The National Register. — London, England, 1817-05-12 00:00:00

MISt. L. L.l EUU S. The Princess of Wales on her way from Vienna, via Trieste, arrived at Venice on the 16th ult. On the 18th 'the Princess was present at a ma.milicent kte given by th.• Count de Goes, Gev.n•uor "Venice. *Tuesday beim: the Duchess of Yorks birth-day, it was celebrated with every mar!: of respect by the Royal Family. In the course of the day upwards of 300 per sons of distinction called at York House, to pay their respects. The Princess Angusta came to town frtnu It'indsor upon the occasion vx►n atter twelve o'clock, and accompanied the Que.•n and Princes' Elizabeth to - visit the Royal Duchess, and remained with her tip wards of an hour. The Duke aa•l Dachas had a select party to dine with them up in the occasion. The Queen bad also a numerous and sldentlid party upon the oc casion at her Palace. The Speaker, it is now said, will retire before the close of the present S”ssion. He will be created Baron Kidbrooke, of Kidbrooke, in Sussex, the estate which he purchased of the Earl of Abergavenny. lustcsd of taking a pension immediately, he will accept an efficient Cabinet office, and his pension will comnence only on hiS ceasing to hold an office of a certain amount. Sir W. Garrow appeared on Tuesday morning in the Court of Chancery, attended by Mr. Varr'.•n, Mr. liable, and many Gentlemen of the King's Bar, and delivered the writ calling upon him to assume the dig nity of Serjeant at Law. The writ was then read and recorded. Rigs for her Majesty and the Lord Chancel lor were then presented in the usual fin•m : the Legends were, Fas el Jura. Sir W illiam proceeded to the Court of Common Pleas, where he was invested with the coif and robes of a Judge. Ile then attended the Lord Chancel lor, by whom he was sworn into his high office. Tuesday Sir S. Shepherd was duly sworn into his of fice of Attorney-General, before the Lord Chancellor. Bousnr GIFFORD, Esq. was Iw:wit into the oihce of his Majesty's Solicitor-General and a King's Counsel, on Friday, by the Lord Chancellor, in his private room in the House of Lords. About two o'clock on Tuesday the Duke of Welling ton accompanied by two Ladies, walked over Waterloo Bridge. lIN Grace was recognized by the workmen who gave him loud cheers. The party was attended by H. Swann, Esq. M. P. the Chaitman of the Board of Directors. Ilia Grace expressed himself highly pleased with this magnificent structure, and promised to attend • on the day the Bridge is to be opened —The foot pave ment when very forward on one side, having been found on - such a level, that the view from the Bridge was en tirely intercepted by the architrave being at s' eh height, that the passengers would be obliged to stop to lodk under it, or (if too tall for that) to walk on tiptoe to See over it, the Committee of rManagement have re solved, for the accommodation of the Public, to raise the tb:ot-pavement about eight inches, which will open a paicramic view to the passengers. Ait:.ough the Duke of Wellington may speedily re turn ti the Continent, it does not seem tube his Grare's intention to resume immediately his former residence in the French capital. Sixty or eighty carriages are said to have arrived at his hotel, for the conveyance of his Gram's bag age to the head quarters at Cambray. The splendid new Custom-house, situated on the Tha , nes, with its extensive wharfs, a little below Lon don Bridge, is now nearly finished. For some weeks the Officers of the Customs and the Clerks have been gradually taking possession of their new situations. Re port speaks highly of the aconnmodations of the differ ent ()Mem for transacting the business of the Port.— The long room is stated to be more extensive and com modious ; the whole building splendid and worthy of the metropolis of the greatest commercial city in the world. The French tribunals are still occupied with a curi ous law-suit lk-tween the rival Duchesses and the young Dukes, their ofliAprings. The following is the story be longing to this uffair:—lt appears that his Highness Marshal Lanncs, the late Duke of Montebello, of glorious memory, had the double misfortune, in the early pert of his life, to be a -hummer and the lawful husband of one of those convenient ladies who follow the camp, in the capacity of servant of all work.