The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-31 00:00:00

/ "") -•• • Mr 4wf e4r, No. LSI.—VoL. XI. rouriciL 1)ISQUIS11 lON. of EMIGRATION. I is state.l as a curious 'act, that have liccerae unwelcome guests ia most of vest hetels own the Centineet. This account is untloubtedly at variance with what gualatneri often talk of as u mat- for of neloriety, natr.ely, the esgerttc-ss which ustel to Le usanifeshel to receive " wherever he went, and to assist in casing him of his superfluous I tsiincas. Sech, indeed, is the history Landed down to ' 13 but it is from other times, and ttp:dies to a TACO Of leuglish travellers very different from these who ore itcsv buffeted about the whole surface of Europe, with frequent derision and contempt. The favocr;.te maxim of our neighbours on the Continent, who jadge from their personal intercetn•'.2 With Our countryezen, is, that the British character has totally change I with circum stances; and that, siaoe the pence of 1815, the Mikr Anglais and the giiueas LftYil tillappwr,A together.— Now, foreignem of the last age, anti of this, hare had different standards by whigb to judge the English cha racter. Formerly. there were many travellers from England, min of furtuee, who went to see the world, and who were ambitious to beheld it from that advan tageous eminence, svlieseen wealth and rank hod pleeed them. There were reatly Englishereu likewise of low degree, who eravelled ; bat they were few in oulnio:r, • last in obscurity; and the pahlie ef the tl;' nti t tional charectte; of Englandwas g.evorned by, and itteatid of with, that of the dupe at' class to Altiell we. have Wit is the asc hle,tfiree , yes:i? Instead of so.az Lunaretis of lihoral and wealthy traveller{, we send abroad into every state of Europe thousand; of neely and parsimonious eiaigrant:—:tun who, driven by taxation into obscurity at home, go to Live rummy, net to spend it; who leave no traces of afdtenee or gran dear on their route, but olf.eil the inhabitants by clownish manners, underbred arrogance, • uniis z aisci sulpiciun of the truth and litml;:sty of eve:7 pers.itt with wheat they have any dealings. It is me, eat:referee that the English character has clertged, Let that an inferior ales of Englih:lam expose them teives to foreigners, coinpared with that to which the of our travellers wa., confided Lein): the preset': gt.ceerati.m. The mischief they have thete their country, tvl.at concerns the revenue, has often bon discunied in and out of Parliamont. The evil may not be :114:- I,e:her iticoesitlerable, the ugh we arc wailing to pass it ‘. :et- as one of those Wilk!) Ili> law can care, with any recard to jestice. The real gravareen cif this rage fir ver....gratien amongst our till:kite orders, is the prvjuthee they have airiest us in the minds of lb. roigeers, tied the obloquy which they have cast in fre- ins!aneez :Ton the name of F.ngliritinen. Whet • such people vt by their. emt gratiens? :.kiog rtes tine; t:e.r .lecettre, they live a, e!!"(lij at hone'"? When.: al: have siefered in their cir ra-entanoea, CA all raoban m i .; es hare tlene more or the tini.:erselity of the erlevatme amlull;;.2:t the t:'.og of it ; eel th Iran who 11AS dot every One of the 'ereitive.lou tehicit be once ,eijoyeil, set loses none • respeetebirey as CollTareit With 11'S surrounding I:44:llb(ittre. W 114: is now ass:reel Of Ai::.l.:-Chepolle, sec.y with truth be alledged of most towns upon the rozfinent tviticlt is within the migrating letitudes. ' "".^a7 all detest the peep le ..t 'ein.dattl, tram the great rziority of hinelish sc.:iterns which they have encoun 7 te:-.1. We erect that the mischief may itbr;.lge or lei ?gate itself, an.t the! the telp.q.ithuity of our comm ? ... .e.:ett may contribute to send them home. Bet John Pel! above the rest of his spec is fitted ex.. 1.1 ivcly fir his in; !I lire-si:e. Ese:pt i. s Pe. ee2 . ), all ellemtes are tit,. t.e:e to ~;~ : r-_.. r.:; ~►~ :. J`--- ii• 03141 Ou tncj, eon litution ant. itatus% MONDAY, AUGUST 31, S. LY MADP - D. Avilg!v: 6. Note trar.reitte4 on the ite, La' :Tote ny the Cali Fret of Madill to tin: Nq;:.) d lied tro‘riu, relative a.) tl.e situation aZ Sol-tn Sioce the period veacn nielatotholy events, Sr a na tural .sonsequerice, communicated to Spanish America the gar:a oir Bevolutifm, and cattsed daplorable t.lfixts to be male fur the par;ose of s , .l . .t,ratitt,g the subjeets ef that t.rtitory from their legitimate Motrarch, his Cathtlie Nfaj...sty has invitriaLly regal:it:ad ,is con duct by the following principles To employ every means depending upon human wisdom, to leap back the deludad into the paths of order and obedience. twireg fur that pUrpoae as much lull:ile:et and tts little rigour as pessibia. 