The National Register. — London, England, 1818-11-30 00:00:00

e I I NOV. 50 with other States, from the strictest observation of the right of nations; piinciples in their application to a s'ate o f peace, can alone et - lee:natty goarantlV the milepelidence uf ,arch government and the stability of the general assut ia tion. Faitiffiil to these principles, the Sovereigns will maintain thein equally in those meetings at which they may be pet illll - present, or in those which shall take place among their Ministers ; whether it shall be their object to discuss in rim,. mon their own interests, or whether they take cognia Illet . et questions in which other governments shall toi maliy claim their interference. The same spirit which will direct nit it Councils, and reign in their diplomatic coiniiimiieations, shall preside also at these meetings; and the repose of the world shall be constantly (Inds motive and their cad. " It is with such sentiments that the Soveriigiis have eon militated the stork to which they were e called. 'they will not cease to labour ft.ll • its confirmation and perfection. They solemnly acknowledge, that their ditties towards (jail and the i teo pt e whom they govern, make it peremptory on them to g i v e to the world, as tar as in their power, an example of justice, of Concord, of moderation ; happy in their power of consecrating, limn henceforth, theil• efforts to the prutetion of the acts of peace, to 'lle i•acitase of the internal prove, ii ) of t h e i r s la w s , an d to the a a akeniiig of those sentiments of religion and morality, whose empire lies been but too much enfeebled by theiiiisf ,rtinie of the times. " Aix-la-Chapelle. Nov. 15. 1815. (Signed) " NIETTEHNICII. " 11AILDENBERG. " RICHELIF.U. " lIERNSTORFF. CASTLERE4GH. •'NESELIIODE. •'WELLINGTON. " CAPO D'ISTRIA." This document bears the signature of M. Ciente, the Secre tary to the Congress. THE NORTIOVEST EXPEDITIOIt.—The following addiii • 011:11 particulars upon ibis subject are from a Hull paper s— •' The Isabella and Alexander, discovery ships, arrived in the Humber on Saturday week ; and after taking pilots on board, sailed for the Thames the folio% mg da'.. Capt. Sir Joint Ross, of the Alexander, reached this town on Saturday after. nowt, and set off shout two hums aftery arils in a chaise sae London. The following particulars respecting the newly discos wed rare of Esquimaux were communicated by Slid. Ross. Ine di•corery ships had been lying adjoining the land, between lat. 7th. and 77. fastened 110 an iceberg, for two or three stay and had just shoved off, when to their great sm. prise they saw some persons coming down trust the interior, towards the shore, in sledges drawn by dogs. Our country men immediately put back ; but on landing, the natives tied towards the inter ion. In order. it possible, to open a emit_ munication witbthem, the Esquimau a, on hoard the expedi tion, set off after them; about three miles over the ice : sacceeded in this object ; when he toned lie was able to male himself imperfectly understood by them, and also to compre hend their meaning. On the first introilitetton taking place, the natives inquired whether their visitors came from the Son or the Moon? The I.:squint:sox told diem neither; but from a large eoubtry a great distance from the South. They said this was impossible, as they said there was wilting to the Southward but uninhabitable is e. It was with great diffirithy that they mild be convinced of their error, or led to regard our countrymen in any other light than as beings from some other planet. On being taken on board the vessels, they manifested the utmost surprise at every tiling they saw. They could not fur some time be persuaded that the ships were not animals, and possessed the power of speaking; and when told that they were of the nature of houses, intimated dint (could nut he, since the former went Wei:wards and forwards, while,honses were stationary. They repeatedly handled the clothes of the crews, and could not conceive what sort of Skins they were made of; their own eorering being wholly of that description. Of bread or grain they knew not the nse ; and on being induced to put some of the former into their mouths, after masticating it for some time, spat it out strain as tasteless. Their own food, it appears, was chiefly fish and blubber. They had never seen any timber, and were quite ignorant of its properties; so that one of them on going *hoard, and seeing a mast jai.' upon the deck, attempted to take it np in his bands, as if he conceived it to be devoid of weight. Another of them, on hieing taken into the cabin and shown Isis image in a mirror, started 