The National Register. — London, England, 1817-01-20 00:00:00

21-b . REFORM 31 EET I .VG. FREEMASONS' TAVERN. A Meeting of this alhocutev for a lteforiii in Parliament, dined together on Friday, in furtherance of the object they leave in view. The cloth removed, " the King," " the Prince Regent, and may he never forttet the principles which FeatPil his family on the Throne of these Realms," and " the Queen and the test of the Royal Family.- were severally proposed from the t:aau•, and drunk by the'company. 'flat Chairman ( Mr. Lucas) culled the attention of the Meeting to the business no which they were assembled. CeV tain Resolutions had been framed, %4 bids a gentleimin in the room could now read. Mr. Thorp (late Sheriff of London) briefly set forth the importance of giving the people that weight in the great councils of the conntry to which they were entitled, and enforced the necessity or proceeding with the most perfect order in the prosecution of the design they had fin used. T':e Resolutions wet e then read. itYrtie bogged simply to ;ecOnd the Resolutions. The followim2 toasts were then drunk. The Constitution of King, Lords, and (*minions. May all the efforts to endanger it be nuallered abortive by the timely exertion: , of all gtxxl Engli:hmen to correct such errors 0..nl abuses as tone and design have introduced. The ['Heath, of Economy, public Order and Reform throughout the tinitA kingdom. Civil and Religious Liberty to all Mankind. The Liberty of the Press. May the present tranquillity of Europe be neither disturbed by the injustice of Princes, nor by the violence of Individuals. The Navy and Army. The Lord Mayor, and the Friendsof Reform in the City of London. Alderman (Joodbeliere expressed his regret that the Lord Mayor 55.15 lint present to return, ns he would most sincerely, bisilianks for the honour conferred upon his Lorthhip oral Cite other Members of the Corporation, whose opioions 1111 She great subject of Economy and Reform were so entigeni.,;. But the holding of the Sessions at the Oh Bailey had pre. seated his attendance. Mr. ‘Vaithinan enforced the importance of the objects of that Meeting. On a question of such magnitude as that of Ileform in Parliament, it was not surpiising that some dif ferences of opinion should .ist as to the cotir , c proper to be pursued. He lamented tl.e distrusts a hich h a d been excited and hoped to are all classes at last united in the cause. Ile thought the representation ought to be substantially refoliced and equalized ; and a return to triennial Parliament,: in his opinion, answer every purpose in view. He had lately had an extensive correspondenee oil this subject. Those with whom he had discussed it differed from each other on muly points, lint he found that there was a general disposi Lou to sacrifice all minor considerations to unanimity, and he assured the Meeting: no effort should be wantiog on his part to unite all classes for the salvation of the country. The health of Mr. Wald:1;Z: the long, the . steady, and consistent friend to Rolimn, was next drank with shouts of approbation. Mr. Waithman returned thanks—he gave the immortal me mory of Charles James Fox. 'lac assembly drank this toast standing. The Chairman said he should propose the health of au il lustrions man then present- • the k Alt lion. John Phil pbt Curran, %Inch a as drank with great applause. Mi. Curran then rose, and spoke to this effect--Mr. Chair. nian,and you, Gentlemen, be pleased to accept my most res ;teeth', thanks for the honour you have done me ; en honou r peetniarlygreat on an occasion aatiel as the present. On ordi nary occasions a superficial civility is sufficiently rewarded by an insolvent bow. But something more is necessary in return for the introduction of my name. at st moment when the liberty of Engiand is in question. I come from a country which has 110 Inhere: to be proud of, and if I go back to it, it will be as to the , waters of Babylon—to weep. You have been pleased, however, to give one toast—the cause or civil and eel:geniis liberty all the world over. Wien you drank that toast, I felt my heart embrace th.