The National Register. — London, England, 1820-08-20 00:00:00

THE QUEEN. The following excellent letter has been addressed by Sir Gerard Noel to the Earl of Liverpool:— .6 EXTON-PARK, August I l• " MT LORD.—The present moment seems to me to claim the best exertions of every one to preserve the empire in prosperoui tranquillity, and I therefore have no scruple, a; an old Member of the House, who have in general given my support to Minis ters, though always without fixed devotedness to party, in addressing your Lordship previously to the meeting of Parlia• went . . " I lament extremely to be obliged to complain that his Ma iesty's Ministers, instead of adhering to an undeviating plan of healing measures in order to justify the cautionary regulations of the two last years, and unequivocally to mark the wish of Admi nistration more generally to attain the confidence of the people, have ventured to adopt with pertinacity the monstrous measure of the Bill of Pains and Penalties against the Queen, which unhappily forms the most important undertaking of the new reign, and by which they are exasperating the pablic discontents, and almost culling forth and sanctioning, by their conduct in this mad affair, that impatience against which those cautionary moths tions have been directed,and hereby creating such wide-spreading dissensions as will put in jeopardy every class of society, and nay eventually tend to weaken our national respectability in the Courts of Europe. " My Lord, it is to me a great proof of the inattention of the Cabinet that the return of the Queen to England was not fore seen, as the obvious consequence of its proceedings with regard to her Msjesty; for, when the storm began to threaten against her, immediately on the demise of the late King, with strong symptoms of its having been gathering in hi, life-time; and when, upon her last arrival at Rome, where she was personally known, and had been formerly acknowledged as Princess of Wales, the Court there treated her Majesty as a disowned indi vidual; being thus a discarded heretic in a Roman Catholic country, must it not have been apparent to her Majesty that her best course was rapidly to escape, and to throw herself on the protection of the British nation ? I assert, therefore, without the fear of successful contradiction, that it is the conduct of his Ma jc-ty's advisers which has forced the Queen into England. The attempt to persuade her Majesty to remain on the Continent, which happened at St. Omer's, could only excite her greater alarm:. and her good sense and knowledge of ilie world, and of the principles of the British constitution—considering besides the harassings by which her steps had been visited in Italy, and upon the line of her return home—clearly and immediately pointed out to her Majesty that to accept its conditions was wholly inconsistent with her dignity and her repose; that with out the protection of the English Church, which was withheld, and without British sanction, which the communication could not assure to her Majesty, there was neithcrsafety nor permanency to life o fortune aseertainesl to her; and most fitly therethre she steadily and promptly proceeded qn her journey. Can it then be 'barged again-t her Majesty that she has intro led offensively on the shores of England ? " If, indeed, my Lord, instead of instituting that Milan Commission (for the cost of which I know not upon a hat prin ciple the Chancellor of the Exchequer can ask from the Commons to provide), the Cabinet, by a generous and prudent anticipation, had intimated to her Majesty, that, after the demise of the late King, the protection of the Church of England, and an increased allowance as Queen of England, should be afforded to her, to soften the misfortunes of the Royal separation, which had so solemnly and irrevocably been agreed upon long ago, her Majesty might possibly have been induced to remain abroad; and, in consideration of the relict which her niarriage with the present King, when Prince of Wales, gave to the nation from the appre• hension, strangely and strongly excited at that time by various circumstances, that the influence of l'opery might revive in these realms: feeling also grateful acknowledgment to both their Majesties for their meeting the wishes of the people, then so impressively declared; Parliament no doubt would have agreed to pass an act enabling his Majesty to make such provision, which would, in that case, have been mutually desirable; tenon) , Lord, adverting to the actual posture of affairs, I pronounce that the Queen had no alternative in the overture at sit. Omer's for staying abroad, nor is the Bill of Pains and Penalties a fair alternative or just consequence of the failure of the negotiations with her Majesty in London; and I cannot contemplate that Bill, so illegitimately commenced, without disgust, or without astonish ment as to its policy in a ministerial point of view regnnl being had to the enormous growing expenses of the nil', and to the disadvantage which must re s ult from the unwarrantably terming it a cause between the country and the Queen, whereas the re pugnance of the country against the trial is so notorious