The National Register. — London, England, 1821-01-01 00:00:00

THE REV. ARCHDEACON BATHURST. The Ministerial Papers—the part itf the Press whose censure is a certificate of virtue, recently made a most violent attack on the Rev. Air. Bathurst. There is no doubt but that the Rev. Gentleman's readiness to obey the commands of her Majesty, which had been intimated to him, was the immediate cause of the coarse abuse that was (so honourably to him) heaped upon him: but whatever may have occasioned it, we rejoice at it, as it has given him an opportunity of adding to his celebrity by the follow ing refutation. Well may the Rev. Gent. ny,— " Mark now how a plain tale Shall put you down." - - . "About 11 years since the late Duke of Rich. mond authorized a Rev. Gentleman now living in Norfidk, to whom he wished to give some preferment in Norfolk, to oiler Mr. Bathurst the deanery of Killala, in exchange for a living which he (Nlr. B.) Lad in Norfolk. Just at that period Mr Bathurst obtained a second valuable living, where he now resides, and as ' three flittings are said to be equal t o * fire,' and he had just settled on his new living, he declined tli,.! proposal, though very thankful to Lord Bathurst for his kindness which had recom mended him to the Duke as a proper object to serve in this instance. Some time afterwards, upon Lord Whitworth first going to Ireland, Mr. Bathurst altered his mind, and having received information, which appeared afterwards not to be altogether well fou n d e d, that an English gentleman was likely to be able to accommodate him with an exchange for Irish Preferment, as a quid pro quo, to his satisfaction, he wrote to Mr. Brugge Bathurst, requesting him to forward the object : Mr. B. Bathurst declined, under a plea of having no acquaintance with Lord Whit worth, which the Archdeacon took (considering some family circumstances with which he will not trouble the public) as disobliging, and perhaps unnecessarily expressed himself as disobliged. This very inter ference in his behalf; so tar as propriety would per mit, and which Mr. Brugge Bathurst declined, Lord Bathurst, to whom the Archdeacon then wrote immediately, consented to lend, whenever the ex change should offer; and whatever Mr Bathurst may think of the general indisposition of Ministers towards their opponents, he cannot attribute any refusal of a suitable exchange to Ministers, whom, if personal motives towards administration were to operate in the political part which lie takes, he would, from respect and attachment to his noble Jelative, Lord Bathurst, be able to support. Cer tainly, fin the last finir or five years Mr. Bathurst has been opposed to Ministers, and intends, while they act towards the nation as they act at present, to remain so; but without any of the motives attri buted to him. " This is a candid and correct statement of the • facts to which the Courier appears to allude ; and it is somewhat singular that the sukaance of this attack should have been made in a printed anony mous letter, without the printer's name, addressed to the Archdeacon, with other malignant misrepre sentations of a private nature, and threatening, him with insult the following day at the county meeting, which he instantly showed to his father and another friend present, the evening before the meeting of the county of Norfolk in opposition to the Bill of Pains and Penalties. " Such are the means which, instead of argument, the friends of social peace and order' resort to in their inveteracy against an untiirtutiate Queen, who might (by an act of separation conceding her rights, and drawn up by the consent of the King aml her self; and the provisions sanctioned by Parliament, together with an agreement that all discussion on the subject should afterwards cease), he left to spend the remainder of her days in trai quillity, and leave the Parliament time fur other most important con siderations of the public welfare. " Mr. Bathurst knows that, from an occasional warmth in his disposition, he is accused of bitterness by some ; but he bears no man malice, nor would he refrain front assisting his greatest enemy in any need: and respecting the part which he has taken as to the Queen, he will ever repose his head on his pillow with undisturbed satisfaction. It is very unwillingly that he intrudes thus much of a personal nature on the public, but it is certainly desirable that the Queen's advocates should stand free from the suspicion or wordly ambition ; and Mr. Bathurst is willing to leave his conduct ever to hereafter to the test of disinterestedness, as he kels hitherto that he never has slicriliced, and trusts he never shall sacrifice, the great feelings of general justice to resentment, or even (which is much more ese3sable) to personal &your. His wish is peace and public content. lie li-s long seen an arbitrary temper in the public councils, unyielding to the pro gress of opinion on the one hand ; and on the other, a sense of neglected rights, partly at least justifiable; and he ha, long wis!led to see the indepeuden:, anti best educated, and most ekvated meathcrs of society step fomard dad mediate l:itiveen the people and THE NATIONAL REGISTER the Government, before the time arrives when mu tual insult