The National Register. — London, England, 1820-07-23 00:00:00

THE QUEEN. During her Majesty's long and wearisome travels in foreign countries, her conduct was such as to excite the respect and veneration of the nations which she visited, in some of which she lent lasting soArts of her benevolent spirit. At Agosto, in Sicily, she distributed with her own hand, or caused to be distributed, large sums of money to the poor. At Tunis she obtained the liberty of several siaves' among whom were two females, one the daughter of the Governor of St. Pierre, the other a Genoese Lady. This was before the arrival of Lord Ex mouth. Several Roman slaves were also released on the application of her Royal Highness. She gave • to the New Academy at Athens 500 pieces (colon tats), and authorised the Governors to draw annu ally on the banker Scaramanza, at Constantinople, for two hundred more. She also released all the prisoners for debt at Athens, and deposited in the hands of the Governor 700 pieces, to be applied to a similar purpose atter her departure. To a poor Roman Catholic family, whom she found in the same place, she gave 200 pieces. At Constantino ple her benefactions were still more numerous. To the conventical fathers at Jerusalem she gave 500 pieces; in fact, at every place where she stopped, her benevolence was on the alert to seek and relieve the distresses of her fellow-creatures. Her Majesty, on her return to Europe, took up her residence at an agreeable villa, on the shore of Lake Como, at a small distance from that town. The situation of this house, which she purchased of the Countess Pino, was particularly beautiful, surrounded on all sides by the must enchanting and romantic scenery. Her Majesty here sought amusement rather in the resources of her own mind and among a limited number of friends, than from an indiscriminate in tercourse with the inhabitants of Como; but still she was always hospitable as well as affable to those by whom she was visited. Her hours were passed in a series of innocent pleasures: principally derived from conversations with learned persons; music, private plays, in a small theatre built under her own direction ; excursions on horseback, in her car liege, or in her gondola on the bosom of the lake. To these were added the repeated exercise of her charitable disposition, in supplying the wants and alleviating the misfortunes of the poor persons in her neighbourhood. One act of this sort will suf fice as a sample of the many of a similar kind which could be mentioned. A fire broke out at Como, by whish several persons in an humble situation of life were greatly distressed. The moment the circum ' stance was mentioned to her Majesty, she sent 1200 livres for the relief of the sufferers. When her Majesty returned to Milan, in 1816, she received instructions that she was surrounded by spies in her own house. Endeavours had been made during her absence to corrupt her servants, and to engage them in plots destructive of the honour and -teputation of their mistress. Several of her Italian domestics resisted the temp tations which was held out to estrange them from duty. One man, however, a German, of the name of Maurice Credi, was not equally virtuous. He suffered himself to be seduced, and for weighty con siderations, agreed to introduce the Baron d'Omp- teda to the apartments of her Majesty by false keys. Fortunately this happy contrivance was frus trated. Credi was discharged, without suspicion of his fidelity, for some love intrigue with a country woman of his, named Annette, who was chamber maid to her Majesty; and, in order to obtain re admittance to her Majesty's favour, he confessed the infamous scheme in which he had been engaged, and his confession was made in the form of a letter to the Chevalier Towassia, an intimate friend of .her Majesty, and Prefect of Como. Her Majesty, upon the communication of this declaration, of course felt extremely indignant, and her prieste secretary, Lieutenant Hannan], sent a peteeletehallenge to the Barron. The Baron, how ever, with a baseness, too much in accordance with the character he had assumed, declined the combat,• and rendered himself still more contemptible by' attempting to treat the serious call which had been made upon-him, as a man, of honour, with ridicule— sometimes proposing to meet his antagonist in Africa, at other times in Asia, and again in America. He was at length removed from the seat of his own de gradation by the