The National Register. — London, England, 1821-01-29 00:00:00

Thy lion chain'd, his spirit broke, Has long by treach'rout hands been led, But once removal the galling yoke, Again he stands the oppressor's dread. Rouse Britannia, Ac. _ seem to be afraid of undergoing a radical reform ? He for one was ready to confess that he was a decided advocate fi-welt a reform, because he saw that unless it waselfeetcd, taxation would be so followed by taxation that nothing less thaw a miracle could woe the country. lie proceeded to take a view of she policy of the present Ad • istration, and concluded by declaring it to be his firm belief shut it wits their intention to rule the country by the sword. He then took the opportunity of esslo,;itting the recent conduct of the press, and concluded by informing the eumpatty, that whether he met with the applause or censure of his country men,. he should continue in funnel to act as he always had acted, according to the dictates of his own conscience.— ( Loud cheers.) SONG —MY ME. E. TAYLORAIII, " Role Britamtia." (First verse sonless the original Rule Britannia 4 Long mistresi of the boundless tide. Thy flag over fleets in triumph rose, Hut now this country. aliU our pride. We mourn enslaved by native foci, House Britannia. assert thy liberty. . Proclaim time nicer, proclaim thy sons are free. Though lost man's universal friend, In him the Patriot we deplore. Let to his shade this shwa aaccod, Who freedom gave to At'tic's shore. !louse Britannia, &c. United in one common came. Each froeman's birth-right to regain, Restor'd once more our sacred laws, Britons may then resume the strain, Rule Britannia, Britannia rule the waves, Britons never will be slaves. The Noble LH AI UM AN, eller apteogizing for the absence of the Members of the City of Norwich, proposed to the company to drink SUereeS to them. This was accordiugly done, with three times three. The Noble CIIAIRMA a, in giving as a toast "Lord Er skine and the Trial by Jim C),'' informed the company tit it his Lordship had fully intended to be present um, this occasion.— But he should 'impose " The health of Lord Erskine, and Trial he .Inry, ' a ith three times three. The toast was them drank w oth the greatest enthusiasm. The MAYO& Or NOIIMICIN propose! the Matti of Lord Bury. Lord LIMEY returned thanks in an eloquent speech, of which we regret that our limits ',reveal us from repo, thug. Toast—. Lord Holland, the Representative of the :mine anal prineoplms of Mr. Fox." The Earl of A LEESIA R LE, tatter taking a short review of the catoses and progress of the late resolutions in Spain, Portugal and Naples, gave the following toast:—'t Prospe rity and durability, to the stew reprwitiateve governments of Spain, Portugal, and Naples, anti may the arm, of any 'toner who dares to invade their rising liberties be turned against itself." Time Earl of ALBEMARLE prom): ed time health of Mr. Ridley Colburue, %bum lie eulogized in a short be bores ive speech. " Mr. COKE then proposed the health of Mr. James Mac donald, which was received with great enthusiasm by the company. Mr. 'MACDONALD then rose and returned thanks to the coonpany for the gratifying manner in which they had re ceived 1114 health, and inure especially to Isis excellent friend Mr. Coke, for the battering mraiter in which lie had noticed so I hie an individual as himself. Ile begged leave to say that he thought they had acted wisely in returning to their old comfortable quarters, because, if they were to endeavour to accommodate themselves to the number of prowls tes whom they were continuing to make, they would sOOll find ,lies had undertaken nu impassible task. Last year they h td been enabled to fill tit. Andrea'', Hill: this year they might if they had chosen, have filled the Cathedral ; and meat year, provided always that Ministers provided them with the sane ineatts of makiitg prowl) les as they had re. cooly done, they %Intel lie compelled to dine in the open air, and then they would come under the operation of Lord Castlereagles code of loins, which rendered it illegal far Englishmen to dine politically I,i their native open atmos phere. Met, h.oweveo, they %vele this sear, and he must tat refore first of al' congratulate them in meeting in smelt numbers to et iellfilir toe pure.t principles of freedom, justice, and humanity—all of ahich were co otoprelientled in the cha racter of Mr. Fox, and loomed a just subject of cougratula tMn to sueis all assembly a, he was then addressing, espe cially as the new year had unfortunately introduced to them uo alter congratulators (41111 C. When 1118 Hon. nand the Chairman, iii the host speech imitieli lie made that evening, e s es-eol so mut: li 111411 few words regarding the character of Mr. Fos, he could mat help foraiiitg the wish that the grave tsouldnpen mad restore that ain't/onus statesman again