The National Register. — London, England, 1817-11-30 00:00:00

Nov. so. the most acute pains upon the unfortunate victim within It. My pen refuses its office in describing such horrors. " H may easily be conceived, that under such a government, an good faith could exist ; and, indeed, on every occasion, it was violated, and foreigners have as much reason to complain of it as the inhabitauts. It is bat a short time ago that Com modore Bowles, who commanded a small Euglish squadron cruising in those seas, sent an English cutter to Monte Video, in order to reclaim a considerable sum of money confiscated under the most frivolous pretexts, as well as a brig belonging to an English captain. The vessel was restored ; but he *sold only obtain a part of the money claimed. Under this new government, every thing was subjected to arbitrary power. Whenever there was a want of arms or money, Ar togas would take possession of the warehouses of hides and tallow belonging to individuals ; but he never engaged to in demnify them, since lie never had the intention of doing it. Iu this respect only his sincerity was manifest. Such is the code of this new republic ; such are its morals and adminis tration. Wherever the culunies are in insurrection, they bate adopted the same principles, and ditli:r only among themselves upon a new immateual points. " I am inclined to believe, that they who have extolled the anthurs of so many evils, were ignorant of the crimes with which they are stained; that they have substituted their own wishes and the dreams of their imagination in the place of facts which they were ignorant of. It is thus only that I can excuse the elogiums they have lavished upon them, and the pompous predictions they have published. " Were they better informed they would sigh over the prospect of Anita ica being thus a prey to such like horrors ; they would rise up with warmth against the wretches who thus desolate it ; they would perceive its commerce to be paralyzed mu its source, civilisation roarded, and would con_ Tess that vices are multiplied in the midst of anarchy. .•:-overed from their mot, they still reflect honor mutton themselves, by owning that their eyes are at last opened, and by rendering homage to teeth. " I seek not to diminish the glory which the town of Buenos Ayres acquired at that epoch , but 1 must observe that the English were equally repulsed from before eartha gena, as well as hoot sec eral of the Amities, and front all the Spanish possessious before winch they presented the mselves. Does M. de Pradt pretend to be ignorant that, on the con• trary, ander the present government, the brave Enders Was condemned to death by a decree of the insurgents, and that Abraga, that Spanish tuerchant, who had excited his fellow citizens to arms in order drive out the English, was delivered over to the executioner by a 'lar decreer 1 " I boldly assert, that were Spain to send out an expedi tion for the delivery of Buenus Ayres, far from experiencing the misfortune they dare to predict, it would Inert with the greatest success. 'llie Spaniards and heir partizans would receive with open arms the succours sent to them by the mother country. They wuti.d itistant;y rally tinder the ban. veers erected oti their walls, draw closer the bands by which they were formerly united, and prove, by their Aileiity their attachment to the Spanish government, and their aver ohm to those be about time are oppressed. Ought any re liance to M. placed upon conjectures formed at the distance of two thousand le igues, and upon en °newts accounts? " I shall likewise point out another error in which the j author of the %%milk upon the Colonies has fallen. He sup- , poses time- retielliotts parts of the Viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres to coutain a population of eleveu hundred thousand itinaui t..uts. It scam cdy surpasses seven hundred thousand, adding to it the part of Paraguay In insurrection, Cor. Bova in Tucuman, Salta, Meud•iza, auJ !toenail Ayres, the opulatiou of which consists of fifty thousand souls. As tar Monte Video, its population is above twenty thousand; the other towns contain about ten thousand inhabitants, and Santa-Fe scarcely time thousand. Adinittist; the state of :be population to be as I have represented it, these different rooms would contaiii a hundred and thirty titm.sawil inlcehi tans.. Now, is it iikely that mere were five hundred and seventy thousand tithatettints in the plains, Wl.telt indeed at e iveinense, I.IIS almost der, rt, and but rarely peopled, except is the parts bordering omit, the towns I have mentioned. " Since the affair of Sipe:ripe, in which tleneral Perucla rooted the forces of the