The National Register.
London, England, 1815-12-10 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

aer we know no.more than that about five o'clock in the even-
in, a 04 wis heaccl nea.- the three Mies in Thomas-town
demes e, by .11 mail, who on running to the place. found Mr.
Baker tourde ed on the .oad, having been shot through the
body, and also through tie skull : the last shot must have been
ifire,j rl,,se to him, as his cravat was burning, and his face
covered w th gundowder ; lie appeared to have received a des-
perate bl w in the cheek, which was laid open to the bone; the
murderer, or one of them if there we e more, broke his girth in
remounting. and left his saddle behind him on the road.

A reward of 80001. has been offered by the Government of
Ireland, for the discovery of the murderers of Mr. Baker, as
Above stated

THE LAND or PURITY !--New York Papers to the 'list of
October contains a Ilng account of a transacti,m which has
made a great noise in the United States, of which the following
is the substance :—ln the early part of last winter, Governor
Tompkins, on behalf of the United States, applied to the several
banks in Nem York, to advance him the sum 4400,000 dollars,
and to take for their security treasury notes to the amount of
440,000, but was refused lle then applied to the corporation
of the city, to know if the% would receive the same amount -1
treasui y notes and give their own bond to the banks as a secu-
rity fo. the money, The money was wanted for the pay or the
militia, and the Committee of Defence of New York, to whom
the p oposal of Governor ['Dawkins was referred, having re
commended, on. !while grounds, that 'it should be complied
with, it appearing to thein, at the same time, to be attended
with no danger or inconvenience to the banks,.the proposal-was
acce,•ted, with a proviso, that the corporation should be. at
libert \ to %ell he tivasu:y notes, in the event of the money rot
being repaid within a given. time.— l'he comptroller haying ac-
cordingly signed and deposited the corporation bonds with tha
banks, dieW -his cheque for the sum of 400,000 dollars, with
which he W.tited upon the Governor to complete the business,
by dehe ing it, and-receiving treasury not 's. His Excellency
took the check, and observed to the comptroller, that the trea-
sure notes were ready for him in an adjoining room, but that
they wanted endorsement, to 'which operation he was unequal
from fatigue and illness at that time, and being under promtse
to go that night to Albany, requested that they migt lie where
they were until his return, when he would immediately endo.ise
and .ieliver them. The comptroller, taken by surprise, con-
sonted, and his Excellency having got the 400,000 dollars, set
off, and although this transaction took place at last Christmas,
the comptroller has not, up to the present moment? been able
to induce him to redeem his pledge

ExEctiT tos.-Tuesdav J. Binstead, for forgery, and S. Hal-
liday, for burglary, were executed at the front of the Debtor's-
door, Newgate The former uttered a 101. note, purporting
to be of the Chichester Bank, to Mr. Romainis, of Cheapside,
which led at once to a discovery that he was himself the manu.
facturer of the forgery, as well'as many others, all of which he
confessed he had executed with a camel's hair pencil. He was
but 22 years of:age. Halliday was under SO; and it was to his own
concession of the robbery of Mr Nichols, of Edmonton with
whom he had previously lived as a servant; that he owed his eon.
vict ion. • l'he unfortunate man, after rifling the house of a quantity
of plate, carried it to Newgate, to a person in confinement there,
who promised to dispose of it. That person, • however, repre-
struted, that it was subsequently stolen by some of the other
prisoners, and thus Hididay was depi ived of all particiration in
the Korn of his guilt Their conduct, from the time of their
conviction, was exemplary; and since the arrival of their death-
warrant, they exhibited tiw most .Aenuine piety, and happy re-
signation. The previous night they continue,t together in u
ceasing Kaye., and once. Or twice expresied a ‘yisit for the
termination of their fate '11)6 behaviour, upon the'arrivai
of the Slikriff;i, and the preparations for their execution, w.is
strikingly firm, and they ascended the seaftidd withaboldness
seldom witnesed upon similar occasions. They were attended
by 44 ur Dissenting Clergymen, be,ides the Ordinary of the pi
ton. White ()rube scafibld, Qinstead requested that his hands
.night not be applied to perwns who cattle tole rubbed for we:ls.

