The National Register. — London, England, 1819-04-26 00:00:00

APRIL 26. the !tonneau you complain of." Fortuuately, or un— fortimately, tins argument never admitted of a snore easy or decisive answer than at the present intintent. By the accounts just presented to Parliament of the amounts of the exports and imports of the last year, it appears that the while balance of trade in our favour is but about eight millions. Now in this s ery same year we have paid fU+mlhonisand a half for foreign corn, and consequently so much capital and expenditure has Lieu carried from home to impoverish us, and to enrich foreigners ; and all this ton Miring a period when wheat has but just risen above t'se unpin tatiois prices, and when the barley has home, dating part of the year, a high price, yet Bever tome than me deficiency of the crop, arising from an unfavourable season most (oily justified as a fair remu neration. If this coorse of things is suffered to go on, farewell to National Prosperity, farewell alike to Agri culture and to Comics:ice, tor they can only lire amid sittist die to ether. The conclusions then to which these premises emulnet us are briefly these—Mat the Interests of our own Agri- Loh sire cannot citl-r prudently or safely be neglected that the regiteat wade for protecting ditties not only im plies nothing More than what it teas the intention of PParliament to have before granted, but that by the adop tion of such a nieaytlre the Revenue might be aided to the relic: from other Taxes, the kome-sisarkei, Fy IM-the most Hoarfrost, be improved for every article of Cons. melee, the deinantkfor labour and the rate of wages he a.igmeoted to the _poor, a state of mucb less fluctuation anti uncertainty of trade be scoured to the Ausan _and Manufacturer, and, in short, that we shook; then let Prosperity, like Charity, begin, where it alwaysshould do, ut horse. The following arc extracts from the French rapers : I'.vetw. Are, r. ?O.— It appears that the works wit" ire to be executed at the Castle of St. t tool oiii nut be wren •l:Lte4l before the YOtl of June. lit r•otsequeoee s tt is sot - ,itohaltle that his Majesty %buil 'vise the Tuileries before :hat rrold. 114 e Ambanador left Paris this wonting fur Liadoo. _ _ A shucking event necarceil recently in the town of Rouen, which is thus related in one of thejournals of that place : individuals, animated each against the other by an inveterate hatred, repaired to the boulevard it. Ililaire, near the barrier de L'Octriii. 'l'hey were, it is said, nit h out it itnesses : (could they have found any I) Their swards ate crossed —both are already wounded—one of them o ishcd to stop the cointsit —the other refuses—the sword. are again cius,cd. Ile ;who displayed this brutal obstinacy fails dead 11111 the spot. We are unwilling to mention the name of these iaaliridauas ; oe eau hardly add that—they were brothers." Mt LA R. Arai'. I joaroals and letters from Rome speak of iiiithim; but the magnificent recep if his Ma jesty the Emperor of Austria in the capitol of the Christian win Id. lam enabled to add to these accouitta some para. tutor cit.' umstances which you might he pleased to learn. The Pope did not permit the Emperor to kit./ his hand, but embraced hint the momei.t this Monarch was preparing to •now ham this mark of respect. Ile then (adducted his Majesty to the apart'''. nts pleiarecl for him, and remained with this Prince half an hour. There is rim political object knight:AA under this tour of his Majesty. It is natural that, being hunt in lase:my, he should wish to see the ;dare of his ea' ivity. The religious homage which tie Emperor and Em press are resolved to show to the fled of the Church: o ill prose to Italy the respect wile' tamed by this great Sore reiso for the 7sce or Rome. The members of the Iluonaparte study now iu Reale have not bceta resettled to the unipeso:. The Prince Regent continues to improve in health ; and his gout seems to subside most favour. ably. . . the carriages and some of the luggage belonging to the Duke and Duchess of Kent arrived at Len. singtou-palace on Thursday. BasaturoN, April 20.