The National Register. — London, England, 1818-01-11 00:00:00

JAN. 11. discourage it, for charity must aot be entirely 'Obeid until hive,. 4i ira ti on took place, however prompt dot invesitagatia• .s be. He was well convinced that there were heredredi it is thu s , who, if not relieved to day, would die to narrow. He had, there fore, the cause of these wretched beinos to pked, end be was cure he should not be suffered to plead in vain. Mr. Hume, though not eat otigiaidly concerned in bringing about this meeting, had (in consequence of his application to the gentlemen who suggested it, to know what measures were to be brought forward) been asked to propose the resolution he was now about to move. With regard to plans, it was not resonable to expect on such a subject as this, any thing like agreement ; and in tins case he had found as many plans as individuals. All, however, concurred in the conviction that the evil was great and general. Every friend of humanity endeavours to give partial relief within the circle to which his exertions must be confined; bat general relief must be the object of the cotnmitte. After arguing the necessity of some permanent establishment, he concluded by moving, that a so ciety he formed, to be called the Society for the Suppression of Men dieity. The Rev. Mr. Ruige, as Minister of a very populous parish, con sidered it his duty to sectmd the measure. The motion was carried unanimously. Mr. Tooke rose next, to move the appointment of a committee. He observed, that when the committees should he established, the proper course would be to supply gentlemen with tickets, to be given to mendicants. Instead of bestowing their charity in money, which was too frequently spent idly and profligately, they would give to the beggar who solicited relief tele of those tickets, referring him to a place where his case would be investigated. lle then mov ed the appointment of a committee. Mr. I , reese seconded the resolution, and obserml that it was ne cessary to urge gentlemen to contribute their aid, as their presence there sufficiently declared their intentions. That min-mildly eonsti tuted a great CVil was manifest. Time only question was, h ow thi s evil could he remedied. Ile who amid answer this question might feel peculiar satisfaction from the remembrance of st on his dying day. A gntleman moved emit Mr. W. Williams be appointed trea. au% r. _ Mr. Frend, in seconding this motion, said that this was a political question, and a political quesdon of the very highest importance. It went to the root of all society. Society, according to the Scriptures. was connected together as one body, when one member was afflicted tall the m embers suffered with it. Society was a pyramid, whose basis was the lower classes. If the basis should be diminished, the whole fabric would tumble down. This was only the beginning of the measure, if wisely conducted, it might be attended with the most be neficial effects. A gentleman moved that Mr. W. 11. Bodkin be appointed se cretary. Mr. Harrison denied that their intention was political. They had no intention of interferimf in any way with civil government. He was anxious that this should be distinctly understood, and pub Wiled. He saw there gentlemen who could state it better than he, and lay it immediately before the public. By doing so, they would essentially serve society. lie, for one, did think that mendieity conld be put down altogether. He concluded by moving thanks to Mr. Ottey, fur the gratuitous use of the room It might, indeed, Le said, calms, fur the committee room was also given gratuitously. Mr.Rowtroft said, they could now separate with as much satisfac tion as the occasion allowed. The beginning was the most difficult thing. That. difficulty was now removed. It remained that every one should contribute for the object in view. Their husine , F was not to deal out pathetic phrases, but to tell simply what were their hopes, and what should be their endeavours. He moved thanks to the chairman. Mr. Home in seconding this motion, mentioned, that he had for merly omitted, but what was very important. that at Bath they were before bens on this subject. 'Plane mendieity was in a great mea sure suppressed. The example was cheering and encouraging. The chairman said. he had been unwilling to take the chair, not because hewa,unwiliingto coomerate ime he efe s i gd of tl but because he wished a gentl:man of greater name and superior talents is preside in a business of such importance. By the next time they met he felt assured that they should have not only a gentle man f r,.ek and talents to preside, but that they could select one frork .rho should apply for the chair which he now occupied. The m..ting then broke up. EXTRA OR 'UNARY PItESBNCE OF Nit 11113.