The National Register.
London, England, 1820-03-26 00:00:00

BOARD OF EXCISE.

CAUTION TO TEA-I)EALERS.-111,iity grccors and
tea-dealers were summoned to answer Inr having stuck
uncut their premises without pesunts. One hid s ven
pounds of tea more than Was permitted. lie stated,
Jiat the chests were smtletimes heavier and soillettlilett
lighter than they were stated to he. Uisin a former °e-
ra:atm he had received a cites, seven lighter titan
he hail paid for, and the Intuwiel tneaplus *Vas to be ac.
eollllled for by that cir-uttistance. Nit u itiA was mart
ciiiwiton than such a alt alit! Ite did not know how
lie was to be ; met'.
To Court —" The case by no means to,iks like a
.rantlident one, lust the tea most he condemned, for
what security can we have that the duty has been
Tea-I)e.iler.—" ; am a wholesale dealer, and subject
to this nernetitally.—.l%ll.—W hat am I to dos"
Court.—" ‘Veign es ery chest, and ch age for
and refuse to take over-measure. YOul
ran-
ttut he a Inver by this Plait."
The tea was con d. tx•naltV remitted.

Mr. and Mrs. Bartley.—The following is an
extract from The National Advocate, a New York
newspaper, of the 21st Jan. last.—" We learn from
a letter from Harttitrd, Conn., that after Mr. anti
Mrs. Bartley had concluded their admired readings
from the best authors, the State s Attorney pre-
.-ented them with several writs, under the law of
the State, prohibiting " Theatrical Exhibitions!"
and arrested them. _

HORRID MURDER.—A murder of a peculiarly
atrocious character was perpetrated in the liberty of
Bilston, Siaffiirdshire, a short time since. A woman,
named Mary Martin, and her intent natural child,
were missed, about a month since, and some time
after their bodies were fbund in the Birmingham
canal, near Bradley, with such evident marks of
violence upon theni as to leave no doubt of their
having been wilfully murdered. The event natu-
rally excited a strong sensation in the neighbour-
hood, and as several circumstances tended to criminate
a man named Abel Rill, by whom the woman bad
the child, and by whom she was again far advanced
in pregnancy, he was apprebeaded and lodged in
prison. Au Inquest has been held at Ililstun upon.
the woman, and the Coroner's Jury,. after three
days of most anxious and minute investigation;
turned a verdict of Wilful .%;urder against Hall,
who has been committed fur trial at the Summer.
Assizes.
The King arrived at his palace in Pall Mall,
from Brighton, on Thursday afternoon, and on.
Friday his Majesty held a Court, which was na-
-1 merously attended. The Prince Philip of Hesse
Homlxiurg, who had been sent on a special mission'
from the Emperor of Austria, Prince Esterhazy,.
the Austrian ambassador, Baron Fagel, the ataiias.
sailor from the Netherlands, the Bavarian unit Swe-
dish ministers, and Baron. Langsdof. the• -minister
front Baden and Hesse, "WIC severally intin:luced,
and presented to his majesty, from their respective
sovereigns, letters of condolence on the decease of
his majesty, and of congratulation on his present
majesty's accession tow the throne.
fire lord mayor and sheriff of Dublin attended
with a similar address ; the sheriff was knighted..
The Persian ambassador had his audience of
leave. _ _

At a council held afterwards, the common ser-
geant made the report of the convicts under sen-
tence of death, in the absence of the recorder, who
s indisposed.
There is alarge hollow oak trce now standingen
the Court Farm, near Pont-y-pool, the property ut
Capel Hanbury Leigh, Esq, the cavity of which is
large enough to have lately contained two gentle-
men on horseback ; one of whom rode in, turned
his horse round, and returned, without dismounting.
Mr. Williams, the present tenant, has not untie-
quently fed six or seven calves in it, in the winter.
On Thursday evening, about nine o'clock, ins
alarming fire broke out on• the premises of Messrs.
Gye and Balne, printers, Gracechurch-street, arid
raged with considerable fury till the arrival of the
engines, which stopped the otherwise rapid progress
which it was making; us it is, we understood great
damage has been done to a group of out-houses and
back premises. We have not as yet learnt the un-
fortunate cause of its occurrence.
A woman wAs found dead in her bed at Versailles
on the l-fah ()Nt.'s month. Her death was at first
attributed to apoplexy, but upon close inspection of
the body, they discovered tibiae the left breast a
wound almost imperceptible, which appeared to have
been made with a strong needle. The body was
opened, and they fintnd the heart had been punc-
tured. A considerable quantity of Wain' had flowed
into her chest. The ponce are in search of the per-
petrator of the crime.
The Court of Assize at Paris, on Thursday, was-
occupied with a suit which had been instituted
against the authors of a publication entitled Lctires-.
Normandes, containing some offensive remarks on
the tibervance of the funeral ctremonit s of the :.?1:4
January, in commemoration of the decapitation of
Louis XVI. They were condemned to one month's
imprisonment, and a line of 1,000 f. each.

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