The National Register.
London, England, 1820-04-10 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER...

On Sunday afternoon, between the hours o?three
and five o'clock, the dwelling house of Mr. Robert
Cliffen, of Attleborough, was broken open while the
fiunily were at chapel, and rubbed of five pounds
ten shillings in money, two watches, some silver
tea spoons, and a quantity of linen. Several drawers
were broken open, in one of which was a bank re-
ceipt for OA. belonging to an inmate, which they
left on the bed, thinking most probably it would
lead to their detection.
DREADFUL ACCILDENT.—OD Saturday Lst, as a
wagamier was driving his teansalong Isleworth, heavily
laden with goods, in turning ill a gateway, the wheel
came in contact with a newly built wall, and threw it
dour. The waggoner, thinking no other injury was
dime, drove on, but was warned to turn back, nit hear-
ing dreadful screams from where the wall bad fallen,
wnen it appeared that four children had been sitting
rehiud the wall at the time of its Calling, by which they
were hurt d under the bricks and mortar. Asostane:
was immediately procured, and they were al! dug out
dreadfully bruised. A boy, about six Sears of age, sue
io Mr. Newson, a Carvetiter, living at , he above place,
was so much injured, dirt he died shortly afierwarck;
uI we are happy In learn that all the rest are likely to
recover.

A few evenings back, as Mr. Wichelee Holland,
of Long Lane, Bermondsey, was going home to his
resideme, he was met in High Street by two ruf-
fians, one of whom, without the least provocation,
struck him on the head with a bludgeon and
knocked him down. Both the villains then fell
upon him, and continued beating him till they
thought he vas dead, when they escaped. In this
hclpless situation Mr. H. was fhund by some pm,
stingers, who humanely carried him to a surgeon's ;
on exatnination several deep wountls were found on
his head, his jaw was broken, and three of his teeth
knocked out. Next day the deposition of Mr.
Holland was taken by Sir John Eimer, and by the
activity of a constable both the fellows were appre
hended and lodged in gaol, till Mr. H. is declared
out of danger.
NFTIIEII LANDS—We lave already mentioned says
the A/gen/eine Zei/ung of March 24, that the seven
Advocates who sired the Consultation for M. Van
der Straaten, author of '6 Etat actuel des Pays,"
has been thrown into prison . On the llth of
March also, the son of M. Van der Straatcn was
brought betbre the Judge of Instruction at Brussels..
He answered that he, as the son of the accused, had
done, was doing, and would do, all that was pos-
sible to place; the inocence of his father in a clear
light ; that no one could hinder him. from perform-
ing this natural duty, and that ha had no further
explanation to give respecting that point. Besides
the above mentioned, two ot her Advocates, of whom
one is the celebrated publicist Van Meen, have been
arrested because they appealed to the principles of
the Charter in favour of /1 M. Trappe, a native
subject, who had been banished from the kingdom
in virtue of a knee de cache!. The present Minister
of Justice is called Van 'Muoeti.

Resolute Conduct of a Woman.—On Monday af-
ternoon, Alice Slater, about nineteen years of age,.
servant to Mr. Lanham, baker of Widcombe, in
Devonshire, had occasion to go into the house of
Sarah Perkins, who keeps. a tea shop next door to
Lanham ; on entering the passage, she observed a
man robbing the till, and with great presence of
mind she darted into the shop, and seized him by
the collar. He struck her on the head with his fist
repeatedly, but she- held hint fast, called out for
assistance, struggled with him, and forced him into
the kitchen, where Sarah Perkins appeared, and
Salter, with great coolness, toll her to run the a
constable, while she held the prisoner. During,
Perkin's absence, the villain swore he would murder
Salter, i 2 she did not release him, and slipping a
clasp kniti; from his pocket, he attempted to cut her
throat, but during the attempt. she lifted her arm
up to her neck, and received the cut on the fleshy
part of it. This murderous attempt inspired her with
fresh courage, and she threed him into the court.
yard. where he was taken with the knife open in his
hand, by Mr. Lanham and a constable. He took
about nine shillings font the till, and a pocket-book,
containing two five pound and three one pound
notes, all of which were luckily preserved through
the intrepidity of the young woman.
On Sunday evening last, one of ihe farm s, minis
at Kildonan, parish of Cohnouell, was preparing to
fodder saute rattle at a distance trout tiny house, and,
as is supposed, either when employed in rutting the
hay upon t',e stack, or pulling it dowa after being
cut, the hay overturned upon him, mid he was tivtual
buried touter it, without the smallest signs of
; about two luturs only having elapsed
between his departure tiomn the house and the time
he was timuil.
On Sunday night las', the Horsea preventive
boat seized 73 half ;takers: and on Wednesday
morning, the Yarmouth preventive boat seized 116
half ankers of fitreign Geneva. which have been
lodged in his Nlajesty s Excisri Office at Yarmouth.
There Las also been seized by Mr. Silver, the tide-
surveyor of that port, 116 half ankers, which have
been lodged at the Custom-House.