and injury may disgust the temperate on both sides, and rouse the violent to acts at which litunaa nature shudders. The object of tim Arch deacon, he can truly say, is to heal and not irritate —to make peace, and not to make war ; for the truth of this, he is willing to refer to those who know him in his capacity as clergyman and magistrate, and even as politician in general, whatever severity of observation he may occasionally make use of; and he would be one of the first to recommend an entire oblivion of every provocation of Ministers past to the people, if Ministers would hut adopt a reasonable plan of conciliation towards the people, tbr whose benefit government could alone be originally insti tuted." REFUGE FOR THE 110 USELESS POOR. On Friday the Members of the House Committee, appointed for the General Committee engaged fur the service of the houseless poor, waited upon the Governors of the London IVorkhouse, for the pur pose of making a proposition to them, from which great advantage is to be expected to the destitute during the winter. Amongst the Governors who at'ended at the Workhouse to receive the proposition of tl,e deputa tion from the Committee of the Houseless Poor, were the Lord Mayor, who took the Chair, Alderman Wood, Mr. Wright, Mr. Dolly, Mr. Goss, and Mr. Pearce. Amongst the Deputation were Mr. Hick and Mr. Bodkin. Mr. Ilicat stated, that he waited upon the Gover nor in the n.une of the General Committee, to request that they would permit so much of the Lon don ‘Vorkhowe es could be spared, to be appropri ated to the use of the indigent and unprotected, with whom the streets in this severe season began to abound. lie represented that such an application of the workhouse wa►s compatible with the charter, and said that 01.1 et:pence arising from dilapidations Ste would be defrayed by the Committee for the Housefess Pour. _ _ _ The LORD Mon wholly approved of the sug gestion of the Committee, and pointod out various untenanted parts of the workhouse, in which the unfortunate could be placed without the slightest prejudice to the present system upon which the establishment was conducted. Lie was of opinion that the sum of 20,000 or 25,0001. a sum easily raised in London upon so urgent an emergency, would he of incalculable service (if applied judici ously) in amehoratiug the condition of the poor generally through the country. 1-le considered that one of the greatest causes of vagrancy was want of work ; for the purpose of preventing which com plaint he should advise the Ltdoption of a plan similar to that upon which an old friend of his, Mr. Jackson, one of the Overseers of the Parish of St. Catherine Cree had acted. lie would provide work, whether that work proved to be a matter of pecuniary advantage or not, and the hosts of vagrants who hated work would soon disappear, us they had done in 3:,e case of his friend, when they liana that without working for it they could get nothing to cut. Alderman WOOD strongly recommended to his Brother governors the propriety of acquescing in the proposition of the Committee. After which the Treasurer (Sir W. ItAtimmi) having made no decided objection, the application was replied to in the affirmative, and leave was given to appoint a Committee to model the work house, and put it tot a proper plan tine the reception of between 400 and :Mu poor people. Ihe Coat. mittee are to apply fiir similar aceonmaxlation fne the poor ut the east and west cods of the town. \Ve understand that in their arrangements for the temporary protection of the housciess, they are de termined to guard against the possibility of being burdened by those who are nut in the most pressing state of necessity. Bread and water will be isdministiked to all those who crave admission, and punishment will certainly be inflicted upon all impostors. TUE 11 , 'INTE/CS EFENING. [From " lit LW . ), one." I Well ! at last wooer is (moo, and (;o.1!) we have got a good excuse h.r " cherishing our knees at tile lire." ‘Ve have little more to do with the green fields and cliviled laeilgi.s of the country, for they are all lasi asleep, and trust 1s scatcely a bird left to wake t 11.•111 Irons limn' stale of toriaii. Our existelice therefore, will be nencelorward confined to in-door amusements; to blintlislan ' s-but( with ille ) 4 t s. and reeve C.ll/. I.lly, 11( 1:1/1111/11 WII/11114 Wllll the elders 114 if we go uu,, lite asvect ol 11:11111C stares its lii the face like all ugly wuniaii, and steins to say " W iiat the deuce do you want here. We will iiicrelore take toe old lady's an I coifliat ourselves to tile comforts of a lire•sifle, awl so rciatne s h all we become to a few days, that long before toe st inter Is titer, we shall dread the idea iii partiii4 wins oni tire as we should dread leas ing a dear mend tt no way Stilt return to, ye Ira. Bat, balk ! tt.e Ineese is rattliti4 ag.aiiist the window panes, and the coll.) east wind sues for aiinittauce at tits key-hole. Nut at home, my friend, a brisk Inc-side is now the only acquaintance who is henceforth allowed to share the liodotirs of our intimacy, fur there is some thing a-i honest in his red-glowi itg coactimaii-like looking face without the science of Lavater, we can iscover us his phisiognomy the