The National Register.
London, England, 1816-05-19 00:00:00

GENLAAL ORDIIIii.

"Horse alitfyls, May in, 18111.
" So lone as Major. General Sir Robert 11"ilson and Captain J.
11. Hutchinson, the Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot
tsaards, were snider trial, the C ander in Chief übi.ained
fonn making any observation on their conduct.
"'file proreedings having now tennis:died, the Commander
-in Chief has received the Prince Regent's commands to fiction.
his Royal Highness's sentiments on the tinnsactious which have
led to the trial and conviction of those Officers.
" In the installer of Nlajor-General Sir R. Wilson, the Itrince
Regent thinks it necessary to express his'iCith displeasure that
am Officer of his standing in his 31-st,'s service, holding the
conamission and receiving the 'lay of a Majtir.tieueral, should
have been so unmindful of n hat was due to his profession, as well
as to the Government under whose protection lie had volota-
placed himself, as to hate engaged in a measure the declared
object of which was to counteract the kites and ii-feat the public
justice of that country. Nor does his Royal I iigliness coniider
the means by which this measure wits accomplished aslessrepre-
liensible than the act itself. For his (Royal Highness cannot
admit that any eircumstxtwe could
,justify a British Oilleei•
having obtained. ;miler false pretences, passports in feiginel
trailleilfailll the Representati cof his own Sot ereign, and having
undo use of such passports for himself and a subject of his Most
Christian Majesty, under sentence for ilisataisad
iiiltltritishUatiforin.not only toehMle the vigil/nice of the French
Government, but to carry him in such disguise through the
British Boca. B hile the Prince Regent cannot but cousinr if
as a material aggravation of Sir R.ll ilson's offence, that holding
Po high rank in the army, lie should have conntenanced and
encouraged an inferior tficer to commit a serious and decided
breach of military duty, his Royal Hit:ln:cis,' nevertheleisthinks
i; -equally necessary to express his high displeasure at the CM. 4'
'loci of Capt. J. H. Hutchinson for having beenhimselfan active
instrument in a transaction of so culpable a nature, more espy-
chilly in a country in amity with his Majesty, where the regi•
aunt with which he t, as serving in the coin se of his military
dais, formed part of an army which load lien placed by the
Allied Sovereigns r !he command ofthe I hike of Wi
snider eircitatstances which made it peculiatly incumbent ilitoti
eiery °freer of that army to abstain float any conduct which
might obstruct the execution of the laws.
his Royal Higlowss the Prince Regent being nuts Mine to
visit these Officers with the full weight of his displeasure, ts hich
the crimples lon of their otience hay.. %tiiri'.lllll:J, anti also
taking into e..:•.•1.- won the depot: of eointshitient to which
they ha Vl' ,•11•.. "'..i 1.10.1)1%1•11t.1,.., by violating the or the
comitts it: . I 'l:itis.telit,n tools place, has signified to
• ,•:•.•-:' th••••t• hits sentiments, that the v stimuli
i•'.!: ' .•. tuna at large, in order to record in the
• • s..,use *Welt tlis H.etlitu.s
.1, ..1 of these Ottivers, +4lO 11,*
•. .• • •1 ti. the mintiltion and discipt at
•. 1 .m nth-•,er were to pass without a
. -• • .? d 11. most severe retire
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)1:II IN CI-lIEF."

triE REGIA3TER.

N.W.iL AND JII`•_L/T'i/lY BIBLE SOCIETY.

Wednesday se'linight,tlic :16i la A nntlltl Mertina of this Society
was held in the King's Cmeert-room, Haynnirlet—Nlajor-Ge-
mold Ni ille in the Chair.
Apologies were read by the Seeretary from his Royal High-
ness the Duke of York f the Earl of Liverpool; the llishops
of Gloucester, London, and (Word ; the Chancelltir of the
Exchequer, and several other eminent public characters, who
were prevented from attending lry'orgetit public busintess.
The Report of theNociety was'ecad ; from which it apt eared,
since the establishment of the Institution in 17n0, 116,241 Bi-
bles and Testaments had been distributed tilt total' its means.
ILm•h yet remained to be done by the Society, whose !salamis in
the statement of the funds for the present year did not exceed
261. 10, t!rl. in consequence of the immense number of Bibles
distributed by them within the year, to soldiers who had lost
their former ones at Waterloo, and to others in garrisons, eke.
The Report Contained a variety of details, together with
an Appendix, containing several letters from COrrespon-
dem: on ►lts besiness- of the Institution ; and one from the
Duke of Wt 11 ngton, ,expressing his cordial approbation of Its
plan.

