The National Register. — London, England, 1818-07-20 00:00:00

','l VIM 10 that tlisagli anxious osabey man could ne for ti fret nsdr , it weeld mittosemardru. ; ite an. , convinced. that iisit exist e d. If" the prefellt pricead +mites iris, reduce the vriceof porter stall was sae .I) one penue per pot. liattnes etimlentiliel the praalee of drawing general cone : a s,,RsirlMS IS parienlar feet. and paid, th a t b o wl ,. six yearg. Only one e had taken pleee among the great brewers, it was :lights/ censurable to excite a general obloquy against all the members of at most respecaalda trade. said, that the pohlientt's profit was only on e troll y •tot. the but wer only rei eit,ed a 1011/lit 1 , 0 c." bill rid Ife, fully aluitteil, haters., r, that the licensing sysiesu to be rrv isrJ , n od th a t no brewer tiltould be allossed to hold tie lease of a public Var the bake of the pitblieans, who hail embarked 10,001.0191. of property in their trade, a •i inaltattre. W. 14 icary.; far, a.• the l.isr stood, iti:y 'erre put out of the protecliun of a British jury', (great applause.) Mr. Pitt said that dlte publican.; awl all other persnes ought to be made intlepirittient of the arbitrary power of the igistrates. He begged• to say, that :he was a enrilettile, eatd heliatl !taped that this Inivicess would has e brio' token 1 ilita emisideration at the 'limier yesterday. lie was not pitlaican, hut he held the lease•of a Public house.; and, he. rinse he w:ts a Ilardettite, -what had -been said to hint ?—.' /Wits, truly, a I•ittler, •the would mention I,ix mime) Mr. Wassitine, of the Atlelphi,.ltad interfered het ween him an:l his :Ind told hint that lie most not ex peet to 'sav e leis h-' , rense renewed. (Cries of shame.) Y 1.4, lue ems toltiato ; and the reasonassigned cis, hitt:4ll , C he tens a rank litirdetitte. !The public ought to know, that ota a late occasion alt. Ma. ~ gistrates had guise round,-arm .in arm, wilt the tae JP thewr% in order to ludas:nee the peblicatte.itt giving their.: -Notes. Jago, Afr.Lentaitre, and Mr. Datiglas Aiimairil, then .. L .dd re .s c a the meeting as to the.best means of effecting the object they ked iu view, when the ludo-aria; additional residue'. titollA were 11111 and caurierl:— " That it appears that -better beer than is now sell by some. of the principal brewers in the itimropolis at f.I, per quart, w mild be generally bold at id., if the trade of retailiug hoer were free : and that in some parts of the country the sacrifice • is cnosiderahly greater. "'flint the evira price pith! in conserpienee of the licensing ity-ttmo, in its effects on the expenditure of a labouring man, it r pal to a property tax of ten per rent. tni his wages, is -.,l:ficienffor the support of a eltilil.independuatly, or to pay • fir :h e entire clothing VT lodging of his faissiiy : and, in the ago ega:e, amountoto an annual levy of 5i5k6901. upon the iminstriaits classes of the metropolis, end of upwards o sterling upon the inhabitautsof •the country gee "'('list it be recommended to tl:c Commitiee to introduce, iii ley legislative proceeding they might adopt, a cameo, se eitriag to the publican the full, cobstitational, and wholesome right of a trial by their peers in all cases, in lieu of the meson oppressive practice of• depeudiug upon the capricious wall of the magistracy. " That a deputation or the Commit trqs do wait on theorem • . bets for WesaMustxr, - the Borough, and the City of Louden, to rcilinst titten to favour the Committee with their power ful exectioms to olitaiir foe the British public it free triple in beer, and an antelioratinn of the present system of arbitrary hemming." Thanks were then voted to the Chairman for his impartial conduct e and the meeting broke up. POLAR K. now STREET. 