The National Register. — London, England, 1820-06-18 00:00:00

IPB FUNERAL OF THE LATE RIGHT HON. HENRY GRATTAN. The remains of this venerable and distinguished Patriot were yesterday conveyed to the tomb with all the solemn pomp which was suitable for such a mournful occasion. They were at a late hour on Thursday night conveyed in a hearse anti four to Richmond House, Privy Gar dens, where, according to the published order, the friends of the deceased were to assemble at ten o'clock Frey morning, to be marshalled tor the funeral pro ceirom Tue body lay in state in one of the parlours on the ground floor. The room was hung in black, and lighted with silver lamps. At the a npointrti hour a considerable mimber of per sonages of the first rank attended, and were accommo dated on the ground flour. At a quarter before twelve o'clock, the neces.ary arrangements being completed, the procession (which was pedestrian) moved out of the coach entranc:., which opens into Whitehall, and advanced a!ong the centre of Parliament Street, which was newly gravelled for this melancholy occasion. A considerable multitude of persons had as early as nine o'clock ass , nailed in the street ; but the constables, un der the management of Mr. Lee, the High Constable, kept a sufficient sp tee open for the funeral to advance. A body of constables, with Mr. Lee, moved in front. 'Ten the mutes and assistants of the undertaker. Then about 200 gentlemen in full mourning. A Retires- with a rich plume of feathers, from which were appended the crest and armorial bearings of Mr. Grattan. THE COFFIN, covered by a rich pall, supported on one side by the Dukes of Norfolk and Wellington, Lord Holland. and Lord W. Fitzgerald ; on the other side by the Earl of Harrowhy, the Doke of Leinster, the Earl of Charlemont, and the Earl of Dononghmore. Chief Mourner, HENRY GRATTAN, Esq. eldest son of the deceased, followed by his Brother, J. GRATTAN. Esq. - - A very large body of Noblemen and Gentlemen fol lowed, chiefly arranged in rows of three each, and wearing silk hat bands. At the head of them, next the coffin, were his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, thaDuke of Devonshire, Marquis Wellesley, Marquis Conyngham, the Martinis Downshire, and the Marquis of Lanadown •' Mr. Tierney , Mr. Brougham, Sir J. Mackintosh, &c.—indeed, we may add above 200 Members of the Imperial Parliament.—The Irish Cha rity Children attended, with crape round the left arm. The whole of the distinguished characters who com pose that most respectable body the English Catholic Board, were also in the procession, and a number of other gentlemen of that profession. The procession occupied nearly an hour in moving from Richmond House to Westminster Abbey, where it was received at the great western door by the Rev. Dr. Ireland, the Dem of Westminster, and attended by the whole choir of the Abbey, who chaunted one of Handers grand anthems, as it advanced along the aisle to the vault prepared to receive the coffin. The Dean, at ten minutes past one o'clock, read the service for the dead, and immediately after the doors of the tomb were closed upon the remains of Mr. Grattan, amid the strong and unaffected grief of the most illus trious characters of the Empire. The tomb lies nearly between the spot of eattli which incloses all that was mortal of Pitt and Fox. It adjoins the grave of the great Lord Chatham, and is surrounded by the tombs of Lord Mansfield, and other public eminent charac ters. The foot of Yir. Grattan's coffin nearly touches that of Mr. Fox. It is exactly the spot, out of his own country, which we should imagine Mr. Grattan would have selected for his tomb. MR. GRATTAL—The following letter was writ ten by Mr. Grattan, close by the body of his father after he had breathed his last. It was intended for the eye of friendship alone. Publication never entered the thoughts of the writer, but justice to the dead and the living, requires that its contents •should be made known:— " 6S, Baker Street, Portman Street, London, June 6. MY DEAR llCMl , llltryll.—You will tre this reaches you, have beard the wrla,uchuh 'Wino 0f the death of your ever -1,1-be lamented fi lend. lie expired m fallout a groan, sur ►ounded by his family. His uudendaulling perfectly clear —sensible to the last.—His anxiety for has country and her future fottnues, was the last sentiment that occupied him, and '' his dying hopes, I sI L- his breath, below:Nil to Ms Country." These, ills _same sit ictly fulfiiled ; he felt uo pain, and the smile that Itjhleaed up his cuouteaance still meanie upon it. Since he left you all, he conversed about the City, and ad vised me to act as lie had foam-sty expressed himself. I shall therefore have the satisfaction to reflect that I discharge his in:ravioli as my oat. duty, when I solicit the support of my fellow citizens. As I cauoot leave this fur anise time, will you and the other friends of my dear late father, try what can be done to twit .1d the independence of out native City. As you kilow my bind init. Ills upon the subject, proceed in the business oil my behalf, to if I w ".. This mode of acting cal alone make up fur the nisadvautage under which 1 labour. Believe me, dear Humphreys, Must affectionate' , y Hl NHY 61tATTAN. Mr. Henry Grattan has offered himself a Candi date to represent the Ciiyut 'Main in Parliament, in the room of his late s.« Hint father. Mr. 'Thos. Ellis, it appears from the Dublin papers, intends to oppose him, on the Corporation and Government interest. Mr. Ellis is a Master In Chancery. .