9d. To sack in diplomatic• relations political means of attaining this object. The revolutionary aCiattchise ment of South America, or its return under legitimate dominion, prewnt, in point. of policy, considerations of such weight that the eyes of Europa ought to ba fixed upon a cenjumture which may lead to a tiv.v order of affors in its political anti commercial relations. The united efferts of the principal Europ:an Powers have already annihilated that disastrous system which gave birth to the American Revolution, but it still re mains them to pot down this system in America itself. where its cruets arc of the most serious nature. Ills Catholic M.justy never having lost sight of the two principles above stated, and being always animated by the desire of potting an end to the effasion of biota], nod to thotai devastation s whir is are the de d iorable con sequences of a war of this nature, has only %vaited for an opportunity of calling the attention of thz Allied Powers to an object which has several times formed the subject of notes that have been tuanimitti.4l to them, and recently of ne,,, , -ociaions caryij On in so c:riicable a manner with his Royal Ifighne.;.% the Priate %, • to• . • t..st Bta.m. The insurreation of PernturtborOavolly a deep im pression upon his Catholic Majesty, and :tt tint moment when he %visited to recommend this event to Om atten tion of thc Sovereigns, his Allies, it was al S 0 necesary to demonstrate its direct relations with tix general int.irest. It has been with the greatest 31163f:tenon that his Majesty has received the aasivcr of his Ili4ll Allies. They open a way fur vc.ry impeciant ti...gociations, and may larval the Powers to interfero in the viiforturvate state of circionstances in wine!' America is placed, in oracr to employ all t 1 tucans tbat prudence ;mil vigour suggest to bring under subjection the revolted Provinces, tool put an cod to the immorality and pditical conta gion arLing from such a state or Ito or.ler to giro effect to the first nicaser,li so happily commenced, his Majesty is ofopinion, that the moment is arrived when he is called upon to make laown, in a categorical and solemn a:Miller, to his hlirh !tines, the principles which he has prescribed to himself, to operate the good which he I:reposes, and such as might be ex pected from his sentiments of humanity. thereltire, to the overtures which he has already mode, his Majesty now de,./mes, that the fid lowing arc the points upon which he ha: inflexibly de tecmined st. A General Amnesty for the Insurgents immedi ately upon thvir submission. 2J. Almisfion for At:aerie:tits of suitable endow ments, to all oilices in C4):11:11U11 with European Spa niards. Rogultvions for the commerce of these Provinces with r ureiga Situ:: , , upon principles of free dom, mat ....ad:rola:11c to the present political situation of these countries and of Europe .14.1 i. A sincere disposition on the part of his Catholic Majesty, tqi/ give his sanction to every measure which, in the Lou:vs of the negocimions, may be proposed ta Lim by his High Allies, and which may be com patible with the maintenance of Ins rights and lass His Majesty is therefore persuaded, that nothing can any longer opptiAe the opening of negticiatious on the basis ab laid down, mud which, la 3 is convinced, are eltiajly cont4inable to the views already manifesto t by his.:111 : 0134, fawloagh (.:irrespowlent.) Minns are. this year, is cousequeno: of the long emAtitknaly:e (,4' dry •vt..uthcr, almost as dear as peaches, ► lulerable (Alitlil bellll , g, at this time, in Covent Gonten market, far t.,0-peutc, and an indifferent rsch Moro. 94.1. Abeat two months se .a it was urtiounced is the eau:.iot:ru..is, that the Lent Mayer, aided by 'glee . City i'laeistrates, intemled to ievcstigate the MIR'S, then otistin!;, rtf' the diepreportioeate prices of Preeet and WHeirt. The disparity still exi.es, :awl in a gm:lee:- degree