— When. Lannes rose to a higher rank, Baonaparte gave him one of Josephine's maids of honour to wife, in whom, of curse, he never communicated a syllable of his oriin, or of his former wife and her son, whom he had (as almears by the trial), totally abandoned to the wortl. Having shared in all Buonaparte's plun dering campaigns, Lannes, when he fell at Wagram, was enormously rich. His wealth is, of course, t}e bone of contention between the tweirives awl their sons. The Provincial tribunal of gea, w or tl first wife and her son have for many years bee., sup ported on charity, has given the cause ia their favour. lbe second wife and son have carried the cause, by ap peal, to Pari3,. but it is not yet decitlA, though fre quently &bated. The Court-party doss not seem to , is ke auy interest in the proceedings, and it is likely, t: erefre, that even-handed justice will •ie ai:miaistered. The g-eat Pedestrian Comest betty •en Eaton and I taker ). f .e Kentish Hero) ctmoncnced on Tuesday, at MormwJud ti;rals. This arduous un kr:akin:, is to IMF. NATIONAL REGISTIII. walk t'ooo miles in 42 days, f. 100 guineas a side.— The ground measured from the marquees is 2:ht out, and the same back, being one quarter of a mile ; they walk parallel to each other, at a distance of 'lO yards. They are to start every morning at three o clock, and not to walk after eleven at ni„tht. They walked on Tuesday only two hours, and at six o'clock when they stopped, they had perthrinel 10 miles each. Edward Roger Pratt, Esq. (brother-in-law of the deceased Member) ant Elul Ind Wodehous'•, Esq. have offered themselves as eandidates to sueeeed the late Sir Jacob Astley, Bart. in the representatiun of Norfolk in Parliament. M. Nlenke, who has been employed in making mo dels for the porcelain manuthetory, has discovered, it is said, the procesa of convertiog manotony saw-dust into a soft, paste, %Odell becomes hard and solid by exposure to the atmosphere, and is susceptible of receiving and preserving the forms given to marble, to wood, or to bronze. This substance takes the most beautiful gild ing as well as the colour of bronze. The pnaluct of this manufitetory are, candelabras, Instres, lanris, v a ses, statues, and ornaments for all kinds of furniture. These objects rival in elegance the most beentit'ul works in bronze, and cost only the eighth part of the price. A serio-comic opera, called L'Agnese, is about to be produced at the King's Theatre. The subject of the ' drama is taken from Mrs. Opie's pathetic tale of the Father and Daiezide ,- , with this variation, that the story is male to terminate happily. The music is by Ferdi nand Peer, a living composer of some c , Aebrity. lie has written above thirty I talian operas : his most celebrated pieces are C , iseldo and Committer. In the case of the King v. Hatchard on Saturday, in the King's Bench, the Defendant was sentenced to a fine of 1001. which he immediately, paid and was dis charged. Mr. Hatchard is a most respectable bookseller. The Deal Society of Fishermen's Friends have al ready received 3,0001. from the general loan to be granted by Government in Exchequer bills. As a strong symptom of a decrease in the hardness of the times, we mention, that, on Sunday week, no less than nineleen banns of marriage were published in Boston Church. Perhaps so large a number was ne ver before published at one rime in this church. There is now a vacancy in the humble office of bea dle to the parish of St. Pancras, and what is remarka ble 50 candidates have started for the office. All of them are shopkeepers and tradesmen, who would have spurned at the idea of such an office two years ago. It is at length finally settled, that the monument to the memory of the late Lord Nelson is to be erected on the South Downs, Yarmouth, in a situation to serve as a mark for both Cat-ways. A low days since Gatie and Fillery, Excise Officers, detected at Hammersmith a very considerable fraud in an entered soap-house. There was a copper tinder ground with frames, and the chimney of the private copper communicated with the entered copper. The utensils and three or four tons of way were seized. A man entering the gates while the Officers were there, against whom they had a warrant, they took hint pri soner and lodged him in gaol. ROYAL ACADEMV.