The National Register.
London, England, 1820-06-18 00:00:00

To THL EDITOR.

Rutland, June 4, 189.0.
" the paper found het e may prove of import-
ance and utility, 1 beg leave to send you a coo, of it, ti
original 1 have forwarded to the Lords of the Admiralty.
" NASSAU FORSTER."
NO. 2, AT !MA.
" His Britannic Majests'ssiiip Newcastle, June 20, 1819,
►at. 38. 52. long. 04.0 W. of Greenwich.
" As these bottles, with their contents, are thrown
overboard with the intention of determining the true di-
rection and strength of the Florida 6int-stream, it is
requested, as a must particular favour, that whoever may
pick lip any of them, tither at ace Ur on shoe, will de-
termine the latitude and longitude of the place it was
picked tip in. and give that, with the date of picking it
u 1•, a place in any of the public prints, either in Eillupe,
America, or any of the colonies ill the West indica.
" Whoever may be good enough to comply with the
above legoest will comer a fatuity on then very oblige it
sd vault,

" JAMES NAPIER, Master of his I3ritatuti.•
Meiji I.l)'S ship Near•a•lle.
" To whoever who may pick up Ihi.
Conte on shore in the !losses, tn. iht N 1S . u.s.s of Is,
land, let. 54. sti. N., lung 9.0. %V., oh the day ul
1 lie place %heir this With fill/114 wan immediately in the
vicuisiy ul the iNlaud ul Arian, Os. She
Ireland. By a reference to the snap of Ir lost.tl, the lati-
tude and longitude can be easily ascertained, if the above
shoold Dot prove correct
NASSAU FORSTZR.

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
nomi►►ate 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 Tito.
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-moant, 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.

Tisa 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 s chasm of sixty feet from the ground, alighted
on the battlements of the other tower, whence
i 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 apologized for her unjust sus-
picion. The young lady eloped tke 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 forge notes is not twilit% 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-
' tiou, the result of which will not be known until the
minutes of evidence, sentence, &c. arc laid before
the proper authorities.
Ilion TREASON. The Lords Commissioners

appointed by the Special Commission of Oyer and
Terminer for trying all treasons, and misprisions of
treason, committed within tha 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 J unr 23d, at !rturliseg.
1../sturkshile blogulay, June 261 Glasgow,
Dumhartunrherr—Thursday,Jum. 29, at Dumbarton.
Itenirrw,bire—Saturday, July lA,
AyrAtire—Tursaa), July 4th, at Air.
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 piper states in sub-
stance the following ;—" The lord lieutenant of this
county could not go to review the yeomanry cavalry.
Sir F, Burdett dined ut the nie,s the over night;
and Mr. C. Dundus, colonel, and N. P. tier the county,
said, ' Sir Francis, you shall review us.' lie did,
and there was a great assemblage of beauty and
fashion. The corps marched by hint, and afterwards
formed a square; he entered it, and made them a
very appropriate speech on their evolutions, the
constitutional tiorce of aueh soldiers, &c. and they
gave him three cheers."
Mr. Vandethoff, of the Liverpool theatre, and
Mr. Cooper, of the Edinburgh ther.tre, two trap.
diens of much provincial fame, arc engaged by Mr,
Moos for the sem season.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WESTMINSTER,
TUESDAY, SUMS 13.
; Licensing Magisfrates.-7he King v Collins and others.
Application leas made by Mr. Scarlett, last Term, for
a criminal lamination against certain magistrates of the
county of Middlesex. The motion WAS subm,tied on
affidavit, charging the magistrates with corrupt exercise
of their authority, in refusing without just aid 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 shew cause
was granted on a variety of statements, mill among
others, that Mr. Meek, had for several years occupied
the nouse in question. Its 1816 his licence was refused,
on pretence that hr 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 grin-
meal part of the business, and that he had disposed of
h itbeer trade to Allolher person in his house. On the
refusal of the licence on the above grounds, Mr. Meek
presented a petition, and oat examined. He declared
that he did out dispose of his liminess for a premium,
but it was admitted that his own waiter had taken the
beer trade to pay him one guinea per butt. He al-
leged that the ground of refusal was not that stated, but
that his licence bad been withheld in consequence of
his refusal to deal with Meux and Co. and of his hav-
ing transferred his custom to Barclay and Co. It was
also stated, that on one occasion, when he attended to
get his licence renewed, a son of Sir Robert Wigratn,
who was wpartner its the house of Meux and Co. came
and desired one of the clerks to et rite his name, which
he sent in to one of the magistrates. Sir N. Conant
came out won after, and conversed with him sour
tiun•.
.--He was refused his IlerllCe on that occasion. At
another time, two clerks of the house of Men% and
Co. were in the room, and he suspected they were
there to influence the magistrates. The reason he quit-
ted Me'sx and Co. Was that the beer was 1111140ft:111,
and af...1 the change he sold much mac. In 1817,
18, and 19, he repeated his pennon for a licence, but
although hr offered to fit up his house in any way the
magistrates might direct, they refused hint the licence,
and the consequence was, he lost 14001. and had since
been ruined Tne 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•markrt,
where they did the thing he was Wanted for.
The Solicitor General this day slimed 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 tint reMsed 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 Mr. 11: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 iai the house of Meux and Co.
put in affidavits, suiting, they 'never had exercised any
influence to prejudice the party. Before the Solicitor
General had read all the affidavits, the Chief Justice
observed, that etiough had been shown by the athiavits
to prove the charge of a corrupt exercise of authority
was unfounded, therefore the Court felt disposed to dis-
charge the rule.
Mr. Scarlett,• 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, lie hoped to be able to shew all the
allegations were well founded; he wished at least to
show that his client had grounds for coining before he
Court. The house in question was the oldest in the
parish—it was the best conducted house in the parish--
all the tespectable inhabitants of the palish It •d conic
forward to prove the character of the Mall and the
conduct of the house: the house was shut up, and the
man was beg.tared.
Mr. S. Marryat, on the part of Mr. Gaskill, stated,
that the application, as against his client, must have bet
founded in mistake. At the last 'netting, the refusal of
which forlorn the ground of the present proceeding,
Mr. Gaskill had nut been present.
The error imputed by Mr. Marryat was admitted by
the other side.

