The National Register.
London, England, 1820-12-17 00:00:00

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to him in the grocery line, and also a demand for ochre
articles, making in .411 a stun of 231. 12s.
Mr. Bailey alleged, in answer to the action, that the
defendant was a minor when the goods were furnished
in August last.
The Jury after some consideration, found a verdict
for the defendant.

EARTHQUAKE.—Oa Tuesday week, about eight
o'clock, a. in.. a slight shock of an earthqnake was
felt at Leadhills and Wanlockhead, attended with a
hollow rumbling noise. The miners, who were at
work, 150 fathoms below ground, heard this alarm-.
ing sound very distinctly, and, beit.t, afraid lest the
works were rushing down, many of them left their
work and eaussaabove ground. In the evening of
the same day, about 11 o'clock, a similar or still
louder sound was distinctly beard at Leadhills and
Wanlockhead, but not accompanied by any trembling
or motion of the earth. These phenomena have
been observed for eight or ten miles eastward, and
three or four miles westward, of the above places ;
but whether they have extended beyond these limits
is not yet accurately ascertained; but it is probable
that the more immediate effects of these awful con.
vulsions of nature may have already tbecn expe-
rienced in some distant quarter, particularly as the
earthquake by which Lisbon was almost totally de-
stroyed, 65 years ago, was very distinctly felt in
the district of Leadhills and Wanlockhead, according
to tradition, and in the memory of several old resi-
dents alive.

A case of a revolting nature occurred at Colding.
ham, in Berwickshire, the beginning of last week.
The carrier of the place was requested to take a
trunk from a house in the village to Edinburgh.--.
From the quantity of goods which he had previously
engaged to carry, he thought it would be quite im.
possible to undertake it. The person seemed ex.
tremely anxious that it should not be delayed till
the following week, as there were articles in it
which were required in Edinburgh immediately.—.
The carrier was induced to take charge of the trunk,
and accordingly it was brought to his quarters. It
had not, however, remained long in his possession,
before it was remarked that a very nauseous smell
appeared Ito proceed from it. A number of the
inhabitants being collected together, and some sus-
picions being entertained of its contents, they ins
sisted upon its being opened. The carrier resisted
their attempts to do so as much as he could, but
they succeeded in forcing it open, when an old
grey-headed woman, who had been interred in
Coldingham burial ground some days before,- was
found embalmed amidst a variety of perfumes, but
which had failed to produce their intended effect.—
Three young men have since been committed to
jail, charged with the offence.
Greta Performance.—Mr. Mills undertook his
great match to trot his favourite Arabian mare 15
miles in harness, on the Blackwater road on Mon..
day, for 200 guineas, and to carry 14 stone in a
gig. The mare went off at score, and did the first
mile under four minutes. Immense sums were
pending upon the match, and betting, which at
starting was two to one on time, was five to four
on the mare after the had done the first mile. She
did the next three miles in eleven minutes and flour
seconds, with plenty of work in her. Half the dis-
tance was performed in 29 minutes 10 seconds, and
the whole wait completed in a quarter of a minute
within the hour. The mare did not seem fatigued,
and she performed the distance without making a
single break out of the trot.
The late Geoffrey O'Connell, Esq. who died
lately at his seat of Ballybrack,, in the county of
Kerry, in the 93d year of his age, was very hind of
angling, and when in his nth year. has fyequently
been seen, in the coldest weather in November,
nearly up to his middle in the water, playing with
a salmon. He never experienced any ill conse-
quences from remaining in his wet clothes. During
his long life he was remarkably active,.and until his
last year generally walked, both winter and summer,
at least five or six miles before breakfast.
The Corporation of Gloucester has voted the
freedom of that City to Ali. Brougham.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Clie-lire:
--" An attempt was made in this county to address
the King, but it was found imprudent, if not int-
t icable."

Downside College, in Shropshire, is undergoing
a thorough repair, and when completed, will prove
a striking object .to all admirrs of modern Gothic
architecture. The Duke of Nurflilk, Lords Petre,
Shrewsbury, Surrey, Arundel, Clifford, &c. have
lilx rally bubAcrilx.d.towards this desirable object.--
Ito: most mitt: AA artists are ellgaCa. Mr. Good-
rich, of 11 eymouth,. is the architect. A new organ
is to be erected, and Mr. Mi:zzinglii is to compose a
Grand Mass 14 the occasionov hich will be performed
by the must celebrated professors from Landon.
Mercantile letters received from Cadi4 by the last
mail mention that two frigates, a corvette, brig ami
'la:len, together with four atmed transports latlit
militaty.stotes, left that Psat• fur the Spanish
'lain on the'llth

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MEETING OF THE PARISH OF
ST. MARY, ISLINGTON.

