The National Register. — London, England, 1822-02-17 00:00:00

COURSE OF EX Amslerdam, 12 10 C. F. Ditto, at sight, 12 8 Rotterdam, It 10 Antwerp, 12 7 Hamburgh, 37 6 Altona, ST 7 Maria, 3 days' sight, 25 60 Ditto. 25 00 Bandeaux, 4 25 00 Frankfort on the Maine, 156 Petersburgh, 0 0 U. Vienna, Ef. Flo. 10 18 Trieste, Ef. Flo. 10 18 Madrid, 36—Cadiz. 36 Bilboa,3si—Bareelona,3si Wink Stork S per Cent. Red. 7711 3 per Cent. Console 771 31 per Cent. 4 per Lent. 97j 5 per Cent. Navy 106 L<<ug Anti. 19i • PRICE OF STOCKS. Oninium 0. Imp. 3 per Cent. 11111 M Bonds 11 India Stork 2388 Exchequer iilll4 ss. prem. Cons. for Ac. 71{ Lottery Tickets VIE NATIONAL REGISTER. ILontion SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17• In the House of Commons on Wednesday last Sir Robert Wilson brought forward his promised motion, with a view to promote an enquiry into his conduct on the 14th of August and the days pre c :ding it—he did this in a style of candour and fairness that attracted the admiration even of those who, to retain their seats, were unhappily in so debased a situation as to be obliged to pronounce the monysyllable " No" with their mouths, while their hearts would willingly have vociferated "AYE, " and with a degree of coolness and ability that has placed him higher than he before stood in the esti mation of all these who have read his speech atten tively ; it was of extreme length, and our limits have obliged us to curtail it, but we have preserved the points, and all who do not belong to the majority which voted against his motion will agree with us, that a grosser case of cruelty and oppression was never made out- , -that he was dismissed either with out any evidence at all, or upon that which was confessedly fouaded in falsehood and perjury—that the parties giving that evidence were shielded by Government from the visitation due to so dan e.oug an offence against the laws of God, of Eng gland, and of Morality—and they will probably be inclined to think with us, that Sir Robert Wilson, was punished in truth and reality for the double crime of having opposed a lavish, bad, extravagant government, and having commiserated and endea voured to alleviate the sufferings of a persecuted, injured, calumniated and deserted Wife, who was his Queen. Lord Palmerston, and Lord London derry, took post behind the phantom of PREIIO.• OATIVE. We know not if it extend so far, but we are surd if such be the case, it ought to be lessened as affording a most dangerous intlaence, while mi litary and naval officers, are allowed seats in the I-louse of Commons :—by this arbitrary, unjust ex ercise of this right, if it be a right, Ministers have drawn down upon his Majesty a degree of odium lie ought not to labour under—some persons dare to think it was the result of petty, personal revenge on the part of the King, fur the part Sir Robert NVl:son took in the Queen's affair, but this we do not, we cannot, we will not believe; and even if such had been the case the evident duty of Ministers was to have resisted so degrading a sacrifice of the dignity of a King of England, and if their resistance had been ineffectual the alternative presented to them was resignation of those places they could no longer hold with propriety. For six months past all the hirelings of Government, the Morning Post, the Nen; Times, the Courier, and last, though not le:est in infamy, the John Bull, have been dealing in myste rious grandeur on the subject—" We could an if we would"—" An if we list to speak," with a long list of similar ambiguities—which, if stripped of all their villanous clothing, come to an assertion that Sir It.. Wilson had been guilty of high-tr:ason, and that if he were not executed fur it, he would have to thank the loving mercy of his Majesty's Ministers—noN, • • ; THE NATIONAL REGISTER atter all, what is the extent of his crime, according to the statement of those Ministers themselves?— Why,that perceiving the soldiers were firing unneces sarily and without orders on an unarmed multitude, he reminded them that by such conduct they were disgracing the laurels they had gained in the battle of Waterloo—thus by his intervention the lives of hundreds were probably saved, and for that inter vention he was dismissed, after 29 years service, and against all rules of honesty and of the army, robbed of the money he had paid for many of his commissions. Col. Cavendish took umbrage at Mr. Lambton's call ing the massacres at Cumberland-gate " murders," and asserted that the Coroner's Verdict, which estab lished the fact was obtained by perjury—this we positively deny and dare contradiction—if any sub ornation of perjury, or perjury itself took place, it was