The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-30 00:00:00

TILE CORN BILL

In consequence of what they are pleased to consider as the
injurious operation of the Corn Bill, a general meriting of the
Farmers, Landholders, and others interested in agricultural
producc,for the comities of Middlesex and Essex, bas been
held. The object of the assembly was to petition Parliament
to impose protecting duties oil the impel tattimi of corn and
other provisions, and to open the ports upon the payment of
those duties. It is intended to procure the co operation of
the agricultural interests in all the counties of Eitglanri
for this purpose copies of the subjoined Petition are abont
to be sent to all the principal towns and villages, that the

greatest possible number of signatures may be procured, an-
terior to the opening of Parliament.

" TO TILE HONOURABLE TUE COMMONS OF THE uNrrrn
KINGDoM, IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED.

"'Mee Humble Petition of the several Occupiers of Lands in the
County of —, whose names are hereuntosubscribed,
SirEw ET ll—That the wit of the United littigdom is competent
and fully adequate to the supply of its population, even it' it were
much more numemus than it is, with all the productions of the ,oil
;if the United Kingdom ; that is to say, with euen, meal, flour. rye,
oats, peas, beans, barley. beer er bigg, wool, il.tx„ hemp. hides,
tallow, seeds, butter, cheese, poultry, vegatables of all ...r ads natural
to the climate. apples and pears.
" That your Petitioners a ith all humility submit to the considern-
thm and wisdem of this Honourable House—That as the soil of tfie
United Kingdom and its product ons, are the prime atalree of nationsl
industry and of revenue. it is impolitic, it' this allegation be true, to
admit any productions similar to those of our own soil and climate,
into this country, duty free', until the cultivation of our own soil sjiall
have extended itself' to its utmost limits; but whether such ali:ega-
tion be correct in all its parts, or nut, it is unjust to the o.supiets of
the soil to admit such productions duty free, inasmuch as every such
admission tends to disable the occupiers et the soil from inquiet,. of
their rent, tithes, taxes, and wages, while it leaves them subject to .ill
the pains and penalties incurred by the emission to make good any
of those payments.
.6 Your Petitioners. therefore, humbly pray, that this Petition tray
be referred to a Committee of their honourable llouse, where evidence
may lw given in support of the allegations it contains; aim if it shall
there be made appear to be a just, equitable, and necessary measure,
then. but not otheiki-e, that all the productions of the soil of tr,.,
United Kingdom may in future be protected. from the inn ort A •
similar commodities, duty free. in as full, ample, and lieriefeial
iniumer as the merchants and tuanufacturem ot the United Kit gdoin
art:.by the Navigation Art, and other statutes attic realm. pr.dated
in their shipping and manufactories. from foreign competition, da,a,
free. And that your Petitioners may have such relict' as to the wis-
dorl of this !louse may aeenifit."
We also understand that Meetings will be held hi most. of
the comity towns of England mid Wales, for the purpose of
note completely effecting the object in rimy. A similar as•
se;nOlv of the Laiid-omierg, the rounlir• uf
Somerset and Gloncerder has breit held at iiristul, owl fr out
the vet rations Sal IOUS instructions have her it dist ri blued over
' the count rv, with 01 view to facilitate the circulation said N-
I nature of tile Petit iow.

BATH %021)11.1AY Suicinc.—...Thursday looming Mr. ,Turner,
who leaped out of his chamber window on Tin:stilly, in 11'ells-russet,
Oxford-street, having previously rut his throat, died in the MaWle.
KIK 110;031 ;Ir. 't. had bevn very unwell for some time. and for
several ,lay, prior tohis coinini,sion of the Nein, act, he arm ev.d nu
uv-
a ct.l mlu mind. razor with which the union• natal
iisan cut 'his ttiroat could no where be found ; arid a deep tut s bieh
teas on tit,. side of the deceased was sum used .0 he inltiett• la his
f Xing on some iron railing when be threw hi t,elf from tae wt„vow,
Such. however, were mistaken conclusions, for since hisileatti
medical gentlemen at the hospital. on opening the hotly or the dc.
ceased, found the razor with wl.ich he tut his throat, or i:
lying very near hi. heart. it appears that after he rat hit then.. 14
tilt a deep womal in his sid.:„ aotl having opened e • :mot, he aria t
it into the aperture. whieb•closied top, and wl he alai 'Ain t::e
hospital, the wound was sewed up by 1.4). ..upir Lift that
any thing was in the blade.

