The National Register.
London, England, 1822-10-21 00:00:00

CHARACTERISTIC TR.IITS.

Half a dozen aneautes will often give a truer
idea of a nation than a whole history—the following
may be taken as a proof of the boorish brutality of
the Russians in the present century and in the first
circles:—
" A court banker, M. Rognvikoff, since dead, really a well-
bred, sensible, polite man, was dining with Dr. R. at Peters•
burgh ; and later dinner, the Doctor having recently received
from England na improved solar microscope, proposed to amuse
his guests with it. As usual. piths of p ants,wings of flies ■nd
other insects were resorted to; till at last it was suggested by
one of the party that same living subject should be procured.
Be not shocked, gentle delicate reader, when I tell you that a
louse was mentioned. The difficulty was where to procure one;
but the Russian servants being observed to scratch their heads
occasionally, it was presumed possible that a visit to their isba
or dwelling-place might procure the wished-for treasure. On
this the court banker. with great aairdte, and !fide suspecting
that his ies ad breeding would he called in question, cried,
' Doctor, sou need n,4 give yourself such unnecessary trouble,'
and at the same time putting his linger and thumb very szien-
tilicAlly to the hart; ot his head, immediately produced one, the
Guest and fattest of its Limb"

CRNTlifitiOltY, Oct. 17.—ST. ETHELCEET'S TOWER.
Y evetddy morning the inhaaitants of St. Patti's, Long.
lam, and Lade Wootton's Green, were thrown into
consternation by a tremendous noise, nearly resembling
the roar of cannon, and supposed by some to be an
earthquake; most of them eagerly left their beds to as-
certain the cause of alarm, which they soon discovered
to be the sudden demolition of that fine monument of
ancient architecture called St. Ethelbert's Tower, the
most conspicuous ornament of those sublime coins, St.
Augustine's fslonastety. The south and west fronts,
corroded by dm hand of time, and probably materially
injoved by the late winds and rain, fell with a tremen-
dous crash, overwhel • g every thing that lay 111 its
way. It is calculated that not less than I,oou loads ofn
materials hate fallen in the Fives' Court, the garden be-
longing to Mrs. 11.11., and in the meadow belonging to
the Kent and Canterbury Hospital, the inmates of Willeil
were extremely terrified. The remaining side is so much
shaken, that it must lie removed. Thus suddenly is de-
stroyed one of the finest specimens of the immune age.
'waren. Tower was named in I nr of King htlicl-
hers. a Keinisli 111011iIrch. who reigned over this country
Irmo 860 to 860, during which period St. Augustine, a
n kof the Roman Church, came over as a missionary,
and obtained favour with the lt, who embraced
the Christian (astir, and bestowed Opal) tile featenuty
the site of the monastery, with 111.111 important apmm-
rhos. The tower was •lt ..:,out the year 1047, and
toe then Archbishop (E 'distill) contributed, nidi many
others, to its erection, Misted, in his his ory of Can-
terbury, says--•• (Vitro we enter the site of the 111011. IS.
terv, the first object is Ettielberes Tower, whose beauty,
though much de aced, esi.ecially by sacrilegious hands
of late years, will witness to succeeding ages lire snag-
tuficeitee of 'lie whole, when all stood e oleic in tin oir
gliity triaether.' E•helbert's Tower, the original Onto
of which, was a square, composed of Him and stone ;
there were the remains of a stone staircase, leading to
the top; it supposed to hate been used as a bells).—
I he side walls were formed of arches of most exquisite
svotkinanship, exhibiting the se .1 and Wordily or the
Pr?ie3sols Or religion at the period of its erection. The
atj 1111111 kt chapel or chancel has long b. en used as a
fires court, in which, and the adjacent bowling-green.
the otizois resort to spend their soannser evenings.
Otte day last week, as two old wumru were collecting
fuel on Jet itialim-Itill, Sussex, they obserted at nu great
distance Irmo them a iiird of uucuonuuu size, ettileas out-
ing to make its escape by flip's, which from some appa-
rent hurt that it had reCeWell, it was unable to effect,
aid the w•otieri to cousecrienee speedily overtook their
game, when a desperate roof/let etcnierl, and it Was IRO
liil.ll it ball been killed by the proms with son elt tiny
w..te erased that toe object nil their wit 113 could be
seemed. It proved to b.. the Ptlicsaus Awawa of Lou.
me C; 'rano, or Solna Goose, a spril rarely met with
?pail our Cnt+ta ti.ib bp-Ctrs ii, Ito wet et, Set y et motto.
in tile llelaridev, and littler solitary tacky isles or North
&tam.

