The National Register. — London, England, 1822-12-30 00:00:00

IRELAND. [From the Dublin Evening Pont of Tuesday.) ADDRESS OF TIIE NOBILITY, GENTRY, AND CITIZENS. This day, at half past two o'clock, one of the most splendid and numerous deputations of citizens that ever assembled in Dublin, waited on his Ex cellency the Lord Lieutenant with an address of con• gratulation on his providential escape from the re cent Orange outrage at the Theatre. Saint Patrick's Hall was fitted up fix the occasion. We have not, at thislate hour, time to describe the scene. It was one of the most imposing we ever witnessed. To the address, which was very emphatical pro nounced by the Lord Mayor, his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant delivered the following reply:— W eteasit:V, " The splendid appearance of this numerous and illustrious assembly, the cordiality and ardour of your congratulations, and your generous and affectionate attachment (only person and government, constitutes such an addition to my honour and my Leppinese, and would adorn the olose of a long and active life with such lasting glory, that, if the assassin be not vet dis armed, my personal interest would he, that lie should . strike sow ; but my duty to my God, to my King. and to my Cbuntry, forbias such a wish; and here, in your presence, with the most unfeigned sincerity, I join my humble hope with your fervent prayers that niv life may he spared for the service of Ireland, adding, with the genie earnestness, that if ever it ithould prose injurious or useless to her interests and wetfure, it will no loa_er be valuable to me. " No exertions of which any public servant can he capable (however endowed with genius and seal, or mewed by rape rienee) could keep pace with the paternal solicitude of our be loved Sovereign, for the tranquillity and prosperity of this in teresting portion of his dominions. 'Were 1 possessed of all the qualifications which you are pleased to ascribe to me, I assure yon, in the most solemn manner, that I could scarcely render justice to die spirit of benevolence towards Ireland , which animates his Majesty's Royal heart, and which is the unanimous, active, and ardent sentiment of all his counsels. " Whatever may have been the success of my government, my anxious endeavour has been to towline the course of his Majesty's intentions and councils by an impartial exercise of tl e executive power, by a just and merciful administralico of the law, and by a regular system of mitigating and allaying every cause of irritation, and every incentive to discord dud division. " In relieving the distress of the last dreadful season, I was greatly assisted by many now present : receiving from you this honourable tribute of your approbation, I desire to extend anion to our countrymen and fellow-citirens. " The indignation which the recent outrage has excited in your breasts is natural and honourabk ; let me not be euppnsed to reprove so just a feeling when 1 declare, that having placed the consideration of that transaction in the hands of the law"; leave it to the sas:red light of legal justice to discover the origin, progress, and object of that disastrous attempt. " So far, however, is my disposition averse from casting upon the nation the crime of individuals, that I consider this •vent to bars called heal the true character of my country in the most amiable and vivid colours, and this assembly attests the justice of my opinion. pas the otlwr hand, neither the dangers with which my life has been encompassed, uor any which may still impend over me, can disturb the even termer of my course of governineut. Sensible of the value of yir:r confidence in nu firmness, I trust that Providence will never deprive me of the fortitude required to meet the deities of my station. " The great and valuable lesson, however, inculcated on my min I, as it is upon yours, is the necessity of labouring to turn this evil to the public }paid. Here I claim your most assidu ous and active exertions for the peace and honour of our coun try. Towards this useful, but difficult work. I tender you, in true sincerity of heart, the aid of every faculty, and of all the means which I possess tar can acquire ; and, recommending to your deliberate and united wisdom and zeal, the calm and dis passionate consideration of the most effectual plan for removing from your society the destructive incentive of division and discord, I implore the God who has saved my life to enable me to employ whatever days may lie allotted to me in establish ing the tranquillity, freedom, and happiness of Ireland." Among the deputation we obst rveil his Grace. the Duke of Leinster, the Earl of Meath, Lord Ardee. Otonor 1)on, and several of our most distinguished fellow-citizens. IVe ob , erveil also, and we were happy to see them, the Most Rev. the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Troy. and Dr. Murray, the Coadjutor Prelate. These venerable men were in full canonicals, and wore their crosses. We never witnessed a scene which affected us so deeply ; we never saw a meeting su moved, as the very distinguished company who were present in St. Patrick's I fall , and, certainly, there never was a reply so emphatic, so full of feeling! so pregnant with the fire of youth, and the wisdom of mature age. Immediately after the reception of the address of the inhubitantsof the city of Dublin, this day, by the Lord Lieutenant, his Excellency held a Levee. There were present among others, his Grace the Duke of Leinster, the Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Meath, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. Wal lace, Milliken, the Sheriffs, Aldermen Harty and Kenny, Colonel Morris, &c. &c. His Excellency's private secretary, in the first instance, introduced Mr. Milliken, and from the marked attention with which his Excellency honored him, we have every reason to believe that his ser vices have been duly appreciated. Prisoners charged with conspiring against the life of the Lord Lieutenant.