The National Register.
London, England, 1816-03-11 00:00:00

TIM NATIONAL REGISTER.

IRELAND.

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Dublin Court of Common Pleas, Wednesday, Christopher
'Fantle, v. Lord William Fitzgerald, the plaintiff reco-
vered :ioool. damages from his Lordbitip, for cri,n. con. %MI
Mrs. Tunti.•.

The Vigo Journal contains the following:—" An armed ban-
ditti. consistiog of about 30 persons. attacked the house of 3.
M-llngli, of linockakellan, in the neighbourhood of Balboa-
Imo e, in this county. on the night of the 13111 inst. and tle-
monital his arms, which he boldly refused to surrender; upon
which they fired several shots into his house, and set it on fire;
lie and his sons finding themselves in this periltins situation, re-
turned the fire in the most spirited and determined inanner;
they killed oar man (T. aPlVlitteney), evil, as it is supposed,
wounded several, as the y are now missing from their homes.
J. I.awslur, Esq. a mot ;noise magistrate, has since ehnunitted
to this gaol two brothels of the deceased 3PII lieenev, with
seven onsets, rh irg;•/1 with a.senoliling by night, demanding
arms. awl administering ianbs. The gentlemen of that Heigh-
, bienhood are using such measures as, it is hoped, will put an
cud to suich practices im that part of this country.
The Belfast Paper says:—"On the morning of Wednesday
week, a bond of ruffians attacked the house of Mr. Johnson, a
muslin manufacturer, near the heath of North attic'. They
began their operaiMas by breidsing oil the shutters of th.e
parlour window, which weresheathed with tram baying affect•
ed this they raised the lower sash, mid intio Meryl a large box
tilled with pitch, tar, hemp, .Xe. and to render their design
still more destructive, they attached to thew intiaminalde sub-
:dances a large bomb-shell filled with atioposa der, and other
combustibles, communicating W ith which was a fuzee, tow Welt
they set fire. A servant man, howeser, seized a pitchfork. the
first weapon he Could find ; he ran to the parlour, and called
out to Anent the family. When he frittered the loom, he per-
ceiveal the ball and flaming foyer., and, not knowiew what it
was, ise /lashed at it with the pitchfork, and the prows lasing
stuck into it, lie drew it towards him, and retreated to the
kitchen. to the midst of his agitation, he abandoned the
pitchfork, and flaming hall, to roll to his master up stains. In
two seconds the comb:l.:tildes exploded like a clap of thunder,
and rent the house from top to halloos. Not a wall but was
shattered ; the windows were blown to pieces. when the back
ioor thirtinntely burst open, apish gave vent to the fury of the
exdosion. When 'sin .lohivaiai was first alarmed, he stait,,i
out of bed, and laying hold of a blunderbuss, which was really
loathe.', lie went to :p front window, and, perceiving eight or
en of the raffiaii• at a distance, lie fired anioiig them : but he had
scarcely lone so, when the explosion took plaee in the Is Hellen,
'nil threw his fnaleilw into the utmost state of consternation.
Ole a•sai-atits. on hearing die tenon, returned again to the
front of the house, and eu.iiitieneed All attack with lire-areas;
iron ts Melt fir. Johnson, hating our loaded pistol, fired it at
711•11, liv this tine• the ileighlootiroug holies, tieing alarmed
.y the explosion and the tiring, were cola erg into the .strut ;
on which vie banditti ran till in tbttentit IlitiTtiol),, and,
owing to the darkness of the night, effected their escape.
la lid, not one of Nlr Johnson's family receised the
anailest injury. 'tile inhabitants of itelfica have ode' eel a re-
us aid of '2,0001. for a discovery of the otheoders.
Ihonx.—'fit present inconvenient deity on jaunting-cars has
Orought that mode of conveyance into general din (pole. and
sabstinited a prudent taste for pi (lest ianism, which is daily
neaniiiiiv iirle and more fashionable. IA e may soon expect to
see revirFrainong our fair e It.s women, the good old com-
fortable pillion so long exploded, and on which Queen Eliza-
zetli Wass() often wont to recreate her royal person. A hearth
coliector, as we are inflamed, lately doing •upersisor'a duty in
a large town in ti e smith of Ireland, looked motion hat aghast
ro find that every car (of which 11111 paid the preceding year)
hail di-appeared, was put hors de CIIMbIat tin (Hllo'44lo* in static
way to csratie the tax. The collector, who, it appears, had a
dash of the wag about him. concerted a little Flair to try the
honesty of so many respectable persons deny ing their liobility
to the duty. In a newspaper, printed in the town,lie published
en Advertisement to the following effect :—•' Wanted 1111 l e-
diately, a riertioithand jaunting-car, with harness complete,
and a strong steady horse, to suit it trio elling ."—Oirec-
tiros were added where to apply ; and a tit person, propel ly
instructed in the secret, was placed the follow ing unitniug in a
cons eniciit apartment. The scheme awe/retied to a miracle.
Ikforc ten o'clock the knocker W:IS almost beaten t [though the
door by successive crowds of visitors, every sac of show had
an excellent ear, very little rim, whirl' be had no partiridar
objection to dispose of just now, on reason:ile terms, the sea-
son was so unfavourable, and indeed his family was growing so
much less.eee. tre. --Time applicants were admitted one by one,
anal the pretended pureliast r, idler some preliminary civilities
:11111 inquiries, begged leave to tike dos, their names. and ter
sident e., promising to wait upon each in the coarse of the day
to close the bargain, which he pone wally did, briug mg the
supervisor, tnorruser, ;Moto with hi in, and introducing him to
the disconcerted mud indonishei I pasties, as the Gentleman that
Itdvertised tier the accommodation. This, as only well be eon-
ceived, produced a d.ooorodeut of the most risible description.
The effect was altogether theatrical; and a scene of coaster-
n3tiou anti mho. ras,inent ensued, to do justice to whir's
%souk) require the broad tarried Ili lineation of Foote, or the
coy r:site COMIC COlOlllhlZ at' a flogarth!—Erige Puckct.

