The National Register. — London, England, 1819-08-22 00:00:00

( PIO No. 1 209.—Vi THE KING AND MR. ADAMS. sure/tee of the friendly disposition of the United States, but that I am vety glad the choice has fallen upon you to ha thar minister. I wish you, Sir, to behave, and that it may b: understood in Ame rica that I have done nothing in the late coittst but what thougitt .myself indispensably bound to do, by the duty which owed 1.) my people. will be very food( with you. I was the but 10 COI: , rlll to the separation • but the oit..ration having been made, and having become inevit able. I have always said, a. I say now, that I would be the tiro to meet the frieitd,itip of the United Stites as an independent Pot :r. The 'moment 4 see such tentirmtnt and language as your's prevail, and a diiposittou to give this country the preference. that moment I shall say, let the cireurest , ince of language, religion, and blood, have there natsual and full t Krt." than the test, by repeated hicisions with a knife and piichfok„ made in 'betide and stomach, completed the work of carn.tge. !'Tulin„ her an lunge( capable of ad mini:lei:lA 40 their horrd pleasures, they precipitated site misshapen earca4s into an adjacent river, and coolly iittimited a man who lived near in is. that there was a W(0.1.113 drama in k die, perhaps, aware ear their charac ter, or at lest suspecting something, meld them i.e would not open the door; that if the woman was drowned his assistance could het& no use. They could • pin no adeuilianct., and they raised; lt.eirdtanes ai.il persons begriniell with gore. 'When .they had gon-, the man came out and found ts hat tic him appeared io have once !teen a II411)131 ) h.() Is, but so 111 aii.leteu as scarce to retain the semblance. They were arrested, et.nvicted, and received the,punishinclit they merited. Forty-eigln hours Irma the time lenience was passtil were ailotted to them. A clergyman of the Boman Catholic frith attended, sin] we unit his constant admonitions were n'n lost We saw them hi:itched into eternity before thousands of spectators, front whom no groan of dissa tisi iciiote proceed, 11, aid the awful solemnity of winch cannot fail to teach that C(Ittll try a deep, long, lessoi.. Bat we are fated to proceed in this +maid task ; the following seta beheld Iwo more pay the deht of natu re for a crime, equal, if not superior iii magnimile, to what we have related. Singular, mel a ncholy, :.nil drtadt'ul coincideoce--one (Irv, a man dies f..t I intirder of a woman; the next, a woman dies for the murder of d man, and that man her husband assi,tants, her panders iu sill and genii, are her father and hz; ! A family feud lone exis ii between ti.e unhappy baud and his wife's limits', which iht-,/ de:•ratmeci ou conclu..ing by murdering the object of satiguinply rage. The hoshaud had been from home, and had drunk somewhat too freely. On his return his wise met hint, and, Judas like,gsve him the fond 'aim-vim% of a kiss, drew hint into the house r end coiling her arms n 1 Will, seated kin in her lap, whilst her brother beat out his M.Mus. 'Theifather, we have heard, was a silent, though reluctant .spectator. ell the trial every circtims , arice was 'fully proved against the brother and sister. We need scarcely add they cuff. red fur the deed. (From an American paper.) 'We arc nat aware that the following letter from Mr. Adams, then our Ambassador in England, to Mr. Jay, Secretary of State under the old confede ration, has ever been published. It is valuable from the elevated char:l.:ter of the actors, and from the interest of the scene described. Some of our patriots, who think there is a natural repulsion be tween independence and go•.xi breeding, may be horrified at the courticr-like address of Mr. Adams, .and feel quite indignant that republicanism should have observed a proper decorum before royalty. We Attain! in Mr. Adams's conduct that good sense and dexterity that has distinguished most of our foreign Ministers in their intercourse with European Courts. The style is simple, and we think more republican than the inflated bombast that characterises most of our present •productions It is a but we seldom meet—the plain lan,gusge of a sensible man:— I ease not lay that these were the King's precise words: and it is even possible that I may have in Genie panicularinietaken his meaning ; for although his pronunciation is as (list/net as I ever heard, he ha:sawed stamens:nes between his periods, and between members cf the same period, lie woe, indeed, much fflicted, and I was not lees so, and therefore, I carmot he certain that I was so attentive, heard so clearly, and understood so per fectly, as so be cone:dent of all his words or sense; sad 1 think that all which he said to me should at present he kept secret in utilets his Alajeste or his sectary of State should .nolge proper to ilepoetit. This Ido say, that the foregoing is his eitejesef 's ineaaing, as 1 then understood it, arid his own words nearly as I can recollect them. The Krug then asked me whether I cams last from Prance ; and upon my answering in the affirmative, he put on an air of familiarity. and smiling. or rather laughing, said, " There is an opinion among sonic people, that you arc notehe most attached of all your countrymen to the manners of Prance." 