The National Register. — London, England, 1821-10-15 00:00:00

►...._: • : ►~ * 303 FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, OCT. 7.—A letter from Barcelona of the 22d September states, that the contagion immensity but heavy rains had Etifen during the three rag days, which had purified the atmosphere ,so as to give hopes that the violence of the fever would be abated. The fauxbourg of Bareelonetta has been entirely evacuated, and ihesick•have been removed' to a. convent situated on one of the hills adjoining the town. It was said that the Municipality had.; quitted the town, but this letter affirms that they • are still at their post. The cordon of• troops at the extremity of the plain • has been brought close to the walls and gates of Barcelona. This measure will be attended with a double advantage—it will prevent the departure of any persons from the town, and keep in check those who are disposed to plunder their fellow-citizens. The lust courier from Catalonia brings no bad accounts of the state of health in the country be tween Barcelona and our frontiers. The sanatory cordon formed on our mountains is very vigilant; a' smuggler who attempted to pass the line was shot, and died on the spot. His corpse was immediately Luna with his clothes and every thine, on his per-• son. This example is to be lamented, bat unfortn »ate?), it is become absolutely necessary.. Lvery prec►ution is taken, anti the measures so well exe cuted, that it is scarcely possible the contagion should extend beyond our frontiers. Six ships, having on hoard a great number of Frenchmen who had embarked at Barcelona for ]Marseilles, did not wish to perform qoarantine at • Pomegne, because at the time they hail arrived there the yellow fever was at the Lazaretto. These ships, however, requested Love to disembark at tollioure, but the authorities would not grant it, permitting them, however, to do quarantine at a little distance ; from that place. A great number of Spanish smugglers have made an attempt to force the cordon established near Fort • Bellegarde, and were reptilsed with the loss of three or fbur men ; the lashes were burnt, as also the goods which they left behind them. A letter from Ax, dated the 28th ult. states, that some Spaniards were about to enter France 1•y the valley of Andorre, on which the inhabitants ruse en masse, and vigorously resisted their intention. The Prefect of L'A rriege, at their request, has melt some troops to that place to strengthen the cordon. An individual, who had made his way into France across the mountains, has been taken anti conducted to the Lazaretto. GREECR.—England is certainly the country of Europe which has for many years maintained the-1 must intimate and most extensive intercourse with' Greece. Independently of commercial relations, enthusiasm and curiosity have induced a multitude of British subjects to visit Greece, the fertile regions of historical and classical recollections. Those who travelled with effect have brought back with them the result of their researches, and presented them to the world in must valuable works. In no country is modern Greece better known than in England, and it is well known the high estimation in which an cient Greek literature is held. How can any one be indifferent to the cause of Grecian liberty, in a count!) , which reso•urds with the sublime and fiesci noting lays of Lord Byron, that ardent and noble advocate for the regeneration of a country which he has traversed as a philosopher as well as a poet ? How can ally one behold the sufferings of Hellas With apathy that can read in the original the melan choly descriptions of Chible ilarolice or his fervid allocutions ? " They are unworthy of the name of Greek," exclaims that yetitlitUl poet, " who talk of fighting, and at the same time submit to the peace of bondage, and &to, satisfied with deploring in si lence the loss of liberty, present themselves before their tyrants, with a smile upon their countenance, and, instead of the sword ut• vengeance, arm their servile hands only with the implements of drudgery. The tomb of the Athenian," the noble poet observes (in speaking of Thenlisoiel,..s), ‘• glilnmers upon the rock,--the mariner making for the harbour in his bark, salutes it,—it reigns over the country which the illustrious citizen tiamerly sired. When will such another here exist?" Who in nightiel is ig norant of that prosopop in of the poet who compares Greece to the body of a beautiful female n•hom death hash stricken without decomposing it. " What coast is this," he say: in addressing the Grt.•cks-- "is it nut the gulf, the owl: of Salamina? You know the history of these noble places—cause them to he revereil,—rise,--dig up the ashes of your an c:aatira, seek among them sparks of the sacred fire which inflamed thou. 