The National Register. — London, England, 1817-11-23 00:00:00

To um the LONDON GAZETTE, SatUrday, Nov. '22. BANKRUPTS. VALIENTINE C. St. James's Walk, Clerkenwell.japannic. No►. 49. Dec. 9,Jan. 3, at Guildhall. Au. \lr. Ilayward, Tooke's-court. kfteßlC E. Coaden Mills, Dors , t, miller. Dec. 9, 10, Jan. 3, Atta. Alexander and Co. New Inn. Holm G. wine merchant, Dec. '2, 9. Jan. 3, ikt Guildhall. Mt. Mr. Settee, John-street, Bedford •row. PHILIP T. Newton Abbott, Devon, innholder. Dee. 18, 19, Jan. 3, at Exeter. Alta. Darke and Co. Chancery-lane. iiAHULA A. Bury-strett, St. Mary Axe, broker, Nov. 29, Dee. 9. at Guildhall. Atts. Annesley and Co. Cateaton-strcet. GREGORY G. Sheffield, scissar maker, Dec. 4,5, Jan. 3, at Sher tidtl. Att. Mr. Rigg, Southampton-buildings. XVDD F. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, milliner, Dee. 9, 10, Jan. 3, at Newcastle-upon Tync. Att. Mr. Harley, New Bridge street. APPLEBY R. North Shields, cabinetmaker, Dec. 17,18,Jan. 3, at North Shields. Atts ' Robinson and Co. Austin Friars. As.ptism W. late of the Borough Dill Mill. Great 'Fotham, Essex. miller, Nov. 15, Dec. ei, Jan 3, at Guildhall. Ans. Tilson and Co. Coleman-stmt. _ _ WII.7I:IAMS :S. ;11:i BARNARD T. Cheltenham. mercers, Dec. 19, n. Jar. 3, at Cheltenham. Atta. Vizard and Co. Lincoln's Inn fields. .... WARNER J. and LORD J. nerhy, ironmonger, Dec. 2, Jan. 3, • Birmingham. A tts. Clarke and Cu. Chancery-lane. MOORE T. Ilatrtonshum, Hereford. fanner, Dec. 1,2, Jon. 3, at Illerefind. Att. Mr. Smith. Austin Friars. GORING T. Staines, tailor, Nov. 23, Ike. 9, Jan. 3, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Shepherd,Hyde-street, Illommbury. 'Dow sEs .1. J. Whiteehapel-road. collar maker, Nov. 25, Dec. 6, Jan. 3, at GuildhalL Atts. Ilenderssn and Co. Lemon.street, SANYIEtn E. St. Philip and Jacob, Gloucester, cooper, Dec. 8, 9, Jan. 3, at BristoL Atts. Poole and Co. Gray's Inn-square. Sat . xnEus J. G. King-street, warehouseman, Nov. 25, Dec. 13, Jan. 3, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Emtnott, Aldennanbury. EISEN YJ. Dover, draper, Nov. 29, Dec. 2, Jan. 3, at Guildhall. An. Mr. Jones, Sise-lane. CooPa'a 11. Brixton, Surry, builder, Nov. 29, Dec. C. Jan. 8, at Guil;l6 11. An,. Lee and Co. Three Crown-square. Borough. MINOR W. Lime-street, merchant. Dec. 2, 6. Jan. 3, at Guildhall. Acts. Swain and Co. Frederick's-place, Old Jess ry. (Dividends, etc. in our next.) SPANISH AMERICA. This day was published, Price 3s. OBSERVATIONS on the WORKS of M. DE ?limn on the present state of Spanish America. Printed b y Willis, 89. Chancery Lane, and sold by WilNon, SS, Ittn.al Exchange ; Roswell and Co. 44. New Bond Street ; Booth, Duke Street, Portland Square, and all other Booksellers. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. LONDON : MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 181 7. THr. Park Papers of Wednesday were received on Saturday. The Deputies waited on the King on Tues. day evening, at eight o'clock, with the Address voted by the Chamber, in answer to his Majesty's Speech at the opening of the SesFion. The Address, like that of the Peers, is almost an echo of the Speech, and in particular, warmly repeats the King's sentiments res pecting the increased demands that have been made against their country. It says.:— " Your people have submitted with grief, but in silence, to the Treaties of November 1815, after having made the ut. most efforts for executing them faithfully, after that years of calamity have infinitely increased the t igour of the explicit conditions of these Treaties, we cannot believe they conceal melt exorbitant consequences as none of the contracting parties could have foreseen. The wisdom of your Majesty will be understood and seconded by the enlightened policy presiding over the destinies of the other people of Europe ; an equitable limit will be placed to our enormous sacrifices ; the termination of the too oppressive charge of occupation will be hastened, onr country will at length be free. Thee, and only then, France will he able to taste the fruits of peace, to confirm her credit, re-animate her internal prospoity, and resume her rank among nations." " The spirit of the charter, the national honour, have spo ken on the