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

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BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.

C. Buck, Sun Yard, East Smith&ld, vietualter. from Dee. 6,
to Jan. 22.

BANKRUPTCY SePRRSEDED.
W. 1.. Chilly: o,)_ivetpool, cotton initaufactutcr.
RA NKRUPTn.
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J. Flttcher, Ripley. Derby, dealer. Solicitors, Messri... Few,
Ashmore, and Hamilton. Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.
It. llolmcs, Northampton, grocer. Sol. Mr. Jeyel, Chancery
Lane. . _ _ . . . .. • _ _

A. Aslat, Church Street, T.atr.beth, victualler. So). Mr.
llenson&llouverie Strwt. Fleet Street.
W. siltith, New Howl, St. Pancras, builder. Sol. Mr. Satin.
ders, Charlotte Street. Fitzroy Square.
.1. Janeey, Liverpool, goldmuitli. Sols. Messra Blacklockand
Bunco. Temple.
J. Bate, Hhilcyy, Stain!. millnright. Suls. 'Messrs. l'rice,
V, lliams, iniiiANbitL. Lincoln's Inn. _ _ _

A. Bruce, New castle upon Tync, merchant Sole. Messrs.
alesars. Marriott, Bronitsbank, and Earn. Gay's Inn Square.
J. Wood mot; Gun Street. 014 Artillery Ground, turner. Soh.
slessrs. Collins and Waller. Spital Square.
H. Cullen, itua,ia How, Milk Street, factor. Sol. Mr. Pullen,
Fore street, Cripplegate.
DIVIDENDS.

l)ec. 18, S. Moline, lliniterl7.;ne,rnerchant-111, J. Peel, C.
Harding, and W. Willoek, Fareley, Strafford, cotton spinners--
28, J. Harper, Fleet Stn-ei, bookseller.—/9, W. Middleton,
Liverpool, merchant-29. 'T. Hadley, Biainingliarni marenant.—.
2n, 0. W. and G. liinell. Long Acre „oilmen-2s, C. If.. Jones.i'
Kentish Tou n, tanner-2!", J. HarriOon Spring Gardens, tailor
—IN, C. iii,hop, High Street, Soutima, liiwn draper—Ye, J.
D. Gregory, Crown Street, Fin,bury Square, silk manufacturer
_...t0, W. S. Mason, Colehestcr, grocer-98. W. •Wllli#llls.
Anirn Corn..r, bookrtlicr—Wt, J. G. Nichols' Moulsey, gOrrer,
inerdnint--2•1, T. Sowcrby, New H0,...‘. ":rest, roilliner....ett, C.
Prstikerd, St. 11,ilii. and Jacob, r,io.iri-tershire, tanner—Jan.
' ). It. Walker, Great Giinisby tii.robr, boat builder A.
Knight,Wilson Strtrt, MoorEeldg. ealenderer-6, F. •
Ath
'Tiverton. SomeisetPile, clothier-L.lB, T. Wheeidon, y,
item founder. :•_

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CERTIFICATS to be nted Dec. 8.
T. Prichard, jun. kli.stol,F merchant—J. Iforino2nd,
Lancashire, bleacher—R. Miller, Old Fish Street, bookseller—.
T. :Hatthcws, Frith Street, Soho, stationete-H. Cardwell, ls.jsam
shelf Rank Mill, Yorkshire, thread manufacturer—S. White
Turnham Green, elem /Her—G. Beattie, S.elford, Lancashire,
dyer—C. Hodgkin, Bishopsgate Street Within, mereLant-..
I. Yate, Worcester, leather saacr—W. Mott, jun. Turbridze.
Wells, cheesemorger.