• negro--I felt also that it sympathized with my own poor country. I ain rothusi a.,tie for my conntrymen, bat my entlinsiasm for them is not surprising. My youth has been spent amongst them; my sympathy has been stretched for them ; 1 might have sold myself at the market of corruption, and grown into pride, and wealth, and remorse, at their expense ; but I preferred to stay below with them in their humiliation; to tumult their condition; to defend them if I could; to chide and rebuke them when a bold friend ought to du so. On their behalf thank you for the generous sympathy winch has dictated that toast. You will not find, them unworthy coadjutors in the vineyard of liberty. leis not that I base any N 1 ntiments of enmity to the Members of the Executive in this country-- they are misguided, misadvised, hut they do not want good intentions; but is there nothing alarming in itself, in the es tablishment o' 150,000 men? Wherat)tink yon this establish ment was formad—in the Ctelt act Oftri:Jiltlle!eb?—‘l'as it not at the Congress of Vienna ?-IVe see its effects, universal dis tress, nuiversal beggary. I have been shocked in your sit et is w ilia a hat I had never a it nessed in this country—men, Wlll dressed, approach rte, and, in the under voice of !OPT ieg and shame, be;; me to give them something. Remember one thing. It was the number of public mendicants in Frame which Call•eil the horrors of the revehition. When a man, alio has been acenstioned to support his famiiy, is no longer aide to find them bread, the social tic which binds him is brut. eu, and famine becomes the rec.; lilting officer for re bellion. I e.durot suppose that if your claims are stated fairly and moderately, they cannot have an effect—When the lit pie are unrepresented beyond a certain point the systi in is worse than tto representation at all. (Applause.) The ese claire is not only a it counterpoise but without apprela 11- Mon. 'I hose bribing and those bribed degenerate into a pro fligate fraternity, 'bass* and redrawing, wlttiont funds of their own, on the solvency of the country.—The ruler is out a , hanied, and the betrayer is not afraid. There is a kind of competition in vice. It one man will keep within bounds, another will be found to dress hinr,elf out in all the ribbons of his prostitution. lam not for giving votes to the beggar on the bridge, nor for the constant rout ofammal Parliaments, but for a substantive Representation of die people. In this cause. I wish to see all distinguished persons come fora turd to pull an oar. This society, I am persuaded, will set a good example, it would show the people that P.,rliamentary Reform rt_es not consist in breakinl windows, or getting drunk in •treeis. It will rally every man of good sense and decent t t rise:;—beltting with respect even to those who have dam , yto wrung. Go on—and God give you the success which, it it Le not blasphemous to Say, you have merited by Bic nohle principles of your co operation. The health; of th . e Move - r sod Seconder of the Resolutions weft drunk, who returned Thanks. Neve' al toasts were, drank, as To by .Inry—The Lilierry of the to the Cause of the fizairty. About ten o'clock the , nom left the Chair, cad tut greater part of the company to sonzatcol. THE NATIONAL REGISTER LIQUOR SHOPS. The followintt k a copy of the Report presented on Tues day to t h e Qumal ter Sessions for Su ey. To his 11.ijest's Justices of the Peace for the Connty of Sur rey, in General Quarter st`!Siollb of t h e Peace assembled. IVlsereas nt the General Quarter Sessions holdan in and for this comity in January last, a report respecting the increased number of shops for the sale of gin anti oilier spit kook liquors was taken into cotraderation, and thereon ratified and ton. tinned ; and it was then rt . coninierided to the niagi,orate, of this country to carat the smite into e7.ectition in their respec tive divisions, by such means us should mittenr to them the utmost ..-tiectual, rind to report their proceedings to the ut.xt Epiphany Session. Nov we whose mutinies are liereuntursobscribed, be*.ng inn- gist aces AI hi) art tcitl in the East Malt' Hundred of Itilmon awl Borough of Smith work, do report—That we met accord. ingly to deliberate upon the best means of compl hog with the said recommendation, and being of opinion that th e most „Go ul d mo d e of n onld be to visit personallt MI the public.hoeses within the said division, several committees were appointed for that purpose, who proceeded accordingly to ascertain which of the said lonises were bona fide poblie house•s, and which of them were fitted up prineipallo for the sale of gin anti other