communication which your Majesty has deigned to make respecting the dispositions of the l a w ...7=a, icy your order for rec./intim: ttt• army. All your subjects, Sire, 7.7 t responsive to the voice of a Monarch eminently French— they will refuse no sacrifice to insure to your Crown and their country dignity and independence." The most important article in the French papers of the 18th inst. received in the course of Friday, is the speech of the Keeper of the Seals, Baron I'asquier, on introducing to the Chamber of Deputies the projet of a law on the liberty of the press. The Baron begins with defining two objects, as of equal importance to the public welfare—the first, " sec ure the exercise of the liberty of the press as consecrated by the charter ;" the second, " to retain in the hands of Government a protecting force"—that is to say, a privilege of surveillance. He thus proceeds :—" It is not neces sary to develope the advantages of a free press." •' You consider them as inherent in your rights, and as the surest guarantees of the Constitution." " But legal responsibility is a necessary consequence of the exercise of all political rights ; a free man is answerable for his actions to the laws, preciselyhecause he is free." In tliis sentence, the Minister seems to have laid down with clearness and precision, the entire theory of the freedom of the press—the principles on which it stands as a fundamental right—and the means by which its abLses may be lawfully corrected. Nor do we find that any but one species of writing, viz. the journals are excluded in the seqnel of the 'Minister's speech, from the full and fair application of his preliminary doc trines. The persons to be made responsible, and the t;lrms of proceeding through which their responsibility iA t o be enforced, constitute therefore importa4 . _ THE NATIONAL REMSTEII, branches of the Ministerial prgjet . And here we must be permitted to remark, that the French legislature, in the proposition which wit arc now considering, has dis played a larger share of indulgence than is known to our English law. With us, the author, printer, and publisher, arc all equally obnoxious to legal punish ment ; although the two latter, namely, the printer and the bookseller, may be absolutely innocent of evcry mischievous intention, Baron Pasquier proposes, on the other hand, that the responsibility shall terminate with the author, provided his residence be fixed and known. The translator of a book originally published in a for eign language, is esteemed to be the author, to all in tents and purposes ; since a book may be said to have no existence which is not understood by the purple. Next in order comes the editor, who republishes a (French) production, written in foreign commies, or who puts forth the compositions of a writer deceased. lie must necessarily stand in the place of those who are, either from death or distance, beyond the juris diction of the French tribunals. It is net until these three classes of persons, all considered as authors under several names, have proved thmselves not tangible by legal process, that the responsibility of the printer is resorted to: failing him, the bookseller, or distributor is attached, as the last resource of offended justice. An additional article completes this member of the law which M. Pasquier has presented. An author cannot be liable to prosecution, however dangerous the opinions he entertains, unless his book has been actually printed and published ; or unless, without being printed, it contains a direct provocation to crimes. In the form of proceeding there is this distinction— that if the author, &c be accused of a misdemeanour only, he shall be judged without a jury, by the Correctional Police : if prosecuted for a crime of graver character, carrying with it an infamous or highly penal infliction, he is to be transferred to the Court of Assize, and to enjoy the pro tection of a jury. The most important and critical di vision of the subject is what remains behind. The Journals arc excepted from the manifold benefits result ing from the above recited series of just and liberal clauses. The Minister satisfies himself with clahning against them, the right of superintendence which is already so vigorously