The National Register. — London, England, 1820-06-04 00:00:00

price of *lode. Bank Stock Osmium 0. 3 per Cent. Red. 805 lmp. .3 per Cent. 8 per Cent. Cons. 695 India Bonds 12s. the. 35 per Cent. 775 India Stock 4 per Cent. 88 Exchequer Bilk 4s. di.. 6 per Cent. Navy 1045 Cons. for Ac. 705 Loug Atllle 18 Lottery Tickets X2B 148. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 101111011. SUNDAY. JUNE 4 Thursday another Messenger arrived with letters from the Queen, end bad an interview with Mr. Brougham in the Serjeant at Arms' room in the House of Lords. Her Majesty reached Ville Neuve sur Yonne, which is about seventy miles from Dijon, on Monday morning, at three o'clock. From thence her Majesty dispatched a Courier with letters to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, Lord Li verpool, and Lord Melville. In the letter to Lord Liverpool, her Majesty has requested his Lordship to inform her what residence is prepared in England fur her reception ; and in her Majesty's letter to Lord Melville. she requests that his Lordship will send a yacht to Dover this day, to be in readiness to proceed to Calais to convey her to England. It is thus evident the Queen intends coming to this country immediately. On this and other matters respecting her Majesty, there are many vague and contradictory rumours in circulation, we have only to observe, for the information of the public, that what we have stated is the latest authentic intelli gence that has been received from the Queen. We have received New York Papers to the 29th of April, and Boston Journals to the Ist ultimo.— The Baltimore Patriot states, on the authority of a letter from Washington, thst the negociation respect ing the Floridas has terminated, and in a manner so unsatisfactory, that the Spanish Minister was to leave the capital in a few days. New York Papers, hoivever, of the 27th of April, assert, on the con trary, that just as the Senate was about adjourning, a message was received from the President of the United States, in which was enclosedthe treaty with Spain, as ratified by the Spanish Government ; that the Senate adjourned without making any order on the subject. It was, however, expected to be the first business brought forward on the following day. The matter at present rests entirely on report, but the next New York Papers that arrive will furnish us with the fact. Wednesday being the day named by the the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Liver pool, for filling up the lists for Exchequer Bills to the amount of £7000,000, a considerable number of persons were collected round the doors of the Bank before they were opened, anxious to realise tke considerable profit attached to this kind of spe culation. At ten o'clock the door was opened, and the throng was so great, and all were so eager to gain admittance that the doors of the chief Ca shier's office were actually forced off their binges, and the lists were immediately completed. Exchequer bills have in consequence fallen considerably, but it has had no effect upon Consols. MR. HUNT. -Mr. Hunt has addressed a letter to the Reformers of England, Ireland, and Scotland, dated from Ilehester Gaol, in the County of Somer set, May .8, 1820. Having stated his arrival at the place of his destination, and the spirit with which lie continues to be animated, he observes,— " It is a curious coincidence, and deserves to be recorded, that. during the early part of the protec torate, one of my forefathers, Colonel Thomas Hunt, Was imprisoned in this very gaol, and here sentenced to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. for having raised, clothed, equipped, and mounted a troop of horse in the county of Wilts, for the purpose of making war against Cromwell, who, iu this instance, it appears, was more humane than some of his suc cessors, for he mitigated the sentence to that of his being simply beheaded. However, my great grand father contrived to escape out of the prison, habited in the clothes of one of his sisters, who came to visit him the night before his intended execution, and remaining in his bed till the next morning, he was enabled to land safe in France, where he joined, THE NATIONAL REGIVIT.R. and remained faithful to his Pr.nce, the Second Charles, and returned with him os his restoration. During his absence, Cromwell not only imprisoned his sister for two years in this same gaol, but he confiscated the whole of his property and estates, which the Monarch never restored when he became King. On the 17th day of May, I B‘o. in the first year of the reign of George the Fourth, I, Henry Hunt, the lineal descendant of the said Colonel Thomas Hunt, was incarcerated in the same gaol, under a sentence of the Court of King's Bench of two years and six months' imprisonment, and then to find security for my good behaviour for five years, myself in one thousand pounds, and two sureties in five hundred each, for •• • • 4 '. Thus you see, my friends, that an individual of one gene ration was condemned to suffer an ignominious death for being a royalist ; but having escaped from the power of Cromwell, his property and estate , were confiscated; and that an individual, a descendant of the same family, of another generation, is now sen tenced to be immured in a dungeon, in the very same gaol, and held to * • • for five years longer, for having advocated