The National Register.
London, England, 1819-02-14 00:00:00

TIM. NATIONALECIFiTTII

If this system went on, it would be impossible to pre-
vent the whole kingdom from being pauperized. If
• there were to be compels:ly charity, he could see 110
reason it by the great bulk of the monied interest, and
the whole of the trading community, should nut bear
a portion of the weight. It would be nothing more than
just to take a part of the burden front the lenulholder,
and let it be supported by the eteentry at large. The
taxes un the monied interest were u`oaut 45.. in the
pound, while the demand on the latneed Proprietor for
l'our's ltate,svas, on the average ss. He would however
take it ut :;s. whiele with lA. for ordinary taxes, made
7s. There were besides other charges amounting to 4s.
more. to that the Lan :led Proprietor received but 9s.
out of his puuud. the individual, whose property
was funded, gut 16s. In the same way, if they took 12s.
us the wages of the labourer, they would find that
bread, rent, and fuel, took up the Whole, except about
2s. per week, which wa.' all he had to furnish himself
with cloathes, and various neceseary articles. The
consequeace was, that potatoes formed a great part
of his subsistence. He considered, in one point of view,
the growth of potutoes as a great blessing to any coun-
try in case of famine.—but he looked upon it as a de-
cided evil, when the potatoc formed the principal article
of a nations food. It tended to the increase of popula-
tion (as was seen in a neighbouring country) in a de-
gree that could not be supported by any capital, how.
ever great.To the disgrace of the agricultural part of the
community, the agricultural labourer i; not fairly dealt
by, except in the northern parts of this kingdom. The
cruelty of the system adopted towards them is equal to
its folly. The price of wages is regulated with reference
to the young nmaarried man ; he was made the stand.
and—than which nothing could be unfair—the rote of
wages is calculated on the most parsitnonioaa scale as
to the stun which will weekly support a single man—
while to the married man an allowance of 2s. to the
wife and Is. 6d. to each of the children is made from
the Parish Purse ; thus given a bounty on impro-
vident marriages, and preventing the possibility of a
single man making any provision for the married state.
Although he deprecated the abuse which bad grown
out of parliamentary discessions. He agreed in the
principal laid down on a former occasion by the Noble
Lord, that it was better a man should be opening a,
trench, if it were immediately after to be filled up again
sooner than that be should be supported in idleness.
But this principle had been pushed to an unwise extent
in the country, and its operation had been productive of
injurious consequences. The farmer aware of the im-
pression made by this sentiment, turns off a large por-
tion of the workmen he usually employed for the ex.
press purpose of receiving them back with a bounty
from the parish. Thus have the middling classes
become burdened with a new tax to exonerate the
farmer from a large portion of wages he ought to have
paid. Justice was not done to the great body of agri-
cultural labourers, nulw,s they were efficiently protected.
The manuilaCturing classes also deserved protection,
though the House had not always dealt liniently with
them. If, when laws were made to punish combina-
tion amongst the men, their provisions had also been
directed against combinations amongst the masters, he
would have agreed in the justice of the enactment.
The agricultural ktbourer was not in the same situation.
Dispersed abroad, it was not in power to combine—and
his necessities were so great, that he could not go on
for one moment without attending to his work. His
master, however, might do without him, for a great
part of the year, without injury. This was not the
case with the manufacturer, who was in a-much better
situation. He conceived it would be wise if the wages
of the agricultural labourer, with reference to small
districts, were regulated at letty Sessions. It could
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not be dime fir very extensive districts, as, where the
space was large, the rate of wages must necessarily
van•. The :Magistrate would be better able to decide
what sum ought to be given to a labourer, than to ad-
judge the rate of wages which a manufacturer ought
to receive, since there were many considerations con-
nected with a particular trade, of which it was pro.
bable he would not be aware. By a more liberal ap-
portionment of wages, of from 4s. to is, per week, he
conceived the existing Poor Laws might be reduced
2,000,0001 annually. There were pares of the BPI
brought in by the lion. Gentleman which he i bought
were extremely beneficial ; for instance, that part which
related to the removal of persons who had procured
settlements where they had no right to them, nor had
any legal settlements in the kingdom. There were also
provisions that would probably prevent the mismanage-
ment observable in the administration of the Poor
Laws. But that any peat, any decided benefit would
be derived from it, he confessed he did not believe.
The greatest relief to the country would be found by
making•some change in the law of settlement by which
large sums now lavished in litigation might saved.
Thi,s was the large-t item, he conceived, that could be
saved by any regulation, that fell short of removing the
grand sources of the evil. The sum to be saved by other
meaus was not likely to be more than 500,0001. cr one
sixteenth of 8,000,0001. which the poor's rate annually
require. Great are the complaints from all parts of the
kingdom, and most giievoua is it to them who are

