The National Register.
London, England, 1817-12-08 00:00:00

CASE qf the LATE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE.

[PROM THE LOND3E MEDICAL REPOSITORY.]
The Editors, having been sufficiently apprised that the pro-
fession expected from them some account of this case, theta-
at writable termination of which has spread such s settled
gloom over the British empire ; immediately, on learning that
the physicians who attended it did not mean to publish any
stateman (a resolution in the propriety of which, under the
cirtunistances, they perfectly coincide), strenuously endea-
voured to obtain every information respecting it, from such
sources as could be depeuded on. Their exertions have
been successful, and they are now enabled to present a re-
port to their readers, which may be regarded as strictly au-
thentic • • •
The Princess Charlotte, previons in her confinement, was
in good health. sad immediately antler the eye of her arcon-
cheur, Sir ltichard Croft, who s chided at Claremont for three
'leeks. up to the moment in which she was tacit ill. Dr.
also, was in attendance, chiefly, we have been
formed, on account of a promise exacted from him by the
l'rincess, that he ivonld be near her on this occasion. Her
spirits were esetilleut, nod she anticipated only the most fa-
visarable issue nf the event which was hourly expected • •
Dr. Sims arrived at Claremont at 2 o'clock in the morning
of Wednesday, hut did not then see the Princess • and, its the
cause of thus has been grossly misstated, we think it proper,
in the jnstiticatioil of un honourable man, and SO highly re-
spected a menther of the profession as Sir Bich ird Croft is
well known to be, to state. that we have been informed stoat
a qoarter which we nand credit, that it was proposed by Sir
Richard to Dr. Sims, that he shoold then be iutrodnced to
the PrilleeMs ; hut both Dr. Sims himself and Dr. Bailie
thought his presence at that time could not be productive of
any benefit, but might agitate the patient. Dr. Sims, there.
fore, declitied entering the lying in room. No consolation
was ar this period necessary, as the !Atom was evidently ad-
vancing, though slow Iv ; but, on hearing the statement of the
equation of the Princess from Sir Itiehaid Croft, Dr. Sims
cancarred in the opinion that every thing should be left to
nature.
Aloatt nnen nu Wednesday it was suspected that the child
Ini4ht be dead, or that it might be horn in a state of suspended
ammation • • • At the termination of tin hours from the
commencement of the labour, the Princess was delivered, by
natural etinrts, of is still born male child. • • •
'the Princess was 110 W as well and composed as ladies °sn-
ails arc DOIDediAD ly alter delivery : nail continued so mitil a
varier before 12 o'clock tab ins; it etpiently small supplies of
nourishment , but at that time she became restless and lather
talkatise, and complained of being sick. She vomited, hot
nothing was ejected, except a little camphor julep, which
she had taken ; and at this moment her pulse was tirni,steady,
and tinder a bandied. She again was composed. About
half-past 12, however, the lit eathilig bccanielmipeded ; the
respiratory organs wet e evidently under the influence of
spasnt,and continued in that state until she breathed her last,
at ha.past 2 o'clock, exactly 5 hours and a half after her de-
livery.
in this afflicting state of the case, Dr. Bailie and Dr. Shut,
who had been called into the room when the breathing first
became affected, milted their judgment to,d their skill with
that of Sir Richard Croft, but in vain, to avert the impending
cataity. Art proved unavailiug, although every thing which
it coumld devise, and which experience could suggest, was at-

tempted,
0.1 the 7th No rember, the body was opened by Sir Fre-
Torii !tome, assisted Icy Sir 11:151(11)eindas, Mr. Brande, and
t.i. A! ... {weary or Pt ince Leopoill's I touselio ; and, we be-
the tollowitig is a pretty aertirate statement of the ar
raranees these gentleiiii lc observed - -
The membranes of the Main presented their natural as-
pect. The vessels ut the pia mater wet e less distended with
blood than was to he expo cted. The ventricles of the brain
contained veiy tiiiitl. 'l lie plexus clioroides wax of a
pale colour, and tht substance of the biain had its natural
texture.
Tile peticardiniti contained two ounces of red-colon reiltiuid.
The heart itself 11111 the lungs vivre in a natural state. The
stumaeli contained warty 111 ee pints of Wont. The colon
as distended with air. Tile kidneys and other abtionnal
viscera were in a U4'lllol 55010.
The foregoing narrative' throws very little light upon the
immediate 1•e1117/0 Of the (101111 01 the Prowess. The 'hod Mond
iu the pprjeArilinill might have Obviruel.ll the dote action of
the Imart t tint II is cud easy to account tor its 10'1.1.11C0 there,
Slur to conceit e how c.. 0 hli•ge a tittautily could base burn et:
fused doting the short space of titbit' 11141 supervened 10 dc-
livery, hero:, the breathing beanie impedril. • • • •
.Imagination has been boss, and a phalanx of c. 011131 circum-
stances bave been arranged to aeemitit inr the dissolution ;
some of Odell are tingencrolisly and too unuardedly, not to
bay maliciously• calculated to attach blame to her attendants;
bet we must deprecate sorb expositiotis, as unjust to the hi_
diriihnils concerned, and in no degree honourable to the
Pi ofessiom
We have been informed that the whole of the Royal Fancily
ate liable to spasms of a violent description ; and to tidy he-
reditary predillostiioti, anti the increased excitability of Ho.
amiable sntfvcr, on Mg to the tedious nature of the labour
are we left to ascribe au event, whirl' Inv destroyed the
Battering hopes t
itslnn tion. and lopped off the fairest branch
tom the stem ut nhl succession.

