The National Register.
London, England, 1820-03-06 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

DEATH or A WOLF.—A wolf, which. we un-
derstand, was sonic time since sent by her Royal
Highness the Duchess of York to the in.m.igerie at
Exeter 'Lliange, and was, on account of illness,
confined in the hospin al of the establishment, con-
trived by some menus a few days ago to escape from
his confinement, and with a long chain fastened to
his neck by a collar, succeeded in mounting on the '1
roof of his prison. The wolf finding himself at
liberty, passed along the mils of two houses, and
through an open sky light entered the house of Mr.
Day, trunk-maker, in the Strand. In the roc) 0
he entered several men were at work, who, sur-
prised and terrified at a vi,4 so unceremonious, HA
rapidly, and closed the door of the apartment.
The unfortunate animal then posited his way
through a window of the Chiral floor, and lodged
himself' upon Mr. Day's sign-baard, which is on
level with the window-stool. There observing an
Open window of the fhurth floor of an adjor
house, he made a spring to reach it, but his chain
had in some manner become entangled, and the
poor creature failing in his object, tell with violence
into the street. The blood flowed from his mouth,
and after a few gasps the poor wolf' perished. We
have long won:iered that the inhabitants of the
Strand have not indicted the proprietor of Exeter
Change for a great and dangerous nuisance, which
we think might remove the collection ot wiod
beasts to a situation more proper, and less liable
to total accidents

Snip LAUNCH.—Thursiay, the Hawke, a new
third-rate, was launched front the Duck-yard at
Woolwicii Booths were erected on each side of the
ship, which were fluted with genteel company:—
The Hawke is considered a very b.:autiftil ship. The
figure-head is a representation, larger tha► life, of
the gallant Admiral whose name it is intended to
commemorate, in the act of drawing his sword k 0...
its scabbard. Her burden is 1,738 tons; she is to
carry 78 guns, and 500 men.
A GREAT PERFORMANCE —A young farmer near
Farnham, undertistk on Monday, to go on thin 100
miles in 24 hours thr a wager of 1::0 guineas only.
—His ground was a branch of live miles ont of the
Andover-road. He did 40 miles in three hours
and a quarter hethre be halted. and the 50 miles was
clone in 10 hours and a half, when the pedestrian
ate heartily, and started again, having :3 hours to
do the other 50 milts in. He did the next 25
miles in three hours and fifty minutes, and had
more than two luaus to do the last mile in, when
he telt a little lame in the knee, which increased ;
but he won by four minutes.
01,1 tlatilt;.; J.l 1111/1 at CSCJIte was medi:atd by
tlr first clas klouus confined in Stati;ird gaol, and was
to have been carried into effect out Monday se'ttinglit ;
II Illtchl have been attended %%WI bloodshed tint tor the
promptness with which it ajS checked. The Ilan, in
appeArS, was to belhe the turnkeys in the act of unlock-
InA the first cell door, take the keys, aid force their wa%
out by uuiu Stfell4lll and numbers (to the amount 41(
3•1; to Ncditate which they had wrenched the trout
hullusirades or the staircase, so as to he taken 1,111
tout. -
ii Alll.lColleefled into dangerous weapons; Inn 11
was timely dkro‘ered, and the a tittle class confined to
their cells. Upon umestiu.tation, it aviwass lit Ilene Origl-
n • :rd whit 3I tutu half a dozen desperate characters win,
toe lintels.

Most of the Elections for Boroughs near Town
will come on upon Tuesday next. County Elec-
tions must necessarily be later. On the whole,
however, there will be fewer emtests than ever were
known, ti,r the notoriously corrupt Boroughs cannot
find Candidates.

The bellman at Hull has publicly announced in
the Market-place, and other populous parts of that
port, that a third gentleman is wonted as a candidate.
What will the University of Oxtiird say to the
grave Sir William Scott becoming the catspaw of
Noble Marquess, to stand as mere Locum Tenens
for a boy under age, and deliver over a seat in the
1% cstern City (if he should obtain it) when called
on ?

