The National Register. — London, England, 1816-10-07 00:00:00

ul ear eat re of ees w. ed, 20 Mil/ om the :ra- leri Zing rt Ith, the till. !ma n-Tonr.n 7. I.IIDICROU,Se. Sir William Scott calls the Agricultural Report the " Bazaar Misery." A gentleman in one of the northern counties, who has lately sent fifteen unfortunate occupiers of his farms to jail, for arrears of rent, was complaining to a friend a few days ago, Of extreme lowness of spirits, in conse quence of his apprehension of being obliged to go to prison, from the pressure of the times, to which his friend replied, " Cheer up, my good fellow, for where can a landlord be so happily situated as in the midst of his tenants!" _ _ A Gentleman in Bath, lately returned from the East Indies, says, that on his passage he touched at Stlielena, where he was introduced to Buonaparte. In the evening Buonaparte's visitor sat down to a rubber of whist with him ; and on asking him fiir what stakes they should play? " Oh (said Napoleon, jocularly', for Crowns, Sir, for Crowns; you know 1 have all my life time played for' Crowns." Buonaparte lost four points, and paid his op ponent with a Napoleon. The mistakes of the French papers in giving English names are frequently very ludicrous. A Paris paper says—" Mr. Molincux Wilder du Ward, an English Gentleman from London, arrived at Milan on the 10th of September. A certain Judge, after hearing a florid discourse from a young lawyer, advised him to pluck out some of the feathers from the wings of his imagination, and put them into the tail of his judgment. Pudding Eater.—The daily feats of pedestrianism we hear of cannot be deemed more, nor yet half so ridi culously extraordinary as the following fact :—A person well known by the appellation of " The Russian," has undertaken, for a considerable wager, to cat 1000 pud dings in 1000 succcsive hours, each pudding to weigh half-a pound. The time is not fixed when he is to commence his repast. Considerable bets are already made at a sporting-house at the west end of the town. Shillings to guineas against the cormorant. Anecdote of a Chimney Sweeper.—A curious circum stance happened a short time since, near a village not far from Mahon in Yorkshire. A chimney sweeper, in his way over a pasture, was attacked by a bull, and to save himself from thefury of the enraged animal, climbed into a tree, where he continued all night, and the bull stood sentinel at the bottom. About four the next morn ing, a neighbouring butcher who was passing over the same field, drew the attention of the beast from his sable friend, whom he immediately deserted, and began a fresh contest with the butcher, who was obliged to musks his escape by ascending the tree already occupied (though unknown to him) by the chimney-sweeper. But what was his surprise, when, as he mounted the tree, he was accosted by the Man of Soot , with " Good Morning to you, Sir !" In this dilemma he was totally at a loss what to do ; he had jest escaped from the bull, and was now fallen (as he supposed) into the claws of the d***l! whom, he probably, from conscientious motives, he dreaded ten times more than his adversary below. Such a situ ation was too much for human nature to support : and he certainly had thrown himself down to the mercy of the bull, had not the sweep relieved his panic, by prov ing himself to be only a fellow-creature in the same pre dicament. At Deene, near \Vansford, Lincolnshire, Mr. William Giddings, aged 38, to Miss Hannah Spendilo, aged 16. When the fair pair fir-t appeared at the altar, the cler gyman asked the young woman whether she was a Christian. Her answer convinced him that she had not been baptised, and therefore refused to perf.rm the mar riage ceremony. The couple then left the church, but returned shortly afterwardA with godtitthers and god mothers, when the intended bride was christened and married. Lately, in a church, not a hundred miles from Leeds, a brief was read, and a collection made, in aid of a stab:l.er from fire. The collector "flattered himself" that he had been unusually successful, us he fancied he saw an agent to one of the Fire-Offices put a note into the box. On counting up. however, the note did not appear to have been issued from any bank—but merely bore these monitory words—" Let 'em insure, and be haug'd to 'em !" In selling off the effects of a little farmer, of Notley Old Fair Place, Sussex, an engine of exquisite workman stip sally puzzled the natives, and even the auctioner was ignorant of its purl): bscs—it was afterwards discover ed to be an engine for stamping counterfeit money ! Wynnstay 47ricialtstral Metting was attended by a nume rous an I ic•pcetable party of agrieultosists from SAiop and the aiti suing comities , . After ti r 2 plouglatisT matches, am: RW:11111.11t: and ils•livery of the premiums. Sir W. W. Ws:nie addre-scd gitests, .100 in number, urging the ticres.,ey of every gentleman's e‘erting himself to alleviate the (I:stresses of the labouring and lower orders of society. " by employing thrill Its much as possiiite itt the general advancement of agti colt ore, esneeiatly in draining—in the insproventetst of roads, or its any (AL. - A• hind of businesst,eseu slim of destroying %set •Iss [ipso. !and), which would at ono; benefit the property of Vie prop; it tor, and relies e the ar :mutilating distresses ul 111 , ! poor." The worthy Ilstresset,stilt great wartrals of recl ine. sowed the company that his own example should Cot be w; • •. •to prove the sincerity of Isis zeal in leetamending ensures in the pi ineis•4lity, and be hoped it would be fossowed by gentleubed iu gcuvaal. