1822.] Foreign News. canoes which have disturbed the icy regions of the Pole. At the Eastern boundary of Asiatic Russia, viz. at the Western extremities of North America, the inhabitants of the Alcontes Isles (or Foxes) saw in the night of the 2d of March 1821, all the signs which precede the greatest disorder of nature. The wind hlew with impetuosity from the south-west. At the same time they felt a violent shaking of the earth, attended with subterraneous noise. The atmosphere was inflamed immediately after in all directions, and clouds of sand with cinders, which obscured every object, continued falling during the night. At day break the wind changed, the fall of volcanic matter ceased, and the sea became more agitated. Whilst this was passing at Unalachka, a volcano burst forth at Ounimack, another island upwards of 100 wersts (24 leagues) from Unalachka. When the darkness was dissipated, and the dust and cinders ceased to fall, the effects of a volcano were soon perceived at Unalachka, and columns of smoke and fire issued until the month of August. They then sent to examine the crater, but the foetid vapours, which extended a werst round it, prevented all access. ASIA. A Supplement to the London Gazette, March 19, contains a copy of a Report which had been received at the East India House, from Lieut.-colonel Maxwell, of the Company's service, to the Adjutant General of the army in Bengal, dated Camp at Mongroul, Oct. 1, 1821. This dispatch details an advantage obtained over the Maharao of Kotah, Kitshou Sing, whom it was necessary to attack in consequence of Captain Tod, agent to the Western Rajpoot States, intimating all hopes of pacification were at an end. The victory obtained was decisive; the cavalry of the Maharao, although they fought bravely, were rapidly broken by the artillery; and being also charged by two squadrons of the 4th Light Cavalry, under Major Ridge, the enemy were defeated with a loss of 500 men, and their whole camp and baggage were captured. The following is the list of killed and wounded: Two lieutenants, 2 havildars, 3 rank and WOUNDED.-Major Ridge, severely, not ing in value. Some farms, in advantageous "The flocks of this island, from numerous AMERICA. A Message was delivered from the President of the United States to the House of Representatives, on the 6th of March, acknowledging the independence of the South American Governments, without waiting for the concurrence of other Powers, with which The Proit was intended to act in concert. vinces thus generally mentioned, are afterwards individually specified. They consist of the Republic of Columbia, the States of Buenos Ayres Chili and Peru, and the Empire of Mexico. AMERICAN ASYLUM FOR DEAF AND DUMB. An examination of the pupils of the New York Institution, for the instruction of the Deaf and Dumb, took place at that city, on the 25th of October 1821. The number of unfortunates were sixty, who excited much interest by the manner in which they went A Miss Barnard through their exercises. from Utica expressed in signs the Lord's prayer, and no one could fail to understand her. Her attitude was devotional, her gestures graceful and significant, her countenance expressive, and her whole performance indicated a knowledge of what her signs expressed: she had only been under instruction fourteen months. The exercise which followed was one of memory, and in this several took part. Among the rest Miss Barnard reduced to writing the Lord's prayer, which she had Another previously rendered by signs. pupil wrote the history of the creation-a third, the flood-a fourth, the ten commandments-while another wrote from memory the character of Christ-and a sixth, the miracle of Christ curing the deaf and the blind. DOMESTIC DOMESTIC OCCURRENCES. IRELAND. Six men were convicted at the Assizes of Philipstown of the murder of the Murpheys. Gusack, who was executed for the same offence at the preceding Assizes, had formed the design of cutting out the tongue of Murphey's sister after she was murdered. The four Keegans and the other two were identified by two boys; they were seen by them actually engaged in firing the house, and perpetrating the crime for which they were convicted. In the county of Mayo the Ribbon system is extending. On Monday evening, at the early hour of five o'clock, as Mr. Fair was returning home, and had reached to within five hundred yards of his house, a villain, who lay concealed behind a ditch, took deliberate aim at him, with a double-barrelled gun; the ball passed him, he