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Ter- I'e'lV. ELYPZE, so will known in this country, first
arr.:elm tt• ti.e King and Monsiotir, died at Park on the 2;th
al meilaight, it: tim Cat h years of age, of th couseoitto nees of
a LI:um:V:01, atteeilillt ill his legs, which terminated a long
S.- 'let of etion,
" rattier setsee is the last of that fraternity of rharity who
4 :toted themselves to the CS el rise of the surgicel profe•sion,
and pin ttettlarly to the practice of the art of lithotooty. the
14. itmds of °instating in which they hied either invented m
impi.werl lie escreis. ol Isis proft salon wilt the most Milli.
ant iiIIECC-11 tot Grenoble roe 15 years, when he NM. Called
to the Royal at my commanded by the Pinter orCorde. There
is not one in that 41-illy who dues not recount sonic wonderful
care he Ina-formed, on 1.,0111. trait of diainleresteibiess by
rf lIICh he was distinguished. The reputation of his rw, ewe,
proem e. 4 for his. the esteem and even the filetolthip
rdnnosl ;ill the Sovereigns of Euro ite. Several of them made
hitt. 11.ite I ing otters 10 settle in their ditteMi. 11A, blot his e‘.
Via, Jt Si.tea to the Pleuch Prince... He ft./lowed
them to Fmghttol. ills 'tomtits am. Isis el.:starter matte Hut
50,)11 lit' rigs by the 1111 l st august peesons, was
/well Ills ii edit till,' 11•/1 12riutte
sis:ink tit, y091)81:6;1111 111 111'4 1 stk. last happier
dse began to beano on FI/Mee, arel/11,11.1111141 hi. Maii.,lV
Oa 111', restoration. Hood received tioon biot the title aids first
surgcou, as a just and wot thy metourcust: of Ida

TIM NAIIONAL MISTY&

SATURDAY'S OLD I3AILLY.

Wm. Hatchnian was indicted for forging and uttering as true a
note fur the payment of 11. with intent to defraud the Gtrernor and
Chnipany.ot the Bank of England.
The prisoner wished to withdraw his plea of not guilty, andto
plead guilty ; but Mr. Sergeant 131/1/14r1Iplvt. on the part of the Bank,
would not accept of it.
Mr. Justice Bailey said the prisoner might plead guilty if he pleas-
ed ; but he could hold out nu understanding to hint that k would
have any effe.l is diminishing Ins punishment, and most probably
it would not; it would theretore be better for hint to have leis case
regularly tried, and so take the chance of the Bank not being able
to prove any thing against him.
James Rogers keeps a pork-shop in Red Ilan passage. The psi-
,oncz came to his shop between S and b o'clock on the Sth of Nu-
vember, and purchased a loin of pork, and paid for it in silver. A
neighbour came in, and asked for change ; witness said he could
give bins plenty if he was in want of it. Prisoner heard that, and
said his master was a builder. named Dawson, lit/led in Drake-streets
and that he frequently wanted silver to pay his men with. fle then
went away, and came back in a quarter of an hour with another man.
Prisoner said he hod brought some notes, and would thank witness
fur silver in change of them for his master. Witness took Ave 11.
notes from him, and gave him the charge. Prisoner produced ano-
ther net., and ,aid, " You may as wellgive as fother pound," which
was also changed. Next day witness discovered that the notes the
prisoner had given him were forged. He gave informution to the
Bank, and about eight or nine days afer, 'manse went with Arm-
strong, an officer, to the Thatehed-house, is Fivlthlane, anti bad hint
tekea into custody. On inquiry in Drake-street nu builder of the
name of D4W60:1 WV.4 to be found.
J. Lees, an inspector of Bank-notes, proved that the notes passed
by the prisoner to Rogers were forged to the plate, the paper, the
water mark, and the signatuee. They were forged in every respect,
and were ail of one plate.
Tile prisoner, in his defence, said, that the man who accompanied
him to Rogers's came into the ptiblic house, from whence he (the
caisoner) was taken into custody, and told him he had just found a
pooket book in Holborn, with 401. in notes; and told hint if he
would pass some of the notes for him he would put a pound in his
I. pocket. He consented to do so. The man told hint, if he was asked
to say his name was Das son, and that he lived in Drake-street.
Guilty—Death.
Charlotte Newman and George Mansfield were indicted for forging
and uttering as true a rate for the payment of 1k with i.ttent to de-
fraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England.
The prisoters were traced, on the 2stit of October, by Plank, an
officer of Marlborough-street., from Bunhill-row to a liquor shop in
Whitecross-street, another on Holborn-hill, to a thirst in Long.
acre, and two or three private houses, where they passed forged
notes. They both went into the liquor shops ; but the woman alone
went into the private hott,es. Ile :wowed them to Smithfield, and
there he lost them • but saw them a,4ain Dunhill-row on the let of
Not ember, tied followed them to the same liquor-shops as before;
and at last ; took them into custody in St. Giles s. On searching their
lodgings ut litinhill-row the °Meer found on the top of a looking.glas,
a bladder, which contained twenty-eight 21. now'. The prison-
ers were taken into custody separately ; aed when asked' where
they lived, Newman said she lived in Westminster , but would not
, tell where, as her father was lying dead; and Mansfield said he
would not tell where he lived, as he would not alarm his wife, who
was near her time. lees, the Bank Inspector, proved that the notes
issued by the prisoners and those found in their lodgings were forged.
Verdict—Charlotte Newman, Guilty—Deaths and George Mans-
field, Nut Guilty.

