The National Register. — London, England, 1817-07-21 00:00:00

From the LONDON GAZETTE, Saturday, July 19. "'OSP ... BANKRUPTS. PARlCrlit C. W. late of Hawlieselough, York, merchant, Aug. 1,2, 3n; at Mancite , ter. Att. Mr. Ellis, Chancery-lane. PTere c W. lute of NI ileaton, Sl.nerset, scrivener, Aug. 4,5, 50, at Somerset. Ans. Alexander and Co. New-Inn. RREVF: Manchester, warehodseman, July %.9, Aug. 9, 50, at Guildhall, Att. Mr. Adams, Old Jewry. BARKER S. Sheffield, cordwainer, Aug. 13, 16, and 30, at Shef field. Att. Mr. Bla'kelock, Serjeant's-Inn. Reis W. Bristol, ship-owner. July •z 4. 28, Aug. ; 30, at Bristol. Atts. Swaid and CO. Erederick's-place. TAYLOR J. Ottory St. Mary, 11.ron, smith, Aug. 5. n„ sn, at llo niton, Devon. Att. Mr. l.uxmoore, Red-Lion-aware. RIARRIOTT G. Melton Mowbray, L eicester, horsedmler, July '26, 2s, Auk .54. at ".incoln. Atts. Myrick and Co. Red Lio.t-square. ELSTON G. Snail Shields. Durha'n, shipowner, Aug. 1,9, 50, at North Shields. Att. Mr. Willins, Change-alley. CURRY T. North Shields, shipowner, ital. 1,9, 30, at North Shields. Att. Mr. Willins, Change-alley. Cox NI. G. Edgeware-road. toyman, July 22, Aug. t, 30, at Guild lull. Att. Cardale and Co. Grays-Inn. DIVIDENDS. 3. Byde and C. C. Bully, Pope's Head-alley, brokers, Aug. 30. T. Lovewell, late of Barbican, stat'oner, Aug. 23. B. Shepard. Chandtw-stieet, upholltera, Aug. 23„ R. Constable. Wandsworth, carpenter, Aug. 19. W. Elgar, Maidstone, Kant. grocer, Aug. 9. ' J. Minot, Finsbury-:tquare. m:rchant, Aug. 9. E. Kelly, Black Lion-lane, Paddington, builder, Aug. 19. H. S nitn, 11. Ch2en.zr, and J. Down. Grett Winchester-street, chant. Aug. 16. L. Collinano, and J. Lambert, (lid Belilem, merchants, Aug. 12. T. and S. Wilernan. West bloathlye, Sussex, tanners, Aug. 12. T. snow. Stamford, Lincoln, upholder, Aug. 9. .1. Robinson. Liverpool, sailmaker, Aug. 23. B. Fiedler, Liverpool. druggist, Aug. 23. W. aatl W. S. D:ikley. and W. Ovaend, Church-st:ect, Borough, met. , . woolstaplers, Sept. YO. J. Taylor, New Sarum, Wilts, saddler, Aug. 12. W. Cullen, Harwich, Canter, Att„.9. E. Cruttznd..•n, Sittingl7ourne. Kent, salesmen, Aug. 16. J. Gowen. 1114rk-kme, spirit-broker, Aug. 16. H. Vos, and J. C. E...sers, New-court, Crutehetl-fria:r, rlcrellaats, Aug. 16. .T. Jetferiti, ilastriek, York, victualler, Aug. 16. N. Matthews, Neath, Glamorgan, ironmonger. Aug. 1.2. It...Amts, Lt. Etnrtholomeves. Kent, cattle-dealer, Au..;. :9. tt. Clare?. Gate..l4:atl, ..alller, Aug. 113. E. Jcr.kini. l'wielrenhant ' innkeeper. Aug. 9. , V. E. M. Vol I)oornik. Well street. soap-numufactmer, Aug. 9. r. and I. Blackburn, Turne:lapt•l Dock. ship-builders. Aug. 9. DI Abru'.ntr.s, fiukc-mtreet. Ald4ate. merchant, Aug. 9. J. Att. Guiklotd, butelier..tuly 22. CERTIFICATES. AUGUST 5. S. Heynes. Cheltenhom, wine-merchant.—T. Holmes. J. Ilarric, cid .1. D. Eujlisli, Long Acre. coach-m.tkers.—J. W. Sharpe, Old Bond-strxt. paper-hanger.—W. Pettman. Hare, K Int, nursery man —J. Mackley, South Shields. ship-owner.—T. I%Nort Ostend, me.chant.—D. Newbold, Birmingham. tin-plate-worker.—J. Chand ley, St.o.:k;4,a, tr,roc:r.—J. and C. Bernard. Manchester, lincn-drapers.—.l. 11. Comberhach, Eccleshall, Ftafrord. scrivener. —.l. Monte Ca:nomile-street, merchant.—.l. Clark, Clifton, inn keepsr--N. Hadley, jun. Milford Wharf, coalmcrchant. —W. and L. Davis, Liverpool. tiinher-merchants.—E. Dickens. linsford, Kent, shopkceper.-1.. Blanchemty, lluver-street, Piccadilly. merchant. POLITICAL DISQUISITION. ON THE LATE SESSION OF PARLIAMENT. TN our last number we took occasion to lament The Ilank which the death of Mr. Ponsonbv has left in the Nino• ity, and also to state our conviction that no com petent successor to him could be found among the members of that body. H' any circumstance stronger than another had been wanting to confirm us in that opinion, it would have been fiunad in the Parliament ivy proceedings on the last day but one of the Session, when Mr. Brougham brought forward his motion on the State of the Nation. In the brighter days of the Opposition this was a question which generally gave birth to a display of tal ent, fur which the public were thankful, whatever might he the fate of the motion. It was a subject which allways seemed to inspire the mover with new powers, and to make all his supporters eloquent, but in this in stance, whatever might be the cause, Mr. Moog-ham 'fell many degrees beneath himself, and not one of his supporters exhibited even a mediocrity of talent. If we were to seek for another cause than that of a lack of abi lity, it would - be in the untenable nature of the ground which the Learned Gentleman had chosen. To censure or pruise by ioliolesdc will seldom be safe, because it will seltionabe true ; to assert that nogling had been done by Parliament to•reiieve the'Country, was at any rate unwise, because the power of refutation was ut .the haels of every one; and to leme'the straight for ward road which the nature of the motion pointed out, to indulge in personal skirmishing with au whoso alledged crimes had certainly nothing to do with the matter in larid, bespoke a littleness of mind which we too often