The National Register. — London, England, 1821-04-01 00:00:00

:~ ._.L. himself under the orders of Gen. La Tour, who is appointed Generalissimo by the King. Before Prince Carignano quitted Turin a courier was sent to the old King, to invite him to return. THE Bill for doing justice to the Catholics of the United Kingdom goes on prosperously in the House of Commons, and supported as it is by the ability of Mr. Canning, by the influence of Lord Castlereagh, (who really in this instance appears to act honestly) and by the declared wish of an immense ' majority of the protestant part of the population of the country, we begin so think and hope it may pass that branch of the Legislature.—That the King will not refuse his assent, we deduce from the declaration of his intended visa to Ireland—yet there is the intermediate branch in which we fear all the good proposed will be blighted—there is one part of it (which alluding to its intolerance, may perhaps exclaim with the l'riests of Dianna of Ephesus, " By that craft we have our wealth,") which, with one single honourable exception, we fear to see arranged in battle array against it. The Chancellor and the first Lord of the Treasury are unquestionably averse from the measure and will certainly oppose it, unless the declared inclination of their Royal Master shall be placed between the gratification of their wishes and his will—at all events, the issue is most important on every ground, and we wait it with fear and trembling, with fervent, though not with sure and certain hope." Mails from Holland and Hamburgh have arrived. the former bringing Dutch journals to the 28th, and the latter the Hamburgh papers to the 231 Accounts from China, via St. Petersburgh, men lion. that considerable difficulty had arisen in finding an appropriate name for the new Emperor; but that at last Tau Kinan was fixed upon.—The rumour is revived at Hanover, that the King of England will visit his continental dominions; the Princess Augusta and the Queen Dowager of Wurtemberg are ex pected to arrive before him.—The revenues of Nor way are represented as being in a flourishing state; the income amounting to 1,746,000 specie dollars; and the expenditure being but 1,607,400. The Dutch papers contain the first 15 articles of the new civil code of the kingdom of the Netherlands. Letters and papers to the 16th inst. from Lisbon. The Cortes were all sitting; but nothing extraor dinary had occurred. The bases of the constitution have been published in a decree which has the sig nature of all the members of the Cortes. They do not differ much from those of the Spanish constitu tion, and present the worst feature of it, an excessive abridgement of the executive power. The cause of independence would every where work better had its friends the prudence to ask and take less. The most ardent admirer of constitutional systems will allow, we presume, that it is possible for the popular element to grasp at too much. The liberty of the press is to be unfettered, except as to writing on religion, which are to be under tile censorship of the bishops—a woeful exception, which must yet be done away before the Portuguese can call them selves, in the full sense of the term—a free people ! Gen. Nlorillo is at the present moment in Paris ; he will make a very short stay. In a few days he purposes setting out for Madrid, where he is con considered as one of the most zealous partisans of the Constitutional system. The armistice which he has concluded with the insurgents in Sotith America has been the means of restoring peace to the finest countty in the New World, . Though that convention was effected without the sanction of the Government at home, it has been approved, and great praise has been bestowed upon the authors of it. Gen. Morillo has displayed great talents in America, where lie has been fighting for six or seven years, with a handful of men, against the united forces of Venezuela and the kingdom of New Gre nada. He retusns full of esteem for the character and loyalty of Gen. Bolivar. These two Generals have assumed, by mutual assent, the appellation of brothers. They lived together as such from the moment they became acquainted. Gen. Murillo presented Bolivar with his favourite charger, as a pledge of his friendship. The Chancellor of the Exchequer had appointed Eleven o'clock Yesterday Morning to receive the Biddings for a New Lottery, on the conditions that had been previously sent to the Bank; but as he still adhered to the Price fixed as his minimum at at the former meeting, Messrs. SIVEWRIGHT were the only Gentlemen who appeared to make an offer ; and having acceded to the Minister's terms, and paid their Deposit of 20,0001. they were of course declared the Contractors. Fir THE NATIONAL REGISTER • The tide of emigration, we regret to learn, 'still continues to flow to the westward. A very consi derable number of the society of friends (report says near 60 families), besides other respectable charac ters, in all about 200 persons, are on the eve of departure from Bristol to Upper Canada. The loss of such a number of intelligent and enterprising citizens is a public misfortune to the mother country, however much their talents, industry, and property, may benefit the province. The freedom of the city of Bath was, on Saturday last, presented to Capt. Parry, at the Guildhall of that city, in a box of oak, which formed a part of the mast of the Hecla; in the centre of the top of the box is a fine oval medallion in gold, beautifully chased in bas relief, representing the vessel, towed by boats, passing immense icebergs, with a distant view of the Griper. The medallion is surrounded by a rich oak-leaf