The National Register. — London, England, 1817-06-16 00:00:00

REVOLUTION AT LISBON. The Duke of Kent packet, Capt. Lawrence, has ar rived at Falmouth in eight days front Lisbon.— :Ate brought dispatches for Government, which were sent off by express. It appears that a conspiracy bad been detected at Lisbon, the objectof which was to mur der Marshal I3eresford, the British Officers, and Mem bers of the Regency ; and tooffer the Government to the Duke de Caraval, a relative of the King of Portu gal: The discovery was made by a lady, in consequence of which the Marshal ordered the troops to surround the house in which several of the conspirators were us ambled, About a dozen of them were immediately se cured, with all their men, proclaniations (already printed), and other documents, by which their guilt is fully established. Upwards of 40 others were arreated shortly after, and committed to safe custody ; amongst them arc Generals Gomez Frere, and Baron Eben, an Aid-de-Camp to the Prince Regent. The command of Fort St. Julian, in which the conspirators are confined, has been given to Sir Archibald Campbell. The Portu guese troops are stated to be firm and vigilant. Every thing was quiet when the packet sailed. We feel feel pleasure in communicating the follow ing Bulletin, as the monthly report of the state of his Majesty's health, because it proves he is not worse Windsor Castle, June 7, 1817. " His Majesty has been eery composed thmughout the last month. Ilis Majesty's disorder contizue* unaltered . ; but his Ma jesty's health and prints are good. H. HA] ,PORD, J. WILLIS. ." M. BAILLIE. " R. WILLIS." W. HEBERDEN, Monday the Prince Regent went to Bullock's Mit suem, to see the grand picture by Wicars, of Christ raising the Widow's Son ; the Colossal statue of Buono:- parte ; and the portrait of the Empress Josephine. His Royal Highness mixed among the spectators with- Mit being recognixed. The baptila of the infant daughter of Sir Charles and Lady Stuart took place on the 4th instant at nuis, at his Excellency's hotel in the Rue St. Hdnore. The Duke. of •Wellington and the Countess of Mansfield were the.spensori. . , Dr. Nevison' SOuterl-iier, • wns aro . unfoiltuvates-• ' - tioni•Win onehisti a hone of his, By arrivals at I.we learn, that young Wnt- ! e o r i . t . eading itridemeu tor one 11111 l 11)1" .111 11 , •••••• -- t kurveA, id lice pa ria h of Wood!v,iv. by kickinz their lett toile by lied down deal on ita way to ann arrived at New York in the Luphratc4, Capt. Da with his nailed oboe*, and steking them over the head with tco• Costa, on the 26th of April Wt. • hi* whip. • • • CITY RI: ['R;; 2V1'.1 TION. . . A Common Hall was or. Tmsday convened at Cullithe% and very fully attvielealv for the elvttor of n fit and discreet persen to serve in Po:behind for the try of London in fac Place of Harvey Christian Condit, lisq. umd rtti histcsignation. Telc lihig's writ authorizile the election horMg beat reel. and t: having se rt:imt to ti e utrual custom. been sworn. 'iVtu. Smith tMcniesa to: Norwielu i.us a forivnid in address the Livery.' He lamented ;is much as any man the w sere illness of the worthy Member of Partiameut by whose neje:oaten the present vacancy laul oecezr...d..• Ho led been a winters, during the whole course of that ger tlea:mt's atiendanee to his parlianie:dary duties. to the strict integrity•ffitd reedy end upright behaviour with which liege, performed tbsn 4-iind to that spirit if unabated petrunisin by which his conduit- had always been distinguished. The city of Lon don, he maintained, writ not ermplstely and properly rcyresented.— • lie did not mean the slightest itisrepeet to those genileinen. in their c!orraeters, who Ind be-nn elected Members of Paillament to represent the city; but he could not help repenting. that Mr. Al • dainan Comb: sus the only representative who bind always obeyed the orders of Ids constituents. Under the anxious desire of seemg the %%weary tilled by one a to would be likely to pursue the line of eon:lota which he had thus atteinpted to describe, he begged leave to propose the present worthy aed moist excellent Chief ata,mstrate. lie • did so because be thought that fur the last two years the citizens of London had had a:sufficient knowledge of his public and private character to enable them to Judite whether he was likely to be a fit and proper representative