The National Register. — London, England, 1821-10-07 00:00:00

FRO.II TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. •••••••M• BANKRUPTS. g. Whitehead, Whitlinell, Lancashire, corn merchant. Soli citors, Mews. Hall and Co. Great James Street, Bedford Row. 11. Mercer, Liverpool, merchant. Sal. Mr. Ilattye, Chancery Lane. T. Ward, Seamar, Yorkshire, mabster. Sol. Mr. Lever, Gray's Inn. DIVIDENDS. Oct. 29, T. Cave, Hindley, Lancashire, dealer-27, W. Wil liams and A. Whyte, New Bond Street, hatters --27, T. Garbutt, Manchester, woollen cord manufacturer—Nov. 2, J. Blackett, Newcastle upon Tyne, butcher-3, M. Cohen, Devonshire Street, Quccn Square, exchange broker.-17, B. and J. Troughton, Wood Street, silknten. C:EItTIFICATES to he granted Oct. J. Carver, Lancing, Sussex, farrier—J. Dalton, Bury St. Edmund's, surgeon—S. Garton, Wood Street, Cheapside, silk manufacturer—J. Lawrancc, Pimlico, wine merchant —J. Wad dington, Heading, shoemaker—lt. Gower, St. Austell, Cornwall, linen druper—J. Drake, Lewishatn, Kent, master mariner. THE NEW slit:RH:pm An elegant breakfast was given by the Sheriffs of Loudon on Monday morning, at Goldsmiths' Hall, to the Companies of Stationers and Goldsmiths; after which they proceeded in their state carriages to Guild hall, attemled by the Beadles of the two Companies, with their colour'., and two bands of music. They were there met by the I,orf Nftlyor, late Sheriffs, and City °dicers, when the whole proceeded in state to Black friars, and embarked on board the City Barge, for the purpose of bein4 presented to the Cursitor Baron in the Court of Exchequer. This ceremony, as usual, made a splendid spectacle on the water. The venerable Cursitor Haim having been seated, Mr. Common Sergeant presented the Sheriffs elect to him. The Common Sergeaut then moved to record a war. rant appointing Uxten attorney for the new Sheriffs. Ile text moved to record the appearance of Messrs. Waithinan and Williams, to return an accou n t of the issues and profits of their office, limn the Feast of St. Michael the Archangel, in the first year of the reign of King George the Fourth, to the sante Feast iu the present year, viz. for one year. The ex-Sheriflii were then sworn by the Cursitor Baron to their accounts, and put in Mr. S. Colinridge as their attorney to make the returns. The Officer of the Court then called upon the senior Alderman to perform the old ceremony of counting the horse-shoes and hob-nails, and cutting the sticks.—We have not been able to trace the origin and real intent of thii ceremony, hut are led to conclude it is a tenure by which the Citizens of London hold lands front the Crown. The Officer of the Court standing on the table of the Court with six horse-shoes, a bag of nails, three bundles of sticks, and a small axe, exclaims— _ _ "Tenants and occupiers of the Nloors, in the county of Salop, conic forth and do your service." The senior Alderman then stands upon the talde, and is asked how many shoes are there? He answers, Six. The thron's Clerk then says, " A good number."— Ile then chops the sticks, which are held by the Officer of the Cour,. The tenants and occupiers of land in the parish of St. Clement Danes arc also called upon to do their service, which service the Alderman performs by counting the nails, which arc turned out of the bag. Having ascer tained the number, he is asked how many there arc? lie answers "Sixty-one." The Baron's clerk," A good number." The ceremony ends with counting the nails. The Common Sergeant, at the close of the business, invited the old Baron to dine with the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs, but the invitation was not accepted, on the ground that he was engaged. The p:ocession then left the Court, and returned in the barites to Blackfriars-bridge, under a salute of several guns, fired from Godfrey's yard. On landing they pro ceeded to dinner. THE REV. MR. BLecow.—The infamous libel of which this appropriate member of the Bridge-street gang was a few days ago convicted, is not the first of which this slanderer had been found guilty.