The National Register.
London, England, 1819-05-02 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Lord EUSTON presented a Petition hens Merl bt. WOO'S
against the Pau Settlement Dill.
Lord EntiNGTON presented a Petition from certain parish*
in Devonshire. complaining of the agricultural horse ins. He
stated. that should not some relief be weedily afforded, be should
move for leave to bring in a Bill to afford such relief. Ordered
to lie nn the table.
Lord MILTOX presseted a Petition horn Lceda.-praying.fee
a revision of the Criminal Code. Referred to the Committee.
Severally read, and ordered to lie on the tzWe..Adjaklibßd.
THURSDAY. AWL Lg.
BAWL COMMITTEE.—..CATHOLIC CLAIMII.—LordCASITLE
REAGII Said, it would accommodate the "lank Committee much.
it the motion which stood for to•morrow were postponed till Mon-
day, as the Committee could then praceed uninterruptedly in their
enquiries, wh.eh they were about drawing to a doss The
House would agree that it was of considerable unportance tbat
such investigations should be as speedily closed as partible, that
the Committee might make a report t and therefore, to the name
of the Committee, he made the requsst.
Mr. TIERWET said, if this request were acquiesced in. the
motion respecting the Catholics ought to hare precedence.
MT. GRATTAN then postponed his motion 011 the subject of the
Catholic Claims till Monday.
lox taw ISLANDR—Sit C. .stosct enquired of the Noble
Lord, whether there were any secr4 'rucks ssasebed to the
Vienna Treaties regarding tie 0011i011 of Pato to the Turks.
Lord CASTLEREAGH made some reply; but owing to the
noise in the House, it war rot heard is the pLery.
The Machine Paper Marking Bill was brought in and read a
Sin taint.

A Petition was presented. praying that service of printed copies
of Thomas's Direste Bill on the Law Advil= el Mr! Thomplz
may be deemed good service on that lady. Prayer co
with.
Sir. J. GILAI4IIII moved that the report of the Hersey Casa
Bill be taken into consideration.
Mr. MANNING Mend as ae asseadasent. that the Bill be re-
committed.
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Mr F. Donotas thought no case was mode out to warrant the
amendmest.
Amendment negatived, and the report taken into further
consideration.
CATSOLIC PCTITIOIIIL—Sir F. BURDETT presented two
Petitions. Opted by between four and five thousand permits
in London said Westminster. praying that the House would
adopt measures to relieve the Roman Catholics from the civil dis-
ebilues under which they at present laboured. There would be
another opportunity to go into this question, but he could not
help thinking that the tune was come when the privileges of the
Ccestinition ought not to be any longer withheld from the Cstbo.
lie
Ordoled to be printed.
Seseral Petitions were presented from Ireland on the subject of
eh, Catholic Claims; from Wieldow. Mayo. &c. for—and NM
Ban Protestants of Dublin, signed by 5000 persons and la Pates
spina those
Stettwo FUND.—Mr. Garimet.t. gave notice. that after the
Bank Affairs report had been presented, he should submit a
motion to the House to make the produce of the Sinking Fund
applioable to the service, instead of resorting to a loan.
SALT DUTIEII.—Dr. PILIILLIXO•lt Waved a feaolutiOn to
pledge the House to promote the iyadsal repaid of the Salt
Duties—duties which he pe ewteea to Is as Loomis Tax on
the poor.
This • disposed of. as well as the ricookoder of the orders,
the HMO!
reinnY, *PSIS 50.
C•TROLIC PITITIONS.—PetitiOns woo presented from the
Clergy. acc. of the Deanery of Durham, and the Demonly of
Nurthumberland, New Saruni. ;he Clergy of Palma. Bridge.
water, the Clergy of York, and from Liverpool. which was signed
by upwards of 10,000 persons, against any further conessucias to
thn_Roman Catholics.
Tswana man, ana onion/ to lie on the table.
General Gascotrint said, he knew the inhabitants of Linn
pool well, believed three-fourths of them to be against asimeseion.
and declared as he ever apposed he ever should oppose further
concession to the Boman Catholics.
Mr. G. LAXOTON declared, that be could not resist the pray-
en .f between S sod 1,0U0,000 of inhabitants in England and
Ireland, and that be should deem it his duty to support the mo
Lion which would be laougbt forward on Monday next. (Herr.)
He was the friend of civil and religious liberty, and that he de-
termined to pursue such course.
Mr. Bsowsci presented s Pettiion from the Catholics of
Tipperary, praying for Catholic Emancipation.
Petition ordered to be printed.
PRICE OT Coax.—The Marquis Of TavrsTocl presented
a Petition from occupiers of land in Bedfordshire, complaining
of the distresses to which agriculture was exposed, and playing
that their complaints might be referred to a Committee. The
Noble Lord, although he presented this Petition. did not wish it
to be understood that he approved of it; on the contrary, he
thought the Government had exercised a wise discretion on this
question. Petition ordered to be printed.
HATE SEED.—Lod Mturen presented a Petition film
woollen manufacturers of Leads, complaining of the heavy and
impolitic duty on Rape Saed. The Noble Lord spoke against
the Tax. and said he Itwatld take every opportunity ofopposing it.
LICENSED VICTUALLEIti.—Mr. G. LAMB presented a Pe-
tition from an individual, complaining of the oppressive and un-
just character of the present Licensing System. He had suffered
under it, having been reduced, from affluence to poverty by the
arbitrary refusal of hie Licence. The Hon. Member said, be was
happy to hare this opportunity to cape= his opinion of the
oppression and immorality that resulted from the Licensing Sys-
tem as it now existed; but he should content himself with ex-
pressing that opinion, as the question was to be brought forward
on an early day by the Hon. Member for Shrewsbury (Mr. Ben-
nett.)
Petition ordered lobe printed.
Gen. HART brought forward his motion respecting Illicit
' Distillation, mbving for a Committee to enquire into the subject.
It being d of. after observatimis tram Mr. Dawson,
strong opposition tan Mr. 1.. I. o. ter ; and the remaining busi-
ness being gone theme. the Hew adjourned.

