The National Register.
London, England, 1818-01-19 00:00:00

SIR WILLIAM GRANT.

An Address has been presented in Sir William Grant, on
eirretiiemeut from the Rohs, by the Society of Practitioners
a the several Courts of Law and and the f.imwing
is the substance of Sir William's 100 the Ad ',Ts.:

GENTSZMEN,-1 am much flattered by the favourable opinion
which you entertain of my public conduct, and much indebted to you
for the good wishes with which you accompany my retreat into pri-
vate life. To gain approbation ha. nev,r 6.7rn a motive with me to
the dis barge of duty, but to obtain it as the result of endeavours
faithfully to execute the duties of an important office must be gratify.
ing to every well-formed mind.
The interests of ,itimice seemed to me to require that due respect
should be shown to all, who, in the several departniesta com•txted
with its aulniinistration, conducted themselves respectably. The
practisers in the Court in which I lately presided, owe to stlis4r own
conduct that treatuient on my part with which they are pleased to
express their satisfaction.
Accept, Centlemen, my best wishes for the prosperity of your
S'wiety, and for its success in the attainment of the laudable objects
tor which I understand it to have been instituted.

Doting the journey, of Madame de Lind. tier throneh a
sillsige on tke borders of Weijn.o, several no is or science and
•tier. wet to Set he A. soma '1 she orreoi% M ila
mmzebm , she 'draw ra:o•liy to him, an I railed On in a
I nil voi, e—" Be a eon vel i." M. I;e KolLtbue allSWel ed—
I ant too old," made a yr,:found bon, and got iuto Ws car.

SHERIFFS COURT.--SATummv.

oiLcuan. v MU° LEY AND

This was an action flrr a libel inserted in the Hamp-
shire Teloirvh.—The libel was " among the convicts
transporteA to New South Wales by the Larkins, are
two, distinguished front the rest lw the stations they
Once Gilchrist, formerly an Ensign in the 101st
regi,nent of Foot, and who was tried ut our Assizes
with others, about thur years since, for the foul murder
of lieutenant 11. in a duel at Newport, and George
Stepoev, tbrmerly un Assistant Commissary in the
Store Keeper's tit:it:min.:tit. They have both passed
through seems of great moral turpitude, and arc at
Intgtit banished front their country for the crime of
tbr:4ery. Gilchrist, it will be remembertAl, above al-
ludel to, was seenuti to Macquire who committed the
actltul murder.'

Mr. Brougham WO counael for the plaintiff, and
Scrj?ant Copley fur the ticienJant
The adenee wa.s, that there were two prisoners on
board the Larkius, who hu.lk,riven out their names as
Gilchrist Era Stepney, anll that upon discovering their
rnl.uake, the deeJulants hat circulated an extensive
ap:ology in their paper.
The Jury tliuud a verdict fur the plaintiff, damages
5001.

it is understood in the best informed circles, that the
financial measures for the current year are pretty nearly
determined on. The Chancellor of the Exchequer does
not iutcbd to fund any exchequer 'AL, much less take a
Joan. The whole expenditure, it h expected, will not
exzeed 58,000,09 a, and this will be effected principally
by a reduction of the army to its final peace establish-
udti by the waving of interest which will ba made
by reducing the 3 and 4 per cents. The amount of
revenue (including every thing) is estimated at
32,000,000, leaving un apparent deficit between receipt
and expenditure et' six ; but it mast al.vays be recol-
lected, that out of the expenditure nearly 16,000,000
will be paid to the Commisioners for the reduction of
the debt ; anti the only doubt is, whether six of these
should nut be applied to balance the account between
expenditure and revenue, leaving the remaining
10,000,000, with the accumulation of interest, to the
reduction of the debt.—Ei&ishman.

