The National Register.
London, England, 1822-05-06 00:00:00

BANKRUPTCIKs SUPERSEDED.

Chinnoelt, Fiume Selwood, Somerset, builder.
S. Burrows, Miles's Line, Cannon Sneer, wine merchant.
BANKRUPTS.

M. 11. Smith, Burslent, Starordshire, draper. SolLitors,
Messrs. Williams and Co. Lincoln's Inn.

F., E., and IL Willett, Thettind, Norfolk, bankers. Solo.
Messrs. Blagrave and Co. Symend's Inn.
.1. Hudson. Clverston, Lancashire, victualler. Sol. Mr.
Blakelock, Sergeant's Inn.
11. Orme, Liverpool, common brewer. Sole. Messrs. /idling-
ton and Co. Redbird How.
J. Sykes and J. Hollis, Manchester. iron and copper dealers.
Sols. Messrs. Adlin. 'on and Co. Bedford How.
D. Jones, Liverpool, draper. Sole. Ales us. Blackstock seal
Co. Temple.
J. Sansoin, Exeter, china dealer. Sol. Mr. Brutton, Old
Broad Street.
J. Salmon, Canterbury Square, Lambeth, coal merchant. Sol.
Mr. Harris, Surrey Street, strand.
L. Jones, Deptford Bridge, Kent, grocer. Sol. Mr. Nl`Duff.
Castle Street, Holborn.
W. Attree, Brighton, coachmaker. Sol. Mr. Hunt, Surrey
Street, Strand.
J. Rout, Wl.itecliapel, linen draper. Suls. Messrs. Fibber
and Co. Furnival's Inn.
DIVIDENDS.
May 23, T. Ackland, jun., Greenwich, Kent. butcher-14. S.
Beaumont, Beech Street, Barbican, cabinet maker-25. L. Fos-
ter, Famingham, Kent, miller-25, .1. Zimmer, Welbeek Street.
Cavendish Square, merchant-25, It. S. lUingworth. Waterloo
Place, Pall Mall, wine merchant-25, S. Rucker, Old South Sea
House, Broad Street. merchant-25, R. Chapman. Hammer-
smith, surgeon-27, J. Featherstone, Worcester, victualler-27.
T. Gallon, Leeds, stuff merchant-29, E. Peters, Bristol, grocer
—2B, W. Williams and A. Whyte, New Bond Street, hatters-
-11, Miller, Ernsworth. Southampton, ropernaker-26, T.
Wright, Stourport, Worcestershire. timber merchant-30, T.
Woolven, Andover, linen draper-29, It. Reynolds, Shobrooke.
Devon, tanner-3 t, J. Pearce, Horningsham, Wilts, farmer-
-18, H. Newman, Skinner Street, currier-25,J. Denting, Cum-
berland Street, Marylebone, carpenter-28, J. Richards, E. C.
Richards, and J. Richards, jun., Mania's Lane, merchants-25.
T. !nebbish', Leeds, stationer-IS, J. Abbott, Weymouth
Street, Portland Place, butcher—June 1, E. 0. Edwards, Mi.
Dories, merchant—July 6, J. M. Fuller, Worthing, Sussex, linen
draper.
CERTIFICATES to be granted May 25.
S. C. Alger, Commercial Road, porter merchant—M. Johnson,
Leeds, woollen cloth merchant—T. Woodward, Bridgewater,
druggist—W. Cotton, Castle Donnington, Leicestershire, baker
—.J. Milne, Liverpool. painter—T. Broad-it. Bradford. York.
grocer—.S. W. Darke, Red Lion Square, picture dealer—R. P.
Alvin, Elm Street. Gray's Inn Lane, brewer—Nl. Denby, Lucas
Street, Commercial Road, master mariner—T. Congdon, Tor-
quay, Devon, merchant—J. Larbalestier, Throgtnorton Street.
wine merchant.

COURSE OF EX
Amsterdam, 12 5 C. F.
Ditle,s4 sight, 12
Rotterdam, 12 6
Antwerp, 12 1
Hamburgh, 37 2
Altoaa, 37 3
Paris, Sdays' sight , 25 20
Ditto, 25 50
Rourtleauz, 25 50
FrankfortuutheNlaiae,ls4
Petersborgh, 9 3 U.
Vienna, Ef. Flo. 10 10
Trieste, Ef. Flo. 10 10
Madrid, 37—Cadiz. 36b
Bilboa,36.l—Barcelona, 36

;HANGE, MAT 3.
Seville, 36/—Gibraltar,3oi
Leghorn, 471—Genoa, 41
Malta,43—Venice, 27 Mt
Naples, 40—Listrosi SO}
Oporto, 31—Babia;51
Rio Janeiro, 48
Palermo, 118
Dublin, U 3 per cent.
Corlr, 9 per cent.
Foreign gold in bars,3l. I7s.