—The Composer of the cek orated Strasthpey, called John Roy Stewart's Reel, had been Quarter Master In the Scots Greys, and was sent with a party to apprehend Mr. Munroe, of Novar, suspected of secretly favouring the rebellion of 1145. Mrs. Munroe, like Madame Layalette, determined to hazard all to save the life of her husband. Thoagh pregnant and momentarily ex pecting to he confined,she intreated permission to accompany him to prison , and in the middle of a lune moor suddenly exclaimed that she t have some of her own sex to attend her. She painted in different directions, and Stewart, at her request, dispatched all his troupers, while he himself kept close to Munroe, witlaaloaded pistol in his baud. Mrs. Mun roe, who rode on a pillion behind her hushaiel, soon cried out that she and her child should perish, unless she were assisted to dismount.—Stewart replaced his pistol in the holster, alighted, and helped the Lady to descend ; but she clasped him so firmly in her arms, as to allow her husband to ride off to a place of safety. Stewart having no witnesses to prove his itemcenee, was afraid t o join his regiment, apprehensive that his obnoxio-s name might tend to a more rigorous pu• nishinent that' he deserved. Ile therefore went over to the rebel party, held a Colonel's commission at the battle of Cul. loden, and after the defeat of the Pretender, was concealed several months in the North. For some time, while hid in a cavern, his son brought hint victuals very early in the morn ing, or late in the night; and as the path to his retreat was intricate, Ise generally met the child to receive his provisions. The Royalists bad information that Stewart, the deserter and rebel, was in that neighbourhood, and his desperate courage ' pointed out the necessity of sending a considerable force against him and his firmly attached protectors. His sea was overtaken by a large party of military, within a few yards of the spot where Stewart generally met hint. One of the articles Le carried was a pitcher oi' milk. With ready presence of mind he feigned idiocy, and offered his milk to the drummer, if he would let him know the use of that odd looking round thing he had strapped at his back. The boy's broken Eng lish and strange gestures oaracted the hotter of an Officer, who, after a short converstaion, ordered the drummer to beat This was all yonng Stewart desired; and it had the wished for effect, of miming his father to keep close to his asylum. Devotion TO CLERICAL DUI lES. —We know the following affecting gatemen , to be correct:—Lt a parish in the imme diate vicinity of Dublin, the Catholic curate was called on to administer the lust solemn rites of religion to a family in the last stage of typos fever. On entering the hovel, he found them hi number six or seven persons, male and female, lying on a truss of straw scattered on the moist and muddy floor.— The agonies of death were coining last upon them. Ilic confes•ions of each of them were to be heard. Lest one should os et r the confession of the other, he stretched hi n. self 611 Ale straw, while the wretched stutterer breathed his or her trawg ssions into his ear. Thus inhaling the poison of their respiration, and separatieg them hem each oilier successively, at the tisk of his own life, he completed hie t„creel fill:clic:4s.— Dublin Ercitiog Post. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. FINE ARTS. CASTS FROM THE ELGIN MARBLES. "A set of casts from the Elgin marbles are to be immediately prepared for the Imperial Academy of Arts at Petersburgle, under the direction and superintendence or Mr. Haydon, to whom M. M. Olenin, the President, has written in the most flattering terms fur that purpose. M. M. Olenin has also, as a mark of Isis estimation for Mr. Haydoefs talents, presented hint, for his own private study, with some casts le um the Imperial collection or a bust of Achilles, a beautiful statue of Venus, and one of Silenets, which was considered as the finest things in the collection of the Emperor. M. 31. Olenin concludes his letter, honourable to Mr. Hay don, by unplug that the correspondence thus begun will not end, and that " Mr. Haydon will continue it for the benefit of the arts in Russia." It is remarkable, that while Mr. Ha) don is held in such just estimation on the continent, he seems to be sys• tematicalli neglected by the kiyal Academy of England, though that institution was created for the express purpose of fostering and rewarding native talent."