The National Register. — London, England, 1821-10-29 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER His Exec' oncy the Minister V. Arnswaldt will set ouj, on the 21st for Gottingen, to prepare for the arrival of the King, which, if his Majesty's health will permit, is to be on the 25th. STocuttaws, OCT. 12.—A letter from Finland says—" On the 12th of August, a dreadful fire broke out at Fredericksham, which in the space of six hours reduced the whole town to ashes. Two churches, 110 houses, two town-houses, and several public buildings were destroyed. Only 10 houses were saved. The unfortunate inhabitants have saved nothing but their lives from the conflagra tion," In the month of August nearly 40,000 ship lbs, of bar and other iron were exported from Stock holm, and 1,300 ship lbs, of copper, . ~ y~,. , F ., , ` ~ /AMA ICA l' EMS. 4 1k KINGSTON, SEPT. I.—An eclipse of the stmt WU. visible in this city on Monday. It commenced at 20 minutes before eight, and was over at 20 minutes after ten, am. Tuesday being set apart, by law, to be observed as a solemn fast, in commemoration of the great storms in 1712 anti 1722, divine service was per formed in the church of this city, when the Rev. Mr. Mann delivered an impressive and suitable dis course on the occasion. Deal rue! ire Drouthi.—Accounts from the coun try of the effects of this din.ful calamity are daily becoming more distressing. each a continuance of dry weather was never before witnessed by the old est inhabitants: springs, never known to have failed before, are dried up; canes in many districts are entirely withered away, anti even those in more favourable situations, that long held out, are now becoming yellow, anti must speedily be lost also, if; indeed, they arc not irrecoverably so already; pas tures are literally scorched brown, and scarcely a blade of grass to be seen. What must be the conse quence should this dreadful visitation last two months longer, is a question which naturally presents itself, and which niust appal the heart of every person in crested in the country. The entire loss, in a great measure, of next year's crop, is, perhaps, one of the least of the evils to be apprehended, and, in many itottances, is in fact al ready lost sight of by the unfortunate planter in the more ruinous loss of cattle, which the depreciated value of produce cannot rephice, and the still more dreadful apprehension of famine among the people, aggravated by such h state of poverty as leaves him, in too many instances, without the means of procur ing relief. Our dreadful situation may be understood from the fact that, with a vertical sun and unusually stroll; scorching breezes, there has been nothing like a rainy day since June last year, neither October nor May seasons, nor since January even a slam er of an hour's continuance, at least in many pasts of the country. It has, indeed, occasionally drizzled, and wore favourable appearances, which invariably have ended in disappointment; and so completely is the earth now dried to a cinder, that nothing can again renovate vegetation but heavy and continued rain, which may Heaven speedily send, to relieve the country from the horrors of impending famine! Atrocre 23.—The most melancholy accounts have been received this week from all parts of the island, of the depl irablc effects of the long continued dry weather. The crops of yams, expected about this season, will be almost entirely lost, as well as every ()Liar kind of provisions, and it is feared that many properties will soon be called upon to purchase pro visions fin- their negroes. Many cattle have perished from the want of water and food, and the next crops of sugar will be lost throughout several districts, the canes being irrecoverably withered. With such a miserable prospect before us, the rep auction of the Poll Tax last year, in consequence of the loon of 80,0001. may be considered a most for tunate circumstance, and we fear that other and larger loans must be indispensably resorted to, to de fray the public contingencies, unless some immediate steps are taken by Govet nment for the relief of the stinted sugar planters, whose prodt.ce, at the present prices and duties, even under favourable circum stances, do not afford a sufficient profit to &Cray the necest ry contingencies of their estates. 