The National Register.
London, England, 1822-04-21 00:00:00

Illt"JAIL.

The following order appears in a Lisbon paper of
the 28th ult. which arrived on Th u rsday :

To 111 E YROVI•IONAL JUNTA OF GOVERNMENT AT
PERNAAIBECO. _ _

There having been laid bi fore the King a note of Mr. E.
Ward, Charge d•Alliiites of his Iliitnonic bhjesty in this
1, of she Ist imt. lace 1111 l ;nulled by a letter of the Consul
teener:it of thesrcute nation at Braid, of ilse Yeah of February
last, relating, to the revision of the tariff of ititlolllll in that
kingdom, for the valuation of the British imicroufar tures, and
tie order of liar Soveieign C011,1".14 in this respect; his
Nejesty orders, by the Secretary of Sidle for the A fhb' of
Flitsll, e, that the Piiivisional Junta of the Province of Per-
nambuco shall immediately issue the necessary orders to the
Di; ertor of the Cumuli*. and other competem ;authorities, to
pore. d without loss of lime t• the ►efu.r of the said tariff,
conformably to the 15th ;article of the treaty of commerce,
concluded betneen tr.e crown sand hi. Hi itaanic N1:6.11y,
and to remit the result through the secretary of the same de.
partmeic to be presented to the Sovereign Congress.
to at the Palace of Qurluz, this II th day of March, 1822.
• JOSE IGNACIO DA COSTA.

A similar order has been addressed to the Provi-
sional Juntas of the provinces of Rio de Janeiro,
Marenham, Para, Paraiba, St. Paulo, Ceara, Rio
Grande de S. Pedro do Sul, Santa Cashania, and
Alagoas
Besides the above circular to the Junta of Brasil,
another has been addressed to them, reprobating the
arbitrary proceedings which have been complained
of by the British Government, of exacting, besides
the regular duties on British rnanufitctures, an addi-
tional and arbitrary sum to cover the increase of the
duty which may arise from the new or future tariff
practice highly lamentable, and contrary to the
treaties happily subsisting between the two nations.

FROM LIST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
CARLTON HOUSE. APRIL 19.
.

_
The King was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood on It H. Blosset, Esq. Sergeant at Law, on his
appointment to be Chic! Justice of the Supreme Court ot'Judica-
tore in Bengal.
Tne King was also pleaked to confer the honour of Knighthood
nn Charli, Ker, Esq. of Dateshaw, in Itoxbourgshire, a Deputy
Lieutenant of that county, M.D. late a itlember of the Army
Aletlical Boird.

The K nig was also pleased to confer the honour of Knighthood
on W. Flank:in. Esq. on his appointment to be one of the Jus-
twe. of the Supreme Court Judicature at Madras.

CROWN OFFICE, APRIL
.20..

MEMBER returned to serve in this pte*ent PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Minehead.....l. Douglas, Esq. of Grantham, in
the county of Lincoln, in the room of H. F. Lutuell, Eiq• who
Lab accepted the CUM= Hundreds.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

lonbon :
SUNDAY, APRIL v.
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A Committee to examine the method of keeping the
public accounts was moved for on Thursday evening,
and being granted was nominated by the Chancellor
of the Exchequer.—On no subject is enquiry more
needed—on none reform more wanted; but we arc
not sanguine as to the result of the labours of the
Committee in question—the very aim of Ministers
all along has been to mystify, because an absence of
perspicuity threw obstacles in the way of those who
wished to detect impositions, and therefore little
good can or ought to be expected from a Commit-
tee in which, being nominated by the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, he has doubtless taken care to secure
a majority in favour of the views of himself and his
colleagues—nevertheless good may arise from an ex-

position of those evils, the removal of which is pre-
vented by the interposition of those who derive emo-
lument and influence by their continuance.

