The National Register. — London, England, 1817-09-01 00:00:00

SEPT. 1. d eomposition of elementary sounds, and of arbitiary signs •tapressiye of thent, to a people whose minds wine already formed to tither modes of thinking, •111111 whose language had few expressions bat what concerneir the ordinary affairs of The tally rational mode would have been, to have in veuted a system of spelling, and to have gone through the, .usual routine of teaching it. Fitiow, at length, thought he had got a 11V1101) of itond explained to dom. about him that it was very possible to lint down a mark or sign of something that had been seen both• by the writer and readerond which should lie mutually understood by them; but Mr. Marirmr i.umedlately - informed hiin, that lie could write-down any thing that' he had never seen I the king directly whispered to him to put Toogoo Ahoo (the king of Tonga, whom lie and Toobo Neuha had assassinated many years before Mr. Mariner's arrival). This was accordingly done, and the other searf it, when Finuw was yet more astonished, and declared it to be the most wonderful thine he had ever beard of. He then desired kim to write " Tarky," (the chief of the garrison of Bea,. whom Mr. Mariner and Its companions had nut yet seen ; this el.: ,f was blind in one 'eye). When "Tarky" was read, Finow enquired whether he was blind or not, this was putting wilting to an unfair ,t est ! and Mr. Mariner told hint thAt he hail only written down the step standing for the sound of his name, and not for the description of his person. lie then ordered to write, •" 'fatly, blind in his left eye," which was done, and read ti the increased astonishment of every body. Mr. Mariner A ten told him, that, in several Farts of the world, mesrages - were sent to great distruces thr.:ugh the same medium, and being folded and fastened up, the bearer could know nothing of the contents; and that the histories of whole na• :tons were tints handed down to posterity, without spoiling by .being kept (as he chose to express himself'). Finow acknow ledged this to be a most noble invention, but aAded, that it would not at all do for the Tonga islands, that there .would be nothing but disturbances and conspiracies, and he should not be sane of his lire, peoltaps, another mouth. He confessed, however, that he should like to know it himself, and for all the women to know it, that he might make love with less risk of discovery. and not so much chance of getting his brains knocked out by their husbands. • The letter, in fact, was an advice to European ships to go to the Papal islands, in preference to the island of Tonga, as being a better rhea, for victualling: advising, at the some time, not to sutler many •of nativis to ba on board at once, lest they should meet with the saw fate as the Pott AU Prince, but, if pos-ible, to make-some of the prisoners, and keep them as hostages, till Mr. Mariner and his companions were delivered up. COURT MARTIAL. Saturday,.the 23rd inst. a Court-martial was held at Portsmouth, on board the Queen Charlotte, to try Captain M. Maxwell, and the officers and crew of his Majesty's late frigate Alceste, for the loss of that ship, in the straits of Gaspar, on the 18th of February List, when returning.front China with Lord Amherst and suite on board. The sentence of the court was a fall and entire acquittal of Captain Maxwell, his otfi • cers and crew. The opinion of the Court was most :handsomely expressed, that Captain Maxwell had, be fore the loss of the ship, -conducted himself in the most zealous and officer-like manner; and that, after the striking of the ship, his coolness, self-collection, and exertions were highly conspicuous, and that every thing was done by him, his officers, and ship's com riny, within the power of men to execute, to preserve the ship and her stores ; and that to such conduct alone is to he attributed the saving of all their lives. Cap tain Maxwell's narrative.was an aficting detail of the • exertions trod sufferings of himself, officers, and crew, and recorded his warmest thanks to his officers and cr.tw, who had looked up to him in the hour of' dis tress with the most submissive confidence. A most-pe culiar good look-out was kept up when the accident happend ; and but fur the circumstance that the sea was, at the moment of her striking, covered with fish .spawn, the rock woeldooubtless have been seen. The .ship had no more sail on her than enabled her to with stand an unfitvourubly strong current; and the very track she was pursuing was laid down for the ship' by Lieutenant Ross, of the Bombay marine, who had 'been ten yearssurveying the Chinese seas. At the mo ment of their rieliverance.from the wreck, they were surrounded by 6-4 prows manned with 600 Malays. Their whole stock of ammunnition consisted of only 72 ball cartridges and a few carronade cartridges, which were drawn front •the quarter-deck guns on leaving the ship ; from these the gunner made