The National Register.
London, England, 1818-01-25 00:00:00

WALTZING, ILCOMOISF., &c.

Mr. WILSON, DANCINO-MMITIR, from the KING'S
TR EAT r. Orval* Hoc as, respetcfally informs the public that his
Academy for !Wm Pm is open. where peraons of any age may be
privairly ini.tructed in Minneta, Quadrilles, %Valuing, the new Spa-
tier' of Dancing the If rowel's, Spanish Dances, English Country
Dances. Ac. at his Ileeidence and Academy. Old Balky, neat Lud-
gate Dill. where may be had, just published, his Cow Pax tOir TO
THE BALL-Runs( ; The correct Method of German and French
Waitsing; Quadrille Instructor; l.a Batteuse; Mr. 1Y ii.!Hlrea
New Quadrilles, and other Fancy Dances, including La Pirouette
Mnulinet, and Walt: ;
CottiPion ; the Admired Spanish Contra Dance; together with the
\Yalu Minuet, as danced- at Mr. Wo.sow's last sail by Mr. W.
and a Young Lady, his Pupil. And the Qualrille Minuet, by Four
Yo.iii4 Lathes.

N.H. The Ecosooise Instructor just published nay be had as
Aix VS ss.
• • 'l•.,n', Young Ladies of coal (h:trarter have an oppoannity
of trio:; :,n• eructed in St3ge and 11811 H ) )rn Dancirg, to b. articltal
fn Twee Years; pariculars known as above.

G. C.UtiIOLL, Contractor f. a- the last Two Lote-
r'es, kis t7t2 pleasure of retnindiow his Friends, and the
previous to their making their purchase in the
re.ent (;rand Stat..l Lottery, of the extraor.:inary Sue-
t '.ss v.hich g;.nerally attonds his fortunate ()fficos s$
an instance ~f whi.!ll, it must be reeellectuil, that during
the 1.,;:.t Lottery alone, he So'.:l in SLarcs no less than
FivE 'Pivot of TWenty T:itylSand
rt.llllllS.-.--nt. present Littery, which will commence
I)rawin,,,7 on the •Ith :)1. March, the thllowirg
which it is Sllfile:Ortt briefly to enumerate ;
i'ires of fine ()hl Port-.—One Hindred Capital
r :I.e prizes of 1! 30,000 Sterling, &c. &e. &c.
s!l.lrcs arc selling at 7, Cornhill, and Q 6,
rc 7,;:o. 7 .73 5, the last l'rize

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LONDON :

SUNDAY, JANU.4IIY 25, 1818.

THR liberation of the remaining persons confined
under the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act, has this
week excited considerable interest. The conversation
which took place some days ago, between Sir Natha-
niel Connant, and the two Evanses, has been made pub-
lic ; and from the general tone of it we suspect it to
be the production of their pen. There is a low and
•ulgar impudence, in their replies, an indecent cours-
. ness in their manner which they, no doubt, think will
'give them consequence with the public. Already
we have seen one effect produced by it, for we find
those persons, who hail readily entered into rccognizan-
ces, now standing on the floor of the Court of King's
Beach, and loudly demanding that they should be dis-
charged. Mr. Evans and his energetic son, would have
done well to remember the character of the individual
whom they addressed in the conversation alluded to.
Sir Nathaniel Conant, has fulfilled the important du-
ties of a Magistrate, for many years with a singleness
of mind, an unflinching purity of principle, which has
rendered him, not merely respected, but esteemed by
all those who know either his public or private
worth. To see him bearded by these two men,
whose very defiance of all decency was in some mea-
sure their protection cannot but give pain to every
man, who has any feeling of respect far the dignity of
the Magistracy of the country. But these men have
an object in view. They would not merely rie copyists
of Hone, in the insults offered to justice, they no doubt
like him, look forward to the public for a Subscription,
and in all probability they will have it, and in all pro-
bability too, they will find another "Member of the
House of Lords,'' another Earl of Darlington and ano-
ther Viscount Sefton, to send them their 100 guineas,
because they have insulted and defied that power, by
which their hereditary dignities are protected, and be-
cause they would destroy that system, by which their
hereditary properly is preserved.

