The National Register.
London, England, 1809-11-26 00:00:00

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PROVINCIALS.

QUACK EXTIL AOIMINARY. --The following is a copy of a
letter, dated Market Raisen, Oct. S2l :—" Market Raisen has
been crowded for these last ten days, past all belief ; hundreds
of people have come from all parts of the country to witness the
far-famed skill of a quack doctor, whose account of himself is,
that he was never born, but taken out of the side of his mother,
and that he is the seventh son of a seventh son, for seven genera-
tions, and that his mother was a seventh daughter. Many very
genteel people-even come to him, and positively assert, that he
cures all disorders by his touch ; he licks their sores, breathes
into their mouths, &c. &c. makes the blind see, the dumb speak.
and the deaf hear. He is such a figure as perhaps you never
beheld; be parades the streets, accompanied by a fiddle, a fife,
a drum, and several men with ribbons in their hats; he has a
long black heard, walks without his coat, with his waistcoat
unbuttoned, and his stockings about his heels : he takes very
little money of his patients, and yet spends a great deal; he give
a dinner' or supper every day to the poor; he has six attend-
ants, to each of whom he gives a guinea a day. His daily ex-
pences are supposed to be about twes:ty pounds.—. All the ions
here are very much crowded ; many people have not been able
to see him. He went in a post-chaise and four, a -few days ago,
to visit a patient out of the town ; when he got to the town-end.
on his return, the horses were tal4ea from the chaise, aad he was
dragged into the town by men, amidst the huzzas and acclama-
tions of the mob, ringing of hells, &e. ; indeed they look upon
him as something mote than human ; he pretends to much re-
ligion. I molcmand that he was taken up at Lincoln, and com•
witted to the House of Correctirn as a vagrant."
COLON EL HA NSON.—The trial of this gentleman, at Lan-
caster, and the consequent proceedings in the Court of King's
Bench, are well kr:iwn to our reader-. The term of his impri-
sonment being completed, and the tine paid, the Colonel was on
Saturday last restored to his liberty, his family and friends. A
few weeks after his commitment to the custody of the Marshal,
he received an intimation that the Weavers of Manchester, and
its vicinih, had it in contemplation to set on font a subscription
(limiting the maxi:):um to one penny each subscriber), the ob-
ject of which was to pay the fine, amounting only to 1001. being
somewhat less titan a thirtieth part of the expellees, incurred
by the Colonel from the commencement of the prosecution to his
liberation. Om receiving that iniinettion, he declined the elier.
It was then resolved to proceed with the subscription, to pur-
chase a cup of solid gold, with a salver, for his exertions in pro-
moting their bill for 11 sing the illini,lltl4l of wages. A deputa-
tion was sent to London to- pre,ent the cup privately to the
Celonsl, in the King's Bench prison, previous to his liberation.
39.Siti0 weaver; had contributed each his penny, for the pur-
chase of the CU p.
Abont one o'clock on Friday se'neight, three men were ap-
preliene,ed in bed at the Black Lion lint, Exeter, by William
Sarell, city cootahle, chare,eti with burglary and felon v, in
bieaking open the countio;,; Monte of Me!;l.r.,. Crosby and White,
clothiers. +/Vest bury, Wilts, arid rtealing therefrom a quantity
superfine blue-cloth, of the value of ei00!. and upwards.
Bins to a considerable amount uere film] on the prisoners, and
ti portmanteal containing vatimt4 etc. of the
most curious inventim!, capable of opening locks of every de-
ari:;tion; phosphlrus ntotche. dark-l7onern., and ..qtrtilr,
implements, Iliterl to effect their depredations. Waite these
tleuri were Istasrtssi;sq; below stair... one of the men contrived
to make hi!• c cape from the C`t7“,•:;i:i window. by the help of
a sheet, with which he let •h IN into the tttreet, with
:whin; but his thin on, I/1 which .toir.stttAt'tt‘ to,t -lowly after
by two st mile from Exeter, or. the ”rtirtrre -r.
rob:Oily making. his %lac for the riel ill wit chi the proper(
lutd been eon% ed, suppoced i+e at No yeas diAlwve but
111011,13 ti z rruch 1170 be-••r mark. :HA a ltntl-nme
reward qlyet!i,..cd. neither the toac tior Cat i:1114' vet !well d
CO We r2d. •

