The National Register. — London, England, 1817-06-23 00:00:00

1 .TUNE ;:3. Mr. BENNETT 'unveil for the Ituks an.l 14etzulitttint4 wr thr New Pr 'no or White trocs strelA, whit It were urdervJ to be on tue table.—Adjourned. IVF.DNESDAY, Jwqr 14. The 11 for abolishint: the punishment of puh'iey Whip ping Few4les was read the third time. and passed. SEPrIENVI %I. ACT. Mr. Tlitocuirtst postponed his notice of motion upon the •repeal of the Septennial Ac!, until to tuurrou sir itoILEI. ROMILLY gave notice. lie should to•uiarrow me se fur leave to bring in the till to presclit vek.ntivas ar Teals, !FAWNS toNriNro IN nrAnixr: C %tn. Lord For toroNc, after lamenting that at so late a period, of the evening his Majeste's Nlinisters had not vet appeared in the House, stated he sin - mid—not out of delicacy towards venous so inuttrutise to their duty, which should have led them to their' pl ices long before that halm, for the pnrpose of facilitating the public business—refrain front addressing the House upon a subject of the highest importance to every British subject to be rightly understood ; for upon it, in a great degree, rested the security, safety, and personal con venience of such of his Majesty's subjects as should hereafter be committed upon suspicion of treasonable designs, by his Nlajestv's Government. lie concluded*by moping--" That copies of instructions Is vied by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, relative to the prisoners confined and sent to gaol, pursuant • to the Act for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act, and pre• wonting conspiracy, together with all.letters, answers, and queries, relative to the state and condition of the same, be • laid before the Honse." The ATtunNEV-Gwenu. admitted the Crown had of it- • jell co right by the Prerogative to suspend the law of the, "laud. Ilia it had been rather nufairly stated that now, for, the first time, the Secretary of State had taken upon him to commit suspected persons to close•confinment. This had ; 'long been the usage, even before and since the Revolution.— - Ho should vote agaiu.st the motion upon the grounds comae rated. SAsn'et. ROMILLY never had heard a more dangerous doctrine propounded, by even any persons in the Right Honourable Gentleman's situation, than on the present oc .•asiuu. This was an attempt to set ti:e Crown above Legis lature, and before it should be conceded, some authority should be produced in confirmation of the practice. After some spirited dsscossion between the Sot.rr'rrnit• •CF.NErLAI., Mr. BILOLGII.VII, and Lord CVTI.LREAGn, the gallery was cleared for a division, when there 4ppcurcd— Ayve Zrti—Noes S.)—Majority 29.—Adjourned. THURSDAY, jLt.E 19. copy nmirr. Sir ECERTON Itnrnnts moved, That leave be given to bring in a Bill to alter and amend the s.ttli of the Kiit4, re,pecting books published prior to the reign of QUCCII Anne, so far as regard:, the eleven copies of such publiottion4 to he furnished gratis to the Learned an& Collegiate Bulies, which was lost by a majority of I. Adjourned. FIIMAV,JLNE 20. ruitTitlat strsri.msiox OE 111 E HABEAS CORPCS ACT. Messengers frnt.'thr Lords announced that .their I.ord,liipa had agreed to a Hill for the roirthct apenion of th , .:.llabeas Corptis Lord At.Tiloite exiire►sal a hope that the lint reading of this Bill would be postpudal until after thelleport of the C.,rnmittce on this subject was reorived and thily considered by Mei.lbers. Time alinuld be allowed tbr its consideration, as the measure would cer tainly be discussed in all IL stages. Tut: In: PORT. B. nkTIWRST bronght up the Report of the Seeret Com mittee, to whom the contents of the green bag, laid on the table by lord Castlereagh had been referred. The Report was read by the ( lerk.-1 It is little mere than a second edition of that which emanated tnan the f mon:Once of the Lords—:-nd after staling the stone facts, us proofs °I'M,: insurrection ray spirit of the people, draws the came Atainclusion„ and recom mends a continuance of the law for stopending the liberty of the sibject.l—lt coachules as full, . • " Your Committee have thus given thtir opinion, without any anxiety either to extenuate or exairsterate t:,e real state of the coun try ; 'lra.; they are rot unaware of the doubts that might be thrown cryttie evidence of persons formerly iraplicattllia these crimes, or of •persons exciting their continuance for their private objects.—They feel that in many instances the Language and conduct of such per sors have encouraged- the de<igns which they were only the Maim nients of detecting.