The National Register.
London, England, 1819-05-16 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

lected my man. He had besot private tutor to my
friend at college, and hail travelled with for
which he has an annuity. He a 1..) got u living
from the young esember's nude. 'l' tie whole secret
Was now unravelled recogniL.cl the hand-
writing of the Greek translatium:: and pc ceived
that the tutor had just been giving his lesson to Lis
pupil previous o his going down to tie- house.—
The short-hand writer had been employed to note
down the speech, and the Editor s runner called to
take the materials fur a puff. The Reverent leas
great hopes of his patron's shining, and stall greater
expectations of getting promotion through um im-
mense property and extensive interest us the family
and its connexion.. When the 'Aube made a
blunder, it was natural Cu- the tutor to look con-
fused ; just as it was nothing surpi ism.; tti see Lira
exult in the expertness of hit young tyro.
Although t..e privilege of proxy beluog alone to
the upper house, yet the practice way thus be indi-
rectly applied to the lower one. We have many
authors and senators behind the curtain, who lend
out their abilities to riches and to power ; and thus,
in more instances than the present one, is the
racier of eloquence acquired, nod ;Le uu Glues wit:4th
is worn by h tat who never earned it. Uur tutored
members, however, seldom or ever speak in reply ;
and our nominal authors rarely allow themselves to
be drawn into oral argument; whilst the secret
hand may aspire, at a future period, to lawn sleeve ,
and to taking his seat quietly in the upper house.
Ileaurr IN LONDON.

ABSFNCE OF MIND.—Toa.. justly celebrated Les-
sing was frequently very 'Justin Itsving missed
money at different times without being able to tbs.
cover to ho took it, he determined to put tirf honesty
of his servant to a trial, and left a hundiul of gold
on his table. "Of course you counted it ?" said
nue of his thends. ` Lounted it ?' said Lcssing, ra-
ther embarrassed, ' no; I tUrgot that.'—The fol-
lowing is a similar trait. In a public sale there was
a.booh ‘t hich Leasing was very desirous of possess-
ing.- tle gave three of his friends, at different times,
a commissimi to buy it at any price. They accord
ingly bid against each other till they had got us tar
us 90 crowns ; there having been nu other bidder
after ten crowns. happily one of them thought
it best to speak to the others, when it appeared tout
they had all been bidding for Leasing, whose forget-
' fulness in this instance cost him 80 crowns.

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An old German Knight, in the fust half of the
I ith century, when etionnout goblets were among
the chief ornaments of the rooms and tables of the
nobles, sat once at table next to his young wife in a
numerous company, where the bottle went continu-
ally round, and a large goblet was to be emptied
each time, on pain of being contemned as a false
brother by tile guests, who were used to be very
strict in this point. The wife, who hid received
a more polished education, whispered to her husband,
when it again came to his turn.to empty an enor-
mous glass, to pour the wine secretly under the ta-
ble. •l lbe others will see it," raid he.. His wife,
therefore, -just as lie was rid ing the glass to hht
mouth, snuffed out the candle, ana rei:cated her re
quest. Instead of complying, he said with a kind.
of solemnity, " God sees it," and emptied his
goblet.
I)RIAD,FUL Fuss AND erreesive Rosseetes.--Oto
Friday &about two o'clock, a most alarming tire
broke out in the house of Mr. Short, surgeon. No. 13,
Dover-street, Piccadillv.witich threw the neighbourhood
intogreat conlusion. The Watchman on going his mods
discovered smoke issuing from tne lower windows, ansl
on looking through discovered the place all in a blaze.
lie made an alarm, and the family arose, bet their pas.,
sage was prevented by the immense body of flames rush-
ing up die suitcase I. they returned to tile sleeping roam
MI the second floor, and Air. Short got out (lithe %% in-
flow and slid down the waier-sporit by the side of the
house, and so made his escape with trifling injury. Lt
the mean time toe other persons at the tipper part of the
house got on the tiles, and made their way through Mr.
Stevens's house in their night dre•iws ; one of Me servants
leaped from the list-flour %viiidow, (having no oilier
means of escape) and was very much bruiwil. lir a short
time several engines arrived oil the spot, but there was
a great scarcity of water Ihr about am nom, durinz which
period the house was burning with great rapidity, and
did great tjanuage to the home of Mr. Kitching, gold-
smith and jeweller, and likewise to that of Mr. Stevens,
who lost much property. Mr. Short, Ike. tot.k refuge at
a friend's house iii the neighbourhood. By six o'clock
the house of Mr: Short was burned to the ground, with
the property which isconsiderable. Mr. Snort is insured.
Dnnu the couflagramoil, a foruiiilabe gait: of notorious
serious depredalions whit impunity.
They su.rou..ilcil the house of Mr. Fergirsoo, No. I I,
Dover.street, shortly alter the fire c 1111 l meucco,,atal under
140.i-tier of :darning Me family, and to assist lii r ••
ing their goads, they forced open the parlour wirulow-
sito.ters, bili.Oiall tile WildOws, and entered the noose.
T. Lundy got sip and ran uuti thinkiric theishoose was
ou die. The thieves availed themselves of the contusion
aad bmke open a large chest of drawers, and stole ltrOt.

