The National Register.
London, England, 1820-01-16 00:00:00

n:%l K Itt.'l"TS.

J. Trustrum. Great Strut, Surrey, carpenter. So.
Mr. Danner. flatten Queen.
G. TUiddy, Bread Street Hill, oilman. Sol. Mr. johlip S:zes.
Lune.
C. (1. Real, 11srbican Court, merchant. Soh: Messrs. Sw.ot
and Stokes. llasinghall
T. 1). SL George Smith. Rotherhithe. mek nnumfacturec.
Sol. Mr... Edmund:, Lincoln's lun.
Phillips, Asidarnha.u, Sussex. farmer. Sol. Mr. Ellis..
Tens4.lr,
li. Ferrer, Bread Street, warehouseman. Sol;. Messrs. Hurd
and Johnson, Temple.
I 11Cl6S. Nsssou Street, ,liddlesex 110-pi till, g131k5 (IrAlICi •
St Mr. Norton, New Union Street, Mouriiest!,4.
It. Thompson. and T. Moses, Patratli,e Row, Rotherhithc.,
wine merchants. but. Mr. Al utehison, Crown Court, Tnre...,-
needle Street.
W. C ,ainnan. Bishorseme Street Without, haberdasher. Sol.
Mr.' Fir:ea. 'l4.reartneetlle Street.
.1. Scott, Fore Struet, coin dealer. Sol. Mr. Wills, Mattis, •
.1. Fearnall, New Cross, Deptford, merehont. Sols. ,
‘Vtaitlward surd Nich:.l..s Lone.
T. Monis, Bristol. lint n t. Sol. Mr. Pearson, Pump
Court, Temple.
J. Rractitell, Leeds, York, innLeeper. Sul. Mr. Rause, ,
Chancery
Alorgan. Knighton, Radnorshire, woolstapler. Sol. Nlr.
Pugh, Euston Square.
C. Morrie. Cativo:l 'Aura, watehousentan. Sol. Nlr. Par-
tington„ Can.:tor Stceet, Chaatorp I .ane..
DIV WENDS.

Feb. 12, J.. ' gmeer—fi. J. noose..
Liverrid. inerehaint-4,. T. Ilia. 1.,...!‘k, werchant—a, .1. Jef-
fery, Tunbridge, Kent. rhopkeerer-.4. I. and lt. Corney. Ea t
India Chambers. merchants-5, I. Besford, Brook's 51rwts,
Hanover Square, haekileynam—.3, IV, Tomlinson, Nottingliain.
habettleslitts-5, T. Waters and W.firkin.., Pmtsmolith, .lop.
seller!-5..1.Tay10r. Ett:t Smithfield, tobacennist-s.'r.lltighes.
Ludgate Street, bookseller-7.J. Stokes Liverpool, merchant—
Maliinaonacniktome, York. merchant—K, J. Lever. Ashby
de la Zoned, I.eicesta, draper-5,T. Winstanley and W. Code.
Li vet pool, atvtitmeer,-5, J. • Wild. Hoeidaie, Lancashire,
glass dealer—S. 11.4 alverley. Megworth. Leicester. miller.
CERTIFICATES to be granted Feb. 5.
J. Colbourn. Pudding .I...ane. 11,11 eldesmon—G. l'arker, New
Shoreham. Sawa. . Wright... Bermondsey, xinegor
dealer—J. Shynn, llaldun, Inssex. wine mercham—.l. Wilson.
t):l Itmet Strati, merchant—W. Nla,thie and G. Yates, Liver-
pool, mereliatas—T. Rattray, Loner Thames Street. wine and
brandy it• I=lw-tit—W. Hughes and F. 'Todd, Great Winchester
Street. merthants—J: Hoffman. Mile End Road. brewer—W.
Linton, Colchester. linen draper—W. and J. Kilner, Mahler,-
field, York, merchants—W. Booth and I. Brandon, Bree:i
Swett, Barbican, ti.h merchants—T. Thompson. Laneast( r,
lc:weer—R. Wood, Hart Sucet, Blooinslfary S..uare, paper-
liaruer.

