The National Register. — London, England, 1816-07-22 00:00:00

I VDI.I. ..-.....-- Besides the late suspicious movements of Seindeah, and on the side of the Rajah of Bemr, it is stated in the latest papers from India, that the Rajah of Typoor possessed, at the time of the late dispatches, but a mere nominal authority over the extensive domains so long held by his ancient race; and that, with the exception of a few miles arousal the city, the whole country had submitted to the government of Ameer Khan, an adventurer, who had for several years rendered himself extremely troublesome in that quarter. The affairs of llollar's government were in a state of snore than usual distraction, and the army Of that Chief tain, though somewhat reduced in number, was yet in a mutinous condition, on account of the great arrears of pay. No one in the State seemed to have consequence sufficient to repress their tumultuous procetslings, nor a strung hand or pecuniary means enough to satisfy them in their de mands. Purs Ram Holkar, a near relation to the head of -the present family, died on the 18th of November last, fhr whose death the Court went into mourning. Runjeet Sing still meditated an invasion of the King dom of Cushmeer. The investiture of the new Knights commanders ref the Balk, by the Govenor-General, took place at ('iticutta the beginning of November ; when Lieutenant-Genend J. and Major Generals R. Blair and J. Hors ford received that honourable distinction from the hands of Earl Moira, who tuldressea the Knights Commander in the following animated speech : •• SIR KNIRR•cti—A co 1111 l iis•ion more eratifyine could hardly have been intrusted to ilic, than that with which the Prince Re• pent haft (kit:Sled to honour me on this occasion. " Justly ilatlcred as you must Mills illicitly be to have your meritorious devotion to the public Sl`t Viet' thus l'lTOClliZeds 14111 mire I sits I raise emir sensations still higher, by connecting this distinction with tile gallant army to VllllOl you bOllll2. How su:•vereach of you amply dest rveil this mark of roy ul las our, I am to Inul upon it simply personal. Indeed, you yourselves would soda to share the boast avid, Vosur liras e companions in arms. I a,n to regard the extension of this honour the officers of the East India Company's troops, as I know the gracious ilkpo•it ion of the Prince Regent intended it, us manitcsting a iliac apure• eietion of the splendid achievements of those forces. It is an ac toowled.teineet how much the company's army, in raising the proud arch of this vast dominion, has added to the trophies of our country's Flory. It is a gencretts tribute not tally to the valor of the existinz army, but to the memory of those elevated *owns, all elf whom by their effort*, and many of vi limn at the ev.tietice of their lives, have thus advanced the interests of the. British Empire. "'[he attention shewn in this instance to the Company's Of firers, is Wisely calculated to draw British feelings stall mote close. But white our self-complacency is soothed, let us nut forget the obligations attached to the circumstance. This la mil that tie eyes of our SOYCreiRII are upon us, ought at once to be on excitement and a cheering contemplation under those exer tions which must be unremitting on the part of every (unction aes . civil or military, in this country ; for, as nothing but extra ordinary energy could have acquired these territories, nothing bat the uurclaxed operation of the same principle can retain them." MEMORIAL TO THE PRINCE REGENT. As a striking: exemplification of the unprecedented dis tresses of the manufketuring classes, we present our read ers with the fbllowing Memorial, which has obtained up wards of KIM signatures, in Bolton, Chowbent, Leigh, and the neighbourhood : To his Itoydl 'Licitness George Prince Regent of the United hargdoin of Great Britain and Ireland, si ith their Depen dencies. THE MINIM'S. NIENIORIIJ, Of the undersigned, being 3laster Maufacturers of Cotton Goods, and Workmen who have been employed in the various Braneitos of that once extensive awl important Manufac ture : Shesreth, That your Royal Highness's limbic Memorialists, who arc true and faithful subjects to his Majesty, under whose royal banners many of them have fought and Wed, but now arc re. turned home, commit n!;tain food, are brought to dire distress, which is every day becoming inure poignant; and unless 80Itie means of relief be speedily discovered, one common ruin must involve masters and Tlett the genet al and universal evil may be ascribed to seve ral CA , ttes-- - as. first. to a prevailing system ars:Miring warts. This system 1111 l st at all times deerease the value of the stunk nu band, whirit is sometimes immense, and hatli often pros ed ruinous to the best hous e s. Second, the exportat Ma of the half-wrought material, as Twist and Wee. Hy this traffic, one part of his Majesty's subjects work to enable foreigners to do • ithout the other part, and hence tin restrictive measures adopted by foreign Governments agoinst the finished tnanofactures of Memorialists. And also, a third evil, growing out of the former two, vie. the must One of the maulers have, either altogether or partly, declined the manufacture ; whilst others, by repeated saernices of their de. preciated stocks, have become bankrupts. 