The National Register. — London, England, 1820-06-19 00:00:00

FUNERAL OF THE LATE RIGHT HON. HENRY GRATTAN. The remains of this venerable and distinguished Patriot were yesterday conveyed to the tomb with all the solemn pomp which was suitable for such a mournful occasion. They were at a late hour on Thursday night conveyed in a hearse and four to Richmond House, Privy Gar dens, where, according to the published order, the friends of the deceased were to assemble at ten o'clock Friday morning, to he marshalled for the funeral pro cession. The body lay in state in one of the'parlours on the ground floor. The room was hung in black, and lighted with silver lamps. At the appointed hour a considerable number of per sonages of the first rank attended, and were accommo dated on the ground floor. At a quarter before twelve' o'clock, the necessary arrangements being, completed, the procession (which was pedestrian) moved out of the coach entrance, which opens into Whitehall, rind advanced along the centre of Parliament Street, which was newly gravelled for this melancholy occasion. A considerable multitude of persons had as early as nine o'clock assmtbled in the street; hut the constables, un der the management of Mr. Lee, the High Constable, kept a sufficient space open for the funeral to advance. A body of constables, with Mr. Lee, moved in front. Then the mutes and assistants of the undertaker. Then about 200 gentlemen in-full mourning. A nearer with a rich plume of feathers, front which were appended the crest and armorial bearings of Itir. Grattan. THE COFFIN, covered by a rich pall, stipported on one side by the Dukes of Norfolk an d Wellington, Lord Holland. and lkrd W. Fitzgerald; ou the other side by the Earl of Harrow by, the Duke of Leinster, the Earl of Charlemons, and the Earl of Minium'more. 011ie Mourner, HENRY GRATTAN, Esq. eldest son of ilk deceased, followed by his Brother, J. GRAITAN. Esq. A very large body of Noblemen and Gentlemen fol lowed, chiefly arranged in rows of three each, and Ivearing silk hat bands. At the head of them, next the coffin, were his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, the Duke of Devonshire, Marquis Wellesley, Marquis Conyngham, the Marquis Downshire, and the Marquis of Lausdown; Mr. 1 ierney, Mr. Brougham Sir J. Mackintosh, Src.—intleed, we may add above 200 Members of the Imperial Farliament.—The Irish Cha rity Children attended, with crape round the left anti. The whole of the.thstinguished characters who com pose that most respectable body the English Catholic Board, were also in the procession, and a number of other gentlemen of that profession. The proces • occupied nearly an hour in moving from Richmond House to Westminster Abbey, where it - vias • received at "the great western door by the Rev. Dr. Ireland, the Dean of Westminster, and attended by the whole choir of the Abbey, who chaunted one of Handers grand anthems, as it advanced along the aisle to the vault prepared to receive the coffin. The Dean, at ten minutes past one o'clock, read the service:for the dead, and innnediately after the doors of the tomb were closed upon the remains of Mr. Grattan, amid the strong and unaffected grief of the most illus trious characters of the Empire. The tomb lies nearly between the spot of earth which incloses all that was mortal of Pitt and fox. It adjoins die grave of the great Lord Chatham, and is surrounded by the tombs of Lord Mansfield, and other public eminent charac ters. The foot of Mr. Grattan 's coffin nearly touches that of Mr. Fox. It is exactly the spot, out of his own country, which we should imagine Mr. Grattan would have selected fur his tomb. MR, GRATTAW.—The following letter was writ ten by Mr. Grattan, close by the body of his father after he had breathed bis last. It was intended for the eye of friendship alone. Publication never entered the thoughts of the writer, but justice to the dead and the living, requires that its contents -should be made known:— " 6d, Baker Street, Portman Street, London. June 6. MY DEAR Hum PIIRCYII.—YOU will ere this reaches you, have heard the melancholy tidings of the death of your ever to-be lamented friend. He expired s ithuut a groan, sur rounded by his family. His understanding per freely near —sensible to the tort.—Hu anxiety for his country and her future fortunes, was the last sentiment that occupied him, and " his dying hopes, Lk his breath, belonged to his Country." These, his worn•, ere ill icily folded ;he felt no pain, and the smile that lightened up his countenance still remains upon it. Since he left you all, he conversed about the City, and ad vised me to art as he had formerly expressed himself. 1 shall therefore have the satisfaction to rrtlect that [ discharge bis injunction as my unn duty, %%Aro I solicit the tupport of my fellow citizens. As I cannot leave thi• fur some time, will you and the other friends of my dear late father, try what can be done to uphold the independence of our native City. As you know my Stilliflit nit upon the subject, proceed in the business on my behalf, If I were present.— This mode of acting can alone make up fur the disadvantage under which 1 labour. Believe me, dear Humphreys, Must oder truir.riely your's H It Y GRATTAN. Mr. Henry Grattan has offered himself a Candi date to represent the City of Dublin in Parliament, in the rcom of his law <xtclicnt father. Nit.. Thos. Ellis, it appears from the Dublin papers, intends to oppose him, on the Corporation and Government interest. Mr. Ellis is a Master in Chancery. TILE NATIONAL EEGISTER, STATE OF IRELAND. Dublin, Jane 131 FAILURS OF ALEX 111110611,' Bask.