The National Register. — London, England, 1821-05-07 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER COURSE OF Amsterdam, 12 14 C. F. Ditto, at sight, 19 11 Rotterdam, 19 13 Antwerp, 12 10 Hainhargh, 38 7 Altana, SS 6 Paris, 3 days' sight, 25 80 Ditto, VG I i Botirdeaux, 26 15 Frankfort on theMsine,l3o4 Pateri.barrsh, 94 3 U. Vienna, E. Flo. 10 20 Trieste, EC Flo. 10 20 Madrid, 20—Cadit, 38 Bilboa, 351 Boredom', 35 PRICE Bonk Stork t 25 $ per Cent. Red. 72f 3 per Cent. Consols ISf 3j per Cent. 89.1 4 per Lem. 90i ISper Cent. Navy 108 i I.nwt Ann. IS 913 M►r 4. ...... _ _ _ 131 1 —Gibrollor,1101 Leghorn, 41--Oenoo, 44 Malts, 44—Venice, 27 00 Naples, 994—Lisbon. 50 Oporto, Nl—Bahia, 56 113 i Palermo 113 ei per cent. Cork, di per eted. Foreign gold in bus, 91. 17s. 104.1. tier os. New DonliiJona, New Dnilsirs, 4%. 10d. Silvvr in bars, siandard, 4s. Id. 'STOCKS. Osmium 0. Imp. S per Cent. 71 India Honda 44 India Stock 230 f Elielacquer Bill: 6s. dia. Cous. for Ac. 731 [omen , Tickets £l4 14.. TliE NATIONAL REGISTER. IL onton. MONDAY, MAY 7. -is.- The Paris parrs of Tuesday and Wednesday last have arrived. There were none published on Thurs day, the preceding day having been entirely devoted to the festivities in celebration of the baptism of the Duke of Bourdeaux. We have no later ac• counts of the progress of affairs in Spain, Italy, or Turkey, than those furnished by the papers pre viously received. Advices from Sicily state, that fourteen vessels perished in the port of Palermo in a storm tha t lasted three days. It is said that a greet many vessels were also wrecked on the coast of Sarditria. The Five per Cent. Consols are 82 f. 25 cents Book Actions 1,546 f. 25 cents. The vacation having expired, the two Houses of Parliament have re-assembled—in the House of Lords no important motion has been brought for ward ; in the Commons the Army Estimates have been proceeded with, and numerous reductions moved by way of amendments; these have, it is true, been negatived on divisions, but they are not without their attendant benefits—in the first place, they prove the infamous extent of extravagance to which an Administration will go when it is sup- ported by its owa minions of corruption, to support whom the expenditure is in part requisite, and that a opposition to nine-tenths of the people who con tribute to subsist the reptile breed—in the second place, through the independent part of the public press, it will be known who support such a set of Army Estimates, which knowledge ought to act as a proscription on a future election—and in the third place, by pointing out the increasing necessity of Reform, it will, we hope, be the means of uniting the Reformers of every class—the most moderate with the more extensive—the Whigs with the Ui. teas or Radicals—and if ever such an union take place, the present Farce will have approached its last Act—a Reform cannot be resisted by the few, if the mal t y resolutely insist upon it; and however unwillingly they may consent to it, a Reform they must submit to, as soon as all the parties who wish it unite to enforce it by every legal means, and that day, we believe, is not far distant. The late Mr. Pieschel, by his will, proved in Doctors'-commons, has bequeathed to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester the sum of 20,0001., on account of the good opinion he enter tained of his Royal Highness's public conduct, which he describes "as an example to others." He also discharges him from the payment of the further sum of 6,0001. due on mortgage. Mr. Pieschell's personal property is sworn under 350,0001. out of which a considerable sum is bequeathed to various charitable institutions. A letter from Portsmouth, dated April Su. says, --" Arrived the Redwing, 18, Capt. Hutto, from St. Helena. She lett that place on the Bth March, at which time Bonaparte was understimxl to be as well as he hail been fir some time He had not removed into his new habitation. The Redwing has brought to England a large mail from the Cape and St. Helena. The Bishop of Winchssier.—lt was highly credi ble to the memory of Mr. Pitt that he died poor.— During his life-time, several of his friends lent him 1,0001 or 2,0001. each, upon bond. On his death, when the same parties met to devise the means of liquidating his debts, Mr. Geo. Rose set a good ex ample, by tearing to pieces his bond, Sir Charles Long did the same—so did Lord Carrington, &c.— They turned to the worthy Bishop, who owed every thing to his pupil, and asked him what he would do. To this the Reverend Prelate answered, that his debt was of a very particular nature. He had in convenienced himself by the loan; but, to show his good will, he would agree to take the books anti effects of his friend, by appraisement, in payment of his debt ! At this very time, if the library and effects of the late Mr. Pitt had been brought to a public sale, many noblemen and gentlemen, his fol lowers and admirers, were prepared to purchase articles in remembrance of him at any price. Tue Di scove Sutrs.