The National Register. — London, England, 1821-06-03 00:00:00

ILC'IIESTEII GAOL. SATURDAY, MAY 26. The charges hay.tig been read,:roil a few preliminaries agreal on, Nlr. J tit Moritacute, Ksq one of the magistrates of the county, as his first wuness, ttho stated that he had always considered the jaact's occurrence book to diary of what takes place in the jail ; the !Moores therein of occurrences to be regularly entered, for The purpose of enabling the visiting and other magistrates to know what had passed from time to time in the jail. Witness then proceeded, " I have examined this book lately naore than usual, my attention having been called to it frequently during a late investigation lxifore the tita3istrates, and I certainly have discovered very IPsily interiineations, or rather in terpolations, which, in my opinion, on an examination, weak for themselves. There is an obvious interlineation, rioting the discharge of Anti Denman on the 24th Oct. the day on which her sentence expired : my attention leas called to this in consequence of the woman herself bating sworn that she was not discharged until three nays at tei wards." (Here the witness pointed out a great mail interline:Moils to the eoltrilliss:otiers.) Witneas proceeded, that sometimes he h rd been a visiting magis trate, and if the jailer's occurrence book were hand. d to bun, he should certainly expect to find the entries regu larly entered as the circumstances occurred. He had been a % isiting magistrate about eight years, during abich time, notil within six weeks, he had no idea that there were any stocks in the jail ; that it had never cattle to his k imwledge that any prisoners who had misbehaved themselves were put in trolls, handcuffed, or chained, or hail blisters applied as punishments; but that the extent of the punishment amounted only to solitary colifitie tarot. He disclaimed even having given such orders himself, and was not aware that any had ever been made by his brother magistrates. He bad lately, in the former investigation, seen the stocks for the women, and also those for boys, for the first time. (Here the attention of lire witness was called by the governor's solicitor to the magistrates' journals, which contained an order signed by himself.) Witness proceeded—" Here is an order signed by myself, which 1 will very readily read. I 'find I made an order, May 18, 1820, to have an unruly boy confined by the leg, but 1 had tin knowledge whatever at the time of them being any stocks in the jail. Those which 1 have lately seen, called the boys' stocks, I con sider to be very dangerous, and 1 certainly should not have ordered boys to be placed therein; and I should consider a buy put to bond at his work from eight till note o'clock, and tram two till six, would be a very se vere corporeal punishment " \lrs. 1:-.1)av us was t:,e next witness, who deposed, that via: she matron—that she had a woman under her care, trained Sarah Hewitt, who is the mother of a child born in the jail ; that she was present when Hewitt signed a petition to the King, for a pardon, in Mr. Hunt's ward, and woo read over the ssitie to her, and explained the same previously to her affixing her mark, and in which petition she had expressly stated that Mr. Bridle, the governor of the jail, was the father. he Court here interposed and wished to have the fact from Sarah herself, as she was still in the jail ; and she was immediately sent for. Mr. White, a solicitor of eminence, submitted, on the part of Mr. Bridle, the jailer, that sire was not competent to be 'worn, inasmuch as she was then a convict under sen tence of transportation ; but the commissioners stated they were sitting for purposes of inquiry, and that they had power to examine prisoners on oath. Sarah Hewitt was called in arid examined. She deposed that she had been in the jail about 4 years ; that The became preg nant in the jail, and that about two years after she had been there she was delivered of a female child ; that in a late investigation before the magistrates she was not on her oath, and she had stated the father of the child•waa the governor, Mr. Bridle, but that such statement was untrue ; that she was much agitated at the time site did st ; she was sorry for her having made such a mistake; and sire now declared Mr. George Illidle, the brother tit the j.iler, who was at that time a turnkey, to be the fa int.