the right of the people to meet and petition for redress of grievances and restoration to the fundamental practices of the British Consti tution." Proceeding then to place on record the names ofall the parties that have been concerned in the prosecution against himself, and the other defen dants in this affair, which he says, is the principal object of his address, and adverting to the actual penalties to which he has been doomed, and to the nature of the sentence he migld have received, sup posing the Jury had found him guilty of the conspi. racy, and the other serious charges in the indictment, he adds; " But my friends you will think that this is the very language of complaint which I have deprecated. I mean, however, no such thing; even under such dreadful punishments, the noble mind, conscious of its own rectitude, would have borne torture without being subdued into complaint." Atter some further observations he proceeds to state, that, in imitation of Napoleon, he is about to write the history of his own life. VINDICTIVE PROCEEDINGS AOAINST SUNDAY NEWSPArEIL VENDORS. —ems— A short time ago, several informations were lodged against Mr. Bereeford, Mr. King, and others, Sunday Newspaper Vendors, residing in Chancery Lane, in the Liberty of the Rolls, for selling Newspapers on a Sunday. The informations were laid under * certain Act of Parlia ment, passed in the reign of King Charles the U., for preventing persons from following their usual avocations and ordinary business on the Lord's Day. Mr. Beresford, strongly contended that the tinnday Newspaper Vendors, did not come within the meaning of the Act; inasmuch, as there never bail been known such a Publieatiou, as a Sunday Newspaper at the time the Act hail been passed: nor was any such paper ever published for 100 years or upwards after the passing that Act of Parliament:— Therefore lie contended, that lite Act of Parliament could not contemplate a thing that never existed, nor was at the time the Act passed ever likely to exist. The Wor thy) Magistrates stated, that they would take time to eon eider; and in the meantime, consult the Secretary of State upon the sii*ct, and ordered the parties to attend in a furinight's time to hear the decision,- On Tuesday last, according to summons served upon themfor that purpose, they attended the Magistrates, accompanied by Mr. Harmer, Solicitor, who very handsomely offered his ser vices gratuitously upon the occasion. Mr. Serjeaid Sel- • lon delivered the decision of the Magistrates iu a long and very able address, and stated, that however reluct antly he did it, lie felt compelled to line the defendants under the Act of Parliament. The defendants considered it a very hard case, and each of them refused to pay the tine, inquiring if they could not appeal against the cola victims at the sew , ' . Mr. Harmer informed them, they could nut, as these was no appeal fur them moiler the Act ; bus if they levied fur the time, they had their tight or action i.zainst the officer levying, tur a trespass,- which they pledged themselves to bring immediately, it the fine was levied. Mr. Hamlet very may, contended realm I the conviction, as being contrary to the Act of ' Puliuwent itself] —fur the words of Ilie• Act were,— " Following their ordinary occupations." He con tended, the selling of Sunday Newspapers, was nut fol lowing of their ordinary occupations, !is their oidiriary business 'night lie dune within the six days; but iu this case it was entirely different, for these were Smith') Newspapers, and could nut be sold on any oilier day; also, that the proprietors of the ilitlettut Smiths! , repels were smiler the necessity of giving bunds fur thy din payment of the duties upon the Sunday Newspapers es- chisively After arguing the subject in the must aide and !rained manlier, the worthy magistrates stated, that however reluctant to their feelings, 'bey were nut inclined to alter their decision. Upon the close of the busiut ss, a Mr. BA Y LI E, IN I , PECTOKOF P•v EMIG NTS & LAW-WRITER, lILLL YARD, CA REV STR ELT, dad who w.,s the person 1010 prayed for ilia decision of lie- magistrates. begged to know, whether I lie selling of every paper did not emelt'. lute a dtsuucl utrtllte ? Mr. Kismer seplie,l, that lie was asli.offed to hear such an obsei vation tail 1101111 less lips, obsei stn.!, the pi tweeting*, in his °pink" were illegal and vicilietiee. If the Committee of toe Ltherty of the Kull-. I I ilicuisrlsea igjorrd by the defendants selling of n,papera, why not go boldly and intik vsly furw oid, .e.,1 petition life House of Common*, which was open Iu 11,. III? Hr concluded, by advising the defendants to reset the ploceedifigs, and handsomely offering his advice dud .13313;411We glaillitUUSl, to conduct their Cause. We are harpy to state, that Mr. Grattatt's health con tinues as well as can be expected after his journey. The most distinguished characters in the empire have been to inquire aim his health since his arrival is tows. 181 JUNG'S BENCH, SATURDAY, JUNE 3. THi KIVO ♦. THB RIM. WYATT COTTLE. A Rule was granted last Term in this cause, callin; upon the defendant, who is Rector of the parish of Choi - sey in Berkshire, to show cause why a writ of manda mus should not i►sue to compel him to restore one John Huggins to the office of parish clerk. The Rule had been granted on the affidavit of