The Spanish Insuri.-ent general Bolivar, who defended
Carthagena, aft or its capture escaped to Jamaica. A Iles.-
perado was empleyed to thllow and assassinate him ; for
which service he was promised 50,000 dollars and a free
pardon. Bolivar took tip his abode at a halging-house in
Jamaica ; but happening to Atop out on the very night
the murderer had f►xctl for his purpose,' a strange gentle-
man by chance slept in the bed, and fell a victim to the
diabolical scheme. The Spaniard who undertook the
murder, is apprehended.
Mrs. BasOcy, late Ws Wade, applied to the Court of
Chancery er. Saturday ae'nnii_ht, tier money to sustain
the elpence of her approaching accouchment.—The Lord
Chancellor ordered her .5001.; and likewi!,e directed the
whole of her thrtinte to be nettled on her in as .tract a
manner tki possil►le, that her husb►nd might be prevented
from tonel.ing a 'dialing of it.

BOXING.— C•artil mal a inan called West Country
Dick, foughts Ttler.lry, on Hutto Common, near
Thcy met at one o'clock, with their aeconds,
()liver and Maimed for l'ortis, onil Shelton and" J.
Clark for Dick. Betting, 6 and 7t04 on Curtis. After
a battle that lusted iifty-ciislit thiauto, Dick gave in.

PROVINCLILS.

SURREY MEETING.

On Saturday a Meeting was held at the Spread Eagle inn,
at Epsom, to take into consideration the expediency of pre-
senting a Petition to Parliament against the renewal of the.
Property Tax.—The state of the weather was not layout able
to a vers• numerous assemblage; but, what the :netting wanted
in numbers was fully supplied by the respectability of the per-
sons wl.o were in attendance. Among others, was the Earl i.f,
Surrey, Lord Ileshorough, Lord Duncannon, Lord Althoti e,
Sir T. Tartan, Sir J. Alexander, W. J. Denilison, Esq. the
lion. Mr. Darnley, H. Townsend, Esq. B. Shaw, Esq. H. Cal-
vert, Esq. Lord Bulketes, Mr. Hibbeit, R. Sharpe, Esq. Mr.
Peters. Mr. Freemantle, Mr. H. Sumner Mr. Perry, Mr. Ald.
Goodbehere, Mr. Waithman. 711 r. Lown;les, Mr. Horst. M. I'.
Sir T. Aweece, Mr. Palmer, M. I'. Mr. Trott, r, Mr. Ciipps,
ex. Atter the High Sheriff had explained the purport of the
meeting, Mr Denuison, in a very long and augmentative speech,
moved that a Petition for the repeal of the tai shotild be pre-
sented to the House of Commons. This was seconded by the
Eat I of surrey, which was agreed to, and ordered to be signed
by the Freeholders and inhabitants then present.
In the course of the discussion Mr. H. Stunner, M.P. for the
cuunty, gave some reasons for approving the tax ; but said, if
the Minister attempted to continue it longer thin the two
years for which he now pi oposed it, he would oppose it. A
letter was read from Mr. Thornton, the other Member, allott-
ing indisposition as the cause of his absence. He approved of
the Military Establishment, from his conviction of its neces-
sity- hot with respect to the Property-tax, he considered it
oi.jeetionable in every point of view, and as demanding many
material modifications. Until the modifications, however, pro•
posed by Ministers were brought under the consideration of
the House, he should refrain hem pledging himself decidedly
oa the oue ride or the other.