- 1 he Handwiches, we be lieve are carpenters ; George Graham is a shoe maker ; Wiiliam is a printer, and a person of better condition in MC. Forbes is the person who applied to the magistrates at College-street, on the morning after the riot, and just after lie had been reprimand ed for his own conduct, to know whether the pri- THE NATIONAL REGISTER Boners could be bailed. His connexions are very respectable. Brownlow is cf a rank superior to all the other persons who have been arrested. His family are in very independent circumstance. The following particulars of the late fracas be tween the American Consuls at Algiers and the Government of that place are given in a letter from an American officer, dated from Gibraltar ;—" The late disagreeable afair at Algiers has occasioned some uneasiness to our merchants, and various stories have been afloat respecting it. However, the real state of the affair is as —Our Consul, Mr. Shelter, being away, had left his nephew, the Vice Consul, to act in his place, who, when, out hunt ing, met sonic Turks, who told him he was tres passing on their fields, and desired him to go off.— He refused, and they in consequence attempted to use force, upon which he presented his gun at diem, which so irritated the Turks, that they immediately disarmed him, and beat him with the butt-end.— The Vice Consul immediately complained to the Dey, and demanded satisfaction : but the Dey told him he could give none, adding, I allow you suf ficient protection by appointing you a dragoman.'— This officer is a man sacred-among the 'forks, every Consul being allowed one as a protection. If a Turk insults any one under their protection he loses his head. Our Vice Consul had omitted to take his dragoman with hint, therefore he was re fused satisfaction. Ile, however, told the Dey if he did nut punish those men in 24 hours, he would cut down the American flag staff—to which the Dey replied lie was perfectly at liberty so to do. The flag-staff was accordingly cut down, and a vessel chartered to bring the Consul to Port Mahon, and Dr. Swift is left in his place. This has occasioned great alarm among our merchants, to whom the idea of an Algerine war is by no means palatable, as it would do so much injury to our commercial inte rests, which are not in the most flourishing situa tion now, although we are in the midst of peace. The Vice Consul's conduct has met with some ani madvenion from several of our mercantile people, who consider him in a great measure the aggres stir." ADMIRALTY.—It appears by a eOpy Of a letter from Mr. Secretary Croker, to Mr. Buckle, late Chairman of the Committee of the Society of Ship Owners, dated 2341 inst , that the Board of Admi ralty had just done what we believe the present ad ministration never did before—take into considers. tion, that in consequence of a prevalence of north and north easterly winds, the merchant vessels coming in the contrary direction may be in want of water and provisions, and Mr. Buckle is intUrsied that their Lordships had therefore directed the Ad mirals commanding at Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Cork, to use their discretion in sending out ships with supplies, and to cruise till the wind changed. This is certainly a very prompt measure, as it was only on the 10th inst. that the wind changed, after blowing very strong for about six weeks from the south west, and at this season such a precaution is not very necessary, as but few ships are expected from the south-ward and westward. We are, how ever, very happy to find that the trade of the coun try engrosses some of the attention of the Admiralty Board ; but it is probably owing to the approach of the meeting of Parliament, when the subject of the want of protection in the West Indian seas, and the late depredations of pirates there„ will, we are assured, he brought before the House by several commercial members. The Society fiir promoting Christian Knowledge, at a special meeting held in London on Monday last, (the Lord Bishop of London in the Chair), resolved to erect a morument to the memory of the late Dr. Middleton, Lord Bishop of Calcutta, in St. Paul's cathedral; and the members of the society arc every where invited to contribute to it, nut exceeding their annual subscriptions. - The bodies o f the seamen belonging to the sloop Lord Nelson, which was wrecked near tlayle, llc vonshire, on the lfith instant, have been picked up anti interred in the churchyard of Phillack. Some of the cables and anchors of the vessel have been recovered and lodged in a place of safety. The dis position to plunder, too often manifested by the people along the coast in eases of shipwreck, appear ed but in a very partial degree on this melancholy occasion ; the inhabitants of the neighbourhood generally exerting themselves to save the property and place it in a secure situation. Extract of a letter from the agents to Lloyd's at Smyrna, dated the 31st of October:—" The situ ation of this place continues prfectly tranquil, and more satisfactory for future prospects, in consequence et very vigorous measures being at length adopted by the governor of the city, to repress the turbulent populace; and many of the ringleaders in the late disorders have been publicly executed. From the quarters of hostilities no intelligence of any interest has lately been received." 