The National Register. — London, England, 1817-01-20 00:00:00

JANUARY 20. .SINGUIAR TRIAL. (EXTRACTED FROM A NEW YORK PAPER.) MA RINE COURT. It lore HENRY WHEATON, ROISEIt r Sw stsTon, 131011 ,Oust B. SCOTT, Extirs. .1114111Crf STI :WING —AS11%1 1 1:1' AND BATTERY. •PETER OLFFIE L. GEOII6E M ATIIEW*4IN, R ICI4 %ED Cl. %DK, J t MEN Al . N11:114', JOIIN NI %RAO rest., Ell% Alta CA D. 1:1.:11 JP:NI(I , 4. WM. ASKEW, THOMAS M.AXWELI., AND DANILL 'AI %lOWA 1.1.. Unwise! for the plaintiff, Mr. Caines ; Counsel fur the de -1 endmis, Mr. Fay. The Captain and crew of a vessel on the hick seas have no ELM to permit or eacite Ne,atime to strive a pas senger, and immerse him in aWO of water, coutrary to his will. This was an action of assault Alld battery, alleged to have been committed on hoard the British ship Tliamas, of Lan caster, while on the high seas, of which snip (:Owe/son O - 4. the Captaiu, the other defendants seameti, and the plaintiff owe of the passengers. It appeared, that the ship came from the chalky cliffs of Albion, with a number of passengers, and seri% ed on thi• Banks of Newfoundland. The sons of the deity who Title!: the wide d9111:lill through which they had past in safety, with joy breathing in every eye, met and conferred. Be a mai r rence to ancient legends, coeval with the common law, and among thent of greater validity, it was fontid, that as often a, a landsman came in view of the Banks before them, lir must produce a bottle of old Cognac or rum, as un acceptable sacri fice to Neptune. The nature of the sacrifice was explained to the landsmen, and the greater part complied with 4 retinisition sitactioned by immemorial usage; the defendant, with others , refused. Whereupon the seamen invoked the god with sad com plaints: " 0 omnipotent father, King of the Ocean, behold the rebellious suns of Terra, who have dared to intrude into thy dominions ' refusing to bend before thy divine altar, and to render to thee an accustomed libation. Their beards, 0 father, are long, uncouth, mill indecent ; retained by them in 'defiance of thy haws, and iu defiance of thy divinity." The Father of Occau heard, and lifted his awful head smb• lime above the waves, attended by the Tritons, the Nercides, and all the daughters Of the azure main. lie saw his children, and thus responded to their coin plaints, through a bra/en trumpet, whose reverberations shook the distant promontory of Chapeau Rouge, and re-coho• eil through the spacious bay of Placentia:—" Carry these impious mortals . from my presence—behold their beards, which they dare to retaia in despite of my authority! They shall be shaved." " Si rata sinnut." He said, and taking his razor alai shaving-box from his Ear, while Amphitrite held M61101'504, Ito seinAl the prow, and a , coniled by the head-rails into the lofty ship. His presence' inspired his children with joy. But, while imparting his commands through his brazen trumpet to the crew, the lands -1111:11 below trembled —" Bring hillier that tub, and fill it with sea-water." 'Twas done. " tiring forth the long-bearded • tribe, one by one." The command was obeyed; but Duffle, when it came to his turn, was inclined to he refractory, and -resisted : but who can resist when gods command ? The razor used by Isis godship was 11141HICICD1red in the I Taverns of :Etna, by one of the Cyclops, from au iron-hoop; aiul, though somewhat rangit on ate edge, did good bnsiness. f'l•-id ; d e wy the tub, Manic underwent Me operation with streaming eye, while the most mist) sultry smell from the lather entered his nostrils. As soon as the (Mice sit' the razor Wax AreolllllliAlled, and the