in Parliament. The gentleman he had now the honour to propose had performed all the duties of his offire in the most exemplary manner ; he hail stood forwanl on every oc casion the champion of his f.llow-citisens' rights; and, whenever the opportunity called for it. he had shown himself ready to do. per tuore than the dunes of his station required; and, in order to s• ure.the peace of the city, he had exrosol himself to non:emus den ten. His fellow-citizens possertal the touchstone by which they • were enabled to try his strength. and they had found bun to be wor. thy of their confidence and approbation. lie concluded with mov ing, that the Lord Manor be chosen to fill the vacant situation of Representative for the thy of London in Parliament • Mi. D tent seconded rite motion. It was a gratifyhrg sight to wit wets the return of so valuable a citizen as the Honourable Member for Norwich to their boards ; ond he rejoiced the more in the circum stance, because these *tie times in which it wan necessary that stirli characters should come forward to gise more weight to those send znents which utherwisemight not be so much attended to. MY. Hunt next pteserittil himself, and immediately upon his ap 4aritade he was with hooting:. hints, and cries of Of! ryr! 'Mind with' liome merles of approbation. This tumult midi ' maul far nearly thespact of minutes. during which time both the • Sheriff's iwterfetetileveral times, but were unable to obtain silence; amidst) ail of -' 4 .01f. 01E 4 ' " Spafields." and " No, Hunt," were %card amidst the general hooting. and whistlinga. Mr: Hunt again attempted to be:heard, and partially suoreeded. He said, he had movetimn a former day a rote of thanks to Alder man Combe, ands request that he would resign his Seat, on account of his health not permuting him to attend to his public duties.. lie . had done this' with no party views, but with a sense Mahe necessity of eketien of a neVereptetentativein these momentous times. lie moat theerfiallyssed isoldiallreoincided in the principles and senti ments of the Honourable Member for Norwich. and would support with equal platatuni the motion which he had made. lie concluded witifthaulting-flieHott. member- for Norwieltfiw the notice lie bad talsen of his resolutions, and to the Livery for hearing him on the shale to patiently. • • The Lord 'Mayor. amidst loud applait2es. came forward to ad dress thi Lives". He mewed them that:noiaing upon earth would ialittee him so-change the *Maims he had footled. If he lout done hiseduty a magistrate,and had islet with the approbetkei of his fellow citizens, he would now call upon them to place hint in a higher si tuation. so a rettresetuative in Pasiintaenoto watch over their inte :e ot‘ Ile assured them that he would atever give a vote but in favour Of Oldie fiberty, and ho never should be feuod from his post of duty. Should he be deprived a the health 'which he at present enjoyed. or iihat any time be should be found swerving from bin duty. he wished thou to -take back that which they this day were about so give. lie belted id. Ma me hisfelloi citizens, that he had not the slightest idea • that in wfoniter Conunon-hall any resolutions .were about to be pro , mooed by 'Mr. Hunt. until the moment they.wets mentioned to the I ivery ; nor had he had any communication with Mr. Hunt upon the adbiect. Ter,. ldermen l ieygate said, he Came forward on the present cr eation, not as a catate, because he had not 'clean! any one to ,propose him ; but, as one of the magistrates of the city. he could etanolthr himself the right at being one of the candaletes if he pleas ed lie would always maintain that du mode in which the reeolu . 'none had bean passed at the last Common.hall was not respectful to &gold representative. The resolutions should have been submitted • to • taming called espreedy for the purpose. Ile mould now state in the most unequivocal berms. that lie knew nothing upon the sub ject of the Loop Ma acquaintance with the inter e tionaf Mr. I lust to propose the *resolutions; but he would repeat, that that was not ti .the proper me when such resolutions should have been proposed. 