The National Register.
London, England, 1819-11-21 00:00:00

TUE NATIONAL REGISTER.

therefore thought, that, according to all former
practice, the fine need not be paid till the expiration
of the two years. But it seems that a new prauti‘e
commenced in the case of Mr. Wolfe, who was fined
for swindling transaetions, that-a motion wen made
fin. a lenari facers, to preventthe removal or dispo-
sal of the goods, &c. in the city„ the only property
that the defendant possessed which could be made
available for the fine. The same has been done in
the of Carifle : and on these new precedents
they attach Sir Manasseh- so early. By an imme-
diate payment of 10,0001, it makes at least 1,0001.
difference by the interest of 10,0001. for two years.
Judgment was pronounced in the Court of King's
Bench, on Wednesday, •upon -a bookseller • named
Joseph Russel, of-Birmiggliam, who was convicted
at the last Warwick Assizes of-having sold copies of
Hone e' Parodies. The unfortunate man was sen-
tenced to six months' imprisonment in the gaol of
'Warwick. It undoubtedly -is- severe that,. Russell,
should be ruined. in property, deprived of his perso-
nal liberty, and subjected to a heavy punishment,
for al act which, on three successive trials, was so-
lemnly pronounced in a Court of Justice, by three
highly-respectable Jitries, not to be an offence
against the wellbeing of the State.
aninsellor •Phillips's speech at the Missionary
soeiety at Gloucester has spread- through this coun-
try, as also- on the Continent. A singular' occur-
rence happened to Mr. Phillips, a few days before
he attended that meeting. While he was at Chel-
tenham, he was invited to dine at a geutleman's a
friend of his—at the table was a young lady, he
was struck with her beauty, and paid his addresses
to her, a gentleman present had far some time done
the nine ; the party all went to Gloucester the day
of the -meeting, anti Mr. Phillips on the road offered
the lady his hand.- Ca their return, the Gentleman
sent him a challenge, anti the.day after the parties
met (as has been laid betitre the public in the papers).
The young Lady on Saturday last.gave Mr. Phillips
her hand, preferring his pleadings to a handsome
settlement.

A parochial meeting of the parish of St. George
the Martyr, Southwark, was held on Friday last, to
take the opinion of the parishioners on the late ca-
lamitous proceedings at Manchester, when an ad-
ress to the Prince Reient to institute an inquiry
was unanimously agreed to..
A very singular occurrence took place at• Ponte-
fract a short time ago. Mr. Purslove, of that town,
having suddenly disappeared, an advertisement was
issued ow the SOth ult. stating that he had then been
mis..ing 20 days, and offering a considerable reward
to any
.ose.who would communicate to his friends
any information respecting the fate of the unfortu-
nate individual; but in vain, till Thursday week,
when Three boys who were going to Pontefract fair,
accidently discovered his lifeless body in a ditch near
Iladsworth, nearly covered with leavee,-sticks Ste.
A Coroner's Inquest was immediately summoned,
and some suspicious circumstances having been fully
and .satistiiciorily investigated the verdict of the
Jury wass--Died by the visitation of Gird. The
body was the same- evening interred at Pontefract,
by torch light, an awful instance attic uncertainty
of human life.

A daring.rohltery. was committed at Huddersfield
on Saturduy se'nnight. About three o'clock a per-
son decently drcsAed walked into the shop of Sir.
111ingworth, patten nicker, in that place, while
person was reading at the desk, and reaching over
the counter opened the money drawer, from which
he took nut a pocket-book containing upwards of 401.
in notes, :with which he walked oft: The shop-
keeper, whose attention was more fixed upon hs
book than upon his charge, had his slumbering sus-
picion awakened by the hurried steps with which
the offender. whom he took to be the owner of the
shop, effected his retreat, but not in sufficient time
to prevent his escape, - On the return of Mr. 11-
lingwort► he found he had been robbed, and from
the description and dress of the person who had
visited the shop in his absence, suspicion fell upon
Jawes Maid!, shoemaker, of Upper Weinwood:—
Weavill was accordingly apprehended, and at ••first
denied any knowledge of the robbery, but on being
closely pressed he made full confession•- of• his guilt,
stating that •he had hidden the atolen•property in the
roof of a barn, where it was found, The delinquent
was on Tucaday— 3e nnight brought beffire B. H.
Allen, Est. and fully committed for trial
Elopement.—About twelve o'clock on Monday
night, a young lady, heiress to a very considerable
fortune,.and• only daughter of an officer of high
rank in the army,-and also a Member cf Parliament,
eloped. with a young gentlemen. The latter is the
third son of a clergyman.who resides in Surrey,
and is the father of a very large family The fu-
gitives set oft' from the west ena of the town, in
which the young lady's father resides, in a. chaise
and four. Theo are both under 21 years-of age.—
The young ;4entleman had only kis returned from
college Tile Continent is supposed to be their im-
mediate destiaatum. A pursuit was commenced as
soon as the elopement was discovered.

COURT or KING'S BENCH, livroaDiv, Nov. We

James Russell, the unfortunate man who was sentenced to
sit sssss impriminraeut in tlw gaol of Warwick, for
one of Hone's Kinaties, which neither ef three SUCCesiliV•
London Juries gould be induced to declare libellous. was •
yesterday brats,: ht into Court to plead tontrindictinent for
'.cling one of the Nitinhers of Carlile's .` Republican".
The poor man st ,ted hiinself to he a bookseller on a very'
small scale in Bironazloners, that he had been entirely-nosed,
by the r.rrner prosecution, that be had givemnp the little he
had left to his creditors—and on pleadag Nut Guilty to the •
present iodiciment,declared thou be had not money nor meals,
rnonKh left to pay for a copy of the indictment. Ever) one •
in Court appeared to commiserate with his distress, and did
Chief Justice Abbott told hint that be might hereafter see is,
forma pauperise
OLDu it • I liquiver.—The rule obtained by Mr. Searlelt
ngninst Mr. Taylor, fur putting into the hands of the Joey .4
statement of facts from a Mr. Entrinhavr, who being a
Quaker, would not be sworn before the Inquest, was tine
day mudeabsolute.

