The National Register. — London, England, 1813-07-18 00:00:00

462 • upon her ekertions,and prosrer ,lie counsels of your Royal High , ness, so as to promote and finally secure an honourable and lasting peace. Signed, by Order of Court, HENRY WOODTIIORPE:- To which Address his Royal Highness was pleased to return the following must gracious Answer : I return you my warmest thanks for your loyal and dutiful Addresi. The Victory with which it has pleased Almighty God to bless the operations of the Allied Army under its illustrious Commander Field-Marshal the Marquis of Wellington, cannot fail to have excited in every part of the United Kingdom, the strongest emo tions of exidteition and gratitude ; and it is With the utmost satisfac tion that I receive sorb a tysiimony of cliugs which animate the metropolis of the empire e:n this most interesting and important oc• casion. Success so splendid aril tleci•ivc, so Ow in in all respects to the arms of his Majesty and ot• his Allies, is calculated to contribute most- essentially to the establishment of the independence of the Peninsnla - on a firm and lasting foundation, and to the improveincnt of our prospects in all other parts of the world. They were all very gracietedy received, and had the honour of kissing the hand of his Royal Highness. There is a very curious coincidence in some circumstance. respecting the Most Noble Order of the Garter, which the splendid battle of Vittoria, agreeably refreshes the recollec tion of. On the same field have two Knights of that Order most nobly distinguished themselves and their country ; these two are the (list and the last in the list of these illus trious Knights. Enwsßo, Prince rf Wale , , the first Knight, gained a signal victors , on nearly. the same ground as Lord WELLINGTON, the last Knight; and the veryheights the neglect or inability to defend which. mainly contributed to the success of that glorious day, are still called the English Pamplona, the seat of the intrusive King .TosEvii's head quarters, according to the last accounts from the Peninsula, is remarkable as Icing the pace where the ceedrated Order of the Jesuits wiginated, during the siege of the city, in the time of the Emperor Cu A RI. ES V. IGN A'T lUS LOYOLA was wounded, and' his confinement enabling him to indulge at leisure, in the contemplation of religious anLI political subjects, was the cause of the founding the above Order. The Bristol Mirror say, s, "We understand from very good authority, that the late Captain L4wr. - ENCE, of the American frigate Cies:ll:cake, was a native of. Bristol, and {educated at Colston's Charity School, in ihis city. Ile had a younger brother. and both were for some time in the Navy ; but being disappointed in their hopes of promotion, they went to America, where they shot tly. aCter obtained the command Of gun-boats, from which Cal:Will LAWRENCE.WaS transferred to the Hornet, and afterwards-to..the Chesapeake." Point' Elt.—The consumption of Porter in London; on a comparison between the present and last years, is found to have diminished fo the amount of about 127,000 barrels; every Brewer in the metropolis having felt this decline in proportion to the extent of.his trade. - The distresses of the times, and the rise in price fi-orn sd. per pot, are the reas ,, ns generally assigned for . so great a defalcation.—A Corresponeent remarks, .when the Porter rose to 6d, per pot last January, Malt was,l4os..per quarter ; at precut it is only 90s. per quarter. The average price of flops::.was thee 131. los. 64: per.bairrnow only 1 . 01. 14s. .~ • - EPITAPH; itITENDFD F(R A GRAVE SToNC IN PADDINGTnN catiRCH-VARI) Lc t prni;tkr marbteei eishfly bii . age.litey'show • • Witere'sleep the great, the !earned, or the brave; Tlai- by affeetioa, reared itt'teal woe, • • is uka the - rd sputivitielt rums ago odinan7s great. T. G. 4 10NAL REGISTEP. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING's BENCH, JULY 16. MORRIS T. RURDETT. This was an action brought 4- the plaisitiff, the High Bailiff of Westminster, to recover from Sir F. Borden a some ,ot money as his proportion of the expenee attending the urection..of Hustings, the providing Poll Clerks, and various other things necessary for the accommodation of Candidates for the representation of the City of Westminster, during the time of Election. Ile Act of Parliament provides that each. Candidate, whether successful or unsuecessfnl, shall pay his part, he defence set up was, that the dekndant had never been a Candidate. The Attorney-General proved the erection of the booth, the the engaging of clerks, the furnishing of stationary, &c. and that these things were necessary inasmuch as a contest was t xpected. le also proved that the defendant had taken his seat as one of the Representatives for the City of Westminster. Mr. Brougham, for the defendant, said, the question of damages was not the question in this case; if his.client was liable at all, he %void(' not dispute the amount, but he should rontenel that he did not become liable for any part of the expellees attending the Election, inasmuch as be had nevet been a Candidate, or had he ern. takcii any part, either by himself or his agent, in any of the proreetlings. The Attorney-Genera !contended, that the having taken his seat afterwards, whs sufficient to render him liable. • Lord ELLENRORGUGII declared filmset( of opinion the barely taking his seat was not sufficient to make the defendant liable under the Act ; to make a person . a. Candidate, there must be some act of solicitation on his part, in this case none such had keen proved : he n ould, however, reserve the point for the future consideration of the Court. Ti:c plaintiff must now be nonsnited, and the question of damages nu the amount, of which there appeared to be no iliffere.:ce, might await-the opinion of the Court as to whether the dekudant was a Candidate or not.—Plaintiff nonsuited. OLD BAILEY. . Wednesday, the Old Bailey Sessions commenced Lefore the Lord Mayor, Mr. Justice Bayley, Mr. Justice Gibbs, the Recorder, St.c. when the following prisoners were capitally convicted : C. Wheeler was indicted for stealing from the pers.:n of Simon Bath- . gate, a ten pound note. The prosecutor stated, that he was walking along flolborn on the 10th of October, when he was accosted by the • brother of the prismier, who prevailed on him to accompany Hui to the Marquis of Granby public house in Gray's Inn-lane, where they drank some malt litluor ; another man (proved to be the prisoner) came hi shortly after, who, after intruding his conversatiou, said a woman had promised to meet him there, to whom he was about to lie marrmi ; and went on to stute that he had been gambling with some sold:els, and leo; lust all his money. The ctimpunitai of witness said he had been dune, and he undertook to :haw him i e whin rummer, by maneruvring a halfpenny under a hat. The prisoner alfectefi to he . igtiorant, and his companium(who was in fact brother to the prisoner) observed, that if lie had been possessed of a large sum of money he would have lost it Wheeler had ascertained that- witness had got a ten pound note about fihn, and in order to stew how a great sum of money might be lost, witness was dupe enough to pull it emit of his pocket, when the brother of time prisoner took it out of his hand, and put it wider the hat. Hocus pocus was then displayed to some pur pose ; for after the two brothers had pushed the note about from cue to the other, it was handed out of sight, and the prisoner and his bro. tht r walked oft These circumstances were curroborattd by other evi dence, and the prisoner was found—Guilty. Friday, 11. Ralph, an old man, was charged with the wilful murder o f his wile in Rose-lane, Spitalfields. It appeared in evidence, that they were continurdly quarrelling ; hut there was no proof of the wordier.. The Surgeon who examined the body of the deceased, depwed, that she had considerable discolouration in the face, her eyes issued blood, and her temple was bruised ; he opened the integuruents of the neck, and in the jugular vein found a s call portion of coagulated blood oozing out ;• he believed Obi il:COMpresAMl of the jugular vein had caused a sir pen : sion of the circulation of the blood, and that the deceased had met her :death iii consequefice of that. In his cross examination, he said that it . • was possible the 'wound in time neck might have been occasioned by the knot in the string of.her cap, resulting from the struggle of her apoplexy. It he had opened "thlellettd, this might have been more accurately. In c, rtained; ' • The evidence. being- closed.' Mr. Justice Ba v LEY sumund up the cv% deuce, vibith.tba,-it considerable time in doing, and:Abe - lull Rltrr.ik; mature deliberation, returned a verdict of Net Guilty. JULY ~.~...;