The National Register.
London, England, 1817-08-25 00:00:00

TO TILE EDITOR OF THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

SIR —lt is said that the Emperor of Austria has
granted a patent to a Tyrolean for a machine to execute
all kinds of needle-work with the utmost neatness.
I cannot judge of the German ladies so accurately
as of our own, but I am sure the ill-paid industry of
every female sempstress in England furnishes a strong,
reason against the introduction of such a machine
• amongst us. As to the English ladies of the higher
dasses, I much fixir that they would look with too much
indifference on the matter ; having king since aiscarded,
as vulgar instru:.tents, the needle and distaff; by which
their grandmothers acquired domestic celebrity, they
are ignorant at how triffing a price some of their most
curiously worked dresses arc obtained from those who
have sacrificed their health and eye-sight in working
them. Employment like this frequently titans a severe
resource for the daughters of adversity, on wl:ese educa-
tion and acompliclunents neither time nor fortune had
been spared in the days of their parent's prosperity. If
ladies would seek for such objects of their patronage,
rather than indulge in an illicit tralfick in Foreign
Manufactures, they would, if they' have hearts of true
British feeling, experience a satisfaction flit more ex-
Idlirating than what they can ever feel in. the heartless
gaiety offarisian society; nor can they, (I should think)
bury the recollection of the tenants, the tradesmen and
servants on whose beads they have heaped bankruptcy
and dispair, by abandoning their own country at a mo-
ment when it must required their presence and sup-
port. BRIDGET.

TUE NATiONAL REGISTER.

ExTIMOR DI N ARY cur..

Ante dreadful instar.ce of the pernicious eft', eti of ale prestnt
system of whist is called 61,44 'nu/ !" occuricd at :kr Lit btdffurd
Assizes. _

