The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-09 00:00:00

postscript.

LONDON, MONDAY, AI:GUST 9.
Viree o'clock. p. is.

The French Journals bring little news Tie
Icsng has granted a pension of 15,000 francs (6:151.)
to the widow of the Duc de reltre, late Minister at
War, her husband having served the State in that
‘• department 10 years, and left no fortune."
It is asscrted, that several legions of French
troops have received orders to move towards the
Spanish frontier. If this were true, it would argue
an apprehension on the part of -the French Govern..
meat, that troubles are on the point of breaking
out in Spain. That many fears of internal dis-
turbance are entertained by some of the Courts of
Germany, is probable from the number of arrested
perso-s, and from the various movements, of-di-
plomacy as well as police, which indicate the exiat-
enee of une.tsy feelings.
From Bilbao, it is reported that the (muse or pre-
,tr.rt al those judicial proceedings which are in pre-
paration against Mews. Yrujo, Ottis,.stod Pizarro,
IS their having executed the ~King's orders, in the
terms of the treaty by which they gave up the Flo-
ridas.

- THE KING.—On Saturday a Co.tncil was held at
Windsor-palace, upon the state of His Majesty, and
yetterilay the following bulletin was exhibited at
st•
Si. James's-palace, Aug. 8.
" Ms Majesty Ina rased the last monchin a good.skate of
aid in -a quiet state of mind: .but His-Majesty's
disinder still remains unchanged"
Her Royal flightless the Princess of Wales is ex-
pected to morrow at her apartments in. Kensington
Pulaee. The unexpected arrival of the Princess
Las given rise to a variety of idle conjectures, but it
mill- be found, we believe,-that her return has been
occasioned merely by the suit which her- Royal
1-lighress has .now..p,:nditig• is Cha.naery, and her
presence being deemed ne,..elsary to prosecute her
:Alit, she was anxious to come to -England before the
preient sittings terminate.
Me Gazette of Saturday contains an Order in
rnoncil for the further prorogation of Parliament,
from the e4th inst., to the 2d of November.

the Stockport Magistrates have received such
information of tke_ murderous attack on Birch, the
.constable, as has induced them to publish a new
edition of the advertisement offering the reward,
u ith the names, &c. of James and Jacob M'lnnis,
natives of Ireland, and weavers of ENTley, near
Stockport, as being deeply implicated in the felony,
And as having absconded. A letter of the sth, from
Sui:l;llRA, Lays, that Birch was so far recovered as
to be able to n silk about in his house.
At the Derby, Assists, Is'alltaxiel Hulloo, ofVew
Mills, in that county. was indietedliir a must fero-
cious assault upon a game-keeper, whose nose
tan actually bit off, besides other ill treatment of_ so
s:...,verc a kind as nearly to cause death. Helton "VAS
one of the worthies who suffered under the Sus-
pension Act, and being confined in .heading gaol,
attracted the notice and care of Lord Folkestone,
who indicted the gaoler fbr not permitting his Lord-
ship to visit Hulton and his fellow prisoner. Hal-
Lon, feeling so great an interest to be excited in his
welfare, upon his release returned to his calling as
a most active radical reformer,andsticcessfol speech-
make: Be has atten.ded many of the public =et•
logs lately held in,Cheshire and Lancashire. He
rilsa came to the Smithfield meeting, and ou his re-
tern from thence was arrested upon a Magisteate's
warrant for killing game on a Sunday, The re.
firtner, fresh (ruin the lectures ou liberty which he
had heard in firnieifr..ld, could not kook this re-
straint on his personal iiberty, sad committed the
s•:.,atilt above stated, of which he was convicted.
I 1 behaved, duringpla;.s trial, with great insolence,
tml made a vehement grech in his defouce. lie
w.,s sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment, and to
:be kept to hard labour.
A :eurr in Leicester, of the flog inst says, " o:tr
tu i-tr hosiers, to the number of Jzi, had a general
sot eting yesterday at the Vxchange. ai teport was
.Iwittelti up Inuit a Committee winch had met in the
smutting, n hich being read, Wifil unanimously adopted,
,and feCUlll.lleinled to the 3i11,1111011 of the tOLIIii in general.
I hate just Iwd a liertiSil of it. It states, that the pre.
s-at stint of demand, when emtii4red with reference to.
tie supply, snakes it absolutely impossible to added to
t framework-knitters, any hishor remuneration than
is columned in a list iiCCOni11411y111& the Report,
which. tnowth higher then those recetuly paid, are not
so high, l understand, as the statement prices of 1817.
tie Report adds, that to give any higher prize would.
in all prishability, have the diva of reatioviii4 the mai iu-
rectory (rots this else* altogether, and that, were at in
their power, sothingi would sive hiihtr plessare to the
waster Witmer Leicatter. than to set the exarttp!e to
the ntigilboisriatr couoties ttf t sell further rise in the
VI FS of 11/84, trou,gtett.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