The Gasetie of last night contains an offer of a
reward of 5001. for the discovery of the person or'
persons who fired a loaded pistol at 'Mr. Nadir,
Deputy Constable of• Manchester, on Thursday
night, the 11th instant.
It is stated in the Paris Papers, that by a new -
regulation, which commenced on Sunday senniglit
at Calais, the English Journals are charged postage'
as letters, by which the expence of them is tripled,
the annual expence of a Daily, London Paper to
Paris now amountidg to 100 Louis, at Tours to 200,
and-rt Marseilles to 300:•

A serious affray took place last Tuesday nigh•, •
between a party of the 4th Dragoon Guards now
quartered in Huddersfield, and a number of the in-
habitants.—lt seems that a soldier went with his
wife into the market-place, and stopping behind for
some purpose, the woman proceeded alone towards a
stall, when she was insulted with the most oppro-
brious epithets by several fellows who stood near,
and, we believes was jostled by one of them. The
man going to her assistance•was immediately knock-
ed down. The alann beimg given to several of hi.:•
comrades ,who were at hand: they ran to his assis-
tance, and pulling a stall in pieces, furnished them-
selves with weapons from thence, with which they,
Lid about theta so effectually as to clear the ground
in a short time.—We regret to say, that two of the
soldiers were severely hurt. A reward of 101. Le
offered for the discovery of the persons who coln-.•
meneed the affray •
A dispute of rattler a serious nstnre hss taken plane in
the Nlediterranean, between .he America.' Commodore
Stewart. and some oMcers coinposing a Court M inial
'nil a marine. The Cuotin•xdore refused to confirm the
'entetice of the Cour% which led to disrespectful lan.
goaae, audio the end Captains Nl'Dree.terti, Dalian',
and Niohol•on, and •Lientetiants Gallagher, and Page,
were suspended from their command..
The cup presented by the freeholders of the connty oC
Hereford, to T. Foley, Fol. will hold nearly two gal-
loos, is gilt on the held., and richly chased on the out-
side with ornaments of oak leaves and acorns, in allusion
to the emblems wont by that geotlemae's friends at his
several elections.

M 4.1 DER.—AII inquest was taken,. On 541,11410' last, •
befo. e Thonms Illsatell, Esq., Coronet of loser, on dm
body of Jotan Pater. when, alter a long and minute in-
vestigation, whteli lasted many hour• the Jury ottani'
moody telierned a verdict of wilful der against James
Pater, the brother of the deceased, It appeared in evi-
dence, luau on sunilay last the two•lirmlters wereat sea
off Dungeness, in a ti.bisig•snraek helooging fo them, and
having susfurtitasiely fallen in will. a smuggling lugger,
%hitch forisishied them with a supply of spirits, they hod.,
drank till they were• much intoxicated. The deceased
rerired to.bed, but James the brother, Isidng on deck,
eitigrrriled vials oily with inte of the ere w, and sin' the de-
eea•eel going rip to eudr.ismtr to purity them, sorthiapitilf
oldness...A the brother's passion, who knocked Olin down,
mete fullowerl•himomti beat out his brains with a heavy-
iron 111.4 Ili, used for nitstockin; anehors. The Imltappr
wretch who committed like mintier is lodged in our gaol,
will be matured to take hia•trial at the Admiralty
sessions. It appears 111 has- been subject to occasional.
tits of plirenzy, from itaviug..liatl his skull fractured
whilst serving on board a ni4u of war. Both mesa have
wires and families.

• TO ELTITOII.

Slll,—Your paper of tha7lhisst.tontarned a paragtaph '
purpor►ing to be from the pen oftitat very orthodox sad
intolerant old lades Mrs. Hannah Moore, en the death-he:l
of Thomas Paine. Now; Sir, no 1114 H livb►g has a greater
contempt for Paine's theological w ' igs than myself.
They, are equally shallow, vulgar, and indecent, and have
met the most amide refutation from Watson, Wakefield,
and Priestley. Hitt is a sorry way of answering a man'.
Regimens*, to tell hes shout hint.• The story. about hi♦
dratli-bed rests upon no foundation, and it •sne of tho•e.
ph.sis frands which many goad personsr•with' more zeal
discretion, have in all Nees of the Christian Church
invented. I could produce yon a score such in five war
•.

I deeply regret that in thi: age or ilia world men shoalti:
think of calhag in lie alio of the law to help Chri•lisuity
In withal/mil the eureka or its adversaries,: Let them be
me: sod answered. by foroargoment, hut don't call io the
constable di an aninhary. Ili. really ludicrous to hear
that !Icy tinikula wnii h Ines Gud for its author, attempted
4o ne stippot fed by Atdoiney.Geneiale and Judgcm, and to
hair the troth and authenticity of the Gmpei out „pun,
a lea el (as to the le of defence) Kith a Turnpike Hill.
Norwich, Noe. I A CtlitbrlAN..-

pVe invert the above, av it Comes f•rnm an esteemed
Oor observalioo.. however, on the subject a
Cxrlde',.'l.iale siII convince one readers that our opiniont
on the necevatty a the pronecntion i• deeided, sled differs
entirely (ruin ter Correspoodtut.—Eu