The National Register.
London, England, 1823-03-24 00:00:00

GAME LAWS.

The following paper is sanctioned by tb. signa-
tures of those whose well-merited influence must
give additional force to the suggestions of hu-
manity :-
0 We, the undersigned proprietors of estates in the county
of Ifork,liave witnessed with deep reg.et the demoralization
of the lower orders, occasioned by the habit, of poaching, and
the calamitous events which so frequently occur in the preser-
vation of game under the existing laws.
" We are convinced that these evil. consequences are de-
rived, in a great degree, from the operation of those statutes
by which the sale of game is constituted an olfence. j
" That many very wealthy and opulent classes of society,
who are not landed proprietor*, are naturally, and perhaps
reasonably, desirous of enjoying this in common with the other
products of the soil, and• that no statuary provisions can ellen.
Wally prevelit their obtaining it.
" that the occupation of the poacher is taken up fur the
purpose of supplying, clandestinely, those wants which cannot
at present he supplied lawfully.
" Thal this illegal occupation would speedily cease to exist
if a legal vale were permitted, and the marlins allowed to toe
honestly furnialied with game, as fiey are will, all other arti-
cles of g . I demand.
0 It ia our firm opinion, that under a system of open sale,
the preservation of game, far from being rendered more diffi-
cult, would he greatly facilitated—that the ordinary care which
is lociu'rt sufficient for the protection of tither descriptions of
saleable property would then be equally sullicietit fur this:
that an armed force, and instruments of death, would no
longer he requisite to defend it ; and sanguinary eon/iota and
midnight murders would no longer ensue from the effort► made
to procure it. _

That we therefore earnestly submit to the legislature the
importance of legalizing the sale of game, under proper re-
strictions, believing as we do the present prohibition to he con-
trary to good policy in its spirit, arid to humanity in its effects,
seeing that it has Bled our gaols with criminals of its own cre-
ating, and established a nursery of offenders among the lower
classes of the cononnnity."
This paper has been nozeritusly signed by gentlemen of
large lauded property in Yorkshire, by
Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Grantham, Lord IRibblesdale, Lord
Stouren, Viscount Milton, Viscount Althorp, Viscount Nor-
manby, Sir F. 1.. Wood, Hart. ; Sir John Johnstone, Ent.;
Sir George Cooke, Bart. Sir W. A. Ingleby, Hart ; Hon. T.
Lister, lkm. and Rev. T. Monson, Walter Fawkes, Esq. Win.
ilberforce, Esq. ; J. B. S. Mundt. Esq. ; G. W. W entworth.
Esq.; Henry Gaily Knight, E.g.; Marmaduke Wyvill, Esq.;
W. Wrightson, Esq.: John Fullerton, Esq.; Charles Brand-
Eng, Esq. ; Hobert Chaloner, Esq. ; Mark Itlillianke, Esq.;
P. deilh.y Thompson, Esq. Samuel Crompton, Esq. ; W . H.
Cooke, Esq.; Wm. Bustield, Esq. ; Richard Hellen, Esq. ;
J. B. Bland, Esq. ; F. O. Edmunds, Esq. Hugh Parker, Esq.;
John Cooke, Esq.; John Woodyear, Esq.; Henry Walker,
Est. ; John Jarrett, Esq. ate. lac.

DEATH OP BILLY WATexa.--The eccentric Billy
Waters. whose conspicuous character gained I
so much notoriety, bid adieu to this world on Friday
morning last, in the parish workhouse of St.
Giles, where he had been lor the last tell days, in a very
weak state of health. Poor Billy endeavoured, up to the
latest period of his illness, to obtain for a wile and two
children what he tt•roied " an honest livUtx" by the
scraping of catgut, by which lie used to collect many
p.nce, wilco lie first practised at the West-pod of • the
town, %%here his eccentric dress, with his hat and
feathers, together with a iteculiat stumping of his wooden
lex in an orig Mal kind of hornpipe, excited touch
attention.

