The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-15 00:00:00

UNION HALL.

T. Wend, a vagrant, whose appearance pte.leatcd a striking, picture
of misery, was brought up by W. ftnnw. the l'ownthie of Newington,
who stopped hint in the act of begging from door to door. On search-
ing him, money was fmin.l concealed carefully it various parts of his
rage, to the amount of 1:? t.. and also a valuable silver homing watch.
capped and jewelhd : it also appeared that the prisoner was in the
weekly receipt of 3s. front the Parish Officers of St. George's, to which
l'arisit he lalangs. The money. watch, and some papers and memo-
randums intrul on the prisoner. were handed IWO' tothe Churchwardens:
and on Curt:Ler inquiry, it appeared. that this miserable impostor was
the proprietor of Reverie small tenements. the rent of which he received
weekly.—lie was committed to the House of Corrccinin i Jr seven day:,
and ordered toto le afterwards passed to his parish.

nine convict. ut Ely Aswi,es, %otiose .enTentes 'Were mi-
tigated to transportation, were hist week eons qed to Newgare,
from whence they are to be sent off to notaisy Bay by Cite t*st
vessel that sails.
At Lady .Tersey's late entertainment. a man in a good evening dreg!,
and a tolerable appeareniv, came tq the door, out of a hacknyv coach,
and having annonact d himself to Bic servant as Captain Kelly. was
permitted to go up.stairs. with the usual repetitions of his supposed
name. On appre:whing the door if the ball-room. le stopped. on a
Otte-lice that his shoe-buckle wa. Inr,e; and. affecting t find great dif-
ficulty in fastening it, he desired to be *hewn into sonic separate apart •
merit. This was dime .by the servants ;he wa.. shown into a dressing-
room, said was descending from that to leave the house, when the ser-
vants suspseted him, knowing that he had not been in the principal
apartments. lie was searched. all a silver ink-stand of her Lady-
ship's being found upon him, lie was taken to the watch-house by La-
vender.

At the Countess of Shafteshltry'li hall, a man faThionably dressed.
sent up his name as General Gore, or Gower, and actually entered the
ball-norm. In such a osinpany no person with the rank of General
Mild long remain withoilt !wing known to some one. It was observed.
that he did not present himself to dic Lady of the tuausinn. nor speak
to any person. The snspi2Mms of the company soon became apparent
to him, and he left the hell-room, bat not the house. Search being
made for him, he was found concealed in one a the apartments under
a sofa.—We hire not heard that the Police Officers knew him. hut
he acknowledged himself to be au is:tile:tor. As he had sake, nething,
dismissed.

A girl, 11 pear of age, was run over by the Prinee ft egerit`g eartisge,
in Bealt4treet, Mrmday evening. The populace followed the car-
riage ; and the Regent, on being irforractl of the maortune, tent back
his footman to take care of the child.

A most dreaafal art of suicide was committed about nine o'clock on
Tuesday morning, by Mr. lionllan. House Stimaol to his Excellency
the Ilussian Ambassador to the Court of the Braiits. (now on a
visit to this ccruntry). The unfortunate mut retired tohis apart-
ment, where he put a period to his existence by blowing hi. head to
atoms with a (inutile barrelled pistol, the report of which brought some
of the domestics to the room. "'here they found him in a state too shock-
ing to be described. A brace of balls. whieltrased through his heads
lay near the hotly on the lied. In the evening an Inquisition was held
on the body. It appeared that the deee,:seil was a plea-ant cheerful
man, much in the favor of his master, and estetmisl by all who kte w
him ; that within the last fortnight he emnpLineti of a pain in his stn_
math, and was also troubled with hestilach; that he used to leen with
his elbow on the table, and his head racing; on his hand ; that lee grew
melancholy, and exhibited evident marks of derangement. The jury,
without any hesiettion, returned a vcraict—That lie shot Mirky in a
state of mental derangement.
FITAT. ETTF.CT, or INTONIC4TIOV.-aA"molly morning. Wil-
liam Morris. a private in the !id bait Clan's. and who was at the bat-
tle of Waterloo, was removed in a ciresithitl state of intoxication loan
the door ofthe ltev. Dr. M 'Cloud , Is Dean-st. Solo, to St. Anne's watch.
hausc, and remained in a state of insensibility for a consich•rahle time ;
when about fire o'clock he ore trout his stupor and said he should get
finely reprimanded when he returned to the regiment : after which he
retired to the privy in the lock-up mom of the watch-braise ; and ahem
twenty minutes *ft•'? was seen by a woman who was locked in the aline
room (through a wicket in the pie.; (loon. to he suspended by his belt.
which he had cut and splice! us:railer to answer the purpose of a cord.
On its twin:: discovered, he was immediately cut down, and every as-
sistance tenderod him. Mr. Ileyan, surgeon, of Compton-street. was
immediately sent fir, who ex.attal every efort to restore anioraton, hot
without success. the spark of life being extinct ; he was a tine strong
MM. about gt years of :Lg, and had several scars about hint.— Nfonlay
eVcilin4 as inquest was held on the body ; when it appeared. that the
deceased received sonic wounds at the battle of Waterloo, which at
tunes had col;sidentbic effect on his int:Herts. Ile had bra several

