The National Register. — London, England, 1811-09-08 00:00:00

, THE NATIONAL RPGIST SINECURE OFFICES. The Second Report of the Committee of the House of Commons on Sinecure Offices, gave the following List of O ffi ces in England, the Duties of which are entirely or principally discharged by Deputy : PZR ANNUM. Clerk of the Crown . . . . . . 41100 0- 0 Prothonotary of the Court of Chancery . . 100 0 0 Register of Affidavits . . . . . 640 0 0 Clerk of the Custody of Idiots and Lunatics . 449 0 0 Patentee for making out Commissions of Bankrupts 8122 16 1 Clerk of the Patents, from 4001. to . . . 654 0 0 Clerk of the Hanaper . . . . . 1700 0 0 Clerk of the Dispensations . . . . . 449 0 0 The same person, Clerk of the Faculties . . 260 0 0 The Business of the Office of the Corporation of Cursitors is transacted by four of its Mem bers, who receive together . . . . The Fees of the Twenty other Members who do not perform any part of the duties, amounted last year to . . . . . . . '7380 5 0 Of this sum the Four Cur•itors for London and Middlesex re ceived 64.541. 15s. lid. Sealer of the Court of Chancery Chaff-wax 3334 1 F.R. BARTHOLOMEW FAIR. The fashionable: of St. Giles s, Spitalfields, and Wapping, have had a crowded season a t th a t empor i um o f annua l f un an d frolic, dedicated to theirpatron Taint, St. Bartholomew; round abouts, ups-and-downs, hurdigurdies, hand-organs, vans, cara vans, and all otin:r wind instruments, have been crowding into Smithfield pens, as if all Creation had been rushing to the centre ; some of the royal manufactories displayed a greater assemblage of gilded Kings and Queens, than even St. Cloud can boast, and a witty vender of hot-spiced gingerbread, ex hibited his superfice royal hunting nuts, fresh from the oven, but not so hard as the Spanish nuts w hich Napoleon has to crack ! Great decorum was observed by the lions, lionesses, and other wild beasts ; fried sausages, and plumb pudding, all hoe, were in their usUal abundance for the Amateurs ; lasses and their lads crowded, as usual, to the ups and downs ; and the whole merry go round went off with so little disturbance, that the Piertpaudre Court had nothing but red-letter-days, much to the credit of John Bull and his family. POLICE. GUILDHALL. PICK' G POCK KT S.—Yestyrday .khanritt Broome, a foreigner, was brought up before the Sitting Magistrate (Mr. Alderman Woon) for re-examination, being charged with picking the pocket of a person of the name of Gregoyr, of his watch, at Bar tholomew fair, on the night of Tuesday last. It appeared that the prosecutor being much inebriated accidentally fell into com pany with the prisoner, and finding he was a foreigner was am.. ions to shoe him all the fun ! they had perambulated the fair for some time together, when a Police Officer, having some suspi• cion of the prisoner, and observing the condition of the prose cutor, joined them, and asked if he had lost any thing, the pro secutor answered in the negative, but being desired to examine his pockets, immediately discovt red that his watch was gone, and at the sane moment the prisoner was obServed to throb something behind one of the booths, which turned out to be the prosecutor's watch and the prisoner yr:ill then taken in custody. i'tie•prisoner in his defence said the prosecutor had given him the watch to take care of, but this the prosecutor denied. HIGHWAY Roan ltßY.—The next charge against the prisoner was of a more serious nature, amounting to highway robbery. It appeared in evidence tha: on the night of the ‘29th of August last the prosecutor, Bradshaw (a disabled Chelsea pensioner), was returning home to Chelsea College, accompanied by a Cot. por:-.1 of the Life (;cards, and in passing • Grosvenor-street, on their way towards Portman-street barracks, they were accosted by the prisoner, who entered into familiar conversation with them, and invited them to p:lrtalee of a tankard of porter with him. They accepted the invitation, and retired to a neighbour-. ing public-house, where they remained in company together, about an hour, during which time the company joined some other company in a game of drafts ; they then went away toge the:-, and as they proceeded towards South Audley-street, the