The National Register. — London, England, 1823-03-16 00:00:00

- snore than anything else to place such extreme pro fligacy in a very striking point of view. THE FUNDS, YESTERDAY. IHALF-PAST Two o'CLoct. We have one express from Paris this morning, but it brings no intelligence to affect our m irket— j Consols 73i. They continued steady at that price till two o'clock, when they went up to 74, and snore business has been done since that hour, than had been transacted during the early part of the day. It is said that 30 French officers of the Legion of Honour, who served under Buonaparte, and who were in this country, have left within these few days for Spain—in whose army they are to have respective commands. It is also said that some further contracts have been entered into by government for the navy. FOREIGN.—This being settling day in Foreign business, has been confined principally to winding up accounts. As very little is now done in Foreign, but for money, nothing has occurred beyond the ordinary mane of business. Bonds which have been done so low as 27i, and as high as 28k, are now 281. Sciip, on which there has been another payment made this day, has been at 381 —now 38 di,. New York papers to the 16th ult. have arrived, but supply no intelligence of importance. The new tariff bill is in progress through the legislature, and though it has led to stormy debates in the House of Representatives, appears likely at least to pass that house. The bill to regulate the commercial inter course between the United States and the British colonial ports was read in the Senate for the third time, and passed on the lith ult. Prince Paul of Wurtemberg had arrived at New Orleans, on an intended tour through the United States. A re port from the Secretary of the Treasury states the imports of the Union last year at 80 millions, and the exports at 74 millions; leaving a balance of trade against the United States of eight millions of dollars. Letters, dated the 28t1t . ult., have been received from Barcelona. The highest enthusiasm, it ap pears, was excited there by the speeches of Lord Liverpool and Mr. Canning on the opening of the session, which had been translated into Spanish, .and circulated among the inhabitants. They interpreted them not only into an approbation of the constitu tional cause, but into a promise of interference on their behalf, or support if attacked. The feeling that England was about to become the ally of Spain became so general, that the officers and men of the Army of the Faith were daily coming into Barcelona to claim the benefit of the amnesty published by the Cortes. EIRE IN THE EAST INDlFS.—lntelligence was received on Thursday by the Berwickshire East In diaman, which left Canton on the 13tli of November, of a most destructive fire in that city. It broke out on the night of the Ist, at the city wall, near the back of the European factories, and did not cease in its destructive career till it had levelled them with the ground, together with u space of nearly two miles square of the dwellings and manufactories of the Chinese. The number of houses destroyed is estimated at 13,700, according to the English account, but the Chinese make it amount to 16,000. Five hundred Chinese arc said to have lost their lives during the conflagration. A strung gale of wind which blew at the time assisted the fury of the element, and as the native would nut permit their houses to be pulled down, all the efforts of the Europeans to stop its progress were unavailing. The fire continued to burn till five o'clock en the morning of the 31. The seamen belonging to the Company's ships exerted themselves to save the fac tories, but could not prevent the destruction of the whole of the warehouses. It was equally impossible to save the greater part of the goods within them, and the loss to the Company has consequently been extremely great. The statements vary la to its ex tent, some describing it as 500,0001. and others as high as 1,000,0001. sterling. Woollens, raw si k, nau.keens, and 30,000 chests of green tea are the principal articles said to have been destroyed. The Company's treasure was saved, and had been sent on buard their own ►hips. The actual loss of British private property is said to have ken extremely small, except what may be bereafter sustained by the failure of the Hong or security merchants, to make good their engagements. These, us might be ; expected, were among the principal sufferers ; and three of them, whose names are Mouqua, Chinqua, and Puunthequa, are said to have sustained losses to the amount of 300,0001. sterling. By this fire, forty thousand of the Chinese are said to have been deprived of their habitations, which is probably be low the truth, in sa dense a population as that of Canton. It was estimated that the cost of restoring the buildings destroyed would exceed 13,000,000 of dollars; and that some years must elapse before Canton can recover its former situation. THE NATIONAL RESISTER 711 E DISTRESSED GREEKS. The following letter is from a family of Greek fugitives from Selo, and is one instance, anmng thousands, of the Turkish atrocities in that island. It iy for objects of this nature that the subscription instituted by the benevolent Society of Fsiends has been principally set on foot : " TstEsys, Dce. 26. • ss Dear Brother,—After having . visiting