insurgents, comm totted by a director of Rummies Ayres, called Roudeau, the parts of Peru which depelided cm the Viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres, has returned tinder the Spanish dot 1111 l ion. It is far better peopled than the ptn.inees loirdering upon the Plate. The population of Potosi, is intuit more umin rou• than all the whites together. Ly this we way judge of the Silllitlioll of the independents. " The moral state of Bimini. Ayres dues nut otter a very satisfactory picture. The desire of übtaming employment, in order to exercise vexations, and oftei wards abaudusi Wens sets es to disorder, and the most shameful passions, is the chief incitement of all the ambitious. Minority games of hazard were forbidden; the director, Alvarez, has atitintrized them, and they are publicly played. He iouglit thus tinetation would increase his party, amid cared little tin the evils that might result front it. Torre are utmost assuredly virtuous per sons in Buenos .lyres; but it is well icemen that when trou bles break forth, they weep over ilium, and expect its ileuce the momeut of t, eir deliverance. " I will always maintain, that religion has never been an obstacle to eivilic ii.,a, and that it must be confounded with superstition, which tyranny has known how to avail then at . . How could those principles of morality that spring from the C..tholic religion, retard the progress of know lcd e: On tile contrary, the sciences, letters, and arts, have mad.- the most rapid progress in those very countries of Europe tit which it has been the most anciently professed. ‘• It is impossible to meet with any fixed general opinion on the actual state of Buenos Ayres. I think however that the Spthish patty is the strongest. Those who compose it tire coliehtenel, enjoy the advantages nf fortune, and are c hit most respectaine of the town. Toe women have constautiy thewn themselves attached to the house or Boat Isom lit vain have the patriots eudeavotired to stole their seuttineuts. There eN.IstS a Purtugtoese party, which has made overuses to the Court of Br at; but I must declare that these pro posals lever tweii tevourabiy received. I think it use. less ti. t mei into Writhes details in this respect. Besides it is veldt sit this party is formed of hose who have lost tile indolence the:. Mrinerly enjoyed, and which they regret; and of hot-hea d ed patriots, who are fearful of he Mg again brought under tow Spanish dominion; and who might pet cease io the exchange of dominion the double advantage of withdrawing themselves from the vengeance of Spain, and of manatatiiing the places they twee .y." Ex'xi mu. g Jatues Johnson dull Joait who w,re cimvsEteil at litteer about three ave.., since, tor tatetitta fu.geti cotes 01 Ilir Margate Rank, ktutu tug theta to ut to g. d. , s, re e xecuted at Dover, putmiat their sentence. The 'nib.' innate wen act e very accontrltauea, And spoke and wt one sLbel ill to reign language.. THE NATIONAL ItEGISTEIE EMIGRATION TO AMERICA. " It will lbe recollected (says the Leeds feleilivweew ), that a large party of ".formers left Leeds last Spring, with the famous Harry Speight at their head, to taste the bliosings of Transatlantic liberty. There have been seven,' letters from them ; but the con tents have been carefully COW( Their fate, however, it is now ascertained has been not less deplorable than that of their co-patriots from Chard. After an unpleasant voyage, in which Speight distin guished himself by much quarrelling and fighting, they were landed in one of the British settlements. Poor Harry is now the inmate of an hospital at Montreal, where he is obliged to labour hard, for little reward ; and where, enveloped by poverty, he is compelled to remain, unable either to return to his own country, or to push his fortune in the land of his adoption. Several of the emigrants, among whom was a young man named Senton, a cabinet-maker, traversed the country to a great extent, in a fruitless search after employment. Some of them, after much toil and suffering, at length reached their old friend Cobbett, when they fondly flattered themselves their nti series would be at an end. The base author of their ruin told them he could give them employ on a large farm he had taken; but (taking advantage of their forlorn and deststitute condition) the only remuneration must be their tarot ! No wages—no cloathing ! These wretched dupes of Jacobinism are of course involved in ca lamity and despair ; and have no consolation but that of execrating Cobbett and his advice, which they do as loudly, as they were once vehement in his praise. We have not been able to obtain a sight of the communication from Senton ; but