On Monday evening, a Meeting of the Parish of
Islington was held at Canonbury Tavern, to consider
of an Address of Congratulation to the Queen on
the abandonment of the Bill of Pains and Penalties,
and an Address to the King, praying the dismissal of
his Ministers. The two great rooms which commu-
nicate by folding doors were filled before the
business of the Meeting commenced.
A t seven the gentlemen of the Committee
entered the room, when Mr. SMITH stated that he
had received a letter from T. Wilson, Esq. of High-
bury,who had promised to take the chair, which let-
ter stated that he was prevented from attempting to
preside by a severe cold, which would disable him
from making himself heard, but that he was willing
to bear his share of the expences of the Meeting.
Mr. Smith then proposed that Captain Longster
should take the chair, which ttiaa unanimously
agreed to.
At the request of the Chairman, the Requisition
and the correspondence with the Churchwardens
and Vicar, the substance of which has been before
the public, were read by Mr. TWIGG. Three or
four persons vociferously culled for the reading of
the signatures to the Requisition, and when there
was some delay in producing them, attempted to
prevent the business of the Meeting from proceed-
ing. This conduct produced cries for the expulsion
of the most noisy of these persons, but we are happy
to say, that though much provocation tsars given, no
violence was offered. The names were read as soon
as silence was obtained, and the business was not
afterwards interrupted.
Mr. SMITH then addressed the Meeting in a very
able speech, and, after accusing the Churchwardens
of a want of directness anti straitforwardness in their
dealing, with respect to the Requisition, as one of
them had at first given him to understand that the
Meeting should be called in regular form, if the
sunsent of the Vicar could be obtained, he observed
that they might have taken a lesson from the Mayor
of Bristol, who had lent the Guildhall one day to a
Meeting to address the Queen, and another day for
what was called a loyal address, without deserting
his duty or compromising his principles. In the
latter of the Meetings at Bristol, as well as at many
other loyal meetings, there were a number of truths
brought forward to which he cordially gave his
assent ; the only difference was as to the conclusion
to be drawn from the same premises, as to the causes
to which the evils which they witnessed were to be
attributed. His opinion was, that the proceedings
against the Queen had weakened the stability of the
Throne, and that it was, therefore, one cause of the

dangers to which the loyal addresses deplored.—
There was not, he believed, a man, who did not now
lament that the proceedings had commenced (hear,
hear !) they had tended to break down the barriers
of the Constitution, and those laws which had
fenced round Englishmen as with a wall of adament.
Neither would any one now deny that a great ma-
jority of the Nation was in favour of the Queen.
Was there a man who would say that such protec-
tion had been afforded by the King to the Queen, as
as a man of honour and generosity would extend to
wife ? (Hear, hear.) The omission qf her name
from the Liturgy had, in all Catholic countries, the
effect of an excommunication on the minds of the
people, and no alternative was left her but to return
and to throw herself on the protection of this nation.
As to what had happened since, he had no hesitation
in saying, that all the evidence against her was
such, that it would not have been entertained for
halt' an hour in an inferior Court. (Hear, hear.)—
Had the Ministers felt any strength in it, without
question, instead of a majority of nine on the third
reading, they would have had a majority of 90.—
(Applause.)—By whatever quibbling they might
excuse themselves on the strength of that majority,
the Ministers knew that the middle and industrious
Classes of the, community, those who worked as well
as thought, were of opinion that the evidence had
totally failed, and that to have pressed the 13111
further would have endangered the Throne.—
(Applause.)—They knew that when a number of
men had got into a scrape, every man put the best
face he could upon it in order to get out of it ; so
that if' there were forty or fifty persons, there were
forty or fifty pretences. This was the key to the
variety of opinions among the Ministerial Lords. It'
the Ministers had been wise, when the proceedings
in the House of Lords had terminated, they would
have allowed the whole matter to go to rest,
and the Queen to sink to a level with other
ft(lyal Personages, and have allowed her to inhabit
one of the Palaces which the King did not occupy.
This was not their course ; but whatever pruceed-
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. logs they might meditate for the future, the Queen
• laving thrown herself on the People and the Pms,
• it was not in thcir power to weaken her security.—
After some timber okervations, Mr. S. proposed the
tollotving re.,ol:atioa, which was beconded and