Friday, at two o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held
at the Foreign Office, which was attended by all the
Cabinet Ministers : they sat in deliberation till about
live, when the Speech for opening the session of Par-
liament was finally arranged, to be submitted to the
Prince Regent in Council yesterday at the Pavilion at
Brighton. After the breaking up of the Cabinet
Council, Earl Harrowby, as the Lord President of the
Council, gave the annual dinner, or what is called
the Sheriffs' dinner, it being the day when the Sheriffs
are pricked for the year.
In the House of Peers the address will be moved by
the Earl of Aylesford, and seconded by Lord Seises.—
, In the House of Commons it will be moved by the
Hon Colonel Wodehouse, and seconded by Mr. Wind-
ham Quin. No amendment, we hear, is intended to be
moved by the Opposition.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has been for some
time past new-modelling the mode of contracting for
the supply of paper, parchment, printing, book-binding,
ruling, and all other articles of stationary required for
the public service, not only in this country, but also in
Ireland. He has at length perfected his plans for the
London supply, and contracts have been made at re-
duced prices, varying from 174 to 45 per cent.; and
there is no doubt but similar advantages will arise to
the public from his exertions in Ireland.
The Paris journals of the 19th, are occupied with
farther particulars of the interminable *Whir of M.
Fuaides. The pretaratives for the trial are as cumber-
some as those fhr a general congress. Witnesses have
multiplied mi iVinitum; and each new witness leads to
tile arrest of some person as an accessory never impli-
cated Lot;.re. The last individual seized and examined
is M. Constans, a lorater Commissar• of Police, anal he
is already the oNe..t of some grave and important
charges. In the mean time, the mysteries or mystiii-
cations of .Nladamc Manson appear to thicken as the
catastrophe draws near. Whether moved by shame,
by romance, or aticctation, she raves of every thing,

JAN. 25

vet communicates nothing. She seems alternately un.
der the guidance of vehement impulses and weak
nerves. She perplexes the Magistrates—bullies the
gend'armes—laughs at danger—and coquettes with
justice. But, perhaps, a very common female secret is
the spring that puts in motion these ingenious and end.
less quackeries.

Tile American papers of the 20th ult. contain some
intelligence rather interesting on both sides of the At..
!antic. The prize ships made by cruisers of Amelia
Island, and ordered into that port for condemnation, are,
afterwards, on touching at St. Mary's, seised with their
cargoes by the officers of the United States, and secured
as public property. This is an act of positive ownership,
exercised already by the stronger Republic upon the
weaker one. General Floyd, commanding in Camden
country, has ordered out .500 men from the districts
contigious to St. Marys ; and to be placed ostensibly
under the orders of General Gaines. \Mettler the In.
dian war, or the sciatire of East Florida, is to find em.
ployment for the above three, we are not :listinctly in.
tinined. Against the possession of East Florida by the
United States, in whatever way they may maintain it,
a protest is said, with some show of authenticity, to
have been delivered by our Minister, Mr. Bagot.—
The American Editor uses the following language upon
this, which may be considered an important national
question :—" We give the above as received—but can.
not think it will eventually appear that the British Go-
vernment has so tar presumei to interfere in our con-
cerns." This Baltimore journalist would perhaps be
improved by some elementary lessAis on the difference
between the pronouns possessive mum and Iwum. East
Florida may be regarded as the absolute key of many of
the British West India islands. We wish to avoid all
needless irritation ; or really this talk about " our
concerns" is enough to stagger the placidity of John
Bull. The following is the passage respecting Mr. Bagot,
to which we have alluded :

•• WASHINGTON, DEC. 11..-It is mentioned here with apparent
authenticity, that the British Minister, Mr. Bagot, has, by command
of his Government, entered a protest against our coming iato posses-
sion of the Floridas by purchase or otherwise. I state what I hear,
not what I know : such interference can hardly be expected.
The Private Secretary of the President, as I presume you well
know. is a younger brother to hint, not nephew. a► has been stated.
The Secretary is a gentlenum of pleasing address, and every way
fitted for the station.

.• We gi‘e the above a% received (add.: the Editor). but cannot think
it will eventually appear that the British Government have so fat
presunwd to interfcie in our concerns."

We give the fidlowing article from Stutgard, with
the most heartfelt satisfaction; at the same time we may
rejoice in the justice which has been dealt to wretches,
whose villainies excite our abhorrence, we cannot but
regret that our neighbours have been belime hand with
us ; fir we have seen the same crime perpetrated
amongst ourselves, and, we blush to add, almost with
impunity.