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THE NATIONAL REGISTEIt

STORM AT THE CAP' OF GOOD IMPE.

CAPE TOWN, JULY `27.-1t is our painful task to
record the most violent gale of wind this colony ever
experienced, the effects of which have been must fatal
to the shipping in Table Bay. It had been ante-
cedently remarked, that the north-west gales, al-
though very severe, and bringing into the bay a tre-
mendous and dangerous swell, yet, that they lost
much of their terror, from the shortness of their du-
ration ; this remark has not proved just in the pre-
sent unfortunate instance. On Thursday, the I Bth,
it was new moon ; the weather changod suddenly
with it ; it had been remarkably fine for several
slays, but Friday morning was ushered in with
clouds and rain, ar.d with every appearance of a
gale coming on ; the weather, however, continued
in the same state the whole of the day ; the follow-
ing day, (S iturtlay,) the gale was severe ; in the
afternoon, the ship !loyal George, Captain Bowditch,
last from Van Dieman's Land, went on shore close
to the jetty ; at night, the brig eldriat:c, Captain
Rutter, shared the s.tme fate, as did the coasting
schooner Good intent. The barometer was as low
as 29 50. at two o'clock on Sunday morning ; the
violence of the wind was then excessive ; and at
day-light on Monday morning, the four iidlowing
brigs were lying on the Leach between Craig's
Tower and the Castle, viz Branch, Capt.
Kind ; Sun, Capt. Murray; Luvina, Cap% Keith ,
and Leander, Capt. Middleton. Most fortun,ately
not many lives were lost ; but we have to lament
Captain Middleton of the Leander, who was drowned
by the upsetting of the boat, in which he hAI left
the wrecked brig. William Brown, seaman, of the
Leander, met a like fate, us did James Graham,
seaman, of the brig Adriatic. The ship John Palmer
drove very close to the shore, but fhrtunately brought
up, and is at present safe : the fullowinr, brigs rode
the whole of Monday at single anchor, although the
weather was scarcely more moderate, viz BF oug ham,
Marianne, Nelson, and Blues. The brigs Arethusa,
Travis, and Antelope kept their ground. The gale
abated somewhat on Tuesday, but it blew again
with astonishing violence in the night between
Tucsd y and Wednesday, when rain fell in torrents.
As much damage has been done on shore as in the
bay; many stores in Cape Town have fallen in,
numbers of houses arc seriously injured, and in the
vicinity of town the injury individuals have sus-
tained is to a very great extent : the number of
houses and stores seriously damaged amount to 69.
From Wyrtherg to Cape Town, there arc scarcely
any premises wbieh have nut staered, and some most
seriously.

1,7151 ASII:ll SE.).SIUA S.

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'I•HU RS DAY, Occ. I7.—This day these sessions com-
menced before F. Cunt, Esq. Cillirtll2ll, and a bench
of AI ,gistr.ttes.
About 12 n'enek, \\•adding on, the unreal, appeared
on tin• floor, an i addressin ! tits• Chairmaii, said he hail
J matter to submit to tile Coma, that highly concerned
the a‘vit'itivaramm of Jostlee an I the• I:te•rtv of tile stilt-
t.ct. Ile proceeded in oliserve, Ma, it was %%allot, the
knowledge Of the Court, that he had berm inoic,rd—
in it he bad given bail t•r appear to take his trial—that
rte had appeated, and been tried and acq :me I yet,
imwithstailding his iil2 so folly complied with whit
the I.IW reqtiired —notwithstanding his having beet, p o•
nothoced by a Jury of his country an innocent rn in, a
letter had been lately written by Mr. Allen the clerk of
the peace, to each of his hail, sating th a his re:tie•:i-
zattee h itl beet' forfeited by his non-appearance, aid
would be immediately returned into Excherpter to be
estreatid. This proceet:i:a!, he understood, tot k place
in consequence of his refusal to pay a lee to Mr. Allen.
If Mr. Allen would show I any law by which, atter
having appeared according to the terms of his recount-
zance, and taken hi, trial, and been acquitted, his bail
should be called oti to pay recognizatices which hail not
here forfeited, because he did ISO/ pay a tee, ro an officer,
tie would, if necessary, sell 1141 bed to save his hail; hot
.1 there were 110 such law, he bolted the Court nound
prOI..CI hill] from such an imposition.
The Chairman having beard the complaint with great
mention, said, that by givitie bail and appearing to take
his trial, and having been argil tied, he had saiisSed evrry
demand of that Court, aid Ito process tint of that Court
should or could tome t it ileCiPtlllt of the recoi.Mzinces
oe had emered itco; hut it might perhaps be service:ll,la
,o him to inform him, that it was the duty of the Clerk
of the Peace to return all recogoizances that were not
withdrawn to the Exch, Tice ; and that on the with-
drawing of recognizance, he (the Clerk of the Peace)
was entitled to a fee. Mr. IVaddisigton hail the means
of asc•rtainiup, what that fee was, as it was stated in a
table tat fees which he could inspect; but if he did not
choose to pay the fee, the t ti. er would probably
return the recognizance into the Exchquer, %vilely., to
prevent their being estreated, he would probably have
seems! fees to pay, and would incur a em.siderable es-
pouse. It was a matter, the learned Chairman added,
over which that Cnuit had no control.