— Some years ago, for some purpose equally pure as his eulogy on Sharp and Co. this charitable divine published anonymously a most atrocious libel on the mother of a pupil who was intrusted to his tuition. Fur this he was tried, and of course convicted; and on passing sentence on him, Judge Grose made use of the following expressions:— " Richard Blacow, you are brought hero to receive the sen tence of the Court, upon an indictment charging you with hav ing composed and written an oflimsive, anti/du/4ms and ?mai, u,, libel, to sow discontent, and excite disaffection and discord in a private family, between a husband and his wife, neither of whom us it appears, had done any thing to you to provtke such un neighbourly conduct on your part. Although tiiis is not a pub. lie libel, yet, considered as a private libel, it bears tkc must Criminal complexion if any I hate ever met with. It is a libel of that domestic sort which carries with it a degree of malig nancy which I have never known paralleled. It is mare (14x1.4.- ratory of the infamous conduct of a libeller convict, than any thing that has fallen under my observation. The aggravations of your offence arc enorm ou s. Y ou are a m i n i ster of the gospel, and therefore, if you had observed there was any discord between this gentleman and his wife, it was your peculiar duty to have heaksl the wound, and to restore that affection which should ever subsist between the individuals of a fondly. It is dittittult to conceive a more degrading offence in a person in huts orders, than that you should, by an unfounded suggestion of his wiles incontinency. have planned, like a base aassi&in, daggers in the heart of him who had made you, I may any, it part of his family, and who had intiosttil you with the ..titivation of his child. Ilad the suggestion been founded in tact, every hour of delay in imparting it would have been high treason to him who admitted you as his confidential guest, and as the tutor of his sit e and thereby put it into your power to injure hint in the tenderest inert with to witch the inure stymy." An oyster, tneaAtring 18 inches in circtunferwo, and wei4hing t 24 ounces, wild lately taken tiptu chc oyster-pit of Mr. William Mauu, Il..rtlquol. THE NATIONAL REGISTER IRELAND. THE NEW LORD MAYOR AND SHERIFFS DUBLIN, Ocr. 2. —Yesterday at two o'clock, the late Lord Mayor, (Alderman Sir A. B. King, bart.) the new Lord Mayor (Alderman Kingston James,) with the rest of the Board of Aldermen, the Re corder of Dublin (Sir Jonas Greene), the late and new High Sheriin, City Oilic2rs, and Common Council, met at the Assembly House, William street, from whence they procecdel in procession to the Castle, when after an Address from the Recorder to the new Lord Mayor, delivered in the presence of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, in which he passed a high eulogium on his predecessor, Alderman James was sworn into office. In the evening the Lord Mayor had the honour of entertaining at dinner in the grand banquetting room his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant and suite, a number of distinguished characters, and several respectable citizens. His Lordship, with a degree of princely hospitality, invited all the Members of the Common Council to the banquet. A Catholic or two had also been invited, and, having heard this, we did not all conceive it pos sible that their host could have prepared for them such a reception as the deliberate revival of an ob noxious party toast.—We shall, however, lay befbre our readers the flimsy apology of Mr. Alderman James, for reviving, in the presence of the repre sentative of the King. a party toast, for the giving of which, at a moment when every excuse was al lowable, another Alderman had recently incurred the hing's displeasure, and fir which he was cen sured also by the King's Representative. How the Lord Lieutenant could have considered the revival of the toast, in his presence, after :he affair of Alderman Darley, in any other light than as a gross offence, is to us not very intelligible. There are several versions of this worthy Alder man's Speech. The report in the Correspondent seems to be the most authentic—it having most probably been written by the worthy Alderman the next morning —we take it therefore, as conveying his cool sentiments. This report is as follows The Lord Mayor then rose, and said, " The toast which I am about to propose, has been uniformly given upon the sweariug-in dinners of my predecessors ; the sentiments which arc attached to it differ materially, and it is only by a reference to the feelings under which it is given that it becomes obnoxious or otherwise. We most all admire the beauty of Christian charily, and of brothel ly love ; and, in the arduous and ditficnlt situation in which thus early in life, I have been called upon to fill the Civil Chair, it will be my