The National Register. — London, England, 1819-11-14 00:00:00

T - ' NOV. 14. ploe, which rocked so vioteritly I really thought It would 4ave fallen before we could have got below stairs. The meat morning, about II o'clock, we experienced another t hough slighter, coirvulsioa. Ou the Itith we felt two more, one at 11 a. and the other at Wit night : and un the 120th we also had two more shock'; God kuows if it is yet all over. It appears to be going from the south to north. At Pallampore It was ac companied by a noise in the earth just like thunder. Its ravages at Ahmedabad have been considerable. The two large mitiarets near the Jonah Mussed in that city are 4,ll.mb:own. One of the gates of the town has fallen down, and nearly 300 houses The fort of Rampour, uear Pull garde, is warty demolished. NOMINATION OF SHERIFFS. Friday, 'being the morrow of St. Martin, and the day fixed on by Act of Parliament for the proposition atid tamiination, in the Court of Exchequer, of three•Gen demi) Mr each of the counties of England and Wales •to be reported to the Prince Regent, by whom one is "afterwards appointed out or each list to serve the oilier -of Sheriff for the year ensuing, a little after two o'clock the Chancellor of the Exchequer,' thesLord•Chancelior, the Earl* of Westitiorie.ol and Eiarrowby, mitered alt. -Court, and took their teats at the table, immediately tinder the Bench, , the "-Chancellor of the Exeltromr sitting tits the tight. Th e oath against par.iality, was then allsoinisteved by the Officer, and the cerentons proceeded Runtish with the cost ttttt ary forms ; *blob, themtneetsion retired in the order observed at eterniNg. 'CHURCH missioNitur SOCIETY. It appears from the last Report of this Society, that dining the last year there have been seat out 19 miss': curies and others :—viz. to West Africa, 8; to North India, 2; and to Ness. Zealand, 9. The income of the wear was about 28,0001. and its expenditure nearly the - same stun. The population of Sierra-Leone is stated to he about 10,000 persons, and tne schools contain about '2,000. The roads, buildings, Sec. are in a state of rapid improvement, chiefly by the labour of the liberated tie groes ; the Royal munificence and the national liberal ity have pursued the generous object of delivering and rieilizing these once devoted victims of barbarism and bondage, and the benign fruits of their zeal, and exerti -0,15 begin to appear. An Auxiliary Missionary Society has been formed us Sierra-Leone, and (MI. 4s .11d. been paid to the labourers and their negroes. Their first anniversary was held ott the 7th of December. A Calvinist or Independent Chapel, at Lincoln, has, during the last fortnight, been made the theatre (dna -singular exhibition. Some of the trustees of the chapel, without alleging the slightest objection to die religious principles or moral character of the minister, who has officiated there 1-8 years, wished to displace Lim, for the purpose of introducing a stranger ; but on consulting the society (which consists of 9 male and 22 female communicants,) found a large majority in favour of re taining their old pastor. The trustees thereupon took forcible possession of the chapel, and in one instance dragged the M u ister (whilst surrounded by his congre gation. and in the solemn extecne of religious worship) from his pulpit. The society in their turn determined rat readily to abandon their right to use the chapel and evpoiut their preacher; and by way of keelin; posses sion., absolutely slept in their pews several oughts, esta blis 1111 l g a replier relief of guards, consisting principally of ladies, until they were finally expelled. "vu et armis." by the trustees. The - latter, however, have since given way, and the Minister is to retain hi. chapel. !LOSS OF THE LEDA. The Lads, lawribe, sailed from Liverpool on the 29th L anuary last. for Bombay. On the istlt of May having passed through the Mosunbique channel, and on the lookout for the island of .Johanna, the ship struck on a reef of rocks. After a full consideration of the difficulties of the situation. it was deemed prudent by the captain and crew to abandon the ship in their boats, and to make for the nearest lands which proved to be the island of Mayotte. Here they landed, and having set upsonse tents on the shore, were enjoying a state of comparative cum tort after the dangers they had escaped. They were shortly after, however, surrounded by a party of the natives, all amid with spears, attended by the King cat Mayotta's brother, and a man who could speak English, who brought a letter from the King of Mayotta to desire them to leave that place, where