HAETINGS.—A voting man, named Joseph Stoneham,
came on shore oni Thursday from one of our sloops, and
repaired to the Anchor ion in the ev * g, where lie
drank a pint of porter, after which, complaining of a
pain in the head, he retired to rest. The servant going
to his beol•romit in the morning for the cantile,and find-
ing that the y g malt did not Move, went to awake
him, when, to his great surprise, he tumid him dead and
cold. The servant immediately fainted, and was (*mud
lying on the floor.
PetagiregiAgtssr.—The unequalled and most extra-
ordinary teat 01 walking 248 miles in 76 successive
hours, was accomplished by '.Wright, the veteran pedes-
trian, in the 55th year of his age. He arrived at the
Lamb and Flag, Clerkenwell Gseen, ten minutes beinre
twelve, fresh and ill grind spirit), beatnig time by tell
minutes. This tusk exceeds by eight miles, (in the same
number of hours,) any pedestrian feat on record. The
pedestrian who walked 240 miles in the same tionoilwr
of 'RIMS, and was stated to have left all other pedes-
trians " in the shades," usual now be kit " in the shade'
himself.

George Campbell, weaver, Bridgeton, has been lorlg
in Glasgow gaol, charged with me murder of Froderiei
also a weaver, under the following circum-
stances :--The deceased, along with several others, and
some women, haul been drinking in the house of a Mrs.
Smith, in Maui-street, (whose husband was engaged iii
the affair at iiinitiymuir during the radical rebellion, and
is at present tit Botany Bay), and they being considerably
intoxicated, a quarrel ensued between them, and they
came out to decide it. About half-past IY. o'clock,
Campbell and atwitter lad were coining front the town,
and being attracted by the noise, Campbell was listening,
when Patrick O'Neill challenged him, and they struck
at one another, and O'Neill.sudileitly staggered and MIS
summed by one of the party, who thought he had
fainted. lie was unable to speak, and was nelped to his
own doss, and had to be carried tip stairs. lie lay
nearly wititout life, and it was Dot imagined that lie had
been vs dell, but had gone away in a ..coins ; water
and spirits were poured diiwn his throat, and hisclothes
were Opened to allow him to breathe freely, when it was
discovered that a wound tad heen inflicted in the breast,
which had pierced the heart, windier 51:111 had penetrated
the iiitestme,i, which were protruding, and three other
severe cuts Were observed in the abut •ii. The unlin-
MMHG 1114111 was lA.; into a bed, and surgical aid sent for,
but lie explicil atrout .21) minutes alter the encutiatcr.—
Campbell has been comtuitttd fur trial,

MATCH TO KILL EIGHTEEN PIGEONS IN TWENTY
ONE SHOTS.—This match took place on Thursday
morning last. Mr. Homer, of Acum, considered one
of the best shots in E•iglancl, had backed himself for
nifty sovereigns to do Ins work at twenty-one yards f
the trap, with onliinitet: charge, and betting to the tune
of scores were ;wilding at Six to four against the gun.—
The match look ;lace in a ten acre field, in liestott
parish, near iionatslow, and the Run was backed at four
and tire to one each shot. Mr. limner killed nine birds
oil' successively, and then cleaned his piece, and was
backed at two to one to will. lie missed his tenth bird
and his 17th, when betting became even, and he also
in i ased the 1911 i and the last bird, which lust him the
match.
A few days since, a gentleman in the neighbourhood.
of Glasgow, for a considerable bet, rode his horse over
a fence, and cleared in length 22 feet 4 inches. The
gentleman rode 14 stone. IVe understand that this is
the horse which, a week or two ago, failed in the attempt
to leap 92 feet of water.
There is now livitig in a village near Brighton, a man,
who has been three times married ; each of his wives.
names was the same; he has lied three children by
each, and each lived with I' three years. lie was a
widow between each marriage three years, has three
children fishy, the third by each wife, and whose birth
days are vitliiit three days of each oilier. last wife
has bee:i'dead three years, and he expects to he married'
again in three mouths!
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—Ois Thursday morning
Lit, Mr. Thos. Mulus, of Flutlyer-street, Westminster,
accompanied by Miss Ann Logan, his niece, and Miss
Patterson, bit consiii, took a boat at Westininster.bridge
to go to liattersra on a visit to a friend: he rowed the
boat up, and they waited dinner at the friend's house,
when Miss Logan took a fancy to a little dog, which
being observed, it was made a present of to her. They
departed with it on their return home at live o'clock
At Chelsea-reach the pug fell over-board; Miss Loge's
endeavoured to pull into the boat, when inifortuisetly
she overreached herself, and falling over•board herschs
immediately sunk ; Mr. Molts. being all excellent swins• •
tiler, instantly pulled MI his chat and plunged after her;
it was in the middle of the current, and she was in-
stantly swept away; he at length discovered her a con-
siderable distance oil', but before he could reach bet she
stink again to be seen 110 more alive. A bargeman at
some distance oil' was the only person who had witnessed
the accident, I at he could tender no assisiatice, and Mr.
Mob's being ter much exhausted, was obliged to tenni%
to the bolt to Aliss Patterson, who remained in the
11100 frantic and disconsolate state

