The National Register. — London, England, 1816-09-02 00:00:00

•-, vs BRITISH EMIGRANTS IN AMERICA. How prone is the human mind to fancy pleasure or advantage in that, to which it is a stranger, and to dis card the warning voice of experience ! The following paragraphs in a respectabh: evening paper have drawn frau us this observation, which, we hope, may be im prove:l by some of uur and well meaning ar tizans. %C ry hdeni v ent ;10 i6eer ha% lately returned from %ineriea, to w comitiy he vi .411 in the hope of V10) - 1111.'0. He star. t hat the W.ICVS of workmen me abort 64. a they, inn Ilte+t• wales are only to he had for litr months in the year. Lodging* are 'h dearer than in !ii ovi-ion. not cheaper. He left number* of English workincte wailing ill 11111itill .1 104•AW4e. " I . lte Virginia Papers r:ve moat.hoekinearcottntsofthe dis. treat and di...appointments generally expetienred by F:nglish manufacturers, aml 01111•1 , , \TIM have been indneed in emigrate in great minibers, und.r the hope uf bettering dirk condition in Abort a.•• The following is an extract of a letter, received by a gentleman at Cliff, near Selby, front his brother who lives at Baltimore, dated the `sth alas•, 1816: " Yon seem to complain of being oppressed with taxes : I will give )1111 a small account of ours, in 4 free country as they illeasr to call it. My house rent is li7l. ids. my tas ern licence 141. Jc. od. furniture tax hi, watch ,gold) 9s. dog Os. water t!. los. u year. We ate taxed for every tiling we possess.— I _ivc a statemeid of our mat kris : —Wheat WA. 0415 4s. Od. barley bs. titl. per bushel; beef ►s. 3d. veal 1,. Sil. mutton (Id. pork bacon 1,. "id. hotter 3s. Oil. per lb. eggs 1,. nil. peralozcn, amid eiery Ming in i raportion. You eau uuw form your opt stun of both countries:. We confess ourselves not a little surprized at the slow progress of the subscription for the relief of the labour ing part of the community. But, whether it be owing to extraordinary local exertions, aided by a judicious application of the funds in particular districts (as noticed in this paper) the evils do not, from the face of the pub lic accounts, appear at present to be in a state of pro gressive increase. We rejoice that we have no occasion, this week, to record any instances, in which our coun trymen have been disinclined to meet e, isting inconve niencies, however painful, with a proper spirit. This is honourable to their character us Englishmen, and we hope they will persevere in it with manly consistency. For, can the irregular and destructive sullies of popular resentment, produce one possible good? Can they give one artificer an additional hour of employment, or lessen the price of one Occetsary article of Ell: a farthing in the pound ? Can they diseharge the rent of one cottage, or provide an additional article of warm clothing tOr their backs or their beds, during the approaching winter? We say no more at present, hoping our truly valuable artizans and husbandmen will still demean themselves as men of principle and reflection. The Committee of the Association for the Relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor have already extend ed relief to the poor of Spitalfields, Stockton, Dudley, Rowley Regis, Kingswinford, Sudbury, Bridport, and Stockport. They have also voted considerable sums for the relief of distressed parts in Northamptonshire, Bed fordshire, and Buckinghamshire. Op Thursday se'nitight, a respectable but not very numerous meeting Ciok place u t tip Guildhall, Ply th, pursuant to a requisition by the Mayor, in order to determine on the pro priety of raising a subscription for the relief ot• the manufae tnring and labouring classes, at the present disc essing crisis.-- A Der certain papers, midribs( d to the Mawr by the Duke ot• Celli!, iliac, 411(1 th•: 14011410t3 association, had been read, a d. some pi I tinent übset %alms by Di. Hawker, the Rev. Mr. Alends, Mr. Hawker, and Mr. Sultan, a Committee was up• pointed to correspond with the I.olltloll Association, and col lect information on the soot, with the view of ascertaining the es'ent of distress, both general and local, preparatory to open ing books for contributions. Another public meeting is fixed fur the 3th of next month to receive the Committee's Report. WollliMEN%. WAG tame descriptions of mann factorieS are actually %topped for want of employment, others are enabled to keep up their prices so enormously, that an at tempt having been made by a most respectable house at W al thannab;my, in the caliew printing line, to lower the wages of their journeymen, who fir some time past IIAVI• been remising 2s. MI. per handkerchief, for printing, to 2s. itd. at which e duced price the men could corn las. per day, it was resisted ; and, in consequence of the pressure of Emmen milers, the mas ters were obliged to Rnbmit, and contione to pay the usual price of Ys. 6tl. per handkerchief, K hat is denominated a st►ike has also taken place amongst the wool water•, won, at the I•resrut rate of wages, ran emit from 31. 