The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-22 00:00:00

No. 1 209.—Vi

THE KING AND MR. ADAMS.

sure/tee of the friendly disposition of the United States, but that
I am vety glad the choice has fallen upon you to ha thar minister.
I wish you, Sir, to behave, and that it may b: understood in Ame-
rica that I have done nothing in the late coittst but what
thougitt .myself indispensably bound to do, by the duty which
owed 1.) my people. will be very food( with you. I was the
but 10 COI: ,rlll to the separation • but the oit..ration having been
made, and having become inevitable. I have always said, a. I
say now, that I would be the tiroto meet the frieitd,itip of the
United Stites as an independent Pot :r. The 'moment 4 see such
tentirmtnt and language as your's prevail, and a diiposittou to
give this country the preference. that moment I shall say, let the
cireurest,ince of language, religion, and blood, have there natsual
and full t Krt."

than the test, by repeated hicisions with a knife and
piichfok„ made in 'betide and stomach, completed the
work of carn.tge. !'Tulin„ her an lunge( capable of ad-
mini:lei:lA 40 their horrd pleasures, they precipitated
site misshapen earca4s into an adjacent river, and coolly
iittimited a man who lived near in is. that there was a
W(0.1.113 drama ink die, perhaps, aware ear their charac-
ter, or at lest suspecting something, meld them i.e
would not open the door; that if the woman was
drowned his assistance could het& no use. They could
• pin no adeuilianct., and they raised; lt.eirdtanes ai.il
persons begriniell with gore. 'When .they had gon-,
the man came out and found ts hat tic him appeared io
have once !teen a II411)131) h.() Is, but so 111 aii.leteu as scarce
to retain the semblance. They were arrested, et.nvicted,
and received the,punishinclit they merited. Forty-eigln
hours Irma the time lenience was passtil were ailotted
to them. A clergyman of the Boman Catholic frith
attended, sin] we unit his constant admonitions were
n'n lost We saw them hi:itched into eternity before
thousands of spectators, front whom no groan of dissa-
tisi iciiote proceed, 11, aid the awful solemnity of winch
cannot fail to teach that C(Ittll try a deep, long, lessoi..
Bat we are fated to proceed in this +maid task ; the
following seta beheld Iwo more pay the deht of nature
for a crime, equal, if not superior iii magnimile, to what
we have related. Singular, melancholy, :.nil drtadt'ul
coincideoce--one (Irv, a man dies f..t I intirder of a
woman; the next, a woman dies for the murder of d
man, and that man her husband assi,tants, her
panders iu sill and genii, are her father and hz; !
A family feud lone exis ii between ti.e unhappy
baud and his wife's limits', which iht-,/ de:•ratmeci ou
conclu..ing by murdering the object of satiguinply
rage. The hoshaud had been from home, and had
drunk somewhat too freely. On his return his wise
met hint, and, Judas like,gsve him the fond 'aim-vim%
of a kiss, drew hint into the houserend coiling her arms
n 1 Will, seated kin in her lap, whilst her brother
beat out his M.Mus. 'Theifather, we have heard, was a
silent, though reluctant .spectator. ell the trial every
circtims,arice was 'fully proved against the brother and
sister. We need scarcely add they cuff. red fur the deed.

(From an American paper.)

'We arc nat aware that the following letter from
Mr. Adams, then our Ambassador in England, to
Mr. Jay, Secretary of State under the old confede-
ration, has ever been published. It is valuable
from the elevated char:l.:ter of the actors, and from
the interest of the scene described. Some of our
patriots, who think there is a natural repulsion be
tween independence and go•.xi breeding, may be
horrified at the courticr-like address of Mr. Adams,
.and feel quite indignant that republicanism should
have observed a proper decorum before royalty. We
Attain! in Mr. Adams's conduct that good sense and
dexterity that has distinguished most of our foreign
Ministers in their intercourse with European Courts.
The style is simple, and we think more republican
than the inflated bombast that characterises most of
our present •productions It is a but we seldom
meet—the plain lan,gusge of a sensible man:—