study, as it is my duly, to promote as far as I can, the conciliatory disposition which it is our most gracious Sovereign's wish should subsist among all classes of his Majesty's snbjtcts. Be assured, my Lords and Gentlemen, that I would be the last man whose dis position would lead him to wound or irritate the feelings of any of my Roman Catholic fellow-subjects, with whom I have ever lived, and I hope I ever will live, in the strictest bond of harmony and brotherly love. And in the toast I am about to submit, I do so as the head of the Corporation I have the distinguished honour now to re present, as well as in accordance with my own political consistency. I therefore give you— " "fhe Memory of King William the Third.' " The applause was very great at this period, but the Lord Mayor, in the most dignified and truly conciliatory manner. very emphatically addressed the assembly, by hoping that the announcement of the toast would not create exultation: as he, the Lord Mayor, gave the me mory of hitn, as the founder of the British Constitution, and the friend of civil and religious liberty, under the Lope, that, in suet: sense, it could not be offensive to any man living. The company received and drank the toast ith peculiar marks of applause and approbation." The Lord Lieutenant was at the elbow of the new Lord Mayor when the toast was given, and therefore it is to be inferred that it was given with his entire concurrence. Indeed he took a step which distinctly marked his approbation, having scarcely suffered the vague sentiment " universal benevolence.' to be hAlf whispered from the Chair when he gave " The Corporation of Dublin," the significancy and npositeness of which, as associated with " The Glorious Memory," which had scarcely been swallowed down, were generally felt and un derstood. One of the invited was lArd Cloncurry ; how his Lordship fill upon this occasion, the reader will perceive by the following letter addressed by him to a eutemporary Journal : " Sin,—Being named as one present at the Lord Mayor's dinner of yesterday, Ibe leave to say (iii order to prevent misrepresentation of my conduct), ill it, when his Lot/Ishii> toasted King W ihi.uu , 1 turned down my glass, and rtmaincl ated• " At table a ith the Lord Lieutenant, and a gnest of the Lord Aluyor, I felt that it would not be decorous for so inconsiderable a person to hike further owlet at the me nu lit ; I anal, bun ever, that the Lind Alayor, alien lie duterisiiiied to ri produce this toast, had given notice, nut only to flit Lord Lieutenant, but to the Roman Catholics whom lir hail incited, and generally to all thuse nut likely to forget, in one abort Width, the in 'woolens injunctious of our Sovereifus. " Individually, I liars; a great re , pert fur the memory of King William the Third. tie was a liberal Dutchniou —mid intended more seed to Ireland that 44 King I over heard of, v 'wept his present Majesty ; but as Wid corpus ations ore not necessarily histinians p iliey generally give this toast from party motives, and it has heroine .1 kind of poianwuril aiming those who'derdre by the instill aviil, errs:imams of .lbeir worthy fellow citixeris; to arrogate to ilteltPattles those pef'y bottoms and eissommetits whici t•atil of iudti3ity or triritt tender so irvise,,,riy to them. SIS --- " lied taste and bad feeling received* mortal wound from the hand of big Majesty—And if for one moment they may rake their heads, public opinion and the march of events must put them down. The King commands, and the times require benevolence and union. Your obedient Servant, Oct. 2. 1821. " CLONCURRY." Colonel Talbot, en of the County Members, marked his high disappointment and disiatisfaction at the toast in a way as :lignal as memorable, having also turned down his glass and remained seated. --- APPLICATION OF THE CONGREVE ROCKET IN THE WHALE FISHERIES. The ship Fume has returned to Ilull, and Captain Scoresby has confirmed all that has been statei, respect ing the advantages to be derived from the use of the rocket in the ‘Vhale Fishery:— The Fume has brought home nine fish, in the capture of the whole of which Inc rockets were successfully em ployed. After being struck by the rocket the largest whale became an easy Frey to its pursuers. In one case instant death was produced by a single rocket, and in all cases the speed was much diminished, and its power of sinking limited to three or four fathoms. Oue of the largest finners, of too feet in length, a fish