The National Register. — London, England, 1821-07-01 00:00:00

WM THE CORONATION. The Lords' Committee of Council appointed to con sider of his Majesty's coronation, assembled on Wed nesday at Whitehall. After deliberating on various subjects, which were submitted to them, the Committee adjourned to Monday next. The preparations in the Abbey. under the directions of the Earl Marshal, are proceeding with the greatest rapidity. In order to prevent any interruption to the workmen in the Abbey, the Grand Marshal has resolved to exclude all straanters until the arrangements shall be complete; e;ery possible facility will then be afforded to gratify the politic. Sti•ninonses have been issued for the Knights Com manders of the Bath, whose appearance will greatly add to the splendour of the solemnity, their under-dress being similar to that of the Knights Grand Crosses. The tickets for admission to the Abbey are in progress. The whole distribution of these tickets will rest with the Grmid Marsh:ll ; but, as yet, no posi•ive calculation has been made of the her which shall be issued. The person who is to perfoim the office of Champion is not yet selected. There is a memorial on the subject, from the Rev. Mr. Dytnocke, before the Ding; and as the young gentlein di who is anxious to undertake the task, only wants a few months of being of age, it is not impossible that his prayer, as a &natter of indul gence, will be granted. A splendid suit of armour has ben selected from those in the Tower, and has been placed in a state of prepa ration for the purpose of being presented according to etiquette, by his Grace the Doke of ‘Vellington, as mas ter of the Ordnance, to the Champion. The large sad dle lor the Champion's horse is of crimson velvet, richly ornamented: the reins, headstall, and the other trap pings, are also richly trimmed with gold and silver lace; from which append, at different distances, bullion tassels. The caps (or the pistol cases, as well as the two girths, are laced and fringed in superb style correlionditig with i the saddle. The pistol cases themselves are lined with crimson velvet, and bound with lace, both gold and silver. The stirrups are very large, after the Moorish fashion, and, together with their straps, lined with crimson velvet alit' gold and silver lace. The helmet of the Champion is surmounted by a splendid plume of leathets, composed of three colours, red, blue, and white ; there is also a plume lor the headstali of the horse. The articles detached from, but belonging to, the Cham pion's armour, are a pair of richly ornamented pistols, a pair of gauntlets, a sword, and an oval shield, upon which is painted the arms of the Dyniocke faintly, winch are repeated upon two trumpet banners to be borne by the Champion s Esquires, who will likewise carry his lance, which is gilt, and ornamented with gold fringe round ahotit the handle. The Champion's stable is'nearly completed. There is a platform, with a gentle ascent, leading irom the gates to the royal platform, down which the cavalcade will proceed into the Hall. The siabli• and all its fitments will become the property of the Citainpion ; it is sub stantially built, and covered with lead. CORONATION MEDALS.—AIter the Coronation, and during what is called the homage, gold and silver coro nation coins or medals are scattered about the Abbey.— Those gold and silver medals at the lag coronation, the main designs of winch are, it is understood. adopted now, were ornamented on one side by his Majesty's bust, and the inscription " Geurgius ii!. D. G. M. Brit. Fra. et Rib. Rex. F. D." and on the reverse, was a figure of the Sovereign seated, with Britannia holding a crown over his head, and the inscription " Partite avanticuran. SEPT. M DC:CELL" Silver medals of the Queen were also thrown into the galleries and scaliolding, and amidst the populace. On one side was represented her bust with the inscription, " Chariotta D. G. .11. Dr. Fr. Et Mb. Regina:" said on the other side het figure appeared at lull length, standing by an altar, with a seraph about to crown her : the whole encircled by the motto " Qeutsitun. Marilee." SUMMER CIRCUIT'S, Jane 26. The Judges fixed their Circuits this morning fur the ensuing Summer Assizes us follows : o xr o tt p....S ir C. AbbWl, hut. C. J.; the lion. Mr. B. liarrow. NORFOLIL.-Sir K. Dallas, hat.; the Hon. Mr. J Hit Itaidson. Ai I D L 4 mu.—Sir R.lticharits, Knt.; the lion. Mr. J. Pit& k. IVEsmitt.—The Ilwa. Mr. Ginhani ; the lino. Mr. J• lintie.---The Hon. Mt. 11. Wood; the Ilun. Mr. J. Burroughs. NORTIIERN.