1 was sue prises; at tid e because I thought it an indiscretion and a descent from his dignity. I was a little embarrassed, bat ikteirnitted to deny hie truth on the wee hand, nor leave him to lifer from it any attachment Pt Englasel 02 the ether. I threw off as much gravay as I could, and assumed an air of gaiety, and a tone of decision, as far ss was deems, and said,—" That opinion, Sir, is not mistaken ; I must avow to year .Majesty I have no attach ment but to tny.own country." The King replied as quick as lightning. " An honest man will never have any °then" The King then said a word or two to the Secretary of Stete, which being between them I did not hear, and then turned »end and bowed to use, as is customary with all Kings and Princes, when they give the surnal to retire. I retreated, efei ping back wards, sis ix the etiqaette, and, making my last reverence at the door of the chamber, I went my way.; the Maiter of the Cere monies jointed me the moment of my comirg out of the King's closet, and actompanieelene through all the apartments, doe n to my carriage, several etages of servants. gentlemen ;totters, and under porters, naming out like thunder, as I went along, " Mr. Adams's servants, Mr. Adams's eartiage," I have been thus minute in these details, because they may be useful to others hereafter to know. The conver /vim with the King I should not care to withhold from Congress. who will form their own judgineet of it. I may possibli expect from it a resi dence here lees painful than I once expected, because se marked an attention front the ling will silence many grumblers ; but we can inter nothir.g front all this concerning the success of my mission. There ix a train of mi:er ave.:monies to go through in prestasittions to the ' , .tiren, and visits to and from Mionitcre and Ambassadors. which w ill take up much time. and interrupt toe its my endeavours to obtain all that I have at beart, the objseas of lay instructiuns. Thus it is that the essence of things is lost in ceremony in every anmug of leuropr ; we must submit to what we cannot alter. fc..tience is the only remedy. With greet and sincere esteem, I have the hooour to be, dear Sir e rsur 'poet obedient mid humble servant, _ JOAN ADAMS. 4. Bath Hotel, Westminster, June 2, I 7 S. " Dean Sta,—During my interview with the Marquis of Carmarthen. he told me that it was customary for every foreign Minister, at his first presentation to the King, so nueke his Ma jesty some compliments conformable to the spirit of his credentials; mid when Sir elent.nt Critic I Donner, the Matter of theCere inclines, came to infirm nie that he should acearopany me to the Secretary of State, and to Court, he said that reify foreign Ali tinter whoin he had ettmded to the Queen, had always made an 'harangue to her Mieeety, anti lie understood, though he had nut been pesent. that they always harangued the King. On Tu. tidily evening the Karen de Itmelen (Dutch Ambassador; called upon roe, and said he came from the llsron de Welkin (Swedish In soy), and had been concerning upon the situation! was in; and they agreed in opinion that it was indieq.ensahle dist I should make a speech,and that it should be as complimentary as posssAde. All thts was parallel to the advice lately given by the Count de 'Vergennes to Nlr..letterson. Sr that finding that it was n(1114/111 established at both these great Courts, and that this Court and the foreign Mittiaers expected it. I thought I could not avoid it, although my tint thought and inclinatia, had been to deliver my credentials ailensly and reties. At ono, or. Wednesday, the tst of June, the Master of Ceremonies called at city Louie, and went with me to the Secretary of State's office, :a Cleve's:id-row, where the Marquis of Carmarthen received me, and introduced me to :Mr. Frazier, his Under Se:Tetery, who heel been, as his Lordship said, uninterruptedly in that office, through Al the changes in Adminisustion, for thirty years, having first been appointed by the Earl llolderness. After a felon conversation upon Mt subject of iniportingrny effects f rom Holland and France, tree of duty, which Mr. Frazier