turned towards the ditch, and the assassin deliberately discharged the other barrel; the second ball, like the first, fortunately missed him. The Waterford coach was attacked by a number of armed country people, about a quarter of a mile from Mount Catherine, in the county of Limerick, at half past nine in the morning. One shot was fired at the coachman, who was compelled to pull up his horses, when the banditti surrounded the coach, and demanded a girl who was in it, and who was proceeding to Clonmel to attend as a witness at the Assizes; they succeeded in discovering her, and immediately carried her off, and then suffered the coach to proceed without offering other violence. Dublin papers of the 13th inst. state, that the disturbances in the South of Ireland are beginning sensibly to decline. Not only are the outrages less frequent and less atrocious, but the instances of the return of stolen arms are more numerous among the peasantry. VARIOUS PARTS OF THE COUNTRY. The old and singular custom of cracking the gad, or whip, in Castor Church, on Palm Sunday (already noticed in our Magazine, pp. 98, 290), has been again performed. An estate at Broughton, near Brigg, is held by this custom. On the morning of Palm Sunday, the gamekeeper, some servant on the estate, brings with him a large gad or whip, with a long thong; the stock is made of the mountain ash, or wickin-tree, and tied to the end of it is a leather purse, containing 30 pence (said to have in it formerly 30 pieces of silver); while the Clergyman is reading the first lesson (Exodus ix.) the man having the whip cracks it three times in the church porch, and then wraps the thong round the stock, and brings it on his shoulder through the church, to a seat in the chancel, where (Matthew xxvi.); he then brings the gad, he continues till the second lesson is read and kneeling upon a mat before the pulpit, he waves it three times over the Clergyman's head (the thong is fastened, as before observed), and continues to hold it till the whole of the second lesson is read, when he again returns to his seat, and remains till the service is over. He then delivers the gad to the occupier of a farm, called Hundon, half a mile from Castor. Mr. Backler has received a commission from the Dean and Chapter of Hereford, to execute the East Window of their Cathedral in painted glass. The subject is to be "The Last Supper," from a picture by West, in the possession of his Majesty. The window is of large dimensions, and the figures will consequently considerably exceed the size of life. In consequence of the great cause tried at Lincoln Assizes, Cholmeley v. Pindar, the brother of the Earl of Beauchamp takes possession of the extensive and valuable estates, and changes his name to Pindar, aecording to the will of the late Mr. Pindar, of Bromby Wood Hall, Lincolnshire. As two labourers were trenching in a field, near Fryston Beck, in the parish of Pontefract, for the purpose of planting liquorice, they discovered, within ten inches of the surface, a large stone coffin, which contained the skeleton of a human being; the skull. was placed between the legs, and a large stone occupied the situation of the head.It is generally believed, and with great probability, to be the remains of Thomas (afterwards canonized as a Saint) Earl of Lancaster, Steward of England, who was beheaded in the reign of Edward II. on Monday, March 22, 1322, (according to Holinshed,) upon a hill which now bears the name of St. Thomas's-hill, situated on the site of his own castle to the east; it is also recorded, that he was buried in the church of the Priory of Pontefract, but his body being begged by the Monks, was supposed to have been more privately interred. If the surmise be correct, the remains have been mouldering for the space of 500 years. The coffin appears to have been formed out of a solid block, is 7 feet long and 16 inches broad, and in length inside 6 feet 5 inches. The lid is ridged. The establishment of the Port at Dawpool, near Chester, is in progress, and a speedy report is expected on the subject, from that intelligent engineer Mr. Telford. Independently of the general accommodation which packets would afford at that station, station, the ready communication between Dublin and the depot at Chester, where nearly 40,000 stand of arms are kept, with other warlike stores, is a subject of vital importance, especially at a time when the sister Island is in a state of dangerous fer mentation. Lord Howe has succeeded in legally ejecting the numerous