The National Register. — London, England, 1820-12-04 00:00:00

i3or;tcript. LONDON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4 Three d Chick, p. m. Paris Papers to the tat instant. have arrived. The Monitenr contains various Ordinances, order. ing new regulations, and pmling new appointments in the King's Household, Count Blacas is ap pointed First Gentleman of the Chamber to his Majesty in the room of the Duke of Richelieu, who has resigned. This circumstance has given rise to various vague rumours in the French Journals of en intended change of Ministers. The accounts are contradictory with respect to the affairs of Austria and Naples. Those from Frankfort particularly are pronounced unworthy of credit. They specu late on an immediate war, while letters from Na ples, of the Intl ult. are bold and threatening, and affirm, that if Austria dare violate the Neapolitan territory, there is an opposing force ready to take the field of 130,000 men, inspired with the irresist ible spirit of liberty, who are determined to die or maintain their independence. The King of Sweden has come forward in a manner the most becoming and praiseworthy, and has acknowledged the new Government of Naples in a letter to the King. In telligence from Spain says, that King Ferdinand was to return to Madrid from the Escurial, on the 21st ult. It was rumoured that Riego was to be made Captain General of Catalonia. There was also a report that Count des Arisbal bad been ordeted to Valladolid in a state of arrest. The armed banditti who lately robbed the mail in the vicinity of Vittoria had been overtaken by the National Guards sent in pursuit of them, on the banks of a river, when ten of them were taken, and six killed or drowned. The rest effected their escape for the moment, but the most confident hopes were entertained of their being speedily captured. Among the prisoners were several persons employed in the department of the Customs. The Papers which have reached us contain nothing of importance from Naples, Vienna, or Troppau. The Five per Cents. are. 77f. 25c. Letter of the King of Sweden to the King of Naples:— We, Charles John. by the Grace of God, King of Sweden and of Norway, &c. to the very High and Puissant Prince, our Brother. Cousin. and very dear Friend. Ferdinand I. King of the Two Sicilies and of Jerusalem, Infant of Spain, Duke of Parma, &c. Hereditary Grand Duke of Tuscany, &c. health and prosperity. • Most High and very Puissant Prince, Brother. Cousin. and very dear Friend,—By your letters of the 19th of August, it bath pleased your Majesty to apptize us of the happy change in the form of your Government which bath recently taken place in the States of your Majesty, by the acceptance of the Bpani-h Constitution with some necessary modifications. M e earnestly desire that this event may produce new advantages, and a prosperity perfect and durable to your Majesty and your subjects. la congratulating both upon it, we are persuaded that the hope width your Majesty cherishes of the increased prosperity of the people of the Two Sicilies will be heard by the Most High, to the protection of whom we commend your Ma.' jesty and the new form of Government in your Kingdom. " Given at Stockholm, in our Royal Castle, Sept. 16, 1820. (Signed) CHARLES JOHN, " A. C. KULLBERG." For some days past no material change has taken place in the quotations at the Stock Exchange ; but large purchases have been made, and great confi dence exists in the maintenance of the present prices. Several additional defitulters have been de clared publicly, and a resolution is under consider ation by the Committee, that the names of all those who have compounded privately shall also be exhi bited on the board, in order that persons out of the house may not in future be deceived by trusting persons whose credit has been impeached; or if they do so, that it may be at their own peril. A melancholy occurrence took place at Beacons field, on the 27th tilt. The infant of a respectable tradesman drank a quantity of vitriol, which had been fetched by a servant boy to be used for some domestic purpose, whereby almost immediate death was occasioned.