The National Register.
London, England, 1817-08-11 00:00:00

AUGUST 11.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tnerday, Aug. 7.
BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
W. Destiocl, aiugur-baker.

BANKRUPTS.

MANN J. If. Overton Gifford, Devon. cider-mere'innt, At:g. 16, V,,
Sept. li., at GuildhalL Mt. Mr. Robert, tfraystoke-place.
M 'Tett ri.t. J. East-street. Fin,burz-mark...t, brewer, Aug. 9, IC,
Sept. iti,-.1u11u11,111,111. Att. Mr. Clarke, Ilishopsgatr-street.
WAIN Elt .1. Kllty-bridge, l.siorater, lime-merchant, Aug. 18, I• 1,
• Sept. it, at Leicester. Atts. Alexander and Co. New-hp.
Evros!' EAD J. Liverpool. ispiritsmerehant, Aug. it.2,g3,lept ;,
at l.iverpool. Atts. Griffith and Co. Liverpool,
Atts.
C. Southampton-row, Bloomsbury. cabinet-maker, Aug. o,
19. Sept. In, at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Poole, Adanes-cotut,-Old
Broad-street.
DAY W. l'rovidence-buildings. New Kent-rotul, plumber, Au.;. IG,
W 3, Sept. 16.. at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Marson, Newington Butts.
HANNIIM E. Threadtwedle•street, ship-broker, Aug. !i. 12. Sept.
16, at Guildhall. Atts. Reardon and Co. Corbet-eourt, Grace-
church-street.
MEACOCK It. I ieerpool, ship-chandler, Aug. gO, 21, Sept. 16, at
Liverpuul. Au. Air. Battye, Chancery-Lute.

DIVIDENDS.
T. Mansell, Stow on the Hold, Glocesier, draper, Aug. '27.
.1.-Scarhorough. Huckden, Iluttingdon, innholtler, Aug. 2s.
W. Scarborough, Silton, Huntingdon, inuholder, Aug. 2a.
J. Rowe, Cantle-stmt, Eakon-square, merchant, Aug. 26.
.1. Amos and C. Sutherland, St. Helen's-place, merchants, Aug. 30.
A. Adair and D. Cunningham, W inehester-street, merchants, Aug. 30.
.1. Salisbury, Exeter, cabinet-maker. Sept. 4.
F. Hetherington. Kirklinson, Cumberland, cattle-jobber, Aug. 28.
J. CuMinute. Las rcnce Pountney-lane, merchant, Aug. 26.
11. Duckworth, Manchester, liquor-merchant, Aug. 26.
.1. Picketing, Hatton-wall, oil and colounnan, Aug. 26.
R. Cohen; Rishopsgate-street, merchant, Aug. ‘.‘6.
J. Naish, Edward-street, Cavendish-square, glass-stainer, Sept. 20.
J. Watkins, Chapel.street,Cunton-street, Nlay-fair, grata, Auz.26.
.1. Hawkins. Radpole, Dorset, brewer, Aug. 26.
E. 11. Shortie, New Saturn, Wilts, cutler, Aug. 26.
J. Goodyear, Hood Grange, York, tinnier, Aug. 27.
11. Marsh, Brentrovd, shoe-maker, Aug. 2t.
J. Shutt, Paternoster-row. tea-dealer. Aug. 26.

cEirriFICATES, un. 26.

J. Cull, Wareham, Dorset. 'kbrewer—.%. Alorran, Carne-then,
milliner—C. Whining, Bristol. nlumber--T. 11. Taylor, one's,
Devon, men:ham—R. Curtis and 'l'. Ilan, A ngel-court,Th oi,onorton-
street, merchants—l. liellycr, Lloyd's Corres-114m,ic, insurance-
broker—W. Eastertield, Fleetsmarkct, 4ttaiunsr.

L.4IP INTELLIGENCE

• COURT 'OF CHANCERY, AUGUST F.
WATERS D. TA% ERR.

OnF.RA ITOU%E.....4l:linll:•ontl;lart of the• Plai.tiff,
moved for liberty to par the slum 0f25,973i. huh) Conet, on or
before the first day of N+ove•mber nest, and That the property
should be assigned over to him. He (the Learned Counsel)
was not aware that there was any opposition to the motion,
as, from the Master's report, the soil of 34,0001. was due to
the Plaintiff. The Defendant himself admitted that a con-
siderable sum i• 15 due to the Plaintiff. Under those consi-
derations, lie had no doubt but hiaLordsbip would grant the
motion.
Barber followed on the itanmside.

