The National Register. — London, England, 1816-05-26 00:00:00

M.iY 26. •ST:f NZAS. Hr Mr. P. L. COI:ATTER, Sting at the Anniversary Dinner of the Literary Fund. *Styr the 'roust. - The Navy and Army." to Mu Air of the German Masonic Hymn, arranged as a Glee by W. Sumn, Esq. SINCF !:.a day-star of peace with mild ridianee is shining, Dud •irnee and Genius again rear their head, We'll rememher the chief+, who, their valour combining, For Freedom, and Science, and Genius, have hied: Hail! Hail! Hail! to patriot feeling dear, Ye to whose trophiell fame We consecrate the grateful tear! Noble Howe Icil the van, in this noblest contention; Bridport„lervis, and Dunces maintaited it awhile, • Till Nelson, who knew with his fors uo convention, Exploded their hopes on the shores of the Nile. Hail! Bail! Hail! Ike. &e. Neptune pans'il, and was still! w!ien a rival in glory, On Egypt's &ear plains, in Ids plenitude came: 'Taw; the great .Abere•ombio, whose death and whose story, The pride of his country, we fondly acclaim. Hill! Hail! Hail! &c. Yet Wellington lives!--May he live to embellish The dearly-won laurels of fam'il Waterloo; Feel for anus no unfitness, for ease no di:relish ; And, should linty demand it, his triumph. t ruew. Hail! Hail! Hail! ..tc. &c. Play our Navy and Army still combat united, While the banner of war Is by pifiee Nor desist, till their valour their country ha: righted, The SA% boars of Britain! the praise of the World! Hell! Hail! Hail! osc. Tul iiUM/ILT: PLTITION OF SALLY SUDS TO THE. MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AGAINST TUE SOAP-TAX. GREAT Sirs! I most humbly entreat your pet mission To call your attention to this short Petition; Reflect, ere you vote for this impost severe, How many pour Washers will shed the sad tear ; Instead of the song which prcvail'd at the tub, They'll weep and lament as your linen they rub ; And with soar ----over'd hands wipe their eyes as they fill, Till blind they all get as a hnr , e in a twill ; Then wa•h'd clothes and tout will to them be the same, Andthe whole frothy tribe will vont. cruelty blame. It' clean shirts you value, I heartily hope You'll pame, ere you fix this vile tax upon Soap: The slippery subject attention demean l•, And mind when yon vote 'that tis done with dean hands; This claims your regards more than kennels or studs, So Sirs I remain your obedient SALL SUDS Laundress, Soaphouee•eonrt, Starch-alley, Bath. An article, dated from Vienna, mentions the amtem bliag of a Russian army of 160,000 men on the south ern frontiers of the Russian Empire, which has excited the attention of the neighbouring Powers; but it is added, that all the answers of the Cabinet of Peters burgh have been satisfactory, and such as might be ex pected from the great and faithful Alexander. One of the Paris Papers contains a copy of the Defi nitive Treaty between Austria and Bavaria. The latter surrenders the Hausruskvicrtel and the Innviertel, the Tyrolian Bailiwick of Vii., anti the Duchy of Salsbourg ; and receives in exchange the districts of Deux-Ponts, Keiserlantern, and Spire ; the canton, town, and fortress of Landau, and some other territories. Tuesday a large meeting of Directors and Proprietors took place at the Bank of England ; when it was agreed, after some debate, to adopt the two following resolutions, viz :-d 1. •'That the Bank do lend to Government three millions at the rate. of 3 per cent. per al11111111." 2." That the capital of the Bank be increased 25 per cent." By this arrangement it will be seen, that the Bunk capital is raised from 11 to 14,533,0001. and that the in dividual proprietors gain a bonus of 25 per cent. The new stock, of Which 1251. is given in place of 1001. old stock, was dome on speculation at 216; which, for want of accu rately comprehending the true stateof things, some persons represented as u full of 48 per cent. the old stock having been some days previously done ut 264. It was however, merely proportional fall, on the speculation that the new plan would be carried into effect. A Bible Society is now established in Iceland. An account laid before the House of Commons esti mates the sum necessary for reinstating the buildings .damaged or destroyed by the late fire at the Mint, at 13,0001. An official account laid before the House of Commons shewing the payments made in the quarter of a year ending, the sth of Apr:{, 1816, iu respect of the charge of' the Civil List for that quarter, and also an estimate of the Demands outstanding on the said day, In respect of the charge of that quarter, states the Total income of the Civil List for the said quarter at 275,3361. Sd. and the I)efi..iency at 141,0991. 