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TILL NATIONAL REGISTER.

mina whether, from the evidence adduced, the act com-
mitted by Looker was that of wilful der, or justifiable
homicide, left the jot y tu theinselvt coo cou•ider of their
verdict, which they boon after monied as " Jusiifi ode
Homicide."
DARING ATTE,ArT AT iIuIt(iLARY.I3CIWCeII the
hours of 12 and I, oil:into:lay night, Ilse II -mse of Mr.
('orotiek, a respectable hooter, at %V realties., near
Sou•hall, Nliddiesea, %vol.:mem:3yd to 1.-broken into
by fire viilaiiissopposed to belong to the Gland June-
hum Canal) Sru.nil with lame iron crows, slerf,e. hani-
inept, &c. with %%hien they io:ently ettaeked, and
nearly forced open the hoot dour mid parlour shutters.
Alarmed at the noise, Mr. Cornock threw op tile win-
dow of his bed-room, and thieakeed to shoot them
they thil not immediately desist ; but this, instead of
deterring the villams, they with most horrid oaths and
expressions menaced ter of \l r. Cornock if he made
the lea,t leSislail?e, and continu.ll the assault, %Viten
Mr. Curoock, beititt well armed, fired amongst them,
and one of the gang instantly fell, wbri is ticketed 1 be
mortally ...omitted, if hot killed, aim was carried into
an adjoining field by his compaMtms, sweating, they
would return and be revenged. Mr. t2airoock, With
great presence of mind, instantly dispatched one of his
lads from a back wunlow to Southall, for assistance,
Irmo hetice several of the neighbours, and their ser-
vants, with great alacrity accompanied the lad, but
being seen by Übe robbers to approach the lonise, they
hastily decamped, .taking whit LI11:111 their wounded or
dead compaiins.•
A NECUOTE.—The night after King ( harks the Virt
was ihdiea led. my I.o3lSouthatopion and a Itit•nd of his,
eau leave to sit up by the bed), in the hampientig-house,
at Whitehall. As they Wile s4tilht %cry anchor:holy
there, taboo' two o'cloek in the toorhing, the% heard the
tread of somebody coming very slowly tip stairs. liv and
by the dour opened, and a (Thin entered, very much
notified tip in his cloak, and his face quite hid in it.—
Ile approached the Ludy, consideted It %ere attentively
tor some time, and then shook his 11.• ad and sighed out
the words "God necessity!" lie then departed in the
same STOW and concealed manner as he had come in
Sumba ',pion ant *. to say, that he could not dis-
tio4ttash any tiling of his free, Inn that by his voioe and
gait he look hint lobe Oliter Cromwell.
A few dais since, the schooner Medina of Liverpool,
Thomas Adams, masttr, from Cuba to Br slot, was
watmed near Mations, mid became. au elute wreck;
but the crew, We are happy to slate, Mere !a% cd by
means of Captain Maisby's apparatus for pries:Ring the
lives of bhilm reeked seamen.
In the course of the last six months have died, 5
Admirals, 7 Post-Captains, 5 Commanders, 21 Lieu.
tenants, 11 Masters, 4 Surgeons, 10 Assistant-
Surgeons, 16 Pursers. There have been promoted
during that period, to the above ranks, '25 Admi•
rids, 14 Post-Captuins, 19 Commanders, 31 Lieu-
tenants, (no Master,) 3 Surgeons, 1 Assistant-Sar-
grim; 1 Purser.
Auout three o'clock on Tuesday morning a fire was
discos ered to have broken out in the Tree ury of the
Satoh Sea-house, in Inreadiseedle Street; it was first
observed by the louse watchmen, who gate an i tttt
diate alai in by calling up the chief emitter, whose duty
it is to take charge of the keys of that department.—
Fortunately, by the very active exertiens of the firemen,
the fire Was gut wider, 24,7r:doing con ttlerable
A kw da)s ago, a boy named Harrington thrust a
quantity of gunpowder into one of the hollow irons
used for snioothmg linen, caned Italian irons, aid
Ravin, set lire to it with the poker used for heati.,g the
iron, the explosion of the powilCr drove it compit
through hits band, which was Iticer Ilea hi a tire.stlful
manner. 'Fite boy is, however, in a fait way of recovery.
Smuggling has so much increased on the north-
east of Scotland, that the Lords of the Treasury
have, it is said, found it expedient to adopt means
for rendering the preventive service more efficient
on that coast. Three new stations arc to be formed
in that line, including Aberdeen; at each of which a
naval officer will preside, who will instruct the
revenue offieemund cruisers on the coast, rs advised
by Government, or according to his own local know-
ledge and observation. The three superior officers
appointed to fill these situations, are two of them
Captains, and the other a Post Captain ii) the Royal
Navy. They will retain their half-pay, which, with
the emoluments of their new duty, will tuainant to
between 4001. and 5001. a year.
A coroner's inquest sat on Wedaesday night .at
the Cumberland's Head, City Road, on the body of
gnu Vender Tresson, whose death, it was stated
in some of the papers, was ozcationed by an im-
proper removal. subject had given rise to
much discussion, as did some of the police reports
to much controversy.—The subject underwent a
patient investigation, and it appeared from the
evidence of a woman, who had pita much attention
to the deceased previous to her death, that she was
afflicted with an asthma, and had swollen and sore
leg's. Evidence wow also given as to the mode of
her removal ; and after the testimony of two
surgeons as to the cause of her death, the coroner
soma ed up the evidence, at the same tiale remark-
ing on the manner of Ler renioval, soil saying it
Was time a stop shoull be put to the practice of not
I nut receiving persons in a d, tug state situated as
t e deceased teas. lie lett the evidence to the jury
who brought in a verilict—“ Dies' a natural death."
A c 4414111 Lliela runtpith:, &ken y aqo
throty,ll MI I;, loa,l 1,/ 1.01111,•11, last
tv.,k : t. ts bebeted the C:111.0 bow the 7.,uitivrtt
part tit Ntbit"lk A new lawillOd has been th,Cuteretl
to OC adopted uv ate poaChille. b Wry, of Lining game
without the aid of a gun.