‘‘ STUTGARD, DEC. 31.—Two citizens of Amsterdam,
Richard Rodolphe, commissary, aged 25, and Jean
Jacques Hartsink, aged 40. clerk of the tribunal of the
Justice of Peace, having been convicted on a legal ex-
amination of having deceived and seduced emigrants,
have been condemned by the tribunal of this city to
five years imprisonment, and to a fine of 1,400 florins
each, and payment of the costs. They arc declared to
have forfeited the civil and family rights mentioned in
the 42nd article of the l'enal Code. Rotlolphe, with.
out having the necessary means of conveying the emi.
grants to America, had printed and distributed cards, in
which he fklsely gave out that he was authorized by
the police to make this undertaking. He agreed with
those who presented themselves, for the expenses of the
passage, and it was settled that the money should be
deposited with J. J. Hartsink, r.ot to be paid out of his
hands till they should have arrived in America.
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Hartsink, who had first gone to Cologne, to give the
emigrants confidence, took the money, for which he
gave a receipt, and abused, for this purpose, his quality
of clerk.

Notwithstanding the assurance which he had given
the emigrants, that their funds should not be disposed
of till after the voyage should be completed, he had th.
livered considerable sums to Rodolphe tor the purchase
of the vessel, provisions, and other expellees of the voy.
age, and kept 2,000 florins for himself; us it recompense
agreed upon with Rodolphe. Besides the vessel being
neither equipped nor provisioned, the emigrants have
ken obliged to exchange their receipts fbr contracts,
Lich the two rogues had adroitly concerted, to make
it impossible for the credulous voyagers to recover
their money."

The AnmY.—lt is now reported that Sir Charles.
Colville will be the new Governor uf and
Sir Lowry Cole of Ceylon. It is It f!ct not g,:nerally
known, that the Earl of !Lipton (Lord Niddrey), is
the only one of the last created peers who declines re•
ceiving any pension. It was :tt first said that Lord
Coinherruere had declined, whioh was a mistake; be
receives the 2,000!. per anntun same as Lords Beres.
thrl and IEII.

SIR W•Tntx t. MonoAN.---On Fri.lay in the
Court ut Exchequer, Mr. Mike obtained a rule to spew
causc why Mr. Morgan and Mr. II Lewes, should not
be committed for contempt of Court, the one for having
received rents utter the peremptory order of the Court
had been made, that they Fhoulil be raid into Celina
and the ether for having raid tile :woe.

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JAN. 24

APPEAL OF MURDER.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 24:
THE KING V. ABRAHAM

REPLICITION.-IN THE KING'S BENCH.
THE MIMI V. THONTON.

Though the importance of this case has (if possible •
increased by the procrastination of its discussion and
final decision, the crowd was not so early this morn-
ing as when the case was before the Court the last Term,
but it was equally numerous. Notwithstanding the
wetness of the morning, by half past nine o'clock,
every avenue to the Court was immensely crowded.—
At halt' prat eight the defendant left the apartments
that arc provided for him at the King's Bench Prison in
a hackney coach, under the escort of two ti2statfi4, and
having arrived at Westminster by nine, he was con-
ducted up into the Court by theipas.sage under the House
of Lords, and was placed in his old position at the bar
of the Court.

It is said, that during his confinement, he has been
in most excellent spirits, and entertains the firmest con-
♦iction of his ultimate acquittal. He was dressed in a
new black coat, drab-coloured kerseytnere breeches, and
gaiters ; had on a pair of new yellow gloves, and main-
tains his former appearance of a respectable looking
fanner. He does nut appear to like publicity, and maii-
fested that dislike a good deal in part of his conduct
while in Court this morning. A portrait painter of con-
siderable eminence was in Court for the purpose of taking
his likeness, but as soon as he observed him, he immedi-
ately turned his back to the wentleman, and placing his
hand on that side of his face, remained in such a position
as to preclude the possibility of his accomplishing his
purpose fire upwards of an hour and did not alter it until
the Court commenced its proceedings, when, from bein.,
obliged to stand np part of the time, he necessarily al-
tered it.

At a quarter before teno'clock the appellant enterel
the Court, with his attorney and a friend who had come
from the country with him. At ten Mr. Reader a..d
Mr. Reynolds entered the Court, and seated themselves
on the right hand of the defendant At a quarter
after ten Mr. Clarke, Mr. Gurney, Mr. Richardson, and
Mr. Chitty, the Counsel fbr the appellant, entered the
Court.

