The National Register. — London, England, 1821-02-11 00:00:00

i J am' ~~ .. - Mho trr. •• • fur ting,.conftituttn• anti AMU. .? _ _ SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1821. No 1498.—V0L. XIV.] FRENCH PAPERS. The liforsitear of Friday. contains the following statement " The investigation undertaken to discover the authors of the outrage which took place in the Palace of Thuilleries, having excited suspicion against an individual called Neveu, a warrant was issued against him by the Judge of Instruction.— He was met yesterday, about two o'elgek, in one of the streets of Paris, in a cabriolet, and conducted to the Prefecture of Police, before the Commissary ap pointed to draw up the process verbal of the arrest, and to proceed to the versification and seizure of the papers and other objects, which he might have about him, to be sent immediately before the Judge of Instruction. At the moment when, escorted by the peace officer and two inspectors, this person was going to enter into the office of the aforesaid Commissary, and was passing into the narrow corridor which leads to it, he cut his throat with a razor, which he .had concealed about his clothes, and by a movement so quick that it was impossible to stop him. He ex pired immediately." in the ldositear of Saturday the following addi tional particulars relative to the above event are .given, togethek with an account of some mysterious attempts to produce a sudden depreciation in the French funds : " This person had been an old merchant : he was Afterwards a broker, and has since been a bankrupt. He is said to have bought twelve pounds of gun powder on the day of the explosion, at different places, and in difkrent disguises. Several small packets, containing a vhitish powder, which is sup posed to be poison, have been found upon him ; sad a belt, which contained a considerable sum in gold. He has concealed his lodging very carefully, and there is reason to believe he has lived for some days past with women of the town. He is a native of Rheims. " Some days ago several exchange brokers re ceived anonymous letters, requiring them, with the most dreadful menaces, to sell the rentes, so as to produce a fall in the course of exchange, before the first of February. It is unnecessary to say that these commands did not produce the effect desired - by the writers of them. They then had recourse to More efficacious means : this morning, Messrs. Per ronet, Beaumont, and Billet, exchange brokers, received letters from the houses of Delessert and Rougemont, requiring them to sell rentes to a large *mount. This appeared very extraordinary, and one of the brokers thought fit to apply to the person signing the letter, who declared that his signature had been so adroitly forged as to render it impossible 4) be detected at the first glance. The other firm Ills made a similar statement. " From the particulars collected as to Nevem, who killed himself yesterday, it seems that he bas been for several days concealing himself from the search of the Police. It has been ascertained that several gunsmiths and venders of powder have declared that man, whose person they describe, had come to their shops, where he bought about 16 pounds of Jaw powder, and that at two of the shops he had ordered the box containing the powder to be fas 4cned in a small barrel, and scaled, it bein g intended as he said, to be nut into the country In souse /pence .of this informatieu, the dwelling of the purchaser, who was known to be Neveu. was dis covered. At the first furnished home where inquiry waimade, it was found that he did not come there regularly, and with some it was learned that he frequented another hotel in the Faubourg Poisson mere. Au Officer of Police .on going there could get no further information ; when, as chance would •bave it, Neveu happened to cuter the hotel at the moment the Officer i% us asking for him for the 3d or 4th time. As he Lad ;rased fur a tradesman Irma the country, the Officer put sonic quehtions to him, which he answered vaguely and with clithar. after which the Officer quitted him, but remained upon the watch ; u few minutes utter he saw him go out, and get into a cabriolet. lie then went to him and acquainted him he bud a warrant for his arrest. I le appeared quite confounded, And offered him money; but the officer took him into cuitedy, and carried him, without having bean !:arched, to the tante of the Pretest et P.:11,, It is said that 1,500 francs in gold, two razors, and a packet of poison were found on his person. PARIS, Fan. 6.