The National Register. — London, England, 1822-03-18 00:00:00

.7 - -" - ~v I . There was much business transacted on Friday at the Stock Exchange. The report of pa:itic in telligence having been received in the milting from St. Paersbur;4ll, relative to the misunderstanding between Russia end the Porte, occasioned an im provement in the Funds. Even the Navy Five per Cents. improved, as the speculators, thinking that there willl be no war, calculate that the new Four per Cents. will open at a good price, and therefore are anxious to get into them by purchasing Navy Fives, and transferring the latter into the Fours, agreeably to the plan proposed by Government.— Saturday being the last day allowed fur dissenting front the scheme, a number of persons, chiefly trout the ctaintry, were observed in the Cashier's Office, the place where they sign. There was much busi ness also transacted in the Three per Cents. and the Fives, but chiefly in small sums. A bustle prevailed on 'Change in the Spanish market, owing to the delivery of the new Spanish Stock, us many persons were busily engaged in settling their accounts.—ln t onsequence of the disturbances in Paris, the French funds have fallen. and are expected to be still' over. Aonittisatiat, COMMITTEE—The committee on agriculture are pursuing their labours. *1 he scheme of appropriating one million to the purchase of corn, thus to relieve the farmer by exciting a temporary Fens:llion in the market, is understnod to be aban doned. It was only sanctioned by the casting sole of the chairman, Mr. Gooch, only; but with such support, it is said, the ministers do not fee/ war- ranted to press the plan flirward, so as to recom mend it to the Ilouse. And the I;cl:dialled scale of protecting duties has also undergone. it is said, an important change ; the import duty is now to be breve instead of.fineen shillings. The following is the scale, is changed from that originally proposed by the Marquis of Londonderry:—l. That the fu ture import price of wheat shall be 70s. instead of 80s.-2. Thut a duty of 12s. be imposed upon im ported wheat, when the price is from 70s. to 80s. —3, That a duty of .ss. be imposed upon imported wheat, when the price is from 80s. to 855., after which the duty shall be reduced to Is.—and 4. That a further additional duty of ss. shall be int posed upon imported wheat, for the first three months after the perte open, and when the price is from 70s. to 85s. The measure of opening a direct intercourse be tween our NVcst India colonies, North and South America, and the north of Europe, in addition to the south now open, is nearly determined on.—Per mission will be granted to export their produce to those countries, and to import theirs in return, in the shipping of the British and the Americans; but such imports are to be subject to duties sufficient to taurd a fair protection to the produce of our North Amerisan colonies, and no more; those now existing in Jamaica on flour and provisions, as fixed by the Assembly, in Jamaica, 18-21, are considered ample. We understand by the latest letters from Valpa raiso, which are dated the 20th of November, that an arrangement has been entered into in Lima, be tween Gen. San Martin and the Authorities there, by which all foreigners are precluded ti-om acting as consignees, a circumstance which if' correctly stated, will cause much perplexity to those merchants who, immediately on the declaration of independence, planned the formation of establishments in Peru.— These letters mention, as an extraordinory fact re lative to the situation of Chili, that the republic has been able to reduce its debt nine-tenths, not withstanding its extensive armaments lately under taken against Peru. and that the whole will shortly be liquidated. Letters from Port-au-Prince of the 24th of Jan. say, that a deputation had arrived from the city of St. Domingo to President Boyer, inviting him to assume the government of the Spanish territory, and to incorporate it with his dominions. This in vitation had been acceded to, and the President was to proceed shortly to take possession of his new acquisition, which will place the whole of the noble island of St. Domingo under his Presidency. Upon the subject of the report now current on the Continent, of an intended matrimonial alliance between his Britannic Majesty and a Danish Prin cess, a letter from Aix-la-Chapelle of the sth inst., inserted in the French papers, contains the follow ing passage :—" It is affirmed that on the occasion of the ensuing marriage of George IV. with a Danish Princess, a treaty of alliance will be con cluded between England and Denmark, in which certain modifications will he stipulated relatively to the navigation of the Baltic. It is not said whe ther Russia and Sweden will be parties in this treaty." The long depending wager for 100 guineas, be tween the celebrated Mr. Henry Cock-burn (upwards of 20 attune) and Mr. Thomas Whitehouse, was de cided in White Conduit Fields on Wednesday, lat three o'clock. The wager was to pick up 100 stones, at a vard distance from each other. Mr. C. corn. pletell the tusk with great ease in 53 minutes and a half, although greatly annoyed by an izmense con e orate reovlc. , as- THE NATIONAL REGISTER. There was the lowest ebb at Harwich, on Wed . - nesday morning last, that has occurred for nearly 40 years. The cant edge of the Ooze and Guard were seen above the surface of the water, like a wall ; the Grissel, which has not been seen for near:) , halt' a century, was just above the surface of the water ; and the clift feet rocks were dry for nearly a quarter of a mile. In the course of the day it blew a pie from S S.W. About three o'clock in the morning of the same day, the brig Elegant, of Sunderland, Capt. W. Palmer, struck