The National Register.
London, England, 1821-02-25 00:00:00

FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTF.

This Gazette contains the appointment of J. Simmons, of
Rochester, Kent, Gent. to bey Master Extraordinary in the
Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTS. _

G. Arnall, Leamington, Warwick, wine merchant. Solicitor,
Mr. Platt, New Boswell Court.
_ .

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Warbrick, Liverpool, merchant. Sols. Messrs. Lowe and
Cu. Temple.
J. Rose, Rath, grocer. Sols. Mews. Hurd and Johnson,
Temple.
Twigg, Sheffield, plumber. Sols. Messrs. Blagrave and
Wakir,Spoon's Inn.
S. Downes, Cranbourne Street, Leicester Square, haberdasher.
Sol. Mr. James, Ilucklerebury.
E. L. Fox, Junior Idol Lane, Tower Street, broker. Sole.
Messrs. Dennett and Co. Coleman Street.

J. Sprigens, Cheshatn, Bucks, draper. Sol. Mr. Thomas,
Fen Cuurt, Fenchurch Street.
T. Powell, Bath, cloth factor. Sol. Mr. Smith, Basinghall
Street.

R. Gurney, Stafford Street, Bond Street, picture dealer. Sols.
Messrs. Pos•ell and Co. Nicholas Lane.

D. Pitt, Fenchurc:i Street, bower. Solt. Messrs. Noy and
Co. Great Tower Street. _ _

T. Ward, Coventry, silk manufacturer. Sol. Mr. James,
Bucklersbury.
11. I'rouglaton, jun. Coventry, siikman. SoL Mr. James,
Bucklersbury.
T. Palmer„ Gutter Lane, Cheapside, silk manufacturer. Sol.
My. James, Bucklersbury.
G. Wilson. Liverpool, linen draper. Sols. Messrs. Lowe and
Co. Chancery Lane.
T. Smith, Caponfield, Staffordshire, iron master. Sol. Mr.
Alexander, Carey Street.
J. Whaley, King's Lynn, Norfolk, watchmaker. Sol. Mr.
Wright, Temple.
J. Ashford and E. L. Ireland. Birmingham, factors. Sols.
Messrs. Egerton and Co. Gray's Inn Square.
J. Lawton, Saddlewortb„ York, innkeeper. Sols. Mears.
Hurd and Co. Temple.
W. James, jun. Abergarenny. Monmouthshire. cabinetmaker.
Sol. Mr. Platt, New Boswell Court.
S. W. Bircks, Thorne, Yorkstun, mercer. Sol. Mr. Bettye,
Chancery Lane.
W. Bainbridge, Brentwood, Durham, horse dealer. Sols.
Messrs. Dixon and Co. Gray's Inn Square.
It. Candy, Woven Town, Somerset, tanner. Sols. Messrs
Perkins anti Co. Gray's Inn.
H. Hoahs, Chu:tester, Sussex, farmer. Sul. Mr. Sowton,
Gray's Inn.
A. Citvay, Woolwicn, draper. Sol. Mr. Corry, Ba.singhall
Street. . _ _

J. M. Newman, Bromagrnre, Worcester, wool dealer. Sols.
Mesa's. Flatlgate and Co. L.”tat St,eet, Strand.
W. Snerdte, Farnham, Surrey, grocer. Suls. Messrs. Stevens
and Co. Little St. Thomas Apubtle.
S. Mace, Noraicn, grocer. Suh. Messrs. layer and Covetdale,
Gray'. inn Square.
Asney, Gossiell Street. china dealer. Sol. Mr. Parton,
Saw Churcn Yard.

J. Farrell, Newington Causeway, Surrey. merchant. Sols.
Mn.o Knight anti kreeman, Basinghall Street.
W. and J. F. Lea. Paternoster Bow, silk wanufacturers.
Mr. Watson, Southampton Buildings, Chancery Lane.
A. Sans. Sloane street, Chelsea, upholsterer. Sots. Messrs.
Rogers anti Sun, Manclie3ter Buildings, ‘Vestininster.
Dl VIDENDs.