--Certain Journals for the last month repeat every morning, that the Duke de Gallo, Minister or Foreign Affairs of Naples, who followed King Ferdinand to Laybaah, had received an order to stop on the way : that he had been in terdicted from passing the frontiers of the Austrian territories ; and, finally, that it hai been indulged to him be must not appear at Laybach. All thus assertions are alike cuutrary to truth. It is true that the Austrian officer who commands at Mantua. prevented the Duke de Gallo frthe continuing on his . route ; but upon the complaint Wrestled to Lay. bath by the latter, a courier catraordinary carried lack to the Commandant at Identua an order to mar the Neapolitan Minister to pass. At Gotha the'name difficulties presented themselves. They wore removed in the same manner. Thus the Duke de Gallo is nosy with the Kin, of Naples at the 'Congress of Laybach. Prince Rufib has not resumed the portefeuille, as the same journals have stated. In the Chamber of Deputies a petition ass pre sented from M. Simon Larieres, chief of battalion at Paris, who complained of being discharged with out allowance, and of being stuck off from thy' list of the army. He prayed that the Chamber might take steps to have him restored to his rank, or put him on his trial. half-pay at the disbanding oourteen yaw of active campaigns, a step in rank i 1814, gave him, he i , the al lowance which had re ceived a letter dated Sept. 16, 1610, notice--" that to the King of principles in p rofetied, his without allow rolls of the officets be reinstated in - him . made 4 of the , hich he diseharge from the efforts to and The Pro' he now applied petitioner tulded-- perty, and as long as . not expr:._ in ex ternal sots, nobody has a righr to be offended with them, even although they any be in opposition to those of the government: Opposition sentiments belong to the ea ence of a representative govern ment." A lung debate ensued on this petition, in which the ultras on both sides took part. The speech of M. Etienne, egaintt ministers in this affair, wee in general lively and spirited, and in some passages highly striking and eloquent. He argued that such treatment as this officer had been subjected to, was to render the disbanded troops dangerous. " Will you,' said he, " permit him to wear epaulets of honour, or the tits of poverty?" The order of the day was passed on this petition. • The French Five per Cents. 83f. 20c.—Bank Stock, 1,4971. 50c. GERMAN PAPERS. ....olfip..m. 'kr/ENNA, JAN. 26.--The Austrian Olnerver has again a lung article under the heml of " The King dom of the Two Sicilies, " dated Naples, Jam 1 3 , the general spirit of which may be been by the fal lowing pages Eveu brio's( the iovitatiew of the Savereivit to the there was only our opinion oil Ilse impossibility of maintaining the present order of things among all who had any monis of Juilgilig of the signalise* and the wows of Ilic country, whatever their views hl oilier respects might be. • * • * • MINI the pal bran lit of the 811 t of December was to decide upon the royal message, not 21i incmours—perhaps nut 10—would have 'ruled for rttaittinit the Spanish cuuslltuUuu , lad laity nut hl rut tea - tined by the threats of the Cat boner( and of a small tier of desperate ;lentagesses. One timid hase beau d'u•agult l ": • • 0 1, e nnod babe Bern a tentless to the scoot so t he form ally adequate tiles of the confusion, the rathakrasmsrui, the shame of all !hose oleo, alio, front mole cowardice, siipporied laleitiole which t h ey IthraCouoidertal if ituisreuee, .lid eves ISMl*ate. " Since that day the stall( of affairs lies became more desperate. Van of talent. who .r number wab never euosidelable, bare been all seaweed from public La bats v01411(464 wit hdrawn. The civil and (Initial) whom , . tiwl (if WC witty speak of admiuistl auun ill 1111+11141e tie perfect &hardly) a nn the hawk of the twist isitrompenutt men, who p,qut not Now ou help thetuseltes front t idy to day. atAi do not Ft,jux the roufidesiee 4,641./ liaa vaed eau:tents. 01.a..1.41 F., 411 d. Pit M. . - tether desperate Republicans who surroutd and direet Wet, arc masters of the country, and their power Is 'founded on terror alone. The sittiugs of the parliament. which feels its isepotence and nothingness', are intended sandy to bold up to the people the shadow of govern ment, which, in fact no where exists : and to supply the journals front time to time with mate patriotic assert.. rations, which the speaker. utter meclusuicully, and the audience hears with indifference. • • • • I • " Dylpondeney has reached its height, since the pelstl cation bf the letter of the King of - France, urging the King of Naples to accede to the invitation of the Save rent's* ; for, before this, a general hope seems to have beet& eutertaised that France would not act will' Ilse ether Powers, but rather oppose them. " A great deal is spoken, written, decreed, mad pr °- claimed, about measures of defence, bet in fact little er nothing is done. A few days ago it was affirmed that IV,OOO men should be assembled at several points of Abrams"); but. besides