The National Register. — London, England, 1823-04-14 00:00:00

~j IM ""--- • - - „ 7,- LAmillibtlitlf VIA 160. --- .., , t trtE e . —m a i.— 1 :: AA I.' fl - . te• was ea Tuesday held in the oharob of St. Dineis liacinharch, in Feticharch-etriet, for the sleuth* of tin ' lthlthilllenidliwthemose 'of Sir Jelin knew, deoeued. 71411111101111111.111 a YOR arrived at *be* half-pest two, sad having s6ir, the ward headleoinade reclansatioo, and the for convening the wardenste was read. • r.. BOP RA DA 11.6 then proposed Si r *anti. Demi'', ci * , thien and dyer, es a candidate for the vacant ogee of Alder : ttetia. Mr. ELLIoTT amended the proposition, Mr. ittcrv, in rising so propose another candidate for the Wise of Mderm* said much inconvenience had frequently *netted from the nee.residenoe of the Alderman within the Ward, the whole of which would tie obvibled by the election of the gentleman whom he bad then the Legere to propose • sad with whose mine be would conclude. 11* thou ream mended Mr. John Lets, adieu, and stationer: On the th ew of hands the Lord Mayor 'declaredilti nenthare in he—For Mt. Key, 59—For Sir r. Deamarel Ilas • dig alit the choice had therefore fellation Mr. Key. .. ~.- . : i'' A poll (wird, urn to tiontioue two days) was thew demigod ow behalf of Sir F. Desanges ; and the business of the aleetios conelatted. Oa Thursday morning •the Lord Mayor proceeded to the vestry room of St. Dionis. Seek Church, mud opened the poll pro forme. His Lordship then stated, that on Wednesday night he had received a leiter from Sir Francis Deranges, de e:ining any. further contest,thotwithstandiag whi:ls he was ets• lilted to keep the poll open for the period bled upon. la the evening the poll closed, and in favour of Mr. Key.. the mothers tieing—For Mr. Keys, 135—for Sir P. messages, lOU —Majority, 40. The Lord Mayor thew declared that the election fell epos Mr. Key*. Mr. Keye then stood forward le totem thanks. He assured his friends dims!! hilremortielis SiA•ll4,blll used to promote the interests of the Ward, and that aup . a9thes that might have' swept in daring the period they wools& I head, should be at- , tacked with vigour. Thanks tieing voted' to the Lord Major,who complimented* the new Alderman. thoWartheeleithe dissolved. ' 'The Lord Bishop of illy. bas appointed Henry Storks, Esq. (Deputy Recorder of Cambridge), Chief Justice of the isle of Ely, in the room of the .late Eiward Christian, Esq. At the York assizes an action was brought in the Civil Court by Mr. Rushworth, attorney, of Hull, ' opine the proprietors of the Rod:iota= news- Lipper, to recover damages for a libel re acting upon his professional character. Verdict fur the OsiAtiff —Damages, awe hellpeeel. The vexations system of passports in /hones, couplied with the manner in which it is conducted, is becoming an increased subject of complaint with ' traveller". Ai an instance, we may mention what Mss recently occurred in the case of Mr. Edward Holland, a young man of 17, and son. to one of die partners in the house of Baring and (to. He ar rived at Paris on the 31st ultimo, on his Way hurtle from Geneva, where he had completed his edam . tion. Owing to his passport not having been regu larly transmitted from the frontiers, he was detained at Paris till Tuesday last, notwithstanding daily applications had been made to the proper quarter to grant a new passport, and had then no expectation of.elwaining one, but through the interference of the English. ambassador. Surely this evil should be remedied, unless it is meant to cut off all intercourse with.foreigners. Flourishing State of C'ernmerce.—The traffic. Ow the Linnet and Avon river, from Bristol to London, has been greater the last month titan has ever been known since that communication has been opened;', . the tonnage foe that time exceeding any former month by upwards of 1000 tone. Exaduetise or Joita Bott.—This sakelaaala • peon lam pillor his triel-al Exeter knifes, for life of Jae; • Jutland, a< Lallomperk, his seetiosamb him , very pes liettlet sad peeper imestears le a meabill rent apliateeday (the . 44 inst.) with Money. Me. Cie riatte,be 'impressed the deepest aerrew fee JO.. 11110 1 11111* 1W set, bet was at es I. WOW ret e WA* prompted Mee to it Atie Wed, be Ad, was ambit state tunny that be knew not what be dbl, laHabbße• sated self.destrantioa. Vie allemwd, that übsintli ghee him encouragement for twelve months,. daring 'Ma Arne be hmil rever parts .; from her at night without saluting WA amilibM is first heard from his inlieteroT her beierg.engagod M MIAMI man. To the turnkey be said—" I love her dearer dialog woman upon earth, sad I would gaffer my body this iteMeMi to be cut into pound pieces to do her any servios." Us (signs( fruity said to the Rev. Mr. Chase, "-I hope you will siksinies ter the aa eaa ment to me before I die ;" 'thirds the Rev. pew • Omega premised him he would dm Ha meidineed a repel which had been current among the servants of Lift that he had been in the habit of carrying poison about him;t said he had travelled with it thousand.. atones, but the prim .