The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-25 00:00:00

DUBLIN.

I.OliD MAYOR'S DINNICH.
We have gnat pleasure in informing our readers, that the also-
selai isle spirit to in alig risms and unti-eatholici MI, by which the go-
i•tintent of Ireland has been ling disAriteeil. has sustained a signal
th ek. Tte 'literal and enlightanal sermittetitt and opinions of the
present I.nril Lieutenant, Karl Talbot, and of Mr. Grant, his Chief
fi, eretors. titian a splendid commit with the narrow and contracted
logotry of the It tike of 'Helium:ld anl Peel. Even the Com-
rani Council of etc city of Dublin, which, like the Town Council of
21111,1ther northern re:worths. was lung distinguished only tor the
fawning servility and grovelling prejudices of those persons of whom
It animas id, np,,i:ars at length to be awakened to a better sense of
what it awes to the C. immiiity it represent;. At the Lind Mavor's
dinner. both Earl Talbot and Mr. Grant were present, and their
speeches were distin ;uislial for a spirit of frankitets end liberality
which is the best pledge of what may le. expected from their future
administration. Tais, however. we; extremely piling to the
Orange faetton ; an I no sooner had Mr. Grant sat down, than the
hind, which had b 'en previooily drake!, 'amd; up, " Croppies lie
a tan." nut the Lord Mayor. Alderman 11I•Kenny, one of the
most inileitemlent a id respectable gentlemen in Dublin, immediately
oalerssi them to plot; amt: er tune. After the Lord Mayor had given
tie mritiory of Lo 1 'el on, Alderman Archer roar, and pro,toaed
14 ',spa r to the " Glorious and Una:art:l memory of William the
Third." The law 1 Mayor paid nu in to tin.; sally, but gave
thee' Primate and Clinrch at Ireland;" and when Alderman Archer
iballtsse to force tilt party toast va the comp lay. the Lord Mayor,
with infltite goon itatuour, gave " The Mother of St. Patrick. '—
Thistuast elictud Cie repeated cheers of the distinguished guests, and
silenced Alderman Archer.
Several other national and patriotic toasts were drank, and at half-
pea eleven o'clock. his Excellency the Loral Lieutenant, his suite,
and seietal of the noblemen and gentlemen, including Mr. Grant.
Mr. Grepry, &c. retired, high &lighted with the polite and hos,.
&able attentions of the Lord :Mayor, who attended Earl Talbot to
his earriage.
We have now to state an occurrence the most strange and unjtiti-
f able which perhaps ever took place at an assembly of this kind.--
When the Lord Mayor reentered the roam, after having seen the
Lied Lieuteitantdepart. some Members of the Corporation proceeded
to Bats° ma Loansitio accousT, for omitting the notorious
• immortal memory." The Lord Mayor took his station at the head
of the table. and, in very energetic and animated terms, explained
his reasons far not having given the toast. He said, lie felt vet,
strongly the importance and the value of the situation in which he
li ad been placed by the kindness of his fellow citizens; but that, highly
as he prised that situation. he would not compromise his own cha-
racter, or the dimity of his office, by suffering any man. or set of
men, to dictate to him. lie said, he haul been astonished beyond '
measure upon discovering that the band, who were his servants for
the day, hail beers tutored by some secret influence, which he was
wholly at a loss to account for, to disobey his orders, and absolutely
insult his guests by playing obnoxious airs. To what, he a .ked, was
he to attributethe circumstance of" Croppies lie down" being played.
the moment the health of the Chief Secretary had beer, drank if
ant to that management behind the curtain which lie was surprised
to find in such netnieious activity, but which lie would make it his
business to develop and destroy. Ile said, he had taken the office of
Chief Magistrate of the city of Dublin under different circumstances.
and perhaps with different feelings, from many of his predecessors.—
lie would be happy to receive the advice of any of his friends, but he
must always clans the right of exercising his own judgment upon
every act wide!' was to be performed by himself, and for which lie
would hold himself wholly responsible ; but lie must repeat. he never
could permit himself to be dictated to by any man at the head of his
oats table. The taste and disposition must be very extraordinary
indeed, which could select such an accompini nent as " Crop*, lie
down." for such speeches as those of the Lord Lieutenant and his
Seeretary—tneeches abounding with sentiments so conciliatory, so gra-
tifying to the people of this country, so flaw ring to their best hopes
—speeches web as had never, perhaps, before been heard from per-
sons in their station. He would take special care, however. that' no
each trick should ever be played upon him again. These, said his
Lordship, are the reasons by which, elthom,h the toast was upon my
tut, I was prevented from giving it; and certtinly I should not, in
any event. have proposed it without such accompanying observations
as would have divested it of all party character, and hare rendered it
perfectly incapable of givingeffence to any individual in this room,
or indeed to any portion of m' fellow countrymen. I trust, conti-
nued the Lord Mayor. that it Is not necessary for me, at this time,
to make any declaration of sty principles. Every nian who knows
me, knows that I am firmly attached to the King, the Constitution.
the Government and Laws of this country, and that 1 yield to no
tine is devotion to the Protestant religion; but I certainly am not
among those persons who think that that holy religion which I pro-
fess and venerate is best supported by wounding. oppressing, or
insulting my Catholic countrymen. (Loud and repeated cheers.)-1
have been chasm% to fill a high and honourable office. and it shall be
my unceasing study to dintharge its duties efficiently. To fulfil them
honestly. is. at all events, in my power ; and I ant resolved that every
act of mine shall be regulated by the strictest impartiality.
This admirable speech was received by the loud and continued
cheers of the immense majority of the company.

