The National Register. — London, England, 1819-02-07 00:00:00

rED / KITE LATiCQUEEN OF .13PAINT - The sal.crin and magnificent requiem of Mozart has Cldom produced so deep an impression as ut the Spanish chapel on Saturday morning, associated as it V 9 as with the sacred offices of religion, cud the funeral obsequies of a young and lovely Queen. The Chapel was huti; 4 with black, and the coffin placed in the centre with t 7; crown over it, and the arias of Spain and Portugal on each ride. The Catholic Bishop, Dr. Poynter, offi c:ated: The presence of the Duke of San Carlos, Dul:e rf Wellington, the French, Portuguese, Dutch, and Neapolitan Ambassadors, accompanied by their Secre taries, the Spanish officers, all in their state dresses, and the Spaniards residing in this capital, dress d in deep mourning, added to the grandeur and soiemn:ty of the scene. The Duke of Wellington has been honoured with seven Marshals batons. History, it is believed, offers no tintilar example. An enquiry bus been made, by order of the Lords of the Admiralty, on an improved mode of working the calculations necessary to ascertain the longitude of ships at sea. The plan is front observations bf the positions of varieus stars, which prorei.ec to reduce the errors into so narrow a compass, that the actual certainty may be almost said to be discovered. It requires only six sines of figures. From Vienna it is mentioned, that one of the richest Bankers of that capital, whose credit was almost unli mited, and who was publicly designated as the future Head of au important Financial Administration, had for some days disappeared ; and on the 18th ult. his body was found in the Danube. The cause of this melancholy event was not known. At a Special Court of Proprietors, held on Wednesday at the Ease India-house, a Vote of Thanks was passes' to the Marquis of Hastings, for his conduct in the late campaign. The consideration of a similar Vote to Sir T. I lisle?, the second in command, was postponed, in consequence of a long discussion having arisen upon an intimation form Mr. I that he would oppose the motion, unless a satisfueory explanation was given, as to the conduct of General Hislop, in ordering the Kille dar of Tattier to be hanged without trial. Calcutta Government Gaz e lle: to August 20, inclu sive; have been received. They contain addresses to the Marquis•of Hastings on the glorions termination of the late campaign, from the British inhabitants of Moorshedabad, and Berhampore, and from the Native inhabitants of Calcutta. In reply to the latter, the Noble Marquis takes neeesien to observe, that he" cgs nut feel, and never will make a distinction of interest between the Native subjects of the Indian Govern ment and his countrymen ; and that he is con , cions lie can have the pride of merititig Brit;sh approbation, enly in proportion as he promotes the happiness and welfare of the Native population." Monday week being the day appointed to appeal against the supplementary charges ou windows in Bath, the Commissioners of that city unanimously decided against the extra charges, declaring all Venetian win dows made previously to the year 1785 ehargeable only as one window, and Venetian windows made subse ipiently to that period chargeable as two windows only. The appeleetts, to the number of upwards of 700, are, by this deciviou, relieved; subject, however, to a Lase fir the opinion of the Judges. The Tagus frigate, Captain Dundas, lately returned from the Mediterranean, has bean paid off at Deptford The Royal Charlotte yacht, at Deptford, and which ;eel to attend on their Majesties at Wcytuouth, Itas leen fuend unfit fur further service. A new one, to czar the same name, is to be built directly. Thursday the Sophia sloop of war sailed from Portsmouth with d'spatches for Sir Hudson Lowe, at St. Helena, and thence to Jamaica. The Sapphire, 24 guns, Captain fart, sailed also from the same place for the latter vation. 