The National Register. — London, England, 1821-10-01 00:00:00

I iii .. -_~~ AMERICAN PAPERS. (Prom the Yakima latelligeneer, Aug. 30.) New ORLEANS, AunusT 3 —We have conversed w:th several gentlemen just returned from an excur sion along the coast of the province of Texas, as far as the hay of Matagorda. The Independents are in some force at Galveston, tinder the command of Major fing er. Besides se veral parties scouring the country, " there were about 25 men at Fort Bolivar, which is in a good state of defence, having some pieces of very heavy eanc non mounted. The independents there were in cor respondence with the people of St. Antonio, and other towns in the Provineias Infernos. The latest accounts from the interior give assurances that the cause of independence would be supported by the whole of the population. A Mexican armed cruiser was lying at Galveston. She is a large schooner mounting nine guns; had lately been sery successful against the Spaniards, aad was full of colonial produce. Smuggling in those parts is carried on with it high hand. A negro trader, with about 200 slaves on board, lately landed her cargo at a small river this side of Galveston. Dry goods and West India pro duce are often introduced by means of the different b iyons. _ The Carrancrau Indians were apparently in con siderable force ; near 2tao fires were counted along the coast. Our informants having landed on an island in the Bay of Matagorda, discovered marks of the cruelty of these cutnilwls. A post driven into the ground appeared burnt all around, and on one side hung part of a man's aria naked to the wood. Not far off a wreck was seen, which being all of cedar, was probably Spanish. Whilst noticing the affairs of Texas, we cannot well avoid remarking, that if political motives some years ago induced the President to seize on Amelia Island, the same reasons, but in tenfold greater force, call for the occupation of Texas. A great number of our citizens are gone and going there.— The conntry has no regular system of laws. Bands of armed men speaking our language hover over the frontier. The sea coast is the most favourable that can well be imagined for smuggling. Numbers are fimnd now a-days above the dull pursuits of civil life, and nothing but the strong arm of power and the most energetic measures, in similar circumstances, ensure the observance of the laws of nations and those of the United States. If common report is not a most bare-faced liar, smuggling appears likely to grow to as great a head as in Spain itself. We have been told, and that repeatedly, by men who have visited those parts, that the country on the Red River, the Opelousas, and the Attakapas, are full of African negroes and fine Indian and European goods, smug gled in. The Government of the United States should know t:ie truth, and check the evil ere it at tains greater enormity. Were we permitted to advise, we should recommend the occupation of Texas: the establishment of three or four compa nies of mounted riflemen on that frontier, and the presence of four or five light cruisers, under diligent officers, in the Gulf of Mexico. What a picture does the account from the coast of Texas give us of the condition of that country ! Bands of outlaws in anus, tribes of cannibal radians, gangs of daring smugglers, with hordes of miserable African slaves ! There is no question but such evils demand the interposition, in some shape of our go vernment, to defend the American territory from the contaminating influence of such a congregation of fatuity, fanaticism, and crime. For this purpose we are entirely ofopinion that a port of the recom mendation of the Louisiana Gazelle ought to be fid lowed, and that our police vessels by sea, and a de tachment of troops by land, ought to be employed for the punishment of those who laugh to scorn national law and private morals, and for the preven tion of similar offences for the future. We have MP doubt that the attention of govcritment will be at once directed to this object. With respect to our occupying the Spanish ter ritory adjoining our limits, without the consent of Spain, as recommended by the New Orleans papcw, that is another question, dividing itself into two—the first of right, the second of necessity. It is hardly advi.eable, having just settled our old dis putes with to begin already to prepare ma terials for new ones—not to speak of the consider ations of public law ii:vulvul in this matter. If we MC to take possession of every territory adj•iining us /whenever it becomes a harbour tier smugglers and fugitives from instieo, there would be no end of our occupation of territory, till we got the whole Con tinent to oursel% es, the north pole at one extremity, awl the Atlantic and Pacific oceans washing the shores all round besi d es Oa this principle, we should long ago have occupied" the Canadas un the north, and the Nest India Islands on the south. No, no, this will not do. Seize what we might we should vet leave tionlet fling ungrosped, It is incon venient to have territory to u. TUE NATIONAL REGISTER to others; but to extend our limits in the hope of avoiding it, would only be to exchange one line for another ; we should have contiguous territory still. We are therefore perfectly