Huggins, which stated, that on the 22d of Judy, 1819, he received a notie,. from the defendant, intimating that in consequence of his having permitted improper persons to enter into the church, and connived at the removal of a stone effigy from thence, it was the defendant's intention to remove him f the office of clerk. On these grounds the Rule Nisi had been granted Mr. Nollan now showed cause. He stated, that he held in his hand the affidavits of several persons well acquainted with all the transactions which. had taken place, and which completely itegat;ved the state ments of Huggins. He relied chiefly on the circumstance of Huggins having gone to the defendant on the Sunday morning upon which he was expelled, and demanded his wages. The defendant replied, that that was not 3 proper day, but that he should s'•ttk with iiin► upon the morow. Huggins expressed himself satilietl with this, and upon being read out in the Citurch, lie quietly vacated his seat. This, the Learned'" Counsel contended, atiumined to a verbal resignation. • Mr. C mins followed on the saint side. The Cnief Justice was not satiafieJ that sufficient notice had been given to Huggins, or that he had been expelled in aroper manner. The other Judges con urred, anti the rule was made absolute.—Mandamus granted. CARLISLE ELECTION. The following is an extract of a letter from Carlisle, dated, May 31, JIM:— " I transmit you the conclusion of the Poll for this • City, which, during its continuance, has excited great interest. Theiconiest was fairly between corruption and incorniption. Mr. James the man of the people, is wIlso• rough Reformist ; . whilst his opponent's political prin ciples may easily be divined, from his being attempted to lie thrust upon our ancient city by the Ertl Losisle„ who is wril known to be one of the greatest. borough mongers in the kingdom. Nlr. James was chaired this afternoon • amidst the enthusiastic cheersof ninny thou sands of spectators. The windows of the houses were • filled with elegantly dressed females, who displayed blue favours, and heightened nut a little the brilliant melte. In the evening a very large party of gentlemen, dined together- to commemorate the occasion ; and, to crown the whole, lam pkiiiti to infant' you that it W intruded to have a Grand Blue Dinner, few the purpose of enter. • inginte a subscription to indemnify Mr. James for his necessary expenses. Against the next general election, I believe it is determined to propene two independent Members , forit is obvious that the majority of voters who have returned Mr.. James, could, with as much fa cility, oust Sir James Graham, the Lowther nominee.", FINAL CLOSE OF THE POLL.—MAY 31. William James. E59....468_ I Sir Philip Musgrave-3W Majority for Mr. Jama...36. SOCIETY FOR TII ENCOURAGEMENT OF ARTS, MAINUFACTU'RES, AND COMMERCE. The distribution of the rewards of this Society took place on. Tuesday, for the first time, at the Argyll Rooms, and perhaps never since the institution - Was formed was thecereitiony graced with so much rank, fashiun, and beauty. Soon Mier twelve o'clock, his •Royal Highness the Duke of Susses, President, entered the room, and though the company seemed absorbed in the contemplation of the different performances of the candidates in polite arts, which were appended to the walls, and those of mechanics, which covered the table, a universal expres sion of joy beamed in the countenance of all. His Royal Highness, whose minority of disposition cannot be too highly estimated, most gracefully, we may say, benig nantly, hawed to the company as he passed to his Glair, and the business of the day now commenced. - Mr. Atkin, the Secretary, here read a most classically and highly interesting ezord.Ul4l on the rise and progress of ate innitittiou, very particularly referring to its commencement. The premiums were theft presented. His Royal Highness, tin several occasions obverted the exertions of the candidates, and was particularly complimentary to those (and we observed several) who had urea before him on former occasions in the same eltaNcters. To Mr. J. Perkins, who was hotionred by three of the Society's medals, for inveutions of the first enwie (lattice, he was store than usually happy. Thc candi date alluded to is a most i1161110t14 American, and his Royal Highness observed, that as President of She Society, he highly participated in tne oal iunal which had et &need itself tm the occasion; that the rewards here bestowed, pinned, that men of science were happy to recognize Awl CllCUUlit'e the satuequalification, be it Irmo wow c y ti iii i,ht. To Mr. ‘Vitt. Hardy .:1410111er ingenious mechanic, pre vious or handing him sir l.rennurn , he observed, he felt die hi nest graidicatiort tit theet;Lag him there, and he knew trim to tie one tit nit: tin", closet and lumen workmen in the world. Ills Royal Higliness eulogized the company for their attendance, telicitously Muer% ing, that the society had gained a great paint, if the distribution Lad ensured tile smiles of Ladies, as thuse Gentlemen, in all probtt- .I,lllv, who weie not already members, wouhl serve the institution by UCCOIIIIIIg so, iu COLLII , IIIIICIII to 111411 feelings. A well selected band of music occasionally relieved the ceremony, and those gen t l eme n w ho officiated as • " managers, did every thing to contribute to the gratification 4a f the dal.