The National Register.
London, England, 1816-01-21 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

THE KING.

The Public Bulletins which have been issued for some month,
past, have all stated that his MAJESTY'S disorder remains undi-
minished ; and, we understand, that it is the opinion of the medical
Gentlemen attending him, that nothing far short of a miracle can
bring about a recovery from his afflicting malady. At times, w*
are happy to say, he is tolerably composed ; the number of per-
sons specially appointed to attend him, by the Doctors, are re-
duced from six to two, and his principal Pages are admitted, and
have been for some time, to attend him. as when he enjoyed good
health. His MAJESTY dines at half past one o'clock, and he in
general, orders his dinner : he invariably has roast beef upon his
table on Sundays. He dresses for dinner, wears his orders, &c.
he occupies a suite of 13 rooms, for himself and his attendants,
which are situated on the North side of Windsor Castle, under the
state rooms. Five of the 13 rooms arc wholly devoted to the per-
sonal use of the KING. Doctor JOHN Wimas sleeps in the sixth
room, adjoining the five rooms, to be in readiness to attend his
MAJESTY. Doctor JOHN WiLus attends the QurEN every morn-
ing, after breakfast, about half past ten o'clock, and reports to her
the state of the afflicted Monarch. The Doctor afterwards pro.
cceds to the PalNCessxs, and other branches of the Royal Family,
who happen to be at Windsor, and makes a similar report to them.
In general her MaJgsry returns with Dr. WILLIS, through the state
rooms, down a private staircase, leading into the King's suite of
rooms, appropriated to this special purpose : sometimes she con-
verses with her Royal Husband, and sometimes not, according to
circumstances. The QUEEN is the on!y person who is admitted to
this peculiar privilege, except the Medical Gentlemen his
MAJESTY'S personal attendants. In case of Dn. Jour WILLIS'S
absence, Dr. ROBERT WILLIS, his brother, takes his place. 'File
other Medical Gentlemen take it in rotation to be in close attend-
ance upon the KING. The suite of rooms which his MAJESTY and
his attendants occupy, have the advantage of very pure and ex.
cellent air, being on the north side of the terrace round the Castle,
and he would occasionally walk on the terrace, but we understand
the KING declines it, owing to the bad state of his eyes, which pre-
vents his enjoying the views.
The Lords and Grooms of the KING's Bedchamber, his nine-
ries, and other Attendants, are occasionally in attendance at
Windsor Castle, the same as when the KING enjoyed good health.
Two King's Messengers go from the Secretary of State's Office
daily to Windsor, and return to London, as they have been accus-
tomed to do for a number of years past. The Messenger who
arrives at noon brings a daily account of the state of the KING'S
health, to the PRINCE REGENT and the Members of the QUEEN'S
Council.

His MAJESTY has never been left, since his indisposition, with-
out one of the Royal Family being in the Castle, and a Member or
the QUEEN'S Council, appointed under the Regency Act.

We find the following in the Paris Paper 1: Aristarque Fran.
cais, of the sth inst.:—" By letters from Porto Ferrajo, we
learn that an illustrious Lady • arrived in that port in Novem.
ber last, on board an English vessel. After having announced
that the only motive that induced her to come to the island,
was the desire to visit the house which had been. occupied by
the Ex-Emperor Napoleon, she landed with all her suite, and
proceeded directly to the place of her pilgrimage, which she
visited with a sort of religious attention and devotion, observing
every thing in the minutest detail, and particularly the Cham-
ber of Buonaparte. Arriving in the saloon she perceived his
portrait, and stopping before it, she said, Napoleon, I salute
thee; 1 have had, and shall preserve all my life, the greatest
esteem for thee.' The illustrious foreigner thtin passed into
the billiard-room, and some one having presented to her the
cue with which he used to play, she signified her desire to have
it, and to inclose it in a box as a precious memento. The next
day she returned and desired to dine at this habitation, where
she passed the night. At her departure she appeared satisfied
with all that she had seen, and verycontented with her voyage."

• The Ex-Empress Maria Louisa.

We understand that a lucky Agriculturist, near Norwich, had
the ingenuity to discover the true Golden Number for the year
181.5, which gained 50,0001. paid by Ric H A R DSON, GOODL UCKI,
and Co. who sold that Number (18,616) in the Last Lottery.
All our ingenious calculators, will no doubt be anxious to se.
cure the Golden Number for the present year, which will claim
One of the Prizes of 25,000 Guineas in the Lottery to begin
Pawing on Valentine's Pay,

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JAR. 21.

