The National Register. — London, England, 1821-12-17 00:00:00

994 -- - FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. BY THE KING. —A PROCLAMATION. GEnRGE. R.—Whereas our Parliament stands prorogued to Thursday, the third day of January next, we, with the advice ut our Privy Council, do hereby publish and declare. that the said Parliament shall be further prorogued, on the said third day of January next, to Tuesday, the firth day of February next; and we have given order to our Chancellor of that part of our united kingdom utlled Great Britain. to prepare a commission for pro roguing the same accordingly ; and we do fur,lier hereby. with the advice aforesaid. declare our royal will and pleasure, that the said Parliament shall, on the said fifth day of February next, be held and sit for the de.patch of divers urgent and important atiltir,: and the Lords sphitml and temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses, and the Commissioners for shires and burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required and commanded to give their at •endance accordingly.at Westminster, on the said fifth day of February next. Given at our Court at Brighton, the tenth JAY of December, and in the second year of our reign. GOD SAVE THE KING. At the Court at Btighton. the tOth of December, IR2I ; pre sent. the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council. His Majesty in Council was this day pleased to declare Richard Marquis Welle,ley, Knight of the Most Noble Artier of the Garter, Lieutenant General and General Governor of that part of the United Kingdom called Ireland. This day his Grace ('harle•s I bike of I toilet, Henry Marquis Conyngliam, and the Right lion. Ilenry Coulburo, were by command of his Majesty, sworn of his Majesty's Most Honour able Privy Council, and took their respective places at the Hoard accordingly. CARLTON HOUSE, Dtm The King has been pleased to appoint the Duke of Montrose to be Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household, in the room of the Mat quis of Hertford, resigned. The King has also been pleased to appoint the Marquis Conyngham to be Lord Steward of his Majesty's household, in the room of the Marquis Cholniondeley. resigned. WHI'fEHAL.I.. l)xc. It. The King has been pleased to appoint his Grace Charles Duke of Dorset to be Master of the Horse to his Majesty, in the romil of the Duke of Montrose. promoted to the office of Lord Cham berlain of his Majesty's Household. BAN K RI; PTS. T. Evans, Maehynlleth. Mon.gometyshire. innkeeper. Soli. citors. Messrs. Philpot and Co. Southampton Street. Bloomsbury Square. .1. Hendon, Bridport. Dorsetshire, painter. Sol. Mr. Allen, Clifford's Inn. J. Townsend, Minium. and G. Bnxike. Whimple, Devon shire, bankers. Sol. Mr. Luxmore, Red Lion Square. W. Edwards, Chatham, linen draper. Sol. Mr. Rippon, Great Surrey Street. C. G. Kerwood, John Street, West, Marylebone, printer. Sols. Messrs. Jones and Co. Mincing Lane. S. Aydon and W. Elwell, Shelf Iron Works. Yorksaire. iron masters. Sol. Mr. Walker, Lachequer Office of Pleas. W. and N. Baker, Portsea, grocers. Sol. Mr. Shelton, Ses sions House, London. • H. L. Holland, Coventry, builder. Sol. Mr. Alexander, Carey Street. R. Wills, Broad Street, Bloomsbury, tobacconist. Sol. Mr. Cobb, Clement's Inn. E. Tippetts and F. Gethen. Basinghall Street, factors. Sols. Messrs. Pullen and Co. Fore Street. J. L. Garrick. 'Mitcham, merchant. SA& Messrs. Grimaldi and Co. Copthall Court. R. Haviland, Cirencester, rectifier. Sol. Mr. Becky, Devon. shire Street, Queen Square. S. Todd, Southampton, mercer. Sol. Mr. Browne, New Furnival's Inn. J. M. Fuller, Worthing, linen draper. Sul. Mr. Jones, Sin Lana. J. Calvert, Tavistock lintel, Covent Garden, merchant. Sols. Messrs. Lavie and Co. Old Jewry. DIVIDENrr.. Dec. 15, W. Nedby. Lamb's Cooduit Street, upholsterer—ta, .7. Cary, Baguet Court. Fleet Street, merchant—Junuary S. R. Matson. Barfristone, Kent, miller—ti, T. R.Wildash, Aylesford, Kent, farmer-7, T. and T. It. Robinson. and R. Hancock, Blanchester, cotton merchants-11, T. and H. Paikinson, Pres ton, builders-4, N. Luseombe, K