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LONDON:

MOND.IY, NOI'EMBEI? 30, 1818.

Ftvat the LONDON G.IZETTE, Saturday, Kut..
BANKItITTri ENLARGED.
HARRY!. T. C. Oakinativics, I►cwon. banker, Irom Dec. 8, to

RANNIW 1"ITY PPRSEDED.
Mr.m.oa R. Oldham, Lancaster. grocur.
11A N MUTTS.
Wittvl: J. Portland Strso, l'ortlaud Place, merchant. Ht.:. 5, 12,
Jau. at tt. Mr. Mutton, Old II; oad Stre:t.
I. tx J. Liverpool, so.spboilcr. Dec. 19. a, Jan. 9, at I.i..erpocl. Atts.
Lowe and Co.S r ithanipton Buildings, Chancel), Lane.
' !T. LIE as C. F. Lesibury, I lereford. druggist, Dee. 7,8, Jan. 9, at
Bristol. Au. Mr. 'fhotopeon. Gray', Inn.
Ilowaan .1. Mitldletua Street, Clerltenwdl.lmilder, Dec. I, 8, Jan.
9, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Ca.stle. Con.itor Street.
R :)SIN SOX N./ate of SnicAley, Lancaster, manufactoter, Dee. 11.
12,Jan. 9, at Manchester. Mt. Mr. Makinson, Tempt:.
Iklt re 11 F:I.L 1. Niarple, Chster.rnlll.n, Dec. 17, 18, Jan. 9. at Man
cheater. Mt Mr. NlakiNson, Temple.
Bat: E nr. J. Craven Str,st. Strand. wine merchant, nec• 1.19. Jan.
V. at Guildhall. Arta. Fynmore and Co. ('raven Street. Strand.
IDlcut xs W.jun. Hodford Mills, Northampton, miller. Dec. 1.:9,
Jan. 9, at Gteldhall. Atts. Shearman col Co. lied Lion Square.
31ut.oc1t T. and atoms 11. Liverpool, merchants. Dec. 9, 10, Jan.
9, at Liverpool. Atts. Avian' and Co. Castle 'Street. Holborn.
liErw W. Neweastle-under-Lytite. Stafford, Dec. 12. 5, Jan. 9, at
Newcastle-under-Lyme. Atts. Harvey and Co. Lincoln's Ina

liens
IlunMESJ.l.iverpool druggist. Dec. 42. 23, 3.01. 9, at Liverpool.
Atty. Blackgrock sad Co. Temple.
Facia* J. Haim!. linendraper, neC. 9. Jan. 9, at Nottingham.
Aua. Hurd and Co. Temple.
1/Anta T. You'll. Stafford. tape maattfaceurer, Dec. 9. 10, Jan. 9,
at Yoriall. Attu Willis and Co. %Vint Court.
emityx M. and M. C. Brawl Street. Ratcliire, stationers. Dec. 1, t 9,
Jan. 9. at Guildhall. Atts. anti Co. Spital Square.
DlosEr J. Lime Street, merchant, Dee. 8, li. Jan. 9, at Guildhall.
At Mr. Itivington, Fencliti:Th
DIVIDENDS.
W. Wit. Afarstlen. Laneacter, cotton spinnctr. Dec. 19.
W. Garth. liall:rrove, Lancet,: r, cotton spinner, Dec. Iy.
N. Damn. Bristol, linendraiwr, Dec. 22.
H. Swinge. Canterltury. wonllendraper. Dee. V.
S. Price. Earrtntlev. ilereit'rd, shopkeeper, Dee. 2tt.
P. Walker. II olkorn, bookseller, Dec. If.
,1. Bentley and J. Beck. Cornhill, watch makers. Dec. 19.
Treliarne, Carmarthen, dealer, Dec. SO.
11. Meaeoek. Liverpool, ship chandler, 1)ec.22.
.1. 11. ()liver, Blackheath, mariner. Jan 5.
11: Dalrymple, Cliallotte Street. Fitzroy Square, cabinet maker,