114.1ELII:b11 MAIL. IT. PnT..r.sauttoit, Ocr. on Strogonoff, on his retthir from Constantinople and Odessa, ar lived at the Post-house, near Logs, just as his Ma jesty the Emperor, on his journey to Witepsk, was coming out of the church a t that place where he had beta' paying his devotion. The Ambassador in his travelling dress immediately waited on his Majesty, and was most graciously received. The Emperor inimcdiat•Ay went with him to the house of the Baililnc.) , . by, and conversed a long time with the • NI inistt - :r. His Excellency, who is arrived here, has L. an hom.ired with the most flattering retxprion by both tire Empresses. The ;public have also evinced much t-agetoes.s in testifying to him the interest they have token in the critical circumstances in which he has ! ten placed, and the titin and noble conduct be showed in them. 114Notsco. OcT. 14... Since his Majesty's arrival the exchange of couriers has been very active in various directions. Lord Castlereagh is very much engagcd, and appears but seldom in the numerous pa , tit s given by the Ministers and others. Ine Iseautifol Princess of Soluos, daughter of her Royal Hightre:.s the Duchess of Cumberland, who is 19 years of age, is particularly noticed by his AlajL sky. ocronEtt IG.—The King's physicians declare that it w absuluvtly necessary that his Alajesty should Lap his b..d fur five or six days, for which re•kon the dinner at the Duke of Cambridge's, the procession the church, to and the grand parade on Sunday morning, arc countermanded. ILIEL.4ND. The intolerant party has obtained another recruit in Dublin in the person of ex-Sheriff Brady, a man knighted by the King himself; as one of tke sup porters of his system of conciliation, and who we did not expect to find a deserter from the regiment so soon after he had received the bounty. At the breaking up of the Quarter Assembly, Sheriff Smith invited the whale of the Corporation to dine with him at Morrison's, where he had ordered dinner, and as tke candidates for Aldermen were there to declare themselves, a more than usually numerous attendance took place, consisting of between ninety and one hundred members, when Messrs. Foot, Archer, Whitford, and Brady, declared themselves aspirants for the ahlermanic gown. On the health of the worthy sheriff being drank, he availed ;Am . self of the olvortunity of stating, that wlicit Nst he had the honour of presiding in the chair, he ap peared, by the line of conduct he had adopted, to have given offence to some members of the any. ration, by not giving a particular toast; but he must assure the gentlemen that the line of conduct he had then pursued he would still fearlessly fol low, and not be biassed by any ore; he could not be in that chair as a puppet, by pulling this string or that; he was not to dance • r sing, or make a speech at any man's pleasure. He did conceive from his heart that in obeying the mandate of his Sovereign, he was best supeorting the interest and independence of the corporation (7f Dublin, and he did therefore, hope no cr.: would dictate to him what line of conduct lie was to pursue. Things were going on so far so well, when a gentleman got up and said he "odd drink the: " Glurious Me. wig," in spite of the Sheriff; on which Smith most manfully stood up, and declared that he would either be supported in the clia;r or leave it, which, we regret to find was the case. Sheriff Brady wvs voted to the chair, and the toast was acconlingly given by those who were opposed to Sheriff Smith. At the Quarter Assembly on Friday the .vote of thanks to Sir A. B. King and the Mansion-house Cemmittee, for their conduct on the oc. a.,ion of the King's visit, was cat tied only by a r .ajority of 10, the numbers being—Ayes 50—Noes, 40. The member of the corporation who br•.ught forward the motion said he was induced to propose it, in hopes that it would be negatived, a rumour having gone abroad that within time laA two months the politics