The National Register.
London, England, 1811-02-10 00:00:00

MJSCELL4NIE S.

The following anecdote. extrac!ed from an American paper,
is a pretty accurate connterpart of la kle, and l'ariav :
" .-ioine few months ago, a black woman, named Clarinda
Nraw, belonging to New London, in Connecticut, but originally
of the West Indies, where she has two children living, both free,
and one of them possessed of considerable property, advertised
in the Columbian for a passage to .I•lontserrat. After a while
Ole found an English brig bound to Antigua, the Captain of
which a.ngaged to give her :a pa sage for her services in cooking
and waiting upon him and the INtssengers, and she put her things
on board, and embarked accordingly. We are now informed,
'that the Captain, on his arrival hi the West Indies, sold Ciariada
as a Slate!"

During the /ate embarkations of the 61.4-non horses, at the
Dock-yard, Plymouth, two of them were found so completely
ungovernable as to frustrate all endeavours to sling them, and
they 'were, in eousequence, sent back to their barracks ; hut on
'Thursday last, a singular, occurrence happened during the em-
barkation of the 11th ..tragoorts--a tine spirited horse had baffled
Oil the 'efforts of the dragGons, &c. to, sling him, and became so
lingteirentable as to render-It .dangerbus to apprcacli him ' - how-
ever, a 411.,r, \vith characteristic indiffer;:nee to danger, dragged
the animal to :he Jetty Head, and proceeded to put the slings
under his belly, hut he Anon received a severe kick on his fore-
heud, which laid it ripen, and the horse got loose and dashed off,
v. lien to the astonishment of tbebratanders, he wheeled round,
and returned, to tbe.sailor,, who lay .at his full length, near the
jetty:,-orier,ind with his right fdre fOotptishcci hiM off the jetty
into the sea beneath. 'flit safNr, `though nearly stunned, swam
to spure, In: Anted the jetty) scizzd the a•ainul, ands wet and

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bleeding as he was, finally succeeded in slinging and sending hiss
on board.
A correspondent states, that by the following simple process
the most unkindly working barley may be brought to make good
nialt.—His method is to dry all barley intended for malt on the
kiln, so that all the moisture it may have imbibed in the field be-
fore housed or stacked, may be evaporated, and this (he observ-
ed) may be done at a trifling expence, if the barley is put on the
kiln as soon as the last working comes off. His reasons far this
are : " that it often happens from dampness," and not being
equally dry, that one third of the clevels never come to malt
after being taken from the cistern, as they will not work equal
in the couch or floor, which requires them to be turned„ in or.
der, by giving air, to check the forward clevels ; the doing this,
however, chills the backward clevels, so that the back spear or
shoot, which is essentially necessary to constitute malt, never
comes forward; and only by the mode above stated, can such
barley be converted into real malt.
The Lords of the Admiralty have directed Admiral Otway to
distribute SOW. amongst those who so meritoriously exerted
themselves in preserving the crews of the Nymph and Pallas
frigates, lately wrecked on the coast near Dunbar.
In the night between the 24th -Ind 25th ult. Parma experienc-
ed a very severe shock of an earthquake. Several persons,
going from the midnight mass, were thrown down in the
streets. In Genois•street all the chimnies tumbled down, and
several houses sustained considerable damage. Every thing
seems to indicate that the city formed the central point of the
commotion ; and in other parts of the department no mischief
of any consequence had been done.
The latter end of last week two old swans, and four of last
Spring, were stolen from the Serpentine River. Information of
the robbery being given, that active officer LIMBERICK, of Bow-
street, apprehended a man with a bag containing two skins of
swam. He acknowledged he had four more skins at his lodg-
jags, stating he had bought the whole of them at Leadenhall-
market. They were skinned like a rabit, bit not in such a com-
plete manner as if done by a poulterer. The skins are valued
from four guineas to five, for making muffs. He underwent an
examination on Monday night last, and is remanded for to-
morrow.

HORR/D Mtioneit.--Frorn an American Paper..--Jacob
Baclgley, a stone-mason of New-York, lately committed three
horrid murders ; being under the influence of intoxication and
insanity, he went into a house in Hester-street, and struck Mrs.
Eleanor Jackson on the head with a hammer; he then made a
stroke at Catharine Mitchell, but Mrs. Jackson falling dead be-
tween the witness and Badgley, he missed his aim, and then
turned upon Elizabeth Jackson, mother-in-law to Eleanor, and
brought her to the floor with a single blow on the bead. It
seems that he then took a razor, cut his own throat with it, and
laid it un the mantle piece. Physicians were immediately cal-
led, and attempted to save the two last, but on examining the cut
of Badgley, the blood started afresh, and he soon expired. Eli-
zabeth Jackson is still living, several pieces of the skull having
been extracted? land scarcely a hope of her recovery remains.—
The floor of the little room in which this dreadful work was
executed ran with blood, and the Coroner's Inquest could not
enter it without drenching their shoes in it. The spectacle was
shocking almost beyond description.

FIR .—Friday night about seven o'clock, a destructive fire
happened at the Printing-Office of Mr. iarnard, in Skinner-
street. It was occasioned by an accident in the press-room,
where a great number of sheets were hanging. Some of the
paper having taken fire, the men at work immediately endea-
voured to extinguish the flames, but their exertions were una-
vailing; the blaze spread with astonishing rapidity, and it was
with great difficulty they escaped from the room. In a short
space of time the upper part of the house was envelloped in
names, and a conflagration more luminous has seldom occurred
in the metropolis. The engines soon arrived, but the house be-
ing in a confined situation up a long narrow passage, it was
some tithe before water* could be thrown to produce any effect.
The whole extent of the printing-office continued burning until
all was destroyed. The adjoining houses of Mr. Chappel, pork-
butcher, and the gunsmith's have suffered some injury,but the
greatest damage is done backwards, towards Snowhill.