The National Register. — London, England, 1817-07-21 00:00:00

JULY 24. in a victory on the part of the Royalists, and in the _flight of Martinez into the interior. We are happy to find the accounts, from all parts of the kingdom, still concurring in• the prospects, which they hold out, of a favourable harvest Fur this, if the lope should be realized, we shall owe to Providence the warmest gratitude, if it should be frustrated, the meat implicit submision. By frequently and earnestly impressing these sentiments on their flocks, the Minis ters of religion will discharge an important duty to so ciety ; and without taking part in disputes foreign to their sacred function, will lay the foundations of gene ral tranquillity. From political writers, something more is to be expected. They do right, in endeavouring, to the best of their ability, to develope the means, by which the dispensations of Providence, whether in time of plenty or of scarcity, may be rendered available to the good of all classes, and more especially of the poor. The pressure of general distress occasioned by the scarcity and high price of provisio::s on the Continent, is almost entirely removed. This amelioration is not confined to the people of France and the Netherlands, but is felt all over Germany, in Saxony, Upper and Lower Austria, in Wirtemburg, and the Prussian pro vinces. So very abundant has the harvest proved in Sicily, that the exportation, which had been strictly prohibited, is now freely allowed. The surpression of the Paris Journal Le Constittf- Lionel is officially announced. The French Funds have had no material The Princess of Wales continues to maintain her ce lebrity. Among those who were in the train of his Holiness the Pope on his recent return to Rome, after recovering from his illness, her Royal Highness made a conspicuous figure. Letiers from Jamaica have arrived to the 21 of June. They state, that a Spanish schooner had come in from the Spanish Main, with accounts that the Patriots had obtained fresh successes. Caraccas, with other places of importance, was in their bands The merchants of King✓ton appeared to think that new channels of trade would ►nnnediateiv open with South America, and had made consid rable shipments of goods in consequence. A letter has been received from an English gentle man at. Florence, which states, that an assay has been made at Gdnoa by the Mint there, of the new English silver coinage, by which a debasement of the metal has been discovered to the extent of 11 in 42, viz that whereas 20 (old) English countervailed 42 Italian peals; 20 shillings of the new coinage counter vail only 401. The excange at Florence had, in eon segnence, ficllea from 41q to 434. It is stated that there 'are bat slender hopes of the restoration of the health of the Pope. On the 2d of June tl.e ceremony-peculiar to the East, took place at Constantinople, of shaving, for the firs: time, the hair of the head of the Cro.vn Prince &loch rade Abdul:tan:lid, who is four years of age, after which he was invested with a turban. A part of the hair was sent as an offering to the Kiaabe, the holy hnuse at Mecca. The celebrated 'Mame de Lavalettc has patted town for Paris. Her stay in this country was about a fortnight, and the oWect of her visit was to sell out of our public funds. Sac preserved a strict incogito; and bath her arrival and departure were known to very few persons. _ _ Gazette of last night announces the grant of the dignity of u Baronet of the .United Kingdom to the Right lion. John M‘Nlalion, and his heirs male, with a remainder to his brother Col. Thos. M'Mahon, Adjutant-General to his Majesty's ibrees Ia India. The remord, by the French Gqvcminent, of a Colo lonial Governor, for connivance at the Slave Trade, alluded to by Mr. Wilberforce on his motion on that subject, tool: place in the Isle of Bourbon. The atten tion of the.public was long called to the commission of that abominable piracy, by an unprincipled set of ad venturersin that crummy. Captain C. Moore, late of the Royal Sovereign yacht, lu.s been presented with a valuable ring, by the French .Ainbassador's Lady, f.r his gallantry .in saving the lives of two French seamen off' Calais. The Catholic Board met on Saturday, in Dublin. A letter, by Dr. Dromgoole, from Rome, complaining of the ill treatment received by