The National Register. — London, England, 1812-03-22 00:00:00

ThE NATIONAL REGISTIgIt. ,~. ._... Winsfsiiiiii6 ls ieri v ia" of the supporters of the: third theatre out of doors, took most unfair means to prevent the re. buildirm. of Drury.laue, andlo prepidice the public• against the con cern. treppeired that•they *anted their theatre to he the second and net the third. =• • • The Hottle dieided on the arnendment for rnstponing the second reading to this day. sit months, which was carried by a Majority of 58 to 35. MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCE REGENT. The enAUtzt.tot of the.ExctrQuet brought 'up A Melisage from ibe'Prince Regent, which was read as follows t -- = GEORGE, P.R. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the Name and on tile Be half of his Mi.j..str, thinks it necessary to acquaint the House of Com mons, that inspursuance of tlie powers vested in his Majesty by two Acts, parsed in the 18 th and 39th years of his present Majesty's Reign, his .Majesty was graciously pleased, by Letters Patent, bearing date the 2el of kebruary, 102., to grant to their Royal Highnesses the l'inicesses Auguiti-Sophit, Elizabeth, Mary, - iophia, and Amelia, an Annuity of Thirty I bousand Pounds, agreeably to the provisions, and subject td the Meniratinns of the said Acts ; • which grant was to take effect from • the dteri-e of his Majesty. And his Royal Highness being desirous, in ;the present situation of the Royal Family, to be empowered to pro vide fOr the establishment of their Royal Highnesses The Princesses by an immediate Grant, recommenditio the Howe 'of Commi;ns to take the subject into their consideration, and to enable his Royal Highness to make such proviiion foe their Royal Highnesses 'the Princesses, as, 11 the liberality Of Parliament, may be thought suitable to the a, teal situation of the Princesses, and to the cireunisLences of the present time. . The Ai - rower to-Gtr Zit AL presented .a Petition from certain Elders Of a levrish eiybagogue, praying that their public charities might be ex empted .from the provisions of the Charitable Funds Ree,istry Bill.— Ordered to lie on the Table. PENITENTIAIZY HOUSE BILL. . Mr. HoLima moV•ed the recommittal of the Penitentiary Bill. On the . 41uest.on being put for the Speaker to leave the Chair, Mr. }C.r.N RICK molted, that it should be an inFtruction.to the Commit tee te! introjure a clause - for the purpose of comptriling confilled con **lets to hard labour. The ny,tinn was put and rallied. After some. observationt, the 1-lou s c went thr: uzh the till in a 'Coln tnittee, and the Report was ordered for Monday.--Adjourued. TRIALS OF THE RIOTEPS AT NOTTINGIWL b'n ktorday nibrning, the Grand Jury were svr. , orn it r after which, the Learned Judge BAILEY addreEsed them in nearly the following words:- 4 GENTlgetzte-;--Nothingrouldgive rhe greater satisfaelien, amidst the troubled state to which this important county has been reduced by , A nutnher Of misguided itidividuale, than to .ore respectable a Jury assetnbled,as a barrier le:tween guilt and hinocerce ; and as a safeguard to property, to .our liberties, and to our lives. The c.ilcoder laid be fore me does creak to the moral tiav the county, with the eZception of one crime, which swells the awful list. It is nut for me..to brquire, • etettler the persons who le.ve thus involved themselves in trouble, bate any just cause Of etiniplaint ; because, if grievances do realty exist, the proper, end indeed the only way to get them redressed is to apply to the Legislature of the country. But this should likewi%e be particu larly reinetnbered, that while the complainants continue in a state of open violation to the lays?, even the legislature will not attend to their pwayers. And, to add to • their sufferings, partly . hrought about by their own misconduct, the law will be too strong for thert—inany of them Will fall Victims to their own &thee folly; for the la* must and shall • be obt-yed. he violent procredhigs, if persevered in much longer, may have the effect of driving the lace manufacture from Nottingham; for why cannot it he earr ed en in other place eas well as at this ? It is true, that this appears to be the native seat of thii branch of the British lace mereafacture l —and no Kloubt it Will be grateful, as long as it is treated With Indulgence ar.d care ; but when that teases to be the case, Weer, have those who have been fed by its bounty in a state of deep tepentence for having exercised their own folly and vit.lence. lePsgth of time the se outrage,. have been carried on, might almost make it a matter of inquiry, whether the hilagistrates of the County have dour tl - ietr duty ; but The highly respectable asset:4)l.4;e of Noblemen and Gentlemen phis morning-, renders such an inquiry unnecessary; for noire ran doubt but that their duty has been dope. Ks Lordship then gave It, Loth as his own and Lord Ellenborough's opinion, the latter of which he produced in Writing, that it was the bounden duty of every good citizen, particularly the 'wee:airy, to risk their lives ror the protec ;don of 'private property; and he hoped by exertions like these, aided tri the salutary rigour of the law, that the misguided would see their error. After listing the: when he left the tuwa, the Assizes would erlIV tic mljentee.d, and that upon the seizure of any rioters, a Judge would drawn find act upon the present Cournission, his Lordship p7t„,;eekled E; ; tv. Cola Me ac'f (nte indh:idrtnl, in a rietnes mUltitude, 70.0cznac the act tie whole ; and cons( vently that. every :ran beetne MARCH 32. acco untable, in the eye of. the law,. for the misdeeds of his neighbour, when thus assembled. On the subject of collecting money for lawle ss purposes, his Lordship said , that the person obtaining money by mean s of intimidation, subjects himself to the punishment