The National Register.
London, England, 1821-01-21 00:00:00

DIVIDENDS.

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Feb. 6. N. J. Winch.l;:estle.--uPon Tyne, merchant-6,
T. Wood, Goswell Street, upholsterer-11, S. Cramp, Vine
Street, NVestininster, corn dealer-6, W. Couch, Axminster,
Devooshirc' builder-6, H. Hall, Nelson Terrace, Kingsland,
broker-6, E. ',rears, Birmingham, merchant-41, W. Lumley,
Jermyn Street, St. James's, wine merchant-6, J. Warner and
J. Lord, Derby, honmongers--6, W. and J. Decry, Coal Ex-
change, coal faefors--6. B. Martindale, St. James's Street, wine
mereinuit-20, W. Birch and J. Lucas, Fleet Street, paper
stainers-6, T. Nock, Bimiingham, factor-6, 11. Armstrong,
Worcester Street, Umon Street, Borough, hatter-17, J. Bates,
Leybourn, Kent, miller—l 3, T. 1). Latham and J. Furry,
Devonshire Square, merchants-lu, J. Snipley, Birmingham,
cusclimaker—S. Campbell, Liverpool, upholsterer-20, J. Hall,
North Shields, ship owner-14, It. Methuen, Mane:mg.:4 tua•
nufacturer—lo, J. G. Bubb, Grafton Street East, Fiaroy
Square, sculptor-7, It. Co,ton, Lynn, N orfol I:, grocer.
CERTIFICATES to be granted Feb. 6.
G. Hutton, Birmint,intui, dealer in musical instruments—R.
Hulse, Hinckley, Leicestershire, grocer—J. Broomfield and J.
Ilaselwood, Birmingham, awe! and hot ash manufacturers—J.
Ledicu Richmond Buildings, ;oho, jeweller—G. Bray, Levels.
pocket irook manufacturer—J. Johnson, Llandad, shopkeeper—
J. Alurdock, Nottinghani, grocer.

The Pheasant, Capt. Kelly, lately captured on the
coast of Africa a small Portuguese schooner (eleven
tons), called the Now Felieidade, with 71 slaves on
board, 31 of whom were women, crowded into a
space of eight feet four inches long, tour feet eight
inches broad, and two feet seven inches high ! They
were all shackled together with irons, and when
released could hars:ly stand on their legs from cramp
and starvation !

I'hc arrungements made with the trustees of the
Duke of Marlborough liar the purchase of Marlbo-
rough House in Pull Mall. for the future resitlenee
of the Queen, shows the determination of her Ma-
jesty to spend the remainder of her lili in this
country.

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In&hire County Meeting.—This Meeting was
held on Wednesday last, when strong Resolutions
and Petitions were agreed to. We regret to add
that Lord Holland's presence was prevented by
illness—he addressed the following excellent letter
to the High Sheriff:—
" Ala. 11113 H SliElilfr.—A:ler haring signed the
requisition which was presented to you, 1 refire: that I
am prevented, by indisposition, from attending the
cue lily which, in compliance with that requi-
sition, tii virtue of the office winch you hold, and in the
spirit al our free and popular Constitution, you, Sir, have
so readily and so properly COliVelled. I
was in hopes of
having it in my power to explain to the freelio:tiers of
my native County of Wilts the niotiv,:s which induced
me to solicit you to call them tmtether at this tinie.--If
it he inn irregular, 1 shall
or to ally brother freeholder, to read the tollowing short
suneinelit of them :

" 1 was persuaded, first, that there never was a period
in which the conduct M public affairs required more
deliberation and wisiloni. Secondly, that wail the
(j,weli was ifi full piitsession, not only of her strict legal
rights and dignities, but of all those outward marks of
respect, aiid other advantages, which the liberal and
loyal people of England have been in the habit of con-
ter; Mg on the Consorts of- their Sovereigns, the Councils
of tile Nation neither would nor could pay due attention
to the various important matters 'you their decisions,
tin which the character of the conittry abroad, and the
liberiy, property, puce and happiness of its inhabitants
.it haute, seem to me essentially to depend. And
thirdly, 1 seas con' inced, from Luau>, observations, too
minute to be detailed in a letter, that nothing but the
sense of the commimity, conveyed through such chan-
nels as the late restraints oil public discussion have left
uninterrupted, could extinguish all further proceedings
out the subject of the Queen. It was with such views
that 1 signed a requisition, calling on you to convene
the Freeholders of the County, and 1 now write to you,
in the firm hope, that regularly convened by yoiir com-
pliance therewith, they may do all that in them lies to
prevent the revival of discussions which, according to
the just apprehensions of the Legislature, have been
found, nit experience, to be derogatory from the ho-
nour of the Crown, and injurious to the best interests of
the country.
" 1 have the honour to be, with great respect, Sir,
" Your obedient homble Servant,