border, surmounted by a naval crown. On the inside of the cover is a neat and appropriate inscription. A meeting was held at the Shakspeare tavern, Bir mingham, on Tuesday last, in honour of the emanci pation of Naples, &c. was well attended. A •ery excellent dinner was provided by Mr Smith. Among the toasts and sentiments of the evening, was the ful. lowing, drank standing and in silence:—" The im mortal memory of Dr. Priestly." Perhaps such a tribute has never before been rendered to this great man's memory, in that town, at a public meeting of persons having no connection with his Christian Faith, since that memorable year 0791) in which his house, and philosophical apparatus, were con signed with barbarous Vandalism to the flames. On Thursday evening the annual dinner of the school for indigent blind, was held in the lower room of the city of London tavern, and was nume rously attended. Sir Claudius S. Hunter took the' chair, supported by several persons of rank and eminence. On the cloth being removed, and the usual standing toasts given, the report of the last year's proceedings was read, and presented a most gratifying account of the labours of the society. In the course of the evening the healths of the vice president., treasurer, stewards, and secretary were drank, which called forth several able speeches in support of the institution. A long list of subscrip tions was read, and the company enjoyed the festi vities of the evening to a late hour. A Bill, lately brought into the House of Commons by Mr. Dickenson, and very shortly to be read a second time, will, if carried, give very extraordinary powers to Commissioners of Sewers. It appears intended to invest them with an arbitrary coutroul over every navigable river in the kingdom ; autho rizing them to put down locks, dams, and sluices, wherever they please. Such a power may be em ployed so as to prevent the flow of the tide up many rivers, and, consequently, occasion a considerable deposit of sand, or other matters, at and near their points of junction with the sea, from the want of that proper reflux which must take place when no obstructions are offered. The subject is one which particularly demands the attention of all ports situ ated at the mouths of navigable rivers. On Sunday evening last, as Sir Francis Daniel was returning to town in his photon, in passing alone Fenchurch-street, the perch of the carriage broke short off, and Sir Francis, with his servant, were both thrown on the pavdment, but providen tially neither received the least injury. Notwith standing the horse possesses extraordinary courage, he never moved, or the accident might have been very serious. No part of the duty of a member of the House of Commons is of more imp ot twice than that of attending the open committees on private bills. Many of these are complete jobs, and require to be strictly scruti nized, as clauses are often smuggled into Bills quite foreign from their professed object, to the great injury, not only of private individuals, but also of the public. In consequence of the laudable arrangements of the inhabitanta of the Strand, in employing special constables and street-keepers to take up suspicious characters, the pickpockets in that quarter have taken the alarm, and have changed their perambu lations. The inhabitants of Holborn, Fleet-street, Ludgate-hill, 'Sc.!. should also endeavour to clear streets of the gangs of pickpockett that freqi.iit them at all hours, and by a general co-operation of the householders, the passengers may walk in safety about their business, which they cannot do at pre sent, in consequence of the audac;ous conduct of thieves of every description. St. Martin's-court, Cranbourn-alley, and along to Coventry-street, are frequented every night by abandoned females, and pickpockets of the wurat description, to the great annoyance and danger of respectable passengers. A vessel was seen from the pier at Margate, on Thursday last, in want of assistance, when two boats with seven men in each put off to reach her! Unfortunately one of the boats was swamped and went down, and every man on board peri,hed in the presence of several persons on shore, who could not and them any assistance. At the adjourned sessions held at . Warwick on Saturday last, James Hughes, a livery stable keeper, at Birmingham, a prisoner for debt in the Conn of Requests, who had given notice of his intention of taking the benefit of the Insolvent Act, was opposed the ground of his having entered in the schedule of Isis effects• only two bail debts, and with baring fraudulently assigned all his pro perty to his father, which was completely proved.—Mr, Linen (of the house of Barker anal liner, Birmingham), appeared for the creditors, and addressed the court in the following terms:— " !laving now concluded my examination of the insolvent debtor, and of the creditors, who bare come here at a eonsiderabie tiptoes to oppose his discharge, t wueld beg leave, with the permission us tote court, to make a few observations on the punishment Wood. this act of parliament authurires you to inflict on the Insolvent before you, and on the act itself. By the 17th section it is enacted, that if the insolvent ' shall iraudulently make away with or conceal any part of his property for the purpose of diminishing the inns to be divided amoolog his creditors, he shall be liable to imprisonment for any period not exceeding three years.' By the 18th section, •if he shall contract any debt' fraudulently, or without any reasonable or probable capaci tation of paying the same, be shall be liable to imprisonment for 557 period nut exceeding two ye.ire. —Nowt hope 1 have satisfactoosly proved to the