Albin/yes, the Catho lic l)cputy at Rome, by the Papal Government, was the subject of discussi,m. An article from Rome, of the 11th of June, represents Mr. Hayes as a madman, and states, that the physicians have advised he should be sent to the Lunatic Hospital. Four field-pieces (light six-pounders), two ammuni tion waggons, 84. men, and 82 horses, arrived in Stam ford, on Thursday, .from Woolwich, on their route to Pontrefact. By the new Extent.in A.lil 11i11, debtor: to the Crown may obtain their liberty on surrendering all their property, which will release many miserable captives. T hrce.hundred and thirty-seven ships with carg , res hare cleared at the Custom-honse, Newcastle, for fJ reign ports, in the quarter• 'ending the sth inst. being above one hundred ships un.re than cleared out in the same quarter in any of the three preceding years ; and another gratifying circumstance LI, that most of these cargoes have been shipped in consequence of orders from abroad,. not on vaculatian. .~ THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Mr. Coke's annual sheep-shearing, at Holkham, which continued three days, was honoured with a greater number of noblemen, gentlemen, Earners, graziers, manuficturers, woolstaplers, &e. than on any for mer year. Among the distinguShed guests were, the Duke of Norfolk, Earl of Albemarle, Earl of Tbanet, Earl of Bradford, Lord Lynedock, Lord W. Bentinck, and Lord Nugent. After the business of each day, the numerous visitants were superbly entertained. In the statue gallery, saloon, and the adjoining rooms of his hospitable mansion, nearly 409 persons partook daily of the rational festivities of Holkham Hall. The Duke of Bedford was absent in consequence of his Duchess's confinement. Extract of a letter from Leeds, dated July 11.—" I am happy to tell you that a great change has taken place here and in all other parts of the West Riding within the last few weeks. The disaffected are completely crest-tidlen. Many of.their associates have been appre. handed, some have absconded, and the rest appear to have lost all confidence in their cause and in each other. They are in general well known, being for the most part old Luddites. Since Sir John Byng s return from London, we have learnt, that whilst he was there he was present at an examination which took place at the desire of two highly respectable Magistrates of this Rid ing (we believe Mr. S. Wortley, and H. Parker, Esq. of Woodthorpe,) who had represented to Lord Sid mouth the sensation which the accusations against Oli ver had excited in this part of the country. I under stand that they were furnished with all the information which the Home Office could supply, and that they saw and interrogated Oliver, without his being apprised of the purpose fur which he attended them. The re stilt was a perfect conviction en the part of these respect able individuals, that Oliver had not and could not have been accessary to any rising, and that the de:cr mination to rise had been formed, and the time for the insurrection fixed on, long previous to his coming into • this county ; and further, that he had no concern in convening any meeting; and that he had joined with those who advised the delay of the rising from Whit- Monday to the 9th of Jeuc; and that, in all his letters to the Home Department, which were produced to those gentlemen, he appeared clearly to understand, that he was simply to obtainantl give such information as might enable Magistrates en the spot, or the Govern ment, to prevent the rising, or instantly to suppress it ixi ea.se it should take place." Tile Seven LIGN s.—Tuesday morning, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Montrose, the Earl of liar rowhy, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir W. Scott, and the Master of the Rolls, being six of his Majesty's Privy Council, held a Court at the Exchequer, West minster, to swear a Jury of the Goldsmith's Company, for the purpose of the trial of the I'i.e of the Mint, within the Tower of London. After the Jury were sworn, the Loni Chancellor proceeded to charge them in a most able manner as to their duty, us between the, King, the Master of the Mint, and the country. The Court broke up at a quarter bclbrc ten o'clock, and the Jury proceeded with the proper of4cers from the Mint and Assay Office, on their