The National Register. — London, England, 1818-11-01 00:00:00

, ri a ln glittit - 0 AI kit iiiktiftittr+ . ~ ~ .... Our Itina, Cottrititution an 73 N afacit No. .6O.—Vot. 11. POLITICAL DIsQLJ 15ITION. ON TIM APPOINTMENT OF 74 It. JUSTICE AraliOT TO BE THE EV JUSTICE. THE appointment of Mr. Abbot from a Puisne Judgeship, to succeed Lord Ellenbe rough as Chief Jus tice of England, has occasioned a lively discussion be. tweets the Chronicle and COnrier. The firmer paper is certainly justified in saying that such a practice, if it shall became usual, will have on irresistible tendency to annihilate the boasted independence of English Judges, by keeping them always in expectation of a translation, even as the Bishops are made subservient to the Minister of the day. But party spirit carried that paper too fur, wizen it ventured to assert that such promotions of Puisne Judges were unprecedented. The rash position, which is not supported by fact, laid the Chronicle open to a triumphant reply, and injured a good argument. It is true that there are precedents before the present time, of such translations; but it is not true that it ever was the general practice The exception does not prove the rule. The principles of the Constitution are decidedly adverse to any thing which has a tendency to impair the independence of the judicial character, and nothing has a greater tendency that way, than the established practice of making the situation of a Puisne Judge a step to that of a Chief; for the whole genius of our Constitu tion leads to rendering the administration of the law totally independent of the Executive Power, and of the Legislative. It is to the absolute separation of these three powers, that we owe our freedom. It. was to the union of them, that Rome and Athens owed the destruction of theirs. In the latter of those celebrated Republics all three were united, and the assembled peo ple were as formidable a tyrant as Nero himself: in, the former, the legislative and the judicial power met in the assembly of the people, and similar consequences ensued. In former times of English history, under thePlantage nets, and particulary the Tudors, and Stuarts, though the separation of judicial power from the executive had been effected, yet its independenee was not established. Hence the tyrannical decisions of the Court of the Star Chamber, and the judicial murders of the corrupt Jeffries. The abolition of the Star Chamber and the independence of the Judges, were the fruits and the best securities of the final establ.ishment'of our liber ties ; and the fairest featurc in the character and reign of George 111. was the appointment of Judges during good behaviour. The practice, he'vevcr, of studiously keeping them within the. reach of temptation, by thus translating them like the Bisiopa, has a tendency di rectly opposite ; and though not unprecedented in some instances, is certainly unauthorised by general custom. We hope, therefore, that the present will be a solitary instance. A letter front Aix-la-Chapelle states, that the King of Prussia has founded a new truiversity at Bonn, and announced such his Royal resolution in an enlightened letter to Prince llardenberg. on the anniversary of the battle of. Jena. The e foal and perfect tolerance which his Majesty affords to Catholic and Protestant memhers of this infant University is among the most remarkable circumstances attendant on its foundation. A second letter (of the 25th ult.)from the same quarter, informs us. that the promised declaration of the Allies to the French peop!e will be ready to be laid betbre the SW' ‘ereigns on their return to Congress. The Emperor Alexander was lisle(' for on the 50th, that he might meet the Empress dowager bctiTe his visit to Brussels. The claims brought farward by the mediatised Princes of Germany upon the attention, if not upon the justice of the higher states, seem to have excited scene interest in the diplomatic community. That the prerogatives of many of these Princes were wrongfully swept away by BuonaparLe, there can he little doubt ; but how ter, sine the change has been made, a restoration of those prerogatives might be for the happiness of the people over wheat they once were exercised, is a question which we do not undertake to settle. SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 1, 1818. THE QUEEN. The following. Bulletins of the Queen's health have been issued since our List :--. " Kew r. !ace, Oct. ?6. " The Queen's complaint does not abate; her 'Majesty bat slept well." " Kew Palace, Oct. 27. " The Queen has had a good night, front which bet Majesty has derived some ease." • " Kew Palace. 