The National Register. — London, England, 1817-07-14 00:00:00

DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND. was the easo, all party feeling vanished before his political - iitegt Sly, and qu ;nosy critical occasions he gave his oppo wedacsday 11101 .0 a g , at four ei dock , a s N at ii i ,,, v b et t a ,lo needs:kb support of his learning and I.IIIIIS. Nobly disdain !lon -e, died Hugh Percy Dite of Nortiousities loud, in tier log all 60641 viva s, he was here no bower the leader of 11 75th year of his as,e ; enlists-so ter gosidoess or Iseart, f r i e3 ,,l. I party. He sheaved Wins. If the resolute, fixed, and smaller ship, misnitieence, and princely protection. Fora:; years by I able f He was the champion adwncd sh e mifiti.ry p i ; and as a st,,so sa a a , km• I of his country. 01 \lllOlll it might be truly said— pered the lose of his Sol, es ids tbe lose of theilist claws I " .Jushtits ct •ei cu+F o.itlshrub of the people. He was Mr fisher of his titiatitty, whoa- Iten eivium ardor prava yubtntitun, gratitude has pups:in:sled hi , homily by ilits election of st Non suilus itntantui tyrauni stutvly ca l,„ aa . l a a ll B it s ..rial and domestic relations h, n Mettle rplatit solida.' lived beloved--admired; end 11.14 Ise llum isles's! in the heroic .t public cowse, %stitch, combined with the littera], just, and age, would have been »dui Vit for the eats t'i't' of eves)" vie- gesserow. tenons . of his psis ate life, has acquired for hint a tile. His Grace had liven for fats a martyr to the deathless name, the character of one of the lutist honest and post, sod fur several weeks past hail been consides.thly luiwourahle men that es•er breathed . --a character which ans- Aisposeil, but was I (Testily supposed to he better, and his ;sly repays the lustre which he derived from his ancestors by .lath at la,t no, rit:licr 11110,114.(101. Ili. Grave's tales unit that which it reflects upon them—a character so rare and so offices were, Hcgls Percy, Duks , of Nerthuniheelalld. 1.:41'l exuded. that all classes of every rank nod descrif tion of co • Percy, Itaren ll ;ill.wortit of W irk worth Castle, Baron defy, unite in lamenting his loss, and even in a comfit y "'eery, Liles, Poy spay 00, Bryan, mid Latimer, a abomisling with good, able, and amiable men, makes us de Baronet, ti Gcneral in the Army. Of the Dar" r• Imr.t spoil' of seuinK his place adriluitirlY Thus. heicivell :Lieutenant and Vice AllMji Id NottlIRMIWIL)1111 to to NVW- in private and esteemed in public. died the Right lionostra castle-swim-Ty ne, and Constable of Launceston Castle, We George Ponsonhy, in the 6351 year, having been horn the F.R.S. soil F.S.A.; horn the 23th of August, lift; hi, sth Jl.u ih, I 7 i.i. Ity his wife, Lady Mary Ponsimby, sister f 'smut , was therefore in the 75th year of his age, He sue. of the late Earl of Laneshos (nigh, who survives Ishii, he has e,•ed,d hi. father, Hmal , the late Doke, Oh JoitPe, left tine son, enthuse slaughter, who is roarriell•to the Hon. tit-st, 2d July, 1714, Lady Ann Stuns t, third 'laugh. E. Pa Otis'. ',miser of Los d Dunally. The circumstances in ter of John, third Earl of Butts:, by whom he had no issue, which they are Id! we do not know; hut this we know, that 111111 ‘llllOl MAI I iage was dissolved by Act of Parliament, iu however honours may assnage, they cannot compensate them He married, secondly, May 25, 1779, Frances Julia for so Ileac a loss. Who so Well entitled to honours RA the Burrell, third daughter of * Peter Burrell, Eiq. of Beeken- 1111:11i who dies in this service of hUrcountry? To that cosm hans, Kew, sister to the Marchioness of Eseter, the Conn- try his life was devoted, and Lis life was the sacrifice of his te-s of Beverley, and Lord by whom he had issue public service. When, on Monday se'imight, be sunk in the five datighteiA, three of whom are (lead, and one is married !louse of Commons, tinder the pressure of a laborious Ses to Lord James Murray, second son of the Duke of Athol, +lnd shoo, he hill alike the victim of Isis country's cause with thy t sons, thigh Earl Percy, horn A pri.ll:o,• 085. now Doke General who dies in the field, or the Admiral who falls on the of Northimiberland, and who was some time since called up deck. chile their cares :snit toils :use light in comparison with to the•Honse of Lords to sit for the Barony of Percy, and AI- 1110,e which it has been his destiny to enconnter, isi the vs. Cerium horn Dec. 15, /792, lately created a Peer by the rigid duties of the liar, the Senate, and the Joisliciai Seat.