The National Register. — London, England, 1823-04-13 00:00:00

- 171EI1E PE N UE' • AbArid or die Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Blitain in the Years and Quarters ended th►e sth of Aril, 1822, and the sth of April, 1823; 'showing the Increase and Decrease on each head thereof. 6400: ....- Increase. Decrease. ..---......—....—..- 70.931 1,148,701 27,258 $l,OOO 643.835 106.093, --... I.ANURUURN WARD. & Wedowee was en Tuesday held in the church of St. Dioais Backchorch, in Fenelturob-street, for the election elm Aldetasan in the room of Sir John Stoner, deceased. The LORD MAYOR arrived at about half-past two, and having 'taken the Chair, the ward beadle made proclamation, and the precept for convening the wardmoto was read. Mr. BORRADAII.I then proposed Sir Freels Desanges, ci lium and dyer, ss a naadidate for the secant elk. of Alder- man. Mr. Ett.torr seconded the proposition, Mt. WITT, in ruing to propose another candidate fee the *Mee of Alderman said much itooevenieuee had frequently remelted from the non-reskiesesi of the Alderson@ within the ' Ward, tip whole of which would be obviated by Omelet-doe of the Oedema whom he had thee the helmet to propose and with whose Name he wadi cinschde.. He then recom mended Mr. John Keys, cilium, and stadeser: On the chew of bmds the Lord Mayor declared the numbers to be—For Mi. Key, 59—For Sir P. Desanges, 48, and that the*elsolee bad therefore fallen or Mr. Key. A poll (with is to continue two day.) was then demanded as behalf of lir F. Desanges ; sad the Wiliam' of the eleciion mincladed. On Thireday morning the Lord Mayor proceeded to the • veswy rem of St. Dionis Book Church, aadopeeed the poll ' : pea promo. His Lordship then stated, that ow Wednesday it air he had received a letter from 15 .r Francis Mileages, de any further contest, notwithstanding tell* hi was vh -2.1 ot! to :.esp the pett open far the Surd upon. ' ht die evening the poll dosed. In favour of Mr. KeyM.' the numbers being—Foe Mr. Key,: M—for Vt V. tomuggior • .. go —Majority, 46. .• The Lord Mayer them Ileellteur that the *l.sn fell aim Mr. Key.. . Mr. Keye then stood forward to return thanks. He essayed ' Iris friends dial all bis exertions should be lisped to promote the • interests of the Ward, and 'that any ewes. that might have crept in during the period they wanted s beset; should he at t toked with vigour. • 'lli inks being voted to the Lord Mayor, who complimented the new Alderman, the Wardmote was dissolved. Extract of a letter dated Rio de Janeiro, Jan. SO, • 1843.—" Our squadron of four frigates returned the other day from Monte Video, and sailed yesterp day for Millie and Pernambuco, with suppliis.of arms and about 600 volunteers from. the militia, chiefly mulattoes, but tolerably good troeps.and well • equipped: The command is intrusted to• an Ame rican, named...fewett, who commands. the largest frigate. They are miserably off.for officers; neither • Portugal or Brazil, has even one of note, and Brazil ' none she can trust. The first Lieutenant of the Doris,. entered into their service the other day, and as he was the first English officer they could engage, they make much of him. He is made Captain— they have given him a fine frigate of 38 guns, now undergoing a thorough repair; but the paucity of officers is•such, that Taylor is looking round among the mates of merchantmen for his .future lieutenant !. A 74 will betroady forsea- In sit weeks, as yet• an . commissioned and no captain eligible. People sup pose, from the activity shown in getting their navy firward without seeing here officers capable of tak ing the command, that they sum have some well foulided reason for expecting officers from foreign countries. A code of regulations fur. the govern ment. of privateers, and letters of marque, has been iteuett, but the system is bad, as they were rather warmly told by the French Commodore, who ob served that they who had no navy should strive to, form one, and not throw the prizes of war into the hands of the only nation (the United Statist). who would be the that ready to interfere in the quarrel. I have not yet beard of any letter of marque being. issued." Lady Coehraneis making great preparations for her departure fur South America. Her Ladyship and suite, it is expected, will embark ut the course s. ..of the ensuing week. Stamps 6,217.318 6.200,000 Post-office Taxes. 