The National Register. — London, England, 1818-09-27 00:00:00

SEPT. cr A person from the orchestra called out, " He is here; ::int defend himself if he can." Upon the suggestion of a subscriber, that part of the report which referred to Mr. 13ignold was again read amidst loud applause. Mr. Barry proceeded. and urgel the title of every• Englishman to be heard before he should be condemned. His amendment was, that the report be approved of, except that part which related to Mr. Bil►nold, which should be left oat, and that the conduct of Mr. Bignold be referred to the same• committee, or to some other committee. In further support of this amendment he urged the long and successful services of Mr. Bignold. For 9, i years, that is, ever since the commencement of this institution, he had been its secretary. He had in fact been its founder, and the very report which con veyed the censure was the proudest monument of his roerits. The principles of the institution which they so justly praised, the unprecedented progress of the society, and flourishing state of the funds, all were to be ascribed to the seal and perseverance of Mr. Bignold. Surely a gentleman who had so served the society ought rot to be disgraced and condemned without an oppor tunity of defending himself. Mr. Brook, a member of the committee, spoke in vindication of their conduct.. The committee had most deliberately come to the opinion, that it was for the interest of the society that Mr. Bignold should retire. There were many circumstances of Mr Bignold's con duct which no provocation could induce him to mention, but which amply justified the opinion of the committee. They had signified to Mr. Bignuld the propriety of retiring before the report should be given in, and he hoped, that, in consequence, they could this day apply the old observation to him—dc ofortuis nil nisi &num. They imputed no misconduct to him—they attached no disgrace tohis character. His honesty and his zeal were not only unimpenchecT, but highly meritorious. His zeal was not, however, tempered with prudence. That he acted according to the best of his iv Igment they would admit, but his judgment of the proper mode of acting was such as rendered his retirement indispensible to the prosperity of the society. Mr. Bignold addressed the meeting at considerable length. He could not endure to have his name branded from one part of the kingdom to the other, as a person who had been guilty of a criminal offence, without any specific charge against him. All he wanted was a fiiir enquiry into his conduct. Was he to be blamed fur having considered it his duty to inquire into the cir cumstances of every case of claim set up. against the society ? What if they should find, that if he had neg lected any one part of that conduct which gave tame, he had just so far neglected lis duty ? Others had acted together with him, to whom no blame was attached.— The hostility against him had arisen from the jealousy and rivalry of other offices. When he attempted to establish this society in London he had been told he might as well attempt to wash the blackamoor white. By his experience in insurances, and by his seal and perseverance, he had, however, succeeded, and that was the cause of the attempt now made to get him, dis missed. The enemies of the society wished to deprive it of his experience, seal, and be would add, ability— (a laugh.) He had indeed supposed the committee were his friends.. After he had devoted his whole life to the service of the society,, it would be most ungrate ful in them to dismiss him. In a fsw years he should perhaps of himself retire.—(Cries of "question, ques tion.") The Chairman put the amendment, which was nega tived by a great majority, and the original motion was t.n inimously carried. Mr. KernLle said, that they, the committee, had been called Mr. Bignol4l** puppets. It could now be per ceived whether they were inanimate puppets, or Mr. ' iiignold's puppets. He had buried all animosities in oblivion; but he would slightly advert to the reception he had met with at the George and Vulture. Mr. Alderman Thorp, the Chairman, was disposed to ac cede to his proposal, that they should delay coming to :any resolution for a few weeks ; but there was a power behind the chair, and greater than the chair, which resisted the proposal. He believed Mr. Alderman Thorp would now admit that it had Leen better if they had eeceded to the proposal of delay. A paper had ken Landed to him which suggested that Mr. Alder tan Thorp and his committee be added to the present com mittee. He was anxious that Alderman Thorp should be added to their Humber ; but if the committee should .be added, they could not act with cordiality. After several further ohservatious on Alderman Thorp's com mittee, he concluded by moving that Alderman Thor)) he added to the committee. The motion was seconded end carried unanimously. Mr. Alderman Thorp F;:itl, he would not enter into any particular reply e. tie eteervations of the last speaker ; it was StlifiliCAL to state, that of 15 clews re presented by them, nine were paid since their inquiry was begun. 