The National Register. — London, England, 1816-04-22 00:00:00

• AiLERICAN • We hove received Charlestown Papers to the Ist of • Ilan+, with regularfiles from New•Yorb, containing all "the proem:lllgs of Congress to the It3th ult.—The Sok-. fhb:. Ledger of the .tl9th of February, states, after ielating the circumstance of Gen. lklorcan having ;been driven into exile by Buonaparte, and of the Gene:lll having re raircd to the United Statr,uutl . thtst Mr. Jell.::ren, who Ras President at that ftriod, intimated that the pre r-uce of Moreau would not be agreeable at WaAlugton •--" But now we see that Marshal Grouchy and our President were together at the Birth-night Ball. We will not insult the memory of Nieman by a comparison with Grouchy." Among the most important proceedings are those in the I-louse of Representatives on the '..2f nil of Febriu on the subject of the Traffic in Slaves. They are as " Mr. llandolph moved the subjoined Resolution, the nocessity of which, and of providing for u prattice ru beim:nut and abominable, he, at some length, iinprersed upon the Holvo : Resolved, That a Committee he appointed to enquire ilito the existence of our inhuman and illegal traffic in ...laves, car ried on in and through the district of l'4ltinthiu, anti iii report any sin: what atenstti•ea ore necessary for putting a stop to the same."—The Re s olution wits agreed to. . . ..... • Tire Naiional. Inlelligedeer says---" A Spanish ship f:out Africa to I•lavann:ai, with 500 slaves and a lar g elarge quaiitity t'f gold dust arni ivory, has beii captircl ffof the Hole-in-the-Wall by an English frigate; Laid bent into Bermuda." We have American Papers to the 1 '2th of March. The Commercial treaty with Great l3ritain hes finally piss , ed both Houses; it had previously been carried into effect by the Executive. _ . Mr. Pinckney is appointed Ambassador to Russia, and to take Naples in his way. An American Paper contains the Report of the Secre tary of the Treasury on the New Tariff, addressed to the President of the Senate, whs) had been applied to, to furnish the substance of this docutnent; and in this ske leton form it occupies seven columns. The discriminat ing duty imposed by law upon goods imported in vessels not of the United States, is not made in direct charge upon the goods, but is charged generally upon the rate of siuty imposed on the sumo goods when imported in vessels of the United States ; and it is uniformly an ad 'lido:ol4.l.o per cent..upon the American rate of duty, whether it be specific or ad valorem. The duty and ton nage to be paid at the time of entry. The local limita tion as to the drcwback of duty on gm& exported has been modified. The amount expected to be raised by the New Tariff is 17,000,000 of dollars ; being an in crease of 5,000,0(X) of dollars upon the former. The Secretary concludes in the following terms:— It is not practicable to ascertain the amount of revenue heretofore produced by the (lases of goods specified in the last table; hut it is suflicienily known that some of them pro duced little, while the precinct of others was peorortionably great. Taking the whole together, it is estimated that the whole increase of duty is equal to WO per cent. upon the aggreaste amount of the former ad rtenrrns ditties. But tit , • effects to be expected from the increased duty on woollen and cotton goods from the diminution of the Mien Doty and 'Treaties, or Acts of Congress, involved in the new system, will not admit a higher estimate of the aggregate product of the increased rates of the ad rittorr)n duty, than the rate of 75 or SO per cent. upon the former product. " Assuming then, on an advance of 39 per cent. upon i ,ano,noo dollars, the sum Will he 3,1 2 ,40,000 And adding to this sum produced, as now stated by the increase of the specific duty 1,300,000 There xvi!l be produced to complete the amount of the additional revenue required, a FUill of - " All wind' are respectfully submitted, (Signed) "A.J.DA LL IS, See. of the Treasury." " Trcasnry Department, Feb. 12, IMO." - _ . 5,140,00 We have, in the American Papers, very splendid de tails of Havtian Royalty and magnificence.