the preceding particulars are correct, we believe, as far a; they go. The Muddrr! field Correspondent says, " A report having been circulated that Dawson, who was second in command on the 14th of June, at Engine Bridge, had died c actual want in America. I have made severalranquirier, and hi liere it to be the case ; he was a listing-maker by trade, and was getting a very good livelihood in Huddersfield: earning, I am told, from three to four pounds weekly." We extract the following article from the Exeter Paper . A person, late of Chard; Somerset, who has emigrated from Eng land to America with his family, writes from Boston, under date of the 4th of August, that on landing there they could not get a home to sleep in, and no employment but splitting wood, at which, with hard work, he could earn 4s. per day, which, he says is not equal to the outgoings, bread being nearly es. the loaf, beef Is. per lb. butter Is. 6d. per lb. cheese Is. per lb. tea 91. 44. per lb. loaf sugar Is. 6d. per lb. milk ed. per pint, wood Is. 3d. per cord, and other articles in proportion. Ile recommended staying in England, ex eept a person hasplenty of money : the inhabitants of Boston ar by no means praised for their politene:s or hospitality to the Eng lish, whom they " curse in the streets." Being a tanner, the wri— ter intended travelling about 1000 miles inland, in zearch of a suita ble situation." ~- HORRID )IORDER.-IFrom a Welsh paper.)—lt is our painful task this week to record a most revolting act of mur der, committed in our comity ; and what is very remarkable, without any apparent motive of gain or advantage to account for its perpetration. An aged man of the name of Josiah Evan, tormerly a farmer, but who had recently become an him ire with his grand-daughter, the widow of one Thomas Hicks. at Gorsefraith,iii the parish of Lanboidy, in this coun ty, was on the evening of 'Tuesday seatifight found dead in a harp near that place, with his skull dreadfully fractured a little above the right ear, and forced into the brain, and hav ing several "narks of violence on his neck, chest, and other parts of the body. Near the deceased lay a hammer, the head of which exactly corresponded in site with that of the frac ture in his skull, and left no doubt of its haviug been the fa tal instrument with which the bloody deed was effected. An inquest was held on the body, on Friday week, by Rees Pry thereh, Esq. one ut the (.runrrs fur this county, when, after the examination of several witnesses, and hearing the con fession of one Jahn Hicks, a young man suspected of being the. maracrer, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder against hum and he was thereupou committed to gaol, to take his trial at the nest Great Sessions. It appealed iii avilence, that the prisoner had been ',drought up at Gorsefraith, by his grandfather, .1140:11JS Hicks, end had lived there until the death of the tail, which happened but a short time ago; that in consequence of this es ent, Josiah Evan went to reside as before stated, a ill his grand-daughter, the widow of T. Hicks, of whuni she bad been the second wife, but to whose grandson, the prisoner, she had no other relationship than step-gran d mother ; that the plasticize was then promptly dis carded, and not being able to procure work, was reduced to Bleat distress, beitia at times in want of food. One of the witnesses, a blacksmith, deposed, that the prisoner, Jolut Hicks, and the deceased, were, about a o'clock on the Toes. day evening, at his forge, distant only a few fields flout Gorse frattli, mid that no ohcrcalion or dispute whatever took place between them there ; but that John I licks made an observa tion to the witness in the folloning words," there is my grand. father's hat upon the old devil's bead now." The prisoner left the smith's forge about an hour before the deceased, and the latter was found dead between Tune and five o'clock on the same evening. A neighbouring farmer suspecting John Hicks of the murder, of his own accord apprehended hint, and brought him home with him, for the purpose of eaamiaa lion. He urged him to confession it' guilty ; o b serving, that it would be much better for hint in the end, to disclose than to conceal the truth. After repeated' denying all knowledge of the murder, the prisoner at length acknowledged Isis guilt. IV lien brought, how ever, before the Coroner, he was informed that any confession he might make on that oreasion would be produced in. evidence against hint on his trial, and w ould pro. bahly lead to his conviction. He was farther told, that he wa. tinder no obligation to confess any thing that might tend to et Militate himself; and that it would not be