The National Register. — London, England, 1820-06-12 00:00:00

Serry and the defendant come into the beer cellar. The beer was drawn off. and the ingredients were pre- pared, when wanes, stepped forward and seized a ! gal. lon stone-horde in the funds of the defendant, as he was • in the act of pouring it sotto the cask. The other (taker corruburAled the evidence ef the last . . . . . The bottle which had heen seised was here produced, and its conietits were examined. It contained a very black adhesive liquid, of an extremely bitter taste amid extreme putigenc,f. It was highly concentrated. t l. Surveyor of the Excise 'lama, that the liquid in question had been broualn to him by one of the officers. Ile believed it to consist iiien•tly of burnt sugar, or anolauei, together with chili pepper, and other inAreili call& the same, gent iiatiire. • NIT. Mayo, Solicitor of the Excise, asked whether there were any malt or hops amongst the ingredients. Witness answered its the negative. 'Coe compound was handed for itispection to Mr Cohen, jun. and to NI r. Foster, of the house of Calvert and Co. porter brewers. Mr. Foster said, he could give uu accurate opinion as to the nature of the compound. lie believed nto consist mostly of lasses, and ingre dients of great pungency, but there certainly were 110 traces of any preparation of 111.111 or hops in the stuff produced Somme Officers of Excise said, tit" went to the pre mise% of. the deletidatit, who was professedly a capillaire titakertaw Street, Latutieth, on the gfitii of Augtsui; and they seized a tiosatitiiy of liquid of the sante kind as Sham produced, loonier with a quantity of green copperas, and ramie drugs, apparently of a powerful de scriptiou, with the precise nature of which they were not acquainted. The defendant, it appeared, had decamped, and judg Went wet pronounced by default. The Court convicted him in the penalty of 3801. for the two offences which he had committed. The Court passed a 'high eulogiuni on the conduct of Mr. Berry. .to wl they gala the public were greatly indented for a exposing a Nystem which it was to be feared was lint too prevalent. His activity in putting a slop to the career of an niurrant vender of poison, lur such the efeuilant was. was most praise worthy FRIDAY. JUNE. 9. William Coates, residing in Mary Anne Street, St. George's iii th e E:10. was charged on itiformanon with 'embus a spurious liquid, prohibited by law, for the purpnie of adulterating beer, and defrauding the reve nue, frir which o ff ence he had forfeited the penally of aet..oo. ' _ I lie Aefendaat did not attend, and judgment went by default. Mr. Richard Berry (who was the cause of detecting the infamous 'ruffle of a similar nature, which was tried before the Commissioners last week) stated, that he was fenuerly the proprietor of the Quee►►'s Head, public house, in Queen Street, Cheals►de. In the month of October last. the defendant called at his house, and the conversation arose respecting the colouring of beer ; defesidantaaid he was in the habit of snaking a liquid for the puriinse of colouring, and the price was ss. 4d. per gallon. Witness agreed to have a gallon of the com pound. and the defendant went away. Mr. Berry in stantly gate information to the Excise. and an officer encoded at his house on the Ist of October, the day the defendant wit to bring the deleterious compound. The defendant arrived about I I o'clock. and delivered the mixture. together with the directions how it was to be used, and a bill of parcels. The directions were as follows•:—" First. take from the butt ten gallons of beer; after you have• drawn your beer, take nine Fil ipino( water. to which add ►he gallon of colouring, and then put the water and compound into the butt; pot • little finings in afterwards, and stir it round well."