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. GENERAL ELECTION. The representation of Abe. deensaira will be warmly con tested; the Min. Mr. 0 mho', mid dr. Fosses, the Menthe' fur Bevveley o ire now oom fiethely l'iiliVit•sitig that county. It is said that Lord William Fittgei Ail will start for the county of Kildare. Lord Glentwoi di for the City of Lime rick; and Air. Mai ens Linch foe the Isorungli of Galway. Au actin. canvass L carried on in the county of Carlow, and a warm contest is expected. The sitting alembers, Colonel Bruen and Mr. Latoutthe will again offer themselves —the former wrth a considerable interest and the support of Government, (from which lie has lately received the com mand of the county Regiment of Nlilitial the latter also with the interest of a large estate, and the powerful support of tli, house iu Castle-street. A third candidate will appear in the person of Sir Ulysses Burgh, first aid-de-camp to tile Duke of Wellington, who has lately married the heiress of the Bagehal family, and has declared his intentions of °tiering his services to the Electors on the first opportunity. In the event, Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald's election fur the county of Clare, who is to represent the borough of Ennis? We have heard one of the O'Brien family. The politics of the county DOwA are becoming extremely Interesting, and the Dramatis Personw who figure on its stage highly important. Mr. Savage lately made his exit from its representation to make room for Lord Castlereagh, and now Colonel Mead (the sou of Lady Clanwilliam) accepts the situ ation of Consul General in Spain, to make room for a mem ber of the Downahire family. Lord Arthur Hill, in an ad dress, declares himself a candidate for the created vacancy ; and, it is understood, his Lordship is to be aupported by the Castlereagh interest, in all the wide extent of its family alliances and powers of Court influence. Mr. Cost has been returned for Lincolnshire without oppo sition. Sir Robert Heron, in an address to the Freeholders of the county, states his reasons for having declined to offer himself a Candidate for the present vacancy, but announces his determination to solicit that honour upon a future oc casion. Mr. Croker has abandoned his intention to stand as candi date to represent Portsmouth in oppositiou to Mr. John Car ter. Mr. C. will therefore be unanimously chosen. GLOUCESTER, OCT. I.—Yesterday the poll commenced at the Town Hall in this city, when a general row took place between the parties of the respective candidates. The par tizans of the Corporation endeavoured to take the lead of the Blues, but they soon found themselves mistaken, and, at the close of the day's poll, Mr. Cooper had a majority of three. In the content for the possession of the Town Hall, the Blues proved the masters, but at length they agreed to poll by tallies, when eightof the Fellows were carried to the Intir- At the clusemary. of the second day's poll, the numbers were declared to lie— Fur R. B. Cooper, Esq l6O For Colonel Webb 159 Majority in favour of Mr. C. At the close of the Poll on Friday, the numbers were, 426 for Mr. Cooper ; and 426 fur Colonel Webb. The poll ing being by tallies, the respective numbers are, of course, equal at present. CITY BUSINESS. -..- .On Monday the new Sheriffs, Mes , rs. Bridges and Kirby, with the Lord Mayor and City Officers, went on board the city state barges, at Blockfriar's Bridge, to proceed to the Conga ExcliequEr, %hem they were presented to the Cur sitor 841.1111, before whom they were sworn into their respec tive office*. _ -- Wednesday the Lord Mayor held a Court of Common Council, at twelve o'clock precisely, which was numerously attended. After the last proceedings had been read, the Court pro ceeded to the Election of aFirst ur Principal Clerk at the Coal Market, when Mr. John Butcher, who had held the situation of Third Clerk of the said Market, was elected thereto by a shew of bards ; and the Court then resolved to elect a Third Clerk in his MUM immediately, upon which several petitions were delivered in and read, and a ballot commenced, and on the same being cast up, the Lord Mayor declared Mr. B. Wood duly elected Third Clerk of the Coal Market