The National Register. — London, England, 1821-10-28 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. On Friday a Court of Common Council was held for the special purpose of voting the freedom of the City to J. Hume, Esq. for his great exertions in Parliament to reduce the public expenditure. As soon as the Lord Mayor had taken the chair, Ald. Waithman addressed the court. He said he was aware that the court being held for a special purpose, no mem ber was at libeny to bring forward any matter not spe cified; hut he had a question of privilege to submit, which the court, he thought, would deem deserving its consideration. It related to the correspondence that had taken place between Lord Bathurst and himself relative to the outrage that had been committed at Knights lwidgc.barrack, ou occasion of the funeral of Honey and Francis. Two letters of the correspondence had not been published, because he deemed them of no import ance, but he now wished to lay the whole before the court, and also a letter from a gentleman who accompa nied him on the occasion, and witnessed the whole transaction, which confirmed, in every particular, the facts stated in his (Alderman Waithmani s) letters. Ile deemed it extraordinary that lie had not been called on to produce any evidence of the facts he had stated, al though it was notorious that enquiries had been carried 4/11 before a Police Magistrate for the purpose of crimi stating hint. This being the case, it because necessary that the facts should be made known. The court then invested him with their authority, and it was of im portance that he should be on his post, and that he should perform his duty; had he omitted to do so, he would hare been liable to stiller for the neglect. Had he been called on when the sulject was under enquiry, he could have identified souse of the most active violaters of the peace. Lord Bathurst says he has a representa tion of the transaction different from his (Ald. NV hy then not institute an enquiry in which both sides might be heard t The worthy Alderman concluded with saving, that he should content himself with having stated the matter to the court. and would leave it en tirely to them to determine, whether it would be con sistent with their dignity not to make it the subject of enquiry ; Mr. FAY EL L said the worthy Alderman had stated a sufficient ground for an enquiry—the Sheriff represented the Corporation, and their character was involved in the attack that was made on his. He thought the best mode of proceeding in vindication of both would be to reter the papers to the committee of general purroses ; which he moved accordingly. Mr. Distora said, it did not appear to him why the funeral of the two unfortunate men should he taken to Hammersmith ; nor why it should have been cm a Sun day; still he had no objection to the papers going to a committee; and as Lord Bathurst would not attend, only one side would be heard, and the matter would be soon set at rest. The papers were then read. The letter written by the gentleman who accompanied Alderman Waithman, on the day of the funeral, stated, that the Alderman sent a message to the officer commanding at Knightsbridge barrack, desiring him to keels his men in the barrack, and when it was delivered to him in the name of the Sheriff, his reply was—" the Sheriff may may go and be d—d." The motion for referring the papers to the committee of general purposes was carried unanimously. VOTE OF FREEDOM TO MR. HUME. The requisition which had been presented to the Lord Mayor to call a Court to take into consideration the propriety of voting the freedom of the City to Joseph Hume, Esq. for his great exertions in Parliament, to introduce economy into the expenditure of the revenue, was then read. As soon as the resolution was read, Mr. FAVELL rose, and desired that the proceedings of the Court on occa sion of voting the freedom of the City to the Martinis of Camden, for his resignation of the profits of theTellership (Atilt: Exchequer, should be read; which was accordingly dune. Mr. FAvELL proceeded. He did not mean to say there was a pertect analogy between the two eases, because Lord Camden made a great sacrifice; but it chewed how recently the Court had expressed its sense of the high merit of decreasing the public expenditure. It was the ditty of the Court to the country to honour those who sought to diminish the expenditure under which all classes of the community were groaning.— Mr. II mite, whose met its were now the sulject ui cansi deritni, was a man of no ordinary character: he has done, in a short parliamentary life, what, in others, it would take a long life to effect. Mr. Hume has been highly honoured, even by the Government he opposes. Ile was at first liposed and abused ; at length they adopted his measures, and addressed his Majesty to carry them into etlect. (Heat, hear.)—Mr. P. here entered into a history of the several ethirts made by NI r. Hume in Parliament to reduce the expenditure, and said it was owing to his great perseverance that Ministers had at length given a pledge of adopting his recommendations, by which, if fully acted on, I(i9 sinecure offices will be abolished, and the expenditnre of the country reduced in tit. less a suet than 4,2103,0001. Mr. F. concluded by 'liming a vote of thanks to I.r Hume fur Ins indepen dent conduct in Parliament. Mr. hlicisE seconded the motion. Nll.l)tatoN said, Mr. Home had certainly shcwn great perbt.:vcialicc an his conduct in Parliament, and much good might arise from it; lint his zeal was greater than his discretion, and had lie been less active he might have been more usethl. lie was sorry the matter was pressed on the attention of the ('ours, but he intro dissent from the motion, because M r. Hume was out 10111;:, enough in the service