The National Register.
London, England, 1817-08-11 00:00:00

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, 4c.

On 'Thursday. as J. Clarke, Fop of Windsor,- was standing in the
paved yard behind his home, the ground suddenly gave way, and
precipitated him into a well, the existence of which was unknown.
Providentially his feet rested on a transverse beam, and lie was res-
• cued from his perilous situation.
Some buildings which run along the back of blunter-street, Bruns-
wick-square, on the west side of the street. and which have been
occupied as lofts and stables by a job-coachman, were so wretchedly
built. as to be incapable or supporting the roof, which fill in on
Tuesday afternoon, with an alarming crash; mart ofshe walls towards
the rear of the houses 29, 30, and 3t,.in lianter-etreet, was carried
away, and broke in some of the lower apartments of those houses,
tilling their back premises with the ruins. The fraudulent and un-
substantial manlier in which many of the buildings in the new parts
of London are run up. is a consideration well worth the notice of the
legislature. Experience shows thut the lives of individuals are
neither guarded with sufficient care by the honesty of those who build
houses, nor by tie vigilance and caution of those, whose business it is
to survey them.
On Thursday se'nnight, soon after 10 o'clock in the mowing,
Manchester was visited by a very serious and violent dercentad hail-
stones of an awning size. The electric fluid has left awful imprts-
siontruf it; kiebtructiv.: powers ; at PeneCcten, twoanen, of the names
of J.' Armitage and J. Boyle; were struck dead whilst making ha e,
and several others were much stunned and narrowly escaped ; Mr.
Gorton, bleacher.. uses knocked down in the same direction. In Sil-
ver-stn•rt (Newton-street). the gable end r.f a house war s:ompletely
thrown down ; and in the vicinity of Kersal, four-men severely tilt
the effects of the tremendous shocks.
Attempted Suicide.—Tuesday, Mrs. Zicker, a lardy residing
in Jolm-street, l'ortland-street, attempted to put a period to
her existence. by cuttina her throat with a razor inn dreadful
manner. dletiical assistance NOS immediately pr0ct0r...1,41111
the Is SlippO'iell to he I erot ering.—
gang of desperate villains mounted and armed. niehtly
plunder Louses, gardens, and field.. in the sic inity of lilt:tut.
It is net long •iree tkrt they burnt the corn ricks, barns, a:c. o
Mr. Abbot. 'liiirstlay night they inlininanly hotighed anti
mangle d a cow and a horse, belonaing to a constable of Bit-
on parish : and on Friday night about eleven oalloet he aas
alarmed by his dog, when haw the villains from his window,
and fired on them, which they immediately returned, an f
broke the windows.

The Regent's Canal, from Paddington to' the Themes,
has lung been at a stand still for want of means ; at a
meeting of the proprietors, Wednesday, a new subscrip-
tion of I 10,0001. was instantly .filled up, and the Exl
chequer Bill Commissioners having promised to ad-
va uc e the money, the work; %yin again he in full ac-
tivity towards the completion of the project.
The Commander-in-Chief has established a central
Riding School in London, for the benefit of the whole
of our Cavalry. Every Regiment is to send up sonic
picked men to learn the new improvements; and a
School, upon the same system, is to to established in
every corps of Cavalry.

255

PROTEST OF THE EX-EMPRESS MARIA
LOUT S.l.
--d.-

The Protest of the Ex-Empress Maria Louisa, id-
dressed to the Congress of Vienna, against the occupa-
tion of the French throne by the Bourbons, has been
published. Shine doubts have been entertained of its
authenticity, but fin what reason we know not; at the
time it purports to have been deliverea in, Buonapurte
was in the Island of Elba, maturing, a • plan fur his.
return, and in confident expectation oftliat-orent ; that
his wife, therefore, should he made instrumental in
urging the claims of her son, will not appear surprising.
Aticr a review of the claims of Buunavarte to, the
throne of France, in which, to the confusion of the
enemies of lagiiinutcy and Divine right, these doctrines
are boldly maintained, it proceeds and concludes thus:—