111 three week. The masters wished to reduce the rate of %%Ages out-- third, on account of the reduction si Melt has taken p!oce in th, , ar own prices, and to enable them to meet the Corlett mar ket. 'flits proposition the men refused to areetle to; and the masters, not being able to gise more, arc malty of them stand itt:r still ; oit Ist the men, in consequenre of their own obstinacy, are many hundreds of them become but den•ume to their ri - spectire parishes, together with their f,unilic Would it not M• well.whitst se many thousands tee out of employ and %tors ino., or burdensome to till it parishes from absolitle want of ern plus inent, that PsriSll Othet• Is should make inquiry, and refuse to relieve all sort) a s al ight hayo wink and refit.... to do it; and th.o the N'ig:.tr dr. ihtilid support the Otiirt-EA in the alls• citaa,e• Of 11.1• AllllOll5 1$1111104•COill'y part of their duty towards tilt community at Lag( , on whom the li.acy suedes of 11. e Poor's•rate laPs? (Anil/Ls I)LCEPTION —A small French vessel, laden with fruit, has been so zeal at Loot., in coostapietter of contraband goods uriug tumid on board her. It appears that her ingetii ous owners, improving on the classical wit of the ancient. , had constructed twelve small horses, which hail the apyearanrve of a set of elegant play-things. On eimmining these viirio• Pies attentively, it was found that the animals were teeming -cot, indeed, with MAI. ti Greeks, but with silk shares aid Alqckinp sal superior quality ! This singular disco%Cri, Ur combs', was foliwaed by the attention of the vesstl. THE -N A TIOX-ti. 4UIO :own*. PROVIN'CLILS. Numbly last the Mayor and Commonalty of Plyr.tesulli, at a meeting eons coed I). the Mayor, resolved to muter the free dom of that anosicut linrooligh, by patent, on flit' Itlght lion. Charles I l e Yorke, in testinurny or the high ..11,11.4e entertain ed of the • mills lit services I eialered by him in has inc . . whilst Virst Lord of the Ailiii.saots , Its iris manly and inflexible per se“.l.4l.l.C. p1.411.111 . il 411.1 ettllleol tIIIIIIIZII the Collllell doe re solution to adopt Coe estaillishootent of that 0 , 11.41 t imioilial the Pier or iti1 . 41./ 1, ill lib) month soloi s t!, an undertaking of the Idghr t ito; orlauee to the public welfare, and of the mast essential tomtit( to the poor.. And in order to commenioriete the interest he took it that great work, the 711ityor and Com monalty I estst..l, 11141 the fretuloon should be present d to him lit a box, 111411 e front ea. I of the first Mork of the stone laid for forming the Illreals 411'1 4,4 pie , 4. haiing been preserieol) in laid with silber,llll.l W I.'l .1 sidlmile inserlptiolt. ll ) C'fiffiditivc appointed fur toe por suss , when he nest visits that tout). A stocking roam factory is about to be established at Ilsley. Berkshire.. the inaeloino ry for whirl', it seems, is remooved Iron Not tine:ham by a Lot solatiolfammer. in coosemienee Of the disorderly cot:duet of the persons they employed 41 the latter place. We learn front !cantingliam, that the Luddites have tiara d again to resume tlte.r mischievous mad teaa of frame-breaking. TA el%e frames hate recently been larokett at St malt lord, but no other itkony committa il. It is stain al from the saint• the :elk! Or the I . .iiiiity NP mint dilliat tits fact), that at the moment Judge Oraitam •11. 1111 l ille Up the evidence op the late trials tat the Luddit,s, several of the :Magistrates retired from the Court. ELY, Arc. 26.—We have the painfal task of recording another melancholy of premature Beata ties a•ioaed by the distressing state of the film's. Mr. William Piiitirps, a respectable saddler and harness-suaLer, ailed at Lay. on 'flows day last, and the r irenaistatiees vs larch led to his death are as extraordinary as they are ailiacting. It seems that within the last two years be has sustained heavy {leases in trade, by the failure of some large farmer • in the vicinity of Ely, and in one or two instances his los.sr , appear to haa e been principally am imitable to the frauduh lit practit•rs of his debtor s. 