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THE NATLONAL REGISTER.

requested that he might be allowed to have a copy read
of au information which had been filed against him by
the Attorney-General. He made a similar application
yesterday morning, but was nut attended to, as he had
no affidavit verifying the assertions which he made.—
He now informed the Colin he held in his hand an
affidavit, which, with their Lordships' permission, he
would read. The affidavit stated, that the deponent
had applied for an office copy of the information, which►
had been refused hint on account of his inability to
_pay
the customary fee, and that from this cause the officer
of tile Court had refused to record his plea of " lout'
Guiity." It was further stated, that he had no means
of paying the fees, or of retaining professional assistance.
Baron Graham—Does your affidavit state positively
sisal you are unable to employ counsel ?
Mr. Edmonds—lt does, my Lord. Mr. Edmonds
read that part of the affidavit in which this fact was
sworn to.

Baron Graham—Bin the Court will require a much
more explicit affidavit before it can interfere. You must
state it in the usual terms, and then you may be allowed
to sue inform ptiuperis. We can do no more.
Mr. Edmonds—My Lord, 1 have been informed that
a cit,tone exists of reading the information to those who
carrot afford paying for a Copy. It is, I believe techni-
cally called graining oycr.
Baron Grabaist.-11 is first necessary that you should
proceed as the Court has directed. 1)o not take up our
Mlle unnecessarily.
Mr. Edmonds.—l should wish then, my Lord, to be
heard on tite facts mentioned in the affidavit. It is hard
that a person should be obliged to pay for a copy of an
information charging him with all offence of whiah it is
probable he may be found not guilty.
The Court here interfered, and would not allow Mr.
Elmonds to proceed.

For some days past the inhabitants of the Kent-
road have been much annoyed and alarmed by loud
screams, which seemed to issue from a cottage in the
occupation of a woman of questionable character,
whose husband is confined in Hursemonger-lane
prison on a charge of forgery. The shrieks were
continued daily almost without intermission, which
induced the landlord of the Green Man public-house,
and five or six others of the neighbours, to take
some measures to ascertain the cause. An attempt
was made to force the door, but it failed, and one of
the squares of glass was then broken, and a man
lifted up to the window. In one corner of the room
he beheld three poor children, the eldest of whom
was not more than eight years old, lying on a straw
pallet, and so exhausted with weeping and hunger
that the eldest could hardly reach the window; they
said, that their mother was in the habit of going
out early in the morning, and nut returning some-
times all night, but more frequently for two days
together, during which they were left entirely
without food, and locked up. The neighbours sup-
plied them with food for a day or two, during which
they kept a watch for the inhuman mother, who did
not return home till two o'clock in the morning,
and then she was quite drunk. A deputation of
the inhabitants, consisting of four persons, waited
on Alderman J. J. Smith, at the Town Hall, to
whom the case was detailed, and the worthy Alder-
man immediately advanced a sum from the City
Funds to be applied to their use, if necessary, and
despatched Reeve, the Marshalman, to the house,
whose picture of their situation was most deplorable.
The parish officers have since taken the unfortunate
children under their care, but their unworthy parent
has disappeared.
A youth, named White, about thirteen years of
age, son of a shoemaker in Highfriar.street, New-
castle, fell from the Quay, near the Custom-house,
into the river Fyne, on Friday se'nuight. Two
sailors, from vessels lying near, soon jumped in to
attempt his rescue, but neither being able to dive,
their endeavours were fruitless. A young seaman,
named Lewis, immediately plunged in, and suc-
ceeded in dragging the youth front the bottom. He
had, however, been upwards of ten minutes in the
water, and all appearance of animal life was entirely
suspended. He was immediately taken to a suitable
apartment in the Three Indian Kings tavern, and a
professional gentleman, named Dixon, was sent for,
who had been eminently successful in restoring
drowned persons to life, and who had, in the same
house but a short tune before, restored a person to
life under similar circumstances. He happily soon
arrived, and oiler proper preliminary treatment of
the body, succeeded in. inflating the lungs ut' the
young man with his own mouth, before the appara-
tus tar restoring drowned persons could be procured
from the Tuwn Court, where it is kept. In a short
time his exertions to restore suspended animation
were crowned with success, much to the joy of the
afflicted parents of the youth. A nutncer of mer-
chants and tradesmen on the spot humanely ren-
dered every assistance in their power, and a
subscription was set on foot to reward the young
seaman, who by his intrepidity had rescued the
youth from a watery grave
The situation of the South of Ireland is most dis-
tressing. In the space of one fortnight eight Banks
have stopped payment, one of which has subsisted
nearly a hundred years, and others upwards of half
a century.