1 wo solthers named Hall and Morrison were tried on the 26t11 of
July tor rubbing a labouring R:aal Mailed Read, of one shilling and
a penny in the church-yard of eVulverhampion, on the night of the
23rd July. The prosecutor, Read, swore taey robbed him, and the
aunlaD, at whose Lou c the sal .iers lodged, swore Ow they did not
sleep at home on the night in question. On this evidence they were
found guilty, and left lot ex.cution. As won as the inhabitants of
Welverhaniptoo heard of their tate, they ruse as one man, for there
were Inutile:is amongst them acquainted with the innocence of
the men, but expecting that they would be tried for a common as-
sault only, they had paid no ettention to the proandings at the %a-
wes. When the inhabitants began to investigate the matter, and
compare e..eh others evidence, it Lippe/lied that the two soldiers bad
been out thinking on the night of the robbery till it was too late for
admission at their lodging, end they were refused entrance tato the
guard-count, they theretine resolved to walk aboutetill morning. In
the course of their walk they went DUD the churchyard, where they
met with Read with whom they entered into conversation. Ile told
them he was a Hertfordshire man, and InellLlOßed some places which
were known to one of the prisoners. This produced an immediate
familiarity, and after some time Hall and Head agreed to a friendly
wrestle. Hall was thrown in the first round, but in the second.he
threw his opponent, and in the fall one shilling and a peony fell
from head's pocket. Morrison picked up the money, and jocosely
said they would spend it, and put it in his pocket. A watehouth on
the spot heard them quizzing Read about the bas of hienioney. Ile
was sulky, but said nothing about being robbed. At five in the
morning they were all seen by :mother watchman near the Market-
pleee, still bantering Read about his lose. Ile was now very uneery
and talked of having them taken up. A grocer, name' rowis,
saw them in the some place ; Read did not coniplaiu of being robbed,
but was; not pleased at being laughed et. Powis afterwards met Ito-
bets the keeper of the Route of Correction, and in conversation,
mentioned the circumstence. The anewer of Roberts, which did not
then strike Pewisite extraordinary, was, '• I must see that man, this
Ie& good job." Roberts immediately found out Read, questioneal
him, and in a short time had the two soldiers taken up on a charge of
robbery. Their commitment was made out, they wereeent to the
tonics at Staffiml, where, on the Saturday following, they were con-
victed of the capital offence. As soon us all those circumstances
were known, the Hey. Mr. Guard, whoofficiates in die village where
Hall's family resides, and who had come to IVolverhampton on hear
ing of the affair, immediately Oct out to follow Baron Garrow, and
state what he had learned in favour of the men, and obtain a respite.
He Sate the Baron, but his lordship tnuld see no reason to alter the
opinion which lie had turned on the trial. Not a moment was to be
lost. the men were to be executed an the following Saturday ; the ve-
nerable clergyman instantly set off' for London, saw Lord Sidmouth
and acquainted him with the exact state of the case. His Lordship
felt a difficulty in interfering, as the judge on the circuit was necessa-
rily better acquainted with all the bearings of the case than Ile could
be. Defeated here, Mr. Guardemstantly returned to Wolverhamp.
ton, rolled a meeting of the inhabitants, obtained their signaturesto
a petition to the Regent, and the affidavits of the witnesses, and ac-
companied by Mr. C. Mender, again set out for London. These
affidavits were laid before the Attorney—General, and Lord Sidmouth
instantly wrote a tii•patch for the respite of the nem, with his own
hand. While Mr. Guard was thus successfully exerting himself in
London, Lieut. Buchanan, of the same regiment as the soldiers, had
carried copies of the affidavits to Baron Garrow, who, the moment
he read them, granted a respite. Thus, by the prompt and active
lituaanity of die inhabitants of Wolverleunpton, seconded by the
zeal of Mr. Guard, have two innocent men been saved from an igno-
minious death to which they were to be consigned, through the vil-
la/1y of Roberts, he having, as was stated to Lord Sidmouth, insti-
gated Read to indict them, with the view of obtaining the reward
called tfood-rnoncy which had accordiagly been pocketed by Roberts
and Head, to the uinount of isOL
EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDES, AND WILFUL MITRDER.—Nate-
Iy a nionth since, Mr. Guy, of Palmer's-terrace, Newington, went
to the sew-side, at Hastings, and left his house in the can of two
maid servant,, of the names of Sureh Croft and Maria Ayling. About
the beginning of laat week some painters came to a neighbouring
house, and under pretence of getting warm water to make their tea,
introduced theniselvee to these girls, and finally, they not only board-
ed with them, but cohabited with diem. Oh &mirth), morning,
about eight o'clock, a carpenter who occupied the adjoining empty
house.. sharply remonstrated with them on the improper intimacy
with the painters, and told them he had written to Mr. Guy, wham
he expected home that afternoon. They intimated much feeling
after this, and before ten o'clock left the house, with a child to months
old, belonging to Maria Ayling, and were sue passing up High-
bury-place, towards the New-River. The circumstance that the
house was left empty, did not excite attention among the neighbours
till Tuesday, when it was entered by Mr. Boucher, a relative of Mr.
Guy, and nothing was missed front anv part, but the servants and
the child. Horrible to relate, on Wodneeday one of those, Maria
Ayling, was found in the New River near Stoke Newington, with a
bandage tied over her eyes, and at four o'clock on Thursday looming,
the body of Sarah Croft vats stopped by the grating at tile Sluice-
bouse, anti about nncn, the child was found on the spoeon which the
hotly of Ayling had been found. Sarah Croft had- also a bandage
tied over her eyes. It is believed, therefore, that in the frenzy ex-
cited by the accusation, they voluntarily destroyed themselves, by
walking into the river blindfolded, the mother with the child in her
arms. The bonnet of A vling floated to the Sluice-house before three
o'clock on Saturday. They must therefore have sought their fate
one or two hours before that time, or three or four hours after it was
announced to them tint their enndeict find excited notice and euspi-
cion.—Friday an inquest was held upon the bodies of the two
servants, and the infant child of Maria Ayling„ at the Sluice-house,
nor Ilinneey. Two house-paintere, Anthony Smedley and William
Morris, deputed to their intimacies whit Ayling and Croft. Thomas
Jenkins, of Holloway, carpenter, was examined, and adhered to the
eircumseence of his warning the women us to their shameful beha-
viour. The Jury returned a verdict of—Wilful Murder, against
some persons unknown, respecting the child; and verdict cif—Felo
de Se, against the women.
EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT SuiclDE.—On Wednesday
as a little girl was passim; by the end of Rath bone-pleee, she
was surin ised to see an elderly mazer sitting with his legs out-
side on the two pair window of Mr. Moore, the iindertakei's
house ; she screamed out, upon which the unroll ti nate man
precipitated himself off. What WAS rather singular, both
his Ic_a went through thefiret floor window, and from thence
he fell von the leade.w here he remained about tali Si colds,
when they beat, and he teas thrown into the street, by which .
he was so seriously hunted that his life is despaired of. I.l^
was brought iutu the shop, and immediately recn::,r.isrd to be
Mr. Moore, sen. who has been for sonic time in a state of de-
rangement-
Lord Coerce Cavendish hay deternt:neil to appropriate a
proporticn of the groundi connected with Hui-lingual-House,
for the gratilleetitai of the Public, and to give I mployment
to iudirstriems famatee. A lime lima been markcii out at Ihe
west end, extellilimt north and south, in which will be a co-
vered way, or peimieuaele, from Piceediliy into Idlork.streu t.
asThis covered way will contain a doeibie Ime of shops, for
the sale of jewchery and other fancy articles, mid :those will
he suits orroonis. The elevation will be considerable. What
first gave birth to the idea was, from the great annoyance to
which the garden is subject. from the inhabitants ot a neigh-
bouring street throwing oyster sheik, Atc. over their ivalls.
'rite intended erection will prevent the like unisancts to to-
lure.

