The National Register. — London, England, 1818-08-10 00:00:00

1 ~ `~ /~ ___.-. ~-~~ .~ ~ *IA/ "te/X‘o/kt.t) ) 17 Zd'bt Oationat No. 5111.--Vol.. XI. rouneA L DISQUISITION. SEIZURE OF FLORIDA. . . THE seizure of Florida by the Americans has hem the only recent event of importance which has taken place abroad. It has not yet excited much difference of opiaiuu, fur most people must vie* it as prima facie a.creat outrage and usurpation. The Meriting Ckra nick, however, does attempt a sort of defence which it will put forth at more haegth, probably, when it shall have farther information to e upon; fur the opinion of the ofileicl paper of the Americas) President is not rime decidedly Li favour of American politics than that oftle Chronicle, whose prejudices, it must be granted, are any thing but national. TIT lidlowing observations acl frimt.the Times . , and arc worthy of attentinn . Americun papers now in upon tl3 from all quarters, but they. do not bring more novel intelligence than that the contents of whirl we have already given.— ' The order of the day issued by General Jackson to • his. troops, after the capitulation of Barancas, still 6 Harps upon the outrages of the unflntunqte Seminoles, •as Itis justification-fix seizin 4 the to%vas and fortresses 'of the Spaniards. He tells his soldiers that they had ;pursued the ludi.tns to Baraneas If so, since he • got possession of Baraticas, it may be inferred that .there ass a force of Seminoles captured at the same ▪ line with the Sirattish garrison ; and if it shall appear by• the next papers, Lt.): no such thing is yet an ' nounccd), that a circumstance so im2ortant to the de. • fence of this invasion was mnittcl in the first official ' narrative of the successes of the American army, we • 1/hall admit that the Spanish Governor provoked the • siege of.Barancas, by admitting into it, during open • hostilities, a public enemy of the United States. We • cannot .help suspecting, nevertheless, that this famous • Apology fort violent antion, prima fa.:ic revolting and • alarming to all civilized nations, wit: turn out rather • lame in point of evidence. exce,g the word of an in- • terested party be taken tits demonstration of au impro • bable fact. It has long been the at:lli:ion of the Ante ' rican Government to extend tiwir ii•:tninions to the Gulfof Mexico. The excesses of the savages dispersed throughout the desert, and incited Iv; they have been • the dreadful persecution of the reptiLlican back ' settlers, who treat them like beasts, have not been either countenanced, excused, or protected by the ' Spanituds. There is no pretext of the 'kind set up on behalf of the United Jtates, where the Govern ' went itself takes up the parole. The itmanpetency ' of the Spaniards to repress the Indians WaS not among ' the grounds assumed by the President f►: auticinat ' ing the expediency of an appropriation of the Florida •to the federal union. The possihility of their •being ' seized by a third power, and the' chance of their de ' generating into as: net fur bucaniers anti pirates, were the princip..l arguments al :aced in support of • an attack upon these Spanish provinces. Flow should • feel if the National 11!ellixxcer were to inform us on the part of the Cabinet of Wasbington, that as ' the British Government was no: strong onou, ' prevent the italians of it dependant territ( • connaittiug rava,;es on SOU:IC . of the rentJte ' taents of tile United s:::teg, army. eotnin: some I lannibal (a. Scipio ty: the West, bat thorized march by Montreal, anti lay siege • metropolis of Can ilia? Admitting the I mlian outrage, would the British nation rel reasoning as that? Aga'•u, Mr. Mintroe sus • possibility of a tbira sessiaa ' Floridas to be ample gr ation , • ventive seizare of them 1, alottna ;stet ' it has for years been inere tha o c r.Sible, it 111 4 4antter off' stiong belief n ty, H.q.! certain t, • Vlicti,:rnver (namely, the Unf I 444 . Staten) Yet bands upon.. Car Wattlevcr Our itg, Contititution anb NMI. MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1818. —ergo, uccsrding to the Munroe logic, it was just ' and wise for the British Government to be before hand with the Republic in bringing those provinces under her own dominion. It will not Lc arved that the law of expediency is not alike fur Loth; but • there is nn end to the monstrous evils and miseries • which sprit; from the substitution of that atrocious • for the manifest rig:its and moral obligations of • men in political society.' We believe that the