several of the lonian Islands, where nobody would receive us, we are at last at Trieste, where we have been about a month, thanks to the obliging care and compassion which we received from the captain of the ship in which we railed. After having escaped frOni the knife of the executioner, we find oursselves on the point of dying, for want, perhaps, of the means of existence. We have, alas ! no one to recommend ourselves to; and although we are unwilling to wound your feelings, knowing yOur sensibility, by informing you of our situation, wirticularly as you have been at the expense of the Gymnasse of Seto to prosecute your studies in France, and that you may find yourself in the same unfortunate situation with ourselves; yet we have recourse to your brotherly love, and beg you to join yourself co your unfortunate sister, and to try to send them mime relief. Out ef the numerous family of Germane*, our neighbours, the mother only has been saved, six of her chil dren are slaves—Alexandre; Marie, Angelique, George, Lucy, and Nicolas. Stephen is happily her* with his mother s he de sires tile to say, thas if you krsilw of any one woo will buy his brothers and sisters, he will fed himself bound to, repay the ansount. . " LOULA, ERENA, AND NICOLAS FOURMANAKY." Extract of a letter from Paris, dated March 8 :•••• " Lieutenant C— B—, of the British Hussars, residing in Paris, metro few weeks since at a gaming table with a young man named J—n —n, who, not lung ago, was kicked out of one of the hells at the west end of London, for tendering a forged 501. note in payment of his losses. Mr. B—, who is a man of fortune, indignant at the impudence of in thrusting himself forward as a gentleman, cautioned the company against him, and stated what he had beard of him in England. J--n, foiled in his en deavours to raise contributhms upon the credulous English : who frequent the gaming-tables in Paris, with difficulty smothered his resentment fur a time until he could break with effect against the person who had ruined his expectation of a brilliant har vest. A few days after this occurrence, Lieut. B— was adv:•.:d to be upon his guard against an Italian teacher named M—, who, it seems, had undertaken, upon condition of being lire d'enrliarrar (relieved from pecuniary embalrassment), to assassinate B— by stabbing him in the back as he should get into his cabriolet. B— arrested M— in the street, and conveyed him to the Prefecture of Police in the charge of tens-i'armes. The Italian confessed his crime, and avowed that J—s-n was his employer. The affair rested here for nearly a week, M— being placed under the surveillance of the police. Yester day Mr. Bergner was summoned before the Judge d'lnstruction to make fresh depositions, and it is expected the matter will be brought before the tri bunal. who has not yet been called upon, will of course persist in denying all participation in the intended crime, which not having Wen consum mated, will probably only expose M— to be sent out oldie country." Lisbon Papers to the Ist inst. have arrived. In an extraordinary sitting of the Cortes un the 27th ult. a communication was made trout the King, through the Portugese Minister, that a serious insurrection, headed by the Conde d'Antarante, had broken out in part of the province of Miuho. The avowed ob ject of this tulventurei, with his deluded followers, was to overthrow the Constitution, to which the in. habitants of Oporto atkd the rest of the country were perfectly devoted. General Luce do Rego having arrived, it was expected that an immediate end would be put to the insurrection, which it is supposed was excited by the Agents of France and the Holy Al liances supported by some intriguing and restless Ecclesiastics. Doves, MARC• 10.—Hie Majesty's steam-packet Arrow, the Sovereign steam.yaeht, and L' Henri Quaire French steam-packet, arrived this morning, bringing near two hundred passengers, principally opulent English families, who have been residing in Paris, and have now quitted in consequence of the unsettled state of affairs in France. Among the ar rivals are his Grace the Duke of Devonshire and the Marquis of Sligo. The Marquis freiglitss the So vereign for his family, consisting of upwards of Twelve or fourteen carriages have arrayed in the different vessels. Families arc expected by every vessel, as upwards of fifty have obtained their pass ports to quit Paris only within the last few days.— There has , been no arrival from Boulogne to-day, but many of the numerous English families who have been residing there fur some time are on the move. Two or three express boats from Calais have been in sight of this port, but have, in consequence of a strung adverse wind, been obliged to run to the westward, and will probably land at Folkestone. The two English vessels on shore near Calais are perfect wrecks. An English 300-ton ship is on shore at Boulogne. The French coast is completely covered with snow to a considerable depth. The weather on this side of the Channel has been very stormy, with sno . .v, which is last disappearing. 