The National Register. — London, England, 1821-12-23 00:00:00

606 FRO3I TUESDAY -NIGHT'S G.IZETTE. WHITEHALL. DIRC. 17. The King has been pleased to grant the dignity of a Baronet to Augustine Ft t zgei old, of Newmarket on Fergus, in the county of Clare, Esq. Major General in the Army, and his heirs male; with remainder to his brother, W. Fitzgerald. The King has also been pleased to grant the dignity of a Baronet on Henry Brooke, of Cole Brooke, to the county of Fermanagh, Esq. and his heirs male. 111:c. ►S. 'l•he King has been pleased to grant unto Sir John Croft, of Cowling Hall, in the county of York, Bart. his royal licence and authority, that he may accept and wear the insignia of an Ho norary Knight Commander of the Royal Portuguese Order of the Tower sod Sword. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. N. Driver, Steembrid Gloucestershire, clothier. BANKRUPTS. E Jarvis. Norwich. carpenter. Solicitors, MOWS. Poole and Co. Gray's Inn Square. A. Barratt, Newport Pagnell, Bucks, farmer. S3ls. Messrs. Spence and Co. Furnival's inn. S. Cleave, Warrington, Lancashire, shopkeeper. Sots. Messrs. Hurd and Co. Temple. C. Paulson, St Neot's, Huntingdonshire, ironmonger. Sol. Mr. Jay, St. Neot's. J. Parr. Stand Lane, within Pilkington. Lancashire, check manufacturer. Sols. Messrs. Perkins and Co. Gray's Inn. G. Turner, Liverpool, merchant. Sots. Messrs. Taylor and Co. Temple. S. Else, Tredegar Iron Works, Monmouthshire, shopkeeper. Sol. Mr. Gregory, Clemer,t's Inn. C. C. Staplee, Halifax, Yorkshire, woolatapler. Sol. Mr. Wiglesworth, Gray's Inn. J. Cavey, Beckley. Sttssez, dealer. Solt. Messrs. Egan and Co. 'Essex S:reet, tqrand. R. Banifinl, Pontefract, Yorkshire, maltster. Sol. Mr. Lake, Cateaton Sneer. It. Bingham, Gos?ort, banker. Sol. Mr. Montagu, I.incoln's Inn Fields. J. Wildman, Fen Court, Fenchurch Street, merchant: Sol. Mt. Le Blanc, New Bridge Street. D. Callanan and T. Walsh, King Street, Wapping, soap makers. Sol. Mr. Thompson, Walbrook. W. 11. Marshall, Bristol, ship brokers. Sols. Messrs. Vizard and Co. Lincoln's Inn. DIVIDENDS. Jan. 5, .1. Munn, Carlisle, tallow chandler—R, A. Richardson, York Street, Alarylebtine, and T. Welch, Cleveland Street, Marylebone, builders-8, H. Lucy, Topsley, Herefordshire, builder -12, B. Fenner. Fenchurch Street Chambers, flour factor —l2, D. G. Davie and S. A. Snowden, Plymouth, drapers-12, P. and I. Blackburn, Plymouth, ship burldere--8, G. Perfect, jun. West Malting, Kent, surgeon -19, T. Gowland, Great Winchester Street, merchant-26, W. Pulleys. Leadenhall Street, goldsmith-12, D Campbell, B. Harper, and A. Baillie, (Jul Jewry, mercharits-19, G. Dwyer, Exchange Ailey. briiker —et, W. Wilson, Fenchurch Street, merchant-12, B. Bourdil lon, Walthainstow, insurance broker-26, W. F. A. Dufour, Bemers Street, Oxford Street, jeweller-10. H. Clarke, Buck den Huntingdonshire , grocer-10,.1 . Worslcy, Liverpool, wine nick-hut -10, G. Watts, Chichester. hatter—Feb. 5, J. W. A. Snuggs and J. Walley, Lime Street, merchants-9, T. Dove, Alaklen, linen draper. CEIII I FICATES to be granted Jan. B. Al. Fonter, Newcastle upon Tyne, grocer—T. Hart, Bridport, Dorset, grocer--. 1. Davies, Al itcheldean, Gloucestershire, draper .-.J. Marsh, Rotherham, Yorkshire, grocer--. 1. Callow, Princes Street, Soho, medical bookseller and publisher—J. Spear, Shef field, merchant. LONDON SESSIONS .—Dday villuslice.—Thursday being the day appointed for holding the London Adjourned Sessions, the Lord Mayor, Alderman Birch, Thompson, and Brown, the Common Ser geant, the Sheriff's, the Jury, and Counsel, attended befiire ten o'clock. The presence of four Aldermen being nece►sary when the Common Sergeant fills the place of the Recorder, although the attendance of no more than tbree is required when the latter officer takes his seat, messengers were sent round to the Alde.manic brethren respecting the assistance of any individual of their body in the Court. The Lord Mayor, and all the rest of those who were in readiness to commence business, waited with different degrees id patience nearly two hours. The Jury expressed their feeling without much hesitation or ceremony, and having agreed upon one point unani mously, that further delay would be an inconveni ence upon them, departed. The business of the Sessions is, in consequence of this negligence or misfortune, or whatever the absent Alderman may i choose to term it, to stand over till the 8 tli uf January; and until that period arrives, six prisoners who should have been tried on Thursday must re main in prison. The expences attending the delay are considerable ; and the excuse generally made by negligent Aldermen is, that they have such a variety of business as prevents them from attending to this most important part of their duty. It is certainly the wish of the Aldermen who are able to attend to the duties of the situation, that Close who are not, would make room for men calculated to lighten the unnatural weight upon the general body. WESTMINSTER ABOEY.