The National Register. — London, England, 1819-03-08 00:00:00

Or Alit* At tiOttr+ W ; ~! Our fling, itattatitution anti it atoll No. 579.—V0L. XII. MONDAY, MRACH 3. Pauli 9 TO OUR READERS. money on the Sunday, that we may do the same ont side. without incurring a greater sin; and it is a very absurd contradiction, that a tradesman shall be prove cuted for selling thu articles °fide out the Sabbath-day whilst flat very Temple haste is bought and sold. At the sarc.e time. I pretend nut to dictate how, or is what manner, Pew-openers are to be paid for their services; hut I du effinn,that in every parish there are to be found am* of old parishineers of respectable characters who would moat willingly undellake the of ice. awl most zealously discharge its duties, for a small income ; and who would have ton much pride in themselves, enl too much veneration for the place, to suffer them to accept of a bribe. in the hope of seeing these thing" ordered better, Croaressmitoti. —Ars these many sash as you it the tows rf Pearyn ; rats I mama; I slo not lutow..— Hats i mean; plenty of water-rats; gentlemen that made a promise use way, sad took mosey, sad taws voted souther ; du you hear me? I hemp* boa was your eat, was 'tot it; Na, .7 hare told yea soy • ease.—Wore you serer at sea! Yes, have been sea ; I hare been to Prance • I was is Franco oats . scbeol-buy fur my education, and far ray hoalth.,Whss *as the mutter with you, that the country was is Pbe, state of despondency. that yet were soot to Fraesa f4l. the benefit of your health ? I swallowed a. , swallow, it seetua, has gut a little widosed.ainst.sluss:. Yes. We presume on your Candour and Liberality to apoio •gixe for an ituprup iety in our last Similar's Paper, which is no otherwise to hope fikr muse, than as the indispeasably necessary annaptence of an Accident which oecurred at the Moment of our potting the Piper to Press. We allude, of course, te the circum stance of some Articles which appear...a ou the pre ceeding Setadopletwin been repeated in that piddles thin. Under the then "existing circumstanct%," it would, but for this trepans on the indulgence of nor Be:tiers. have been iinprwib'e to have had the Paper r..*ly fir its due period of publioation. it is sc.►reely within the settle of probability, that :11,1 un ItttpleaUla el: CVlll , tance can ever recur. Thomis Bosnian examined.—Mr. Swami mat ce oft if I had yet giien my voice ?—I 74)e. 6 ;4 I ilnrc not." }le suss," I always expected jou woul3 - be my friend, and I hope you will still."-4 aria, (. 1 have not yet determined whether 1 shall or mot." Mr. • ,:wana says, "If you will vote for me, I will mime you an immediate sittlation for you, so NA you 04 net want. I will likewise do for yea and year ehil. dr.n hereafter. And if von will be • friend at the pee. sent time, there shall lie nee foiled ihe you." He p his hand in his pocket ; be drew it out op% egg 4 turning to me said. "If you had not hem pie* .1 would leave something now ; bet I will eall we day morning. and lesve something with year " On Monday evening the IStb,ol toy riders flout week my wife gave ate 51. His mid se tae, " Vitt the trifle I left with your wife I hope yet will make yew selves comfortable. 1 tendered toy vete for Mr. La &non, and was rtjetuat. Crum exainined.—He tendered votes for Mr. Maier. ant and for Sir Christopher Illawkins.—Oh I how cone you no: to tender your vote for Mr. swans? I WWI not inclined so to do. Did y.O return the 51. whirds you say your wile save you ? No, Sir. Jolla Gill clammed—Mayne seen Mr. Swann asier times. Mr. Swann. in June last. asked ins for ter vote. I mid "No I sivitild nut —What did Mr. .iwann say ? He wrapped me i t his arms (describing the manner) —When be folded you in his arms, in the way you state. what did he say to yott ? • He asked a n t whether I would nut g) to Mr. Gray's to receive some money. I see him two or three times a week, and he always enticed me ; he came to me up t • the house two or three days