The National Register. — London, England, 1818-04-12 00:00:00

.A.PRIT, 'Meat and - patriotic a work, and by the powers which each might Po‘so3si to dr vise means for the employment of the overflowing population. " The introduction ofmanufactories and fisheries, of trade and commerce, could not but prodare a prodigious increase of manual labor, which;•on being rewarded according to ex ertion, would soon produce industry and emulation; these would speedily create artificial wants, the indulgence in which after a *time, would disincline the people, if not to improvi dent, to early marriages; and thus the present increasing population might tecoive a check, and to a vertain extent be restrained' within the limits prescribed by the needed em ployment of the country. " Although 'the manner iir which the Irish-peasantry exists is revolting to the feelings of those unaccustomed to the inspection of their wretchedness and poverty, yet arc they rich in the contentment which springs from a patient sub mission to their lot, flow their conjugal attachment and affection to their offspring, and from a siatnral buoyancy of spirits, that makes the heaviest eVii74 sit lightly on their beans, with the e:•ceptioe of their being ntrabie to earn a sotliciejacy to ensure the contituranec of the cabin roof over the heads of their families— a source of the greatest affliction and misery, from one end of Ireland to the other." The state of the Irish people has been so (Alen clearly elucidated, and solemnly discussed, that to dwell at any length upon it now would be deemed impertinent. We are happy to agree - generally, with Mr. Curwen's stiews of the causes of existing evils, , as we think them liberal, temperate and just. Omitting many minor points, which, though they are in themselves mighty mischiefs, ere rather consequences than causes, we ap prehend that the impoverished and distracted condition of the people at; large, may be principally attributed to these three—eignorance, want. of employ, and oppres sion—and were the natural remediea for these, educa tion, employment, and kindness judiciously applied, we have no'donbt bet that the mists would vanish, and the Sun of leased rise to gladden and to bless ; not shin ing as some of the dreamers have amused themselves in depicting, on regal splendours and insubstantial mock eries, but diffusing the genial rays of instruction, corn. fort and peace into the cottier's cabin, and reviving* the drooping flowers of maimed pro:sperity, independence, and hope. Our Author is also an advocate tbr the Emancipation of the Cathelies—and so are we, as sub sequent to the amelioration of their lot in other particue !sirs. The kind of emancipation most wanted, is a re lease from the bonds of ignorance ; it is that ignorance which is the fountain of . all the moral evil—it is that which makes it requisite to pause before we accede to the demends of the Catholics—it is that which perpe tuates the discords and outrages of the country. On this ground, the people claim our most sincere commi seration, and our strenuous exertions for their relief. It has been a fashion (we blush-to confess it) far centu ries to oppress the Irisle and to keep them in a state of intellectual slavery. Can- me be surprised at hatred, at violence, which is fostered by acts of tyranny or cri minal neglect? Can we read of the outrages that arc too frequently committed, without a feeling of indigna tion that the great work of instruction has been so lung delayed? The habits, feelings, and prejudices of un enlightened men cannot be expected negive way in a moment—oppression and its train of miseries have con tinued for ages, but amelioration and kindness have comparatively only just begun. This desirable plan is now prosecuting with' zeal and success, and the most beneficial results may be coufi dently anticipated, bust the progress must be gradual; and, if we are not mistaken, the experience-and delay of a fisee years would exhibit the sine:Gen of Catholic Emancipation hr a new light, both to its friends and. opponents. We have scarcely left ourselves room to touch upon the other points mentioned above—it ap pears that the population is so abundant, that Agricul ture is by no means sufficient to employ it. Mr. C.'s sumzestions we need not repeat, but we must say, that we should be sorry to see Ireland become wholly a me nufacturing country—to see the plough exchanged far the shuttle throughout; these, we knew, arc not our Author's views, and we have only to add '.o what he has so wol4 observed upon the subject, that there is no thing so detrimental to the health and morals of a peo ple, as the crowding them together in a town, Which is properly but one large manufactory ; natural feelings are destroyed—artiticiel wants arc created, and though we are persuaded, with Mr. C. that agriculture will not suffice abptc, hope that it will always have the preponderaace. Bet we must conclude—we have al ready given an option of the general merits of the work before us, and we have only to express a hope that the humane and politic suggestions of its Author may be attended to—and that the effect of a wise and conciliatory system will, ere long, be visible in the increased happiness, prosperity, and loyalty of the peo ple of Ireland. SUSPECTED licnnntr.