Sir I;ranei, fiturtlett has published an Address to the
Elcetnrs 11t \l estnittiat,r. iu rintsAtittence of the dis-
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It is in contemplation to erect a matisoltion on
the island of I lean, to the memory oldie late King.
...Gutrusty Paper.

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BOXING. _
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A pitched battle for 2o gin [teas a side, was fought at
1,•:. 0 chick on Thursday itio z, in a meadow belong.
•,,., to Cam on 5.4411, 011 11, N10"11,1oil estate, neat
Cuffo-Ils, Bucks. 'Die emit ltat.lllls were Julio Aosky,
i sawyer, of iii stoite, truni Niavely, Oxon, (who had
gin a nowt •ts ',venn_ j titan who v.iws about lac coon.
try teaching hosing, riling nim.elt the Game Coicken)
•,1 Burke. a nes iv.rito, of dp.al werzlit and ll'Ulliall
The men rtilcrcil a ring ill 20 led totaled n tilt hurdles
111 s-U 'tided, at hall-oast little, and a 'nobly fight of
i..• rounds in 47 iiiiiii.ii s •..olic wed.
In the first round the roinba:ant• went fiercely to work,
not for wont of mea.orement fluty threw min, blows
away; !hoer however a Itirli told, I •I'l nit impression. and
In-fore they had been at work t ininnies, toe) were
49 covered with eiarrt that they were only knowo apart
by yellow hr. eches and Week enerclies. Tile luis were
round and awkward, and after bitting verb irliwe away
•Ptrrill limit..., Apsley was meanly ail/144'd by 4 blues 013
the lett eel. The rotor' tested I I iniontes.
2. ev.•re and titles iiiinutt 1141111. gto the a 'ventage of
A ficey, who flattened the b. idge iot Ii• aiivuosaiy's noes
moil atoll troth ibe chid. N• 4 1411Ise would frau' a ',elm
This ilia sun slop Burke, who fought away 'l obey
closed, nod in a wrestle Apaley was thrown, and all foot
peu.nei s. ere damaged.
A doom yam,. *nu 4 huge atoff !let, entered the ring
to stop the tight, by order in' a iteiglilonniiligjmiice, who
could not attend ber.inse he haul the gout. The in4ei
willed a paper oat of hs poeket, ell I said he shoo,' read
the Riot :to, whirls caused great Ind diluent, and that was
the only troller he was taken of. and lie eat himself doWll
4114 saw ,he tuber part of the fight.
3, The iiirii had got 'hell' %%414 gain doting the hustle.
and a good e I %Va. Anti:lll, %Intel' ter 11l ill aird by Burke
being 11 rd 1., a hit on tier shill..
4. A slashing I iiiii ill, rether iii favour of Burke, who
had ratites nto,t do.tight. fleasy round WOWS were lea.
CI1411:!i•.1, 411,1 Awley *4,111r0‘411 4 heavy cross buttock.
5. Apsles seemed sttongest, yet he was hail inott from
the fill. ile hail the best of the first pert or io a lung
round. After Imlay blows weir each/limed, tt.e a vasing
%vitro' was turd iii 4 close, but neither bring awake to it,
they separated end tinned to hitting again, »i 14.11 Apelry
rerriWe.l a blow on the temple, which in a niiiiiile left
him wilhoot agh iiiiii el 0,1 sight. lle cracked a rib of his
antagoilist in reitoill, and lie was ['flown iii a close, abaci
:tote shod y to Bitt ke.
Both melt wet e led otr the ,round very ill.
The match between Martin and the Bristol Cab-
hap: was made on Tuesday evening at I. ribbs, after
the Sparring, to tight in three weeks. Sixty gui-
neas each are deposited in Cribb's hands.
Robert Burn is matched to tight (liver for 800
guineas aside, on the 20th of April. Five guineas
aside are deposited.

