The National Register.
London, England, 1821-12-23 00:00:00

SLICER V. •CELA ND.

Mr. Scarlett stated that this was an action by the plain.
tiff, n wine merchant iu extensive business, azainst the de-
fendant, also a wine merchant in a Inure limited way, fur
the balance of au account fur wine furnish.:dxo hint.

The Solicitor-General said his client did nut intend to
deny his dealings with the plaintiff, but he cout••nded that
the present demand of 199'. made noinst him, was incur.
reel I the sum due was only 331. sod that sum defendant had
paid into Court. The plaintiff was u dealer in the Sicilian
wines, newly cumin; into me, and bring anxious to have his
aisles made known, he culled on the defendant, wan keeps
n chop-house much frequented, in Cannon street, and pressed
him to take some. The defendant agreed to take uu
certain terms, namely, Ihul be should pay fur what he sold
at two months after sale, and be nt liberty to return what lie
did not sell. Upon t his contruct, a ines consisting of Serchall,
Sicilian, Tokuy, and other Sicilian allies, to the amou.,t of
7001. were sent in, and much of it sold and paid for, but a
part of it to the value of 1931. they wished I lerw•rds to
return, and did so, depositing it by direction of the plain-
tiff in the cellars of Fernley and Siins, leaving a balance of
i3l. due to the plaintiff, and that sum had been paid into
Court in answer to the present action.
Scarlett, in reply to this case, contended that the
wine still remained the property of the defendants, for which
they we e liable to pay.
The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages,
1341.

Tll6 KING V. IdtGILLIVIR 4T.

This was tin indictment neainst Simon %nihilism'', for re•
fining to take upon himself the office of Inquebt.mati for the
wAt ti of W

Notice of his election was proved upon the defendant.
Mr. Pollock stilted, that Mr. ISlNGillivray'v refusal had
stri.en from his being compelled to rmb,u k for America.
The Lord Chief Justice thought that such a fact might
have had its weight with Ike prosecutors, but it could not
be taken us an answer to the indictment.
Mr. Pollock sa d that M'allivray isas one of two gentle-
men who traded to Canada. It was necessary to the con-
duct of the busine4 of the firms that °he of the parties should
make an annual trip to America ; and
partner, at the tone of Mr. M'thllivray's clot unu, was ac-
tually serving the office of cite' warden.
The Lord Chief-Jmtice fitili That 11 r, Pollock tu~umeul
might have eflei t in another place l but it could not, iu 161 W,
excuse the refusal of his client.

The Jury found the defendant—Guilty.
THVEI.DAY. DEC. 20.
THE 111 U. lIIHrAN.

This liras an the keeper
of Newgitte, founded on the prewntinent of the. tiimal
Jury, stating I hat the defendant had refused them adims.i,io
to the prison on their deinauding it. The Callie stood fur
trial tin, morning. but un its being called, it appeared there
Was nu princration, the proceeding,. agaliot Ale. ill ussil
haring, as we understand, been ashaudosted, in coasequence
nfhiyh legal authorars having given ail 'opinion that the
Grand Jury had ho ehti.ll UI eo art,' the in isms a, it matter
of right, us they had 113 11111% COIC dr111:1111101. 1'lu• imy

THE NATIONAL ItEGIST,

has* bee. swam by direction abet Lordship, there being
uo evideaeo produced. found defendant Not Guilty.
TES SING V. PETTITT.
This was an indietaseut agahnt the defendant for wilful
and corrupt perjury.

