The National Register. — London, England, 1820-03-12 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. T. Lawton and S. Roe, Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire machine makers. from March 2S to April 15. J. Winterbottom, Manchester, druggist, from March 28 to April 10. R. Blease, Altrincham, Cheshire, flour dealer, from March 21 ro April 15. BANFZRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. T. T. Smith, Rana:don Crays, Essex. butcher. E. It. Woods, Kelvedon, Essex, shopkeeper. BAN K RU PTS. W. P. Hatch, Shipdhant. Norfolk, tanner. Solicitor, Mr. Abbott, Rolls Buildings. Chancery Lane. .1. Kelly, Collonade, Pall Mall, jeweller. Sol. Mr. Warraud, Mark Lane. M.. 1 . tiny. Cannon Street Road, wine merchant. Sol. Mr. i veash. Toketil muse Yard. W. Martin, Ormond Street, Queen Square. livery stable keeper. Sol. Mr. Vincent, Bedford Street, Bedford Square. J. Hopkins, Liverpool, merchant. Sols. Messrs. Blaekstock and Bunce, Temple. G. Wilber, Eltham, Kent, carpenter. Sol. Mr. Pearson, 'Temple. G. Wilkins. Bradford, Wilts, victualler. Soli. Messrs. Ad. limion and Gregory, Bedford Row. .1. Dickenson, Lower Edmonton, cattle dealer. Sol. Mr. Gray, Kingsland Road. .1. AL Langley. Newcastle Street, Strand, apothecary. Sol. r. hunt, Surrey Street. Strand. 11. Hay. Kensington. boarding house keeper. Sol. Mr. Phillips, King Street, Covent Garden. F. C. !alley, r'upthall Buildings, Coleman Street, tailor. Sols. Messrs. Knight and Freeman. Hasingliall Street. R. Down, Bridgwater, iron founder. Sols. Messrs. Alexander and Holme, New Inn. T. R. Doggett. Ilweastle, Cornwall, draper. Sols. Messrs. Drake, Church, and Drake, Red Lion Squar,... J. Rogerson, Hornshaw, Lancashire, auctioneer. Sols. Messrs. Clarke, Richards. and Medcalf, Chancery Lane. DIVIDENDS. April B, 4ll lV.Blackburn and I'. C. S. Rosseati, City Road. corn dealers—l, G. Lairp;, Connmercial S.ole Room, >tinting Line. merchant —a. in, W. IVliitehouse, and .1. Gallon, Liverpool. 11, B. and .1. Gray. R. Wilson, and .1. Richardson. Liverpool. me:chunts—ti. T. Herbert, Chequer Yard. Dowgate Hill, cotton mar:haat-8. J. King, Neath„ Glamorgan, ironmonger— la. W. Dickie, Little St. Thomas Apost.e. merchani—n. G. Elmer. Mistley. merchant—a, T. N White Hart Yard, 3liddlesex, vietualler—l, J. Budgen, Dartford. paper maker— G. J. Atherton, Liverpool. hosier-4. J. Barley, Exeter, car penter—July IS, J. West and T. J. Culliford, Great Win chester street, insurance brokers. C KIITIFIrAT Es to he granted April I. R. Cumforth, Liverpool, merchant —J.M•Lean, lamb Street. Spitalfields, potatoe merchant—T. Collins, Dory Lane. grocer Worrell. Liverpool. merchant—C. Wallis, Cheltenham, boilder—.T. 11. Smith, Rotherhithe, cork manufacturer—M. Ashbome, Derby. multster C. Eardley, Stockport, cotton spinner—l. Barlow. :Manchester, innkeeper. IL'ncc of troche. Hank Sock thulium, 0. 3 per lent. Red. i 8 Imp..; per lent. 3 per tes.t. lun.. 08i 14%. dia. 31 Pei Cent. 77) India Sun I. 4 per lent. Exchequer Hill: 3s. dia. 5 per Cent. Navy 104 k Cues. for Ac. rsj Lang Ann. Lot Ticket- I:A 2e. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Limon. SUNDAY', MARCH 12. AVe have received the Paris Journals of Tuesday last, and Brussels papers of the 9th instant, The former arc totally destitute of intelligence; we learn from the latter, that the hostility against the liberty of the press, the liberty of speech, and even the liberty of opinion, is carried on vigorously by the Government of the \e►herlands against all those who are considered as offending. The seven Lawyers who signed an opinion in favour of Mr. Von Strntten, who has published a work on the Present State of the Netherlands, have been con. tined to their houses, and are still under the surrei.- lance of the Police. Another Lawyer, the Editor of a Paper, was arrested when coming out of the Court of Louvain ; and many others have been taken into custody. These proceedings have excited great curiosity and discontent in the public mind. The murder of the Duke of Berry is represented in a Erankfbrt article as having produced a very bad ►fleet on the Public Funds in Germany, especially at Vienna. The Congress there, it is said, is likely to sit till May ; and proceeds very slowly in its labours. Toe Election, and nothing but the Election, now fhrnis the subject of conversation every when.. —'The popular candidates in the City of lanichm are at present behind band ; but we have ~00d grounds fin supposing that it is by a ru.w de gmerre ()II their part.