The National Register.
London, England, 1819-05-17 00:00:00

THE .NATIONAL REGISTER.

lected my man. 11e had been pt.:vote tutor to my I
erica.' at eullep, and had travelled with
which he has an annuity. He also got a living
ft tat the young Member's uncle. The whole secret
W• 18 now unravelled!-1 recognised the hand-
writing of the Greek translations and pc ceived
that the tutor had just been giving his lesson to his
pupil previous o his goitt,; down to Ct., house.—
The short-hand writer had been employed to note
down the speech, and the Editor's runner called to
take the materials tir a puff. The Reverend has
greet hopes of his patron's shining, end still greater
expectations of getting promotion through the im-
mense property and extensive interest of the family
an‘i its connexions. Whet the seholar male a
blunder, it was natural fur the tutor to look con-
; just as it was nothing surprising to see him
exult in the expertness of his young tyro.
Although toe privilege of proxy belong alone to
the upper house, yet the practice may thus be indi-
rectly applied to the lower one. We have many
authors and senators behind the curtain, who lend
out their abilities !o riches and to power ; and thus,
in more instances than the present one, is the chats
meter of eloquence acquired, and the author's wreath
is worn by h m who never earned it. Our tutored
members, however, seldom or ever speak in reply ;
and our nominal authors rarely allow themselves to
be drawn into oral argument; whilst the secret
hand may aspire, at a future period, to lawn sleeve ,
and to tukiug his seat quietly in the upper house.
THE HERMIT IN LONDON.

A BIFNCE Or MIND.—The justly celebrated Lea-
sing was frequer.:ly very absent Having missed
money at different times without being able to dis-
cover who took it, he determined to put tiie honesty
of his servant to a trial, and left a handful of gold
on his table. "Of course you counted it ?" said
one of his friends. Counted it ?' said Leasing, ra-
ther embarrassed, no; 1 forgot that.'—The fol-
lowing is a similar trait. In a public sale there was
a book which Leasing was very desirous of possess-
ing. He gave three of his fri,:nds, at different times,
a commission to buy it at any price. They accord-
ingly bid against each other till they had got as tar
as 90 crowns ; there having been no other bidder
after ten crowns. Happily one of them thought
it best to speak. to the others, when it appeared that
they Icel all been bidding for Lessing, whose forget-
fulness in this instance Cost hint 80 crowns.

An old German Knight, in the Cost half of the
15th century, when enormous goblets were among
the chief ornaments of the rooms and tables of the
nobles, sat once at table next to his young wif:: in a
utm:rous company, where the brittle %vent t tuition-
ally round, and a large goblet was to be emptied
each time, on pain of being contemned as a false
brother by the guests, who were used to be very
strict in this point. The wife, who had received
a more polished education, whispered to her husintrul,
when it again came to his turn to empty an enor-
mous glass, to pour the wine secretly under the ta-
ble. " Ihe others will see it," said he. I lis
therefore, jut as he was raring the glass to ks
mouth, stout:Al out the candle, and repeated her re •
quest. Instead of complying, he said with a kind
of solenmity, " God sees it," and emptied his
goblet.
I)KEADPUI. FIRS AND RATENSIVE RoNDeNIES.--03
Friday lour olog.about two o'clock, t most alarming tire
broke out in tile house of Mr. surgeon, No. 13,
Dover-street, Piccadilly, which thri:w the tleighbourboud
into ;peat confusion. The watchman OD going his !minds
disco% eted smoke issuing trout the 'OWL r wiiitlowit, and
un looking through di:c.xeri.ll the place all in a blaze_
He made au alarm, and the family arose, but their pas-
s.ige wad iireventeti by the immense body or coati-
log up toe stilly:lse ; they rewriter! to the steeping roam
on the second Hoor, and Mr. Short got out of use is in-
dow and slid down the water-spout by the side of the
house, and so made his escape with trithog it.jury. in
the wean time tile other persons at tile upper part of the
house got oit the tiles, and Wade their way through Mr.
Stevens's house in their night dresses; one of the servants
leaped from the liist-fli;or window, (having no other
mean, of escape) and was very minim bruised. In a short
hate seter:ll engines oil tie sisit, but finite wit
a great Sc.:fell of water for Axon :iu hour,
iieviu:l the house was burnhig with errol soil
did iJeat ilatmiae to the house or Mr. Kitelting, gold-
smith stud jet, eller, sod likewise to th.tt of Mr. Stevens,
who lost maid' property. Mr. Soon, &c. look refuge at
a frtenti's house in the neighootationd. lly six Weirs:A
the house of fir Short was burned to the ground, wiin
the property wines is considerable. Mr. Short is insu
During the eutifi.i4ration, a forin Wahl e gang of notorious
cillauts con:witted serious depredation; with
They slurounded the house of slr. Ferguson, No. 11, iu
I)(4er-street, shortly alter the fire commenced, and wider
pretence 4:li:inning the family, :Ind to assist it, tetilov,
ing their goods, they forced open the parlour will:low-
slutotert, swathed tile is unlows, and entered the loise.
The Tuohy sot up mid Earl out, thinking their house was
on fire. 'the thieves availeci themselves of the coutosion
arid broke ep-is a large chest of dra wtts, and stole 10E.