as probably to render the question of defraying the charges of so unjustifiable and perWeious an extravagance, if your Lordship and those who act with you urge this portentous Bill relentlessly forward in spite of every warning voice, most embativising to his Majesty's Administration, at a time perhaps even more dis tressangly afflicting than the present, and in a predicament entirely originating with themselves. With sentiments, then, of parting friendship, and somewhat of painful anxiety for the future—and to obey the call to public duty, so well made by Lord John Russell upon Mr. Wilberbirce, and all those Members who have hitherto supported the present Administration, I ven• ture to address this letter of remonstrance to your Lordship as Prime Minister; for not all the bias of attachment and of private gratitude which I owe to his Majesty, and which it inflicts upon my heart a 'nest severe pang to resist, can otherwise operate than to make me regret with deeper sorrow that his Majesty is aviseil to assent to the carrying on this Bill—a measure which demand tint me a conduct in contrast with those feelings. and in opposition to that bias ; because, according to the best of my judgment, I should swerve from the paramount duty of my station did I not declare frankly that I will endeavour to interrupt and thwart the enactment of this Bill in every stage; and did I not, with the full impression on my mind of the unpropitious consequences of it generally, and especially to the present Admi nistration, if passed into a law, must earnestly recommend that your Lordship should be disposed to consider it kinder and wiser to withdraw the Bill, rather than to press the second reading of it when the Peers shall re-assemble. " I have the honour to he, my Lord, " Your Lordship's most obedient and very humble ervant, " GER ABU NOEL." On Wednesday morning three small gun-boats Were moored in front of Cotton-yard, where the Italian witnesses are lodged. Men front the Dock yard at Woolwich, were employed in them, fitting up the frame-work, or stcm-platthrm, on which the guns are placed. A strong guard of artillery, escort ing five waggons with ammunition, arrived in town the same evening, from %Voulwich, and depo sited a part of their load in the Mews, and the remainder in the barracks at Knightsbridge• The chief division of the Surrey Horse Night Police, SO in number, have taken up their quarters in the livery stables opposite Astley's Amphitheatre, (they arc to do duty by day during the Queen's trial. The men were dressed in long blue coats and pan taloons, red waistcoats, with large sabres suspended from their belts, and had quite an unmilitary ap pearance. ...... ~; THE NATIONAL REGISTER CORNWALL AS'SIZES, Aug. 10. Mvaveß.—Sarah Polgreate, aged 37, was arraigned on an indictment charging her with having administered arsenic to her husband, Henry Poigrean, on the loch July Last, of which he died ou the 18th. The prisoner braid the indictment, and pleaded Nut tittilty with a consider able degree of omitidettre. Elizabeth Martin knew the prisoner and the deceased for the last six yea's. Ileaad her say she would be d—4 W she would not poison the d—d villain. She at reek her hand on the table as she spoke; this was in her own lion4e„ On the 9th of July last, the prisoner, the deceased, and a 111:111 named James Tremarilien, were at witise—'s house, file deceased went out, amt refused to lemur; and she ti said she should n e v e r b e rid o f t h e, j ea l os I.llow until she had given hint a pennyworth ot poison. ice deceased was buried on the 20th of last mouth. On the 21st, wit ness said to the prisoner, she su pposed she sunlit be married again ; she replied if she did marry it should be for love, for that she had not loved the deceased usiire than she loved a dog.—The prisoner here became so timeis affected that she could not stand, and a chair was ordered for her. As the trial proceeded, she tainted several times, and was obliged to lie *typo' fed. Jamey Ti emarthen knows the pi hammer. Saw her about two months before the di ath of her husband. She was standing near her own door. Site said she wished her husband was dead, and then site should he married again n three weeks. Richard Doyle, jail. is a surzcon, and livesalPCllZllllCP. He was at Crowlas, in the parish of Laulgvan, on the lath of last ..... nth, and stopped at a 411111i1 . , shop. The deceased came to bum, and v.csisplaineil of u giddiness in his head and pain in Isis stomach. Witness went to his house and ibled the deceased. The prisoner was present. Witsses• (tusked that if the deceased was 110 t better lie might bear from him next ills'irning. Prisoner said she hail a dose of medicine in the house, and asked if she should give it him. NViiiirsis smiles stood ber It, mean a dose of opening medi cine, and said she might. He did nut hear from the deceased next morning, and 'sever saw him after alive. W1111(.41 is in partnership Wills Isis father, who resides at 31arazion. Penzance is between two and three miles fr Crowlas ; Alarazion is iv-arer. On the 31st of last month the body of the deceased was disinterred. Wit ness opened the body, and look oilL the stomach, which lie secured, and carried I . TUe stomach and it, oa frilfll examined by witness and his fillies. 