find tincturing the eloquence of men whose habits of public smiting have been acquired by long 'practice in the Courts. Bat setting aside all Mr. Brougham's personalities, we will candidly enquire what has been done by Par lament during the late session, to relieve the distresses of the people. Amongst the many causes to which our national :distress has been attributed, the existence of sinecures has held a distinguished place; both in and out of the THE NATIONAL REGISTER House, they have been stigmatised as the cause of much of our sufferings, and so deeply impressed was my Lord Cochrane with this opinion, that on the very first day of the late session, he gave notice that on an early day he would move for leave to bring in a Bill fur their abolition. This proposed measure of his Turtlahip's was never matured, but the Ministry, feeling the voice of the people, was decidedly against the longer continuance of sinecures, yielded their consent to a Bill to abolish them, which had its birth with the neutral party, and which, With trifling oppo sition passed into a law. Thus then, was done away that evil, which had so long been cause of bitter complaint. Not a petition fur reform, not a speech at a public meeting, but was larded with execrations of that severest curse of Englishmen ; yet the moment it is abolished, the boon is esteemed as nothing, and we are told that Parliament has done lughing fir the people. The cruelty of excluding men of birth and talent from the higher posts in the army and navy, merely because they held a different faith from ourselves, has been an another ground of complaint.—A Bill passes to permit their ascent to the highest rank ; still nothing has been done. By the uneeasingefforts of the Government, the expen diture of the country has been reduced to 18,000,000, being almost 1,000,000 lower than the most rigid economistliad last yaar calculated upon ; yet we are told the dkaresses of the people have never been thought on, and that nothing has deep done. Totave advanced one million and a half sterling, fur the employment of the poor, may surely be accounted something done for their benefit; and to have withdrawn a very debased currency, and supplied its place with a good one, without causing any individual loss, is a measure which certainly should be viewed at least with complacency. To the state of -the poor laws, the most unremitting attention has been paid . in a Committee, and if no practical benefit has vet resulted from its labours, we may confidently look forward to the adoption of some legislative measure early in the next sesaion. These arc a few of the useful labours of the House during its late sitting, and though we may la ment the necessity which culled for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, yet there arc many of opinion that no other measure was so well calculated to restore tranquili , y to the country. 'We have to apologize to some (lon,. arlocrtisingliiendsf)r the omis sion of their favours this wt,k, truing to a preu qf matter, in our estimation important. THE NATIONAL. REGISTER. LONDON : MONDAY, JULY 21, 1817. THE accounts received from the most .considerable manufacturing districts all concur in describing the re vival of trade as most rapid. At Nottingham, the lace trade is in full activity, and an advance has been made in the men's wages. In Leeds, the demand for work men is so great, that it is believed nut a man who is willing to work need be out of employment. At Man chester the demand fir cotton goods is greatly increased; it is said the quantity on band is less by one fourth than it was a few years since. At Worcester the glove trade has so much improved that the applications for relief on the House of Industry had greatly diminished. Added to this, the reduction in the price of grain, and the prospect of an abundant harvest has greatly contributed to allay the fears of the timid, and crush the hopes of the disaffecteiL So rapidly•indeed is public credit reviv ing, that. on Friday, although settling day at the Stock Exchange the Funds suffered no depression. By the Paris Papers just arrived, we learn, that the Duchess de Berri's aceouthement took place on Sunday morning last, when she was delivered of a Princess, but the infant, we are sort• to say, died on Monday night. The Salique Law, which unfortunately for France is almost the only part of its ancient constitution now ex isting, renders this event of much less importance, po spealing, than the birth of a Prince would have been. We should have seen with joy, that a new pledge bed been presented for the succession to the throne, in the reigning branch ; and the present occurrence leads us to hope, that that prospect is only deferred. The Duchess of Berry is yt:ung, and =Oyu give birth to many Princes ; nor will we abandon the hope that the f.chess of Ang- , acmc, the interesting and heroic JULY el. daughter of Louis XVI, may yet see a son of her own ascend the throne of her murdered father. It is of great importance to the tranquility of Europe, that the right of lanful succession to the throae should be firmly re established in France, where its glaring and wanton