thee it then dui; time:Ohre :sue extetioes On ttic part es le* Leriship towards thetestoratiun of an areelee cot such vied importauce, would lee hailed with t'et highest gratitude by the public at berg •. It is the (eittion of ninny well in - rernatel nice en this subject, tle e t the run-exiatetnce et' the Assiati laws iv the ettiee: use ef the evil - enuaktined of; the affluent mealinen 'having gaived tee 4teeat aleepentleratice, ; materially to influersco the price ef rlrced ; mid they ? now profiting: 'nest enormtaely by the chaty,e, to no small detriment of c'deffe the middle and low: dosses of the mein:unit). the remedy, el -:arc, it to reeestutliah the Atelze cif - It:el.; :gait Ihe Public will. then be protected. Tuesday a deputation of eereral t , eentlemen from the Corporation et the City tr: Lentheit proceeded to Kew, where they waited cn ameral Taylor, for the purpose of offering the City State Ilarge to convey her Majesty to Windsor, they having underetoott from the public papers that her Majesty expressed a wish to be conveteed thither by water. On Thursday an answer was received at Gana:ill from General Taylor, conveying her Ma jesty's most gracious thanks for the offer, and informing them, at the same time, that her Majesty had never expressed such an intention. The 51argravine of Anspech had,. in lieu of her 9.,0901. a year L;ranted her by the King te: Prussia, up en the trmsfer by the late Margrave of his Principalities to the Crown of Prussia. This 2,000:. per anumn was emir/ruled by the present King of Prasa.a and his Ministers, on the death of the Lite Ma rave ; but from some cease, at present unknown, not a single instalment has been paid, uotwithetandit4 repeated re monetrimeee lime teem urged. The. Margravine being ieforinedNchat a large. wait of money beloneing to the Otwernoteia of Presia, was deposited at dal miner:. banker's is the city, she is said to have been induee, by her law advisees, to atteeli the said money in the banker's hands, to the extent to her unpaid claims, amounting u, te4,0001. ! Wednesday a Court of Ilireetnie was held at the Fast India House, when the ships William Pitt, Lord Cas tlereagh, and Streatham, were taken up for one voyage in the Crepaey's eervice. The i4usta raees commenced on Tucaday ; hut, rO thongh the sports were encellent, the course was tat thinly ::trended ; there was not that equipage which formerly griutod the Runnymeade ; and certainly fewer people from London were never seen. Accounts trma Stockpert state, that on Tuesday last the town was in a state (if tranquillity. Hundreds of the spinners had returned to their work, and seem very sorry tier what has happened. There are many who still refuse employment ; bit as the most refractory itf them have been taken up and committed to prison, it is expecied the rest will soon resume their former em ployment. At Manchester, however, although some journeymen have reel:tied to work, particularly at the mills of a Mr. Grey, yet the workmen come in hat slowly. The expected meeting of Colliers was held in the neighbeurhood of Manchester on Monday. The work men at some of the Collieries have struck, bee this measure is by no means general, so that no impediment will be felt by the mills worked by steam. wltich was intentled by the authors of this meeting. OM the same day the notorious liaguley attempted to convert a meeting of weavers ut Stockport into a meeting t f Ueforwees, but was hustled by the populace. The Weavers confined themselves to their object, and re solved to strike next week, unless an atl.vance of SS per cent. is made in their ivegee. • Tuesday the festival uf St. Louie was celebrated by all the French in this metropolis. At ten o'clock in the morning they assembled in the French chapel in King street, Portman-square, where high mass was celebrate:l with the greatest bokrenity. The chae-I was crowded: among the congret,,netion were all tie: Catholic nobility and gentry in town, ate French, Spanish, Portuguese... and Sardieian Amleseedors an suites, cove rel ?~tench noLloneu deco eyed with the CT itmeS awl otherinaignia, of their reepeetiva ranks, bovines many ladies and gen.. tient:ere oft hp establielted chuseh. 'Poesy!)* five thousand Mrj of the Army of Oecurs ticii.. 4 is said. will be wthrecd en its return free r7)llu:Q. • r- • • • N ‘... • t • _J .