The National Register. — London, England, 1820-04-24 00:00:00

IN7'ELLWENCE. counT OF ('I 1.1 NC ERN. F.STM INSTER. Ttiu KsDAY. APRIL rth. Mr. itrotighain :mil Mr Woman cline into Conn this morning, soon after the Lord Chancellor had taken his seat, and %%we addressed by his Lordship in the 1.4- h i niiitrz words:—" Gentlemen, I understand het Ma. j.. , sty the Doren has 'well pleased to appoini you her Atiornev General and Solicitor General : Vl,ll wilt pICUSe, to take yollir seats within he bar, nest to the King's Counsel." The two Teamed gentlemen accionlitutly took their seats as directed, and svere severally asked i.y his Lordship, pro IGrma. it they had any thing to move; after which they withdrew to the other Courts, where the same forms were gone through. COURT OF II I(n4 BENCH, Cr11.1311A1.1. iv LIBEL—THE CENOTAPH CO3I.IIIT7'EE. PVT* V. CI.UMENTS. 'Mr Searlett staled Ihi. r to the Jur). The plaintiff had to cottipl.iiii of a %ire.. litrrl sv Inch has :ecru inserted by the defend:lot iu hi.. pap r, .6 Elm, () ver,", rellectiug ou the plaintiff's character. and on those , •1 the at licr indivi duals ss h.e coast it itt. d Cie t'ominit tee, as well a- on 11r. I. SS'yatt, the arc hiter t to them fraud onl iorpostits e, owl chargini:, them with appropi Milo,: to Uu it own 11.0 e t•rr funds of the rut oiii tar er, H. Cc , Otaith to the memory of Ili late lA:nettled l'risic els Charlotte. The Ithil si as hise. tc in Inc fern of a letter liivestigator. Nr, Seal 1..11 a.r. pr. liana.: to prove his Cote, when Mr. Ad• Iphus. for the .leteudaot, sand his client Was most ready to plead to every part of the charge, except having vsilf.Jly hocll•il 1)r. (Moll. The plaiotill had declared hi- solijet o ion pretniirry damages, but the ju-- tifieation. As for as or,jeel could he I)) the defendant's tirelaratioli it v,;.% coo , Ott:titled ; the was Hot to a cooolitoia to pay hear!. s lie wa ready to consent to :1 ver.iict or and Cobl,. and 11U-I. it the plaintiff would recede to this pi °posit The plaintiff acrrd 114 to Ihi, oiler, a veittict was Nth re.. accordingly, DI:WI/RBI NG 4 RELIGIOUS CONGIIIEG TION.—At the j COMIIy for Oxfordshire, holden on Toe...lay last, , before John Atli% i. Wit, hi, Esq. and a fu,l hei,cli of Mu gi.trates, :to indictment n ',refs rr d and tried against four persons of the names of I i ;is 114)lis, c . j.totios Bit . lis, John Willis,and William %dam.. for milao lefty distils iog • a congregation iireite,tant dissenters, :,sseiteded for divine worship at a %inane cii d Filkins, in the nei_ hood Si Bamptim. to-appealed in evidence that the con, ie_auou ) which umally ass, mbles on Monday eveiang•), had for several months past been greatly annoytd by the riotous conduct of the defendants, mail divers other persons, who, on these occasions, made a practice of colb t tiug in consi derable• numbers in a close adjoining the building in a hich the preacher and his friends met, and by almost every specks of noise and tumult, interrupting the retie,' s exercises of the worshippers. On the day mentioned in the indictment, in particular, so great sviis the uproar, that the 'Meister nits under the neei belly of suspending the service. and requesting some of his friends to go out, and, if visible, silence. The attempt a as, however, inenectual s the tumult was ob stinately continued, and the eituregation 44514 obliged to separate before the usual tome. These facts being fully es tablished, the chairman proceeded to sum up and comment upon the evidence, the bearings of a hurt] he pointed out in a very satisfactory maim r. He then explained the laws which affect the question, and the Jury, After a few minutes conside-ation, delivered a verdict of Guilty against all the defendants. The worthy magistrate next addressed the delinquents in a most impressive manner, pointing out the very serious nature of their offence, and informed them that persons assembled for the exercise of their religious duties in the manner most agreeable to the dictates of their ono onsciences, were ander the protection of the laws, and could not with impunity, he disturbed and harra.seil by the rude insolence of a tumultuous mob, lie then pronounced the sentence of the law, which ititl'et: On the defendants a tine of 401. and they were remanded till it should be paid. LARMINO ACCIDENT.- , -011 Sundsv morning, about five o'clock, the inhabitants near the London Hospital, Vi hitechapel, were most dreadfully terrified, their houses shook to the foundation, the glass in their win dows broken, their furniture tossed about, and themselves thrown out of their beds; this, accomp:liiied with a most dreadful explosion, as if from a voleaito, or the tiring of great guns; all was consternation, supposing it proceeded from the shock of an earthquake. All ran naked into the streets, unmindful of property, for the purpose of saving their lives. Their fears, however, were happily soon abated, on learning that it was caused by comethiug of a combustible nature bacilli.; exploded the oil and coluor shop of Mr. Holliwell, opposite the London Hospital, in which, frit-inn:icily, n o person resided. The house was coniiiicteiy blown front the fotutdation, and nut one stone left upon another; part of the timber of the roof . , flooring, bricks, iiild tiles, were blown as far as tile London Ilos;iital, on the opposite ode of the street, and in every (esker duet nn. The adjoining liouse,occ , :pied by M r. Li!:ey, a pork huteiter, was SO much injured as to be obliged to be prot,ped up. A great part of the party wail fell in 011 th's toot of a bed, is which