A very ignorant person being complimented on
his good sense, in presence ea clever lady, I don't •
wonder,' said she, ' at his possessing a large stock
of good sense, he never spends any.'
A few days since, some poison balls having been laid to
destroy rat:,, near a house in Saffron Waldeu, part of them
were hind vet tently picked up for suear plums, aad eaten
by a chin!' named Pettite, who died in conseqnence, after
usiditraoina the most esortoriating sufferings. Several
oilier children had slim eaten Sonia of the poison, but it
was fortunately discovered in time to save their lives.
A few days ago three families, consisting of 18 persons,
raillarked from Yarmouth, in order to take a ship at Hall
tar Quebec, nn their way to York in Upper Canada, near
to which town they intend settle's. Two or three other
families are preparing to follow, sad will taaltc their de-
, pasture within two or theca weeks.

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MAY c.

ntom T.UbSLMY NIGHTS G4ZEITE.

BANKRUPTCY ENLARBED.
3. Wood, Bolton, Lancashire. banker. from May 6 to May it.
P.ANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED.
.1. Mote. lladleigh, Suffolk. Mdkr.
.1. Simpson and-T.. Fleming. Mark-lane, merchants.
BANKRUPTO.
H. Daniell, Warren-street, Fitzroy-square, coaehmaker.
T. Ilepke and 11. 0. V. Post. St. Mary Hill, merchants.
T. Ackland. ser.ior. Gr.-enwieh, butcher.
11. and W. T. Dunderdale. London. merchants.
R. Peers, Warrington. Lancashire, grocer.
W. Edwards, Manchester. manufacturer.
'J. Holroyde, Halifax, Yorkshire, factor.
R. M. Morton, Shepton Mallets, grocer.
R. Pierce. Exeter. stone mason.
T. Wilma, John-street. Clerkenwell, carpenter.
R- Menliter.Briatol, cloth and wool dealer.
T. Smith. York, butter factor.
E. Williams, Binss'ogfulan. victualler.
W. Parker, Bridgewater, maltater.
J. Marks, Bath-plans, New-road, ehinaman.
J. Lava. Lower-row. Lambeth, grocer.
J. -Nowlin, Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, watchmaker,
S. Richardson. Nicholas-lane. Lombard-street, merchaim.
H. Lough, Upper Ground street, Blackfriars-road, busk
fotaider.
It. Thompson. Redcross-street,Cripplegatc, calenderer.
W. Levet. Shadwell. grocer.
J. Gray. Drury-laft, commission agent
T. Deakin and T. Dyer. Birmingham. dealers.
W. and J. Wharton, Leominster, common carders.