• pose to which he always applied it was tbe cleaning of MO braes harness, and that he never entertained a tlemapat of using it for the 'impose insinuated. On an another wasmaims. be asked Mr. Chars if be would transmit a letter for him to rib 'object of his fraction, to signify his forgiveness, and to remo ver ber's in return; bat Mr. Huris (brother to Mr. Areadell, fr Lates-park) visitiag him shortly after, he unit. a verbal message. He took Isere of his father on Thursday, after. * most painful interview on both sides; his distressed make had not been able to summon resolution enough to see kit.. same bin sentence. Ou the scaffold be appeared to suffer ameb.in w trd feeling, and trembled exceedingly ; bet his teewiner.al w ill as bit expressions were perfectly resigned. When, Ike chaplain bad finished his usual prayers, in which he 4.VN joined, "Tell her I forgive her, sued I hope she will full,* me. -- If you are my poor dear parenlii, tell them died happy. awl at peace with all mankind." J at before beef gave the fatal signal, an acquaintance ascended the platform so shake bands with bim, to whom his parties words were— " God bless you, when we elect again, I hops it will he in a better place." About twenty minutes past twelve this unhappy victim of powerful passion yielded his life, in expiation of his outrage en the laws of his country. '''Ou his coma was this simple inscriptive—" J. 8., aged 21, ilia." MEN 4_ . , TR DOZING. :—.1.-- BELASCO, AND HALTON, THE 1111811 CHAMPION; This battle, for 100 sovereigns it aide was sought on Wednesday last on Harpenden Heath, Finn - miles from St. Alban's, Herta, and twenty-five front- London. Richmond and' Ben Burn seconded Belasco, and Josh. Hudson and Randall officiated for Halton,- On Belasco throwing hist castor into the ring, it blew out again, and the sAinees thought it a bad filen •• but a few minutes elapsed before both shook *Sods Halton seemed to want confidence. .• THE BATTRE. Honed I.—Belasco, after about three Initiates man** [ plastid his bits, left and right, aperehe-hiaat lad Hamra hit abort ; is a close Relasee fell, and Hilton; although is the beat , of action, bit his adversary when sappased down. Cries of foul Mid fair, and a general row. The empire deeided fair. S. Release much out-fought his adversary, bled tam at lbw aamdlt, and threw him-8 and 7tos on Belem*. • 8. Halton went in bent epos mischief, and Below. waited. Vile Ma as a hawk would A tom lit bird. Hidion'threw away • Me Mows, became intemperate at receiving, and was sobbed away sad wonted at the weaving system, and bled at the ear. 4. In a close' Belasco got hie bead under his adversary'/' ens; and fiddled sway upon lb* weaving ',stem, until thee elate Rini in streams, and Halton's theme was rather sod than precariees. 2to 1 was upon the wandering eyeteeth h. Halton "hewed much anxiety tad determinationto get h.; ' bet ll'a woe so out fought by his ad y 'secedes him and that breaking ironed, that good judges thriught;ueleu a tire wet, it was Hertfordshire to one of its mill streams. . • G. A game round and much fighang, 'led lashon'heil 11/411* the worst of it. He felt his adversary's bead with the right • Nand ; but the blow ',riel/ bees received apes 'the retreat did het little inanities as the back of the hig. • 7. Bosh were epos the piping &pieta, and Isst little work. done, The men were like e.arpentati dOcie indite work oli's winter's day: , 8. Belasco placed a heat y body' Mob aperildiadversaif, ' mad Hslton's hits were avoided by superior seielke. grid the 13th round Belasco 'led, and then we it without dropping blood. Haltbn often got wild dud received blows lit , the bead and body, whirl groggified him. He 'vase hit dodrit spotelli• weaving genre in . the This round, end is -the 10th be looreditie adversary. , • le the 11th round Referee repeated heavy poniabotent, add the ring became alamurbasi• Ti was said that Halsor, fell upon • his adversary, and .. foul" 'and " fair" were loudly sung est. but the Umpire said' " firer" won it, and pros/absrd Retest° the 'veinier. ' REMARKS. Halton is a fine couraged man, but be came to the ' London ring with rather too much reputatioa.