Governor, Count Sauran, to whom her Majesty communicated the discovery site had made. Other persons equally well qualified with the Baron d'Omptetla, were found to succeed him, and it was pretty well understood that every motion of her Majesty was narrowly watched, and reported with such colouring as best suited the interests of the persons who were employed. The agents of this system of espionnage cared not from what class they selected their evidence, and thus they took the de ' positions of, and retained in their employment, the very dregs of society. Boatmen, lacqueya, mechanics, mei the busublast domestics, were all received with rivotir,• add rewarded for every stag THE NATIONAL REGISTER. they had impudence or ingenuity enough to invent. This groundwork for enquiry having been thus laid, and the reputation of her Majesty having been by such means assailed, the Milan commission, to which such frevent retbrence has been made, was determined upon, and Mr. Cook and Mr. Powell set out on their important investigation, which was not confined to occurrences in Milan alone, but was extended to every place where her Majesty had resided, and in which subordinate instruments had previously been at work. Notwihstanding all that has been s►id and done on this subject, a rumour was on Saturday preva lent that an accommodation may yet be expected to take place. It is said that the Duke of York has had an interview with his Majesty, and has made such representations as may lead to this most desi rable end. FROM TUESDAY :NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ............ WHITEHALL. JULY 17. The King has been pleased to order a conge d'elirs to pass the great seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedral Church of Winchester to elect a Bishop of that see, the same being void by the death of Dr. Brownlow North. lat.: Bishop thereof ; and his Majesty has also been pleased to recommend to the said Dean and Chapter the Right Rev. Father in God. George, now Bishop of Lincoln, to be by them elected Bishop of the said see of Winchester. Fottetust OFFICE, JULY 18. The King has been pleased to approve of James Colquhoun, Esq. as Agent in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the city of tlamburgh. The King has also been pleased to approve of Mr. N. M. Rothschild as Consul General in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of Austria. The King has also been pleased to approve of Mr. I'eregrino Aigen us Consul at Gibraltar for his Imperial Majesty the Em peter of Austria. - BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. F. Downing. Huddersfield. grocer, from July 22 to Aug. 9. BANKRUPTS. W. Cobbett, late of Botley. Southampton. and of Catherine Street, Strand. bookseller. Solicitor, Mr. Birkett, Cloak Lane. J. Burke, Stockport Etchells, Cheshire., cotton spinner. Sol Mr. Tyler, Temple. F. Poole, Cullompton, Devonshire, money scrivener, Sol. Mr. Fairbank. Staple Inn. J. Jackson, Rexford. Suffolk, maltster. Sobs. Messrs. Bla. grave and Walter, Symond's Inn. W. L. Iloughton, Kingston upon Hull, stationer. Sole. Messrs. Rosser and Son. Bartlett's Buildings. .1. Devey, Wolverhampton, factor. Sob. Messrs. Price, Williams and White, Lincoln's Inn. R. H. Sellings, South Melton Street, coal merchant Sol. Mr. Dix. Symond's Inn. J. Toles. Bristol. woollen draper. Soh'. Messrs. Clarke, Richards, and Medcalf, Chancery Lane. W. Crook, Beanacre, Wilts, farmer. Sol. Mr. Scudamore, Inner Temple. DIVIDENDS. July 18, R. Fenner, Paternoster Row. bookseller—August 8, I. Roberts, Hereford. brandy merchant-9, B. Pletcher, Burn ley, Lancashire ' plumber-12, W. Oakley, W. °reread. and W. S. Oakley, Church Street. Southwark, woolstaplers-9, R. Hartld. Halifax. Yorkshire, jeweller-8, E. F l ews, Raven. glass, Cumberland, silversmith-9. R. Strong. Whitehaven. mercer-12, J. Buxton ' Derby. mercer—ll, W. J., and W. Roper, Darouns. Yorkshire, cotton spinners —S. W. Roantree, Princes Street, Westminster, coach builder-12. J. Fish. New castle upon Tyne. soap maker—July 29, C. Mackenzie, Caroline Street, Bedford Square, merchant. CERTIFICATES to be granted Aug. 8. 