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struggling under the weight of the ixsor's rates, thus,
large a stun should be expended in supporting the 03;
spring of crime. Bastardy has alarminely inermsed with.
in a short period, but a few years ago it was estemated
at 1 to 28. I fear it will now be found as 1 to 11 and
the number of illegitimate children annually him
amounts to little if any thing short of 6100, creutiee a
change of Mena halt' u million. The Laws have beets.,
relaxed that it is become in a great measure atria;;.
without a punishment. Some cheek scents indi:api;t t,
necessary as well fur morals as fear releiving the cc-meter
from so grievous a burden. The r:ononittee, which led
sat two years, the whole of whose proceedings ecre
then before the House,. had done nothing that di!
not fall far abort of the great object he had in view__
and, unless Government intended to let the evil ;,,A,
increasing, from day to day, they would devise sone
means of lowering; that weight of taxation, which press.
ed the people down, and was the primary cause of t!e
present distress. I ant aware of the state of the cote:-
try—l know and lament that its resources are inaz!e.
quit to its expenditure—that in doing justice and king
faithful to its engagements, it cannot relinquish a shill-
ing of its reventte-1 do not ask it—Yet the only hope
the country has. is, that Ministers would diminish the
taxation which born so heavy on particular bodies, awl
that they Would place it somewhere else. A System of
taxation which bears on the first necessaries of life,
is in every point of view impolitic. Labour is. rarely
paid beyond what is barely sufficient for the imbue-
ounce of a working man and his family; taxing there.
fore the necessaries of life, presupposes a surplus
beyond what his indispensable necessity requires.
If no such surplus exist, which is the case in
few instances, it must operate a rise in the price of
labour, or force the individual into a state of pauperism.
The cost of labour in Great Britain, compared with
what it is ore the Continent, place the manufacturer in
a state of eminent jeopardy. I pretend nut to cal erlete
how long superior, capital, and skill, may successbilly
combat these advantages, but certain I am, they ought
net to existeif they can be. removed Every considera-
tion of humanity and policy demand of Government,
revisions of the present ruinous system of taxation—a
large portion of what is paid in the shape of
Poor Rates, is in truth no ether than a
'contribution for exonerating the labouring classes.
This could not be done by a Committee. They could
not hear the information, neither could they digest
those measures, which, while the revenue was protec-
ted, and prevented from falling short,. would, by their
operation, relieve the great body of the people, and en-
able the Legislature to make an effectual alteration is
the system.

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, Fes. 9.

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGKI).

J. nulet. late of Charlotte street, Fitzroy Spur, jeweller, fr.) a
Feb. 13 to April S.

BANKRUPTS.

E. Robertsor., :lans.hestar, cotton spinner. Att. Mr Ellis, Chanc:

Lane.
J. Burroughs. of Great Hermitage Street. spirit meretant. Att. Mr.
I'm:non, St. Helen's Place. Biehomate Street.
E. Mathew", of College 11111, merchant. Atts. Dawe and Cu. An7l
Cuurt, 'fitrogruorton Street.
W. Brown, S:. John Street, cheesemonger. Atts. Dacic and Co.
l'alsgrexe Place. Temple Bar.
W. Burn, Exeter, tailor. Att. Mr. Mutton, Broad Street, Lon.