'l • hese disa.ters produced a Strew.: thiteS:4oll oh spirits, under which is h is ever sines lahmared, oectisionally avcontranted by evi• dent symptoms of insanity. llis bodily health, however, was not materially impairs d, and lie had been a i ls to atta nil to his business NCI' toidable coil irity. On Tuesday last lie aeti• dentally saw a et rbuill 1413 , 111 C his dour, through whose agesiey lie considered ante of his largest debtors to have deprived hint of a eale.iderahle tallil; lie went into his hilltse ill a disturbed state of nand, and in a short lime olle of his llatane tits 'moon eft, his deliriums continued to increase niatil Thursday morn Mg, tt hen be died in an eXtrrale slate of nu•ntal il-raiteeinent, having, during his short blues., repeatedly vorifciated aloud the names of those debtors who had particularly injured hint. lie had been established in business but a few yeaas, aml was highly respected, lie has let ' , a widow .and three infant chil dren to lament his 11/MS. WOlll.l to God those drbtons who are disposed to defraud their creditors %coda seriously redeet on this tale of woe. On Monday, at Brighton, an 7oformation against Walker and Donaldson's libraries, fur carrying on the ogle-card too chances in the evening, was hewed 'Afore the Alagistratc•-• The charge of illegal gaining was not, however, so testa gloated by the evidence of the iutiermers, and Mr. Serjeant huuniii - ton dismissed the complaint, afire stating the penal laws on the question with ‘reat }serspicuity, for the future guidance of the librarian.. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE --A celebrated fox-honied, the pro perty of R. Cowen, huntsman to the Carlisle harriers, has rear• eel three eubluxes, taken YIIICII three d aye old. They were brought up in the kennel of It. Oliphant, Esq. of Broadlield• house; and, surprising 1.4/ relate, Accompany the hound s in the Oahe, and ate as tierce against their OWII species as their more canine ASSOl'iatet4.--1 Journal.) Friday se'nnight. as Mr. N. A. Austen, Batiks r, of Ramsgate, was in the art of shooting s • pigeons with it 411111b1c-bariel ed gnu of foreign manufacture, the piece burst in hi. hands, scat tering its fragments in ail directions without doing him any 111- . 01 . '41m tiler than a bruise on the left hand produced by the violent caucus. Ve`All ri Illig at aneleir in the harbour of Lochinaddy, North struck with lightning on Sunday, the 21st nit. anti nuniediawly stink. AU the (Ten were lost. Oil the Sallie day, a you u; woman; was allied in that vitittity. A e'.aring robbery took place about nine o'clock on Friday evening. the 16th inst. at Mr. A. Yaws's ant-vv, near liverpooL J. Yates was residing there, expectirg in a few weeks her is:tone:owner whet six ;own (supposed to be all Irish) entered the house; two of whom stood sentinels at the kitchen, and two at the pulour doors; while the other two entered the parlour where Mr. and Sirs Joseph Yates were sitting. .%fter robbine; Mr. Yates, one stood over Mtn with a pistol, and the other robbed Mrs. Yaws, turned out her tockets, wok the rings from her fingers, and the broach from her howen; he then made her go into imodier room where her children were in bed; she Said. " You see my situation, take what you can find, but do not 'hurt me or my children." At tuia tinie Mr. A. Yates rang the hell, and would have entered the house. hut tie two sentinels at the parlour door prevented hint, dragged him into the park, and emptied his pockets for him; he, however, unobscrvol by them, hail dropped his watch, worth so guineas, and by teat means a veil it; the ruffians in their hurry dropped 41. and their whole booty did not exceed 121. Mrs. Yates preserved ...swat malamute and rw,reuend of herself during the robbers stay in the house; but has since been seriattsly ill, and great fears are entertained for herself and her Minn:. A. a chaise with part of the family of Sir .T. R. Warren, was driv ing up the Mat ket-place. on their way through Beverley. the pot-boy, owing to a want of light, drove into a large excavation nearly opposite Church lane-end. l'hc chaise wits quite dashed to pieces, but hap pily the poriengeis escaped unhurt. Wednesday se'imight, as t'lt True Briton coach (containing 14 out side passengers. including th • gu red and catesirm, and six tarmais within), Was descending near Marlet W,•iglitoil. it terg,s over tunied. One of the inside panengers, R. 