The National Register. — London, England, 1819-02-01 00:00:00

TISTS. I Froas the LONDON GAZETTE, Staurlall, Jam. 30. ----- BANKBUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. N. Walker. brewer. J. 'Taylor, Cotton-dealer. WhittinUP'TCYgton Alit?hTD. 11A.NER C. Emery, Dealer, BrotnleyßANK-wno RUPTS . Stafforatire. T. Lloyd and J. Win er, Blue Ball le.rd, St. James's Street, Westminster, Whir Merchants Ans. Mears. liennetts and Co. King's Arms Yard, Coleman Streit. Bnilder, Chatham. Att. Mr. James, Solicitor, Earl Street Blackfliars. J. Borgia, Ornamental Paper Manufacturer, Southampton Street Strand. Att. Mr Castle, Solicitor, Cursitor Street. J. Barker, ISrcwer, Stratford Essex. Att. Mr. E. G. Smith, Fins bury Square. J. llaulley. Coal Master, 'Worcester. Att. Mr. Edware Bigg, South ampton Buildings. Chancery Lane. j. Vradley, Cheesemonger, Coventry Street, flay Market. AtL Mr. Popkin, Dean Street, Soho. D. Baylis, Clothier. Stroud, Gloucestershire, Att. Mr. T. Young, New Com Exchange, Mark Lane. C. Perkins, Westminster, victualler. Att. Mr. D. Jones, New inn, Strand. D. Price, Watford, Ihnts. linemdraper. Atte. Mews. Davies and Son, Letitbury. J. Jai, Old Jewry. wi ghell Sntne-treet.erchant. ABS. Messrs. Taylor. Smith , and GA. New Basin R. Greetulade, Plymouth, bailder. Atte. Mc‘srs. Darks, Chu.elt, and Duke. Chancery Lane. J. Permit, Birmingham, printer. Ans. Messrs. Swain and Co. Jou Jewry. Wi T. R. Macleod. nchester Street, wine merchant. AU. Mr. J. !lore, jun. Hatton Garden. 11. Hudeon and G. Huelsea, Liverpool, elopsollere. ABS. Messrs. AT.ington and Gregory, liedftird Row. 'l'. RAdaAii. 'Aymara, merchant. Ans. NISSiTS. Adlington and frrrgory, Belford Row. W. Redden, Liverpool, merchant. Attc. Mess is. Addington and Gregory, Beilfo.d Row. .1. Jena, Liverpool. merchant. Ans. Messrs. Dacia and John, Tmiple Bar. Isaac Henn. Birmingham. screw-makes. Atu. Messrs. Hicks and Braikenridge, Bartlett': -Buildings, London. Ralph Walker.lelewcastls-upon-Tyne, grocer. Atte. Messrs. AtVason and Wilde*. Chancery Lane 'r. Cer , per, Loudon. merchant. Att. Mr. B. Crosley, Great Jr.:ll et St re Rearm: Row. F. Tlompson, Ship-builder , Globe stairs, Bothrerhithe. Atts. Alessre Swain and Co., Er:Aeries-plane, Old Jewry. 'Ulf 1 ' NAL REGISTER. LON1)0N: AfONDAY, FEBRUARY, 1, 1819. The limas have remained very steady for genie weeks the fluctuations of the day seldom eeeeedine or 4 per sent. Yesterday there was a Small declining to the payment to the Pools of SO per cent. on the New Loan, on which that establishment had advanced the Instal ments for the Pittlie, on being allowed five per cent. per sou. interest. The next and final payment is on the 10.11 of February. On seronnt of these heavy paymente, money has hermue rather waree in the City, Exchequer Bills, formerly at 2f) and 21 premium, have fallen to 12 and '3, slid a considerable quantity of new ctock has been thrown upon the Market. When the effect of these money tronse ,, ti-ns has ribsiried, a very considerable advance in the prices o° the funds is very generally an ticipated in the City. In the House of Commons yesterdav, a petition we' presented by Mr Sinclair. from Hint, avinet the Westminster Hustinrs Bill, now in progress through that House. The petition, though not without a due portion of "skirnble-skamble stuff," was worded with a suffic'ent tleeree a! respect to secure its reception. Yet it commenced with a palpable violation of truth. for it set forth that " at the last election for the city of Westminster the prisoner stool, along with five other gentlemen,' &c. We positively object to this classi fication on the mitt of quilt. The object of the peti tion vvas one, which is very familiar with those " other gentlemen" who breed liberty ; namely, the liberty of modyfeimr all esistin , r laws in such a way that they To use a favourite phrase in the pctit;on. they are lawny, for "snapping" at the may rlt ea . /44 t!•emsel'es. ri. , ht to do ;,,st wis.nt illev A short hot inter 41',senssion subsequently took •phice. neon the Rt:l!e of silver currency of the country. Mr. Cnv.rxrr.T.L, revertior ro what he had mentioned (Jo a limner evenin g ;, observe& that upon enquiry he hail brand the statula - ..1 price of silver was five shillings una seven-renee rer nonce being one piny above the Mint or two shilling in the pc and of silver. Tiros 'h this prnit is too small to create any great te.up . .ution 1 , 1 perOons to melt it down, vet it presents a fact cf s ufficient importmee 'o call fear the attention of Parliament. When the new coinage was issued, h was certainly ex”ect.O. .1-oth by the le 4 islatnre and the es‘..in•rv, zmerally. tot the t itn•age of six Isl. et.:lt.. ve‘whl be a3eqoaitc to the protection of our :Silver currency. The eirtu:mstnnee, however, of its hein in 4 1auger so soon After the petitta °fit* iutar, dWii'V43ll THE NATIONAL REGISTER. consideration. The seignoraga of six per cent. which was taken, may certainly be enti;elerel us a sufficient security fur all ordinary