The National Register.
London, England, 1816-05-13 00:00:00

CHINA FLEET.

The Ships Charles Crant, ESSeN, antMowthcr Castle, ares'ed
off l'ortland on the 9th init.; left China the 20th of Jrinuary,
and arrived at St. Helena oh the 2341 of March, with the under-
mentimied ships, which they kft at that island on sailing from
thence on the 20th, David Scott, Marquis Camden,
Vansittart, Bridgewater, General Harris, Atlas, Ceres,
Alnwiek Castle, and the Warren Hastings; the Heretbrdshire,
General Ks-d, and Northampton Botany Bay ships, were left
at ( ; the I)a% id Scott and General Harris are arrived.
The Elphinstone arrived at Santa Cruz on the *nth of March,
to repair the damage site ttittoaincil in a gale of wind, and was
to proceed on her voyage the 7:h of April; she parted coin.
pany with the Marquis of Ely and Wexford the 2d of March,
the day after the eale began, which lasted 19 days.
The Countess of London and Moira, with the Ladies Flora
and Sophia Hustings. and Lord Hoingerford, are now on their
passage home from India, on hoard the William Pitt.

.t reward of 1001) guineas has been offered by the public
'Ace, 8055...m11, for the upprrbetssion of any or all the
(Menders ssho, on W«lnestl.l) lab', plundered the Coromandel
East India hoy of au immense iiiimitity of dollars, *woo the
river 'Thames.

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A reward of 50 gnineaix has been off red for the apprehen-
,;ion of RICH Ano HUG.% s, for the murder of a %%yawl, with
a horn he cohabited, ia Ihnty-lane.

Mrs. Cambridge, of l'ortpoo.-lane, *as robbed of a pelis.e
and other apparel on Mambo, mop :in: List, donna he r tempt,
rary absence flop), home, and de Witt'll sh. COI tip,
she found a letter thrust under the dour, wLieh contained the
duplicates of the stolen articles.

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NAVJG AND MILITARY BIBLE 'SOCIETY.
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Wc,lovstlay the Stith Animal Meeti of this Society teas Itch(
in the King's Conceit-room, Haymarket —Altkn.r.(ienes Nc-
%ille in the Chair.

Apologies %ere read by the Secretary from his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Turk ; Ilie•Fart of Liveraool ; the Bishops
of Gloucester, London, and Oxford; the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and several other eminent public eliarseters who
were prevented from attending by urgent ptlbhc business.
The Report of the Society was read ; from which it appeared,
since the estaldishinent of the Institution in 1750, 116,211 Bi-
bles and Testaments had been distributed through its mean•.
Mndh yet remained to be dohs by the Society, whose balance in
the statement of the funds for the present year did not excee:l
261. 10s. '_'d: in consequence of the immense number of !Mike
distributed by them within the year, -to soldiers who had Mist
their former unesat Waterloo, awl to others in garrisons,
The Report contained a variety of details. together with
an Appendix, containing several letters from Correspon-
dents on the misiness of the Institution ; and one front the
Duke of Wellington, express;ng his cordial approbation of it•t
plan.
Mr. Butterteorth, M. I'. proposed, that the Report be
adopted, which was aced to unanimously. The Hon. Gentle-
man strongly enforced the advantages resulting from this In-
Admit n. In the course of his speech, he related an anecdote
of scrjeant of a recruiting party, who at a sermon in Slit e ws-
bury, became forcibly impressed with the necessity of divine
',erectus. This serteant was afterwards sent to the Peninsula,
from which he wrote over, entreating that a few Bibles might be
sent him for some friends; and also a isew in the Spanish lan-
guage, for the %retched inhabitants of that conntry. Tl:is
request had been complied with, but the Spanish Cierey bore-
erl the books, and thereby prevented their Sovereign front
having before him a work that would have instructed hint how
to govern without tyranny, and his stilijects how to obey % ithout
rebellion. The Hoe. Gentleman related the further history of
this serjeant up to the battle of Waterloo, • where he played a
distinguished pert in the :id battalion of the Foot Guards; and
read a letter from him descriptive of that battle, and contain-
ing an interesting acknowledgment of the true courage with
which religious instructon inspired him on that OCi'llioll. He
also alluileti to the perseverance of a sailor, who, though
threatened to be Bogged to the bare bone by his Lieutenant,
if lie devoted his time and that of others to prayer; yet per-
sisted, and warned those who were of a weak body not to
attend, as they could not so well hearftegging to the bone. The
Lieutenant was, however, removed, and the Captain gave the
poor fellows full permision to pray.
It also appeared, in the course of the discussion, that the
soldiers ol' Scotland were always remarkable for their attention
to religious ditties ; and that there was hardly one of them ever
loom! without a Bible in his knapsack.
Lord Calthorpe, Capt. Montague, R. N. Mr. Clementson,
and several Reverend Gentlemen, addressed the Meeting in
support of this valuable Institution. Several Resolutions were
entered into ha- this purpose, and a handsome subscription
was made tip in the room, in furtherance of this desirable ob.
ject.
The Meeting was attended by several Ladies of distinction.
Mr. Wiherforce was present; but we regret to add, tuevcuie•l
by indisposition flout delivering his semements in support of
the Institution.

