The National Register.
London, England, 1817-11-17 00:00:00

UNION-MALL.

N FAMOUS Ciss:.—Tuesday, Mrs. Ware, the keeper of a brothel.
in Johnson's-court, Westminster road, charged Mrs. White, of et.
Regency-place, Kennington, with enterin her house on the night
of 'lliursday sennight, and stealing some chintz curtains and a coun-
terpane.
Mrs. Ware said, that she went towards the prisoner's house, and
tact her with the property wrapped in a bundle, and she irnuiediate4
gave her in charge to an officer.
The prisoner, who is a respectable woman, said in her defence, that
on the sth of Nov. the property in question was brought, wrapped
up in a bundle, to her house, by a man who she was acquainted
with the complainant. She suspected that some trick was being
played her by Mrs. Ware. for she had sworn in the presence of many
person, that she would be revenged, on account of some quarrel
which took place between them some time ago. She therefore took
the parcel, and was going with it to Mm. Ware's house, and on the
way met Mrs. W. and said to her, that she had a bundle belonging
to her ; Mrs. \V. received the bundle, charged her with a robbery.
and immediately sent for an officer.
The officer xte,...1, that he was going along Kennington-lane on
Friday morning, and saw the prisoner and Mrs. Ware. Mrs. W.
insisted on his taking charge of the prisoner for felony. At the time
he took charge of her she said that the bundle had been left at her
house by a man who was known to be a bully at Mrs. Ware's. she
hadlormerly sold some articles to Mrs. Ware, and had been to her
house ter the money; remembered having seen the furniture con.
tamed in the bundle at Mn. Ware's, and suspected immediately after
the man left it, that sonw conspiracy was in contemplation, and
thought the best way to prevent rt was to take the articles imago.-
diately to Mrs. Ware.
The Magistrate took great pains for the theroughlavectigation of
the ease ; and in conclusion discharged Mrs. White, awl said he had
no doubt but there had existed a most.infainous conspiracy, between
Mrs. Ware and her Mall to convict Mrs. White of a felony. The
Magistrate directed the officer to use every exertion for the appro.
benders of the man, and that an indictment for a conspiracy should
be preferred against the parties..

We lately gave an account of an immense fortune being left
' to a youth, by a gentleman who had accidentally met him in
a stage coach, on his was to school, at Shrewsbury. We have
now before us a letter on this subject, from a gentleman in
Cambridgeshire. dated Oct. 29, Awn which we extract the
following particulars :
" I delayed this letter till !could give you some particulars-
of the most extraordinary of all extraordinary affairs that
ever came to my knowledge. The young Mau who hail frees),
spoken of in tbe newspapers as having lied a fortune of
500,0001. left him, is one whom I know very well, as well as
his family. They are respectable farmers at Chippenhans,
near Newmarket, and their farm is part of the Thorpe es-
tate, of which Mr. W, is receiver, by appointment of the
Court of Chancery. When the finings were first made pub-
lic here, it was considered as a joke upon the father of the
young man, and after it began, in some very slight degree,
to be credited, no one could think it possible that the property
bequeathed was so immense as it has since proved. The tte
counts you have seen in the papers are pretty correct as far
as they go, with the exception of this partienlar. The person
who left the property never knew the family, nor the forte- -
nate object of his bounty, any further than seeing It;in going
to and from Ilse Shrewsbury school. But now for the amount.
The Duke of Devonshire's income is 133,0001. a year, and
that of the Duke of Rutland 116,0001. by rent roll. The in-
come left to this youth is more than double that of these two*
tines! Mr. W. (the receiver above mentioned, and • who
is a gentlem.n of great respectability] was requested on
'Thursday by the father of the youth to go to Chippeultum im-
mediately to meet the family : end he stayed with them till
Saterday. I have had much conversation with hint since on
the matter. It appears, the person who left this property
was named Develneaux : that lie lived recluse, anti whs little
known. I■ the funds have been found minions, his property
not one or two, Mr. W. says, but anthems! The estate in
Spain is valued at 100,0001 a year; the Scotch estate immense,
besides an estate of great value in the West 'maws • There
is not a sovereign in Europe but wlhatisbidel.:editulsint, and
that to an immense amount; scarcely a loan That he has not a
share in : or a nobleman's estate in Great Britain involved,
but this man has a claim upon. What -ver yon may think of
this statement, it will soon be found. to be true. Air. W..
says, it is a property of must tiangercas amount ; bd. it is
more than sufficient to overturn the state.' lam %w.f!, to add
that within the last few days. the faeuared yowls (,%110 Is
abort 18 years of age] has taken to his bed, and eaanot be
persuaded to get up. It is feared that his good fortune has
affected his mind, and great uneasiness and alarm are felt tot.
him. In my next you shall heattnore.'!---(tHristol Mirror.)

