The National Register. — London, England, 1817-05-19 00:00:00

l ~rr Ira . Dtt eliAlianat No. 484.—V0r.. X. PRLVCESS OP WILES'S PAMPHLET. A Nuremberg paper contains the following abstract - of the work, which the Princess of W ales distributed , at Munich, and some other places, during her late tour in Germauy ; Nuremberg. The Journal of an English Traveller, or re»uirkahle Ecents and Anecdotes of the Princess (4.* Wales, from 1814 to 181(4. After an introduction, in which it is shown that the Princess of Wales did not leave England, in consequence of superior orders, and still less from any motive disho nourable to H: It. H. but of her own free will, in pur suance of a plan which she had long since formed, some documents are communicated, which give evident proofs of this. First, a letter from the Princess to Lord Liverpool, dated July 25, 1814. She announces to him her resolution to leave England, in order to restore to the Prince Regent aml herself the peace, of which they had been so many years deprived.. and declines the in come of 50,0001. sterling, which Parliament had voted her, accepting only 35,0001. 2. Lord Liverpool answers the Princess on the 28th of July, that he has laid her letter belbre the Prince Regent, and that his Royal Highness will not oppose her journey. 3. A letter from the Princess to Mr. Whitbread and his friends, dated July '25, 1814. She inthrius him of her resolution to leave Englund, and thanks him and Mr Brougham for the attention, which they have shown her on all occasions. "No person," says the Princess, " isossessed of sensibility and wide, could long endure the situation which is below her rank as Princess of Wales, and even as a mere private person, since she is so hated by the Sovereign, that he will not bear her presence either in private or public life. The Princess of Wales can no longer bear such degradation and hu miliation : she can no longer bear that the Prince and his fatuity treat her as a criminal, though her innocence was publicly recognised by the Ministers and Parlia ment, after the false accusations of her enemies and of traitors had been done away. Now that the Princess Ins received this public satisfaction, she can no longer, consistently with her conscience, be a burden to her friends," &e. 4. Mr. Whitbread answers the Princess on the Ist of Aug. He says, "he is not surprised at her determina tion, but it is painful to him to be deprived for a time of her amiable society." These letters reply to all the false motives, which were ascribed to the departure of the Princess from England. After what had passed, the Princess could no more reside agreeably at a C o urt, where she was forced to submit to the humour of the Prime, which might have had an influence on the hap piness of her daughter. I low could the Princess live happily in a place where obstacles were thrown in the way of maternal tenderness, and where she and the Princess Charlotte were scarcely allowed to appear as mother and daughter ? The Princess, therefore, sailed on the 9th of August from England for Flamburgh, and travelled from that place to Brunswick. The suite that atteruled her consisted entirely of English Gentle men and Ladies. But in the sequel they left the Prin cess altogether, and she could not obtain any inure Eng lish, nothwithstanding the trouble shi. took to get her retinue wholly composed of English. Why did the Eug lish leave her Court ? Some from personal motives, but the most from fear of drawing down upon themselves the displeasure of the Court of London, a fl a ir which was but too well founded, if the situation of the Prince and Princess of Wales is considered. For this reason too—as she was travelling through Italy, the English then in that country did not pay their respects to her. The Princess was therefore compelled to form another household for herself. This consists Countess ofOldi, of Cremona ; Duct. Moechetti, Chew. Schiavini, Chevaliers Thomassi, Perg,lnni, &c, Only one Englishman, her Private Secretary, of the name of Hannaum, remained true to her, and did not leave her. Some discreditable reports were circulated in regard to her First Chamber lain, the Chevalier Pergami, a Knight of Malta, but he is a respectable man, who made the Campaigns of 1 8 12, 13, and 14, under Lieut.