The National Register. — London, England, 1822-02-18 00:00:00

COURSE OF EX Amsterdam, 12 10 C. F. Ditto, at sight, 12 8 Rotterdam, 12 10 Antwerp, 12 7 Hamborgh, 37 6 Altona, 37 7 Pari‘, d I.' sight, 27 60 Ditto, 2S 90 lloordeaux, 25 00 Ft an k for on theM mine, 156 Petershorch. 9 0 U. Vienna, El. Flu. 10 18 'I t Moe, Et'. Flo. II) 18 Tqatitid, 76—Cadiz, 36 116boa,251—Bareelona,37f ./••• :CHANGE, FEB. 15. Seville, 3:10 1 -6ilnaltar,301 Leghorn, 47—Genoa, 45i Maltn,4s—Veniee, 27 60 Naples, 394—Livhou, 50 Oporto, 50-11kallia,5U Rio Janeiro, 44 Palermo, 119 Dublin, per cent. Cork, 9 pet cent. Foreign gold in bars,3l. 17v. lOid. per oz. New Dnitidsnnis New 11)ollnrs Silver in bars , standard, 4v. 1114 SPICA'S. 0. Imp. 3 per Cettt. India Bunds India t...tot 23,1 Exchequer 3c. prem. CIIIIC. for Ac. 7E4 Luttery Ticket. PRICE OA Bank Stork 3 per Vent. Red. 79j 3 Ito Cent.l:ualeols 7et 3i per Cent. 4 per 1 co.'. 981 per Ceut. Na%) , 1011 Lug Ann. 10j THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Lon Don : MONDAY, FEBRUARY IS. In the House of Commons on Wednesday last Sir Robert Wilson brought forward his promised motion, with a view to promote an enquiry into his conduct on the Rth of August and the days pre ceding it—he did this in a style of candour and ftiraess that attracted the admiration even of those who, to retain their seats, were unhappily in so debaced a situation as to be obliged to pronounce the monysyllable " No" with their mouths, while their hearts would willingly have vociferated "Ate,” — anti with a degree of coolness and ability that has placed him higher than he before stood in the esti mation of all these who have read his speech atten tively; it was of extreme length, and our limits have obliged us to curtail it, but we have preserved the points, and all who do not belong to the majority which voted against his motion will agree with us, that a grosser case of cruelty and oppression was never made out—that he was dismissed either with out any evidence at all, or upon that which was confessedly fuuided in falsehood and perjury—that the parties giving that evidence were shielded by Government from the visitation due to so &m -ercies an offence against the laws of God, of Eng,- gland, and of Alorality—and they will probably be inclined to think with us, that Sir Robert Wilson, was punished in truth and reality fine the double crime of having opposed a lavish, bad, extravagant government, and having commiserated and endea voured to alleviate the sufferings of a persecuted, injured, calumniated and deserted Wife, who was his Queen. Lord Palmerston, and Lord London derry, took post behind the phantom of Puerto- OLTIVE. We know not if it extend so far, but we are sure if Fuel be the cas.y, it ought to be lessened as affording a most dangerous infinence, while mi litary and naval officers, are allowed seats in the House of Common:, :—by this arbitrary, unjust ex ercise of this right, if it be a right, Ministers have drawn down upon his Majesty a degree of odium he ought not to labour under—some persons dare to think it was the result of petty, personal revenge on the part of the King, for the part Sir Robert Wilson toek in the Queen's aflisir, but this we do not, we cannot, we will not believe ; and even if such had Len the case the evident duty of Ministers was to have resisted so degrading a sacrifice of the dignity of a King of England, and if their resistance had been ineffectual the alternative presented to them was resignation of those pla,ies they could no longer hold with propriety. For six months past all the hirelings of Government, the Morning Peal , the New Times, the Courier, and last, though not least in the Man Bull, have been dealing in myste rious grandeur on the subject—" We could an if we wce.ld"—" Au if WE list to speak," with a :ong list et* similar ambiguities— whico, if' stripped of all their vii:anous clothing, come to an assertion that Sir R. Wilson had been guilty of high-treason, and that if he were not executed for it, he would have to thank the loving mercy of his Majesty's Ministers—no N, THE NATIONAL REGISTER after all, what is the extent of his crime, according to the statement of those Ministers themselvesP— Why,that perceiving the soldiers were firing unneces sarily and without orders on an unarmed multitude, he reminded them that by such conduct they were disgracing the laurels they had gained in the battle of Waterloo—thus by his intervention the lives of hundreds were probably saved, and fur that inter vention he was dismissed, after 29 years service, and against all rules of honesty and of the army, robbed of the money he had paid for many of his commissions. Col. Cavendish took