The National Register. — London, England, 1811-11-10 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. IRELAND. * Duaux Srfsroms, Ocr. 29.—James Byrne was indicted for a conspiracy, to vilify the character of the Bishop of Fernes. Byrne had lived coachman with the brother to the Bishop, fur a considerable time previous to the end of last September, when he went away abruptly, and before another servant could be procured, behaving at the same time with great insolence; on which account Mr. Joscelyn refused him a character ; and it was to extort such a character as he wished, that he fabricated this false and most abominable charge against the Bishop. The Jury, without hesitation, brought in a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner, while on his trial, with extraordinary insolence, put out his tongue A the Court. Judge Day, before whom he was tried, observed that there was a savage insolence in his counte nance and in inner, which was never surpassed. He was ad judged to be imprisoned two years in Kllmainham gaol ; to be whipped three times ; and to find security for his good beha viour, himself In 3001. and two sureties in 2001. each; to remain in prison till such security was given. posture and appearance which he made, dared not attempt to destroy him. He could not, however, avoid the punishment of death ; for the Emperor commanded him to be shot dead in the cage. On Thursday, immediately after Lord Ellenhorough had taken his seat on the Bench, the Hon. E. Law (his Lordship's son), 0. Markham, Esq. and S. i.e Blanc, Esq. appeared in Court; and the two latter Gentlemen, who have held the office of Chief ci rk of the Court in trust for the former during his minority, resigned their trust. His Lordship then read the ap pointment of the Hon. E. Law, and of 0. Markham, Esq. to he Chief Clerks of the Court during life; and those Gentlemen having taken the necessary oaths, took their seats accordingly. A party of the friends of Messrs. Tooke and Hardy cele brated the anniversary of their acquittal, as usual, by dining to. gc-ther at the Crown and Anchor, on Tuesday. Among the toasts was, 4 ' The memory of V. Gibbs, Esq. which was drank in solemn silet.ce. One of the party took occasion to enter into a review of Sir Vicary's c'nultiet ; with whit h, blending some remarks upon his person, be said, the K - ight's countenance would admirably gr ice a lamp-post. It is but justice to state, that this expression met with general disapprobation. At ittitgqon, Jamaica, on Sunday, the 31st of August, Mr. T. Hay, 'Nine of the ship Hamilton, Reeves, harpooned in that harbour a fish, called a Devil. From the instant the harpoon pierced the animal, the boat was towed to Windward for about thirty minut.s, at the rate of six knots an hour, when stveral boats proceeded to the assistance of Mr. Hay, and by the aid of blarding-pikes, harpoons, & c. they succeeded in killing the fish, which measured from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail 2 feet, breadth from tin to hn 15 teet, length of the tail 5 feet 6 inches, circumference of the mouth 6 feet, and the horns 2 feet 6 inches in length. On Saturday se nnight a man who was employed in getting stone out of a quarry at Cl?eve Prior, near Evesham, discover( d two large earthen pots, which, on examination, he found cot: - tamed a quantity of coin. He was of course greatly overjoyed at the. discovery ; hut, having got possession of the idea that the. Lord of the Manor would lay claim to the treasure, he refused to tell the quantity of pieces he had found : however, he has disposed of a few, which are in t" hands of gentlemen of I : vesliam and the neighbourhood. They prove to be gold and silver coins of several Roman Einrrors. The gold coins are of the Emperors Valerian, one of the Valentiniatis, Gratian, ar.(l 'Theodosius. It is scarcely possible to imagine their excellent state of preservation; they appear as if they had just been issued from the Mint, not the minutest mark being obliterated, though from 14 to 1:500 year have elapsed since they were coined ; and, what is very interesting to the :intiquarian, cousiterfi:its were dis • covered among them, executed in a most excellent manner, be ing copper, plated with gold. The silver coins are those of Con stantius, Julian, Valentiniam, Gratian, and Theodosius: these were not in so good a state of preservation as the gold. The execution of these coins is of course not very good ; the art of cutting the dies being at that period very mach upon the decline. The man leas acknowled.;ed that he found 100 of the gold ones, the silver ones must probably greatly exceeded that number. The following account of the discovery of the robbers of the Charlestown Bank, and the recovery of nearly all the money stolen, is taken from the Charlestown Papier :—" It appears that suspicions had been entertained by the agents of the Batik f,r some days, that Mr. Benjamin Gray, of this city, a man of great mercantile talents, had been concerned in the rubkry ; a war rant was accordingly procured on Saturday morning, the I •Ith of October, and he. was arrested, and underwent a long examin ation at the Bank, before J. H. Mitchell, Esq. Justice of the Quorum, in the presence of the Directors of the