The National Register. — London, England, 1816-10-28 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, OCT. 24.—The Marquis de Marian sot off yesterday fur Vienna; where he will espouse, in the name of his sovereign the King of Portugal, the second daughter of the Emperor. It is said that he will spend the winter at Vienna, and will, next spring, conduct his new sovereign to Lcghorn, where she will embark fm the Brazils on board a Portu g ese vessel. The report is renewed that the Emperor of Austria, after his marriage, will visit Southern Italy. His Ma jesty will be accompanied by Prince Metternich. According to recent accounts delivered in to the Mi nister of the Interior, the state of the harvest for 1816 is as fillows :—" In 74 departments, 46 have had a, good harvest, 27 a middling one, and in one it has com pletely failed. The crops of 20 of these departments are superior to those of 1814, which was a very abun dant year; those of 21 others may be considered as equal. , In spite of all the unexampled inclemencics of the sea son, we may be assured, that in general more grain has been got in this year in France than in 1815. The consumption of new corn beginning this year later than ordinary, there will, in all probability, be an excess in the resources destined to support France till the har vest of 1817. It is true that the quality of part of the corn has been injured by the wet, but it has not lost by that its nutritive quality; and as precautions will be taken which private interest recommends and expe rience points out, there is little doubt but that a great part of this will be found very useful. _ _ The fidiowing► is a Copy of the Letter from the Queen 9f France, Marie Antoinette, to her sister, NLAimi. Eli wabeth " OCT. 16 (IrO), HALF PAST POUR. " I write to you, sister, for the last time. I have just been condemned—not to a shameful death; it is only so to the guilty; brit—to go and rejoin your brother. Innocent, like him, hope to show the same fortitude as he did in his last moments. " I am calm, as one is when ones conscience does not re. proach am. I feel deep sorrow at abandoning my poor chil dren. Good and tender sister, you know I lived but for them and you—by your affection you have sacrificed every thing to be with us. In what a situation •do I leave you! I learnt stow trial that my daughter was separated from you. Alas! poor child, I dare not write to her—she would not receive sty letter. I know not whether this even will reach you. Receive for them both my blessing. " I hope one day, when older, they will be able to rejoin yon, and enjoy all your tender care. Let them both retleet upon what I have never ceased to instil into them, that the principles and exact execution of their duties are the prime ♦irtnes of life, and that affeetion and mutual confidence will Constitute the happiness of it. Let nay daughter feel, that at her age she ought always to assist her brother with the conn ects which the greater experience she will have and her affection may suggest to her : let my son, in his turn, admi nister to Isis sister all the solicitude and services which affec tion can inspire ; finally, let them feel, that in whatever position they may be, they cannot be truly happy but by their anion. Let them take example by us. How often in our miseries lass our affection afforded us consolation—in happi -1104111 we have a double .enjoyment Arhen we can share it with a friend. And where can suy be found more dear and tender than in one's own family? " Let nay son never kiwi the last words of his father, which I repeat expressly—Let him never seek to revenge •ar death? " I have to speak to you of something very painful to my heart. I know how much pain this child has given 7ou. Forgive him, my dear sister: think of his age, how easy it is So make a child say what one pleases, and even what he does not understand. A day will come, I hope, when he only will feel more deeply the value of your goodness and tenderness for both. " It remains for me to confide to yon my list thoughts. I would have written them at the commencement of the trial; but, besides that, they world not suffer me to write, the march of events has been so rapid, that I have not had in reality the time. " I die in the Catholic, Apostolic, and Roman Religion— in that of my fathers; in which I was brought up, and which I have always professed; having no spiritual consolation to expect, not knowing if there still exist any Priests of our Religion ; and even the place where I am would expose them too much, if they once entered it. " I sincerely ask pardon of God for all the faults I may lave committed since I was born. I hope that in his good ness He will receive my last prayers, as well as those 1 have tong put up—that he will receive my soul iu his mercy and goodness. I aik pardon of all I know, and of von, sister, ink particular, for all Oa pain I may, without meaning it, lave caused you. " I forgive all my enemies the ill they they have done me : I kid adieu here to my mid all my 1."