The National Register. — London, England, 1818-05-18 00:00:00

JIOUS& OF COMMONS. PR !DAT. r.v.vir /NI)IES. l‘fr. novrottr tt rote ptirsto.int to his notice, to make some Molians for papers relative to the wars In the East !nate'. Governor general of India wa: now in the field with n test army. amounting to neorly inn,Onn men. u he ondergood, and was also at a distance of loss, miles from our capital. lie therefore moved fin the copies of advices from the Government in Italia to this country, u to causes which produced the war with the Peishwa ; secondly. for papil" respecting( the previous discussing'', and the cause that oceibioned 1 tilittes with the Rajah of Herat.: thirdly. for copies,k.c. of papers (I) , n:elating the transactions which led to thcriitilarroe war ; anal fourthly, for eopics all of treaties eenclutled with native Primes r mid States since Mb, winch had not At teen laid belbre the llonse, ihequertion being put on the firer Motion ap to the a•ar with the ro.hwa. eawstrwo rose and Sad, that as to the sr•t quertion relative to the rei.lrea, he was disposed to unveilr in the Motion or the Itosionrahle tuber. and to give the fullest Information possible," the sukk , ct. The state of our power in India had arrived to afich a height, and attained such ,t position, that, without going inta an inotiry as to how it rest. to its prevent extent and eteration, it balaii , e trece. nary togive it a full protection. flu wir•h Inc said this, he dad not terra to Fay that unni.:,l-“ary or ambitions wars should be entered sport, but only such as were necessary for general set-miry. 'The first Motion of Mr. lieworth, relative Co the l'etsliwa, war put awl carried. _ _ _ MT. HOWORTII the% by consent of the House, withdrew the Motion eonecrning s war with the Rajah of Ittear. The Stl motion re,o , :ti.-74 the Pindar.'ees wsot agreed to The 4th Alotiou. for copies of treaties with native powers I:nee it‘ti, was also agreed to. MARRIAGE dF TIIE DUKE OF KENT._ Leta CAST LERtAGII moved the order of the day oti the Prince Ili-genet Message, and that the said Message be read, which was aceerdingly doue hv the clerk. The House went into a Committee ,n the 311essage, on the Motion of Lord C.astlereNgh. His Lordship then rose and said, that in rolling the attention of the House to the most gracious Messes •c from the l'rince Regent, he should not feel it necessary to trouble them at any length. He should not trespass further. but to move that it was the opinion of the Committee. that a grant from the Consolidated Fund of 6.0001. a year be made to the Duke of Kent, as a suitable provision on the marriage of his Royal Highness. Mr. Cones ex said, tha: however painful it might be to himself vet he felt it consistent with his duty to oppose the Grant. The pro. posed Grant could riot be necessary, when it appeared that the Duke of Kent bad '23,0001. a year; particularly wlitri he considered the situation which the country was in. Had not her Majesty received la t ig 50,0001. a year, as privy-pease money', respecting the applica_ tions of which that House had never Made any inquiry Nl'hy could not her Majesty out of such means relieve her son on the paint of marriage hem his embarrassments? What he had said might certainly not be personally agreeable but he felt It his duty to say it ; and to oppose the Grant in Coto: though he entertained in common withothers the highest opinion of the exalted personage alluded to gthe Duke of Kent., Sir R. II rem; opposed die grant of soy increase of tie income to his Royal Highness, akhosSO he assented to the proposal for the dower to the Princess. Mr. I3aoooitAst obsessed that if die merits of the Puke of Kent *ere thesubject of consideration, and if the vote dqendati on per sonal character, the question might be speedily disposed of. No man in an exalted rank had set a higher example of public 'dust. out yet it appeared, that even these views must be Wt out of the consi deration of the present quostiort. He had been exposed to lune healthy climates, and he believed dote the chances of war. He had been employed in the West Wits, at Gibraltar, in Nova Scads, and in Canada, for It or Iti pears, having no income adequate to his expenses. lie widen:mod that fib Royal Highßess had received no thing cio this account, and he did not *ow ask for any thing rela tive to it. By the arrangements for liquidating his embarrassments he had appropriated 17 or I9.oool.ayearoutof his ti-,OOOL. (17,0001. a year alppropeotted was mentioned semis the table.) Well, then, here was — a deduction of 17,0001. a year, which must continue for some tears to