The National Register. — London, England, 1820-05-07 00:00:00

Lemon. SUNDAY, MAY 7. We this day give a full account of the execution of Thisticwood and four of his associates ; we wish we could have stopped here, but, as faithful jour nalists, we arc bound to record all that passes, and have therefore narrated the bloody, brutalizing exhi bition that followed it. The immense assemblage that was collected, uttered not a single murmur while the unhappy men yielded their lives to the offended laws of their Country, but the moment the butchery began,execrations burst from every quarter. The French populace were prepared for the scenes that disgraced the national character during the Revolution, by such scenes as the execution of Damiens, Ravillac, &c., and we are confident that had the people of England for one year witnessed an exhibition of decapitation every week, the pro duction of the knife at the Old Baily, which was intended by lags to have been the means of murder. ing his Majesty's Ministers, would not have pro. duced that involuntary shudder which was lately heard in that Court. The de-moralization of the of the human mind is not so difficult as some persons seem to think, and we would advise our govenors to bear that fact in mind. Mr. Brougham put the propriety of Government employing Agents or Spies, to make discoveries in in case of the existence of plots or conspiracies against the State, in a proper point of view is the House of Commons, on Tuesday night. All Governments have recourse to such means to discover plots ; but if the persons who are employed for that purpose become plot-makers themselves, then their conduct is calculated to bring odium on their employers, and they are no longer deserving of their protection or support. We do not know what course the Ad ministration will pursue with respect to the disclo sure made by Alderman Wood, in the House of Commons, respecting Edwards, whose name ap• pears recorded in the State Trials. If the charges against him can be proved, then Government has nothing further to do with the business but to let justice take its course. We cannot see how such a proceeding can in the least embarrass administration ; on the contrary, it must lead to the most salutary re-. sults, and prevent those observations which are now heard in every society, where the proceedings in the late State Trials are discussed. Letters were yesterday received in town, dated from her Majesty's Villa at Pesaro, 15th April, and announcing her departure fur England on that day. and her Majesty's intention of travelling hither without stopping. From the expedition made by the Queen in her route, it is believed that her Majesty will arrive at Calais by the end of this week, where apartments are taken for her residence ; and Lady Ann Hamil ton, with other persons of her establishment, have received an intimation to proceed to l)over to wait her further instructions. We learn from the Paris Papers of Sunday and Monday last, that the King of England has given 1001. towards the subscription for erecting a monu ment to the memory of M. Malesherbet, the heroic defender of the martyred Louis XVI. A letter from Inspruck, dated the 19th ult. states, that on the 19th ult. Queen Caroline quitted Rome, with all her suite, for Pesaro, where her Majesty was to remain only a few days, and then take her depar ture for Milan, on her route to this country, and was expected to embark fur England on the first of the present month. The accounts from Madrid in hoe papers are of the 22d ult. Ferdinand, it is said, daily gives new guarantees to the Constitutional Party. He has decreed that all functionaries who lost their places by the decree of 1814, which an milled the Constitution of the Cortes, shall be in demnified to the - amount of the loss they have sustained by their removal from their former appointments. The battalions of Guides and Lealtad rendered infamous by their atrocious exce!ses at Cadiz on the 10th of March, are at Ayamcnta, in a state of open insurrection. Don Raphael Riego has set off with a division to attack these rebels. Every arm in Spain should be raised agaiust these cowardly assassins, who are a disgrace to their wuntry.— Private Tatters from Barcelona mention, that in all Catalonia a National Militia, or more properly per haps, Volunteer Army, is organising with the greatest enthusiasm. It is calculated, that if the other Provinces arm with the same spirit, in six months the Kingdom will have under arms a mil lion of men, able to defy all its internal and external enemies. American Papers to the 6th of lust month reached WI on Thursday. They confirm the previous accounts received, that the question between the United States and Spain, respecting the cession of the Floridas to the former, has been suspended.— The reason assigned in a message front the President to Congress is. that the French and Russian Govern: ments have expressed a desire, that the United States would take no steps for the present, on the prin ciple of reprisal, which might possibly tend to disturb the peace betwien the United States and Spain. The President, under all the circum stances, thinks it desirable to postpone the decision, and in a manner highly creditable to the American Government, observes, that " the distress of Spain at this juncture affords a motive for this forbearance, which cannot fail of being duly appreciated.' The Philadelphia Theatre was totally consumed by fire on the 4th ult. The American Papers contain a copy of the confession of Hall, one -of the two men who robbed the Baltimore mail and murdered the driver. The money, amounting to 5000 . dollars in notes, besides post and cut notes, has been recovered. Copy of a letter from a Gentleman at Pesaro, dated the 7th Her Majesty, Queen Ca roline, will leave this for England on the 19th. Yesterday she took leave of most of her friends• in the neighbourhood of Pesaro; she gave them a handsome dinner; the guests gave her Majesty un feigned testimony of their attachment, and expressed much regret at her intended departure for England. Hcr Majesty drank Health and prosperity to his Wiest) , George LV.' the toast was received with enthusiasm by the whole company. The guests left the Palace at eight o'clock, highly gratified by the amiable and condescending manners of her Majesty. The health of her Majesty is as good as her sin cerest friends can wish; she will thus be enabled to travel rapidly to England." Mr. Bennett, lately of Sinulwell Office, is ap pointed to Worship-street, in the room of Mr. Mainwaring, who succeeded Mr. Baker at Marlbo rough-street. The Irish Judge Lord Norbury, having accident ally met Counsellor Spear, who had recently pur chased a horse, was asked by his Lordship how he approved of the animal? " Not at all, my