The National Register. — London, England, 1822-03-10 00:00:00

AGRICULTUILIL DESTURILIACES. (From time Nouwien Comma.) We regret to state, that several places in this county continue in a very disturbed state. On Nit'. day morning about 300 persons,prineipally labourers, assembled, and commenced breaking threshing ma chines in the parishes of Wicklemma], Morley, &c. and about two o'clock in the afternoon they arrived at Attleboro', where, as in other places, they com pelled ninny to join their company ; they then pro ceeded in search of machines, but found only one in that place, which was instantly destroyed BY this time their numbers were greatly increased. From Attleboro' they marched to Shrophatu and Snetter ton, where they broke tour or five machines, and, in consequence of the opposition they experienced at the former place, a drill also. Oa their return, in formation was given that a threshing machine was secreted on the premises of NI r. W. Parson, of At tleboro', they theredime proceeded thither, and tinted the object of their search under a straw stack, which they took, dragged to the market-place, and imme diately demolished. The magistrates, wishing to adopt some efficient measures to put a stop to such proceedings, requested many inhabitants of the neighbouring parishes to meet at flailing on Tues day morning, where they were joined by time Eye troop of horse, and after having passed through Backenham, Burnham, Sac, halted at Ault:LA.o'; after being there about an hour, information arrived that the machine. breakers were assembled at New Buckenham—the troop, with a vast number of horsemen, proceeded thither, and succeeded in tak ing twenty, seven of whom were committed to Wy snontilutin Britlewell the same evening.—lt seems there arc several parties of these misguided linen a'amt, and their whole object appears to be the en tire destruction of threshing machines. The following is the copy of a Proclamation issued by the county magistrates assembled at Norwich : •• The Magistrates assembled at the adjourned sessions on Wednesday, March 6, I have, with considerable pain, re • etived evidence of a riotous disposition exhibited in some in- SZULCCS by actual outrage in various parts of the county. The eitcamstanets, matte known to many of them precious to this day, have induced measures of precaution, which will assuredly be thund eflinittud flu the suppression of tumult. But, anxious as the magistrates fael in the discharge of their duty to avoid the axe-city of resorting to the force with which they are armed fur file preservation of the pence against a misguided populace. they desire to offer, in the folly) of timely remonstrance, a few re n;arlic deserving of attention:— •• If grievances exist; do time persons concerned in the riotous proceedings before alluded to suppose that they can be remedied by violence ? Tu what possible beneficial result can their pro (ceilings tend ? To what hare they tended in other parts of the country, but to the lo,s on many valuable lives, and a curtail ment of British liberty •• Let the pcaple beware of ball adviscts—those who may pretend to sympathize in their alledged grievances, for the par pose of exciting them to acts of mischief, in the punishment for which the instigatois generally take care to have no participation. Let them be assuied that it is equally wicked and unwise to re • stst the law ; wicked in principle, and unwise in practice,, be e—use int:actual to any good purpose. By order of the t' curt, • COPE MAN, Lie k of the Peace. The spirit of insubordination still shows itself in the neighbourhood of Diss, by assemblies to the number of some hundreds of labourers, or we should rather say, we fear, of such as arc in want of labour, fur the purpose of stopping the use of machines. The deluded persons wino set fire to the hay stacks in Diss 3 few nights since, wh'eh caused so much slam, have surrendered themselves, and arc now in Nnwich Castle; and on Mo:nday last three men were committed to the same prison, on suspicion of assisting to destroy two or three threshing machines, in the parish of IVymoudham, on Saturday night. A gasometer is now prepar:ng at the general post office, to furnish gis tbr the use of that establish ment. It is said that the charge