" A fatal war broke out. The Emperor Napoleon was overcome.
You, Sovereigns assembled in Congress, arrived in his capital at
moment. when favoured lay disorder, a conspiracy manifested itself in
favour of the princta of the House of Bourbon. You might have
dictated to Napoleon in his capital. tech terms as were talculated to
restore a due balance between Powers. you would thus have consoli-
dated intitutions, whence arose the common strength and the cont.
uani F.efety. This Treaty would have been faithfully observed; we
have a hill confidence thereof.
" Intluenced by the gmerotts hope of putting aspeedier end to the
evils of war, and of sparing the on of blood, you put aside the
rights of the Emperor Napoleon—you treated with those Princes to
whom the conspiracy had given the Crown; what lustre could such
Princes shed upon Beyalsy ?—The Emperor Napoleon at the hesdof
at army not nunteroas. b4t brave and faithful, might have defended
hi; enure; but to spare his...subjects a civil war, he had already re.
solved to abdicate in
,furesir of kis sun. Such was his determination
nianifestd to the A,llitxl Powers by the Dukes uf Tarentutm Vicente',
and the Prineede la Moskowa, .which determination those Powers
viewed at first• in its right light; that is, as calculated to severe the
tranquillity of. Europe, , Events which it belongs not to us.toleha-
racterise, caused those just resolutions to be revoked. The Emperor
was obliged to sign se .unconditional abdication on the 1 ith April,
!hit; on the same day he subscribed the Treaty of Personal Sqfily.
which, maintaining his title of Emperor, assigned to him the Island
of Elba as his place of abode, and confirmed to him the sovereignty
over its territory.
" The sth article of the same Treaty assigned to me the sover-
eignty of the Estates of Parma, transmissible to my son and his
descendants.

" I will not discuss the merits of these Tyeatise in respect of the
-Ciimt.ror Napolton. They are more or less binding on him, in pro-
portion as he exercised his will mom or lc s freely in signing them.
We will simply say, that he had not the power of dimosing, after his
life,•of the Cruv:n which his son received as his birth-right from the
-Frent h nation and its constitutional laws.

.` If, the Sovereigns of Frame. no more then the.other principal
-sovereigns of Europe, have never been able to break through the
established rule of succession in their own families, so as to transmit
their Crown to their second or third son, to the prejudice of their lint
born, how comes it that the Emperor Napoleon should be able to
deprive the Prince Charles FrsuxisNapoleon of his right of inherit-
ance, in order to transfer it into fortignhands ? Can a conspiracy have
destroyed, by. its irregular acts, theforce sod virtue of the laws of the
French Empire ? Can it have destroyed the royalty which the Prince.
my son, holds ofilivine, as well as national right P The Princes whom
this conspiracy has put upon the throoaof my atm. fully admitted
these principle themselves, when they refuse' to acknowledge the
acts of the goverment, styled provisional. Ten years of free govern-
ment, acknowledged by all the powers in Europe, at a time when the
name of floorlaparte was not yet inscribed in the =mils of war.—fif-
eeri years existence of, an Empire, the social conventions of which
establish the rights of, the Emperor Napoleon, and tbose.of his dy-
nasty, rendered indisputable the legitimacy of his Crown.
" When, during my residence at Blois, .1 exercised the authority
of Regent, I appealed to the devotion of Frenehmen. I received the
siroweest tesji:fionies of their love and real for the cause of their la,
inmate Prince.. The presence of your armies, and the tendency.of
your policy, forbade me to rewind to die wishes of that faithful
nation.

