The National Register.
London, England, 1820-04-24 00:00:00

COURT OF II I(n4 BENCH, Cr11.1311A1.1.

iv LIBEL—THE CENOTAPH CO3I.IIIT7'EE.
PVT* V. CI.UMENTS.
'Mr Searlett staled Ihi. r to the Jur). The plaintiff
had to cottipl.iiii of a %ire.. litrrl sv Inch has :ecru inserted by
the defend:lot iu hi.. pap r, .6 Elm, () ver,", rellectiug
ou
the plaintiff's character. and on those ,•1 the at licr indivi-
duals ss h.e coast it itt. d Cie t'ominit tee, as well a- on 11r. I.
SS'yatt, the arc hiter t to them fraud onl iorpostits e,
owl chargini:, them with appropi Milo,: to Uu it own 11.0 e t•rr
funds of the rut oiii tar er, H. Cc, Otaith to the
memory of Ili late lA:nettled l'risic els Charlotte. The Ithil
si as hise. tc in Inc fern of a letter liivestigator.
Nr, Seal 1..11 a.r. pr. liana.: to prove his Cote, when
Mr. Ad• Iphus. for the .leteudaot, sand his client Was most
ready to plead to every part of the charge, except
having vsilf.Jly hocll•il 1)r. (Moll. The plaiotill had
declared hi- solijet o ion pretniirry damages, but the ju--
tifieation. As for as or,jeel could he I)) the
defendant's tirelaratioli it v,;.% coo, Ott:titled ; the
was Hot to a cooolitoia to pay hear!. s lie wa-
ready to consent to :1 ver.iict or and Cobl,. and 11U-I. it
the plaintiff would recede to this pi °posit
The plaintiff acrrd 114 to Ihi, oiler, a veittict was Nth re..
accordingly,

DI:WI/RBI NG 4 RELIGIOUS CONGIIIEG TION.—At the j
COMIIy for Oxfordshire, holden on Toe...lay last, ,
before John Atli% i. Wit, hi, Esq. and a fu,l hei,cli of Mu-
gi.trates, :to indictment n ',refs rr d and tried against four
persons of the names of I i ;is 114)lis, c.j.totios Bit . lis,
John Willis,and William %dam.. for milao lefty distils iog •
a congregation iireite,tant dissenters, :,sseiteded for divine
worship at a %inane cii d Filkins, in the nei_ hood Si
Bamptim. to-appealed in evidence that the con, ie_auou
) which umally ass, mbles on Monday eveiang•), had for
several months past been greatly annoytd by the riotous
conduct of the defendants, mail divers other persons, who,
on these occasions, made a practice of colb t tiug in consi-
derable• numbers in a close adjoining the building in a hich
the preacher and his friends met, and by almost every specks
of noise and tumult, interrupting the retie,' s exercises of
the worshippers. On the day mentioned in the indictment,
in particular, so great sviis the uproar, that the 'Meister nits
under the neei belly of suspending the service. and requesting
some of his friends to go out, and, if visible, silence.
The attempt a as, however, inenectual s the tumult was ob-
stinately continued, and the eituregation 44514 obliged to
separate before the usual tome. These facts being fully es-
tablished, the chairman proceeded to sum up and comment
upon the evidence, the bearings of a hurt] he pointed out in
a very satisfactory maim r. He then explained the laws
which affect the question, and the Jury, After a few minutes
conside-ation, delivered a verdict of Guilty against all the
defendants. The worthy magistrate next addressed the
delinquents in a most impressive manner, pointing out the
very serious nature of their offence, and informed them that
persons assembled for the exercise of their religious duties in
the manner most agreeable to the dictates of their ono
onsciences, were ander the protection of the laws, and
could not with impunity, he disturbed and harra.seil by the
rude insolence of a tumultuous mob, lie then pronounced
the sentence of the law, which ititl'et: On the defendants a
tine of 401. and they were remanded till it should be paid.
LARMINO ACCIDENT.-,-011 Sundsv morning, about
five o'clock, the inhabitants near the London Hospital,
Vi hitechapel, were most dreadfully terrified, their
houses shook to the foundation, the glass in their win-
dows broken, their furniture tossed about, and themselves
thrown out of their beds; this, accomp:liiied with a
most dreadful explosion, as if from a voleaito, or the
tiring of great guns; all was consternation, supposing it
proceeded from the shock of an earthquake. All ran
naked into the streets, unmindful of property, for
the purpose of saving their lives. Their fears, however,
were happily soon abated, on learning that it was caused
by comethiug of a combustible nature bacilli.; exploded
the oil and coluor shop of Mr. Holliwell, opposite
the London Hospital, in which, frit-inn:icily, no person
resided. The house was coniiiicteiy blown front the
fotutdation, and nut one stone left upon another; part of
the timber of the roof., flooring, bricks, iiild tiles, were
blown as far as tile London Ilos;iital, on the opposite
ode of the street, and in every (esker duet nn. The
adjoining liouse,occ,:pied by M r. Li!:ey, a pork huteiter,
was SO much injured as to be obliged to be prot,ped up.
A great part of the party wail fell in 011 th's toot of a bed,
is which were three or (inn children, but tt iio luckily
escaped without any injury. The shock was so great
that Mr. and Mrs. Lilley were thrown out of bed—the
furniture was almost all shattered by being tossed about
the house. We are happy, however, on enquiry, to find
that no lives were lost; there were no persons slept in
the house. Mr. Holliwell haeind locked up his shop,
about eleven o'clock on Saturday night, and gone home
to his house in Red Lion Street, ktihitechapel, where he
lives, and has another shop, it is impossible to ascertain
front what cause the accident proceeded. Mr. Holliwell
rays, there were only five pounds of gunpowder on the
premises, and this was secure from hre. After the es-
plosion several engines arrived, but no fire was to Ll'
seen. Several panes of glass, and articles of glass and
earthenware, in the neighbouring houses, were broken
by the shock. The only accident we heard of, and
which was but trilling, happened in a boy who was
p•issing the road at the time, by a piece of iiu,hcr fall;az
t- him, and knocking hint down. The house rod
snick in aunty are all destroyed.

