The National Register. — London, England, 1821-05-27 00:00:00

FEOIII LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTR. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. T. Wood, Wakefiekk Yorkshire, manner, from June 5 to June to. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. 11. and .I.liall:Cliperfl;;;Tesitre et, iron merchants. E. Pitt, Manchester, woolstapler. BANKRUPTS. C. Tuthill, Meeklenburgh Square, merchant. Solicitor, Mr. Taylor, Furnival's Inn. I. Jacobs. Bristol, glass manufacturer. Sols. Messrs. Adlink ton and Co. Bedford Row. J. Jackson. Halifax, York, shoemaker. Sol. Mr Wiglesworth, Gray', Inn Square. H. White, Gracechurch Street, merchant. Sol. Mr. Corry, Ba‘ingliall Street. H. Trollope, Reading, Berke, linen draper. Sol. Mr. Gates, Newgate Street. 0. Skinner. Gorleston, Suffolk, grocer. Soh. Messrs. Swain and Co. Old Jewry. J. Mason, Aliinchuiter, hat manufacturer. Sol. Mr. Clabon, Mark Lane. J. Peters and F. Weston, Bristol, maltsters. Sol. Mr. Evans. Ha•ton Garden. E. L. Edwards, Cardigan, linen draper. Sols. Messrs. Jenkins and Co. New Inn. H. Rowe. Amen Corner. printer. Sols. Messrs. Stephenson and Co. Southampton Buildings. G. A. Baker, Blackman Street, Borough, cheesemonger. Sol. Mr. Latkow, Doctors Commons. It. Carbery and D. Dowell, St. James's Street, hat era Sot Mr. llopkin.on, Lincoln's Inn New Square. .1. Archer, Ware, Hero, miller. Sol. Mr. Eond, Ware. J. Edington, Lower Therms Street, stat.oner. Soh. Messrs. Pearse and Co. Lombard Street. C. J. Bolden, Duke Street, West Smithfield, painter. Sol. Mr. Basinghall Street. DIVIDENDS. _ June 16, H. and W. (Ttithitsb,iftsitisione, carpenters-19, A. Humphrya, Worcester, merchant-0, W. Rust, Sheffield, merchant-16. W. P. Hash, Shipliam. Norfolk, tanner-19. J. Garland, Austrinfriars, merchant-16, J. I.awrance, Hatton Garden, woollen draper-16. J. Sparkes and A. Coles. Portland Street, coachmokers-16. G. Webb, Cornhill, dealer-16, C. H. and T. Little, Carlisle. cotton manfacturets-16, T. Stunt, Allen Street, Goawell Street, carpet manufacturer-16. B. W. and B. Finelutm. Epping, Essex, bankers-23. G. and F. Wardale, Upper Thames Street, oil crushers —v(4 B. Bewley, Manchester, slater-19, G. Harris, Birmingham, and J. Edmonds, Aston, japanners-19. W. Gadesby, Canterbury, cabinet maker-19, T. Rutland, Wootton Underedge, Gloucestershire. grocer-4, R. Coliens. Maidstone, bop dealer—l 6, S. Bilbrough, Gilderaume, York, merhant—vt, M. Vigor, Bristol, cabinet ntiker. CERTIFICATES to be granted June 16. R. Sisson, Leeds, merchant—L. Frost, Liverpool. timber merchant—C. Lockey, Ivy Lane, com chandler—J. Hart. Bath, saddler—W. Bale, Richmond, Yorkshire, woollen draper—W. I loult, jun. Stourport, Worcestershire, cabinet maker-1. Nash, Bath, fishmonger—G. Backhouse, Kendal, Westmoreland. ironmonger—J. Dorrington, Manchester, wine and spirit dealer Ball, Alhury, Surrey, paper maker--. 1. and C. Bogen. Plymouth, coachmakers—S. Grim wood. Bores, Sulffilk, miller— W. Cruickshank, London Street, merchant—G. A. 'f. Bruggen kate, Little East Cheap, merchant—T. Farquharson, Swanca, mercbant—.l. Cummings, osborn Street, Whitechapel, brewer— T. Jent, Piccadilly, chinaman. PRICE OF STOCKS. Bank Stock 229 0 1111 l nun 0. 3 per Cent. Red. Imp. 3 per Cent. 3 per Cent. CAmsulx 751 India loud• 49 3i per Cent. 946 India stock 234 4 per Lent. 93 I Exchequer Bilis ss. di.. 5 per Cent. Navy 1I Luna. tur Ac. Thi Lour Auu. 19 Lottery 'rickets ..El4 COURSE OF EXI Amsterdam, 12 14 C. F. Ditto, at sight, 12 11 Rotterdam, It 13 Antwerp, 12 10 Hamburgli, 38 7 Altona, IS Paris, 3 da) s' sight, 23 80 Ditto. t 6 Boiirdeauz, 20 15 Frankfort on theNlaine,l37l Petersburgh, 9 , 3 U. Vienna, Ef. Flo. 10 20 Trieste, Et'. Flu. Id 20 Madrid, 36—Cadiz, 331 Bil boa, Bai canna, 35 RANGE, Miv 26. 3:4—Gibraltar,3ol Leghorn, 361—Genoa, 43i Malta, 43—Venire, 27 60 Naples, 49i Oporto, 494—Halria,S8 Rio Janeiro, 18 Palermo, 116 Dublin, 9 per cent. Cur', di per vent. Foreign gold in bars, 91. 17s. 101.1. per oz. New Doubloons, New Dollara,la. 10d. Silver in bars, standard, 49. 11d. b THE NATIONAL REGISTER.. L WWII. SUNDAY, MAY sl. In the House of Commons, Mr. Creevey's motion respecting the Barbadoes and Leeward Island Du ties was negatived, by acceding to the previous question—thus, what ought to be, and what was in tended to be, appropriated to the repairs of the forts and to other honest and useful purposes, is still to be misapplied to the payment of pensions—some of which have bcen granted to persons to whore a halter might, perhaps, have " done nobler justice." If we mistake not, the inestimable services of the Right Hon. George Canning have laid these funds under heavy contributions in the shape of pensions to his pauper mother and sisters, while the House of Commons is called upon to add additional bur then. upon the starving and desl'onding people, to mo•et expenses which the funds in question ought to defray.