—Monday, the annual Exhibition of Works of Art was openetl to the Public at Somer set !louse. The present exhibition (which is the 49th of the Academy), consists of 867 Pictures, 139 Archi tectural Drawings, and 71 Sculptural Works and Models. Benefit Socidies.—Thorstlay last, a case came to he heard betbre the Magistrates of Maidstone, of which the following are the circumstances : The Benefit So ciety of Paper-makers summoned one of their members to compel him to pay up his arrears of subscription. The defence set up by the defaulter was, that the society had power by their articles to exclude him from the so ciety, on his having neglected pay his subscription a certain number of nights, but could not compel him to pay up the arrears cficient at the time otitis exclusion. The Ma gistrates decided that every member is bound to pay up the arrears of subscription and fines as settled by the articles up to the time of their leaving the society. The same decision has recently been given in several similar cases by London Magistrates, and the law on the point cannot be too generally known, as persons frequently take that method of leaving a Benefit Society, thinking themselves nut liable to be called on for their arrears. Ft Re.—Friday morning. about half past four o'clock, a dreadful fire burst forth from the Premises of Mr. Berstall, tiuther.nicrchant, Bank:Ude. Southwark. The materials in the yard, consisting of deals and hattens, were in a few minutes envelop.. in flumes, as well as the whole of the buildings and machinery the vicinity of the South London Gar-light Works, from their employing a great number of men all night, ointriboted greatly to the prevention of the firther e‘ . tension of the itaai:s. It being low water, the engines could nut be supplied f nin the T:laines ; and were therefore reduced to the ne ctionty • f all the wells they could obtain 34. T ,FS to in the vicinity. which were soon nearly vxliait , ted. A tank of lime-water on the gas.- ' light premises was soon emptied into the engines, and found ex treimly serviceable to extinguishing, as if by magic. an immense body of fire arisin4 from a pile 1/f timber. By nine o'clock in the morninp the lire was complet••ly got under : but the premises where it broke out, and the Vilhatit, stack of timber they amtained, were eninphetely destroyed. Some very expensive and ingenious machinery or at wing deals by means of a again-tm o ine were totally destroyed. ARRESTS. Early on Sunday serenight, Mr. Dykes, the Kin *'s essenger. and Vickery the llow-street (Meer, prc4endeil Mr. C.trr, a flinty-painter, ut his residinc; in Tottenhain-courtivail, on a charge of High Trea son. After undergoiog a short examination, he was committed. fiis premises were searched at the time of the apprehension of Watson and his associates. Carr was a ti! . iv years siitec employed by the King, at. Wind. a., in his profession. Saturday evening, u nom of die 11A111'.! of Holl, an engraver, was apprehended by Mr. 11111, King's Messenger, on a charge of High Treason. After undergoing a short examinati:m. !le was committed. On Saturday they were examined ;gain. Three others, who hail bean in custody so . ne time bcfjre, underwent an examination. They were all committed to several prisons for another investiga tion. On Saturday morning Mr. Latchford, the King's Messcn i . ; .er, and Bishop, one of the principal officers belonging to the public-office, Bow -street, arrived in the Manchester mail with a man of the none of flit. shell, charge:l with the crime of high treason. He was confined at Bow-street office during the morning, at noon he was removed to the Secretary of Statc's- Mike fi,r the home department to undergo an examina tion. The meisenger and offi , :er apprehended Mitchell at Huddersfield, in Yorkshire; to which place, we understand, he had lately absconded, in consequence of his learning that an information was laid against Lint finr political offences in Liverpool, where he car ried on the business of a draper and mercer. He is also well known at Manchester. BIRTHS. Tiu Ntare ,, ionest of Que.,.itherry,Ol a daughter.