The National Register.
London, England, 1821-05-13 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

Petitions were presented against the Metropolis Road
Bill, from Kent, Greenwich, %Vooltrirli, Dartford, &e.
Ali, ILF.YGATE ~resented a peti!ion from Sudbury
a;aitist the adoption (daisy compielmiy mode of education,
as it would add to their parish !mitten., %shirk were ISs.
or 19s. in the pound. Or,lrrcii to ht• printed.
s, WIIITBRUAD presented petitions from Mims.
low against the Metropolii 1(oad.• B the inhabitants td
that neaglibtairhood being Lir' reedy satisfied with the
road:,

Ili. R. MARTIN presented a petition from persons in
Lomita' and elsewhere, praying the adoption of some
summary mode of punishing servants and others driving
the petitioners' stage coaches, &imagine or injuring
horses. Petition read, and ordered to he printed.
Mr. NIA ((TIN then gave notice, (lost on Friday next he
should move for h'iVC to brine in a bill on the subject.
Mr. BYNG moved for the revival of the committee on
the Metropolis Gas Light Bill.
Sir J. YOItKE trusted the house would before
they gave encouragement to too many ni thee panics.
They had an example helot e them of the we prudes.
By permission of the house, the water y' ell had
been graciously permitted to ruin one an they
were allowed to ruin other persons if Were
they to have a similar race with these I trers of
gas? 0
Af;rr sonic remarks from Sir I. Coffin, yng, and
Mr. I'. Mocre, the house divided. The nu ere were—
For it, .;—Against it, 87.
BREACX OF BENNErr moved,
that Alto IVeaver be now called to the oar.—Agreed to.
Mr. Weaver (printer of John Burt) was then placed at
the bar. In answer to questions put to him, li.Ntated,
that lie was the H. 'l'. Weaver Hawed at the end of the
paper; and in reply to inquiry who had Worded him the
earagiaph in questffin, lie stated, that lie aas engaged in
printing the paper on Saturday. He did not know who
banded the paper in queetiou. There was an editor; his
name was Cooper; that Cooper lived somewhere iii Black-
frith s-road ; he did not Kum where exactly. He had been
the editor for some time past. Hr came backwards and
forwards to the office. Weaver said lie was printer, pub-
lisher, col sole proprietor; he was not sure about the
time; it was, lie thought, about six weeks. lie pur-
ceased the paper of Shackell and Arrowsmilli. Arrest:.
smith lived at the house, in Johnson', Court. Ile was not
A rrowstnith's join neyman : but there %vete some arrange-
ments with Arrowsmitli. Ile did say, on the lOth and
iatli Feb. at the stamp-office, in his affidavits, that he wax
sole proprietor. The price however was not yet settled.
'f here was agreement. It was not in writing; it was a
verbal agreement. It was that he should become pro-
prietor at a certain price, which certain price hail not
yet been fixed upon. Ile made the purchase after a
prosecution had commenced against the paper. He re-
ceived the prohts and accounted fur them in vat ions ways.
lie made no returns to Are oswinith. He paid the editor
three guineas per week. He (Weaver) dot nut keep the
MS. copy; he believed the editor kept the copy ; lie was
nut aware that it was destroyed. The House in John-
son's-court was taken with the adjoining house on lease;
the renter of the House was Shackell. The " landlord"
was a " widow lady..' He was sorry lie had no reason
tolemploy any hanker. He was to settle with Arrowsmith
hereafter; no sum had been named. There had been a
transfer of property, brit no sum was named. lie had
sworn, February to, that the paper was to be printed at
his residence, Dyer's-buildings it had however been
printed at A rrowsinith's. The copy wits not given to him,
it was handed to the cotupti aura; lie did not know who
brought, or who received the copy. There were five or
six compositors; they did not print what they liked.—
Ile did Ina know from the compositors, which had inserted
the paragraph. He had not asked alio inserted it. As to
the parat.raph he believed it to be false; and had he Lou
it 10 be false, no power on earth shoahl base induced him to
insert it. Ile believed nu money was paid for the para-
graph. Ile did not ki ow the name of the compositor who
ineerted it. lie named four regular compositors, Hayward,
Are. There were cur:elem. sr he paid them all. There were
extra-hands employed on Saturday. 'file editor, he thought,
was ill the office on Saturday vi lieu the paper went to press.
The verbal agreement was made about seven weeks ago; it
was neater two ti ttttt tits than one mouth ago ; it was made
iti Arroessiloth'e titlice. Cooper was appointed editor pre-
'jou. to such agreement; Mr. Shackell appointed Cooper.
There were ninny money transactions with Cooper, but that
person seers frequently paid by Ai iosesinith. lie (Weaver)
had paid Coops r cure or twice; lie had paid the stamp-
other; ocher account. were ouistauding ; the other uuteoings
were paid by Arrowsmite ; he pad the weekly outgoings,
he, the reader. &c. read the paper. There were books, in
as hich the accounts were kept, the money for the sale, ad-
vet tisetureit•, Ate. Mr. Arrow hilith did not receive. the a hole
of the ea.ekly inoteeds; sometimes he made the entiies in
the books ; sometimes Art irwstnitli. There was nu person
authorised to insert paragraphs alien he and the editor were
ult.:eta , but such insertions lied taken place. He was not
aware of ally piivntc marks whir' were to nutlionse the
insertion of paragraph. beerieg such maths, even if himself
and editor a ere abseitt. Ile had been employed nt the Ti a-
cellar before Ile was engaged with John Mal. The exile
hands did i,at insert paraaraphs ailsum' authority. Mr.
Cooper +las the sole editor res far as lie Lute w. Ile had paid
Mr Cooper. li, did not know where the editor lived—
Cooper one night said he lied to go to Blackfriars road.—
There was a gent:ennui with Cooper this morning—but he
did not knew the gentleman's name. If the copy were nut
given to the rending-boy by himself or Mr. Cooper, he did
not knew by whom they might be given. lie thought
the compusitors would nut dai c to insert a paragraph a theme
authority, if they thought it important. He had had nu
communication with Coupes by letter or nice.
Mr. BENIdLTT the.' moved glint Weaver with:lrate,
but be instructed to remain is waiting.—Weaver accordingly
ithdrew,