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THE NEWGATE SPECTRE!—A report lately reached
Mr. Brown, that some of the convicts tinder sentence of
death in Newgate complained of being visited by a
Ishost, which appeared to them at ten o'clock at night,
and in a short time afterwards a regular statement of
what they called the facts was made out and sent to the
keeper. Mr. Brown sent back an answer, with which
they were not at all satisfied. He said, that if they had
been engaged in prayer, and as sincere hi their repentance
for their past crimes as they professed to be, the silly
apprehension of ghosts would not trouble them. One
' of them declared that a ghost with red whiskers suddenly
appeared before him in a flash of fire, and after crying
out, " Henry Martin, when will you pay me the death
you owe me?" vanished in an instant! Another said,
that at the very moment the ghost appeared to him he
was at his prayers, and although lie prayed fervently the
apparition gave a loud knock, and said, " Jack, Jack,
when will you pay me the death you owe me?" The
departure was as sudden as the approach, and the smell
of brimstone was so strong that the unfortunate convicts
entertained no doubts as to the region front which the
ghost had come, and to which it was about to lead the
way. The laughter to which those declarations exposed
the convicts, whatever effect it might have upon the rest
of the prisoners, did not remove the impression upon
their minds that Newgate was in the hands of the father
of darkness. They however thought fit, after having
been assured by Mr. Brown that one of the fraternity
had been amusing himself at their expence, to make
some enquiry, and they succeeded in ascertaining that a
colts ict, named Hay, was the ghost, and the flame of
fire mid the brimstone. Hay had taken it into his head
to try whether five men, who had not been afraid to
commit robberics day er night, would be afraid of a
sound and the light of a candle at night. There are five
condemned cells in one passage, in each of which there
is a prisoner. At ten o'clock, when all was dark, Hay
entered the passage, knocked at the door of one of the
cells, spoke a few words, and thrust a lighted candle
through a hole, which is just large enough to admit it,
and as suddenly withdrew it, to the consternation oldie
inmate, who cried out, " 0 Lord, have mercy upon oar'
He did the same at the doors of the other lour cells, and
exclamations of fright were heard at each.. He then
stole away, after having uttered a deep groan, which was
re-echoed from the cells.

LES OISEAVX DC FRERE PUILIPPE..—.FItre Philippe
anxious to rear a youth in the utmost innocence, seclu-
ded hint entirely from the world. Adjoining his pre-
mises was a garden, the door of which was so long
closed, that Philippe never thought it would be re-
opened. One day, how. ver, daring his absence, this
door Hew from its fastening and his eleve, then 18 years
of age, for the first time beheld a woman ; she was of a
corresponding age, and one of nature's choicest beauties :
the youth, equally astonished and enraptured, flew
towards her ; her timidity rather than her inclination
made her evade his approach ; and Philippe, on his
return, found his eleve dejected and strangely agitated.
The cause explained, Philippe assured him the object
he had seen was a bird ; that there were marry kinds of
them, but all dangerous, and should be carefully avoicict:.
The youth, however, remained sullen and iiiisalished,
and curious to see another of the species, Philippe pro-
mised he would procure one that had been tamed,
which he should have a fair opportunity of examining:
and, as it was his wish to divert the mind of his scholar
from all thoughts of the fair sex, he prevailed upon a very
plain and aged woman to come into his views and
submit to he exhibited. Whet) the youth was introduced
It is easy to conceive how•different were his sensations—
he clapped his hands, screamed and hooted, to make the
old bird betake herself to her wings, but to no effect ; he
discovered the trick, and was eventually introduced to
and united with the first object of his affections. This
story is dramstized in a popular opera on the French
stage; and it is now midmost, in Paris, to denominate
plain women—"les oiseatsr de Frere Philippe.'
Curious fact in Orniikology.—A Turkey cock,
' at Mr. John Fisher's Whiteleigh, near Preston, has
taken possession of a common hen's nest, containing
seventeen eggs.
Poers.—Lodgings being announced for single
c'entlemen in a genteel neighbourhood, the other
day, with an N.B. that they would not be let to any
poets, a gentleman was curious enough to enquire
the reason, when he was given to understand by the
landlady, that the resolution she had formed arose