+ of the child. Ott being queatioried whether she hail Lone private cool. fences w lb !Ur. Bridle, the jailer, in 11rs. Davis's, the matron's kitchen, during the late in vestigation, and after she had stated her master, Mr. Bridle, to he the fattier, she replied in the negative.— Mrs. Davis the maims', was Man called in again, and stated that Bridle the jailer, and Sagan Hewitt, had hada private interview in her kitchen, where they re tuai.ted together about a quarter nn ail hour ; that billet the last, mid before the present inquiry, she observed a ft male prisnoer (A. Court) of the same ward as Hewitt, deafer a parcel into the hands of NI rs. Cox, the sister of the jailer, as the woman came through the passage of ilie jailer's hotise ; that she, as Illdironi, always had the examination of all letters which might be written by the female !trimmers, which made her observe this traietac.l.lll nowt; altrilllvely titan sac otnenvtse would. Charlotte Scutt, a teitiale iirasoiter, 14 years' traitaportation, ..vs. their ex iiit tied, wino stated that she, as sire passed lieroliOr ill, jailer's passage rir was WdlL t.ing a unit to nersell ; that at luck. ti l l time tier J oler wade a ,iriptiry %%lio it was did sir; and our I a urg informed it was tile Called her to wells Kun g he atuuliug Ili the passage ouch slue 111 the court, it being hard rata at ire 1111 i. the jailer ordered her to be locked up in solitary continesoent, when she asked Ills tiorgiveire,s arid promised iievi.r to attend aµaim ; nett the jailer replied—•' A girl who is muter such a sentence ought to hate ktrowei better ;" that a oirtikcy then took her ti gh the ram to a ,otitAry rtfraciory cell , she was %cry wet at the time, and shortly afterwards the turnkey brought her mitre beucluthve, which were damp by being carried through The rain, aird basil Ilere is tome cloth,' tor you quite smoking Init." was no fire in the cell; slit• remaitted there from Saturday till Nloorbiv, wl.eii Mr. Prittlips, the magiuit.i.., carry• and ordered tier tun ofciailnieriti t. ;bill spa .c Si tart releastii until Trieboa‘,. Mr. !hulk told the niagostrate that withal' was pbt 4 e,-4iwimpoilLgz.#. THE NATIONALIREGISTER _there for having accommodated him with a song; that her Moil was not brought, to her by the matron, but by the turnkey who locked up at night and unlocked in the morning; that ever since she had been so locked up she has at limes felt very severe I.:mini:Mc pains. On her cross-examination she Limed she was quite sure that the jailer said " d— lieovy sentence," that in the sum titer she is free trout the rnettmatis but not so in win ' ter. The magistrates' journal trod the jailer's occurrence book both Hated that she was released front her confine ment on the Monday. SECOND DAY, MAY 28. ll;eliard Pike, tha turnkey, was called in and sworn and examined by Mr. Illitit. Witness stated that' he hail formerly been a turnkey at the debtors' ward, but was now turnkey at the lodge or entrance into the jail. COURSE OF EXI Amsterdam, 12 14 C. F. Ditto, at sight, 12 11 Rotterdam, 12 15 Antwerp, 12 lu Hamburgli, 38 Altona, 3S S Paris, 3 day►' sight, 95 SO Ditto, 26 15 Bourdeaux, 26 15 Frankfurt on the MAine,ls7l Patersburgh, 91 3 U. Vienna, El. Flo. 10 20 Trieste, El. Flo. 10 20 Madrid, 30—Cadiz, 351 Bahia, 351—Barcelona, 35 PRICE Bank Stock 2321 3 per Cent. Red. 731 3 per Cent. l'Annols 161 31 per Cent. 4 per Lent. 011 5 per Cent. Navy Lni Ann. 19 :MANGE, JUNE I. Seville, 361-6 ibraltar,3ol Leghorn, 46I—Genoa, 431 Malta, 45—Venice, 21 60 NapleA, 391—Lisbon, 491 Oporto, 491-11allia, 38 Rio Janeiro, 481 Palermo, 116 Doblin, 9 per cent. Cork, 81 per crest. Foreign gold in bars,3l. 17s. 100. per oz. New Doubloons, New I)ollars,4s. 10d. Silver in bare, standard, 4s. I Id. STOCKS. ii t 11l u 0. liup. 3 per Cent. 73i India Bonds 49 ludic Muck ::34 Exchequer 13111. 