—Mr Scarlett's new Bill for regulating the poor has bren read a second time: we gave a copy of this Bill in our last, by reference to which our readers will perceive that in has three important points—first, to restrict the poor rates within the amount that was levied during the year terminating i THE NATIONAL REGISTER at Lady-day last—secondly, to deprive the poor of the right to relief, unless they be either ill or too old to work—and thirdly, to prevent the removal of any person who has been employed in s parish, without gaining a settlement in it, to the parish in which he or she may in truth and law belong. To the first, that is, the restrictive point, we would object, that the maximum of rate is flied from a season of extra ordinary plenty and cheapness, and that if it become a law, and it should please Providence to visit us with a season or two of dearth, the poor must in evitably be starved, or the humane Overseer be liable to a refusal to pass his accounts, because he could not refuse to supply bread to " him who was ready to perish." As to the second point, it has always been the boast of our country, that no Eng lishman lives but who has a claim to support if he need it b and though we never would wish parochial aid extended ta those who could obtain employment, but prefer a life of lazy pauperism, yet we should regret very much that a law should be permitted to disgrace our statute-book, by making the inability to obtain employment a capital crime, punishable with starvation, because we know that, from the stagnation of trade, hundreds would die every day in the streets, were so inhuman a law now in exist ence. The third appears to be a point of minor importance, but still deserving censure ;—no man who is accustomed to the Appeal business at the Sessions can be ignorant of the many artifices that are constantly used to prevent a proveable-hiring of such a mature as to give a right of settlement; and if the Bill pass in its present shape, no person will engage a workman without as particular an exa mination into his health and constitution as is matte by a Life Insurance Office before effecting a policy—and of course he whose appearance is not robust in the extreme will be rejected.—The Bill for the abolition of capital punishment for forgery, being one of a series of Bills of the same humane tendency introduced by Sir James Macintosh, has been committed, and, we have no doubt, will pass the House in spite of the puny opposition of the Solicitor-General. The Lords have passed the Grampound Disfran chisement Bill, notwithstanding every effort of the Lord Chancellor to prevent it—thus one blow more has been given to the infamous and corrupt borough mongering system. We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday and Wednesday last. The Ottoman . Porte is making great exertions to put down the Greek insurrection. The Russian troops are also in motion, and, though not destined to cross the frontier, as an army of ob servation they must damp and paralyse the energies of the Insurgents, who do not appear to have increased in strength or spirit. These observations, however, are wounded exclusively upon the intel ligence in the French Papers, which in the present state of the public press in France are not the best authority we could wish The domestic intelligence which they contain consists of ordinary Court routine movements, contributions for purchasing the estate of Chambord for the Duke of Bourileaux, and the reports of the proceedings in the Court of Peers on the trial of the conspirators of the 19th of August, and in the Chamber of Deputies, none of which are are of any interest. The following is an extract of a letter received on Saturday from Santiago de Chili, dated the 10th of January last :-- W e have just received dispittches (ruin Limn, •nsmun rine the ple twit advice, that since the 'mfr.. 'ion of the regiment of Nuinantin, 800 airline, with all the officers, 27 offlecrs belonging to different other regmients have also pow owl rto San Martin. tie was within a few leagues of the cut), and hourly expecting its San. sid.