The National Register. — London, England, 1817-09-08 00:00:00

S!81 Frain the 1.01 DON (LIZET TE, Sat u day, Sept. 6. 11.‘N KRITTCY SCPERSEDEI). favr.Oß S. Liverpool, merchant. RANK ttri'rs. Boorat G. Bishop Weartnouth, Durham, ship-owner, Soot. it, sn, . Oct. 30, at Sunderland near the Sea. Att. Mr. Blacki-ton, Sy ttit.:ers Itti. Pi cut' t: W. I laybroa Pottery, Salop, potter. Sept. 22, 21, Oct- Iht at Salop. Att. Mr. Bigg s Southampton-building , PARKES It. late of 3loon:-street, Birmingham, wire-worker, Sept. 13, 27, t)et. 18, at Guildhall. Att. 3lr. Pope, 31odiford-colut, Fenehurch-gtreet. o u nut . ost H. kite of Warton, Lancaster, dealer, Oct. 13, 14, 18, at Lancaster. Au.. Mr. illakelock. Scrjeant's 1130. DIVIDENDS. 11. Brown. Percy-street, ship-owner, Sent. 27. W. T. Toots.. lligh-street. Southwark, ism-merchant, Sept. 47. L. M. Flo.. lour}-court, St. Mary' Axe, merchant, Sept. 27. W. Garrs. of Gra.singion,Yorlc, grocer, October 7. J. twoilclitl,l, sen. Low Pallion, Durham, .1. and W. Jackson, I hut , gate-olturf..f. itastehild, jun. High I'allion,Durham.J.Jack . SOU, Eppleton, Durham, and T. Junta, sot. Greencroft, Durham, bankers, Sept. 50. C.. Davidl,on, Snape, Suflidk, shopkeeper, Sept- '29. M. Sweet, Taunton, Somerset. innkreper, Sept. 2(1. M Lincoln. milliner, Sept. '27. •. Newman. St. Ives, Huntingeon. waggoner, Sept. 27. Oxfonl-street. hosier. Nov. t. J. Ilvd”, and C. C. 'Miley. of Pope's-head alley, brokers. Nov. 1. A. floanslow, Burton Bradstock, Dorset, and J. Hounslow, port, rope-makers. Sept?). W. Shepherd, (Inca Ittshein. victualler, Sept. 30. '. Fisher, Canibridge. woollen-draper, Sept. 20. T. Martin and S. Hopkins, B: • , tol, linen-drapers, Sept. 28. W. B. Lovell. Crantield, Bedford, draper, Sept. 27. it:. Coltman, Stourbridge. Worcester, grocer, Oct. G. 'W. Stcyclos Maiden-Newton. Dorset, grocer, Sept. 89. Artindeli, 'Dumas, Devon. common-brewer, Sept. 24. W. Itrattle. Ityarsh, Kent, farmer, Sept. 27. J. Beaumont, Beech-street. liarhier.n, cabinet-maker, Sept. 30. . It. and W. Cross, Brewoncl, Stafford, tanners. Sept. 27. T. Ellis and It:. Alder, Cr,tokcd-cane. merchants. Oct. 11. Fornell, late of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicester, hanker, Sept. 30. CERTIFICATES, Sirr. 27. G. Papps, Bristol, herder—W. Hill, Birmingham, button-maker —lt. Evans, Duffield, Derby. maitster—J. Peatson, Woomhwell, 'Volk, miller—G. Banks, Plymouth Dock, jeweller—lt. Drew, Bradnittelt, Devon, merchant—W. Fisher, Union-place, Lambeth, maiiner. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. LONDON : MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1817. THE only quarter to which we now have to look fir what is Rommonly called news, is South America, where War, Pestilence, and Famine reign in all their horrors. This week, however, has been nearly barren, and the trifling accounts wa have are of so mixed and ,aoubtful a character that they are unwotthy of notice. The Guerier of Saturday says,—" We have received 1 the following intelligence from the City. If it prove true, it will speedily determine the question of our neu trality towards the South American privateers. Eng land will never suffix her flag to be insulted with hn jrunity; nor the interests of her commerce to become the -yrey of any piratical depredators, who, under the pre tcnce of fighting for liberty, commit excesses, which corn kromise the independence of every nation. We are sor ' zy—or rather indignant to learn, that a great propor tion of the crew who bearded the Alligator were Eng •Aishmen. One of them is said to have been recognized -es having belonged to a British sloop of war ! 'The Alligator, Ashton, from London to St. Vincent's was boarded on sth July, in lat. 28. 20. long. 22. 10. by a schooner privateer, of 7 guns and 86 men, said to be the Porpoise, of Buenos Ayres, and was plundered of some wine, potatoes, and oats. The privateer captur ed 10 days before a Spanish ship, and sent her for Bue -nos Ayres. Some of the crew reported that two days before they had fallen in with the Spaniard, they plun dered an English brig, and afterwards fired into her 'until she sunk, with all the crew:. From the Flanders mail received yesterday, we extract the following, relative to the trial of the Editor of the " Journal of Vogt find Weat Flanders." BRUSSELS, SEPT. 4—We reported in our Number of the Ist, the conclusions of the public affair between the Dui...