The National Register.
London, England, 1816-06-30 00:00:00

rieui7ATlALs.

Ron' rsTen rt.rctioN.--This contest closed, we understand,
by sareentent, at live o'clock on 'flitirsdsy afternoon ; when 3lr.
Mullett won by two votes.--At a tower before five Mr. Bar-
nett was three a head ; at fit e the numbers were-3arnett 408,
Thomiison, 40G.
On laturilly last two frigates were ordered to be laid down
at Plymouth I)ock-yard, upon the largest scale of any yet
built. They arc to be called the Lancaster and Portiand.
Their main .decks are to be flush fore and aft ; to be built
without ceiling (on Mr. Sepping's plan), to be tilled iu between
the timbers, and to be rated at an gulls; they will, however,
carry 60 gums each ; the long gum to carry ;,2.potiudets, and
the short guns 42-pounders, besides one 68-ponuder.

A poor barber ofl)orking, after being pumped of all he knew
*f the character ul' a mall named Eitershank, one of his neigh-
bours, and which he t:Nefibell as none of the best, had an ac-
tion brought against him for defamation, flu the common pleas
on Sattriday, by said Ettershank, who was deprived thereby of
an apprentice with 100 guineas premium.—The friends of the
hoy went pitrposely to the shaver to obtain the infirm:oton ;
and Sir V. Gibbs laid it down, that where information was
sought, and given in a confidential manlier, the person giving
the information was not liable in law to an action--The July
fonnd a verdict for one shilling damages only.—isefore the ac-
tion %Volker, tiw barber, was requested to recant his assertions
lint he declared like a hero. that he waled sooner have his pat!
converted into a gallows, and have himself hung like a MO dog
upon it, than go back fins what be had said.
Tharstlay .1. ti.bigiton, a youth, was committed from Guild-
hall, charged with cutting the watch rihboa of Mr. Holmes, diltl
Int/ulna three g0....1 seals and a key, while looking at the ruins
of the fire in Altlersgate-street.

A barbarous murder and robbery was perpetrated on Satur-
day night, near 'Vauxhall-bridge. in the vicinity of this town.
A person who was tenoning home from the country slew the
flash, and heard the rer,rt of a pistol ; but imagining it to pro-
ceed front some person amusing himself, it did not greatly ar-
nest his attention, and he continued walking down the side of
the canal. Hut he had not w diked far before he perceived two
turn bending over the body of a third, which was stretched on
the earth On nearer approach, be inquired what they were
about: instantly one of them. apparently an athletic maii, start-
ed up, seized him by Ills logs, and preefpitated him low the
camel. lie struggled some moniente in the water; and when
hie had just regained the hank, the *Wain heat hint or' the head
with whet he snpposed the brat-end of a piste!. Concluding
him to be entirely disabled, he returned to his associate, and,
it is sapposeol, completed the robbery.. In the peacipitation of
retreat, they left a pistol, which was Memel lying near the body.
Meantime, the man got oat of the canal; and, with all celerity,
proceeded to the nearest house to give the alarm. A party of
turn Immediateiy proceeded to the scene of the murder. They
fennel the man still extended on the ground, insensible, and we-I-
to' lug in his blood. Thee conveyed him to the Intii mars, ; but
just as they reached it, the unfortunate man expired. Two
men have been taken into custody upon suspicion ; and leave
been remanded for examination. The murdered man is un-
known; but is supposed to have come li•our the cottony to pro-
ceed to America.—( Lirerpool Couri.r. )
Lately a fire broke oat en the premises of Mr. Dodger, of
Scatted', near Bigelessvade, which consumed the whole of the
barns, corn-stacks, hay, outhouses, &c.; the dwelling-house was
mot injured, Six cottages were likewise totally destroyed by
the flames. This dreadful calamity was occaeloned by a hot
iron used in firing a colt bring thrown on loose straw, which
in a few minutes set the whole yard in a blaze. By the humane
direction of Mr. Walelegrave the cuttagee's who had lost their
jennies are to take up their abode in Suuthill House until further
arrenagements are made for them. •
At the Lochliuo lime-works, Argyleshire, nn the L'lth ult. as
some Or the workmen were employed in the interior of the
kiln, the footing of one of them gave way; when D. Mac-
master fell perpendicularly intu a cavity, ai-el was inclosed to
the shoulders with the burning shells. his fellow-workmen
made every exertion to extricate him, but without etlect. With
much personal risk, they got a cord passed below his arms,
which, in pulling, broke twice. Then, to prevent the body
from being consumed, they kept pouring water on him till lire
was extinct. He endured, with heroic firinuess, for upwards of
half an hour, the most excruciating pain.
The following fatal and most lamentable event occurred
lately at Kuclston, near Swansea, and ought to operate ae a
caution to those who are in the habit of using poison to destroy
sets or other vermin. Two youths, brothers, of the name of
Hoskins, thaone 17. the other 19 years of age, being in a pro-
gressive state of recovery from a fever, requested their mother
to give them, instead of a medicine prepared for them, some
brimstone and treacle. A basin, coot: t ' g a preparation of
arsenic for destroying rats, being placed on a elicit; and the
unfortunate youths supposing it to be brimstone and treacle
prepared for them by their mother, took each a portion of this
deadly poison, and shortly after expired in the most exert'•
dating torture.
The following melancholy accident occurred on Sunday
evening, on the River Swale, sear Faversham, Kent :—A party
of persons. chiefly females, had spent the day in a water excur-
sion to Whitstable, and had arrived at Faversham Creek's
Month, on their return home, when it was proposed to pruceed
to Harty Ferry House to take tea. After stit) ing there until
nearly nine o'clock, they all (being ten in Panther) re-embarked
in a smail boat, and were in the act of going off to their vessel,
which lay at :meteor near to the opposite shore, and to which
they had itimost arrived, when the boat turned over. The
ferryman crossing the river in his boat, at the same time, with
eight passengers, went to the assistance of the unfortunate m'.
fcrers, and succeeded in rescuing two men from their danger-
ous situation. They also dragged into the boat the lifeless
body of one of the women. Proceeding in their humane en.
deavones to save others, their own boat be ing under a pressure
()Gail, and he:clime still mote, from their reaching over the side,
was almost tilled with water. Another party of young men im-
mediately pushed 01l lions the Ferry Way, in a third host, and
happily sneers ded is baying the ferryman and the as hole ut his
passengers, and al the two yummy men who were in the first
boat. The reinuinder, viz. one man, six females, and an ia-
/*oat, met a watery grave!
A tire took piece at Thorverton last week, occasioned by
the negligent e a boy isitrasted in a stable with a lighted
candle. The conflagration was su rapid, that lb houses were
destroyed before the flames were extinguished. Several poor
inhabit:Pita were left destitute of habitanous. Happily no live s
were lost en the occasion. . _

