The National Register.
London, England, 1808-10-16 00:00:00

TIM NATIONAL REGISTER.

The late declaration against tythes had the sanction ofmonx4
himest-liatries, not doubt ; hut every thinking man, who well an-
tierstotl the singular Constitution of our Society, and who kntiw
the gravity and caution which shitald precede the recommenda
tion of remedies for public evils, saw with some apprehension,
the course that had been taken to clamour away the whole I) the
System as the spring and source of general distress. It is very
true, that if the Rack-rent Landlords thought that in endeavour-
ing to exempt themselves from the odium of oppression, and to
cast it all upon a hod v' of men not perhaps half paid their legal'
dues, the peasantry should take a part against T 3 thes, they
would have desisted at once. But the invariable result of such
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public proceedings is, that when sentiments and principles be-
come promulgated they sink into every mind ; they light upo,
the brain of ignorance ; they descend upon and are compontided
in the reveries of nonsense and folly. The man of education acts
and thinks becoming an enlightened mind ; but the peasant, poor,.
illiterate, and oppressed, thinks and feels as it is natural he
should ; and when he finds a respectable portion of the gentry
of the country pointing out as it were the canse of hlsoverq,
and denouncing it, hi. pa.sions will not allow him to hold a truce
with the supposed adversary to his happinescrand be will nut
wait for the mild and circuitous remedy of thelaw, but become
his own redresser.
It is well for the public that the subject of tythes, or tather
that the condition of the peasantry forms now an anxious sub-
ject of consideration is ith the Government. It «ill throw away
all pretext fostilie intermeddling of ragged politicians with so
dangerous and delicate an affair ; and it ought to suggest to
those who might incautiously and most innocently have excited
sensations in the peasantry which they did not foresee, to exert
themselves with double 'zeal in suppressing such painful toast-
sequences of misapprehension and mistake.

PROVINCIALS.
MARC:Writ, OCT. I2.—The hunting and coursing season fotll-
- in the Isle of Thanet this morning. The hounds had
smite sharp runs ; and repeatedly blooded the pack in good stale ;
they boasted a large field, to which the Cross, the Lane, and
the Acre, contributed a snug and friendly little party. Lotions,
Potions, and Patent Coffins, were to he seen at the death. The
Gentlemen wear their coats short and degegie, even in full dress.
The crogeres, or extreme fashionahles, have the collar cut very
low in the neck, and very long on the laprh•ls ; blue is the pre-
vailing colour. The waistcoat is of straw kerseytnere, single
breasted, and very long, with atriangular openingat the bottom,
which exposes the maw chain and seals dangling from the cen-
tre; fourteen yellow metal buttons confine the front, and three
the packets. the rest of the outline consists of brown leather
malt-ctooths, moderately lung topped boots, and a sugar-lo•if
crown hat. The Ladle. wear white muslin dres,es of a walking
length, and scarlet crake; the cottage bonnet of fancy straw,
and jean boots. Parasols are exploded. Happily for the Be-
tted/cis they still base nu reason so complain ofyrtticoat govern-
ment!

DRAWING a BADGER.—A man of the name of Thomas
well known in West Kent for catching mole-, and
viper,, ill the season, for the Apothecaries, brought a fresh
badger in a hag to Wrotham last Fair, and having dug, a hole
in a bank as deep as a baker's oven, he turned the badger to
earth, and closing the mouth of the hole with his sack. offered
to bring out the animal in his teeth, if the crowd *shah' rai..r
him half-a-guinea ; which being prf•sently done, he entered the
place with a short thick stick. The badger seldom relinquishes
its iiittd, and he immediately seized the stick. Tom Lort then
f I.,,tened his teeth on the 'mire of the badger's neck, and brought
the anoint! forth with the stick in it 2. mouth, and having several
times performed thi, exploit, retired with his friends to enjoy
the produce of his dexterity.

•NEWCASTLE, OCTOBER 10.—On Saturday evening last,
about Hine o'clock, a most melancholy accident ba',pened in the
River /pie. As the ferry-boat between Howden Pates:o4 Jar-
row was crossing to the latter place with a number of persons on
board (►umeacenunts bay twelve, others fifteen), the wind Strong
from the East, and consequently a great swell in the river, it
itufurtunatel.,. Slled wiih water, and sunk when about tweets
yards from the Shure, ts% which the whole company would have
►uet a watery grave, had it nut been for the exertions of the
Captain and crewel a sloop near the ploc*, who instantly got
out their boat, and saved :he greater part of them. We under-
stand there were only three drowned. The greatest attention
was paid to the survivors by some yersoos ut Jarrow, one of
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OCT. M.