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AK IstrosTott.—Thurrilay, as Daniel Heron,
a constable of Southwark, was coming on the coach
from Guildfin-d, he saw a person in female attire
walking very confiisedly along the road side. The.
limbs of the supposed lady appeared so very clumsy
and unlike those of the fair sex, that Heron sus-
pected there was something wrong in the business,
and accordingly got off' the coach and fidlowed the
object of his suspicions some distance. At length
he took the liberty of looking under the bonnet,.and
immediately discovered an old acquaintiinee, with
rough beard and a pair of carrotty whiskers which he
attempted to hide under the ears of a large cottage
cap! After the first salutation had passed, }Thrum
asked him " what screen he' was thew upou4" to
which he answered, " that he was getting on queer—
ish—no business was to be done at all in this part." •
Heron searched him, but could find nothing,. and
having no charge against him, be let him ,gaeon
but he soon afterwards learned that he had palmed
quaelity of forged notes, through the country,
and had adopted his female garb to esespeithe more •
In the Court of:Chancery on Wednesday, ...rt the--
case of Bailey Bird, a lunatic residing in. Norwich,
the validity of whose maia'iagc is disputed by Mrs.
Ellis, his aunt, to whom property amounting to •
5001. per annum (now in possession of the lunatic's -
mother, who has to allor him C 001.) was to devolve
in the event of his having no issue, an application
was made fin confirmation of the Master's report, in
which lie-approved of the marriage, of which a child
has been the result, on the grounds that it was fin-
the comthrt of the lunatic that he should continue
in a state of matrimony, and that • there were no
funds belonging to hint sufficient to try the validity
of the marriage in Doctor's Commons. The Attor-
ney General opposed the application, urging in
proof of Bird's incapability to perhirin the duties of .•
a husband, that he did not even know he was mar- •
tied. Mr. Wetherell, in reply, read extracts of
letters to Bird from Ellis's daughter, in whiels. she •
requested him to wait fin- her. The Lord Chancel-
lor said it. was clew from the will et the lunatic's
father that he contemplated the probability of his
son's marriage, and his Lordship ordered, that the
case should stand over that the Court might know
whether Mrs. Ellis would pay the costs of n suit itt .
Doctor's Commons.

MELANCHOLY - EVENT.—On ThurstLy week, as -
James Siton, a respectable joiner in the parish of
Tyaron and his wife, were returning from Moffat,
where they had been on a visit to one of their thila.•
dren, they were overtaken by a violent storm of
.ow, when about a mile beyond the shepherd s.
house at Stidridge. This. on-tall was soou acme,
parried by a rapid and stupifying drift, and,. as they.
were now in the middle of a wish; and lonely moor, .
Mr. Siton bccame apprehensive of the consequences,
and seriously proposed turning back. His com-
panion, however, impatient. to reach home, and. -
believing that the storm would soon be ever, pre
ceeded a little farther on het-journey, when feeling
her strength begin to fail, she .:tt last consented to •
follow her husband's advice. She turned back •
accordingly, but ere they had proceeded many yards
her voice bezame weak and her steps unsteady.—
This circumstance did not escape the eye of her hus-
band, and while wrapping his plaid round her
shoulders, and desiring her to lean neon his arm for
support, he observ‘al that her countenance had. un-,
dergone a remarkable change. To his affectionate
request she was only able to answer, that she was no
longer able to stand. upright, and sinking to. the
earth she soon lay at his feet a lifeless corpse. lEe•
feelings of the husband at this moment we will nor
attempt to describe. Three times he started away
from the body of his wife, and as often returned,
tormenting himself with the thought that the stark
of life might not be totally extinct, and in his des-
pair almost resolving to share her fide. At last he
stuck his stair into the snow by the side of the
corpse. and with great difficulty that d his way Wei.
to the shepherd's housia the charitable inmates of
which, interpreting his looks rather than his words,
soon discovered w kat had happened. and numediately
set out for the parpose if recovering the body. The
storm still raged with consideralde fury, and they-
had nor proceeded far lid era; they observed a. hand
slowly raised above the ,now. on examination, .
del to the discovery ot' a new sufferer. who, in tra.
veiling between Locherben and MoPlet, hail been
overtaken by the trenicialuus stony, 1,,,a dashed to
the ground by the violence of the drift. This parson
was carried to Stidridge in. a state of ha en•ihility,
but by proper care has been restored to health nail
strength. A little titrther on, the party came to
Mr. Sinai's stag; which was now nearly buried in.
the snow, and widiena the aid of Mild). they could
not have discovered the body of his unfortunate.
wife. The deceased waathe mother often children,
all living ; and it is needless to add, that her un-
timely fate has excited u very lively sentiore-,a,
regret in the district where she resided.