The National Register. — London, England, 1818-02-09 00:00:00

t• -- • • o Ike LONDON GAZETTE, .S . ,:turdad, IV:. 7. Ti VNICIitTIt Y ENLARGIM. NI• ',Art e l,. 17, RAN liitcrrcy sn'imsuoLi ) . li!x w. Tythisf. w ecl It N.NKRI::'TS. I'AOCTOR W. SlTffiel.l, Feb. it. i 7. 1k!ar:71C....., S!lst field. Aft. Mr. Blakelo..1:. Seri:anis tt tit S. Swans,..i, dealer, Feb. •.:3, '.‘larzli 21, at Er•anles. Att. Mr, Price, Lincoln's inn. WAR' J. Milton Abbott. Devon. castle jobber, Feb. 94. ‘25, Mareu eel, at Tavistock, Devon. Atm. klriander 1a3,1 Co. blew CARTER R. New \Vo,xlsto.:k. Oxfo:t1, iron.non4l . :. F.A. LS. 14, Mardi 21, of °aura. Atu. Robinson and Co. Charter llarr- :o vinare. T1:011 v J. Plymouth, mariner. Feb. 17, 19-. M.lrch 21, at Ply mot Dock. .1 tt.%. I)arke and Co. Chanceiy.lane. 4PEXCEII T. Manchester, c3mrnia,ion broker, Feb. CO, Mat,:h nt :Manchester. Attt. Hurd and Co. Temple. C uois It. Abergavenny. Monmouth, victualler. Fc'.). 18, 19, March Yl, at Aber:;avenny. Mts. Jenkina and Co. New Inn. fitft:FßS bite of Alaerp..ratc-strcet, rictu.dkr, Mar h 17, is, 21, Guildhall. Att. Clu:•on Ce. High. t:Lxt T.l t. of l'ul!.atti, dealer. Feb. 14. 01. Mar.:/.1 ';2l, a: Guild :mil. Au. Mr. Shuttr, treet, U airy S Argel-court, Throlsocrt,n-t•treet, broker, Feb. 17.24, March, 21, at Guildhall. A. Mr. • Buckle, Si-e.ILo, 12.ucklcrs- bury. coos.s: .T. S. S. late of Golden-lale, checsernongcr, Feh. Is, 21, Mardi 21..4 4;Aileitlitil. Att. Mr. Synnor.d's lan. ItvElt:lT J. sad S. an. E. Nash, lat.: of Wtstminster-r0a..1, 10. 21.. 21, Att. Mr. Clttlrd'f. Inn. , CasAmrtr,N T. We.t thos Feb. 10. il N:arch 21, at GLUM:tall. Mt. .Ir. Argili, DIVIDENDS. a. J. and J. Frirar , , Gerrard-street, S.Aio, tailor,. Feb. 2.R. Tr:vor an.l .1. Cict:lnls, White'lurch, Sal.or, bankers, .Nlarcb 2. S. 311(i R.:Av.:mar., Liverpool, inere'laim, March 7. T. Hood!, kVin:ey, Vora, cotton munufactnrer, Marcll4. W. r.ii,tll3;n, Ex:Aer, ironfoundcr. March 10. .1. 1V oiteli•nl. M. Howard, and J. haddock, bank- (.73. Tome. J. s:;d .1. 3. nattier, Gould square, Crutched Friars, merchants, L. T. 11,41=3, J. Ilarria, and J. D. Inglis!), Long Acre, coach makers, Fel). S. late of Market.strcct. Westminsta, brewer, Fcb. es. ti • M t.ue. I !Vl:W[l g !IMO/mt. Feb. 25. PlaybouseYard, Whitecross-strect, paper stainer, •2‘. It. P,,yne, Liver:loot, linendraper. March to.. J. Iloorton, Glocacacr, n . ....dtst:r, Ilan!) 4. G.111;e1, Durham. ship owner, March 2. Y.. Balky, E.rtmr Sclwood , shopkeeper. Feb. t:S. I :. Chesou.r. Sitting`anitne, Kent, miller, March 2. J. Muth. T I.e mid 11. 1.. Routh, merchants, March 4. W. Lowe, Fi rls, Lac.:.lster, iimchine c.aker. March 4. .1. luta allorthwich, Cli:ster, salt merchant, March 2. T. Martin, Chichester, collar maker, Nlarch 7. T. Rose. J. Richards. and R. Jones, Liverpool, tailors. Mardi 3. I:. Haines. Late of S:ott's Place, Lower Road, hiii.gwa, Mier cooper, r.b. It). Iv. Knight. Tlaphot, Surrey. miller. Feb. 28. A. \1.1... !;:an nd J. Galt, Gt. St. Haden, factors, Feb. 24. 1. a:;t1 3. Harry late of Saes Head curt, Gracechureh.street. men. chants., Lb. 2s. .1. arid Barker, Helmsley Illackmoor, York, grocers, March 6. i. Peacu:k, Lincoln, watekinaker, Mardi 2. CERTIFICATES, Fr.B. 2S. A. \V. Sargcntrey, Savage-gardens, Tower Hill, merchant--11. WO: and \V..I. Richardson, Abchurch-lane, merchants—C. W. Walker, Brightelmstone, stationer—J. Ward, Liverpool. grocer—F. 1.. I loilshon. Strood, Kent, brewer—J. Parsans. Whitechapel, vie stutter. Wakefield, linendmper—J. and J. Goodchild.l.ow Durham, .1. and W. Jackson, Dowg.m! wharf, 3. Jackson, I ;Thum, and T. Jones, sen. Greencroft, Durham, bankers. TI114:: - NATIONAL REGISTER LONDON: 110NDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1818. PARIS Papers of Tuesday and Wednesday last, were received yesterday. The discussions on the Recruiting Law were still continued ; on the 3d several of the articles were passed with the amendments which had been proposed in the Committee. The Duke of Wel