of On hoar

in the n ater.
On Monday se'nnigtif Gentlemattbf this town for a consider-
able wager, ran fifty yards, lilt l\ 'big a man upon his back witty
weighed list. ttgainsi •inothier, who, without any weight,
' was to run 100 yards. The former beat by about eight yards,
A person present, thinking himself swifter than he who had lost,
proposed to run the same distance, which was immediately ac-
cepted, and won by the same Cieatleition, carrying the above.
weight,. by Moo yords,,
Ann Moor, a poor woman of Tutburv, in Staffordshire, has
lived upwards of 14 mouths* without food ! The teitimonv of the
woman herself was ,of course discredited, and she consents d to
he remoyed too, neighbour's house, to be watched for any lei gth
of time that was deemed sufficient to give a colour of Iraqi to her-
report. Tbis•lva4. accordingly done, mid she was cdostantiv
watched for Vi.days and nights, and revilarly visited by three
surgeons once or twice a day. Till the end of 14 doss she did
not even drink any water, which she hail been accustomed to do
in very small quantities, w hen she felt a tutu-ea at her stinich.
She now finds that this is removed by wet ing her tongtic with'
damp cloths, by which she escapes the pain of st%allomioi:: as
before, which was very considerable. Durini, the length ("of time
of the above 14 numthsahstinence, water, and tea, without eithrr
milk or sugar, bud been her only beverage. She ha- beer lit'
bed the whole of the time. lice pulse is very little tinder thoi
standard of good health, but, as may t,e expected. her frame
excessively reduced. A..ei this extraordinary woman i- still 1;,i,1•:.
we recommend her case sto the attention of the Fact. he, mid
doubt not that they will consider her as a subject de.,erk leg of
very*minute consideration.
AA a countryman last week was nutting in Catslield Great
Wood, he found the nuts so plentiful that he soon half filled s
sack, by the weight of which his progress of gathering e %%ar so
much impeded, that .he found it necessary to get rid of his in-
cumbrance, by leasing it, as he thought, in a place of set-mil:,,
until he should have increased his stork, by means of a :4:101:1,
from distant hazels, and proceeded accordingly : but unluckily
in the interim n black, from a neighbouring barrack, engaged in
a similar pursuit, discovered the repo-itory, and afterexamin-
ing its contents, resolved on possessing it ; but in order 4s give
a colourable pretence to the posses-ion, he into recourse tirthn
following, whimsical stratagem. He stripped off his clothes,
and, after concealing them, seated himself naked on the rick,
where he remained, clutched op, till the return of the country-
man, and by his grimaces, and the yells which he set up to give
effect to the part he was acting, on the poor fellow's approavh.
so terrified him, that he hounded from the wood like a deer,
and, happy in his escape, left his nuts, without reigrot, to he
cracked by the Devil, on whose territories, at the moment of hi•
panic, he believed he had been trespassing. Muogo, tacit plca-ed
with the success of his trick, bore away the prize, and site cir-
cumstance has caused no. inconsiderable share of mirth in the.
neighbourhood.
Last Monday evening, about seven o'clock,• Mr. Ambony (a
traveller from Manchester) was stopped on. the road, about hull
way between Wallingford and Reading, by a footpad. Who
demanded his money, which Mr. Anthony •resolatelv refused,
when the footpad succeeded in dragging hint out of his gig, and
a desperate beutfle ensued, in w hick the footpad was knocked
dow::, and probably would have been secured, had not another
appeared, whit presented a pistol, and shot Mr. Anthony through
rite left breast, and he fell they then proceeded to rifle his
pockets, but fortunately •be had put his pocket-hook, which
contained bills and notes to a considerable amount, into his gig
box. ,Wheit they had got every thing out of his pockets, sonic'
horses were heard at a short distance, and the villains made MI.
Through the kind attention of two (gentlemen, Mr. .Anthony' was
conveyed to Reading, where great hopes are entertained of hi-
recovery.
A most melancholy accident happened at a coal pit, neat
Kimbleworth, Cumberland, belonging to Messrs. Walker, toy
the explosion of sulphareous air, Which unfortunately killed four
persons, viz,
.Georgellague, Thomas Hague, John Jarvis, and
William Firth ; the two former weile farther and son, and it ii:Lt
added to the distress of the scene was, they were found locked
en
, eackother's arms---a striking itiSlitOCe.ol parental and fat) al'
fection in the agonies of death.
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The Magistrates of Warwickshire Wee on's rasolotL.an, at
'late Sessions, that Statutes for hiring sersetets hista eln tond
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to promote idleness and im morality among servants and accoord-
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jngly have recommended to masters ..of servants in hubandry
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not to attend Such' Meeting., our to hire stairnuts w.iUont .
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