His Majesty will certainly go to the Continent
this summer, and will visit Cologn, Bonn, Cob-
lentz, there cross the Rhine to inspect the almost
impregnable fortress of Ehrenbreitstein, Jouannis-
burg, the seat of Prince Metternich, Wiesbaden,
Frankfurt (and in that neighbourhood continue a
day or two with his sister the Princess of Hesse
Homburg), Darmstadt, Manheim, Heidelburg (to
see the great tun), Ludwigsburgh, Stutgard (where
with the Queen Dowager of Wurtemburg, late
Princess Royal of England, he will remain some
time, not having seen her since 6lic left her home);

from thence to Ulm, cross the Danube, and p iss
through Augsburg to Munich, afterwards over the
plain of Huhenlinden to Passau, or go at once to
Regensburg, to visit the father of the Princess
Esterhazy, and there embark on the " Dark rolling
Danube" fur Vienna. It is said his Majesty has
expressed a wish to stop at the fine city of Lentz,
also at the noble Convent at Molk, of which a cor-
rect description is given by Dibdin in his Biogra.
phical and Picturesque Tour; also to inspect the
fine ruin in which the lion hearted Richatd was
confined. The Marquess of Hastings, who is on his
return from his government in India, has been ap-
pointed ambassador to Austria; he does not come
here, but is expected to meet the King of England
at Vienna. The sports and pastimes in preparation
by the Emperor of Austria. are reported to la! oa a
scale of uncommon magnificence ; all the petty
Princes and inferior Kings in Germany will assist
at these banquets. His Majesty has promised to
visit the Principality of Esterhazy, in Hungary,
and return by way of Prague, Toplitz, and Dres-
den. Should the state of the road permit, he ‘vi:l
go from thence to Berlin, and take Hanover on his
way home. Paris is included in the tour, but in
what stage of it is not yet determined.

The Paris papers of Wednesday last have arrived,
the following arc extracts:-

PARIS, Aram 16.—A report has spread that dis-
orders have broken out at Nanci,in which a regiment
of cavalry and a regiment of infantry garrisoned
there took part on different sides. It does not, how-
ever, appear that politics was the cause. We shall
hereafter give the details which may reach us on
this subject.

Statements have been for some days in circulation
respecting the quarrels whi,:h took place at B,:fort,
between the young recruits and the soldiers of the
garrison. These accounts require confirmation, the
more as they have not been mentioned in any j:urnal.
To-day, at four o'clock, the English journal, the
Morning Chronicle, was seized in all the public
places of this city. No. 12 of this liberal journal
contains, it is said, a revolutionary song, in French,
addressed to the soldiers who form the cordon if
health at the foot of the Pyrenees. Tt is to be pre-
sumed that the French Ambassador at London wit
have maintained on this occasion the honour of 1113
Government in a manner worthy of his noble cha-
racter.

Hamburgh papers to the 12thi inst. have arrived.
They contain the snpplement to the Russian tariff,
which is not to be in operation till the first of May,
(0.5.) and all mercantile transactions previous to
that period are to be regulated by the present tariff.
According to the new supplement the following
articles are to be prohibited :—All white, green, and
black cloths, refined sugar and lumps, silk manufac-
tures, jewellery, itnil several articles of steel.—The
import duty on other articles, for instance wins s,
will be raised probably 30 per cent. The tenor of
the supplement, if correctly described, will be inju-
rious to our woollen and other manufactures ; but
the commercial policy of Russia and other fortign
countries, is evidently founded in principle on
former non-important decrees of Buonaparle• Tl:e
accounts from Russia in the Hamburgh papers have
is general been amicipated by the Paris journals.--
They are still warlike, but are not supported by any
satisfactory authority. They ►well the Russian
forces to an overwhelming size on the Pruth, as they
are stated at 20,000 dragoons, and a park of 500
pieces of cannon, besides a second army in Podolia.
--We do not believe that Russia bus the finances to
put half the number in motion.

A writer in the Philadelphia Advertiser recom-
mends the membrane or inner skin of the common
hen's egg to be applied to recent contusions or bruises
on the face of children, who are perpetually liable to
them from falls, running against furniture, &c. If
allowed to remain on a few hours, it will restore the
part to a healthy state, preventing the extravasation
of blood, which otherwise will remain unsightly tar
a long time.

