The National Register. — London, England, 1816-04-21 00:00:00

!ICAY PAPERS-. We have reecived CharitT.stown Papers to the Ist of March, with regular files &obi New Yhrk, containing all the proceedings of Congress to the 12th ult.—The Nor , jiilk Ledger of the 29th of February, states, after relating ' the circumstance of Gen. Moreau having been driven into exile by Puonaparte, and of the General having re paired to the United States, and t'at Mr. Jefferson, who Was President iit fhat - peritar, intimated that the pre stnee of Moreau would not be agreeable at Washington —" Bekt now we ace that Marshal Grouchy and our Pres'uleat were together at the Birth-night Ball. We will rot insult the memory of Moreau by a comparison with GrouChy." Among the most important proceedings arc those in the Hollbt! of Representatives on the 29th of February, on the subject:, of the Traffic iu S'ltives. They arc as fthilows " Mr. Randolph moved the subjoined Resolution, the necessity of which, and of •providing for a practice set heinous and abominable, he, at some length, impressed upon the House : Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to enquire into the existence 1;f our inhuman and illegal tradie in slaves, cid . - ries:Aro in and ibroogh the district of Columbia, and to report stunted what measures are necessary for putting a stop to the wane.'—The Resolution was agreed to. Tic National . latelligenecr says—" A Spanish ship from Africa to Havannah, with 500 slaves and a large quantity of gold dust and ivory, has been captured off * the Hole-in-the-Wahl by an English frigate, and sent into Bermusla.". We have American Papers to the 12th of. March. The Commercial treaty with Great Britain hastinallv pass ed both . Houses; it had previously been carried into effect by the ntecutive. Mr. Pinckney is appointed Ambassador to Rossia, and to take Naples in his way. An American Paper contains the Report of the Secre tary of .the• Treasury on the New Tariff, addressed to the President of the Senate, who bad been applied to, to furnish the substance of this document; and in this ske leton form it occupies seven columns. The discriminat ing duty imposed by law upon goods imported in ve.ols not of the United States, is not made in direct charge upon the goods, but is charged generally upter.the rate dutyjrnposed on the same goods when imported in vessels of the United States ; and it is uniformly an ad dition of 10 per cent. upon the Amarican rue of ditty, whether it be specific or ad valorem. The duty and ton nage to be paid at the time of entry., The local limita tioni as to the drawback. of duty oa,goods exported has bLen modified.. The amount expected to be raised by the New Tariff is 17,000,000 .of , dollars ; being an in crease of 5,Q09,000 of dollars upon the former. The Secretary concludes in the fbllawing terms " dt is not practicab!e to ascertain the amount of revenue heretofore produced by the classes of goods specified in the last table; but it is sufficiently. known that some of than pro duced little, while the product of others was proportionably great. Taking the whole together, it is estimatedthat the us 4tile Increase of ditty is equal,to 100 per cent. upon the aggregate amount of the former rat rrgioreut duties. But the effects to be expected from the inerea,q.d duty en woollen and:cotton goods from the dimination bfdlie Alien Doty mut Treaties, or Acts elf Congress, involved in the Lew system, : will not admit a higher estimate of the aggregate product of the increased tats of the ad tolceent (tut, than the rate, f7a or 80 per cent. upon the i'oritier product. "Assuming then, on•an adranceofflOper cent. upon 4,800,000 dollars, the suns will he 5,840,000 And adding to this sum produced, as now stated. • by the increase attic speeific duty 1,300,000 There will be produced to complete the amount of the additional revenue required, a stun of - 5,140,000 " A I which ate respectiolly subedited, (Signed) " J.DALLAS, Sec. of the Treastrg." "s Treasury Department, Feb. 12, 181 d." We have, in...the Ameriean Papers, very splendid de tails of flavtian Royalty and magnificence.