The National Register.
London, England, 1817-04-28 00:00:00

APRIL 29.

TILE PRINCE REGENT'S COURT.

On Saturday his Royal Highness the Prince Regent
held a Court at Carlton-house, which was attended by
the Lord Chancellor, the Lord President, the Lord
Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury, the Ckitil.
cellor of the FNchequer, the Master-Goneral of the
Ordnance, the Secretary of State tOr the Home De..
partment, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,
the Master of the Mint, the Lord Chamberlain, the
Lord Steward, the Treasurer of the Household, thz.
Comptroller of the Household, and the Lord Chief
Baron.

The Regent held a Privy Council, at which Lord
Chief Baron Richards was introduced in due form, and
sworn in a Privy Councillor.

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Another Council was then held, to which the Re.
corder of Lou,!on was introduced, and rni:de the fid.
lowing sport of the convicts capitally convicted at the
I,:t Fe ,ruary Sessions at the Old Bailey :
J. Ab ha n., J ri,s n, ii 10.11i-esti'', amt. Dar..Willi;orns for
ate .Lag in dwr I,o4.hotise; William Holmes anti Mary Swa n.
u t. i fir, ; .ek Blown ~its ay,
; John Davi•, 'Mary Luise, J Ciarl,e, 5.1111114 Hill,
an IJd e Te. fo. li.c ofiencrs ; Fl'lRllsl,ll. James
C.ii!on, F.; nois Ewer, William Jones, Ja...e. , anti : n
Wright for bar;lary; Charles S,n.th atlas Sciiitliui pc, 'I
llamas
liaiwed, Henley tiauiLey, and Ann Il lA. for Is.
ing ; William Davis, for sterling privately in :1 and J01:11
Hiett, fora r0b.,,,r. ill , wbeu Patti' ► Br %in
ALAS 1101111, was ordered fur i xectition i•ii Ftitias 1.1110. Kir.
uy and Streit, for htealing In a tliirhing lions.•, wile het re.
posted. 'lite re..t were restated until hit H;glturss'it
pl,-sari. fii I her kiii.wa.

Friday being the Duchess of Gloucester's birth-day,
their Royal Higl.nesscs had n select party to dinner at
Glocester-house. The I)u,•hess is now c-u!ined to her
mom by inflisix)sition. The Princess Augusta and Eli.
gabeth visited their royal sister on Saturday, ut nine
o'clock at night, and repeated their visits yesterday
morning. The Duke of Glocester waited upon the
Queen to report the state of the Duchess. His Royal
Highness attended divine service at St. GeorgCs—
church.