Institution, and several other Gentlemen. We understand, that although there was mach circumstantial evidence, tending to criminate Mr. Gray, produced on this occasion, yet nothing appeared sufficiently strong to convict him of the act; he was, however, cominated to prison in the afternoon, preparatory to a farther examination. In the course of the evening, a negro belonging to Mr. Gray, and who was suspected t have aided his master in removing the specie, was arrested by W. Blacklock, Esq. at whose house his wife resided; and on being informed that his master had been committed to jail for sobbing the Bank, and that he was known to have aided him in the robbery. he was so intimidated that he confessed the act, and offered, on condition of pardon, &c. to point out where the money had been concealed. A detach ment of the City-guards was immediately procured, and the mcinft was found deposited in the original boles, in the inclo sure.of Mr. Gray's residence, near the race-course, concealed under a quiintity of manure, straw, &c. with the exception of a few hundred dollars, which had been made away with. Easly in the morning it was again deposited in the vaults from whence it w a s taken. We understand that the fame keys with which the Bank is supposed to have been entered, and a !auction:, were found lu a leathern bag, secreted with the money." MISCELLANIES. —•waw.-_ ~. On Friday his Royal Highness the buke of Clarence reviewed the Chatham Division of Royal Marines, commanded by Ma jar-General Bell ; after which his Royal Highness and. suite ao• mired the General and Officers with their company to dinner at their splendid mess-room in the barracks. Colonel Shrapnell has made some very great improvements in his shells. An experiment will in a few days be tried with them in Mount's Bay. Six privates and a hbn-commissioned officer from each of the artillery companies at Plymouth and Exeter, are to attend the experiment. The Officers and privates of the North Down militia, quar tered in Cashel, have, much to their credit, subscribed 501. fur she relief of their brethren, prisoners of war in France. Lord Crernorn and the Right . Hon. D. Lateuiche and Co. have also subscribed for the same laudable purpose, the former 1001. and the latter 501. Were every soldier and sailor, including yeo manry, volunteers, merchant seamen, and fishermen, belonging to the United Kingdom, to subscribe but owe penny per trumth while the war continues, to the relief of their fellow-subjects in the power or Buonaparte the suna would exceed 30,0001. per annum. This, with the d onations of the Officers, and of the Public generally, would produce abundance to meliorate the condition of our confined brethren. . Those who know the real state of the works in Drury-lane must have been amused in reading the paragraph which found its way into most of the Papers of Wednesday last, announa ing that the first stone of the new theatre would be laid next week, aed that Mr. Whitbread would perform the cere mony. The truth is, the foundations were laid lust week, and the walls are now up to the level of the ground almost all round. Had any celebration bet-it intruded in laying the first stone, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, the great patron of the un dertakieg, would undoubtedly have been solicited by the Com• rnittee to do that honour to the Company of Proprietors, to which he has so graciously condescended to belong; but it ap pears to be the wish of the Committee to keep steadily .and un ostentatiously to work, to reserve all display, and to restrain Tv ery I,:stive feeling, till the completion of the building shall have in sured the triumph their labours so richly deserve. Wo are glad t.) hear the number of subscribers increases daily; and We look s. aft anxiety for the publication .of the reports, which we un- Oa :stand will appear in the course of the week. An ingenious clock and watchmaker, at Nottingham, has in vented a machine upon an improved plan, to be applied to the works of a silk, cotton, or worsted mill, which, it is supposed, will effectually keep such works in their necessary motion, without the aid of steam, horse, or water; the machine bring kept le motion by a weight, but which, by a simple operation. h necessarily admitted so slight, as to render its winding up of 'eo consequence, either as it respects power, or the motions of toe machine. The instrument consists uf a perpendicular wheel, that gives motion to another with octangular arms, which act epon two moveable inclined plants; the. latter of which acts upon an horizontal wheel, and that upon * eog, which by being applied to the pinion of a mill-wheel, win set the necessary works in motion. An Officer in the East India Company's service, who had long been stationed at the Courts of the Javan Emperors, once witnessed a most extraordinary occurrence. A Javan, who had been condemned to he torn in pieces by tigers, and for that purpose had been thrown from the the top into a large cage where several tigers were confined, fell exactly upon the largest and fiercest of them, across whose back he sat astride without the animal doing him any harm, but, on the contrary, apppeara ing lintiinklated; while the others also, awed by the unusual -....-