•• The fate of nations being submitted to your.award. your object
will, so doubt, be to conciliate their rights and wishes with the rights
and interest of Sovereigns. Circumstances hare deprived my son of
his Sovereignty over the. French nation, . and both himself and this
neople are equally injured in their rights by this fatal result of the
late course ot events,' In this state of things, we, in .our quality of
Empress and of Mother, and before any authentic resolution be taken
by the Congress, protest, by the present dead, against all acts of the
existing government of France, which has been established to de
prejudice of the legitimate Heir to the throne. We protest, likes ise,
in our own name, as well as in that of the Prince Charles Franc..
Napoleon, pronnuptive heir to and possessor by right of the French
Crown, against all resolutions of the High Powers assembled at Con-
gress. whether taken collectively or individually, and tending to im-
pair the rights of the Prince my Son to the said French Owen.
"Fhe Throne of the Prince Charles Francis Napolecials that
raised by the French nation, such as existed at the time when its
choiee.and election called the Emperor Napoleon to the Head of its
goverrtniesat. But if, in the arduous straggle in which it hat begat
engaged, the French Empire hat ocen constrained by the force of
arms to sign the Treaty of Paris, we think it just, inasmuch as re-
spects the territories not forruips; part of present France. that the
cundiucns thereof be faithfully anti for ever observed. To this end
we here declare, that the present Protest_olely applies to the ill
occupatien of that territory of Fiance, conshtuung the pretient ,310,
narchy.
•• Having thus developed her claims, the Empress Maria Louisa,
Antdueitusi of Austna,• Duchess of Parma, &c. representing the
Prince Charles Francis Napoleon. her Sin, a minor. .requests of the
justice and magnanianity of the Allied l'owers• that the subject of
her claims be submittal to the deliberation of Congress; and that an
ocknowledgment of the present Protest be delivered unto her, in order
that she may produce it whenever it ma; please Divi,ne Providence to
atiOrd her time and place for that purpose.
infaith of which, and to Ift,ve all due ....othenticity to the present
Protest, she has affixed to it hen seal, anti written it in her own hand
at the Palliest:4' Sehoenbrun, Feb. 12, 1815.

(I. S.)

."
MARIA LOClSA,•ltnperatUUcc."

The 'High Powers assembled at Congress, after hay-
ing deliberated in their flitting of. the 24th February,
on the present Reclamation of her Imperial Majesty
Maria Louisa, conformably to .the opinion of his Im-
perial f.lajesty the Emperor of all the Russias, of his
Imperial and Royal Majesty the Eanperor of Auttria,
the father of her !_mperiz,l and ItoNal Majesty the
Empre:s Maria Louisa ; and%from the respect due to
the personal -character of her Majesty the Empress,
have resolved that the Act emanated from her.the
19th February, commeneing„by the words " Maria
Louisa." and ending by those, " written by her hand,"
shall be inscribed in the Pretocol of the Acts of the
Congress.
The French '.Ministers having protested against Ws
Jeri i u, have abstained Ikciol signing it.

BRIGHTON Ave. 10.—The Prince Regent arrivial
at Brighton between 9 and 10 o'clowk on Friday even-
ing, accompanied by Sir Benjamin Bloomfield.
On Tuesday, Viscount Sidmouth had the freedom
of the City of Worcester presented to him by the Cor-
poration ; and his Lordship partook of a COM collation.
Lord Colchester was confined by indisposition at 111a1-
vent, to which place the freedom of the stay was trans-
mitted to his Lordship.
The Hon. -- Eden, son of Lord Henley, is ap-
pointed a Comntissioner of Bankrupts, vice Mr. Cour-
tenay, appointed a Master in Chancery. The situa-
tion of Connsel to Queen Ann's Bounty, is also va-
cant by the appointment of Mr. Courtency. It is in
the gift of tho Arthbishop-of Canterbury. The .ang
didates, we understand,. are: Mr. Richards, the amt of
the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, and Mr. Sh.tolwell
of the Chancery Bar. It is estimated at 5001. a year.
The transport Ellice has arrived at the Motiterbank,
having on board original' document-ay papers, co orre-
spondenre, and other curious MSS. relatiee to the
Stuart family, presented by his Holiness the Pope to
his Royal Highness the Prince Regent ; with several
cases of statuary, and other valuable relics, pro,,cnted
by the. State of Rome to the Prince Regent and the
British Government. Lieutenant Head (Flog-Lieu.
tenant to Sir C. Penrose) is come home in the Ellice,
specially charged with their care. She left Cicita Vet.-
clita on the 2.lth of June. Vi!e sincerely hope the
valuable documents, will he deposited in the British
Museum, and that the public will soon be fitvoured by
their publication, under the eye of some of the able
scholars which that establishment at present boasts,
By a Philadelphia paper of the 10th ult. it appears,
thtt the frontier of Georgiatwas in a vein' unsettled and
perilous state, in consequence of the misunderstanding
between the • Americans and' the Red Stick Indians.—
Several of the latter have been killed and wounded by
parties of the Georgia militia. It seenss also that the
tribe of Uysehee, which have always been friendly to
the Government of the United States, were attacked
lately by a party of ivhites, who killed one man, woitud-
tsd four, and plundered the camp. The aggressors have
not been discovered.