March 24, S. L. Wor.told, Hasnsgate. Kent, shopkeeper-17.
R. A. Jonts, Tottenham Court Howl, iii en draper—W. H.
Maths, Old Fish Street bookseller-24, %. Toinlimon, Hinck-
ley, Leicebtershare, innkeeper,-17, G. and n. Robinson, Pater.
noeta How, booksellers-2J, T. Crump and T. 11111, junior,

LANGE, Fey. V 3.

Seville, 35—Gibraltar, 304
Ltghoi el, 481—Genoa, 4.11
Malta, 43—Venie e, 27 GO
Napl✓s, 384—Li.bon, 4d04
Opurto, 49i—llallia,
Rau Jarieno, 49t
11.1
Dublin, 71 per cent.
Durk, per cebt.
Foreign gold in ban, SI. 17s.
10p1. per oz.
New DuntilJuns, 31.145. bd.
New D0i14v4,4,. 100.
Silver iu bins, slautlwril, 4s.
II 4d.

PRICE

Bank Stnrk

3 per Cent. Red. 73i
i per Cent. Comola Tii
per Ceul.
itl*
i per Cent. Navy LIT
Loud Ann. IS I.i-15

TUE NATIONAL REGISTER.

!Almon.
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2S.

There is no species of sophistry to which some
men will not have recourse, to support positions, to
render which tenable, honest means are insufficient.
Thus in both Houses of Parliament have the lead-
Wig Ministers, in answer to the motions, having for
their end the protection of Naples from a much
more tyrannical interference than ever disgraced
Napoleon's reign, replied, that for the last twenty
years the Whigs had been loud in their condemna-
tion of war, and now, that Ministers had resolved
not to interfere, they censured them fur their pacific
determination ; but do Lords Liverpool and Castle-
reagh suppose, that because by their influence majo-
rities may assent to this statement, the people are to
be gulled by it—do they suppose that the country
will not see through the shallow falsehood of it ?
The Whigs were always opposed to a war of aggres-
sion a war commenced against the liberty of a people
opposed to tyranny; and the same feelings of liberality
actuate the Whigs when they would hold out the
protecting arm of England to save the Neapolitans
from the infamous, lawless dictation of the " lloly
Alliance."—Had a revolution been effected in oppo-
sition to the wishes of the King, we hold that they
would have no right to interfere; but when the good
old King, studying the happiness of his people,
willingly acceded to the proposed alteration,for these
despots to unite to prevent his goodness is, perhaps,
an instance without a parallel, on the score of its
shamelessness. We know, however, that " a people
to be free need only to will it," and we hope that
if they should attempt to carry their menace into
effect, the disasters of Napoleon's expedition to
Moscow may be rendered trilling, in comparison
with those of the Aggressors against Naples.

Lord John Russell's motion for a Committee to
inquire into the outrage committed against the
liberties of the people by the I ugh !iherifF of the
county of Dublin, has been defeated by a vote of
the House. Ministers referred the complainants •o
the legal tribunalsos they did those who complained
of the primpiilude of the Magistrates and Yeomanry
at Manchester—As if a fair investigation could be

Loped for in either situation before a Grand Jury,
over which Government has influcnce.

Mr. Hunt, the Proprietor of The Esenniner, has
been found guilty of a libel upon the House of Com-
mons—the language which formed the ground of
the indictment was very strong, And however true

part of the assertions may be, while truth is held to

aggravate libel, were imprudent. Mr. Hunt con-
ducted his own defence, and in the course of it he
animadverted strongly, but very properly, on the
cruelty of the law which enables an Attorney Ge-
neral to ruin (if he be villain enough to wish

it), any one he may have a dislike to, by filing re-
peated ea do infiirmations against him. We have
been credibly informed, that three of these execrable
proceedings were filed against the Messrs. Hunts in
one year, that neither of the three were ever brought

to trial, and that each of them cost the defendants at
least one hundred pounds! " The King pays no
costs," and they were without a remedy. A power
of so great oppression ought not to be vested in any
hands, and the Member who proposed its annihila.
tion would merit the thanks, not only of those who
are connected with the Press, but of the country
at large.