Ass eccentitC individual, at an advanced age, recently
died at Upstreet. lie hail not cliamzed his clothes, nor
lain in a bed, for above 15 tars ; he wierl to sit in a
large wicker arm cb iirbefore the are, hum which
very unwillingly moved, c:..opping even the wood hat
used as fuel nn one or the arms of his chair. lit the ex-
tremity of death he fell f his seat on the floor, and
when taken up and undressed, he presented a shockitig
spectacle as a corpse. lle was not ut a state of want,
having a pewit% • y; bat his habits were the
I fleets of eccentricity.

Mr. Harvey, of-Fish-street, Ilsetors' Commons, on
Wednesday evening last, between seven and eight
O'CIOCIi, teas proceeding on foot limn the Grattge-road,
Bermondsey, lust the Albany-road, he was stopped by
two footpath who hid (allowed him for sense distance,
and It lien he came to au unfrequented plaee in the
Grange-road, one of them rushed upon hint and pinion-
ed his arms, whilst the other presented a pistol at him
and demanded his Money. Mr. Harvey distmetly saw
the faces of both the rubbers, who got oft with all the
money he happened to have about him, consisting of
'two sovereigns and about. 18.. Mr. Harvey gave tutor..
initial. of the robbery at Union Hall.
AMOTIMI BKUTAL MATCH Abel Andrews
a dealer, on Moliday undertook to ride one horse 12h
miles in 24 hours. Toe horse, or rather a sunlit gal:away,
under fifteen hands, and aged, looked a very unlikely
sine to wits, and issue was backed at 6to 4. l'he start
took place from Pepper-row, Essex, over a five mile
piece of groultd, at our ii clock tau Monday Morning,
Mr. Apia:ma riding sornet!ting more tlimi 11 stone.—
The lior‘e did the first five miles in 35 IM 5, and 13
in one hour and 45 minutes, and was baited Mr. A.
started again at a quarter past three o'clock, and did
another Ii miles at half past five, when he halted an
1 . AL half past six he travelled at the rate of about
six miles an hour, and did 20 other codes before nine
o'clock, making 50 miles.to a few minutes less than nine
hours. lie batted again, and did the next twelve miles
and a hail (half the distance) by a Tamer past eleven,
having an hour and three quarters tune on hand. Ile
baited the horse, refreshed himself, and started again at
twelve o'clock, having rite other half to perform at the
rate of inure than four miles and three quarters an hour.
He dot the first of the tell miles in an hour and a half,
washed the mouth of the horse, and perlinitted the next
ten miles in rather kat time. The equessrian becalms
fatigued, and he Went to bed for an hour and a half, and
started again at five o'clock to do the remaining 42 miles
and a half. He slid the 20 miles in three hours, halted
an hoar, and started at nine o'clock much fatigued, but
the lonic was fresh, and performed the renaming !2
miles sod a half at 40 • s past 12 o'clock, winning
by 110 nunutes.
Boa eaIIICIL-0.1 Monday, Tuesday, and Wednes-
day ingots last, tau less than live houses were broken
open amid robbed of various property, in Nlaitsion.house-
street, Newington, Slurry. On one of these occasions
the lady of the Itilbse and her maid-servant was sitting
aliove stairs, in the drawitti.t.rnons, waiting for her bus-.
band's coming home they. heard the thieves break• its
and ransack die lower part of .the house, which they=
rubbed, but 'mar prevented their ;wilco% any. alarm,.
well knowing that there is no watchman stationed
that street. The house of D. Sanger, Esq. of Kett ning-
inii.lane, was .11Sti burglariously entered and robbed of
44)01. worth of property, consisting chiefly of jewellery,
tmakets, and other valuable articles.

