The National Register. — London, England, 1816-11-18 00:00:00

two apricot trees, currants, gooseberries, and three bee hives; he reared also from this garden abundance of sonunon vegetables, and about forty bushels of potatoes annually. When this man was turned adrift upon the world by the inelosure of the common, if he had been without hope, or if the rood of land for which hc asked had been denied, he and his six children, and his prc ,, - sant wife, might have gone to the workhouse, and Ce come a burthen to the public, instead of setting it an etarnple, and reaching n most important lesson to their superiors. We will transcribe Sir Thomas Bernard's words, and print them, as he has done, in a manner which may tend to excite the attention they deserve.— ' FIVE UNSIGHTLY, UNPROFITABLI ACRES, OF WASTE AROUND WOULD AFFORD HABITATION AND COMFORT TWSNTY SUCH FAMILIES AS BRITTON ABBOT'S:— The quarter of an acre which was granted him was not worth a shilling a year before it came into his hands. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. PROCLAMATION OF THI'. NEW KING OF WURTEM- BERG ON HIS ACCESSION. STUTTGARD, NOV. Y. 6 ' William, by the Gram of God. King of Wurtemberg: " DRARI.V BELOVED—It has pleased Divine Providence tb call from this life his Majesty, the most august King, Fre ) deriek, our beloved Father, this morning, at about two " Now as, in conformity with the right of prinsogenitnre established in our Royal House, the succession to the Govern ment has devolved upon as, and we have actually entered upon it, we hereby give you notice of the same, and depend en all our Royal Officers, Ecclesiastical and Civil Servants ,and Subjects, for the fulfilment and performance of their due serviee, fidelity, and obedience. " The welfare and happiness of the subjects confided to 'es, *lll be the solo object of our efforts; and it will be our that siieleatrister to enanre the attainraent of these great objects by a Caustitation suited to the spirit of the times, and to the saints of the people, and enchaining their prosperity. " At the same time that we take upon ourselves this sacred Obligation, we assure you and all our subjects of our royal /lima anti regard. " WILLIAM. " Given at Stuttgard, the 30th of October, 11116." The bulletin of yesterday gives the most favourable acemmt of the health of her hlvesty the Queen, and of the new born Priucess. aelatimir• MARRIAGE OF THE EMPEROR OF GERMANY WITH TILE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF BAVARIA. 'MUNICH, Ocr. 4g.—This evenir, at half-past six 'Mock, the marriage of her Royal Highness the Prin cess Charlotte with his Imperial Majesty Francis I. Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary and Bohemia, ate. Ose. was solemnized in the Chapel of the Royal Palate, according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church. The procession to the church was extremely splendid. The King and Queen, and all the members of the Royal Family, with their numerous suites, attended the ce stony. After it was over, re Deum was chaunted. A salute of 300 cannon, the ringing of all the bells and three vollies tired by the garribon and landwehr of this capital, drawn up in the squares, of Maximilian, an nounced the happy event Which binds in the most in timate union the sovereigns of the People of Austria •Buratitu• Th.! Bishop afterwards gave to all present the Bene diction ; and the procession returned from the church to the Saloon of Hercules, where her Majesty the Em press Queen, their Royal Majesties, the Princes and Princesses, were pleased to receive the congratulations of the Court. In the evening, the whole city was splendidly illuminated, and their Majesties, with the Princesses, &c. and a numerous suite in a long train of state carriages drove through the principal streets, and were every where welcomed by the most enthusiastic aetimnations of the people. Fhc finest sight wis afOn-ded by the Grand Colons.,le St Ott- Mair-Neseph-square, in the middle of which was the Temple of Hymen, and over it the symbol ofHap pincss and Peace—the rainbow beaming in its seven.co k was. ^Aormati with staters and inabt4ptitma ; ami the whole illumination of this square htul a magical 'Etta Here their Majesties last stopped, welcomed by vocal and instrumental music, and their magnificent train re turnettto the Bond Palace. ;;I:—Those who had the good fintune to see the proeess i ien Of their Majesties, &e. through the sa loons and apartmenta °film Palace to the Chmip.d, want swords tksl N i ,s. : { l(l,nt ! , the ri c h ness , a n d the ete . • gene 0 1;4E0 #onses, ,eirkelally . those of" the Queen, of the young Bride, of the Electreas Dowager, of Prisiess A . gw it a , Consort,nf L'ritle . Engine, and •of therr lari icesses, Id- well. as the of the Whole' ern- Tile Austrian Ambassador and hi Cavaliers appeared in the *heat an' in, s. Jegant d: sees, and the ct - n,!uct d the whole sr.icoinil was suitable to the occasion. I:Anediately slier the ceremony his Majesty's Aiju tan' General, Lira. Gen. Count Wurtemberi. , ,, set o t ler Vienna, to carry the wedding-ling to his Majesty An Eat a. , . • THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 11121'FISII kMERICAN PAPERS. HALL AX, (N. a.) OCT. 14.