-. o r Wellingion and the Editor of the " Journal of the East and West Flanders." One of our Papers gives, to-day, those of the avoue (Counsel), Vanhove, fur his Grace the Duke of Wellington (partie civile) against the said Editor. This &tsoui• required, that the tribunal should be pleased to con demn SieurGuillatime Debitsselier to pay him (without, how ever believing the reparation proportioned to the offence) ito sum of 10,000 Dutch &tins, as damages for the facts on vallich the action is founded, his Grace reserving to himself to dispose of the said sum as he shall see good, according to •deteri ll ill ation which humanity shall dictate to him lie de ariantled further, that the sentence should be pi jilted to the .siumber of 2000 copies at the expence of the said Guillaume • Debusscher, to be posted up wherever his Grace skill think opt r in this kingdom. Lastly, lie demanded that the said Debusscher be condemned in the costs. 'lilt Km:is HEALTll.—Yesterday the following • lulletin was exhibited at St. Jarnc's Palace, of the state of the King's health, to the Nobility, Gentry, and Public at large : " Windsor Castle, Scpt. 7. " His Majesty has passed the last moniti in a tranquil and eo , nfoitable state. His 'Majesty's disorder continues utta liitctl, but hit health is good. " 11. HALFORD, J. WILLIS, BAILLIE, R. WILLIS." W. LIEBER,P Ttl'F', NATIONAL IttGISTEII. - The Paris Papers to Friday, and Mails do m Ham burg and Flanders are artiv ed. The only article in the French Journals of any iniportance is a Royal Ordi nance which connects with the creation of a peerage an appropriate state, called a Majorat, deseendible with the dignity. A Majorat is a hereditary fief. No person is in future to L.. called to the House of Peers, ecclesi astics excepted, who has not previously obtained the King's authority to form a Majorat. There are to be three classes of Majorats, viz. those attached to the title of Duke, consisting of property producing not less than 30,000 francs annually ; those to the title of Marquis and Count, producing not less than 20,000 francs ; and those attachato the title of Viscounts and Barons, pro- • ducing not less than 10,000 francs. The suppression. of the disturbances at Breslau, is clearly explained in the fbllowing article brought by the Hamburg •` A false report was spread, probably with design, that the wives of too of the persons who refused to take the Latittlwehr oath had drowned themselves and their children in the river. This caused the di:sati•faction to break out into arts of t io battle. 5 or Mtn of the mob assenthlNl in two parties. One broke the windows of the Pofice Office. The other attacked the Town Hall. The former then proceeded to the Hotel of the Hovernment, broke mum the doors, and destroyed the win dows and forniture in the rooms of the High President, lit r kel. The military now appeared, and soon dispersed 4he mob, though cannon we re Mad ; but the brave Commandant, con tented himself with dispersing entirely the broken Olying mow(' by some strong patroles, on which occasion some per sons, Were wounded or killed. One of the wounthal a journey man tailor, is dead. A battalion arrived from Schwardnitz, which bivotteked in the !:treets with the military of Breslau. The ringleaders were taken, and the chief President Markel, as well as all the Authorities, have conducted themselves in the most exemplary manner on this occasion." An article from the Lower Eibe, dated hlth ult. in forms us, that several vessels have been seised and car ried into Swedish ports fbr having infringed the regu lations of that Government with respect to she prohi bition of fineigm goods, but at the same time says, that these prohibited comnuslities arc still sold, and at 50 per cent. dearer than before. This is another added to the innumerable instances which shew the justice of the re mark of a distinguished writer, that ." The Legislature which loads trade with impositions too heavy, or fetters it with restrictions too severe, defeats its own intention, and is only multiplying the inducements to violate its • statutes, and proposing a high premium to encourage illicit traffic." The saute article also mentions the comi cal manner in which the law against drinking coffee