plain English of the water is, that the ambition of the United States longed . , Cr Do rida, and the weakness of Spain could not 1:4 it however, may be the justice of this pro ending, it is a separate question, what aught, under all the eiruemstaneeF, to Le the conduct of Greatt Bri tain. The possession of the Ploridas gives easy access to the twabitious Republic to our West India ponies sions, and the unblushing violation of the law of na tions, though directly committed upon the Spaniards, is indirectly au attack on all neighbouring nations. But, if there are strong motives for our interecrenee, there arc other:. which withhold our arm. The last Ame rican war, in which we were every where foiled, will probably make us avoid another mcnt seth2ously, though the saiiAy of our West India possessions bo thereby es sentially compromised. By the Account laid on the tab!c of the House of Commons, it appears that the following is the amount of corn and grain, meal and flour, imported into Great Britain in the years ceded the sth of January, 1817, and 1818 : Corn anti Grain Year ended the sth of Jailor'', 1817. 181 s. . 1,141.907 Qu. 2,148.751 Qu• Meal and Flour . 9.8 141,763 - Cwt. 1.168,-31V From this statement will be seen that the new Act has not prevented the influx of corn ana flour. From the enormous increase of importation in the second year, IL will be seen that we have paiJ betwecu a nd s:•v eil milli !1:s sterling rit least for grain, since th.it law was enneted. Extract of's letter to a mercantile house in the City from Nassau, Now Providence, dated June 1.5 We have. a report in cireulation. here, which, we fear, is too well founded, that General Jackson, on overpowering the Indians in West Florida, caused Alexander Arbuthnott, who was fixed there us a harmless trader, and Mr Lewis Felix, the master of a vessel of his called the Chanee, to, be hung, and the body of the farmer to be mutilated. Surely, if this turns out to trite, the British Government will not pass it over in silence. We have known Mr. Arbuthnott for years, but never, we assure you, did we know a more harm less or more innocent mu. You have been in the habit of shipping, through our medium, for some years, the goods made nit of by Mr. Arbuthuott in his trade." A New York paper of the 9th ult. contains a dread ful order, issued in the American army of the South, to an officer, who is authorised to pat to death. eecry hoe_ tPe Warrior that may bee loom'. is to scour the country lietwe,ni Mobile and Pensacola, and is to use his own judgment, as to who may be lota. trarriors ; provided, we suppose, that they be bilious. Such is one of. the first abuse!: which the .Atactitoms make of their - superiority in the South. Thei.nre to show no quarter. If the- Indians should destroy the party whi4ll has this suoluinary order, how would New _ tours about Julian barbarity ! the battle of ,Malpo, in Chili, rov..lisis, dated heal-:plarters, been received. The' contest le most &Mgt) itutry nature, and favour of the patriots without :ral, Joseph St. Martin, in !As patriots In killed and winnided force of the royalist army coot of these 2,004) were counted lautlu, and above :),000 Were the small renialtuler, with their 0, effected their :tscalle• 4.,000 men, being 400 less hi dists. This is, perhaps, one of ttles ever faa,glit, for the near ohs;.inoicy of the conflict, and ...nu:bilation, of Ouc p 1: t;'• 1 .. netted to. ""'" 0 1" -- York resotma with dam( errs.toy frato :A=.••• . • ••..: •-••-• A detatted.aceunnt of E s t• - et ." bet wen the patriots and llinatxkitY April 9, late beetran-• . Itrierns' to have been of 'lb w e to th e tv 4 is, •at determined in fi tv fact s. The Getter • - , p.t the p aliult such: wse•-•• , • • ' 4 ' " Ihe fin [•iposeit the.. ;t man 0 o of th• oa the Old or hit fur a prey brought in prautters ; th tcs. Jut (:ettiN4.llt ' t; (),•irio pocr e 4, T 1 Irma n namaer lit the • rOyali tY , that a the inostlibitarkable butt vetAti lay t ' ' n,trllvrs the # - k • . : 4c,...; It ,C . .31,icr ft e% t sr It '* A PRICE 9;d• Tuts Alajesty has been semen) more at ease .ince Monday evening. On the pre ceding Friday, after having eaten a tolerably heart:: dinner. she' was attacked with one of those viukt,t spasmodic affections in the stomach which feria so alarming a feature in her indisposition, and she ro mained partially under its influence florins the great( part of the three faswing days. On the Meted-.:- evening she was again somewhat better, and has co- - tinned since tlmt time rether