41 _ ..... has TUE MARRIAGC ACT.A grant deal —_ been Raid and written with respect to this celebrated• act, but many of our readers probably have Yt ot a clear idea of the circumstances which led to its in troduction. They are as follow :—The Nlarchionent of Donegal was Miss May, and was the natural daughter of a gentleman celebrated for assisting persons of fashion with loans of money. Being married to the Marquis, she became the mother of seven children, the Earl of Belfast being the eldest son of the Marquia-and herself, and heir of the title and estates. The Earl of Belfast being arrived at manhood, was retoned to be on the eve of marriage with the daughter of another nobleman. At this juncture, the Hon. Arthur Chichester, younger brother of the Marquis of Donegal, and heir of the title and estates should his brother die without law ful issue, came forward, and intimated his intention to dispute the validity of the marriage of his bro ther with Miss May; he contended that the lady called and calling herself Marchioness of Donegal, was still Miss May, or at least not lawfully married to his brother ; and, consequently, that the Earl of Belfast and the other children were illegitimate, and that, as far as they were concerned, he was the actual heir presumptive. In this manner at an advanced age, the Marquis and•lslarehioness found their marriage questioned, and their children de scribed us il legitimate. The ground of the conduct on the part of Mr. ArthurChichester was the mar riage of the Marquis and • Marchioness by license, without the consent of any person authorised by the act of 1745. It will be observed that, had the marriage taken place by bans, the objection could not have been raised. One of the consequences of Mr. Arthur Chichester's intima ion was, the post ponement of the marriage of the Earl of Belfast ; and, in the mean time, the Marquis and Marchi ness commenced such proteeedings in the Spiritual Court as afforded the best chance of establishing the validity of their marriage — though their chance in the course of law, under the act 1745, appears•to have been small. The course of proceeding, then, in the Donegal case, was this, and in all similar cases it is equally needful.—The Marquis and the Marchioness discontinued to live together, while the Marquis commenced a suit against the Marchio- nem, in tile nature of an amicable suit in Chancery. • for what, in the language of the Spiritual Courts, is called " Jatitation" or assumption of marriage; thereby requiring the Marchioness to show upon. what pretence she called herself his wife, and why• she should not be forbidden so to do; and therefive • atfirtling to the Marchioness an opportunity to establish, if possilile, the validity of the marriage j by legal evidence, which evidence would then be come waiter of record for posterity, and demonstrate • the legitimacy of the children. This, it appears, 'could not be accomplished; and the act was intro duced, in order that its retrospective classes might succeed where u straightforward course had failed. The marriage of the Earl of BelfXst, with Lady Harriet Butler, daughter of the Earl GlenL.l, has very recently taken place. At a Common Hall of the Corporation of Lei cester, on Wednesday last, it was resolved forth with, to make several hundredsof honorary freemen, principally nun-residents, as the means of counter acting, it possible, the ascendancy which liberal opinion is evidently obtaining over corporation in- - fluence. There have been three hundred and sixty eases of cancer in the city of Canterbury alone, since the fashion of women wearing steel busks in their stays firs: commenced. These, by pressing on the blsuiti, the physicians are of opinion, have occasioned many cancers, and numerous distressingund fatal eases. You —Friday morning, at six o'clock, an alarming Er broke out in the coach-house and stabling 'of Mr. Byron! situate at the back of that Gentleman's house, hCh ytie-tvw Chelsea, which at first threatened most serious destruction ; a great supply of water being obtained, the horses were tak-J out in solely, but the carriage sustained considerable injury. Tile liaises were considerably subdued at ten o'clock, and the engines shortly alter quitted the place. On the 11th of November, a farmer's wife. at Wilkischken, in Pi ussia, poisoned with arsenic her daughter, a girl Id years of age, fur fear she should wake it known that her mother stole same geese. After the crime wits discovered she coo: leased that two ,% ago she dispatched her father-in-law in the same manner, to inherit his property sooner ; and five months ago the husband of her eldest daughter, iu order to marry tier to a richer nun. NEtisats,l4 EUNAOKUINARY.—One of the carriers of a New York paper, culled The Advocate, hating heroine indis posed, his son took his pleas ; but not knowing the subseri es lie was to supply, he took for his guide a dog which had usually attended his father. The animal trotted on a head ot the boy, and stopped at every door where the paper was in use to be left, without making a single omission or mistak.a SHOCKING ACCIDF.NT —Between eight and nine o'clock on Friday night, a fatal accident occurred at Soinerse:- house :—John finis, an aaist sit porter is the Navy Pay , in a state of inebriety, got on the iron railing, for the purpose of raising the sash to obtain admittance into the ball, and 1,1 into the area, a depth of 40 feet. The utifortunate man was im mediately picked up, and carried into RD apartment in the utlice, and a surgeon was sent for. Mr. Kenny assistant to Mr. Stanton, in the Strand, atten.led ; but from the nature ,• / the injury he received, his skull being fractured in scveiat places, be could render no assistance. lie was about 30 yeas old, and has left a widow and two children tu deplore 1:;* lons. I P ; F 4 11 S~ { f I _