The National Register. — London, England, 1816-03-10 00:00:00

MATICII_I O . THE ARMY ESTIMATES, For tLc pre.ent year, have been printed. T following is an AlistiArt : LAlailincluding the corm intended Illr reduccd, for fireat Oilman and lreland. 1 ii,7s6—Erpenq,, - . - - 4,702,611 10 11 Iteginients stationed in France, number 31,03 i, Expene - - . - - 1434.596 13 6 Begitanu in the East India Company's Ser i ice. number 89,49 I—Expense - - 90641116 Embodied Militia . - . - 350,00100 ray of General OfEeers . - . 1R2,717 I 2 boll' and Garrisons . . - - 318.733 it 6 Full r.,) , for Supernetincrary Offunte - -144.10 t 6 7 I'Ublic Department: - . . - lati.fal . 4 6 Exchequer Feel', Midi POIM(11 , ,?e • &c. - 127.attr 6 0 !balmy and Military Allowances - - 460.566 Si 1 1 la-l'emitinas of Chelsea and kilmainham . Host; s - - - - - 53. 0 95 11 7 eut.l'enaioncrs of ditto . - - 533.220 13 o Widows Pensions - - - - 43.890 5 8 Vtlantc.-r CATS - - - - 1'2'2,91 , 6 18 2 lAical Militia - - - - 120,000 0 0 Foreign Corps, for varom p a i n d s i n 1316 _ nua.ber 21.5 1 11—Expkinc - - 370,60 18 5 lloal Military °aliege - - - 5.7,812 17 2 Royal tory Asylum - . - 50.1P5 17 2 Itrtimd Chaplains. l Ac - - - 17.550 19 11 Medicine.: and Hospital Expellees - - F 0,266 12 4 ('umpa . sgi.cr.te 1.1 , t, and Bounty Warrants - 04.424 0 5 Conuntsshrist 1/cpartnimt firaand) - • 219.000 0 0 Barrack 11..T . lrunent (Ireland) - - 213,000 0 0 Superann.tation Allowarwm - . - 17.94 0 8 Oilexas attached to the l'ortugaese Army - 33.000 0 o Dada t from the above the troops in France and the lisst Indies, and there remains 133,503 men, of the c•penst; of r.liom, 1i,7.;5,947L 17s, if :1111),NA to Gnat PhritaM, nr:tl t,liG, k!sl. IGs. td. to Ireland; making A CIAAI ISS. A Flanders Mail notices the prompt and extraordinary meast.res adopted to strengthen the frontier line of Bel gium. No less than $,09() men are to be. employed on the tbrtilientions of Charleroi. It appears from the Papers laid before the House of Commons, that the supplies male by us to Spain, in 'limey, arms, ammunition, and military and naval stores, from the year 1811 to the latest period the &nue could be made out, amounts to 4,:157,8381. By papers laid before Parliament, it appears, France 12 s already p.id this country five millions of fmnes as ntributions, and upwards of one million of francs to- aids the pay of the anuy of occupation. These sums have been deposited in the military chest of the Duke of Wellington. A Brussels Paper of the sth inst. says, " One of our most celebrated lace-manufactories has had the making of the lace-dress intended for the Princess Charlotte of Waks on the day of her marriage. It has just been sent to London." Private letters from Paris of Monday, mention very serious disturbtusees to have again taken place at Lyons. A strong military force has been dispatched to that city. The King is stated to have determined upon a complete change of Administration ; and it is generally believed, that the l)uke of Angouleme will preside in t he Council of Ministers. A fresh order has just been received at Calais, direct ing that no foreigners or strangers shall be allowed to roeeed from thence to Paris without a passport, front ther Ambassador or Government. Seventl persons lmt•e been obliged to return from the Ship Inn at Dover to lamslon, in order to procure such passports befbre they cmlrarked fbr Calai•. The restoration of old religious institutions seem to be proceeding in Italy ; n Cenconlat is stated to have been c , nchaled between the Papal Nuncio at Florence, and the Grind Duke of Tuscany, under which there are to he 7t.! Convents of both sexes in the Tuscan States. INDlN.—Ativices have been received by the secret Com. mittoe of the Court of Directors of the East India Com pany,,,intimating that the decisive •measures adapted by the Earl of Moira, in emisequence of suspicious :kppear :ewes in the conduct of the Hiram and the Pcishwa, haul Icen attended with the most satisfactory resillt4.; thwe P.inces having, immediately on the-approach of the BA , tish troops to their respective capitals, ilyt!erahad end Poonah,,etfered to give the most ample securities for their pacific and friendly conthut.—An arrangement was ac conlimfly concluded, by which thu Ni am agreed to place brother, the known instigator of his hOstile disposi ti..ns, iu dote confinement, in a fortress belonging to a third Power: the Peithwa went further, and . gave up Ids Minift: , r, the promoter of his military schemes and pic:Amtions, who was brought a prisoner to Bombay, ti , Jc to be kept u the Government of British India may 17,its discretion think proper. The dispatches containing t..is information bring sent home in the Secret Depart ment, according to the usual practice of all official advices tl:e Indian Government, lire not yet offickilly noti f:cd from the select hotly of Director; composing the Se cret Committee. But we are assured, from some of the very best authorities, that the particulars which we have stz. , tod may be relied on as main:wiz, Tut sTFISAPIto.