'rhe 'Americans seem to be alit imitators of French gasco..
nale, tunler Napoleon's system of magnifying. In a Cis:bib--
tun Paper, of July 7, there is an account of a public meeting
at winch, among oilier toast., the following were given :
" The American Navy--she has billeted down the wooden,
walls of Eugland, and the • star spangled harm( r' has floated
in triumph o'er each billow of the deep."---" The memory of
the .gallant Captain Levin., (4-Cllllth:qui', who alone retook
his sessel fsoni a midshipman and four seamen of the Ito) a
navy, and thus cave a practical proof that on. American ci-
tizen is equal to five British subjects." These Bobadilisin.,
e pit sonic, are among the virtues which belong to Republics.
AnNiitt sr. Ittnasa.—Some years since, she bargemen of
his Majesty's Ship the Berwick, then at Spitlicad, gnatrellcd
with the bar g1111(.11 of the ship which the Admiral then com-
manded, as Captain, and the latter were all heal lily di tibbeii,
to the no small mortification of the Admiral, who wi.s in his
younger clays exceedingly athletic and somewhat addicted to
boxing.—Our naval hero, a few days after, caged all the
boat's crew together, d—d them for a set of cow aids. dres-
sed himself in a common jacket and trowsers, and ouserving
the Berwick's barge rowing ashore to Portsmouth Bead), Ili.
dered his owu to be immediately manned, and thus disguised
took an oar alone of the crew. The coxswain, as particolat-
ly directed, run the head of his barge against the Berwick's
barge quarter, in consequence of which, broatl.id(s of oath,
wile given and returned, which produced a challenge to
tight with more substantial weapons. The Admiral, as chant.
pion of his crew, beat the whole of the other barge's crew,
one after another, (11 in number) to the great joy and adult.
ration of his sailors; and th"n making known, went
and visited Lis friends in Portsmouth, as if ilutil.og kid
-
pencil.

