The National Register.
London, England, 1822-06-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL RE(IISTER

when the Jury, without retiring, pronounced a ver-
dict of " NOT PUILTT," to the satisfaction of a
crowded Court. Mr. Stuart retired from the Court
amid the cheers of the multitude, attended by Lord
Rosslyn, and other Noble sal Honourable Friends.

PARIS, JUNE B.—On Thursday, after the sitting
of the Chamber of Deputies, M. Benjamin Constant
demanded satisfaction of Mons. F. des Issarts, for a
letter inserted by the latter in the Quolidienue oldie
Stii, in answer to one of M. B. Constant, inserted in
the Conaitutionuel and the Courier of the 4th.
Without any other explanation, the Honourable De-
puties proceeded yesterday morning to the ground.
M. Benjamin Constant was accompanied by Gen.
Sebastiani and M. Girardin, Members of the Cham-
ber of Deputies; and M Forbin des Issarts by Gen.
the Count de Bethisy, Member of the Chamber, and
Colonel Chamoin, Lieutenant in the King's thirties
du Corps, Company of Luxemburg. M. Benjamin
Constant being lame, he and his adversary were
placed at ten paces distance on chairs. They fired
together by signal, neither was hurt, and M. Ben-
jamin Constant appearing satisfied, the seconds de-
cided that the combat ought to terminate. It is
impossible to show mac sang-J./O.V than was mani-
fested by the honourable Deputies.
Tua Kite's DIIAWING•hOrtiIis MajESI? held
a drawing-room on Thursday last, at Buckingham-
house, which it is understood will be the last this
season. We scarcely ever remember to have seen
one so thinly attended as this, but various causes
operated to make it so—among which the disgust
excited by the late proscription of the amiable
Duchess of Gloucester, held no doubt a prominent
situation. The King left Carlton-house at half-past
twelve, in a plain carriage, attended by the Duke
of Dorset, and proceeded to Buckingham house.—
His Majesty wore the Windsor uniform. His Ma-
jesty took refreshment with his royal sister, the
Princess Augusta, previous to attiring tin. the draw-
ing-room. The company began to arrive a little
before two o'clock, hut very slowly, and from that
time until soon after three, when Cite last equipage
drove up, there was not what is called a line of car-
riages once formed ; they came straggling by twos
and threes, and once or twice ❑s many es half a
dozen were observed in a line. The Lord Mayor
went in state, accompanied by the Lady Mayoress,
and attended by the City Marshals, Marshalmen,
&c, a very unusual circumstance, we believe. It is
many years since a Lord Mayor appeared in state
upon a similar occasion. The Sheriffs accompanied
his lordship in their carriages. The l'rince and
Princess Esterhazy, and nearly all the Foreign Am-
bassadors, were present. The draaing-room termi-
nated be four o'clock.
On Wednesday last, his Royal Highness the Duke
of Gloucester inspected the battalion of his regiment,
the 3d Foot Guards stationed at the Tower. They
went through the manteuvies with great correctness,
and seemed to give entire satisfaction to the colonel.
—His royal highness afterwards inspected the bar-
racks. He then visited the various armouries, de-
pots of arms, and ordnance map-room, attended by a
numerous company of the officers of the Guards, and
a party of the Yeomen of the (herds, and subse-
gauntly partook of a thjeune a Is j;iurekette in the
officers' mess-room. His royal lrighness looked very
well, and took his leave apparently much delighted
with the business of the day. His royal highness
on his way home viewed the Middle Temple Hall,
and also the church of the Inner Temple.
The occasion of the case of the indivi.lual calling
herself the Princess Olive against the King's Proc-
tor, being postponed on Wednesday last, was as fid-
lows:—A gentleman of the name of Tucker came
into court whilst Dr. Lushington was speaking, and
stated to the Proctor of the party proponent, that he
CAME direct from a noble Lord whom lie named, and
the Attorney and Solicitor-General, to request that
the case might stand over to the next court, to afford
the opportunity of arranging the matter in the mean
time with the party: and the note which he pro-
duced from the lady, signifying her acquiescence,
was written in consequence of a similar representa-
tion made by him to her.
Jet U. ESPRIT —Two Englishmen were recently
standing at the dour of an hotel in Boulogne, when
a boor-like looking fellow passed by, driving an ass
—sae of the gentlemen observed to the other,
There is a pair of asses,' on which the boor, who,
from having been a prisoner of war in England, un-
derstood the observation, replied,
6 0
Je ne sups pas cc game je suit,
Car sij'etais ce clue jc suit,
Jr ne scram ',us cc que je tans."
—We need not remind our readers that the verbs
etre and suivre are precisely the same in the that
person singular of the present tense of ate indicative
mood. _ _