'fence many thou. sands are out of employ ; while those who base any ea imot, ou • fair average one with wither, earn more than par shillinas sad three pence per reek : and two years store they could vain twelve shillings *ad /Mar nee in the balllC The cotton niamithetnre has given employment to many hun dred thousands of venons in the United Empire. Multi these ~id the trade perish together ? —No ; Your Princely breast will fr. I for your Wore People—your present ward ; all of whom and many h tyc rotlght fur your Royal House, and the liberty of Neu dear native land. Your Royal Highness is the Memorial;sts' only hope under Heaven ; they therefute humbly pray. that your Royal Flightless would be graciously pleased to take into your Royal IlightiVos's most giaei .... "consider:it ion their did/trek/ ; and a il ltout dictating, or pi esuming to point mat Whitt should be done in this arduous ease, the Memorialists pray for speedy relit f. A person recently returned from a trip to Paris states, that ele metropolis resembles an English town, from the ui,r country folks witll which it is crowded. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. MR. SHERIDAN. In enumerating the early and steadfast friends of Mr. Sheridan, who were prevented from attending his funeral, we ought to have mentioned Lord John Townshend, who vas only prevented from paying his last mournfid duty by the alarming relapse of his own am, who was at that moment in great danger, but from which he is now hap pily recovering. Lord John Townshend was one of the oldest, we may say, the very earliest, of Mr. Sheridatt's political friends ; and we cannot HI feelingly express his sentiments on the loss of this nmst distinguished character, as in his own words. In a letter to a friend, stating the melancholy cause of his absence, he says— " I ant one of Mr. Sheri(lmes earliest fa knits. He, I, and poor 'fit-kill (whose memory, va ith all his faults, will ever be dear to me), eked together in the closest habits of friendship from ear liest life—long before Mr. Sheridan's introduction into puddle life—before The Duromu's appearance - before hews known to Vox, to whom I had the pleastne of first intrishicing him. I made the fit st dinner pal ts at which they met ; having told Fox that all the notionshe might have conceived ofSheridaa's talents and genius, f the remedy of The karats, Ac. would fall in finitely short of the whole: lion of Ids Aswan:dung pow. ra, which I %IA sure he would entertain at the fit Si interview. 'this first interview bcta4 ern them (there vs eie very few present, only Tiekihl and env self, and one air two inure) I shall neatr forget. For told toe after our tweaking lip from dinner, that he had always thought Hare (after my Uncle, Charles Townshend t the lama he e* er met sv ith, but that shetidan surpassed them both inlioitcly. And that Stolid:in Ito next die told me, that be was quite lust in admit at ion of Fun—and that it was a puzzle to him to say as hat he admired most--his commanding sat pe. riority of talent and antiversal knowledge, or his playfhl fancy, artless manners, anal the benevolence of heart which slowed itself in every word he uttered. Ever afterwards we continued intimately and closely conneeted to the I of his death, and nothing could give me a severer pang titan to have it supposed that I was remiss in my dud( s upon the last sad occasion." The list of distinguished literary characters, who join ed in the composition of the halliard and Probationary Odes, is now reduced into a narrow compass ; the follow ing having paid the common debt of Nature since the original publication of them ; viz. Messrs. Fox, Burke, Tickel, G. Ellis, NVhithread, J. Richardson, Dr. Law relive, Mr. Hare, Col. Fitzpatrick, and Mr. Sheridan. The coffin of the late Mr. Sheridan is placed longitu dinally, East and West; at his feet lies that of Dr..lohn son, the Cdossits of Modern British Literature ; and at the head the remains of the matchless Handel are moul dering into dust. Immediately on his He t the earthly part of the respectable Henderson reposes; adjoining whose grave is that of Cumberland, the British Terence. " Oft let me range the gloomy ai.lev alone, "tied lo•nry ! to vulgar "rinds unknown." As circumstances of coincidence, we have to observe, that Gen. Brereton, whose death we have announced, was one of the oldest and most intimate friends of Mr. Sheri dan, and connected with him by marriage. NI rs. Jordan, whose death also happened about the same time, owed to the discriminating taste and judgment of Mr. Sheri dan, her