Mr. Justice Bayley, who entered the Court before
the other Judges, disposed of several motions of course,
and other routine business ; after which he joined the
other Judges in thair chamba behind the Court.
At half past ten their Lordships entered the Court,
when Mr. Clarke addressed them as fbllows

Mr. Clarke.—My Lord, the appellant is here accord-
ing to the order of the Court.
Mr. Reader.—My Lord, the defendant has a Repli-
cation here, which he wishes to verify by affidavit.
The Replication was then handed in, and read by Mr.
Le Blanc, the Clerk of the Court to the effect follow-
ing :

On Saturday next after eight days of St. Hilary in,
the 38th of Geo. lll.—And the said Abraham Thorn-
ton suith, that notwithstanding the said matters alledged
in the said counterplca, he ought to be admitted to wage
battle, because pratesting that he is innocent ; and though
be is not under any necessity nor in any way bound to
answer the same,nevertheless in replication he saith, that
before and at the time of the writ of appeal issuedagainst
Lim, there were and now are, strong presumptions that
he was not, and is not guilty of the felony aforesaid, in
the said writ of appeal so charged against him as afire-
said. That is to say, at the time when the said Mary
Ashford went to the house of Mary Butler, at &tiling-
ton aforesaid, us in the counterplea above set forth, site
the said Mary Ashford went there alone, and unaccom-
panied by the said Abraham Thornton ; and he furt:ter
saith, that the said Mary Ashford left the house of the
said Mary Butler about a quarter of an hour pa.a four
of the clock in the morning, alone and unacompanii a by
the said Abraham Thornton, and proceeded towards
Langley aforesaid; and the the said A. Thornton fnrther
saith that a short time after th said Mary Ashtbr.l had so
left the house of the said Mury Butler, she was met at a
short distance from the same, walking in a lane, called
Bell Lane, leading from Erdlington to Langley, by one
Joseph Davison, he the said Abraham Thcrnton nut k—
ing in company with her nor in any way in sight. And
the said A bral.sm Thornton further saith, that within a
short space aftawards, that is to say, within the space of
a quarter of an hour from the time she so left the house
of Mary Butler, she was seen by one Thomas Broad-
hurst, crossing a certain turnpike road hauling front Lon-
don to Chester, at that part of the road where a certain
land called Bell Lane, crosses the said turnpike road,
and she proceeded along the said lane, then Mai; alone
and unaccompanied by the said Abraham Thornton.—,
And she Kidd Abraham Thornton further saith, that at
the several places where the said Mary Ashford was :at
wen by the said Davidson and Broadhurst, the road
was bread and straight for a considerable distance, and
that he the said Abraham Thcraton must have been
seen at a considerable distance, if he had been proceed-
ing with her. And the said Abraaam Thornton saith,
that on the morning of the said Tues.la at a quarter
after four of the clock, or not later than five and twenty
he. the said Abraham Thornton was scut by

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divers credible witnesses, a considerZble distance front
the said Bell Lane, to wit, by one Thomas Jennings.
one John fit I.len, jun. and others, being all persons with
whom the said Abraham Thornton had no previous con-
nection or acquaintance, walking along a lane leading
to Castle Bromwhich, aforesaid, close to the farm-house
of John Holden the elder, which was the way leading
to the said Abraham Thornton's father's house, where
the said Abraham Thornton at that time resided.—
And that he was walking slowly and leisurely and not
in any way in confusion or disorder. And when he hail
continued his course about a mile from the said home
of John Holden, the elder, as aforesaid, he was seen
by one John Haydon, and then and there stopped and
conversed with the said John Haydon for the space
of a quarter of an hour, after which he parted from
hint and continued walking on towards the house
of the said Abraham Thornton's father ; and the
said Abraham Thornton saith that one John Woodcock
saw him so stopping and conversing as aforesaid to
wit, &c. And the said Abraham Thornton further
with, that he was also seen by one James White at
about twenty five minutes after five of the clock, in the
morning when he was still walking slowly and Leatrely
towards his fitther's house, and he was then about
half a mile distant from his father's house. And he
further saith that the distance from the house of Mary
Butler over and across the said harrowed field in the
said counterplea mentioned, is one mile, two furlongs,
and thirty yards, and the distance from the workhouse,
which is the nearest point of the village of Erdlington
to John Holden's farmhouse, is one mile, three furlongs,
and sixty-two yards ; and the distance from the said pit
of water found by Erdlington 111in-es:Lid to the said farm
house of JAR Holden aforesaid, is two miles, four fur-
longs, &c. and he with that the most ready and accessi-
ble way from the said pit of water to the said farm-
house, and also the shortest way, except as hereunder
mentioned, is the following, viz across a certain close
into a certain turnpike-road, called the Chester-road, at
the part thereof near to the garden wall of one Mr. Hip-
kis, and also leading to the farm-house of the said John
Holden the elder, and the distance of the said way is
one mile, seven furlongs, and one hundred and seventy
yards. And the said Abraham Thornton further faith,
that the distance from the said pit of water to the said
fitrmhouse is one mile, four furlongs, and sixty yards ;
but he saith that there is no foot-path in that direction
except for a distance of one hundred yards, leading to
the Canal Bridge, and that by the intersection of the
hedges and fences, by and between the said pit of wawa
and the said bridge, it would take a longer time to ar-
rive at the said farmhouse, than by taking the more
circa itous road above pointed out. And the said A. Thorn-
ton further with, that the clock at the house of the said
Mary Butler, where said Mary Ashford had been on the
morning of the 27 th of May afuresaid,was on that morning
without any alteration tvbatsoever ; and the time mark
cal by the said clock on that morning was carefully
compared by one William Webster, Esq (not known to
or acquainted with this defendant, but at witness for
the prosecution) with the true time at Birmingham ;
and also the clock at John Holden's was without any
alteration and was compared with the true time at Bir-
minigham, by one William Townley, and the said se-
veral times above mentioned are all connected and re-
duced to the same measure of time: that is to say, to the
true measure of time kept at Birmingham aforesaid, on
that day, as hereinbefore stated. And the said Aiwa-
ham Thornton further saith, that ins his arrival at his
father's house, on the morning of the said 27th day of
May aforesaid he changed his hat and coat, and no
other part of his apparel, and he had on the same shirt
and breeches, and the same stockings, and he wore the
same respectively, at the time of his apprehension on
the charge aforesaid, that is to say, &c. And the said
Abraham Thort:n further saith, that, on such his ap-
prehension, on the said morning, he was taken before
one William Ballfard, En one of his Majesty's Justi-
ces of the Peace in and for the County of Warwick,
and the several witnessess against him were examined,
:ma in his examination, which was afterwards reduced
to writing, he, the said Abraham Thornton, gave an
account of the several places at which he had been du-
ring the night of the said 2(ith of May, and the morn-
ing of the 27th, and the several times that he had been
at such places respectively ; and he saith, that there is
no fiat stated by him which has in any way been con-
tradicted, and all the said facts have since been con-
firmed and corroborated by various witnesses, as well
those called on the prosecution of the said indictment, as
those called on the part of the said Abraham Thornton,
in his defence thereto And the said Abraham Thorn-
ton farther saith, that at the General Sessions of Oyer
and Terminer held in and for the sail Connty of
Warwick, &c.