Extract of a letter in Tile Courier : —6' An affair, m which M. B.
de Constant acts a principal part, excites some attention in Parir, and
ianditmented on vanousry. acconliog. to the feelings of those who ex-
amine it. A few days since, a saine twos put tm the totality of his
freehold and tersonal property, at the suit of the Prince de Ilene-
Weld, who (Ambits a deiinnti againA flint to the amount of lt,tasi
franc:. M. de Constant does not deny that M. dr Tallcyrand lent
him the sum of nom frame. many.. years ago; but affirms, that
when, afi exttnonlinory per:-:o»ale %nal France. for England end
die I2rited State., Madame te Stat.' afliinled hint a credit of fliChoon
franc:, every sixpence of which he had itectiaton to iniiploy. The in-
t_rcat Mat:tutie de hoe display...el for a long tone in tityour or M. 11.
Comtiint is known to all tamp-. and I.c declares, that when M.
de l'aPeyrand acquitted this debt, Madame de Stith cvpreesly pm-
vided for the loan of I s,onn masii. to M. B. de Conatant, and liquidat-
ed that claim. On the other hand. it appear:. that M-Ile Talleyrand
it s found the might:ll obligation, which would never have lawn in
(according to his ..ystrin of vela oiling) had the debt
Lac.. amuitted. M. ilet mutant in vain invoke.: ti:e improbabi:ity of
an acleir nature being left in total silence at,d forguiitilne,i.
Wiring if.ore than :!.0 years."

RETitr.Ar ritom Mweow.—Ceneral Baron d'Ochs,
wto in the campaign of f 81.2, commanded the corps of
the Westphalian army, has published a work which
contains important information on the disastrous expe-
dition to Moscow. The General shows, that it was
net so much the cold as want of provisions which occa-
sioned the destruction of the French army, and that of
the. artier. This want of provisions was the result of
ne..v rietLud -if marching without magazines—a me-
ths:', which makes requisitions necessary, and entails
desti!naiou on all the places bordering on the line of
march. This system of pillage leaves an army without
ref;•arecs, %Olen by a combination of circumstances it is
ecnTelled to retreat by the same route on which it ad-
vanced. General d'Ocbs states a fact which proves how
itas:nsible the army was to every other want but that of
food. On the nagged banks of the Niemen they were
obliged to abandon the military Chest, which contained
a great number of bags of' 1,`,200 francs. The conduc-
tors threw these baps on the high road, crying out to
the passengers, " take wormy if' you will." Some sol-
diers endeavoured to cony off' the lags, but finding
tkem too heavy for thtir enfeebled arms, they threw
them away, after having talon from them 10 or 12
five-franc plucs. The greatest part of these wretched
men aftersrarat, trampled - the money under their feet,
" it is LrEad we want."

13 %HON Ell E N.—The Gazette of Saturday week seals
the doom of this foreign upstart, by dismissing him
from the British army. The mention of this man's
name aml fiirtune recaps a most amiable and striking
trait in the character of olir %Trot-able Sovereign, as
displayed in his Majesty's conduct towards this impu-
dent impostor. Previous to his entering into the loth
Hussar.:, numerous and urgentesolicitattons were made
by no fewer than three of the Princes to their loyal
Father, to introduce their new favourite into the Bri-
tish army through the medium of the German Legion,
as most conformable with the etiquette due to a person
calling himself a German Baron. His Majesty, who
made a point of selectiog the Officers of the German
Legion among those only whose characters world bear
the strictest scrutiny, with a rigid adherence to his sense
of honour and duty, unithrmly refused all countenance
to Eben's promotion, His Majesty, upon inquiry, bad
learnt, that although possessing rank in the French
army, he had been taken prisoner in the disguise of a
common hussar, under nest suspicious circumstances
when he .pretended to be a deserter from the French
out-posts. 1 t was also discovered, that he had alter-
nately served in the French, the English, and the Prus-
sian service, in Hanover : and in the two latter as a
private Dragoon. It will grieve come of our country-
men to learn, that this accommodatin„• soi &rant Ba-
ron, this " thing of shreds and patches," carries out of
this country at least 50,0001. of British gold.