Au inquest was lately taken at Tetimry on the body of Jane
Hill, aged about six years, who was kilted by a quoit falling on
tier bead ; by which her skull was so dreadfully flat:tared, that
abe lived beta short time alter. Upon a very initiate investi-
gation, the jury returned a verdict of—Homicide by misadven-
ture; wholly diFapproving of the practice of playing such
suites iu orm ar h public highway.

TrIE NATIMAL REGISTEIL

DISTURBANCES IN THE COUNTRY.

Thr Bath mot Chriteohmft Gazette of Wednesday contains the
following paragraph
" CosimiTTED To FISHERTON oAol..—lfenry Slade, of
Trowbridge, shearmati, charged with having committed riot
and breach of the peace, in company with faller persons, on
the 20th instant, at the house of George Elliott, a shearman at
Trowbridge."
We regret to find, from the same paper, that there has been
also a disturbance at Chippenhain, but of a different charac-
ter from that at Trowbridge. The following is the acconut
given of it in that Paper :
" AYER AY AT CH/PI'ENIIAM.-011 the taming of Sunday
so'hnight an affray of a serious nature occurred at Chippenliam,
occasioned by a detachmeat of an Irish cavalry regiment quar-
tered in that tnon, ssho having been roughly handled by the
inhabitants on a filmier similar occasion, were desirous of
being revenged. Accordingly, having provided themselves
with sprigs of shillebile (in some of which lead and nails had
been inserted), they attacked every one who happened to be
in the streets. To oppose these formidable assailants, many
of the inhabitants collected in a body ; and, eller a hard strug-
gle, the I iibernians were driven to their quarters. Out of the
townsmen, we understand, was so severely wounded as to be
considered for some- days in imminent danger of his We. The
windows of the Angel Inn, and of several respectable dwelling-
houses suffered materially in the affray."
Exeesimaulsor.—Sunday afternoon, the village of Pere, in
Dorsetshire, and the neighbouring eountry, were the own into it
great state ol'alarm, by several fires breaking out in the s illage
of Byre at the tune time; and no doubt was entertained but
they were intentionally done by some incendiary. A large
wheat-stack, a malt-beau., two barns, and three houses, suet c all
in flames and the suspicion was. that it was intended In Wan
dow It the whole village. The Gentlemen of the county took
the alarm, and were on the alert not only to extinguish the tires.
but to discover the incendiary; and Bishop, the Ilow—treet
officer (being at Wareham, which is seven miles from Bcre, to
endeavour to discover the robber or robbers who lately broke
open the house of Mr. Thomas there, and stole a considerable
sum), was sent firto Bere.—The Othcer came with all possible
speed, and al rived at Dere during the time time dames were
raging ; be set abont endeavooriog to extinguish the fires, in
which he seas materially assi-Ll by a man of the name of
Porches; who, front his language and conduct, Bishop 5113-
peeled was concerned in the diabolical crime, and that lie
knew those who were; and the Officer's suspicions prayed cor-
rect; as upon an investigation as to the commencement of the
fires, Parches was tekeu into custody; and being eaamined
before a Magistrate, the evidence was sufficient to commit hint
to Dorchester Prison on a charge of wilfully setting fire to tine
wheat-stack. A roan of the name of Ilewitt was admitted an
evidence against Porches.--The principal part of the property
set Nee to, belonged to a Gentleman of the name of Borges.
Some disburbances broke out a few days since at 'Prow.
bridge, Wilts; the object of the rioters was, to show their
hostility against the employment of souse newly established
machinery for dressing kerseymeres. Some winausss were
broken, and ierjory done to the doors and furniture of two or
three houses belonging to manufactmers. Fortnnately the
Magistrates succeeded in restoring tranquillity, and have
committed one of the rioters to prison for trial.