The National Register. — 1818-10-26 (London, England)

DEFACED. The Bankers of London, Lex: for loyalty known. By Tire!Way are thought mat disloyally grown i• For 'ti. hinted to them on a bit of a scroll, To take care of the Crown—lie, perhaps, moult the Po'e.  On Friday a middle aged man, whose appearance bespoke the character of a reduced tradesman, was found in Hyde-park, with his throat cut in a most frightful manner ; the blood flowed in a stream from the wound ; there appeared little signs of remaining life, and he was carried by some passengers, who discovered the unhappy man, to st. George's Hospital, where he was recognized to be a person of the name of James Guy, who resided at ltt, Carrington-street, Mayfair, and was formerly in good circumstances. A short time ago be lost his wife, and was left with several small children, without sufficient means of support, which has lately reduced him to a state of the most miserable despondency. Having expended all J►is money, and drained every resource, he resolved to commit the crime of suicide, and leave those troubles his mind was incapable of bearing. Friday morning, with the last twopence in the world, he purchased one pennyworth of milk and a pennyworth of bread, and having divided it amongst his children, he kissed them, and in his mind having taken a last earthly farewell, he hastened to the l'ark, and with a razor committed the above act. He now lies in the Hospital without the least chance of recovery. On Friday last, a female child, apparently about a month old, was found in a hedge alo►►gside the high road, between Sheerness and Minster, by a little boy. Mr. Kitt e, the Clerk of the Survey of the Dock-yard, was passing at the time in his gig, and he took it to a poor seaman near the place, who carried it to Sheerness to the Overseers, and they ordered the child to be taken the greatest care of till some enquiry was made. In the afternoon the unnatural mother was discovered in one of the passage boats going to Chatham ; she was immedietely brought on shore, and the next day taken before A. H. Bradley, Esq. who passed her to her parish, at Camberwell. The child was well wrapped up, and two or three changes of clothes were left with it. Mr. Coleman, Surgeon, has examined the child, who says It cannot live long, as it has got a hurt in the back.— Caftterbury Paper. Three new caravans, on an entire new construction, .passed along the Strand on Friday, with the following inscribed on the footboard—" Association for the Relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor." The inscription excited much curiosity among the spectators. An article from Auxerre, in the French papers mentions, that a young man and woman, in the Departr.►ent of l'Gonne, who were much attached to each other, being unable to obtain the consent of their parents to their marriage, adopted the desperate resolution, on the 14th ult. of killing each other, which they effected in a forest not fur front the place of their residence. An eminent Quaker visited a Lady of rank, whom Le found six months after the death of her husband, sitting on a sopha covered with black cloth, in all the dignity of woe ; and gently taking her by the hand, he thus accosted her ; " So, friend, I see that thou hest not yet forgiven the Almighty." This reproof had such an elect upon the person to whom it was addressed, that she immediately had all her trappings of grief destroyed, and went about her necessary avocations.  The helmets of the Life Guards are shortly to he exchanged for large hair caps, similar to those worn by the Grenadiers of the Foot Guards. The present helmets are found to be particularly inconvenient, and more especially in windy weather. It is said, that when this change has taken place, they will thenceforwards be nominated " the Horse Grenadiers." Last week W. Cock, a carpenter, was committed to Thetford gaol, for breaking into the counting house of Mes,rs. Gills, merchants, in Thetford, on Sunday morning. Rlr. J. Potter, who is in the employ of Messrs. Gills, slept in an adjoining room, who, on hearing a noise, went to the counting room door, where he heard a person striking a light ; he took a pistol in each hand and rushed into the room, where he found Cock, who was then removing some halfpence from a desk which he had broken open ; he presented one of the pistols at Cock, who seemed to have surrendered, but on Mr. Potter's turning to see where the breach had been made, Cock seized held of one of his arms, and a long struggle ensoed ; Mr. Potter fired off one of the pistols, the ball front which just passed Cock's head. Air. Potter again got the advantage; when Cock threw up the sash ; Mr. Potter pulled the other pistol three times, but it missed tire; the villain observing this, threw himself out at the window, fifteen feet from the ground, leaving his hat, a hammer, a tinder box, matches, and eflixted his escape ; but was taken the same day. We hate tee, ivrtl intell,gence lion Qait,ec and Montt CAI to i,f the Wth nit. 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