An official return to an order of the House of
Commons, states the amount of the balance in the
hands of the Treuaurer of the county of Middlesex,
on the 13th April, tlle2, at 16,►9741. 163. Gd.

189

On Wednesday feat, pursuant to mnice, a ballot
took place at Lloyd's on a motion for a subscription
of SOOl. for the distressed Irish, when there appeared
fisr the grant 246, against it 269; thus negativing
the motion by a majority of 23. The ground, of op-
position arose from such a grant not coming within
the usual application of the funds.
Among the presentations at the levee on Wel-
nesday last we perceive the name of " Mr. Denman,
on'his being elected Common-Sergeant of the City
of London." Knowing the perfect absence of con-
temptible, petty, pitiful feeling on the part of our •
Monarch, we doubt not, un ler all the circumstances,
that his reception was most gracious.
The Austrian Observer of the 33 inst. contains a
paragraph, confirmatory of the pacific termination of
the negotiations in the East. On the 6th of May,
this paper observes, it was announced in the Divan,
at which the Chiefs of the Janissaries were present.
that the evacuation of the principalities was decided
on, and that liencetbrth the places of the Hospodars
would be filled with natives. This determination,
it is added, was heard with unanimous satisfaction.
Five of the soldiers belonging to the cavalry
depot, at Maidstone, have, with a generosity which
does them credit, voluntarily subscribed the sum of,
601. towards the fund now raisins for the distressed
Irish—bein4 their share of a seizure of contraband
spirits, made by them, a short time since at Coxheath.
A new dial has been affixed to the clads on the
west entrance of St. Paul's. It may be amusing to
many persons to know, that the minute- strokes are
eight inches in length—the hour figures two feet
two inches ; the minute hand, eight feet two inches
in length ; the hour hand five feet four inches ; the
weight of the minute hand, 751 h. the hour hand 441 b.
The •London, Capt. Rogers, of SOO tons burden,
arrived in the river on Thursday, and is now un-
loading her cargo of ice, at Cox Quay, London.
Bridge. The whole of the freight is consigned to
Mr. Rhodes, of Islington, and conveyed from the
wharf to his ice hotssz on the Edgware-road. 'port
the average it is sold at 301. per tun. On Thursday
evening 40 tons were conveyed to Carlton Palace.—,
The above vessel began to load on the Ist of May,
completed her lading on the 14th, and arrived in
the river June 13. Two snore ships of the same
size were left employed in procuring the same
article, and may be daily expected to arrive in
England.
On Monday last the venerable Earl of St. Vincent

came to town, and took his seat for the first time
this Parliament, for the purpose of giving his proxy
in support of the Catholic Bill. When it is consi-
dered that his Lordship, now in his Ssth year, and
feeble in bodily strength, underu,sok the journey for
the sole puriwe of giving in aid his last efforts for
the Catholic cause, it strongly marks the interest ha
takes upon it. Nay, so much does he feel, that be-
fore he left his house, he declared that he would go,
although, like his old friend Grattan,• he should pe-
rish in the attempt.
Ireland at this moment presents a frightful pic-

