The National Register. — London, England, 1820-10-22 00:00:00

rCO/Egl OF THE MANUFACTURE OF SEDI. TIOUS AND TREASONABLE PLACARDS. BOW-STREET. MONDAY, OCT. (6. This morning, Mr. 'Litton,. of We!heck-street, waited upon Mr. Hiruie, and apologising for the intrusion, requested to know if any and what information had been received at the office from those who went in pursuit of Franklin, or whether intelligence front any other quarter had teen received respecting that individual? Mr. Birnie said, that a•coinmunication had been re ceived upon the subject, but lie would rather at present decline snaking the stature of it public. Mr. Hay Jon produced a letter which he had received en Saturday morning from Mr. Pearson, in which be stated, that he and Vickery had clearly ascertained that Franklin, alias Fletcher, had embarked a few hours before for limlogne, and that they were about to sail in pursuit of him. l'his letter was written in great hurry at Duvet, dated Friday evening, and Mr. Pearson ex pressed the most confident hopes that the fugitive would In a very short ti,he be in custody. Mr. Birnie said, the Magistrates had also received a letter front the same quarter, the contents of which exactly corresponded with that of Mr. llaydon. and he had no doubt that the man would soon be in custody. Mr. Haydon —" Has any bather communication been received this morning? Mr. ISiritie inquired of the Clerk, and was informed that no other letter had come to hand from Dover. Mr. Haydon produced a gold-mounted eye-glass, which he said was the property of the fugitive. :.Jr. Hirnie asked how this came into Mr. Haydon's possession Mr. 'Lydon said, it was obtained under very curious circumstances, which lie was not now at liberty to relate, but it had been left at a house at which nankin' was in the habit of calling; and the discovery of this little article would form by no means an uniturrtant feature of the investigation. A great deal of private conversation then took place between the worthy Magistrate and Mr. Haydon, and the latter departed. OsT. 17. This morning, at eleven o'clock, Mr. Harmer, accom panied by Mr. Haydon, attended before Richard Birilie, E-I. for the ptirpo-e of laying an information against Mr. O'Bryen, lire pub:lshii% a seditious and inflamma tory placard, or posting bill. The Magistrate being engaged, they were referred to the Clerk's Oilier for that purpose, when a deposition to the following effect was made upon o a th : John Junes, of Na. 1, Gardener's-row, Westminster. being sworn 011 his oath, says—Toat on the night of the kgth of July, 1840, about eleven o'clock, a gentleman, deponent has been infinmed, and verily believes, to be Mr. O'Bry en came to -Ins house in Gardener's row, and pulled out a bundle of printed bills, and re quested the deponent to post them on the walls from West 11l i l tster to Smithfield. kc. This posting bill was one of the most atrocious pro- ductions that ever issued from the press. 'l'hs deposition being completed, and a warrant filled up. they were both laid before Mr. Birnie by the parties. Mr. Birnie signed the warrant, but Nit% Harmer was not then present, and it remained on the table ready . to be staved when the parties applying should call for its execution. _ _ _ In the course of the evening Mr. Birnie wrote to Mr. O'Bryen, lamming him of what had transpired, and requesting his attendance at half-past seven o'clock, at the same time dispatching a mersenger to respire the presence of Mr. Harmer at the same hour. In answer to Mr. Birnie's communication, Mr. O'Brven wrote a note, declaring that he would come at seven o'clock. At the appointed hour Mr. O'Bryen came to the Otlice and had a private interview with Mr. Birnie, and afterwards entered the public room. After waiting a few minutes, Mr. Harmer not having made his appearance the business was postponed to a future day. WIDSZUMT. OCT. lit. This day Mr. klaydon waned upon Mr. I Minshull, the Sitting lagistr.ite, to inquire if any intelligence had been received from Mr. Pearson and Vickery, or from any (Alla quarter, respecting the fugitive Fratiklm, and was answered in the negative. Mr. Hayden then cutinnunicated some additional particulars respecting SJIIIC connexions of Franklin, otherwise Fletcher, which had conic to his knowledge since Tuesday. The Magistrate committed these communications