The National Register. — London, England, 1819-03-07 00:00:00

e , iffzida Xfj A, No. 5i9. --VOL. XII. ro OUR READERS. Ifc presume on your Candour and illserality to .apolo gize for an improp iety in our last Sunday's Paper, witich is no otherwise to tope for excuse, than as the indispensably necessary consequence of an Accident :which occurred at the Mmnent of oar putting the Paper to Press. We allude, of course, to the 'circum stance of some Articles which appeared on the pro ceeding Sunday having been repeated in that publica tion. Under the then " existing circumstances," it would, but for this trespass on the indulgence of our Reader', Lave been impossible to have had the Paper ready fur its due period of publication. It is scarcely within the scale of probability, eat such an uulleasant dicum-tance cam ever/kelt'. PLIVS IN CHURCHES ANI) CHAPELS. TO ?7E PDITON OF nil A'ATIOYAL BEGI4TER. SI lay YOURS being a Sunday Paper, and therefore best Tlarted for religious purposes, I have taken the liberty, '7 its means, of pointing out, what I, as well as many more, conceive to be a great National grievance; I riy national, because it lowers the value of our Church c3tablishment, and because its practice is almost uni- Nc:sal. The grievance to which I allude is to he found: %%Lac ?—ln the Temple of our God! Yes, Sir--lat a man enter any Church throughout this metropolis; and he will there Mee, that that sacred place, intended for t! -.e equal accommodation of the Pon., as well as the Rich, is. like the Temple of Jerusalem, "bought and szli;' and " instead of a House•of prayer, is nude a house of Nlcroltauclize.' It is painful to see so many aged and infirm, so many respectaUe persona, who have attended from the commencement of the service, kept standing throughout the whole while by some coxcomb young ster, or showy female, walks in in, the midst of the scrvioe, or, even at sermon time, shows the money. and i:. instantly ushered into a Ite.V ; when, but a morneat L.forc, "Am room could be found." With indignation i have seen the purse pulled out, and money, paid with as mu. .h regularity as at a market; and I have seen Pew-openers publicly counting their earnings; whilrt t . eo. c6:tgregation have been addressing a prayer to the Throne of Mercy 1 When the Laws of God have pro. nlunced the seventh day as a sabbith to the Lord ; when the laws of the country enforce obedience to them; when business is suspended every where else; :hall it be borne, that in the very Temple are to be found the "the changers of money; and that the poor man cannot kneel to serve his Goa, unless be pays fa; a place to kneel in That things are so, we know too well: ea this is one great cause of the present rage for Methottiln ; 'Tis perfectly natural, Sir, for a nxua 0 frequent that place where he is best accommodated ; and, indeed, this i,eerns to hare been appreciated by most or all dissenting establishments; for you no sonner enter a Ntethed:st Chapel, than, if there Le a vacant seat, you are asked to take it : alba If a stranger, still a greater welcome. Money mut not be taken, bpi t at the risk of tlwiiir places and their eltartv:tcrs ; hence they fill, and respectably ton; and it is my first opinion, that it is not as much the tenets of the tici.t, as the convenience of the piaeo, which cttracts such numbers. But it is not only that :t drives the pious and well disposed from the National '.7.stablishinont, and in their places admi,s the vi,dons, the idle, the curious, and die profligate, wl o, to ChurCh what time they may, are alnays sure of a scat ny paying for it; bot the effects produced on tie morals the young must be very great ; " it 4 , but gust.'' reclaim, "if oven in the Chute!) tin+• ta•atLc for • I 1 * 4 . . .