cries, and with respect to the prescn• slight excess beyond the price provided• for by that. etignorage, there is, we understand, good reason to believe, it will soon cease. Should it happen other wise, however, and any great or permanent rise in the price of bullion should take place, then, as Mr. W. POLE justly observed, it will become the duty of Parlia ment to counteract the evil by some legislative ia attire. The actual increase of the standard, above the Mint, price of silver bullion is not only extremely recent, but certainly too trifling to cause any serious apprehension with respect to the disappearance of our silver currency. We have received New Orleans papers to the 30th November. They contain no intelligence of the last interest; but private letterafivm the same quarter state, that tke Crisp d'A.sle had been broken up, and that the United States Government vessels had received instruc tions to capture the privateers which those free bootcrs had detached to cruise in the Goloh. Th•• Firebrand had fallen in with liar of them, which she had cap tured and sent to New Orleans. The accounts from the Ilarannah mention that there had been severul severe gales. Seventeen vessels which sailed from Cadiz early in Nov. with 1200 troops for Cuba, had not arrived on the 19th Ike. These troops were reported to be destined for the Floridas. The transports which conveyed the 6urrison of Pensacola to the Havat:ieit, were ready to return with the Spanish forces to take possession of the Floridas in the name of FRRDINAND ; but the island was so infested with f Insurgent privateers, that their sailing had been I postponed. . We have received this morning the Paris Papers of ednestlay last. The only intelligence of any interest whicfi they contain relates to the Funds, which are progressively improving. On Tuesday the 5 per cents. opened at 69f. and left off at 69f 20e. ; but we under stand an express has reached the City, with the prints of Wednesday, on which day they were 69f. 70c. Paris papers of Sunday arrived at a late hour on Wednesday night. They are singularly destitute of interrest scarcely offeriug a paragraph that de serves to be extracted. An article dated Constanti nople, of the 10th ult., describes an *Wray between the crew of a Russian vessel and a number of Turkish bott men, in which the former, after seeing the Russian flag, which tJtey had hoisted fir their protection, taken down and torn to pieces by their enraged antagonists, were obliged to seek safety in flight and cencealaient among the other vessels in the harbour. The Russian Minis ter complained tithe insult to the Turkish authorities, (engaging, that if his countrymen should he found to be the aggressors, they should be sent in chains to Odessa) ; and the Turks, on their n side, caused the ring leader of the rioters to be arrested. The affair termi nated, as usual at the Porte, in the impurity of the guilty, and the banishment on the Aga of the Janissaries, who was made responsible for acts which lie could nos prevent. —The French funds on Saturday were: Five per Cents." 68f. 60e, ; Bank Stock, 1,5000 f. Accounts from Washington to the 30th ult. state, that the Senate had been sitting for the last two days with closed doers. It was understood that the new commercial treaty between great Britain and the United states bad been taken into consideration. The Porte has just launched two new 74's. The Sultan, with all his Ministers was present on the occasion. M. A. Pisani, second interpreter of the English Embassy. permitted his children to go and see the ship launched Two days after, the son, whq was 14 years of age, was seized with the plague, and died in 48 hours. Dutch 'lepers to the 23d, and three Hamburgh mails, bringing papers to the 19th inst. arrived on Tuesday morning. An article dated Brussels, Jan. 18, states, that-acconling to i• accounts from Paris, the King, at the proposal of the Minister for Foreign Adana, had given permission to some more of those persons wise were banished from France by the Royal ordinance, to return to their country. Among those persons, it is slid, is a well-known General. who, at the time of the King's flight to Lisle, put himself at the head of some cavalry to pursue his Majesty." It is also asserted, " that Marshal Soult, M. Arnaud, and some others, arc not yet included in this measure ; but people who pretend to be well in:Untied, are convinced that upon the occasion of the King s coronation, all the exiled persons wit be recalled. ' Oa Tuesday there was a nomerous assemblage of t'eers at Fife-house, the residence of the Earl of Livsr pal. Tues.'ay, three men, who have been brought to England tisan the Isle of France, underwent en laves ilgatiatt at the Secretary ty:' States office for the Home Department. charged wish efri;eco under the Slave Trade art. x~ . TO TAE EPI7'OII.OF THE NATIONAL Stn,—As it is par.ieularly desi.