The National Register.
London, England, 1817-11-17 00:00:00

Ftwa4 the.LONDON GAZETTE, Saturday, Nve. 15.

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BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.

IA tEs W. late of
Nov. IS, to Dec. 2.
BANKRUPTS.

Piccadilly, chmirelonger, from

P.OIRT J. Denbigh, draper, Dee. 3,4, 27, at Manchester. Att.
Mr. Ellis, Chaneery-La.e.
PITTs L. Thorpe Abbots, Norfolk, merchant, Nov. 26,27. Dec.
27, at Norfolk. Ans. Taylor and Co. Temrle.
TrtL'art.t G. M. New Street-square, Fetter .lane, wine merchant,
Nov. 18, Dec. .2, 2, at GtuidhaU. Att. Mr. Haynes, Fen-

church-street.
Hawk:2 W. Lamerton, Devon. merchant, Dec. 2,3, 27, at Ply-
louuth. Alt. Mr. Fairbank, Staple Inn.
Bterte rr W. P. late of Wakefield, linen draper, Nov. '27, es, Dec.
17. at Wakefield. Atts. Lamberts and Co. Grays Inn.
War NwatouT G. New Compton-street, St. Giles, bottle merchant,
Nov. 22,25, Dec. 27, at Guildhall. AU. Mr. Willett, Crown-
court, ThreadneAlle-street.
un' rz W. Long Acre, spring blind maker, Nov. 22, Dec. 2, 27,
at Guildhall. -Att. Mr. Popkin, Dean-street, Soho.
NtaDtties W. Daventry, Northampton, cr. c:r, Nov. la, 2.5, Dec.
at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Latleirge, Gray's Inn-lane.
t oust: .1. Fareham, Southampton, tanner, Nov. 23, 29, Dec. 27,
at Fareltam. Atte. Alexander and New Inn.
b,r4 I Tlf T. Chepstow, Monmouth, cabinet maker, Nov. 27,23, Dee.
27, at Monmouth. Acts. Trice sr.(' Co. Lincoln's Ir.n.
Pow ELL J. 'Topsham, Devon, rope maker, Nov. 21, 24,-Dec. 27, at
Exeter. Atts. Collett and Co. Chancery-lane.
Dav me W. Tredegar iron works, Morunouth, innholder, Nov. 27,
28, Dec. 27, at Monmouth. Atts. Price and Co. Lincoln's Inn.
(,lIEEN J. Salford, Somerset, victualler, Nov. 27, 28, Dec. 27, at
Bath. Au. Mr. Young, Charlotte-row, Mansion-house.
HoLanoutt 'l'. Bath, coach master:. Nov. 27, 28, 1./tie. 27, at Bath.
Att. Mr. Young, Charloite.row, Mansion-house.
SMITH J. Shrewsbury liaen draper, Dec. 5, 4. ‘l7 ,at Manchester.
Atts. Adlington and 'Co. Bedtind-row,
QUINT J.'Noeth Woolbot ough, Devon, spirit merchant, Nov. 18,19,
Dec. 17, at Guildhall. Alts. Larub and Co. Princeststreet,
Bait.
Pat.1.2.1r C. and J. P. Massur, late of Love-lane, factors, Nov.
18, Dec. 2, 21, at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Williams, Dyer's.builti-
.

lags, Holborri..
li07l:111NSON W. St. John-street, Middlesex, cheesemonger, Nov.
25, I)ee. 9, 27, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Robinson, Park-street,
Westniinater.
Ru.siir W. late of the Borough-market, Southwark, victualler.
Nov. 18, 22, Dec. 27, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. llunnam,
Chambers, Covent Garden.
MATH LSO?, W. and (;,.4.11./6PRAIIE, Bishopsgute-street, Without,
tailors, Nov. 18, De 27, at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Willett,
Crown-court, Threadneedle-street.
DKr:l:maw; R. andJ. St. John btreet, Clerkenwell, brewers, Nov.
27, at G11111116%11. AU. Mr. Gab:fish-4,ton, London-

wed, Fenchurch..treet.
COLLITIV)N J. H utlckrstiell, York, boat builder, Nor. 18, Dec. 2,
27, at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Chew, Fenchurch-street.