Sir Samuel Romilly, Connsel for the Defendant, contende d
that his Lordship ought not to grant the motion except the
whole of the purchase money was paid into Court, for at pre-
sent the' Plaintiff was in possession and enjoyment of the
property, without having paid one shilling into Court.
Mr. Heald followed on the same side.

Mr. Hart replied.
The Lord Chancellor said, that when he opened the sale
for the resale of the Opera House, lie did nut think more
money would have been offered*for it, lie way, however, mis-
taken, which certainly Fliewed his want of know ledge of fa-
shionable life, as a number of the Nobii.'ty had collectively
bid for it, and raised the purchase money from 40,0001. to
71.0001. He would read over the several affidavits that night,
and it should be open for the discussion of Counsel to-
morrow.

Further consideration postponed.
—at ETCALF TIIOMPSOW.

This.was an application to dissolve an injunction which had been
granted by the Vice Chancellor, to restrain the defendant from making
hair brushes fur the hair, similar to these for which the plaintiff had
obtained a patent. Itappaired, that in September last thepatent was
granted formaking what the plaintiffchoose to cull patent taper hair
brushes; andthe principle en which they were made was, that the hairs
in them were of unequal lengths. The defendant contended that this
was no new invention ; and produced a number of witnesses to prove
that they had never known any other mode of making brushes
but with hairs of unequal lengths mufti they were properly trimmed.
The defendant had in ;October last given the plaintiff notice that he
would continue to make brushes like those of the plaintiff; and even
entered an aetionon the validity, of Ins patent, in Easter Term, by
writ of :city facial ; which could not be tried till after the long va •
cation. The plaintiff had taken no steps to establish the validity of
his patent, except by filing his bill for an injunction only.
On the part of the plaintiff, it was contended that the arrangement
and distribution of the hair in his brush was entirely new ; at the
same time it was admitted that it was next to impossible for any man
at first to make a brush. the hairs of which should be all equal before
they were trimmed. No delay had taken place on the part of the
plaintiff in defending his patent, for he was content to have it deci-
ded by ~•firefirias ; but finding that could not be tried till after the
long vacation, he was constrained to file his bill for the injunction.
The Lord Chancellor said, lie did not find any thing about the
newness of arrangement and distribution of the hairs in this brush.
in any part of the spectieation of the patent ; and as this plaintiff,
instead of supporting his own patent, had suffered himself to be made
defendant in the acirejihitis, he would dissolve the mjunetion.

Mn.' ANDRDWS AND •AIR. Anot.Pnus.--The dis-
missal of the above Learned Gentlemen from the Home
Circuit Club, was communicated to them severally on
the evening of the 29th, by the following laconic note
from &erjel►nt Onslow, the Chairman

Mr. getieant omlow has the painful task of informing Mr. A.
that it is requested, that he trill not any longer consider himself •
Member of the Club of the Home Circuit"
Mr. Adolphus •has thought proper to publish a state-
ment of his conduct on this occasion : it is the same,
indeed, which he delivered in.to the Club, as required
breberjeant Onslow, and is essentially the same as ap-
peared before the public, at the time thu rencontre
took place.
Mr. Hunt intends opposing the return of Lord*car-
hampton fir Luggershall, on the score of •Lribery and
corruption.—Salisbury Gazelle.

AU6VST 11.

REVIEW OF LITERATURE.

sPa!enteni respecting the Earl of k's Settlement
upon the Red R..ver,in North America; its Destruction
in 1813, and 181 ; and the Massacre of Governor
Semple and his I'ariy.

It is now several years since Lord Selkirk first re-
aommended to Government the adoption of some plan
by which the vast numbers of families that annually
emigrate from the highlands and isles of Scotland, and
the north of Ireland might he preserved to the parent
country instead of being allowed to transport them-
selves to the United States of America, where few ever
realize the expectations they firm, and where immense
numbers are doomed to a life of wretchedness and mise-
ry of which few persons can have an adequate idea who
have not witnessed the actual situation of these deluded
people. The plan recommended by Lord Selkirk was,
that the Government should afford facilities of convey-
ance to all persons disposed to emigrate, who would set-
tle in our North American Colonies, where there are
immense tracts of country every way favourable to co-
lonization, sad that settlers should, in the outset, be
assisted with agricultural and other instruments.—
This recommendation, it is to be regretted, has not
been adopted to the extent practicable. Lord Selkirk,
however, relying on the correctness of his views on the
subjeot, resolved upon founding one or more colonies
himself; and accordingly engaged a number of families
in the parish of Kildonan in the county of Sutherland to
embark in the enterprise. This attempt of his Lordship,
it is now generally known, has been attended with dis-
appointment, and difficulties, arising, however, not
from natural causes, or any erroneous calculations on
the subject, but from the opposition of interested indivi-
duals, which was not to be expected, and couiti not there-
five be guarded against. It is the object of the volume
whose title is given above, to present to the public a
detail of this opposition, and to rescue Lord Selkirk's
character from the obloquy cast upon it by misstatements
anti misrepresentations made in this country relating, to
his plans of colonization. On the accuracy of the state-
ments in the volume we have the most entire reliance,
and we lament to say, that they derelope a series of
atrocities, which had they been perpetrated by any of
the Indian trigs, would have excited pity anti regret ;
but originating as they did with Britons, or the descen-,
dants of Britons, with men living under the laws and in
the territories of his Majesty, tey inspire feelings of
the utmost detestation and horror.

