The National Register. — London, England, 1816-02-25 00:00:00

Countess of, and Lady Harriet Butler: Goulk-Grnt. A:r. and M:s., Hasa/ten, Viscountess; Hervey. Colonel; Herbert. Hon. Mr. H.; •Hutchinson, lino. Christopher; llolknd. T.; Jackson. Mrs; Kin 'laird, Lady; Mountnorns, Earl and Connwss of, and Lady Jullat.:. Annesly; Mills, Mr. George; Stanhope. Hon. Au ; Smith. Sir Sidney and Lady. anal Miss Ittraokl; Standish. Mr.; Upton. Hon. Arthur; Webh, lion Lady; Webster, Mrs.; Ward, Hon. John; Wolselcy, Sir Win.; Walpole, Lord; Westmeath. Earl and Countess. - - --- A Flanders Mail brings intelligence, that the Aulic Council at Vienna had recalled several (*Ts of troops lately put in motion, and that the Army Train was or dered to be broken up.—Thus vanishes the fiction of a war between Austria and Bavaria. The king of Prussia has bestowed the Onier of the Black Eagle, the first Order of the Prussian Monarchy, upon the l)uke of Wellington. We believe hi s G race has received sonic mark of honorary distinction from all the principal Sovereigns of Europe; but he has nobly earned them. A Jamaica Mail has brought Public Journals to the Ist ult. They contain long details of the proceeding, of the House of Assembly against Chief Justice Lewis; which terminated in a vote Jim his removal from office, for incompetency to discharge its duties; and the Go vernor promised to transmit their address to that effect t‘i the Prince Regent. On the same day the House passed four resolutions: die first against Methodist Missionaries: the second and third relate to the existing laws respecting slaves: and the tburth declares that no infringement t the Abolition Laws had been !mule or attempted by the inhabitants of the Island: and the Howe pledges itself to enact laws in aid of the Abolition Laws, if any instance of unportation being attempted occur. The rejection of the Bill by the Senate for regulating the Commerce between this Country and America, has been confirmed by au American Paper of the ‘24th ult. " SFNATF, IRrtA S, JAS. It). " The consideration of the Bill to regulate the Commerce between the United States and the territories of Great Britain, according to the Convention of Commerce, zee. was resumed. " After some further debate, the question on its passage to a third reading was decided as follows : " Yeas lo.—Nays 21. . . " So the Bill ass rejected:' We trust that this rejection will not affect the execu tion of the provisions of the Treaty ; and that the appre houions expressed by the Merchants in the City, yester day, are, untbunded. Indeed, the Government Paper, the Nutronal Inidligcnccr, in announcing the rejection of the Treaty, adds, that- the question is one entirely constitutional in its nature ; and the difference of opinion confined to the question, whether legislation be or be not necessary to give the Treaty effect?" The Dey of Algiers has, it is asserted, been beheaded by his troops, in consequence of the Treaty with Ame rica ; and a fresh piratical warfare has commenced. Carthagena was reduced to surrender by famine: nearly :1000 persons are said to have previously died of hunger. Every eatable thidg had been consumed. The inde pendent army escaped by sea, but in a deplorable state of want. Two _schooners, out of fifteen, had arrived at Say annah-la- M ar. The Lord Chamberlain has issued orders for the Court's going into mourning, on Thursday next the 22d inst. for her late Royal Highness Caroline Louisa, daughter . . of his Royal Highness the reigning Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar, and consort of his Royal Highness the Heredi tary Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh Schwerin, cousin german to her Majesty. It is confidently asserted, that the Lord Chancellor will give up the seals before Easter Term to Mr. Leach ; that learned gentleman having given notice, that he will not receive any more briefs in causes to be heard before his Honour the Master of the Rolls. • It is understood to•be the final determination of Mi nisters, that Mr. Canning is to be atlinittatinto the Ca binet. A frigate has been dispatched to bring him to England. No British Ambassador is henceforth to reside at 'Liabon. DInNITY OF FRENCH LEGISLATORS. —lt is a rule in the French. Chamber of Deputies for those who intend to apt akon a question, to inscribe their names on a list; and ..those Who first inscribe, an the first heard. In ednse _ quence of this regulation, there is always a race among • tho Members, who shall get to the list first. A curious scene of this desription occurred in the Chamber on the 17th. M. llnplessis Grenedan complained that, being both little and weak, he was lost in the mob, and com pelled to arrive the last: he demanded that all the inscrip tions should be annulled, and that they should start afresh, in the expectation of being more fortunate the second time; but, while the little orator was speaking, the Members already inscribed had quitted their places, and 'advanced anew, in the apprehension that this motion would have been adopted. He was replaced at the tribune by M. I.lnuarc, and whose stentorian voice and athletic kbnn con trasted with his predecessor. He too complained of being jostled out of his place, and proposed, therefore, that all the deputies ►would depart from the starting post at a fiven signal. This trivial discussion was terminated by the Vice-President, engaging, with much difficulty, the Members to pass to the.ordw of the day. An article from Mari eilles mentions the excessive cold which Lzs prey tiled on the northern side of the Lower • Alp• ; and one font Genea gincs a lamentable account of the in-atter and ferocity of the wolves in the neighbour h6od of St. Remo. Measures which l►ad been taken for shee.ling them tidied, anti their number was still increas ing. No r erson could leave his home tut Armed. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. PRINCE LEOPOLD. His Highness the Prince of Sew Cohourgk, the des tined husband of the Princess Ctinat.orTE of WALES, landed at Dover Tuesday night, at eleven o'c/ock, in the King George packet, from Calais, and after taking up his abode at the Ship Inn for the night, set off We:lnes day mornine; for town ; on his arrival, Lord Castlereagh, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, waited upon the Prince at Clarendon I lotel, Bond street, to congra tulate him, and know his pleasure as to his future arrange ments. His Lordship, as soon as he had taken his leave of the Prince, dispatched u messenger with the result of, the interview to the Prince Regent at Brighton.—The same evening, about ten o'clock, Gen. Sir Benjamin Bloomfield arrived in London, from Brighton, and imme diately oiler proceeded to Lord Castlereagh's house, with a communication from the Prince Regent to the Prince of Saxe Cobonrg. Thursday Sir Benjamin Bloom fi eld returned to Brighton, about two o'clock.—The same morning the Prince of Saxe Cobourg received visits at the Clarendon I lotel, from Baron Trip, and a number of distinguished characters ; His Highness having previously sent off a communication to the Duchess of York at Oat lands. He afterwards went to visit the Archdukes John and Lewis, in Stratford-place. In the evening the Prince dined with Lord Castlereagh, where there was a select party to meet him. Her Majesty, it is reported, will go to Brighton early next week, for the purpose of consulting with the Prince Regent, upon the approaching marriage of the Princess Charlotte. Prince Leopold came sooner than was ex pected—not a bud sign in a suitor. A yacht was in pre-. paration to bring His Highness over. He is about six feet in height, pale, rather pitted with the small-pox, but a fair, open countenance, and prepossessing manners. I.eopold Geo. Christian, Prince of Cubourg,was born the I Gth of December, 1790—he is the son of the late reign ing Mike, Francis—has two brothers and four sisters, one of the latter married to a Prince of Wirtemberg, and another to the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia— Cobourg is situates] in Upper Saxony, and contains about 4000 inhabitants—both the Sovereign' and the Subjects are of the Lutheran religion. 13111011 TON, FEB. 23.—At three o'clock this afternoon,, his Serene Highness Prince Leopold of Saxe-Cobourg, accompanied in the same carriage by Lord Castlereagh, ar rived at the Pavilion, where the illustrious Prince was re ceived with the most enthusiastic welcome by his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, Sir R. Bloomfield, Count I lardenburgh, and the household nobility. Immediately after his Serene Highness was congratulated in the en- 1 trance hall by the nobility, be was conducted to the Prince Regent's apartments ; when his Royal Highness and fu ture illustrious son-in-law, with Lord Castlereagh, par took of refreshments after their journey. His Serene Highness was so occupied with the nines Regent, that he declined walking on the Steine; but to morrow, and future days, the public will be amply g tified with the presence of the favoured husband ol die Princess Charlotte of Wales. His Serene Highness, we are happy to observe, is very conversant with the English language. The arrival of the Prince CoLoom was followed by that of Lord Liverpool, Lord Ersline, Count Munster, and Colonel Hardenbrook (Secretary to the Prince.) INCOME TAX. The Petitions of the Common Council and Common Hall against the Income Tux are closely followed up by those of the wards and parishes, and from the metropolis the example is rapidly spreading to the country.—We hope all the counties will manfully declare themselves; since nobody disputes that the proposal of this tax in time of peace i s a downright violation of compact with the nation at large. The Roman historian, Tacitus, in his nervous style, describes it as one of the most grating subjects of complaint, that those evils which in time of war had been thought heavy and scarcely to be endured, and which were only excused by the necessity of arms, were continued even after the return of peace. As to the ruinous nature of this tax, the authority of Adam Smith is decisive. He notices several attempts at a sort of Income or Property Tax in various countries, most of which were exceedingly slight, and almost optional: but what he says of the experiment made in Holland is re markable. On a particular occasion the citizens assessed themselves at the rate of two per cent. on their capital. This great sacrifice was demanded at the instant by the extreme peril of their liberties, and was not, and could not have been intended to be repealed. Smith's remark, however, is fully applicable to the Income Tax of the present day. "In a particular exigency, the People may, from great public zeal, make a great ctl'ort, and give up even a part of their capital, in order to relieve the State; but it is impossible that they should continue to do so for any considerable time; and if they did, the tax would soon ruin them so completely, as to render them altogether incapable of supporting the State."