The elder Didot, well known as one of the moat cutely:stet!
printers of the age, has lately distinguished I sell as a poet.
lie fiat written a tragedy called .lani'vit, of whirls the Freud'
critics speak yeti ; and which. aremiliag to their account,
Land shay arc not., any inure than our critics. very lavish of
their praiseo, justifies his claim to be ranked* amotig the
bighest names iu his.professiou, among the Ablitsses and the
evensea.
An old man, named James Cale, was last week apprehend-
ell at !Wool, with a nag of olden Matt which he said he had
ebtained from a boy in tfie street. tie waa asked whe
find the boy ; N Itch he went oat and returned with a lad
named Chad's Stoker, alma/ I.i years of age, well kn.'an to
the pidiee by the nick .AMC ~r ilimiraparte, and who hail been
Smile time ago confined in New gate. The old man then said
lie could give information of the whole gang, adding, And
your Warstiip, I ran tell you, that year preilibies were
ben{ rn
open too." The Mayor—" And perhaps gone woe present?"
your Worship, 1 was." The Mayor —" And !Wive
Aid ti„. 10.07 eat ;••• Very good.". The information gi•VVII
by this old nun his led to the discovery of a gang of upwards
uf thitty b•', who who has e for sonic time subsisted entirely by
'lncising, and %slime geneial remic7vons were at the files,
lomat., Limekiln-lane. They begged by day. and platelet cif
by night, and it is a fact, that in one week they stripped
nearly all the larders in Belle s tie, of their provisions.
A letter front Itrinliton. dated Amt. ti, says-!' The pub-
lic may vet recollect the lamentable suicide of a Mr. Ms
POZA, abort this time last year, at Brighton. Ile was a gen
tleman distirrgniaked for his arithmetical calculations, and
officially employed upon a most important discovery,
iu
bringing, tlee longitude to a tixr d and invariable point. The
error of one figure, in smne millions of numbers, so complete-
IN disconcerted his mind, that in a fit of intellectual dopoo•
dency he retired to his chamber and bring himself. 'The
atliction of his widow upon this dreadful event settled into
a melancholy despondency. Last week she earnestly ream,-
ed to leave I ondon fur Brighton, and expressed a wide to die
There, and to be interred in the same grave with her husband-
In the trope that a change of air %mild be of benefit to her
mental health, her friends agreed, and the journey was an
(lei taken. She reached Hyegate os Sunday last, and singu-
larly strange to relate, she died on the same day which dis-
covered her husband a corpse at Brighton in the preceding
year. 't he remains of this lady are (moved to this town, iu
orler to be interred in the grave of her unfortnnate husband.
KIDN APPING Nednoes.—A letter from New Yrirk, dated
June Stout, gives the f•llowing pat tientars :—" We have,
says the writer, " the aatisfaction of stating an instance of
detection in a supposed attempt to kidnap several unfortii.
Pate tregrnea, which does credit to the sigilmice and litolla
nit.
y of the citizen- who inter...tea themselves on the arca-
'Pion. A 3010011W', pilled the of ahnot 30 inns, was
lying up at the distillery, rear the l'reneli tan-yards, about
three mile, limn the city, nail suspicion: wet a created be
movements on board, %%I'llll cat:sell her to lie watehe4.
The solemner got ender weigh cash 1111 .111111'011') eVtllllllgS
and was apparently bound lip the Nortlidiver, alien she wa,
boarded by a boat containing the officers of custonia, who
taunt' her in po,session of the pollee, who, it appeals, hail
also intimation of her movements. '('lie captain was not to
be foam' : lint a pet 400 On board, by the r ante of Thompson,
appeared as the owner. On board the schooner there were
ten or twelve negraes, men, women, and children ; and by
the ptOvisious, water, 11111, Other stares, together with the
equipnients; it was conclinled dim she was hound oat to sea
of
and had merely passed a aliort distance up the North-river
out
With a view of returning, during the night and K ping
the Hook. The police Officer, appeared ao have been well
apt:tinted with 'Thompson, this not being the first time of
his being charged with similar attempts. 'The negroes ap-
peared to have been ignorant of their (Ig•stination. and denied
being slaves. 'They have, together with 'Thompson. been
lodged in Bridewell until the atlair caa be inure folly inves-
Visated.