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1.9.
N. Wood, Chichester, linendraper. Dec. 19.
I'. Holmes, Kersham. Surrey, nurseryman, Dee. 22.
F. Devereaux and M. Lambert, Brabant Court, I'lUlpot Lane, met-

chants, Dec. 19.
Stanley, Wood Street. Cheapside, scale maker. Dec. 19.
Fthell, late of Birmingham, upholder, 11cc. 19.
W. Oldtoyd, Blackman Street. Surrey, bookseller. Dec. 19.
B. Binyon, jun. and G. Inglis, Manchester, warehousemen, Dec. 1.
W.lioltlsworth, Bradford, and .1. lioldsworth, Alorley,York, watch-
martrs, Dec. ::1.
W. Wort:mior, Leamington Priors. Warwick, bookseller, Dec.2B.
C . (WOO& late of Marlborough. baker, Jan. Is.
r._llouper and T. Bedford, Bartholomew Close, timber merchants,

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Dec.
N. Bourne, St. James's Street. silk fiercer, Dec. 19.
A. Wilkinson, and G. Cooke, Wa'brook, merahunts, Dec. 19.
CEIII.II,ICATES—nEe. 19.
Wu:. 11idJan, Clem nes Lane. Lombard Street, tea dealer—S.
Levy, Manse! Street, Goodin:m.4 +kids. tailor—Wm. Smart, Brad.
ford, c lot h ier —J . Waterwm th, N 1 ancbester, horse dealer-11. ft ud ki
arid T. Johnson, Great Co gesliall, Essex. stocking inakets--Janies
Breese, I 'acrswyt. Montgomery, grocer—F. Ridding, Birmingham,
tanner—T. Wright, Leicester, victualler—J. Pugh, Tvn y foch,
I.laofiangel y Pennant. Merioneth, tknnen—J. J. Tilley, lianipt.tmil,
udder—W. Grisentliwaite, South (.yon, Norfolk, diuggist—
W. Whitby, Clement's Lane, drug broker.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

Friday was the appointed time for the fourth instal-
lment on the Loan; Iff per Cent. on Exchequer Bills
and 3 per Cent. Consols were paid up. The amount of
each was by no means considerable, the greater pro_
portion having been paid in advance. The next in-
stalments will be 11th Dec., lith January, and 19th
February_

We have received New York Papers to the Ist inst.
If the intelligence from America be correct, the Go-
vernment of the United States has at length performed
its promise of surrendering the Floridas to the autho-
rised agents of Spain. The following is an extract :

" NIOI,ILE, OCT. Q.—Mr. Collins, from Pensacola,
arrived in town last evening from that place, and
states that Colonel King had received orders from Wash-
ilgton to deliver it up to the Spanish authority.

Mince the arrival of Mr. Collins, a letter has been
received from a gentleman at Pensacola, to a gentleman
in this town, stating that the order of Col. King was to
deliver up that place and its dependencies to any Spa-
nish officer authorised to receive the same by the Spa-
nish Minister Don Onis—thc Captain General of the
ilavannah, or by the late Governor Masott."

Accounts have been received from St. Domingo. of
the fith October. Those from Cape Henry give no
coontenance to the report of a severe engagement
li t..veen the forces of Christophe and Boyer. The
former ha:l rendered himself very unpopular of late, by
compelling a great number of Mulattoes on the coast
to marry troops under his command. Clicistoplic
:weer appeared in public without a large party of his
guards, anal r:Tres;:atcl as being much afraid of

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

A Supplement to die Gazette of last 'Tuesday was
published yesterday containing dispatches from Bom-
bay.

The only despatch of which we have not had the
full details, is a letter from Lieutenant Colonel Cun-
ningham, doted Camp, near Pritchetghur, June 10,
1 8 18. The particulars of the capture of this tort are
highly creditable to the valor of the troop employed,
and to the skilful arrangements of the Commauding
Officer, Colonel Cunningham. The despatches from
the Glvernor in Council at Bo.nbay, dated June '2.2,
and I.*)th July, further zumounce, the unconditional
surrender of the fort and district of Vcseadroog to the
British Government, which completes the conquest of
the sAtthern Coreaa ; and that by letters received from
Ser.mor, it appears that the garrison of Mallignum had
surrendered to Lieut. Col. I\i'Dowall.

The following is a private letter from Paris, dated
Nov. !.).1 :—" I loose no time in communicating to you
this important intelligence, that the Ministry have de-
termined on suppressing the preliminary censure to
which the French journals were subjected and of pro-
posing a special law for their regulation. The matter is
to be immediately discussed in the Council of State ;
and T am inflamed that the clauses of the law compre-
hend every species of offence, and even discriminate
with precision between the various shades of calumny
and scandal. The newspapers will not from the Ist of
January, appear by priuitege as heretofore ; but a der).
zit of 72,000 livres will be required, bearing interest of
4 per cent., and serving as a caution. From this mass
the fines to which the Editors may occasionally be
condemned will be collected, and they will be obliged
to complete the original sum within a given period.—
The cognizance of all matters relating to newspapers
will be exclusively left to a jury, as in England.

