The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-29 00:00:00

THE DEATH OF TILE QUEEN.

Mr. Davits rose to move as Address of condolence
to the Prince Regent upon Her Majesty's death. It
became that Court, he said, which had been always
distinguished fur loyalty, to express at this period the
sense it entertained of the loss with which the nation
had been affficted by the death of the Q.ieen. From a
city ancient and loyal like the city of London, thelloyal
Family had 'claims to special atten ion. All ranks
joi • I in this sentiment, which had been so frequently
exlibiteti in cur sympathies at times of triumph and
exultation, and which could not slumber upon occasions
o 7 mourning and regret.. All political questions which
might arise under other circumstances were wholly
nn:rged in the powcrfill claim to es:eent which our late
Queen had supported fbr so many years. Considered
in all rey.cets; she was calculated to mike a deep im-
pression upon the hearts of a loyal and affectionate peo-
ple. As a wife mind mother her character was equally
praiseworthy. The tender solicitude with which she
bad welleZl over the illness of his Nlnjt.stv, and the
scrupulous example she exhibited to her children in the
whole course abet' life, were parts of a character which
for purity and duty was the admiratioa of all descrip-
tiotis of persons. The dignity, too, with which she
had filled lux high station was no less mina. kable, her
Court being a place limit whieliall were cued; s d whose

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conduct was &awning of reprnaeh. Mr. Davis con-
cluded a speech, which be delivered in a very low tone,
by moving an address to the Prined Regent and thereof
of the Royal Family, upon the subject of the death of
Her Majesty, who had been fur so many years an ex-
ample to the nation.

r. J.tcks seconded the motion. He agreed in all
that had been said, but was particularly struck with
that point which described her Majesty as an example
not only to the British nation, but to all nations on the
Continent. He had. in diflerent countries, teard decla-
rations both public and private, that the Queen of
England was one of the purest characters ; and that,
under such an authority, it could not but be expected
that her Court should participate in that remarkible
distinction. 1 he reign of George the Second, which had
been advancing in morals with respect to the Court,
bore no comparison to the purity of the highest ranks
of this day. Her example waS to be considered as the
cause.—The motion was carried unanimously.
On a report from the Gaol Expenres Committee, the
Court granted an annuity to. Mrs. Kirby, widow of
Mr. Edward Kirby, late keeper of the Debtor's prison.
Another report from that Committee, recommending
7001. to Mr. Piper, in lieu of his loss flimn tint having
finally obtained the situation of keeper of the Debtors'
prison, to which be •had been elected by the Court of
Aldermen, was presented and read; and a considerable
discussion ensued thereon; and upon a motion being
made to agm.wit h the report, un amendment was moved,
for adjourning the consideration, and requesting the
Court of Aldermen to communicate information upon
the subject, which was negatived ; and a division then
ensued upon the: report, the numbers being
For the report-41 Commoners. T,Dets
Against it-7 Aldermen, .36 Commoners, 2 Tellers

Majority
The Lord Mayor declared a vacancy in the situation
of one of the fruit meters; and it wus referred to the
City Land Committee to dispose of the place in the
usual manner.

Tin. Secondaries were directed to lay before the Court
a general account of the fees token by them.