--The friends of the nnfortnnate re_ male lately loom! on the river Medway, at linisming. have at length been discovered ; her name proves to be Mary Noakes Sands i she %vas going from Strood. where she hatllive.l about two years. to Ticelnirst, her native place, and where her re lations reside. tier brother and sister hearing of the cir cumstance, they went to Bill wing to ascertain the fact, which they, alas! found to be too tine. They state that she left Stroud about the 93 , .1 of February, and came to llaidstoue by Bore coach, Hied then proceeded on her Journey ; that :0.,a had mow::: in her pockets, awl also a bundle containing a variety of articles. None of svhich having been found, int. presses our minds with a stroit:4m. l!ouvirtlim that she was murdered ; and we trust that every mewls will lie resorted to by her friends to discover tire keipeti.ate.,. THE NATIONAL. TIEOTSIT,R; From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, April 7. Mr. C. 11. Rose was sworn of the Privy Council. Prime Leopold cf Saxe Cobourg, to be styled .' His Royal High ness." and to bear the Royal anns (without the Chnlensagne's and the Hanoverian crown) differenced with 4 &Lel of Jive point 3 argent, toe 'ward point charged ::9th a NU gales, quarterly with his own arm;. The Duke of Richmond appointed Captain-General and Governor of Canada. BANRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. WALSER. C. Brighton, stationer. BANKRUPTS. PENFOLD R. Deptford, victualler, April 11, 18, May 19, at Guild hall. Att. Mr. Pearson, Temple. lin aru mw R. Bolton-le-Moors, hatter, May 1,2, 19, at Manches ter. Atts. Milne and Co. Temple. H AR`AVICKE T. Linterwotth, cornfactor, April 16, 17, May 19, at Northampton. Att. Mr. Ayes, Chancery-lane. Wit, MOST R. Bristol. brewer, April :10, 21, May 19, at Bristol, Ans. Lambert and Co. Gr , y's Inn-square. BIGGi G. Holborn-bridge, silversmith, April 11, 18, May 19, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Tucker, Bartlett's building's, Holborn. PAYNE H. late of Strod, Kent, brewer, April 14, 18, May 19, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Bowman, Everett-street, Russell square. SMITH C. and VICICHIDGE J. Southampton ruw, grocers, April 18, 25, nor 19, at Guildhall. Am. Draper and Co: Exchange buildittga, Royal Exchange. DIVIDENDS, J. Polgiase, Bristol, merchant, April fa. J. Farthing, St. John-street, victualler, May 30. .1. and J. Thackery, Manchester, cotton-spinners, May 12. C. Tuthill, Norwich. merchant, May 12 . .1. Dickenson, Dewsbury, York, linendraper, April 29. W. Bennett, Lawrence Poutticy-hill. tea-dealer, May 12. S. Amherst. Uxbridge, iron -manufacturer, May S. T. Moore, Worthing, builder, May 9. G. M. Thurlde, New Street-square, wine -merchant, April '21.. W. I/. Ellis, Christchurch, Hants, linen-drader,. April 29. C. Westwood, Bristol, merchant, April sa. C. L. Sparkes, late of Southbersted, Sussex, shopkeeper, May 1. W. Page, late of Walton, Suffolk, butcher, April 28. I. Littlewood, late East Greenwich, rope maker, April 28. .1. Dewsnap, Oxford, glove-manufacturers, April 25. J. Haslam, and J. 11. Oldham, Manchester, liquor-merchants, April 29. T. and J. Dowlcy, late of Willow.street, Dankside, coal-merchants, May 2. Donsld, Abbot Lodge, Westmorland, cattle-dealer, May 1.. Morris, Burton-upon-Humber. Lincoln, banker, May 5. CERTIFICATES—Apart 28. Peatherheath, of Hare-street, Borafortl, carpenter.—T. Learn ley, late of Portsmouth, slopbeller.—W. Ilewins, of Hinckley, Lei cester. mercer.--Jacob Ilarrisen, late of Leeds, Ycrk, merchant. It. Crops, Abergavenny. victualler. COURT OR COMMON cousca. THE ROYM, MARRIAGE. On Thursday a- special Court of Common Council, which was very thinly attended, and at which there was but two Aldermen besides the Lord Mayor, was held for the purpose of considering the propriety of addressing the Prince Re gent, the Queen, the Princess Elizabeth, and the Hereditary Prince of Hesse Romberg, upon the marriage of the two last. The Lord Mayor having stated the object, there was a parse, as if for the purpose of fixing upon a mover. Alderman Bridges rose•and said, he had no doubt the questions he had to propose would meet with the unanimous approbation and adoption of the Court. After a fvii words expressive of the high estimation in which the Princess Elizabeth and her con sort were universally held, he concluded with inuring ad dresses in the order above mentioned. Mr. Savage seconduct the motion, which were unanimously agreed to. ['Pon the motion for the committee to prepare the second add resg, _ _ _ Mr. Minn said, he could not help noticing, in the most public