dining pleasure. After some minor business was gone through with, the Court resolved, in consequence of the freqaent robberies and depredations committed on the River Thames, that the Lord Mayor be requested to take such steps as he may see neces vary for the prevention thereof, and to confer with the Right Hon. the Secretary of State for the Home Department thereon. The Lord Mayor then stated to the Court, that the Prince Regeht having only yesterday appointed to receive the Ad dress on the late attack upon Algiers, lie was fearful the HO tiers not all have been received, but that he had given immediate intimation as far as possible, and had in conse quence settled fur the ballot on the election to close at two, that the Coma might then go up to Carlton House with the Address in time. His Lordship, at u quarter past two o'clock, left tiiiildhall, attended by Sir Charles Flower, Mr. licygitte,. and Mr. Antenna') Christopher Smith, the Ilecord.•r. Sheriffs, City - Otticers, and but a very Bnl4ll number of the Alembers of the Court of Common Council, and proceeded io Carlton House, s* here they were introduced, ill Ike usual foi in, to his Royal Mg:mess the Prince Iteicent, and presented the Address (as agreed to at the last Court) to his Royal Highness, seated upon the 'llirone ; to which his Royal Highness was pleased to return the IMlowing answer:— '• I return you my wannest thanks for your congratulations on the Aitobil success which has attended the operations of the Fleet under the command of admiral Lord Viscount Ex mouth before Algiers. In ho instance have the judgment and het...Amu of a British Commander and the iinilaiiiited spirit and t:eterminatioli of Ha itisli ()dicers, Seamen, and ll:trines, been more eiumeutly displayed. The oratory wish which it pleased Almighty .(iod to bless their exertions, and the eon ditions of the Treaty of Peace to which it instantly led, could not tail to be peculiariy grateful to the feelings of a bras e, humane, and free people. I have experienced the highest satistaction in maiiitesting the just and deep sense which I entertain of the services rendered not to this you tar) only, lint to all th•. Christian nations of the wutlti ou this ever nu wo- ratite occasion." H MIRO C 3IST .% C E.—An i;Sant, eiffiteen months old, at St. I lilary, near Alaruzion, Cornwall, left in Ine net-,Ns,,ry ahtence of its poor parents to the live of two elder children, was dragged from Lie cradle hr a bow kept in an adjeiniag room, whicil, horrid to re- Lt., ate oil its hands :md part of IN arte., and would h..te wholly de voo..ll the p.. 0: itluooatt, had rAnikieiuieks Lloui;L: 50.11: pecsun w its assibuutcc. COMM ERCE AND AG BM; L'l'li ie E. __....„,—. • DOWNS SOCIETY OF FISIIERMEN'S FRIENDS. Tuesday a Meeting of the Subscribers to the abo. c society was held at the City of London Tavern. The Lout Mayor took the Chair at one o'clock, and in a short preliminary .pcech , aid, he was ready to give the Society his countenance and support. With regard to the system proposed, it met his entire epprobation , and lie had no doubt it was calculated to give employment to many useful hands, and it might di nl ll ish the pernicious system of smuggling. He had no doubt the City of Loudon would afford every encouragement to promote the briaging of fish to market. lie had received de clarations from those concerned iii Loudon with the oyster fisheries, " that they would not interfere with the large oyster tied lately discovered seven miles off Dover, so that the Deal fishermen might avail themselves of it." Alderman Atkins then shortly addressed the Met tiug, to nearly the volume effect as his predecessor. He said .! , ..re could be no doubt of its objects meeting the sanction of the City of London, and he should be extremely ready to afford every assistance in his power to the Society. The Report was here read. Several Resolutions were then proposed, which were cordially agreed to. They generally expressed the high satisfaction of the Meeting at the formation of the Society, and their determi nation to give it support. Lord Gambier then spoke for a few minutes on the advantages likely to result front it to the public ; and after a few observations from Mr. Alderman At kius, respecting the Bye-laws and Regulations the Society should form, particularly the danger likely to result to the Society front its Committee engaging in any trade, instead of patronizing die most industrious and cheapest mechanic, and also the danger arising from giving a fined bounty (whicla bounty, he' contended, should be regulated by the market price, not by any fixed rule), die Meeting adjourned.