spit linens liquors; when it arpearing on such invt stigation that there were a minsiderable 11111111)er of mere gin-shops, their occupiers were reminded of 1 14, " determination of the magistrates in Quar ter Ses4uwl assembled nut to grant or renew any certificate for ixencel but to •sinit porsons only as should In.na title keey tat erns, inns, cottee.houses, or aic•l:Olises, and hav e snakiest room and accommodation for those who should di hotbeer,-with a stork suitable to the supply of sorli customers;' priotirei outievs to that efiect having been pre viuusly served on all the said publicans. _ _ alasiy of the occupiers of the honor-shops in question altered their premises, according to the order of sessions, as far as the size of them would admit, and laid in stocks of heer. Others declined for a long period making such alteration, notwithstanding a repetition of notices and tet te is, and a renewal of admonitory. visits. These persons has ing, however, at length complied, we now report, that almost the whole of tlm public: ns within this division did contorm to the order of sessions, according to the best of their ability, by dividing off a part of their premises in order to constitute a tap-room, or by the introduction of tables and benders into the shop in which they sold their spirituous liquors, in cases where the houses were too small to admit of such division; they also laid in suitable stocks of beer. N't, considering the circumstances of the case, the long lob ration of such houses, the tenderness which the said re pent, so ratified and confirmed by the sessions, espresses tor property, and the caution with which it seems to recommend us to proceed in tht first instance, have renewed the licensing certificates for all thecc houses for toe ensuing year. At the same time we feel it our duty to report, float the areas of many of those denominated liquor-shops are much too small for bona tide public-houses in their present conditions; and we apple limed that no effectual reform can take place with respect to such shops, until the owners shall be obliged to have properly apportiored tap-rooms; this riremnstance we submit as important for the consideration of the county; although we doubt the possibility of carrying this or other material ;cent:mons into effect, hot tinder some genera' legislative s:tstrnt embracing the whole of the metropolis and its envitous, without which it would be to little purpose time magistrates who act for the East Half Hundred of ,llrixton and the borough of Southwark insisting upon such ahera tiuns regulations, while perhaps other magistrates might not enforce similar ineasure-3 in the immediately adjoining or neighbouring districts. We have further to report, that in the emirs.- of this year the magistrates have granted eight hundred and thirty one certificates for licences within this division, which is eight less than were granted in the-year 1815 ; and that we have not granted any new license. We beg' leave also to suggest the following regulations to the consideration of the Quarter Session, and as pumper to be submitted to the deliberation of the legislature, viz:— The requiring that all publicans should have mil-rooms of *sufficient size, and that KWh be situate in the front of their houses, nest to the street. The stuppin,..; up of all side doors opening into lanes, alleys, or streets, except such only as shall be absolutely necessary for the carrying in of the stock in trade. That Magistrate.; should have authority, at a session to Fe especially appointed for that pmposes, to suspend tiir a given time, between the annual licensing lays, the licenses of such houses as shall be proved to have been conducted impro perly. That ministers, churchwardens, nverseers, and honse 'Milers, be enjoined to make enquiry, to the best of their pots to, respecting the character of every person apply ing to them, to sign a certificate of their fitness to keep a public' house, previously to their signing the same; and that every publican applying for the annual renewal of his license be required to produce such certificate. That in all eases wherein it shall appear to any magistrate toot a pnblicihouse has been conducted in au improper and dist,' dryly such magistrate be itoptestied to commu nicate the same to the clerk of the district its which the house is situate, in order that he way lay such