The National Register. — London, England, 1812-06-07 00:00:00

WNW I THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 44 pressed the great bo d y of her people ; with your Roval Hi g hness, they are convinced of our loyalty and truth be the sacrifices we have made. Your Royal Highness will, therefore, lie pleased to tier , pt the thanks of the Irish Catholics —they are the offpling of a generous enthusiasm — they were the hurrhe offair7 which Ireland presented to her fairest hope—that lope which once so flattered her with pronti.es of freedom. They were presented to him when lie stood at the door of the Consti— tution, supprirted hy the beloved and admired companions of his youth; whose wisdom and who , e truth commandt d the esteem and love of their fellow•suhjects. They werc prevnted to that Personage for whom Ireland wuld have laid L!own her life, in all the pro ligality of a generous confidenre, and whom even recent events will not ebliterate from her recollection, when she hears your Royal Highness re-echoing those sentiments that distinguish her Prince, and professing those prin ciples which truly constitute the character of a Patriotic King. " To his Royal Hizhness the Duke of Sussex," ANSWER OF HIS ROYAL lI:GHNESS THE DUKE OF SUSSEX, TOSENTED THE ADDRESS OF THE CATHOLICS OF IRELAND, PRE BY THE F ‘RI, OF KENMARE, SIR FRANCIS GOOLD, MESSRS. BURKE, WDONALD, AND SECRETARY HAY, ON THE STH OF JUNE, 1812. 44 0 ENTLEM EN—To have deserved the approbation of so respectable a body of his Majesty's subject. must ever afford me the gkest glory, and the warmest satisfacti in. The continuance of their confidence will be my duty and steely to preserve. For my part, I can only say, that, tort in a free country, the se ntiments of a liritish subject, the love of true liberty which consist in the distribution of equal rights. and a fair participation of the b lessin g s of our Constitution, prompted me to claim for my fellow -subjects what I considered 'as their due; and which, to my feelings, must increase in proportion to the numbers with whom I may share that happint :5. The loyal. respectful, firm, and constitu tional manner in which the Ca•boiics laid their representations at the foot of the Throne. as veil as b. fore the two Houses of Parliament, called forth my admin,tion. and demon td my exertions in their behalf. Continue tie same system. Gentlemen, and your cause must ultimately t' it as long as reaso" can dispel ignorance, and that justice dwels in tl‘es countrN:. Able Attli an approach to the Throne is newer denied to a British subject who supOicate- for a redress of grievances, still we cannot immeditely leiJ . n ti r c auses. em from thence. Ca tolic; mu st not a , theref,re, ha-tily conch inent n'e that becat:se their Th Pe e ti i'ni h L:ti ' of been instantly acquiesced in, their claim has cousequently met with a positive refusal Pt rhaps even this delay, which, as an inelivi dual I most deeply deplore, increa•e the favour when gri.nted. 1 2 1 C for its final success, I revel - can despa - r while one of the family to whi la I l ave the ho• our of bel.:eging sit's on the Throne of these United Ft. gdoms. Most happily do I feel in reflecting . , that it has 1)f - en most fortunately reseried fur one of the House of fianoyer to accomplish what aPr nee of Yassay w:., rot permitted to t ffeet. If the Irish Ca tholit s terese - ye this moderate. calm. and steady, but manly urse, their , x, I eta iot.s must be flea' ly c-owred with the complete att:liiiment of their wishes "I'n hav' cent:taint& d towards such a welcome event, . v iii ever be my pride and g,l , :ry ; and if my words can have any weight with ti em, allow me to 301, a similar conduct on their part will u nite us closer tociether, arcs wi:l increase still more my never ceasing t mica- Vuurs fur su desiri:ble an ol)ject. (Stgred) (4 AUGUSTUS FREDERICK. -ington Palace, June 5, 1812." cc KI JUNE 7. inhabitants sustainer' c onsiderable damage from the violence of Ifs- eur• rent, which carried every thing be tore it, pigs, fowl, duck., corr , fet ; every heuse, not on an elevated shuation, was three 4)/' tour feet ;eel, r water; most of the timbe r belon g in g to Mr. 'Bush, the principal timber ' merchant, was washed down the stream three iriiee towards Mattud t :.. , "l'he greatest sufferer was Dr. Brooks, who had most of the stock or his • shop entirely carried away ; but the chief cause of regret is the liss e i the handsome bridge, erected at a great expense about four years since ' • in the centre of the to wn, which was a great ornament to the place. I The waters are now subsided in a great measure. No lives were loet, except those of cattle and poultry. The University of Cambridge was thrown into great consternation on yesterday weak, by the apearance of fire In one of the epartments (.f Trinity College, at nine o clock in the evening ; it was, however, extin had - gu i s h e d without damaging any other part of the building. There been no fire or light in the apartment tar the previous twenty-ft,ur hours ; and this is the third or fourth instance of fire breaking eel in , different Colleges of this University, wit hout any di.scoverbla Much serious investigation has consequently taken place, but hitheito without effect. Friday week, during a severe thunder storm, three boys, two of theta twelve, the other eleven years of age, who had been tending gee.