11eudayerhomaa Sutton was brotight to the office from Rocheol-c, awl. underwent * long examinat• before Alt. Birnie, the sitting, Magistrate, ler the following circum stances —1 he pi•itioner had berm emilined in the cage at Rochester, for the last fertnight,..in tic custody of John Brit. ton, a horsholder of Chathatn o wlierthe arrived un the :10:11 • June last, ia4he company of three other men, John Evans, • sv ho was charged with 'Meting forged Hank of England notes, arid John Smith and Henry Oliver, with uttering counterfeit • 'Oyer. On searching them, four cimnterteit shillings were. f4und on Evans, and one timinterfeit shilling on the prisoner rood Oliver, and also three forged Bank of England III;leNt:Jr 11. un Evans. There were other suspicions cif ettiustaseei• against the prisoner; a parcel directed to one 'tithe Lonviets • hoard the hulk. at Chathani, and Wink notes to the am must r.f 751. were found upon him. Oa Mr. Lees, the inspector of Ilank of England notes, having attendi it the examination of the prisonei s, he found that the notes were all good, MEI flat a ICI. stole among them was a pac t of 931. in 11411 k note• of vslaii•l t Captain, Atexiiintes• .(irrigg, of the Asia, te the E.i•t India service, had heen robbed while attending the exhiht - un at S o set Douse on the 2)4th of )lay 1441. Captain Ale ea ruler (ireigg toeing it: tiertlec3, 7'4h-brit:kw, his clerk, attended, auil pro.hteeti a writt.os of the Bank notes of iv hich the Captain itall bveu r o bbed at the exhibition, which telly identified thesi.it note ni the •prisoner. The pri,osites amid, that lie reiee yeti the note 0f,4 mail whose • ;nitrite:tit Loma, know, se: saity Ming .410111 him, only Celt he 11 with ililll et the 1)1.'4 pen 11.t.t.1411 anti ildrke its cum 000000 about thetilli of. June last, in pisyment (or a wager he had -non of the man oat the event of the riga t, waich was only Oils.• thy , . after Capt. Grejeo , had.beeu sub bed a it. lle -was erdeicd to he detained. On Sunday algid short:ll o'clock, Mr. Gatliffe,.e.mcrehant, rs aiding in Cornblll, was, pir , siug throng:. rote—treet,l•ll V , .ty hom e wketi be was met..hy is robust lookieg oho, who in a strung Ifiaternien accent asked charity ; .h r. ti, took tio Loire of. Use amen ; but t h e latter followed him an I heerinte 'aoexecodiuwlyselenanrutos ul Isis demands, that Mr. 0. threat ened to rail armatelionaii. Uoott this two other came train the meisisite side of the street, and in a nut:tient Mr. WAR knoelitJ damp, find rt.libed of a gold watch, &C. ...worth at out lU guineas, 131. its Rank notes, a ch-ek f o r 11E. and some sit , 1. The rottiams slime making itir, winos .fir. G. gave all a arm .sad they, were immediately pursued be two watchmen an I one of tee city paroles ii 'iii'. fields. After a roates, , let alt.!! Eno they t , fez Tar• ale scuttle .11.11.11, Al!liC1141sle ; •• • • • :•.!i Is 'WPM: . 14:+5,1111ii p•itrole ,gu; , a level, VIII 'l'he robber, tisa. o r es cape. One of ti.o 4'4'llllloln . teCeiVell such sevete treatment, 41..0 he it. its •••tilvrante datteer. *lei is up.,..rith .It .0 )t.:164 tit 4,0. has: since heel' arc) unwell. Oise of -tile is %tit kaolin' to the petrel,. ;As an additional proof lof rhr inerea of out t , ,relitai ram, . valve, the Do •it D•stirs of .• Unit w• - t.. so 1517, • 7. 11991. td. nave this yt•ille • •Seit to Jetrt.431.8*...411.; being ais iucrus.e et 22,tiabL.11.. 