A fe‘v iln3s B.`:fl Jiv;;;i; tot he
prit-ps tlf thri,topber 1;4%111r, E.-9. of 1.,..zt00r0
di!Frovc!reii botoi;it The 4itot her,-
slier; wero found is !,ttpvil,-f..1 by tooltt• to have heen the burial
plact• of thr Nuotter:. fo;tode4l. thert• by ilot.-rt do Lek clot rit.'
Ono ul the re,fre. •,ill ir. 114,rizotit:11, to;e
itl a perpert.!icular po‘itiop, periectlf upright the rematoiu,„
three we rt. sotne‘s scattered, the skielle tociog all within the
rircumfereurr or tiire f,oei, only two feet below the FlllfaCe or,
the earth. The bone': were IS t vtry rcifect 3Ratr, tent im one,

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instance the teeth were remarkabty soundt they were carefully
collected, and again interred. It• is supposed, .and with some
degree! of probability, that they were the remains of some
who died of a contagions disease in the year Mil, or of the
place in 1666, at which period the mortality was great in
Louth and its vicinity. This opinion is strengthened by there
being no appearance of Collins in which the bodies might have
been interred.
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A dreadful murder and robbery were committed on the even-
ing of Tuesday last, at-Goat hunt, near. -Itridgwater. Thomas
Gage, a servant to Mr. Henry Styling, murdered his master's
wife, by cutting her head quite open with a hatchet he then
robbM the houst of two ten-ponnd notes, a swatch; and various
other articles; afterwards he stole his. master's mare. and with
his .booty he rode oft; and hrs not since been heard of.
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TUESD.4 1"S .LOA DON G..12-ETTE,,

BASKRUPTCY ENLARGED

John Chadwick and Ann Chadwick, Bredbary, Chester, hit.
manufacturers, from Nov. 18, to Dec. 30, at ten, at the Warren
Bulke') Arius, Stockport, Chester.

• BAN KR.O PTCKS SUPERSEDED.
,
Edward 7.lladdock and Witham Delantore, Liverpool, cora
and flour dealeri. •

Ann Lanchester, St. JamcS's•street, milliner.
BANK RI/ PTS.

Ann Lanchester, St. James's-street, milliner, to surrender
Nov. '25, Dec. 2,.and Jan. 2, at ten, at Guildhall. Attornies,
Messr:,. Wyhourn and Burke; Cr?sli's court,-Charing-cross.
Thomas Kendrick and James Whitworth, Salford, Manchester,
cotton-manufacturers, Dec. 4, 5. and inn 2, at the Palace inn,
Manchester. Attornies, Mr. Law, Manchester ; and Mr. Hurd,
Temple, London. '
Francis Ryhot, Chearide, silk mercer, Nov. 25, Dec. 16,
and Jan. 2, at twelve, at Guildhall. Attornies, rtes Is. Col-
lins and Wailer, Spital-square.
Thomas Farley, Sheerness, boat-builder, Nov. '2B, at one,
Dec. 12, at eleven, and Jan. 2. at ten, at Guildhall, London. At-
tornies, Messrs. Rigby and Lowless, Chatham-place, Bridge-,
street.

William Toulmin, Aldermanbnry, -scrivener, Nov. 2£3,
Dee. 2, and Jan. '2, at eleven, at Guildhall. Attorney Mr.
Broad, Uniou-street, Borough.
Mary Ann Tudor, Reading, Berks, inubolder, Dee. 4,5, and
Jan. 2, at eleven, at the Angel Inn, Reading. Attornies„ Mr.
Andrew, Reading; and Messrs. Anstice and Cox, Icing's Bench
Walks, Temple.

(Ow Leedham, Mat:ock, Bath. Derby, innkeeper, Dee. 112;
at lour, at the Bell inn, ste7!e. Stafford, 1:;, at ten, at the Crown,
Inn, Stone, and Jan. t. at tl►e Old Bath, in Matlock, Bath,
Attornies, Messrs. Willis, Fairthorne, and Clarke, Warnford-
court, London; and Mr. Vernon, Stone, Stafordshire.
John Gould...with, Heteitinr,, Sussex, victualler, Dec. 19, 20,
d Jan. 2, at eleven, at the Star Inn, Lewes. Attornies, Mr.
tiwynne, Lewes ; and Mr. Turner, Bouverie-street, Fleet-
suret.

James CltaMeow., Ilrictnl, cordwriirier, Nov. 20, Dec. 2, 30.
at eleven, at the Bib!' Tavern, Brion'. A monies, Alessrs. Os-
botral and Ward, Bristol ; and Mr. James, 6ray'b-ina-
square. _ _

Jame 6 Morgan, Old City Chambers, Enney-serivener, Nov.
`.?5, Dec. 2, and at eleven, at Co ildhall. Attorney, Mr.
ii,;:::11e.v; New Briflg.,--tr.ws.. 1318ckfriar9, •
fPueltfriart- road, ear 4.
dealer, Nov. Dee. t?, and Jan. 2, at eleven, at Guildhall.
Attorney, Mr. Ware, Iliiliter-'mare.