- 7 -4 haft. The writer of the above, whot.Ter he is, could have been at no loss to discover the cause of the systenutlic neglect of Mr. Haydon by the Royal Academy, had he attended to the course which that gentleman has pnrsue'l for a considerable time past. We believe the Royal Academy of London is not less alive to the merit of Mr. Haydon, as an artist, than the Academy of St. Petersburgh ; but to admit him a member of their body, while he is in the constant habit of aystem.di• catty abusing them, would be art act of magnanimity which we might admire ; bat hardly can expect. Indeed, we be lieve Mr. Haydon himself is not ambitions of obtaining aca demic honours ; he stands iu direct hostility to the plan of the Royal Academy. in defence of what some consider a rival institution; though every sincere lover of art must re gret that this supposed rivalship should have been either wholly created or materially eurreased by the mistaken zeal of Mr. Haydon.aud a few of his friends, who think that by villifying the Academy they will add to the consequence of the Institution. Perhaps no circumstance inure strongly proves the interest which all classes have taken in the fate of the lamented Prin ces Charlotte, than the almost incalculable number of prints of her and her Consort, which have been sold within the last two mood's. One Moist is stated to have sold no less than fire thousurrt 'woods worth, of four plates only, their own pro perty, within that period. Amongst persons of a higher class the desire to possess remembrances of her, has produced numerous orders for paintings, to be copied from the most approved likenesses. Mr. Dawe, alone, has received orders for copies from the pictures which he did from the life, to the amount often thousand pounds. We arc at a loss to say whe ther this is more creditable to the artist, or to the feelings of his employers. NEWFOUNDLAND. —Letters from St. John's of the 11th Nov. contnin some interesting particulars. Numbers of the lower classes who had anffered losses by the conflagration had quitted the island and gone to Canada, to Novo Scotia, to New Brunswick, or to the territories of the United States, to procure employment. The Governor had wisely provided occupation for the able-bodied men who remained on the island, by employing them in telling timber, at the rate of Is. titi. per day, for the res!onstruction of the buildings, which it is highly probable will be speedily restored. By the liberal coati - amities of the more wealthy, the necessities of the destitute, aged, and the infirm remaining inhabitants, have been generously relieved. Hopes were entertained that the poor and labouring classes will he enabled to support the inclemency of a Newfoundland winter, without being exposed to those severe privations and distresses which were expected as the sad consequences of the late awful ca. lam ity. Sunday the 4th inst. the remains of the late Mr. Robert Palmer, of Drury-lane Theatre, were conveyed to the church yard of St. Martin-iwthe-Fields, where they were deposited in a vault near thechurch. This last sad procession was at tended by the relatives of the deceased in two ninni fling coaches. Five mourning coaches which followed were filled by the principal of his late brother-performers.of Drury-lane. The coffin, which, as well as all the necessary arrangements for his funeral, had been executed according to his own par neuter directions, was of plain English Oak, polished, and lined with lead, hat without any ornament w letterer, except a breast plate containing Isis name and age. Mr. Painter was in his 02d year. Died on the 6th inst. in his apartments in St—lames'. Palace, Mr. John Eldred, Page to his Majesty. He had had the situation during the whole of his Majesty's reign, and was Page to George 11. On July 25, INIB, he would have been 100 years old. He was much respected and esteemed by all the attendants at Court; he was very gallant and attentive to Iberian:des who wen admitted into the State room in St—James's Palace, over which he had the direction and control on Court Days. Ile always possessed a great flow of spirits, which continued with him till the last ; he had something to say to every person ; generally alluding to his being a youth, and frequently to the gooti a dinner he was about to partake, orl had partaken of. At other times. when he was inclined to pass jokes upon his eating and drinking, it would be of a reverse description, by saying that he never got a good dinner but in the sprat season—meaning as much as he could eat, and then he got a feast, as his boaid wages was but seven pence halfpenny a day. He ate and drank very heartily.