MRS. STEVT.
(MATHER PARTICULARS.]
Upon inquiry at mt. Barth°'sinew's hospital on Satiorday,
we learn ihat ills. Stant had passed another good night,
and that she was upon the olsoleelliSell belies. Thus it
spiwaia ILat she is t o zero:set (lons the effects of the
wounds of 11w body, however painful Shea. usy he of the
mind. She has brew vi,ited by her sasiers and other
member. of her family, who feel ii a linty, whatever sorry
have I),Als bar failings, lo oiler bar the eensolasiosis
anection iu her reseal surtencholy situation. It th.rno.
tont aloe has receives' Ave stales ; one an leer arm,
on her hanit,a Shull on tsar brans, a fourth in the sight
mule, and a fifth obi her neck. That in the right side is the
most iv be opts' elsendest ; but if Inileinmatiuss ran be pie-
%toted, share is Ida serious danger. Mr. Stint
resigned to his fair. He says Ise enticipases 'leash ; and,
indeed, Audi welcome it as a relict from the misery which
Ise has felt ever More Ids wife's desertion. • He was cur.
prised on hearing stilt Ise had inflicted more Shan one
wooed, and said Ise was only conscious. ef having given
o„, slab. His friends have endeavoured to console him ;
but he says he needs ute consolation, as Isis mind is per.
tectly easy, ; he still teems an feel all skection fur his wife,
:mil hopes that if AAP to die.she may not linger io pain.
The crime of whirls she had been guilty, Le says, was one
whirls cool,' not forgive.; and Ilse love be bore her
tendert-I it the more agonizing. to his feelings. The un-
happy man seesusissinl oily alive to his dishonour, and to
the inkralitude wish whirl. lie bas been treated.
Mrs. Stant, we nudes-stand, is about 26 years of age
hes busbatul!:B. . .

Seaton, the miscreant I. whose °valuing she became
the sielim lissedwusxt door to liebinisloantl, and vs as treated
by him with kindness. He was a mart ied man, and at the
61111'1.1W:hi, eloluileimt with Mrs. Sleet badrfoor children,
and his wife was prep:mut of a fifth. Tbr elopement took
place oa thealst of August /act, and on the preceding
evening Mrs. Strut sail lieu tins band druid; lea with Seaton.
After tea Seaton engaged the husband at a game efeards,
while his wile returned berm, packed impell the moveables
on which she could Isy her have?,, clothes, plate, and
money, awl removed them to another place. After she hut!
accomplished this object, she returned, lied finished the
evening in a most conviviel manner. The next. mining
she elopej. Almon three weeks after, Serino returned to
his wife in the dead of night, and demanded what money
she had in her poses ion. She it. nied that she had any ;
hot he persisted that she had, said insisted upon having it.
The poor woman then urged the proximity of her confine.
resent, and the calls of her oilier children. Ile 19.1., how-
ever, deaf to time arguments; lie shut the dour, and
witlldreadfill threats forced/ter to strip herself, anti film
her stays ripped 1)01. with which he went AM His unhappy
wife was soon afterwards seized milli the pains e f elii;d•
bit th. and was delivered. 'fbe agonies ut her mind on
this occasion exceeded these of her hotly ; stir gave way
to the 1.101 tide of misery which had !mist upon her, and
she became raging mad. She died—and was soon followed
by her. helpless infant. Thais did vire triumph over the
happiness Glen innocent family I The death of the mother
mud iefaut was sin-eroded by the death of another
Whatever properly frlllitintd was swan dissipated in the
necessary expendiiiii ow of the funeral, aid the.support of
the stirvPing children, who were sistmerpiesitly renosveil
to the workhouse, where they remain a burden to their
parish. What may be the sehsatimis of the guilty father
when this In art-n ending tale reaches his ears. it is impos-
sible to anticipate; but if a shallow of feeling remain in
his bosom, his misery c. t be less than his crimes f nor
can Mts. strait, who was the partner in his Hight and the
participator in his balmily, he WA, expensed to the horrors
of remorse. Wr base only to add, from the testimony of all
who Itmew Stoll, that lie MU a fond amid ind slgeut hin-
t mind, a sincerafriend, and an honest and humane Mill.

CottosEn's I,neuesT.—On Friday evening an inquest was
held before Thus. Staling. Earl. at the George, :Southall, near
Norwood, on the body of Jobe }ititl, labourer, in ti,eetnplo7 of
Mr. Welch of that place, who kdl (roan a load of hay, in a ht of
intoxication, and expired soon alley—Vertlict, found load, sup-
posed to have fallen Iron a load of bay.