The Magistrate :: of snriev have Granted the Under Sheriff
201. per umntHu, and the r.oler 101. Lis a coinpensatiou fur g4Ol
fees, so properly

l'his day the trial of Mr. :Ewan Mardonall, proprietor of the.
Dublin Clarnnicte,came on in the Court of King's Bench. fat 4
libel. lie wan found Guilty, and committed to Newgate.—.
(Dubla Cum...pendent, Mity 2.)

On Tuesday night the warehoule of 3lr. Neale, in Chamber-
street, Goodman'.-tied=, vas broke open and robbed of uphol-
stery goods to a large amount.

A short time since, some villain entered Freemasons' Hall,
Chichester, belonging to the Lodge of Harmony, and stole all
the jewels of their order, together with seven collars ot er.m-
-3011 velvet, ornamented with silver lace.

On Saturday evening, the 4111 inst. a poor man with his wife
and five children, who were travelling through the cemitry
%kith a small cart, drawn by an ass, being unable to find lodg-
ing, took refuge, in a sand-link, at the side of the public road,
near Twynhohn hirk. In the course of the night, a mass of
earth, which hail been undermined in taking out the said. un-
fortunately gave way, and buried them all tinder it. Their
bodies were due inn on Sunday morning, and carried into the
church.—(fidinburgh Paper.)
CHIMNEY SWEEPER3.—Much has been said, in different
places, about the condition of Chimney Sweepers' Iloys ; and
many plain 'have been suggested for their benefit, withont,
apparently, much good having resulted. In Scotland (a
portion of the Empire which has taken the lead in 111a11%*
useful and patriotic undertakings, and in none more than
in those for the comfort arid management of her pooro they
have bettered the condition of Chimney Sweepers's Clinshb,z
Boys by the most effectual of all plans—that of doing olinot
entirely without them. Instead of sending up a !my a
man, by the assistance of a light ladder, mounts to the top
of the chimney from withont, His boy, entering the bons/:,
bellows up the chimney which is about to be swept, in to& r
that the min, by attending to the sound, may get to ash eriain
which of tho.k in the stack requires his services. Provided
with a ponderous bat, fastened to one end of a long rope, he
drops it into the chimney, to the bottom of which it is sure to
descend, however narrow and crooked the way may he. TIC,
being reccived by the boy, in the apartment beneath, he fastens
a large well-spread broom, made of twigs, to the end of the
rope ; and giving the signal to the luau, it is drawn in a few
moments, to the top,searching by the compression of its mem.
der, elastic twigs, into every service of the chimney, and com-
pletely clearing it, not only from every particle of soot, out
even tearing off pieces of loose stone- awl lime. The ehatge
made for every ekinmay swept varies, from a penny to six-
pence, according to circumstances.
About three weeks or a month azo, a farm ite spaniel, be.
longing to a gentleman of Loottlibeemi:4ll, which had fur some
time previous. thereto lieen placed under the care of ape r-on
at Burton-Bandals, near that town, went mad and
hot hail not gone more than a mile or two before it was t•iken
np, and confined till its death, winch took place in a few trays.
It was then believed that little, if , mischief had beim ))))) e
by it : but we are sorry to say, that this ide t has pros ed an
erroneous one; for two sheep belonging a neighbouring
11.1“. smut 11101, and be.., an hi
.1.4• r
m, belem;ing to the mmir person was shot, mid carefully boned
a few days ago, having Exhumed prom's or weir% infected with.
th • :MM.' ;Mowing disease.

LATE' INTELLIGENCE.

CoURTS OFKING S BENCH, CM.DHALL.—SATunu iv.

SITTINO AT NISI TRIM

11.aRRON V. VCI74NEAR.

1 kis was an aetiou Dimwit by the prourietor of an academy
at Prescot, in Lancashire, to recover from the di-fendant,
merchant residing at Liverpool, the sum of 94. hs. l Id. beim:
t: ie balance of an accouut due for the Itaartl RIO education of
a y ins.r gentleman mimed Dan mm, who had been played un-
der the rare of the blaitt:4. The boy, it appeared, was sent
ta the aca.Putly in rel. LAI, and eutit,iined there until Dee.
1111. The autumn dae u. to this period was I in. and the
pttiutiff was in the .iitj•L of arudius iu his Neeeillit every 1141 r
ye,ir. :se end 008 of money, it also Appeared, Were paid on
cconnt by ti:e defendant, leaving the balance now sUtlehl tin
due by the latter.—Verdiat for the PLtiutili, 041. as. lid. and