awful oath, which binds even gels above, was administered, the tot) below received him ; the ceremony was (folic, mud the god descended into the LIOAOIII of the " vasty deep." It appeared that a lady passenger, named Anu Jones, was ItObjectcd to the same ceremoriy, the humour Of whlt'h was enjoyed by Dottie, iu common with the others. Mark vs II personated Neptune, and the Captain acted in time capacity of an assistant to the Deity, and was aiding, abetting, and assisting in the ceremony, After the arguments of the Counsel, Mr. Justice Swanton charged the Jury, that it was the duty of thc master of a ship •t i treat his passengers with attention' and politeness. The Captain stood in the emit' relation to the passem;ers as a mas ter of an ion or hotel tlitl towards his guests. Having the superiatendence of his vessel, the law had invested the Cap tain with the authority necessary for preserving the peace and good order. On this occasion the Captain not only failed in treating the plaintiff with a becoming decorum, but countenaliced, and • actually had soa.e agency in the injitry charged ia the declara tion. The conilact of the • defendants towards the plaintiff as as highly reprehensible. After taking into consideration the wounded feelings of the plaintiff on the one 11.1101, anti the circumstances oldie defendants on the other, it would be the daty of the jury to render such a verdict as they considered jot and equitable. The jury rendered a verdict in favour of the plaintiff, for 4t doliars. • When a vessel arrives on the Equator, or any remarkable head land, win re the row hands and pariscogers on boat d Dave not been before, the IO:i4111t11, areollllll4 to an old wage, frequently proceed to the ceremony of shaving, which is thus perfiiranal :—One ()Elbe crew, %vile is the hest calculated for drollery, is habited in a fantastic ridiculous meaner, and, mull a speaking trumpet in his hand, personates old Neptenc. Le goes corn aril to the bow of the s while those w are to no shaved are kept below, and de•ceads nutil, perhaps, he reaches the water, and from thence ascends on deck, pre tending to have emerged front the ocean. lie hails the crew With his trumpet ; answer is male, anti mama! congratula tions pass octa vii Ills gollship and the old seamen. He pro - reeds td ortl-r the requisite map:trams fur shaving, which generally consists of a piece or IMO 110011, a composition bit . latlier made of slitsh and other offensive matters, and a tub of osier. persons whim are to be shaved are then brougat on deck, one by one, hlinillolded. Those who have treated well are shaved light, while those who are refrictoi y ale shaved hard. After Abasing, his godship proceeds to swear the novice to divers singular observances, one of which is, that he " wilt never eat brown bread sv lieu he can get w hits." 'flay oust shaved is then either immersed in a 1114 Of water, or Ills it ittlekti fell from above poured un his head, anti the frolic ends. • A cannel . , of the name of bolberton, at Bramber in 'York e'''. e, oli, ! a few ago w itteibtit year of bis ii4e, pus. e d to the asuoitiit of tlircc huddled thous:A:id poonihi, ootaittoil by rivlostr y ati.l I ugality, which he has be queathed uy will to a untuber of hitherto your relations. THE NATI6NAL REGISTER. _ .