— title of Lord Prudhoe. About an Isonr after his decease, his only son arrived from Ireland. What a mournful meeting! what a sad contrast MR: PONSONDY. with the happy circle his fasoi , y presioiteil wisest he last left it! The sun that once diffused jos- and gladness throng's tint • THE NATIONAL REGISTII%, ----- It licensees our melancholy task to nunonnee the death of Ponsohy. On Friday night, his disorder took a derided turn for the worse, and all hopes of his recovery vanished.— 'Monday evening it was omen - cut that his life was drawing to n close, and at six o'clock ou Tuesday morning he was no more. wall the public men of his time who ICll'O descended before him to the grave, there was not one who lived more beavers:illy beloved and esteemed, or died more deeply and universally lamented ; not one in whom centred so mach men tal and moral WOrill 45 formed the rare combination o usel, but a few days ago was George Ponsonby.- Sonic of them ;night boast more splendid genius, but he was faultless.— (iouil sense, the foundation of every excellence, he possessed in a superior degree, improved by study and intercourse kith the world in public and private life ; his understanding was vigorous; his conception clear; his langnege chaste, natural, and unaffected ; his manner impressive, and his voice sonorous and well modulated. Among the faults to ashich forensic eloquence is liable, are repetition, arising from anxiety to press a favourite point, and stiffness from the logical precision of legal argument—shut Mr. Ponsonby, although long practised at the Bar, was perfectly free frolll both. lively thing he said was so clear, the first impression could not be improved, nor did he attempt it—every thing he said was so complete, he never used a word too little or too much. To the splendid eloquence and lorry flights of Pitt and Lox, he did not aspire,- He addressed . himself to t the head, laying aside that species of eloquence which seeks through the passions to mislead the judgment. A sound dis cretion, and au ardent love of justice and equity, always ac companied his motives, and governed all his actions. As a political character, it would be unfair to v'..eigh him against the great men over whose loss memory still weeps, but he will not suffer in a comparison even with them. Fox and Pitt were cradelled in English politics, which embrace the rela tions of rill countries with their own. The Union first trans. feried Mr. Ponsonby to a seat in the Imperial Parliament, in which (being chiefly resident in Ireland) he only appeared occasionally until the death of Mi. Fox. To estimate his ta lents truly, it may be therefore necessary to refer to his pre vious progress in his native hind. He was the younger son of the late Right Hon. John Ponsonby, Speaker of the Irish House of C I brother of the tat o Earl of Reshot °ugh, by Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, daughter of William, the third Duke of Devonshire. Tints, although an Irishman by birth, he was entirely English by blood, which ever beat high in the cause of his native country. Called at an early age to the bar, he was early appointed Counsel to the Commissioners of the Revenue, with the emoluments of which he was satisfied, spending a considerable portion aids time in rural retirement; but a change of Ministry, which divested him of his place, roused him into activity and laid the foundation of his great political life. In one and the same year he became a leading Member in the Irish House of Commons, and at the Bar. His eloquence in the Senate shook oppression even on the judg mein seats His professional practice opened the road to riches 'while the necessary exertions subdued a constitutional indo lence which might otherwise have settled into habit. Thus his removal from place, at first contemplated an evil, even tually proved a good, and put bins at once in possession of healthtid spirits, fame mid fortune.