to his country. Boat he teeollected immediately afters arils that peat tool itivoloable its such a mall Wollitl be tit the present Ciiiiill4lCtUre, his feelings would have been too intense, the affections of his heart too tender, to have bootie the sheet-isle as Melt the COUlltry nt 1114 4 4e414 ex hibited. Ile would have felt tut, sensibly, and therefore could never hove pradelitly beheld, the innumerable miseries which the ion hecility add incatuafou of Alinisters have prepared fur the intim°. Better, tea refire, is it that lie should rest to the grave is here there are 1111 Cafes tll perplex , no 11111111101144 however notate, ill stimulate, I halt that he should see his country misgoverned by a set of men who, having no fixed principles of their ow ii, arc content to struggle stn as they C;111 aonitl the difficulties which surround them: now would blood boil to see tlw eveins is 'Bich are now bagging ft the South of Europe, and to which his Noble Friend had :heady alluded ! A constutional K (bagged to the bar of three military despots (Loud OWl.'llllO to answer to them for the heinous crime of having consented his connexion with his subjects by conceding to them a representative form of government, a coust itutimi n huh it , MAI imlicy had ree - mended to :woo tier vet bllll of the self same nation, though it HOW it 1111‘4111.11411 %%1111 invasio i.—hut tudeed us an active areompbee, but mt ;tit the most pelf:et indiel!reitee. (Owe's.) 'facie were !Mile (1111”:14 141 44 111C.1 eVell the nerves of Lord Costlereagh at re not eq.i.o, author and 'abettor 11110410 110 ‘41144 Of all the 4111,.14;:•1011111 Europe, 11, who had h-sen transferred 01 Sorwam, who had been the abandomer of Para, it Ito had heel, the parlitioner of SaXll3l, Will) had been the betrayer of Ucuoa, contrary. to the faith of oaths and treaties, lie, even lie shrink, at present from the COII - JJJJ Of 1114 O mirk, mid swamis aloof ms bile the gara t ou is a heftier the liberties of the amid are to be 111.1Cril at the mercy o. three antirerots. I latl ho not, however, fusleied every eiteasuie, of Inch this list nab the tHil) 6011. ' ='! •-e; • THE NATIONAL REGISTE He might have reason . for his isieielit coyness; his domestic economy might not yet have reached its full maturity.— Suspensions of the Habeas Corpus act, circular letters from Secret:sties of State, having all the force and authorities of laws, Government supported by spies and informers, stated in ISIS, by a committee of his own selecting, to have been the instigators of the crimes which they themselves detected, augmentations of the forces in time of peace, wholesale enactments of laws to. restrict the liberty of the subject. aleuials of justice as at the inquest at Oldham, perversions of it as exhibited in a recent ease, rejec • sof the ;minimiser starving millions, calumnious denunciations of liberal opi aa i 44 its as seditious and atheistical—these, all these measures united, have hero unable to put down the force of public opinion in Englaud. But unless public opinion were entirely poi down, what British Minister, who valued his head, would avow may participation in the execrable Male which is now making of the liberties of Lampe? Where, however, was the disclaimer of such participution by the British Government, which, suspected as it is by all the nations or the Continent, its honour, me less than its interest demands? It %salsas little to lie Nand at the mast head of the Versgrirr as it was io the Cal • 1 of St. James's, a hen it refused to recogoise the Ambassador sent user to England by the new Neapolitan Government Ile could not foretell the result of the contest in which that Government was WNW u1.101;4 111 be engaged; hut he devoutly pm, ..a that the light. nine of ;leaven might blast those alio were the first ogres 'ors against it, nod I 000000 tale in the dint power SO prostituted. (loam" beers.)l le could not help retool king to them that one of the most fII ikina and gratify log teatimes or the late revo lutions in Spain, Portugal, 11101 Naples was, that they did originate hi any wild alnurb disorganising philosophy— that they did 1101 10U1 at the overthrow of social under, but that they sought to establish it on the sure basis of nationsil peace and tranquillity. They had therefore been conducted throughout oath a deration mid an attention to their first object a Inch was ;ferret ly surprising; and there a mild con. sequently be no national grounds for jealoiny or sitspic• regarding, them. Would that lie could say us much for those who acted on the other side I By the supporters of what it has now become fashionable tip call the monarchical prin ciple, till the old alisurd amid exploded pretensions of K togs have been revived in full vigour! He could nut pretend to say how far the Dying ultra loyalists, or royalists, he did um know which 10 