exercised—and of suflheating, crc it beheld the light, every sentence of political intelli gence and discussion. This all powerful prerogative is demanded for the King, " because it never has been or will be in his Majesty's hands any thing but a means of protection for the State itself." Uuquestionably were the power to be exercised by Louis XVIII. in proper person, it would inspire the utmost confidence in every man, and be a subject of uneasiness to none ; but can she Baton Pasquier answer implicitly for all the Mi nisters who will ever be employed by Louis XV 111. from the present moment to the Ist ofJanuary, 18:21 ? Can he answer for all those who have been in the King's servive since his Majesty's first restoration, or for any individual of those who arc even now invested with that high honour, that they never have abused their omnipotence over the public journals, and that they never will abuse it, to the oppression of the peo ple, or the delusion of the Crown ? The Paris Papers of Monday last announce that on the preceeding day a funeral service was solemnized at the English Protestant Church, in the Rue St. Honore, in honour of the Princess Charlotte, and a sermon pro nounced in testimony of her eminent virtues, and of the severe dispensation that has visited this country. An English clergyman preached the fund!!`!.ltrition on the sorrowful ~w=zon.—i nese papers contain some loyal effusions applied to the celebration of the King's birth day, on Monday, when his Majesty entered into the 62d year of his age.—An article from Stutgard states, that a new general Diet for Wurtemberg is to be con voked for the purpose of discussing the project of a Con stitution as modified by the Government. _ _ The deputation from the French Chamber of Peers presented their Address to the King on Friday last.— M. de Serre, the President, has made a long speech in the Chamber of Deputies, recommending alterations in the internal regulation of the Assembly, and the direc tion of their proceedings. In the exposition of his plan, he alluded frequently to the practice of the British House of Commons, with which he appeared well ac quainted. All the Provincial papers received in townlast week concur in describing the solemn manner in which Wed nesday was observed in their respective districts, there was but one feeling every where, one uniform expres sion of deep and unfi!igned sorrow. The University of Oxford, having been represented as deficient in respect to the memory of our lamented Princess, and placed in no very favourable contrast with its learned sister of Cambridge, it is due in justice to the former to state that in all the Colleges the day was observed as a solemn fast. Service was performed in all the chapels in the afternoon which was announced throughout the city by muffled bells. Las Cusas, the private Secretary of Buonaparte, stated some time ago to gave been sent from St. Helena, ar rived in the river on Monday, from the Cage of Good Hope, in the Brilliant merchantman. POETRY. -.....- MONODY, NOV. U. ON THE SICCII-LAMXNTED DEATH Or TUE PRINCESS CHAN!. I.(tl X-WRIT TEN AT TUX SOLICITATION Or • WRUNG LADV. EA VEN gave the word, the creel arrow sped, And ellAtt LOTTEN numbered with th'illustrious dead. Does Youth does Rank, or Beauty read the line? How frail our tenure on the things of time? She who so late in brightest splendour shone, Presumptive heiress of the British throne, . l u all the dou'r of youth and beauty's bloom, One fatal bum has summoned to the tomb Thro' es'ry vein Britannia feels the blow, A prostrate nation sinks in genial woe! Rank most exalted owns tlt' avenging rod, And penitent, beholds the hand of ('rod'. Thou supreme ruler both of I leav'n snd ern - Lb, Whose mighty flat gives te all things, bird , Upholder of this imitersal frame, Thy nays are just, and holy it thy name! Cris not fur mortals, thy decrees to seen, To know thy counsel, or discern thy plan, But with obedience to thy Suv'reigi, st Humbly subunit, and sing thy praises still. High as the Heaven's above the earthly sod, O'er man's ideas, ate the thought's of God. Nan Nin would linger in his worldly snares, Pursuing pleasure, hot entrapp'd with cares ; Affliction snaps his chain, and sets him free. To taste true happiness alone in thee. Can gorgeous palaces, and pomp of state, The courtly flattery of ie worldly great, • Can nuptial joys, that one great want supplx, His soul imbibes from thine approt ing eye ? Go then—nor murinot at the ways of Heaven, Adversity to man is wisely giv'n, She open the et trlastin g portals wide, And bids the pure in heart, thy will abide. 