ATTEMPT AT ROBBERY ANT) Munnett.—On Thursday
night, between 10 rind 11 o'clock, as Mr. Cuthbert, the turn-
pike-gate keeper at Wheagy, in Oxfordshire, W3ti returning
home from Oxford, he was stopped nem the two milestone by
two foot pads, .one-'of a hour seized the reins of his horse
whilst the other laid hold of him by the left arm and de•
mended his motrey-or his life. On Mr. Cuthbert making sonic
'resistance, the villain who had hold of him gave him A des-
perate stab in the left side with a dirk, and I second in the
thigh : Air. Clobber, knocked him down with the butt end
•of his whip, and, spurting his horse, rode over the other
fellow who held his hridle.tbus effecting his escape. He now
lies dangerously ill at 1% heathy. He had that day been re-
ceiviog a large stun of money at Oxford, wh:cli he had ;dealt
him at the time, and it is suspected that the-villuins were nut
unacquainted 's ish the eirennistanee.
A Wise wiTit Two llesnssus.—At the Mansion Hons..
on Saturday, Jeremiah Amirews and Richard Baker appealed
before the Lord Mayor, with a lady between Otto, to whom
they both laid claim. Mr. Audeews said he had been abroad
'Omit five years, and on his retorts fistula Mrs. Andrews had
dovilie his absence, become Ike wile of Mr. Maker. For the
holy he had no partienlar regret, but he hoped his lord•hip
would order immediate restitution of his goods and chattels.
Mr. Baker declined saying any thing, except that the lady
made a " pretty good will ;'' he would. however, abide by
his Lorlship's decision iu all thing% Mix. ews,
wise Baker, entered lipon her defence with infinite seif-com-
plat-miry. She rr called to his lordship some pecdliar circum-
stances relative to the travels of Mr. Andreas, by which it
appeared they had extended as tar as Port Jackson. The
Lord Mayor said he recollected this circumstance. He was
she, at the lime, and he well remembered tarnishing her
with the goods and chattels which Mr. Andrews now claimed
iIe(AIOP lie pitied her forlorn condition. Mrs. Andrews here
put m an epistle which she had received from her trensport-
'A first lever, when at lkoolsvich, sae looked upon is
formal discharge from her • conjugal functions. She had ac-
cordingly married Mr... Saker, at Shoreditch church, nearly
two years ago. His lordship recommended Mr. Andrews to
forez.o all claintamon the lady or the goods ; but he persist-
ed most stremiously,aud said dills lordship did not order them
to give op the goods, he should charge her for bigamy. The
whole party becoming clamorous, the Lord Mayor dismissed
the complaint, and desired the marshalmen to see them out of
the office.

hers: tt. Mtsrtntm.--frhere is now nn appeal of taut.;
der antler the consideration of the Coot of--King's Itt itch
in Ireland as our readers w.II have obw•reed from the
newspapers; but the defendant having, by the ads it of his
counsel, claimed his wager of battel, the coo rt seem to have been
under some difficulty how to act, and have ft oni time to time
postponed the it judgment, and the case is now gone oft till
next term. From the authorities in the law-books, it is quite
clear that the party appealed has the privilege of battcl ; and
it may not be a little curious to consider in what a dilemma a
modern court ofjustice must be placed, if it were called 11110 D
to give effect to this mode of adjudicating upon such as issue
joined between the appellee and appellee.
Tuesday week the remains of Mr. Curran were deposited in the
vault of l'addingion church. In order to avoid the etmcourse which
might result from attracting public notice to the internment of this
cikhrated man, the ceremony waseenducted in the plainest manner.
The hour was communicated oily to the mourners. Between 12 and
I she proces-Aon moved from Upper Grosvenor•street, where the
body had been deposited the night before. Three mourning coaches
and three private carriages followed the hutr,,e. Mr. Curran, of the
Irish Itat, Captain Curran, f' the Navy, and Mrs. Taylor. children
of the tierVlVfi. were in the first coach. Mr. 'Thomas Moore, Mr.
God* in, mat :Ir. Charles riair, were »along the raourLers.

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