The National Register. — London, England, 1819-01-11 00:00:00

EXCISE COURT. The Conimiasioners of Excise having commenced their gittimis at the Chief Office in Broad Street, wane account of His Majesty s Excise Court may not be useless or unacceptable. This Court, and the Court of Appel., front its decisions. were tomtitured by the Act of 1 . 2 Car. 11, c. s. 51 ; and 12 Car. 11., • c. 141, s. s , which direct that " forfeitures and offences made and milnitted within the imnietliate limits of the Clneft/ffie of Itxcise in Loadon, shall be heard, adjudged. and determined by the Chief Commissioners and Governor; appointed by Hie :Majesty, or the major part of them, or by the Commissioners for Appeals and regu lating of this duty, in the case of appeal, but not otherwise." The Act or It Car. 11., c. Y 3, s. 31, and C. 24, s. 4M, states the limits of the Chief ()the.: to include the eties of Loudon and West minster, Ihrough of Southwark and suburbs, and parishes within the Bilis of Nlortality, to x inch, by the Act of 24 Geo. l i• c. 40, the pariah of St. M.irylehotie Was added. Offie:rs of His Msj.i.ty's Calm of Excise are the Solicitor, or his Dinity. who has now a separate patent. 2. The Registrar, and 3. The Mesiengers, who summon the parties, and execute the warrants granted by the Coact. The du •y of the C mdmistion:rs of Appeal is to hear and deter mine all ap:isals front th.rjudgment of thoComniissioners of ExAse, in &cise The nuniher of eau its htird and decidel b; the Commissioners of Ifescite. during the laq five years, was Moat, or about Han annu sly. There were, during the same period, only seven appeals; of winch one was rt pmc.!ei sl in by the app:•llant, three have not b.:•zn heard, and in the remaining three the deAsions of the Com missioners of Excise have been affirmed. The usual days of the sitting of tile Commissioners of Excise are Wednesdays and Friday., and the Sittings continue regularly for six months in every year, or longer, as the number of cruses may render orcrsaary. Counsel attend when panic; desire it, and on. these occasions a barrister of experience is retained to defend the 'interests and rights of the Crown. The last two counsel were Mc. Justice Dampier, and after him Mr. ti Th.: present counsel is, Mr. Shepherd, eon of the Attorney-General. Ttiere are rro fees iris this Court. The Comtnivioners of Excise atten I during the erbo;c of the Sittings in rotation (except the Chairman), in addition to their ordinary duties in the collection and management of the revenue. PRINCE REGENT' COURT. Thursday, his Royal Highness the Mince Regent held a Privy Council and Court, at Carlton House,. which was at tended by the Earl of Liverpool, the Chancellor of the Ea chequer, Earl, Bathurst, Viscount Sidenontli, Lord 31elvil:e, the Rt. Hon. George Calming, his Grace the Hoke of Wel lington, the Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, Lail grave, and the Chief Justice of the King's Bench ; Mr. Buller attending as Clink of the Council. Whim the business of the Culla was gone through, the Recorder of London was admitted to the Prince Itegellra lit vienee, when he delivered his Report of the convicts who were capitally convicted at the October Sessions, su Justice Hall, Old Bailey. when the billowing persons were ordered for execution Oil Tuesday Hex! ; —William Tingy, for bullock stealing; steplicii Monis, for a robbcmy at Camden 'fawn ; William Knight. for highway robbers , ;and William Leonard, for tittering forged nines. 'fury were all convicted at the last October Sessions. The rest, seventeen in number, were 'egoista' during pleasine. Wednesday next, the Sessions commence at the Old Bailey. The Calendar contains a 1111111C(0115 list of otfendets, among whom are :shove 12 for ;meting tinged Bank-notes. Tone of the other offences seem peculiarly aggravated. A letter from Madras, dated Sept. 5, says—" We under. stand letters I eeeiveil fermi Mangalore•, rented the 'ad and Mention, that very severe weather had been experi enced on that side of the Peianstila. Bain bad Gillen in such rpiantities, that the rivers had risen beyond their usual height, doing much damage in their catirse to the sea. We regret also