Mr. Guitseji stut;tl the case to the Jury, and from his
statement it appeared that the allexd perjury :attic out of
the testimony of the defendant, as ;:iyeis in the course of a
writ of enquiry, executed in the Court of the Seconilart
(Mr. Collingride), relative to the sale of lease, which took
place at Mr. Hero's house on
Oa the indictment being now reach, Mr. Sergeant Peake,
for the defendant, discovered a variance between that and
the record, upon which be imbed an objet lion, tend the Chief
Justice bolding the objection to be good, the defendant was
sequined of the charge, amid the Jury found a verdict of
Not Guilty.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
WZONISDAT, DIR. 19.
ROBINSON V. GRAY.
This action was brought by the assignee of a bankrupt,
named Hawley, against the defendant, a young lady, to re-
cover 4001. received from the bankrupt under Ivry extraor-
dinary circumstances. The issue appeared to be directed
by the Commissioners of Bankrupts before whom the siefetw
dant WAS examined. The question was, whether the sum in
question belonged to the defendant, ur whether she received
it under circumstances of fraud and conspiracy between her-
self, the bankrupt Hawley. and his wife, for the purpose
of defrauding the creditor.?
The facts of the case acre substantially these :—Robert
Gray, the father of the defendant (Miss they) carried on
the bnsiness of a ennt.ctioner at Maidstone. in Kent. He
was considered a sane of property, having money iii the funds
and land.—Having disposed of les bussuess at Maidstone, lie
came to reside at Stoke Newington, where he died, keying
his property, by will, to his wife, and at her death, Ili his
datig.liter and her children. The death of the father was in
1819, and some Boone alter the defendant and her mother
went in reside in the Commercial-road, where they carried
on business. About 1819, the bankrupt, Hawley, was much
embarrasses'. lie carried on business at Shadnell, and his
wife, who had known Miss Gray from the age of seven
years, applied for a loam of 40JI. Miss Gray promised to
consider of it Site called again at the house of Hawley
some days idler, and said she would lend the money, pre-
sided Mrs. Hawley and her husband would not disclose to
any one the ciscuinstatice of her having money. She said
her father, on her death-bed, gave her 8001. and drew hom
her a promise that she would never let any one know she had
money. The 40(11. was laid upon the table, and Hawley,
the bankrupt, put it into his cash box. He did not give a
receipt, as Miss Gray slid net ask fur one; but made an
entry in a private hook. The 111011 C) was repaid by Hass ley,
on the 1 Ist of June, 1820. He offered \h -s Grey 4051. but
she refused the 51. saying she lent the money as a friend.—
She gave a receipt ill these terms--
Received, the 21st of Jute, 1820, of Mr. Hawley, the
sum of 4001 fur burrowed money. SARAH GRAY.
After this Hawley became al bankrupt, and it did not appear
that he produced flue book containing the entry of the
y made when Miss Gray paid it. Being cross-exansiued
as to that 'whit on the ',reseal( occasion, he said he did not
produce it, because he ails told prisate accounts were not
required. The Commissioners, looking at this transaction
in a suspicious light, examilied the defendant, whose ane
suet. %VIC not satisfactory, and to remove doubt on the
(titivation, they were wiling to abide by the verdict of the
Jury in this caner.
The Jury retired from the Bar, and on their return foand
a verdict for the defendant.
DATLII•N ?IDLER.
This action was brought by tile plaiatiff, a glazier and
painter, against the defendant, who is proprietor of the great
tythes of Tethlington, in the county of Hens, to recover a
bill of 231. for ineuding and repairing windows in the chaa-
cid of Teddieigtou church. The question was, whether the
defendant, ur his tenants, were Inane to pay the demand ?
The defendant pleaded the statute of limitation ; alto a
plea in the abatement, slating that certain tenants had a
reduction iu rent allowed, on condition of repairing the
church.
The work was proved to have been done ; also a promise
to pay the plaintiff's demand within the last six years, so
that the case was taken out of the statute of limitation.
Mr. Ser,geant Pell, for the defendant, said, his client was a
gentleman of honour and fortune, %tau only wanted to have
his liability proved by the verdict of a Jury. It bad long
been understood that the numb un the estate were liable to
muke good the repairs dune by the plaintiff.
The learned Sergeant thee called witnesses in support of
his case ; but the Jcry under alt the circumstances, found a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 291.
BRIDAL DIM 21.
NOBLR V. HIt•LOR.
This was nn action uu a contract for the sale of 230 hogs-
heads of tobacco.

The tobacco in question was assigned to a house in Rot-
terdam. Whilst the ship was on her voyage the plaintiff
received a letter from the owner, requesting him to dispose
of her c,rgit, and describing it to be marketable in every
respect. The defendant purchased the cargo through the
medium of Mi. Scholey, a broker. Before he paid the
purclitee money lie wished to have it warranted good and
marketable, but the plaintiff only warranted that it had
passed iiispectiou ut Virginia. The defendant deposited
the money, and afterwards withheld a ratification of the
purchase, on the ground ihat the cargo was nut fair and
mai k wide.
Several communications passed between the parties on the
subject of the warranty through the medium of agents, and
the plaintiff at last gave a warranty in the following terms—
" The whole warranted to have passed inspection at Vir•
g' ." These words were writen in red iak, but without
any signatures The Eunice, with part of the tobacco, ar-
rived at Cowes, and the rest was sent in a se-set called the
Ilarrint. This was the case, had Mr. Sergeant Lens con-
trade.: tli.at the pluintiff was bound to take the goods.
Tiie defence was, thut the tobacco was of MI inferior qua.
lity ; hut the Jury, under all the circunistauccs, found a ser-
aurt for the plaintiff—Damages 4,2411. IS,.
RICHARDS tAL Elitirri.