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don.
.1. Mather, Manchester, joiner. Ans. Adliagton and Co. Bei

Ito w.
11. W ilk inson, I.iverrool, merelant. Atts. Taylor and Co. Kirkes
Bench Walk, Teniple.
W. Lloyd, Shrewsbury, tailor.
Buildings, Chancery Lane.
M. aid G. Nayler, Darlington, Durham, leather dressers. At
Mr. Dixon, Gray's Inn Square.
IL Potts. Ifolborn Hill, halmdasher. Att. Mr. Iloggson,

Att. Mr. Griffiths, Southaini

°art. Aldermanbuty.
R. Bacon. Aldersgate Street, miller. Mt. Mr. Gray, Tyson l'kc,
ingslr.nd Road.
J. Olivt r and N. G. Ingraham. jun. I'inner's Ilall, Bread Street.
merchants. Mt. Mr. Crunch, Union Court. Broad Street.
T. Culliinore, IVickwar, Gloucester, nualtster. Att. Mr. Kia,r,
Serjeant's Inn.
J. M ttilam, Iludlersfield, Yorkshire, grocer. AUL Fisher and to •

Holborn.
Stanifeld..krtly...ick, Manchestc7, nxrchant. Atts. Wiggles:raft:l.

und Co. a:ay's Inn.
J. Longden. Peak Forest, Derbyshire, meal seller. Aus. Loucs

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W. Lewis, Beak Street, Gorden Square, woollen draper. A
Movies and Son, Lothbury.
B. Taylor, Wiiney, Oxford, mealman.
Lane.

Mt. Mr. Gregory, M4iita

DIVIDENDS. •
T. r ruins, Harvey's Buildings. Strand. prMter. Mara ft.
J• Hoxbragh, Liverpool, tailor, Marc:ls.
T. Dys.m, Beverley. Ywkshire, merchant, March 6.
J. and N. Weatherly, Ainwiet, Northumbc.rland, brewers, !‘I
11. F. Heron, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, wool factor. March 3.
J. Boyas jun. York, carpet manufacturer, Mardi 2.
W. :taxi:, Clifton, Bristol, vietualler, March e.
C. awl Hayes, Old Jewry, mach:tow. March 6.
T.William Wooddeion, Dover Street, Pi.xadilly, upleater •;,

March 2.
J. yhillipps. of Upper Eaton Street, Pieico, coal mare:la i .

alcii %20-.
E. and 11. Hodson, Crosi Street, Hatton Garden, p:intcri, Ntarc:l t 0.

CERTIFICATES. March 2.
.1. C. Loutior, Lloyd's Coffee House. merellan:.
R. Ja.tic+. 4,1 Saint fo:in in Ilediv.tAine, Wo cestershire, spinet
H. Croeliel, Hampton in Arbn, Warw;elcshire,
F. U. eux and M. Lambert. of Ikabeat Court, L ne.
nterchanus.

An official return to the House of Commons wares the
a mount of Exchequer Bills outstanding at 45,655,4684•

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MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.

An authentic life of this beaufifol and much-injured
weinan has been at length given to the would ; in which
it appears, upon the moat satisfactory and.undeniable
,ridence, that the principal charges brought or ad-.
,milted against her by Robertson and Hume are totally
untrue. Much praise is die to Mr. Chalmers, the in-
dustrious author of this desirkrztrin in history.
though upwards of 200 years have passed since the
fame of Elizabeth was stained by her cruelty to this
lovely Princess, yet who of an ardent, generous, honest
mind, can even now read her chequered history without
being moved, even to tears, at the misfortunes which
were accumulated upon her ? Bot now that we find,
from the testimony of State Papers as worthy of belief-
s, any records in the archieves of any country in the
world, that all those misfortunes were gathered upon
;A innocent bead, we almost regret that time in its
figle has sheltered those offenders in thegrave, whom
the violated justice of the land would have denounced
and punished. In this " Life of the Queen of Scots."
a feet has come to light, which even in the perusal of
Robertson's eloquent history we strongly suspected ;
namely, that that Psalm-singing George Buchanan was
no other than typerfitluous hypocrite, and in his soul a
very knave. Yet it was chiefly upon the fabrications
Di this very writer, that the character of the ill-fated
fury was rained in Englund awl France,whole and with
We shall not go through the of the
.atements and proofs in these volumes. It is sufficient
here to inform oar Readers, that many falsehoods have
seen detected, and many new truths have been este-

