The National Register.
London, England, 1819-07-05 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

afforded by Government fior emigrating "to sonic
country where, the taxes being lighter, they may
be able to obtain employment and support."—
The po!tition is to be presented to the House of
Lords by the Earl of Charlemont, and to the House
of Commons by the Hun. C. Hutchinson.
" Propositio Clarissimi Oratoris Magistri Johannis
Russell, decrctorum doctoris ac adtune Amixissiato-
ris Christianissimi Regis Edwardi Dei gracia Regis
Anglie et Francie, ad illustrissimum principem Ku-
rolum ducem Burgundie super susceptione Ordinis
garterii, etc.—Without printer's name, date or
place, but printed by Caxton, in 1469 or 1470."
This uni.jue copy of a tract. consisting of five
leaves only, front the White Knights' Library, was'
on Tuesday knocked don't!, by Mr. Evans to Lord
Spencer, for one hundred and twenty guineas. It
may be curious to observe, that this pamphlet was
first purchased by Mr. Triphook for two pounds five
and sold by him to the present Du'A: of
Marlborough for fifty guineas.
GENERAL SAPARY, DUKE OP POVIGO.—We
lately stated that this celebrated character had ar-
rived in the river from Smyrna. Ile was reported
to the !Lone Department, at Lis request, in his
proper name. Ministers have consented to his
coming on shore, and to remain in England fig the
present.

A very beautiful specimen of the art of cutlery
was manufactured by Joseph Rogers and Sons,
Sheffield. It is an elegant knife in miniature, con-
taining 30 instruments, moiiag on 11 springs, and
14 joints, of the most exquisite workmanship ; it
employed ►he workmen 28 days of close application
to complete it; does not exceed 5-Bths of an inch
in length, and weighs only one quarter of an ounce.
The following is a list of the articles contained in
the above knife :-1 stick-knife blade, I pruning-
knife blade. 3 penknife blades, 1 mul-knife blade,
I silver fruit-knife blade, 1 silver tooth blade, 1
I bow-saw, 1 doubled-tooth saw, 1 leather punch,
1 button hook, 1 pair of scissors, 1 gun-picker, I
pair of tweezers, 4 &anis of different sizes, 1 nail-
file, 1 chisel, 1 cork screw, 1 render, 1 timber scribe,
1 gimlet, 1 bodkin, t bradawl, 1 horse-hook,
gun screw, and 1 auger.

LATINO THE FIRST STONR OF ST. PANCRAS CHARCH.
—Thursday being the flay fixed for the cur minty. his
Royal Highness the Doke of York art is eil on the gtonod
at half past one o'clock, where he was met by the Rev.
Dr. Moore, the vicar, the trusters fur building the chord.,
and the different parochial clergy, who received his Royal
Highness, and !acted him to a marquee provided for
the occasion. His Royal Highness then inspected the
plans and drawings of the church, trail expressed his high
approbation of the design as ,haste and elegant. The
gilt plate, with an inset iption of She ceremony, nod the
coins. Ate. were then examined, and deposited in She
smite; after which the procession moved firm the mar-
quee : the trustees, two and two, with wands; the clergy,
two and Iwo, in their robes; Mr. Inwood, the sichitret,
and his son, with the plaits and drawings ; Mr. Se:, b rook c,
the builder, with an elegant gold 'root I, borne on a vel-
vet stashion , Mr. Tim* and Mr. Scadding, the rtriks and
solicitors to the trustees, with each of the coins of the
present reign, and a copy of the inscription on parchment
deposited iu Mattes closely mortars', and the plate with
the inscription borne nit velvet cushions; then. followed
the churchwarden, Weeding. emu; alter whom
came his Royal Highness the Duke of Vol k, accompanied
by Dr. MOOS., the Doke of Redford, Sir !teary Calvert,
Lord Callhorp; the rest of the to fosters closing the pro.
cession. On their artiving at the spot, the children of
the national schools of the parish, and the female charity
school, together nearly 1,000, song the 100th whim, ac-
companied by his Royal Iligiincss's band. The ceremony
HAS then proceeded in, his depositing the two bottles coo-
tabling the coins and pat chment in holes prepared in the
stone, over which was laid the plate with the following
inscription :—" St. Pancras C' Tit: the tit st stone laid
by his Royal Highness the Duke of Yolk and Albany, on
Thursday, July 1, 1819: the Rev. James Moore, LL D.
Vicar; Charles Linlfert, esq. Thomas Weeilinx.
Churchwardens; William Inwood, Architect; ' May the
light of the blessed Gospel ilms ever illuminate the dal k
temples of the heathen.'" The latter words are the
English translation of the Greek inscription carved upon
the atone. this Royal Highatss then spread the mortar,
and the stone was lowered and fixed in its place; his
Royal Highness struck it thrice with the trowel, and
handed it to the Duke of Bedlord, who did the like ; as
did Sir Henry Calvert, Lord Calthorpe, Dv. Moore, Mr.
Inwood, and Mr. Seabrooke. A most appropriate and
highly impressive prayer was then audibly deliveted by
the Rev. Dr. Moore, to the various disisions of which the
children nunte the responses. This intilesting ceremony
being closed, the proesssion returned to the tent. The
day was rematkalaly fine, and added much to the spiel'.
• dour of the litillieroll6 and respectable company assembled
on the occasion. His Royal Highness's band was in atten-
dance the whole time, and the giatifivation of all was
most forcibly evident. After the ceremony, the ft lends of
• the National School lately established in that parish, in
Southampton-mews. near Euston-square, Sro the editt.a.
lion t,f 1,4151 children, dined togcthei at the Freentasoits%
tat erts, awl a handsome subscription for that excellent and
praisenoithy institintoo was nude.
Fatal Duel in Ireland.—Another victim has been
imuielated ut the shrine of &Ise honour. Mr. It.
• Leech, of Ballina, c :rn merchant, the father of seven
young children, and the husband of a pregnant wife,
an industrious nod useful member of society, fell in
a duel with Mr. James Anderson, jun. of that town,
un Thursday, the 18th ult. The bull broke his shunt
rib and entered the intestines. lie lingered until
the 25th, when a mortificat:on terminuted hi:, life.