intlirmatitm btfore next meeting of themaci-trates of the district. Given under our hands, &e. On the same day Mr. Jarkson resigned the chair of the Quarter Session', and Mr. Trotter that of dm adjourtned •essious. OL 13AILEY. On Wednesday last, tlw Old Bailey Sessions commenced belore the Richt lion. the Lord Mayor, Mr. Justice Park. and Mr. Justice Abbot. The first person put to the bar was Benjamin Hearne, in dicted Mr breaking and entering the dwelling-hum:. of John Wheeler, at Bremtbril, oil the a9tli of December, and Atea - Ler therefrom several jogs, tca-pots, sugar-pots, and other ar ticles, the property of James Baker. It appeal ed in evidence that the watchman at Brentford, on :gelidity the Writ of December, at 3 o'clock in the min nink. found the prisoner with a bag containing the articles in yu«- lion lie seized him, and detained• him, and he atierwnr it found the robbery had been committed. The owner proved the property to be Ills. The• prisoner stated, hi his defence, that he received the bag from n person he accidental!y to and who de.dred him to carry it to Ealing. The jnry, atter being addressed by Justice, Park on the nature of the evi dence and the charge, returned 4 . verdict—isitilty of *nu* larceny. JANITATIY SO. John alvi% and James I.entoo were indicted for ste.iling a sillier candlestick in the dwelling-house of Thomas Portens, Esq. SI, Hall'ntoon•+lreet, Piccadilly. parish of St. George. liuno‘er.topiai e, t n the 210 of D ectio b i . r ' mt . on e two m i. Sl.llO S were ctry first 15, 111111 the other IS. It alt Cared from the evidence of Mr. Portetis's seri ants, that the candlestick nits missed an the morning of the Ist, the urea gate !saving opened. The witnesses dr posed that the door was stint. _ _ 111 r. Jus!ie, ,%1•Id, in addressing the jnry, told thorn, there tni 4 lit he siose doubt, %% heat ei bi caking And [inlet big an are,t gout., with intent to sit al was a capital felony. This point should be reserved for the epioion of tho but it wonid was of the value 405., , not arise, if the proiiei ry therefore, shoot(' aseerto!a. It was their ditty to consider st bother tiler:• was eot , '"rt bet , A reit the Prisollera The Jury, a ft, , e c sastilti.ig for II short thee, tenanted It ve. diet of Guilty of breaking and entering, and stealing to the ananint 01 . 49 s Mi. Justice Abhi.t then said he wowld take the opinion of the indges wlitther this was an elite' ing within the me aning ut siatatz : _ _ _ Ri c h ar o St iltn tire and Susan Parsons were indietedfor steal ing 4 . 4 , r aiiii weariue urparcl 60111 ilie peroni of Hubert 11..) w o o d, on the !oh of November. at a pubiie•house called the s eo eli Arm', in Itomid-court, Strand. The Jury acquitted both, upon which Mr. Justice Park n mouislird them, that they owed their usrape to the limo:, nity of the jury, mid the unexpected absence of an hotpot L u nt witnes,. Elizabeth Jolumn was indicted inr burglarionilv breaking and enteling the dwelling-bome Elirdpeth Bond on the _ . gith of last mouth, and stealing therefrom various articles of wearing apparel. • The pri.seetiti ix, a blind woman, depo , -e.l. that she was re. Writing home with her sister on the 'tight in question, when the risme., addressed them, solicithig charity, and declaring that she had walked a long vs:ay without breaking her fits!, and that site was alnio-t stars ed to death. They, thereupon, took het home to the lodging of the witness, which was situate in Broadway, WCsilllillhtCr. They there gave her tea at.el bread and butter, she asked them for some dollies, as she was vary staked, and they ako gave her a pi ttietat and gown. The witeit•ss's lodging consissed but of one room. The pri. suller nest applied 1 . 4)1* the 104111 as. is, rade' t r ta ro er a box w hid' she had left for waist of that stun, and open reco vering which, •he should be able to paw it a gown, anti repay it. Not having so notch money about her, witness took a ring front her finger, and they all went together, and pawned it for 3s. of which sum she gave es ed. to the prisoner. (leer sister then went assay, and not .