The National Register. — London, England, 1818-11-29 00:00:00

NOV. 9,0 CITY BUSIVESST Wr! The ; Lord Mayor held his first Conk Of' Aldermen at on Tuesday, which was attended by ii:t Aldermen, the Recorier, Sheriffs, and City ()dicers. The %lineations thanks cf the Court were voted to the late Lord Mayor, for his conduct during the period he filled that arduous nod important situation ; which wer: ordered to be presented to him, and also to be P • • oll , ed. A small quantity of gold and silver in 'i4 • bAts, was 'sworn off far exportation.—The scveral Com mittees of the Court were appointed, and the usual New-year's Gif s, and sundry Bills, were ordered to be ELECTION OF AN ALDERMAN. Wednesday a very nutiterous Meetin,; of the inha bitants of the Ward of Cheap took place in St. Law. rence's Church, for the purpose of electing an Alder man in the room of S. Goodbehere, Esq. deceased. _ _ _ _ . 'f lie Lord Mayor tool the Chair at two o'clock. Mr. James, after a warm eulogium ou the deceased Mmzistrate, prsposed It. Rothwell, Esq Citizen and Fishmonger, as his inccestor. The grounds on which be recommended hint were, that he had been long known in the Ward for his steady attachment to the King and Constitution ; and at the same time a sup porter of the Rights of the People. Mr. Gibbous, in u short speech, proposed Sir T. Bell Rat. • Sir Tl►nmas sutured the Meeting that had he known Mr. Rothwell would have become a Candidate, he would nut have offered. himself; and that, being now a , surcd of that Gentleman's concurrence with the views of those who proposed him, he should, without hesita tion, withdraw his pretensions. Sir Thomas then re tired amidst the approbation of the meeting. The Lord Mayor then put the question, when al most every hand was held up fig Mr. Itothwell, on which his Lordship declared that Gentleman duly erected. Mr. Bothwell, who had just' arrived from Yorkshire, then said, that fceline• it was the prevailing sentiment of the Ward that he should be put in nomination, and having made up his mind to attend to the duties that would necessarily devolve to him, with a real that would supply an excuse for.deficiencies in other respects, he now presented himself.—W knew that his etforts would fall short of those which rendered the - character of Alderman Coodbehere so estimable ; bat he knew, at the same time, that all possible assistance would be rendered to him by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, upon occasions which his espericnce might not reach,. and he most heartily thanked those who now supported him, tbr the manner in which they received hiui, and still more for tl:eir conduct during his absence. This awed' was received with great applause. Mr. Gibbous named u Resolution, that the Ward had sus:ained a severe. loss by the death of Alderman Good bel are, whose judgment, liberality, industry, and ur banity of manners, endeared him to the inhabitants of the Ward ; and that his death was not only a loss to the Ward, but to the Nation. The last observation was, however, objected to ; on which Mr. a limited the extent of the loss to the City of London ; when the Resolution was put and unanimously agreed to. Thursday the Lord Mayor held his first Court of Common Council, which was numerously attended. -Auer the proceedings of the last meeting bad been read, _ _ _ Mr. Deputy Hanman moved a vote of thanks to the late Lord Mayor, which was seconded by Mr. Dixon, and unanimously agreed to. Ordered to be fairly transcribed, signed by the Town Clerk, properly em blazoned, and presented to his Lordship. 't he customary presLnt of a purse of fifty guineas was unanimously voted to the Rev. I. J. Cory. Chaplain to the late Lord Mayor, in testimony of the approbation of the Court. THE DEATH OF TILE QUEEN. Mr. Davits rose to move as Address of condolence to the Prince Regent upon Her Majesty's death. It became that Court, he said, which had been always distinguished fur loyalty, to express at this period the sense it entertained of the loss with which the nation had been affficted by the death of the Q.ieen. From a city ancient and loyal like the city of London, thelloyal Family had 'claims to special atten ion. All ranks joi • I in this sentiment, which had been so frequently exlibiteti in cur sympathies at times of triumph and exultation, and which could not slumber upon occasions o 7 mourning and regret.. All political questions which might arise under other circumstances were wholly nn:rged in the powcrfill claim to es:eent which our late Queen had supported fbr so many years. Considered in all rey.cets; she was calculated to mike a deep im pression upon the hearts of a loyal and affectionate peo ple. As a wife mind mother her character was equally praiseworthy. The tender solicitude with which she bad welleZl over the illness of his Nlnjt.stv, and the scrupulous example she exhibited to her children in the whole course abet' life, were parts of a character which for purity and duty was the admiratioa of all descrip tiotis of persons. The dignity, too, with which she had filled lux high station was no less mina. kable, her Court being a place limit whieliall were cued; s d whose 11••• TILE NATIONAL REGISTER. conduct was &awning of reprnaeh. Mr. Davis con cluded a speech, which be delivered in a very low tone, by moving an address to the Prined Regent and thereof of the Royal Family, upon the subject of the death of Her Majesty, who had been fur so many years an ex ample to the nation. r. J.tcks seconded the motion. He agreed in all that had been said, but was particularly struck with that point which described her Majesty as an example not only to the British nation, but to all nations on the Continent. He had. in diflerent countries, teard decla rations both public and private, that the Queen of England was one of the purest characters ; and that, under such an authority, it could not but be expected that her Court should participate in that remarkible distinction. 