The National Register.
London, England, 1817-09-22 00:00:00

(To be Continued.)

Mat ANEHOLT IRST t ACE OF SUDDEN DEATH. Mr. Ed-
wart! Hudson it re,,peei:tule wtaster printer, residing at No.
17, Pierpoini-row, tsliinvon, aticr going to church still; ho.
0.1 Sunday morning re.:llrllrd knile 811(1 ditirti, lie ei
appealing in oyster health mid spirits in his life. After din-
rer lie bad .1 ;Liss of Wand, and water, :Ind then calked out
%% jib his cii,idreit in Ow g.trilen. On his return, lie was taken
with a suildrn pain in his chest; wino Mr. Onion, surg,on,
.45 sent for, hut !mime his a:IIVA Mr. H. expired. Au in.
e. iest wits held on the body at the sign of the thin, l'irrpoint-
/late, Islington. Verdict —Died by the Yisitmiou of tiud.

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CROSBY, MILES AND CRATER.

How vain are all our boastings about the indepen-
dence of the Press, when, of all the Newspapers pub-
lished in the Metropolis, only three of the daily, and
one Weekly, had independence enough to publish the
proceedings in the case of the above named persons.—
The British Press, the Globe, the Near Times, and
the National Register, gave publicity to them from a
wish to expose a series of dishonest practices, and to
put the community upon their guard against men whose
means of doing mischief are the greater, as their station
in life are respectable. With this feeling, we rejoice to
find that the whole proceedings have been published in
a pamphlet, from the introduction to which, we ex-
tract the following:—
" Had not nearly the whole of the diurnal prints most
strangely neglected to insert even a notice of these most re.
markahle cases, this mode of publication would not hive been
adopted ; hut, to the surpsise of every one, notwithstanding
the great dearth of matter experienced by the daily papers,
and the avidity with which, in all other instances, they seise
upon every circumstance at all intereatinz, in this particular
instance they have passed over these important and singular
details in utter &Hence, Sonic very weighty reasons, indeed,
must have produced this unusual forbearance. With regard
to "THE Times," our surprise ceases, when we recollect
that the Cerberns of that proud journal is closely allied to
some of the parties in question ; we hope we shall hear no
more, therefore, of the boasted independence and inflexible
sense of duty of this paper. For the silence of the others, we
con only account, by supposing the' Auri sacrafamer to have
exerted its usual powerful operation, as some of the parties
displayed so much of this too prevalent passion in the trans
actions in question, and involved themselves in suck odium in
consequence, it was not to be supposed but that they would
resort to it to screen the exposure of that obloquy it had oc-
casioned."

As farther proceedings are about to be instituted by
the creditors of Crosby, for the recovery of the Bond
and Bills so fraudulently disposed of, we shall not fail to
make our readers acquainted with whatever transpires;
fur, as the Press has been influenced, in the first in-
stance, we dare say the gentlemen who are so tender
of their reputations, will not fail to have recourse to
the same means to suppress any succeeding reports.