THE NArIONAL REGISTER

Accomits from St. Sebastian state, that the dif-
ferent Customs in the several ports of Spain would
not be established until the assembling of the
Cortcs in July business, it was expected, tvould be
inactive till that period.
The Solar celipseavhich will happen on Thursday,
September 7. 1820, will be the greatest of all those
which have happened in this purl of Europe ever
since the year 176 and indeed of all those which
will again happen here betore the year 1847. Like
the two eclipses just alludes to, it will be annular:
that is, the disk of the moon will not wholly
cover the disk of the sun, but in certain parts of the
earth the sun will show the appearance of an an-
nulus, or ring, round the body of the moon ; the
position and magnitude of which will depend on the
situation of the spectator In no part of England
will this annular appearance be observed; it will be
seen, however, in the Shetland Islands. On the
Continent, in any part of that tract of country,
which extends nearly in it straight line from the
north of Westphalia to the south of Italy, the inha-
bitants will leave an opportunity of beholding thsi
singular phenonu non.
Every preparation is making in the department of
the Master of the Ilorse tlar his Majesty's going in
state to open the new Parliament. In consequence
of the Court mourning, the state horses will not be
decorated with ribomrs, as they generally have been
upon these occasions.
THE CATO•STREET CONSPIRACY• - It will be
recollected, that, on the night of the capture of the
Cato-street conspirators, Davidson, the man of co-
lour, was stated to have been standing sentry ut
the entrance to the place of merlin;;, .n d with a
combine, and a sword of itranense e rangth, and that
in resisting the ttempt of the officers to take him
into custody, he discharged his combine at one of
them. In preferring the bills against the prisoners
for the several offences with which they arc charged,
this circumstance was overlooked, and it was not
recollected, we untie' stand, till Wednesday. An
order was consequently given on Wednesday even-
ing by Mr. Monte, the Solictor to the Treasury, to
Ituthven, Ellis. Gill (the man shot at), and other
witnesses, to attend bethre the Middlesex Grand
Jury, at Clerkenwell, on Thursday, and to bring
with them the arms taken from Davidson. They
attended accordingly, the bill of indictment was
preferred, and a true bill found against William
Davidson, for feloniously shooting at Gill,
with intent to kill, &c. Only three witnesses were
called. The bill was preferred before the Grand
Jury summoned to dispose of the ordinary Sessions
business, and not that lately assembled under the
Special Commission.
Advices from Petersburg!' state, that a new voy-
age of discovery will be undertaken this summer in
the North. The expedition will sail from the mouth
of the Lena for the Frozen Ocean, in order to exa-
mine the coast of Siberia and the islands which were
discovered to the north of it some years ago. As it
is not yet ascertained whether these supposed islands
may in reality be one main land or not, and as
as hitherto they have only been visited in winter. it
will be interesting to know how far the ice will
permit vessels to advance during summer, and to
determine its extent.
The office of Comptroller of Exchequer-Bills'
Account became vacant about three years since, by
the death of Mr. Pollard, (who received 10001. per
annum for signing his name every quarter), and
was declared by the Treasury and Auditors of Ac-
counts to be totally useless, and was abolished
accordingly. The Lords of the Treasury have, how-
ever, thought proper to revive it within the last
month, and given it to Mr. Nugent Kirkland,
thereby increasing the profuse expenditure and dis-
