The National Register. — London, England, 1816-09-16 00:00:00

a little behind him. and cried out—" (seances wous Plan, well dressed, and wearing the decoration of the Legion of Honour, came forward, somewhat reluctantly, avowed the Cart, and gave h.s address, stating I tat pay. A meeting was Settled for the ill:: nine ii ii !.!, suit toe presented himself on the ground armed with a sword, the Englishman runic provided only with pistols; it was with touch difficulty that the former could he persuaded to chose one of the pistols : at length he consented, and at the first lire had a ball V. 1.% through his cravat. and WWI slightly nOlllOl4l in tie neck. lie rained either to stand a second lire or make any ap 'logy, unit thus the matter ended. lam particularly ae quainted with the Gentleman who we , enneernril in this allele, and from his being estreinelv desirous that his part in it s:iuuld rt main tiiikatra a to his friends, I forbear to disclose his name." A vire 'tame of rather a curious nature took place in the As.iie Court of Paris, un Ft iday selinight. One Claude Lan elan, n conk. has stood chat ged for some mouths past with pro pusnig to two fellowcooks, named Leblanc and Toursaiii, to poison the King. The trial was to take place on the 12th of August last, but was postponed on account of the absence of I.eblanc, who is in the service of Marshal Manumit. The trial was again to come on ou Friday last ; but Leblanc did not make his appearance in Court, and a letter was read from the Attor ney-General to the Tribunal of Chatillon, sig,taifying that the Al:ash:lL could nut send his domestic to Paris, because he was sick. I. Advocate-General, remarked to the Court, t !tat the somewhat equivocal language of the letter left it still Nt‘ilde that it was the Marshal, and not his domestic, who was ittklespobrti. He expressed his surprise at the impertinence and les sty of Marshal Manumit on such an occasion.—ln former times the highest grandees would have been anxious to obey in person the requisitions of justice; a fortiori they would have made no ditliculty in sending their domestics assigned as wit nesses. It was astonishing that the Marshal should have con sulted only his personal accommodation in an affair of this de lieate and serious nature. He demanded, therethre, even in Lehalf of the accused, the postponement of the trial till another session, and against the witness the applicat ilia of the articles of the C the trial to the 23t1; and ordered that all the expellees of cita timn, join-ides of witnesses, and others, should be charged to the Nvitness Leblanc, who should he compelled to appear bodily, aad be brought before the Court by public force ; he was be sides condemned to lOn francs fine. CLAIMS OF THE UNITED STATES ON THE COURT OF NAPLES. The following details respecting the American de mands upon Naples, are copied from the Paris Pa pers : NAPLES, AUG. 18.—The Mission Extraordinary of Mr. Pinckney, Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America, occupies much of the public atten tion.—The following is the history of the confiscation of the American vessels by Murat, the claims for which form the object of the mission of Mr. Pinck ney. The' American schooner Roti, Capt. Thompson, of Bal timore, entered the port of Naples in 1809, laden with eafie. It was sequestrated, but soon afterwards released au the representation of the American Consul, Mr. F. Degcn. The Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Marquis de Gallo, wrote on that occasion to Mr. llegen the fol lowing letter : " Naples, Jaly 9, 1809. "Sir—The King having again taken into cousideration your ace of the 28th May, relative to the American schooner Roti, Captain Thompson, from Baltimore, for Naples, with a cargo of coffee, and furnished with the regular accessary papers, he has decided that the sal.' vessel shall be rostored to Captain Thompson, to whomshall he given the Ace use of the mercha ll• iliac and property which it contains. At the same time, his Majesty lass determined as a general measure, that all Ameri can vessels which shall arrive direct in this kintdotu. and %Oh a positive destioation for its ports. shall be- freely admitted, provided they are furnished with the necessary certificates of origin amid navigation papers, and arc not in contravention to the Royal Decrees of the loth Decenitier, Intati, and January 9, It , oB, relative to English Columerci•, and to that of neutral powers, which Decrees arc to he maintained in full force. I have the pleasure of communicating to you this sovereign do blsio.l which I have communicated to the Minister of Finance, and I take the opiaortunity of a:sating you of my distinguished emisidei ation. " Martinis 1)E GALLO." 'This letter was sent to America, and profusely distri tuted. It was the cause in 1810 and 181 lof several American vessels with valuable cargoes arriving succes sively at Naples. They were compelled to discharge at the expence of the consignees, and to deposit their mer eh:maize „in the public magazines, under the pretext that thay could not be received in quarantine without that formality. The Customs kept one key, and delivered mother to the consigned. When the number of Amen ce.n vessels had increased to thirty, they took the keys from the consignees, -under the pretext of an order of Bt:onaparte's having arrived from Paris, and sold the tierchandise by auction. The Minister of Finance sold eves the vessels, with the exception of some which were it-pt for the service of Murat. The Roti, for instance, f ans part at Cie present moment of the fleet of King Ferdinand IV. Th.