It is onr object to present to our readers such a ge-
neral view of the contents of this volume, as will en-
able them to form a tolerable estimate of these trans-
actions.

The tract of country fixed upon by Lord Selkirk for
the establislunent of' his colony, lies in the district of
Ossiniboia, on the banks of the Red River, in 50 de-
grees of north latitude, and 97 degrees of longitude west%
of London ; but as this is comprehended in the territory
held by Charter by the Hudson's Bay Company, it was
indispensably requisite that a grant of the saute should
be previously obtained from that Company ; this grant
was made with little opposition, by a Court of Proprie-
tors in 1811, and being laid befinv Council was pro-
nounced to be every way a valid and legal instrument.
Accordingly, in the autumn of 1812, the first party of
settlers arrived at the predetermined spot, named from
their native parish Kildowan, where houses had been
previously erected for them, and by the end of Septem-
ber, 1814, the number of settlers and labourers, had
increased to about two hundred persons, whilst nearly
a hundred more were on their way thither. At this
time every thing looked promising, on the part of the
colony ; a mill had been built, cattle and sheep bud ar-
rived ; the soil was fertile, and easily cultivated, being
unincumbered with woods, and offering no obstructions
to the plough, though there was no want of timber at
h convenient distance ; the climate was as mild as that
of Canada ; the river abounded in fish, the woods with
deer and game ; and the neighbouring Indian tribes
evinced the most friendly disposition towards the set-
tlers. Indeed so great an earnest of success did the Co-
lony present, that it soon became an object of jealousy,
and this presently ripened into those acts of open hos-
tility against it which led to its destruction. When the
grant of land was made to Lord Selkirk by the Hud-
son's Bay Company, six of the Proprietors delivered in
protest against it ; one striking passage in this protest
was, that "colonizatio.7 is at oil hares uldarmirable
11u' fur trade." This trade is in the hands of a body of •
men named the North West Continue: of Fur Trailers;
it is not a chartered body, but is very powerful. The
moment it was perceived, that success would crown the
efforts of the new settlers, this Company, it appears, had
resolved upon the destruction of the Colony : the first
methods devised were testis up the Indians to hostility ;
but failing in this they next had recourse, by weans of
their agents, to induce the settlers to desert, by offer-
ing them bounties, and alarming them by tithe rumours
of intended attacks upon them by the Indians: in this
they succeeded so fir that many persons quitted the
settlement : but a great part remained proof against
all the temptations. The settlers had been provided by

THE NATIONAL REG:

Lord Selkirk, with fire-arms and ammunition, and the
Government had also tUrnished them with muskets and
a few small field-pieces, for their better protection ;
these the agents of the Company foecibly seized and
carried off, the better to insure the success of their pre-
meditated attack upon the Colony. Having completely
failed iu their endeavours to rouse the Indians against
the settlers, these agents called to their aid, what are
termed I(4i-breeds, a species of lawless banditti; the ilk-
git imate offspring of Canadian traders, and Indian wo-
men; they are a numerous race, and numbers of them
are employed in different ways by thu Fur Company,
but chiefly in hunting, in which they are very expert ;
to these they joined another class called Canadian free
traders, being retired servants or traders of the Com-
pany. When their plan of operations was matured the
hostile party, with the settlers whom they had tempted
to desert, encamped at a short distance from Kiltionan,
mounted some of the guns, and bel;at to annoy the Co-
lonists, in every possible way, till on the I I th of June,
Sunday, they commenced a regular fire upon all who
were withoutsidu the buildings, in the course of which
four persons were wounded, one of whom died. The
ostensible plea for this atrocious attack, was the serving
of a warrant upon Mr. Mae& nnell, the chief of the set-
tlement, for an alleged robbery in having detained some
provision boats belonging to the North West Company
with a view to prevent a want of food among the set-
tlers, but for which he had tendered payment.—
Cameron, the leader of the party, having declared that
all hostility should cease, if Mr. 'Mcdonnell were given
up, that gentleman immediately surrendered hiinself.—
This, however was mere deception, for. shortly after,.
Cameron issued positive orders to, the settlers to quit
the banks of the Red River.
" These orders were followed up by the most wanton acts of ag-
gression, under the direction of Mr. Alexamli r M Donnell, who,
after Cameron's departure with his prisoner, succeeded to the com-
mand on the Forks. The remaining settlers were frequently fired at
by h people ; the farm-home belonging to the settlement was broken
open and pillaged; several of the servants and labourers,. quietly em-
ployed in tillage were forcibly seized, and detained as prisoners; the
horses were stolen, the cattle driven away, and the bull belonging to
the settlement was killed and ent up in. the !immix of Alesiuider
31' Donnell himself.

