The National Register. — 1819-03-28 (London, England)

COW., quell... • f the :mod doet and regul.r haloit• of I'S eve ,ate, have ruts 11/111i1. stro•oo4t h Is Vt ;rib ordered Ilya I ell Ili the rot I ad rs shoulol he put tinder body ire oft I enndrnwwl to the ...deal of bread am water, until but 'd ednes •tio Hilo., when Is .viii ti!ey had received fulmination e.-ought, .onol vowed :groan' unv lustre . vi .Minn of tne laws of the 1.186,.11, they were r• stored to the lot met privilees.  I Outrageous Assault and Attempt at Rohbery.—On Sunday evening is Mr. Samuel Freame, landlord of the Bull's Head public-house, in Peter-street, ClerItenwell; was- returninß. boine, he was stopt near the Northumberland Arms public-house, in the road leading from Battle Bridge. to Banigge Wells, and most brutally ill-treated by three footpads 'and be being a.powerfut man, resisted ; he struck one into the ditch by the side of the foot-path and cut one in the face with his fist. The other man struck him severnl v olent blows. with a crow bar over the bead and breast, and broke three of his ribs, and left bins quite insensible on the ground.—Some persons coming up at The time, disturbed them, and they all made off; and prevented him from being robbed ; he was picked up by some pers.m, and taken home, where be now lies in a very dangerous state.—The doctor rated, that there is no hopes of recovery. FooT 'Race —The match.for 100 guineas a-side, between Rainer and the Chicken Butcher, the fastest men of tfie day, took place on Sunbury Common, on Tuesday over 0. piece, of ground of one mile.---The match Was for 100 guineas aside, to do a mile aguiiist each other. Rainer git the start, and the Chicken Butcher kept close in with him. and led in one part of the race, but at the latter end Rainer let loose, and won the match by 30 yards. An endeavour was made to stop him coming in by one of the body snatching tribe. He did the ground in 5.-.Seeonds under 5 minutes. Betting at starting nearly even. A dreadful assault has been committed by. a lunatic .I.•titer, in th hones Neuter Pr 1,11,011 one of his fel •wv.piisimeis, by attempt it g to force a re I-hot poker ovn ins don 1•. '1 h: 'Whist mg are particulars : A b.mi five o'clock on 'I uesday it% ening, hiimas Foster Gilmer vas brought to the prison by some Sheriff's office's, chsraid out lite co six different suite; he had behaved whilst in their charge very inconsistently, but t•iey imaginesl he was only pretending madness. ' Soon ati-r 'heir departure it was et Mesa that his malady was i •croasing; and he was ordered into a strong room, a•id :mother prisoner. named Steck, was placed wilt him in the room, to take career him. All the furniture • in the room consisted of tin old table and chair, a teaboard, and a heavy iron poker, which latter was taken away by the officer, from prudential motives, but attain • bromilit back by Steele,. previous to their being locked in. filmier put the linker into the fife, and when it was qiiil• red he proposed to Steele to commit suicide, offeeing to become the first tictim hiniseli I rut:other, thinking .he could, net be serious, seemed to acquiesce : upon which the lunatic suddenly seized the poker, and put it iron• his mouth, by which tee blunt his throat, his • lips, arid tongue! Steele sprung ro dissent him, upon• which he at ark, d him most furiously with the poker, which he wanted io force iota his mouth, and struck at him with at with two-handed:sway, by which he broke his hat, and would. in all probability hare killed him, had he not warded die blows with' the chair. In his rage toe tinfintunate man hurt himself severely,. broke several pens of the wall, aod.shivered the chair and the lea-board .io piece's ; so that when the people orened die door, they .foutid hint exhausted, and apparetoly dead A regular keeper had been prqcnred for hum since, but it is trot supposed that he will longirouble him. Tile ()Ater man, Steele, is out of danger ' On Friday se'imight, a Nketingef the Inhabitants of Ipswich was hell at the :119ot-hall, V. n i. Butler, seitior Bailiff, in the ('hair, who proposed a soles lII* mesoluiimis, on which a Petition to both (louse's of I'irltement was fstandeul, playiq for a revision u' the Code.,  10/  L.:111" ItiTELLIGFNcE.