The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-06 00:00:00

NOTES OF OCCASIONAL FAIKEIIOLDERS.

A BILL TO enr,vsteT OCCASIONAL FREEHOLDER,. reoia•
VOTING IN THE ELECTIONS OF MEMBERS To. sleet IN
' PARLIAMENT, THE BOROUGHS IN ENGLAND AND MALES.
Whereas it frequently happens in towns, and borough*,
whe4 the right of election of members to serve in • parliament,
is in pandits having a right to vote for or in respect of lands,
tenements, trylierh'ilaments within the same, and much trouble,
expence, an Ligation is created by occasional voters, to the
great prejudice of the bona fide freeholders and other real
voters, to whom the right of sending members to parlietereat
justly belongs-.
And whereas it is reasonable and proper that provision
ahoald be made for the due election of members to serve In
parliament for such towel' and boroughs in that part of Great
Britain called England, and the domieiun of Wales, in which
persons have a right to vote fur electing such members, for in •
respect of freehold lands, houses, tenements, or heredl"--
within the same.

The first Clause then proceeds to enact, that every person de-
manding to vote for the election of a member, shall take tbe
following oath. instead of that prescribed by 23 Gen. M.:—
" You swear (or, being a quaker, you solemnly affirm), that*
yon have a freehold estate, consisting of (specifying the eaters
of adch freehold estate, whether no sssss ge, lend, rent, tithe, or
orliat else ; and if such freehold estate consists in menagerie.
lands, rents, or tithes', or what else, then specifying in whose-
occupation the same are; and if rent, then specifying the
names of the owners or possessors of the lands ur tenements
out of which such rent is issuing, or some or one of there)
lying or being io the town (or berongb, as the case may be),
and that you have been in the possession or in the receipt of the
rents and profits thereof, for your own use, above
calendar months (or, that the same came to you-within the time
aforesaid, by desoent, marriage, marriage settlement, devise or
promotion to a benefice in a church, or by promotion to an
office), and that such freehold estate has not heen ranted or
made.° you fraudulently on purpose to qualify you to give
your vote; and that the place of your abode is at
in and that you are twenty-one years.
as you believe, and that you have not been palled before at this
election.
The second clause provides for the punishment of those who
take the oath falsely, by making them amenable to the sots
, against perjury of r, Eliz.—and 2 Geo. 11.
The third clause enacts, that if any one shall vote wit' out the
legal qualifications in the town or borough, he shall forfeit to •
the candidate for whom his vote shall net have been given a•
certain stun, to be recovered by the said candidate by action of
debt, in any court of recoil.
The fourth clause provided, that 'public) or pareehiel taxes,
payable out o; freeholders, shell not entitle to vote.
The fifth clause provides, that in action of debt given by this-
Rot, it shell be sufficient for the plaintiff to set forth in his de-
claration the particular offence.
The aisle clause enacts, that all the statutes of jeofails and•
amendments shall extend to actions allowed by this act.
The seventh clause provides, that in any action given by thin
act, the defendant shall recover costs in oases of weassitil.
The eighth clause provides that, no part of the at.t shad ave
tend to burger tenures.

The very extensive and beautiful spinning-mane►
factury of M. Mourgue, in the department of
Somme, in France, was lately burnt to the ground.
The proprietor sustains a loss of 400,000 franss
(16,0001. sterling) ; but the heavier distress is--
400 families of workmen are at once plunged into
a state of mendicity.
There were less woodcocks emigrated to Enghmd
last winter than for several years past, which is thus
accounted tier. It seems their eggs are becoming $
great luxury in Sweden, and the peasants oflbr thews
tor sale in great quantities in the market at Stock.
holm.

BAR7IIQUAKES IN BTRI4I.
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SVEDIA, WEAR ANTIOSH, NOV. 29.1921.
*" Since the 18th of lest month, few days have passed without
•one, and Oita several shooks of au earthquake, but generally
with much diminished violence. kVith the exception of an
intermission now and Wen of a few days, earthquakes have
been felt here for nearly four months. A remarkable eircous-
stance in this phenomena is, that the slightest shocks have
been alstrays simultaneously felt at Antioch and Aleppo, as
wen as the principal shock which threw down those cities.—
Tbe distance is about 60 miles ; the focus or central point must
therefore be at an inconceivable depth in the bowels of the
globe, to affect equally two places su far from each other. As
soon as the excessive heats of September had abated, I was
preparing to return to Aleppo, when my journey was postponed
by the apprehension then entertained of the chains aserbsts being
Added to the dresdful oelantity of the earthquakes ; that con-
tagious disorder having successively passed from town to town,
from Persia to Orli, a city in Mesepotamia, three days' journey
from Aleppo. To-day I have been informed that hopes cam
no longer be entertained of its non existence at Aleppo ; that
the Austrian, Neapolitan, Danish, and Swedish agents Wm
spitted the city with their families and numerous depot:dada,
to go into the neighbouring PaCtiallio of Damascus an.. Saida ;
and that the Preach acid Spanish Consuls, with all the other
‘Kuropeans, have eel off all moninuaicetion with the people, as
in time of plague."
. .• DEC. 31.—When I wrote on the 29th of 11'4 moath the
shilera worlms had compelled moat of the public agents at
Aleppo to quit the environs of that city, and the rest of the
-Suropeans to s ut their doors, as in time of plague ; but it was
hoped the approach of cold weather would prevent the progress
of the disease. 1 have now the pleasure to inform you, that the
hope has been realized, and that the cholera ftsorbue is no longer
one of the evils to which this aulteppy people is • exposed ;
although some are not without the apprehension, that, like the
plague, although now stopped by the cold, 4t may break eat
again with the return of the warm season. On the other hand
•1 sin sorry to say, that severe sbocke of earthqnakes were felt
on the 12th, 22d, and 24th inst., preceded and followed by
*hocks of lesser violence, *bleb obliges even those who have
bad the means of building more substantial dwellings, to bear
We inclemency of this season in temporary huts, with roofs
supported by stakes."