--. The provincial journals and private communications give a faint description of the cooternation which prevails, not only in the Suath of Ireland, but even to the borders of the county of Dublin, in consequence of the failure of the hanks of Cork, Limerick wills , Clomuel, Kilkenny, and Waterford. These, together that of Carrick-omSuir, snake up the number of nine banks, one in Kilkenny, on in Clenmel, nue in Waterford, and one in Carrick-on-Suit in one fortnight. The counties of C onk. Kerry, Limerick, Clare, Tip rw rary, Waterford, Kilky and a part of Carlow, are left almost without a circulating medium. It aas foreseen that the shock must reach Dublin a last. We knew that the private bankers' notes were coming up in great abundance, and that they were promptly exchanged. But upon one bank the run was so incessant, that they were obliged to suspend their pay ments yesterday. We allude to the Hank of Sir William Alexander and Co. The docket, we understand, has already been struck. There was in consequence a run mum every batik iu Dublin riming the entire of yester day, and they all, we are happy to state, not only paid such ontatauding notes as were presented, but their batik post bills not yet doe, and such as were even accepted. — This conduct appeared to have restored confidence. But it would be, tnifair to pretend that a great agitation does not prevail in the public mind. We have not heard that any considee able house has stopped in consequence of this great failure we have just mentioned, nor can we state with certainty the amount of the securities or notes which the Alewirs.Alexander may have had in circulation. MILITIA PAY, ALLOWANCES, EQUIPMENTS• (Ciacccae) War Office, May 12, 1820. The Officers, Nun-cointnissioned Officers, Drummers, and Men, are to receive, diming the period of training, the same rates of Regimental Pay and Allowances as the Militia received while they were last embodied. The Officers will receive an allowance for the carriage of their baggage, at the rate of nine-pence per mile, from the place of their residence, if within the comity, or if nut within the county, then from that border of their own county which is nearest to the place where they may hap pen to be when summoned to attend. The Men will receive the usual marching allowance from the places front which they shall proceed to join, provided such places be not more distant from the place of assembly than the parishes for which they are respec tively enrolled; and the like allowances will be made to the Of f icers and Men on being dismissed. Instructions will be given to the Paymaster as to the rates of the said Pay and Allowances, and as to the mode of drawing for, and issuing the same, but no Officer or Man will be entitled to pay for any period of absence, even though absent with leave, unless he shall have joined the Regiment during the period of assembly. The permanent Non-commissioned Officers and Drum mers are, of course, fully clothed and equipped for duty ; it is therefore, only necessary to provide for the equip ment of the .additiotial Non-commissioned Officers and Drummers, and of the Private Men ; and a sufficient quantity of the following articles, namely one coat, one waistcoat, one pair of grey trowsers, one pair of short grey gaiters, one pair of shoes, one cap, one shirt, one pair of short stockings, one stock and clasp, one turnscrew, one worm, one picker, one brash, one knapsack, will be sent for this purpose from the public stores. The small articles of necessaries, such as shoe.brnshee, &c. are to be provided out of the regulated stoppages from the pay of the Men during the period of training, ac cording to the Act of the iQd Geo. 111. cap. 20. sre. 96 The articles so provided out of the stoppages ate to be taken away by the Men on being dismissed ; the Other ar ticles of clothing and necessaries are to be lodged care fully in the regimental stores for use on future occasions. It is not thought necessary, at this season of the year, to furnish great coats for the whole corps, it being ex pected that those now in the regimental store, or in wear by the permanent Nun-commissioned Officers and Drum mers, will be sufficient for the proportion of the Men on paid. As may not be in possession of the Pay and Clothing Act for the n thDisemied Militia for the current )ear, I incluae a printed copy bo et eof for your informs non. I have, &c. (Signed) PALMERSTON. Colonel of the Militia. The Society for the Suppression of Vice served Mrs. Carlile, of 55, Fleet Street, with notice to attend on Tuesday at the Crown Office, in order to nominate forty-eight persons as special jurors in the cause of the King against her, for selling the 9th number of " The Republican," vol. 1, and " The Life of Tom Paine ) " by Sherwin. The King has been pleased to distinguish the Royal Academy by a new mark of his favour, in giving the President for the time being, Sir Tho mas Lawrence, a gold medal and chain, to be worn by him as President of that Institution. The medal bears a portrait of his Majesty, and is inscribed " From his Majesty King George the Fourth to the President of the Royal Academy." Tuesday morning, about nine o'clock, a mad dog passed from the City Road, through Castle Street, and Holywell-mount, and Holywell-lane into Shore. ditch, and was seen to bite eight or ten dogs in his progress, by a gentleman who followed him. He was pursued through Swan yard, and