to paper, and politely thanking Mr. Hayden, assured him lie should be st happy to receive information from huts at any time, adding, that both he and Sir ltubeit Baker were t anxious that the offender should be brought to justice. Mr. Harlon said he had no doubt, from what he had seen of the conduct of the worthy Magistrates in this ailuir, that the declaration of Mr. Nlinbliall was in every respect sincere. It is supposed, from the silence of Mr. Pearson, who promised to be very punctual in his correspondence, that he lias either succeeded in capturing Franklin, or that he has obtained some certain information of his route. The Magistrates of Glasgow have presented an address to his Majesty, requesting that he would graciously be pleased to sit tin his portrait, to he placed in the Town-hall of that City, along with the portraits of his royal predecessors. The Brighton harriers on Wednesday last drove a hare, of which they were in chart., so hard, that the poor animal leaped over the Cliff, near the Black Rock, and was killed._ _ Thursday se'nnight a detachment of the 90th segiment embarlictl ut Plymouth on Loard a trans• put, and next day sailed fur the Mt:altar:lnc:m.- 11e remainder OA the corps will be orbArkea for the same destination.; as soon as trausportsearrivo fur that purpose.* gag ..c..42‘..a +''.' • .• THS NATIONAL REGISTEI SHIP NEWS. His Majesty's ship Tyne arrived on Monday at Portsmouth, from Lima and the Brazils. When she left the former place she had on bard upwards of three millions of dollars. By this arrival we learn, that the Hyperion frigate, Captain Searle, arrived at Valparaiso on the 22d of June, from a cruise of Juan Fernandes. . _ The Cambrian, Captain Hamilton, is arrived at Portsmouth, from Plymouth, to take Lord Strangford on board, for Coogan. tinople. Lieut. H. blazer is appointed to command the Badger revenue cruiser, on the Dover station, lice Lieut. Mercer. The Essex, Mahon, bound to London, put back to Bengal on the 14th May, having made much water, and shifted her cargo, during a violent gale. The Atlas, Short, from New South Wales, was wrecked near Madras, during a violent hurricane, between the Bth and 10th of May. Three of the crew drowned. The Bittern, Thompson, of North Shields, bound to Gotten burgh, was abandoasd by the crew on the 211 ult. off the coast of Norway, ha. ing sprung a leak. The East India Company's ship Castle Huntly arrived in Saugur Roads on the 17th of May. The Nelson, l'eters, arrived at Copenhagen, from Riga, on the 7th inst. bound to Dundee, leaky, sad would be obliged to discharge. The .lenny, Tureen. from Nairn to Hamlnugh, is on shore on the rocks, near Lestiernouth. The General 3liranda and Boa Uniao, from Lisbon to Pars, have been captured near the latter place. A most respectable Morning Paper says,—" The Duke of Rutland, the Duke of Dorset, the Earl of Lonsdale, and others, went to Windsor Great Park on Sunday sennight, and had a long audience of his Majesty. The King is not in the habit of re ' ceiving company at his cottage in the Park. It is his retreat from the toils of business; and we may therefore presume, tnat in the present most critical state of affairs, the visit of these eminent political characters was a deviation from the established privacy of the place. Whether the Noble Peers waver in their opinions on the Bill of Pains and Penalties, and were desirous of expressing their doubts on the subject to the King , or whether Ministers were anxious to impress on his Majesty's mind, through these representations, the almost unanimous sense of time country, that the Bill ought not to be persisted in, we pretend not to know ; but • we do not believe that it was an audience of mere ceremony," Monday last, a School at Oxshott, Surrey, called the Royal Kent School, fro:n respect to the memory of the late revered Duke of Kent, was opened by the Prince Leopold, for toe education of the children of the poor in the neeghbourlmod ofClaremont. His Royal Highness was attended uy his sister, the Duchess of Kent. Sir A. Johnstone, Sir R. G.adiner, Captain Clarice, the Last India arecior, awl their Royal Highnesses' Chaplain, Dr. Rudge. The school room, which is on a large scale, was completely filled by the gentry of the neigh bourhood, and by a tire her of the peasants in the adjacent villages. his Royal Highness commenced the business of the Meeting with a speech distinguished by good sense and snmmd judgment, and delivered with ease, and a very correct pronunciation of the English language. lie expatiated on the advantages of educa tion, and in the most feeling manner adverted to the saength and comfort he had derived from the principles of religion, on the death of his beloved Princess- In alluding to this melancholy event, lie burst into tears, and Mr some minutes, was unable to proceed. At length he said, .