The National Register. — London, England, 1822-03-17 00:00:00

~---. There was much business transacted on Friday at the Stock Exchange. The report of pacific in• telligcncc having been received in the morning from St. Pctersburgh, relative to the misunderstanding between Russia and the Porte, occasioned an im rrovement in the Funds. Even the Navy Five per Cents. improved, as the speculators, thinking that there willl be no war, calculate that the new Four per Cents. will open at a good price, and therefore are anxious to get into them by parch:ping Navy Fives, and transferring the latter into the Fours, azrecably to the plan proposed by Government.— I.:sterday being the last day allowed fur dissenting from the scheme, a number of persons, chiefly from the country, were observed in the Cashier's Office, the place where they sign. There was much busi ness also transacted in the Three per Cents. and the Fives, but chiefly in small sums. A bustle prevailed on 'Change in the Spanish market, owing.- to- the delivery of the new Spanish Stock, as many persons were busily engaged in settling their accounts.—ln consequence of the disturbances in Paris, the French funds have fallen, and are expected to be stilll - ewer. Asolicet.TuAl. Costmerrm—The committee on a4riculture arc pursuing their labours. The scheme of appropriating one million to the purchase of corn, thus to relieve the farmer by exciting a temporary sensation in the market, is understnod to be aban &led. It was only sanctioned by the cutting vete tii the chairman, Mr. Gooch, only; but with such sepport, it is said, the ministers do not feel war ranted to press the plan fiirward, so as to recom mend it to the House. And the graduated seek of, protecting duties has also undergone. it is said, an important change ; the import duty is now to be bre:re instead ot . ,,filieen shillings. The following is the scale, is changed from that originally proposal Lv the Marquis of Londonderry:—t. That the fu ture import price of wheat shall be 70s. instead of SOs.-2. That a duty of 12s. be imposed upon int ] ..rted wheat, when the price is from 70s. to SOS. —3, That a duty of sa. be imposed upon imported wheat, when the price is from 80s. to 855., after which the duty shall be redueed to Is.—and 4. That a further additional duty of is. shall be im posed upon imported wheat, fur the first three months. after the ports open, and when the price is from 70s. to 555. The measure of opening a direct intercourse be tween our West India tolonies, forth and South America, and the north of Europe, in addition to the south now open, is nearly determined on.—Per• mission will be granted to export their produce to those countries, and to import theirs in return, in the shipping ef the British and the Americans ; but such imports are to be subject to duties sufficient to afford a fair protection to the produce of our North Amer:cm colonies, and no more; those now existing i a Jamica on flour and provisions, as fixed by the Assembly, in Jamaica, 1 821, are considered ample. We understand by the latest letters front Valpa raiso, which are dated the 20th of November, that an arrangement has been entered into in Lima, be tween Gen. San Martin and the Authorities there, by which all foreigners are precluded from acting as consignees, a circumstance which if correctly stated, will cause much perplexity to those merchants who, immediately on the declaration of independence, planned the formation of establishments in Peru.— These letters mention, as an extraordinary fact re lative to the. situation of Chili, that the republic has been able to reduce its debt nine-tenths, not withstanding its extensive armaments lately under taken against Pbru. and that the whole will shortly be liquidated. Letters from Port-au-Prince - of •the 24,th of Jan. say, that a deputation had arrived from the city of SL Domingo to President Bower, inviting him to assume the government of the Spanish territory, and to incorporate it with his dominions. This in vitation had been accedod to, and the President was to proceed shortly to take possession of his new acquisition, which will place the whole of the noble island of St. Domingo wider his Presidency.