'B. Hopperton„ Liverpool, upholsterer—C. Christian, Ashford, Lent, innkeeper—W. G. Carter, Portsmouth, bankers—J. Pe ten, Rathbone Place, jeweller. COURT OF EXCISE, JULY 20. IMPORTANT TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS. ILLEGAL COLOURING. A respectable Licensed Victualler was charged upon information with having had in his custody a quantity of colouring, against the statute, by which he incurred a penalty of 2001. The defendant pleaded Not Guilty. William Fitchew, an officer of the Excise, proved having found a gallon bottle of colouring nr the beer cellar of the defendant. The bottle, which the witness produced at the time of the seizure, contained nearly three quarts. Mr. Newton, an Excise General, examitif:d the liquid j in the bottle, and declared it to be common colouring, such as had been formerly in frequent use amongst brew ers to colour ale, porter, &c. It was made of burnt sugar only, without any admixture of malt and hops. The defendant, in his defence, pleaded that he had the colouring in his possession solely for the purpose of colouring brandy, which was allowed by the law, and not for tl.c purpose of using it in porter, which he was aware would have Leen illegal. Ile called a person wbo stared, that he was servant to the defendant, with whom he had lived ten )ears. Ile was in the habit of superintending his master's cellars, and could swear positively, that the bottle proilneed was the first and only Witte of colouring which his lilaSler had had in his possession for the last three yeats; and that it had only been used fur colouring spirits, and not fur adulterating porter. He had only used about one quart. James Rymer, an officer of Excite, deposed, that he had surveyed the business of the defendant for a consi derable time, and that in Excise matters his character for regularity stood very high. The Court pronounced judgment against the defend , ant, but tinder the peculiar circumstances of the case, mitigated the penally from 2001. to 20s. In answer to a question front the defendant, Mr. Mayow said, that publicans must get their spirits Trout the distillers highly coloured, in ()Ater to make them to be diluted to a profitable strength, without rendering the addition of the water too apparent by the pale co lour. BiUs of indictment have teen found against 24 of the .priaomeis charged with high treason at the York amines. grosig 2ntellignue. ESSEX. The Assizes for this Comity commenced at Chelmsford, on Tuesday, before the Lord Chid Justice in the Crowu Court, and Mr. Baron Wood in the Nisi Prius Court. SIDE.-THE KING V. HAVr. This was an information in the 'Wore of Quo Warrant°, calling upon the defendant to shew cause by what autho rity he held the office of a free Burgess of Colchester. Mr. Guiucy and Mr. Chitty conducted the prosecution, and Mu'. Scrjeant Lawes and Mr. Watford the defence. This was one of the cases which arose out of the Elec tion contest for the Borough of Colchester at the last Ge. nerd! Election. The defendant had voted for Mr. Wild- man, and claimed his freedom in respect of his servitude as au apprentice to a freeman of the Borough, and the issue was whether a person who had served part of his time to a freeman, and the remainder to a non-freeman, was entitled to admission. The defendant had been bound for seven years to a freeman, with whom he had seu veil for three years, and his master having become in solvent, the remainder of his time was served with a non freeman, who allowed the original master one penny per week during that period. The case went to the Jury upon the custom, and the Jetty fouled a verdict for the Crown. THE KING V. INM 41g. This was another Quo Warranto against a Freeman of Colchester, who claimed his freedom in respect of a co.toin by whielt retrospective servitude us an apprentice gained him his fa eedonri as an apprettlit without refer ence to the date of the indentures, hut in as much as it appeared that the defendant had not bona fide served dur. jug the term of seven years. The Jury, under site Learned Judge's direction, found a verdict for the Crown. CROWN COURT. No ease of generalinterest occurred in this Court. Edwerd Martin was convicted of sheep-stealing, and received sentence of Death.