We arc happy to learn that the Duke of Clarence is
recovering from his indisposition, although he is very
weak from the loss of appetite, &t•. His Royal Highness
was yesterday able to take an airing in his carriage, and
called upon the Prince Regent at Carlton-hous:.
Extract of a letter from the agents to Lloyd's at
Havre, dated the 17th inst.--" We regret to have to
communicate the loss of the English brig Royal Georg.
Captain Hewitt, (presumed from Lynn) with core,
bound to Rouen. This vessel, in ascending the Sein ,
took the ground and upset. Nothing but the mast a d
an inconsiderable part of the rigging are saved occur .
ing to the report which has just reached us. At the
same time eight other English vessels, laden with corn,
had nearly shared the same fate, and owe their safety
only to the accidental circumstance of the wind chop-
ping round, which obliged them to tack. The Fame,
Jones, with corn, from Lynn to Rouen, took the ground
near Honfleur, but was got off next tide. It is much
to be regretted that vessels drawing snore than nine
feet water should venture up this river. The insurance
companies here and at Rouen will not take risks on ves-
sels of greater draught."
The Philanthropist, an English journal, printed at
Brussels, contains the following article :—" The Go-
vernment has just discovered a correspondence between
Napoleon and some of his partisans in Europe The
plan was ingenious and new. Madame Bertrand had re-
ceived a present of a beautifid muslin dress, magnificent-
ly embroidered, which came from a city in the south of
France. The flowers and various figures which coin.
posed the embroidery were so many hieroglyphics,
each having its particular significatton. The indiscretion
of' a young man who had been the bearer of it. and
who lately returned to England, caused the key of this
species of cipher to fall into the hands of the English
Ministers."
Mr. Baron Richards was sworn in 0.1 Tuesday morning
Chief Baron of the Omit lif FAchequer, before the Lot d
Chancellor, at Lincoln's Inn Mr. Alexander, the Master in
Chancery, will, it is said, he the new Judge.
The journal of Ghent of the 11711 i of April contains the fol-
lowing article A horrible catastrophe uremia. .1 near
d'Ecloo. An unhappy peasant, fc•ltowed b) his flit et; chil-
dren, went to seek his broths r, in more fortunale circum-
stances than hims<lt', fur the purpose of a•kin;; some assist-
an••e. He met lii ii on the way, mentioned his necessities,
and told him that his children were dying of The
brother, affected by the recital, di cord him to go and seek
his wife, and ask, on his part, and by his order, for a certain
quantity of bread and potatoes. The unhapl•y man ran to
the house of his sister in-law, who rejected his payer, mid in-
humanly thrust this multi moate Family not of 6001,. in de-
spair he returned to his own home, and not heme aloe to sire
his children bread, he resolsed to etre them death. lle tied
thelli all three together with a Cord, which lie fastened by
means of a stick, and, deaf to their piercing cries, he 11,1. g
them into a cell, is here lie also precipitated himself. In the
mean time his brother returning to his own mat..e, asked aria
wile if she had fillfilled his wishes, and on her la plying in
the e, he eltar2eil a domestic immediately to to Lc to
his par relati% es double the quantity of IoOViSIMIS he had
at first intended for them. The domestic hauls the assistance
useless, and with tears recomited the frighttnl catastrephe.
'l'hr brothel-, farions at the event, and iii a nmu•ent of violent
irritation, w out his wife's b.aius with a pistol. He has, it
is said, been arrested."
A shacking; accident ltapi•rued on Monday evening. A
number of poor people were ga!lie lieu cockle,. on Lave')
Souls, when on a sadden a hick fog came. and the tide
lloi4 leg at the time, droWliill the it liele ; one report says
tit else in number, men, women, and ebildrin.

APRIL Q.

Daniel Linels, Jeremiah Shea, Joseph Parsons, John (I.4rd
ner, 'flioinas Castle, and Israel Chapman, were charged by
Humphries and Jefferson' the constables, with being reputed
thieves, having detected them in and about the Piazza, at the
time the company were coming out of Covent-garden theatre,
on 'ruesday, following and attempting to rob seseral persons.
They were committed.
MANSION HOUSE.

On !Madly three women, named Ford, Butler, and Storey,
were charged with threatening to murder another female,
monied Phillips, or to do her some bodily harm, and with
having thrown n;:on her a quantity of deleterious liquid, by
which her gown, a vain lie sh.twl, and other :tricks of her
rlres were horned and destroyed. The parties, it appeared,
all re.a in the neighbour hood of L Garden+ ; and
some wards having arisen between them, the prisoners ut-
tered aloe threats mentioned, wayllid the pi oseeutrix, and
comto tted she offence .toted.—tienianded.

Tise hie i Nl,t or ha I ou his lief ne,trly 20 prostitutes. who
were all seal to oridi.well, from thence to Ise passed to their
several parishes.
isIisIILBOROUGH STREET'.

Maria 11anviltint Colll,ll4illed of 11:0111:4 been anonited in
pireadilly, on Saturday night by two young oho, of tahnii
altrf.::asr rharge, and they weie taken to the watch-house;
but the eittstahle suffered them to &part on leaving 41. tor
tht•;r ap.u•.u•ance, 1101 111.`y did not ao teat•. The constable
at ;,.:4 o igrd the tiall acUuu, and all 414ited, that after they
we. r r.•.r.tsed the) returned anti assaulted the WOlOllll4lO.
The 'Maelsti ate rei.ritnanded the caw-table for taking
An ordei had been repeatedly 41.41wd, that when a persoo
was rh.•rged •hf•r should be kept in custody 441111 taken be-
fore a Magistrate..
UNION HALL.

