The National Register.
London, England, 1820-03-05 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

DEATH or A WOLF:.—A wolf, which. we un.
derstand, was scone lilac since sent by her Royal
Highness the Duehe.is of York to the menagerie at
Exeter 'Change, and was, on account of illness,
confined in the hospital of the establishment, con-
trived by some means 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
roof of his prison. The wolf finding himself at
liberty, passed along► the roofs of two houses, and
through an open sky-light entered the house of Mr.
Day, trunk-maker, in the Strand. In the rown
he entered several men were at work, who, sur-
prised and terrified at a visit so unceremonious, fled
rapidly, and closed the door of the apartment.
The unfortunate animal then pushed his way
through a window of the fourth floor, and lodged
himself upon Mr. Day's sign-board, which is on a
level with the window-stool. There observing an
open window of the fourth floor of an adjoining
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, fell with violence
into the street. The blood flowed from his mouth,
and after a few gasps the poor wolf perished. We
have long wondered that the inhabitants of the
Strand have not indicted the proprietor of Exeter
Change fur a great and dangerous nuisance, which
we think might remove the collection ot wild
beasts to a situation more proper, and less liable
to fatal accidents.

SUIP LAUNClL—Thursday, the Hawke, a new
third-rate, mts launched from the Dick-yard at
Woolwich. Booths were erected on each side of the
ship, which were filled with genteel company.—
The Hawke is considered a very beautiful ship. The
figure-head is u representation, larger than life, of
the gallant Admiral whose name it is intended to
commemorate, in the act of drawing his sword from
its scabbard. licr burden is 1,738 tons; she is to
carry 78 guns, and 500 men.
Sunday night last about half-past seven o'clock, un
alarming fire broke out at a private house, at the
corner of liast-lane, Rotherhithe. The flames were
first discovered bursting out of the garret windows,
and seemed for sonic time checked. At eight o'clock
they increased, and the fire beginning to spread
occasioned great consternation in the neighbour
hood, and communicated to the shipping that lay
close to the river side. Engines soon arrived from
all quarters, but in spite of their efforts it is feated
much' damage was done. A great number of pick-
pockets, and other thieves, particularly from the
Borough, soon repaired to the scene of desolation
hustling and robbing every decent peeson that un-
fortunately came in their way.

A (MEAT PERFORMANCE.•—A young farmer near
Farnham, undertook on Monday, to go on foot 100
miles in :24 hours, for a wager of :20 guineas only.
—His ground was a branch of live miles out of the
Andover-road. He slid 20 miles in three hours
and a quarter before he halted, and the 50 miles was
done in 10 hours and a half, when the pedestrian
ate heartily, and started again, having 13 hours to
do the other 50 miles in. He did the next 25
miles in three hours and fifty minutes, and had
more than two !lotus to do the last mile in, when
he felt a little lame in the knee, which increased ;
but he won by tbur minutes.
A most ilarnt.t attempt et escape was meditated by
the first class of felons confined in Staff rd gaol, and was
to have been carried into effect on touch) ;
It might have been attended with bloodshu d bait hat- the
promptness with which it was checked. 'Else plait, it
appears, was I's seiae the turnkeys in the act of unlock-
intz the first cell,door, take the keys, and farce their way
out by main strength and numbers (to the rmo uu t of
JO; to facilitate which they Ilan is reached the iron
ballustrades of the staircase, so as in oe taken out Mime-
Mately, and converted into dangerous weepons; but it
was timely discovered, and the Mole class etinfined to
their cells. Ulan' ins estigation, it appears to have origi-
n ited with shout half a dozen desperate characters who
haul instigated Inc

Hunt's apparatus fe: manufacturing his Radical
Breakfast Powder hu.s been seized at his manufac-
tory, near Chrisitehureh, on the Surrey side of
Blacktiiar's Bridge, by tho officers of the Excise.—
The powder is made by roasting rye in the manner
of 41)11:v, and then grinding it in a mill. lie intends
trying the question at law with the Board Of
Nlost 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 he fewer contests than ever were
known, for the notoriously corrupt Boroughs cannot
find ( 'amlidates.

