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

AMERICAN PAPERS. Extract of a letter from Clarkston, Jan. 21, " It is reported that the French Government has determined to send Commissioners to Hayti, to treat with the existing authorities there, and it is expected that our Government will take suitable measures to secure every commercial prrivilege at that im portant island which may be granted to the French, British, or any other nation." FROM PENSACOLA, DEC. 25.—We learn from unquestionable authority, that the President the United States appri:ves the conduct of Governor Jackson in the uftiiir of Callava throughout; and further, that the !'resident considers Fritnentin's jurisdiction exclusively confined to the laws in re lation to the revenue and slave trade. BOSTON, JAN. Is.—The navigation continues open ; the ice has been driven out of the river by a north-west wind ; all the outward-bound vessels have sailed. The friends of the late Napoleon Buonaparte, re• siding in New Orleans, walked in procession on the 19th Dec. to the Catholic Church, which was hung with black on the occasion, and a funeral service was performed. We find from the Dublin Papers that the enor mities in the South of Ireland still continue, and with unabating fury. Other murders have been committed, of a most inhuman and daring descrip tion. On Saturday sennight, so early as four o'clock in the evening, a mall, of the name of Shea, was murdered in the town of Tipperary, by four villains, who killed him with stones, and who es cape& though pursued by the officers of plice. The servant of a magistrate was shot dead a few days ago, near Garrantrec Castle, in the county of Lime rick, and it is rather remarkable that this is the fourth murder committed at the same place, and probably by the same parties. Fifteen Whiteboys were tried and convicted in Cork on Tuesday week, before the Special Commission, and on the day after three others were found guilty. A daring attack was made on Monday se'nnight on the barracks of Abbeyfcale, in the county of Limerick, by a nume rous body of insurgents, who soon demolished the building. A meeting has been held by the magis trates, at which it. has been unanimously resolved to apply to his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant to place the entire of the county under the provisions of the Insurrection Act.—Sentence of death was passed on Friday night; at Cork, on 35 Whiteboys, convicted of crimes before the Special Commission. The learned Judge in:Muted to the delinquents that a selection had been made of their ease—that some of them were to undergo an ignominious death, at an early day, and that the existence of the others would be prolonged to a more distant period, and if tranquillity was restored, and there was a sur render of arms, they would be spared. from the precut temper of the deluded peasantry, we fear those to whom the learned Judge alluded retain their lives on a slender And uncertain tenure. The three men found guilty of the murder of Hugh Cologan, on the day the Churchtown barracks were burned, were ordere , l for execution on Monday last. At a meeting of the magistrates of the County of Cork, it was agreed to send a memorial to the Mar quis Wellesley, for the extension of the Insurrection Act to the entire county. The city magistrates have agreed to make a similar request for the city. The Dublin Evening Posi remarks, that the accounts of outrages in the interior of Ireland are grossly and shamefully exeggerated. Saturday last the Special Commission in the City of Cork closed its labours, at least for the present, and the judges took their departure, escorted by a squadron of dragoons. On the same day a shop keeper of the name of Heffernan was tried fur having sold gunpowder, knowingly for the t.se of the in surgents. Ile was convicted t.n the evidence of a witness employed for the purpose of detecting him, to whom he sold gunpowder and flints, as the pri soncr supposed, for the use of the Whiteboys. In the course of the cross-examination of the witness, Mr. Connel endeavoured to extract from him, that the whole was a plan to entrap Heffernan, in which the learned counsel had no difficulty. The prisoner was tried on the act of the 27th of his late Majesty, which makes it criminal to take arms or levy mo ney, and equally criminal to supply ammunition to those who entertained such a purpose. It wad a crime punishable by death, us in cases of felony, without benefit of clergy. The Attorney General, however concluded with observing, that it might be contended that the prisoner's case did not come within the meaning of the statute, as the ammuni tion in question had not been in reality sold to the Whiteboys but to a person opposed to them. This had originally created some doubts in his mind, but they had been removed by his colleagues. The case being proved in evidence, the prisoner was found guilty, bat the court reserved the point fur the consideration of the twelve judges. The case of the unfortunate Heffernan was the first that bad been tried under the act. •4 THE NATIONAL REGISTER LONDON FASHIONS POR MARCH. (nom " Ackennann's Repository."l PROMENADE Drina.