THE Put wcEss Citant.orri F'.--A poor lad named Lear.
wood, about 13 or I I years of employed iu the gm ilt us
at Claremont, attracted, by hi+ industry ;wit activity, the pe-
culiar attention of her Itiry-al Highness and the Puttee Leo-
pold. The buy, at his Vi/ilaid flouts, had also trained, by
mild treatment, a favouritar crimple of donkeys, fur the purpose
of running iu a light veined's about the park and grounds ; a
word from this youth was inure. than blows. The Princess
and her beloved consort ofien entered into familiar conversa-
tion with the ho), and expressed Bide kind approluitiAlli of
his diligent:it. At the foal intelligence of the death of
his
Royal Benefactress, the Ltd was Mb OV4:1-%1Iiviined with gin,'
Bost he instantly tivd front Claremont anti all its enjoyments,
and 30 lung as the corpse remained there, nothing count iii.
duce him to feu: Oven pictured the miseraule about.
of a parent, miturinuately confined for debt in the Fleet
Prison. At the bimetal be was iu vain invited to return to
see the grandeur of the procession—" I would rather be a
hundred miles another way," replied the
,stnith but as
soon as the funeral vitas user, having yureliased a ,nit of
11111 l ining Irons his own rut nings, he returned. and wits 111-
st.ititly again employed iu the gardens at Clan ennui.
DEsrtutyrs: Bernarsi:.--Alsout seven O'CIDA, a few mornimps
ago, a hackney-coach drove to the door of a Mrs. Price, of S.:est-
i:me, tt'r,livonli, and on Mrs. Price going to the door. ten or a dozen
fellows rustier! into the }Passage, seized hold of her, and in a most bar-
barous and brutal manner forma lierinto tile coach and bore her away
pretending that tiny were acting under legal t.utlonity. A puny of
Cite same gang soon returned to her house, and sirip;ievl it of every
ankle of value. 'lie peculiarity of the eireuaistan..e prevented
unary persons from taking that interest in the affair which the n:ours
of it deserves, and all who beheld it fancied they were acting under
some stibstantal authority, and allowed thew to pass in me com-
mission of their supposed duty without attempting to intemeupt
thou.

