The National Register.
London, England, 1819-03-28 00:00:00

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The lady of llurell Stables, Peq. of the flnyll Mint: df a
dattgl ter.—.At llorton•lodge. the lady of licutaaast Colonel
:West, of a daughter.

PF arrict.

On Monday the 22d inst. at ....Ittmes's Clerkenwell. Mr.
II etviu • ?yell Turner, of Fenchureh.strert. to Marti. second
daughter of Mr. Percent, Corporation-row.—At St. Mary's. Is-
lington. Mr. Thomas Doughty, surgeon, of Portman-place, Edge-
ware Road, to Mary, the only clang ter of William Allen,
Pentoovil'e.--At Wan,tead. David Duval, Esq. of the St st regt-
meat, to Mary, clnest daughter of Charles Danvers, of Wan.
atead, Lac.

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Oa the 18th inst. Mrs. Swift. wife• of -Mr. Swift. men. of the
Poultry.—At Rayne, Essex. in the 31st year of her age, Cathe-
rine eldest daughter of the late Rec. Thomas Woodrooffe, of
Os ley, Surrey —ln her 24th year, after a long and painfull
liathailne, the eldest daughter of John Ashlin, Esq.
Rash Hill, tt andsworth Road.—At Oxford, Francis Townsend.
Esq. Windsor Ilerald.—Of a decline, at Vera Cruz, in the 114th
year of his age, Home Popham, second son of Rear Adtuira
—Sir Home Popham.

The Came Lows.—We refer our readers to Mr. Cokes
excellent and manly speech in the Muse of CWIIIIIIIII% on
the GAllie Law.. While we lee mete iii this cosinl it sacri-
ficing their nun reputatioo, their tenants property and
comfort, and the liberty sold the morals of immy of their
stmounding depenthmts, to the pi e•ervation of their byres
end-plowman. what 14 nobler nntia•t does the r riot act (.f
Mr. Coke afford, m standing tout!' the chalet 'on of j:t tire
and homanity. It it high time It at a tom ,lete recision
should take place of these sangtounry law Not only
have they been proved to be completely Mei ritual to re.
strain poaching, but they have contribute,' to engender
habits of Idleness and theft, and almost eve y species of
crime. Men who would 1111 e. have shrunk from Melt.
have been led on to the commission of yr t store attecioor
crimes, by first becoming poachers. We have some doubt-
whether Mr. Banker' Hill will sufficiently result the root
of the 11.$0. 11111 that a perseverance in the present spirit
and practice of the Genre law■ is pregnant with innell
evikand oni gond, i. a conclusion fully warranted by tin-
Salinity and rapt rumor.

A Dublin paper says—" We understand his Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex intends to visit this
country in the month of May nest We shall hail
the arrival of the Royal Duke with na ordinary sa-
tisfaction : 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 country. With
the exception o! the Duke of Clarence,- no Prince of
the Royal blood now living has ever,been in Ireland."
We observe that the NottiMro Conntir4 have tnecceded
in their application to have two xeisersi Gaol deaneries in
the year, and that Mr. keine is appointed to preside as
Juder. Norwich will now, therefore, 'be the °nig place in
the Kingdom to oloirle this act of Justire is denied ! Mr.
Smith has fornislied no answer ho Iris Constituents as to the
probable fair nt their petition, and we presume, of course
that lie is quite content things should I emain as they
Ste.

DREADIPOL CALAMITY DV Floc.—lt has seldom
calk.' to our lot to record an accident of a more appalling
naure than has occurred a' the villaee of Winterbiorne
Stoke, 8 miles from Salisbury—au accident originating in
carelessness and thought lessues,, and calming the sudden
destruction by fireof no less than seven human beings! The
fire broke out between one and two o'clock on Thursday
moriting last, in a large house belon.ting to Mr. G. Kel-
low, which was occupied as two tenenteuts; in one end
cif the house a shopkeeper and his fatuity resided; in the
other two families, consisting of nine pour persons, seven
of whom shocking to relate, were burnt to death. The
fire was not discovered till the whole of the latter part of
the building was enveloped in flames; and it appears
that it was occasioned by Mary Adlem (one of the suf-
ferers) having, prey iously to going to bed, placed some
ashes near to a bundle of heath, in a buttery not far from
the fire-place. The names of the unfortunate sufferers
were, Christian Adlein, aged 80 years; Mary Adieu],
aged 40, and her daughter Eliza, aged 3 years: Jane
Target, aged fij; Ann Davis, aged 2‘.2. and her infant
• datthter Jane, aged 10 months; and Elizabeth Wilkins,
aged 17 years. Janice Davis (the husband of Ann Davis)
-escaped whit great difficulty, saving one of his children
three years. This poor man in the fright of the mo-
tnent:leaped from the window to the ground; but re-
collecting the danger to which his wife and children
were exposed, lie re-entered the house, and ascended
itito the chamber; at that time the women of both
apartnictits were running about in an agony of despair :
• "lie 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 Lome 10C3113 the mu-
thee became disengaged from his grasp, and was lost with
s•er infant in she flames which sturontuled them. The
father, bursting through the door which was on fire,
again coached the outside with his child, but both were
iltvadfully burnt. The roof at this moment fel! in, bury.
tot in the mass of fire, in addition to4he mother and her
Wilmot, the four women aed the child who remained be-
hind. The family of the shopkeeper, occupying the
other part tri the Hume, and Consisting of seven persons,
fortunately escaped unhurt. The fire then communicated
with a b..m, stable, granary, and tit-houses, the whole
sfirst&vb lave Lviisasited, together with about 380 fleeces
Of encl. snip • few 'mks ti vetches—e loss altogether
Wt rehen etSontiertsd' With the sacrifice of the
tires of five wouteu liRCIA.V 0 eVdrcu.