the garrisons of Peltcera,Cleitelle. and some small fortresses, there are not perhaps V,OOO men collu.ed any where. Great dependence is placed en the militia and rulunteels, but there are neither arms nor money to put Went in motion; and the patriotic seal is much too lukewarm to supply their wants. Gen Pepe bad reckoned on 30,000 erect in Abrumo, but when he arrived there he did not find 1,090. The Abruzsos de clared they did not wish to expose their lives fur the 6 ' Even arere there means to raise an army, it would be impossible, under present circumstances, to restore ovdee and discipline. The best Generals —Uraseesa, Fakes gieri, reared : most of the good officers bay! followed their example, nod Pepe is not the mass to create an army out of discontent, ill paid, Old disorgmased troops. Mistrisat and suspicion prevails anion* the officer* mad soldiers, and even hetweeo the officers, neither knowing what side the other world take in case of actual liuraililies; and accounts of troops mutinying against their officers were daily received. "It may be i Anted what impression sal this makes on Sicily, and how ardently the pentacles to be delivered from so disgraceful a y0k.,." Well-meaaing people, but %imam not qualified to fore a right judgnient of great 'yews, tat the P•treittn Power, bad better Wks'u trsugail r the whole is ripe for dolts*. teen without them.' Lt is here time the pretest ediSee most shortly lull into ruins, whether the For,ign Powers interfere or not ; but it is by no means indifferent how and guider what cireuinstance It falls. If Naples is left to itself, so 'woe Armors certain than that. in 64115 e form or other, lbe whole power will full into the hoods of s rota number of the most furious dema b oosea, who will choose their. Matra- Monts net from the great body of the Carbons,' but from the select body or the sect • • • ; the knights would, therefule, be fur a time under the dominion of a troop of banditti. With such prospects, wbo would oat prefer, how ever hard and humiliating the restoration of male, by foreign interference hips ht appear to him, the small evil to use in calculably greater. Notwithstanding the late arrests in Spain, and that another apostolitsil junta had been formed, after the suppression of the first, all is tranquil, and so determined is the Constitutional Government to fulfil its pecuniary engagements, that the promised interest on the old debt of Holland and negotiated here, has been punctually paid. This:circumetance, so bonourablc to the national &muster, has been productive of the best possible, eiKct on public credit, and will no doubt greatly serve to consolidate the new system. It is much to be deplored that there should be so little cordiality between the two parties of mittisterialists and env. 7esades. But we cannot expect the _politicians of Spain to be exempt front the weakness of their contemporaries in the rest of Europe. The following is an extract of a letter fromOporto, dated the 14th ult,—" The fleshes were never known to be so strong here betbre, as they are at present Seven vessels have gone over the bar ; one of them is a brig from Dublin, bound to London, with four men on board. A great deal of flowage has been done. About 15 miles up the rivet, a great number of houses, and a small village, have been washed away, and 7(i people drowned. At the bottom of the river a great cumber of bodies have been washed on shore, which came down with Cie flood, It is stated in a newspaper published here, which I have just seen, that 15 miles up the river the water has extended 140 feet, and that a mountain has burst in two places, from one of which an immense body of water has issued, and from the other sand and smoke. The ii.jury done along the river must be very great." By an official account published at St. Peters. burgh, it appears that the number of B r iti s h s hip s which sailed from that place in the year iB9O was 356 ; of American ships 66 ; and off the ships of all other nations 442. The trade of Great Britain from St, l'eteniburgh thus excted,d that of the WWIe werld by AS vessels, without any allowance for the es:ierrior bulk of the sloes ass:. g i riIMINI al. He had hen. put pa half-pa gof the army at Ow Loire. Four e service, and IS years of campai gained on the field of battle ia I said, an inoontestible right to th h was then given 'him. He had or from the minister of war, d 10, in which IthiAseellency gave at according to representation r f his.repeehensi4le conduct, and of opposition to r avommerit whirl Majesty had prnbounced his clinch vances, and stone him off from fleets of the army." All his effor in his rank had proved abortive, d to the Chamber for redress. led—" My principles are my own long as I do not express them is - 117 7 k 4 „. (ir 11 . 4: Ws ' l O / 3 , 4 1 to, • , NCVe =.g,-.A. 4 t 4 I