• Ilion the soh jest of the report now current on the Continent, of an intended matrimonial alliance between his Britannic Majesty and a Danish Prin. ce,s, u letter from Aix-la-Chapelle of the sth inst., inserted iu the French papers, contains the follow -I.:g passage:—`° It is affirmed that on the occasion of the ensuing marriage of George IV. with a Danish Princess, a treaty of alliance will be con cluded between England and Denmark, in which certain modifications will he stipulated relatively to the navigation of the Baltic. It is not said whe ther Russia and Swtdeit will be parties in this tree: y.'• The long depending w: ger for 100 guineas, b . :. tween the celebrated Mr. henry Cockburn (upwards o 20 sti ne) and Mr. Thomas Whitehouse, was de cidcl in White Conduit Fields en Wednesday, lat aNe o'clock. The wager was to pick up 100 stones, at a yard distance from each other. Mr. C. cum. pleted the tusk with great ease in 53 minutes and a half; although greatly annoyed by an immense con course of people. THE NATIONAL REGISTER There was the lowest ebb at Harwich, on Wed nesday morning last, that has occurred for nearly 40 years. The cant edge of the Ooze and Guard were seen above the surface of the water, like a wall ; the Grissel, which has not been seen fur nearly halt century, wad just above the surface of the water ; and the cliff feet rocks were dry for nearly a quarter of a mile. In the course of the day it blew a gale from S S.W. About three o'clock in the morning of the same day, the brig Elegant, of Sunderland, Capt. W. Palmer, struck and sunk on the ruff in consequence of the greatness of the ebb. The crew, nine in number, tuck to the rigging; but the ship fell down, . with her masts into the water, and before ten o'clock six of them died from the fatigue and wet, or were drowned. The ebb re turning had the Abet of righting the ship, when Capt. I'., with two of the men who were still on the foremast; . inst considering the ship to be in bad state, the Captain determined on swimming to the mainmast, which after much difficulty he ac complished. Not long after the foremast gave way, and precipitated the two unfortunate men into a watery grave. Captain P. continued on the main top till about five o'clock P.M. when the Hero, of Woodbridge, Mr. Newton, master, bore dsiwn to his assistance, and succeeded in saving him front his perilous situation. An experiment was lately tried, in order to as certain the difference between the working of the long mould-boarded plough (used within 25 miles of London), with four horses, a man and driver, and a common light Scotch plough, with a pair of carriage horaes and.reins. The result turned- out, that the pair of horses ploughed, in six hours, one acre, nine inches deep by twelve, walking at the rate of three miles an hour ; the four horses plough. eel half an acre, seven inches. deep by nine, step• ping two miles an hour. The following is a copy ofa letter from the United States' Commercial Agent at Port-au-Prince, dated You will oblige bath myself and the parties concerned by making known, that from, the Ist inst. an additional tonnage duty of 60 cents.-per ton has been laid on all foreign shipping, making the present duty one dollar per ton." On Friday last the Grand Jury at Durham, re turned a true bill against John Ambrose Williams, editor of the Durham Chronicle, for a libel against the late Marquis of Londonderry, contained in that paper of the 20th of October last. The unfortunate Mrs. Donatty had resided In Robert-street 1.; 'years, soon after the death of her husband, who was of tha Jewish persuasion, and-he ' kept a lock-up-house in the neighbourhood of Fetter lane. It. was there that the • celebrated Nlorland painted . the beautiful pictures which the de , :eased lately sold, when at various times he was an em barrassed inmate there. Mrs. Donatty, who was a Jewess, had embraced Christianity, and was ct,n-c :dint in her attendance at a Dissenting Chapel. The extreme violence of the south-west wind on Tuesday night, combined with the natural effect of an ebb tide at nearly the top of the springs, caused the sea on Wednesday morning to recede, along the _northern shore of the county or Kent, to a, e*r atcr distance than within the recolleetion of the oldest inhabitant of the coast, and afforded an op portunity of obtaining many valuable articles, the remnants of wrecks anchors, &c. as also other oh juts of curiosity, which had been for a long series of years covered by the