come. These were the grounds on which he had thought proper to take the line of conduct that be did, which he tack without any connection with popular clammy or any other feeling whatever than that of propriety. Mr. METHutx said, he could sot, in the present circumstances of the coemtry, agree to the grant. Lord At flour agreed with leis Hon. and teamed Friend on the subject of the Royal Duke's general benevolence; hut felt him self called upon, in duty to the country, to vote against the motion of the Noble Lord. Mr. Puorti nor. said, that having opposed a former grant, he did rot feel it his duty to give his vote on the present occasion for an ia c' of the income of the Noble fluke. l'ha House then divided, when there wete, for the Motion, 205.—. At:ail:lt it, St.—Majority for the Motion, 153. 'fete grant was accordingly agreed to, as was also the dowry to the Duchess. ALIEN BHA. Lord CAATLFREAGIT moved the 2d reading of the Alien Bill. • On the question bring put from the chair, V Vt. LAND, ow said, it was with no small surprise that he had heard from the Noble Lord that an Alien Bill had been designed by Liam to be i,.t7oduced, in a period of profound peace. It was not formerly the policy of to act ad the Alien Bill reqtired.— It was once her policy to encourage and protect those foreurners.who wisiseil her shores. 'fliat was the spirit that had pervaded all the nets and ir.stitutior.s of our aneest:ors. He trusted the House of Comment, would regard the measure with the suspicion and jealousy it deters-ed. He hoped they would not repent them of the late inde• pcorletim which they had shown. Mt. PIinTFIEROE saw nothing dangerous in this Mlle LYTTLETOW said, that it appearedto be the eit,h of grstiemen err the ither side that this question should not be much discussed.— a wa. snrprised that they had gut nothing to say in defence of their meatures and was resolved to oppose the Rill. After a discussion between Mr. H. Clive, Lord Ft - Ilkeston, Mr. C. C 7a. tt. and Mr. F. Ihrtglas. the 11. ise then divided—For the s .rid reading. 97—.tgainct it IS—Mainritr 69. The other orders of t • lay were then disposed of, and the House atiounied till Monday ri It i. reported, that Parliament will be I! /solved on the Gth of n4•At month. o'e understand the owners of ?011ie VC!111:1'. 1/C1011:611r to /ion, whose ei e'. have ht rn detected in smug ling, 11111111111. reiteented orders to tee reofelrilly, have applied to toe Sqliri tor of the Excise to k HOW %filat 31918conld be tah en to mot a stop to this practice, by which the propt rty of lire owner is SO 11111(.11 el)lianv•reil. The :;olicitnr, in rept , states, that on their names being transmitted to hint, the Crean will prow-tile and mulish the otientici s. 'llitivolny week the surgeon of his 'Majesty's schooner Al bion, now jtinfi nt tit e..nock. was fonott drowned in the New T. 3.4 Harbour. The of tits misfortune is not yet ascer tained. On '4""d.,Y morning inq a riot took place at the Waterloo Coffee ‘linti, near Whiteero,s-street, when several persons Mrf e moat dreadfolly rut and bunted. One young tv ninan died while con‘eying to the llortiotal; another Wilt not ca rer:led to artetive.--The inaster of the shop and tNI) more ?trona are in custody, THE NATTONAL RESTER. DEATH OF PE LYON. ?ATEA:: Or A LETTER FOOlt POET AO IMINCE, DATED 1 ISIM. , " I was furred to break off yesterday Morning, to attend the last remains of the Pc , adent ; the funeral was grand, but we were kept six hours in the sen which, with the fatigue, incapacitated me from doing any thing more that day. " The corpse was laid in state two days and, to the moment of being consumed to the vault, the features did not exhibit any visible change. livery one who chose went to see it, and you aunlit have been surprised at the scents which occurred every instant; they were such as are sehlom witnessed 'lli the demise of men in power ! In the ditTerint quarters of the gidleries of the palace, were men, women. aid ;itildren ; some on their knees, others standing, who, after tak ing.a last sight of the body, were imploring Heaven for his 90t11. They wee 11l bedewed in tears, and, on rearing from the paisce, RUed the air with their cries and lamentations; not perhaps one dry eye quitted dist place out of the myriads which visited it ; but at the fuocral the sundest heart mitu have meted—Ate proceedon had nearly a mile to go to church and to return to the place of inter ment, which was m a vault under the Tree of Liberty, opposite the palace ; the troops of which there were a great many in team were t!lnne in two lines front the palace to the church. The