—The iron railing which obstructed the view of the monuments in this beau tiful edifice, is now rein,ivol, preparatory to Mr. Theakston, sculptor, beginning his herculean task of cleaning and restoring them, Too much prai e cannot be given to the present Dean and Chapter, for their spirited resolution in having those works of art restored to their origimil purity. There arc a great number of the inscriptions nearly obliterated by time, which when restored and brought to the eye, clear of the long complained of obstruction of iron work, cannot but be highly gratifying to the public at large, as well as to the relatives of the de ceasedto whose memory they are inscribed. A clothier in Dunkeld has received orders to pro vide three hundred suits of tartan, with bonnets and hose complete, for the purpose of clothing a body of sturdy Highlanders, as a guard for his Majesty when he visits th, Duke of Athol. THE NA TIONAL REGISTER SHIPWRECK. —+— (From a New South Wale% paper.) SYDNEY, JUNE o.—Just as Captain Rattle was on the eve of leaving Valparaiso fur this part of the world once more, he was informed of a marvellous affair relating to an American whaler, that hail been attacked by a whale at sea in so violent and dreadlid a manner as to occasion the vessel to founder, and most of the crew to perish of whose disastrous history we have been favoured with, and shall present the same to our readers. Captain Raine received information that there were three men on Dti eie's Island, who had preferred remaining there rather than venture across the ucean in a boat, to which the crew had been compelled to fly (tom the ship. The boat, to which there three men belonged, had been picked tip by an American whaler, about sixty days after the melan choly ocenrrence. Another boat, in which was the cap tain and the remeieder of the crew soon patted company, and were also fallen in with by another whaler of Ame rica, which vessel was the bearer of the intelligence to Valparaiso; and the horrible account given by the two survivors in this boat was Billy deplorable and shudder ing. They had been ninety days at era before they had been fallen in with, and had experienced the must dread fill of all human vicissitudes; from the extremity of hun ger, they had been reduced to the painful necessity of killing and devouring each other, in order to sustain a wretched life, that was bendy expected to be terminated. Eight times had lots been drawn, and eight human beings had been sacrificed, to afford sustenance to those that remained i and, ma the day the ship encouutered them, the captain and the boy had also drawn lots, and it had been thus determined that the pour boy should die. But, providentially, a ship hove iu sight and took them in, and they were restored to existence. Doleful in time extreme as it Is to hear such things, and painful as it is to relate diem, it la nevertheless asserted us a fact by Capt. Heine, that the fingers and other fragments of their deceased companions were in the pockets of the captain and boy when taken on board the whaler. The cot 1111 l ander of the Surrey becoming opportunely acquainted with those pain ful and distressing circumstances, Imnianely determined on calling at llacie's Island, and be irstrumental in re storing three unfortunate fellow-ereattires to society, and very possibly rescue them front a miserable end, particu larly as this island was no great distance out of his tract 110al Valparaiso to New Holland. On Thursday, the sth of April, Captain Raine, considering himself within a very short distance of Ditere's Island, which is laid dowu in Noire's Epitome to be iu lat. 24 deg. 4d min. S. and long. 124 deg. 37 . W. kept a good look-out. As the vessel °eared the land, a gnu was discharged, and shortly after the three po ,r men were sect' to issae forth (tom the a nods. The bumf% were [presently lowered, Capt. Naive taking one Ititie.eif. On approaching the shore, it was finial] not only datigei outs, hat utterly impracticable, to 14011, of which err cionitance they were informed, in weak and treimiluus voices, by the almost starved and ueatly worn out creatures themselves, who could scarcely, from the miserable plight they were in, articulate a syllable.— One poor fellow anutinuned up courage to plunge into the waves, and with great difficulty reached the boat ; lie said one of the others only could swim. After warily backing in the boat as near the rocks as possible, amidst a heavy surf, they succeeded in getting on board, lunch bruised and lacerated by repeated falls; which object was no sooner °fleeted, than each devoutly expressed his gratis tilde to that benign Being, who hail su woriderfully pre. served them lions sharing in the destruction to which their unhappy shipmates had fallen victims. These men are now with Captain Keine, and declare their names to he Thomas Chapped, William Wright, and Seth Weeks ; and the foible tug is the accuuut they gave of tiie distressing cir- C.HOSIUUee, Which we feel no hesitation in declaring miry be numbered with true of thine events that are without parallel in the history of man. 