" VASSALL HOLLAND.
" 0!d Burlington-street, London, Jon. IG, 1821."

EXPORTATION OF HOPS.—We lately:stated that
the measure of allowing a drawback of the
duty on this produce, when exported, was miler
the consideration of the Lords of the Treasury ; and
in reply to a Memorial thereon by D. J. Parker,
Esq. on behalf of the hop•planters, the following
official communication has been received :

" Treasury Chambers, Jan. 12.
"SIR—I am commanded by the Lads Co 11111 l ilsioners
of his Majesty's .I'reasury to acquaint you, for the infor-
mation of the hop planters of Kent, in reply to their
memorial requesting that a drawback of the duty allay
be allowed on the exportation of hops, that my Lords
have directed the Commissioners of Excise to allow the
drawback on hops, exported to foreign parts, in the saute
Manner as it is now exported to Ireland, provided they
be produced to the proper officer in the original packaues
in which they were charged, with the marks shelving
the weight, the grower's name and place of abode, and
the year when grown, perfect thereon ; and in order to
prevent imposition upon the revenue by the exportation
uC foreign or other hops, which by long keeping have
become of little or no value, or of nitxtures of such hops
with others of better quality; my Lords have directed
that the provisions 10th and 1 put sections of toe Act of
57th Geo. 111. chap. 87, by which the allowance of
draw-back on goods not worth the clinics is prohibited,
should be emorced with regard to hops, and that all
mixtures of hops of different qualities, or of hops with
any other article or ingredient, entered for exportation
or drawback, should be forfeited, wait a penalty: and
for preventing fraudulent relanding of hops after bring
shipped for exportation, the drawback is to be contiaed
to such hops as are shipped in packages of not less than
one hundred weight.
" 1 am, Sir, your obedient servant,
"S. It. /..I.I9IIINGTON.
" D. J. Parker, Eq. Canterbury."

Extract of a letter froth Margaretta, dated Nov. 3 :
" We have accounts that the battalion (le la lit ina
had passed over from the Spaniards to the Patriots, nu
the banks of the river Tuy. A colmnu M the Pair of
army, under Colonel Mazenn, has occupied the banks
of the Tuy, and had pushed on 150 *ten to Camageza,
within two days' march of Caraceas. N. 1% .oro, the
etimmainlant of the militia in the adjicent towns, de-
serted from the Spaniards, joining the Patriots with the
greater part of M. fume. A vessel is just arrived front
Gotland, the Captain of which gives a miserable account
of the stale of that city: the blockade on the land side
is so strict, that supplies have become scarce beyond
concept Oa. The inttahitants are almost starved, and
entirely destitute of resources: a chicken .ells for a
Spanish dollar. All the principal lantilies have emi-
grated from the pros niece of Cumana and Barcelona.
A kw days since, neatly 300 noire of the Spanish army
went from Carrupatto over to the Patriots. The Captain
says, the general reeling of we itihabitants 01 CUllliAlit is
to welcome the Independents."
The Duchess of Clarence, is so awl recovered
from her accouchement as to see two select friends to
dinner on Monday with her Royal Highness and
the Duke. Tuesday her Royal Highness received
a visit from the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Vit-
toria, awl the Princess I...codure.

