The National Register.
London, England, 1817-09-15 00:00:00

beloved da.m:liter,
whom she survived only three months.
She died the It)th of February, 15.11,
Aged 31 years.

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It is well known that his Majesty's present malady
originated from the loss of his flivourite daughter, the
Princess Amelia. Many anecdotes have, at different
times, appeared of what the King has said or done
daring lucid intervals, most of which probably rest on
110 good authority. There is one, however, of an inter-
esting nature, which being indisputably autlienti, we
have much pleasure in recording. In the cloisters of
St. George's Chapel. Windsor, there is a tablet, which
was erected by his Majesty's command, about four
months after the commencement of his illness; at a
time when the weekly bulletin of the Physicians was,
" His Majesty proceeds favourably in his recovery "
The Inscription placed on the tablet by the King's
direction, is as follows :
KING GEORGE the THIRD
caused to be interred near this place
the body of
MARL- GAS.COMN,
Servant to the late Puts( ESS AMELIA,
and this Tablet to In erected
la testimony of his grateful sense of the faithful services and
attachment of an amiable young woman to his

FORTENATE Discos Env.—On Monday, as M. Dias, of
the Rent Recovery Office, Londonataill. near Calt-man-street,
was removing the goods of Nlrs.J. Butler, ;4 widow, under
thstrain fur rent,fruniQueett-st reel, w ark, lie discovered
in an old bureau a secret drawer, containing Ital. in Bank-
notes, some memorandums, and a will of her late haSbaod,
who ;lied in June, upa.
An investigation is going on at Brighton of some gambling trans-
stations th:re, which excites considerable interest. It appears, that a
finn, whose names are O'Mara, Pollen, Morley, and ('lake, lately
engaged a man. named Wright, to act as a punter ton table called
APoir, WeCe, tont IF dear: the table was first carried to the back
room of Donaldson's Library, where it continued tbr th or Mar
(lays, when Donaldson disclairged it from his premises. It met the
same fate at a house in Broad-street, from whence the table was
carried to a room over Walker's library, where a rent teas paid of
twelve guinea:: per week. litre a gentleman lost 1251. be was
thought a valuable pigeon, :ant in consequence u plan was laid to
made him drank, and pluck Min by means of a false gable; unfor-
tunately for their designs, ‘Vright, the punter, Ilad, in tlt, meantime,
tic-painted the gentleman with their nefarious intention, v ho thereby
avoided the snare, and heft the room at the moment the firm thought
he was completely in their power. If %)'right's testimony is to be re-
lied on. Walker, the librarian, was in the secret I he desi,ed the door
to be bolted, that all should be private ; and on the gent eman com-
plaining he had been cheated of his 1251. he proposed on behalf of
the firm, to allow him looL The affair stands for re- nvestigation
but the evidence already disclosed has thrown 'a eh is light
on the systan of gprabling, that the Magistrates of 0 e town have
pat a stop to the Coburg and Loo 'fables at the variot:s public esta-
blishments.
FORTUNATE SUPERSTITION.—Captain 'Stout, ef the Ameri-
can ship Her cales, which was ran on shore on the coast of
Catfraria, 1796, as the only means of saving the lives of the
crew, gives the following account of the super: titian of the
Lascars At a period when the tempest raged with the ut
most violence, the Captain directed most of the crew below,
particularly the Lascars, to work the ptimpa. One of them,
howea era was perceived combat up the gant;wac,w ith a liana.
ket chief io his hand ; and, on twine qaestioneti what lie was
about, he answered in a tune of voice that disr overed a per-
feel cordidence in the 111(15%11C that lie propos. d, that he was
gOilig to make an utieiing to his 'flits -handkerchief-
(sa id lie) contains ii certain qualaity of rice, and all the rii.
pees I am worth ; suffer me to attempt to lash it to the mizell
top, and rely uvula it, air, it' 1 succeed, we shall all be pre-
served.'—'llic Captain was going to order hint hack again to
the pumps; but recollecting that by doing so he might throw
bath Mai and his err nrtrymeu into a state of despoudency, and
thereby Inso the benefit of their caertians, he acquiesced:—
The Lascar thanked and he soon beheld the child of pre-
judice mount the tat tei slit ends without the least uppre.
heitsion. He soon lashed the handket eltiet to the mizen aola
mast head, fearless of all (hanger, and arrived in safety on the
fleck, confident now, that WM God vv as the Captain's friend ;
he went below to inform his brethren that he hail dune his
duty. All the Lascars seemed transported with joy, embraced
their vit Nous c ontranion, and then laboured at the pump
wi :It increased alacrity and perseverance, as if they had en
countered before neither apprehension or fatigue.—'l'o their
unceasing labour was owing, is a great measure, the preser-

eation of the people."
Mr nu ER.—Mr. John Wakefield of orthn ids in Cheshire, a per-
ssn of great re..peetability, and carrying on the business of Salt lho-
p-ietor, he. been charged with the wriful murder of Richard iSlad-
aorks, a flatinen, employed on the canal in that neighbourhood,
on Monday evening last. A woman servant, living in the house of
air.Waketield was acquainted with the tleyeased; and as Mr. W. ad
frequent occasions to leave home, he uniformly disenvered on his
return that a cansiderableredewtiou had taken/since in the contents of
his ale cellar, and his lartler.-1 lis siispioion teal on this female ; end
on Monday hying Northwhich Wake, she took the cmiortunity
with her friends, of availing herself of the foitivities of the itty.--
In the cycling, Mr. Wakefield finding that she had not returned,
wmt tn look for her, and soon &mud them both, loite;ing about the
remises, alt'aitt,ll he had fietpiently insisted on Maddoelui diseam.
diming his vi•ils. Mr. Waketwl.l old bins to go about his business.
and; in the end a <cede en mid, in which Maticlocks was knocked
down. 11- tup and ran away. Mr. W. who had got a sword-
stick from the house, weedily followed hint ant: overtook him, and in
thr re' -'"ages drawing the fatal swat on fro:il its sheath, he passed it
throu;,ll the hotly of Maddiledcs aho ran :.n..-!;e distance bethre he
fell. Allow twelve o'clock, Ole deceased was Mond, some fifty
or Liaty var;!.: f the place where he had received his wound ;he
wa. net Glad, but in a fi.wmoinents he breathed his last The lumen-
terh occurrence, even at that lste hour, soon becarnegenendly k. own
nettlierom bodv of Rumen collected, threatening a dreaded:
vengeance. Mr. Wakefield barricadoed tile lower putt of -his house,
selzul a doul k -barrelled gun, and stood on the defensive. The po-
liC officers' however arneang, Mr. Woks field quietly surrendered
him-elf. A Coroner's inquest was held on Tuesday when a
verdict was found of—Wilful Murder, and on Wednesday n:orning
the wretched man was lodged ill Chester county gaol, charged with
the offence. On examinin,.• the body of aladdocks.n wastowertained,
tit-:t the dit: had pi; reed his heart—another wound was 'lkon end,
aka mortal. Madelocks, was a goo,: looking man, ai.;cti about 21
Lora Whitworth is preparing to return to England.
The greater put of his baggage was last week con-
veyed to the Custom House in Hublin.—llis Execl-
1,...r.5y, as a proof or. his desire to encourage the trade
0' 'near:!, takes with hint two or three thousan 1
r44.4u.1s worth cf 140.