The National Register. — London, England, 1820-07-03 00:00:00

21G post crept. LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 3. Three o'Clock, p. m. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. rARLS, JUNE 29.—General Grouchy arrived on Sunday last at Paris, and on the Monday had un • Interview with the I hike of Richelien. Madame Catalani arrived at Peterslitaigk about the beginning of the month. She has given several cancers which were attended by the Emperor an d the Imperial Family. Prince Talleyrand will not leave Paris for Val iencay, till next week. Loal Byron is daily expected in Paris:lodgings are engaged for hine—Quolidienne. Intelligence tnom :Marseilles, dated ‘22d inst. states—" An English Captain, who left Oran on the l3th and arrived yesterday in this port, has declared, that a squadron of five armed ships, which he was assured was destined for the I:orth Seas, sailed from Algiers at the beginning of the present month." The accounts which we receive from the frontiers of Spain represent the state of ptiblic health in the Island of Majorca as very alarming.—Journal des Debates. Ihe Correctional Tribunal pronounced yesterday • its ju&;ment in the case of M. Ducasse, editor of the Drareau Blanc. He was condemned to a month's imprisonment, and a fine of 200 francs, • for having contravened the law of the censorship. Accounts from Majorca state, that the plague, which had broken out in that island, was extending with alarming rapidity. Palma, the principal town, had insulated itself, by a military cordon, from all communications with the rest of the island. A curious litigation is about to commence in the Parisian tribunals. The complainant is a Hamburgh merchant, named J. eels!' Castel, and the persons against whom he institutes proceedings are, the Duke of Rovigo (ovary), Desmarest, and Schulz mister, employed under the Duke in the police, and Bi roard, ex-director of gambling houses. The accusation is this :—ln 1812, the complainant, pre viously engaged in contracts with the French " IroperialN avy," was solicited by the French Gene ral commanding in Hamburgh to discount Bank of England notes to the amount of 5,0001. He con sented, and negotiated the notes to a considerable amount, and, by order of the General, deposited the residue in the hands of the Director General of Police of Hamburgb. The Bank of England notes all proved forgeries ! and Cannel was obliged to make good ali losses. He then came to Paris, received an invitation from M. Desmarest, chief of a division of tha police—was politely received—and requested D.u.marest to state the precise amount of those notes which he had negotiated for the French Gene ral. From this, and other circumstances, Castel had suspicion of Desmarest and the Duke of Rovigo, whom he now charges, in common with others, with having fabricated this spurious bank of England paper. He states where. how, and by whom, the forgsVes were committed, and even the agents sent to circulate them in Englund.—Gazette de France. M. B. Constant complained, in the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday that the letters of certain deputies to their constituents, on the *sub ject of their legislative duties had been intercepted, in their way through the post.office, by the agents CI government; and that the censors of the press dared to prohibit the publication in the journals of o speech delivered in the Chamber of Peers, and ordered by thatChaniter to be printed. tie remarked thet if such practices as these were tolerated, there Was an end to a free communication between the people and their representatives, on the destructive consequences of which he enlarged at considerable iength. He thertinre moved that the debate on the Budget should be suspended till Ministers gave ex planations on this einati.ct. This motion was ran, however, seconded ; and, after some debating, M. Constant said, that sa i•lital with having given pub licity to the injuries of which he complained, Lc withdrew motion. Extract ut• a private letter dated 'Madrid, June 13 :—" The day betin•e yerterduy a young female cut her throat ; she was in easy circumstances, and exhibited no indications of nu id al derangement, or any thing which could wad to a conjecture ut her -nuitivo. 1 mention this because it is au event of such rare oreurrenc.: in Spain, that for 20 years 1 reviuus- Jv act 01 suictdc is not remembered " BERLIN, JUNE .5 —lt is rumoured that the new Prussian constitution will be prontulgated on the ::;i1 of August next, wiiic:i is the natal anniversary ut our Monareli. HASTAVT, JUNE' The Members of the two Chambers or Baden a rrive succctsivety at Carlsruhe •17. c opening of the Cuarnber is to take place tot Saturday next. It is said tlart the Grand Duke will 1 THE NATIONAL REGISTER. rep ir to the Cbambcr in person ; but this is still un certain. The mambcrs of the Chamber of deputies of the Grand Duchy of Hesse Damstadt have been assembled at Darmstalt Cr eight days. Only one member of the first chamber bus presented himself. All the rest have declined against the new constitu tion. We are ass wed that the members of the second chamber follow the system, and demand great modi fications of the constitutional act. A letter from Copenhagen, dated June .20, an nounces the failure of the well-known