The Paris journals insert a paragraph from Valen-
ciennes, descriptive of the joy which was manifested by
the inhabitants of that frontier fortress, on the day of
its evacuation by the British troops. It was on the
19th that the 52d regiment (light infantry) gave up
the town to the National Guard, and commenced its
march to the port of embarkation. The people shouted
Vive le Roi, and every house was decorated with the
Bourbon colours. At the same time we are assured,
that no excess was committed, nor insult offered to the
British garrison, ut the moment of surrendering their
trust.

An interesting question has just been tried before the
Court of Cassation at Paris, the decision of which, by
the Judges, can hardly fail to be received throughout
111 e French monarchy with sentiments of the warmest
approbation. A minor Court, that of Correctional Po•
lice, at Gap, had fined a l'rotsstaut, of the name of
Roman, for refusing to hang out ta►►estrics upon the
front of his house, while the (to him idolatrous) spec-
tacle of the Host was pa►sing, although enjoined there-
to by the Mayor of the little town of Lourmarin. M.
Roman appealed from this enlightened sentence ; and
the Court of Cassation at once reversed the judgment
of the Court below. Considering the impulse which
since the year 1789 has been given to the public mind
of France, on all subjects connected with religious to-
leration, we conceive the security and satiFf4etion af-
forded to the people by this formal decision after a pub-
lic appeal, of the utmost importance to the peace of the
country, and the consequent stability of the Royal
House of Bourbon.

Accounts from Brussels, by the Flanders mail, inforM
us, that the Duke of Wellington was expected there on
Monday last from Aix-la-Chapelle. The Empress
Dowager of Russia, with the Emperor Alexander, took
leave of the Netherlands on the 21st, the Prince and
Princess of Orange attending them as far as Liege.—
Much astonishment is exhibited, and well it may, at
the mention- of a plot, for seizing the person of the Em-
peror of Russia, by a set ofcrack-brained Frenchmen, as his
Majesty was journeying from Aix-la-Chapelle to Brus-
sels. The illustrious prisoner was, as the story goes, to
hay,: been forced, on pain of death, to declare the Son
of nnonaparte " King of France," and the Duchess
of Parma, " Regent ! ' The conspirators had procla-
mations ready, addressed to as many gulls as could be
found among their countrymen, for the purpose of excit-
ing an insurrection against the Bourbon Government.
We learn from Brussels, that nothing could exceed
the magnificence of the Imperial Russian Visitors. The
Empress Dowager has deposited in the Bank at Brus-
sels 40,0001. sterling, to pay for the expenses of her
visit, and has declared, that she will not take any part
of it back with her. Every thing Russian is, of course,
quite in fashion.
His Grace the Duke of Wellington, in dining with
the Emperor Alexander, on Sunday, for the first time,
in his quality of Field Marshal of Russia, was dressed
in the Emperor's own coat. As the party was composed
of Russian General Officers, invited to meet him and
congratulate bins on his new dignity, it was indispen-
sibie that he should appear in a Russian unifbrm ; and
as the time was too short to admit of providing one,
the Emperor most condescendingly offered his own.

NOV. SO

The German mail brings intelligence from Vienna,
that the Hereditary Prince and Princess of Hesse
Hombourg are on the point of repairing to Hungary,
where his Highness the Prince 6 to command in chief,
under the /Irchdu Lc Ferdinand. Apartments are pre.
paring in the Castle of Ofen, to receive the Hereditary
Prince anti his Royal consort. Baron Frimont, who
has been spoken of with such respect in the French
iournals. fir his exemplary conduct while at the head
of the Austrian contingent, on the French territory,
k appointed to the chief command in the kingdom of
Venice ; and Count Nubna to the Mlle bi'h rOSt in
Lonibudy. A report is mentioned in these papers, to
the effect that the Emperor of Russia d to cede
the Polish kingdom to his brother Constantine, and to
indemnify hiutrelf in the South of Europe; but that
France resists the proposition.

