The National Register.
London, England, 1821-12-10 00:00:00


THE NATIONAL REGISTER

lighten their burthens ; to remove some of their
heavy grievances, and to beget by our conduct to
them, a conviction that at all events, we do not feel
towards them more harshly than to any of those
countries, where our power has been established by
recent conquest—they have as yet no reason to feel
this for one of the first stipulations in all such capi-
tulations has always been—" The Religion of the
Country shall be respected" while in Ireland, if
we do not enforce their conformity to it, we do
compel them to support in splendid and distant
laziness the Members of a Religion, they have al-
wa)s been taught to abhor. We most ardently
hope that these things will occupy the earliest and
most serious attention of the two Houses, as soon
us they shall meet.

Died, at Brighton, on Wednesday lust, James
Perry, Es.q. for many years the highly-respected
Editor and Proprietor of The Morning Chronicle.
In consequence of a letter which Mr. Hunt ad-
dressed to Mr. Baron Graham, pardons and remis-
sions of sentences have been sent to six convicts, ut
Ilchester gaol, whose cases he stated to the worthy
Judge. Of these, five %%ere of the number of' his
witnesses. The new gaoler, on his entrance on his
office, has evinced a judicious union of vigilance and
humanity which is highly satisfactory. The fbllow-
ing facts afford a striking proof of the benefit accruing
to the county of Somerset upon the late investiga-
tion :—The amount of the whole rates collected for
the whole quarter before Mr. Hunt's "Peep" came
out, was 7,2291. 3s. 54t1.; the quarter after the
" Peep" was published, it fell to 5,4081. 10s. 6d.;
and on the first quarter after the investigation was
ended, the amount was reduced to 2,1621. 16s. 101.
AGRICULTURE.--It is reported in .circles of high
information, that ministers have determined so fur
to meet the proposition of the agriculturists, as to
lay a duty of2os. per quarter on foreign corn im-
ported, to reduce the rate st which importation is
permitted to 70s. per quarter fur wheat, and to
form a proportional scale for other sorts of grain.—
The price of wheat in this country, supposing such
a law to be made, will amount to the cost of the
grain abroad, the expence of transit and the duty
added together. The average of the ,two first is
about 375. and, if .204. tux be imposed, of course the
price will be about 575. with perhaps a sixpence or
shilling per quarter for the merchant's profit. Should
peace continue, however, it is probable that the
price, both in America and un the Continent, would
fall from the acknowledged superabundance of the
supply. 'rhos, it is conceived, a law imposing such
a duty would or.ly serve to fix the average about
where it now stands.
Our readers will doubtless remember an account,
which we presented them some weeks since, of the
Curate of Bottesford and a young lady, to whom lie
was attached, having absented themselves from the
village and retired to a neighbouring wood, where,
in consequence of the opposition of relatives to their
union, they mutually agreed to take poison, by which
the young lady died, but the gentleman having, in
his agitation, spilled sonic part ofhis portion, escaped
that death which he afterwards attempted to attain
by cutting his throat. The inquest on the young
lady returned a verdict of—" Died in a fit of tempo-
rary derangement, caused by taking poison." Con-
tinued inquiry has disclosed circumstances which
render the young clergyman's account suspected,
and his subsequent elopement has not tended to
allay suspicion. It has been discovered that the
young lady did not, as it was affirmed, procure the
poison from her father's dispensary. It is doubted
if the lover took poison at all, and the appearances on
his neck show that the wounds were such as could
not, at the time of their infliction, have endangered
his life. The poor girl, it has since her death been
discovered, was en fastille. The retreat of Mr.
Towne, who withdrew with his mother, has not
yet been discovered. His relations are persons of
wealth and consideration. The young lady's father,
who is distracted with grief, iy u gentleman of pro-
fessional talent and great respectability.

THE CARLILES.—On the sa instant the " So
ciety for the Suppression of Vice" obtained a war-
rant against G. Clarke, Carlile's shopman, tin the
sale of a work, containing an alleged libel on the
King and Government, by virtue of which he was
apprehended, and taken before Mr. Justice Bayley,
at his Lordship's chambers, from whence he was
committed to Newgate for want of bail. The de-
fendant threatened an action against the Society for
a false arrest. Clarke had scarcely been arrested an
hour before his place was taken by a young girl,
named Susannah Wright, who continued the sale of
the same work, and an information being lodged
against her, she was also arrested, and on Friaay
morning was brought before Judge Best, to put in
bail. The trials of these defendants will cowe en
during the next Sittings at Guildhall.