•opting boon•, it being brill 10 o'clock, she begged the prisoner to lead her to the house of her brother-in-law, that she might induce her trereturn and go to bed. The prisoner promised to do so, but left her in Use street, and it seas nearly 11 o'clock before she was !Mind her way back, by the assistance of a person who met her. an•l Wit% acquainted with her. The door of the room was lot ked, as aloe had left it ; but the bolt of the shutters, which W 4 re very near the ground, irail been undrass tt, a box furred open, and a number of things (amongst which were a bonnet ai.d gown) were carried away. Between Bond, sister of the last witness., rotifirmed all the mate, MI parts of her testimony, and deposed to the ideotity of the articles produced by the °Nicer is lio took the pi isomer into cllgloily, and which he rotted in her posst•winn. The pi i'AMICI* threw herself mi the lutuauits•ol' the court, and the Jury. who, sander the direction of Alt. Justice Abbot, found her :milts- of the burglary, recimmienticil her to mercy on account of her family and miserable sittiation. Thursday, .'tune Edwards was put to the liar, and indicted for stealing two caps and a silver tea-s 11001), salve 20s. the • property of dames Shaw. Ni elottlit being throw's upon the testimony of the vs ittiesses, and the prisoner making no di • fence, she was immediately fonnd guilty el grand las cony. Ann Blegteve Wits afterwards tried for stealing a quantity of orbited cotton, the property of Messrs. ,♦/orris, privately in their shop in Pieradille, to the value of above as. The prosecutors are linen (levers, and their rhopman stated, that the prisoner and two other women entered the shop, upon his Milt:llnm, and looked at several articles, but. tonight none. They staid about a gloater; he had suspicions during their stay, alld as slum as tin y were gone be missed the articles in question. He went out after thent r overtiiiik the prisoner, and look the property, to which he could swear, from muter he ann. Several witnesses gave the prisoner a respectable character. Mr. Justice Park observed, that the suspicions of tie shoo man whilst the prisoner was in the shots might probably take away the notion of privately stealing, and reduce the Odell( e to simple felony.—Guilty of stealing;, but not privately. Joseph Russell was indicted for stealing a coat, value. Ss. privately, in the shop of IV. Simmons and T. Jones, Leices ter-square, on the 7th of I)ecember last. The stolen pro perty appeared to have been soak-bed from the shop doer, and was immediately limpid on the prisoner. The coat lintig within the door 2 or 3 kad, and the prime cost of it was marked 7s. Its market value was Its. Mr. Justice hark suggested, that there were two grounds on which the capital pas t of this charge might be taken away, the first, that the ofletiee was not conisititted in the shop; and the second, that it was not committed privately, as the noise of the art valise(' an immediate suspicion in the sli.ipamil.-- ‘'erdiet- Guilty of stealing gaily. Friday, tiiiiteraick Button, a German, was indicted f,r the minder of funks, in 'lliatitis-street, MI the night of the Zith December last.—(hail!). of Mansholt:liter. Thomas h, n•ial and Joseph Sint ware inflicted for the moonier of Robert Yope , u pauper in the workhouse of Beth- I nal Green, 'to having assaidted him on the lash of December last, and intlicted upua him bruises! died au the 2.1.101.—N0t • Varlet: Downes end 'llsoncas Walton. were Indicted for the murder of Edward Stanton, Oa the 21-th Dereineor at a votive-shop in (ieuramstreet, parish of :it. (files. . Jane Jealuus, the first witness deposed, that on Sattirdar. the 26th of December last, she was at it coffee shop in kle,t street, about 12 o'clock at night. Tlit , cake shop e opposite the Turk's Head. The• deceased earne in attetwmits, she believed, in company with a eh:. The two prisonris entered soon after 'tannin. There might be Dr or 20 Kr hi the room, of is hien five were women. litanton call( d !hr sosite collee, ahirh lie dralik. 91111 ladled out u:014') Its pay. The prisnner Downes asked bias for a shilling, >Mil then for one or tau more, which the deceased gave, sayieg he was tint afraid to roost hien. tquitton was slit bbeo like a decent la eating man. He raid for his coeee in loose nieney, then pitied cut I44,lllelhillg mere, which winless did no! see, saying, " If this a: re lest, I knew somebody %Om 1151,51 statue." The ptisoners, together with ohm main this, laid huhl of him sly the Hint :.aid by the callor of ht , aced draggt•ut iron itt .1 corner. 1) w n;:s placed his 1 :21 1f1 his inuutli, cud assisted ti. !VI 'ales fete' a Lhail Wilait•aa :