- sum arising from these tittles, mounting to from 4 to 5,000,000 ducats of Naples, was great part of it applied to pay the expences of the expe diion tt.,v.inst Sici!y. The consignees fret even a diffi c:lty cbtaining the reimbursement of their expences t-sd disbursements. The vessel Hercules, Captain West, 'as the only one which had the good fin-tune to be re leased. .`'he was scot to Civita Vecchia to take on board Lucien lloo:laparte end his flintily, and to convey them Anieric* but as Aretaly known, she Yves taken on her tate-age by the English, said rent to Malta, and from trance with !Attica to I: is remarkable enoti.„;;li that the Government of the Nobel State , never eleimcd any indemnity, at least - teteresihly, for these zessels thtriag the period that Murat eccnied the threat ar Naples. NATTONAT, TIEGISTER. COTTON 01.4NUFACTURES. The present situation and the real interests of our cotton ma nufactures are subjects of much importance, and respecting which minty well-founded complaints arc made. The system adopted by Buimaparte, through his famous decrees at Berlin and Milan, has certainly produced effects prejudicial to our manufactures. Foreign countries which exclude our piece goods readily take our cotton yarn, front which they manntacture goods for themselves. By returns from the Custom-house at Mill, tt appears that there have been shipped from that port, during the last three mouths, 3,713,9100 pounds weigh t of cotton yarns. Tlm se yarns arc chiefly purchased to supply the manu facturers of cotton piece goods in Germany, France, amid Swit zerland. Some part is also destined fur Russia. And the whole, when manufactured, will produce I ,237,Miti pieces of mu slins and calicoes, allowing tiree pounds to earls piece of 21 yards, whirls is the average weight of the pieces. A wea4er finishes in the loom one Om. of 21 yards weekly. The number of hands, therefore, necessary to weave the quantity of yarn as above stated, in the same period, is 9.5.225, and supposing the quantity of cotton-yarn, shipped from all other ports of England and Scotland to be equal, when put together, to the quantity shipped from Hull, it will give full employment to nearly 200,000 foreign weavers, and the annual 'frothier , will he millions of pieces of cotton goods. The additional activity given to fOreign labour in printing, dying, bleaching, and finish ing these goods is almost incalculable; and as these yarns in times Nast have fur the most part been manufactured at home, and exported iu various kinds of piece-goods, it follows, of course, that the activity given to foreign labour by the export of our cotton yarns, diminishes in Me same ratio the demand tOr the same kind of labour at home. It' our continential neigh bours admitted our manufactured cotton teece-goo is without restraint into their States, it would be policy to allow them also to import our yarns to be by themselves manufactured, this becomes a commercial derangement which a wise state should counteract. We think it would be, under these circumstances. adviseable either to prohibit the exportation of cotton yarn, or to lay a heavy duty upon it. By puttin4 greater difficulties in the way of the foreigners obtaining our yarn, we should dimi nigh the number of their weavers, and retard the progress of their manufactures, while we encourage our own. A mectino. of the wool-growers of the county of Hants, con vened by the Hampshire Agricultural Society, took place on the Dith ult. at St. John's-house, Winchester, when a peti tion to Parliament to restrict the importation of foreign wool was determined upon, and a subscription entered into to carry it into effect. Sir Thomas Baring presided at this meeting, which was attended by the Earl of Northesk, Rev. Sir Charles Rich, Bart. If. R. Wither, Esq. Edward Woolls, Esq. with many consideiable proprietors and occupiers of land in the country. MADAME RICHARD. —The Hamburgh Mail received on iVeduesday. has brought au account of the descent of Madame Richard, for whose satety serious fears were entertained. " HAMBURGD, SEPT. 2.—lt is long since any person has ex cited so much juiciest in the piratic as Madame Richard, who on the 29th, so resolutely ascended in her balloon at the ap pointed boor. No news having been received, it was feared that the balloon might have taken a direction towards the Bal tic. Happily these fears are unfounded. She arrived on the Slat at six in the evening at Sheverin, wherein she has written to her husband, that after a dangerous but happy vi.yage, she descended 12 German miles (6I English), from Sheserin at Mulehin, half a league front the frontiers of Mecklenburgh and Pomerania, and intended to be in Hamburgh on Tuesday." ASCENT OF MR. SADLER, JON.