The National Register. — London, England, 1821-09-03 00:00:00

While the Minister was uttering this beautiful and pathetic prayer, all were deeply affected :—the military did not disdain to express their emotions in an audible manner, and several times we saw the Great Chamber lain wipe away the tears front his fine manly counte nance. As to the immediate mounters, including the servants of the Queen's household, we never saw more unequivocal and affected sorrow. When the prayer was finistied, and before the mourners left the tomb, the hundred young ladies were admitted, anti formed a large circle round the platform : they strewed flowers on the floor; and then having prepared soine wreaths, arranged theni in diflerent forms on the coffin ; they then knelt down, tittered a short prayer, and retired amidst the tears and sobs of the company. Even Sir G. Nayler, was visltily affected by this heautilid and pathetic inci dent. The f ral was over about two, and in less than half an how the streets were completely empty, and all was as silent as the tomb to which the Queen had just been solemnly consigned. Thus ended the funeral of the amiable and perse cuted Queen of England. The hand of power was to the last exerted to deprive her of her just rights, and to the last the love of the people defeated the malice of her enemies. She chose rightly in choos ing to be buried at Brunswick. In England she had faithful friends, but there her enemies were powerful and brutal; and the expression of their enmity might have violated even the sanctity of the tomb: in Brunswick she was loved and idolised by all classes, from the great officer of state to the meanest pauper. In England her dust might have been mingled with that of some of her cruellest persecutors: in Brunswick she will be mingled with the congenial ashes of heroic relatives and dearest friends. Our readers will not be sur prised to learn, that the frank and affectionate Brunswickers feel no very good-will to England, which they consider as the land of suffering and persecution to their beloved Princess; but nothing could exceed the respect and kind regard they showed to those faithful English, who, having fought the good fight for her while alive, now with sincere and disinterested attachment accompanied the remains of their broken-hearted mistress to a distant grave.— Among the English present, were Lord and Lady Hood, Lady Anne Hamilton, Dr. and Mrs. Lush ington, Mrs. and Mrs. Wilde, Alderman Wuod, and his son, the Rev. T. Wood, Mr. Hownam, and Mr. Wilson (son of Sir Robert): amongst the Foreigners, Count Vassali and Capt. Hesse: Mr. Austin and the household were all there also. It is right to mention, that the executors applied at Brunswick, before the funeral, to Mr. Calvert to restore the plate which had been taken off the Queen's coffin at Colchester; and that Mr. Calvert answered, that he conceived himself to be without _ . authority to comply with their request. After the funeral the executors made a second application, but we believe without success; it was, however, clearly understood, that if the plate should be restored, the actual authorities at Brunswick would offer no opposition to its being placed on the coffin.—On Sunday the 26th ultimo, a funeral sermon was preached by Mr. Wolff, at which all the mourners attended. COURSE OF EXI Amsterdam, 12 17 C. F. Ditto, at eight, 12 11 Rotterdam, It 18 Antwerp, 12 9 Hamburg'', 38 2 Altona, 38 3 l'aris, 3 days' sight, 2.5 70 Ditto, 46 hourdeaux, 26 Fraukfottou the Maine, 158 Petersburg'', 81 3 U. Vienna, El. Flo. 10 25 '1 rieste, Ef. Flo. ►O 25 Madrid, 314—Cadiz, 36* 35i—Bal eelona,3sl PRICE 0 Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red. 7C 3 per Cent. Consols 16 3i per Cent. 4 per Cent. 95i 5 per Cent. Na,y 1091 Lug Ann. 191 :FIANCE, Auc. SI. Seville, 34—Gibraltar,301 Leghorn, 47—Genoa, 43i Malta, 45—Venice, 27 60 Naples, 394—Lisbon, 5d Oporto, 50—Bahia, 59 ' Rio Janeiro, 49 Palermo, 116 Dublin, 14 per cent. Cork, 9 per cent. Foreign gold in bars, 31. 17s. 100. per oz. New Doubloons, New Dollura,4a. 10d. Silvrr iu bat s, a tandard, 4 I 1 tl. STOCKS. Ontnitim 0. Imp. 3 per Cent. intliA BMWs 62 Indi• Stock Exchequer Mils 3.. prem. COllll. for At. 761 Lottery Tickets £l9 18s. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. ton Don : MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. Mr. Alderman Waithman has very properly ad dressed Lord Bathurst (in the absence of Lord Sid mouth, the Secretary fur the Home Department,) on the subject of the outrageous conduct of the Life Gdards on Sunday last, and a document more cre ditable has seldom been seen. We would by no means " set down aught in malice," but we hesitate not to say that the regiment was disgraced that day, and of the officer's conduct, we may add, that he be haved nunlike a gentleman, unlike a man, and cer tainly unlike & British officer. It is for Government to apprize us, by the line of conduct adopted in this instance, whether or not the military power is to supersede the