The National Register. — London, England, 1814-08-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. of a portion of the integral soil of the United States, which. therefore, cannot be conceded without the express permission cf Congress, the Executive Government having no authority to that extent. . The Dutch Mailhas brought us the following communi cations regarding the departure of Mr. Dallas, which, it will be Teen, do not entirely coincide; bnt the mate, ial fact of his Fro.:•eeding to'the United States is pet fectly ascertained : " xsrtuu vst, AUG. V3.-51r. Dallas is here, and is to proceed to•rnorruw on board the John Adams, to sail for the United Mato', " A Cartel is to depart from England on the same destination, in lemllt it'll days. ArasTr.nnt‘t. AUG. 24.—Mr. Dallas, who is now here, is to wait until tinnier dispatches -ball have been trammitted to him. These are expected in t.to or three days, when the Juhn Adams %ill leave the Texel tor America." It seems by another letter, and from a very respectable quarter, that the season assigned at Amsterdam for tlr.! voyage of M 4. is to consult his Government on the new demanded for the British Colonies by their Government, and wh:eli, it was supposed, would alienate a considerable part of the State of Ohio. It is impossible to form any opinion of the state of pub-1 lic feeling in France, from those persons ho have made a mere visit of ceremony or curiosity to the seat of Goveru merit. But we are sorry to sec the King so wholly ab sorbed by his personal fears, as not even to pay respect to tho-e whose moderate principles, and lore of France, ought to have obtained the most distinguished considera tion. It is well said by some one, •" though those were p;ecluded from office who voted for the death of the Kith:,, employment was liberally bestowed upon those who had destroyed the familits of the people." But France and Frenchmen have no right to complain, the good st as bsfore them—" which to choose," and they preferred sla very to freedom. Pal is Papers to the 23J inst. together with Brussels Gazettes to the 20th, and a Mail font itaunbut h, arrived in the course of Thursday. Their contents arc of very little importance, with the exception of an article from Rome in the latter, whit it reports that Buonaparte will be permitted to reside at Parma, and to assume the Sovereignty of the Italian States ceded to the Archduchess \Taria Louisa. This, however, is too improhable to gain belief. The Moniteur seems very anxious to induce a belief that the inhabitants of the territo ries on the left bank of the Rhine, which have been given up by Prance to the Allies, are di.contenteil at the separation: but nothing of this alledged discontent is heard through any other channel than the Paris Journals. Sonic jealousy i , also evinced,- though not in express terms, at the vi , it of the Duke of Wellington to the fottres , es in the Netherland,.— Mona is said to be arming. against the BatLary Powers. We have' another arrival of French Papers to those of Wednesday laFt. The articles to which our attention has been first directed are two purporting to come from Corfu and . from Venice, but mote probably manufactured at Paris. They are a suite of that system which the French Papers adopt with increasing activity, by which they at tempt to raise the character of their own countrymen at the expense of the British character, anti labour to shew, that wherever Frenchmen have been their presence is loved and their departure regretted, whilst the presence of the English is drtetted and their departure is desired. C.lrfo article speaks of the french having behaved with such perfect discyino anti justice, that not one inha bitant ever had cause to complain of the French soldiers. Our ;Tatters know that he who' attempts to prove too much re •IP - 551 proves nothing-. We leave this article without saying a word more upon it. The other article from Venice would make an impression unfavourable both to the Austrians and English. The Commissioners of the two nations are on bad terms with each other, but equally oppress the Venetians ; nay, it is added, that the English have prohi bited the sailing of all Venetian ships. We have little doubt that the allegations in both these articles are un founded: and we must add, that the eagerness with which they are inserted and displayed, does not say much in fa your of the anxiety of the French to preserve, in the spirit of peace, that peace which was granted them in a manner so noble and so delicate. it is strange that the French Government does not discourage those attacks, which ap pear first in the minor papers, and are next dAy regularly copied into the Monitcur. This irritating style and tone NI bleb would tend to create feelings of irritation on the part of this country, are morn extraordinary, when we consider the necessity on the part of France of firing in peace for some time at least with all other Powers, in order to restore credit to her finances,ac tivity to her commerce, and to heal the wounds of her Ions; and bloody revolution. We have before us the Report to the Chami)er of Deputies of the Commission appointed to examine the Budget. The measures there recommended. must owe much of their success to a period of peace. There are large arrears of debt, which could net he discharged un less peace be preserved. Part of the national forests are pro posed to bs , sold, a well as the property of the Communes. There is to be a voluntary inscription and the issue of Treasury , Bills bearing an interest of 8 per cent. The Government propositions meet in general with the appro bation of the Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. But we mint gay, that the 8 per cent. Treasury Bills seem to give a higher rate of interest than appears to be neces can% The French 5 per cent. funds are 75 francs, not Yielding quite 7 per cent. for the hundred francs. How ever, we speak with great hesitation upon the subject of French finances, which it is r.lways difficult to understand. The King has rtblished an ordonnanee relative to the erasure of inscriptions upo.i the list of emigrants. His Maj e ite also announces that he means to propose a law re specting the restoration of such property of the emigrants as has not been sold. We beg leave to call our readcrs attention to the stric tures we this, day insert upon the state of parties in Spain. They are furnished by a Correwondent intimately ac quainted with Spanish politics, and whose publications on south America have already, as they deserved, excited the notice of his Majesty's Government. The address of Mr. Justice Fletcher to the Jury at Wexford is too long for insertion in this day's Paper, but we seriously recommend its perusal to our readers, as pre senting a comprehensiv , !. history of the causes which affl ct Ireland, and affording a cool and dispassionate refutation of the calumnies r hich aro so industriously circulated against her. So h;g!dv, indeed, are we per -gimlet! of its healing qualitie , , that the ( . .; , vernment cannot do better than circulate it at their own expencr, as one sure means of securing the tranquillity of the cenntry—epening the eyes of the people to tli;jr real interests—and calling on the guilty al)senteeF, if not eto: turn aml cheri,.h,by their protec intelligent, and laborion , rnee Syliccl Emu equally . iguoraut irely dead to shame, to re- ef ion and influence,a hardy, iij iy.ople, irritated and in- .,f their cuitoins and habi`,s. .r. , • - • , • AUG . 428. I