—Except in such emergencies as this celebrated author refers to, it was always the proud distinction of English finance, that it left as much as possible to the volition of the contributor. Hence the spirit of liberty with us infused itself even into that which is generally considered as most l i alien. to it in principle—the fiscal operations of Govern went. E be tOctitai NUMBER r2' n. 24. lIALUS PONILI SUPREMA EST LEX. DISEASES, so far as regards a popular view of them, maw be divided into two classes—those which are ale pendent upon atmospherical changes, or arc influenced by the particular state of the circumumbient air; and into those, the causes of which arc not at. all, or in a very slight degree, connected with these changes. The for mer again may be subdivided into two species,—those which obviously depend upon, and are usually produced by exposure to atmospherical influence, as colds or catarrhs, inflammation of the lungs and rheumatism ; and those whose character is only modified, or virulence aug 'melded, by certain states of the air, or progression of seasons, as small-pox, measles, and scarlet-fever ; although the mode in which such influence is exerted, is yet undis covered by us. The former of these two last sets may be thought to depend upon the simple qualities of the air, us coldness, moisture, or dryness; the latter to derive their origin or propagation from some peculiar combination, or chemical state of the elastic vapours by which we arc sur rounded. Each of these claims our attention, but not with an equal degree of interest ; and accordingly each class shall obtain that share of notice which its import ance seems entitled to demand. The present is a season of the year, in which those dis eases, the offspring of cold and moisture, are usually pre valent ; and the vicissitudes of weather that we have lately experienced have not only multiplied their number, hut aggravated their violence. Catarrhs, therefore, pulmonary complaints, and rheumatism, occupy a large proportion of our present list. The. contagious diseases a children, also, have, in no inconsiderable degree, been influenced by the state of the weather. Moping Cough and Measles are at present frequent among this interesting part of our population, many of whom full victims to the severity of their attack, notwithstanding the most appropriate treat ment. It has been complained, and perhaps with some degree of truth, that the diseases of children have not ob tained their full share of consideration among the gene rality of medical practitioners, who are represented as taking less interest in, and concerning themselves less about, the welfare of such very young patients, than for those of adult or maturer age. Should this charge be true, we may account in some measure for the practice, so universal, of drenching the young subjects with some advertised specific, or committing them to the manage ment of some ignorant old nurse, whose ill-timed officious ness too frequently increases that disease which she knows not how to cure. In their slightest degree, however, hoop in., cough and measles should become the objects of serious attention, lest irreparable mischief be done by themn to so important and vital an organ as the lungs. The ffirmer, in particular, requires a nue portion of skill in its treatment, since it has unquestionably a two-fold character, inflammatory and spasmodic ; and according to the predominance of either of these, must its treatment. be varied. lit its incipient stage, however, it may be alwaysconsidered as inflammatory; and the .safest mode to adopt is, to withhold from the subject of its attack, what ever may increase the circulation, or stimulate the sys tem. Animal trod is in general to be finbidden, and the mildest diet only allowed. By moderating inflammation in the early stages of the disease, the subsequent spasmodic state is rendered much milder, and any lasting injury to the lungs is much kss to be appr4ended. It may be some times necessary to effect this intention by the exhibition of appropriate medicines; but all attempts to remove or cure the disease at its commencement, are worse than_ useless. Arising from a specific contagion, it fhllows the general laws of contagious diseases : un assimila tion of some of the humours of the body into its own nature, and u constitutional disturbance for their expul sion. Like all other contagious diseases, it has regular periods of increase, height, and decline; and will, in its milder attacks, naturally and gradually wear itself out, without any interposition of art, and, indeed, In spite of all interference. This character, in the history of the disease, has been abundantly favourable to the reputation of certain nosirums, which, when exhibited in the decline of the disease, have been ffillowed by the most wonderffil cures. From what has been said above, however, it up pears, that each separate stage of the disease requires its distinct treatment; and that to substitute, in the first and early stage of the disease, those medicines which are sin gularly useful in the lust stage, might be doing incalcula ble mischief to the little patient. As a general rule, it may be sufficient to state, that in the commencement of the complaint, in mild cases, any further interkrence than a strict attention to diet, and occasionally relieving the stomach by an emetic, is quite unnecessary; when the lungs shall have been attacked by serious inflamma tion, more active remedies are required, the extent of which can only be judged of by a skilful practitioner. When the febrile state is over, and nothing but the spasmodic cough remains, it will be useful to attempt its nmioval by suitable antispasmodics and tonics; but nothing in this period of the complaint is found to be so effica cious in general, us change of air,— a mild and dry situ• ation being of course entitled to a preference. ERRATUM in 'Atrn. Mox. No. 1.-3 d line- from Lotioni, lot improper, read inwerjeci. ~ ..~