The National Register.
London, England, 1820-03-27 00:00:00

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BOARD OF EXCISE.
CAUTION To TEA-DKALERS. Many grew's and.
tea-dealers were summoned to an,wer for having stock
upon their premises without pesueits. One It .d seven
pounds of tea more than was permitted. lie stated,
that the chests were sometimes heavier and sometimcs
lighter than they were stated to he. Upon a former oc-
casion he had received a chest seven pounds ligmer
he had paid for, and the present overplus was to he ac-
counted for by thtt circumstance. Nothing was more
common than such a thing, and he did not know hove
the difficult was to ha got os
The Court —" The case by no means looks like a
Crtudulent one, but the tea must be condemned, for
what security can we have that the dtuy has been

paid r
Tea• Dealer.—" ; am a wholesale dealer and subject
to this i.erpetually.—Wh.—What am I to dos"
The Court.—" Weigh every chest, and chirne for
deficiencies, and refo,e to t-ike )‘-er-measure. You can•
not be a lover by this plan."
'rho tea %vas comb:mm.l-11w Iv•naltv remixed.
Mr. and Mrs. Bartley.—The following is an
extract from 7'he National Advocate, a New York
newspaper, of the 21st Jan. last.—" We learn from
a letter from Hartford, Conn., that after Mr. and
Mrs. Bartley had concluded their admired readings
from the best authors, the State's Attorney pre-
sented them with several writs, under the law of
the State, prohibiting " Theatrical Exhibitions !"

and arrested them.
HORRID Nluanea.—A murder of a peculiarly
atrocious character was perpetrated in the liberty of
Bilston, Staflin•dshire, a short time since. A woman,
named Mary Martin, and her infant natural child,.
were missed, about a month since, and sonic time
after their bodies were found in the Birmingham
canal, near Bradley, with such evident marks o`'
-
violence upon theta as to leave no doubt of their
having been wilfully murdered. The event natu-
rally excited a strong sensation in the neighbour-
hood, and as several circumstances tended to crnninate
a man named Abel Hall, by whom the woman had
the child, and by whom she was again fir advanced
in pregnancy, he was apprehended and lodged in
prison. An Inquest has been held at Bilston upon
the woman, and the Coroner's Jury, after three
days of most anxious and minute investigation, re-.
turned a verdict of Wilful Murder against Hall,
who has been committed for trial at the Summer

Assizes.
The King arrived at his palace in Pall NIA,
front Brighton, on Thursday afternoon, and on
Friday his Majesty held a Court, which was nu-
merously attended. The Prince Philip of Hesse
Hombourg, who had been sent on a special mission
from the Emperor of Austria, Prince listerhazy,
the Austrian ambassador, Baron Fagel, the ambas-
sador from the Netherlands, the Bavarian and Swe-
dish ministers, and Baron Lan,pdol. the minister
from Baden and Hesse, were severally introduced,
and presented to his majesty, from their respective
sovereigns, letters of condolence on the decease of
his majesty, and of congratulation oil, his present
majesty's accession to the throne.
The lord mayor and sheriff of Dublin attended
with a similar address ; the sheriff was knighted.
The Persian ambassador had his audience of
leave.
At a council held afterwards, the common ser-
geant made the report of the convicts under sen-
tence of death, in the absence of the recorder, who

s indisposed.
There is a large hollow oak tree now standing on
the Court Farm, near Pont-y-pool, the property of
Capel Hanhury Leigh, Esq, the cavity of which is
large enough to have lately contained two gentle-
men on horseback ; one of whom rode in, turned
his horse round, and returned, without dismounting.
Mr. Williams, the present tenant, has not unfre-
quently fed six or seven calves in it, in the winter.
On Thursday evening, about nine o'clock, an
alarming fire broke out on the premises of Messrs.
five and Balm, printers, Graceehurch-street, and.
raged with considerable fury till the arrival of the
enoines, which stopped the otherwise rapid progress
which it.was making; as it is, we understand great
damage has been done to a group of out-houses and
back premises. We have nut us yet learnt the un-
fortunate cause of its occurrence.
A woman was finind dead in her bed at Versailles
on the 14th of this mouth. Her death was at first
attributed to apoplexy, but upon close inspection of
the body, they discovered above the lett breast a
wound almost imperceptible, which appeared to have
heen made with a strung needle. The body was
opened, and they fivna the heart bad been punc-
tured. A considerable quantity of had flowed
into her chest. The police are in search of the per-
petrator of the crime.
The Court of Assize at Paris, on Thursday, was
occupied with a sit which had been instituted
against the authors oi. a publication entitled Leitrcs
Normandes, containing some offensive. remarks en.
the observance of the funeral ecremonit s of the :21st
January, in commemoration of the decapitation of
Louis XVI. They were condemned to one montlia
imprisonment, and a fine of 1,000 t. each.

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