before the Election ; my wife was there. I said a ward nr two to him you must give sue 151 ; and he slid that should be dune. I remain, Sir, Your humble Servant, F. A. rcws IN CHURCIIES AND CI L TO Till EDITOR OF THE NATIOYAL REGISTER. POETRY. EPIGRAM. SvP, 'YOURS being a Sunday Paper, and therefore best adapted ftsr religious purposes, I have taken the liberty. by its mans. of pointing out, what I, as well us many more, conceive to be a great National grievance; I ssy national, because it lowers the value of our Church rstablislimmit, and b.:cause its practice is almost mai venal. The ricrancc to will It I allude is W i.e found : r..licrc?—lit the Temple of our Glhi 1./ Yes, Sir—let a mu =ter any elture:a throughout this metropolis ; and he will sitete see, that that saered plate, intended for the equal accommodation of the Poor, as well as the Rich, is. like the Temple of Jerusalem, " bought and sold;" aril " instead of a !louse of prayer, is made a Luise of Vorrebamlize." 'ou he At LA :::1;11i;jit past VAL tint{ that 844isamb Yeats die sou SINTEIIO. DISSATISFACTION. Zrninds cries Sir Frank, a pvtitliab. My *rut i. itit hy helping 11*. Plague 04 . 1. 411621 11101., lit 61,1iM1% fies. diallo.l rarta to ati-4: Burdett. BEN AND JACK. To gain a plate, by purchased sent. %Vas lien the 'Limo: s cask Jack cluing ol .mt.l 1 ; i:k is best 31 , ..'Z syin ntisilit by Place% INT LLIOI6LE OR STORY. lisbitteusr. they say—a *tidings ) oat% Emu Greece ice Istrat ti t't When of Reform hs spsk:. 'tits troth. To to it a was Gnosis. PENR Y.V BRIBERIES, It to see so many abed and infirm, so many decently respectable persons, who have attended front the commeacement of the service, kept standing throughout the whole while by some coxcomb young. titer, or showy fin:tale,. walks in in, the midst of the service, or, even ut sermon time, shows the money. ana inotoolv ushered into a seat ; when, but a •noment lieforc, "no room could he found." ‘Vith imiignation I have seen the poise pulled out, and snoley, MUCII regularity as at a ntarlet; and 1 seen l'ew.mx tiers 1)1111144y conitting their earning:; witikt ti..e congregation have been adtiressia;.; a prayer to the I . :.rone of Mercy ! NI - hen the I .ews Of God :tuve p- u. the seventh day as a saltbath to the Lora ; when the laws of the co•:ntry enfitree obedience to them ; when business is r: ended every whers else ; .hall it be borne, that in .. - he very Temple are to be f..unit the " the changers or money ;" and Clat the ,l tar man cannot kneel to serve his Goa, unless he pays I's a place to kneel in exautined.—li.tring got palmation of Lamp hire, a Mter, be nem told to keep hint there. end give him plenty to drink ; he 14 such r daunted rogue, that I will not give Itim the money till he opes to flu:H.111 to poll. When Laturetliire came back from the hall lie had money in his hand,—rotes. Peter Brnbyn examined.—Was it a thing notorsous in the Borough, that after an Election there Wed alwa's a cuuom to give a breakfast to the lilectors ; to give 24L was it a thing publicly known ? I do not know &bat it has been done ; I never was as it. Did yon ev•:r hear of such a thing in tne Borough ; nobody says you were at it? I have heard that it has been custmnary some time ago. Did Mr. Sewell, whoa he took you into that room, an I advised you to vote for Mr. Anderson, and offered you a breaktitat, or railer 24L did he explain to you what he meant by a breal:%4st ; did he state that it was customary to give a toraktiist no the electors after the elecdun? He state. that I should have what was customary. You undo.- f rain bier, th e st 241. was given so every elector?' - Yes. John Dowling exantinid.