from her having let the lodgings to three different
poets in her time, who had only dotted the floor all

over with ink, spoilt her looking glasses with wicked
rhymes, crowded her door with duns all day long,
and run away at last without paying her a farthing
of her rent.

The first stone of a charity school at Costeasey,
which is to be erected at the expence of Sir Geo.
Jerningham, Bart tbr the education of the poor of
that place was laid on Thursday sc'nnight.
Mrs. Kean accompanies Mr. Kean to America;
they sail for New York early in September, with Mr.
Price, the Manager of the New York theatre. Mr.
Kean intends to make a compete professional tour
through the United States, and returns to England
in about It/ months,

SUM NI I.: It CIRCUITS.
omr.—l.ord Chief Ju•tice Abbott, and Mr. Baron Wood.
Non For K. —Lind Chief Justice Dallas, and Mr. Juttict.
I loin (I.
Ni I la. AND.—l.ord Chief Baron Richards, and Mr. Bunn

urrOW.
W EST I: It N. —M r. Baron Graham, and Mr. Justice Burrotigi.
NOILTH b: as.— Ir. Jltatice Bayley, and Mr. Justice Park.
Oxroau.--Mr. Albllce Best, and Mr. Ju4hc.: Hic:i.trdson.

The plague has again broken out iti Tuui3, auJ
has already carried off hall the inhabitants.

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postscript.

LONDON, MONDAY, JUNE 19.

Three o'Clock, p. m.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday
last. The King is still confined to his apartments,
but transacts business daily with his ministers.—
Tranquillity, it is said, is restored in the capital,
but sonte persons above the ordinary ranks of life
have been arrested, charged witth been concerned
in the late riots. Paris, however, is still full of
.troops, who parole the streets at all hours, and
. tome of the coffee-houses have been 'Shut, which
were retorted to by the disaffected. The elusory
movements of the chief leaders of the rioters seem
heretofore to have baffled the pursuits of the Police.
The embers of insurrection are nut yet extinguished,
and if not carefully watched, will burst out in a
flame that the Government will not easily subdue.
The Chamber of Deputies on Tuesday resumed the
discussion of the Bill relative to the Public Expen-
diture. M. l'Abbe de l'ompieres proposed seve-
ral reductions, viz, in the Judicial Department
1,000,000 francs; Foreign Affairs, 600,000 francs;
:Home Department, 1,849,000 fr.; War, 3,740,000
'francs; Navy, 150,000 francs; Finance, 3,177,000
francs. Total, 10,000,000 francs. He was fol-
lowed by several other speakers. The debate was
then adjounied to the next day. The Second Coun-
cil of War has condemned to two years imprison-
ment a person named Antoine, a soldier of the Seine
.and Marne, for seditious words. Two cases of se-
ditious writings were brought on Tuesday before
the Court of Assites--the one, that of the Sieur
Vuidet, the Editor of the " Aristarque," charged
with provoking a civil war; the other, that of the
Editor of the work entitled "Varieties Historique,"
a chapter of which, under the head of " Upon Se-
' cret Government," has been denounced as contain•
ing the twofold crime of an attack upon the King,
and an incitement to civil war. M. Patris, the prin-
ter of the latter, appeared. The Jury found him
guilty by a majority of 7 to 5 ; but the Court ac-
quitted him by a majority of 4to 1. M. Cauchois
Lemaire, the writer of the article, was then con-
demned, for default of appearance, to five years im-
prisonment, and a fine of 10,000 francs.