___._.... /MI INIIMB __ 114 LAND. POPULAR MEETING AT DURLM FOR REFORM' OF _ _ _ . . ..... .. I'ARLIA The most numerous meetior ever remembered in Ireland, took place 011 Alonday, the I 311 i instant, ar the Irlreen of Ila , rold's Coosa, Ditlidin, f o r the pat nose Of petitioning the House bf Coin:nous ,11111 addressing the t'rince Regent on the sub ject of Parliamentary Reform. Une. - ards of thirty thousand individuals west. present. At nue o'clock, Robert Nufriti, Ell!. was called to the chair. Mr. Hagan proposed the re solutions, which Mated iu substance, that the miseries of the people had sprung from ind:•criiiiiiiate aad overmlietiiiing tavition, from useless and burdensome cis il and military e•tablislnueua, unmerited potshots, sinecures, &e. all origi nating in the corrupt state of the 1-Loose of Commons: that they disclaimed any wish to ilintivate im the constitution, their object being reform, not revolution ; that they eartiestk solicited the vompera!ion of their comitryinNs in support of reform, end recommend invednes of every city, County, town. and parish hi Ireland, for neat parpose.--The resolutions wire seconded by It. Norris, iuu. Esq. and earricil by itec.a ination.—Thw taretii.g was addressee( by Mr. Eiteas 11•llnty nel and Counsellor O'Connell. The latter gentleman spoke at 'cog th, and impressed the necessity of peace:* hilt dente:111011i , by rein i s 4:int, iis ease of• any distil ter " the certainty of their orrrtrielincit by ten re:fitments of ...(dery at that nod, e army, and two t, cops of dicey reatlo,r immediate action.' lie r'coinni.•u , ted ill!' 1111411i01011 , and constitutional pars iii of ielOrin, front which he anticipated many blessings. —Ge neral Mathew is to present the petition to this Continents House.—The 11U . Ctill4 najollflit! . ..l to the 13th Februai y, to receive the Prince Regent's an.wer to the address, and the vast cuneuin••e of persons reined to their homes with the greatest order. 1 1 110VINCIALS. CALAMITY AT Cltini IN WALF3.-011 CVellitlg the Bath Mt. owing, as is supposed, to the servants in the Ellesmere I Canal Company, the stop gates, plugs, tee. for regulating the quantity of water ou that part of the Canal which is embanked up to the Chirk Aqueduct, were neg lected ; the fatal consequeuce was, that flu:embankment be• ingot erpowered by the great weight of superfluous water. gave way, atid falltlig down a precipice, completely dammed up the river Cering, which flows below it, and over which the ('anal is carried by an Aqueduct.—Tile water being tiles im peded, quickly found its way in :mother direction, aril in half an hour every pit belonging to the colliery was tilled with water, earth, gravel, The machinery was turn to pieces by the tremendous force of the current, and very cousiderable damage done to the stirrouuding country. Had it not been for the judicious and timely imerference of Mi. Edward Davies, engineer to the Chirk colliery, the whole of its water must have swept away Chirk Mills, and every thing in the valley, into one genet at tie-truction. Most providen tially this was the only nielit in whieli for several years past the workmen were absent from the pits! They hal been allowed a little flint. rollect Christmas bounties. All the horses employed in the works were instantly drowned. The loss to the Proprietors of the works, is immense. PLUNDFItINO A IVREA K.—During a severe gale, ell-1y oa Saturil ty fOrtiu glit. a brie was observed In Mount's bay, ap pro:telling the mifiuished harbour at Portleaveti ; when within ;theta two macs of the shore, *lie came t MI anchor, and sue• everted in in riding out the storm moil about six o'clock in the evening, when Molitor; that tio boat could approach, and havilig, pat tell one auchor, the master cut the other and ran the vessel ashore. as the ouly C111111(!e of preserving the lives of the crew. She groan:led oa a tine sandy beach a little to the eastward of the new pier, and as the title had began to ebb, the whale