The National Register. — London, England, 1822-05-05 00:00:00

his crocodile tears of linmcrisy, and declaring— So help him God, he is only actuated by his feelings of duty."—We shall see the Lawn Sleeves, with but one honourable exception, held up against this measure founded only in bare Justice—yet we have reason to hope all will not do.—Those who are most competent to judge upon such a subject, calculate on a majority of THREE in the House of Lords, after which we think too highly of the King's prudence to suppose, that he will interpose his veto against a law of so necessary conciliation. Lord Londonderry's motion on the distresses of the Country, will be argued again to-morrow— and till it is disposed of, we shall withhold our comments—we may however observe, that his plan embraces many subjects totally distinct from Agri cultural distress which it is avowedly to relieve, and exterds to points which ought to have been discussed independently of that momentous topic. A frequent repetition of degradation produces cal losity of feeling, and the present Mi►►isters having many times endured the vote of a majority of the I louse of Commons, in opposition to their views and wishes, still hold their places, under such circumstan ces as no man, not lost to all that delicacy that ought to belong to exulted birth, would condescend to re main in off►ce, only for the sake of what the law calla " filthy lucre." The motion of Lord Normanby for the reduction of one of the Postmasters General was renewed in an altered shape on Thursday night, and was carried against the whinings of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the bullyings of the Marquis of Londonderry, by a triumphant majority of fifteen! —lt must be a source of ccnsolation to every real friend of his country to find that the House of Commons, b.ul as it is, is not so bad as it was thought to be—that " the Devil is not so black as he has been painted" and as we know the force of public approbation, or execration on the worst of mankind, we ardently hope that the thanks of the country en this occasion, will urge the Members to proceed in the honourable course. —Mr. Frederick Robinson, who upon the late de bate upon the Post Masters General, impudently avowed the necessity of retaining them to support fOs influence of the Crown in that House, did not speak at all on the second agitation of the question. His colleagues had doubtless schooled him, on the imprudence of being too honest, or too candid,. and lie was silent. STOCK-EXCHANGE, SATURDAY, 12 o'Cr.oen.— Although the French mail i 3 'arrived, we do not hear any information, up to this hour, by the private letters, in regard to the ailliirs of the Russians and Turks—and we still remain in the same uncertain state. Consols are 791, for the account, and for money 79, with little or no business transacting. HALF-PAST ONE o'CLocK.—Mr. nippon, from Mr. Ilase's office, has this moment notified to the gentlemen on the Stock. Exchange, that lord Liverpool would be ready at twelve o'clock, en Tuesday next—to receive proposals for the new annuities. Consols immediately dropped one half per cent. So little is the plan either tin . 110%110011 or relished, that the 'opinion of the House appears decidedly against it. Unless the Bank shall, to prevent the total failure of the scheme, take upon itself to make the bargain, there is but little expectation that the negotiations can be effected. —To sanction the directors in an operation of this nature, we apprehend the assent of a Court of Pro prietors might be deemed essential. A beautiful diamond ring has been presented to J. P. Thomas, Esq. of 22, Dean-street, Southwark, Member of the Athenian Society, by several mem bers of the public press, as a testimony of their approbation of his legal and constitutional argument against the alleged judicial right of restraining the publication of reports of judicial proceedings, as lately assumed against the Editors of the public newspapers, wrongfully, and against the laws of na tions, as Mr. Thomas contends. The Adelphi Theatre is almost as popular now as it was during the run of Torn and Jerry, and the vent riloquistical powers of M. Alexandre merii. the support they meet—his changes of dress are made with unequalled speed and dexterity, and the won derful command he has of the muscles of his face has repeatedly convulsed us with laughter. THE NATIONAL ItEcisTEn DUEL BETWEEN THE DUKE OF BITCKINOIi.III AND THE DUKE OF BEDFORD. 4 4 We are authorised to state, that a meeting tok place on Thursday morning. between the Dukes of Bedford and Buckingham, accompanied by Lord Lynedoch and Sir W. Williams Wynn, nt consequence of words used by the former at the Bedfordshire County Meeting.