The National Register. — 1811-04-14 (London, England)

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.  PROVINCI4LS. Writs of Enquirr from*the Board of Excise have been executed before a respectable Jury it the Angel Inn here during the Past and present week, for ticiencies in the Malt duties, when verdicts were given against five defaulters to the amount of 17,5721. 14s. 9d. of which 9,5771. 10s. /id. was against the effects of an opulent person lately deceased, and 4,9461.103. against the affects snider a recent lemkrnptey. Three others from 9001. to 1:4001. Two agreed to compromise, and to pay all deficiencies If not submitted to a Jury, which was *accepted There are several more cases still td be investigated. Such atrocious Instances of misconduct and wilful corruption on the part of some (lithe district Excise*Olficers have rarely been brought to light. And the Revenue has been defrauded in Suffolk alone, it is catimlated, to the amount of at least 10040001. annually !—.b'uty Post.  There was a riot, on Wednesday, in North-street, Brighton, tNetween a very strong party of the South Gloucester Militia, ?alarmed, and a part of the inhabitants of the town, The interferenee of the Higlt•Constable proved insufficient to quell the tumult.--The picquct guard was at length called out, and tranquillity, but not without difficulty, restored and preserved. The immediate cause of this affair has nut, as yet; been correctly. ascertained. ' Joseph Aslip, was last week fully committed to Ilchester Goat, Somersetshire,' far a rape on Elizabeth Challinger.-4511p Lad undivstood that she was going tit* meet her mother in the evelg, and knew that she must pass through a mill-house on Pr,:r way, where the villain concealed himself, and on her enterleg the place, he rushed out upon her, and dragged her to the mill-pit, where the noise of the water prevented her cries from being distinctly heard, and succeeded in accomplishing his brutal perrise. The young woman is about 18 years of age. A very singular discovery has been made at CulcheAer, respecting the sex of a servant who had lived thirty years in a family in that town, as hoitze-maid and nurse. Having lately paid the debt of nature, it was discovered, on examining the body, that the deceased had been a male. No reason is assigned for his haring asumed the female garb ; as he had never, like the Chevalier I)'un, excited suspicion, or been the subject of bets and law-suits.  Last week, a woman at Leighton-Buzzard, Beds, actuated by motives of jealousy, formed the resolution of murdering her hush:Lod. For this purposse she heated a quantity of lead in a tobacco-pipe, and while he was a...leep poured some of the liuid into his ear, but it had not the desired ellect. The sufrer, however, has since laboured under violent mental derangement._  • At the •Warwick Assizes, William Bradbury was tried and convicted of sellin7 forged notes, and was left for execution. kit is •an old utreuticr, arid is said to have been the cause of vore than fifty persons having suffered cfath for uttering the sante. • , •  - 1 ast weolt, as Mr. 13c11, of Louth, a woman, and a boy, were crossing the Trent, the ferryman hoisted the sail, which frightening Nlr. li's horse, lie leaped overboard, and dragged his owner ani the ft.i. rymin into the river, where they were drkr.v.ned. 'Mi.:. woman and boy sustained no injury.