seldom attacked by the ordinary means, and of the capture of which there is scared/ an instance on record, in the northern seas, was immediately tamed by a dis. charge of rockets, so that the boats overtook and sur rottud2d it with ease. Six out of the nine fish died in leis than 15 minutes; and five out of the [mintier took wit no line at all. One only survived n.aily two hums, and only took out more than one line, by getting into a pack of ice, where the boats could not follow. The peculiar advantage and importance of the rocket in the fisheries is, that by means of it, all the destructive effects of a six, or even a twelve-pounder piece of artillery, both as to penetration, explosion, force, and internal fire, calculated to accelerate the death of the animal, may be given with an apparatus not heavier than a musket, and without any shock or re-action on the boat ; whereas, it is obvious that no boat applicable to the fishery of the whale can ever be made capable of sustaining the shock n-cessary to produce the saute, or any thing like the erl,cts of the six or twelve-pound shell, by the ordinary means or artillery. In fact, nothing larger than a harpoon-gun could be apdlied; and the missile which could be discharged from such an implement, could neither have Leen discharged front such an implement, could neither have penetration, nor explosive force, sufficient to do any serious injury to the AN th respect to the rocket, howevet, it is a fact, that some of the smallest, fired in the late experiment in the Fame. penetrated completely through the body of the fish, so than the effect of the explosion was visible on the opposite side—the fierce fire of the rocket fixed in the animal's inside, rapidly destroying life; and the effects, and the reports of the explosion, being dis tinctly perceivable within him, as in one instance as above stated, producing immediate dea'h. Indeed, it is certain, that this might, in almost every case, be in sured by increasing the power of the rocket, without in. creasing the inconvenience or incumbrance of the appa ratus required to discharge it, and equally without re. action on the boat, as when the smallest rockets are used. In addition to this, it may be stated, that there is no doubt of the rocket ultimately dispensing with the operation of the hand harpoon, by conveying the line, and destroying the animal at the same time, and that without requiring the approach of the boat to thefish, within the limits of perfect security. It is also equally certain that the large flutters, never or rarely attempted to the North, will he rendered an easy prey, by the ju. dieious application of the rocket. The late Mr. Curran, the celebrated Irish Bar rister, was remarkable for the dexterity with which be could avail himself of any picturesque circum stance at the moment that it occurred. The following instance is worth relating, especially as it has not made its way into any of the accounts yet published, and is, we believe, very link known:—ln the early part of his career he was addressing a Jury in the Court-house of Cork, on a very cloudy day, and in endeavtatring to impress upon their minds the clear. ncss with which he would be able to establish the defendant's innocence, he stopped short for a mo ment, as if at a loss for some comparison. The sun broke forth as he paused, and enlivened the gloomy scat of justice. This appearance was in itself cal culated to produce an effect on a people of quick sensibility like the Irish; but the use which the orator made of it completed the line impression. " I will make his innocence appear as plain," said he, " Gentlemen, as plain as the visit of that glorious luminary whose beans has just darted across my view t o supply me - with its splendid illustration." THE A lITS.—The French plate of the battle of Austerlitz•., engraved from the picture of Geratd, has been pirared in several instances, and M. Godefroy, the engraver, has preferred a complaint to the police of Paris Not less than thurteen Artists are charged with hivading the right of M. Godafroy. Persons in Englund, who admire and purchase the print, will find considerable difficulty iu discovering the original. No engravers in the world can copy so closely as the French. The death of Gen. Woolf was imitated in Paris almost line fbr line. • A farmer of Rarmpervoint, near Lewes, in Sus- Rex, actually grew List year, on 73 acres of land, the extraordinary quantity of SO loads and six bushels of wheat! .• .