The National Register. — London, England, 1818-10-25 00:00:00

DUBLIN. I.OliD MAYOR'S DINNICH. We have gnat pleasure in informing our readers, that the also selai isle spirit to in a lig r isms and unti-eatholici MI, by which the go i•tintent of Ireland has been ling disAriteeil. has sustained a signal t h ek. Tte 'literal and enlightanal sermittetitt and opinions of the present I.nril Lieutenant, Karl Talb o t, and of Mr. Grant, his Chief fi, eretors. titian a splendid commit with the narrow and contracted logotry of the It tike of 'Helium:ld anl Peel. Even the Com rani Council of etc city of Dublin, which, like the Town Council of 21111 , 1ther northern re:worths. was lung distinguished only tor the fawning servility and grovelling prejudices of those persons of whom It animas id, np,,i:ars at length to be awakened to a better sense of what it awes to the C. immiiity it represent;. At the Lind Mavor's dinner. both Earl Talbot and Mr. Grant were present, and their speeches were distin ;uislial for a spirit of frankitets end liberality which is the best pledge of what may le. expected from their future administration. Tais, however. we; extremely piling to the Orange faetton ; an I no sooner had Mr. Grant sat down, than the hind, which had b 'en previooily drake!, 'amd; up, " Croppies lie a tan." nut the Lord Mayor. Alderman 11I•Kenny, one of the most inileitemlent a id respectable gentlemen in Dublin, immediately oalerssi them to plot; amt: er tune. After the Lord Mayor had given tie mritiory of Lo 1 'el on, Alderman Archer roar, and pro,toaed 14 ',spa r to the " Glorious and Una:art:l memory of William the Third." The law 1 Mayor paid nu in to tin.; sally, but gave thee' Primate and Clinrch at Ireland;" and when Alderman Archer iballtsse to force tilt party toast va the comp lay. the Lord Mayor, with infltite goon itatuour, gave " The Mother of St. Patrick. '— Thistuast elictud Cie repeated cheers of the distinguished guests, and silenced Alderman Archer. Several other national and patriotic toasts were drank, and at half pea eleven o'clock. his Excellency the Loral Lieutenant, his suite, and seietal of the noblemen and gentlemen, including Mr. Grant. Mr. Grepry, &c. retired, high &lighted with the polite and hos,. &able attentions of the Lord :M ayor, who attended Earl Talbot to his earriage. We have now to state an occurrence the most strange and unjtiti f able which perhaps ever took place at an assembly of this kind.-- When the Lord Mayor reentered the roam, after having seen the Lied Lieuteitantdepart. some Members of the Corporation proceeded to Bats° ma Loansitio accousT, for omitting the notorious • immortal memory." The Lord Mayor took his station at the head of the table. and, in very energetic and animated terms, explained his reasons far not having given the toast. He said, lie felt vet, strongly the importance and the value of the situation in which he li ad been placed by the kindness of his fellow citizens; but that, highly as he prised that situation. he would not compromise his own cha racter, or the dimity of his office, by suffering any man. or set of men, to dictate to him. lie said, he haul been astonished beyond ' measure upon discovering that the band, who were his servants for the day, hail beers tutored by some secret influence, which he was wholly at a loss to account for, to disobey his orders, and absolutely insult his guests by playing obnoxious airs. To what, he a .ked, was he to attributethe circumstance of" Croppies lie down" being played. the moment the health of the Chief Secretary had beer, drank if ant to that management behind the curtain which lie was surprised to find in such netnieious activity, but which lie would make it his business to develop and destroy. Ile said, he had taken the office of Chief Magistrate of the city of Dublin under different circumstances. and perhaps with different feelings, from many of his predecessors.— lie would be happy to receive the advice of any of his friends, but he must always clans the right of exercising his own judgment upon every act wide!' was to be performed by himself, and for which lie would hold himself wholly responsible ; but lie must repeat. he never could permit himself to be dictated to by any man at the head of his oats table. The taste and disposition must be very extraordinary indeed, which could select such an accompini nent as " Crop*, lie down." for such speeches as those of the Lord Lieutenant and his Seeretary—tneeches abounding with sentiments so conciliatory, so gra tifying to the people of this country, so flaw ring to their best hopes —speeches web as had never, perhaps, before been heard from per sons in their station. He would take special