The National Register.
London, England, 1819-03-22 00:00:00

RECoRDEWS REPORT.

Yesterday the Recorder made a Report to the
Prince Regent of the following convicts in New-
gate capitally convicted in January Sessions last,
Thomas \Vat3 ti, Edward Witt, Dorothy N 1';IV CS,
and John Adams, for littering cotimerleit Bank times.
John Wilieit h r sheep stealing.
John Lynch, WIII. Nlartio, Robert Selby, Patrick
Loch, 1 hour s Lynch, Wm. Lynch, and Wm. Nliir-
ray, for highway robbery.
Thotnts %Vet), for stealing cows.
John Dowding, Joshua Alexander, and John Me-
mint, for house-breaking,
James Wilkins, John Riker, Charles Hewitt, John
Driscoll, 3111! Peter Sullivan. for burglary.
Durlialll S tarp, Vt Pot, Joseph Illapeliard, and
Jones, tOr s.eahng goods, &c. m a dwelling.
ht use.
When Edward Dent, John Adams, John Willett,
and Wm. Lynch, were ordered for execution on
WedneAday next, the 24th instant. The others
were respited during pleasure.

Aneedolr.—A respectable tea-dealer in the neigh-
bourhood of l haring cross was lately requested to
sign a petition against the renewal of the Insolvent
Debtors' Act : he refused, and assigned as his rea•
sons, that three mouths' imprisonment was sufficient
puuishment fur any civil debt.

Parish officers should be oil their guard against a num-
ber of velvet-us wilt) are• 110 W ti aVeilillg. the venom y evitb
frandulem passes.—Two women and hour children last
week arrived at Walton, and presented a pass, rept CAI W-
ing themselves a, soldiers' widows and families, and Slat-
jag that they had landed at Lynn: scone suspicion, linnever
bring cm, t tallied as to the truth of their sloe y, a consta-
ble was sent foe, but they thought it prudent to decamp
before his arrival.

On Friday hest Harry l'y war, !shower, of Thetford,
war emit, treed he fine J hn 13w rell Frees, E,A. Mae ier of
Orel leormiL.ll, of having entered the tilstitation of George
Iteancentile, E.g. and nut obwei time trees there in ; the miti-
gated ;worn) of 20e. et as given in bread to the pour of St.
rat We.
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On Wednesday but, four persons were convicted before
B. Leman, Esq. of Nora icli, iii die Sinn fain/. %silk costs,
and too ia the lauislly at. F. will, costs, far acing C4I'AVVIII9,
at earls, Nlill spl ings, for the pourpose of carry big passes-
Kerr, ulthOlit being ihily lie enccil according to the Stage
Coach Arts. The informations were kid through the
Stamp Office, %here the licences ought to have Leen taken
out.

At the Norfolk assizes there are eighty prisoners for
Irial, namely, I for ntau•laughter, 2 1.. r burglary, 4 for
poaching, .1 for lon sr.:of...liana, It for sheep-atealitig, 5 for
uttering counterfeit money, I for highway-robbery. 4 for
stealing linos the person, I for bigamy, I for pig stealing,
and the rem.' 6.1 hticcuics and other otiencea.

At a (leetin¢ at VA month of the 'subset the ra to the Plate
fur Mr. N. It. Palmer, a silver E.peteue of the value of
eighty gas was oidered, and .11r. t hristmas undertook
to proem e the same at the manufaiamer's price.
On Thursday the I lila inst. William lioggett and John
Violet, were committed to Varntonlh gaol by E. Preston,
Mayor, charged with having cnu•lly beaten and
otherwise misused a small poney, the in °petty of the Said
William flOggril.—()ll WedJWAILIy la.t, by the same Ala'
Zlsllalc, 1).151i1 Nliiidleinas was committed, charged with
haring feloniously stolen a warping cope, and other arii-
elt,i from out the • ard and 4,414141;4.110115W Or Mr. Joseph
Keane, rape maista, his propel ty.— On the same (las.
Elizabeth Sidisi 11, clamed with having stolen from the
dwelhn~-h.n,se of lir. Stephen !Lute', butcher of lick
Inv, 11, with whom she lived servant, sundry articles of
1:11E111 and wearing apparel, &e. his property.
Al the ainomit of the I)iity nil Gods payable in T.ynn
faun i• nett to Landon, it is to be hoped that the 'hay or
will 1111:0W the etample of other 'fawns, by c•al;ing a
nt-ctiug of the merchants dr../ inhabitants, to consider of
Petition la I'mb:totem, either to eipialice the duty, or
it it:together.