114.41 with sun wise, and could not, until after repeated assurance and experiments, be convinced that there was not some person behind the mirror. They appeared to have no idea of a Ga i l, or of a future state ; nor do they seem, from what %%e eau learn, to have any enemies, but supposed themselves sole muslin CIO Of the universe." In the coarse of last week, a yonng bullock, belonging to Mr. Moses, of Looetowit Nieto y, near Plythouth,.bring ill of waster in the brain, or what is provincially termed mazeness, he . resolved on the extraordinat y opesation of cutting open the immedititely between the eyes and Intros; in effecting chick a bag ot consider able se as found , suspended within between the helots. This bang di :inn out through the aper tnre with A (*looked instrument, contained 1110 Cl! 01411 a pint of water, titled with antinalcolie. The skull was then closed, and the wonoil covered with a pitch plai*ter ; after which the bullock was *et at liberty, evidently much relieved by the operation. It i* now quite well, acid promises to thrive as a tioritil and healthy bullock. The folow ing additional partictilars ;dative to the suicide of .1. and L. Ytonightishind, are copied float toe .Art tea/Atte Chronicie : fltcy %vele at Al11111:0t minket on the preceilint.: bath, day, trant-at flag lonsitit ss iii their ordinary way, and a! chinch un the Sunday as 11,11:11. Atlr l i tis trot :haisvortil remark, as showing that their !Mal vesidution could not have been long taken, that a ves y short time ago, one of them wish ed the landlord to build him a house at I leekley, that lie might he nem er his brother. They were buried at half past cue o'clock, on the mei pin of Sunday the in a footpath leading from Ilailitfgau, to Walkergatv, Alm% irk, and within the Chareli yard. 'Nis not being considered a sufficient com pliance with the terms of the sialtde, an order was given by the Magistrates that the lIINVVIIICC of the law situuld be cat, kit 511 ii tly into execution. The bodies were aeon dingly taken up on Monday afternoon, and buried wil,a•it called Hinding lane, not far from tl.e spot wheie they rum. milted the fatal act. SA AcTors yig. bred by Mr. Moore. of Asp Fann, at C couch Wraxall, ‘Viltthire, shout forte months old. was driven a fi w days ago to Ibith, and purebased by Mr. Erin, brewer, at bath wick, to which place it it as konvi•) A in a sack, and secured in a well fenced stye, In in which it scutchow contrived .o effect its escape. A tea days after, Mr Evill it as t.urptised tolees.r that the puttr bad lintittl its way io its o.d Itahitation, to Ito %.t.teli it niust has swain the riv. r Anon. It has since been provt. :.slat it was pow. • L at h e; stun, Itence it aho contrived to eat e r, and t.. 0, as oaewe blow the same tray. A pro:;ect is in e s ti:talon to commence aline of canal from Petite, in t no wall, which, in it., ro..tress, is s;.id to oken a calm! unict.tion by xaiti between the Drifted Channel, Exeter, and l'lyotot.th. TIII' NATIONAL REGISTER. NE IV SOUTH WALES. By the David Shaw, arrived laid week from Port Jackson direct, (touching only at the Cap_,) we have received letters from Sydney, to the •?otti of May, at which time the colony was in health and tran quillity. The David Shaw it entirely frcit„hted by the principal mercantile house in the settlement, and brings a valuable cargo of oil, fur, seal skins, and wools, the produce of the territory mid its adja• cent shores. inch had been the mistaken eatferneas to ship merchandise to the settlement. from Europe, Bengai and China, that the markets con • titac completely glutted ; many articles of British imumfacture are selling at prime cost ; and in proof of the overflow of Asiatic produce, this vessel brings Si) tons of sugar, for exportution.to the continent, to relkve the overladen stores of Sydney. The Calcutta market has been for some time also so improvidently suopliedwith English goods, that Large quantities have been actually sent from thence to Nov South Wales, in Dupes of sale; aad hoc porter, costing in London 61. Gs. per hogshead, has, after this second long and expensive transit, been sold at !!! The Master of the !hike of Wellington, private trader from London, unable to dispose of his investment, had lett it, drvided between Port Jackson and Van Dieman's Land, and plas•eeded to the Isle of France with u to rgii.of fine horned cattle ; • thus, an exportation of live stock has already etg 1111 l timed from our enterprising brethren of the Antipodes. The autumnal rains of March and April hate this season caused only a partial overflow of the South Creek. The price paid by Go vernment fit the supply of their stores with fine fresh meat, way Gd. per lb., and lob. per bushel for wheat; a hoe milch cow could he purchased for 101, 'llw annual nmster, concluded at the date of 1517. gave the fol.. lowing results ; Total number of souls in New South Wales 17,165 Ditto in Van Dietuan's Land 3414 Population of the territory 20,579 There were 14,500 acres of wheat in cultivation in New South %Vales, 1,230 acres of potatoes, barley, and oats, and 1t.700 acres of maize. 