The National Register. — London, England, 1818-09-06 00:00:00

"ic - ...4 7 ;:t. • . • - -- ..... ............ .. ..... A y _...,,..,•.. • .. --- .. f. r A t 4577- . . . . le - i . • lic" k. - Ar'' .r. . 0 .1"I (atm n ck • ~. I ,s: :‘ r aitis*ry+ I Our ittg, Con6titutionAstb I MO. No. 552.—V0L. XI. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER , 1818. Pour: 90. POLITICAL DISQUISITION. ceeded his orders, but acted in open violation of them,.. 2. The Floridas are to be restored to Spain, ou condi tions, that Spain will not suffer her Indians to a►tack the citizens of the United States, nor the iodises inha biting their territory; nor will the United States per mit these last-mentioned Indians to oommence hosti. Mies against the subjects of his Catholic Majesty, or We Indians, it► any manner whatever. THE QUEEN. ON THE SEIZURE OF THE FLORIDAS. The ACCOtlnta this week of her Majesty', disorder are very unfavourable. It is said she has been gra. dually relapsing ever since Wednesday week ; and since Sunday her Majesty has experienced a recurrNice of ell tht most distressing ay:impulses of her complaint. (IL Tuesday, for the first time since her Majesty has been. at Kew, an official bulletin of her health was issued : it was as follows : The following is au waste frost a private letter, dated Bencoolen, April 15, 1818:—" Out new Lien ' tenant. Governor, Sir T. & Rake s Lady, and visite, arrived here on the Slit alt. He landed on tilt, next day, and took charge of the Government under the - usual forces. The great character which he acquired ' is Java had excited great expectation, and has made his presence very welcome. The manner in which this place has been neglected, calls for immolate change and revision, and considerable reductions, I understand, are in contemplation. On the arrival of the intelligence of the melancholy death or the Princess Charlotte, the ' whole settlement went into mourning; and on the *7th of March the Lieutenant Governor summoned a general meeting of the inhabitants, who framed and signed Addresses to their Royal Highnesses the Prince Re. gent and Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobeurg, deploring this calamitous event, which have bum transmitted to England by Capt. Mitchell, of the East India Compa ny's ship Northumberland. The Lieutenant Governor also took advantage of the sorrow :mid feeling of the moment to establish ' The Sumatran Milliary Bible Society t' and the Rev. Mr. Winter, oor chaplain, preached an appropriate sermon on the occasion. No thing can equal the melancholy with which we are overwhelmed in consequence of this sad catastrophe.— The duty on the export of spices has been taken off, and in a short time we shall export en for the con sumption of England, andieventuallyg e Continent. Alle cultivators think themselves welt * at a half onid peany hu =r e zt i l d egs. As we hml, a right to en emata of ow new =demi Governor, I li = hi proposes to immediately abolish slavery, sad emancipate the na tives from the forced deliveries, &c. ender which they have heretofore laboured. The gaming and cock fight ing farms, the sources of endless evils, are to be abo lished from the ist of May." The Qtmen has beat very miner! the lad tee days. Ilex Ma • jtisig has had but very little sleep in tits night, And continues mush to dupessa this morning. " FA. MILLMAN. " Mtn. IiALPOAD." This alarming altension in her Majesty's health de.. tennined the Prince Regent to lay aside his projected tour for the present; and on Sunday evening, instead al proceeding to Ragley, hie Royal Highness remained as Kew till near eleven o'clock, and then returned to Hampton Court, to sleep. His Royal Highness aho remained at Kew till a late hour on Monday night. The following are the bulletins eshinited on the respective days at the Queen's Patnal. " Kew Palace, Sept. t. " The Quest contitries very ninth indisposed; but her has had a haunt night than was expected. " FRANCIS MILLMAN. "H. HALPORD." " Kew Falict., Sept. 3. " The Quem leas had same tafreshing sleep in Vic night, bit her Majaaty ib AIWA aIIOSPOSed• "FRANCIS MILLMAN. " H. lIALFORD." " Kew Palace, Siy4. 