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Mr. KEAN.—( From an American Paper.)—
How doctors will differ ! One says Kean is all but
perfection ; another thinks him inimitably great
with certain exceptions; while another believes
Maywood to be his nearest equal, and Pritchard
superior, %Vullaek more so, Cooper and Hodgkinson
still further beyond, anti Cooke beyond compari.
son. On this subject friendship is delicate. The
managers deserve respect, and more than thanks
for their exertions, and ought to have full houses.
Mr. Kean ranks first in England. We are curious to
see their nonpareil. But Heaven mend our taste or
their judgment, or accommodate theatrical fashions
to each other better. A player, at an hundred
pounds a night, ought to be worth seeing. I went
to view my old favourite, Richard, which I bad seen
with increased interest, from Hodgkinson down to
the present day. I locked for the person—the voice,
the attitude of the hardy warrior; the occasional
dignity—the manly port—the firm and elevated
demeanour of the Royal commander; the grave re-
flection—the deliberate resolve—the cool delivery,
of a studied, ertful line of conduct; a natural,
consistent, and forcible delineation of character; and
found—all but my eye and ear—completely satisfied
and delighted. Nit. Aostin.tui.

The Court of Causation at Paris has rejected the
appeal of young Pestrel, aged 17, who was checked
in his high career of crime, namely, the attempt to
poison his father, mother, and several o: hers, thirteen
in number, who had been invited to a family party.
The sentence of the Court of Assir.:s at Rouen,
condemned him to suffer the death of a parricide,
has been confirmed.

Another monster, Stephen Lelicvre, alias Cheva-
lier, has also appealed against sentence of death,
passsed upon him by the Court at Lyons. This
criminal was found guilty of having poisoned his
two wives, drowning his child, stealing another
child to pass for that he had murdered, and of com-
mitting sixteen forgeries. The appeal was rejected,
and the order for his execution made out.

The proceedings against Lilly and Wood, who
received sentence of death at the late Admiralty
Sessi.ms, for being parties in the plundering of the
cargo of the Mau, Williams, from Limerick to
London, stranded on the Goodwin Sands in Decem-
ber, 1818, were commenced and carried on under
the direction of the committee for managing the
affair.; of Lloyd's, who are determined not to suff-r
such disgraceful depredations on vessels in distress
to be emninitted with impunity.

The shipping belonging to Leith increased 1,767
tons last year, and has been the means of employing
150 additional seamen.

CAUTION TO BANKERS.--By 55 Gen. 111. cep.
185, sec. 16, every banker re-issuing promissory
notes, after three years from their respective dates,
is subject to a penalty ofsol. fur each mite so issued,
provided the said note bears date prior to the 31st of
August, 1815, and likewise the old stainp duty.
Several bankers have recently been prosecuted under
this act, and have paid very heavy penalties fur the
offence.

On Monday afternoon, the Earl of Harrowby, on
his entering into town in his travelling carriage from
Bath, proceeded down Constitution-hill to the Earl
of Liverpool's house in Privy Gardens, where his
Lordship sat down to dinner,when his valet returned
in the carriage towards his Lordship's house in
Grosvenor-square. In going out of Piccadilly into
Berkeley-street, Mr. Butler, the valet, observed two
men suddenly separate flout several others in Picca-
dilly, and tidlowed the carriage down Berkeley-stye, t.
Suspecting their design, he watched them closely
through the glass in the hind part of the carriage,
when he perceived one of them in the act of cutting
the trunk from behind: he immediately threw
open the door, jumped down, and seized the
by the collar, whom he conducted back to the Glou-
cester Coflec-house, where he surrendered him to a
police officer, his companion having fled. On
Butler returning to the carriage, he fond one of
the straps of the trunk cut off, and the other nearly
severed.

A circumstance of a singular nature occurred at
the new Chapel, in Carr's Lane, Birmingham, on
Sunday evening, the ilst ult. The Rev. Mr. James,
and a congregation of upwards of '2,000 persons,
were plunged in total darkness, the connecting pipe
of tl.•e gas works being cut off, it is supposed, by
time malicious retsons. The screams of females
and children, and the stench of the gas, threatened
sidibeation and destruction, and the alarm and
anxiety to get out of the Chapel were extreme.—
Many persons stifLred, but none very severely. It
is much to be de.:ircd that de perpetrators may be
discovered and punished.

The Address from Sheffield, praying for the dis.
missal of his :Majesty's Nlinisters, was sent off on
Tuesday sennight to his Graze the Duke ot Nor-
folk and Earl Fitzwilliam, to be by them presented
to his Majesty. It had received nearly 6000 sig.
natural.

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