'rite following arc the quantities of stock exchnively in New South Wales, viz. Horses Y,430 Sheep, 66,700 Horned, cattle 33,630 Pigs 11,400 Of the above 20,379 souls there were 4,10” male convicts ; 1,3 to women prisoners, and 830 of their children ; and since the period this census was concluded, this portion of the population will have been nearly doubled ; upwards of 4,000 men and about 500 women having In en forwarded thither, truth this country and Ireland, since June of the last yenr Thus, including the settlers who have since gone out, the entire population of the territo;.( may now he estimat ed at 25,000 souls. In IRIY, the total number of inhabitants were only 12,471, by which it will appear they have been doubled in six years ! The colony was consequently considered to he seriously in want of a considerable reinforcement of military strength, there being only 600 oldie 4stli regiment in the whole territory, who have to garrison the two principal settlements in Van Dienian's Land, to provide a sompany for the establishment at the Col Ruw, as well as to furnish parties fort c various outposts of the now unavoidably extended lines surrounding Port Jackson, which permits very few firelocks to remain at head quarters. Much anxiety on this salkject has been kiwi' felt by all the station. ary inhabitants, as well as that a King's sess..l should be again sta • tioned in the harbour, as a protection against the easy possibility of outwald assault, and to frustrate the 1111111eT041i combinations of the prisoners, who are ever homing plans, and ellen too successfully, to carry away the colonial craft. to the certain destruction of their own and the crews' lives, an I the ruin of the owners. When Governor Macquarie took the command, in 1810, although theta was not half the above stated population, a sloop of war was stationed at l'ort Jackson, and the military force was also much superior to its present strength. From the same causes strong hopes arc entertained, that n Increase to the metlicel establishment will take place proportione to the rapid advenee of claims on their attention. No advices had been received from l.teut. King, who sailed in De cember last, in the Mermaid cutter, to complete the survey of such part of the west coast of New Holland as was left unexplored by Captain Flinders. Mr. Oxley, the Surveyor General, had just again left head quar ters with a party, to prosecute the intention of the Government, in exploring the interior of New Holland, to the westward of the Blue Mountains. The shearing of the last season had furnished a much larger sup ply of line wool than at any former period ; affording well grounded honk*. that a few years will render the exportation of this valuable article of much moment to the inhabitants, as the pasture and climate of the colony for the Spanish sheep are probably not surpassed in the world. The Bank lately established at Sydney promises much ultim etc advantages to the territory. By the last advice, received from Otaheite, the island was in tran quillity. " The Missionaries." says a Sydney Gazette, " were in the full enjoyment of their health, and every wished-for success is at tending their labours, all the islanders being converted to Christiani ty !" Speaking again of these islands. another Gazette says,—" A great majority of the natives can read, and delight in perusing the various tracts printed fur them in their own &aka furnished by nature with subsistence from the most trifling labour, they bestow much of their time in reading, and even in writing, corresponding with each other on the leaf of the plantain and banana. There are very few ftmilies without one Or more readers." An attempt to make sugar from the luxurious eane growing in the country has every probability of succeeding. The Church Missionary Society have also, through the personally indefatigable exertions of the Rev. Me. Maralen, formed un esta blishment on the north island of New Zealand ; mid it is an interest ing proof of reciprocal services commencing between ourselves and the tine race of men inhabiting the above islands, that an advertise ment of departure in the Sadaem Gee V.. of March 9, specifies the names of twelve