An order from the Treasury was received at the
Custom-house in the course of last week, which has
since become a general subject of conversation, not
to say animadversion, in the city, on account of
c vain fetitures in the transaction, which assumilate
it rather to an undue indulgence to individuals than
to a politic attention to the mercantile interests at
large, or to a still more important point—the health
of the community. This order is for the reduction
of the duty on a drug called chillies, a production of
the East and West Indies, and of Africa, which has
been maidenly lowered from 2s. 6a. to 3d. per lb.—
tt will no doubt be distinctly in the recollection of
a great portion of our commercial readers, that in
February, 1317, a memorial was presented to the
Lards Commissioners of the Affairs of Trade, by the
rrerclom ts of Liverpool trading to the coast ()I Airica,
11;r the purpose of removing certain difficulties, pre-
sented by the high rate of the-then existing duties, to
the commerce carried un by them. The effect of
their representation was a material remission of
duty on the greater part of the articles imported
from that quarter. An exception, however, was
expressly made in the articles of chillies (called also
Guinea pepper) and Guinea grains, because it was
understood that those drugs were improperly used
by brewers and distillers, and it was thereflire
deemed expedient to impose on them such a duty,
as should be tantamount to a prohibition, or at least
a prevention to that mode of employing them sup-
posed to be injurious to the health of the consumers
of spirits or porter. Instead of a reduction of the
duty on Guinea pepper or chillies to 4d. and on
Guinea grain to td. as was solicited by the Liver-
pool memorialists, those articles were raised, the
former from Is. 7d and the latter from 94d. to a
duty of 2s. 6d. the pound, by the Consolidation
Act of 1619. And so it has remained till the issuing
of the present order. The first impression that will
he made on every man who hears these circumstances
be an anxiety to know what new information
has been obtained concerting the properties of chil-
li‘s to remove the opinion before entertained of its
•.oxious qualities, and thus to justify its circulation

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at that low price for which it may now be purchased.
To the merchant other considerations will suggest
themselves. He will naturally dispute the equity
of a regulation so injurious to those who have stocks
on hand of the same article, and which appears to
have been issued, nut upon any thrmal intimation of
the prohibitory effect of the old duty, which would
have thrown open the trade to fair and general com-
petition, but after the arrival of vessels freighted
with the article in question. The first, after, all,
is the must important consideration, and is of such
.a nature indeed that we trust some official informa-
tion will be given on the subject.
Yesterday morning, about ten o'clock, his Royal
Highness the Commander in Chief came on the
Parade, in St. James's Park, dressed in full regi-
mental grenadier uniform, accompanied by a gen-
tleman in undress clothes. As soon as his Royal
Highness was recognized by the vast multitude
assembled in the Park, he was immediately sue-
roanded, being on toot, and a general cry of " The
Queen for everl" resounded in every direction,
when his Royal Highness, with the greatest affisbi-
lity and condescension, moved his cap, which was
received with a general acclamation by the crowd,
numbers of whom shook him by the hand. His
Royal Highness proceeded from the parade with the
troops who had come off guard, to the Birdcage
Walk, where he met another body, headed by three
officers on horseback, going to Whitehall t Impel.
This body halted, and the music ceased for a few
minutes, while his Royal Highness conversed with
the officers; alter which he returned, at the head of
I this party, to the Chapel at Whitehall, saluted at
, intervals with a general cheer.

SATURDAr NIGIIrS P4111.1.431.ENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

1141'LIRDAY. Just 17.
Mr. WILBRAHAM the Deputy Clerk of the Crowu
Office, attended and amended tue Return fur Bishop's
Castle.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER broufht up
the report of the C ...... mittee respecting the Failure of Irish
Bunk., and contitinin; a resolution to grant 500,C001. ns
temporary relief. Agtced to, and leave given to bring Mu
Bill accorditigly•
Mr. BROODED presented the Report of the Loan Bill.
Agreed to, and Bill ordered to be read a third time on

blond:or.
The keport of the Sugar Bill was brought up, read, and
agreed to.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and
the Hou•e adjourned to Monday.

IMPORTANT TO MERCHANTS.

