The National Register.
London, England, 1820-06-19 00:00:00

STATE OF IRELAND.

Dublin, Jane 131
FAILURS OF ALEX 111110611,' Bask.--. The provincial
journals and private communications give a faint description
of the cooternation which prevails, not only in the Suath of
Ireland, but even to the borders of the county of Dublin, in
consequence of the failure of the hanks of Cork, Limerick
wills
,
Clomuel, Kilkenny, and Waterford. These, together
that of Carrick-omSuir, snake up the number of nine banks,
one in Kilkenny, on in Clenmel, nue in Waterford, and one
in Carrick-on-Suit in one fortnight. The counties of C
onk.
Kerry, Limerick, Clare, Tiprwrary, Waterford, Kilky
and a part of Carlow, are left almost without a circulating
medium.
It aas foreseen that the shock must reach Dublin a
last. We knew that the private bankers' notes were
coming up in great abundance, and that they were
promptly exchanged. But upon one bank the run was
so incessant, that they were obliged to suspend their pay-
ments yesterday. We allude to the Hank of Sir William
Alexander and Co. The docket, we understand, has
already been struck. There was in consequence a run
mum every batik iu Dublin riming the entire of yester-
day, and they all, we are happy to state, not only paid
such ontatauding notes as were presented, but their batik
post bills not yet doe, and such as were even accepted.—
This conduct appeared to have restored confidence. But
it would be, tnifair to pretend that a great agitation does
not prevail in the public mind. We have not heard that
any considee able house has stopped in consequence of
this great failure we have just mentioned, nor can we state
with certainty the amount of the securities or notes
which the Alewirs.Alexander may have had in circulation.

MILITIA PAY, ALLOWANCES, EQUIPMENTS•

(Ciacccae) War Office, May 12, 1820.
The Officers, Nun-cointnissioned Officers, Drummers,
and Men, are to receive, diming the period of training,
the same rates of Regimental Pay and Allowances as the
Militia received while they were last embodied. The
Officers will receive an allowance for the carriage of their
baggage, at the rate of nine-pence per mile, from the
place of their residence, if within the comity, or if nut
within the county, then from that border of their own
county which is nearest to the place where they may hap-
pen to be when summoned to attend.
The Men will receive the usual marching allowance
from the places front which they shall proceed to join,
provided such places be not more distant from the place
of assembly than the parishes for which they are respec-
tively enrolled; and the like allowances will be made to
the Officers and Men on being dismissed.
Instructions will be given to the Paymaster as to the
rates of the said Pay and Allowances, and as to the mode
of drawing for, and issuing the same, but no Officer or
Man will be entitled to pay for any period of absence,
even though absent with leave, unless he shall have joined
the Regiment during the period of assembly.
The permanent Non-commissioned Officers and Drum-
mers are, of course, fully clothed and equipped for duty ;
it is therefore, only necessary to provide for the equip-
ment of the .additiotial Non-commissioned Officers and
Drummers, and of the Private Men ; and a sufficient
quantity of the following articles, namely one coat, one
waistcoat, one pair of grey trowsers, one pair of short
grey gaiters, one pair of shoes, one cap, one shirt, one
pair of short stockings, one stock and clasp, one turnscrew,
one worm, one picker, one brash, one knapsack, will be
sent for this purpose from the public stores.
The small articles of necessaries, such as shoe.brnshee,
&c. are to be provided out of the regulated stoppages
from the pay of the Men during the period of training, ac-
cording to the Act of the iQd Geo. 111. cap. 20. sre. 96
The articles so provided out of the stoppages ate to be
taken away by the Men on being dismissed ; the Other ar-
ticles of clothing and necessaries are to be lodged care-
fully in the regimental stores for use on future occasions.
It is not thought necessary, at this season of the year,
to furnish great coats for the whole corps, it being ex-
pected that those now in the regimental store, or in wear
by the permanent Nun-commissioned Officers and Drum-
mers, will be sufficient for the proportion of the Men on
paid.
As may not be in possession of the Pay and
Clothing Act for the n
thDisemied Militia for the current
)ear, I incluae a printed copybo et eof for your informs-
non.
I have, &c.
(Signed) PALMERSTON.
Colonel of the Militia.

