of making candles?—No, my Lord, for it was make candles of. ' fit to make candles of; why then, man, it was not 'es, it was, my Lord. • not fit to make candles?—Because, my Lord, it into tallow. Ito tallow! No, my Lard. Why then it most he tallow.—Yes, my Lord. Alt! that's •ery well. of the Jmy, (said the learned Judge) pi n find prosecutor's own evidence that you must acquit the r. This man charges the prisoner with steeling tal e prosecutor is a tallow-chandler, and yet, Gentte t ard, from this tallow•eltandlcrs month, that lie know the difference between talldw and Intl— At the late Gloucester Assizes, John Evans, for riotously, assembling with other persons at 'Fretlegar Iron Works, anti •topping one of the ►team engines, was ordered to be impri soned twelve months. At the late Sir:folk Assizes, which finishod on Wedrif.silay. at Thetford, on this motion of Mr. Alderson, nine of the ltran• don rioters were allowed to withdraw their I..irmer plea, at last Assizes, and to plead guilty, throwing themselves Ilion the mercy of the Court and their prosecutors. Mr. Se, jeant Blosset, for the prosecution, consented that they should be discharged upon their own recognizance, to appear and re . . emve judgment whenever called upon. Baron Graham, in addressing them, said, it gave him great satisfaction to see a untidier of young persons, after has ing been guilty of such an outrage, brought to a doe and just sense of their wicked con duet. lie was happy to perceive such symptoms of penitence, stud he hoped the feelings which the defendants had disco vered would become general among the deluded people who 1141150117,M to redress their grievances by disturbing the pub lic peace and rising up against the government. APRIL the purpose :not fit to taak • No net tit ?—Yes Then why was not run ii Not run int fat, and not t. Gentlemen by the prosee prisoner. Tli low; the pros men, you lira' does not kno Acquitted. At th. 1.1. QUAKERS. There were three instances, during the late Essex Assizes, where the prisoners escaped, in consequt nee of the refusal of several members of the Society of Friends to appear to give that evidence absolutely necessary to their conviction.-- In each case the Judge made the same remark, that if these persons, acting as they professed from conscientious motives, did not appear. others were not to suffer for it. lie set a severe fine upon each of them. The following letter on this subject has appeared in a Morning Paper : " In thy Paper of this morning, I observe a paragraph, in which it is stated, that, in several instances, at the late Es sex Assizes, criminals escaped public justice from the rethsal of members of the Society of Friends to give their evidence against them; or, in other words, to violate their consci• ences, and what they consider the express commands of our Saviour, by taking an oath : it is also stated, that, in cause qnence of such refusal, they were severely fined by the Judge who presided. In case thou shotildest have occasion to recur to the subject, I take the liberty of offering a few remarks upon it ; by which I think it will appear, that, in this instance, the Judge, although probably acting bout a love of justice, by no means promoted the object he had in view, by inflict ing fines. I take it for et anted, that the object of punish ment is to deter both the individual on whom it is indicted, and others, by Isis example, from committing the same crime; the idea of justifying punishment on vindictive grounds being universally abandoned. Now I must maintain, that neither of the above objects of punishment will, with any reasonable degree of probability, be obtained, its this instance, by the infliction of any punishment, however severe; for the very statute of the alleged offence is such, that those who arc guilty of it (who are, I believe, confined to the religious Society above mentioned) can only be actuated by motives of religions duty, as it is impossible they can have any interested motives in their refusal ; and the experience of past ages too plainly evinces the litter insufficiency of the infliction of any punishments to overcome even the errors of those who act from such motives. As such punishment cannot, therefore, be defended on legitimate grounds, I can only look upon it as a species of religious persecution ; although, as I have before said, I trust it proceeded irons other motives