The National Register. — London, England, 1812-03-01 00:00:00

Alb - • • •• t, w 134 - _ • Ferdinand, by the Grace of coa, King orthe Two Sicilie s, Jerusalem, tee. Infante of Spain, Duke of P arma , Placencia, Castro, &c. Gra nd °Hereditary Prince o f Tuscany, &c. • ary most esteemed.Son .Francis, .Hcreelitary Prince of the Two Sicilies. Being obliged through bodily indisposition, and from the advice of the physicians, to breathe the air of the country, to withdraw myself tr all :;etious application, I should esteem m y self cul p able before God, , X ;lid not make such provisio a ffai rs e g verniu.etit of the kingdom, in , these most difficult times, thatof the greatest Importance should tie prot ri ptlYdlspatched, and the r ublie weal *suffer no detriment through ipay infirmities. Wishipg, therefore, to slisbarthen myself of the weight of gOveroment, as long as it shall not please God to restore me to a state of health suitable for conducting it, I cannot more properly entrust it to ary other than to you 'my belove d 'Soh, as Wellbecattse you ore my legitimate successor, as on - - account of the experience Which I have had of your high rectitude and capacity ; and by . these presents, with my free will and consent, I d constitute and apix)int you my Vicar-General In this my kingom of Sicily, *in the saale Way as you have .been already twice Vicar-General in my ()ilia kingdom of Naples ; and I yield and transfer to you, with the ample title of Alter Ego, the exercise of all the rights, prerogatives. f•eminences, and powers, which cotild be exercised by myself: and that this my determination may be known to all, end obeyed by all, I order that this nay letter, signed by myself, and sealed with my royal Val, be reserved in the ar c h ives of the kingdom, and that you direct a copy of it to be sent to all Counsellors and Secretaries of State, for their storination,.. and that they may communicate the- same to all persons in . .lexiated. tiven in Palermo, this lbth day t.f a•mary, FERDINAND. • THONIA4 Dli SOMMA. ar----- . A message was on Sunday sent by his Royal High. 'sties the PUINCE REGENT to Mr. PON3ONEY, the object of , which was, to declare, that neither his RnYAI. HIGH. VESS nor his Government should in any manner interfere in the approaching discussion and dectsion of the claims of the Irish Catholics ; or, in other words, that it should root he cons idered or managed as an ordinary G overnment . question ; but left entirely to the full, fair, impartial, and Auninfluenced deliberation, and decison of Parliament. Mr. SUERIDAN was appointed to be the bearer of the message, but he requested th.it a third person might be . present, when he was charged by Ins ROYAL HiGIINESS with ilke message, and while he delivered it to Mr. PON vwesr. The 'request was acquiesced in, and Mr. ADAM was the third person selected. Thus was all misconcep tion of the terms and tenor of the message guarded against, and all' possibility of future quibble or dispute .. .about the accuracy of its delivery obviated. li.y the Action sloOp of war, which has arrived in the gowns from Bengal, whence she sailed on the sth of Oc- Ober, and last from St. Helena, which she left on the Ist cf .I.nuary, we lct.un the very disagreeable intelligence of a ntiny having broken out. in that island, which had been, 'with some difficulty, suppressed. Of - the causes of the mti- tiny we are not accurate.ly infortrid, hut rumour states, i Atat a degree of dissatisfaction had previously :or some time prevailed amongst the garrison, in co o sequence of whose supposed malv.ersation in the di..tribution of the al,iowaAces of ruin and rations to the troops. • The discon- Usu& rose in proportion as ti,e effdrts to procure .redres of JO supposed grievances were iroArectual, and mutinous As4ciatsons. tvere formed fer the p.urp,,se of obtaining 1,.y 4 force what they rewired. The conspiracy, it appears, was ripe for expl(sion, and a day actually fixed for carry kig the designs of the nin , ittecrs into execution, by an at ,t,tck tnton the depots of stores. The Governor, h oweve r, having made a timely discovery of the plot, took the ne- ee.s.sary.measures. to frustrate it, and succeeded in taking 1 the. ringleaders into custodv, in number about fifty. Seven . were, after a trial for the offence, executed, and above fbrfty j fia..F ;o be gent to this country. Before the mutiny could 1, '4)1,... put. downethe.Lagat. , -. C T 9ger our tf>rll into the hands .of .the 1: TILE. NAtrril - FiIOWIROPIPM I 9 „ fICATION Of THE, iiiA u ( .OF ' L isin TAF,P4TEI3, 1. mutineers, but was soon rescued by the spirited exertions of the Governor himself, to whose promptitude, energy, and intrepidity, the suppression of this dangerous insurrection and the re-establishment of the quiet and security of the settlement ate particularly to be attributed. Lord KEITH is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Channel Fleet, in the room of Sir CHARLES COTTON, de. I ceased. MISCELLANIES. FUNERAL Or GENERAL CRAUTVREIr-4.ord Wellington, to testify his high sense of Major-General Craufurd's great and distinguished merits and services, determined that he should be interred in the breach which he had so ably and heroically assaulted, as the highest honour he could . confer upon bins.