ingsbridge, Devon, scrivener —4, S. J. and J, Alder, Liverpoolr merchants-5, J. M. New. man, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, dealer in wool-5, R. Long ridge and G. Pringle, Painsher, Durham, colliery undertakers— Dec. 18, 11. Neville, Colchester, dealer. CERTIFICATES to be granted Jan. I. J. Kenworthy.Saddleworth, Yorkshire, dyer-11. and J. Hall, Sun Wharf. Upper Thames Street, iron merchants—T. R. Evans, Strand, wine merchant—H. Barcr,tock, Brompton. plumber—J. S. Willcox and T.. 1. Tittei ton. Theobaler's Road, Red Lion Square, coach makers—A. De la l'iyine, and G. and R. Hilton, Chorley, Lancashire, cotton spintiars-11. Moffitt, Manchester, merchant—J. Gilbert, Maidstone. rapemaker. Important Question.—Mr. A. Geake of the parish of Lezant, in Cornwall, has been committed to Hod min gaol, in consequence of a decision of the Con zistorial Court of Exeter, at the suit of the Rev. T. Johnes, rector of Lezant, for sithrtracing of tithes, after the verdict of a special jury against the rector, on a trial at Bodinin, thr the non-removal of the same tithes. A respectable meeting of yeomen and agriculturists has been holden in consequence at Bodmin, J. Peters, Esq. in the chair; at which a subscription was oponed to uflbrd the means of ap plication to a superior temporal court " on a case which invades no less a question than whether the rights, the property, and even the liberty of persons engaged in agriculture, are, in a case of tithes, left to the entire disposal of the Ecelasiastital Judge ?" It was further resolved, " That in case the sentence of the Ecclesiastical Judge cannot by other legal means be reversed or counteracted, it will be expe dient to petition Parliament to place the liberty and property of the English tirtuier on is tOoting snore agrei•able to the general tenor and spirit of the Bri tish laws.'' GtattALTAn, Nov. 21.—Our new Governor, the Earl of Chatham, has attended the morning guard rarado, which is early ; he has made some alterations in the administration of the place, by directing every thing to he conducted through the proper channels, and the convent is now respectable. An officer ap peared on duty at the Governor's in a great coat, and he was told that his Lordship could only re ceive officers in unithrm, or persons in full dress.— The season is unusually dry. THE NATIONAL REGISTER LAIV INTELLIGENCE COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MONDAY, DEC. 10. SPECIAL JURY.-LIBEL ON THE KING. TIIE KING V. N. LL.D. This was an iu oimati 111 l filed by the Attorney General against the defendant, for a !Awl on the King, in a letter add' essed to Sir Bestjamin Bloomfield, his Majesty's pri• rate secretary. Tl.. Allot 'ley General (with whom was Mr. Raise and ' 4 11'1,1.1111) stared the ease for the Cm ono in an alsnost inaudible voice. We understood lii.,, to Pirate, that he hail thought it his dills to tile this information against the defeittlant fur potfflislihig a most offensive and indecent lihel upon 116 ',Majesty. The defendant had, for a cotisi actable tune berme the publication of the libel in nue , - tion, been in the habit of addiessisig letters to the King, upon the subject of some 114111•11i1.4 of 'ahich he e • appliCal ions mil halal( Mtit'allell lain the Way he wished, tly way or I evenging himself, he bad re course to the putilicatioo of libels iif the most indecent chat acter upon his Majesty. These being taken no no.ice of, he at last rudest/mired pet soaally In proctor the letter in question to be conveyed to his Majesty, thimigh the lardi 1111 l of Col. Bloomfield, his Majesty's titivate secre tary. Tim was tl for the colonel at War wick House; and, in the usual VOUrse, it was handed to that gentleman, who , upon opening the envelope, foustil another leiter addressed to him, the supersetiption of which was in the folio% log grossly offet save trials ;—"To tine most ignoble, lying and cheating I)nke of Cornwall, since become George the fourth." she letter, its contents were f d equally tiffiresise. It complained that after two ;ears emplo)eil iu applications to the King, he had now allallSari ably SheVOI his IlilliPSl) . 