tore of pestilenee and famine. The accounts re-
eeived on Wednesday from that unfortuate country
are still more heart-rending and more appalling than •
any that previously reached us. Instead of a robust
and sturdy peasantry, none are now to be seen in
the exhausted districts but pallid, weak, and slowly
moving specters—mothers weeping over their starves
ing children, and thousands lying on the bed of death
and sickness. The Dablin Evening Pad gives a
feeling and melancholy account of the yen sal dis-
tress, which, it is feared has not yet reaclaA its
height. The west and south of Ireland, it says,
present a tkuse population in a state of famine, and
on the brink of pestilence ;—a million of men, wo-
men, and children, are starving—are actual:y dying
of hung2r—and this in one of the qnest seasons
ever remembered. In the western part of Galway, •
the mortality is so great, that every person who
could quit were flying in all directions, as from a
plague. Sligo is similarly circumstanced, where.
the fever has already made frightful ravages, and in
the county of Cork a typhus fever of a malignant
kind has made its appearance.
INFORMATION TO MARINERS --In consequenc.:
of a representation made to the committee for ma-
naging the affair of Lloyd's, that the crew of a vessel
which was wrecked last winter near Deadly Heal,
might have titan saved had there been any place of
refuge on the cliffs, they entered into a correspon-
&ace with their agent at Newhaven on the subjeal,
and having ascertained that caverns might be cut at
a moderate expence, they submitted the subject to
the subscribers, and it having net with their appro-
bation, six caverns, with entrances three feet wilt,
and flights of steps e 0 feet in height, terminating in
an apartment eight feet square, hive beea cut in the
clit6 • between Cuckmore and Beaelr'i Head, awl a
place called Derby's Cave repaired, by which means
mariners and passengers trLa may be unfortunately
wrecked on that part of the coast of Sussex witl
now find a safe place of refuge from the dangers of
the seas.

190

hiperia Par li.rate.,t eastiameil from pays 187.)

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TYTHEA, GOL:LBUIesi rose to bring for-
orlril his promised motion on the subject of the tythes iu Ire-
spok? of the great importance of the subject, and of
the seii:vus and earnest attention that had peen lurid to it by
himself and the government. lie hoped his proposition would
be received with the most liberal views. Ile did not aspect to
sati►fy those who desired to avail theuisels es of the church pro •
perry, to alleviate existing dillieulties. Ile should not propose
a commutating of tythes, hut he should not submit any thing
that would peseta the adoption of any such measure. Against
• lair commutation he should say nothing—but be mug oppose
the commutation proposed by those who had interests opposed
to the church ; for what short of spolia:ion would it he ? The
tythes Ile viewed as private property, and property of the most
sacred character. It belonged to the wont important, the most
respectshle, and the most valuable class of the ri 00000 ;
there misirt he individuals ainoagst them who did not so closely
confine themselves to their duties as might be desired ; but lit
'pose ul• them as a class. As the question regarded private
property, he shooks epproseh it with the greatest caution.—lf
his proposition were adopted, it would remove all the objections
respectie; which there had been rational coinplaint. He begged
to ray, however, that much complaint had resulted that did not
originate with the tytlies ; it more partizularly belonged In the
teuere of lands, to old custom*, to the manners of the people,
cArtidely not u the tythes. Tythe property certainly was at-
t.:m.l,d with grievances to Ireland—that did not accompany
that species of property elsewhere. Ile must, however, here
guard himself against countenancing the belief that the clergy
exacted their tythes in an oppressive 'winner ;—he was per-
suaded that the clergy excreted less tythes than they were en-
titled to enforce. To renaorly the evils complsined of, lie con
sideretl teat it would be adviseable to enable the parties to
lease th tsthes , lie therefore moved fur leave to briag in a
bilk° enable incombents to grant leases of ty dies, which leases
should he binding on their successors.

bir H. PARN ELL complained of the measure, as being ins-
devate to the evils that were to be remedied. If no better
remedy could he provided, it would be better tat all attempts
at amendment should be postponed till the next session ; he
should prefer Nadi postponement to the proposition now made.
Sir .1. NEW rola pursued a like course of argument, and
entered into some details of the grievances rssulting from the
tythe system in Ireland.
Mr. S. RICE oppnFed the
Mr. HAW SON, at considerable length, supported it.
Mr. 1). 13..0wn and Capt. O'Grady also gate their support to
the propoiilinil of the right hon. Secretvry.

CorilLUN 'RADER ltY subiniitml that t! is was not the
period for discuasing the Lill. Unless there was soroctliiiii:
radically wrung in it. principle, he presumed :Ind, in COIIIIII6II
courtesy. his right hon. friend wtiuld be allowed to bring it in,
and base it read a hist time.

Mr. II U I CII I N 30N was inclined to give Ministers leave to
bring in the bill, reserving himself free to discuss its melits
hereafter. Lire was ultimately ..,ivets.