The National Register. — London, England, 1820-11-27 00:00:00

r . I 0111:1011. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27• FRICK OF STOCKS. Bank Stock I (Minium 11. 3 per Gent. Red. 4131 Imp. 3 per Cent. 3 per Coat. Consols btit India 130111/11 14. 34 per Cent. 724 India Stuck ISA 4 per Ceut. 844 Exchequer Kills Sc. du. lb per Ceut. Navy 1064 Coos. for Ar. at 4 Loug Anu. 174 Lottery Tickets £23 180. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. By our Parliamentary report, it will be seen that the two Houses were prorogued on Thursday last, and ism they were prorogued—we have been uni formly admirers of consistency, and however rare an occurrence it may be in the present instance, we applaud ministers.—[" And the Lord commended the unjust Steward, because he had acted wisely, for the children of this world are in their genera tion wiser than the children of light."]—they had acted in a way that caused them to fear meeting the representatives of u people, justly enraged at their recent conduct, and they therefore determined to prorogue Parliament—to put off at least, the day of bitter reproach. A'dissolution is expected forth with, and what can ministers promise themselves from such a measure—can they suppose that the event of an election at the present moment, can by any possibility, be auspicious to them. Can. they anticipate returns to the writs more favourable to the views of oppression than those that were last made, when the public execrations had not been drawn towards them by their intismous, unmanly, disgraceful, and defeated persecution of the Queen. Or, is a partial change of ministers contemplated.— Is it proposed to invert the advice of Hamlet to his mother to " throw away the worser halt;" and is it meant after having cobbled tip an administration, on which only Fouls and Rogues can rely, to appeal to the voice of the electors, under the belief that they may be once more cajoled. If such be the in tention, to those electors, would we speak in the stentorian tone of awful prophecy--we would as sure them that politically—" Now is the appointed time, now is the day of Salvation" and that if they embrace it not,despotism, or revolution, slavery, or licentiousness, must and will be the unquestioned lot of their posterity. Ministers- have placed them selves in such a dilemma, that resignation itself cannot shield them from. punishment, unless they can prevail upon their successors to hold the £gis of power between ministers and their offences. On the conduct of the Speaker of the House of Commons we make no comment While the present Lords Sidmouth and Colchester held that situation their impartiality was laudably conspicuous; they seemed nut to belong to any party—how far the present Speaker (who is the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury) may deserve the same praise, we leave it to our Readers to determine, after toying perused our account of the proceedings in the House of Commons yesterday. The French papers of Tuesday arrived yesterday. —The Colutilettiomnel contains a letter from Lisbon of the 7th inst., which, particularly in con sequence of the accounts, five days later, brought this day by the Lisbon mail, deserves attention.— After stating that the Portuguese did not need the example of Spain to effect the recent revolution, inasmuch as every one desired it : the writer ob serves, that the present situation of the country requires all the attention of those entrusted with the conduct of its afiliirs. Every one expects he adds, that the King of Portugal will protest rgainst all that has been done. On the other hand, notwith standing the acts of the Provisional Government fir maintaining the old regulations in favour of English commerce, the late occurrences must be sooner or later prejudicial to English manufacturers. Situated as Spain is, between Gibraltar and Portugal, while the latter was exclusively an English market, it was impussitle to prevent a contraband trade in English goods both in Spa:n t.ud tv the Smith THE NATIONAL REGISTER' In conclusion, however, this letter says, " whatever may happen, Portugal will stick to what has been done.' • A letter from Messina, dated the 2 Ist of October, says that tranquillity is perceptibly re-establishing in the interior of Sicily. On the 2d of November Borelli was elected Pre sident of the Neapolitan Parliament, Rugg;ero Vice President, and Dragonetti Secretary.