waves. The regulated time. of low water was about the hour of five in the morning, but the ebb did not cease till that oP eight,. three hours afterwards, during which period the sea was cbscrved to-ebb and flow three times in alternate succession ; and the final reflux is described us approaching in the shape of a con-Lmsed wave of considerable magnitude. The distance to which the sea receded is calculated at a mile beyond that of the usual low. water mark of spring tiles, in many parts more than two miles from the land. Extract of a letter from Malta, dated an. 12, 1822: " A very curious circumstance has lately occurred, so much so, that you would statcely credit it, wera you not acitiaintc4l with our Governor, Sir Thomas Maitland. His Excellency announced in the Gazclie a levee for the Ist of J.nuary, 1825, but wit/atilt mentioning his Illqiesty's mime r on the saine day lie also issued cards of invitation for a ball to the first classes Nye the English merchants, however, being excluded, except one.) It happened, accideillally, that several of the Consuls were not present at this levee of his, and his Icatellency was de termined to be avenged, by wrung them a note, ste,ing, Ilia: notwithsmnding the invitation given them, they should not be received at his ball ! What do you think of ti.is ? Iles it not something like Asiatic demotisin in it P—The Fre:itch Consul retutned an answer, mentioning that he had been indisposed. The Neapolitan Consul had ihern extremely engaged; the Gar- , man Consul sick; t h e Itussian Consul replied that he was at the levee; and the Spanish Consul hinted to nis Exc.:Holey, that in his time there had been but one levee held in honour ofbis Ma jesty, which was on his birth dri.y, when he had punctually attended—that on the let of.lanuary lie had paid his respects ias the Governor, to thank him fin. his ball, and that he hoped there would be nointerruption us their ft Mildly understanding , owing to this particular circuinqance. No reply whatever has been returned tothc Consuls, except to Oa p reach, who, I believe, has made MS peace." The Duke of Devonshire intends visiting his estates in Ireland its the course of the ensuing sass:- user. U COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. The negotiation which has been for some time pending respecting the management of this brilliant establishment, has been amicably concluded—an event which has been communicated to the per formers, &c. by the following letter : Old Bond Street, Tue,day, March 12, I It 22. " MT DEAR FAWCETT,—By the enclosed form of notice,• you . tvill perceive that the negotiation which has• been for some ' tame rending between the gentlemen holding the other shares ei Covent Garden Theatre, and myself, is concluded. I have tho. proud satisfaction of being able to state, that by this arrangement the payment of every creditor en the Theatre is coanplete:y se cured against all hazard. For this I !nice been induced to make the sacrifice of my personal feelings, and to quit, for a time, t h e • society of those whom I am p-ond to call my friends, by w'at•:• aid and exertions I have weathered many a theatrical gat such, however (I am confident) ie the good will of the Complry - of Covent Garden Theatre towards-mei that they will be the is to rejoice that I have beat relieved from the heavy weight of responsibility which has pressed upon me for so lung u pet iosl. Pray offer diem this tribute, which I ant happy to pay to their private woith and professional talent ; and assure them that, as Chief Proprietor of Covent Garden Theatre, my interests are still • inseparably linked with theirs, and that I am as anxious as ever to promote the welfare and happiness of you all, and believe me, " Your sincerely at,-ached friend, " To. J. FAWCETT, Eig." " H HARRIS. • A notice to take all orders from the other Propnehics, ...r. C. Kemble f Capt. Forbes,•and Mr. Wallets, A meeting of the country gentlemen will be held in a few days at the Thatehed-house, in St:Jaints's street, for the purpose of forming a deputation wait upon the Earl of Liverpool, on the preseat • depressed state of the agricultural interests. The Marquis of Huntley won the cup at the late Mahon coursing meetin g . Mi. Williams, one *E the counsel for the Queell in the proceedings against her Majesty in the Hoa, , e of LOrds, has announced