Abbott, Powis-place,—tireatOrmuba-street, iusuraacc broker,

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Dee. 6.
S. L. Viorsfold, Ramsgate, shopkeeper, Dee. 9.
J. Wells and W. Hamilton, Liverp•ol. merchants, Dx. 9.
I'. Collin;, Old Hall, Salop, corn dealer, Dec. 9.
J. Buck, Hingham, Nortolk,firoc.er, Dec. 11.
W. Lockwood, Manchester, merchant. Dec. 16.
J. Stevens and J. Fitz Gerratd, New S.irum, Wilts, cabinet ma-

kers, I)ec. 8.
E. Thomas, Liverpool, merchant, Dec. 10.
T. and M. Neave, lace of Btiekton, Southampton, miller, Dec. 9.
1-1. Dunn. Ware, Hertford, auctioneer, Dee.
C. A. Ansel!, Carshalton, Surrey, paper maker, Dec. 6.
W. Douglas, Sheffield, grocer. Dec. 10.
H. Weiner, London-greet, London, merchant, Dec. G.
J. Champion, Great St. Helen's, broker, Dcc. ti.
.1. F. Schroder, jun. Crutch-_d Friars. merchant, Dec. 6.
1). C. Mats!). widow, L. Deane, widow, IL Westbrook sen. and H.

B. Deane, Reading, bankers,. Dec. fi.
T. and J. Dowley, late of Willow-street, Bankside, coal merchants,

, -
Dec. 6.
J. Robertson and J. Stein. Lawrence Pountaey-hill, merchants,

Dec. X 7.
W. liouna, L-tte of Christopher-street, Finsbury-square, merchant,
Dec. 6. _

C. Love, Bond-street, jeweller, Dec. 16.
ti„ Steer, Holborn Hill, fiercer, Dec. ty7.
CERTIFICATES, Dr.c. fi.
J. Robinson, Helper, Derby, grocer—S. Thomas,
York, cattle jobber—W. Elmitt, Peterborough, Northamptn, dra-
jser—E. Brown and T. Hindle, Blackburn, Lancaster, grocers—J.
'Waller, Manchester, hatter—J. White, Oxford, timber merchant-
3. and J. Sykes, Leeds. York, merchants--W. Priday, tQuedgley,
Gloucester, butcher—W. Bottle, Green-greet, Kent, saddler—lt. and
T. Boville, Swainby, York, merchants—W. Stone, late of
Illilver-
ton, Somerset, dealer.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONDON:

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17,1817.

THE domestic calamity which the nation has indured
sinks all other considerations into comparative insig-
nificance. From every part of the kingdqm the dole-
ful note of woe is re-echoed, and wailings for the past
with gloomy anticipations of the future are bonne on
every breeze. Even in France the intelligence made an
impression which could hardly have been expected.—
The Duke of Orleans, who had a dinner party for that
clay, immediately countermanded the invitations, and
even on the French 'Change a gloom took place
when the intelligence was known, and no business
was transacted. The Brussels papers state that Mr.
Kerr, the messenger had arrived at that city with the
afflicting intelligence to the Duke of Kent. His
Koial Highness wtts much affected ; his grief is de-
acribcd as boundless.

An express reached town on Friday from Paris, with
flan intelligence, that the Government of France had
actedeil to an application on behalf of the Allied troops,

it?..permit the importation of Iturn from England for
• t'itir accommodation and use. As soon as the infor-
• i graeraily tranqpircd, (Urn advanced firm la,

TIM NATI4IAL REGISTVII:

4d. to Qs. per gallon. This measure of the French
Government may perhaps be accounted fur, from its
operating as a redaction of the price of brandy ;
which being an article of general consumption, has,
through the succession of bad seasons, and the occupa-
tion of the country by foreigners in 1815, arrived at
:an onvenicut price, and added to the hardships of
the people.
The French Chambers have not yet proceeded to any
business of importance, having been principally engaged
in verifying the powers of the different members and
other preliminary matters.

