The National Register. — London, England, 1809-05-14 00:00:00

MAY 14. Prince STARREMBERG arrived in town on Wednesday from Vienna. His llighness is come in the character of Ait4ias sador Extraordinary train the Emperor of AusTnia. to our Court. /le iymediately wa:ted on Mr. Secretary CANNING, with whom he had a long interview. His Ilighneis came through Holland, and after escaping numerous perils, was picked up in a fishing-boat by one of our cruizers. We are harpy to find that the intelligence he brings justifies slime doubts as to the accuracy of the enemy's statements of the first opese ions of the campaign in Germany. Ile' says, that the hisses sustained by the French in the several actions descrihed in the enemy's Bulletins were mark , as peaa as those of the Austriaus, that the Archduke CuARLEs had imp' o%ed the disposition of his army, and that so late as the 284 ti ult. the French were unable to advance, having siiffered so severely in the difiCrent conflicts that had taken place. In the interview which took place on Wednesday between Prince STARLIEMBLRO avid \li. C%NiVrin, SOOIC Important arrangements were formed, and we understand that Loid WILLIAM Br.NTINCK will set out ,in a few day for Vienna, as Ambassador Extraordinary from his LRITATiNIC MA JESTY to the EMPEROR of AUSTRIA. Sir Arthur \Vetlestey has arrived at Lisbon, and accord ing to all concurrent accounts, has been received with ge neral ardour and eathuslasin. F:oin the known character of this Genera!, there cannot be an reasonable doubts but that his ()in:rations will be iminediatel., commenced. Tile general prat) of them is to be, that he s!iall purge Portugal of the i , reo:•a, nod thiis lorm a force ova the rear ot the French armies in Spain. Sir Arthur fouial that Sir John Cradock had already proceeded with the army under it's command, which, it vvas advanced thirty leagues, near Mondego tsar, towards the North of Sir Arthur had not left Lisbon on the 25th, but was ex pec:ed to set out soon. Sir John Cradock, on the other hand, in consevence of Sir ribar's arrival, na4 about to return to Lisbon, but had not reached that city when the statira left it. Concerning Soult, the number and state of his army, &c. the accounts are such as to justify our entertaining warm hopes that his division will be entirely cut oft Soult, we are informed, had sent to Gen. Keller man in Gallicia for succours. Kellerman had answered in a letter, which was intercepted by the Portuguese, that he was himself is a periloas condition, and utterly unable to furnish any assistance. The House of Commons presented a curious spectacle on the motion of Mr. MAnocKs. 'f he charge was universall3 allowed to he well founded,—no one presumed to deny it. It was equally notorious that the act had been committed, and that it was contrary to all constitntional principal. No one decried that a seat had been bought and solid. that it had been bought under an express condition, that the purchaser s:ioual Nomura the Minister, and that it wai; Vacated oa the point of honour, when a question was brought forward on which the Member. could not persuade himself to concur in the opinion of the Ministry. Under these circumstances what was the line of defence,—we truly grieve to say, that the only allcdged excuse for correptiou was the generality of the practice s —the thing was so no torious and so general, that a 'great part of the House was in the same predicament. • Thus, therefore, the Public have as acknowledgment from the Members of the House itself, that the seats are bought and sold; and that the House cannot interpose in these matters, because the practice is so general--because so ninny are in the same precise situation. The people would do well to act temperately upon this knowledge. • if they are now tree to themselves and to their cause, a Reform in Parliament may possibly take place.