on the part of the officers, the soldiers, and those who wished to justify them to the world— can our readers forget that the man who was own servant to Lieutenant Gore, could not tell if be was 20 or 50 years of age—or, whether his hair was black or white, or ran they forget that Mr. Adolphus, aware perhaps of the existing proof of another falsehood, was prudent enough to antici pate it, by saying that he found—" that an officer who it had been sworn was in Barracks, the whole of the 14th of August, had been out two or three times that day"—yet there are the men who can mind up and declare, that the verdict of " Wilful Murder" against a Lifeguardsman was obtained by perjury ! !! Rumour has been extremely busy for some days past, relative to the expected proceedings in the House of Commons on Friday last. Every body said that a Message from the King would on that night be delivered—some surmised that his Majesty had been advised to defray the expenccs of the Co ronation out of his private funds, or out of the im mense property which came into his possession on the death of their late Majesties—others went so far in the wonderful path, as to assert that Ministers had prevailed on his Majesty to renounce one-fourth of the Civil List, and to declare that all his officers, even to the highest, should submit to a similar re duction. For ourselves, we had no such expectation —we do not look to " gather Figs from Thorns, or Grapes from Thistles," and the event proves we were right—the Marquis of Londonderry, and his lionour•able colleagues, are too much " children of this generation,' to allow their master's enjoyments or their own to be lessened by a reduction of in come, and therefore the minor, the inferior classes of locusts only are to be contributive to the retrench ments projected. The whole of the reduction in tended in the army, navy, and miscellaneous expen diture, is about two millions, of which the general cry fur retrenchment, and the King's promise to for ward it, has produced a diminution of the Civil List of 150,0001 only ! The public faith is to be bro ken by obliging the holders of Five per Cent. Stock to accept of an interest of Four per Cent., and four millions arc to be borrowed of the Bank, to enable Gurcrnnient to lend money to the different parishes which are now oppressed with poor's rates, taking their rates in pawn, as security—the plan is before our readers in abstract, if we add, that a reduction of one shilling per bushel is to take place in the duty on Malt.—Taking it altogether, never was " the mountain in labour" more coin plettly realised than by this din: ncil production of the present Cabinet. No Charlatan ever atte;:iptLa to gull the surrounding rabble from his cart tad of Nostrums, than are the cheated by this contemptible exhibition of Ways and Means. None of the useless lumber is to be cut away—all the Leeches are yet to suck at the reduced system of pour John Bull—the distresses of the Country, the ruin of the Agriculturist, the general appeal of the people cannot prevail upon Government, to lop off a single branch of the Sinecure List, nor to reduce in the seventh year of peace a s.:1! :e lay Lord of the Admiralty. • - ;RANGE, Fee. 15. Seville, 354—Gibraltar,30) Leghorn, 47—Genoa, 434 Malta,43—Venice, 27 00 Naples, 39i—Lisbon, 50 Oporto, 50—Ballia,50 Rio Janeiro, 41 Palermo, 119 Dublin, Bfr per cent. Cork, 9 per cent. Foreign gold in bars,3l. 17s. 10)d. per oz. New Doubloons New Dollars Silver in barvilantlard, 49. llirl. 53 ~- The Duke and Duches of return to England, te e reside there constantly. And an application is to be made to Parliament for an in crease of income ! are to We observe an advertisement in The Mock Time: calling upon all those to whom the late Mrs. Jordan was indebted, to send the particulars of their de mands to the SOLICITOR OF TILE TREASURY. Our readers need not be informed that this Lady was the mother of Camel Fitz-Clarence, of Major Fitz- Clarence, and of a lot of Misses Fitz-Clarence.— The advertisement in question is not explicit as to the reason for desiring such an account to be ren dered, but we presume that Ministers, after pension ing all the Duke of Clarence's impure progeny, mean to carry into effect the promise of economy they put into the King's mouth at the opening of Parliament, by paying the debts contracted by their mother. Really we think a part of the arrears so infamously granted to the Royal Duke might have been devoted to the discharge of these debts, parti. cularly if it be considered under what disgraceful pecuniary circumstances the connection was said to exist. MARRIED.