The National Register. — London, England, 1817-11-17 00:00:00

Ftwa4 the.LONDON GAZETTE, Saturday, Nve. 15. --.0.- BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. IA tEs W. late of Nov. IS, to Dec. 2. BANKRUPTS. Piccadilly, chmirelonger, from P.OIRT J. Denbigh, draper, Dee. 3,4, 27, at Manchester. Att. Mr. Ellis, Chaneery-La.e. PITTs L. Thorpe Abbots, Norfolk, merchant, Nov. 26,27. Dec. 27, at Norfolk. Ans. Taylor and Co. Temrle. TrtL'art.t G. M. New Street-square, Fetter .lane, wine merchant, Nov. 18, Dec. .2, 2, at GtuidhaU. Att. Mr. Haynes, Fen- church-street. Hawk:2 W. Lamerton, Devon. merchant, Dec. 2,3, 27, at Ply louuth. Alt. Mr. Fairbank, Staple Inn. Bterte rr W. P. late of Wakefield, linen draper, Nov. '27, es, Dec. 17. at Wakefield. Atts. Lamberts and Co. Grays Inn. War NwatouT G. New Compton-street, St. Giles, bottle merchant, Nov. 22,25, Dec. 27, at Guildhall. AU. Mr. Willett, Crown court, ThreadneAlle-street. un' rz W. Long Acre, spring blind maker, Nov. 22, Dec. 2, 27, at Guildhall. - Att. Mr. Popkin, Dean-street, Soho. NtaDtties W. Daventry, Northampton, cr. c:r, Nov. la, 2.5, Dec. at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Latleirge, Gray's Inn-lane. t oust: .1. Fareham, Southampton, tanner, Nov. 23, 29, Dec. 27, at Fareltam. Atte. Alexander and New Inn. b , r4 I Tlf T. Chepstow, Monmouth, cabinet maker, Nov. 27,23, Dee. 27, at Monmouth. Acts. Trice sr.(' Co. Lincoln's Ir.n. Pow ELL J. 'Topsham, Devon, rope maker, Nov. 21, 24,-Dec. 27, at Exeter. Atts. Collett and Co. Chancery-lane. Dav me W. Tredegar iron works, Morunouth, innholder, Nov. 27, 28, Dec. 27, at Monmouth. Atts. Price and Co. Lincoln's Inn. (,lIEEN J. Salford, Somerset, victualler, Nov. 27, 28, Dec. 27, at Bath. Au. Mr. Young, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house. HoLanoutt 'l'. Bath, coach master:. Nov. 27, 28, 1./tie. 27, at Bath. Att. Mr. Young, Charloite.row, Mansion-house. SMITH J. Shrewsbury liaen draper, Dec. 5, 4. ‘l7 ,at Manchester. Atts. Adlington and ' Co. Bedtind-row, QUINT J.'Noeth Woolbot ough, Devon, spirit merchant, Nov. 18,19, Dec. 17, at Guildhall. Alts. Larub and Co. Princeststreet, Bait. Pat.1.2 . 1r C. and J. P. Massur, late of Love-lane, factors, Nov. 18, Dec. 2, 21, at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Williams, Dyer's.builti . lags, Holborri.. li07l:111NSON W. St. John-street, Middlesex, cheesemonger, Nov. 25, I)ee. 9, 27, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Robinson, Park -street, Westniinater. Ru.siir W. late of the Borough-market, Southwark, victualler. Nov. 18, 22, Dec. 27, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. llunnam, Chambers, Covent Garden. MATH LSO?, W. and (; ,. 4. 1 1./6PRAIIE, Bishopsgute-street, Without, tailors, Nov. 18, De 27, at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Willett, Crown-court, Threadneedle-street. DKr:l:maw; R. andJ. St. John btreet, Clerkenwell, brewers, Nov. 27, at G11111116%11. AU. Mr. Gab:fish-4,ton, London- wed, Fenchurch..treet. COLLITIV)N J. H utlckrstiell, York, boat builder, Nor. 18, Dec. 2, 27, at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Chew, Fenchurch-street. Abbott, Powis-place, — tireatOrmuba-street, iusuraacc broker, • Dee. 6. S. L. Viorsfold, Ramsgate, shopkeeper, Dee. 9. J. Wells and W. Hamilton, Liverp•ol. merchants, Dx. 9. I'. Collin;, Old Hall, Salop, corn dealer, Dec. 9. J. Buck, Hingham, Nortolk,firoc.er, Dec. 11. W. Lockwood, Manchester, merchant. Dec. 16. J. Stevens and J. Fitz Gerratd, New S.irum, Wilts, cabinet ma- kers, I)ec. 8. E. Thomas, Liverpool, merchant, Dec. 10. T. and M. Neave, lace of Btiekton, Southampton, miller, Dec. 9. 1-1. Dunn. Ware, Hertford, auctioneer, Dee. C. A. Ansel!, Carshalton, Surrey, paper maker, Dec. 6. W. Douglas, Sheffield, grocer. Dec. 10. H. Weiner, London-greet, London, merchant, Dec. G. J. Champion, Great St. Helen's, broker, Dcc. ti. .1. F. Schroder, jun. Crutch-_d Friars. merchant, Dec. 6. 