and long established banking,•house of ltyberg and Co.: on event which had produced a great sensation on the Ext•han4e of that city By letters from Stockholm, of the 16th June, we are informed that a Royal decree, dated 17th May. had been issued, permitting the traffic in oak bark, which hatl been previously confined to the tanner* and the workers in Lather, to all the inhabitants of the kingdom, without exception. Another royal decree has been issued tbr establishing a custom house on the island of Gronso, off Sodertelje, where, from the Ist of September next, all vessels coming froiu foreign countries must undergo examination before they are permitted to proceed for Stockholsa. The King of Sweden was about to visit the city of Bergen, Ibr the first time since the union of the two kingdoms. A letter from on board the Cyan American sloop of war, dated the 12th of April, says-- `• We watered at Sierra Leone, and proceeded immediately to the southward. Since passing Slierbro' Island we have detained ten slaving vessels, four of which we send in for adjudication; the others, being so well covered with false papers, were green up. The number of vessels engaged in this inhuman traffic is incredible; not less than 2'X) at present on the coast, all of them fast sailers, well manned and armed, and. I am sorry to add, many of them owned by Americans, although under foreign flags. We have been constantly chasing, night and day, since our arri val on the coast, and sometimes have had several in sight at the tame time. We are at this moment in chase of a schooner, called the Coloredo. which has escaped from us twice already by supe rior sailing, and I fear we shall not be able to come up with her to-day." We are happy to find that an improvement bas taken place in the trade of tl►e West Riding of Yorkshire within the last month. The stuff busi ness, in preparation for the ensuing winter, has considerably revived, and the woollen trade has un dergone some improvement; but there is still a severe depression felt both among the manufacturers and the operative workpeoplc, and the sums paid weekly to the paupers of Leeds, have never been so large at this season of the year as at the present mo ment. Certrom-HousE FEEL—Our commercial readers are aware that the officers clerks, and others in the service of the customs, have long been prohibited by law from taking fees. It is right that the public should know also that an Act of Parliament (Ist Geo. IV. cap. 7) has been passed, imposing a penalty of 5001. for offering such fee, whether it be accepted or not. Arthur Morris, Esq. High Bailiff of Westminster has appointed a meeting of the inhabitant house holders, to take into consideration an address of con gratulation to the Queen, to be held to-morrow, at 12 o'clock, in Covent Careen. The Constable of Wakefield, in compliance with a requisition, numerously and respectably signed, including the names of gentlemen of all parties, has convened a meeting of the inhabitants, to be held on Monday next, to take into consideration the prt,priety of presenting " a dutiful and loyal ad dress to her Majesty Queen Caroline, on her return to this country, and also of condolence fur the severe losses she has sustained during her residence abroad." On Wednesday came on the election of a Repre sentative in Parliament ii)r the city of York, in the room of the Hon. Lawrence Dundas (now Baron Dundas), when Itotert Chalouer, Esq. Citizen and Alderman, was elected without opposition. Au ad d►ess of thanks whs moved to-Lord Dundas, for the faithful discharge of Lis duty during five Parlia men:s, in which he had represented that city ; and thanks were voted to the Sherifl•for their strict and impartial conduct in the last and present election. Oa Saturday the Common Sergeant made a report to his Majesty in council oldie convicts in Newgate, who were capitally convicted in April session last, when Win. Paley, John Robinson, Hy. Hawkins. Wm. Arnold, Win. I lenry Stanford, and William Sanders, were ordered fur execution on Wednesday next. On Tuesday, the grand jury at Glasgow found true bilk fin• higli treason against five more indivi. duals, viz. George Allan, cotton spinner ; W. Camp bell, cotton spinuLr ; John May, weaver; Matthew Bogle, w. , aver ; and Akx,inder Graham, Wright. '11r: Lord l're,ident in/OmA them, that they would arraigned on Saturday the Bth, or Nionday the 1001 id July, and that their trials would come on in a few days atitr. The Court then adjournid till that dine. There are in all nitre pormios against whom true bills have been found at Coasew, be tides the ;28 at Stirling. • LAW REPORT. COURT OF EXGREQU ER.— ....ESTIN INSTEP . Bella.' the WI llaflll4 and a Special Jury. RADICAL COFFEE. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, V. W. G. LEWIS. ThIS WAS an inhumation tiled by the Attorney Gene ral against the defendant, ior having in his possession, and off:ring for sale, a quantity of scorched peas in imi tation of, and to be used as a substitute for, coffee or cocoa. There were 18 comits in the information, al leging the offence differently; and the penalty to be recovered was I out. The Solicitor General stated the Crown of the case to the Jury, and the evidence for the Crown being closed, Mr. Lewis addressed the Jury in his own behalf. T o say that it was an offence to sell a substitute for an exciseatde commodity was alisind. The decoction of stssafras was co 1111 l tonly sold as a substitute for tea, and yet this was not objected to by the Excise. Herbs were sold as a substitute for tobacco, and the same remark was aipheabiee lie had sold scotched peas —not, he begited tt to be understood, as coffee, hut as a substitute kir coffee. in what did the difference of these acts consist? There wits no difference recognizable by any rational mind : and he ventured to believe that the twelve intelligent men to whom he addressed himself would come to the same conclusion. Tile Solicitor-General having replied, Mr. Baruu Richards in snumuiug up the evidence, gave it as his opinion, that by the section of the act under which this iffinrmation had been tiled, any persons, whether dealers in coffee and cocoa or not, having m p their ossessinn, or selling, or of Bring for sale, a powder in imitation of, or to be used as a substitine for coffee, whatever might be the name by which it was described, rendered themselves liable to an information by the Attorney-General, and to the payment of the penalty fixed by the mantic. The Jury, after his Lordship had stated the law of the case, and recapitulated the evidence, found a verdict toe the Crown for one venally of 1001. THE QUESTION AS TO THE RIGHT CLAIMED OF THE LONDON JURY TO VISIT NEWGATE. Ott Saturday, the London Grand Jury having finished their labours, and having delivered the last bills into Court, the Foreman addi eased the Judges. He was. (he stated) requested by his colleagues to ask their Lord s hips if any and what decision had been come to respecting the right of Grand Juries to visit his Majesty's gaol of New gate? Mr. Justice Holroyd observed, that a request was made by the Gentlemen of the Grand Jury of the City of Lon don, on the 20th of May last, to the Judges, to give their opinion as to She legal right of the Grand Jury to visit and exansiue his Majesty's gaol of Newgate. Those learned Judges, upon that occasion, refused to give their decided opinion until they had received the concurrent opinion of the rest of the Judges. There was. in consequence, en application from the Grand Jury received by those Judges, who were then present, which application was allerwurds submitted to the cciisideration of all the Judges. The Jury, in the document they presented, claimed it as a matter of right, and not of courtesy, to visit his Majesty's gaol of Newgate, and this right they claimed from custom and long usage. The learned Judges accordingly consulted upon a disputed right founded upon custom and long usage, and concerning that a future Jury might feel disposed to chiim admission, and to try the legality or illegality of the question ; then, its such case, one or some of the Judges would have to give their opinion in the course of the judicial proceedings, consequently they (the Judges) thought they could not I consistently give their opinion a priori to the matter coining before them in the regular way. Ti.i, Foreman thanked his Lordship for the attention the Judges had paid to the consideration of the subject, and the Jury were then regularly discharged, with she usual thanks for their services. As the Rev. Mr. Ford was passing by the side of the !loose of Correction, Coldbattofields on Friday, two respectable lookingmen came up to him, and seeing him feeble, and walking with ihe support of a stick, they ()titled to assist him home ; lie puhtely declined their assivance, and strove to disengage !nausea from their grasp ; on which one of the viilams clapped a band on his mouth, and the other swore a horrid oath, that if lie made the smallest resistance, Ie would slab linti to the heart; and then hurrying hint Into the field at the back of the Haute of Cotrectiou, tiny knocked him clowo, and robbed him of what isioneyatul other thin4s he had. The %Mains then gait: loin several tilmvs with their sticks, and kicked bun whilst lie was down, and Otir of the villa:its, with a penkitile, cut Mr. Ford's throat (tom ear to var. The kitile however being sioall, to gether with time pail of his mck-cioth, saved the wind the wthuitl, hve mciies ill kill:ail, boric, in the Liner part of tile neck, tinder the chin. Tut, voihins uttu eau cull, and eliecirii their escape, lean().. lino, :is tney sisp:m-ed, I)ing for dead. 'Die Rev. (...Iciiiivimoi rues 31)111V tunic was able to crawl to the roadside, where tie ssus bison!) a.tur found by two gentlemen, who pro cured a Mici.iity euacu aml home Le- Cl .ll 'MAO. Surgeon Aber;icilly tel 1), m,.tcd t/i. t o e tvt,mod, which be uev,areil not to be 151011,11, am; ~pi d uti lellIttlt: to - Litt Oi ti!bt. :Old 111: . 1111,1111,111.1 ti VC,IS put to Ii ti Ills r, cm, ry is expected, al . is-• al. kin. ill 1/ 100,1 * It is under total that there will he a epeeittl eon:- inision in the autumn, for the trial of those persons ogiattst whom bill< for high treason may b:: hound by the gt mt jury at York assizes. 1.t.r.1 Chid • ...d the Lord Chief Baron are c-N -y,ci,_it to ot. i :to iglC.4 i u the COM • - - • • LONDON . rtint.-1 and I'ublt>hed by the Vl...prime, .11,011>i 'I 11 it,;(:, at the WILL', ',6, 1 I.IA St re.2t, Wiit:, ea Ltttett. tei the httitur, 6.e. (pint 1 , :4:(1) taih4t Le adtkesaeti. I t s i f t .I )