Tuesday morning, about 10 o'6oek, u fire of a very alarm
ins appeerance occurred at the house of Mr. C. H. Hose, a
eh, miss a Hi druggist, in Crowu-street,Finsbury.square. From
the information we could gather upon the spot, it appeared
that Mrs. Hose was attending some cliyinical preparation, in
winch was a great eitautity of spirits of [turpentine, on the
kitchen tire, whirls is up stairs. and from some accident the
'Orgill upset, and the titehen was in an instant enveloped in
flamer, and the window being open the dames issued into the
street. Mrs. Rose was very h scorched about the face
and Sleek, and carried to a house opposite, fearful that the
whole house would he burnt to the ground The young man
in ifir •hop, Who ran to Mrs. Hose's assistance, had his hands
sod face very 00000 els burnt. We ate happy to add that Mrs.
Hose is not in a dangerons state. In a short lime several est.
gine" arrived; but their assistance Was not necessary, as the
danger passed with the flame, leaving the whole house in a
%t nine of smoke.
A few nights ago some villains entered a field et
Paddisagtoa, sad most iulitittienly slaughtered a 'Mich cow,
the property of Mr. Speang, the row keeper. Whilst the
poet animal was still Mite, the ruffians divided the hind quar-
ters, past of which they carried away. and next morning the
remainder was found l y Mr. Sprang's servant in that 'shingled
state. A reward of 201. has been very properly offered lice
the apnretietision of the perpetrators /if the inhumes; outrage.
A shocking accident happened at Great &Ahem, Surrey. on
Tu. silay I.tt t..-. 1. young man. named George Hill. had the pre-
y...ling day purchased a house at Letitia:Arad Fair. and was upun
his retarn to Shimley Green, near Wonersh, wk.,' the animal sud-
denly b.xame unmanageable. and set oft with his rider at full speed.
btu his wild carter was soon irtorten s 1 by his knocking down and
fatting over a poor old women who chanced to be wing along the
road at the time. and from deatnett was insensible of hit aoprnech.
The horse was not materially injured by. the tall, but the leis onfits.
nage victim- sit his unkwevnable pint were found lying DWI( each
other. dreadfully man4led anal bruised. Hill was taken up tensely's.
and died very shortly atterwartly. The wonin.whuts: !UM'S ar Ayres.
16,0 who it near sv years of age, tow lies in a must nnserabie con-
ga:ie.?, her face and ar,t,s beim{ li eattly ref in pieces t she is not
ii,yecred to reeor:r. An 1.1,111”1. ,V. 1.4 held t a rise body of George
;1, on thaseiay t V,:aLcs—ac

TIDE NATIONAL REGISTrft

WES T 111 INS TEIC aESSIONS,

Thursday these Sessions emnineneed before R. Raker.
Esq. dude foil Henri' of 111.igiSI rates.
Aries the Grand JII sy we: e sworn, the Chairman addressed
them. lie began by ex, ressing his regret that the eaten.
dar writ% so ... usually heavy. There were at the present mu.
nn nt not less than 177 prisoners iu Tothill-fieldsptiaon.—
The Magistrates had visited that prison, and were happy to
find that only one case of sickness, soil that ,41.1 of a pri•
sorter who was ill before he came in. This healthy forte of
rim prison was chiefly rowing to the excellent order mid
d;septine kept up by Mr. bladder, the governor, and also to
the care and diligence at the surgeon. A committee of the
HMV(' of Commons having declared, in their report of the
state of the pi ismis of the ineiropo:iii, that the prison in
Tothilldields was wholly unfit for the reception of prisoners,
the Mdgisirates had take,. Vie mattes Wu their swims* con-
sideration; and it mishit be a eatisfation to the Grand Jury
and the public to know, that by this time next year they
might expect to see a new prison erected on the present site.
lii April last the attention oldie Grand Jury was called to
the state of the prism', by the late very able and active chair.
mail Mr. !Watson; and that Jury, after having, examined its
situation, presumed it as a nuisance • and lie had no doubt
whatever, that before the end of the present session, the
magistrate* would come to some decision respecting the
building of the new prison. This certainly would entail •
a considerable share of expence on that portion of the public
who were obliged to contribute to it; but it was a charge
which would he trusted, be borne with pleasure, front the
consideration that it was likely to be productive of so much
good. The Chairman again called the attention of the Jury
to the great press of business which they had to go through,
and expressed a hope that it would be diapatehed as speedily
as possible. .
George Edwards was indicted for writing and publishing
a wilful, false and malicious libel against Hannah the wife of
Greaves.