—Eyery one seems convinced of its necessi , y but those who must neressaril, become its victims. Vije cannot but express our wish that Mr. MaDocas will follow the measure opt' Nothing is atow wanting hat perseverance: The Mitiority in'the House is very strong. The public are all, to a man, on the side THE NATIONAL REGISTER. of Reform. Thert! is nothing to be feared, and every thing to be hoped. Europe is not nowr in the midst of a reAolu lion, in which the minds of men are so heated as to abuse• a salutary Reform into a ravaging Jacobinism. The former objections. therefore, ha v e passed away ; and the question now stands bcf , re Lie Public and the Parliament, merely in its own circumstances. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has brought for• ward the Supplies, and Ways and Means, for the year, vuigarly called (he Budget. We have given a full account of it incur Parliamentary Report. There are to be no new taxes, but En s ; interest of the i.oan is to he pros ided for by morttraging the War Taxes, hll4l the produce arising from a k.thisolidation of the Customs, aild improvement in the Collection of the,: Duties. Friday morning .he Gentlemen, Who intended to bid for the Lou,a . waiW4 upon the Chancellor of the focche quer, at the*Treasurv, when the foltowing Biddings took place, viz. for every 10%.t. 60 Four per Cents:. and 60 Re duced, the Bidding to he o the Long Annuit,es.—The Bid dlings w.•re— Alebsrs. Onldstnid L. o 8 io Robarts and (70. 0 9 9 Barnes and Co. - - 0 If) k) Bathe and Co. - 0 Of course Messrs. Goldsio:.l is to hive the i.nan.—lt was . ••, at a premium of 4 ..'e•lt at twelve o'clock. LOSS OF HIS M.-\J En e .s Fit E ALCM ENE, ON THE FR EN CH COAST. PI YMOUTII DOCK, MAV ii.-011 (tie 36'4;3 .of April half past four, (p :he Alcmene, t..apt:fiti Trcsiieti, statutitig into the Loire, following the Amelia frig:tit., 11,,0. I::!uutiit Irby, to reconnoitre en-lily's force, struck MI 24:11ic lie Ork :)W ing to the igniiwee of the pilot, and ecru ebbing to-t, precluded the pif%sihilo of heave ~g ;ter otf ; :it jo%y muter site bil„ed and broke her hack. NVe are It,: i ip:, id, add, froth the reat etiertions of Captain Tretillett, ;oil his otlicer"-, the whole ere %v got safe on board tho Auielia, after savie:;z . all her stores, aticl horning her to the water's edge. so that tie enemy have derived no ad vantage fro:it it, notwithstanding the accident happened within five miles of a large town The Amelia .., • rived here fibs inoriiii:A• with the above intelli,;ence. L.:IIV SHERIFF'S COURT, BEDFORD-ROW, MAY 12. c..21%1 CON. WEI.I.EsLCV, ESQ. v. Lo►n!) PAGE!?. The particulars of the elopement of Lady Charlotte Welles ley with Lot d Paget, have already brew autply det:iiled to the Public, and their relative hituations in lite, with the parental claims upon their matrimonial fidelity, ale too well known to require further explanation. Sdflice it, that the much-injured plaintiff, after the shock of his Latiy's infidelity had subsided wisely applied to the laws of his country for redress, and brought his action against the Noble Lord for the irreparable io l ittry done to his peace and his honour. The Defend:pt sulkred judgancat by default, thereby acknowledging, the adulterous tercourse ; and this day a jury was impannellcd before Mr. tlarchall, the Sheriff, to assess the damages. Mr. (;arrow, with great eloquence and feeling, depicted the previous state of happiness enjoyed by the plaintiff and his witc, and recounted the numerous offspring, the fruit of their connu bial intercourse. He then drew an afflicting and miserable pic ture of ihe mental distress into NI, Inch the incontinence of his Lady had plunged him. Nor was he less eloquent in describing with appropriate severity, the miqvnduct of the Defendant, who, he said had courage enough to conquer every other enemy but hisown pa , -ions. This speech was followed by evidence of the fact's, and a speech in mitigation of damages, when the Jury found a verciict for the Plaintiff—Damages, Twenty ikousand "'vein& ! ! • Mr. Hanson received Judgment at the Court of King's Beech, he wasientenCed to pay sa fine of 1001. and to be imprisoaed six months in the prison of the above Court, for encouraging the cotton weavers of Manchester to riot. . 7,