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b.ished.
" Robertson,' says Mr. Chalmers in his introduction,
6 could not, from the contradictosiness of the contem-
orary Writers, determine what was the real disease of '
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Darnley, when he was taken it; at Glasgaw. I have
sfound letters in the Paper Office, which demonstrate
that he was infected with the small-plx, which then
prevailed in that town. This fact will free the Queen
trim many pages of calumny. The declaration of
Fetich Paris, who was executed as one of the King's
narrderers, was supposed by some to be a satisfactory
isocif of the Queen's privity to her husband's death.
But l have discovered, it the Paper Office, the original
declaration, which cxibits 0. Buchanan and J. Wood,
~wo busy enPinies of the Scottish Queen, in the very ad
of forging the declaration. This will relieve the calum-
niated Mary from a whole volume of' the grossest

slander."
From the same authority (41tate Pairs) it is shown,
that a conspiracy of Nobles, 1\ lurray, Moron, Maitland.
and Bothwell, the latter being; the tool of Murray, and
seduced by the promi.e o. a marriage with the Queen-
widow, were the actual mulderers of Darnley; of which
:rime Mary was entirely ignorant, and consequently
imoemt of ail the forged imu►ortal letters, sonnets, &c.
%,tbsequently attributed to her.

The Carlisle Journal says—" The Chancellor of the
I:,:oliequer has notified to Mr. Curwen, in conselnenee
‘,l' his application to him, that the existing modifica-
tions of the agrimsltural horse-tax will be continued
s)other year.
As a proof of the immense number of country bank-
whose notes are negotiable in Salisbury, a farmer on
.lesday last took trout different persons forlorn, exactly
IL ail in country IL notes, and no two rotes, from
bank.

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The Witlows of Naval Oaleers, though they may
lave re married, arc, tinder a new benevolent rcgola-
:lon of the PRINCE REGENT, entitled to the Pension
arling from their former hut:laind's rank, from the com-
rencemcnt of the present -year. Several widows have
...'ready claimed the respective pensions ; and in some
stances, such were the scanty means of these relicts of
:r brave sons of the ocean, that it has proved a real

thei“.
The commercial world 'will learn with satisfaction,
a plan has been commenced, under the auspices of
•British Government, for determining the relative
::tents of .the weiglas and measures of all trading
latries. This important ob;cet is to be accomplished
!)y procuring fr.n ahrazd correzt copies of foreign stand-
and comparing them vith those of England at his
.11:ielity's 'Mint. !such a comparison, which. could be
ullsceted only a', a tmemeat of universal peace, has never
ho.n attempted en 0. plan sufficiently general or sys.
tematic ; and hence the error s and contradictions which
alxitind in tables of foreign weights 2ntl measures, even
,1 works of the higher authority. In order, therefore,
to rcrnedy an ineonveisicnce so perplexing in cc nyl I me,
ieount Castlereagh hes, by the recommendation of the
Board of Trade, isced a circnbar, dated March 16,
1818, directing all the British Consuls abroad to send
home .copies of the pi ineipal ao-ndards used within
theiraespeetive Consulates, verified by dui proper au-
thorit,,,i, and accompanied by eaplanutory papers and
ether documents relative to the subject. Most of his
Lordship's orders havekeen already executed in a..very
'_rill and satisEictory manner. Tiv, diratches and Tack- •:,
ages transmitta on the occasion are doposited at the 1.
RcTal Mint, where t . standar& . Igo 3o is Argazith
• ton,u,;(l.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

.NEW SHERIFFS.

NAMES OF THE SHEVIET'S APPOINTED ON WEDNESDAY SY
ThE. FRANt.:E REGENT, FOR Y'IE YEAR latit.
Bedford—The Hon. Samuel Ongley, of Sandy.
Berks—Jobn Sawyer, of Heywood lodge, Fe.q,
Mackie—John °ruins, of Horsenden, Esq.
Cambridge and Huntiugdon—John Hall, of West Wrattiag,
Esq.
Cheshire—John Smith Barry, of Nlarbitry, Esq.
Cumberland—Tliumas Solkeld, of Carlisle, Esq.
Derby —Edward Coke. of Longford, Esq.
Devon —Trelsy Hele Hays, of Delamore. Esq.
Dorset—George Pooling, of Bradford, Esq.
Essen—John Wilks, of W.mrlnii Lofts, Esq.
Glocester—Edo ard Sheppard, of the Ridge, Esc':
Hereford—William Hanhory, of Shobden, Esq.
Hertford —Sa ttt el Unwiii Heathitote. of Esq.
Kent—The Hon. Julm Wingfield Stratford, of Addiugton-
place.
Leicester—Thomas Saotome, of Hinoloy, Esq.
Lineolu--Ayseengli Wilieherett, of Willingham, Esq.
Monmonth—George Bnekle, of Chepstow, Esq.
Norfolk—Sir William Windham nailing, of Earariam, Bart.
Northampton—Sir J. Henry Palmer, of Carlton Curlier,
Bart.
Nortlininherland—William Ord, of Nonney Kirk, Esq.
Nottingham—Henry Golly Knight, of Langold, Esq.
Oxford—John Honghton Langston, of Sarsden, Esq..
Rutland—Jamos Tiptaft, of Brailoston, Esq.
Salop—Edward William Smythe Owen, of Condoler Park,
Esq.
Somerset —Willisin Spike, of Ashill, Esq.
Stafford,—Jesse Watisitossell, of Dam, Esq.
County Southern—fl. C. Compton, Illauor Hens., Minatcad,
•Esq.
tintfolk—Andrew Arehileekne, of Glenham, Esq.
Surrey—William Speer of Thames Ditto's, Esq.
Sussex—John Wood, of' Chestham, Esq.
Warwick —John Eardley Eardley Wilmot, of Berkawell,

