The National Register.
London, England, 1812-03-22 00:00:00

ThE NATIONAL REGISTIgIt.

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Winsfsiiiiii6lsierivia" of the supporters of the:
third theatre out of doors, took most unfair means to prevent the re.
buildirm. of Drury.laue, andlo prepidice the public• against the con-
cern. treppeired that•they *anted their theatre to he the second and
net the third. =• • •
The Hottle dieided on the arnendment for rnstponing the second
reading to this day. sit months, which was carried by a Majority of 58
to 35.
MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCE REGENT.
The enAUtzt.tot of the.ExctrQuet brought 'up A Melisage from
ibe'Prince Regent, which was read as follows t--=

GEORGE, P.R.
His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, in the Name and on tile Be-
half of his Mi.j..str, thinks it necessary to acquaint the House of Com-
mons, that inspursuance of tlie powers vested in his Majesty by two
Acts, parsed in the 18th and 39th years of his present Majesty's Reign,
his .Majesty was graciously pleased, by Letters Patent, bearing date the
2el of kebruary, 102., to grant to their Royal Highnesses the l'inicesses
Auguiti-Sophit, Elizabeth, Mary,- iophia, and Amelia, an Annuity
of Thirty I bousand Pounds, agreeably to the provisions, and subject
td the Meniratinns of the said Acts ; • which grant was to take effect from •
the dteri-e of his Majesty. And his Royal Highness being desirous,
in ;the present situation of the Royal Family, to be empowered to pro-
vide fOr the establishment of their Royal Highnesses The Princesses by
an immediate Grant, recommenditio the Howe 'of Commi;ns to take
the subject into their consideration, and to enable his Royal Highness
to make such proviiion foe their Royal Highnesses 'the Princesses, as,
11 the liberality Of Parliament, may be thought suitable to the a, teal
situation of the Princesses, and to the cireunisLences of the present
time.
. The Ai- rower to-Gtr Zit AL presented .a Petition from certain Elders
Of a levrish eiybagogue, praying that their public charities might be ex-
empted .from the provisions of the Charitable Funds Ree,istry Bill.—
Ordered to lie on the Table.

PENITENTIAIZY HOUSE BILL.
. Mr. HoLima moV•ed the recommittal of the Penitentiary Bill. On
the. 41uest.on being put for the Speaker to leave the Chair,
Mr. }C.r.N RICK molted, that it should be an inFtruction.to the Commit-
tee te! introjure a clause -for the purpose of comptriling confilled con-
**lets to hard labour. The ny,tinn was put and rallied.
After some. observationt, the 1-lousc went thr: uzh the till in a 'Coln-
tnittee, and the Report was ordered for Monday.--Adjourued.

TRIALS OF THE
RIOTEPS AT NOTTINGIWL

b'n ktorday nibrning, the Grand Jury were svr.,orn it rafter which,
the Learned Judge BAILEY addreEsed them in nearly the following
words:-
4 GENTlgetzte-;--Nothingrouldgive rhe greater satisfaelien, amidst
the troubled state to which this important county has been reduced by ,
A nutnher Of misguided itidividuale, than to.ore respectable a Jury
assetnbled,as a barrier le:tween guilt and hinocerce ; and as a safeguard
to property, to .our liberties, and to our lives. The c.ilcoder laid be-
fore me does creak to the moral tiav the county, with the eZception
of one crime, which swells the awful list. It is nut for me..to brquire, •
etettler the persons who le.ve thus involved themselves in trouble,
bate any just cause Of etiniplaint ; because, if grievances do realty exist,
the proper, end indeed the only way to get them redressed is to apply
to the Legislature of the country. But this should likewi%e be particu-
larly reinetnbered, that while the complainants continue in a state of
open violation to the lays?, even the legislature will not attend to their
pwayers. And, to add to • their sufferings, partly.hrought about by their
own misconduct, the law will be too strong for thert—inany of them
Will fall Victims to their own &thee folly; for the la* must and shall •
be obt-yed. he violent procredhigs, if persevered in much longer,
may have the effect of driving the lace manufacture from Nottingham;
for why cannot it he earr ed en in other place eas well as at this ? It is
true, that this appears to be the native seat of thii branch of the British
lace mereafacturel—and no Kloubt it Will be grateful, as long as it is
treated With Indulgence ar.d care ; but when that teases to be the case,
Weer, have those who have been fed by its bounty in a state of deep
tepentence for having exercised their own folly and vit.lence.
lePsgth of time the se outrage,. have been carried on, might almost make
it a matter of inquiry, whether the hilagistrates of the County have
dour tl-ietr duty ; but The highly respectable asset:4)l.4;e of Noblemen
and Gentlemen phis morning-, renders such an inquiry unnecessary; for
noire ran doubt but that their duty has been dope. Ks Lordship then
gave It, Loth as his own and Lord Ellenborough's opinion, the latter of
which he produced in Writing, that it was the bounden duty of every
good citizen, particularly the 'wee:airy, to risk their lives ror the protec-
;don of 'private property; and he hoped by exertions like these, aided
tri the salutary rigour of the law, that the misguided would see their
error. After listing the: when he left the tuwa, the Assizes would
erlIV tic mljentee.d, and that upon the seizure of any rioters, a Judge
would drawn find act upon the present Cournission, his Lordship
p7t„,;eekled E;; tv. Cola Me ac'f (nte indh:idrtnl, in a rietnes mUltitude,
70.0cznac the act tie whole ; and cons( vently that. every :ran beetne