The National Register. — London, England, 1812-05-10 00:00:00

I .Z.!f ERR ITT ljtatitt of 127. The numbers being for the Motion-88.—Against it- -215. The question has ,been so often discussed, that vi ry little no velty could be expected; and it would be only repeating what we have wven before, to have detailed the speeches of the different Membi.rs.--• Ailjourned at Two o'clock. ORDERS IN COUNCIL. it , Pert of the Minutes of the. Evidence taken before the Commoris $ Committee of the whole House has been printed. The following is their substance : Mr. Thomas Attwood, High Bailiff of Birmingham, was first ex amined. .He stated, that the population of Bi rm i n g h am , and the neigh bouring manufacturing districts, amounts to 400,000, of whom *l,OOO at least are emplo,•eti io manufacturiug iron, besides those who work in brass founderirs, buttons, j- wt &c. Within these two years, trade has been in a deplorable state. Labourers, who twelve months rgd could obtain 20s. a week, get now only los. or 12s. and a great num ber of workmen are disntissed. Every manufacturer is.overioaded with stock, and he cannot sell it at what it cost him. The principal trade of Birmingham is to America, but for the last twelve months there have been no exports to America. The value of the annual ex- parts to America was 800,0001. or 1,000.0001. Has been informed that. the Americans have erected steel furnaces, and are not likely to wan , am,' more steel from England. The manufacturers hive with great re filctance dismissed any of their men. They have been accumulating stock for the last twelve months. They have thus exhausted the r: hole of their capital, partly from motives of interest, looking forwaid to ntaxlcti opening to the trade. but principally from motives of honour ablo humanity. His heard that many orders have been received from I fitnerica conditionally, on the repeal of the Orders in Council ; but bails, and some other articles, have been omitted, on the ground of their being now manufactured in America. If the American Non-Intercourse Act conti.,ued to be enforced, the witness was of opinion that •it create matich.ctories in America to such , an extent, that it would at' last become a part of the policy of the Government of the United Staten to protect thin, by preventing the importation of British manu flitotures. . . William Whitehouse, nail-ironmonger, of West Bromwich, in Staf• gore ;hire, about six n.iles from Birmingham, stated, that the nail manu factory hi hi district, when in a flourishing state, employed from twenty (rile to thirty thousand persons. In the manufactory with which the wit pest was connected, the hands had been reduced from twelve hundred tail . 'to five hundred pair. There are considerable orders in the country to he execnted_ immediately on the intercourse .with America being opened. T Potts a merchant, residing at Birmingham , stated, that he had Some knowledge of the nail trade in Birmingham. The w ges in this business are Sir low, that a man can scarcely exist. Men in the button ond plated line, who would formerly earn from forty to fifty shillings a week. do not new get. half those wages. In the town of Birmingham there were from twenty to twenty-five thousand labouring men out of iempley. Distre.ses are universal. He thinks that in the course of two rn4rnlis3;nec. ssity will , blive the merchants to dismiss at least two parts' e nien nt.t f three.—Tlie Americans were once considcred bad Te!,•,• but they have improved progressively every year. Goods at ... from "inichesteraud Birmingham, were cheaper Than at the tiring few ni. 'Die value of the export from Birminghrqn, pre vious to the diteresst.s, was about a million ; did not know whether it /e/I fiff in 1809, Men had emigrated fr!)m 'Birmingham to America - . Jol-eat l.a , Chaisman rte Chamber of Foreign Commerce of Strtnitigh.im, , tated,tnat the Ha! dware I . •xport Trade to Europe, Tur key, and booth America, had decreased since 18(4.! The trade to the Conti' tilt Ind decreased since the Orders in - Council and was now al- Most at an end. • Jam f- 4 R ',land, a plater of roach harness, &c. stated. that his business bad grew L. d-clin d by the American markets 6eing clo;ed. , fticiiard Spooner, Banker, of armingham, corroborated the precidirt atataments r•!‘,:ecting the falhot: off of the trade, and the distresses Of thc• • tiioramen. The increase on their Poor rates.cn 44ht years amounted to Biakeway, a lamp-maker, employed sixty pair of hands at Divining y am. He stared r•at tile trade of this artirle ha 1 fait• n off, end the geeater part of his st •Ck remained on hands, the American mar hying shur.shou'd he obliged to turn-off his hands it confined to the Doane trade of ads coon - ry. PROVINCIALS. A plot 'or a very extensive and dangerous nature hasSesits ditenVered, at Stiskport, in Chuibire, which, if executed, would have thrown the coteerrykito confusion from Stockport to to -don. Agents, it is• -.4 been diol 'raw' 'd h all the intermediate towns, and 'S, and nunib-rs had taken tinlaW ietratiou of the general mischief. ping nt certain mail coaates- r -the ur and place was. to Dq Olo4drceo r rated, kayo been distributed thr.)toh the Mule ra -r ; - on. of Ole late riots; ful oat?' @A i ) 4 4 ; 1 . , , - Ag in .. .the peril Tile s - 1 e 1.i..., - , -- -.t.pp t- -4,.- 4Ch 7 ie: null - i 'flit' ite 1 - :-,• . , / ,- v r • -.:t - _ t. , . 