7.318.700 6474.853 isoellamso. 520,483 426,378 £31,385,843 £49,884,037 Deduct Increase Decrease on the Year Quarters ended Bth April 882. 1883. I Customs 1 4 . 099.879 C 2.101,408, 8,386.798 8 , 636,8 79 Stamps.._ 1,888,346 .5,573,1154 Post-office.— 510,000 £70.000 Taxes 980.916 861,764 31W:enema. 63,621 76,190 • 110.905 11 " 4 hl Deduct Increase Decrease on theQuarter...l TVI.IItO 1,361.7a6 locraaz i Decrease. 9,329 200,319 • 14 ,49 2 16,000 119,152 13,478 3*, Mad 32,707 £295,56 - • - NATION /J. REGIS'rER lIRORTANT Naws.—Tl brig Amuse, Captain John Roe, - after a parser df 30 daysfecan Barba does, arrived at Cork the sth inst. from which she brings intelligence that a flew days before she left there a French spy boat hem Martinique had been discerned off there, expressly Mete for the purpose of reconnoitering the strength of the British force on that station. Communications having been made: to Commodore Owen, he instantly despatched the Forte to Martinique, where.she found at anchor nine French ships of war, who expected to be joined directly by three French frigates of the first clam.. This formidable expedition Is supposed to be for the island of Cobs. At the York assisee an action was brought in the Civil Court by Mr. Rusliworth, attorney, of Hull, agaitst the proprietors of the Rockingham news paper, to recover damages for a libel reflecting upon his professional character. Verdict for the plaintiff —Damages, one halfpenny, A Provincial Paper says, that as soon as the Easter holidays are over, practical steps will be taken to invite and to form an extensive union of the landed interest, and to convene meetings of the same, to take into consideration the condition of the agricaltumlend landed property at this important crisis. r A canoe• having been , tried befitre Lord Kenyon, and a verdict given for the plaintiff; the defendant, not content with the verdict, called the plaintiff perjured rascal. An uctivn, was brought for slan der; and, when. brought before Lord. Kaityon, one of the witnesses was ealled to prove the words.— " What else did he say ?".. asked Lord K. " Why, my Lord," he added, " you were a rascal, and the Jury all a parcel f fools !" Upon which the learned Judge directed a verdict to be entered for the defendant, as the Words (his Lordship said) had been spokenin such blind passion, that be was not likely to he seriously believed. The eases of the .friendt.of those persons who hare been taken up out of the burial-ground of Holywell Mount, in the Curtain-road, deserving of commissemtion—many of whom are suffering the ' most acute sensations. Alt elderly woman of the name of Williams, residing in• the Curtain-rood, whose husband had not been interred tnore than ten Lys, on finding that hiq body was among those that were gone, has continued in a state of insen sibility ever since. There fan not been, since the discovery of a measure finlike. to the above in the Rev. Mr. Whitfield's ground, in Tottenham-court road, a. Oar years since, one of so extensive a na ture as she present. Theophice of interment, from the pair* of the graves, represent a ploughed field. The vexatious system of passports in France souplied •with the mannsvait which it is voadueted,. _ - 111 E is bLosneing an ineisralkdinitbject siontplaint with travellers. As an , instanoit, w.a may mention what his recently occurred in the case of Mr. Edward Holland, a young man of IT, and son to one of the partners in the house of Bering. and Co. He ar rived at Paris on the Slit 'thins°, on his way home from Geneva, where he 14,ad completed. his educe , tion. Owing to bisleassport not having been regu ndy transmitted front the frontiers, he wardetained