—Joseph Tilmause was in dicted for stealing a pony, but was convicted only of the larceny, and received sentence of 7 years' transportation. Jr,lin Manning was convicted of a burglary in the dwell ing house of Charles Newman, Esq. ■t Mount Bares, on the ISth of March, and icceived sentence of death. CHARGE OF MURDER. On'f Intraday, )Edward Looker was indicted for the wil ful murder of James Mingay, at Doddingliurst, on the With of December la-t, by shooting wtlh powder and a bullet. This case excited an uncommon degree of interest in the county. from its peculiar circumstances, and the man ner in which the alleged crime was perpetrated. The prisoner stood ('or trial at the last Assisez, but at his in stance it was postponed until the present Assizes, on ac. count of the absence of a material and necessary witness. Air. Brodrick stated the case with very great.shiliiy. The case against the prisoner wart supported principally by the dying declarations and riaposition of the deceased. It appeared that the prisoner was gamekeeper to 'l'. F. Pane, Lsq. and that the deceased was a labouring man, particularly addicted to poaching. On the evening of the 28th of December last, the pelsoner was on the look out fur poachers, armed with a do.oble-barrelled foaling piece. When lie entered Dogwood s the property of his master, he heard a gun go off, aid as he proceeded he saw the deceased discharge a gun at is .en pheasaut, upon which he went op to the deceased and said, " Is it you i" The latter replied iu the affirmative, and said "Keep off, or Pil shoot you." The poisoner instantly levelled his gee at the deceased, at the distance of a rod and a halt, and fired both barrels, and wounded him in the groin with a slug, slightly touching the skin with small shot. The de ceased fell immediately, mid groaned with the excess of pain. Pi emitter came close up to him and said, " If you offer to stir, I'll blow your b—y brains out." The deceas ed said, " You have killed me, and 1 am a dead man," and the prisoner left hint immediately, in the agonies of death. The deceased contrived to crawl about the distance of a mile to the cottage of a man named Day, where he was admitted, and told what had happened to him. He was removed in a cart to the cottage of his mother, at South. weald, and a surgeon being sent for trout Brentwood, the wound was proutioniced mortal. His intestines theta pro truded eight or ten inches in length from his body, and he told the Surgeon that his assistance would be of no use, as he was a dying man. The Burgeons i ;;;; nediately took trots the month of the deceased his account of the It ansaction, and put it oil paper. Information a as thou given to Archdeacon Woollastuil, a magistrate, Who, as soon as possible, attended the deceased, atid took his dying declaration on oath, as above stated in substance, the deceased declaring That there was no oilier person with loins. A warrant was issued fur the appreliensien of the prisoner. He was at first denied by his wile, but being heat d to congh, the house was searched, and lie was taken iota custody, and in two hours afterwards was brought into the presence of the deceased, who was re swot it to the deposition he had made, and vs hich stair lead over to the prisoner. The declan anon of the 101 1- sutler was then taken down, which stated, that alien lie saw the deceased knock down a hen pheasant, he went up to hint, and the deceased immediately said, " U—ti your ryes, if you don't stand I'll Alma yes;' and pt esent ed his gun at him. Prisoner appieltended danger to i 111 l Itediately fired one barrel of his gun, and one only, in %hick ails a slog, and then ran 'after another maim, who appealed to be in company with the &ceased, hot could nut catch him. The deceased died the neat day. it appeared, that when the poisoner Was taken into env. tody, he stated to the constable, that upon seeing the prisoner lie put two or three slugs into his piece from out of his poceet, and ran after him. He Int tilt r said, that a lieu lie went out for the night lie always loaded his gum with h n s i l l ' i s s g c s l;arg i e t d ap b l e be f ar or e e d tli ll e is p t tliteotgletrfficoatautelieui4:4;ocelatiltu'id, it":41:11 the deceased on his dying bed, declat eil that he bal.! , no malice towards the pitauntt, and that had his gun been losdeti, 'scrimps lie Should have shut the ;disinter. Tne pm done' being milted upon fig ills (twenty, pot written paper, continua% the following Ovoid.—" I tis, and ever will be a maul. of regret to me, that I should tic th e rause tat the death of a fellow creattne ; hut hearing and believiiig that there were other men in 1).41a °oil. I Ova"` " touted Crum fear, that my Own life was in itungei." Two or three witnesses were culled to pti. s e that the (k --eratoid was a notorious poacher mid that he had frequenity expressed great hostility towar ds ' gainelsee ',eta w geaCrat The Lind l.luef Justice charged the Jury a rib positions; three 1 first if they were of utiaion Mat the pillVlArr 235