The National Register. — London, England, 1819-01-04 00:00:00

TAN. 4 AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR DECEMBER. The dry frosts, the latt*ristart of the month, have been !noodle/A to the plants of Wheat, particularly those whirl. heraine ton Invariant from early sowing ; the reports of t h e ie front the prineipal corn disttiets are promishax, star be free frosts the wire worm au •1 14.1 1 IX, so 01 . 1e , 1 jurioris at this season. The winter, indeed, has lii:her pissed very fiviiisru:sly to Aviculture its all its brotitc:l,., particularly in 111.11 of tillage. The 1%111w...0il lands. eirly lad MN tire 1 . 01111111 its tine cant:llion for the ear' of 011. liailey I and the eililishes uurnded for Reins ii ! i• pear a •trte equally well fertilised. Potatoes ha ve leave ' • wrtm - y and moprothictive crop. The turnips :lie so test rally g: to off by she rot, espiodally the Swedes, as to have :ef hut little feed llsiongtiont Not folk and Snfrolk. Cole has dime well through the winter, and so have Ity. Winter 'fares. Closer Seed rises better than wee eeprcted from 1411d4 nut hut sit op in the summer. The large tintratit o' fervid.; grain, portienlarlyWlseat, have depressed the in irk. , I 50 us to weigh heavily a n on the lauded interest. by •roistraeliiia tile necessary operations of agrieuliure, and driviott a huge utercase of sthemployed labortrers tothe ces.ity of intik Mg fur parochial relief. Coissideralskt quan tities of foreign and of oar inferior %Vireo's have byes. streveil by the inaltsiers as a suirstitute for Harley; hot lust - , Is see nut been foisisil to %sot k liudly. rote clear samples of Batley air scarce, aod likely soon to nominated higher term-. Tim grass et tttttt ries still afford consi•lerable feed, elven Lowrie Hay from re..chiug the high price •,tmerally looked for 'f Alma Markets hive through , the mo nis,. It s as , trireme open n i-oe Berland Minton. Wool is • ether loves •in valor, except its tine Senthduwit and M riot, tit sees, which are much Lean Stock of must kinds hold sip their puire., hub el rte Beasts ilteep,espiresally the former ; the list fairs have been but thusly supplie I either wills Scotch or %Veleta cattle. The late miser, Jlr. Cow toes, whose death, at an advanced tee, has heel' rein dr.', was fur many years a hair-dresser iu the luetropolii. By dim of extiaordinary exertions in various woy•, and through a itio•l rigid system of economy in his expenditure, this in in r who seemed to have UO sorted purtioa of the Cu:islet is and the Elsves blended in his composition died immensely rich. having amassed, according to confident report•, neatly two baulked thousand pounds! Old Ceori loi s was twig, well known iii tho pinks-its of I. 1144 tile% Mid the Haymarket, Hi. apprainaCe Wa. meagre and squalid, and his (lollies, mull as they were, were perlinacionsly gut up in exactly the m.•re eat and aiirl the colour always either fawn or mot rose. Ear the list Sd years the venerable chapeau was anitororly of the same cock. Tit! pnlncip.ll feat, haw. which this fervent votary of BMus appealed before tie ;labor, was Li, carious and nearly fatal offalr With the oaf.' :name Mrs. Maria Theresa Phepoe. A aim I 20 year. ago this ill-rated woman projected a rather buil:4lEl,g scheme in order to tri ; :iiten her old acquaintance and visitiii,Couriots, rat of a letriale slim of motley. o.le evening, all, 11 she 1545 Via-trill Of Ilia c filing, she had her apartment pi epared for kit I.er:epilog. in 4 weries of limerral style—a bier, a black velvet pail, black wax_candles lighted, rte. No allollef had the old trtrnd entered the room, tiara the lady. assisted by lief maid, pounced on him, forced him into an arm-ell:dr, ili which he was forcibly held await by the w 1111 l all, 1111de the lair, bratidisliing knife or yea •r, swore, witu Wising violent imprecatriras, that iiedant should be his last, if he dirt ilia gas e her nit order 01, his Itieker for a lams situ of File Vela` faille vilaiir, alarmed at the ;ft-amity pre dire (hi eats of the desperate female, asked fur pee, ink, and paper, shish tirdietholel!. 