1). C. Mats!). widow, L. Deane, widow, IL Westbrook sen. and H. B. Deane, Reading, bankers,. Dec. fi. T. and J. Dowley, late of Willow-street, Bankside, coal merchants, , - Dec. 6. J. Robertson and J. Stein. Lawrence Pountaey-hill, merchants, Dec. X 7. W. liouna, L-tte of Christopher-street, Finsbury-square, merchant, Dec. 6. _ C. Love, Bond-street, jeweller, Dec. 16. ti„ Steer, Holborn Hill, fiercer, Dec. ty7. CERTIFICATES, Dr.c. fi. J. Robinson, Helper, Derby, grocer—S. Thomas, York, cattle jobber—W. Elmitt, Peterborough, Northamptn, dra jser—E. Brown and T. Hindle, Blackburn, Lancaster, grocers—J. 'Waller, Manchester, hatter—J. White, Oxford, timber merchant 3. and J. Sykes, Leeds. York, merchants--W. Priday, tQuedgley, Gloucester, butcher—W. Bottle, Green-greet, Kent, saddler—lt. and T. Boville, Swainby, York, merchants—W. Stone, late of Illilver ton, Somerset, dealer. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. LONDON: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17,1817. THE domestic calamity which the nation has indured sinks all other considerations into comparative insig nificance. From every part of the kingdqm the dole ful note of woe is re-echoed, and wailings for the past with gloomy anticipations of the future are bonne on every breeze. Even in France the intelligence made an impression which could hardly have been expected.— The Duke of Orleans, who had a dinner party for that clay, immediately countermanded the invitations, and even on the French 'Change a gloom took place when the intelligence was known, and no business was transacted. The Brussels papers state that Mr. Kerr, the messenger had arrived at that city with the afflicting intelligence to the Duke of Kent. His Koial Highness wtts much affected ; his grief is de acribcd as boundless. An express reached town on Friday from Paris, with flan intelligence, that the Government of France had actedeil to an application on behalf of the Allied troops, it?..permit the importation of Iturn from England for • t'itir accommodation and use. As soon as the infor • i graeraily tranqpircd, (Urn advanced firm la, TIM NATI4IAL REGISTVII: 4d. to Qs. per gallon. This measure of the French Government may perhaps be accounted fur, from its operating as a redaction of the price of brandy ; which being an article of general consumption, has, through the succession of bad seasons, and the occupa tion of the country by foreigners in 1815, arrived at :an onvenicut price, and added to the hardships of the people. The French Chambers have not yet proceeded to any business of importance, having been principally engaged in verifying the powers of the different members and other preliminary matters. Baltimore papers received on Friday supply a va riety of intelligence from the Spanish Main, of a more recent date than any which had previously been re ceived in this country. It should, however, be re ceived with caution, as is notoriously the practice of the Americans to place the roval Cathie in un un favourable point of view. According to these papers, General Morillo and his force, after several conflicts with the Insurgents, in which they were worsted, arrived on the 3d. Sept. at Laguira, and meant to lose no time in marching all the threes he could raise to Caraccas, in aid of that place, so as, if possible, to an ticipate the Insurgents, whose aim was to get posses sion of that city before any resistance could reach it. Great alterations arc said to have taken place at La guira, both as regarded the local Gower of the Province, and the political state of the country at large. The Captain-General Moro bad been removed from the Government by order of Morillo; and the late Governor of Cutnana having been appointed in his place, had made many subordinate changes. The late Captain-General's conduct had been conspicuously mule by a prodigal waste of the public resourses, and had been reprobated as tyrimieal and oppressive. His successor was spoken of in favourable terms. The In surgents had acquired such strength and confidence by their recent successes as to excite hopes of their speedy and lasting independence. Bolivar, it was believed, would be Enabled to contend with the whole force con: emulated under the orders of Morillo. The Spaniards appeared to be alarmed and depressed. Morillo's de feats are excused by alleging that his presence was ne cessary on the Continent, so far indeed it was stated