satisfied with the limits we have, and hope never to see them transgressed, unless, by an amicable understanding with our neighbour, to chastise those whom she cannot con trout, or in actual pursuit of the violators of the laws of nations. It only requires means at the dis posal of the government to be employed. to remedy all the evils which this country is likely to suffer from that quarter. SETTLERS AT ALGOA BAT. Extract of a letter to a lady in the vicinity of Chelmsli,rd, dated " New Essex, Graham's Town, on the frontiers of Africa, June 24th, 1821 :—I am seven hundred miles from the Cape of Good Hope, and should not receive intelligence of an arrival there for at least three weeks: but my correspondent at Cape Town will receive comfortable lodgings, &c. until a ship sails for Algoa Bay, which is distant from me 1 30 miles Few ships from England pro ceed further thnn th: , Cape. Good ploughmi•n arc wanted, and good fu 4-ploughs, with spare wrought iron shares and coulters, which are very expensive here; ironwork nothing under Is. per lb. Ran some's ploughs sell for 141. each. Ploughmen will find plenty of employers at from 21. to 31. per month, and their board. Meat sells at 2d. per lb. ; wheat 12s. a bushel; and barley 6s. Other articles of housekeeping are about the same price as in En gland ; but, on the other hand, we are in one of the healthiest climates in the world, and free from rent, tithes, and taxes of every description. Any one may live here as well with 5001. as in his native land with 5,0001. The farming work is all done with oxen, which are very fine, and bought at 31. each ; cows are 30s. ; and sheep 6i. a-head, (hav ing tails that weigh 81b.—a complete lump of hit): clothes, linen, and all English goods, very dear Good mechanics, of any tkscription, have very high wages. A cargo of ladies would mule a good spe culation in proceeding to the new settlement : for all that come out with the settlers have gotten hus bands." BANK OF SNGLAND. A great reduction is about to take place almost immediately in the establishment of the Bank of England. The number of clerks to be discharged is stated ut 125, of which 40 are from the Hall side or Cashier's office, and the remainder from the va. rions accountant offices fin- the difliment classifica tions of stock, with the one and two pound Bank note office. In the latter, which employed between 200 and 300 clerks, the return to payments in spe cie must have led to the expectation of a very ma terial reduction : but the number discharged under the present arrangement is only twenty-four. It was not at all known befi're Tuesday last, we be lieve, that the change was ciintemplated by the Governors of the Bank, and the measure, therefore, being one that involves the welfare or subsistence of so many families, appears a little abrupt. But in the mode of carrying it into effect, the Bank have acted with a degree of liberality which merits praise. All the clerks now dismissed will receive an annuity fOr life, in proportion to the amount of pay and length of service, a selection been made, as far as the interests of the concern rendered it pru dent to do so from those who are the soonest likely from long services to claim the right of supenuinu ation. But every clerk discharged will, we under stand, be allowed the option, if lie prefers it, of receiving a suns of money equivalent to the value of I his annuity. Thus to those who are still young and have a talent for business, an opportunity will be affinded, by a supply of capital, of engaging in trade, and of working out their oiNn independence. The number of clerks employed at the Bank is above I,ooo—the number discharged, therefore, is about one-eighth part of the whole. By the measure a saving will accrue to the Bank when the respective annuities fall in, of about 20,0001. per annum.— We understand that the cause assigned by the Di rectors for this step, in the notice to those clerks whose services ate to cease, is a general filling off in the business of the establishment. When King William was pressed by his Ministers to discharge Sir G. Rtak, on account of his conti nued opposition to their measures both in and out of Parliament, his Majesty wisely asked if they had any thing to object against him as an Admiral f— but being dunth oil that head, he told them he would never disclairge a brave and meritorious offi cer for his conduct us a Member of Parliament. which was quite a different duty, and ought to be executed according to every man's conscience, with out the imputation of being disaffected.