THE NATIONAL REGISTER. f •~ 6SO temperance, dangeimis alike to yourselves and the great question which is the object of ymir zeal and exertions. " When artifice wimps the seat of reason, calumny is ever the weapon it w ields. Faction uni!ormly decks herself in the robe of purity, and proscribes whoever shall possess either the honesty or Cmtiess to withstand the folly sod injustice of tier designs. Thus you are told, awl falsely told, that your brethren, who differ from the General Board, are enemies to their country, and apostates to their religion! and that their object is•to deliver up their church, in chains, to the rapacious hands of power, and to sacrifice st the &brine of the Mini ter, and for the grovelling purposes of self in• terest, that faith whirls is no less dear to them from choice, than hallowed by ties of s. cient hereAitary attachment. " And, Genth men, from whom does tick interdict issue? from Men who are repaying the influence which your partiality alone conkrred by mis directing the efforts of yottr zeal, and seemingly, at least, encooragiog a revival of that national infirmity, which for ages has been the cause, and the prelude, of our fiegradation, and which remilertal ns at all times, by our own miserable dissentious, the easy pity or ev ery lieSiglllllff SpeeillatOr." We will now lay before out readers an extract from the Dublin Evening - Pont, as a specimeu Of the manner in which the sett erectcd advocates et the Catholic Cause think proper to treat a Catholic Gentleman, whom they have in v.an attempted to bully out of his loyllt v. Did (lob or natare ever intend that a Nation should be adrisca by such a thing. as thou as t %—Have you any endow-bents mentally a: b,tdily ?--, Did any Toad eater—did any hi-smelly Eave-eropper, that ever starved, for a day, on your hospitality--did he ever, in a fuel attempt to soften your avarice, by app;ying to your vanity • - did he el Er venture to tell yon, that ai.v 1111111411 being would resort to your judgment, or be ruled by volir advice, in the most trivial incident of human life?—Court fluttering Osriek—a little powdeled popinjay—a smirking, &melee, ogling, well-dressed, fool tOppish, httle old nian—the companion of boy., of whoni lie might be the grandfailter—a sketch via matt— a miser ' even hi boy hood, and a beau in old age—the ridicule of girls, and men of sense in person, vanity, foolishness, avarice, external pomp, and do plietic poverty, the very duplicate, the image of COAIES," &c. &c. PROVLYCIALS. A melancholy accident happened on Monday last. As the Row. Ser. Patters n, of Bath, formerly of Stourbridge, was riding on jtorseback, his horse took fright at a load of haze, at the Hall Way /loose betweNi Worcester and Kidderminster, and he was unfor tunately thrown, and died almost irstandy. On Monday, as some workmen belonging to the Worcester Canal were digging a eelvcrt under the old City Wall, at Worcester, Where formerly Sidhury- Gate stood, they fintud a sword, support d to have lain there since the battle of Worcester, in the year 165 I, And supposed to be the sword of I)uke Hamilton, who fell there, and who lies buried in a parlour in the Cotomandry, near the spot -where it was found. l'art of the hilt was gold. A few nights ago, as an old woman was plundering a garden be longieg to Mr. Bayley, of Dounington, Shropshire, she stepped into a draw-well, about sixteen yards deep, with two yards depth of water; upon rising to the top of the water, she caught hold of a tongh part of the rock, and supporting herself, called out Mur der !' so lustily, that some of die neighbours got up, and called to know what was the matter, when she answered, " Poor Molly Mehreler is in the well."—They then gave tie alarm to Mr. B. who, try me down a holder. suspended by a rope, extricated the poor wretch from hef perilous situation, with no hurt save a good di.e!: Oa illorplay t, the parish officers of Hawkendon, Sntlblk, we - e orplied to for the purpose of affording fiwther relief to Wm. 0: 3 41 0 .p 4-Ik6 %sift. (who had for seven months past received an it ,oAance of 6.. per week from that parish), in consequence of the jatler hayiti4 been taken ill of the sm a ll pox ; when, upon inye.ti gdt On, the utiVer i (why had some time suspicion thereof)discovered that they had 4.oncealed in seven er eight different boxes, gold, silver, anti copper, lamp than sufficient to fill a bushel measure, apd tthicit aOmmuted to the sum of 1051 16s. told. viz in gold, tot, I'4s. ; in silver, 591. 