truly, for he is wanted every where. Commerce dwin dled in the midst of civil conflicts, and nothing could be disposed of but articles of the first necessity. A letter has been received from the Agent to Lloyd's at the Cape of Good Hope, dated the 15th of Septem ber, and stating the arrival at that settlement of a ves- sal from Batavia and the Mauritius,with accseuntsof the destruction of a Dutch garrison by the natives of the island of Lupperwaro, near Amboyna. A three of 200 men had been detached from the latter island, and suf fered to land at the place above mentioned, whets the inhabitants surrounded and pet them all to death.— The Dutch Resident and his fimily were among those who perished. Admiral Buynkus was on the point of sailing with an expedition from Amboyna, probably to attack the murderers of his countrymen. There is reams to believe, from many concurring authorities, that the Dutch are as odious to their ancient subjects in those Seas, as the British Government was respected and beloved. The relief from severe and arbitrary burdens, the speedy reform of old abuses, the administration of equal justice, and the display of a spirit of mildness and protection towards the inhabitants of Java and the other islanes, wete the cure and honourable means by which Great Britain commanded their willing obedience, and filled their hearts with undisguised affliction and des pair when she surrendered them in conformity to recent treaties. The Moniteur repeats the statement given in the German and Netherland Papers, that Spain has agreed to give for the Russian squadron the sum of 400,0001. which she is to receire from England, for consenting to abolish the Slave Trade in the year 1820! SUCCESSION TO TIM CROWN,--There are fourteen English Princes and Princesses in succession to the British Throne. According to a table formed on a medium between the Northampton Table of Observa tions, and the probability of life in London (snpposin,g neither of the illustrious individuals to have issue), there will be in the next twenty-one years nine reigns. two of them female ones; and after the first there will be no reign longer than twenty-one mooths, and two as short as five months. Orders were on Weigesday night sent to the several gaols which contain tfie remainder of the State pri soners, for the release of ten of the number whose elves would admit of such lenity. Two of them were re leased from Horsemonger Gaol. John Edward Conant, Esq. the son of Sir Natha niel Conant, is appinted a Police Magistrate in the room of the late Sir William Parsons, at Worship street office, Mr. Gifford, the Magistrate of that office, having been removed to Marlborougb-stseet office. Mn. 'l'rtowis SHERIDAN.—We are sorry to state the death of this gentleman. He died at the Cape of Goud Hops , ott the 12th of September last. N►/I'. 17. SIR RICHARb CROFT. To be the object of thefool's malevolence is the usual fate of talent, and of all men who are exposed to-the censures of the ignorant, .the medical practitioner, is perhaps, the most to be pitied; for the scandalous breath of the impudent quack will sometimes raise a cloud suf ficient to obscure the brightest names. To this fate Sir Richard Croft is at this moment exposed. The ue tineunate death of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte under his hands, has given licence to every petty knave to point their finger at hint. Foremost among those, who in the ignorance, presume to a raign his conduct, is Mr. Jesse Foot, a professional man whom the 3forning Chronicle describes as being among the most respectable in his profession !