of the crew were enabled to reach the shore in safety. She proved to be the Resolution, ltrysan Master, from Oporto to Loudon, with wine and ti nit. As sums a. the ebb tide allowed, the vessel was entered by crowd, of ruf fians, who proceeded to plmider. All the private property of the captain and crew was carried off; the heads of the pipes and hogsheads were staved in, kegs, tee. filled with the liquor ; the whole of the fruit was either scattered about o r carried away ; and out of a cargo of 375 pipes, amt 2i hogs heads of wine between 5 0 and 60 pipes were save by the agents. About It dismounted dragoons from Helstnu came ' to the spot, lint they wholly unable to restrain the ferocious multitude that rushed in oil all *ides. 'flit vessel by Monday was a complete wreck. Surely sonic steps ought to he taken to be taken to prevent t;it - recurrence of similes which, in the eves of strangers, stamp such thsgraee on the county of Corn wall. We have no doubt that the magistrates in the neigh bourhood will do their duty, and endeavour to bring sume of the principal ruffians to jitstice. SINGULAR DETECTION OF A ROBBERY.—AIIIOIIIt a twelve month since, the house of a lady of Clifton, which had been left in the care of servants, was one ft , ;ht completely stripped of all its furniture, even 110W11 to iti hairs and tables: At a sale last week in that village, an attendant thought he recog nised some articles he had seen before, and, after inquiring of an upholsterer, ascertained that they hail oeen made by 111111 for the lady whose housc had been robbed. A warrant WaS consequently obtained for the apprehension of the person whose property was selling ; and upon examination before G. Gal / key, I the Ma t tionne then sitting at Lawford's Gale, the only account he email gist , of the nay in which the pro perty came into his hands, was, that lie bought it one mor g of a sailor pa s sing by his dour. lie has conseqiiently been roily committed for trial at the next Gloucester Nisi/t. , . A few evenings ago, as Mr. Wm. I zaril, of G rattco. wig re turning from Tewkesbury market, lie ssas !111/Oiled, about three miles from that town, by a hieliwayntan, who presented a pistol at his head, awl iluotatidell his money, Mr lizard re collecting tie had reeently passed two of his neighbours on the road, immediately turned his horse romul and galloped back towards 'Tewkesbury, the robber riding :11011.:Sille of Rini all the time. and swearing he blow out his brains it' be did mot stop and deliver lip his looney. When Mr. I /aril came near his friends, he cried aloud for them to stop the highwayman's louse, but they not bring able to effect this purpose, he rode past them and escaped. There is ereat reason to suspect that this villain is the same who recently robbed Mr. River. Some short time since an intent, a few day* old, was found hanging from a tree, in Sandy-lane, near Kew ; it was !,us. pendeil by the string of a colotired apron. Suepleirni tell upon it .sultan who carried about milk at Alurtlnise ; sit. had been remarked to be with child, and to have: appeortql lees :moot the period when the child was discov.