first professional engagement at Drury-lane Theatre. Mr. Sheridan's Speech in Westminster Hall was pre served by the care of the late Duke of Norfolk. It was in his house, near Dorking, that Mr. Sheridan left it, in one of the old-fashioned cupboards that used to be formed under window-seats. The Duke had lent the house to Mr. S. for a year or two ; and on returning; to it, he fund the only copy of it then in existence. A few nights after wards, - he met the Orator at Brookes's and pressed him to publish the speech. Mr. S. said it was his intention to do so, and that he had by him a pethct Report of it Duke contrived to make him repeat his mistake seve ral times, and then raised a laugh by throwing the Manu script on the table. LINES, Occasioned by the Medical Attendance on the late Right Hon. Richard Rrin,ley Sheridan. WRITTEN BY JOHN TAYLOR, EAQ, While Sheridan shall live iu fauw, And Pity sigh to hear his name, Reflecting on the varied woe Too oft the fate of those below, Who shine with hliell trallseelulant light, That (bailed Prudence AIMS the sight ; So long shall lie, whose niunly soul Oaril the hard blues of Law control, When its rude agents A% mild presume On Genius sinking to the tomb; So lung shall II R, who, proud to blend The sage Physician and the ill - lend, Delay'd by skill the stroke of death, And 11 . 4.1 t h e parting breath Si, long be class'd among the band 'Whose worth and knowledge grace the land, And snake us deem we see again '1 he 000 n S AMARITAN, in HAIN. Mac. JORDAN.—It is very true, that during the resi dence of this fascinating actress near Boulogne, and sub sequently near Paris, Mrs. Jordan lived under the as sumed name of Mrs. James. In the most splendid era of her life, Afts. Jordan was fond of retirement. On her departure tin- France, she was neither in good health nor spirits ; and in changing her name, her object was the free enjoyment of greater privacy than. ai Mrs. Jordan, she could have expected in the great influx of Engli:•h to that part of France. The iatennent of her remains is mentioned in one of the Paris papers in nearly the same terms as we bcfore stated. The funeral service was per forated by the ltev. M. Marron, chi:f of the Protestant Church, at P.tris. 1 4 11017.VC1A LS. Tryinerrs.—.l most tremendous storm of thunder and light ning, accompanied o itli heavy rain, was lately e%perienced iu Lancashire, nod the adjoining ranOties. 'file electric tlaid stnich a public-home near Toelhole,, which it gri ally damaged, and killed the landlord. The same day the town and neigh bourhood of Staliiml were visited by one of the heaviest hail storms. accompanied with lijituing and loud peals of thunder, in the recollection of the oldest inhabitants. The shier). of H. Booth, Esit. of Clayton. sustained considerable da mage. In one garden on the Marsh every thing was crushed as if the roller had been passed over it ; whi:st a inirden within a ern surds of it was not in the slightest degree injured. At J. Itoutledge was struck by the lightning, but It Is hoped Iv. will recover. Ili. hoi se was killed by the same stroke. The rain poured doss LI hi torrents liar the space us nearly too hours. One et the roust tremendous g:ilrs ever witnessed in Ply mouth took place last hit II 'night have been termed a hurricane. The wind, being front the S. S. E. blew directly into Cawsaiisl Bay, and smil, se% cral fishing-boats at their moor. itiz%, besides throwing don a ehiunlies , and bursting in the glass of %ill' CN N ,111111:11 1 ,1 Kil/C.:11111. Tin' admirer* of iiktiarcuiur be.inty will hear with regret, tl:at nun,. t:11.10 Renee 011111111elltA of .Mount Ellgt.ollllllllc, were pro,tt Med L. iht• blast,..llllll . tothera.reeeived considerable damage 01E01.0 the loom of limbo mod brunches. During a '.intent thunder-storm, nine sheep, belonging to Mr. John Lovell. of Veddingliant, were killed by the lightning. The sheep were standing close together, under a hedge, w o (key had liken shelter. During a violent thunder storm on Wednesday last, tl•ligh:- ning struck a cottage at Wymondhaut, Not folk, anti unfortu nately killed a poor woman, who was sitting in it near the chim ney ; a child, which she had in her arms at the fatal moment. was deprived of sight, and otherwise 50 Illlttth injured as to ex pire the followinb day. Tilt Ft Dltit Wednesday last the town of Spilsby was visited by an :twin; thunderstorm. The rain, veal, hail. poured down in torrents for on-aris too hours. At A•wardbv . near Sitilsbv, Mrs. ilsby, wilt. ;3f Mr. Harkwith, Ailshy, was Instantly kalt..l as she was taking bread from the oven ; the elec tric fluid descended down she chimney, split the same below the roof of the huti.e, broke the window 5, and melted the lead. At Ilumileb, near Spilsby, the chimney of Mr. Coupland was moult damaged by the quantity of hail and rain that descended, and w hick drove the soot down the chimney amongst ten young children ( scholars 1, making