—Who has not heard of Jesse Loot ? This man has inserted a letter in some of the daily papers, in which he charges the Medical attendants on her Royal Highness with ignorance or inattention. To say nothing of the folly, can any thing exceed the impudence of this ? A man who was never near the spot, who can know nothing of the particulars of the unhappy case but from common fame, a man no nv)re like Sir Itichard Croft, either in his practice or his manners, " than I to Hercules," and yet be has the inconceivable effrontry not. only to arraign his conduct, but also that of the two very eminent gentlemen who were associated with him. We have not inserted this malignant letter, be cause we will not be instrumental in propagating ca lumnies against the most exulted characters in their professions which this, or perhaps any other coun. try can boast ; but we willingly, and indeed most cheerfully, present our readers with the tbilowing, written by order of the Prince Regent to Sir Richard Croft, expressive of his sense of Sir Richard's merits : " sir B. Bloomfield is honoured by the commando of the Prince Regent to convey to Sir Richard Croft his Itord klighnek's acknowledgments of the zealous care and indefatigable attention marife,,ted towards his beloved daughter, thtrine her late eventful confinement; and to express his Royal Highaass's entire confidtnce in the medical skill and ability which he di,played during the ardu ous and protracted labour, whereof the issue, under the will of vine Providence, has overwhelmed his Royal Highness in such deep affliction. " Carlton-house, Nov. 8,1:417." Our Readers will have observed by the Report given in our last number, that {faring, the man who wwiet-prin. cipal evidence against Roger O'Connor, on his trial at the Trim Assizes, for robbing the mail, has been prosecuted for perjury, at the instance of that gentleman, and ac.. quitted to the high satisfliction of a crowded court. In our present number, we insert the cross examination of Mr. O'Connor, at greater length than in our last, for it involves the affair of the robbery in additional mystery, and, together with the horrid and disgusting confession of his total infidelity, furnishes a picture of moral and religious degradation, which, thank God, is of rare occurrence. It has more than once been our painful duty to re mark, upon the laxity of religious principle, which in general characterizes those men who set themselves up fiir zealous reformers of political abuses. Their enmity to the religious establishments, appears to keep pace with their labours against the political frame of their country, and whether as admirers of the levelling Paine, the lunatic Spence, or the coxcomb Owen, still they are infidels, though but a few of them have the unblushing confidence to avow it. With them, a dis regard of that text which enjoins us to " honour the king," induces a contempt of the precept coupled with it, which exhorts us to " fear God." Can we for a moment imagine a more spoiling scene than that of a man standing up in a British Court of Justice, (we say a British Court, for there are not many things on earth of a more solemn character,) and boldly declaring, his disbelief in all those great truths upon which our hope is founded, and which, amidst all terrestrial misery becomes our only consolation. What we ask is, to restrain such a man from the commissicn of any crime ! Divine precept he despises, future re• wards and punishments he denies ; what then but ba. man can bind him? and how feeble would Mey prove under the reformed system of these enlightened lators ! If this man's avowal of his infidelity bad affected himself only, we should have passed it without an n'o.. scrvation ; but it has had an effect infinitely more to he lamented than the farther degradation of his own wort!:- less and contemptible name. He has dragged down with him a man who has long enjoyed a large portion of public favour, and who, whatever his religions creed may be, has had the good sense not to obtrude it urn the public eye. After snch a confession, however, we think Sir Francis Burdett cannot wish to be lonbaer numbered h the list of Mr. Roger O'Connor's frieirh, and we cannot but sincerely lament, that the interest which he has lately taken in the affairs of that gent/c -man, excites a suspicion that he loves to renew, in the infidel converse of Roger O'Connor, the remembrance of the scepticism of John Horne Tooke. Cobbett, it is said, has never dared to set foot cn the ' American Continent since his departure from this ecun. try, except merely to land, on his first arrival. He then removed in haste to Long Island ; where he re mains, and from which place his vile publications are permitted to find vent in this country.