The National Register.
London, England, 1811-07-14 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

THE KING.
The following was the Bulletin shown on Sunday
last at St. James's Palace :

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44 Windsor Castle, July 7, 1811.
" His MAJESTY IS in some respects a little better this week

The following is the of Report of his Majesty's health on
Saturday. the 6th inst. as presented to the Privy Council by the
Queen's Council:
44 WINDSOR, JULY 6.—We the underwritten, Members of
the Council appointed to assist her Majesty in the execution of
the trusts committed to her Majesty, by virtue of the statute,
passed in the .51st year of his Majesty's reign, intituled, " an Act
to provide for the Administration of the Royal Authority, and
for the care of his Majesty's Royal person, during the continu-
ance of his Majesty's ilness, and for the resumption of the ext r- •
case of the Royal Authority by his Majesty,' having duly met
together, on the 6th day of July, 1811, at the Queen's Lodge,
fear to Windsor Castle, and having called before us, and exa-
mined upon oath, the Physicians, and other persons attendant
upon his Majesty, and having ascertained the state of his Ma-
jesty's health by all such other ways and meads as appeared to
us to be necessary for that purpose, do hereby declare and cer-
tify, that the state of his Majesty's health,at the time of this our
fleeting, is not such as to enable his Majesty to resume the per-
sonal exercise of his Royal Functions.
" That his Majesty's bodily health is but little disordered.
• " That, in conseqrtence of an accession of mental disorder,
Subsequent to our report of the oth of April list, a change took
place in the system of management, which had been previously
adopted for his Majesty's cure. His Majesty's mentathealth is
' represented to us, by all the Physicians, as certainly improved
since the 6th of April. We are unable, however, to ascertain
. what would be the effects of an immediate recurrence to any
system of management, which should admit of as free an ap-
proach to Ilia Majesty's presence, as was allowed in a former
period of his Majesty's indisposition.
Some of his Majesty's Physicians do not entertain hopes of
his Majesty's recovery quite so confident as those which they
had expressed on the Oth of April. I'he persuasions of others of
his IVlajesty's Physiciant that his Majesty will completely re-
toyer, is not ditriinished—and they all appear to agree, that
there is a considerable probability-of his Majesty's final reco-
very; and that neither. his Majesty's bodily health, nor his
resent symptorns, nbr the. effect which the disease has yet pro-
" uced upon his Majesty's faculties, afford any reason for think-
' ' that his Majesty will not ultimately recovery.
resent
. (Signed) is CANTAUR.
46 E: Emu
44 Ethort. " MONTROSE.
• " ELLENROROUGH " WINCHRI.SEA.
"W. GRAN r. " AT LESIPORD.
(A true Copy) " CUETWY ND."
•, Irnmediately after the Report was made, his Majesty had a
fresh access of paroxysms, and from that time, the indulgence
which had been allowed his Majesty of walking on the Ter-
race, has, been withheld.
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Mr. Howe, a gentleman pedestrian of eonsiderAle note
started from Oxford-street en !slonday, to go to Bristol and re-
turn in 40 hours, with two resting houra allowed, but was os..
liged to resign at three o'clock on Wednesday on this side Read-
ing. vets, much distressed.
DUEL.--Tuesday last a duel was fought in a shrubbery, near
Esher, between Lieutenant Jarden and Air. Coleshill, a 'Volun-
teer Officer, in consequence of a dispute at a public place,
where the Lieutenant was said to have behaved rather too freely
to Mr. C.'s sister ; when the Lieutenant was badly wounded is
the thigh at the first tire.
Monday evening, Mr. Samuel Foot, Attorney, of Salisbury,
met With a singular and very dreadful accident :—Examining
some phials which had been set by with chemical preparations,
he was induced to unscrew the glass stopper of one of them,
filled with a white powder: the instant he had effected his pur-
pose, the powder exploded with wonderful force ; the phial was
blown to atoms, his left hand torn in strips, the huger nails and
bones being afterwards found quite bare, and he was obliged to
