thou': (yr,r. in
ajareoahl, nay dap ecixeen the las-es of ten and tear
where the prepoeala ?mai bell. Ike:ea sated np and radoetai "1'1in:0
se.. for GapllLs." liJ no
.Prort.t/ ra.. be inin4lted tee
VI day of 0. tat g•t !:ee.se a elo.le a: town ort!:e idt Me. dap.
trill any Inkr reVced rotten Me l'asty cr 414
in lug 1444' eto;:
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CALAIS, Si:Pl.. I embarkcd at Dover yester.
lay. in ineiiiat ely en the packet's:e t ing under weigh,
two Custom-I:orse officers crone on kiard, and entered
the cabin. Withaut saving a word, they put the'r
bands on a bag contahing 500 guineas, the supposed
property of a young gentleman, who on cm
iug of age has succeeded to a large fortune lle bad
with Liar a servant in livery, five greyhounds, and a
spanial, and was himself caressed like a whipper-ire,
with a do„ whip in his hand and a whistle to it. The
officers, byl their promptness, appear to• have had goo.]
infbrmatiun. The young geutieman soon afterwards
took. to a birth, in which he remained during the
tage. The influx and reflux of the English here ft.l:s
every hotel to crux:is."