•••By special licence, on Monday last, by the Bishop of Norwich, at his house in Upper Grosvenor Street, Grosvenor Square, the Right Honourable the Earl of Albemarle, to Charlotte, the youngest daughter of the late Sir Henry I lunloke, Bart. of Wingcrworth, Derbyshire.—The perform ance of the ceremony was as private as possible, the party present being composed only of the near rela tives of the bride and bridegroom. The lady was given away by her uncle, T. W. Coke, Esq. M.P., the Ladies Keppel and Miss Sidney being the bride. maids. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. —sow— We have recorded our regret that the perverted taste of the town will allow the performance of the best of Shakspeam's plays to take place before empty-benches, while a Melo Draw, or any splendid exhibition, will fill thehouse to a certainty—such, however, being the case the Proprietors are right in conforming their arrangements to the vitiation, and on Thursday night they produced a new Operatic Drama, in three acts, called llfoitThac or the Children of the Mist, for the first time. It is founded upon one of the celebrated Scotch novels. The principal interest of the piece arises front the famous contests in which the Earl of Montrose and the Marquis of Argyle are enraged to opi.usition to each other. The Earl is induced to send eneCoptain Dap fly, to request a truce. The Captain, instead of being rec.:lied - as an ambassador, is confined in d dungeon, where he falls over another I prisoner, a nd finds that his fellow lolger is one of the boldett partisans of his master. While they are engaged in conversation toe Min vii* of Argyle enters in disguise at a private door, aael afters both liberty upon vile contlitioas. The Captain knows through his disguise, and seising him by the throat, swears that death shall be the consequence of resistance. The Marquis attee having given the two prisoners the means of escaping efatuany, is stripped of his cloak by them and double ironed in the prig ri, where he is left. As soon as t he Marquis is relea-sed from the awkward situation, a pursuit is commenced, anti a desperate bat • tie is fought which ends in the defeuat of the pureuers. :he piece dramatised adheres as closely as possible to the text of 7:to the novel. Sonic of the scenes arc so amusing as almost to make us regret that the action should be interrupted by a song; bat taking the drama altogether, mus.c may be said to be ;ntlispen sably necessary. Captain y, a character played by Liston, was by far the most effective in the piece. and it was played with mach humour by that admirable comedian. who was particularly successful in the scene with the Mud-pis of.-Irgylt• in the prison, as well as hi that in which he is a•oureel tnat he shall be hang:.l by the neck and decapitated. Abbot, Connor, and Yates, were allotted parts in which they had opportunities of chewing their skiU ; and Mrs. Faucit shone in a sort of Amazon, the wire of the fellow prisoner of the Captain. Miss Stephens had more to sing than to say, and she did so to the delight of the house. 1 t is but justice to say that in the first song she astonished the dt.i. thence with one of the most enchanting pieces of titeLxiy we have ever heard. It is, like most of the tones, set to a Scotch air, but it is more simple, and better adapted to the charming laboars of this exquisite singer, than any of the rest. So decided was the success of this piece, aided Ls it is by the beamiral smcl of horses, that the Theatre has overti 'wed every night sime, e:::1 the bills announce that 6* it will be acted every everalg further no..ce." A petition, signed by upwards of 130 respectable householders, having been . presented Ito the magic. trates of the town of Hertford, complaining ut the bad quality of the beer vended by most of the pub lieans in that town, the mayor called a meetitig of the aldermen, on Wednesday last, to take the mat• ter into consideration, when samplcs of beer from several public-houses were prudaced, which fully sustained the prayer of the pt:titioa. After a great deal of conversation between the corporate bud)• and some of the petitioners, the mayor (le.:bind am: wished it to be underFtoA by all the publicans ri the town, that if they were :tot in future A:1 ppliCa by their landlords, the brewers. with good whole some beer, according to the present ptu-e of malt and hap, such as their customers approved o,rat y (themagistntte) would grant the inn ttepers liet h;cs to free houses in any part of the town wUure tuLy could get the same. • Several distressing eases of typhlic 11;ver.have cuffed iateiy in Perth ;—in ui,e Ninny the lads; r,' mother, and e;deq son, have fallen victims 1, , it, and lour ciinrcn, yet ~te ail danger:Ll ly - ~r ......,........