John Brown was on Weilise,day brought op for re-exami-
nation, charged with a hiirelary. Mr. tie•.rie lliiggett sta-
ted, that he a esitle4l with laid thothet. who A. eps the Catha-
rint oi the lion4thgli. Oh Suit.lay es encti,t last, •Utrut
Mi.,: u.l WA, ht.. 1110. her said a.. 1 et rid n Ahe ii..aril come
une up stairs Wttnr•tta proceeded lip quires to eh ;
jiyit as be entered the ea.lee v, he observed the inisoite. theioo
himself iis er the halcout Into the yard, hash,* a large bieu
die taller his arm. Witness railed •• thi. f," and 40
per:. n-, whir were in the yard, secured lidn. Oil seal eliii.g
the bundle, it wa, linind to s'unta'n 4 pair alirets met
counterpane, and, %rapt round his sts tv AUJI her pair sit
sheets. all the property of Slta. lingueii. The preoiner mail.
no deft e, and was fu h ci nimitted foe trial at the A:.
sizes.

Joseph Allen, a respectanle tat mer, was convicted at the
Chests.' Assizes, after a Iliad w Melt lasted live Irma., if tit
tee in, forged note r of the Bank of E.Tiand, and receives,
heati:oce of death.
INQI; -All IMpli%iiil)ll wits tat en on Monday at the
Ship, caned: matteet, (button, on tl.e body. of Mr. ii, ion.
of Camden street, Cashis r to the Imperial File Office, Eltza
beth !layette stated, that 011 Sat tit 111:10 fling the at re 411
• lie roil cu me to le r house, ;,aid said that her master at
destroyed himself; she wet t to tlw wash-Infuse and ~:611 Mi. ,
H. quite dead with tits bowels out_ Sarah, mv(414,,,ri, tit
se:VA/at, stated, that on .saltirilay morning the deceased as,
his breakfast in bed, Mts. H. eipapiiiiiied of beim:. nowt il.
and the deceased persuaded her to continue in bete Sa.•
went mit to walk with the clidtiren. atoll on kd r re urn vr.it
out Of them into Slit ‘vi,li some cat's-meat, a h.,
returned and said " Nly father Mos tositself;" she being
frightened went up stairs, 411111 itStillllll'll 111.1' mistress, who
run down stairs and 111111(1 her Im•hattil in the ilia atiftil
lion described, anti a razor ly ;nu. on toe ground. Nit. Hut -
TOW*, a surgeon, said, he fonwl 'Om dead as above tleseritud.
He has been lately despondo.g, and was. about ses I'll veais
ago, in a ',lave of confinement ; and lie had no doubt Inn be
leas insane .it the time Ise committed the act. N'eriiict—Died
by his own hand in a state of Owaiity.
Au inquisition was also taken at the came house, on the
body of NI irgaret, wife of Mr. llomd, butler to Mr. Lamb. rt,
et Eli-ton-place, New road, who was touting 111'0%5'111A 1/11 Fri
day last in the New Riser, Islington. The Jury sat on Fri-
day night, but in consequence of the evidence not brine
satisfactoty , the Court adjoin tied to Titestlay moulting, when
the following evidence was tweets/est. Mary NVebb, cook to
Mr. Lambert. deposes!, that the deceased was a companion
So
IIIS. Lambeit, Oti Weilliestlay she went to see her chid
at nurse and Alid not return ; hint a letter was received by her
Ittistrold, which she had written at the nurses's house, stating
that lie mils' see her no more, for she had resolved to des-
troy herself. Halitt bills were posted, offering a reward for
her 4iStmvi ry, on tine fitllnwins day, 311(11 011 Friday inornin •
▪ as found in f!e New River. :She had been low aid
desponding for a considerable time. J. Lucas, mall:small to
the New River Company, stated, that he saw the ifer,.1.,41
floating iu the New River on Friday morning. He e,d the
body out. let the pocket he found three it. notes, Ws.
au silver. \ erslict—lusaiiity.