The National Register.
London, England, 1813-02-14 00:00:00

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On Sunday the following Bulletin was exhibited at St.
James's Palace:—

V%. I N DSOR CASTLE, Feb 6.—" In the early part of last month His
111,4 Es i y was tindeu some degree of excitement, but he has since re-
loom ti hi former
Dispatches were on Sunday received by Government from
the Mai-T.lls of WELLINGTON, but they contain no intelli•
genre of importance. Lisbon papers to the 27th ult. state,
ttat the :NM: quis of \V ELLSNGToN Abrantes on the
22d, on his return to head-quarters at Freynada, where he
was expected by ti:e 24,1 r It is continued to be asset ted,
that forty or sixty thousand of the enemy's troop!: are under
orders to return to France, but it is believed a part of their
cavalry only will be withdrawn. A new Guerilla Chief, a
monk, of tha name of NEBOT, has obtained some consider-
able advantages over detachments of SUCHET'S army in 'Va-
lencia ; and upwards of 500 of the enemy are stated to have
ati eady deserted, and repaired to the standard of this Patriot.
A reinforcement of troops from Sicily is reported to have
landed at Alicant.

The Committee appointed to examine into the merit of
the Petition complaining of an improper return for Wey-
mouth and Melcombe Regis, tmerabled for the first time on
Wednesday. Mr, Sedeant PELL stated the case on the part
of the Petiti....ners, who, he said, complained of treating, cor.
option, and undue interference on the part of some Peers
of the Realm, and of his Majesty's Ministers; the persons
charged with improrer inteiference, ale the Duke of CuM-
BERLAND, Lord Rtv EitS, and Mr. CHARLES LONG. The pro-
perty upon which some of the electors arc represented as
Laving voted, is the hundred and forty-ninth part of the
sixty-eighth part of the fifth part of a sixpenny rent.--If the
ri;4lt to vote on such a modicum of property should be es-
taLlished, it has been calculalcd that the privilege of voting
fir Weymouth and Meleombe Re;is, may be extended to
220,640,000 individuals!
• It would appear from the following circumstance, that
Covcrntneut have themselves in view some plan for the re-
lief of the Irish Roman Catholics :—A meeting lately took
place between CHARLES BUTLER, Esq. c.f Lincoln's Inn, the
Catholic Banister, and Lord CAsrLL EAGH, at the Special
desire and invitation of that Noble Lot d ; when his Lordship
requested Mr. Bu'i LER to furnish the heads and provisions
of a 1311 to repeal all the restrictions now affecting the Ca-
tholic Body, in such a manner as Mr. BUTT. ER conceived
would he satisfactory to i;l1 concerned. The sketch of this
it is said, will soon be ready to be submitted tu Parlia-
n t.

The cotton track, it appears, has revived in a most extra-
ordinary degree in England and Scotland. Goods are buy-
ing up with avidity, wherever they can be found, and the
prices are rising rapidly. One horse at Manchester has
purchased 80,000 pieces, and another Q 5,000.
• It is reported, that Justice Grose has retired from the
King's Bench on a pension, and that Justice Gibbs is to go
to the King's Bench from the Common Pleas.
The Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in Ireland gave
judgment on the t 9th ult. against the demurrer to the plea
of justification put in by Chief Justice Downcs, in bar to an
action brought against him. by H. E. Taaffe, Esq. one of the
gentlemen arrested about twelve months since, under the
Proclamation of the Irish Government against the appoint-
ment of Catholic Delegates. There was a difference of opi-
nion among the Judges; Mr. Justice Fletcher, a very dis-
tinguished lawyer, holding that the demurrer ought to be
allowed,. and, of course, that the action should proceed;
while the three other Judges, Mayne, Fox, and Lord Nor-
bury, chief, held that it should be over-ruled.. The action
by this deciion. •

MISCELLANIESL

' FEB. 14

A female, dressed in the first style of fashion, who stated her name
to be Williams, and who is very respectably connected, was last Wed-
nesday charged at Mai Iburough-street Office, with stealing a valuable
shawl from the shop of Mr. Price, a linen-draper in Oxford-street. The
prisoner, accompanied by another female, also elegantly attired, entered
the shop together on Monday evening, and from their appearance and
manners, they would not have been suspected of dishonesty. Whilst
one of them was busy looking over some articles, the prisoner s as ob-
served by a person in the street, looking through the shop window, to
take the shawl in question from off the counter, after which she contrived
by degrees to conceal it under her scarlet 'Jamie. This discovery was
communicated to the shopkeeper, who detained the prisoner as she wag
leaving the shop, and found the property upon her. The prisoner was
fully committed fur trial.