This was an action [nought brit silversmith, residing in
or Barbican, against Ili,• defendant, is Ito
is also a silversmith, at Bath, to ',cover 1801, fur diver
kniv s, toik., and bpuotis, made and delivered.
Tl,e first witness was hit. Richard', the father of the
who deposed that his 6111 hued in Brideesvuter.
square. The defendant a is a .ilveriviiitla, residitig ut
roue 1111 Good Friday to the house of the plaintiff,
:Mended by Mr. Williams, who slid, " that Mr. Crimps."
defeadent taco said "is the order ready r' Tue plain.
tiff said it was out. Mr. Crippt said he .bouttl lose the

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sale of tbe good., sad begged the stomas sod forks might
beset' to him as they were done, sad whoa doe wort was
Buivhed be would scud up hill ou • Lando* booker. The
work was nut done for Williams. who was considered iter
solvent, and the plaintiff w oak! not treat bias.
Williams briog culled on the part of eM deformianb taw
tratlicted all the material puma of Raluutrs testiasnuy. (le
depoied that he an. applied to by Cripps to furnish viola
to the amount of 2001. whirls order he gave to the plaints(
to execute. He produced she order, which was in the Ad.
lowing terms s—" Order from H. Cripps, to be furnished
by ptr. W i,lei ttttt ."—He gave the order to the plaintiff la be
executed. He had previously received from Capps old
silver, with whi. h Cripps had paid him for the goods. The
articles were supplied by hissii,eif, and Mena* hod selbiar
to do with the order. He More that Grippe sever told the
defendant he would pay for rile goods with a bill at limo
months. lie had dealings with the plaistif oo a gems'
account.
The learned Judge, summing np the above evldesee, N.
served, that it was extraordinary, that the Jury bad Mee
left io the dark with ie,peet to a eitot 'Reportage' picee of
evidence. Tlwie was proof that the goods were seat to
B sits, hat how was the bill wf parcels made oat ? That OINK
nave been in possession of Cripps, yet it was not produced,
Slur um. any notice given to produce it. is a CNN where
rhtrarirr vv us at Ntak,.., and a here one party mast go out of
Court disgraced, the Jary would no doubt pay doe swedes
Its 'di the eircuithluittev. If they should believe credit was
given to Williams, and not the attendee', they would 1.4
for the defeod.int. If they bdieved the other .way, they
would Bud for the phoned.
The Jury retired front the boa, nod after - est

rettalaiag
several huUrs, returoust u Irrfirt I"ur the plaintiff.