—The light division assembled before the St. Franciscan Convent, *here their late beloved Commander lay, at twelve o'clock , on the esth of 'January. The sth division lined the road from thence to the breach. The Officers of the brigade of Guards, of the cavalry, and of the 3d, 4th, and sth divisions, with Lord Wel lington, and the whole of the head-quarters at their head, General Cas tanos and all his Staff, Marshal Beresford and all the Portuguese, moved in the mournful procession. He was borne to his place of rest on the shoulders of the brave men whom he had led to victory, The Field officers of the light division officiated as pall-bearers ; Major-General Charles Stewart (Adjutant-General), was chief-mourner, attended by Captain William Campbell , an d Lieutenants Wood and llawe, Aides. de-Camp to their late glorious Commander, and by the Staff of the light dive,ion.—The ceremony was as awful, as affecting, as sublime as possible, and well cactilated to inspire feelings of the most exalted na ture; and if any other sentiment but that of the most poignant grief could have found place on this melancholy occasion, it would certainly have been envy at such an end, so wept.-- . Ilse breach ofi Ciudad dri go is the monument of this honourable mars, bedewed wsh the Ro tears, and decked with the praises and blessings of the whole army. It is said that the Earl of Yarmouth will very soon make a journey to Paris, for the purpose of bringing over his children, who have been re sident in that city ever since the peace, with their mother the Counte ss. Under the embarrassment of the Spanish Government for their lo , t King, _anew candidate has made his a pp earance ; the Portuguese Prin. ce , s Maria Teresa, who is married to the Infant of Spain, Don Pedro Carlos, has been delivered of a son in the Brazils; and for this happy event iiluminationa, discharges of artillery, and other demonstratiors of joy were to take place at Li , bon, in consequence of a public curious rder. A Frenchman, who lately quitted Pa ris, relate; the following ank-cdote :—' 4 Immediately atter her divorce, Josephine declared her self pregnant, and was delivered of a sen in August, 1810, at Lau- I sanne, in Switzerland. The child was seized by some agents or b Sa vary, the Police Mioister, and has disappeared with the n. A pces3 verliat, with the particular; of this event, was sent by Josephine's order to Fouche; and, being intercepted, occasioned the fall of this favourite. The present Empress, instead of on.e son, was delivered of twins, both boys. He who seemed less healthy was seized by Napoleon himself, but whether to be destroyed at once, or to be preserved as future a future recruit for the l3uonaparte dynasty, was not known to a ny bodY b t his father, and perhaps to Savary, the perpetrator of all BuPnaPar te's cruel deeds, and the confidant of most of his d ark and secret enormi ties. It is so said, that in a dispytt. with the Empress, the Queen of Holland told her to her face, that her baby, King of Ranee, was not flit.. vac heir 441 w throne of France, Josephine having an elder son, at vsliwt birth she herself was present." This anecdote, according to our nar rator, fillets believers in all parts in Fra n c e, who detest Buonaparte, and who constitute the greitt majority' of the trench nation.—/kforit. Post. The abdicai ion of the King of Sicily in favour of his Son, nearly Dcom t' pletes the nuniber of old kingdoms which are now gtiverneel by e Pus ties ; and, astonishing as it may. appear, the Kings of Denmark, Prpus . sia and Sardinia, are the only ancient Al . o,narats in Euyope Who si t in form upon their ".1:* hrones, and they are must materially curtailed in their doininions powers, and revenues.—The Thrones of Great Britain, `;eve den, Portugal, Spain, and Sicily, arenow governed by Viceroys. I Thursday a Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall, which Nez.. numerously attend, il.—Among other business, a Report was read irons the Special Committee, in relation to Improvements within the City, in respect to widening that part of Lombard-street, nearest to Regents, or Niansion-house-street, which was agreed to, and referred back to the same Committee to carry into exerution.—A motion Was made that or propose()Regent's Canal lie brought to empty its wwers into a Dock o Bastin, near i.lagnigge Wells, for the convenience of the Inland Tra of the Metrop, and that the plan ormerly stiggested, fur opening eh street froth Holborit-Bridge to the North-road, &c. be folthwith earn .' lute execution. —Negatived.--1901. was voted to the Ne W Rupture :,o tiety, and 230 guineas to the Spitalfields Soup Society. Gawler, whois cliarze with detcauding the Naval Department , b", r e moved' his Case to t he Court Of King's Bench, by a Tit terliarari. . • ~. _