— The officer, immediately on the liquor being delivered to witness seized it. The stuff was here produced ; it was a very dark coloured mixture, of an extreme nauseous flavour, and of a frothy nature. Thy compolind was handed for inspection to Mr. J. Martineau, the brewer, who tasted it, and B are it as his opinion that it consisted of burnt sugar and other deleterious ingredients, but what he could not say ; he waspolliliVe there were nn malt and hops in the mixture. Mr. Fos er, Mr. Calvert, jun. and several eminent brewers, were present. The Court ordered the defendant to pay a fine of VOitLe. MARLBOROUGH STIIEET. • Riort—Friday, W tlliatu Nlackenzte, Thomas Dab!), John WAdauss, John Walling, John Clayton, Tho mas Chandler, and Edward Sidney Augard (some of them very decent young men), were laiongin tip Plank, Wales, Jelieries, Valentine, and other officers, charged with nut, and making a desperate attack upon the house of Lora Sidnimith. on Thursday night las.. The facts are briefly these:—On Thursday night lasi a., extensive nioh of persons kit Smith Audrey Street, and on their road down Hill Street broke the windows o the inhabitants, and, crying " lights," inane a great nut On arriving in Berkeley Square, they demolished the whol e o f th e windows on isle west s ole. In Chiliad Street, they slopped opigniiie laird Sultitosith's residence. where a party hail been emeriameil. Tttry assailed house with stinirs, 111441, and miler missiles, and cum ;newly demolish/A the whole of the sviiiilossa. Tit 1 1111111 ft IV4 le naturally alarmed for their safety; and Lord L h. who was one of the party, made appearance, and addressed Ile owl), remwsoill: Men', as frilb4)llllbir Illell. 141 lirSlst irons their violent istokerh . rags, and retire hi tuts' haissimons. Tiicy amused Ins Lordship, especially Mti ackszie %s , ilo wis resin:i.e.) taken by Plank and W4IrS, the officers. The violrot r of the snob not bring gimlet', but isicreased. land Ex mouth intimated that he and the other gentlemen were aimed, and that farther outrage must necersarity urge TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER them to iise their arms. His Lordship was hooted; when he, with the rest of the party, sallied forth on the b, and they were ultimately overpowered and dis perse.l. Adams, while his Lordship was pursuing some was exciting the mub to violence against him, and he was taken by Valentine. A eitnilar attack was mule at the Nlarriiiss of Hertford's, Nlaischester.synare. to Portman-square the C lIICt of Itie moo was so tufa -0000 s, that the officers using their cu.lasscs, sonic of toe rioters were desperately w led. Toe officers I eil the above circumstances, and wire corrotiorated by CAIII4III Wll,Oll, Or the 21iiii Light Dragoons. They were all ordered to T.ie Magistrates held a Cffilierellee, and, in order to pursite necessary salmi for the preservation of the public peace and the proper') of nide% iduals, Messrs. Lee Smart, the high coristables, were sent for, and received instroctious to have extra parish. officers. 12 from each parish, one of w 1 sho.ild be stationed at the aliove oilier, for the purpose of coliveyin4 necessary aitelligence to the police, if the mitraires were repeated. BOXING. A match off hand took place on Wednesday even ing, after Cribb's benefit, in Harper's Fields, Pad dington, between W Abbot, a boxer of some note, and a Birmingham man, who strongly fancied him self. His prowess had been talked over at the Fives Court, and afterwards at Cribb's. The Count ryonan boasted that he cared but little about weight, and he was a match tor most of the fighting men. An amateur present, not willing to overmatch, proposed W. Abbot, he was sent fur, and he soon arrived in a costernounger's drag. The men were willing to tight in the nearest field, and at eight o'clock they peeled on the chosen spot.--Turner and Sampson seconded Brumnigees, ant Richmond and 'tom Junes picked Abbot up. The Ist round 'hewed that the Countryman had more action Ohm tight ; Atonal kept emulous, and its elosiug threw his advenary. V. Abbot drew blood by a left-handed hit upon lb* ivory, it was loartiAlly "returned. and the Countryman, in dosing, Ynapped upon the weaving sy.tein, and he was gra•si d. . . Csaintsyman was in wadi euednsion, and he was dropped by a rislit-lianded Wee ; and it was a bursa to a hen. The next three roonds the Countryman was knocked down, end Turtle.. one of his seconds, lelt him, as he hail no chance, and wails this wholesome advice, that he would kst.tir it worse in e.er) mould, which was the ca•r. He (ought