—A subscription was immediately commenced, and seemed to promise much success to the Society. A Brighton Paper says, " the English hawkers of lace, residing at Paris, Rouen, and other large towns, have played off their tricks upon their own credulous countrymen, by selling them tine Buckingham thread lace for French. Not long ago, a person purchased a large quantity, and a part was seized at our Custom-house, when, upon close examination, about Md. value was found to be.Britisli manufacture, and of course restored to the speculator. It is a well-known fact, that immense quantities of British lace,smuggled into France. have been disposed of, and the ktioniag ones taken in. A number of Ladies have been sadly mortified on discovering the deception, when they have exhibited their cheap pur chases to experienced dealers." An anonymous writer in the Brussels Oracle asserts, that the price of grain is now almost as high in Belgium as it was iu the days of the assignats. The consequence is, he says, " that in a country the most eminently agricultural, thousands of fathers of families are unable to supply the wants of their children, and can hardly give them a wretched crust of unwholesome black bread." He hence argues that the ports should he shut against importation, because all the su perfluous grain in the country had been consumed by the at.. mies in the early part of the year, and because the present season had been the most inclement within the memory of mrn. _ _ The English merchandise exposed for sate at the last Frank fort Fair was sold at a very low price, and bought up by Jews The Saxon and Swiss manufactures rival the finest L'oglisla pi oductions, and the little which was sold brought high prices. At a Meeting of the Magistrates for licensing ale houses at Christchurch, Hants, on Monday se'nnight, they animad v cried very strongly on the exorbitant ptice and improper quality of beer sold at alehouses, under the coutroul of public brewers; and expressed their decided determination to en force the duty of ulelasicrs in their district, and the penalties to which persons are liable en sale of bad liquors of any lama ; ap prising the innkeepers that they would, at the day appointed for licensing their houses in the next year, provided any com plaints were made, and sufficiently substantiated, of the brewers of whom they rented their houses having sold them beer of bad or improper quality, grant to such innkeepers li censes for houses of their oWn, so as to free them from the con trout of such brewers, and enuncipate them from their in fluence or interference; at the same time referring them to the case of the King versus Daybill, in which Lord Ellenbo rough held, that" iniikeeper3 were not bound; though renting of a brewer, to vend his beer, if it was of a bad quality, or held in such cases to the covenants of any lease or agree ment." fhe importatd regulations respecting weights and measnres is intended to embrace a standard size of buitties, so long de sired. Considering the high price of wines, 14,:r. we cougra tnlate the public on this proposed alteration so soon to take place. Put ter. or MEAT.—The present unnecessarily high price of Butchers' Meat in the Metropolis calls loudly for some inter position; in the me: time it may perhaps lie productive of good to the public, that the Butchers should be made ac quainted with the law of Eduard the Sixth, which, it' not since repealed, would, if threatened to be pot in force, at least oblige them to lend an ear to the complaints of their customers. The following is an extract from an Act of Par liament passed in the 2d and Jd of Edward the Sixth, cap. •' If any butchers shall conspire nit to sell their victuals but at certain prices, every suelt verso. shall forfeit ter the first offence tol. to the htna•, and if not paid im. six days Im -hall suffer 20 days imprisonment, and shall only have Saud o:.1 water for II sustenance; fur the second offence in like manner, nr the pigory ; and for the third oftener 401. the pil lory, aml the loss of an EA it, and to be taken as a man Un fit:nous, and met 1,.0 Gc crtdlted is a+y wader t J . jleignitui. And tile Sessions of Leet nutty determine tile same." . . Bakers are also, io the same Act. liable to the like pains and penalties for si ttt ilur otlenerq. OLD BAILEY. Wednesday, tVillion: licitrauss was capitally indicted for at eating in a ilwelli.:e•limise Les g i , anisli dollars, v.:lue 1101. the property of Culotte! Jarvis.—Calaii.: v is had returned a snort time %love from Canada, and had in his possession a box containing 1,800 Spanish &Mats. He met the prisoner in St. Jame,'s-vtreet, who offered liimvelf av a servant out of place: he represented to uitned that he was in very great distres•. Being in want of a servant, Colonel Jarvis took hint iota hi, survice. I careen .11: sth and nth of Jelly lasi, lic miased Zala dollars tha the chest. When t prisonce had h eel , with him f•r a wart ti ue , 1114 condition WAS 1111101 aPercil; he had a new dam emit on, and appeared to No liand,omely provided %I'll cloatlirs. About the sth of Jahe witoess went to Richmond for a day or too, «nd ca: else !y jell his keyi tU thu drioviug-ru:o , , and autoug them vi ti !JO