The National Register.
London, England, 1822-12-22 00:00:00

Mr. Const is about to resign his situation of'
Chairman at the Middlesex and West Quarter Ses-
sions, on account of the lengthened period to which
tl.e sessions now extend.

A henrys:Ns lately carried away nearly the whole
of the flue works lately formed at Saint Jean de
Luz. The injury is supposed to be without remedy
and it must ultimately destroy the road to Spain.
A letter from I.lilboa says, a priest, named Longa,
• who had been n lieutenant of cavalry, escaped from
• Orava with a troop of eighty men, twelve of which
only had muskets. He made them assist at a Mass,
which he celebrated himself at the church door.—
With his own haad he cut off their b. r. It was
not known which direction this new Guerilla had
tak:n.

Extraordinary Fax Chnee.—Sir Jacob Astley's
fax hounds threw off at Itingsteed covers on Friday
•st, and thund near Somerfield, a fine dog fox,
which left the cover in gallant style, and proceeded
with the wind blowing limn the north-west, across
S nuerfield farm, by the side of Dockiog town, over
a fine country to Stanhoe, Barwick, and Creak;
•here the hounds came to a check, and after ten mi-
/lutes casting, they hit upon him again, end pro-
ceeded tont droll over Le:cester-rpwre farm, in the
front of Cranuter hall, to Seulthorpe—where he
erns viewed across the field up to a cottage garden,
within a mile of Fahenham, when the hounds be-
- came at fault ; after cracking the whips in the
41itches to no purpose. Wynard was epied on the
ties of the cottage, when a general cry was rab-el
to save him, and the sportsmen dismounting, eavg.•t
him us he slipped off the tiles by the cottage door
and drove him in, when Revnard was secured in
.safety and taken home in a sack tint another day's
sport. It was about 16 miles, and '2OO horsemen
star La in the chnee.-4Vorivich Courier.

COROX ER'S I\Q JEST.—.I Jury 5:1; on the hotly or B.
.Andrews, on Ti triday evening, last, the deceased hav-
.lng died in a pu;:ilistie combat with a man of wine
at Arnold, on Wednesday. The parties had quaff:ll.d
.at a IlllbliC4lollSC the lower Walifird road, and the
Lie I ird got ri:i of tln in a drunken sate, when th: y
crots:d the fields with some drunk,n compat i i tttt s, anti
fonnt many round's, in the last of which the dec as d
f. I senseless, cul ruptured a vessel on the head. It was
proved that the deceased was a rinarrelsome man, and
he had most outrageously in,uhed Arnold, whose
:f ruearance was great. Tim Jury fouhd a verdir lof
inauslauithter, as the loss of life occurred in an
car.

1 he following took place at Swinderby, broverti
coin and N: tV aI k, tin eritisy, theU It out, A Labourer's
.wiftr of the name of Clarke had bone our to se• a
boor, leaving :worst her children and a third or another
persons playing together in the house; their aces Irons
tare: to six vars. Site had tot beet tong absent when
-rae third child was seen rioniiiO4 out ol the boost: with
i clothes on fire. An alarin being given, the mothers
o the chileren ran to the ptave,and With some difficulty
tale tire v. a entingarished, ihciigh with severe injairy• to
the child, whose tleitTclion was pievented by a woollen
ga I went which she had nu. Ili taw sunlit of this alarait,
Lie poor woman, Clarke, pyrceiyed tht.t title of ha r own
chiadres) was missing, and at length discovered [but the
Tattle cLtatut.e was actitaily in the oven (a I-rge one of
brick), in the entrance of which a quantity of shavings
vt:tsret then blazing. Upon these twine extinguished,
.t&i: child was found at the farther end; its jaws fixed,
and evidently it) a state of sufliveation, ill which it
.lia gered liar a few hours, and was diet' relieved by death.
11 appeared that the child had crept into the oven in its
p:cy„ and ou refirsitig to ensue out, the other two had
set hre to the shavings, and in so doing the clothes of
one of thew took file as above described.

BIRTHS.
The lady of 11. Mena, esq. at Bromley Common, In Kent, of a
.4 .okliter.
lu I.loeester plaee, the laay of .I. traham. Pal. of stone.
a. .1. W. Brumley, ot h.crear.l st.ect, 14ussell square, of a son.
At heatteh town, Airs. S. K. Plod:, ut a ton.
),es, %V. emjh. of slarnford steel, ltiackifiars, of a tholghtvr.
141 Unil..fulo street, 3144. li. 11. Booth. of a sun.
At the Vicaraae, sunning, near Readmit, Berke, the lady of the
Ke•... U. E. llowomo, of a sou.
14 tot 441611, .4rt. Nvn tun, to a datight‘r,