I

oMeript.

LONDON, MONDAY, I%!ARCI-I 24.

Three o'clock, p.m.

The Paris Papers of Thursday and Friday arrived
.yesterday. They mention various 'reparations for
the invasion of Spain, and the Ultra Journals abound
as usual with the most barefaced misrepresentations
of the successes and accession in number of the In-
surgent Corps. It would be a waste of time to
bestow any further notice on those fabrications,
which are intended to have some influence on those
Spaniutds who arc still neuter, and to recruit the

rebel ranks to act as Guerrillas, to prevent the

French from being annoyed on their Hanks and
in their rear during their march to Madrid. The
throwing a bridge over the Bidasso4 is to be the
Signal fur war and the march of the French army,
and a:: the pontoons are in readiness fur that ssiur-
pose, tl:e commencement of hostilities, it is expected,
will not be much longer delayed. There is no ac.
count in these Papers of the Duke of Angouleme—
we have not heard of him since piously engaged in
attending mass at Orleans, nor is there any thing
Palk! of the route which he pursued afterwards.—
There is evidently some misunderstanding in the
French Cabinet—M. tae Villele seems to labour
under a political indisposition, and will, in a few
days, resign the laborious functions of President of
the Council, while M. de Chateaubriand, the great
advocate of the .extreme Ultras, will endeavour to
strengthen himself in the Ministry. The Duke of
Ragusa (Marmont) has not accepted, the offer of
Minister of War, on the ground, it is said, that
there are " some responsibilities to which it is not
agreeable to him to be liable." There are some
Generals appointed to the command of the army,

.!..t) are little known to the troops,-and by no means
distinguished for military talents. This is probably
ore of the causes which induces Marmont to decline
the responsible situation of War Minister, though it

is but a poor compliment to the valour and great
military knowledge of the renowned Generalissimo
the Duke of Angouleme! It is said that a re-
' organization of the National Guard is in contem-
plation, and it is not intended that the companies

*.hail have the choice of their officers. Such an ar-

rangement would be unpopular and ill received ;
and it is not at all creditable to the Government or
t heir measures if the National Guards are distrusted.
The French Ministers will soon have much business
on their hands—the invasion of Spain, and the in-
ternal stairs of Frame, will not permit them "to
repose on a bed of ruses."