C ‘RLICILE ELECTION.—Rtate of the Fifth day's poll : J. C.
Cornett, Esq. 31 1 ; Sir P. Nlusgrave, Hart. 214; j oity for
r. Curwen, 1z7.-- Those who know how well experienced Mr.
Conseil, is in the business of the House of Commons, mid how
greatly the agricultural interests are hulelited to his indefatiga-
ble intention and labours, cannot tail to wish him success in his
election.

At the ensiling Chelmsford Assizes, there are nearly eighty
prisoners for trial, seven of whom are tin• hieliway roltherie.,
and many others tier capital offences. Shocking to reiate,
nearly twenty of the prisoners are isinkr tot -one years of.

Samuel France, aged CI, was on Friday last committed to •
Salop comity goal, charged with the wilful murder of his fa-
ther, Rickard France, of Godrington.
Six time• has the counting-house and brewery at Great
Duitinow, Essex, belonging to Mess's. Randall and Cu. been
robber! within a short period ; the last time was oil '1 tiestia, the
20th ult.; when the artful villains chided a spring-grin placed•
so as to command the entrance; and haring secured it front •
going off, robbed the premises of a guts and 20s. in Ill Ont!.
The Leeds Mercury says, "Last Sunday morning, about
two o'clock, several, persons broke into the house and
shop of J. Roberts, of Quarmby, near Hitildersiteld,. cloth-
dresser; and, after demolishing all thew imlows and window
frames, for several yards square, procei led to break the
shears and improved shear-frames used in the cloth-dressing
business; and, haling effected their lawless purpose, retired
without molesting any part of the family. It is ferseittly to be
hoped, that the outrages which disgraced the neighbourhood
of Huddersfield sonic years ago, and which pro% eta so fatal to
their perpetrators, are not about to be renewed; but should
that be the case, we are assured that the persons whose pro-
petty is likely to sutler in the Cll.lll Or a renewal of the (maim:-
breaking system, are determined to defend their pi operty
against any attack that may be made upon it, sod to render
tout assistance to each other for this important object."

AN EXTU Af)R DINAR V Stip:EP. —A Sonilidowe wither sheep,.
throe years old, bred and fatted by Alr. Ellll7llD,OrGlyll4le, WAS
killed there on the I Oth ult. and e►hibited, from the extensive
improvement which has, of late years, been made in the loved
of that very osefill animal, a superiority in point of Iles', mid
hone, 'is Well our forefathers, who lived before the establishment
of Agricultural Societies, could lace• formed no conception of.
it weighed, when alive, 25 stone, 7 pounds; and when slough.
tered, as follows:—.Head, lb.; pluck, K ditto; C 11444014, i.ll
ditto; skin and wool. 141 ditto ; blood, 7 ditto.—Total of offal,
li stone 2 lb. Lwow tat, 2 atone 5i • lb stone 7 ; lust
in dressing. .116.—Total, 2i atone 7 lb.
Etrnacianivans Fscaor.— Oa Sunday evening last Mr..
J. Holman, a tiu•uter of Perrin", Cornwall, was returning from A,
place of woe Inip, across a COIIIIOOII to his on it hone, a bees,
mist tolling, lie mistook lain wayosod fell into an exposed *Mitt
of a , 96 fi et deep, besides 'tine feet of water in the bot-
tom-. and, almost miraculously, he reached the water withoot
receiving any scrim's injury.. Being ail expert swimmer, Ile
kept himself afloat during the night ; occasionally relieving
himself. by clinging to the projecting points of reek in ;beadles
of the shaft. The rennet of daylight. on Mm,Ja , Pnalkel Lank
to see a kind-.of ledge en %%Web he contrived to get, and on.
which he lay the whole of 3louilay,eailitir for assistance;
119 person approached the place, and Nlonday night come, on •.
whilst he cootinvicil iu his perilous oibiatiou, Whet., overcome
by f.tigcc, lie fell asleei., and again feli into the water. 'llhe
d•trkncas of the itisdit prevented his retaining lii, resting place,
mud Imhof' to support binisell as liefte-e. until'l'n;sdaywawit-
iag,
w►et, lig regained the spot from which he fell. Ile had
now become Tire. hoarse from cold, and almost incessant
calling for lleip, so that the only resumer Ito bad for drawiug
the attention of thn•e whoa., lie siapposed, would'. be sent to
seek fur him, was b. 11414INiNt ,tolll`, into the water. Tni*dav
night came without affording hint ..atiF relief; but the tenor of
azain tilling into the water ellbermilly prevented his 'derider.
On :Wednesday, however, the noise made by the stimes which
be eeotioned to throw into the watt•, attracted the attention
of •somi• pi mons wl.otat -distre,,ett flimily Lad &spat, lo.d in ,
search of his remains, and he was estoicateii Goo the detailiul
abyss, wit houtoustainiar any serious

