The National Register. — London, England, 1820-03-05 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS. Mardi 47, E. Middleton and T. Dyson, Beverley. York, merchants-2'7. .1. Young, Carlisle, s; , irit merchant-4i, W. Warne, Great Qletti Street, boot and sl•oc in:Air-45, .1. 11e. and E. llortiblow. Ilishop,gate Street. jeaelters-45. T. C. Harman, Wi,huacli, Cuubndgeslinc, linen draper-2i, W. Bolton, Bury Street, St Jalllo ' 6, pittllll)l3A Ka 1. J. llowett, St. Martin's !.ane, huilder.-1, J. Prichard, Bristol, grocer-6, E. Robertson. Alan& tester, cotton spinner. C E icrivie AT ES to be granted March 25. A. Die:: and J. 3lerrison, East Smithfield, ale and porter merchants—J. Livesey. Bolton, Lancashire, paper maker-11. Brain. Bitton, Glotieesters,:ire, Rowland. Strand, linen draper—J. Lee, King Street, Cheapsitle, warehouseman.... .1. Pickbourn. City Road, drug grinder—l.. Jacobs, Nassau Street, Middlesex Hospital, glass dealer—S. P. Holland and P. Bull, Worcester„ hop mere:mats—C. Smith, Plymoatti, draper. 'Once V010C24. Bank Stock. o.olllllin O. 3 per Ceio. Red. liegi Imp. 3 per Cent. 3 per Celli. COW, fitly • ludla Bonds I. dii. per Cent. 771 India 4 per lent. ti3i Eselieilder Bills 3s. dis. per Cent. Navy 101 k CUIIII. liar Ac. nSi Long Ann. Lottery Twiseis L 2 2s. T LIE NATIONAL REGISTER. LOIIOOII. SUNDAY, MARCH 5. The Council sits daily on the subject of the Cato-street Conspiracy. The prisoners who were remanded on Thursday were brought up again to Whitehall yesterday, some from the House of Cor rection, Coldbath.tields, mid others from Tuthill fiels prison. A considerable number of individuals assembled to see them depart, and others waited at the Hume Office to see them arrive. Several re spectable persons were admitted to see the prisoners, but about half-past twelve o'clock they were ordered to withdraw. We have not heard the particulars of the examination, which it is supposed was the most interesting that has taken place, as all the prin. eipal witnesses for the Crown attended. The arms and ammunition taken in Cato-street were deposited in an adjoining room, near that where the Members of the Council assembled. The Ministerial Prints are labouring hard to chew, that this wretched plot had various ramifications, and that there was a con nection between the prisoners and a number of dia.- affected persons in the north. But this is mere sur mise and conjecture; nothing conclusive is made ! out, and we expect a repetition of such rumours to serve election purposes, and to make it believed, that an extensive plot had been formed to murder and pillage, and subvert the Constitution. There is also an anxious desire, on the part of the Ministerial Writers, to connect the conspiracy with the subject of Parliamentary Reform, but their clumsy efforts are unavailing. Many of the most wise, wealthy, and honourable men in the country are advocates for Reform ; but are decided enemies to any means being used to obtain it, other than those which are perfectly legal and constitutional. These Journals which arc thus endeavouring to cast an odium on Parliatnentary Reform of any description or kind, have so fur exceeded every thing like decency and decorum, that they make not the least impression whatever on the good sense of the Public. The Mi nisterial Writers have now only one thread-bare subject to eke out ther drowsy columns, that is, the Whigs and the Radicals, whom they represent as united ; while the Radicals, in fact, coalesce with the Ministerialists themselves, in denouncing the Whigs, and extolling the Tories at their expcnce. The beautiful woods in Kensington Gardens bear striking marks of the desolating fury of the late storm. The force of the gale is visible in the nuw. ber of stately trees, in the prime of their growth. that have been torn up by the roots, and the injury sustained by the branches of others. On Thursday the remains of the lute Sir David Dundus were conveyed from the chapel of the Royal College, Chelsea, (where they had lain in state), to vault attached to the College, where they were interred. The body was fidlowed by the Duke of York, and a great numbor of field officers. The pall-bearers were the Marquis of Huntley, Lord Rosslyn, Sir Alured Clarke, and Gen. C►rtwright. The plate on the coffin stated the age ofthe deceased to be 84. The pensioners of the hospital, and the children of the Royal Military School, attended the ceremony ; the latter had nein their arms a strip of black crape. THE NArIONAL REGISTER. CO.II.III7'TAL OF THE CATO STREET GANG. Friday turnout:4 at hall past ten o'clock. in coo s:locum- or au order from the Secretary of State. lie pit a ipal officers of Bil,v-aureel. a.s Cell by suite if she pa ride, went to the House of C •rreet.fili, COltinatn n.A.6, for the purpose or conthiciniz the Conspirators contitted there, before the Pim y Council for eXJllll nation. A body of Lie Guards, imiliir the command of a i•aptaitt, were iu readiness at the gate of the prison, when the officers arrived there, and four coaches being priivided, the prisoners w. re b gilt out, hand cuffed together in toe hollowing order Thistlewood Nloirumeitt—Brailloirii, Gilchrist, and 1 lugs —Brent, Cooper, add Sao w —Day tilsois , I%dd, and ',Vii soli.