The National Register.
London, England, 1819-03-14 00:00:00

AUXILIARY SCHOOLS.

On Thursday, a numerous and respectable Meet.
ing was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great
Queen-street, for the purpose of forming a School
Society for the parishes of St. George, Bloomsbury,
and South Pancras. His Royal Highness the Duke
of Sussex, who had condescended to take the Chair,
was unavoidably uhsent.
The Duke of Bedford consented to become Presi.
dent of the Society, but could not attend the Meet.
ing. His Grace sent a liberal donation.-
The absence of the Illustrious Personage was a
great disappointment to the Meeting, which ulti-
mately voted Joseph Butterworth, Esq. to tile
Chair.

The object in view was the dissemination of use-
ful instruction among the boys in the above parishes,
and. particularly the sons of poor Irish neople in St.
Giles's. The advantages flowing from education
were described in elopent terms, and several reso-
lutions, promoting the object of the Meeting, were
carried. An extraordinary personage attended the
Meeting, namely, the Archbishop of Jerusalem.
This Keelesituitie wore the costume of the Greek
Church, and appeared a man of devout character.
He made a speech, which was explained by an in-
terpreter. He is travelling to obtain a system of
education best calculated to promote and extend the
Christian religion. He expressed himself an advo-
eats fur moral and religious instruction.
One of the Clergymen present observed, that it
would be must honourable to this country should
the Archbishop of Jermalem carry from England,
to the city in which Christianity originated, that
system of education most desirable. After the Mar-
quis of Tavistock, the Bishop of Norwich, the lion.
0. Bennett, M. P. Mr. Brougham, and sever.:l
others, had been added to the list of President',
the Meeting made a liberal subscription.

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The mercantile world sufliired a severe shock en
Thursday morning, in the &ileac of the very emi-
nent house of J. Baranden and Co. The outstanding
debts an acceptances fall little short, it is said, of
:200,0001. This calamity has been principally
brought on by the declining state of the markets,
the house holding hwge quantities of clever-scat,
cotton, and tallow, the whole of which articles bare
undergone a very great depreciation.
Among their
acceptances were bills to a large amount, drawn in
behalf of the Prussian Government; but these latter
have all been taken up by Mr Rothschild.
The title of Marquis of Annandale, whit h has been
dormant since the year 1792, is now claimed by a
gentleman of the name of Johnstone, as the lists
tie sceudiukt of the fatally.

MARCH 14.

ITALIAN BANDITTI.

Copy of a letter from the Honourable Brownlow
Colyear, to his father the Right Hon. Viscount Mil-
sintown, dated hotel do I'Europe, Rome, the Gth of

January, 1819 ;--
"Me dear father,—l have taken the earliest oppor-
tunity of writing to you, to say that we have not been
assassinated, as I was fearful the news might reach
England before my letter. We have just escaped with
rear lives, and only jitst. I will now tell you: 30 miles
from here, between Rome and Naples, at half-past two,
in the middle of vise of the finest days you ever beheld,
the snit shining beautifully, seven of the celebrated ban-
ditti rushed from out of the wood Grieve and myself
were on the box; each man levelled his gun at us; the
past-boy fell off his horse; we immediately finding it
quite impossible to resist, got on the ground as soon
a, Postot):c ; they began by nie : ha nohin in
my pod:els but toy watch, which I saved d ; nvittt attackged
.141M9, tore his clothes all open, took all his money,
watch, &c. ; then to Grieve and his servant, took both
their watches, and stabbed Griete's servant in several
places is tilt a stiletto.
"They were mare capitally armed than any thing
you ever saw ; they then began upon the carriage, got
in, and turned every thing out ; the first ohject was my
poor dressing case, with snuff-boxes, watches, all my fox-
hunting matters, brushes, combs, &c. took every one;
next all our money, not one sixpence left either of ours
or servants , then they knocked me ambit with the barrel
of the gun, tore ma ring off my finger, which they were
lust going to cot off, only my ring castle off; they then
tore my shirt pin front my neckcloth, kicked me under
the horses, leaving one man standing over me with the
muzzle of a loaded gun at one ear, and another with a
stiletto, if I inured, to murder nee; they then broke
open the front trunk, and took every single shirt, neck-
cloth, and stockings, shoes of both servants, so that they
hive neither money nor clothes; they took most of my
clean things, hut would not take auy dirty. Grieve has
last all his except his uniform; they packed them up in
seven sacks, and each took his sack and walked quietly
sway into the wood aga it. I cats assure you we were
far 3 inintites, expecting to be shot or stuck, as they
to'd us we should, if any one spoke; and threatened,
if they did not find enough plunder, to send us up the
mouatains, and would have 30U ducats ranson, for each;
if nit given in so many days, we were to be tortured to
death. They have got our all, value 4001., 301. or 40'.
which is thought nothing of, having saved our Ives,
which I assure you for half an hour I expected every
moment to die; they were half an hour robbing us oil
the 4th of February. Thank God for our safety, which
was many degrees against us. 1 have now not a shilling
in the world, nor a thing left except life; I am pretty
well, considering nearly frightened to death: I ant a
little bruised by the barbarians, but shall be well again
its a week. Don't believe any other stories that you
hear, as every body is writing to England about it. This
is true. The Pope and all the secretaries we have been
with this morning; they have sent into the mountains
after them ; I hope they will find them ; this will delay
me here longer than I wish, but hope not above a fort-
night. Brudenell has been good enough to scud me
clothes to wear. 1 shall draw upon Stirman for money;
tell him so. I am not well enough to write to him at
present, but will as soon as I can. I have written to
you, for tear you should hear we were murdered, as every
thing increases by telling. The people now going to
Na pies are all Irightenedto death. Naples was beyond
any thing delightful, the est place by far, except Paris,
upon the Comment. Grieve is quite well; the weather
i, delightful, quite stimmeer only a great deal of rain.
Half an hour atter our robbary our carriage broke down ;
we were in' the middle of a stage, no money to mend
is, and nothing to eat, and raining dreadfully. We
think of returning to England by the last week in
March, by Leghorn, Genoa, Turin, and Paris. There
are a great many English here. The Carnival I have
..een part of at Naples, been at two masked balls, and
it begins herein three days. 1 shall stay to see the horse
races in the course, a little Carnival at Florence, and
shall let to Paris for the last week there. I remain,
" Your affectionate son, BROWNLOW COLYEAR.
" We have no money left ; hut the banker here has
been very civil. Our poor servants have lot every
in the world. They got from us what we think was
meant for some great Prince who was travelling. Adieu
have not seen tee this year; we are all sluing with the
windows open."

It appears by letters from Monte Video of the
24th and 25th of November, that the inhabitants of
that place did not entertain the idea that the Spa-
nish expedition, preparing in Spain, would make a
visit there, although it was conjectured that it would
make an attack upon Buenos Ayres. We have
also perused a long biter of the Bth of December,
which adds some further details to the particulars
already communicated.—Great exertions had been
made by the Government of Buenos Ayres, not only
to strengthen the army in Chili, but also to diminish
the power of General Artigas, against whom several
fresh expeditions had been sent but it seems that
by avoiding any general engagement, with either
the Portuguese or the troops from Buenos Ayres, he
was enabled to keep together a considerable number
cf mop.