The National Register. — London, England, 1815-01-01 00:00:00

N4' A sera in our colonial policy hai commenced,-as will be seen by the following accounts from Malta: — Friday we had mails from Malta and Gibraltar, bringing letters ftosn the former to the Bth ult. and from the latter to the ISt-b instant. The advices from the island, lead us to expect a very material and beneficial change ip British com merce to the Mediterranean. The representations of Gene ral Maitland, the present Governor, have been listened to attention they deserve. and the following are the principal regulations by which Malta is to be erected into a snag valuable trading establishment ‘.* 1. Excepting soap, steel, German linens, and glass, all commodities are to he considered as the produce of the coon .. • try, and the exporters are to have the privileges attached to such a contingency. "3. A direct trade is to he allowed to the East and West Indies, and to all the other dependencies of the Crown of the United Kingdom." Proposals, it is said, are to be made to acquire the same .concessions for the trade at Gibraltar. We have some letters from llamburgh , by which we learn that the. professions of theaussian Government to evacuate* thateity have not been fully carried into execution, and the citizens are very appreliewive that they will be burdened with a Russian garrison fora considerable time longer. •Fkiday evening sve received Paris papers to the /7th inst. TiO intelligence from Vientur, which is of the 15th, state the ipismgen. on the . part of the Emperor Alexander, of decla-. ring Thorn and Cracow fee cities of Poland; and also the destos on 'Finkel', 141tich appear to be looked to as a fertile source of indemni•ies, that may serve to reconcile the jarring interests of the different powers whose pretensions create so many Obstacles at Vienna. Tbis projc-t seems to be a topic of much conversation at Vienna. The reported marriage be tween the Hereditary Prince of Wit ternl , erg and a Russian P:rincees, is likewise alluded to. The plan for dividing der many, into seven circles, k said to have been rejected. and A ) ustria, it is rumoured, has proposed a new division, to con sist only of five circles. Thursday, Paris papers of the 9.6 th inst. were received : the'report of the proceedings of the Chamber of Deputies fonds the principal features in these papers. Witnesses have *then as it were lion the dead, to reveal the crimes of Bona parte, nod expo-e those scenes in .which the murders of a. Touissaint, a Pichegru, and a Wright, were perpetrated.— The Committee of Petitions made their report on the :4th inst. in which are noticed the cases of 19 old state prisoners, who hid suiferea . a mointted confinement of various lengths, from tbn to - fifteen -ears. - Among these victims are, Field Marshal Grisolles, and several old officers. It appears that theeight state prisems; or bastilles, erected by Buonaparte, weretotable to, cotttain imniense number of prisoners of fltis description, and that the surplus we.: distributed among the coption prisons, where their sufferinp were agglavattd, surd Alic„sum of four francs, about Ss. 4d. a-day, allowed by the:Srite'fOr their' maintenance, which - was withheld by' the di;viffibr", end eniverta-to his own use. In these frighthil iliititeans trial and acqUittal were of no avail—the innocent Illreterteonfounded. with the guilty, and subjected to torture kileirtaishments hitherto reserved fur the most enormous irighttlals.: - Of this cruel and inhuman treatment, Field Mar shar tirisolles furniihea in his perion a deplorable example. lie was arrested in the year 12, as a Vendean, tried, and tina litigiously acquitted—hut an acquittal did not set him free. .Hc was conducted to the Temple, wh?re he languished for three years, and from thencc.to Bier-ter, where his sufferines 'were still more dicadfla. Ctimcs•of the most atrocious nature • newt:lets and pui onings. he adds. wens practiced in this prison. JA'! r,.~ , • I • "" - 771 ,0.- F"'" - --- Letters from Vienna state, that these have been repeated conferences between the Sovereigns there, on the subject of the invasion of Turkey, not merely for the expulsion of the Turks (iron Europe, and the partition of the territory,• but also for the moulsion of the petty tyrants from the southern coasts of the Mediterranean, so as to pot an end to the piracy andslavery in which they traffic. The language at Vienna is, that of all acts of injustice this will be regarded as the least unjust, front the violence and barbarity which they constantly practise against the Christian wrtild; and from the advantages that will flow from the deliverance of the fairest part of the inhabited globe.—Two marriages are in contemplation—that of the Atebduke Charles 4,f A ustria with the Archduchess C .therine of Russia, and that of the Hereditary Prince of \Virtemberg with the Duchess of ()I- denherg. Thuisday a mail arrived from namburgh. bringing paper - 4 to the 24th ult. The account s from Vienna, in these papers, are. remarkablr for speaking more decidedly than the Hamburg,' Journals have hitherto done, of the existing differences which impede the prowess of the negociations at Vienna. A letter from that city, dated the I.sth, which is inserted in a very conspicuous manner in the ilamblirgh Currespondenlep, speaks in a way which implies that the state of thy egocia /ions was understood to have become less favourable than it had recently been, notwithstanding they had been resumed alter a considerable interruption. The Bonen hail List, another German paper, of the qsd, states also, on thrau thonty of letters from Vienna, that differences had ai between the powers wsembled in that City. It is stated .at tie Emperor of Austria has appointed a Cominntee to El - sider of the means of rendering the abode of the Sore at Vienna more agreeable, from which it seems that an . Ic finite prolongation of their residence is anticipated. b .ria t and Wirtemberg arc supposed to be much dissatisfieu with . the proposed political arrangeinents; and the Sovereigns of those countries, it is said, are determined to leave Vienna without waiting for the closing of the Congress. The Milan accounts prove decidedly the discontented state of the Italian troops in the service of Austria, io conse quence of their being ordered into the Ausrrian territories ; and the dissatisfaction.also of the Italian people, it appearing that the soldiers had deserted in great lumbers, and that tike; inhabitants, where the deserters had taken refuge, refused Lo t deliver them up. _ The Amphinn frigate, Captain Stewart, arrived, at ['Kis, : mouth, on Wednesday, from Bermuda, in twenty-five dap: he brings no news. Four frigates and a brig were left lying there. The main body of the ships were away on a sere expedition, presumed :o be New Orleans, whither also thu troops under General Keane had gone. The Raftlcr arrived_ at the same time from Ilalifax, which she tektite Id ult. One cause ml the very great Sale oCciekets and Shares in the present Lottery is, the uncommon success the Public ha 4 in the last ; the whole of the, Capital l'ri;ei being sold.; anal, among the many instances which ktivesome to our knowledge, to very industrious and.deseriing persons, who, without such aid to their exertions in life, miglichave laboured in vain the remainder of their 'days. The COMMERCIAL HALL \VINE COMP ANY respectfully invite their numerous Customers, the Nobility, Gentry, and Buyers of Wines . : and Spirits•in general to •their Concerns in SKIN VER ST RE and OXFORD STREET. In Skinner Street they will have the Opportunity of viewing and tasting the LARGEST STOCK of the FINEST WINES ijt the Kingdom; in SnOwhill and Oxford Street, Fampies only are kept. For Particulars of the Company's .trticics and Prices, sue the Advortisemech last P4ge. 1.••••1.1=1..... 1 .. , .." - __________ - • ..a*