4 unjust departure from his honour and engagements, to afford hint redress for the glievaiires of a hich lie complained ; and alfi ming, that he could Ate* the Ruth of what lie asst.' ted, by appealing to the laws Of E11.11.1.1d. Tile letter was dated tt rey-storet, 611 e Alay, 16.1 '' The object of this prosecution was to teach the defend:tut, by the result of it, that he could not be permitted to pet severe in con duct so offensive and inde•sciit to the Sovereign on the Throne. 'there co u ld be no doom a hat the ve. dict of the Jury mould be, and the only object 01 this proceeding was to prevent the repetition of this offence. Thomas Capes, a foot mall to his Majesty, proved that lie had rieeived the letter in question limn the defendant, at %Val wick House, on the Otia of May last. Col. Bloom lii Id thi ng ( l oin I , he put it into his private box. Sir Benj a min 131 1111 l tifielil proved, that lie had opened the letter in question cositaiiiing the libel. The defendant, w h o was w ith o ut Counsel, clot's-examined the Colonel, touching r e p ea ted applications he had made at Cat Iron Moose, npon the sithject of 111Plaalidls he had pi esetile.l to hi s m„j e , tr . The witness admitted that he hasl coo versatiosi with the defendant but did not now partietilaily reco ll ect w h at p assed . lie ion! never given may opi.tion, nor had lie ever formed any, as to the defendant's claims. The laud having been read by the officer of the roil, The. deleilthtil, Mho appeaied to be Hit elderly and venerable looking noun, proceeded to address the Jury at eonsiderable length, in defence of the alleged Hite!. During the greater part of his atlth CAS be was inaudible. We collected, that he was a Doetoe of Laws, and lead studied the civil law for eleveit 'ears, Mal had obtained an academical degree to enable hint to practise as an advocate in the civil law rout is of this cotwuy , but hail been refused admittemee, uu the (;round *Oat he was a lerg%lllilll, having taken deaeini's eider,. This was the hardship of w hi c h he coittplaiiteil, and having sought rr , i'iress in the courts of justice to vain, lie had petitioned tie King to be admitted to those lights to which be was entitled. He alleged that the King had, thraugh his anthoiised a g ents, faithfully promised hint redress; but, after d anc i ng a tt e ndance as Coition House for two years and a plat ter, without obtaining the fulfilment of this promise, lie hail written the paper in question, but not with the object charged in the infolutation. lie professed the utmost loyalty and reverence for the King, and denied that his object vial. to toting his Majesty auto hatred or contempt by the libel in question, which ho rinleaiourvil to she* could not be construed into a libel of the descrip tion charged in the information. Alter a speech of thi re lionetand a half, the defendant concluded at half past two 'o'clock. The Altai nay Genet al replied. The case was summed lip by the T.ord Chief Justice, and the Jury found the defendant Guilty, but meant. mended him to the merciful ronsideration of the court. PAYS C V. JONES, ESQ. This was aa action against the Marshal of the King's Bench, to remover the expellee incur red by the plaintiff, in executing a warrant under the follow hug vire ..... the simmer of ISIS, a person confined for debt in the King's Bench, named Poisons, made his escape. In November, the pi:lima being in I)orsetshire, saw 'lessons, and gave iolountalion In Ilse Mun dial, who wmote to him. and promised 'din all reasonable expenses, and a ru•will (I of len 'Mum; if he apprehended him. An escape warrant was obtained, and forwarded to the plaintiff. lu the mean time another person hail applied to the Marshal for time job of apprehending Parsons; the Mai stoat, however, informed him he hail employed Payne, and this individual, in vet cow- for his disappointment, gave illl . Ol Mai OM in Poisons, who absconded. Payne arid his Man pursued, and traced his route fur upwards of 200 miles, and then, after being engaged in the pursuit twenty-eighs days, lost him at litidport. In the month of April foilooin, bow