The National Register. — London, England, 1818-11-29 00:00:00

NOV. 29 erisli other Motes, from the strictest obeirietaiesiow of the right of nations; principles winch, in their aii - plieation to a slate o f peace, can alone effectually guarantee tli6 independence of each goverunteut and the stability of the general awe lo tion. " Faithful to these principles. the Sovereigns will maintain them equally in those meetings at w hich th ey stay be person ally present, or in those which shall take place g their Ministers ; whether it shall be their object to discuss in coin,, moo their own interests, or whether they take cognizance of questions in which other governments shall formally claim their interference. The seine spirit which will direct their councils, and reign in their diplomatic communications, shall preside also at these meetings; and the repose of tits world shall be constantly their motive and their end. " It is with such sentiments that the Sovereigns have con somated the work to which they were called. They will not cease to labour fur its confirmation and perfection. 'they solemnly acknowledge, that their ditties towards God and the people whom they gov . ern , make it peremptory on them to give to the world, as tar as in their power, an example of jitstiee, of concord, of moderal ; happy in their power of consecrating, from henceforth, nil their efforts to the protction of the acts of peace, to the increase of the internal pi °verity etf their Status, and to the awakening of those sentiments of religion and morality, whose empire has beeu but tuu much en:cabled by the misfortune of the times. " Ail-la-Chapelle, Nov. 15, 18 I B. (Signed) " NIETTERNIC "41 ARDENRERG. " RICHELIEU. " BERNSTORFF. " c.tsTLERE4,I:II. •' N ESEIRODE. " WELLINGTON. " CAP° A." This document bears the signature of M. Gentz, the Secre tary to the Congress. THE NOETHAV EST EX P EIHT 14.—The following ailditi• anal particulars upon this subject are from a Hull paper I— •' The Isabella and Alexander, discovery ships, arrived it the Humber on Saturday week; and after taking pilots on board, sailed for the Thames the following day. Capt. Sir John Ross, of the Alexander, reached this town on Saturday after noon, and set off a b out two hours aftery aids in a chaise tor London. The following particulars respecting the newly discovered race of lisquienaux were communicated by SirJ. Ross. The discovery ships had been lying adjoining the land, between lat. 76. and 77. fasteimil to an icebto g, for two or three Joys, and had just shoved off, when to their great sir. prise they saw some persons coining down from the interior, towards the shore, in sledges drawn by dogs. Our country. niertimmeiliately pot back ; but on landing, the natives tied towards the interior. In order, it possible . , to open a conk. 1131Huoication with them, the L4(plimallx, •on hoard the expedi tion, set off after them; and about three miles over the ice, ancceeded in this object ; when Lc loom! lie was able to make himself imperfectly understood by them, and also to coinpre. heed their meaning. On the fast introduction taking place, the natives inquired whether their visitors emote t . 141111 the San or the The Esquiniaux told them neither; but from a large coubtry a great distance from the South. They said this was impossible, as they said there was 110111tIllt to the Southward but uninhabitable ice. It was with great difficulty that they could be convinced of their error, or led to regard our countrymen in any other light than as beings from some other planet. Ott being taken on board the vessels, they manifested the utmost surprise at every thing they saw. They could not for some time be persuaded that the ships were not animals, and possessed the power of speaking ; and when told that they were of the nature of I 1111 l se*, iniintated that could not be, silice the former went backwards and forwards, while houses were stationary. They repeatedly bandied the clothes of the crews, and could mot conceive what soil of skins they were made of; their ow n covering being wholly of that description. Of bread or grain they knew not the use ; and on being induced to ion some of the former into their mouths, after masticating it for atone time, spat it out again as tasteless. Their own loud, it appears, was chiefly fish and blubber. They had never seen any timber, and a ere quite ignorant of its properties; so that one of them on going aboard, and seeing a mast said upon the deck, attempted to take it up in his hands, as it' he conceived it to be devoid of weight. Another of them, on being taken into the cabin and shown his image in a mirror, started back with sin ',list., and