1 . okF•J• • i:' '‘ 6, 4411• I ' " t. S gb• • 1 •'' t., Tow,. - mg , --- . -.,..., THE NATIONAL IltrasTEß, MAY it) Last week three soldiers attempted to steal some faggots froiiia Stack belonging to a man of the name of Jones, who keeps the turnpke 7 ete at Hythe, on the Ashford road ; the family had lust retired w bed; hear ing a noise and suspecting the cause from their having received a simi lar visit the night before, the man, his wife, and son, put on their great coats, and went out, a. scuffle immediately ensued. Jones and his son were knocked down by the soldiers, when the woman attacked , one of them, and falling with him into a ditch, broke her kg ; the man et.dea voured to get off, but she held him firm with one hand, and supported the broken leg with the other, till a traveller passing near, and alarmed by the noise, came to her assistance, when he was secured, and taken into cuaiody by the Staff Corps guard ; the other two escap(d. A Manchester Paper, after mentioning the burning of the factory al West Houghton, on the 24th ult. adds—" It was known that 11.411 other factories and mills were to meet the same fate, and the lives of many respectable persons were threatened. By a well-conceived pro ject, judiciously executed, their secret meetings were dashed into, their private signals obtai ed, and their nocturnal assemblies put into coot'''. sion, their papers seized, t!riti a large number of ringleaders (together with a person they called General Lucid who administered the oath.) secured, and sent to Lancaster Castle." On Sunday week, Mr. Oldknow, a man very much respected in the town of Nottingham, during the absence of his wife from home at church, destroyed two of his children, one aged five years, the other only nine months, by cutting their throats, after . which 'he put a period to his own existence with a pistol. The cause of this rash act is attributed to the extreme pressure of the times, L.nd the greet stagnation of trade. !One hundred prisoners are at present in Lancaster Gaol for rioting. Their trials will take place immediately, a Special Commission being now in preparation. A Roman coin was lately ficund, wedged between the teeth of a ha, man skeleton dug up at Aldborough, in Yorkshire. It has"been since ascertained, that the coin was . an obolus, to pay ifild Chas-U/o . or ferrying the deceased over the river Styx. There is, within two miles of this town, a young wornayt, who has lived during the last three years, without theat,lartsid, or any solid arti cles of food. She anbsists entirely on a little wine and Milk. It is re markable, that she throws up every day a large quantity of blodd. She is unable to move, having long lost every particle of flesh ; but she appears nearly in the same situation as she was three years ago.—(R e soling Mercury). T'UESDAY'S• LOATDO4V GAZETTE. - . . ' BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. - Theopbilus Richards, late of St., John-street, Clerkenwell, baker. • BANKRUP VS. john Kinnear, of Liverpool, merchant, to surrender May 27, 2R, and June 16, at one, at the Ghlbe Tavern, John-street, Liverr ir 01. Atenr- Ides, Messrs. Cooper and Lowe, Sontmpton-Onildings, Chancery. lane, London ; and Messrs. Orred and Raines,. Liverpool. Thomas Nelson, of. Manchester, machine-maker, \lay 26, 27, and June 16, at eleven, at the Dog Tavern, Manchester. Attorney, Mr. Ellis, - Chancery-lane, Le radon ; and Mr. Cardwtll; Manchester. George Gibbons Elwall of Nan t wich, Chester, linen-draper, May :7'.0, 21, and June 16, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, Naiitwich. Att 'mks, Messrs. Edleston and Elwood, Nantwich ; and . Messrs. i.;ourdillvii aud Hewitt, Little Friday -street, e. heapside. ' . • John Burgiss, jun. of Uxbridge, stone-mason, May 9, 13, .n.id June 16, at eleven, at Guildhall. Attornics, Mr. 'fhomas 'H. Riches, Ux bridge ; and Mr. W. C. Ayton., Barnard's Inn, -London. Williani Pt/rter, of Wilton, Hereford, corn-factor ' May 20, 21, and June 16, at eleven, lit the Coffee-house, Hereford. Attornies, Messrs. Williams and Dar ke, -Princes-street, Bedford-row, Lond;n.* William Consent;, late of Clare street, Clare-mat ket ,* grocer, Mll ay9, 19, and June 16, at ten, at Guildhall. Attornies, Messrs. M•Douga and Hower, New-square, Lincoln's Inn. John Lane, of Pawlerr s : Somerset, innholder, May 7,15, and June 16, at ten, at true Globe Inn, Bridgewaler, Somerset% Attornies, Mr, J. Parsons,' Britlgotater;' and Messrs. Blake, Cook's-court, Carey !trete; L , ndon. ' *' • • George Stteeyi late a kngel-court, City, factor, May 9, 23, and June 1 16, a , e'en, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. West, Red Lion-street, 1 Wal'?ltg. . - Joh , l Dover, late of Burnham; Bucks, butcher, May 19. 16. and June 16, at citlien, at Gidldhbll, London. Attornies. lk- r. Bradley, Nov f - Gli reet,t gh- squire, 'London; • and Messrs. Nash and . Son, Iligh Wycon be, Bticks. • ' . . ..- 7a/rees Stone, of FeatherStene-bulJdinp, )Holborn," tailor, May 9, 10 ' arid tune 16, at twelve, at' Guildhall. Attufney,• Mr. Finer°, & 1 'Chia ntrtiet,,gavendish - q " uare, L . Samuel Sl.elheld, of Aldgate High -street, butcher, -May 12. 15, at twelve, and June Id, at one,•it Guildhall.. Attorney,'Mr. Nettlefuldi Sdnierset-streit, Aldg'ate. • . Jonathan Gtenson,' of Salford, tancaiter, brewer, May 9 6 , 27,..an,d June IC at one, at the Palace bin, Manchester. Attornies, Mr. 1 .11,6 1 ClianeGi-lane, Londob ; and Mr. R.;Milne, Manchester. Hugh Bang, of Beauminster, Dorset, linen draper, May 14, 15, " 4 Jt.qc A, at one, at the coxitmeretat Room, &Mill. Attornies, IVessrs. ••• e S. ---..~ -