—lt would be a salutary law that would prohibit the venders of such articles fr.m fur nishing them to voting persons, and otherwise than in a phial, corked, tied down. and labelled. A few days siacc the Hon. George Winn, of Worley Lodge, Essex, whilst wood shooting, when in the act of running his hand up the barrel to remove the wet, at the instant he reached the muzzle, the gun by some accichnt went off; and the contents struck his thumb, which was so dreadfully injured, that it was found necessary to take it off at the se cent] joint. We are happy to learn that the Hon. Crentletuan is doing weLl. THE NATIONAL REGISTER LAW INTELLIGENCE . COURT OF KING'S BENCH. SATURDAY, DECEMBER V. BUTLER a'. CARTER. This was an action to recover from the defendant, as ad ' •Aratrix to her late husband, 1531. dne to the plcin tiff for vent k and labour. 'the deceased, Mr. Carter was by profess' a conk, and of considerable eminence.— The plaintiff was originally his apprentice, and at the expiration of his time was employed 1411 a journeyman by his former master. In this situation he remained fur three years, and co to the time of his former master's death he had from time to time received sterns on account of wages, but still there was the balance above stated due to him. The Chief Justire.—Had you not better refer tt to one of the Learned Sergeants? Mr. Gurney said hie client had no objection to subject himself to a refei mice to Mr. Courtney. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. sPECHDAY, DEC. 2. SHE HACKNEY COACHES V TUE STAGE COACHES. June before the C.airt rose this day Mr. Sergeant Pell rose and said there was a case in w hick he was concerned which would only occupy a 1110111,11 i of time, and pet h op* the Court would now hear it. He meaut the paper on of Cloud against Frippery and Abbott. Mr. Sliepliel 41 said that he was in the case at the °the• aide with the Solicitor General, whir was now engaged in the Court of King's Bench, And whose presence hr thought most especial. The case was not trivial, but of great pub lie importance. Mr. Sergeant Pell was snre his Learned Friend would see the cause lay in a nutshell. (The hackney coaches and stage coaches!! ) He would state the facts, on which no dispute could arise, in one minute. Mr. Cloud. the plaintiff, was the proprietor of a Hammersmith stage coach, which hourly plied to St, Paul's. In the course of last month a gentleman came on two successive days, to St. Paul's Church-yard, and had his place to Kensington booked in the plaintiff's coach. He went in it accord ingly, but had himself on each day set dorm at Hyde Park Corner, still paying the full fare as if lie had gone on to Kennington. This was considered a breach of the Hackney Coach Act by the commissioners, under whose warrant Mr. Cloud's stage and horses wese seised by Frippery. and lodged iu Abbott's yard, out of which they were not delivered back to the plaintiff until lie had paid 111.1 s. that is Sl. for each of two penalties, and 11.1$. costs. The Court knew there was an old Act of George the First, which provided that no coach should travel for hire in the stn cis or liberties of the metropolis. unless previously licen sed as t he law required before the commissioners of hackney reacor.; but there was also the Stage Coach Act of the late King, which provided that the penalties of the Act of fierm:e the First should not attach to stage coaches patting down passengers within the bills of mortality, such stage coaches nut ti evening out of the regular line of their ply to do so. Mr. Cloud was therefore in setting down the St. Paul's passeeger strictly coritorming so the last law, aud not liable to the penalty which he nil* sought to recover back. If it were otherwise, the Court %timid at once see the uu. warrantnble extent and severity of the hardship. Suppose he (the Learned Sergeant) were to take his place and pay for it, in the 8..111 coach, and stop at the stage from Hyde- Pal lc-corner, on 111 the toy of Pireudhlly, why of comae they would call him a imil for his pains{ but cuter, the coachman say to him, or to any other Eugliehmaer,—" A it, Sir, upon nu account, aud for nu occasion. shall 1 let you down, lest the lutckney•couch commissioners should fine sue. you must go on to Rath, having paid your tire, I will nut stop in Pic. cadilly." VI ould any Englishman endure tnis, and yet he must endure it, if the plairitiff did not obtain back his penalty in the case. He was therefore ready to sheer toe Court that Mt. Cloud was a regular hcensed stage-coach proprietor, that the gentleman paid his full fare in St. Paul Church yard, and was regularly booked to Kensington, but