body ;1 art open bier, dressed in ati to clothes, laid on a car made io imitation of that used tin our late Lord Schen ; it was thawn•by six horses covered with Muck silk velvet, ornamented with wl.,te tassels, and with white feathers and crape cc thqr heads the sainte as en the cur; round the feta sides of the latter was written, • Alex. under ream , . President d'llayCi ; iniltons hes ver vertus, jantais fait colder les pleurs de per:4 , nm. , " The concourse of people was immense, and the lamentations un ceasina ; the women, iu particular. hen:Cala IlOwital, clasping their hands as if they had been frantic. The Inca walked, silently along; a fcw with simply a dejected countenance, but the greeter number by far with streaming eves. The sante was the ease with the seldiers forming the line ; the officers endeavouring in vain to conceal- their tears behind the pillars of the galleries; in filet, never, I believe, was there witnessed more real and undiasembled grief—it was not confined to the lower, the middling or the higher chases ; it was universal; and the moment the body was lowered into the vault, exhibinal a scene which it is not in my power ever to attempt to describe. " It is a curious circumstance that he has died vobmtarily, which, Indeed, was suspected by rurne about hint from the beginning of his sickii,s,, "'bleb only 14.kd eight days, from his constantly refusing all kinds of nualieine and nourishment, and ever. water; or if he (lid take any thing, it was at the pressing solicitations of those who sure rounded him, bat he spat it out again ; and he preserved to the last that calmness and serenity of mind for which he was so remarkable thiough life—expiring without a groan or a struggle. His body has been opened, and found as sound as that of any luau; no indications of any disorder whatever; and the phynciam do not hesitate in de. daring that be died of inanition ! W'llat may have been the cause is yet a mystery. Ile had frequently been heard to say thut lie wisheal himself dead = for that, with all hi , study to render the people happy and prosperous, some were still disxatiitied, and made his life a tor- Ment. About a fortnight ago a Mall was taken up about the palace, who, it appears. intended to assassinate him ; but, froui what has transpired - , I deem it most likely that he was a madman • but at all events, it can hardly be supposed that this accident could contribute to his fatal determination. 'time will, perhaps, reveal the cause; In the meanwhile, his loss is to be lamented ; for, I repeat, there are few such men as he was, more particularly in acts of charity and benevolence. " Hu death threw the merchants into the greatest consternation, as there is computed to be in the Republic 6,000,000 worth of Piiitish property alone, including the shipping. The judicious measures which were immediately adopted, tended, in some degree, to calm our fears : all the military were turned out, and have been kept at their posts to this day. An embargo was placed on the ship ping. and no one suffered to tease the town till pretty late on Sunday, and the appointment of the present President (Boyer) has been una. ' , Moons ; nor to Otis moment have I heard of any chief !Piling ex pressed a wish for the situatina : we are, therefore, reviving a little. The Prasid.mt will be proclaimed this der, and in two or three be wilt proceed to the frontiers to examine the line ; for it is very possible that Christophe, on hearing of the death of Potion, might advance in the hopes of profiting by dissensions which might arise between competitors for the Presidency ; some of the troops which •ere here in garrison, and attended yesterday, were mar:luxl off after the solemnity, fur the frontiers ; in fact. every precaution that prudence can dictate for private tranquillity, arid external security, appear to have been adopted. It is ales the intention of the trier. Manta to request Sir Rome Popham to send a ship of war here, in the event of Christophe's advancing ; you may therefore make your self easy." Viscount Palatal - stun was so elusions for the fate of the nn fortunate young man, David Davis, who was tiled on Friday week, fur shooting at his Lordship, that he furnished the means for his defence, and supplied the assistance ut those protessional gentlemen who appeared in his behalf. It was rumoured on Monday, on the Royal Exchange, that intelligence of a most unpleasant nature had beenre ceived trout lrnlia. We could not trace the report to any authentic source. The Naval half.pay officers residing at Chatham have held a meeting, for the purpose of