—Always acting in con cert with the party of his Noble Relative, the Duke of De vonshire, be was, on the change of' Administration, in 1806, appointed Lord Chancellor of Ireland, which office lie re. signed in 1807, and, on the death of Mr. Fox, succeeded him, as Leader of the Opposition in the House of CIITMIIOIIS, fits time having been, for the greater part, previously spent in Ireland, and his mind occupied with Irish interests, this pe riod may be considered the emntuencement of his political career as a British senator. How greatly lie distinguished himself io the interval which has since elapsed, is fresh in the recollection of onr cadet's. No luau transplanted at so ad vanced a pet iod of life, ever attained so grunt a height in pub lic estimation. Mr. Grattan, that grand oak of the Irish for est, stills displays his original Immo lance, but then he always *t Inds on Irish ground, while the varied relations of the for eign and domestic policy of England were the novel and the vide range explored and traversed by Mr. Ponsonby. As the leader of a great political party. no Mall was ever more efficient, and at the same time more free from party spirit.— He was in feeling and principle the very men contemplated by those who consider a systematic Opposition a necessary sat} guard to the constitutional rights and liberties of England. 'the ingennoumess of his mind, the kindness of his heart, and the suavity of his "manners, conciliated his opponents, and assuaged all those felines which defeat excites ; and if his triumphs were not more numerous, it is because the candour • and eaerosity of Ins wind disdained to take edcantrige of his adv eriasies when ever be thought thou tight, Where that happy circle was now extinct! ; File ‘OlOlll he had late!9 seen full of health, life, and spirits. was now no men , ! His complaint of only a week's duration, was that species of paralytic aflection called Hemiplegia. lie received every aid that medical skill and attention could afford. Oil his first at tack, he was bled by Mr. Lynn; and he was attended by Di. lhailiie, Dr. Wm rot, mid Mr. Tegart. The two host gentleawn remained in the house dm inn the three last days of his illness, and were in his chamber when he breathed his last.—He wax connected by blood with the Noble Houses of Devonshire, Portland, lteshoronb, Sdiannon, Grey, &c. But the whole nation will &Time with them the premature death of a patriot so honest, so able, and so dia. interested in their service, as he always proved himself fir be. LAW INTELLIGENCE. courr OF KINWS BENCH, It cv 3. GAMING 1101.1IN.—TIIN KING V. Fn.:lpm Mr. Marriott stated that this was an indictment preferred against the defendant, for keeping a gamiug•honse in the palish of St. George, Hanover-square. The learned Coun sel proceeded to call his witnesses. Mr. William Aston Holland knows the house No. 9, Ben net-street, St. James. Had been there repeatedly ; was there on the 29th of March last. Observed a porter, who, on his knocking, opened it. Ascended the stairs, and in a room on the first floor saw a great number of persons playing at the game of rence et noir The name of the Porter was Old• field, Mr. Fielder was in the room and was receiving and paving tnone•y. Mr. John Aldridge was the dealer of the cards. On the evening in question he saw from f5OOl. to 20001 deposited on the table by Mr. Fielder, as the hanker and keeper of the table. Knew some of the players among them were Mr. Guest nod Mr. William Burton ; could not be positive to the names of others ; there wets twelve or fifteen in number ; there was a large entrance to the house neat the street ; there was then a door, in which was an oval • glass, through which the porter recognisedthe persons coining for admission; this door was kept locked; there was a second door, also locked—After passing these, the person admitted ascended the stairs, where there was a room, in which there was a rovge et noir table ; opposite to this was another room, containing a circular table, round the margin of a Inch were oval holes ; this was called a macao table. Theme were rooms in the Upper part of the house, which he could not de scribe. Vas at the house again on the first of April. He went at a little after twelve and stopped till duce. Wit nessed a repetition of the game of rouge et noir 'hiring that time. On that occasion he recognized again Mr. Guest and Mr. Barton, and the servants of the house. On that night John Aldridge was paying and receiving. as well as Mr. Fielder. 