...t1ecr, moti •;cterS. I bad friends: the idea of being separated from them for over, and their troubles, is one of the greatest griefs I have in dying. Let them know, at least, that, to my last moment I thought of them. " Good and tender sister, farewell! May I deserve your regret! Always think of me! I embrace you with all my heart, os well as my poor dear children. Oh, my God! what agony it is to quit them for ever. Adieu ! Adieu! " And now I will resign myself' wholly to my spiritual du ties. As I am not free in my actions, they will bring me perhaps a priest ; lint I protest here I a ill not say a word to Aim, And ilia, I a ill treat him as a perfect stranger." • This was the part that was blotted with a tear. The trial of Gen. Grouchy commenced on the 19th before the Conned of War fur the tat Military Division. After the evidence had been beard. and the Reporter was about to address the Court, Gen• Grouchy's son appeared, and stated an an objectioti to the proceeding., that his father, being a Grand Officer of the Empire, had the privilege of being tried •nty by the Higb imperial Court. objection vrs sustained, and the Council declared itself incompetent. VIINNCIS Funus.—Five per cent. 37 ir. 80 c.--)130k Actions 1138 fr. 73 e. ZURICH, OCT. 5. —The Swim Confederation bas unani measly aceetted to site tioly Alliaatx THE NATIONAL REGISTER. NO•TIcE ON THE ELECTIONS OF ISIS. PARIS, Orr. 10.—The elections are terminated. The general result will not be known for some days to come ; but it iS already easy to perceive that this result will be far from answering the wishes of the Ministry. Never did the govern ment employ so many efforts to influence the elections, mid never was the success more trilling. Ever since the close of the session ISI6. and the acces►ion of M. Laine to the Ministry, the design of dissolving the Chamber of Deputies was secretly contemplated t but even np to the last Council, which issued the order titer that disso hition, the public remained in ignorance of the project. A report was irdecd spread that it was intended to renew a fifth of the Chamber; and all at once, on the tith of September, the Moniteur announces to France, and even to the Royal Family, the entire dissolution of the Chamber ; and the same paper gave the list of the Sr Presidents of the Electoral Colleges, whom the Ministry ilea chosen in secrecy from among the persons who are devoted to them, or whom they supported with their influence, in the hope that the greater part of them would be returned as Deptitivs. Secret and peremptory instructions were sent to the Ministerial Prefects, and threats of dismissal to those who are known to he Royal ists. Those of the jounials that are in the pay of the police raised their voices in support of the ordinance, and those• a Welt remained independent were obliged to be silent. FRANKFORT, OCT. 16.—1 t has been stated al a certain fart, that the Emperor of Russia has repeatedly caused it to be signified to the Allied Powers, that he will in no way interfere in the internal affairs of Germany. Baron Anstett. his Minister at Frankfort, has, nevertheless, received instructions to employ his good offices for terminating ami cably ali the disputes which still subsist on the subject of territorial arrangements. LUBECK, OCT. 6.—The latest accounts front Sweden, and which are from a good source, give an absolute contradiction to all the reports of misunderstanding between Sweden and Russia; reports often repeated, and as often refitted by facts. The Prince Royal of Sweden never speaks but with profound veneration of the Emperor Alexander. It is even said that there have been no discussions between the two Courts. The English journals have also talked of serious discussions between Sweden and Denmark. They have even gone so far as to say, that a war between these two Pow era was on the eve of breaking out: nothing is more false. We positively know, on the contrary, that since the beginning of the year the Danish and Swedish armies have experienced consider- able reductions ; and that a part of the troops continue to be disbanded and receive furloughs; which would not he the ease if either of these Courts had hostile intentions. Vasice, OCT. 9.