—The rale braticut of Haytian Independence took piace early in January. Buonaparbe certainly could not, in the very zenith of his power, keep tip with more dazzling effect the pomp, grandeur, and varied fascinations of Royalty, than his present Majesty of Hayti, New York, Philadelphia, and Papers have rrached us to the ;Pat silt. Hostilities are ..not at all on, likely to take place between Spain and the United. States; as the Spanish Minister had declared his deter mination not to return to Washington ; and complained, that a band of incendiaries in Louisiana were raising troops for the purpose of .bringing about a re% elution in N'ew Spain. It appears from the instructions sent out by our Co vettunent_ao Halifax, that-the Americans arc to he per mitted to•tish - as usual on the (;rand Bank of Newtinval hold ; but are prevented from using the British territory tot purposes connected - with . the fishery, and prechuled from our bays and harbour. The Sabina gyenish 43. gun .ship had sailed for the inother-wwitty with 4,000,000 of spetie. Chuttaybriant, in the French -1-loure of Peers, lately roprrakehed the Due de Richelieu in the wannest manr_er tor Some expres:4ons he Lul just la.en using, ;yid added, Europe were williug to fore the Charter on me, wOuli einigrate, and Eye at Corutautinople." lle vaunted the pure Frcnch ble4a that"fhiwed in his veins, awl threw .out every klud of insinuution agamst Lally THE NATIONAL RE3IOVIL OF A TRACT OF LAND. The following letter from Tronsheim (in Norway), dated March iO, gives a more particular account of the dreadful effects of the removal of an immense tract of land at that place, than. was contained in an account we lately gave, extracted from a. letter from Chris tiana : ------- " .A singular occurrence took place here on the 71h. instant: a portion of hind, amounting to 120 English acres, and GO feet deep, slid, with a tremendous crash, into the River Nid, about a quarter of a mile from Shire Fuss. This happened during a hard frost (LIN Reamnur). without giving any pre. voilis notice ; ant from the quality of the groom, being clayey, w jib a moderate ascent from the river, appears quite unac countable Of Tiller Chard.. dwelling-liow.e, and bridge, which stood one this spot, not a vestige is now to be seem-the ruins a re either buried or dispel sea. lon may loom 501111' lib a of the force with a bleb this mass of earth fell, a hen I tell you. that a considerable portion of it was thrown several hun dred yards distant from the river on the.opposite bank, where it destroysd.tvuu houses with some of the unfortunate inhabitants. The owner of Tiller farm pi rished by relit ruing to look for one of his children. It is not yet aseermined how many lives are lost: eighteen, are known to have been busied or slrowned, and forty horses, besides sows, IS: e. A very tine lad of 17, who was to has e worked in our work, log his lilt. One man saved himself in a temork able manner: he was the fore st of 14 or 15 peasants, w ho a turning home to Selbue, from bringing timber for the buildings attached to our work, and was so near the spot, that lie heard the owner of Tiller cry out Mr help— he immediately resolved to retrace his steps: the other poor wretches endeavoured to reach the slime through a deep snow. and perished with their horses ; most of theist had two. The man who saved himself had a very good horse, and by keeping himself on full speed, he escaped on shore by Store Foss, the river pursuing him close with the rapidity of lightning—his feelings may be better conceived than deiwriben during this ' remarkable race. Our work ha:-luckily escaped uninjured, although threatened with ruin. Keough has otherwise suf fered collsiderub/y, yet mostly at Store Fuss, where a flour mill has quite disappeared, 11w saw-mills almost destroyed, and dann-ca ri away to the amount of 20001. A SUI 11111( r-house, w i n d, stood between Great and Little Fuss, a short distance fiu - n the river, was carried in an upright position, as it stood. on Ow shore, with tan boats chained to it, and in that manner was precipitated down Little Fos... It is impossible for MC to describe the singular a ppearaiw gall this had, and still has. The 'Fiord is discoloured with muddy water to a great extent, and will probably continue so for mouths. We are wiihiug to think the danger is uowover, thought this is uncertain, ;:atil the stream cuts itsella proper passage." THE LATE HEAVY AiNS. About four-o'clock on Friday morning, the I Yth, a heavy rain began at Stamford, which continued without intermission for four-and.twenty hours, occasioning a very ;gear overflow of all the rivers and smaller .streams. The little Rutland river livash rose so rapidly on Friday es ening, that at Bridge Cos tenon several sheep were drowned. The ItiVer Glen burst. its bank on the Bourn side near Pepper-hills, and imuidate•kall the lower part of that and Morton Fen, ucca4oniag the to ain' . many head of stock, Witham at Boston rose higher than it had been known fur fourteen years. Tins visitation, how ever, has been succeeded in most places h' a quick ottitt of the water, showing the value of the worksot drainage by 's such that part olLincolushire has been for 8(01W y ears distinguished. The heavy rains at the close of lasi wee'... have caused the rivers in this neighbourhood g reatly to over fl ow, and the pres sure upon the di ainage banks, particularly in the parishes of Skellingthorp, Bracebridge f god Boultham, has been such as those banks could not resist. The consequence is, that thou sands-of acres hose been inundated, and tank& loss a ill be sustaiiked, as moat of the land was sown with grain.