THE NATIONAL REGISTER. second instalment being doe on the 20th of March. Upon an application for the payment of the second instalment, the answer was, that the Committee had not met for that purpose. Lord ELL,. N ao Reyna—Take rule to show cause. At one o'clock Lord ELLENBOROUGH sat at Nisi Prins, at Guildhall, when some undefended causes and others of no interest were disposed of. POLICE. THURSDAY, MAT 9. ' This morning J. Drakard, the printer of The Stamford Journal, was brought up to receive judgment for a libel q the military discipline, by publishing certain remarks in the said • Journal, reflecting on th• system of flogging. . Fie put in a very long affida vit, arid Mr. Bronham made a most ingenious speech in his behalf. The Attorney-General replied ; and the Court ordered him to be brought up again on Friday, the 24th inst. Mr. John Collier also appeared in Court to receive judgment for a libel on the Commissioners of Taxes in Manchester ; when he was ordered into tha custody of the Marshal of the Lug's Bench, and to be brought up for final judgment-on Friday the 24th instant. MARLBOROUGH -STREET.—A man was charged with an as sault with intent to violate the person of a female chiid ten years old, in the parish of Bloomsbury. The child in question was at a Charity School, and the prisoner got her away from her mother's door, and behaved in a r. anner too indelicate to de scribe. He then took her to a brothel, and the mistress of the house to her credit, questioned the child whether it was her father whom she was with, and on being answered in the nega tive, the interrogator charged the prisnner, and be was conveyed to St. Gile's watch-house, and was on Monday committed in default of bail. At the above Police Office, on Friday, a man was charged with audaciously assaulting a young lady who resides in Nottingham -street, Mary-le-bonne, on Thursday evening. The comrlai' ant was returning home from a friend's house in Wimpole-street, when she was rudely accosted by the de fendant, and she extricated herself by c •liing the aid of a watchman. Having got rid of the defendant, he itt.cked hes again within a few doors of her home, and behaved in a manner too idecent to describe He was giv, n in charge of a watchss man, n and was held to . bail, to answer the complaint at the Sessions. The foundation stone of the intended new Bridge from Mil bank to Vauxhall, was laid on Thursday with great ceremony by Lord Dundas, as repres .Attative of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent; it was afterwards christened—Tee Regent's Bridge. The Bridge will consist of seven arches, and will ex tend 9'20 feet front side to side. The following is a copy of a circular which - bas been, we un- 1 derstand, very generally circul ated throu g hout the kingdom.— " the BOOK."--The convulsions and changes that have hap pened in the G—rnm—t, since the suppression of " The Book," affords much choice of conjecture to the contemplat ive mind as to what " The Book" coil tains, and what were the motivei which originally promoted its complier to print it for the public, and afterwards to bury it beyond the reach of the public sight.—A printed book to be suppressed, and held in sub- . • j, ctionby a public , thcer is a new feature in the annals of litera ture ; and yet it appears not to astonish by its novelty, nor to alarm by the danger with wh it menaces the press.—Abused orand insulted as the public h• e been on this subject, it must be a matter of considerable gratification to learn, that a work, enti tled, " The spirit of ' The Book', or memoirs of Caroline Prin cess of Hasburgh," formed upon the ba:,is of the suppressed " Book," is now presented to the public, which exposes every fact and circumstance which distress has been compelled to sell or to resign to pouic. - , and which power has been at such dis tress to conceal from the world-- . -Until the perusal of this work, it is hoped no premature or harsh opinion will be entertained of 4. .1 he author presumes to be found well deserving the patronage of the r ublic, and the approbation of mankind. Ifis work comprehends the memoirs of many of the most distinguished and illustrious persowge3, and will satisfy that crethilim, ;Ind extravagant curiosity which has hitherto attached such inestimable value to the slanderous volume, known by the name of "The Dtlicatelnvestigation." rhi , ; interesting and in valuable work is I,ublished this day, in three duodecimo volumes, price 11. 55.; and may be had of Messrs. Allen and Co. No. IS, Faternoster-row.—May 10, 1811. Last week a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. BAltrY, of Hoighing. on. near Lincoln which in a .short time a cottage, a barn, 60 quat ters of corn, arid nine young beasts. It is supposed to have been caused by a servant throwing out some hot cinders and ashes from the oven, which were carried by the wind to the crew-yard. On Saturday se i nnight, a drunken ruffian, who it appears is the driver as well as the proprietor of the hackney coach, No. 330, was convicted at the public-office, in Bow-street, in the penalty of sl. for extorting more than his fare. He was also held to letil for a gross assault on a lady, whom he took into his coach, when he was is a state of brutal intoxication, and from whose violence she was providentially rescued by the inter ' ference of some persons who casually pasted. On inquiry we find the accident of the death of the Scotch Captain by a random shut front the :ihannotn, cf 38 guns, did not happen on board the Rose in June American ship, detained by the Shannon and Amazon, but on board another American ship detained by those frigates, viz. the American ship Andrew, from Bayonne, with wine and brandy, for New York. She beitig a east sailer, endeavoured, by manineuvring, to outstrip the Shannon and Amazon, on which they began tiring at Ler, when one of the shot struck hint BIRTH. On Wednesday last, the lady of Eugenius Roche, Esq. la* Editor of The Day, of a daughter. MARRIED. On Tuesday last, John Smith, Esq. of Brighton, Sussex, to Miss Browne, daughter of James Browne, Esq. Banker, of the same place. DIED. Thursday evening, in Newgate, Malcolm Craig, a Composi tor. 'Phis person was one of eighteen unfortunate men who were prosecuted by the Proprietors of The Times Newspaper, about six months ago, for a conspiracy in endeavouring to ob tain an advance of wages, which advance, on account of the high price of the necessaries of life , was then granted by- every other Newspaper in Lond o n , Mr. Box, Surgeon of Newgate, with that humanity for which he is so generally esteemed, signed as petition on behalf of the unfortunate man to the PRINCE REGEN T, who immediately granted him a tree pardon, which arrived but a few hours before his death. He was an in dustrious peaceable man, and an excellent father and husband, and has left a widow and four small children totally unpro vided for. At Glasgow, on Sunday, Mr. John Fraser, ,of the Royal Bank of Scotland, son of John Eraser, Lsq. of Antigua-street, Leith walk, Edinburgh. On Thursday, the 2d inst. at Kelly, the family mansion of his brother Arthur Kelly, Esq. where he went on Sunday last, accompanied by his daughter, for the benefit of his native air, to the great grief of his nu merous family, Vice-Admir liam Hancock Kelly. of Plymouth. it is difficult to do jus tice to the merits ef this excellent man ; his general goodness of heart, his justness, his firmness of mind, an d his zeal for the service to which he belonged, and in which he spent al most 45 yea- , of fn;thfid and active duty, enabled him to bear with manly fortitude the neglect of those who direct the helm of our navy, in not accepting his repeated offers of service ; but his all-wise Creator has been pleased to reward ,him with a blessed and enviable death, having permitted him tfrex . pirc with the greatest serenity in the arms of his daughter, viiith• out a sigh. • PRICE OI STOCKS. Bank Stock 2451, 246 3 per Cent. Reduced 6 4.1 . 4. 3 per Cent. Consols 65 4i 5* 5 A ptr Cent. 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