--A poplin high gown, made tight to the shape ; the collar is very deep, it falls liver, and is finished at the edge by a satin trimming, resembling shell work ; the long sleeve is rather tight to the arm the epaulette is loose and shallow, and is finished at the edge to correspond with the collar ; the bottom of the long sleeve has also a similar toimming : the skirt is moderately wide, and less gored than they have lately been worn; It is trimmed at the bottom with three deep flounces, pieced near each other, disposed in the drapery style, and headed by a wreath of shell-work in satin, to correspond with the corsage. The pelisse worn over this dress is composed of dove-coloured lutestiing, lined with rose-coloured sarsnet, and wadded; the fatness of the skirt is thrown very much behind ; a broad band of ermine goes rotund the bottom, and an extremely novel trimming goes up the fronts ; the back is tight to the shape ; the collar falls over in the pelerine style ; the long sleeve is finished at the hand with ermine. Slashed epaulette, with satin folds drawn across the slashes. Head-dress, a bonnet of a new cottage shape of rose-coloured Jutestiing, turned lip in front; a bouquet of Provence roses goes round the crown ; rose-coloured strings. Very full lace intl. Black shoes and Limerick gloves. Fem. Duess.—A white satin gown, cat low and square round the bust ; the corsage is fastened behind, and draws in with a little fulness at the waist. The front of the hest is composed of alternate bands of white satin and Utilities lace, which reruns the shape in a very new and graceful manner ; the upper part of the bust is cut rotund iu points, atid these points form a narrow blond tucker into plaits. The sleeve is of white lace iutennixe l with satin: a tow of deep points, composed of the latter matelial, goes round the top of the shoulder, in the epaulette sty le; the lace is disposed in creves, each of which is ornamented in the m iddle w ilt, a fell bow and ends of satin. The II hu nting of the skirt consi-ts of a de►p fold of satin at the bottom ; it is wadded, and surmounted by a net bouillonne, interspersed with narrow satin roalesns disposed in chains, each connected by bows, and finished by bouquets of heath blossoms of different colours. Head-dress, a blond net hat; the front of the brim is cut in scollops, and turned up: toned crown, of a moderate sly! ; the net is disposed over it in a little fatness, and spotted a ith gold beads ; the top is embroidered in white silk and chenille, intermixed with gold beads; the front of the crown is adorned with short full pl , s of marabouts, with a bou quet of heath blossoms between each. Neck-lace and ear-rite- iearl. White kid gloves. White satin shoes. igs p CAMIIRIDGIS COVNTY MEETING.—A numerous meeting of the freeholders and inhabitants of Cam bridgeshire was held on Thursday last, pursuant to a requisition to the High Sheriff, " to take into consideration the present disastrous state of the agricultural interest, and the propriety of petition ing Parliament for relief."—Mr. Pryine moved resolutions for a petition to Parliament for relief. The Rev. G. A. Browne doubted the expediency of a petition without some mention of retbrm. Mr. F. K. Eagle, after a short address moved as an amendment to the original resolutions— .. That from w!at has taken place during the present and. prece.ling sessions, it is the thin and devided opinion of this meeting, that any petition to the Lower HOZINC of Parliament, as at present constituted, for relief from the difficulties under which the nation is sinking, would b entirely vaM and trait- Mr. Sam. Wells seconded the amendment. Mr. Beals read a letter written by the Duke of Bedford, in wl.i.h the Noble Duke declared that it was useless to petition the House of CAIIIIIIOIIS as it is now con stituted, for their petitions were year after year disregarded, and thrown aside as waste paper.— The High Sheriff put the amendment, which was carried by a considerable majority, coasequently the resolutions for a petition fell to the ground. Thanks were voted to the High Sheriff, who returned his acknowledgments, after which the meeting was dis solved. VV The Society of Ancient Britons dined on Friday at the Freemasons' hall, after having previously attended divine service at St. James's church, Pic cadilly, and paraded in the usual flan', in honour of the anniversary of St. David, the tutelar Cambrian saint. The Duke of Wellington presided upon the occasion. After the healths of the King, the Duke of York and the Army, and the Duke of Clarence and the Navy, and other usual toasts, were drank, " Prosperity to the Society" was propoSed by his Grace, and drank with three times three. The children of the Society were introduced, and sang. an ode comrsed expressly fur the occasion. A collection then took place in the room, and a considerable sum was rm:ived. Several appropriate songs and glees were sung. healths of the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Auglesea, Lord King, Lord Kenyon, the Bishop of Chester, the Vice-Presidents, and other members of the society, were drank, and they seve rally returned thanks. Lord Kenyon, the treasurer, then announced the various sums subscribed on be half of the charity that day, amounting altogether to 1,0181. I9s. Shortly before tell o'clock the Pre sident retired, and the chair was occupied by D. F. Jones, Esq. one of the Vitat.Treiumrers, for the re mainder of the evening. The company did not separate till a late hour. A letter from Bayonne of the 16 h tilt states, that an order had been issued by the Prefect of the department of the Lower Pyrennees, that all Spa nish refugees or emigrants should quit that