The National Register. — London, England, 1819-11-21 00:00:00

NOV.- 11 laws called so loudly for punishment as might have fully justified a scntence twice as heavy ; yet as •• Earthly power cloth then seem likest Gods. When mercy tempers justice," we do not regret the lenity that has been shewn to Mr. Carlile ; we hope it may have a proper effect upon him, and that on his enlargement he will be determined to amend his life, to subsist by honest exertions, and not attempt to acquire wealth by un dermining those hopes which in our heaviest trials, in our severest distress can alone afford us " that peace which the world cannot give." A rule was granted to shew cause why a criminal information should not be filed against a Lancashire Magistrate for refusing a warrant againstone of the Manchester Yeomanry, who was•identified as a par ticipator in the butcheries of the 16th August, so that we may now hope for a legal investigation into that horrid affair. By our report of the proceedings in the Conrt of King's Bench on Saturday List, it wiil•be seen that sentence was pawed upon the persons °inflected with the bribery business in Cornwall and Devonshire. The punishment imposed on Sir M. Lopes is cer tainly mueeb•more severe than •we believe was gene rally anticipated, but for own parts, we only lament that it cannot .be inflicted upon all the other great sinners who,- unfortunately for the country, have committed the same offence with more dexterity. " But little Rogues must hang in chains, " That great ones may.enjoy their gains." We presume that the Baronet thought, with Lord Castlereagh, that the notoriety of the crime might, in some degree, palliate the commission of it, and that reserve and coyness but ill suited an act which was " notorious as the sun in noon day." The example, however, of his mistake will have in future the effect—net of deterring others from corn miaing the same crime, but of compelling them to commit their sins with more caution and• less pub— licity. We are assured from Seville, that-an Ansbassador from the United States of America, on board the Hornet sloop of war, has brought with him a formal order from the Government of Washington, to de clare war against Ferdinand VI.I. in case of a refu sal on the part of the Cabinet of Madrid to ratify the Treaty respecting the cession.uf the Floridas. It is further stated, on the same authority, that, in the event of a refusal on the part of the King of 'Spain, to ratify the Treaty, all the. English Officers absent from their country will be recalled without delay, as the British Government has determined to take a part in the war in favour of Spain. Upon this point it is unnecessary to express any opinion until the intelligence respecting it assumes a more authentic character. On Tuesday; immediately after the sentence was pronounced -on Mr. Carlile, a writ of kiwi facial was issued, to take possession of such of the defendant's property as could be found upon his premises in Fleet Street. In an hour afterwards property to the amount, as is supposed, of 6001. was taken in part satisfaction of the fines imposed on the defendant ; and on- Wednesday morning the "'Tem ple of Deism" was•completely closed. • Crowds, how ever, at times collected round the door. Somebody had placarded a printed paper, with an obnoxions inscription, in tearing down which placard the beadles were much interrupted and. hooted by the populace. Wednesday morning, at an early hour Mr. Carlile was sent to Dorchester gaol to undergo the sentence of the Court of King's Bench. Sir Manasseh Lopes set off last ‘Vednesthly night, per mail, accompanied by a tipstaff, tl Exeter gaol, in pur-ttance of his sentence; A few hours before he set off', he received a letter from the SoNcitor to the Treasury to inform him, that unless the fine of 10,0001. was paid into the Crown-office within ten days, proceedings would be taken to levy the same. It scents the Solicitor to the Treasury bad intimated to Mr. Franco, the nephew of Sir Manasseh, that such steps would be taken, in consequence of an nnexpeettd claim being made by the High Bailiff of Westniii,stcr of this fine. This was stated to Mr. Franco, by way ol'apolog, or excuse fur the eager ness thus manifested to tier this heavy tine. The sentence was, that - ir Manasseh should pay a tint of 10,0001., be imprisoned 2 years, and be further imprisoned until such fine was raid. Sir Manasseh TUE NATIONAL REGISTER. therefore thought, that, according to all former practice, the fine need not be paid till the expiration of the two years. But it seems that a new prauti‘e commenced in the case of Mr. Wolfe, who was fined for swindling transaetions, that-a motion wen made fin. a lenari facers, to preventthe removal or dispo sal of the goods, &c. in the city„ the only property that the defendant possessed which could be made available for the fine. The same has been done in the of Carifle : and on these new precedents they attach Sir Manasseh- so early. By an imme diate payment of 10,0001, it makes at least 1,0001. difference by the interest of 10,0001. for two years. Judgment was pronounced in the Court of King's Bench, on Wednesday, •upon -a bookseller • named Joseph Russel, of-Birmiggliam, who was convicted at the last Warwick