—The Austrian Government is more des. potic and more disliked here, than in any of the places', which we have hitherto visited. Yon will judge of the degraded state of the once proud and powerful Venice by the following fact:—ln the principal theatre, we obsc•wed the front bench of the pit empty, with a sentinel at each end ; the remainder was extremely crowded. We asked for whom the front places were reserved? "The Austrian officers had usurped the exclusive possession et it, and no Venetian dare r:nestron, or even complain of, this humiliating set of military despot ism." The front of the pit (by the bye), in almost all the theatres of the Continent, is not only the , most commodious, but the most expensive, and consequently the most fashionable part of the house. The two principal objects of the Austrian ■nthorities scent to be the suppression of freemasonry and prostitation. The freemasons' lodge. established by the French, has been suppressed, all new associations strictly forbidden, and the very house in which the meetings had been held razed to the ground, in order to satisfy the pure seal of the Emperor arid Pope. The measures taken against prostitutes have, like the method of Sir Anthony Absolute, at least the meri♦ of simplicity. They send away every fo reigner, and imprison every native prostitute, who appears in the streets. 'the consequence is, that in this, the most depraved city in all Italy, perhaps, after Naples, not a single individual of this wretched class of females is to be seen in the places of public resort. SMYRNA, Atc. 30.—The fleet of the Captain Pacha, Grand Admiral of the Ottoman Empire, 44 sail in number, east anchor in our roads on the 2.5f1i inst. The appearance of this force was fatal to our Governor, Hadgi Mahoined Kialep ()glum On the second visit which lie made to the High Admiral he was arrested by his orders on board the fleet, beheaded the same evening, and his h ea d sent by a Tartar to Constantinople. This event threw, in particular, all the Euro peans here into the greatest consternation ; for this Governor maintained, in respect to them the strictest police of any in the trading places of the Levant. The Captain Paella, as soon as lie was informed of the apprehensions of the Euro peans, sent word to the Consuls, desiring them to assure their countrymen, that he would strictly maintain the tran quillity of the city, and that Oglou's suseessor would pay the same attention. SOUTH AMERICA. Notwithstanding what the late American papers say about the new efforts of Bolivar, and his hopes of suc cess in the cause of freedom and independence, it is tolerably certain that he has again failed in his attempt upon Caraccas ; and that he will in consequence be inevitably obliged to abandon for the present his during project. Wednesday we saw a letter direct from Laguira of so recent a date as the sth of last month, the writer of which regrets that he is obliged to state that Bolivar, collecting all the forces in his power, had made an at tempt to gain possession of Caruccas ; but the enemy, making forced marches, and coming up with him in his rear, had totally routed his little anny, and put nearly the whole of it to the sword. Bolivar is stated to have again saved himself by flight and reached his vessel in a wounded state. This account tallies with advices direct from St. Thomas's, of the 16th of last month. (FROM THE CHARLESTON GAZETTE, AuGI.3T 7.) NEWS DIRECT FROM nUFNOS AYRES. —We have seen a Manifesto from the Directory of Buenos Ayres, announcing the Installation of the National Congress of the Provinces of Rio de la Plata, Ite. in the city of Tucuman, on the 25th of April. This grand and portentous event has been wised by the good under standing which now prevails between the Governments of Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. The Republican nuke have node great progress in Peru. The Roy. j OCTOBER 8. alist Governor of Chili has put under arrest in the capital all the principal inhabitants of that part of the country which is still 'under his command. It is pro. Whited to them to handle any arms, even a stick. The slightest disobe.lience is punished with death, without 'regard to age or sex. But the Republican Generals of Buenos Ayes and Chili arc at the head of powerful armies exasperated against their blOody tyrants. Note that the best harmony prevails among the Republican Governments of that part of South America, the most brilliant results for the CAM of freedom will be the consequence. It lilts been reported that a Portuguese force in. tended an invasion of Buenos Ayres, by virtue of a treaty with Ferdinand of Spain. The Republic= General Artegas is waiting for them on the frontiers, with 30,000 men. All the population are under arms, even women. We are positively informed that there are whole companies of women furious and enthusiastic, who have volunteered on the occasion. The invaders may become the invaded. AMERICA. It appears from Boston and other American papers to the 18th ult. just received, that the elections con. time in America to attract