for oil annually, for tl:e &Dee, is between and 0,0001. of which sum Government expects to save nearly ;2,0001. by the sabstitution of gas. The estimate tbr the whole anaratus was stated originally at about 130 Ml. but t i 3 supposed that it will at • slit to nearly 20001. A gentleman has recently found, and proved by a series of successful experiments, that the dark peat moss of Scotland produces gas nut infmiur in quan tity and quality to that extracted from coal, possess ing the additional and valuable advantage of being in a great measure free from that noxious eflluviam emitted by gas produced from the latter material. The tar obtained by the process may be applied to several us.ful purposes, while the coke is adapted to the furnaces of brewers, distillers, and smelters of ores, &c. The same gentleman, b; a cheap and simple preparation of the muss, gives it a consistency and durabdity not inferior to that of coal, and by this means renders it not only valuable us a fuel, but improves its aptitude and capability of producing gas. A beautiful statue of his late Majesty, George the Third, is now under the chisel of Air. Chantry, sho, we believe, sculptured the admirable statue in the Council-room, Guildhall. This celebrated artist I.a.s received instructions from the highest authority tt, spare no expellee in the execution of this work, mhich is expected to be a worthy tribute to the memory of our late Sovereign, and the best modern sl teitnen of British taste. albralw.e. - THE NATION. ,T., REGISTER ____ 292•1 g 211tgittatlite. HER rionn. MARCH Theo. Lent Assit-s for this county corn. mowed h. re to-day before the lion. Mr. Baron Graham, on the Civil Side, and the lion. Mr. Baron Wood, oar the Crown Side. Li both Courts the business is very The number of civil ...loses entered is but five, of which but one is to be tried by a.Sotcwil Jury. The gaol ellethlar ennt:iiits but 28 commitments, few of winch arc fur offences of any enormity. CIVIL SIDE. RUSbEEL V. FOWpElt. This was an at1(1 'or a Intel, the nature or which wr, not t,t,netl. When the cane was called on, Mr. C. Phillips, for the defendant, moved to postpone the trial moil toe next assizes, Oil an affidavit, stating the abietice of a matelial svititess, a triAul of the de fendant, residing item Kendal, in Westmoielaitd, to whom, after notice of trial haul been given, the defend ant's attorney remitted a staln crta, enclosed iu a letter, requiring his attendance at Hertford to give evidence in thus cause, hot as the witness had not arrived, and no intelligence had beets received of him, the defendant could not safely proceed to trial in his absence. Mr. Adolphus, (with Whom was Mr. Proderick) re sisted the application, nil LIIC gm:Lid of the looseness in wiuich the allidavit was swot it. Ms. 'lips, to SileW the sincerity or the appliration, ofla,:(I to pay all the cx;) ncee to which the plaintiff had been put, as between attorney and client, and tertho,tt . . ...... 1.1.,r0n G:altant thought this question unanswer able, Mr. Adolphus said, ender such circumstances he could could killer nu farther resistance, and accordingly the trial «•as postponed until the tivx, CROWN SIDE. Joseph Morgan autl.l.llllC6 Wilkes were indicted for a bin elaiy 111 the d%velliog.liouse of James Cliatiman, a farmer, in the parisit of :s.andon, on tile 5111 January, and stealing a saucepan and other at ticles, his property. —lt appeared from tile statement of Mr. Jessupp, and int. , ' tile evidence rOf the prosecution, that on tile night in question that the prosecutor Willi disturbed front his sleep at a late boor, and on looking out of the window he sate two men picking a hole in the wall of the house with some instillment. lle get tip, loadal his gun, then tv , :lit down stairs, by which time the men had got the articles in questloil nth of the house through the hole.— lie tired his gun, rite men ran off, one of them beina apparently wounded, his blood being tracked for a con siderab:e distance. The prisoners were afterwards ap prehended in 11' . .-sest. When lVilkes was taken his head was wounded severely, and he admitted that he was one of the men at the prosecutor's house. There was no direct evidence a6..tiast tae other pri. sorer. . . Tile CZ/SC Weill to the Jury, wilt) acquitted Morgan, and found Wilkes gutity-,-Dertn. 