— Both parties fired together, at the distance of It paces on a word given, but without effect, when the Duke of Buckingham observing that the Mike of Bedford fired into the air, advanced to his Grace, snit remarking, that fur that reason the thing could go on no further, said— " My Lord Duke, you are the last man I wish to quarrel with; but you must be aware that a public man's life is not worth preserving unless with honour." Upon which the Duke ul Bedford declared, Upon his honour, that he meant no personal offence to the Duke of Bucking ham, nor to impute to hint any .bad or corrupt motive whatever." The parties then shook hands, and the whole business was terminated most satisfactorily.—The duel, we understand, was fought in Kensington Gar , dens." The above account of the recent duel we copy from one of the vilest of the Ministerial l'rints, to which it was doubtless sent by the Duke (late the Marquis) of Buckingham, as it 66 Vouches for his valour's reputation." Our detestation of the barbarous custom, and the grounds of that detestation on the score of justice, morality, and religion, are already known to our readers—in the present instance we must say, we consider the. conduct of the Duke of Bedford as without excuse; how dared he run the hazard of risking a second time, a life se valuable to his Duchess, his children, his country, and the world, by throwing away his first shot—and fur what? Why, for the sake of consulting the safety of a man whose death would have affected only his own im mediate dependents. The Duke of Bedford ought to have remembered, that a hair of his head was held in higher estimation than the persons of a whole Peerage of Dukes of Buckingham. Had Hamlets expression of ---" A Rat, a Rat, "Dead for a Ducat dead"— _ _ _ been realized, we should have regretted it ; but had the Duke of Bedford winged or legged his anta gonist, he would have learnt from his sufferings that political apostacy is not unattended by danger. The Prince of Denmark is on his way to pay a visit to this country, with his Princess, and a nume rous retinue. One of the royal yachts will proceed to Calais in a few days, for the purpose of conveying his Royal Highness and suite to Dover. Advices have been received from Cape Coast Cas tle, stating that the Dutch Government has sent out to the Government and resident of their settlement of Elwina Castle full permission to sell canoes to the Portuguese and other slave-traders, thereby affording great facility to that traffic ; and that in consequence many slave-vessels had anchored at that port, and have been amply supplied. The Little meat on the Gold Coast has been very unhealthy last year. Hoy DUTT.—Another conference has taken place between Sir John Geers Cotterell, accompanied by Viscount Eastnor, Sir Thoinas Winnington, Sir C. Burrell, and Mr. Cneteis, member thr Sussex, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, relative to a re duction of the hop duty for the last and all futute years. The Chancellor had taken some time to consult the Board of Excise upon the measure, but he has now fully acceded to the strong representation and arguments made use of by thsa above highly respectable persons. He has, however, agreed to postpone the payment of the last year's duty (u hich has usually been made at this time), and to let it be paid by instalments on the sth of July, 10th of October. and 10th of November. By this ar rangement, considerable relief will be afforded to the hop-growers, and. the bond before required will be dispensed with, and a simple note of hand by two persons will be accepted for the stipulated payment, by which the stamp duty will be trifling.. On Tuesday the-annual meetin ,, of the Much Missionary Society, was held at Freemason's Ta vern--Lord Gambier, in the chair. The report which was read, stated, that the subscriptions for the last year amounted to 52,9761. being 20001. more than the preceding year, which also exceeded the year before by a similar sum. The report also stated, that the missions were experiencing the greatest success, especially in India and Africa; and it contradicted a statement made in a former report, that the inhabitants of Western Africa were cani bala.—Lord Etocksavage, Lord Calthorp, Mr. Wil berforce, Mr. Buxton, Mr. Thornton, and several other distinguished persons, addressed the meeting, and expressed their confidence that the labours of the society would he productive of the greatest blessings to heathen nations. Mr. Buxton stated, that there were still 800 millions of our fellow creatures without the knowledge of Christianity, and that 800 females had perished last year in In dia on the funeral pile, victims of the cruel super stition under which that country still groans. 141 DEaTta or SIR Isaac HEARD.