The National Register. — London, England, 1817-12-08 00:00:00

.7 . ,0:n tkr LCLNDOS G.IZE7'TE, Saturday, Dir. 0. BAN7IKL"I v ITY SL:nERSEDFTL R. Hoopoe, R. M six°, and T. F. Moacias, I .alr.meston, Cern wall. beer brewers. BANKRUPTS. LANOHOND J. ,A 1 cheater, merchant, Dee. 22, Ws Jan. 17, at Nlancliester. Atte. Longdill and Co. Gray's Inn. lia.LloTl' R. Ilminster, Schema, miller, Dee. 30, ;11, Jun. 17, at Ilrnimter. Att. Mr. Hine. Temple. t'nitxx 'E. H. late of Brightbahnston. schooltonstEr. Dec. 10, 11, Jan. 17, at Brighthelmsten. Att. Mr. Sowtony Gmy's Inn. WALL T. Lutterwurtlt. Leicesttr, draper, Ekt. 1.5, tb, Jan. 17, at Coventry. Au. Mr. Chilten, Chancery-lrne, „DEACON W. Parker-row, Bermondsey. baker, Dec. 11. 20, Jan. 17. at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Sandomi, blades-place, Butt-lane, Deptfonl. VliNli.ol F. jun. King-street, Covent Garden, milliner, Dec. 13, .lan. 17, at Guildhall. Att. .Mr. Crafts, Foley -street, Pea l:lntl-place. A fudoLD D. and N. Bristol, parchment makers, Dec. 10, 20, Jan. 17, at Bristol. Alta. Bourilillion and Co. Bread. ..tree. Jraticcit S. Merriott, Somerset, miller, Jan. 1,2, 17, at Somerset. Alto. Alexander and Co. New Inn. rfTT IT W. Worksop. NOUillgb:lllr.. butcher, Dec. r.t, 23, Jan. 17, at Worksop. Att. Mr. Allen, Carlin-street, Soho. rAYANT C. Manchester, auctioneer, Dtr. Jan. 17, at Man chester. Ans. Hurd and Co. Inner Temple. MARTIN I'. Oxford-street, 1100kaclIcr, Dec. 9, 10, Jan. 17, at Guild ball. Au. Mr. Ilowell, Symonds Inn. 11ANDEY J. late of Hornsey-lane, Highgate. drug dealer, Dec.l6, 23, Jan. 17, a Guildhall. Au. Mr. Alartintlak, Gray's Inn. nrwarr Es H. Bond.court, Walbrook. paper merchant, Dee. 16, 28, Jan. t 7, at Guildhall. Au. Mr. Hartley, New Bridge-street, Riad:friers. Sir TON It. Hampton Wick, Middlesex, linendraper, •Dec. 16, 30, Jan. 17,at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Jones, sise-lane. 2,.L10TT J. Squthanipton, currier, Dee. is, '27, Jan. 17. at Guild hall. Atts. Ballachey and Co. Angel-court, Tlffogruorton-street. DIVIDENDS. W. Grice, Frodshr.m, Chester, tanner, Dec. 29. J. Wheeler, late of Wedneshur,y, St afford, iron master, Dee. 3r'. W. Former, Carburton-street, F itzroy-square, coach maker, Dec. 27. J. H. Koc, Mill Wall, Poplar, roman cement maker, Dec.l6. C. love, Old Bond-street, Jewellery Jan. 3. G. Berke, StrattOrd-on-Avon, Warwick, coach proprietor. Dec. 29• T. Nice, Bishopsgate-street Without, linendraper, Dec. 27. J. Wilson, Coventry, wine merchant, Dec. 30. G. Baillic and J. Jatfray, Finsbury-place, merchants, Dec. 2. J. and I'. Fenton, and 11. Beaver, Manchester. merchants, Dec. 31. W. Cross, Halesworth, Sultiilk, currier, Dec. 29. W. Whatley, late of Lawrence Pountney Dill, merchant, Dec. 27. R. Ashby, late of the Poultry, engraver, Dec. 9. 1. Strombmu, Austin Friars, merchant, Dec. 27. .1. LI enrickson, .Litchfield, cotton spinner, Dec. 27. .J. Davey, 'w.:iteter, timber merchant, Dec. 27. W. Kirby, late of Manchester, merchant, Dec. 29. G. Ridley, 'Banbury, Worcester, baker., Jan. 7. W. Clancy,St. Mary Axe, merchant, Doc. 20. J. Austin, Lam o's Conduit -street, linendraper, Jan. 20. A. Anderson, Philpot-lane, merchant, Jan. 31. W. lienlock, late of Distaff-lane, sugar baker, Jan. 13. "T. Strickland and T. N. Brickwood. Liverpool. merchants, Dec. 29. CERTIFICATES, DEC. 27. 0. Crease and S. Minott, Philpnt-lane, merchants—J. Barn, late •.( l.othbury, merchant—W. Stockliam, Bnstol, baker—S. Massey, .Clicadle Manley, Chester. dealer—W. Brown, Wigan, Lancaster. • cotton menu acturer—J. 'Tudgay, late of East-lane, Bermondsey, ...wwilinaker—J. Cooke, Colchester, coach maker—lt. Bradley, _War rington, cabinet maker—B. Dunn. late of Wolseley, Stafford, inn keeper. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. LONDON: MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1817. THE Paris papers from Sunday, to Wednesday last, were received on Saturday. The Chamber of Deputies Suet on the Rgth ult. and the Minister at War (M.Gou 'ion de St. Cyr.) brought forward the project of the - new law for recruiting the army. The speech with -which the Minister introduced it, was principally di "'meted to an explanation of the law, and, except the fol lowing passage, contained little of a political nature, 41 With the exception of those circumstances which de- fy all calculation, in which France would not find less resources in herself than any other people have found, the proposed military organization will be sufficient to secure that independence, and that dignity, without Which there can be neither King nor nation. It is no longer a question of going beyond our frontiers to at tack, a g grandize, or defend, other States, we only wish to protect our own homes, our families, our king, and our country." The whole of this passage is so much in the Buonaparte style, that we naturally attach more importance to it than it perhaps deserves. What those " circumstances," are, which " defy all calcula tion," •it will not be very profitable to enquire, but with respect to the forbearance expressed in the close of the paragraph, we were so long accustomed to the same affectation, of humility, under the usurpation, that we view