The National Register.
London, England, 1813-03-14 00:00:00

run NITIONAL REdSTER.

MARCH 11.

. -DRAMATIC REGISTER.

• DRURY LANK
T.,ast night was revived at this Theatre the comic opera of
Hoc4f. As this puerile duction has so long slept
u udisttirbed on the Mat)agers shelf, we can see no good rea-
son for having disturbed its repose; unless indeed it were,
that many of the musical pieces with which it is interspersed
afford such a prolific field for the display of vocal excellence,
as we witne,sed .in Mrs MouNT itN, -Mrs. DicKoNs. Mr.
PYF Es Mr. -1. Ira, Mr. BELL A MY, and that favourite
child of song Mr. BR AHA M, who obtained and deserved
eiterated plaudits. The duet The Stag through the Forest,
rut,gbv him a:id W.. BELLA MY, without an accompaniment,
•comhined such exquisite meody, realscience, and brilliancy
of execution, as produced repeated cries of bravo and an
unanimous en( (re.
ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

On Tuesclay.,*the 2d inv. a di:qite arose between SaMuel Salmons,
o` wardstone, Sutflk, and Thomas Nice, of Groton. During
altereJticin, • the in, mer still:bed the latter with a knife on Ws left
sick, so that his entrails cam.: out. He was apprehended the same
evening, and c.nrri-d het:)re a Magistrate, who committed him to

bury to take his t!ial at the n:xt A sizes.
Tie toll awing melancholy circumstance occurred early on Monday
.mcriting:lll . Palmer, a resp stable firmer, who resides near Chad-
. well. Essex,..having had. his grounds much intested by, poachers, who
sodr,•il the game, formed the resolutien of attempting to detect them ;
lut accordingly loaded his gun, and with on: of his men set out before
daylieht, and cosning to the spot where he expected to nr:er with
theie persons, gave his man the von, desirittg him to go on one side,
whilst he went oti t` e other. Mr. Palme.r had not proceeded far be-
fore he fou:d it necessary t 7 get over a hedge, and.the man seeing
sontebody, rot knowing who, it being dark, he called out, but re-
c. iving no answer, fired his gun at the supposed poacher, but who
proved to he Mr.. Palmer hinitelf.- The shot passed directly through
the heart of his master, who die ! instantly without uttering a word.
A short time since a woman, who was in service at Hardley, in
Norfolk, went to Halcs North to visit her child, about five years old,
who %a-is placed flier?. She afterwards took the child out with her,
and went to a pond in the neighbourhood, when she stripped him
naked, and made two ineffectual attempts to fling him into the water;
a third succeeded, but the boy struggled to the other side and got out,
when lie implored the succour of Ins merciless parent. This detesta-
ble wretch had the further inhumanity to go to him, and casting him
again into the pond, accomplished her purpose of drowning her off:
sprite. She then returned to her place of residence, where she was
apprehended on Friday sennight. When taken into custody, she
confessed the above fiefs, and acknowledged the unceasing torment
whiv;h never tails to attend the consciouit.ess of guilt, from the mo-
rne.:l of her le:v;ri e•:-.1!e.1 this nrsst atrocious murder. The
offence hells/ cionmit,ed in Suffblk, she Was sent to bury Gaol.
HOR RID M %IR DER.—On Wedneqlay last, an inquest Was held at
Pert( he-.ter Cast (depot for prisoners of war), by J. Grigg, Esq.
Coroner for the County, on 013 body of Jean Lectuty, a
ipriswer of
war, who was most inhumanly murdered by A wattle Taruff, a fellow
prisoner. It appeared in evidence, that, on Monday evening last, at
. about half past seven o'clock, the pri,oners he;ng all confined in their
ceiis, and moot of them preparing to retire t' bed, the whole cell
was alarmed by the dece..std crying out (in the French language) "
am murdered ; 1 said a dead man:" and, on the other prisuters' ping
to his assistal.ce, they disk.overed the uttflutttnrite plan endeavonring
to 7scape from his murderer, awl with both his hatids se oaoiting his
bowels, -which were tilling out of a wound Willis!? he had received in
the belly, five itches in low!), cx:ettlin,4 front the naval upwards.
01) the deceased's crying out, " I am a dea'l ma.; !" the murderer
was he ,rd to Nay (in his native language), " You arc not yet ;read ;"
an , before he ould be disarmed, he gave the d• ceased two dreadful
itabs ot the back, one of which severed t.re of his ribs in two, ex-
chi; tle:ie is more fast you." The wretch was by this time
s,"te.t, and the hlordv knife wrested from listn ; when, instead of
expressing any contrition for the ho rid deed, he declarcd there were
two more in the pri.,on whom he evould wilt to murder (in •ntioning
titer iiame•), and then he could die happy. The pew' man lingered
about two Ito•!rs and a halt, when he expired. It appears that the
wretched, deluded nitin:erct- is a proiesed A thckt ; and he it id, for
a very -trivial offence, P.rm,-d the dreadtul resolution of comrnittnig
the ohne for ,everal weeks ; and •:o deterrnin a! was It: in li.s purpose,
that he had ground the point-of his kiitte very situp, and bound the
handle of it with t w'ne, which he waxed to preveid its siinping in
his lia:;(1. The pitsoimrs ester, amuse ticrnr,clves in &Annie repre-
sentations; and the murderer had also, it appears, co..c”ived n ex-
cessive jealousy against the deceased on account of his superior talent
in writirg these little pieces for their stage. The &ceased was of a
very placat)4e. tccoper ; and his dcatl; is so .netalbr re.