—He ' bad no right to have been matched against one of the best fighter. in the kingdom, of superior weight He is a very indifferent judge of Isis distance, inas much as he never drew blood fr.im Isis scientific adversary, with all his lunging bitting and his will, to du so. Belasco has got better id i mob and' a tactician. „,. ..,„ .• i ~ . &MOND Frairr.i--sonte nfatuated of the lower orders of the sister Kingtler'im get into the ring, thinking their countryman had tint' been kindly treated ; they were bludgeon-armede-aSume Colin- • try-men got into the ring, mistaking them for• some prigs, • and were also armed /a new. Suite Jews, more handy with their rnassleys, took the part of Bel d aseo, and u regular mill, of a quarter of an hour's duration, took place, when cured flew most abundantly untill all were worsted, till the conveyancers interfered, and had the best of the row and pocketed the affront. . . Nlowaritous OoTkarse.U.Dirritig the 101 l erwlevof the SI. rfeesge stearirpocfet frrosi Liverpool to lhilllirif a gentleman us rerilqarcumpanied by his wife one firmly. oecuried one of the callow, where lass a sofa, Ixtrep Ins daug,liier, a young lady of about 12 years Of •sgr, • used as a birth. •in the coterie of toe night she lierceiveul ' a msti approach her on the soar, whops she first ti ttttt ,clic ; was her lath: r, but on tits attempting to take indecent liberties with her person, she called out, and the passen gers being alarmed, homed to the cabin. I which the Captain was seen rirUlling. On the vessel coining into harbour, Mr. Hayes, agent to the Si. George, Steam packet C pally, contrived to bring the Captain so the office in Abby street, where he detained him while lie went to the Magistrates or College-street Public laces and required hills to he token into custody ; but the Nlagisir.ites conceived, as the offence was c ttttt united on the high seas, .iiii not witiiiit their jarisil iction, they had ) no authority to mat a warrant' or` apprehend him, and ) that it wits an Admiralty all.rir: . Mr. Hayes, however, did net hesitate to inflict on the rattan all the punish ' awns in his power, amid he actordiugty discharged hint from the packer, as also every person belongina to the vessel to whom the.leisit blame conld attach.. From the difficulty its presailing on the young lady to come fir- - ward in a pishhe coon, we fear that joie*, well be rie feateil,snal etietnotister escape that punishment he's* well inerits, and the packet proptimotsant matinious be . should. receive. WALKING MATCH ron'Twerre SOVIIIIIIONS.F.- , Ali officer in the army (Mr. Webb) undertook ens Tties. `day to walk, fair heel and toe, se 'auks its two Ileitis, ... over a piece of ground of duce suites. The Mild' usol -- place at Ashford, and betting was six to tour on time. • She pedestrian did the first mile in tern! tiiinsite• and twenty-seconds, and the three sulks ini'.twenty-teitie • mint:nes, forty seconds. The first tax miles were &r -immed ill two m • s tinder the I , nine miles iu a ' minute and a half andel an hour and a half; and itte whole divante to one hour, fifty-nitie mantles. sod ''. ' thirteemsecorida. The terall.coach froin London to Leeds was nvetiviroed • on sl'ire.d.ry night last, at Nrwlon-bar, neer Wakefield. --Tile coacituum had his thighs broken, but INIUN insure patient is received any s r.i.,tia injury: ., Iv .• INSALPENr DEBTORV ACTS. sarirINISTEll MEETMG: At Thursday last, • meeting of the merchants and traders of Westminster, was held at Willis's Homo., pursuant to public notice, to consider 'the propriety of petitioning the legislatute to aristud die acts (or the rthel of insolvent debtors. J. C. Bottum/say Esq. took the chair. Sir Francis Burdett also attended. Mr. Hoauotise mentioned in a It., words, that hr attended to take the chair at the desire of his constitu ents, whose wishes he was always ready toobey. MP. Lost. then read the resolutions, whieis declared that the acts kneaded fist the relief of the homes unfor. titillate debtor, were converted into an instrument by which utapeineipied men alelrauded their creditors. The petitiok prayed, that the detaining eredisors of insolvents' should be examined its the losolvent Conn, and if found to be in co':tasi tttt with the insolvent, to be subject to punishment. It also prayed, that insolvent debtors should be deprived of the benefit of the Rules of the King's Bruck and Fleet Prism - 11;4ml that the Insolvent Court should be empowered to decide on the claims of creditors, who might sue their debtors in that Cour. for sums not exceeding 151. in the same manner as the Court of Requests now decidrin debts under 5!. This suggestion appeared to meet with general approbation. Mr. Long then moved that the