The National Register. — London, England, 1822-04-29 00:00:00

11 4 t :_. 182 FROM SATURDAY NIGII7"S GAZETTE. LOW) CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APR!'. 26. Several persons having appeared at his Majesty's Drawing toorn on the 23d instant improperly dressed, notice is hereby given. that no gentleman will be permitted to pass to the Levees and Drawing-rooms but in full Court dress, sword, and bag. except those in uniform. This Gazette notifies the appointment of N. P. Kell, of Battle, in Sussex, and W. Everard, of Lynn Regis, Norfolk, Gents, to be Masters Extraordinary in the Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. B. Smith, Frome Selwood, Soniersetshire, innholder. Soli citors, Messrs. Perkins and Co. Gray's Inn. M. Carter, Fortran Mill, near Gisporr, Southampton, miller. Sol. Mr. Minchin, Verulam Buildings. Gray's Inn. C. Carliell, Bury St. Edniand's, Suf carpenter. Sol. Mr. Bromley, Gray's Inn Square. J. Nash, sen. Claralon, Surrey, farmer. Sols. Mews. Palmer and Co. Bedford Row. T. Freethy, Acton, Middlesex, baker. Sol. Mr. Hill, Wtl. beck Street, Cavendish Square. T. Cole and R. Priest, J un. Norwich. warehousemen. Sols. Mews. Tilbury and Co. Falcon Street, Falcon Square. J. Beley, Birmingham, dealer. Sots. Messrs. Turner and Co. Bloomsbury Square. J. Motiram, Bristol, hop merchant. Sob. Messrs. Poole and Co. Gray's Inn Square. T. Vaughan, Oarley, Lancashire, cotton manufacturer. Sods. Messrs. Appleby and Co. Gray's Inn. F. Finer, Drury Lane. grocer. Sul. Mr. Flower, Fenchurch Buildings, Fenchurch Street. J. Bleay, Marston. Oxfordshire, corn dealer. Sols. Mews. Robinson and Co. Charterhouse Square. A. J. Smith and I. Shepherd. Brierley, Staffordshire, iron masters. Dols. Messrs. Tooke and Co. Gray's Inn. DIVIDENDS. _ _ May 90, G. Elwyn, Cante4;;;;:noney, scrivener-44. R. Sugden, Halifax. York, bookseller—n, W. Brierley, Halifax, grocer-18. T. Mulligan, Bath, silk mercer—la, W. and P. Emes, Fenchurch Street, merchants—ln. H. R. Play, Riches Court. Lime Street, merchant -41, R. Wibberley, Liverpool, honer-21, S. Todd, Southampton, mercer....2l. A. M*Nair, Abchurch Lane, merchant-21, H. Jackson, Mincing Lane, merchant—lL M. Molony. City Road, Finsbury Square, coach maker—lS, C. Mackenzie, Caroline Street, Bedford Square, merchant—June 4, N. Rawls, Gracechurch Street, tin plate worker-4, J. Oram, Cricklarle, Wilts, cloth factor. CERTIFICATES to be granted May IS. J. Sherwin, Bureem. Staffordshire, iron master—J. Adams, Stamford, men merchmt—F. Niblett, St. Mary Axe, milliner— A. Smith. King Street, Cheapside, Scotch factor—W. Freeland, Bedltampton, Southampton, miller—W. May, Spital Square, bilk manufacturer—R. Warner, Huntingdon, ironmonger—J. Woolcock, Truro, Cornwall.ironmtmger -T. Thiniipson, Camo mile Street. merchant—T. W. Andrews, Stamford, cabinet maker—J. Heaton, Scales, Yorkshire, nail tuisnufactuter—J. Beaufoy, Meriden, Warwickshire. draper—B. Potter, Manches ter, cotton spinner—J. Peet. Ashton. Lancashire, hinge nianu • factures—J. Strialpage, Leeds, woollen droper—J. White, Great Winchester Street, paper merchant—J. P. Holliss. Newington, tailor. COURSE OF EXI Antaterd . n, 12 6 C. F. Ditto, at eight, 12 3 Rotterdam, 12 7 Antwerp, 12 3 Hamitorrh, 37 3 Algona, ST 4 Paris, 5 days' sight, 25 30 Ditto, 25 60 Ilonrdeauz, 25 60 Frankforton the Maine, 154 Patersburgli, 9 3 U. Vienna, Ef. Flo. 10 11 Trieste, Ef. Flo. 10 11 Madrid, 31—Cadiz, 30 Bilboa,36}—liareelmia, 36 DANCE, APRIL 26. Seville, 314—Gilnallar,303 Leghorn, 474—Genoa, 41 Malta,43—Venice, 27 60 Naples, 40—Lisbon, Soi Oporto, 50&—Babia,51 Rio Janeiro, 40 Palermo, 118 91 per cent. Cork, 9J per cent. Foreign gold in bars,3l. 17s. 100. per oz. New Doubloons, SI. las. New Dollar., 18. 10d. Silver in hais,,staudard, 4s. Dad. PRICE 04 Rank Stork 2391 S per Ceut. Red. 77j :t per Cent.Conaols 7bj 3; per Cent. 4 per Cent. 91 6 p er Crut. Na.v 10it .0.. Ann. I9i STOCKS. Ononinne 0. Imp. 2 tier Cent. India Hoods h 8 India Stuck 2il Exchequer Hifi* Is. prem. Guns. fur Ac. 781 I, , Ttery Ticket, IHE NATIONAL REGISTER. Lontion : MONDAY, APRIL 2,. It often happens that the political occurrences a!' the early part of the week are wholly unworthy of o►servation, while those of its conclusion are justly entitled to serious consideration, and the present week will exemplify this assertion to all those who do not think the buffooneries of a Drawing-room worth dwelling upan, amid the ruin and distress of the country at large —we, therefore, pass on to notice the proceedings in the House of Commons on Wednesday and Thursday evening.