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M.o. EDlTott,—At you have expressed your approhn-
lion at the prutsea of the Noiwlch School of Art,l cannot
forbear relating an all, cdote of one of its %sootily cilia, tri,
whose taste as an had 11 tig been cousideivil
sit-
the fires-rate outlet : hail lie brand ut Pi icier'. alliance-
:in nt to the Legion ut it :night l• ai e :termini%
for the step HE took, but I conceive it itillyt I e attsibwrcl
to his having lon gi cat a di-siding mem of Sporklicini's
oi gall ut op lif•I 0105111 0:11IellVlal lit 111 of NI. Ste-
phen's, he commenced his sign by cleaning and paiutieg
the elms ch, and at the icy mhos of hs.labours, h. wiled
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his es e 'iron a pietni 4. Of Ille Lertre Slllll4 I hi the Vestry ---
'• painters ran in, and the glaziers ran on.,
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" They could nut conceive what their chief was about ;"
and with Isis " eye in a fine frenzy rolling." he thus ad-
diessed the painter, " Bioy, consider myself
wind hag iu ilaiy and sync ralion did I sutler this chinch to
be eit'allell and leave our Sat iour Sitting before so ditty a
table cloth ; therefore take your brush, and paint it all
over with sit he." lei the I (nit se of five minutes this or-
der was executed, to the great satisfaction of oar sapient
Churchwarden. A few days after, this inutilation was
discovered he the Rector, who scut the picture, v hip
teats in leis eyes, to an artist, to be restored to its pi istints
state.
I reninin. Mr. Editor, your's, eke.
Norwich, Jan. iE2O. %i'A R M Err.

14:011%$ LCII CITY SLSbIONS.

The Semions fur this City were held on Tuesday hot,••
and after she usual formalities were gone ilsrou,:ls, slot
Learned ligeordir deirdered his•eharste lit the Grand Jury,
in ss hid), airs. stasim: that on the mouse of the tolleimes In
be bi ought bi•fort. them, :toy olmerrali,.o Inuit would
be uonecesmry, he said lie was ell 3Uure taut tic Gen-
lemen he wits then addres,ing, and iedeed all Cie tiessils mess
connected whit that t mill had dime Iheir duly in cutlea-
sssui IN to put 11 slap to the deprealutions cumuli( led by Ju-
vettile (Arendt rs; but ite ol as soot.). lii (observe, it had ow!
produced the desired s tb.r I. He Fisd that the Proclaims-
von .just feast, (the Proclatutitioto fur the levee ohservatisos
of the Lora's Da)s, and for puisisLitig prs.foomams. nod int-
nuns alit, ) lie o persuaded toy saute, was treated us a mere
mat of form, hut lie um. sure !hot by it being prop -sly
istlentit d to, it would trod greado to the d • of
es ime, and tsierefore eulicd Dicer put ticul utteistiost •
to V..