1 he reign of George the Second, which had been advancing in morals with respect to the Court, bore no comparison to the purity of the highest ranks of this day. Her example waS to be considered as the cause.—The motion was carried unanimously. On a report from the Gaol Expenres Committee, the Court granted an annuity to . Mrs. Kirby, widow of Mr. Edward Kirby, late keeper of the Debtor's prison. Another report from that Committee, recommending 7001. to Mr. Piper, in lieu of his loss flimn tint having finally obtained the situation of keeper of the Debtors' prison, to which be •had been elected by the Court of Aldermen, was presented and read; and a considerable discussion ensued thereon; and upon a motion being made to agm.wit h the report, un amendment was moved, for adjourning the consideration, and requesting the Court of Aldermen to communicate information upon the subject, which was negatived ; and a division then ensued upon the: report, the numbers being For the report-41 Commoners. T , Dets Against it-7 Aldermen, .36 Commoners, 2 Tellers Majority The Lord Mayor declared a vacancy in the situation of one of the fruit meters; and it wus referred to the City Land Committee to dispose of the place in the usual manner. Tin. Secondaries were directed to lay before the Court a general account of the fees token by them. The 10th volume of a work, published at Paris, under the title of " lictaires et Cooquets des Francois," contains the details of the poisoning of the French troops at Ja ff a. The writer, a General - Beauvais, gives an account of the first proposal made by 131touaparte to Dr Desgenettes, in-nearly the same terms in which that transaction has frequently been described. Royer, the apothecary of the army, at last wilLugly performed the horrid task which Desgenettes had firmly rejected. Opium was administered to thirty soldiers, who were ill of the plague. Several of them who had a favour able crisis recovered, and fifteen or eighteen died. This Royer is stated te have been a man of very bail cha racter. He was on the point of being shot at St. Jean d'Acre, for selling adulterated liquors to the army. Ile did not return to France, having entered into commer cial speculations which induced him to stay in Egypt, where he was finally strangled in consequence of its being discovered that he had acted the part of a spy both to the Turks and the Minnehtles. Berthier was present at the conversation with Dcsgenettas and on being questioned by Buonaparte, expressed his entire concurrence with the opinion of the physician, adding, that he had often felt his own deficiencies in the qua lities- necessary to make a great m a n, and was now more than ever convinced on that point—a noble senti ment erroneously ascribed by Sir Robert Wilson to Des genette. We have been favoured with a sight of the elegantly - chased ornamental furniture for the Coffin of her late lamented Majesty the Queen, and were highly pleased with its neatness and the exquisite taste that pervades the whole. • It reflects no small credit on the Artist, Mr. Ricketts, of Castle-court, Strand, for the capability displayed on this melancholy occasion. The coffin plate, which is of brass, beautifully gilt, is engraved in a rn:;tit superior style, by Mr. Hutchinson, of Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, and is an exc.:Aleut speci men of that gentleman's well-known The Archduke Maximilian, during his stay in Edin burgh, in the very slight interconse he was able to have with any of the men of science, evinced a much more intimate acquaintance with natural 'philosophv and other scientific pursuits than generally falls to the share of Princes. Excepting his cousins, the Archdukes John and Lewis, none of that class who have visited England have shown half so much talent as the late visiter. Short us his stay in Edinburgh was, lie ma naged to steal from the other more important avocations of attending military reviews, examining custom houses, wet docks, &c., to seine scientific visits. Among others, be was twice at the house of Dr. Brewster, where he inquired most minutely into the progress and management of the many beaati:ul experiment' by which the nature and action of light have of late been so wonderfully elucidated by his various. experiments Th e Prince evinced a knowledge of all those subjects far superior to most men who have. even given their miads :to the subject, and communicated a variety of information to 1)r. Brewster relative to the experiments of Professor Antici of hlodelia, no.aceouitt of which has as yet reaciaal this teuntry, _ .a. _ i'YV,I Mr NonniVis CHILD —Minitel the