The toad from Ipswich to Whittoo is travelled every
"cuing by several twdestriatt latthlty.litte,es ; no Itss th.in
• Y ate seen at a time, and the di.tance, ohieh is three
miles, is pet formed in 15 111i1111144. A Geolleinait
41:111 stta,le a Ito to go to L lou ny the side ut the coach.
Oil Frolay last, at a meeting of such of the itilmnitants
of Bitty :14 are 111t1•11.041C411 in Mr payment of Tolls in
the rot, it was tteti milted to resist any
action thot ought he in-ought for the lerovrry or such
Tolls ; anti Mr. Lemrlt A as appointed solicitor, for the par-
pose of dearnitiog rho antite.—Thil question, us Well as
th-at regarding the Tithes, is therefore likely to be decided
by a Cuilipetcht t•Ciiirli,rll.

Ovs Nees* 'lmola he :lame that all ealitrartss lor Is {tin;
thc care and m.iiu,ruawl e of the Poor are will and
NT, °red by tsau altigestsato., acoooosrotg to Ihl• 45.11
(res.>. 111. c. 4 I ; sista that all ssussis paid 10 sorb et)11111%•etur•
I'U.Y tea thaallt,uctl anti atruck vut u: tlttit accuuuts.

THE. NATIONAL IIEGISTER.

BANK OF ENGLAND

A General Meeting of the proprietors of Iltis corpora-
tion man held on 'flitir-day, for the purpose of &chitin:l a
disidrnd opou the cur pus Ate funds., tM the half year viol-
mg 1.11 the i.th of Ain il next.
The C 644.111411, alter has ing read the 11,11141 minutes,
noised that the disidend shoula be 5 per rent , to which
proposition two amendments wets (lie one,
timi the divideial should be 6 instead of 3 pes cent.; and
the oilier, that instead of immediately dui-laving any dis
&int, 411 exposition of the fund., inetine, and expentlituie
of the II ilik he made to the prop' acting.
The lion. NI,. 1141 the of
made till the past el the Houk, in a late prourt-ding ml
liar C •t of Kin:'..-Bench, established the fact as to 1111
Company tong in possession of levet VIII fund. TM,
oas a matter of reeiod,und undeniable. In the lair main-
tenance of their owes intelests, the body of proprietors
might therefore to be made acipiainted %ills Its amollol,
and its it isposiolde multi e.
Sir 'Elk/1111S 1.111 toll, although not in favour of the an:entl-
- ii1011:411! el/IP 11111 11 leilllUll 01101( 111 be 111:1 di' 11%
the I)irt 1.1 I.IS 011 111 1! siillioct. It .rented to be iiii•ll 1 to
%oleo iliv ith'lld Without knuoing the amount of the capi-
tal from which it was dist' ibuted.

111 r. Ps eat do was of the vaine opinion, and expresieil
his confide lit belici that the Bank taut e in lICISSI of at
leavt in addition to thelr knaur. capital of
15,001.1,Yd0t. It was out a fear of their poverty, but a
jealous) ut their itchy. thid had provoked latitilly. Waillbt
It %%oracle:if, thereliire, Shot the proprietors had a right to
know the cuoilitioli ut their :semis, it was equally indillical
that nu injury outild ati..e from the dtrclu•ure. A letter
which he had receinly received fiouls issue of Ili. Dirccloi
of the Bank of Fiance entirely aecohled wish his views.

11r. Yuung made mote lot ciult uL,ri vAtiusiti uu tkc s.une
Pith!.