—Lord and Lady Frances Stewart have paid a bride's visit to the Prince Re gent. The noble pair took their leave of his Royal I fighness ycstetday, previous to their departure for a northern tour, and afterwards to Vienna. Lord and Lady Castlereagh left the Pavilion this morn ing fir their seat at North Cray. Prince listerhazy, and the Marquis and Marchioness of Hertfori, ar rived here oa S . tturday, and still continue as visiters at the Pavilion. As soon as her Royal Highness the Duchess of Clarence's health is re-estai,lished, the family will leave Ilanuver for Wiirtemberg, on a visit to the Queen Dowager (ci-decant Princess Royal of Eng land ) From Ivhence they will visit the Prince au.l Princess of Hesse Hombourg, and thence set out tier England, whence they are expected in about three months. The late Harvey Chiistian Combe, Esq. left a widow and ten children, four sons and six daugh ters. To Mrs. Combe he left 30001. a-year for her life, issuing out of his landed estates, and to revert on her decease to his eldest son : to the other sons, 20,0001. each ; and to the six daughters, 10,0001. each. I'IMESTRIANISM —Old Barn..t, notwithstanding is in his year, has been hacked to walk 1600 quar ters of rinks, in Won sitccessive quarters of hours.— The stakes are five to three against his performing the match. The veteran commences this most arduous un t;ci taking on 'he 21st day of at lints ich, ut Sutio/k THE NA rIONAL REGISTER. CHARLES ItENArk:IT. EXAMINATION OP CUARLX3 IiENNITT. FOR CHILD RTEALt No.—Our readers will remember that hi No vember last an extraordinary degree - of interest was ex cited in the public mind by the disappearance of the male child of Mr. Horsley. 'rile principal circum stances connected with the loss of the chill are most probably fresh in public recollection, arid it will there fore be unnecessary for us to et;ter into a lengthentd detail. Rennett was apprehended at Braake, near Bre men, soon after the theft of the child, and lodged in the prison there to await certain forms and arrangemetit4, which beim; completed, he was sent under All escort of same Olilenhingh dragoons to Bremen ma Sunday seM night, and placed at the disposal of Mr. V. Coleman, /11M Brit Wt. V ice-consul. On Thursday sennight 1:e was sent ofl from Bremen in the co,totly of a German police officer and an assistant, to he pin on hoard the packet at Cuxhaven. He was landed st tier With Oil Thursdry List, Intelligence of his arrival was immediately for warded 40 Bow-street office, and Goodwin, the patio?, who accompanied Mr. Horsley to FIMICe in pursuit G I Rennett, and who held the warrant originally grunted, was sent oil to take Min into custody. Goodwin int t the German officer and his prisoner on board, and re turned with them to !motion. They arrived at Bow street on Saturday morning at half-past ten u clock, and at halt-past one o'clock the prisoner was conveyed into the private ruotn of the (ewe to be examined before Mr. I3itaie. 'I he foreign police officer produced to the magistrate a packet directed to him, and containing copies of the depositions of Mr..Hoosley, and othir &controls which had been taken at Bremen, stud-upon which %Bennett was committed to prison there. Mr. Birnie upon the subject of these deetunents, oh ;served, that he had nothing to do but. with the case im mediately Infoeir him, and evidence of the fact with which the prisoner was charged was ail he required. Etizalseth Holbrook, the girl tvlio-had the charge of Mr. Horsley's child when it was stolen, was then brought in and examined, and the pr:sosier was identi fied by her. !Ar. Burnie said thia was sttaicient for him to act upon, :and to commit site prisoner for trial by a jury of !us country, and each party would now only have us titake what preparation they conceited necessary for the prosecution and the defence.. It had been publicly ru moured that a bill of indictment had been found against the prisoner fur rue offence with which he was charged but as this was only autumn, it would perhaps 'be necessary for him to ascertain the fact. Goodwin, the officer, was then despatched, to the Sessioissihonse for a certtficate of the indictment:. ----- Rennett, who during the txautination was allowed to sit. was very deeply once:ed. lie continued in tears the whole of the time. :mild so noucit was he cast down that his sister was repeatedly under the necessity of ex horting him to assume smile degree of firmness. It wria urged on the port of ILvtinett. that Mr. Hors ley. when at firemen, promised hint mercy, amid that he zuglit not to forget that promise. 