Waddington thanked the (;•'urt for the information;
but said he st consider it u great defect in tile admi.
nistration of toe lale. and a great •iolation of the li-
berty of the bulject. if anti 2113,9,1in:a by his country.
a.i itinocetit man WJS to be lcu at the mercy of an
olrver.

Waddington wa: proceeding with his speech, whelk
a learned gentleman, before whom he was standing.
observed that he was talittig a greater liberty with the
Court than any gentleman at the bar would do, as th, y
never rt plied on the Court.
‘Vadditigton q:m ly replied, the re. son of that was
pltist cliou2l). " addres-ing the bar, "do no-
thing but what you are paid Mr, and when ymtt think
you have done euough for emir lee, you are eery well
content to du no more; bin I have any own interest and
tile interest of my cottony to attend to." Waddington
then t :pressed a WWI to the Court that the fCIOIII of his
recognizinee might be delayed to aflbnl him au ultimo-
tunny la pelill 111 l ll g Paliameni un a sulieet of bo much
imbue interest; he had Teaball to believe that Mr. G.
Wallet was really to present such a petition, and to
support it in the House of Commons.

FRIDAY. OCT. 17.--;George Kelly eras convicted of
an assault iipon a boy about Bor 9 vears old. The pri-
soner had been a private in the 3tt Guards, from which
he was thscharaed, after he was in custody for this
offence, receiving, however, a good character tut the tints
he had served in the regiment.
The Court, theretore, only sentenced him to four
mouths solitary confineineitt
Joseph Deane was indicted for an assau't upon Elis.
fffff 1011(1, a child uhdcr the age of time Vearf,
intent 1.1 commit a more serious offence. The child
stated, that the prisoiser lodged in the ~tone house with
her untidier, and on the evening at Thursday, the loth
hist. between 7 and 8 0.4:1(.64, lieu they were alone in
the kitchen, the pi isaller placed her nit the table, :11141
with his hand took an indecent liberty with her. She,
however, kicked Wm once or twice, 11:1011 which he lett
her and tt cut RI bed ; and did not repeat the offence.—
Upon the of one of the magistrates, the
Chairman asked the witness if she had heh.re stated
that the prisoner hail oaken freedom' with r twice P
She replied that he hail not. Upon bein,t reitiiiitled by
the Court of her ha. hug sail that the prisoner sent hi r
nut for porter (hiving hist stated that She teas not sent
out of i!... I 'e that evening), she said that he did send
her for a pint of VOrtee, awl it. was afterwards he did as
site desci bed. . _

A surgeon who eximitteil the child, swore that she
lutl the iii.pe.iNtice received violence, Inn he
etni!il 1101 poiti%vly 3.1) that a 111igill nut be Inc effect of
411,e,i,v.

The prisoner in his &tette.: denied the charae aim-
arther, and Ca WIWI stVlire that he vtvS
%%1111 lion elsewhere on the cvciiiiis iu quetaion, until
vast time o'clock. . . .

Toe leat led Chairman. in his ch4rge to the Jury. eau-
t Ilion agamat I,lfrora t their horror of the stature
ul this offence to pt•jothee gitrir minds agamst the pri
boater ; awl to 1/011lier tttrll before they convicted I
uron such gins ttistactory es it:ence.
The Jury. :tfieg AMU Iris intlantcs deliberation. fateful
the I.r sour, guilt, 1 and 414.7 C wineneed ill be
i.nio shined for lour tttt nth.. and he kept 446 solitary costa
lihens..lit for the first won 14.

Tilolll Is Bite a tutu ut decent app. a►aucc. between
50 and dj )car. ut age, a Iran. Libre, to . foutail guilty
ut C led aria it,e mast sn.•cwin;t ut, crrnry
tu~c.stil• littre teetrele cuttatets at dill:ft-ft: %mica sutta:
tat ui NIA), 18:1.