himself introdoced. Lord Car marthen invited me to go with hint in his coach to Court. %Viten ; we arrived in the antienamber, the CEil de Ifni, of St. .laines, the Master of the Ceremonies met me, and attended me while the Secretary of State went to taftetlie commands of the King. While I stood in this plue, where it seems all Ministers stand upon such occasions, always attended by the Master of Ceremonies, the itonra very full of Ministers of State, Bishops. and all other sorts of courtiers, ns well as the next room, which is the King's bed chamber. you may well suppose that I was the focus of all eyes. I was relieved, however. from the einhaaustnentstf it. by the Swedish and Dutch :Ministers, who cene to me, and entertained me with a very agreeable come:swiss during the whale. time. Some other gentlemen, whom I had seen before, came sc make their compliments too—until the Marquez of Carmarthen returned, and desires' me to go with him to his Majesty. I went with his I.o3lship through the leve-rooni into the Kinsreiclosa—the door I was shut, and I was left with his Majesty and the Secretary of State clone. I Made the three reverences; one at the door, another about halfway, end the third Leann the presenoe,accorditue to the tesaieestahltsuee at this and all the northern Courts of Europe, and then ale'resell myself to his Majesty in the following words: —The - United States of America have appointed me 7.linhter I'lenipmentiary to your Majeeev. end have directed me to deliver to )ceirMajesty taus later, which comeins the evidence of it. If is in obedience to their express commands, that I have the honour to aume your Majesty of their disposition and desire to cultivate the moat friendly and I.beial intercourse between your Majesty's subjects and their citizens. ant of their best 'Ashes for your Alajesty's LcaltL audltappiness, and fur that of your It. yal family. " 'The appointment of a ltlinister from the United States to ;our Majeste's Court will form an .epoch in the history of England awl America. I think myself more fortennte than all mg fellow citizens, in having the distinguished honour to be the ;MA tostand in your Msjesty 'a royal presence in a diplomatic 4 haracter ; and I *N al reteetn myself the happiist of men if I can be instrumental tit recommeneting my country more and more to your Majesty's toyed Lenetolence, and of restoring an entire esteem, confidence, and erection, or, in b-tter w ords. • the old good nature, and the good old humour,' between people, who though separated fry an ocean, aid under diflerent Governments, have the haute langerage, a similar tellgion , a kindred blood. I leg your Majesty's permitnion to mid, that although I have sometimes betort been intrusted by my rountry, •u was never in rry whole life in a manner an agreeable to myself." The King listened to every word I saith ‘ with iligrity it is true, but with an element entotion Whether it was 411., nature tit the overview, of whether it was my visible agitation, for 1 felt tome titan I did t r conk! ex; tress, that toucher' hint. I cannot say. hot he was much adl.vtett, and muse creel nic with more treeior than I hal spoken with and Sir--The en et, Matatleell Of thi: audience are sr , extraordinary. to language you have now held is so extremely i:ayer, and the i• clings you Lane iliacovertsl FO justly adapted to the recession, tat I must lay, that I not only received with Itleautre the DOI.IOIPCL EFILCTI 01 NIGHTSNIDt...-.40 110 4 / 4 6 thus was taken on M 14y, la the Wui k house of St. Harr, Kensington, before Thomas Sailing, I:4l.Coloner for the County of thr body rifJohn Golder, a Child two years and a 11411 in4f, whose death was ceased by W ing the berriesof night-shade, not know ing them to poimnions nistaire.— t appeared from the eCdence ut ssisannalt 11111 and Mai Ilia :4aics.s•reet, Kensington, next door neighbours to the re u? 4 ut the deceased, that they 811 , 110 C deceased the it:tar:taint; .aorn ing in gond health, and that about foes o'ctock in the after noon he was at play in the field, in compatly with hit tittle sister, ten 'rears of age, and son** •uthei cnib`ren. The deceased got Imo the hedge, art' began to pick the red berries of the ni;.lit shade, anti slimily eV er lie became is a state. r I suffocation, from having at. of the berries, :al WM toll plito-ril, trom some of them baying Leen found in lus hands. He was carried to the dearest cott4ge. ',tribe/if assiJance sent for, and Mr, Mei iiman. Mr. Thompson, a nd Me, Gein ge, cause and remie red all the assistance in their power, but to no effect ; he survived only about an hour and there !natters, a nd expired in the greatest agony.