—ME. Sadler ascended with Ids balloon .at Cork, on the 2d inst. from the grand square of the new Barrack. At one o'clock the inflation of the balloon corninenced, and was completely finished about four o'clock, when a pilot balloon was dimissed to shew the direction n hid) the larger one would take the ear was then attached to the balloon, when Mr. Wysidhain Sadler placed himself in it, and the whole svas conducted from the place of inflation to a stage erected before the north front of the grand square. The balloon bring liberated from every confinement, rose majesti cally towards the skies, whilst cheering acclamations resounded on every aide. - . . The day was exceedingly propitious, and the wind being moderate and about N.V. the movement of the balloon was towards Kinsale, and it was kept in view nearly an hour, with two intervals only of a few minutes each, during which it Passed through two clouds, and was at length only lost to view by the elevation of the distant hills. • • The general anxiety for his welfare was removed by an ac count from the adventurous youth himself the following morn ing, stating that he had effected his descent within a unarter of a mile of Robert's Cove, without the occurrence of any un favourable incident. DisTnEsststo CACE.—The following distressing account ap pears in Cukdonian Mercury of Thursday se'nnight:—One morn• tug last week, an unfortunate man in Edinburgh put an end to his life. A widow and three helpless children, one of whom is only 3 years of age, and another nut 2 months, arc the unhappy sufferers by this event. The deceased was a confidential clerk in a respectable house in that city, distinguished for intelligence superior to his station in society, and his conduct through life marked by the strictest integrity and sobriety. About six weeks ago he fell into a state of melancholy; and, in spite of every ef fort to divert or sooth him, the malady gradually increased.— While in this state he swallowed a quantity of laudanum ; but, , by the entreaties of his afflicted wife, he was prevailed on to take an antidote. From this period, however, his language and his conduct bespoke a fixed determination to effect his purpose by means more speedy and certain ; a n d his wile, aware that any interfirrence on the part of others would only have accelerated his design, concealed her distress, still hut*- , ing the hope that she might be able to divert him from his pur pose, His eldest son, an interesting youth about 13, never failed, k r some pretence or calk r, to ace patty hint to the place of his employment, and to be in the way to return with him. The situation of the wife and son during this interval may be better conceived than described. Tuesday se'nnight, at half-past five o'clock, lie stole from his bed :and though dis. covered by his son, and afterwards by his wife ; with a pistol in his hand, he contrived in a few minutes to elude the vigi• lance of his homily, and finally committed the desperate act, which laid him, who had hitherto been their - faithful and mice tionate protector, lifelem at their feet. On the night pit:ceding this catastrophe, he read to his wife some lines written in the course of the day : they were found in his pocket ne‘t morning, and denote very strikingly the horror of mind to which hp fell , a victim. Willi am Drake, the soldier pf the African corps, who lay at Hawn for sa rilii•itlerable a time in a state of apparent in hav niovined his discharge front the service, ;lug is iIOW i 4 Vostwouth. Us is rcifcctly tezvvc.red. fgEPTENMER PROVINCL4LS. THE HARvEsT. KYNT.—The tenni of fair weather, after the dreary day of Monday, has given life to the esee firms of the farmers in mast Kent, and much wheat has in consequence since been carried and housed.. There worn, how. ver, some very heavy shoo ers of. rain on Wednesday, particularly at Winghain ana Bridge, bet their duration was short, and their exit nt very confined. The harvest in the vicinity of Maidstone, at the latter end of last week, had partially begun, beet the letern of the wet ea titer on Monday stopped it. It is CNpected the mops kill, in general, be favonrable; the wheat more so than the bark's, the latter having been intent beaten down. Oit Wednesday there was a violent hail storm, %%hick did much damage to the corn. At Marden, eight miles from Maidstone, hailstones as large as mats were picked up ut Idarrietsbain seee:al windows were broken, and other damage door by the hail. Snow fell once or twice in the neighbourhood delving the week, and mote thau once ice of the thickness of Iralf-a-crown wat funnel in the morning. Suss;:x.—Our reports this week, upon the whole, arc I. venerable, and the wheatdields, in all parts of this district, now present Ito ordinary scene 14' industrious activity. In several quarters, however, we regret to state, that the farmers, fear ful of the weather, haw e cut their grain in an unripe state ; and in chi: condition touch has been already carried ; but a con siderable portion thereof being, in the vil, regarded as too green for housing, it has been brought hack and spread upon the stobble to dry, as the intervals of sunshine have allowed. This, our correspondent tells us, has suffered much it hugs acquit ed a dryness from the wind, but a shrunken appearance, and notch of its original substance and quality has bVPII This calamity, however, has not been general, our is tlit re verse of a fair average crop as yet anticipated. SOMFRSET.IIII:E.