The National Register.
London, England, 1819-11-01 00:00:00

RIGHTS OF WOMEN,

Much having been said of late respecting Female
Reformers, the following authorities will prove that
female rights have been greatly infringed:—
Lady Packinutim returned two Members to Parliament.
—Brady on Bisrrongho, 3. Ap.
By a collection of Hakewell'a, in the cue of Catherine
a. Surrey, the opinion of the Judges was, that an limner-
eied woman having a freehold might vote for Members of
Parliament.

A woman may be an Overseer of the Poor —for this we
Gave a recent authority.—See the King v. Stubbs, 2 Tenn
Rep. 39:3,
A woman was appointed Governess of the House nfCor
rection at Chelmsford, by order in Court.-9 Ld. Kern
1014.

_
lu the Mirror of Justices, • woman Is said to have been
a Justice of the Peace.
In the last chapter of the Romans, verse 1, one Phoebe
Is called the ***** ut of the Church. and held some eccle-
siastical office.
'deaconesses are mentioned in ancient Councils, when
baptism wits by Mono Mon.
Lady Broughton was Keeper of the (latehonse Prison.
The Minister of Clerienwell was chosen by a majority
of women.—t Geo. 2. •

Women may be guardian+. administrators, executors,
and can execute pOWPI'S of attorney.
Woun•u have held by military tenures.—Bloant's
Terme*, 47.
In 1'eg0,215, there is a grant of a eaole to a Lady.
Time awe of Champion at the Cot onatiou of George I.
way in a Woman. _

Toe office of Clerk of the Crown in the King's Bench
was ;trained ton Wonsan.—SllOW, P. r.
The other of High Constable ha► been borne by • Wu
min.—Dyer, 2+,5.
'Clip law 4110% Women to be even Qaeens: her Nl4
jests Qnren Catoline was left Resent and Croardian 01
Ibis Realm.

Tot celebrated Anis Countess of Pentbioke, Doi set.
bold the hereditary other al ~ueritP of
1V41%1:11.)rlAn.1, and ilcere.stil it in pesos at the .I•e•ze+ at
Alif.:elty, And sat co. the Mitch with the .
No'i.,
W.. i.ew are Patr^ns of ('hurches: they have 1)011a: ores,
nail there they a►e is Ordioaties ; they .iie risitatilr or
hn .ri,oriationv, which are circa sarra# aid Ih y 4Fl' ie-
gardril in law as P4r/1011%; 111411 y N kkkkkk vries had them
lieloio the liefarinatitoi. W •a, in IIVC(114.11y,11.1V4- 414,11
a.100r.1 to 2i. (12 tiro W net v
at I ail I•r 4bovi• authorities are ark Imo ,Ig ,il. In .iit
old edition of the ii•sta.itetit. to the year I;i7 4, .1 ‘V,.111..11
is called a 4iiiisitt of the Chi .n•h. And it is noun loos*
that Quakers all., t WIPIUeII 4. 1111.4411.

%V trE Sewsto.—The scandalous and illegal prac-
tice of husbands selling their wives in upon market,
with a halter round their necks, under the vulgar
notion chat they thereby get clear of their obligation
of maintaining them, has of late years been too com-
mon. In many recent cases, this abominable conduct
has been punished with laudable severity. The
proceeding, however, is not quite so modern as is
generally supposed. Au instance is mentioned by
Lord Coke, in which a husband endeavoured to
dispose of his wife by deed, and it may, perhaps,
amuse some of our readers to see a translation of it
from the original law Latin :
Know all 11111.11 by this present writing, that I, John de
Cameys, son and heir of Randolph de Cameys, of in, own
voluntary will, have assigned, and set over Onto William
Paynelt, Knight, my wife, Margaret Ile Cameys, daughter
and heire.s of John de Gattesiten and ■lse have given
and granted, released, ■nd quit claimed. to the said Wil-
liam, all the goods and chattels, which the said 31ergaret
has, or in future may become possessed of, and also,
whatever I possess of the goods and chattels, of the
said Margaret, with their appurtenances, so that neither I,
nor any other person in my name, shall in future claim
any interest in the said Margaret, or in the goods and
chattels of the said Margaret, with their appurtenances.
I will and grant,and by this present writing confirm, that
the said Margaret shall be and temain with the said
William, duriog the pleasure of the said William. In
testimony wbettor, I have to this present writing affixed
my seal.
Lord Coke calls this a " wonderful and unheard
of grant."