care, however. that' no each trick should ever be played upon him again. These, said his Lordship, are the reasons by which, elthom,h the toast was upon my tut, I was prevented from giving it; and certtinly I should not, in any event. have proposed it without such accompanying observations as would have divested it of all party character, and hare rendered it perfectly incapable of givingeffence to any individual in this room, or indeed to any portion of m' fellow countrymen. I trust, conti nued the Lord Mayor. that it Is not necessary for me, at this time, to make any declaration of sty principles. Every nian who knows me, knows that I am firmly attached to the King, the Constitution. the Government and Laws of this country, and that 1 yield to no tine is devotion to the Protestant religion; but I certainly am not among those persons who think that that holy religion which I pro fess and venerate is best supported by wounding. oppressing, or insulting my Catholic countrymen. (Loud and repeated cheers.)-1 have been chasm% to fill a high and honourable office. and it shall be my unceasing study to dintharge its duties efficiently. To fulfil them honestly. is. at all events, in my power ; and I ant resolved that every act of mine shall be regulated by the strictest impartiality. This admirable speech was received by the loud and continued cheers of the immense majority of the company. Tuesday morning, about 10 o'6oek, u fire of a very alarm ins appeerance occurred at the house of Mr. C. H. Hose, a eh, m iss a Hi druggist, in Crowu-street,Finsbury.square. From the information we could gather upon the spot, it appeared that Mrs. Hose was attending some cliyinical preparation, in winch was a great eitautity of spirits of [turpentine, on the kitchen tire, whirls is up stairs. and from some accident the 'Orgill upset, and the titehen was in an instant enveloped in flamer, and the window being open the dames issued into the street. Mrs. Rose was ve ry h scorched about the face and Sleek, and carried to a house opposite, fearful that the whole house would he burnt to the ground The young man i n ifi r •hop, Who ran to Mrs. Hose's assistance, had his hands sod face very 00000 els burnt. We ate happy to add that Mrs. Hose is not in a dangerons state. In a short lime several est. gine" arrived; but their assistance Was not necessary, as the danger passed with the flame, leaving the whole house in a %t nine of smoke. A few nights ago some villains entered a field et Paddisagtoa, sad most iulitittienly slaughtered a 'Mich cow, the property of Mr. Speang, the row keeper. Whilst the poet animal was still Mite, the ruffians divided the hind quar ters, past of which they carried away. and next morning the remainder was found l y Mr. Sprang's servant in that 'shingled state. A reward of 201. has been very properly offered lice the apnretietision of the perpetrators /if the inhumes; outrage. A shocking accident happened at Great &Ahem, Surrey. on Tu. silay I.tt t..-. 1. young man. named George Hill. had the pre y...ling day purchased a house at Letitia:Arad Fair. and was upun his retarn to Shimley Green, near Wonersh, wk.,' the animal sud denly b.xame unmanageable. and set oft with his rider at full speed. btu his wild carter was soon irtorten s 1 by his knocking down and fatting over a poor old women who chanced to be wing along the road at the time. and from deatnett was insensible of hit aoprnech. The horse was not materially injured by . the tall, but the leis onf i ts. n a ge victim- sit his unkwevnable pint were found lying DWI( each other. dreadfully man4led anal bruised. Hill was taken up tensely's. and died very shortly atterwartly. The wonin.whuts: !UM'S ar Ayres. 16 ,0 who it near sv years of age, tow lies in a must nnserabie con ga:ie.?, her face and ar,t,s beim{ li eattly ref in pieces t she is not ii , yec red to reeor:r. An 1 . 1 , 111”1. ,V. 1.4 held t a rise body of George ;1, on th ase iay t V,:aLcs—ac TIDE NATIONAL REGISTrft WES T 111 INS TEIC aESSIONS, Thursday these Sessions emnineneed before R. Raker. Esq. dude foil Henri' of 111.igiSI rates. Aries the Grand JII sy we: e sworn, the Chairman addressed them. lie began by ex, ressing his regret that the eaten. dar writ% so ... usually heavy. There were at the present mu. nn nt not less than 177 prisoners iu Tothill-fieldsptiaon.