The bellman at I Tull has publicly announeA in
the Market place, and other populous parts of that
port, that a third gentleman is wonted as a candidate.
What w►ll the University of ()Aim! say to the
grave Sir William Scutt becoming the catspaw of a
Noble Marquess, to stand as mere Locum TenCPIS
ti►t a boy Itao age, and deliver over a seat in the
IVcstern City (if he should obtain it) whcrt. caked
on?

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BOXLVG.
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A pitched battle for 20 guineas a side, was fought at
tell o'clock on Thursday morning., in a nieatiotv belong.
nig to Captain Swan, on the Mo-iidon estate, near
Clamlls, Bucks. The combat-tots were John Apsley,
J sawyer, of 16 stone, from Stavely, Oxon, (who had
gni a Dante by beating a man who goes about the coun•
try teaching boxing, calling himself the Game Chicken)
and Burke, a navigator, of equal weight and strength
The men entered a ring of 20 feet formed with hurdles
hay-banded, at hall-past nine, and a manly fight of
fire rounds in 47 iniiiiites followed.
In the first round the combatants went fieicely to work,
bat for want of measiirement they threw many blows
away; those however which told, left an impressi ttttt and
halite they had been at work three 'ninnies, they were
so covered with claret that they were only know.' apart
by yellow breeches and black breeches. 'the hits were
round and awkward, and lifter bitting each other away
several limes, Ansley WAS cleanly dropped by a blow on
the lett ear. The round lasted II minutes.
2. ?severe and determined figliiiire, to the advantage o(
Apsley, who flattened the h taro. of lii• adseiv.l, 's
nose
and sent forth the claret, as a imire wunlil from a vein.
This did not slop Burke, who finight away until they
closed, and in ii Wrestle Apiary ear 11110V/11, and all tour
peepers were damaged.
A I.ol4tllrylltatt Wllll a huge staff here entered the ring
to stop the fight, by order of a neighboliiing J ustice, who
could not :mewl because he had the gout. The man
willed a paper wit of his pocket, au I said he should read
the Riot Act, which calmed great merriment, and that was .
the only notice he was taken of. and lie sal himself down
anti saw the other part of the tight.
3. The men had Aot their wind again during the hustle,
and a good r I was folight, which terminated by Burko
being &melt In- if hit putt the side.
4: A slashing round, rather in favour of Burke, who
had rather ielo,t day-light. Heavy round blows were or.
chanced, dll.l Apsley was thrown a heavy CritsA•blitlitek.
5. Apsley seemed slimmest, yet lie was halt' bent from
the fall. Ile had the best of the first part of ih,s long
lanitill. Atter many blows were exchanged, the weaving
asstem was tried in a close, but 'wither be: awake to it,
they separated and tinned to Inning again, us lien Apsley
received a blow on the temple, which in a minute lett
him without a glimmer of sight. lie cracked a rib of his
antagonist in retain, and lie was thrown in a close, which
gave victory to Burke.
Roth men were led oIT the s;round very ill.
The match between Martin and the Bristol Cali.
babe was made on Tuesday evening at L.ribbs, after
the Sparring, to light in three weeks. Sixty pi?.
netts each are deposited in Cribb's hands.
Robert Burn is matched to fight Oliver for 800
guineas aside, on the 20th of April. Five guineas
aside are deposited.