Esq.
Wilts—John Long, of Monkton Farleigh, Esq.
Worcester—John Jeffreys, of Blakebrook,,Esq.
York—William Wrightson, of Crshworth, Esq.
W ALES.
Carmarthen—David Heron Pugh, of Greenhill, Esq
Pembroke—John Edward Philipps Langharue, et Ponivane,
Esq.
Cardigan—George Jefrys, of Glandnrey, Esq.
Glamorgan—Josiah John Onest, of Dowlais, Esq.
Brecon—John Owe tine, of Owernvale Howse, Esq.
Radnor—Morgan John Evans, of Llwynbarried Hanso,Esq.
Merionetli—Ed ward Gwen, of Gariliyitgliaved,Esq.
Carnarvun—G. Hay Dawkins Pennant, of Penryn Catlin,
Esq-
Angle,,ey—William Pi itchard Lloyd. of Llwydiart, Esq.
Montgomery—John Davits, of Mach) nlletli, E-q.
Denbigh—Edward Corbett, of Llarari,
Flint—Ralph Richardson, of Kinsall, Lsq.

POLICE.

BOW STREET.

Monday an extraordinary charge of bastardy was made at
this office against an infirm old cr•ntlentan, being upwards
70 years of ace, from the neighbourhood of Sloane Street, on
a charge by the parish officers of Worcester, with being the
father of two child' en, twins, who, together with their
mother, had become ehargeable on the parish, and who had
been removed from Cheltenham to Worcester AS the mo-
ther's proper settlement; she having In en a tit la the
house at Cheltenham where the defendant lodged during
the thine he was there for the benefit of his health : he hay.
lug beeu ordered acne by his physician. Dating the time
he was there he was labouring tinder a severe indisposition,
by which he was reduced very much, and lost the sight of
one of his eyes. The defendant denied most solemnly a
criminal intercourse with the female. 'fliere was, however,
alternative, she having sworn hint to be the father of her
children ; and he was obliged to glee securities to a large
amount.

An alteration is about to lake place in the dress of the
young Genticinen on the foundation of Eton College, and
they are in fame to wear bands.
Major Cartwright has published a letter against Sir Francis
Burdett, in a style of abuse which only tabs short of Cobbett
in vulgarity.
On the 20111 inst. the ports will he shut against the importa-
tion of tareigti wheat for home consomption ; but will remain
open for every other description of grain.
No little bustle law been caused among the inhabitants of
New Windsor, in comic/pence of a copy of the Charter of
that Borough baring recently got into circulation, by which
it appeiirs that they ale entitled to privileges that base :wig
lain dormant.
J. W;illey,7o years of age, who kept a coal-the.), isa Lee's
Mews, t.;,1 ”svetiui• Sqaar- , nearly severed his head train his
body on Tuesday. He was held to bail on saturday, at
Marlhorortgli Street, fir an assault with au intent to violate
a child eight years aid.
A Gentleman now resi les near Exeter, who has not
washed his face or hands for 40 years, and speaks of the
circumstance with pleasure. He is about fourscore years of
age, strong, and in good health. Though be does not apply
water in ciltansing his skin, he is, however, in the daily habit
of dry itibuing himself.
It Ises beets satisfactorily proved, that the amornlacel liquor
produced in the motrafactory of gas from CO4l, Min effectually
destroy the grab and other worms, which so often destroy the
rising hopes of the gardener, particularly in his early crops.
So tar is the Liquid ft inn injnring the tenderest plant, that it
seems rather fu invigorate it than owberwise.
A journeyman stone-mason of Liverpool has brought writs
of right for • die recovery of an estate in Ireland, which laas
Inn: been in abeyance, of 80001. a-year ; and also an acaumn.
hated personal property of mote than half a million. His
plospects of success have been pronounced to be very fa-
vourablo by sea craA-Lawyews of the tiast eminence.
A dreadful instance of jealousy oeteurred a few .bights
since, near Stoke's tcott. lite wife of a rovectable person,
cunceivinz that a Xt./nate wtos had been iu her service, had
not aufßeiently rcsimed the jrzportirwitiesof.irer master, threw
into bee titre a small :bottle of ; by *hit:babe basilican
deprived of the nsa' cif one eye, and is mulch burnt licher
breast and hands. _Levi InteSUI,H. have Osten tairan on
be,balfvf the 441.