could not, until after repeated assurance and experiments, Le convinced that there was nut some person behind the mirror. They appeared to have no idea of a Clod, or of a future state ; nor do they seem, from what we can learn, to have any enemies, but supposed themselves sole monarchs of the universe." In the course of last week, a young bullock, belonging to Mr. Moses, of Looetown Nit +ivy, near 41011111, lienig ill of writer in the brain, or what is pros nacially termed mazoirsr, lie resolved on the extraortlina v operation of cutting open the sk all immediately between the ryes and horns; ill efiecting which a bag of considerable liar ass NOM', sitspebeled aithin between the horns. This being Mown mit through the ape, - tore with a crooked illslromelet, cootained snore than a pint of water, tilled with aiiimalei.lie. The skull was then closed, yid the wound covered with a pitch plaister ; after which the ballock was set at liberty, operation. It is now quite well, rod promises to thrive as a swind and healthy bullock. 'llse following addithu t it pal ticidars relative to the silic•di , a J. and L. Voinigiiiish cad, are • copied from the Aresivivlc Chronicle:—'They were at Autueerk Illalket on the. reel...nog Sauo day, transacting bosiiir!.4 in their OrdillatV way, :nut at church on the Sunday as And it is not MON ,•11;..y ci remark, as showing tint their fatal resolution could :iot have Leon long taken, that a very short tine ago, one of them wi•lis en the landlord to build him a !loose at Healey, dial he Haight be 'warm his toothy.. They weer buried at half past one o'clock, MI MP 11.01 idly of Smithey the 1.3111, in a footpath leading buns Baddlgate, to Walk regale, Allow iek , and within the Church yard. '1 his not being considered a allthelellt COlll - with this teems of the •lateile, all order was given by the Magistrate.* that the wit' rilee Of .Its law *lintel.' be cam jot sit ietly into PNEelliioll. The bodies ist.le accoodiugly taken imp un Monday afire nowt. and I,uri. if again iu a highway, called liiuliug lane, nut tar from tile spot where they - com mitted the fatal act. s A n A c t otia r to.— A pig. bred by Mr. Moore, of Asp Farm, at South Wrauall. in NV ittliire. Mann tree monthe old, was driv•it few days ago to Bath. at purchased by Mr. FMII, brewer. at Btu It wick, to winch place it was convey.d in n sack, and SVCIITVI in a well fenced stye, how which it somehow en td lo effect in; escape. A few days niter. AI r.ll was surptised to ICBIII that the poor animal llati found ite way to its o!d habitation, to do which it must have swam the river Ai,lll. It has since httai proved, that it was pounded fit 1441bl:1041011. I% In nee it also contrived to escape, aid reach its native hum the same day. A priest IN ill agitation to commence aline of canal from Bade, in Cornwall. which., in its reigns,. is said to opt 0 a nvoLtiricatioo by water between the Bristol Chanittl, Lunt, 111141 11) mtutia. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. NEW SOUTH WALES. fly oe David Shaw, arrived last week from Port Jackson direct, (touching only at the Cape.) we have received lentil Prom Sydney, to the voth of May, at which time the colony was in health and tran quillity. The David Rilaw 1. entirely freighted by the principal mercantile house in the settlement, and brings a valuable cargo of oil. tisr, seal akirs, and wools, the produce of the territory and its adja, cent shams. Such had been the mistaken ea ,, emess to ship merchandise to the settlement, from Europe, Bengal and China, that the markets con. tinue completely glutted ; many articles of British manufacture are selling at prime cost ; and in proof of the overflow of Asiatic produce. this vessel brings 30 tuns of sugar, for exportation to the continent, to relieve the overladen stores of Sydney. The Calcutta market has been for some time also */ improvidently supplied with English goods, that large quantities have been actually sent from thence to New South Wales, in hopes of sale; and tine porter, outing in Londe° 61. 6s. per hogshead, leas, after this second long and expensive transit, been sold at 71. 