they would certainly be plundered of all they possessed, and repair to the town, where every assistance they reputed would be affonled them. They in consequence struck their tentsithe next morning. and proceeded down to the town, which lay about ten miles so the leeward, in their boats, here they proposed, having little con. fidencein the King's professions °fatuity, to remain only a few hours, and then steer for Johanna. The Captain meantime waited on the King in person who received kiln very civilly, but finding him detci mined to depart, grew furious, end insisted, at all events, on his remaining three days. There was no option :left, therefore, but to comply with the best grace ble. Absstt sunset of die evening of their arrival. the King of Mayotte. with .a large party of the nativc.', went down and. took out of the boats . all the trunks and bags, and put doom into bis own house, where . they remained until the evening of the 19th of May, when the King wet weed they might go away. Their trunks and bags were deliverelto then, but tile locks of the trunks bad been broker), all the bags had been opened, and their best clothes had been taken gttt. .As soon as the King departed, a new and more extensive plunder eutimumeed on the part of the native*, who took away all the quadrants, the chronometer, two watches, and the medieineebest. The captain. irritated at the loss of articles so essential to their safety, demanded to see the King, fur the purpose of reclaiming them ; but the guards put their hands to their swords, and threatened that if he and his crew did not leave • the island that evening. all their throats should be cut. They • were compelled, thetehoe. to embark and set sail fur Johanna, where, after encountering infinite perils, they arrived at midnight ten the 214. At the time of their landing, the Ktng of the' .island was waiting for them on the shore, and received them with the utmost kindness; he even provided them with quarters in his own house; and during their stay, which was ten days treated diem with the utmost hospitality, The Captain and his mates dined every day at the King's table, and the crew had a lege house to themselves. On the 31st of May, the'ship Thames. of London, came into the Bay, and took them all on board s sad serried them to Bombay. The three blues were left with the THE NATIONAL REGISTER. King of Johanna, as a return for his kind treatment, the Captain of the Themes declining to bring them away. They all arrived safe at Bombay on the vist of June. The state of the Exchanges, always an important consideration in a commercial country, now derives an additional interest from the influence they are supposed to possess on the price of bullion, as the period is approaching when the first prelimi nary step towards payments in specie is to be taken, in pursuance of a plan adopted by the Legislature, after a most laborious and patient investigation.— The subject is already among the leading topics of discussion in the city, and is viewed with a degree of anxiety commensurate to its real or imagined bearings on the general interests of the community. A continued fall in the exchanges, during the last three wteks of October, attended with a correspond. ing advance, which very rarely fails to accompany it, in the price of bullion, has given rise very exten sively to the apprehensiJn, that should this state of things go on at the existing ratio, a train of evils must necessarily ensue. The Bank, it is asserted, cannot obtain gold to the extent required to fulfil the conditions tithe new enactment, or, if that diffi culty is surmounted, may have its whole stock with drawn by speculators, ter the purpose of exportation to the continent. Connected with this state of things, there must necessarily follow, in order to prevent bankruptcy, a diminution of the issues of of the Bank, and, with them, of the circulating medium, tending to produce a ruinous depression in in the value of all commodities, and a refusal to merchants of the usual facilities in the way of dis counts. This alarm, we believe, is in a great mea sure without foundation. The fore:- exchanges are influenced by other causes than 7he excess or diminution of the circulating medium, and princi pally depend upon the extent of exports compared with our imports. At the present mutneut the re gular operations of trade are so limited, that the fluctuation in the rates of exchange are principally to be referred to the financial transactions of our great capitalists, to purchases or sales, whichever turn speculation may . take, in foreign Funds.