weeks confined in an hospital. and only eame out last Saturday to icon
his regiment; when he received arrears of pay about 31. 'When found
in tiic street, all his miney was gone, but he had his medal. The ex-
arnination of witnessa lasted cite hours, and the Jury returned a sertivi
of—fisnority.
A horrible instance of jealousy lately occurred at Hein Heath, Staf-
fmdahire, Rewhottom, lodging in the hoy,,e of one 131cdtton,
Caine home rather late, an I was admitted by 13.N1ston's wife ; he sat
doan, and the woman, who had purchased a ballad. unwittingly began
to sing it with Itewbotunn, when Id.Niston cams down stairs. and
stabbed him in two places in the belly with a knife. No hopes are en-
tertained of his recovery.
A decent middle-aged woman went into the shop of MI. Way, I
baker, living in I.ower Sloane.strect. Chelsea. about eleven b'dork oa
Thursday evening; when she fell down in a fit, and expired without
speaking a word.
On Thursday, Mr. Bonhun, an engraver, in Soho, dropped &Ma
soddenly, ih Dian,etreet, and expired on the spot.

Sunday. as the son of Mr. Brookson, of Dolly's Beef-steak-house.
in Queen's Head-passage, Newgrate.street, was bathing off Kew-bridge,
he was unfortunately drowned. Every effort was made to save bim,
but without effect-
The following melancholy catastrophe occurred on Thursday last,
at Scotiney-castle, Lamberhurst :—Edward Hussey, Esq, In acting ma-
gistrate for Sussex and Kent (the castle standing in both counties), id
a paroxystn of mental derangement, put a period to his existence with
a blunderbuss ; the barrel of which, it is rather singular. bears the in-
scription,—" Escape me, if you can." Coroner's verdict—Lanscy.
On Tuesday night, at the conclusion of the Opera, as Mr. and Mrs.
Pncock. of Charles-street, Berkeley-square, and family, had got into
their carriage at the door of the Opera. and as the coachman was driv-
ing off, another carriage suddenly rushed upon it. caught the hind
wheel of Mr. Pocock's. and instantly upset it. The coachman was
thrown from off his box with such force against the wheels of an oppo-
site carriage, that he rebounded back, his head awning under the box
of his own carriage as it fell. The poor man received so much injury
that his life is despaired of Mr. and Mrs. Pocock and family received
no ether Injury than the fright. Several other carriages were broken.
all through the obstinacy of the coachmen.
On Widnoility evening an inquisition was taken at the Crowt
and Thi-tle. Bird-street. Oxford-street. on the body of Mrs. G. Ittle7i,
the landlady of that house, who on Tuesday niqlit put a period to 1 er
exiAteece by cutting her throat with a razor. The deceased's hush:lilt
had been head *atter at the Gloucester Coffer :louse, and had taken
this house onlLa tew months; they lived extremely happy with each.
otlr..r, until a , his nephew. came from the tiountry, whom he had
tak,.ii into the family, which circumqtatiet had occasioned many quar-
rels between them. (n Tuesday the deceased went out. and returned
ahout to o'clock at night. and was wen to have taken some brandy.
She then had a few wools with her husband, and retired into one of
the lodgers' rooms, where she remained until about le o'clock. and
then came to his bed-room door to get a key, but refused to go in at
his request. ile epened the door, and found her *eel her throat eu.-.
Verclict—huanil.