—Lincoki Paper. 'l'lw heavy and continued rain throughout Friday week occa sioned a great flood in many of the upland districts, to the in jury, in some places,- of the farmer and grazier. At Casterton, near Stamford, one person lost 2ti,sheep by the sudden sw,4l of the river. The weight of water broke the bank of the river Glen at Bonin, and drowned all the neighbouring Fen on the Bourn side. The waters are also much out on the lands on each tide tip the river Witham. There has nut beta such a flow of. water in that river since 180:0. We have received the following particulars by the Aquilon, arris ed.at Spithead, last flout the Mcdittaranean, of the loss of the Inter frigate, Capt. T. Forrest, on a reef of rocks to the westward of Cape de Gat. The Ister sailed from Portsmouth on the :Hat of February, fitted out upon the pcace-estahlish ment, and was proceeding up the Mediterranean, from Malaga, to join Lord Exmouth, , shen the accident happened • . she struck at two o'clock in the morning of the ith ult. when rim uing at the rate of nine knots. Hopes were entertained that, by great exertions, she might be got off; and by the assistance of a xebec, which came out of Malaga, 2•I of he: gnus were taken ont,and sent to Gibraltar ; but it pros ed, in making fresh exertions, that the rocks had. beat through her, and she was fast tilling with sand. All the crew were safely taken out, and landed at Malaga, excepting Mr. Sitwell, Midshipman, and eight men, who were dross ued by the upsetting of the gig boat. About the beginning of last September a di , tres..ing incident, well calculated to place die liorlid ,uperstitions of the uailif:'3 in their true litiht, took place in the town of Burdwun. AA aged Hindu°, of the Kula ar, or spirit-vending tribe ' having died, his widow, an old woman of 7!, in coniplianeessith the custom of her ancesto... and to prose her lasting attachment to the iiPeeased, 'Tsetse.' on sacs dicing her , ell at his .funeral pile. The faggots being heat eft ap, the vretiminary ceremo nies concladt 1. and the body of the deluded w retch anointed with oil, she was led to the stake, and bound dowu by a strong cord. Fire was then placed under the pile, the lower part of is bleb soon began to blaze. The tkune had t:4 stoner ascended to the body of Elie devotee, than site began to struggle, and sum' succeeded in 111.1 k ing her escape, in consenin nee of tlie rope I.y which slip was secured having been cm...limed. Being now at liberty, she rushed precipitately towards the pollee oil errs on duty there ) piteously to them to save her f'oin ilestroolon. Ski ,NitS led assay audit the nuirmin:, of an in terested iwi dkawointed inuititude ; and after tangui , ;:ing in extreme pain for two days, paid the tiateit of her bliadntss anti toily.—esdculta,rinur. Thursday a.111;01 r.ttempted to drown himself in the Camel, St Juices's Park, hyjuniping off the Papoda li.itlge, but is,s taken Jut la foie dead. tic !nosed to be a Ch. isci•. pensioner ; and the only l'e:t.4.li he ;lac for attempting the rash act Willi, dig appointment us lure! AP1111,521 CHRIST lIN.VPITIL, 4v. Monday, according to ancient customs, the annual Sermon before the Lord Mayor and the Governors of Christ's Hospital wag preached in Clirist'S Cliurch,Nevrgate-street,hy the Bishop of Chester.—The grand proerssion went from the Mansion house at one o'clock. About eight hundred or the Rridewell and Christ's Hospital boys walked from the Royal Exchange with one of the Marshals at their head, on horseback and in full undo' in. The boys were followed Al the other City Mai shill, four Mursisalmen, four men in state livery, the state coach, vi the Lord and Lady Mayoress, ter. Aldermen ant! their Ladies, Sir William Doraville, J. J. Smith, Christopher Smith, Goodbe liere,Heyeatc; the Recorder, Chamborlain, ;mil other City Offi cers, with the Sheriffs in their state chariots. Al t foer o'clock the procession returned from Christ's timid; to lb \l:utsiml House s where the Egyptian Hall was most beautifully illuminated with gas lights, introduced into the glass chande liers, with a Crown and G. R. over the grand velvet canopy, under which sat the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, support ed by their Royal Highnesses the Dukes of lent anti Stisst Miss Wood end Itliss IVeoil, Loi Clifford, Lord Eiskine, Lord liiimaird, fir. The tables were beautifolly ornamented with three large I t niples, supported by 11 marble pillars, and decorated by emblems of Peace aid Plenty; with many othi r ornaments ef taste and