The National Register.
London, England, 1814-07-03 00:00:00

TTIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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The 5;.0,. erei,on of the Netherlands has issued an order
proliiiiiting the Stave Trade.
A Protest against the rejection of I ord Grenville's motion
tr:'(;vl the Vrelich slave Trade has been entered on the jour-
nals of the Itonse of I.ords by the Dukes of is"ussex and Glou-
cester, Farl Grey, and Lords Laudetdale, Grenville, nod
Borland.
At a meeting of the inhabitant; of Southwark, friend,: to
the Abolition of the Slave Trade, held at the hums Tavern,
keaningtoo, Mr. 11. Thoroton conducted the business of the
• day. The Chairman illustrated the extent to which this m-
• principled system of robbery, fraud, rapine and murder 'as
emvitod, bv relating the cirettinseanec of a Governor of Go.
roe, who, while lie WA; entertaining too Afi kali guests at his
tah!e, was, in the midst of the festivity, applied to by three
slave Captains to seize and send them on board the vesl/4els
that. were then in the harbour. The abolition of this traffic*,
said, NT:It no party question, but one in which every moral
and religious feeling was concerned : it was a trade which
violated equally the laws of God and the laws of men.—After
some resole: ions, which were read and catried, Mr. Shaw
re 1,1 a Petition, which was seconded by the Rev. \V. Mann,
w.id agreed to be resented to Parliainent.
Tuesday, in consequence of a requisition to the. Lord
Volv or for that rao.po: e, a Common Hall of the Livery of
Loroioo w:1‘• assciobled, for the purpose of petitioning both
houses of Parliament no the snbjcct of the ae icle in the
Ticaty of Peace wiih France relative to the Slave Trade.—
Mr. Alderman Wood moved the resolutions, which were se-
cootie(' by Mr. Wm. Smith, and carried unanimously.
..Adi)iral Cochrane has addressed a proclamation to the ne-
gro slaves in America, ofle: ing persona,: ft eedom, and a set
Cement in the British poso s,ions, to all of that unhappy race
whoa e disposed to place themselves under our protection;
a cat number have escaped. and arrived at Halifax-and the
Watol of Bermuda, where the men met with immediate em-
ployment, at the late of a dollar per day.
Pe:itinns 1.:m.11 the following places', among many others,
potying for the onmediate and universal aliolHon of the
• love Trade, have beet' already presented to both [louses of
radiament
it t,l St. Eilinati&. Battersea. Braintree, Boekin.
S!ortford, Bromley, • Vi:Lricay. llasio,74toke, Brent‘vowl, I. lack -
LcAll, Chatham. ('rovt!ir), Colchester, Coz,,cshall,
niot bury, Ca-tle lit•dinuham, Ch!!lliam, Chesham, Danford,
East 11,1111, Elmem ton, Foolmiro, Fulham, Grave :cod,
11.ilst cad, Ivt t, ki!igstim, Kcivedoo, Lewes, I.lvton,
Rigmf:l, Me:tinnipton, Nei trim Oogisr, 61,1\ •1.1)1,
Novat,rd, itionford, stooli!oitto s.itiran %Val-
ero, stalharv, :hies. St. A lbaoc, Timmy; Thgxtud‘
:r!mbridge, Tootilig, Uxbridge, \, 'herd, Witham, West ham,
No...lthani^i
,-,;r!.,at rat_kiog-hottse in Dob!in has stopped, so has a
great American House in that City. In Lincolnshire the
failure of tile Boston Bank has occasioned general appre-
hension.
An extraordinary phenomenon :las lately astonished the
Anatomists of the metropolis. A roue;; man about sixteen
yars of age died lately ot'a disorder which bathed all the
skill of Cie Facolty. Rat a chtv or two before his death he
felt the seosation as if of soiorth:o;.; alive within him. The
motion was perceptible to the _hand of another, when laid
on his stomach, more vigorous and sensible than that of a
woironi in the lagt soo;e of pregnancy. On his death he was
opened, when a fooale.fietov was folud in,the tiorr ventricle
of his he Ilv. t was impel feet, as :t had only c. leg, but it
had arms, nails, hair, and the sex was pet teotihle. It had
clearly been coeval with his .iron birth, and by the convol•ive
motions had been alive till neatly his Own extinction. It is
the possession of Mr. CaFrue, in Dean-Weet, Soho,

GRAND FETE.