„,;,16 THE NATIONAL REGISTER. [STATE OF IRELAND. Dublin, June 13. FAILURE or ALFEANDCRs' provincial journals find private communications give a faint description of the consternation which prevail., nut only in the South of Ireland, hut even to the border, or the county of Dublin, in consequence of the failure of the banks of Cork, Limerick, Clonmel, Kilkenny, and Waterford. These, to i ;etlwr +lith that of Carrick-on-Suer, make up the number of nine banks, one el Kilkenny, one in Channel. one in Waterford, and • iii Carrick on-Suir in our fortnight. The counties of Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Clare, Tipperar y, Wateiford, Kilkenny, and a part of Carlow, are left almost wit bout a circulating medium. It was foreseen that the shock must reach Dublin a last. We knew that the private bankers' notes were coming up in great abundance, and that they were promptly exchanged. Hitt gym' one bank the run was so incessant, that they were obliged to suspend their pay ments yesterday. We allude to the Dank of Sir William Alexander atilt Co. The docket, we miderstasid, has already been airsick. 'There was in consequence a run upon every bank iu Dublin during the entiie of yester day, and they all, we are happy to state, not only paid such outstanding notes as were presented, but their bank post bilk not yet due, and such as were even accepted.— conduct appeared to have restored confidence. But it would be unfair to pretend that a great agitation does not prevail in the public mind. We have not heard that any considerable bruise has stopped in consequence of this great failure we have just 'Petitioned, nor can we state with certainty the amount of the securities or notes which the Messrs. Alexander may have had in circulation. MILITIA PAY, ALLOWANCES, i r EQUIPMENTS• (Cloonan) War Office, May 12, 1820. The Officers, Non-commissioned Officers, Drummers, and Men, are to receive, during the period of training, the same rates of Regimental Pay and Allowances as the Militia received while they were last embodied. The Officers will receive an allowance for the carriage of their baggage, at the rate of nine-pence per mile, from the place of their residence, if within the county, or if not within the county, then front that border of their own county which is nearest to the place where they may hap pen to be when munitioned to attend. The Men will receive the usual marching allowance from the places from which they shall proceed to join, provided such places be not more distant from the place of assembly than the parishes for which they are respec tively enrolled; and the like allowances will be made to the Officers and Men on being dismissed. Instructions will be given to the Paymaster as to the rates of the said Pay and Allowances, and as to the mode of drawing for, and issuing the same, but no Officer or Man will be entitled to pay for any period of absence, even though absent with leave, unless he shall have joined the Regiment during the period of assembly. The permanent Non-commissioned Officers and Drum mers are, of course, fully clothed and equipped for ditty ; it is therefore, only necessary to provide for the equip ment of the additional Non-commissianed Officers and Drummers, and of the Private Men i and a sufficient quantity of the following articles, namely one coat, one waistcoat, one pair of grey trowsers, one pair of short grey gaiters, one pair of shoes, one cap, one shirt, one pair of short stuck inga, one stock and clasp, one turnscrew, one worm, one picker, one brush, one knapsack, will be sent for this purpose from the public stoles. The small articles of necessaries, such as shoe.brushes, &c. are to be provided out of the regulated stoppages from the pay of the Men during the period of training, ac cording to the Act of the 42d Geo. HI. cap. 20. arc. 96 • The articles so provided out of the stoppages a4e to be 'taken away by the Men on being dismissed ; the other ar ticles of clothing and necessaries are to he lodged care fully in the regimental stores tor use on future occasions. It is not thought necessary, at this season of the year, to furnish great coats for the whole corps, it being ex pected that those now in the regimental store, or in wear by the permanent Non-commissioned Officers and Drum mers, will be sufficient fur the proportion of the Men on guard. As may not be in possession of the Pay and Clothing Act for the Disembodied Militia tor the COM:Ilt year, I inclose a printed copy thereof for your informa tion. I have, &c. (Signed) PALMERSTON. Militia. NAVIGATION: Colonel of the To THL EDITOR. Rutland, June 4, 189.0. " the paper found het e may prove of import ance and utility, 1 beg leave to send you a coo , of it, ti original 1 have forwarded to the Lords of the Admiralty. " NASSAU FORSTER." NO. 2, AT !MA. " His Britannic Majests'ssiiip Newcastle, June 20, 1819, ►at. 38. 52. long. 04.0 W. of Greenwich. " As these bottles, with their contents, are thrown overboard with the intention of determining the true di rection and strength of the Florida 6int-stream, it is requested, as a must particular favour, that whoever may pick lip any of them, tither at ace Ur on shoe, will de termine the latitude and longitude of the place it was picked tip in. and give that, with the date of picking it u 1•, a place in any of the public prints, either in Eillupe, America, or any of the colonies ill the West indica. " Whoever may be good enough to comply with the above legoest will comer a fatuity on then very oblige it sd vault, " JAMES NAPIER, Master of his I3ritatuti.