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gretted among the prisoneis, that they subscribed to have his remains
decently interred in the Enctlish burying-ground at Porichesici. He
has left a wife and two children in France, A verdict of Wilful
Murder beirg ferurned agiiilst Antoine Tardiff, he was committeti to
Winchester Gaol, and will take his trial at the next Assizes.

BIRTHS.
On Sunday evening. the wife of J . Crown, a journeyman shoe.
maker, it' Whitechapel, pf tour boys. since named Matth w. Mark,
Luke, and Joho, by the Rev. D. Mathias, Rector of the parish.

MARRIED.
On Monday, at St. Ge)rge's Chore), the Viscount Gage, to Miss
Foley, eldest danehter of the Lite lion Edwarl F, ley, and sister to
Edward Thomas Foley, F.,ci of S'oke Edit!', Ilerefordsn re
At S.dtforrl, Mr. J. Pike, gardener, aged 72, to Miss S. May, aged
22, both of that parish.
At Caiterbury, Mr. J. Wood, aged 71, to Miss F. Friend, agertl9,
both of
DIED. •
At his.house in Southampton-street, Bloomsbury-square, J. Wood.
cock, F.sq of Lincoln's-Inn, and Secretary of Ilairkrupts to the Lord
Cli.incellor.

On Ftid..y morning, at South Mailing, near Lewes, the Countess
Dowager of Chichester. Her Ladyship had retired to rest the pre-
ceding night in gimil health. She was Anne, daug'ner an.! heiress of
Frederick Mayn ird Frankland, Esq. sixth son of Sir Thome: Frank-
land, Bart. and had a numerous fatuity by the laic Earl, who died
Jarmary sth, 11103
On Friti4v morning, at Shooter's hill, the Countess of Carnarvon.
leer Ladyship had been ill for some time, and was preparing toga to
Ramsgate, for the benefit of the sea air. Her Laillship was the on
child and heiress of Colonel and Lady Harriet Ackland, daughter of
the first Earl of ilchester, aod wltose uncommon heroism and affec-
tion, illustrated in her atttendance on her IntAa in i in the late Americana
war, will ncv-r be forgotten. The Countess has left a sou Lord
Porchaster, and 2 daughter.

TtIRDOT, SALMON, COD, &c.
Ag a Sauce for these nothiat; i; et:teemed *ha.; Po/tater tesiPsa 0?
Lowincas, ima I y inv••nted. ploodociat with half the n•na I teoultie and exp ere ?Its
purior sauce, when Lobstets are out of firlsoll. or Whelk they caauet be procured.,
—Also his orl4:nal o.sster Ketcbup for Beef Steaks, Ike. ermail) approved Pint ta.
Half-pint es. prepared to keep io all clitnates. Caution The extensive dem nd for
these articles hat ing produced senile italtatiot,s (to prevent 4:isappoirtment)
chasers are requested to observe the bewrlptinn, •.1 Porkis, sole Inventor' 14 oa
the labels of but ilea, am itn% without it are spurious. Sold Vileolesala aid Retail,
at Puricis's oh! established Warehouse, fur eh-ice Picic tem. 6,rr Ott9, PIM ce, /kr. I in,
Chancery-1 me, Londo.t , and by respectablo 'Agents iu all the pt 'octal (:haws a*4
Towns lu the Kingdom.