I ease not lay that these were the King's precise words: and
it is even possible that I may have in Genie panicularinietaken
his meaning ; for although his pronunciation is as (list/net as I
ever heard, he ha:sawed stamens:nes between his periods, and
between members cf the same period, lie woe, indeed, much
fflicted, and I was not lees so, and therefore, I carmot he certain
that I was so attentive, heard so clearly, and understood so per-
fectly, as so be cone:dent of all his words or sense; sad 1 think
that all which he said to me should at present he kept secret in
utilets his Alajeste or his sectary of State should
.nolge proper to ilepoetit. This Ido say, that the foregoing is his
eitejesef 's ineaaing, as 1 then understood it, arid his own words
nearly as I can recollect them.
The Krug then asked me whether I cams last from Prance ;
and upon my answering in the affirmative, he put on an air of
familiarity. and smiling. or rather laughing, said, " There is an
opinion among sonic people, that you arc notehe most attached
of all your countrymen to the manners of Prance." 1 was sue
prises; at tide because I thought it an indiscretion and a descent
from his dignity. I was a little embarrassed, bat ikteirnitted
to deny hie truth on the wee hand, nor leave him to lifer from it
any attachment Pt Englasel 02 the ether. I threw off as much
gravay as I could, and assumed an air of gaiety, and a tone of
decision, as far ss was deems, and said,—" That opinion, Sir, is
not mistaken ; I must avow to year .Majesty I have no attach-
ment but to tny.own country." The King replied as quick as
lightning. " An honest man will never have any °then"
The King then said a word or two to the Secretary of Stete,
which being between them I did not hear, and then turned »end
and bowed to use, as is customary with all Kings and Princes,
when they give the surnal to retire. I retreated, efei ping back-
wards, sis ix the etiqaette, and, making my last reverence at the
door of the chamber, I went my way.; the Maiter of the Cere-
monies jointed me the moment of my comirg out of the King's
closet, and actompanieelene through all the apartments, doe n to
my carriage, several etages of servants. gentlemen ;totters, and
under porters, naming out like thunder, as I went along, " Mr.
Adams's servants, Mr. Adams's eartiage,"
I have been thus minute in these details, because they may be
useful to others hereafter to know. The conver /vim with the
King I should not care to withhold from Congress. who will form
their own judgineet of it. I may possibli expect from it a resi-
dence here lees painful than I once expected, because se marked
an attention front the ling will silence many grumblers ; but
we can inter nothir.g front all this concerning the success of my
mission. There ix a train of mi:er ave.:monies to go through in
prestasittions to the ',.tiren, and visits to and from Mionitcre and
Ambassadors. which w ill take up much time. and interrupt toe
its my endeavours to obtain all that I have at beart, the objseas
of lay instructiuns. Thus it is that the essence of things is lost
in ceremony in every anmug of leuropr ; we must submit to
what we cannot alter. fc..tience is the only remedy.
With greet and sincere esteem, I have the hooour to be, dear
Sirersur 'poet obedient mid humble servant,
_ JOAN ADAMS.