—line two first were placed in a coach secturipanied only by Lavender and Adkins use Gover nor of toe Ilona,: of Correction ; Ins others were placed in tor,:e emetics, three in eaCit coach, guarded by B shop, Rutfiven, and Salmon, assisted by the patrol, tile whole protected by the Lite Gtiords, who surrounded etch coact) in considerable numbers, four of than Iviailitig the way. A great crowd of persona :assembled at the gate of the prism', aid as tile etvoleade proceeded to the Treasury, increased in numbers. Ott its arrival there, the moo was so great as to Mock tip the eutraisee, and it was wan mileti Ilillictilly that tile ti.lieerS, %Vito hod, been dispatcited there 1 . 1001 Bow -street, to keep order, could clear the way for the prisoiters to enter. Tue route of site cat aicatle was down Gra:,'s Inn- • lane, through Holborn, Little and Great titicen-stleett, llow-streti, through Covent-Gortien and St. Martin's-lane, and down past Coaring-Cross to P rhament-street. The anxiety of the crown to ertzli ..Mouse of the prisoners %vas very great. a:id a great litany well dressed persons of birth sexes were unnerved running with all mete after tile euaelLs, endea vouriiig to gr. lily their curiositv. Simmons, Hill, llorrison, Pirth, and Presioa were, meanwhile, loam:lda up from Tiontll-fields prison, wider a sidsilar and arrived a few 1111:1.111.• before those from ilie H Anti of Coire.coott. Atlailb, the private of tiie Oxiind Biuys, was n o t liroagin up. The whor e ;if :tic pris.).icia, on their arrival, were placed in what is coiled else Nlagistrate's It within Mr. Day's Office, where they remained fur mole titan twat hours before any of theta were exinninz,l. Privy Council were meanwhile in deliberation 'you the subject of the Conspiracy, and the depositions and other documents were arranged iu proper order. Several wit. looses were aisu raruuued. We observed the following Members of the Council present, viz :—'l'he Doke of ‘N'elli• Aims, the Lord Chancellor, Mitiquis Camden, Earl Westmorland, Earl Powis, E rl of Liverpool, Earl 11 rtowiiy, Earl .\lll:groVe, Earl Bathurst, Viscounts Palmerston, and Castlereagh, !tight Hon. G. Ca ititaig, Ilie Attorney and Salmi tttt General. lire. &c. At lenath an order was brought dowti fur the pri soners to he taken before use :mused in she following ro.ati tttt I , ,2, logs; 3, Brunt; 4, l'idd ; 5, Wilson ; ti, Dr%ldguil; 7, 'Harmon ; 8, liratlburn ; 1,1, Cooper; 10, thleorist; 11, Shaw ; 12, ;Noilutuctit ; 13, Hall; 14, Firtii; 15, S ttttttt olis.—Presms war nut examined at all. _ ..... _ Alontissent and Simmons were each upwards of an hour under examination. Tilistlewood and tie others were each not more than five minutes before tile Coun cil. Every prisoner was examined separately, and wiwn the whole was concluded they rennin-a to the Nlaistrales-rootn, and were chained together in the siti.e order as before. Toe C‘tuticti contittued in deli. Iteration Wall about four o'clock, when a messeutter came down and directed that ei t z,lit of the prisoner., Thistlewood, Alotiumetit, Damson', logs, Brant, I)aviiison, Told. an I %Vuitton, should be sepa rat, it front the rot' and chained together, it b ing the noctitimi oi tuc Council to send Weill w L 11 1 ,! TlrWt . f. This was immediately done, and .I.ll.idnuro, Cuoper,Stiaw,S.llllllollS, Firth, ILI!, and Presion, were f utilivitti placid art another room, and final)? coot eyed, rat to the noose of Correction, and the *eat:tinder to ot;till fields Prison, tinder a military escort. At half past four Lavender, Taunton, litsnop, Ruin. veil, and SJltainti were ordered to take cliarle ua Tliktie wood and the other seven selected for ..... itnient to the Tower, anti soon afterwards a warrant, directed to the Lit.uten.lit of tile 'lower, and signed by ail tiie Members of the Privy Council, was rut into the lir lids ul the officers, and the prisoners hein.t placed to three coaches, 'outmoded by tO of the Lite Guards and a party of patruile, tile cavalcade proceeded titer West initister and Loudon lindaes, down Great E.llSielleal), and a" Ott to the Tower. On their arrival at the Gates tory were received by Major Herrington, tile Deputy Lieutenant,..nd the prisoners were conducted - into the Muller of the tortress, attended by tile officers abou t named and several Yeoman lit the Guard. _Each prisoner W3ll placed in a separate room, and and two Yeoman of the Girard stationed at the door, weer: they are constailly to rentaiii,until funkier orders shall he recoved- The warrant for their cmaiiiiituient charged the Lieutenant of the Tower to keep the pri soners safely in cusiu.iy for trial, for the crimes of High Treason, Murder, and Conspiracy to Murder. They will therefore, of course, remain titer: until the day tip pointed for their teal, which is udderstotkl wilt be as early a• possible. eight men sent to ihe'rower conducted themselves with sin:yufir effrontery, huh during their examination before lilt Privy Council and on their p ',sage to the Fusser. log., in particular, while at the Treasury, es incur] a degree of hardened auslaeity that excised a -hong feeling of iiisausi and abhorrence in the si:Veia. tors. He apf-eared eager to enter into Colo ersation