SHlPWRECK.—Harrsouawit, Die. 19.—Tesearday
morning, about four hours before day-break, a French trading
vessel, of that description called a chase-coarse, was driven on
shore by the violence of a tremendous gale, under
the
of the
high cliff near Beachy-head, known hereabouts by the
lion of Belle Tout, or Belt Out. Her name proved mlt;
Jeune Fani, of Vannes, last from Camaret, a mall port near
Brest, bound to Dunkirk wtth a cargo of salt. The night wee
utterly dark—the wind blew a hurricane directly urea the shim
—the surf rolled mountains high over the racks.-the mod
struck heavily—and, in the next instant, one hop wave
the whole crew, consisting of six persons, hem the
was the irresistible force of this mighty empLthit k *ems hoe
of the crew completely high and dry upon the md wery
severely bruised one poor fellow by rolling broken mid
spars repeatedly over his breast and beck. The whose
name was Silvestre, and his son a lad only elms ,epoY. orsa
never seen front the moment that this was lgtaelt IM vwsL..w
The father and son must have perished tegildien A mom aid.
serablc fate seemed to await the seinteser They he/ lima
I thrown ashore at a spot between Buse forma whore
for four miles, the cliff presents a chalk
pendicular without road or path, or my NW iiesteef '
varying in height from four hundred ta Sbreaks. Net.
The tide Sowed in upon than like a me* . el=
of the dig both cast and wet. were
they pined their feeble mime tagetbseal=abedloil fee arecoor.
Afton,
the roaring el tbe warm assemd W Ant I amilibey
had given up all hip et mope, sbde the Utitt
the precipice, the,' &wend a Idle et
had fallen from the reins of disik. diem • saablefese
1 I§Saiit they clambered to the cep of this id* u Slatresepush.i&
surf raged round the loot of it—a 411111dilsoo of
and whirling waters. With dismal they avoid
result, clinging to each other, and *oh sidesektwe
wan, as it shook the foundaties or flask 11141.6
roll the clumps Oahe* ken oodinoesth Nee
without fears thetas disk whence they set Wei be
when the deed tide sheold Make he lesightt-01111. as
about, one of them peeped a Mesa if /14frired
proving the scam was not accushemed to seeds tbe stiresininuct,.
bailed by theta se the Mire beanie OM flee Mid Albr
—ln this dashes. chiliad wills wet meil and" a .wide twedag
mom is front. and as blew RlNNlLleillewsrp baksir 41•10
foot miserable mariners mt swum ' drab deli po-
adorn psych kw mere limn dm bowie. the swan. SlM*rsi.
add, sod they were diseiwerwl by the em elinele.ef asir lima
ittost Blockade Service. By theme active aod /he
poor Frenchman were immediately con 'ow .
at Biding-gap, placed by a eastaing • dad bi the
seamen's dry apparel. and hid boa do of glik haw
enemies.

A SAD DISAPPOINTMENTA tary'eutiooa dream.
stance occurred at St. Nicholas's church, Nottingham,
on Saturday, the Bth inst. A young man at- Mansfield
had formed an attachment to a young lady at Killington,
in that county, and the parties (whose mimes front tan.
tives of delicacy, we shall nut mention) were about ;he
age of eighteen years. On account Co the disparity of
circumstances, the friends of the young lady were tench
opposed to the' connexion, but the lovely fair oae con-
trived to elude their vigilance, and on Saturday morning
arrived at Nottingham, in a gig, along with her intended
spouse. The bans of marriage between the parties had
been tegularly published in St. Nicholas's church, stating
them to be of that parish, and they had arrived within
the holy place, with two of their relatives, and had Ulf.
rounded the sacred altar, when the sister of the young
lady, having been apprised by her brother. who had
pursued the fugitives front Mansfield, discovered the
place of their intended union. 00 this discovery, she
hastened towards ihe residence of the Rev. Dr. Wylde,
rector of St. N icholas's, and met that respectable clergy.
man on his way to the church, to tie the everlasting knot.
She briefly related to hint the circumstances of the case,
and he directed her to follow him into the church, where
she stood concealed for a time behind his ample priestly
vestments. The young couple were &stilted to have
the cup of joy dashed from their lips, and it is inspois .
ble to describe the surprise and dismay which filled their
minds and struggled in their bosoms, when they heard
the venerable minister, instead of commencing that ter-
vice which they bolted would seal their union, begin a
most severe lecture ou the evil of their conduct, aid
conclude by ordering the young man out of church, with
a threat, in ease of non-cumliance, of having Min taken
into etisithly. The young lady was committal to the
CIIC Of her trim's, who took her home almost its a stare
oh iti.en,thility, and the dislipointment was taken so
much to heart, that it was 10110W.'d by violent hysterics,
from which there was treat difficulty iii recovering her.
EXTRAORDINARY LEAP.—OiI Wedtiesday lasi, 8
horse belonging to Mr. M awe, of Loughborough, tuu'e a
hedge six feet high, winch in length exceeds any leap
recorded fur many years, being its length bons hind feet
to hind feet, 1,1 I yards sad X 4 niches, carrying a youth
Sib.


