The National Register. — London, England, 1816-02-04 00:00:00

FEB. 4. COURT OF COMMON ir:OUNCi4: ~r-- - »- Wedne,dav a Court of Common Couwil'was.beld at Guild hall; pursuant to requisition to take i ntO consideration the Report of a Committee appointed last Court-day, to prepare an Ad dress of Cou_tratulation to the Prince Regent. on: the Peace Nrith Fiance. The Committee had prepared the draft of an address on the last Court -day • but theie nut being then 40 Members present, and the Address being opposed by several Gentlemen, the furiher consideration of it was - postponed till the next Court -day. Sir Wm. Curtis then rose, and as Chairman of the Commit tee for preparing the Address, stated, that he now held that .Address in his hand, which, if it were the pleasure of the he would propose for its adoption. Mr. Doiiiford thought that the Court would place itself in a most ridV.ilous light if it voted a second Address before the first had been received and answered. • _ A deb i ate being likely to arise, strangers were ordered to with draw During our eNelusion- a debate, 'we understand, took place •n the motion for agreein k • Address proposed by Mr. Alder - - man Ileygate, and adopted - by the Committee. Mr. Waithman moved another Address, which was negatived on a division-90 to 44—majority against his Address, 46. Mr. Faveil also moved another Address; but that was nega tived without a division. _ _ The Address ori g inally proposed :by Mr. Alderman Heygate was thetefore agreed to;. and the Sheriff's, attended by the Re membrancer, were 'directed to wait upon his Royal highness to know his royal pleasure when the Court should attend him with the said Address. ' • ' • On Thursday the Duke of Sussex was elected President of the ' SOCitty for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. in the Adelphi. The numbers were—for the Duke of Sussex, 180: for the Right Hon. the Earl of Liverpool, 24—Majority. 156. THE BRIDGES.--It is not unlikely, that two of the three new Bridges will he completed in the course of the ensuing summer; one of them, perhaps rather early in it. The Strand Bridge, of which the last arch was completed several weeks since, will soon he ready for the ballustrades. That of Vaux hall has all the t iers formed, and several of the iron arches fixed. The Southwark Bridge kis one pier near) , completed, and the dam formed fur the other. A year has been passed in this apparently slight pr.gress ; but the treat depth of the river in that part, and the strength of the tide, act ount for the delay. As these will be but th ee arches, arid those of iron, about a fourth of the work is done. Nlr. Dodd, the engineer, has announced the de= gn of a magnificent bridge whieli he proposes to can y across the liver Thames from Rotherhithe to the oi?i:ositc shore. Mr. Southey's forthcoming Tragedy at Drury-lane Theatre is entitled /var; in which Its. Knight, the wife of the /idle gre,:t Coined an of that name, is to have a principal character. This Actress has lung been a great favourite at York. The Lan,/ ick Ad;:ertistr S— '6 ;: (says a correspondent) a melancholy fact, that the ancient manors, estates, and pos sesions of the Wellesley family are hr 'tight to the hammer, and to be krt.cked down by an auctioneer. That the old castle, built by King in Trim, t he yellow tower, the monastery, and the diurch, ate to be sold at public cant, with all the ba ronial privileges, homers s, and jurisdictions, incident to the manor and its courts. Cromwell battered the walls of Trim— the present proprietors sell their ruins and their foundation." A repot t prevails, that the South American Insurgents at Carthaena, have offered to put themselves under the motec tion of Great Britain, and to profess allegiance to his Brittan laic Majesty. -The Judges met in the King's Bench Treasury Chamber Thursday morning, and chose the respective circuits as under.....- NORFOLIC.—Lord F.Denborough and Mr. Baron Wood. MIDLAND.—Lord chief Justice Gibbs and Mr. Baron Richards. NORTITERN.*Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Justice Le Blanc. WEslc ItN.—Mr. Baron Graham and Mr Justice Park. Oxi'oan.