• Meiji I.l)'S ship Near•a•lle. " To whoever who may pick up Ihi. Conte on shore in the !losses, tn. iht N 1S . u .s.s of I s , land, let. 54. sti. N., lung 9.0. %V., oh the day ul 1 lie place %heir this With fill/114 wan immediately in the vicuisiy ul the iNlaud ul Arian, Os. She Ireland. By a reference to the snap of Ir lost.tl, the lati tude and longitude can be easily ascertained, if the above shoold Dot prove correct NASSAU FORSTZR. The Society for the Suppression of Vice served Mrs. Carlile, of 55, Fleet Street, with notice to attend on Tuesday at the Crown Office, in order to nomi►►ate forty-eight persons as special jurors in the cause of the King against her, for selling the 9th number of " The Republican," vol. 1 , and " The Life of Tom Paine," by Sherwin. The King has been pleased to distinguish the Royal Academy by a new mark of his favour, in giving the President for the time being, Sir Tito. mas Lawrence, a gold medal and chain, to be worn by him as President of that Institution. The medal bears a portrait of his Majesty, and is inscribed " From his Majesty King George the Fourth to the President of the Royal Academy." Tuesday morning, about nine o'clock, a mad dog passed from the City Road, through Castle Street, and Holywell-moant, and Holywell-lane into Shore. ditch, and was seen to bite eight or ten dogs in his progress, by a gentleman who followed him. He was pursued through Swan yard, and it is hoped was soon killed. The dog was of the large rough terrier breed, white, with a high tail and black ears. Tisa MAIDEN'S LEAP.—A daughter of the first. Earl of Gowrie was courted by a young gentleman in the neighbourhood, much her inferior in rank and fortune ; her family, though they gave no en couragement to the match, permitted him to visit them, and lodged him in a tower of Ruthven Castle, in Perthshire, then in the possession of the Gowrie family, near another, in which was the young lady's chamber, but up a different staircase, and commu nicating with another part of the house ; the lady, before the doors were shut, got into her lover's apartment; but some one of the family having dis covered it, told the mother, who, cutting off, as she thought, all possibility of retreat, hastened to sur prise them ; but the young lady, hearing the well known steps of her mother, hobbling up stairs, ran to the leads, and took a desperate leap of nine feet over s chasm of sixty feet from the ground, alighted on the battlements of the other tower, whence i descending to her own chamber, she crept into bed. Her mother having in vain sought her in her lover's chamber, came into her room, where finding her seemingly asleep, she apologized for her unjust sus picion. The young lady eloped tke following night and was married. The top of the towers are still shown under the appellation of the Maiden's Leap. There appears a new issue of one-pound forged notes in circulation_ The engraving of the figure of Britannia, if viewed through a glass, is clumsy; the paper has a silky feel, and the water mark is not • . clear, but confused. The name at the bottom of almost all the forge notes is not twilit% with a pen, but engraved. • Mr. Harris, who has been granted the patent of the Dublin Theatre, commences his performances on Monday next, in the Rotunda, which is to be fitted up as a temporary Theatre on the occasion. A Court Martial was assembled on Monday, by order of the Commander in Chief, at Kensington Barracks, relating to the conduct of a corporal and six privates of the 12th regiment of Lancers, on a charge preferred by Mr. Brown, keeper of his Ma jesty's Gaol of Newgate, for improper and disorderly behaviour, and being drunk on the night of the 4th inst, whilst on duty, and in attendance at the Surrey side of Blackfriars Bridge, to escort convicts to Thames Ditton, on their way to Gosport. The Court was occupied three hours on the investiga ' tiou, the result of which will not be known until the minutes of evidence, sentence, &c. arc laid before the proper authorities. Ilion TREASON. The Lords Commissioners appointed by the Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer for trying all treasons, and misprisions of treason, committed within tha counties of Stirling Lanark, Dumbarton, Renfrew, and Ayr, have fixed their sittings for submitting BilLs to the Grand Juries of the said respective counties as follows : St J unr 23d, at !rturliseg. 1../sturkshile blogulay, June 261 Glasgow, Dumhartunrherr—Thursday,Jum . 29, at Dumbarton. Itenirrw,bire—Saturday, July lA, AyrAtire—Tursaa), July 4th, at Air. Mr. Thomas George Knapp, Clerk to the Arraigns of the Home Circuit in England, is appointed to act as Clerk to the Commissioners. A paragraph in the Reading piper states in sub stance the following ;—" The lord lieutenant of this county could not go to review the yeomanry cavalry. Sir F, Burdett dined ut the nie , s the over night; and Mr. C. Dundus, colonel, and N. P. tier the county, said, ' Sir Francis, you shall review us.' lie did, and there was a great assemblage of beauty and fashion. The corps marched by hint, and afterwards formed a square; he entered it, and made them a very appropriate speech on their evolutions, the constitutional tiorce of aueh soldiers, &c. and they gave him three cheers." Mr. Vandethoff, of the Liverpool theatre, and Mr. Cooper, of the Edinburgh ther.tre, two trap. diens of much provincial fame, arc engaged by Mr, Moos for the sem season. Sif till ha bri Lo the dis 1