New Zealanders and sec Oraheitans, who earnest. part of the crews of two colonial br gs, then oa the eve of tbr the .txxist risitories. From the long indiscriminate destruction of the whole tribe of seals, these valuable animel, have become as rare on die shore: of New Holland and its adjacent islands, as they have lately proved in all other parts of the world. We are happy to learn, that after an claps? of many years, and the failure of repeated attznipts from this country and Reined, a medical eentleman of the Isle of France has succeeded in car rying the vaccine virus to Port Jackson in rat unimpaired state; and - the children of the colony arc receiving the benefits of that in valuable blessing. As may be naturally expected, the inhabitants of this increas ingly in el eating territory look with regret to the eagerness with which such numhers of deluded purple etnignite to America, without taming their vices towards their countrymen in the lux uriant and dire climates of New South %Vales and Van Diemati's land. - J. Atkinson, El. the new Alai or of Salisbury, was to hate xi. en his gf.sti.l inangtot ation din,.o on %V hot ii % as peapoar.l ill Iht death ut tier Nhti,est , , itittl Cite s taut stow -^.pr•.ridrd for COO per,otn., udh, uy 11.3 dirt mon, • Ow poor. An oil rp, • . ili , ,;overea near Duck Crtek, Ohio. tro.o 1, *:• .of cxcellent nil nas been procured in l'iLl 7. 't s • •.: tally, like the boiling of .t large F4lilll • 41111 burn w ket insthntl:, .1,, and more t, higient try ase.-rtaiti whether the oil wout. _ irrbtaryl to that. which was floating or the Crttki I ".. 2 n B •Piff eok - ic. upwards of INN, tLtt ill lICLAIt, . • .41,1 (low], t!. Creek, dour l ing wally of %Ito • • •: ''y i f—iinter;,?ait Payer. 379 From Me LONDON GAZETTE, Tuoday, Nov. 01.. BANKRUPTCY FraII.ARGED. REES n. channin,draper. from Nov. 28, to Jan. IG. BAN KIIIIPTS. BOND W. Dover, brewer, Dec. 3,4, Jan. 5, at Canterbury. Att Lodington and Co. Templ,.. Mansti.tt.t. J. North-hall, Yorkshire, clothier. Dec. I, N. Jan. 5, at Gu ildh a ll. 5, It . Air. comes, l'anl Street, Finsbury Square. Sitt.a T. and !knoll 11. Liverpool, me:chants. Dec. 9, Lt. Jan. 5, at I.irerpord. Atts. A.vison and Co. Castle Street, Hol born. A1.1.1 , N G. Greenwich, stationer, PVC. 5. le, Jam 3, at Guildhall. Acts. Lane avid Co. Lawrence Pountney.bill. GI tins J. Ruxtead, Russet, INV.11e:11(7, We. 1, R,jan. 5, at Guill hall. Att. NI r. Lindsay. St. Thomas's Street, Sandia ark. 'ltter: W. Elsing, Northlk, miller, Dee. 7,8, Jan. 3, at Norwich, Att. Mr. Barber, Fetter-lane. Pu I,t,Ert C. A. Leeis. merchant, Dec. 0 1 1, 22..1an. 5, at L et ..d,,, Atta. Ashmore and Co. Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. CHAMBER 1. V NEW, l.eirestea hosier, Dec. I, .I.m. 5, at Hinck ley. AU. Mr. Beckett. Noble Street, Falcon Square. GREAVLS P. Miteclestield, irmunonger, Dec. 9, to, Jai. 5, a t s tuc k. pott. Att. Mr. Sherwin, Gre.a James Street.. BetlthrO !tow. I Far mt. %V. Cromwell, Notting'minshire, miller, Doc. ii, ix, .11n. Ix, at Newark.upon-Treot. Att.& Long and Co. Holbora Couct., Gray's Inn. TAYLOR 'l'. ltingley Bridge, I.ancaiiro, butcher, Dec. 4,12, Jan. 5. at Manchester. Acts. Milne and Co. Temple. Sr ulllit.tY4 W. York Street, Southwark, gun.rnak..r. Dec. 1, 3, Jai , . 5, at Guildhall. AM. Mr. Richardson, Clemenes-lane, Loinbare- Street. BASSAI: n .1. Upper Thames Street, sugar-miner, Dee. 1,5, Jan. 5, at Guildhall , . Atta. Sherwood and Sun, Canterbury ague, . Southwark. DIVIDENDS. .1. Freeman, Birmingham, victualler, Dec. 51. .1. Millar, I verpool, merchant, Dec. 17. G. P. Becher and .1. Barker, Broad Street, merchants, Jae. *5. W. Oldroyd, Blackman Street, bookse.ler, Nov. 15. W. Smith, Oxford Street, inninionget, Dec. 1. J. Bewley, Kingsland lined, salesmen, Dec. 15. It. Cole, King Street, I lolborn. coacli.maker, Dec. 19. H. Stanley, and T. Weston, Lower Thames Street, irownonsers, Dec. t. C. Lore, Old Bond Street, jeweller. Dec. 19. E. Alec kavoy, King Street, Greenwich, victualer, Dee, 15. W. Holmes, North Shields, master mariner, Dec. 18. G. James, Liverpool, merchant, Dec. 16. J. Clark, Clifton Glotteectershire, innkeeper, Dec. 17.. J. Mann, jun. Temple Soo erby, Westmoreland. tanner, Ilex. 171 J. J. F. and T. Bell, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchants, Dec. 17. CERTIFICATES--DEe. 15. 'l'. 