The Society for the Suppression of Vice served
Mrs. Carlile, of 55, Fleet Street, with notice to
attend on Tuesday at the Crown Office, in order to
nominate forty-eight persons as special jurors in the
cause of the King against her, for selling the 9th
number of " The Republican," vol. 1, and " The
Life of Tom Paine)" by Sherwin.
The King has been pleased to distinguish the
Royal Academy by a new mark of his favour, in
giving the President for the time being, Sir Tho-
mas Lawrence, a gold medal and chain, to be worn
by him as President of that Institution. The medal
bears a portrait of his Majesty, and is inscribed
" From his Majesty King George the Fourth to the
President of the Royal Academy."
Tuesday morning, about nine o'clock, a mad dog
passed from the City Road, through Castle Street,
and Holywell-mount, and Holywell-lane into Shore.
ditch, and was seen to bite eight or ten dogs in his
progress, by a gentleman who followed him. He
was pursued through Swan yard, and it is hoped was
soon killed. The dog was of the large rough terrier
breed, white, with a high tail and black ears.
THE MAIDEN'S LEAP:A daughter of the first
Earl of Gowrie was courted by a young gentleman
in the neighbourhood, much her inferior in rank
and fortune ; her family, though they gave no en.
couragement to the match, permitted him to visit
them, and lodged him in a tower of Ruthven Castle,
in Perthshire, then in the possession of the Gowrie
family, near another, in which was the young lady's
chamber, but up a different staircase, and commu-
nicating with another part of the house ; the lady,
before the doors were shut, got into her lover's
apartment; but some one of the family having dis-
covered it, told the mother, who, cutting off, as she
thought, all possibility of retreat, hastened to sur-
prise them ; but the young lady, hearing the well-
known steps of her mother, hobbling up stairs, ran
to the leads, and took a desperate leap of nine feet
over a chasm of sixty feet from the ground, alighted
on the battlements of the other tower, whence
descending to her own chamber, she crept into bed.
Her mother having in vain sought her in her lover's
chamber, came into her room, where finding her
seemingly asleep, she apologised for her unjust sus-
picion. The young lady eloped the following night
and was married. The top of the towers are still
shown under the appellation of the Maiden's Leap.
There appears a new issue of one-pound forged
notes in circulation- The engraving of the figure
of Britannia, if viewed through a glass, is clumsy;
the paper has a silky feel, and the water mark is not
clear, but confused. The name at the bottom of
almost all the forged notes is not written with a pen,
but engraved.
'Mr. Harris, who has been granted the patent of
the Dublin Theatre, commences his performances
on Monday next, in the Rotunda, which is to be
fitted up as a temporary Theatre on the occasion.
A Court Martial was assembled on Monday, by
order of the Commander in Chief, at Kensington
Barracks, relating to the conduct of a corporal and
six privates of the 12th regiment of Lancers, on a
charge preferred by Mr. Brown, keeper of his Ma-
jesty's Gaol of Newgate, for improper and disorderly
behaviour, and being drunk on the night of the 4th
inst, whilst on duty, and in attendance at the Surrey
side of Blackfriars Bridge, to escort convicts to
Thames Ditton, on their way to Gosport. The
Court was occupied three hours on the investiga-
tion, the result of which will not be known until the
minutes of evidence, sentence, &c. are laid before
the proper authorities.
HIGH Tit EASON. •—•-• The Lords Commissioners
appointed by the Special Commission of Oyer and
Terminer for trying all treasons, and misprisions of
treason, committed within the counties of Stirling
Lanark, Dumbarton, Renfrew, and Ayr, have fixed
their sittings for submitting Bills to the Grand
Juries of the said respective counties as follows :•—•
St irlingsliire—Friday, June 23d, at !it odium.
Lanarkshire—Mourlay, June it3tti, at Glasgow.
Dumbartumthire—Thursday. J Ullt• 29, at Dumbarton.
Renfrewsliire—Saturday, July Ist, at Paisley.
Ayr-hire—Tuesday. July 4th, at Ayr.
Mr. Thomas George Knapp, Clerk to the Arraigns
of the Home Circuit in England, is appointed to act
as Clerk to the Commissioners.
A paragraph in the Reading paper states in sub-
stance the following ;—" The lord lieutenant of this
county could not go to review the yeomanry cavalry.
Sir F, Burdett dined at the mess the over night ;
and Mr. C. Dundas, colonel, and M.P. the county,
said, Sir Francis, you shall review us.' He did,
and there was a great agsenahluge of beauty and
fashion. The corps marched by bim, and aftervards
formed a square; he entered it, and ulnae them
Ia
very appropriate speech on their evolutious, the
constitutional have of ruch soldiers, &c. and tilt.).
gave him three cheers."
Mr. Varlcibeff, of the Liverpool theatre, and
Mr. Cooper, of the Edinburgh theatre, two tra;:,c•
dians of much provincial fame, arc engaged by Mr,
Elliston fur the next season.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WESTMINSTER,
TUESDAY, JUNE 13.
Licensing Magis'liaes.—The King v Collins and other:.
Application was made by Mr. Scarlet', last Term, for
a crimihal information against certain magistrates oldie
county of Middlesex. The motion was submitted on
affidavit, charging the magistrates with corrupt exercise
of their authority, in refusing without just and ade-
quate cause, to renew a public-house license to a per-
son named Meek, who formerly kept the Green Man,
St. John's Street, Clerkenwell. A rule to sliew cause
was granted on a variety of statements, and Some
others, that Mr. Meek, had for several years occupied
the house in question. In 1816 his licence was refused,
on pretence that he had opened t..e house with two
entrances, and taken out a beer licence as a colourable
pretence for keeping a spirit shop, which was the prin-
cipal part of the business, and that he had disposed of
h Ater trade to another person in his house. On the
refusal of the licence on the above grounds, Mr. Meek
presented a petition, and was examined. He declared
that he did not dispose of his business for a premium,
hut it was admitted that his own waiter had taken the
beer trade to pay him one guinea per butt. lie al-
leged that the ground of refusal was not that stated, but
that his licence had been withheld in consequence of
his refusal to deal with Nieto: and Co. and of his hav-
ing transferred his custom to Barclay and Co. It was
alto stated, that on one occasion, when he attended in
get his licence renewed, a son of Sir Robert Wigrain,
who was a partner in the house of Metix and Cu. came
and desired one of the clerks to write his name, which
he sent in to one of the inaaisirates. Sir N. Conant
came out soon after, and conversed with hint some time.
—He was refused his liceuce on that occasion. At
another time, two clerks of the house of Mena and
Co. were in the room, and he suspected they were
there to influence the magistrates. The reason he mitt-
teal Me.al and Co. was that the beer was indiffirent,
and &C.., the change he sold mach more. In 1817,
18, and 19, he repeated his petition fur a licenc.., but
although he offered to fit up his house in any way the
magistrates might direct, they refused him the licence,
and the consequence was, he lost 14001. and had since
been ruined. The magistrates had granted a licence to
a house a short distance from him, namely, the house
kept by Temple and Co. at the corner of Fleet-market,
where they did the thing he was blamed for.
The Solicitor General this day shewed cause against
the rule, and produced affidavits sworn by the magis-
trates, their clerk, and several officers employed in their
service, stating positively they had nut refused the li-
cence under any corrupt motive, or favour for Meux and
Co. but in the discharge of their duty. Sir N Conant
particularly made an affidavit that he had no recollec-
tion of the meeting ascribed to him with Mt. Vs ig-
ram, but he was so conscious of his own motives, that
he was sure the conversation had nothing to do with
Meek. All the partners in the house of Mena and Co.
put in affidavits, stating, they never had exercised any
influence to prejudice the party. Before the Solicitor
General had read all the affidavits, the Chief Justice
observed, that enough had been shown by the affidavits
to prove the charge of a corrupt exercise of authority
was unfounded, therefore the Court felt disposed to dis-
charge the rule.
Mr.Scarlctt, in reply, supported the rule, and con-
tended, that although the affidavits of the defendants
did not acknowledge any such influence as that attri-
buted to them, he hoped to be able to shew all the
allegations were web founded; he wished at least to
show that his client had grounds for coaling before he
Court. The house in question was the oldest in the
parish—it was the best conducted houae in the parish—
all the respectable inhabitants of the parish had conic
forward to rove the character of the man and the
conduct of the house: the house was shut up, and the
man was beggared.
Mr. S. Marryat, on the part of Mr. Gaskill, stated,
that the application, as against his client, 1111/151 have been
founded in mistake. At the last meeting, the refusal of
which formed the ground of the present proceeding,
Mr. Gaskill had taut lieen present.
The error imputed by Mr. Marryat was admitted by.
the other side.