PARIS, Dec. 16.—0 f the new appointments, that
of M. Peyronnet to be Keeper of the Seals has ex-
cited considerable surprise. He is neither known
for family honours, Jim political influence, or extra-
ordinary talents. He was originally an advocate at
Bourdeaux, of which he is a native; and by the in-
Serest of M. Laine was appointed Procureur Gene-
ral of the Royal Court of Bourges, in the department
of L'Ain. The patronage of M. Line and M.
Raves, his townsmen, brought him to Paris, where
be obtained the appointment of King's Procureur at
• the court of the Chamber of Peers. In that capacity
be conducted, last spring, the trial of the alleged
conspirators of August, 1820 ; and the trial of one
of them, Masion, who was condemned about a
month ago. Having thus made his appearance on
Paris' political and judicial boards, be was found
useful to the late Ministry fin his zeal, and by their
influence was elected member of the Chamber of
Deputies for the department of Cher. In the
Chamber he has spoken only once or twice, and
' without any success. His accent, as the Parisians
express it, swells strongly of the province. He is
said, however, to possess the power of erica:pore de-
fence. He appeared yesterday on the bench of
Ministers without his robes of office, which, from
the suddenness of his appointment, could not be
• ready, and excited a smile in the Chamber, at the
figure he cut in his court-dress with a sword. "See,
(said one of the Deputies), Justice with the sword,
but without the balance:"
It is said that M. de Serre is to be sent as ambas-
sador to Berlin, and that M. de Chate.subriand is to
be appointed to be Master of the University, with a
seat in the Cabinet ; but these are mere rumours.
M. de Serre will must probably remain in the
• Chamber of Deputies, where his friends will require
his aid.
M. Leine has given in his resignation as Minister
of State.

Among the rumoured appointments is that of the
deputy Bertin de Vaux to be Prefect of Police.
M. de Clermont-Tonnere was yesterday admitted
• to take the oaths before his Majesty, in his quality
of Minister of Marine.
• Malmo, Dec. 6.—Yesterday at half-past three
in the afternoon, their Majesties and their Royul
Highnesses returned to this capital. The garrison
and local militia firmed a double line for the pas.sage
of the august family, who made their entry amidst
the acclamations of an immense multitude, who
evinced theft attachment by the most ardent demon-
strati= of joy.
The following is en extract of intelligence which
has just reached us from Barcelona, down to the Gth
December :

• • Several incendiary pamphlets, in which insurrec-
tion is openly advocated, have been distributed in
profusion : the Captain General has, rather clan-
destinely, introduced 300 soldiers and warlike stores
• into the citadel, in which the Commandant of Bar-
celona has shut himself up. As soon as this event
was known, the militia caused a general muster to
be sounded, and spontaneously assembled to the
number of four thousand, shouting " Death to the
Servile'?"
An attempt was made to surprise Mount-Jouy ;
but this tilled. The oommandant of this fort, and
be who commands the citadel, replied, that they
could not do so without au order from the Captain-
General. An officer was despatched to demand an
order to this effect. The answer is expected with
impatience, and great ferment prevails. The most
disastrous consequences will inevitably follow, if this
order be net granted. The populace are very ve-
hement, and openly avow their intention of repul-
sing the authorities, should they present themselves
to re-enter Barcelona.
The election of the Regidors at Sarria gave rise
to violent cummotions. The Pr sident of the As-
terribly was ill-treated and struck; a conflict with
fr luivcs took place, in which many were wounded.
The militia have been despatched to restore order,
and we are as yet ignorant how things have ended.
All eyes are turned towards Riego, who has shown
himself in various points of Catalonia, and who is
now said to be at Nlanresti.
Extract of u letter, dated Paris, Dec. I 6.—" This
morning great changes were expected to appear in
. the different brunches of Administration. Ihe Pre-
fect of Police at Paris, the Director of the Posts, the
Director of the Customs, the Director of Police, and
the Director of Registrations, will all be changed.
These changes will be followed by the appointment
ut new Prefects in many of the departments. A
change of Ministry in France inters a much more
extensive change its all Inc departments of authority
than in Englalul• From the centralization of power
at Paris, a shock in the Cabinet is felt through all
the gradations olutfice down to the Mayor of a vil-
lege Directors, Receivers General, Pretects, Police-
'went' &c. are ail subject to the impulse."
. BavussL the. b 011 the 27th ult. Mina
6/16eSbelli al heavy toutrltna atoll upon the middle classes