ot the public to entitle loin to tile honour it was proposed to cooler on hint. A.derman VVA 111 MAX said he had heat(' no argument *gaunt the motion—all adiuit that Mr. flume has acted well—lie had taken a more laborious course in the cause ilf economy than any titan had ever taken before, nod many were the attempts made by the adherents of Mi nisters to cough and Stivt.r hint t!ols u ; but be persevered THE NATIONAL REGISTER till he made an impression on thsoublic mind that they were no longer able to resist; and after all the attacks made on bum by Ministers, he forces them to adopt his measures. lie would ask any man, not an idiot, if Mr. Hume had not brought his statements of facts before the public, would Alinisters have introduced their retrench ments ? Administration would do any thing to silence such a man—they would think nothing too much to give to get rid of him. After some further debate, in which Ald. Browne, 11r. Oldham, and several other Members took part, the motion of thanks was carried by a sliew of hands, there being a large majority in favour of it. Mr. Fitvext. then moved, that the freedom of the city should be presented to Mr. Hume in a gold box, which was also carried without a division. After which the Court adjourned. SHIPWRECKS. ABERDEEN, OCT. 20.—We regret to state, that the brig Aurora, of this place, late Capt. W. Stewart, was, when on her passage from Newcastle for New York, lat. 41. long. 6(i. W. sit-tick by a tremendous sea, the effects of which were most- disastrous and melancholy. The vessel was fore reaching under the reefed courses, and close reefed main-top sail, it blowing a violent gale from S. E. by E. to S. W, when at midnight of the 31st of August, this fatal and destructive sea broke on board on the starboard beam, by which Capt. Stewart, J. Reid, mate, J. Allan, carpenter, and W. *Cumbie, seaman, were washed overboard and drowned. The rem lining part of the crew were only saved by being in bed, and the others aloft, as every thing upon deck was completely swept away; the longboat, cookhouse, and cambouse, the bulwarks, and all the stancheons, fore and aft, companion door, tiller of the rudder, fore-hatch, taflerail. &c. pert of the deck tore up also From the vast quantity of water which, in consequence, immedi ately poured into the vessel, it was found there were lour feet and a hall water at the weather pump, while cables, ropes, and cordage, in the steerage, %sere so warped, that it was found necessary to throw them overboard, as well as part of her cargo of coals, ke. Providentially the weather soon moderated, so th.o the vessel was at last freed by the pumps; and next day, having fallen in with a fishing vessel, the remaining crew took on board two of the inert as pilots, by whose assistance the vessel arrived at Eugwaretown the Bth ult., hut would require a temporary repair, before being fit to proceed to her des tination. About nine o'clock on the evening of Tuesday, the 2d inst. during a very thick fog, the Spanish brig Providencia, of about lon tons, from St. Andero for Bristol, with wool, ran on a ruck called Hellweathers, at Scilly, and began to fill fast. About twelve the crew saw St. Agnes light, and fired a gun, when a great number of boats put off, and saved all who were on board; and at day break next morning, almost every boat and man that could be spared from the different islands attended for the purpose of getting out the cargo, which was happily effected on the same day, and the whole conveyed to Sr. Mars's, but in so damaged a state (through exposure to the wind and rain), that though originally worth 10,0001. its present value is not above one third of that suns. On the Wednesday night the boats still remain ing round the wreck were assailed by a violent gale, when the Hero, a fine large boat belonging to Bryber Island, and worth about 3001. was dashed to pieces. A case of suicide, committed under very singular cir cumstances, occurred at Glasgow on Tuesday last (the I(ith inst.) An elderly wan, whose name we forbear mentioning, who had occupied a respectable situation in Kirk inulloch for nearly 40 years, left his home that morning, and accompanied by a neignbour, canto into the city. On the way the unhappy man informed his comrade that lie designed committing self-murder, for which purpose he had provided himself with a pistol.— The cause he assigned for meditating this act we have not heard with sufficient accuracy to jticify our stating it.— llis eompsnion, instead of being alarmed, or of dissuading him from his purpose, coolly remarked that what " he meant to do he must do quietly 1" and in furtherance of this humane advice, when they arrived in town, he ac companied his friend to a public•house in the Gorhals, and after ordering a bottle of ale, the fellow went out to the door, in order to guard his insane com p anion against interruption, while committing the dreadful act which was to precipitate him in a moment into the presence of his olleittled Maker! Immediately thereafter the report of a pistol was heard, and the landlord, hastening into the room, found the unfortunate man extended on the floor; his hand had been lifted with too steady an aim to his head, and he had literally blown off the upper part of his scull. The brute to whom it may be said he owed his dismal end, was taken into custody, carried befo.e the Fiscal, and exallillit:d ; but, the law contem plating no such case, he was ()Wig i! to he discharged, and left to the " compunctious visitings" of his owl' con science, which, judging front the present obtusity of his faculties, aro likely to be bolt " few and fat between." We believe the unfortunate suicide was a man of good education, and some literary 1111 l ents.