•ll.ll; Slit! Was asked if' she had lost an apron, and she triitl she had ; and on the apron Lying shown to her, which was follll , l with the . eli.iti, she admitted it lii be hers, but denied her having b een ! with child. The evidence of a midwife, and a mall midwifel and surgeon, proved the falt;:llood of her ariertioa ; and she 19 was committed on the Coroner's warrant to the new gaol in I lorsentonger-litue ; she rehrsed to make any discovery : hut said, that when she was tried she should say what she knew. She died last week in the New Gaol. —About Iti months since a child was ftiond untraveled and slightly covered with earth, in a tield Car Mortlake chord', and she wit. then alto strongly eosin-toed ; and during the investigation which had taken place on OW present ot•cittrencc, it has been diseo.ercd, that the wretch hitt tied from Wales on suspicion of traviog dds troled it tittle) there. She was a fifth coloured handsome looking w an, about 27. SINGULAR INSTANCE OF FEMALE ItEROS4M.--Sonte time since the wife of Mr. John Cobb, of Vrovidenec, abode Is land, observed a wolf following sheep directly towards hie house in which they lived ; and as leer hustsautt was absent, she immediately took down the ride ismd approached the wolf, it lei stopped as she advanced. She levelled the piece at hint mid snapped it duce times in sueeession without ce. rect. Being convinced that the rifle woli;e1 not go oil, She resolved amm another moue of attack, a n d immediately a• proaehed the wo.t; wit.) brawl 11/ advance, anti wilt the breech of the gins, she struck Win Out the head, when tlie breech broke otf; nut discouraged, however, at this accident, she kept the wolf at tray with the o trrel, and ealleil to her son (a boy ofabout tell years) to tiring an axe, who did an 4 but as he approached, the wolf made towards Iti,u, when he threw the axe at tile wolf and retreated. The wolf humeaialely turned, and again attacked the woman; who had in the mean time secured a club; with which she brat the wolf and kilted hint, without receiving anv injury.— Awriecoa Frcnn ilw LONDON GAZETI'E, Tuesday, Jan. U. tThis Gazette announces, that the Priuce Regent ha.; appointed G. %V. Chad, Esq. to be Secretary of Enibasiy at the Court of the Netherlaads :—and has also, in consideration of the long and me ritorious services of Sir D. Ochterlony, granted him the following honourable augmentation of his Arno:—•• On an cinhauled chief two banners in satire, the one of the Mailman- States, inscribed DELHI, the other the State of Sepatil, NErAttr., the staves broken and encircled by a wreath of hutch," with this Ilin!:o to the Anus, viz. ••, Pao DENT IA ET AN I Mt) I" and the cre,t in' honour able augmentation, vii. •• Out of an eastern Crown, inscribed Ni:- PAU 1., an a.-in issuant, the hand grasping a baton of command en twined by an olive branch."l BANKRUPTCY ENLARGE!). G. CA :ttPnET.I., late of Fenchurch-street, merchant, from Jan. lit to March S. BANKRUPTS. WAr.r. W. of 31..ithmhead, surgeon, Jan. 18, Feb. 1, 25, at Guild hall. At ts. Edmunds and Co. Chancery-lane. WELLS W. of Maltkit, liquor-merchant, Jan. 21, 28, Feb. 25, at Au.. Templer acid Co. Burr-street, Fast Smithfield. CLExcx - r 11. of Great Carter-lane, I)actors' Commons, stoble keeper, Jan. it, 21, Feb. 25, at GuiltlhalL Att. Mr. Haliday, St. Jolues-square. F NUANK A. of Devonshire-street, merchant, Jan. 21,28, Feb. 15, _ _ _ _ at Guiklltall. AU. Mr. Gordon, Old Broad-street. SMITH H. of Blakeney, Norfolk, grocer, .lan. 2n, 49, Feb. 25 t at Holt Atts. Ballachay and Co. Angel-apart, Throginorton-itrect. 