••••••• naT /0/t fTri attLt iL!.i try+ Our Ling, eon4titutio;t anu iLaixi atone, on the Sunday, that we ni ty do the same. out side. without incurring a greater sin ;" and it is a very absurd contradiction, that a tradesman shall be prose cuted for selling the articles oflife on the Stbhatb-day whilst the very Temple itself is bought and sold. At the same time. I pretend not to dictate how, or in whet manner, Pew-openers are to be paid for their services; but I do affirm,that in every parish there are to be found enow of old parishioners of re:spectahla e,h4racters Wm would most willingly undertake the office, and most zealously discharge its duties, for a small income ; and who would have to much pride in themselves, and too much veneration for the place, to suffer them to accept of a bribe. In the hope of seeing these things ordered better, I remain, Sir, Yaw Imelda •Servant, Y. A. LAM 1 TELLMENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, s ,ATt r y Feb. 27. "IMPORTANT CASE OF BANKRUPTCY. YOUNG Y. WRIGHT Ahr) A)(0111ZR. This was au action of tre,pa.sa against the 2z fend ants, to the mehredger and his assivant under a cont. mission of bankrupt apintrt one Jai; Crowley, for entering the Queen's-Arno Tavern, St A Jarattili Street, kept by Crowley, and alleard by the praiatiff to belong to her, arid sizing the stock, furniture, Anil effects therein. The chnna;;es were laid at 5,0001. The defendants pt7t in the record itiostiacati,m. Mr. HALT opened the pleading*, 418 Mr. Sergeant. Cori,cy addressed the jury oe the potrof the plaintiff'. It was 6tated by C:rowley, who was examined on the part of the p'aintiff. that he took the Qneen'a-.\ rms favern, iu June, 1814 , and h that so shortly afterwards as in the follt.w.ng December, he transferret his in timits is the premises and in tho stock an.l farniture to h's sister-in-law, the plaintiff; in consideration of 2000%, which Was paid in Bank notes, and the rest by bills, and took a house at Paddington, to which he re mow.xl. fie stated the stuck of wines and spirits at that time to be 14001, add of ale *AI puler from .80. to 1001. On his cross elimination, which he underwent with singular effrontery, he stated that he tame to St. James's Street, Goodmun's.fields, where his wife kept a circula ting library ; thin at that time be was a general mer chant, buying anything and all thugs. That his ware houses were in the same house with the circulating li brary, fir which house he paid 601: a year. That on .leaving Prescott Street he brought away with him from 5001. to 18001 , hiving paid his creditors ss. in the pound. That he did not pay any premium for the house in St. James's Street, and to entering into it contracted debts to the amount of 20001., for which he gave bills which became doe in the beginning •f the tbllowing year. That be left St. James's Street, and took the small house at Paddingt,ift„ to carry on th wine trade! He also itelnowlmfged that he had for_ timely been a milliner awl fancy dame-maker, at Leeds, where he became a bankrupt, and had afterwards been an auctioneer. The eceount he gays of the considers. tiou money, said to be paid bint . hy the plaiutiff, wits most prevaricating and incrediblti. Ihe learned JUDGE here said, that if the trar.sfor were not bonatide the plaintiff's. possoision was a fal lacy. Several other witnesses were calledton the part of the plaintitf, with an endeavour to anew that the various form of the transfer were attendel tni. An attempt was also made to set up the former colainission, under which CRiwley had nut obtained his certificate, but the prof failing, the learned Judge told the Jury that the former commission had Olen to the granntl, It came out from the piaintifrs witnesses, in speak ing of the former esanaission, that Crowley's brother was the petitioning creditor, nett sole as.iznee, he claiming a debt of 1051. That he ball posse. , Cei himself property belonging to the batikrapt Crowley to the amount of 4001-, and that the el - cline's uneer that com mission had never received oue penny, nor eve.' had the solicitor's bill been paid. Mr. Sergeant VAUCHAN, in !minutia speech of two bowl, addreraad the Jug on the 2art ai t.hc tlefcn,lnuts, SUNDAY, cir 7• ,/g/o PiLICE 9 stating this to be ona the inait fraudulent cases tha t aver NUM before say Cutlet ; commentad with great. . force and severity up.