'fowaexel, he p. of Yolk, had his shoulder dislocated, nua two other gentlemen were mach bru;sed. The outside however. vni en' sorry ti add, ware more si rienisly injured: Mr. Cattermun of Beverley. Mid I,i ; thigh broken; Mr. Mabwa, of tile firm of Durdenbili^: MithAnn, nod la bron, of Idaniinliani, had his kg so witch tractor:it. as to renikr aal natili.ucam,,utauou necessary; Mr. %Yank'', druggist, of Po also had his leo; so %uncle lacerated, as to cause some doubt whether ant :caution wili not yet b,• tiee.ssery.' Mr. Mabson. and Mr. War dell are now lying at *trim Weii,diton—the other gentlemen were removed. It is very sin whir that tine were tail hulas in the coach, and two without, all of whom escaped without any injury. As the coach which nuns between Manchester anti Shrewsbury, by way of Mr:lintel', was passing tbromp the hater town, owing to the eareliasoess of a very inceperien•vel (Inver, ie Woes upset on twrir.: cornet. awl a fine boy, the son of Mrs. Lowe, of Nantwieb, was k:1:01 a gentleman of the name of *Lure, another itassenger, had iii.; :.:ale dislocated, and one of le saran twat: of his I:,s bzuhen: iunieral oLlteirs were much bruistal. 4_ • _•_•. 'G" - PrivrEM 7 3tß %. INTEY.FIGENCE. court ,- or NCERY, AVG. 20. F.rperte A'el46'•' %-to OTC:ER.O, in the meth r Qt . l ITGITT. . . This was a pet:font from the as of Frattei: ‘I right. a bankrupt, pra y ing for an order In send before - Vie Master two several bilk of costs which had been made out by Mr. Stoitera, the modeito.., one atuomiting• to and the ether to a 1.21. •13... id. on aeco-gat of Inkiness done for W iglu and Mis. Mats , Anne Clarke. 'The object of the petnion was to have the said bills nixed on the aroma of alleged excess nod es:rav a ign i iec in many of tie eharees therein. It Appeared that itt Ipril a c o mmis-i o n 11f bankrupt was issued against % I tlll4l enra plosed Stokes as hi+ nt. It also appeared that there hoof been dealings and Arruonts betw ern right and stokes fri s n i the ye.tr Iminti to Iblo. That in NIA enilwr !Kin, S;okrANk bill amounted to 13191. 'Float tria guinea...4' that bill was paid by Mrs. Mary Anne Ciartke ; that iu Isu9 stoke: timed as agent for Wright against CM. %baldly : that in Dec. Ititnl. CoL Woe - dle lodged au ititheiment against Wright and 0111ers fin a COSI.. ra:Araey, which stoke. was eauploy ell hi %flight to ; that in 1510. Stokes was de droos to (1)111C to a settlement of aeeolllll4 with lfti_hl, for %vibe!, purpose lie delivered its to bbl the -aid bill i31:11. 'That •*.ftes amok. about a ear nod a hait . :.ei. re the bankruptcy. 'Stokes i aid 52.11. to Wrigle, being a fiAMitee which Melt appeared doe; and that WI iabt K '.1,4 perfectly satis fied with all that had passed. and save Stake: a receipt accut ingly for the said Imlatiee ur52111. Mr. II at. for the assignees. stated ease at length. Mr. Cloak...tone followed Mr. Hart on the s. , Eitit. side. Sir 5., Itmailiy, iu behail of Mr. Stokes, said, [kit then. never WAS a minimailtiressed to the Court so ono artily nt itS al ten lion 44 the present. The sum of tiiJril. yy Inch had been men tioned as an abrupt and unexplained item at the !trail of Mr. Stokes's bill, was the bitlanre of an aveoitiit, the Firtieulars whereof had be. furnished to Mr. ‘‘ riaht a fortnight befotv; and as to Wriatit's bring to the post er of Mr. Stokes, there syav nothing whatever to make that appear, out a It vomit 1116,4 strangely he inferred from the fort of Mr. Stokes anon;; to pay ;gni, to di. Wright• limit neitlier Mem nor till lire Nwarsand a half afterwards, did Mr. Wriaht ()nee intimate the leii-t satist wino) or any thmight or purpose of to-swim,. And what, afar all. yyrre tile enormous items e 'twitted of Wby ttli guitieas lot roiling the proreedinas in the House of Ciuminnis. But it the trouble were fairly e•limated, tot solo would be deemed hardly so:ileum!. 