19s. ; aiiti in cooper, ss. 10 1 ,-d. ; besides of weariut4 apparel, bottscbold goods, &c. of no jumbo -10e. . se'nul-ht, Danikl IVl'Crory, fuluil guilty at the last ,%!t.i4cs, of a burglary at I)44llivase, phere he heatietl rt : , al tkveratloes; !utlL.l.erl the au e l;11 se n tence of thr. law, tirstil at the uj the coluity/ 661. AhoNit Auer ) ei e criminal appeared upon tlu: oc old, 4ttited in 4 a black coat, vest, and sinan-e"1"".. nr"e '114".""1111, epie.mer'imtiPona tried by the Rev . ' Mr. Marshall, a Roma C n atholme cle r gy man, of which communion he him.elt professed to he. '1 he manlier -in which he appealed at the fatal tree excited every ewe% astmeishwent. He ascended, not only without the slightesetkaree ofl but with aLcrity, bowing around to the 11411•61 ed multitude in a manner which seemed to impress the ide a of " a favourite sea r . player about to act his prim" He then produced a paper, from which he read a denial of several mimes high liad been et 'pr. U ated in the neialibourbood for elabtern eaerths last. Ile, howe ver , acknowledged his being conctaued in the burglary fro which be was abort to suffer ; confessed the justice of his enteece, though in se t ae immaterial points he declared rho evidenee agaihst him w.es 1 , 0 1 aet together correct ; and forgave prosecutor, v. ith whotn, at d ith all men, he died ia peace. A distressing • cene how ensued Oil the drop falling, the rope broke, and the untimely mail was preci. pitated to the ground, whereby his ka was aloken. I" I told yea,” said he. " this rope would neve; hang a man of my vi eight." It seems, that he had actually hatalled the rope betine coining out of the gaol. and remonstiated against its , u After some delay, he was borne upon the seathild, in a chair ; and another rope heal procured, he %vas ;rani,' tied up. Notwithstandi , :a the trying scene, he maintained Ins fortitude—observina. that it was provideutia, that the accident of the rope breaking h id happened, since Ise had for gotten to notice the infamous deo:liter of Oavit 2, the King's evi dence, who, he said. had sworn many men's lives away; s. d, he feared, would do the like avail). Whaii tureed ott the arrow; tiler, the rope partly gave way, and it eats feared that be %void,' curi e to the foamed again ; fortunately, this was not the case A= :er laz ing the usual time, the body was cut down acid delivered to his friends. The Hants Courier communicates tl a f Mow lug additional parti enlars with regard to the murder of G. Brethei - a traterman, at Portsmouth, oil Wednesday selmiaht Three Fres prisoner*, Francois Relit, Jean Marie Mize, and Daniel Dii Verve having effected their escape front roi ton depot. engaged the utter - I . y of the aeovealamed George Brothors, to take them to Ryoe ; witch the Block-house, (aeeosding to their own assertions) they proposed to the boatman to take than to France, promising ample, reward, and liberty tee return immediately : but he, not to be rarrepted by promises or reward, resisted their proposition, and iu cousaanenee they stabbed him in sixteen places, (three of which wen' In. rtal)a • and threw Win overboard. Frenchmen immediately direeleve their coarse to sea, and were promptly pursued by several when spy,/ in one of %%Web were Lieut. Sullen:lk and three seamen eft Cen taur, at anchor at Spithead. In consequence of a heavy swell, and bad matiagement, the Frenchmen w ere overtaken after a ran of abont 1:1 miles; one of the men belonging to the Centaur leap d irate., alaa wherry among the Funelimen alone, when at the d'.4tance of se vera feet, arnica with nothing Ina the stretcher, with which l knocked one of them down : they then sarreuilered. They were taken on board the Centaur for the night, and on being searched, a large sum of money was found about them in silver, and three kt ices—one of them was very bloody ; and on Thursday selinight they were delivered into the halide of the civil power, raid landed at the sally-port. They were taken to the borough gaol, where they is ere again examined. They confessed that Brothers was hilted by two of them, but that the third was no further concerned than in lending his knife to the other, when the waterman resisted them. More money was here taken film) them, one having actually concealed in his pantaloons under his hoots thirty-three pieces. It appears. that by the manufacture of lave, toys, atc. the prisneers accumulated a snfficiei t sum of money to procure a snit of genteel clothes each, (besides the stuns taken troll) their persons), dressed in which, they mingled with the crowd of visitors that were walking in the depot, eluding by their metamorphosed appearance the vigilance of the turnkeys and military centieels. Uu Theraday an inquest was held en the body by R. Callaway, Esq. Coroner, when the following depositions we re made :- 1 John Sullivan and Jeremiah Wells, both of Gosport, deposed, that about haft past four o'clock on 'Wednesday senni:Jit, in the afternoon, as they were going to Spithead, a little distance from the month of the harbour, on the Block-hanse side, near Fehham's gibbet, they descried a wherry steering about S.W aiong the hos pital shore, about one honored NitrtiS from them—the wherries then abreast of each other—she wore almost immediately, and steered S. E. directing her course toward., Sonalisea Castle. They then strw a hat go overboard, and the people in the whertv all scumming to. gether—they were foil; in munber—three persons besides this wa tcrmrtti ; that they phalliy saw two or them use their arms as if st,dmitig or beaming the - waterman, who was crying out very m at the time ; arafin the course of a few seconds, by the united e miaow* of 01 tkres' 4 the Wzterulau wao thrown overboard. 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