The National Register. — London, England, 1816-01-21 00:00:00

89.1 - e - - We are sorry to find, by letters from Pat is, that three English gentlemen 'have been-arrested by the Minister of the Police, and thrown into the Abbey. They are Sir Wilson, Captain Mitchinson, and Mr, Bruce. Sir R. Wilson, by his gallant ser vices against Bitona;larte, is known to every nation in Europe ; Captain Hutchinson is a very young Officer of the Guards, a relation of Lord Donongbutore ; and Mr. Bruce is the eldest son of the banker, Crawford Bruce, Esq. Our Minister, Sir (*furies Stuart, as soon as he heard of their arrest, demanded tbelr immediate enlargement, when a story was told him of their having contrived and assisted in the escape of Lavaaette—that the) ha'l procured a passport for an English Officer two or three days before, and that they travelled with Gen. Lavalette all the way to Mons, introduced him under the passport they had oh flitted to the English military post, procured it thereto be coun tersigued, and passed him on. After which, and having break fasted with the English Officer in command. they returned to Pais. This was the report made to the English Minister, and which he has transmitted to Ministers, that he may receive their fui ther in tructions how to act. A Royal Ordonnance, respecting the Protestants of Nismes, states, that the Churches of the persecuted sect have been re opened ; that tranquillity has been re-established; and that the troops who were quartered on the town have been wifhdra n. Notwithstanding we find, from an article in one of the French Journals, that so late as the night between the 11st and 2d inst. M. Perrin, a Professor of the College of Alais, was assassinated; aod, as usual, the assassins had not been discovered. A German Gazette contains the following article:—" We are informed, that the Jesuits are leaving Rome by hundreds, to repair to the different Colleges re-opened for them in Spain, Naples, Sicily, Parma, &c. 'there have lately departed 500 for the fii st of these dominions.—As this Order has been suppressed i about 50 years, viz. n Portugal, in 1759; in Spain, 1767 ;in Naples and Parma, in 1763 ; the Members of this Order must either be endowed with an extraordinary longevity, or they must have recruited in secret, in order for us to be able to com prehend how, on a sudden, so great a number of Jesuits appear." Monuments ale to be erected to the memory of Louts XVII. the unfortunate (ler Lsr his mother, his aunt Madame ELIZA - tut' and the Duke &Es; HIEN. The first of these, of course, discredits all the stories of the DA UP H ; N being alive. A Paris Paper says, the violet had become an object of repro bation since its being noted as a sign of rallying ; many persons avoided carrying them, in the tear of the purity of their senti ments be.mi srspect.d. 'the following anecdote may reconcile those yerY persons to a flower which seems better adapted for the emblem of modesty than the symbol of a party. It is affirmed, that his Majesty, having lately violets C u , his chimney, has distribated them to several ladies, who appeared astonished at receiving such a present from the Monarch :—" Accept them (said the King), 1 have included the yii,let in the ainnesty." 'the Algrin. Zeiqingcn, a GerinAti Paper, contains a curious anecdote respecting; Buonaparte's last cnterpi ize. For a few days after his landing none joined him, and more than half his followers had deserted. -The other half had employed their money in purchasing clothes to escape in disguise. ilis situa tion was desperate till he reached the frontiers of aillphiny ; when the peasants received him with the geueral cry of " Long live our Emperor ! No tithe, no fi odd righ Is !" Our private letters from Madrid arc filled with the most af flicting accounts of the unmerited punishments of the Liberates, cpmieinned without trial by the KI NG'S Will alone. The hot.. ;chic spit - it of despotism and bigotry has not been satiated with these ill-fated victims; but several snore, among whom arc, some distinguished character!, have been added to the melan choly list of sufferers. Sir Edward Crofton, Bart. of Monte, in the county of Roscom mon, shot himself with a case of pistols, on the 6th instant. De rangement is asserted to have been the cause. There was a great carnage last week at Wolverstone Park, in urfotk, and on one day were k illed and taken-113 pheasants, 51 es, 20 couple rabbits, and one woodcock. The Rev. 1)r. Shaw, rr •Islispla en l'Albsige, though in his 67th year, will the 13105 t dada guibikett st:ot upon this nieworabie occasiour JAN. el. COURT OF CHANCERY.