The National Register. — London, England, 1821-12-23 00:00:00

PARIS, Dec. 16.—0 f the new appointments, that of M. Peyronnet to be Keeper of the Seals has ex cited considerable surprise. He is neither known for family honours, Jim political influence, or extra ordinary talents. He was originally an advocate at Bourdeaux, of which he is a native; and by the in- Serest of M. Laine was appointed Procureur Gene ral of the Royal Court of Bourges, in the department of L'Ain. The patronage of M. Line and M. Raves, his townsmen, brought him to Paris, where be obtained the appointment of King's Procureur at • the court of the Chamber of Peers. In that capacity be conducted, last spring, the trial of the alleged conspirators of August, 1820 ; and the trial of one of them, Masion, who was condemned about a month ago. Having thus made his appearance on Paris' political and judicial boards, be was found useful to the late Ministry fin his zeal, and by their influence was elected member of the Chamber of Deputies for the department of Cher. In the Chamber he has spoken only once or twice, and ' without any success. His accent, as the Parisians express it, swells strongly of the province. He is said, however, to possess the power of erica:pore de fence. He appeared yesterday on the bench of Ministers without his robes of office, which, from the suddenness of his appointment, could not be • ready, and excited a smile in the Chamber, at the figure he cut in his court-dress with a sword. "See, (said one of the Deputies), Justice with the sword, but without the balance:" It is said that M. de Serre is to be sent as ambas sador to Berlin, and that M. de Chate.subriand is to be appointed to be Master of the University, with a seat in the Cabinet ; but these are mere rumours. M. de Serre will must probably remain in the • Chamber of Deputies, where his friends will require his aid. M. Leine has given in his resignation as Minister of State. Among the rumoured appointments is that of the deputy Bertin de Vaux to be Prefect of Police. M. de Clermont-Tonnere was yesterday admitted • to take the oaths before his Majesty, in his quality of Minister of Marine. • Malmo, Dec. 6.—Yesterday at half-past three in the afternoon, their Majesties and their Royul Highnesses returned to this capital. The garrison and local militia f i rmed a double line for the pas.sage of the august family, who made their entry amidst the acclamations of an immense multitude, who evinced theft attachment by the most ardent demon strati= of joy. The following is en extract of intelligence which has just reached us from Barcelona, down to the Gth December : • • Several incendiary pamphlets, in which insurrec tion is openly advocated, have been distributed in profusion : the Captain General has, rather clan destinely, introduced 300 soldiers and warlike stores • into the citadel, in which the Commandant of Bar celona has shut himself up. As soon as this event was known, the militia caused a general muster to be sounded , and spontaneously assembled to the number of four thousand, shouting " Death to the Servile'?" An attempt was made to surprise Mount-Jouy ; but this tilled. The oommandant of this fort, and be who commands the citadel, replied, that they could not do so without au order from the Captain- General. An officer was despatched to demand an order to this effect. The answer is expected with impatience, and great ferment prevails. The most disastrous consequences will inevitably follow, if this order be net granted. The populace are very ve hement, and openly avow their intention of repul sing the authorities, should they present themselves to re-enter Barcelona. The election of the Regidors at Sarria gave rise to violent cummotions. The Pr sident of the As terribly was ill-treated and struck; a conflict with fr l uivcs took place, in which many were wounded. The militia have been despatched to restore order, and we are as yet ignorant how things have ended. All eyes are turned towards Riego, who has shown himself in various points of Catalonia, and who is now said to be at Nlanresti. Extract of u letter, dated Paris, Dec. I 6.—" This morning great changes were expected to appear in . the different brunches of Administration. Ihe Pre fect of Police at Paris, the Director of the Posts, the Director of the Customs, the Director of Police, and the Director of Registrations, will all be changed. These changes will be followed by the appointment ut new Prefects in many of the departments. A change of Ministry in France inters a much more extensive cha n g e its all Inc departments of authority than in Englalul• From the centralization of power at Paris, a shock in the Cabinet is felt through all the gradations olutfice down to the Mayor of a vil lege Directors, Receivers General, Pretects, Police 'went' &c. are ail subject to the impulse." . BavussL the. b 011 the 27th ult. Mina 6/16eSbelli al heavy toutrltna atoll upon the middle classes THE NATIONAL