The National Register.
London, England, 1811-03-24 00:00:00

THE
,N ATIONAL REGISTER.

and to vio,, tie Law. l'ius was not a situation in which a
Magistriite should be placed. The next person who fell into a
slmilsr snare, was a Bofiltseiler in Paternoster-row, who pub-
lished
proposals for a New System of Military Drawings, and
who took the precauticri to anf.er his name and residence to
the publication, but admitted to add the word c, London," for
which omission be was summoned to Guildhall, and was actu-
ally ordered to pay a penaity a 20,0001. for having violated the
Act, by the omission of the name of the town as well as of the
street In which he'resided With permission of the House he •
Was also desirous of placing the Printer of a hand-bill upon the
tame footing as the Printer ola nt v.rpaper.
Lord FOLKSTUNZ seconded the motion.--Leava was then
giveuva bring In the Billr..Adjourned.

tUVISDAY, Maui 21.
Otitte *iota reading of the Grand Junction Canal Water
works Bill being moved, the. Hon. Mr. Ward and Mr. Byng
opposed the utution ; J. C. Hippisley spoke in its favour,
find a•division taking place, the second reading was carried by a
majority of 15.
The. Order of the Day being read for taking into further con-
sideration the Comm. reial Credit Bid, the rate of interest on
the Bilis to be issued era,' fixed at 21d. per day.
PRESS IN INDIA.

Lord AICIIIIALD LL%MLTON rose to mute his promised mo-
tion for copies of all orders and regulations respecting the press
in India. The Noble Lord stated, that by these regulations no
ise*spaper could be published in India which did net previously
relbeive the sanction of the Secretary of the Government ; nor
was any thing permit t.d to be inserted in them respecting the
transactions of the Government there. After instancing several
acts of oppression against individuals who had not complied with
these regulations% the Noble Lord moved for the papers above,
tneutioned.
The motion was opposed by Mr. Dtrobits, as total!? unneces-
sary. There could be but two descriptions of persons in India;
either those who wee; to that country with the licence of the
Company, or those who lived hi It in the actual service of the
Company. Thi.ro could be no doubt tbeu whatever, that the
Company had a t ght to ray any reuulation they chose on those
Who in such ca2deity chose to Jive under their power. The
subjection of the press was absolutely necessary to the existence
of oar limpire in that country.
After a &bate of considerable length, the motionalas rejected
by a m.ajority of 53 to IS.
Mr. Du N.DA s mooed for the appointment of a Select Com-
eto exionine) and report to tile House, the state of the
affairs,of the Fait India Company.
Mr. Cry opposed the motion. Every time such a Com-
mittee was movrd for as the present, it had been the prelude to
art application for mouey from the country. He moved as an
mendment," that tlie Committee should also enquire into and
make a report of the conduct of the Directors and Board of
Cunt '

on division, the amendment was lost by a majority of 57.
AtVournetl.

MAPetr 22.
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The thmse was summoned to the House of Peer% tTpon
their ',Alan the Spe-A,r informed them that the Royal Assent
lkad been given to ofveral public and private
On the itioJ ion for the 3; tond reading bf the Market Harho.
moth 011141 kill, a discusdan took place, in which Lord Hen-
' piker, Ntr. Ord, and Mr. Ha% Itins Browne
.joined.
MP.C.ap r w inter moved an air erielment, that the Bill should
be read a second titne th:s day six. months , upon tvitich the
Hent,e divided, trtieti there appealed for the anunditient 92,
osattlt It 48--Atiprity 4.1. The Lill-was of course lost.
Upon the motion of Mr. Arstaraostlitit, accounts were or-
dosed to be laid before the House of the number of deserter.;
how the rtgul'as arr,t, front the 24th of December, 1809 to
1810.
Several accounts were also_ontered relative to the Finance of
„Ireland.