court that this Insolvent debtor has been guilty of the Higher crime, and has therefore made himself liable to the greater punishment, that is, Shim isonment for three years. " With respect to the policy or use of these sets of parliame it, think I only echo t►e opinion of s great majority of the people or the country (at all events a great majority of thAd who are engaged to trade) when l sty, that they have opened the door to more trend and more rascality r i ven the legislature maid be aware of—that it is a nth. taken humanity to pass them so freoently—that the well-meant intention or government in favour of insolvent debtors Is grimly aborted by theirs—and the merited punishment for the offence is free (lucidly overlooked lie pity, In false pity to the offender. In passing the insolvent debtors act, geverement appeals fo me to have emeig Wired the notion that all debtors were innocent, and all credi•ors merciless; bet daily experience proves that an Mutest debtor, one w: w • is reduced through iinforeseeu and inevitable misfortunes, has little • r nothing to fear from his creditors. lb (ramie% inaotvent aets, oar legislators seereflo have been too tench led sway by feelings of homes oily for the situation of the unfortenate debtor, and to have almost r•r totally forgotten the interests and situatioe of the spill more unridte nate creditor; for a dividend under an insolveurs estate is a thing scarcely known, and It was either proved, or offered to be prover, lately in the !louse of Commons. that all the insolvent debtors' meat.* in the kine,lout bad not paid one halfpenny in the pound. " The debtor, aware of the facility wills which he may procure hie discharge', and get white-toadied, as the cant phrase is, plunges sit speculation and conlracta debts, without the most remote prospect paying them. lie than willingly stsiunits to a short imprisonment. leading his creditors just what he thinks proper, 40 account of which Is co./tallied in a schedule, perhaps suck an infamous schedule no the one before yes. "It has twos clearly proved to you, that Jas. Hughes, theinsolveet, has made away wither concealed Ass property, for the purpose of etiniiisishing the sums to be divided itownig his eredftors. ills% I a crew of great magnitude, einal, in my opinion, to robbing a anon on the highway, and deserves the utmost punishment awarded by vs act. In a country like this, where trade con only be carried nn thruegli the medium of eat naive credit, a slight punishment to a fraudulent debtor is inure likely to hove a bad ellect on the pubim than a gmel one, becaose it only acts as an encouragement to othens to be guilty of similar mal-practices. " I call upon you, therefore, air. Chairman, In mama that your judgment luny !bank your opinion of this Oman's conduct, and that 3 may operate as a salutary example, and deter others (particularly in such a large trading town as birmingliain) from being guilty of such fraudulent practices, to indict upon him the utmost punionniont of tve law, that is. an imprisonment of three years. finis is an act of just: which the credituraexpect at your bands, and l trust they will nut tis disappluted." The court sentenced the insolvent to eighteen montr.s imprisonment. FIRE INSUR4NCE. —A statement of the increase of duty paid for the last year, ending Christmas 1820, over the year ending Christmas 1819: tfoubty £3,626 0 9 London £439 I LI Sun British 1,437 12 9 Westminster Atlas Union In the Returns of all the other London Fire Offices, there is a decrease in the last year's receip:s, to an amount within 2,7001. equal to the above increase. ------- CoMIIITTEE ON AGRICULTUaE.—Monday this Committee resumed its investigations. The lon,; examination of Mr. John Ellinan, jun. having been concluded, the committee expressed a wish to hear clue testimony of Mr. George Webb Hall, of Sneed Park, near Bristol, who is expected to be the lust witness examined illustrative of the preliminary branch of the inquiry. . After being examined during nearly the whole of the day, his further examination was postponed till the next meeting of the committee. Yesterday, a large vat filled with lamp oil in tl.e shop of Mr. Armstrong, oilman, in Hatton-garden, bnrst ; and after deluging the shop, it flowed like .► rapid stream down the street, as far as Mutton hill, and the street was crowded with women ern ploycd with pails in teeming it out of the kenne:. If the reader is afflicted with Fistula, Piles. •r Strictures, we would ask, has he ever heard oft . :.e late Martin Van Butchell, who used to treat these complaints in a way peculiar to himself, and to effect cures almost universally • without having re course to either Cutting, Caustic, or Confinement, which is the usual practice ? We find his son D. D. Van Butchelf, surgeon, accoucher, who residts at No. 48, South -street, Berkeley-square, continues to perform cures of the must dangerous eases by the same method, • and is as completely successful.— Both rich and poor, who are thus afflicted, will do well to observe he requires no remuneration utitl they are satisfied a cure has been performed ; fact, the poor are relieved gratis if resptietalily recommended. The horses of two stage coaches ran .away in the course wf the last week; in consequence of no person renlaining at•their head while the coach:ll:n left the box. In one instance the passengers were saved by a person on the outside Tinting his sett at the h.zard of his life, and seizing the reins ao-i stopping the horses. In the otuer instance t;io mall was overturned, and some of the pisiengerg were severely injured. Such CA reiessli,tss on Lie part of coachmen deserves severe wad ineriled pu— nishment. 101