—A most dreadful confla gration broke out in the town of flalifitx on the night of the 9th instant, by which several buildings were in a short time totally destroyed. The loss is calculated at 40,0001. which has ruined Several worthy individuals, but little of the property having been insured. Fortu nately there was scarcely a breath of wind at the time, or the greater part of the town would have been de stmyed. The military composing the garrison, and the ' crews of the ships of war, were most actively employed on this distressing occasion, and have been highly and justly applauded for their exertions. Arrived lately the brig Almwell, from Thurso, in Scotland, with one hundred and thirty-nine passengers, consisting chiefly of farmers and merchants. The emi grations to all parts of America appear to be carrying on to an immense and ruinous extent ; notwithstanding that in the United States hundreds are actually starv ing, and have no employment, and British vessels car rying away numbers of their deluded countrymen back to Great Britain; and at this moment there has actually been a British frigate in one of the American ports en tering men to complete her crew. Numbers of letters have of late kin received in America from deserters of the army and navy, imploring permission to be allowed to return upon any terms ; and the English seamen who have entered into the United States' navy complain most bitterly of their treatment and the extreme severity of their discipliqe ; and say, that although their wage-s, are seemingly greater, they are badly fed, and have to purchase every article at an exorbitant rate. Seamen consequently enter for the American ships of war with great reluctance, and only when distress compels them. About the first week in September, three hundred and sixty-eight settlers or emigrants arrived at Quebec from Great Britain, and .six other vessels were then reported going up the river St. Lnwrence, with passengers! It is in contemplation to send a steam-vessel from the United States to Russia, where it is said the Emperor has promised an exclusive privilege for the term of twenty years. CONTINENTAL COMMERCE. The sentiments of the people of Germany have been much too loudly declared upoa all points relating to their manufacturing interests, to encourage a belief that the manufactures of Great Britain will be more in duiged amongst them, than they have *heady been by the Russian Government, or by the recent laws of France and of the Netligamds. The approaching Diet can in no respect inspire us with a confidence which its parent, the Congress, has so cruelly disappointed. Something, perhaps, may be said upon these questions by our negotiator ; notes may be written ; projects may be communicated ; appeals may be made to German _ _ gratitude for the treasures, and blood, and counsels of England ; lavished without reserve—too often without discrimination—in the common cause of Europe :in a Moment of extraordinaty vigour it is possible that a pro test of our Ambassador may be entered on the minutes -but there the struggle will end. We lost the oppor tunity, when the gold of England was the lever that Moved the whole Continent in arms. Then it was, be- Are the British sirbaidies *ere paid—Wore we eon• finned the dismemberment of Sweden—before we fixed the colossal foot of 'Russia upon the neck of Poland— before we destroyed the political existence of Buena parte, whose name was as useful to the cause of liberty, us The devil's to that of superstition ;—then was our time to recollect that fear is always grateful, security forgetful—and then, or never, was our time to require some advantages, if not equal to (for what could equal ?) those which we conferred, such as might alleviate, or, for shame's sake, commemorate, the tremendous sacri fices which it cost us to confer them. Some attempts have been made, as we read in their journals, to agitate the utility of a general freedom of commerce. To these the answer is extremely obvious ; viz. that auch., freedom must be reciprocal ; and That England, so)se has never suffered it in her onra ports, cannot hope to enjoy it in the ports of other nations.•• • Corisolation is offered to Us in the shape of an assur ance, that if we suffer, we do not suffer alone ; for that the several nations both of Europe and America are impoverished in an equal degree, and front the *arse or similar causes. Now, if there be one aggravation of the misery of a manufacturing people more palpable and depressing than another, it is the poverty of neighbouring nations. We rejoiced, indeed, at the excess of nakedness and pri vation to isitich our peighl tours were reduced during the war; bemuse we foot that the same people were our natural customers at tha termination of hostilities : and what misfortune gresterto• any shopkeeper than a decay in the eircumstanem of those who cfer him the only mrchet for his warts Dot again—the inerea:e of a public debt regoires always, and tiw the mpg p ur r •eates, a general rise of prices. Had the (*eminent of Europe horrotred money to supply littonaitterte, bilge 'axes woald have beer imposed, and a rise the now- - ff ets, similar to %%lint has taken place in England, would have res.ll:ed. - The Continew, it wever, tring t:,"t 4E4 Ai. purchase, tut likewise the rival of rzglish NovEM TIER la. manufactures, the augmentation of