The National Register.
London, England, 1812-10-25 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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to that which the enemy coill.l burg against it ? I shall abstain twill
directing your attention t.) partiotlai Cbj,:cts in illustration cif the taut,
for she reasons given in the first Letter wind' I had the lionuur to as

dress to your Committee.
Gentlemen, I cannot avoid stating a fact to you, which I h ,vc
fatten offered to prove at the bar of the late corrupt House ot Cent-
Pens ; namely, that whilst our conameße hiss decreased, that liner
tradeof which is most beiieticial to a sate, has aeememerl can the
Shores of the enemy, in a-protheiaus ratio, and the produce of the
Northern and Southern provinces is Uccle interchanged. teiriLr the
protection of 'the abuses in nue ALUM alts Courts, wind' .diorded it
better security than all the batteries of l;'ratice ; the plain reason for
which is, that each of the *outgrow, coastii' veaaels muat, for the
benefit of the Court, be separate y condemned, at an ex Fere e grcAer
than was former:le dernarided fat the ahe odic:dem of 1 nilieman
Gentlemen, the rapacity of the Courts is frequently not sati,ticd by
appropriating the whole proceed, to themselves, hot the caeters are
compelled to pay ere aeditional sum for thus pertormiog a ht rvice to
their country. Gentlemen, th it you 1113 V have a cre (vet notion Of a
Proctor's bill, I take the liberty of enclosing one ler your inspection,
Saabich, I assure you, may be consider: d very moderate, h irg only six
fethoms and a quarter long, or 37 feet 6—w hareas I now pi saess
others, that extend to 50 feet ; but I erefar seeding this to your Com-
mittee, as it is the one produced by mvaell in the House of Commena,
and by the venerable Earl of in the House of Leek, the exhi-
bition of which was pronounced by the present Lore! Chancellor (the
brother of the Judge of the Admiralty Court,) to he "a species of
mummery never before witnessed within those mina, and altogether
unbecoming the gravity of that branch of the Legislature." Whether
the attempt to expose abuses, whi. h paral ze the etlbrts of the BO-
tiali Navy, deserve the stigma thus cast upon it, by so grave a charac-
ter, I leave ycu, Gentlemen, to determine.
I beg that the items may not pass unobserved, where the Proctor
notes' his pecuniary reward for attending, teeing, etnotillieg, and ad-
monishing himself, in his other capacity as Marshal, of all which he
makes an afrelevi!, for wiaich also he charges a fee !
I am aware that I have trespassed longer already on your attention
than 1 ought to have done, had the pure principles on which you con-
ducted the• Election allowed me to addrea: you personally ; however,
as this opportunity did not occur, you will, I trust, forgive my adding
On extract atom a statement which 1 ma.le two years ago in the House
of Commons, on the subject of the Navy Estimate, with a view to
contrast the rewards granted for different kinds of services.
• Gentlemen, it appears on the Pension List of the Navy, for the year
MO, that " thirty-one Commissioners, Commissioner.' Wives and
Clerks, have 3,8991. 'woe amongst them, dem is paid to all the
Wounded Officers of the Navy of England ! Thirteen daughters of
Admirals and' Captains, some of whom fell in the se( vice at Cite coun-
try, have amongst them all, from the gratitude of the natiru, a sum
less than a Commissioner's Widow !—viz daughters of the toe
gallant Captain Courtney, 101. 10s. each, per annum ; 1 ditto of Ad-
miral Sir A. llitchell, 2ditro of miniral Epworth, I ditto of Admiral
Xepple, i ditto of Captain Mame, 4 ditto of Admiral Mow iarte, 231.
each. Captain Johnson receives 451. a-year for the lobs of an at in ;
and poor Lieutenant Chambers, whe lost both his legs, gets SO!. whilst
'she Clerk of the Ticket Office retires on 7001.
" To speak less in detail, 32 Flag Officers, 9'2 Captains, 50 Lieute-
iants, ISO Masters, 36 Surgeons, 23 Pursers, 91 Boatswains, 97 Gun-
eters, 202 Carpenters. and 41 Cooks, cost the couetry 4,0281. less than
the nett proceeds of the sinecures of Lords Ardera, Camden, and Buck-
inghatn ! All the superannuated Adtpirals, Captains, aed Licute-
rants, have 1,0121. more amongs,. them than Earl Camden's sinecure
;lone ! All that is paid to the NVounded Officers of the British Navy,
and to the Wives and Children of those dead, or killed in action, does
pot amount, by 2141. to as much as Lord Arden's sinecure ! The
Marquis of Btickingham's sinecure will maintain the whole victual-
liug departments at Chatham, Dover, Gibraltar, the Downs, Heligo-
land, Malta, Cape of Good Hope, and Rio -Janeiro, and leave 5,466:.
in the Treasury. Three of these comfortable sinecures would main-
tain the Dock-yard Establishments at Portsmouth and Plymouth ;
paid the sinecures and offices executed wholly by deputy would more
than maintain the ordinary establishment of all the Royal Dock-yards
lit gear kingdom. Calculating at the rate tif allowance made for Cap-
ain Johnson's arm. Lord Arden's sinecures are equal to the value of
1,021 Captains' arms ; or, by roe. Lieutenant Chambers' pension, to
#B2 pair of Lieutenants' legs !!!"
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Comment is unnecessaay : such, Gentlemen, is the reward for long
pncl faithful services'; that for exertion I have already t.licwn you.