4. Bath Hotel, Westminster, June 2, I 7 S.
" Dean Sta,—During my interview with the Marquis of
Carmarthen. he told me that it was customary for every foreign
Minister, at his first presentation to the King, so nueke his Ma-
jesty some compliments conformable to the spirit of his credentials;
mid when Sir elent.nt Critic I Donner, the Matter of theCere-
inclines, came to infirm nie that he should acearopany me to the
Secretary of State, and to Court, he said that reify foreign Ali-
tinter whoin he had ettmded to the Queen, had always made an
'harangue to her Mieeety, anti lie understood, though he had nut
been pesent. that they always harangued the King. On Tu. tidily
evening the Karen de Itmelen (Dutch Ambassador; called upon
roe, and said he came from the llsron de Welkin (Swedish In
soy), and had been concerning upon the situation! was in; and
they agreed in opinion that it was indieq.ensahle dist I should
make a speech,and that it should be as complimentary as posssAde.
All thts was parallel to the advice lately given by the Count de
'Vergennes to Nlr..letterson. Sr that finding that it was n(1114/111
established at both these great Courts, and that this Court and
the foreign Mittiaers expected it. I thought I could not avoid it,
although my tint thought and inclinatia, had been to deliver my
credentials ailensly and reties. At ono, or. Wednesday, the tst of
June, the Master of Ceremonies called at city Louie, and went
with me to the Secretary of State's office, :a Cleve's:id-row, where
the Marquis of Carmarthen received me, and introduced me to
:Mr. Frazier, his Under Se:Tetery, who heel been, as his
Lordship said, uninterruptedly in that office, through Al the
changes in Adminisustion, for thirty years, having first been
appointed by the Earl llolderness. After a felon conversation
upon Mt subject of iniportingrny effects from Holland and France,
tree of duty, which Mr. Frazier himself introdoced. Lord Car-
marthen invited me to go with hint in his coach to Court. %Viten ;
we arrived in the antienamber, the CEil de Ifni, of St. .laines,
the Master of the Ceremonies met me, and attended me while the
Secretary of State went to taftetlie commands of the King. While
I stood in this plue, where it seems all Ministers stand upon
such occasions, always attended by the Master of Ceremonies, the
itonra very full of Ministers of State, Bishops. and all other sorts
of courtiers, ns well as the next room, which is the King's bed-
chamber. you may well suppose that I was the focus of all eyes.
I was relieved, however. from the einhaaustnentstf it. by the
Swedish and Dutch :Ministers, who cene to me, and entertained
me with a very agreeable come:swiss during the whale. time.
Some other gentlemen, whom I had seen before, came sc make
their compliments too—until the Marquez of Carmarthen returned,
and desires' me to go with him to his Majesty. I went with his
I.o3lship through the leve-rooni into the Kinsreiclosa—the door I
was shut, and I was left with his Majesty and the Secretary of
State clone. I Made the three reverences; one at the door, another
about halfway, end the third Leann the presenoe,accorditue to the
tesaieestahltsuee at this and all the northern Courts of Europe,
and then ale'resell myself to his Majesty in the following words:
—The -United States of America have appointed me
7.linhter I'lenipmentiary to your Majeeev. end have directed me
to deliver to )ceirMajesty taus later, which comeins the evidence
of it. If is in obedience to their express commands, that I have
the honour to aume your Majesty of their disposition
and desire to cultivate the moat friendly and I.beial intercourse
between your Majesty's subjects and their citizens. ant of their
best 'Ashes for your Alajesty's LcaltL audltappiness, and fur
that of your It. yal family.
" 'The appointment of a ltlinister from the United States to
;our Majeste's Court will form an .epoch in the history of
England awl America. I think myself more fortennte than all
mg fellow citizens, in having the distinguished honour to be the
;MA tostand in your Msjesty 'a royal presence in a diplomatic
4 haracter ; and I *N al reteetn myself the happiist of men if I
can be instrumental tit recommeneting my country more and more
to your Majesty's toyed Lenetolence, and of restoring an entire
esteem, confidence, and erection, or, in b-tter words. • the old
good nature, and the good old humour,' between people, who
though separated fry an ocean, aid under diflerent Governments,
have the haute langerage, a similar tellgion, a kindred blood. I
leg your Majesty's permitnion to mid, that although I have
sometimes betort been intrusted by my rountry, •u was never in
rry whole life in a manner an agreeable to myself."
The King listened to every word I saith‘with iligrity it is true,
but with an element entotion Whether it was 411., nature tit the
overview, of whether it was my visible agitation, for 1 felt tome
titan I did t r conk! ex; tress, that toucher' hint. I cannot say. hot
he was much adl.vtett, and muse creel nic with more treeior than I
hal spoken with and
Sir--The en et, Matatleell Of thi: audience are sr, extraordinary.
to language you have now held is so extremely i:ayer, and the
i• clings you Lane iliacovertsl FO justly adapted to the recession,
tat I must lay, that I not only received with Itleautre the

DOI.IOIPCL EFILCTI 01 NIGHTSNIDt...-.40 1104/46
thus was taken on M 14y, la the Wui k house of St. Harr,
Kensington, before Thomas Sailing, I:4l.Coloner for the
County of thr body rifJohn Golder, a Child
two years and a 11411 in4f, whose death was ceased by W-
ing the berriesof night-shade, not know ing them to
poimnions nistaire.— t appeared from the eCdence ut
ssisannalt 11111 and Mai Ilia :4aics.s•reet,
Kensington, next door neighbours to the re u? 4 ut the
deceased, that they 811,110 C deceased the it:tar:taint; .aorn-
ing in gond health, and that about foes o'ctock in the after-
noon he was at play in the field, in compatly with hit tittle
sister, ten 'rears of age, and son** •uthei cnib`ren. The
deceased got Imo the hedge, art' began to pick the red
berries of the ni;.lit shade, anti slimily eV er lie became is
a state. r I suffocation, from having at. of the berries, :al
WM toll plito-ril, trom some of them baying Leen found in lus
hands. He was carried to the dearest cott4ge. ',tribe/if
assiJance sent for, and Mr, Mei iiman. Mr. Thompson,
and Me, Gein ge, cause and remie red all the assistance in
their power, but to no effect ; he survived only about an
hour and there !natters, and expired in the greatest
agony.—Henry Creutee, itf fien4ingtun, Sinrgecn, dt
sit w the berries; they are, oar totic, and he had no
doubt but the desvasellefird in crm.ctot ace nr his having
ate the berries of nightadiade.—Verdict—" That the de
erased came to his death hum eating the poison berries df
net know lug they were poisonous in their
nature,"

Ilia Excellency John Jay, Esq. Secretaryoi Sute
fur the tlrpartawnt of Fortign AtLas.