11111•1'11 . 1q1, Ile Woolf a chuck nit his baiikes for !we believer 2,0J0t. H. 1,1 with preeipitation. happy L., elealre ssiuwul itarsuilal tginry. The ilex' mu beim e its open iir at the 13 ink with some i erlice my and on Mrs. liiie h mies making her appearanee with the she was arrested, and siabsespremiy tiled at the 01.1 [inky, •ON a capital charge, grounded on due anove prriereiliitay. /lowever, through the able defence made i.y her Call aiti (now I.ieliling), who look a legal oirjeelism to the case as proved, amid contended that she never h o d or e hteirr e d any property of 11r. Conrfois, on the 1 iiiKaple that possession constituted the but hisilg.e el ownership., she w.ts eveutumly argisitteil. :froth, however, obage• us to add, that Mis. .Pliepoc, wire was Dace connected with rer.peeialde in the sister island, was in Moult four years After capitally convicted on :.charge of cutting maimiug a poor tvOillall, if ir which she suffered the last penalty of the law. SO.lat• sears since, the late Lord Gage .iret Loartois, at the Court room of the East India-am:se, on an election business. " A.. Courtois," said his Lordship, ' brings you here?" ‘• 'to ktve my voter, my Lord," was the answer. " What! are you .a proprietor ?" • Most certainly.' " And mote votes than one?" a Yes, my Laud, I have font!" " Aye, indeed! Why, then, before you take the hook, pray be kind enough to pia ep ay catch!" with which modest requiest the prop ietor oftiore votes, equal to tin thousand pounds, inuitedtately coo. plied! It has h-en for some time smiler the con.ideiation 01. Pit misters, whether it is nut become alisollitely necesvary that tau 114.111. Judges,. in stallion to the prevent nntnhcl, shalt ill be appointed. The *cry great increase of jitilitt•i proceed. jells 01 late sears appeals to render this necessary,particidarly. uu aerostat of the prvssure of business min the Norillei Cis• auJ the increase of offences at the Old Bailey. W a trust it will be its ought before Parliament, and that the' measnre will be coupled with a revision of the C. iminat Cod,.. This is not one of the branches of public experidit use which ought to stand 111 the way 01 situ It an augmentation, if proved to he necessary ; fur it ir the well known upiiiion of the people, that wuu the heavy load of business they have to so thion.:a,' and the v1(.110114 acquisition of knowledge necessary to des charge the insportriut functions, the Paiute Judges are nut slit'. tillieistly remunerated. The wifeof it re•peetable tradesman in Leith, from snnt e Moody cause, threw herself lulu the sea, at Lallleriael,ibi A lik: West at Neslll4lVell, min Friday 'morning, at 9 o'clock, bottom full tube. Lieut. Liston, of the Royal Navy, who lives in the heiglibunrilood, being apprised of the rircuinstance, emu s dimely repassed to the beach, and with the characteristic • courage of a British seaman, threw himself in, contrary lu tut Urgent entreaties of his wire; he succeeded in reaching tine body, which W 44 at least 150 yards tuna the sea,lsllll urwlgtll it to slime, amidst the astonishment of a 1111 , 311aq - idatleelatiii - • Every revortioa was nae.l oy meil.eal 11 0 •1111.111 ell %lad • 111110, alter two hours' consi4lit caertaiii ill the means used ii. such cases, happily succeeded in allllll4llUll. 'flow the mother of a large family has urea saved watery* grave: The conduct of Lieutenant Liston dcsi.tvc s that highest ptaise.and ailasiratios.