lien the replication set forth the commission at War-
wick assizes under which the defendant was tried on
two indictments, the one for the murder an the et :er
far the rape, and stated his acquittal on each, in the
usual technical thrms of law, atier which it concluied
in the manner following :—" And the said Abraham
Thornton in fact saith, that the several facts proved,
allird stronger and inure violent presumption and
stronger proof that he is not guilty of the murder

whereof he stands a-pealed, than tlle said pre,ioo.ption
and prooA in the said counteiplea set firth that he is
guilty. And therefore the said Abraham Thornton
prays judgment, that he may be peroiLted t.) wags
battle with the said Wm. Ashford."
M. Le Blanc.—There is an affidavit attached to it
as follows.

Here Mr. Le Blanc read the af!ldarit.
" In the King a Bench, lx:tween the King and Abra.
ham Thornton, upon an appeal of Mur.ler.

" Mrahans Thornton, Lite of Castle Bromwich, in
the County d' Warwick, yeoman, but now a primmer
confined in the King's Bench Prison, hereby maketh
oath and with, that the several matters and facts in the
replication hereunto annexed are true, 13.4 this deponent
is informed and verily believes"

Mr. Clarke.—My Lords, on the part of the appel.
ant, Wm. Ashford, I must beg your Lordships to
allow us time to answer this replicuaon. Until Thurs•
day next, will be time enough.
Lord Ellenborough.—l think that seems a reasons.
We time What do you say, Mr. Reader?
Mr. Reader.—My Lord, I can hare no po3sible ob.

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joction.
Lord Ellenborough.—Then let it be until next
Thursday.

THE DRAMA.

DRTJRY-LANE.

On Tuesday night, a young lady from the Dublin
Theatre, whose name we understand is Smithson, made
her first appearance here, in the character of Letitia
Hardy, in the Belle's Stratagem. After the eminent
success which has attended Miss Brunton, at the other
house, in this very difficult part, Miss Smithson's was
a bold undertaking, and we are sorry to add, her suc-
cess was not equal to her daring. In the scene where
she assumes the awkward airs of a rustic hoyden, she
was very happy, but in all the rest she was deficient;
her singing is not good, and her dancing, which, as it
is intended to captivate, should be excellent, was far
from graceful. In characters of a different, coarser
kind, she may succeed, but certainly not in this.
Stanley's Doricourt was very bad ; the Manager
might surely have found a better, though we have not
our eye on Mr. Rae when we say this.