The National Register. — London, England, 1815-09-24 00:00:00

THE NA' E‘tra , tof a 1,-to• Burn Paris, Sept. 18.—" The Chambers are to weer in eight dais. Already the heads are at work. Suniv wetend that the Throne does not belong to NV 111 that the Salic Law never existed in France as a vrittett law, and that consequently the Throne belongs to the (laughter or . Louis NVI. The Ministry are very much l i - arrned, aod in dread of a catastrophe. This I know from a vc•rson who saw Fou , he this morning. Rumour says that hi hr, to he King has been wavering between the parties—that if the Chambers declate themselves openly for the Connie:- lotion, he will entirely abandon the Ministry, and unite ‘...ith the Chambers to crush it. Fnucht.! dues not know what to do All his friends advise him to give in his resignation and to kave 'his place, more especially as a plan has been forwed by several persons to carry him off: The proofs of this WI to given him the day before yesteiday by a person whom 1 kni.w. I , seems to me that this political situation is jute' rsting and cut kits enough, and that a crisis or denoue ment may be expected in about three weeks from the present Clue." A Str o ppiente-nttn:u Gev.tte was published on Monday, con taining the official pattienlats of the surrender of Guada loupe; the pr.in ip ,1 article of the capitulation is, that the Cevf r nor, Admit al Count Linois, the second in command, (;meta' Royer, and all the troops of the line, shall be sent to France as pl is..nets f war, to be at the disposal of the Duke ef Thi: service was performed with very in • on:ellet alt/e kiss on the !rat of his Majesty's forces; the ship neat to the shot e, that the troops were enabled to land under their cover, without loss; and in the attack only 16 men wet e kil!ed, and Captain Lynch, 63d foot, severely, 1 ient. Reickard:, 96th foot, slight!v, and 47 men, wounded. emir , 1' i'ti about 200 killed and wounded, but no offi cer of di:tinction wa: among the number. A Bta:til mail brings advises from the River Plate to the f June, and Gout Rio Janeiro to the 19th July. The ..111S1 l.ad subsided of the approach of the Spanish arma nxitt, at din consequence trade was reviving, and confidence in the continuance 01 tranquility was so far restated, that the eectils which had been prepared for shipment were now sent t 1., interior for sale, and in considerable quantities, by British met chants. Under this favourable change, debts were reduced, a great number of vessels were in the river, and among them 27 English ships. Extract of a Ittter from George Foy, Esq. his Majesty's Cifitsul at Stockholm, dated the Ist instant:—" This Go % L.tinneet has just come to the decision to allow the ex po," of timtier and deals at the same duties by foreign as by Swci:sh :hips, so that the trade in those articles is on the awe f oting as during the years 1%307 to 1814." '72he Duke of Orleans set off on Thursday for Paris. The fojow log seven ships arrived on Monday front St. IleLena ; s tiled from thence the 29th Jnly; spoke a Spanish frigate and a French merchantman, who informed them of the fate otßuonapaite ; viz. Coldstream and Larkins, from Bengal; Ann, ft out Bencnolen ; Lady Castleteigh, from Machas and penal; Surrey, Cambridge, and Isaac Todd, flout China and Botany Bay. No ships at St. lieletta. American agents are actively employed in endeavouring to indoce the seamen raid oft at the out-ports, to enter into the naval service of the United States, with the temptation of a free pas.“ige and dontde pay. number of fine young men, the Hower of Plymouth-y:11d, who volunteered their services to British North America, have emigrated to the enemy; in consequence, although more artisans are wanted, none are permitted to go theme who will not previoukly givC 4001. se cutity.to return to Lngknd. ~~ - ,if A 4 a ITER. .= SEPT. 24. 1 -~J[ A letter from Rio de Janeiro, dated the 24th of July, states that all French ships in the ports of the Brazils have been put under embargo ; and that a Decree of Govern ment had been passed to confiscate all French property, and to declare every Frenchman residing in the country a prisoner of war. This measure has been taken, it seems, in consequence of certain information having been com municated to that Government, that a number of French emissaries from the party of Bonaparte had lately arrived in that country, under mercantile pretensions. American p pens to the 13th ult. were received on Tues day. The battle of Waterloo, the abdication of Buonaparte, and the capture of Paris, wine all known in America. Many of the papers seem sullen. and will not offer a single comment upon these events: one. indeed, is loud in praise of Buonaparte, whom it compares to Epaminondas and Re gulus. Mr. Bayard. one of the Commissioners that treated for *peace at Ghent, is dead : he was a gentleman of excel lent abilities, as pure in his public, as virtuous in his private character. ----- - The Earl of Moira, it is reported at the India House, will immediately be recalled from the Chief Government of the East, and be succeeded there by Lord Viscount Melville; this will give an opening to the long-intended re-introduction of Mr. Canning to a seat in the Cabinet, as First Lord of the Admiralty. TUE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—The appellation of the Saviour of Europe has mole than once been applied to our illustrious hero from the highest authorities ; our readers will not be displeased to learn, perhaps, that an humble in dividual, and that individual an honest British 'far, has like wise a claim to a share in this dignified title. In the year 1806. the Duke of Wellington (then Sir Arthur Wellesley> after totally routing the Indian Chief, Holkar, on the plains of Laswaree, took his passage for England on board the Com pany's ship Lady Jane Dundas. When the anchor was dropped at St. Helena, two boats put off from the ship, as usual, crowded with passengers desirous of viewing the island. The bolt which conveyed the illustrious Wellington, when about an hundred yards from the shore, was upset by one of those sudden squalls blowing from the values, which are quite "constuon at St. Helena. Two men and a boy were instantly drowned; the rest, among whom was our hero, kept struggling with the waves. The moment the accident happened, the boat in companr made towards the scene of distress; Sir Arthur Wel lesley, unable to swim, had been once or twice under water, a seaman immediately leaped into the sea and swam towards the sinking hero, whom he bore in triumph to the shore on his left arm and shoulder. The generous tar was totally ignorant at this time of the rank of the person whom he thus saved, but merely selected him from the rest of the sufferers. because he thought his danger the most imminent: the others, with the exception of the two men and the boy above mentioned, were picked up by the other boat. On landing his exhausted charge, Jack was rewarded by a cor dial shake of the hand from the illustrious hero, six bottles of rum, and a warm invitation to come and see him in Eng land—a visit which the honest tar was too modest and un assuming to pay. The Duke's deliverer has now retired from a seafaring life, anti is settled in Rotherhithe. His II lends banter him with the appellation of " the Saviour of Europe," which he takes in good part, but he never boasts of his atthievemcnt : indeed it is very rarely that he can be induced to tell his own story; and when it is wrung from him, it is adorned with all the graces of truth and modesty. In this respect he is Corporal Trim himself. 7 ,ord of of the I to our readers nble in- 'as like- he year Alesley> e plains e Com- tor was ;hip, as tig the lington, limit by , which and a whom The )mpanr r Wel- , under d swain to the tar was 3 whom t of the ninent: the boy it. On y a cor- bottles is Eng- and un- retircd le. His viour of , r boasts can be ng from wiesty. '6lg