The National Register. — London, England, 1820-12-04 00:00:00

FROM SATURDAY A'IGliT'S GAZETTE. This Gazette notifies the appointment of J. Robinson, Gent. of South Cave. York. and J. P. Nash. Gent. of Henley upon Thames. Ostimishire, to be Masters Extraordinary an the Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. W. Moore, Thorpe Constantine. Staffordshire, cheese factor. Solicitors, Messrs. Alexander and Holine. New Inn. S. T. Foote. Exeter, spirit dealer. Sol. Mr. Brutton, Old Broad Street. J. Hutchinson, Manchester, builder. Sols. Messrs. Hurd and Johnson. Temple. t;., Bicker(' Ice, Huddersfield, victualler. Soli. Messrs. Fisher and Sudlow, Thavies Inn. A. Shutticworth and G. Robinson, Lincoln, boat builders. Sol. Mr. Ellis, Chancery Lane. J. Allen, Warwick, innkeeper. Sole. Messrs. Collett and C P Chancery Lane. W. Lankesheer, Walrot. Somerset, victualler. Sol. Mr. Stephen. New Broad Street Buildings. P.. Philip. Narberth, Pembrokishire, linen draper. Sols. Misars. Jenkins and Co. New Inn. J. Holmes, Portsmouth, corn merchant. Sol. Mr. Pownall, Staple Inn. J. Radnedge. Bathwick. Somerset. dairyman. Sole. Messrs. Young and Hughes, Mildred's Court, Poultry. H. Purgess and J. Hubbard, Miles Lane, Cannon Street, woolstaplers. Sots. Stevens and Co. Old Jewry. S. V. isetnan, J. Harper, and T. Foyson. Norwich, bombazeen manufacturers. Sols. Messrs. Taylor and Roscoe. Temple. N. Pickets, Colae, Lancashire. grocer. Sol. Mr. Edmunds, Lincoln's Inn. S. and M. Nichols, New Woodstock, Oxfordshire, milliners. Sole. Messrs. Lowden and Helder, Clenient'o Inn. J. H. Arnett, Smith Square, %Vestminster, coal merchant. Sols. Messrs. Claiton and Carter, High Street, Borough. S. Rogers, Gutter Lane. Cheapside, hosier. Solo. Messrs. Baxter and Bowker. Gray's Inn Place. W. Simpson. Coppice Row, Clerkenwell. japan manufacturer. Sol. Mr. Phipps. Weaver's Hall, Basinghall Street. G. Brinkworth, Bath, victualler. Sol. Mr. Makinson, Middle Temple. J. Hiekes. Leeds. linen draper. Sol. Mr. Makinson, Temple, J. Bromley, Circusetreet, New-road, Mary-le bone, iron• monger. Solo. Messrs. Knight and Freeman, Basinghall Street. DIVIDENDS. Dec. 9.3. D. Smith and J. Hampshire, Kirkburton. York. actibbling millers-23, A. G. Mingay, Kingston upon Thames. Surrey, rronmonger—s. J. Lomus. Fetter Lane. tavern keeper —4O, J. and H. Watson. Friday Street,Cheapside,warehousernen —5O, A. liendy. Gower Street. Bedford Square. builder-23. E. and C. Ilia, and A. H. Albans. Union Bow. Little Tower Hill, corn factors-23, C. Millhouse, Sleatintl, Lincoln, stationer-23, W. H. Vander Kieft, High Holborn, oil nierchant-23, J. Fitzgerald, Narrow Wall, Lambeth, timber merchant-22, L. Hollis, Birmingham, victualler-23, R. Malcom, Ashbourne, Ashbourne, Derby. tea dealer-23, W. Chapman. Gravesend, baker-23. T. Kent. London Street, Ratcliffe. mealman—i6. J. W. A. Snuggs and J. Walley, Lime Street, merchants-23, D. Freeman, W. Sykes. and J. Freeman, Bermondsey. leather factors-IS. J. Gomm, Buckland Common, Bucks, timber merchant-16, A. Spear. Basingball Street. merchant-16, T. West, Gracechurch Street. wholesale perfumer-26, C. Poole, CERTIFICATES to be granted Dec. 23. H. Hooper, Bristol, merchant—W. Bushell. Aldersgate Street, wholesale jeweller—J. Field, Newsrate Market, butcher Tupling. Strand, jeweller—J. Cadogan, Water Street. Strand. carpenter—C. M. King, Upper East Smithfield. wine s merchant—.J. Ehackara, Maltby. York, millwright—G. Hamil ton and J. Simon, Queen Street, Cheapside, warehouseman—T. H. Smith, Cnancery Lane, tailor s —R. !Sheppard, BUOWD, Lin. cola, tailor. PRICE OF STOCKS. Bank Stork 210 i Oinniouto i, $ Per Cent. Red. 4.9 I Insp. 3 per Cent. 3 per Cent. Consols 60i ludic Hundsi *.n. Si per Cent. 71 loom block 3231 4 j.er Lent. 8. i I Exchequer MO+ 2.. dis. 6 per Cent. NA% y Coos. for Ac. 70 Lour Anu. Ili Lottery Tickets THE NATIONAL REGISTER 1 011tiOn . MONDAY, DECEMBER 4 ••••••■•• On Wednesday last Loudon exactly resembled a besieged town—Cannon had been brought from Woolwich sufficient to lay it in ruins, if it had been ten times as extensive as it is : Horse Guards, Dra goons,Laneers, and Foot Soldiers of every description surrounded it in numbers sufficient to have achieved another battle of Waterloo ; and for what were all these warlike preparations made ?—was it with the •iew of protection to the Queen during her progress to St. Paul's? No—for she was confidently safe in the attachment of her sympathizing subjects. The really Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, deter mined to preserve the peace of the City, and knowing that the employment of the sabre and bayonet is in England the least likely to effect such a purpose, prohibited the entrance of a single soldier during the day. We venture to assert, that if the peace had been broken in any of the environs of the Metropolis, the outrage would have owed its origin to that ill-timed display, equally in our opinion unnecessary and un constitutional. Are Englishmen so lost to their accustomed respect for the laws as to need being dragooned into obedience on the occasion of their Queen's