SIR A RTIIUR PIGGOTT'S WIL eminent
Barrister's Will was proved under 14,0001. at Doc-
tors' Commons, on the 27th ult. by his widow, Lady
Piggott, to whom he has left nearly the whole of
his property, and appointed her sole Executrix.—
bequeathing to her as many boobs us she may
choose to select from his Library, be gives the re-
mainder to his brother, Elphinstonc Piggott, in trust
for him to divide between his nephews, and after-
wards gives his brother power to dispose of his
books at any time he may think proper. To
his clerk, P.... Brian (who served him without any
other salary than that arising from the clerk's fees,
fur upwards of thirty eight years), he has left only
101. for mourning. Sir Arthur Piggott wa, a native
of Barlradoes, and was buried privately ut Eastborne;
he was tether of the Bar, senior Beneher of the
Temple, Attorney-General during Mr. Fox's last
and short administration He was representative
titr Arundel on the interest of the pre o. Duke.
He was considered to be a kind ina.t.r, and a staunch
oeposer of the slave trade, having sent Out manu-
missions to some slaves th.t were bequeathed to
him a ti:w years since. We Lope that his Execu-
trix, ..ady Pigv,ott, wiil utu..r some provision fir his
I tug tried anti faithful old clerk, who is nom uvariy
70 years ut age, and who hits saved but little to sup-
p.,rt him, owing to his master s pruct;ce icing on
the decline for several of the latter years of his life.

An elegant silver cup has been presented to Mr.
William Beck, hosier, in Harwick, by the journey.
men stocking-makers, of that town. They have
been induced to testify their regard to Mr. Beck in
this respectable way from the zealous manlier in
which be defended them against the attempts of the
other hosiers in Harwick to reduce their wages at
a time when the depressed state of the trade bad,
independently of a further reduction of their wages,
involved them and their families in extreme priva-
tions: by Mr. Beck's exemplary conduct, in not
only allowing his own journeymen undiminished
wages during this unprecedented dullness of the
hosiery trade, but also giving them full employment,
while in other manufactories their work was limited
to a certain extent (which had the tendency to in-
duce the other journeymen to stand oat, in order
to keep up their wages at the same rate as those
allowed by Mr. Beck), together with the assis scree
they received from public generosity, they were
enabled to defeat these attempts, and to maintain
their usual, though small rate of wages unreduced.
Sir Charles Weisely has obtained a certiorari, and
removed the proceedings in the prosecution pending
against him into the Court of Kings Bench. Thu
writ was obtained on the affidavit of Mr. Pearsor,
the Baronet's attorney. After the several explana-
tory matters as to the charge and so forth, Mr.
Pearson " further saith, that he has heard and be-
lieves, that several of the niagistrstes in the habit of
presiding at the General Quarter '.essions of tho
Pence in and for the said county Palatine of Ches.
ter, entertain strong prejudices against the said Sir
Charles Woslely, Baronet, by reason of his having,
in despite of his elevated rank and hereditary pos-
sessions, assadated himself with the labouring climes
of society, and, in opposition to the magistrar.s and •
other individua:s of his own rank in Cheshire.'
assembled with the poor, to deliberate up .n the
means which he and they thought would ne best
calculated to rei:evc their di,tresse and redre s their
gricvalice.:; and rats deponent further sa,th, !.at he
verily believes that inattPrs of law of gr.:at difficulty
and iaiportance wil: arise at the trial ot' t.ic said in•
rlictinint, which it is essential should he discussed
bc.:iire a Court of greater legal i.nowledge than that.
which is ordinarily possessed by Nlagiurates, not
having had the advantage of a professional e location
and extensive legal experience; and this deponet t
farther said', that for these reasons the said Sir C.
Wolsely could not obtain a fair and impartial' trial
it the rail Quarter Sessions of the Peace."

Tun ROYAL MARINES.-...-••The Officers of the
Royal ‘larine corps have been hitherto placed on
equal ground, with respect to promotion, us those of
the Royal Artillery and Engineers. To this situ-
ation they ,have proved themselves well entitled,
and the services of the Royal Marines have been
very conspicuous, and universally acknowledged is
the late war. It appears, however, that since the
peace some new arrangements have taken place, by
which the two tiirmer corps are placed in a more
desirable situation, thus destroying the equality
that hitherto subsisted between these classes, to the
disadvantage of the Marines. By these regulations
as vacancies occur in the Royal Artillery and Engi-
neers, they are filled up by bringing in a Captain
on half-pay, who is placed on full pay, the Senior
Lieutenant promoted to the rank of Captain is pl6ccd
on half-pay, and the Second Lieutenant is made
First Lieutenant. We understand that the Subal-
tern Officers of the Marines have presented a memo-
rial to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty,.
requesting to be placed on the same footing, bi.t that
their request has been refused. This distinction,
we believe, has been made since the present Master
of the Ordaanec came into office, but upon what
ground we are at a loss to concaive. The past ser-
vices of the Royal Marines have been highly appre-
ciated by the country. Their present utility must
be also admitted, tier if they be not necessary, why
are they continued ? The distinction is rendered
the more invidious by the particular state of the
Royal Marines at the present moment. The pre-
sent Senior Lieutenant of the corps is of 14 years-
standing in that rank, and the Second Lieutenant
is nearly us old in his rank. A few facilities to
promotion, where it is so slow, would appear not.
merely an indulgence, but an act of justke,