'they relieved earl' other in dealing and paying. Mr. Fielder always acted as master of the house. On various other occasions witnessed the repetition of the game of rouge et noir. Robert Oldlield was in the employment of Mr. Fielder, No. 9, Bennett-street. He opened the outer their, and the inner door. In the evening, the door nest the street was shut, in general. Kept a key of the inner door, which led up stake. There were two doors within the house, beside the street door. Was stationed at the doors in question to let gentlemen in. Be saw these gentlemen before he let them in, through an oval glass in the street door. There was an outer door beside those he kept, which nas always open. His duty was to keep out such persons as it Wale thought proper to exclude. The game of rouge et noir was ' going on up stairs. Iteside the rouge et noir table, there were other tables in the house, including a hazard-rabic : on that he never saw hazard played ; did see hazard played belni cn the 29th of March end the 11th of April, a little after three; they played in the back room, on the first floor ; Mr. Fielder was there I there were eight or ten present ; if three mains at hazard were thrown by one person, the keeper of the table was entitled to a box ; witness received this money, which he banded over to Mr. F's servant ; the sable of the box was proportioned to the stakes played for; on this occasion, the gentlemen playing wanted to play for half a pound, but Mr. F. said it was so late the boxes must be pounds. The gen tlemen would sometimes stake from 201. to 401. The servants there were the servants of Mr. Fielder. On the morning in question at hazard, he thought Sir G. Webster won all that was won—six or seven hundred pounds. Mr. Barton lost considerably. He had been a winner, but Sir Godfrey urged him, kept him on playing, and he lust it all. Mr. Barton was about seven or eight and twenty. Mr. Fielders house was but up this day three WOO. From the 21.1 6 • Us of March down JULY 14. to the Ist or April the 1113 y went on every except when stopped by infore:ations at llow.st wet, Soaday,as well as other days. Fruit; 20 to 30 attended colt ttigitt. herran to play genets:lly ut tin +feting.. W htr, the officers value wittirss Mama not to 1.4 them in by !kir. Fielder. rs Fielder it:lCl:anti« . to pl'eltille r 4 It e!.ltiat Ohs. Mr. William lt.o too.r an Officer,. in the Guards, was at Mr. Fielder's house cu eidleteni evening* Leta ten the coil; of March and the 14111 of 4101. Was these several times during that period. Saw play going forward every night' he %vas these. Saw ron;ze noir play vd , and hazard hot mice. Sir Goeldfre Welynet was the le on that occasion. and right or ten nth rte—Thi y began after three o'clock, And continued play dig till seven. Sir Godfrey won about two or thr:e hundred wands. Witness is the person alluded to by the last witness ; t, bin 21 years of age Cross examined.--,Mr. Fielder objected to hazard being plised, and ;dui. the play was done took away the bust-s, Examined by Mr. Justice Bayles.—Had seen a single stake of ltml. at rouge el noir. The stakes were from 501. to 101. each deal. They dealt from 49 to sit times w ithin the hour. • The play began at ton mid lasted till three. John Wilson apprehended Mr. Fielder on the 3d of May, in tl!e evening at eleven oclock ; went to sorrels his house. Ti:ere was resistance to his entrance. Found Mr. Fielder in the house. When witness went there, he saw fotir or five and •tw cloy gentlemen preftnt. 'they all seemed much cou. fused. This was the case ror the prosecution. Mr. Gurney then addressed the J ury nu the part of the de• foitlanis. Jue,tire Bayley having suturited up the et idenee, the Jury found the pa istmer—littilty. GRIM. CON.-TttFLANYNIOr V. COLEMAN. ThiA ‘V :IS an action in which the plaintiff sought to recover COM pelisation in damages from the tletemlant, ter the se drection of his wife. Thedaniagcs were laid at 5,00 W. . . Me. Scarlet t stated the facts to the Jury. The plaintiffwas the youngest son or Colonel Trelawney, and hail been a mid shitiman in the navy. The defendant was an officer in the army, recently rammed from-Imlia. The plaintiff returninc home in consequence of a wound he bad received, took np his residence in London, where he was introduced to an ;satiable young lady, named Addison, whose father had a situation in the service of the East India Company. This lady was highly accomplished, and an object most likely to attract the atten tion and gain the affect noised* a young man, especially a sailor. After an acquaintance of about a year, a marriage took place, at a tame N% hen they were neither of them fully of age, and he was bound to admit the match teas one to which the plaintiffs father had never been reconciled. This circumstance toe k place in 1013 or Li, and *. bough the father was pot favourable to the union, he immediately after it took place, assigned to his son an laconic, of ;iOOl. a year, to which the lady's friends added 1001 more. On this income they retired to a little cot tage at D'en:lam, in the neighbourhood of Uxbridge, where domestic felicity made up for all they lost in btxury. 