The National Register.
London, England, 1814-12-18 00:00:00

DEC. 18.

MISCELLANIES.

THE. PRINCESS O F \V A LES.—A letter from Naples, dated
Nov. .2 S , says—" The King yesterday reviewed 9000 infantry
and six squadrons of cavalry. An elegant tent was raised for
her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, in such a man•
ner that she could have a full view of the manceuvres. The
Queen of Naples accompanied the Pi incets The Officers of
the English squadron, the Ministers of the Foreign Powers,
and the first personages of the State, ns,embled to pay their
re,peets to the Princess. After the review, with which she
was hip,hly gratified, the Queen and her floyal Highness, fob
lov-e('. by the who'e Court, proceeded to the splendid tent
of kil!g Joachim, where a grand dinner was served up"
A. a grand hat! given by the Pittice Regent, at Brighton,
llst week, he wired when the clipper was announced, and
the F uke of Clirence took the chair. The Prince regularly
w i w at on - f cm the evening parties, during a I
the time of his residence at Po ighton, leaving his guests to
pro:ortg their iinuseinent to their own hour.
Afzei. all the boasts of the French inanufacturers„the Mo-
-1,:!tto• confo7se,, that at the fair of Frankfort upon the Oder,
Er.g!is,i) goods sorpassed all competition, even those of Pros-
niln;lfacture. Fine EngEsli cloths were sold there as
low as ;:cr cents. taboo; Ed.) an ell.

Ail the ktters fro-1 the out ports speak of the tremendons
pies that have b:wit for some days past, and apprehend
test con,ithraLle damage will be done, particularly on the
F.Ll•tc:.n

Ext7z,....1 of a letter from Plymouth, Dec. 13.--" Diving
the itole of last night and this morning it blew a tremen-
dous gale (rim the S. S. \V. and S. W. which occasioned the
etr:ward be-utrd fleets in harbour Co ride very Nod..
4.1;0ut ti morning the brig Providentia, of London,
w:tit a vatuable carg-o for Cadiv, parted her cabTe in the
mouth of Cat...Y.tter, and went on shot e at Teal's Hill, on the
rucks- near Queen Astte's Battet v, where she now lies with
prospect of being got otl, her rudder and stern-post
are gone, and l expect from her position that she is bilged
and rocks th:ough her kittom. The weather having mode-
ratrd atom ten o'clock, and upon
.the Achole favourable
during the day, by great exertion, about one o'clock, half
the cargo "as landed, some part of it with little or no da-
mage. and should the weather prove moderate,. there is
very prospect the whole care) will be saved. The Whi-
ting, from Loudon, cut her cable, and ran into Catwater.
The brig Georgiana par ted in the Sound, and got on board
another vessel, by which-she 10_t her fore-topmast and bow-
sprit, and afterwards dot into the Pool without further da-
nrge. A vessel was wrecked near the New-stone, crew
supposed to be lost, except three men who are discovered on
that island, but no boat. has yet been able to•go off to them ;
she is supposed to be from St. Michael's front the .great
cluanti4y of fruit floating about ; the Yesssel is entirely to
pieces. 1 galliot, under Swedish colours, is in ‘Vbitsand
Bay, with signal of distress and distnasted, said to be laden
with sugar and cotton from Liverpool for Stralsund. Pilots
have been sent oft to her, -and :t is hoped she will be brought
in. The weather is mote moderate, and wind veered mord
to the westward."

CURIOUS W AGM-4 atcly, nt Portsmouth, 111r.,6 abut,
foimerly surgeon in his Majesty's service, now co halt pay,
undertook for a wager of thirty-one guineas, to take out
cighttf.n teeth, more or less carious, fuom patients 5 Oected
for the purpose, without the aid of any instrument, or foice,
with his fingers only, and ,nnattended by rail), in 2
minutes, which he performed, to the astonidoneot of ail
CSC Id, in occen minutes.

CORONER,S' INVIESTS.