CATifirLIC MEETINO.—the Limerick Es ening Post of the
4th„ in a second edition, gives the follosking
" The Catholic Meeting has just broken up. 14'e lIPVer wit.
nessed a titoi•e. numerous and respectable assemblage. The
galleries were CEO tvilled to ,:xcess with the nate% e beauty of
our ("its, and Many strange 601111,fiableS appeared in the pews.
The aisles Will card Colltaillt•d' several thollAilll4l4. 111 short,
the zeal and spirit of the Catholic people of Ira hod are evi
&nay more and most roused by the late de'eat in Parliament.
With si.cli dispositions. OKI must shortie •Ityrectl. William
Ruche, tsq. was soled to the chair. 'the Resolutions were
proposed Robert Fargusou John, }:-q. and seconded by
Councellor Hawley. The latter geniltnian, Mr. 0. I). Irolk-
Cquiicelior O'Connel, and the Chairman, severall% spoke.
11esolutins Were excellent, and the speeches. Well' deli-
vered, sod as well received.'
At Guildhall un Saturday, William Them" and llarthnlomew
Ambrose.. two respectable looking persons were chst $:4l by
Daniel Crisp, seal engraver, iu Carey-street, x ith assaulting

biro io nu outrageons
Mr. Crisp &pored, that ha was retnrning home down bid-
gate-hill on Friday Maid about eleven o'clock, when lie saw
the two defentlante in a one-horse clial‘e, which was standing
by the side of the pavement. They were whipping the horse
in a very violent manner, slush as amounted In his mind to
brutality. Several gentlemen standing by offered to lead off
their horse for them, as the animal had`by this time become
restive ; bnt the di fendant, I rinsed toaceept of their services.
Bacon then took the reins and whip from Ambrose, and
s:iuek the horse, who then began to drive off, and ut that too-
ment la; 1 ahoot with the whip among the people' in the
cell rse of which discipline witness rereiveol se /era! olows.
Thee then drove off, but were stopped by some Illealli at the
end of Fleet-market, where Ambrose got out and challenged
a Mr. Moore to fight him. lioron drove fiiiinusly down
Fleet-market ; but was .topped alto, on which he began to
si hip the patrols s. mail he was (disco out of the chaise.
If the eentfeinen load male any centlemaalike concession,
he semil,l have proceeded no further against them ;
on the contrary, their langimee and eonthict was so gross that
he was determined to bind them over to the Quarter Sessions
if they did not make a public apology,
Mr. Elliott, and Mr. Moore au officer in the East India
Company's service corroborated the evidence of Mr. Crisp.
On the recommendation of the Magistrate, Sir Matthew
illoxliam, the parties retired and aereed to an aecomodation
by which for offending party consented to pay lel. to the
Charity Scioto' of St. Ann, Love-lone.
Mr. J. Sirieretl, a surgeun and apothecary at Yermritith,
was indicted at the Norfolk Assizes for perjery, in the affida-
vit taken lot fore the Itev. Richard Towner, on a monition
from the Court ofC.niterhury. Mr. Serjeant Blosset and Mr.
Storkes for the prosecution, and Mr. Set jeant Frere and Mr.
Alderson for the defendant. The folio% ing are the paetien
hue: 1 Mr. Kent made a will, which was pew/id iu Doctors'
('ominous, anti the executrix of that Will was ordered to pro•
dace the probate of the will before that Bench ; and also the
defenthittt received a monition to produce all script papers,
ate. in his possession. The defendant afterwards made an
affidavit before the flea. K. 'Fortier, that he had none in his
possession. In consequence of which the defendant was In-
orgied at the suit of the plailitiff, M. Bow:zee', the stating that
he u.k.r witnessed a will of Mr. K.'s two roundlet before his
death. Mr. Serjeant Blosset addressed the Jury, and
four witnesses, whose teetionony merely vomit to prose that
the defendant had said lie had witnessed a sill about two
months hofore Mr. K.'s death, which happened in 1811. Mr.
9erji.mut Ft ere called the two suns of the 411011'1am, who pro-
ved the siening two a ills, they themselves tiring the witnesses.
'Flit' Judge *innate& up at much. length, anti the Jury acquit.
tell the defendant.
fi se wrote his well kuiewn hallml of Black-eyed. Susan upon
'first. MON-Moil), a celebrated ataress, contemporary with
Oilmen. After her tetireutent ft net the slag-, love, and
the ingratitude of a Mama friend, deprived her of her senses,
and she was placed in aro ceptaele for fanatics. (Inc day,
during a lucid interval, she asked her attendant what play
was be be performed that evening? and was told that it was
ifim/cf. In this tragedy' whilst on the steer, site had. ever
been received vs ith rapture in Ophelia. The recolketion
struck her,. and with that cunning which is so often allied to
iesanity she eluded the care of the keepers and got to the
theatre, where silt conecaltalherso If until the scene in which
Oplyint miters in her insane state ; she then pushed on the
stage be the lady who hat? performed the previous part
of the character mond come Gm and exhibited a more perfect
representation of madness than the utmost rvertions of' the
mimic art could conld effect ; she was in truth Opkrlie her-
self, to the amazement of the audience. Natotre having
made this last effort, her vital powers failed her. 011 going
oft she exclaimed— "It is all over[" She was brionelfratelv
conveyed back to her late place of security, and a few tlya's
after
n Like aliiy drooping, s:u. lung her head and died."

