The National Register.
London, England, 1819-03-29 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

vocation, the University Seal of Oxford was affixed
to pe itions to be presented to Parliament, praying
that the laws by which pemons professing the Ro-
man Catholic•religion are precluded from ?juin.'" in
Parliament, and front holding certain civil andmi-
litary offices, may not be repealed.
A Dublin paper say!.—" We understand his Royal
Highness tke Duke of Susan intends to visit this
country in the month of May next. We shall hail
the arrival of the Royal Duke with no ordinary sa-
tisfactiou : the lively interest which his Royal High-
ness has always felt in ameliorating the condition of
the poor Irish residing in London, affords a strong
proof of his regard for their native coentry. With
the exception of the Duke of Clarence, no Prince of
• the Royal blood now living has ever been in Ireland."
DREADFUL CALAMITY has seldom
fallen to our lot to record :111 accident of a more appalling
naure than has occurred a the village of Winterhorne
Spoke,-8 miles from Salisbury—.•llllaccalenLorigintoing in
earelessness and thonglathssnes-, and causing the sudden
destructim by lireof nn lesstban seven human beings! The
the broke out between one and two o'clock on Thursday
morning last, in a larf.e house Indongiog is Mr. G. Ka-
low, which was occupied as two tenements; in one end
of the house a shopkeeper and his family resided; in the
other t wo families, cons! sting of nine poor persons, wen
of whom shocking to relate, were burnt to death. The
fire was not discovered till the whole of the latter part of
the budding was enveloped iu flames; and it appears
that it was occasioned by Mary Aillem (one of the suf-
ferers) having, previously to poll to bed, placed some
ashes near to a bundle of heact, in a buttery not far from
the fire-place. The names 41 the unfortunate sufferers
were, Christian Adlem, aged 80 years • Mary Adieu),
aged 40, and -her daughterl Eliza, aged 3
.years: Jane
Target, aged 63; Ann Ibvis, aged 2t, anti her infant
daughter Jane, aged 10 months; ant' Elisabeth Wilkins,
aged 17 years. James Das is (the husband of Ann Davis)
escaped with great difficulty, saving our of his children
three years. This poor man in the fright of the nth-
inenr;leal:ed from the window to the ground; but re-
collecting ate danger to which his wife and children
were exposed, he re-entered the house, and ascended
into the chamber ; at that time the women of both
epartauefits were running about in an agony of despair:
hr caught the eldest child with his left hand, and with
his right dragged the mother, clasping her infant to her
bosom, down the staircase; but by some means the mo•
ther became disengaged front his grasp, and was lost with
"er infant in the flames which surrounded them. The
wher, bursting through die door which was on fire,
again reached the outside with his child, but both were
dreadfully burnt. The roof at this moment tell in, bury-
ing in the mass of fire, in addition to the mother and her
infant, the four women and the child who remained be-
hind. The family of the shopkeeper, occupying the
other part of the house, and consisting of seven persons,
fortunately escaped unin,. The fire then communicated
with a barn, stable, granary, and om-houses, the whole
of which were consumed, together with about 380 fleeces
of wool, and a few sacks of ietches—a loss altogether
but trifling, when compared with the saeritice of the
dirt s of five women and two children.
The Game Laws.—We refer our readers to Mr. Coke's
excellent and manly speed' in the House of COMMOhI.I mo
the Game Laws. While we see men iu this country sacri-
ficing their own 1.-potation, their tenants property stud
comic"' t, and the liberty and the morals of many of their
surrounding dependants, to the pa eservation of their bares
and pheasants, wait a liable contrast does the ecndaet of
Mr. Coke sthod, in standing forth the champion of jte lice
and humanity. It is high aims that a cont,dcte revision
should take place of these sanguinary law Not only
have they been proved to be completely Mei ctital to re.
strain poaching, but they have contributed to engendet
habits of idleness and theft, and almost eve y species of
crime. Alen who would once has e shronl. fount theft,
have been led on to the commission of yr t :Motion!
crimes. by Mid becoming poachers. We have some &mitts
whether Mr. Snakes' Bill will sufficiently reach the root
of the evil, but that a perseverance in the present spirit
and practice of the GalllC LAW, is pregnant with mod'
evil sod no good, is a conclusion fully watrauted by hot-
inanity and experiener.

'ySlrtbe.

The lady of Durell Stables, Esq. of the Royal Mint. of a
chughter.—At Ilortun.ludge, the lady of Lieutenant Colonel
We4t, of a daughter.

Martin.

On Monday the esd Clerkenwell. Mr.
Hewitt Nysh Turner, of Fenehureli-strect, to Maria, second
daughter of Mr. Persent, Corporstion-row.—At St. Mary's, Is-
lington. Mr. Thomas Doughty, surgeon, of Portman-place, Edge-
wore Road, to Mary, the only daughter of William Allen. E.q.
PentonviPe.—At IVanstead, David Duval. Esq. of the 91st regi-
ment, to Mary, elnest daughter of Charles Dancers, of Wan.
stead. Esq.

On the lath inst. Nfrs. Swift, wife of Mr. Swift, sea. of the
Puultry.—At Rayne, Essex, in the it year of her age, Cathe-
riue eldest daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Woodrooffe, of
(holey, Surrey —ln her 2lth year, after a long and painfull ill-
nens, KAthurine, the eldest daughter of John Ashlin, Esq.
Hush Hill, Wandsworth Road.—At Ox rd, Francis Tow:lsamu.
Esq. Windsor Ilerald.-01 a decline, at Vera Cruz, in the thth
year of hi. age, II ome Popham, second eon of Rear Admira
Sir Home Popham.