The National Register. — London, England, 1820-12-03 00:00:00

FROM LAST NIGHT'S (LIZETTE. ,1•NIOS This Gazette notifies the appointment of J. Robinson. Gent. otSouth Cave. York. and J. P. Nash, Gent. of Henley upon Thomies. Oxfordsliire, w be Masters listraordiaaly in the Cottrt of Chancery. BANK RUPTS._ ..... _ W. Moore, Thorpe Con , tuttitie, Sutra , Mire. cheese factor. Solicitors, Messrs. Alexander and Mime. New Inn. S. T. Foote, Exeter, spirit dealer. Sol. Mr. Hrutton, Old Broad Street. J. Hutchinson, Manchester, builder. Sops. Messrs. Hurd and. Johnson, Temple. t Bickerd ke, 11 addersfield, victualler. Sole. Messrs. Fisher and Sudlow, Thavies Inn. A. ShuttlaworM and G. Robinson, Lincoln, boat builders. Sol. Mr. Ellis, Chancery lane. J. Allen, Warwick, innkeeper. Sol Messrs. Collett end C Chancery Lane. W. Lankesliter, Wahl:it, Somerset, victualler. Sol. Mr. Stephen. New Broad Street Buildings. E. Phillip. Narberth, Pembrokeshire, linen draper. Sols. Messrs. Jenkins and Co. New Inn. 3. Holmes, Portsmouth, corn merclumr. Sol. Mr. Pownall, Staple Inn. J. Iladnedge, Rathwick, Somerset, dairymen. Sids. Messrs. Noting and Hughes, Nliklred's Court, Poultry. H. Burgess and J. Hubbard. Miles lane, Cannon Street, 'wool:rapiers. Sots. Stevens and Co. (lid Jewry. S. W i sem lan, J. Harper, and T. Foyson. Not v. ich. bornbaz can manufacturers. Soh. Messrs Taylor :.nd Roscoe, Temple. N. l'ickels, Colne, Lancashire, grocer. Sol. Mr. Edmunds, Lincoln's Inn. S. and M. Nichols, New Woodstock, Oxfouishire, milliners. Alessrs. Lowden and Fielder, Clement's inn. J. 11. Arnett, Smith Square. Westminver, coal merchant. Sols. Messr;. Claiton and tarter, High Street, Borough. S. Rogers, Gutter Lane, Cheapside, hosier. Sols. Messrs. Baxter and Bowker, Gray's Inn Place. W. Simpson, Coppice How, Clerkenwell, japan manufacturer. Sol. Mr. Phipps, Vs caver's Hall, Basingliail St..ect. C. liiiiikworth, Bath, victualler. Sul. Mr. Makinson, Middle Temple. J. Iliekes, Leeds, linen dearer. Sol. Mr. Makinson, Temple, J. Bromley, Circus.street, New-road, Many-le•bone, iron• monger. Sols. Messrs. Knight and Freeman, Basinghall Street. DIVIDENDS. Dec. 23, D. Smith and J. Hampshire, Kirkbnrton, York, satibliling millers-23, A. G. Mingay, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, iranmonk•er-3, J. Lomas, Fetter Lane. tavern keeper .-30, .1. and 11. Watson. Friday Street.Clizapside,warehoweinen —3O, A. Ilendy, Gower Street. Beilhird Square. builder-23, E. and C. Hill, and A. if. Althans, Union Row, Little 'lower Hill, corn factors-2.3, C. 'Milli.ouse, Sleatind, Lincoln, stationer—'23., W. 11. Vander Kieft, High Holborn, oil merchant-23, J. Fitzgerald, Narrow Wall, Lambeth, timber merchant-22, L. Hollis, tlirmingliam, victualler-23, H. Malcom, Ashbourne, Ashbournc, Derby, tea dealer-23, W. Chawnan, Gravesend, baker-23. 'l'. Kent, Lonthin Street, Rah:line, mealman-16, J. W. A. Snuggs and .1. Walley, Lime Street, merchants-23, D. Freeman, W. Sykes, and J. Freeman, Bermondsey, leathur factors-16, 3. Gomm, Buckland Common, Bucks, timber merchant—iG, A. Spear, Basingliall Street, merchant—if), T. West, Grucechurch Street, whole,ale perfumer-21i, C. Poole, C E Pal FICATES to be granted Dec. 23. H. Hooper, Bristol, merchant.—W. Bushell, Aldersgate Street, wholesale jeweller—J. Field, Newgare Market, butcher —B. Tupling, Strand, jeweller—J. Catlogan, Water Street, Strand, carpenter—C. M. King, Upper East Smithfield. wine merchant—J. Eliackara, Maltby, York, millwright—G. Hamil ton and .1. Savors, Queen Street, Cheapside, warehouteman—T. H. Suit:ll, Chancery Lane, tailor—lt. Sheppard, Huston, Liu • cola, tailor. PRICE OF STOCK'S. Rank Stork 219 i Otunium b. 3 per Cent. Red. G 9 I Imp. 3 per Cent. 3 per Cent. Consols 693 India Bonds 25. 