The National Register. — London, England, 1822-12-29 00:00:00

,: OEM IRELAND. sonera could. be bailed. His connexions are very respectable. Brownlow is cf a rank superior to all the other persons who have been arrested. His family are in very independent circumstance. [From the Dublin Eveisimq Post of Tuesday.l ADDRESS OP THE NOBILITY, GENTRY, AND CITIZENS. This day, at half past two o'clock, one of the most splendid and numerous deputations of citizens that ever assembled in Dublin, waited on his Ex cellency the Lord Lieutenant with an address of con. gratulation on his providential escape from the re cent Orange outrage at the Theatre. Saint Patrick's Hall was fitted up fir the occasion. We have not, at this late hour, time to describe the scene. It was one of the most imposing we ever witnessed. _ _ The following particulave of the late fracas be tween the American Consuls at Algiers and the Government of that place are. given in a letter from an American officer, dated' from Gibraltar ;—‘‘The late disagreeable affair at Algiers- has occasioned some uneasiness to our merchants, and various storks have been afloat respecting it. However, the real state of the affiiir is as follows—Our Consul, Mr. Shaker, being away, had left his nephew, the Vice Consul, to act in his place, who, when, out hunt ing, met some Turks, who told him he was tres passing on their fields, and desired him to go off.— He refused, and they in consequence attempted to use force, upon which he presented his gun at them, which so irritated the Turks, that they immediately disarmed him, and beat him with the butt-end.— The Vice Consul immediately complained to the Dey, and demanded satisfaction : but the Dey , told him he could giie none, adding, ' I allow you suf ficient protection by appointing you a dragoman.'-- This oftiaer is a man sacred among the Turks, every Consul being allowed one as a protection. It a Turk insults any one under their protection he loses his head. Our Vice Consul had omitted to take his dragoman with him, therefore he was re fused satisfaction - . He, however, told the Dey if he did not punish those men in 24 hours, he would cut down the American flag staff—to which the Dey replied he was perfectly at liberty so to do. The flag-stuff was accordingly cut down, and a vessel chartered to bring the Consul to Port Mahou, and Dr. Swift is left in his places. This has ousesioned great alarm among our merchants, to whom the idea of an Algerine war is by no means palatable, as it would do so much injury to our commercial inte rests, which are not in the most flourishing situa-. tion now, although we are in the • midst of peace. The Vice Consurii conduct 'btu; met with some ani madversion from several of our mercantile people, who consider him in a great measure the aggres sor." To the address, which was very emphatical pro nounced by the Lord Mayor, his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant delivered the tollowiug.reply:a— -" W►LLFSLLY, " The splendid appearance of this numerous and illustrious assembly, the cordiality and ardour of your congratulations, and your generous and affectionate attachment tomy person and government, constitutes such an addition to my honour and my happiness, and would adorn the close of a long and active life with such lasting glory, that, if the assassin be not yet dis armed, my pereoual inte►est would be, that he should strike now ; but my duty to nay God, lousy king, and to my Country, forbids such a wish; and here, in your presence, with the most unfeigned sincerity, t join my humble hope with your fervent prayers that my life may be spared fear the service of Ireland, adding, with the same earnestness, that if ever it should prove injurious or useless to her interests and welfare, it will no louver be valuablb to me. No exertions of which any public servant can be capable (however endowed with genius and zeal, or matured by expe rience) amid keep pace with the paternal solicitude of our be loved Sosereigii, for the tranquillity and prosperity of this in teresting portion of his dominions. Were 1 possessed of ail the qualifications which you are pleased to ascribe to me, 1. asastre you, in the most solemn manner, that I could scarcely render justice to the spirit of benevolence towards Ireland which animates his Majesty's Royal heart, and which is the unanimous, active, and ardent sentiment of all his counsels. " Whatever may have been the success of my government, my anxious endeavour has been to pursue the course of his 'Majesty's intentions and councils by an impartial exercise of the executive power, by a just and merciful sdininistratica of the law, and by a regular system of mitigating and allaying every cause of irritation, and every incentive to discord and division. " In relieving the distress of the last dreadful season, I was greatly assisted by many now present receiving from you this honourable tribute of your approbation, I desire to extend anion to our countrymen and fellow-citizens. " The indignation which the recent outrage has excited in your breasts is natural and honourable ; let me not be supposed to reprove so just a feeling when I declare, that having placed the consideration of that transaction in the bands of the low, I leave it to the sacred light of legal justice to discover the origin, prcgress, and object of that disastrous attempt. " So far, however, is my disposition averse from casting upon the nation the crime of individuals, that I consider this event to bays called forth the tree character of my country in the most amiable and vivid colours, and this assembly attests tie justice of my opinion. " On the other hand, neither the dangers with which.my life has been encompassed, nor any which may still impend over me, can disturb the even tenour of my course of government. Sensible of the value of yetir confidence in my firmness, I trust that Providence will never deprive me of the fortitude required to meet tae duties of my station. " The great and valuable lesson, however, inculcated on my min.