important duty. The verdict will be given at Goldsmiths' Hall. The object of this trial is, to ascertain whether the New Coin, entitled " Soyereips," be just and right, according to its en gagemen tS. The Sovereigns are so well executed, that they bear the scrutiny of a magnifying glaxs ; yet it would have been more satisfactory to the design, if St. George had been cnalded to pierce the dragon with a spear or javelin, which is the true legend, rather than to effect his victory by trampling it under his charger's feet ; the conquering Saint is now made to grasp a marshal's staff or truncheon, which though, it may designate a great commander in the field, does not give him power to personally attack or destroy his adver sary ; and notwithstanding all this, the Saint is in the act of driving this truncheon down towards the dragon as if it was a lance. It would be curious to dis cover what part of the annals of chivalry, such an attitude can have been recorded for the conquering Knight, except it were with a lance ; for eve do not venture to suggest that this design was meaut to repro.• sent the laufice so broken, though it has such an ap pearance. The head of the Monarch is far more classi cal, and the profile more pleasing than that on the silver coinage ; and as the circle is too small to admit of the whole word, the abreviation of Britania is far pretinnble to the double tt ; but the letters F. D. could not consistently be omitted, as the legend of George and the Dragon was chosen for the reverse.— Upon the whale this coin is beautiful; yet the smallness of it is to •be regretted; the ancient sterling size and solidity of .the guinea in full weight, conveyed a respectability due to the United Kingdom ; it always produces concern, that at any period of our history this should seem to depart from us, on the con trary our constnnt prayer is—Esio perpettra. The denomination of :fovereign is for 1110fC ancient in the history of our Coiunce thou that of Grinen. Ti:ft Sovereign, or Double Real, v4as first reined by lionry V11..221 of 11:4;441 bring orttered to he c0i444.41 not of 11:4. pound at iglit 4,f ;4, , Ati, and to b.! current 14 5_41..0r. Jet rot 444.141.4.,4.144:4 e u the Coinage of Great IScilain ,Thwe C.:114 Arise. Iloir names from the figure of the Sovereign thereon upon I,i, .throat 1 slat% bat when ) or fur wind purpose, they were E 9 I coined, dues not appear; hut they were coined before his 19th I year, became the Statute of Money of that year mentions gold of the coins of 'Sovereign' and' Half !sovereign.' As they ate exceedingly scarce, and not mentioned in any indentme uftlais teign that I have seen, nor in the first indenture of his son, • and were too valuable to be of use at that time for eurrent money, it is probable they were struck upon extraordinary oecassions, Oni% in the nature of medals, and pc' haps were , first coined in honour of the King's Coronation, as his figure thereon, in the attitude of that solemnity, seems to intimate. "Sovereigns" wile also issued it) the succeeding reigns of Henry VIII. Edward Vt. Mary, Elizabeth, and James I.— " Guineas" wire first issued in 1623, at 20s. each, and at di vers periods afterwards ordered to be current at different roles. They obtained the name of Guineas from the told of which they were made, and which was 100011111 60111 Guinea by the African Company. As an encouragement to bring over gold to be coined, trey we) e permitted by their Charter to have their stamp of an elephant upon the coitus made of Atli can gold. In the device of St. George and the Dragon, on the new gold Sovereigns, the rider appears as if he were uring on his horse with a short stick. fhe remains of the late Duke of Northumberland were on Saturday conveyedfrom Northumberland House toWestminster Abbey, for interment with unusual pomp. At half past twelve the gates of the Court-yard were opened, and the Itearseproceeded through Charicg-cross, preceded by a great number of horsemen bearing splen did banners, the family helmet, escutcheons, and co ronet. The hearse was followed by ten mourning coaches, each drawn by six black horses, and the Pro cession was closed by an immense number of carriages of the Nobility and Gentry, among which were those of the Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Murray.