The National Register. — London, England, 1817-09-15 00:00:00

From Mc LONDON GAZETTE, Sdtwdlay,S'ept. 13, -.0.- - BANKRUPTS. R.o,‘„,„t, J. s t i c k ner . Lincoln, fanners Oct 23, 44, 23, at Boston, Lincoln. Ans. Lodiugton and On. Te 13‘)UV Newhaven. Su.i.ex, grocer, Sent. 29, SO, Oct. 25, at' Lewes. Att. Mr. wynne, 1.14.111 J. Wuttsn-under-edge, Gloucester, currier. S e pt. ,26,. 2 7 , O ct . .23, at Bristol. Atti. Poole and Co. Gray's Inn. Ill:Ewa J. Wimborne Minter, Dorset, tanner. dept. so. Oct. 1,23, Wimborne Minster. Att.. Alexander and Co. NOV Inn. Joy DAN W. Finch-lane, eating-house-keeper. Sept. 16, 30, Oct. 25, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Doughty, Temple, I)IVIDENDS. 41:. R. Lansdale, late of Green Lettuce-lane, insutance-broker, Oct. 11. J. liapiey. Floti-strect, fishmonger, Oct. 18. K. St. Barbe. late of Cock-dill. *Le...litre, ship chandler, Oct. 11. J. It. Ilansnn, late of Hassel-place, Fitzroy-square, merchant, Oct. I I. T. and M. Naves, late of iLickton, Sutulutrupton, men:hams, Oct. 9. J. Knott, llarfrectone, Kent. miller, Oct. C. Love, Hood-street, jeweller, Nov. R. W. Clteasley, Hayes, iNliddle,:ex, innkeeper, Oct. 11. K. Davis, Bury-street. St. Mary Axe. merchant, Nov. 8 G. Pope. Aston Tirrold, Beaks, farmer, Orr. t. A. Partridge. widow, Great Hermitage•street, Wapping, wine-crier- chant, Ott. 4. Whitinarsh, New Sartain, Wilts. common carrier, Oct. 10. R. DildelOTl, late of Liverpool, merchant. Oct. 6: .h. Epsom, Oct. 4. 11. Boyes, Tokenhouse-yard, nterchnnt, Sept. 27. Machell, l)ewshury, innkeeper, Sept. YO. It. I.augher, Birmingham. button-maker, Oct. 6. .!. 11higg, Weymouth, mercer, Oct. 20. .1. Harvey, Weymouth. jeweller, Ocr. 6. .1. Stevens and.l. l'itt.Gereard. New Sarum. cabinet-makers, Oct. 6. .'. Sharpe:, late of Blackburn. cothci-manufaettirer, (Ict. 11. 'l'emplc, late of Jarrow, Durham, sluii-builder, Oct. 14. J. Brooman, Margate, common-I.:wee. Oct. W. M. and G. Mummery, 31argato, coach-toasters, Oct. 10. W. Kemp, Rath, banker, Nov. 214. S. Taylor, Birmingham, gunbarrel-maker. Oct. 6. W. Smith, Horton, Northumberland, merchant, Oct. 14. R:and W. Woollisernit, Mancne.ter„ cotton-manttfacturera, Oct. 11. J. Tate, late of ‘Vhithaven. Cumberland, mercer, Oct. 10. 4G. Rayliffe, IVr.keileld. York, draper, Oct. IX. T. Bowdich and It. Wilks, Bristol, hat-makers, Oct. 6. A.. RadcliWe, Swansea, Glamorgan, grocer, Oct. 11. L. Rice, Ashby-de-la-Zone), porter-merchant, Oct. 4. CERTIFICATES, (kT. 4. Stansbie, Birmingham. merchant—J. Cross,. Chesterton, Cambridge. boat-builder—J. Probed, Artillery-place. Wesuninster. carpenter—E. Williams, late of Bristol, upholsterer—A. Cuff'. Barking, Essex, widow, coal-dealer—lL Sheppard, Froute Selwood, Somerset, clothier. REPORTS IN COMMON. PLEAS. This Day is published. Price ss. VOL. I. Part I. of REPORTS OF CASES argued and determined in the COURT of Common Pt.LAs. By .101LNI BAYLY Moons:, Esq. of the Inner Temple, Editor iilthe Analytical Digested Index to the Tenn Reports. Containing CASES ill 111 LARY TEAM, 57 (co. ill. 6 * These Reports are in continuation of Mr. Marshall's, and will be regularly published at the end of each Term. The Cases decided in Easter anti Trinity Terms arc in the Press, and will be published in the course of this Vacation. Printed for CHARLES HUNTER, Law Bookseller, 2G, Bell Yard,. Lincoln nn. •.• The Smola Letter to the Electors qf Westminster, will appear in our next. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. LONDON : MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1817• MANY years have passed away since our prospects were so bright as at the close of this week. All fears of an unfavourable harvest-time, are at au end: a suc cession of fine days, has enabled the farmers in many parts of the kingdom, to house all their grain in perfect safety, and in other parts they arc fast approaching to a conclusion. Trade in all our sea-ports is reviving, our manufactories are rapidly returning to their accustomed activity, and the minds of men, cured of the descases induced by the poisoned appeals of the Cobbetts, and the Hunts, are now turned to pursue their peaceful occupations, instead of riot, pillage, and murder. The Paris Papers received yesterday, are remark ably barren ofintelligence. The following, under date Madrid, is the only article worthy of notice, and this we insert more as a matter of curiosity than of news. The idea of Russia sending Cossacks, to subdue the Guerilla force of South America, is so whimsical, that the speculations of certain of our daily prints can hard ly go beyond it. If the poor Cossacks are to be put on this service, they may truly say that they are cursed in having a pod name. MADRID, Aar.. 6.---a The report that Russia is to furnish us with auxiliary troops against the American Ins rgents, still continues, and appears to gain ground. We should be less astonished at this idea, if we knew better the manner in which the Insurgents make war, scattered in small bands over that vast territory, and, partly at least, strong in light cavalry. It is natural to suppose, that the Cossacks, accustomed to the same manner of fighting, and habituated to pawing from the .frozen regions of the Caucasus to the torrid plains of Persia, would obtain great advantages over the troops -ol' Buenos Ayres and General Artigas." The Madrid Paper gives a different account of the .'loath of General Lacy, to what has yet appeared. Jt ',wrung pens to to Mia The air Paper giv t es l a what has et lieren y taceount of th.