1)o solemn musing's on the world, vain scene t l'roducc no pleasure to the mind serene ? Does sympathy's sweet voice no joy afford, When mind meets mind in tenderest accord' Were lose divine displays her glorious reign, hich time shall not impair, or angels blame, Ilene swells tl e generous purpose of the soul, The pious act, beyond self-love's control. Be these the finks of keen affliction's dart, Tho' nature flinches, ye shall bless the smart. And thou lore husband in a foreign land, Revealed of thy fair Charlotte's faithful hand, Of lter sweet converse, and those helms of Wise, In love no more t`exchange the holy kiss : Shalt know in Sympathy's al chain, Foretastes of pleasure, unalloy'd with pain. See her invite thee to the realms above, Where kindred souls unite in purest love; Her bright example like the Not them star, Shall guide thy weary hattsteps, from afar, Eye well the light, as thou puirsit'st the road, "twill lend to her, to happiness, and God; And thou fond parent of the royal line, Who muttriest an only child, lost in her print% A nation's sympathy—thy vomit' v's tears— Unite with thme—and bid, dispel thy rear , . Thy loss is ours—the highest hopes are fled, For Charlotte's virtues speak but from the dead ; The beauteous tenement alone remains, Sad Record of her sublunary pains, But thrice embalm'd in British hearts, her shade Reflects the image which her life has made, Ou Meary's tablet, actions of the just Shall still smell sweet and blossom in the dust. • " Mourn not for me, the living 0131111 your tears, " For far remov'd from earthly hopes and fears, " I reign in glory's blaze, and ceaseless joy, " No sorrow know—but peace without alloy! " Tread the same steps which center'd me in fast, " Pity the poor, and succour the distress'd; " So when your royal race on earth is run, " No storm shall rise to cloud your eVning sun, " Your menery hononed in a nation's woe, " And joy celestial you like me shall know ; " Change a terrestrial for a heavenly crown, " ATI praise the King of Kings with high renown. • The Princess Charlotte with Prince Leopold. were in the habit of distributing Bibles to the poor in the neighbouring villages; on one occasion, they went into a poor cottage. when the Princess ob served a Bible in a very tattered state, she immediately sent a new one, in which, she wrote with her own hand, " When you read this, remember Charlotte" CLAREMONT, Friday Nov. 21.—The answer to the inquiries to-day after Prince Leopold is, " His Serene Highness has had a tolerable night, and is much the same as he was yesterday." His Serene Highness took a short ride on horseback. The Duchess of l3uccleuch was among the inquirers. Shortly after the death of the Princess (it is stated in an evening paper), Prince Leopold sent an express to Scotland, for the Earl of Lauderdale, who met the mes. scnger in Northumberland on his way to town. His Lordship went to Claremont on Friday week. It issaid on his entering the room, his Serene Highness rushed into his Lordship's arms with the violence of a heart-broken man, and remained in that situation lima full half hour during which time his grief fimnd vent only in sobs and groans. Lord Lauderdale at last gently tore himself away, and endeavoured to lead the Prince's mind to tho consideration of minor objects. " How delightful it is," said his Lordship, " to breathe the sweet odour of these flowers, so diversified, so rich. An eternal spring seems to embellish those domains ; it is a terrestrial paradise." It is added, that these observations roused Prince Leopold, and, for the first time he found him. self momentarily relieved. " I will," exclaimed he, " live and ►lie at Claremont. I will devote every mo ment of my future life, to carry into effect all the ideas of that blessed angel, whom I have lost for ever I" Here he burst into a flood of tears. Lund Lauderdale remained with hint three hour&