umbrage at Mr. Lambton's call ing the massacres at Cumberland-gate " murders," and asserted that the Coroner's Verdict, which estab lished the fact was obtained by perjury—this we positively deny and dare contradiction—if any sub ornation of perjury, or perjury itself took place, it was on the part of the officers, the soldiers, and those who wished to justify them to the world— can our readers forget that the man who was own servant to Lieutenant Gore, could not tell if he was 20 or 50 years of age —or, whether his hair was black or white, or can they forget that Mr. Adolphus, aware perhaps of the existing proof of another falsehood, was prudent enough to antici pate it, by saying that he found—" that an officer who it had been sworn was in Barracks, the whole of the 14th of August, had been out two or three times that day"—yet there are the men who can stand up and declare, that the verdict of " Wilful Murder" against a Lifeguardsman was obtained by perjury ! ! ! Rumour has been extremely busy for some days past, relative to the expected proceedings in the House of Commons on Friday last. Every body said that a Message from the King would on that night be delivered---.some surmised that his Majesty had been advised to defray the expellees of the Co ronation out of his private funds, or out of the im mense property which came into his possession on the death of their late Majesties—others went so far in the wonderful path, as to assert that Ministers had prevailed on his Majesty to renounce one-fourth of the Civil List, and to declare that all his officers, even to the highest, should submit to a similar re duction. For ourselves, we had no such expectation —we du rot look to " gather Figs from Thorns, o: Grapes from Thistles," and the event proves we were right—the Marquis of Londonderry, and his honourable colleagues, are too much " children of this generation,' to allow their master's enjoyments or their own to be lessened by a reduction of in come, and therefore the minor, the Mies iur classes of locusts only are to be contributive to the retrench ments projected. The whole of the reduction in tended in the army, navy, and miscellaneous expen diture, is about two millions, of which the general cry for retrenchment, and the King's promise to for ward it, has produced a diminution of the Civil List of 150,0001 only ! The public faith is to be bro ken by obliging the holders of Five per Cent. Stock to accept of an interest of Four per Cent., and tbur millions arc to be borrowed of the Dank, to enable Government to lend money to the different parishes which are now oppressed with poor's rates, taking their rates in pawn, as security—the plan is More our readers in abstract, if we add, that a reduction of one shilling per bushel is to tal.e place in the duty on Male—Taking it uitogether, never was " the mountain in labour" more com pletely realised than by this financial production of the present Cabinet No Charlatan ever attempted to gull the surrounding rabble from his cart full of Nostrums, than are the English cheated by this contemptible exhibition of Ways and Means. None of the useless lumber is to be cut away—all the Leeches arc yet to suck at the reduced system of' poor John Bull—the distresses of the Country, the ruin of the Agriculturist, the general appeal of the people cannot prevail upon Government, to 10 1' oil a single branch of the Smecure List, 110 r to reduce in the seventh year of peace a sin . ,le la.rd of the Admiralty. • I 1 • '- - " ' 'Y 53 • - The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland are to return to England, to reside there constantly. And an application is to be made to Parliament for an in crease of income ! 'We observe an advertisement in The Mock Time: calling upon all those to whom the late Mrs. Jordan was indebted, to send the particulars of their de mands to the SOLICITOR OR THE TRh:ASURI. 0:11* readers need not be informed that this Ludy was the mother of Colonel Fitz-Clarence, of Major Fitz- Clarence, and of a lot of Misses Fitz-Clarence.— The advertisement in question is not explicit as to the reason fbr desiring such an account to be ren dered, but we presume that Ministers, after pension ing all the Duke of Clarence's impure progeny, mean to carry into effect the promise of econoiay they put into the King's mouth at the opening of Parliament, by paying the debts contracted by their mother. Really we think a part of the arrears so infamously granted to the Royal Duke might have been devoted to the discharge of these debts, parti cularly if it be considered under what disgraceful pecuniary circumstances the connection was said to exist. MARRIED.