—The Deputy, Mazzoni, made a motion for the suppression of the religious orders : that their property should be divided into small parts, and the produce applied to objects of public utility. A report was read from the Minister of the Interior, for abolishing feudal rights in Sicily, and sent to a connu4tee. During the late troubles in Palertno, a magazine of gunpowder blew np, and 49 persons were killed in consequence, The Neapolitan journals are filled with offers of the people, both of money and services in support of the national independence. We have heard much of tire insidious labours of the Dissenters, to draw away the flocks from their legal pastors ; but never, in our days lift we ever witness so deliberate a procedure carried on, to drive every conscientious individual away from his parish Church, as the measure which was countenanoed by the Reverend Bench of Bishops to punish an Illus trious Individual, without even the form of a trial, by excluding her name from the Liturgy. Talk, ndeed, of the assaults of " the Mellwdists," as cer tain men choose to designate all who differ from them on any point—talk of the assault` made by such men " to overturn the venerable fabric of the Church of England,"—what are they compared with the new torpedo which has been introduced by these " Sons of Wisdom ?" Was it ever known since the Church of England was established by law, that Prayers were ordered by authority, of such a nature as to make whole congregations si multaneously, aini by one impular., quit the Church, and leave the Parson and .the Clerk to finish the Service alone? If " no alteration whatever can be made in the Public Service," the building of the new Churches may be suspended without farther loss of time, and, crc long, even the old ones will become untenanted. We received a Lisbon mail this morning contain ing most important intelligence, dated Lisbon, Nov. 12. It is unfortunately of that' imperfect nature which is just calculated to create anxiety without at all satisfying it. According to instruction given, the deputies were to meet at Lisbon in the palace of the Nceessidados, on the 6th of January, lege: the number is about 100, and they w-.e to receive a moi dare per diem. The sTheine is formed on the Spanish model, with some modification. The proclamation that accompanied the instructions is considered as an eloquent production, and is supposed to have been drawn up by Francisco de Kan Louis. late professor at the Univessity of Coimbra, and now one of the members of the Provisional Junta of the Supreme Government of the Kingdom. L i mos, Nov. 14.—A very unlooked for circumstance has occurred, which will render the above instructions nugatory.— An attempt has been made by General Texcir.s, Colonel Anto. da Silva, and Col. Cabreirm to turn out six of the member.; of the Provisional junta, at the point of the bayonet. All the tr oo p s were called out under pretext of a review; they were potted in different parts of the city, ball cartridges were dis.. tribute] among tlitni , and a number of pieces of artillery. stationed in co mmanding positions, were loaded publicly, and the matches kept lighted. The scheme failed in part, Mr none of the Aleinbers of the Junta were turned out, but the Spanish Constitution was a dopted and sworn to. Lisbon was thrown into a state of the greateit eons.rnation, but no eacesset were coin. A singular question has arisen at Stockholm. A writer, who bus been brought to trial tiif a libel, exercised the right which the law allowed of nomi nating four of his Jurors. In the number he no minated Prince Oscar. The Tribunal made a report to the King on the subject ; and his Majesty decided shut his son, being called by the Coustitutimi to ti/1 divers political 'Unctions, :mid not be subject to the• liability of acting as a juror. [he King also held, that it would be dangerous to public liberty if Princes were allowed to form part of a Jury. The libel was a violent attack on the Russian Gwent ment in Finland. By letters from India, brought by the General Palmer from NI adrus, we learn that some disturbance has broken out in Kutch, which, though of little moment, may eventually lead die Supreme Govern ment to establish a psition o • the Indui, to keep the S:indiatis in order, and to be a watch on the Russian: and Persians ; though any attack from that varier toast be fital to the invader. 