—We hardly know *greater evil than the fob ha:ling, and yet the cooscipitnees of it tills the (*.mitt of (law !••,), with business. A &stator dies, confiding to two prisons, in uliont he tlincios he can trust the di.p.a.al of his bequests. of them from pique or indolence, throws the concern in t' nrt of Chancery, to mantic that which his dying fr:eitd h :I to his management, purposely to *built law t sad, after a di. II of years, out comes the estate, like " a pair sirk y Out" the sebstanee tieing wasted lti salaries to liecciven, Or d. rs of Alus:ers, and Fi t of Court. WIZ NATIONAL RISOISTiIift. 11:El „1 ND. in Dublin Court of Common Pleas, Weilorsilay, Christopl er Twee, Esq. v. Lord IV illiain Fit/ref:Wl, the plaintiff rceo ♦iercd .500111. damages from his Lordship, for iron. con. with Mrs. 'Faulk. The Sligo Journal contains the following:- 0 An armed ban ditti, consisting of about 30 persons, attacked the house or J. M'lltrigh, of liuockakellan, in the neighbourhood of inure, in this county, on th e ni g ht o f t h e 1 3t h i nst. and de manded his arms, a liidi he boldly refused to surrender; upon ' which they tired several shots into his house, anti sit it on hue ; Le and his sons finding themselves in this perilous situation, re- tnrued the fire in the most spirited and determined manner; they killed one man (T. M'%%heeneyt, anti, as it is suppos e d, wounded I , evcrat, as they are now missing from their homes. .1. Lowder, Esq. a most active iniuistrate, has since committed to this gaol two brothers of the deceased Melt Keeney, with seven others, charged with assembling by night. demanding, arms, and administering oaths. The gentlemeu of that neigh bourhood ar., using sneh measures as, it is hoped, will put an cud to such practices in that part of this country. • The Belfast Paper says:—" On the maiming of iVednesday week, a baud of ruffians attacked the house of Mr. Johnson, a mit.lin manufacturer, near the head of North -street. began their operations by breaking 041 the shutters of the ' parlour window, which weresheatheil with irOil ; !mint:affect eil this they raised the lower sash, and introduced a large box filled with pitch, tar, hemp, &c. and to rend.— their deign still more destractive, they attached to diese inflammable sub stances a large bomb-shell tilled with gutipowikr, and other combustibles, communicating, with which was a fuzee, to which they set fire. A sen :lilt man, however, seized a pitchfork, tier first weapon lie could find ; lie ran to the parlour, and called out to alarm the family. When he entered 'he room, he per ceived the hail and 'laming fusee, and, not knowing a hat it was, he dashed at it with the pitchfork, and the prongs having steel: into it, he drew it toward , ' him, anti retreated to the kitchen. In the midst of his agitation, he abandoned the pitchfork, and it :g bah, to call to his master up at aka. In too seconds the comlnistilffes exploded like a clap of thunder, and rent the house from top to bottom. Not a wall but was shattered; the windows were blown to pieces, when the back door fortunately burst open, whirl, gave vent to the fory of the explosion. When Mr. Johumn was first alarmed, he started out of bed, and laying hold of a blunderbuss, w Welt was ready loaded, he went to a front window, and, perceiving eight or ten of the ruffians at a distance, lie fired among them: but he had scarcely duneaso, when the explosion took place in the kitchen, and threw his family into the utmost state of consternation. The a s sailants, on hearing the report, returned again to the front of the house. land commenced an attack with fire-arms; gygin which Mr. Johnson, haviutt ong loaded pistol, fired it at them. ily this time the neighbouring families, being alarmed by the explosion and the firing, 'were coming Iwo the street; wton which the banikiti tan off in ifitlen•nt directions, and, owing to the darkness of the night, effected their escape. Happily not one of Mr Johnson's family received the smallest injury. The inhabitants of Belfast have oileied a re ward of 2,0001. for a discovery of the offenders. Ho tr.