'At a !Mum time it was his intention to conic forward. He professed his adherence to the old whig principles, and to every practical re- , farm of abitstA Mr. Waithman was surprised at the speech of the worthy Ahler • -roan, who had boastad so much of his magisterial powers. It ap peared as if the magisterial gown bail given him liberty to do what he pleased. , If the worthy Alderman had not been prevented by great delitetey. he might have told his fellow-citizens some of his foimer_glorious acts. With respect to himself, if past services were not iuMelent to gain the approbation of his fellow rime's. he would aware them that he would not resort to idle promises, which would and ought, in such a ax, to go for nothing. A seat in the !louse of Commons would only be rendered valuable when given by co free a hotly of people as the Livery of London. ( n the present occasion he 'had not been proposed as a candidate, nor should he upon any future opportonity that might six, thrust himself forward : but lie could -only state, that if those gentlemen who before thought so well of him as to bring him forward, were again to exert themselves in his be. `half, lie should do his duty, as he had a sacred obligation to perform. The question was then put in the usual form by the eve:mon crier, and the election was declared by the Sheriffs to have fal•••••1 upon the }Olin Hon. Matthew Wood. Lord Mayor of the City of London. The I .r; , l Mayor returned throats. Mr. Favtlltiwn moved a resolution of thanks to Alderman Combe. for his zealous and constant attention. to the intensts of his consti t::•nts, whkh was seconded by Mr. Thorpe. and supported by Mr. W. Smith, and Mr. Hunt. The Hall was then dissolved. tintmetw tux Buirac.—The firit stone of the north or , 7.ondon Moo mentlias been laid by the Lord Mayor, attended be several of the Aldermen an I Mr. Sheriff Kirby, and the Cans line of Mismixi molt. By the special favour of the Heht Hon. W. W. Pule, a sovereign was deposited among the -other ruins of •the present sign. All the three arches, of which the bridge is to consist, are to be finished before Christ 'twist next and the bridge itself opened for the accommodation of the piddle in the year IBM WA L Yet NG Bscxwmins.—A issumile snatch inn been made by a tope,msker, fora considerable wager, that he will walk backwards for 1000 miles, to perform 38 miles each day, till the Above numbrr are reinpleted. He is to commence this mew sporting trait at Wormwood Serublis.immediately on the completion Of the match hetwt en Baker and Eaton.: -k. •.• It is a singular coincidence. that on. the very day the Ludy Ncvison . Somersrt-ilr Portroarti.iptarr TI: 1.1 NATION A L 1i1:G :?•~Efl FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. VIENNA, MAY 91.—The weather continues to be very flivovriaile : the corn is beautiful, mil the vines gave Cie best hopQa. Yet the pries in our maskers do not fall regularly. ST PETEIinIM.II, MAY J.—Connt . Yermoloff is gem to Persia ; he is said . t., .Le commissioned to obtain .from Persia the cession of the southern provi mes lying on ,the Caspian Sea, and a free commercial inter course between Russia and India, through Persia. FitaNitrowr, Jame 3.—An article from Manlieim; of the =?!ftli May, givi s a most dreadful account of the incalculable damage done by the rising of the Neckar, caused by :ti hours heavy rain, and by SeVeral water spouts. The anchors of tie Neckar bridge were torn away, and the bridge carried oil; a number of people upon it were saved. All the neighbouring roads and causeways are under water, and passable only in boats. The Neckar broudit down with it timber, ruins of houses, &c. The Rhine also was very high. ANTWERP, JUNE 4.—A letter from Curacoa, of the fnst of February, •which has been received to day, contains the tidowing : " Simon 8011% an, Gene ral in Chief of the Independents, has sent to Admiral Kikkert, Dutch Governor ot the island, a decree, dated at Barcelona, by which he declares in a state of block ade the four *knish ports of Guyana, Cumana, La Guttyra, and Puerto Cabello ; every vessel, of what ever nation, which shall be ftnind under any pretext whatever within three miles of the coast, shall be the prize of any Independent who can make himself master bf FRENCH FRONTIERS, MAC' 26.