00.128. " The Queen is more comfortable this morning. in otniees of several hours sleep in the night ; but the symptoms of hit APjety's malady are not changed." " Kew Palace. Oct t 9. " The Queen has passed another good night ; it has sot had, however, any material intuence upon her Majesty's disease." "Kew Palace, Oct. 30. " The Queen passed the greater part of yesterday In a very un. comfortable state, but the alecp which her Majesty had in tbe night, has a ff orded relief this morning." " Kew Palace, Oct. 31. " The Queen has had several hours sleep. but the symptoms of her Majesty's disease remains unchanged. . " F. MILLMAN." " H. HALFORD." The Queen was evidently worse, on Thursday even inf.. than she had been in the early part of the day.-- Though, from her great exhaustion, her Majesty's com plaints are not made audibly, yet it was very apparent, that. she suffered consider►ble pain. Her cough, too, was more frequent, and her restlessness produced much fever. In consequence, Sir F. Millman (the only Phy sican in attendance) did not retire from the Royal cham ber till near midnight ; when her Majesty, if possible still more exhausted, sunk into her usual torpor. Throughout the whole of Friday her Majesty re mained much in the same enfeebled state as she had done for the last eight or nine days, and up to seven o'clock, at night, there was no perceptible amendment. The Prince Regent arrived at the Palace from Carlton-house, about six o'clock. His Royal Highness after rei;e:ving the reoort of the Physicinus, remained to dinner with the Princesses, and did not leave them till a late hour. The Duke of York visited the Print* *+ PS Friday. The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland aer' the 12th instant at Berlin from Dessau. Their Royal Highnesses set out on the 16th for Strelitz. The Duke and Duchess of Kent returned to Strum burgh on the 22(1 instant, tiom Switzerland, tea their way to Germany. Accounts ftom Rome, of the 7th inst. side, that the Duke of Gloucester was expected to proceed ditoct from Venice to England. Friday the Lord Chancellor paid his *Vaal to the Prince Regent, at Carlton House, upon Lis arrival in town. The Countess of Liverpool, we are happrin.leeru, is better. The Courier states that the report mentioned la several of the papers, that her Majesty on her hit .visit to Brighton presented the Prince Regent with 100,0001. is an absolute falsehood. _ _ Thursday his Excellency the Prussian italisinsador, Baron Humboldt, Counsellor Bornemann, and Mr. Rothschild, delivered to the Deputy Govern!or of the Bank of England, in the presence of Mr. &enact, Nota7, the deeds of mortgage, as securitios for the due payment of the loan of five millions pounkaterling, lately contracted for, by Mr. Rothschild, on account of the Prussian Government. •On Friday se'nnight the Austrian Archduke Maxi milian, and suite, arrived at Lillyman's. the Liverpool Arms Motel, in Liverpool. On Saturday the Arcluluke, accompanied by the Mayor, inspected the Docks and the public Institutions of the town. On Sunday he dined with the Mayor and a select party at the Towit ; and arrived at Preston on Tuesday last. They write front St. Domingo, that three deputies arrived not lon;:: since at Port-au-Prince front Christo- Ole. empowered to oar to all the officers under this black chief, and under Boyer even, rank in the Nohi lity.ef the pretended Ki:%;.,10m of liay:i. Buyer WM to he creatc.l a Prince ; the Generals, Dukes; ike. Among those three ilepnties there were two Barons a la Chris tophe. They were the old French dress, their hair was powdered, with false tails, &c. ad of which formed a whimsical contrast with their bia.:l: faces and hands. Boyer replied, that he wished in:eve nothing to an either with General Christoplie or his Nobility.