3 per Cent. 7t31 India ..t: 4291 4 per Coot. 84ifj Exchequer Bin. Ss. dis. 5 per Cent. Navy 1051 Cutts. for Ac. 703 Long Ann. Ili Lottery Tickets THE NATIONAL REGISTER LlLltOtt SUNDAY, DECENIBER 3. On Wednesday last London exactly resembled a besieged town—Cannon had been brought from Woolwich sufficient to lay it in ruins, if it had been ten times as extensive as it is : Horse Guards, Dra geens,Lancers, and Foot Soldiers of every description turrounded it in numbers sufficient to have achieved another battle of Waterloo ; and for what were all these warlike preparations made ?—was it with the view of protection to the Queen during her progress to St. Paul's ? she was confidently safe in the attachment of her sympathizing subjects. The really Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, deter. animal to preserve the peace of the City, and knowing that the emuloyment of the sabre and bayonet is in England the least likely to effect such a purpose, prohibited the entrance of a single soldier during the day. We venture to assert, that if the peace had been broken in any of the environs of the Metropolis, the outrage would have owed its origin to that ill-timed display, equally in our opinion unnecessary and tin. constitutional. Are Englishmen so lost to their accustomed respect fir the laws as to need being dragooa:c•.l into otellience on the occasion of their Queen's attending at the Metropolitan Cathedral, to return thanks for her deliverance from what History will declare to have Len the foulest conspiracy that ever was defeated ? It is reported that Ministers have resigned, and that Lord Granville had received the cemniaas of al.—LeAt , _- ~~- ;~ =iamimidiNNE THE NATIONAL REGISTER the King on Saturday last to I:repare a list of a new Administration. The cllang: , , however, it is cx . pected, will be partial, and that, Clough Ministers had tendered their resignation, some of them will be retained. It is rumoured that Lord Grenville will succeed the Earl of Liverpool as First Lard of the Treasury ; that Lord Lauderdale will succeed Mr. Canning as President of the Board of Controul, and that the Marquis of Buckingham will succeed Lord Melville as First Lord of the Admiralty. The sudden return of his Majesty to town from Windsor on Monday last, it is said, was occasioned by the in tended changes, the particular:, of which have not yet transpired. We know that EARL SPetsecrt, at the command of his Majesty, had an audience of him on Tuesday, and was closetted with his Ma esty for an hour and a half. By our Law Report it will be seen, that in the Court of King's Bench on Monday, the rule for a new trial in Sir Francis Burdett's case was dis charged, dissenliente Mr. Justice Bayley. The arguments of the Judges who supported Mr. Justice Best's doctrines consisted of a tissne of legal cob webs, which were swept away by the plain and sound reasoning of Mr. Justice Bayley. Any further proceeding against the Honourable Baronet will, of course, be dropped. The Law Officers of the Crown have, 'on this occasion, received a signal defeat, to he satisfaction of men of all parties who value trial by Jury. Leicestershire was. selected as the venue in this case, with a view to the Jury ; the indepen dence and intelligence of a Jury taken from Middle sex were considered unpropitious fur the purposes of the prosecution. The transactions of the 16th of August at Manchester were known to have made a different impression in the most enlightened county in the kingdom, from that which existed among the persons usually serving on Special Juries in Leices tershire. The act of publication took place only in Middlesex. It is mere quibbling to compare [the publication of a libel with the publicaion of a will, or any other private instrument. The term, as applied to those instruments, is an absurd one, and can furnish no analogy. It is the communicating offensive mutter that constitutes the crime of libel. No man of common sense (all technical jargon apart) can say, that a libel is published until it has been proved to have been seen by somebody. • A letter from Messina, dated the ~Ist of October, says that tranquillity is perceptibly re-establishing in the interior of Sicily. • On the 2d of November Morelli was elected Pre sident of the Neapolitan Parliament, Rvg:ero Vice President, and Dragonetti Seeretary.