et Paris till Tuesday last, nonvithstending daily applications had been made to the proper quarter to 'grant a new pionpurt, and had then no expectation of obtaining one, but through the interference of the English ambassador. Surely this evil should be remedied, unless it is meant to out off all intercourse with foreigners. A letter from Semlin, dated March 21st, states, that a terrible confragmtien has ravaged Constanti nople and its suburbs. Turks arrived at Semlio report, that the number of houses destroyed is be tween 80 and 40,000, and that the two groat esta blishments of the cannon-foundery and marine arsenal, at Tenants and Tophane, are consumed. Mr. H. Ball and the late Mademoiselle Mercan rdotti arrived at the Albion Hotel, Ramsgate, inc g. on Sunday night,"the thh instant. They proceeded thence to Dover, in order to embark fur Ostend. Letters from Havannah of the 20th of February state, that advices from Vera Cruz of the Sd had been received by way of 'Tampico, anrouncing, that on the preceding day a convention was signed be tween the leaders of the Imperialist and Republican troop fur carrying into effect the declarations. of !guide and Cirdava, and for establishing the form of government best adapted to the country. Thais proceeding, it is supposed, at once puts an end to the short-lived power of the new Emperor Iturbide. A clause is introduced into the convention, however, for securing him against personal molestation. Some letters mention his having taken the determination to retire to a private station. Ponrillaing Sink of tAnnnserce.—The traffic on the Kennet and Avon river, from Bristol to London, has•been greater the last month than has ever been known since that communication has been opened; the tonnage for that time exceeding any former month by upwaula. of. 1000 tons. -r il l • z.VsoLnuir DIIIITCrItS afell. W ILSTM Ils STU al EIpIING. On Thursday lasi, a uteeting'of the merchants and trader. of Westminster, was • held at Willis's Booms., pursuant to public notice, to consider the propriety 44 petitioning the legislatwe to amend the acts fur the relief of insolveut debtors. J. C. Host-louse, Esq. took the chair. Sir Francis Burdett also attended. Mr. Bosom/so mentioned in a kw words, that he attended to take the chair at the desire of - his constitu ents, whose wishes he was always ready to runty. Mr. LON& then read the resolutions, which declared that the acts intended fur the relief of toe honest unfor tunate debtor, were comerted into an instrument by which utiprineipled men defrauded their creditors. The petition prayed, that the detaining eretlitors of iasolverits should be exal ' •d in the Insolvent Goom,antl if fanned' IC be in collusion with the insolvent . , torero subject ten punishment. It also prayed, that insolvent debtor,. ahotild be deprived of the benefit of the Rules of the King's Bench anti Fleet Prisons; and that the Insolirede Court should be empowered to decide nit the claims of creditors, who might sue their debiorsin dialtotert fa stains not miceeding 111. in the same manner as the Court of Requests nosy decide in debts under 51. This suggestion appeared to Meet. with general apptolitimi. Mr. Long then noted that the resolietionstaird petitiviut should be agreed by the meeting. ''' Sir Frankis seconded tf-te minim). • i ~ . Mr. SLOPtle said, he thought the petition affisield bo• printed. • Sir F Bit averr eiforided' the dihti , land prilpost the appointment of a commit tee..to whom itiyriiimitilk iatiort in'the preseut • petition might be suggested, and who might prepare a petition. of which the 'present might form the ground wink, which would probably bir approved•of at a futuromieling.