Mr. DINNETT next stated, that Ise only desired to
detain Weaver till the other parties Pere k.ummuncd, lie
atoved, that Arroastaith. Sion-lett, and llrtuy Cooper be
directed to attend the house lurtheit'a —Motion agreed In,
and suunnun.a tvrre hotted to direct the attendance of the
parties.
Covers o► Jusricr..-81r J. NICVi PORT prefaced his
owlion pith elating, that the motion fur a canonisation to
emptile Tutu tie tees of cowls of jiotica one carried in lel I,
by a majority of uac, lu IS* tM. CitinnisW,Un was iuued I
an t ;sat fur the i uurt of eliNicery dare %ire ton out of ll,u
five holding matte: ,hips in chancery. The cotton...lll4olv
had wade four lepuribt Ihat Was the prodaet of the'r ;41usur..
The evenee• had been coioideruble i the curcomissioder*
receasea 3001.0 yeiLr ; 'Le %thole ranee. 11.4) pr.ont
,e4l would be 40,0001. fur duct Reports and

147

Under all the circumstances he deer ,e 1 it tight to state his
oplimn❑ in a series of resolutions, that they might be placed
au the journals; fur all would admit that it Oral most im-
portant to secure a pure iiiiiiiiiiistratiou of justice. The
resolutf.n• stated the lain:111,00ll —the estent of Ore ;coin ,
ini,sioilers' Labours—their receipt of 36,0001. RS SllariCt
the CUlialllaliCatiall of the Lord Chancellor in receiving the
iepoi t—ltie notices returned by the judges, antiounciu. that
;le reports had not It en officially cominuoicated to them
arid tioally, that the house viewed with regret the slounivs of
the commissioners' progress--the difficulties that had been
throes 11 en their way.
After some further discussion, the house divided on the
re-olution conveying a censure. The numbers were—fur it
58—against it 82.
onouGll I{Etroast.—Lord J. RUSSELL then I.r-ought
iisird his nwto•n respecting the coney( boroughs; and
urging the necessity of reform in the representation,
concluded by moving a series of resolutions, the substauce of
which wiles, that on enquiry it had appeared that bribery and
efirropt practices existed in various boroughs which had
.fatigat into decay, and that it was expedient that the elec.
live franchise should be taken from such boroughs rind trans-
ferred to large towns and populous districts at pre:.•nt Un-
represented; and that a committee al Id be appointed to
enquire into the best mode of carry in..; this plan into effect.
' Mr WHITMORE, although he did not appprove of all
the positions laid down by hi. noble friend in his speech, yet
be fully concurred in the principles of the resolutions, which
he now rose to second.
I ae resolutions were then put, and the gallery was partly
cleared for a division, when
Mr. BATHURST rose, umidsl loud erle..s of " With Ira w "
and " Question," to oppose the resolutions. He had ram
objection to disfranchising offending boroughs ; but the nobles
lord's plan appeared to him to contemplate the disfranchise-
ment of all small boroughs, whether guilty or innocent ; to
this proposition he could tut assent, and therefore should
Oppose the motion.
The gallery was then cleared for a division ; and the
numbers were—Fur Lord John Russell's motion, 124—for
the previous question, Iss—Majority against the motion 31.
The examination of this division was received with loud
' cheers. On being re-admitted to the gallery we found.
Mr. MA BERL Y objecting to the terms on which on ad.
vance of 500,0001. from the Bank of Ireland to government
was to be contracted. Four per cent., he observed, we►e