in the Judge. If the number and station of the Society of Friends is such as to make their evidence in criminal cases of importance, let an Act be passed to make their affirmation' sufficient, as it has long been in civil cases, from which no inconvenience has arisen; not one case having yet occurred in which the affir mation of a Quaker has been violated. " Excuse me for thus obtruding myself upon thy time and attention ; and believe me to be, very respectfully, " A MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS." " 10th of 4th month, 1817." CONFESSION •v P. DIGGLE, who suffered the awful sen tence of the law, on a temporary gallows, erected in front of the County Gaol, at Nottingham:—" I, Daniel Diggle, being about to suffer death, and tearing that I may not be able to anburthen my mind at time place of execution, have requested a friend to write duo II the following remarks and confessions, to be made public after my decease. I freely acknowledge my guilt with respect to the particular crime fur which I am to sutler ; yet I declare, that when I entered Kerry's house, I had no intention of taking away his life; and that I never thought of injuring him, until he seized Wuoiley. I also ac knowledge that I was guilty of the attack upon Lard Mid dleton's gamekeeper, and that I leave been engaged in most of the frame-breakiligs which have taken place in this neigh bourhood within the List eight months ; lint I never was ell gaged in Luddism previous to that time: I du not, however, publicly mention the names of my iissociates; us it is my most anxious hope, that they will take warning from my un happy fate, and escape the miseries and disgrace w Melt I now experience. I would exhort with the eaanestness of a ing man, not only my immediate companions, but ail vi Iw have been engaged in Luddism, to break oil from practices which can only involve themselves and others in trouble and rain. When they observe a young man just 21 years of age, and who has only been married about as 111,11:y weeks, brong lit to the scaffold by those very practices—when they see the anguish of my attlicuil wife and parents—when they pa's by the church yard of Ilasford, and observe the graves of Ilani fard, Towle, .ind myself—and when they cousider the pi nos state of those 111 W confined in Leicester gaol, surely they 'trill forsake their wicked course; and all who may have for ukhed rtmuley, or liquor, as an incentive to Crime, will be in dotted to rlivnt of their ei itchy. We have been often told that Luddism wourl,beriet,. Wady, but I must r.-apiestly - leech all my irequaintame, as the last request• a sltall ever make of them, to consider it as leading,• inscusitly, to e , •e commissimi of the worst of critlics, even Minster it,44.11. most the only comfort that I now experience is, that the life of an innocent Mall was not sacrificed; and as I (-onside' Kerry and those vs ho gave (---;•witee against me, as instru ments in the hand of Almighty God, in bringing me to jus tice, it would greatly increase toy present rullerings, could THE NATIONAL REGISTER. suppose that any could bear them ill-will or malice on my ac. coupt. I feel very grateful to Lord Middleton for his teat. ileritess towards my brother; and I confidently hope, from !lie change of mind which took place in Nathan whilst he Na. in prison, that their will he no occasion to bring hint a second titne bel'ore a bar of justice. Timmy who have visited me in prison have thought, from any silence and reserve, that I did not frt.' my situation sufficiently, I CAL assure them, that I now weep bitterly fur toy_ crimes, teal fervently implore forgit (mess at. the tribunal of Him who once pardoned a dy ing criminal, p nd who will not, I hope, condom" tic, although NO guilty a sinner, ' to the bitter painswf eternal death.' " D•umr.. At the Galway Assizes a few flays ago, an action was tried for a breath of promise of marriage, Blake against Wilkins, excited great interest. It came on before the lion. Baron Smith and a special Jury. The plaintiff is a Lieuten ant in the Navy, not above 30 years of age ; the defendant is at least 0:), and is the widow of the Staff Physician in whose Mll* General Wolfe died at the siege of Quebec. The damages were laid at 50001.; and the plaintiti's counsel were in the end, entatended to withdraw a juror, a:id let him pay his own costs. The troth was, the marriage and subse quent adieu were soitly designed to finger the old lady's money. Om et:TN.