-able that the public should e.icrtain a well-grounded ea:Lick:ice in the zonni and 1-,;al discrimination of those who are con cerned in ..ite administratim tf justice, f bfg leave, thrmgh the medium o yonr paper, to recommend the attentive consideration of ts late publication, en. titled " Observafons on the Case of Abraham Thorn. :on, who was Tried for the Murder of Mary Ashford; by a Student at Law." The charge of the learned Judge who presided on that tfial, and the conduct of the jury, who after ma ura a:liberation acquitted the prisoner, have been ;he subject of vau.t discussion ; and from facts ha. pethctly unde:stood, and conclusions overhastily drawn,. many persons have been disposed *to inapugn the pro priety of the determination, who will Le enabled to form a more correct and dispassionate judgment on a. patient examination of all the circumstances of the case, now that the voice of popular indignation is silenced, and the fervour of popular opinion abated. Virions have been the arts employed 'o create and perpetuate prejudices on this subject. A pamphlet has been written " By an Attorney at Law," under assur ances of the strictest impartiAtv, to which he wa nitride or unwilling to adhere. In the outset of th: of work he offends against the spirit of calm inquiry, by a description of the unflartunate Mary Ashihrd, cal cuhicted to .:cite the strongest fdelings of indignation against her supposed murderer; and he takes care re give these feelings a direction, be pri , ,.ting in • italics the parts of the evidence whielt pressed- against Thornton. It is to obviate the effect of publications of that nature—it is to vindicate the conduct of the upright and learned Judge, for the first tits" culled in question -it is to defend the tradneed circumspection and ha.- , tnanity of a .Tury, which in its verdict adhered to that cautious maxim of our criminal jurisprudence, that a prisoner is entitled to the benefit of every doubt that is entertained, that I venture to recommend the MAL I have mentioned. It labours, not to distort facts, but to state them with candour and simMicity; not to inflame the passions, but to convince the judgment. It contains the plidn and honest language of truth,. which must in the end prevail against the united forge • of prejudice and misrepresentation. I' remain, Sir, your obedient servant, • A BARRISTER: Jan. $O. Tuesday, about one o'clock, the Doke of YOrk: arrived at his house in St. James's-palace, from a visit to the Earl Verulam. nun. St. Albans. Soon , after three o'clock His Royal Eliglturss hell a levee at his office in the Here Guards. The pr.vate advices brought by the Hamburgh and . Dutch mails of Tuesday, communicate little of is portent intelligence. A failure bad taken:place as: Rotterdam of an English how establin;led there, but. the deficiencies were expected to he itimnsiiierabia. Commerce still continued in the same state of languor. and inactivity which has recently prevailed in the north of Europe, but money was plentiful, and the • rate of interest Lad fallen ou en average of Ese cipal towns and cities in that part of the (_.ont,:neut, to 4 per cent. We were led to expect that the opposition were most impatient for the meeting of the new Parliament, in : order that they might show their strength, and p rov e what ground they had gained in the opinitm of the - country. We were told too that a most formidable phalanx of new Members, both in point of zioatbers. and talent, would he marshalled w_ainst Min:Korn, . Nay, the% went so far as to assert that Mini:ters were •' sacred out of their &ewe by their antagonists. sail firing in all directions." It must be supposed that we looked with some anxiety for the proofs a this fear anti flight, which were furnished us at. tmce by the tlirini- - (Wile motion of Mr. Bennet--and that happy , ? ombi.. - nation of wit, cloeptence stet argument aflbrdei in the niuiden speecit\c.f Sir Robot Wilson. Yet strange to. , tell, neither of those extraertlituny Ants of human in..- tellect have produced the diet of driving.Mitiisters froze. the r seats, upon whii•ii they seem to sit xs securely , as.. ever ...Wean really afraid tLat a as usual, this Party will only " keep the woad of promise to the ear" end "-- break it to our hope." — T he y did not move any Amen'..- mem to the Speech nor provoke any division—ln their - harangues in taverns anti hustings, they bud poured one. stream of obloquy and abuse upon the late Ptirliamencr ; I vet when tie deeds of that Parliament, and the state in , which it left our affairs are presented to tile new Pan. - lisinent, no attempt is made to impugn t em, 211(1. :so the late Parliament, never to to be rentemlered bas-:c with gratitude, the new Parliament owes the uncork.. trsidicted statements of the Speech as to the new ani-il. hopeful order of (bingo in whica the country Cods it:;-- self placed. --i KING's-fixxcii.—A pffsou of the name of Fairmon I attooded on Saturday morning to make a medal up...- pile:Won, as stated, of very ccnsitlerahle importance ; ; bur as mere matters rf course were only gone into, :t.: toads over till this day.