2v. dit. fnis. for Ae. 774 Lotiery Tieketi , .e:l4 THE NATIONAL REGISTER._ LoUIIOII. SUNDAY, JUNE S. The Chancellor of the Exchequer plumes himself upon the statement he has made to the House of Commons on the state of the finances of the country -now admitting for the sake of argument (which we do, while we doubt the fact) that his statements are not founded in fallacy nor bottomed in fraud, at what point of Glory have we arrived !—Why, that by depriving us (all but the blook.sucking reptiles who exist upon the hard-earnings of an industrious people) of our luxuries, and almost of our necessa ries of life, that in the seventh year of profound peace our War Taxes suffice to support our Govern ment, all but a Loan (or call it what the Rt. Hon. Gent. may please) of IS millions from the Sinking Fund!!! The Chancellor of the Exchequer may counsel us to " Thank God 'tis no worse," but we know we have to thank him and his Right Hon. Colleagues that it is so bad—if pensions and places were not granted for the purposes of corrupt influ. ence in an assembly which ougkt to be incorruptibly patriotic, then might our Taxes be progressively decreased, then might the agricultural and mann fiteturing parts of society see a refuge from despair, and then might the' landholder be enabled to meet the demands upon him, by the receipt of his rents, instead of by ruinous mortgages of his estates. Mr. Brougham has again most laudably called the attention of the Commons to the formation of the asi-disant " Constitutional Society"—a Society founded on principles not only destructive of the little that remains to us of the liberty of the press, but in direct opposition to every feeling of fairness, of honour, of honesty, and contributive only to the gratification of the worst passions of the worst part of human nature. The learned gentleman's di.- claration of the illegality of their measures, though conf►rmed by Mr. Scarlett (and two better legal au thorities could hardly be tbund) was positively and impudently contradicted by the Solicitor-General. The Scottish poet (Burns) when using his favourite simile on the score of probabilities, " Oh, 'tis gold to brass," little thought that his expression would ever receive so perfect a double exemplification as in this instance—f►r the weight of opinion is as much, comparatively with Messrs. Brougham and Scarlett, as the •ompal'ative assurance of Brass is with the leaned Solicitor-General. The Congress at Laybach has broken up, and the ly Alliance has published an account of their views and their exploits—which account, it' strip ped of its sophisms and falsehood, will proclaim to the world that this triune demoniac Alliance has been formed for the purpose of supporting villany however consummate (provided always that it be lc itiu~ate and hereditary) against every eflimt of the ptople to regain that kind of liberty which belongs honestly to every man of 'to every nation ; and yet these Despots arc the same, whose pusillani mousness in the presence of the superior genius of Napoleon nuonaparte would have submitted, and, indeed, did z - almiit repeau:diy, and for a series of LAVALETTE, This gentleman who has long resided at Augs burg, set out on his return to France a few days ago. His history is well known. Mons. Lavalette was charged with the crime of high treason for re suming his functions as Post-Master General im metliately after the departure of the King irom Paris, and Wore Bonaparte had entered Paris and re-invested him with that appointment. This was the charge on which he was tried ; but the true motive of his prosecution was a belief that he had conducted a correspondence with the island of Elba, and encouraged the return of his former Sovereign his benefactor, and relation by marriage. He was tried, condemned, and ordered for execution. The subsequent transactions which effected his release a few hours before the consummation of the sentence, and secured ultimately his escape from France, are as well known as they are honourable to England. Mealtime Lavalette, however, became tke victim