Constitution, whether or not the uscostmooded sword is to replace our Statutes, whether or not the highest Civil Power we know, is, in the person of a High Sheriff of the first county in the Kingdom, to be set at nought, and himself to be threatened with assassins,. tion by a lawless and infuriate soldiery. No praise of the worthy Sheriff can reach his deserts—his courage, coolness, presence of mind, and conciliation, doubtless saved the flowing of torrents of blood on Sunday last, and if England do not, in imitation of the Roman senate, present her citizens with a civic crown for saving the life of a fellow -creature, Mr. Waithman's brow will be adornel with a chaplet of gratitude, woven by the hundreds whom his firmness saved from butchery in this instance—those who would have been widows and orphans will pray for the Preserver of their husbands and fathers, and the recollection of the events of that day will solace him at the most fearful period of his life—on his death bed. We much fear the line of conduct Ministers mean to adopt, may be anticipated from the tone of my Lord Buthurst's reply to Mr. Sheriff Waithman's statement—it is not so decided as the Letter of Thanks of Lord Sidmouth„ after the Manchester murders, but it isinthe sa ue, key.—Mr.Waithman's rejoinder will be read with pleasure, by all those who would rather live under the Constitution, than under the rule of Sword and Carbine. A partial change of Administration, it is said, will take place on the King's return from his Irish revelliigs.—We shall hail with delight any change, by which may be introduced a single Member to the Cabinet, who would rather England should be ruled by Love than Fear—who would prefer the adoption of means to conciliate the affections of the people, to making them the subjects from time to time of Military Slaughter and Tyranny. Loci NOTEL—A public meeting was held on Thursday, the 23d, in the Exchange dining room, Manchester (pursuant to a requisition) " to consider of the measures necessary for securing a satisfactory currency of these towns and neighbourhood, in con sequence of the cessation of the issue of small notes by the Bank of England." The meeting was very numerously and most respectably attended. About half-past eleven o'clock the Boroughreeve was called to the chair. A series of resolutions was then read to the meeting, stating strongly the well known in• convenience of a currency depending on private se curity. The efficient resolutions were the following: sl hat the following declaration be adopted by the meeting and recommended to the inhabitants at large:— •' M•sciisstCß, Ana. 23, 1821.—We, the undersigned, being deeply impressed with the iucunvenience and danger to be uppreliended from the circulation of local notes in this great mercantile town, do hereby declare it to be our i n ters• lion not to receive any such notes in payment after the Slit instant, except in cases of ex(reme necessity; in all which we pledge ourselves not to circulate such notes." Moved by Mr. Richard Owen, seconded by Mr. Allen, and resolved unanimously— •• That the gentlemen who signed the requisition for this meeting be mho/Wiled a committee, with power to sold to their nu ober, for the purpose of • allying the preceding re solutions into erect, and of procuring tue co oisc rat of the merchants and initnufacturers, shopkeepers, and others, in such steps as may he thought Net essary with the view of pre semilig the intioduction of a dangerous mid unsittisfactory currency into this important commercial district ; and that any five may be competent to act." SPORTING.—The Grand Jury of the county of Bedford, at the late Assizes, entered into the fol lowing resolution:— " We. the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury of the county of Bedford, assembled ut the Suminer .sires, having taken into consideration the very backward state of the growing crops, and the injury the cultivators of the land would thereliwe sustain, it their farms were to be interfered with by sportsmen so early as the Ist day of September, do resolve, that we will not begin to shoot, and that we will make use of all legal means to prevent others from shooting upon our estates respective,y before Friday the 14th of September, in the present year: and we recommend this present resolution to the ail - option of the land owners in ge nelal, lot the protection of the &meta." The St. Antonio, from Lisbon to Barcelona, was captured on the 29th ult. on the waft of Huelba, by an armed brig, and a xebec under Spanish colours, which, after taking out the cargo, part of the pro visions, and plundering the crew and passengers, allowed her to proceed, and she arrived at Cadis the 31st ult. A gentleman shooting grouse on the hills of the Hon. W. Malik, last week, discovered a covey of young partridges, almost full grown, a considerable way in the Grampians, under the protection of a mulr-cock and hen. The old partridges were not present. We leave it to naturalists to determine whether the grouse bad taken