In consequence of these and similar outrages, and
violence, subsequently committed, the remaining
settlers, about sixty in number, resolved on abandoning
the colony, as the only course left them of preserving
their lives, and, in this perhaps, they would not have
succeeded, but for the friendly aid of a party of Indians,
who, having failed in attempting to negociate for their
stay with the Fur Company's agents, escorted them
with the remains of their property, down the river to
its mouth, whence they proceeded to a post of the
Fludscm's Ray Company, called Jack River House, at
the northern extremity of Lake Winipic. On the day
following that on which they quitted Kilddonan, the
houses, mill, and every other building, were burnt
to the ground by their enemies.
During these transactions, Lord Selkirk was on kis
way to Canada to support the settlers ; when he reached
New York, he heard of the fate of the colony ; its
destruction and dispersion being attributed .to the
Indians. His Lordship immediately departed for
Montreal, where he learnt the contrary to be the fact,
and instautly set on fin►t an investigation of the
whole proceeding, the result of which, too plainly
sheweil who were the real perpetrators of the atrocities
above related.

Inlst employed in this investigation, intelligence
reached Lord Selkitk, that the party of settlers who
had withdrawn to Lake Winipic, had returned and re-
established the colony on the Red River. His Lord-
ship in consequence dispatched a messenger to infamy
them of his arrival, and that he would be shortly with
them; but his dispatch never reached them', the bearer of
it having been waylaid, and robbed. Lord Selkirk being
also apprehensive from the rumours he had heard, that
another attack would shortly be made upon the renewed
settlement, applied to the governor of Canada for
military aid ; this he failed to °both. ; but some foreign
regiments being disbanded, in consequienee of the peace
with America, his Lordship engaged several of the
men, whom he furnished with arms, and promised
allotments of land on the lied River. This proceeding
furnished Ld. Selkitk's opponents with matter of charge
against him, but with what justice ? When these
men were disbanded, all such as chose to settle in the
country, were ofli•red landsby Government ; Lord Sel-
kirk theretirre appears to have merely seconded those
views, in carrying with him such as chose to accept
lands on the Red River. With this reiolweement of
settlers and soldiers, Lord Selkirk set oft' for the co-
lony ; but be had advanced but a short way, when he
met with a party of his people that Lad been sent from
Montreal, who informed him that the settlement was
again destroyed, and a great number of the settlers
killed, together with Major t.4eMple, the Clovcruor of
the lltulson's Bay Company's territories, who happened
to be on the spot. This attack, as atierwards appeared,
was made Iv the same description of per Fens as the
first, but was m:wked with acts of deeper atre:•ity ; and
•which can be considered in no other light, than as
the deliberate murder of an unoffemling hotly of people,
attended with eirettia.tunces of cruelty, which could
hardly Le expected from savages. Qf the party at-
tacked, .28 in Luaibei, were killed, of the ti.uiaitt-

