The National Register.
London, England, 1811-04-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

iiotiee, the one hearbig a strict resemblance to a bank-note. A tai-
lor was taktn into cu.itsdy, he having passed one of those flash
bills at a butcher's shop in Swallow-street; but in defence, he
said he had stole the note in question, from the sruall•clothes
pocket of a cuquiner, and he thought a good one. There
being a good deal of plausibility in this story, the prisoner was
&berated.
The Bilk clerk, concerned in the dividend warrants
3aith Arnim: e, was examired a second time at this Office on
11mrsd, y, add agai:: remanded to Tuthill-fields Bridewell.
The Inqairy was quite private, and we are potdin possession of
particulars.
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to run up stairs to alarm the family, hut her husband
prevented her, and throwing a feather-bed out of the win-
dow, she jumped upon it, and was shortly afterwards fol-
lowed by her husband. In addition to the persons already named
as having fallen victims to this dreadful visitation, she said,
there was .a servant maid, named Martha Eyron, whose re-
mains have not yet been found. On being questioned as to the
probable cause of the fire, she said that the family were in the
habit of leaving a large fire in the parlour to dry their clothes,
which they generally washed once a week. They also occasi-
oually left a tire under a copper in the wash-house, which was
used to boil hams and other meat for sale in the shop. To these
sources only could she attribute the origin of the flames.
John Shelton, Esq. the Coroner, having summeo up the evi-
dence, the Jury returned a verdict of—Died by Zee/dental Fire.
It is remarkable that from the commencement to the termi-
nation of the fire, there was not a single ladder brought by the
persons who were attracted to the spot by the alarm.

BIRTH.
The Lady of Sir Henry Lushington, Bart. of a son.
MARRIED.
At Lewisham Hanson Berney, Esq. eldest son of Sir John
Berney, Bart. of the, county of Norfolk, to Elizabeth Ann,
daughter of Henry "1 ahourdin, Esq. of Sytlenhatn, Kent
Mr. John Brown, of Hale-end, of Walthamstow, to Mary,
yquogest d .r.ihter of the Rev. Edmund Heysham, Rector of
Muildeu, Herts.
At Croydon, Surrey, Geo. Lane, Esq. of Croydon Common,
to Mrs. Marsh, of the tame place.
Mr. S. R. Heseltine, of Harwich, to Miss Jermyn, of the
same place.

DIED.
On Friday morning at half past eight o'clock, at his seat at
Buckenhain, Norf ilk, Gen. Sir James Pulteney, in consequence
of an accident by the explosion of a powder flask, the effect of
which injured his brain, through the eye. He was a most up-
right and worthy man, and was highly esteemed by those who
had the advantages of his intimacy.
At York, on Monday the 15th Irstant, Mr. Alexander Bar-
tholoman, proprietor, pri•tter, and sole con.luctor of the York
Herald Newspa7er, and one of the Common Councilmen for
Walnigate Ward, greatly esteemed am? belcved by a numerous
circle of acquaintance, for his amiable disposition and virtues.—
He was an affectionate husband, a kind ,:arent, and his death is
much lamented by his family and friend. 'File sporting in-
telligence in the Herald, was arranged upon a principle of his
own, which gave universal satisfaction to the gentlemen of the
turf.—R. W.
011 Thursday last, ati Poole, in Dorsetshire, Mrs. Butler
Danvers, in the bloom of life ; she bad just been delivered of
a son, and departed this life in ter minutes afterwards. Mrs.
Butler Danvers was once the lovely and heautious Buddy Sturt,
whose external accomplishments, elegant as they were, consti-
tuted but a small part of those perfe. tions for which she was
so justly and deservedly celebrated. IVir. Butler Danvers is
this moment serving in Portug:.l.
Lately, Mr. Cradocic, jun. of Langroft. His death was oc-
casioned by his persisting (against the advice of a medical gen-
tleman at D ' eeping to whom he had appli,d) in haying a dou-
ble-tooth extracted. On returning froni Deeping, he applied to
a blacksmith for ;relief, and had the tooth extracted with the
, operator's pincers; but the patient's jaw-bone was broken by
the violence necessary to rarnove the tooth. The co! sequence
was, that an ulcer formed, and he expired, leaving a widow
and four children to bewail his untimely and extraordinary
death.
At Cambridge, in his 93d year, John Longley, Esq. formerly
of Old Broad-street.
At Pontefract, Mr. Serjeant Cockell, for many years an emi-
nent leading Counsel on the Northern Circuit.

PRICE OF STOCKS.

Bank Stock (44-9; 9.41
3 per Cent. Reduced 63Lp
3 per Cent. Consols 64gia
A per Cent. Consult 79?,,1).
5 per Cent. Navy A intiti,!s 91 93
Bank Long Annuities l7 1-16
India Stock ltiii 182 A.
India Bonds "ss. 265. s4s. prh•
Exchequer Bills, 3d. 55. ls. pm-
Consols for May 64;li