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the Christian Powers. Ile offers to ergage never
30 or to molest any foreign flag. It is said, on the
authority of an arti.de from Constantinople, that the
ILv of Alijers had been induced to rtket the
united propo,;:iens (It' Admiral Ft-cern:rule and the
Frc:ch Admiral .h.tine, chiefly through the title
represeotations of the person who has recently re-
turned from being the Ambassador to the Ilritish
Court, who ba.l the impudence, it i, said, to make
the Ihy believe, that England nevt.r was st tiously
btraile to the practictlt ut the Ilarb;iresque Powers.
Th •re was no public sittin,-; of either of flip
C' ainhers on Friday. ..f h:• Jortimal des Debater says,
"The St houli Of Nletlit•itie and of Law, in the
Academy of Tholoose. arc now the theatre of the
most tunitiltomis scenes. The French Court- is to
go into hair days mourning on account of the death
of the t lereditary Prince of Meeklenburo schwerin.
Tile letters of pardon, granted by his Majesty to
havalette, have been attlaressed to the.. royal court
of Strasburgh, instead of that of.P.irie, He must
therefore be brought buthre that court to plead his
Majesty's pardon, and have it registered, after he
has surrendered himself.. Ajury, consisting of,some
distinguished individuals in Stockholm, hits acquitted
the author of an alleged libellous pamphlet. entitled
" An Attempt tit give n change to opinion." The
Nuremberg Cormpomient cite: a letter tr,rm liio
.lanciro, of the sth October last, which announces
a rumour that prevailed there oCan utt,..mpt made
to liberate Buonaparte. It is said that un English
pauket had Liought to the Admiral on the St. Helena
~ration an order to remove the Fx-Emperor to the
te,'ape of Good Hope ; but it was soon discovered
that the document was false. it appears that a
project had been firmed to rescue BonAparte on the
passage, by means of five privateers, which had
been equipped in a port of South America.

MEETING roil. TILE RELIEF OP Till•' POOR.

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On Thumlay a numerocs• and mhst r< Tectah
meeting of the Nlerchants and Bankers, &e. of the
City of London took place at the Warehouse of An
'Hick, in London WO, for the put pose of taking into
immediate consideration the pressing distresses of

the poor in this inclement season.
At twelve o'clock the Lord Mayor took the
Chair. Amongst those who attended were the
Bishop of Chester, Sir John Lubbock, Mr. Barclay,
Mr. Ilanbury, Sc. The Meeting was advertised
ter eleven o'clock.
The Lord Alayor said upon t.iking the Chair, that.
he had delayed for an hour, in the expectation that
the Meeting would become numerous, an event
which could not be expected at a very early period
of the day, in consevenee of the shortness of the
no:ice. The sup jeer upon whi,:lt the Meeting was
called was alreauy well knows', and was one upon
which it was unnecessary to expatiate. Distress was
to be seen in. every corner I lick .leed etLred
his \Warehouse ter the service of those %elle had no
place to go to, until a remedy of a permanent
nature was finind. There were numbers of appli-
cations from those who had parishes, but there were
multitudes who had none, and who must perish it
assistance was not afforded. The plan hitherto
salopted (and it was a very inconvenient one) was
to ,gave such unfortunate persons a little temporary
relief front the picket of the Lord Mayor, or the
fund which was intended for other purposes,, and
send them about their business. The proposed
plan would have but a temporary operation, but
great benefits must arise from it, putting out of the
question the removal of misery from the eye of the
rublic.—(Applause)..
The Bishop of Chester said, he did not know,
until he looked into the papers, that the Meeting
was to take place- The moment he found it to be
the case be got into his Carlia;;C.—(Arplausc.)
There was no mode of .charity which was nut sub-
ject to objection ; but the asivuntages likely to arise
from this plan tar outweighed all possible disadvan
tines. He did not know how any one of the opu
kilt could enjoy the blesint..,s et wealth, When they
hood of their fellow creatures, particularly of tne
other sex, bin;, without a place to pail their.heads
in, without administering to their relief. His
Lordship- concluded, by wishing the most hearty
success to the proposal to be made for the relief of
the poor.---„Great applause.)
Mr. Bodkin, Secretary to the Mendicity Society,
stated, that the relict' which was intended to be
given to the poor, was called for by exigent.) and
the inclement season of the year, and woill cease
as soon :.3 that exigen y was at an mil
A genrlentan observed, that the practice of giving
haitpence to I),•gguas in the str,..ets, was our of the
greatest encouragements to the trade of begging.
lie trusted that the press %vowel inculcate this, and
he sties convinced that if that practice were pot 411
end to, the streets would nut be SO touch • lust dot
with begga, s.
After some further observations from other gentle-
men, Resolutions were proposed, that Mr. Hick's