•

ing 7, some were wounded, and carried off prisner,..,
others escaped. It is worthy of remark here, that a
party of Indians encamped near the spot where the
massacre took place, so tar from participating in it. CN•
pressed their deepest sorrow at it, and as,isted in
carrying off and burying the dead bodies. So much fot
the alledged hostility of the Indians ! The remain-
ing settlers having with difficuity obtained leave to
embark in their ds with the little property left them,
departed for Hudson's Hay, but on their way down the
river they were stopped on the second day, disembark-
ed, their trunks searched, papers seized, and many of
them examined by. a Magistrate of the name Mecleod.
as to the !ate attack ; warrants were next issued against
some of the parties, who were seized, and sent to Fort
William, the trading station of the North West Coat
pany ; after these proceedings, the remainder of the
people were again embarked, and allowed to pursue,
their dreary voyage to Hudson's Bay. Of their floe.
nothing yet has reached this country ; but serious ap-
.prehensions, it seems, are entertained respecting them.
As soon as Lord Selkirk learnt• that a- part of the
.settlers.were threibly detained ,in Fort William, he pro-
c.eeded with his people to that place, and demanded to
know the ground for such detention ; upon this some
of. the settlers were released, and sent to his LorilAtip ;
who, in emrequence of their inthrmation, and in his -
peaty of Magistrate, immediately issued warrants tau
the apprehension of the North West Company's part-
ners in the Fort ; these were, after some opposition, all
served; a warrant was also issued to search for, and
secure all the papers in the Fort ; these were sealed, mat
though a part was subsequently destroyed, yet sufficient
remained to prove the sources wheitee the destruction.
of the new colonies had sprung, and the means re-
sorted to tin effecting it.. All the partners apprehended
were after due examination committed, and sent to
Montreal, where they were admitted to bail. We shall,
close this article by leaving Lord Selkirk at Fort
William, as we believe that no authentic information
has yet been received of his ulterior proceedings, as.
respects the re-establishment of his colony. An attempt
has been made on the part of the North West Comrany,
in this country, to refute the statements. of Lord Sel-
kirk's friends ; but these, we think, have been satis-
factorily answered. The Aiir will probably come
before a high tribunal ;. and we sincerely hope that
the most ex.miplary punishment will he inflicted on
the instigators and- abettors of the cruelties which.
have been perpetrated. It is well observed in the ad-
vertisement of this volume, that,

" The suk...ct is of higher consequence than the Bender may at
first iniagine. It includes the important question, whether exten-
sive and fertile rceiions in with Arncriea, ate ever to becon.c
inhabited by civilized society ; or whether Britidi subjects, who fmm
the increase of population in their native land, or from other causes
of a public nature, arc induced to emigrate to various parts et our fo—
reign pm:sessions in that quarter, are to be totally deprived at the pie.
section of the rnoCier country, and excluded hum the benefit of the
lfiriti.li late s."

TILE LAMENT OF TASSO..
RY LORD 13%1401%.

The few stanzas composing this publication were
written, it should seem, by his Lordship, on seeing
the cell in the Hospital of St.::nnu, for lunatics in
licrrara, in which 'l'asso was confined. It has been
asserted by some, that the Poet was immured in con-
sequence of his having► cuneeivea en affection fin.
Leonora, sister of Alfiinso,. Duke of Ferrara, and
which s overpowered his discretion, that he one day
approached and kissed her, in the presence of the Dole
and kis courtiers. For this offence Alfonso ordered
hint td he confined as a madnum ; it is on this state-
ment that Lord 13yroo's " Lament" is founded. Tim-
boschi, however, aud Serassi the biographer of Tas.vo,,
deny its accuracy anti assert, that the Poet was seat to
the lunatic hospital in cunsequeaceofa fit of melancholy
which had seized him.
We select the fourth stanza as one of the most im-
pressive ill the poem.
" I have been patient, let me be so yet ;
had forgotten half I would forget,
But it revives—oh ! would it were my lot
To be fo•getfiul as I am forgot
Feel I nut wroth with those who back me dwelt
lu this vast larar•bouse of many woes?
Where laughter is not mirth, nor thought the mind,
Nor words a language, our e'en men moot ;
Where cries reply to curses, shticks to blows,
And each is tortured in his separate WU
For we are crowded in oar solitudes—
Many, but each divided by the wall,
At Inch echoes Nladness in her babbling moods:--
\t bile all can hear, none heed his neighbour, eau_
None ! save that One, the veriest wretch of all,
ho was not made to be the mate of these,
Nor bound between distraction and disease,
• Feel I sot w roth with those that placed me here ?
Who have debased me in the minds of men,
Debarring me the nsuage of my own,
Blighting my life in best of its career,
Branding my thought& as things to shun and fear!
11 meld 1 not pay them hack these paegs again,
And teach them inward sorrow's stilled groan?
he struggle to be calm, and cold distress,
Which undermines our storictil success
j~o! still too proud to be vindictive—l
have pardoo'd princes' insults, and world die.
1.-, sister of my sovereign! for thy sake
all bitterness from out my breast,
It with no lousiness where thou art a guest;
'lll, brother hates—but I can not detest ;
pitit.t net-- but I call Out forsake "