—TIic Hun. Mr. J. H..3ley, the Ilun. Mr. J. 1 ulro) d. On the 9th ult. as sonic young men were amusing themselves with the exhibition of legerdemain tricks, in a public house in Montrose, one of them, while perthrming the deception of swallowing a knife, actually allowed it to slip down into his stomach, to the great consternation of this awkward imitator of Katterfelto and Boaz. It was an entire week before it passtd through the intestinal canal, without giving much uneasiness ; and was found to be a penknife, about three inches long, and weighed about three quarters of an ounce. A shocking murder has been committed in Lin• colnshire. A clergyman has been shot by one of his parishioners, while in friendly conversation with the assassin, and killed. We have not yet heard the particulars; but the murderer was not in cus tody when the account was sent off. The Grand Jury for the County of Middlesex were sworn in on Thursday, and received a charge from Mr. J ustice Bayley, but it contained nothing of a j t,blic nature. THE N, CORONER'S INQUEST. RIOT IN WESTNINsTiu.-0 11 Monday an inquest was held at the Hat and Grapes Tavern,Queen-square, Westminster, before J. H. GeII, Esq. Coroner, on view of the body of Wm. Coble, who died of the wounds he received during the riot on Monday. the 18th instant. The Inquest excited great interest in the neighbOurhood. Mary Cogle, wife of the deceased. was the first witness called. She stated that her residence was at No. 6h, Orchard-street.— Her husband was a paper-hanger. On Monday evening, the 18th inst. between the hours of seven and eight, she and her hus band were sittin.e. at the front parlour window. He was reading the Death of Abel ! the little boy Lome up the New-way, and asked it' lie should shut the street door. which he did. After this, some of the lodgers opened the door. and stood on the steps. By this time the mob arrived at the house, and witness put the window down and looked through the glass, and saw one of her lodgers, named Wallace, lying on die ground, and the people beating him with some weapons. In about two or three minutes he came into the house, the mob followed, and witness went to the parlour door, but was knocked down , stunned, and saw nothing more of the l affray till she recovered, when she found her Moha on the floor, in the adjoining room, covered with blood. The mob by this time hail quitted the pIeaIISCS. The surgeons were sent tor, and. by their advice, he WAS taken to the hospital. The mob could have had no malicious intent against witness's husband, but wounded the act through sheer wickedneri. In answer to questions from the Jury. the witne s s said the aggreAsors were all soldiers. She saw no oilier description of per sons with them. Witness had spoken to her husband since lie was in the hospital. but lie was unable to speak. On her at. tempting to raise him in the parlour, after he had been attacked. lier hands were covered with blood • he was removed to a chair when, placing his hand on his head, lie said, " 1 um a dead man." Mr. Anthony White stated. he was surgeon to Westminster Hospital, and resided in Parliament Street. The deceased was brought in on Monday night between nine and ten, but witness did not see him till next morning, when he exiunined him, and found he had received a wuuud about 2 inches in length over the right eyebrow. which hail driven in the bone upon the brain. He was sensible, but could not articulate. Witness was sure he gave no account of the transaction during the time he was in the hospital. The house surgeon. Mr. Stevenson, had removed two pieces of fractured bone. Witness attended him daily till his death, which took place last Friday afternoon. From an exami nation of the head on Saturday, witness had no hesitation in saying that die wound on the head, as above described, was the cause of his death. Mary Ashton stated. site was a lodger of Mrs. Cogle, and on the lEth inst. was sitting in the back parlour, when she heard an uproar in the street, and a number of persons came round the house, among whom were several soldiers, some of whom rushed in, mid came into the room where she was ; the deceased /Asked what was the cause of the uproar, when she was pushed down by a druienier ; while on the Hour she saw the drummer melte a cut at the deceased with his sabre. The deceased tell; there was a cry of murder in the street. All. the soldiers did not have arms, but had pieces of paling, sticks, tire. Witness could not swear to any of die rioters. After the examination of several other witnesses, the Foreman of die Jury thoaglit, to further the ends of justice, an adjourn. ment of eke inquest should take place. The Coroner expressed his readiness to comply with the request of the Jury, and the inquisition was accordingly adjourned till next evening, the witnesses being bound ovet to attend. On Tuesday at taus o'clock, the inque s t on W illiam Cok i le, the the unfortunate man who was killed during the above riot, on Monday the 18th inst, was resumed at the Hoop and Gripes Tavern, before J. H. Gel'. Esq. The soldiers in custody WOMB brought from 'Tothil-fields' prison, escorted by the police to Queen Square office ; but as it was thought their !enteral to this Jury room would create confusion, :Anne of the witnesses examined on Monday, attended by the Jurymen, repaired to the police office fur the purpose of identifying the aggressors in the nut. On their return, the examination was proceeded in. The names of the pris ners are James Nl•Carthy. Richard iloebottom, Wm. Ilandy, Thomas Lee, Jallleti Jones. and Thuma, Hope. Mary Hinton was the first witness called. She swore to the person of sPCarthy, the drummer, who was active in the riot. Mrs. Irving stated, that she had seen all the prisoners. The drummer in custody is l'Caixthy ; but she could not swear he was the person who went into the house. She had known him many years. Mrs. Perriag stated, that she had identified M'Carthy, Roe bottom, Lee, Handy, and Jone s , all active in the riot. James Jenkins deposed, that Lee was a rioter, and knocked down Mrs. Cogle in her house. Maria Thnberwell swore to lloelscatom ; he entered the house first; M'Carthy stood on the steps brandishing his sword.