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iii bank notes, SU goitre's in gold, sovereiisot, Ste silk
dre,s, an f ot.i4tr vain ilk: pri.:).:rly, with %%Melt they
got el. ai off. It ieral miter hriot,ts were sobbed by per-
liill4 WWI rut: Aided to assist in saving the properi, and
oral sons had their pockets imk..d.
Co it ofs e lit 0u tST.—Au 1 itcpitstt lon was taken on
Friday night at Otiose Tii s Shelton,
Esq. Cormier, at tit., Mare Tat erti. re.coor.,
street,'on the bolt of Mr. Thomas Uolt Gregson, a gym.
tleinan of COlisiJeraltle Iltetaty actporeinent,, wilt) pot
an end to his exisiettre sday I ,at, by
cutting his 111,1.11.—'!.1r. John Cole, Segeoti, litisselt-
street,Cove,tt-e waled that he visited the deceased
s.'ae :n' Mitre Tat ern, lie w as
of great hie, he told him th it he had hero .triitking
for sevoral days to great excess, and his struitacti was so
had that food would riot stay upon it; his oral was
burning ; ne r ire him some medicine, hitt his de-corder
was so great, that his efforts were meffectuat. 'I he de-
ceased was ve,y delirious, and he tecvntimended mitire
to remain with him all night, tinder the iJca that he
might du himself wine injury; he called to see him on
the Thursday looming, anti Vas told lie ...as dead. 4,1
'Mills, of Lamb-, mat, Fleet-street, stated that ,i.e was
engaged 10 sit tip wltil deceased, on Wettoesday
night; lie insiited upon her beat tog the romii ; 'OM
ill-
ionued the landlady, who told her to go home, and
come in the morning. The deceased did tint appeal
rips iii his head on Wednesday inght.—John
waiter at the Mitre, stated, that tile deceased cattle to
lodge at that house on Tuesday; lie had laved there three
weeks, about six weeks ago, and his letters it err directed
there from his triends iti the country. lie assisted the
deceased into bid, on Wednesday night ; he talked in-
coherently, anti fancied persons were in the room to do
illlll s iOletlee, Ai a little after 12, he (wittiest) went 10
his apitilltellt. to give Min hit medicine, and fonttd hint
011 the Lae, with his legs under min, his throat cut with
a small desert knife, which AV4II in his right hand, bloody
—tie was quite dead ; Dr. Anderson was called in.—
Mr. Henry Gregson, the deceased's brother, was ex-
amined, lie said the deceased had been melancholy
for two years, and some time ago was CMlfilled in a strait
waistcoat ; he was-thirty years of age --Verdict—r' Cut
his throat in a state of insanity."
Thursday, 'an in t(MeV was taken at Acle, in'Norfolk,
before John Pilgrim, Gent. Coroner, on the body of
Francis .wets, who was killed the preceding day in
consequence of his falling from the shafts of a waggon
on which he was riding, arid the wheels passing mer
his head. It appeared in eiidenee that this poor man,
wi.o was servant to Mr. :Miles, of Burlingham, bt.t a
short time since paid the penalty for riding on the shafts
of his master's waggon, and has twice fallen front it,
each taste ila wheels passing over hint, but the waggon
being empty, he di I not receive much injury.—Verdict,
Accidental Death.