tress of the country.
Thursday Hight some villains broke into a new
building belonging to William Moore, Esq. of Bow
Common-lane, Bromley, and cut the glass out of 14
large sashes, which they carried offi together with
some carpenters' tools.
According to advices from Cadiz of the 30th ult.
the duties on wine, barilla. &c. the most unpopular
measure adopted by Ferdinand, previously to his
acceptance of the Constitution, have been removed
by the Government, and an order to that effect had
reached Cadiz. With respect to the commercial
affairs of Spain in general, nothing would be done
until the deliberations of the Cortes had commenced.
It is said, that since the Bank of England has
been compelled to pay in specie, there have been
only three bigots issued front the Bank to the public,
Letters front Gibraltar of the 27th ult. mention,
that the Government schooner had returned, with
a favourable report of the state of the plague in
Africa. The deaths in Morocco did not exceed two
or three hundred daily. In Mogadore they were
reduced also considerably, and were from Ve to 15
daily. The cordon. established by General Don,
between the Spanish dominions and Gibraltar, was
removed on the 25th of March, and a free inter-
.coutse with Spain was established.

W. D Evans, Esq. barrister at law, many years
resident of Liverpool, lately Vice-Chancellor of
Lancaster, and stipendiary magistrate of %flaws.
ter, has accepters the Office of Chief Justice of the
presidency of Bombay, formerly held by Sir J.
Mackintosh.

Duchess de Berri.—When the Duchess de Berr
was on her way to France, befbre she had vet seen
the Duke, or been seen by him, she wrote him the
fhhlowing letter :—" I do not know what name to
give you Monsieur (Sir)—that is too od: Mon-
seigneur (My Lord)—that is too ceretnonio.is: My
husband—that is anticipating my hopes: I will call
you my friend. I am nut handsome, but if you have
been told that I wish to please you, ant to be loved,

I will support my reputation."
Sunday morning, about one o'clock, a must beau-
tiful meteoric ball of fire appeared a little towards
the south, at a considerable altitude, over Fort Pitt,
Chatham, which strongly illuminated the surround.
ing country to a considerable distance, for several
seconds, and disappeared by dissolving into a stream
of sparks.
Westmingler MlL—Wednestlay being the first
day of Easter Term, the Lord Chancellor attended at
Ltricolo's Inn Hall, at his usual time. Shortly after,
the Vice Chaecellor and seven of the Judges, with
the principal CounsA of the Chancery and the other
Courts, waited on his Lordship, and took breakfast.
They then accompanied his Lordship in procession
to open the Courts at Westminster. The Chief
,Justices of the King's Bench and Common Pleas,
with the Ch:ef Baron of the Exchequer, together
with Mr. Justice Richardson, were not of the party,
they being engaged on the trials at ;he Old Bailey.
The Courts broke up at an early hour. Mr. Justice
Best sat early in the morning in the Bail Court.
It is rumoured, that a Special Commission will
be immcdiatek isstiett for the trial of those accused
of treasonable conspiracies in Scotland
When his late Majesty "as a child, he was fie-
quently taken into the lute:iv-room at Leicester.
house, which belonged to his Royal Mother the
Princess Dowager of Wales Handel observing
that the little l'rince was very attentive to his ora-
torio music, exclaimed, when the Prince on one
occasion had crept close to the double bass and
organ. " dat hid Prince vil keep ub my
music ven lam del and gone." This prophecy was
verified • for the King did not relish lacer eompo.
sitions; and Handel's music used to be performed
to him by the Queen's band every evening at
Windsor castle after the usual promenade on the
Terrace. _