claimants from the possession of the estates which formed part of the immense property of the late Mr. Jennings, in the county of Suffolk. The Ipswich Journal mentions a considerable number of fires, raised by the hands of incendiaries, in that district of the king dom. Nightly watches are established in various places; and a resolution has been formed by a number of gentlemen to offer rewards of from 500l. to 1000l. for the detection of the offenders. Mr. Lambton has purchased Herrington Hall, and about 70 acres of land attached to it; price 19,000l. exclusive of the coal, which is to be valued and paid for in addition. This same property was bought for 7,500l. about twenty-five years ago. Within the last thirty years it is calculated that in Lincolnshire alone upwards of 300,000 acres of heath, wolds, and fen lands, have been converted into arable. A lead mine is discovered on Gallows Hill, about a quarter of a mile S. W. of Chepstow. The miners are now working in the coal and lead works. A strata of coal has been found on Tidenham Chase, bordering on the forest of Dean, in Gloucestershire, which is likely to afford an abundant supply to that district. Warwick Hall Estate, near Carlisle, was sold to Mr. Parker, of Manchester, for 45,000l. It is calculated that the Silver Lead Mines now at work in Cornwall, and others about to commence, will, in a few years, raise sufficient silver for the use of the kingdom. At Sir Christopher Hawkins's mine in that county, a plate of silver has been extracted which weighed nearly 400 pounds. This mine produces two and sometimes three such pieces a month. The stupendous works which have, for a number of years, been carrying on at Sheerness, for the improvement of the Dockyard, have arrived at a great degree of forwardness; the basin, which will be capable of containing a dozen line of battle ships, and three new docks, also for first-rate ships, are nearly completed, and the masons nearly all discharged: the work around the docks, and the building of storehouses, &c. will necessarily occupy some years to come. A long stone wall of several hundred feet running collateral with the town pier, and projecting into the Medway, forms an extensive wharf for landing and shipping goods. The work was originally begus under the plans of the late General Bentham, and since then 365 those of the late J. Rennie, Esq.; and when complete it will be the finest yard in the kingdom. Many inhabitants of Seaton Ross, near York, Foggathorpe, and Holme-upon-Spalding-moor, were lately alarmed by a smart shock of an earthquake. Several families who had just retired to rest felt their beds shake under them, and some in the moment of surprise and affright sprang out of them upon the floor; others who were still up, felt their chairs move with them, and some ran out of doors to see what was the matter; a rumbling noise was heard, and in two houses the bells rang of themselves. The shock was also felt in the villages of Beilby, Everingham, Allerthorpe and Melbourne. March 26. About 11 o'clock, a meeting took place at Auchtertool, near Balmuto, in Fifeshire, between Sir Alexander Boswell, of Auchenleck, Bart. and James Stuart, Esq. of Dunearn. Sir Alexander was attended by the Hon. John Douglas, brother of the Marquess of Queensberry; and Mr. Stuart by the Earl of Rosslyn. The ball of Mr. Stuart struck Sir Alexander in the shoulder, shattered the shoulder-blade, and was supposed to have entered the spine, as his limbs were quite paralysed. Sir Alexander was carried to Balmuto-house, where he was attended by Lady Boswell, Professor Thomson, and several surgeons of the first eminence. The cause of this duel was a song which appeared in a Glasgow weekly paper, the Sentinel, on the 26th of December last, and which Mr. Stuart ascertained was written by Sir Alexander. The manner in which Mr. Stuart became possessed of that information, was through a person named Borthwick, concerned in the Sentinel at the time an article appeared in that paper reflecting upon Mr. Stuart. Borthwick delivered the papers into the hands of Mr. Stuart. From these papers, the discovery of the author of the article mentioned, as well as that of others, was made. We shall have occasion to revert to this melancholy catastrophe. April 4. A most destructive fire broke out on the premises of Mr. John Vesey, of Framsden, Suffolk. This conflagration was truly awful. A barn, three stables, two cart lodges and other outhouses, appeared to burst into a flame nearly at the same instant, and in less than two hours every building, except the dwelling-house and a neat-house at some little distance, were destroyed. No doubt exists but the premises were maliciously set on fire. The property was insured. LONDON AND ITS VICINITY. The statement of the Revenue for the last Quarter is extremely gratifying. An increase to the amount of 428,960l. over the corresponding Quarter of last year, is a sufficient proof of the prosperity of the general 366 Domestic Occurrences.