—Henry Creutee , itf fien4ingtun, Sinrgecn, dt sit w the berries; they are, oar totic, and he had no doubt but the desvasellefird in crm.ctot ace nr his having ate the berries of nightadiade.—Verdict—" That the de erased came to his death hum eating the poison berries df net know lug they were poisonous in their nature," Ilia Excellency John Jay, Esq. Secretaryoi Sute fur the tlrpartawnt of Fortign AtLas. L R ELA NI). (Fr 0.1 4 Liontritk The execution of the four unfortunate wretches who were hanged, ;torso:H:1 to sentence, at tne Ennis Assizes, on Wechitaiday and Thursday week, is calculated to awaken those horrified feelings which acColllllllofsavage ferocity, perpetrated centuttes since, would fail to in spire. 11 e wapak! almost wish u, avoid the contempla ot throve -scenes that led to the fatal con iiiiii 0131.100 ut 1111 S miserable drama; but our duty wills it other w ; and, sickening at the retrospect, we must still look 011 it. till vision, disgusted, refuses to perform its wont ed other. The crime fur which the first two suffered was murder-- der in such a shape as renders descrip tion hideous : the victim, an unfortunate fetnale, who was supposed to have given information relative to illi cit distilleries in the district of Moyree. At the close of, .1 tine evening, a few months since, she passed. as was. frequently her ClllllOlll, the house of John and James Sullisait, wherein their companion. John Boris, then was emplo3ed in snaking whiskey. As the WOlll3ll 1/411C11, So twines mother called out in ltish. •" Mitre goes Biddy the iiiformer."—The men paused, gazed at each other, and et that instant, revenge and murder ex pelled reason and humanity fsoln their simile; the ill starred Biddy pursued her course. and they resumed their illicit work until -they (Comfit completed, seithom the hindrance which'Biddy's appearance , had led titers to expect ; joy , at their success, induced them to drink freely of the newly finished .spirits, but this only added to their thirst fur vengeance. and nought but toe blito,l of their miserable victioscould quench its fire. Arnica wars various weapons they left their dwelling, and in one short hour Biddy, the informer, vas no mole I On C 1.041112, her hut, which could net resist them, lute fore most struck her tut the head with a stone, which frac tured I►er skid]. and laid her at his feel; a yell of savage joy announced the triumph, and the prostrate, almost ~,,1 1; ,,b ai e WAS raised front the earth, to undergo more crueltle,. She was placed against a wall, and her ,hroasts were severed from her hotly: trensuling with agony, she showed signs of life, till one, with mote pit; Vt ith regret we state the fuss of his Majestv'r ship Erne, IO pins, Capt. T. Striven, C. hich mtsfo, tu. e occurred a l the night of the Ist of June, on a reel of nn kr., ell the Ivle of nvt, rise of the Cape de Verd ands. She nor r a her passage to Abe l'onA of .% fro-a. The accident Wrg Or r; • ed by aLing lie !;.outli for the net end of the Isle of Sal. 'lt blew very nr.l) stud in i 0 initiate" she Idled sh.irly arta eau ds her mainaart f. tl. but funn.utrly without hut-till the pin I, which was on the ham.; the snivel. utast stood, by e Inch, at NOV( ‘4 141111 he'd, and the wreck, which hurl struck Ino cables.' from the shire, ill ultra to wit bio cables frogs bof the 14 s ail, o n nhe li lie writers trod srew,and a Lenin qii.atity Of pre vi,ioudi and w cmseria, were lan,ird, tn'the coarse of this night tire wreck part.d, but the ca:vi stradjy perarverirg .3 holding on by the t. mains, they were al% saved. lehted s. nikalOted only by alma n dozes ; an American brunt to the co l s,' of Pompano, tools the officers :sod cress 1111 . , jut fee days ogle' nada, nod loaded them tit 4 t. lope, where Cnpt. Striven chartered a 'mall schooner for Barb/Woes, from whit h falafel they enihtuked-In a treason t, and arrived at spitOoshi tea Saturday. On Feud .y se'anti A lit a melancholy cirennistanee took place. As Mr. Burry of Biotin, near Stowt market, was riding, net the shalt of his Waita,nn into the harvest field, the horses maned restive, and in attetnpting n. mop off, he fell down, and the whet.l passing over his lastly, he expired very soon after, Soon alter midnight on Sunday. an alarming accident mewled within a shun distance a - Colchester. Hcor.t's Ipswich and London waggon sac:civilly took far, it is supposed from l'gl g; and a woman anti child, wh o were passengers, had just •gin sown, and the bores Wtrr scarrelytaken out, when three barrels nflotrirt.w.irr blew tip with a tremenclorms eaplftion, trhi.li nas l!e:sil many miles woad. I • j o, . • rie" 7 7 4 17,,- 3 7 au W e - 41 too ttr A , Our Eting, Conititution anb atpl• . OL. SUNDAY, AUGUST 22, 1819. tPnIOE I . : •-• • I - 4;4 a+ t . ,