and sunk on the ruff in consequence of the greatness of the ebb. The cr,:w, nine in number, toil to the ringing ; but the ship fell down, with her masts into the water, and before ten o'clock six of them died from the fatigue and wet, or were drowned. The ebb re turning had the effect of righting the ship, when Capt. P., with two of the men who were still on the foremast ; but considering the ship to be in a bad state, the Captain determined on swimming to the mainmast, which alter much difficulty he ac complished. Nut long after the foremast gave way, and precipitated the two unfnrtunate men into a watery grave. Captains I'. continued on tha main top till about five o'clock P.M. when the Hero, of Woodbridge, Mr. Newson, master, bore dawns to his assistance, and succeeded in saving him from his perilous situation. •n< An v:periment was lately tried, in order to as certain the difference between the working of the long mould-boarded plough (used within 25 miles of London), with turliorses, a man and driver, and a common light. Scotch plough, with a pair of carriage horses and reins. The result turned out, that the pair of horses ploughed, in six hours, one acre, nine inches deep by twelve, walking at the rate of three miles an hour ; the four horses plough ed half an acre, seven inches deep by nine, step ping two miles an hour. The following is a copy of a letter from the United States' Commercial Agent at Port-au. Prince, (lilted Jan. 4:—" You will oblige bLith myself and the parties concerned by making known, that from the Ist inst. an additional tonnage duty of 50 cents. per ton has been laid on all foreign shipping, making the present duty one dollar per ton." On Friday last the Grand Jury at Durham, re turned a true bill against John Ambrose Williams, editor of the Durham Garronicle, for a libel against the late Marquis of Londonderry, contained in that paper of the 20th of October last. The unfortunate Mrs. Donatty had resided in Robert-street 15 years, soon after the death of her husband, who was of the Jutish persuasion, and he kept a lock-up-house in the neighbourhood of Fetter lane. It was there that the celebrated Nlorland painted the beautiful pictures which the den:eased lately sold, when at various times he was an em barrassed inmate there. Mrs. Donatty, who was a 'einem, had embraced Christianity, and was con stant ir her attendance at a Dissenting Chapel. The extreme violence of the soutli-west wind on Tuesday night, combined with the natural effect of an ebb tide at nearly the top-of the springs, caused the sea on, Wednesday morning to recede, along the northern shore of- the county of Kent, to a greater distance than within he recollection of the eldest inhabitant of the coast, and afforded an op portunity of obtaining many valuable articles, the remnants of wrecks anchors, &e. us also other ob jects of curiosity, which had been tier a long series of years covered by the waves. The regulated time of low water was about the hour of five in the morning, but the ebb did nut ceasa, till that of eight, three hours afterwards, duringlitOich period the sea was ebs2rved tathb and flow three tunes iu alternate succession ; and the final reflux is described as approaching in the shape of a condensed rolling weave of- considerable magnitude. The distance to which the sea receded is calculated at a mile beyond that of the usual low water mark of spring tides, in many parts more than two miles from th,21.11d. Extract of a letter from Malta, dated :Jan. 12, 1822: A very curious circumstance has lately occurred, so mites so, that you would scarcely credit it, were you not acquainted with our Governor, Sir Thomas Maitland. His Excellency announced in the Grusette a levee for the l t of January, 11/r24 but withers! mentioning his Alajesly's name,. on the satue day he also issued cards of invitation tor a ball to the first classes here (all the English merchants, however, being excluded, exclit one) It happened, accideatally, that several of tha Consuls were not present at this levee of his, and his Excellency was de• termined to be avenged, by writing them a note, saying, that notwiths'anding the invitation given them, they should not be received at his ball ! What do you think of tins ? IBS it not something like Asiatic despotism in it?—'The French Consul returned an answer, in:lntoning that he had been indisposed. The Neapolitan Consul had been extretneiy engaged; the Ger man Consul sick; the Ilusian Consul replied that he was at the levee; and the Spanish Consul hinted to his Excellency, that in his time there had been but one levee held in honour of his Ala. jesty, which was on his birth day, when he had punetua!ly attended—that on the Pa of January he had pail his respects to the Governor, to thank hint for his ball, and that he hoped there would he no interniption to their friendly undentanding owing to this particular cireum,tance. No reply whatever has been returned to tile Consuls, except to the French, who, I believe, has made his peace." The Duko of Devonshire intends visiting his estatos in Ireland in the course of the ensuing sum mer. -, COIENT GARDEN THEATRE• U The ncgociation which has been for some time pending respecting the management of this brilliant establishment, has been amicably conclutled—au ' event which has been communicated to the per- • formers, &c. by the following letter: — "Old Bond Street, Tueulay, March 12, IE2. " MT . ?)TAR FawcEvr,—By the enclosed form of nonce! you will perceive that the negociation which has been for soma time pending between the gentlemen holding the other shares of Covent Garden Theatre, and myself, is concluded. I have dia proud satisfaction of being able to gate, that by this arrangement the payment of every ueditor en the Theiiitre