1)Uitl1 21. James Bell was iraiicted under Lord Ellenborongli's Act, for coning and nancumg James Cairns. Ilchard Sinner , deposed as ItAU,Vt at Alex. Storicero's, near 4 Vickham, at a harvest surper, on the 24th of Set ember; the prisoner, and Ca 4,14, and Pea cock ware there. There was a you .% wont ii with jibe prlboner ; he had a quarrel wilt Peacock; the youo4 woman d..sired me to take her from him; he did not touch rte at the time. Aher the dance I saw Peacock going nut of the room, acid I saw 13.:11 who a dagger in his hand, as I thought, going to rim it into Iteacoek. prevented him, anil he then struck me in the breast ; the wound was not deep, but it brought blood through my waistcoat. I struck Bell. and he fell. Bell, leis the room be Idre me; I went ow by myself. Callus and Madison Caine up to me, and I walked down a w,e,:gott.way with hem ; Cairn:: was walking before Madison and me.— When we had gone Arita a quart:sr u, a mile, BA was coming track a,rain and met its. The fi..at thing. 1 heard was, " Dick, I'm stabbed." I was them Iwo Cr two or three yards front Cairns. I went up to Min, and saw ins b,eetling ; I then went up to the prisoner; he had a dagger in t his hand, which Madison was taking from Footrup and 1 took - him to the public house where we had been—(witness here produced the dag , ..ter, which appeared highly finished.)—l did not hear Bell say ally thiog. Cairns ran towards me publiodniuse. and fell flown from WeJ k M. and J Fuotrup corrob 'rated the state ments n: the last witness, as did Cairns. Al r. 1).xu11, a surgeon, was called in to attend Cairns. 112 Mond a wound in the side, oti the sett nth eta, and it FeelllCd LO have been inflicted by a gal/1)1111 iliclument. Mary Titompsim.—foe prkoiter went down the tyaa2.im-way to see me home. We went past my la ther's house, and then tinned to seek they. Bell said, th it as he was a stran4er, if 1 would go with hint to seek Grey, to she iv him his road, they would see me home. %V.: met Cairns and his party; we passed them on the riclu side, and Nladison turned to Suttees and t. ° I'") 7 Thompson," and Surtees cried, " That was the -- that was with her. - Ile then slid, " Nerds at you, r , ••••-•-•;' and with that struck IS.:11 on the head or neck. Bell li:t his loot on the waggon way and fell ; he got up, went to the other site, and was struck by Gairusould Men 1 ran away. N r erdict—Guilty,l)eadt. The prisoner was much affected, both when the ver dict was delivered, and at the passing of the sentence. — t he C.lailt forward and begged to NCOIIIIIICIIkI tenon to mercy. IlAte.-11eury Anderson wits arraier.ed on a chan;e of en 'miming a rape on Sarah Arinstroti:2. The primmer was found Guilty, and Mr. Justice Bar ley pass-11 b..'nhence of death upon him. The piosecti rix WaS .1 I cry mit:resting young wore in, and conducted herself while in court wait the greatest propriety. It is said that oderson is to be executed on th.• t4th inst. ur Ausitssics.—Du:ing this 1041 a bailiff r 7 AV is heard vociferating very loudly, " Come along, t;r. Tile Judge inquired what wit the matter, and the officer said that a man had broken the door in rode:stowing t.) get in. His Lordship inquired—Were you trying to ex.t..rt money from him? _ _ Oilicer—No, my Lord. Judge—Then why did yon not let him come in? Otricer—l told trim there was no room, ny Lord. Jude —Chen you told him wrung., for there is roost. 111 knew yon were endeavouring to txmrt money at line door, I would punish yon. Every matt his a right to COMC into coon as long as there is rooni.—(Great p apse j—lt is very inimoper tri express either approlia iton nr d.sapprobation in J court 01 iiI,I • CC at am/ thing that may be said ; and if r knew Wm did so, .1 wouid fine hint. TRADE WITH BRAZIL. Portuguese Consulate Gcncral, '29, Great Winchester-street. March 7. 18:!:.• Sts.