Baltimore papers received on Friday supply a va-
riety of intelligence from the Spanish Main, of a more
recent date than any which had previously been re-
ceived in this country. It should, however, be re-
ceived with caution, as is notoriously the practice
of the Americans to place the roval Cathie in un un-
favourable point of view. According to these papers,
General Morillo and his force, after several conflicts
with the Insurgents, in which they were worsted,
arrived on the 3d. Sept. at Laguira, and meant to lose
no time in marching all the threes he could raise to
Caraccas, in aid of that place, so as, if possible, to an-
ticipate the Insurgents, whose aim was to get posses-
sion of that city before any resistance could reach it.
Great alterations arc said to have taken place at La-
guira, both as regarded the local Gower of the
Province, and the political state of the country at
large. The Captain-General Moro bad been removed
from the Government by order of Morillo; and the
late Governor of Cutnana having been appointed in his
place, had made many subordinate changes. The late
Captain-General's conduct had been conspicuously
mule by a prodigal waste of the public resourses, and
had been reprobated as tyrimieal and oppressive. His
successor was spoken of in favourable terms. The In-
surgents had acquired such strength and confidence by
their recent successes as to excite hopes of their speedy
and lasting independence. Bolivar, it was believed,
would be Enabled to contend with the whole force con:
emulated under the orders of Morillo. The Spaniards
appeared to be alarmed and depressed. Morillo's de-
feats are excused by alleging that his presence was ne-
cessary on the Continent, so far indeed it was stated
truly, for he is wanted every where. Commerce dwin-
dled in the midst of civil conflicts, and nothing could
be disposed of but articles of the first necessity.
A letter has been received from the Agent to Lloyd's
at the Cape of Good Hope, dated the 15th of Septem-
ber, and stating the arrival at that settlement of a ves-
sal from Batavia and the Mauritius,with accseuntsof the
destruction of a Dutch garrison by the natives of the
island of Lupperwaro, near Amboyna. A three of 200
men had been detached from the latter island, and suf-
fered to land at the place above mentioned, whets the
inhabitants surrounded and pet them all to death.—
The Dutch Resident and his fimily were among those
who perished. Admiral Buynkus was on the point of
sailing with an expedition from Amboyna, probably to
attack the murderers of his countrymen. There is reams
to believe, from many concurring authorities, that the
Dutch are as odious to their ancient subjects in those
Seas, as the British Government was respected and
beloved. The relief from severe and arbitrary burdens,
the speedy reform of old abuses, the administration of
equal justice, and the display of a spirit of mildness and
protection towards the inhabitants of Java and the other
islanes, wete the cure and honourable means by which
Great Britain commanded their willing obedience, and
filled their hearts with undisguised affliction and des-
pair when she surrendered them in conformity to recent
treaties.

The Moniteur repeats the statement given in the
German and Netherland Papers, that Spain has agreed
to give for the Russian squadron the sum of 400,0001.
which she is to receire from England, for consenting to
abolish the Slave Trade in the year 1820!
SUCCESSION TO TIM CROWN,--There are fourteen
English Princes and Princesses in succession to the
British Throne. According to a table formed on a
medium between the Northampton Table of Observa-
tions, and the probability of life in London (snpposin,g
neither of the illustrious individuals to have issue),
there will be in the next twenty-one years nine reigns.
two of them female ones; and after the first there will
be no reign longer than twenty-one mooths, and two
as short as five months.

Orders were on Weigesday night sent to the several
gaols which contain tfie remainder of the State pri-
soners, for the release of ten of the number whose elves
would admit of such lenity. Two of them were re-
leased from Horsemonger Gaol.
John Edward Conant, Esq. the son of Sir Natha-
niel Conant, is appinted a Police Magistrate in the
room of the late Sir William Parsons, at Worship-
street office, Mr. Gifford, the Magistrate of that office,
having been removed to Marlborougb-stseet office.
Mn. 'l'rtowis SHERIDAN.—We are sorry to state
the death of this gentleman. He died at the Cape of
Goud Hops, ott the 12th of September last.

N►/I'. 17.

SIR RICHARb CROFT.