0. Warwick, and .1. Aldred. Rotherham, Yorkshire, eh mists, R. More. Craven I'laec, Bayswater, stone-ma.son--.1. Lockwood. Stephen Street, St. Paticrai, chair-maker—W. Wallace,Workingtor , Cumberland. sliiratrpenter—E. Godwin, Tottenham-court-row , cheesenionger—T. Lowe, Bcckbury, Shropshire, Walduck, Homer Street, St. Marylebone, cheeseinonger. TILE CORN BILL In consequence of what they are pleased to consider as the injurious operation of the Corn Bill, a general meriting of the Farmers, Landholders, and others interested in agricultural producc,for the comities of Middlesex and Essex, bas been held. The object of the assembly was to petition Parliament to impose protecting duties oil the impel tattimi of corn and other provisions, and to open the ports upon the payment of those duties. It is intended to procure the co operation of the agricultural interests in all the counties of Eitglanri for this purpose copies of the subjoined Petition are abont to be sent to all the principal towns and villages, that the greatest possible number of signatures may be procured, an terior to the opening of Parliament. " TO TILE HONOURABLE TUE COMMONS OF THE uNrrrn KINGDoM, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. "'Mee Humble Petition of the several Occupiers of Lands in the County of —, whose names are hereuntosubscribed, SirEw ET ll—That the wit of the United littigdom is competent and fully adequate to the supply of its population, even it' it were much more numemus than it is, with all the productions of the , oil ;if the United Kingdom ; that is to say, with euen, meal, flour. rye, oats, peas, beans, barley. beer er bigg, wool, il.tx„ hemp. hides, tallow, seeds, butter, cheese, poultry, vegatables of all ...r ads natural to the climate. apples and pears. " That your Petitioners a ith all humility submit to the considern thm and wisdem of this Honourable House—That as the soil of tfie United Kingdom and its product ons, are the prime atalree of nationsl industry and of revenue. it is impolitic, it' this allegation be true, to admit any productions similar to those of our own soil and climate, into this country, duty free', until the cultivation of our own soil sjiall have extended itself' to its utmost limits; but whether such ali:ega tion be correct in all its parts, or nut, it is unjust to the o.supiets of the soil to admit such productions duty free, inasmuch as every such admission tends to disable the occupiers et the soil from inquiet , . of their rent, tithes, taxes, and wages, while it leaves them subject to .ill the pains and penalties incurred by the emission to make good any of those payments. .6 Your Petitioners. therefore, humbly pray, that this Petition tray be referred to a Committee of their honourable llouse, where evidence may lw given in support of the allegations it contains; aim if it s h a ll there be made appear to be a just, equitable, and necessary measure, then. but not otheiki-e, that all the productions of the soil of tr,., United Kingdom may in future be protected. from the inn ort A • similar commodities, duty free. in as full, ample, and lieriefeial iniumer as the merchants and tuanufacturem ot the United Kit gdoin art:.by the Navigation Art, and other statutes attic realm. pr.dated in their shipping and manufactories. from foreign competition, da,a , free. And that your Petitioners may have such relict' as to the wis dorl of this !louse may aeenifit." We also understand that Meetings will be held hi most. of the comity towns of England mid Wales, for the purpose of note completely effecting the object in rimy. A similar as• se;nOlv of the Laiid-omierg, the rounlir• uf Somerset and Gloncerder has breit held at iiristul, owl fr out the vet rations Sal IOUS instructions have her it dist ri blued over ' the count rv, with 01 view to facilitate the circulation said N- I nature of tile Petit iow. BATH %021)11.1AY Suicinc.—...Thursday looming Mr. ,Turner, who leaped out of his chamber window on Tin:stilly, in 11'ells-russet, Oxford-street, having previously rut his throat, died in the MaWle. KIK 11 0 ;031 ;Ir. 't. had bevn very unwell for some time. and for several ,l ay , prior tohis coinini,sion of the Nein, act, he arm ev.d nu uv a ct.l mlu mind. razor with which the union • natal iisan cut 'his ttiroat could no where be found ; arid a deep tut s bieh teas on tit , . side of the deceased was sum used .0 he inltiett• la his f Xing on some iron railing when be threw hi t , elf from tae wt„vow, Such. however, were mistaken conclusions, for since hisileatti medical gentlemen at the hospital. on opening the hotly or the dc. ceased, found the razor with wl.ich he tut his throat, or i: lying very near hi. heart. it appears that after he rat hit then.. 14 tilt a deep womal in his sid.:„ aotl having opened e • :mot, he aria t it into the aperture. whieb•closied top, and wl he alai 'Ain t::e hospital, the wound was sewed up by 1.4). ..upir Lift that any thing was in the blade. rvIM I " Pt.