—Dining the sitting of the Bath Fornm Magis trates, on Thursday selinight, at the Guildhall, a lad, It) ears old, came there, attended by a ralatiun, who stated, that he was apprentice to John Gray, a smith, of Walcut. The poor boy had a waggon chain twisted romid his leg, and fastened by two heavy paeloeks, The immediate cause of this punish. mem, in addition to a most severe beating, was, hi: not cran ing home from his aunt's on the preceding Sunday night in time. He detailed 'to the Magistrates a series of the mos! cruel treatment; and, when stripped, exhibited a sight tun shocking to behold--a leopard's skin could not have been more variegated. Gray was immediately apprehended, and brought to the hall; and, after being severely reprimanded, the boy's indenture was cancelled, and a warrant made ont to commit the unfeeling master to Bride well for trial ; hut. hail being obtained, lie was liberated. and the boy's mother bound to prosecute at the next Wells Session. The inhabitants of Dartmouth were djsgusted nn Friday last, by an exhibition which hut seldom shocks the feelings of provincial towns.—A brutal fellow dragged his wife to the public quay for sale. The degraded young woman excited considerable interest. She had been married only about a twelvemonth ; is under 20 ; and could scarcely be prevented from fainting, as her worthless husband dragged her along. She was purchased for two guineas, by her first lover. To rescue her from further insult, a respe;gable family received her into their house, accommodated her with a change of dress, a veil, Ac. and in tint disguise she was conveyed to a place of safety. We congratulate our readers an the improvement which has taken place in various branches of tra dr, and par ticularl) the Irish linen, which bids fair to arrive at that respectabi lity which it enjoyed previous to the late depression. The Di.blin market of the week before last, experienced consi derable briskness ; the price of linens increased from id. to sd. per yard. Considerable orders were given; and the stock being low, will be the means of giving employment to many persons of both sexes, who for a considerable time have nearly subsisted upon charity. This information is derived from au undoubted source.—Swailsra paper. Several gentlemen at Brighton have been exerting their interest, by petitioningthe Prince Regent and Lord Sidmouth, to reprieve Falkener and Rowley, two young men who were capitally convictad of a rape upon a girl of fifteen years of age, and who were left for execution at Horsham, on Satur day. His Highness 1144 been induced to grant a respite to Rowley, only sixteen yeais of age. Falkener, who com mitted the first violence to the girl, is to sutler the dreadfn sentence of the law. A melancholy instance of hydrophobia lately occurred at Willerby near Hull. About five weeks since a girl five years old, was bit in the face by a dog, running along the street. The dog, after biting several others in the villages and on the road, was destroyed in George street, Hull, by a carrier. As the fate of the dog was unknown in the village for three days, no steps were taken with the child till the fourth; when the parent was prevailed on to take it to Broeklesby. where it remained two or three days, taking what is deemed a specific. The wounds continued unhealed for a month: but as they were near a close, the child grew uneasy ; and when they appeared quite healed she spoke and acted in au unusual manner, sobbed frequently, screamed occasionally, and ►hewed great reluctance at swallowing, or even seeing liquids. Latterly she was bled freely, and the mercurial ointment was rubbed in, which abated the violence of her symptoms, and she swallowed liquids rather better; the saliva !hell bl gat' to flow, Athatil however she could net swallow. Finally she was seized silt convulsions, and aOOO after expired. Exec( Tiost.