A petition was offered to the House of Commons
on Friday evening from Davison, the printer, com-
plaining of the conduct of Judge Best, on his late
trial—the House, however, choose to refuse even
hearing it read.—On the prudence of such a line of
conduct we forbear to comment, but of the object of
the petition we may be allowed at once to express
our pity, our commiseration, our sympathy towards
the learned Judge on the score of the lamentable,
childish irascibility of temper, and declare that we
think a man who does not possesss strength enough

of wind to combat such a natural defect, ought not
to have accepted a seat on the Bench of Justice,

whose characteristic is cool discrimination.—Per-
haps Mr. Justice Best may see the propriety of a
resignation—he will still he entitled to his retiring
pension.

The Paris papers of Wednesday have arrived. The
French funds continue to rise. The following are
extracts—

TILI'AiN, TEN. 14.
The Milan Gametic contains a Proclamation, dated Padua.
Feb.. 6, in which Gen. Frimnnt announces to the Austrian army
under his command. that it is going to advance with inienikins
entirely paeVc.
We receive intelligence that the passage of the Po, so often
announced, has commenerd on five different points. and that
Tuscany and Rome must be at this moment occupied. We do
not know whether the Austrians will attempt to enter the Nea-
politan territory, or await on the frontiers the answer to the dis-
patches which the Duke de Gallo has been charged to carry to
Naples.
STOCSHOL3I, JAN. 30.
The well known unpleasant affair relative to English property
which wassequestered some years at Bodsea. in Premark, will
it is said be speedily adjusted, and great praise is given in the
mercantile world to the moderation which the Engisli govern-
ment displays in its proceedings on this subject, as well as the
open and ingenuous manner in which Mr. Fitzgerald, the am-
bassador. fulfils his instructions. Our merchants are the more
pleased that this one only point in dispute between the two go-
vernments is in a fair way of arrangement as it is confidently
asserted (besides that the interest of Norway cannot be different
from that of Sweden) that questions of the highest importance
to the two nations are now nebociating between us and Great
B nude- _

A private letter from Paris states, that the English in that
city who have had banks at their house have been arrested and
sentenced to two months' imprisonment. The gambling houses
in Paris are licensed, and under the authority of the police.

Mr. Hase communicated to the gentlemen of the
Exchange on Thursday morning, that the payments
on the omnium which the bank took in have been
postponed as follows ;—.50 per cent. to be paid the
15th of April ; 50 per ditto, on the red' of May.
It is in contemplation, it is said, to call a public
inetting, to be held in the Egyptian-hall, foe the
purpose of entering into a subscription for the aid of
the Neapolitans, as was fortnerly the case for the
Poles, now that a powerful confederacy has been
formed against their liberties and independence.
The Rev. James I'. Law, A.M. one of the Pre-
bendaries of Chester Cathedral, and son of the
Bishop of Chester, is appointed by the Lord Bishop
of Lichfield and Coventry to the Chancellorship of
that Diocese, vacant by the decease of the la e Dr.
Outraru.

The magistrates of Lincoln have issued a notice
prohibiting drovers and carriers from travelling on
the Sabbath, and butchers front killing or selling
meat on that day, wider the penalties of the Act
passed in the third year of King Charles I.
The amount of the duties paid on windows, ac-
cording to a return made by order of the House of
Commons from the sth Jan. 1820. to the sth of
Jan. 1821, was 2,366,a311. Its. IV. The total
expence incurred by the Navy and Victnalling
Boards, for conveying and victualling settlers to the
Cape of Good Hope, is 86,7601 ss. 4d.
An eagle, which me .sured from the tip of one
wing to the tip of the other, ►even feet one inch,
and from the head to the tail two feet ten inches,
and weighed nearly ten pounds, was shot a few days
ago in the grounds of Forest-hall, in Lasex, by the
gams-keeper.