prices in foreign countries must have extended their purchases of our goods, and diminished the sales of their own. No such thing has happened. No credit existed in any part of Europe but in England, since the breaking out of the French Revolution—no money was raised but by direct robliCrv. The contributions levied by Buonaparte were not in bonds, or exchequer bills, or stocks, bearing in. terest : but they were levied in cash, or in kind. The French armies carried oft - what they tbtoill: in the yet& 1810 they bore away the pitch/cc of the year 1810 ; they did not, as we boast of doing, anticipate that of the year Iseo. The consequence was, that the sort of poverty which consists In sinall revenues, scarcity of money, low prices, spread over the Continent ; but that, as no public debt was then contracted nor mass of taxation imposed, its inhabitants escaped that species of poverty which is produced by the accumulation 'of loans and taxes, eating up a nominally large revenue. Such a state of things is much more independent of foreign contingencies, than is the condition to which Great Britain has reduced herself. Reproduction was checked; but revulsion was avoided. The state of con. tinental Europe, where prices have risen very moderately, if at all, has been favourable to the growth of conti nental manufactures, and in the same proportion ad verse to those of Kngland, where price has more than doubled. When, theretbre, we would address a cheer ing reflection to our countrymen, we must not choose for our theme of consolation the indigence of those to whom we look for the consumption of our goods. But it scents we are to be regenerated by raising the price of provisions, that the fanner may be enabltal to enrich the manutinurer in return. We will suppose a short dialogue between these two persons : " Friend,' says the manufacturer, " your custom is not worth a straw, compared with what it has been any time these tire years past." " My good friend," quoth the fernier, " that is not my fault. If you have it not in my cash, you hate it in my ern. This time two years the miller paid me 51. 10s. for my quarter of wheat. For the last twelve months he never offered me more than 80s. My rent remains the same ; my taxes nearly so. You see lam short of the 25 or 30s. that my wife used formerly to spend in your shop. Pay the miller the old price fur his flour; he can then afford me, as he used to do, the 51. s 10s. for which I sold my wheat ; and I promise to L* you have your share of the bargain in the sale of your cotton or broad cloth as before." " But, my dear friend," replies the man of skill, " our last ventures to the Baltic, and to Newburgh and Ostend, have nearly mined our business. Unless the foreign market should mend greatly, the quertern loaf must fall still lower here; or we must run away to Germany, rather than stay at home and famish." Now, between these two doctors, who shall settle the dispute? 'Fhe farmer excuses himself to the mtumfor hirer, because his wheat has fallen : the manuthentrer pleads his own mhfortune, inasmuch as the price of goods has fallen. Government contracts, 22 yows ago, gave the first stimulus to the provision market—the re. sistless ascendancy of the British fleets, combined with the new prosperity of the farmer, found a cure for the paralysis of the British exports ' which, und er ou t ac tual circumstanc e s, it w ou ld be fully to anticipate, and on which, in our measures, it would be madness to rely. The Petite: if(liches ta French advertising paper) frequently publishes curious articles. •In that of the 2 th of September last, they advertise fix sale a ferns with a large table of pine, without ornament and Ovithart dcliTts, though preserved in the family not less than 300 years. It has been examined, they Say, by Buffon, and many other eelebrattxl naturalists, who suspect that it formerly belonged to ,Seneca the pato: soldier ! The purchaser may ask with the man in the force—" Pnty, Sir, was this Seneca a native of Paris?" The table in question will fetch an extravagant price. A few years since, 'an amateur paid no less than 50 louis for an old cane, supposed to have belonged to Voltaire. It is undersLood that they intend to put up to sale shortly the fork used by tellies the epicure --all the 'dainty folks wish to obtain it. The fork will, doubtless, produce a ridicukma price. —French paper. A French Payer rays :—"At the period of the Rm. lotion, when such destruction was exercised on the va rious Colleges in France, roue sullered more the ven geatwe of the Demagogues than that of the Scotch College at . Donay, in Flanders. Nct an atom was saved except the line full-length original painting of 'Mary, Queen of Scot, its founder, which was lately discover. eel in a chimney, where it had brew hit Yen. It has !wen hroeOtt to Paris, and is now in thelieotse This painting, with the prayer-book which the Queen used at the period of her decapitation at Fetheringay (;!.tie, and a table-dock, were byoupobe.) by her to t..:cots and are meteioned in tl,t2 Corege titles. immediately after the event they were Lret'ght to Amoy by Miss Flizsbeth Curl, -one of' the A'ait!s ot c Honour, who attende l her on the seaffill TI (lock one of the first ms'e at t:tat togeiher wills the book were lost at the Revataioa."