The National Register.
London, England, 1822-11-04 00:00:00

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(From the Outwits rviice of the 1611101st.)
"We have to perform A 11111?11leiltliy duty we have to
announce the ilea,h of 411 iudi.idual. who was the glory 01
sculpture and the tine at t•—•Autonia Canova. lie arrived
at Venice on the evening of the Ith of October, and
'nought with him ii brother, to whom he was tenderly at-
tached. They alighted togetLer at the house of M. An•
tunio Fratirescont, with Will/AC family GlllOllB was con-
nected by the ties of Ling continued friendship. lie was
•o ill nt:nti his au t ival, that he d considerable difficulty
in going up stairs to his hrtiCiCllll6Pt.
" Fruits that night lie began to experience violent firs of
voinitiog, which crate on every time he took the slightest
unurishineat, and whi lo were vet y soon followed by a
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violent and continued hiccough.
" lively aveistance was immediately rendered him by
the must skilful physicians in Venice, hilt it was with the
greatest difficulty that they succeeded in diminishing the
frequency and let entity of !berm two ssinplome. They
found it iniposhitile to eradicate the disease, and to open
Isis bowel,. which in spite of all their exertions remained
obstructed. The patient gradually grew weaker and
weaker, and at lenatli, 1160111 110011 of the 12th instant, it
was no longer possible to doubt of the approaching death

of this great artist.
" Olic of his ft tends, M. le Conseilietti, under.
took the melancholy task of announcing the fatal informa-
tion to him : his pure sonl icceived it with a calmness and
resign atoll, which formed a worthy termination to a life
entirely consecrated to works of benevolence and religion.
When he received slue sacrament, the sobs which sounded
around his bed gave proof of the sorrow of all the by.
slanders, and of the emotions which were excited in their
breasts by sire lively piety with which the sick snail cast
himself into slits arms of 11i'; Ile dictated his last
Will wills a clearness, intelligence, mud precision. Millets
clistittetly moved that he was by no means disturbed by
the II gilt of the proximity of the totiottent in which lie
was to appear before the throne of eke. Isal Majesty.
" Some minutes afterwards, he feel Into a kind of
lethargic sleep, from which he kept waking from time to
time. Ile replied to some questions put to him, and
sometimes spoke without heing questioned ; and at these
tatei val., which, 01-1.111-IVd fretplesitly• he uttered many
religious phrases, which were heard with veheratiosi by
all present. Ills 610111 S CHIC. tallied for 8
of press rving to Ilte w,.t Id one of its noblest ornaments.
" 11111 neither the ntteoliuu of his Mother, nor the help
of medicine, nor ilte hospitable exeitions of the family of
haticescorii, nor the Isra)etsnt Me town, which, hoer 111t1
first report of Isis illness, had hems divided between hope
and tears nor the wishes of Use great personages, whom
iespret, friendship, or gratitude, had attracted round his
bed, could protract any tardier the dreadful moment •
and int the It It of Octant r, about 41 mitudes after seven
in the morning, the heat t of Canova ceased to beat.
" It will belong to his historian to speak at greater
tomtit ill his iIIMICIIbe loss, which, perhaps, will lie only
repotted after the lapse of many corm. tea, and which will
Ibe felt, not only Ltaly, but also by thus whole of Ete-
iope, ismer, as an Mutations living author has said, when
a man has attained so that degree of glory to which Ca•
nose had arrive. d, he Ito long. r belongs to this or that us..
ClOlOllll is the 1:U111121CM ti ramie and pride of the whole
universe."

MATCH TO OTTINGIIAM .--Nlr. Abernethy. the
amateur Nwth etitall.tVlll.lll, completed his mateo to irtt
to N oft Ingham !rum Rings! did-road, at three o'clo-k no •
Werlorstl.l last. It was to go the groom! on loot (2
stiles) in ninety how'', for a bet nl 100 Yom.k.reigtis end).
and Cur another het u. 50 b4A-elrelglll that he did the first
135 miles in the fiat 48 110HHI. Re won both bets easily,
and arrleell at Kingslitod uu IVedeiesday in I/11C boor
and teal ns i ttt nes within I IC give', time, and but Title
liti,med. This is be: the Powells. the
Pc.e. by much odds. Mr. Aherne by trusthed
140 miles of ground in use. first two days, lultitt6 sis
hours only.

CAUTION TO SERVANTA.---011 Wednesday last
very impudent robbery was coma-infra LI the house of
Mr. James Lehey, Norwier-road, K. oningtoti. Tint
servant girl went out On some errand to a sharp in the
neighbourhood, leaving the diver unlatched, and only
just closed, and during her short idssence souse tint f
entered and took I she parlour a WfilOrA•dt•Sk, cols•
Willing 70 vov,:raatise, a 101. now. si:silver 'pubs. and
some tateutorJudumb Tne thief controied lot the rt.
seas, swim sikelual:7 to elude pursuit.
(in Wednesday morning last, about omen ecliptic,
she pans!, talkers of Si. Mary, Islington, received mien.
inat:nii that a man was timidi
n a field near Canotibui
douse. Ois annuli/ at the spot 'll,l s I tile man
guile dead, and press:men a shocking spectacle. Reap-
peared to have been taken out 01 the river by untie per.
tin and left sit she h :Id j his 'sockets were tinned town!.
11,. lie appear's') sere !Weil in the water KWIC hine.
—lie was dressed in a black coat and waincolt, Wise
trnwsers, 1111.avit 61;lelt 1110 and is about 3t) )ears
4 age, and OK feetintb.