The National Register.
London, England, 1820-12-03 00:00:00

BANK RUPTS._

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W. Moore, Thorpe Con,tuttitie, Sutra,Mire. cheese factor.
Solicitors, Messrs. Alexander and Mime. New Inn.
S. T. Foote, Exeter, spirit dealer. Sol. Mr. Hrutton, Old
Broad Street.
J. Hutchinson, Manchester, builder. Sops. Messrs. Hurd
and. Johnson, Temple.
t Bickerd ke, 11 addersfield, victualler. Sole. Messrs. Fisher
and Sudlow, Thavies Inn.
A. ShuttlaworM and G. Robinson, Lincoln, boat builders.
Sol. Mr. Ellis, Chancery lane.
J. Allen, Warwick, innkeeper. Sol Messrs. Collett end C
Chancery Lane.
W. Lankesliter, Wahl:it, Somerset, victualler. Sol. Mr.
Stephen. New Broad Street Buildings.
E. Phillip. Narberth, Pembrokeshire, linen draper. Sols.
Messrs. Jenkins and Co. New Inn.
3. Holmes, Portsmouth, corn merclumr. Sol. Mr. Pownall,
Staple Inn.
J. Iladnedge, Rathwick, Somerset, dairymen. Sids. Messrs.
Noting and Hughes, Nliklred's Court, Poultry.
H. Burgess and J. Hubbard. Miles lane, Cannon Street,
'wool:rapiers. Sots. Stevens and Co. (lid Jewry.
S. W i sem lan, J. Harper, and T. Foyson. Not v. ich. bornbaz can
manufacturers. Soh. Messrs Taylor :.nd Roscoe, Temple.
N. l'ickels, Colne, Lancashire, grocer. Sol. Mr. Edmunds,
Lincoln's Inn.
S. and M. Nichols, New Woodstock, Oxfouishire, milliners.
Alessrs. Lowden and Fielder, Clement's inn.
J. 11. Arnett, Smith Square. Westminver, coal merchant.
Sols. Messr;. Claiton and tarter, High Street, Borough.
S. Rogers, Gutter Lane, Cheapside, hosier. Sols. Messrs.
Baxter and Bowker, Gray's Inn Place.
W. Simpson, Coppice How, Clerkenwell, japan manufacturer.
Sol. Mr. Phipps, Vs caver's Hall, Basingliail St..ect.
C. liiiiikworth, Bath, victualler. Sul. Mr. Makinson, Middle
Temple.
J. Iliekes, Leeds, linen dearer. Sol. Mr. Makinson, Temple,
J. Bromley, Circus.street, New-road, Many-le•bone, iron•
monger. Sols. Messrs. Knight and Freeman, Basinghall Street.
DIVIDENDS.
Dec. 23, D. Smith and J. Hampshire, Kirkbnrton, York,
satibliling millers-23, A. G. Mingay, Kingston upon Thames,
Surrey, iranmonk•er-3, J. Lomas, Fetter Lane. tavern keeper
.-30, .1. and 11. Watson. Friday Street.Clizapside,warehoweinen
—3O, A. Ilendy, Gower Street. Beilhird Square. builder-23, E.
and C. Hill, and A. if. Althans, Union Row, Little 'lower Hill,
corn factors-2.3, C. 'Milli.ouse, Sleatind, Lincoln, stationer—'23.,
W. 11. Vander Kieft, High Holborn, oil merchant-23, J.
Fitzgerald, Narrow Wall, Lambeth, timber merchant-22, L.
Hollis, tlirmingliam, victualler-23, H. Malcom, Ashbourne,
Ashbournc, Derby, tea dealer-23, W. Chawnan, Gravesend,
baker-23. 'l'. Kent, Lonthin Street, Rah:line, mealman-16,
J. W. A. Snuggs and .1. Walley, Lime Street, merchants-23,
D. Freeman, W. Sykes, and J. Freeman, Bermondsey, leathur
factors-16, 3. Gomm, Buckland Common, Bucks, timber
merchant—iG, A. Spear, Basingliall Street, merchant—if), T.
West, Grucechurch Street, whole,ale perfumer-21i, C. Poole,
C E Pal FICATES to be granted Dec. 23.
H. Hooper, Bristol, merchant.—W. Bushell, Aldersgate
Street, wholesale jeweller—J. Field, Newgare Market, butcher
—B. Tupling, Strand, jeweller—J. Catlogan, Water Street,
Strand, carpenter—C. M. King, Upper East Smithfield. wine
merchant—J. Eliackara, Maltby, York, millwright—G. Hamil-
ton and .1. Savors, Queen Street, Cheapside, warehouteman—T.
H. Suit:ll, Chancery Lane, tailor—lt. Sheppard, Huston, Liu •
cola, tailor.

PRICE OF STOCK'S.
Rank Stork 219 i Otunium b.
3 per Cent. Red. G 9 I Imp. 3 per Cent.
3 per Cent. Consols 693 India Bonds 25.
3 per Cent. 7t31 India ..t: 4291
4 per Coot. 84ifj Exchequer Bin. Ss. dis.
5 per Cent. Navy 1051 Cutts. for Ac. 703
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SUNDAY, DECENIBER 3.