—Nis favour ite beverage was porter, and lie would often drink as much as three quarts a day—a quart with his dinner, end two quarts in the course ' ef tile afternoon and evening. When he drank spirits, it was British gin, and occasionally he took gin mid water. He siroktsl tobacco incessantly ; his favourits dinner was a rump• steak, of which he would cat a pound ; and this course of life he continued till about a fortnight past, since which he has been indisposed. His strength did not tail hint till very lately. The last time, or the last but one, that the Prince Regent went in state to the Chapel Royal, he carried one of the heavy maces before die Prince Regent as a Deputy Serjeant at Arms. His principal exercise during the last so years has been walking from St..fames's Palace to the neighbourhood of Tothill fields, near Lady Dacres alms-houses, to receive the rent of sonic small houses which he owned, weekly, and to purchase his own food ; and he would walk through several markets, or go to a number of hauliers' shops in the street till he could meet with a rump of beef in a partiettlar state of cutting. to get a rump steak that would please hint, and he would take that, or any thing else he pur chased, home for dinner, for his servant to cook. He was a widower; his wife has been dead a number of years. Mr. Eldred was estremely obliging and accomulatlatiag to every person who had the pleasure o f ]jawing him. CHURCH MISSIONARIES. The general interest which the important cause of Missions has excited, impels us to lay before our readers the t'ollowing interesting extracts from the Church Missionary Register. " At Agra, a large city N.W. of Calcutta, a n d near l y SuO from it, miles distant trum Ain fool Messed*, a converted Aires 'minion, is occupied as a reader of scriptures and superinten. dant of schools. tie is assisted by his nephew, Inaynt Mee seeh. The labours of A bduol have excited great attention and enquiry, and in various cases, have Len eminently sue. cessful. In urder to awaken attention and conciliate the natives he administers medicine gratuitously to the poor ; he has done this with much success, some hundreds having received re lief in different disorders. The Society possesses a building called the Ktittra, where Ahdool resides, and where worship is held—schools are opened thcie and in three other place,. Some well disposed and intelligent Einopeau residents COIN. tenance and direct these labours. " At the colony of Sierra Leone, on Leicester Monm_ tain, about three miles from Free-town, on an ele...ateil spot, the Christian Institution, so called, is now forming on a quantity of land, lately granted to the Society.— Negro children, of various tribes, re-raptured from cling slave ships, are maintained there, and receive elms• ian instruction. They work one half of the day and receive christian instruction in the other half. The Society wholly maintains at Leicester Mountain two hundred of these OWL dren, besides about 2110 more in settlements out of bony; and many others arc placed under its CAR', at a charge of 1;:, a year each to the Government. The society is asri,teil in the clothinz, maintenance, and education of theA: 4400 African children by the benevolence of many friends who subset Ow each i a year for a child named :teem ding to their directions ; that being considered as an average for his continuance under education. " Another settlement has been funned on the nottliermost of the two New Zealand Islands, by the zealous assistance of the He v. Samuel Marsden, the principal Chaplain of New south Wales : he sailed in the brig Active, fur the Bay of with several of the society's settlers; and at an in terview with the Chiefs, • grant of 200 acres of land at Ilattgee Hoo, was made to them for the Society, and another grant of 50 acres has been since obtained in a krtile part of the Bay. It is supposed, that there are half a million of people, of a noble native character, on the twolslands ; this is the first attempt to civilize them, and to bless thriti with the knowledge of Christianity. 'fwenty-five European settlers are settled at Banshee Hoo and a sum of 5001. has since beets granted by the Society /or the support of the mission.