—Yesterday se'anight, 1 - ohn Scare was exe cuted in front of time County Gaol, pnrsnant to his sentence, for a Inn - Jiffy in the loose of } d ward Stolle, at It imittleslomd. Ile acknowledged the justice of his sentence, and was quite resigned to his unhappy fate. On Tuesday afternoon a female swindler, of genteel ap pearance, went to the house of 3lrs. ilallett, child-bed linen arelionse, 7.1 a rgaret•street, Cavendish square. under a false pretence, and representing herself as the servant of Mr. Broadhead, residing in Portland-place, savlug. she (same from the lionsekeeper,who regnesti:ii her to earl uo Jlrs.Hallett,and have a certain number of child) clothes sent there, such ;is frocks, caps, de. as the honsekeeper intended to make a present of them to her sister in the country. NVithont the least hesitation, or suspieinn. the same oas made lip in a parcel, to the %aloe of about 201. and a girl of ales. tialiett's accompanied the pretended servant hi a Ii use in Ca% endi•li sluare, who desired the girl to stop in the hall, while she went down the area into the kitchen a where, without the least hesitation, she asked for a tirtiii.,tv name. of the inati.servant, belonging to the house, who informed her no such person lived there, at which she atmeat d (pike surprised, nod im mediately began to 00'11 the pared si Web •he had received from the girl, who was still in the hall %%akin; her return, tim der petit nee, )lie more to avoid detection, to ascertain if 1111 y direction was enclosed; but. on tiudirig noire, made a point. apology to lease the parcel while she went to the hall. On seein:t the girl she told her that two ears had been forgotten, and requested her to go and bring them. Th.: toe an tious girl lett her tOr that purpose. The woman then returned to the kitchen again, begged pardon for her iatrosion and th. trouble she had ifisci, tied hp the parcel, and went oil. .k.s hithert• escaped detection. 11:;, From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, April 8. --40- BANKRUPTS. Astwoistrnsur J. of Liverp ool woollen draper, May 6,7, 20, at Liverpool. Att. Mr. John-stfeet, Dedford-row. B•RIEKR J. * and T. of Helmsley Blackmuor, Yorkshire, gro.^.m. April 30, May 1, 20, at York. Atts. Cantle and ( 'o. Gray inn. BE 1.1. J. of North Shields, brewer. May 5,6, 20, at Newcastle.upout Tyne. Aug. Atlthison and %Vildes, Chancery-Lute CLARE 'f. and C. Gray, of Cuinberland, nurserymen, April Is, 22, May 20, at Guildhall. Afts. Baurtlillon and Co. Little Friday-street. COPP(); W. of North Shields. ship owner, April 25. 26, May 20. at North Shields. Arts. Cardale and Co. Cray's Inn. DAVY W. of Norwich, gun looker, April 2 . 3, 2s, May 2.0, at Nor wich. Att Mr. King, Serjeant's Inn. Du ti N J. of Hounslow, victualler. April 12.20, May 20, at Guild hall. Att. Mr. Holwc,. Great Jaines.strcet, Beckon! row. EL MI TT W. of Peterlxwouo, draper, April 12. 19. May 20, at Guildhall Att. Mr. Gregory, Wax Chandler's Hall. GUEr .1. New.astle-upon-Tyne, ship owner, April 29, 50, May 20, at Newcavtle-upon-Tyne. Atts. Bell and Co. Cheapside. HAN NES .1. of Srauth, Yorkshire, brandy merchant, A;ril lB,ii, May 20, at Ponteti.nt. Mt. Mr. (:apes, Gray's Inn. HEYWOOD J. of li ushobne, I .ancashirc, shopkeeper, April 21, May 20, at Manchester. Atts. Aellingtm and Bedford-row. JONES G. of Aston, Warwickshire. gun maker, April 21, 12, May 10, at BirminOcini. Atts. Clarke and Co. Chancery-lane. Ktxo J. of Yeovil, Somersetshire, bookseller, April 19, 22, May 20, at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Wood, Richmond-build. Dean street. LEE S. Duke's-place. victualler, April 19,19, May 20, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Isaacs. Bury-street, St. Mary Axe. Lt: E MING R. of %Cray. Lancashire, shopkeeper, April2l, 22, May 20, at Lancaster. Aft. Mr. Ellis and ('o. Chancery-lane. LITTLE. Elliott, and Co. of II eley-field, Durham, lend-miner May 5.6, to. at Newnistle-upon-'fyne. Cheapside. 'MAJOR T. of Folkestone, merchant, April '2l, 27, May 20, at Can terbury. Att. Egan and Co. Essex.street. OR DIE J. H. of Liverpool, brewer. April 29, 30, :May eo, at Liver pool. Att. Mr. Chester, Staple Inn. TEASDALE R. of Castle Sowerby, Cumberland. sheep dealer, April 24, '25, May 20, at Carlisle. Att. Mr. Clennell, Staple Inn. DIVIDENDS AT 61111.1311A1.1.. J. F..lwards, of Winchester-street, merchant, May 6. G. F. Rennie, of Oxford-street, confec:ioner, May 3. M. A. Jones, Queen-street, Worship.st. trimming.inaker. April ro. T. Kcvs & C. P. Wyatt, of Langboum Chambers, merchs. April fl. WI Coulson, of Helstone, Cornwall, mercer, May G. 'l'. 