REGISTER of Galicia and especially upon the nobility and clergy, for the subsistence of his troops ; and this measure has met with general approbation at Co runna. At the same time he has nominated a Pro visional Junta of Government, which kas declared all the ports of Galicia free to foreign vessels, upon payment of a very moderate duty. He has also di minished the direct contribution. This will pro vide very ample resources, partioularly on account of the prohibitory system adopted by the Cortes in other provinces. The levy en mast of the national, active, and local militia, and the formation and or ganization of an army of 30,000 men, have likewise been decreed. Four thousand troops of the line, and six thousand of the regular provincial are ordered to march to the frontiers of Galicia, and assemble in the vicinity of Astorga. In case of ne cessity, this division will be reinforced by all the disposeable military 'loves of the province PARIS, DgC. 18.—Yesterday morning the Coun ese Simaon was received by the King and Madame. The first and fourth Bureaux assembled yesterday to take cognizance of the resignation of M. M. Villele and Corbiere, of their functions as Members of the Budget Commission. Their opinion of the expediency of this step, in consequence of having been called to the King's Council, was not partici pated by the other Deputies of the Commission, and they were accordingly re-elected. It is said that a public sitting will take p'ace to-mcrrow, to receive a communication from Government, relatively to the Health Law adopted by the Chamber of Peers. The nomination of MM. Royal and Portal to the Chamber of Peers, vacated the representation of the department of the Seine, and that of the depart ment of the - Tarn and Garonne. M. Corbievs was yesterday installed in the Mi nistry of the Interior. It is announced that the office of Director-Gene ral of the Police is suppressed, and that there will be an under secretary attached to the Ministry of the Interior. On Sunday night, M. Angles, Pzefect of Police, resigned ; the administration is, ad interim, confided to M. Parisot, Chief of the first division. It is announced, that the sittings of the Chamber of Deputies will continue suspended during some days, in order to afford leisure to the'new Ministry to complete its administrative organization, and to prepare its legislative labours. It is added, that the first communication front the Ministry to the Cham ber of Deputies will have for its object the demand of six -twelfths, and the projet of law for the regu lation of the journals as announced by the Keeper of the Seals Two of the children of Lieutenant General Count Bertrand have just entered the Institution of St. Barbe. M. le Che"alier Delaville, the ex-Secretary of the Council of Ministers, is to be named Master of Re quests Extraordinary. Report states, that on the 14th instant the King made a promotion of ten Marshals-de-Camp, among whom are mentioned M. de la Bourdonnaye, Colonel of Chasseurs ; Viscount de Latour Maubourg, Co lonel of Cavalry ; and Colonel de Matharel. The population of the 86 deyart►►►ents, of which the kingdom of France, amording to the treaties of 1814 and 1815, now consists, consisted, in the year 1820, of 30,407,907 individuals. In the year 1819, there were 990,023 births, and 786,388 deaths; making an excess of births amounting to 203,685. _ _ The first act of the new Ministry has been to withdraw the Censorship, lately proposed to the Chamber of Deputies by the Administration whom they have succeeded. This seems to promise that, henceforward, the entire charter will be attended to without laws of exception, and that the Adminis tration who have succeeded will render it the rule of their conduct and the object of their devotion. This is to hold that the new project of the law re. lative to the police of journals, announced to us by the Keeper of the Seals, will contain only repressive provisions, and will banish from our leg islation for ever the preventive system, condemned by so many sound minds, and which, according to our opinion, is more conformable to the spirit of absolute govern. ments than those of which the frame is constitutional, which should punish faults only which have been committed. The Drapean Blanc congratulates himself on the law of the censorship being withdrawn, and those who have any attachment to constitutional ideas agree in that respect with the Drapeau. He appears to believe that the withdrawn law will not be re placed by one of the same sort, but by a definitive law, which, exempting the journals from previous censorship, will leave them liable only to repressive measures. This is a hope in which every one may participate, but which, like many other things, is only tounded in conjecture, The Drapeau very justly reprobates the argument hitherto employed by the Ministers. and which amounted to this--that as it was almost impossible to sake a repressive law I tor the journals, it wa s use l ess to attempt it, and that it was sufficient for their purpose to perpetuate the censorship. FROM LAST NIGHTS GAARTTE. 