4. " The Queen continuos much is the Male rate as yesterday, although her Majesty's night has been but an indifferent one. " FRANCIS MILLMAN. " li. RALFORD." Since her relapse, tlia Queen has reiterated her de. sire to be at Windsor, and a number of contrivances have been thought of to render her removal practica ble. The intention of removing her Majesty, in obe dience to her earnest wishes, was acted upou fbr thr,2c or four dqs, but all preparations for that purpose ccasc.i on Thursday. it is stated the opinion of the physi cians is very unfavourable. AMONG the various arguments brought forward on behalf of the mist= of Pensacola by Hannibal the (heat, (which tae attacked by him as Saguntum was by the lesser Hannibal), during a period of professed peace, it is curious that the Republicans have already abandoned the pretexts on which they attempted to justify that outrage, and are satisfied, at length, with bugging of the advantages which may result from it. One patriot (a member possibly of the New Cartha giniab staff) tells us, that the Floridas ass useful tu wards strengthening the southern frontier; and there• fore they must be retained. Another says, that Florida abounds in live oak, which has become rather scarce in mere northern tountries ; and thereon 'e we must keep the Floridas." A third supposes it " not impro bable" that the British may hold Havannah ; and since Pensacola would afford, in case of heetilities, a commanding harbour, the Floridas ought not to be given up. A fourth honest gentleman acknowledges his frank belief that the Spanish provinces were wrong fully laid hold of ; but, with he, " since the blow bus been struck," the Government must not shrink from its own actions ; the people ivishlot the Floridas, and " they must not ba surrendered." :n point of morality, and in point of logic, we hive seldom had the good fortune to meet a parallel for this ; nor do we•eonceive that its fellow could be found in any school of practical reasoners, except such as emigrate periodically from the River Thames to the eastern shores of New Hol land. Arc the Republicans aware that every consi deration which they have urged in favour of retaining the Spanish provinces, becomes as equally forcible mo tive with other nations for compelling the United States to restore them? That if the possible contingency of a war with England be a sufficient reason for strength ening the southern frontier—for plundering from Spain supply of ship timber—for obtaining against Great Britain a commanding port—the same contingency is an argument of precisely the same value in the eyes of the people thus menaced in they isions of repu bl ican states men, fbr preventing that of frontier strength ; fur withholding that supply of all-conquering live cak ; and fur wresting felons Nord► America that commanding ,part. The declaration, that because the offence has been eommitted, it must be maintained ; bemuse the goods stolen are of high price, the rubbery must be defended ; and because the Gcvernment has been guilty of an catruge. it becomes a daty, instead of repairing, to per sist in it I —Really the notions of right and wrong which must prevail where such doctrines and principles are circulated, would have some better title to the ad. egrationotEnglishmen, if they did not betray so strong. 16 resemblance to that system of ethics so long estab. I:shed at Newgate. The fashion of wholesale robbery seems accordingly to thrive in all parts of North Ame rica. • Lefevre Desnouettes, and his corps of " honour able' exiles, actuated, we presume, by the double sti mulus of old propensities aril recent example, have Prised a 4:44nital, a province to themselves—the pro tnce of Team, namely—which, as it happens to be claimed at once by the Spanish Government and the bnited States, Messrs.. Dennouettes and Co. pronounce he property of neither, and have therefore appro. i r riated it to their own uses. Since writing the above, we hare received the Ane- .1 i:'can sournals, which contain a document that appears - 6! be.un exposition, in substance, though not in form, qf the settilmeots entertained by the Washington cabi net, as to the invasion of Florida, and the seizure of Pea:tacola. 