it with considerable suspicion. There papers say that Eugene Bcauharnois is placed by the King of Bavaria next in rank to the Royal Fa mily,-of all the Bavarian subjects; his titles are do -scribed to be Prince of Eichstadt and Duke of Leuelt tenberg. It is asserted in private letters from Paris, that the 'French Ministers are menanced with a powerful and -troublesome opposition, which will exert its principal strength against the Concordat and the law of the liberty of the press. The point to be insisted Oa t with regard to the later topic is the application of trial by jury to all' cases whatever in which the delinquencies of the press .ar:: in question. TIIE NATIONAL ILEGIgTETt. Intelligence of an unpleasant nature, as it respects . our friends the Netherlanders, has been received from their settlements in the East. The Javanese, and natives of the other settlements which were wrested by us from the Dutch during the war, have experienced a. bitter change on their being delivered up to their ancient masters. From the mild and enlightened policy of the British Government, they have bocn again subjected to the oppressive and ignorant system invariably pursued by the Dutch in all their Colonies, the consequence is, revolt in every quarter, nor need we be surprised if the next intelligence should inform us that some of the settlements were lost to Holland for ever. The Gaeette of Saturday contains a proclamation calling in all the halfpence and farthing.; current by virtue of the proclamation of July 1797. This refers to the largezt of the halfpence and farthings now in citeulation. THE KING'S lirsyrn.—On Saturamy the Queen's Council assembled at NVindsor, to receive the mouthlv report of the five Physicians. After the breaking up of the Council, Lord Arden dispatched a messenger to the Queen, at Bath. Yesterday the following bulletin was shown at St. James's Palace:— •• ‘VINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. T. " Hie Majesty has been nniforndy composed through the last month, and has egjoyed good health, though His Majesty's dkorder continues unchanged." Tne Qvc.tv.—Her Majesty goes every morning to the pump room at Bath, and drinks a glass of the wa ters. At first all the other company was excluded dur ing the Queen's stay, but a limited number have sinze been permitted to occupy the recesses of the pump room. Preparations are making in the residence of the Duke of Clarence for the reception of the Prince Regent, who it is expected, will pay a visit to his Royal Mother, next week. Her Majesty returns to Windsor the .2:;d instant. On Saturday, scam after 1 o'clock, the Prince Re gent left Carlton-house for Brighton. llis Royal High ness proceeded over Vauxhall-bridge. The Princess of Wales's apartments in Kensington Palace are getting ready for Her Royal Highness's re ception. By the Flanders Mail received on Friday, it ap pears that Las Cases, reached Brussels on the 27th ult. and proceeded that day for Aix la Chapelle. After this Gentleman's arrival at his journey's end, the public will of course be prepared for some new and highly laudatory version of the history and exploits of Napoleon B 11011 a.. parte. The Prussian Consul at Antwerp has notified to the merchants, that an Algerine squadron with the plague on board was seen off Cape St. Vincent on the 20th of October, steering northwards, to cruise against the trade of Prussia In accounts from the Hague, we have it confidently asserted, tf at Count Goltz, the Dutch Commissary-General, is to follow the example of the Prince of Orange, and forthwith to retire from the Ministry. It may argue much, discretion and moderation in the Count to withdraw from an office in which he has been the unfoitunate, however blameless, cause of dis agreement between the Royal relatives, and his con tinuance in which might expose him to invidious obser vation; hut it will be no proof of firmness in the King to let n faithful servant bend before a storm, whose force was aimed against the vital interests of the Netherlands. Their Imperial Majesties of Austria re-entered Vienna on the 19th of November, after an absence of about. four months, during which they traversed the greater part of their extenaive Empire. It is stated from Munich, that the Royal Family of Bavaria are expected to repair to Prague, where the Emperor Francis, with the Em press, is .to meet them, when it is supposed that her Im— perial Majesty will be crowned Queen of Bohemia. A hint is given, that this family meeting may be produc tive of a yet closer union between the two crowns, through an alliance of the Crown Prince of Austria, who has attained his 24th year, witr one of the twin sisters Princesses of Bavaria, aged al oat 16. The father and son will thus have married into a house with which the Court of Austria has had frequent subjects of dis trust and quarrel. From :Kamtschatka, May 25, 0. S. it is stated that —" As in the whole east and north-east part of Siberia it has happened also in Kamtschatka, that in the course of last winter an incredible number of bears have left the woods, frequently. mitered the houses of the Kamts chadales, in many pieces have attacked and devoured the inhabitants, nay,.truces