The following is an etttract of a letter from Paris,
(Wed the 12th inst :—" I formerly mentioned to you,
that at the conclusion of a very remarkable speech de-
livered by the Abbe de Montesquieu hi the Chamber of
Peers, during the discussion of the law on the journals,
the Dukc de Fits James, as well as . MM. Jules de
Polignae and tie Chateaubriand had renounced their
right of speaking against the project then bethre the
Chamber. I mentioned to you likewise, that the Duke
ale Fitz James had read his speech to the coterie of the
Duchess de Duras, where all the leaders of the ultra-
Royalist party had assemled. Yesterday the speech of this
Peer was printed. It is not sold, but distributed with a
prothsion truly extraordinary. It is a productions°
strange and to outrageous, that we are assured the King
has justly testiiiel his indignation at it, and has forltid-
den its author to appear IA Court. This punishment ap-
pears just :n ;he eyes of most people of sense. They see
with indignation a Peen& France publishing hisopinions
unddistributing copies of them by thousands, while these
opinions tend to excite the subject against the sovereign.
I shall confine myself to the quotation of the single
passage which concludes the speech of the Due de Fitz
James, and from it your readers may form their judg.
meat of the spirit of the whole :
" I think it would not be unreasonable, after the
numerous calamities which have pressed upon the peo-
ple during the last year, for the Chambers to demand
some explanations on the means which had been taken
to prevent their recurrence. The harvert of lust year
was abundant, and yet nothing announces a propor-
tional diminution in the price of subsistence. The
people do not see that their frightall misery is owing
to the favour granted to the insatiable cupidity of the
cultivators, and to the monopoly of avaricious men,
who enrich themselves by making them die of famine.
Do the people attribute the scarcity to the King,' said
a Nlinister to us. They ought not, doubtless; and yet I
have seen individuals a little struck at the perseverance
with which certain agents, come from I know not
when.., have persisted in saying, that the King, and
the ilftwes, were the persons who sent our corn to
England. These agents have perpetually attended the
marse.s, and remain unpunishel. Again, I repeat it,
all classes of society are in distress ; it is time to look
out for u reaed) to the frightful evil which devours us
—we maxi not rerfron on a aecold ar ye
Every where our horizon is covered with elauds which
portend a storm : one might say, that from the height
of his rock, the man of air misfortunes had given the
frightful signal, and th.tt at hi,. voivc, ids agents had be-
gun to rat: in e%ectition the internal prt!iect avowed by
one if them in a corn Ilich we must give
credit, ',ince we Love it rrout the Minister of Police
(alluaittg to the letter t)t* NlA.ctie St. Jeaki
• All the world must still: r, that tt!l the world ruav
finite a;ain.: IVrett.ll::S.. You well
arc meant by the plwast.l,:t.tr, wry:cites."

THE N.Iq•IONAL manna!

ItoYAL HUNT.—On Monday morning, about ten
o'clock, a fine deer was turuea out near Slough, attend.
ed by a numerous field of Gentlemen Sportsmen. The
deer chewed great sport, takin,, across the enclosures
towards Stoke, Dritmore-hill, and lledsor, taking
down the hill towards Cookhatn, where he crossed the
Thames. By this time very few sportsmen were up ; he
thentook towards Maidenhead, where he crossed the
Thames a second time, into Buckinghamshire. The
deer was taken by Dancey Common, near Eton, after
a run of near three hears.

