The National Register. — London, England, 1817-09-22 00:00:00

of the repablicans had pcoetim!ed into Potosi, and the royal i.ta in that quarter, under General Jacuo, and retreated to .Irequipa. The main body of the royalists, under Gem al lose Laterna, esacoated Salta, May sth, basin; occupied it ...it days. Colonel Martin Greiner entered the town the same day. CHILL—A letter from Don Juan Gregorio di Hexas to the Supreme Director of Chili, Don Hernando O'Higgins, dated Conception, May 6, mentions, that he was attacked by an tnrmiy !Mee of from MU to 1400 men, whom he repulsed with a loss of three pieces of artillery and a great quantity of arms and annn•mition, 500 prisoners, and 100 killed. We have received by vessels arrived at Liverpool and Portsmouth communications from the river Plate to the end of Juno. We lament to learn, that our trade in that quarter has been subject to new embarrassments and vexations, not imleed on the part of the independents, but on the part of the Old Government. It is confidently stated that two British ships have been captured at Valparaiso. It is stated in a Washington Journal, according to adviees from Amelia Island of the 6th of August, that on the night before, about eleven restock, the Spaniards began to storm that place, and kept up a brisk Are of musketry and some six pounders but though M'Gregor's force did not exceed 2JJ men, the firing ceased on the following morning, and the patriot Hag was still fl) ing. Car - runts OF MARGARITA.—GeneraI Murillo landed at the Wand of Margarita on the lota inst. A column of his trneps marched immediately to attack Porlamar, which they t , ok possession of after a desperate resistance. Three him. d. ,•ti of the insurgent band were killed, and many made pri s,me:x. The re iminder of the hand fled to the mountains. 'rile island is now sin-rounded with twenty Spanish ships f war. Several small ships laden v.ith insurgent families, 1,::o endeavoured to escape, were taken. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuesday, Sept. le. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. C MTHILYS S. Charlotte-street, Portland-place, merchant, from Sept. 20, to Nov. 8, at Guildhall. RrrvE T. and LEIGH J. Bucklesbury, warchouremen, from Sept. 20, to at Guildhall. DItIGLES G. Newman-street, Oxford-street, money-suivener, from Sept. 20, to Nov. 8, at Guildhall. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Coax T. Wylam, Northumberland, baker. BANKRUPTS, Txottas R. Plymouth Dock, wine -merchant, Oct. 1,2, and 28, at St. Ives, Cornwall. Att. Mr. Price, New-square Linco FITP.NIVAL S. Liverpool, grocer, Oct. 6, 7, 2b, at Liverpool. Att. Mr. Orme, Tyrer-street, Liverpool. IIENSMAN T. and HENsXAN W. Liverpool, ...terchants, Oct. 10, 11,28, at Liverpool. Au. Mr. Chebter, Staple-Inn. Iloraotro S. Saddleworth, York, inn keeper, Oct. 10, 11, 28, at Manchester. Act. Mr. Ellis, Chancery-lane. CHESTER C. jun. Liverpool, auctioneer, Oct. 9, 10, 28, at Li verpool. Att. Mr. Meadeweroft Gray's Inn. SONDILANDS S. Lower Grosvernor-place, Pimlico, broker, Sept, 20, 80, Oct. 28. at GuildhalL Att. Mr. Thompson, Sout::ampton- Chancery.lane. EIONISALL It. liroker-row, Red-cross-street, Southwark, builder, Sept. 20,50, and Oct, 2S, at GuildhalL Att. Mr. Metcalf, Basing hasl-strect. COOPER G. scn. Old Ford, (kaki., St-F.t. 23 Oct. 4, 28, at Guildhall. Mt. Mr. Clarke Bishorscate-M.rect. lIITGuEs B. Bleeding Ilatt.vard, Hatton-garden, .table-keeper Sept. 23, Oct.*, 23, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Tucker, Ilartletes buildings, Holborn. DIVIDENDS. J. Jameson, and J. Willis, Little („ItTeen-strect, Holborn, Wadi. maker, Nov. 15. J. Carr, Coventry, shag manufacture:, Oct. 11, 41. Davies, Cardiff; Glarnorg.m, draper, Oct. Is. V.. Bates, and W. Joins, Bridgenorth, Salop, bankers, Oct. SI A. Dalgairns, W. Bruce, and J. Bridge, Liverpool, merchants, Oct. 15. V.'. Matthews and J. Phillips, Stone, Stafford, boot-makers, Oct. 6. W. King, Milberne Port, Somerset, hosier, Oct. I ►. 1. Hirst and J. Battyc, Ileckmonawike, York, merchants, Oct. O. CERTIFICATES, OCT. 7. J. Hurren, Cratfichl Suffolk, grocer—J. C. Janson, St. Swithin's lane, Lombard-street, merchant—R. Broad-belt, Markington-with- NVallerthwaite, York, corn-miller—D. Itardern, Macclesfield, Chester, silk-manufacturer—S. Briddon, Manchester, provision nierchant—W. Green, Albion-place, Kingslarld-road, underwriter— Murth, Totnes, D. - !von, lloseason, Jamaica mer chant—H. Smith, and N. S. Johnson, Manchester, manufacturers— .l. Hurl, Liverpool, ship-builder. MADAME KRUDENER,—Accounts from Zurich of 2nd inst. contained in the French papers received yes terday, state, that this celebrated enthusiast had taken her final leave of Switzerland. Before she left, how ever, she repaired to the Fall of the Rhine, near Schaff' hatisen, where she inserted the following passage in the Album : " With