The National Register.
London, England, 1818-03-09 00:00:00

The Lord Mayor, on Thursday, vieited the Fritter.:
of Ilene I f otnl;nitg, and several other persons of dis-
enetien, and insiltel them to the dinner and ball at the
*Mansion I Lill FC on Easter Monday.
The Curpos-,tiun of Nottingham has published •a
coutradietion on oath of the statement of Frencis Weed,
who, in Lis petitions to Paeliament, nllegeef that cruel-
tine had Inenneeeveised upon hint in Nett:ugh:4n gaol.
'Pee Matiel•estet Paper has also refuted the.contplaint
brought fury and Ity \V,lliant Ogden Of that place.
A Correspondent tells us, that tho new church fur the
parish oft. Panrane is to be built in the field north of
rhotenesquere, -near St. James's burial-ground, where
tllnre era very few inhabitants, and where it will inter-
cept that striking view of the the country from the
ceutre of Bloomsbury and Russell-squares.
Saturthty week en elerant dinner was given at Min-
Lergh, to Mr. Bauble ; Mr. Walter Scott in the Chair.
After dinner d snuff-box of i 00gs. value was presented
4-• Mr. Kernble. The patty in.:hided many the first
hurray characters in Edinburgh.
An ancient law has been rerived in the Electorate
qr gene, denying to self-murderers the privilege of
ht~rial, and deliveringaup their bodies for dissection, on
neeount of the frequency of suicide at the present
.4rue.
-In the neighbourhood of Maidstone several •ef the-
3nrgeit tan yards'itve been given up in consequence of
'the Leather Tax.
The Three nat. Cent. Co gels opened on Wednesday
at'';. At one* o'clock some twenty bargains were'
...erre at 781; but they afterwards declined, add
n't tiT at 771. 'Another defaulter was declared on
weinesday fur ts- considerable sum.
The young Lord, son of the Duke. of A—, who
etrennly left his borne and family, about ten days since,
i:r whose concealinent a reward of one hundred
r.• wise' was ellered, has been restored to his affileted fa-
information wan received that he was in bed at
• publienhetten at Rotherhithe, on Tuesday night, and
'per pewees went thither by desire of: tits: family, and
• eignized him. He had called there in the afternoon,
ani t'kcn ceiTee., when he Walked out and got wot
t':nitnele In drying his coat, aletter was foetid which
(.-.eJosed hie noble berth. The landlord, and two other
~.rsens, have received the promised reward.
Charles Finney, the person suspected of having elle
t-ipperl the two boys, Kelly and Spicer, into the crime
o uttering forged notes, fur t. Lictrthey were cendetnn-
tel. to die, is in custody.
DESPERATE SUICIDE.-•-•A1011t..tIIM c'eleck on.Satur-
jey, Mr. S.:Bray, surgeon, of llrich-lane, Whitechapel,
weet. into the ;hop of Mr.*Rent, druggist, in the same
s.e.-et, and .appcarcd quite deranged, he lumned upon
fee counter, and .grassing- a large bottle containing
seine poisorous medicine, dr:ink...off the whole contents,
then seating himself Cr. . a :noel in about a minute he
t'.ll on thr i-eoor, and died before any remedy could be
aln_inisteroe. The unfortunate young man served his
tare with Mr. Kent, and he has left a whit and two
children tc deplore his lose. He bed been for some time
ie. great (listless owing to his being out of a situation.
• LXTRAORDINARY DF.ATIL—About ten o'clock on
:4aturday night, the landlord of the Crooked Billet,
V, hitechepel, returned home after beir,g out the whole
(el the day transacting seete business, and sitting With
Lis wife in the bar until the house was cleared. of all
' tee customers, she observed he was very melancholy
and dejected. • On a sudden he started up and exclaitn-
tt " wife, come get me the piste's, don't yea hear
thieves breaking• into the house, they are coming to
enh end murder us ;" his wife did all she could to con-
vince him it was only intal,i:a 'era strove to com-
pose him; but to no effele. On her rEfltsing to get them
he started up out of his chair, and getting the pittels
himself,lie ran up and down stairs with a loaded pistol
in each hand, crying out " roi:bers, murder," lint fu:-
ttmately met with no person; he became quite ex-
hausted, and returned into the p trleur, he walked about
in a state of frenzy for some time. when seating hint-
• self in a chair, he dropned flown and expired, n surgeon
was culled, Who rendered every wee:an:lce but to no
eTect.
SURREY St•ssions.—On Wednesday Henry Wild
eras indicted for stealing a nl. flank of England tote,
nhe property of John Hunt.—The prosecutor, who is a
servant out of place, dery sed, that he observed at eight
n'cleck one morning, a set ef'persons playing-at cup and
1:111s, near 'Waterloo Bridge. The prisoner was in the
tot of playing and was kneeling; OIL the grout:J. Ile
ntrered to bet any money then the hall was under the cup,
end the prosecutor havicg.seen the bell run nwuty front
lee cup, agreed to lay the wager, and put on the ground
a 21. note next to two notes which were laid down by
the prisoner, the moment he had done so, several per-
:eens shoved him about in teach-a enanner as to prevent
bier from seeing his money, the prisoner, or the cupeind
muney being that disposed nf, he was walk-
ing :mac, when a person called out to hint that he had
been renbecl. and that the thief was in custody. fie
• knew the 21.—Guilty. The Chairman sentenced the
prisoner to tninsportatien fbr seven years. Prsonrr—
• • Thank yore.''--Mr. ti,,lan—" So you coAht ; for if
-en wee. aVioves.l te snrette, yr-4 2:mr:c•llv
!-• - •••••.- "