Thistle'ootl continues in good health. and ap-
parently cheerful. He eats heartily, and converses
freely with his keepers on indifferent subjects. lie
is quite reserved, however, on the subject of the
clinics with which he is charged, except that he
continually asserts that he shall prove an alibi by
numerous witnesses. Ile asserts that the woman at
whose house he was seized, knew nothing of hint
whatever, and had never seen hie. but the day be-
fore, when he took the lodging.
Earl Talbot has made very coasideruble improve-
me•tts by draining the Pluenix Park, near Dublin.
Whilst lately directing the work, Lord Norbury,
taking his ride, came up. Lord Talbot observed,
" I wonder, my Lord, none of my predecessors ever
thought of draining the Park."--" Uh ! your Ex-
cellency," replied Lord Norbury, " they were
better employed—they wev,itraining the nation !"
There have been scveral'arroneous accounts pub-
lished respecting Arthur liListlewood. 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 n an apothecary in Newark
upon Trent. lie afterwards had a Commission in
the Militia, and was quartered a cansiderab;e time
in Lincolnshire. He married a Lady who had a
fortune of 20,0001. the greater part of which he
lost at play. After her death there appears a k llama
in his history. He was inn rsied a second time to
another amiable Ludy, the daughter of a respectable
grazier and butcher at Horneastle, who had sonic
property It is said his hither in-law, in conjunc-
tion with other friends, offered to provide for hint
if he would abandon his radical connections altoge-
ther ; but this he declined, and his present situation
has been the consequen,e of tat listeniN to their
advice.

M CLANCHOLY Accurevr —Oa :Sunday
as the pupils of the 'Lev. .1. Warntiard, of
ham, near Dorking, Surrey, were amo,ing them.
selves with the various sports of the play-ground,
au arrow, neitlter bolted nor barbed, was playfully
aimed at a lad nanasi Nlosely (only sou of a gentle-
man of that name,. residing at Leatherlicad) and
struck hint below the knee ; he was observed to look
eery ill, and was carried into the house, when it
appeared that a nerve had been injured, by which a
lockadjaw was almost instantly produced, anal, not.
withstanding the most eminent medial assistance,
be expired in less than hours.
On a uesday last, a man named .lofferson„ while
employed in cleaning out a ditch, at Rickerby,
lound ten pikes, wrapped in an old apron, buried in
the cavern ; when and wby concealed there, must
led to omjecture.

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INSOLVENT DEUTORS.-.—We unJerstand, that
owing to an inadvertency in the wording of the late
Act of Parliament, intended to give continuance,
during the dissolution, to all expiring Acts, the Act
for the Belief of Insolvent DAtors cannot be ad-
ministered during the recces, as was expressly in-
tended by Parliament. The word. of the new Act
passed a clay or two bane the dissolution, to keep
alive other Acts until the new Parliament shall as-
semble, are as follow—" That all the Laws now in
force, and which would expire at the end of this
Session of Parliament, or on or before the fist day
of June, 1820, shall be, and continue in full force
to all in! ..ntsand purposes, until the `3sth day of
June, 1820.." Now untiortunately thr the poor
Insolvent DAWN who are confined in the gaols
throughout the kingdom, the last Act passed by
the Legislature for their relief expired on the 22d of
February last. Its tempornry revival cannot,
therethre, be comprehended in the words of the
other Act to which we have alluded. Mr. Reynolds,
the King's Counsel, who acted as the Com-
missioner under the late Act, has had repeated
interviews with Lonl Sidmouth within the last day
or two upon the subject ; it is said nothing has been
decided on in behalf' of the poor debtors. But the
general opinion is, that the inaccuracy in the word-
ing of the last Act, is conclusive against the opening
of the Insolvent Debtors' Court until the new Par.
liatrrent meets, and makes a fresh provision for the
administration of this branch of the law.