% as it is upon yours, is the necessity of labouring to turn this evil to the public good. Here L claim your most assiuu ous and active exertions Cur the peace and honour of our coun try. Towards this useful, but difficult work. I tender you, in true sincerity of heart, the aid of every faculty, and of all the means which I possess or can acquire • and, recommending to yourdeliberate and united wisdom an d zeal, the calm and dis passionate consideration of the most effectual plan for removing trout your society the destructive incentive of division and discord, I implore lb. Cod who has saved my life to enable me to employ whatever days may be allotted to me in establish ing the tranquillity, freedom, and happiness of Ireland." ADMIRALTY.--It appears by a copy of a letter from Mr. Secretary Croker, to Mr. Buckle, late Chairman of the Committee of the Society of Ship Owners, dated Q3il inst. , that the Board of Admi. risky had just done what we believe the present ad- . ministration never did before take into considera tion, that in consequence of a prevalence of north and north easterly winds, the merchant vessels coming in the contrary direction may be in want of water and provisions, and Mr. Buckle is informed that their Lordships had therefore directed the Ad mirals commanding at Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Cork, to use their discretion in sending out ships with supplies, and to cruise till time wind changed. This is certainly a very prompt measure, as it was only on the 10th inst. that the wind changed, after blowing very strong for about six weeks from the south west, and at this sensen'suelt a precaution is not very necessary, as but few ships are expected from the south-ward and westward. We are, how ever, very happy to find that the trade of the coun try engrosses some of the attention of the Admiralty Board ; but it is probably owing to the approach of the meeting of Parliament, when the subject of the want of protection in the West Indian seas, and the late depredations of pirates there,. will, we are assured, be brought bake the House by several commercial members. Among the deputation we observed his Grace the Duke of Leinster, the E:!r1 of Meath, Lord Ardee, O'Conor Don, and several of our most distinguished fellow-citizens. We observed also, and we were happy to see them, the Most Hey. the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Troy. and 1)r. Murray, the Coadjutor Prelate. These venerable men were in full canonicals, and wore their crosses. The Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, at a special meeting held in London on Monday last, (the Lord Bishop of London in the Chair), resolved to erect a monument to the memory of , the lute Dr. Middleton,. Lord Bishop of Calcutta, in St. Paul's cathedral ; and the members of the society are every where invited to contribute to it, nut exceeding their annual subscriptions. We never witnessed a scene which affected us so deeply ; we never saw a meeting' so moved, as the very distinguished company who were present in St. l'atriek's Hall, and, certainly, there never was a reply so emphatic, so full of feelingl so pregnant with the fire of youth, and the wisdom of mature age. Immediately after the reception of the address of the inhabitants of the city of Dublin, this day, by the Lord Lieutenant, his Excellency held a Levee. There were present among others, his Grace the Duke of Leinster, the Archbishop of Dublin, Lord Meath, the Mon. and Rev. Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. Wal lace, Milliken, the Sheriffs, Aldermen Harty and Kenny, Colonel Morris, &c. &c. His Excellency's private secretary, in the first instance, introduced Mr. Milliken, and from the marked attention with which his Excellency honored him, we have every reason to believe that his ser vices have been duly appreciated. Prisoners charged ►with conspiring against the life of the Lord Lieutenant. -1 he Handwiches, we be lieve are carpenters ; George Graham i► a shoe maker ; William is a printer, and a person of better condition in life. Forbes is the person who applied to the magistrates at College -street, on the morning atter the riot, and just after he had been reprimand etf for his own conduct, to know whether the pri. The bodies of the seamen belonging to the sloop Lord Ncla.a, which was wrecked near Hayle, De vonshire, on the 16th instant, have been picked up and interred in the churchyard of Phi Hack, Some of the cables and anchors of the vessel have been recovered and lodged in a place of safety. The dis position to plunder, too often manifested by the people along the coast in cases of shipwreck, appear ed but in a very partial degree on this melancholy occasion; the inhabitants of the neighbourhood generally exerting themselves to save the property and place it in a secure situation. Extract of a letter from the agents to Lloyd's at Smyrna, dated the Stst of October:—" The situ ation of this place continues prfectly tranquil, and more satisfactory lux future prospects, in consequence et very vigorous measures being at length adopted by the governor of the city, to repress the turbulent populace; and many of the ringleaders in the late disorders have been publicly executed. From the quarters of hostilities no intelligence of. any interest has lately been received." THE NATIONAL REGISTER . 