great interest : the greater proportion of the papers anticipate the ultimate success of Federalism. _ _ Monday Boston papers reached us to the 18th ult. The long drought complained of in America has termi. nated in heavy falls of rain ; but the harvest, it is ge. nerally represented, is unproductive. The American ship-building, of which we have heard so much to alarm us, seems to be somewhat paralysed : and one of the papers sarcastically observes, that the Government of the United States is doing nothing in this respect at all inconsistent with the expectation of a long peace. It would seem that the differences between America and Algiers were by no means settled. One of the papers states, that the original treaty with Algiers having been lost on its way to the United States in the Epervier, the ratification of the President was affixed to un au. thenticated copy which bad heed prepared and trans mitted with a view to such contingency. On this document being presented to the Dey, he refused to acknowledge it, declaring that it was deficient in a very important point, inasmuch as his copy contained an article which was no where to be found in this. The article was a stipulation that all the prizes which had been captured from the Algerines during the war should be restored by the United States, and that a treaty should, hereafter, be concluded on the usual terms. ALGIERS. Saturday se'nnight the Inconstant frigate Cotmnodora Sir James L. Yeo, arrived from the coast of Africa, where, during her cruise of several months, she cap tured five vessels under Portuguese colours, with 280 slaves on board. Many others were fallen in with, engaged in the inhuman traffic, but they were under Spanish and American colours; and much of the trea ties between the governments upon the subject of this trade is so easily capable of a double meaning, that, to prevent litigation and unpleasant disputes, they were not detained : these vessels were crowded with unfor tunate captives. • My MOUTH, Oct. 19.—We have the pleasure to announce the first intelligence from Algiers, since the departure of the British squadron from those cruel shores. His Majesty's ship Prometheus, Captain Dashwood, arrived from the Me diterranean on Sunday last, and was immediately put under quarantine. She sailed from Algiers on the 20th September, and left the city in a very disturbed state. For some time after the departure of the English Heet, the Turkish soldiers and the inhabitants appeared regardless of their ruined city ; imaccostomed to labour themselves, and having lost the assistance of their agents, the slaves, they made not a single effort towards the repairs of their shattered ramparts, until September 10, on that day the soldiery broke out into open tumult. Sensible of the loss they had sustained, and of the misery to which they viral: reduced, they imputed to the Dey's obstinacy the charge of all their mistiwtimes, and offered to him the choice of losing his own head, or of per mitting the murder of ail the Jews and Moors, and the plum. der of the city. The I)ey with .li magnanimity, indig nantly attired himself' to be the sari dice of their rage; but pointed met to them the very useless and even hurtful ten deney of the constrict they were about to pursue—of creat ing faction anion:: themselves, instead of unanimity—of wast ing in dissension that time which they should employ in the repairs of their fortifications. This reasaming, with several. large sums of money dish ibuted among them. rendered them inure calm, and the greatest exertions were immediate ly used to clear away the rubbish, with which the bombard ment had tilled all their streets, and to make their ramparts appear less ruinous, by filling up the chasms in them with mortar and loose stones. A great number of Moors were consequently employed, and the l)ey himself; using the most strenuous exerti o ns, superintended and directed every operation. Up to the day of this Prometheus's sailing, few ur no endeavours were made towards the permanent repairs, of the batteries. Not any insult was ()tiered to any of the officers of the Prometheus, who were almost constantly on shore; hut the Dry took good care she should not have any "andies, and more than once expressed his iodignation that a British ship should remain stationary in the bay. All the slaves from the interior were not arrived, hut were. hourly expected to be brought to the city. The Prometheus was relieved on the service of waning tbr them by a Sicilian frigate, upon the mind of whose commander Capt. Dash wood impressed strongly the necessity of being vigilant in his observations of the Dry's conduct, and firm in any repre sentations lie might has e occasiou tat make to him. Although the tumultuous dispositiou of the soldiery was