—Mrs. Orger, of the Theatre Drury-Lane, of a daughter. MAIMED. Capt. l'r;nee, of the Guards, to youngest dnu. of late Gen. Ainslie. —Rev. S. it. Dru.nmoti:l. Heetorof Swarratow. Hants. to only dau. of Lae NI. Monts,;..nt, Esq. of Little Boukham. Stirrey.—ltev. .1. PrithLn, Rector of Sc George's to eldest dau. of late It. Piektvoad. Esq. of Egham. DYED. At ['rine , ' of Wales's island, aged fig, the Hon. Wm. Petrie, Gov. of the island, and served the lion. East India Company for 51 years in many high and distinguished employments.—At Bengal. on board tile lion. East India Company's ship Astell, aged IS, the second son of Aaroa Chapman. Esq.—Col. J. Hamilton, formerly Consul to the State of Virginia.—fn Canterbury•kow, Newington Butts., aged 71, suddenly, 11. H noon. Esti. late tl e ('u-tom louse.—At Clap-. ham-row, aged sfi, .1. Wild, ..sq.—At Sottklen, Oxfordshire. aged MM. Bich. Femior, Esq.—Aged 70, Ilieh. Townsend, Esq. of New• bury. Ih:ilia—Mrs. Betty Fool. whit many year: obtained an ho nest livelihood at Golillianger, Essex. by thovinir her neighbours.-- Solomon Stnishourgli, an eminent tutelar of Hebrew at Oxford, who was seized with an apoplectic tit. whilst purchasing meat at a butcher 's in that city, and instant!). expired. Although possessed of considerable property in the fund.' at the time of his death, he was without a siart. lie was ut the 70th year of his age. LONDON MARKETS. C'lBY-F.TC{IAN(.G. MAY 12! We had a middling supply , of Wheat this morning from F.ssex and Kent, which in the early part of the day sold ut an advance of from 2s. to 3s. per quarter; but towards the close the sales were very heavy. Malt is dull. Barley supports its prices. Boiling Yeas are dull, but Grey l'cas are more in demand. Tick Beans hate advaiaall is. per quarter. The Oat Mule is dull, at Munday's prietsi. In other kinds of Grain there is no alteration. s. S. S. s. Wheat 62 aG4 I WhitePesse6l a 64 Fine ditto t • 126 Grey Pease 38 a4G l'ye *4 a 54 Beans 33 a4l Fine Barley 46 a 50 Ticks 3B a 44 Malt. 66 a 68 Oats . l7 a 42 I. a. Poland Oats 90 a 22 Potato ditto 4t a Mt Fine Flour .lori aitts Second ditto 95 air • Rapt Stood... 50 a 54 PRICE Or BREAD. The highest price of the he Wheaten Bread throughout the me tropolis. is stated by the Baken to be the Quarts= Lost.— Sane Bakers sell the Quartem Loaf from Id. to 3d. lower. AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN PER QPARTER, IN I:NOLAND AND WA1.1,11 FOR THE WEEK ENDING Mat 3. Wheat I Rye I Harley I Oats Deana I Pease RA 7 I 1 1 51 1 1 33 7 I 51 0 I 33 9 AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. Computed from the Returns made in thewerk ending May 7, is 436. 814. per cwt. exclusive of the Duty of Customs paid or pa/able there- MI on Importation thereof into Great Britain—t - Satu rang s Gazette.) PRICP. fIF MEAT, MONDAY, MAY 12. Sonithjie!d. .i'Vt;q,mte mid Leadeishott. I. a. liewds of Cottle ut Carmoir a, d. a. d. 8eef......3 ha 4 s I Smithfield. Beef 30a 4 0 Mutton aa4S Beasts, ab0ut....... 2400 Mutters —3 0a 3 Veal .....4 0a 5 4 S heep 15,400 Veal 40 a 5 • Pork ......3 ri a 5 C Calves Lan0b....5 tia 7 Pigs 3411 1.an.b....4 4 a 3 ti LAY AND STN. I.OA d. s. d. Aver. S. a. 4. (Hay... 3 0 o a 6 6 0— 4 15 0 SaurnritLe 4 Clover 4 0 0a 7 10 U— 5 13 • ( Straw 1 16 0a 2 2 0 1 19 • 1 flay .3 15 oa6loo 5 2 6 1112. Ja3tt 5 4 1 Clover 7 0 0 a 0 0 0 0 0 0 Straw 1 19 0 a 2 5 0— 1 17 6 Hay 3 3 0 a 6 6 0 5 15 6 Will 7 ItCltarlL (lover 6 6 0 a 7 7 0— 6 16 6 / Straw 1 IS •a 2 2 0 2 0 • PRICE 0) STOCKS TIIIS DAY. Rank Stock :.,f 3 li 3 per Cent. Reduced.. , 3 per Cent. Comols 4pcz Cent. 5 per Cent. Nary India Stock Ditto Bonds (3 per Cent.) Exchequer Bilk, 3d. per lay 9 17 put. Lt) a now :—Printed and paha/led by R. W 5, No. Si 11ANn, oppoarte Kirke 'Change ; wad for warded into t:.e I.tuntry by 41 t 'waste% Oaks she Rab., ad Bookkileto fi.e of Pedigo. MAY It • I