in Sweden it evaded ; " in all the inns and taverns, brown soup is now given instead of coffee, and it is eaten with spoons, it being only the drinking of coffee that is pro hibited." Au old writer e in Greece asserted that the cele brated " Mack broth" of Lacedwmon, was nothing other than coffee. For Lacedwmon, we may now read Sweden. . It is curious to observe how completely prejudice and hatred will destroy the reasoning faculties of man. The Editors of certain Journals in the• Netherlands and Germany have for some time edified their readers by long abusive articles against this country. If the writers were natives, we should say heaven knows for what ! but as we know them to be for the most part, Buona poetized Frenchmen who fled from home when it became too hot to hold them, we can assign a motive for their conduct, and smile at the impotence of their malice. We have bethre adverted to some curious articles which have appeared from time to time, accusing us of having de stroyed the manufactories of the Continent ; but we lit tle expected to be told that, we were the abettors of the A lgerines against the trade of Germany! and yet this • has been done in sober sadness, in the following curious article from the Lower Elbe, dated August 12 " The fact that there were found on board an Algerine Corsair English, French, Spanish, and Netherlands Passports with orders to the vessels of these nations to let the Pirate and his prizes every where pass unmolested, may teach us Germans what protection we may hope for our trade from the Euroreari maritime powers. How just was the opinion of Baden in the votes in the Diet concerning the piracies of Barbary States, and how worthy of a great nation of thirty millions of men. It is not from Enetand that we ought to beg protection forma flag : we should protect ourselves by our own exertions—we should sink to the bottom the ships of those miserable pirates, without first asking at London whether we are allowed to do so, anti we shall then see whether England ventures, without blushing, in the filet; of Europe to protect against Germans, its dear Mlle: And in.troropois of its power in the Mediter ranean, those robbers of Algiers." What will the Algeriucs who suffered, or th e Dutch who aided in punishing them, or Lord Exmouth think of this We believe the Dey will nut be eager for a renewal of that " protection," which we are supposed to afford him, or wish for fresh proofs of our affection as his " dear allies," delivered as the last were from the muzzles of our guns. Every man in South America, who has a correspond ent in England or the United States, is expected to give information as to current events ; and as this informa tion is often , conveyed to him through partial media, and has again to take the colour of his own hopes and fears, opinions and interests, we have a tolerable view of the difficulty of coining at the truth of the case, and of ha zarding, as to the whole or any province of the Spanish Trans-Atlantic dominions, a confident opinion. The Papers of the United States are in the same situation with ourselvas, though in more direct correspondence with the scat of action ; and this should make us cau tious in admitting either the favourable or unfavourable intelligence contain. SEPT. 8. HOAX ON THE LOIII) MAYOR. Some mischievous wag played a bitter hoax uprnt the Lord Mayor on Saturday, which, from his Lord ship's fitcility in believing nil the nonsense that is told him, was productive of no slight inconvenience to many indi..-iduals. In the course of the day, hii lord ship received intin.mation that an attempt at insurrec tion would be made ar the close of Bartholomew Fair, on Saturday night, and a card was put into his hand stating, that, " The friends of Reform."' would meet at the Pied Horse, Chiswell-street, Finsbury-square, on Saturday ercning,—supper precisely at nine o'dock. This house, it• was . stated, was to b 3 the rendezvous, and that the conspirators were to assemble at the Fair, armed with pikes, and . other weapons, and in the dead of night,- proceed to attack the Bank and other public buildings, andjlually execute a genend insurrection i _ _ . _ The Lord Mayor, gm! / took all this for gos: pal, and, without giving himself time to ascertain whether any such meeting was to take place at the Pied Horse or not, he