prisoner expressed great anxiety for the disabled state of the prosecutor (w!lo being paralyzed on his right side walked with lty), arid proffered his services to see him safe home. This offer was accepted, and soon after the Corporal left them. When they arr:ven nearly opposite Mount-street watch-house, the prisoner tripped op the prosecutor's heels, as if by accident, and .apologising for his awkwardness, assisted him to get up, t,tel at the same moment eas.:d the prosecutor of his watch, and immediately made his escape, The prosecutor was so alarmed he did not cry out, but went to the w:ttch-house, where some time elapsed before be could make himself heard, and had given up all hopes of recovering his watch, until the appearance of a report of the former day's examination in some of thy Daily Papers, which coming to the knowledge of the Corporal, it occurred to him that tl:e prisoner might be the same person, and on seeing him in custody, immediately recognized him. The watch had been pawned the following day by the prisoner himself, under a fictitious name, for four guineas. . - The prisoner, iu his defence, said, the old gentleman (mean. ing the prosecutor) .had given him the watch to pledge, and be was to bring him the money to Portman-street barracks the next day, but when lie went he could th,t find him. 'file worthy Magiqrate observed, that the prisoner must be an old and notorious'offender from the nutuber of duplicates of watches (l 8 in number) fourld upon him when taken, and there war4ittle doubt hut that he was ene of the party concerned in the robbery In Cheapside. _ _ The parties were then bound over to prosecute, and the pri soner fully cominiLteti tut tti4l. i • 200 0 0 610 0 0 Messenger, or Poursuivant of the Court of Chat,- eery, Salary . . . . . . . 52 0 0 (The total amount of Profits do not appear.) Clerk of the Presentations • • 150 0 0 • • Clerk of the Declarations in the King's Bench . 228 0 0 % Chirographer of the Common Pleas 400 0 0 . . Clerk of the Foreign Estrates in the Court of Exchequer . . . . . . . 130 12 10 The following List is also given of the Offices in Courts of Law and Equity, the profits of which are accounted fur to the Persons presiding in those Courts. Secretary of Bankrupts, paid over to the Lord Chancellor in five year*. . . . Purse-bearer to the Lord Chancellor, paid over to the Lord Chancellor, on an average of three . years per annum . . . The Marshal to the Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, pays over to him, per annum, about . . . . The Clerk of the Errors in the King's Pench pays over to the Lord Chief Justice, upon an average of four years, per annum • , • The Clerk of the Errors in the Common Pleas pays over to .the Chief Justice, per annum, about . . . . The Sealer of Writs pays over to each Chief Justice a 7th of his Receipts, amounting last year to the Chief Justice of the King's Bench And to the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas 16,761 15 1210 3 800 0 2103 13 1000 0 281 0 129 19 The Deputy Remembrancer of the Court of Ex chequer derives the greater part of his emoluments from the interest made of the money of miter s, de posited with him under the orders of the Court. In the Colonies or Foreign possessions of his Ma jesty, there are seventeen Registrars mad fourteen Marshals, who execute their respective offices by deputy. Other offices also, such as Harbour-mas ter, Vendue-master, Ekc. are executed by deputy. In the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, the offi ces of the principal Registrar and four .of his Assistant Clerks, are executed by deputy. The rmer receives :the net sum of 4434f31. las. 4d. and , moluments of the latter produce, in the whole, 7s. 7d. It the Committee proceeding to inquire into offices of the Duchy Court of Lancaster, and ng before them the Chancellor of the Duchy Perceval) that gentleman stated an objection, he could not give any information respecting emoluments of those offices, without the pre s consent of his Majesty, as Duke of Lan er : and the Committee postponed the inquiry they receive the further directions of the House. «....t- 1 4044 1 formet he e i 2188] Or the ( callin (Mr. that the vious caste till tl