The roads of France are represented to he gl entl infested
with robhrrs: en many people of that cosnitry have semi,
(heir lino to ihe trade, that it is no wonder, now their master
has jailed in baseness, th.tt the jeuribeymen set op foe themselves.
There is inme liberality in the following whimsical none,•,
which is posted up in a turnip geld, near Stafford, than is
usually ILO be found in such cautions.
_ . _

" Take one, take two.—Take three
" take dice."
Snocaccn ATTEMPT AT Snterm—About eleven o'clocit on
Saturday night, as a woman was bargaining for a lamb's head lit the
Owl) of Mr. Cross, butcher, at the coma. of GiAcres-passage, Clare
market. late of the Strand, a young man, apparently a tradesman.
stepped up and said, " ma'am you had better have a chilies head, I
can let you have one at a cheap rate." He then snapped up a large
knife that lay on the block, and before any person was aware of his
intent. he cut his throat from ear to ear; Mr. Cross with the great-
est promptitude lost On time in rendering assistance to the unfortu-
nate young man, he had hint platwil on a shutter and carried into St.
watchshouse, which was within a titian yards dike place,
and Surgeon Kiernan, of Carey-street, who was sent for, attended
immediately, and stiched up the woend. The man was lh entire
stranger and unable to speak, but from .5 sign he made it was sup-
posed he tanted to write, a pen was put into his bend and anne pa-
per held for him, on which with mean difiieulty lie scrawled " George
Smith, Smarts-building's, Holborn." After the wound was dressed
he was removal to the work-house, About thirty yard. di>tmit and
there put to bed, and every attention paid hint. about four o'clock in
the morning, unperceived by the nurse, lie tore the bandages from
off his neck and opened the wound afresh. It was tbund necessary to
confine him in a strait waistcoat. The wounds Were sewed up again ;
but from his great loss of blood there is no hope of recovery It ap-
peared from his handkerchief being loose about his neck at the time
he committed the rash act, that he came thece ter the purpose ; a
messenger was dispetched to Smarts-building;, whei-e it was ascer-
tained that he a single man, 1.1 years of age, and resided with
his mother, whose sole support he was. The poor mother, who on
bearing of the dreadful new., fainted away several times, and atter.
wards went to the work-house in a state ofdistraction..

I.oNnow d anti published by A. NV et. vs, X, . IE2,
Ft.t:ET-si- e: ET between St. Dantean's Cleutele and Fetter
Lane' :end fury/A.(11.4 into tit Connery by all Newsurn,
Iltatetsellepe, and Clerkt of Itustit, flu: of potedge.

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