'they kept but little company, but amonst others they were Re. gnaimted with a most respectable fainii.7, named Dutton, mils had SO hi=la a confidence in the virtuous principles of Mrs. Trelawney, that Mr. Diuton being appointed to a situation at Cuxhaven, his daughter for a considerable time with herj After a period of some length had elapsed, the plaintitl`s Is. thee still remaining as averse to them as ever, the plaintiff de termined to seek out a retired and cheap resideu',:e in the North, they having at this time a little girl, whose birth had Meremed their happiness. It was &tenanted that the plain. tiff shonld place his wife and child with a respectable cler gyman, flamed 11 right, residing at liinekley, in Leicester shire, where they confirmed six months. Ctifintunately Mr. and Mrs. NViight were since dead, or he skunkd have called Them to prose the happy state of affection in which they liv ed, and the ?potable es of the lady. The plaintiff hav ing failed in the object of Ills search, they, in January 1511;, went to reside in Bristol, in the house of a Mrs. !'rout. After this time the warmest affection existed Ireiween them, when unfortunately, in Mai ah, ISt 6, tke defendant came to lodge in the same house. defendant was a man of the world, upwards of forty,more than double the age of Mrs. Titian.- ney, and as soon us he Saw this unfortunate young woman, he determined to make her subservient to his nishes, and sic. erected in doing this within Inn months after he became ac quainted with her, iinkilown to her husband.—The marriage was proved, and wituesses were called to slew, that plain tiff's father vs as net er rt coneiled to the time ri ace. The prin cipal witness was Sarah Prout. She lives iu Cullege•stii Bristol; recolleets the plaintiff mid wile Ei ming to her house to lodge in the (-ally part of January Isln; they were strangers to the witness at that time; their family consisted of themselves and elle child; they had the 'leaning-town, parlonr, and one herl.room. 'limy continued in witness's horse till July. 'they kept no company, and lived milli the utmost ceomony. She was a very fascinating woman, And they appeared to be very comfortable and happy. She pass ed her time elielly in reading and sewing ; he also real a good deal. lie aas a reserved man in his manner. Captain Coleman came to lodge in witness's house in the mouth of March. At that time he appealed to be a per feet stranger to Mts. T. Witness did not observe for some time that any acquaintance had taken place bet Wt en them. Capt. C. how eve,, lent witness smile books to lead, and Mts. TrelaWary reipie: led that she might have them from the witness. This c,reimistance led to a direct loan of books from defendant to Mrs. Tielawney. Witness reinembeis being In her garden one day in the month of June. The defendant's bed-room window was on the giumul floor, level with a small out-house. A towel had Mien from Mr. Trelawney's bed-room. whieli was chore Captain Coleman's room, and witness went to take it lip, n hen in Capt. Coleman's loom, she saw a pair of shots belonging to Mrs. Trelawney. On seriii this, nitnesi looked ton:uds the bed, where sue saw Mrs. Trclawne and Capt. Coleman. Witness saw her eetting oat of bed, tilt which she Caine tomed into the imam, and met her as she quitted Captain Coleman's apartment with her shoes in her hand. Vi itness spoke to her on the subject, and desired her pia the house as soon as possible. She was fearful of :mu tinning it to Mr. TrelLin 'ley, as she knew 'lnn to be a soy strict roan. She cheerier' vs hat consequences might follow, and nes wily anxious to get them out of the home, as she was an unprotected woman het self. r. 1 relaw ney vs as VII the (-Netting iu question gone to the play. Mrs. Teelawney ap peared to lie a tray young; woman, Captain Coleman was between 4 0 and a very gentlemanly man. lie quitted witness's house he fore Mr. and Air. Trulawney Mr. Gurney has Mg addressed the Jut y tin the part of the delendae• *salt Meat ability and at 11 consiolei able length, and Mr Js 'ire Milroy.' havii.g summed tip, the Jury in , tired, ai da et being net for veer an hold', semi-mil a ver dict for tin plaintiff—Damages .5001. ; costs cos. br cal" occnp , e d the Court !iota twelve o'eluck till half past five. MiNE=!=liglAlL