— Edinburgh . piper. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. REWARDS FOR DISCOVERIESA-c. IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS. By an Act passed in the 18th of King . Geo. sum of moonl. was provided for the 04'110 i oF any Snip that should first find wit, and sail throitgli a north-west passage front Hudson's Strait; to the Western and Solithein (kerns of Aineriea ; and in the 16th of the King. the rerard was extended to the discovery of a northern paltige by set. between the Atlantic and Pacific (leans. and for vie nrst approach, by VA, within one degree of the North Pole. These Arts are now repealed; and by a Lew kct of last Sessioit. IRIS, the reward of 90,(catl. is given the discovering a passage, by sea, between the Atlantic and Paeitie Oceans; and to those who shall approach first within one degree of the Pole, a revert' of 5,0001. And to en; irtrage attempt 4 that may not be accomplished, a propor tionate reward may he awarltst by the Commissioners for discovery of the longitude, who are to be guided in their judgment by the inspection of the ship's papers, and the Privy Council are to direct the pro iortions of the rewattl. Tice re , dation of the Commissioners' meetings are under the di rection of Council, Lord Colchester, Davies Gilbert, F. A; and Colonel William Mudge, Dr. Wollaston, Dr. Young, and Captain Bitter, were appoimed Cuminissionees until Jan. I, thtit. Ily these gentlemen, some of whom are fully competent to judge of the efforts ttf the ships and their respective companies, in the late unsuccessful ecoedition, the claims of all parties cu:icerne.l in those efforts will be considered. As to the reward for Approaching within one degree of the North Pole, there does not yet appear any claimant ; but the efforts already made will no doubt teed to encourage future examination ; and how ever perfect every 'suit of the discoveries manic may prove, yet this oftener a coast is tracers:3l and sounded, so much the more familiar ized does the navigation become, and so much nearer do nations appron.sh to the grand objects of the universal communications of mankind. Another fatal accident occurred ut Taesday night, in con sequence of the very unsafe state in which Ur• Leeds and Liverpool Canal-basin, near to Water.l site, in t town, o. suffered still 1.1 remain. 011 the alms a H ight, about eleven o'clock, Mr. Joint Lnbley, a Mill-owner at Ferpb•y, and Nit'. Jahn Whitfield. a cloth.searelier, at Poilsey, left Cie Qu •rn's head, at 11.11.1ti11, hoth nu one horse, an I pros d.• 1 over L4.'14,116(1 , 4'. t twards Fantle,/ attar they 11 ..1 pivoted the small hiridze !vadat:: out Witter-lame toward. tae r. mat. one of them ithser.eil it %VI. 4 dismal dark night, and it was well they Wl.l. SU perfOCily aripls4Mted with their wa,.-- This conver. at. oil was Scarcely tiuivhed , lietlite his harse, u,winz to the fug, 'pitted the road. aud fell with its riders into the old Some ti-de after, Mt. West, inas:er of a stone vessel Isilig iu the 114.415, being alarmed by the c tics 4501118 111'1 , 111 in distress, baSlrllllll 110111 his cabin, and .sail Uu• essistance 01 Mr. Andrew Conlinau and his mate. and swop of the isorkineti employed by the Union Company, rescued Louky and his hoise from their perilous...tin:llion. Whitfield had souk to rise tio court• ; 411111 111011411 diligent search was mole for his remain., the hotly , N 44 not found till Friday, Ictriaz floated from that pla.'e where they hail plunged into the w der, on the south side of the old 1141 th, to the Ovrth-east corner of the new basin, at the p un t nearest the Watt.' 100-ford. On Thursday night a revertible trades man in Otis town oti••ed his road, and walked .1110 the new bow ; be would have perished, had hr not been an elipert st.trt •r. Bit i.e certainly attacitei somewhere fur the dangeroits state in which both the anal basins are left.