tour other rounds, %dhow s chancy, and could not be brought again to the scratch, suit Ablest won it in 14 minutes, without a hurt. There appears a new issue of one-pound forged tames in circulation- The engraving of the figure of Britannia, if viewed through a glass, is clumsy; the paper has a silky feel, and the water mark is not dear, but confused. The name at the bottom of almost all the fined' notes is nut 'grilles with a pen, but mograred. The loyal tradesmen of Fulham, when informed of the arrival of her Majesty, welcomed her return with a merry peal and a Royal Salute of three time: twenty-tme• Between two and three o'clock on Friday morning, as the watchman was going his rounds, he perceived two men carrying a heavy load, crossing the New Road bear ehe end of Cumberland-place, and sus pectingthey had some stolen property, he went to wards them, on which they threw down their load, ran off, and effected their escape. What must he the watchman's surprise to find• it contained the dead body of a man without a head. If it was a body stolen out of a church-yard, it would nut want the head. The body was taken to the dead house, and the circumstance has given rise to different reports. A Coroner's Inquest is already summoned to inves tigate this ease. The first stone of a charity school at Costessey, which is to be erected at the expense of Sir Geo. Jerningham, Burt for the education of the poor of that place was laid on Thursday se'nnight. On Tuesday. evening the tragedy of Douglas,' with the farce of ' The Mayor of Garret,' were per formed it the Rungay Theatre by a party of ama teurs, who benevolently applied the surplus receipts to the benefit of the poor of that town. Dud belweeii Mr: Grattan and Lord Clare.—The following statement is from authority Mr. Grat tan having, at a public meeting in Dublin, made use of expressions which Lord Clare conceived to reflect upon the late Lord Clare, his father, and having declined either to explain or qualify them, the parties met on Tuesday morning, when Mr. Grattan, having received Lord Clare's tire, instantly fired in the air. The friends present having gives their opinion that the afliiir could proceed no fur. ther, Mr Grattan came forward in the handsomest manner, and mated, that having now met Lord Clan in the field, and having given the satisfaction re. quired, he was then willing to admit he was wrong in having made of such exprehsions, on which th. partici. immediately shook hands, and the athiir ter minated." A beautiful new frigate, of the largest class (the first round-stern frigate built in Englund), called the Minerva, will be launched at Purtsmontb dock yard on Tuesday, the 13th lan. 101 DEATH OP MR. GRATTAN. It is our painful duty to record the death of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan. This melancholy event took place at a late hour on Sunday night, at his house in Biker-street. It has been fi,r soma time expected with mournful anxiety by his family, the whole of whom watched, with the tenderest solicitude, the death-bed of this distinguished cha racter. Fur the last five months Mr. Grattan la. boured under a severe dropsical affection in the chest, which, though attended with acute pain, he bore with the utmost resignation. The disorder bad attained so oppressive a 'might that Mr. Gist tan fur the last three months was, obliged to seck rest in a sitting posture; any attempt to sleep in any other : manner brought on an asthmatic affection which immediately threatened fatal consequences.— Mr. Grattan, anticipating the fatal result of his di . order, adopted, contrary to the advice of his friend., the determination of making one more effort on bi - halfof the civil and religious liberties of his eottatr) * To use his • own emphatic words, in reply to the Address of the Catholics of Ireland, presented to hini in Dublin not many days ago, -he owed ' 1 his last breath to his country," and with unerring haste ~ has that melancholy augury been fulfilled. On Monday night it was the intention of Mr. Grattan to have made the effort to take his seat in the House of Commons, and to close his eminent career of public services, by layirrg on the table of the House of