manner, the thin attendance of Aldermen. A negleA of such a description, upon such all occasion, was extremely emitlentuable, and the Court were bound to prevent, if possi ble, a system of conduct which was certainly disrespectful, and which, he ss as sorry to say, was not limited to one branch of their duties. Mr. Griffiths felt very much hart at the peculiarly thin Court, aim agreed in all that had been said about the absent Aldermen. Ire-declared that he should complain to t h e pub - lic of them, whenever he saw such culpable instances of neglect. Mr. Oldham said, he should submit a motion to the Court, upon an early day, upon the subject of the attendance, or rather the non-attendance, of the Aldermen to their duties. It was to him a matter of doubt, whether the Court had the power of compelling them , to do those duties. The question should, however, be decided at once, that in the event of their independence upon the Court, Parliament might be applied to. Perhaps a line for absence, would have the effect of sharpening people's memories. Mr. Waithman thought the Court was rather in an odd sit n ation. A ithough die Aldermen were generally inattentive to the performance of their duties, the present was as occasion upon which they might, perhaps, find an adequate excuse, Tilton the ground of the shortness of the notice. It was nut, in his epinion, fair to force a e i ssestion upon the Court without due notice, and he wished to know how the members were now called together. That no preparation hail been made was evident front the canvass that had just taken place for a mover and seconder, and the testimony given, that men came forward in the +lark, to move that upon which they had never bestowed a serious thought. It was generally agreed that the question should not ha ajourned. 'lle conversation ended here, sod the Committee was ap_ poitace in the usual way, after which the Court adjourned. Ex•rn Annum lltY Fgar.--Baron Osten, of the Itith Lan. eon, performed the following feat of activity, last week, at Marino, the seat of Lord Charlemont, in Ireland. One Inn deed •tone. were placed ut a yard distance from each other, and the Barou was to ride his horse to each stone, dismount and pick IL np, ride to a hasket,placed at one extremity_ again dismount and drop it ins thus mounting and dismounting .:00 times. An honr was the given time for the task to lw performed in, bin lie performed it with apparent ease in 4.5 minutes. The Earl and COl/11it'SS of Talbot were present, and, at the conclusion, her Excellency crowned the Boron with *chaplet of evergreens. He wore a yellow silk jacket, and a lilac coloured cap, light pantaloons, and only one boot and one spur. In the course of his arduous undertaking, he disnionnted once, and scratched his eat wills the toot en which he worc only a shoo. GREENWICH Mt' L°1:1:5. 115 FINAL EXAMINATION AND CONIMITMTNT OF HUSsEV, AT GREENWICH. Thursday morning, at an early hour, a vast number of per sons had collected round ol:e House of Correction, Cold Batts Fields, from motives of curiosity, to see the reputed murderer, Hussey. About a quarter before nine o'clock a glass-coach drove out, in which was the prisoner heavily ironed, guarded by three pence -officers with him in the COM', and three or four constables on each side. They set oil for Greenwich, where his examination was to take place. The prisoner did not appear to feel the least emotion : there was an air of brio tal carelessness about him. Two of the constables gut behind the coach and one on the box with the coachman, and the coach drove on at a quick pace in order to get clear of the crowd. On their arrival at Greenwich, the coach drove up, amidst several thousands of spectators assembled on the oe casiod, to the door of the national school, near thu chimeh, which was fitted up with a bar, Ac. for the examination.• When the prisoner was conducted out of the coach, he saw his brother, whom he shook by the hand and spoke to con• cernins , a debt of is. He was then takenfin and placed at the bar, and the examination proceeded before the follow iug ma gistrates:—Colonel Foreman, Mr. Smyth, Mr. Davis, Mr. Watson, Mr. Williams, and Mr. Parcel ; Mr. Bickn e t the solicitor, and several other gentlemen were present. The prisoner's box was produced, in which were 5 shirts, 3 watches, a silver punch-ladle, and other articles already mentioned in a former report, and likewise the: ring and other things found on the prisoner when apprehended. The whole of the pro perty produced was identified by Mr. George Bird, and Mrs. Bell, washerwoman to Mr. Bird deceased flee only material circumstance in the examination we here subjoin ; the rest was what has already appeared. Mr. Ousten, the landlord of the Tiger's Head, stated that Hussey and Hazeldon were at his house on Saturday, the day preceding the murder ,abort 3 o'clock in the afternootidie did not see either of them after, until half past 10 o'clock, when he saw Hussey in the Lodge•rooin. What became of Hassey from 3 o'clock until 10 he could not say. Hussey slept at his house on the Saturday night the murders were committed, and left as soon as lie had breakfasted in the morning. Magistrate.