attending at the Metropolitan Cathedral, to return thanks for her deliverance from what History will declare to have been the foulest conspiracy that ever was defeated ? It is reported that Ministers have re , igned, and that Lord Grenville had receivad the *mammas of THE NATIONAL REGISTER the King on Saturday last to prepare a list of a new Administration. The change, however, it is ex pected, will be partial, and that, though Ministers had tendered their resignation, some of them will be retained. It is rumoured that Lord Grenville will succeed the Earl of Liverpool as First Lord of the Treasury; that Lord Lauderdale will succeed Mr. Canning as President of the Board of Controul, and that the Marquis of Buckingham will succeed Lord Melville us First Lord of the Admiralty. The sudden return of his Majesty to town from Windsor on Monday last, it is said, was occasioned by the in tended changes, the particulars of which have not yet transpired. We know that EARL SPENCER, at the command of his Majesty. had au audience of him on Tuesday, and was closetted with his Ma esty fur an hour and a half. By our Law Report it will be seen, that is the Court of King's Bench on Monday, the rule for a new trial in Sir Francis Burdett's case was dis charged, dissentiente Mr. Justice Bayley. The arguments of the Judges who supported Mr. Justice Best's doctrines consisted of a tissue of legal cob webs, which were swept away by the plain and sound reasoning of Nlr.Justice Bayley. Any further proceeding against the Honourable Baronet will, of course, be dropped. The Law Ofßeers of the Crown have, on this occasion, received a signal defeat, to he satisfaction of men of all parties who value trial by Jury. Leicestershire was selected as the venue in this case, with a view to the Jury; the indepen • deuce and intelligence of a Jury taken from Middle sex were considered unpropitious fur the purposes of the prosecution. The transactions of the 16th of August at Manchester were known to have made a different impression in the most enlightened county in the kingdom, from that which existed among the persons usually serving► on Special Juries in Leices tershire. The act of publication took place only in Middlesex. It is mere quibbling to compare kthe publication of a libel with the publicaion of . a will, or any other private instrument.. The term, as applied to those instruments, is an absurd one, and can furnish no analogy. It is the communicating offensive matter that constitutes the dime of libel. No man of common sense (all technical jargon apart) can say, that a libel is published until it has. been , proved to have been seen by somebody. On Wednesday night an attempt was made to murder the Duke Decres, Ex-Minister of Marine. The Duke retired to bed about twelve o'clock ; shortly afterwards he was blown out upon the floor by an explosion of gunpowder under the mattresses' a second detonation succeeded in a few seconds, and the room was in a flame. The Duke called his vu let, who slept in an adjoining cabinet; the latter answered, " I am lost," and instantly jumped from the window into the street, u height of forty feet ; his shrieks brought the sentinels to the spot, to whom hP declared that some villains had thrown him out of the window. The Duke made his - way out of the apartment, and medical aid was immediately pro cured ; it was found that he had the rig *t thigh and arm lunch burnt. Ile continues in a suffering state, to the great affliction of the Duchess and his young daughter, but nu fears are entertained for his life. The firemen, on examining the apartment, found that several pounds of powder had been deposited between the nutre,ses, and ignite.; by means of a train which ltal under the dua. Every thing ap peared to justify the suspicion, that the val-:t was the author of this horrible design, particularly when it was discovered that Bank bills had been taken from the Duke's writing desk to the amount of 9,000 francs, lie has since died in the hospital of the injury which he received by his full from the window. In consequence of the repoated outrages and street robberies which have reccuily taken place. Lord Sithnouth has increased the force under the corn. mand of the magistrates of the different Police Of fices very considerably, and that active precautions are taken to prevent, as much us possible, the trcTiency of such rul3heries, to which thu present season of the year is always favourahle. The Recorder of 'Amt... is expected to make another report to the King in council, in a few days, of convicts under sentence of death in Newg.te.