The 10th volume of a work, published at Paris,
under the title of " lictaires et Cooquets des Francois,"
contains the details of the poisoning of the French
troops at Jaffa. The writer, a General- Beauvais, gives
an account of the first proposal made by 131touaparte
to Dr Desgenettes, in-nearly the same terms in which
that transaction has frequently been described. Royer,
the apothecary of the army, at last wilLugly performed
the horrid task which Desgenettes had firmly rejected.
Opium was administered to thirty soldiers, who were
ill of the plague. Several of them who had a favour-
able crisis recovered, and fifteen or eighteen died. This
Royer is stated te have been a man of very bail cha-
racter. He was on the point of being shot at St. Jean
d'Acre, for selling adulterated liquors to the army. Ile
did not return to France, having entered into commer-
cial speculations which induced him to stay in Egypt,
where he was finally strangled in consequence of its
being discovered that he had acted the part of a spy
both to the Turks and the Minnehtles. Berthier was
present at the conversation with Dcsgenettas and
on being questioned by Buonaparte, expressed his entire
concurrence with the opinion of the physician, adding,
that he had often felt his own deficiencies in the qua-
lities- necessary to make a great man, and was now
more than ever convinced on that point—a noble senti-
ment erroneously ascribed by Sir Robert Wilson to Des-
genette.
We have been favoured with a sight of the elegantly
-chased ornamental furniture for the Coffin of her late
lamented Majesty the Queen, and were highly pleased
with its neatness and the exquisite taste that pervades
the whole. • It reflects no small credit on the Artist,
Mr. Ricketts, of Castle-court, Strand, for the capability
displayed on this melancholy occasion. The coffin plate,
which is of brass, beautifully gilt, is engraved in a rn:;tit
superior style, by Mr. Hutchinson, of Great Queen
Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, and is an exc.:Aleut speci-
men of that gentleman's well-known
The Archduke Maximilian, during his stay in Edin-
burgh, in the very slight interconse he was able to
have with any of the men of science, evinced a much
more intimate acquaintance with natural 'philosophv
and other scientific pursuits than generally falls to the
share of Princes. Excepting his cousins, the Archdukes
John and Lewis, none of that class who have visited
England have shown half so much talent as the late
visiter. Short us his stay in Edinburgh was, lie ma-
naged to steal from the other more important avocations
of attending military reviews, examining custom-
houses, wet docks, &c., to seine scientific visits. Among
others, be was twice at the house of Dr. Brewster,
where he inquired most minutely into the progress and
management of the many beaati:ul experiment' by
which the nature and action of light have of late been
so wonderfully elucidated by his various. experiments
The Prince evinced a knowledge of all those subjects
far superior to most men who have. even given their
miads :to the subject, and communicated a variety of
information to 1)r. Brewster relative to the experiments
of Professor Antici of hlodelia, no.aceouitt of which
has as yet reaciaal this teuntry,

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Mr NonniVis CHILD —Minitel the Bow Street
officer, was in France when Bennett, who is supposed
to have stolen the child, crossed the Channel ; but
Taunton did not hear of the circumstance until he had
arrived in England, when it was communicated to bias
by the Magistrates of Bow Street !Nice Office. He
immediately returned to Caleis, having previously
learned that a man of the description of the person
whose name was stated to he Faulkner, but whose .
real name was Charles Bennett,. had set off front the
London inn at Dover, with a child answering the •
description of the ste!ate child, to Calais in a boat ; and ,
that ha had obtained !imports in the name of George
Reynolds., %hen Tauuton bad arrived at Calais, he
found that the delinquent had left there on the 10th
instant. He had ken ut a tavern kept by a person ,
named Maurice, and had taken refreshments, and also
given same to the child, who was in peel health.
Bennett, it appears, applied immediately to the Police,
on Ma arrival ill Calais, to get his passport endorsed,
which being dune, he set off.with the child in the •
diligence towards Brussels. Prior to Taunton's second
arrival in France, the nephew of Mr. Horsley and
Gooding the officer had arrived, and bud pursued the
fugitive, so that the aft& was geiterally known, and
told to him on his landing. lie learned that the pur-
suers had discovered the route taken by Bennett, and
were at least three stages on the way after him, and it
was therefore useless in him to continue the pursuit;
for the persons who were before bins having received
every assistance from the French police, would be •
equally able to obtain their object as it' he wcrc to fol-
low, lie therefore returned to England with the so far
satisfactory intelligence to the afflicted relatives of the
child. Such is the system (Ole French police depart-
meat, that the pursuers were informed that they might
rest assured that bath child and thief would be ulti-
mutely in custody.
We are happy to insert the following extract from a
Letter received by .a respectable Mercantile House in,
Coleman Street, from one of the principals in that
House. It is a most satisfactory answer to the mistaken•
reports that have appeared in some of the public
•
prints:—