HATTON CARDEN.-.PATURDAY.

T. Dawasn, C. Goodwill. B. Renton. and T. Boultrr, four young
men. were clanged by
.Mr. Michael Riley. hmei mattar,landlord of
the Greyhound,- Henrietta-street. Brunswick-square, with mixing
Ante poraoti in earrre porter, and giving it to drink to Sarah Marren,
Sarah I.Vooilliarn, Betsy Fox, Jane 4 iritilths, and Jane Tucker:flee
Young wouen, with intent to deprive them of lip. The romplairamt
.depos.xl, that the young women worked for him in a workshop in the
upper part of a house situate in an adjoining eneset ; that about t 2
that afternoon. one of the two first namodirisonsrs cause to hid house
for a pot of porter, which he drev.. into a ele in rent; that after taltir.
the chill off he carried away the leer. and meetiog.the robe: 3 pri-
soners, they drank better than half of it; after which the prisoner
Renton, took the remainder to the young women, and which they
drank between them. The prisoners returned to complednant'a house,
where they sat down and had some refreshment. They 111.1 not Pang
been there, when a nearenger raw and informed him that the five
young women weir !leached on the floor lying in the agonies c:
death. Witnesaattnd thus in strong emetilvions, black in the face.
and foaming at the month. and aufrenng excruciating pain. Witness
sent ininvdiately for fir. Darling, Brunswick-square. who came and
administered the necessary medicines; he deemed it proper to hare
further advice, and thre.. other medical gentlemen were called inotind
that their opinion was, that they labMirecl under the effects of tome
deadly poison; and not from Aalip. opium, Spanish flies. or any
similar thing that might be aduunistered tc them for any vile purpose.
The prhamers were asked! by the Magistrate. Mr. Schein if they
wished as say any thing iu their defence ; on which a controversy
place between two of the prisoners. One, a..geetleman's
said that he war. sent by the two leueltraakers for spot of beer ; they
made hien and the other servent drink ; they swallowed about u pint
of it. aed the prisoner. Renton. carried the rern:,inder to the young
women. 'EI ie4rn,iene: deel and, that there coui:i be ::o poisoners in-
tlesaliont3 in the bee:, when he and his companiensalrar.a ; zsif there
had been they would have been as much affected its the ..vomen.
Renton said, there must have been sorneen'ing in the beer stamen given
L. bias ; he found himself very much affeetid. and .tot Cole to go to
work. A feeutleman stated that he heard Renton my to his rempa-
Mon, " Tusk—not a ward.—keep elese, and they :au do nothing."
The Magistrate found it his duty to eaurna the featr prisoners
until the doctors made their report. Bail was refused.
At seven in the evening. the examination was resaraed, when Mr.
Bioughton. the surgeon, stattil, that he was sear fee to mter.d on the
young women, and found them lying on the !hie: in the workshop ;
three of them complaining of a violent pain in their storacch ;
titer was in slang coet; ureic ; and the fifth was apparently in a dying
state, in which state, they continued fur three Lours. He and Dr.
laarling.almioistered tit their reerrery-
Magistrata--Can you inform me what. the, girls hzd truce to
produce the by m pton s under which they laboured—isit your opinion
that it was arsenic or any other deadly poison that was infused in
the beer is not ; the symptoms were not all alike, but it must
have been some violent stimulus, suet as eantharides, tartar emetic,
or sulphur tic lingua, &c.