— Leeds lot clligencer, I)ec. 211. BRIT %I. ATTACIE.—Ott Tiiesday night, as Wortley, the con. stable of Larahrift, was going nom his 'loose. iit South street, I.4llherlt• road, upon drily at the Cobourg Thrace, lie was attacked by a gang of six thieves ; lie received a desperate blow from one of them, which felled him to the 0000 d. be lay on the earth he received reveral violent ale los, which rendered him totally incapable uftlefenilmg rimer It ; he with difficulty utibiittOMA Ili . ' CO:II, anti took ft ant his side pocket 4 loaded pistol : one of Ike villians, who had stood timelier till then, Came up to Wurtrly, and sold to his companissits, " Id-- the —•--, kill linn." Wortley raised his pistol and tired it amongst the desperadoes : lone at them railed out, " Oh God God !" and they all took to their heels and decamped, leaving Wortley lying 011 the wound. The only severe injury Wortley received 1545 1111 its side. There can he n i &Pint but one of the millaius is wounded. Two of thr gang were w.-II knowia su the con•lawe : lir had theist tit cus tody a few weeks ago, on a charge of burglary, and Hwy were discharged for waist of identity. Sevei al pollee-offices. immediately went in iiersnit of the set etches, but it is stip poled that they MVO Sett the metropolis, or they have theses t ed their karats. Irtu.owi•.—Tuesday morning William K.•t• stood in tlt.• pillory, in Covent Garden Market. A vast consist ce of persons had collected together ou the urca•iun. s 1• cutout :ts he way placed in the apparatus, rotten egg,, apples, uwd , age. were throw is at hint lions all quarters. lour brittle lite ea pitation of the 1 he was so tomitirtely coveted that his prison was scared) discernibly. .tiey is the than who AC. cussed a young titan of respectable connexions, named Ileory Cooke, nt has mg etuployed and furnished I with pedids to initialer Mr.Stie4VS, pi uteri, tor of the copper mill* at Me, imp, and having a ( . 1111111ink-house in !sleet Ilarket, togellter as nli Ills wide family. Cooke was Mr. Sileat', clerk. The dlagis• Ii coositiered the charge unfounded, and libelateviCiwilie, who stiliserptently pro‘oesiteul h ec , and who is 1,1155 under sentence of Ilatislim 141 Coolie is ,•funte de.sd in a myste.. lions In:uu•ct , Guut.th streets of poison. Out Tosesday evening Jail, lit:lV:Ceti nix o'clock, a: the Camel miry newsmen, earl' ill their eart,t, were on their roil ltonuu•y, when Within :Wont half a nude of Dy 1111:11 , 1t ea, a Mail wuldruly spa wag trout tbe si - .lc id the road, and attempted to seise the horse of the first cart, hut missed his aim .111.1 fill Crider ilia hussar , which went over I ; both tarts imatelliately dies, up, the loan was then got sou•• little distance, when one of the newsmen pursued, over. took, and brought him hack to their carts ► wisest they wet an utlic..r wills two men, on Usweisatit duty, -who immediately recognized the loan, took charge of him, anti marched him a prisoner to the calker of the party to %flitch lie belonged. Cie fellow is a marine, anti one of those :win) nted to the duty of watching the persons concerned hit the contraband trade, upon thy coast Drillat comity. lit addition to the above cir cumstance, we learn now auotiter part of the essays, that the establishment for preventing smuggling, as it is at preseat conducted, hegi,us to by as a most serious evil by :ill milks of persons. People are nightly stopped and insulted in the very streets,and Ilan) rem:kik is made, silence is immediate ly enforced by a pistol levelled at the 61'41111 of 'lnfos Innate person who falls into their• hands. A