• You all know my distresses, and will judge whether I have not ample reason, from personal experience, to speak highly of the power arid efficacy of religion, without whi: h,'l must have sunk under any irreparable loss, and to give asy support to every scheme which has religion for llh ihlaio, gild and totcl leetaal otylovettoitt of matt but as object !" lie con cluded his very 'incrusting and elovent speech, winch affected deeply ev, ry one present, with avowing his de termination to take Lois selto.il under his intim:chute pi tronage and inspecting, and to contribute to its funds, not only then, but on every future OCCJSI4)II, MINI mo ney should he wanted to cairn' on its believed designs. Various resrkitions of thanks, were then 1110ted and seconded, by Sir A. Johnstone, Dis. linage, Schwabe, Collyer, and other gentlemen, and vie com pany departd, highly delighted with the proceedings of the day. On Sunday four bodies were stolen from the burial ground belonging to St. Andrew, Holborn, situate in Eagle and Child Alley, Shoe Lane. The depre dators, on being disturbed, deposited the same near Fleet-market, and absconded. The bodies were afterwards removed for re-interment. DREADFUL FlRE.— Wednesday night, a dreadful fire broke out in North -street, York, by which the corn mill of Messrs. L. and J. Simpson, in which it origina ted, was consumed, and property to the amount (Wiesen or souul. was destroyed; to aggravate this calamity, the gable end of the building, which had been suffered to stand when the inill was reduced to ruins, fell with dreadful crash about noon on Thursday, and busied a number of persons in the ruins. A 'math, the sou of Mr. Walker, plumber and glazier, was killed upon die spot ; and a title girl, the slaughter of Mr. I).iltim, bot cher, hail her skull so dreadfully fractured, that site died soca alter: limn fifteen to t stripy Whet persons have been hurt, some of them dangerously, but the ;Move are the ooly pit sons to whom tau melancholy accident has vet proved fatal. A Litter from Ciliraltar, dated Sept. 28, says,--. " A considerable alarm was excitid last night in the camp of the 64th re,..iment, on the isthmus of Lk.; garrison, by the sud.l.m appearance of a Spanis:i force of 6,000 :net: :t is sail) at 11arbJl.i. Large quantities of aminunitiou were tent out to the regi ment, and it was under arms all night. We cannot learn any further particulars.'" • a" 130 x Ne.—Greargporting Pugilistic Match for 100 Guineas a side, between Hickman, the Gas Light Man, and George Cooper.—Over a sporting dinner at the Castle Tavern, Holborn, on Tuesday evening last, this match was made by Tom Belcher on the part of Cooper (who now resides in Edinburgh, and is the landlord of the Britannia Tavern, in Leith-street), to take place on the 20th of December, within 25 miles of London. To be a fair stand up fight, in a twenty-four foot ring, and the money to he placed in the hands of Mr. Jack. son. The Gas Light Man was present,. and betting commenced very briskly in his favour, frnas the tre mendous style with which Hickman defeated Cooper a few mouths since, 60 to 40 was offered without the least hesitation; and if it had been required, he could have been backed for 5001. It is expected to be '2 to I before the fi.tht commences. Cooper will be in town shortly, it is said. The fancy are all upon the alert respecting this match; and it Inds fair to prove one of the must sporting battles that has occurred for some years. Hick -111311 is confident in the extreme as to the result , and Cooper is also very anxious to recover his lost laurel. The latter was deliated in the last contest in IS mitintes; hat it was then urged that Cooper was taken by surprise. In this new match he intends to keep a better look on'. That's so be seen yet, says the Gas Man! AIARTIN AND HUDSON.