the ter is; but he contended that the saute or a greater sum
could be obtained in this country fur three per cent. In this
there was a difference of 3.0001. to the country nu the
50),0001.
The CH A NCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER defended the
terms of the advance made by the Batik of Ireland as being
most advantageous to the country.
Mr. flaring and Mr. Calcraft were each of opinion that
the advance could have been more advantageously obtained
in this country. Here the conversation dropped. The
house adjourned.

titttnsnar, MA? 10.
Mr. MONTGOMERY presented a petition nom the county
of Ayr against the Scotch jury Courts Bill.
Mr. ABERCROMBIE said, he was ashamed of these peti-
tions. Would the house believe that the bill was to give in crl.
minal cases what was now the regulation in civil cases t and that
it was supposed to cast a slur on particular individuals?
Sir G. CLERK denied that the bill in Scotland was made the
subject of party. Petition ordered to tic printed.
BREACH OF PRIVILEGE.-Sir R. MARTIN complained of
The Times having misrepresented him and the house. in stating
that there was •• laughter" when he talked of the possibility of •
horse's eye being knocked out, and his sinews injured, without
being able to procure tedress from the journeymen initiating
such mischief. lie cared not—but when he spoke on a serious
subject, it was licentious to state that the house was convulsed
with laughter. Ile moved that the parties be ordered to attend
on Monday.
No person appeared to second the motion. The hon. member
looked round some time ; at last it was seconded by a member
from the lower opposition bench.
Mr. TIERNEY hoped the motion would not be pressed.
inasmuch as it would go to lessen the weight of that authority
which they sometimes felt it right to exert. (Hear, bear
Motion withdrawn.

PRIVILECIETOIIIX BIJLLe...Mr. G. BENNETT moved,
that the Order of the Day be read for the attendance of R. T.
Weaver, H. Cooper, kcc.
I'. Arrowsmith

by Mr. G. BENNETT.

He was not the proprietor of Jahn Ball; he had not been
such since February; he had transferee; it to Mr. Weaver;
he did receive soma money ; he did not set up the paper;
he did not pay NVeaver two guineas a week. He p.sid the tent
of the house ; Weaver
.paid him again; he paid himself
out of the proceeds; sometimes one and sometimes another, paid
the wages; he did not principally pay the wages. His partner,
Shacicell, employed Cooper; Cooper had three guineas a week,
with the understanding that there was to be an advance if the
paper succeeded. He gave up the paper bemuse he could not
superintend it. If there were lass, it tell un hint ;if there were
profits, IVeaver received them all. (A laugh) There was no
written or oral agreement about the trans.er. He transferred it
soon after the commencement of a prosecution. He was content
to abide by the loss; he did nut look fur the profits. \Vetiver
had never accounted for the profits. Tile tram(er was tipitards
of two months ago, Ile did not K 2 the article before it was
printed; it was not customary to save the manuscripts; he did
nut know that it was customary with the newspaper offices to
preserve them. Ile first heard yecerday at tcti that Weaver was
ordered to attend; he saw Weaver, but bad no further coulters
cation on them; he was not present yesterday 1 lie hittl not
heard the examination.
Wm. shackcil called,