few evettiiti;s since, at a public 11041110, one of i11t55. men di csv oat has p istol anal dis charged it, the ball going tlitotigh the hat of a potaon present, and through the ecuing of she loom, passing close to another perinea in the "linushor above. Accondingto Ildvices from Port-air Prince, dated towards the ender October, President ttnyiet "tat atiant to proceed with gstrailrooaf li armed vessela to recuauuttre the po asiolosts of Chribtophc. From Me LONDON C.:IZETTE, Tuesday. Dec. 19. RANKRUPTCIEi ENLARGED ?Rost:a W. ILeetUr,l, growr, from Jan. 12 to 13. Egitt,NiTito 31, E. Fen Court, Fenchurch Str.:ct, merchant, front :/1.; to Ft:b. 13. BANKRUPTS. J t . .Nr aiss T. Wnitchurc;i, timber-mere.haot, Jan. Fuh. 9, at .Merthyr Tidvit. Att.. Jenkina and Co. New Inn. SALT M. Lane End, Stafford,,liire, flour dLutl:r, Jan. la, 19, Feb. at Uttoseter. Att. Mr. 1,o;, , !, (ray's Lin. Cu Itincsys:st T.Truro,tornseall, linen-dr:4,LT, Jan. 6,7, Feb. 9, rt Truro. Att. Mr. iiennallack, Truro. .I.leasom G. Mile Town, Kent, ba',:er, Jan. f.), 19, Feb. 9, at Guildhall. Aus. Milne and Co. Tempi:. . It. Nistdstons, hop-dealer, Jaa. 2, IG, Feb. 9, at Guild hall. Au. Mr. Lindsey, St. Thotnal Street, Bortiagh. Srarin city J. Glocaster Terrace, IVhitechapel Itoad, grocer, Jan 2, 16, Feb 9, at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Hall, Coleman Street. SIMMON DS W. Lowestoft, SutSilk, merchant, Jan. 20, 91, Feb. 9, at Bury St. Edmund.. Att. Mr. Bromley, Gray's Inn. Tw Y COMD J. Portwoo.l-within.flr.nington, C heihire, catton-spiu ner, Jan. 7, 9, Feb. 9, at Stockport. Atts. Wright and Ca. Te:111)1C. SY lIXONS T. Sttand, brass-founder, 'lan. 9, if, Feb. 9, at Guild hall. Att. Mr. Alottat, Tukenhou►e Yard, Lothbury. DIVIDENDS. T. Grigg, Plymouth. tea-dealer, Jan. 22. N Warring.on, Iligh Street, Borough, hop-merchant, Jan. 10. It. I lamlyn and J. Clianter. Bideford, bankers. JAII. 25. .1. Turner. Bury Mill, Ilerttbrdslii re. corn-dealer, Jan. 16. S. Morsail, Dean Street, Finsbury Square, merchant. Jan. 23. T. and W. Fusiett, Minsing Line, inctchasts, Jan. r 3. 1.. and J. Phillips, 11411 Holborn, gliss,-merchants,.an. 19. It. Collis:Alt:id. dealer in butter, J.tu. 22. J. G. Wzruinck. Plymouth. merchant, Jan. 19. J. Doxon, Manchester. merchant, .Fan. t 9. W. Clark, Watley, Yorkshire, seedsman, Jan. 25. .1. Statter, Wakefield, Yorkshire, linen-diaper, Jan. 23. W. Linlars, Tetsworth, t)rfu•d{hire, innkeeper. Jan. 26. J. White'iod,e. Sirs turd-oil- Avon, mercer. Jan. Vb. E. Evan, Maebyrhin. Carmarthero.ture, timber-oierchant. Jan ?O. J. lien, Pecklin;gton. and J. F. and T. Bell, S,..alcoatc,,, liorkshire. merchants, Jan. 71. C 10:itT1 I: 117 ATES. 19. .J. Lancaster, Brompton. merchant—G. Harper, Gresford Denbiglislitre, tobacconist—f. Jackson, Yorkshire. merchant—S. Dobson, Hope lima . Cuinherlall, bacon-factor-- I. Lord, Sutton. Surrey, innkeeper. There have been, in 41i, these convictions at the Old Bailey for child stealing, since the paving of the Act of 1814, making that offeitee felony. Six of ..the consicts were sea teiteed to transpott.tt iiii for seven year., one to 12 months, and Iwo to six months' imprisonment. The only conviction in the country under the Act. was that of L. Brady, last year at Lineulmwito wasaenteneed to tiabaporitstiou for seven yea's. The -late clrenmstance of a Chief Justice threatening to atkisinrit the Court, br.