of the city had cumin plot ly changed. itiCTRAGES IS TILE COUNTY OF LIMERICK. The accounts from the county continue to be most melancholy, and the pest seems spreadin i r into most of the adjacent counties. We collect the Mllotving culars of the murder of Mr. Going, limn the journals received on Monday : On Sunday the I-4th inst. Richard Going, Esq. lately in command oc the county of Limerick establishment of lattice, Pelt that city about I I oclock in the morning for Itatlikeal, on horseback, unattended, and was stop. ped at the house of John Waller, Esq. of Castletown, where he remained but a short time; front thene2 lie proceeded by the road to Capp igh, and when near th e commons of Railtkeal, and from that town not distant two miles, he was attacked by a Ist:tuber of di:111041S, 111 the shape of Mel', armed; several shots iu SUCCeSSiOII were fired at him, which, tram the nature of the wounds, must have instantly deprived him of life I Not content, the blood-thirsty villains approached the lifeless body, and, either with bludgeons or the butts of muskets, beat hint desperately about the head. There could not have many minutes elapsed after the murder, when the corpse was found by the next passenFer; and the account of it I having reached Ratlikeal, his mangled remains were brought into that town about half-past four o'clock in the art-critoon. There were five musket-ball wounds in this body, one of which perforated his heat., several superficial slug-wounds on the right side, two market shots in the head—rote entered the left temple, the ear split, and his face much bruised. The right arm was al,o broken by a musket ball. Mr. Going, on leaving H ittikeal, took a case of pistols in his coat pocket, which it is SLINK/Sell he held willl him on his return, and were taken by the murderers: he had a considerable sum of money with him, which, with his watch remained un. touched. . _ ‘Ve are told so intent were they on the destruction of this unfortunate gentleman, that parties were placed on different roads to tneet hun (similar to the plan laid for the murder of the late Mr. Baker), and that he was even followed in anti out of Limerick for that purpose. After the murder was effected, there was a joyous shout through the country, which re-echoed front place to place; lighted heaps of straw also were at night exhibited on the different kills, in triumph of the accomplishment of 'his horrid deed. Mr. \Vilcocks, who, with Major %Warburton, were in Rathkeal at the time the murder was announced, des itched parties of police to Litneriek, with the me lancholy intelligence; and when they reached Barna 'tine-bridge, on the boundaries of the liberties, they were fired at several tunes front behind the ditches, 041 their return home the next morning the same outrage was repeated, and eleven shots discharged at them. On the police arriving in Limerick, they repaired to the hou: t of Mr. Cuthbert, the sub-sherid, to apprize hits of their having been fired upon; when that very active and efi cient officer instantly determined upon accompanying them with military force, to apprehend, if possible, die offenders; and for that pvirpose applied to the coai mantling officer of the garrison, Col. Douglas, requiring a party of dragoons: the Colonel answered " that Get - Sir John Elley was expected next day to review me troops, and that they could not be given." Coon tins sohjeet we shall make no remark, as it will form matter for investigation. Oil the 17 la Mr. Going's remains reached Limerick, and inelaocholy to relate, tinder military escort, on its way tor interment in the family vault at Kiltura, near Newport, comity of Tipperary. The procession was ai. tended by a vast concourse of most respectable gentle. met' from the surrounding counties, and a 111.111Wrous train of tenantry. On the 18th, at noon, as a person of some respec• ability of the name of Spading, was proceeding on horseb ick, accompanied by his wife, from Aslignive to Newcastle, he was stooped at the cross roads, which are distant AMU a mile from the latter pl ice, by au armed banditti. One of than h.:ld the bridle of the horse on