—The cele bration of • Haytian Independence took place early in January. Buonaparte certainly could not, in the very v.,nith of his power, keep up with more dazzling , effect the pomp, grandeur, and varied fascinations of Royalty, than his present Majesty of Hayti. New York, Philadelphia, and Halifax Papers have reached us to the '2 Ist ult. Hostilities are not at all un likely to take place between Spain and the United States ; as the Spanish Minister had declared his deter mination not to return to Washington ; and complained, that a band of incendiaries in Louisiana were raising troops for the purpose of bringing about a revolution in /ew Spain. • It appears from the instructions sent out by our 90- vertu:lent to Halifax, that the Americans arc to be per- . witted to fish as usual on the Grand Bank of Newfi mnd land ; but arc prevented from using the British territory for purposes connected with the fishery, and precluded from our bays and harbours. The Sabina Spanish 48-gun ship had sailed f.r the mother-country with 4,000,000 of specie. Chateaubriant, in the Fiench House of Peers, lately reproached the Due de Richelieu in the warmest manner fir sonic expressions he had just been using, nud added, " If all Europe were willing to three the Charter on me, I would emigrate, and live at Constantinople." He vaunted the pure French blood that flowed in his veins, and threw out every kind of insinuation against Lally Tolltmdal. 'rim NATIONAL REGISTFIL REMOrdi, OF A TRACT OF. LAND. • The following 1: tier from TronAcim (in Norway), dated March 10, givo!: a more Finn icalar account nf the dreadful etreets of the removal of as imuu.nse tract of land at thur place, then was contained in e.n account we lately gave, extracted from a letter from Chris tiana:— " A singular occurrence took place here on the 7th instant: portion of land, amounting to 1.0 English ncres, mai 60 feet deep s , slid, with a trensmukus erark, ihto the River Nid, ahont a (wailer of a mile from Stole Foss. This happened during a hard frost (13S Reamtur), without giving any pre viuus 1101iVe ; and from the quality of the grouud being clayey, with a moderate ascent from the river, appears quite unac countable!. Of Tiller Church, dw•e!ling.hottse, and bridge, which stood on this spot, nut a vestige is now to be seen--the ruins are either buried or disperse:J. You may corm some' idea of the force with which this IMPS of earth fell, when 1 tell yon. that a considerable portion of it was thrown sevens! hun dred yards distant from the river on the opposite batik, where it desi run. d two houses with softy of the unfortunate inhabitants. The owner of Tiller faria perished by returning to look for one of his children. It is not yet ascertained how ninny lives are lost: eighteen are known to have been burled or drowned, and forty horses, besides cans, &c. Avery fine lad of 17, who was to have worked in our work, lost his life. One man saved himself in a remarkable manner: he was the foremost of 14 or 15 peasants, who returning home to Selboc, from bringing timber for the buildings attached to unr work, and was SO near the spot, that he heard the owner of Tiller cry out for help— he immediately resolved to retrace his eters: the other poor wretches endem mired to reach the shore through a deep snow, and perished with their horses ; most of them had two. The nian who saved himself had a very good horse, and by keeping himself on full speed, he escaped on shore by Store Foss, the river pursuing him close with the rapidity of lightning—lsis feelings may be better conceived than described during this remarkable race. Our work has luckily escaped tiehtiored, although threatened with ruin. V. Krough has otherwise suf fered considerably, yet mostly at Store Foss, where a flour mill has quite disappeared, the saw-mills almost destroyed, and dams curried away to the amount of 20501. A summer-house, which stood between Great and Little Foss, a short distance from the river, was carried in an upright position, as it stood ou the shore, with tuts boats chained to it, and in that manner was precipitated down Little Ft.ss. It is impossible for toe to describe the.singalar appearaneeall this had, and still has. The Fiord is discoloured a till muddy water to a great extent, and will probably continuc so for months. We are willing to think the danger is now , riser, though this is uncertain, until the stream cuts itself a proper passage." A PHENOMENON. r.