381 LINES, TO TILE DOKE 0? WiIILLINOTOW. And is it come to this? Must WELLESLEY'S name Pass from its pomp a by•wonl and a :Amine Must the mere Courtier blot from glory's page The Warrior's deeds, the wonder of their age? Was it for this you ran your rapid race, To sink at List into Livi:nooot.'s ilimrace? Was it for this your Ducal banners rose, To share your equal laurels with MOITROSe ? With NEWCASTLE to prove your wisdom's zeal ? With modest BUC►INOHAIF to think and feel? And (0 ! consummate bliss to human pride! ) To sit, and vote with CLARENCE by your side ? flow shall the voice of History justly tell What heights you mounted, or what depths you fell? How here Vittoria's deathless deeds declare? How execrate the Qur•:r:N's Oppressor there? liow here the fame of Waterloo relate ? There mark MaJoce i's mean Confederate? How reconcile the contrast you display— The Hero to the Minion of the day ? Oh I if there yet remains some generous part— Some feeling yet undeaden'd in yottr heart. Leave to the base, the dastard, and the bad, What meet rewards from Tyrants may belied: Leave such to credit all the varying Iles, Which KsraorEs can weave, or ROYALT r devise ;• But b it thine, retied from war's alarms. No-snot? to stain the triumph of your arms— No more to dwindle from your high career,' By quenching Glory's blaze in Woman's tear. Let contrite blushes yet your fame redeem, Nor t,tand of Britain s cam the branded theme. • See Mr. DENMAN'S castigation of a Royal Duke. We perceive the signature of his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence to each of four Protests which appear on the Journals of the Lords against the withdrawing the Bill of Pains and Penalties—" Let him wha is without sin cast the first stone." Does this profligate Duke suppose that the nation has fbrgotten his debaucheries with Mrs. Jordan, or that they ever will thrget them, while the impure pro duce of that disgraceful connection, the Majors, the Captains, and the Misses Fitzclarence, are quartered on the hard-earned gains of a suffering and oppressed people; or does his Royal Highness suppose that the people of England can forget that, after having received her weekly salary ut the treasury of a. Theatre, he allowed her to breath her last Deserted in her utmost need By those her former bounty fed," in a state of superlative penury and distress; in fact; so entirely bereaved of all, as to be at last consigned to the grave by foreign charity, in little better that) an old tea-chest for a coffin. The Royal Duke forces upon us this revival of his disgrace. COURT Or KING'S BIGNCR,SATUTIDAT, N0v.25. - A rule was granted to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against the Earl of Westmeath, for provoking Mr. Wood, a trustee fur Lady Westmeath, to fight a duel. The report which obtained very general circula tion early in the week, that the Bank Directors had determined to reduce their rate of discount front five to four per cent , is, we understand, without font).- dation. It is said that his present Majesty, while Prince of Wales, used to speak of a wurihy member of hie• family, (and they are so scarce that any one may know who we mean) as " Sillyßilly,"—he might with greater propriety speak of another, of protest ing notoriety, as " Wicked Billy." From an account just printed, by order of the House of Commons, in " a Supplementary Report. of the Committee of the General Assembly," as to the management of the poor in Scotland, it appears that the gross funds applied to paupers in Scotland, amount to 114,1951. 17s. 9d., of which 39,7181. 10s. sd. arc derived from as:essment, the rest being from contributions ut the church doors ; and other • funds. In seven out of fifteen Synods there are no assessments. The non-assessed Synods are Aber deen, Murray, Ross, Sutherland and Caithness, Argyll, Gleneig, and Orkney. Thu paupers are as one to 39 and nine-tenths to the population. The revolutionary chiefs who are taken in arms in the expedition against Naples, ate to be tried and • treated as traitors to their Sovereign. A motifesto is preparing for publication. An A Igerine squadron of two frigates, a galley and an armed jiolacre, has appeared at Tangiers with nine merchant vessels ; among which was a Sranis't trader, and a considerable number of European slaves. A letter from Genoa announce, tliiit a Congre% is to be held at Florence•, will meet from all the Towers ofly._ A requisition is in pr0 ; .;r....7, signed by u number of respectable inhabitants of the parish of St Anne, Soho, to the Cht.rchwardens, to cull a meeting to congratulato the Queen on her recent triumph. (lit Monday, Mr. Birnie, the tnagi:arate of Pow.. weer, received a letter from the Duke of E..?.f.ird ch.:ul; up.m biy banker tot 10'n. to be appropriated to the sufferer:: in the late eaLiabitous tire in Drury-lane. Mr. Canning arrived in town on Satunlay from Paris, and on &nutty went to Coumb,:-wand, the • •-e at of the Earl of Liverpool. We shall not be stir.- prised to hear of the resignation of both imtnediatOy, particularly if it is the intention to iivtitute any farther prccceaing agait:s: ?L'i - .