The National Register.
London, England, 1823-03-02 00:00:00

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Oporto is now open to the admission of foreign
',rain. About one thousand six hundred tons had
arrived, but such is the extent of the wants of the
country, that it produced little or no impression on
the markets. It is expected that Lisbon will also be
opened. Barcelona, we have .reason to believe, is
likewise open. There is no doubt but that scarcity
exists in all the provinces of Spain and Portugal, so
that our warehouses will BOOR be relieved of bonded
grain.

A public dinner is to be given next week to their
Excellencies the Ministers Plenipotentiary from
Spain and Portugal, and to the Duke of Sun Lc.
rens(); the It':;itt lion. Lord William Dentinek,
Lieutenant-General, M.P., &c. in thedeliair. The
object of the intended dinner, it is understotal, is to
demonstrate on the part of the British public their
~:•rticipation in the sympathy expressed by both.
!louses of Parliament in the fate of the Spanish
Peeinsula.
A rcquisi:ion to the High Sheriff of 7Essex, to
c, uvene a meeting of the county, .to tate into con-
sidetation the ii,tressed state of r.pietilture, is in
the course of siganture. Various resolutions have
I 'en mimed by the authors of it, together with the
rou;lt drait of a petition to Parliament.' The re-
qu '•itionists compleic, that for some vents the receipts
of a Coin have be-n, and still are, wholly inadequate
to Ole expellees; so much an, us to cause the utter
iGin of thousandr of farmers, and rapidly exhaust
the capitol of the most opulent and intlusti;ous. The
petition urges the Hou.e to take their case into
consideration, and the chief object of their
prayer is the total repeal of the malt duty.
Mr. John Gunn, at the Ship Inn, in Halsted,
E sex, has at this time in Lis pusscesion a black and.
white hog, of the true Essex blOek ; was bred on his
own pretnivs, is not quite three years old, stands
very near four feet high; is computed, by a •eom-
petent judge, to weigh-50 stone, 141 b. to the stone;
and it is still so very thrifty at to be expected to fat
n a slat time to 60 stone
Last week, as Jr. Rudd, stn opulent fa-mer, at
Snaterton, was returning home from Harking,
cuing to the datkness of the night he lost his mad,
and the chaise was overturned Not returning bane
at the time appointed, his family became alarmed'
for his safety, ant: rai—nis were dispatched with
I interns to search the lead. The horse was found
in a ditch, and the chaise bro Len to pieces; Mr. It.
was found at some disi time, hating apparently been
thrown out ; he was aiiye, but 110 much hurt that
lie lvnguished fur oeveral days, and then died.
The Ga.:elle of Saturday night contains'au Order
"in Council, dated Friday, Feb. 21, revoking ti ihrmer
order, which prohlhiled fur ids months, from Nov.
15, the transportation of "arms and ammunition to i
any port or place within the dominions of the Kipg
of Spain, or to any port or place on the couskof
„Africa or in the West Indira."
MIRA 1/PITL A cetnENT,--Extract of ti lettCT, dated
Newcastle upou-Tyne, Feb. "40.—" Ii is with much pain that
acquiiitit you with the following accident which
took place at our theatre hers yesteirmy coening. Shortly
aver the commencement of the second act of Tom and
tine of the gas-liglits ie the third box Crom the stage, on tie
light side of the house, by some miachance, bud set fire to the
wood wed: that enclosed the pipe. The cun'equcnce was an
immediate and unmensured attires of the I ' pervaded the
house. pariirolaily the willery, which, unfoitanaiely, was
•ery much crowded. Notwitlistasiling it was soon apparent to
the company in the boxes and the pit(buill of which pieces
were thinly that there was little or no danger to be ap-
prehended, the pmple in the gallery were not to he tranquil-
reed. NVofully distrtssin ; was the result—eight ludivkluals
were literally Loiltlen to death! There are two younxi women
of the name of Green and Johnson ; a MIA. Riddell Itolnion
(the ware of a resp?rtable Wilder, who himself escaped with
some vel•y terrible Incise.), a line youth, nxed about 14, son
to Mr. Wilkinson; the veterinary surgeon ; a young man, of
the name of Handasytle, aged about IS, nun to Mr. 11. the
bookibinder ; an elderly petatta of the Data, Or Ell Ward*, •
cenerinan, to Messrs. Lander and Co., spirit dealers; a poi-
son et' the name or Ilitatun, belonging to Gateitheml ; and a
atr.i.tger, a stout man, apparently between folly and Idly years
-of age. Of cosine several ale wbulided. l hese not learnt
the excel number; but 1 would fain persuade myself, front
what I have bend, dist the cathealties that wayore fewer than
might have"licen expected, where su many linen !lave been
lost. It is naturelly•inferred, that though the seasun is saarcely
half over, the theatre win nut be opeuded again till next win-
ter. •
A most shocking and diabolical rape and murder were

committed int Thur..?..y last, near Coombe-hill, in the
the p-rish of CUUMUC St. Nicholas, near Chatil, on the
person oh a girl, aged 14 years, who had her throat -cut
,-from ear to ear. .She had bsen to Wilmot to see her
sister, and was oil her room home to ittickland, about
half-pat three o'oclock, when the der was cot 1111 l it..
tett. Site had a basket of various articles with her when
Lund (wlvch was inn till Sunday itionsing, her friends
not hostingmulearty imptiryfor her, supposing she had
Leen detained by tier stater), which articles remained
untunched,.as well as her clothes, Suspicion falls on
two ill-looking vagrants; dressed like sailors, who were
seen on the road about the dine the poor unlortunate
siel.ntiost have met with her untimely end. Our cor-
respondent infurins us, that ite had jest been the surgeon
who _had been to inspect the body, 'net lout to AU inquest
being held on 0, and he is 01 opini,lll that, Irmo the
effectual manner in which the throat is cut, the head
being nearly severed front the body, that two persons
must have assisted in 'the muttler. The sorgeott also
says, the person of the poor &r 1 had been ctv leutly vio-
lated.