lington had a private audience with the King on the :id, after which his Grace paid a visit to Monsicar and dined with Prince Talleyrand. On the same day the English Ambassador gave a grand dress ball at which more than 1000 persons were present. A report of a most alarming nature prevailed on Friday, in the City, on the authority of a letter from ;enoa, dated about the sth of January. It was stated, that the nieces or daughters of the British Consul had been scizedat Algiers and consigned to the Ilaram, that his son had been murdered before his eyes, and in the presence of the other European Consuls. The same story, but with some variation in the circum stance, has come from Frankfort, throne) the Di tch r:all ; and a letter from Genoa, of the 1 2.th ultimo, brought by a mail from Ifamburgh, affirms a similar violence to have been manifested towards M. Caron, she Sardinian Vice Consul, whose niece was carried off to the Ilarain, and he himself orderad to quit Algiers : this gentleman is asserted to have arrived at Genoa, he t re the dote of the above letter and to have been placed in quarantine. Caa the tvo narratives have referenee so th.• same fact. ? or was any 4-ntrng.e in ‘i!her case offered to the representatives of the Christian world? in contradiction of this horrid statement it is asserted that accounts have been received from the Agents of floyd's at Genoa, bearing date the 23d of January, Rat . icttcrs have also rca:hcd scvcral rz;:rchants TIIR NATIONAL RE(l$ ,ii2tely connectel with that city, anl that through nei ther of the above chann'els has the slighte:it notice :rttespi:et} of the eireutwtarres in quc , •tioai. Coabt, we shoniii hop', can thelue bo c::tc:•taincl, that : h e who:c, or icatliriz, parts of the information, arc un founded. Since the absve was written, asesunts have been received which relieve, in some measure, our anxiety on this subject, though they serve to spew that the re port' war not without some foundation. The hernal des Debars of Thursday last, contains the followints particulars received by Vice Admiral Sir Sidney Smith at Paris, and communicated by him in a Report to the anti Piratical Institution of the Knights Liberators of Christian Slaves : ° The Captain of the Sardinian polacre, La Belle Mari:, which left Algiers on the 2d of e. last, and arrived at Port Ntsbon on the Gth of the same month, ststes, as well :14 the thgitives on lesttd, that the new Des, Ali Iledgia, who has been confirmed in his Go vernment by the assistance of a considerable party of Moors, sets no bounds to his furious and tyranniva! outrages; that all the European Powers ire outraged by turns, and their Consuls menaced and terrified by the numerous band of the negroes now composing the body guard of the Dey. The Consuls arc compelled to keep within their own houses, and even their resi dences have ceased to be inviolable. This captain states, that Ali Holgia has pulled down the palace of This predecessors, and fortified himself in a place tolled the castle of the Emperor ; that he had not scrupled to appropriate to his own service the treasure he discover ed there, which had hitherto been held sacred, and whence he derived the means not only of supporting, but augmentinss the number of his satellites. " Ali Hodgia had kidnapped two daughters of a Jewish funily, whose father was broker to the English Consul ; and two days after, the eldest daughter of Sicur Pominibio, master of the French Hotel. This unfieunate girl was forced to espouse the atrocious Dcv, and become his Queen, while the fate of the daughter of the Dey of Tyterus, stole in the same manner by his kinsman, the late Dcv Hodgia Ali, and found after his decease, almost starved to death in prison, is nnknown. " The greater part of the Consuls had assembled for the purpose of preferring their complaints in corn common to the Dey, but having heard, before they reached the Palace, that orders were issued by Ali Hodgia to his negro guards to fire upon the very