liorrennam, Nov. 22.—1 n passing through
Breda last Tuesday, I was told that the foolish un-
feeling wretch who stolo the child from London, passed•
through there with it a few days before, travelling post.
night and day, and that a person ,in pursuit passed, •
through Antwerp in the Diligence on Monday. From
what I could learn it is probable that they will be over::
taken. They took the Utrecht road. They say the
man was in great haste with the child, and spoke the
French language very well, the pursuer nut.
" SUNDAY EVENING.—Since writing the above,
am informed by a Gentleman who has just arrived fl•om
Amsterdam, that a man with a child slept in a .
room above hint at the Doolen Inn, in Doole Btreet)
last Sunday night... The distress of the child was very
great, he was crying all night. The thief left there
on Monday. with the child, which was supposed to be
his own ; that the father (Mr. Horsley of No. 3, Car
nonbury Lane, Islington,) as appears by the English .
Newspapers, arrived there on Tuesday ; and with th
assistance of the Police, discovered the route of the thief;
and set off with assistance, in pursuit of them. The •
thief had embarked in one of the schuyts fin North
Holland, landed a short distance front Amsterdam.
returned to that city, and then took post towarda
Bremen, or that neighbourhood, to avoid discovery.— •
No doubt but he will soon be overtaken. As the Either
was in great distress, anxiety and agitation, and much •
taken up with the Police in searen, during his shoil
stay in Amsterdam, it is probable he may not have
time to write home. As it may be some satisfactimi
to his anxious tinnily to know the u awe, send on re- •
e,eipt of this. awl ask if they have heard from Amster. •
dam ; if not, tell them of it."

WATnit Comeamrs.—A numerous and respectable
meeting of the inhabitants of Clichwa, Knightsbridge,
and their environs. was held at the Flask tea gardens, '
Five-fiehls, Chelsea, on Thursday, to take into cimigl.
deration the enormous rates of the Chelsea Water-
works Company, and the best means of obtaining re-
dress fur the present grievance, and security against
future oppression there; and also for the purpose et .
uniting the:Committee of Chelsea with thet of Knights.
bridge, for tl:e further/lice of the objects of the in•
habitants. Sir henry Wilson was iu the chair,'•!.evcrid
appropriate resolutions were entered into, expressive of
their determination to cheek the evil complained of.
appeared that the rate had !nen nearly doubled, with-
out any sutisEictory reason being assigned; .und thht
all remonstrances had been met by threats to cut off
the supply of water—threats which had in several in. •
stances been put into execution.

Proposals have been needs fur a. Savings Bank. .at
Chelsea and the ncie*hbouring paris•Ses ; and from the
avidity with which they ail; received, there 4110 tioubl;
but this laudable institution.will be spet:dily establish-
ed. The, patrons are, the BiihiT of Winchester, the
Right Hon. and itcv. 1..0rtl Aston, the lion. and
Rev. Gerald •V. Canning, :NI. I'., Atal
Mr. Wilberforce.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COTT kIT OF KING'S BENCH, ToEsoAv, N0r.23.
ivoomEsTi.

r. Soarlett moved the judgment of the. Court on I'. Gill,
end It. Henry. convicted befori! the Cliia,ltisiice at Cwii
GM Appealed in Cmirt, bat I leery slid not. He was therefore
culled MI his recorni7anee, and nut appearing, his ►ecog-
• trii:u►ce was dealaieil _ _ .

