112 FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE. •••••=ll LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 2G. Several verso:is having appeared at his Majesty's Drawing room on the 2;d instant improperly dressed, notice is hereby given. that no gentleman will be permitted to pass to the Levees and Drawing-rooms but in full Court dress, sword, and bag, except those Ilt WlllOllll. This Gazette notifies the appointment of N. P. Kell, of Rattle, in Sussex, and W. Everard, of Lynn Regis, Norfolk, Gents. to be Masters Extraordinary in the Court of Chancery. • BANKRUPTS. R. Smith, Frome Selwood, Somersetshire, innholder. Soli citors, Messrs. Perkins and Co. Cray's Inn. M. Carter, Forum Mill, near Gosport, Southampton, miller. Sol. Mr. Minchin, Vertilani Buildings, Gray's Inn. C. Carliell, Bury St. Edmund's, Suffolk, carpenter. Sol. Mr. Bromley, Gray's Inn Square. J. Nash, sen. Clandun, Surrey, farmer. Sols. Messes. Palmer and Co. lkshord Row. T. Freettiy, Acton, Middlesex, busker. Sol. Mr. Hill, Wel beck Street, Cavendish Square. T. Cole and R. Priest, ; mi. Norwich. warehousemen. Sole. Messrs. Tr:bury and Co. Falcon Street. Falcon Square. J. Iteley, Birmingham, dealer. Soh. Messrs. Turner and Co. Itioomsbury Square. J. Mouram, Bristol, hop merchant. Sols. Messrs. Poole and Co. Gray's Inn Situate. T. Vaughan. Chorley, Lancashire, cotton manufacturer. Sols. :Messrs. Appleby and Co. Gray's Inn. F. Finer. Drury Lane, grocer. Sul. Mr. Flower, Fenchurch Buildings, Fenchutch Street. .1. Bleay, tlurston. Oxfordshire, corn dealer. Sols. Messrs. Robinson and Co. Charterhouse Square. A. J. Smith and I. Shepherd, Brierley, Staffordshire, iron wasters. Sots. Messrs. Tooke and Co. Gray's Inn. inV May 20, G. Elwyn, Canterbury. money scrivener-22. H. Sugden, Halifax, York, bookseller-22, W. Brierley, Halifax. grcer-18, T. Mulligan, Bath, silk mercer—lS, W. and P. Fenclturch Street, merchants-18, 11. H. flaw, Riches Court, Limc Saver, merchant-21, H. Wibberley, Liverpool, limier-21. S. Todd. Southampton, mercer-21. A. Nl` Nair, Abchusli lane, merchant-2t. H. Jackson, Mincing Lane. merchant-1 S. NI. Molony, City !load. Finsbury Square, coach maker—lB, C. Mackenzie. Caroline Street, Haßoni Square. inachant—June 4t, N. Hans, Gracechurch Street. tin plate warker-4, J. Orem, Cricklade. Wilts. cloth factor. CEII•IIFICATES to be granted May 18. J. Sherwin, Burear., Staffordshire, iron master—J. Adams. Stamford, corn mercharit—F. Niblett, St. Mary Axe, milliner— A. Smith, King Street, Chcapside, Scotch factor—W. Freeland, liedlnunpton. Southampton, stiller—W. May. Spital `genre, silk manufacturer—R. Warner, Huntingdon, ironmonger—J. Woo!cock, Truro, Cornwall, ironmonger —'l'. Thompson, Camo mile Street, merchant—T. W. Andrews. Srannoetl, cabinet pinker—J. Heaton, Scoles. Yorkshire. nail manufacturer—J. Beaufoy, Merida', Warwickshire, draper—B. Potter, Nlanclies ter, cotton spinner—J. Peet. Ashton, Lane: shire, hinge menu. tacturer—.l. Sistalpage, Leeds, woollen droper—J. White, Great Winchester Street, paper merchant—J. P. Hollins, Newington, COURSE: OF EXC Amsterdam, 12 6 C.F. Ditto, at sight, 12 3 Rotterdam, 12 7 Antwerp, 12 3 lianilitirgh, 37 3 Altona, 57 4 Pei is, 3 elan' sight, 25 30 Dino. tea 60 Donnie:nix, 25 60 Frankfort on the Maine, 134 l'etertibeirgli, 9 3 U. E1..F10. 10 11 RANGE, Arun. 26. Seville, 364—Gibialtar,303 Leeltoru, 471—firood, 44 Nlalta,43—Venice, 27 60 Naples, 40—Lisbon, 501 I 'Oporto, 501—liallia,31 1 Rio Janeiro, 46 Palermo, 118 Dublin. 9i per eent. Cork, 9i per eclat. Foreign gold in Loars,3l. 171. 100. per oz. New Doubloon., 31. 15s. New Dollars, 4*. NJ. Silver iu bazs,stariikard, 4s. 11 id. Tricstr, Et. Flo. 10 LI Dladr4d, 37—Cadiz, 361 Ilillma,36i—Bareelotta, 36 STOCKS. Ouutium 0. Imp. 3 per Cent. India Muth sel futha Stuck 241 Exchequer it. prem. tor Ac. 7S Lottery Ticket% PRICE O, Bank Stork MI 3 per Cm*. Ite.l. 77k per Cent.oo.l%ols 7ba 3: prr Ceot. N 23 j per Cent. L rer Cent. !'s,av 102} Anti. WI THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Lon Don : EUNDAY, APRIL 2S. It often happens that the political the early part of the week are wholly unworthy of observation, while those of its conclusion arc justly entitled to serious consideration, and the present week will exemplify this assertion to all those who do not think the buffooneries of a Drawing-room worth dwelling upon, amid the ruin and distress of the country at large —we, therefore, pass on to notice the proceedings in the I louse of Commons on Wednesday and Thursday evening.