— The Magistrates had visited that prison, and were happy to find that only one case of sickness, soil that , 41.1 of a pri• sorter who was ill before he came in. This healthy forte of rim prison was chiefly rowing to the excellent order mid d;septine kept up by Mr. bladder, the governor, and also to the care and diligence at the surgeon. A committee of the HMV(' of Commons having declared, in their report of the state of the pi ismis of the ineiropo:iii, that the prison in Tothilldields was wholly unfit for the reception of prisoners, the Mdgisirates had take,. Vie mattes Wu their swims* con sideration; and it mishit be a eatisfation to the Grand Jury and the public to know, that by this time next year they might expect to see a new prison erected on the present site. lii April last the attention oldie Grand Jury was called to the state of the prism', by the late very able and active chair. mail Mr. !Watson; and that Jury, after having, examined its situation, presumed it as a nuisance • and lie had no doubt whatever, that before the end of t he present session, the magistrate* would come to some decision respecting the building of the new prison. This certainly would entail • a considerable share of expence on that portion of the public who were obliged to contribute to it; but it was a charge which would he trusted, be borne with pleasure, front the consideration that it was likely to be productive of so much good. The Chairman again called the attention of the Jury to the great press of business which they had to go through, and expressed a hope that it would be diapatehed as speedily as possible. . George Edwards was indicted for writing and publishing a wilful, false and malicious libel against Hannah the wife of Greaves. Mr. Alley, itladdressing the Jury, observed, that from the evidence he had to produce, this would appear a most ag. graveled crime, and one which called for exemplary punish. uncut. The prisoner had, from what motive it did not ap pear, written and exhibited in s I places a most wicked, scandalous, and indecent libel, casting the foulest reflections upon the character and conduct of Mrs. Greases • and in. stead of expressing any contrition fur what he had done when a remonstrance was made to him, he went from place to place, and seemed rather to boast of it. Under these circumstances the prosecutor thought it necessary to bring the case before a Jury, and to refuse ale offers of a compru wise which had been made. Mr. Greases stated, that he was landlord of the Brown . _ Bear public house, Bow-street. In consequence of having area a paper written by defendant, lie remonstrated with him, and defendant did not deny the fact, hit t told hint it was done for "a bit of fun." An associate of the prisoner, who was implicated in the transaction, was indicted and found 'nifty fur it last session. (Here the libel was handed into the Jury, it being considered of too indelicate a nature to be read openly in Court.] Mr. Arabia, for the defendant. said, that to save the time of Court, lie would admit the libel. The Chairman summed tip the evidence, and the Jury re m ned a verdict of—Guilty. Tl.c Chairman, after a suitable admonition to the prisoner, said that there was nothing in his condcct which could in• Jute the Bench to make any difference in his case from that of Wilkinson, who was aft eady found guilty for the same offence, and sentenced to twelve mouths' imprisonment. The sentence of the Court therefore was, that be be confined in the Honse of Correction for 12 months. Thomas. Norwich was indicted and found guilty of stealing a box coat and a waistcoat belonging to John White, the coachman to Mrs. Garrick, relict of the celebrated David Garrick, The prosecutor who is a very old man, being asked by a gentleman from the Bench how old Mrs. Garrick was, answered that she was 106 years in August last. FRIDAY, Ocr. 23. At an early hour, the passage leading to the Session's House was eery much crowded by persons in expeetetiou of hearing the trial between Mr. Hunt, Covent Garden no toriety, and Mr. Lee, the High Constable, in consequence of some ploceedlngs ari sing out of the Westminster Election ; but, at ter waiting* considerable time ' they beg** to disperse, it being announced that Mr. Hunt had declined proceeding Blather in the affair. Candles, owing to a monopoly of tallow, are made 'abject to a serious rise, being now we believe, at 14s. the dozen— full one third higher than last year, when the importations of tallow from Russia were many thousands of casks less than the imports of the present year. The tallow being in the hands of but few, the markets are supplied at the discretion of the monopolists, and thus an artificial price is created ; but it cannot last long, the price of candles must soon fall, and rapidly ; consumers, therefore, bad better supply them selves sparingly for the present. Weed the drop has al ready commenced ; tallow fell in London last week, when the importation exceeded that of the preceding week by 2,a46 casks : and it appears by an extract of a letter from St. Petersburg'', dated Sept. 19, that large