9s. Old. The Report from the Select Committee, appointed to ' consider the means of afibrding accommodation for trans acting the business of the Court of Chancery, has been laid before the House of Commons, and pri:tted. It re commends that two Courts be erected for the Lord High Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor of England, in Lincoln's Inn Gardens, on the North side of the New-square. The building pmposed will occupy 75 feet in length, and 73 in depth. Its front will not extend to more than one third of the whole open space on the South side of the Garden, and will not be of a greater height than 35 feet ; nor will it be necessary to remove one of the trees. The cxpence is estimated at 23,0001. to be defrayed out of the -Suitors' Fund, in the Court of Chaucer', which now yields, after paying the various expenecs charged upon 4% an annual s.:rplus of 1:2,04.01. cznA TM NATIONAL. REGTSTrIL LAW INTELLIG ENCL.. SIIERIFF3' COU:4T, SA•rVnuAV, May 25. CRIM CON. nuNg two's ccAv. 'rids was an enquirYiOasses;7lamag;; in an r etinn for co-'. mined conve rsation, in which the defendant hail sndeted judgment to Ef) by default. From the evidence adduced on the part of tlie plaintiff it appeared, that he is a captain, at present, in the Life Guards, and that the defendant if a lieutenant in the oth Dragoons. In lal3 the plaintiff married his w ite. It was a loveanatelt, and the attachment of both parties was equal. Immediately alter the nuptials they went to live at Lewes, where the plaintiff's regiment was quartered. The defendant was then in the same regiment with the plaiatitf, and was received in his lonise on the most intimate (ammo. At the beginning of !MIS they went to Park, where the plaintiff presented his wife at the French Court. fa fact, the utmost harmony pre. vailcd between them. Iu the month of Alarelt they returned to this country ; coon after which the plaintiff took 4 house on Ham Common, %%hick hail belonged to Lord Dysart. Here the same uninterrupted felicity prevailed between hint and his lady, till five weeks after lying-in of her second child (in Septent. bee), when she sniltlenly disalyeared„ The plaintiff could not imagine the cause of her departure; his attention and kindness having been unremitting. Ile %Of/Ilk:mit that she had tied to the continent; but why, or with whom, he dill cut enquire. It was sufficient fur hint that he had every confidence in her chastity, and that she was restored to his arms by her mother, who conditelied her from C4lais , and he received her on Dover Pier in a perfeet delirium of joy. Front that time till the 4th of December following their happiness was renewed; but on that fatal (lay Mrs. I)min again disappeared ; and, as it afterwards turned out, had gone off with the defendant. For some time, so secretly was the elopemmt conducted, that the scene of their guilty transactions could not be traced. At length, however, it was found that they had taken refuge in the city of Lincoln, where they resided as nun and wife, under the assumed name of Mr. and Mrs. De Corson. It afterwards appeared that the defendant had been seen with Mrs. I)ttnn when site first fled to the Continent. On the part of the defendant, his guilt was not palliated: but in mitigation of dainales it was submitted, that sufficient evidence had not been adduced of the state of affection in which the plaintiff and his wife lived, down to the period of the elopement. It was denied that there was any premediiiited seduction, and itrited that the defendant had fallen a victim to circumstances which his virtue was unable to withstand. The Jury assessed the damage at boar Hundred teamds. In the Court of King's Bench, Friday—The King. v. Rncii G.)0(1. Esq.—This was an information filed again -t the defen dant, for having, in his capacity of Collector of Assessed 'faxes, and of House Taxes, in the county of Warwick, fabricated certain tickets of charges for taxes, parpooting to be due he Maria Harris and others, and which sues lie had afterwards neglected to account for with the Receiver General of the same; to whom he was !infinity by virtue of his office, to pay the gurus so obtained.—.laulgiucut, 19 months impvisounieut in Derby gaol. The Clerk of the Peace for the County of Middlesex has just circulated a Resolution of the Sessions of the 4.114 of April last. stating that the Court, having received from Mr. Maintrarnez a letter, that he i n t e nds at the next Session to reuign the °thee ol Chairman, would proceed to the election of a new Chairman on the :10th of May. The Circular is dated the 11th of May, Isla. Sir G. Drummond, Governorof Lower Canada, has is sued a Proctarnation, restoring the trade between that pro vince and the United States to its firmer thoting. The Lewes Paper says—" Master Wilson, son of Sir R. IViLson, arrived here from Paris by the Lord Welling ton Packet, Capt. Holden. Ile left his father on Tues day night in good health. The French Government have made an offer to Sir Robert to remit his imprison ment unconditionally; which he refused to accept, declar