The National Register.
London, England, 1820-06-04 00:00:00

FLANDERS MAIL.

FRANKYOIIT, MAY 41.

A great multitude assenttiled yesterday to witness
the execution of Sandt. It took place not at ten
o'clock, as was announced, bat at six. He was
desirous of addressing the populace, but the Presi-
dent of the Court of Justice, to whom he had given
his word not to do so, reminded him, that doubtless
he did not wish to perjure himself immediately pre-
vious to death. Ile therefore confined himself to
merely declaring that he " died for his country."—
He evinced much calmness, but did not accept the
assistance of a minister of religion. A great num.
ber of students from Heidelberg, who travelled with
all speed, to be present at his execution, only or-
rrived at the moment when the executioner was
exhibiting the severed head. Several steeped their
handkerchiefs in his blood. Sundt wore the Ger-
manic costume.
Extract of a letter from Manheim, dated
May to:—
" Sandt, the . ssassin of Kotzebue, was executed
this morning at five o'clock. Su early as half-past
three o'clock the infantry and cavalry, and almost
the whole population of Manheim, were in motion.
Sandt was brought from the prison in an open car.

riage. His countenance, which was very pale, had
in it something extraordinary_ A smile was on his
lips, and he went to meet death as he would go to a
fife He bowed with much grace to some ladies
at a window, and who returned his salute with very
evident marks of interest. When he reached the
place of execution, which was in a very large plain,
lie mounted the scaffold immediately. His sentence
was read to him ; after which he made a speech.—
Not understanding German, I cannot communicate
to you what he said, I observed, however, that he
spoke with energy, and at the end raised one of his
hands to Heaven. The executioner took hold of
him, and made him sit down on u chair fastened to a
small post; he tied his hands, cut off some of his
hair, and put a bandage over his eyes. In two.
minutes he was no more. All the preparations for
the execution was made very slowly: twenty
minutes were employed, and ten would have been
sufficient, as the reading of the sentence and his
speech did not take five minutes. Though I at.
first intended only to see him pass, I was carried
involuntarily, constantly looking ut him He was
dressed in white, but wearing a black great coat,
his shirt collar turned down, and his hair fell in
curls on his shoulders. For 15 months past his
life had been preserved by the must strengthening
regimea. Every effi►rt was made to prevent him
from sinking under the effects of the wounds which
he had inflicted on himself; he was in fact very
weak, so that he could net mount the scaffold without
supporting himself on the shoulders of two persons,
which makes the courage he showed at his death
the more extraordinary. He was beheaded with a
sabre; and the executioner being obliged to make a
second stroke, *t general cry arose."

PROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
Thia Gazette notifies the appointment of F. Townsend, Esq. to
the office of Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, vacant by the promotion
of C. J. Young, ksq. to the office of York Herald ; and G. Col-
man, Esq. lobe Lieutenant of his Misjestes Guard of Yeomen
of the Guard, vice Captain John Henry Davis.
It also notifies the appointment of 'rhos. Wilson, of Walsall.
Stafiordshire; J. Seaber, of Newmarket. Cambridgeshire; R.
Brooke. of Pontefract, Yorkshire; J. G. Thursfield, of Wolver-
hampton, Staffordshire ; and L Parker, of Louth, Lincolnshire,
to be Masters Extraordinary in the Court of Chancery.