himself a candidate for ti.c - seat in the representation of the city of Limela, vacant by the death of Col. Sibthorp. • So other candidate has been mentioned. Some time ago it was said that a jewel (an 11/71e. *re f the gossips say), the private right of his Ma jesty- to dispose of which was doubted, had been given as a present to the Marchioness of Conyngliam —that. some remonstrance was made by 'one of the " Ministers; on the subject of the Royal gilt—that Sir 13. Bloomfield was questioned—that he told more than was proper—that Royalty was olfended—th:t the jewel was retti`med. Vauxhall-gardens were sold by auction on Toes lay last, at the Mart, far 28,0001. The anxiety of Cis public was so great, that the largest room in the• establishment could not accommodate half the au— dience who were assembled. liti EADIU ACCLO:YS•I'.-011 Thursday evening last, - the ttetaithmti . nood Green-street amid Friar-street, ot • 13!.tekfriars-road, wts thrown into the greatest consttr- r 1136041 by die homing of one of the tanks bdotiging to 1 tile new station of tile South LsoiolonGas Quoispat.y in IVellington-street. Itreppears that the Ludt, which imall - been newly erects.; by contract, and-under the soperia teittlatice of an eminent house at Dudley, the diameter .• of winch was -la feet, and the depth 18 lees, had beers tille:1 whit water, preparatory to being;.brought into ac tion by the company, whet' an imperfect plate• of the tank, which the tankmakers were aintiondrentleavcu - Mg to secure, stave way. and Os immense pressure of water instantly tore one of the iron ho'ips asunder,!an , l inundated and destroyed some ache aslaceut uht-housee and walls, anthlrove in dilLrent directions. ertry thin.; ''• which impeded its progress. We are sorry to add- thrt• one of the tatik•maseis of Dud:et, named J. Morgan, was so dreadfully wounded about the head, that lie died - half an hour after he was returned from the premises, amd the hotly lies at a public-house, in Frier-s res.!, for the coroner's highest. - It is but justice to add, that toe premises, where this shocking accident liars erred, -ira wholly unconnected with the p:esent operations of 1;:e company, which of course cannot it: the least be ;-re jutliced by the calamitous occurrence. 'I tie lo,s•to trl.l • tank-nialters will be very considerable, the tank has :lig been erected under their direction, and at their owl risk. We are anxious to add, that not a moments ic cutivenience will be sustained by the persons so l i d i., d with Gas by the South London Company, :is the :lee/ tank was only intended to iitsure accoaitn.s. - dation. Oa Tuesday last a little girl; about-eight/ears ologe, • named Mary 'Plaster, solves& parents • are in 3 'lunatic, but,..11 in life, residing at Twil:kenhain, was sent by her . mother with her broibees dinner, who was at a school .tt a short distance-. -The child net returning at the ustisl lama did not excite any leiarits, as the mother cos- • chided she had been detained to return with bar broiler. —oi his coming I rein school in the evening, the mother • was alarmed with the intelligence diet she had del.vere.l the dinner in the regular manner, anti hail iintuediatt:y, as was suppo,ed, returned home. Notwithstanding the must diligent search has since been made throughTwiek- eithain and the ::eighbourinx parishes, up to Thats. , .. l • nothing whatever had been heard of her, oor any ch.e obtained to her probable situation. Sne had on wheal she left lie; home, a brown stuff frock with short sleeves, . a red cotton pinafore, and all old INl:ite beaver bount ; she has black eyes, dart; eimiviczion, and do:: hair. she ( S;JICIDI3.--011 fiatutday lasf agr. Rainstla:e, a I - esp.:et:Ade butcher of Kingsland, proare!le,l as usual, accompanied by his man to !...easletthal IVisitechapel markets on hie way up Itishopsfate-s'reer s he suddenly sprung outarf.the cart, and instantly on ms throat wills a large knife, which Ise threw up a passage. Ile waa itnaletliately ccneevtd home to We disco:-.solate family.in a state of instosititlity, cud every medical at ' sistanee was tOlrded, but to their• great a:fitetinit, he expirt•d about lour o'clock in the afternoon. Rettig a nun iii opulent circumstances, his most intimate r;:enati art ualaOlv to accouut t 4- :ha dreatifu! cgtzsuJphe.. • ffPV ', . t I .... .1 F F • • • . .