The National Register. — London, England, 1817-02-10 00:00:00

HINTS TO THO.',E WIIO FREQUENT PUBLIC MEETINGS. Let those who look forward to the proceedings of Monday next, with met; ';','S of idle.curiosity, and who may' be induced to join the crowd with no disloyal intentions, ponder servo : s ly on the more than probable consequences of such imprudence.—The crowd numeri cally gathers strength as it proceeds, like a snow-ball, it is easily assembled, but dipersed with difficulty....— MAR individually proud of his free agency thinks him self accountable only fur his own thoughts words and actions, he is unwilling, to believe that when from the overt acts of that crowd, it assumes a determinate shape and character, and that of the most malignant and treasonable nature, unless he oppose the acts of the majority, he must necessarily borrow the hue and colour of the Meeting, awl participate in all the odious qualities and dreadful consequences attached to it. The well-intentioned and peaceful Citizen will be disposed then to disappoint the views of the disaffected, and to stay at home instead of mixing in the crowd on Monday next. They wili by so doing, evince themselves loyal sub jects anal gout! citizens ; they will avoid at the same • time, a serious risk and awftil responsibility. Parents, and masters, and guardians, will feel it their duty to retain their dependents, and if the spirit of distinction is ;vile abroad, as some assert, not to fan the flame, by suffering them to join in promiscuous assemblages, but to stifle it in its birth, by permitting it to evaporate in silence and obscurity. If this prudent conduct be observed, little is to be apprehended from the madness or folly of a few heated .demagogues, whose language is now pretty justly appreciated, whose views and objects are confusion and disorder, aril who preach license, whilst they ostensibly advocate popular rights and privileges; but the good sense of the people will prevail at last, when they see the legislature anxiously endeavouring to ,amend those defects in the constitution of the country which the lapse of time or a change of circumstances has engendered ; when they see a serious disposition in the higher orders gradually to reform what is amiss, and to set their shoulders to the wheel in order to provide for the prosperity of the country. Feb. 8,1817. AMICUS PATRLE. ••• Our excellent correspondent Ashen: Patric, will per eeive that we anticipated merit of tl a matter coat:tine in his litter, axed to avoid repetition we were obliged to leave out some part of it. Wednesday night the S.>cicty of Arts chose a Secretary in the room of the late Dr. Taylor. The election was by ballot, and Mr. Aikin was the successful candidate. The numbers were as follows:—Mr. Aikin, 415.—Mr. Hiort, 107.—Mr. Downing, Sir J. Sinclair made the Society a present of a port aide mill for grinding corn : it is of French construction, and is one of the sort used by Buonaparte in his Rus sian campai , ms. We leanifrom the manufacturing counties, that trade is considerable increasing. The manufacturers are now giving Bs. fit. for the manufacturing of calicoes, which they could have got done last year at ss. Gd. Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue, in the Years ending sth of January. 18.6, and sth of January, 1817: and also the Total "Produce of the Codsoliduted Vita, the Annual Duties, and the War Taxes. Year ending Year cnding a Jan. MM. 5 Jan. 1517. 4,891,4711 Cttstoms Exeist 19,351,956 5,8115,413 Stamps rust-oiliet 6,214,987 Assass...l T, us I.and 'r.,x • Blisc.lia: cow Total Consolidatol Fund AN tar AL D T lES, to 1)17 off Bills. Ciutows 2.469.11L l'emiou.s, Offices, &.c 5j5,950 16 Total .Annual Dutir.s 3,th;s,llo rermancnt and Annual Duty ...... 