'floe y sailed from Natucket in the Ainerieun clip Aster, of two huudred and sixty tuns, O. Pollard, master, of the 10th of Alvust, 1819, on a whaliug voyage; they au rived in the South Seas, where they were pretty fortunate, halving succeeded in procuring 150 barrels 01 oil, and wei e in the latitude to! 41 deg. south, and long. 118 west, when the ;Accident happened, which was on the Idite of November, 1820. On that day sissy were among whales, road the !hire boats were lowered downs the mati 'a boat gut sieve, and had returned to the ship to be ‘ repaired. —Shortly after a is li:the of the largest claw struck the tilde, and knocked part of the false keel utr, jug abreast ill the main channels. The animal thee remained along-side, en deavouring to clasp the ship with her jaws, but could not accomplish it; she Ikea turned, went muuimd the sten', mai came up on the other side, and went away a head Jamul a quarter tan mile, :and then cud& uly tinning, came lit the ship with trernearluris velocity, head on. Time vessel was gnat; at the rule of live knots, but such was the force a hen bite struck the ship, which was under the cat-head, that the ve.sel bad ster n-wns, tit the rate of three ur four knots; the consequence wit., that the sea rashed into the cabin windows, every man on deck was knocked down. and worse than till, the sows were ,leave completely in, nod in a few minutes the vessel tilled, aud went on her beam ends. At this un happy juncture, the captain mid second mate were fast to a a huh- each; out On beholding the awful catastrophe that bad taken place, immediately cut from the fish, amid made fur the ship. Ily cutting away the masts, the vessel 'lighted: the upper deck was their scuttled; and some water and blend were prorwerl for dr. two boats, in which they were cwiiipelled to lewain , its all thoughts (dairying the ship were eject, Ns. la expect,' of falling iu wink some prate', they remained [Mee days by the wreck, making sails, &c. hut arr.. cumpilled at length to abandon it, and stood away to south% aril, in hopes of getting the variable winds aid spitespitn.vaciii fins weather; but the wind constantly (ruin the east awl east south ran, they made much lee-way, and were preveuted float keeping to the southward ; in conse quence of which, on the 20th of Deceitiber, they made the islaird (tour which Captain Raine took theta, and which was lake., for Ducie's 1-land, amt which place the boats remained 'sue week; but the Islior.l affording hardly any nourishment, in fact exhibitiry, marring hut sterility, they resolved on veuturing fur the coast, lenvisig behind them the three awe lion on biend the Surrey, with whose sufferings. and those of their shipmates, we are by this opportunity favoured with sin account ; and cestainly they are puignaut in the es treine. The scaffultlin,g on the top of St. Pours Cathedral has been so tar removed as to give a full view of the new ball and cruss, which have a very splendid utret.t. ws ADJOURNED INQUEST ON' NIL BLAD E On Monday, at two o'clock, the Jury met according to adjournrnent,at the house of Mr. Fountain, the Marques. of Granby, in Percy-street. Ratliboile.place, to resume their inquiry into the circumstances which led to the melancholy death of the above gentleman. The first witness examined was a gentleman named T. R. Este, residing in Porimaiesquare, who stated, that about nine o'clock on the 29th of November, as he was passing through the Edgware-road, he saw two females, apparently women of the town, looking in a shop window. He had scarcely passed when Ise again saw them running towards a stage coach, the driver of which was on his box, and invited them to come up and take a ride, which they did. The man then drove away rapidly towards the toll-gate. and then he drove still more furiously. In a few minutes lie (witness) heard shrieks and screaming, and, conceiving that an accident had happened, he tan back, and the first person he met told him the stage had overturned. Sonic little distance on he sew a crowd, amougst whom lie noticed one of the women that rode with the driver; she was covered with mud, and appeared to be fainting, and lie should conceive that she must have been seriously injured. Another woman came up, who was much disfigured. and laboured under considerable agitation. A tCw yards on laid the deceased, covered with dirt, and bleeding. Witness asked him if lie was hurt, and lie then complained that his head and body lied been much hurt. Witness and some other persons lifted bins up, and carried him to a gentleman's house adjoining. surgeon was immediately sent foi , and a gentleman, sa assistant to Mr. Bryan, soon afterwards arrived, and dressed the deceased's wounds. Witness, as soon as he conl , l, proceeded to