LE PETIT TON, FRENCH PACS ET.— Tbk eels d ves-
sel, which was some time since brought up our river a inan
who gave himself• out as the notorious Captain Jolill,oll, the
imaggler, and owner of the packet, has been seized by the
Custom House officers, and now lays in the basin of our
ca-
nal. This person has confirmed the baseness of his conduct.
in practising upon the credulity of the l'utt;ie, by sitting his
signature to a declaration duly made and witnessed ;In which
he affirms •` that he is toady to make affidavit• if required„
that the goods advertised tbr sale on board the Petit lom are
entirely of British manufacture, and that the reason tbr sta-
ting them as foreign, was only to induce people to puchase'
them."—(6l-OLTESTER JOURNAL.) •
THE ROYAL YACHT.-•flappears that the Royal Sovereign.
yacht. which was completely ready fur sailing, and had reach-,
ed the Downs, has heel) countermanded ; and that his Royal
Highness the Prince Regent will finally sail in the Royal.
George yacht, from Brighton, accompanied by the Duke of
York they propose rev iewing the troops con the coast ; and ,
the King's watermen, who will attend the Regent, aro to
have new dresses, with the Principality plumes and /.1. I'. U.
on their caps.
CUA NEL II MAN lAC.—A young man who had on Saturday
and Motulay exhibited many signs of mentallolerangement,
both in the Lord Chancellor's and Vice-Chancellor's Conti,.
again presented himself in the Court of Chancery, a few days
ago in one of the seats appropriate to the Barristers. For
considerable time he observed decorum, merely indulging_
himself in occasional grimaces and contortions. Some per-
sons, however, who had witnessed part of what had previous
ly passed, were anxious to prevent any probable Interruption
to the business attic Court, which in his humour, the maniac
might Obtrude,and Mr. Peacock, the Solicitor, who knew him,
endeavoured to induct:him to withdraw. Expostulation, how-
et er, was useless, and force became necessary to remove hint
when he made •frequent and energetic calls on the Lord
Chancellor fin pi election, It appeared, on inquiry, that the
young man, whose name is Turner, bad been a clog; to NIS-.
Peacock, in whose service he hail conducted himself with
general propriety until about two years ago, a beta he betrayed
on sonic occasions, an evident derangement of mind ; mad
this disorder increasing, Mr. Peacock found it necessary to
discharge him.

THE CANNER IN SHEEP.—Arcklent, or rather the simple
good sense of a shepherd, has led to a discovery of an effica-
cious remedy for. one of the most dangerous disorders to
which sheep are subject. The contagions canker had mani-
fested itself in- one of the flocks of M. Morel de Vinde, Peer
of France. The shepherd began by the use of the willowy "
remedy, an acid lotion, without effect. The contagion, wh
had affected two lambs, reached in six days St others. T.
shepherd, alarmed at the violence of the disease, resolved to
employ the nitric acid (aqua.fortis of the shape) which he had
been used to apply toe canker that fonnsou the feet of sheep.
The experiment had immediately the fullest success. All the
animals affected with the canker were cured, and the conta-
gion stopped in one day. 'f he name of the shepherd is J.
Sonuniesuil. M. Slorel de Vinde has tirawuup an account of
the cure.

The amputated leg of the Marquis of Angleses is buried.
in the garden of the Gentleman at Waterloo, in whose hones •'
the operation was performed, who has placed over it a hand•
come tomb (which lee has great pleasure in spewing), with an
ise•cription, of which the folk's% ing is a translation:—
" Herr is interred the leg of the brave and illustrious Earl of
bridge, Lieutement-General of his Britannic Majesty, Commander-
in-thief of the English. Belgian Hied Dutch Cavalry; wounded on
the iSth June, ISI3, at the memorable battle of Waterloo; and
who, by his heroism, mainly contributeg_to thertriumph of the cause
of the human species gloriously aeliiipw.l by the brillk.nt victory of
that day."
A curious seizure took place on Tuesday last aiStonelsonse,
soon after the arrival of a vessel from Guernsey. A porter,
carrying a bedstead from a shore-boat, was met on the beach;
by a custom-housc officer, who, having asked the porter to
whom it belotege:L, and receie ed rather au unsatisfactory an-
swer, thought it light to examine the bedstead.—On doing so,
he finned Unit the posts acid pillars were hollowed out, and
contained several hundred pounds woe Lb of lace, ingeniously
concealed under slides.
t'few days back was landed out of one of the Ostend pac-
kets, a young French woman, with the descriminativ e tale
of the" Female Heronries." Her Husband is with leer, who
is a performer of sleight of hand tricks, and has some merit
in his line. Hit fair rib certainly has just claim to thesppel_
lotion hy which she is desiccated, haying exhibited lore sonic
wonderful teats of strength, and of a novel kited, such as suf-
fering a butt of porter to he lowered on her body as she lays
upon two chairs) at SlXtle distance apart, her head resting up-
on out' of them, and leer legs on the other. She moved the
butt up by her body with much apparent ease—in the same
position, six weighty men stood on leer, whom she moved in
like manner, chess ing astonishing strength of loins. She also
lifts au omit, weighing upwards of three cwt. by the hair of
leer head. This Herculean Frene h Lassy has come over pur-
posely to treat JollllBeell with the sight of her power. and will
very shortly visit the Metropolis a e understand.—(lirietton)