up 1600 rounds, and hats were made from the marines' buttons, and what- • ever other lead or pewter could be cut from off the wreck. Alew hoarding pikes were saved; the rest of the men were armed with dirks stuck on sticks, and sticks with the points tempered by fire. An abattis at' wood-work was formed by the carpenter, anti a diago nal trench cut from the hill, on which they fixed their abode, to the only landing place, which enabled them .sts hid defiance to the flaveitisas savage...: who surneanded them, anti who several times attempted to cut off their boats. The presents exchanged by the Emperor of. thine, and his letter to the Prince Regent, with Lord Amherstls own documents, relating to the embassy, - . were all saved from the wreck of the Alceste ; but. the. specimens of the geologist, minentlogist, alai the lota mu, were lost ; the drawings of those gentlemen were sassed. The presents tisim the Emperor are said to he! of very trifling value ; the articles consist of purses and .a large agate ; which latter article derivesits chief va lue from the kiml, whenever discovered, being delivered . . • over to the I.:lei:hew, and therefore can only .he be st4wed y hint ; be invariably g ives one as a testitnony • of satisfactiott, whenever aux service is. rendered to the . State. THE NATIONAL nr,msrrn. IRELAND. .DOMESTIC NOMINATION.—TIin first regular conse cration of a clergyman elected to tho episcopal dignity by Dean and Cliajitm., is !it length abc•it to take place. Doctor Walsh of ‘Vaterti.ml, lie rrceivci canonical in duction from his and will be consecrated on the 31st, at Waterford. The circurnmance is mentioned in the following terms in a G,mk Journal : APPOINTMENT OF 'HIE ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP (4F' WATERFORD. We are enabled at length to staie to our Headers, that this appointment hate taken place. There had been various de lays in consequence of the different postulations : the Bishops of the Province haying postulated in favour of one candidate, than o hoot we know not n more uptight and deserving Clergy man, and the majority of the Clergy of the united Dioceases of Waterford and Lismore having postulated in favour of the Rev. Dr. Walsh, of Diengarvon, with whose merits they were better acquainted, as being more in the habit of meeting with 6iat; but the principal cause of the delay was the opposition given by a few of the Clergymen of the vacant Diocese to Dr. WAWA appointment. After various licarin. ' %, the See of Rome decided in favour of the majority of the Priests, and accordint,dy Dr. %Vaish received the necessary Papers rrom the Holy Bee, on Tuesday the 12ilt instant. His Lordship lost no time in making the proper communication to the Arch bishop of the Province, and his consecration is to take place in Waterford, on the 31t instant. ELVERTON CAVE.-It was Frederick Homan, the Comptroller of the British Mail in the Dublin Post-office, who distinguished himself in the apprehen sion of two offenders discovered in a cave at Elverton, in the county of Dublin. The entrance was so low, only one person could gain admittance at a time, and that only by crawling on his hands and knees, in which position one of the party as he was feeling his way, was shot from within. Mr. Homan had about three weeks before obtained from Government a pardon for them, on condition of their voluntary surrender and transpor tation for life. They met him and several other gentle men, on honour, to hear the terms, and were allowed two days to send in their answer. No answer, however, was sent, and their friends succeeded in inculcating a general belief that they had left the country, never to return. Mr. Homan, however, suspecting that this was only a trick, mustered a party of not less than 300 men, with which he scoured the neighbourhood and succeed ed in finding their retreat. The cave has been since cleared, and is found to command a view of several roads, and of an extent of 20 or thirty miles of country, with out ore gentleman's seat in or near its vicinity. It is most admirably adapted for the abode of a gang of rob bers acquainted with the country. EXECUTIONS. Coffin, the black, sentenced to death for a rape upon an hifant, bit who was :espited last week, was executed on Mon day before the Debtor's door, Netvgate. Hr. aeknowli dged the justice of his sentences, and died with every mark of sin cere penitence. On Monday J. Harry, for murdering his wife, forfeited his existence at Monmouth, in the presence of many thousand .spectators. No sooner was lie convinced that he had no mode of escape in this world, thou he sunk intoa sullen apathy, and the whole of Saturday resisted every attempt to awaken his fillud to a .lne•r.ense of his dreadful sitnation. His brother, his son, and Isis friends, were forbade his presence. For a time, too, he expressed great indignation against his brother, who he asked to swear that the blood which was found in the cottage