which he rode. whilst another of the assassins presented a blunderbuss, and discharged its cootehts nw the body of the unfortunate man, who had been tit, waylaid by the wretches. When the horse had been stopped, the woman leaped Mt the pillion, and by her presence of mind saved her life, as she was allowed by the banditti to go towards Ashgrove. Mr. Spar. ling, though dangerously wounded, did not fall from his horse, but raising his whip, and exerting all the strength which was left to him, he struck the ruffian who held me bridle such a blow as brought die wretch to the ground, and immediately spurring his horse, he galloped towards Ashgrove. He stopped at Mr. Upton's house, where surgical aid was immediately procure., but we are sorry to be obliged to add, that no hope was then entertained of his recovery. Mr. Spading was able, howevor, t.o %Wednesday, to swear informations, and to give a minute description of some of the assassins. lie described one of them as a tall pale-faced man, and the "tiler as a person of a short stature, dark visage, and pock-marked. Two men were murdered last Twsclay night. One of die , e untnounate Frions, a man of the name of Iris, had hero a little proct or, aiid had lived neat Askeatob. ..titer %lethal was a titan names] Fitzgerald; but what eircnoisi..nces had induced the assassins to tike away his life was not publicly known. l'he ;ionic of a Mr. Morgan, who lives near Stana goltieo, was attacked, hut that gentleman, with a spot which we lament mit to see more general, bravely re sisted the banditti who demanded his arms, and soon made them to take to flieht for s,bety. Mr. Morgan neither killed nor wounded aoy one of the banditti; but what he left tuition,: the law will seivii complete, fur some of the party have been ap,rrebendtd by the police, and safely lodged in prison, !ROM TUESDAY NIGII7''S GAZETTE. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. ..... ..... P. Fybe and A. Salm:tack, Bury Court, St. Mary Axe, me• chant,, trout Oct. 14.0 to Oct. 27. _ r IsASkRUPTS. N. li, n;, Catliele, innkeeper. Solicitor, Mr. &nye, Chancery Lune W. Whitney, Ludlow, Salop, innkeeper. Sol. Mr. Prtyl B2lnard Street. Russell square. B. Knibb, Billingbarough, Lincolashire, grocer. Sol. Mr. Lambert, Gray's /tin fiquzi , e. J. Davies, :kineticMein. Glouceste-drire, draper. Sol. Pe^•son, Temple. S. Hunqdnio, Withim Friary, Somerset, innholder. SO , l :tle.ors. Perkins end Cu. Cray's Inn. lt. Hughes, Althrey Wood House, Flintshire, cheese ''c. P. Messrs. Toone and Co. Craven Street, Strand. J. Dray, Great Windmill Street, Haymarket, dealer. Si). Hodloon, John street, Adelpini. G. Lee, Bath, baker. SA. Mr. Burfoot, Temple. W. P. Chubb, Aldzate, chymist. Sol. Mr. Pluton, Bow Cho , hverd,; - - • - - J. Wright, Mill Wall. Poplar, anchor smith. Sol. :kt Dennis, Westmorland Place, City Nand. W. George, Haymietet, sa Idler. Sols. Messrs. Matthew s and Co. Castle Strut, Holborn. S. G. Pcole, King's Road. Chelsea, brew. Sols. :Messrs. Sherwood and Ca. Cunterbury Souare, Southwark. VIIJr.:: DS. Nov. 13, D. Giles, Lyford. Berkshire, mealman-19, tI. Greetharn, Live, 001, merchant —2O, S. Luce, Liverpcd, brazier --14, T. Winstanley, Manchester, woollen draper-17, 'l'. Kt mr seer, Bouverie S,reet, Fleet Street, carpenter-13, H. It. Kr.. Riches Court, Lime Street, merchant-14, .1. Hurry, Livei, . , merchant-17, T. and J. Dawson, Reid], Yorkshire, dray' ' 13, I. Bird, Brampton, Cumberland, grocer -15, T. Fisher ar. 1 J. Ashmore, Cheltenham and Winchcomb, Gloweatrshr e, hankers—: 7, W. Preston, Dove Court, George Strett, Man. House, bri,tle merchant-14, 11. Whiteside, H. Fisher, and 1 . I lastie, Whitehaven, Cumberland, merchants-Is, W. lions': v, Wetherby, York. grocer.wril, C. Berneeker, ni - chant-16, T. Cobden, Chichester, titrenor—Dec, e, Nedby, Lamb's Conduit Street, uphols: ::cr. CERTIFICATES to be granted Nov. 13. C. Big, Cornhill, auctioneer—J. P. Hillary, Mark Lvie, wire merchant—J. Hurndall, Bristol, haberdasher—J. Lander, Bu mibgham, mercht_nt. The daughter of Joseph Buonaparte sailed last week from the river for Philadelphia; she intends to reside with her father.