ing that he would aeocpt no favours. This explicit de termination Sir Robert has desired to be communicated to his friends in England. In the Address to the Regent on the Princess Char lotte's marriage, from York, is the following passage " It is neither fleets nor armies, neither alliances abroad nor guards at home, that can give permanency to that rule to which the love of the people is wanting." We understand that the Author of " Oberon's Oath" is Mr. Thompson, the Gentleman who adapted the Play of The .S'irangdr for the Stage. The idea of making a new street from Cockspur-street, opposite Pall-mall, to St. Martin's-lane, across the King's Mews, is again revived. Should this desirable improve meat take place, the noble portico of St. Martin's Church, now beautifying, will laminate the view eastwards from the mall. Piccadilly, from the commencement of the Green Park to Hyde Park Gate, is about to be paved with east iron, which is now preparing at a foundry in 'Wales, by direc tion of the Parish of St. George, Hanover-square. Arrangements are at least completed fur building the Regent's -street to Portland-place. POLICE. UNIO J. Wright, ti working gardener, was charged on Thursda, with assaulting. with intent to murder, the wife and (laughter or Mr. Tailor, of Kennington lane ' with a poker ; with which he dreadfully cut them on the head and in different parts of their Their , C1'141:11ti littrawted the neighbours to the spot, and then the prisoner tried to make his escape, but was in stantly taken. His clothes and stockings were sprinkled with blood; even sonic of the ties,' which 1...). been cut float the hands and faces of the sufferers was Annul sticking to into, as well es a considerable quantity of their hair. W lam asked by the Magistrate what motives impelled 111 tn to conmiit the crime, he answered, with cleat 'edit:Crime°, Una he has! on a former day sold the women tour flower-pots, that lie wear to demand payment for them, and on their refusing to pay him he heat them with a poker. It appears, however, from the declaration of the young woman, that his slurs. is false ; and the snpro , l tioa is, that his ()Neil was to rob the house. The Magi:aro/e l ordered Lint to Ire rtinit;:lei until th... itte of Coe women is 117 lac IMIN 'IIION OF Alur. , t NI) Aillt.4 TA NE4,11.-1111.. tiaiiniarri, the en ige ~,,, on Thursday afternoon reported to Nit- Evaacc, the inagiqrateohat both hie onfortonate patients were in ;I State of extreme danger, and that he had little expecta tion of their recovery, Mr. Ev•tice immediately went to their house in kennington-hum, to take their depositions, which were as follow : 3I is. Taylor stated, that she was sitting in her front room on the co. mind . floor, on tVt.fillestlity, sti.h her danchter : the door into the garden was open ; the prisoner Wright earn.' up to it, RIM Fail " !low do yon do, nustress i" she replied, " How do yoe do? but 1. do not know you." The prisoner inquired if Mr. Tillett had Item, there; upon which Mrs. Taylor recollected that he w a s th e mot wIM a few days before had brought her some flowers from Mr.Tillett. He staid near half an hour talk ing shout the gni don, when he said he must go, as he supposed Mr. Taktt would not mew that day ; instead of going, how ever, hr set himself down, and soon all( 'ward. seized I lie poker, sand struck the deponent sev end blows net r the head. which laid her SeIISCICSA un the floor. lirfoie the pi kmier was hi otiplit back, however, she head recovered her sen-e , „ •toil i iiii nt diately knew him. 'Alary Anne Taylor, the (laughter, eurrolooiated her nauther'it •tateweut. Sit A)WELL. Wednesday J. Stever, Captain of the 'flianies South Seaman,. and J. Baxter, the Chief Mate, wercArsamLeil, charged a ith being accessary to the death of J. Gibson, am appresitire oe board the vessel, while oft the roast of 1-"evu, in the star MI. In addition to the evidence formorly addsterd, J. Harrison stated, that the deesised was ill about too months, and hail lie veral sores about his body. About nine days befere his de; th he saw the Captain but him with a rope's-coil, about tae ti:e.s long, which he kept on purpose fur him, and also N. &zed hinix tied to a gun, before his illness. The buy was so wt ak mould not du his work, and used to shuffle along the deck; in that state lie used to be beaten. The Mate also u e I hint iu aka Inamier, and sfort.rd.Lum with a rope's end on th • day previous to his death ; but witasss did nut see the U.:plain beat hint for Circe weeks before.. Mr. Ailcy, Cotntsel f. r the p.u:cent:on, asked the witness what prevented his atteoilane- i.cfere ; replied. beeatitie he was nut called upon. Mr. A 11011.1111 . ,. for the prisoners, here cro .4-examined the witnes.. The boy %vim.