BANKRUPTS.
1. Wilby, Ossctt, Yorkshire, merchant. Solicitor, Mr. Lake.
Cateston Street.
W. West, Bredenbury. Herefordshire, dealer. Sols. Messrs.
Williams and White. Lincoln's Inn.
T. Huggett, Bermondsey Street, grocer. Sol. Mr. Denton.
New Union Street, Aloorfields.
J. Ellett. Crispin Street, Spica!fields. coach spring maim,.
Sols. Messrs. Nowell and Partridge, Nicholas Lane.
H. Barter. Bishop's Waltham, Hants, grocer. SoL Mr.
Partington Dyer's Buildings, Holborn.
W. Wilkinson. Old Broad Street, merchant. Sols. Messrs.
Lamb and Minn, Princes Street, Bank.
J. R. Bell and W. Wilkinson, Old Broad Street, merchants.
Sols. Messrs. Bovill and Tustin. New Bridge Street.
J. Wade, Keynsham, Somersetshire, and J. Wade. Leeds.
York, woolstaplers. Sul. Mr. Stephen, Broad Street Buildings.
A. Maitland and J. Adderley. Brentfurd, Middlesex, iron-
mongers. Sol. Mr. Fenton, Freeman's Coi.rt, Combill.
A. Robertson, Grosvenor Place, builder. Sol. Mr. Boxer,
Ftanival's Inn.
J. Bradley, Manchester, cotton manfacturer. Sol.. Messrs.
Hurd and Johnson. Temple.
A. Prentice and T. Shelley. Manchester. muslin manufactu-
rers. Sol. Mr. Edniund's, Lincoln's Inn.
.1. Bragg, Whitehaven. thread manufacturer. Sol. Mr. Falcon,
Temple.
G. Smith, Leicester Square, tailor. Sol. Mr. Popkin, Dean
Street. Soho.
J. &Reston. Blackburn, Lancashire, shopkeeper. Sols. Messrs
Clarke and Co.. Chancery Lane.
T. Jarman, Bristol, money scrivener. Sols. Messrs. Nether.
sole and Barron. Essex Street, Strand.
W. Hatfield, aen., limitinAdon. ironmonger. Sols. Messrs.
Egan and Waterman. Essex Street, Strand.
R. Bulpin, Bridgewater, Somerset, draper. Sol. Mr. Berkeley,
Lincoln's Inn.
DIVIDENDS.
June 27. R. Cromble, Chel-es. victualler-24, A. Dalzell,
Great Alie Street, Goodmar.'s Fields merchant-10, J. David-
son. East India Chambers, Leada:hall Street, merchant-24,
D. Price, Watford, Hens, linen draper-26, D.Garratt, Portsra,.
satinet maker—r, R. Bradley, W..rrington, Lancashire,
upholsterer-26,J. Tyler, Petworth. Susses, spirit merchant-
-28. T. Crump and T. Hill, Kidderminster. Worcestershire,
carpet manufaerurers—July I, R. Miller, Old Fish Street, coal
dealer-1, J. Preece, Peterborough Court, Fleet Street, gold
beater.

CER'fIFICATES to be granted June 24.
G. Robinson. Middlewich, Cheshire, innkeeper—G. Watson,
Foggathurpe, York, farmer—G. Ridge, Heading, millwright.—
J. Varley, Great Titchfield Street, printseller—e. Cox, Fairford,
Gloucestershire. Lachine maker—T. Freeman, Cheltenham,
surgeon—J. Simpson, Smith Square, Westminster, merchant.

The following is an extract from the Jamaica
Papers, of the 18th of April :—" Accounts were
received here on Monday from Rio de la Hache, that
Brion, with ten armed vessels and four transports,
baying on board General Nlentille and 1100 men of
the Irish Legion, commanded by Colonel O'Connor
made their appearance oti that place, and demanded
the surrender of the town. The troops then took
possession of it, the inhabitants retiring to the
woods. Shortly after they were joined by 200 In.
dittos, equipped on horseback ; and a division of din
army was about procecuing► against San Martha,
which is supposed to be now in their possession.

General Coffin, the newly appointed Deputy Gover
nor of St. Helena, sails from Bristol in the ship Briskils
bound for hladros.

price of *lode.
Bank Stock Osmium 0.
3 per Cent. Red. 805 lmp. .3 per Cent.
8 per Cent. Cons. 695 India Bonds 12s. the.
35 per Cent. 775 India Stock
4 per Cent. 88 Exchequer Bilk 4s. di..
6 per Cent. Navy 1045 Cons. for Ac. 705
Loug Atllle 18 Lottery Tickets X2B 148.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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SUNDAY. JUNE 4

Thursday another Messenger arrived with letters
from the Queen, end bad an interview with Mr.
Brougham in the Serjeant at Arms' room in the
House of Lords. Her Majesty reached Ville Neuve
sur Yonne, which is about seventy miles from Dijon,
on Monday morning, at three o'clock. From thence
her Majesty dispatched a Courier with letters to
his Royal Highness the Duke of York, Lord Li-
verpool, and Lord Melville. In the letter to Lord
Liverpool, her Majesty has requested his Lordship
to inform her what residence is prepared in England
fur her reception ; and in her Majesty's letter to
Lord Melville. she requests that his Lordship will
send a yacht to Dover this day, to be in readiness
to proceed to Calais to convey her to England. It
is thus evident the Queen intends coming to this
country immediately. On this and other matters
respecting her Majesty, there are many vague and
contradictory rumours in circulation, we have only
to observe, for the information of the public, that
what we have stated is the latest authentic intelli-
gence that has been received from the Queen.