-Theatrical Register. general interests of the country, whatever may be the state of the agricultural; and which cannot fail in the natural operation of things ultimately to relieve the depression under which this latter interest is suffering. The whole increase of the year ending with the last quarter is 1,261,235l. The chief increase is in the Customs and Excise, but the Stamps have also advanced 114,547. The Post Office and Assessed Taxes exhibit some little decline; the former to the amount of 30,000l. Lawrence v. Smith.-An interesting case came on for hearing before the Lord Chancellor last month. The lectures of Mr. Lawrence, the celebrated anatomist, delivered by him, when Lecturer to the Royal College of Surgeons, having been piratically published by a bookseller named Smith, an injunction was moved and granted restraining him from so doing. Smith applied to the Court to have the injunction dissolved, on the ground that the book is not entitled to the protection of the law, being irreligious, and denying the immortality of the soul; and Smith's Counsel (Messrs. Rose and Wetherell) quoted the criticisms of the Reviews to shew that this is the true character of the Work.-Messrs. Shadwell and Wilbraham, on the other hand, contended for a more liberal construction of the objected passages, and insisted that there is nothing in them irreconcileable with Christianitythat the liberty of the press is materially involved in the question-and that a valuable work of 600 pages on physiological and scientific subjects ought not to be condemned, and the author to lose the price of his labour, because there might happen to be a passage or two in it which might as well have been omitted. On another day, the Lord Chancellor, after taking time to read the book said, that any work which would not receive the protection of a Court of Law, would not be protected in that Court, and it was questionable, whether a criminal proceeding would not lie against the original author; he should not discharge his duty if he did not dissolve the injunction, and refer the plaintiff to a Court of Law, when, if they considered the book justifiable, the plaintiff might have the injunction renewed. The property valued at 10,000l. per annum, which recently fell to Lady Byron, has been arbitrated by Lord Dacre on behalf of her Ladyship, and by Sir Francis Burdett for Lord Byron. Of the rental in question, 6,500l. has been given to Lord Byron, and 3,500l. to Lady Byron. The award was made on Thursday in Passion week, and was the result of but one meeting of the arbitrators. [April, tention was, the beautiful and impressive appearance of the Abbey, in consequence of the aisles and the several monuments and tombs having been wholly cleaned with astonishing niceness and precision; they all display as much freshness as if they were only just raised. The whole of the renovations and repairs reflect the greatest credit on those under whose superintendence they have been conducted. To secure the monuments from injury, by being approached too closely by the spectators, and also to secure an equal sight to all persons, neat railings are placed in different directions, so as to prevent the public from crowding too closely around any particular monument. Within the Poets' Corner entrance is placed a board, on which is painted the sum which visitors will have to pay (amounting in all to two shillings), who desire to inspect the curiosities on week days; and it informs the public that no extra remuneration is to be given; and any report of misbehaviour, or violation of these regulations by the servants of the Cathedral, will be received and attended to by the Dean or Senior Prebendary. This regulation, of course, abolishes the custom of making offerings at the shrine of General Monck, on the exhibition of which, after all demands had been paid, the public had used to be exposed to new demands for the benefit of the attendants. THEATRICAL REGISTER. The Veterans; or, The Farmer's Sons, a Comic Opera, generally attributed to the pen of Mr. Knight, a favourite