It is in contemplation to erect a matisolnem ou
the island of Herm, to the memory of the late King.
liticrnseu raper.
Sir N. C-onant has retired from the bead of the
police of the metropolis, on account of his advanced
iv, being nearly 80 years old, and is succeeded
by Mr. Baker, front the Marlborough Street office
It is not, as far as we know, decided who is to be
Mr. Baker's substitute at Marlborough Street.
GLASGOW, Urn. 23.—Last night a large party of
the Radical Reformers, which met in a tavern in
the Galliwgate, were apprehended, by a warrant
of the Sheriff of the County, and committed to
the jail of this city ; Vi in all were seized, consist-
ing of delegates from various ;daces in the city and
suburbs, as also from different towns and villages
the neighbouring counties. Thy examinations
arc now going on at the Court-Row, before tbl
Sheriff. The appearance of the military, and the
seizure of such a number of individuals, collected
a considerable ctowd. The shopkeepers closed their
shops, and.,f,r about an hour there was much bas-
il': and confusion in the street. The military guard,
n returning to the barracks, were followed by a
crowd of disorderly persons, and assailed with
stones. We are glad to understand, however, that
four of the most active in lite mob were laid hold
of, and are at present in custody ; and that a pre-
cognition is going on, ssith a view to their trial for
this daring offence. The sentinels at the jail were
doubled, and in a shots time the town attained its
usual tranquillity.

Tuesria) itioripitirr I ist, about flute oclock, a bur-
glary WJS committed in the house iii v:illow Peake, rot
S.. Price:. Hill, .`;tautf•rd. Toe olietitler took a patie
out of the window, which to drew a holt
that IlLitetiert ttle di, r, and tie poor wow to was not
al anted unitl She Sound the matt st turfing I•y her bed
Elie asked hint what he %valorrt.-11r said " mo-
tley." S.e.! replied, " you hate Dante to a wrong
house." Ile then drew if Itittrikerchiel over her face,
cud alletnplrfi to strangle her, d•ut l'ortutt.itely Ite.r cries
awoke a height , who called to her, when the il-
lain ovule a precipitate retreat, tit6ite4 tt•itli hint an old
apron, aunt lea% tog a store blaekrug.buttic, iu
tvhiclt u.is a candle.

SMOCKING ACCIVENT.—A melancholy catastrophe
• btfl.l i youth 111311 (IF lilt (lame of Soles, Ott Monday,
io Princes-street, icesttli-sgtiare. A veorising
•iti tigrwr, had reeled (spoil Itis back iu the ~tree:, a few
T-aces be.tore a Gentleman, wi,o vv.is driving a gig at a
krisk trot, and t driver was using every cti.srt t••
Otte horse tip its vain, wisest Jones seized the reins, at
tockgili the became n stile, ktiorked him down,
awl the -.wheel over his neck, he was taken to
the hospicil lit a senseless so ie. The horse, in being
iellec:ed,•4lrew the other why 1 over the drunken man's
booty. aml he was taken to tl.e lu.siiital also with bro.
ke. robs.
Doriug the late sodden inundation of the Rhine, a
isre, unable to escape throno the tealee to an
cmi-
neuce, climbed tip a tree. This, one of the boatmen
rowing &hour 10 11'0;4 the en hotimaie ob-
jog, polled tip to the iree„,,rid mu:mind it, cagy r for
toe 'Mile, Witllo4ll properly lastenn,g his boat. The
L:rrified line, on the tippinaell of its lasrsistr, sisrmig
famin live IH ncli into iiie Loat, which thus set its atio-
On, fir-Jaw It..ssil:g its owner in the tree, in
reati'nf Jw.-iy with the current;
ruler emeriti MO< i,ty, he was pCICCIVeII and taken
Off by woe w lit
Ptii4p Eel. of Mead-lA:tee, ‘Viginore.Atree!,
wittertoqk nn to dine a ro,:it h,,allow:iy, iu
tartlets 14 wiles ttuluu an hour. \I r.
13 41011 e. Mitt the va2imay it tinder
(.4, the •' ttt,le its 4 tistisior•s nod Ifi ,et.tastts; kilt the
its .Vf) minute, and :2 sell; ids, sisal vs-on cleverly
•.i • v die fit. n tone, which is a great
.

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