ingenuity. The dinner w as most sump t . A monk— of constitutional toasts were given ; and in the eveeing there nas an index of between 2 and 301111 Ladies and Gentlemen to a Ball, which continued to a late hour. Tuesday, the children educated at Christ's Hospital a cut in procession to the Man ion-House, and Were inspected by the Lord Mayor, who ordered them to receive, according to tlo. ancient enstion, two buns, a. glass of wine, and bd. each. tin. ;Monitors tril. extra. They then proceeded to Christ Church, -Newgate-street, in the same order as on the day. ; when an appropriate sermon was preached by his LordAnp's Chaplain. The account given in the Paris Papers of the manner in which the ceremony of the Lord's Supper was per:brin ed by. Louis XVIII. is not a little extraordinary : " The. ceremimy of the Lord's Supper being too fatiguing for his Majesty, r.s it would require him to be a long time upon his legs, his place was supplied by Monsieur in this act of piety performed by our Monarchs trom time immemorial. Thirteen children of honest poor people had the honour to represent the Apostles. They were all • in red waistcoats, and placed upon benches sufficiently • high to be within reach of the Prince to wash their feet and •kiss them without stooping. Each child received from the hands of Monsieur a loaf of bread, a small pitcher of wine. 13 dishes, and 1:i pieces of five francs. The Dukes of Angouleme and Berry performed the office of Strrants, and carried the bread, and wine, and the meats. . All these ceremonies were performed with u piety worthy - of the descendants of St. Louis." General Lagar(le, who was wounded while protecting the Protestants at Nimes, is now in Paris. He is reco vering from his womul, but his assassin has not yet been.• taken. Among-recent Gazette appointments, is that of Sta.- jeant Ewart, to an Emig:lcy in the third royal veteran battalion, in consideration of, the bravery he displayed on the ISth of June. In the afternoon ot'tthat eventful day, the 92d regiment, reduced to 200, chargtal a column. of the enemy, from 2000 to 3000 strong; they broke into the centre of the column; and the moment they pierced it, the Scotch Greys dashed in to their support ; • when both these gallant corps cheered and buzzaed, " Scotland for ever !" The enemy, to a man, were put to the sword, or taken prisoners. The (;revs afterwards charged the second Ile, which: outmoded to nearly 5000•luen; it was in the first that &crjeant Ewart cap tured the French eagle ; the aflitir is thus modestly de tailed by himself I bad a hard contest fin. it ; the officer who carried it thrust fir my groin: I parried it off, anti cat him through the head; after which I was attacked by one of the !weeny who threw his lance at me, but n69ed his mark, by my throwing it off with my sword by my right side ; then I cut him from the chin upwards!, which went through his teeth. Next, I was attacked by a foot so:dier, wlm, after firing, charged me with Lis bayonet ; tntt 1 parried it off, and cut him through the head—so• that finished the contest the eagle." The Duke of Leeds has purchased Lord Spencer Chi-. chester's magnificent library for the su:n of 10,0001.- The Duke of Northumberland's tenants in the North l+ave.resol•.ted to erect a column out of gratitude for the mans , liberal benefits they have retativca from their Noble Landlord. A Bath Paper mentions the marriage of a Mr. Good to Miss Evil. The lover, on the morning of his imp tial4, might have addresaed his Leloved iu the words of Ltleifer—" F:4l, be thou my Good !" sir Richard Keutes is immediately to strike Lis flag ac Com mander in Chit r on the Nen rotinflisind station , and is to he soceeeded on that .fation by Mosiral Piamore, who will pro • reed lii.s destinadou as suua as the ship in which 'he is to twit his flag is ready. _ Admiral Sir W. J. Hope is to atvc a command on the roust of Scotland, embracing a very extenshe line to the Orkney and Sae''add Isles, the llnail.% I St of Scotland, and, holt lA, all the cunt of the nordiein part of oar island. As n proof of the distresses of the times, the Collector of the Poore' Hates iu the rural pal isleof Stidbory, Middlesex. v, a.• lately i.n.lor the • necessity of sosseoPuing eve! y fanner io paroh fit,: non-payment of rates. They all ni: prated, dlid %WC Jiletved time fur payment. MTMDES.—An InquiTithm wa understand Hs been sittinr for nearly a week, by ai , :oornment, at the l'arish We, k.licuae in Hulbort, aeon the hotly of Alien SoNtr , wi,o tired e.....w.,ecmonee of bier m s in tied upon her by a nun nanU:4l niche, d Guedo, with whim co ', 1:No6. The jury gt a late hour Friday night, under 'he dh-enlatt 'e Mr, FTIRIANC, the Coroner, found 3 Vertet Warm... Nut. DEB %alma .the said Gugum, who b. 4 fled from .