1 11. THF, lONAL LOSS OF THE SIM' SOLON. The briz Posh-her, Captain 31alcultv. ittrivrt!,st Noetwon Wednescl.sy, day', t's oat Lisrrpc•i{, -vin llii.H9lli^l the f.Jiluvi log tlitiostt of the Soh:, by light. :-- "Agri' :V, NI in With the Ship Su:on. Stoisrf. from Lon- Unn fer New York, with in•nip t •dey,gto.l4, copper. &e. which hint been struck with lig! • 2 the .evcnie•• previen4 and set lite, in hit. JO. 15. Wog. 27. then 29 (Lys nut. "Too': oti :he I , ,, , enger.i. 27 in number, and eiew, ;1'111)1,1411g in d.ll to :18. an.l shortly iStler the tire blaist .1h1'4,.::411 the deck, and saw Cie masts go over following account of the di3aoler,foraiihlaril by 4 i.v.scinter, 3:rreS vsitli thin kkk ll in.i.le on the wills which we twee ...11‘) been .14- vinired " Oss the 2711. of April, at nine o'elork p. tn., a hotly of lightning stmt.': the ship, attended by a singular explosion, disordering every thing in its pt issage down the nut . .issuast the Captain, with many others cualte upper deck, te:cie once knotled dawn ; on the middle sleek the saute eeect pas produced, yet in either case no livessivere lost. Jortinestiately, columns of smoke rose from Iho hold through every aperture, and such was the strength of the do/miring matter, that it: must at the same instant .hate set tire to eceey poet of the, cargo %violet' was liabledo taki , .iite limn it. In this emergency the thirkness ofthe smoke hembue soirli as to prevent further: respiration. All sloshed on deck iu etint'itsion —the lightning still bursting fortis, so that the o note sea appeased like a fur—. mace. Ilereavas une.o.t* the most distressing scenes that ever' wag witnes , etl; the lon.t pare of tits pimple half.uuked, and it being. Intiontetlexble to retnst:lor their clothes, and with no snore of the st!ressarjes ot life than avintitt be required fur. about IWO 11.1161 SilbSiitelWe. this state me continued till next day about II o'clunk, %viten 111;:. brig Poachet . , Captain., appeared insight, and ultimately saved our tires.-- The last boat had se:tilted the brig when the •Stdon'ts mixes) mast fell by the board, and tie mein mast followed . about halftan lam: after. At this time the Ilames•had bursti out in every .liremitas, so that Providence hall sent this vessel to our aid at a most critical moment. So great a number of persons being added to those already on board the Poacher, she having before scorn passentters, it became necessary to make fur the Western islands, for water and provisions. We arrived at papal uu th.• 1 , 1 of May. where every attention was paid to onr wants by 31r. I)4litsey, the American Consul, and other persons, particidst ly Alessi s. Searle, Parker, llat ley, and.Correa." Three of the Solon's passengers here went on hozetl.the ship Norfolk, for LOt4::0111; seven of the passengers and crew oss board the schooner Prudence, Le __,et, for Halifax; stud the remainder hase arrived at this sport in the Poacher. We lerstauddhat the Solon had on hoard a cargo valued at nearly 290,0001., including aboset.Uo,oool. worth of drug*. She was a line ship, newly coppered. At the sitting of the Brighten Mrgistrates last week, an old ma, of the name of Nash, preferred.* charge , tguite,t W.f.:halfwit, Esq. of Preston, a gentleman wellknown in the county of Sussex, and who is extremely rich. The • complainant is a huckster. living at llenfield, and in the habit tifattesuling Brighton market. On Thugs. day se'nnight he observed.!4ing,in the ittO rad. opposite Air. - Streeter's mill, a few handsfol or hay,. whiel. -be picked up and put into his cart. A few moments ierwanls Ml... Stanford rode up, and accused him of having taken the bay from his.field. at the same time demanding its surrender, with ss. as a compensation for the injury he had suffered. or he would send the complainant to the !louse of Correction. The old mum, intimidated by the threat. gave up both the hay find the money.