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FR E.

LIBEL.

Nothing farther can be required to manifest the lamentabli state
of the public disposition, and the Police in Paris, than may be
collected, not only from the tolerance, but the general approbation,
there given to a recent publication, entitled " L' A ngleterre, rue a
Londres, et duns ces Provinces. Par 111. le Mareschel de Camp Pi/lot,
Cher. de St. Louis, et Offieier de la Leg-ion d'Honour."—ln this, audk-
cions work, Gen. Millet enters into a minute account of the laws,
customs and manners of our United Kingdom at large, and into
'the smallest details of the domcsttc and moral ceconomy of caes
class of society ; a task for which his opportunities of observation
particularly fitted him, inasmuch as he can neither write nor speak
a word of English, and had the good fortune, during almost the
whole of his residence in this country, to be an inmate, in close cos-
tody, on board a prison-ship, moored in the river Medway, entitling
himself to this distingahed residence, by having broken, more •
than once, his solemn parole d'honneur ! It was during this confine-
ment, we presume, that he collected the materials of this excellmi
work ; and also found leisure to put to paper several other curious
observations, which he was desirous to have published in England ;
but the general himself gives us to understand, that these essays
looked unluckily like lies, so barefaced and flagitious, that even
Mr. Brougham declined to notice them." One or two extracts
from,this profligate publication will be sufficient to hold up the in-
famy of its author to the abhorrence of mankind.

FRENCH PRISONERS OF WAR.—The General sets out by stat-
ing, " that 150,000 Frenchmen hare polished in tortures ox board oar
prison-ships during the lust two wars." Now, as if is well knows
that not above one in ten of the prisoners has died, the total num.
ber in the prison-ships must have been 1,500,000, and would re-
quire to hold them above 2000 sail of the line, but as not quite
halt' the prisoners ever were confined in ships, it follows that wa
must have taken 3,000,000 prisoners from France in the last 2
years ! of whom not less than 300,000 have died, 150,000 in tortures,
as above-mentioned. In a subsequent passage, M. Pillet thus
supports this general view :
" In the first war, 30,000 prisoners
_died in the course of five
months, of hunger; and I myself saw, at Norman Cross, a little.
corner of burial-ground into which 4000 had been huddled.
Every day hundreds of men died, either starved to death, or poi.voned.
by the bad qualities of the provisions. Out hunger no longer
knew any bounds. We kept the dead bodies of our comrades for
five or six days, that we might draw their rational One day my •
Lord Cordower, Colonel of the Carmarthen militia (quere,Cawdor,)
which was, guarding the prison at Porchester, having occasion to
enter the prsiou, tied his horse to the rails; in ten minutes the
horse was torn to pieces and devoured. When my Lord came out,
he was surprised not to find his horse, and would not believe what
had happened to him, till lie was shewn the bowels and skin, which
a miserable starved wretelifinishrd devouring in his presence ! An
enormous butcher's dog, and indeed every dog which entered the
prison, was eaten in the same way!"

The General seizes the appropriate moment after this recital, to
exclaim--" Truth guides my hand, and the authors of all oar woes
(the English) cannot deny my assertions!!!"—The subseqent ex-
tracts will not improperly hand over this truth-depicting General
to the indignation of our insulted countrywomen.
ENGLISH Womm—Gen. Met, it seems had discovered that
there are born in England three women to one man; and ha
explains this excess in females very satilfactority, as necessary,
not to increase the immense; consumption of women that takes place ;
which mode of consumption, however, he states as a very simple
and effectual one, being no other than thatof murder! Take hi 4
own .voids-
-" The degradation of women (wham the English amiably call the
.nferior species in the creation) has arisen to such a pitch that the.
murder of a married woman by her husband is an event of which the
Tribunals hardly ever think of taking cognizance of, unless some-
times for the parposes of whitewaThing the husband, where the cir-
cumstances oldie case have been so notorious, as to make any noises
Perhaps it will he thought I exaggerate, when I say, that it appears
by the public Papers, between December ISO 7 and June 1813, 171
wives weae murdered by their husbands ; but the fact is as (tertain
as it is easy of proof; but what is surprizing is, that for these 171
murders there was but one person punished ! It is impossible ex-
aetly to cakulqtq the number of secret murders, but one year with
another they must amount to many thousands!"
The General next takes a review of the dress, &c. of our fair
vountrywomen, which, which with his realiar gallantry, is thus
described

L 10.