—The present inconvenient duty on jaanting-ears has brought that mode of conveyance into general disrepute, and substituted a prudent taste for p e d es t r i an i sm , w hi c h is ;lady becoming_more and more fashionable. We may soon expect to sec reviveiranioug oar fair comitry women, the good old emit fortable pillion so long exploded, and on which 011een Eliza zeth was so often wont to recreate bier royal person. A hearth eidieetor, us we are informed, lately doing supervisor's duty iu a lame town in ti.e south of Ireland, looked somewhat aghast to find that every ear of which 100 paid the preceding year) had disappeared, was put hors de coothal, or disposed of in some way to escape the tax. The collector, who, it appears, hail a dash of the wag arrout him, concerted a little plan to try tile honesty of ,o many respectable persons denying their liability to the duly. In a titre:paper, printed in the town, he published an Advertisement to the following effect:—" Wanted imme diately, a second-hood jaunting-ear, with harness complete, and a strecg steady honw, to suit a travelling tainily."—Dii re tion, were added where to apply ; and a tit person, properly instructed in the secret, vans placed the following manning in at convenient apartment. The scheme succeeded to a miracle. Berm ten o'clock the knocker was almost beaten through tho door by surceive crowds of visitors, every one of wl bad an excellent car, very little run, which he had no particular objection to dispose of just now, on reasonable terms, the sea son tiles so unfavourable, and indeed his family was growing so mach less, tee. &c.—The applicants were admitted one' by one, and the pretended purchaser, lifter some preliminary . civilities and in q uiries, begged have to take down their names and ie• sidences, promising to wait upuu each in the course of the day to close the bargain, which he punctually slid, briuging the supervisi.r, moreover, alone with him, and introducing him to the disconcerted and astonished parties, as the Gentleman that I advertised for the accommodation. This, as may well be Con ceived. produced a desonciarst of the nmst risible description. The etfeet was altogether theatrical; and a scene of einstet , nation and einharrassment ensued, to do justice to which won'el require the broad rarebit delineation of Foote, or the caquisite comic colouring via Hugarth !—Lem, l'ackrt. The Spanish Insurgent General Bolivar, who defended Carthasena, afier its captum escaped to Jumnioa. A rles purodo was employed to tidlow and assassinate him ; for which service he was promised 50,000 dollars and a free pardon. Bolivar took up his abode at u lodging-house in Jimmies ; but happening to sleep out on the very night the murderer had fixed tin- his purpose, a strange gcnt'e man by chance slept in the bed, and•foll a victim to the diabolical scheme. The Spaniard. who undertook the murder, is apprehended. Mrs. Basc:cy. bite Miss Wade, applied to the Court of Chancery on saturday sennight, for money to sustain the expellee of her approaching aceotwh►nrnl.—The Lord Chaicellor ordered her 5001.; and likewise directed the whole of her fin-tune to be settled on her in as strict a manner as possible, tint her husband might be prevented from touching a shilling of it. BOKlN(l.—Curtis and a man called West Country Dick, foughta battle, l'ucadry, on 1-laves Common, near Uxbridge. They niet at one o'clock, with their seoonds, Oliver and Richmond for Curtis, and Shelton and J. Clark. fin' I)ick. Betting, 6 and 7t04 on Curtis. After battle that L is t e d Lifty.cigLt ukutes, Dick gave in. PROVINCIALS'. -imp-- C tnrisr.s: ELCCTION.—State of the fourth day's poll : J. C. Cnrwen, I•'sq. :49 ; Sir P. Musgrave, Bart. 201; Majority for Mr. Cursven," 2.3.—TlinAe who know how well espericuced Mr. Ctirwen, k in the business of this House of Commons, and how greatly the ogricultitt;tl interests are indebted to his indef.:di:fa ble attention and labours, cannot fail to wish him success in his electron. At the ensuing Chelmsford Assizes, there are nearly eighty prisoners for triul, seven of whom arc for highway robherir•, and many others for capital offences. Shocking to 'et:de, nearly twenty of the priseners are under twenty-one years of age. Samuel France, aged 15. was nn Friday la s t committed to Salop enmity g oal, charged with the wilful m ur d er o f hi s fa ther, Richard France, of Codrington. Six times has the counting.vionse and brewers, at Creat Dtintnow, Essex, belonzing to :Messrs. Randall nod Co. been robbed within a short period ; the last lime was on Titeqlay the 20th ult.; when the artful villains chided a spring gnu placed so as to command the entrance; anti having secured it from going off, robbed the premises of a gun and 26*. in money. A dreadful snow storm has recently done immerve damage in Hungers.. The inhabitants 4.1* adrininz horses cruld not get at each other fur day. together. In the comity of Iteregh, 20,000 sheep are lost ; and a fartmr in that country, wlte. , e los,: was, perhaps, not the greattst, had 1,203 fat oxen frozen to death. The Leeds Mercury says, "Last %slay morning, about two o'clock, several, persons brake into the house and shop of J. Roberts, of Quarruby, near Huddersfield, chins dresser; and, after demolishing, all the windows aud window frames, for several yards square, proceeded to break the shears and improved shcar-frames used in the cloth-dressing business; and, having 'efrected their lawless purpose, retired without molesting any part of the family. It is fervently to he hoped, that the outrages which disgraced the neigh!) .itt hood of Hadderstield some years ago, and which proved so fatal to their perpetrators, art not about to be renewed; but should that be the case, we are assured that the perstms whose pro perty is likely to suffer in the event of a renewal of the fame breaking system, arc determined to defend their property against any attack that may be made tipim it, and to reader mutual assistance to each other for this imporban object." AN EXTRAORDINARY SHEEP.