't hose who fell in the glo- ~~ riot's Mruggle will join to their names a new name which tyranny can never hear without trembling. They will inspire their children with exalted ideas, and they will transmit to posterity that heaven-born pride which prefers death to dishonour." Lord i_ , . Byron s intelligent fellow-traveller, Mr. l - lobhouse, • Las published his tray. Is in Greece, a work distill taished for the accuracy and clearness with which •--~- _. _ P. , , I ' W F. 1. • 4;..:542tte- ~~ ' 'WET'S GAZE: FROM TUEVAII :MEM BE n returned to serve in this present PARLIAMENT. Borough of FOrAftesbury.-11. Leycester,jun. Esq. in the room of the Roo. E. liarbonL now a Parr of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. BANKRUPTS. • • P. Domain, Belmont Place, 'Vauxhall, plasterer. Solicitors, Messrs. Denton and Co. Gray's Inn Square. J. Bursey, jun. Goodge Street, Tottenham Court Road, book seller. Sol. :Mr. Warrand. Mark Lane. W. Lound, Toole) , Sueet, linen draper. Sol. Mr. Dobson, Chancery Lane. DIVIDF.NDS. Oct. 30, R. Ginning, Braid Street Blinding*. merchant—SO, .1. Bevans, City Road, timber merchants-10, It. Neville, Col chester, linen draper-30. J. Young, Ware, Herta, sack maker —4, T. D.Laihani and J. Parry, Devonshire Squaw. merchants —3O, J. M. de Quiros, Size Lane, merchant—us. T. Stammers, Sudbury, huliitlk, and J. Stammers, Foxearth, Essex, merchants —3O, K. Taylor, Sandal Magna, Yorkshire, corn dealer-31, W. R. Mott, Brighton, wine merchant—Nov. 6, T. Emery, 'Worcester, wine merchant-1, B. Turner, West Bromwich, Stafibrdshire, bayonet maker-6, W. hens, Flecknoc, %Yarwick shire, grazier-.6, M. hens, Upper Shuckburgh, Warwickshire. grazier-6, It. hens, Bydeld. Northamptonshire, tanner-7, .1 Anthony, Cley next the Sea, Norfolk, gr..cer-3, I. and It. Car ney, Bast India Chambers, merchants--3, W. Cooper, Fleet Market, linen draper-3, it. Portlock, Andover, coachinaker 3. S. Parsons, tjanover Street, Long Acre, coach plater 3. T. Sampson, Lynn. Norfolk,scoachinaker-3, T. Woodcock, Nor wich, coaclunaker-3, W. %Vuodstock, Preston, Lancashire, timber merchant .3, W. Ow ant, Manchester ' cotton nianutae turer-5, T. Olivsitt, Manchester, sileeismith-3. J. !Uric:, Canterbury, linen draper—Dec. 5, it. Bulpin, Bridgewater, Somerset, draper. CER'FIFICATES to be granted Oct. 30. .1. Cieugli, Leadenhall Street, wholesale linen' draper—W. Wilkinson, Whaley, Lancashire, wine merchant-41. Mohawk, Upton Tyne, Devonshire, miller—E. Bushell, sen. Bath, cabinet maker TIMBER TRADE. Copy of a Treasury Letter, relating to the im portation of wotxl front British American 'colonies : Treat/try Chambers, Stpl. 15, 11121. (.ENTLEMI:I4.—ft hiving been represented to the Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, that the Officers of the Customs in the &nisi NorthlAmerican colonies have de clined granting certificates, as required by section It and 11 of the Act of the Ist and 2d Geo. IV., chap. 37, on the ground of their not having received any inst. uctions on this subject, I have it in command from their Loniships to desire that the necessary directions on this subject may be forthwith transnutted to the stud officers by you; and as it appears that in consequence of the refusal of the officer) of your department to grant certificates, beVe. al vessels have lately arrived in this country from the British North American Colonies without these documents, and that they have, in conrequeuee thereof', not b....en admitted. to entry, I have hardier to desire you will direct your officers to dispense with the production of such certificates, in all cases of vessels arriving from such colonies previous to the Ist day of December next. (Signed) • ARBUTHNOT. To the Commissioners of Customs. .IVole—The certificate required by the above mentioned act was, that the wood or timber imporwd was really and &ono Ark the growth or production of souse (specified) British colony or plantation in America. NEW SOUTII WALES. ( Extracts front the Sydney Gazettes to March last.) We are enabled to elate, with much satin:weans. neat his F:xcellency the Governor returned ou Monday la-t to Pena tombs fresee his late tour through the country, Neely di.