to his advan tage to make any confession; but it was at the same time ob served, that, it alter the caution had been given, lie was de. woes of barite; auy thing he bad to say taken down, the Co roner would readily nerved to all his wishes. The prisoner Miss , emit that he had na desire to Init this world, but wished to live; and this the truth of the matter was, Ilia, he went to Gm %errata', and asked the deceased for :wow bread mid cheese, who whose(' to give him any, deelat lug , that lie, the deceased, wouLl try his life against the prisoner's first ; that he then followed up his threat by striking the primmer with his fist, and afterwards with a hammer, that the deceased had an iron bar in his hand, at first, but threw it down ; and that he, the prisoner. seized the hammer and struck the de ceased he did nut alum on what part of his body; that he afterwards left him, and *en; away. The prisoner declared, that this was al lie knew of the matter; and his coitus:tot, after bring takeu down in writing. was signed by himself. The number of depredations committed by pickeoakets in Windaw on Wedrusalay rev is beyond all calculation. The most in ;enious der ices were resorted to by these persuas, apparently of genteel address to occupy the attention of their destined vicuna'. Pockets were cue through or turned out, while sante smiliag stranger was answering or proaosing a question with . Ma greatest polacaeas ; and when the pa ... ,e of tickets became dtsautaal and the poeseasora of them were oee.a ad in the li, ation of then . tg,... the ple niter became universal, and t4:4llre.y that approached the gate escaped. We regret to add . ,at; to ugh the rollee %VIM nul - lams, not ow of4htee Gaul den bad been brought. to justice. LEIPSIC FAIR. The Algematimte Zeilmsg contains, in Bs stippletnent of the 11th and lath inst., a pretty detailed account of the Leipiie Michaelmas fair. The following extracts, however, are the only parts of it that have any reference to British commerce, or any interest for the British merchant " It could not escape the notice of the attentive observer for some months past, that the Leipsic Michaelmas fair held out a happy prospect, and that it would be much more portant for its sates than those that for some trine have preced ed it. " In the chief manufacturing places of Saxony, great or ders were received, and every where revived industry be.. came active, particularly in the inauufacture of tine articles of cotton prints, the fittest woollens and lace. Even some prospect seemed to open here and there, for the linen manu factures paralyzed for a long thee. The Brunswick summer fair, arid the autumn fair of Frankfurt, were looked upon as auspicious harbingers; and the latter in particular furnished the must favourable prognostics. From the middle: of Sep. (ember rows of waggons covered the roads which have beers established for the carriage of wares and inerchandize tiont the east and north to Leipsic. Two weeks before the fair Ca week before the usual time, owing to a mistake about the day of opening) Leipsic was full. The public was justified in expecting uncommon activity of busioeser and the event not only fulfilled the expectationa which' were entertained, but in some branches transcended any hopes which could have been formed. If we take into consideration the quantity of ready money expended on the spot, and the alinost exhatistiog of the great magazines of some kinds of commodities, we must allow that this fair has been the most seiceessiul which has lately occurred. The success was .eviuctd in the solidity of the transactions and the distinguished punctuality of the pay ments. There was no instance of inability to fulfil the con ditions of the purchases heurd of, except in a few unimportant failures in transactions abort colonial pi °duce or drugs. The merchants who attended on this occasion in such numbers, and with such means of purchase, looked out every where for patterns of the most costly nature, and of the newest and must elegent fashion, having the least weight in proportion to their value, and therefore best adapted fur distant car riage. All the merchants, therefore, who hail felt the pulse of the piddle, and brought to the fair articles suited to the taste of the times and the varying fashion, had reason to cora. gratulate themselves on the extent of then The *hid even seemed to favour at the beginumg, the disposal of native productions. A settled east wind had retarded the arrival of the newest English calicoes and ',edited cottons at Hain. burgh for more thau a week. The impatience of the nothern purchasers was by this means confined to Saxon productions. which were calculated to allure them by new patterns and attractive cutouts (especially the autarasith). At the very be. ginning, many hues s uf Chemnitz (a umuutacturing town of Saxony) did mock business and received great orders in these articles. Many noithern buyers found themselves disape pointed iu the prices when the newest English wares attn., ally arrived, (three ship.londs of which were hurried on to Leipsic with redoubled speed before the lest,) as they expect.