1W

'file KING'S LITEE.—On Friday his Majesty
had a levee at Carlton-house, which was attended
by the Cabinet Ministers, the Foreign Ambassadors,
the Speaker of the House of Commons, the Lord
Nluyor and Sherifhi of the City of London, a great
number of Noblemen and Gentlemen, and several
Military and Naval Officers. In the Presence
Chamber the King sat on his throne, supported by
his Royal Highness the Duke of York and the Duke
of Wellington. Among the presentations were the
French Ambassador, Viscount Chateaubriand, and
other distinguished characters. Military bands
played popular airs during the arrival and departure
of the company, and numbers were assembled in
consequence of the favourable weather, in front of
the Palace, from the commencement until the con-
clusion of the levee. His Mjesty after the levee
gave audience to the Marquis of Londonderry and
Lord Liverpool.
GIBRALTAR, MARCH 29 —The Board of Health
of the island of Minorca, have published an account
of their proceedings during the prevalence of the
yellow fever in the Lazaretto of Mahon. It :wears
that 176 persons from 4J infected ships had catered
the infirmaries, out of which number 22 had died.
Through the precautionary measures taken by the
Board of Health, Port Mahon and the whole island
continued to enjoy perfect salubrity, although the
Feat of contagion and death was not 200 yards from
the town. _

IlooPisa-Counn.—Dr. Archer, an American
physician, says, relative to the cure of the hooping-
caugh by vaccination, " I have vaccined six or
eight patients that had the luxquing-cough, and in
every case it has succeeded in curin., this most dis-
tressing disease. The hooping-cough does not come
to its height in less than six weeks from its com-
mencement, and then, when a favourable termina-
tion is expected, the declension of the disease is gra-
dual, and it does not terminate in less than six
wzeks more. To arrest this afflicting disorder in its
progress, I would recommend vaccination in the
second or third week of the hooping-cough, i, e.
when the symptoms of the hooping-coogh are fully
ascertained, then to vaccinate. Should the convul-
sive cough be. violent, I should immediately vacci-
nate, lacing assured that the distressing symptoms of
tl:e Looping-cough are checked by vaccine disease.
The termination of the vaccine disease will be the
termination of the Looping-cough."
Extract from a letter received at Lloyd's, dated
Constantinople, Feb. 25 :—" A Neapolitan vessel
lately came down from Ismael with a cargo of corn
belonging to a Russian House at Odessa, which had
no sooner arrived than the Porte seized it, under a
charge of having been concerned in the affair of
Galatz last year. The Russian House claims the
cargo, but the Porte refused to give it up. There
appears to have been something wrong, as her
waster and crew ran away on the first outcry.—
Another vessel has arrived fiom the Danube, laden
with corn, and having the French flag flying,
which has been seized by the Porte, and sent to the
arsenal. She is accused of being another of the yes-
sis concerned in the Galatz business; Ler construc-
tion is said to be 'riot. Five others are expected
under similar circumstances. The crew of the latter
vtssel have been seized by the Porte."
There is no truth whatever in the report that
Quiroga and Ilicgo had been assassinated at Madrid.
It has arisen out of a clumsy fabrication got up in
P4ri, which contained the very extraordinary addi-
tion, that, in consequence of that catastrophe, the
populace of Madrid has risen, and put to death, not
wily the whole of the royal family, but the members
of the Cortcs, not one of whom survived the fury of
the multitude. The date assigned for the alarming
event at Madrid was the 30th ult. Had there been
the smallest foundation for it, we should have known
it some time ago, as intelligence is frequently con-
veyed by express from Madrid to London in seven
days.

On Friday morning, at test o'clock, the mortal
remains of Sir N. Conant were removed from his
residence in Portland Place with all due ceremony,
aTid were most respectably attended. The proces-
si•nt moved slowly on, along the New-road towards
Finehley, where, on its arrival, thu remains of the
deceased were deposited in the family vault, where
the remains of the deceased's lady were also con-
signed. The ceremony was conducted with the
greatest solemnity.
An official return to an order of the House of
Commons of the establishment fur the collection of
the Customs in Ireland, states the annual amount of
salaries at the port of Dublin at 64,5851. is. 10d.;
this includes five Commissioners, whose total salary
is 5,3001.; one of these offices, annual salary I,OOOL
is now vacant. A like return for England, fur the
Fort of London, includes nine Commissioners at
1,4001. a year each, with 6001. additional to the
Chairman, and 3001. additional to the Deputy
Chairman.