DISE ‘;ES 0

BY THE 1.41-3 DE. CLARKE.

In investigating the reas4sns of the great mortality among chil-
dren. it ire quite impossible to conceive that it may not be tracel to
some misininagenient of them; since it is utterly inconsistent with
the on rain TiAiiesv of the. Creator to suppose that so many chil-
dren ;ire !)caught into the wo"ld only that they may die at an early
period of their existence.
The severity of the winters, the general variableness of Vie cli-
mate, and she i udrovideut exposure of young eli:Aren to cold, with-
out sufficient attention to clothin.4, lay the foundation of many di,.
eates, which 'prove fatal to them kin some instances very rapidly),
as peri;.n..iiiiionv amid iiiiiammacion of the mucous membrane of the
trachea [the windpipe], Sec. The last, in its most violent state.
has aciii:red the Italie of croup, whisk sometimes destroys in a
few hours.

If is a subject of very common observation, that children who
have beon inured to enl,l, and brought up hardily (as it is called),
are th., strri.est in adult age, and this has induced many virents
to expos:, their children thinly clad, to all the severities of wea-
ther. It ,s in p.irt true, since children who survive the seasoning,
are generally strongest. The original strewth of their constitu-
tion probably e .abled them to bear it in the first instance; and, if
they ary able to encounter it.in early life, they will lose in some men-
sure the sitsceptinslity of being readily affected by changes of tem-
peratureafterwards.

But all medical men, who have had opportunities of attending
much to the diseases of children, twist have observed that those fa-
milies in which children are least exposed to cold in winter, arc
generally most healthy, whilst those who act on the erroneous prin-
cipl.• of hardening them by the e•posure t!L:ir tender bodies to
severe weather, are scarcely ever free from disease of some kind.
. Disorders, whichi might otherwise have retnain,A dormant, are
thus brought into activity by this mode of treating children ; and
many fall sacrifices to pulmonary consumptions and scrophulous
complaints in more advanced life from this error alone, of being
exposed in childhood to cold, with the intention of being strong
and hardy.
The present fashion of clothing young children, founded upon
the same erroneous notion of hardening them, is also very injurious
to their health. Their arms and chests are entirely uncovered.
They generally wear no stockings at all; and, from the stomach •
downwards, they are almost in a state of nakedness, even in winter.
To rebut the force of these observations, this question has been
often asked, " What becomes of the children of the poor ?" This
mode of getting rid of a difficulty by putting a question is very
easy, and very imposing upon ignorant persons, who have bestowed
little attention on this subject. But, if they will inquire, they will
find that comparatively few of the children of the poor are reared ;
and, that a large proportion of the deaths in the bills of mortality
are among the offspring of this extensive class of the community,
especially in large cities and towns. t heir death, however, makes
no noise, and therefore little impression, on account of the obscu-
rity of their station : whilst an unfavourable case of the cow-pox,
especially if it occurs in a family of distinction, rinks through the
whole island with every possible aggravation and misrepresentation
which artifice or tally can suggest, to deceive the timid, the igno-
rant,and the credulous.

In large cities and manufacturing towns, bad air, crowded apart-
ments, want of cleanliness and inattention, become additional
causes of disease and untimely death.

The following proof of the present depression of landed pro-
perty is an absolute fact. A few years ago a gentlemen pur.
chased an estate for 40,0001.; 20,0001. of which he* immediately
paid, and the other moiety of the purchase-money remained on
mortgage ; this the mortgagee some time ago called in, and the
owner of the estate not being able to remove the incumbrance,
a foreclosure took place, and the estate again came to the ham-
mer, when the whole was knocked down for no more than
20,0001. although more than 50001. had been expended by the
unfortunate mortgagor. •
The Boston Paper says, " Last week a hare, which was hat d
pressed by the hounds, fled into the house of the Rev. M
Butcher, of Ropsley, and, running up stairs, was followed by her
pursuers, and killed under the bed of the Rev. Gentleman. The
Wortsmen presented poor puss to Mr. Butcher as some compen-
satiou for her abrupt intrusion,

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SINGULAR ADVENTURES OP A WEDDING DAY.
[riitom AN IRISH PAPER.]