—Foreigners tra velling to France, whether they mean only to travel' through that kin:nlom or to remain there for some time,. have been obliged tir some little time past to provide themselves with &special permission from the Minister of Police ; not to he fined however, to remain at the frontiers till a passport can be obtained from Paris. .But when the pm-mission of the NI Mister. of Police is once obtained, the foreigner may travel in France without bindrance. anti stay a longer or shorter time at his pleasure. , ; GHENT, JUNZ 4-General Constant de Rebeeq, first Aide-de-Camp to the king, is commissioned to carry to London the lists according to which the do-' pinion to the army is to be distributel Ile will go first to the head quarters of the Duke of Wellinom at Cambray. It seems that England, at the request o. the Commander in Chief, advances the ueckssary funds upon the fifty millions which it is to receive as well 'as in Prussia, above the share which is to come to the Allied Powers_ The Belgian military will' be divided into few - classes. The share of a superior °nicer is valued at :;,00;t francs. 16. A3fERICAN NEw Yeller. Mar 111. CfIIIIIr.TT'S AMERICAN n::tastEm. ID mnounring the revival of this work to the public. it seems is the author ittressary trs say sootothin in the way of explenation as to what has taken place With regard to his writings during the teat eight or ten months. Messrs. limey Colibett and OldfiAl begin their publication . shout the May, last year. About the loner end of .Itt me die rionliers began to'find their way ho*to Lott Cut4t-mg/I's tete. Of this I had informs - dot that I could rely od ; and after eohsiderinte all the 711(17111 which that office possesses, I thought it too dangerous to trust any more manuscript on that side of the water. out tif'dre hands of m 7 own family r thenfore, afire the cud of June, I desist ods and thus tile &trio-kits Regiiter stoppids and. that, too. *BMW OUT thinking it safe even to write to New York to state the reasons of the stoppag,:, which . put Mt ssrs. Cabbed and Oldiiekl. I understand, to some inconveotence with their sub. entices ; but this was no fault of mine, who sever contemplated any sale by subscriptkm, though they found it impossible to eondur the business in any other manner. I was well aware of the rower taint y of the power of continuing to transmit manuscript. and, therefore they were advised not to enter into any .o!aer iptios en gagements. But they frond it impossible to go on without giving in to the custom of die country. :sir. Henry Cobbett will now re tify every . thing in the peettnialy way. with his sabscribent, for it is not my 'Mention to meddle at all with any part of the laisinoa. which he will take wholly upon himself. As to the nuere therelre, and wilier part:eitlars connected with the sale and distribu don, he will give his notification to the publi:. ;. but it belongs to me to describe the trenner in which it is inten:.ed esinplete thepreserl period, which I am very anxicus to do, the last ten trontlii being, in my opinion, the most interesting ten months in the .idstory modern Europe. while I am cor.yinced that my writings have had more to do in producing the no:Lk:fit' creme of that period than all other mums put together—an opinion which will not be thought presumptuous, when I state. that, in the space of six monMs,; more than two millions of n-imby: -I were printed and sold, consumedfhwe thoissand ream, of piper, and smiling for about scir:ttecti Moutont pounds sterling: so. that. when the reader shall see (as he will by and bye) that the haughty borouglinrongers pitted themselves and drew forth their naked swords solely against "ne„ he will not be so much surprised at this their ad of seeming unnetasary elf-abase en int. Lord Sidmouth confessed his " sorrow and his shame," when he brought forward. in the House of Lords, the Bill for giving to the Ministers the absolute power of imprisonntrat—the Bill, in Awe, for establishing a despotism. And well he might feel sorrow arolihartir; for while he was driven to point me out almost by 'tense. he was obliged to confess, in distinct terms. " that he had regularly sent all the publications to the law officers of the Cones ;" and, said be, r am sorry toadti, that they have not ken abk to diseov-r any groan* for pros c rutiun;" and, Ittce ! fore. he proposed a law to give iiim the absolute power of imprisoning me at his pleasure. Was there ever any, thing so shameful as this heard of in the world until that day ? My son William was dime to the Bar. looking him hard in the hire as he uttered, these words. lily son had sent in a note to Lord 101- land to bring hint in. Some