DIVIDENDS.
May IS, T. R. Hazard. Liverpool. meschant—ill, A. Coles,
Poland-street. St. Nlarylebone, coaching/wt.—Hi, C. Wright,
Charles-street, Soho-square. uphollterer—lS, N. Danny, Hatt-
ley Whitney. Southampton, innkeeper. tO. %V. Kaye. Liverpool.
tinder—MO. Yowler, Ilirelis-lane. broker-19.J.Punaia.
, draper.
CERTIFICATES to be granted May 18.
J. Bandbrth, junior, With upon Duns. Yorkshire, botcher—.
J. and W. Horner, Brockbomen. Lancashire. dealers—J. Clay-
Kingutreet. Hammersmith, iroomonger—W. Tor*,
Ezmouth-sueet, Smallish's, builder—J. Gibson, Wardrobsiilscr.
Doctors' Commons, dealer in lace—C. Jackson. Upper 'WWI.
Street, sugar Sattorl-.Y. Sudden. Bristol. liquor merchant.

MOSOMINT TO Roaeire Boass.—A meeting was
held on Saturday, at the Freemasons Tat ern, the Duee
of Athol in the chair, for the purpose of entering into a
subscription for the erection of a mon 1111 l ent to the me-
mory of Robert Burns, the celebrated Scotch poet.
The chairman having shortly stated his hearty concur-
rence in the object of the meeting, Forbes Mitchell, Esti.
read a printed document, which stated that a subscrip-
tion had been entered into some years ago by some
gentlemen at B3utbay, for the purpose above-mentioned;
and that a committ.e had, on application to the Lost
Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh, obtairsed the
grant of a piece of ground for the purpose, eligibly situ-
ated on the side of the Calton-hill, and near the splendid
new approach to that city. Mr. Mitchell then read deer
a list of the original subscribers iu India, as well as of
the more recent ones in this country, from which it ap-
pearedrtaLa considerable sum has been already collected.
Several resolutions were then put and carried, the sob-
stance of which was, that committees were to be ap-
pointed in the different p::rts of the United Kingdom,
in the colonies and other dependencies of the realm, fru
the purpose of receiving subscriptions; that advertise-
ments were to be inserted in all the public papers for the
same purpose; that a meeting for the same purpose as
the present was to be held in London on the iSlil of
June; and that Forbes Mitchell. Esq. was to he treasurer.
Lord Keith, in moving one of the resolutions, observed,
that it would be impossible to fix on the plan of the
monument, until they knew how far their subscription
world extend.

On Wednesday last Alderman Hevgate was elected a
Director of the Phanix Fire-office, in the room of
Major Rohde, Esq. deceased.
The scheme to propel the vessel constructed accord-
ing to Loc.' Cochrane's directions, by the application of
steam to maeliim.ry, operating under water, has, we un-
derstand, totally failed. An experiment was last week
made to compress the water by means of air tunnels
fixed in the paddle cases, but it was without effect.
This was the second failure in the attempt to work
machinery under water, the first being with a packet
called the Engineer, and in the two experiments, a
considerable sum of money, besides a year, rave beta
expended.
SINGULAR DIRCOVERY.—Last week, while a la-
bourer was digging Peat it, the inois of La Mancha,
parish of Newlands, once the seat of the Earl of Don-
Jonah!, his spade struck against something hard, which,
upon digging, was found to he the body of a man, and
was identified by sonic old people in the neighbourhood
to be that of a coachman of the late Earl of Dundonald,
grandfather to the present Lord Cochrane, who, about
74 years ago, committed suicide, by cutting his throat.
and was honied in this spot in a sack. The straw ropes
which had fastened the sack were found almost (sok
although the sack was nearly all consumed. 'I he
clothes on the body, stockings, and garters, were almost
entire, and the colour of the vest (red vet% ei) little
decayed. The razor, also, with which he had taken
away his life, was found at his side. The body itself
was in such a state of preservation, that it could be
lifted entire, and carried away for re.itsitritictit ; hot
the neighbours stripped it of most part of the clothes.
each curious to secure a remembrance of this extiaofllt-
nary fact.
An effort is making by the French Government to
naturalize the breed of Cachemire goats in France. A
vessel ha. arrived at Marseilles with a flock of them, sent
by M. 'Lunen from tire Crimea. It Couilsted originally
of a6B, of which tbsi died ; but this loss is said to he
nearly compensated by
forth during the passage.
the umber of young osses brought

MAY .L

TITE NATURAL CHILD.