-o IF this be not rua 1 1 / 1 0 11 17 tvitath of General Lam o v appeared.t we ever THE NATIONAT, RTAISTER. is said when he arrived at Minorca, it was not known whether the sentence of death would be carried into execution, or whether it would be commuted for some other punishment. Hut General Lacy, upon landin, ,, , attempted to escape from the soldiers, who immediately pursued him, and Lacy was killed in endeavouring to defend himself fiom his assailants. Very recent accounts are received from the Brazils. Every thing was tranquil, but the effects of the late attempt at revolution were severely felt. There was scarcely any business doing at Pernambuco, and the greatest distr.ss had been experienced for provisions, which had been rendered more severe by the number of soldiers that had been detached to suppress the late insurrection. The letters front Bahia describe the death of the chief conspirators to be perfectly different from what had been represented. Martinez, anti two Priests had been shot, not hanged. The •former ha rangued the soldiers and populace previous to his exe cution, mentioning that through his means, at Pernam buco, great excess had been prevented. The Governor of Bahia had published his high displeasure at the man ner of the execution. The military fired five times-- the bodies were dreadtidly mangled, and two ramrods were found in the body of Martinez. Our Readers will learn with pleasure that'Govern ment has humanely forborne to press the severity of the law against the Rioters who assembled at Manchester for the illegal purpose of tumultuous petitioning, if not for other purposes more desperate awl criminal. These per sons were brought up for trial on Saturday se'nnight, at Lancaster, when the Counsel for the Crown declar ing that his Majesty's Government declined proceeding further against them, they were ace ,, rdingly acquitted. That there was abundant gruund for preferring charges of a criminal nature against these men, is unhappily but too notorious : yet it is the distinctive feature of a mild and beneficicnt Government to temper justice with mercy, in all stages of prosecution. The proper occa sions for giving more or less sway, to this benevolent disposition are mainly to be determined by the violent state of agitation or tranquility in which the country at large may happen to be. When the men in question were arrested, such was the prevalent influence of the wicked principles disseminated among the lower or ders, by a few abandoned writers and speakers, that .firmness and energy, on the part of Government, in putting down sedition, were absolutely essential to the safety of the country. That purpose has now been suf ficiently answered. The wisdom of the Legislature has produced reviving prosperity; and the revival of pros perity has produced tranquility. The Government feels itselfjustified in giving way to its natural lenity; and it is to be hoped, that the offenders, who have been thus mildly dealt with, will be duly impressed with a sense of gratitude and attachment to the laws ; that. they will hold in abhorrence the names of Cobbett, and Hunt, and the other miscreants, who first tempted and then abandoned them to their flute; and finally, that by in dustry and economy in a time of plenty, by patience under affliction, and by a reliance at all times on the consolations of religion, they will show themselves fin the future better subjects, better men, and better Chris tians. By the Flanders mail, received yesterday, we learn that the Duke of Wellington is resolved to refer his cause against a e Belgian Journal, to the Court of Appeal. We are sorry to see his Grace so bitter against this Journal. From the first we thought he had good ground for action, but a decision unfavourable to him having been made, he ought to consult his own dignity, and not go from Court to Court with the malevolence ofd pettifogging attorney. A PRETENDED Louis XVII.—An imposter, re presenting himself to be Louis XVII, and assuming the name of Charles de Navarre, has made his appear ance at Rouen. He has been apprehended, and a copy of his examination has been handed alxna at Paris. He turns out to be the son of a shoe-maker, and his propensities to deception, appear to have manifested themselves at an early age ; he having, when a mere child, passed himself upon a Madame de Turpin, as the son of the Baron de Dcsin, and by her he was edu cated and brought up until the imposture was disco vered. Mr. Owen has this week published another long, very long article in the daily papers, in explanation of his plan. In this he has developed his scheme of chtsaina his communities according to the r, , ligions or bias of the individuals. If any thing had been wanting to our former knowledge of his system, to make us heartily dispise it, this classification would supply it. The idea of penning men up like sheep of difFerent breeds, is too ridiculous even to be laughed at. Take as a specimen the following :-Ist class : Armenians, Methodists, and violent Ministerialists. .57th class :—Calvanists. Methodists, and violent Re formers. Blst Class:—Unitarians and violent Whigs. And thus he rings the changes through all the various denominations of Christian, Turk, and Je‘v, even as iigning pens to the Bramins, Confucians, and Pagans ! If this be not liminess, it is as like it, as any thing we elm saw. SEPT, 15. DUKE OF WELLINGTON. VERSUS. M. DE BUMMER. GHENT, SEPT. 7.