10s. !! ! The Master of the Duke of Wellington. private trader from London, unable to dispose of his investment, had left it, divided between Port Jackson and Van Dieman's Land, nnd proceeded to the Isle of Frame with 9 cargo of tine horned cattle ; thus, an exportation of live stuck has alr ea dy commenced from our enterprising brethren of the Antipodes. The autumnal rains of March and April have this season caused only a partial overflow of the South Creek. The price paid by Go vernment for the supply of their stores with line fresh meat, was 64. per lb.. and 10s. per bushel for wheat; a line milch cow could be purchased for 101. The annual muster, concluded at the date of Itsl7, gave the fol lowing results : Total number of souls in New South Wales 17.163 Ditto in Van Dieman's Land 3.214 Population of the territory 20.370 Therc were 14,500 acres of wheat in cultivation in Ncw South Wales, 1,250 acres of potatua, barley, and oats, and 11.704) acres of maize. The following arc the quantities of stock exclusively iii New South Wales, via. Iforses 2 B5O Sheep, 66,700 Ilorned wile, 53,640 Pigs, 11,400 Of the above 20,379 souls there were - 4,103 male convict; ; 1,340 women prisoners, and 830 of their children ; and since the period this census was concluded, this portion of the population will have been nearly doubled; upwards of 4,000 men and about 300 women having be en forwarded thither, from this country and Ireland, since June of the last ycnr. including the settlers who have since gone out, the entire population of the territory may now be estimat ed at 25,0011 souls. In 11'.12. the total number of inhabitants were only 12,471, by which it will appear they have been doubled in six years ! The colony was coasequently con =idered to be seriously in want of a considerable reinforcement of military strength, there being only 600 of die 48th regiment in the whole territory, who have to garrison the two principal settlements in Van Dienian's Land, to provide a eompany for the establishment at the Col Bow, as well as to furnish parties for Cie various outpost:, of the now unavoidably extended lines surrounding Port Jackson, which permits very few lireloeks to remain at bead quarters, Much anxiety on this subject has been long felt by all the station ary inhabitants, as well as that :4 King's vessel should be again st a . tioned in the harbour, as a protection against the easy possibility of outward assault, and to frustrate the numerous combinations of the prisoners, who ale ever forming plans, and often too successfully, to carry away the colonial craft, to the certain destruction of their own and the crews' lives, and the ruin of the owners. When Governor Macquarie took the command, in 1810. although there was not half the above stated population, a sloop of war was stationed at Port Jackson, and the military three was also much superior to its present strength. Front the same causes strong hopes are entertained. that an ineria , e to the 'nettled establishment will take place proportionate to the rapid advance of claims on their attention. No advises had been received from Lieut. King, who sailed in De cember last, in the Mermaid cutter, to coniplete the survey of such part of the west coast of New Holland as was left unexplored by Captain Flinders. Mr. Oxley, the Surveyor General, bad just again left head quar ters with a party, to prosecute the intention of the Government, in exploring the interior of New Holland, to the westward of the Blue Mountains. The shearing of the last season had furnished a much larger sup ply of fine wool than at any former period ; atfording well grounded hopes, that a few years will render the exportation of this valuable article of much moment to the inhabitants, as the pasture and climate of the colony fur the Spanish sheep are probably nut surpassed in the world. The Rank lately established at Sydney promises much ultimate advantages to the territory. Ity tine last advices received from Otahcite. the island was in tran tptillity. 6 ' The Missionaries." says a Sydney Gazette, " were in the full enjoyment of their health, and every wishefl-tier success is at tending their labours, all the islanders being converted to Christiani ty !" Speaking again of these islands, another flarette says,—" A great majority of the natives can read, find delight in perusing the various tracts printed for them in their own : furnished by nature with subsistence from the most trifling labour, they bestow much of their time in reading, and even in writing, corresponding with each other on the leaf of the plantain and banana. There are very few thmilies without one or n:orc readers." An attempt to make sugar from the luxurious .aine growing in the country has every probability of succeeding. The Church Mi ss ionary Society have also, through the personally iinkfatigable exertions of the Bev. Mr. Marsden, thrmed an esta blishment on the north island of New Zealand ; and it is an interest ing proof of reciprocal services commencing between ourselves and the tine race of men inhabiting the above islands, that an advertise ment of departure in the sgs,,,y of March 9, specifies the HUMS of twelve New Zeal:milers and six thalicitans, who compose part of