The National Register.
London, England, 1815-12-03 00:00:00

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'fife Tea Fos: The late October Meetings were hut thinly at,
tended, %%Inch may in some measure be accounted for by the
absence of many Noblemen and Gentlemen connected with the •
Turf, who are at preach( abroad. On a review of the raeirtg at
the late Meetings, and judging upon the principles of public
running, it may he fairly inferted that Sir Joshua would havo
won the Derby Stakes this vear, bad he not fallen amiss at that s
time, he having beat Raphael (who ought to have won those,
stakes) in the Craven Meeting. With respect ns quinola woo.
ning the Newmarket St. Leger, it is to be attributed to the Skill
of rider (Buckle), Who availed himself of the oppurtunite .
offered by low or five horses waiting upon each other between '
the Dukes, stand and ending, and won the race by a slip. Sir
Joshua afterwards beating Quitiola, his match, two year old f,
course. a race for speed, and then giving Whisker four politica*
across the flat decidedly prove him the best three-year old in
the South. • Milo da Puta is allowed to be the best horse in the
North, hating won all the races he has started f er, and heat
horses of all ages both two and fotsr miles; it must be confessed
that in winning the Doncaster St. Leger, the horses he bad to,
contend with mere, with the exception of the Orville colt. very
had. If in the ensuing match at Newmarket Craven Afeetin,,„
'he beats S:r Joshua, giving him se.:eii pounds, it swill certainly-
rank him the best Boise that has appeared fur many years; ou
'the other hand, if he loses the match, it will no doubt lead to
another engagement, in which the merits of these rixals of the
turf will he fairly. measured. Sir Joshua is at Rresent the td
vourite, 6 to 44 p.p.
M. Vavalette, condemned to death at Paris, is I's-kited. to that
Bonaparte. tamily, having in 1802 married a niece of the
press Josephine. Lavalette is the son of a coffee-house keeper
at Nancy, eorolled. himself in the National Guard of that city
at the burstitKont t$ the revolution, attained the rank of gene-
ral at the time of Robespierre, served as ab4-de camp to Bona-.
carte in his Italian campaign*, partook of his fortunes its
Egypt, and continued to serve utiAer him?, till the peace of
nevilk, iu tem, when he was appoiuted Counse.se of Sta
and Director-General of the Posts, 'w ,*icls place, he occupied till
the restoration of the Boarbops in
A scale of Pensions for the Navy, similar to, tint which was
recently granted to the Officers of the Army, has been finally
agieed upon ; by which the pensions increases, %Kith the pro-
gressi %e. rank of the wounded sufferer. So greatly ire several
otheers of the Navy benefited by it, that they will te in the
receipt of ioool. per annum. for the loss of a limb, instead, of as
heretofore, aboutaool.
EX T ENSI VI:RIVER PIP AC? .---Friday Se J. Ridgway,
alias Taylor, 1. Hastings, W. GAtess Jos. Brown, and "I" "H.:
inage, were brought to the Thames Police Office, and untler.-,
went a final examination, charged with s.tealiug a quantity of
cambric:l:s, shawls, handkerchiefs, and other articles, to
an immense amount, the property of Messrs Jacklyn. 1V illiain ,'
and Burton, of Water-lane, Cower-street, on the 30th of Ocki:
her last. —Three other persons were concerned iu the robbery.
viz. John Flygar, John Mackreli, awl Samuel Spendlove. The .
former was in the service of the prosecutots, had confessed
,wilt, and become an evidence. The two latter had absconded.
Flvgar, it appeared had been ordered to convey three trunks,
containing the goods, on board a vessel bound to Surinam, in
doiug, which he contrived, with the assistance of the other pri-
soner{ to plunder them of the chief part of their valuable eon-
tents.:—The.parties were committed for
One of the students belonging to the East India College of
Haileyburv, llerts, was last week communed to Hertford gaol,
for in assault on Mr. Neale, the Steward4•and Mr. Limes, In-
spector of the College, on the 6th of November. lie was the
next day admitted to hail We understand that the circum-
stance which gave rise to'the assault, was a prohibition against
Lenin.. off fireworks.—The, • Directors have come to the resolu-
tion a expelling seven la the most retractor;y front the College
for ever, and seven others, less guilty, fur a stated period, in
the hope that the examples thus made, will prove sufficient
to deter others frOku, engaging in such lil‘N lebS it 11441 uutrageuu
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