The National Register.
London, England, 1820-08-28 00:00:00

VIE NATIONAL REGISTER..

having again collected, about 3,000 troops, of whiebslo
we:e cavalry, entered the principal gate of the city from
the royal palace, prepared for immediate scaling. A
,umber of respeetatile who foresaw the con-
sequences of this step, am-tooted to prevail on the coot•
onsider tit the troops to retie, but it wooLf appear (a-
has since tratispired) that he had positive orders fruit,
the V seer roy to andel:Ate people, and compel them to gig t
op their arms. Tout Ole soldiers might has• every
encmcraaeßtelit, they were promi-ed a pillage of
iite clay tor three saccess:se days ill Cill3C of surces. Soon
alive e;glat o'clock, a wank, by name Giaciainio Vaglica,
wild :en his come:it to join use peaiple, fell tIOWiI on his
' ktwes before the commander of toe troops, and begged
Imo to spare the people. Oil his refusing to lisitio to
any terms, tile Monk ordered the people to fall bat k to
the sides of the I sill. when °biennia the commander
gas tog orders to tire a peer al artillery, he took a musk, t,
and shut the man dead who 'was applying the match
Toe tigliiing immediately •need, alai coniiiiised
wilt hide intettnistion iilt hall past two p. m. when the
troops were rooted in every direction. The C 1141.1351011 al
11118 time in toe et' y cannot be desernied; toe gr,
goitliaty of dead bodies and wounded, both soldiers and
citizens, that were lying aIXJ:It in the was dread-,
ful to look at; the people stripping isle prisoners of their
emitting, and burnaitg eveiy ming; a impost:ace of lull
JO,OOO aimed oleo, .rimisitig about and cutumiuiug all
kinds of excesses? tile riligitig of the whole of the bells
as the city lot smithy; the °Moog of cannon and the
firing of muss, ts, allogetiter was such a scene as 1 hope
lacier agalll to mime,,,,. A great number of sohli;:rs 11,:d
auto she country, wiiere they were limited sod shut a:
by the peas: y like wild beasts. the 18111, the
peap:e basing fordald ail the gabs of the coy, a
gri at 'mantic( or tile cannon were lound spiked ; ate trail.
ors, howes er, were thsetweied, and three persons, one
of °mom was Mince Aei, 11)111.110T IlVadS. 0., 1110 19. h
.1 1111111aallsa ;:u,erlhlleat rid Inrdied, condrung of 10
of toe princips! 'mutiny, 10 citizens, and 71 consuls of
ddlerelit trades. • A deputation sails tills ev.matig fur
Naples, 111 miler to negociale the independence tat the
a, heat, the Si Lana will out list.ni to being made a
prost•,ce of Naples."
A letter from Naples, of the recent date of the
Bth inst , states, that the deputation from Palermo,
•consisting of eight members of the Provisional
Junta, to negotiate for the independence of Sicily,
returned on the 6th, with a refusal on the part of
the Neapoliton Government.
The following is an extract of a letter from the
Agedt to Lloyd's at Gibraltar, dated the Sd inst.
"Intelligen,e has been received here, that the 91-
gerine Squadron has returned to Algiers, after cap-
turing three Tunisian and three Tuscan vessels: the
plague still exists at that place. By letters re-
ceived from"Majore-a, it appears that the plague is
now raging in the villages of San Severn, Arta,
San Lorensci, and Cap de Peril; but it is thought
it will nut spread flintier, as the best precaations
are taken, by drawing a cordon around the infected
villages, the duty of which is performed exclusively
by officers, who mount guard themselves."
Itithin the recollection of many Gentlemen now
at the Bar, the following circumstance occurred in
the Court at Carlisle :—A H goiander was (under
the firm of oath us adminis,ered its the English
Courts) giving such evidence, in a particular cause,
as convinced every one who heatd him that he was
giving Ease testimony. It wits suggested by tile
opponent Counsel, that he should be sworn after
the custom of the Highlanders, viz. that he should
hold up his right hand, and imprecate curses upun
himselt and all his connections, if what he was
stating was not true.—Alter this was done, the
wily witness declined giving a word of the same
evidence, ahreudly observing, " that there was a
hantle of difference boween blowing on a buke
(book)( and d—ning a mun's aim saul."
A whale, of the liner species, but much larger
than common, had run itself ashore on one of the
sand banks at the mouth of the Tay. Early on
Sunday sennight it was discovered by two of the
ferry-pilots, in East Pool, below the light-house,
in about four feet of water. After the surprise of
the pil..ts was abated, they proceeded to secure the
fish by puttirg out its eyes with the boat•hoJk, and
inflicting several deep wounds with their knives—
On Tuez.day it was brought up the river to one of
the whale y arils. The extreme length of the whale
is 501 i f..et ; the largest cireunaterenee,•2s feet ;
length of the aperture of the mouth, 10 feet t
breadth across the tail, 10 feet; weight by calcu-
lation, ulmut 25 tons; and it is supposed that it
will produce about two tons of nil.
The reumeut of the hulk or vessel belonging to
the Police Establishment from Somerset-Louse to
without auv notice, wad the employment
of the !liver Putrule to protect the Italian witnesses
aidged at Cotton-yard, has afforded an opportunity
to the river pirates to renew their depredations upon
the public. On Wednesday night a desperate gang
of thieves boarded a barge lying at the Southwark
Midge, and succeeded in robbing her of four valu
übte puelegcs, besides making iotempts upon others.
Surely, if the service of the State on this occasion
r, quires the empluyntent of the p:ice wateitmen
for any oth.cr Limn their ri.gular duty, the public
has a rigid to expect that mlditional hands should
be enguged,litseems otherwise a neglect of the pub-
lie secuc..y.

