The National Register.
London, England, 1819-12-19 00:00:00

418

The following remarks from a !peceh of the late
eloquent Diehard trinsley Sheridan, Esq. may not
1)4 deemed inapplicable .to the present period :

I.♦UMEItITI. OF THE Alle•EE OF 6,;%kitsw.nT.

'• At In ihr sem.' 41 challs uge ot. 1.10.45ig the shim.
whica sub.i.ta i 4 our Govt•• 1111 l Ski,' Mats said he
1'4.1 Ito delight ill it ; but a. lie most I rids then ..1
Ilse 4birms of kr•lo he I. plaiuml,44;,lthr whirl. a Rel ', II
r! Parliament Wall Ihr mil. remedy. well*, Ihal rt.fira
sbe usher House sent Alrwh.•ia to the H'tll%e of C ^.^
nomination—thatb. the Crow n sent Ale ..hers into this.
/louse by nomination too— that some Members of that
House sent in Members Ity .their awn no,uitwniot aim—
all these thiikas mule N tare of an elect int, rot the place.,
for whirls these.itenilvosen were returned-11141 Melt wvr.
cleated Per rs will l t having been oldie len., ii r% ice
the public in Pit% tel 1111411 11%1.P. 6111 inch rly .iii a .
enrout of thrir _i'arleastrentary influeiree—tln• presto! Alt
msteocliad hes si the 111e1011$ of creathig a hundred ul !Item
lir did nut blame then' —the tank was 111 111 e it %It 11l of
1141111111 111 l was the pivot uu whit h Ilse
w hole of our pohlic Covet ttttt rut affairs int iirtl—that the
collection or taxes was under Ihr• Ilitililgenielll far 0.•x1111'.
filen l'arliktmentary Mitres!, the ruu•eyuenee of w
was, dm the collect• ut their, was neglected-511a' lit
Iliske up the deficiency, Excisemen Huss! be added to the
Excise— thi• soured !Ist limper of the people; !hat 144
slier in the Church, the Arms. the Nat t, ur :my ;mirth-
&fire, Was any appuinhairtil but what ie•sill.kl
I'ullamrntary iiitinture ; and, cuosespiestil, curs opt ma-
jorities were at the will of Ille Al:ma.•r. lie did not liki
to tell dieresis skittle prison house of (Ike 'lt easior ; but its
the praw•ut iusteuer• be was cubed upon. lit ►lion I, wise
,Ihrr the eye was directed to the Church, the 1.4 w, the
A tiny. tar to Parliniiieut, it could only ob.ei ve the seeds
of inevitable decay and 111111 111 She glue-isms faltsie of the
British Cuusti

PERSIAW Gmen ..-We are sorry to learn•by let-
ters received within the last few dt;ys from Bushire,
that there is every reason to believe that some unfor-
tunate females have fallen into the hands of the
pirates, during the present season, and have actuafly
been sold in the public bazaar, at one of their prin-
cipal stations in the With. Two of them are said
to be Europeans, and the remaining three natives of
India. We sincerely hope this report may prove to
be. without foundation; and we d S 9 with the more
.confidenec, siace we have never heard alloy persons
of ihis description being missing. They arc said,
however, to have been taken in a boat coming to
Bombay, from some place on the Malabar eoast, anti
that the male Europeans in attendance on them
were put to death. In the mean time it may be
.satisfactory to know, that Captain Loch, in his
Alikjesty's ship Eden, in company with some of the
Rm. Company's cruisers, has proceeded to the
stations frequented by the •pirates, to demand their
immediate restoration, should the account prove to
be founded in truth. The career of these cruel free-
booters will, we sincerely hope, be speedily brought
to a close. The shades humani generts cannot surely
be allowed to exist in the-immediate vicinity of the
British power, and in the very track of one of the
principal branchos of its trade.

A letter from Bristol, dated Dec. Isth, says,—
" We •had II tremendous fire here last night in High-
street, which it was thought would have consumed
the whole: of that section of the street extending
from the upperearser of Corn-street to the market
gate; it brote out a quarter before nine, corn.
mencing at Mr. Whitrualsh's, a tea dealer, or rather
in a small manufactory at the hack of his premises,
used for the stoving of straw bonnets. The flames
raged with fury until four Warlock, when, by the
exertions of the firemen, their progress was stopped.
The following houses are destroyed, with property
eu a considerable amount, viz.—Mr. Reeves, a res.
pactrible bookseller and stationer; ‘Vhinuarsh's, a
tea de der; Brains, a large sloe warehouse, and an
empty house, formerly occupied by Mr. Ashmead,
haberdasher. No lives providentially were Inst.
Wire whole city was in great alarm, and apprehen-
aions were entertained fur the Castle Bank."
About six o'clock on Monday evening, as the
Highgate stage, on its way from town, was driving
along Gray's-Inn-lane, one of the fire braces, which
supyorts the body, happened to break, by which
accident a very respectable looking woman, who sat
on the outside, with a child about a month old in
Lat. arms, was thrown Mr. So careful was she of
the child, that it did not receive the slightest hurt ;
bat the unfortunate woman, besides having an arm
brake, receis:ed acvaral severe contusions on the
ham' and other parts of the body ; she was carried
into the shop of a surgeon, where :le had her
wounds dressed, after which she was taken inside
the coach and proceeded home to Highgate.
We understand that Miss O'Neil is speedily to
be led to the hymeneal, altar by William Becher,
Lai. M. P. for Mallow in Ireland, a gentleman of
great opatence, and who proved himself last Session
to be as eloquent in the Senate, as the Ludy is on
the stage. Mr. Beeler allows Miss O'Neil to settle
all the Mayne she has acquired by her talents on
her family, and he makes a handsome settlement
on herself. We believe that notice has been given
to Covent Garden Theatre, that she deer not mean
to appear agaita. This will be the only subject of
regret to the public, for otherwise they must
rtOttil in her good fortune.