of her generous devotion ; she had, to save her husband, risen from a bed in which she had endured the affliction of miscarriage. This effort, and the great anxieties of her mind, followed by long confinement, impaired her health, and produced alienation of her mental faculties. Touched by these misfortunes, and convinced, no doubt, of the innocence of Mons. Lavalette, the King, about a year since, signed the act of grace which cancelled the former proceedings, and re-established Mons. Lavalette in all his rights as a Francis citizen. Previous to his departure from Ausburg, Nlonsieur Lavalette considered it to be his duty to publish a declaration, to the asseverations of which all those who know the private virtues of Mons. Lavalette will not hesitate to give implicit credence. This declaration confirms the belief en tertained generally at the time of his trial that the suspicions of his agency with the Isle of Elba during Buonaparte's residence there were false. FROM LAST siGars GAZETTE. - • jThis Gazette ebntains a Proclamation, ordering a coinage of Gait! Sovereigns and Half Sovereigns, of the pri.lient Reign, to be made.l BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. _ . R. Parke, TitniorTPortsea,coal merchant. W. Ryde, Cannon Street. grocer. BANKRUPTS. Burrows. Wargo!), Nottinghtunshire, miller. Solicitors, Messrs. Hall and Co. New Boonll Court. J. Etches, Bury _ St. Edmund's, Suttblk. haberdasher. Suls. Messrs. Bromley, Gray's Inn Square. T. Woolllndin and W. Elliott. New Malton, Yorkshire, corn faders. Sol. Mr. Hicks, Gray's Inn Square. J. Pilling, Htuldersticld, currier. Sol. Mr. Battye, Chancery Lame. H. Wheatley, Coventry, silk dyer. Sols. Messrs. Long and Co. Gray's Inn. J. Hardwicke, Clare Street, Clare Market, butcher. Sols. Messrs. Richardson, \Valbrouk. R. l'ark, jun. Portsca, coal merchant, Sol. Mr. Briggs, Lincoln's Inn Fields. T. Nuadl, Ware. Herts, sack maker. Sol. Mr. Boad, Ware. W. Hancock, Bury St. Edmund's, cabinet maker. Suls. Alessrs. Blagrate and Co. Symontl's Inn. S. Itouinson, Huddersfield, hosier. Sul. Mr. Wiglesworth, Gray's Inn. W. Munk, High Street, Southwark, brandy merchant. Sol. Webb, Dean Street, Southwark. I'. Chet:thaw, Stockport, Cheshire. surgeon. SoL Mr. Tyler, Temple. N. Ilavis, Gracechurch Street, tin plate worker. Sols. Messrs. Dawes end Cu. Angel Court. J. Bumpus, Holborn, bookstller. Sol. Mr. Tatham, Castle Street, llolborn. J. J. Battier, Mincing Lene, dealer. Sole. Messrs. Gatty and Co. Angel Court, Thmgmorton Street. DIVIDENDS. _ _ Junc 29, W. Bignell. Gnat St. broker -61, H. G. !Mars, St. Mary Axe, merchant-23, E. Dixon, Lamb's Conduit Stitct. lotherdasiier—a, W. Busher, Alitcrsgutc Strew, wholesale jew, : tier-23, J. Dihtlin, Camberwed, eietualier—a s J. Ritchie, oolwich, baker-4, F. H. Christin, J. C. Clarke, and C. Bowen, Caw 11d1, merchants-21, T. Alder, ?rest bury, Gloucestershire, inokix+cr-30, W. Elgie, Ruswarp, Yorkshire. corn merchant-27, M. Abraham and I). Levy, Bath, jcwaler-27, R. Tolson, Dalton, York, manufacturer 2i, It. B. Sorrel, Hatton Garden, printer-27, J. D. Koster, Liverpool, merchant-2G, W. Kerby, Margate. coach insister -23, W. Keatcs, Bishopsgate Street, hosier-22, R. Braddock, Portwood, cotton spinner- 16, W. Dunn, lloaton, upholder-23. J. Gray, llishopsgate Street, grocer—a, T. azid R. Tweed, Chingitml, Essex, millers-26, T. Wutton, leather factor-25, D. !fennel!, Kettering, Nortluunpionshire, draper-2h, D. Lovelock, Bristol, baker-2t5, H. Mills, New Bond Street, linen dmier—xti, 1. Paryiut, London :quiet, meicll..m. CERTIFICATES to be granted June 23. G. Itiehi.thon, .Meciiletiorirgh Sqinue, much:mit—J. Black— bmitl. Rutstein, statturd, groer—J. Ed% ardx, Vine Street, Spita'fields, silkuran—G. Gltoston, South Blyth, Northumber lund, I. rteher—R. Itollimon, Great Wheinetham, Suffolk. miller—R. %V. Fox, Plymouth. uterchatit—W. Dorrinron. To%n Ken, eoltxr n...kcr—G. W. B. Tooge. Fax. I t!lianibers, I mit:coital Strtr, I I ierclutht--T. Burbery• Woolxton, Warwick:Air:v, Sallows, Iladleigh, Sut, lurk, grocer—J. T.rylm, lion Wunder. _--~ ~:.. ---.1 S 17 () ~~p~, -~u ..0