On Tuesday mornitH, about one o'clock, an alarm of
foe v. throuAlt Bury, and it was disco% ered mat
the w crksii.)ps at the back cl Mrs. Faster'. Louie,
situate in St. Andrew's-street, wire in flomns. No
time was lost in rullittifiniiq the firemen, and fl‘e
engines were speedily on the spot. At this time the
contionation was terrible, and had extended to the
ward-souse of Mr. Fenton, broker, and to a stable
belongine to Mr. Bird. Little hopes were entertained
ni 541ing tke long range of adjoining premises,. but
fortunately tie night was calm, an I by the most meri-
tortis exertions a coffaitesvos pidleti down, to bre ik
uFi Ille COMlllunication on one side. and a i:.ond supply
of water to the engines clu eked tie progress at the mho'.
The tire was by this meads confined to the three build-
ings, which, however, weir burnt to the ground before
four o'clock, when the ravages of the frichtfol element
ceased. A number of gentlemen assisted in the !shows
of the scene, and many females of respectability exerted
their utmost dilieence m obtaining water. Most of the
propertyileitroved
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On Wednesday morning, at half oast seven o'clock
an accident occurred at Craven Place, Bayswater,
which proved fatal to a young man about 1.0 years
of age, named West, who was thrown from a chaise
cart. The deceased, accompanied by another man,
the proprietor of the cart, a Mr. Mims, were pro-
ceeding to town, but on their arrival near the above
mentioned place the horse became restive and ungo-
vernable, add ran away, but becoming cntaiiLled in
the nias, the cart was overturnA, and ch.: micurtii- •
nate young man was precipitalcd opal a hank by thsr
road side, and his head curaing in cunttict iiith a
stone, lie received a I ontuaion, trhich terniinated hii
existence in a few minutes. Ilia companEon was
dangerously hurt.
DONNELLY AND Otter.a.--Tuciday bc!ng th
day appointed for a &posit for Donnell: stud Oli!er,
the &line was ol.scrved over a ;4•euti or, in
other words, a dinner, at o:ieer's. The much
was made for '2OO ;ilium, and to tight on the ITtlt
July, a stand-up in n f,:et roiyll square.
Carter, the ptigi!ist, teems ti• Imre a !it range t,mcy
to have himself well heat. lc cit rest to fight
Spring again, wilo.w lateiy pmashed aim. Spring
very properly ilk:cline:l, because victory could be nu
honour.

. On Friday morning a fine about 10 years
of age, was run over 1w a W,N;gcvn at the corner of
Duke-street, M;:oe!,istcr-Nt.-1:c. It ;Ippk:lrs s!ie ‘v.is
enacavourini; to Loch :t .1. Itiqg i.i the
to.mako what :ho children cali-spieakets, %slant her
foot slipping, slbc cL;I under the %died, which vinii
over neck, can3o her hut:: "

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.LONDON, MONDAY, .111AY 17.
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Ye•acrilay we received the Parisfapers or 'Thurs.
,day Lot. The 1:i1 g, on 11'..ttnesday, heard Mass
,in his apartments, and afterwards presided. st a
-Council of his Ministers. The Court of Astinesat
ti'atitia•busily,esigsged in tlaa•t dal of Count 'Med.
,fret an .1 Cantata', charge.l with haring conspired to
.cssessinate the•Dakoof U'ellingron.. The sitting
„no the third day was chiefly occupied with hearing
Atte evidence of -Count Woreneaff, 4We-du-Gasp
;(Iteneral,ao the•_Emperor ofilussia. ,kgrnat part of
anhich mites, tn, his conversation with Lord-Kin-
.naird on she, subject. Further proceedings were
raid'ourued to Wednesday....-Tbe,state of commove
,of theoisle of Bourbon is represented to be so,
itepreued, that European goods have-latelpsold at 1
_fifty per cent. The French five per cents. 'lea off
on Wednesday at 661,Sic. Bank Stook, 1,507 E 50e.

A Dutch Mad arrived yesterday afternoon with
.pepers to the 12th instant. The following Arc

•eitrxcts:

COPRIIH4GET, APRIL 27.
ne :rain that the K:4; of Sweden intrude to No, afler the
camp breaks VP, to tabr t.e PC:I t at Holtlewalla.
Yestroday a CO:Hier arrie• d from St. Petershutgb, who
came u it by tht way of Stock holm.

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent left
Carlton-house about 3 o'clock yesterday I.fternoott
:for Windsor.

Helga:: 'rapers Arrived o'► Saturday to the 20th
of April. The House of Assembly, on the Ist,
voted 16001. in support of the fisheries, to make up
-the deficiency -irt the amount appropriated fur boon-
ties by the late House. The Bill for the establish-
ment of a Commercial Bank•lras passed the House
of Assembly. The sum of 1000/. has been voted
for the erection of a Ceilege in Halifax, agreeably
to the reCommendation of the Governor, at the
opening of the Session. On the .►;7th the General
assembly wets prorogued to etlus fifth .July.
Saturday niaetee►► hundred thousand ounces of
silver, consisting of Spanish •tioilars and five•franc
.pieces were conveyed from the Bank to the Decks
at Blackerall,.beloaging.% the East India Company,
-and put on board the -several vutwardebound Kest
ludiarnen for Bombay, Bengal, and.Ckina.
-were in strong wooded boxes,. ►ach box cuntainieg
6000 ounce:.