The National Register. — London, England, 1816-01-07 00:00:00

THE NAATIONAL REMSTER. lAN. 7. a thereond it is to England alone that the whole world must look for truth and justice. The message of the President Madison, to the Congress on the sth ult, is arrived at Washington. He congratulates the Congress on the happy termination which had been put to all the wars in which the United States had been engaged, particularly in that with the Barbary powers. He men tions the amicable and commercial relations established with Great Britain, and the happy effects of a continuance of such connections. The National Debt he estimates at 120 millions of dollars, which he describes as small, in compa rison to the resources of the nation, and he concludes with congratulating the Congress on the flourishing condition of the States. Madame Lavalette not only remains in the Conciergerie, but she is in close confinement. A letter from Paris says, " She is not permitted to see any one, nor even to have her femme de chambre about her ; and she is only known to be in existence by the permission given to her cook to send her her dinner throngh the gaolor. If her confinement continue much longer, in the state of health she is in, it is probable she must sink undei it, and thus fall a victim to conjugal de_ votion. _ "Her daughter afforded a great proof of sensibility and pre sence of mind, in that agonizing moment when the last gate of the prison was being opened to her father. She remarked that one of the turnkeys looked at them rather steadfastly ; upon which she said in a low tone, but loud enough to be heard, Mamma do not weep so ; we shall see papa again to morrow, for he told you so. Among the numeroes visits made by the Police in search of Lavallette, one is said to have been to the hotel inhabited by Lord Combermere. The attempt to escape is always productive of severity to prisoners, and is, therefore, never to be commended. We hold it better, as it is nobler, to die even in a good cause than give occasion to the hardening of the hearts of gaolers from necessity. The military Orders which the King of France is going to con fer upon the British army, it is said, will be numerous, and are to be distributed amongst those officers who were at the battle of Waterloo, and who held military situations in Paris, as under, viz.—General Officers of Divisions and Brigades; Staff of the Adjutant-General's Department, of the Rank of I. ield Officers; Staff of the Quarter.Master-General's Department, of the Rank of Field Officers; Field Officers who commanded Brigades and Regiments ; Commandants of Arrondissements of Paris ; Staff of the Army of the Rank of Field Officers, &c. Sze. A few days ago there was brought before a Commissary of Po lice at Paris, a man of the lower orders, accused of having uttered seditious language. A woman, who deposed against hint, re lated that he said, " I love neither the Hog nor the Sheep ; I love only the Lamb." " Very well," said the Commissary, .• I see nothing reprehensible in this; every one has his taste."— '' What!" replied the woman, " are you then ignorant that among the lower orders the Hog (Coe4on) means the King , the Sheep (Mouton) the Duke of Berry, and the Lamb the king of Rome ?"—A fter this explanation, it is said, the man was committed. There was distributed on the 29th ult. to the Members of the clamber of Deputies, a Reclamation of the Sovereign Order of St. John of Jerusalem, demanding back the poi Liu n o f its pro perty in France yet unsold. A circumstance is mentionedin the French Papers, which will serve to exercise the ingenuity of political enquirers. It is said, that both Russia and Prussia have declined to send Commission.. ers to St. Helena ; but not a hint is given which could lead us to a discovery of the cause. It is said, that a new Minister is to be sent out to the Court of Dresden ; and that Fouche has been forbidden to enter France under the most severe penalties. A German house, (Roschild and Co.) it is said, has under taken to pay the contributions for the French, and ofler to pay 50 millions immediately, the rest in a stated time; France to repay the sums so advanced in 10 or 12 years with interest. This same house, it is added, had also taken upon it to pay the En s , iglish subsides to the Allied Powers, for one per cent profit. The Princess of Wales, according to the French Papers, Is, arrived at Palermo from Genoa. The Paris papers contain a paragraph, which confirms the. account of the condemnation of the Spanish Patriots by an arbitrary decision of their Soveteign. The Liberalts jug condemned by Ferdinand, as Grand Jude, have been in prison one year and a half ; which time is not de ducted from the periods for which they arc condemned. Extract of a letter, dated Madrid, December 4:—" whist the King was lately at the royal retreat of Aranjuez, walking in one of the garden , , a shut was fired in the direction of his royal person, of which a Bard-dweorps, who stood near, was the victim. In consequence of this event, a variety of persons have been arrested." According to a letter from Madrid, the marriage of Ferdinand VII, is no longer an object of speculation ; the Princess is ex pected at Cadiz; and the Royal Guards, destined to serve as an escort, have already set out for that city. The king is 32 years old, and the Princess he is about to marry, is in her W,d year. She is the oldest of five daughters of the Prince Regent, and it called Maria Theresa. It is already rumoured at Madrid, that a second Princess, who is in ber 19th year, and who is named Maria Isabella, is to marry another Prince of the august House of Bourbon, (the Duke de Berri). The last news from Rome concur with this report. The choice also which the King of France has made of one of the greatest Lords of his Court—the Doke of Luxemburg)), as Ambassador to the Court of the Bra zils, gives the highest probability to the rumours circulated in the Spanish capital. A letter from Naples, dated Dec. 5, says,—A scene ensued last week at Pizzo, in Calabria, which would disgrace the most uncivilized hordes of savages. The inhabitants of Pizzo, the place where Murat was tried and shot, determined to dig again from the grave the mutilated remains of their former King, for the purpose of burning them.—The Syndic of the town expos tulated with them : exasperated at even an attempt to dissuade them, they murdered the unforunate Syndic, and dragging the body of Murat from the grave, they committed it to the flame* with that of the ill-fated Syndic.—The present Court treats Englishmen with less attention than ever ; and the disgust: excited by the treatment received by Lord Beutinck, has caused many families to winter in Rome and Florence, who intended to come bete. An article in the Hamburgh Papers repeats the opinion, that the Prince of Portugal does not intend to return from the Brazils to Europe. Extract of a letter from an Officer on board the United, States brig Enterprize :—" We remained at Malaga about two, days, - and then returned to Gibraltar ; here we were joined by all: Commodore Decatur's sqadron, excepting his own ship. Our . fleet now consisted of the Independence, Macedonian, United States, Constellation, Congress, Ontario, Erie, Enterprise, Chippewa, Saranac, Boxer, Firefly, Flambeau, Torch, Spark, and Lynx. It was a proud sight for an American to see in a British port, just at the close of a war with her, which the En glish thought would have been the destruction of our navy at the commencement.—At Malaga the Governor waited on Commodore Bainbridge on board his ship, an honour which he never deigned to pay any Admiral before. On our arrival at Gibraltar, the Commodore fired a salute of seventeen guns, whi.b was retained with fificca Commodore Bainbridge .~ .. II