HIGH 'TREASON.
PussToN, Dec. 4.—On l'hursday last, Henry
Walden, tvlieelwright, Thomas Austin, shoemaker,-
George De a hurst, reed maker, William Fletcher,
tailor, and John Adamson, taslor, were brought to
the House of Correction,in this town, in three post.
chaiscs, escorted by a party of the 7th Dragoon
Guards under Cornet Stephenny. They were ap.
prehentled on Wednesday night, or early on Th u
day morning, bind brought before the Rev. 'l'. I).
Whitaker, L L.D. and .Joseph Fieltlem Esq. at
Blackburn. Walkden and Austin stand charged
with having " imagined, -ilayissAl, or intended to
levy war against his Majesty, within this realm
and ..itb having, it. 4 n•dt* h.. the execution of suhc
devices 'or intentions, divers pikes and 'ether offers.
sive weapons and arms, atop divers traitorous unit IQ..
(11600 boks, papers, letters, and writings, ••••ate.ded
in their dwelling houses. out-houses, and prein7.ste
therennto belonging, within liladttrnrrt." The
other three prison' rs, Dewhurst, Fletcher, and
Adamson, are charged with having " on the 15th
of November last, .at Aberghaut Eaves, near Bti.rn.
ley traitorously conspired aml
with o; her wielscd and traitott w. persons,
te the number of ten thousand .and -upwards, and in
pursuance of the said traitorous con‘piracy, and at
the time and .place alowastrid, with having armed
themselves with divers pikes, pistols, dubs, staves,
andother offensive weis2onsounl with having thereby
then and there levild war :.gainet the King, ot 'order,
by force and cousin:int, to compel WA Laid Majesty
to change his me surfs and Council:vat:3N to niti.
midate and overawe he ..Flouttesext'fk Parliament."
Upon it:vie charges t3e P.11.;0,..et0qe prespa_
remanded for a fiirther heating, Atilieh is eirected.
to take place this day.
Dewhirst, Fletcher, and Adamson, were fully
committed last night on the charge of High Trcascn.
Mr. Knight, of Manchester, has also been committed
under the same charge. Walkden a;(1 Austin are
are to be re-ctmveyed to Blackburn this afternoon.
where they will be. allowed to give bail to aaswel•
for a misdemeanour.

THE KING'S HEALTH.—TLC Duko of York's
Council was on Saturday attended, at Windsor; t'y
eleven of the distinguished. personages out of the
-twelve appointed by Parliament, viz. by the Arch.
bislidp of CanttTburv, the Bishop ot.Loadon; the
Duke of Montrose, Chancellor, Lords Ar.
den, Winchelsea, Macclesfield, Hcnicy, Camden,
and St. Helen's. and Sir William Grant. His Ma-
jesty, it appeared, was indisposed two days, whicl.
occasioned the meeting of the Council a fortnightN,,,
at Lambeth Palace. The nature of the King's ir..
disposition is not statect, bajova believe it was
bowel coMPlaintiwhich. miss& wuch alarm. Tho
alarm, fortintate4.- has been assipated by tbi: co: •
lowiug •
WlNDenft etf!nts 'nee. 4.
lit.Nfaje,iy'E disorder has ontlergorte no atter:don. Hi. Ma-
jesty indisposed for two days, a fortnivlt since. bat hes now
his
regivricii his ordinary bodilj 1aa4,11.-whielt is good, ants:thrive
groat aott‘
k H. HALFORD, J. WILLIS,
"..i..414114' M. HAILLIII. 11. WILLIS. •
W. lIIIHEIMEN,

.'.zest se";—etttit eight days, the vicissitudes
..as--r hue been remarkable. On Wednesday,
b•Oribe4". • week, at S o'clt‘ral; 111 the morning, the ther-
,,,,,, ior had sunk seetit degrees below the freezing
point ; on Monday, at the same hour, it Stood at fifty.
and by two o'clock that day, it hail risen to fifty-three;
and, on Tuesday at ten o'clock, it attained the mean
temperature of the whole year; or fifty-tire.
.Last week as a servant-titan of-Mr. Gibson, farmer, of
named George Blirtr.r., was drawing a chant(
from a gun with which he had. been tlestaoytios biro,
it unfortunately went Mt, when the whole of the cor. •
tents passed through his bridy, and caused his immediati.
deal IL

FlRE.—Between 4esen and twelve o'clirek on
Thursday night, as the watchman was going his
rounds, he discovered a fire issuing front the
manufactory of Mr. James Twede, cabinet maker,
Rosemary Lane ; he splmag his rift.* and gave
tile alarm,. the noNltliours all assembled, and
rendered all posgaile assistance ; yet fraig tie
quantity of timber which it csntaiti ed the fire had
gained such an Ascendancy, that nttempia to
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extinguish the flanies we,se nictlOual. Severn'
engines arrived, and being supplied with plenty at'
water, confined the fire to the manuftetory, whi,•l
was entirely burnt dowa, The dwelling-house
and thoi-e adjacent were fortunatelypreserved. •
lire Cit tAttittornies dll. we.e,
.oh Vl' tliiesday, actively en:44ot in 4V:111461)g for pikes
iu Caldewpite, in annstptenee of a story having ,
al,road, that sonic handryds of these plapons had
secretly conveyed thither. The scarelf was fruidess7;