11e should willingly give all the assistance in his power to the committee, which had facilities of inforeattion and inquiry, from wbieh he and those who had acted with him had been excluded. The thuuks of the meeting were unanimously voted to I'. A. Clarke, Esq, Secretary to the conunittec. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. A member of the committee moved, that the commit - tee should be instructed to consider what salary should be given to Mr. Bignold. The motion was re jected as premature. Mr. Bignold said, if ha deserved dismissal he cou'd deserve no salary ; if he did not, the dismissal and ti e question of s al ary were equally irupro!;er. The Chairman then put the question of adjournment, which was carried unanimously. LANCASHIRE. [From the Manchester. /Jerald, Sept. 221 " Although we this week have to recuid a circumstance which arose out of the discontents of the weavers at Burnley, in this county, yet it is coupled with the satisfaction, that all is Dow quiet and peaceable in that district. Plain cotton fabrics, which require the least personal skill in %stating, are chiefly made in the neighbourhood...lntl when it is c.siasidered that three weeks-are always deemed a sufficient length of time to teach a mere labourer, when com mitted ter any offence to the New Bailey Prison, to weave oalieo, it cannot be wandered Nat competition is excessive, or that the price paid foewcaving the article should be small, compared with that paid for goods which require superior still. The weavers of Burnley, it appears, were not satisfied with the advance they_ hest actually obtained in Cie price of their labo u r; and on Tuesday last they employed Ate helium° to give public notice of a meeting to enforce their claim for more.. The Civil Aatthorily,lioweveroeryproperly interfered and took the Willman into custody, as the active agent cf the combination. This his employers, in great numbers, resented; and try the help of iron crows, pickaxes, tee. they forced open the prison door, and liberated the prisoner. Their success in this instance made thent still more irregular, and their numbers on Wednesday became so great, and their menaces so violent, that the Magistrates did not seem it prudent to persist in the exercise of their duty, till they had snore military assistance than six dragoons (all that could be spared from other duty within a day's march of Burnley) could afford. " Informed of this cireumatence,the Manchester and Sal ferdYeoraanryCawalry, in the handsomest manneroolonteered their services ; and about it o'clock on Thursday, whilst the rain posited down in tarrentsohey marched under the corn nianstof Captain Medley. The rain continuo:4 during the whole of the march, which was accomplished in six hours. The influence of their presence at Burnley was immediately felt, without their being reduced to the disagreeable alterna tive of applying form in order to disperse their knew-court trynsen. " Daring the whole of the stay, a great number of most turbulent characters had possession of the streets, in which all busbies, was suspended.. Placards, referring to the outrage of Tuesday, had been prepared by the proper authorities, bat no one had dared to venture amongst the ill-directed populace in order to post them, till the cavalry were descried approaching the town, when they were immediately made public ; and or; the arrival of the yeomanry, with a promptitude and vigour which did. bower to the gentlemen who composed it, the civil power began to act, and in little snore than an hour seven of the most violently active of the insurgents were taken into custody, wahout any resistance on the part of the crowd, which dispersed immediately on the approach of the patriotic corps ; and at a very early hour that eveuiug the town. was perfectly at peace, and the prisoners easulucted (through Pidiham) to Blackburn prison, ender the escort df the six dragoons already men tioned. " The next day the yeomanry accompanied the Magistrates toP rdiham, where a meeting had beta announced ; but the presence of the force broke the spirits of the refractory; and, instead of attending an unlawful sneeting, the quiet, peaceable, and industrious weavers, who had been forcibly driven from thew looms by threats of vengeance by the leaders, had resumed their daily labours, and the click of the fly-shuttle was hearth in every loom house. After a stay of two hours at Padilaas, the cavalry returned to their hospitable quarters at Burnley, which, on invitations so hearty that it was