The National Register. — London, England, 1817-08-04 00:00:00

Front the LONDON GAZETTE, Saturday, Aug. 2. ' CROWN OFFICE, Auct.l. itrusza RETURNED TO SERVE IN TUN PARLIAMENT. City of Limerick—The Hon. John Prendergast Vert/cr.' of the City of Limerick, in the room of the Right Ron. Charles Vcre ker, now Viscount Gort. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERS PEAID n. Westoe, Durham, shipowner. BROOKE J. Brokenborougb, WUte, dealer. MASON P. New Mills, Derby, grocer. BANKRUPTS. Gonoir J. Liverpool, ash—manufacturer, Aug. 22, 43, Sept. 13, at Liverpool. Arts. Blackstock and Co. Temple. TATI.OR G. Gorton, Lancaster. cotton-manufacturer, Aug. IS, 19, Sept. 13, at Manchester. Arts. Adlington and Co. Bedford-row. MANN J. Sell. Tem plesowerby. Westmorland, tanner. Aug. iZ. 14 Sept. 13. at Pennth. Att. Mr. Lowden, Clements-inn, Hour J. L. Manchester, dealer, Aug. 20. ft, Sept. 13, at Man cheater. Au. Mr. EUis, Chancery-lane. Bonnur J. London-road, cheesemon . Aug. 9, 10, Sept 13, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Coombs, Lam bast-road. RICHARDS S. Liverpool, merchant, Aug. 18, 19, Sept. 3, at Liver pool. Atts. Low and Co. Southampton-buildings. SCIIOLEFIELD N. and KERSHAW T. W. Greenwich, haberdashers, Aug. 3. 12, Sept. 13, at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Cranch, Union. court, Broad-street. )lOSELEY J. O. and KrAot J. H. Sidmouth.place, Gray's-inn lane, toy makers, Aug. 9, 16, Sept. 13, at Guildhall. AU. Mr. Abbott. Mark lane, PARKER W. Hawkesdough, York, merchant, Aug. IS, 19, Sept. 13. at Manchester. Att. Mr. Ellis, Chancery-lane. TAYLOR J. Cardenhill, Hereford, shoe-maker, Aug. 13, 14, Sept. 13, at Hereford. Att. Mr. Platt, New Boswell-court. BATE W. Birmingham. victualler, Aug. 11. 12, Sept. 13, at Bir mingham. Mts. Clarke and Co. Chancery-lane. GourEaTz H. North End, Hampstead. merchant, Aug. 5, 12, Sept. 13, at Guildhall. Atts. Sabine LW Ce. Caranarthen-atreet. DIVIDENDS. R. Shepherd, Wellington, Salop, banker, Aug. 29. F. Search, Clerkeuwell-green, feather-bed-manufacturer, Aug. 26. T. Harris and W. Hembrey, Market-street, Saint Jamees-market, butchers, Aug. 26. T. Mercer and J. Barlow, tate of Tonbridge, bankers, Aug. 26. J. Watson, of Tothmain, Westmorelaud. dealer, Aug. 27. T. JAHR, Henly.in-.Arden, Warwick, draper, Aug, 26. W. Dupe, Oxford. gun-maker, Aug. 23. J. Pywell, late of Oxford, horse-dealer, Aug. 93. Hamlyn and J. Chander, late of Bideford, Devon, bankers, Aug. 224. J. Halmarack, Neweastle-nnder.Lyne, Stafford, mercer, Aug. 26. J. Harvard, Chiswell-street, chinaman, Aug. VG. W. Fisher, Cambridge, woollen-draper, Aug. 23. J. Cuthbert and M. Clarke, jun. Colchester-street, Savage Gardens, wine-merihants, Aug. 23. J. Gray, late of Billiter-square, hardwareman, Aug. 23. L. Cooke, Winsley-street. seedstrum, Ang. 9. P. and I Blackburn, Turnchapel-dock, Plymouth, shipbuilders, Aug. 16. C. S. Smith, Clare-street. salesman, Aug. 43. J. A-hbey, Boxstead, I tertford, farmer, Dec. ti. it. Naylor, Chigwell, Essex, merchant. Sept. 1. C. 11. Hunt, late of Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwick, money-scri vener, Sept. 2. - • CERTIFICATES. Auo. 23. R. Gray, jun. Leeds, York, merchant—J. Catchley, Liverpool, merchant-_W. H. Trouttpeck. inories, victualler—T. Barlow. late of Appleton, Chester, wheelwri.tht—l. Cockill, Bi stall, York. linen rape r —G. Baker, jun. Stanton Plior, near Bath, butehea—R. James, Hampstead. broker—.. Stokes. Great Malvern, Worcester, lop-Inerchant—.l. Morrison, Pentunvillc, merchant—.J. Morgan, late of Bedford-row, rairencr. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. TO THE PUBLIC. The SUBSCRIBERS 63 THE NATIONAL REGISTER, are respectfully informed, that this Paper mill this Week be removed from No. 113, Straw!, to No. 182, FLEET STREET, between St. Dunstan's Church and Fetter Lane, inhere it mill in future be printed and published, awl where all Orders, Communications, Advertisements, 4-c. arc requested to be sent, free of postage. - _ NATIONAL REGISTER INDEX. Some enquiries having been made respecting the INDEX eat last Year's Voheme of Vie NATION-4L REGISTER. our Readers are informed te'tat it may be had by being ordered of the Newsmen, Brat the Office of the Paper. LONDON : MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1817. THE Continental papers received in the course of the week are as barren of intelligence of any interest or importance as were those of the preceding.. Indeed the present pacific state of Europe affords little opportunity to the Journals of the day, for presenting any thing either to their own countrymen or to their neighbours worthy of attention, or consideration. This dearth in some instances is supplied by rumours and con jectures ; as has been the case here for some days, a serious misunderstanding having been asserted to have arisen between this country and Russia, on the sub ject of Spain anti her Colonies; some passa!_v2s lately given in tke Courier were adduced as containing evi dence of the fact ; that Paper, however, yesterday even -17: denied the existence of this misunder stinding, and pronounced the speculations founded upon the report of it to be unfounded. Neither does the rumoured tnisunderstanding between the British and American Commissioners for running the boundary line, appear to have had any better grounds, as a refutation of the statement is made in a demi-official form in one Beenn parser received :11tc*,1i; the w.:els. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. On the important subject of the struggle between Spain and her Colonies much speculation might be hazarded; it is but too evident, we think, that unless she is aided by some of her neighbours, those colonies will be shortly lost to her for ever. Every friend to humanity must wish for a speedy termination of the contest in one way or another ; for it is one of the most sanguinary that can be imagined, and attended with atrocities on both sides too dreadful for recital. In this barrenness however of all foreign intelligence of interest, it must afford singular satisfaction to our readers to know that the internal condition of our own country is rapidly improving. It will be seen in another part of our Paper, that in the manufacturing districts there is much demand for labour, and vast numbers of those mechanics and other persons who have been living on parochial aid, are again called upon to assume their former avocations, and thus enabled to support themselves and their families by the proceeds of their own own industry. The acquittal of the seditious proves quite a God soul to the Editors of the Morning Chronicle ; their exultation knows no bounds; they write about, it and about it ; they bring the subject forward under all shapes ; and hold it up to their readers in every possible light. We are disposed to make every allowance for these little bursts of triumph in the friends of" radical reform ." for we really think they have need of some topic of consolation for their disappointments, and the destruction of the hopes which were so fondly cherish ed in the autumn and winter of 1816. But, after all the luminous remarks of the Morning Chronicle Edi tors, upon the recent acquittals, after all the reite rated assertions about spies and informers, which have been again and again substantially ?Vida, we can as sure them the voice of the better part of the community is ag a inst them ; and they bite upon a file, if they think, by advocating the cause of " Traitors absolved or Libeller's released." or by their diatribes against the King's Ministers, to disprove the fact, that the tranquillity of the state was exposed to that great and imminent danger which required the strong measure adopted by the legislature for guarding against it ; a danger not arising, as is perversely affirmed, out of the instigations of "spies" or " informers," but from the deep-laid schemes of dark and systematic revolutionists instilling their poison, under the cloak of Parliamentary Reform and Universal Suffrage, into the minds of an ignorant and distressed population. Of these real incendiaries somo of the most guilty have had the good fortune to escape the eye of justice, and are now insulting the country with barefaced denials of the existence of plots which they helped themselves to plan, and laboured to carry into effect. in the temporary suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act every loyal and peaceful citizen sees a shield of protection against the machinations of those who would involve his country in all the horrors of anarchy ; and it will require other rhetoric than that of the Editors of the Morning Chronide to convince him, that kis liberties are either thereby abridged, or the constitution of the state impaired. ——4lo— Thursday last a dinner was given at the Crown and Anchor to celebrate the acquittal of the eiihr Watson and his coadjutors, at which Mr. Hunt presided. Wat son made a long speech, which may be fairly termed his confessions. Preston and Thistlewood said little, but in what they did say, they were, like Watson, true to their principles. We confess we in no way regret this meeting, because it has displqyed the real character of these persons. (" out of thy own mouth I will judge thee,") and must remove all doubts, if any exist, in those who are open to conviction, of the sham which they had in fostering and bringing about the riotous scenes of the 2nd of De cember. The Editors of the Morning Chronicle even, were they made of 4' penetrable stuff," might, we think, now feel some qualms for much they have lately advanced respecting the trial of these and other con spirators. Indeed we snspect something of the kind has really happened, from the following observations made upon Mr. Hunt at the conclusion of their re port of this dinner Mr. Hunt :clamed thanks, and in the coarse of his speech ran into his asnal int/actives against Opposition inParliainents, thus !levelling all distinctions, and by exciting distrust and division undoing all that a just understanding of our rights and an united exertion to obtain reform, might be expected in time to obtain. We lament to say that this-is the incessant practice of this Herm neer liv excellence." Mr. Hunt will doubtless retort the charge, and al ready do we thing we hear "et its luaLe" re-echoed from the one to the other. But how admirably may this paragraph be applies, With a slight alteration or two, to the persons who wrote it ! We cannot resist adapting dt. The Morning Chronicle Editors have made numerous remarks on the trial of persons accused of treasonable practices "in which they run into their usual invectises against" his Majesty's Government, thus labouring to weaken its efti rts, " and by exciting distrust and division, un- ArGUST 4. doing all that a just understanding