—The number of persons implicated in those proceedings multi not be estimated from the exaggerated statements of their own delegates, but it was certain they all looked to London 'tor enoouragoinent and assistance. In the insurrection in Derby byline, the people generally expreaxl the greatest abhorrence of crash outrages. and in all other pluce,; whertaer they were summoned in support of the civil power, they obeyed the call of alacrity, and had of themselves uniformly furnished the most effictual protection to the cou n try.--Yratr Committee however are of opinion, that the trarivillity of the country wouldie put to hazard it the extraordin reuy I , osctlS ested in the Crown sh iuld be no withdrawn. and with every reliance on the loyalty of the people, they do not think it safe, in the present circumetances of the country, to rely for protection on the ordinary powers of the law." Mr. li. Bat HURST moved, that the Report be laid on the tehle, when tonsideruble disciesien took place between lord Castlereagh, Mr. l'onsonby, bir Samuel Homily, Lord it Hamilton the At torney-General, Mr. Brougham. Mr. Canning, Lord Milton, Lord Folkstonc,. &c. &c. respecting the opposition to the Bill is every stag... after whi , lt the Report was ordered to be printed. Thc Remainder of the order; of the day were then dispoied of atal the !louse tatiouteed. The following is etraeted from the Waterford Mirror of June 1.1 :—" - Irtnn an apprehension of scarcity, the South of Ireland has for it week, been in *ferment. .In. Cork, lime rick, Kilkenny, Tealee, 10 tingarvaa, and Water Atrd, the acme effects have almost the SAM" instmit produced the same muses. To Cloture! we arc happy to pay the deserved coin pliment of superior foresight, for having prevented such scenes -hy a timely renewal o$ t:abseriptions ; the too n of Tipperary is, in a great ote,roire, entitled to the same credit, tout it may in general be said that the entire .connty has pet••crved itself front the temptation of disturbance and the contagion of ex ample. The narrative of the week is pretty mock the same for all the ,roues of distorhanee, riot, danitor, subseriptiou, and tranquilityi have every where Cottontail in resolar succession, although not o very where at , equalltriods. The violence has leen greatest at Cork, w here capisl informations have been sworn against 23 prisoucts ; owl wt Limerick where two men were woundesl by mite milisasy. ari se object of the populace was rather •to detain theta to plunder provisions. It seems, however, that, .though provisions may.rate high, still abwn dance, or, at least a full sufficiency es i:43,and, by the season able and of aubsCtiptionb, the zubsistuttc of thesout has been tsgado sure. Tt11; N A TTONA T, TIEGIsTra. WA fLRLOD BRIDGE. lit This noble structure was °paw l on Weilneaday for the public ae atmanualatioa, with as malh splea la sr aid dignity at it 11 pci•Able to give to a ceremony of this description. The pablic•euriosity was excited to the greatest extent, and this,twith the Ramat , of tte weat— ther, caused every . plane within view to be crowded wi t h a ll r a nk s o f persons hams the lugheinto the lowest the Thames also waa covert-al 444, with boats. Colours were hoi,ttal on the steeplo oft &whet; t le Navy standard waved on the centre of Sotti s en* -A party o 'the horse guards, who had been present at the hint *aterloo. went main the bridge about ten o'chwk in thew/ming. A -party of foot guards also attended with their band; and a act talanteit of the Royal horse artillery. with in field pieces. The bridge was deco rated with IS standards elevated. In the .centre, and at each std, sere two Royal standards of Creat Britain; there were, between these,- standards of Russia and the Nesherlands, and the Orange iiii.::: thus representing the nations, the success of whose combiaed armies azcasioled the appellation of Waterloo Bridge. Tic eastern side of the bridge was railed off, and temporary benches were placed to accommodate the spectators. Divisions of toot guards were sta.- done(' near Whitehall, end a Captain's guard was drawn up in the area before Fife-house. Some time utter three the Prince Regent arrived at W'hitchall stairs, atatembarked on board the Royal barge, bearing the Royal tuandard. Tlii: barge was followeti by the Lord Mayor a barge, which attended with his l.ordship, and a 101 l com pany, to conduct the Prince Regent to the bridge. Other barges. belonging to the Admiralty, the Navy, and other public others 1.1::- ceetleu, bearing union flags, or the appropriate flags of the respective departments. The discharge of the artillery commenced on the Ile gent's embarking. and txmunued till he landed at the bottom of the flight of steps on the 9°llth-east side of the bridge, which he ascended. 