•.nrne a tallow e male had beer' pro_ d a ,,d inst e ad of a ...ix tight, reminds us of an anecdote fe l:ard of the late Judge Gould, alio, when going the Home Citaatio, mire threatened to rt move the EiSeX A , sizestilnt Clielinsimd to Colchester, because no good leer could be fotindau the former toss A Co,nuitteeuf Yhdautiiro •tc Gentlemen has been formed for the purpose of Jest-min the hest means of furnishing em ployment to the industrious Pol,l*. This is a most laudable purpose indeed, and we hope that doe eneooragernent wtal be gi.en to so benevolent and excellent an object. A Ghost, shish fUr sour nights had hceis %talking in the hye-ways about Manchester, to the peat terror of many women and children, on Wednesday night h.y•pened to all in with some of the Police of that place, who very iadecc.-oui ly arrested it ! On the following day, by way of experi ment upon the timings of GAusts, the prisoner was favoured with a *cod Bugging; when (strange to tell) it bellowed out just like flesh aiirlilloWl! and (more singular still) pretended to he an friehasan ! fhcte have elrvady arrived at Hull, from foreign parts, more ships their the two preceding )eai., rodoced. Upwards ut .1100 sail have been reported from tut ergo ports last year ; and iii..re ere, :It WIN umilesit, 160 &nil in that port, With CII3- loin House officers on boat d. 21d Newcastle Chronicle ~ a ys —We understand that the le inale giant lately exhibited here, with two male dwarfs, yr a young owe, about lb years of age, belonging to the Lit. Gitarils upon a furlough. lie was detected by en rarer of the c.. 1 ps. A (,trttAr. COKIOCT PlifiliEo 10 BE ININOCENT,—Sumo months ago it was stated, tnat a youlig mat,, named George Matthews, capitally convicted, hail been pardoned ; but this, it seeinsoraS premature.. The pardon, however, has at length been ebtailieu, w con,equience of a Most •ell Oils investigation. ewer, it into by M.. Alderman Wood, the 11011, Mr. liemiett,. and Air. HM - 1111! I - , the &dirtier, who had been employed to carry on the presecutiwi against tee young unto ; and villa cite. wasil pete-ivid that aoa.e strange ~11.1 suspicious cif , - Cll 111,(441C1., hail; 41/0111 the caw. Mattliews's petition to the Pi 'ere Urgent, am! the depositiniis trinting to establish his immereee, have newt Mire(' 111 I rcultunending him as en object ctortlt of Royal mercy. SALK OF POISOIT—(Fr o m the &artist/me Garatfr.)—‘' Io a late °diet Lt. we gave the following tests tiir Lpwm salts • Those ahu have dottbta abunt Epsom salts, may always be satisfied by putt:fig to them *lieu dissolved : a littie magnesia, which will mix quietly ; but should it be oxalic acid, it will hiss and boil up immediately.' We have ieceive.l the fellow Mg letter on the subject front a Currcspuedent :—' Sir- Seettig ui your paper of (bib week a teat for aliacovering oxiaiie acid, I feel eontid, t you will nut think me too in u+l% c Ly obarrvilug. Utat -the magmata employed must be the carbonate. I was induced to make this ...Nervation flmus the idea that if in any case the calcined 6110111 d be used (nitieb does nut possess the proporty of effervescing with the acid), the reverse must succeed to what you had wished by your ceintnnnicatiori.'” Sllt AXING REVERIII OF FORTVIII:.—IU 11111 paperslast week was given the trial of J. Robinson. 4.eutton /Tomei, at the Salford Quarter Sesstoos, fur a eounl•iracy, to cut jtinctiou with other cotton-spitinsrs, to raise their w.tge• slu:sisg 'Le lat.! tut wont. This 111411, mill his Oder linither, and too other persons, built that Liter pilr of hitildnio Inch stands on the hanks of the bitten, at NLaurhesler(•nu k wino by the name of Rubtuson's Ku:tiny.) In 1114 I hty canard au an Cl. - tensive and lucrative bu•tness fur nom: ye•ii §.; hey also pm' chased large estates in Yusksbile.and Ike Odder Wolter 4' to.l. 4134:114.42 41 building a well ut tlirre unto to extent, t atted 1104 park and 111411AR/11. They failed honest:l ; um us er 'yetis:4- (ton ; and the brothei, who wits the inmeipal in Use thin, .41 lit/1N an inm ate al the foot-house ; the other :a retitNett We humble liumatioa of a Jourucluiso Viumcg! 1