Lord," replied the Barrister, " tOr he trots very high, and is very uneasy." " Then," rejoined the Judge, "if you have not already named him, I will advise you to call him Shake-spear." A superb vase of silver plate, and gilt within, va lued at forty guineas, has been executed iu Shef field, for the purpose of being presented, on his Lorship's return into Yorkshire, to the Right Hon. Earl Fitzwilliain, by the artisans of that town and neighbourhood, as a teetimony of their respect and approbation of his exemplary and patriotic conduct during the last twenty years, while he held the offices of Lord Lieutenant and Cento.i• nu/donna of this Riding. The vase is twenty inches in height, richly embossed with suitable ornaments. and bear ing two inscriptions. The workmanship reflects us much credit on the ingenuity of the Sheffield work men as the magnificence of the gill does Ull their liberality ; the expellee having been principally raised by individual coutributions of one penny each. Miss Splmy, who led the business at the Rich mond I !mare during the last two. seasons, with great success. is engaged uu. Liberal terms at the Coburg Theatre, and will shortly appear there in a new piece, founded on an interesting period ut' the Roman history, which is gettirig up with great splendour. Bauk Stock S per Cent. Red. 69 3 per Cent. Curs. 614 3+ per Cent. 4 per Cent. S? 3 per Cent. Nas•y 1051 Long Ann. if *oche. ()minium 0. Imp. 3 per Cent. India Bonds 225. di.. India Stock Exchequer Bills 4s. dirt. Cons. for Ac. 69 Lottery Tickets .1:21 18s. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Pike THE NATIONAL REGISTER. The Chancellor of the Exchequer says, that his late Majesty has left a will. We suppose it was found by the present King on his late visit to Wind. sor It is said, that his late Majesty, but a few days before his mournful calamity, as if conscious of its approach, ordered a master-key to be made, with which he lucked up a drawer containing all his other keys. This master-key he delivered to Gen. Taylor, with an injunction to preserve it in his cus tody, and deliver it to no one but himself, or in case of his decease to deliver it only to his successor. This key General Taylor delivered to the King on Saturday se'nnight. From the official return of the income and charges on the Consolidated Fund for the year ending Ja nuary 5, 1820, including Great Britain and Ireland, it appears that the income fur Great Britain duriug that period is 41,725,0591. and that the charge amounts to 46,080,4641., making a deficiency of 4,355,4051. The income for Ireland is stated at 1,251,9031., and the charge at 2,394,3311, show ing an excess in the Irish revenue of 1,857,5721. ; tending of course to lessen the balance against Great Britain, in making the return gene rally for the whole of the United Kingdom, which is thereby reduced to 2,497,8331. Among the items of charge on the fund for England are, '210,0001. for the Duke of Wellington, and 72,8891. for interest of Exchequer Bills issued to make good the defici encies on the Consolidated Fund. The accumulated amount of the deficiency thr the preceding years is not given in this return, nor have we the documents at hand to refer to; but we understand it to be lit tle short cf nine millions at the period of making up the getvaral account, .though, if continued to the sth April last, the surplus then exhibited by the official return for the quarter will reduce the total deficiency on the Consolidated Fund to eight millions. oneyis so remarkably abundant in the city,that good bills arc readily discounted at 4, or, in some instan ces, per cent.; and, fin very short periods, at 3, or • even two per cent. This tends to • deprive the Bank, who never discount at less than 5 per cent., of one great source for the. employment of their capital, and has assisted in procuring, credit for the report very generally. circulated, that the directors have finally determined not torcquire from Governs - ment the payment of the second five millions during the present year.. The Funds, however, have not improved since our lust, and its the middle of the week were mere depressed than they have been for some time past. The monied interest seems now to be waiting fur some intimation from authority concern ing the financial arrangements fur the year. Should any plan be devised—of which we coiifess we see very little probability—of raising the supplies for the year without.lutving recourse to a loan, the reserve of capital must seek employment, and finding no more eligible mode of investment than the funds, great purchases will be made, and the prices in pm pertion raised. A part of that capital is likely to be directed, however, to the importation of bullion, to which the high rate of exchange is calculated to give facility and encouragement. A still greater inducement is offered in a new mode of business lately adopted at the Mint, where any person taking gold in bars may now receive half the weight back in coin in six days, and the whole in three weeks. This arrangement, if the exchanges continue to rise, trill circulate gold coin very generally in the country long before the period when the Bank of England, by act of Parliament, will be campelled to pay in specie. By a return made from the Exchequer, it appears that the amount of.bills in circulation on the sth of January, 1820, was 86,303,20 a being a diminution. compared with the amount in circu lation on the sth of January, 1819, of 6,905,2001. in that portionolthe unfunded debts This diminu tion has been principally etfected by the payments on the late loan, half of which was mad receivable in exchequer-bills. Interment of Thisdenvud, Tidd, Davidson., and Brunt. —Late on Monday evening the wives of the above uulortunate men were lotiirmed, by the Keeper of Newgate, that the bodies of their hus bands were buried, and would not be given to then?, their Petition fur that purpose to the erivy having been refused. It appears that a channel V.N.d dug alongside of the subterraneous passage that leads to the cells, and about seven o'clock in tile evening, after th.: eoftias had been filled with lime, they were strongly screwed up, placed in a line with each other, and immediately strewed o , "_tr with earth, and finally covered with stones. AdminiNtration of the efLets. of Mrs. Frances Shard, late of Torbay-house in the conniy of Devon, and of H Auy.street, in the eottuty of Middlesex, . was lately granted to George Made, Esq. the nominee of his Majesty, for the use and benefit of his Majesty, the said Nlrs. shard dying int,:statc, without parent, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousin-german, or any known relation what ever, whereby her estate became escheated to the Crown; her property sworn under 3 3,0x01. 14