Mr. Butterworth, M. P. proposed, that the Report he
ithipted; which was agreed to onanimously. The Hon. Gentle.
• man strongly enforced the advantages resulting front this In-
• :inflation. In the course of his speech, he related an anecdote
cif a serjeaut of a recruiting party, st ho, at a sermon in Shrews-
batty, became forcibly ill11111'“I'd with the necessity of dis iue
;precepts. This serjeant was afterwards sent to the Peninsula,
from which he wrote over, entreating that a few Bibles might be
sent Trim for some fi blots ; and also a few in the Spanish lan-
guage, for the wretched inhabitants of that country. This
request had been complied with, but the Spanish Clergy burn-
ed the books, and thereby put vented their Sovereign from
having befme hint a work that would have instructed him how
to govern without tyranny, and his subjects how to obey w itliout
rebellion. The Hon. Gentleman related the further history of
this seijeatut op to the battle or Waterloo, where he played a
distinguished part in the Sal battalion of the Foot Guards ; and
road a letter fr him descriptive of that battle, and contain-
ing an interesting ackalowledgment of the true courage with
which religions instruction inspired him on that occasion. He
also alluded to the perskyenance of a sailor, who, though
threatened to he flogged to the bare bone by his Lieutenant,
if he devoted his time and that of others to prayer; yet per-
sisted, and warned those who were of a weak body nut to
attend, as they could not so well bear flogging to the hone. The
Lieutenant was, however, removed, and the Captain gave the
' poor knows full permision to pray. •
It also appeared, in the course of the disens•ion, that the
soldiers of Scotland were always remarkable for their ;attention
to religions duties ; and that there wara hardly one of limn ever
Withellt it in his knapsack.
Lord Caltlampe, Capt. Montague, H. N. ;tie-. Clementson,
and several Iles efelld Gentlemen, addressed the Nleeting in
support of this valuable Institution. Several Resolutions were
entered into tar •this purpose, and a handsome subseriplion
'vita made op in the room, iu fan therance of this desirable ob-
ject.
The Meeting was attended by several Ladies of distineliam.
Mr.Wilberthree was present', but we regret to add, prevented
by indisposition nom delivering his sentimentsin support of
the Institutioa.

The prison: r+ in Novrgate, Dublin, made an attempt on
Saturday sionnight, to break out of that prison.--They had
seized and disarmed four of the sentinels at the time it was
discovered. The jailor, aided by the guard. endeavoured to
dissuade thcm ; but they refused, and attempted to burst
through .the breach which they had made. One of them
(Peter Woods) was shot dead, three were wounded, and the
rest then submitted. About 300 prisoie.rs were cimaged in
the ate: mpt.—Coroner's Verdict, Justifiable lloiniside.
In the King's Bench, Thiblin, on Friday, a young barrister
moved tar an attachment against two farmers of the counts of
Shen, the an outrageous contempt of the process of the Court.
It appeared by the affidavit of the process.server, that upon
his serving the writ, they laid hold of him, dragged him into an
mallow:v.; and there, by thneats and imprecations, actually
compelled him to eat and swallow the process.—Their Lord.
ships granted the attachment and au order to substantiate the
SO Vire*.

On the arrival of the Royal George, off Gravesend, from
India, no We:Memlay last, three singular accidents happened
The•boatsvrain's witi went off in a boat to meet her husband,
%alto, deseeninig from the ship, kissed her, fell hick, and es,
hired Immediately. Aloud the same time, on shore. the mother
of the mate • g to sec her-rim, its _china
,dowu from the
enneh, t‘roke her leg . sad in the evening, the armourer of the
ship was drowned.

Two Brighton fishermen have discovered a rich bed of
oysters, which they calculate er,4l ends mine than six miles,
situated midway in the rhannel between Brighton and Dieppe.
A mad dog, while running through Brussels in the begin-
ning of last month, hitiVaruty-seven persons, I'll whom have
since died.

Sir N. William Wraxall on Tlitirsila was 1)1.01w:a up to the
Court of King's Ilene) to receive sentence for a on Count
Woroimiu, the Bioisian Ambassador, He was sentencel t.i he
confined six mini:a in the King's Bench prison, and to pis) a
Bac of 5061.

Da 'Wednesda}• the son of Mr. Felton, of Southgate. as-
cended a tree to take a rook's itcsk, but fell therefrom, alltl was
killed on the spot.
Sanguine hopes are entertaitied of a p!entiful .ear of ap-
ples. The blossoms are Ind now opening, when the must ha •
Aardow periods of the spring are past; and the price of cider
has fallen eerc considerably in the prospect.
A Coroner's inquest was held at Portsmouth on tii• hotly of
Jan.' 11111110 Ck, w ill) poi=our i lICESt lir nu Thursday evening. Sire
had lately been a servant in respectable faitailirs; and it WWI
known in her friends she a as warmly attached to a young Mall
H lahoirer,) a tin, on Monday. was married so another female.
Thls Cif CLllllo3llel., together with the consideration other hal—
ing breu out of sett tee for some time, imps lied her to the des
perate ratiattion of spreading !‘o;nr rat p.m der, .n w6ieh %VS -
inked a large portion of arsenic, upon her bread and butter,
which she ale .1% she, !'at at tea with the Wind) where she re
She suffered great agoti) cur several hours, nod then
expired. l'erdiefT- tainuey.

A nteltmeholy rweiamt ...:i-red lat.ly in F. ter. Three youths
anntsing theunalves in a stir,ll hoot on the river, IVTV driven by the
force of the current against tic raltge of Drew 's Wear : toe bout n 1 5.3..
and all the young nun were precipitated down the slop, into the boii-
re,lira :aiow. Two of th...nt cs,trieatel thcms4l,.., with wine
acuity ; burt:eArle.ss costiinnte,vinpenion sunk. His body apyczring
ng,dn aft wan: wee brought on 5....0te by his eoinvar:on
It was WO late, howere,—all the eff.orts to re•-sore hivs...'.•rh w.r.
en-ad' by thc rver.l G.,ntlown who uttvniled tts
~mt.ckly as.
potable, were wititoat etrect. This reip et.ablz young man, Ott.:
tlenly halt to h!s faniily and friend:, w„:. G rtra., the 4141 of Mr.
in Lib 2C.th year.