The National Register.
London, England, 1820-04-17 00:00:00

FROM TUESDAY .VIGUi".S. GAZETTE.

WRITERaLL, APRIL 10.
The King has been pleased to command, that the tteth day of
this instant April 6111111 be, in all respects, observed and kept as
his Majesty's birth-day, instead of the Islth day of August.

At the Court at Carlton House, the Bth of April, 1840 ; pre-
sent, the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council; this day
the Right Hon. David Boyle, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland,
was, by his Majesty's command. sworn of his Majesty's Most
Hon. Privy Council, and took his place at the Board accordingly.
His Majesty having been pleased to appoint MO* General Sir
Benjamin D'Crban. K.C.8., to be Captain General and Governor
in Chief in and over the islands of Antigua and Montserrat, he
this day took the usual oaths appointed to be taken by the Gover-
nors of his Majesty's plantations.

BANKRUPTS.
.1. Wadsworth, Long Buckby. Northamptonshire. dealer. So-
licitor. Mr. Becke. Devonshire Street, Queen Square.
H. 's'ind H. Phillips, and T. Pole, Birmingham, toy makers.
Sols. Messrs. Baxter and Bowker. Gray's Inn.
W. Fisher, Avon Clift, Wilts, innkeeper. Sols. Messrs. Da:
and Co.. Guildford Street.
J. Miller, Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, bookseller. Sole.
Mears. Allen and Co., Carlisle Street. Soho.
R. Hasledine and 'f. Davies, Bridgnorth, itonfounders. Sol.
Mr. King, Sergeant's inn, Fleet Street.
C. Berry, Cavershani, Oxfordshire, saddler. Sol. Mr. Hamil-
ton, Berwick Street, Soho.

LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM.
An excellent dinner was on Monday given to the sup-
porters of this valuable Institution, at the City of Lon-
don-tavern. It was numerously attended, and we should
suppose that upwards of $OO were present. Mr. Thomas
Wilson, M. P., presided in the absence of the Lord
Mayor, the non-attendance of the Chief Magistrate, as
we afterwards understood, was to be attributed wholly to
a mistake, it being his full inteution to have complied
with the wishes of the managers of this institution, and
to have taken the chair. The cloth Raving been removed,
the usual toasts were proposed and drank. On "'Flit
Royal Family" been given toni the chair, it was received
with enthusiasm, accompanied with loud et icy of "The
Queen, the Queen," and hisses. " 'lite 111C111Ory of the
Dike of Kent, the patron of the A,lltitn, was drank in
silence, and was succeeded by " The prosperity of the
London Orphan AAyinne." In proposing this latter toast,
Mr. Wilson expressed his high approbation of the insti-
tution. It was hut seven shot t years SiIICC its continence.-
went, and he hoped it was now e-taidislied on a firm
foiludation. Its bbket, the support id' the friendleAa or.
'titan, to give tOod, clothing, and education to those help-
less beings, merited, and he was satisfied would receive,
the patronage of every feeling heart. The number of
mphans first supported by this Meditation was only four.
but by the liberality of the public, that number had been
now Mei eased to U.O. At abiut nine o'clock the Lurd
Mayor tittered the room, and was tt et ;vett with hood
applause. Ile shortly and satisfactorily explained the
cause of the mistake, and concluded with proposing a
I toast which was thank with great eilihnsia•tn—" The
het tits of the people, and may they V. r be crushed by
' despotism, or rent asunder liy The suii-
scrip:Mils ieci.ived in the course of the esl.l.lllg 111.14.1in1e.1
to almost 1,0, in At hbnist hull=past 10, Mr. Wll,Oll Rft
the char. and it was tided immediately by LW: [And
Mayor.

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LAMENTABLE OCCUBRENCe AT GREENOCK