Comedian. As a vehicle for songs, we considered it in a favourable light; but it is too abundant in a surfeiting sort of sentimentality, and rather too deficient in real interest. Well received; but acted only six nights. April 8. Almoran and Hamet. This piece is founded on a Persian Tale. These two brothers are heirs to the throne of Persia. Almoran seeks by unlawful means the attainment of supremacy and the possession of Almeida, who is beloved by Hamet. The latter pursues the path of virtue, and after many hair-breadth escapes, obtains his mistress, and reigns sole monarch of Persia; whilst Almoran, under the influence of an evil genius, perishes miserably. The piece was repeated, but unfortunately to empty benches. COVENT GARDEN. April 8. Cherry and Fair Star, the wellknown Fairy Tale, was dramatized with extraordinary effect. There was little of plot or interesting incident; but the scenery was truly magnificent; and the illusions admirably sustained. It was warmly received, and repeated with success. PRO 1822.] PROMOTIONS GAZETTE PROMOTIONS, &c. [367] AND PREFERMENTS. March 23. This Gazette notifies his Majesty's permission to Lieut.-col. H. F. Cooke to accept the insignia of the Russian Order of St. George, the Prussian of Military Merit, and the Swedish of the Sword; to Lieut.-col. J. Hare, of the 27th foot, to accept the insignia of the Russian Order of St. Wladimir; and to Gen. Sir R. Brownrigg, permission to bear, to the armorial ensigns of Brownrigg, the honourable augmentations following, viz.-" A chief, embattled thereon a representation of the sceptre and banner of the King of Kandy in saltier, ensigned with the crown of that kingdom;" and as a crest of honourable augmentation, "A demi Kandian, holding in the dexter hand a sword, and in the sinister the crown of Kandy;" and in lieu of the sinister supporter hitherto borne by him as a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, "A lion guardant, supporting the banner of Kandy, as in the arms." Whitehall, April 1. Major-gen. Right Hon. Sir B. Bloomfield, to be a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. April 7. Sir T. F. Fremantle permitted to assume and use the title of a Baron of Austria, conferred on his father, the late Vice-adm. Sir T. F. Fremantle. War-Office, April 12. 6th foot-Brevet Col. M. Napier, to be Lieut.-col.-93d ditto -Maj. G. T. Brice, to be Major.-3d Royal Vet. Batt.-Lieut.-col. Hon. H. B. Lygon to be Col. in the Army; Major Lord J. T. H. Somerset, to be Lieut.-col. in the army. April 16. B. Frere, esq. to be his Majesty's Commissioner of Arbitration to the mixed British and Portuguese Commission, vice Casamajor, deceased. Captains Sir Charles Burrard, bart. and William James Mingay, to the rank of Post Captain. Lieuts. Digby Marsh, George Baker, George R. Lambert, Frederick W. Beechey, Henry P. Hoppner, Charles D. Acland, John Russell (B), Coote Hely Hutchinson, James Everard Home, and Hon. Montague Stopford, to the rank of Com Rev. H. Barnes, Monmouth V. Rev. J. M. Glubb, St. Petrox Perp. Cur. Rev. G. Ernest Howman, Sunning V. Berks. Rev. Henry Law, St. Anne's R. Manchester. Rev. J. Powell, Long Stanton V. Salop. Rev. J. Lonsdale (late Fellow of King's CIVIL PREFERMENTS. Right Hon. George Canning appointed Governor General of India. Sergeant Blosset, Chief Justice of India. Newman Knowlys, esq. unanimously elected Recorder of the City of London; also Steward of the Borough of Southwark. T. Denman, esq. M. P. elected Common Serjeant of the City of London. Charles Peers, esq. of Chislehampton Lodge, Oxon, Recorder of Henley-upon-Thames. B. Welstead, esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant of Huntingdonshire. Rev. John Lodge, Librarian of the University of Cambridge, vice Clarke, dec. Mr. Brown, late Keeper of Newgate, appointed Warden of the Fleet Prison. MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT. Argyleshire.-W. F. Campbell, esq. Dartmouth.-Hon. James Hamilton Stanhope, vice Ricketts, Chiltern Hundreds. Lincoln.-John Williams, esq.; vice Sebthorp, dec. Louth. Hon. John Jocelyn. BIRTH S. Sept. 22, 1821. The wife of Lieut -col. Aitchison, Military Auditor General, a dau. -23. At Trichinopoly, the wife of Lieut.col. Brodie, a son. Feb. 5, 1822. At Florence, Mrs. C. Thellusson, a sơn. Lately. In Dominick-street, Dublin, the Duchess of Leinster, a dau.- At Pool, Illogan, the wife of Mr. W. Ratallack, a son, being the 26th child, 19 of which are now living. At Bisley, the wife of the Rev. E. Mansfield, a dau.-—Mrs, J. G. Sandford |