—Pa ris Paper. As an instance of the n.ildness of the season, a se cond crop of remarkably fine white raspberries, per fectly ripe, has been produced in a garden in this city, and the trees are iu blosaorn, and now bearing. PiticE LOSS OF THE CABALV.I. Accounts have been rceAved, by the ship Win isnr Ca tle, which arrived ow Dover a few days sine , having left Bombay on the Scl of June, and the Wan of Mauritius the 1 7th of July, zonfirming previoae statements of the loss of the Company's ship Cabalva. It appears that having sprung a leak off the Cape, or the i2d ofJuns, also bent up for Bombay, to dock the ship, and that, in her passage thither, she struck o' the small island of Cardagos, on the 7th of July, ar half past 4, A. M. and was totally wrecked. Capta:•k Dalrymple, Mr. Grant, the Surgeon's Mate, and of the Crew, were drowned. Mr. Ayres, the Ptreer, the Sixth Officer, and eight men, arrived at the Mau ritius, in a small open boat, from the Island, where they had left the remainder of the crew, on the 14th ei" July. His Majesty's ship Magieienne, with the Chal lenger sloop of war, and a schooner, immediately put to sea, tc bring away the remainder of the crew. The island of Cardagos, on which this vessel was wrecked, is at present uninhabited A small settlement of 14 or 15 souls was established there, for the purpose of fishing; but in the last tremendous hurricane of last March, when the island was inundated, they all pe rished. The Cabalva in her voyage outwards sustained some injury by touching the ground when off Ports- • month, which caused the effects of the gale encountered on the 22d June to be felt the more seriously. A letter has been received filer Captain Dalrymple, at the India House, written at the time he first deviated front the regular track of the voyage, and explaining his motives for so doing. By great good fortune the vessel beli.; bound to China direct, carried out no passengers. No tidings have been received of the situation of that part of the officers and crew who remained on the is hind, but it was believed that a sufficient stock of provisions and other materials necessary for their accommodation had been saved from the wreck. When the Cabalva Muck on the island of Cargados the crew were landed „hi succession by the Line boat, Captain Dalrymple re eseittlog on board till the last; he then embarked with Grant, Mr. the surgeon's mate, aid 14 men, but in the attempt to reach the shore, the boat was upset, and all were lost in sight of their surviving companions. The ship and cargo were extremely valuable, and by the best accounts, are estimated at 350,0001. A great proportion of his value belongs to the East India Coin party who never insure ; and the remainder is fir front being covered, the whole of the policies effected at' Lloyd's not exceeding sixty thousand pounds. Bit the same conveyance we are happy to receive a ten. fumatitm of the safe arrival of the Hastings, of 74 gu as, at the Mauritius, she being previously reported to be loft. It has, it appears, been deemed expedient to lighten her 300 tons, and it was expected she would sail in a few days after the 25th of Jiily. The Mar quis of Huntly, in company, with the Duke of York, arrived at Bombay on the 1 lth of Met , ; and at th e time o f the Win,Tsor Castle leaving the Presidency, (the 3d of June) they had a consilerable part of their • cargo for China on board. Wedneaday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Captain C. 0, Mayne ai.is sworn into the command of the ship Atlas, coasig:itil to Bengal and China. A letter from one of the French Officers, who had joined the troops of Buenos Ayres, in Chili, states that all of them had returned, were returning, or intended to return. All of them had lost their bitggngr. They are stated to have been dismissed a few hours after they had gained a complete victory over the Royalists.— General Braver, who acted as Major General to the army of Chili, intended to proceed to the United Stales. The writer adds, that the French refagPes were univer sally regarded with suspicion—that the English had monopolised the whole of the trade of South America, and that none of them would employ a Frenchman.— He describes the Government ns the most wretched establishment that could he conceived, being entirely destitute of pecuniary resources. Time formal transfer of artillery, warlike stores, Sir. in the depot of Valenciennes, from the British Rothe.. rities to those of France, tank place an the 18th ult. when two :•:nglish officers, appointed by the Duke of w,ili ng ton, delivered over the initeriet of that garrison to Colonels Morin end Cape:it., commissioned for the s ame purpose on time part of the Freach Min.ster at War. The suswessive resumption of all the fortress• of France be completed, it is thought, I.y the ; Novewber. el I:S0 ` O k 77% ) 41, .0'7:4-4 4 h ,i fp" IN Illw 3 ‘f, , .... i, ,, ,c,,...v ,„ ~,./