them as blac k as sweeps. F orts .. nately the outer door Wil• open, anti front the fright the infants ran screaming into the street, tumbling one over the otter amongst the water. The electric fluid broke the glass of a window in 0 room tinder the same roof, melted the lead, and made a warming -pan therein as black as gunpowder: fortu nately the occupiers were 60111 home: when the dour was opened a strong sulphureous smell issued from the room. At East Keal, the peas and beans in the garden of Mr. Parker. brickmuker, were literally torn 1313 ioy the 10015. It is sup posed that the hailstiont s lay more titan in inches deep. On Wednesday, about five o'clock in the ao'iern un, Maim! a violent thunderstorm, the inhabitants of Wath, iu tt.e county of York, were greatly alarmed by the fall of an inniten-e body ut water (supposed from the breaking of a timid) in the se(wei Vivid near that -lace, which, making its way into the villag• with great force and velocity, carried every thing bet'ore it. Several acres of turnips, anti many tons ut earth. were corn. pletely swept from the neighbouring ttelds. A strung wall lie hind Mr.Turuer's premises was toe ced down by the tepidity of the current ; and eueny of flue houses were inundated to the depth of six feet, but we are happy to learn, no lives w ere lost. On Thursday sennight, a well dressed man, out hors arrived at the Swan Inn, Tewkesbury, representing himself as Lieut.-Col. Sir C. Bergh, Aide-41(.4'Juni, to the Duke of W e .l. lington ; and waited upon the 114ilitti w itit ii a message from his Grace, informing them it was the I)uke's intention to honour the Corporation with a visit ea the following Monday. In the evening he invited several inhabitants to supper, intimating to the landlord that he should stay at his house till the arrival of its Grace ;11111 None of the invitations were Accepted, as it was considered altogether a hoax. On the next morning he again called on the Bailiffs ; when 166 reception was so unlike what be anticipated, that he thought it prudent to make apt ecipitate retreat : but Mr. Holland. of the Swan Inn. refusing to let hint take away his horse without paying the expellees, he was com pelled to leave it behind. Frum Tewkesbury he went to Up ton, still representing himself as the Duke of Wellington's Aide de•Camp ; but the tat:input! of flue II bite Lion Inn, from his sits pirieus behavionr, took him into custody, and being carried before a Magistrate, he was eentinitted to Worcester Gaol, The horse was claimed by a stable-keeper of Bikini, of whom it was hired by the imposter, tinder the name of Captain Web ster. It appeared that he had been hislisiuq solute days at the Bush and other taverns in Bristol, at free quartets. FEMALE liknotsm.---On Wednesday morning, about one o'clock, an attempt was made to break into the hunse of sudow J ntib, in Meadow-lane, Leeds ; but the rogues, being discovered in the act, were tired at by MIA. Jobb ! and there is reason to suppose that one of tt•eto u as sligldly wounded. J. Jonas, Navy Agent, of Plymouth, has been committed for trial at the nest Devoe Assizes, on a charge of altering a docu ment for the receipt of prize money pay able to T. Warren, by the Agent of (keen% ieli I lospital. Friday se'imight Neil Douglas was convicted before the High Court ofJusticiary, of Edinbili of fraud and %blind imposi tion, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment.--lie had repre sented himself as related to Lord .Welville, and us possessing great influence with his Lordship ; and also with Mr. Cobb, the Secretary to the India !binge ; by which titans he swindled several persons out of considerahle slims of money for s:tuatious which lie pretended he haul procured for them in India. Friday tennight the colliers coming from work not of the tool-pit celled the Knowles Mumbles, bmetteing to the Fen ton-Pork Company, three teen were fastened in the eiains, as asital, to seeme them, when three others, though lit ma )0111114 nine, laid hold of the chain without being fastened therein ; on writing at the top of the pit, before they could be lauded, two of them fell to the boil 000 , and were kilied, one aged 'a, and the other about 15 years. As Mr. liaititon, of Wansford, was going throng!' the Mole,- croft turnpike bar a few days ago, the gat,• by some accident closed against his horse, whirl:caused 51r. It. to be thrown:old dragged some distance, with his tout entangled in the stirrup. He now lies at Bevel Icy in a dangerous state. 1..a.t week an inquest was holden ou T. Watson, former) a proprietor of one of the lsbield'A eoarlier, but I.ttrly um) a dri ver, uho was taken out of the f)211: on Sundry urn:moon. lie was out of tanployment, and WAS observed lit'e On Saturday evening sitting ilejerteit on SOW: timber en the (.14s1:) there. Vli :1.( t round J:urrt..t. /1 J. G. 'I .I. 1 .1. I J. A I'. 1 J.O J. I Atli AN Aul Aui krei (In lieu 14.1 t mai Doi Iles JULY 12. 186