• An inquest was held on Saturday sennight, in Dublin, Gn the body of
the fate Lord Menet, at which Alderman Bhutan' presided. The
body was found stretched on the floor, with a pistol in each hand, the
tore fingers of which were applied to tile triggers. It would appear
that t: e unhappy Nobleman wits standing in the middle of The floor
when he shot himself, mud that he fell against a table, upon one of the
corners rt svhieh some blood was di,covered. It was the kit hand,
pistol that he used. lie applied it to the left temple, and the bail
p rssed through the head. The right hand pistol was dischsrged in the
fall, and its contents, of er passing through a chair, lodged in a wooden
partition under-the middle window of the chamber. Both instryruents
were sand!, but must have been strongly charged, us the reports were
extremely load. lie the pockets we his•hordship some silver and a few
i•Artnaternil papers a ere bomd.
S”rtreen Ireland having examined the body, declaring himself of
opinion, that " the deceased came by his death inconsequence of a ball
having passed through the head above the, right ear."
Matthew Ilawdon was the ftst witness examined. He said he was
an attendant of the it. French, son of Lord Ftiench. He s.tw
the deceased alive at two o'clock on Friday. He spoke to Lord Flreach
at that hour, and was desired by his Lordship to wine his name to a •
paper that lay on the fable, which he Rd. Witness asked what the
paper was,. but received no other answer than that he arts to write lots
name, under his Lordship's, and then retire. Lord Ffrench was
continually walking backward and forward while witness was writnits.
Ilk pace was extremely hurried. \Vbs.') witness had signed his narro.,
the deceased observed, that be had written very low. Witiress was in
the mom about five 'vitiates.
.11e went into an opposite room, and eon.. .
tinned there about 'it) minutes. lie came out and stood in the lobby,
and talked to Richard Casserty, a servant. Ile re.nained in the lobby
about eight or ten minutes, when the Mill parted witness. Ile went uR
to Lord Ferench. or the room %here he as„ When be opened the door
there was a thick smoke. The shot had been fired before he entered the
apartment, lie went in so far sts that he observed Lord Drench covered
with blood, Na,half an hoar atter it had slatted the paper.
.On
recolfeetir n he declared he heard two shots. lie was the tiesf in the
rot an after ttles shots wets fired. . Mr. Pah:audit entuted ihe-room
afterward'. Witres wa. Li, way illariat.d 2t • the shots. Ile thought
th..v have been by ~nn:e of 11,e lads unin•ing 1:,0111!•elvt,5.
of served, in a that} the proliA,lny was, that
a
some per•Gn shot lii•nsel.r. NV ant •s, . f ler he aseettainerl what the
matter wiis, 10111 Mr. liAtithlin that there wio: a dierolltil sielit in the
nrxt loom. Mr. Sovvilr, Mr. P and witness, entered i.he room together.
They ob-c reed that Lit Fircoeli wets to all appearances dead. Wittiest
.easy Ftreneb about tt o'clock in..roiolt, at mtDatineips
hotel, Mary-oreet, where he learned that hi• Lord-hip would breakfast
in College. lle saw lii"Lordship two or three ti!•or s after, und it arts
observed he looked very ill and tuneh deranged. Witness did pot
believe any person was in the rAnea alter he signed the paper.
After the evidence clt”ed, Mr. O'Dwyer addressed the Jury with
much feeling. Ile could IPA conceive how it was possible to ruktaLe
the state of the ill filed nob!eman's mind, alter the elear, circumst
and em;current testimony which liaa given by :o many respectable
w n esses.
'I he Jury after a few minutes' deliberation brought in the following
verti;et We Clod that the late Lord Ferench Came by his dealt,
! by discharging a pistol loaded %kith ball through his head, lasing ia the
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same time in it stale of insanity.

o.l:l'lle.,•ilay Cironer's Inquest was hem at Bartholomew', llusvital,
01 the liody of Sarah Penten. The deceased re,ided ill Ft4lllt'l*-ta
C oat, Fetter lane ; and some ditreience having arisen Item eels her
her lots:rand, he seized the back part of a chair, With %%Lich he repeat-
e illy sun( k bet. She was taken to the I lospital, where 3:IC bog( tett
till her death. The Jury, under all circttaistar•eis, retained their
diLt—Mati,lattf..,,liter. Penton committed to Ntwgrite ha trial.
Ott AVettnesdav, an ltiiitio‘t was held at the hitig sod Q;:eett. Cam•
berwidi, on the -body of 'N. March, found still'iscated in a ditell in
uric kfiel(i lane, NValwnith, on 'Alinidity last. lie was dour, 70 years
-cid. Verdict • Are:dew:it deidli.—Satise day, an !wiliest was !trio
tree Coed' and Horses. Clitswiek, on the body of a child, niturili E. M.
berme Powt-t1 Price, E•i(i., found in its csitlin un the litre Mr. Mirreing's
e!ni•es, where it !tailed out to hive been llye or six yeat'S. M.
remembered tt,e Oectoperl being brinOt to Air. Moreing's about fire or
SIX years since tioto Lt,ueltnr io
Lake's err awl cart, 'and that it 0a„ build
the child was going to be borieil about ;lon miles Lake :Mem.
bered bringing the cofFn from London to 1/r. M.'s ritalthouse, that
gt.iill.nuait paying fur its card:4le; tint he never said for what porm,yr.
the child was brought. It siplietv'ng, however that the ciii!rt 'mai
a starnral death, nod that it had Lezit forgotten) •thcre wits 4.vtlul6t.
died by the visitation of (Jud.

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