other Lind had gone out, and intramed Win below the Bar. The whisper bad gone about that he was there. The Ministets themselves were ppihmatea to look up "bile lord Sid mouth was smelting. The Chancellor hung down his head.. A deep sense of shame seemed to alkot the whole :assembly, wlichheard, is dead Silence, die *Cads which I .ere Sidmouth was reaupellod to utter. at theeiniunind of the boroughmongers. And. assuredly, this was the most lituniliming acute. that eyes ever beheld. That assembly, which had been dictating, and was still dictating, to all Europe ; which extended its arm over half the civilized world ; whichtlispensed millions of money. with as little thought as we scatter grains ofbar ley on the land ; that assembly (for the other is only its ). to pit its whole power. and to resort to in doisigiit , against one single mom who had no earthly support but what ht owed to his own talents and character ! Bare justice to myself, if there were no higher motive, would induce ma to put into a shot e for general cir culation in America the writings which produced these events. and which events are only the forerunners of others of much. greater im portance. illere follows an outline of the plan for that :prirtiose.l (Signed) WM. COLS TT, To this letter is annexed an advertisement', Signed I (Coq gobbet. announcing his intention to publish a Itegiikr immediately,. frinw the pen-of Mr. - tobbett. and also a contimuitioo of (Willett's wntings front the end of the American volume. FROM THE BOSTON ADTBRTIAER, MAY 14. William Cobbett has already commented his labours in this cour - try, by . a letter addressed " To the people of America." The leading object is to deny the implication contained in some paragraphs that have been published from English newspapers, that he left England to escape debts which he was unabif to pay, and to contradict a story of his having beea horsewhipped by Mr. Lockhart. Ile announces his intention of publishing . 311 w day or two a prospectus of his future literary lolx.tim. He also says in. this letter, that be is able to prove. that before be left Epglaial his income fro ml his writings was more than 10,0001 a year clear money, and that he expects to receive i.t least 20,0001. nut of the dispostl of his bottled and other ?Poverty.— He closes his letter. by effering the Proprietor of The New YLI Eventig Post. a bet of as even thousand dollar, that the Cover.- ment of England dots notlet three years longer. We should ad vise the Editor of the Post. if he is in the way of betting. to accept the offer, tint taking care to see the money recur:ly laid down. There are al present in the University of Cambridge,l,3so members of the Senate, and 3,275 members on the 'Wards, being the largest nmober on record : the nnn,Ler in Itso4. beige but 2,1241, and in 17314, but 1,500. Trinity and Sr. Jollies include half the University. The Liter*. y and Ile batist2 Societies of the University have made application to the Vice-Chancellor for permission to ft . 6lllllC their meetings, but in vain. The Hill to amend the Volunteer Act contains the follow ing classes:-- " To allow magistrates and constables to grant biNets to yeoman:7 cavalry, when tailed out its aid of any civil authorities to suppress t r prevent riots. To allow balf-pay off errs to hold conunivions in yeoinctry corps. without forfeiting their half-pay. To exempt yeomanry from serving parish of sett." FairritHeang.--We learn by the New Iwk Papers, tht:t there has been a severe earthquake between Tobasco and the South N. sixty miles distant from the former place, which hail stink tinily leasers in extent—the whole face of the country has bees thin up. and the rivers Tolimen and St. Francis were rendered impassable by the iiiroherlet:s e..utinr trees on its surface. An Indian village had been swallowed up. wills all its inhabitants. 'Flit Civil Authorities at Amiens, pithhely resolved, not long since, that vaccination wow net to he rationed, beeaose Providence sect the stuall-poz among men that they fright not increase too fast, A poor little sweep, who was dreadfully senrched in the chimney of a Mane iu Liverpool, died iii consequence. A Coroner's Inquest has been held on the body, And a verdict of Accidental Death returned. CAUTInN Tit CARTI.:R9.—Thomas Gay has been committed to Heading Widow cll tar one ~moth„ for treating his teas . - ..