1.. Dunsfind, of St. Mary Axe, merchant, May 3. .1. Dowdall, of Dartmouth-street, carpenter, April 29. Tookey, of New Bond-street, jeweller, April 29. DIVIDENDS IN THE COUNTRY. J. Tetley and .1. Hocks, of Leeds, brandy-merchants, May 2. J. Noyes, of Pewsey, coal-niewhant, Aril 25. J. Conway and T. Davidson, of Liverpool, merchants, April JO. M. Sweet, of 'faunton, innkeeper, May 13. M. Morgan, of Newport, shopkeeper, May G. T. Bailliam, of Bristol, engine-maker, April 29. M. sletcalle, of Liverpool, currier, May,. G. Downs, of Osberton. lamer, April 3u. R. Hart, of Orsuskirk, muslin-manufacturer. May 16. CERTIFICATES, APRIL 29.—J. Radcliffe, of Swansea, grocer —J. Thomas, of Leadenhall.areet. Palfreanan, of' Men borough, builder—G. Thorpe, of Queen-street, Edgware-road,wheel wright—R. ('lark, of St. Mary-hill, ship-broker—J. Atkins, of Nor wood, tattle - dealer — J. Adams. of liolywell-stroet, Sl:oroditch, druggist. PARTNERSIIIPS DISSOLVED. Abington and Wiltshire, of Plumb-tree-street, Bloomsbury, gliders. Berry and Dunstar. of Liverpool, porter'. Broadbent and Dutchman, jun. of Kingston- upon -Hull, bakers. Burns and (' lark, of Kendal, Westmorland, currier.. W. and J. Butler, of Present, Laiseashire, nurserymen. Cook and Gregory, of Ilmuswick-street,Blackwall. hay-comprossors. It. and J. Davies. of Dunkintkid, Cheshire, &c. cotton spinners. I)unsfonl and Hall. of Plymouth, auctioneers. Gonlon and ('o. of London, &c. ironmongers: Ilaslaan and Oldham, of Manchester, liquor merchants. Johns and ('e. of Plymouth Deck, pawnbrokers. A. M. and C. Jones, of Cheltenham ' booksellers. Judd and Stone, of Banbu r y, Oxfordshire, Lupton and Co. of Ashton under Line, miner,. 'Mellish and Chambers, of Bishopegate-street, merchants. Parkinson and liawkin, of Scawby, &c. Lincolnshire, seed crusher. J. and J. Penn, of Bnausgrove. Worcestershire, grocers. liter! and ('o. of Sunderland, Durham, raff merchants. Itiddlestlen and Tyson, of Ashborne, Derbyshire, surgeons. Taylor and Archer, of Starbesk, Knaresborough, linen-bleachers. Thompson and Weston. Great St. Helen's, printers. J. ar.d J. Twigg. Cheapside, muslin manufacturers. Wall and Cornock, of Banbury, carpet manufacturers. Crackles and Co. of Kingston upon Hull, whalebone manufacturers. Warren and . Hutchings. Portsmouth. milliners. Bucklq anti Co. of Hollingreave, in Saddleworth, Yorkshire. Evans and Bath. of Poulton and Cirencester, auctioneers. J. and J. Fotherby, of Gray's Inu-lane, auctioneers. E. and 11. Frost, of Honington, Suffolk, shopkeepers. Frost and Paine, of Bristol. stationers. Hall and Bicknell, of Brixton, Surrey, brick makers. H o bb s an d Jerk , o f Mangotsheld, Gloucestershire, tallow chandlers. T. Lemke, of Allerton Bywater, and J. Watson, of Swillingtoa, Yorkshire, boat carpenters. D. and A. Morley, ut Cockspur-strcet, vintners. Morris and Jones. of Wchilipool. grocers. Needhant and Dobson, of Piccadilly, silversmiths. Sherratt and ('o. ot'Prescot. Lance:A.4e. tummies. Ward and Fothergill. Seulcostff, Yorkshire, slitters. White)ind White, of Sh.flichl. Yorksldre, nianufactu Wildir.g and Clegg, of Bury, Lancashire, woollen manufacturers. Yardley and Ash, of Thomey-street, Bloomsbury, plumbers. of files. EMIGRATION TO AMERICA .—The DVU:n (orres. pOlldeill contains the tbllowing r i ctur , it the state of the Irish Emigrants, in New York, dayd Feb. 20, furnished by one of their own number:— " The Editor is respect folly furnished with the chief 1)e -mocratie Papers of New folk, wherein he will pie.i ve from a Nletoorial therein set birth by the llayrr, that these are in the altos-home of New Yolk ;Orr tot eianei s--that Irish Emigrants; and of the City and .rate, tont ; and that these foreigueis are pi ineidally adults o:iith proves that they are chiefly the unfortunate lb it have come over, avid cannot get employment. Adil to this, there ore upwards or 1700 prisons cot:tined debt in the gaol limits ; and, when it is known that SO days liberates a ikbtor, the state of this cumin mays from these facts be better known. I n closed, also, on have a list of insolvents for one week. The statements now and then in the Dublin Erening Pcxl have ensued many at home, and occasioned mans to cur se their belief in it, who wer • led trout its 1410114 , in come to th is emm i r y, and now they swell the niiiither of paupers. 1 admit, th.it Isbell I came here this comoly matt %Tv) t:;:rvieuit, but now distress pervade!' every rank. I hope my will he warned ; and if they a 1.'11,1 but wet k at twin e as , natty of them hasp to do here, thes woilid be bet iii AN IRISHMAN, and an tutortunatr