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in hank notes, 60 guineas in gold, sovereigns, &e• sills
drceas, and other valuable properly, with winch they
got clear off Several other holier* were tobbeil by per-
a los woo met •ilded to a•sist it, satire late property, Jthl
aeterll tierboits had their locket. picked.
Cot °sties I NQUE3T..—AII 11.q.ii.ltioit was taken fel
Friday latent at elate( o'clock, to tore ~,,, as Shelton,
Erg. Coroner, at toe 111.tre Tat M :re.cour‘,
sore', on body of Mr. Ti.oiliAb Hoe. G ego'''. a gen-
tleman of ellatisitlerarde Inc r ,ry aI., wit° put
an end to his esibieitte On IV'el.o'MMl.'y Ii t lam, by
cutmee hits r. Jolla. Cole, SorAerm, 1til4•1:1.1-
141eCI,C,,vent.g .rden,s.ateil that he v tatted lite th erased
On Wednesday lan II,C Hire Tavern, he was to 3 slate
of ar..at del.iliit, lie told him that he Lad been drinking
tor several days la Kevot !IC eh*, and 111411 ll.Onliiett was so
had that food ovoid eim stay opon it; his need was
hurtling ;he gave I some mein*, but his niaorder
was so great, that his tffons were ineffecAtal. Mn 'V.
ceistit was very deliriotb, and lie recristimentled a mem
to return% with nine wider the idea that lee
wi; inn do iiitneelf some injury; he ceittel to see him oei
the relay niornitig,aod was sold he was dead. Nary
Mills, of Lamb-court, Fleet-street, stalest .thea sheltie
eneattid to bit up with the dr CellfekißfalhAtin sit4y
night; he insi.ted tiro] her leaving rice room : she ill-
:wined the latirriarly, wito told her to go home, and
come in the morning. The deceased did hot appear
right his head or Wednesday night.—John Perkin,
wailer at the Mitre, stated, that die deceased camels)
lodge at that braise on Tuesday; he had herd there 'hire
weeks, about six weeks ago, and his letters were directed -
there from his friends in the country. he assisted the
deceased into bed, on Weduerelair night; tie talked in.
conerently, and fancied persons were in the room nano
him violence, At a hale after le, lie (wines') went to
his apartment, to give him his medicine, aril }mind hint
on the'ffisor, with his legs under him. his throat cut whit
email desert knife, which wet in his right hand, bloody
—he was vile dead ; Dr. Anderson was milt d in.—
Nit. Henry Gregsoti, the deceased's brother, was ex-
amined. Ile said the deoeased had been melancholy
her two years, and sonic time ago was confined in a strait
waistcoat; he was thirty years of age.—Verdict—" Cut
his throat its a state of insanity."
Toutselay, in inquest was takes at Act', in Norfolk,
before John P.lgnite Gent. Coroner, out the body-of
Francis Ewelb, who was killed the preceding day in
cousegnence of his falling from the Shafts of a waggon.
on %%Melt he uas riding, and the wheel* pitmans Veer
his head. It appeared. in ec idenee.that this if man,
who was servath to Mr. Miles, of Burlitigisuin,-Lue a.
short time since paid the for eitlenti, theshafts
of his master's waggon, and has twine 'allele rroll4
eaca time the wheels passing over him, but the waggon
being empty, he did not receive nitwit injury.—Verdict,
Accidental Death.
An inquisition was taken on Saturday before Thos.
Stirling, h.q. COraner, at the One 'fun, Old Brentford,
on the body .1 Mrs Catherine Wright, who wes found
dead is) her bed en Thursday morning, after hat ing gone
to bed in good health the preceding main; there were
no marks of violence on the body, and n appeared, from
the evidence, that the deceased was subject to spasms iii
the sunpaeh. Verdict—Died by the V isua of God.
On Tuesday morning, ahont one o'clock, an alarm of
fire was ejects through.Bstrs. and it was iltscqvcred that
the workshops at the biek of Mrs. Foner're house,
situate in Si. Andrew's-sheet, were in flames. No
~,, was lost In summoning the fireiniii, and five
engines were speedily on the spot. At this time the
conflagration was terrible, anti had extended to the
warehouse of Mr. Fenton, broker, such to a staide
belonging to Mr. Bird. Little hopes were entertained
of sating tke long range of adjoining premises, inn
fortunately the night was calm, and by the Most Meri-
torious exertions a -cottage was polled down, to break
off the CO ~,,,, ustication on one stile, and a t:(411 SaIPVIY
of water to the engines checked the poieress at
The lire was by this means confined to the three kid&
itupi, which, however, were burin to the enion.:•before
four o'clock, when the ravaLws of the frightful element
ceased. A tinetilrer of gent/emen misused in the labours
of the scene, and many females of respectability carried
their utmost diligence obtaittilig Water. Must of the
property destroyed was insured.
On Wednesday morning, at half.raPt seven o'clock
an• accident occurred at Craven Place, Baysweter,
which provtil fatal to a young man about yi.ar4
of age, named West, who was thrown from a haise
cart. The deceased, accompanied by another man,
the proprietor of the cart, a Mr. Blunts, were •proe
ceeding to town, but on their arrival'near the above
mentioned place the hors.: bcsiltae restive uolttilo-
veritable, amp ran away, but becoming clime/1101 in

the reins, the cart was overturned, and the tinforta-
nate young man was precipitukd upon a batik by al.:
road side, and lilt .hued coming in contact a
stone, he NA:Lived a.contusion, which termiwited his
existence ist a few minutes. His companion W.A
dangerously Mart.
DONNA:LAY- AND OLP/ED.—Tuesday being the
day appointed for a deposit tot• Donnelly and ()livc.r,
the was observed over a good waisting, or, in
other words, u dinner, at Oliver's. match
was made for 200 guineas, and to light t7tit
July, a stawl-up fight, in a '4 feet rop,:d square.
Carter. the pugilist, seems to have a strange fincy
to have himself well twat. lie oth2red to Sight
Spring again, who so lardy pimishol aka. Spring
very properly tleelinc.l, becausc vistory...o.:ll lz•ftu
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