-By special licence, on Monday last, by the Bishop of Norwich, at his house in Upper Grosvenor Street, Grosvenor Square, the Itig!it Honourable the Earl of Albemarle, to Charlotte, ;:ie vounoest daughter of the late Sir Henry Hunloke, Bart. of Wingcrworth, Dabyshire.—The perform ance of the ceremony was as private as possible, the party present being composed only of the near rela tives of the bride and bridegroom. The lady was given away by her uncle, T. W. Coke, Esq. M.P., the Ladies Keppel and Miss Sidney being the bride. maids. COVENT &IRDEN THEATRE. We have recorded our regret that the perverted taste of the town will allow the pertisrmance of the best of Shaltspeare's plays to take place before empty benches, while a .!echo Draw. or any bplendid exhibition, will till the boase to a certainty—such, however, being the case the Proprietors are right in conforming their arrangements to the vitiation, and on Thursday night they produced a new Operatic Drama, in three acts, called Montrose, or his Children of the 111 irt. for tie first time. It is founded upon one of the celebrated Scotch novels. The principal inte:est of the piece arises from the famous contests in whirls the Earl of Montrose and the islarquis of Argyle are engaged in op usitica to each other. The Earl is induced to send one Captain Da,, , el;y, to request a truce. The Captain, instead of Being received at an ambassador, is confined in a dungeon, where he fitlls over another prisoner, and finds that his fellow lodger is one of the boldest partisans of his master. While they are engaged in conversation toe Marguir al Argyle enters in disguise at a private door, and offers both Interty upon vile conditions. The Captain knows hint through his disguise, and seizing him by the throat, swears that death shall be the consequence of resistance. The Marquis after having given the tau prisoners the means of escaping efixtually. is strippsel of his cloak by them, and double ironed in the when, where lie is left. As soon us the Marquis is ridetts_d from h's awkward situation, a pursuit is commenced, and a desperate bat tie is thught which ends in the defeuat of the pursuers. The piece drutuatied adheres as closely as possible to the text of the the novel. SWIM of the scenes are so unitising as 11:11101it to make us regret that the action should he interrupted by a song; but taking tile drains altogether, mus c may be said to be itnitspen sably necessary. Cuptuiu bulgetty, a character played by Liston, was by to the most tl'ective in the piece, and it w as played with mach humour by that admirable comedian. who was partieu:arly successful in the scene with the Marquis of.drevle in the prisen, us well s, in that in which he is assured that he shall be hang J by the neck and decapitated. Abbot, Connor, and Yates, we, e allotted parts in which 'hey had opportu•iities of chewing their skill s and MTS. Faucit shone in a sort of Amazon, the wife of the fellow prisoner of the Ciptain. Nliss Stephens had more to sing than to say. and site did so to the delight of the house. I t is but justice to say that in the first song she astonished the au. dience with one of the most enchanting pieces of iiielos!y we have ever heard. It is, like most of the sou ;,y, set to a Scotch air, but it is more simple, and better adapted to the charming latiou- s of this exquisite singer, than any of the rest. fit., decided was tile success of this picce, aided us it is by the beautiful stud of horses, that the Theatre has overflowoleveiy night s.tice.atel the bills announce that it sill he acted every evening till farther notice," A petition, signed by upwards of 150 respectable householders, having been presented to the magi*. trates of the town of Heater& complaining ad the bad quality of the beer vended by most of the puh beans in that ton u, the mayor called a meeting of the aldernieni, on Wednesday last, to take the ni.a.- txt tutu cOnbidelat it'll, when sameiles of beer tru.a several public-houses were produced, which fully sustained the prayer of the petition After a great deal of conversation between the corporate body and some of the petitioners, the mayor declared and wished it to be understood by all the publicans the town, that if they were nut in future supidied by their landlords, the brewers, with good whole some beer, according to the present vire of malt maid 'vim such as their customers approved ut, t:.ey (toe magistrates) would grant the inn acep-rs licences to lace houses in any part of the town where they could get the same. Several distressing cases of typhos fever have oc curred lately in Perth ;—in one family the rnLi-r, neither, and eldest son, have tiill!n victims t and tiler children, yet alive, are all danger am y