DUKE-STREET POLICE OFFICE.
A young couple who had been married by special ficense it
Mark's Church, at eleven o'clock on Wednesday se'nnight, had
their connubial felicity most cruelly interrupted by a visit-from is
messenger of this Office, who gave them an invitation to appear
before the Magistrates inganter. The circumstance which pros
duced this unpleasant interruption were as follow young
man, of the name of Doyle, applied at the Office sylth a warrant
signed b 3 Hyacinth Daly, Esq. Mayor of Galway, for the appre-
hension of two persons, against whom informations had been swore
by a ropeanaker, of Galway, of the u une o f John Lecke, for hay-
mg robbed him of upwards of eighty ponnils in gold, dollars, sil-
ver spoons, &e. One of the persons, Jane Lecky, was his daugh-
ter, the other James Parker, his apprentice. Love, that ruling
passion, had taken such possession of their hearts, that they nut
being able to obtain the old man?s consent, determined to tly to a
temple of Hymen in this city; and on the Saturday night follow-
ing, et the midnight hour (always propitious to runaway lovers,,
they drove oft' in the Galway Mail, leaving the old gentleman
in
the arms of &minus, little dreaming of what was then passing.
Mr. Doyle, who was a grandson of the old luau's, was tlia per-
son sent in pursuit, and so completely did he execute the ohject or
his mission, that he traced them to a house in Boyne-street, °ern-
pied, it watild seem, by a cowl!) of the lady's, whose name wa'
Jolla Lecky, Having got his warrant, he repaired to the di,eo-
vered retreat, accompanied by Turpin, the peace-onlecr. foand
the happy party just returned from Church. Leci.y and his wite.
with the bride and bridegroom, were brought to the office, when
it appeared that the day before Parker and John Lecky had gaffe
to procure a license, and that when they had appeared before the ; •
Rev. Mr. Lewis, the Surrogate of the Consistorial Caurt,LN:ky hail
sworn himself to be father to the girl, and that in that character.
lie had given his fall consent and approbation to the match. Al-,
though the journey, the license, and the marriage fees, has cost no
small trifle, they utterly denied any knowledge of the property.
taken; upon which Turpin was again dispatched to Boyne-street,
to search their trunks, and speedily returned with 52 guineas, and
one half in gold, a considerable number of dollars, twa table, and
six silver tea-spoons, with a silver watch, which Doyle said, are
swered exactly to the description of the property missing, with
only a deficiency of ten pounds. The Magistrates, after some
consultation, Ist. gave the young bride up to her nephew, who
seemed to be many years older than herself, tinder a promise ih t
she should spend the night in the mail, travelling to Cialway-2dly,
Sent the bridegroom to Bridewell, as a runaway apprentice, until
the old gensle:nan's determination in regard to him is known—and
3dly. Ordered the would-be-father to Newgate, for a flintier exa-
mination in regard to the peijury—and thus ended the ad veutuvzs
of the Wedding Day.

EXTRAORDINARY MARIN

ANIMAL.

[FROM AN AMERICAN PAPER.)
ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 9.—The brig Trio, Captain Cleveland, QS
her passage from Gibraltar to this port, on the 23tb ofOctober, in
lat. 31, long 20, passed a substance in the water about 23 or 30
feet from the vessel, which, from its extraordinary appearance,
induced the Captain to tack ship, with a view to examine what it
was; the wind bring light from the W.S.W. caused the boat to be
lowered down, and sent the mate with two men to make discovery,
On their return, they gave the following description :—" When we
Caine in sight of the before-mentioned substance, turned the boat
and tacked her stern nearly over him, then about four feet under
water, lying quoiled up with his head on the top of the (poll; the
head being pointed, and about twelve or fourteen inches iu length,
with upper and lower tushes or teeth, appeared from three to four
inches outside, the jaws shat within each other, appeared curvety
like the tush of a hog, and extremely white. His body had the
appearance in size of about three to three and a half feet in cir-
cumference, tapering towards the tail, and his colour was of the
deepest crimson. and reflected the water some yards round. The
boat being to leeward of the reptile, the little wind and sea, will!,
they stood viewing him, drifted it off about 30 to 40 feet, the mate
then concluded to hook him; the noise of the oars at the first stroke
started him, he threw himself out at his length, with his head to-
wards the boat, and came very near, raising himself nearly to the
surface of the water in an attitude of attack ; it was judged best
to make for the vessel. His length could not have been less than
thirty or forty feet, and we judge him to be ialermangappearondp
ti tc a sea serpent."