at Dimino hail come from his nose, from a bleeding to which, he wished him to say, he had been subject from his iv fancy. The brother, however, resisted his entreaties, and this, as he supposed sealed his fate. At length, by the cure_ milting exertions of the Chaplain, he was induced to confess that lie killed her on the St outlay night by a blow on the tent ;oil, with some heavy instrument, bnt not the stone produced on the trial; and that when her spirit had fled, he employed himself in clearing up those-traces which her blood produced. Having partially accomplished this work, lie secreted the hotly under the bed, and in the • garden buried some of those clothes with which he had been lierforming the terrific labour. The succeeding night, lie went to the Cross Wood side, and there dug the grave in which he deposited her te111,11113, hoping that he should this as ern suspicion. The albscuicg eye of God, however, had witnessed his crime, mid by its detection, brought him to that punishment in this world which he however so justly merited. Let is hope, that by .a sincere repentance, he had averted the wrath of that dread Judge before whom) he had yet to render au Recount of his misdeeds. The place iu which the n u n der was tcommitted 'is e‘tretnety wild and picturesgue : situate• in the bosom of several lot ty hills, aid snrr•n:.uled hy wood, it affords ample food for visionary speculation, in which the few inhabitants of• the country are but too much disposed to indulge. A strong degree of stiff istition scene'; still to pre vail among those poor ;people ; and even IbOW scarce a lone cot ii to be met, in the front of which may nut lee seen nailed a rude cross, which the OeClipant imagines is an invincible harrier against evil spirits. The el ttage of Harry at present remains closed; and at; the storm occasionally rides through the Buckholt, it name derived from antiquity, it rouses/Hence of the place having been celebrated as a retroat deer, the surrounding cottage's imagine they hear the dying groans of its late inmate borne through the troubled atmosphere. falai MANIDTACTITRE.—On TUC hiy last thrce men and a woman were committed to Wexford gaol, by A. H. Jacob, who•were detected in the act ofmanufactur ing leaves of alder, hirelt, &c, so as to resemble the various kinds of tea imported from China. 'About two ltutalmd weight - of this deleterious article, together with th e s h ee ts and blankets used in the process of dry;z, wive lod -;-1 in the Custom-house stores.-.-( lfc.rjoiti Meru!'!, ) LAM' INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, AUGUST V. WADE 0. SCRWTON. n will be recollected, that a Mr. C. Baseley earned Or urirkr eir. etimstunces of great aggravation, Miss Ann Wade, a young leafy of large fortune. and a Ward of this Court; for which contempt his I.ordhip cominiutsi Mr. Baseley to the Fleet prison, where he still remains. Application was made to his Loillship, that he would LK: pleased to confirm the Master's Report, which contained a scale inent of Mrs. Baseley's property in a manner satisfactory to all the par ties. 'Cie I .ord Chancellor confirmed the Master's Report and the settle ment of Mrs. Baseky. 's property. EX PARTE COHEN IN THE MATTER Or LEE. This was an application to supersede the Comniissiou which ?.:Ast been issued against J. Lee, alias Leigh, on the ground ti at the bank rupt was a minor at the time of taking out the Commission 11111:r• t him. There was an affidavit to that effect on one side, and one in direct denial of it on the other. This day a person attended fret, the Ilainhurgh Syr.agogue, lenchurch-street, with a sort of rts. gi.try of Jewish babtisms. Mr. hart said, the person was in attendance with the book of registry. which his Lordship had expressed a wish to see. It was ;.e.- portiv. that he should be examined immediately, as he was under a peremptory engagement to celebrate a wedding at 12 o'clock. The Lord Chancellor—lt would be cruel to keep the couple waiting. The Jewish Priest then put in his Register, and was called him self to explain it to his Lordship, and when be bail taken down the Priest's examination, The Lord Chancellor said—l have examined this man, and will read to you how he explains this register. Ile says it is a private book of his father's who is since dead, in which he made an entry of all the c:rcumcisions which his father operated. At that time there was no public registry of circumcisions. He explains it thus—" ( 10 the third day of the Passover, performed the operation of circum cision upon Joseph the son of NI aplithali, of the tribe of Levi, in the yearof the world 5557—(which he explains to be the same as the year 1197 of the Christian wra,) and may God enable him to educate him, and bring him up in all that is good." He likewise says, that is general. circumcision is performed eight days after the birth of the child; and.when it is not, it is specially entered so in the registry, and he finds no such special entry here. Mr.