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Parson Harrison, of Stockport, was tried at Ches.
ter on Tuesday, upon two different indictments for
sedition. Ile was found Guilty upon both, and
sentenced to two years imprisonment in the county
gaol, and to find securities for his gi isl behaviour
for two years. The sentence upon the thriller con-
viction, when he was tried along with Sir Charles
Wolseley, will be delivered in the Court of King's
Bench, in the course of the present term.
There are at present in Whitecross-street prison,
for debt, upwards of 450 prisoner:, male and fe-
male, all waiting in anxious expectation of being
released by an Act of Grace or Insolvent Bill, soon
after the meeting of Parliament.
Monday afterniam, a decently dressed female was
observed walkin:, backwards and thrwards by the
river side at Chelsea, in - uely a way as to excite sus-
picion that she had some design upon her own life.
At length she jumped in and sunk. A lad named
Dumbleton, son of a potatoe merchant in Drury-
lane, who beheld the act, immediately came up,
took off his coat and waistcoat, and fearlessly sprung
into the water to rescue her. After considerable
difficulty, he succeeded in getting the body to the
shore, where it was laid, exhausted and insensible
on the bank, till some persons were procured who
carried it to a neighbouring public house, where
animation returned, and by the kind persuasions of
several persons, she consented to return home ; but
would not tell the cause of her rash conduct. The
intrepid bov applied to (and we understand received
from) the Humane Society, the usual reward in
such cases.
On Friday, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon,
an escape of gas from a fractured pipe basing ucen
discovered in the chemical ivarehouses of Messrs.
Savory 'old Cu , of Bond Street, one of the workmen
incautiously took a lighted candle, to find out the
situation of the leak ; when an e:iplosion took place,
which singed the hair of the twia, and broke
several panes of glass in the hop window.
Mr. Haldimand, the Hanoverian messenger. who
arrived in London on Friday, with letters tram the
Duke of Cambridge, also brought letter. irom the
Duke and Duchess of Cumberland, at pier.., to the
King, the Duchess of Gloacc-ter, toe t'riv'ets
Sopiiia, and others of the Royal Family.
A tire broke out in the shop of essrs. Grace and
Freeman, at Nlillbank, on Friday mmniug. It WAS
a white lead manutaetory ; the greater part of it
was destroyed. The damage is computed at from
three to four thousand pounds.