were three or (inn children, but tt iio luckily escaped without any injury. The shock was so great that Mr. and Mrs. Lilley were thrown out of bed—the furniture was almost all shattered by being tossed about the house. We are happy, however, on enquiry, to find that no lives were lost; there were no persons slept in the house. Mr. Holliwell haeind locked up his shop, about eleven o'clock on Saturday night, and gone home to his house in Red Lion Street, ktihitechapel, where he lives, and has another shop, it is impossible to ascertain front what cause the accident proceeded. Mr. Holliwell rays, there were only five pounds of gunpowder on the premises, and this was secure from hre. After the es plosion several engines arrived, but no fire was to Ll' seen. Several panes of glass, and articles of glass and earthenware, in the neighbouring houses, were broken by the shock. The only accident we heard of, and which was but trilling, happened in a boy who was p•issing the road at the time, by a piece of iiu,hcr fall;az t- him, and knocking hint down. The house ro d snick in aunty are all destroyed. THE NArIONAL REGISTER Accomits from St. Sebastian state, that the dif ferent Customs in the several ports of Spain would not be established until the assembling of the Cortcs in July business, it was expected, tvould be inactive till that period. The Solar celipseavhich will happen on Thursday, September 7. 1820, will be the greatest of all those which have happened in this purl of Europe ever since the year 176 and indeed of all those which will again happen here betore the year 1847. Like the two eclipses just alludes to, it will be annular: that is, the disk of the moon will not wholly cover the disk of the sun, but in certain parts of the earth the sun will show the appearance of an an nulus, or ring, round the body of the moon ; the position and magnitude of which will depend on the situation of the spectator In no part of England will this annular appearance be observed; it will be seen, however, in the Shetland Islands. On the Continent, in any part of that tract of country, which extends nearly in it straight line from the north of Westphalia to the south of Italy, the inha bitants will leave an opportunity of beholding thsi singular phenonu non. Every preparation is making in the department of the Master of the Ilorse tlar his Majesty's going in state to open the new Parliament. In consequence of the Court mourning, the state horses will not be decorated with ribomrs, as they generally have been upon these occasions. THE CATO•STREET CONSPIRACY• - It will be recollected, that, on the night of the capture of the Cato-street conspirators, Davidson, the man of co lour, was stated to have been standing sentry ut the entrance to the place of merlin ; ;, .n d with a combine, and a sword of itranense e ra ngth, and that in resisting the ttempt of the officers to take him into custody, he discharged his combine at one of them. In preferring the bills against the prisoners for the several offences with which they arc charged, this circumstance was overlooked, and it was not recollected, we untie' stand, till Wednesday. An order was consequently given on Wednesday even ing by Mr. Monte, the Solictor to the Treasury, to Ituthven, Ellis. Gill (the man shot at), and other witnesses, to attend bethre the Middlesex Grand Jury, at Clerkenwell, on Thursday, and to bring with them the arms taken from Davidson. They attended accordingly, the bill of indictment was preferred, and a true bill found against William Davidson, for feloniously shooting at Gill, with intent to kill, &c. Only three witnesses were called. The bill was preferred before the Grand Jury summoned to dispose of the ordinary Sessions business, and not that lately assembled under the Special Commission. Advices from Petersburg!' state, that a new voy age of discovery will be undertaken this summer in the North. The expedition will sail from the mouth of the Lena for the Frozen Ocean, in order to exa mine the coast of Siberia and the islands which were discovered to the north of it some years ago. As it is not yet ascertained whether these supposed islands may in reality be one main land or not, and as as hitherto they have only been visited in winter. it will be interesting to know how far the ice will permit vessels to advance during summer, and to determine its extent. The office of Comptroller of Exchequer-Bills' Account became vacant about three years since, by the death of Mr. Pollard, (who received 10001. per annum for signing his name every quarter), and was declared by the Treasury and Auditors of Ac counts to be totally useless, and was abolished accordingly. The Lords of the Treasury have, how ever, thought proper to revive it within the last month, and given it to Mr. Nugent Kirkland, thereby increasing the profuse expenditure and dis tress of the country. Thursday Hight some villains broke into a new building belonging to William Moore, Esq. of Bow Common-lane, Bromley, and cut the glass out of 14 large sashes, which they carried offi together with some carpenters' tools. According to advices from Cadiz of the 30th ult. the duties on wine, barilla. &c. the most unpopular measure adopted by Ferdinand, previously to his acceptance of the Constitution, have been removed by the Government, and an order to that effect had reached Cadiz. With respect to the commercial a ff a irs of Spain in general, nothing would be done until the deliberations of the Cortes had commenced. It is said, that since the Bank of England has been compelled to pay in specie, there have been only three bigots issued front the Bank to the public, Letters front Gibraltar of the 27th ult. mention, that the Government schooner had returned, with a favourable report of the state of the plague in Africa. The deaths in Morocco did not exceed two or three hundred daily. In Mogadore they were reduced also considerably, and were from Ve to 15 daily. The cordon. established by General Don, between the Spanish dominions and Gibraltar, was removed on the 25th of March, and a free inter .coutse with Spain was established. W. D Evans, Esq. barrister at law, many years resident of Liverpool, lately Vice-Chancellor of Lancaster, and stipendiary magistrate of %flaws. ter, has accepters the Office of Chief Justice of the presidency of Bombay, formerly held by Sir J. Mackintosh. Duchess de Berri.