Examined by Air BENNETT.—He hail ceased to be a
proprietot in February. a week atter hating the honour of seeing
the hon. member.. (Laughter.) lle gave it up from the dread of
prosecution; there was no remunerati..n Gtr the surrender;
IVeaver was then receiving two pounds a Seek as an overseer;
Weaver rocc,.ved three guineas a week as part of profits for pre :ent
use; he had seen Weaver paid ; he had mmettnies paid him;
he sometimes received the proceeds, sometimes Arrowsmith
received them ; and snmetimm ho received them in trust for
Weaver. (1, laugh.) There were two account ]looks at the office.
He sanctimes taw the manuscripts; lie did not know that he
had seen the manuscript of the etude in queqium, He appointed
Cooper editor t there was no other ("dim ; he was responsible to
W"eitver ; Cooper examined the arths:e—cettainly Alter they were
printed, sumettntea before. If loss had attended the paper, it was
to have fallen un 4r, Weave' ; he shook' have locked to Weaver.
That are haiieted to be also undtrstood by Arrowsn.ith. He
had started t'ae paper; be might almost say lie was the tether of
It. (I,aughser.) lie paid ell the expenves, but out 91 ‘V caw r'e
money. Weaver did not make any payments. tt'eaver had
snineurnta paid Cooper. ‘Veavor had 'weal employed by hint on
Item bad; Nr" toter lied hefure b.. a about t, a office. Ito 16441
t mployed Weaver previously to the transfer on other matter,—
le sometimes lent men to Weaw.r; Weever had not paid him.
its tea; neithet trustee not amen% to Weaver; he was merely a
t; tend to ass are tai tt tooter. He presumed it wee coutama
( Fat taatle.itioa aer p(c 130.)

t4A

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.

NAPLEig, Aram 28.—The Austrians are main
every preparation for a long stay in the country of
their Neapolitan allies. The military direction of
the army is selecting the tioops which are thought
best adapted to bear the climate, and most likely to
accommodate themselves to the habits and manners
of the inhabitants: the rest are sent off to the north►
of Italy. Most of the onieers, and a comiderahlc
portion of the soldiers who now remain, can speak
Italian. As many as cannot find room in the dif-
flTent castles or barracks of the capital are quartered
on the inhabitants for free lodgings only, but are
desired to pay for even• thing that they require.
Their discipline has hitherto been very strict, and,
with few exceptions, has given no cause for civic
complaints. In the meantime the Neapolitan army
is to be entirely dissolved, with the exception of
three regiments of guards; and the Austrians,
while they perform the duty, are to receive the pay
of the disbanded troops. A decree to this effect
will make its appearance in a few days, though no
fiirmal command was necessary to disband troops
already disbanded by their own fears and treachery
of their Chiefs. To pay the Austrian army of oc-
cupation the necessary funds will be raised in a
mode the least calculated to create offence, or even to
excite attention. The word contribution is avoided
as much as possi!.le, and the nominal King and Go-
vernment of Naples will apparently conduct the
finance operations, and hand over the money to their
allies, without seeming to act under their direction.
Yesterday an operation of this kind was concluded
between the Neapolitan Provisional Government
and the houses of Rothschild, Haguerman of Genoa
and Paris, Appelt of Naples, and several other
bankers of less note in this capital. These bankers
have contracted for a loan of six millions of ducats of
capital inscriptions in the great book at five per
cent. The new annual interest for this newly cre-
ated debt of 6,000,000 will of course be 300,000
ducats. The ducat of Naples is about 4 francs and
4,0 cents. For the security of the contractors, and
the liquidation of the debt, the Government has as- I
signed certain domains, the value of which is equal
to the capital advanced, and the rents of which arc
equivalent to the interest to be paid. These are to
be annually sold in the proportion of 5 per cent. on
the amount of the interest or the annuities created,
and thus a fund will be formed for the liquidation
of the capital. The contractors, of course, know
better their own interest than to proclaim imme-
diately at what rate they have concluded the loan,
or, in other words, what money they have advanced
fur the stock created. Report says that they have
contracted tOr it at the rate of 61• per cent, but this
is very unlikely, as the 5 per cents. are now only
62. However this may be, when we consider the
trifling amount of the Neapolitan debt at present
existing, the small proportion which it bears to the
existing revenue, and the guarantee of the Holy
Alliance fur the punctual repayment of' the moneyed
interest who facilitate their operations, we have rea-
son to believe that the contractors have made an
advantageous bargain, and that they will sell their
stock at a considerable premium. I have alluded
to the trifling amount of the Neapolitan debt, and
as the finance accounts submitted to Parliament in
Dezember last are now before me, I may, to save
the trouble of reference, mention what it is.
The consolidated dcbt inscribed in the great book of the king-
dom, conmsts of perpetual rents and pensions or life annlities.—
In ISIS the perpetual rents amounted to 940,000 ducats.
In the course of the List five years they hare
been increased by