— •During the period that the French dividends were in the course of payment, the exchange in Paris was high; but when the remittances were completed, and the payment of the dividends here, with the opening of the books. that had been shut, led to con siderable purchases of French Stuck, the effect was reversed. Things then resumed their natural level ; •the.exchanges became steady on Friday week, and on Tuesday and-Friday last experienced a rise, both days included, of about one half per cent. i • and as a proof how directly they are influenced by the operations of commerce, this rise is attributed solely to the purchases of indigo made at the late sales on fureign account, which would of course •be drawn fur its soon as shipped, and which in value do not exceed 300,0001. The quantity of gold that has been purchased by the Bank cannot be correctly as certained. It is supposed, however, that their pre sent stock does not exceed the half of that which will be required to carry the new measure into ope ration. The rate at which the first issues in gold bars are to be made is 81s. per ounce, but the mar ket price is at present 78s. lid and. there is every reason to conclude, that the requisite provision may be made, certainly without loss, and probably with a considerable profit. The average emount of bank notes in circulation during the quarter ending the 10th ult., as published in compliance with the pro visions of the late Act of Parliament, is 25,326,8731. In the Stock Exchange speenlation is nearly at a stand and as three Bank holydays occurred during the week, the operations of any kind have been few and iunimportant, and the fluctuations, in consequence immaterial. The prices however, have advanced; the rise together is nearly one per cent_ Consols fur the account left off on Saturiley at•67l. In Omnium scarcely any bargains were transacted.— FrenchfStock has also been remarkably steady ; even the period of the liquidations, which usually stake place on the three first days of the month, having passed over without producing any fluctuation. The, concluding price from Paris on ednesday last, was 7 if. with 24. 25. for the rate of exchange,; in Lon don the price is 1-Bth percent. higher. The I.adies.—The longer a woman Temains sin gle, the more apprehen►ive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At 1.7 or 18 a girl will plunge into it often without tear or wit; at 20. she will begin to.think:; at 24, will weigh and discri minate; at 28, will be .afraid of venturing :at 30, will turn about, and look down the hill she has as cended, and sometimes rejoice and sometimes repent that she has attained that suminitl—Such were the sentiments of a philosopher of the year 1600, who it is evident, :knew very little of the unities. Tlte•culr presented Li) the the•connty of Hereford, to T. Foley, Esq. will Hold nearly two gal lons, is gilt on the inside, and rreh'y chased on the out side witii Oft Will cults of oak lea es and Acorns, in :illusion to the emblanis wont by that gcu►leusau'o friends at his seettal tiCOLIOti. FROM FAIRWAY . -vicars GAZETTE. --.0.- BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. J. G. King, Pump Row, Old Street, cotton wander, from Nov. 13 to Nov. It,. BANKRUPTS. J. Jackson, Manchu:Jct., baiWer.Solii.titors, Messrs. Al. lington and Gregory Redford Row. P. H. Turner and , C. Johnson, London Wall, horse dealers. Sols. Messrs. Longdill and Butterfield, Gray's has Square. H. Oswald. Wavle*, Suffolk, tanner. Sul. Mr. Bromley, Hol born Court. Gray's Inn. H., G., and W. Lang, Accrington, Lancashire, calico printers. Soh. Messrs. Milne and Parry, temple. F. Henderson, Newton by the Sea, Northumberland. fl .h dealer. Sols. Messrs. Mounsey and Fisher, Red Lion Square. M. :Mullion, Liverpool, ship chandler. Sols. Messrs. Clarke, Richards, and Meckall, Chancery Lane. C. Russ, Great Barr, Stallion'. brush maker. Soh. !Messrs. JenninAs and Bolton. Temple. T. Bratnley, Nottingham, victualler. Sots Messrs. Hurd and Johnson, Temple. I Wilson, Worksop, Nottinghamshire, money scrivener. Sol. Mr. Wilson, Greville Street, Haunts Garden. J. Fildes. Lamb', Conduit Street, upholsterer. Sols. Mews. Mason and Housman, New Bridge Stmt. J. Zantira, Bevis Marks, St. Mary Axe, grocer. Sol. Mr. Noel, Gray's Inn Place. W. Lowndes, J. Robinson, and H. Neild, Manchester, cotton merchants. Sols. 3lessrs. Hewitt and Brat.kenbury, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Nov. S. The 'Chief Justice. Sir itrthert Dallas, Mr. Justice Park, and Mr. Justice Richardson, entered the Court 4 few minutes after one o'clock. An order was made by their Lordrhips, and read by one of the officers, that from and aker Thursday, the Ith