42,583,8114 WAn TAx ES. 3,146,3(10 Customs 6,614,7.'26 .Excise 14,311074 Property Total War Ti 24,059.!198 4,979,154 17,871,998 5.969,721 1,428,000 6,783,322 1,127,929 241,199 37,399,323 654,124 4,016 2.931,341 1,008.366 4,462,074 11,559,590 17,030,050 Total Net Revenue G6,443,8tr4 57,360,694 The Irish and Potttuese Payments, for the Interest •om their respective debts, payable io England, are ex• chrlcd frqm this Statement ; and the War Taxes ap propriated to the Interest of Loans charged on them are not ircladed in the ConFolidated Fund, but tinder the head of W;lr Taxes, to the Quarter ending iith of .Tuly, 1816, inclasive, from which period the War Duties of Customs (being made perpetual per Act s(i Geo. 29) are included under the head of Consolidated Cus tom 4. Tv.iinuy Clamber, Mt 3, 1817, E. F. Lt:SHINGTON. THE ROYAL FAMILY. The following Bulletin was exhibited at St. James's Palace on Sunday hist: " Windsor Castle, February 1. Hip Majesty has been uniformly quiet, yet elteerfoll, dot tug the last month. His Majesty's disorder is undenimished, but his bodily health coutioites very good. The Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold have very humanely given .501. towards the relief of the poor Irish labourers. Thursday being the day appointed for holding a levee at Carlton-house, a very numerous assemblage of nobi lity and gentry presented themselves to congratulate the Prince Regent on his recent escape from the violence of treason. The Grand Duke Nicholas was the first per sonage who arrived : he was introduced first to the Royal closet, and afterwards proceeded to the levee-room, in company with the Dukes of York, Clarence, and Glou cester. His Highness is described to have at first mani fested an ingenious ditfittence at the imposing display of the full English Court, but he soon recovered his pre sence of mind, and conversed familiarly with the dis tinguished persons by whom he found himself sur rounded. crry ADD!:Esi. To his Royal Highness thy of Wales, Recent of Linite:l Kingdom oh' Great Britain and Ireland. The {amide and dutiful Address of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city of London. May it p!case your Royal Highness, We, the Lord Mayor Aldermen of the city of London, beg leave to approach your Royal Highness r.ttli profound ben laments of duly and re•pect, to express our hoi or and in dignation at the most darin4 and itagitionti outrage offered to your Royal Person at the moment of your return from the House of Parliament, nu the occasion of your Royal High ness exercising the sacred duties of the Crown, and fultiltung, in the name and on behalf of his Alaj, sty, the very importune function of one of tin estates of the reldm. With the de. pest concern we have to deplore that any one should be found within his Mniests'a dominions capable of violence so atrocious, so disgiaceild to linnian nature, so foreign to the gritish character; and we most fervently hope, that the luulty of the subjects of the United Empire s ill manifest itself to pi es eat a repetition of an attempt en base against the sacred person of pint. Royal Highness. We beg permission to add, that nothing shall be wanting on our part, as Ma4istrates of the Metropolis' of the Empire, to promote on all occasions the general tranquility, atel In evince our steady loaltv and attachment to your Royal House and Per son, and our 'determination to support the Crown and dignity of these realms. Signed, by order of Court, HENRY WOODIIiORPE. To which his Royal Highness was pleased to return the fol lowing most gracious answer : " I thank you fur this loyal and dutifill Address. It k highly satisfactory to me to receive upon this occasion, and at the present conjunentre, these assurances of your steady attachment to me and my family, and of yOltlr determination to promote obedience to Cie lass,,, and to atiMil a firm sap. port to the Crown, the preroatives of which are insepa rably connected with the libel ties and best interests of the people." . . . . They were all most (wired, and had the ho nour to hi—. the Prince Rug, nr- hand. This address is considerill el very hovel one, there haviaz been only three Aildu esses to the Smereitni flee the C.mrt of Aldermen during the p remmt reign : one of them a - as upon the assassination of Mr. Percival. THE LORD MAYGR FOREIGN SEAMEN. TO THE EDITOR. Stn,—it was with considerable surprise I read nn extract in several papers from a foreign journal, in which my name was mentioned, anti in which was a statement wholly llllSllL stantiatpd by facts. The account complains" that so litre is done for those poor foreigners who have lost their youth and health in the service of Vtigiand t" and it afterwards pro ceeds to lament, " that although the ship provided for their assistance was calculated to contain only 30U sailors, at pre sent 350 poor, sick insulated torttigners lie crowded together with the marines rind soldiers." Now, had all the foreign Consuls exerted themselves in behalf of their countrymen as the Portuguese and American