The National Register. — London, England, 1818-11-30 00:00:00

';8 1• In- WATVII ComPottres.—A numerous and respectable io.•cting of the inhabitants of Chelsea, Knightsbridge, and their environs. was held at the Flask tea gardens, Five-fields, Chelsea, on Thursday, to take into consi &ration the enormous rates of the Chelsea Water works Company, and the best means of obtaining re dress for the present grievance, and security against suture oppression there ; and also for the purpose of noiting the Committee of Chelsea with that of Knights bridge, ihr the furtherance of the objects of the in• habitants. Sir Henry Wilson was in the chair. !everal appropriate resolutions were entered into, expressive of dt:termination to cheek the evil complained of. It appeared that the rate had been nearly doubled, with cot any satisfactory reason being assiened ; and that all - remonstrances had been tact by threats to cut twfl' the supply of water—threats which had in several in stances been put into execution. . A hope is expressed, under the date of Hamburg-1u November 14, that the transport of gold and silver to Russia may cease very Shortly, the present stagnation in general commerce being attributed to that cause alone. T o this source of distress there is, however, oc koowledged to be a valuable counterpoise, in the active exportatioa of torn to England ; au article with which the Hamburg]) warehouses have of late been diligently replenished, in contemplation of the opening of the ILitish ports. A valuable miniature likeness of Oliver Cromwell, painted ti' in the life by Cowper, was, sonic years ago. aecidentalty thund. The possessor had the honour of showing it to the King, who, on this occasion, said,— " How would Charles I. have honoured that man who had brought him the head of Cromwell !" Mn. A 1.1)1 , 1111.1N GOODB E HERE—The remains of this late worthy and mach lamented Alderman, were in terred in the family vault at Lambeth Church on Fri day. The holly was conveyed, about one o'clock, from his late rosidence, China Terrace, in a hearse and four, followed by four mourning coaches, in one of which were Mr. Alderman Wood anti Mr. Alderman Waith. man. It was intended to have been very private, his moat intimate friends only being invited ; but his numerous acquaintance wishing to pay every respect to his memory, the funeral was followed by a vast string of carriages, among which we observed those of MAt thew Wood, Esq. NIT., Robert Waithman, Esq. M.P., Mr. Alderman J. J. Smith, and Sir Thomas Bell. The funeral service was performed by the Vicar of the parish, in a most solemn and impressive manlier. A correspondent who was witness to the daring de predatious committed at Windsor, at the funeral of tire Princess 'Charlotte, by organized gangs of London thieves. bega leave to recomnumd the Home Secretary et State, to order the attendance of a sufficient hotly of police officers, to protect those who may visit Windsor en Wednesslay next. A man n:nne.l AL.rthews. in a state of intoxication. fat into the 11.1 kc's Doek, at Liverpool. last week ; he vas tat, , n fri;-...e. hut h. 0.1e:1 soon The verdiet of tile Cu:oiler's inquest w:ts—. mord droa I: al." postecrtpt. MONDAY. TIVELVE O'CLOCK. TIIE LATE QUEEN.-Mr. Mash, of the Lord Chant lwriain's office, has made such judicious arrangeineats, a4l given such explicit directions to the heads anti others of the different departments of those who are to form the procession, as described in the ceremonial of the funeral of her late Majesty, that the greatest Finetualitv anti regularity will, it is expected, be ob servcd. The mournful cavalcade is directed to begin to I—lve from Kew Palace at ten o'clock and an official gentleman stated yesterday evening, that it would procced over Kew Bridge, through 13rentflml, and thence to Longford, where it will halt to refresh the bor.e:l, &c. The military called out uliam the occasion will amount to 16,000, including infan try and ca valry. • Ylie Prince Regent is expected to dine at Frogniore un (lay of the finwral of the lute Queen, where tiscre will be a din.ler . providel for between thirty and th.ty Some doubts having arisen RS to the