Making in July last a total of 1,420,000
Individuals, and three companies of capitalists, possess
;042,930 of this amount; the remainder is the profit of various
public administrations, and of a great number of charitable
establishments which lent their capital to the state.
The amount of pensions in May, 11515, wa5...1,041,121
The addition in the last five years .338,654

Making a total of 1,382,77 s
Of these annuities a portion must be filling in
every year. The suppression of the monasteries,
ivhich created 600,000 for the support of the monks
and the retirement of civil and military officers, is
the cause of this amount. The floating debt would
occasion, if funded, an inscription of about 500,000
u: rents, making the Neapolitan debt in all some-
what more than 3,000,00 of ducats in rents, or
60,000,000 nominal capital, supposing the half ofit
were not as it really is, only life annuities. The
annual revenue of the kingdom, by the same finan-
cial statements, is made to amount to upwards of
20,000,000 ut ducats.
is 1819 it is estimated at. t0.m3,433
And in imto at

The examinee. expenditure exceeded the income
Ly nearly a million.
More than mix millions of the revenue arose from
customs. The interest of the Neapolitan debt is
tiloB only about a seventh of the revenue, ‘vl:ilc2
some countries tlitt might b.f mentioned, it amain is
more than two thints. lint Neapolitan credit is
not tike English ; and the five per cents are at 6Z,
while ours are also .e 100.

Tali NATIONAL REGISTER

DUTCH AND FLINDERS MAIL.
I-lAGuE, MAY 2.—Thc Gila:Ate of this town
cantains the ;.tiotving :—" !t is asserted on
good authority, that a Concordate has been con-
cluded between • the holy See and din Court of
Prnsiia ; and that it ~+ :u signed on the .23d of
March last, by Cardiaal Gcnisaivi and his Highness
Prince liardeiiburg, in the name of their respec-
tive Sovereigns. According to this Concordate the
ancient bishoprics are eAablislied by the government
as well as the chapters and seminaries. The bi-
shopric of Aix-la-Chapelle is suppressed; but there
is to be an archiepiscopal see erected at Cologne.—
The Concordate turther stipulates the free and pub-
lic exercise of the Catholic religion, an unfettered
episcopal jurisdiction, as well as the faculty hav-
ing recourse to the court of Rome."
The news has been received officially by the papal
nuncio at Munich.
Among'the articles of this treaty we observe, that
the Prince of Hohenzollern, bishop of homeland,
who belongs to the royal 14'114 of Prussia, i.. no-
minated archbishop of Cologne ; that the bishops
are to be elected by the chapters, and that the en-
dowments of the bishopric.:, cathedrals, and semi-
naries are to be in landed estates.