_
100. per oz.
New Doubloons, 31. 13..
New Dollars, as. 101.
Silver in baisoitanclard, As.
Dad.

PRICE 04
Rank Stork 238
3 per Cent. Red. 771
3 per Cent. Consols 71:11
34 per Cent.
4 per Cent. Ole
S per Cent. Navy 1021
Lout Auu. 191

'STOCKS.
°annum 0.
Imp. 3 per Cent.
India Bonds 58
India Stock 241
Exchequer 81116 4s. prem.
Cons. for Ac. 78i
Lottery "fleketx

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

tont3on :
MONDAY, MAY 6.

In the fullest House of Commons we ever re-
member coming to a division, Mr. Canning's motion
for restoring to the Catholic Peers the right of sit-
ting and voting in the House to which they belong
by birth, and of which they were deprived in the
reign of Charles 11. was carried on Tuesday night
by a majority of FIVE.-Mr. Canning's eloquence
never shone more brilliantly—was never exerted
more metitoriously, and we must now wait to see
whether the House of Peers, will confirm this act
of justice of the House of Commons.—We know
great opposition will be made there—we shall see
the Lc.rd Chancel:or leaving the Woolsack to shed

Lis crocodile tears of hypocrisy, and declaring—
"So help him God, he is only actuated by his
feelings of duty."—We shall see the Lawn Sleeves,
with but one honourable exception, held up against
this measure founded only in bare Justice—yet we
Lave reuson to hope all will not do.—Those who
are most competent to judge upon such a subject,
calculate on a majority of THREE in the House of
Lords, after which we think too highly of the
King's prudence to suppose, that he will interpose
his veto against a law of so necessary conciliation.
Lord Londonderry's motion on the distresses of
the Country, will be argued again this evening—
and till it is disposed of, we shall withhold our
comments—we may however observe, that his plan
embraces many subjects totally distinct from Agri-
cultural distress which it is avowedly to relieve,
and exterds to points which ought to have been
discussed independently of that momentous topic.
1 A frequent repetition of degradation produces cal-
losity of feeling, and the present Ministers having
many times endured the vote of a majority of the
House of Commons, in opposition to their views and
wishes, still hold their places, under such circumstan-
ces as no man, not lost to all that delicacy that ought
to belong to exalted birth, would condescend to re-
main in office, only for the sake of what the law calls
" filthy lucre." The motion of Lord Normanby for
the reduction of one of the Postmasters General was
renewed in an altered shape on Thursday night, and
was carried against the whinings of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer and the bullyings of the Marquis
of Londonderry,by a triumphant majority of fifteen!
—lt most be a source of consolation to every real
friend of his country to find that the House
of Commons,. bud as it is, is not so bad as it
was thought to be—that " the Devil is not so
blank as he has been painted" and as we know
the force of public approbation, or execration on
the worst of mankind, we ardently hope that the
thanks of the country on this occasion, will urge
the Members to proceed in the honourable course.
—Mr. Frederick Robinson, who upon. the late de-
bate upon the Post Masters General, impudently
avowed the necessity of retaining them to support
the influence of the Crown in that House, did not
speak at all on the second agitation of the question.
His colleagues had doubtless schooled him, on the
imprudence of being too honest, or toe 'candid, and
he was silent.

STOCt-EIctIAIME, SA T DA r, 12 O'CLOSIL
Although the French snail is arrived, we do not
hear any information, up to this•hour, by the private
letters, in regard to the affairs of the RUssiens and
Turks—and we still remain in the same uncertain
state. Consols are 791 for the account, and for
money 79, with little or no business transacting.
HALT-PAST ON O'CLOCILMr. Rippon, from
Mr. Hase's office, has this moment notified to
the gentlemen on the Stock Exchange, that
Lord Liverpool would be ready at twelve o'clock,
on Tuesday next—to Receive proposals for the
now annuities. Consols immediately dropped one-
half per cent. So little is the plan either wi.
derslood or relished, that the opinion of the House
appears decidedly against it. Unless the Bank
shall, to prevent the total failure of the scheme,
take upon itself to make the bargain, there is but
little expectation that the negotiations can be effected.
—To sanction the directors in an operation of this
nature, we apprehend the assent of a Court of Pro.
prictors might be deemed essential.

A beautiful diamond ring has been presented to
J. P. Thomas, Esq. of 22, Dean-street, Southwark,
Member of the Athenian Society, by several mem-
bers of the public press, as a testimony of their
approbation of his legal and. constitutional argument
against the alleged judicial right of restraining the
publication of reports of judicial proceedings, as
lately assumed against the Editors of the public
newspapers, wrongfully, and against the luws of na-
tions, as Mr. Thomas contends.