—Of ‘Vestminster we can hardly f'orm an opinion, so little can I.e known from the first day's poll ; kit the wencral expectation is, that Sir Francis ;11)(1 Nlr. Lamb will be the members re turned.—ln the Borough of Southwark pcsr Sir Thomas Turton made but little way against the opposition candidates; In: got, and well deserves to get, nothing for his trouble lint the jeers of those who applaud consistency 4Jcii in a po.itical oppo- THE NATIONAL REGISTER. neat ; he has apostatized frequently ; and in South wark apostacy is abhorred, not rewarded as it is elsewhere. A strong contest will certainly take place for the county of Middlesex ; it will be seen, that a Whig Candidate has been started in the per son of the late Mr. Whitbread's second Son; and we rejoice to state, that Sir Francis Burdett nomi nated, and will support him ; we rejoice at this for two reasons ; that, because we heartily wish him success, and know that Sir Francis is a tower of s trength, and secondly, because we hope we see in the worthy Baronet's coming forward a pledge of that re-union of parties that all good men must wish —Travellers may proceed pleasantly and advanta geously tegether on a journey, though going difs ferent distances, and there can be no reason why the Whigs and the Ultra Rcfbrmers should not asso ciate their Aims till reform has been obtained, as far as the more moderate reformers wish it, and each can secede as soon as he thinks enough has been done. The dissentious created by the ene mies to all tefbrm, between its friends in different degrees, have done more injury than any thing else to the God-like cause A Spanish proverb says, that " The devil always serves his friends at a last pinch ;" and ministers may well apply the proverb to themselves, in the discovery of the Cato Street Gang at the moment of dissolution ; although no justification of their five infamous measures—al tho%h neither of those measures can be made of utility fbr the punishment of the gang, nor was of use in discovering it, yet the panders of ad ministration actually make it a grand stalking horse to prove the necessity of them, and aided by the cry of danger and ramification, and half a dozen other equally unfiamtled and (Oohs!' cries, many weak-minded men will be induced to vote in their favour, who would have opposed their minions but fur this inter A puerile attempt at opposition was made to the late worthy Members fin. Norwich—how contemp tible it was, may be seen by the account we give of it in another column. " Tile peace of the County of Norfolk is not to be disturbed," for such is the phrase of the day ;bu the real meaning of this language is, that, by the side oi the undaunted Champion of Freedom a Gentleman is about to be returned to Pa. liament without opposition, who will be found, in these perilous times, pursuing Po equivocal line in the train of despotism. Of his parliamentary career we have lately given such a sketch, as to ,justify the most melancholy forebodings of his future ootalect, and to warrant the most gloomy anticipation tot* his coming atchievements in the ministerial rauks. We particularly recommend his friends to ruminate deeply on one of his public acts, and then to feel triumph, if they can, in sending such a represents. Live into the senate —We allude to his vote in favour of a grant o!' 10,0001. a year to the Doke of York ; a grant which, unlike the dew of heaven,. neither blesseth him that gives nor him that takes. That a county member, and that member one of the repre sentatives of this great and opulent county, should not have deemed it foul scorn to lend himself to such an act, is astonishing to us, even in this very degenerate age of selfism, and of compromising obse quionsness.