The National Register.
London, England, 1819-11-01 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

re-action is certain, sad wall brma with it prosperity to
cut u, and iniprovement to our finances, in
the same ploportion that both have suffered ; that the
popular ttimu3s, confined to a few districts, will shortly
be suppressed by the arm of power, and that their future
rectirretice will be pre% ented by softie wisuat•.d powerful
legislative enactments, that 7,luouty pi essages are but too
characteristic ante country, and that all classes of per-
sons engaged in the speculations of commerce, or of tfc
looney market, awl who have despobiled of the coun-
try, will eagerly
circumstances, in an opposite direction. At the Stock-
exchange motley has been extremely abundant, and
money stock so scarce as to produce little differetice iu
value between that and the purchases made for. the
account.. The rate of contimiation, in capital so em•
ployed, has not produced more than 2 or 3 per cent.—
rde public, it is believed, have cot gruerally been sellers
of stock ; those who possess it hesitate at disf•ostisg of it
at the present prices; tl ;di it does- not appear, oti the
other hand, that those -who bad previously sold are
indium! to reitistate themselves ; the ittajutity, partaking
oldie existing panic, hold out in the rapectinion of a
fwilter depre-stnn. Standard gold is now at pls. tid•
the ounce, and would ht still higher, but the demand
fur it is extremely 11 ttt i t ed.—

A Chute. HOAX.—C:lrtaitt Sir Robert \Frick, who
has a 14111 at the.lloyal Naval College, at Porsmoutli
dock-yard. received a fetter, a few days since. slating
wad be had fallen over the bannisters of the stairs, and
was killed WI tliespot- Sir Robert. so soon as the ef-
fect of such suelaticho y tidings had subsided a littleolis•
lutened. hi* servant to an undertaker, with directions for
him- t•I proceed to Portsmnutb, such snake the necessary
arrangements preparatory to the interims), of the youth,
and Sir Roberts arrital there. The undertaker arrived
oit Wednesday, when on the servant going to the Col-
Ivge, he was most agreeably surprised to find his young
master in good health, no accident whatever having
happened 1.1 him. We will not attempt to (Its:Jibe tot
feelings of Sir Robert and Lady Mends on the occasion.
Lail', Mends. we understand, Is to a bad state of
health.

CUNIOUII DISCOVIIRT.—Cog's Chair.—Oar literary
readers are aware Ant GI), the poei, was a native of
Ba nstaple, in Devonshire. 41 few ha ago, at a
puislic sale in that town. a curiously formed chair, well
calculated for writing (a swing desk being allixed to no
for meditation, or no posure, and -which can lllCOllleb-
tably be proved to have belonged to the poet, was intr.
chased by a gentleman of poetical and theatrical cele-
brity. On all examination of this curious piece of fur-
niture, and upon the teetotal °fa drawer placed under
undet•the seat, a smaller one, most ingeniously secured,
WWI found, in which were deposited sesetal documents
and interesting papers in prose and Nem, many of them
in Gay's hand-wramg, as appears by a compatison with
a fac-s ludic, and which docamentihave liner met the
public eye. Ti'.. gentleman woo was so fortunate as to
purchase the chair and its valuable contents, is Mr.
Henry Lee, amative M Bingham, Notts, proprietor of
several theatres in the West of England, author of
"Caleb Q toteni"—" Poetic I ittpressions".—" I)ash," a
tale, Ste.

Some time ago we noticed a most daring a ttemp
made by a prisoner, notated John Williams, to escape
bins the Borough C pier. He tad been in one of
the loftiest wars of the pitiful with several others, I r
wheuci an tweets was considered hazardous, Wool site_
goner istipossible; but Williams's daring spirit over-
came every obstacle, and he deter ted at all hazards to
try the experiment. Accordingly, after wrenching away
several of the windowoiars, he raised himself on the
roof of the prison, working his body upwards, and then
tying a rove made of tile bed-clothes to the railings at
the top, he began to descend ; but had not got
than lia'l way down when it broke, and lie dropped M
the pavement and broke both his 'eggs. Sauce that period
he has been confined in Guy's Hospital, from which lie
male his escape last Sunday evening, under CliClillibtAll•
et* of great art and ingenuity.
.For the last week or
two, although the surgeons were of.upinicm that he was
getting better, he has complained of the most excrutia-
tang pain in his legs, and if requested to get up has
alwapi declared his itiabilit! to •e. On Sunday
evening he-.was left in bed soon after six o'clock, when
the sister and nurse went to church, aitil next anorniug
was missing, with a pair of crutches heltioging to ano-
ther patient, so that 111 the course of the night lies most
have got up and escaped through the surgery said tii.•
great hall. A coach was at ham] wady to convey hint
off, it is supposed to I,I%efIXMI or Brit.ol, of winch lat-
ter place he is a native. Tate offence with which ate
stood charged was a robbery on the Thames : he has
hren a mariner, and front the manner the robbery,
Must have been frequently employed in the hazardous
enterprize of coming snipping out 01 harbour, for in the
middle of the night of Saturday the 10th of July hr
rowed to the brig Unity, lying off Pickle Herring-stairs,
and wilhout dicurning ally person, got on board, and
was making off with the Captain's poeket-book, con-
wining a 601. note, and a gold watch, when a do; be-
longing to the Venus sloop, laying alongside, obsericd
hint, and began to hark, which awoke Me Captain and
his brother, but the rubber taking a poniard irons his
girdle held them at bay till he descended into his boat,
and .vas about to row ashore. Oil passing the end of
the sloop fur this purpose, the dog 'mmHg into the boat
upon I , and dragzed I tttt overboard, which cireunt-
lance alone led to his apprehension.

Un Tuesday eveiling a circa/Nal catastrophe befell
Mies Esther, flope, of Clart.uce-place. Hanistead.rnati.
Sot was dre,fain4 nerself to go to the play with a pal t!,.
another N.oting l.uiy twin; in the room, and whets in the.
act it:. adjuoileg her bonnet by a 11111111111111 l her tints-
ha tires, caught fiire, and site i.t an tomatt was envelo•
pet' to It s. Ilrr female companion al d the
igouse by her shrieks, but her clo g was reduced to
tinder before assistance was ationled her. She lies in
the 11103 i afflicting agony, without hope of recovuy.

NULL* OF TA LA4IIII,
PRICE or FA r, per t.

111iitechapel Market Ss 8d I
St..latties's Market 34 7d
Clare Market . Od
77-8 d I