LOSE OF THE ALERT PACKET.

A letter received in town states, that the vessel struck
at ten o'clock on Wednesday morning, on the Wed
Noose Rock, about a 'ride and a half from the shore;
• she was then drifting wish the tide, at the rate of ten
knots an hour; when approaching the rock, the men
were put into the boat to tow her oil; but to no effect--
she struck and went down in about three quarters of an
• hour. In the mean time Moe of the deck passengers,
and one cabin passenger (a 'Liverpool watchmaker),
leaped from the bowsprit into the bon. The captain
leaped overboard, and was lashed to its Wm. They
• were landed 10 miles nearer to Liverpool than Holy-
head. Out excellent friend Hine, who was in the cabin
when the %curl struck, of on the deck, and was the
only one (except Mr. hl'Kettaie, who escaped) who
retained his sell-possession. He continued in the packet
while any hopes remained, throwing out buckets of
water, end was seen afterwards attached to a aye of
eggs, in the water, by a deck passenger, who was on
the saute crate. He remained clinging to it for er out
15 mihutes' and exclaiming aloud, Oh, Gad ! is there
tio hope of relief t" At the expiration of a quarter of
an hour he let go t.is hold and sunk to rise no more.--
The man who was on the crate with him says, he did
not seem completely exhausted at the time. lit ten
minutes after our dear friend went down, the boat that
rescued MtKensie and the two deck passengers, reached
• the (Tate."
No trace•bas been discovered of Mr. Hore's
The gentleman who wentao Holyhead., travelled above
ten miles *Wog the shore, and lett en accura-e descrip-
tion of his person to every respectable individual along
the line. -If his remains should be washed ashore, a
communication will be immediately made to his friends
its Dublin, to whom it would be some cotwolation to
recover and pay the last sad duties to his atonal remains.
No bodies were found after the .first day. The boats
front Holyhead picked tip tit bodies, all deck passengers,
except three, viz..-.• 4 grutleivan wpm had a bull in his
pocket, drawn by Messrs. Ferrier and Pollocks, Dublin,
end supposed to be Mr. W. Martin's nephew, a lady
who had letters in her poaket, directed Mrs. Reid, at
hlr.A!ilet Nl4Kenny'4, and a lady, name 'alkaline'r,
'with a child at her breast.
It is consolatory to be enabled to state, 'that Mr.
Dowtou was not on board that vessel. 'Chat student:to
sailed by the Holyhead packet, on Wednesday.
We can also state, on theebest authority, that Mr.
Grote, the gentleman who is ;Dentition, in an evening
paper to have left the Hibernian Hotel for Liverpool,
did not sill in that ill.faterl vessel, although his :same
was booked, Mr. Coots having been prevailed upon to
change his route,-which he accordingly did. and left,
the above hotel fur Holyhead. We, tnerefore, hasten
to couarad.ct the report of his being ono of the tiitheppy
buffeters. and to relieve the minds of that gentleman's
friends.
Mr. Benson, of Bacitelues-walk, is another person
who was fliiird lo here sailed in the packet--we are
authorised to say, he had not. He also, fortunately,
went by the liead.—.o4!in Pupet.
•

•The body of the late Earl of St. Vincent was privately in.
-tamed, precisely at four o'clock, on Wednesday anernoon,
Mareh 26114 in the family vault at Moe°. The following is en
Aos.A tA copy of the inscription (in English) upon the anperb
ouillu, which is covered with scarlet velvet
JOHN, EARL OF ST. VINCENT,
Visoonnt St. Vincent, Ram Jervis,
Of Aleaford,
In the County of Stsllbrd,
Ooe of His Honourable Privy Council,
A M)
Admiral of the Fleet, General of the Marines,
&C. Sec.
Died March IS, 11+22.