The National Register. — London, England, 1818-10-12 00:00:00

P74do (7/ #I7IL-:jiteo No. 557.—V0L. XL I'OLITICAL DISQUISITION. THr. WITHDRAWING THE ARMY OF OCCUPA- TION EitOM TtIE FRENCH TERRITORIES. The important news of the Congress at Aix-la-Cha pelle having agreed to the evacuation of France by the Allied Troops, has been received I.;nee our last. This communication was made by the following letter : " Aix-la-Chapelle, Oct. 3. " I use the utmost dispatch in in fbrining you, that the most important 'of the business of the Congress is al ready terminated. Yesterday at noon, and at the end of the Fifth Conference, the Evacuation of France by the Allied troops was agreed upon—Coma Carman, the Ambassador of France at Vienna, was the bearer of this important and pleasing intelligence to his Sove reign. Though I heard the news at an early hour this morning, I could not obtain any details, or even learn the foundation on which it rested, until now ; and was unwilling to agitate the English public by vague rumours. The shortness of the time may plead my apology fur sending you at present only a few particu lars. The Act, or Ginvention fur the evacuation of France is not yet signed, but the following statement may be relied upon :—The Allied Troops are to leave France in the course of the present month, or early in the beginning of next, at such intervals and by such routes as flay be afterwards determined to be most convenient tar all parties. The Allied Powers ar.: per fectly satisfied with the peseta state of France, and the securities which she ofliaa, in her internal condition, for the preservation of the general tranquillity. They are Isirtiilellitstied with the proposed guarantees fur the payment of the contributions. These contributions are all to be discharged in the course of nine months from the signature of the treaty. The first instalment is to be '25 per ccut. upon the whole sum ; and the re mainder is to be paid by equal instalments at the end of every two months. The first payment of 25 per cent. will take place on the'6th of December of the present year The house of Bariag and Co., supported by their friends of the other banking houses of Europe, is the security. Mr. Baring was yesterday called to a conference, and presented satisfactory guarantees. The dharibution of the sums to be contributed I have not yet been able to ascertain, but the following are the portions allotted to the greater powers :—Bussia will re. Live 48 millions of francs, England 48 millions, Aus tria about 40 millions, Prussia about 40 millions, the Netherlands 22 millions, and Bavaria 10 millions.— Tlac remainder will be tlivided among the other States, in proportion to their magnitude, their sacrifices, or exertions in the common cause. The details only of the great measure now runiain to be fixed : and if the same frankness and good faith preside over the counsels of the Allied Ministers which have hitherto guided them, these cannot occupy a long time. Accordingly the Duke of Richelieu expects to be sible to room to Paris by the 15th inst. The limp, - coy of Itsts.aa and King of Prussia will proceed in the oat i.se of a f;,rtniglit frem Aix-la-Chapelle, to review their troops at :,lau -I,erge and Sedan. The former has given up his inten tion of visiting Paris till his army is on its way out of Prance. The Emperor of Austria returns about the same time (that is, the 15th inst.) to Vienna; so that this assembly of Monerchs, this representative Majesty of Europe, will have terminated in fifteen days a hai ress which has engaged speculation and escited anxiety for three years ; and will thus have shown that the chouchmenis des Rois, with whatever jealousy they are viewed, are useful, at least for expedition and dispatch ; while the solemnity which their union confers upon the acts to which the y give their sanction, may he regarded as a great guarantee of their stability. This unanimity. in a great measure of policy, gives confidence in the general tranquillity, and is calculated to dispel any other AtiOnal Our iling, €oncititutfon anb ii MIA. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1818. clouds ant may partially darken the political horizon. As the Sovereigns met principally to decide on Cie af fairs of France, their personal presence Will be given no longer than they are terminated. The Ministers will remain here some time longer, to settle some other matters of less importance ; but as they are re solved not to open a door fur general discussion, or to receive, like an Amphictionic Council, the grievances of particular States, they have given, it is said, positive information to Spain, that they do not mean to enter. tain the question of dispute between her and her cold. vies. It is said, however, that Cvallos, the Spanish Minister at Vienna, is coming here to try the effect of his representations and persuasions. We hear, in a manner less positive, that urrarn will be pro posed by the Congress, to settle the diarence between Bavaria and Baden. This has been obtained, it is said. by the intervention of Austria." Count Caraman arrived at Paris also with the above news. It is stated that all the details of the arrange ments regarding France may be probably settled by the 18th or 20th instant, and that the time of convoking the French Chambers was regulated by the hopes of this arrangement. Lord Castlereagh also is said to have been desirous of meeting Parliament with the treaty in his pocket ; and his Lordship is represented to have confirmed, in some degree, the conjectures pub lished within these few days, with respect to the period at which Parliament is to meet, by specifying the month of November. What the consequences of the evacuation of France are likely to be, so far as con cerns the temper and feelings of the nation, well-in formed and impartial men agree pretty generally in sentiment. The continuance of the army within the frontier must have dcne incalculale mischief, if it were not productive of evident and extensive good—that is to say, that if it did not actually keep down the spirit of insurrection against their Government, end of ag gression against foreign Powers, among the French people. That such a spirit does not now (we cannot say exist at present in France, but) prevail throughout the body of the nation, every thing