—This constituted nut case of the corn. plainant. On the opposite side Nlr. Stanford stated, tba though it was true he had taken five shillings fielin•Nash, ye, oe fully interd .d to ha . . c returned them, on his bangingiLitri testimonials that he pos limed a goo I character: and one of Mt. S.'s men came forward to saes, that the hay in question was taken,•nut from the bigh-road. but-from a field belonging to his master. To a question been the' Bgneli„ as to the value of tin: hay, the witness replied :bat he should not-like to give more than sispence or a shilling for it. - Mr. Cripps here observed, that ne considered the conduct of Mr. Stanford of a nature which C.141A for the investigation of a jury, to whom the case must be referred. The parties were. therefore, bound over to thq sessions. About four o'clock en AKcilnesday afternoon as Mr. %Varo..the I architect; Mr. Dudley, Steward to Lord 1;. Cavendish ; NlraSea brooke. the master carpenter; Mr. King, the forernmi ; and three plasterers;were on a lofty .seaff'old in Burlington-house, 0.i4 Of the v utlneks snapoed, and all were precipitated, a depth of two stories; to the stone floor. Mr. Ware :waved a scvere contusion on the. back of his head and wv.eral bruises. Mr. Seabrcolte and Mr. King received _severe bruisc;.; bin 11r. Dudley had his leg broke clese to the knee..and before he could be caufkoted-a heavy plank fell on the broken :eland shattered it. Surgioc.l aid WAS sent for ; when it wai Mond necev.orym amputee the leg above-the knee, wine': he bore wits: fortitude. The other atm: man ncetverl some iaiury but none of consequence. . _ A very il:stre;ging C3Ne presented itself, in the city on Monday : An inthistrions honest man, with a with. ant eight children, recently o.:-...upled a small.. farm at Tor.loidge, which had formerly been tenanted by a person wdo had t i t:ito , .: it, leaving an arrear of rent tb:e.to the . landlord.. Just alien this honest and industrious man, the subint of our commiseration. with his had esti— 'dshed himself on the trernises, an execution was sent into the house, and the while of his proptay, consiAing of stuck, cattle, and goods to the value of 7001. way clistrained for rent, due by the previ ous oxsupier. The poor man. with his family, destinne of a hurtle. wandered up to London, and on 3lenday pre,eao.ttt liiinselfat the door of the Stn-k Kea:sags. His story being_told, bad ,auch eff‘ct on the Niendiets of the Huns•:. that, to Mir ite:nun..in a few minutes. they itlitrie:ibel 511. in order to phice the iiiifertiotate man., in a situation to g.iin a livelihood for himself and family.; and it understood a bilt:ln•r's shop..in tae neiglibourhool beeu.talten for Mk.., as the commencement of a business under inure t.t.our•.thle auspices, and, wc.hope,. untte;_a more compassionate landlorti ! On ssinrdav see Cc. math iwtlits.morning. hole. and slrs. Attica, of the Cork I CastAsuit!itield, were rt hole,. oat) Ili or 10;.triends, in en open e 0..:. s4O, oa arriein.z Ilene the Rising Sun at Ilford, they si ere wattiouly ntidelted by tot:r or five iH loaking fellow*, ti Ito k •ke.l tile. Abler 'WWII, while in the net of adjusting the horse's reilo, moil heat him most tintisere;flilly. Me. Attie' friends liastenctl to !. 4 115M14.1 . 1eP. 11114 4 tErneroll took Wave: e. hen the villains, tinning they should heaver pool:red, matte it signal, and were jicoe.i by atom! 40 InOrt, who attacked Mr..%itivr dull bpi party ; so p.m they felt moue at* them for dead. At kiitela the sr” rem. of Ihtleinale* alarmed tile neigliiituirlitsoil, sal olliPli effected their mamas e. Mill the assistaisce 14.44 .me. nrigh blurt' the %winds Were dressed, and lilies we t ,. 