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NINGULAIR ESCAPE OF A CRI,VINAL.

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Some soldiers belonging to the 34th regiment werrebrought
to trial, and two of them condemned to stiffer death.' Onty
one of them, however, was left for execution, named Hales.
This poor fellow was eonstantly visited during his .confine-
ment, by the Rev. G. Du licensee, became resigned to his
fate, and expected the awful moment with Chtistion Corti-
tittle. He was accompanied to the place of execution by
the above Gentleman. He joined hint In prayer, mules- •
evaded the scaffold with composure. At length he was
turned off; and when he had bung about a minute sad
half, the executioner, had taken hold of his convidied body,
suspended himself on it, by whose additional weight the rope
gave way in stick a manner that tho miserable sufferer's feet
touched the ground. The executioner then pulled hint side- -
ways, with a view to strangle him, and bring nuatileto effect
it in this way. gut upon his shoulders. To the great sur-
prise of all who witneased this dreadful scene, the poor
criminal rose straight upon his feet, with the Itengnsam
on his shoulders, and. immediately loosened the rope
from his throat with his fingers. No language can-
describe the sensations which were excited emetic
the bystanders, by this shocking scene. The Sheriff ordered
another rope to be prepared ; but the speeteture interfered..
and the Sheriff agreed, that, before the pruceeding to the
execution of the sentence, he would wait till the will of his
Magistracy should be known. The Civil Magistrate not
being in towu, orders were sent by the Commander in Chief
to carry the titan back to gaol. By this time the poor fellow
had recovered his seuses. The interest which the Mena eg-
hiltited cannot lie described ; all became deeply interested,
in the Mail's fate. Captain Nicholls and another Gentleman
took him ender their arms to conduct hiin, and by their as-
sistance he was Mile to walk hack to the prison.—The Coast
decided, that the whole matter relative to poor Hales should
lie transmitted to the King , and the execution o;' the sen--
tence was suspended till his Majesty's pleasure was I:nowt.
Petitions were prepare) by time inhabitants, and torwatded
to his Majesty, and he was pardoned accordingly.
Hoitatnte Preersostgoal—ast.v4Ntsm.--00 the 4th of •
Nov ean:ier latt, various galvanic experiments were made one
the hotly of the derer,Clydesdale,by Dr. Ure, of Glasgow..
wither Voltaic battery of 210 pairs of lour inch plates. •
results were trine appalling. On moving the rod from the
hip to the heel, the knee being.previensly bent, the leg was
thrown out with such violence, as nearly to overturn one of :-
the assistants,wlio in vain attempted to preeeutits extension?
In tie second experiment, the rod was applied to the pbrenic
nerve iu the neck, when labaurivits breathing instantly com-
menced ; the chest heaved and fell ; the belly was protruded
.and collapsed, eith ,the relaxing and retiring diapliraghm;
and it is thought, Ow bat limn the complete evacuation or
the blood, pulsattuti iMglit have occurred t In the third ex-
periment, the anpra.ut bital nerve was touched, when every
muscle in the modern's face " was thi ~w it into !earful
actiiin.' The scene was hideous—sesei al of the apeetatems
left tto.rouru; one genth•ntan actually fainted Iron terror or
sickness. Is the foie th experiment, the tn,uls,) of the.,
circuit' power trout the spinal matrow to the ittoar :terve
at the elbow, the fingers were intim:shy put in mot um, and
the agitation of the arm was so great, that the corpse seemed
to paint to the tiaerezt•speelittOrS, some of whom thought it.
had cow., to life! Dr. Uri appears to be of opinion, that
had not incision's been made in the blood vessels of' the neck,