impossible In evade them, were in the private houses of the principal inhabitants, where they and their horses were treated in a manner which did honour both to the town and the individuals who so very handsomely performed the rites of hospitality to the gentlemen who hod, its so patriotic a manner, left their accustom:try porsnits, and hastened to t rescue them trona the danger with, which they were threatened by a body of mesa labouring antler moutons, but strongly excited impressions, " On Saturday morning, order being perfectly restored, the proper authorities again respected, and the six drogoons increased to a sergeant's valet by a detachment which had arrived to support the magistracy, the gentlemen of the yeomanry corps prepared to march Isoinewai doslien, Lame. sliat , ly before they left the town, a testimonial of the estima tion in which th .W valuable services were held, was hastily drawn up on the spur of the occasion, and signed by as many of the principal inhabitants of Burnley and its vicinity as were immediately on the spot." On Saturday. the 29th of March, f;aleutts was visited by one of the most severe gales of w ind experienced fora long time. It commenced about IJY p. in. and blew from the south. ward, with di atl•nl fury fur nearly half au hour. We are esti eittely concerned to state, that Mr. Abraham, of the civil Sol Vire, and Mr. C.4ll.fleid, a partner in iilt• firm nt !'sealer .ind Co. lost their lives in attempting to erus# the river at the 100111111illeellirlit of the gale ; und M. C. Hoffman, second officer of the (eres. was drowned by the op•et inn; of a boat I)nling the storm a number uf ships drifted from their anchors. and considerable damage was dune to their iii.e;ts and rigging Several boats also were overact, and many of the natives drowned. The lightning was particularly vivid, and the thunder, tat one period, awfully loud. We arc Amity to slate that the prevailing epidemic has not Flom the 1711 i in the 2•ld of Mat elm, the native phywians employed by Government, report, that 4,493 nati vcn 11.1.1 been attacked by it of whom fis3 had died. Instances of 4 f,ll4lterniiiia:ion among the Europeans attacked by the same di.•lrder welt' rare. A body of 1200 Ilintlarees from Milker s (*Minify had pt•nettaterl into Mysore. and plundered Ilarpatinoly inn I hey had been linen:opted by ei bad) of infantry miller Capt.. , who to -lc from them 190 nurses anti a great 11011101 i n( lllru iiOM%„-4sjulic Jlirroc. Mr. Wilkie, the landlord of the C:nW;i4t •h CO:110.r of Dufour's place, Itroad.v:rett.Carnaby maritct, fituid drowned in the: lie• gent'. eana on S'inday morning at 12 o'clock. lie hail left 11010::a eight iu the mon:Mg ; but whether bis death was occasioned t•y bill- Cidt or =Went is nut known. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, Sept. 2`). BANKRUPTCY SUPRRSFT)F.D. HARCOURT J. Chard, Summetshire, b.ankkr. BANKRUPrs. WATKINS W. Norton, Woreener, corn-factor, Oct. 13, 14, Nov. 3 at Guildhall. Att. Mr. I'ugh, Berners-street, Ruasell—equare. Su .tic J. I?. Fleet-street, boot-maker. Sept. LO, Oct. 6, Nov. 3, at G u ilt! hall. Att. Mr. Woodard, NVatlin!;-1- t rect. WARMINGTON J. an:l J. I". Gracechurch-strict, simpers, Sept. Oct. 6, Nov. 3, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Sh f up, Essex -court. Temple. PROSSER W. Birmingham. builder. Oct. 5. 5, Nov. 3, at B!rming ham. tor , . Ilicksami Co. ilartlett's-buldinr... U, born. Corm: J. W. l'iymoutlr-doci . merchant, Sept.:46, Oct. 3.. Nov. s r, at Guildhall. Alts. Ccuiv.la and Co. Ft.:l:rick% place, OM Jewry. Pun xr Ver. D. Liverpool. groeer, Oct. 1.3,21, Nov. 3, at Liverpool. Ans. Leece and Co. Liverpool. CARRIAGE T. HOlScartl, N:sreiiv, grocer, Oct. 5,1, . Nov. 3, at . Nk-r • wich. Mt. M. Crosl.y-s-,t.arc. LAT:rear N. Manchester, baker, Oct. 'l, 10. Nov. 3, at Manfaester. Atta. Appleby and Co. Gray's Ir,n-atittare. P. Knowles and S. Sayer, Sheffield, mercliant; Oct. .1. and J.Dalton, Newcastle.upon Tyne, earthentrare-mannfacturcr Oct. 14. T. Grieve, R3inburgh, and J. Grieve, Manchester, fu:tiar. rnanti facturers„ Oct. 17. J. Bird, Brampton. Cumberland, grocer, Oct. 15.. W. Parker, Lectit:, merchant. Oct. 11. A. Low, Berkeley-street, Clerkenwell, working jeweller, Oct. Is. G. Harding, Ilfraco:nbe, Devonshire, draper, Nov.l 2. C. Acton, Lichfield, blacks:unit:Oct-26. CERTIFICATES—OCT. 13. S. Hobbs. Bath, grovr.