is completely se cured against all hazard. For this 1 have been induced to make ' thesacriflce of my personal feelings, and to quit, for a tiaw, the society of those whom 1 am proud to call my friends, by whose aid and exertions 1 hare weathered many a theatrie gale such, however (1 ant confident) is the good will of the Company of Covent Garden Theatre tower& me, that they will be the first to rejoice that 1 have been relieved from the heavy weight of • resrirsibility which has 2ressed upon me for so long a Aerial. l'ray offer them this tribute, which I am happy to pay to their private wroth and professional talent ; and ensure them that, as • Chief Prom ietor of Covent Garden Theatre, my interests are still inseparably linked with theirs, and that 1 ion as anxious as ever to promote the welfare and happiness of you all, and believe use, " Your sincerely attached friend, " To. J. FawcErr, Esq." " 11. HAIM'S. • A notice to take all orders from the other noptietors, Mr. C. Kemble, Capt. Forbes, and Mr. %Villas. ...meeting of the country gentlemen will be held in a few days at the Thatched-house, in St. James's street, fite the purpose of forming a deputation to wait upon the Earl of Liverpool, on the present depres,,e.l state cf the agricultural ir.terests. -. The Marquis of Huntley won the cup at the !ate Mahon coursing fleeting. • • Wiliiains, one of the counsel fix the Queen in the proceedings against her Majesty in the llouse • of Lords, has announced himself a candidate for tlio seat in the representation of the city ,of Lincoln, vacant by the death of Col. Sibthorp. No other candidate . has been mentioned. Some time ago it was said that a jewel (an ante- • • deist, the gossips say), the private right of his Ma• jesty to dispose of which was doubted, had been • given as a present to the Marchioness of Cnnynghaut —that some remonstrance was made by one of that Ministers, on the subject of the Royal gitt—that Sir B. Bloomfield was questioned—that he told more than was proper—that Royalty was offended—that the jewel was returned. Vauxhall-gardens were sold by auction on Tuesday last, at the M .rt, fir 28,0001. The anxiety of the public was so great, that the largest ,roost in the establishment could not Recoil:caudate half the au- • dicnce who were assembled. Dittaureb ACCIDENT.-0o Thursday evening last, the neignia narliuml of Green-street and • 2riar-sweet, tekfriars-rotd, tuns thrown into the greatest conste:- • nation by the bursting of one of the tanks belonging to the new station of the ',';onth London Gas Company in Wellington-street. It :I l iettrs that the tank, which has been newly erected by contract, and under the superin tendence of I.n eminent house at I)isdley. the diameter of which was 43 feet, and the depth 18 feet, had been flied with water, preparatory to being brought unto ac- - twit by the company, when an imperfect !dile of the tank, which the iankinakers were anxiew-ly endeavou:- ing to secure, gave way. and the i4ltill.:llse. pressure oF water instantly tore (me of the iron hoops asunder, and inundated and destroyed some of the adjacent 0:4;.ilOtl,ell • and walls, and drove in dillsrent directions every thing which impeded its progress. We are sorry to a:id that one of the tank makers of Dudley, named J. Morgan, was so dreadfully wounded about the head, that lie died • half au hour after he was removed from the premisee., and the holy lies at a pliblicrarnise, in Friar -street, toe • the coroner's impiest. It is but justice to add, that thet . premises, where this shocking accident happo.ned, arc wholly unconnected with the present operant:its of the company, winch of course cannot in the least be pre judiced by the calamitous occurrence. 'lnc loss to trez tank-makers will be very considerable, the tank harim; • been erected under their direction, and at their own risk. ‘‘' e are anxious to add, that not a tuotneists in. convenience will be sustained by the persons supplied with Gas by the Smith London Company, is use new tank was ulihy intruded to insure oddilitaia 30e0.11111.3. dation. Oa Tuesday last a little girl, about eight yeers of see, • named Mary Pl-aster, whose •parents are in a humble station in life, residing at 'l'veickenham, was srat by her mother with her brother's chimer, who was at a school • at a short distance: The ciold not returning at. the • usual time did not excite any alarm, as the mother coil- eluded she hail been detaiii.al to return wait her brother. —On his coming :roil school in the eventing, eillOther • was alarmed with the intelligence that she Lad delivered the dinner in the regular manner, anti had immediately, as was supposeJ, returned home. I"•:ottvitlistanding Isle - most diligent search has since been made throughTtrick enham and the neialibouring parishes, up t. Thursday • , nothing whatever had been heard of her, nor any clue . obtained to her prnbablo situation. She had on when - she left her home, a brown stutifrook with short skews, • red cotton pinafore, and an old white hearer bonnet ; she has black eyes, dark complexion, anti dark hair. EXTRAOKDIWARY_SeICIDZ.OIII Saturday last Mr. Ramsdate„ a respectable butcher of Kingsland:proceenett as usual, accompanied by his man to Learletioali and • %\ -- hit.-chapel markets ; on his way up Histions ,, ite.street, be suddenly sung out of the cart, and instantly eat his • throat with a large knife, which tie threw up J passage. . Ile was itntrediately conveyed haute to his disconsolate • • family in a state of insensibility, amid every medical as-. sistilice was afforded, but to their great *diction, he expired about tour o'clock in the afternoon. /kill* man ill opulent circumstances, his mo's 'relative trnida.• are unable to accocut tar the dreadful eatastriphs. - •:. • lijcifx " 1. I