have done, by sending them to their own homes, the number on board would have never ex ceeded 200 at one time; and as the ship could nes er be in tended as a fixed and permanent residence, where men were to be supported in idleness, it was the duty of Consuls imme diately to have forwarded their countrymen to their oa homes. Respecting the ship also, the foreign statement is quite Incorrect: it is capable of containing 409 men ; an for the very few who were sick, at my request, the Admiralty appointed a sinall vessel as an hospital ship. To show fur ther, that all possible attention has been paid to their interest and welfare, and that their services rendered to this country & not go unrest mated, the Hon. George Rose, on hearing that I had exerted myself in their behalf, took the trouble of going down himself on board the 1/./drc, in order to ascertain what wages or prize•noney were. doe to any of them ; and the result of his inquiry was, that out of about 419 ml n en board the two ships, 10 only appeared entitled to price-mo ney, and the whole amount due to these was, in all, some few shillings under 301.4 nor were there any wages due iu a sin gle instance. In the hope that you will as speedily as possible make' public this error and Illib•btatelitent of the foreign journal. I h.tv the hnroir.• to remain. your obedient servant, Alahsion-Louse, Fib. Gill, 1817. WOOD, Mayor. ATTACK ON THE PRINCE REGENT. no W STREET. Thomay Scoff, ChM Cull with 1)1.k,7 a party to the attack on the Pi iace Regent un IVeiti.es(lay, underwent a final C 1.4114.. ( aptl i n ;st u li o , of the 24 rezi.nent of life-guards, ex amined —I ma. on duty on 'fat sday, the 2ith Jitnnot ), uhen the Prince I:...gtist want to open the Sesion of Mr. Hicas.— Had you the opportunity of observing the Itces of any of the crowd ?—A. No, I cannot say that I took particular notice of any person. Q. Do vsn recollect the prisoner?—A. No, I do not. John woman of the guards.—l vas s tationed by the hell trawl side of the state carriage, on its way to and from the House of Lords, close to the door. Several stones were thrown before the glop. was struck. I picked up the stole which broke the glass the set pad time it fell at my feet. Several potatoes were also thrown us wed as stouts.-- I do not recollect the prisoner. A Gentleman, whom nau, ma' , not distinctly prononnced, now Caine forward. and sated that he had nittiessed the outrages committed its the Park. Ifc saw• ne prisoner pre. viou3ly to his being Liken, and saw Wm strike the horse nl• Laycock, the Isfe•guat.lsmass, wills his simurclia, but he be lieved h e had d S:i only w till a view to protect himself Irma the horse treading ou sun tom afterwards taken into custody by the llusse-ghards. the police officers calm sip afterwards. J. smiler Thomas, a fishmonger, was then called. His evidence went to prove, that the prisoner dui not throw any stones, and that his conduct nits no more vio cut than the conduct ut• others against whom the horse guards (hoc, their horses. Mr. Hinny asked Mr. Chambers whether he had not said that the conduct of the primmer had been particularly vio• h tit hefore he struck the hoise of the hl'r•goat d ? Mr. 4;hambersanowered in the affirmative. . . _ Mr. HicAS.—As an bulks idnal I feel it my dirty to state, that from the strong view which I toot of the rase et first, I conceive the course taken widi regard to the prisoner per fectly iiistifiab'e. I should have betrayed the confidence reposed in nw, were I to hive suf eredl a preqiner, avant. t whom a elisr!re of treason was mode to go at large, wnhoct due deliberation. I did think, and soli think, the crime of high tmeein has been committed, but the esidence does not bring that crime borne to the prisoner. Ido not think, however, that, under all the eirctinistallCUS, the prisoner has reason to complain of the confinement lee has midergoac his own conduct has justified that rosiliormi ot, and there fore he dor a not art with h. , erimme propriety in attributing to the Magistrates any thing like iliiinqice. A week i- the shortest period which could have been taken to invesitgate the eace, and longer lie has 110 t been in custody. The prisoner was then admitted to bail, linaself in tiO(d. and two niirities in 1001. each. Tile VI iIIIC%A in this ease, as well as -in the cases of the rioters recently trietiotave received alionymnis letters.thrJti n ing their lives it they persist in giving es i.lenee. Mt. thaei tiers received such a letter, accolip,.nicil with a hint, th,it " the next blow at the Prince nrgent teauld br more rare." John Roney, a wood-cutter, residing at Sharetlitelo, wag taken to Lord Shintoiith's office, on surd :6011, it iS of bent:, the pw•con who the Still(' %%11101 broke tt.c dow of the Pi ince It. cent's can lie underwent all eNiS• initiation. A peat IMITIber of per,.4.)na. including the wit° of the pi kont-r, acre n•setnhicd on the outside of the otEct. ANIMAL FECLNCITY.