111 r. Horsley said he promised, when at the Conti nent. that any mercy which he could show to Resmett, consistently with the demands of public justice. shook! trot be withheld; but he never held m* any hopes that he would forego a prosecution altogether. He had .be fore stated. that he entertained no vindictive fteling.tra wards the prisoner, very far from it; but he certainly" f. It himself hound in justice to the public, from whom he had experiencyll that sympathy and assistance, to bring the matter before a court and jury. The certificate of the intlienne - ,16 "having be en o h_ rained, and every necessary. form being completed, the ptiso.ier was luny combined to Newgate fur trial, anti the /wiles bound over to prosecute. He was conveyed to prison in a coach. CALAIS. April 24.—The Persian Ambassador,-with his suite, arrived at a late hour last night, are at Qua lm'. hotel, and will remain most likely a day, as there is a guard placed to present the curious front taking a glimpse at the fair lady. His suite is very numero..s. It is calculated -11 those who are adverse to the Catho lic claims, that there will he a majority of fifty against Mr.Gt...ttan's motiott for Catholic Entancinattim. There is as great a prospect of all aimetdatit cmp of apples this year as there was the last in the cider counties. 'l'he spring is th shout the kingdom extremely for waql, and the face of the country has a venal and must cheering appearance. _ _ On •Nleinday evening, the following persons, des tined for the service of Buonaparte in St. Helena. arrived in London :—The Abbe Bonavito, an aged Priest ;Doctor Viglioli, and Professor Antotmerchi ; whir a Maitre .'Hotel and Cook ; and, notwith- ' standing the insinuations to the contrary contained in an evening paper of Monday night, it happens that a Minister of Religion was detuande.l by Ber tra d upwards of 12 months back. On Friday the Guards made a brilliant muster, on the parade at the Horse Guards, in honour of St. Geor4e's Day. The weather was unfavourable, or •he display would have been more interesting. The Duke of W. llinFton came on the ground with several Officers of high rank. The guard on duty at Carlton-house, nnct St. James's, were mounted in white g.titers, and the military arrangements wore generally suitable on the occasion. Flags were hoisted upon St. Martin's steeple and the tower of Lambeth church, and the bells rang many merry I. peal.; during the day. At one o'clock the guns flral SUSPICION o► NIURD2II.—A considerable sense. lion has been excited at and iu the neighbourhood of Sunbury•grecn, near Harrow, in-consequence of :► circumstance having transpired, by which a female • of respectability is charged with having been pri— vately delivered, and munlering her offspring. A young woman, about 17 years of age, named Ann Smith, residing at Sunbury, who had been suspected fur some time to be id a slate of pregnancy, was within these few days so altered in her shape and . appearance as gave rise to a report that shuhad been delivered, and had destroyed the child : and what strengthened the suspicion was, that the body of a new-burn child was diseuvered in a ditch. The body was taken up and curried to the Mitre public- Louse, and information was given to the parish officers, who, from the inve•tioation of the case, sought out the yoting, woman on than previous suspicion had ildlen, Ural the immediately acknow ledged that sl.c had lr. eu delivered of a child ; and a cousin of the young woin,n acknowledged that the child, soon after it was born, was thr .wii into some water, and concealed in a ditch. The parish surgeon was called to examine the body, and imme diately afterwards notice of tt e circumstance was sent to Mr. Sterling, the coroner * who appointed to hold an inquisition at eight o'olock on Friday night. FonEsT ROSUERS.