—lt would have been honourable to those, in whose hands the right of dismisiing an officer is vested at pre.i.it, had the same course been pursued in the case of Sir Robert Wilson. PROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE., IMIM=••• BANKRUPTS. J. Knowles and 11. Walker, Salford, Lancashire, machine makers. Solicitors, Messrs. Watson and Co. Warnford Court. J. Lavender, Leominster, mercer. Sole. Messrs. Cardale and Co. Gray's Inn. J. Beeston, Drayton in Hales, Shropshire, mercer. Sols. Messrs. Barton and Co. Gray's Inn Place. T. Gibson, junior, Liverpool, ship bread baker. Sol. Mr. Chester, staple Inn. A. Gird, Park Lane, saddler. Sole. Messrs. Bourdillon and Co. Bread Street, Cheapside. DIVIDENDS. Oct. 20, J. Mitchell, sen. Essendon. Herta, dealer-23, T. Kay. Prince's Square, Ratcliff Highway. coal merchant-23, H. ii; Bodliam, North Shields, victualler-44,E. Phillip, Narherth, Pembroko,hire, linen duper-24, W. and H. Webb, Bristol, linen drapers --24, 'l'. P. Jones, Carmarthen, linen draper. CERTIFICATES to be granted Oct. 16. .1. B. Snowdon, Lynn, linen draper—J. Jagger, East Stone. house. Devonshire, stone mason—R. Tredwen, Chopstow, Mon. mouthiliire, ship builder—T. Kay, Prince's Square, Ratcliff Highway. coal merchant—J. Bass, Holbeach, Lincolnshire, brewer—C. Cope, Berkeley Mews, Portman Square. job master —H. W. Smith, Bird's Buildings. Islington, tea dealer—l. Hode, Beech Street, Barbican, button seller. SWEARING-IN OF THE NEW SHERIFFS: Friday being the day appointed for this ceremony, a large crowd collected in the Hall for the purpose of wit nessing it. At a little before one o'clock the Lord Mayor arrived in state, and held a Court of Aldermen. At half-past one the Sheriffs elect, Alderman Gamin and Venal,les, arrived in new and splendid carriages. The carriage of Ald. Garratt was the most elegant, without being gaudy, of any thing of the kind we have ev►r seen. 'rite colours are green and gold, with the arms of the Goldsmiths' Compaily, to which he belongs, and the arms of his faintly enthlsainted on the tunnels and on the hammer-cloth. The horses were decked out in green and orange ribbons. The scn•ssts wore splendid liveries of green and gold 10 correspond. The carriage of Venables, was of a sky blue can't., with hammer-cloth, &c. of silver, and the 1011010:11 111 Wile liveries, with sd~er Lace. The Sheriffs elect, aecompanie ! by the Lord Mayor, Sheriffs Waithman and Williams, and the Court of Al dermen, entered the Hall and ascended the platform.— The several Aldermen were received with various marks of favour, or otherwise loon the populace assembled.— rite new Sheriffs were splendidly dressed in minium coats, surmounted in their slate robes of scarlet, and looked extremely well. They were sworn with all ap propriate solemnity by 11. o rpe, Esq. The last ceremony was to invest them with the gold insignia of office, when some surprise was occasioned at novel vari ition from the old costume of wearing gold chains with the plain link, instead of which, the new Sheriffs were invested with gold °maim. WS, Clorsisting each of three coils of rope, an whet' to a supeita gold ornament affixed to the breast of the Winsicoat.— The new costume was much admired, and generally considered much more appropriate than Ow old. It ss as stated to its as a singularity, that the Sheriff's officer who invested the new Shertffs was one of those whose only it is on ceremonies of a more serious nature 10 invest persons with similar ornaments, but of very intenor 111.1. serials. The story, however, excited en humour.— A fter the usual salutations had been made, the Lord Mayor and the Court of Alderinett retired. 1 he new Sheriff's proceeded to the Court of Common Pleas, in receive the custody of the prisoners in N N sate and \Vhitecross street. Mr. Brown, the keeper of Newgate, in giving in the list of the prisoners in his c iiiii kly, observed that he had examined the prison accounts, and that there never had Men an small a her of prisoners transferred to the Siteritls on such occasion since the nrhott had been limit. Ile took the opitortinisty of congratulating nue Sheriff, mu the circumstance. Mr. Brown and Nlr. Th.tekrey then delivered op their keys to the ex-Stienffs, who tiansferred them to the new Sheriffs. Mr. Sheriff Vendldes, on receiving the keys of New gate, addressed Mr. Brown, and s..d—•' Sir, although you na:c an appointment as the keeper of Neu gate, yet, as Ins Majesty s officers, the custody of that prison •s entirely or its, and we appoint you the governor for the time being." Mr. Brown received the key and bowed. SOllle other tonnal business having been disposed of, the Sheriffs rented to thinner. Ito* 3Esti.v.—Among the novelties of the Pari sian circles, rum jelly has become an universal favourite. It is made in the following manner:— To a quart bottle of common white wine take a pound of sugar, which is to be reduced to a sirup, and clarified. Then take an ounce of isinglas , , which put on the fire till it is thoroughly incited, pass it through a cloth, and mix it with the sirup half warm. When this mixture is nearly cold, lour it into the white wine, and stir it well, so as to mix it completely. Then add a spoonful, or a spoonful and a halt (according to the strength which you desire to givz the jelly) of old Jamaica rum. Stir again this mixture, and pour it into the mould that may take the shape in cooling which you design to give it, it intended as a Ali tin- the table ; or into glasses, if designed to be handed round at an even ing party. Letters from Havannuh of the 6th of August state, that the Independents in Mexico had sustained several defeats, and that the communication between Vera Cruz anal tue capital, hail, in consequence, been again established. O'Donoju, the new Viceroy of Mexico, was daily expected at Vera Cruz, and great dependence was placed on his personal energy tot restoring confidence to the royal cause. dr