Magi.,tratc—Arc thcv out of dang./r 7—Dr. Darling and I arc of
opiniou that thn:o.cf titan will reea,er, but valor Fox t.r.d
we ate of opinion. that they are r.ot oat o€tiangtr.
cllimders were committed for further exarr.ination.
On inquiry yesterday, we learnt that 'Ancor them, after passing
the night in great pain., were in air recomcd, that they were looked
on as burr& out of danger ; and t!;et Fox and Griffitt.s, Lie two who
1117 C most in danger, had a changt; about half past eleven o'alock la
the morning, and there were strong lv..Tes of their recovery.

Some insignia of the Order of the Garter, which are sup-
posed to ki-oie belonged to one of the. Peers a:tainted in toe
year 1715, are to come to the utiblic hummer at Edinburgh.
This relic, it seems, was in the pussasiJu of the late Car-
diuzil Yolk, was di-iliosed of at his death, and was brought
front Rome by an Italian gentleman of the name of Frankis
'll he insignia are of the time of Charles I, and cobtain a whole
length figure of that unlintimate Monarch, With those of St.
George, the Horse and Dragon.
'the ar iil of Baron de Quintella (of the city of Lisbon) has
lately been proved in Doctor's Goniniolks; his property in this
country amounted nearly to 41ii,i.01)1., independent of his
wealth in Spain : tile duty teliaa was paid to Government on
his i tfects here ai-loutitei., to 5,n01.--I.lle understand this to
be the rich met...haat to witom the For:mute Youth asserted
hinielf to be hed:. _

EFFFCTS OF NITRE ON W3LINCOS.—.II is the common prae.
lice of furriers end others to introduce nitre into wound., to
prevent mortification, as they call it : whereas, it -.cannot be •
toe 4: toter tly known, that this enlist:ince introduced into the
It dily by the vascular ~:stew, operates as it poison, mid scldont
fai:s of causing death.
'ittn.lwds Mercury of the. 4Sth says We lament to state
thri: the steam invents-I engine of J. C. Brandling, Esq. employed on
the rail way of his colliery near this town, exploded about 5 o'clock
this tiftornoon. We regret to add, that the enginc:tt is literally
him; n to pieces. Eeveral children who were mar the place have been
siverely ii•alded, but we bdicve that no other life ras been lost on-
this melancholy occasion. 'file cause of this ducking catastropl:e
has not vet been ascertained, but it is corirettbed to have arisin
from the safety valve not having been properly attended to."

Air. Henry Mellish, of Chichester, has• now in his
possession a bantam sow -which he bred- himself, and
that ims praduced him in seven farrows, the unparallel-
ed number of one hundred and sixty-six pigs, viz. £2,
21, 25, 26, 25, 27, "..!0. This fertile animal is remark-
ably handsome, and is suppesel to weigh ICO stone.

Accounts have been receivvd in .town of a serious
disturbance having arisen at Kendal, from the spirit of
01,tctioneering 13tween the contending parties of the
Lowthcr family, and of Mr. Brougham, in which soma
Gentlemen s carriages were broken, and several per-oi s
much hurt.

The value of the lands which come into possession
of the E: of Fife, by the late decisions of the Courts
in Scotland, is computed at upwards of .9ci0,0001. in-
deveniently of s.veral rich :and valuable mines which
have Ltta lir= these ClttAalre C:tAtc:,