— By the recent establishment of the ship,' William Wilber force," the comfort and encouragement of the Missionaries Is consulted—also economy In the arrangement of supplies, a ntore perfect knowlege of the mission, its wants, its dill citifies, cud its success : occasional visitation, the prevention of improper society to Nlissiunaries on their voyages, and many other advantages resulting from that part of the plan. The whole of these arrangements are necessary to the great cause among the heathen nations, and cannutfail to pro duce an effect in those parts of the globe, which will :week* rate the merit of the general conversion of the Gentiles as one flock under one shepherd. ' I firmly helive; said the Rev. Daniel Wilson in his discourse to the Society last Mel., that there was never such a scene presented before the church of Christ since the first promulgation of christianity, as is now presented to us in this country ; for if the three concurring circumstances, to which be had alluded, it dispo sition on the part of the heathen, to enquire into ibe gospel ; opportunities afforded for diffusing it; and a zeal iu the true servants of Christ to avail themselves of the opportunities, form such a scene as thatriepicted in his text (I. iv. 33.) theta the present moment is eminently of that description.' " (To be continued.) ER11121711411 MUSEUM.—The exterior of the grand public P 4.. scum, in the College, is now finished, and is allowed by all judges to be one of the most beautiful and chaste pieces of architecture in Scot land. Preparations arc making for fitting up the interior according to the classical plan conceived by Mr. Mayfair, jun. The apart ments are on a great scale, and, when filled with the numerous ob jects of natural history in the present Museum, and distributed throughout different pats of the College, and with such collostione as may be added by the liberality of Government, and the patriotism of individuals, will contribute in an eminent degree to the advance• ment of natural history in this kingdom. It gives us much pleasure to inform the Public, that already individuals, sen ible of the import ante of a national M useumi in the metropolis of Scotland, have inti mated their intention of contributing in various ways, to its support and increase. Colonel Imrie, well known to the Public by his mine ralogical writings, has been the first to set the example of contribut ing to this public establishment. We understand that lie has pre. rented to the College Museum the valuable collection of minerals he made in Greece and. the Greek Islands, and has accompanied this in teresting donation with a splendidly printed Catalogue, and engravings of Classic Grecian scenery, made from original drawings, and en graved at his own expence, by one of our most eminent artists. PIRATICAL PATRIOTR,—'fIie following is au esitact Born the Savannah Reps blican : " By an intelligent gentleman from New O r l e an s , we t eem t h at information had been received there from Mina tie the last of Septem. her, or beginning of October. at which time lie had formed a june. fam with father Moires (Torres) in the interior, and augmented lois force to 5,000 men. The part of the country which lie was in abound. ed in resources of men, money, and provisions, and the population was devoted to the patriot cause; so that no doubts as to the ultimate 11110C.C.18 of his expedition were entertained." Capt. Don, of the brig ()Atari°, from Canton. who arrived at Holmes Hole, reports that las the 1 nth ult. in lat. :".9 long. .59, he boarded the wreck of the Dasher, of Argyle, laden with Imnbcr; her rudder was gone, and both masts by the board. He touchd in the cabin, written with chalk, the facts, that she was wee( keit on die nth, and that the captain and mate were taken off by the brig For- Situde. On thesame day, Capt. Pore, was decoyed in the r.aeli cf a pi rate schooner of ...bout ihai tons, under bare poles, with colours eying. When they had approached sulfleicntly near for their purpose, they set sail, hauled down their colours, hoisted a black and wink one in its toom, and gave chase. They at length came up with the Ontario , and sent on board fourteen or fifteen savage-lookirg villains aimed with pistols and cutlasses, calling themaelves.patriots, who drove the rest of the crew into the forecastle, and commenced plundering the ship; tmhent her * jib, and entered the forecastle. alai shipped the hands of their cluntinng. leaving someof them totally destitute. They also emend the cabin, and broke open chest. and It'unks in the oth cers, and took most of their elmithing, and many other articles belorg. ing to than. The captain remonstrated against their eir:dua hitt was siienced with pistols and daggers presented to has breast. APt r carrying otlone boat-load of plunder, a signal was given on ho l ed their vessel, when they withdrew to OUT inexpressible buy. Tley ap peared to be " patriots" of all nations; and, we ate sorry to r ay, some were known to he American patriots. The schooner sits kruisii with S long lb-potwd:rs, and S t mut.