Within tile last 30 years it is calculated that in
Lincolnshire alone upwards of 300,000 acres of
Leath, woods, and ten lands, have been converted
into arable.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER'

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(Tureens[.)

This day the Speaker took the chair at twelve o'clock.
Several members took the oaths end their seam The
orders of the day were read ; the different hills forward-
ed one stage, and the house adjoarned to Nloutlry.

COURT OF KING'S BENCll.—(YsirsapAir.)
ROBERT WAITHMAN, EMI. ALDERMAN, I'. SHAcILLE AND

Hutt., ritnestriona or " TUB JOHN BULL".
This *us an action brought by Mr. Alderman Waitliman
against the defendants, to recover a promotion for Injury
sustained by the publication of a malicious libel in Weir
paper, imputing to him the receiving of stolen goods ; and
also, his having euuniniited wilful mid currapt p' :jury.
Mr. Campbell opened the pleadings, amid ;Mr. Scuilett
stated the case to the Jury, in the progress of which he des.
celled the defendant* as wholesale deicers its libel, derision(
considerable emolument from their trade. The libel in
question appeared in the paper in the mouth of September,
1841, and imputed to the plaintiff the Won't purchuss d
some shawls in tho year 180 d, that had heels frau-
dulently obtained from a Mr. Cooper, in Bund-street, at a
price far below their value, and that in his retort' is: the
amount of profits ander the laminae tag act, he made a false
return, amid afterwamli swore to the fiskehood. The feat ned
Counsel proceeded to impress u; he muds of the Jury the
injury that had been indicted upon the reputtitiou of the
plaintiff, aho had fur more than forty years conducted him.
self in that unimpeachable misimer that justly led Isias
1p the protection of the law, and the vctd,ct attic Jury on
the sat sent occasion.
Mr. Presly, from the stamp-offiee, proved the proprietor-
ship of the paper to be in the defendants, flow affidavits made
and filed at bis rare. 'fins witness underwent a c!ose cross-
egainitintion by Mr. Sergeant Vaughan. Nothing was,
however, elicited by it to shake his lestasion3. The pubil-
, cation of the libel by the defendants wits admitted.
Mr. Beiniley proved his having printed the Paper in Jan.
1821, for the defendants, amid also ut the time ut the publi-
cation of the libel. The paper was set up at the house of
the defendants, in Johnson's-court, Fleet-street.
Mr. Mattison, from Sumetset-how-e produced the paper
filed by the defendinits; it aas the 9th of September,
The libel was then read by Mr. A 'shot', and this being the
case for the plaintiff,
Mr. Sergeant Vaughan rote to address the Jury on behalf
of the defendams. -Toe learned Sergeant proceeded to
state that there not being a justification on the record pre-
vented bas going into a proof of the allegations in the
imputed libel ; he should, however, show there were circum-
stances of strung suspicion.
[Here the Chief Justice expressed his doubts as to the
the propriety of receiving evidence upon this poi. t.
The Learned Sergeant proceeded to cite various oath°.
lilies in support of his position, they were, however,
overruled by the Chief Justice, who stated, if the de-
fendants were satisfied, they could apply to the Court,
in baracu, to have his decision act right, if it should be
considered arcing.
The ChielJnatire addressed the Jury in • brief way
upon the most prominent parts of the case, when, after
a short deliberation, they returned a verdict fur Ore
plaintill--llatnages 5001. and costs.
Mr. Scarlett, Mr. Gurney, and Mr. Campbell, weie
Counsel for the plaintiffs and Messrs. Sergeant Vaughan,
Puller, and Chitty, for the delesidanta.