'llse coat of the stomach was moll. scl, and in the state that might be expected if the deceased had taken virulent poison. On the emit lie found some small white particles, which he eoilected and subjected to a test, by mixing thesis w ith lamp-black iii a glass tube, closed at out end. The Bisellit! Was dl.l/Osiit'd in a chrystalline state in the tube after the experiment He has 110 doubt it was arsenie ; and lie also found arsenic in the liquid contents of the stomach. on which be made more than ten experiments, :loin all of which lie found a precipitate of arsenic. lie has nu doubt ;he death of the deceased was occasioned by ais taking arsenic. into his stomach. He did not believe the deceased had taken what was found in his stomach when witness saw I on the 13th of last annals ; as, it Ise bad, he would be worse than he was. _ . John liarve is a druggist, and resides with his mother at Penzance; ite recollects selling one or two pennyworth of arsenic to the in isoner, who caiuu to hia shop ill coin µany with Mr. 'tounkin. Jost. Minuet lives at Crowlas. Saw the prisoner on the 30th of July last, and *sled how she could du what she had done. She did not answer for a short time, and then said she had done no Mum to her busbaud. ISitsress asked if she had bought the poismi. She said ' yes—but who can testify that I gave it him.' The day atter the body was taken up, witness was with the prirouer, who appeared to be in great distress, and cried out, • Tonkin, Tonkin, what least thou done with me now? If I am handed, and can come again, I will tear thee to pieces.' Pearce Itogers is coroner for the county. Searched the prisoner'.. house with the Jury who vat on the body, but could find 110 rat-holes, nor the appearance of any. The Jodge recapitulated the evidence with great pre , cision; and the Jury without hesitation pronounced a verdict of Ouilty. His Lot dship then proceeded to pass the axial seateuce of the law, and ordered the pi lac ner to be executed on Saturday morning, and her body to be given fur dissec • . . _ Tile wretched prisoner was so ;neatly overwhelmed by her dreadful fate, that she wits obliged to be supported during the tulle scuituttee was pasriiug, and was brought back to prison in a state of insensibility. ST.IFI'OIiDSHIIIII ASSIZES. Calm. Cox.—These Assizes were concluded by a trial which excited a great deal of interest amongst the Snob' respectable people in that part of the country. It was all action of damages, brought by an eminent solicitor against his apprentice, a young iellow, of very effeminate appear ance, hilt good edlication and address, whose ape is little inure than 2u, fur crimin,ll conveisstion unit the plaintiff's ife.—Tite damages acre laid at 10,0 01. Sevmal witnesses were called, who proved that the plaintiff mid always acted with attention to the defendant, and bail introduced hint to the moat respectable society. The plaiatiff's alleillioll 10 Ills wife Was also stated to be such as it was the duty of a husband so pay to his wile. 'Die adulterous intercourse between the defendant and the piainlia wile was :Moo proved. In the course of the trial, hoirever, it Caine oat that the plaudit' had come into Count with hands vets far fluid being clean ; that lie had taken itilvanta4e of the youth id A !icor telltale relation of his wife, whilst 111)011 0 visit at his bowie, and seduced her under ciretmist.rti•es the most revolting, and that Ins %site's age was ati, sillily that of the 'kleinlaut was but t 0 years. Mi. Jervis commented upon the facts %%Melt made so impolt.urt a cuatige in the appearances ,if tiinigs. Ile contended that the boy, whose• caus,• he had to defend, should be considervd tile seduced, and not the seducer; that It was rather illiprobaole he shoo'', he master of the deep connivances by which the ant-choir of a virtuous Illation acre to be taken away 110111 tier husband and child' en, and fixed upon a stranger, and that the conduct ' of the husband was in Until to be looked onion as the foundation of all those calamities of match that husband complained in the depth of his affliction. The learned Counsel then severely animadverted apart the iiiischic volts example held Pia ny this husband to li.s a c, in his Ueatutent of Ili♦ tel.tlioll, and observed, that the nitsfortuue 1114 formed the &pound of the action should operate as a lesson upon all husbands who were tempted to acts of infidelity by baying the object of temptation under the same roof with them. Verdict for the plaintiff —Damages ONE SHILLING. (MBA, Augusi I`2. DANINO AND PARTLY SUCCINSFUL ATTEMPT Or THE CONVICTS TO BREAK OPEN THE DEPOT PRISON. Yesterday evening, between the hours of fire and six o'clock, a desperate, and in part a successful, attempt Was made by the convicts confined in the depot prison to esc:Te from thence, which has been attended with fatal consequences to sonic of the military on gland in the prison. The following are the circumstances of this daring eflint : The number of convicts assembled in the depot from various part of the country amounted to 