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No. 5, Seotland-yard, Whitehall. London td July, lal4.
Sttl—l have the honour to transmit von the Resolutions of the
Committee of General Officers, assembled on the ist and 2d July.,
and to request you will be pleased to acquaint me, as early as pos,
if it he vmir wish to ht eorne a Subscriber to the Fete to be
given to Field Marshal the Mike of Wellington, on the Ugh instant.
I have the honour to b. , Sir,
Yonr titoz.t obedient 'imble Set vant,
CHARLES DUKE, Secretary,

linvin! bren.considered by .sever d liolottels of I?egimen,ct, and
other General Olacerq, th.tt a Fete should he given to the Duk•• of
Wellington. to testify the high estimation they entertain .'f his
Cari.er ; hi: Royal Highness 1)oke of York, COlti4-cot
of the gee eral feelings of the Army, has been plea.;l4l to desire, that
a Comitittre nii,4llt he aipoioted to carry t; le intention into execu-
tion. Committee wes accordingly fOrmr.i at 'Richmond 1-litase,
of which the Doke of Itiehttiond was i'resident, and came to the
following I.lcolittion% : • -
Resolved, Toot a Cirellll.l Letter he writt(lt to every General
((Beer awl Colonel of a re,!itnent in Great Itrttaiti and Irr:ate!, to
ktiow if he eltoose to become a Subscriber of a sum not ~;-ectling
Tweii!s.-five Goim•as.
Re:olvetl, That the Fete he giver. on the 13th of Jni•:. and tit
is very desirable to ascertain the number of Subscritnrs .-uan
as pte+sible, in r,rder that the Committee may fix on the putnUer of
Tickets to be given to each Subscriber.
(Signed) CHARLES DUKE, Secretary.

The the Duke of Wellington, Maishal
Prince Blocher, Prince Piatoff, the Duke of York, the Duiie
of Cambridge, the Duke of Richmond, the Ma• gills of
Wf.lleJev, the Marquis of Huntley, the Earl of Westmor-
land, the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Nlaster
of
tl,e lions, and several other distinguished Personages, dine
with the " Pill Club" on Tuesday next.
Wednesday, a Court of Common Council was held in the
F,gyptian Hall, at the Mansion House, " to consider the
mode to he adopted in con,equence of the Resolution of the
Court of the '29th of October. IS E 2, tint the Freedom of
the City voted on the 9th of May, t S 11, to be presented to
Lord Viscount Wellington, in testimony of the h;gli sense
they entertained of his great public services, he presented
to the Most Noble the Marquis of Wellington on his return
to this countr,.., in a gold box, of the value of 200 guineas,
(t,,gethe7 with the Sword, voted on the same day), by a Corn-
mittee this Court then to be appointed." It was re-
solved, that the Freedom and Sword he presented in the pre-
sence of the :\Tembers in thc..;:nildhall. it was also resolved,
that the Duke of Wellington be invited to dine with the
Corporation, in the Guildhall, on any clay convenient to his
C race ; and it was referred to the CommittV, to give such
directionis for fitting up the Hall as they shou!d see fit
Messrs. Pedder and Cast were discharged from serving the
ofii, c of Sheriff, on paving the fin? Qf 4001. and 20 &parks,
and it was ordered that such other persons in nomination
he excused, on paving the like fine before the 19th
of July next.—Friday a Deputation waited upon his Grace
the Duke of We!lington with the invitation of the Corpora-
tion, when his Grace was pleased to fix Saturday next at
which time the Sword, Freedom, and Gold 800 will be pre-
sented to him.
On Wednesday, Mr. Long Wellesley gave a grand fete to
his uncle, the Duke of Wellington, at Wanstea4 House. he
Prince Regent, the,Duke of York, the Prussian Princes trel
(feria William and Henry, left town about six o'clock, to be
present at the dinner. In the evening there was a ~rand hall,
which was attende4 by upward; of onethousand distinguished
fashionahles.

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