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e- -
We are sorry to find, by letters from Pat is, that three English
gentlemen 'have been-arrested by the Minister of the Police, and
thrown into the Abbey. They are Sir Wilson, Captain
Mitchinson, and Mr, Bruce. Sir R. Wilson, by his gallant ser-
vices against Bitona;larte, is known to every nation in Europe ;
Captain Hutchinson is a very young Officer of the Guards,
a relation of Lord Donongbutore ; and Mr. Bruce is the eldest
son of the banker, Crawford Bruce, Esq. Our Minister, Sir
(*furies Stuart, as soon as he heard of their arrest, demanded
tbelr immediate enlargement, when a story was told him of their
having contrived and assisted in the escape of Lavaaette—that
the) ha'l procured a passport for an English Officer two or three
days before, and that they travelled with Gen. Lavalette all the
way to Mons, introduced him under the passport they had oh-
flitted to the English military post, procured it thereto be coun-
tersigued, and passed him on. After which, and having break-
fasted with the English Officer in command. they returned to
Pais. This was the report made to the English Minister, and
which he has transmitted to Ministers, that he may receive their
fui ther in tructions how to act.

A Royal Ordonnance, respecting the Protestants of Nismes,
states, that the Churches of the persecuted sect have been re-
opened ; that tranquillity has been re-established; and that
the troops who were quartered on the town have been
wifhdra n.
Notwithstanding we find, from an article in one of the French
Journals, that so late as the night between the 11st and 2d inst.
M. Perrin, a Professor of the College of Alais, was assassinated;
aod, as usual, the assassins had not been discovered.
A German Gazette contains the following article:—" We are
informed, that the Jesuits are leaving Rome by hundreds, to
repair to the different Colleges re-opened for them in Spain,
Naples, Sicily, Parma, &c. 'there have lately departed 500 for
the fii st of these dominions.—As this Order has been suppressed
i
about 50 years, viz. n Portugal, in 1759; in Spain, 1767 ;in
Naples and Parma, in 1763 ; the Members of this Order must
either be endowed with an extraordinary longevity, or they
must have recruited in secret, in order for us to be able to com-
prehend how, on a sudden, so great a number of Jesuits appear."
Monuments ale to be erected to the memory of Louts XVII.
the unfortunate (ler Lsr his mother, his aunt Madame ELIZA -
tut' and the Duke &Es; HIEN. The first of these, of course,
discredits all the stories of the DA UP H ; N being alive.
A Paris Paper says, the violet had become an object of repro-
bation since its being noted as a sign of rallying ; many persons
avoided carrying them, in the tear of the purity of their senti-
ments be.mi srspect.d. 'the following anecdote may reconcile
those yerY persons to a flower which seems better adapted for
the emblem of modesty than the symbol of a party. It is
affirmed, that his Majesty, having lately violets Cu, his chimney,
has distribated them to several ladies, who appeared astonished
at receiving such a present from the Monarch :—" Accept them
(said the King), 1 have included the yii,let in the ainnesty."
'the Algrin. Zeiqingcn, a GerinAti Paper, contains a curious
anecdote respecting; Buonaparte's last cnterpi ize. For a few
days after his landing none joined him, and more than half his
followers had deserted. -The other half had employed their
money in purchasing clothes to escape in disguise. ilis situa-
tion was desperate till he reached the frontiers of aillphiny ;
when the peasants received him with the geueral cry of " Long
live our Emperor ! No tithe, no fi odd righ Is !"
Our private letters from Madrid arc filled with the most af-
flicting accounts of the unmerited punishments of the Liberates,
cpmieinned without trial by the KING'S Will alone. The hot..
;chic spit-it of despotism and bigotry has not been satiated with
these ill-fated victims; but several snore, among whom arc,
some distinguished character!, have been added to the melan-
choly list of sufferers.
Sir Edward Crofton, Bart. of Monte, in the county of Roscom-
mon, shot himself with a case of pistols, on the 6th instant. De-
rangement is asserted to have been the cause.
There was a great carnage last week at Wolverstone Park, in
urfotk, and on one day were killed and taken-113 pheasants, 51
es, 20 couple rabbits, and one woodcock. The Rev. 1)r. Shaw,
rr •Islispla en l'Albsige, though in his 67th year, will the 13105 t dada
guibikett st:ot upon this nieworabie occasiour

JAN. el.