lat‘t week the ‘lbion, Capt. Proctor, whiclaliad pained frost/.
her cable in die river, in elirlearrurine to,enter thelii.orge
I).ei tta-in, Liaerpool, with a strane breeze-irons the north-
., est, r.w down flat which wan lying within it, an busted 'of.'
wlrek were threefueti, a aoinan, and hes two children : die
nun fortiniatiy•ttic:ped; but the woman and tic
Acre, we Wowt to say, droatiorl. On the approach .og. LW
the inoOter, who was on the deck, Hew w..hfnaternalauli-
. mule to the cabin, to bring up her ; ehe sticervord in
1,. !hem to the top of the lailtirr, and just at fiat junc.
turn. the •lo•ct • . tile vecceik cook pine, and site and het eltiM-
drea welt orenvitalinaby the MUM -

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COMIT OF KING'S BEN(!(, I,ll.tncw 9.

SIR A.P. COCIIRANE,II, N. 1•. CH APPLZ•

This was an action bronght by Vice.‘dnilral Sir Alextulder
ro-res,ter Cochiatie, K. 8. to reenter damages against the de-
fendant, the books.•lier of Pall-mall, fir printing and publish-
ing a .c.:ndslous hint of and concerninz the plaintiff. imputing
to him cow• rilke anti di"lronourablc and corrupt conduct in his
gibaracter of Vice-Admiral.

L appeared, that the libel was publialted in It pamphlet, en-
titled-4. Secret Jiemeirs or the }lon. Andre .v Cochrane John-
It ate, of the Hon. VierAd:air:ll Sir Me‘. Forre.ter Cochrane,
k. B. a Captain in the Ito)ul Navy; ultli en neeonet AI the
eircnniquitees o Welt Itol to the th.vioivery of Lord Cochrane
and others, to defraud the Stock FAelninee."

The libellous nuttier, which was the subject of the action,
Imiiiited to the plaintiff, tat. That he waa guilty of cowardice,
when he was Commander in Cli;ef off the Leeward Island sta-
tion, on the nth July, in not mak ilig the necessary preparations
to tight the Prencli squadron, under Admiral Itlllauun•, and
Jerome Ittionaparte, off the Island Tortola nod St. Thames,
.fir. That lie corruptly smuggled on hoard of his Majesty's
ship Bellide, when at Halifax, mules, which he ratline, to be
sold at 7brtul,t fiir his own profit, without entering them at the
Cum oin-Imuse. ail. That he defrauded the Victualling
by paying fan• a quantity of duck, purehaseil on his own ac-
count, in Bids of Exchange drawn upon that Beard, purport-
ing to be for fresh beet' supplied to his liujcsty's ships in the
road of Tortola, nu such beef having ever been in fact supplied
to the shins; and 4 tit. That be had Il•andulently appropriated
to himself about 2011 prize nt grite•, condemned under the tct
47 Geo. 111. c. :16; and transported them to u sugar plantation
of his own at I riuidad,
The smiwledge of this scandalous publication carne by acci-
dent to the plaintiff through Fire Admiral Durham, upon
which lie instantly applied to the defendant to have the author
delivered np. Mr. Cliapple, of course, referred him to A.
l'ilucketirott, who was lately acquitted at the Old Bailey of for-
gery on the ground of insanity ; and the plaintiff immediately
commenced his action against the latter, an the author; but in
consequence of his being confined atter the recent trial as a
lunatic, that action Iv as discontinued, and the present one
brought against th.i defendant. The publication bring proved
in the regular way,
Mr. Scarlett aildreeied the Jury in mitigation of damages,
expressing the contrition of the defendant tia• having been un-
happily led into the publicution Of a libel, the tendency of
which lie did not know at the time it was put to press. tie
was exceedingly sorry for what he hail done, confessing that
there was no foundation for the libellous ailt•gatious in the
pamphlet.
'lime Jury, under the direction of the Judge, found a verdict
for the plaintiff—Damages Turn Hundred Pounds.