The National Register.
London, England, 1821-12-16 00:00:00

ILLICIT DISTILLATION.

*RODE 4COTCY lIPAPEIL)
Ou Tuesday evening an illicit still was discovered and
destroyed in Bridgeton, by excise officers from Glasgow.
A man connected with it was taken prisoner, but amob
of some hundreds rescued him. In the fray one of the
officers was severely hurt: and another, with some
difficulty, escaped into an adjoining house, where he
was forced to remain till the following morning. The •
audacity with which these proceedings are carried on is
hardly to be credited. We are informed that the labour
in this abominable profession is divided. Wash is made,
and can be bought in any quantity, from a gallon up-
wards, and distillation goes on, front a tea-kettle to a
large still, producing altogether a quantity of spirits which
ICw would believe. ‘Ve have also heard, from authority
on which we can place the firmest reliance, that in the
west end of Glasgow, and a district of some miles around
that quarter, while the)a are only 440 licensed hone •
for selling spirits, there are 630 unlicensed which sell
spirits, many of the 'mates of which arc brought up every
otree mouths for fine, and not one of whom, though
coastinily carrying on business, can sell one drop of
lcgal spirits, because, being without licenses, they can
obtain none by permit: nor have we any reason to be-
lieve that matters are better io other places. In London
we observe that the se,zure of stills is becoming more
frequebt and we hate heard as a fart, :131 having
become too lIUMerOUS to render the trade profitable, seve-
ral of these pests of society have swarmed 01l and left
Glasgow, and also front about Edinburgh, and are gone
to London, where they believe they will have a wider,
safer, and more profitable field for the exercise of their
calling. On these points they possess, in general, cor.
rect. infutmatiou.

luformatioti having been received of an extensive
illegal distillery being at work in a wood in the parish of
riffinaleutn, a party of Custom-house officers at Port.
Glasgow proceeded there early on Thursday morning,
and found, in a planting in the said parish, a work of
unexampled extent, conducted by a band of desoeradoes
from Dumbartonshire, front whence they no doubt had
been driven by the activity ot the revenue otikers and
military in that quarter. fire officers destroyed the still
on the spot, together with ISU galloas of low writes, and'
1,000 gallons ol wash and worts: and they also brought
home, and loaged in the Custom-house warehouse, le
large casks, one copper mu 11-head, two copper worms, and
about twelve gallons of whiskey. From the present
state of smuggling in this country, a traffic so inutile to
the morals, the lit.alth, and pinsperity of society, we
think every well-disposed person will congratulate the
revenue (Aileen at every new triumph they obtain Ma
such bold violators of tlle iaw.

At Wellington ittaiLet. on Thursday Lat. %%heat sold
(rout Os. tid. to Bs. 3rl. per bushel; prime heel; mutton.
poik, lions 3d. to 40. per lb.; grio3 potatoes 4.,. per
1),I4 of eight "core pounds; and turnips lits for three

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LISBON MAIL.

CORTES—SITTING OF NOVEMBER th.
ListoN, DEC. I.—Two despatches were sent
directly from Recife to the Cortes, by the Onvidor
of Recife :—The first, of ;24th September, relates
the formation of a Junta of Government at Goianna;
and the attack made by a tince sent from that place
on the city of Olinda, which was repulsed with great
loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners.
Tia:: second despatch, of the Bth of October, states
the measures that had been taken to prevent the
effusion of blood, by mieg the most conciliatory
means ; that SOO men having arrived from Bahia,
it was hoped that this force, and the want of means
in the Junta of Goianna. would oblige the latter to
listen to the pacific and moderate principles adopted
by the Government of Olinda; but that those of
Goianna again approached the tintifieation ; that
the troops and inhabitants of Olinda were resolved
to employ force, but the Government of Pernambuco
did its utmost to spare the lives of those imprudent
enemies, and arranged by means of negotiation, that
the Junta of Goianna should continue to govern
that part of the province which had joined it, the
rest remaining subject to that of Olinda; all this
till the plans of Government should be adopted
which shall be prescribed to the Cortes.
Mr. Ferreira du Silva said, that the discontent of
the people of that province arose entirely from the
bad and arbitrary Government of Luiz do Rego
Barreto, and of the Weldor: ; principally of him
who signed the despatches ; and that when the
orders of the Cortes should arrive ut Pernambuco,
the province would be entirely tranquil. since it
desired merely the same liberty that the other pro-
vinces enjoyed
M. Pereira do Caruso said, he thought the Cortes
should suspend their opinion of the proceedings of
of Don Luiz do Rego, till it should be clearly proved
whether his conduct was an effect of his tyranny, '
or whether it had been necessary to curb the
factious

These papers were referred to the Committee of
the Constitution.

Some papers were read, brought from Bahia and
other places in Brazil, by the brig Aurora from
Pernambuco, giving au account of the events above.
mentioned. The Captain speaks in the highest
terms of Gen. Luiz do Rego.
The Cortes have continued the discussion of the
articles of the constitution.

They have likewise commenced the discussion of
a project of law fur the abolition of the auditors,
phytacians and surgeons of the army, and the reform
of the military hospitals, by reducing those esta-
blishments to a footing suitable to the actual peace
.stabliahment.

FROM LAST NIGHT'S G.-14E7'TE.

This Gazette notifiet„ that the King has been pleased to appoint
fans Francis, Earl of Huutingdou, to be Governor of the Island
of Jamaica.
jt also notifies the appointment of J. Green, of Woburn, Bed.
fordahire, and W. Haynes, of West Bromwich, Stattimishire,
Gents. to be Masters Extraordinary in the Court of Chancery.

EGISTER

Huggett. Bermondsey Street, grocer—T. Stafford, Bath, jeweller
—N.-Jolly, Charing Cross, poulterer—J. E. Gylca, Shorcditch,
oilman—J. Vice, Valentine Row, Blackfriars Road,
Germaine, Commercial Road, merchant.