THE NOT ICE beiilg expired, which THE CO %;
lIAI.L WINE COMPANY gtc.e to their Fiiends
and i!:e Public to Furnish themselves with PORT WINES at OLD
Pis tc Es, the Contrany take the earliest opportunity of stating their
present Prices for ines of the following favourite Vintages
Ports of the Vintage of 1815, 451e.Di1. per I)oz.
Ditto the Vintage of 'MI, 46.. al. per Doe.
Ditto the Vintage of 1800, sus. Cd. per Doz.
It is certain that the Whits of 1813 and of Itil2 must be
still farther advanced, and this 11108 will scon all be in the
hands of Private individtwls.—The Company re.tiau thanks to their
very numerous, independent, and respectable friends fur all their
favours and mono-petal tile felkming White Wines as worthy of
their notice :--

per Dot.
Fine Old soft and high flavoured Sherries Sitis. 04.
Ditto ditto 1..... India, matchless Cos. tea.
Tencriffe. of full Madeira flavour -48 s. Od.
Bronti Math:nit, eery old - -50 s. Od.
West Imlia Mailetia - - - • fifts. Oil.
Fast India. Mini mate! mg. od.
Tile Co:nosily ithoorii.ir the following Cape wines as being distinct
in quality from any other that hare been offered, except what has
lately been soh: oiny by the Company, White Cape StcinWine, 305.
White Cape Wine, the Maileria (Snipe transplanted, and the
old way of producing the Wine hollowed by experimental high cul-
tivation of the Grape Lands and superior process in racking and me-
liorating. 345.
C. C. Cape, the only parcel ever importml, made from Grapes,
schicd purposely from different Vine Growers. who arc the most
rioted for the lti;:li eulticatkin of their Crapes. and is what is tcrintd the
Stunt-Vat Wine, heing kept by the Wine .tlakers for the purpose
or ire rovir.g Nets Count Wilif3, 41 s.
ICA rontae, in Fiencli bottles, and far superior to most French
Wines. Pis
ltd Cape.—This Win^ is from the Maderia 'finta Gram. trans-
rlantixl, and products a dry full b‘adiad high hinli int ouloared
4ts.
10.._', stria, London.

DEC, 8.

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THE Pow ea OF VII(ON.—A shepherd upon one of the -
mountains in Cumberland, was suddenly enveloped with it
thick fog or mist, through which every object appeared as
greatly increased in magnitude, that hr no longer k vos•
where he was. In that state of confusion, he wandered 'in
search of some known object front which he might direct his
cilium steps. Chance at last brought the lust shepherd within
rizlit of what he supposed to be a very large mansion, which
he did nut remember ever to have seen before; but on his
entering this visionary castle, to inquire his way home, he found
it to be by his nun cottage. Dot his organ of sight hadj so
far misled hie mental faculties, that 3011/C little time elapsed
before he could be convinced that he saw real objects. Ins
stances of the same kind of allusion, though not to the same
degree, are not unfreqttent in these mountainous regions.
From there effects of vision it is evident that the pupil and
the picture of an object within the eye, increase at the same
time.

BIRTH.
The Counts se of Abingdou, of a son,

MARRIED.
Capt. G. M. Bligh, R.N. only son of Adm. Bligh, to Catherine.
eldest that. of the late D. Haynes, Esq. of Lonesome Lodge, Doric.
ing. Surry.—The lter. S. F. Statham, 'ioar of Powerstock, Dor-
set, to Jouitnu, youngest dau. of J. Travers. Esq. of Highbury.
Grove. Middhsex.—The Rev. G. Caldwell, Rector of King's Stsa-
ley, Glauccsicr, to Harriet. sister of Str W. Abdy, Bart.—E. J.
Seymour. B. A. of Jesus Christ College, Cambridge, to Maria only
dau. of the late W. Searancke, Esq. StarnAwd.hill.—G. S. R evton.
Esq. of hover-street, to the lion. E. Scott, dau. of lord Eldon.—
The Rev. li. Jetfcrys, chaplain appoir.ted to Bombay island,. to Ma-
ria, duu. of Hobson, hpilsby, Linooln.

DI ED.
At liamble, llant., Admiral It Douglas, aged 67.—At Quebec.
Col. Myers. Quartenuaqtr General, in Lower Canada.—Mrs. Pratt,
wile of Mr. Pratt, surgeon, of Feckenhain. Worcester. It is rather
singular, that this lady was horn. and died on the same day as the
Princess Charlotte.—P'. Blair, Esq. brother of the late Sir 1). Blair.
His fortune consisted of 2.?2,0001. in Government Debentures. He
bequeathed 80001 to his four nieces, the residue. And his beautiful
Lodge in the county of Wicklow, to his nephew, F. G. Moore, Esq.
of Dublin.—At Wiotheap, Canterbtuy, Mrs. Payley. widow of the
late Rev. W. Payley, M.A. late Rector of St. Mary Magdalen, Ber-
mondsey, and grand-daughter of the late A. Ilighinore, Esq.—lu
Duke-street, Bristol, Elizabtth, the wife of Mr. T. MIL Her dcatk
was occasioned by her endeavouring to fasten a cup with crumbs in.
it, on the outside of her bed-room window, for a Robin-red-breast.
which had paid constant visits there far several weeks, and over-
reaching herself, she fell into the area never to rise again.