0.1 Wednesday the Menai frigate, of 28 guns. vets bunched from Chatham dock.yard. She went off the slip in a very beautifel etyle. Rear-Admiral Sir Flenry iteletni, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, Sir John Gore, Sir R. Barlow, and many of the neigh. bowing gentry, were spectators. Unfortunately whilst every one was enjoying high gratification at the sight ee . i.o handsome a launch, one of the hawsers broke, and teal persons were much injured. One of the kir ... e officers, teemed Potter, had his leg broken, and fent' the circumstance of the saute leg having been before broken on a similar occasion, it was found ne eessary that it should be amputated, which was per formed et the surgery, and he was afterwards taken on beard the Argonaut hospital-ship. Sir John Dare, and three other pursues, also received cunsiderahle injury. The most aged per.ous (says an :illicit fro:a Petetsimr4h) du not reeotirct 4 whiter as the present. A luttn for 11,0"004 ks banes, about , h 11,3 at Llantbutglo, the service of t,.e Crowe of 1.). antra. At a Com a (tow. C , toned it %mai re Ise to v ein,. the !lame of Commie,. ••1 111Yek RUC lIS --to pew) r). 1..415 to tkflog iu a Lidi for t • ding the p .wres et' Me of ketpwst• to rt.:tits nut exem eeitte 10L—and to tp,tilitm hoZi. Hours of Paiisaawitt for the rtpeal and against t:ir re $.1.1 wAI ill . the Act for the Relict . of losvolcat Dalgoroia THE NATIONAL ilEcosTra CiMitCiE OF MURDER: CHELMSFORD, JAN. 27. About four year ago a murder was committed atFlee den, in Essex, by a gang of raisereaets five or six in number, who first broke int, the Lease of a respectable i tradesman, named Henry Trigg, and afterwards mer aerta him. The circumstances ender which this hein ous cri:ue was perpetrated Were these.: Mr. Trigg had received upon his premises, a few days previous to the lamentable event, a great quantity of leather, and the object of the robbers was to carry is off with other pro nerty, which it was well kr.own he possessed ; and they brought a horse and cart with them, to enable them better to accomplish their purpose. They succeeded in lircaklng le to the nre;nises without alarming, the family, and had loaded the cart, when Mr. Trigg was awak ened by some noise : he ran down emirs, and being a courageous man he endeavoured to prevent the villains from taking away his property. He seized one of them, who immediately put a pistol to his heed, and snapped the lock, but it 'flashed in the nan ; another of the gang who stood behind Ititn presented a second pistol, which he tired, and the contents lodged in Mr. Trigg's heart. lie fell down and expired instantly. The thieves im mediately drove off and escaped ; but circumstances soon led to the apprehension of Pratt and Turner, two of the gang : they were tried at the ensuing a.sizes, at Chelmsford, convicted, and hanged. One of them, pre vious to undergoing his sentence, denied that he was implicated in the murder and robbery, and persisted in that declaration to the moment he was turned off: the other acknowledged that he was one of the gang that committed the murder, but refused to make any fur- , ther !disclasure. A few months ago, three men, named Thomas Corby, John Deans, and Timothy Hammond, were apprehended upon a charge of carrying imple .ments for poaching upon the grounds of a gentleman in Essex, and with assaulting the gamekeeper in a brutal manner, leaving him on the ground apparently dead. These men were tried last sessions for the offence, ead being convicted, Deans was sentenced to be transported for 7 years, and the other two to imprisonment for dif ferent terms. During their conficement a strong sespi cion arose that they were the parties concerned with 1 Pratt and Turner, in the murder of Mr. Trigg The Magistrates of Chelnoiford exerted themselves to obtain I P evidence as to the guilt or innocence of the accused.— T - hcy have been frequently examined, and such evi dence has at length been elicited, which, though cir cnnistantial, yet, in a considerable degree, ripens what was before suspicion into certainty. The only circum stance allowed to transpire, relating to the guiltof the 1 1 parties, is the evidence of the niece of Deans. It appears that he resided at Argsden. near Clavering, and was frequently visited by his companions in iniquity. One night, during a carousal, Dean's niece overheard the in. toxicated party congratulating each other upon their fortunate escape from the fate of Turner and Pratt their companions in the horrid crime at Berden.