To be the object of thefool's malevolence is the usual
fate of talent, and of all men who are exposed to-the
censures of the ignorant, .the medical practitioner, is
perhaps, the most to be pitied; for the scandalous breath
of the impudent quack will sometimes raise a cloud suf-
ficient to obscure the brightest names. To this fate
Sir Richard Croft is at this moment exposed. The ue-
tineunate death of her Royal Highness the Princess
Charlotte under his hands, has given licence to every
petty knave to point their finger at hint. Foremost
among those, who in the ignorance, presume to a
raign his conduct, is Mr. Jesse Foot, a professional man
whom the 3forning Chronicle describes as being among
the most respectable in his profession !—Who has not
heard of Jesse Loot ? This man has inserted a letter
in some of the daily papers, in which he charges
the Medical attendants on her Royal Highness
with ignorance or inattention. To say nothing of the
folly, can any thing exceed the impudence of this ? A
man who was never near the spot, who can know
nothing of the particulars of the unhappy case but
from common fame, a man no nv)re like Sir Itichard
Croft, either in his practice or his manners, " than I to
Hercules," and yet be has the inconceivable effrontry
not. only to arraign his conduct, but also that of the
two very eminent gentlemen who were associated with
him. We have not inserted this malignant letter, be-
cause we will not be instrumental in propagating ca-
lumnies against the most exulted characters in their
professions which this, or perhaps any other coun.
try can boast ; but we willingly, and indeed most
cheerfully, present our readers with the tbilowing,
written by order of the Prince Regent to Sir Richard
Croft, expressive of his sense of Sir Richard's merits :
" sir B. Bloomfield is honoured by the commando of the Prince
Regent to convey to Sir Richard Croft his Itord klighnek's
acknowledgments of the zealous care and indefatigable attention
marife,,ted towards his beloved daughter, thtrine her late eventful
confinement; and to express his Royal Highaass's entire confidtnce
in the medical skill and ability which he di,played during the ardu-
ous and protracted labour, whereof the issue, under the will of
vine Providence, has overwhelmed his Royal Highness in such deep
affliction.
" Carlton-house, Nov. 8,1:417."

Our Readers will have observed by the Report given
in our last number, that {faring, the man who wwiet-prin.
cipal evidence against Roger O'Connor, on his trial at the
Trim Assizes, for robbing the mail, has been prosecuted
for perjury, at the instance of that gentleman, and ac..
quitted to the high satisfliction of a crowded court.
In our present number, we insert the cross examination
of Mr. O'Connor, at greater length than in our last,
for it involves the affair of the robbery in additional
mystery, and, together with the horrid and disgusting
confession of his total infidelity, furnishes a picture of
moral and religious degradation, which, thank God, is of
rare occurrence.

It has more than once been our painful duty to re-
mark, upon the laxity of religious principle, which in
general characterizes those men who set themselves up
fiir zealous reformers of political abuses. Their enmity
to the religious establishments, appears to keep pace
with their labours against the political frame of their
country, and whether as admirers of the levelling
Paine, the lunatic Spence, or the coxcomb Owen, still
they are infidels, though but a few of them have the
unblushing confidence to avow it. With them, a dis-
regard of that text which enjoins us to " honour the
king," induces a contempt of the precept coupled with
it, which exhorts us to " fear God."

Can we for a moment imagine a more spoiling scene
than that of a man standing up in a British Court of
Justice, (we say a British Court, for there are not many
things on earth of a more solemn character,) and boldly
declaring, his disbelief in all those great truths upon
which our hope is founded, and which, amidst all
terrestrial misery becomes our only consolation. What
we ask is, to restrain such a man from the commissicn
of any crime ! Divine precept he despises, future re•
wards and punishments he denies ; what then but ba.
man can bind him? and how feeble would Mey prove
under the reformed system of these enlightened
lators !

If this man's avowal of his infidelity bad affected
himself only, we should have passed it without an n'o..
scrvation ; but it has had an effect infinitely more to he
lamented than the farther degradation of his own wort!:-
less and contemptible name. He has dragged down
with him a man who has long enjoyed a large portion
of public favour, and who, whatever his religions creed
may be, has had the good sense not to obtrude it urn
the public eye. After snch a confession, however, we
think Sir Francis Burdett cannot wish to be lonbaer
numbered h the list of Mr. Roger O'Connor's frieirh,
and we cannot but sincerely lament, that the interest
which he has lately taken in the affairs of that gent/c-
-man, excites a suspicion that he loves to renew, in the
infidel converse of Roger O'Connor, the remembrance
of the scepticism of John Horne Tooke.

Cobbett, it is said, has never dared to set foot cn the '
American Continent since his departure from this ecun.
try, except merely to land, on his first arrival. He
then removed in haste to Long Island ; where he re-
mains, and from which place his vile publications are
permitted to find vent in this country.