call them, of aids country recognised those prilacipless lint this lie knew—that if such duct' hies had been coosialtreal eorrect in the year 1688, this cousin) , would have been placed under cite ban and interdict of all Europe. The worthy Gentleman proceeded to censure, in it style of ex alted eloqueoce, !au cc, and elegance, the villainous conspi racy AYaiust lieu ;Majesty, and concluded by declaring, that Ilk ri • odd be no hope tor the country until an entire recant ciliallim hail to k n place between the higher and the lower orders of society. He Was of opinion that at the present mat the latter wished to he guided by the aristocracy of the 0011111 I heir natural leaders. Circumstances had alien ated them; but the events of the I .st ilium years, by pro. doting a common sympathy, had ceased them ag.iin to ap pi °initiate. lle had seam a ith delight the aristocracy stand forward to support the people in such a Caine, what right laud they to expect that they could COllll ol them when they a etc, or appeiireil to he, in Inc rung ? Ile did Dot know that he should say a word inure to them, except to remind them this it was mow obvious that a radical change, and nothing less, can or ou.:ht to satisfy this lung irritated 'Nation. lie knew that under the disciriue of annual Parliaments and universal suffrage wild nod extravagant notiont hail been broached; but they had not been so titan moderate demand. had met with a denial year tarter year. Hi firmly believed that though there might be desperate men—and there were always such in every State—who wished for confusion, the great tints, of the people only desired a hat was just and rational; and that if they were met by conciliatory mea sures, they world be satisfied with such an infusion of new vigour into the 114/Ibe of COIIIIOOII3 as would tender it what they used and ouglii to find--a sullicirot check upon inal-all utinistrat• . Toe Ilan. filember. utter thanking' them for the patient attention which they had given him, sat down amid the louilist cheers. Several other patriotic toasts were then given, among which were" Earl Grey, and our Wends throughout Eng land alto adhere to the principles of Mr. Fox." " The in dependence of Ipswich, and Mr. Leonard," for which Mr. Leonard returned thanks in a speech of considerable length and ingenuity. " The Libert y of the Press." s The Duke of Bedford. " The Earl of Itusly al, and the gentlemen who lately met at I:Milberg!' to Collllllcmorate the prim:Mies of Mr. Fox." " The Yeomanry of the county, nod success to 110111." The Stewards;' The Earl of Alheolarle dal ant quit the chair till half-past ten o'clock, before which tune very few of the •party had dispersed. We cannot conclude this account without expressing our regret Mat the Committee have not tirade an arrange ment cur the greater accommodation of those who wish always to atteinl this dinner—the latter end of the week most ale 111C011Vellt011t 10 many—sand .us neither Saturday nor Sunday are possible days for such a purpose, a close and uniform adherence to the birth-day is impossible. Now if it were fixed regularly for toe third Monday J otatary, all the inconveniences attending a clialige of the week-day would be done away. We respectfully beg to call the a item 101 l of those with whom the arrange ments feat to these observations. A match for 50 guineas a side has been male by a gentleman, who has engaged himsulf to walk 18 miles in three hours and eight minutes, within 20 miles of London, on or before the Ist of April. Tpe ARNIV.—On Monday last (the 22d inst.) a corporal anti private of each of the cavalry regiments, except the 1:26, at present stationed in Ireland, passed through Liverpool on their way to London, to learn new exercises, which are to be taught the different corps there. A duel was fought early on Wednesday morning on Hounslow Heath, between Major 1) and Mr. M—, a gentleman of fortune, in consequence of a dispute at a room in Bond-street on the preceding day. information was given to the Police, but not until after the mischief was done. The Major was badly wounded in the shoulder, but us we unde6. stand, the ball was extraet,..l c apon the ground, and the Major wino to Lundott .f. - e ..."r4ll ...-. LAW INTELLIGENCE. CO a OF MMON PLEAS, ...JAW. 14 ZITO van A zetree , olllCaltio• NOWISE)! b. THE $Ol (4/ IdtDOILIISII. • Serjeant Pell, for the Plainti , stated that his client 1 . had heel' arrested under a Capias directed to the Sheriff of Middlesex; that the officer by whom the arrest was was made brought him to hls house, where he lodged wo nights, for which accommodation los. was de manded by the officer's wife, and paid by die plaintiff without any objection. After the second night the plaintiff was given in charge to another officer, and be• fore he was removed feom the house in which he had been from the of arrest, he was obliged to pay • fee of il. 3s. 6.1. for which ex.oition the present action was brought. The learned Sergeant stated, that by a statute passed in the reign of Henry VI. Sheriff's Officers • were restrained front taking a greater fee than 4E, en au arrest; but by a statute passed in the 31d 01 Geo.ll. the • Justices of the County were empowered to fix the fees of' the Sheriff's Officers at Sessions. a table of which should be hung up in the Sessions House, and the Officer became subject to penalties for taking any larger sum.