ever, lie again obtained intelligence ofhim, amid gave fresh information to the Miirshal, who renewed his promise, and sent a stew escape warrant. With this the plaintiff ap prehended the poisoner, and, as the warrant directed, took him before a magistiate, where lie rotated into recognizancee to appear to time indictment for an escape. Payne then applied to the Marshal for his expellees, but the Nlaralial said lie wanted the prisoner biutiglii bark to the Bench, and granted a Wall - MIL for that purpose. The warrant was execnted, amid Put suits was brought to the Bench. For the t•xpenrrs of fias second exciiesiou Mr. Jones paid the plainiiti, limit when lie delivered his bill for the expenses of the pity ions pursuit amid apprehension, namely, a guinea a day for his own amid his man's line, amid a guinea a day for the keep of himself, man, ■std horse, with oilier expenses, amounting in all to Bttl. 16s. the Marshal said he shonlml bride it when Mr. Parsons settled Isis account. Upon this refusal the plaintiff brought his action. Mr. •urney, for flit defendant, cohtended that the whole case of the pursuit was a fabrication, and that Mr. Parsons was at West Camel, within three miles of the f "' - - plaintiff's residence, and might have been arrested at any hour ; that the plaintiff had already had 801. which was fiillcompensation for his trtitilde. The framed Counsel called witnesses to prove these f act ,. And the Jitiy, tinder all the eirenittstanr, , s, found a verdict fur the deleitaatil. WEDNESI/AY. DEC. 12. DISPUTES IN 11F.T1IN AL-GREEN PARISH. slollt V. GWYNNa, E.g. Mr. Scarlett said, iteiNaction was brought by the plain. till, a solicitor and late vests) , stet k of St. :Matthew, BeCesial Green, to e censer a csimpens a ti on i n d ainag ,, a from tile elefiiestant, a Doctor of Laws. resident i n t h at parish, for Ilea troblicavon of a /scandalous libel, inserted en a newspaper called The Sunday .llhnit"r, with intention to injue e the pla character, ised defeat• his re.el ee . lion as vestry clerk, which office he had held for 30 years. —lt appeared nom the statement of the leeward Counsel, that the libel had its origin in the squabbles which have l a t e l y divided the above pas isle. Mr. Merceron had been 11e.4,14ter of the 11111114, and was prosecuted I,r ini,ninilication of elle monies coming to leek hand. The defeeislant was one of the most active in pro iiiii nag inquiry in.() Mr. 11es eel on's conduct, in the hope, piarleaps, of get•isig the (Mice in Ire...sneer. That object, however, tailed, for the parish resolviitl he future not to vest their fused in any one pee,ose, but to place the 'matey in the Bank of England, ill the name of proper persails havin g ; the management of the poor. Previous to that eletermina lion, Dr. Gwynn... al a vests , ' meetioe, had propo,c4 vote of thosiks .0 .iir pl for his conduct as vestry desk, hut afterwat it- finding himself sli.appointed with respect to 'lie office of ereasies er, lie declared against him, and oecame a visdelet orpoilem. Various parish transac tions took place, atilt on the 2 , 1 of May, ISA, appeared wital tempos - led en be a repast of a 1111 l nittee, in The SondaY 4 1 itmilor. It imputed to Mr May that lie had been trying to make up the 14 rention of the parish in a mannur exactly similar to that of Mr. Mercerme, and for which lie had been I 'shed. The tkienslant sensed 2,091 copies of the repent to he pa hoed, and slistrlnsted among the pari.leionee 8 its a pamphlet. Cy Chia circulation a preju dice was salved again.: the plaintiff. lle lost the election for vestry clerk, and the party in Ike interest of the ilt,fensiant was elected. 111r..Seat lett entered into a long and minute statement of the purists areonnes, and con tended there was not the lease ground for accusation against the plaintiff, whose reputation had stood high ill the palish upwards of thirty years, during which he had held the situation of vestry clerk, and to justify his cll. racier be was nosier the necessity of brining this action. A number of witnesses were tallest to prose that Ds. Ciwymie was the author of the alleged libel, and that he had circulated it pamphlet, from which the libel had been copied. The witnesses also detailed she proceedings at a meeting to secure the election of Mr. Brown as Ye-try clerk. 