—Sir Francis Burdett, on the former night, brought forward his -motion for an address to the Crowu, praying for the remission of the remaining part of' Mr. Hunt's sen unce—a sentence, the cruelty of which has called called down heavy censure upon the Bench that tll:.ected it—a sentence which has appeared to every impartial inn as partaking much more of a determi nation to pay off a long arrear of vengeance, than as fairly meeting in its measurement of punishment, the crime of which the Jury found him guilty, which was only the minor part of the lightest count ; or, 23 Sir Francis properly called it, the minimum inter ,n no, if," said the Honourable Baronet, "an imprisotnateut of' two years and a half were not too THE NATIONAL REGISTER much under such a verdict, how could Nlr. Hunt's life have furnished the means of infliction, had the Jury found him guilty generally upon all the five counts, unless he had lived to the age of Methusalem, and unless the Revetend Mr. Colston (one of the mercifid visiting magistrates) had been of equi-lon- - - pvity, —but supposing his sentence not to have been excessive under the intention of the Court, that it should only extend to the safe custody of his person, yet if a gaoler, whose very name is a disgrace to human nature, had the power, and exercised it too, of making his confinement doubly disagreeable by his vexatious and brutal conduct, then every one will agree that the excess of puuiskmcnt during its continuance ought to shorten its duration—beyond this Mr. Hunt had another claim to his Majesty's mercy—he had detected and exposed the most in famous system of oppression and torture (which was cherished in the gaol in question by the governor, and had long remained unknown, unnoticed, un censured, or unredressed by the visiting magistrates, who, if they had not neglected their duty, could not have been ignorant of them) that ever disgraced a civilized nation—yet all these claims were insuffi cient to weigh with the noble, Roman firmness of Ministers, and they mustered their forces to negative a motion, which having been carried in the affirma tive, would have redounded to the credit of that House, whose credit does not stand very high with the people at the present time—but not content with a simple negative, one of them, a st USHROOII.SECILE. TART (Mr. Peel), declared in his place, that even if an unanimous vote of the House of Commons should direct him to do so, still would he not re commend his Majesty to extend his mercy to Mr. Hunt. This gentleman is the son of a respectable English cotton-spinner, though our readers might suppose him to be of Irish extraction, ar well from the modesty of this arrogant declaration as from the originality of his idea of " an unanimous vote" in favour of a proposition to which he had declared his opposition ; however, Administration's majority de clared against Sir Francis Burdett's humanity, and Mr. Hunt is to remain the whole extent of his sen tence in prison, although his sufferings have confes sedly been double what the Court contemplated, when it was pronounced. On Thursday evening, Lord J. Russell brought forward, with a force peculiarly his own, his rao. I lion for Parliamentary Reform—his weight and the importance of his opinions in the House of Com mons, is evinced by the silence whickprevails when ever he speaks, and rarely has he spoken more conclusively—seldom has he advanced more incon trovertible arguments than on the proposition in question. He observed, very truly, that the ques tion had been evaded from time to time, in every possible way by those who profitted by the pre sent corrupt state of the Representation—at one time the people did not want reform, because they did not petition for it—at another the petitions were unwor thy of attention, beeanse the signatures appended to them, formed a very inconsiderable part of the populace of England—while at a third, it was de clared necessary that the House should disregard them, lest it should be supposed that they had attended to their prayer from fear, engendered by the excessively extensive list of signatures—thu s every ground hail been successively taken and aban doned, which could be thought of, to oppose what the people had a right to, and what the people would have, and that soon too, y one means or another.