The National Register. — London, England, 1811-07-14 00:00:00

..)a •—• i• '; ;~, N) . . mained of tkie old'Parlianients have been appointed to the dife terent ujifices of these Courts. ADM Isl - sx RATION. This article states that some alterations proposed in great Pre fectures have been rejected, as the Emperor has adopted as a principle to consider what has already been done. • it boasts that the mass of revenue of the Communes, the administration of which is directed and checked by budgets examined iu the 4...0nucil of State, amounts to upwards of 80 millions. That the tax called Octroi, which every where else belongs to the Sovereign, has been left to the Communes, in consequence of which they are almost ali erecting Town-halls, and forming market places, public magazines, and other useul works. Tile nourish/es state of the Hospitals is then adverted to, as wIAI al the number cf beneficent donations and legacies fur their sup port. 'the article closes with an account of the endowment of Charitable Sisters, under the direction of their respective Bishops, And the establishments of Depots at Mendacity in 05 Departments, in 3.2 of which they are already in activity, and begging is no longer permitted. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION. Some improvements are noticed in the University. Domestic education is mentioned as that which deserves most encourage inent, hit as it is not always in the power of parents to give it, the organization of the University is extended to all colleges, and, the shutting up of all private seminaries is anntunced. All public education is to be regulated on the principles of military discipline. SCIENCES AND ARTS. Chemistry has arrived at the extraction of sugar from the grape, the maple, and the beet-root; woad, which had enriched l e anguedhc, and part of Italy, but which was unable, in the in fancy of art, to support the competition with indigo, resumes the superiority in its turn : chemistry at this day extracts from it a re.Sidutim'which gives over indigo the advantage of price and of qtiality. PUBLIC WORK S. great works have been undertaken within the last ten years, and are advancing every year ‘vith new zeal, and a new increase of nwans. In 1810, 138 millions were appropriated fur these wurki •' 155 millions are appropriated in Isll. (I lere there is a table, shewing . the different sums appropriated to each branch, such as roads, bndges, &c.) FO WTI rICATIONS. The Report enumerates works constructed in the Texel and at Antwerp, Cadsand, Ostend, Boulogne, Cherbourgh, and Havre. At Corfu, a place already very strong, great works have been constructing for the last four years. New plans have been •dopted, and this key of the Adriatic is guarded by 12,1000 troops, having provisions for two years,, and a numerous artillery provided for a siege of the longest duration. The Report then mentions new additions to the fortresses on the Rhine, and thus proceeds : PORTS. At. Antwerp, since the end of the last year, they have removed the dam from thebason. Eighteen ships of the line, even three deckers, can enter and go out, fully equipped. In the beginning , of this year, two eighty-gun ships have been coppered and re fitted there. The works arc going on with great activity, Before the end of next September, the bason will be able to hold thirty ships. • , Ships of the lire can only enter the bason of Ilttshing without their guns. The sluice is now dried and insulated, and they are busied in lowering it, so that SZO ships will he able to enter it with their guns. Ihe quays which the English damaged are flow restored. They are labouring now at reconstructing the sa3agazine, and in making it bomb-proof. The ground has already been chosen for the hason of Ter._ Reuse;. its foundAions are now laying. Twenty ships, of th'e line, fully equipped, will be able to leave this bason in one tide. It will be able to held forty. The sluice of the Race of Ostend is finished; that of Dunkirk will be finished by the end of the year. The sluice of Havre is finished: At Cherbourgh, the first operation is to raise the dyke above thel.iT-water mark, and this wili.be accomplished in the course of the present year; the second is to construct forts at the ex tremities of this dyke to defend the road : the fort of the centre is just finished. Nine-tenths of the port are executed. Ships of the line will be able to lie in the port and bason. The avant port and basun wilt be finished in 1812. The building docks and frames already exist. • CAN4L3. The'Canal of St. Quintin is finished, The Cabal Napoleon, which joins the Rhine and the Soane, will be finished in foul . Years. I'hree nailli.ms a-year are applied to it. The Canal of Burgundy, which joins the Soane and the Seine, is continued avith spirit. 