with several persons, and was heard to • le mole thin Uliee " that if lie had fifty necks he would hate them iw Wed sooner than see hi, children starve. - Lie oie,eit ed to Mr. Adkins, the Ginernor of the !Lowe of Correctimf, that if all men to the office were Itl.e luth, they (the colispirators) would not have been there at all. This• tlewisod seemed perfectly cool and unconcerned, but said minting. Preston was observed to be very uneasy on account of not being examined. He observed that he was the only man able to cope with the ))))) cil. lie was most anxious, he said, to know his fate, and if it was the will of the Almighty that he should perish in the cause of freedom, lie was perfectly ready to do so. It would be a triumph to hitu in fact, to die iu the While the prisoners were waiting in the Magistrate's room at Whitehall, a great number of resit-cum!. pt r.ints were admitted to look at them. 'filistlewood and Brunt were chained together in the first coach on the jouritev to the tower, and accont it.inted by Mr. RA; the Messenger, and Lavco der and Bishop, the officers. Mr. Ruff %V• 113 the bearer of the warrant. ::,teatrei• I)IZUttY I.XNE. On Thursday night a new drama in five acts, C alled Th e H e b rew , % y i p, produced at this 'flu:atm. It is founded upon a principal incident in the last new Novel, called Ivanhoe anti closely resembles the pieces which have ticen broogia out, with less merit as to scenery, and acting at sonic of the minor Theatres. The principal character, that of the Ilebretv, was sustained by Mr. Kean. The drainatizer of the novel takes several liberties with this character, for the purpose of adapting it to the well known peculiarities o. the great actor, but the effort Ivo not quite successful. la some scenes, however, there was now and then a glimpse of the powers of Kean, who entered upon the character with as much energy as if every line had undergone his own revision. Mrs. West played the Jew's• Daugh ter, and was much ap i dauded. The other per formers did their utmost. The piece improves as it advances to a close, and will, we trust, prove profitable to the manager ; hut it struck•, us, that the beautiful scenery, which called faith most of the applause that was given, might have been bestowed upon some more worthy production. A number of persons are to be seems frequently upon the stage without having any business there, and of course when they leave it they cannot help doing so in the shabbiest manner possible. There are two or three songs by Miss Carew and others in the commencement. The pwce was given out for repetition amidst general applause. COVENT-GARDEN. Thursday night a new musical drains, called Iminhoe ; or, The Knight Templar was performed the first time at this Theatre, f►►unded on the Novel of that name. The author of the latter has left the dramatist little to do, as it full of interest, and the plot is so regularly developed, that by closely following the original, there could have been no doubt of success The character of the Jew is drawn with a masterly hand and was very ably performed by Mr. W. Farrell, who received very flattering and deserved applause. NE C. Kemble, as Ivanhoe, and Mr. Nlacready, as the Knight Templar, were both a powerful support to the piece; ►he exertions of these two gentlemen mainly contributed to the great success of the ploy, and we should do less than justix if we did nut pronounce their performance of the two characters allotted to thou peculiarly happy specimens of the histrionic art. Liston was irresitably comical in Iramba, the Jester. Miss Stevens imparted a con siderable degree of interest to the character of Rowena, and sang with great sweetness, feeling and eflect. The drama, throughout,.was exceedingly well performed ; anti the music, chiefly .elected from the works of Storace, could nut tail to please. —The scenery is uncommonly beautiful and picturesque, and the whole was brought to a very effective climax by the destruction of the Castle of Sir Reginald. The Piece, which was most favour ably received,. promises to be very productive to this Theatre.. DREADFUL FIRE AT CHATHAM. . . A firc broke out at Chat h am on Friday morning, in the house of Mt. Rills, baker, winch communicated to the Sim Inn and Chester's htewery, all of which ee uh twenty-fit e other houses are all totally destroyed. We have heart' alto lives being lost ; there is no cause yet asetr taisied. It was nowt ter currently affirmed in the cloy on Friday that toe Radicals had set them on tire. The houses of Chatham are all book of wood front old ►hops broken up. The streets at that part are only wide enough for two coaches to pass —The violence of the wind aided the devastatine element, and when our in formant left, nearly thirty houses were reduced to assess ; Ilse tire still mated with unabated tory, and great anziely was•telt tar the s afely of We at-r,,al. It is rumoured that King Ferdinand, of Spain, has made a pointed application to the King of PrLis sia ti►r a body of troops to be sent to his aid. It is also said, that our Government has been solicited to allow part of the garrison of Gibraltar to proceed to Cadiz, hut, to the credit of Ministers, they i►ar►t ticelliwd all interferoice.