Earl Talbot has made very considerable improve-
ments by draining the Meals Park, near Dublin.
Whilst lately directing the work, Lord Norbury,
taking his ride, cone up. Lord Talbot observed,
" I wonder, my Lord, none of my predecessors ever
thought of draining the Park."—" Oh ! your Ex-
cellency," replied Lord Norburv, " they were
better employed—they were draining the nation !"
There have been several erroneous accounts pub-
lished respecting Arthur Thistlewood. His father
was a respectable Surveyor and Civil Engineer in
Lincolnshire, where his brother is a Gentleman of
considerable property and consequence. Thistlewood
himself' served his time to an apothecary in Newark
upon Trent. He afterwards had a Commission in
the Militia, and was quartered a considerable time
in Lincolnshire. He married a Lady who had a
tiirtotie of '20,0001. the greater part of which he
lost at play After her death there appears a chasm
in his history. He was married a second time to
another amiable I.udy, the daughter of a respectable
grazier and butcher at Horneastle, who had some
property It is said his &tiler in-law, in conjunc-
tion with other ftiends, offered to provide tor him
if he would abandon his radical connections altoge-
ther; but this he declined, and his present situation
has been the consequent. e of not listening to their
advice_

MELANCHOLY AcclnENT—On Sunday se'nniglit
as the pupil,. of the Rev. J. Warntisrd, of Nliekle-
ham, near Dorking, surrey, were amusing them-
selves with the various sports of the play ground,
an arrow, neither 'silted nor barb..xl, was playfully
aimed at a lad named Muscly (only son of a gentle-
man of that name, residing at Leatherlicad) and
struck him below the knee ; he was observed to look
very ill, and was carried into the house, when it
appeatA that t nerve had beets injured, by which a
lockad. jaw was almost instaistly prishiced, and, not-
withstanding the most eminent medical assistance,
he expired in less than '24 hours.
On I uesday last, a man named Jefli•rson, while
employ tit in cleaning out a ditch, at Rh kerby,
found ten pikes, %%rapped in an old aproin, d in
the earth ; when and wby concealed tlik,•,%:, intiht be
left to conject u re.
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Postscrtpt.

LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 6.
Three o'Clock, p. m.

The intelligence received from the West of Ire-
land is very alarming. The Ribbon-men, we are
concerned to find, arc ina;sing rapid progress and
are in open insurrection in Connaught. An im-
mense number of ignorant individuals have bound
themselves by a horrible oath to support each oth"r
in obtaining a redress of what they consider local
grievances, but which are entirely unconnected with
politics. There are some misehievous and artful
men at the head of the insurgents, who have had
the temerity to oppose the King s troops, and blood
has been shed. The insurgents are in force, and on
Sunday sennight they attempted to rnetrate in
three columns, of 500 men each, into the Barony
of Clournorris ; but they were in..l at every point
by the military, and driven back with the loss of
two killed on the spot and one wounded. The hit-
ter a wealthy farmer. l'he object of the Ribbn-
men is to penetrate into the neighbouring counties,
to swear the peasantry, and obtain an accession of
numbers. Their vengeance in a great measure is
directed against the Magistrates and the Police. In
a conflict with the latter at Ahaserah, in the county
of Galway, they have been too successful, for the
Guard of the Dublin Mail-coach states, that he
saw the dead bodies of eight or nine of the Police
Officers lying on the road-side.

Yesterday the Paris Papers from the 27th ult. to.
thy' 2tl instant, inclusive, ;mica. They are to.
tally barren of intelligence. There is a rumour
in a Paris Paper of the 29t1, ult. that the Emperor
of Itu,sia had received a wound from an assassin..

There is much talk in Germany of a curious cir-
.cumstance which occurred a short time sine' at
B Thu. During the kst Carnival, when ain isque
hall w•is given at the Theatre, Jinr men were ob-
served to enter in mourning, bearing a coffin This
romtinti, masquerade exhibition made at strong im-
pression for some time on the eninp my, but it passed
off as a dull joke. The thur men having deposited
the coffi.t in a corner, muted among the crowd of
charactet, and disappe.:red. Th-s nest morning the
lx,it or coffin appeared to be covered ith black cloth,
and on opening it they found an image modelled
in wax, strongly resembling an ang,ust personage
dear to Prussia —This figure was pierced with
several stabs of a poignarl A bloody 11/24-ger was
laid in the coffin. They have not yet discovered
the authors of this frightful joke.