The Adelphi Theatre is almost as popular now
as it was during the run of Tome and Jerry, and the
♦tntriluquistical powers of M. Alexandre merit the
support they meet—his changes of thess aro made
with unequalled speed and dexterity, and the won-
derful command he has of the muscles of his face
LT reputedly convulsed us with laughter.

TAE NATIONAL ItE(IISTER

DUEL BETWEEN THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM
AND THE DUKE OF BEDFORD.

".We are authorised to state, that a meeting tok place
on Thursday morning, between the Dukes of Bedford
and Buckingham, accompanied by Lord Lynedoch and
Sir W. Wynn, its consequence of worth used
by the former at the Bedfordshire County Nleeting,....
Both parties fired together, at the distance of 12 paces
on a word given, . hot without effect, when the Duke of
Buckingham observing that the Doke of Bedford fired
into the air, advanced-to his Grace, and remarking, that
for that reason the thing could go on no further, said—
" fly Lord Duke, you are the last man 1 wish to quarrel
with ; hut you must be aware that a public Fll,llll's life is
not worth pre serving unless with honour." Upon which
the Duke of Bedford declared, " Upon his honour, that
he meant no personal offence to the Duke of Bucking-
ham, nor to impute to him any bail or corrupt motive
whatever." The parties then shook hands, and the
whole business was terminated most satisfactorily.—The
duel, we understand, was tonght in Kensington
(MIS."

The above account of the recent duel we copy
from one of the vilest of the Ministerial Prints, to
which it was doubtless sent by the Duke (late the
Marquis) of Buckingham, as it
" Vouches for his valour's reputation."
Our detestation of the barbarous custom, and the
grounds of that detestation on the score of justice,
morality, and religion, are already known to our
readers—in the present instance we must say, we
consider the conduct of the Duke of Bedford as
without excuse; how dared he run the hazard of
risking a second time, a life so valuable to his
Duchess, his children, his country, and the world,
by throwing away his first shot—and for what?
Why, for the sake of consulting the safety of a man
whose death would have affected only his own im-
mediate dependents. The Duke of Bedford ought
to have. remembered, that a hair of his head was held
in higher estimation than the persons of a whole
Peerage of Dukes of Buckingham. Had Haulier s
expression of
"A Rat, a rim,
" Dead for a Ducat dead"—
been realized, we should have regretted it ; but had
the Duke of Bedford winged or legged his anta-
gonist, he would have learnt from his sufferings that
political apostacy is not unattended by danger.

The Prince of Denmark is on his way to pay a
visit to this country, with his Princess, and a nume-
rous retinue. One of the royal yachts will proceed
to Calais in a few days, for the purpose of conveying
his Royal Highness and suite to Dover.
Advices have been received from Cape Coast Cas-
tle, stating that the Dutch Government has sent out
to the Government and resident of their settlement
of Elwina Castle full permission to sell canoes to
the Portuguese and other slave-traders, thereby
affording great facility to that traffic ; and that in
consequence many slave-vessels had anchortd at that
port, and have been amply supplied. The settle-
ment on the Gold Coast has bean very unhealthy•
last year.

HOP DtPrt.—Another conference has taken place
between Sir John Geers Cotterell, accompanied by
Viscount Eastnor, Sir Thomas Winniagton, Sir C.
Burrell, and Mr. Curteis, member for Sussex, and
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, relative to a re.•
duction of the hop duty for the last and all future
years. The Chancellor had taken some time to
consult the Board of Excise upon the measure, but
he has now fully acceded to the strong representation
and arguments made use of by the above highly
respectable persons. He has, however, agreed to
postpone the payment of the last year's duty (‘‘ hich
has usually been made at this time), and to let
it be paid by instalments on the sth of July, 10th
of October. and 10th of November. By this ar-
rangement, considerable relief will be afforded to
the hop-growers, and the bond before required will
be dispensed with, and a simple note of hand by two
persons will be accepted.for the stipulated payment,
by which the stamp duty will be trifling.
On Tuesday the annual meeting of the Church
Missionary Society, was held at Freemason's Ta-
vern—Lord Gambier, in the chair. The report
which was read, stated, that the subscriptions for
the last year amounted to 8.5.),9761. being 20001.
more than the preceding year, which also exceeded
the year before by a similar sum. The report also
stated, that the missions were experiencing the
greatest success, especially in India and Africa; and
it contradicted a statement made in a former report,
that the inhabitants of Wertern Africa were cani-
bals.—Lord Rocksavage, Lord Caltborp, Mr. IVil-
berforce, Mr. Buxton, Mr. Thornton, and several
other distinguished persons, addressed the meeting,
and expressed their confidence that the labours of
the society would be productive of the greatest
blessings to heathen nations. Mr. Buxton stated,
that there were still 800 millions of our fellow-
creatures without the knowledge of Christianity,
and that 800 females had perished loft year in In-
dia on the funeral pile, victims of the cruel super-
stition under which that country still groans.