" Nothing," he says, " is more surprising than the
formity of female dress. The wife of the country _ _
butcher, or labourer are all, like the same classes in London, ladies ;
and the only difference, in the appeniance of these ladies and the
Wives of London gentlemen, is not in favour of the latter as it con-
sists only in their greater slovenliness. The aukwardnesa of all,
in dress and manner being the same, it would be wrong to expect
tOodistineuish the ranks of society by ease or decorum of manners.
English women in •,eneral, no matter of what description, are des,
titnte of grace and taste ; and one may literally say, that no Eng-
lish woman has two left hands."
So much for their appearance: their manners are touched with a
still bolder pencil :
Shoplifting is very much in fashion, as I have just said, bit
more paelicularly amongst ladies of rank.. The shopkeepers of New
Rond-street (the flue Vivienne of Paris) were formerly proud of
visits from those ladies. which, however, they always paid for by
the loss of goods, which the ladies carried off under their petticoats ;
hot the shopkeepers consoled themselves for the loss by th 6. privi-'
lege which they obtained of writing on their signs Milliner to my
lady this or that.' Fhese are incontestible facts !
" Every one may remark, that in an English drawing-room,l
about tea-time, the ladies are Lipsey (extre dEux tans), though they.
are seldom seen to drink more than one little glass of wine at din-
ner. The opportunity for these ladies is, when they retire from
the gentlemen. 'A mysterious temple is destined to the same bac-
chanal uses as the gentleman's dining-room ; agd the only ditlerenee
is the liquor drank—the gentlemen drink Port, Madeira, Clafet,
and Champaiene—the ladies drink only the best French brandy.
" Young ladies are only admitted to this circle of sobriety aftet
a sort of trial, and a certain age, namely, about 40 ; after which
period terry English woman of rank or fashion gets drunk every
night of her lite, under pretence of keeping the wind out of her
stomach !
" The virtue of the English women is that of slaves ; it lasts just
as long as the watchfulness of the beast to whom they may have
been inarried.—p. 35.
" The cause. of that general spirit of licentious intrigue, of
in which girls of all classes live in England, is to be found
in the difficulty of marriages, and the manner in wihich those mar-'
sieges arc undertaken. In France we have a proverb, that' a girl
should wait till she is asked;' precisely. the contrary maxim pre,
vail3 in England. Ate the young women live in a state of 'neon-,
tinenee.; and neither the peasant, the squire, nor the Lord, has
ever the least scruple in the choice of a wife from what may have
occurred previously to marriage,
" The least dissolute class of women in England are,• undoubt-
edly, trailing-women in great families, who speculate on marrying
the young Lord, or some old rich gouty voluptuary, if they keep a
k Led of character."
'We have, perhaps, ventured too far in oar quotations on this
subject • but we assure our Readers solemnly, that we dare not
even allude to half the crimes that Gen. Pillet charges against all
the women of England.
Who that throws his eye ever so carelessly over this abominable
publication but must regret to perceive that a work, so violating
all morals and decency, should have been tolerated even in France;
in France, the Royal Family and NObility of which are bound to
ti•is country by the most sacred ties of private and national hoipi-
talily and friendship—in France, Whose boast it used to be, that
her sons. were brave in the field, amiable in society, generous even,
in their enmities, and chivalrously respectful to the softer sex. It
who is the very reverse of this elm-
is a bad sign, that a wretch,
racter, should dare to off(l.r such a work to the eyes of society. To
say that the book is popular, would. be to attribute to France al-
most as great a laxity of morals as Gen. Pillet attributes to Eng-
land; for no modest eye can look on its pages without shame aud
horror : and we cannot but lament the fate of the King of France,
and tremble for the stability of his throne, when he rinds himself
obliged to maintain such a stigmatised liar, a wretch so lost to all
sense of truth, honour, and manhood, in the rank of Major-General
of his army, alid as a night ( poi/ puelor ;) of the Royal and kb.
minable Q;.der of St. Louis'!