improving in health II otherwise; at least, comparatively with her gew , guts fur the last three weeks; and these favour. , :. appearances induced his [loyal Higliettes Ass Regent to make his long expected trip to the tier Majesty's disorder, however, lsiis several titucs n. - stinted an appearance of almost entire anatement, has constantly returned with greater violetete, and it i. therefore to be feared her present improvement nut; but transient. The house in which her Majesty re sides is thaemsually called " The Psinee's old house, - (beieg the one in which the Prince Regent spent wie ,early part of his youth) ; and, independently of t: unfitness fora !loyal residence in point of:teem:l=om icy, it is, in common with the whole neighbourhood of Kew, most disadvantageously situated for invalids labourin i r' under that. description of complaint with which' I.c Majesty is afflicted. On this account it is, as 15e...-. from the desire her Majesty may have expressed to see the her removal to Windsor has been con.. templatcd. The precarious state of her Majesty's health and her advanced age, have naturally turned the conversation of tal ranks to the exemplary virtues of . her domestic character, which, however, is frequently mixed with various conjectures as to the probable amount and dis posal of her personal property. For the intimmatimi of such of our readers as may be ignorant of the pr;ente. rights of the Royal Family, as established by law, wit give, the substonre of Blackstooe's Commentary on the personal rights and prerogntives of the Queen. no t Qtacen.Consort. by virtue of her marriage, has many prerogatives shave other women, The Queen may. purchase and convey lands, grant leases and copyholds, anti du other acts of ownership, without the concur.. mice of the King. She is also capable of taki ng 3 grant front the King, which nn other wife 41Tinn he e husband. In law 'she is considered a a )(w . ine vile, :I , ; ii single, n4fiffia'in'hnieel woman—and the mi,f,i, of this, according to (',the, is, that the King, " wha . qc cot!. tinual care and study is fir the public 0 .,,,,], „,,,,, „„, be troulded awl (I;sgniele(l rut account of h hiv mid ;:'s 6- ',teak adlairs. - The Queen has also many p xem p.. tions and. minute prerogatives. She pays no tolls nor direct tax, nor is she liable to any amercententio any Court ; she has also some pee'l niary advantages, whit at form her a distinct revenue. She is entitled to mm an tiontperquisite, called Queen gold, or :bruin Regina, arising from fines to the King. from Royal Grants, or other nutters of Royal favour. conferrial by lie Lig lg , from licences, perilous, &c. anti it becomes an actual debt to the Queen's Majesty, by the mere recording the fi ne . Blackstone atlas (but without any commentary on the fact, and referring, no doubt, to fin-ascr linees)s that " these matters of Royal grac • and favour, out of' which the Arum Regime arose, were frequently obtained froth the Crown 4 Me poinerlal intercession of Ike Qintex The Learned Judge then mentions a curious anecdote respecting the Attrkm Rrgincr, in the reign of Charles I. a tithe (says he) fertile iu exixidients for r Losing Mo. ney. "The King, on the Petition of his.Queett, ;Ice rictus Maria, issued out his writ fur less Mg it, but afterwards pffr.""ivat ii 01 NJ Consort at Me pri:v al Ten Tholoand Amis. - As the accounts of tie Arum /?egiiur have never been called fin., .niii• sub mitted to Parliament, it is but lair to presuni,* that i t has never been levied during the present r tit; Th e tuntniut, however, of her Majesty's persoln: rolierty ti) ;independent of the :Accumulation ofmoney) la i d iv e l,., plate, with the• valuable pictures and ornamental fur. m niture of Buckingham hoe and FroJmore, which are nut keer towns Of the Crown, mitt be larts e . ... :, • Mr. Alexander Rasing has been invitel to proaching emigre tea the np 4 nt Aix-la-Chopell e . - ' l ig' 44_ tingt,ished honour is, doubtless, owing to th e . counviion which subsists between that Gene the pecuniary nn•ungenients unidz b y F iuuc c fi•ing the tletuands of the allied l'o.vers. Attu' , lay morning the Doke and I)uches:4 offended by Sir .►nhn !imitate Warren, and tie J)orani and suite, .left their resid.,;ne u is S, Paine :: to vicccvtl to Gertuaty. -,......p. u k - ...- • lic...brei w. , t ,,, 7 .i. OCA .. t4Lth;ool4:, A , '.. , • f" . "." .. ''•• k , -..v . • ~, . :.• farhti: , - . . • • pi` Chi rt: tp:••(- , 41 ..I":4° ' . 1 kV pr. Fe tio,:c:, s, .14,1„,...s s 0•`""r_ ~71_ , :, , -~