A person is in custody, who heretofore was not a
suspected character, charged on suspicion cf passing
fiirged notes. On searching some apartments in the
neighbourhood of Lawrence-lane, two hundred it.
notes were found, and sixty forged 51. notes. In
Newgate there are seventy more prisoners for trial
at present, than there were at this time last year,
many of whom are for passing forged notes. It is
much to be lamented that the manufacturers and
fabricators of spurious bank mites cannot be dis-
covered.
The telegraph at the Horse Guards communicates
to the King, at his retreat in Windsor Great Parks
the proceedings in the House of Lords every half
hour. As his Majesty receives his infiirmation only
from his own servants, it is possible that he is not
made acquainted with the agitation that prevails in
the country.
Relief to Ship-owners.—By a recent Act of Par.
liament (Ist Geo IV. cap. IS) it is enacted, that
nothing its the laws in force "shall extend to re.
qiiire any license or bond, or to forfeit any boat for
want thereof, which shall belong to any square..
rigged ship or vessel, on account of the dimensions
or construction of such boat, provided such boat is
with the ship or vessel, or employed on the duty or
service of the ship cr vessel to which it may belong.'
BILL STICKEns.—The public in general are per-
haps not aware of a very important Act which was
lately passed, viz. cap. 56 of the present Session, by
which persons who shall willfully or maliciously do
or commit any daniage, injury, or spoil, to er upon
any building, or to or upon any real or personal
property of any nature or kind whatsoever, are sub-
ject, on conviction before one Justice within four
calendar months, to a penalty of 51. and in default
of payment, may be committed to hard labour for
three calendar months. Aud the offender may be
aprehended in the act by any constable, or the
owner of the building or his servants, without any
warrant.

Murder and Robbery.—At an early hour on Wed.•
nesday morning, us some labourers were crossing
the marshes at Temple Mills, near Lea Bridge, they
we►e alarmed at hearing deep groans, as if some
person in distress, and on proceeding to an adjacent
ditch, near a small pond of w .ter, to ascertain the
cause of them, they discovered a crorpulent respect.
ably dressed m.tn, apparently a foreigner, about 40
years of age, lying in it. He was quite a; eechless;
his clothes, which were torn in many places, were
stiff with clotted blood, both his eyes were black, his
titce much swelled, and his features disfigured from
the many deep wounds which were inflicted on va-
rious parts of the head —He was taken to the hos-
pital, and expired next morning. On Saturday last
a Coroner's inquest sat on the body, and returned a
verdict of " Wilful Murder against some person or
persons unknown."