- Mr. FORBES expressed himself strongly in faicusr Of the proposal Mr depriring'insolveret debtors tf the holes of the Kiwis Betichood Fleet Prisons. The resolutions for printingthe 'Killion was then put. and agreed to unaniiiiously. • A conneii:Le of 19 was appointed to receive commu nications on the subject, and salami the result to the text meeting, which was appointed to' take place o'll Thursday, the 24th inst. Thanks were voted to the chairman, after Which the nieeting dissolved. :.. ' The litriol of Joseph AforMi'd —ills retnakists of shit wretched being. who at•easpied to ismisittaie Sir C. liannifyltle, and it the same moment pit A 'iresirol to his own existence, and. agailta -.ebony the Clitinier's Jury recorded the verdict of " Filo de' rs;" was removed tioas the Worcester Arms, George Streit, Portman Square. on Tuesday Ili;:;11, to hlarylehnne Mel ki?ouset and from thence, at 4.o'clock on Thutsday morning. a procession consisting-of the headlesa.and -oilier parochial called', conducting a cart, upon which the body lay. They proceeded to* John's Wood, Chapel Road. Ridding ton, and a pit of considerable depth and lengtli was dtht in the centre or crossing of the •foid roads leathog ili Paddington, Ilighgete, Marylehone and London ; tea ' surface of t h e buttons of the trench, or pit, was strewed With slackened lime; the-body seas then thrown in, and ...instantly chyme!' with titter, lime, soul sand; a stake. to (11161 the aomeni liiee; wits diet' driveri thintiob the apirtli 'nil body', and tfie growlass filled up. Very few persons attended; a strong patty of constables were ots duty mood the grave. . • . • . . At a ginner in thre e o'clock •on 'Monday moiniog ''''•-•• an alarming fire broke out at Mr. Giles, the Maiden- head public-house; its ItAilleCtillit, Fleet-street. Tim -whole neighoottrhOsmi was in alreedful stile of alarm. The distress was, indeed, e react thin we hare witnessed on similar occasions, owing . to the latelleSS of the hour, the narrow entrance to the court, god the COllttlitlet:t diffieulty of egress and tegress; Women amid men half rimmed, were Seal trashing impetuously threuals the crowd : some anxiously looking for :heir families, :An I • others, in the violence df their anguish, exclaininiz that they had lost their all I, Two pariah engiaiesatrti .. .1 i instatitplentiful, and there was plentiful supply of wilier;. tit the inability of their condoctois to bring them into ; ar added to the confusion. The arrival of the mirse efficient fire•rdlice engines al length stayed the'progiess of 'he coo flagration ; but not till it had comptesely:destaoyeil the Maidenhead o'l,llk-home, where it origmated, and Sim the house of fil r. Potts, in Sergeant's bin, situated to the 'rear of it ; three other himself are alto ~hush. iiijorck-•- We are happy to add.that tus lives hive been lost. T 1 .4 ( flames had communicated to the staircase in the house of Mr. Potts before thejiimates (coustattine of twoyootta, •gentletneti ;SKI ate housekeeper), „jt ere apprised of their danger, and they, with weak-difficulty, escaped over the roofs of the houses; not a vestige of the properly has tern saved. Lou of Ike Alert Packet --It is with sincere regret that -we feel ourselves obliged to annoutice to the friends of the sufferers in the alert, that bu; little holies can be entertsilied of the recovery of any more of the bodies ; although boats have been constant/pint, none has Irmo found shier the first daymid it is SUppeSeil troll& thesseung • sisterly winds which have lately prevailed. they. muss have driven them put to sea.. We have seems two gentle men who have jou returned from Holyhead, where i het have been fur the list four days % engaged in an effeetual search fur the lekiiiS Of Alessi's. Hots sod Liodsay„ the only two vital ti passcogers (besides Ms. Al'Master), w lune names have been ascertained. In a gentleman's garden, in the vicinity of St. Anne's-street, Liverpool, three land tortoises, which bad buried themselves in the earth at the beginning of October last, rose from their earthly sepulchres, about two o'clock on the Ist inst. within half an hour of each other, to the no sinall astonishment of . the observers. The sudden transition in the atmus- . . phere from cold to heat, is presumed to have bean the cause of attic almost simultaueous itesurrecCoo. '~ I 1 .......1 . ~' ►': j Aro