- ed these prices would be as low as they had formerly been. But the Britons had now got quit of the refuse of their ware. homes ; and with regard to their fresh productions, they had forrod a convenient market beyond the Atlantic. They, therefore, held up their goad undamaged commodities at w high price, and thus induced many dealers to resort to con. tineutal wares (particularly the Fmeuch and Swiss cottons), which were minder-rut. to the English in intrinsic value, and even surpassed them in the elegance of the pattern, and to take ads damage uf the oppertomty uttered them by making great purchases. If we nevertheless hear that the Englisti wares were sold at reduced prices, and thereby were nearly thrown away, we shall find on closer exammatiun that the English me rchants merely allowed such redactions worn tile)' wished to diseneuniher themselves of urine damaged or old fashioned articles. The silk manufacturers of Lyons and other parts met with a geed market • • • la " Ail woollen manufactiirts user which capricious fashiou had war cut her magic wand found iu this fair air eager sate. Merinos under their various denominations were favourite at. tides; elide, on the contrary, kersey utm es and ether am cies of the kind, as well as common wooilens, and whatever was not sup artier, were little sought aetei, and disposed of with ditticitay. 'flue northern dealers freipiently preferred the Saxon Merinos to the English. 'lnc miter nave more guess, but they are not so soft and kindly to the touch as the Saxon ; ter when made of unmixed English wool they have always a rough feel. 'lire Saxon spun with the hand, excels in clout that made by inaviiiiiery. But spinning me chines arc 110% , multiphing :o much in simony as to excite some anxiety nbout those whom they enl throw unt of em ployment. The price of the beat WUO6 at the lair ruse very high, .ind, according to their quality, were sold at from 35 so 'lO rixdolhirs, mostly for Dutch and English account. Great liersiumis was done in leather, but very inconsiderable ia linen. The speculative spirit of the Iltitisdi is desirous of troducing cotton instead of linen shirts. 'lire Levant is °vets &towed with such articles, sold at the cheapest rate, and even disposed of in the ready made forum. Tire Spates,' ports of C.aliz and Haulm, formerly so welt supplied wills klerinan linen, have long ago broken off all cutouretions virile us. I l se Spanish domineers in South America appear fur ever to base dissolved all Ce11111:011111 between themselves and time mother country, and to have their ports open only tu !Jutish and esi Imliimm commerce. In the Dotted North American pro. linen maaufactures h.ve 'natio unexpected preen ese- Flax is there used as the ballast of vessels • • • • •. 'there was not waiieng alimidairce of British iron wares at the Leipsic fair, out they were so high in price, like all the other products of B. nisi' industry, that home pi oducts did nut sut ler rey mein. Few only eau pay five ur a guinea, for teen new semtlers, oa flit baiim-ovel principle, as they call it, though provided wear uu apparatus to tellivVe the muff by a roller." LOS/ Or VIE W/LLIAX AMD MART PACRET.—An have/, tigation of the circumstances attending this melancholy shipwreck has !may been taken at the Council-house in Bristol, before Mr. Alderman Fripp, which occupied many days, itrorn the evidence given it aupearea, that there was direct blame to be Imputed to those who :aft the command of the vessel, and that there was ground foe imptum.; to C.ae crew of the vessel a dtrclecuon ol their duty as Brit ish seamen, and, consequently, of a great bn:aell ut humanity in Was' ing their t , , sts at at/ early a stage or the di.tress. and when their pre senor migta been essentially usehd. On the utuer wind, ti.eyo was hoped ut any act ei wurul cruelty on Lie part of the men, nor of any conduct that way ao. be eaLmuated 14 the plea Of scit-preser vation. bu.ly of t late Ca r nam Nlanley, of the I. and Mary. was found un .‘loilday craning, 1 . •,; 17,n, n eat t:a c Summer. house at boveiton, ;thout b Mite+ flbtsl ch. plate where the v esse l wrecked. and on th e same son where th. bodies of Mrs. Thebaher, and one of this ether uniostuara ladie•4l44 Wen pnviougy fowl