first of these Consuls who should venture to make complaint or seek redress ; and being convinced, on their arrival at the Dey's Palace, by the menacing attitudes of the negroes who surrounded them, of the veracity of the information that had been given them, the Consuls foaud themselves obliged to be content with immaterial observations, in order to pass away the time. " The plan adopted by the present Dey, who is a Turk, of arming the natives against his own country men, forms a new epoch iu the history of these States. Such an example is sufficient to authorise all Mahome -1 dans to collect an army of the same description, and contest the sovereignty with him." Some American Papers, from Boston to the Ath ult. have been received. They do not contain a single article worthy of notice. In alluding to the reported interfer ence of the British Minister, respecting the transfer of the Florida! by Spain, they merely mention what has already been contradicted. A respectable meeting (consisting of the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishops of London, Glocester, Ches ter, and Lanak, and indeed nearly the whole bench of Bishops, together with the Duke of Northumber land, Lord Sidmouth, and about 25 lay Peers) was held last week at the Freemason's Tavern, for the purpose of forming, a Society, and raising a Fund in aid of the intendedl 'arliamentary grant for the building of church es. Several appropriate resolutions were made. BRIGHTON, FEB. 2.—His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, accompanied by Count Munster, returned to the Pavilion from Windsor, about four o'clock this af ternoon. The Duke of Dorset arrived at the Palace about an hour previously. The Marquis of Anglesca, accompanied by Mr. Singleton, came in about ten mi nutes after four. Lord Henry Cholmondeley returned to the Pavilion this afternoon. The Duke of Leeds, Lord Lowther, and Mr. Croker, are momentarily ex. pected at the Palace. The Duke of Clarence. and se veral of the Pavilion visitors, were Ca the Stevne to day, during the more favourable intervals ; but the rain and snow hare been predominant since day-break. . Report states that the Prince of Hesse —ornherg, who is a nephew to the I,:mdgrave of Hesse Darm stadt, and is now in the 49th year of his age, is alxmt to enter into a matrimonial engagement with the I'rin cess Elizabeth. umour says that a matrimonial negotiation is ;Os!) on the Lapis between his 1?oyal IliJhurss the Duke of Clarence and a Princess of Denmark. We do not know which of the Ladies. The daughter or the present King years of age. The two daughters of the King's Uncle are both and are both wilows.—Morning Paper. L.IIV INTELLIGENCE. r r COITT OF KING'S BENCH, FRIDAY. Frn.6. A51..1 . ..;i1D V. A.I.ILAI/AY TROTINTON, iN qr ArrLAL at 1111 aill:R. The argument in the demurrer in this case havin; been fixed for to day, and their lordships having order. cd that the parties should be present, the appellee was put to the bar, in the usual custody, at a quarter be fere nine o'clock ; the appellor entered ti'.e body of the Court with his counsel. Shortly before ten o'clock, all the avenues kcame so much crewded that bar risters could not get to their eulty, a great number of people were als9 assemblA in tise hall. Mr. Clarke, Mr. Gurney, Mr. Richardson, and Mr. Chitty, appeared as befbre, fi,r the appeller, and Mc. Readz:r, Mr. Reynolds. and Mr Tindal. for the appiTee. Their Lordships did net arrive until past ten o'clock. Lord Ellenhorough inquired, (after the ease had beer, called on by Mr. Le Blanc,) whether the patties were present ; Mr. Clarke replied, that the appellor (vas on the floor ; and d'.. Reader sh!enifled, that his elient :ens at the ter. Lord Ellenhorongh desired that the appel lor she , eid take a seat, he having risen on the entrance al their Lordships, told Mr. Reader requested, that the appellee might be allowed the saute indulgence, which was granted immt dia t :21y . Mr. Chitty then rose to commence