The Lnrd Chief Justice.---The mistake of the appli-
cant has induced the Court to grant a rule against Mr.
which certainly ought not to hate been grained
at all: as a;tainsi that sentient 111, therefore, the rule
must he discharged with costs; he has beell improperly
brought here, and 11..13 Inll just that he should be tel
front all eXpe..Ce. As agatost the other pgittleineit tt ho
are deleudanis, the Court is of opinion that the rule
ought to be discharged, hilt without costs. Vt e are
inclined 10 .1(1,,r, this course, lit Cause 1( appear', [hal,
Upoll two Ileeils lig Cla)S, 111 1816.111,1 Idi j, the wall -
ging clerk of a brewer was present. Now iiiis Is a cir-
cumstance c Icidated to excite solecitiii: it has exec eii
suspicion in our a olds, and 'night wt It t sent stispie oil
in the mind 0: the applie.,lll. i !..110111(1 also say, that It
strikes us as itioly improper that, at a 'Heeling held (or
the licelistog ui youlic houses, Sir N. Conant should
have pelt tit, ro. in for the porptise oh speak tisa to a
iiiscitarged.
- -

THL KING V. LORD RANELAGII.
tilt lie Mad Mick. Wore, pro forma,
to move !or t.itant 11. In tin, case. He whit ratood that
Lord Ram la.:11 had been seen by two persons pnog into
the house MI his a lunacy, :thlum;.h he is too touch to-
disposed io come not, the Coon of King's
Mr.Bruttglialit haul att affidavit Irmo two the,.;eal men,
stating that Lt.trta Hattelagli could nut, without inlinote
danger, be brtatglit 1,1, forititiginent. I li. Lord,litit bad,
in fact, been again attat Lett with apoplexy since the last
application.

REX, V. EDMONDS.
As soon as the liar was gone through, Mr. George
Eihnondso of Birmingham, addressed the Court, and

he was sure ill,
Meek. All the
put in affidavits,
influence to prej
General had rya
observed, that et
to prove the cha
was unfounded,
charge the rule.
Mr. Scarlett, • i
tended, that alit
did not acknowl
blued to them, I
allegations were
show that his cli
Court. rte hot
parish—it was th
all the mix-mid.
• forward to provt
conduct of the I.'
man was lieg.care
Mr. S. Marry;
that the applicati
founded in
which formed tl
Mr. Gasktll had
The error mum
the other side.
The Lnrd Chit
cant has induced
Gastrin, wiitcti yt
at all: as aAal it
11114 t be dt►ch,upt
brought here, :Inc
from all expe..ce,
are delettdants, t
ought to be dis
inclined to .1(1,1
upon two liceos
ging clerk ca a hr
cumstance c leitl
suspicion in Our
in the intim
strikes us a, mot
the licensing to
have lett th, ro
brewer.—ltt.ll. tti
THL I
I'lr.Seatic.l as
to more lot) ..ga
Lord Ram la.to It
the house of hats ;
disposed ii) tome
Mr. Brougham
stating that Lsmi
danger, be tottugl
in fact. been apt
application.
As soon as the
Edmonds, of 13