The National Register. — London, England, 1812-10-25 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. . 662 to that which the enemy coill.l burg against it ? I shall abstain twill directing your attention t.) partiotlai Cbj , :cts in illustration cif the taut, for she reasons given in the first Letter wind' I had the lionuur to as dress to your Committee. Gentlemen, I cannot avoid stating a fact to you, which I h , vc fatten offered to prove at the bar of the late corrupt House ot Cent- Pens ; namely, that whilst our conameße hiss decreased, that liner tradeof which is most beiieticial to a sate, has aeememerl can the Shores of the enemy, in a - protheiaus ratio, and the produce of the Northern and Southern provinces is Uccle interchanged. teiriLr t he protection of 'the abuses in nue ALUM alts Courts, wind' .diorded it better security than all the batteries of l;'ratice ; the plain reason for which is, that each of the *outgrow, coastii' veaaels muat, for the benefit of the Court, be separate y condemned, at an ex Fere e grcAer than was former:le dernarided fat the ahe odic:dem of 1 nilieman Gentlemen, the rapacity of the Courts is frequently not sati,ticd by appropriating the whole proceed, to themselves, hot the caeters are compelled to pay ere aeditional sum for thus pertormiog a ht rvice to their country. Gentlemen, th it you 1113 V have a cre (vet notion Of a Proctor's bill, I take the liberty of enclosing one ler your inspection, Sa a bich, I assure you, may be consider: d very moderate, h irg only six fethoms and a quarter long, or 37 feet 6—w hareas I now pi saess others, that extend to 50 feet ; but I erefar seeding this to your Com mittee, as it is the one produced by mvaell in the House of Commena, and by the venerable Earl of in the House of Leek, the exhi bition of which was pronounced by the present Lore! Chancellor (the brother of the Judge of the Admiralty Court,) to he "a species of mummery never before witnessed within those mina, and altogether unbecoming the gravity of that branch of the Legislature." Whether the attempt to expose abuses, whi. h paral ze the etlbrts of the BO tiali Navy, deserve the stigma thus cast upon it, by so grave a charac ter, I leave ycu, Gentlemen, to determine. I beg that the items may not pass unobserved, where the Proctor notes' his pecuniary reward for attending, teeing, etnotillieg, and ad monishing himself, in his other capacity as Marshal, of all which he makes an afrelevi!, for wiaich also he charges a fee ! I am aware that I have trespassed longer already on your attention than 1 ought to have done, had the pure principles on which you con ducted the• Election allowed me to addrea: you personally ; however, as this opportunity did not occur, you will, I trust, forgive my adding On extract atom a statement which 1 ma.le two years ago in the House of Commons, on the subject of the Navy Estimate, with a view to contrast the rewards granted for different kinds of services. • Gentlemen, it appears on the Pension List of the Navy, for the year MO, that " thirty-one Commissioners, Commissioner.' Wives and Clerks, have 3,8991. 'woe amongst them, dem is paid to all the Wounded Officers of the Navy of England ! Thirteen daughters of Admirals and' Captains, some of whom fell in the se( vice at Cite coun try, have amongst them all, from the gratitude of the natiru, a sum less than a Commissioner's Widow !—viz daughters of the toe gallant Captain Courtney, 101. 10s. each, per annum ; 1 ditto of Ad miral Sir A. llitchell, 2ditro o f miniral Epworth, I ditto of Admiral Xepple, i ditto of Captain Mame, 4 ditto of Admiral Mow iarte, 231. each. Captain Johnson receives 451. a-year for the lobs of an at in ; and poor Lieutenant Chambers, whe lost both his legs, gets SO!. whilst 'she Clerk of the Ticket Office retires on 7001. " To speak less in detail, 32 Flag Officers, 9'2 Captains, 50 Lieute iants, ISO Masters, 36 Surgeons, 23 Pursers, 91 Boatswains, 97 Gun eters, 202 Carpenters. and 41 Cooks, cost the couetry 4,0281. less than the nett proceeds of the sinecures of Lords Ardera, Camden, and Buck- inghatn ! All the superannuated Adtpirals, Captains, aed Licute rants, have 1,0121. more amongs , . them than Earl Camden's sinecure ;lone ! All that is paid to the NVounded Officers of the British Navy, and to the Wives and Children of those dead, or killed in action, does pot amount, by 2141. to as much as Lord Arden's sinecure ! The Marquis of Btickingham's sinecure will maintain the whole victual liug departments at Chatham, Dover, Gibraltar, the Downs, Heligo land, Malta, Cape of Good Hope, and Rio - Janeiro, and leave 5,466:. in the Treasury. Three of these comfortable sinecures would main tain the Dock-yard Establishments at Portsmouth and Plymouth ; paid the sinecures and offices executed wholly by deputy would more than maintain the ordinary establishment of all the Royal Dock-yards lit gear kingdom. Calculating at the rate tif allowance made for Cap ain Johnson's arm. Lord Arden's sinecures are equal to the value of 1,021 Captains' arms ; or, by roe. Lieutenant Chambers' pension, to #B2 pair of Lieutenants' legs !!!" - - - - - Comment is unnecessaay : such, Gentlemen, is the reward for long pncl faithful services'; that for exertion I have already t.licwn you. Thus the war lingers on, the supplies for which are voted by those who are interested in its continuance ; nor will it ever be terminated successfully in pitched b ttles by the military force of England against the resources of France. Even on the supposition of perfect equality, 'more men would perish bemire the contest could be decided, than England poky maintains on the Continent. Could we supply the tcitincy Gentlemen, to thew you that there is no hope from a change of party, unless a Reform in the Commons House of Parliament shall jirevtously take place, " the Pensions given by the lateWhigAdminis 'ration to Commissioners, Clerks, and others, whom they forced out pf office to make room for their friends, amounted itt thirteen moans, • • *o 1,50;1. mote than the present Achnitlistraiion have t h e three Ira, that have elapsed since."