The National Register.
London, England, 1823-05-12 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER,

LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 12.
[The Proprietor having disposed of the copy-
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the patronage su long affirded him],

The House of Commons has been employed (luting
the week iu an investigation of tlte circumstances
attendant on the trials fur the outrages committed
at the Dublin Theatre, and unless it cap be proved
that the witnesses have sworn falsely, we canoot
suppose that the House will ref sin from.ordering a
prosecution against the Orange-Sheriff, Thorpe.—
On Thursday night a puerile attempt to awe, the
public press was made by a Colonel Barry--.fu: the
particulars we must refer to our Parliamentary Re-
port, by which it will be suit that the Colonel said,
if " the Press be allowed to go on in this way, it,

would soon become MASTKR of the House of, Com.
mons, instead of the House of Commons being its
roasters"—now we should be glad to know whete
this Member learnt that the House of Commons con-
stituted the M AST sat of the,publie Press—he might
know, by reading any debate, that the Members ge-
nerally arc much indebted .to the l'apers for making
sense of what is often, as delivered, nonsense; and
the. Colonel would, ',crimp% rod the severest way in
which the Press could punish him would be to report
his speeches just as he delivered them. The Hon.
Member, however, appeared. to know the danger
that attends playing with , edged tools, for he de-
clared " he did not wish to bring the House in col-
lision with such people," and in that ho.shewed his
prudence—his motion fw calling the prinw.of The
lkillsh !'rtss to the bar of the House was met with
the contempt it deserved, orul..wiswithdromu,

Letters from Vittoria, of the 30th, complain very
loudly of the acts of vengeance anti oppression corn-
mitted there by the Royalists under the protection
of the French. Many private individuals, having
influence, or known to be favourable to the free in-
stitutions of their country. have been thrown into
prisons; and others, in order to escape from outrages
of this kind, are flying to France. This is the way
fir the French and their Royalist friends to uncle—l
ceive and rouse the population of the Peninsula.
The Green Park Lodge, ,it appeals, is held by
Llaty Wm. Gordon, under ttleve from the Crown,
grunted in 1790, for two lives (Lord and Lady W.
Gordon) or 56 or 67 years, at an annual rent.
L0G5...01?. AN EAST INDIAMAII.—WO regret to
announce that the Throws Corals •East Indiaman,
in coming up the river on Thursday last, took the
ground, in consequence of' which she very soon went
over on her side ;.anil her, cargo, it iefeared, will be
entirely lost.
A contract was entered into on Friday last for the
erection of a tread-mill in Maidstone gaol, which is
We have received the Paris Papers of lArednesday.
to be begun immediately. The expense of building
Their accounts of the progress of the French Army and machinery is estimated, at .9..^...001., and whets
are in many instances absurd and contradictory.— completed will be capable of employing about eighty
pri.amer.s at. one time,
.whose occupation will be
One account states, that a division of French troops
chiefly in grinding corn for the use tit the prison.
occupies Valencia, though the latest intelligence FAL.IB.OY WesTON Cotvu,La TOWER.—On Tues.
does nut mention a single French soldier within a day evening, abou n
t eight lock,o' the
h tower
re, of
turn-
the 11
hundred and twenty miles of that city. The u„ lt church of Westo Colville, nmridi
/Wed down; part falling upon the root' of the church
Editors, when t:•v.y flibrica.c tatglopitic,despatches, broke througn and .destroyed the scat* and. pews; ,
would not commit so many blunders if they• were
sn the other part fell to
the west.
broken The to
bweyr
the confall.—
tained
first to consult the map of Spain. The Stale five bells,our of ich
, It is fortunate that nu person was near; if it had
asserts, that Ballasteros has precipitately retired
.happened during divine service, many of the con.
tin Valencia. We leave it to the Parisian Journalists gregation would inevitably have lost he
i
r
lives.
to explain those conflicting statements, if they can. Aboutyears tower of All-Sat'
church, Felbourne, fell in a similar manner.
The Dra perm Blanc =miens, on the authority of
LOSES, MAY 7.—A,few days since, Lieutenant
a letter flout Frankfurt on the Oder, that Russia is Jackson, RN. of the Last Cowes preventive-boat,
assembling an Army of Observation on the frontiers captured a boat and two men. The smugglers run
the boat ashore, and threw over the whole of the
of Polaud, of 120,000 men, fur the maintenance of
tube excepting two. 'Elie men were convicted in
public tranquillity in Germany, awl even in France. the penalty of 1001. each, befure the Newport ma-
-The Rayonne Papers of the Qd• instant present a gistrates.
Oit Tuesday lea a dreadful fire broke out upon
very gloomy picture of the situation of the French
Barbet Heath, in the vicinity of the Royal Military
in my in Spain. They consider this retreat of the College, which continued to burn for several hours
Spanish army as dr.i.,ving the French into a snare, without
Ha intermissio
been f e
of the gentlemen cadets of the Royal Military Col-
favourable to the Constitutional troops, to obtain a lege, it must have occasioned considerable damage.
victory. They Oro observe, that the Duke of An- It is supovil to have been the ago ct of incendiaries,
velem does nut appear to bt •conrinad, as he. waa.l and prop per imprint:sage arryinn to discover them.