The National Register.
London, England, 1820-06-04 00:00:00

Mr. Cadogan—" I have not thought proper!
Mr. Birnie-- According to your ewe skewing them
you do not art strictly to the letter of your duty or iss-
structions."
Mr. Cadogen--11 am not accountable to yon Mr. Biroi,
for the moaner in which I chose to perform my dirty,"
Mr. Birisie•—•"l' be information is dismissed ; I will not
proceed open it, and you may seek your remeily."
Mr.Cadogan remonstrated.
Mr. }limit —" You have yone answer Sir."
Here Ow conversation ended, sad Mr. Cadogan left the
office, iniimniilig, that lie should apply to a better Court
upou the subject.

EXCISE COURT.
Mr. James Thomas, a respectable malt salesman and
warehousemen, appeared to complain of the duty en
520 quarters of malt, and to pray for the return of the
duty which had been paid on the same, on the ground
that it had been destroyed by fire.
This being considered as a cue of considerable interest
to Btu malt trade, as well as to others dealing in excise..
able col iiiii oditics liable to casualties, en extra number of
Commissioners sat on the Bench to determine the question. •
It appeared from the statement of a number of wit-
nesses, that 610 quarters of malt were sent from Stratford.
in Essex, to the warehouse of Mr. Thomas, in Shad
Thames' which were entirely destroyed by lire on the
27th of February, on which occasion ism quantities
of grain were deals oyed, and, amongst the rest 520
gumless of malt, which lied been sent front Straithi!cf, ou
which it was proved that a duty of Rhs. per quarter had
been paid, and of which the complainant now prayed the
return. _ _ _ .

Mr. Mayo, the Solicitor of the Excise, contended, that
it was a principle uniformly decided and acted apse by
the Eicisr.that whenever the original article OHS reduced
in value, for instance, tour Milts, then foul-Ohs of the
duty .Isould be returned, and nut jibe full INllO.llli of the
duty %kith lied been paid upon it.
Alter some discussion among the Coniamissionets, the
Court adjudged that the whole of the duty which had
been paid on the article, proved to have been destroyed
should be returned. The amount of the duty was stated •
at 79181.

RIOT AT DOVKR.—(I► Wednesday the Lively cutter
captured a smuggling galley, having on board 57 half-
ankers of spirits, and 37 bags of tea, which, with the
crew, consisting of eleven persons, were lands d at Dover.
and ten of them being found fit for the navy, ►lse whole
were committed to gaol until the ten could be removed
to some of his Majesty's receiving ships. Friday 11)0/11. •
ing was fixed for the removal of the ten fit to serve-,. but
it being thought, from the vast influx of ill-lookingnien
into the town, that a rescue would be attempted, every
precaution was taken by the Mayor and Magistrates to
guard against it, by having a body of constables, the
seamen belonging to the preventive service,attil a detach-
ment military, drawn up both in and outside the gaol.
The time of removal was twelve o'clock., but tiO46S hosirs
before that a large body of people had collected together,
which coutinued increasing every tontine, and at the •
the men were about to be brought out, several
hundreds were collected in front and at esery avenue
leading to the gaol, with every disp/srtiou to riot and
rescue. The worthy Mayor, Sir Thomas Mainell, Ent.
and Edward Thompson, Esq. a brother magistrate, at-
tended as the gaol, and gave strict injunctions to the
constables to keep the peace, and to the seamen and
military twt to charge unless absolutely driven to do Iv)
in self-deience. The door of the prison was opened,
and the smugglers just upon the point 01 being brought
out, when a general shout was Set ul► by the crowd. of
" Liberty for ever!" and a number of at brick bats,
&c. were thrown at them. The aspect of affairs at this
time became so serious, that the Mayor directed the
removal of the prisoners to be suspended lor the present;
and it was fortunate he did, for there is little doubt that
much bloodshed, and even murder, would have towed
in the attempt to rescue. A deputation officer was
wounded severely in the head by a blow from a large
stone ; and Mr. Thompson, the magistrate, received a
coutitsiou 011 two of the fingers of his right hand, from a• -
inissile. The mob, being foiled in their attempt to res.
cue the prisoners, proceeded to inalier acts of violence;
and, notwitlistanditig the Riot Act was 1 %vice 'cad front
the gaol window lay the Mayor, constateite,tl all attack
on the gaol, with crow-bars, pickaxes, 11:111§111eri, saws,
&c &c.; unroofed the top, and threw part of the side-
wal4 down, and not only released the w hula of the eleven
smugglers, but seat ral tithe' prisoners confined iii the
gaol snider sentence; and they silt-cc:Med 111 ge►ting them
cleat off, the imposiuxuulalierrret the b sintinidazing
the peace-officers and Oaten frosts acting One of the
persons most active in the rim was takett, and placed in
chaise wuh two constables, to be conveyed to Canterbury
gaol; but a mob collected at the end 01 tile town, stop-
ptd the chaise, 41ragArd the rioter and constables our,
and, notwithstanding the former was handcuffed to the
latter, the mob threw the constables on the Around, au I
its eriiig the handcuff with :t colt chisel. released toe
1111 cr. Since the release of the witig.Alerb, who all be-
long to Fulkstotie, the crowd has dispersed, tlit;
WWI/ rcuwuts 116111+11i.

DISPLTE UPON Tier DERET RACE.—'rhere is much
relative to which V/AN 1111. MAI tisvointle at
starting, litudiurte or Sailor. Malty krasy bets wive
pentliaq that Pisidariie would rusittour to be the till&
laYOllll ft at StalllllC, allit it wits ettlilithiieti ellat he MAA,
1111,111110. Ste Wattle have Made I NI) ill lIICIICI/dar,
placing the odds against lulu at 3 to 2, Mon 3.1,, 1 Ilion'.'
Stalin, mild this decision should be vonelist•i%e. . 1.4,41111-
(1.61 e tidily bucked Sailor just helot e starting, but ye:
Pnidaltic had the turn. 't he Joshes Clusb Will, it is
make another ticeiSioo, whirls will he final.
Thursday LSI, a Chilli, lical ihletl%CarS l>l age,
sots to Mr. NVilkiiis, Icihuuncrr, ui Ittissill t•ireirt.
Southwark, tsar. accidentally drowned in uric of it
finite pits in the dart, he hating on: tr.t at the back
0031 of his house, ‘viiich opened into the %all, wiper.
trivet! by his mother. This is the third of this.
kind that h.is baiiinaieJ Li that utii.hbourhocd within.
these two inc:iths.