2dis, less shire tidiest siva, awl tics now with hula hopes of reed sea y. Tilts 14. W T. Ingrain, Esq. of Ticknell, in Woretstershite, I. ft 0. hill wilt 001, the hotere,t of which is directed to hoe ai.phiett to he payment of a Ciergytn ut , with) shall ailtal;l:ty preach), in itir.siinighem, a sermon to eaeonragc eatotce human( t; calm)), to dumb ani:tyy:‘, ;)ar'itr Oat ly to h taee. /ISSUE COUhT T OF 13.1it1$. Tug Counts Irt sup prs , •vrcrr.—.S Ntnnel Itchriste.-frie proof art the ideor;lli eel wren :'sane or L • Mertnot.cr eltlelbco. , lb 14 )ears'impr'.. n nment, and the fa.m.: de - .P.ontis Jo -Si. hi Byrne, Lieutenant Colonel, Erright SI. Louis ainiethawara, and calker of the taegion of Ifeasit.cr, I..t;ist! 4f s given line to ninth dim antlsiint.•• It is served :La .the prisoner is ;setnallyin poi..ession-of the rr •p. to whi ell he is a , serted to pi rirllft ; and that he holds ur . s Intori;s the proofs of the di .titsetions with which be was steel rated in Spain, and the appointments and 1105101511 he 1143 I'o - Ili Fianre. It is lwridr..t_trr.i , shit the (iiirNoinn of rank shies not romp ttitbiis the pi or inre of Ilse Court of A!. size, but might to be decided by a ei%il tribunal.. Ohm our, if the ,'amino of raiik really r Copied tiir (:, n ut of A•sii.e, bur ii, 0614 . t . l is MA pa our Ir.• the prirtmer or the r;QTAIII, tits; '.5 ascertain wheihrn. he really bo the :i.e.l*.Ullllll name of Coign::c.l, we% in Ili*. years,' I...iiitc o m e d 1 4 •` itupri ;mimetic 'Elie question tifident:tv most not he ...afro, : with that of rank , though the souse evid e n ce 11 ,,,y b e 'wi d e app:y to both The prisoner appeared this day in a different iir., thsst. high Ile .tvnit on the foriiiipi hval big. His eenn:.11.1116.: tea wits 11.11.'r,,W111:,11:411T iit10'111:.1•1. 0.1 entering he respete fully snlirtecl the Casitrtainil the speetaiois, • eliminither sit' Witile.:t, were s ailed else iii ;osier. M. Trend de Harshen, fo:siter!y diiector of Cie in Spain, had trim the prisoner in 1102. at Malaga. lie himself to Imo* French emigrantof a motels is !",sitoi . Ott the retreat of the French on Seville,, the prisoner intwxted with Ilse rare of 16v,ion•frgn e ,o, I,4lljeight... ftirhfidfe preserved iu the midst sieconsidet . abled angers. • The Asti/less -wmkpresent sue day Ashen the prisons r met With a Spasii.j s officer, and they recognized each inher.as old eaMpAilitrUs. havisig.sertiorl together at ilisetioss.Ayies. 4're.sident..4.l'llsoiter, why did you say that you were frorn Poitou, wlten, according to your declarations, that is not the country itt whirls your family resides ? 4. F ilmier.--1 w a s presented !to the witness by an r.ar neon, who may have made a mistako as to the place of lay birth. Here some. letters .were read, signed Connt-Pontis de St. Helene, addressed to the Mal.or Of His. Pllitllll, his •sleirh this writer siatnil that he had been bout in T/Isit eo,llllllllle, ;54 his ther passed tsiatway n,,utirtzey,autl respiosted,u,nowiat Copy of the registaavail. his, birds. 'rue prisoner aekteowledged that the letters were issittesa by him.. He had iwver.4.flown nit!' certainty the place of his birtli,l)ntlsving I:ea,rsl that 11 . 