The following is a copy of a letter from G. Har-
rison, Esq. Secretary of the Treasury, to Messrs.
Inglis, Ellice, and Co.—
.. GENTLEurs,--1 am commanded by the Lords Commis-
missioners of his Majesty's Treasury to acquaint you, for the
information of the merchants of London, engaged in the import-
ation of spirits. who signed the memorial praying that the duty
of Excise might not be charged en the deficiencies of spirits in
the warehouse, that my Lords have given directions to the Com-
missioners of Excise to the following effect:—
I. " That exciseeble goods hereafter exported, which shall
have been warehoused for exportation only, and shall have re-
mained uninterruptedly under the locks of the officers of the
Excise revenue, in warehouses as herein after mentioned, shall
not be charged with duty on deficiencies of strength or quantity,
provided such deficiencies do not exceed two per cent.
IL " That if the deficiencies do exceed two per cent., the
parties interested shall be required to pay the home consumption
duty on the total amount of the deficiencies, as at present, in
addition to any other pen:dues to which they may be liable, unless
upon an investigation of all the facts and circumstances, made
with the strictest attention. and on the oath of the parties con-
cerned and interested, the Board of Excise shall'be full; satisfied
that such deficiency shall not have arisen either from fraud or any
want of due care and attention.
" That for the necessary protection of the revenue, as
well as to encourage the building of ducks and warehouses sur-
rounded by high walls, from which the revenue and the mer-
chants derive so much advantage, this indulgence should be
confined to excisable goods deposited in warehouses within the
walls of the docks in the port of London, and to warehouses,
within dock walls, or surrounded by high wells, equalling docks
in security. in the out pmts.
1V... That this indulgence should apply to all exciscable
goods at present in warehouses as above stated; but it is to be
distinctly understood that no application will be entertained fur
a return of duties on goods already taken out of the warehouses,
or which may be depoUted in warehouses otherwise than as
above stated.
I am, gentlemen. your obedient servant,
'• Treasury Chambers, June 16." " G. HARRISON."

Lord Limerick coincided with his noble friend Lord
Donoughniure , that since the meeting had been called
as much had been done as could in the present state of
affairs be expected, and the meeting had now nothing to
do but to dispeise, reserving to themselves to meet again
should affeirs require it, which he trusted would not be
the case.
Major Torrens said, that the whole of the distress
arose from a general run on the bahks of Ireland, in
consequence of the withdrawing from circulation a part
of the Hank of Ireland notes on Mr. Iticardos plan of
paying in gold bars. This had the effect of raising the
exchange of Ireland from seven per cent. to a pat with
this country; and, therefore, he thought they ought to
procure a retain to tile circulation of paper for a time,
and suppress the payment of sold bins until the present
distress should be alleviated.
The meeting then separated without the chair being
taken, or any resoliti !!!! hai;isa twen proposed.
TUMULTS NEAR WELLINGION.—With regret we
hear that the colliers in this vieibity,wlio conducted them-
selves an peaceably. when in great distress, (luring the
period of total unemployment, appear at preset)* to risk
tile loss of the honourable character they then obtained,
anal the c!! misserat !!!!! which was then felt for them.—.-
Oil account of a reduction in their wages, great numbers
111 the nenthbouritorxt of Wellington have, during the
test week, refused to engage iti their employment, and a
cry riotous spirit has manifested itself among
They have gone about in large oodles, cutting the ropes
4,1- the pits, and letting the water out of the engine
"oilers, preventing the well-disposed from working,
forcing others to join them, and mulling or ill-treating
any who have the appearance of gentlemen. Ott Mort
day last a body of 600 or Wu, armed with large sticks
and pick hafts, violently assaulted three young gentlemen
residing with a clergyman in the neighbourhood, who
were on the canal, in a small pleasure-boas, assailing
them with stones of considerable weight, and letting
clown the draw-bridges while they were under, in order
to sink the boat. In this daring way they followed
them nearly a mile. One of the gentlemen was very
severely hurt. Thursday last little business was tram-
acted in Wellington, although it was market day, as a
visit was apprehended from the rioters. It appears, how-
ever, they have taken another direction, confining their
exertions to stopping the forges and furnaces. All the
colliers in the neighbourhood have discontinued their
operati )))) s. The yeomanry, under that respected officer,
Col. Cludde, have since been called out, and are gone to
disperse a body of 4000 or NU% who are carrying t n
heir depredations at Ironhridge and Sitedshill wink).

SHIP NEIVS. .

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