We cannot colkc. t the slightest information from the
Flemish papers, as to the actual causes Of the late ar-
rests. Many of the pristmers are said t 3 have bw
miamined, but the result of the interrogatories has bees
kept a protintad secret:

A letter from I lainhurgh, dated Nov. 20, states,
that the existing laws of customs and excise, which
were only enacted provisionally in the year 1814, are
orderul to c9ntinue in free another year. Large sums
in speci;,, e;;ielly consisting; of five franc pieces, had
been remitted from England but the scarcity of money
continued to be sensibly ft.'•lt, as the exportation of
gold and silver, both coined sad iu bars, to Russia, still
remained a good commercial speculation. A merchant
of Hatnburgh had recently dispatched to Petersbur:.7lt
gold to the value of 1,500,000 francs ; it was conveyed
in two post chaises, under the escort of two of his
clerks. A Colonel in the Danish service, nanied Ha&
tier, has been presented, by the Senate, with a valua-
ble service of plate, on the occasion of his return from
Frankfurt, where he assisted at the meeting: of the
military Diet. M. Haffner commanded at bAltona, in
the year 1813, at the time Marshal Davoust was in
possession of Hamburg'', when he repeatedly employed
his good offices in &vonr of the city, and is summed,
by his influence, to have inclined the Marshal to more
favourable terms, during the ne,rociations carried on at
Ilamblirgh. Accounts from Copenhagen state, that
one of the principal war commissaries there, who had
been convicted of embezzlement, has been condemned
by the high tribunal to five years' imprisonment in the
House of Correction.

The American papers assert, that orders have been
issued by the Government of the United States, for the
indemnification of those British merchants who had
suffered from an erroneous exaction of duties in the
ports of the !United States during the summer of I 8 15,
by immediately repaying them the amount of the duties
thus wrongfully demanded. The same papers present
us with the decision of Judge Nen Ness, in the South-
ern district Court of New York; whereby it is settled
that the United States will not take cognizance of acts
of hostility committed upon the Spanish flag, in vessels
fitted out from the ports of the Union, by naturalized
citizens of the United Provinces of South America.—
This is justly characterized as u highly important de-
cision.

Lord Nfulgrave, it is said, retires from the Master-
Generalship of the Ordnance. The uncertain state of
his Lordship's health is assigned as the cause. We are
not without Lopes, that the salary of this office may, at
least in time of peace, be saved to the public, by the
amalgamation of the duties with those some other
bureau.

Tuesday W. D. Best, Esq. was appointed one of the
Judges of the Court of King's Bench ; and R. Rich-
ardson, Esq one of the Judges of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas. Mr. Serjeant Copley is expected to be
the new Chief Justice of Chester, vice Mr. Serj,mint
Best.

Guilford, Wedneeay Evening, Nov. f 25,
Mr. Serjeant Best has officially announced, this day,
that he has accepted the high office of Judge, and wiil
set out from this place on Friday next. This circum-
stance has caused a great bustle in the town of Guild-
ford. Mr. Frankland, of hashing, has been very active
in canvassing, but his political creed will not go down
with the Gentlemen of the Corporation ; therefbre,
C. B. Wall has been fixed upon to succeed the Hon!
Sergeant. Mr. Wall, with his uncle, Sir Thomas
Baring, accompanied by the principal inhabitants of
Guildford, immediately commenced a canvass, in which
they met with the most decided success. NIL.. Wall has
the best claim upon the inhabitants of Guildtbrd of any
in the neighbourhood. We believe his politics to be
free and unbiassed, and we believe him to be a sincere
friend to religious toleration.

LORD ELLENnonouon.—His Lordship, we are ex.
tremely sorry to announce, is considered to be in a
worse state than he has been for sonic time before. The
Bishop of Chestcr is arrived in town to attend his suf-
fering brother.
WESTMINSTER ELECTION.—Copy of a letter from
Sir Francis Burdett to Mr. Brooks:—

"Kirby Pvrk, Nov. ?A, t
" DEAR St R,—l beg I.eave to transmit a draft for !med. for the
expenses of Mr. Ilubliou is ei ai ion . and to state to the Committee
my readiness to attend teem. in any way they may think wan!, Mr
seeming the indepenthmte of NVe.twitister. I remain. dear e.ir.
>ours. very sincerely. " FRANCIS BURDE'fI.
" All. S. Bruuks, Chalrlllll4 of die Westminster Llection."

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NOV. 30