— Mary Ashton could not swear to the drummer who knocked her down. _ _ This being the whole of the evidence produced before the Coroner, lie charged the Jury, who requested all strangers to withdraw—on our being again admitted into the room, in three. quarters of an hour. the Jury handed in the record containing their verdict or Wilful Murder against James M'Carthy, (the drummer) Richard ltowbothai ' n William Hardy, l'homas Lee. and John Jones, and acquitted Thomas !lope. The Jury also handed in a document, wtuch they requested might be read. The Coroner read the paper ; it was to the following effect:—•' The Jury observed they had also to express their regret, that during the two last anriversartes of the battle of 'Waterloo the disorderly conduct of some of the soldiery in that neighbourhood had excited considerable alarm, and the jury respectfully but earnestly entreated that his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief would be pleased to give directions to prevent a recurrence of these excesses in future." . . . . . The Coroner addressed the jury, and returned them his thanks ter Inca very well-timed observations, and he should take good care that they should be forwarded to the proper quarter, but he had by doubt, from the appearance of sonic repot ters in the royal, the utmost publieity woutu be given to what they had said. lie then issued his warrant of wino-lament to Newgate of the five persons charged. The witnesses were also bound over to prose cute. An immense crowd assembled around the house, among whom the verdict seemed to excite considerable sensation. Su great is the number of sparrows in the Holmes of Cumberland—and such have been the ellixts et their visitation—that the flamers in that part of the country have absolutely been driven to the necessity of forming a society for their destruction, which seems to promise the desired success. The regulations of the society are simply—to give one halfpenny for every filar eggs that are delivered to their secretary, and a penny fur every old sparrow : and to contribute equally towards the funds. The mortality of the feathered species is, in consequence, very great. . _ . The ceremony of the Coronation, it is said, will commence at twelve o'clock at noon, and end at seven in the evening. The Coronation of his late Majesty occupied sixteen lours, which vas attended with great tittigue The ceremony can he abridged, without diminishing the splendour of the magnificent pecta de. INAL REGISTER 207 MOCK CONSTITUTIONAL SOCIETY. --40— The kid ebjettioce that are stasis to this notorious Asso ciation ass ipmegal imajles *II Gorr 111. cap . 79, entitled “An Act ter the owe 'Mimi seppresison of societies established for seditious ad wassimehle ; and for better preventing treasonable or seditious By the second stein et this statute, it is enacted, that from and after the pandas of this act, every society, the members whereof shall take, subserilr, or assent to, any test or declaration not required by law, or mot authorized in ',winner hereinafter mentioned ; and every society, of which the names qf the members, or aay ry . them, shall be kept secret from the society at large, or which shall have any committee or select body so chosen or appointed, that the members constituting the same shall not be known by the society at large to be members of such committee or select body, or which shall have any president, secretary, delegate .. or other officer so chosen or appointed, that the election or appointment of such persons to such officers shall not be known to the society at large, of which the names of all the members, • and of all committees or select bodies q/' members ' and of all id presents, treasurers, delegates, and other of fi cers, shall not be entered in a book or books to be kept fur that purpose, and to be open to the inspection of all the members of such society; and every society which shall be composed of different divisions or branches, or of different parts, acting in any manner separately or distinct from each other, or of which any part shall have any separate or distinct president, secretary, treasurer, delegate. or other officer, elected or appointed by or tbr such part, or to act as an officer for such part, shall be deemed and taken lb be unlawful combinations and confederacies ; and every person who,frons and after the passing if this ad, shall