-General Pino. Her estate on the Lake of Como she purchased of the Countess of Pino, and had it greatly improved. But the Princess was calumniated even in (701110, the inhabitants of which she hail loaded with benefits. Herway of living upon her estate is extrenely sim ple. A select society, a cheerful repast ; music, plays in her private theatre—these arc her innocent amuse melds. I kt titittri+ Our /ging, ConiStitution anb /MC MONDAY, MAY, 19, 1817. In the summer of 1815 a wiLled secret plot was formed against the Princess, the origin of which it is not difficult to guess. The Princess was narrowly watched, and attempts were made to seduce her peo ple ; bat only one, the Piqueur Crede, was so weak as to yield, and to promise Batten to conduct him into the apartment of the .Princess by means of fidse keys. The plot was, however, discovered, and the Piqucur turned away. This man wrote to the Chevalier Toinasaia, confessed that he had let himself be seduced by Baron —, to.betray his mistress, and begged tier mercy. The Princess thought it proper to acquaint the governor, Count Salm, with this event, and Baron was three(' ur leave the dominions of his Majesty the Emperor. Hantaum, the Princess's private secretary, challenged the Baron, but the latter has hitherto put it off: Since this affair the Princess is very cautious, particularly towards Englishmen whom she does not know, but she conceals herself from nobody ; only she will not be the object of calum ny and of a shameful espionage,, of which she has 'al ready been the victim. What has already happened gives ground to Kttir still greater enormities. An event which took place at Genoa, has more the appearance of an attempt at assassination than robbery. Some armed men penetrated during the night into the house of the Princess, am) ahnost into her bed-chamber. Au alarm bein ,, given, one of her servants fired upon these people, and pursued thefts, but in vain. It is not yet discovered what were their intentions : hut let a veil cover all this ! Her first Mister of the Horse, Schiavini, has kept a circumstantial journal of her jour ney to the Holy Land. The Princvm went from Genoa to the Island of Elba, thence to Sicily and Barbary. then to Palestine. She visited Jerusalem, Athens, &c. and was every where received with the honours due to her rank. By the assistance of several lit,rati, she obtained a collection of valuable antiquities, tor which object she spared no expence. Wherever the Princess appeared, leleft *behind her grcatful recollections by her benefewce. At Tunis she obtained the freedom of several slsc.." The Princess is now employed in writing the histor , : of her life, which she will make public when the time comes. By this she will throw a great light on many facts, which are now involved in obscurity. LITER.ITME. PH ICE 94d• 14}:411:W.-THE ST:llt IN THE W EST. HY DA. HOUDInOT, OF FAIOADELPHIA. 1 Tots curious work has found its way through pli cate hands to England ; and we believe. a single copy has Leen read by several persons with that attention due to the importance of' the Enquiry, and a re-publi cation is now in contemplation. The author has de voted many years of laborious research, of personal inspection, in journies, anti don ;cgs, and expenee., to ascertain with accuracy the object of his gnat ques tion, Whether the North-American Indians are not the regular descendants of the lost ten tribes of IsraeL He traces them from their separation under Rehobdam to the borders of the Caspian Sea, where their temporary dwellings are also traced by their having left there the names of many places similar to those of their deserted country ; such as Mount Tabor, Palestine, &e.—wben: they left the Caspian, he follows their journey over the north of Asia to Behmen's Straits; crosses thence to North America, where th 4 settled in a land unin habited and uncultivated, and where they conceived that as first occupants they should have remained for ever undisturbed ! Their similarity to the ancient Israelites is next proved by their countenances, their names, language, words in use, and allusive tense; yet in this chain of evidence it no where appears dust they have any traditions of descending from these sup posed ancestors, or that they are impressed with the least idea that they are or were Israelites, or that they are suffering any dispersion front an original nation, to which they expect that either themselves or their posterity shall ever return. Neither does the learned author produce any evidence of their being acquainted with, though he ohms some trace of the remains of the Mosaic worship of the Temple.; or that they had brought with theta from Palestine any copy of the Penteteuch or of. the Laws. On the contrary, they I appear to be an unlettered nation even at this period s bat the similarity of some of their customs to those of Israel is practised without their being conscious of de• riving any origin from them. Dr. B. remarks, that as these people were absent from Jerusalem at the time of the crucifixion, they are happily free from the guilt consequent to that act, and will be finally spared from any ultimate punishment; but that in the mean time they must suffer the previous fate of dispersion. Al though they may resemble the Jews in their counte nances, yet it is not stated that they either call them selves so, or are so understood by others, or seem to be themselves conscious of this origin.