traces of a sociattle disposition. And now what is to to done, the lire is already stirred, the tea pruned out, and ourselves prepared tar a SCCOM attack tin the meek heaviness of a quariern loaf. We will turn to a page of Horace, and see what this ancient modern writer ilJi to say for himself upon the suoject. He advises us to keep our doors well fastened; (hie mean with saiiil-bags placed at the hour,,, to heap woo,l upon the tire, " ligila slyer loco large and make the 1111 l st our present Win ter," saes tic" will out last long, but it is as well to utake the most of it while it does last." This is 1111.111S , V1:1.11ne logic, and we immediately close the hook with a trans ltoit of delight at the snuud reasoning ot the author. Bert the clock strikes ten, it must slipper time surely —accordingly in comes a htscuit or so, (we are no great supper eaters,) kept in countenance by a ltberal rotun dity of howl, glitteriter, in auticioateti repleinstmess.— The whisky is introduced, winds, after a few decent Ce(C1110111t4, is CrifIACIICLI by the COIIII4IIIIO appellation of whisky-toddy, and exultilig in its newly-acquired name, iiivites its to partake of the honours of its baptism, " Thus," as Peter Pmilar says, " hits have I seen all ass baptized a jack, Graced by a Clll4llllll sweeper on his hack, Fling, snort, and cock his heels with libeiality, In imitation of a horse oi quality." And now that we have " tasted the creature," as an Irishman would exclaim, suppose we have a fear ghost stories to while away the evening. Awful amitnicia. • nOll ! Even the candles num blue at the intelligence, and the tire already smells ot sulphur. " But, who begin;?"—" I wdl if you please. lii the black forest in (ieriiimiy, there was otice a tradition"—" Is it a long one, wiiiipers a clrowiy companion ?"—Go 911 exclaims the y gest of the party ;we go oil accordingly to the end of our story, and ale roused be the sound of the hall clock striking ,out the midnight tuna of to dye. "It iieVer sounded so gloomily before," bothers out an affrighted auditor, " And biess Inc there -is a thief in the candle, it really looks Tine ominous."—" Hark I In yon not hear a noise,' whispers whither, "No I it is only the moaning of the noun wield."—" l'here is certainly a sound of lantstrin on the stairs," shrieks a young lady, her glossy hair Ithilitilttg on end, even through her curl papers. " run and see is hat it ist " Not I."—" And I'm sure I W 01 1 .1" IjACULIICS anotheri " Nor I,' replies a third. The gnost irep meantime approaches—the pause t, certmoly awful; all the neigii imurhood have lung since re:irvil to rest, and if the sprite has come to maid its, he may du it without interruption. .111 now is dead silence ; 1.111 tile distant soutul of the %yawn dug as it sullenly hays tile 'noon. lo the mean wit Ic the lith:s it tilt Count are burning don, and the extrettluy t already to dal ituiess• is that a mall stand.. n: in the corner there ;" " No! it is Only a great coat, and a hat placed on toe hack ot a chair." lint hark, hie cootsteus advance nearer ; a dins light bunts through the key-hole, and as the 000 r is gruffly lified on its latch, a tall woke figure slowly approaches towards tis—rinil or heaven( it it —lt is—the Wil/1 lIJD come to tell that the sheets and bads are ready for our reception. The charm is accordnigly broken, and luckily just itt time 10 Save is ruin the nigist-mare. This then is the amusement of our wither evenings, Wiliell, if it does not beindit our fellow•ciemines, dues not, at any rate, diminish their 3.1 X.. .1.11/IntifSS.—.• Bin while we discuss our own comforts, it is not to torget the unfortunate for whoa) we lure still a tear and a 114n4011, as he does listiessly by his fire side, can listen unconcerned to the winter wind that roars around the unsheltered head of tile indigent traveller. Maid' to do Fifty Miles in Ten Hours.—A gen tleman named Smith, an officer in the army, under took on NVednesday, for 100 guineas to do the above great match, which was made on Saturday night. at a sporting-house in St. James's, to be done within 43 hours. It was considered impossible without previous training, but it sec.rs the pedestrian is always in training, or in other words, lie is an ab stentious man who takes wonderful exercise. The work was done over a live-miles piece of ground, on the Hounslow enclosures, as follows; AI in. Sec. 9 0 9 14 9 10 4 5 111iIv'. 1 5 Ik.. Min. Ser. . 0 49 0 5 0 42 01 5 0 92 50 0 .50 30 5 1 30 30 5 0 4M 01 ... 0 50 1.0 I 58 :41.4 6 7 9 47 48 The pedestrian was much beat after the 45 miles, but he had made good his ground at going olf, and he had leisure to rest an hour at intervals in the la: t live miles. The weather was his friend, and betting was two to one on him after doing 25 miles in three hours, 42 minutes, and 31) seconds. EmertteuskE.—The neighbourhood between Harleeh and Bartnouth, Merionethshire, was much alarmed a little after nine o'clock on the night of Wednesday se'nuight by a slight shock of an evrth. quake. The noise was something similar to that produced by a large ball rolling on a hollow floor, and continued tUr about bait' a minute. It seems to have been generally heard, and as generally feared by Ile country people. !4,0 418