---The action brought by his Grace the Duke of Wellington against M. do Busscher was decided yesterday, and we announce with a sort of pride that the sentence has justitled all hopes and given ge neral. satistllction. This action, to which we take plea ware in believing that the Noble Duke, who is placed so•high in the scale of human greatness, could not have consented, but in consequence of inconsiderate sugges tions, has appeared trifling and unworthy of the colossal part which his Grace plays on the great theatre of the world. For the rest, our Readers will better apprccia:e the merits of the cause by tho terms of the sentence ; meantime, till we can give them the sentence itself, we will venture to give them from memory, if not the ter, at least the spirit of it. The article in question does not impute to the Duke of Wellington any net which could expose him to . is criminal or correctional action (poursuites criminells ou correctionelles), to the con tempts or the hatred of the public. It is not said that his Grace knew, that Debra had prevaricated in his functions, as Govenor of Mar. tittiquc ; supposin: , that his Grace desired, and had even manifested this desire, to sec the said Delon con. tinued in his functions, such a desire would necessarily have been only the result of powerful reconnuendations according to which the Governor had been represented to the Noble Duke under colours very &Greta front the article in question. If his Grace has manifested suds a desire, because Debru administered the colony in &your of a tbrei,gn Government, neither does this supposition attack the honour of the Noble Lord, because one may very well administer a colony in favour of foreigrterm without its following from this, that one administers it ill in respect to the interests of the mother country ; that this is the more true, as it is of importance to every Government to invite ihreigners to its colouier, in order to favour commerce, &c. _ The high deeds, the eminent qualities, and the glory of the Noble Duke, place hint above the reach of ail suspicion of an action unworthy of him ; his spiel'. did reputation places him obove all ambiguous and equi vocal allegations, &c. In consequence, the Court has declared his Grace the Duke of Wellington's complaint unfounded (non recevuble), and has condeninvd hint him in his costs. As for M. I3usscher, his demand of damages has been rejected, on the ground that the action brought against hint cannot be considered as calumniatory, because the plaintiff has submitted to the decision of a Court of Justice the nreaning of an article inserted in a public journal. CORBETT'S ATTACK ON BURDETT.•-•-:Wil have an old homely adage amongst us which says, " when rogues fall out honest men come to their own." It is even so with political rogues, Cobbett in his last budget of trash from Long Island has fallen foul of the head of his own party, the Dagon of the Ret4rmers,—Sir Francis Bur dett ! and in his usual scalping style has laid bare every nerve and artery, and for what ? because Sir Francis was hunting with Mr. Maberly's, " the army tailor's" hounds at the time he should have been in London to " answer the enquiries of the numerous honest men from all parts of the country" who had come to consult him on the important subject of Reform. We were never of the number of Sir Francis Burdett's po litical admirers, we always considered him, when young, as the mere mouth of Horne Tooke, and since he has been out of leadingstrings his vanity has tempted him to go on in the same course, fin- the sake of being looked up to as, " the man of the people," but however we might differ with him, however we might pity his want of prudence, we cannot but congratulate him now on the sub• stantial honour he has acquired in being abused by William Cobbett. By that William Cobbett who was never yet the friend of a virtuous man ; who has libelled and praised by turns, every nation, and the individuals of every nation with which he has come in contact, who, on his flight from England, could only number as his friends, Major Cartwright, Mr. Hallet of Berkshire, and Lord Cochrane, one of the Representatives of West. minster ! ! The journey or tour of his dominions which, the Em peror Alexander is about to take is of an immense ex tent. He will be absent from Petersburg at least fifteen months. 1k was to proceed on the I st imstant from the capital to Witepsk to inspect the troops forming part of the corps d'armiye of General Barclay de Tony, and arrive at Moscow in November. Here he is to remain till June, when he will proceed to visit the southern provinces of his empire. Ile will go to Astracan, to the Crimea, and inspect the troops of General Benning sen, then proceed into Germany, to assist at the Asset'. lily fixed in 1 8 1.5 by the Allied Sovereigns, and which will be held in Frankfort on the Maine, or at Aix-la- Chapelle. After this he will visit Warsaw, and from thence return to I'etertsburgh. M. Gamy, the Spanish Finance Minister, has re ceived the Grand Cordon of the Royal order of Charles 1 1 .4