The National Register. — London, England, 1823-05-12 00:00:00

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Nevi Futile, 9? , 1 C.,ne. tnr Ac. 71311 Lou, Alin. !,.0 , Lem ery . 11,..krt.. ft 7 191. THE NATIONAL REGISTER, LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 12. [The Proprietor having disposed of the copy right of this Paper, has this wet.l to take leave of his traders, and begs them to accept his.. thanks for the patronage su long affirded him], The House of Commons has been employed (luting the week iu an investigation of tlte circumstances attendant on the trials fur the outrages committed at the Dublin Theatr e, and unless it cap be proved that the witnesses ha v e sworn falsely, we canoot suppose that the House will ref sin from.ordering a prosecution against the Orange-Sheriff, Thorpe. — On Thursday night a puerile attempt to awe, the public press was made by a Colonel Barry--.fu: the particulars we must refer to our Parliamentary Re port, by which it will be suit that the Colonel said, if " the Press be allowed to go on in this way, it, would soon become MASTKR of the House of , Com. mons, instead of the House of Commons being its roasters" —now we should be glad to know whete this Member learnt that the House of Commons con stituted the M AST sat of the,publie Press—he might know, by reading any debate, that the Members ge nerally arc much indebted .to the l'apers for making sense of what is often, as delivered, nonsense; and the. Colonel would, ',crimp% rod the severest way in which the Press could punish him would be to report his speeches just as he delivered them. The Hon. Member, however, appeared. to know the danger that attends playing with , edged tools, for he de clared " he did not wish to bring the House in col lision with such people," and in that ho.shewed his prudence—his motion fw calling the prinw.of The lkillsh !'rtss to the bar of the House was met with the contempt it deserved, orul..wiswithdromu, Letters from Vittoria, of the 30th, complain very loudly of the acts of vengeance anti oppression corn- mitted there by the Royalists under the protection of the French. Many private individuals, having influence, or known to be favourable to the free in stitutions of their country. have been thrown into prisons; and others, in order to escape from outrages of this kind, are flying to France. This is the way fir the French and their Royalist friends to uncle—l ceive and rouse the population of the Peninsula. The Green Park Lodge, ,it appeals, is held by L la ty Wm. Gordon, under ttleve from the Crown, grunted in 1790, for two lives (Lord and Lady W. Gordon) or 56 or 67 years, at an annual rent. L0G5...01?. AN EAST INDIAMAII.—WO regret to announce that the Throws Corals •East Indiaman, in coming up the river on Thursday last, took the ground, in consequence of' which she very soon went over on her side ;.anil her, cargo, it iefeared, will be entirely lost. A contract was entered into on Friday last for the erection of a tread-mill in Maidstone gaol, which is We have received the Paris Papers of lArednesday. to be begun immediately. The expense of building Their accounts of the progress of the French Army and machinery is estimated, at .9..^...001., and whets are in many instances absurd and contradictory.— completed will be capable of employing about eighty pri . amer . s at . one time, .whose occupation will be One account states, that a division of French troops chiefly in grinding corn for the use tit the prison. occupies Valencia, though the latest intelligence FAL.IB.OY WesTON Cotvu,La TOWER.—On Tues. does nut mention a single French soldier within a day evening, abou n t eight lock,o' the h tower re, of turn the 1 1 hundred and twenty mile s of that cit y . The u„ lt church of Westo Colville, nmridi / Wed down; part falling upon the ro ot ' of the church Editors, when t:•v.y flibrica . c tatglopitic,despatches, br o ke througn and .destroyed the scat* and. pews; , would not commit so many blunders if they• were sn the other part fell t o t he w es t . broken The to b we y r the confall.— tained first to consult the map of Spain. The Stale five bells,our of ich , It is fortunate that nu pe rson was near; if it had a sserts, that Ballasteros has p reci p itatel y retired .happened during divine service, many of the con. tin Valencia. We leave it to the Parisian Journalists gregation would inevitably have lost he i r l iv e s . to explain those conflicting statements, if they can. Aboutyears tower of All-Sat' church, Felbourne, fell in a similar manner. The Dra perm Blanc =miens, on the authority of LOSES, MAY 7.—A,few days since, Lieutenant a letter flout Frankfurt on the Oder, that Russia is Jackson, RN. of the Last Cowes preventive-boat, assembling an Army of Observation on the frontiers captured a boat and two men. The smugglers run the boat ashore, and threw over the whole of the of Polaud, of 120,000 men, fur the maintenance of tube excepting two. 'Elie men were convicted in public tranquillity in Germany, awl even in France. the penalty of 1001. each, befure the Newport ma -The Rayonne Papers of the Qd• instant present a gistrates. Oit Tuesday lea a dreadful fire broke out upon very gloomy picture of the situation of the French Barbet Heath, in the vicinity of the Royal Military in my in Spain. They consider this retreat of the College, which continued to burn for several hours Spanish army as dr.i.,ving the French into a snare, without Ha intermissio been f e of the gentlemen cadets of the Royal Military Col favourable to the Constitutional troops, to obtain a lege, it must have occasioned considerable damage. victory. They Oro observe, that the Duke of An- It is supovil to have been the ago ct of incendiaries, velem does nut appear to bt •conrina d, as he. waa. l and pro p per imprint:sage arryinn to discover them. ,V 1.1! NAV REG at first, of the facility of a conquest, by the assist. ancc of the population of Spin, which gives him no rawcour. The Army of, the Faith has not increased, as it WAS anticipated, nor have the Constitutional troops deserted their colours. The heavy artillery is not yet brought before St. Sebastian and Pampe lune. It is stated, in the Bayonne Papers, that the troops that were at „lace have joined Ballasteros, who has had a smart action with General Molitor, in which the latter is reported to have been beaten._ 'ate French General Koller has died of his wounds. The French heal-quarters were to remove on the sth instant to Miranda., It is affirmed that the Portuguese General, 114,0, has entered Spain with infant and 2,400 cavalry• 6,000. Itry, The French Funds ha}•e fallen; the Five per cents. closed on Wednesday at 87f. 44e• THE FL"NDS, S.4TURDAY. II ALV-PAsT Two oTtoca. The holiday of Ascension Day, being strictly kept in Paris, we have no quotations of the French Funds since WednesdAy—nor , . has any express reached town this morning. Out market opened with Consols 79—one flu ar. ter per cent. under the closing price of yestertia y— fell to 78g—but are now 78k. The Hebrew party have sold largely for money— to deliver next Tuesday. Report ascribes the con. version of Stuck into cash, as the preicainary of a still further conversion—into Oais,for the Fiencb ' army. 