The Lord Chief JUSOCC.—The mistake of the appli-
cant has induced the Court to grant a rule against Mr.
ask ill, whicit certainly might not to hate liven granwil
at all: as against that gentleman, therefore, the rule
must be discharged with costs; he has been impropesly
brought here, and it is but just that he should he relieved
from all expe..cc. As against the other gentlemen who
are deletitlanis, the Court is of opinion that the rule
ought to be discharged, but without costs. We are
inclined to adopt this course, because it appears that,
upon two licenstaig (lays, in 1816 and 1817. the man .-
ging clerk of a brewer was present. Now this is a cir-
cumstance c.ilculated to excite suspicion: it has excited
suspicion in our minds, and might well excite SUipic:cut
in the mind of the applicant. 1 shoillil also say, mat it
strikes US as highly improper that, at a meeting held for
the licensing of public houses. Sir N. Conant should
have left the rovnt for the purpose oh speaking to a
brewer.—lttile discharged.

THE KING V. LORD RANELAGH.
Mr. Scarlett said that he had Once wore, pro form',
10 move toritidganetit in this Case. Ile 110tiers1001i tine.
Lord hang laull had been 3eell by two persons going into
the house of hts attorney, although lie is too much in-
disposed 111 collie 11110 the Court of King's Bench.
Mr. Bruneham had au Aida% it from two medical men,
stating than LNrtl Rant-high could nut, without infinite
danger, be hi-ought tip for Jud;itiedt. Ills Lordship had,
in fact, been agent attacked with apoplexy since the La
application.

REX, V. itimtoNDs.
As soon as the Bar was gone through, Mr. George
Edwoude, of Birmingham, addressed the Court, and