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offer should be accepted ; that a subscription should
be opened ; that a COMM it we should be formed ;
and that there should be a mutual co-operatioa with
the Nientlieity Society.
Thee Resolutions were unanimously agre.el to.
M.. ilia stated, that he had 110 merit in doing
what it was the duty of e-ery man to do---tsmtrt
lea tiog his share towards the alleviation of t he t. xist-
ire; distress. Ile suggested, that the committee
should be au open one, and he trusted that the c at •
triberions would be such as to prove that, the
tvretched were not without ftietels in Lo uden.—
(Arplaitse.) • ,
It was resolved (het the Commlttee should oe '
open All the Aldermen V'cre alltiCti to it. Atnon;,;st
the Committee are the Lord Moyer, the Bishop of
Chester, Sir John Lubbock, Sir Charles Flower,
Mr. David Barclay, Mr. Ilanbury, &c. &e.
A- most active subscription toil place, Mr. Biel-
lin and Mr. Clarke were so ov _.whelewei with 101.
trews, that a request was made to ttie multitude to
pay in their Subscriptions to the banking house of
Srr John Lobbocke who was appointed treaswer.
In less than an hour npwaros of tiool. was re-
ceived en the spat ; and the subscriptions, which
are received by all the bankers in London and
Westminster, arc pouring in from all quarters with
a rapidity highly creditable to the national cha-
teeter.
The Lord Mayor, immediately after the meeting.
at Mr. Hick's warehouse in London Wall, wrote a
letter to Lord Selntouth, stetine, that he had been
give." to understand, that at a former period of great
inclemency of weather, Government had supplied
ti.c poor with covering from a quantity of old stores;
that a meeting hod taken t late in time City, fia the
put pose of reeeving the existieg distresses• of the
poor, and that if the Committee appointed to ma-
nage the subset iptions collected with that view, were
assisted by the same powerful and benevolent hand
that was su boantiful upon the occasion alluded to,
a very important service would be done. To this
application Lord Stdmouth replied with Lis usual
punctuaaty, that &there were any od stores, they
should certainly be applied to the cotrueentlable pur.
poses for which the meeting bad assembled. In the
early part of ye terday, tee Secretary to the Sea-
man's Committee, which has proved one of the most
active and efficacious. that ever sat, waited upon the
Lord Mayor, and stated, teat he was instructed by
the Committee to assure his Lordship„that their ex-
ertions should nutle wanting at this time of press-
ing exigency. Of late the Committee Lad merely to
attend to the applications of the sick, those who are
qualified to work having been, until within-a very
short time, supplied with ships. The Secretary ob-
served, that in consequence of the severity of the
season numbers of seamen were out of employment,
and the Committee had come to a determination to
sutler a temporary departure from their plan, and
co-operate with the efforts now malieg fir the be-
nelit of these. who could get no work. It was ob-
served upon.tho pert of the Lord Mayor that the
co-operation. which certainly must naturally have
been ertreted when the character of the Seaman's
Committee was considered, would tend to increase
the public confidence in the exertions of the City for
the relief of the pt»r. Other parts of the metropo.
Ls would no doubt join. The Upper Marshal stated,
that tour-fifths of those who were now is the Asylum
fire the houseless were seamen, and that many of
them were under orders ; but the severity of the
season, which had put a stop to employments of
certain kinds, left them wi•hout the means or op
portunity of supporting. themselees. The Secretary
to the Seamen's Committee admitted at once that
this was the case, and assured the Lord Mayor that
they had met with very few instances of deception
or idleness amongst their applicants for the lust six
months. The Society's ship had rot conveniences
our more tient were at present on board; 100, who
were stowed together as closely as was consistent
with health antreomthrt. The Lord Mayor said,
that the latter of Lord Sidmouth convinced hitn,
that the Government would do every thing in their
power upon such un eecasioe. The valuable addi-
tion of. the Committee just named, in conjunction
with those other benevolent societies which were
always heard of in times el:distress, would be ac-
knowledged by the lately formed instOtion with
every mark of approbation.