--Mr. H4'rnbrnok, At Tatth.tork, has sour ewes, which have pt,nlue, d hint The two tir‘t, two earl—ilie sernud , three—and the third, five iambs, twu of which are dead, and the oth • three ate doing well. IMPORTANT rtcr - ovr.nv —List week the warelionse of Marehead, at Mallon, was brol• en 0;.PII mid 13 firkin• et' butter stolen thereold. SI'S:PIC:OI.n circumstances led to 4 /*card) at East ilit premises of .1. Hill; and the vtat cof a suspe iem e was di , i-vereil be his garden, where the stolen property WR coneealed. Three men li No been eoiret•itted to York Castle, and a t' ,, ustli has absconded it is a singular tact. tiboot 20 3 I'JIS UZ4., lived 1 . 011. e fur t n. e yea.. CAV , .! 111/011 1k old, six miles from 31n.ton (after re tinting se , co yeari 0, taw)" r, and we. :it length discovered 'j terlin! the cave by WOW child' a n, who 'elm,' let. that they had seen a wail swk into the grouott. TUE NATIONAL REGISTER. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. On Tuesday, a Common Conned met at Guildhall, after a few hours notice, upon a requisition, signed by Messrs. Waitliman, Favell, eve. to con.ider of " the propriety of presenting an Address of Congratulation to his Royal incli nes,- the Prince Regent, on his providential escape from the atrocious assaults of some rash ail,/ intemperate initiridania, ;:a St. James's Palk, on hie reaurii from the hi.ose of Lords, in the discharge of the functions of our Beloved Sovereign."— The Lord Mayor took the Chair, unaccompanied by any of the Aldermen; and after some pause olyersed that they could not proceed to Inis:ness, two Aldermen, besides him self, twin necessary to constitute a legal Com t. But as mistake had arisen in frantiog the requisition, it was his iii tention, be said, to call another Meeting.—The Recorder immediately stepped forward, and addressed the Meeting. It was hie daly, lie said, to inform them, that it was his opinion, as well as that of the other City Law Officers, hatt from the terms in %%Inch the Requisition was expressed, even had the Court been legally formed, they would have been placed in such delicate and dirlieult circumstances, from the very light mantle r in which the attempt upon the life of his Royal Highness had hero treated, as to invol% e every iaili vidual present in a charge of nikprison of treason. He then proceeded to read the Statute of Ilia!) Treaacii, which pro vided for the sat'ety not only of the persuti of the King and Queen, but of their eldest son; therefore, to call the late atrocious attempt on the lite of the Regent by the gentle epithets of "rush end intemprivie," was not ot.;:t improper but illegal. Ile nest read SOllli . retracts from the works of Lord Chief Justice Poster, to strengthen his opinion; and then quoted the opinion of the pressat Gortunoti Serjeunt, in which lie filliy voncurreil, viz.:—That to coosider high treason "as rash and intemperate" only, was in itself a nigh crime and inisdruicanour. 'file Court, lie therefore repeated, could not take tip the subject in its present shape, ever, if legally constiteited. The Lord Mayor, after declaring he haJ not noticed tile f's prmions, and hearing a few observations iii • the way of conversation from several Mendiers, bowed awl retired; when the meeting broke up. Wednesday another Court of Cominon Conned was held far the purpo•e of takiug into consideration the propriety of •resertim , ea Address of Congratolation to his 1(o)al High ness the Prince Regent, on his providential escape. After the requisition hail been read, Mr. Oldham addressed the Court at MAW! length, and concluded by inuving, that an ad dress be presented accordingly; he was seconded by Mr. James Davis, and afte r some observations from him, Mr. Alderwan Hey - gate, and Mr. Waithinais, the motion Was %ma. uimously agreed to, and au address read and adopted. UARY 10.