— The concourse of people assembles( between Charing. cross and Westminster Abbey exceeded calculation. There were two regular lines of carriages to Par liament-street. Numbers of shopswen, in consequence shut up. The windows of the houses were filled. Mr. Osborne, toe Lord of the Admiraly, had General Phipps and a numerous party at his balcony. The procession passed on in regular order, St. .Margaree4 and the Abbey bells tolling, and arrived a few minutes after one o'clock at the west door of the Abbey ; it was received by the Prebends and the Gentlemen of the Cathedral, who were in waiting at the Jerusalem Chamber; consisting, lrsides the Prebends, of the Rev. Dr. Dakin, precentor; the Rev. Mr. Webb, and the 11ev. Mr. Shelton, Minor Canons; the Vicar's clet- ral were Mr. Staftiirci Smith, Mr. Sale, sea. Mr. Sale, jun- Mr. Gore, Mr. Vaughan, Mr. Marguet, Mr. 13uggins, Mr. Clark, Mr. Nield, &c. who joined the procession, preceded by the Dean's twelve alansraen, and Mr. Catlin and Mr. Holloccrob preceded the corpse. The mourners returned to the carriages, ar.ci proceeded back, in nearly the sama order as they ar rived, to Northumberland House, where they separa- . . ted.—The procession had a very imposing and grant appearance. By the judicious arrangement of the constables, the centre of the streets was kept quite clear. The greatest regularity prevailed ; and every possible disorder which otherwise have ensued, was effectually prevented. • Harvest haa.commenced in every part of Fiance . cud is every where superb. Several of the departments have firmed an extra guard, composed of well-known proprietors and inlaititants, wl,u, w,sistcd by the gases champetre, take their nightly rounds in arla; to pro— tect their produce from marauders. While the rest of Europe displays the promise of a ~ most luxurimq harvest, we are sorry to learn that in one corner of it, Switzerland, the pipes cf the inhabit ants in this respect have been completely fruitrated...- The most fertile of their rallies are covered with water, anti they are visited with frequent thunder storms, whiela make melancholy additions to the catalogue of their miseries. Those nations upon whom the bi.unties or ' I stridence have been showered in superabundance, are therefore likely to'have calls for their surplus produce, • which we presume will be cheerfully answered. Tuesday the Pricce Regent held a Court at Corinna House, and also a I'r:vy Council, at which Sir Ben jamin Bloomfield, his Puyal Highnets's Private Secre tary, was introduced in due finau and sworn is a Member, and took his seat at the Honourable Board accordingly, in the room of Col, f‘l'Alcbon, who held that situation 25 years.—The Recorder of Loudou was aftexwards admitted into the presence of the Prince Regent in Council, and made his Report of the convicts capitally convicted at the May Scssioas, when his Royal Hi,ghuess was p!ca.sed to respite them all during pleasure. MI. Dodd, in 11. evidence before the Sto.cet Cann lttoe.of tiip ilt.cse.of Commons, on steam, boats. übjects to 4,e,,inus of high pressure us nos.ere. Mr. Andrew Vivian, iulacv soil engineer at Cattibuin Pte. in Cornwall, on Ile COta• ;lA't , givee them the preference to engines of low p f essame. ',E, iib Rea . tleman says, he has bet ii aetpteititeti sc ull the coo.tract,,,a.,,f steam engines fot upwai.!. II tsthi r ty ,yearli. " Ahts knuu net no occident twilit high pi ..sscre steam ki, lit (list 11'01 htnlors. but has Lituwa en m^mit I:1 Irippen li Mk winking %%Ali t ivw pressure engi.m, whi.•:. v- its im the ..!Sch of Nwvei.iber. 104 on la - heal Abraham Mit'', %;:i4. - ft A wt:Jity,llt lion ibs,ikr. %oak, ilia with low pressure SLUMP. exploded, anti tieol.ted six to 12. three of whom died in thr cviirse or a nvel.." Mr. Thomas, Lean, u prrson employed by neerly the silk of the minus iii co:iv...all to inspect ties:;•.citglues, aT:it hs::ke Im.y:hi% Lh ports chills won. they p..ll;em,ttepwastL, ii. , i : .• I , ~,!., ilA y . seven m0i.01:3, ;:i.<l coNs'er.es, n.ith iii.:l ,, , i , :te.nit.vhs. !bere is tie dotage! . whetevei in the use of Isista pressure s. t ois r.igiurs."—Seventl other witnepses were examined, aud,'frott the V.11..1e of the e.sidence it appears, that aceiot ills •liavo happe.tril in bath cases of bigh and itIVI pressure, the resttit Ai Whi‘li is. ; that neither ca.a be coosidered yerfecily W.,