We are happy to learn, that a meeting, highly
interesting to the inhabitants of the county of Mid-
dlesex, took place on Monday, at the Queen's Head
tavern, in Holborn, composed of deputations from the
various parishes in the county, convened by the
united parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, and St.
George the Martyr, to consider of the measures ne-
cessary to he adopted in consequence of the resigna-
tion of Mr. Main wariug, the late Treasurer fur the
county. The meeting was most numerously and
respectably attended. Statements of considauble
importance were made by Mr. Taylor, the vestry.
clerk for St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. George the
Martyr, relative to the arrangements hitherto pur-
sued in auditing and conducting the county tr.:counts.
Resolutions were passed, by which the chairman
(Mr. Montague) and Mr. Taylor were deputed to
solicit from the magistracy of the county some ex-
planation relative to the state of the accounts on the
resignation of Mr. Mainwaring, and the extent of
securities available fur the liquidation of the ultimate
balance. The meeting then adjourned for a fort-
night, to afford time for the necessary communication
with the magistrates. No doubt can he entertained
that the gentlemen who constitute the magistracy of
this county will be anxious to afford every informa-
tion calculated to elucidate accounts, of which the
annual receipts, during the last four years, have
averaged 50,0001., and to concur in giving effect to
any reasonable plan that may be suggested, for pro-
tecting the ample funds placed. at the disposal of
future Treasurers from any defalcation, whether
arising from individual malversation, or from imper-
fection in the existing system of keeping the ac-
counts.

The failure of the crop of potatoes last year in
Ireland has unfortunately produced a scarcity bor-
dering on famine. The sole dependence of the pea-
santry kr Ibod depends now entirely on importation.
A quantity of potatoes and oatmeal has been ship-
ped at Guernsey and other places, fur the South of
Ireland, where the greatest possible misery prevails
at present.
A few days since, a gold fish-hook, size No. 3,
was found in the bed of an old river near Boscarne,
in the parish of Bodmin, Cornwall, where some men
were working liar tin; and not fur from the same
spot were taken up several Roman ceins of the reigns
of Vespasian and some of the later Emperors, &c.
The whole are in the possession of Robert Flamank,
Esq. of Bodrain, the land.ow•ner.

105

Duat.—At an early hour on Friday morning a meet.
ing took place in the fields at the back of the Montpelier
Tavern, Camberwell, between Lieut. ILS. and
Mr. M'—, a med,cal student attending the hospitals.
The Lieutenant was attended to the field by a brother
officer. and Mr% M'-- by his brother, who is a res.
pectahle surgeon. At the first fire, the Lieutenant was
struck in the right arm by his adversary's ball, wh:c:t
lacerated the flesh, but the wound is by nu means clan.
gerous. The affair then terminated.

ARTTUL SWINDLER.—On Thursday last, a young
woman, dressed like a servant girl, rather slight ma le,
dark eomple%imi, and of pleasing address, called at the
house of Miss A41:11114, who keeps a child-bed liiie:o
warehouse in the Borongli-ruad,and, representing
as the nursery-maid of Mrs. Saunders (wife of Mr. N.
Saunders, of Thames-street, and one of the Cullum:a
Councilmen of Billingsgate Ward), requested to look at
some baby linen, and mentioned Mrs. Fitzherbert
customer) as the person by whom her mistress had bee,
recommended. Miss Adams produced au assortine4t of
articles, and the female selected two cambric caps, value
VI. 21.,• three nankeen frocks, 11. 18s.; five white bo-
dies, 21. 25.; oankeen, Is., and two short robes, vi.
163., making in the whole 91. 17s. She said her mimics.
was very particular in paying for every thing on delivery.
and requested Miss Adams to carry home the goods, and
she would accompany litr. They proceeded together as
far as Thames-street, and the woman stopped at a Morse
which is let in chambers to commercial men, and 13
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which Mr. Saunders occupies apartments; she proceeded
up stairs with the goods, leaving Miss Adams in the pas-
sage, and her own bonnet and shawl on the balustrades
of the first Hour. in a few minutes she returned, put
her bowled and shawl again, and told Miss Atlauui tans
the goods were approved of, and that she was going o.it
to g;t change fora large note, to pay her for them. S!ie
then departed, and the latter, alter waiting two long-,
applied to Mr. Saunders, who knew nothing of tite
transaction ; Mrs. S. never lived at that house. Reese,
the marshainan, went to the house, and front what ttic

oflicer could collect, it seemed that many persons had
been defrauded in a similar manner, within the Litt
week, and that a c•nler in the city had furnished six
dozen knives and forks, worth tot. under an idea, that
they were for Mrs. Archer, who has chambers there.