— She disclosed the words which she overheard to some person, by whom they were communicated to the magistracy of the county. - The latter were hence ind b eced to investigate she affair, and at the final ex amination this day, the prisoners were brought up to the Shire-hall, before Sir Themes Tyrrell, Bart. and other teagistrates for the county, and the evidence being read, it was of such a couelusive description, that it lea the magistrates to fully commit the parties to take their trials fur the murder at the next Chelmsford assizes. The Stafford Theatre closed last week, afier a most unprofitable season. Miss BOOTH was the only novelty of the campaign. We regret to hear that, on the occasion of this accomplished Actress going to the church of that town during her stay, the Curate commenced a very unjust and indecorous attack on the Theatre, from the pulpit; and turning the eyes of the whole congregation on this interesting female, she burst into tears !—Lichfi'eld Mercury. An experiment has been tried in this Dock-yard, to ascertain if a grass, the common produce of New Zealand, and which may be cut down three times a year, is applicable to making large and small ropes. A favourable report, we understand, is made of it. The article is strong and pliable, and very sickly in its nature. it can be brought into this country at less than 81. per ton ; one-seventh of the cost of hemp.— Porionant4 Paper The quantity of fish caught and cured this season at Newfoundland does not amount to more than two thirds of an average supply ; which circumstance has caused a great demand for the cured fish of this country. Portsmouth herrings have obtained a great preference in this demand, from the care taken in packing them ; they are found to reach even the West India Islands in a better state than the Scotch herrings, which being rock, and very lt:scioas, do not. keep sound. The French boats lave purchased large quantities at Portsmouth, at a higher price than the curers of that town can afford to give ; but as they are not allowed to salt them after the Ist of February, the whole which may he subsequently catght will come a.ato the market. i AGRICULTURAL REPQRT i FOR JANUARY. Every species of farming business, appropriate to the searmn, is in the utmost forwardness ; labourers plenty, ;ncieesi in too great plenty for the contracted scale, of employment ; and the lands will be in very early readiness for the receptios of the spring seeds. This imparalled season has hitherto produced neither snow nor Lail; and the meadows and pas tures present a vernal or mill autumnal prospect, affording, upon good 80i13, full keep for the most numerous docks of sheep. Pease were dibbled and drilled, in E-sex, as early as the latter end of November ; and beau panting will, doubtless, be very early. The straw•yard has hut lately come into use, and in many parts the cattle are still abroad. The advanced growth of the wheats are temporally checked by the few frosts of last month, but tits y have since been visibly regaining their former luxerian:c ; and, should thu present mild westlior continue, will present sort' a - spectacle in March and April, as the oldest caitis atur of the soil has nut witnestsd. •PRHSENT Portmation.--The 'Fable of Population and Tel ritory of the present civilized world, as exhibited by Mr. Busted, gives to China 300 rniliions and 1,200.000 square miles of territory ; to Great Britain, 20 millions of popnlistion, and 100,000 sqnaro Miles ; and to the United States, 10 millions, and 2,500,000 miles; and the total of the world is, of population, 433,840,000, and of territory, 9,597,003 squares miles; so that the United States have the largest home lerti tory of all the nations except hassle. China is not inelodedr. in this, because it contains many parts barbarian*, helpless, and effete. Britain possesses 150 millions of subjects in her Colonial Empire, and covers a dominion equal to nearly ore fifth of the whole surface of the Globe, but her main strength most always depend upon the resources, intelligence, spirit sad character of her native pop nlation in the British Isles. Mr. IIAYDON'S PUPILS.