undergo amputation at the wrist; his right hand was much shat-
tered, and the right thumb obliged to be amputated above the
first joint ; his coat, waistcoat, and shirt were torn away in
front, and he was very severely wounded in the belly, where
it is apprehended some of the pnlverized glass has lodged ; his
eves and face were greatly injured, and it appears he must have
been instantly kills d, had lie _not been near the mantle-shelf,
with his head inclined over it, in the under part of which shelf
some of the bones were found. Mr. Foot sustained this severe
injury, and has undergone the subsequent operations with won-
derful fortitude, which has materially contributed to his present
favourable symptoms: he remains free from fever, so that there
are hopes of his recovery, and also that his eye-sight will be
preservi d. -
A few weeks since, in ploughing up a field at Whhington,
six miles from Cliche-1111am, and two from Frogntill, the pro-
perty of H. F. Brooke, rsq. a most beautiful tesselated pave-
ment, more perfect than any hitherto found, was discovered.
Mr. B. immediately made known the important discovery to
Mr. Lysons and other gentlemen conversant in this branch of
antiquity, who are rives employed in collecting and examining
these fine remains. '1 lie scite (f a villa, 150 feet in length, has
been most accurately ascertained : seven difkrent rooms have
been clearly traced, and the pavements are enriched with draw-
ings, in the highest state of preservation, of Neptune, Orpheus,
animals, birds, fishes, &c. An hippocaust, or sweating-rootn,
with its flues, and several pillars of confiderabit magnitude,
are to he seen. Whatever part of this interesting scene can be
removed with safety, has been presented by Mr. Brooke to the
Museum.
A CASE or REAL Dirritzss.—A Gentleman, who was in a
respectable banking and mercantile line, from which he was
lately reduced by unavoidable misfortunes, with a wife and
eleven children, bad been endeavouring by his industry to sup-
port them, when he was seized with a severe illness which ren-
dered him unable to follow his employment. To maintain his
family in this cilaress, he was obliged to dispose of almost every
article they were possessed of; and his wife, who is near being
confined of her twelfth child, is destitute of the necessaries
which her situation requires—withoer even bed or linen, except
what has been borrowed, and the rest of the family are in a si-
milar state of distress. To alleviate this mi,ery the present ap-
plication is made to the generous and humane, from whom sub-
scriptions will be received by the following persons, who will
give every information respecting the truth of the above state-
ment:—Mr. Ross, 8, Lombard-street; Mr. Paterson," Lud-
gate-street ; Mr. Dick, Bookseller, 9.4, Holywell-street ; and Mr.
Ogle, rook.seller, 295, Holborn..
VAUXHALL.—TheProprietors of this rural retirement, seem
so grateful fur their extensive patronage, as to he exercising
their , ncy to produce something novel in each successive week.
Not content with the abundant terrestrial beauties of their
gardens, and the celestial beauties who trip lightly through their
mazy bowers, they are now invoking the naiads to join the
nymphs, and by a superb aquatic display, to give every jovial
soul, a chance of being in his element !—Among the company on
Friday evening, we noticed the Duke and Duchess of York, the
Dukes of Kent, Cumberland, Cambridge, and Gloucester, &e.
Saturday se'nnight, a pour man, agent to a Welch cattle•
dealer, returning home from Tewkesbury, lost his pocket-book,
containing Bank-notes to the amount of 2641. between rushleye
green and the Holly-bush, on the Ledbury-road, which was
picked up by a pedlar and his wife immediately afterwards.
On his returning to seek after it, finding the pedlar, he
conveyed him to Tewkesbury, where he and his wife were
searched, but as no traces of the property were found upon
them, and they persisted in knowing nothing of it, they were
liberated; but a person, where they lodged the following night,
overheard them in bed, planning how they should dispose of the
money, and had them apprehended in the morning, when the
whole sum was found sewed up in the lining of the
tap, and was afterwards restored to the owner.