111, Royal Highness was received in the mast respectful manner by the Committee, and then walked along on .the western side of the bridge, between the Duke of York and the Duke of Wellington. followed by a number of military officers. officers of State, and per. sons of distinction, and a:tended hy a rnilitaty guard of honorer. Ar rived at the north end of the bridge, he descended by the north-west stairs to the Royal barge. The tiring then re-commeneed, and did not terminate till hi, Royal Highness haddamded at Whitehall Wa tergate, and returned to Carlton 'House. After -the Regent had changed his dress, ht went in hi, travelling carriage, Iva Sir B. Bloomfield. to Windsor, to attend the grand ball to be given by the (dEcers of the Royal horse guards. A fair was h e ld a little to the math-cast of the bridge, and called ‘Ynterloo Pair, which is to be held annually on the lath ofJune. We arc happy to say there were few or no accidents, thaugh such multitudes were preaent. The bridge was only six years in building: it is built to granite, on a stratgla line, exactly on alevel with the Casual, where it joins, and • "is fifty feet above the surface of the River Thames. Mr. Rennie was the architect; and the bridge is, beyond compare, the finest in the world. DIMENStnNs OF Tin: ERTIME Feet. The length of the stone bridge within the abutments 1242 Length of the road supported oa :iri:..k arches on the Surrey tide of the river 1250 Length of the toad supported on brick arches on the London side Total length from thc Strand where the building begins, to toe spot in Lambeth where it fdls to the level of the road '2S9O Width of the bridge within the balustrades. Width of pavement or footway, on each side Width of road for horses and caruages Sto Span of each arch 'I hickness - of each pier 23 Clear water-way under the nine arches, which are equal lOBO Number of brick a:elms on the+tArrey 41de 4O Number of ditto an the I.enulon side l6 OF TUE OTHER HRIDGES TN LONDON. Westminster, from wharf to wharf 1223 lllsekfriars A:Of:on-bridge N'atixliall-castiron bridge ...... 860 We observed a lever contrivance st each toll lodge fbe the ruri" e of checking and preventing dud •dishonesty to the trust T kind of iron turn-stilm, which a:tult of only one timeo at a time, touch some machinery which coniumnicates with A clock locked up in an elk box in each tolling house, the index of which is thereby moved. sn that on looking at it the number of erne.; who havel passed is direet!y se.m. Some machinery for a siatidar object is to be applied to tle home and. carriage gates. —— - About loom years ago, as r trailesmari of Leicester was travelling by va coach Iron, that town to Lough'Jormigh, one of his pockets was artfully cut open, and property in drafts and cash notes, to the amount of ALA. stolen thercout. When the coach stopped at Mr. Cooper's, the Grey Horse, Loligh borough, to etraege horses, the loss WAS publicly made known, accompanied with a positive assertion on the part of the tradesman, that g otta one of Isis fellow passengers had com mitted the robbery. Now, ultimo:oi each of. Great went into a room of their own wecord, and sobluitted to being very strictly searched, yet the 1U00.!V wind not be found. The mystery is, wowever,at length developed :—A man now tin der sentence of death in London, seat fora person intimately acquainted with Mr. Cooper, and confessed his leaving coin mined the offence in question, adding, that he actually was true of the said passengers, and that he contrived to secret the notes in nn out-budding just belay: the search took place. The Irish Papers give a most distressing representation of, the condition of Ireland, through scarcity of food. Dis turbances are breaking out in every county, and-stores and : mills plundered of corn and Pour. Crke'Government has is. stied a noel:l:nation, dated the .10th imam'', exhorting all masters of. families to abstain as much as possible from the constunption of oatmeal anti potatoes, and also in feeding their horses, to lessen manner the supplies of oats. film pedestrian match at Wormwood Setubbs, between Eaton and Raker, concluded on Wednesday, when taker ; beat hi. opponent by nine milts and •throe einarters. Eaton nevertheless walked an till he,ba<kanpleted Xlie 2000 macs. Saturday, a poor fellow, Aunt 311 y ears °rage, was