Arriving late for dinner at a certain noble Lori's,
I had just time to make a kind of circular obeisance
to the Countess, and to the company to whom I
was known,—to receive a significant but good-
humoured look, with a very gentle shake of the
head, from her Ladyship as much as to say, " You
have lust saved your distance, as usual ; always late, ,
but better late than never,"—to meet the supercili-
ous eye of Lord C—, to acknowledge the haughty
bow of Lady Avanthier, the Nabob's wife, whose
smile is a sneer, and whose toss of the head, after
the common inclination of urbanity', seems as if her
stiff neck upbraided her fur the sgmlleat penchant of
condescension, awl her curled up-lip and saucy nose
mocked the forced smile which half, uncertain,
would-be courtliness, had placid in their neighbour-
hood,-1 had just time to receive the insincere pres-
sure on my hand of a certain diplomatic character,
so used to Assumed importance and to pseudo amia-
bility, that it seems to inform you that you may live
on promise as long as you like, and eoasider that his
protection even goes as far as a Inet and the impo-
sition of hands—the weighinrtif two fingers, as it
were confidentially on your arm, the gently touching
you.= the back, which is the type of" depend upon
nee," where reliance is out of the question, or an
elevatima of the eyebrows. as much as to say, ".I see
you and don't forget yon,"—finally, I was just long
enough i the drawing-room to see the first title
proudly armed out of the mom with a conscious
look of self satisfaction, to behold the autumnal
flowers in very high colour, cast a glance at the
mirror as they passed bv, and join the Da ',bon.,
fentiuni of Baronet; M.P.'s, and private gentlemen,
us chattering common-place, as we (I..seended the
great star-sue, when I found myself placed by the
side of a very lovely young woman with ajene sais
snsoi of interest and melancholy on her countenance,
which (to me) rather heightened her attractions.
Her smile was grave, and, as it were, dubious;
her deportment timid, yet dignified ; her voice more
soothing than sprightly ; and her dress rather neat
than showy. Yet. as she advanced in her short table
acquaintance with me, she gained ground consider-
ably in the interest which she inspired. She was
sensible, highly polished, and modest to a charm.
Most of the company knew her. I was rather
asebnished, however, to perceive that she did not
receive from the society that palm of preference
which so mach beauty and such finished manners
claimed exclusively for her; for, when put in par-
rallel with her titled and other female companions,
who seemed fur the most part to eye her with in-
difference, she was like the fairest lily, the most
balmy rose, or the freshest violet, planted in a cor-
ner, and surrounded by gaudy tulips, poppies, and
ranunculuses, of forced production, and over blown.
Dunne, dinner, she was accosted twice by the
name ; and my Lord once gave her a half
smile of good humour, in sending ber, unasked,
half the wing of a woodcock, with a look which said,
" I know you like this."
As I never beard her called any thing but Emily
whilst at table. I took an opportunity, after the
ladies had withdrawn, to ask Lord what her
family name was. " White," replied his Lordship ;
and he uttered the name as if it were a complete
blank in the beau monde; for it is not uncommon,
when a man names his friends (if perchance, hap-,
pily, he have any,) or his acquaintance, or guests,
to mention a little proudly,—" a person of high
public character," significantly,—" a beauty saran
heiress," rapturously,—and " a commoner, or a fair
incognito in high life," explanatorily-, stating, " a
good family, a good fortune, a person of talent, or
of (what is more prised in a drawing-room) good
expectancies."
My Lord named Miss White with bluff simpli-
city, waking as little of the monosyllable as possible,
as if it scarcely assented a place in his narration.
" She is well named," said 1, " for she is as t:iir as
',the unsullied snow ; her beauty needs no high co-
:louring of praise, as it speaks for itself'; her eyes
need no comment, since nature's letter of recom-
mendation is there written in fine impressive cha-
frac ter.

4. Two or three insipid' smiled mawkishly and un-
'taturally. My Lord observed, " She's a nice girl,"
'lad then diverted the subject. The diplomatist
fOund out that she wanted usage du monde, which
proved his want of judgment ; and the Nabob
thought her too light, not in conduct, but in purse,
to merit any more than, " She's very fair, but too
cold and grave." This he could n.t say of his
broad passion flower of a wife.
NV interest increased with the neglect of merit
in my cony:miens ; and I attached myself to her
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cinipsny as much as possible, when we returned to
the ladies. I now had recourse to a ruse de guerre,