right of Her :ap. , ty to dispose of Bucki lnun-bcracc bt gill, we hive referred Litely to the Act of Parliament upon the s.,bject, ( b Geo. 111. c_ 33,) anti find that Buckingham -1,-use was originally purchased by the King, out of 1 - . is own private purse: that Smnerset-house was set t!ed upon er Majesty, in case bhe should survive the King ; anti that upon her removing from thence, Buckingham-horse was settl.4l upon her in like manner, anti was therefore called the Queen's Palace. The King, fitr his concurrence in this arran4ement, received qO,OOOl. This it appears that the (Queen's Palace is still the property the King, anti would only have become the Q , ,een's in the event of his Majesty having died Wore her. If she had survived the King, it was provided by the same Aci, that at her death, the Palace should remain vested in the Trustees for twelve months, and then revert to the Crown. The hince Regent in remuving his court to Illue',.ingliam-house, dates so in his rigia, as representative of tae SJver,i2;u. TILE NATIONAL RVGISTER. ATTORNEYS.-At a meeting of the Noblemen, Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of Pembrokeshire, held at the Guildhall, Huverfordwest, oa the 3d inst. the Right lionn.ord Cawdor in the chair, the fhllow ing, among other resolutions, were agreed to :-Ist. That we have obaerved, with considerable alarm, the increase of litigation, destructive of the public tranquil lity, anti highly injurious to the prosperity of the country. 2d. That not only have the legal charges been of late greatly increased, but repeated and cruel instan ces have come to our knowledge. of sue; being carried on in the most expensive manner thai legal ingehuity could suggest, fir recovery of the smallest debtl.: or in obtaining redress thr the most trifling injuries ; thereby making the law of the land the instrument of the grossest oppression. The nautical instruments used by Captain Ross, in his late voyage to Baffin's Hay, were un Wednesday landed at Whitehall Stairs, tai'd conveyed to the Ad miralty 011 ice. The Isabella and the Alexander are oniered to be paid off at Deptford. Captain Ross has brought home a dog and a bitch belonging to the newly discovered inhabitants of the regions he has visited. . Madame Mara, who was for several years the prima Donna of the Italian Opera, at the Court of St. Pe tersburgh, has now retired front the exercise of her pro fession as a public singer, and resides at Revel. She is .said to have realized a handsome tintune. Advices are said to have been received from St. Do mingo, confirming the accounts recently received by way of America, of the Governor of the city of St. Do nringo hiving been carried off by the crew of a Patriot privateer, and compelled to pay .SUOO dollars for his ransom. Late on Saturday night or early yesterday morning, the stables of Viscount Melville, on the parade in St. James's Park, near the Egyptian great gun, were broken oven, and robbed of the livery clothes belonging to the servants, &c. Yesterday Townsend and Bishop, the officers, attended on the premises, and are of opinion the robbery was perpetrated by experienced thieves. In consequence of the much lamented death of the Right lion. Wm, Elliott, one of the members for the city of Peterborough, an active canvass was commenced on Monday last by Mr. Scarlett, the King's Counsel, who, we are informed, did m 4 meet with a single refasal : but his election cannot of course take place until after the meeting of Parliament. A correspondent suggests the propriety of every Stage coach master ordering A ha of the penalties consequent on the misconduct of drivers to be attached to some conspicuous part of the coach, as an equal protection to coach owners and to the public. Mr. Brabant, in consequence of the most brilliant offers made him, will, in the course of the next spring, visit Petershurgh, Vienna, and Paris; after which he will proceed to Italy, when he will make the tour of the principal theatres. Mr. Braham's last engagement iii Italy was at Venice, in the year 1800. Mr. Bra ham, it is said, has just refused an offer of a very liberal engnaement ut Drnry.,Lane Theatre. OBSERVANCE