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of Galicia and especially upon the nobility and
clergy, for the subsistence of his troops ; and this
measure has met with general approbation at Co-
runna. At the same time he has nominated a Pro-
visional Junta of Government, which kas declared
all the ports of Galicia free to foreign vessels, upon
payment of a very moderate duty. He has also di-
minished the direct contribution. This will pro-
vide very ample resources, partioularly on account
of the prohibitory system adopted by the Cortes in
other provinces. The levy en mast of the national,
active, and local militia, and the formation and or-
ganization of an army of 30,000 men, have likewise
been decreed. Four thousand troops of the line,
and six thousand of the regular provincial
are ordered to march to the frontiers of Galicia, and
assemble in the vicinity of Astorga. In case of ne-
cessity, this division will be reinforced by all the
disposeable military 'loves of the province
PARIS, DgC. 18.—Yesterday morning the Coun-
ese Simaon was received by the King and Madame.
The first and fourth Bureaux assembled yesterday
to take cognizance of the resignation of M. M.
Villele and Corbiere, of their functions as Members
of the Budget Commission. Their opinion of the
expediency of this step, in consequence of having
been called to the King's Council, was not partici-
pated by the other Deputies of the Commission, and
they were accordingly re-elected. It is said that a
public sitting will take p'ace to-mcrrow, to receive
a communication from Government, relatively to the
Health Law adopted by the Chamber of Peers.
The nomination of MM. Royal and Portal to the
Chamber of Peers, vacated the representation of the
department of the Seine, and that of the depart-
ment of the-Tarn and Garonne.

M. Corbievs was yesterday installed in the Mi-
nistry of the Interior.
It is announced that the office of Director-Gene-
ral of the Police is suppressed, and that there will be
an under secretary attached to the Ministry of the
Interior.

On Sunday night, M. Angles, Pzefect of Police,
resigned ; the administration is, ad interim, confided
to M. Parisot, Chief of the first division.

It is announced, that the sittings of the Chamber
of Deputies will continue suspended during some
days, in order to afford leisure to the'new Ministry
to complete its administrative organization, and to
prepare its legislative labours. It is added, that the
first communication front the Ministry to the Cham-
ber of Deputies will have for its object the demand
of six-twelfths, and the projet of law for the regu-
lation of the journals as announced by the Keeper of
the Seals
Two of the children of Lieutenant General Count
Bertrand have just entered the Institution of St.
Barbe.
M. le Che"alier Delaville, the ex-Secretary of the
Council of Ministers, is to be named Master of Re-
quests Extraordinary.
Report states, that on the 14th instant the King
made a promotion of ten Marshals-de-Camp, among
whom are mentioned M. de la Bourdonnaye, Colonel
of Chasseurs ; Viscount de Latour Maubourg, Co-
lonel of Cavalry ; and Colonel de Matharel.

The population of the 86 deyart►►►ents, of which
the kingdom of France, amording to the treaties of
1814 and 1815, now consists, consisted, in the year
1820, of 30,407,907 individuals. In the year
1819, there were 990,023 births, and 786,388
deaths; making an excess of births amounting to
203,685. _ _

The first act of the new Ministry has been to
withdraw the Censorship, lately proposed to the
Chamber of Deputies by the Administration whom
they have succeeded. This seems to promise that,
henceforward, the entire charter will be attended to
without laws of exception, and that the Adminis-
tration who have succeeded will render it the rule
of their conduct and the object of their devotion.
This is to hold that the new project of the law re.
lative to the police of journals, announced to us by
the Keeper of the Seals, will contain only repressive
provisions, and will banish from our legislation for
ever the preventive system, condemned by so many
sound minds, and which, according to our opinion,
is more conformable to the spirit of absolute govern.
ments than those of which the frame is constitutional,
which should punish faults only which have been
committed.

The Drapean Blanc congratulates himself on the
law of the censorship being withdrawn, and those
who have any attachment to constitutional ideas
agree in that respect with the Drapeau. He appears
to believe that the withdrawn law will not be re-
placed by one of the same sort, but by a definitive
law, which, exempting the journals from previous
censorship, will leave them liable only to repressive
measures. This is a hope in which every one may
participate, but which, like many other things, is
only tounded in conjecture, The Drapeau very
justly reprobates the argument hitherto employed
by the Ministers. and which amounted to this--that
as it was almost impossible to sake a repressive law

I
tor the journals, it was useless to attempt it, and
that it was sufficient for their purpose to perpetuate
the censorship.


FROM LAST NIGHTS GAARTTE.
0111.•••••••••
This Gazette notifies the appointment of W. Wise. of Ruby,
Warwickshire. Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High
Court of Chancery.

BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.
J. Elden, Stangate Street, Lambeth, slater, from Dec. ts so
Jan. 8.