--We have the great pleasure of stating, that the wheat harvest is proceeding rapidly. Several far- Aiers have already carried a great part of their crops; and from the present tine weather, there is the best reason to hope, that ia the course of the next week, the greater part of the wheat crops in this part of Soutersetshire will be safely housed,. Tanotnn paper. _ _ Wrurstirttr.—it is confidently expected, should the weather prose favourable, that the corn in Wiltshire will be housed its the course of the next three weeks, in consequence of the un precedented number of persons now seeking to be employed. It is a singular fact, that Mr. Robert Canning, a most wealthy anti respectable farmer of Ozbottrit, tt ilts, has now sixty per sons employed reapingone piece of wheat. _ . Nonvot.a.—Within a circuit of ten miles round this cite 3, considerable quantity of corn will have been housed or stacked. this week. In those fields it here the wheats are much laid, and the ears rather green, the old log ring -bone fast (as the harvest-men call it) appears to be a judicious one. This is merely to place each handful of reaped corn across the other, by which means the wheatews lie upon the straw, and being thus kept from Mr the ground, become dry in a shorter time. The smaller too the sheaves are made up afterward, the better. 110 P INTELLIOENCE.—CANTEIMURY, Se'PT. ft —ln this neighbourhood the hop plantations sustained very great in jury by the late storms. Half the poles were blown down, and where they withstood the gale, the blossoms were blown off and scattered upon the pound. Out planter of this city cal. elliatPS his loss at 6,9001. ; another at 1,2001.: all of them to s considerable amount. Wonce.sTEn, SEPT. 13,—The average prices in our last mar ket were from 101. to 1 I. The plantations have since suffered so much from the cold nights that all hopes of a favourable torn arc vaiiishe.l, as the crops in general, from the present ap pearances will scarcely answer the expense of picking. The:.e ig a double-blossomed cherry-tree in the Shrubbery or T. Richards, Esq. at Edgbastou, near Birmingham, now bear ing fruit of a tine appearance. 'f he pier at Hyde, in the Isle of Wight, already extends up. wards of a quarter of a mile into the sea; it is in contempla tion to extend it much farther, and when finished, it will form one of the most delightful marine promenades in this country. At a Meeting of the Magistrates in the division of Marl borough, the Magistrates gave the inn-keepers notice, that in consequence of the continned complaints of the badness of their beer, it' their brewers served them with bad, they were at liberty to brew it themselves, or buy it wherever they pleased, and if from so doing they were wiled out of their houses, they would grant them next year a license at other houses, and on no eottsidcra•ion renew that to the one, they had quitted ; •and that, if after this notice they persevered in selling bad beer, they would not again be Hemet'. Among the numerous effects of the late earthquake in the north of Scotland, the sluice-gate of a piece of water at Parkhill, the seat of General Gordon, near Aberdeen, weighing several tons, was raised from the fintudatiori 12 inches, and some large stones having rolled underneath it kept it up in that situation until most of the water es caped before it could be replaced. The Bath Paper says—" The interesting Mrs. Bever ley, well known in this city, and other watcting places, for delivering Readings and Recitations, has lately been displaying her rhetorical talents in a new scene of action, vit. at the Court of Assize tint the county of Warwick, pleading her own cause against a charge et' pilfering a pocket-handkerchief in Birmingham !—She attracted sia. usual, a numerous and elegant company ; and we doul.t not that her impressive eloquence, as, usual, affected the sensibility of a great part of her audience ; but unfortu nately there were tairtve iadividualv, who were so °bait . rate and ungallant, as not to be persuaded that the kerchief was picked up by mistake ; and the consequen:e ' was, that poor Mrs. Beverley, /ribs Elizabeth Ricards, was sentenced to incarceration fur the term of 12 calen dar months." WALKING MATCH OF 1500 Mts.Es.—Barnet, the pe destrian, who, with such ease completed the ext►aordinary tusk at East Ham, in Essex, so recently, has undertaken to perform in 3t days 1500 miles, a distance hitherto not attempted. The spot chosen for this intended feat is a fine piece of ground at Pig's Marsh, between Tooting and Mitcham, on the Brighton road. 1k 11 - . M to start on Saturday. t liven : , rate: nLver ciatinctt any indemnity, At Least •• ......... , •••• ••-• , • •••.- •• • ---•• ••• 1 - 7 -"" a itiat; piece WI grimintt at g - ig ei a gm". Ha ta for sit rolisitlerable a time in a State of appitrent fbr the.:c zesscls r e ri o d that 3lttrat heitsibiliiA , haN tibt.tilied his discharge from the service, any' lA and Nlitcham, on the Bri. , •hton road. 11 11. M tO . e, r sta ficcUitoi the tbrctic N'aylu. stew aili f ostanouth. lie is reircetty teevvi..red. on Saturday. - 6 I , i I