The National Register.
London, England, 1818-09-06 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

AIIERICA.—WASHINOTON, JULY 74,
ASSASSINATION OP mAJuu BIRDSALL-1n addition to
n :sat has hem hcretorote give•? of this melancholy event, wr
r%tract the rollowlag Cron► the 'Many 11:gis:er, furnished by
Lives!. Scott t

—Major Birdsall was sitting in conversatieu with Lieutenant
Scott, at the eantomnent heiwe..n this city and the seat of
Geuerml Stephen Van Rensselaer the company %%US coming
tat parade; limnllton came nif a few yin ifs. took delibe•
rate also, and tired. On pse•enting his piece they rose, mid
when the Major was falling, he grasped the Lieutenant's
haml,shook it warmly, cud said, ''Scott I em gone, take charge
of the taro," and directly exclaimed, "My God, what can all
this meant' Mr. Scutt inquired if he was in lunch pain; he
answered, "I ern in great prin." The Lieutenant expressed
a hope that the wound was not mortal, and was answered,
"l ain emir." Three men were i tttt nediately dispatched for
persical aid, and a number of the faculty were on the spot
'in a tew ustuutes. The cajun* rushed to the camp iu such
number., that the posts of the sentinels were necessarily
doubled, to give fresh Air to the deceased. tie expressed a
wish to be with his family, and sees cars led to his residence,-
No. 135, North 31.16. n-street; sentinels were immediately
posted rolled the house to prevent the crowd from stopping
the free cli of air. He said but little Ili ter he Atli% ell
et the house, and experienced the agonies of death' whilst
the surgeons, at his request, were undressing liim. Hebreath-
ed faintly fur many minutes alter, apparently tree from pain,
and expired without a struggle, or 'rissole convulsion of body,
Or wildness of fulled. His immortal soul fluted to the mansion
of rest, and left in its now mouldering dust, the index to a
mind alive to every anstable and dignitir d feeling of Interim
nature, and a heart glowing with lonnianity and patriotism. •
There eau be no possible reason divined for promoting the
monster to su fuel a murder, tutu the satiating of a fiend um.
lignity. We ale unfocused ti Scutt. that Hamilton
is of a refractory, quarrel-oleic .Ispsisition, with an ungovern-
able temper. He was seized, bound, and in the guard-house
in less titan a minute after firing, and kept till formally de.
unaided of Lieut. Scott by the cavil authority. While to the
gu.sid-honse lie put his bead out of the window, and said " I
have: dens. what 1 have been wamitig; to do tor a long time."
He devised a plsu fur etiectiolthis piireoase reoi illy, by decoy.
lug the Major out of sight. cot rusting in Otis, and bent upon
the black-bestried design, the bet defied stretch came boldly
to the work laf death. A few days previous to the lamented
eatitstrophre.the des:irises° siisterionsly accosted the Major
" MAJ4/1, I Will tell )011 something that will make you
open your eyes." The soldiers say lie has frequently hinted
Lis iuteutiou, but tiii y believed it impossible fur hien to be
sNiona.
He procured powder unit boll for the express purpose.—
Major Birdsall had ever been peculiarly ilithileesit to the
blooil.thirsly wretch, said endeai mired to conciliate and sof.en
Isis savage terucitj by rsilil pt isilasool and gentle reproof; lie
feseei it u hatred tOf VUe of the reCflaita,lllld freitleolly liirtota
cued to kill him.

Amedea appears to have suffered from Intense heat
equally s. Europe. A New York paper of the lith Jti:y
Hi)s, •• The thermometer,' during the last two days, has indi-
cated a greater degree of heat than has been experienced,
Ile believe, fur the last eight or ten years. At three o'clock
on Saturday, the moony stood iss the shade ut 93, and at the
►acne hoer on Smudgy at 96."