The National Register. — 1818-09-06 (London, England)

SUICIDE PREVENTEM—A French cobbler had resolved to commit suicide, and, to make his exit Ono more heroic, prepared the following memorial, in writing :—" I follow the lesson of a great master, and Moliere says, When all is lost, and even hone " He had just written thus far, and applied the tats. instrument to the carotid artery; when suddenly re. collecting, he stopped, and cried to himself, Eh but is it Moliere who says so?—I shall arAte sure---1 shall be laughed at." He now got Moliere, read a few comedies, and returned to his usual occupation of mend. ing shoes. I• The Duchess of Richmond has taken,one of the new houses in %Waterloo Place, facing Carlton House, where she intends to reside during the absence of the Duke. We are given to underitand that the alteration in the plan of Bartholomew Fair, which hay added so inuch•ty • the accommodation and convenience of the public, and  given so much general satisfaction, is the design of Ur. Pearkes, the Clerk of Smithfield Market The Irish have their Donnybrook fair, as we hire our Bartholomew fair ; Al it is, like our own, the resort of all the refuse population of the metropolis. The Grand Duke Michael, from a wish probably to see society under all its forms, visited this scene.on ' Thursday se'nnight, and n•as much gratified with the amusements, which the Irish editor is careful to tell us, were as usual " knocks down for k►ve," and cut • heads, with the never failing accompaniment of picking pockets. The Irish editor thinks these diversions a certain remedy against treasons, stratagem, suds voils. We are sorry to differ from such high amble* ; but we really think, from his showing, that Dontrybmok fair is no better a school for virtue than that abominable nu►sance which is now infesting Smithfield. • • On Thursday morning, as one of then►ten belonging to the Lord Mayor was driving a earl, containing three pipes of port ►vine, along Cheapside; one of•them bur..t ; and the whole of Queen-street, sit. fisr as his Lordship's house, was immediately s►rerming with wine on both sides. The first person who attempted to derive any advantage from th 6 accident was a butcher's boy, wlus happened to he passing•with en empty tray. In this be :received about two -gallons of the liquor, which was • immediately amnk off:by a numerous hand of' -topers • who surrounded hiin, with as much eagerness as if it had been served up.in glass or silver. Some Irish labourers were soon attracted to the spot, and; though the driver urged on the hones as sitsickly ache could, they contrived to fill their hats with the' wine ; an.t many of them in consequence were enabled to renew the humours of Patrick's-day. The cask was nearly emptied before it reached his Lords Lip's store* in Queca. • street.  On 'Friday last, the'cottage of It labourer, in the parish of Writtie, was broken open in the day time, and a sum of money, amounting to upwants of fifty guineas in gold, taken from' it. *VVe are ba! py to learn that a malt has been apprehended under strung suspicion of being guilty of the burglary, and committed for further examination ; but it excites equally our surprise and regret to. find, that so many peraossin the lower stations of lite still persevere in keeping .large aims of money in their cottages, in this unsafe and unprodue- • tive state If this money had been invested in the Savings Bank, the owner would have been probably, fur some time past, in the.receipt of a regular interest arising from it, the capital would have been as safe as the Government of the country can make it, and a • fellow Christian would not have been tempted to commit this atrocious crime* It •has always struck us, as one of the principal advantages which distinguish these • excellent institutions, that in proportion to their sue.cess, they will diminish the temptation to the crime which has become so frequent, of breaking into the • cottages of the poor ; and we• still hope to see the time when every man, wiawe industry and independent spirit prompt him to lay .by part of his honest earnings, willhave the wisdom to carry it npllady. as it accrues, • to the Savings Bank natrest to hits—C'helmaford C/irwd le. _ _ _  On. Tnesday iennight an inquest was had at Ant- ton npnn Trent,' before Sir J. D. Fowler,• on the body of a child of about three years of age. whose death was occasioned by 'eating • a quantity of the seeds acs" s plant tolled " Stramoniuni:' or Thorn apple. -The • deceased and some • other children had been amusing themselves with plucking off the fruit, and tossing. it to each other, when one of the apples, which had *pp . trod upon, discovered to the gittle infant the AO* is ivida crukliedne'nibeill contained ; she immediately put some in her mouth, and finding them rather. sweet, esahte in q'hi'b'usrti:nit'rittecilsttlyr:n:(leitti"hntel:tinlmituill°f:tcte:gwirit;;te:lllf:etne'tihdneCtal)f}nmr‘::fhpeebsivicdel;rowyna,eslitteiiireltrioPiiciFfP.l-4it:llmeri.iaits little were than eighteen hours. •