dispatches a messenger to the Home Department, with the alarming intelligence. The home Department believing his Lordship' statment, ordered out the military; ami placed them in the most convenient stations for immediate action. In the mean 'time the Lord Mayor addressed circulars to the Bank, to the East India House, and other public places, apprizing them of their danger ; he summoned - the attendance of all the City Police ; he fixed his freed-quarters at the . Compter in (.iiltspur-street, and fmquently during the evening, perambulated the Faii issuing orders and dispatching officers in every direction where danger was to be apprehended. Fortunately, however, for the community at large, and his -Lord ship in partiCular; the visitors to the Fair, were in nocent of any evil intentions. " Pikes and other weapons," they had none ; they had armed themselves with nothing but good humour and strong drink, and when the Sunday morning approached, they repaired to their repeetive htnaes, thinking how much alarm they had created in the breast of their parental chief Magistrate. We have ever been ready to give his Lordship every praise for his indefatigable industry in his high office ; though we were never among those who honoured hint as a Solomon. 'We have always observed an indiscrete precipitancy in his conduct, which has more than once exposed him to the ridicule of the public•; and we think a certain eicionniess has marked his whole career, not very consistent with those principles of " independence,'i which he was used to boast, 'and which his friends yet hope he has not abandoned. In the present instanc., it would certainly have been prudent, as it respected the Home Department, even, to haveenquired intothe truth of the story about a meeting at the Pied Horse. It' he had made such an enquiry, he would have found that no such meeting did:l , 4e place there, that none such was over mentioned to the very respectable man who keeps that house, and if he had condescended to make enquiry he would have found that the general conduct of that man, is such, as to place hint above suspicion of keeping a house of resort for such felens, as his Lordship was active in apprehending on a former occasion, but who, front causes, which every good man must lament, escaped that gallows which was so justly their due. We hope this affair will teach his Lordship prudence in future, and, we hope, moreover, that he will devise some means of doing justice to the character of Mr. Willis, the landlord of the Pied Horse, lest his repute. tion should suffer, through the mischievous roguery of the hoaxer, or the credulous officiousness of the Magistrate. The French Ministry appears to be so anxious to conciliate the good will of parties, that we very much fear they will miss their object, and disgust all. We were among the first to applaud the decree, by which a considerable number of disbanded officers were called to the king's ranks ; it was an act Of humanity as well as prudence, and from which no evil could re sult, because the characters of the individuals were strictly scrutinized ; but not content with this, the Ministry are determined to convince the King, that no crime is so black, but it may be fiwgiven ; thus they bring forth Davoust, whose name is connected with every thing that is infamous, and make him an object of royal bounty. Surely the blood of Ncy, all trea cherous and guilty as he was, will cry from the grave against this monstrous act of partial clemency. What must have been the feelings of Louis, when this man knelt before him ! Did not the groans of the wretched victims—old men, women, and children, who perished beneath the walls of their rovn flee city, howl in his ears? Could he behold Davoust, defiling by his touch, that baton, which, in his weakness he was be stowing, without remembering the plunder of the free city of Ilamburgh, and the murder of its innocent po pulation ? After this, let not even Fondle despair let those, whose hands are yet spotted with the blood of their king, live in the hope that although the gates of heaven may be shut against them, those of the Tuile ries arc ever open ; let them bear in mind, that mur. ders of the blackest die, committed under the usurpation of 13uonapate, do not unfit them for the highest honours under the Ministry of M. de Care.