the stage coach, and saw ' 4 Notting Hill" on it, but before he could take the name, the coach man mounted the box and drove off. He could not see the exact colour of the coach body. There were lamps along one side of the road, and witness is perfectly sure, that if he was driving the coach he could have seen the deceased's chaise. The coachman's language was very otkesive, and lie certainly considered his manner of do iviug to be very reprehensible; but it was nothing inure, speaking generally, than all the coachmen on that road were in the Jaily habit of doing. A Juryman here suggested, that 'Fliomas Stratford, the person who was supposed to have driven the coach on the night of she accident, was in attendance to give evidence; but The Coroner declined calling him, lest he might be cri minated, and could not legally be examined. Richard Saunders, of the Edgware-road, wheelwright, was alarmed by a noise in the street,and on going out saw a horse rush by, dragging the fragments of a chaise at its heels. The deceased was then lying against the railings, in answer to witness's inquiries, lie said lie was very much hurt, and that lie feared his leg was broken. He said 110 was buckling the belly-band of his horse at the lime, and that he called out to the coachman to take care, bat be paid nu heed to the caution, but ran him down. The stage was one of the Bayswater coaches, and the man who drove it was not the regular driver ; the women called him by the name of Toni, and witness is sure he should know him again. There was light enough for him to see, and room to pass 11r.Stade without touching either him or his gig. Mi. Appleton (a Juror.)—The road is 1-1 yards wide, and FIX carriages could easily pass abreast ; on this occa sion Mr. Slade's chaise and the stage were the only vehicles on the road. Charles Reeves, a watchman, saw two women on the box; their names are Sarah Dixon and Carty. He had no doubt but he could find them immediately. Coroner.—Well, then, my chaise is down below—take that, and tiling the ladies here at once. A summons was then granted against them, and the watchman deported to serve it. The witness Saunders re-examined.—He had been down stairs to see the person. now in waiting, and tbe Mall !mimed out to him by the name of Thomas Stratford is the same w limo he saw with the coach on the night of the accident. There being no more witnesses at this period of the inquiry, the Jury and Mr. Das is, one of the assignees tin ! der Kitiner's baiikruptcy, held a long consultation respect ! ing the owners of the coach, from which their *Gigs appeared both perplexed and unsatisfactory. At the request of the Jury, Thos. Stratford was called, and being informed by the Coroner of the situation in which he stood, was asked if lie had any objection to be sworn ? He replied in the negative. He them stated that lie sometimes throve the coach front Nettie; Hill; he did not know who the owner of that coach was, hut the name upon it is Samuel Kinuer, of Kensington. Curoner.-.-1 am rather shy in asking you any (nether questions, nor treed you say aay more unless you like. Stratford.-1 have nettling more to say, Sir, only I was not the cause of the accident. Coruiter.—Who was then ? Answer.—Why, t don't know, it was miserably dark and foggy. He then proceeded to state that he gave the two wane a ride, but the mess who were with him were passengers. However, he subsequently admitted that those persons also rode fur nothing, lie having given them " a lilt" from the Batik,-and he afterwards declared that the women were passengers too, and very frequently rode with him, although in the firs; instauce be was understood to say to the cuutraiy. He was afterwards asked who employed and paid loin 1 Tu the tinnier lie answered Mr. Khmer ; and with retard to the latter he decared that he never received any wages at alt. Mr. Junathaii Wooddenillord of the Star and Garter, in the Eden at e-road, stated, that on the evening is ques tion, Thomas Stratford, and another coachman, whose name lie believed to be Calvert, called at his house and had something to drink ; they were both sober. 511.. Itov elicits, who keeps the Yorkshire Stiego, proved, that on the night of the accident Stratford called at his house; he then drove Kintiet's Notting Hill coach, and he appeared sober. It was announced that the watchmen who bad been sent tut the women had arrived with one of them. She wits aceordingly introduced and sworn. Her name, slue said, was Caroline Johnson; her residence was itr Lisson-green t on the eve ee iee g when Mr. Slade wee killed site was walking along the Edgware.road, and at the Star and Gaiter public home saw the s a ys water coach, which Thomas Stratford drove; she got up without being asked by the driver—in fact, because she wanted to go to Bayswater as a passenger. On going through the toll-gate, Stratford gut done to do something to the coach, giving her the reins, and on his getting lip again