—G. Robinson, Spalding. Lireoli.;l dealer. DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT' CEMETERY IN ST: MARTIN'S-LE-GRAND. As the workmen employed is clearing away the ground in St. Martins-le-Grand, which is to form the site of the new Post office, were a day or two ago removing the fimndatioes. of some of the old houses which stood in the rear of St. Leo nard's, Fosterlane, they discovered the roofs of some ancient At .atones as the rubbish on the particular sp o t w en removed, Airee vaults were disenvered s each commnnicating. with the other by a narrow passitgeor gallery t they arc built, chiefly of large square bricks, intermixed with stone and some flint, and the interstices filled up with 'a yellow Lalky earth-. They are rather spacious, the height being nearly nines feet, the depth about eighteen, and breadth about six or seven, They appear to hare been each originally divided into twn cnmpastments. In the back part of one of the vaults was found , a large quantity of human bones, thrown promisee. cushy together, as if collected from different graves. In one of them is a stone coffin. rather short in length, made in tho shape of the ancient coffins, square at the head, and inclining in a tapering form towards the feet; a place is rather rudely shaped for the head of the body to rest upon, and the remaina of a skull and some decayed bones are in the cavity. Adjoin iag, and in the same line with these arches, is as vanited supported by small and short stone shafts or pillars, from *hid* spring semicircular arches, intersecting each other at eqnidistant points, and presenting to the eye the skeli t‘ to of * structure, at /*tee simple, durable, and beautiful. Tile subdivisions of the Intel - columniation were evidently open when built, and so arranged as to admit &communication with other parts of a building. The float of these vaults is almitt 20 feet below the level of the pas salient in Newgate-street, the loose ground on the same level bears alt the appearance of having been once a cemetery, from the frail/Hems amt calcined parts of bones intermixed with soft earth which are observable in the vicinity. St. Martin'-le-Grand was originally a college, founded in the year 700, by Wythred, King of Kent, and according to Dugilale, in his Ilfumacticon Anglicamtm, rebuilt and endowed by a noble Saxon, and his brother Edwardus, for a Dean and Secular canons and priests, owl was dedicated to St. Martin. The. epithet 1.-Grand was afterwards ad led, oil account . of the great and extraordinary privilege., particularly the dee germ's one of Sanctuary, granted to it by different warn elic. William the Conqueror confirmed the endowments of Oils house. and the possession of the lands given by the founders, to which be added all the moor laud without Cripplegate, and exonerated its Cations from nll interference or exaction of any Bishops, Archdeacons, or their Ministers. He likewise granted them sac and toe, toll and team, and a long et cetera of -Saxon Liberties in the moat ample degree. His charter sanctimied by John anal Peter, two of the Pope's Legates & eimelndes thus:—s' If any person whatever shall presume to alter any thing hereby granted, let him perish with Judas the traitor." Henry 111. bad the weakness to confirm these misehievon s charters. fuel to extend them id cases of debt, felony, anal treason; the inilidgence granted was au obnoxious to ths peaceable citizens, on accomit of the protection afforded to the lowest sot of rogues, ruffians, thieves, felons, and tont derers, that they were frequently compelled to apply to the Government 14 security against this senetunry. Aite.ent!y, when this college was in is .flourishing state, a curfew bell Was rune here at eight o'clock every evening, and at St. Mary. le-Bow, 5... Giles, Cripplegate, and at Allhallows, Barking, to Warn people to keep within doors. Edward th e First, in consequence of the many mischiefs, two der., roll_ Iteries, and heal int; dawn persons by certain Hectors, wall— ing armed in the night, commanded that stone should be so hardy as to he found wandering in the steec - s, alter the tat had sounded in St. Martins'.le-Oratid. The ead!ege was SM_ rentlkta ed tat Edward the Sisllt, in 15 Pi, and soot) I the chatrch was pulled dual), and many tenements erected ant its site. ,itch is the Itioorical acentint of the ancient sanetnary or (Attica, of which these vaults appear to have been a part.. - The vaults in whielt the hones arc (mind, do not seam to he of vetv ant-lent date—they %vete probably foray(' by }A ward VI. for the pin us purpose of licpo.iting therein the hones o Inch wore eN.posed Mille demolition of the old church. 'Die line arched vault. Plipport cif by colamiri, %%Inch we have de%cribeil, is nut of rat her date Ih.ut llse reign of Hen ry 111. , ‘ ree v believe,nnty ut' them , r e n d • i r a C c V e a r tl s i i: i li rs under i til l e , art i il t; . 74 . , littantA, and walled up for their particular convenience.... Prom In theltid Iteilry teas "nee a kin: of tt•r• residence* of our gentry, and these. excavations 41C tly in this track. On NI ortlay W. Battenantl Ilan. Wren , twn jcanne!znm. wr-n. committed Cloeratrr Coy garil Int one fru twri cuutbtuaticA agaivat J.Dobbuts, cordwaitscr, eftlut city,