413 Tin Ns, MARRIAGIS Arun - . A. great deal has been said and written with respect t 6 this celebrated act, but many of our readers probably have not a (ear idea of the circumstances which led to its in ,4troduction. • They are as follow :a- , The-Mitrehioness . -- of Donegal. was Miss May, •and was the natural daughter of a gentleman celebrated for assisting persons of fashion with , loans- of money. Being married to the-Marquis, she became the mother of seven children, the Earl of Belfast being the eldest son of the Marquis and herself, and *heir of the titie and estates. The Earl of Belfast being-arrived at manhood, was reported to be on the eve of =trent: with the daughter of another nobleman. At the; juncture, the Hon.• Arthur Chichester, younger brother of the Marquis of Donegal, and heir of the title and estates should his brother die without law ful issue, came fbrward, and intimated his•intention to dispute the validity of the marriage of his bro ther with Miss May; lie contended that the lady • called and calling herself Marchioness of Donegal, was still Aliso May. or at least not lawfully married to-his brother ; and, consequently, that the Earl of - Belfast and the other children were illegitimate, andahat, .aa far as they were concerned, he was the actual heir presumptive. In this manner at an advanced age, the Marquis and -Merehioness found their marriage questioned, and their children de scribed as illegitimate. The ground:of the conduct on the part of Mr. Arthur Chichester waft- the mar riage of the Marquis and Marchioness by license, svithout the corned of any person authorised by the act of-1745. It will be observed that, had the marriage taken place by buns, the objection could not have been raised. • One of the consequences of Mr, Arthur Chichester's intimaion was,;the post• panetnent of the marriage of the Earl of Belfast ; and, in the mean time, the Marquis and Marchi ness commenced such proceedings in the Spiritual Court as afforded the beat chance of establishing the validity of their marriage—though their chance in the course of law, under thaact 1745, appears :t, have been small. The course of proceeding,. then, in the Donegal case, was this, and in all similar cases it is equally needful.—The Marquis and • the Marchioness discontinued to live together, whil-e the Marquis commenced a suit against the Marchio ness, in the nature of an amicable suit in Chancery. far what, in the language of the Spiritual Court, is called " Jacitation" or assumption of marriage; thereby requiring the Marchioness to show upon . what pretence she called herself his wife, and why she should'. nut. be forbidden so to do; and thevelbrs affording to the Ntareltioness an. opportunity ta establish. if pos.siltle, the validity -of the marriage by legal evidence, which evidence would then be come matter of record for posterity, and demonstrate the legitimacy of the children. This, it appeav, could nut be. accomplished, and the at was intro duced, in order that its retrospective classes might seamed where a straight-forward course had failed. The marriage of the Earl of Belfast, with Lady Harriet Butler, daughter of' the Earl Glengal, has very recently taken place. At a Common 'Hall of the Corporation of Lei cester, on Wednesday last, it was resolved forth with, to make several hundredsof honorary fiveteen, principally non-residents, as the means o f counter acting, it possible, the amaandancy which liberal opinion is evidently obtaining over corporation in fluence. There have been three hundred+and sixty cases of cancer in the city of Canterbury - abase, since the ° fashion of women veering steel busks - in their stays first commenced. These, by pressing on the bosom, the physicians are of opinion, have occasioned many cancers, and numerous distressing and fatal cases. A young man mimed Cuignet, aged 26 a farn:s: in Flanders, who had assassinated his mother, was executed at Lille on the 14th instant. He was led to the scatlbld barefooted, and his head enveloped in a black veil, and his right hand was cut off before he was-beheaded The Journal de. Paris contains a letter from Ve rona, which asserts, that in consequence of the recent ministerial changes at Constantinople, orders hatl been sent by the Russian Government to the Gene- - rads in Chief of the armies of the South and West for. she concentration of their troops, in order to be ready for every event. The censorship of Lausanne Las ordered that the • proprietors of reading rooms in that city shall s ot lend out the works of Sir Walter Scot, On Tuesday the 17th inst. a fire broke out in the chateau of the Prince of Orange, at Terveuren, near Brussels: the cause of this is unknown. Happily it was discovered in time, and immediate asaistanee being given, the fire was extinguished by two o'clock, without having done any other mischief than destroying some part of the small staircase near the dressing-room. On Saturday last, a large monument to the me mory of the late Mr. Perceval, was opened in West minster Abbey. It represents him falling at the moment of assassination. Bellingham, his assassin, . is introduc.d. -Nothing can be in warse • 4 03."' • • I " . . Ell I . -