possession of the par tridges' nest, and hatched their brood; or whether they had taken the brood under their protection after the parent birds had been destroyed. A snake's nest was last week discovered in the vicinity of Truro. It was singularly constructed, and contained 14 eggs, of a dirty white colour, about the size of those of the blackbird. One of the eggs being broken, a young snake. perfectly formed, of a dark colour, was exposed to view, cu riously coiled round the inside of the shell. On being freed from its confinement it raised its head and unwound itself to the extent of six inches, with all the activity peculiar to these supple animals. A few days since, Mrs. Prowse, who lives at Mount Edgeumbe Lodge, near Plymouth,• left a ba.ket of live cockles outside the door, and on her return found a robin which had flown ink) the basket, vainly endeavouring to escape from one of the shell-fish, which had caught the bird by•the foot. and preserved its hold with such tenacity, as to deprive the little flutterer of two claws before he could be extricated. It is said the King was not quite pleased with the Bank of Ireland. Instead of showing the cash room in its proper form and appearance, it was cot , . verted into a sort of theatre, in which his Majesty was erhibiled. The Governors and Directors ap. peared in their common habiliments, instead of being full dressed, as was their duty. When they ushered his Majesty to the apartment where the notes were struck off, the key was not to be tbund; and to crown all, and accomplish the seine of their bad taste, . they placed the chair for his Majesty behind the statue of his royal father, of blessed memory ! It created a sensation which was visible, but, perhaps, not clearly definable. Anecdote of Lord Chief Justice Iloll..—During a riot in Holborn, when the populace were about to • pull down a crimping-house, a body of -guards were ordered to march from Whitehall to disperse the mob. An officer was dispatched to the Lord Chief Justice, to acquaint him with the design, and to • desire him to send some of his people to attend the soldiers, in order to give it the better countenance. The officer having delivered his message, the Lord Chief Justice said to him, " Suppose the populace should not disperse at your appearance, what are you to do then !" " Sir," answered the officer, " We have orders to fire upon them--" Have you, Sir," replied his Lordship, " then take notice of what I say ; if there be one man killed, and you are tried before me, I will take care you, and every soldier of your party shall be hanged. " Sir," added he, go back to those who sent you, and acquaint them, that no officer of mine shall attend soldiers; and let them know at the saute time, that the laws of tills kingdom are not to be executed by the sword; these matters belong to the civil power, and you have nothing to do with them." Upon which he ordered his tipstsffs with a few constables to repair to the place ; and the minute they appeared there was an end to the riot. Extract of a letter from Barcelona, dated 15th August :—" For eight days past we have been under great alarm here, in consequence of symptoms of the yellow fever having broke out its our port. Our authorities are taking every possible measure to pre vent its reaching the shore, and we hope the evil will be crushed in its infancy. Great numbers lt the inhabitants have, however, precipitately left the town, and still continue to leave it, as hitherto tie symptoms have not diminished The tion with the shipping has been of course cut off. The Ga die de France says, that the King of E a, land will proceed to Vienna atter his visit to his Han• verian dominions. "It is expected that his Majesty will arrive there about the lath of September.— Prince Esterhazy, who announced this news, has given orders tin. the necessary preparations at his sect of Eissenstadt to receive George the Fourth, on his way thither. His Majesty will only make a sho; t stay amongst us, us lie will depart early in (Mahar to return to England, taking Paris in his route thither." COLON/AL LIMBER DUTY. LIVLUPOOL. • Tnasery . Cliagebers. Jaly 9. GENTLEMEN, - 1 and directed by Lie Ltottki et>111111:s14011e1.5 of his Majesty's Treasury to state to you. that it being itnpo • • bible for the masters of such irt.ssels as kit the country pressous to the passing of the Act of the piesent S,ssion. I arid Y George cap. 37. for the purpose of loading timber in the B. ntaa North American Columns, to be aware of the regulations estao tithed by that Act, their Lordships, then hire, desire that you will dispense with the certificate required by the 11th mectau of the said act, and with the oath art the master as to the growth and identity of any timber which may be im from any British colony or plantation in America. in ..I case: a here the vessels importing the same shall arribe to a port of Great Britain previous w the Ist Septemberdo i s:s. ile,r.. s L SH ING TO N." " To the Commissivuers or Customs.- THE NATIONAL REGISTER 277