L R ELA NI).
(Fr 0.14 Liontritk

The execution of the four unfortunate wretches who
were hanged, ;torso:H:1 to sentence, at tne Ennis Assizes,
on Wechitaiday and Thursday week, is calculated to
awaken those horrified feelings which acColllllllofsavage
ferocity, perpetrated centuttes since, would fail to in-
spire. 11 e wapak! almost wish u, avoid the contempla-
ot throve -scenes that led to the fatal con iiiiii 0131.100
ut 1111 S miserable drama; but our duty wills it other-
w ; and, sickening at the retrospect, we must still look
011 it. till vision, disgusted, refuses to perform its wont-
ed other. The crime fur which the first two suffered
was murder-- der in such a shape as renders descrip-
tion hideous : the victim, an unfortunate fetnale, who
was supposed to have given information relative to illi-
cit distilleries in the district of Moyree. At the close of,
.1 tine evening, a few months since, she passed. as was.
frequently her ClllllOlll, the house of John and James
Sullisait, wherein their companion. John Boris, then
was emplo3ed in snaking whiskey. As the WOlll3ll
1/411C11, So twines mother called out in ltish. •" Mitre
goes Biddy the iiiformer."—The men paused, gazed at
each other, and et that instant, revenge and murder ex-
pelled reason and humanity fsoln their simile; the ill-
starred Biddy pursued her course. and they resumed
their illicit work until -they (Comfit completed, seithom
the hindrance which'Biddy's appearance , had led titers
to expect ; joy, at their success, induced them to drink
freely of the newly finished .spirits, but this only added
to their thirst fur vengeance. and nought but toe blito,l
of their miserable victioscould quench its fire. Arnica
wars various weapons they left their dwelling, and in
one short hour Biddy, the informer, vas no mole I On
C 1.041112, her hut, which could net resist them, lute fore-
most struck her tut the head with a stone, which frac-
tured I►er skid]. and laid her at his feel; a yell of savage
joy announced the triumph, and the prostrate, almost
~,,11;,,baie WAS raised front the earth, to undergo
more crueltle,. She was placed against a wall, and her
,hroasts were severed from her hotly: trensuling with
agony, she showed signs of life, till one, with mote pit;

Vt ith regret we state the fuss of his Majestv'r ship Erne,
IO pins, Capt. T. Striven, C. hich mtsfo, tu. e occurred
al the night of the Ist of June, on a reel of nn kr., ell the
Ivle of nvt, rise of the Cape de Verd ands. She nor ra
her passage to Abe l'onA of .% fro-a. The accident Wrg Or-
r; • ed by aLing lie !;.outli for the net end of the Isle
of Sal. 'lt blew very nr.l) stud in i 0 initiate" she Idled
sh.irly arta eau ds her mainaart f. tl. but funn.utrly without
hut-till the pin I, which was on the ham.; the snivel.
utast stood, by e Inch, at NOV( ‘4 141111 he'd,
and the wreck, which hurl struck Ino cables.' from
the shire, ill ultra to wit bio cables frogs bof the 14 sail,
on nhe li lie writers trod srew,and a Lenin qii.atity Of pre-
vi,ioudi and w cmseria, were lan,ird, tn'the coarse of this
night tire wreck part.d, but the ca:vi stradjy perarverirg .3
holding on by the t. mains, they were al% saved. lehted
s. nikalOted only by alma n dozes ; an American
brunt to the cols,' of Pompano, tools the officers :sod
cress 1111., jut fee days ogle' nada, nod loaded them tit 4t.
lope, where Cnpt. Striven chartered a 'mall schooner for
Barb/Woes, from whit h falafel they enihtuked-In a treason t,
and arrived at spitOoshi tea Saturday.
On Feud .y se'antiAlit a melancholy cirennistanee took
place. As Mr. Burry of Biotin, near Stowt market,
was riding, net the shalt of his Waita,nn into the harvest
field, the horses maned restive, and in attetnpting n.
mop off, he fell down, and the whet.l passing over his
lastly, he expired very soon after,
Soon alter midnight on Sunday. an alarming accident
mewled within a shun distance a-Colchester. Hcor.t's
Ipswich and London waggon sac:civilly took far, it is
supposed from l'gl g; and a woman anti child, who
were passengers, had just •gin sown, and the bores
Wtrr scarrelytaken out, when three barrels nflotrirt.w.irr
blew tip with a tremenclorms eaplftion, trhi.li nas l!e:sil
many miles woad.

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