111'..11 ir J. of East Teignniouth, ship}-builder, Jan. 22, 23, Feb. 25, at West Teignmouth. Att. Mr. Fairbank, Staple Inn. W tc.ti•A• G. of Birmingham, carpenter, Jan. 24, 25, Feb. 25, at Birmingham. Mts. Knight and Co. St. James's-square. Ey 'l'. of Settle, Yorkshire, tallow-chandler, Feb. 5, 6, 25, at Skipton. Att. Mr..lancs. Sizu-lane. DAV iLiou G. of Snape, SultOlk, shopkeeper, Jan. 23, TB, Feb. 515, at Ip4wich. Att. Mr. liityward, Chancery-lane. Bitow s 'C. of Chorley, cotton-manufacturer, Jan. 25, Feb. 12, 25, at Wigan. Att. Mr. Windle, John-street, Badthrd-row. ILtit Low J. late of Cheadle Bulkdey, Cheshire. printer,./an. 24, gs, Feb. 25. at Stockport Atts. Edge and Co. Norfolk-strect. Cr.onntr Rev. It. of Bathafarn Nark,clerk, !Lit-CLOUGH, of Gla. lIYIVerII. I). MASON. of Antral ucha, and Bev. .1. L. .lowcs, of Has Madoe, Denbighshire, bankers, Jan. 51, Feb. 1, 25, at Den bigh. Attu. Frowd and Co. Sere :street. Lincoln's inn. WEIMER It. of Langport, Somersetshire, iron-fininder. Jan. 43, Feb. 11, 25, at Taunton. Att. Mr. Croft, Chancery-lane. • Et.t : woon It. of London, and W. IWri.sow, of Banbury, wine. . merchants. Jan. 21, 25, Feb. 23, at Banbury. Att. 11r. Makin. son, Temple. Jae sso rt M. of Santon, Cumberland, tailor, Feb. 7,8,25, at Whirr. haven. Att. Mr. rearion, Staple-inn. DIVIDENDS AT GUILDHALL. S. Garbett, of Birmingham, utrrehant, W. Medland, of Gusrvell-street, oilman, Feb. 4. C. Martin, Aberilasivey, innkerlp.er, F:b. 4. A. Anderson, of rhilpot-lane, merchant. IR. P. Colson, of Walham-green, coach -master, Feb. R. T. Nuts and J. White of Old Broad-st. insurance -brokers, re ' . J. S. Bright and Co. of Coventry and Foster-Lan,r, ribbon-manufse. Curers, Feb. 25. E. G. Short, of Tottenham-court-road, grocer, Feb. 8. .1. Taylor, of Newgate-market, saleonau, Feb. 4. J. and F. Cellens, of Niclinlas-lanc, timber-merch G. Gum, of Blackwall, bust-builder, Feb. 4. J. Dann, of White-lion-court, Birehin-lane, merchant. re!). 4. J. Bland and .1. Satterthwaite, insurance -broker, Feb. t t. G. Hassan, of Hanover-street, dealer, Jan. is. J. Dole, of Carinirron-street, plaistercr, Feb. 4. W. Groupie, of Ilattle.bridge, carpenter, Feb. 4. S. Jecvt.i, of Sandy, horse-nealer, Feb. P. Feb. 15. DIN'IDENDS IN THE COUNTRY. G. Shortzr, of Reading. upholder, Feb. 6. It. anti W. PoUmk, of Waktl,old, wool-staplers, Feb. 17. \V. Walker, of Walmss, dealer, Feb. 17. T. Underwood, of Cloyttm, ironmonger, Feb. 14. S. I)unsford, of Ilimiton, coal-merchant, Fub. 14. G. Gremwouti. oi Hull, merchant, Feb. C.A. 'l'. Frost, of Wolveehampton, innholder, Ecb. 15. CEIIIIFICATES, Feb. 4.—M. Jessep. of Detribur., card maktr.—.l. 11. Hudson and J. ill:dorm, of N occar.lc,nierrlnsntt.-- .1. Iteymdds, of Illackfriars'-road, merchant . — J. I hunez, of sho re . ditch, linen.draper.—S. Durham, of Harlow, inn.hee-ter.-IV. B. As;Unall, of Ilarp-lane, wine-merclutm.--C. Vatix, of 17ishop Wear mouth, block-mak:T.—l?. Lark awl J. IVooFaead. of Esea.stre.:t. navy-agents.—D. Ward and S. r.mith, of Liverpool. porter-defticrs. —.l. ‘V arcing. of Live rpool, dealer.—J. Moir, of NI ilbay. irontound s. —S. M.orand, of 11ean-5ti......t, Finsbury-square. merchant.—W. Edwards, of Bristol, salesman.--J. Pickering, of Hatton-wall, oil. uaar..—Stanley littekley. of Stockport. hartrwarrman.—.l. of Bath, I)oeg, of York, boking-glasa-mantr factur-r.—G. P , •nny. of Warr.f , r.l-..0ur , . •111.7)gatortou-Ittivet, ta‘T clutu:.—P. Horsey. jun. of !.;t. Mary, roi'.l..r. • PABT,N4iISIIIFS s warnw i c k an d And r jw. 01,Walcy-hridg:, cateou.s:anners. Biasilopp and Vaughan. a George-street, Jur c ftons. 14eaketh ant 11i:ulna - M. of Livoponl, *.nne.rlnts. Edenboroug andllblincs, of Friday-str,..et.. l Dalton and Cu. of Guns:-lane, ribl)m.nianutietdrra. Gook' aad West, of I.ook, timber-m:rdiauts. Wtthcn and Twyford. of Wignr , re-treet, drcsr-rcakers. Baker anti Drakz. of Smith-sea Ctiamlars, werobants. Ilit'uter and Co. of Watlia-Arcet. r4nd Brae:, of Ntan:ficid, surgeon - . Bows and Co. of Ilunalet, Re. glass-luanuilliJurera Bolton and Hord, of . .‘lineins.laa:. broke-s. Jams and Dickson. of I‘%alknirton, and Atkin., of Coven•ry, Birmingham Thula./ Compiny, Binn'_are,2l.