it is hoped was soon killed. The dog was of the large rough terrier breed, white, with a high tail and black ears. THE MAIDEN'S LEAP:A daughter of the first Earl of Gowrie was courted by a young gentleman in the neighbourhood, much her inferior in rank and fortune ; her family, though they gave no en. couragement to the match, permitted him to visit them, and lodged him in a tower of Ruthven Castle, in Perthshire, then in the possession of the Gowrie family, near another, in which was the young lady's chamber, but up a different staircase, and commu nicating with another part of the house ; the lady, before the doors were shut, got into her lover's apartment; but some one of the family having dis covered it, told the mother, who, cutting off, as she thought, all possibility of retreat, hastened to sur prise them ; but the young lady, hearing the well known steps of her mother, hobbling up stairs, ran to the leads, and took a desperate leap of nine feet over a chasm of sixty feet from the ground, alighted on the battlements of the other tower, whence descending to her own chamber, she crept into bed. Her mother having in vain sought her in her lover's chamber, came into her room, where finding her seemingly asleep, she apologised for her unjust sus picion. The young lady eloped the following night and was married. The top of the towers are still shown under the appellation of the Maiden's Leap. There appears a new issue of one-pound forged notes in circulation- The engraving of the figure of Britannia, if viewed through a glass, is clumsy; the paper has a silky feel, and the water mark is not clear, but confused. The name at the bottom of almost all the forged notes is not written with a pen, but engraved. 'Mr. Harris, who has been granted the patent of the Dublin Theatre, commences his performances on Monday next, in the Rotunda, which is to be fitted up as a temporary Theatre on the occasion. A Court Martial was assembled on Monday, by order of the Commander in Chief, at Kensington Barracks, relating to the conduct of a corporal and six privates of the 12th regiment of Lancers, on a charge preferred by Mr. Brown, keeper of his Ma jesty's Gaol of Newgate, for improper and disorderly behaviour, and being drunk on the night of the 4th inst, whilst on duty, and in attendance at the Surrey side of Blackfriars Bridge, to escort convicts to Thames Ditton, on their way to Gosport. The Court was occupied three hours on the investiga tion, the result of which will not be known until the minutes of evidence, sentence, &c. are laid before the proper authorities. HIGH Tit EASON. •—•-• The Lords Commissioners appointed by the Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer for trying all treasons, and misprisions of treason, committed within the counties of Stirling Lanark, Dumbarton, Renfrew, and Ayr, have fixed their sittings for submitting Bills to the Grand Juries of the said respective counties as follows :•—• St irlingsliire—Friday, June 23d, at !it odium. Lanarkshire—Mourlay, June it3tti, at Glasgow. Dumbartumthire—Thursday. J Ullt• 29, at Dumbarton. Renfrewsliire—Saturday, July Ist, at Paisley. Ayr-hire —Tuesday. July 4th, at Ayr. Mr. Thomas George Knapp, Clerk to the Arraigns of the Home Circuit in England, is appointed to act as Clerk to the Commissioners. A paragraph in the Reading paper states in sub stance the following ;—" The lord lieutenant of this county could not go to review the yeomanry cavalry. Sir F, Burdett dined at the mess the over night ; and Mr. C. Dundas, colonel, and M.P. the county, said, Sir Francis, you shall review us.' He did, and there was a great agsenahluge of beauty and fashion. The corps marched by bim, and aftervards formed a square; he entered it, and ulnae them Ia very appropriate speech on their evolutious, the constitutional have of ruch soldiers, &c. and tilt.) . gave him three cheers." Mr. Varlcibeff, of the Liverpool theatre, and Mr. Cooper, of the Edinburgh theatre, two tra;:,c• dians of much provincial fame, arc engaged by Mr , Elliston fur the next season. NAVIGATION. To Tile EDITOR. Rutland, June 4, 1820. " SIR—As the paper found here may prove of import ance mud utility, I beg leave to send you a coo! of it, the original I have futivaided to the Lords of the Admiralty. " NASSAU FORSTER." NO. 2, AT SEA. " His Britannic Majesty's ship Newcastle, June 20, 1819, lat. 38. 52. king. 64.0 W. of Greenwich. " As these bottles, with their contents, are thrown overboard with the intention of determining the true di rection and strength of the Florida Gulf-stream, it is requested, as a must particular favour, that whoever may pick up any of them, either at sea or on shore, will de termine the latitude and longitude of the place it was picked up in, and give that, with the date of picking it up, a place in any of the public prints, either in Europe, America, or any of the colonies in the West Indies. " Whoever may be good enough to comply with the above request will confer a favour un their very obliged servant, " James NAPIER, Master of his Britannic Alajtsty's ship Newcastle. " To whoever who may pick up this bottle." Come on shore in the Bosses, on the N.W. coast of Ire land, lat. 54. 56. N., long 9.0. W., on the 2d day of Jane, I lt.<o. ihr The place where this was found was immediately in vicinity of the bland of /titan, ou the nitll6Nl•at con .4 of Ireland. By a reli•tence to the map of lie Lind, the lati tude and longitude can be easily ascertained, if the above should not prove correct NASSAU ,FORSTER. ••••• _ _ _