—Grecoock ildecrtiser. Un Fridzy morning last, at five o'clock, the I)over mail-coach, m passing throu'i Dartford, on its way to London, !broke down. Fortunately neither the guard, coachman, nor passengers receited any injury. l'he mail was taken oto, 311(1 conveyed town iii a postchaise and finir, accompanied by the gti.ipl aunt Iwo paseenger-, and arrived at the General Pwt•ollice in the short space of one hour and twenty-live 'Mutates, a distance of h 6 miles. A trensi oiler of the 71st regiment has been appreh end eti null c ))))) untied to Glasgow, leells.eli of tietriteitn4 tire VV'aterloo Fund ul 101. he assumed the MAIM . lif another persots, by which lie obtained the necessity ci•rtifica Les to etiable Mtn to receree -the money. 'flits is hut the list trine he has beciu !nifty of %imam itattfh. 139 THE KING. (rantsA PRIVI.TIE LtTTEII.) HA NOVER,WEDNESDAV, OCT. will have learned, that the slight indisposition of his Majesty has occasioned some interruptions of that series of celebrations that were prepared by a joyous people to honour his reception ; but I have great pleasure in informing you, that the statement of this morning is, that our Sovereign is considerably better, and that he will not be much longer coufined to the Palace. The indisposition is a very slight attack of the gout,affecting the knee. His Majesty is zealously attended by Sir William Knighton, his physician, and Mr. Walker, the royal apothecary; and the general good health of the King is such, as to leave no doubt that, in a day or two, he will be enabled to take his accustomed exercise in public. This trifling interruption of health has not occa sioned any interruption of public business. His Ma jesty has daily given audience to the Marquis of Londonderry, and to the Foreign Ministers here. With respect to the Palace of Herrenhausen, at whirl► hit Majesty resides, it may not be uninterest ing to inform you, that it is about a mile and a half from Hanover. Fur upwards of sixty years it has not had a royal visitor; indeed it had no inhabitants but persons connected with the household. What changes have taken place were made expressly for his Majesty. At this pleasing residence, his Majesty remained somewhat closely confined during Monday, the slight attack of the gout having commenced on Sunday. He admitted but few visitors Yesterday the King gave long and particular audiences to the Marquis of Londonderry, and to some foreign personages of distinction ; and on the evening of that day despatches fur England were made up. Between the palace of Herrenhausen and Hanover is the fine mansion which was tbrmerly the residence of Count Walmoden. It was afterwards purchased by the Hanoverian Government. That mansion is the present residence of the Marquis of London derry, who has with him Lord Clanwilliam, his pri- vate secretary. The dinner parties at the palace of Herrenhausen are daily of an extensive and most splendid character. The various foreigners who are here from different Courts give increased eclat to the list of visitors, as well as to the dinner and evening parties. Such, indeed, has been the consequence of the influx of visitors, that a bed for one night, at the onlinary inns, costs a Louis d'Or, and this price receives the sanction of the authorities here. To morrow (Thursday) is expected to be a gay day with us. In the course of the afternoon his Majesty, it is expected, will be able to attend a further, al though it can only be a partial, review of the troops at present stationed about the palace, and in the neighbourhood of Hanover, amounting to upwards of 20,000 in number, cavalry and infantry included. lhe appearance of these troops is most imposing. fter this review there will be a splendid exhibition of fire-works in the gardens and grounds surround ing the palace of Herrenhausen, at which the public will be indiscriminately admitted. It is at present positively calculated that his Ma. jcsty will not extend his visit to us beyond the mid dle of next week—not after the 24th inst. Sir B. Bloomfield has orders to that effect. The Director of the Prussian posts is already here, waiting to re ceive his instructions respecting the route that his Majesty may take; and he has commands from his own Government to secure all possible facilities. I ought to mention a curious rubbery that has taken place here, and which has occasioned a good deal of conversation, as well as much activity on the part of the police. Sir B. Bloomfield left his watch in a chamber adjoining to his room; he was absent for a short time, a person with a message from the Ling having detained him, when on his way back to his chamber; but on returning he discovered that the watch was gone. This loss is the more vexatious • to Sir 8., as the watch was the gift of the King, and contains within it a fine likeness of his Majesty. All the endeavours of the police to get any traces of it have as yet been fruitless. A gentleman of scientific research has, we are informed, constructed a machine of a perfectly novel description, which he terms an Hydraulic Orrery. The object of this invention is to produce a more complete imitation of the silent, gliding motions of the Heavenly Bodies than has yet been effected. Every circulation or oblique movement is performed by means of water, applied in such a manner as to produce the apparent effect of spontaneous motion. The apparatus has been seen in action by several distinguished characters, and the motive principle is said to be applicable to a great variety of experi. mental and philosophical purposes. The return of the woollen manuflieture of the West Riding of Yorkshire, for the quarter ending the 30th of Septemb,r last, has just been made up, and we are happy to bear that the quantity of goods manufactured within that period exceeds the most flourishing quarter in the memory of ALUM •I