—aaturrs—
Extract of a Letter, dated Greenock, April I
know not in what manner to lay before your reader,
the latnental.le scene which took place iu the streets of
this town yesterday afternoon. It originated at first in
a report which was circulated early that morning, that
a number ot Paisley Radicals were to be brought to our
gaol nutter 3 military escort. As the innabitaws of this
place are not much acquainted with sights of this kind,
it was naturally to be expected that immense crowds
would assemble to witness their entry; aunt about half
past four o'clock our ears were regaled with the musk
of a dram and tile, which announced the triumphant,
and to all appeaimice pompous, entry of about 130 of
the Port Glasgow inhaohatits, bearing :urns, and called
ao " Armed g•.o:11%101g a cart with Ft% e
Radicals. Some pegs ins amongst the crowd began a
hissina, which became pretty general, and, as far as
observed, a tew mischievous boys began to t hrow
stones; when, in order to strike terror amongst the
crowd, they discharged some of their pieces, and tire
contents of one struck a little boy wnhout doing any
material injury. After the prisoners were reecive,l by the
magistrates, and ItAged in places prepared fur them, this
assuciatimi began their march homewards, amidst loud
hissing and now aril then assailed by stones; and I ant
couvinced that the hissing principally arose on ace
of their very awkward appearance: for the people of
Greenock arc a very loyal people, and not at all in-
clined, at any time, to nample n•tder font the laws Of
their country, or to oiler inffgnities against any body of
men doing tireir duty in the manner the law requires of
than; and the stones which were thrown, I hate no
doubt, would have been the same, had the same Asso-
ciation been acting in a different cause; and I think
the great error lay it not intrusting the same charge to
well disciplined military; but can I tents these men
well disciplitied who acted as if every one was com-
mander ; one officer attempting to command, and ano-
ther contradicting it ? It would have been well had
they continued so, and made the best of their way home
—but they neither attempted to charge the crowd
before them with the point of their bayonets—they read
no Riot Act—they gave no proper warning of what
they intended to do ; and, without forming into a line,
they poured their slim amongst a crowd made up of the
guilty, time innocent, and the ungiispecting ; and they
repeated this wanton outrage amongst the crowds which
assembled from various places of the town, mail they
killed on the spot four persons, and wounded twenty,
(tire of whom are since dead.) I should have been
happy to excuse their proceedings; hut, in justice to
my own feelings, and those of the principal part of the
inhabitants, I cannot. It is true the crowd should not
have insulted them; but who would not bear the greatest
insult before they would attempt to kill any man ?
Their lives were not in danger at the time; no doubt
some of the stones injured them, and irritated others;
but their minds should have been prepared fear all this,
and the utmost extremity alone should have compelled
them to fire.
" 1 need not say the inhabitants were alarmed, in-
deed they would not believe their eyes at first when
they saw their townsmen carried in all directions towards
the medical gentlemen, whose prompt attention cannot
he too highly praised. After this bustle and alarm had
subsided, after the dead had been carried to their rela-
tions, and the wounded to the hospital and their friends;
a cheer in midst of the square by a few brought many
together, and it appeared they knew not what they
would have wished. The magistrate went into their
centre and insisted on their being peaceable; but it ap-
peared they had no very bad intention, and we most ,
make bonne excuse for their exasperated feelings, which
prompted diens 40 the rash act of breaking open the
prison, which they accomplished in a short time, and
liberated the five Radicals, whose names I could not
learn. The crowd examined them narrowly before
they permitted them to escape, lest they by mistake
should have liberated any other prisoners, which sr s
not their wish ; they then allowed them to shift tier •
themselves. Shortly after this, a considerable crowd
assembled, and a 'riper played at their head through the
town for about an hoar and a hall. I t seems they hat
at first an intention of anacking Port Glasgow ; but fur
the honour of my townsmen, 1 am happy to sty it w•as
not carried into of , arid the magistrates not knowing
what might happen, used the wise precaution of sending
for force:, whose services were -not required, for about
eleven o'clock all had dispersed, and there was as much
regularity in the Vreeis as if the week had closed with i.s
(total quietness and good order.
" 1 learn this melancholy detail of facts with feelings
more of sorrow than of anger, satisfied, in my •wn coil-
wiener!, that what I have stated is correct according to ,
my own feelings; and I trust that through the medium s
(hyoid. paper, the world may know that no treason or
consinracy lay at the Ii qiolll of all this, but that the
imprudence of a few who were in the erowd, and the
unjustifiable rashness of the armed, were the the .itdy
means which disturbed liar a few hours the peace of our
streets, which at the present moment rx••ihit all the
simplieity and gaud order At inch ate characteristic of
Sabbath."Scottisls

His Majesty, we understand, has appointed Mt.
Cohnan, the popular dramatic author, Licutrnaut
of the Yeomen of the Guard, in the place of Mr.
Davis.

A private letter was received on Monday, from
the Earl of Lauderdale, dated Rome the ::,1
Ile is, we understand, pursuing. a rou:e
towards Leghorn, which place the (bc.ni entitem-
plates reaching on the sth. His Lordship, from a
popular dense of fueling. has tendered his important
services to ;terompany her Nl:ijr,tv to Fuglaml,
which is thought more eligible to ctli.3:l before the
meeting of Parliament.

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