digesting a plan, and forming a faint to remunerate officers of the navy for the Ito- , of pro perty by shipwreck. Many cases of this sort of peculiar hardship, have occurred within the last ten years. A new sort of potatoe, called the bread-truit potatoe, from its mmotuniun productiveness, is getting rapidly into estima tion. Mr. Inman, of Spaaton, neat Bridgewater, planted last v ear, in the comma' way, in a very heavy soil, will/oat manure, or any extra attention, two potatoes of that vat iety, welching four miners: the viaduct was 263 ounces, being au iiierca , ,e per acre (allowing six sacks to he the proper quantity to Aced an aerei of 396 sacks. Heligoland beans t►,ay be cultivated with the bread.frnit.pot;►toe with success, by dropping about half a bushel per acre in the clianuels with the potatoes when planted ; as they grow and ripen at the same time, ei ithont deteriorating the crop or potatoes. It should be understood, that the bread•truit•putatoe requires more stcanoug or boiling than the cuatn►Oll 501(0. Seveni I shoals of mackat el have been taken in Gerran's Bay, of about 10,000 in a shoal ; a eircumstituce scarcely ever known beim e.—Plymisof I.ater. A few das since as a bay. eight years old, ;‘)11 of M r . Cary, a clotitier of Slit pion Mallet, was agrending.a eart, at his lather's door, the lim se suddenly vim% ed fans ard, and the child's font slipping, his knee became entangled, and was so dreadfully torn as to produce a locked jaw, of which he died. _ A few days since. the roach re vvvv in,„7 between Chepstow and Swans wa. et emit iiefl at Peolnieyrirk..ttiont a mile room the tinnier pbtee, threoelt matt.nopiii to net NCCIII the lineh-pin of nut of the %heels. An insid,. passenger, a ti•male,n " m•iiou,l) tint un the le ; ;, it being forced by the cosieus , imi thiouiiii the door, and the weight of the coach Leming on it. . _ _ (laptop, a man of colour, shipping clerk in a com mercial house, iu filish•laat, Cannon-privet, blew out his brains will' a pistol while sitting at his desk iu the office. He bud hien talking j"eitsely with the servant, within ten ininntes of the Owe, tad ao cause is at present fatigued for the rub act. smy is Flom Me LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, May 12.• R.\\KRT;I'TC.Y ENLARGED. Hoiboin Bridge, Ive:smith. from May 19 tta Julie 50, 11ANKIHTPTCY SITPEREDED. A t.r J. P. Coorr:n W. and litacu 'l'. H. late of Fenchurch-street, merchants. 71 . 4:NKRUPT. Sorniti: J. Canterbury, baker, May 22, 29, June 23, st Can terbury, Atts. Nethersole and CO. Essex-street, Stoma. W ELL! tins S. Shrewsbury, tailor. May 27. 28„..1um.23, at Shrews bury. Atts. Pressland Lei Co. Brutus idt-square. Rost: J.V. Cambridge, brush-maker. :tiny IS, n, June 23, at Cam bridge. Att. Mr. Croft, Chancery line. MartristJ. Mitcham, Surrey, butoticr, May 16, 26, AMC IT, at Citildhall. Mt. Mr. Pritchard, lissex-street, Strand. fit:ATI! W. Hanley, Stafford, blacksmith, May 42, 23, June 21, at Neweattle-under-lyir Att. Mr. Nelson, lissex-street, Strand. YOUgOiIUSSAND J. Livilpool, ship-broker, June 1,2, 23, at Liverpool. Att. Mr. Windle, Joan-oreet. NIA tii.tr: T. flurstern„ Stafford, blue colour-maker. May el, J mac 23, at !..lewenisie-under lyme. Act. Mr. \Vaasa, Temple. InVIDEN Fl 3. f. Penfo;(l, Goring, Sussex, furrier, June 5. J. ray. Lie of Dripts , George-street, Fortman-square, child-bed • linvn-inanufaettuvr, June in'. A. l'ortinzton, late of Great Queen-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, tailor, June 6. J. W. Harvey and n. Copland, of High-street, Southwark, Luisa drapers, Jute 6. G. Laing, Georre-yard, Lombard -street, merchant, June G. Barnes, Ewell. Surrey, June Y. G. Baylis, Stapleton. Gloucester, dealer, June It. W. Ifewins, Hinckley. Leicester, mercer, June Bel.ee, Heading, imitate'. June 2. M. Buckle, York. woolstapler, June Y. M. Salmon and W. Wilcox, l'anteroury, plumbers, Jute 5. C. Thick, late of Shaftesbury, rnahster, tune 8. I'. Dowding, late of West Stover, Meet, yeoman, Jar.e 9. J. Harley, Clifton, Gloucester, merekant, May 30. R. Goodie& late of Dillon with Harrogate, York, i:uileeper r June 6. T. Ravenshaw, Liverpool, grocer, June ke. W. Ark, Tuttcnham Court-road. saddler, Jnhe D. Gray. Liverpool. merchant, June N. 11. Brawley, Lloyd's Coifee.house, incur:lace-broker...Tune t. CERTIFICATES.-Jurtr. 2. It. Dancey, Bristol, linendraper—J S S Cooke. late of Golden lase, clicesenionger—J. ILUtting, Norwich. upholsterer—S. 8. - !rker, Sheffield, cordwainer—S. Leonard, Bristol. brewer—.W. Wood. Mon) thusloyne, Alcnniouth, grocer—G. Scott, Lccdon, army • Clothier, The Solistory Journal of the 10th inst. says—" On Thttrsday • evening last this city was a scene of great confusion, in con sequence of the young gentlemen of Winchester College Sslioel re. olfing, in a most serioutt manner, against the mast re of that establishment.