Mr. liurary sii,l he had now, on the part of Gill, to move
an sorest of jodement. The defendants had been charged
conspii log to obtain from Messrs. Hollands, the opti-
cians, and Messrs. Hai kis and Bell, certain large sums of
vamoney. On the record, the defendants were charged with
*tempting; by divers fake plcteutes, and suletle oceans and
devices, to defraud, e:t. not stating what any of these subtle
means and devices, ;111(1 disers false preionces, were; and
•Ithpreby pottiog the defendants in a situation to ausssct. the
charge brought against them, which in the present instance
they could not do, inasmuch as they were kept ignorant or the
mature of the charge. He theretere submitted, that spun
-this record, the Judgment could nut be sustained, but must be
en rated.

The Chief Justice said, in his opinion, this indictment was
sufficiently specific to support the charge and conviction.
The defendants were charged with conspiring to obtain and
acquire front one I'. Holland and G. Holland and others, ter_
.fain large sums of money. 'the charge was the conspiracy,
and the means of carrying that conspiracy into effect. The
indictment would have been perfect, even if the words al-
!titled to had been omitted altogether.
Mr. Justice Bayley and Mr. Justice Holroyd agreed fully
fei this opinion ; and the motion of Mr. Gamey, inarrest of
judgment, was negatis ed.
The Court, otter hearing Mr. Gurney, in mitigation,
stir.acd Scot lilt, in support of the prosecution, sentenced
the defendant to be imprisoned in the King's Bench fur nine '
wont ha.
Mr. Marryatt prayed the judgment of the Court on T.
Mouton, convicted of a misdemeanour, in making a dash, or
blaze, on the sea coast, during the night, as a signal to a
smuggling antler out at sea.
Mr. Gaselee moved the judgment of the Court on A. Serle,
J. Coukc, and A. Driver, convicted of similar offences.
The Court sentenced each of the defendants to be impri•
toned in the House of Correction, the first at Lewes and the
Circe bitter at Exeter, for six mouths ; and during that period
to be kept to hard labour.
B. Corbin was next bronglit np to receive judgment, con-
victed of interfering to rescue a smuggler from the custody of
one of his lajesty's naval-officers at Hastings. The de-
fendant put in an affidavit, in which he stated, that on the
day in question, he was walking on the high road near
Plastings, when he saw a naval officer, at a small distance
frown him. with a cutlass in one hand and pistol in the other,
and beating all old man with th'• cutlass. On drawing near
the spot, lie perceived the old ut.ut was his fistlier; and on
making this discovery, he went up to endeavour to rescue
him: and for so doing lie was appieliended and committed to
Hastings gaol, wheie he continued for ten weeks, when he
was bailed nut ; and further, that whilst he was in the prison,
the apartment in vs 'deli he was, was so mulch infested with
rats, that 'bey' very frequently, lint withstanding his efforts to
prevent them, devoured his victual•. And he verily believed,
that had it not been for the protection of a dog, which lie got
Mtn the prison with hint, tney %%Instil, during the night, and
whilst he slept, have devoured his flesh. Ile solemnly demi it
that he had ev.•r been concerned in any smuggling transac-
tion, and had been induced to do %kat he had done, in de.
fence of his father.
The affidavits of several respectable inhabitants of Hastings
were read. giving the defendant a good character fur indus-
try and sobs iety .
The Court ordered that he should he discharged oa hi. own
recognizance, to appear when called on to do so. Their
Lordships also duetted that some inquiry slionld take place,
as to the state of the prison at Hastings.
Mr. hlairyatt then prayed the judgment of the Court on J.
Smith, convicted of assaulting and obstructing the Revenne
officers in the discharge of their duty, and seizing some
smuggled spirits on the beach at Deal.—He was sentenced
to Ilia months imprisonment in the county gaol at Nfaidatunc.
3. Gibbs, N. Wade, and another, were then
brought up to receive the judgment of the Conrt,for having
rescued a !Mal seized by the Custom Howse officers.
Mr. Gaselee said, lie was to have moved the judgment of the
Court on the dctend.iiits, but outing to their having since
their conviction e•aru led themselves, at the peril of their own
lives, to save sonic of the odiceis when in great danger of
drowning, he was instructed to consent to their being
berated ou their own itreognizances which was Accordingly
done.