—An interesting exhibition if ju,t opened to the public, of drawings from the Cartoons aul Elgin marbles, executed by the pupils of Mr. Hay don. They are done principally iu chalk, of the size of the originals. We must not regard them as mere speciniens of juvenile genius, but as transcripts not un... worthy of their divine prototype, calculated to convey a h:g - h impression of the present state of the art, and affording the most brilliant prospects to the future ee nerations. We can only wish that the number of the specimens were greater, and that Mr. Haydon, in &Lion to the benefit he has individually centered on the present age, by his masterly and hereafier-to-be.named classical productions, will continue his labours to raise the standard of excellence in that which is to cense. A letter frora the Rev. 3ovirtt, repreAentativa at Malta of the Church Missionary Society, states, that mar British -seamen belonging to King's ships on that station hail become teuegades, and professed themselves Nialannetaus —This dreadful practice, it is added, is by so means sinconunou alining bailors at Smyrna. I. Justice Park, ■s a vestryman of the parish of St. Giles and a trustee of Inu Fields, Mrs ad-.l essed a lOW to the Brochure; of Lincoln's lon, stating, that it is the op;. Ilion .:f the Vestry that not less than two chapels of ease can meet the spiritual wants et' the parish ; that it has seemed ail sisable that the site of one should be in the centre of the east side of Lincoln's Inn Fields, of the length of IWO and bioadth 01 . 60 feet, but that there are some legal obstructions • with respect to the title to the ground, which it is hoped the Henchers will remove. 'I he Parish Officers of St. Martin's in the Fields, and other 'parishes in the metropolis, have recently employed the pour in the workhouses in psilseriziog oysteishells, while,' they dispose of to agricalteriAs, at a reakentsble rate, as a manure. .' tow vrell-atitlientitiated facts will prove its general utility, and its particular effect nouns sails of a eery di , lei - ent etiz•• reeler. A great agriculturist, in the county of Nottolk, it :3 itlppelaed, was the first person who appiietl this species manure upon his farm; the experiment was tiled upon hun g ry ) light. and sandy soil, which had been enclosed fr,r jumps, the oysiershell powder mos drilled in the usual way upon 27 such ridges, at the rate of 40 bnilidebe per acre (with out any manure) aid was slightly covered with earth, and the twiny acrd sown upon it. Another part of the same cell, the land being of equal quality, was well mansired with farm yard slung (eight tons per acre) put into the same &Led ridges, awl sown with turnipseed as before—both crops were equally good, and the succeeding crop (bailey) was also equally good and apparently equal is: quantity. This eaperi., went serveslu strew that 40 bushels of uystca shell powder is equal iu virtue to eight tons of farm yard dung. The pow dered nystershells have also been successfully used as a ma nure for wheat, iss competition with other matinees in com mon lice; snot the expeiiivrents have fully answered the es pectations of the farmer, particuiaily used ill MA sing of a light gravelly loans. 'the UlataU e.s also strongly recommended. Saturdaytn wing , mine thieves entered the house a Mr - I":;ge, carienter, in brLeer-sireld, Gulden•square, and stole a 1;:te quantity of spparel, linen, ate. hey Ake stale from the paw.ry a quanern lost and some cold meat, with which they escaped. A poor petits. travel:int: from Asheabury to Peterborough, irm att;:eketlett 'thttrglay by twee villain:, who took from him serert.l article.; of value aad 71. in nwnev. On Wednewlay night the same party theirwtiy: the 'muse of Mr. Smith. a fanner, near Oseettry ; but beg heard. were tired at by one of his men, out of a window. The man says hie thir.ks one was wour.4ed. One GI the ger h q said. .• D—n it, who would hare thought of that," when the eon au fired. A short time Nee, as B. Benham. earter to J. Conyers, F'. near Eppinz, retitming with hi.: te.mi, the hc:wes took frigi.t at the Lamps of a stage-coach ; when Benham .was batten dow n . the waggon wheels passed ov‘r his heel, and die was killed on the rpot. - - - - - Sawnlay. as T. Wil!.inian. Esq. was..4lriving a chaise in the Horaeferry -road, ac,vmpanied by his dsug!uer 15 ye:.ris of j.gs, the horse took fright and drr.;ged the -...:11;c1c. in contact wi.r a cart ; by which talc young Lady was thrown out. and one. of her arras Woken. Saturday, as Mr. James. of Waltham Abbey. was coming to Combo. is horse tccir. !right rear Tottenllaus. laid threw Lira; by which his collar-bone was dislocated. The daughter of one Gtegg, a fellowship porter. at I:lotherhithe. two year 3 .1.1, in the absencc of its mother. on FriLlay. drank tome boil to water out of al tea-kettle, and on liatualay tlisd Cu gicat Agotiy• 4