Mr. Payne argued that the Directors were folly justi-
fied in the couise they were vorviiiiig by lite trines ul
chatter, and that it would be unwise to She coot t of Pio-
psielors to int, II opt opt it.
The tioveciiits 011.0.1k1 d, that the D111'1.1(04 could not
agree to tile atisciiiiiiient,heenii,e they lilt th.it its adoption
t piudurr iuca.slll', UV, • A similar tplestion had been
raised in March, Iblli, au l *her discussion, It Will. re-
solved 111.11 1110 tit-deism e °tiht to hr made.
,Ir. U. Jackson said lie was ile-nons of jam &nation,
but could not regard Illy preseiit as a fit uccas iiiii for
it, as the state of ths it adults wan under the
Consitlei Alton of Pat liaownt. The poiitical eliararter of
Ili. it institution rendered it tier 3,de y that secrecy should
be ansurlinics olives vs d. Motions his an increase
hail Loren so often Made at the inilia-litnise, that at
last the Legislature niter reed, and actin/Lily pi tiiiihited the
East India Company flush I aisiug it 41111•12 a ern lain
amount ; and he • hewed 31r. Pitt had it oiler to contem-
plation to apply the 11'511101011 to the Bonk. Per.
souls who speculated in the market pi ice of En.t India
stuck welt accustomed to go ilown w pOllll,l. and sllp•
10111 any 111011011 fur 411 111C1 rave ot disitfcod, w nitwit •li
reteiriit e to use general toteiests of the wig.' trim y body.
It did not appear to bins expedient to adopt this auxin&
unlit nerdy toe the purpube uf adunixistei nig food to the
Court of Iletich; the avowed object being, that
that Count ought 1.14 afterwards moved fur a wow awe,.
'Lite sense of the prupririuia land been so cleat ly ex-
pressed upon 1;11, question on a lotuses occasion, a. to ren-
der Any departni:: irons it, except tinder peculiar eircusii-
stancesountilvisable. Those who from time to time brought
forwatil these motions, were, lie had no don ht, influenced
by the hest motives; lust it was slid eel taiu that pats jut nut,
and a desii e to impair the profits ul the Batik, weir out
necessarily connected.
The amendments were then pair and negatived, and the
utiginal i:roposition can led by a lase inapt ity.
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Mr. Ricardo wild Mr. Bouvet ie 111,cl.simed any such ob-
jert as lild I I Ci CI I l'el to by Oar lion. and LeAl Sled
'lie eontlitut tormetly pursued at Ihr Eavt India ;
and the former desired also to vindicate ass absent Aleut-
bar of Weir body from auy suppuaed imputation of Use
land.

---11 b. R. Jackson said lie had uicant no itflectiou uu any
member ut that nutty.

The Government of Surinam has published an
ordinance of his Belgian Nlajesty, prohibiting the
slave-trade, under severe penalties; but permitting
the transit of slaves from a Dutch or foreign colony
to another Dutch colony iu the West Indies.
Alunch4:3ler.—Letters from Manchester state, that
inure than 500 young poplars have recently been cut
from a single plantation near Stockp.rt, fur the
purpose, as is supposed, of being employed to form
the handles for pikes. Great fears arc entertained
throughout this manufacturing district, that the
sufferings of the lalmuring classes will lead to some
act of a desperate nature but the Magistrates, who
are well aware of the existing state of things, will be
prepared, it is believed, %%it'd efficient measures fur
preserving the public peace.
Ju.) ut ti.L Comity of York, of which Sir
F. L:iiiilay 11 non, Bait. %Vas(;hauulan, loser prescinid
the County Gaol 60 uhsutlicieul. They stated, antoog
other tnings, that there were two rOUIII4 ;or the female
prisoneib; but, on account I,t. Ilk gre,,t Gt 11;..
smiers, they aim only tine common Mit-room. There
was also no means of confining boys or o he's, charged
wan a tost ultoice, apart nom itie 11l st liardencif
of-
Icl.ders, except by placing them with per,on, charged
tt IItI Ills site ; snd they reported generally, that
the poi dud not afford room Iln• a proper classification ;
they, therefore, recommended an enlargement to be
mach., under the superintendance of Ma4isuates, who
fool, their local sitilataan, 11l iglh be able to pay the allot
acteomm, a.ul tnrt annual any expence beyond what
echhtiry 1.1 the M Ject ill I lett. ,
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At the stiles on IVednesday last in Mincing lane,
Bengal cotton produced only 50. per lb. Tine sane
art.i.:,c, 1.2 tuoutlis ago, was port:based for lid.

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