• Af111711 , 11 is ales rail tit have arrived at Cruz.... Lunt Cochrane has (since the fi low) taken six sail of vessels, four of which are foam !spoilt. thief. principally laden with quo ksilver, and very valuable; another is the Indian. from Rio Jam ira, with an a-sorted cargo. Captain Basil Hall, of the (noway, is send ing an caplet", to Burnet, lyres with the abuse r I i _~" I i 4 The mail from Corfu brings an ac c ount, dated the 2-Ith April, that the Greeks were again in possession of Patras. They had also obtained possession of Modone, as the Greek flag was seen flying there by a vessel which passed from Alexandria to Trieste It was also stated that the Greek were in actual possession of Napoli di Rumania, the strongest for tress belonging to the Turks, and which, if the re port should be confirmed, must have been taken by surprise, as the Turks are remarkable fbr their obstinate defence of fortifications. It is said that King Ferdinand having lately s nt a present of fine Spanish wine to their Majesties the King and Queen, the whole was conveyed to the King's cellars, but that on the application of her Majesty, her share was immediately sent to Bran denburgh-house. This transfer having transpired in the neighbourhood, the right was construed as a present from the King, and hailed as a proof of a reconciliation between their Majesties, and the happy event was celebrated in a joyful peal by the bells of Hammersmith Church. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.A new farce, en titled the Grand Tour ; or, Stopped al Rocheder, was produced at this theatre on Tuesday night.— The plot consists in three young fellows, a waggish artist, Sebright by name (Mr. Jones), a modest music -master, Blushington (Mr. Duruset), and a French dancing -master, Mous. Pastorelli (Mr. Yates), having joined in the purchase of a share of a lottery ticket, which is drawn a prize, become entitled to 2,0001. among them, which they agree to spend in making The Grand Tour together.— But arriving at Rochester, they stop there some time, till their fonds being nearly exhausted, they are rather at a lugs whether to proceed further or return. Blushington, however, having contrived, during their stay, to win the heart of Lefty (Miss Beaumont), the daughter of Venture, a general dealer at Rochester (Mr. Blanchard), who has fixed the next day for her marriage with Violet, a cockney oil and colourman in High.holborn (.Ir. Liston), whom he has never seen, Sebright undertakes to secure the union of his friend with the young lady, • which, after one complete defeat, lie at length suc ceeds in bringing about, and out of his contrivances fin- that purpose the incidents of the piece. wine of theta ludicrous enough, and sufficiently remove.' from probability arise. The plot is well conceived to produce comic effect, and the dialogue is enliven ed with equivoque and smart repartee it is evi dently the production of an author conversant with the stage effect, and was well supported by the per. formers. Emery afforded much amusement in tile character of a drunken Yorkshireinan ; but enough has not been done tot Liston, as the whole burthen of the piece rests on Jones. The farce has since undergone some judicious alterations, and was ex ceedingly well received. WATER•WOkES.—The report of the select com mittee of the House of Commons on the supply of water to the metropolis has been printed. After a review of the six water companies which at present supply Westminster and London, and discussing the questions—whether there is any improvement in the supply, how far it is proportioned to the increase in the demand, and whether that improvement could have been obtained upon terms so much inure fa vourable as to set the increase of rate at present demanded in the light of an extravagant over charge? the committee recommended that a bill should be introduced and limited to four years, re straining the companies from advancing the rate beyond the proportion of 25 per cent. on the old rates, for what is termed the ordinary service of water for domestic purposes, leaving high and extra services as matters of agreement between the purtie , , but defining the one and the other, and establishiog as far as may be found pnwticab!e, fixed rules tur the rates of charge on trades consuming large quati titiesuf water. It is further recommeuded that the bill should contain a clear definition of what shall be deemed high and extra services, and rides for fixing the cases in which the companies shall be at liberty to withdraw the supply from individuals, Ls pecially the extent to which they shall be allowed to look to the premises fur payment in default of tile occupant ; fur preventing the waste of water, and for rendering the remedies of the companies fair this purpose, and for the recovery of their dues, as etti cacious us possible. The committee add, that a judicature of this sort might be formed in each di - trict, by one person nominated by the coti,paity, another by the lavishes within the district, who, unless they concur in their c h oice, might each ilit. initiate a person, and the appointment be deterniined by lot to be drawn hetiare a miagistrat_ ; the too o persons thus appointed to chaise a third. Iher. p rt recommends *owe other suboidniate regulatio,,s a.ad suggestions. In the house of Commons, as soon as the Army Estimates are disposed of, the Chancellor of the Exchequer will name a day when he will bri , forward the Budget, which wil! conclude the re winning irupuraant business of the session. sow ,