--everal robberies have been conuniued within the last few days by a gang; who, according to information, frequent the western part of Windsor Forest. The first attack was made on a gentleman in the neightnnirhood-of White Waltham, . by two fellows armed with bludgeons, who robbed him of a valuable gold watch and appendages, anti his money. The next morning a Mr. Wise, was rubbed by three-fellows armed in a similar manner, at the verge of Maidenhead Thieket ; hut hand bilk: of these robberies having been circulated through Reading, Maidenhead, &c. the robbers transferred their depredations more to the eastward, and Mr. Honeywood, of Thorpe, was stopped in his chaise by three fellaws armed with bludgeons, on the Oalt inghatn-road, near Ascot Race-course, on Monday evenirg at dusk. The robbers got 37!. in notes and money, tied Mr. H—'s hands, let rise hcrse loose, and made off towards liatchett lane. These are the men answering the description of those who committed the other two robberies; and a fourth wns committed between Chubbam and Chertscy; on Wednesday night, ~ .rn a gentleman of the name of George, who loving no more than a trifle of silver about him, they threw him down•and ill used him. There were lltur concerned in this last robbery.— Two of them it is supposed had rented a hovel lately on the forest, and kept a horse and cart, which they deserted last •week. Lagos, APRIL. V), 'big—The unemployed work .people separated themselses yesterday %%Munn any nits , chief, and we were hopeful the. peace of this town would not be threatened ; but it is now known, that Iselore separating, they had agreed to meet again to-mor row, for the purpose of parading through the streets of this town. o —a sitcumstatice which has, as might be es peeled, .produced some alarm. The Magistrate., how. ewer, are on their guard, and the Detachment of the Sib . Dragoon Guards, now litre, base orders to keep them wlves in readiness to act as emergency may require. Th e sitaanen of the manufacturing districts was tweet nwrc distressing:to the labourers an t i mechanics, or more per pkxing to those who watch over the public. peace. When men are agitated and in fl amed by feel ings of distress, a little spark may excite combustion; and those who had no design to commit mischief may be incited .. by the more turbulent to acts calculated torrid:urger pr 0..., perry caul the public peace. New tieSiAMI of en4ratton, and by people too who are not iu suffering ciressm stances. transpire almost daily. A firmer irreperty, a few miles from this place, is now preparinn to set off with his fats ly and f2,WUI. for the United , Stares. He had been refused a renewal of his lease, .1341 t at an ad vanced rent. Two other entire families haenormie from this neighbourlioad for Liverpool. nit their way ta A on.- rica, taking with them shoot Stint:taw pisTH.—An Inquisition ,Was taken on Saturday before Thomas Stirling. liso. 'at the King's, Head, NI idelleton-streer, c . Pancras, on the buoy 4. Mr: William 'larding. It appeared 'that he aurae home on Wednesday evening and. complaints, of being unwell ; he took a pill on pang to bed. and on lying down he .quested lais wife would.nat flasturb lain. as be was eleisiaml tat sleep; the next morning the got tip quietly, and after tire-- sing herself she laid her hands , ro his face, and fuaad it stare cold. Verdict —" .Dted by i,itsteftll of rand." CORONEIt's IVQVEST.—An inquisition was held on Saturday, laure Thomiu F.3q. Coroner, at the Triumphant ('harlot, Peinbro!ct Mew.,Gsosvenor Place. on the body of Nsa aarnel Palmer, aged about 33 scars. Tv e body lay in one tie large vaults under St.,Gecarge's llospiud. his fare and one of his eM eeks were eaten and titstegar cal by the rats. NI r. Jo:,n 'hatching. !louse SllT:4l.oll,th:pol4d. lilAt three wetksago the dr:rased was brought in a hazkncy ceach to St. George's Hospital. 1,13 head was dna fully mangled, and several of his ribs were broken, but he was iu his perfect senses at the time.—lle said he was servant tn. Mr. Vernol of Cookapur-strevt—he was sent for &Moiney roach to carry her home. that he took a coach off the next :.thrl and got on t.te box with the .-oathmttn, who drove oil very . when: one of the fore-Nehe,ls fell off, tt•U• 'MC was pite:,:d horn off the box. and the toacs going uo. the wheels posed over ma head and breast- In irimes'a (Tinian his (testa WAS eauscrl from an affection of the brain, in oonsequenrc of the injury he received ty the wheels ti the teach zn!fg ever him. Verdict—.l:%idect 4 l death. A