We have received New York Papers to the 29th
of April, and Boston Journals to the Ist ultimo.—
The Baltimore Patriot states, on the authority of a
letter from Washington, thst the negociation respect-
ing the Floridas has terminated, and in a manner so
unsatisfactory, that the Spanish Minister was to
leave the capital in a few days. New York Papers,
hoivever, of the 27th of April, assert, on the con-
trary, that just as the Senate was about adjourning,
a message was received from the President of the
United States, in which was enclosedthe treaty with
Spain, as ratified by the Spanish Government ; that
the Senate adjourned without making any order on
the subject. It was, however, expected to be the
first business brought forward on the following day.
The matter at present rests entirely on report, but
the next New York Papers that arrive will furnish
us with the fact.

Wednesday being the day named by the
the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lord Liver-
pool, for filling up the lists for Exchequer Bills to
the amount of £7000,000, a considerable number
of persons were collected round the doors of the
Bank before they were opened, anxious to realise
tke considerable profit attached to this kind of spe-
culation. At ten o'clock the door was opened,
and the throng was so great, and all were so eager
to gain admittance that the doors of the chief Ca-
shier's office were actually forced off their binges, and
the lists were immediately completed. Exchequer
bills have in consequence fallen considerably, but it
has had no effect upon Consols.

MR. HUNT.-Mr. Hunt has addressed a letter
to the Reformers of England, Ireland, and Scotland,
dated from Ilehester Gaol, in the County of Somer-
set, May .8, 1820. Having stated his arrival at
the place of his destination, and the spirit with
which lie continues to be animated, he observes,—
" It is a curious coincidence, and deserves to be
recorded, that. during the early part of the protec-
torate, one of my forefathers, Colonel Thomas Hunt,
Was imprisoned in this very gaol, and here sentenced
to be hanged, drawn, and quartered. for having
raised, clothed, equipped, and mounted a troop of
horse in the county of Wilts, for the purpose of
making war against Cromwell, who, iu this instance,
it appears, was more humane than some of his suc-
cessors, for he mitigated the sentence to that of his
being simply beheaded. However, my great grand-
father contrived to escape out of the prison, habited
in the clothes of one of his sisters, who came to
visit him the night before his intended execution,
and remaining in his bed till the next morning, he
was enabled to land safe in France, where he joined,

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and remained faithful to his Pr.nce, the Second
Charles, and returned with him os his restoration.
During his absence, Cromwell not only imprisoned
his sister for two years in this same gaol, but he
confiscated the whole of his property and estates,
which the Monarch never restored when he became
King. On the 17th day of May, I B‘o. in the first
year of the reign of George the Fourth, I, Henry
Hunt, the lineal descendant of the said Colonel
Thomas Hunt, was incarcerated in the same gaol,
under a sentence of the Court of King's Bench of
two years and six months' imprisonment, and then
to find security for my good behaviour for five
years, myself in one thousand pounds, and two
sureties in five hundred each, for •• • • 4'. Thus
you see, my friends, that an individual of one gene-
ration was condemned to suffer an ignominious death
for being a royalist ; but having escaped from the
power of Cromwell, his property and estate, were
confiscated; and that an individual, a descendant of
the same family, of another generation, is now sen-
tenced to be immured in a dungeon, in the very
same gaol, and held to * • • for five years longer,
for having advocated the right of the people to meet
and petition for redress of grievances and restoration
to the fundamental practices of the British Consti-
tution." Proceeding then to place on record the
names ofall the parties that have been concerned in
the prosecution against himself, and the other defen-
dants in this affair, which he says, is the principal
object of his address, and adverting to the actual
penalties to which he has been doomed, and to the
nature of the sentence he migld have received, sup-
posing the Jury had found him guilty of the conspi.
racy, and the other serious charges in the indictment,
he adds; " But my friends you will think that this
is the very language of complaint which I have
deprecated. I mean, however, no such thing; even
under such dreadful punishments, the noble mind,
conscious of its own rectitude, would have borne
torture without being subdued into complaint."
Atter some further observations he proceeds to state,
that, in imitation of Napoleon, he is about to write
the history of his own life.

VINDICTIVE PROCEEDINGS
AOAINST SUNDAY NEWSPArEIL VENDORS.