0111.••••••••• This Gazette notifies the appointment of W. Wise. of Ruby, Warwickshire. Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. J. Elden, Stangate Street, Lambeth, slater, from Dec. ts so Jan. 8. A. Millar, Vauxhall Road, oilman, from Dee. 23 to Jan. Iz C. G. and H. B. HAI, Grosvenor Street West, Pimlico, ear. penters, from Dec. ZS to Jan. Iv. BANKRUPTS. T. Griffis, Knightsbridge, painter. Solicitors, Messrs. Palmer and Co. Bedford How. S. Churchil), Cannon Row, Westminster, wine merchant. Sal. Mr. Howard, Care Street. R. Grayson, Wigan, Lancashire, cotton spinner. Sol. Mr, Norris, Bedford Row. 11. W. Adock, Birmingham, dealer. Sols. Me.srs. Choke and Co. Chancery Lane. G. Munro, Commercial Sale Rooms, Mincing Lane, wine merchant. Sol. Mr. Wright. Fenchurch Street. G. M. Forbes, Liverpool, merchant. Sol. Mr. Wheeler, Carle Street, Holborn. C. Croker, Upper Varm, Crayford, farmer. Sols. Messrs. Stevens and Co. Little St. Thome: Apostle. C. Christie, Clement's Lane, insurance broker. Sois. Mean. Allesion and Co. Freeman's Court, Cernhill. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT.—As the King will open the Parliament in person, the most extensiv e arrangements are making by the Lord Great Cham berlain, Lord Gwydyr, for the royal reception, on his Majesty's first appearance before the Parliament after the Coronation; and contrary to what has taken place for some years past, they will be under his Lordship's sole controul. The Lord Great Cham berlain, by virtue of his office, has the government of the whole Palace of Westminster, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, the Yeoman Usher, and door-keepers, being under his Lordship's command. —From this controul not having been heretofore strictly enforeed,considerable confusion has, at times arisen from the admission of visitors to the old House of Lords, the Painted Chamber, and other places through which his West:: had to pass Various individuals had issued tickets, or had been instrumental in procuring the admission of specta.. tors, but at the approaching opening of Parliament, none but the Lord Great Chamberlain's tickets wi:l be suffered to gain an entrance for visitors. A ticket and seal are preparing for the express purpose; and the issue of tickers will be on the most liberal scale, as far as the same shall be consistent with the dig nity and comfort of the proceedings on that day. The Parliamentary Commission which lately at in Dublin, means to recommend that the Union shall be carried into complete effect by the removal of the commercial restrictions between the two countries now in force, and equalising the duties. It considers the present machinery of the public offices in Ireland on a scale much too large and dis proportioned to the revenue, and means to recom mend a great reduction in the number of clerks, the amount of salaries, and other means of economy and retrenchment. On the night of the Ist instant, the tower of Lelant church, Cornwall, was struck by lightning, which, after forcing two large pieces of stone out of the middle of the tower, entered tha bell-chamber, broke out the four windows, and damaged the arches, ripping open the roof and leads in several places. The electric fluid entered the belfry, de molished the windows, and cracked the wall of the tower in several places; it then went into the gal lery. shattering the partition between thnt and the belfry, breaking the glass in the gallery win dow ; then shaking a huge pillar, adjoining the gal lery , in a dreadful manner, from thence it made its way to the communion, removing the wainscot out of its place, and fining two large pieces of stone from a pillar, which were bruised to atoms ; the last appearance of its effects was on a pew below, one aide of which was shattered to pieces. Mr. John Johnstone, the celebrated comedian, has been sworn in one of his Majesty's Hint. Band of Gentlemen Pensioners. The situation is obtained by purchase, and immediately previous to the coro nation, one was sold for 10001. On Thursday last a report was propagated (on 'Change, that Ministers have it in contemplation to reduce the interest of the public Funds One per Cent. respectively ; and that an arrangement has been made fir currying it into execution immediately atier its being submitted to Parliament. The ru mour did not obtain credit on the Stock Exchange, as it had no effect whatever on the funds. PnosecurtoNs.—The cause paper in the Court of King's Bench exhibits not less than 301 actions, all set down for trial at the Sittings after Term.— Among the number many are prosecutions. We find the King r. Rance, and the King v. Turner.— These arc both indictments preferred by Mr. Murray, the Solicitor. There is also the following highly important cause, to which the public are looking with great interest :—The King v. Murray and three others.