The National Register.
London, England, 1822-09-30 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL

tEG ISTER

dris 3,000 piastres far their ransom; but the perse-
verance and firmness of Mr. Hamilton triumphed
over his repugnance.

The report of the Select Committee of the House
of Commons, appointed to inquire into the manner
in which the printing and stationary are supplied to
the House of Lords and Commons, and to the public
departments in the United Kingdom, has been
printed. This committee was appointed in the last
session, in consequence of charges of abuses and
frauds, chiefly preferred by a man named Henry C.
Jennings, stating that Mr. W. Ready, the keeper
of the Board-room of the Loafs of the Treasury,
had been in the habit of selling stationary, the pro-
perty of the King, from the Stationary Office, to a
very large amount, to Sir Robert Wilson, Mr. P.
Moore, Mr. Hume, and several others. The com-
mittee state, that the evidence of Mr. Hume dig.
tinctly negatives the fact of Sir It. Wilson and Mr.
P. Moore having been so supplied; that it appears,
from the evidence of Mr. Hume, that he was in-
duced to allow Jennings to send him the paper pur-
chased from Ready, for the purpose of establishing
unequivocally the existence of the fraud; and that
it appears, with the sante view. it had been intend-
ed that some of the paper should have been sent to
Sir Robert Wilson and Mr. I'. Moore, to be held in
deposit by them; and that it was sent by Mr. Jen-
nings to Mr. Hume's house, addressed to them, but
was never delivered to them; and they appear to
have been entirely ignorant ot• the whole matter.—
The characters of these lion. gentlemen having been
thus cleared from all imputation, the committee pro-
ceed to notice some irregularities in the conduct of
Ready, in appropriating to his own use more paper
than he was entitled to, under the claim of peiqul.
sites, for which lie has been suspended from his
office ; and some other improprieties in the Sta-
tionary Office, which they recommend should be
avoided in tnture.

On Thursday, the Seringopa!am frigate, Capt.
Samuel Warren, C. B. the Redwing, 18, Hon. Capt.
Trefusis, and the Grecian cutter, Lieut. Cawley,
sailed on a foreign secret and special service. It is
conjectured their destination is connected with the
present state of affairs in Smth Atnerica, where from
the contending state of parties, the l3ritish interests
may require protection; and also with the piracies
committed on our commerce in the American and
and West Indian Seas, particularly at Cuba, where,
it has been charged upon the administration, our
commerce has been abandoned to the ruinous de.
predations of pirates, or the humiliating protection
of the French and American navies. The delicacy
towards Spain, in whose ports these marauders har-
bour, which has been stated in extenuation, cannot
be any longer listened to; but these glaring offences,
the existence of which brings an opprobrium on the
administration and the country, must be put down.
It is understood the above ships go direct to Bahia.
ileol-XTRY IN Itenta.--The free Press of Cal-
cutta has operated most powerfully in reforming the moat
inveterate and revolting abuse. The effect of seven native
presses at work in that great city has been to triumph over Hin-
doo superstition in its strong hold. Darin:: the lust festival of
Jsgernaut dim were so few pilgrims present that they were
unable to drag the car. The Btahmins called in other aid, but
no devotee could be persuaded to sacrifice himself to the idol.
They now talk of removing the Beth to a more central situation.
The wily priesthood love sagacity enough to perceive that they
must remove the theatre of their sanguinary superstition beyond
the sphere of a free press, or that the bigotry of thirty centuries
will disappear. To the permanent glory of our Indian Admi-
nig:ration, a large portion of the population of Bengal are receiv-
ing the rudiments of an improved system of education, while
thousands of elementary works are circulating throughout the
empire. Even titmicer women. audited whom widowhood. and
subsequent burning ulive, are de mimed for learning the alpha-
bet, and who must nut read the Vssla under pain of .Lath, have
placed their daughters at the public selerals. The celebrated
Hindu° reformer, Bain Milton Hoy, has held public monthly
meetings at Calcutta. far the purpose of freely discusang the
tenets of hi* riligion, and exposing the cruelties practised
under it..
,HOCKING Acci Da NT—Extract from a private let-
ter dated Boulogne, Fri.lay, Sept. .20 :-•-•• As the Dasher, post-
, &lice steam-hint, from Dover, was nese the port, the unfortu-
nate engineer was caught in some of the steam apparatus, and
came into the harbour with his arm dreadfully eliatterert, and
and his leg miserably tarn. I.i Mg on the desk. Sesta after seeing
this unpleasant sight, and passing through a erect in the upper
pert cf the lower town, I saw a crowd, and asking the cause,
a French woman told me that the English Countess was rode
over and tilled. In a state of horrid anxiety 1 immediately went
to her house, Rue de %Idles& where I saw, breathing her last,
the beatiliful daughter of my very old and particnlar friend,
Mrs. Chitties Lock, the daughter oldie Duchess of Leinster by
the second husband, Mr. Ogilvie. He eldest daughter married
a foreign Count of the name of Viey, and bad just recovered
from her arcouchenteut. As she was riding out yesterday for
the first time on her donkey Outdid as they call it here,) and
coining down the hill towards her own house, with her mother
walling at her side, and her sister, Mrs. Murray Greville, iu
company, a cart came down from the top of the street, the horse
running away with it at full speed, ran over and killed on the *pot
the tiny io attendance, and rsu over the Countess de Viary, and
her &odd, the wheel paseiug over the lower part of her body.
in en Mutest lifeless state she was brought kite her house close
by, where I saw the uteleneholy scene abovemeationed—ber
husband frantic leaning over her almost inanimate body. Di
force hr was torn away, to gist. the surgeons liberty to exa-
mine the hurt f but, a!asl to no purpose, Ai lied breathed her
lust at the moment of separatiou from her husband. Mrs. Gre •
ville had a narrow escape. the wheel sarapieg her aria, end
Mrs. C. Lock was thrown in the confusioo. I Abell not attempt
to describe the confueiou, kat tksi gnat that i may sever wit-
sees .web a sows Apia."