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?FilsonEns.
Maria Smith was -ir d!cied for or taitilog udder falw pruw
testers. of Mr. John Jay, a baker, '2 tin puns
a Oh bietid u. them, the propel Iv of If nhcrt llarinaii, and
convicted, Y 11.011111, impi is 111111 l eni.--T bare were 11%0 utht•f•
charges ut a biw.lar Mita -c niaritist this a °man, which a eie
iihandened.
William Davey, for stealmg, on the 4th December last,
a vat iety of carpentes's tool,, limn a new building at Btu.
conduit., the property of gibed Overton, was convicted
gni received stain:nee of 7 y exult train-put tatium—Antrilh r
t harge of the tame 11'111/11! abandourd.
John 1 rceinan and Benjamin. Barnard, for stealing, on
the 17th December last, from Cie shop of Mrs,t,.
grocers, 2 cheeses, u err sentenced to 6 months impi imminent
Brideuell.
Soria Beckett and Ann Todd were indicted fur s soling
on 4he 3d December last, front Sarah low kroliain, aitn •
al limy lodged two colnuit 41 cotton gol iga, a black
cloth . base, and uttwr articles of wearing apparel ; the
turner was convicted, aad sentenced to 1Y
confinement in tiridea ell, but no hill a vs lound übanist
latter.'
11 it tam Woods, fur stealing on the 30th I)ecenibcr 1 .st
from is Yowl-house of Joseph I tune., 1- rrp at laikamiliain
chickens, which he killed trite, 6 thoolla imprison me.;,
in Bridea ell
James Bill and Charles Rieke', for stealing, nn the Sits
.faituwi y intdatil, front the shop of Andrea flows in St.
Beilet.list',, 4 kaive,, a pocket comb, and tither articles ;
she former senteint•il to 2 111111 l fits imprisonment in Ili Ide—
well, and the latter was argaittcd.
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Thursday night, as two young men, who resided at
Tw, Mai; were returning hoot Tewkesliry, they inn-
inuZleittly atunipted to walk Mune upon the ice fits the
river .Ivon ; Lot. when Iliey whin,' a snort distance.
of Ts%itilog Fieet I no, tile ice broke, and they both .
souk. One of them, great &tali:oily, extricated
hiniseif, and Tall W•th as omen expedition as his Citizen
woiliii iaamit, to ti:e nearest house, to Mitaiit
issistaace for ti.s companion ; and t;tttitot the post
ittlintv.. head was above sealer %%hen los
arrivi.ii, his C 4:11 11,1ing 11,011 the ice, he smik to rise
no no.re Mime they' could get loos mat. Tile nalle of
this iiMortuttate s.tiileter was Weav er,aod he had been
in...riled 'mi... a shill( tiaie pievions.
Tuesday night the Swansea mail was oversct near
Pyle, owing to the severe frost, by which ttvident
Mr. Brown, junior, of Bristol, who was an outside
passenger, bad both his legs broken. IL was con-
veyed to the lodge of Sir John Nicholl. where he
was human:Ay received, and every ai.t a intinistrtal
which his truly deplorable situation require&
aLcr or FKOsr.—Last week a Iliq.let's -.art was
oliserte.l standhig aciws tile W4.llVtr!".ll %Ail the
&her sitting on the sha!ts. .% stage coaennian,
hit way impeded, callid to the non: Ott the cait to draw
out M the way. .11..ceis ing no gnawer, he swore, and •
used the I•inguage usual fin the road, to make the carter
move. Ail tas threat- and persuasionsbeilig
Ile gill down, and allowietlitiri the tail, lotat.tl the In its
fillitAt still' his seat. Pe was quite t!eatl. The
house had stopped, oil f eh, iti.int the re,lis.
Oa the Sllst •uf May, us tht\ Malay vvoincti,
weft.: fishing in ti'tt Sit:1110y Draka, to the oppmite
Show, withia the comnany'S then',
was suddenly seized by alit tllleJ.ii,actidy Lage ti=er; s
the tries of her coutvailions, it ~pre.r:s, Litiolidated
the ferocious :tidal 1, when lie yiittcd the sr:tins
and made off fur the woods the ...111....ittitl.ate W0.11:111
expired shortly alter.
00 Fr. las: I ist is-, persons were standing on a piece of
tee hear %% hell It 6as e way, and !At tom' oat of
them. Wits titoA-11C4.,