—" Were not Hussey and Hateldon in custody of the constables (Larkin and Hodges) at your house, a few. days after the murder was discovered " Yes, they were ; and the constables examined them, and discharged them without taking them before a magistrate." Magistrate.—" Did you not them say that both Hussey and Hazetdon were at your house all the night of Saturday, on which the murders were supposed to have been committed :" —" I cant positively any the precise words I told the offi cers ; hut if I did say so, it was tinder a mistake. Larkin and Hodges declared that the witness did most positively say to them that Hussey and Hazeldon were in his house allthe evening and night of the Saturday when the murders were committed. The Magistrate severely reprimanded the constables for not bringing the prisoners beforethein, it:stead of taking upon themselves the ()thee of Magistrates, to examine and dis charge prisoners ; and the witness, Mr. Ottsten, was censur ed very much for leading the odicere into an error, by spear,- ing a falsehood. Mr. Ousten said he was sorry, but it was finite an errua what he said. The evidence. of Mrs. Glodwin, of Peckham, Hut,sey's bro ther's wife (which we have already givcu,) was next read ; the only additional part of it worth notice is, that she said Nat Hussey and Hazeidon had hew) together at her house, and that she found the watches belonging to nr. Bird in Hussey hoz. Mr. G. M. Bird was next examined. He seemed mach affected at the sight of the blood•stained property. /le iden tified the watches, the silver ladle, and all the other properfy ) except the bank notes. The evidence of Mr. Litton, of the Greenwich academy, was then read; the chief part has already appeared ; the only part worth mention is, that Hussey and fluzelden frequently came together, after the murder, to his house, and (leaned themselves, their shoes, fyc. and often ate and drank togc. titer in his house ; indeed, he believed they were nearly a:- ways together, and had hceu companions for a conaiderabte time. Mrs. Linton stated, that the box of the prisoner was on the same floor as that they had usually gat In, and they alwa-s passed through it every night and morning as they went Mid returned from the sleeping room; the box was never locked during the time it was in her house, but the lid was tied clown with a eon! ; her husband carriml the box from his house to Mrs. Goddard's, of Hughes'-fields ; it Wit, not locked at that time, but packedinp with a piece of cord. Mia. Goddard stated, that the box was not locked when .t was at her house, but only fastened together with a cord. Hussey made a similar defence to what he did when he was first examined at Bow-street, with the addition that, en the Saturday night of the miirder, he was at a free and easy club. The man whom he described as having seen renning with the bundle containing the stolen property', wore a brown jacket and white trowsers. He said that, atter the man had put the bootie, emstainine the stolen property, down against the tree and left it, he, ai r ier slightly examining it, covered it over with a mat and some rislabish,and this lie accounted for its not being discovered, after leaving it macre for screa days. l'he spotted shawl in which tic stolen property was tied ap was prodneed ; it was stained with blood. After the examination hail closed, it was with great diffi culty Hussey could lie peservcil from the rage of the poen lace ;. he was obliged to be conveyed through a private way in the chinch yard, when he w.ss pot into a coach, and pro. ciseil ,, d, in the custody of Adkini and Vickery, to .710idsiciae gaol, to he confined there till his t i. The 1 0 11,1 wing is an extract of a letter ... ft s u r. ni n S ci t ena . Hellenl22:6 66 n u nnapal regitnet, altnno confmmils our calcTu of t..te materials of w:ikii hr is composed, so opposed does he appear to be to his thriller habits of life. lie has not paswil the thrediold of :de house these tent months . confluence tt, his legs are Ovori,n, its svir ',Wahl fast Mayas—, he can t help complaining of hariug a roost painful pilpitation at the heart, and hi, c•.iviteitanee iti extremely pallid. Ills sullen austere manner shuts out all descriptions of pr r ola; he refused to see the Admiral (I'latripin) a day or two General Morscholon (whose wife has lately been delivered of a boy), we are told, lately Milted to his itoyerial master, that he had halt:des mind to go to Eurore; Cien Buonaparte repligil,‘ Yeti have always hitherto proved yourself devoted to me; wait t.vclve months longer. and then you will return with honour. for I shall he that time be i;,) longer a trouble to-in, one.' Certaiu. it 15, than his health is become in a lieu pits:awns state."