Mr. Alley, itladdressing the Jury, observed, that from the
evidence he had to produce, this would appear a most ag.
graveled crime, and one which called for exemplary punish.
uncut. The prisoner had, from what motive it did not ap-
pear, written and exhibited in s I places a most wicked,
scandalous, and indecent libel, casting the foulest reflections
upon the character and conduct of Mrs. Greases • and in.
stead of expressing any contrition fur what he had done
when a remonstrance was made to him, he went from place
to place, and seemed rather to boast of it. Under these
circumstances the prosecutor thought it necessary to bring
the case before a Jury, and to refuse ale offers of a compru-
wise which had been made.
Mr. Greases stated, that he was landlord of the Brown

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Bear public house, Bow-street. In consequence of having
area a paper written by defendant, lie remonstrated with
him, and defendant did not deny the fact, hit t told hint it was
done for "a bit of fun." An associate of the prisoner, who
was implicated in the transaction, was indicted and found
'nifty fur it last session. (Here the libel was handed into
the Jury, it being considered of too indelicate a nature to be
read openly in Court.]
Mr. Arabia, for the defendant. said, that to save the time of
Court, lie would admit the libel.
The Chairman summed tip the evidence, and the Jury re-
m ned a verdict of—Guilty.
Tl.c Chairman, after a suitable admonition to the prisoner,
said that there was nothing in his condcct which could in•
Jute the Bench to make any difference in his case from that
of Wilkinson, who was aft eady found guilty for the same
offence, and sentenced to twelve mouths' imprisonment. The
sentence of the Court therefore was, that be be confined in
the Honse of Correction for 12 months.
Thomas. Norwich was indicted and found guilty of stealing
a box coat and a waistcoat belonging to John White, the
coachman to Mrs. Garrick, relict of the celebrated David
Garrick, The prosecutor who is a very old man, being asked
by a gentleman from the Bench how old Mrs. Garrick was,
answered that she was 106 years in August last.
FRIDAY, Ocr. 23.
At an early hour, the passage leading to the Session's
House was eery much crowded by persons in expeetetiou of
hearing the trial between Mr. Hunt, Covent Garden no-
toriety, and Mr. Lee, the High Constable, in consequence of
some ploceedlngs arising out of the Westminster Election ;
but, at ter waiting* considerable time' they beg** to disperse,
it being announced that Mr. Hunt had declined proceeding
Blather in the affair.

Candles, owing to a monopoly of tallow, are made 'abject
to a serious rise, being now we believe, at 14s. the dozen—
full one third higher than last year, when the importations of
tallow from Russia were many thousands of casks less than
the imports of the present year. The tallow being in the
hands of but few, the markets are supplied at the discretion
of the monopolists, and thus an artificial price is created ;
but it cannot last long, the price of candles must soon fall,
and rapidly ; consumers, therefore, bad better supply them-
selves sparingly for the present. Weed the drop has al-
ready commenced ; tallow fell in London last week, when
the importation exceeded that of the preceding week by
2,a46 casks : and it appears by an extract of a letter from St.
Petersburg'', dated Sept. 19, that large quantities of tallow
have been recently purchased in that country for England
their arrival therefore, may soon be expected.
Tuesday last a daring and extensive robbery was committed
on the premises uf'Mr. Leftwich, a respectable tradesman,
residing at Paradise-row, Rutherhithe. On Wednesday Mr.
Leftwich received an anonymous letter, informing, him that
several of the larger notes, which had been stolen from bin',
having become useless to the holders, in conseqience of being
stopped at the Bank, he would find them, to the amount of
one hundred pounds, either in the pound, ur tinder the by idge
of China Hall-fields, Rutherhithe. Mr. Leftwich, acrotu•
panted by sonic friends, went to the spot described in the
letter, and in the midst of sonic stinging Nettles, found a
small parcel, covered with canvas and tied with rope)arn,
which, upon being opened was, found to confab, 1001 in
II ink-notes, and a teasel', of which he was also robbed the
name night. The letter forth,; informed him, that the gang
which. broke open his house consisted of six men, and it was
their intention to have murdered every person from whom
y experienced resistance.
At a late hour on Wednesday night, or early on Tlinroalay
mos sung, the premises of Mr. Arnold, situate at the bark of
the English Opera House, Strand, were entered, and between
3 and 4100 weight of lead was stripped oft the roof, and quiro
Mee efrota, wit.cla the thieves contra,' ti to carry away impel-
reeved, supposed in a hackney coach. A 'mime :Meng,'
wools place some time %lore, loot the watchman giving the
oara isa, they escaped, leaving their plunder behiud.