—The Deputy, Mazzoni, made a motion for the suppression of the religious orders:. that their property should be divided into small parts, and the produce applied to objects of public utility. A report was read from the Minister of the Interior, for abolishing feudal rights in Sicily, and sent to a committee. On Wednesday night an attempt was made to murder the Duke Deems, Ex-Minister of Marine. The Duke retired to bed about twelve o'clock ; shortly afterwards he was blown out upon the floor by an explosion of gunpowder under the mattresses' a second detonation sacceeded in a few ',mild:4, and the room was in a flame. The Duke called his va let, who Slept in an adjoining cabinet; the latter answer.al, " I am lost," and instantly jumpsd from the window into the street,. u lici i ;ht of firty feet; his shrieks brought the sentinels to the spot, to whom he declared that Flom e villains had thrown him out of the window. The Duke made his way oukof the apartment, and medical aid wi.s immediately pro cured; it was found that he bed the right thigh and arm much burnt. He continues in a suffering state, to the great affliction of the Duchess and his young daughter, but no fears arc entertained for his life. The firemen, on examining; the apartment, thund that several pounds of powder had been deposited between the mattresses, and ignited by means of a train which led under the door. Every thing ap peared to justify the suspicion, that the valet was the author of this horrible design, particularly when it was discovered that Bank bills had been taken from the Duke's writing.desk to the amount of 9.000 He hes since died in the hospital of 1 the injury which he received by his fill from the window. - ALDERSGATE WARD. At a meeting of tl:e inhabitants of the Ward of Aldersgnte, held on Monday last, for the purpose of congratulating her Majesty on leer recent triumph, Altlemotun Cox said, — Th a i he lead eatird the inciting a. soon after receiving the re.loisil ion as possible. A limner requisition lie had kept by him ionic time, the Bill tieing then in progress; but now that a rowdt bail been come to, lie had uu hest !anon ill complying with the wishes of so numerous and respectable a porinni of the Ward. Wilt e•peet to hie subjtvt v filch would be brought forwai d, he observed that, in conlinen with u.auy others, intim essiosis had been wade on his mind very pi cjoilicial to the Quern's eharac ter; that he bail read the evidence, oot with the eye of a lawyer certainly, hat of one who was anxious to arrive at ti soli; that be bad been unable to find through all that eviiii nee, which had been collected with malignity equal to the acsivily that bad been displayed, :toy one fact established against her illajesty ; and that in fsct he was Mos folly pelsoadeil of the Queen's innocvnce. (Loud cheerio;; ) He had imagined, alter all that had previously reactied his ear:, that a much better case against her would he made unl ; hut, notwithstanding the detrimental character tir the evidence ailiinced uo her bchait; be felt 'unified, that nothing against the Queen had been eS:e blisiied. (Continued cheers.) After the resolutions, and an Address founded upon them, lia4 been unanimously agreed to, Mr. Aid. rlllitab Cox mentioned, that painful and nnexa p e eled diffienliies were tla•uwn in the way of her Majesty's visit to St. Paul's ; and to preserve the City's tranquillity, it was desisulde that the most efficient means should be adopted. 