to state, that the Croilavery has overflowed its banks, to •u extent nut experienced for moue years past ; and that it is feat et' that much damage has been sustained in the villages on the borders of the river, and on the islands in the stream. From New South Wales, we learn that the ship Lady Castle. rcagb, Captain Weltden, had arrived f England with con vie.ts, after a quick pa•sa,e of little more than four months. Q£4.10 convicts, it is said that not cue had died during the passage, a circumstance almost unheard ()ton such occasions. rhe Castlereagh is expected here (Madras) shortly, with a detachment of 2;so meat; she had proeueded in June, it op• pears, for Hobart's Town, to leceive those troops on board." RELIGION SI. I•PdIITLD nv Ltw.—(Trout au American paper.)—We untlerstana that the Family Bible of a Gentle r.on o f th e Baptist persuasion was last week sold at the vsnipping post of a neighboming town, by a constable alto Icsied upon it, to satisfy a tax laid by a Presbyterian society, to repair the meeting house of said auciety, and to pay off old ailearages. The avails of the Bible acts: tour dollars 2.1 et nts. We hope, fur the honour of the state, never to hens a repetition of such an Act What ! a l ie n a f am ily i o a Lin t•ttan contitry be deprived of the book of life, to pay a tars to a deno 11l i l union to which the head of the tinnily dues trot belting ? Heaven forbid it ! Soine of the Edinburgh papers term the revolting scene %Meh took place at the execution of the unhappy Johnstone, ano siitfei ed the agonies of death for sit arty an hour, " a dirgracettil outrage of the b! ' It was ite'evil a disgiarc -11.1 outrage ; but it was all mill are :against every fi•tling of humanity, in the shocking and brutal maiiner in Much the elteent 1111 l was Colithiet ed. 14 lost shall be said of Inc humnstily •f blestling the ouroi Innate Mail (alter he was cut down lion: Bic 'II/1ml) for the pu. lame of restorisig life, that he might die a second death i We believe such au instance of harlseanu s elesseacg never before took place in any civilized country, sari it will not be soon forgotten ! Hasidism' Addington, Esq. the eldest son of the late Right Nusi. J. 11. Addugta•, la appointed a Commiasioner of btasepa. It appears by the last ads ices from India, that great efforts are to be footle to re duce the island of (;pylon to OW.. 4,ence, I,ArJe nadirs of t►uups were about ►o be sent ho..i bow I,ak•ulia and Madras, on the service. V tamotrra, Jau. 7.—(Frout the Arora.;• - h Coaries.)—Tlie foi-uo mg 14 au on:1'01111i Ot . the lll'l ut O.IIIVIS of herrings awsit fi Y4 1 ,11011111 and Loa eibian ,u 1 each of tue pull lel MAIM JAI. 131 d, wad Silt J 1619;• Eported. Sent coastwin. Total Quarter tailing .lau. 3, 18111 32,431 40,602 7y,055 5, 1619 04513 "109 38,613 I.e. in the 1atter......15,958 30? 14,440 Sit Satimel % ill, olds II codicils, w.is roved ou Soti,riig) cli)el4,ouis iiy J. IVlaibliaw, Esq. of Lineulia's In°, our of lit. .11 I ~ al aacwwu. P 1.1810031 prowl, sworn etude. iia,..001„ Trig NATIONAL REGISTER SIR FRANCES BURDE'I7 AND CORBETT. A Correspondence, which has t , ,ken place between Cobbett and Sir Francis Burdett, has excited much curiosity. The reply of Sir Francis will, if any thin; can, illumine the bronzed check of the id. diurrrt Corpol:6 with a blush, and pretty clearly elucidates the caw, of that enmity which this honest and patriotic character ha% exhibited towards the baronet. TO MR. WM. CORBETT. " St. James's-ploce, January M.. I it S. "Stn,—l have jua received yoor's of the tot!: r.f November, and carefully, and according to yuar desire, perused the enclosed to Mr, " It is not toy intention to enter into any controversy respecting the honesty or dishonesty of paying or not paying debts according to the convenience of the potty owing, It seems that if it should ever suit your convenience, and take nothing from the comforts and en joyments of yourself and familycsuch condi:di and enjoyments, and means too tddiatinguishing themselves, as you think they are entitled to, all this being previously secured, then you think yourself bound to pay your debts ; it, on the contrary, that cannot be effected without