'lt establishes two points of high importance t , honour of t'..3 :*..ted States, and intotrotits ,;!;V:2c I —t. Jacks x: GA only ez, accafision The Asiatic Mirror presents several incidents relative to the Indian war, which were not notioed in the official disintch&s. It appears, that shortly prior to the great battle of Maheidpoor, the Bhye (a Princess of Holk:kr's family t was cruelly murdered. She had been previously placed in confinement in consequence of her having wished to prevent a war with the English. A Council was then held by Rooahun Beg, Rooshun than, and Gltuffon Khan, by whom it was deterasined that she , giodia be put to death • and she was accordingly taken down to the bed of the river and publicly beheaded.— Several quarrels of er this took place beer's= the inf. ferent Chiefs, but the influence of Roodittto Beg pre vailed, and the battle was fought. The omeequence, however, was fatal to him. The battalions Which he commanded were cut up and dispersal, himself wounded, and his influence annihilated. On the south of the Netbudda the agents of the Peishwa bad taken great pains to seduce the Sepoys in our service, and had in duced several belonging to the Bombs, Presidency to desert, partly by threatening to inflict Craddes end oppressions on their families and friends La conse quence, the Civil and Military Authorities at all the British stations mitre particularly etiolated to extend protection to all the Emilies of Sepal!' who sought refuge within our territories. This measure, joined to the subsequent defeats which the Pahhwaicxpereitleed, had completely put a gulp to the desertion sg the Sepoys. • The follewing is an ettraet of a letter fres Lloyd's Agent at the Cape of Good Hope. d o tted ititie 18 : " The Dick, Harrison, from Madras, wired here oo the 2dinst. The Captain and ()dicers reptfif, that his Majesty's ship Minden arrived at Madras from Ceylon, for troops for the relief of Gen. Brownrigge, and the Staff; who were surrounded in a mud tint, and secluded front all communication by the Candiana • A detach ment of the ti3d regiment had been cut to pieces.— 'aptain Talbot, of the Lord Cathcart, arrived on the sth instant, and reearts,that hisNliesty's ship Minden 6,1 !rime d p o i n t de (::ilk, far Celisinbe, with tromp: , fttr the relief of Generat brewnrigge.w. ' The Queen'* dieurdav r ep-to a late. hear en Priddy afternoon, appeared rather to increase than otherwise. She suffered much pain, and was in an almost total incapability of motion. The Princess Augusta and the Duchess of Gloucester are incessantly occupied in the most anxious attentions upon their Royal Patent. The Prince Resent spends almost all the whole day, and great part of the night at Kew, nxeives half-hourly reports, and frequently sees her Majesty. The Dukes of York'and Kent also visit the Palace every day, be sides sending their inquiries several ti ues in those parts of the day in which they are not at Kew. An express was received so early as eight o'clock yes tenlay morning, fur his Royal Highness the Prince 14- gent: t Carlton House, from Kew. The following is the official Medical Report recciv : l from Kcw yesterday morning " New Palace, Sept. L. " lice Alajesty bac r. 0.: hal a goo I aig'it, contiquos mach e - .e same, " FRANCIS MILLMAN. " H. HALL ORD." Wedneliaty r. Court of Directors was held. kt the East Intik l-;')use; when the following ships ware token up atii: thas stationed, vit.-13omblyt and China —Marquis Camden, Capt. Larkins; Charles Grant. Cale. Scott ; Inglis, Capt. Borradaile ; Essex.. Capt. Nisbett; and Lowther Castle, Captain Mortlock. Wags/ and China—Atlas, Cupt. Nlayne; Waterloo, Capt. Al-sager, , ani Streatham, Capt. Heaviside. Madras and China Ship bulldiug by Messrs Clay, Capt. Franklin and Gener►l Kyd, Capt. Nairne. St. Helena, Romlw,, and China—Ronibay, Capt. Hamilton ; and Genera& Harris, Cap Wastead. Madras and Bengal—Rottc., Capt. M'Taggart, and Minerva, Captain Richardson. Madrmand Bengal—Coritatic, Capt. 131anchard; and Thomas, Grenville, Capt. Manning. Bengal flireet- , - Princess Charlotte of %Vales, Capt. dribble ; and Mar. quis of Wellington, Capt. Wood Cap•. W s U, inn i nb was sworn into the arnmand of the ship Thomas Grenville. ; The tidings from Manchester still continue to to of an or.plessant nature. The turd) of idle manufacturers, complaining, it is soul, that they were first pelted fe c .. l theuce, attacked the factory of Messrs. Gray and Ce., Oom whence they wore repulsed. some of their crew b e i ng . wounded. They alio had previously arms itaori 214,4 abused thou of Messrs. Grays soantifirterers a - 140 Led ucret Tutted r Lad returned to thc4x labour.,