Commons a series o f Reiolutions declaratory of those principles of civil and religious liberty which he thought became the high moral station of Great Britain, mid the enlightened character of bile age iu which we live. Mr. James having carried his Election for Carlisle by a majority of 86, is a convincing proof of the increasing strength of the independent interest in that City. The chairing of the Hon. Member w sv witnessed by an imoseme multitude, by whom he .. was hailed with acclamation. Some unexpected difficulties have, it seems, arisen respecting the occupation of the Dublin Theatre by Mr. Harris; in consequence of which Mr. Soul has left London, as the agent of that Gentleman, to fit up the old Post Office, which he intends opening under his patent instead of the old house, if any further delay is made to the acceptance of the terms he has nmposed. The new Bank notes, it is understood; will be ready to be jawed- in time to pay the dividends in October next. A dye is sinking for a new silver coinage ff the present reign, which, it is said, will be issued on the day of his Majesty's Coronation. Pours.—Lodgings being announced far single gentlemen in a genteel neighbourhood, the other day, with an N.B. that they would not be let to any poets, a gentleman was curious enough to enquire the reason, when he was !given to understand by the. landlady, that the resolution she had formed *mkt from her having let the lodgings to three different . poets in her time, who had only dotted the floor all over with ink, spoilt her looking glasses with wicked rhymes, crowded her door with door all day lope, and run away at last without paying her a farthing abet rent. Zutbs. AtWbk.logroo, Deabyddre, the lady of C. 11. Play. esp. of *see. In Vora *Heel, hollows square. Mrs. Jolts Ilankt, ui a sue. The lady of I leery Stone. esq. of a son. At hotbed, (Of IN, near TiI•WWIC wells, the lady of NaJoelentrat Samson, of a name/tier. Al l'atss, the toly of the Right Hon. F.. Thornton. his MidestOi f*".Y ellt"rdW") and ntf.Mt.r PefaiP€ 4 " ol4l 7 si lk. i:"" of hi. Mutt FaishfaS Nlelesty, of a sus. At the Huyal hiliti.ny College, Saadhurst, the lady of the Rey. B. Evans, of a dan‘hier. In Upper lierkeley Mewl. the lady of W. Bayer', seq. of a sun. AI Lioateltarst. Kent, the lady ut ii. -Ironer, LI.. It. ye a sun. 14.711ifliba At Camberwell, G. Warden, eeq. of Glasgow, to Sally, daughter of V. Wanustmeitt, ea . of Alum, house, Camberwell. At Gottalasing, surrey, W. l'oututert, my. to Aud, eldest daughter .•f Robert MszsSstl. tam. At the same time and place, Edm. Ramirez, esq. to &oak ureond darighter of It. Marshall, At Albion, its II United Mates, 11. Ronald., esq. late of flammersionli, to Silty Catiwaisse Flower, sec..od daughter of Kichavd Flower, *so. late of Mardets, 115111 At Chigweli,.lther, sun us. Jt..slegg. elm. of John street, Redford row, to Rama, second daughter of J. %%hams. esq. of Clitgeell. At St. Giles's, t;ripplegitte,, 11. W. Weedoit, esq. of Upper Charles street, ram thatopion .111..0(Is Mary Anti, eldest daughter of the late J. Clarke, req. us 74. John street. At Ilestehm, air. 1, I Moelehild, lam of mtuthwatk, to Harriet Louisa daughter stt Sir. J. Mikado, of the immer 'dace. AI 114 . 0 0. 11 1 Church, Mr. J. II totgene, .4 St. I.ettnartra emaare, Ithasbnr),.to Nils, tsantleram,, ot I latoptuar cowl. Dan. Al "Armco,' boste ,. sear Harrow awaits 1101, It. Ilasrard, rsq. of Tarries. Mossy, Pucks. Mr. 'Maras Wilson, of Lower flumes, street, aged St Mira. Awe linstiogs, ot kisses gem", 'triton - A tow aged 77. Al ilramirags, sophi t. she wile of J. lowras. nil, esq. Al his house, Fititiclil, Wills, Wes. hew berry owil, Al stoke Nevinigion, Anwlira, wife of Mr. E. Brartlrtt, of I Avon street. 'migrate kill. At los .eel. itoishali, Wilts, slr I. M. Poore, bars. aged 75. itailkod, wile of the Itcy. Holiest Alder..l., and cldc.l illoghtec of the irate pr. WAirew, (lector eritipplc, .111.1 4rs•lith.‘,l U. erste.. -- At hi..e`••owa, 11143, driatet, Mrs. MlChard*, Wish.. of tb•• • Rickets'*, reg. Lleptkos. Lrr'CUaru etrett, !Mtn Jorteg. e, . Aged 77. 'aihrtt.ve, 1 ..ister."l oterighler rhe it. c. J , e• . r f r .11 %V.:". r - ►., • • . I*.. • i -