The National Register. — London, England, 1808-04-03 00:00:00

APRIL 3, diet. than to take poisons and antidotes in the most regular va- Natiunal Register not therefore lend itself to a Party : it ill wit admit the grossness of personality, nor the flippancy of c pilrrallt. in those grave Disquisitions which purport to he t ie real sentiments of its Conductors; for those Conductors are vt aware, that vs hen their Paper begins to be a Itegister of Pa4t), it Will cease to be a National Register. r.etv• FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. 11W)1 THE PASNC.II, GNIII.I4N, ASD H.1.1113C11(;11 PIPERS. FItANCE. NAV', N & nen 12. By an Imperial Decree of the day before ‘esterda,s, an University is established, to which is en trusted . the care of supervising public Instruction through the unole French empire. The following is the oath to be taken by the new Nobility : " I swear to 1w faithful to the Emperor and his dynasty ; to he obedient to the constitution, laws, and institutions of the em pire; to serve his Alaje , ty as a good, upright, and faithful sub j:ct ; to educate my children in the same feelings of fidelity and obedience, :md to march in defence of my country as soon a , its territors shall be threatened, or as his Majesty shaft go to Vic 4ring." Further, a Connell has been established for the beftlißg of coosistiog of three Senators, two Councillors of State, one A ttorneN Owral, and one Secret:try-Ca-newt!. The ex peaces of this Council are to be discharged out of that which persons are to pay for their patents of Nobility. The Monit..or of March 23 contains the intelligence of the entrelt of the Ituslao troops into Finland, and the arrest of the IZu,sian Mini,rter at Stockholm. with the sealing of his papers, &e. It ad:ls the follow ieg remarks:— " Such an outrage on the rights of nations, which is known only to barbarians, has roused the indignation of the whole OEII (H hat does the King of Sweden complain 1 That 1.-sia has declared war against him ! More than six months are pa ,- ;ed sins Russia intimated to him that all the principles utrility had been broken, and that his alliance v i:11 Eng land mould not he sulf.retl, so that war must necessarily follow. — the us her side a Froich army is entering Zeal and. and all p7rparatio.is are inaki;ig to seta, these allies of 111)z1and tit Ame rica. that they may reign there. The King of Lot land may. d congratulate himself main in Parliament, as he did tYlore, on the new power he grants to nis Ally : it is pretended al•o, that Eneland i, to give St. Thomas's to the K ing of Sweden at an nulemAtication. l'hos the brave Swedish Nation, after la:visu seen their commerce awn hilated, is lore to pieces by a :‘ in iu t!teir interior. How dreadful a calamity it is for na ti,,o to nave a King who is governed by levity and folly !" PRUSSIA. I: ONIG%P,rIIG, MARCH b.—Our Court hag published the fol ing: I),Tlaration " Ilis 110‘:.l Majesty this King of Prussia, our most gracious Silverelgo, lids kern solicited h% both Imperial Courts of Parts :LA St. Peter:hurgit, con-istentiv with Use system or the other powers of this Cotitioent, and the declaration against England, t.) extend. tile same measure, against Sweden, which have been 1.1 ken :!;;Liosi Logi:mil. on art ouot of her fresh alliance with that power. In imitation of the declaration i , sued by the Ern pt•ror of Russia on the 10th (lid) of rebut:ll - y. in this year, his lajesty has according! v.brukfn n9' all Relation , * with . 114 :" 1 ' 71 1 and commands all in (Afire under him, under the penalty of severe I" , ilidialent, to refrain from all community or iiitcrcoari-e what tt et with Sweden. In pur:-uance of this, from the pre s ent mo rwat, and till further orders, all Prussian harbours shall be ut v closcd agaimt Swedish vessels ; Prussian vessels shall no loaner he sent int o Si vic&ll, neither shall Sweilith or neutral ships. or cares which conic (ruin Sweden, be admitted into harbours.—koitigs,e g, March 6." A meeting of the States r viz. Parliament) of East Prussia was held on the .eil of February, and dissolved on the 17th of t;ie same month, in order to consult. on the means of relieving Vie country test the consequences of the disasters it had eu dureil. 'the °utter. , of land, not proprietors, were called to tilt ineetin,z, so lb& the Diet consisted of iS noble Ssud 13 chic I.) , Tii ties. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. TURKEY CittisTmeelNOPLE, FED. 6. 7 —Intelligence has been received here not •r+stly of the honourable reception of the 'French Ant bassador, Cen. (lardanne, at the Court of Persia, but also of the b en eficial cfli•ets o f his first uegociation. It is, for imtarce, affirmed, that the uncieut treaty nein een France and Persia has been renewed. These tidings, which are confir.ned by various letters received here, have enticed several "'reach mercantile house, M Web were settled at Constantinuple, to establish them selves in l'erbia. i t IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, AI A ROI 28. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Orders in Council Bill, and several other Public and Private Bills. The House in a Committee heard Counsel and several wit nesses in support of the Petitions against the Orders in Council. The tendency of the evidence was to attribute to those Orders the present stagnation of Commerce. The most interesting de tails connected with this subject were related by Mr. Glennie of London, and Air. Martin, of Liverpool. Mr. (actinic stated, that lie received remittances on American account from the Continent to an amount considerably upwards or half a million yearly. He could positiscl) state, that of the ve.sels hound to ports on the Continent, the proceeds of whose cargoes were placed at his dispm-al, not one had been confis cated. Pe had been usually in adVance to the British Knamfae turers, upon the drafts of his American Correspondents, to I tee extent of 30,000/. but had began to decline making any such ad vances as eniv as October last, in con, , equence of the capture by a Plymouth Privateer of an American vessel consigneu. to him. ' The remittances from the Continent had rapidly declined since the issuing of the Order, in Council, and would speedily cease. altogether, as he was now receiving only the arrears of the car goes Luic:eil on the Continent previous to the :11uerican Em bargo. This measure he conceived to have resulted entirely from the expectation of the Orders in Council, the purport of which he had seen pr:lty accurately stated in an American Paper of the 17sth or 16,1 i of December. The explanation given at Paris, in September, of the Berlin Decree, could not in his conception, he regarded as the immediate cause of the embargo, us it must have reached America long prior to the imposit ion of the embargo, which was enacted the 22d, and took effect on the 26th of December. Mr. Martin stated the details of the American commerce with the port of Liverpool, and spoke generally to the iejn rious effects of the Orders in Council upon that branch of tratt:c. It appeared clearly fron his evidence, that the purport of that Orders in Council reached America on the 12th of December. The earliest copies of the Orders received in Liverpool did not arrive until the 16th or 17th of November; but he had heels apprised of their contents =u long prior to that date, as to be en abled, on the 12th of November, to communicate theta in a printed Circular to his American Correspondents. At nine o'clock the !louse was restored, and the further hear ing of the evidence postponed to Thursday.—Adjourned. TUESD A Y 31 R C 29. /Ann tier. LAND entered upon n discussion of the general po licy of the Orders in Couheil, particularly attaching himself to the consideration of their probal . .le eill'et on the United States of America. The Noble Lord considered it as the dictates of sound policy to cherish the friendship o f America, as affordin g the cons.da tory proTect of rearing a great Transatlantic Power, which, united w ith would effectually control the mi litary despotism which threatened to unite the whole Conti nent of Europe under one dominion. lle concluded with mov int,, five resolutions, funning an abstract of the chief topics of his speech. LORD WIESTMORELAND asserted, that if war were to take place with America, it would he more proper to ascribe it to the effect of the speeches which had been delivered iv Parlia ment. than to any thing done by his Majesty's Ministers, i.orto EA nries).4 considered the evidence delivered at the harms comite-ise, with respect to the injurious operation attic Orders in Council, and as having established the fact of their being the immediate cause of the American Embargo. Lord Grenville suyortcd, and Lord Hawkebhury *pried ..~.s- ~'. 211