>n the evidence produced on the part of the plaintiff, and particularly on that ofCrow- ** ley. He could not refrain -from noticing, with some humour, that instead of a fancy dress-maker, Crowley should be called a fancy commission-saaker, and said, that he was a perfect froteus, having been saccessive ly a milliner and fancy dress-maker, an auctioneer, librarian, merchant, dealing in every thing and an" thing. ; a t , ivern-heeper, and a wine-mece'sant. Afarr showing the fraud of the pretended evaafifer fma Crowley to the plaintiff, Mr. Sergeant Vetiv,han the Jury, he would give them the best evidence, for lte would liy beim them flit.: evidence ef•t4a .pLaistsfi • ita rself. • Upon this the proceelings under the preient hieli were produced, and the examinations of the plain tiff, on oath, before the Commissioners, contained -is them, were read. We cannot detail the examinations; on account of filar great length ; but we must say we never heard such a tissue of prevarication .and perjury . We give a short extract, as a spe,:imen, where she was asked as to the 2,0001. Where did you obtain the money which you said yen paid for the purchase ?—I procured it from friends. Frogs whom—ilarne them ?—I did not •prepare my self for that question. From whom did von rec^ire it ?—I must obtain: their pumissien before I menti.:n thtir names. • Did you borrow it from any 1)0'8:J11 Sit.. I borrowed it Of v'llmt sure 1 do not know the gentle man's name. 1i here does he live ?—'fliat 1 do not know. On one of these examinations the plaintiff was corn -witted to Newgate for prevarication. The plaintiff, in her examinations on her oath, states. drat in 1814, she kept a teflon) at Newcastle, in nrnich she failed. "Ma her goods were sold off, and her creditors were - pail a small composition, after which she carats up to, town, in October, 1814, A mere beggar ; and thus situated, took the pretended transfer of the Queen's Arms Tavern front Crawley, ut 2,0001. She stated oa her oath, on being brought up from Newgate, in answer to a further inquiry as to where she got the 'money to pay Crowley, that she was recommended by a Mr. Davis to a Mr. Barnh, who lent her the stoney. Bus Baruh was put into the witness's box, and said, that he never lent the plaintiff any money, nor eve r raw her or knew her until he maw bar in New;:a:e. after her examinations. Davis was also produced, who denied that plaintiff had ever applied to him to Um-raw money, nor did he borrow money for her, and particularly tbat he never applied to Barak. On the part of the defendants, evidence 'ass aim produced to support the present coninsission, which was established to the satisfaction of the Court. Mr. Sergeant COPL EY replied. The learned Judge summed up the evidence in an able manner, stating that the case was pregnant tvith fraud, and that the examinations 01 the plaintiff were quite fearful. The Jury returned a verdict for the defenJasts, Friday the Doke of Gloucester arrived at MI eatte# House, Piccadilly, on his return from his tour. Teo Duke landed at Dover. from Calais, on Thursday eve-t -ing, where he was received with great distinction, nad was visited by the principal official personages. Noti:o having been seat to the Duchess, she imm.2cliately left Windsor, and proceeded to town to meet his Royal Higlinem.—The Royal Duke and snit arrived at G 10... Mier house last night, at a quarter past ten o'clock in his carriage and six. We are extremely happy to say :cis Royal Highness appeared in most excellent health; it is scarcely necessary to add, Oat the meeting of the Royal Duke and Duchess was :mat affectionate. Os the 7th alt. the Kin; of Bavaria gave a dinner of 200 c overs to the Membe rs of the Senate and Henn of Represcutatives of his aew and popular t;onstitutiaa. The Queen, and all the Royal Family, were present at this ton rare union of a King and his 'sople. Hi s Ma jesty drank a golden cup full of native wine of Fraaeo.. nis, to the toast. " Prosperity to Bavaria and her States G ‘ eacral;" whieli was answered by Prince Wrcde, Pre silent of the Chambers, by the toast, " Long Live the king and the Royal Fa:ail; .4 ' 4 I