the crew: of two colonial br gs, then on the eve of sailing for the coast fisheries. From t!lc long indiscriminate destruction of the whole tribe of seals, these valuable animals have become as rare on the shore , of New I follisial and its adjacent Wands, as they hale lately proved in all other parts of the world. We art hvitpy to learn, the after an elaps2 of many years, and the White of repeated attempts front this country and Bengal. medical gentleman of the Isle of France has sums:tied in car rying the vaccine virus to I'nrt of in an unimpaiml state; anti the children of the colony are receiving the benefits of that in valuable blessing , . As may be naturally expected, the inhAltants of this increas ingly intetesting territory Pink with regret to the eagerness with %Inch such :mothers of deluded peop!c emigrate to America, without turning duir views towards No it countrymen in the lux uriant and line climates of New Muth Wale:. and Van Dieman's Lind. .1. Atkinson, Esq. the slew Nlayor of 3:lli:lurry, was to have giseir his ikr4siti 44444 dinner on Wr dot...day I.IA ; bnt it 14 1/001101101 111 eon eelnCneP of the dr ath of her :Wu...A • , and the s pi imilb 14re, provided for 6'..0 per,op!, waN, try Ii a din etion, distributed 44444 nig the poor. An o;r? sprits g has lately been discovered near Dock Creek, ()hitt, front what•ti about live l otions of excellent oil bar ten procured its a week. The oil boils up et • autlly, like the boiling of AI/ rgt: 10111) ket.le. A hoy, in miter to ascertain whether the ml would bit -a in water, touched a tirelnauti to that which w.ts i:oating or, the Creek; instantly it arose in a treinemlons 'hone. upwards of ;Pa. feet in igitt, rind more than a Mlle up and down the Creek, destroying lowly of the Isigheat trees in the ticinity ! !—.elmerkwi Pape. :379 Frain the LONDON GAZETTE, Tat! 3day, Nut. '2l. -■•••- BANKRUPTCY EYLARGED. itEEs 11. Chatham, draper, twin Nov. 28, to Jan. 16. BANKRUPTS. BOND W. Dover, brewer, Dec. 3,4, Jan. 5, at Canterbury. Atts. Lotlington and Co. 'femplz. MARSDALL J. North-hall, Yorkshire. clothier, Dec. 1, K. Jan. 1. at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Coates, Paul Street, Finsbury S , tuare. SHERLOCK T. and Iltuoit IL Liverpool, inerchaots, Ike. 9. to, Jan. 5, at Liverpool. Atta. Avison and Co. Castle Street, Ho!- born. AI.LI:N G. Greenwich, stationer. Dee. 5, 12, Jan. 5, at Guildhall.. Atts. Lane mad Co. Lawrence Pountney-hill. Grams J. Buxtead, Sussex, hop-defiles. Dee. ", Jan. 3, at 1; 11 41„ , .. hall. Att.Mr. Lindsay. St. Thomas's Street. Souili..artc TucK W. Elsing, Norfolk, miller, Dec. 7 s t tn. s, et .Noriciet. Att. Mr. Barber, Fetter-lane. pu LLEN C. A. Leeds, merchant, Dee. 21. `21..13n. 1. at Atts. Ashmore and Co. Ilettrietta Street. I 'oven t (;:triko. CHAMBERLAYNEW. Leicester. Itiwier, Dec. 1, t!..1ati..5, at Ilimtk. ley. Att. Mr. Beckett, Noble Street, Falcon Square. GREavEs P. Macclesfield. ironmonger, Dec. 9, In, Jan. 3, at Stock port. Att. Mr. Sherwin, Great James Street, Bedford Row. FAYLLL W. Cromwell, Nottinghamshire. miller, Dec. 17, 19,.1111. 8, at Newark-upon-Trent. Atts. Long and Co. Holborn Court, Gray's Inn. TAYLOR T. Bißgley Bridge, Lancashire, butcher, Dee. 4, Jan. 5, at Manchester. Atts. Milne and Co. Temple. STURMAN W. York Street, Southwark.gun-maker, Dee. 1. 1,.111^. 5. at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Richardson, Clement's-lane, Lombart . ... Street. BAssANo .1. Upper Thames Street, sugar-refiner, Dee. 1, 3, Jai. 3. at Guildhall. Atta. Sherwood and Son, Canterbury- Swart, Southwark. DIVIDE`NDS. J. Freeman, Birmingham, victualler, Dee. 31. J. Millar, Liverpool, merchant, Dee. 17. G. P. Becher amt.!. Barker, Singed Stroct. merchants, Jan. :d. W. Oldroyd, Blackman Street, bookse:lcr, Nov. 15. W. Smith, Oxford Street, ironmonger, Dec. 1. .1. Bewley, Kingsland Road, salesmen, Dee. 15. R. Cole, Kitig Street, Holborn, coach-maker, Dee. 19. If. Stanley, and T. Weston, Lower Thames Street, ironmonger!, Dec. 1. C. Love, Old Bond Street, jeweller, Dec. 19. E. Mac kavoy, King Street, Greenwich, victualler, Dec. 15. W. Holmes, North Shields, master mariner, Dec. Is. G. James, Liverpool, merchant. Dec. 16. J. Clark, Clifton. Gloucestershire, innkeeper, Dec. 17. J. Mann, jun. 'People Sow•erby, Westmoreland, tanner, Dee. 17. J. J. F. and T. Bell. Kingston-upon-Hull, merchants, Dec. 17. CERT' FICATES—DEe. 15. T. O. Warwick, and J. Aldred, Rotherham, Yorkshire, ehymists, IL More, Craven Place, Bayswater. stone-mason—J. LoeltwOod, Stephen Street, Ft. Panera% chair-maker—W. Wallace,Wurlcingtot.„ Cumberland, ship-earpenter—E. Godwin, Tottenham-ewurt-rou elicesemonger—T. Lowe, Beekhury, Shropshire. corndealer.