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Finrs.—Friday morning, about six o'clock, the
Ittiglibourhood of Kensington was thrown into
t onsiderable alarm, iu consequence of a fire breaking
out in the house of Mrs Bullymore, a lady of for-
tune, residing ,at No. 18. -place, Ken-
sington. It commeaeed it; the kitchen, where it
was diaeovered at an alarming height • by the watch-
loan, who instantly made the alarm, and disturbed
the inmates of the house, some of whom ran out
nearly in a state of nudity, and were necessitated to
take refuge in the n‘ighboutit4; houses. The flames
rapidly spread through the different apartments,
previous to the arrival of the .engines ; the _Ro y
al
Achange engine arriving„wl te.ceiying au excel,
kilt supply dr water, and being sort joined by
various others, they played actively for two hours,
and got the •fire. uader. .The ;metier of the house
mid affthe furniture and property were destroyed.
—On Thursday night, about. 1 o'clock, u tire broke
out in the premises of Mr. Sin:le, cooper, in Neck-
inger-row, Doekhod. -It originated in the cooper-
age, in roesequence of Kane of the chips having
caught fire: family were taken in by a neigh-
Tr. oogines soon arrived on the spot, but.
6 seace:;•? of water prevailed some time, during
which, the flames had extended themselves to a con-
Fiderabla height. Water being at length.procured,-
hc firemen wore very active in their exertions, butt
.;atithrtunately the whole of the cooperage
destroyed, and considerable damage besit& wit*

dime.
• Friday an lnquisition was taken at the Pluck
rotor's Heard, t'llittlornbe Street, before Nit.. lliggs,
,Coroner, on tisc body of Mr, john liow, who cut
jam Osroat.
;Richard navies, patrol., belonging to St. Martin's.
pariah, deposed that the deceased was u shoemaker,
living iii James Street, , Haannarket,, he was about
45 years old, had a wife but no children, he was of
.very sober habits,_ :hut for some time past showed
aymptoms ot.defangenicut ; ho was frequently heard
to say he lied not been well hints i.e dined with
Lord :Siatuouth, .oral many other incollerept expres-
04Ms. At half past On last
.'llitirsaay :night two.i
men :named Swan and Thompson, knocked at wit. ,
nesses door, and told him to coino instantly, that
decensed had cut his throat, Witness went with
they, and ftatial
.him MIAs night shirt lying on'the
bed, wittli:ll.a head hanging over, and three deep
incisions :fit the throat, the bed and door oovered
with blood, and his hotly obi and stiff; ho wits
quite dead Witness presentel no lota/herein letter
he found in the room, apd whisit apparently was
written by the deceased. Venlicti..-insanity.
A shockitr,t accident occurred at Hint, 011 Prlity, to
, the sot; ut Mr:1101111N, Lipner. While :walking "101 l
tliv 1,140 W win or lilt hot pit,, he fell into it ; and .om
wrap hAlig al ..iitl, with ditlicoliy was able to extricile
'1: 'lit til. h
'4lifollif atai'drd. frpn t4e. ntitltll. ..do,w,nwar,ds.
lite is of covse IP A state of extreme anguish and
„13;1;ter, hit, 111.P60.11t1 ent,italited of Ins reeoveri-.
The fisountril tics Pefrati of Thursday last
,complaios of an Ortlimmee :issued
.00 the 19th
' Lilt, by the Adjunct of the Mayor of .Crony, and
opproved of by Count Ctertnain, Prefect of the Seine
and Marne, prohibiting all religious ;prsxvottions,
preachings, nod planting of ,taosses, 'beyolid .the
boundaries of places of worship, as being interdicted
by the iiotli article of the law of the lath of De.
Lauber, 17 ; and by the Qincordate of the yearn,
which subjects the exercise cif. religious worship to
those regulations of police which may ho deemed
necessary by the Government fur the maintenance
of publ it: tranquillity
1.03111 Frsitine hes paid a visit to lair native coon.
try, ;.11cr 0 absence of litly.one years. litt arrived
at tie, house of his brother, the Earl of Buchan, in
C!aorge,otrcet, :Edinburgh, on Saturday last, and
there met his gr40,(1 children (who are receiving
,their etlee,tior• i.t Ldinbnrgit) with their parents.
The Noble and Lettetted Lord will find a new erea.
tion sine'', lip.Vec .I.:::atlighl in 1703. The Pov VIM
was T.Ot thenrplun, and the improvements in every
dirretion eareotl all that can be el: tnessed in any
other city pilot: c,trtit. The Noble Lord says loins
latter that " in his awn family, 10 finds three
rmernew
genttatious wound him, whilst tl:lose of o
.1;t:yot have passed away,"
ho ill( 2cot was itelti ott 'Monday mortsltig before
,t 'Oath., entitont. I.,sq..Curotier lot .;,litrry, st the f).,
ii
All:i 80, Csoyotm. on the hotly a Elizslseth Price,
savil Moo )e.irs. who WO burnt to death. Tito only
~.,jii3Osl, otik,i. 160.00,1,04 R 1163,1141, a gardetier, Who
.11rlo!fititi II 6.411111W11 ;,..." 1 11,1 ill e1.:441's count, near the
).,,,itenro.row I %as iittlisl, At llty tireo.;thl 0114141 614
.liCiistA Lit *WrJoicati4y Ammo. when I WAS sod
th:Aly illitillietl by 1147e4Ittes. ittld Alt' tAleTtillt of tire
from a 1131~ 11 room ysl.l by the parents of
hire
Accessed ; I li is.ental to ii, and after much difficulty
forced open alto door. s,visco the poor child was disco.
wired stirrontideil by the I1AWCI; I, with the aid of tny
you, carried the utifoituwite girl into another moto.
where Nlr. IN'ehster and Nit. Tonstall reistlerell eery
nivlical a•sistaiire, tint is, vain ; tia the little stiflerer,
after having lingered t ttttt I Saturday morning:. cited."
'is evidence the Ct .rr aildresard she Jtiry,
, great praise to she wstsse.s, who had been a
injured in his 1111111411 C attempt ; and after
s. deliberation, they returned a vertliet ut—