'Use efforts to bang down the Funds by this party, have been great, but the price.of Consuls has never been fairly under 78g, for more than half an hour throughout the day. F ua morr,—..Spanish Bonds , fro m 3G, may now be quoted at 3G.—The quantity of business in these securities is considerable —but entirely , for money. There is an evident desire to bang Spanish, as well as. Consuls —and hence, in the intervals of actual money bargains--liotitious sales are announced, with a view to run the market down. The first money buyer. fetches it up again ; and under this specicsof action, aud.re7action, the market is in a of constant iuctuation., Very unfavourable accounts were received on Fr:- dry from the South of Ireland—the insurgents are guilty nightly of the most criminal excesses. Out rages have been committed by the Whiteboys, even within a mile of the boundaries of Cork. Houses of the roost respectable and unoliending individuals have been attacked, their fields turned up, and their 1 cattle wantonly and cruelly mutilated. The code of Captain Rock is enfiirccd with the greatest bar barity, and the laws of the country aro violated in the most during and audacious moaner imaginable. - It is really, strange that, in such a state of things, factions exist even in the capital, and that an at tempt should have been uncle even to overawe the Government, by turbulent and insulting Clubbists. The Legislature could not be better employed than in endeavouring to tranquillize Ireland, otherwise we. tremble for the consequences that are likely to ensue from the present disjointed,. agitated, and angry stale of the country. Letters from Paris mention the arrival of intel luitennice Seville Ferdinand, illeol t and boniumit that m t their . first inati i t et a new nistr fr :tron by step on taking Ace would be to send a. regotiatcr to the head-quarters of the Duke d'Augouleine to treat for au accommodation. Nothing eau in. itself be more improbable than such an event : one set of 1 Ministers was in office. at the period referred to, who were to give place. to.auother us soon as the details of their a dministration tantlillre preparedsuid laid before the Cortes ; and in this state of disorga nization in the Cabinet a third party is named, said to be of moderate principles, who, without waiting for a revision of the labours of their predecessors, Ml as to determine.the policy on which they acted, are at, once to prostrate their country at the feet of .France. Yet, as improbable events do every day occur, and as the account. has been, circulated both here and in Paris from various quarters at .the ainne time, and on respectable authority, it.has gained so general a belief as. to induce large purchases of stock, and a rise in every species of Government 'security. This has been more rapid, perhaps, than n mere cenfidence in the truth of this statement would littie effused, owing to the speculations in the funds which have lately been entered into by the major pars of the• speculators with the expsettos tion of a fall. These. persons had, indeed, em barked so far, that their object could only have been attained by a Centinu.ci series of disastrous events, tending ultimately to involve this country iu the war between France anti Spain. It is not surpris ing, therefore, that any prospect of a sudden peace in that quarter, however slight the fitundatiun on which it rested, should - excite the greatest appre hensions in those persons, causing them to reverse their speculations, and to act in combination, with those whose operations have. been conducted in the expectation of a rise. There is, further, a great num ber Plirulivitluals under the influence of the mania fir stock jobbing. who, on occasions like the present, gild to the effect by pursuing the course of speculation that appears to be prevalent, without knowing any thing of its cause, or having formed any of its cause, or having formed..any calculation on the chances of success. These are *nil. which require to be un derstood, in order to quali'Y any judgment of pub lic events. or of the state of politics founded an the variations in the stock list. . The Council of State of the canton of Friburg, after-a debate of two days a lias suppressed the schools of raulual instruction throughout the whole coition. The votes for and against the system being . equal, the negative vote °Elbe President decided. It was in vain that the Council of Education bud given its opinion in favour of this method. It is thought that the great Council will be invoked in May ; it will have to discuss the plan which will be laid before it for a new system of education, the basis of. which is to be simultaneous instruction. Letters from Petersburgh, dated the 1 lth ult., state that an the precediog.day a Government offi cial notice was affixed on the Exchange, warning the merchants not to carry on any commercial trans actions with Spain. and Portugal, and particularly not to send any vessel thither. The same lettars mention a curious instance of disaffection to the Russian Autocrat among the peasantry of the go vernment of Witepsk, who, though recently re leased from bondage, ana actually vested with a right to the produce of their own labour, have had the ingratitude to answer this benefit by a refusal to pay their taxes. They have even gone so far us to insult. an imperial agent sent thither to remon strate with them, and have had the audacity to Ad dress a letter to the Empress Dowager, in which they accuse the Emperor himself of injustice ! it has been found necessary to despatch troops to the province to put down the rising disaffection. We may notice, by the way, that this appears to be the only authentic account yet received of any move.- mews of Russian troops. 'The establishment for warm baths at Cuxhaven was destroyed by fire on the mornin g of the Ist inst., and the proprietor, with his family, narrowly caned with their lives. • r • 1 • •