RT.BOROUGH•ST EET.—Charge of Felony Extraordinary.--A
young Gentleman of fortune, and the son of a man of distinction, was
on Friday charged at this Office, with a misdemeanor in feloniously
attempting to steal a pocket-book from the pocket of a gentleman re-
siding in Park-street. The prosecutor stated, that on Tuesday evening
he attended a lecture on electricity, at No. 3, Pi incess-street, Hanover-
square, where 'JO persons or more were assetuh:ed. On his right sat a
lady, but no one was on his left, and the prisoner sat behind him. To
give effect to the exhibition, the room was darkened for about a quarter
of an hour, and during this time the prosecutor felt some one attempting
to ransack his pockets, by cutting his coat, as he supposed from what lie
felt. Oil the room being lighted again, he pet his hand towards his
pocket, and lie felt that his coat bad bran cut, and putting h►s hind
into his left hand pocket, which contained his book, he found it cut at
the bottom, and the aperture was nearly hirge enough to let the book
through. lle turned round to the prisoner, who had just drawn his
right hand across his body, and introduced it into the pocket of his
small clothes, and challenged hint with having a pair of scissars, or
some cutting instrument in that pocket. The prisoner produced the
contents of his pocket, which amongst other things contained a pen-
knife. The prosecutor also stated, that his book had been turned in his
pocket, so as to be more easily taken out. The ninvistrate observed,
them was sufficient evidence to send the case for further investigation,
and the prisoner was held to bad. It was stated in defence, that the
aperture was in the scant of the pocket as if worn out.

Bow-STRELT.—Henry Johns, lately a sub-sorter i♦i the Post-office,
and Mrs. Griffiths, charged on suspicion of stealing letters containing
bank-notes, were placed at the bar ; when, by consent of the Solicitor
to the Post-office, they were discharged, the evidence to be produced
against them not being considered sufficient to bring home conviction.
Monday, Henry Sayer underwent an examination at Guildhall, on a
charge of uttering forged checks, and obtaining on them various sums
cf. money. They purported tube drawn by Messrs. Kay and Freshfield,
solicitors, on the house of ilobarts, Curtis and Co. The Clerk to an emi-
nent Counsel stated, that the prisoner came to him with a brief, with
which he was to leave three g.tineas, and tendered a check, requesting
to be paid the difference. The Clt rk paid him 41. and went to Mr.
Abbot's for the remainder ; here he was informed that the pri•a• er had
Just been, and rendered a check in the same manner, on which the dif-
feiet.ce was paid hint. On the Clerk's return, the prisoner had taken his
departure without waiting for the change.—The cheeks were then takeu
to the bankers', and proved to be forgeries. The prisoner it appeared,
had committed similar frauds at the offices of several other Barristers.
He is a young man of a very decent appearance, and it appears had been
clerk at a banking-house. The briefs were drawn by hituself.—On being
brou,;lit into Court he wept bitterly, and refused tc. say any thing ur his
defence —He was remanded for further examination.

A mcst daring attempt at robbery and murder was made between
five and six o'clock of the morning of Sunday last, on the highway
near Thorpe's Mill, at Market Deeping. As Mr. Palmer' carrier,
Li.Awixt Boston and Stamford, who is also the landlord of the Royal
Oak public-house in the latter place, was proceeding with his cart to
Stamford, having with him as passengers, Mrs. Parr, of Deeping,
and her infant, three footpads came up to him, one of whom, whilst
the others seized the horse, without parley, discharged a pistol loaded
with two balls at Palmer, ne of which entered the fleshy part of
Palmer's left arm, while die other passed close to Mrs. Parr's face.
Fortunately Palmer was better prepared for defence than these
wretches anticipated, having a pistol with him, which, though
wounded, he instantly presented at his assailants, threatening to blow
their brains out it they did not immediately desist from assaulting him,
for the villains then attempted to drag Palmer from the cart. On
seeing the pistol in his hands, which unluckily would not go off, they
thought it advisable to retire with all possible speed, and nothing hat
since been heard of them, except that they proceeded towards Market
Deeping..

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