district and repair to Toulouse or Bourdeaux. • Such is the respect for the memory of her late Majesty, that at the auction of her small articles of silver plate brought as iiits‘a per ounce as gold is worth. • BOXING, Thursday last being appointed for the battle be tween Acton and Kendrick, the black, it was a day of much bustle in the pugilistic fancy, as two other battles were also nominated for the day's play Acton had once been beat by the black, and both were considered as men high on the list. There was a rare set out on the road of every description of vehicle that could be placed upon wheels, moved on by prads of every sort and size, from the highest mottled blood and bone to the roarers, that a knacker would scarcely stand half a beats each for. Arlington Corner public-house, on Hounslow-heath, was the receptable for commoners, but the Magpies was head-quarters for the swells, and in Ten Acre Field, down a lane contiguous, the ring was made. All was between hope and surpense until between one and two o'clock, when an enemy, one Trimmer, shewed himself from ambush, garbed with civil au thority, and removed the threes by word of corn. wand, with only their blessings left behind. The next start was fur Moulsey, and many turned sulky and abandoned the chase, trimming the meddler of their spurts in blue ruin and keav,y met. The ring was made at Moulsey, and soon after three o'clock the men entered, and the disparagement in size %ad's full 201bs. in fivour of the black. The seconiL, Spring and Eales for Acton, Randall and Joshua Hudson for Kendrick.—Betting 2 to I on the black. Ronald I.—The black placed a straight left-handed Mt • upon the mouth of Acton, who returned with a blow Half tilting on the body, when the black hit him on the head with his right hand, and followed wills two others, and • Aelon went down, overhaianced by the Mows. 2.—The black made the play, and placed blows left and right, which told heavily. lie pushed hi. good lock, and placed more hits in return for Acton's, which were snort. Acton was Booted heavily by a left-banded blow, and the claret flew from nose and mouth in streams, and blackee screwed his very ugly physog into a knowing smile. amd there appeared no matinee for the white inau in the minds of all. 3.—The black, flushed with success, commenced very mischievous play in this sound, and had an uniangl.t ploughman been before him. lie could not have °pet Med more successfully. It aas Rhodes's farm to a milk-araii.. and after hitting him several times, Acton went down, seemingly as senseless as a drunken beadle from a city feast.-1, 5, and ti to I, or any odds were offered in *aim 4.—8100 d flew in another stream from the right eye of Acton, which ciinisoned the cheek, and the black folmw ed imp his successful cal err in the same manner as in the tea thrmer mantis, placing his blow chiefly left-handed. which prevented Acton's getting into tictitm, and he was thrown from a straggle out of the ring, with his adverstri y upon him-10 to I was offered on the black. s.—The black hail uut•tunglit himself and his Pompey, like the swell iii a gale of wind in Ch du a (teach. Acton iii all his distress made souse scientific patties, and drew Wood from the black's month. It was an equal roitut lir the that time, but borers Were shy. * lime black war 6.—Acton placed a blow, alien the black grassed him 1r) a heavy blow ou the mouth, and ionic but a good vim would bare s:orel it. 7,8, 9, and lOtli ronnils were in favour of the blaelt, bin he lutiglit in dearest mail the 17t:i I uutid, and Actoa was declared the winner. Died, on Sunday last, at his house in Stratton street, Thomas Coutts, Esq.—Mr. Coutts had at. tained the advancca age of 87.—His life was one . of great and useful exertion. Ile possessed a sin gularly clear judgment. with a warm and alike tionate heart. Few men ever enjoyed, in the degree which Mr. Coutts did, the confidence esteem of his friends, or obtained, unaided by rank or political power, so much consideration and in fluence in society. The large tbrtune which tie acquired was a conseqUence, and not the object ,•t his active life, which at every period was devoted to the aid aid and advancement of those he loved.— He died surrounded with friends, in the presence of Mrs. Coutts and his daughters, tl:c Countegs f Guilford and Lady Burdett, with their and Lord Dudley Stuart, the son of his second daughter the Marchioness of Bute, who is now in Italy on account of health. On Tuesday last, the 26th Ult. the State Lottery commenced drawing, when No. 5,3.9 was drawn a Prize of 2,000!!! and was sold by BISII, is 13 Shares, ri:. I Quarter—, 1 Sixteenth, Brighton I Sixteenth. Cork i Sixteenth, Edinburgh I Sixteenth, Glasgow i sixteenth. Leicester 1 Sixteenth, Montvillety I The following Capita, were all sold by BISH:- 1,963 .Cl,oco I No. 304 2.Otits 4.220 5.10 4,C0 "00 The places they were scat to ate to., nu.nerous for an Advertisement. Warranted undratvn Tickets & Shires are selling by DISH, 4, Cattilll, and 9, Cliaring-Cross. ••• First-arson Prize Nest Day, 14th of Tuts 14lowrit, (Mardi), will Le entatl:l to .k.'2O,UOJ Money!!! The Wheel still contains Fo•ar Z 20,000 1 1 ::zt , s, and 52 other Capitals.—All Money, and not Blanks to a PrliA, ~....Lmadon 1 Siitteentli, o.ire , try I Sixteenth, &nekton t S xtecnth Siviaxvea 1 Sixteenth, 'Twickenham 1 Sixteinih, Thane t Six:eclat], Tunbridge 11 also, t [Ault that day, _ - - - ' 09 _ .._