1)r. Gwynn,' was present, and a committee was formed, consisting of Messrs. Ball, Watsan, Gable, Uuw in, &Mlle, and ethers. The Rev. J. King, rector of the parish, stated the part taken by the deleniluest, at the discussion of the affairs of the parish in I -17, when a subscription was entered into for the purpose of commencing a prosecution against Mr. Merceion. After the case nn the part of the plaintiff sad been proved, come consultation took place between the Counsel on both sides. The Solicitor General. on behalf of the defendant, then said, it was clear that lits client could not justify this publication in the Munitor; but it was stns.-o,le lie might have acted under a mistake. He did ma insist fur a III 0• areal ill4l the charges against this gentleman mete true, and upon that admission his learned friend, Jlr. • , carlett, had consented not In proceed proviti.M the de fendant would pay the Mlllll of s:h. to a public charity. Thal his client was willing to do 80, and be would also pay the costs incurred 1131 r. Nlay. Mr.Srailett said, in arceptiog the offer made by his learned friend, he fmnislieti the strongest proof of lot bearance on the pat t of 51r. 'lay. A verdict was then taken by consent for 501. damages. DELAYNE V. WAITHMIIN AND ANOTHER, This was an action availed the laic Sheriffs of London, to recover a compensation in damages for aloes sustained by the side of goods, which the defendants levied under process sued out in egularly, by a person of the name of The Sheriffs were merely nominal defendants, being indemnified by the plaintiff in the snit outer which they acted. Arter the cause 11311 proceeded to proof of the plaintiff's tight to siipport the action, a vei diet was taken by con scud fur 501. ilaniagea, anitit et to a rt•frrrncr. THE ZING C. THE - 111AVoR OF t'AIWIERIPGI!. This . ;;;;;KroiventlMl against the Alas or olGiitibridge, for refusing to comply with toe tet MS of a mandamus, eon mandinK I to ailient .Ir. Nash, the son of a freeman of Condit idge, to the freedom of that corporatism. Mr. Se it lett, who slated the case, said, he was prepare , ' to prove, by a number of early docitinvots relating to the power gin en by the ancient borough of Cambridge, that the usage of the corporation iu bonier days had been to admit the younger sons of freemen, as well as the eldest son, to their freedom. The cue poration, if alopeareddied made bye-laws, and they said, with retereace to the pit - evening, that no custom, admitting lime younger silos ol freemett, was in existence. Mr. Nosh, the proseeitt Or 11 014 case, was a younger son, and lie claimed the light of freedom upon ilie ancient II'OVIC of the borough. The July had to decide a 111 CollollYlatilk importance to the cot potation of Cambridge an well as the public at large. If they decided that the elilvid sons of freemen only were cm it letito claim the right of freedom, it would rest, ict tits freedom of election, as none hut persons free of the corporation could vote to return Nlembets to Pdl. liament. _ _ Tile learned Counsel produced a deal of doenmentary and parole evidence, upon whirls the dory, after the trial had occupied some hum's, Toned the ileferidaut Guilty. THURSDAY, ore. 13. PERVIIRY.--THS KING V. MULL.. The defendant, one lit the Won't:oe voters, war tried upon on informat • filed by the Attorney General, for wil fnl and corrupt pet jury, commit, d at the Bar of the Howe of Lords, during the e carotin it on of witoe•ses before the . Peers, touching the bribery tran•at lion. in the Borough ut Barnstaple, during the emotion between Sir E. Thompson and Sir Si. Lopez. The assig 00000 ent of perjury charged the defendant with gi•ing answers before the Lords, ist direr t contradicti iiii to his amaers in the House of Commons. In the House of Commons he stated, Ihnt nit agent "tile d Gribble, offered him money to induce him to vote fur Sir M . Lopez, In the House of Lords he swore that Gribble made