quantities of tallow have been recently purchased in that country for England their arrival therefore, may soon be expected. Tuesday last a daring and extensive robbery was committed on the premises uf'Mr. Leftwich, a respectable tradesman, residing at Paradise-row, Rutherhithe. On Wednesday Mr. Leftwich received an anonymous letter, informing , him that several of the larger notes, which had been stolen from bin', having become useless to the holders, in conseqience of being stopped at the Bank, he would find them, to the amount of one hundred pounds, either in the pound, ur tinder the by idge of China Hall-fields, Rutherhithe. Mr. Leftwich, acrotu• panted by sonic friends, went to the spot described in the letter, and in the midst of sonic stinging Nettles, found a small parcel, covered with canvas and tied with rope)arn, which, upon being opened was, found to confab, 1001 in II ink-notes, and a teasel', of which he was also robbed the name night. The letter forth,; informed him, that the gang which. broke open his house consisted of six men, and it was their intention to have murdered every person from whom y experienced resistance. At a late hour on Wednesday night, or early on Tlinroalay mos sung, the premises of Mr. Arnold, situate at the bark of the English Opera House, Strand, were entered, and between 3 and 4100 weight of lead was stripped oft the roof, and quiro Mee efrota, wit.cla the thieves contra,' ti to carry away impel reeved, supposed in a hackney coach. A 'mime :Meng,' wools place some time %lore, loot the watc h man giving the oara isa, they escaped, leaving their plunder behiud. POLICE.. GUILDHALL. IMPOSITION OF PONTICRS.—On 'Tuesday, Knight, s porter at the Angel Inn, St. Martiles-le.Orand, was brought Ixfore Mr. Alderman Wattlmmo, on the charge of a report of the name of Flint, fee demanding and receivitie one shilling more for carriage of a parcel 111411 be was legally entitled to. Mr. Etint st.i'ed, that lie received a parcel from Knight on Se' lurday last, with the regular porter's ticket ; 3s. 10d. ens charged for the carriage, which he paid, but judging from the weight of the parcel that the carriage could not amount to so It, he applied to the coach office, where the clerk inform. ' lie had been imposed upon ; the charge for carriage to the porter being no more than two shillings amid ten pence. Knight, in his delenee, endeavoured to show that the acre. ration orientated in private animosity on the part of Mr. Flint, who, be said, had a grudge against him ; lie assured the Ma. gistrele, that lie had no intention to defraud ; but that the mistake must have arisen in the Milking out of the ticket. On the worthy Alderniares metering who made ont the ticket, it appeared that this was done by the porter himself ; that the clerk or bookkeeper called out the sums. and the porter mark ed them in the ticket. Knight's defence, therefore, wee, that lie hail mistaken tl.e gum, and marked Ss. led. instead of 2s. led. Mr. Aide. coin I,Vaithman said, the public were li indebted to Mr. Flint for bringing forward this charge. The Act or Parliament, %%Well provided fur the punishment of this species of imposition, was but of recent date, and as yet lint little known; although the offence was notoriously prac tised, in one form or other, by all the porters In the metro polis. In sonic iiistarces the porters altered the tickets, and in mhos. destroyed them altogether, and fabricated different ones. This wax a gross fraud and forgery, which, for the sake of the public, ought to be narrowly watched, and ce. rarely punished when detected; and ferlieg that the offence ought to be severely marked, he should cunt tct the defeuclant in die full penalty of les. Dawnles.—W. Clarke, a young person in very tight stays. and decorated with all the other insignia of a dandy, was brought up on the vulgar charge of picking a brazier's pocket. Mr. John Dean, the complainant, said, that as he was . going through Whitefriars, a gentleman named Bushell told h im hrs pocket had been picked. and that the person who had picked it was just turning the corner into a paved spurt. The complainant saw the prisoner and another man walking along unconcernedly. until they came to the corner of the court, down which they gave a short turn. Witness called out " stop thief." upon which the prisoner's friend ran away, and the prisoner himself tried to do the same, but some how or other was unable. Witness saw his pocket book lying on the pavement; it contained six ii. notes, and a Birmingham note for 51. Mr. Bushell said. he saw the prisoner and his companion tbllow the complainant, but had no suspicion that they were thieves. as they appeared to be men of fashion. He was, however, soon