--A Soutlidown v. ether sheep, three years old, bred and fatted by Mr. Litman, of tilynde, was Lilies' there ou the 10th tilt. and exhibited, front the extensivo improvement which has, of late years, been made in the breed of that very Irwin' unbind, a superiority iu point of Cesh bone, which our forefathers, rho lived bet'ore the establishment of Agri..-nlinral Societies, could have formed no conception of, It weighed, when alive, 'Xi gone, 7 pounds; and when s;aligi : . tered, as folio*, lb. pluck, it ditto; entrails, 14 ditto; shin and wool, 11l ditto; blood, 7 ditto.—Totol of othal, 0 stone 21h. Leose fat, 2 stone .1 1 , ; carcass, Id stone 7; lust in dressing, 25 stone 7 ExTitaontne An y EISCAPE.— 011 Sunday evening last Mr. J. Holman, a farmer of Perran, Cornwall, was returning from a place of worship, across a common to his own honse, a heavy mist falling, lie mistook his way, and tell Into an exposed shaft • , of a mine, tni feet deep, besides nine feet of water in the bets tom; and, almost miraculously ' he reached the wat e r with ou t reeds Mg any serious injury. Being au expert swimmer, he ;sept himself afloat during the night; occasionally relieving himself, by clinging to the projecting points of rock Ia the shies of the shaft. 'flit return of daylight, ma Monday, enabled him In Afe a kind of ledge on which lie contrived to get, and oa which he lay the whole of Monday, eating for assistance; but do person approached the place, and Monday night come on whilst he cantimied in his perilons situation, where, overcome by fatigue, he fell asleep, and nolo fell into the water, 'Tim darkness of the night prevented his regaining his resting place, a inlllo-. had to !Rimini himself us betbre, until Tuesday mom big, when he regained the spot front whirl' he fen. lie h a d HOW become (mite hoarse from cold, and almost incessant calling for help, so that the only resource be had for drawing the attention of those w hom, lie supposed, would be sent to seek for him, was by throwing stbnes into the water. T oes ,i n , night cattle withitut affording hint any relief; hut the terror of again filling into the water cliectnally prevented his sleepin (hi IVeduestlay, however, the noise made by the s to nes w hi s k lie continued to throw into the water, attracted the attention of some persons whom his distressed family had dispatched in search of his remains, and lie WAS extricated from the dreiwifel abyss, without sustaining any serious contnsiuo. SIMI . NEWS. The Revenue ernizers are to be put tinier the dims. eons of the Admiralty, after the sth of April. The follmyitn:; is an account of the loan bf the Liver.. pe,;l frigate, Capt. Farquhar : " 1)0% En, MARCH 6.--This morning, about three ciektelt. the Liverpool ,beats ran upon the rocks a mile and a half frtni here, and Will be totally wrecked. Het main-mast and zen ntaq are cut away, but the shin being upon the rock., is bilged, nod cannot be saved. We Ilave not heard that any lives ore lost. Tiw military, Officers iucluded, that art here, are au played to sate the stores. A letter fmm Dover, however, anted on Friday, Mates, that the Lircrpool, which was on shore thc-ro had teen got off from the rocks, and was towing into the Ames by the Lively Excise cutter, a Revenue lugger, and, one of his Majesty's schooners. The grmt exert'.cus of C apt. Farquhar, the comnumler, have proved, thrttnate.in flouting her, to the astonishment of en d , tersou , here, La't week the Albion, Capt. Proctor, which had parted - A.ora her cable iu the riser, in ete:tearaaring to enter the Gi-orge Dock 13a•in,11.1%ev00..1, with a s;roag breeze from the north west, ran done a flat bkh war I:.itig within it, on board of which were three te.ec., a Monrtiu. and ;ter two chiliben : the men fortunately cs . ..apeit; but. the IA 01111111 anti the children wore, we laine..it to sa d . Jrun DIA. On the approach of ti : a brig, the cooti , or, who wa► on the deck, flew with mate, nal ~,lic itnek to the 'atria), to bring up her children; she succeeded in bringing tto.ai to the top of the ladder, and just a. thrt tare, the `hock itf the vessels took place, awl shit slid Istv &en %TM overwhelmed by the water. . ,w~-~ .~ .~ul.i