POLICE.

as a depository. for goods intended for Sale by
under the care of a young man who slept in
On Thursday, evening the warehouse was locked up with two p4d-
lpeks, and the keys were conveyed to Mr. Vibe 'a horse, n Diana—
lane. As six o'clock, the young man who usually slept in the ware-
house went there, and found the locks broken, and the cbior open.
Hearing some steps within, he pulled the dpor to. and called for
help. Upon this, a hackney coach, which stood a little waif above
the premises was driven off. The person within the warehouse
;pow fastened himself in. A gentleman• having come to the young
man's assistance, a crow-bar was sent for to force it open.. While
waiting for this, the prisoner opened the door and attempted to
eicape ;he was immediately seized however, and secured. On
tearching the warehouse no (dime person was found; •but three
pieces of Irish linen, three pieces of tombazeen, and two pieces of
'printed cotton were missed. The prisoner, it appears, is a noto-
rious house-breaker, and only very lately diScharged iron New-
gate, where he was under sentence of death for a burglary, in Bil-
leter-lane, hut escaped upon a point of law. There are several
other charges against him, and he is known to be connected with a
desperate gang. He is but a young man. He declined saying
any thing In his defence, and was fully committed for trial at the
present Sessions.

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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

On Tuesday, Francis Harvey, an assistant, formerly tinder Mr.
Greenwood, the painter of Drurr:Lane. Theatre, and residing in
Tavistock-row, Covent-Garden, was tried for asiaulting MM-ia
Stratford, his maid servant, under the failiriviiig cireumstztuce's :
The prOsecutrix, a girl about 16, deposed, that being sent with a
sixpence to buy some deg's meat, she obtained the latter upon
credit, and with the sixpence purchased some food for herself ; the
cause whereof she explained by stating, that she could not eat the
meat allotted to her on the Sunday, it was in so putrid a condition ;
and also because her mistress had said, that she should have no
Other nourishment until size first ate the.meat she had refused. 04
the Wednesday following it wad discovered that the dog's meat KU
obtained upon credit, and that she had bought food fur herielf
' with the sixpence ; wheretipon, at eight O'clock at night, when her •
master, the defendant, caine home, he was made acqaainted thereof
by his wife ; and he ordered the witness to go; up stairs to the gar.
ret, where he himself unpinned her gown, made her take it off, and,
upon her reflising to strip herself any more, he tore all the rest of
!titer garments off, leaving nothing upon her but her shoes,
stockings, and cap, and in that naked state, tied a cord about her
wrists, which he fastened to a peg over her head, and then, with a
large birch rod, beat her from her neck to her loins and thighs
until the noose in the rope gave way, and she fell on the floor. Her
cries were incessant; all the neighbours heard them, and they in.
terfered.—The Jury found the defendant Guilty.—The Court de,
ferred passing judgment until another day.
At the above Sessions on Thursday, a curious and important air.
peal was determined. John Nash, a pauper, had rented a house
for more than twenty years, standing partly over a drain in the
hamlets of Acton and Hammersmith; the greatest nicety was re,
quired, as to which of the two he was now to become chargeable
on. Messrs. Gurney and Adolphus displayed much ingenuity, the
former for Acton. A model of the house was produced,fts well as
one of the bed-rooms in which the pauper slept; the length of the
bed was two feet nine inches and a halt atihe top, and three feet
five inches and a half at the bottom, making the bed room six feet
three. The room being in both parishes, the question was to which
parish should he belong. The Court (Mr. Watson and Mr. Scrjeaut
Sellon) preshming that the body, when stretched ant, would have
' it.s greater proportion in that part of the room which belonged to
Acton, ordered the appeal to be allowed; thereby fixing the settle-
ment in Acton.

THE NATIONA,Ie RsCOT.Tgli
su the hideous 'Rai II by the prosecutors, a
shoemaker, shoaker, Auction, iind was