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DEC. la

LAW .lIEP9RTS.
COURT OF KlNG's BENCH,

AT.LtAiEII) LISKI....—MACIRONZ V. MURRAY.
r• iiret-o-. ...maM • N
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4r •••i
• • • olaintilf, an officer in
1 0 moo
the and son of a merchant in the city, against :he
defendant, to recover damages, for a malicious libel
published in the Quarterly Review, No. 38.'
The plaintiff, it appeared. was in Paris when the
txpiikion of Murat front the throne of Naples was
decreed by the European Powers. The plaintiff on
that occasion was sent by the Allied Sovereigns in quality
of Envoy, to itegociatc with Murat for his surrender of
the throne. He was instructed by Prince Metternich
to offer hint d passport, with liberty to proceed to any
put of the Austrian dominions. Murat refused in give
up hie claim, rejected the terms offered, and was pre-
paring to co 11111 l etice hostilities in Calabria. The
plaintiff delivered the passport to Murat, not withstandini4
reiu,al to Accede to the terms 'imposed ; and soon
after gave information to Capt. Baster, the British
officer on the Naples station, to enable him to inter-
cept him, in his way to Calabria. The inforntition,
however, came too late, and Nlitrat was not detained.—
The plaintiff some lime after published an account of
the transaction, in a book which was examined in the
Quarterly Review. The article charged hint with
treachery, high treason, and intimated that he teterved
an ignominious death.
Mr. Bell, in supliort of the plaintiff's case, contended
that his client was enti.led to large damages.
The defendant pleaded a iiititication.
The only evidence was the two boolsa.
Time Solicitor General made an appeal to the Jury
in behalf of the daendant, contending that the illegal
libel was afair comment on the acts of the plaintiff, as
detailed by himself.
The Lord Chief Justice left the Jury to say whether
the defendant hail published a fair continent or not.
The Jury without the least hesitation, found a verdict
for the defendant.
The Duke of Wellington sat on the Bench doming the
ti;,il.

WRIGHT v. CLEMENT.
This action was brought by Mr. Wright, the well-
known agent of Cohbett, against the defendant a
publisher, in the Strand, to recover a compensation in.
damages for an injury alleged to have been. sustained by
the publication alt false and malicious libels in Cobbett's
W,!ekly Political Register The first libel was sold by
the defetidstit oit the Bth of March last, at his shop in
the Strand. It referred to a letter signed W. Cobbett,
which had appeared " the Times," and intimated
that the said letter had been cumin ttttt cated by a vile
wretch. It also threatened to hold him up to the horror
of mankind.
The above, in toe opinion of Mr. Hansard, who had
known Wright and Cobbett, applied to the plaintiff.—
The semi i libel contained a charge 0 forging a letter,
supposed to have beett written by Cohhett, of being a
Spy, and causing the death of a man. Mr. Hansard
proved mat the letter was in the. hand writing tit
Wrn. ()dawn. It was written in. the 10th Ire May,
1808, front Hoary.
John Paul, alto wasemployed iu Hit I to investigate
the accounts between Wright and Cotilieu I, knew the
letter to tie tile liana writing of Coitheii.
A Mr. Jtckson also &posed that at was Cobbett's
hand writing. 'Fite letter in 1411eSt14/11 was prod' ced
at the Hustings, Covent Garden ; also at a Meeting
held at the Crown and Anchor, and stated to be a
forgery.
Mr. Scarlett, for the plaintiff, dtserthed this to be a
foul attempt to deprWe a respectable person of his gurnl
to justification Has atteuipietl, and he called
upon tale jury ear gate all the naina,n.s laid to the decla-
ration, namely, 50001.
Mr. Adolphus, tor the oeiendant, called witnesses to
prove that Mr. CI, mem a teonlers to his servants not
to sell Conbetes Retosters.
The Jury, tinder all circumstances, found a verdict
for the plinitiff—annages boo!.