—ems—
A short time ago, several informations were lodged
against Mr. Bereeford, Mr. King, and others, Sunday
Newspaper Vendors, residing in Chancery Lane, in the
Liberty of the Rolls, for selling Newspapers on a Sunday.
The informations were laid under * certain Act of Parlia-
ment, passed in the reign of King Charles the U., for
preventing persons from following their usual avocations
and ordinary business on the Lord's Day. Mr. Beresford,
strongly contended that the tinnday Newspaper Vendors,
did not come within the meaning of the Act; inasmuch,
as there never bail been known such a Publieatiou, as a
Sunday Newspaper at the time the Act hail been passed:
nor was any such paper ever published for 100 years or
upwards after the passing that Act of Parliament:—
Therefore lie contended, that lite Act of Parliament
could not contemplate a thing that never existed, nor was
at the time the Act passed ever likely to exist. The Wor-
thy) Magistrates stated, that they would take time to eon-
eider; and in the meantime, consult the Secretary of State
upon the sii*ct, and ordered the parties to attend in a
furinight's time to hear the decision,- On Tuesday last,
according to summons served upon themfor that purpose,
they attended the Magistrates, accompanied by Mr.
Harmer, Solicitor, who very handsomely offered his ser-
vices gratuitously upon the occasion. Mr. Serjeaid Sel- •
lon delivered the decision of the Magistrates iu a long
and very able address, and stated, that however reluct-
antly he did it, lie felt compelled to line the defendants
under the Act of Parliament. The defendants considered
it a very hard case, and each of them refused to pay the
tine, inquiring if they could not appeal against the cola
victims at the sew,' . Mr. Harmer informed them, they
could nut, as these was no appeal fur them moiler the
Act ; bus if they levied fur the time, they had their tight
or action i.zainst the officer levying, tur a trespass,-
which they pledged themselves to bring immediately, it
the fine was levied. Mr. Hamlet very may, contended
realm I the conviction, as being contrary to the Act of '
Puliuwent itself]—fur the words of Ilie• Act were,—
" Following their ordinary occupations." He con-
tended, the selling of Sunday Newspapers, was nut fol
lowing of their ordinary occupations, !is their oidiriary
business 'night lie dune within the six days; but iu this
case it was entirely different, for these were Smith')
Newspapers, and could nut be sold on any oilier day;
also, that the proprietors of the ilitlettut Smiths!, repels
were smiler the necessity of giving bunds fur thy din
payment of the duties upon the Sunday Newspapers es-
chisively After arguing the subject in the must aide
and !rained manlier, the worthy magistrates stated, that
however reluctant to their feelings, 'bey were nut inclined
to alter their decision. Upon the close of the busiut ss, a
Mr. BA Y LI E, IN I,PECTOKOF P•v EMIG NTS & LAW-WRITER,
lILLL YARD, CA REV STR ELT, dad who w.,s the person
1010 prayed for ilia decision of lie- magistrates. begged to
know, whether I lie selling of every paper did not emelt'.
lute a dtsuucl utrtllte ? Mr. Kismer seplie,l, that lie was
asli.offed to hear such an obsei vation tail 1101111 less lips,
obsei stn.!, the pi tweeting*, in his °pink" were illegal
and vicilietiee. If the Committee of toe Ltherty of the
Kull-. I I ilicuisrlsea igjorrd by the defendants selling
of n,papera, why not go boldly and intik vsly
furw oid, .e.,1 petition life House of Common*, which was
open Iu 11,. III? Hr concluded, by advising the defendants
to reset the ploceedifigs, and handsomely offering his
advice dud .13313;411We glaillitUUSl, to conduct their
Cause.

We are harpy to state, that Mr. Grattatt's health con-
tinues as well as can be expected after his journey. The
most distinguished characters in the empire have been
to inquire aim his health since his arrival is tows.

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JUNG'S BENCH, SATURDAY, JUNE 3.

THi KIVO ♦. THB RIM. WYATT COTTLE.

A Rule was granted last Term in this cause, callin;
upon the defendant, who is Rector of the parish of Choi -
sey in Berkshire, to show cause why a writ of manda-
mus should not i►sue to compel him to restore one John
Huggins to the office of parish clerk. The Rule had
been granted on the affidavit of Huggins, which stated,
that on the 22d of Judy, 1819, he received a notie,.
from the defendant, intimating that in consequence of
his having permitted improper persons to enter into the
church, and connived at the removal of a stone effigy
from thence, it was the defendant's intention to remove
him f the office of clerk. On these grounds the
Rule Nisi had been granted
Mr. Nollan now showed cause. He stated, that he
held in his hand the affidavits of several persons well
acquainted with all the transactions which. had taken
place, and which completely itegat;ved the state-
ments of Huggins. He relied chiefly on the
circumstance of Huggins having gone to the defendant
on the Sunday morning upon which he was expelled,
and demanded his wages. The defendant replied, that
that was not 3 proper day, but that he should s'•ttk with
iiin► upon the morow. Huggins expressed himself
satilietl with this, and upon being read out in the
Citurch, lie quietly vacated his seat. This, the Learned'"
Counsel contended, atiumined to a verbal resignation.

•
Mr. C mins followed on the saint side.

The Cnief Justice was not satiafieJ that sufficient
notice had been given to Huggins, or that he had been
expelled in aroper manner.
The other Judges con urred, anti the rule was made
absolute.—Mandamus granted.