The National Register. — 1816-07-15 (London, England)

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 searching 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 memorandums 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 mitigated 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 difficulty in fastening it, he desired to be *hewn into sonic separate apart • merit. This was dime .by the servants ;he wa.. shown into a dressingroom, said was descending from that to leave the house, when the servants suspseted him, knowing that he had not been in the principal apartments. lie was searched. all a silver ink-stand of her Ladyship's being found upon him, lie was taken to the watch-house by Lavender.  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 carriage ; 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 apartment, 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 shocking 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.