—ls your name John Dow. ; I cannot spell my none soyiell. IL was otlerod fur his vote. Friday the Duke of Yenta arrived u Windsor Castle, wlicre he slept ; and after the breaking up of his Council on Saturday, his Royal Highness rethrneti t o o a tl an de. Ihe Council was atterit by the Arch bishops of Canterbury and Yor:;, the Bishop of Londot.. Lor 's Wiachcisca, Mle y lie iley, 31aevlesfiell, anti -t, Helen's, and Sir Willianu Grant. The fillowing report was made to the Council by tls. KINO.II That things are so, we knnw ten ve : anti is r7e gm-at cause of the present rage fur Nlethcsli4m ; • fis perfectly natural, Sir, nrr a man to free:tent that place where he is best accommoslated ; awl, indeed, this %cons to have been appreciated by most or all dissenting taablishments ; fire you al) sooner enter a Methodist Cliap.:l, than if there Ii" a vacant scat, you are asked lo take it: and it a stranger, still a greater welcome. Money must not be taken, het at the risk of their places 4.md their characters hence they till, and respectably tiro; and it is my fain opinion, that it is not so much ;lie tenet's of the sect, as the convenience of the place, which attracts ouch numbers. Bat it is not only that at drives the pious and well disposed from the National '..nablishinent, and in their places admits the vicious, en.: idle, the curious, and the profligate, who, conic to 4 !lurch what time they may, are always sure of a seat /71 , (ty;tig for it ; but the effects produced on the mantis of th;.: young most be very Meat; for, " it is but just," Ley "if Lven in the Church they traffic fur The Minutes tekcn before the P. nryn Election Com. mittee which ousts'. Mr. Ilexav SWANN, and declared Lim to have been guilty of Bribery, being thereby inca pacitated to sit in the present Parliament have been printed. So unblushingly has this Borough trafficked w!th the elective franchise, not only now but in • 808, he. that many Members have justly declared that it ought to be disfraniniseil; but if such trufficking take p1a.0.: where there arc between two and three hundred melt, in what jeopardy must be the virtue, disinterest edness, and independence of thine Boroughs 'hat have on!y five, ten, or twenty Electors ! As the disfranchis ing of Penryn would b.. a b'uw at the Borough System, we would not have the publick be too sanguine in their expectation to behold a ermsnmination go devoutly to be ' wished ; to give that system some lissiatame„ however, the following extracts frori these precious Minutes nig not be without their effect nr interest :--the lowing demeanor of Mr. H. Swann cannot fall to excite vast re , peet fur that personage : E (cure Carter, an Llcetor, examined.—lle said, Mr. Swann asked me for my vote. I said I was a young haod to electioneering ; 1 wished to refer it to Saturday. Ile sail it was sill nonsense to talk about Saturday ; I must make up my mind at once ; I still resisted thr some time. He told me that if I would vote for him he would make it twenty pounds ; that he would give the live p ninds in band, and tivq Numbs in a few days after the election ; and likewise Sir Christopher . Haskins would be answerable for ten pounds if' he war brought in, which would make tlpmi twenty, he would pity five pllnots then, which he did not however do. Ha made a remark that it was a poor place to pesos the m•tney that there were at great number of people looking lems the Windows ; that he would take it in to my wit Afier he said that, he went into my house. Ire Tived a five pound note from my wits About ten inioutes after Mr. Swann left the house. On the 18th of June I was at Mr. Shear's house with Abraham Whit and John Simmons. When Mr Swann came in lie said, " how do you come ou, my brave &Hews ?—Then Ise drew tiorn his pocket apparently a roll of mass, cash note.. He said, "my brave felh.trs, 1 w i ei ld g ive y o u it all, but' dare not myself?' 'rile difihrent electors were diinhing ;we hail pitneh au the table. itness voted fu; Mr. mut) and :Ir. AIIaCOVV. si . iana :- Wirnsot Ct ITI.R. NtAncff 6, !SPX Ills lf‘jeety bail been geuirra.ly ebac fal tbrustAli die last smith. but without gay abate.u.itit of his die ala. lii. Maj.: ty% buddy hoilth *ma. ,:iii, ;Oral. 1,-1i,41.Cd) ". 11 A L. 7 1):1D. J 1 1 '/1.1.16. M. it AI t., 1-:, H. %VILLAS. NI . lig;.tutu:::l,