COURT OF CHANCERY.--SATURDAY, JAR. O.
Ex parte THOMAS.
Sir Samuel Romilly, this day, complained to the Conrt of a
gross ►misrepresentation which had appe 'r ;l in The Times news-
paper of the preceding day, which materially affected the ha raetc r
°fa geptleinan namedllagher. The misrepresentatiou ocean t e l inthe
report of the proceedings on Thomas's bankrutq petition, and im-
puted to Mr. Maglier, who was a witness for the petitioning cree-
ditor, that he was a papist, an Irishman, and ;t l run away from
his bankruptcy; the latter statement being whoiiy without founds.
tion. The learned Counsel then took occasion to animadvert on
the freq►eency of such misrepresentations, and to suggest the neces-
sity of some means being adopted to put an end to them. He re-
frained from moving to bring up the Editor, in hopes the hint
\void(' be sufficient to prsi,ent a repetition of such conduct.
The Lord Chancellor fully agreed in the character given of the
misrepresentation in question. He condemned all ex parte publi,
cations as prOudicial to all parties ; and desired th:tt whatever
reports appeared in the public newspapers, they might at least be
faithful and accurate,

SEM/lI:ANTS INN II LL.-SATURODAY, JAN. 20.
REAL C. SHEPHERD. _

This was an action on a bill of exchange for 1501. drawn by
Plaintiff and accepted by Defendant, and by him madi'l+ayable at
Messrs. Marsh and Co. bankers at Reading. The Plaintiff got.oeft
bill discounted by Fuller and Graham, Newbury, bankers,-who;
on its becoming due sent it to Marsh and Co. with directions that they
should direct their town agents to pay the amonut to Messrs. Down
and Co. the correspondents of the Newbury bank. This, however,
was not done; and, on the sth ofJanuary, Marsh and Co. stopped
payment. The bill was in consequence returned to Plaintiff in the
ordinary way. Plaintiff, in consequence, brought his action, and
recovered upon the ground that Marsh and Co. were the agents of
the Defendants, and he remained liable till the bill was paid, al-
though lie had given the amount to them.
Mr. Jervis had obtained a rule to show cause why this verdict
should not be set aside.
Mr. Damicey, this day, slimed cause against this rule, contend-
ing that the verdict was just.
The Court held with Mr. Dauncey, that the Defendant, the ac-
ceptor of the bill, remained liable till the bill was paid. The ver.
diet for Plaintiff was therefore affirmed.---Rule to chew calls*
discharged.

OLDBAI LE Y. —Tuesday.
E. and R. IV. Taylor were indicted fur forging a certain ordeir
and warrant, purporting to be an order of P. Broatdmead, for the
delivery of 729 hides out of the London Docks. and for tittering
the said order, knowing it to be forged, with intent to defraud the
London Dock Company.
It appeared that the two prisoners were brothers, and together
with their mother a widow, carried on the business of brokers.
In the year 1810, Sir J. Lubbock and Co. bankers and merchants,
had received from Cadiz a cargo of hides, by the ships Commerce
and Hope, and the Messrs: Taylors were employed to sell them as
brokers. In the year 1814, the prisoner E. Taylor sent a contract
to the house of Lubbock and Co. for the sale of the hide,,, to a
Mr. P. Proadmead, and in consequence of this sale an order was
sent by that house to the London Dock Company, desiring that
the hides should be warehoused in the name of Mr. Broadinead.
This arrangement having taken place, part of the hides which
were discharged from the Flip Commerce were afterwards ob-
tained by Messrs. Taylor, and the amount (22001.) paid for them.
the 729 hides, however, which were stated in the indictment, re-
mained in the warehouse of the London Dock Company until the
month of February 180, when an oidcr purporting to be signed
by P. Broatlmead was presented at the warehouses, desiring the
delivery of the said hides to Messrs. Taylor. Soon afterwards this
order was discovered to be a forgery, as from a conversation
which Mr Broadmead had held with Sir J. Lubbock it appeared
that no contract had been made by the former person with the pri -
soner's house, or either of the prisoners. A bankruptcy it appeared
had taken place in the firm of the Taylors, and it was not until
after that event that the discovery took place. In application was
then made by Sir J. Lubbock and Co. to the London Dock Com-
pany, to obtain the skins or the v attic in lien. This being rellised,
an action was laid in the Court of King's Bench to recover the
amount, and the plaintitrs succeeded in obtainiug to the full value
of the props rty, Lord Ellenborough having laid it down that as
the London Dock Company had disposed of the property of others..
~ upon 4 forged ortkr, they must sustain the cOUSeqIItaCCIS nod ntalp