resolutions mud petitions should be agreed by the merging. Sir Francis seconded she motion. Mr. SLoeart. said, he thought the petition !houldire the motion, and ptopnard Sir F the appointment of a committee, to whom ally amt.. Nation in the present lietitiust might be suggested, esti ' who might prepare a petition, of which the present might loon the ground work, which would probably be approted of at a future meeting. Mr. Fottexa expressed himself strongly in favour of the proposal tor depriving insolvent detni:ra of the Rules of the hinge s Bench and Fleit•Psiions. The resolutions for printing Use petition was then put, ' and agreed to unanimously. A comtnit tee of 19 was appointed to receive commu nications on the subject, and submit the result to the next ineetiog, which was appointed to take place on Thursday, the 24th Thanks were toted to the chairman, after which the' meeting dissolved. The lurid of Joaeph rematns of this wretched being, $4.110 at.egnitied to astrassitede Si! C. flampfylde, and at the same moment put a period to his own existence, and against whom the Coroner'. Jury recorded the verdict of " Feb& se." was rerouted noun the Wdrcester Arms, George Street, !Norman Square, on Tuesday night, to Mfrylebone workhouse, and from thence, at 4 o'clock ohs Tlioisday morning,. a procession consisting of the beadles, and other parochial. officer., conducting a cart, upon .which the body *lay. They koreetled-to St. Jbhn's Wood, Chapel ROA . : Padding ton, and a pit of considerable. depth anst•lrogitravas dug in the , Centre or croisintecif the roue ettailileading to Paddington, Highgate, tlarylettone and Loudon ; tha surface of the bottom of the trench, or pit, was strewed with slackened lime; the body was then thrown in, and instantly covered with ans.', lime, and sand; a stake, to fulfilahe ancient law, was then driven through the earth and body, and the grave was filled op. Very few permits attended ;. a strong patty of constables were on duty round the grave. • At a quarter ia three o'clock on Thursday mornitig an alarming fire broke out at Mr. Gila* the Nlaidels head public:4low, in liant.cuoit, Fl.et•street: "l'ile whole neighbourhood was in a dreadful state of alarm. The distress w as, indeed, treater thanwe have witnessed nn similar occasions, Owing to the lateness of :he hour, the narrow entrance to the court, and 'the Conserportit dilllculty of egress and regress,. Wonted and turn half dressed, were seen rushing impetuously Ihmugh :be Crowd : some anxiously looking for their familirli, and others, in the violence of their anguish, exclaiming that they had lost their all I Two palish engines arriied instantly, atilt:there was , o-plentlfat sopply warei ; but ' theistatbility of theircondieliers' to bring them into play added to the confusion. The arrival of the 11111 l ernl•detio fire-offite engines at length stayed the progiess ol the con flagration ; but not till it had completely destroyed the Maidenhead public-house, where it originated, and the the house of Mr. Potts; in Sergeant's lam, situated to the rear of h ; three other houses •re also 1111 l ell injured.— We are happy to add that no hers have been lost. 'l'lle flumes had coinstronicated tolhe staircase in the house of Mr. Potts, before the inmates (consisting of twit yousig gentlemen and the itotasekerper)), were apprised or their danger, and they, with great vliflieulti, escaped over the 'roofs of the homes ; tout • a vestige of the property has been saved. Llassyslthe Alert Packet —lt is with sincere regret that liged friends of 41e we fret eursehres 0b14....t1 to annuuncr•to t. the sufferers in the alga, that bir. little hopes can lit entertained of :he recovery of any more of the bodies; although boats lave been constantly not, none has been f d since the find dayoniti it is supposed trout the strong easterly winds winch have lately prevailed Ihey must have driven them to sea. We have seen two gentle men who have jest returned from Holyhead, where they have been fur the last lahr da;s,• engaged in au effectual search for the bodies of Messrs. Hine and Lindsay, the only two eibiti passengers (besides Mr. M'Master) %Aline names have been ascertained. In a gentleman's garden, in the• vicinity of St. Anne's-street, Liverpool, three land tortoises, which had buried themselves in the earth nt the beginning of'October last, rose from their earthly sepulchres, about two o'clock on the Ist inst. within half an hour of Mal other, to the no small astonishment of the observers. The sudden transition in the atmos pherefrons cold to heat, is preNunicil to have been the quo of their almost simultaneous resurrect:Q.l. V I 1 I I • i