Thus the war lingers on, the supplies for which are voted by those
who are interested in its continuance ; nor will it ever be terminated
successfully in pitched b ttles by the military force of England against
the resources of France. Even on the supposition of perfect equality,
'more men would perish bemire the contest could be decided, than
England poky maintains on the Continent. Could we supply the
tcitincy
Gentlemen, to thew you that there is no hope from a change of
party, unless a Reform in the Commons House of Parliament shall
jirevtously take place, " the Pensions given by the lateWhigAdminis-
'ration to Commissioners, Clerks, and others, whom they forced out
pf office to make room for their friends, amounted itt thirteen moans,
• •

*o 1,50;1. mote than the present Achnitlistraiion have
the three Ira, that have elapsed since."—i. e. up to
The example ''l the iiithistrimii bee detnonstraies, 1
nature, that the dione is mil to live at the expenee oi ti
notwithstatia lig what the W lugs have said, of sinecur
tenure, equal to that ut trechozd property.

1 bare the honour to be,
Gentlemen,
Respectfnlly, your obedient humble S(
12, Portman-square, 1 ith Oct. CO

PROVINCIALS.

Be v NC, of C 11:NrAS.-i-At the General Quarter-Se:
cas,le holden by aljournment on Wedoesday and
Zone k YAN was ti under Lord Stanhope's Act, foi
above their current value. It appeared that he I!
guineas in provincial bank-notes; and though it wa
a payment came within the mearvng of the Act, v"
than the current value of the guineas, by any mcans,
contrivarce, yet the particular means which the eet•
of nut being Set forth in the indictment, he could not
FA AcCIDF Ni.— On Sunday last, bet wen
o'cloel,, Ronert Armstrooz, a i iner, residaig at a t:
Martin in Cleveland, kept by William Webster, flee
,olicited, to ask a conquotion of his to let him down
Win. Webster's well, which is about 60 test blow
contains ooly about two feet of water, to bring up tw
dishes, which had been in the well near five month' •
ingly let down, and had not been lowered more than
6:,11 out of the bucbet into the comput
him down, contiouei to lower the bucket to the Ovate,
Robert Armstrorg, but obtained no answer. An a!
when I:tmes Ineledew, of M min, a blacksmith. w;
in the bucket, w thout belie' tied to a rope, which ht
dow, in order to save, if possible, Robert A tint
scarcely laweied twenty feet befere he fell in like
was then procured, a I,.seph Fenison, of Martin, a I,
mediately, at his own request, lowered by the ladde
endeavour to save the other two : when he had b
yards, he was observed to tall on the side of the lad,
now occurred to the bystanders, wed not before,
these ditasters arose from foul air in the well ; whi
William Har:l;vicke, of Martin, labourer, went tro•
front which Joseph l'euison had fallen senseless in• o
tope tied round hint ; Hardwicke had no!
than twelve teet bet ere he became sew eless and fell,
mediately hau!ed up, and on his arri, al at the tot;
black is the face and apparently dead, but soon rt
t-P.hrt was 'row used by a numbet of men with grapp
up the three bodies, but withow effect A %tea
sent for, who endeavoured to take out the foul alt
well was filled, but in vain. An improvement Ova
and made in the grapple-irons, when, alter touch dill
bodies were brought up to the top ; a surgeon ex;
found them to have been dead seine hours. A cot,
sat on the bodies, and their %.l-diet was—" Accident
cation in the well front foul air."—The air is c:
carbonic acid gas.—No person should venture dowi
any depth, betore he tries whether a candle will
water or not ; if a candle will burn, a !nail may go
if not it is certain death.
FATAL A CC,IDENT.-011 Tuesday, the 6th hist;
Shiner-row, county ot Durham, suddenly took fit
the in.flammab'e air, in consequence of which one
were severely scorched. They are all, however, i
covery, having the advantage of very proper m,
Upon the Saturday following (Oct. 10), about ha!
the Harrington Mill Pit, distant Irmo the above-nu
two or three hundred yards. also toil fire, most to
four men and nineteen boys were killed upou tti
people severely wol;nded and burnt ; two boys
This dreadful Catastrophe was likewise occasioned la;
fire.dattip..

COURT MART; A I.• —Saturday morning a Court-m.
W. Gaiter, land:nan, on board his Majesty's ship Ci
mouth harbour, for maiming himself, by choppini
at the wrist joint, on the evening of the lit of Septe
agreed that the charge had been proved ; and holdi
rence the commission of so atrocious and unmanl!
his country is deprived of his effective services, did
employed in the most menial situation on boil-.
Majesty, as the Commander in Chief of his Majesty
at Spithead and in Portsmouth harbour, or the Loi
of the Admiralty, shall from time to time direct,
unworthy for ever hereafter of being employed
perip, to landaus in tit! itoyitl Navy. •