-4.:. Walduck, homer Street, St. Marylebone, cheesemongar. THE CORN BILL In consequence of what they are pleased to consider as tliss injurious operation of the corn Bill, a general meeting of the Farmers, Landholders, and others interested in agricultural produce,for the comities of Middlesex and has been held. 'flue object of the assembly was to petition Parliament to impose protecting duties on the importation of corn and other provisions, and to open the ports upon the payment of those duties. It is intended to procure the co operation of the agricultural interests in all the counties of England and for this purpose copies of the subjoined Petition are a!r et to be sent to all the principal towns and villages, that :h• greatest possible number of signatures may be promoted, feriae to the opening of Parliament. " TO THE HONOURABLE TUE COHMON'i OF TILE UNITED RINI:DOM, IN PARLIAMENT ASSRMIILED. 4, The Humble Petition of the several Occupiers of Lands in the County of whose W n WOWS are herento subscribed, •• Sit cw ET/I- -.., That the soil of the United Kingdom is compete:4 and fully adequate to the supply of its population, even if it 1. ere torah more numerous than it is, with all the prortuctions of the soil o f t h e United Kingdom ; that is to say, with corn, mud, boar, rye. • oats, peas, beans, barley, beer et bigg, wool, fax, hemp, hi.:ts, tallow, seeds, butter, cheese, poultry, vegatables of all kinds nataral to the climate, apples and pears. 4 "fliat your Petitioners with all humility submit to the consi 1. ra tion and wisdom of this Honourable House—That as die soil of t'as l'nited Kingdom arid its productions, are the prime source of n at i v;; Ai industry and of revenue, it is impolitic, if this allegation he true, to admit any productions similar to those of our own soil and .li:flaw. into this country, duty free, until the cultivation of our own s o il 'h .a have estendell itself' to its utmost limits; but whether such alllega don be correct in all its parts. or not, it is unjust to the occupiers of the soil to admit such productions duty free. inasmuch as every •ach admission tends to disable the occupiers at' the soil from payment theirvent, tithes, taxes, and wages, while it leaves them subj•set to ail the pains and penalties incurred by the omission to make good 1::y of' those payments. .4 Your Petitioners, therefore, humbly pray; that this Petition - nay be referred to a Committee of their llonou sable House, where evideneo may be given in support of the allegations it contains; and If it s hall there be made apiwar to be a just, equitable, a nd necessary nal:sure. then, hut not calterwi,e, that all the productions of ilk sod et the United Kingdom may in !Inure be protected from the import cf similar cationotlities, duty free, in as full, ample, and beraticial a the merchants and manufacturers of the United Kingdoets, are, by the Navigation Act, and other statues of the realm, protect ( A in their ship l ing and manufactori es , fron t threign tontittaitios, duty free. And that your Petitioners may have such relief as to the MIT. flout of this (louse may seem fit." We also understand that Meeting. oil! be held in must or the a ly towns of Engimid an.l for the purpose MOOT 'deftly effecting the object in view. .1 similar as. sembly of the Lind-owiters, 1 7 ..1 mets. ,fie. of the limonite- I/- Somerset and Gioneestre Itiro loam held at 1111.1411, and 14 inst the metropolis various instinetions have been olfsitifiated s itar the country, with a view to facilitate the cart:Waist/a and air nature of the Petition.. Extu%IRUINAr morning Mr. TkirTICT, WllO kalivil out of his ellionher window no TUCAlily, in We/Is-dreg t, Oxfortl.strevi. havin,•.; tintinoutily rut his thror.t. decd in the NI WA:Iv- Slni I In.pital Nlr.'l. had ',col very unwell for Wale time, :mil for severalprior to his coitanismon of the ai:t, tie was ly derangol in his mint'. The ra.inr with which the utifurtur,ite cut his throat could un where he found ; ar,J x ilcep cut wiii‘fh we. on 'mw .itlfe of ifece:isi.ll wits suffused to be inflicted by )3411 filling tin some inns rather witeil he threw himself from the whitke, slic:i. however. were lin , laitto conclusions. foe since his thsuli the medical imitlenicn at the hospithl, nn ripening the body of the de ceased, found the MIK with which he cut Isis throat. iii his inbitle, i) it.g very ne. r hi. beart. It appearsthat utter l ie cur hi s t h reat, he cut a d eep mould in his side, Aid having toiled the he 11110 A it into the aplt.ire, which clostd up, and when he was token to the !mints!, :he wound wasweired up by the sthdan, not : , urposing ti at any thiag was the in:atie.