The French Five per Cents. are 78f. 35c. Batik
Stock, 1,160.
On Saturday, at there o'clock, a Cabinet Council
was held at the Foreign Office. The Lad of Liver-
pool was absent on account of the recent death of
his cousin, Colonel Jenkinson. The Lord Chan-
cellor was also absent,
An intelligent naval gentleman, who has been
residing some time at Toulouse, recently left that
city and travelled the coast road of France to St.
Maloes. We are inhumed by him, that about 250
-English are remaining at Toulouse, where the must
violent antipathy to the war exists among the civil
classes. At Rochefort, there are six sail of the line
in condition for sea, but not manned or rigged ; at
Brest, there are twenty sail of the line, only one of
which is equipping for sea. Brest, anti all the
towns, garrisons, and villages, are completely drtiincd
of soldiers, as, since the first orders fur oollecticig an
army near Bayonne, a second collection has been
assembled in the western provinces, with orders to
repair to Flanders ; and 8,000 troops lately marched
through Rennes, on their way to Valenciennes and
Cambray.
His Majesty's packet brigs will be commanded by
Lieutenants, stationed at Falmouth, as the present
Post-office packets are, and be under the superin-
tendence of Capt. William King, royal navy, who
will commission the A.strea to he at Falmouth for
that purpose.
Mr. Revenge, Envoy from the Republic of Co-
lombia to this country, was arrested on Thursday
last, for a sum of 90,00a1., due from that Govern-
'item, at the suit of Mat kintosh, the army acceu-
tr.l.o.ll:

11Y,
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tiORRTD ATTEMPT AT Al URDU( AND ROBBERY...—
On Friday altertiooti last a prism' went to tile initise 01
Mr. Thomas Home, ve•try clerk of the parish A All
Saints, Poplar, and knocked at the door, and on its being
opened by the house-keeper, Mts. Charlotte Rook, he
euquited if Mr. Horne or his brother were at home ?
she said no—on which he asked permission to write a
note, mentioning the name of a gentleman known to
Mr. Horne, saying he came on very urgenr bustuess,
and when admitted into toe parlour he struck her a
violent Uow with a Milan axe, which felled her to the
ground ; but Mrs. Bock, however,lleing a strong pow-
erful woman, had strength to get up again, and caught
bold of the villain, who repeated his blows, and inflicted
several severe wou ink nn h. r head and hotly, and while
struttgling with him he attempted to strangle ht r, and
put his hand ill 11r itiocto to reVrllt her screaming, Oil
which she bit some of ins fingers, and tore his•face.—
rs. Catherine Chili:my, who by chancy called on Mrs.
Rook, stated, that she had tot been t here many minutes
when there was a knock at the door, white she N•as
sitting in the back parlour, and suddenly she heard the
cry of " Murder" in the front parlour, and fearful of
going there, she ran not at the back door, and getting
over some paling, went to the next house and gale the
alarm. By this time a iiiimber of pimple had collected
in front of the home, Air. Coltman, late night con-
stable of Poplar, was passing at the time (to a hoot
much praise is due for his interference), rushed iota the
house, and seeing the prisoner endeavouring In nuke lois
escape, he immediately seized him and taitiod hia hands
w,th his tie:A:ere:net, and took him to the watch-
house.

TALLOW.CII
Price Of CANDLE*—Alooliis,
Bs. 6d.

.uLL'ttd' HALL.
, I Os. Od. per dozen—Stores,
per do.

SMITIIFIEED MARKET.

FMONDAR, MARCH 24.—The meat market this day is on the
rise, and Beef is dearer by td. per stone than on Friday. Mutton
has also improved the Fame. and brisk in sale at that advance.
Veal is full tid. per stone dearer, and Pork has risen 2d. per
stone. The supply is rather short this day, which accounts in
some measure tor the advance.
The following is a correct statamental the prices and numbers
at market:-
I'IOCE of MEAT, exclusive of the ()dal, which consists
of !lead, I.:titled., arititel idc, and is worth •bout t d • per
pound.... Per stone of albs.
siox
Beef 38 4d to 4v 6d
Mutton 3s lid to 4s 6.1
LA Mb Os 0.1 to OA 0,1
Veal 4s 4.1 to fi.4 G 1
Pork 34 ad to 4. ad
. Head of Cattle at insrket.
Ream,. . . . • 2,.:•99
' Sheep
Pigs
Calves

FNMA V.

Reef Is U.I Ito 4• 4d
Litwin. 3: 6J to 44 4d
Lamb O. 0,1 to U. Ud
oral 4s 04 to 5. 011
Purk 3, bd to 4. 4d
Ft:A ul Cattle at Mau lot.
Itea.t ..
Jurep
Pug.
laiet >

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