The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-06 00:00:00

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A large 0111i4ity of fine mackerel arrhiett at Bil-
lingsgate y y morning, by. Imid.carriage, the
average price of which was 41. per hundred.
On Tuesdity awning Daniel Angel, the Norfolk
.pedestrian, started at a quarter past five o'clock in
the morning, on a piece of road one mile and three
quarters long, from the Horse and Gate Inn, Chat-
teris, leading towards Hurseway, to do 72 miles in
12 successive hours. The road was in such bad
'noiedition, that he had in several places to run nearly
up to the top of his high shoes in mud; besides in
the morning it was so dense a fog:that he could not
scarcely see ten yards before him, and it was near
soon before it broke up ; but under ail these disad-
vantages, he finished 59 miles and a .half in ten
hours and twenty minutes, when he appeared rather
distressed, and having 12 miles and a half to do in
one hour and forty minute's, his friends advised him
to give up. There is little doubt bat Angel would
have accomplished the arduous task under more
favourable circumstances. He appeared in a quarter
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of an .hour, to be as well as if , had never tan at
all and laid friends offer to back him for 501. that
he dues it in the month of May.
The Duke de Nirernois was a little man, with an
agreeable, open, and engaging countenance, but so ex-
tremely thin that taii friends at Paris called hint the Po-
litical Sylph. When he first lauded, with his suite, at
Doter, -two or three old sailors were-walking along the
beach Observing the bustle, " Hey 1 what's this?"
said one. " Ohl the French Ambassulorl he has just
come out." " Lard I exclaimed another, "to what.
have we reduced the French iliir'iig this wart only con-
ceive, .when..l was prisoner in France,.two or three
yearsago.- that Ambassador, whom you see like a wi-
thered applejoliti, yonder, was one of the fattest fellows
that walked the streets—he quite waddled." When
this was told to the, Duke, he was delighted, and used
often to relate it at his own table as a happy instance of,
national humour.
DEATH BY Flogrtsro.—An inquest wasilseld on
Friday afternoon, at the Six Bells, opposite..Hammer-
sniitlaCburch, before Mr. Stirling, the coroner, on view.
of the body of William Friberg, *vho, lost his life in a
a pugilistic encounter on Nlonday last, in company with
a man named Hedges, when a Minute arose between
them respecting a late fight between the deceased and
Dully S h-s--they acomdingly ptoceeded to blowt, and
in the allay the.deeeased. received a blow under • the
right ears-of whinh „he did .not recover..--It was also
proved the deceased ,shuck his opponent twice before
it was returned, and the, Jury returned a xerdict 0f..-
justifiable bur. ride.
DREADFUL Free.-LSoon after ten o'clock on Thursday
sight last en alarming fire broke out on the premises of IMr.
eakley, child-bed-linen warebouse, in High-holborn, between
biza-street and French-horn-yard. The games were first dis-
covered by a young man passing by, bursting through the shop
shatters, and he having made an alarm, every means were re-
sorted to to warn the inmates of their danger ; ladders were
placed against the windows to assist theta in making their
eueape, but no person made their appearance, and it was feared
they fell a prey to the devouring element, which bad gained an
Alarming asoeudeney, and the greatest fears were entertained
(or the tenements in the rear of the house, in French-born-yard,
as also the houses on the right and left of the one on fire. The
toad in front was strewed with furniture of every description.
that had been removed form the neighbouring houses, and the
greatest confusion prevailed, till many of the fire engines arrived,
and having obtained a plentiful supply of water, soon abated the
devastation that presented ilia The roof of Mr. Weakley's
house fell in with a tremendous crash, carrying with it the en-
tire front of the building, which was precipitated into the road