set down by his desire at Hyde Park Corner, without the coach going our inch out of Os line of road. Mr. Shepherd said, that the importance of the case was this, The fare to Ht de Park Coiner was only eighteen pence io this manner by the stage, and the edict of permit ting such an arrangement mint defeat the protect' of the Hackney Coach Act in Town. lint the Court could not enter upon this subject—it was already decided before the Commissionms. from amase judgment there wooing appeal. He sequested the Court could suspend she cause until the airiestl of the tioliehor General. Mr. Sergraut Pell s aid, that nobody could call upon the Court to disturb any udonent properly cud competently pi amounted ; Court could and must, whet applied to interfere, it Mails .des ur CUMlTlibt'oneis exceeded their vested duty. That .as the case here: the Hackney-Coach LINIIMiIISiOntIS bad .irreived a duty imprupeaty, having levied a penalty .. well they had uo right to impose, the Hammersmith stage acting precisely as the law warranted.— ab.ile of the very useful a n d convenient vilticles %shirt) tra versed the thurt stages about the meiropulis were vitally interested in th e derision of this question. Mr. Shepherd replied, and so were the hackney coaches, whit paid a large duty, under the protection of the Com ers. 'floe l Lis f Justice said, he um the importance of the in teregit concern, in the and he %mild certainly sail to bear the Solu•itor-Generrl. As at nag now near four Wein, It, the hearing must dun!' over wit I a future day. The Cubit was filled by birge mid bat bury coachmen. COURT OF EXcIIEQUER. SATURDAY, DEC. Z. TUB ATTORNL4-OLYCRAL, V. 111104111( WYATT fiC `ON This was an infussitation against the defendants. who are w eli-knussio Ale Ilieuers in Liiinotpond-stieet, for bari n g in their possession a large quantity of deliterions and pais° 11111 l s fur the 1.111111-e of using in their Ale /Smarty. 'I he ilefendautsstibinittell tu a fine of SOW. inn ty, and redre toed a copper winch had been seized at lb e ice of 1,0001. making together damages 1,30 I. BARBARA ZRESS. LANGENIVRO, Nov. 17.-1 enclose you a Ger man newspaper, containing an article relative to the infamous Barbara Kress, who has so disgraced herself and her country by her reccut conauct ou the . Queen's trial. Observing that Lord Liverpool seemed to place a loud reliance on the esetisaony of this witness, I thought it might be of use thof he, as well as hertlajesty's counsel, knew a little 1 her character. By the date of the paper you wit. see that the article in question has been a considert ruble time in print. I expected to have seen I copied in other German papers, and thence trans. lated into the English; but being disappointed in the anticipation, from the strictness of the censor ship in most of the States of Germany, I find the only way of giving it publicity in England is to enclose the original copy to you : [Extract from the New German National Chronicle.[ " Ellwangen, October S'S. " It must have given pain to every well disposed Gentian to see among the Italian canaille who have been employed during etc famous process which has disgraced our age, to bring charges against the Queen of England, the name of a German woman named Barbara Kress, which, in consequence has often been mentioned in aU the public journals of Europe. Her declarations, lme , er, cannot possibly have much weight if the same principle which prevails every where else prevails in En gland—that an unblemished character is unnecessary to give validity to the te,timony of u court of justice. This is not the case with Barbara Kress, who, when she was hi ssrvice some time ago, in the country residence of the King of Wirtemberg, called Afonrepoe, emitted theft, and was in consequence discharged with a mark of iMainy. I leave it t., you to make known this fact, the truth of which many respectable persons are ready to attest." ALARMING FIRE.