133, who were all collected in eta open yard, with high surrounding walls, into which they are seat every morning for air awl there left imtil evening. Toe door from the yard to the passage is secured by a largo padloek,and a chain which does not stiffer it to ripen wide, and here a turn key and two soldiers are placed, the latter of whom, as the convicts pass in or out, stand with their bayonets fixed and pointed. As usual,. eight convicts were sus fered tit omie out yesterday erelong, and aner hat ii supplied themselves with water, were returning, app l retilly very quietly, when, on reaching the door thron,zli which they were to pass into the inner yard, they affected to stoup under the chain, but suddenly sprung upon the two sentinels, and in a moment disarmed them, and knocked down the turnkey. The rush from the inner yard then became general, but their anxiety and efforts to get tint impeded rather than assisted them, as the. chain pneyented a free egress. About thirty having got out, they made for the guard lonise, where there was the usual cmiplimeot of men (a serjeatit s guard, deducting the number of sentries who were on the different parts of the prison.) Here a desperate scuffle ensued, its which mat.) , wounds were inflicted, particularly on the military, the surprise on them being Si, sudden. This guard room was the only passage through which the convicts could get to the outside yard next dieguea door leading to the street, which was ' , tn by James Arm strong, who camp• to the assistance of the guard, and rendered ',ewe' fill aid, being au able and courageous man. 1n the meantime, Mr. 'Murphy, the keeper of the depot, alarmed by the noise, rushed from his house armed with a sword, and on reining to the door of the inner yard. where the attempt began, and seeing the men rushing forward, with equal courage and presence of mind as sailed thew, heat them back and secured the door. He then ran to the guard room, where, end in the outer yard. the conflict was desperate and terrible. Two of the convicts wore shot dead, several of the military stabbed and otherwise cut and wounded, but the Conner succeeded in forcing open the door, the lock of which they banewd with their line:piety, many of which were broken in pieces, and aixteen of the convicts escaped, who rushed in different directions of the town, hot account.: of the affair quickly followed them, and six were quickly re-taken, the Sheriffs, Con stables, and Peace Officer; being speedily out the alert ~re still at large, two ol• them stopped a gentleman near lknroche's Cross, and forced hiin ahglit from his 11w - se, which they mounted and rode off. One ol• the military, a soldier of the Inch Veteran Bat talion, died this morning attic. wound lie received—an insll•test s‘it on his body, when the jury tenoned a verdict of NVillul Murder against the retaken convicts. Mosr AFFECTING CALAMITY.-011 Saturday week, being market day at Carnarvon, when the farmers and their domestice, fruit Anglesey, were crossing the river in great numbers, a most heart-rending calamity occur red, .it a ferry recently established front Llaniclati, across to Plas Brunton, about a mile of Carnarvon. Dom every information, it arrears that the boat started with about '..!;) passengers, besides a variety of articles, intended for Carnarvon mat ke:. They had not proceeded quite half way over, it blowing fresh, when the boatman hav ing climbed up the stita!l mast to disentangle a rope ataclied to the sail, unfortunately fell into the watet ; in the milt to save him, the pre-sure proved too weft for the crazy bark to sustain, and in a moment separated nearly in the centre, when, dreadfot to relate, with the exception of one individual, the whole were engulphed in the waves! Their screams were heard for an instant resoundino, to the shot e, but in the roturning v%.;ve, they were for ever hushed ! In about an hour the writes of four females were brotight to Cant Winn, and all the exertions of the 1111:111C.11 gentlem...n, aided by the titino..t skill and perseverance-of Ur. Nlason, proved unavailing. It is impowthle to describe the consternation and an xiety expressed its the benevolent feelMg: of the inha bitants of Caritarson ; business was completely sus pended, and when it is cowidered that numbers from Anglesea hail previously arrneii in town, and were expecting to be hdlowed by relatives and friends, the scene was appalling, and totally out of our power tu, describe in adequate terms. The only person saved was Hugh Williams, of Bodowyr Isms, who hottmately to the mast, and was picked up nearly exit:nutted, and fruits whose testimony this account is chiefly taken. The State Trials for High Treason in Scotland terminated at Ayr on Wednesday, when :thomas Nl‘kay withdrew his plea of Not Guilty, and plead-d Guilty, but the Lord Justice Clerk, in passing sentence of death upon him, held out hopes of Ow Royal clemency. His Lordship relinquished the charges against the other three prisoners, and they were discharged. Painter, from his late victory over Oliver is driv ing On a roaring train ; and Lobster-lane, is now the s:mrce of attraction to all the sporting people at Norwich. IF