'ltie Canal of Arles, Which brings le Mine to . _ ~!,• n• At R. the Pont•du-Bone, is one third part executed. That which cuts the peninsula of aretany, in jqining die.Ronce to La Vilains, now giant on. , The Cane of illOuef, which joint NaPuleea= vile to L'Orient. ' and which will ores day lead from NapoleosSfr vale to 13rest, is almost ROADS. The report states that the rew roads have already brought Turin 36 burrs wearer Paris: Milan 50 hours: Bayonne and Spain 18t M.tyence and (.:;erniAny 124 whilst others are open ing in other directions. It also mentions the construction or bridges at Bourdeaux, Rouen,_ Aviztiom aid Turin. The works at Paris consist of new fountains, the comp letion of a second gallery uniang the Louvre and the Thuiller es; and the cOnsCruttion St three new bridges: v. 40 • MARINE. We have lost Guadalaupe and the Isle of !ranee. The wish to relieve these colonic* would have been no sufficient reason for trying tQ send out our squadrons in .the state of relative inferi ority in wiiicti they are. Since the aimeotion of Holland, that country bas furnished us with 1,000 stamen, and 13 ships of the line. We have con sideralile fleets in the Scheldt and At Toulon. Squadrons of ships of the line, more or less etrong', are in the different ports, and 15 ships on the stocks at Antwerp. Every thing there is so arranged as .to add every year a great number of ehlps.of war to our squadron in the Scheldt. Twp ships of the line are building at Cherhou - gh ; and the magazines of timber, add other mate rials of every kind, are there so considerable, that we may put five on the stocks before the close of 1811. L'Orient, Roche fort, and 'Toulon, have all their frames occupied. Numerous ships are constructing at Venice, Naples ought, in poretiance of treaties, to have this year FliX ships of the line, aid sit frigates. That kingdom has them not; but its Government will be convinced, of the necessity of repair ing Of; negligence. Our resources, our interior oavigatioo, are sufficient to ,ad= vance the vaierFoi part of our marine to the sanle point as that of our enemies.. • The experiments made of a maritime conscription have suc ceeded. Young men of 18, 19, anti . 20, tent on hoard our ships, display the best inclination, and are rapidly forming.. The frequent sorties of °dr squadrons, the cruising oil tluecoaet; the evolutions of our fleets and flotillas iu the luyeler Zee, the Scheldt, and in our roads, have enabled our young conscripts t* make a progre . ss Which justifies our entertaining the best hopes. • In one year the greater part of the strong places in Spain have been taken, after sieges which do honour to the genius of the, artillery Of the Freoch army. More than 900 colours, Brd,ooQ prisoners; and hundreds of piecei of .cannon,, have been taken from the Spaniarde in a number of pitched Jeattles. .This war was 'retying to its close, wile . . Englund, deriartiug from het usual policy, came to present herself iii the (One line. , It is easy to foresee the result of this struggle, and to conipzeheod all its effects upon the destiny of the world. The population of England not being.able . to su ffi ce for the occupation of the two Indies,:nl Arnerita; pied of a *ley of establishments in the Mediterranean ; for .the defence of Ire land, and of her own coasts; for garrison*, and the manning of her immense fleets; for the consuMptioh of men in an ob stinate war, supported against France on the Spanish Peoinsui4 the chances are greatly on our side, and rn g lind hall placed her self between the ruin of her k opulation, if she persists in sup. porting this war, or digrace if she ahand6ns it, after hiving put herself forward so strongly. France has 900,000 men under arms; and while neW forces, new qrniies march into Spain to combat there c u r ete rnal enemies, 100,000 men, 50,000 horses, remain in our interibri or on our coasts, ready to march in defence of our rights Where:vet they shall be menaced. ~ The Continetital System, which is follotved up with . 04 . g reatest constancy, saps the trains of the finances of Englan d .- - - Already her exchange loses 33 per cent. her colonies are destke . titute of outlets for their produce; the greater part of her manu factories are shut; and the Continental System has only jusc arisen I Followed up for ten years, it alone will destroy the re. SsUrces of England. Her revenues 4re inot founded on the produce of her soil, but en tl—wroduce of the commerce of the *oral ; oven already bet countieg-houses are half closed. The English hope in vain, that: from the advantages of time and of events, which their passions light up, some markets 'Will be opened to their com merce. With regatc to change in withent maritime ritime commerce. upon the Continent but should resents a aid to France, the, Continental System has produce 4 in her position we have been for ten years past xitime commerce, nd we shall stiil be Without ma- morce. The prdblbition of F.nglish merchawlize ontinent has opened an outlet for our manufactures; that be wanting, the consumption of the Empire scannable ima,rket; it is for our manufacture. II