—i. e. up to The example ''l the iiithistrimii bee detnonstraies, 1 nature, that the dione is mil to live at the expenee oi ti notwithstatia lig what the W lugs have said, of sinecur tenure, equal to that ut trechozd property. 1 bare the honour to be, Gentlemen, Respectfnlly, your obedient humble S( 12, Portman-square, 1 ith Oct. CO PROVINCIALS. Be v NC, of C 11:NrAS.-i-At the General Quarter -Se: cas , le holden by aljournment on Wedoesday and Zone k YAN was ti unde r Lord Stanhope's Act, foi above their current value. It appeared that he I! guineas in provincial bank -notes; and though it wa a payment came within the mearvng of the Act, v" than the current value of the guineas, by any mcans, contrivarce, yet the particular means which the eet• of nut being Set forth in the indictment, he could not FA AcCIDF Ni.— On Sunday last, bet wen o'cloel , , Ronert Armstrooz, a i iner, residaig at a t: Martin in Cleveland, kept by William Webster, flee ,olicited, to ask a conquotion of his to let him down Win. Webster's well, which is about 60 test blow contains ooly about two feet of water, to bring up tw dishes, which had been in the well near five month' • ingly let down, and had not been lowered more than 6:,11 out of the bucbet into the comput him down, contiouei to lower the bucket to the Ovate , Robert Armstrorg, but obtained no answer. An a! when I:tmes Ineledew, of M min, a blacksmith. w; in the bucket, w thout belie' tied to a rope, which ht dow, in order to save, if possible, Robert A tint scarcely laweied twenty feet befere he fell in like was then procured, a I,.seph Fenison, of Martin, a I, mediately, at his own request, lowered by the ladde endeavour to save the other two : when he had b yards, he was observed to tall on the side of the lad, now occurred to the bystanders, wed not before, these ditasters arose from foul air in the well ; whi William Har:l;vicke, of Martin, labourer, went tro• front which Joseph l'euison had fallen senseless in• o tope tied round hint ; Hardwicke had no! than twelve teet bet ere he became sew eless and fell, mediately hau!ed up, and on his arri , al at the tot; black is the face and apparently dead, but soon rt t-P.hrt was 'row used by a numbet of men with grapp up the three bodies, but withow effect A %tea sent for, who endeavoured to take out the foul alt well was filled, but in vain. An improvement Ova and made in the grapple-irons, when, alter touch dill bodies were brought up to the top ; a surgeon ex; found them to have been dead seine hours. A cot , sat on the bodies, and their %.l - diet was—" Accident cation in the well front foul air."—The air is c: carbonic acid gas.—No person should venture dowi any depth, betore he tries whether a candle will water or not ; if a candle will burn, a !nail may go if not it is certain death. FATAL A CC,IDENT.-011 Tuesday, the 6th hist; Shiner-row, county ot Durham, suddenly took fit the in . flammab'e air, in consequence of which one were severely scorched. They are all, however, i covery, having the advantage of very proper m , Upon the Saturday following (Oct. 10), about ha! the Harrington Mill Pit, distant Irmo the above-nu two or three hundred yards. also toil fire, most to four men and nineteen boys were killed upou tti people severely wol;nded and burnt ; two boys This dreadful Catastrophe was likewise occasioned la; fire.dattip.. COURT MART; A I.• —Saturday morning a Court-m. W. Gaiter, land:nan, on board his Majesty's ship Ci mouth harbour, for maiming himself, by choppini at the wrist joint, on the evening of the lit of Septe agreed that the charge had been proved ; and holdi rence the commission of so atrocious and unmanl! his country is deprived of his effective services, did employed in the most menial situation on boil-. Majesty, as the Commander in Chief of his Majesty at Spithead and in Portsmouth harbour, or the Loi of the Admiralty, shall from time to time direct, unworthy for ever hereafter of being employed perip, to landaus in tit! itoyitl Navy. • ( )Crr 1 • ,) , • o%cit away iu the ;ear 1810. by the law; of he community ; res being held 'by servant, 3CHRA NE. :ssions for New. Thuts,lav but hie guineas bad paid for the. as hell th ct stn.!) iz. pa) ing ni r: device, tendant tna,le use be convicted. ten and eleven ptn)lic-lioue, at light prowl', un• by a biKket into the surface, hut 6VO wooden ; he was accor4 ;$3 feet, bet .re he nion who loe, - er er, and cal.1::.1 to ilarm way. give'', lowerel down to refused to have strong. Ho wAs traiitier ; a I,n'tler labourer, ;vas im. er imo the well to :en lowere!l a le .v Ider senseless. it t hat the cawe tall a fourth man, )wn on the la..l(!er ) the well, ;e:th nt gone eown iia,ie In' was 70;- p of the we!l rceoverei. Evoy plc-irons, to blip ) ; sinker was then it with which the as then suggt.sie,!, 111„ silty, tut; i hrc tamined t!ein, and toner's it.que•t has nal death by sullo. :ailed by chemist, at a draw • wel I of I burn down to tile. down with safety, rant, 3 coal.pit, ire by explo•ion of man anti six buys in a fair way of re. nedical treatment. all-past one p. tentioned pit about titltlettly, by wliiLlt Itt• spot, and manV ; ate still missing. by the explosion of martial was held on Coquette, in Porls- ig oil his le!t , ember. The Color ding in great abhor. ly an act, by which LI adjudge him to be r i such ship cf his y's ships and vessels irds Commissioners and to be rendered 141 any situation tu.