of our rights," and the most salutary measures for the preservation of the public tranquillity " may be expected" shortly to accom plish. "We lament to say, that this is the incessant practice of these Reformers by excellence." By the advices from Ilamburgh we learn, that the anti-commercial system is prosecuted with great activity and success in Sweden. The ground assigned for this forbearance was distinctly stated to be a confident ex pectation that the zeal of individuals would outrun the wishes of Government, and that they would prefer adopting from choice, that which might otherwise be probably imposed by force. In this expectation the Government has not been disappointed. The people of the province of Sinaeland have adopted a system of rigid economy and self-denial that would not disgrace a candidate for the order of La Trapp. All persons un r the age of twenty are prohibited from the use of brandy, coffee, and tobacco. No person is allowed to drink more than two glasses of brandy at table, and none but a wedding dinner is to consist of so many as four or five dishes. The Swedes, under their present system, promise to be the most frugal, and, at the same, time the poorest people in Europe, the most tem perate, and the most healthy ; but those who reckon the means of extending the sphere of human enjoyment among the improvements of society, will not recogr ise much wisdom in this system of abstinence and priva. tions. An article from Palermo states some acts of extreme atrocity perpetrated by Barbary pirates on the crew and passengers of two Italian feluccas. In one case, six armed men attacked a vessel having twenty-one persons on board, of whom every individual was either killed or so severely wounded, that they were not expected to strvive such violence. The second case was attended with circumstances as atrocity:,; but in neither was there any opposition made to the pirates by the crew or passengers. Their conduct in this respect merely re sembles that of the whole Italian States, which submit without a struggle to the daring outrages of a few bar barians, while the only signs of animation they give are their cries, which bespeak at the same time their suf ferings and their cowardice. Amounts continue, as usual, to be occasionally re ceived from the contending parties in the Spanish Co lonies in South America, in which both sides claim the most decisive victories. The Madrid Papers say, that the nature of the contest is wholly misunderstood in Europe, that all the European colonists, and those re markable fur talents or wealth, support the cause of the mother country, while the insurgents are nothing more than the very dregs of the people, devoid of every circumstance which could lend importance to them as individuals, or give weight or interest to their enter prize No misinterpretations, however, can now dis guise the formidable strength of the independents, nor the melancholy certainty that both parties are so nearly balanced in power, as to hold forth the miserable pros pect of continued slaughter and devastation in that re gion so eminently calculated by the bounties of Provi dence to ensure the happiness of its people. But of whatever materials the contending Powers may be con stituted, the war in South America is aestuning too importaut a diameter to be esteemed matter of indiffer ence to other nations, particularly as the posture of affairs in Europe, and the happy cessation of those mur derous conflicts that have shaken the universe, now permit us to turn our thoughts to more distant sub jects. Rumours have been circulated that Russia pur poses to assist Spain in the subjugation of the Colonies, at the high price of some considerable cessions. The Paris Papers anuounee the execution of the Spanish General, Lacy, whose fate has excited so much interest. lie was shot at four o'clock on the morning of the sth instant, and immediately on his arrival in the Island of Majorca. Whatever may be the diversity of public opinion as to the conduct of this unfortunate person, there can be but one sentiment in every generous breast, as to the mode in which he was executed. Until the commencement of the reign of Napoleon Buonaparte all executions of persons con demned by any Assembly, having the name of a Civil or Military Tribunal, were done in public, and by the light of day. Consistency in keeping up the sem blance of justice, where the substance was wanting, demanded this awful exhibition. The removal of Lacy, by midnight, from Barcelona, the place where be might have bad the consolations (not denied to the • meanest criminal in civilized countries,) of sliming his fellow-citizens how firmly and calmly he met death— his sudden execution at four in the morning, in a dis tant island, are circumstances odious to every liberal mind. If the Spanish Government is so weak and tottenng, as not to dare to execute a criminal at the seat of his alleged offences, let it apply in term, of the Treaty of Puns to the allied Sovereigns for military aid; but let it beware of imitating, in the face of in. dignant Europe, .n neighbouring system of .despotistn, which has fallen, never .to r Lu..! again. The letters from America speak of the continued exertions of the Government ,of the United Stites in • building a formidable navy. Our own Admiralty Board, we have reason to believe, has not been in attentive to the progress of the Americans. It has