The National Register.
London, England, 1821-10-14 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

J. Belcher, Enfield, Middlesex, stone mason. Solicitor, Mr.
Harmer, Hatton Garden.

J. and E. Du Bois, Copthall Court, ImA-chants. Sols. 31esst...
Greipon and Co. Angel Court, Throgniorion StrL•ez.
H. N. Rose, Holoorn, book denier. Sols. blestss. Edwards
and Co. Castle Street, Holborn.

J. Llewelyn and L. Belchier, Oh Jewry, insurance brokers.
Sol. Mr. Lester, Crutchedfriars.
IL Tate, Market Weighton, Yorkshire, shopkeeper. Sol. Mr.
Jaques, Charles Street, City !toad.
J. Travis, Oldham, Lancashire, grocer. Sol. Mr. Sault,
Doctors' Commons.

T. Green, Alfretoml)erbyslaire, grocer. Sills. Messrs. Bran,
ley, Gray's Inn SquAre.
J. Barton, Blackburn, Lancashire, upholsterer. Sol. Mr. Bigg,
Southampton Building., Chancery Lane.
J. Spear, Sheffield, merchant. Sul. Messrs. Tilson and Cc.
Coleman Street.
It. T. Gilbert, Stockbridge, Hants, coal merchant. Soh.
Messrs. Cottle and Co. Aldertuanbucy.
J. Clayton, Bury, Lancashire, undertaker. Sols. Messrs.
Appleby anti Co. Gray's lnn.
W. M. Hole, Kingskerkswell, Devonshire, tanner. Sols.
Messrs. Darke and Co. Red Lion Square.
P. Hamelin, Belmont Place, Vauxhall, plasterer. &Is.
Messrs. Demon sod Co. Gray's i Square.
N. Dunderdale' Leeds, clothier. Sots. Messrs. Robinson and
Co. Essex Street, Strand.
P. and C. A. Thomson, Comhill, wine merchants. Sd'i.
Messrs. Wadeson and Co. Austinfriars.

W. Jackson, Cutihant, Kent, tanner. Sol. Mr. Taylor, Fur.
nival's Inn.
DIVIDENDS.

—....—.—„.
Ott. 30, 11. Emett, Liverpool, paint and colour maker-30, .I.
Bates, Bishop Stortford, Herts. drsper—Nov. 3, W. :nal T.
Bingley, Tavt,tock Street, Covent Garden, linen drapers-6, G.
F. Buyer, Anlaby, near Hull, sugar baker-6, J. Boyes, junio-,
IVanstOrd, York, carpet manufacturer—to, W. Watts and J.
Rigby, )lanchadtr, linen drapers-13, G. Rose, Sheffield, grccer
—3, 1). Cawoad, Wakefield, York, merchants-3, 'l'. Roo..
Liverpool, optician-8, M. Pratten, jun. Bristol, leather dealer
—7, IV. H. Lawrence, Bath, linen draper-3,'l'. Eveleigh,
Holborn, shopkeeper-3, .1. Searle, Lower Grosvenor Street,
skopkoeper-5, J. and H. Cleugli, Leadenhall Street, wholesale
linen drapers-3, J. Barclay, Old Broad Street, merchant—to,
W. Wood. Wimpole Street, tallow chandler-3, J. Ledieu,
Richmond Buildings, Soho, jeweller--6, F. 'l'rix,
Devon, tanner--6, J. llepworth, Leeds, cloth dresser.
CEItTIFICA fES to be granted Nov. 3.
W. Holmes, Chesterfield, Derby, flour dealer—R. Higgs,
Bristol, leather factors—T. Nicoll, Ware, Herts, sack maker—
W. Holding, Devonshire Street, Queen square, wine merchant—
F. M. Cubbren, Newcastle upon Tyne, iron founder—J. Davi:,
Canterbury, linen draper—a. Whiteside, H. Fisher, and 7.
Hastic, Whitehaven, merchants-11. Dark, Bath, woollen dra-
per—J. Nlorgan, Stroud, Gloucestershire. linen draper—W.
Higgs, Strand, hatter.

A company has been formed at Liverpool fur es-
tablishing steam-packets to ply between that port,
the Isle of Man, and Greenock, and also between
tutu port and Dublin. Two vessels of large dimes.
sions are already cunstracted for, and are now built:-
ing by two experienced shipbuilders, the machinery
for both is to be fitted by an engineer of tirst-rate
eminence; and the proprietor, we understand, are
determined to spare no expense in the equipment of
the vessels, to contribute to the safety and comfort
of the passtngers.
A General Meeting of the Birmintiltam Pitt Club,
took place on Monday last, when it was resolved
that the dinner which was to have taken place this
year, should be postponed till October, 1823 ; ant
that in future it be held triviniall y! !