become a member of any such society, or who, being a member of any such society at the passing • of this act, shall afterwards act as a member thereof; and every person Wm, alter the passing of this act, shall directly or indi • redly maintain correspondence or intercourse with any such society, or with any division, branch, committee, or other select body, president, treasurer, secretary, delegate, or other officer or member thereof as such, or who shall by contribatiom of money or otherwise, aid, abet, or support such society, or any members or o ricers thereof assuch, :hail be deemed guilty of an unlawful combination and confederacy. Section the third makes an exception in favour of " any de claration taken, subscribed, or assented to by the members of any society, in CAW the form of such declaration shall have been first approved and subscribed by two or more of his Majesty's justices of the peace for the county where such society shall ordinarily assemble and shall have been registered with the clerk of the peace, and on application by the parties, confirmed by the major part of the justices present at the next general sessions; and ii she same shall not be then and there confirmed, the provisions of dm act shall then extend to such declaration, and to all persons ' subscribing the same." With regard to the punishment, section eight provides—" that every person who shah be guilty of such unlawful coinbindeuen and confederacy as in this act described, shall and may be pro ceeded against for such otlence in a summary way, either before one or inure justices of the peace, or by indictment ; and every person convicted of any such offence, upon the oath of one or more witnesses, by such justice or justices shall be counni.ted to the common gaol or house of correction for the term of three calendar months; or shall be adjudged to forfeit and pay the cum of twenty ponnds as to such justice or justices shall seem meet; and every person convicted of any such offence upon indictment, shall and may be transported for the terns of seven years, or im prisoned for any term not exceeding two years." lly section the ninth, justices of the peace arc authorised to the punishment, so as the aerie shall not be thereby reduced to less than one third of t h e punishment directed to be inflicted as aforesaid, whether such punishment Le by imprison. went or tine. .. . . . _ _ The act has provided no clause allowing an appeal from the decision ofjusuces, and no other remedy to persons feeling them; selves aggrieved by such decision. COVEN" GARDBIi rligATßithe second part of Kiag Henry the Fourth has been brought forward for the purpose of representing the ceremonial of the Coronation of Henry the Fifth. The play was well' - cast—Mr. Macready did ample justice to King Henry, and Mr. C. Kemble is decidedly the best Prince of Wale* on the stage. Mr. Fawcett infused much humour into his personification of Falstaff,. and the chuckle of the Jolly Knight was admirable. • • The Coronation, however, was the grand magnet of attraction. It commenced with the King's Hula Woman, and girls strewing flowers, the High Cou stable of Westminster, with drums and trumpets, followed by the Sheriffs, Aldermen, the Masters in Chancery, the Law Officers of the Crown, and the Judges; the Peers and Peeresses dressed in their robes and carrying the coronets, the King at Arms, the Lord Steward, and Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, the Bishops, and the Lord Chancellor. ' rhea followed the Sceptre of the Cross, the Golden Spurs, &c. the Usher of the Black Rod, Heralds, and the Lord Mayor, the Lord Chamberlain preceding the Princes of the Blood, and the Royal Insignia; and last of all the Royal Canopy, under which the King walked, supported by a Bishop on each side, and train-bearers and trumpets closed the procession The characters were all dreseed in correct costume, and the arrangements most splendid. The second scene Was a correct and fine representation of West minster Abbey. The fine anthem of Handel, com posed for the last Coronation, was performed in a masterly style by Mr. Hall, and the whole concluded with the Grand Banquet in Westminster /Jail, su perbly and elegantly decorated with arms and devices. The King is seen sitting at the head of the Hal, at a table, surrounded by the Pages and Lords in %Veit ing ; the nobility are ranged an each side of the Hall, and the galleries above are occupied by a nu— merous orchestra, behind which arc the spectators. Alter a flourish of trumpets, the Champion enters, on horseback, preceded by the Earl Marshal and Lord High Constable, likewise on horseback. Herald proclaims the challenge, and the Champion. throws down his gauntlet. King then drink* to the Champion out of a golden goblet, which is afterwards presented to him, Lied he retires, still on horseback, with his face towards the throne. The banqueting scene ends with one of Handers choruses. —We have seldom witnessed a more interesting and. gorgeous spectacle, which was received with the I Lie:4 flattering app!au,e.