Assizes of-having sold copies of Hone e' Parodies. The unfortunate man was sen tenced to six months' imprisonment in the gaol of 'Warwick. It undoubtedly -is- severe that , . Russell, should be ruined . in property, deprived of his perso nal liberty, and subjected to a heavy punishment, for al act which, on three successive trials, was so lemnly pronounced in a Court of Justice, by three highly-respectable Jitries, not to be an offence against the wellbeing of the State. aninsellor •Phillips's speech at the Missionary soeiety at Gloucester has spread- through this coun try, as also- on the Continent. A singular' occur rence happened to Mr. Phillips, a few days before he attended that meeting. While he was at Chel tenham, he was invited to dine at a geutleman's a friend of his—at the table was a young lady, he was struck with her beauty, and paid his addresses to her, a gentleman present had far some time done the nine ; the party all went to Gloucester the day of the -meeting, anti Mr. Phillips on the road offered the lady his hand.- Ca their return, the Gentleman sent him a challenge, anti the.day after the parties met (as has been laid betitre the public in the papers). The young Lady on Saturday last.gave Mr. Phillips her hand, preferring his pleadings to a handsome settlement. A parochial meeting of the parish of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, was held on Friday last, to take the opinion of the parishioners on the late ca lamitous proceedings at Manchester, when an ad ress to the Prince Reient to institute an inquiry was unanimously agreed to.. A very singular occurrence took place at• Ponte fract a short time ago. Mr. Purslove, of that town, having suddenly disappeared, an advertisement was issued ow the SOth ult. stating that he had then been mis..ing 20 days, and offering a considerable reward to any .ose.who would communicate to his friends any information respecting the fate of the unfortu nate individual; but in vain, till Thursday week, when Three boys who were going to Pontefract fair, accidently discovered his lifeless body in a ditch near Iladsworth, nearly covered with leavee,-sticks Ste. A Coroner's Inquest was immediately summoned, and some suspicious circumstances having been fully and . satistiiciorily investigated the verdict of the Jury wass--Died by the visitation of Gird. The body was the same- evening interred at Pontefract, by torch light, an awful instance attic uncertainty of human life. A daring.rohltery. was committed at Huddersfield on Saturduy se'nnight. About three o'clock a per son decently drcsAed walked into the shop of Sir. 111ingworth, patten nicker, in that place, while person was reading at the desk, and reaching over the counter opened the money drawer, from which he took nut a pocket-book containing upwards of 401. in notes, :with which he walked oft: The shop keeper, whose attention was more fixed upon hs book than upon his charge, had his slumbering sus picion awakened by the hurried steps with which the offender. whom he took to be the owner of the shop, effected his retreat, but not in sufficient time to prevent his escape, - On the return of Mr. 11- lingwort► he found he had been robbed, and from the description and dress of the person who had visited the shop in his absence, suspicion fell upon Jawes Maid!, shoemaker, of Upper Weinwood:— Weavill was accordingly apprehended, and at ••first denied any knowledge of the robbery, but on being closely pressed he made full confession•- of• his guilt, stating that •he had hidden the atolen•property in the roof of a barn, where it was found, The delinquent was on Tucaday— 3e nnight brought beffire B. H. Allen, Est. and fully committed for trial Elopement.—About twelve o'clock on Monday night, a young lady, heiress to a very considerable fortune,.and• only daughter of an officer of high rank in the army,-and also a Member cf Parliament, eloped . with a young gentlemen. The latter is the third son of a clergyman.who resides in Surrey, and is the father of a very large family The fu gitives set oft' from the west ena of the town, in which the young lady's father resides, in a. chaise and four. Theo are both under 21 years-of age.— The young ;4entleman had only kis returned from college Tile Continent is supposed to be their im mediate destiaatum. A pursuit was commenced as soon as the elopement was discovered. COURT or KING'S BENCH, livroaDiv, Nov. We James Russell, the unfortunate man who was sentenced to sit sssss impriminraeut in tlw gaol of Warwick, for one of Hone's Kinaties, which neither ef three SUCCesiliV• London Juries gould be induced to declare libellous. was • yesterday brats,: ht into Court to plead tontrindictinent for '.cling one of the Nitinhers of Carlile's .` Republican". The poor man st ,ted hiinself to he a bookseller on a very' small scale in Bironazloners, that he had been entirely-nosed , by the r.rrner prosecution, that be had givemnp the little he had left to his creditors—and on pleadag Nut Guilty to the • present iodiciment,declared thou be had not money nor meals, rnonKh left to pay for a copy of the indictment. Ever) one • in Court appeared to commiserate with his distress, and did Chief Justic e Abbott told hint that be might hereafter see is , forma pauperise OLDu it • I liquiver.