85 PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 11,—This morning orders were received here for the immediate equipment of the Queen Charlotte, 120 guns ; Rrtmilliev , 74 guns : and the Albion, 74 guns, the three guard ships. For a considerable time past these ships have had masts of inferior rates on board, without any sails; they are now to receive their proper masts, with bent sails, &c. and a complement of 300 men each ; their present number of men is little better than 100. Information was received at the Admiralty ots Friday morning of the death of Earl St. Vincent, G.C.8., in his 89th year, at his seat at Rochetts, neat Brentwood. Information was also received tat the same morning of the death of' Admiral Lord Keith, G.C.8., near Kincardine, North Britain. It has been erroneously asserted that M. Manuel, the expelled Member of the Chamber of Deputies, is the person who, during the trial 'of Louis XVI. was Procureur Syndic of the Commune of Paris, an loflice similar to that of Recorder in England. ' M.lO Procureur Manuel, however, was guillotined. The present Patriot of that name was a short time in the French army, but was afterwards called to the Bar, and exercised the profession of an. Advocate at Aix, in Provence. It watt there he became acquainted with the celebrated Fouche, during his banislinteat from Paris by Napoleon, in 814 and 1812. Duriug the hundred days M. Manuel *Ls a !tim ber of the Chamber of Deputies, and displayed much • eloquence; but was neither a friend to Napoleon I. nor to Napoleon 11. 'His object was tt • estublialt a Repubiia. After the King's restoration, he was exiled, and went to Brussels, where he resided a year. When he was permitted to return to France, he repeatedly but vainly solicited to be received as an Advocate at Paris. There are many who arc acquainted with the abominable trash that is sold in many little shops for tea, but may be ignorant of the immense extent. to which the system of adulteration of this now al. most necessary article of life is carried. A botanical correspondent informs us, that he examined a por- . tion of tea purchased at Brighton, which he found composed of a mixture of leaves, scarcely half a du.- • sett of which agreed in their botanical description ter those of the tea shrub. Extract from the agent at Smyrna, dated January . 15 :—The Flora and Lovely Anis 'have returned tiom Napoli di Romania, the Greeks not havitg permitted them to enter. The Faira, in attempting,' was fired upon from a Greek battery, and the mate killed. The garrison of Napoli di Romania has snce surrentlaeil to the Greeks by capitulation.— His Majesty's frigate was there at the tine, and Captain Hamilton was applied to%y the Greek. chief , to prevent the capitulation being broken by )tis troops, whom be was.fearful„ from their being ex asperated, would massacre all the 'furls, in number about 4,000. Capt. Hamilton succeeded in saving the whole, 500 of whom he brought here in ilia Camblian, and the remainder he catered to be em barked in Greek vessels, to be landed at Scalanuva, and its neighbourhood. The Turks were obliged to capitulate from want of provisions, about '2,000 had died in the garrison from let:nine." A letortrom Marseilles, dated Feb.'?,, at tees, that some Greeks, who had been driven out of Ras.. sia, had just arrived from Odessa, after an over-land journey of nine months. Several of their companions had died on the way. Their ititcntion was to em bark fur Leghorn, and thence to proceed to th:ir native country. Captain Sabine, who- accompanied Captain Parry as astronomer in his voyage to Melville Island, pro ceeds directly to Spitsbergen, for the purpose of making observations for determining the true figure of the earth, similar to those lie has already malts on the coast of Africa, the West Indies, slid America. The Griirr gun-brig is fitting out at Deptford for the conveyance of Captain Sabine. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 13.—Last night arrilleir the Samos transport, Lieutenant Church, R.N., scent, franc Darbadoes, which she kit on the 13th February. Commodore Owen's squadron hail been separated in a heavy gale of wind off Lisbon, in cons.quence of which the Forte. Sir Thos. Cochrane, Blltctte, Capt. Leith, Ed-n, Capt. Lawrence, and raloromi. Capt. Murray. arrived at Barbadoes before the Commodore. and immediately began refitting and watering, On the arrival attic Commodore, the above slaps, with the Serinam. Captnin Cro:e. and Icarus, Captain Watkins, on the West India station, were orderer' instantly to sea, with sealed orders, and at sunset they were nearly ought of sight. steering different courses. The Cain inoilatejn the Gloceater, with the Plioeton,.Captain Start, *sic relining in Carlisle Day, Barbadoes, and anxiously looking foe a cutter from England ; they were telegraphing every sairrhaa, hove in sight. The French squadron had sailed three days pr.or • from Martinique, consisting of a flush 61, with a round stern.. and nine other sail; destination unknown. Letters from Monte Video of the 29th of Nov.. announce the arrival of the Imperiahsquadrou from Rio de Janeiro, consisting of two frigates and a sloop of war, which are to convoy the troops across the Line, in order that they might not go' to Bahia. • Commodore Lobo had joined the Impsrial rq.tatlron.- The Spanish corvette La Cazelda was launched at Carthagena on the 16th ult. Nuts (when they become dry and the kernels shrivel led) may, by rooms/ hailing wader is, them, and le - •hig them reniaitr in it twehe hoot's, I,e made fresh, sad , t.te acruell full and firm as when first gartered. • •:. , .