convinced that they were in the exercise of a trade for success in which their dress was well adapted. The prisoner put his band into Mr. Dean's pocket, and very calmly wok out hispocket book. II was dune in such a manner as not to excite the s • latest suspicion in the witnesa,who concluded that they were friends o die gentleman. and were playing him a pleasant trick. He thought it rather odd that they should turn a corner without speaking to Mr. Dean ; on which lie spoke to that gentleman upon the subject. When Mr. Dean went after the prisoner, the witness did not follow him ; for he knew that the Dandies, if they attempted to escape, would be obliged to return by the way they went out of their sight • and he accord. ingly stationed himself at the corner, to prevent their getting away. in case the thing turned out to be more than a jest. The primoner's friend that ran front the passage, and did so with such violence as to break through the opposition of Mr. BushelL The prisoner himself next appeared, but was unable to make any struggle ; a child would have stopped him. The witness of course kept his finger upon him. and was surprised at hearing nothing escape from him but • Cause the stays. An officer found some Bank notes on the prisoner, a ether watch, hair chain, and five gold seals. Prisoner.—" 'Pon my honour, I got them all in the way of bu. minces." Mr. Alderman Atkins said, he never heard a clearer ease of felon. He directed that the watch, sails, &c. should be &demised:grid expressed an expectation that the person to whom they formerly belonged would be induced to come forward upon the subject. The prisoner's solicitor observed, that he was to understand shift his client was to be brought up again. Mr. Alderman Atkins said, if any fresh charge shoald be brought forward, he should certainly have the prisoner again before him. William Clarke was, however, to be considered finally examined upon this accusation. The prisoner was conducted to prison. John Taylor, the porter of the Blossoms inn, was fined 10s. and costs, for charging more than the due for delivery of a parcel. BOW sTREET. - _ - - Michael Kentish was *barged with threatening to murder a woman. The defence set up by the prisoner. as a jastifiea. tion, was rather of an extraordinary naaire, lie having ad mitted the threats. He stated that the prosecutrix and another woman bewitched him. about three years since, by means of some stuff which they put into some tea, and which he was induced to drink : he was in a trance for several days. They also bewitched him in other respects, so that he did not know what he was about. by means of a black cat ■nd a pound of pins. He entreated the Magistrates not to suppese that he was deranged, but that his state of distracted mind wholly arose from the bewitching of the women, and which deprived him of following his trade of a shoemaker, and he was frequently so much reduced that he could not pay for the washing of his shirt. He was told by the women that wiling would cure him of the spell they had set upon him but cross ing the sea, and he intended to leave England for Ireland, which was his native country, fur the purpose of getting cut ed. The prosecutrix, w who had very much the appearance of a gipsev, denied any knowledge if what the prisoner had been talking about as to bewitching him, but said that he was a Roman Catholic, and was extremely superstitious, which caused his mind to be in the disturbed stale it was. The warrant against the prisoner was discharged by Mr Hit. nie, on condition that he did not insult nor use any more threats towards the prosecutria previous to his leaving Eng, land for Ireland. Lady Bruce was brought to the office, in cualody of Horn plireys, on a charge of trimly. It appeared by the e vidriire of two young men of the house of Hauling cod Cu., in Pall Mall, that last Friday a muff and some fur Ira ssssss jog ware ordered to be sent to Lady Bruce, at her !move, 8, U r i er Georgeaitreet, Mary-la-bonne: a mod of the valier of 81., mud fur te binning of the value of 71., were sent aceoruliugly iu rue box, which, on its arrival at the house, a servant took up stairs to Lady Bruce. In a short time the servant re filmed with the box with the muff in it, saying her Ladyship did tint like the wear, butt would keep the trimming, amid desired that a fur tippet might be sent the next day. The man who was sent with the box ails desired not to have the goods without the money I the message, however, being a plausible one, lie went away. Thr next day Ike tipp e t w as sen t, with All isijuser time that the posaessi 111 l o f it was not to be partial with with out the money, which out being forthcoming, out Lady Blocs OCT QS 5 II