'liesoratlug in of special constables in the several %Yard!, il9tl been recommended, and he trusted that the recommendation would be adopted. Ile trusted that the ko hlie would not stiller themselves to be irritated by any conduct of designing individuals. They had heard of a plictird Conspiracy, and the parties had been traced to have approached very near to Ministers ; and as to the placards, violent as Mr. limit and some of his ft lends were, he bad always believed it impossible fur them to have their approbation. (Ilear, hear.) He koped that all would -eitard against such desi g ning or placard-e'en as would undaubtedly be active for Wednesday. (Cheers.) Such is the present opinion of the late measures, expressed by a gentleman, who has hitherto been one of the most strenuous and unvaried supporteet - of Ministers. EXTRAORDINARY INVIINTION•-•A Mr. Francis Farkas, an Hungarian, has invented a machine, named a Dolphin, by means of which a person may dive to the bottom of the deepest rivers, lakes, and the sea. The machine enables the diver to walk at his case on the bottom, to work his hands and feet with freedom, and mount at pleasure, without any assistance to the surftee, or remain stationary in the middle of the water, or in any depth, and continue • as l ong us he may wish, without the least interrup tion or effort. The object of this useful invention is to give prompt and effectual relief to vessels wrecked; to collect from the bottom, with greater facility, pearls, coral, and amber, and to anginein our fine collections of shells; also to raise front the cavities of the sea, treasures which perhaps are to us at present unknown. An experiment was made with this machine at Vienna on the Ist of October last, in the military swimming school at the Prater. Count Joseph Esterhazy de Galanthy, Count Fes gas de Grhyines (Court Secretary), the acting cham berlain Nettles Slagoe, several learned Englishmen, and many persons of distinction were present. The servant of the inventor plunged with the Dolphin in twenty-fien feat water, and walked upon the bottom over the whole square or the swimming school. To prove that there could be no want of light, the inventor sent down a 'anthem, and when it was taken up again the light was still burning.— Afer the man had remained one hour ueder water, he returned without the least assistance to the surface of the water, not because he wanted air, a thing which never omits, but because the persons who were witness •s of the experiment des:ared they were perfectly satisfied, and requested that he might be directed to come up. The election of a President of' the Royal Society, in the room of the late Sir Joseph Banks, took place on Thurclay at Somerset House. Sir Humphrey Davy was the only candidate for this honourable and distinguished situation ; but an attempt was made to defeat his election by proposing, Lord Ct . .1. chestor, the late Speaker of the House of Conunons, in opposition to him. Sir Humphrey Davy was supported by the independent members of so ciety, and Lord Holland came, for the• first time expressly to vote for him. Ile was c!cctei. The following is an extract of a letter front Ad miral Brion to a merchant in London, dated head- . quarters, Baranquida, Aug._ 31 : " We arc now in complete possession of the province cc' • Canha k ama and Santa Martha. with the exception of dais two towns, which are dew!) , besieged and blockaded. That or Santa Martha will be closely i:IVP , Led in :4 firs days, anl not a gun, I expect, will be fired, our force being of that desetiption which nothing C4ll resist; bes:des this, the general disptamon of the inhabitants is favourable to the Columbian Government. Car thageha will fall of itself: the greatest anarchy exists within the walls, and the people are daily passing to our lines. The Pre sident Bolivar was him: in person on the 44rh and ‘2.sth, directing the motions of the different corps. The Commissioners from the Spanish Government are at tie President's head quarters, Hanna de Cucata. treating tot peace.- .'.spat the only dirlii,wrty is ierulenne Columbia ludo:pendent is, that spun wi.hes to retain Panama sad Portobello ; but as they will be shoe* Wave pow. • sessieu, that part of the treaty will bairatlld,", Tw&. . 41 'I I • k 4 6 4 4 ti ) . . ;saw- 389 ~,