AkCIDENTs AND uFFEAciIy.

^IS "

MAX tets.tris BY LlGHrtilsc.—An inquisition was
held on Thnrsday, at Hounslow, before the Coroner for
Middlesex, on the body of Thomas Randall. '1 he evi-
dence of Henry Brasier, the only individual ream who •
escaped tint horn the lightning, was as follows:
I work for Mr. Lacuck; yesterday, about 10 o'clock,
the deceased, myself, and brother, had just dined under
a tree in the field where we had been at work. The
field is situate between the river Lea and Clapititt, alma
half a mile f this plaice. I got up and left the two
men sitting under the tree, when, in about a minute
afterwards, I saw a flash of lightning, and heard a heavy
clap of dimmer; a quantity of leaves fell from the tree;
I was 4or S feet from the tree. I saw a hat on the spot
where the der:eased had been sitti.A, awl :hen his body
about three yards from the tree. He was lytuse ou his
back, quite stead. He was killed instantly. 1 saw no
mark of injury upon his person. The other man was
lying on his side senseless, close to the tree. Thor were
several other trees near the spot. I ran to my master,
and informed him what hail taken !dace, an l hr •t lit
assistance, and IsOth the turn were retort% ed to Itie ulll
lc-
house: deceased was about 5.!..s years of age. :Ur. \\ w.
Ilarc, surgeon, deposed, that at first there were no ex-
ierlial marks of injury on the deceased; but since,ritere
tee appeared black and blew lines dowel his chest and
left side. No doubt, he was killed instantly by the
lightning. The other mail is likely to recover. Verdict
—Died from a stmhe of kit:ring. Some of the Jury -
expressed a wish that the case ought be etude public, ia •
indicate the danger of resorting to the shelter of trees its
thunder-storms. _ _ _