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MATS or SIR ISAAC HCARD.-The venerable
Sir hum Heard, Garter Principal King of Arms,
died at the Heralds College, on Monday morning
last, at a quarter past one o'clock. He was in the
92d year of his age, and had filled the distinguish..
ed office of Garter since April, 1784.
Sir George Nayler, Clarencieux King at Arms,
is appointed Garter King at Arms, in the room of
Sir I. Heard, deceased ; and Mr. Bigland, Norroy
King at Arms, is promoted to Sir George Nityler's
vacant office of Clarencieux.

DUBLIN, MAT I.—On Monday last Sir Benjamin
Bloomfield arrive 3 at Howth at two o'clock. Sir
Benjamin left the Phenix-park, on a visit to his
Excellency the Marquis Wellesley.
A Court of Aldermen is summoned to assemble
at Guildhall, on Tuesday next, the 7th instant, to
swear in the Common Sergeant, to appoint a Keeper
of Newgate in the room of Mr. W. R. H. Brown,
whose resignation has been received by the Lord
Mayor, and on other business. Mr. Wontner suc-
ceeds Mr. Brown.

Letters have been received from Malta of the 10th
of April. By these information has come to hand
of the Greeks having completed their Government,
on the European system, at Corinth, and that great
order and a just obedience to the laws universsally
prevailed.
On the 6111 of April, the Yarmouth brig Sala",
Captain Fill, arrived at Odessa, in 46 hours from
Constantinople, bringing letters from thence of the
3d of April.
It was mentioned in our Old Bailey report a few
days ago, that the business of the Sessions was de-
layed one morning, on account of there not being
an Alderman present. It seems that the Alderman
in turn had engaged another to appear for him, by
whom thu engagement had been forgotten,—at least
as far as attending on the Bench was concerned.—
Both the worthy aldermen, however, were present
at the dinner.
t,LoNoEvtrs.—A Mrs. Desmond died a few days
ago, in the city of Cork, atthe advanced age of 114.
years. To the last bout she retained her faculties,
and remembered many circumstances that occurred
in her youth.

A letter from Frankfurt, dated the 20th ult.
announces the arrival of the Emperor Alerand2r at
Minsk on the 15th, and adds that all advices from
the North are of a warlike tendency ; and a letter
from Lemberg, of the 16th, affirms that the Russian
army has passed the Pruth at several points.
During a thunder storm on Tuesday, the 23d ult.
a large tree in the Earl of Caryfort's park at Elton,
was struck by lightning, and a sheep which was lying;
at the foot of it was killed by the electric fluid..
The new visiting magistrates appointed fur ll-
chester gaol, at the Wells sessions, are General.
Bathurst, of Wookey, (son of the Bishop of Nor-
wich),, and W. Henning, Esq. the late sheriff, who
has not been a visitor of the gaol for the last ten.
years. On their first visit, the 20th ultimo, the.
day after Sir F. Burdett left lektr. Hunt, they gave
orders• for the high walls, which surrounded Mr..
• Hunt's and the adjoining wards, to be immediately
lowered, and the newt; which was closed, foie 4/1
°pets, for the free admission of the sun and air.—
By the promptness and activity of Mr. Hardy, the
governor, this long protracted nuisance is already
removed, and the walls lowered one half—so that
they are now only ten instead of twenty feet high..
The sun and air has penetrated these gloomy re-
cesses, from whence both had been excluded, by the
notable contrivance of the late gaoler, tea the last
twelve years. At the above sessions, a committee
of magistrates was appointed to visit all the prisons
in the county, with a view to the adoption of suds.
alterations in their management and discipline us
may appear desirable.. This clearly evinces the goad
effects which are likely to result limn the late in-
vestigations into the abuses of Ilchester gaol. Wa
trust this system of gaol rethrusation will. be fol.
lowed throughout the country.
A letter from Stockholm, dated April 19, says—
" Our Government has granted to all Spanish ships
in the ports of Sweden, the same immunities and.
privileges enjoyed by the must favoured nations."
On Monday morning, part of the 58th regiment
landed at Portsmouth, and the ether part, which
separated in a gale of wind, and was supposed to be
lost, arrived on Tuesday morning. They are quer-
' tezed at the Military Barracks, Gosport. This re-
giment embarked in October, 1816. from Ireland fee
Jamaica, where they have been stationed ever since,
and we are concerned to state, that they have lost
5. officers, 530 men, 110 women, and 200 children,
which have b...sen carried oft' by the local fever. The
inhabitants of Jamaica have equally suffe:red from
that dreadfully malady.
Upwards of 20001. of the bills stolen from. the
East Lothian Bank have been discounted at Liver-
pool.
The Will:am and Mary yacht, for the accommo-
dation of the Lard Lieutenant of Ireland, is refitting
at Portsmouth, and proceeds to Dahitu in a sautt
titne,