The family of Mrs. Honer, in Bream's-row, Lamht.th,
experienced a great shock on Monday night, in c'•n,c-
quence of a calamity which befel Miss Margaret Honer,
her second daughter, about 16 years old. The yon
people had been at one of the Theatres, and the two
sisters went into their chamber m a fire, and soon after

the clothes of Margaret took fire when reaching over t b.!
mantle shelf, and she was momentarily in a blaze. Tips
sister joined tin shrieks, bit was too notch overcome t'i
have the presence of mind to assist, and the sill rer was
littrally burnt naked .it the upper part of her before
assistance was afforded. Iler back hair was compl,telf
burnt off: the room was also set fire to by the flames
commuitica.ing to tile window curtains and the bed fur-
niture, which Mal considerable damage, but was got
under without communicating further.

Monday night, about nine o'clock, a young lady. well
dressed, with a gold watch at her side, which was fas-
tened to a chain round her neck, on pasting by the shop
of Mr. Lonestaff, hosier, of Litigate-hill, was attacked
by two fellow., 'who einleavotsred to steal the watch
lions her side. The young lady was much alarmed, and
screamed so violently as to attract a crowd persons to the
spot. Ste wits taken into the shop of Mr. Longstati;
where she remained until her alartn had decreased,
after concealing her property, she had a coach to convey
her home. poring the whole of Ole day gati;o of
Duffers infest this part of the city, soil at slight tnieves
have been witnessed committiog their depr,ilations on
passengers, therefore the public ought to be cautious how,
tile), expose their property.
FELINE CURIOSITY.—A cat, behmaing to G. B:x Of.
of this town 0011 g known as the IYuchl.-4,
has a kitten 10 which Nature; we suppose in airolicsonte
mood, has given five perlect legs, two before as its com-
mon, and three behind, the supernumerary one beiti
placed between the ocher two ; and what renders it lure
'her noticeable is the peculiarity of Its Mot, which
pmscssses all the nreitabers common to two feet, but so
closely connected, that when its motion, they have the
appearance of but ooe. This extraordinary kitten is of
a dark tortoiseshell colon r, and being stroti-4 and Feely,
tin doubt is entertained of saving it fur the iiispect
those who may be fond of seeisia natural curtiisibts.

DARING ROESERY Friday last, atowit
o'clock, whilst Nlr. Alderman Smith w.►s presiding
the Town Ball, Southwark, his attentiou was stridto•
attracted to a riot in front of the jnstice.room, and he
sent out Welfare and Iteeve with orders to brine 0:e
disturbers into the office. In a few minutes the officers

returned with a decent look in 4 woman, tuttril E' z.

Roach, in custody, and followed by a rabble of flea, y
a doaen of well known disorderly females, who wits
one accord charged her with assaniting one of them.
Nlargaret I)utiovati, who offered to swear to the fact,
although she exhibited irso marks whatever of 111-usaile,
whilst, on the contrary, Mrs. R. was bleeding dread.
fully, and both her ears were lacerabsil, and her ear-rngs
gone. Front her statement, it appeared that whilst
walking peaceably along the High-street, she Wag at.
tacked by the woman Donovan and her deprased c -
panions, who forcibly tore out her ear-rings, and were
on the poilit of decamping when the officers came up—
The complainant denied this, and all the other woiriert
readily offered to swear to its untruth; but on searching
them all round, one of the ear-rings was found in 11,-
novan's bosom, and the other in the passage of the hail.
where one of them contrived to drop it. Mrs. Roach
was removed from the bar, and I).moran placed there
in her stead on the charae of robbery, which being
tisfactorily made out by the prusecutrix, and the persm:s
who found the property, she was hilly commotte.l.
companions in guilt, on [his awkward rprmitietiutiof
the business contrived to ma:te their escape.