his argument. He observed, that this was a demurrer to a replication, to a counterplea pleaded by the appellor, in answer to a wager of battle, of which the appellee had attempted to avail himself. He then stated the various pleadings which we have inserted from ti:ae t.) time, and to which we refer, He contended, that the replication to the counterplea was instiffictent en two grounds : I:it, That it is not competent to the appellee, in answer to -a counterplea, to state circumstances affhteling a pre sutnpt ion of innocence. :Id. That the circumstances, as stated in time replication, were no answer to the coot:- tcrplea. In discussing this important and intricate case, he should confine himself as closely as possible to questions of law ; but as it had been intimated on the other side, that an attempt would be made to show that the counterplea was insufficient, it would be nc. cessary for him to inquire into the law and principles of the writ of appeal, and trial by combat ; and be should contend, that a person appealed of a suppose -1 murder is not entitled to wage battle, when evideri , e exists afffirding a presumption of guilt. The Learned Counsel than entered into a long and minute citation of all the authorities on the subject cc trial by battle; beginning with the statute of Glocestee (6 Edw. I) and concluding with Robertson, Reeves, Henry and Barrington, from all which he endeavoured to prove that the trial by battle was in the arbitrament of the Court, according to the presumption.;. He likewise quoted Erskine's Prin. of the Scotch Law, lit. Probation, p. 4G3, and from Cowers Inter preter, lit. Sullidure, or South-door of die church. He was proceeding with a quotation from an anonymous work, entitled - Anti due°, printed in 163:?, when he was stopped by the Court, as it did not appear to be the opinion of any historian as to the construction of the law. Mr. Chitty said, that he offered it only by way of observation, and as an eloquent invective against the immorality and impolicy of the trial by battle. In this view he was allowed to continue and to conclude it. He next proposed to bring forward from the year Books and other authorities some decisions applicable to this particular case; first, in Hiliary Term, 6 Hen. Ili. quoted in Fitzh. Abr. tit. Covromae, pl. 411. In reference to this last authority, Lord Ellenbo rough put it to Mr. Chitty, what part of the counter plea he could point out as aifording such pregnant evi dence of the guilt of the appellee in this case as within the cases would oust the appellee of his right of battle. Mr. Chitty replied, that he meant only to cite these cases from the Year Books, for the general rule, and not so much for its particular application. He next referred to the Year Books, 20 Edw. IV. p 6; to Bro. Abr. tit. Battaille, p. 4 and 5 ; to Hargr. St. Tr. 1., 11., and IL 233; and to Young v. Slaughterford: Hagr. St. Tr. IX., 541 ; and 11 Mod. 217 and 228. This last case resembled the present in several circumstances, and, according to the report, Lord Holt, uho tried the prisoner at the assizes, for the murder of Jane Young, directed an appeal, and in the course of the proceed ing, had called it " a noble prosecution, and a true badge of Euglish liberty," referring at the same time, to the stat. of Gloucester. After noticing the form of a counterplea in Term. P. C. p he quitted this part ofhis subject, and entered upon an examination of the counterplea of the appllant in this ease, in order to show that it disclosed circumstances establishing a pre sumption of guilt strong enough to \Tarrant the Court in disallowing the wager of battle. He was describing the body of Mary Ashtbrd as having hcea thrown into the pit of wuter, when he was interrupted by Mr. Justice Bayley, who said, that nothing tvas stat ed to prove that she had been thrown into the pit ; for aight that appeared she might have thrown herself i;lto the waver. Mr. Chitty contended, that the circumstances strong- r S