a soul saddened at the triumph of evil, and the hardness of the hearts of those whom God has placed upon earth to protect the weak and the poor, with eyes terrified at she decline of ntorality—M. Knitter''r now beholds the fall of the Rhine. While she listens to the frightful noise of the cas nade, she het self denounces thosejust judgments which God in the plenitude of his anger, is about to leftist on the earth. Madame K rudeuer isfilled with terrors of mind, and with dark presentiments, but she never will ilispair to intercede for the salvation of man. she will direct her prayers to God; to that God who was once perwented like her. A pilgrim on earth, tt listing intirt-ly to Divine Providence, she leaves Switz.. erland—pra rug ti'r its Salvation." In the Petites-Affiches of Paris, of the 12th instant, we observe an advertisement of a property for sale, be- longing to a Lady of the following brief cognomina. tion : Madame Marie des Donlenrs, Leopolde, Christine, Mink., Emmaeuelle, Joachim, Joseph. Therese, Petronille, Antoine, Vincenr llonaventure, Francoise, Simphorose, Dither, be bast;en, Raphael. Barbe, Camille, Isidore, Andre, Caplan Iliblianns d Toledo Salm—Salm —On reading this litany of names (25 in all) one can not help recalling to mind the pleasant incident of the Spaniard, who, arriving in the dead of night, and dur ing a tempest of rain, at a solitary inn, was asked from a window, " Who was there ?" when he pro ceeded to apswer by such an endless string of name•:: and surnames, that the innkeeper, archly replying that he hail -- for all tlu3 world in his hotel," shut hi m &good sight arid planet. TITIr. NATIONAL Brointa " he had no room for his window, and Mid rney. REVIEW OF LITERATURE. PARIS, IN 105.-A POEM. (Concluded front our last.) The author's reflections nn viewing " The Hall of the Throne," in the Tuileries, are remarkable, as well fur their justness, as for their poetic beauty. After describing the various apartments which he visited, in company with many other persons, he thus proceeds— " The crowd have scatter'd far,—a distant room Has chcek'd their laughter; swift and husli'd they come. What holds the wonderers now ? A canopy. Topped with a mouldering plume, a golden bee Half from its curtai n 's faded et imam, torn, A cypher deep defaced, n wreath forlorn,— They gaze but on a chair.—Yet lo! the throne Of conquest, crime, despair—Napoleon ! This war Earth's heart! when here the sceptre strook, Through all her realms the keen lineation shook. The murmur here—swell'] forth au oracle, And naticus hearil it in its wrath, and fell. Here staiiip'il the foot,—aril bursting up like flame, The crown givers, the t axle legions cairn.. There was a darkness on it ; wee to the eve That dared to pierce the evil sanctuary ! Prowess and pomp were there; the gloomy spear 'Waved in ince+sant circuit ; pi hire and peer Bowing their liatigly foreheads helad and crown'], Hung like a fiery cloud the throne around. It had a mightier guard,—that dun(' within, Sate Guilt that elided the heart, substantial Sin And man had bled, and diadems been riven, Till terror saw it delegate of licayeit. Judgment must strike, but mortal hearts were wan Before the form, the man, if that were man! Is there not one—a being from his height Of Wore fall'u, a shape of burning might, A ruined grandeur, angel beauty inured, On his trenched brow the early crown unstared? Condcmn'd thru' earth on restless wing to range, His joy, his agony, revenge, revenge : And has he not the passing power to dart, Supernal vigour through the traitor's heart? Seduce the weak before him, bend the high, 'Till the world owns its preent Deity ? The Tyrant's peace was fearful. Fatal guile Entomb'd the slaves who trusted to his smile. But when he scorned the mask, and shouted war, And here *intone] the banner of the star; Who slumbered then ?—what land but fix'd its eye For omens on the eagle's augury? The ancient empires shook. The mighty North Sent her reluctant suppliants hurrying forth; The South gave np her gold. The Ottoman Cower'd to a haughtier sultan'sdark divan. And he, the MASTER, sate beneath that plume, And kings stood here, nay trembling, in this room; His vassals,—witherel in his evil blaze ; And now the meanest hind may acatFand gaze! The final vengeance came ! but sent by whom ? Wits it in man to burst this den, this tomb! Lives there the !moan heart that dared to hope To stand in scorn beneath this charnel cope ? 