— One of those reported to the King in council ou Thursday has been reprieved, t having been ascer tained that an. inincipal evidence against him was a lunatic. ' ALDERSGATE WARD. At a meeting of the inhabitants of the Ward of Aldersgate, held on Monday last, fir the purpose of congratulating her Majesty on leer recent triumph, Mr. Alderman Cuz said,— That he had called the meeting as soon after receiving the requisition as possible. A former requisition lie had kept by him some tune, the Bill being then in progress; but now that a result had been come to, lie hail no hesi tation in complying with the wishes of so 111111 l erons and rirsieetable a portion of the Wind. With respect to the simject which would be brought forward, lie observed that, in common with n.any others, impiessions had been ',lade on Ins mind very pi ejuilicial to the Queen's chase. ter; that he had read the evidence, not with the eye of lawyer certainly, but of one who was anxious to ai Live at truth; that iie hail been unable to find through all that evidence, which lied been collected with malignity equal to the activity that lied been displayed, any one tact established against her Majesty ; aid that to itch he wee now fishy persuaded of the Queen's innocence. (Loud cheering.) lie lied imagined, alter all that had previously reached his ears, that a mach better case against bee would ue inane out ; hut, notwithstanding the detrimental charaeter of the evidence adduced WI her belied, he telt fortified, that nothing against the Queen bad been tam blished. (Continued cheers.) After the resolutions, and an Address founded upon them, had been unanimously agreed to, Mr. Alderman Lox mentioned, that painful and tines. limed difficulties were thrown in the way of her Majesty's visit to 6t. ; and to p the City's tranquillity, it was desirable that the most efficient means should be adopted. 'The sty ratite; in of special constables in the several Wants had been recommended, and lie trusted that the rem 111111 l entlation would be adopted. He trusted that the public would not sutler themselves to b • • aced by any conduct of designing individuals. They had heard of* placard Conspiracy, aud the parties bad been treats* to Imre approached vet y near to Ministers; andu to this placards, violent as Mr. Hunt and some of his friends were, lie had always beneved it impossible fur them to have their approllatiun. (Hear, hear.) He hoped that all, would guard against such designing or placard-ten as would undoubtedly be active for Wednesday. (Cheers.) Such is the present opinion of the late measures, expressed by a gentleman, who has hitherto been one of the must strenuous and unvaried supporters of Ministers. EXTRAORDINARY INvENTIow—A Mr. Francis Farkas, an Hungariau, has invented a machine, named a Dolphin, by means of which a person may dive to the bottom of the deepest rivers, lakes, and the sea. The machine enables the diver to walk at his ease on the bottom, to work his hands and feet with freedom, and mount at pleasure, without any assistance to the surface, or remain stationary in the • middle of the water, or in any depth, and continue - as long as he may wish, without the least interrup tion or effort. The object of this useful invention is to give prompt and effectual relief to vessels • wrecked ; to collect from the bottom, with greater • facility, pearls, coral, and amber, and to augment our fine collections of shells; also to raise from the cavities of the sea, treasures which perhaps are to us at present unknown An experiment was made with this machine at Vienna on the Ist of October last, in the military swimming school at the Prater. Cuunt Joseph Esterhazy de Galanthy, Count Fer gas de Ghymes (Court Secretary), the acting cham berlain Nettles Slagod, several learned Englishmen, and many persons of distinction were present. The servant of the inventor plunged with the Dolphin in twenty-four feet water, and walked upon the bottom ever the whole squafe of the swimming school. To prove that there could ue no want ut' light, the inventor sent down a lanthorn, and when it was taken up again the light was still burning.— A tier the man had remained one hour under water, he returned without the least assistance to the surface of the water, not because he wanted air, a thing which never occurs, but because the persons who were witnesses of the experiment declared they were perti:ctly satisfied, and requested that he might be directed to come up. The election of a President of the Royal Society, in the room of the lute Sir Joseph Banks, took place on Thursday at Soaterset House. Sir Humphrey Davy was the only candidate for this honourable and distinguished situation ; but an attempt was made to defeat his election by proposing Lord Col. chester, the lute Speaker of the House of I ominous, in opposition to hint. Sir Humphrey Davy was supported by the independent members of the so ciety, and Lord Holland came, fur the first time expressly to vote for him. He was elected. An inhabitant of Carmarthenshire, who, lite most of his countrymen, was very superstitious, went to the Parson of his parish a Lw days ago, and declared that he saw the ghost of his friend Tatty Evans, u convivial hostler. who died a month be fore ;—" and how did you know," said the Parson, " that it was the ghost of flay, friend Owen r " Oh !" answered Owen, " because hur was stag. goring drunk." The extensive and valuable library of the late Bishop of WatertOrd, which his Lordship was so many years in coilecting, and which it was hoped wood remain in su•nt 'Millie is to come the Launder, and of -.m i