14 mother had been delivered on the journey referredao in the letter, lie.uppliest to aster. tainlhe tiara,. hisl'had sing lourned that it was.bis second brother who was born at %hat/occasion on the 2251 September , 1774. _ The Advocate-gearial asked why Ile had hitherto described !Outwit um an may son? . Poisoner—My falter Witi a very sevPre man, who, dttriar the whole of him lite, scare.. spoke 200 words to me ; but. knew that had hods brother. though I was notzuse wtid r. he ~r mymell had .licen born in Lail/ender. The examiiration of witnesses for. the, prosecution was re sumed. Several swore positively that they ktiesosthe prisonee--to Ise c o i t u tt ed.. One was a. woman who said Ai& bad bee', godfa ther to her child. One of the keepers of fliegatilenoC the recognieed him as _baying servint with.iiinsAtaithe ' greoadierasof the Convention. A woman who had been lin-. pleated With Coignard in the...robbery in IWI at flaw besi tater!, but.know hint by his voki • Mud. • Manumit, whose father's human had been ratibeildiy I.;iiiiiiiitril,•sware to him positively. T:inaalt young at the time. she s hini,takeii.s o _ tf en t as during one trial for that salience $ um/ recollected having msid kat.lialter.!'• What a. pity that.such . a handsome youttoaria.l should be u.thiet.'"lwo.women f iu toitately aequAntrd with die - family-of Coiguard, iilso..sbruat • that the prisoner was that indisidual. A last witness U44,introtlitectl, esgorted by two rsenarliern 'All .eyes were Wined towards him . He is a young mass eihose.ve-,apililance to the prisoner is astonishing. The.sanitt oniiineottirekhrad, the same nose, the suuoe chin. There wan nn differelice ism the fortares,esc.ept that which appeared_u it nature/ effect of-the ditterence.of age. 'e'he snitars.s (kelilna his name to be Alexander Coignard. lan age. 29. He wits bore at I.angwais. in the department i3l.* tdreet Loire, and is at present a prisoner in the Conciergetie ots a charge-of robbery. '.9kesideat--Do you Lunw Am./it:tanner ? The wihiefot diesitate.d and apprwre.d. gzeatly moved. 'The' prisoner looked: steadily at I without appeasing in the slightest degice• troubled. last tbt..w !mess said—" 11 s it. de Pawls.' prisonrt— y 4,11 recottniac the !trimmer as.Cottitt4p.Poutis? Wituf . s• (ver% much agitated)---1 . .., , , Sir. Presid. , 11--Th4l is etimigh. iet the witness.willadraw. pli•imer kept hi, fixed un the wijiMPLI, who retired with lois head unlined 0.1 his 4rvitta, 'I loaßreaitlent did not elou000• to press hisexaminution faro love.leatioe should really be the, bronliev of the :prisoner : the Court would not eiloa i.inoo him a ',Achille*. equally .repugnant ,tu the law and to • odooltot. . Prveident (to the priaoaler)--Do yote know the,witness nito has ,witiodra woo. I'm ' , out 41 1 : I losvetalrecilyolatetl.that A. Coigitord i fur whom 1 have the auistin Milne to be token, served under my emmomuumi in Spiel) 'Dor o anew: presented hitustlf to ume.eut 4111 6 brot . .e,c, and solicit:al my proteetiou. .Presiikot.-- For what dot liew m umt your protection/ yon know ,ii:!l9lc are.alwchys casino:lmA .LO titteircorrt to men in poser. 11:0;11 !Annex them applied for a farthetailelay, in order mo r.ft aril Witi.:l4. , m opoormonity of foroarcl...otlter wit nesses - ima firtuor • .anal mim , consent Of the puldic prosecutor, lig! areas, hcamitig Amish sr I .1 or . Ainsiday, time ...:0111 of the present tisrult:i. A yommmg unman, etellimr•kersulf the, Goontess de l'ota.ic, with whom the prisoner livett, sicsi tom Thursday...las; cad has already nod. rgone an exatatinatnuasbefute. the ite,1451 • of instrue.t.rti. A e•1t4.1% eirritmemie.. limk plAre A !.lonre tinge 4 inec nettle L ew .," . 1 move 3.l_c. horse, gciuy Ira ru .othitik of ;lac ri‘c es. VV4/14:i.../03 1, drink. . 0, 111140 p; 01.111..(4/ ,dllll.lll in tVe it re.cit, Ltl al c l 1, J . • .iJ, it op %Wilt, till it was tail It weighed a!tout 2311..—Granock Adrertiser. The HunOurgh Ccruspondent reinarka, thast - dielitylr )} fit wai one of ce traordinary tility ; coin, whit., anti fruit., .. t tfe inn.; 4tin•itlarit, of thn very beta finality. The 140! ear of tic 19th ectitiii: pfoni.SeS to Lie eqsielly auspikieg. 4 '.