AMERICA. •
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Mr. WHITBREAD postponed his motion relative Am-
erica, which stood for the '27th of March, to the 3d of April, in
consequence of the absence of a number of Members.
SUPPLY.
The House resolved itself into, a Committee of Supply, in
which Mr. Yorke moved that the sum of 1,167,7511. be granted
to his Majesty for the halfpay of the ordinary of the navy for
the year lull .
Sir W. SCOT? (Judge of the High Court of Admiralty)
availed himself of this opportunity to repel a charge recently
insinuated against him by an Hon. Baronet of improper delay
in the proceedings of the Court of Admiralty. He went at
some length into the subject, and allowed that several yeats
elapsed before some causes had been brought to an issue in that
Court, but ascribed such a circumstance to the postponement of
the suit-rs, °wine to those on the one side being frequently
dispatched again to the service of the country, and those on the
other being resident in distant regions. The precise charge
against him in the present instance was, that the proceeds of
the ships taken at Camperdown were yet undistributed. He
enters.! minutely into this case, contending the delay was un-,
avoid Ale. He represented that the Court of Admiralty bad
been, within the last sixteen years, more laboriously occupied
than for a century before that period. Notwithstanding the
weight of business by Nvhich it was incessantly burdened, there
Were not more than thirty causes in arrear. Under such cir-
cumstances of its zeal in facilitating business, he deemed it ex-
tremely unjuA to censure its proceedings without enquiring into
the nature and causes of the supposed errors of the Court.
Mr. Ro 5 e sail, that all parties concerned in the causes which
had been delayed in the Court of Admiralty, had reason to be
obliged to the Right*Hon.Paronet (Sir W. Scott) for the delay
of decision. There was not a Court in the world where busie
ness was executed with more purity and dispatch.
Sir C. Po LE had said, and would declare, that abuses did exist
in the Court of Admiralty, and that it was expedient that those
abuses should be corrected. The interests of the seamen were
not sufficieutly attended to, and he was justified in uttering
this assertion by the circumstance of the ships which had been
captured in 1799, a dividend of the proceeds of which had nor
yet taken place.
Sir WI 1.1.1 A ;a justified his conduct upon the occasion alluded
to. He said that he only waited for the decision of a higher
Court to which the cause had been referred. The censure
which had been bestowed upon the delay was by no means ap-
plicable to hint, ss he was always in the habit of giving timely
decisions upon aim, cause which came under his cognizance.
After some further discussion the Resolution was agreed top
and the Home adjourned.

SPRING ASSIZES.

Ir()aK.

TRIAL OP JAMES WHITEHEAD,
FOR AN ATTEMPT TO MURDER lIIS SWEI•THEART.

Mr. Tr N DX t stated. that this was a prosecution under what Is
usual.ly called Lord Ellenborough's Act. The prisoner lived
servant with a Mr. Brown, of Headon, at the same time that
Ann Occleton, the prosecurrix in his indictment, lived there as
a domestic, and consider Ale degree of attachment existed be-
twixt them at that After Ann Occleton left the service
of Mr. trown,-,.tbeir intercourse was necessarily less frequent.
and litr lather having expressed some disapprobation at the:con•
nexion.a shlriess.on the .part of the young woman took place,
which probably led to the catastrophe as-detailed in the follow.
ing evidence •
Ann Occleton said, she first became acquainted with the pria
sener in December,l3o9, when she.liyed with Mr. Brown, with
whom she was fellow-servant. WIN the time she was in that
service, which was till the April forloWing, the prisoner paid his
addresses to lier, or, as she expreised it, kept her eompany.—ia
.e..fter quitting her master's service, she went to live at a public+
house, at Sproats, where her swoetheart occasionally visited her.
On leavinc; her service at Sproats she returned liorne, and was
there vitited by the prisoner: once or twice, at which ber father
expressed sonic disapprobation. Witness alsostated, that she
left her tormer place in.consequace et the intimacy that ex.*
isted between herself enl the prisoner. On the evening of the
4th of Septernbc.r last, she went with her aunt, Jane Occleton,
to milk in a field about half a mile from Aldborouglr; on their
way thither they -were met by the prisoner, who, addressing
.hiniseli to her, said, " tfow do you do Nancy?" She said,
4t Very well, thank you." The prisoner then 'stopped, and she
"If yon mean to go with t.s. I'll return home." Tho prim
senor teplird," No, Ldo not luan to-go with you." tie thee
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