violation produced and is still producing so much mis ery to the civilised world. When we speak of IGwful succession, our Readers know that we do not speak of indefeasible right : we know not that any human rights can be called indefeasible ; but we speak of a right, most important to civil society, because most conducive t 0 its peace and permanence. The true admirer of the English Constitution will admit that there arc imagi nable cases of necessity which may suspersede even that first and highest of our constitutional laws, the hereditary succession ; but he will hold that those are cases scarcely to be contemplated even in imagination, cases of a necessity extreme, overwhelming, irresistible ; and that those who would substitute for that lament able necessity, an arbitrary caprice of any number of the subjects of the realm, are the most ignorant of po liticians or the worst of Traitors. Mr. Coke of Norfolk, or any other Gentleman or Nobleman in Fn land has no better right to his Estate, than Louis XVIII. has to his crown each has the right which the law gives him, and the law which for the public good protects a country 'Squire in his estate, must for the pobiic good protect the King on his throne : otherwise ne throne, no estate, no law—and by consequence nothing but anarchy, barbarism, immorality, irreligion ; such a scene in short as miserable France possessed under the pretence of liberty, and reign of terror. The celebrated Machune - de Stael I:ied at Paris on Tuesday night, in the 50th year of her age, after a long illness—she was the daughter of the no less cele brated M. Neckar, and haves a son and daughter ; the latter is married to the Duke de Broglio, a Peer of France. A Hamburgh Mail is arrived, bringing an abstract of a Report drawn up by a Commission of the Diet of Frankfort, to inquire into the means of stopping the depredations of the Barbary pirates. The Commission ers recommend that the greet Powers of Austria and Prussiadlould intercede with England, to establish it as a principle, that when the Barbary pirates appear beyond the Mediterranean they should be pursued and treated as such. There is something not merely absurd, bat abr.a lutely farcical, in the petty Princes of the Continent thus applying, through the medium of the Diet, for the protection of their flag s at the expence of Great Bri tain. Did we not late ly protect their flags against tEe pirate Buonaparte, and at last expel their tormentor from Europe? And what has been their gratitudes With the exception of the King of the Netherlands, there is not a Continental Sovereign who has net un blushingly put his name to a decree prohibiting the importation of British produce. Ar.d yet our navy is to be kept afloat to protect their flags fbrsouth ! We trust that no British Minister will be such a trawl- to the interests of his country as to expend a single ounce of gunpowder for such a purpose. No nation has a right to " ships, colonies, and commerce," until she can protect them with her own resources. _ _ The Tunisian cruiser which was chaccd out of the British Channel by one of our frigates a month or two ago, has made her appearance at Gibrdtar, enquiring filr her consort and their prizes. The fulminations of the Diet of Frankfert, and the naval armament cf the Crown Prince of Sweden, are no doubt laughed to scorn by these gentry, who in all likelihood will tale the Irish Channel on their next trip, and thus get into the North Sea once more. They seem to have heard of the rich " argcsies' being at sea, which Bernadotte expects home with the - cut tons and sugar, by which means he is to cut off all intercourse with Great Bri tain. ry the Anna Maria, from Lisbon, we are.nssured in a very positive manner, that Pernambuco had been ac tually restored to its former Sovere:gn. The above vessel eft Urban on the t!tl instant, anti has out-sailed the packet, which is said to have on beard the details of the counter-revolution. A passenger by the Anna Muria maintains, that on the roill of June an Indio man appeared coming up the Tagus, .decorated with a variety of colours. It soon transpired that the was the bearer of dispatches from Brazil, purporting that, on the 2lst of May, the Royalists, in prosecution of a plan ior a long time meditated, had risen on the insur. gents at Pernambuco, and had succeeded in overthrow ing the democratic government. Francisco Martinez, younger brother of the Chief, lost his life, rays the narrative, in the affray which took place on this occa sion. Official advi.,:ca of the return of Pernambuco to its allegiance base been received. This event occurred en the 20th of May. Domingo Martinez. the ringleader of the rebellion, had marched out of that city on the pre ceding cloy, to give battle to the royal troops, who were. advancing against it. In his absence the inhabit ants •roe ; and as,isted by the,sailors of the blockading gilt:Aron, restored the royal authority in the town, and hoisted the Pirtuguesa a andards on the forts.— Therebel forces, in the meanwhile, met ate King's army, about seven leagues from Pernambuco ; a battle ensued, which was warmly contested, but which ended