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At the late Gloucester Assizes, the trial of Henry
Bradley, for a burglary in the Ineise of Nlr. Wilson, of
Eastgate-street, in that city (in companv %volt two tier •
who are still at large), and stealing therenut two chests
of tea, his property , and of Georg: Marlin, tried under
the saint. indictment for r?ceiving the said tea, knowing
it to have been stolen, commenced on Thursday soon
after eight o'clock, and was not brought 10 a close till
half past five in the afternoon. The highly reputable
situation in life which the latter prisoner had fillet!, up
to the period of this unfortunate transaction (hinny,
long resided there as a grocer), excited a very consider-
able degree of interest ; and at an early hour the Court
was ernWillqi with spectators, anxious to hear the trial.
On delivering in their verdict, several of Cite Jury were
visibly affected, from the personal knowledge which they
had of the prisoner Martin's former respectability. Mr.
instice Ilolrovd immediately after, in the most impres-
sive manner, proceeded to pass sentence upon the pri-
soners, animsdverting in the strongest terms upon the
enormity of Martin's offence. He had been convicted
upon the clearest evidence; and the good character
which had been given to him by the very respectable
witnesses examined on his behalf, tended rather as
aggravation of his case, the event of this day chewing
how much the‘ had heed deceived, add evincing the
great facility with which he could pursue such a nefa-
rious traffic unsuspected by his neighbours. It was the
encouragement held out by such persons that led °Met s
to the commission of depredations which forfeited their
lives to the law; and who, possibly, ilopposed or resisted,
ight be induced to commit the still more horrildt-
crime of morderl Sentence of transpottation was then
passed in the usual Rita,.
On Wednesday evening, about half a dozen
lains, dressed as mechanics, went to the public
Louse at the corner of Moor Street, Seven Dials,
and pretended they wanted to look at the club-
room, as they were about to form or remove a club
there. The young couple who kept the house, had
been there but a few weeks, and they were glad of
an opportunity of increasing their business ; the
fellows engaged the room, which is next the land-
lord's bed room. They called for porter and pipes,
and the boy of the house waited upon them, and
soon after twelve o'clock they paid their reckoning

and left. The landlord having his fastnings good,
went up stairs to go to bed, when he found the door
of his room, which he left baled, open, and his
drawers and trunks ransacked of 801. and upwards
which he had received since he took the house,
besides a watch and other articles, and untiwt una•ely
not one of the thieves are known. A pipe was lett
the bed side.
A Fool Race Sweepslakes
,for 100 Guineas.—
A singular race took place on the Woodfiird road
early on 'Tuesday morning, which was made on
Monday evening ove- the bottle, between a Captain
Fry, and Messrs. Adams, Lee, and Jones. The
distance was five miles, and Jones, who is rather
corpulent, was to receive one at starting, Lee
400 yards, and the other two to start together.—
Lee was overtaken at the two miles, and he gave in.
it was a good race between the two first until they
bad done four miles, when Adams was beat 50 yards
and resigned The Captain knocked himself up in
endeavouring to catch Jones, who beat him, and won
the race by 50 yards, The Captain did his ground
in 30 minutes.
Vickery the officer arrived in London on Monday,
with Mr. limit, formerly a wine merchant in city,
whom he has been in pursuit of abroad for about
five months. Hunt left England considerably in
debt, first having converted every thing possible
into money ; in his absence he was made a bankrupt,
and his deficiencies were so great that Government
rendered every possible assistance A letter was
written by Lord Castlereagh to Sir Charles Stuart,
the English Ambassador at Paris, and to Lord Clan-
carty, , ut the Court of the Netherlands : Baran
Fagel, the Ambassador from the Netherlands to tio
British Court, who was abroad at the time, rendered

every po,sible assistance. Vickery was accompanied
by one of the assignees and the solicitor to the
bankruptcy who knew Mr. Hunt's person. They
traced him to Diuppe, where they fi,und him in a
diligence, jest going to start fin• Havre, the princi:
pal port from ,\ hence vessels sail for America It
was dark, and they could on'y distinguish him by
the assistance of a lighted lantern. He denied that
his name was Hunt, Navin_;, procured his passport by
the name of Hardy. He, however, afterwards
confessed that his name was Hunt ; and for his

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false representation of himself the French police
sentenced him to be imprisoned' three months.—
Daring Ins confinement a correspondence was car-
ried on between the different government-officers,
as to his beicg given up at the expiration of his
confinement (in his being released, the French
police sent him to a village on the frontier, where
Vickers stopped hint, and he received assistance
front tine police-officers of the Netherlands. It is
exp2cteil ikit his creditor:: will recover 20
Vickery silted with hint in custody from Ostend,
and arrived in Landon with him on Monday. The
officer wished to lode hint in Netvgate, but the
keeper doubted his power to reieive hint upon the
warrant, it being issued by the Lord Chief Justice
Abbott, which directed that lie was to be lodged in
the prison where he was taken. The Lord Chief