COURSE OF EXI
Amsterdam 12 17 C. F.
Ditto, at slght, 12 11
Rotterdam, It IS
Antwerp, 12 1(1
Hamburg's, 34 I
Altona, 38 2
Paris, 3 days' sight, 25 75
Ditto. 26 5
Ilmirde :as, ea 3
Frankfort on the‘laine, 137
Peter.bnrgh, Si 3 U.
Vienna, Et Flo. 10 23
Trieste, El. Flo. 10 23
Madrid, 36—Cadiz, 36
Bilboa,3sl—Bateelona,3s}

PRICE
Bank Stork 23;
3 per Cent. Red. 77
3 per Cent. Cuomols 771
31 per Cent. E 74
4 per Cent. 054
per Cent. Nokry 110
Lin: Ahn. 194

:HA NOE, Orr.
Seville, 334—G iliraltiar,3ol
Leghorn, 471—lienon, 43j
Malta, 43—Veniee, tor
Naples, 391—Llsbon.
Oporto, 50—Bahia, 39
Rio Janeiro, 491
Palermo, 118
Dublin, 8j per cent.
Cork, 9 per cent.
Foreign gold iu bara,3l. IT..
lOid. per or.
New lloolildona, 31. Igo. 6d.
New Unbar*, Iv. 9d.
Silver in bars, standard, Is.

' STOCKS.
Oniniont 0.
Imp. 3 per Cent.
ludia Bonds TO
ludic Stock 23
Exchequer Bal. 5 . prim.
Cons. for Ac. 77i
Lottery Tickets LW 18s.

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Unbolt :
SUNDAY, OCTOBER le.
-4180.-

In another part of our paper to-day we give the
ministerial statement of the Revenue for the quarter
ending on the 10th instant, which it will be seen is
very flattering when compared with the correspond-
ing quarter of 1820, and still more so by comparison
with the corresponding quarter of 1819. If an
improvement have been really produced by the pre-
sent Ministers, we rejoice that it is so--
----who serve, the state,
" No matter whence he springs."

but we have so often been duped by the hoeuspocus
arrangements of these leper de main gentlemen, that
much time is necessary for examination before one
ought to be certain that these statements are not
founded in fallacy—taking it all, however, for
granted—in what branch does the major part of the
increase aris:? why, in the Excise, which is wholly
derived from internal consumption—the returns of

which are almost entirely f►►rnished by importations—
'hew us a quarter's revenue statement where the
increase is derived from the customs exportations—
where the manufactured goods of our country have
mainly contributed to the amendment of the Go-
vernment finances, and we will hail with great
pleasure the existing authorities as the benefactors of
the nation—such is not now the case—it is true a
trifling increase of customs does appear, but that
increase is only the consequence of importations—
for if you import a pipe of wine, on which the excise
is 4s. 2d. per gallon, you have a customs import duty
of 3s. sd. per gallon to pay—this accounts for the
increase of which the Government papers are in-
structed to vaunt so much.

The subscription for Sir IL Wilson goes on as
prosperously as the enemies of oppression and injus-
tice can wish. The ministerial papers were witty
on the score of the munificent sums subscribed (at
first by initials) through the Editor of The Traveller
—one said D. stood for Decoy-duck—another, in his
second childhood, referred to his infantine amuse-
ment of Tee-totum and deciphered N. as nothing—
but now that they find each sum is not only P. pal
down, but P. paid in, their silence proves their cha-
grin. The four subscriptions announced by The
Traveller were—J. G. Lambton, Esq. M. P. 5001.
Sir F. Burdett, B.irt..Nl.P. 5001. Right Hon. Earl
Grey, 2001. and the Hon. G. Bennett, M. P. 501.
and the subsequent additions to these give confi-
dence to the hope that the worthy Member for
Southwark will ultimately be a gainer by one of
the most tyrannical uses of power that has ever dis-
graced even our present Ministers—an act which
might be held up in lerrorem to the remembrance of
of every military or naval member of the House cf
Commons, when on the eve of giving a conscientious
and honest vote, and if established as a precedent
would of course form an insuperable objection to the
return of any one to Parliament who was thus com-
pletely under the dictum of a minister, however bad
he might bc—however infitmous the measure he
might wish to carry.