sactilices on their and your part, in that case your creditors have no claim to prefer, and you no duty to perform. You then stand ab •.lveil, ; t : Pro cdmicienti<r, and for this singular reason, be cause those who lent you their money when you were in difficulty and thnre..s. in order to save you and your family trims ruin, wet e and are unable to protect you either against your own fears, or the pots er of an arbitrary Government, under whsco they have the lids tbrtune to live, and to which they are equally exposed. These prin. ciples which are laughable in theory, are detestable in practice. That you should not only entertain and act upon, but openly avow them, and blind your own understanding;, or think to blind that of others, by such flimsy pretences, is one more melancholy proof of the facility with which self:merest can assume the mask of hypocrisy, and by means of the weakest sophistry, oserpower the and:gest understand iag.—llow true is our connuoa law maxim, that no man is an upright judge in hie own cause; how truly and tar tily said by the French, " L i -Wail- a: Pipe ;" nor less truly, though inure grossly in Eng• 1;311, • Nature's her own Bawd." '• In exorcising my alniorrenee of the principles you lay down for your conduct, and concerning which you challenge my opinion a a little in:thirty, counsidering the ridicule with which you at the same time threaten to overwochn the unfortunate wight who pre sumes to differ from them, Ido not desire that you should act upon any other with regard to 1111's ; I should be sorry your family were put to any inconvenience on my account, should your circumstances ever prove so prosperous as to enable you to discharge your debts without infringing upon those new principles of moral obligation you have adopted, and which for the first tirne since the commencement of the world have, I believe, been, though frequently acted on, openly promulgated. As to complaint or repro:Lill, they arc tine oft' pring of weakness and folly ; disdain should stifl,! them ; hut nothing can or ought to stifle the expre,sion of disgust every honest mind must feel at the want of integrity in the principles you pro claim, and of fe.hing and generosity in the soffit lICIILS you expre , s.— ani, Sir, your most obedient and humble servent, " F. BUIIDETT." EnlXllt:nGil. Jan. .I.—Olt TOC,illity night hat, a formidable party Of 12 Highland smugglers. with `i horses, loaded with about 160 gal lons of whiskey, was intercepted near Kintore by Mr. Gillespie, the excise linker Al hal, ItSSiStlll only by too men, he, with his elia racteriAie courage. notwithstanding the great disparity of numbers, attacked the smugglers, some of wlttau having fl d. a long and des• perate battle insticil, which terminated in favour of Gillespie, he sacceeded in securing six of the horses, with their loads, about 14 linkers. Mr. Gillespie was wounded in the face, and much bruised, and one of the smugglers was :evcrely wounded, hating received a pistol shot in the leg, and another through the shoulder, and the ball from the latter not being extracted, he hes dangerously ill. A horse and a dog were shot in the heat of the fray. SAOCKING DRPROVIr v.—An elderly man of the name of Dela • Eons, near 70 years of age, was on Monday fully committed from Lanibetli Street (Kee, for robbing Mr. Twaits, of Sugar Loaf Court, Swan Street, Minories, where he was a lodger, of u valuable brooch sod a gold ring. On starching liims4 duplicates were found, amongst which was one for the ring. The brooch lie had sold to a publican in ltan-liffe Highway for 14s. In his apartments were founil upwards of split, of melted pewter, and several publican's pots : he is respect ably connected, and a few years since kept his carriage. One of his female servants at that thile, now keeps the Three Lords in the Minories, one of whose pots were found in his room. Sittings appointed in Middlesex anti London, before the Right Hon. Sir R. Dallas, Knight, Lord Chit of his Majesty's Court of Cilltillotl Pleas, at Westminster, ill and alter Hilary Term, 1811) IN TERM. MIDDLE:IBEX. noN. Monday January 25 Tu May January 21; Friday ... January 29 At onday February Saturday ... Feb. ti I Monday ... February $ AFTER TEILM. Saturday Feb.l3 Monday February 15 By a Cabinet Letter of the lit instant, the Emperor of Austria has centerrcd the Cross of the Order of Leopold, on Sir G. Murray. Qat:liter-Master General of the English Con tingent of the Army of Occupation. A duel was fought on Thursday morning, on Finchlevs (minium, between 51r. -y, Siiigeen, and Captain n —o, which arose in consequence of a dispute ahem Mrs. C---e, a celebrated beauty, dashing in high life. The Capt. was slightly wounded. The extensive corn-mill of Mess's. limner and Drake, near Wakefield, in liot ksM re, was last (I by file; the loss i, estimated d i flout 9.0001. to 10,0001. The accident is supposed to have been caused by the f.ictiutt ut Cur machinery. . . By a late Act of Parliament,Clergymen, non-resident, by reason of their residence on any otitis benefice, are ittilkteet to a penalty of 101. it they do not make the game knon es to the Bishop of the diocese within bit' weeks from the lit of the iltesent month. The foreign trade of Bristol has increased more than one tided in the past year; and there has been an addition of one fifth in the coasting trade, during the same period. The tallow• speculators have " burnt their f►ngers"— tlwt coinnn is reduced more than '2U per cent. and tdie sales dull at that rate. Families who have• yearly accounts with their trades people, would afford Seat relief to many an industrious tradesman by promptly discharging their wills at this season, amid, in a great dc•g-see, remove that prc•sure which has been sensibly felt by the late stagnation of our internal commerce. Sir !►lurray Maxwell, according to report, is deter mined to fight another battle at the Covent Garden hustings. Thu lord Chancellor has si,, , nified he shall not sit in his Court till further notice—it is reported Le is prepar ing to retire from Office. lAN 1-/ THE DROPPED. CHILD. An ingot . ..lt was held on %Vetlitesilay, for the purpose of ascei tinning by [that means the c1,i1.1 funnel in Task Street, sod wined' afterwards died in the workhouse. had come to its death. 'Clic evidence went to prose, that the child, when that found, tt as et ideittly labouring under the ettecta of some sopot ilic medicine; but it was the opinion of 1)1 . . Dennison, that the quantity was neither sufficient, nor probably intended to produce death. No circumstance transpired w hich could lead to the discovery• of the mother, whose licentiousness sinks absolutely to nothing, when compared with her harlia_ Lily tit sulk' itig the infant to be exposed, on a ti u. 1% night, in the open streets : but the deposition uf• the following w i t _ mess explahis the whole tsionsaction, with this c::ception : Elizabeth Winter swain. About two mouths ago, being in want of a nurse child, I applied to Mrs. Ann Symons, a mid wile, residing in Kirby Street, Hatton Garden, for a t•hild to nuts, my own having died; she desired me to call in a few days, its a lady who was tar advanced in pregnancy, as soon as broughtlto bed, would put the child out to nurse ; bin that it would be only for a few Jets. I relosed to take it tier si sliest a pet iod, and told Mrs.:Sy/11011i 111,111 wanted ono Itir u length ut time. Airs. Symons then sold, that her sister, Mrs. Evans, who lodged in the same house with me, would take the child, and I should have another to dry nurse. I did not see Nirs. Symons again until otter the deceased at as brought by Mrs. White, sister in law to Mrs. Symon., to the house where I lodged, to be given to Mts. Evans, Mrs. Sy_ iiions's &islet ; it was brought on Saturday, the 12th of I)c_ canker last, between 12 and 1 o'clock, and as Mrs. Leans was tint at home, I hail the care of it until the Tuesday fol lowing. On Saturday minting, Mrs. White, the person who be ought the child to me, Cilate and said, site must take it back to Mts. Sy 'sums, as it was intended to be sent to we•t nurse on its father's estate in the country. Die Clidd was perfectly healthy during the time it wits with me, and lived on milk and at row root. It was not above three hones old when it was brought to me on Saturday. 