Bow Street officer, was in France when Bennett, who is supposed to have stolen the child, crossed the Channel ; but Taunton did not hear of the circumstance until he had arrived in England, when it was communicated to bias by the Magistrates of Bow Street !Nice Office. He immediately returned to Caleis, having previously learned that a man of the description of the person whose name was stated to he Faulkner, but whose . real name was Charles Bennett,. had set off front the London inn at Dover, with a child answering the • description of the ste!ate child, to Calais in a boat ; and , that ha had obtained !imports in the name of George Reynolds., %hen Tauuton bad arrived at Calais, he found that the delinquent had left there on the 10th instant. He had ken ut a tavern kept by a person , named Maurice, and had taken refreshments, and also given same to the child, who was in peel health. Bennett, it appears, applied immediately to the Police, on Ma arrival ill Calais, to get his passport endorsed, which being dune, he set off.with the child in the • diligence towards Brussels. Prior to Taunton's second arrival in France, the nephew of Mr. Horsley and Gooding the officer had arrived, and bud pursued the fugitive, so that the aft& was geiterally known, and told to him on his landing. lie learned that the pur suers had discovered the route taken by Bennett, and were at least three stages on the way after him, and it was therefore useless in him to continue the pursuit; for the persons who were before bins having received every assistance from the French police, would be • equally able to obtain their object as it' he wcrc to fol low, lie therefore returned to England with the so far satisfactory intelligence to the afflicted relatives of the child. Such is the system (Ole French police depart meat, that the pursuers were informed that they might rest assured that bath child and thief would be ulti- mutely in custody. We are happy to insert the following extract from a Letter received by .a respectable Mercantile House in, Coleman Street, from one of the principals in that House. It is a most satisfactory answer to the mistaken• reports that have appeared in some of the public • prints:— liorrennam, Nov. 22.—1 n passing through Breda last Tuesday, I was told that the foolish un feeling wretch who stolo the child from London, passed• through there with it a few days before, travelling post. night and day, and that a person ,in pursuit passed, • through Antwerp in the Diligence on Monday. From what I could learn it is probable that they will be over:: taken. They took the Utrecht road. They say the man was in great haste with the child, and spoke the French language very well, the pursuer nut. " SUNDAY EVENING.—Since writing the above, am informed by a Gentleman who has just arrived fl•om Amsterdam, that a man with a child slept in a . room above hint at the Doolen Inn, in Doole Btreet ) last Sunday night... The distress of the child was very great, he was crying all night. The thief left there on Monday. with the child, which was supposed to be his own ; that the father (Mr. Horsley of No. 3, Car nonbury Lane, Islington,) as appears by the English . Newspapers, arrived there on Tuesday ; and with th assistance of the Police, discovered the route of the thief; and set off with assistance, in pursuit of them. The • thief had embarked in one of the schuyts fin North Holland, landed a short distance front Amsterdam. returned to that city, and then took post towarda Bremen, or that neighbourhood, to avoid discovery.— • No doubt but he will soon be overtaken. As the Either was in great distress, anxiety and agitation, and much • taken up with the Police in searen, during his shoil stay in Amsterdam, it is probable he may not have time to write home. As it may be some satisfactimi to his anxious tinnily to know the u awe, send on re- • e,eipt of this. awl ask if they have heard from A mster. • dam ; if not, tell them of it." WATnit Comeamrs.—A numerous and respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Clichwa, Knightsbridge, and their environs. was held at the Flask tea gardens, ' Five-fiehls, Chelsea, on Thursday, to take into cimigl. deration the enormous rates of the Chelsea Water works Company, and the best means of obtaining re dress fur the present grievance, and security against future oppression there; and also for the purpose et . uniting the : Committee of Chelsea with thet of Knights. bridge, for tl:e further/lice of the objects of the in• habitants. Sir henry Wilson was iu the chair,'•!.evcrid appropriate resolutions were entered into, expressive of their determination to cheek the evil complained of. appeared that the rate had !nen nearly doubled, with out any sutisEictory reason being assigned; .und thht all remonstrances had been met by threats to cut off the supply of water—threats which had in several in. • stances been put into execution. Proposals have been needs fur a. Savings Bank. .at Chelsea and the ncie*hbouring paris•Ses ; and from the avidity with which they ail; received, there 4110 t i ou b l; but this laudable institution.will be spet:dily establish ed. The, patrons are, the BiihiT of Winchester, the Right Hon. and itcv. 1..0rtl Aston, the lion. and Rev. Gerald •V. Canning, :NI. I'., Atal Mr. Wilberforce.