—This is almost suf ficient to prevent our yielding to this learned writer the palm of complete success in his researches ; tor cons sciousness is the criterion of punishment ; and if' the generations of Israelites were to suffer captivity and exile for their chief sin of idolatry, these people being now ignorant and unconscious of their sentence, still want this most essential claim to their title. How ever, it appears that their traditions were sufficient to encourage Dr 13. in his enquiries, for they state their ancestors of old times to have been destroyed by a flood, except a few, who built a large carnoc in which they were preserved. Still we conceive it requires many more characters to render ther proofs complete ; when they arrived at the straits, they found sea, but they dug to the depth of a man's height and found a bed of cop per, over which they passed dryshod to the American continent.—Now we find here, a correspondence of facts, in Capt. Cook's measurement of these straits, at thirty nine miles in breadth, filled with small islands, easily passed from one to the other, and the copper islands within sight. They believe in the great spirit— and in a gout and an evil spirit—this latter would pre vent oar credence of their being Jews, for it is scarcely possible they should have so forgotten the Penteteuch, however it might have been obscured by their long march. Dr. 13. describes their worships to be a rude copy of the Tabernacle in the Wilderness, with the Ark, the Priests Ephod, the Holy of Holies, into which the people never enter, and the priests only once a year. A Sin offering, a Peace offering, &c.—they have no Image or Deity—and never offer any hunian Victims—they pronounce the great Name JAH, only once a year, thus; 0-wO-hee-yaw ! This is the retns grannuation :—they maintain the theocracy, anti be. liege a future state. and a Messiah, a world, ot' spirits who have received judgment, they use sacred feasts and dances, bury the bones of their victims offered, suf fering none to be broken, use the words Hallelujah, • Shilo, &c.—yet they seem to have thrgotten or to be i - ignorant of their meaning, tr.a have no knowledge of / . .1> .1; : MISCELLANIES. VEG ETABLE PHOSPHORS n interesting case of this nature is related by A. F. Nt Aity, Esq. in a letter to Dr. Wollaston, the learned set .etary of the Royal Society. Mr. Mornay whilst in ,71razil, had an oppor tunity of viewing most accurately the very curious plant called " Cipo de Cunatuun," which, is a climber, but destitute of leaves or prickles, and seems a species of Euphorbium. When Mr. Mornay cut this plant with his hunger, in the dusk of the evening, the wounds in flicted presented a beautiful luminous line, which was not transient, but lasted for several seconds, or a quar ter of a minute. Takin; up a piece of the plant, he bent it in the dark until the skin cracked, when every crack chewed the same light, of a phosphorescent appearance. He continued to bend the twig until the milky juice dropped out ; when sack drop was a drop of tire, much like inflamed tallow when falliag. PEASANTRY OF IRELANDo...-Mr. Shaw Mason, in his late Parochial survey of Ireland, gives the following facts respecting the Food of the Poor in that country. 'I heir (the lower clause , ) usual flevil it Potatne , !" Is the account of the Parish olCarriek, Dines:scot' Lismore, it is said too justly— " As to food, the report will probably be the same through. out the South of Ireland—y(4oons and ma.' We should be happy it we could always find, that milk formed part of the punt- Peasant's used ; but, in the nest ac count, that of Carrigaline, I tirsceso of Cork, w. 3 arc told, " that they are seldom circumstanced as to be able to obtain a constant and sufficient supply of an/k." These iiistances are sufficient to 'prove the general poor food of our peasantry ; Some accounts indeed, add to potatoes Illetit and fish—but seareeli a solitary one mentions Ft.rsit Mt s r as being even an occasional adjunct to his repast— " Take physic Pomp."—lt is 14 be looped, that ere long some efforts will be made by the introduction of small Maimfaci urea Mtn the country parts of lralaud, ta 010111 to its Some prospect of better times : rtntil then,vve trust (hit charity will I induce the more opulent to refrain (NM condemning the whole moss, though, in Sollle individual instances, a sigh 'humid burst Aunt the Peasant and offend the carat* uis styes ior iu wealth.