The accounts of the progress of the yellow fever
in Spain, which will be found in another column,

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are heart rending—the precautions taken by France
to prevent its introduction into her territories are
most praiseworthy, while several vessels which had
touched at places infected have been released front
quarantine law, and allowed free intercourse with
our English ports, althouth in one instance the
mate and one of the crew had fallen victims to the
malignant disorders on the voyage from Spain—how
such carelessness, to give it no harsher name, can be
excused or accounted for'we are at a loss to conceive;
has the benign favour of Heaven which has exempted
us from the appalling visitation so long produced
a belief that we may defy it ; if so, we pray that
those whose remissness may cause its introduction,
may be the only martyrs to their negligence.

THE GREAT MR. PITT.—The great Mr. Pitt,
the first Earl of Chatham, was, it is well known, a
must strenuous and powerful opposer of the mea-
sures of Sir Robert Walpole's administration. Only
the year following his entrance into the House of
Commons, and the commencement of his opposition,
Sir Hobert felt himself so irritated by Mr. Pitt's
conduct that he made no hesitation in depriving him
of a cornetcy that he held in a regiment of horse,
and dismissing him from the service. As Mr. Pitt
had an elder brother and five sisters, his fortune was
so far from being considerable, that a few admiring
friends had presented him with this commission as a
small addition to his income. " The imprudent,
violent, and unconstitutional conduct of Sir Robert
Walpole," according to Mr. Pitt's biographer, " so
far from diminishing Mr. P.'s consequence in the
eyes of his patrons and the public, very considerably
increased it in both." His friend Mr. Lyttleton,
afterwards the &mous Lord L—, addressed the fol-
lowing lines to him on the occasion:—
•• TO WILLIAM WITT, ESQ. ON 1115 LOSING HIS COM.

MISSION.

" Long had thy virtues marked thee out for fame,
" Fat, far superior to a cornet's name;
•• This generous Walpole law, and griev'd to find,
" So mean a post, disgrace so great a mind,
•• The servile standard from the fret-born hand
•• He took, and bade thee lead the patriot band."
One cannot help being struck with the similarity
of the cases of Mr. Pitt and Sir Robert Wilson—
each.attempted to be crushed by a falling admini-
etratiou, and each rising superior to ministerial
meanness. The measures that dictated each were
equally "imprudent, violent, and unconstitutional,"
the motives equally paltry and unmanly, and the
aim of ministers will Ise defeated in the one as it was
in the other.—Among the list of the subscribers for
an annuity to Sir R. Wilson we rejoice to see such
names as Earl Grey, Sir F. Burdett, I.r. Lainbton,
Mr. Grey Bennett, &c. &r. i .is is as it should be
—tin to place Sir Robert V.:lse., above the reach of
the malevolence of ministers must be the severest
punishment that minds like theirs can suffer.

Ministers intend bringing in a Bill into Parlia-
ment, when it next meets, which, if it passes into a
law, will effect a great alteration—indeed, we may
say, an entire revolution, in our miliviry system, but
one of such a nature, that none will more sincerely
approve of it than those who are most apprehensive
of the danger of the military force to our constitu-
tional liberties. The leading object of the measure
is, to dispense with regiments of the line altogether
in Great Britain, with the exception of the house-
hold troops. The regular militia in Great Britain
amount to about 60,000. Ins ead of the regiments
being exercised as at present, fur twenty-one days at
a time, it is proposed that e:!eh year 20,000 shall
be called out to serve fur the whole year, and be then
disembodied, so that each regiment will be on actual
service one year in every three. On being disem-
bodied, a certain number of the officers and men of
each regiment are to be allowed to volunteer into
the line, to fill up such vacancies as may occur: we
understand three officers will be allowed to volun-
teer with every sixty men. By this arrangement
we shall have, in the course of every three years, a
body of 60,000 men completely trained and disci-
plined, instead of, as at present, having 60,000,
who, from the short period fir which they are called
out each year, are nu better than raw recruits; we
shall have a constitutional force of 20,000 men con-
stantly on tout, which will enable Government to
dispense with the use of all the garrisons at home;
and we shall besides have provided an excellent nur-
sery of good soldiers ter such portions of the regi-
ments of the line as it may be found nccessAry to
keep up for tbreign and other service. It is scarcely
necessary to state that the measure, as we have now
explained it, has reference to a state of peace abroad
and at home. Should either foreign war or intestine
commotions arise, the power will still be reserved to
Government of calling out the whole 60,000 men,
I or any number greater dun the standing 20,000,
as they may see fit. The ultimate effect of the
measure will, of course, be a still further reduction
than what has recently taken place in the regular
army ; and this is what Ministers distinctly contem-
plate.