—When we invite the attention, of his friends to this act, we do not appeal to the jorOg meta of that boost of pay-masters, contracterso, and big stamp distributors, who will revel in his train on the day of election : such men will at once deny the existence of all public virtue; and the most charitable reply we can make to them is, in the words of Dr. .111116S011, who, on beirg told that Foote was an atheist. said, " So is my great dog. fur he never thinks:"—with such men, therefore, we can hold no wmmunion. Speaking of such men, Johnson say.:, " At the conclusion of a ttigny years war how ,arc we recom pensed fimr the death of multitudes, and the expence of millions, but by contemplating the sudden gin ries of contractors, agents and paymasters, whose cquipt4,res shine like meteors, and whose palaces ris -_ .4+o like exhalations; these are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich as their country is impoverished; they rejoice, when obsti nacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh from their desks at bravery an4l science, while they arc adding figure to figure, and cypher to cypher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege, or a tempest." Such men are wholly disqualified from sitting on a jury to decide any great question of public principle, but we appeal to the calm and unbiassed judgement of those honest and retired country gentlemen and yeomen, who support our adversary, to know what are their con scientious opinions of the grant of 10,0001. a-year to the Duke of York for performing those instinctive offices of filial duty, which derive all their grace from being unbought ; are their minds quite at ease in returning a representative, who has parti cipated in an act of so find a character ? Does not the restless anxiety of an upright mind harass theut when they consult their pillows upon this base pros titution of the public money ? To the country gentlemen, and the yeomanry, we look for a plain unsophisticated answer to these queries, us we be lieve that they are a set of men who still cherish• th:ise old-fashioned and primitive notions of integri-, ty and justice, which have fled from courts and cabinets. extrema per ilios, Juetiiia eseelleffit *eras vestigii fecal. For the independent and enlightened Electors of Norfolk we entertain the highest respect; and we are persuaded that this high-spirited body would have exulted at the approaching election, in mark— ing their indignation at, and abhorrence of, such atrocious grants of the public money, by their support of a second candidate, determined to resist and expose corruption, and resolved to prove him self a watchful guardian of the public purse ; but, aim! circumstances which no human foresight could anticipate—no human prudence could con troul, have disappointed the public hope—have baffled the most sanguine and well-grounded expec. tations, and have buried, in one common grave, the filir speculations of caution and wisdom, and the brighter visions of enthusiastic patriotism: but still, under all these discouragements, the spirit of the county is not extinct ;—it is, we trust, 1111• quenchably alive, and will yet break firth into glorious flame; though clouds intervene to darken the horizon, though the evil genius has become Th e Lord of the Ascendant, yet we are confident that the good principle will finally outweigh all malignant influence, and restore to truth and vir tue those bright honors, which are at present eclipsed by the mists of prejudice, and -by the ob. • scurations of artifice and corruption, . . Fond impious man ! tinniest thou yon sanguine orh. kats'il by thy brei•th, has yoeueh'd the orb of day ? To-morrow he repairs the golden Mood. Awl Wartllb the nations with redoubled ray. CITY' EL ECTIoN.—S:ate Of the Pull yesterday at the close —Wood, 2,99o—Wilson, 3400—Waith man, 2,2l3—Thorp, Is—Lord Mayor, t2,59fi Curtis, '2,961. WestnOthierEledion.—State of the Poll yastercay at the close.—Burdett, 1026-11ehlwuse, 91 Lamb, 607. We arc indebted to Gold and Nortbouse's Lintatai agazitht for the following pot trait of a well known Alderman.— . • • a READER, I beg hie pinion. I forget Sir •••••••••-• was a Baronet, And one of I ,nnilon's glorious corporation. Which is in size the wonder of the nation ; And was, in i po.nt of pinguity and pelf, A corporation centred in himself; Fl,r fancy. if at lea 4 your genius can, A face :44 ruddy as it warning pal. tt ith snout well finalist to Land the battle's !,ra it, . Stork like a gallnnt fuglemsn in front And snortels fair and and wonilerfil to see, Rising in order from the par. nt tree.. And slily seeming from the mot' to is..cp s , I a coy virgin squinting in fill. sleep; Eyes that firth like.wis•ights from the sconce, And archly stitil'il a thousaad ways at one, And looked below with sympathetic teary On a limte chin, consisting of three tier,i And then the well-built care.ute (oh coitiOund it), Wotild tire you, it' you walk'd but four times round it For it was wide capacious. and immense. Aid kept, as one nould think, at v. .at expense.-- , ~. '