- (livered to the west of the Cow•pastures, io good lie..lth and el • • , after no excursion of shire seeks, dune% which Suit we arc led to undeistand that his Excellency travelled over great ranges of fine country, which promise to he an acqui sition of treat importance to this colony. The Honourable the Cu *iisioner of Enquiry, accom panied by his Secretary. Thomas Hobbes Scott, Esq. Ye turned on Monday last, front his visit to Bathurst and the surrounding country On Thum hay lust, the 9th instant, a large party of ladies and gentlemen were entertained us Pond Piper; his Honour Erskine, the II the Commis sioner of Enquiry, the Honourable the dodges, and many stranger , ; amongst a hum were Commodore. Billinghausen, of the Rosanne discovery ships, and as many of the Russian erlimers us could be smiled from duty. Although the day proved stormy, with rain, yet the coin pany escaped the *rather favourably, by the Prince Regent schooner assisting in conveying the party dual) Alid up the harbour t site baud of the 431 h regiment relaying delightfully from that beautiful residence now called Point Piper, which iris Eacelleucy the Governor bad been pleased to name it in the very handsome grain gives, It. tile proprietor. LIC.CIOIIILM 9U, HOWL—Yesterday afternoon his Exerl tha Governor was pleased to mark out the site of a new t us ship. The situation fixed on appear• to be happily elk osen, bring on a gristly a isiog ground, and in every way cosier nit of to the inhabiluois, and central both to the district its elf toed to the attjoining districts of Appiu and Lipper and bitter Nihon). His excellency also fixed the sites fur a chapel and school-house, and allowed a suitable portion of gro 1111 l I for a burial-place. His excellency having conipleted there arrangements for our future conveuieeere and c - fur t, gave the intended township the na c re of " Campbell Too ii." His excelleney wits attended 011 I his occasion by thc. Rev. Air Cai twriglit, the Rev. Mr. Weida'', and the magistrate , of Liverpool and Airds, and the principal in habitants of tine latter district; all of *hu n t tel and ex pressed great :or isfaction at the prospect of a Wail rising Newell te ie p;, with the comforts and advantages of a suitable plate ut warship, and of relocation. It most he ex treinei; !Valli-Pug to the friends of Chris tianity to learn, that the s;,!indosoul sto u t nta new ring ) " (Wesleyan) ads laid on TlinslotitY last, at Parainalta, by the Rev. Nli. Lawry. It will bt: something larger than limn the chapel we have in PrillCC•s:reet, Sioluey, which was built by Mr. James Scott; and is 4:14:" (1,-,1 to be e""s" pleted in nine tits. The site, chosen for this little place of 'bonne a oiship, is considered one r. the most eligible situations in Pdrillatirt, heir,; in Ma c.Tealre see-act, and colon:twos to the cloned§ of St. John. I . be chapel is, Nlaivitie•stro et, Sydney, abide is now drawing towards its completion, will be opened in May uext, at furthest. A cucumber has been raised in the garden of Mr. Maccalocli, Gurusey, which on Sunday sc'nnight m‘asured seven feet, and it was supposed would gioe five inches wore. THE NATIONAL REGISTER every subject isiriated. This work has ofintined the greatest success in Germany, where it has been translated. The tour of Dr. Holland in the lonian Islands, Albania, Them*, and Macedonia, merits no leas admiration. Capt. Martin Leake's researches in Greece constitute the most perfect work which has yet appeared in Europe on the literature and language of the modern Greeks and Souliots. In this excellent performance we find the elements of grammars adapted to the present times. It would be a great acquisition to have a version of the mate rials necessary .for a modern Greek grammar, which .studious France waits for with impatience. Finally, England Possesses in Sir W. Drummond, Sir Si'. Hamilton, Dr. Clark., Lord Aberdeen, Sir W. Gell, writers well. qualified to enlighten their count-quint on the situation of Greece, and urinspire them with a lively interest in her destiny. SIR ROBERT If LSON. Honsb•GuAnns, Scpt. IS, BD. ' 'ia,-1 have it in command - trout his. Majesty to bikini' you, that his Alajesty has no further occasion for your services. I aun. Sir yours, FREIABICK, Comiriander in Chief. , To Sir R. Wilson, M. P. No. 2. WY,R. Sig,—Tlic letter of your Royal Highness, dated the iSth of September, was delivered into my hands tins morning by his Moelimey Sir Charles Stuart. After the interview I bail with Sir Hubert Taylor, lour Royal Highness's Secretary, on the morning of the 21st of August, in which I stated my personal de ire to meet and challenge inquiry inteothe calumnies and mis representations notoriously circulated, together with the motives of my forbearance, until officially called uponz from giving in my statement of theiconduct I felt it my duty to pursue on the liith ult. when attending the funeral procession of her late Ma jesty, I could not but be greatly astonished to find the news• paper sratements of my distillss:if Bout the service, without any impaily or previous communication of alleged charges thus officially confirmed. But 1 still appeal with confidence to his Majesty's sense of justice, tll3t he will grant my . application for the institution of some military eclat, beffire which I may have in opportunity to vindicate myself, and prove the falsehood of those accusations, whatever they may be, which have disposed his Majesty to yeniove me from an army in which I have served twenty-nine years, and in which I have purchased ezery com mission, with the exception of the junior one. I await at l'aria your Royal Highness's answer ; but shall be ready to appear before any court of inquiry, or court-martial, at the earliest notice. 