—The Fury, Capt. Parry, owing to an unfavourable wind, was towed down to Nortlifieet by the Eclipse, steam-vessel, on Sunday last, and the liecla, Captain Lyon, on Monday, they will remain ut Northfleet for a few days, and then drop down to the sore, from whence they will pro ' ceed on their voyage direct about Sunday next.— Their crews are in the best state of health and highest spirits. The indefatigal4e and minute at tention which has been given to ensure the ultimate success of the expedition, as well as the individual comforts of those employed in it, reflect the highest honour upon the Naval administration, and entitles the Noble Lord who presides there to the unqualified praise and approbation of the country. The emi nent qualifications of the commander of the expedi tion, Capt. Parry, and the merit of the second in command, Capt. Lyon, are well known to the public through their former services. Indeed both officers have been selected without regard to any other re commendation than excellence of character and fitness to command ; and, from the judicious measures that have been adopted in fitting outfhe vessels, and the unanimity that prevails among all employed in the enterprise, every possible exekon of energy and judgment may be confidently expected. Caution to Porishes.—Ctn . V,,ednesday last, an in teresting case to parishes t on at the Warwick shire sessions. It was an ap s dal against the removal of a pauper, upon the ground that an indenture of apprenticeship was illegal, when signed by the churchwarden of a parish in which au immemorial custom only to elect our churchwarden could not be supported. Mr. Stockdale Hardy, from the Ec clesiastical Court, produced a number of ancient documents to prove that, at former periods. TWO churchwardens had been elected and acted for the parish, which now ally had a lne churchwarden; and the court upon the authomy of the case of the King v Barsby and some others, quashed the order of removal. We insert the case as a caution to parishes in general, to elect two churchwardens in future, unless an immemorial custom to send only one can be established. An act has been introduced into Parliament to cure the defect; but as it will probably only have a retrospective effect, the cau tion as to the election of two churchwardens, is necessary, in order to prevent future inconvenience. There is a singular cireumstanee attending the death of the Chinese who was killed by the fifth mate of the East India Company's ship London.— It appears that the man was shot by the English officer by accident, while engaged in a boar hunt, and there exists an old Chinese law, which has been universally put in practice by the natives, and ge nerally exercised against foreigners, requiring the life of another individual in expiation for the one so destroyed, whether by accident or otherwise. It was in the execution of this law that the govern ment laid an embargo on all the ships in the har bour, and some very serious misunderstanding might have arisen; for the ship's company were deter mined not to suffer the life of a messmate to be sa crificed, had they not, on their return to their vessel found that one of the crew, who was condemned to undergo some severe punishment, had put a period to his existence by hanging himself. The body of the seaman was offered to the friends of the Chinese, and accepted by them, and thus the affair ended. Anecdote.—The conversation on board a ship, where a party of gentlemen were dining lately, turn ing on the native wit of the Irish, the Captain re marked he had on board an uneducated " fellow of infinite humour," who, strange to say, denied being an Irishman, though he had the brogue strongly.— A young son of Erin, who was present, expressed a wish to see the humourist, and said he should be convinced by one mord whether they were country men or not. The party adjourned to the deck, where stood Paddy, washing potatoes. "And how do you call (how things num V" exclaimed the young " I'lase your honour," slid t'addy (shrewdly perceiving the drift of the query), " we don't call 'cin—we fetch 'em when we want 'cm !" 