The National Register.
London, England, 1812-09-13 00:00:00

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Tuesday night. at Margate, a most extraor.!inary phenomenoo
appeared in die Heavens A large ball of tire made its appearance
from the South, and Hew rowardsalic North : it had a long tail,
and Margate was as light as it the sun had shone during the: time it
passzd over it, which was about h alt a minute, when it tell towards
she sea. The same was also secs from the metropolis.
Extract from a letter, dated NottinJiatn, Sept. • :—" The troops
at Nottingham were removed into Yorkshire a few clays ago, and the
sprit of insubordination evinced itself (not quelled, but checked)
by a riotous assembly, which took place this day in the market-
place, under the pretence of lowering the price of bread. The mob
was 'leaned principally by women, but urged on b.,. a large collection
of men : serious consequences were apprehended by the odiabitants.
Luckily, however, a tresh detachment of troops having arrived (as
it is presumed uhexpectedli ), and being called out by the civil au-
thority, order was restored."
A most melancooly occurrence took place on Thursday, the
glib id'. at Conway. in North \Vales : Fourteen men, belonging to
t iat place. who had been employed to finish the loading of a fiat
lyio. At' that port, bound for Liverpool, with paving stones, left
the vessel in a small boat, about ten at night, to return to Conway ;
in about three quarters of an hour after, the Master of the ves:4o
heard the showings of the unfortunate men, as if the boat had upset,'
but the wind ran so high, that it was impossible to render them any
assistalice ; lie continued to hear their voices tor halt an hour, when
atter one general cry, all was silent, and they, no chadat, met a
watery grave, as the boat was found fu!l of water next morning ;
part of their apparel was picked up in the course of the day, hut
n ne of the men have yet beeii found. The distress into which the
town of Cooway has been thrown by this melanclioly. event, may be
imagii.ed when it is statccl, that the unfortunate sulKrers have left
eleven widows and 3.; children to bewail di. it untimely fate.

HORRID hof UR DER .--SOlUe jocularities haring passed on Sunday.
at dinner, between a young wan and the wde of a fi.lnnorn.er, of
the name of Dodd, resident at West Ham, Essex. the husband,
enra-2.ed at who. he construed into an improper familiarity, plunged
a ;toile, with which he was eating, into the heart of the unfortunate
iivoman.; her death was instantaneous. Dodd was immediately
se,:ured.and take,n to the watch-house, wlience lie will be brought to
answer heti,re judicial authin ite for so ,theadful a rashness.
1 Eros, Seie. s.—An ass:odt of the most atrocious triture Was
•C9DIMIIICCI last Wednesday evening, by tour private soldiers of the
Cariow militia. these men had come into the Union No. kept by
Mr. Fi:zgerald, and called tor a tankard of ale; but becoming very
.noiq, the quatter-niaster-serjeant of their regiment, who !tar petted
to be in the house, took their ale from them, and placed it within the
bar; this irritated th.in excessively, and one of the number drew his
bayonet upon the cinarter.nnoter, who quitted the house to fetch a
the of soldicrs ; and in the interval their ale was returned to them.
Afterwards they.appe,red more cotnposed ; but this was the prelude
of a silt more 'totem gust of passion ; for having drank part of the
One of them took the tankard-in his hand, and all four ad-
roi:irr to the bar, the mini that•held the tankard first threw its eon-
.teii.s into Mr. F's face, aid sulking him with the tankard, brought
h.rti to the ground ; the other three then drew their bayonets, en t_ll
p0u40,1 such fury, that he was left upon the floor. weltering
in
his Wood, .sith Dv!t 1 ver that seven de.toerate wounds upon his
head. A •person of respectability who was 4,tant:ii-g by, but had never
opened his lips to these desperado!s; received three sounds on his
le:ad thot4h,of a less serious nature.

Fitzger:lld, who is in an advanced stateof pregnancy, was a
w:t,iess of this barbarous scene, and the cry of " Murder !".frequent-
ly repeated, brouelit a number of persons from the street ;
ainanga othcist Quarter-master Greazley, of the 15th regiment of
Hussars,- who ~e;znig a bltic!geon, fell upon the assailants with so
inu,.ll ipirit -m eti;:ct, as to ttrivc them from the bar, and in the end,
.fipni the

-Atter the house had been ch2ared of these Carlow men' one of them,
Thohi ns Roden, returned for his cap, which had fallen trout his hca►
itt the ; this man was taken into custody, and is held to trail to
tike his trial at the next Q.iartcr Sessions. Tile.three ethers escaped,
tot they are known.
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Mr. r. though shockinginly lacerated, has been pronounced out of
ganger; hut a fslualt., the w ite of J. Tlynnas, a neighbour, who had
,been fqr some t•n,e in a wok state of health, anti who witnessed the
ta:enc of horror, was s' much alarmed, that she took to her bed and
died )egerday..

LANCASTER ASSIZES.

RATTY V VicKERS —This was an assault cause. The plaictiffi
„an at.Lotirtan? at Iliiiichester; the &fel:elan: k 7, publican tlwre. f '
apoearcA from the evidvnce given on the that a 'lumber o:
pCrsmis had assembled at the ttei-eiv.ant's house, to " cOntMertu•rate
the birth-day ht the lat. Right Hun. William Pitt ;" and the
Nair:ill; on coming ihto the room, had niatie use of some ex;o..
3i )11, (41 seeiog picture. of that •gent)eman, which did out 3 grec witn
rhu! .!eas ot ;;.e. land! .rd and his friends. The plaintiffsoon after pi
p.,sed a t..asr, in the name (.f BeTngitam caught the Lieruic!
an- ear; he in.- threw a glass of water us
bce, alit:, to cool him still more, emptied a jug of water