1 di essed the child on Tnesday, and earned it to Mts. Symoid, in Kirby Street. and de. lieeied it to her at ti o'clock in the afternoon; she paid me seven shadings for 11111sitig it, and hammed me that it was going to its father's country seal,about :Wiles froatEondon, to he put to nurse. Whilst I had the child Mr*. Syn ttttt *ad vised me to get some poppies, dud give them to the thild,as it would keep it constantly quiet, and was an excellent dung to give a child that was cross. Oti Tuesday evening, the lath of December, 1 heard of a child being (hopped in Task Street ; 1 went to see it from an improodou on my mind that it was the saute child I had taken to Mrs. ~ ,: yielutts the same afternoon ; I saw it at the workhouse, and knew it lions two red pimples on one shoulder, and the mark of red wine, which I suppose the mother ',reit ea while pregnant of it, being between both its eyes. The dies, the child wort•,wltea delivered it into Mrs. Symons's 114011 A, DOS a nets and beautiful dress ; and that now produced is mean and dirty, not the raise dress except the shirt. It had very black hair ; I amsure it was the sante child ; I saw it again on the follow. ing enotnini, and was stile that soun•tiuig had been given to it improperly ; it was so motel) altered in tts appearance that I shoul•l not have known it but from the masks 1 have already described. It was drowsy a n d stuptlied, au] the anise told ate it had been so ever since she had it. Had the Mad remained with me, I teel satisfied it wo 11.1 have been alive at this time. I ilaviAed the nurse to show lite child to a ductor : I visited it Six times tn the win 'cif ease, awl it got worse every time. It was a very pies Mug cold night when toe deceased WAS drnilp..ll. I never learnt limn Mrs. Symons Oho the mother ut the t itild was. Here the evidence closed, when some of the Jury pro, posed to etan t i iiii Mrs..Symuns, who was prevent, Lint one of the Overseers slated, that it would be highly improper to examine her woo was intended to ue prosecuted as a party, and who was now under bail to answer for the odenct, and that they could not call on her to criminate herself. Here the 6UOln WAS cleared. The Jury, after a salmi( of seven hours, and a consultation of two hours, in e pliaocr a iih the opinion of the Doctors, returned a verdict—Died by the visit:itiao of Dud. CAUTION TO AUCTIONEERS.•- Several auctioneers et. tended at the Excise Office to answer to inforsaations filed against them, fur nut making a declaration of the 'emit of sontesales in which they had been engaged,within the period prescribed by lass. It its, perhaps, nut generally kiwis n by the members ut that eailin;, that atlas declarat ion lie not made, the party failing to mike it is liable to a penalty of any slim from 10s. to 501. A respectable auctioneer was fined in a mitigated penalty of 30s. for not giving in the requisite re. tarn on tlisee ditierent occasions; and was told by tile Cum. misnomers to be more careful its future, AS they could have tided Isiml.sol. if they had cho,ess to be severe. Alr.Rubisis was also ;tined for thr same default in a barn at 10s. ; he said that it arose from a 1111S1Ake MI his part t the sale was a sale IC%6:41111011. and lie thought that in making a MUM 01 its result to the Stseriol, he had satisfied the clause in the Act of Pal IlAillt•III. We regiet to say, that the last month has proved purlieu hely dismal uus to the slipping at Ply No less than inur have been lust dosing Sisal pei toil, dud we are sorry to stair Mill Iwo of Ilivru WI CU rrghsar ti ides s, having valuable cargoes on hoard, the prupesl, of the tradesmen ot Plymouth and the neighbouring luaus. .1 he hollow mg are i.ei mimes of Ilse uutu,timate vessels : - Emily Thomas, how lit MIA •1111 lIIC 1 1 4illief, Isom Liverpool, butts b el to Plyissull.ll, wills genes at cargoes, the I ) , ovidence, Power, trout Ply tli to St. Aliolinel's, ii, calla- , ; and the Edoi I , Beer, from the lonian tit G,umsby wilt truit. tuelai.caluly list we have to hilit the loss of the ship Eliza, of Piyinotith, Loch 'staple', in the liielph of St. Lour, nee, is November ; and time Neptitee, also ut Plymouth, Wiwi, un the island of New thundiand, at We 541111! 11111 e. 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