A few evenings since, as a Mr. Colville, .near ibe
Obelisk, was returning Irons Bomford, he observed a--
young man in a tree at some little distance,. in a. swar•
that excited suspicion. Mr. C. immediately leaped
from his chaise and repaired to the spot, which he
reached just time enough to save a poor wretch from
destruction; as lie hail lastetied a handkerchief round
his neck, and was in the act of tying it to a branch of
the tree, when this prompt assistance averted the cab..
mity. lie was a y g man, intending to reach his.
parish at Dover, but distress had driven hini to despair.
On Sunday last a coronet's inquest was held at the
Fleece inn, at Wells, before F. T. Obailes, grut. co-
ronur thr the c y, ou the body of a child, named Beck-
erton, aged 18 mouths, who was playing in the atrial at.
iiic tin,, Mr. Joseph Haycock's waggon was retaining
from lialkliam. The fore hori•e making I start kicked the
the horses convroinently were not under the imule-
thetc-controul of the driver, and before he could possibly
govern them, both wheels passed over its neck and shout-
ili•rs and cawed its almost immediate death.—Vei dirt
Accidental Death.
Brooks, the gaint•keeper of A. H. Steward, Eor. wit*
was found guilty at Siitliiik assizes of having (cm the dingle
road near his eitiployet's manor) shut at C.
limtiek, who, in consequence it the wounds he received,
was obliged to undergo amputation of one of Ilia lees, haft
tecrived his Majesty's free pardon, and was on Friday.;
liberated from Ilissi jets gank
SHOCKING M UROILR.—A dreadful circumstance took
place at Brighton, in the Barrack yard in Church-greet.
facing the royal *Adding, on Titesday afternoon. At
abort half past four o'clock the military, the Muth
in-
fantry, nut tell out there tor the afternoon's parade. A.
privets who had been confilied w the morning fin. being
absent from dilly, was relessed by the ra•derly serjeant,
Watson, to fill in for the partale. The fellow, meth.
Laing r. venge for the confinement he had endured. no
sooner had his musket in his !lowest:ion, than, as it
seems, he charged it with a ball c. •eee, and as Ser-
jeant Watson descended from his room to the barrack-
yard, he deliberately took riot at him, and shut him
through the body.—Tne ball entered on nue side, near
about the ribs, and came out at the other. The Ser-
jeant staggered a few paces backward, and dropped.
Surgical assistance was useless. lie did not survive the •
fatal wound more than twenty ninnies. Tor- horrible
deed was pemetrated in the midst of the soldiers min- •
tering for the parade ; many of them supposed the gun •.
hail been fired from the other side of the yard wall, anJ -•
were in the act of scaling it to tilivetner by whom, w hen ••
the miscreant threw down his piece, and exclaimed, that
he was the mail, and that he hail then had his revenue,
and was in no wise sorry for what he had dune. He
was then secured, and the High Constable sent for, OR
the arrival of whom he was marched from the Barracks,
and lodged in the Town Prison, two sentinels being
placed on ditty to gitatil the dour. The deceased bore a
very excellent character in the regiment. lie was the
orderly serjeant appointed at the Pool oti, and who did
duty to Chit capacity dining the whole time that the
Prince Regent was there last winter. He has left a wile
awl three children to dep!tsre his premature loss.
DAR txo BURGLAR e.—On Monday morning a gang .
of temperate itllaitis entered the premises of Messrs.
Bland and Weller, music dealers, and Mr. Alves, gold-
smith and jeweller, of Oxford-street, near &intim),
place, but Wert! fortunately detected in their perhaps
111111111tV0113 career, hieing loaded fire-arms, &c. in. meas.
possession. Mr. Alvey, on Sunday night last, retired to
rest wills his family, but had not been long in bed la hcu
he heard a noise which gather alarmed him, aced car.-
chided that mice were busily employed in the walls, and
it being rattler dark he refrained Irons getting nest of bed.
Ile fell asleep, but shortly afterwards was awoke by ano-
ther noise, which appeared like bricks falling from the
wall ; he it 1111 l ediately alarmed. ksVs family, and he lis-
tened fur a short lime and plainly heard the discount of
'Mlle Well. from which he was convineed their lives
were in danger, and ne seareely ft.d time to cress
his apartment when the wall of the roam broke in,,41
he perceived a man's arms ; he made u.e of smite exc fa-
mation and ran to Minim the watchmen• who iitruel':-
ately came to assist. They stationvd thetatinlers smie • .
at Inc hock and others at the from ()film beta,* of Mess. .
Bland and Co. and Mr. Alvey, wh le iitliris *eta into
the house. One of thewatenmeas heard a noise at amp
of the shutters, to which he placed his hack ; but &am
ly after lie WWI the shuttcr was thrown do .Kll, and ti.

postscript.

LONDON. MONDAY, JULY
_ _ _

Three' p.

Wu copy from the German papers an article of a
tatisfuctory description, dated Stockbohn, June I 4:—

SISKAIIOLPI. JUNE It.—liefore the departure of ti!e King
for Scalds, the negatiwims .respecting Cm Norwegian dtbt to
Doinnuk, which have.been so :Ong earning on. were amicably
concluded by the mediation cf Great Britain. Lord Strangford
unitd omthemegotiations with our Government, in the name of
his,osn Come and that of Dentutrk. This affair. the termina-
.tion of which the King always had so much at hear:, would
doubtless, have been long since arranged, bad not some of the
means pnroosed led to long and intricate diSCUP•IOps. Now. as
we hear, every thing is settled in a way satizfacoory to all rirtics;
a result which is wholly to he attribute<l to the spirit of justice,
sincerity, and medtratim.. which utp, ailed in etc negotiatioas
between the SW4.A.i.i Cabinet, arid Lord Strangford. The many
strange article whirli have appeared of late in many foreign
journals, especially time French, and wl.ich are 'too absurd to
merit refutation, originitte entirely in iniperfectl.nowletlge of the