* letters to his fattier, but he did not know his hand iirit.lie Mr. It. Dukes took them to the Captaiii, who soon it ; be every person ou board had an opportunity efikomis ing the b. yi treatment. Witness did not hear the elp:ain sac the boy shii.o toed lame, bitt Iv: heard the Hector say ; w , 1:1t 0 , would not a :tab his linen, and was ill-used oy ev. i y 011 uoa d. Witness threw a bone at him going tip the hatchway. a boot three days before his death. When any person Stlllel 1100, 111 heard the Captain mid Mate say, " Go it ;" this mit.dit be -ix months before he thud In answ cr to a ipiesiion from the M'- Ostroff., witenss said he had sailed in six thtlereut ships. b tt had never set u a Captain more severe than th;• pri ut.er saw the buy's legs and thighs booste the body wasllllollll over. board, and they were black and blue ; he did outset his back. Mr. Adolphus emitendial, that mu ease was madi out acailist the Captain; ;is it 1:1•111(1 not be proved heaved any otli. r •es es lily than corieeting the deceased, who was ill's apiirep.ticc, mad - consequently he held a discretionary power over him, tither um sea or oil land. Mr. Alley &Sill, he a mild refrein from making any observations, asst sl'ul not al.', to irritate the public ; but Ilia opinion un tic law ut the case was perfectly unileisto.el by the 7sta:4'qt:ties. He would nice it cloleratoud., howe ver . that any one bribing the witnesses, or prey voting their atichil am.e, %souls, hie• prosecuted. 'lute iaagiiu rates ititlertit tile prisoliers to find hail themselves in 3:200 each, and two suitt.es each, with a liii h they illllllellia lel:, complied. BO V-STREET. Saturday senni4lit 11. Wei'd#, who has been eight st sin en , . Wily, on suspicion of been concerned %nil 1/111: IS in breaking into the dwelling.lloo , e of a Mrs. Ilatu uFll, of East I near Sandwich, in Kent, and stealing therein hinikdtotts, gold, silver, e. to the amoulit of 2401. aod upwards, s a fully ewe, witted for trial at Maidstone. The particulars of the robbery have already been laid berme the ph bite. Samuel Furriaggon and Jituirq WV re charged by %%nigh. au with, beim:common uttrvers ut bag: coin. The °Nicer% sow thew togell‘er. and watolle.d skew into a hal.er's shop iu I)ah t.- street, Piccadill%, where they pstssed a euttuterleit In their possussitht nine etiser lase shillings were found. Chu, Borrary, Courary Rolf, and lieu Muss, three notorious who have been known as such fur a 11111116Vr i.f r went a second 'examination, being charged Nile attempting to commit several ,robbcries in front of Cam. st; .rd-lionse via Thursday evening, at the time the Corporation of Loudon were about to present their addresses to the Princess Glirrlotte on* Prince of Saxe tobwirg upon their marriage; wlnm, just as tl.is Lord Mayor was stepping out of his earriogrs, the prisons-1:i rushed into the court-yard, no doubt for the pesrpose•of robbing, gentlemen of the corporation; butt 111111 lueys being el, duty' there, he caused tliem all to be instontiy stwured. and found a. sleu•p instrument used for cutting puclets. On the tuber,. lie found a Ii)!. bank note and several small Inch there is every reason to believe they had stolen: as in giving sit account of them, it was discovered front the dates of note,. that Col land not been made at the time they said they had been roast s sed of them. An excellent Inlet r watai, with a gold chain ;test. three seals, was found mum Moss. On Wednesday aftt moon the house of G. 'fathom, fltntwalek-square, Wll.l diSCOVerCA to be on hre. and in ti, c course of two hi.ura nearly the whole ititceior of that elegaut mansion %I as consumed. A fire broke out at twelve o'clock nn Wednesday night, it, a public-house at the backer Exttcr Chant e. which threateued s hdent ra1.14e4 pawns the smolt houses in the courts adjoining. 'mue feats w ere (lto Mined for Mr. Arnold's 1.4. W Tlo hut the w ind W. 1% ill a contrary direction, and drove the ti.inies towards Exeter Cl u A new sonrce of Mann sow pre_ stinted itself in Politos Mcnagerie, and the necessity of - stroying the wild beasts was even meditated. In about t* hoots, however, the ezrzines considerably overpowered the thmes, and i n th e end it appeared that orgy four liollSeS were consumed. . . A few day' since, a child of four years of age, beloneing to T Pierce, Esq. of Listowel, frll front window, two StOEICI into the street, and died in an hour aftrra arils• A man of the name of Olin, who stands charge4l with !win; ()neut . the principals concerned in the m u rder ml Mr. Baker. the magistrate, in Ireland, was taken into co , iinly a few Jays ago at Cork, where he had enlisted seith a lecrititinc par ty of the 57th Regiment. . An inquest was held on Frill 3”.• at the Welch Moro, cr. Sr. viOneq. Sow!murk, on the body of 3. Jones. belooginz:o the Union Fire Office, who, in Illttell.llTlNClo sty p rpoott to muolier, fell into the •toil r % vidrnPd 1)4.40. 1w tlt•rr:ut•d it a %,‘,14.1 I ♦AI ♦rt ►Awriat t.,Q