—Mr Justice Dampier and Mr. Justice Dallas. omE“—Mr. Jw:tice liaylcy and Mr. Justice--- TUE:NATE , " 1 iN,At - , - LONDON. ADJOURNED SESSIONS. Tuesday there was an adjournment of these Sessions held sped. allyat Guildhall,: before- the Recoider, &c. • 7 ' GAS LIGHT COMPANY. . . The defendants in this case, Messrs. Sparrow and Knight, who were convicted for a nuisance at the Sessions in November last, but whose judgment was then respited, were this day in attend ance to abide the sentence of the Court; or or to urge such evidence of the abatement of the evil, as would render it unnecessary to pro ceed to judgment upon the conviction. - Having. heard 46 affidavits in favour of the defendants, and 13 against them,- • The Recorder delivered the following judgment:— The Court is of opinion, that the nuisance arising from the li ' quid, hitherto carried off by drains into the Thames, is abated. They are unanimously of opinion, however, that the nuisance in and about the other parts of the manufactory remains unabated, though it. appears to have been lessened since the 2 4 1 of January. The Court are therefore desirous, in conside ration of the immensity of the establishment and its utility, ta extend their indulgence to the defendants tOr three months mote, in order to afford them time, if possible, to remove the co il. The judgment of the defendants was then respited for three months ; and, after hearing a few cases of assaults, the Court ad journed. ;L;~ :~ { :.e.. ~ _ 4 SURREY SESSIONS, HORSEMONGER LANE. J. Earle was indicted for publicly bathing in the Croydon Canal. Persons, to the amount of 100, were assembled dose to the public path-way, for the purpose of a practice, than which none more offensive . to . decency could well be imagined. The place they selected was close to a bridge, which was a general thoroughfare ; and whenever they observed a woman, two young men constantly made a point of quitting the canal, and seizing hold of her, each by one hand, and conducting her over the bridge, amidst the indecent acclamations of the rest. This was a nuisance too flagrant to be tolerated. The fact of bathing was clearly proved against the defendant : and some of the adjacent inhabitants, who resided near the canal, declared, that the front part of their houses had become wady useless to them during the summer season. The Chairman observed, that so gross an abomination was not to b . .: endured ; but as the defendant was a youth, and had not been proved to have participated in those higher acts of indecorum, the Court was willing to disinb , s him, in hopes that his conviction would prevent a repetition of similar acts of indecency. But should any one ever be brought before the Court for so infamous a proceeding, his offence would be visited with the severest punishment in die power of the Court to inflict. POLICE. BOW-STREET. Since the Lord Mayor's praiseworthy cond►►ct in ordering the street; of the City to be cleared of the prostitutes, and has com • !flitted those who have been brought before hint to Bridewell, very few have been seen i❑ that district; but they have resorted to the environs of the City. Tuesday several of them were brought up by the Patrole belonging to the Parisi► of St. Clement, who stated, that they resorted near Temple liar, when their conduct was most iufa►no►:s, attacking the people coming from the Theatres, &c. They put the Patroles at defiance, tauntingly asking them what they could do with them, if they did apprehend them.—They wer,o co+m.►it ted. Two boys, about 12 years of age, were charged with various de predations. The mother of one of them, a very respectable look• lug woman, attended, and was absorbed in tears to see her child in such a situation. She said ha had lived with Dr. Bailie, and since that time she had not been able to get him employed. The fittlicr of the other said, he was out all day, and could toot look to the boy's conduct; he wished the Magistrate could send hint to thq Philanthropic Society ; but they replied that the place was crowd ed, and lamented that they had no means of disposing of such boys; they therefore gave them in charge of their parents. Monday an impostor,' calling himself Capt. W. J. Anderson, aai put to the bar ; when upwards of 20 persons had charges to make against him, but that which was principally gone into was by Mr. Stead, a boot-maker, of Whitcomb-street, who said, that the prisoner called at his house a short time since, stating, that he and three other gentlemen had undertaken to collect a► subscription in the parish of St. Ann, fee a most distressing case of a widow and live children, whose husband had held a confideatial 4.1