--SATURDAY, JAR. O. Ex parte THOMAS. Sir Samuel Romilly, this day, complained to the Conrt of a gross ►misrepresentation which had appe 'r ;l in The Times news paper of the preceding day, which materially affected the ha raetc r °fa geptleinan namedllagher. The misrepresentatiou ocean t e l inthe report of the proceedings on Thomas's bankrutq petition, and im puted to Mr. Maglier, who was a witness for the petitioning cree ditor, that he was a papist, an Irishman, and ;t l run away from his bankruptcy; the latter statement being whoiiy without founds. tion. The learned Counsel then took occasion to animadvert on the freq►eency of such misrepresentations, and to suggest the neces sity of some means being adopted to put an end to them. He re frained from moving to bring up the Editor, in hopes the hint \void(' be sufficient to prsi,ent a repetition of such conduct. The Lord Chancellor fully agreed in the character given of the misrepresentation in question. He condemned all ex parte publi, cations as prOudicial to all parties ; and desired th:tt whatever reports appeared in the public newspapers, they might at least be faithful and accurate, SEM/lI:ANTS INN II LL.-SATURODAY, JAN. 20. REAL C. SHEPHERD. _ This was an action on a bill of exchange for 1501. drawn by Plaintiff and accepted by Defendant, and by him madi'l+ayable at Messrs. Marsh and Co. bankers at Reading. The Plaintiff g ot.oeft bill discounted by Fuller and Graham, Newbury, bankers, - who; on its becoming due sent it to Marsh and Co. with directions that they should direct their town agents to pay the amonut to Messrs. Down and Co. the correspondents of the Newbury bank. This, however, was not done; and, on the sth ofJanuary, Marsh and Co. stopped payment. The bill was in consequence returned to Plaintiff in the ordinary way. Plaintiff, in consequence, brought his action, and recovered upon the ground that Marsh and Co. were the agents of the Defendants, and he remained liable till the bill was paid, al though lie had given the amount to them. Mr. Jervis had obtained a rule to show cause why this verdict should not be set aside. Mr. Damicey, this day, slimed cause against this rule, contend ing that the verdict was just. The Court held with Mr. Dauncey, that the Defendant, the ac ceptor of the bill, remained liable till the bill was paid. The ver. diet for Plaintiff was therefore affirmed.---Rule to chew calls* discharged. OLDBAI LE Y. —Tuesday. E. and R. IV. Taylor were indicted fur forging a certain ordeir and warrant, purporting to be an order of P. Broatdmead, for the delivery of 729 hides out of the London Docks. and for tittering the said order, knowing it to be forged, with intent to defraud the London Dock Company. It appeared that the two prisoners were brothers, and together with their mother a widow, carried on the business of brokers. In the year 1810, Sir J. Lubbock and Co. bankers and merchants, had received from Cadiz a cargo of hides, by the ships Commerce and Hope, and the Messrs: Taylors were employed to sell them as brokers. In the year 1814, the prisoner E. Taylor sent a contract to the house of Lubbock and Co. for the sale of the hide ,, , to a Mr. P. Proadmead, and in consequence of this sale an order was sent by that house to the London Dock Company, desiring that the hides should be warehoused in the name of Mr. Broadinead. This arrangement having taken place, part of the hides which were discharged from the Flip Commerce were afterwards ob tained by Messrs. Taylor, and the amount (22001.) paid for them. the 729 hides, however, which were stated in the indictment, re mained in the warehouse of the London Dock Company until the month of February 180, when an oidcr purporting to be signed by P. Broatlmead was presented at the warehouses, desiring the delivery of the said hides to Messrs. Taylor. Soon afterwards this order was discovered to be a forgery, as from a conversation which Mr Broadmead had held with Sir J. Lubbock it appeared that no contract had been made by the former person with the pri - soner's house, or either of the prisoners. A bankruptcy it appeared had taken place in the firm of the Taylors, and it was not until after that event that the discovery took place. In application was then made by Sir J. Lubbock and Co. to the London Dock Com pany, to obtain the skins or the v attic in lien. This being rellised, an action was laid in the Court of King's Bench to recover the amount, and the plaintitrs succeeded in obtainiug to the full value of the props rty, Lord Ellenborough having laid it down that as the London Dock Company had disposed of the property of others.. ~ upon 4 forged ortkr, they must sustain the cOUSeqIItaCCIS nod ntalp T.IIE NATIONAL REGISTER.