OF THE SABIIATIIATI inhabitant of Mornington-place, llampstead-road. and his son, lately appeared to summonses to answer the complaint of a neighbour, for a proflutation of the Lord's day, corn manly called Sunday. The particular act of which the informer complained was their working in a garden and planting gooseberry bushes, and he also complained generally of their working in their garden on Sundays, planting cabbages, &c. The Magistrate inquired what business they were of, to ascertain if they were gar deners by trade. The fatlwr replied, he was not in any business, but lived upon the produce of his property. The son replied, he was a licensed victualer in London. The Magistrate held, that the defendants' conduct did not come within the meaning of the Act of Parliament passed fire the better observance of the Lord's Day, which was for the prevention of persons fhllowing their trades, callings, or professions, on Sunday's for gain, and held that a man would be us much liable fim writ ing a letter to a friend as fir amusing himself in his own gardco, and dismissed the charge. A poor labouring man, who 'has a wife and large family, and was in the employment of J. B. Brice, Esq. of Lanwanne, in North Wales, was lately left. a few hundred p.mnils by an Inuit.. Immediately On the ac. cession of this little fortune, he went to the Overseer; of the poor ot . theparish, to ascertain fro n nt the books, the amount of the sums he had received for relief, and in stantly returned the whole. The King of Prussia has made an agreement with Messrs. l lope and Baring. by virtue of which these bankers ielvance the Prussian coatributi,in, before the period specified in the lauly of the ',ale convention be tween France and the Allied Powers. Wednesday a Court of Ditectors was held itt the East India House, when the taowing Captains were sworn into the command of their respective s hips, viz. :—Capt. It. Alager, Waterloo, and Capt. T. Ha viside, fin. Bengal and China. Incledon has been playing successfully, since his return from America, at Manchester, Liverpool, sad siielficld, and is now arrived in !Amnon. I lis return %%as hastened by :lie alarming illness of Mrs. Incledia. NOV. 30 The Government of Swc:fen has ,Icrised n new system of tnuitim, winch seems to embrace every object in which a tax II posAil)l be affixed : the most remarkstfle irsovisions 41 the !an . are tio•se 6 ` ::very mut who hal completed his 15th year shall pay till his tbtli year inclusive , nn anon dim :tint of 325. inhank. When he has acconi;lislied it is 1901 year, he shall pay ore six dollar. 6 * Every iiniale who hits completed her 15th year, shall pay till her 16th your inclusive, an annual impost of lfis. ; and having com pleted It r s'u'it year, shall pay 245. a yervi. This impost shall con tinue until their ckld year, when it shall cease, unless they have a net revenue of .50 rix dollars, arising lions property or industry. " An income tax is imposed itt•on every class of society, payable at severs' rates. according to their rsnk, and from which not even the actors, actresses, musicians. singers, and dancers are exempt. These assists are divided into four classes, of w;lielt the first shall pay 25, and the last b per cent; th.ty are also to pay a line on thAr 2p rointimnts. Additional taxes are linposed upon bachelors and wi dowers." A French hare was a few days since turn.:6d out of a bag, on Ilrlglitcn- Race Course, before some harriers ; but, instend of attemptirg to eh. cape, she sought refuge tinder the petticoats of several elegant dressed females, who had assembled to witness the sport C,icht caused them to cut rorne curious figures ; and on their refusing the sought fur protection, poor puss !minium a victim to its canine ad versaries. BIRTHS. At Tlri&non, Mrs. 11. Cootie. of a son.—At Fetham, Mithlleccx. the lady of Lieutenant Colonel Quentin, of the 10th Ilussan., of a SOLI. 7ktAttRIED. At Brussels, Ann Blayney, dau. of the Right Ilonorrahle Lord Blaynti, to Capt. Charles Gardon. of the Royal Navy . —J. Savill, Esq. of Little Walth.ou Ilan, Eswrc, to Catharin , t, youngest dim. of the iate J. Ilouson, lily. of Lincoln's Bullock, Esq. of the Treasury, to Letitia, youngest dau.