—This contest, which takes place on Tuesday next, liar .50 guineas a side, will prove a most determined one. Martin, the Amateurs assert; •uglrt to win it, from his sups riot weight, height, and length ; yet Hudson is the most Jancird, being the better fighter. The odds are guineas fur pounds, and Hudsoui for choice. A fight took place early nit Sunday seennight, in a field at the top of Park-row, between two young men of Leeds, tinned S:eyran and Robinson, in which the for mer was so much hurt that he was taken up in a state of insenqibility, and died on his way homel—They had been drinking together the preceding evening, and Stey ran was quite intoxicated. Before he left the public house he had repeatedly challenged any one to fight him for five shillings; and it was nut till after much provo cation that Rubinson, the survivor, accepted the offer. EXTRAORDINARY DEPREDATIORTS.—A discovery has been made within the last few days in the City, which is likely to prove of the most serious consequence to the Corporation, and which was brought to light in the following singular manner:—A gentleman, in the pre. fession of the law, happening to go personally to his cheesemonger's for some article, was surprised to see a number of papers scattered ou the counter, which, on examining, he discovered to be opinions of the Judaea and great Law Officers on certain City questions; as also a untidier of deeds and bonds, executed between the Corporation and their tenants. After representing to the sho;ikeeper the great value of those papers, he begged to ' know where he got them ; to which the man answered, that he was in the habit of purchasing such for waste paper, from an old woman, whom his predecessor in the business had represented to him as sts old customer. The gentleman then informed him that he was intimately acquainted with Mr. Newman, the City Solicitor; that lie should make it his business to wait on him imme diately, and to be careful not to destroy any more of the papers, but to collect together all lie had of them. This discovery, as might have been expected, led to an imme diate investigation, and suspicion fell on the laundress at Guildhall, who was accordingly conveyed before the Alderman, and privately examined, when the cheese monger proved that site was the same person frons , whom he had purchased the papers. and she sold' him sometimes to the amount of 7s. a week, all of which she stole front Mr. Newman's office. Since her first examination another shop has been discovered, where site sold an equal quantity each week. The docu ments thus destroyed are of such consequence u to render the loss irreparable. The annual general meeting of the Norwich. Mendicity Society was held on Monday se'nnight at the Guiidhall. The report presented to the meet ing was of a highly satisfactory nature. It states that 437 vagrants have passed during the last year, under the care of the society, the greater part of whom have been relieved with food and lodging, at a small expence, and others have been handed over to the magistrates, as notorious hopes tors. Since the establishment of this institution the number of vagrant beggars who pass through. Nor which appears to be most materially decreased, Oa Friday night the Gth inst. some person stole from off the ground of Mr. Alderman Hawkes, in Heigham, .60 yards of light drab Outfield. On Monday se'nnight, or early on Tuesday morn ing, some person or persons broke into the shop of Messrs. Brown anti Ludbrook, silversmiths, at. Harleston, and stole watches and other articles to the amount of 3001. Tuesday night last, the dwelling-house of Mr: Harvey, of Cation, was broken into, and a large quantity of family plate stolen thercout, with which the villains made their escape. They are supposed to be a part of tile above gang, On Friday morning last, as the female ter vant of Mr. Pull, at the Ferry, was putting the bout across the river, she tell in, but clung to the boat, and was carr.id sotue way towards Bishop - bridge. Tier shrieks announced her perilous situa ation, and alo:r about ten mint. his had elap.,t d, she was It:MO:14;1y rct7etied, though nut without a good d uck i On Sunday se'nnight a Dutch sloop, with 13') half ankns of fort.ign genera, and S 6 CiLAS tinning 9 - ;.sths. of tobacco, was seizetl on the beach at Warham, and taken into Cley by the Qom- of the Preventive boat at Morston.