The principal amusement of Prince Leopold, since
his arrival at Came, is shooting, accompanied by Baron
Ilardenbroke and Sir Robert Gardiner, or riding on the
neighbouring hills.
A letter from Cassel states, that his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge had arrived in that city, and
dined with the Lanagrave Frederick on the 2 14.1% ult.
The account adds, that his Royal Highness's visit was
likely to last until new year's day, and that the pur-
pose of it was no longer a secret.
The Committee ihr the Relief of Distressed Seamen
have given notice, that any persons who may be sent,
or may come to London after this day, soliciting relief,
will be returned to their respective parishes. It is but
right that every town should bear the) expenses of its
own distressed poor, of which the metropolis has already
afForded a splendid example.
A public meeting has been held at Quebec, to take
into consideration the proposed duty on timber imported
from North America into England. A Committee of
eight gentlemen has been appointed to draw up a me-
morial to Government against the measure, stating that
it would be the ruin of the British Colonies of North
America
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A morning paper of Saturday says—" Another small
defaulter has taken his flight. Mr. W. B. Ruddick,
Chief Clerk under the Trea•urer of the Ordnance, has
absented himself, and he is reported to be. deficient up-
wards of 15,0001. exclusive of about 6,0001. for pro-
prty tax, which came into his hands as the collector.—
He had given security, but owing to his having been
suspended upon Mr. Hunt's delinquency, and afterwards
restored, his bondsmen detour, alleging, that theyshould
have been called upon to react,/ their btnals When he
was permitted to resume his duty." On inquiry we
learn that the affair alto alluded to is still under in-
vestigation, and that it is supposed Mr. Ruddick's, de-
ficiency will be tbund to have arriscn from Mr. Hunt's
defalcation in 1810.— hoes.
A letter from ftamsgate, dated January 12, says :
The wife of a Mr. Smith, a carpenter in an extensive
business here, after parting with her husband this
morning, his concerns calling him to town, was found
by the servant, between nine and ten o'clock, extended
on the kitchen floor, having, by her weight, broken the
garter by which she had suspended herself, with the
aid of a chair, during the short period the servant was
absent, takiug the children to school. Every possible
method was resorted to in vain, •to re-animate the
lifeless corpse. She has left a fine family of four young
children to deplore her loss. Since her last confinement,
she has been observed to be subject to lowness of spirits,
but not to the extent of causing any apprehensions of
such a ealmuity ; otherwise the respectable tinnily to
which she is related would have guarded, if possible,
against so deplorable an event.
A letter from Dover, of the 16th inst says—" The
late strong gales having thrown up an immense bar at
the mouth of this port, have rendered it impracticable
finlany vessel to get out of the harbour this day ; and,.
under these circumstances his Majesty's packets for
both Ostend and Calais, have been unable to put to sea.
By accounts from Ramsgate we learn, that the Lord
Duncan packet, with the mail from Calais of the 13th
inst. which sailed from this port on Thursday last at 5
a.m. experienced a very heavy gale of wind soon after
being at sea, which she weathered, and arrived off
Calais, but found it impossible to have any communi-
cation with the shore. At five p.m. signals were made
from Red Fort, lk:a not to attempt the harbour, and it
was not possible to have any other icommunication with
the shore ; it was then blowing hard, the packet was
obliged to leave the coast, and knowing there was so
much bar before Dover harbour, the commander jndged
best to run for Itamsgate harbour, which he entered in
safety early this morning. We hear of nothing what-
ever coming from Calais."
Last night about halt' past 8 o'clock; the servant of
Mr. (humane', (navy agent), in Norfolk-street, was
alarmed by a noise at the doot. He opened it, and
fitund a gentleman leaning against it, who:n he sup-
posetl, from his reeling manner, to be intoxicated : but
on stepping forward to remove him, he trod in a stream
of blood, which had flowed from the stranger ; on ex-
amination he appeared to be mortally wounded, having
shot himself through the head with a bullet from u
horse-pisnd. He died immediately. 11r. Ononaney
was not at home, but on looking at stone papecs in the
pocket of the deceased, it was t:iscovered that he was a
naval officer, who had formerly transacted business with
Mr. Ommatrey.

,1 prospectus has been published of a loan on behalf
oldie Prussian Goverunimt, to be openol in this coun-
try. The house of Rothschild appears to be eni,mged
in it. The sum proros;:l to be raised is threo

JAN. 19

Waterloo-place is finished, and the houses almost all
let. That on the western angle, nearly destroyed by
fire many months ago, is now in a habitable condition ;
they talk of devoting it to a Parliamentary club. The
Military club-house is complete in all its exterior ar•
rangements : the great room will be sixty feet in
length. The beautiful pile opposite, to be called
Warren's-hotel, is nearly finished. Every house and
tenement in St. James's Market will shortly disappear.
Only four houses remain between Pall Mall and Picca-
dilly. The subterranean passages underneath the mar-
ket.are all removed, and the paviours are filling up
and paving the great street. The foot-path to Jermya
Street is finished. The only shop which stands in the
whole district, is the one occupied by Leader, the
butcher. Report states that the Military club-house
will be ready for opening in April. The new market
occupies a very confined space, with two outlets into
the Haymarket. It extends from Norris Street to Jer.
myn Street. In Piccadilly, the Circus is ping on ra-
pidly ; the columns of stone and the lonic capitals have
a very pleasing effect. One of the new buildings will
be a national library, a most extensive eanern.

BIRTHS.
At Lcistnne House, Suffolk, the lady of the Right lion. Lnrct
Ifuntingtklii, of a snn.—ln Upper Grtheenor.street, the Right ilia.
Lady St. John, of a daughter.