'Twits as if heav'n would hare to human eyes Its empire o'er its own fierce agencies. As if the tempest-cloud had oped its gorge, To show the secrets of the thunder's forge. As if some final shock had drank the wave That rolls in gloom o'er ocean's central cave; Stripping to man its bosom, boundless vale Of wreck and buried wealth, anti corpses pale: The world of storms, the great life-swallower nude; All one wild waste—death silence, solitude! Stranger and enemy are round that chair ; But are no sterner shapes of friendship there? No haughty frowns, bold taunting+, bitter sighs, No pangs our nature knows not, till it dies? Gaze ye not here, who, freezing in your gore, Made the ]rear halt on Berezyna's shore ; And heard the Tartar's shout, and rushing wave, Mark, through the dusk, the limits of your grave, And felt the polar night your gashes sear, And died in torture, but to fix him here? And ye! the plumed and trampling chivalry, Who rode on Leipsic's plain of death to die; And met the German sword, and fiery shower, To save him fur another, fiercer hour! It came ;—ye last, consummate sacrifice! Wing ye not here in deeper agonies? Ye, round whose hearts still hangs the clotted blood; Whose flesh is still the Flemish raven's food; Rolls not upon the wind your countless train, With cloudier visages of shame and pain? Yet in the field ye fell. Nc'er battle soil Such booty bore, where corpses were the spoil. Anti he, for whom ye bled, on whom your eye Turn'd in its dimness, dared do all but die I Ye massacred! toehold the prize ye won ; The throne, and him who sat upon that throne. The heavens were sick of crime,—the endless strife Where black ambition flung its stake of life. The trial came.— rush'd, with shout and ban, The rebel hosts, their Idol in the van ; Strength of their heart, and wonder of their eye; Illusive glory, for his hour was nigh ! Their rites of blood arose. In vain the name Of their dark Baal echoed, Evening came.— Then the trite thunders roll'd. Their livid gate Saw thehorizon one advancing blaze; 'They saw it smite their Idol on his the one ; And he was smote,—porap, art, infusion gone! Then died his worshippers. The jealous steel Raged through their quivering ranks with faithful zeal. The sacrifice was dune ! and nu its wing The earth sent up the shout of thanksgiving.' Wilkie, our inimitable Painter, of native manner, and character, is now on a tour in Scotland. Ho has lately visited the Highlands for the purpose of being pres..nt at a Highland Wedding, which is to form the subject of a picture bespoke by the Prince Regent. —He Will there find ample bur for his peculiar ta lent. SEPT. 22. IVEIk POLICE REPORT. SECOND REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE ON THE POLICE OF THE METROPOLIS. Mr. Pounder, Clerk of Briiiewell and of BetMem liosppi• tals, and who has for three yeais served the office of Under Sheriff of London anti Middlesex, was requested to state to the Committee the result of his observations on the state of the I'olice or the Metropolis. The following urn extracts from his rcpt}:— " If the Committee will permit me, I would make some observations on an evil which I am decidedly of opinion, lies at the root (doll other evils in this city, and elsewhere; mean the evil of drinking, but especially of drinking spirits ; I have been so lung in the habit of heating criminals refer all their nikery to this source, that I now cease to ask the:3 the cause of their ruin. ¶t uppears easy to understand the principle on which this fae. is founded _ _ _ " 1. As to 01cft.—All other habits of vice Firing either created or incr. ased by the habit of drinking (and commonly both)and all vice being expensive, it a • Mall has not lamina' the means of gratifying this and other imlidgenct s, ands stdl determined to have them, he mast resort to the o-üb ,tauce of his neighbour fur a supply ; hence the violation of property ; and numerous criminals have accordingly assured me that drinking was the origin of that vicious coarse, which afterwards kept up, until the offended law at boa requited its victim. " 2. As to the more violent and atrocious crimes.—l have as vaicatedly heard these referred to the effect of drams, and it appears equally easy to Millet hOW this happens. It • seems, indeed hardly necessary to resort to the experietice of a criminal in a matter which lies open to every man's own observation. It is well known that the direct effect of drams is to inflame and excite the passions, and it is frequently found as a practical fact, that he whose mind is abandoned to their influence, • fears not God, neither regards man.' The criminal is rendered in-aesible to the milder feelings of his nature, and regardless °fall consequences, whether as affect ing this world or another; his reason is, far the time, de puted from him, and he is rendered ripe ter the mast sari. guinary and ferocious acts; nearly all the convicts for mur der with whom I have conveised, have admitted themselves to have been under the iethience of si irits at the time of the act; many of those vs 'mare :tied throughout the country, are proved on their to have acted antler the Sallie little:. cute; and I am fully persuaded, that in all the trials for mur der which take place, with very few, (it' any) exceptions, it would appear on