'lltirse primeedings. evteadiut to 0 thick folio volume, twi nty rod mid ponds was the Charge for court fors. contprrhencbult the j4kl, the Mar...liar-, and Ow Crier's. Five guineas for striking a Special Jury, and eimi dering how int•ious Mr. Wright was to obtain pirrtientar Mho., wanton relative to every intuits ideal of that Jury, the sum isi.arsi lerai. Mrs. Clarli:e's mists w i le pot ( ' by w r i g ht, re 'l l , l ought to be, thy ramie being his, and nut !lei's. Mr. !tart rei•liret. Glancelloi . said. the case, na ht• malerstond it, was this I—There had bet•n dr.tling• between and Susi, e•, from the year lSati; that 'thoorn a sctr and a half bt-fure the hankinpley of 1i right, Sii.l.oa was desirous to 114,ve mein, and delitcrrd in a bid amounting to 13291 with n oi r !. Wright appealed quite satisfied. As to rhe time which bad , since elapsed under :intuit lan acquiescence; there was no lentOli of time which would prevent the Court iktfill interfering in ally ease of gross or toluritions overcharge; bet, in any such case, it would he ucee.•sary to point out tie specific items, and it would not be e gli for such interference to allege that two t;uiliva' had bi en charged in a particular article instead ofou•. It mast be an egregious and systematic o•ercharge, and the instauer, must be specifically pointed out. No such speeilica ill.ll ill the pvt seta C:l , e was before the Court, there was no -11 thing at all in the petition but general allegation, and under all the vire 1111 l stances lie could out let the bill for Cle3l. be touched. The other hill for 3121. 13s. Ad. he thought shouts( go before the 3lisater. ANOTHER AIA Rll AT NEITGAi4E: About one o clock on Saturday morning, a considerable alarm was created in the neighbourhood (tithe Old Bailey, from a report having been cireulated that the prisoners had renewed their outrageous pros, ritint:s. Multitudes of people in cons. , (invitee ass.onbled ; but it was coon aseertiti•ed, that the hi's: le and noise which sounde I from within the walls, pmceetled from a preparation making for the retina% al of the convicts inolcr sentence of transport:dime, an order to that effect hosing been ecei eil from the c of the Secretary of State in the course (tithe day. The persons collected also about the prison Wined nut chiefly to be the ft i4nik or etl:dives of the con. iris, who had, it seemed, some expectation of the es mit. The greatest order prevailed inside, and the tituttod resienation was 111:811. fested on the part oldie prisoners in submitting to the arrange ments tor their departure. About half past three o'clock the convicts wet e conducted in aconites of s no ut a dozen each. and 41111011flting, to about fifty, front the prison to the great yard. where C4I avails with six horses were drawn up to reeek e them. Having been placed in these vehicles, and every thing adjusted for their removal, the procession moved on to Black friar's Bridge, preceded by Messrs. 11 untorer 81111 1 /WWII, the mar shals, mid surrounded by the other etty officers. Upon their deli:lrani , the conviets gave three cheei s, %shirk was as heat lily repeated upon their reaviiing 111.tek friars, and finally upon at• r.ving at the other side ut the hi idge, c. be:. a military eseditt of light horse was in readiocss to receii e them. 'flue ca.aleirte was diamond:ll with torches, and the occasion ed shouts of " raiessel!" the momentary sh..ke of the hand with some Variing frimid or relation. ;tad toe bitter cries and la.iientatiens of other-, gave to the 'viol:- scrim a most iiiiposiaz efl'i -Among the 1.141 s idly we noticed t h e ceiehrattii Bill So, , whose case 11,4L1 excited so much iiitered un clued.- geenee or bet is Cl•nv kie.l tlirougli the testimony o f soames had .oldressed the Secretary of State mid several jlllll - and high widow ities tip it the subject, declaring has Moo cenee, and at ritimitig his conviction to a plot. Thew. how- PV r, p!ore.l imoteci ssfol, soil th departed yesterday mortalig, with his (dime compano.i.s. without a murmur. 1)1111ING IluttGLArtv.—?stoilil•iv niJit. :boat twelve o'ctort, • tialiO•ey, trifc of Mr; Ramsey, boat.lmililer, of Ll'' about retiring to bed, she was lammed by the ap pearance of too who rusliel ~ tit of the cedar. awl horrid imorecatimis threltes.ed to cut her throat, if she w : the least resistant.... 'Chew then demanded her I,e‘ 4, Old n C Of then went into the parlour, broke ueeti a desk, met two , oat three SCI. note., ait.l three int. H oles. Aim It. af:ei ielouseh from th e itrev, ran tip stairs, mil Ibl , e alt illac.a to her bushrud, when the v,llains r mot of the hooYe and made out, out iii their harry dropped two of the 301. MACS in t h e pdsi..wi., w hich svere picked IT by lir. it.'s 41.11. meriii:;:ta frt• on the pr. mises of )Tr. Robert fdrowr, of 'filli:ozhain. Essex, by which ,It is feared the lire n▪ ut :at eideut.a. • I