—The rule obtained by Mr. Searlelt ngninst Mr. Taylor, fur putting into the hands of the Joey .4 statement of facts from a Mr. Entrinhavr, who being a Quaker, would not be sworn before the Inquest, was tine day mudeabsolute. The Gasetie of last night contains an offer of a reward of 5001. for the discovery of the person or' persons who fired a loaded pistol at 'Mr. Nadir, Deputy Constable of• Manchester, on Thursday night, the 11th instant. It is stated in the Paris Papers, that by a new - regulation, which commenced on Sunday senniglit at Calais, the English Journals are charged postage' as letters, by which the expence of them is tripled, the annual expence of a Daily , London Paper to Paris now amountidg to 100 Louis, at Tours to 200, and-rt Marseilles to 300:• A serious affray took place last Tuesday nigh•, • between a party of the 4th Dragoon Guards now quartered in Huddersfield, and a number of the in habitants.—lt seems that a soldier went with his wife into the market-place, and stopping behind for some purpose, the woman proceeded alone towards a stall, when she was insulted with the most oppro brious epithets by several fellows who stood near, and, we believes was jostled by one of them. The man going to her assistance•was immediately knock ed down. The alann beimg given to several of hi.:• comrades ,who were at hand: they ran to his assis tance, and pulling a stall in pieces, furnished them selves with weapons from thence, with which they, Lid about theta so effectually as to clear the ground in a short time.—We regret to say, that two of the soldiers were severely hurt. A reward of 101. Le offered for the discovery of the persons who coln-.• meneed the affray • A dispute of rattler a serious nstnre hss taken plane in the Nlediterranean, between .he America.' Commodore Stewart. and some oMcers coinposing a Court M inial 'nil a marine. The Cuo ti n•xdore refused to confirm the 'entetice of the Cour% which led to disrespectful lan. goaae, audio the end Captains Nl'Dree.terti, Dalian', and Niohol•on, and •Lientetiants Gallagher, and Page, were suspended from their command.. The cup presented by the freeholders of the connty oC Hereford, to T. Foley, Fol. will hold nearly two gal loos, is gilt on the held. , and richly chased on the out side with ornaments of oak leaves and acorns, in allusion to the emblems wont by that geotlemae's friends at his several elections. M 4.1 DER.—AII inquest was taken,. On 541,11410' last, • befo. e Thonms Illsatell, Esq., Coronet of loser, on dm body of Jotan Pater. when, alter a long and minute in vestigation, whteli lasted many hour• the Jury ottani' moody telierned a verdict of wilful der against James Pater, the brother of the deceased, It appeared in evi dence, luau on sunilay last the two•lirmlters wereat sea off Dungeness, in a ti.bisig•snraek helooging fo them, and having susfurtitasiely fallen in will. a smuggling lugger, %hitch forisishied them with a supply of spirits, they hod., drank till they were• much intoxicated. The deceased rerired to.bed, but James the brother, Isidng on deck, eitigrrriled vials oily with inte of the ere w, and sin' the de eea•eel going rip to eudr.ismtr to purity them, sorthiapitilf oldness...A the brother's passion, who knocked Olin down, mete fullowerl•himomti beat out his brains with a heavy iron 111.4 Ili, used for nitstockin; anehors. The Imltappr wretch who committed like mintier is lodged in our gaol, will be matured to take hia•trial at the Admiralty sessions. It appears 111 has- been subject to occasional. tits of plirenzy, from itaviug..liatl his skull fractured whilst serving on board a ni4u of war. Both mesa have wires and families. • TO ELTITOII. Slll,—Your paper of tha7lhisst.tontarned a paragtaph ' purpor►ing to be from the pen oftitat very orthodox sad intolerant old lade s Mrs. Hannah Moore, en the death-he:l of Thomas Paine. Now; Sir, no 1114 H livb►g has a greater contempt for Paine's theological w ' igs than myself. They, are equally shallow, vulgar, and indecent, and have met the most amide refutation from Watson, Wakefield, and Priestley. Hitt is a sorry way of answering a man'. Regimens*, to tell hes shout hint.• The story. about hi♦ dratli-bed rests upon no foundation, and it •sne of tho•e. ph.sis frands which many goad personsr•with' more zeal discretion, have in all Nees of the Christian Church invented. I could produce yon a score such in five war •. I deeply regret that in thi: age or ilia world men shoalti: think of calhag in lie alio of the law to help Chri•lisuity In withal/mil the eureka or its adversaries,: Let them be me: sod answered. by foroargoment, hut don't call io the constable di an aninhary. Ili. really ludicrous to hear th a t !I c y tinikula wnii h Ines Gud for its author, attempted 4o ne stippot fed by Atdoiney.Geneiale and Judgcm, and to hair the troth and authenticity of the G mpe i out „pun, a lea el (as to the le of defence) Kith a Turnpike Hill. Norwich, Noe. I A CtlitbrlAN..- pVe invert the above, av it Comes f • rnm an esteemed Oor observalioo.. however, on the subject a Cxrlde',.'l.iale siII convince one readers that our opiniont on the necevatty a the pronecntion i• deeided, sled differs entirely (ruin ter Correspoodtut.—Eu