— The present action, the Learned Sergeant stated, was • net brought tinder the statute of George the Second, a it tlid not appear that the Justices had fixed any rate of fees, in consequence of which his client sought redress • under the statute of Henry the Sixth, which fixed the penalty of three times the amount of the sum charged its • extortion. The case, as stated, Was fully proved. • Sergeant Vaughan, for the defendant, said, that as the • plaintiff could tun recover under the statute of George • the Second, because the Justices had not complied witlt • the enactments of that act by fixing any rate of fees, so • neither could he recover under the statute of Henry the Sixth, which since the passing of the Act of George the • Second, had gone into disuse. On this point . the Learned Sergeant argued at considerable length. The Chief Justice said he could not admit that it was the law of Engiand, that while a statute remained un••- repraled, it should be deemed to have fallen iota disuse' . and the officers conduct his Lordship considered con. trary both to the letter and spirit of the statute, as well as to justice and . h tttt snity. The Jury immediately found a verdict for the plaintiff tt --Damages 31. tun. 61. i THEATRE ROYAL DUBLIN. On Thursday night, the New Theatre in Hawkins'. - street opened, in a style far superior to any expectation • which even the most sanguine could have entertained. As a model of classic elegance, the original portico fur- - nishes a specimen of architecture; little was wanting to - embellish and complete it ; however, the attention of • the Patentee has, in the present instance, been devoted • not only to . the beauty of the structure, but to its per mauence, security, and general comfort. It is impos sible in this hurried sket.-li io ris e an adequate picture of this elegant, though stil ttitAilisited edifice. raised, as the address most aptly expresses, like the fabled Palace of • Aladin ' almost without our knowledge. The llress, or First Circle, presents a richly executed ornament taken front the Temple of Bacchus--the mouldings and pillars is burnished gold. • &con(' Circle displays an elegant design—the Cap of the Ants, from the Temple of Erecthus and Minerva Pulius. Third Circle.—The Grecian knot, with a continuous link of shatnrocks. The eleting.-111 the centre, "The Hasp of Erin," enveloped in rays of light, with a raised band of sham rocks in dead gold and green—coveing represents the Lyre simply executed. The Prosceniton.—Stagetloors in the Grecian Order, • richly 51h. —The Nlanager's box is festooned with crim son velvet drapery, relieved with blue—a richly gilt Apollo's Head in tile centre. Shamrock supponers—the semi-circle, a lloney.snekle in fretted gold. Frontispiece.—The King's Arms supported by Cu. phis, with the ntot•o " To hold, as 'mere, the Mirror up to Nature.', The dimensions of the house exceed that of Crow. street by six feet in depth, and seven in breath—its form is that of a horse-shoe. A DANDY PtESERVEII,—On Thur.(lay se'nnight a young man, of good family in Paris, walked to the Pont Louis 16th, and threw himsellinto the Seine. Fortunately an elegant white coat made in the first style of dandyism supported him upon the water, until several sailors came to his assistance. They had the honour to catch the dandy opposite the Invalidcs at the moment he was sinking. An unfortunate run of ill luck at the gami►►g table in. duced him to commit the act of despair. On Friday evening, the 19th, a fire broke out in the concerns of Mr. Matthew M'Cabe, John -street, Dublin, woollen manufacturer, occasioned by the neglect of some of his spinners. It raged with un abated fury until the whole of the unmanufactured property tell a sacrifice to the devouring element. Tile lower part of the building was occupied by his presses, which, notwithstanding their great bulk, were also cons tl. By this unforeseen calamity, a most deserving and industrious citizen is, for the present, deprived of the means of affording employ- • ment to upwards of two hundred persons, wholly depending on him for support. The Magistrates of Essex have determined to erect si tipaCtullS penitelti.try tir that county, in which all the prisoners are to be classed, and those who are able obliged to w0.:6 t*Jr their own support whilst Unprisoned. . -t--1