—Sir Francis Burdett, on the former night, brought forward his motion for an address to the Crown, praying for the remission of the remaining part of Mr. Hunt's sen tence-4 sentence, the cruelty of which has called called down heavy censure upon the Bench that directed it—a sentence which has appeared to every impartial man as partaking much more of a determi nation to pay off a long arrear of vengeance, than as fairly meeting in its measurement of punishment, the crime of which the Jury found him guilty, which was only the minor part of the lightest count ; or, as Sir Francis properly called it, the minimum inter usiiiora—" if," said the Honourable Baronet, " an imprisonment of two years and a half were not too THE NATIONAL REGISTER much under such a verdict, how could Mr. Hunt's life have furnished the means of infliction, had the Jury found him guilty generally upon all the five counts, unless he had lived to the age of Methusalem, and unless the Reverend Mr. Colston (one of the merciful visiting magistrates) hail been of equi-lon gevity,"—but supposing his sentence not to have been excessive under the intention of the Court, that it should only extend to the safe custody of his. person, yet if a gaoler, whose very name is a disgrace to human nature, had the power, and exercised it too, of making his confinement doubly disagreeable by his vexatious and brutal conduct, then every one will agree that the excess of punishment during its continuance ought to shorten its duration—beyond tins Mr. Hunt had another claim to his Majesty's mercy—he had detected and exposed the most in• famous system of oppression and torture (which was cherished in the gaol in question by the governor, and had long remained unknown, unnoticed, an censured, or unredressed by the visiting magistrates, who, if they had not neglected their duty, could not have been ignorant of them) that ever disgraced a civilized nation—yet all these claims were insuffi cient to weigh with the noble, Roman firmness of Ministers, and they mustered their forces to negative a motion, which having been carried in the affirma tive, would have redounded to theeredit of that House, whose credit does not stand very high with the people at the present time—but not content with a simple negative, one of them, a musnnoom-Ssettx- TART (Mr. Peel), declared in his place, that even if an unanimous vote of the House of Commons should direct him to do so, still would he not re commend his Majesty to extend his mercy to Mr. Hunt. This gentleman is the son of a respectable English cotton-spinner, though our readers might suppose him to be of Irish extraction, as well from the moday of this arrogant declaration as from the originality of his idea of " an unanimous vote" in favour of a proposition to which he had declared his opposition; however, Administration's majority de clared against Sir Francis Burdett's humanity, and Mr. Hunt is to remain the whole extent of his sen tence in prison, although his sufferings have confes sedly been double what the Court contemplated, when it was pronounced. On Thursday evening, Lord J. Russell brought forward, with a force peculiarly his own, his mo tion for Parliamentary Reform—his weight and the importance of his opinions in the House of Corn , mons, is evinced by the silence which prevails when ever he speaks, and rarely has he spoken more conclusively—seldom has he advanced more incon trovertible arguments than on the proposition in question. He observed, very truly, that the ques tion had been evaded from time to time, in every possible way by those who profitted by the pre sent corrupt state of the Representation—at one time the people did not want reform, because they did not petition for it—at another the petitions were unwor thy of attention, because the signatures appended to them, formed a very inconsiderable part of the populace of England—while at a third, it was de clared necessary that the House should disregard them, lest it should be supposed that they had attended to their prayer from fear, engendered by the excessively extensive list of signateres—thu s every ground had been successively taken and aban doned, which could be thought of, to oppose what the people had a right to, and what the people would have, and that soon too, by one means or another.—Yet all this would not do—le con droll knew toe well that their wealth depends upon that system, which according to their assertion works so well.