The National Register.
London, England, 1820-12-25 00:00:00

ROMP/ELL AND PARKINS •. DERIANS.

This was an action by the late Sheriffs to recover rrom
the defendant 1701. the amount 01 a bad bond, given by
him for a person named Leigh.
Mr. Gurney slated the case for the plaintiffs.
Mr. Gaslee, for the defendant, said the defence of his
client was infancy.
To prove this fact the register of a parish in the extreme
part of Yorkshire was put in, and the entry of the defen-
dant's baptism was rcsd. The uncle was alio examined
who stated his belief that his nephew was not yet 21.
The Chief Justice thought there was no doubt in this
case, as to the proof of infancy. It might not be srrictly
hottest for persons under age thus to deceive the world ;
but the law threw a shield, and very properly, round
harms, and persons must take care with whom they
dealt.
Verdict for the defendant.

The following excellent letter, has been publicly
addressed to the freeholders and inhabitants of the
County of Norfolkand we give it, because in its
main points, it is equally applicable to every other
county.
BROTHER FREEHOLOERP, AND INHABITANT! !—Ye,
who have hitherto been foremost in addressing and peti-
tioning the throne, and the two Houses of Parliament
when your liberties were in danger.—Ye, who have hewn
the beacon to all England for assembling at County Meets
jugs, and in the language of loyalty, but with the spirit
of freemen, boldly to state, and intrepidly to assert your
rights; why stand you now sleet*? why—is it like a
corrupt Borongh. snider the influent:ea en oligarchy, yr
suffer other comities to wrest from you the lung worn, and
proud palm of the Whig county of England The pads
is still open to yon ; and if among the aristocracy, a pot-
tion of thembe insensible to the clangors that await them ;
if they prefer their homes, and their pleasuure► to the
duties of their station, and are become degenerate and
debased ; leave theism to, become the victims of seltre•
proach, and to the obscurity which shade► the abandon-
silent of trust, and derilection of principles. Among your
ranks will be found then amply fitted to supply their
places, and whose call will be imperative upon the Sheriff
to convenes County Meeting, where delinquency will be
made known in the list of absentees. Let the farmer,
who finds his labour unproductive and unprofitable--the
tradesman, who feels the want of the farmer for Isis cur
rouser—the manufacturer whose goods are warehoused.
from the diminished demand in the home markets, divest
thenaseivesof prejudices, and they will be convinced the
use cause of a general depression, lies in the canker of
an overwbehning taxation. Unite then in a resolution,
declaratory of the evil, and petition your Representatives
(when Ministers shad allow them to assemble) to institnte
an immediate enquiry into all branches of time expenditure,
and most especially that arising omit of the Milan Com-
mission, as well as those iecurred in the prosecution of the
late unprecedented trial .of the Queen Consort of these
realms ; endangering in fts consequences the stability of
the throne, unjust amid injurious to the high Personage
accused, and subversive of all morality and reverence in
the people to the monarchial part of the coastitution. In
your petition to the House of Lords, express filially your
conviction, that no measures short of re.iuserting in the
Liturgy the 'tame of Queen Caroline, as Queen Consort of
U. urge the Fourth, and giving to her these appendages
belonging to her Royal station, can allay that esOlethent
now pervading the 11411011. And if in your loyalty to
your Sum ereign. you wish to address the throne, remem-
ber men itutionally " the Kiug can do Wrong." But mark
strongly your reprobation of those evil doers (his Minis-
ters) who in all their acts of nial-adininistering Isis Go.
vi•rnmeut, in words and in deeds, use ever seeking to
shelter themselves from 4 constitutional responsibility, by
ith estifying the Royal Personage in their bleaches of the
Constitution. Already have two counties ;riven to Nor-
folk the go bye--.bastes the's to your post at Norwich ; I
pledge myself you nil. find there the steady Patriot Conn
—twat undeviating fi tend of freedom, of justice aud the
kris.
Dec. 20, A FREEHOLDER.

/haute of Ike late Adige uery excellent
Judge was of a very humane disposition, and when he
went the Circuits, it was with extreme reluctance that
lie left any condemned criminal fur execution. After
the trials were over at an Assizes where six malefactors
were sentenced to death, when the paper was laid lie.
fore him to strike, off the names of ihose he might think
worthy of mercy, Ile found a reason why the sentence
should he Mitigate(' in lie first. second, Ike. till he had
struck his pen across the names of five; when lie Cants
to the sixth, he said, " 1 can set no good reason why
this man should not sutler accuttliog to the law ; but,
poor fellow, lie exhibited a very woc!til
cnuntruance—
he seems as if lie don't like to be ;" and his name
lIIIIIICII'd,eIy received the merciful scratch.
FATAL ACCIDINT.•—M. Vdldl, tile celebrated ISofllt
at the ()vela, Irlt a vacuum last rittirmlay to a dreaded
accident, oceasioncd by the explosion of an °flit:lite
hod, rat the ionise of a friend in Paris. M. NUldi was
nil tied, togt•ther with his wilt and tl.ni;:itter, at the
residt-tic, of NI. Garcia. NI. Naito %unlit asst -I in sivi,e
colioary firs cell, ai.,l had the illiprilticllte w reuse N 1111
pal ll('t'lP 1114: ColliilWil.r iii lilt. heat. Tne r hi snn in-
stant:menus!) cna,irn, .11,1 the ernes stip:owed irons lite
autoclave 0111(1 Lid his crantinti open, anti struck him
dead upon the spot. NI tiarcia rte. 'veil a i,.ters
on the head, Lot tutu dative. rtir. N ddi bail e: itti-
lira%n fruits tik stage tut/ II 014110 61‘11; J!III 11l his
)milli w 42, dilottL,l Ui t: mt. id the 11$4 I. Wirt 11, 1644

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