141 A novel machine, invented by a gentle:aim of Christ College, Cambridge, was tried last week at Newmarket. In shape it is nearly that of an isoceles triangle, and moves with the great end forward, en four wheels. It has a boom 32 feet long, and a very high mast. It will arry twelve persons at the rate of 30 miles an hour. The axle of the hinder wheels is fixed a rudder. It can go on a wind and tack u a vessel at sea, and is capable of being so correctly guided, that the pilot at pleasure can run the wheels over a stone. A Lisbon packet has just arrived, with advises to the 23d ult. The despatches from the new Govern ment of Bahia, addressed to the Regency and Cortes, and containing the whole of the details of the revolution there, had been received and read in the Cortes. Accounts had also reached Lisbon of the declaration of Pernambuco to adhere to the Porto. guese Cortes and Constitution, on exactly the same plan which had been adopted at Bahia. A Bourdeaux paper mentions a report, that the vessel in which Gen. Pepe had sailed from Naples had been cuptured by the Algerine squadron. The Select Committee on the existing regulations relative to the making and sale of bread, report to the House of Commons their opinion, that for one year at least Parliament should impose no restriction as to the denomination of loaves, or their weight. They do not recommend any alteration of the law. so far as it relates to the adulteration of bread, otherways than by increasing the penalties. They desire also, rather whimsically, that bakers shall . keep legal weights and scales in their shops, to weigh bread when required, though they are at liberty to make and sell it of any weight. The Conslilutiormei contains a paragraph under the head of Krajowa, in Wallachia, dated the 28th of March, which states, that in a sanguinary battle fought at Kudschuck, a town in Bulgaria, a great many Greeks perished ; but it doesnot say to which. party the victory belonged. It is asserted positively that not only has the Turkish fortress of Galcr fallen into the h Inds of the Christians, but that they have taken upwards of thirty Turkish vessels on the Danube, and have, according to their barbarous custom, slaughtered the greatest part of their crews. I his Itee intelligence is the repetition of an old- • repot, • Intelligence received by a commercial house in. the City states, that a desperate and sanguinary con flict has taken place between the Greeks and Turks inhabiting the city of Petrasso, in the Mores, and that the city his fos the greater past fallen a prey to the flames. We learn from the same authority, that the spirit of national independence prevails universally throughout all Greece, leading the - Greeks unhappily, in every ia.tance- where the opportunity offers, to stain their righteous cause 1 with the blood of their Turkish oppressors. The Turks, in self-defence endeavour to retaliate, and thus the whole of the provinces present one dreadful scene of almost mutual carnage. We further learn that the town of Smyrna has beets the scene of similar outrages between the Greeks and the Tuggl e l and that a considerable part of it has shared the fate of Patrasso. On Friday evening the anniversary festival of the General Benevolent Institution, for the relief of distressed artists of the United Kingdom, was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen.stroet.— The institution is also intended for the relief of their widows and orphans. About five o'clock the com pany consisting of nearly 200 persons, sat down to dinner, his Boyal Highness the Duke of Sussex in the chair, supported on the right by the Lord Mayor, and on the left by Sir T. Bell, Mr. Blake. M. P. Mr. Ord, M. P. and numerous penises of distinction. Several speeches were made in support of the institution, and a handsome subscription was made by the company, who remained to a late hour. In consequenee of Mr. Humes exhibition of abuse in the ordnance department, an order has bees reecived at the ordnance office, Dublin, from the Master General and Board in this country, to sus pend all gratuities for length of service till further notice ; and rimilar orders have been forwarded, it is said, to the other departments in Ireland. His Majesty held a Levee at Carlton Palace on Wednesday last. The presentations were very nu - memus, and among them was the Marquis of Lim donderry, on coming to his present title. And on Thursday his. Majesty held a Drawing-room, which was numerously used fashionabl, attended. By an Act of Parliament, of the date of the 24th of March last, it is enacted, that it shall be lawful. for any court-martial, before which any non-com ... missioned officer or soldier shall be tried or convicted of desertion, to direct, if it shall think fit, in addition to any other punishment the vain may award for such desertion, that the deserter b_• marked on the lett side, two inches below the ari-pit, with the letter 1), such letter not to be less than Indf an. inch long, and to marked upon the skin with some ink, or gunpowder, or other preparation, so as to be visible and conspicuous, and not liable to be obliterated. ); . 0 l-.-