—Yet all this would not do—le cote droll knew toe well that their wealth depends upon that system, which according to their assertion works so welL—Mr. Canning remembering his Lisbon Job —his pensioned mother and sisters, his recent lucrative appointment of Governor General of In dia, and the many other claims " the system" has upon him, exerted all his talents (and while we regret that he so infamously misuses them, we allow that they arc by no means contemptible) "to make the worse appear thebetter cause"—his Eloquence was however in this instance thrown away, fur hat he (ab acting Flugelman in the absence of his superior, though once contemned colleague, the Marquis of Londonderry) stood up in his place and said, " 1 oppose the motion," it would have had precisely the same effect—the majority against reform would not have been lessened by the absence of his rhetoric powers, and the host, that can be swayed by a wava of the hand, would, without the forcible appeal of this colossal supporter of corruption, have rishel with equal ardour to have lent their aid to the record of the &et that the people of England have no right to hope for a Reform in Parliament, at prestat— unless they make use of stronger measures than an appeal to that House, whose Members ought to be their Representatives—an Address to the Throne may be their next experiment. ST. GEORGE'S DA 1 - . 1••••• Tuesday being the day appointed for celebrating his Majesty's birth-day, the morning was ushered in by the ringing of bells, displaying of flags from the church steeples, and every other demonstration of joy. At half-past nine the following, detachments with their officers arrived on the Mall, viz.--. The 2d Battalion of the Ist Regiment, commanded by Col. Townsend, the Ist Battalion of the 2d Regt. or Coldstream, under the orders of Captain and Au jutant Henry Bentinck ; and the 2d Battalion .4 the 3d Regiment, under the command of Col. Backe. After the battalions had gone through their evolutions, they proceeded from the parade towards the King's Palace, followed by a great number of spectators. At one o'clock the Park and Tower guns fired a royal salute; the grand drawing-room held by hi.; Majesty at Buckingham-house, and in point of splendour, has not been equalled fur some years.— The preparations in all quarters were upon the most magnificent scale, and there were, by royal order, some peculiar observances in honour of that day. Among these we noticed that the Knights of the Bath, the Garter, and other distinetiL•hed orders, appeared decorated with the splendid lars, ribbons, and other insignia attached to the several honourable classes to which they belong.— The troops on duty were the Horse Guards (Blue), and the two regiments of Foot Guards, the firmer in their new and splendid uniforms, and the latter in white gaiters, &c. The bands of the several regiments were in attendance in state uniforms. — The Foot Guards were stationed on the It Nvii, within the railing in front of the Palace, and the horse were arranged in lines so as to form avenues through which the carriages were to pass along.— His Majesty left Carhonbouse by the garden gate leading into the Park at 12 o'clock, and proceeded to Buckingham-house. About the same time that the King entered the Palace, the company began to arrive to the drawing-room, and in a few moments all was bustle and animation. The members of the royal family present on this occasion were, their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York, Clarence, and Gloucester, and the Duchess of Gloucester. The first named Royal Duke drove to the Palace in a new and splendid town carriage, which attracted much notice. All the Cabinet Ministers and Foreign Ambassadors were •present. The Speaker of t)e. House of Commons went in his state carriage. '1 e Lord Mayor and Sherith of London were present, as were the greater part of the leading Members k:t the House of Commons. The company did not cease to arrive until half past thur o'clock, and .t was nearly seven before the drawing-room was cOO. eluded. Extract of a letter dated Cowie, April I.sth:-.- " About half past nine on Saturday (the 13th inst.) while at breakfast, we were visited with the smartest shock of an earthquake that has been felt in this neighbourhtxxl fix the last fifteen or twenty years. It was accompanied by two very loud reports, one apparently above our heads, and the other, which fidlowed immediately afterwards, under our feet. The noise of these, which were much more terrific than thunder, lasted, I should think, fully Su se conds. It set our kitchen utensils a ringing, and brought down some of the covers of the puts and pans. I have felt much severer shocks in the West Indies, but not accompanied with such a noise. The sensation it created in me was exactly like that I have felt on the deck of a vessel, on her guns being discharged." r . There were two elections on Monday at the Su ciety of Arts and Sciences. The first was !i.r a Vice-President of the Society, in the room of .the late Sir Nathaniel Conant : Mr. Thomas Hope wa,; elected. The second was the annual election !,,r the Presidency of the Polite Arts: Mr. Warren, the engraver, was returned. Mr. Barber Beaummt was in both instances the unsuccessful candidate. 0 4