A. Millar, Vauxhall Road, oilman, from Dee. 23 to Jan. Iz
C. G. and H. B. HAI, Grosvenor Street West, Pimlico, ear.
penters, from Dec. ZS to Jan. Iv.
BANKRUPTS.
T. Griffis, Knightsbridge, painter. Solicitors, Messrs. Palmer
and Co. Bedford How.
S. Churchil), Cannon Row, Westminster, wine merchant. Sal.
Mr. Howard, Care Street.
R. Grayson, Wigan, Lancashire, cotton spinner. Sol. Mr,
Norris, Bedford Row.
11. W. Adock, Birmingham, dealer. Sols. Me.srs. Choke
and Co. Chancery Lane.
G. Munro, Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing Lane, wine
merchant. Sol. Mr. Wright. Fenchurch Street.
G. M. Forbes, Liverpool, merchant. Sol. Mr. Wheeler,
Carle Street, Holborn.
C. Croker, Upper Varm, Crayford, farmer. Sols. Messrs.
Stevens and Co. Little St. Thome: Apostle.
C. Christie, Clement's Lane, insurance broker. Sois. Mean.
Allesion and Co. Freeman's Court, Cernhill.

MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—As the King will
open the Parliament in person, the most extensive
arrangements are making by the Lord Great Cham-
berlain, Lord Gwydyr, for the royal reception, on
his Majesty's first appearance before the Parliament
after the Coronation; and contrary to what has
taken place for some years past, they will be under
his Lordship's sole controul. The Lord Great Cham-
berlain, by virtue of his office, has the government
of the whole Palace of Westminster, the Gentleman
Usher of the Black Rod, the Yeoman Usher, and
door-keepers, being under his Lordship's command.
—From this controul not having been heretofore
strictly enforeed,considerable confusion has, at times
arisen from the admission of visitors to the old
House of Lords, the Painted Chamber, and other
places through which his West:: had to pass
Various individuals had issued tickets, or had been
instrumental in procuring the admission of specta..
tors, but at the approaching opening of Parliament,
none but the Lord Great Chamberlain's tickets wi:l
be suffered to gain an entrance for visitors. A ticket
and seal are preparing for the express purpose; and
the issue of tickers will be on the most liberal scale,
as far as the same shall be consistent with the dig-
nity and comfort of the proceedings on that day.
The Parliamentary Commission which lately at
in Dublin, means to recommend that the Union
shall be carried into complete effect by the removal
of the commercial restrictions between the two

countries now in force, and equalising the duties.
It considers the present machinery of the public
offices in Ireland on a scale much too large and dis-
proportioned to the revenue, and means to recom-
mend a great reduction in the number of clerks,
the amount of salaries, and other means of economy
and retrenchment.
On the night of the Ist instant, the tower of
Lelant church, Cornwall, was struck by lightning,
which, after forcing two large pieces of stone out of
the middle of the tower, entered tha bell-chamber,
broke out the four windows, and damaged the
arches, ripping open the roof and leads in several
places. The electric fluid entered the belfry, de-
molished the windows, and cracked the wall of the
tower in several places; it then went into the gal-
lery. shattering the partition between thnt and the
belfry, breaking the glass in the gallery win-
dow ; then shaking a huge pillar, adjoining the gal-
lery , in a dreadful manner, from thence it made its
way to the communion, removing the wainscot out
of its place, and fining two large pieces of stone
from a pillar, which were bruised to atoms ; the last
appearance of its effects was on a pew below, one
aide of which was shattered to pieces.
Mr. John Johnstone, the celebrated comedian,
has been sworn in one of his Majesty's Hint. Band
of Gentlemen Pensioners. The situation is obtained
by purchase, and immediately previous to the coro-
nation, one was sold for 10001.

On Thursday last a report was propagated (on
'Change, that Ministers have it in contemplation to
reduce the interest of the public Funds One per
Cent. respectively ; and that an arrangement has
been made fir currying it into execution immediately
atier its being submitted to Parliament. The ru-
mour did not obtain credit on the Stock Exchange,
as it had no effect whatever on the funds.

PnosecurtoNs.—The cause paper in the Court
of King's Bench exhibits not less than 301 actions,
all set down for trial at the Sittings after Term.—
Among the number many are prosecutions. We find
the King r. Rance, and the King v. Turner.—
These arc both indictments preferred by Mr. Murray,
the Solicitor. There is also the following highly
important cause, to which the public are looking
with great interest :—The King v. Murray and
three others.