which attaches itself to that crime which is perpetrated through the application ot such money; and that those who give money freely for the promotion of a lawless purpose, likewise stand amenable to the law in tire sane degree as the former. Hit Lokdship concluded by enjoining th e Nobility and Gentry to reinain at their respective seats, while the troubles., or the probability of their renewal, continued; and likewise with enjoiehrg the Grand Jury to do their duty, without prejudice er partiality to one party or the other. On Tuesday 'morning the Court was crowded to an unusual degree by persons of all ranks, vho were desirous to hear the trials of these pers MIS confined on suspicion of freme breaking. But before we pros teed to detail these highly important trials, it may be proper to state, that Mr. Bald, of Leicester, as Solicitors for the prisoners, had, as much as seven weeks ago, retained Mr. Serjeant Vaughan and Mr. Reader as their Advocates. On Friday last, however, Mr. Bond was informed by those Loitered Gentlemen, that ; when at Lincoln, the pre• ceding Wednesday, they had received an order from the Treasnry to act as Counsel against the prisoners. alone with Mr. Clarke and Mr, Reynolds. John Ingham, charged with writing a threatening letter t e W. Nunn, Esq. lace-manufacturers was exactly in the same predicate( 01; whn, along with William Parkes and George Shaw, charged with frame breaking, had been removed at the suit of the Crown, from the towe to the county-prison. On this account Sergeant Rough and Mr. Copley were retained, by Mr. Bond, for the persons charged with frame breaking. Aries the Jury had been sworn in, William. Carpel aged e... 1, and .Tosepi Maples 41:4 16, both of Basford, were brought to the bar, and pleaded not guilty to the charge. After which, Mr. CLAR IC lc, as leading Coune set for the Crown, bezan by observing, that this was no ordinary case; for here we saw men, under the name of Luddites, disciplined and mar shalled under different herders; and armed with various instruments of death, acting in open vitiation to the laws and constituo d authorises of the land. An exception was here taken by the Counsel for the ;)!- soners, to this strain of declamation, as tending to prejudice the Jars against the 6 • and die Judge alloesred the exception to be a good one ; arid ordered the witnesses to be 'caned. Elizabeth Braithwaite wss the first witness called. She stated, that in January last, she resided at Ole: Basford; that her In-band, Met :iraithwaite was a stooking-maker, and at the time aboveetated. he he t seven plain' cotton frames, which were occupied by five apprentice one journeyman, of the name of Towlson, auel himself. ehe further stated, that on the !id of January e about ten militate: before eight is tie evening, a persois knocked at the door, acrd .asked fur Toe 'son; ;let the door was bolted, and before she could open it, it was forced, and a man entered, whom she saw have hold or the outer hat dat of the door, he fell over a chair, and believes it was Camel, Inert; iontel in the indictment; that he walked into the shop with a hammer over his arm, aid broke the end of a slur-bar ; that eleven more entered after him; that the first man who entered stood as guard to the rest; and that ore resan.whom she knew, end whoused a liamitner, is not yet taken. !Iris the witness was de sired to look round the Court, and point the prison r, Carmel, out. She turned round very attentively several times, and d. Oared she could not see him, and that if he was there, he mus t bold dwell his head—thought his imprisonment would ttlter his appterates, but lint se much as ro prevent her from knowing him, except he was die guised, j;se 'she hail known him from a child. She was then ordered is mount the table in the centre of the Court, to try iF s by that means he could identify him—she did so, and , after twice pacing it round, slie pointed out a man who was mixed among the spectators, whose features she thought was like Carmel. She was then &lifted to look at one of tse Sheriff's Cineers, who stood near to Carnet, and give her opinionf that was the man. On fixing her eyes clo s e l y u p on that quarter, pointed 'eta the man, and said, '° that is Carmel." She w a s then ask; d wile:h ew et she kn any other person near him w hen she pointe d to another in the Prisoner's boa, and said, " that is Maples." On being asked why she knew Carnet to be one of the men who had violated the premites of her husband ? she said, that when the scuffle was going on in the shop, she called out for her h us b a nd to be breught out, and that Carnet (after having given her husband a nudge over the shoulder with a hammer, in consequence of which he had been lame ever since), complied with her request; and that in the hustl e the tea. " , was pulled off his face, which she recognized, th o u g h his cheek g nose were black, and his upper-lip red. She declared sheiwas no w!se Sh dismayed; and why should she, for she saw t hey were bent upon e kndvi; stroying their property, and it was of no use to opp ose them. Carnet by his voice, but dared not to call him by his name; but dray , was him, she bad no doubt. Maples clapt ainetol to her breast, this exclamation, " damn you for a bitch, I will shoot y on if Y"u hold your noise ;" she seized the pistol, turned the muzzle towards n I throat, and drew the trigger, and had it gone off it must have shot big!.' but believed it was not charged, because it struck fire without goivg ( 7. While this Was g oing on, site heard some one call out, " m ia(l4, w on !" which ord er, she thought, was obeyed, as, she said, the trane,l% went Se those in a smith's shop. When the seven it ernes were bto,ese; she stated, that seven meseevent through the shop e indoe's, ate fi out at the house:Par; amotSg the latter of Whom was N'heeles, sso.- y ME 6..