1 have the honour to be, Your Royal Highness's obedient servant, Pari.,, Sept. 20. ISzl. ROBERT WILSON. 18, Ilegrat Street, Pall Moll, Oct. 9, 1321. GENTLEMEN,--i feel it to be my duty . to lay before you the ropy of a letter %inch 1 addressed to his Royal flightiest the Duke orliork, immediately on my arrival in England, with 'a copy of hislloyal Highness's answer. 1 ans. gentlemen, your very obliged servant. To the ElixtorS of Southwark. It. WILSON. Rcgeud Slrccl. Oct. 8. 1821. Sra,—l have hail the honour of receiving your Royal High ness's answer to my letter of the with ult., in which atter coin planting that I had beirnieniutrial from the army withouta treating. and without even *statement of any charge against mc, I res pectfully demanded all investigation of my . conduct either by a court of enquiry or court martial. His Majesty's ministers have advised their Sovereign to refuse this request, and thus L find myself, after ao many years ofeervice, subjected to the severest punishment which MR be inflicted upon a British officer, without being told of what-I am accused. defend myself against charges which, if they exist at all in a tangible shape, are studiously concealed from me, is evidenoy impo-sible.. I can neither conjecture thyir motive nor by whom they arc preferred, nor on whose s 'dements, misrepresentations, or fancies they may rest; what this concealment gives a sanction. to every latitude of surmise which folly or malice may indulge. It is true I hate seen in the papers, and heard by rumours in society. a variety of things imputed to me, and suggested as the grounds of toy dismissal ; but I declare upon my honour, that every one of these allegations is utterly false, and that in every instance where mention of names has enabled one to trace those statements to their supposed bourses, their falsehood has either b.xn at once exposed and acknowledged, of they have been dis avowed by tlic parties said Lo have made them. Those who have proceeded to pwiish me without either trial or hearing, or accusation, render it impossible to gave a more precise contradiction, until they shall be pleased to inform ate what 1 have done, or what has been whispered against me. Rut 1 once more earnestly beseech your Royal Highness to institute. in whatever way shall be deemed the inuat searching. rigorous investigation olevery part of my conduct. Your lioyail Highness is well aware, that before my dismissal I was, beyond all doubt, subject to martial law ; and if it be now said 1 am no longer in this predicament, I desire to wave all objections to the Jurisdiction of a military . tribunal, in order that nu obstacle may be interposed to the inquiry which I court. It is with unfeigned reluctance that I again presume to remind your Royal Highness of those services which you were formerly pleasof to acknowledge ; but the strange situation in which I am now we uouccountabiy plactsl, compels me to refer your Royal II iglintws to your letter of the 24th of January, g 15, and the document. to widen it relates, in further support of my clainia ua j 1141,143, on the present occasion, 1 have inc honour to lx, our Royal fli4lincas'a most obedient servant, It. 11' I I .SON. I lonsc Goalll.‘, (Al. 9, 18214 have to acknowledge the teceipt 4,1 your letter of yes terd,,y, urging again an investigattun into your conduct, to which I can only re' ly, that having laid your former applica,ion before his Majesty, and tioninitinieated to you his .%lap.luy'a acatiinents upon it, I do nut consider myself warranual to take any further ►tear. I am, Sir, yours, I:ItCIJEitICK, coniutunder-in 4:Wet. Sir Robert Wilson. A few days since a man, named I)ebrais, was accused' before the Court of Assize at Paris, of huv utwed the cry of Vivc Earpereur ! —The Jury, withWderful sapience, discovered that the cry was uttered after their once adored Emperor was dead, and Debrais %vas discharged. It is said the Paris Cockneys now indulge themselves in exclaim ing Le guile tic ocur—Long live the Emperor ! Ihe Ponce fret ut this, but cannot interfere.— Wiiiist the Emperor was alive it was a crime—now it is a joke. t • ICAO - 111