A NARROW ESCAPE—(hI TilUrs(l3V 11-1, 3 lad of 14.
year* .1 age, residing in Kok-square, ('ollege street,
iirtsiol, observed an old Iron swisel gun ing about the
house, and being tie-irotis of cleaning it, be pot tt:e
breech into the fire, and seated himself lE:Core the noir.
s'e to Wateit it. Ito a foss seetnids an explosion took
place, and the boy t.lt himself woondttl in the (rant of
his throat. Ile was conveyed to he Itifirm.try, where a
table-fork, without the outlet) viva .tt Itaiullo,
oas taken from the wotitisl, of the hots
up I. t lie 'Hong, 'tweet' our Jill fist incite in lengrlt)
tin log ,ern cis throat. The itti%, it s sae.
lets it til passed het,‘ ern the. ,it great
,t!otHl.rossek on the tell side of he cork pow.
be:•11 %.,r1 'ouch ,laitta/e,I, or a lit• ,0 is ILA
ittliets a threcti.'n rills r a little .0 .hr list's t r to the
11, it hate causrti, instant de:1111. As
present, how, s yr, the :ad appears to ix doing vityllk bus
It u is by no Mears out of

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LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1.
Three o'clock, p. in.

An article in the German mail, dated 11-mover,
..-t3a ult., states, that the Prince Regent has, "
• 4.vnsequence of the resolutions passed by the German
die; on the 20th of September," issued an ordinance,
--enforcing an old edict of Geo. I , which was after-
wards renewed by Geo. 11., subjecting every publi-
cation throughout the deminiuns of Hanover, and if
the publisher be an Hanoverian subject, every work
so be published &goad those dominions, to a- preli-
-winery censorship. -These are further restraints
imposed on republications of works printed in other
parts of Germany, and on newspapers and periodical
journals. 'Thus the years 1705 sind 1731 are
hearched for as precedents, applicable to the state of
letters aad of liberty in the presentage.—Some per-
.sons deride the idea of our having a Constitution in
.Englund; if we had not, what would prevent similar
froclaniatiens here at this moment.

The conferences at Vienna, says a Frankfort
paragraph, will commence on the Qoth instant, sod
. are likely to end in such modifications of the tribu-
nal about to be established at Mentz, us may render
.it less °Nem ivc to public opinion, and to the spirit of
.representative Governments. According to the
'Gazette of Munich, the King of Bavaria. has, by an
ordinance, enjoin•:d his. subjects so to act towards
the commission at Mentz, as not to lose sight of the
a wereignty which belongs. to..his Majesty : the plain
meaning of which appears to ke, that the Bavarian
people are not to take notice of, or obey in any
instance, the authority of the said.tribunal.
The outrages against the Jews have extended
themselves to Dantzie, where the garrison was
compelled to remain during three whole days under
Arms.

he accounts frum Cadiz .ire very afflicting. The
liotving is the last bulletin published there :

On the Ath of Octobor the sick were 9.132 Deaths GO
44h
7th

A letter from Cadiz mentions the following cir-
cumstance The dead-cart, which every evening
conveys to the graves the victims of the malady, met
its way a porter, stretched at length, and seem-
ingly dead, at the extremity of a street. No doubt
was entertained that this was a vomit° negro, and he
was thrown into the cart among the dead 'Julies. In
.the mean time the fellow was only drunk, and the
motion of the cart restoring his senses at the very
moment when it arrived at its destination, terrified
at the horrible company in which he finind himself,
lie threw•biluself out of the cart, and ran away with
the utmost speed. 54everal days have since elapsed,
and no change has taken place in the porter's health.
It is therefore concluded, that ening liquors are a
preventive against the yellow fever. A physi ian
propose
s to publish a dissertation .ou this subject,
which will shortly appear."

Among the new measures called for by the pre.
seat crisis on the meeting of Parliament, we under-
Ft.m3 Ministers mean to impose a stamp duty upon.
t:ic cheap miner publications. They have long
complained of them as the ativocat<ts of infidelity,
treason, and setlition, the public may therefore
k, why their earcolation has been so long encou-
raged by a dispensation in their favour from the tax
i.Aposed upon the higher orders of the public press?

The Funds have remained in a state of depression,
during the whole week, alit glr the panic that origin-
ally produced it does hot appear to have spread into the
country, so as to llitVe produced from thence, as had
teen expected, any remarksfe influx of orders for the
sale of stuck. 'foe 'axes are now as low as they were
at that mettioralile period, the es-c of the itegrici mon for
the last hum, when a sudden rise of :3 or 4 per cent.
proilticell consequences so disastrous to the speculators
f 1011. Thut snutlar results will how ensue, it would.
however, he bat 'Moos to predict. Thy argument., on
s htch the iv:vocal-es tor a further tall rely, are, toe
altered site tit ilia co-lily, her &sire sled commerce and
jilt, foal t •ole°3; u, iyuicn are added, an lucre:Jaunt
Lahti ol exarrose, with the thtraimitiths tor the
Levelote, to induce a further claim by the Gmeriorm
rw rtdmre,, already exliimted, or taxed to the utmost.
lo these the oilier party oppose the assertion, founded
es •aperiestee, that the very extent and activity of our
Dierce Lxvo!.t: us to these seasons of distress; that a