—l heg leave to state to yon, for the information of tho gentlemen at Lloyd's and all others whom it may concern, that I atucommendef by my Government not to permit any vessel bound to ports in the Portugue,e trar.satlantie provinces, harms on board any article of war dononainatiul naval store., to deer at this office. And further, that should any such stores azure et the aforesaid ports they will be seiz d, anl the parties to ncern:A furnished with the utmost severity cf the law, unless they pro duce a liCCII9e from the Portuguese Government pertnatiog the importation of war or naval .tore, (Signed) ANTHONY LOPTZ DA Ct'\rlA. Consul Generai. • Mr. John linnet!, jun. Secretary. Lloyd's. Letters from Vienna, received by a respectable Greek house, state, that there has been an en.l put to the famoos Ali Paella of Janina, and that the Suliots have come to an arrangement with the troops of the Grand Seignor. The Gazette of Tuesday contains an Order in Council, dispensing with the calling out of the Militia the present year. MEETINo Fon REFORM .—On Tue:l4lay last a din ner was held, pursuant to advertisement, at Bungay, by the friends of Parliamentary Reform. Nearly twj hundred persons, of the respectable class of farmer:,• attended. Among the company present were— Joshua Grigby, Esq. ; Sir Thomas Beevor, Bart. ; T. Feßowes, Esq.; Quail°, Esq ; J. Powell, Esq.; the Rev. fly. IVilson; the Rev. -- Corn . - wallis ; B. W. Doman, E*q. ; Geo. Waters, Esq. ; Edw. Taylor, Esq.; J. Farroh, Esq.; J. W. Go a+, Esq.; Nl.:ssrs. Denny, Thurtle, Cnilds, Paula, Fow ler, Baster, &c —The above was the first of an in waded series of meetings, to draw the attention of the county of Suffolk to the subject of Parliamentary Reform. TAx.—The iotoot:ois or G.wernmen; respeting the reduction of the duty on are as follow:—That a duty of one shilling per bas.-1 shall be taken oIV malt, from the c26th of February, 15:22. That all maltsters and holders and other holders of malt, whose stocks have been taken, receivs: uu allow, nee of one shilling per bushel, t;4- ull their stock in hand, to be paid ro them by instal. meats, us under:— Threepence on the sth of Ju1y,......1:;•22 • Threepence on the loth of October, Threepence cm the sth of January, If.%;:r • Thre.pance on the sth of April, ... 16:23 Thus it appears, that all malt, manuf:tetured sub sequent to the 26th of February last, will be cliars,c able with a duty of 2s. 63. per bushel only ; for the stock malt maw on hand, and which has been charged with the duty of Js. 6.1. per bushel, ais allowance will be made so as to reduce the duty to the like sum of 2s. 6d. per bushel. And whet e malt. which had been charged with the du:y 41 3s. fia per bushel, has beets used by brewers, 5.% a proportionate allowance will be male in charging the tiutLs on beer, Szc. ANNIVERSARtes.—On Thursday erenin2 the anni. - versary I. stival of the Infirmary tOr the cure of Asthma and Constitilinion, St:C.W.I3 hell at the Landau Tavern'. Ilishopszate-street, %solicit Wa3 numerously and reSreCta'a lily attended. The Lord .Mayor Was in the chair. ins:notion is for the receptiati of poor persons aftl tvith asthma, consiimption, and diseases of the lutes, • where medical advice is eiren, and every anctitimi Ica a In them. Since opining the infirmary in IS It, to toe 31st of Decenther, th.2re had been adtin.ted 4,818 out•patiems, and 171 inpatients, and the inajoiity ot the in cases were successitthy cured. 1 , 1 the cntr•e in me Messrs. Collyer, Broadhurst, and Iloilo ps, s several excel.ent song,. glees, &c. and many eloquent speeches were delivered in support of the institution. 'Fite secretary atititlitileed a most handsome balance in hand, but the Wants Of the society b, ing ci:plaint,l, liberal collection was entered into. The company mil nut s..parate until a kite lionr.—The friends. and s,:it porters tn the Surrey Dispeniary also met at the alicAe l'avern, in the upper room, for the puroose of support:l.g, the charity and hearing the report read'. Tile cutap,a.V . were highly relicctaide--11orace wok cue chair. file ci!.ject of the charity is that of sacral cc lying-in women. and administering advice and utedteitit to the poor iiihabitatits o Southwark, at their own 111. lutations, and was instimted its 1777. Tne report sta•eil„ that since the origin of the institution to the present yi-sa the titainher of patients was Ii; I ,p 5 t, old of winch otcy 3,50 died, and during the last yearit,lu:t were admit:v.), and only 73 died. Several instances of the vain dile txettions of the society were repeated ; and p.lin I.) ItIC cons, any departing. a isaudwate subscription was Can. • {' L .~..~~ de I