-of the late Rev. 'l'. Pearce, 1).7). Stilidean of Majr,ity's Chapels !loyal, and Pre))endary of Chester.—M. J. F. Fiasco, of Old Fish Street to Pill. dam of the late J. C. Edelman. Esq. Clarton.—M. J. G. Saunders, of Stimmore Great Park, Middlesex, to Lliz sister of Mr. J. Smith, of Battle Bridge, 3t. Pancras. MED. Elisabeth. the wife of R. Esq. Page Green, Tottenham. —F. 1.. (Instal, Esq. of Lincoln's inn, Barrister at Law. aged 59. At Bridge load. Lambeth, Me. P. Beams, apothecary. aged 55. tt llatheld, J. Penrose, F.sq.., M.D., Surgeon Extraordinary to the King. and Surgeon to his :Majesty's Hou.eliould.—At Chippenham, Wilts, aged 64, 1. Ward. Esq., formerly of tlt. Present Street.—Ma. ry, the widow ofthe late T. Seddon, Esq. of Aldersgate Street.—M. Walker, Lsq. of Alic-New Steine, Brighton.—At l'eunsbury, Clap ham, aged.s9, S. Southall, one of the Society of Friends.—J. T. lioberdeau, Esq. late Judge at Allaitabrd. on the Bengal Civil lista blishruent, and son of J. P. ltoberdeats. Esq. late of Chelsea-1W till, typhus fever, Clara, second datt. of Mr. R. Page, of Mitcham-. aged In years ant': 9 months.—Susey, relict of the Fate J. Elsdaile. Esq. of Heed Place, Essex. aged 66. LONDON MARKETS. CORN-EXCIIANGII. rtunaY, NOV. 27. We have had but few fresh arrivals of English Wheat this week, but agouti supply of Foreign, which occasiJus s heavy sale, and Mon day's prices are scarcely obtained. Fite Harley nearly supports our let quotation, inferior sorts are lower as are Beans, of whs.& forekn . arrivals continue largo. The Oat trade Is dull and lower. in oth articles we have no alteration. MONDAY, NOV. O. Notwithstanding the supply .f English Wheat this morning wa• but small it experienced ♦ery dull sales at a r:duction of full ts. pt r quarter on last Monday's prices—Vine 3lidting barley being in de mand met a ready sale—Boiliag Peas were cheaper, likewise Grey Pe4s—There was a Liege supply of Foreign Barley and Beans—The sales were heavy about two shillings per quarter since this day week—Fine Oats supported hut week's prices—ltapeared and Linseed with little variation. s. s. s. s. s. I. Wheat 66 a ;31 WhitePcase6s a7O Poland fits .74 a4O Fine diuo 74 4 S , ) Grey Pease 66 a 70 Potatoe ditto 36 a aS Rye 4ri a 34 Brans Gs a 79 Fine Flour fis a 76 Fine Barleys 6 a 76 Ticks, Malt 7s 4 92 Oats 34 a 5 - 7, Rape Seed 461. Oil. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of the he.t Wheaten Bread throughout the me tropolk is stated by the Bakers to be i2id. the Quartet% Loaf. Some !takers sell the Quartern Loaf from Id. to 2d. lower. AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN l'Elt QUARTER, IN ENGLAND AND WALES YOll THE WEEK ENDING NOT•4I Wheat. Rye 1 Barley 1 Oats 1 Helms 1 Peas. $2 6 1 60 ?I 64 H 1 31;01 7.1 S 1 73 7 PRICE OF MEAT. Mllmmt, 1131ITHFIELD. NEWOITE a. d. s. d. I Broils of Collie at 11ccf...... .5 8 a 3 0 S) , ;;thfir/r/ Mutton ..4 0a 6 0 Beasts, about.... 298 Q Veal ...-4 o a 5 8 1 Sheep 16400 Pork 4 4 a 6 41 Calves 320 Lamb...-n oao 0 i Pigs 2BO HAY ANI) S'IT.AIV I'Elt s. s. d..tvcr..C. A. d. [lay l3 n a a 0 0 3 17 SMITIIFILLO Clover 4 0 0 a 8 10 0— G .5 0 (Straw It 0 a 2 16 2 5 0 a 8 7 3 • Sr JAMES'S ('lover 7 0 o a 0 10 8 0 0 Straw " M 11 a 2 IN 0— 2 I 3 0 Ilay 7 11 0 a M 4 0 7 12 6 WIIITECHAPEL, ('lover (4 74 (P a 9 11 U M 19 0 I Straw 2 10 0 a . 2 14 11— 2 13 0 'or. 30. iND Carcase S. d. Beef 3 8 a 3 a Mutton 40 a 60 Veal 4 0 a 6 Pork 4 a 6 0 n 0 k.) AVERAM: PRICE OF SUGAR. Convened rroin tile Pt:thing male in the week ending Nov. ?S, is 47', 9i,!. per e..vt. exelivive of t;t: Doty of Castotn- paid or pa . ..:o);e liereint on Int;x►tcation t'nzre.)l into Gr.:At BritAin—(Satarauy's Ga.:. tie.) PRICE ON STOCKS Bank Stock per Ccnt. Reduced per Ccnt. (70n+013 ♦ per r..nt. Spey Cent. Navy tots/ stock Ditto Bonds (5 per tent.) 1,2 Ki pc Exche;uer Bills, ..?d. per 014 Wvipe Contois for 7lli I.ongAnnuitie4 U I—IC, Loma,"( : ['tinted and la iblishen bt• by 11. W t. s. No. UP. Kei:T•sT nEET, between St. I kim,uin's Church and Fett,r fnrvardeti into the Country by “ill ewtt■ I.4.o l abellers, alai Clerk% ut flat Roads tics a rUblalibee