The National Register.
London, England, 1819-04-18 00:00:00

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John Leadheater, of Sleetlivid, expired of this dread"
fill malady on Tuesday morning, after two clays of its-
describable and even unimaginable sufferings. There is
a secrecy shim, the access, the latency, the action, and
the issue of this destroyer, almost as impenetrable as the
realities of the invisible world, which we know to exist
without the possibility of apprehending their mode of
existence by any of our senses. The escapes limn its
visitation, outlet circumstances when there appears every
probability that the infection has been directly cos ttttt u-
nicated by the bite of a rabid animal, are us unaccount-
able as the exhibition of it in the system of those who
have no recollection that they could have been inocem
later( with the venom through any means beyond touch-
ing what may be touched with impunity by any body,
The latter was the case of the deceased. He had, at
the utmost, carelessly handled a dog, that died of what
is vulgarly called " the distemper," and through scarce
imperceptible puncture of the skin, the contagion entered
as quietly AS a ray of light falls upon the eye, and was
on :istingssished among the millions of momentary sen-
sations that form the links of that chain of conscious
existence, which is felt in the whole, while the parts are
too minute and evanescent to be detected and separated
by the most exquisite scrutiny. During the progress sof
his agonies, the deceasetl possessed perfect presence of
mind, and, except under the highest paroxysms of in-
voluntary exasperation, manifested the most gentle, con.
siderate and compliant disposition. Towards Isis wife he
seemed a tenderness most affecting to the beholders, and
indeed the horrors of his situation were softened beyond
any thing that they had ever heard of persons soagonized,
by the amiable and genera's feelings of an unsophisti-
cated heart, frequently bursting forth with passionate
expressions of gratitude, attachment, and good will. He
seemed to die by too rapid a combustion of life, as if the
flame that in the course of nature might have warmed
and cheered existence for forty years to come, had all
been condensed and expended its the space or two days;
' sensibility being so quickened that a drop of liquid was
as difficult to swallow as the ocean, and a breath of air
as terrible as a blast of the Simoom.

Letters from the Duke of Clarence give very un-
favourable accounts of the state of Hanover, as far
as relates to domestic comfort. House rent his
Royal Highness represents equally high as in Lon-
don ; and the expenses in food and raiment, in some
respects still greater. "Hanover," his Royal High-
ness adds, " is no longer the same Hanover it was
before the entre of the French troops." His Royal
Highness concludes by declaring, that nothing shall
prevent his return to Old England. _ .

Letters from Hanover, dated the ed instant
state, that the Infant Princess Charlotte Augusta
Loui a, was interred on the 29th ult. The body
was put into a coffin, covered with red velvet and
gold fringe, and at midnight was placed on a bier,
covered with black, where it lay in state. At one
the funeral took place ; four Court Trumpeters
placed the coffin on the bier. The chief Mourners
were Count Mayo, and the General of Artillery
Von Deiken, who represented their Royal High-
nesses the Dukes of Clarence and Cambridge. The
coffin was deposited in the church next to the Elec-
tor Ernest Augustus. The Court Chaplain, Sexto,
read the funeral service.

Friday the Royal Family, &e. received letters
from the Dukes of Clarence and Cambridge at Ila-
nover; the contents of them are very favourable.
The Duke of Clarence has recovered from his late
attack; the Duchess is gaining strength, and going
on very well towards recovery. The Duchess of Cam-
bridge and the young Prince arc going on well in
every respect. The letters are dated the Bth inst.

Letters front Malta, dated the 11th of March,
were received in town on Thursday, but they are
wholly silent concerning the hurricane said to have
happened there from the 7th to the 10th of the
month, and which was stated to have destroyed
property to the amount of 2,000,000/. sterling.
Some difficulty having been experienced at Madrid
and the principal cities in Spain in procuring salt
fish on occasions when solemn fasts are observed,
the Spanish Government, in order that an adequate
supply might be obtained in future, had reduced the
duty on this commodity, which was before very
high, to half of what it originally stood. The im-
portation at Cadiz and other ports has in conse-
quence been considerable.
Letters from Ballimorc, in Aincrica, state, that six
beautiful Devon betters, and a huh of till' same breed,
are just arrised there as a present from Mr. Coke, of
Norfolk,tn 'Mr. Patterson, wnose daughter ts as St) un-
fortunately united to Jerome Bonaparte.
The paragraph from Vienna in the last Hailiburgh
mail, relative to Prince Leopold, is, we understand, in
a very material respect erroneous. It is true that his
Royal Highness has purchased a 110 US.• in the neigh-
bourhood of that city for the sum of seven thousand
pounds sterling, hut nut for his own residence, as his
Highness reliantly returns to Erz,larid in the course of
next month. lie will reside at Claremont during the
summer, and at Nlarlburnoph-hoine, Pall-mall, in the
sinter. The house which his highness has purchased