- in a field a few miles from Lincoln, were unfortunately killed by the ;light ning, while seated together in a hovel, to which they had retired on the storm approaching. Another lad, who was with them, was scorched on the arm and thigh ; on running home and intormine leis mother, the neighbours returned to the spot, w here they found them all lying dead. The lightning fell on their heads, and ran down their bodies, burning 1 their necks, shoulders, and breasts, in a dreadful manner, causing many large brown sores. DREADFUL CATASTROPHE. —On Monday, the iSSith ult. at clever' r. the forenoon, one of the most terrible accidents on r, cord in tl I tory of the carries, took place at Felling, near Gat( sheati, in ti,s County of Durham, in a mine- belonging to Mr. Brandlieg, \t. which before was the admiration of the district or the ex celleoce 01 tit air and arrangements. Neatly the whole Of tne•Worknien were belt c:, the second set having gone down before the first had come up, when a double blast of hydrogen gas took place, and set the mine on tire, forc ing up such a volume of smoke, as darkened the' air to a consideraole I distance, and nattered an immense quantity of small coal from the si s cast shaft. In this calamity, ninety-three men and' boynaps perislosl, cf which eighty-six are sti l l in the mink. which tont itmem u preachaltle. The few men who we re saved ha pp ened to be Working in a•dist aut. part 1\ of the colliery, to which the fury of the explosion diet not reach. CHILD S rt.% LING.—A most atrocious inststice of depravity ()MIA I a few days since, in the neighbourhood of l'aunton, Somerset:l , n( ia ; the deprivation of a child, from its' miserable parents, through the ;ea 1 fice of an Old woman. She applied to the poor people, wh ) live la it i! cottage near Taunton, fur liberty to warm and rest herself. r-; ta; i granted, and the next day she came again, and stole away a fine ialia,t, i iabout three years old. The diem:vied fattier, riding all night, over tltc 1 cu untry,in quest of his child , luckil y met • the old hag coming into:he town of Chard. They had staid in the fields all night, and the poor ea fant had been beaten severely for not calling the wretch, mother. Its clothes and shoes had been taken away, and the committed of te auniaii •I t monster was to go a begging with the child. She is to Leila- fail. PROVINCIALS. --10■0 0 " -- A singular Instant:" of overstrained power of imagination oecurrect at 11 Torp•.int, asr •all village oppsite Plymouth, on Tuesday last. For three s before, It -bet-. 'Tarr's, a Calvanist, residing there, had disturbed the plate frequt rtly with loud ratitings and decla; ations, that he should 4ie between twelve aril one o'clock in the night of Tuesday last, and so thoroughly were the low leis er classes of the people assured of the truth of pre•entiments. that. at the appointed time, a crowd collected round lei: dime, in awful expectation of his anticipo ett decease. Fo much was 1 rl,e wret,:hed victim 01 credulity overcon7e by a couvicti ni of death, • that l,e iay for sever.:l wurs after his time of warning, as he termed it, jn sit insensible star ; but life, it seems, wuuld not depirt to please him, and by surviving the appointed hour, he was convinced of the fallacy of his foolish prophecy. During his preparations for death, he covered se veral sheets of gaper with a farrago of the most ridiculous absurdities, the in t ot prominent feature of which was the certainty of his own salva tion. • A. improvident generous temper, is characteristic of a British sailor. Last v. e , .lt one of the Minden's crew ( ately returned from the East In dit s) in a el - t—ken frolic, threw 4.51. m Bank rotes, into th. fire, r.t a publfr-h use iu Pori sniouth. Two other seamen were te safer day rabed, one of 401 . and the other of 17 1 . by girls. The lat t er depreda tor was ai.;l-t hendod, hut the sailors (as is generally the case with them) refitted to appe..r itgainet her. Tni-d v last, the village of Clavrring, Essex. was deluged with the gr-atest ii od eve witnessed by the oislest inii:.bittint, owing to the hea vy which fell on that day and the preceding evening ; many of the RIOT/. RS. ....—.0.---... • Yesterday se'nnight ,the proceedings closed, at Chester under •.:le Special Co Mmission, when the J udge passed 'the following sentences viz : Forster Roach , J ame' Colin I.indon, James Wilson, alias Roach, Bennet, Richard Woo d, James T om li nso n, and William Thonv,c., for obtaining money c ontrir y to the King's peace, from John P,!tket, Esq; Richard Low ndes, James Torkington, and John 1-let.shiill, rioting at Pownall Fee and Styall, and obtaining several sums of men/ w.th. force and violence ; Joseph Thompson, for entering tl.e dv:aing• house of 3. Goodair, of Edgeley, and stealing t h ereou t silver ipoolls a' tither articles, and also setting fire to the same; W. Greenoug h, tiir r• 1 tersin,, the shop of Alice Be rr y , at Tintwistle, and taking away a (pa' . tity of dour; J. C r ossland, for threatening t he l lf e of Roiiert Thittilt.li a manufacturer at Tint vvistle and breaking and de.3t-oyiug, hi.; tio.i I J. Temple, for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of SA'" . 'Wag -t:ff, and stealing five silver tea-sposms and other articles ; and .10.111 H v . )/ w rh io m d a , s for w hriitoatkolywaasssecomnbvlinictgedatoidn e t t: cereivnigdetnhceefaocftoornye o r ff a rt. l l e e' i ‘ 1 I . Sidebotham, and breaking and destroying a machine, received sentence of death. Fight were ordered to be transported for seven years. John Jac son, William Stubbs, and 'l hornas Livesley, for riolo;::. assembling and continuing together at Macclesfield, upwards of :in ll . 1. after proclamation had been made to disperse. The two former to l' imprisoned three ears; y the latter one year. admitii•tering an unlawful oath to 18 or 2A), in which they eriter, a solemn obligation to destroy steam-looms, ac. Mr thic ker wAs ".. tencod to seven years transportation. . • ! .,0 1 His Lordship passed the awful judgment of death upon cl' f. ,, l' only fi ve of whom were left for execution, via, —Richard LoviLdo, " ex Jo! Of J' ju tc