• Horne said, this is not our Joseph Lee, alias Leigh, the son of Henry Lee, of Bethnal-green. The I .ord Chancellor a lust if Naphthali was Hebrew for Henry ? To which the Priest answered in the affirmative. His Lordship then said—This will not do ; you must take an issue to try whether the bankrupt was an infant or not at the time the petitioning cre ditor's debt was contracted ; and ROW - 4U Ac Priest) you may to your marriage as fast as you eau. Auougyr 49.-08C11141. /101132. Mr. Duthie being called upon by the Lord Chute/for for the statement in.this case, of which he yesterday gave notice. said, that the whole Amount of the property was 70,1301. from which, if 28.3311. were deducted, the remainder would be 41,9191. and that sum divide.) into sixteen parts, was divided between Taylor and Waters in the proportion of nine sixteenths to Taylor. and seven sixteenths to Waters. Water's statement deducted from the 70,1501. the sum of 34,1701 which left a remainder of 33,9801. The Lord Chancellor said, the sum stated in the Master's Report to be paid by Waters was 31,0001. and if that was right, and the mortgage money of 36001. was admitted as being due to Wafers. se much of that sum was ready p a id into C ourt ; a nd whetbm the whole sum should be paid by Waters, Laid :he sum previously paid be returned to him, or that the ruin for him to pay were a sum minus. Cleat already paid peared to him, in effect, exactly the same •thing. Mr. Duthie said, that Waters had received seven-sixteenths of the 59311. The Lord Chancellor said, that Waters clahued the whale of the sun). Mr. Duthie was apprised of that, but if so, Mr. Taylor would be tlepriral of so much of the purchase money. The Lord Chancellor denial the attention both of Mr. M . & 4 54 Mr. Duthie. Suppose (aid his Lordship) the whale sow triple Master's t Mice was 30,0601. and suppose Taylor owed Waters 50001. then 25.0001. would be to be divided between them. in the propor tion of nane-sNtecnths to Tavlor, and sevcri-sixtemtlis to Water% Mr. Mills said the money had been puid into Court by Mr. Wt.ter, in conformity to the Master's report, and raying e* L.s right to the mortgage money due him by Taylor . The Lord Chancellor.--.. Suppose there was no dispute, and that the mortgage money was paid to %Voters, Waters would then have to pay 34,0001. ; and if the mortgage money due to Waters was not paid, Waters then would have 28,0001. that is 34,0.101- minus the mortgage money, which would be just equivalent, instead of the double operation of taking out and paying in again. Let then the 28,0001. paid into Court rest there, Mr. Waters undertaking to pay the difference, provided Sir Samuel Romilly, who certainly made a very liberal offer of concession to the other side, if they could but make a clear statement even tn.theis own Counsel, should in the next seal establish Mr. Taylor's clam to the disputed amount of the mortgage." Atitr solll_ conversation between the parties, it was agreed, with the approbation of the Court, that the question of the mortgage should stand over to the .set‘ind seal, anti that the question thouisl comprehend the interest as well as the principal of the money. SIR H. nAVY'S SAFETY LAMP..-Air HUlTll•llrey May 11:.s • made a farther discovery in regard to combustion, which will prove n • v.:ry great improvement to his safety lamp. lie thus describes it A 3 a letter to the reverend J. Ilodgsan of lieworth. " I have succeeded in producing a light perfectly safe and crone mica!, which is most brilliant in dltmovherea in which the flame oi* the safety lamp is extinguished, and which burns in every mixture of earburetted hydrogen gas that is respirable. It ronsis!s of a slender metallic tissue of platinam, which is hung in the top of the interior a the common hunp of wire pew, or in that of the twilled lamb. It casts from t'4l. to is., an d is in:pensbable. This tissue,. when the common lamp is introduced into art explcsive atmosphere, bceetnei red hot, and continues to burn the gas in contact with it as long as the nir is respirable ; when the stmosphere again heroines explosive, the flame is relighted. I can now barn any inflatimiLble vapour either with or without flame at pleasure, and make the wire consume it either with red or wltite heat. I was led to this restilt by (hemming slow colisusion , without flame; and at last .1 found a metal mado theme Lannless conibtations vi•ible." The ntinabcr of travelling Preacher, among the Al rthodistit :s i9llows fn F.ngland . ScoUand . I rdand • 27 hub lAc of Man . , Noarian Isles . . . 7 0;i foreign minions in Asia, 0!C W indies.C...tish America, Newfwindland, SesideSupeinttsocrarics . . • .17 The total number of Nteinhers in ill:: Methedi.: Conn • .cln in Great liritain is . • • in,6l+s In the West Indies, Nova Scotia, other Ineseas: in Great Britain . I'onign :11 irsions Total incase • 2 2, 2 97----21e;5n • 2,005 • 1,200 r bA,