BRUSSELS, MAY s.—We read in one of our jour-
nals that Air. Six, late minister of the finances, has
had the noble confidence to tell his majesty, that the
new project of a law on the indirect taxes was as
contrary to the true interests of his majesty as to
to that of his people ; and that Mr. Appelius, the
director-general, has held the ►ame language.

lIEROIC EXPLOIT OF LORD COCHRANE.
Extract of a letter from un officer on board the
United States' frigate Maealuflian, dated Callao,
Nov. 11, 1820:
•' A 1.,.w days since, General San Martin arrived off this place
with obiro troops, convoyed by tour frigates and some smaller
vessels of war, under Admiral Cochrane, having previously made
an ineffectual attempt to penetrate into the interior of
owing to the natural defences which the mountains and defies
afforded to the Spiniard., who in open grounds would be by no
means formidable to their more vigorous enemy. After skewing
this force off this port, the Patriotic General effected a landing
at the small town of Ancon, about ten leagues to the northward
of Lima, where, I understand, he is carrying on the war with
vigour. As gallant and well executed a feat of valour was a I,:w
days perfbrihed by Lord Cochrane, as was ever witnessed. It
was the cutting out of a Spanish frigate, manned by hio sailors,
and 400 artilieiymen, front under several batteries, mounting iu
all in not less than 200 brass pieces of cannon, averaging eighteen
pounder, besides four vessels of war, mounting each twenty
long guns. It was perthrined by right boats, containing each
twenty men, in the following 'waiter:—About hall.past twelve
o'clock, on the night of the 6th instant, his lordship pulled into
the harbour ut the head of his paity,(having previously obtained
the watch word by surprising the guanl-boat) to board the Es-
ser-Oda, of forty guns; himself, with his little son by his side,
being the first man on the deck. Antra bloody conflict of about
halt tin hour, (for the Spaniards taught with desperation) they
succeeded in obtaining possession of the .-par-fleck, and immedi-
ately made sail upon tile ship; the people that were thiven from
off the forecastle into the water having cut her ,nhles, in hopes
that she would drive on shore. The gun and birth decks, how •
ever, as we have since heard, were kept possession of by the
Spaniards for as much as half un hour, upwards of loh men
being killed and as many wounded. As soon as we perceived
that the Esvieruidis was likely to fall tbul of us, we slipt our
moorings and made sail ; the captured frigate keeping wiMin
about too yards of us, and hoisting the same lights that we had
previously put up, in order to make it dubious to the soldier. on
shore which of the two vessels to fire at. This well adapted ruse
dr guerre had the desired effect; for the shot flew shout our
heads, and cut away our cross jack-yard, and a great deal of our
running rigging. After sustaining their tire about a quarter of
an hour, we got out of the reach of their shot."

Private accounts front Constantinople, dated April
2, state, that the Turkish Government were making
extraordinary exertions to frustrate the views of the
insurgents. The prejudices of the populace of Con-
stantinople, and their hatred to the Greeks, had
been successfully worked upon ; and great numbers
of then► were induced to take up arms in defence of
the menaced Crescent. The arming of them led to
much disorder, and cx they were indulged in con-
siderable licence as the reward of their seal, they
regaled themselves plentifully in the punch shops,
deterring payment however, till more peaceable times.
Many persons were stopped and robbed by them in
the street, and they even entered the shops to exact
contributions. These excesses, however, were in a
great degree suppressed ; and our informant says—
" After all, things are better than could have been
expected; and unless the insurgents obtain some
decided success, the worst is, in my opinion, over."
He afterwards adds, " that there is no doubt here
that unless the Greeks succeed in this enterprise,
they will be thrown back forty years at least."
By late accounts from Vienna, we learn that her
Excellency Lady Vane Stewart, the British ambas-
sadres•, was safely delivered, on the 26th of April,
of a tine boy, who is heir to the large estates in the
county of Durham. We are happy to add, that her
excellency and the infant are doing well.
A forgety to the amount, it is said, of 10,0001. on
the Bank, has been discovered, attended with some
very curious circumstances. A person suspected of
being the principal in the business has been in eon-
film:tent ; but in endeavouring. to escape he fell
and broke one of his arms, and otht-ruvise injured
so .unch, that doubts are entertained of his
recovery. •