—When the Duchess de Berr was on her way to France, befbre she had vet seen the Duke, or been seen by him, she wrote him the fhhlowing letter :—" I do not know what name to give you Monsieur (Sir)—that is too od: Mon seigneur (My Lord) —that is too ceretnonio.is: My husband—that is anticipating my hopes: I will call you my friend. I am nut handsome, but if you have been told that I wish to please you, ant to be loved, I will support my reputation." Sunday morning, about one o'clock, a must beau tiful meteoric ball of fire appeared a little towards the south, at a considerable altitude, over Fort Pitt, Chatham, which strongly illuminated the surround. ing country to a considerable distance, for several seconds, and disappeared by dissolving into a stream of sparks. Westmingler MlL—Wednestlay being the first day of Easter Term, the Lord Chancellor attended at Ltricolo's Inn Hall, at his usual time. Shortly after, the Vice Chaecellor and seven of the Judges, with the principal CounsA of the Chancery and the other Courts, waited on his Lordship, and took breakfast. They then accompanied his Lordship in procession to open the Courts at Westminster. The Chief ,Justices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas, with the Ch:ef Baron of the Exchequer, together with Mr. Justice Richardson, were not of the party, they being engaged on the trials at ;he Old Bailey. The Courts broke up at an early hour. Mr. Justice Best sat early in the morning in the Bail Court. It is rumoured, that a Special Commission will be immcdiatek isstiett for the trial of those accused of treasonable conspiracies in Scotland When his late Majesty "as a child, he was fie quently taken into the lute:iv-room at Leicester. house, which belonged to his Royal Mother the Princess Dowager of Wales Handel observing that the little l'rince was very attentive to his ora torio music, exclaimed, when the Prince on one occasion had crept close to the double bass and organ. " dat hid Prince vil keep ub my music ven lam del and gone." This prophecy was verified • for the King did not relish lacer eompo. sitions; and Handel's music used to be performed to him by the Queen's band every evening at Windsor castle after the usual promenade on the Terrace. _ _ Parson Harrison, of Stockport, was tried at Ches. ter on Tuesday, upon two different indictments for sedition. Ile was found Guilty upon both, and sentenced to two years imprisonment in the county gaol, and to find securities for his gi isl behaviour for two years. The sentence upon the thriller con viction, when he was tried along with Sir Charles Wolseley, will be delivered in the Court of King's Bench, in the course of the present term. There are at present in Whitecross-street prison, for debt, upwards of 450 prisoner:, male and fe male, all waiting in anxious expectation of being released by an Act of Grace or Insolvent Bill, soon after the meeting of Parliament. Monday afterniam, a decently dressed female was observed walkin: , backwards and thrwards by the river side at Chelsea, in - uely a way as to excite sus picion that she had some design upon her own life. At length she jumped in and sunk. A lad named Dumbleton, son of a potatoe merchant in Drury lane, who beheld the act, immediately came up, took off his coat and waistcoat, and fearlessly sprung into the water to rescue her. After considerable difficulty, he succeeded in getting the body to the shore, where it was laid, exhausted and insensible on the bank, till some persons were procured who carried it to a neighbouring public house, where animation returned, and by the kind persuasions of several persons, she consented to return home ; but would not tell the cause of her rash conduct. The intrepid bov applied to (and we understand received from) the Humane Society, the usual reward in such cases. On Friday, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, an escape of gas from a fractured pipe basing ucen discovered in the chemical ivarehouses of Messrs. Savory 'old Cu , of Bond Street, one of the workmen incautiously took a lighted candle, to find out the situation of the leak ; when an e:iplosion took place, which singed the hair of the twia, and broke several panes of glass in the hop window. Mr. Haldimand, the Hanoverian messenger. who arrived in London on Friday, with letters tram the Duke of Cambridge, also brought letter. irom the Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, at pier.., to the King, the Duchess of Gloacc-ter, toe t'riv'ets Sopiiia, and others of the Royal Family. A tire broke out in the shop of essrs. Grace and Freeman, at Nlillbank, on Friday mmniug. It WAS a white lead manutaetory ; the greater part of it was destroyed. The damage is computed at from three to four thousand pounds. '7 -4- 1. z 134