The National Register.
London, England, 1812-01-12 00:00:00

JAN. 12•

Tuesday b-ing -the birth ably of her Royal- Highness the Princess
Charlotte of Wales, :Ay ','her Royal Highness completed the 16th year
of h r rage, the Prince Regret pave a grand dinner at Carlten-House, ,
to the Onia,n, Prncesst s Augusta aryl- Mary, the Dukes of York, Cla-
reece, an. Cu berland. At five, the Queen and Princesses left
C:rkton Hoarse f Windsor.
The Duke of Cambridge has resigned his District Command, on a
princinle which lee; been determined on. of reducing enormous expence
of tti 1-tome Staff, which is greatly enhanced by the employment upon
it of Generals instead of Major Generals.
Etna ry, whose engagen-ent expires with the present season at Co-
vent-Garden The4tre, it is said jlins the new Drury-Lane Company:
Mrs. Siddons is gone to Eflinburgh, to take a final theatrical leave of
her frii nets in that city, and has been recently joined by her sister,
Mrs. C. Kemble, who has left Covent-Garden.
Friday was one •of the darkest days ever remembered in the metro-
polis for mmy years. All the shops and public offices were lighted up
during the whole d y in the same manner as in the winter evenings.
For the greater part oc the day it was impossible to read or write at a
window without candles. Persons in the streets could scarcely he seen
in the forenoon at two yards distance. In the Corn-market, and some
other places of public i esort. no business whatever could be done.—
There had been a reat fall of snow in the morning early, and on the
preceding evening.
T'ae equestrian statue of the King, in Berkeley-square, has, within
the last year. been gradually giving way, till, more lately, it has been
retained in its position by various supports and props ; but it has been
found impossibk to sustain it any longer,. and workmen have been em-
ployed to take down the statue.—This circumstance, associating itself
with the actual s ate of our beloved Sovereign, has become the topic of
conversation in the neighb hood.
P. was Mr, Ramey Cuthbert, Member for Applebsf, who divided in
support of Sir Francis Burdett's Address, on Tuesday.
A daring attempt at robbery was made at the house of Lord Callan, ,
No. 2.9. Fitzroy-square, on Wednesday evening. His Lordship is at.
Salisbury, and a female servant hat the sole care of his house. About
nine o'clock on Wednesday evening, the servant was annoyed by the
squalling of a cat in the area. and she opened the kitchen door, with a
poker in her hand, to drive the cat away, when a fellow rushed upon
her rather tall and thin, and dressed in a loose brown coat.—The servant
struck the fellow with the poker, with all her strength, and he in return
knocked ner down. She r. mained some time in a senseless state, but
alarmed the neighbourhood as soon as she recovered. The house was
searched, but the robber had fled. The servant had observed the same
flints, larking about the house in the afternoon, and he had knocked at
Lord C.'s door, and asked son:e strange sort of questions.
MYSTERIOUS ATTEMPT AT SUlClDE.—Thursday morning an in-
stance of youthful rashness occurred in the inland department of the
Post-Office. One of the messengers of that institution, hearing the re-
port of a pistol in the Inland Office, ran immediately to the place from
whence the noise proceeded, and saw a youth, named Kelner, about
17 years of age, sitting on a chair by the fire-side, leaning his head upon
his hand, and holding a pocket ha. dkerchief to his face. The messen-
ger conceiving the pistol might have been fired for idle sport, imme-
diately retired. Shortly afterwardi one of the Clerks entered the
Office, and observing the young man in the same position, asked him
what was the matter ? He made no answer. This excited a good
deal of surprise, and upon coming close to him he observed blood drip-
ping from his clothes upon the floor, very profusely. Alarmed beyond
expression, he instantly went in search of a Surgeon. At that hour,
it being then only six in the morning, he found peat difficulty in pro •
curing the services of a medical man, in which, however, he succeeded
at length ; brat upon his return to the Office he missed young Kelner.
—lt appears, that after the other young man had gone in search of a
Surgeon, he went away, and nothing has since been heard of him. The
dripping of his blond was traced into Lombard-street, but there every
clue for discovering whither he had fled, failed. What to ascribe this
ex! raordinary conduct to, his friends are utterly at a loss. Latterly
he had become very gay in his apparel, and his father had declined in-
creasing his income beyond the stipend _of his situation in the Post-
Office. Extravagance, it is supposed, had led him into some difficul.y,
and that he rashly endeavoured to acquit himself of his worldly engage-
ments, by anticipating his accounts with nature.
The Police ''facers ale about to be augmented by the addition of
four more officers to each establishment.
THE FORTUNATE BROTHER S.—The late Mr. David Jones, of Moffat-
street, City-road, beught at No. 4, Cornhill, a Sixteenth of No. 6,43, ,
in January, which was drawn a Prize of 20,0001.—and in the next
Lottery, his brother John Jones, of York-street, '-‘'estminster, bought
et the same Office, a Share of No. 2.618, which also was errawn a Prize
of 20,0001—Thus in a Single Day was each Brother rendered Inde-
pendent, as any Person may now be in the present State Lottery, con-
taining Two Prizes of 20,0001 Bcc. Sec- Btc. if bought on or he tore
Monday the 20th Instant, as all the Lottery will be drawn at Nine
o'clock the next Morning.