-0,1 Thursday night about half past eleven o'clock, a fire was discovered in the timber yard of Mr. Baynes, Hollen-street, IVardour-street (very close to the houses which were burnt on Wednesday morning.) In a short time an immense volume of flames burst forth and illumined the atmosphere for some distance; the, fire soon spread its ravages to the adjoining houses before any effectual means could be procured to suppress it. Engines arrived from all (loaners, but for some time they were unable to work, ill consequence of there not being a sollicient supply of water. The act'. sky of the fin men prevented the fire in some measure from extending any distance; but the backs of all the houses were completely consumed. A IVesleyan chapel, in Little Chapel -street, was very much damaged, as were also a ber of houses in Great and Little Chapel. streets, ‘Vardour-street, and Hollen-street. The thieves were, as usual, very active on the occasion. A detach mem of the foot-guards attended, which, with a strong party of the Bow-street patrol and other constables, were very successful in preventing depreadations and keeping a free passage for the exertions of the firemen. No cause has as yet been assigned as to the origin of this dreadful fire, but it is so prsed that some flakes of fire must have flown over un nednesday, and remained concealed until Thursday night, when they burst 1011'1. The houses were principally occupied by reit lodgers, who have unfortunately lost their goods. Mr. Bay nes was insured, but, we hear, not adequately to the loss he sustained. AGRICULTURAL REPORT /OR Novimaxx.—There is little novelty since our last report, for the universal distress of the occupiers of the soil, and the labourers who till it, are unhappily no novelty. Never before was there so great a provision in Faulaud, of all the neces saries of life and of all commodities; but fur the former, the grower finds no teunmeration, soil nont itos the apparent low rate of necessaries, the country la. bourers in constant employment are barely able to sub sist, and the considerable number iu many dis , ricts, whom the farmer cannot employ, have nu other resource than a parish allowance. A great accumulation of this misery is apprehended in the ensuing winter season.— Such is the strange state of our country,at the very summit of opulence, and superabundance, and with the boa s t of an unprecedented share of intellectual light. As a curious atiunialy, we have lately heard of ninety pounds per acre given for thin stapled, ordinary arable land, and from seventy pounds to that price demanded for laud in the county alluded to. Rents, however, in various parts of the couhtry,aregiving wayam the average probably of nearly thirty per cent., apparently the only obvious mode of working the necessary change in the present melancholy and dangerous situation of affairs. The late conatderable reduction in the price of coin, is no doubt full as much to he attributed to the pirvilly of the far mers as to the abundance of the crop. The low price of store cattle may be referred to the same causes, and to the almost general failure of the turnip crop, which will render cattle feeding in the spring extremely expensive. The young wheats look as healtity and well in general, as they usually do at this season, but from casualties of weather, the sowing of cousiderable breadths it post pored till after Christina,. Iu some parts the drought continued too long; in others, particularly the north wes:, they were deluged with ram In Scotland the crops were fortunately secured. Wheat and Oats yea , ; barley deficient, both in quint' ity and qieility. Potatoes, a light but sufficient crop. Wheat sell got in. The demand fur labour too great to I, supplied The wool trade is reviving itt a slight degree, for middle and long ,tools; as firr English hue %%tads, foreign importation ha, low . ; since beaten them out of the field and out of the market. Mittbs. to Potion erreeent, the wife off. J. Platt, elq. of two b4e: one of thew still Dom. At tuobridge wells.the wife of Dr. Mayo, of a suf. XlL7illtlf 4. Al Mary'those elrereh, C. Graaf, esq. of Hopewell. ion of the late I. Want, eau. of Daltrey, hart. to Miss herrldge, daughter of the late WUliam kerridge, At 141ghion, W. I). Beard, req. of Hake sheet, to Miss hard, of human place. At Enneltl, Edward, fourth son of If. Bormester, esq. of Owynne house, sn.x, to Charlotte, eldest daughter of U. Dutton, esti of Chase lodge, Estleld. At Istinctou, 0. King, taq. of Canonbur) lane, to Mrs. Claufield, of die same place. At St. Pancras, John Crawford, esq. of the East India Company' ..nice, Bengal establishment, to Anna Horatio, eldest daughter of I 1 any, est. of terissuck ',lace. LONDON t Printed anti Pubtehed by the P ol•ri. ter. JOHN TWIGG. at the OfFee. 76. Fleet Street. whore all Lanes 1e die lieliter, tc. (pest pod) meet Le eddreersiL