going through Stoke Newington, in search of employment, and being swats through hunger awl want, sat down at the gate of Mr. I Itigles house ; king spoken to, he sold he was dying, and had scarcely shrank half a glass of water nefore he ex pired. A icostsitaprecedented fall has taken-place in the price of rye coru,..in France. It fell in one day from 36 francs to 6:i per cwt. The price of corn was lower in the Dublin market Saturday week. A very minierons meeting of the inhabitant; of Kent, con vened by the }hell sheriff, was held at Maidstone on Weenies-. day, when Earl Thanet moved. and Mr. Rider seconded, l'e titions to both Houses of 'Parliament, against any further Sus'pewsion of the Habeas Corpus Act. Sir Hobert Wileon, in an able speech, supported the petitions, which w ere car ried with only one dissentient voice.—tiir F. linatchbitll and Sir William 'Geary, the two County Members, were bulb absent. The office of Adjutant General for Militia,l'uluntoers, &c. will be abolished from the 24th inst. HOME CHICUIT.--SUMMER ASS,IZEIL Ikfore Lord Fileuhorough and Mr. Justice Pan, IfertfordsAire—Tlutostisy. July Y 4, at Hertford. Ezarx--Monday, Jaly 28,,at Chelmsford. /Pat—Monday August 4, as. Maidstone. Siener—Santrevr„ tamest e, at Lewes. 2ltvgtutl3, at CgqYciOn• 1...0k INTELLIGENCE. COURT OP AlhiG'3i BENCH, Jury. IJ. SWIM OF THT EITCHXN. Mr. Ma: itt i t i m aged y e a to thew mum. why a person of the fame Or , ea. children - 001e King's {:lichee, who had been sot be discharged out 0 custody. There were St* Call! 01111.101601 t his client had served frwa the lixth up tot he wad. mid wee IS to be called on taw, at any time, by hilt Majesty'. Mr. Justice llayloy--•• What Cs the suety he basis Seem, need where is it; at one at the Royal Palaces? Mr. Marryutt—" 11r In: w attend ut state eateeationtaals at Pt. James '3 Palace. and soimtimes at Windsor. Sods a warrant a5l - granted. JUNE 18. rim EINCI V. WILLIAM R CW/L. Mr. If one, who refused last 'Tertn to plead to three criminal in.. formations, flied against him for publishing blasphemy. was this day brought up and asked by Mr. Dealtry, whether he was now reads , to plead? At first he mati&sted a similar determination as he did List Term. lord Ell,mbomugh observed to him, that if he did not plead ha would be remanded, and judgment entered up against him. The defendant then pleaded Not Guilty, but 'wed, that he eo. pleadzd by form and constraint, and protested against the proceed togs of the late 4‘ttorney General, as t ar as therrelated to Ifni, as being illegal and unconstitutional. Lord Ellenboroui,4l—•' 'flan protest, and go about yew busi ness." lie was then infieme.i that he would berried at the Sittings after Term, at CuildttalL lie was courepsl out of Court. in the cuatiati* of the tipstril: PROJECTED INSURRECTION IN YORII3IIIRg. On Friday morning, the 15th inst. sevend ofitbe Delegatts. toPfs'- •ther with the informer, met at a public house in Leeds, atol proceed.- ed in the direction of Thornhill Leeds, where they bad no sooner arrived at the house of rendezvous than they were sierounded by a detachment of Yeomanry Cavalry, and taken into custody. The pri -.toners were immediately conveyed to AVakciiekt, and lodged in the Court-homie, where they were examined, as already sztenti*ed. The, examination was private. About eight o'clock the 'liftmen were re- : mended to the }louse of Correctiom.for further examination. The Wowing eircuir.gance has since .transpirol .reopettbg the above plot. Mr. Oliver. who had been introduced to these Ultra'Re formers by Mitchell a delegate, now in custody, as a person dearrang their confidence, and not only dispased.to.communieste to them in. teresting irdomiation as to the state of the country, but able ba them the most effectual assistance; thus recommended, hest armed him.elf of their unbounded conEdenee. This perms is Odd . to have represented to-these credulous me tint all the people the inettopolia were favourable to a complete change in the Government; • that every thing wa.s organized, and that it was absolutely settled. ; that on the night preceding the trial of the gate primuess-,the night of the Sth of June a gcneral rising would take place. On another occasion. Mr. Oliver told them, that he,(Oliver) was one of a committee of five that effected the-escape of young Watson; - and that if Thistlewood had had equally prudent counsels, he would . al,o have escaped. In fact, the whole tenor of Oliver's conversation went to shew,that he had traitorous designs, and that be was inlaague with traitors. But it since appears, to his great conetrmationmod tllll. fusion, lie was recognized by Mr. John Didtettson, who had seen him at Dewesbury, and it turns out, that he has been employed by. Government to detect, but not to excite-treason. ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, 4v. An instance of barbarity, acarcely paralleled, occurred at Haat 111WI, a few days since. A female child, named White, scarcely four years of-age..left its parents about three o'clock is the afternoon. bat nothing dangerous as to its fate was apprehended until the even ing. As mien, however, approached, .anmety and inquiry increas ed, but ne account could be obtained ofthe infant's retreat. It wan at tint hoped that the little wandered' hod taken refuge in some neigh_ bowing house where it was known ; Moaner the most diligent wank as as ma le. every exertion fails! in gaiitiog theidtaircd intelligence. As lateas twelve o'clock, the crier went from one extremity of the town to the other, proclaiming the circumstance, but sill without tidings of the ankh At length shocking.to relate, on the *Bow ing morning the iufarg was tonntl in nearly atlitiless state, stowed in a confined locker, in a fishing-boat, on the beach. The door or slide of this recess was made fast. aud a piece of canvas thrown upon the outside. Upon examining the child, it was futend thcatifully bruised and disNpued; sevestilof the marks, no doubt, occasioned as well by its own struggles-as by the blows it hadoceived. The infant wore dogs, and these were dragged from her 0w5....-a eirecto3- stUnee, however, whichled to the disoavery of the perpetrator; of this infamous cruelty. .They preyed or be two boys, one seven and the other nine pans of age. Upon the latter was faun d one of the rim's tak.tr flow the child; and on being accused of the aline, they ac.- knowledged having dipped the child into the sea, and afterwards crammed it into the place described, hut denied beating it. 'lire in fant was from home twenty-two hours, and without food, eighteen of these it had beetaconfund in the locker. The child, by on the*/ aid, is recovering, and the young barbarians have been taken before a magistrate, who has ordered them at be punished. On Tuesday John Hohnes, alias Jonathan•Wild.•Riehaad &teen. Thomas Davis, and Joseph Holland, three well-known notorious. charocteN. underwent a long examination before Richard Annie. Esq. at the Public Office, Bow-street, charged with breaking opal the Haymarlug.Theetre and stealing therefrom a variety of articles. the property of Messrs. Liman, Monis, and Winston. They woe fully committed. Wednesday . William Cure and William Holl, who were Appre hended some time since in I.ondon, un charges of high trauma . were conveyed from the House of Correction to the-Secretary of State's (Nice; also Stephen Casey and George Britten, who were appre hended at Gnonwertd, in company with Thistltwood. A man naintd Nluggeridge was also taken from Bridowell, on the stone charge. They underwent examinations beibte Lord Sidmoutla th e Law Officers, and Fir N. Conant, after which they were all dis- Lharged out of custody.—The same day, Mr. Keene, the taylor. wbohas been con fi ned sometime in,the Tower, on a char's of highs treason, was discharged nom his cciatinernent ; the Grand Jury not having found a true Dill agabut him.• His discharge was stgeed by six Privy Coutisellois. that :being the. lumber Ileecrsary in mu l l CIVC• CUILD-SEEALING.-.-M7l. ifarriet NfdylttUrr. (as rue calla nee. self) who stole the child of Mr. Porter, the butcher, near the Elegt.res Park, and was twins' at Chichester, has undergone a haat ess oal,, nation at MalibOTMlgh-street. The prisoner, who has ratht.r t hand. some fwe,-was dressed in a ilacosn.voloured cloth peheiso. With in ' Fror.eli bonnet and black veil, and her age is thirty live. Tha per. sons who conveyed her from Loudon, through Croydaa, Brighton. &e. were exammed, and the rasuit was her. camas s;1 fur sialzt.thc. Old Bailey. 'i'HC siLvgß G 03.-011 Thursday last the Silver O. pre sented to the trades of Dumfries by James VI. was4hot for,. on the Wu' zbolm, and won (loin the firmer pssfessor„Jamen Muir, blacksmith, by George Dualor, caliisetleaker.— We arty suety to add that a fatal standout occurred on Ow deld.— By dm discharge of o musket bad Into aisfor.tustately intsusted to she hands of a.careLsssloy,treu very. premising lads, about sixteen year& of a g e, were eery dangerously. woututed; one of wrath lbe e(Sir.-Loineuter, sidles, Ilk Dumfries, died aut mong+Si the ether. hoeula. Nuoyers )99