conspires to indi cate. The Ministers of Louis XVIII., the foreign Ambassadors at Paris, the Duke of Wellington him self, have had ample means of judging whether the King's Government has established itself sufficiently to maintain itself fer the present without foreign as. sistance. His Grace, we have been told, has long since expressed himself as if he thought that the House of n, and its foreign Allies, would gain in moral influence and popularity with Frenchmen, more than they could lose in their military position, by the re moval of the rivl . ) , from the frontier. Of this we suspect there can be :ittle doubt—that if the Allied troops were to have been retained in France agninst the voice, and in contempt of the wishes, of the people, the quantity of exaaperation niusi augment front hour to hour ; and as the army prolonged its stay, it must in self-defence reinforce its numbers : so as to bold out to Europe a prospect which, horn the very nature of things, must end in some terrible convulsion. The great-measure now resolved upon, we thence conclude, may have prevented evil, but cannot create it. ELEG ANT COMPLIMENT.—His Grace the Duke of Wellingten stmt in. the morning of the ‘29th ult. one of the Russian Aides-de-Camp toioquire what time it would be most convenient for hi, Mijeaty the Emperor of Hussiato receive his homage ; the Emperor, with out returning a direct answer to the menage, privately doseemied Um staircase, and ordcring his carri,v to he brought drove off to the hotel of his Grace, to pay him that compliment which the latter was noxious to pay him, awl to anticipate an nicer of respect by conferring a delicate and unexpected I t moor. Lard St. Vincent left itocherts on Thursday, and crossed the Tliames at Tilhnry Cal, on his journey in the South . of France, I.:bac he intends to pa.ss the • winter. Pimp: 9.z1. THE (>2 L't EN. At seven o'clock on Friday night, her Majesty was quite as well as she was in the morning, and it was expected she would pass another good night. The Prince Regent paid his visit to her Majesty punctually at the usual time, and afterwards remained with the Princesse% till nearly seven o'clock, when he returned direct to Carlton-house. The following Bulletins of the Queen's health have been issued since our last : " Kew Palace, Oct. 5. " The Queen has had several hours sleep ; her Majesty continues much the same to-day as yesterday." " Kew Palace, Oct. 6. " The symptoms of the Queen cnntintia much the same as yester day, though her Majesty had several hours sleep in the night." " Kew Palace, Oct. 7- " The Queen has had another good nicht, and her Majesty ap pears this mottling to be refreshed by her Is 1..ep." " Kew Palace, Oct. R. " The Queen has had a good night.—ller Majesty remains in the same state as yesterday." " Kew Thd: , re. Oct. 9. " The Qlven has again rested well, and feels herself refreshed and comfortable this morning." The following favourable Bulletin was issued &wr day morning : " Kew Palace, Oct. In. " The Queen has had several hours sleep, by which her Majesty's strength appear.; to be in some degree recruited." (Signed) " F. MILLNIAN." " Kew Palace, Oct. 11. " The Queen was less comfortable yesterday afternoon, but !ler Majesty has recorded her ease by another good night's rest." " F. MILLMA N." Tuesday mornirg his Imperial Highness the Grand Duke Michael took his departure from London for Russia. His Imperial Highness, with a truly princely ninnilicencc, presented two superb snuff-boxes to Sir B. Bloomfield and Sir William Congreve, previous to his departure The boxes were inanlztiL:va, .41 by Messrs. Rundell, Bridge and Mundell, and are said to be valued at 1,000 guineas each. Mr. Roberts, State Coachman to the Prince Regent also received a vary elegant snuff box. Massive silver tankards, valuable watches, &e. have been presented to others of the Royal house hold, who had been appointed to the temporary esta blishment of his Imperial Highness ; and it is said, the lowest la !per, in the Mews at Stratford House, has re ceived a present of =II guineas. The Liaper Alexander has taken up his temporary residence at Aix-la-Chapelle in what was formerly the Hotel of the Prefecture, and sleeps in the same chain her which Napoleon occupied the last time he was at Aix-la-Chapel:o., in 1808. The King of France has permitted an individual at Dunkirk, M. Da b -meau, to give his name to a vessel which he is now fitting out in the harbour of Dunkirk, for the whale fishery, and has also given bim private encouragement, this being the first equipment of that nature. It is to this fishery that the town of Dunkirk owes in a great degree its former splendour. In 1790, thirty.tbur vessels of every description sailed from this harbour for the whale fishery. It seems akretty generally reported, that a bar gain for the t sfer of the Floridas to America, has been struck between the Governments of Madrid an& Washington. The amount of purchase-money is said to be five millions of dollars, one third only of what France received for the cession of Louisiana. It will be recollected that it was stated in the American Papers that the Treaty was actually concluded, and only waited " the ratification of the heads of the two Go vernments." Extract cf a. private letter from St. Helena, dated Aug. 17.—" The Governor and Council, in a meeting with the inhabitants last Thursday, proposed the gratinal abolition of the Slave trade, and for the ho nour of St. Helena it has been warmly followed tip ; a Committee was instantly furned, whose resolutions have gone to Council, and go bane in the General Harris to the Court of Directors. The most important feature of their proceedings is, that none ere to be born slaves after Christmas-day next ; that the proprietors of such female slaves who may beer children after that 'late shall be at the expense of retiring then in their child hood, and to be Teimbursol by their being bound or considered apprentices to them until the lige of ;8 for boys, and t 6 fin. girls This is striking the axe at the root of the evil, and I am heartily glad that it has been i ,t oixe 1 . Vroposils have also been made this d.v ter letters t.f eendolenee to the Prime Regent and l'rinve Leopold, and unanimously earned, anti a subscr.rtion fur the intouled chorus entered into." -l:~ (15,Ar o•- •'.