—Mr. Canning remembering his Lisbon Job —his pensioned mother and sisters, his recent lucrative appointment of Governor General of In dia, and the many other claims " the system" has upon him, exerted all his talents (and while we regret that he so infamously misuses them, we allow that they are by no means contemptible) " to male the worse appear the better cause"—his Eloquence was however in this instance thrown away, for had he Oa acting Flugelman in the absence of his superior, though once contemned colleague, the Marquis of Londonderry) stood up in his place and said," I oppose the motion;' it would have had precisely the same effect—the majority against reform would nut have been lessened by the absence of his rhetoric powers, and the host, that can be swayed by a wave attic hand, would, without the forcible appeal of this colossal supporter of corruption, have rushed with equal ardour to have lent their aid to the record of the fact that the people of England have no right to hope for a Reform in Parliament, at present— unless they make use of stronger measures than an appeal to that House, whose Members ought to be their Representatives—an Address to the Throne may be their next experiment. ST. GEORGE'S DAY. Tuesday being the day appointed for celebrating his Majesty's birth-day, the morning was ushered in by the ringing of bells, displaying of flags from the church steeples, and every other demonstration of joy. At half-past nine the following detachments with their officers arrived on the Mall, viz.—The 2d Battalion of the Ist Regiment, commanded by Col. Townsend, the Ist Battalion of the 2d Regt. or Coldstream, under the orders of Captain and Ad jutant Henry Bentina ; and the 2d Battalion of the 3d Regiment, under the command of Col. Rooke. After the battalions had gone through their evolutions, they proceeded from the parade towards the King's Palace, followed by a great number of spectators. At one o'clock the Park and Tower guns fired a royal salute; the grand drawing-room held by his Majesty at Buckingham-house, and in point of splendour, has not been equalled for some years.— The preparations in all quarters were upon the most magnificent scale, and there were, by royal order, some peculiar observances in honour of that day. Among 'hese we noticed that the Knights of the Bath, the Garter, and other distinguished orders, appeared decorated with the splendid col lars, ribbons, and other insignia attached to the several honourable dames to which they belong.— The troops on duty were the Horse Guards (Blue), and the two regiments of Foot Guards, the former in their new and splendid uniforms, and the latter in white gaiters, &c. The bands of the several regiments were in attendance in state uniforms.— The Foot Guards were stationed on the lawn, within the railing in front of the Palace, and the horse were arranged in lines so as to form avenues through which the carriages were to pass along.— His Majesty left Carlton-house by the garden gate leading into the Park at 12 o'clock, and proceeded to Buckingham-house. About the same time that the King entered the Palace, the company began to arrive to the drawing-room, and in a few moments all was bustle and animation. The members of the royal family present on this occasion were, their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York, Clarence, and Gloucester, and the Duchess of Gloucester. The first named Royal Duke drove to the Palace in a new and splendid town carriage, which attracted much notice. All the Cabinet Ministers and Foreign Ambassadors were present. The Speaker of the House of Commons went in his state carriage. The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs of London were present, as were the greater part of the leading Members of the House of Commons. The company did not cease to arrive until half past four o'clock, and it was nearly seven before the drawing-room was coa eluded. Extract of a letter dated Comrie, April 15th:— " About half past nine on Saturday (the 13th inst.) while at breakfast, we were visited with the smartest shock of an earthquake that has been felt in this neighbourhood for the last fifteen or twenty years. It was accompanied by two very loud reports, one apparently above our heads, and the other, which followed immediately afterwards, under our fect. The noise of these, which were much more terrific than thunder, lasted, I should think, fully SO se conds. It set our kitchen utensils a ringing, and brought down some of the covers of the pots and pans. I have felt much severer shocks in the West Indies, but not accompanied with such a noise. The sensation it created in me was exactly like that I have felt on the deck of a vessel, on her guns being discharged." There were two elections on Monday at the So ciety of Arts and Sciences. The first was for a Vice-President of the Society, in the room of the late Sir Nathaniel Conant: Mr. Thomas Hope was elected. The second was the annual election for the Presidency of the Polite Arts: Mr. Warren, the engraver, was returned. Mr. Barber Beaumont was in both instances the unsuccessful candidate. S