On Wednesday last London exactly resembled a
besieged town—Cannon had been brought from
Woolwich sufficient to lay it in ruins, if it had been
ten times as extensive as it is : Horse Guards, Dra-
geens,Lancers, and Foot Soldiers of every description
turrounded it in numbers sufficient to have achieved
another battle of Waterloo ; and for what were all
these warlike preparations made ?—was it with the
view of protection to the Queen during her progress
to St. Paul's ? she was confidently safe
in the attachment of her sympathizing subjects. The
really Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, deter.
animal to preserve the peace of the City, and knowing
that the emuloyment of the sabre and bayonet is in
England the least likely to effect such a purpose,
prohibited the entrance of a single soldier during the
day. We venture to assert, that if the peace had been
broken in any of the environs of the Metropolis, the
outrage would have owed its origin to that ill-timed
display, equally in our opinion unnecessary and tin.
constitutional. Are Englishmen so lost to their
accustomed respect fir the laws as to need being
dragooa:c•.l into otellience on the occasion of their
Queen's attending at the Metropolitan Cathedral, to
return thanks for her deliverance from what History
will declare to have Len the foulest conspiracy
that ever was defeated ?

It is reported that Ministers have resigned, and
that Lord Granville had received the cemniaas of

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the King on Saturday last to I:repare a list of a new
Administration. The cllang:,, however, it is cx-
. pected, will be partial, and that, Clough Ministers
had tendered their resignation, some of them will
be retained. It is rumoured that Lord Grenville
will succeed the Earl of Liverpool as First Lard of
the Treasury ; that Lord Lauderdale will succeed
Mr. Canning as President of the Board of Controul,
and that the Marquis of Buckingham will succeed
Lord Melville as First Lord of the Admiralty. The
sudden return of his Majesty to town from Windsor
on Monday last, it is said, was occasioned by the in-
tended changes, the particular:, of which have not
yet transpired. We know that EARL SPetsecrt, at
the command of his Majesty, had an audience of
him on Tuesday, and was closetted with his Ma-
esty for an hour and a half.

By our Law Report it will be seen, that in the
Court of King's Bench on Monday, the rule for a
new trial in Sir Francis Burdett's case was dis-
charged, dissenliente Mr. Justice Bayley. The
arguments of the Judges who supported Mr. Justice
Best's doctrines consisted of a tissne of legal cob-
webs, which were swept away by the plain and
sound reasoning of Mr. Justice Bayley. Any further
proceeding against the Honourable Baronet will, of
course, be dropped. The Law Officers of the Crown
have, 'on this occasion, received a signal defeat, to
he satisfaction of men of all parties who value trial
by Jury. Leicestershire was. selected as the venue
in this case, with a view to the Jury ; the indepen-
dence and intelligence of a Jury taken from Middle-
sex were considered unpropitious fur the purposes of
the prosecution. The transactions of the 16th of
August at Manchester were known to have made a
different impression in the most enlightened county
in the kingdom, from that which existed among the
persons usually serving on Special Juries in Leices-
tershire. The act of publication took place only in
Middlesex. It is mere quibbling to compare [the
publication of a libel with the publicaion of a will,
or any other private instrument. The term, as
applied to those instruments, is an absurd one, and
can furnish no analogy. It is the communicating
offensive mutter that constitutes the crime of libel.
No man of common sense (all technical jargon apart)
can say, that a libel is published until it has been
proved to have been seen by somebody.

• A letter from Messina, dated the ~Ist of October,
says that tranquillity is perceptibly re-establishing
in the interior of Sicily. •

On the 2d of November Morelli was elected Pre-
sident of the Neapolitan Parliament, Rvg:ero Vice
President, and Dragonetti Seeretary.—The Deputy,
Mazzoni, made a motion for the suppression of the
religious orders:. that their property should be
divided into small parts, and the produce applied to
objects of public utility. A report was read from
the Minister of the Interior, for abolishing feudal
rights in Sicily, and sent to a committee.

On Wednesday night an attempt was made to
murder the Duke Deems, Ex-Minister of Marine.
The Duke retired to bed about twelve o'clock ;
shortly afterwards he was blown out upon the floor
by an explosion of gunpowder under the mattresses'
a second detonation sacceeded in a few ',mild:4, and
the room was in a flame. The Duke called his va-
let, who Slept in an adjoining cabinet; the latter
answer.al, " I am lost," and instantly jumpsd from
the window into the street,. u licii;ht of firty feet;
his shrieks brought the sentinels to the spot, to whom
he declared that Flom e villains had thrown him out
of the window. The Duke made his way oukof the
apartment, and medical aid wi.s immediately pro-
cured; it was found that he bed the right thigh and
arm much burnt. He continues in a suffering state,
to the great affliction of the Duchess and his young
daughter, but no fears arc entertained for his life.
The firemen, on examining; the apartment, thund
that several pounds of powder had been deposited
between the mattresses, and ignited by means of a
train which led under the door. Every thing ap-
peared to justify the suspicion, that the valet was
the author of this horrible design, particularly when
it was discovered that Bank bills had been taken
from the Duke's writing.desk to the amount of
9.000 He hes since died in the hospital of 1
the injury which he received by his fill from the
window.

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