- sTIRLI. In the Grate Grralte there is the following account from Salmtlial, in the circle of 'Marburg :--" On the 4th of March, this year, at nine in the evening, we had in this neighbourhood an entirely new phenomenon, on two estates of Count Kum burg : a violent storm, act'o•apanied wish snow and some ruin, passed from the westwaid towards the south eau t, thus is, from the Schwanberg Alps, towards the vineyards of Gerith, over the mountain-castle of Hohlenech, within which is She parish church ; when suddenly the gilded cross of the steeple of this church lighted the country all round, and at the same time a sort rif crackling or hissing noise was heard front the steeple as when water is poured aeon red hot iron. This lasted for a whole quarter of an hour, and left rather an unpleasant smell. Thu• next day the cross was almost quite black, but it now be gins to resume. its former brightness. With a telescope one can perceive, that something inflam mable fixed itself on the iron. At the same time, a similar phenomenon appeared at the top of the steeple of the church of Welshergh, only the fire was smaller, ansl shorter duration I It is strange, that these electrical flumes appeared onli on these two steeple., which ate almost a German mile (five English miles) distant from each other, though there are other steeples ha the line between them, sonic of them of the same height, on which nothing was perceived. It may easily be soprislql !bat this phenomenon, en account of' its novelty, furnishes she peasants with matter for various ronjectares. It had most resemblance to fours often seen on the masts of ships, called by the Italians, Taco di St. Elmo, which is also accompanied by a crackling roi , e, and is con sidered by mariners as a presage of favourable w cattier.— ( Vie taw Omit Caatte„lpit3.) We have received the following particulars by the Aquiler, arri‘eil at tipitialid, last,tiom the Mediterranean, of tha lone of the Ister frigate, Capt. T. Forrest, on a reef of rocks to the westrard of Cape de tint. The Inter sailed from Portsmoich on the 2lst of kehruary, fitted nut upon the peace-vtablisli mem, and was prucceding np tile Alediterrimean, from Alalaga, to juin Loyal Exmouth, when the accident happened t she struck at two o'clock in the morning of the 7th nit. when run ning at the rate of nine knots. Hopes were entertained that, by great exertions, the might he got off; and by the as of a xebec, which came out of Malaga, 14 of Ler guns were taken out,aud scut to Gibraltar ; butit proved, en making fresh exei Lions, that the rocks had bent through her, unit si.e sea fast tilling with scull. All the crew were safely taken mit, anal landed at Malaga, excepting Mr. Sitvicil, Midshipman, and eight men, who were drowned by the upsetting of the gig bout. • Fl.lllllFit l'asrtrerans.—We have much pleasure in stating, that his Majesty's ship biter, Capt. Forrest, after a fortnight', laborious and skilful creation, was got MI from the reef of rocks reed the Pule:dos Banos (neur Cape de (:at). where she ran on shore, and was totted into Gibraltar. on the gal, alt. by his Majesty's ships Montague, 74, Captisiti P. Heywood, and Arachne, Captain Godfrey. It was intended she should be hove down, for the purpose of giving her so much is pair as would eatiLle the etow to bring her safely to lieglaud. MEIN APRI I. 22. C Li Monday, oceot (ling to ancient custom, the unintii Sermon before the Lord Nit:, or.ntvi the 6:l•:ernor3 WPC preached in Chri,t'l of' CheAcr.-- The grat.il preee, , ioll ut..tat limo the Mair,it, house at one o'clock. Aliatt eight lan:tired of the Pridewell and (ltirist's 1101dt:it boss wolked fr,l:l the Royal I: , ,ciouttre with nno or :he Mar,ltith , af their Itcad, on hors:Awl: and in foll uniform. The boys were followed by the other City Marhlial, four ;',lalsituttni ;:, four men in • tate liver), the stile coach, A% hh the Lord and 1.441 y Illalortss, Sir Manville, J. J. Silithrtl.iiNtcpllci here,lleygate; the liecorder, Chamberlain, and other Ci*:. (Wi cers, with the SLetilla in their stale chariots. Al,nt 11,1:1* o'clock the proce::sion retuned from ('ltrisf:4 l Kneen to Ow Mansion lionse, where the Egyptian liar win; a.usi be.toticeilly illuminated with pas 11;rhtt, iatroduet d into the ph, ,, ii,ndo liers, with a Crown nod G. It. over the grand aeltet canopy, under which sat the Lord Mayor and 1 ady ilryoress, miippirt ed by their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of Kent anti Swan hiss Wood anti Miss C. Wood, lord Cie:ord, Lot d Er Lord Kinnaird, 'fite tables Wt il . on:a:re:di d with three large temples, snm:cirtt d by 12 marble pillars, end