—The venerable Sir Islam Heard, Garter Principal King of Arms, died at the Heralds College, on Monday morning last, at a quarter past one o'clock. He was in the 92d year of his age, and had filled the distinguish. ed office of Garter since April, 1784. Sir George Nayler, Clarencieux King at Arms, is appointed Garter King at Arms, in the room of Sir I. Heard, deceased ; and Mr. Bigland, Norroy King at Arms, is promoted to Sir George Nayler's vacant office of Clarencieux. _ _ . DUBLIN, MAT 1.-0/1 Monday last Sir Benjamin Bloomfield arrived at Howth at two o'clock. Sir Benjamin left the Phenix-park, on a visit to his Excellency the Marquis Wellesley. A Court of Aldermen is summoned to assemble at Guildhall, on Tuesday next, the 7th instant, to swear in the Common Sergeant, to appoint a Keeper of' Ncwgate in the room of Mr. W. 11. H. Brown, whose resignation has been received by the Lord Mayor, and on other business. Mr. Wontner suc ceeds Mr. Brown. Letters have been received from Malta of the 10th of April. By these information has come to hand of the Greeks having completed their Government, on the European system, at Corinth, and that great order and a just obedience to the laws universsally prevailed. On the iith of April, the Yarmouth brig Soltav, Captain Fill, arrived at Odessa, in 46 hours from Constantinople, bringing letters from thence of the 3d of April. It was mentioned in our Old Bailey report a few days ago, that the business of the Sessions was de layed one morning, on account of there not being an Alderman present. It seems that the Alderman in turn had engaged another to appear for him, by whom the engagement had been forgotten,—at least as far as attending on•the Bench was concerned.— Both the worthy aldermen, however, were present at the dinner. The anniversary meeting of the Catholic charities of Saffron-hill and St. Mary's, was celebrated at the Horns Tavern, Kennington, the Rev. Mr. Meths in the chair, supported by about 140 gentlemen, when an excellent dinner was provided for the oc casion. The object of the charity is fin the clothing and educating the children of poor Irish Catholics, until of a propte age to be apprenticed. One hun dred and ninety poor children are receiving the benefits of the charity, and they were exhibited to the company, who seemed to enjoy the healthy and clean appearance they presented. A handsome col• lection was made. The new visiting magistrates appointed for ll chester gaol,-• at the Wells sessions, are General Bathurst, of Vookey, (son of the Bishop of Nor• wich), and W. Harming, Esq. the late sheriff, who has not been a visitor of the gaol for the last ten years. On their first visit, the 20th ultimo, the day after Sir F. Burdett left Mr. Hunt, they gave orders fin the high walls, which surrounded Mr. Hunt's and the adjoining wards, to be immediately lowered, and the noon, which was closed, to be 10 open, fur the free admission of the sun and air.— By the promptness and activity of Mr. Hardy, the governor, this long protracted nuisance is already removed, and the walls 10-:ered one half—so that they are now only ten instead of twenty feet high. The sun and air has penetrated these gloomy re cesses, from whence both had been excluded, by f:.e notable contrivance of the late gaoler, for the last twelve years. At the above sessions, a committee of magistrates was appointed to visit all the prisons in the county, with a view to the adoption of sues alterations in their management and discipline as may appear desirable. • This clearly evinces the glI:s1 effixts which are likely to result from the law in vestigations into the abuses of Ilchester gaol. We trust this system of gaol reformation will be lowed throughout the country. A letter from Stockholm, dated April 19, says— " Our Government has grunted to all Spanish ships in the ports of Sweden, the same immunities and privileges enjoyed by the most favoured nations." Coke FOB THZ 1100 PING-COUGH.—Dissolve scruple of salts of tartar in a gill of water, aid tea grains of cochineal finely powdered ; sweeten this with fine sugar. Give to an infant the fi;urth part of a table-spoonful four times a day; and from four years and upward a spoonful may be taken. 'lne relief' is immediate, and the cure, in general, in live or six days —The above remedy has never failed ia any one instance. On Monday morning, part of the 58th regiment landed at Portsmouth, and the other part, separated in a gale of wind, and was supposed to be lost, arrived ea Tuesday morning. They are q;iar tered at the Military Barracks, Gosport. This re giment embarked in October, 1816, from Ireland r Jamaica, where they have been stationed ever since, and we arc concerned to state, that they have lost 5 officers, 530 men, 110 women, and 200 children, which have been carried off by the local fever. Tt,e inhabitants of Jamaica have equally suffered trots that dreadfully malady.