day of November, all notices ofjustilying bail should he served bcfo-e eleven o'clock in the forenoon, except in eases where further time for jus ifytng•had been allowed by the Court; ser vice in that event to be made before three in the afternoon , INQUEST AT OLDHAM. Mr. qearlett nicieed for it rule to skew cause. why a cri minal information should out be filed agaitist Joseph Ens iishaw, a surgeon, and Joseph Taylor, fur privately delivering on the Valli of September last, at Oldham, a certain paper, nut ler the sanction of an oath, to a Jury, thereby volt avoining to cuirsipt the sources, dud pet vent the administration of justice. The defendant. Eat miliaw, was the medical attendenit on the demised Lees, one of the unfortunate victims of the 16111 Aiigo .1, at !Manchester, and was present the first day of the but declined to be sworn, as he was one of the Society of Friends,yet he aherwards made a written statement of I.ia opinion, which he got privately conveyed to the Juty. Tor mite:- defendant was the person who distributed this to the Jury, four of whom actually reeeived• copies of it. He confessed that there was scone clinical!) , in bringim the matte► home to Earnshaw as the writer, but au affida vit which lie held in his hand, will. regard to Taylor, a a* made by a person, to whom lie admitted lie •had serreil these copies on the Jury. He then read these attidds irks, namely, that of Ferrand, the .42oroner, and southre, swearing to the fact of tampering with the Jury, but dies closing no stew fact, nut already knows); the latter der posed to the admission of Taylor. The affidavit regarding Mr. Earnshaw was less decisive. The deponent swore that he had a conversation' with the defelidant.; and, two* questioning him esti) his arldiurship of this paper, Mr. E. did not give a direct answer. He admitted lie had 'seen papers which were copies Of it, belt denied that be was a party to distribute *heal amongst the Jurors. The ChiefJustire.--Ile peattively states himself that lie neither directly nor audneetly circulated the Tam, amongst thp Jury. Mr. Scariest - He does so, set the question is, whether the circumstances I have stated eve suitieitmeto induce •thb Court to call open him to Aviv cause wby Or information should not gu hgatnst'him. take the fare to be clear against Taylor. The 'taper written by Earnsbaw professes to give his opinions un the rause ufthe death of John Lees, The limier is aildreaed thus—" all whom it may coecern " The Chief Justice—The fistudlntion-nr my .present opinion that the rule iiught to go against Taylor, is, that onthing is to be delivered to a Jury other than upon oath. , touctinag ti,, matter or their inquiry. •(t dons not appear that you have sufficient proof in this case to eliminate the writer or tats paper. Rule gra:Med 'gains( Taylor. II Carious Dilemma.—The burial grounds of•Londott and its neighbourhood are at this time so carefully watched, that the•resurrection-tnen can scarcely procure ally bodies for the-dissecting rooms, no less than wren of these . fgeful members of society are now in prison, having beets detected in attempts to raise the dead ; the students at the htepit.rls are at a stand still—bodies fetch triple the usual price, and one of the principal lecturers on Anat y has actually applied to lord Sul. mouth far lease to import them from France, whole they are easily procured and very cheap; the result of this application is net yet known. Acerhi, in his wards through 'Finland, rehttes a very curious law which .prevails at Abo, which, if adopted in this country, would totally put an endlo that abomi nable traffic carried on by resurrostiommen. rit is, that the bodies of all pensioners mid sinecure plartemen, after ene.r decease, become the property of the 'Si/ le, and arc di-livered to the SUIVOII4 sr dissection. Thus, if they tieser did any gad in their life, they were not wholly useless in their death. What exceHent anatomical sub. jests would such a law as this produce in Csiglatitl4 There is a petition now anions the New York bakers, who shall hake the Ingest shil; mg loaf. 1 his is an excellent spirit of rivalry. One of these bakers annomices, that his loaf shall weight twelve ounces more than the corporation assixe„ A dispute of rather a serious nature has taken place in the Nlediterranean, between the American Commodure Stewart, uld !Mlle Officers composing a Court elan aI on a marine. The ))))))) dore refused to confir m t h e sentence of the ( ;mot, which led to disrespectful emote, a nd in the end C.ipoins M•lltiimit:ll, 11 itid• aml Nicholron, and Liewei!ants at.A bllSpelldLd fruit their c Juimaiish. ifrm