investigation, that the criminal had,in the first instance ' delivered up his mind to the hrittalisiug effect of spirittiousliquors. I hail particular occasion to observe this in the ease of Mr. Pionar's murderer, who, when not under the influence of drains, was a civil and obliging man, but when lie had been drinking, was fierce and violent; he had left his former master, (who is well known to me) for this vice; he bad been drinking spirits before the murder, drank them frequently on his road from Chislehurst, and was intoxi• cated when 111! was apprehended. It was in evidence with regard to the murderer of the two families at Ratcliffe-high• way, that he hail been drinking the strongest kind of gin both before and after those murelers. Another dreadful case of profligacy, referable to the same source, occurred in the case of Sinith, who was tried in my second year of duty, for set ting lire to his house in Newgate-street, tittle appeared no doubt on the trial, that his wife was the agent of the crime, or at all events that she was well acquaintea with it; butt as she died almost iumiediately after her husband had been sal / pected, his Counsel suggested, in the cross-examination of the witnesses, that as she was addicted to liquor. the fire might possibly have been occasioned by her from accident, when in a state of intoxication ; this probability was also repeated by .the prisoner in a written defence; indeed the suggestion of such a doubt was his only chance for acquittal, for I heard the whole trial, and certainly a clearer case was never establish ed against a prisoner; the Jury, adverting to the plea that there was a possibility of the wife having occasioned it when in liquor, acquitted him. This man lately died, and while on his death bed, confessed lie had induced his wife to set tire to his house, and had poisoned her as soon as suspicion 111111 fallen upon him, under au apprehension that she might betray his secret. I have the means of knowing, from a very res?ecta ble lodger in their house, that both these unhappy persons were long addicted to the thinking of spirits, and the pri• saner himself was sensibly tinder the influence of liquor dur tug the whole time of his trial. Two other striking cases which fell tinder my own observation were those of two men who were tried in one Session, and executed together, for the same crime of murdering the females for whom they pro fessed attachment ; each of these men admitted to me Defers, their deaths, that they bad been drinkers of spirits, and par ticularly that they were under their influence at the time of the act. I c .uld give many other and much more recent in stances, to prove the consequences of this habit, but it would only be to give the Lashio) , of almost all the wenn cases of crime which have fallen under my own observation for so ninny years past ; many criminals have even assured me, that it was necessary. before they could commit crimes of partr ciliar atrocity, that they should have recourse to drains as a stimulus, and, that kilowing this to be the fact, they resorted to them beforehand, for no other object but that they might be' enabled to harden their natures and to fortify their minds, after which they found it easy to encounter any risk, rind to proceed all lengths. I remember one matt in particular say ing to me, ' Ste, I could not enter your house in the dead of the night, and take the chance of your shooting me in it, or of my being hung, when I got out of it, unless I was to get well primed first.' I could wit lint feel, that a system which thus qualifies one part of society for becoming the plunderers and destroyers of the other, must be radically vicious, and that the existence °flinch it state oh' things renders it the inter. est of evely mat to depreciate its continuance. I would ob serve here, that in many trials it has api.eired that the pro secutoi s themselves had been dritikieg before the commission of the offence, and had thus tempted others to take advantage of their state, and laid themselves open the more easily to at tack ; and it sometimes happens, that the Jury, in violets vonr big to ascet lain the guilt ur innocence of a piisoner, is that obliged to ascertain the condition of the 005...c1am . . in order to judge allot degree of credit is let be attached to his teati mealy. This habit is also the fruitful sources of bleaches of trust, and leads to perpetual v total imis of eutiftelfelltc. Most of the Cases of t mbesilt unlit tvnirli I have known nr my of& chit situation, wet e reh•ral le to di 'liking; such prisoners have told me that the fit st tem p til limn to abuse the coulidetice re posed in theme at e.ae hum the tieccaeity of supplying them selves aide liquor, awl that, when once the first barrier be tween honesty and fraud was passed, all afterwards became cagy, and they went on without repugnancy till dettction