and the spinal marrow been 'sweated, the et imival mirth.
have been restored to life !—The Scotsman.
Wednesday the Recorder matte u Report to his Royal- -
Highness the Prince Regent, iu Council, of the following,
prisoners under sentence of death in Newgate, who welt •
capitally convicted in December Sessions last; viz. R. Evans,
U. Balfour, R. Thrower, G. W. Handy, J. Moon, W. Smith,
and R. 11-edham, for stealing goods, eke. in dvrellitee.houses ;
Thomas Pearks and Sarah l'itseaites, for house-!necking in .
the day time ; W. &Whiteley, for horse stealing ; W. Bal.
dock, 3. Mason, and J. Fellows, G. Wood, J. Corderoy,E..
Parsons, null J. Pidgeon, for burglaries ; when J.Egerton,
J. Fellows, and J. Cordexoy, were ordered for execution
on Tuesday „nest. The others were respired during Flex .
sure.
On Saturday evening, the oth Instant, a melsracly Ace:-
dent betel Sir Henry Harper Crewe, Bart. while di tvingas
pair of young blood horses its a carriage constructed like
break, near the gates of his residence, Boreitant Wipe', rear
Entree. The horses became in a slight degree re.tive ; and •
the wheel coming in contact with the poets at the gateway
of a cottage near his house, the carriage rezeieed it counts-
sion which threw Sir Henry with great force from his seat-
He fell on Isis head, which occasioned his inssantancoue
death. Lady Crewe and souse of his children were at that
moment arrived fret* town to dinner. His son was with .
him on the box when the misfortune occurred, The feelings—
of his distracted Lady and tnmily ou this unhappy occasion,
may be better 'conceived than described. Tuts sorrowful
event serves to illustrate the uncertainty of human life, and
and adds another instance of the justness of Solomon's Its- •
sti 'ldiom," Boast nut thyself of to,rourrow, for thotatuowea •
nut what a day may bring forth. V..
Mr. Falls, a nurseryman Dear Durhata,.gives au instaocaef
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land cultivated by tilt spade in that country, and set with .
wheat planted in lines by a dibble, with plants previvasly
raised iu a seed bed, which.produceal the Anormems.erop of
17 quarters per Exec.
On the let of this month a duel look place between M. do
Saint Mare.elin, an Officer in the Royal Guava, nephew cram •
31arquis de Fontaines,Peer of France, and a Sienr Fayot,.of
Nantes. The former way wounded by a pistol shot in VA: •
andamen. The ball could not be.extraeted, and the Idian! 4
)Ding mall e5:1)4,1504)n after.
A short time ago a Coroner's Jury was snrnmenetl to sit •
upon the 'wily of a buy who had fallen from a scaffolding, at
Selby, in Yorkshire, and was reported to have died c f tie
woneds. In order OW the cause of the lad's death might-be
clearly ascertained, a surgeon was dispatched to eitamius the •
body, who, ott his return to the Coroner, reported that. Other .
front a Oalvauic proces,, or front some other cause, tlia dr- -
ceased was, at the time be entered the room, petfora..
ing the smeratirrn of eating.* lunch of bread suit baltrt.
—ln plain English, that ue was already convatetwoot„ .
and would soon be iu as good health as say Messner
of the Jury.
HYVROPNOIIiA..A POrtbluenth Fever " We.ere
fumy to state, that this dreadful malady is now very pveve.7 -
lent amongst the canine species in these parts. Several does ..
infected with it have been shot, and notice lies.been.gisceby
• the Mayor to confine ails/cogs ter a month, on.patu of being •
destroyed. Several persons have been. bit ten, stud after% Al -
immerged in theses, as a preventive to thc.apprellended
4C quences. 'Several scored cattle, beside' men, svointal, aid •
-children, bave this weak undergone dlrrine to ear new,. ,
emus of them from Wiltslta v., be: It;i1;i C."

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