decorated by emblems of Peace at d Plenty, with many other ornaments of taste anti ingenuity. Tile dinner was ino.9 mop thous. A number of constitutional toasts were alvt n ; and iu the evening there was an influx of bet wren 2 and iiooo Ladies and Gentlemen to a Ball, which continued to a late hour. _ . Tuesday, Cie children educated at Chi ist'A llospi!al vent in procession to the Afamion-Holuie,. and were impreted by the Lord Mayor, who ordered them to receive, according to the ancient custom, two buns, a glass of wine, and Gil. earl,. the Monitors Gd. es,ti a. They then invecctied to Christ Chirth, Newgate-street, in the same order as en the thy preceding when an appropriate sermon was prenebed by his Lordship - Iv Chaplain. The account given in the Paris Pupers of the manner in which the ceremeny of the Lord's supper wlat rerlinnt ed by Louis XVIII. is not a little extraordinary "The ceremony of the Lord's Sapper being tOo tiatiguinp; for his Majesty, as it would require him to be a long time upon his legs, his place wus snppli.ii ty Moluiene in this act of piety perfbrmed by our Monarchs fronvtinte immemorial. Thirteen children of honest poor peophs bad the honour to represent the Apoeth , s. They were all in red waistcoats, and placed upon benches sufficiently high to be within reach of the Prince to wash their feet and Liss them without stooping. Each child received from the hands of Monsieur a loaf of bread, a :mall pitcher of wine, 13 dishes, and 13 pieces of five francs. The Dotes of An" omie= and Reny perfinmed the office of Servants, and carried the bread, and wine, and the meat. All these ceremonies were performed with a piety worthy of the descendants of St. l . ollite." _ _ _ Omeral Lagarde, who was wounded while protecting the Protestants at Nimes, is now in Paris. lle is reco vering from his wound, but his assassin has not yet been taken. Among recent Gazette appointments, is that of Scr jeant Ewart, to an Ensigney in the third royal veteran battalion, in consideration of the bravery he displayed on the 18th of June. In the afternoon cf that eventful day, the 9t.ttl regiment, reduced to 200, charged a column cf the enemy, from 2000 to 3000 strong; they brzice into the centre of the column ; and the moment they pierced it, the Scotch Greys dashed in to their support ; when both these gallant corps cheered and huzzacd, " Scotland for ever !" The enemy, to a man, were pt.r to the sword, or taken prisoners. The Greys afterwards charged the second line, which amounted to nearly 5000 men; it was in the first that Serjeant Ewert cap tured the French eagle ; the affitir is thus modestly tic tailed by himself :—" I had a hard contest for it ; the officer who carried it thrust for my groin: I parried it off, and cut him through the head; after which I was attacked by one of the lancers, who threw his lance at rae, but missed his mark, by my throwing it off with my sword by my right side ; then I cut him from the chin upwards, which went through his teeth. No:t, I was attacked by a foot soldier, who, after firing, charged me with his bayonet ; but 1 parried it off, and cut hint through the head—so that 'finished the contest .for the eagle." The Duke of Leeds has purchased lA)rd Spencer Chi chester's magnificent library for the sum of 10,e001. The Duke of Northumberland's tenants in the North have resolved .to erect a column cut of gratitude fhr the many liberal benefits they have received from their Noble Landlord. A 134th Paper mentions the marriage of a Mr. Goof to Ws Evil. The lover, on the morning of his nup tials, might have addressed his beloved in the words et' Lucifer—" Fri!, be thou my Goer!!" Sir Richard Kettcs is immediately to strike his fag, as Com mander in Chief on the Newfoundland station; and is to he succeeded on that station by Admiral Ilielmore, who will pro• seed to his destination as soon as the ship in which lie is to Itob_t his flag is ready. Admiral Sir W. Hope Is to have a command on the roast of Scotland, embracing a vcry extensive tine to the (Army and Shetland Isles, the north•west of Seotland, and, indeed, all the corn of the northern mart of our island. • -As a proof of the distresses of the times, the Collector of the Moots' Rates in the rural parish of Sudbury, Middlesex, eas lately under the necessity of summoning every farmer in the parish for now-payment of rates. They all appeared, and wei e allowed time for ropucut.