-.. After returning from their 111$1141 ex cursion on the neighbouring fell, the young gentlemen sud denly attacked the porters, forced from them *he keys of the College, and locked ont all mastery. Hissing thus oh • mimed full possession of the b u ilding, they proceeded to take up wills pickaxes, &c. the lariv stones with which the court was paved, and soon conveyed npwards of a cart load ef them to the top of the building, threatening :my one islin ap proached the gates. In this barricadoed stele they kept possession ell Thursday night, deaf to the remonstrances, of their friends, and bidding defiance to their masters. Yes terday morning, after many admonitions were in vain given them to return to their duty, it was found nocessary to call out a party of military, some constables, &c. who proenred crow-bars to force the gates. Upon elm rving these puler ations, the young gentlemen opened the gates, came out in a body, and many of them are since gone to their respective hone s. It is not at present In our power to state the reasons which these youths adduce for sorb rash and uuwarraatable proceedings." The follow iftg is an extract of n letter from Paris, dated the 'lds instant :— .l A curious anecdote has just reached us from that country :—General COMM:1111141a of the Military Div isiou had been for some cosmiderable time past violently love with the wife of an himilitetin man of the town where the General resides. Great dtdiculty attended the meeting of the lovers, owing to the distance of their skim Lions in life, as well as the husband's vigilance. However, Mrs. Dloek.l in contrived k with her lover one night, to order the husband, who belonged to the National Guard, to do duty on a post at some distance from their dwelling, which would keep bins out sill night, when the gallant was to take possession of the tin shop and every thing in it. AH went on as could be vit.licd; but when the lovers thought themselVes in perfect security, a knock came at the door. It was the husband—lie was taken very ill, end was brought home, where he certainly was not expected. The General lad just time to take his clothes, sord secret himself in some part of the house, for out of it he eould not go. The husband got into his wife's bed, toMplaieing of violent spasms. His wife strongly urged hies to go himself to the apothecary's to get some medicine, which he did. Upon hit going ant the gallant soon made his escape from durance. 'i'he husband having purchased his medieiurs, was about to pay for them —lie put 116 baud in his pocket, and to his grist astonish ment, he pulled out a good heavy purse full of gold, which certainly he knew did not belong to him; and on looking at Ins pantaloons, he saw to his great grief that they also were ;sot Isis nen. Upon reaching home lie insisted upoe knowing who was the owner of the pantaloons, which the Wife anon told him. A trial asides( flee General and his hail one, fur adultery, is to be legit PLDEsrAtANUM.-1). Crisp has accomplished his ralleled metes-taking. of walkiim to and fro front Oslord and London for 17 successive days, at the rate it ol miles a day. The last day, he started its good spirits :it four o'clock in the morning, from the Qiseen's Head, Koig:stshtillge, on his re. turn to Oeford. In going through Windsor, the tow n was so full of soldiers And other pelisses assembled to Sec him, that it uas with difficnlty solve gentlemen made nay Mr him to pass ; Ile was acconspanied ft um town !o town. and village to village, by numbers of persons on lout and lissisehark, and the road. were nearly lined with spectators. On Isis entering Bosom Ise was isiet by upwards of 400 persons. On his entering Dorchester, the elsairch.bells were set a ringing ; mid be ass Conducted by several gentlemei , and a band of music playing—•• See the eastrprering Hero comes." He rested a shoo t time aid took souse It eshmtut. lie was Vs` corted out of town by 14 gendeins si on horseback, mid 30 chores' men on foot, each with a long staff, so make way for him through the crowd ; and was accompanied by the horse meteoric, many pis foot, from thence to OittOs al, a distance of eight miles ; and at eight minutes past 11 o'clock, Ise arrived quite fres,h at the Boot, in lid /well, Oxford ; beiug be mi nutes within the given time, having.compieted the greatest pcdestrSan feat DO recori. mold•I • It 5A