VIE NATIONAL REGIST:

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CONTREDANSES, LCOSOlSES—Quadrille,
Country Dancing, Spanish Dances. and every other species of
F asloonable 'Liming. Privately Taught•to Persons of any Age.
by Mr. WILSON Dancing Master. Ther. Com 411 e King's e'!tres
Opera I lou.e. Author of the Analysis of Country Dai c•
Treasur:.s of Terpsichore. CI marine Instructor. correct t. etb
of German and French Waltzing, Ectooi,e Instructor, (us •
rtile Panorama, new .circulair %poem ot Country Dancm.4,
at his Residence and Academy. Old Bailey. near I.utlgat Hi•
N. IS. The Complete System abi Country Danc.vg aut.:* •
Preceptor of Mr. Wilsou's Newly Invented Species of Din tins
entitled Quadrille and Country Dancing.is now nearly contra set

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On Saturday se' •glit, a female c.tv ho resides near I
Brazen I)iiors, in Norwich. hat isic:tr casiou to to from I
home, leftlier child, a bey about" five years-old, .in the
care of a )(Hong woman, who tliniog the stiother's ab-
sence unlock iJy left the child. alone in the house,. when
the little innocent' went so near the fire that the fl Imes
calialit its clothes, and it ttlts so, dreadfully burnt that it
expired site day following.
Wednesday se'nnight two men arrived inNorwichiby
one of the coaches, and took tip their shoat at the Pope 'S
[lead 11111; petit %MO 1111 l 14 they teuriereiltit 1/. note.
Ntlicit-thf landlord suspected to be a forpri, and upon
his rciplett it was eadhangetl for annilirr.&llick.was
taken by one elt the at ralgas ottt of a mill of woes.
Upon enquiry., ttie..seconrl note was ascurtalued to lie a
for4esy, and when the wen wete.alkettbed iii Vit. &lieu-
vcry, they tittust a roll of.notes 1100 the fire, part of
which were recovered by the,houler. !Tlw fellows were
taken liefore•.N. Bolitighrottt.'. Evq. Nlayor, and were
rt•owodeti to Brolewell, tints,' it he. k in is it w ketiter the
Batik will proseettte, ate tlescril,Al hituirilus . a Co-
vent Garden salesman, awl the oilier as a carpenter.
On Sulidav iiivfit last, a 'mintier of fowls were stolen
from Mi. Camas:, oil 7 ileiixhain, and Mr. ll'ockell. of
Attleboro'. Three men have since been apprehended,
two of them old offenders,

Li putt this evidence the t.,
attributing great praise to the
wT
drt•adfully lii fired m his hitinane
f-vr tionott.s. deltheratioa, they ro
Leenleo tal llt alh
er