have been found of their having killed and devoured each other. At the end of the winter many bears were found who had perished with hunger. In several settlements they have hilled from 2 to 3(R) hairs. The oldest Kamtschadales oo not remember ever to have seen the bears so savage and bloodthirsty. The cause of this savageness and of their hunger is, that tin. these two years past there has been an entire want of fish in the Kanuschatka sea ; and ti li, as is well known, are the chief lhod of the ,cars, being usual y so al.andant in those %voters, they ea.,ily contrive to catelt. A couple of shucks of an earth quake have been lately fat in the.peninsula." & A Leacr from Stoel olm, Nov. 18, says :—" A dia.. charged °nicer of a fond family, of the name of Drake, has excited general indignation by a very wicked action :—Having &ten employed to superinteud th e workmen who were repairing the Ititterholms Church, which is used only for the interment of the Royal fa mily and of the Knights of the Seraphim, as well as to preserve the trophies of Swedish valour, he broke into what is called the Caroline vault, disturbed the ashes of our great King Charles X. and of a.Duchess of Holstein, took from the homer the crown, sword hilt, and sceptre, and from the latter a diadem and necklace all of gold, and in part richly set, but Las be trayed ltimself by his boasting, De had even had a waistcoat made out of the velvet arm one of the calm:, and plundered many other monuments in the church. —But as there was found in his picket, when Ire wzs arrested, an exact list of the stolen articles, and irt account of what had been done with them, the whe:a have been recovered." The rapidity with which the British system of ede. cation is proxented in France almost exceeds belief. Ni less than 250 general and central schools ars esta blished in the different departments. One at Boar deaux eontrins 500 chilarcu. The Duchess of Duras his established one in Paris for 150, and the Duke or Orleans unother at Neuilly for 100 poor children, on their own private expenses. It affords us pleasure to find that one of the good ef fects of the ameliorated temper and disposition of the Country has been to enable the Secretary of State to release from confinement a further number of the pri soners from the Northern Counties, who are imprisoned on charges of high treason. Orders have been Ad% en by Lord Sidmouth ihr releasing thurteen from the gaols in which they have been imprisoned. The work of retrenchment in the establishments of the Government departments is going on, and the whole, it is understood, will be reduced to the lowest possible scale. The Ordaance department, it is said, is among the most prominent ; and at the Arsenal at IVoolwich the work of reduction has already corn• menaed. It is added, that the department for barracks for the artillery is wholly to be abolished, while its business, which must now be trifling, merges into the general routine of the Ordnance office, in Pall-mull. The principal, Colonel Neville, of course retires on some allowance ; and probably his assistant. Of the clerks who will thus be removed, some have, it is said, been employed five or six years, and it is reported that there is a possibility of no allowance being granted them. Reductions at the Tower are also intended ;as likewise at the stations round the coast, but to consist merely of inferior officers, &e. Mr. Robert Ward's journey to Ireland was fitr the ptrrpose of inspecting the several depots for Ordnance stores in that country, where reductions to as great an extent as possible will also be carried into effect. The individuals have re ceived notice that their services will not be required after the termination of the present year The Ord. nance department, it is stated, is now under the con trol of the Lords of the Treasury, the same as all other offices, as was recommended by the Committee on Fi. nonce in their report. These measures of economy must of course reduce the estimates for this extensive department of the ensuing year. The Elizabeth Hill, Britton, arrived in Stangnte Creek, from the Levant, brings a report of the new Dey of Algiers having been shot ; and of the Algerines having declared war against the Sicilians, Dunes and Swedes. Extract of a letter from Antigua, dated Oat. 17.-- " Every thing goes on very quiet here, except a most diabolical plot that has been lately discovered, in which numbers of coloured people and slaves are concerned : nothing less than the confidential servants of Mr. Pre sident Kerby robbing their master of a very large sum of money (six or seven hundred pounds), and then attempting to destroy him by poison, to prevent dis covery : two were executed yesterday, five more were tried to-day, three condemned to be hung, two of them Obeah people,who prepared and fiirnished the medicine ; in all about 15, most of whom, it is supposed, will suf fer. Never was there developed vich a sccne of vil lainy. Mr. Kerby is a must humane good man ; he has taken some poison, but it was not strong enough, and has of late had very bad health : they poisoned hie tilt-ring stone." NEWSPAPERS.—In cense/pence of repeated com plaints ns to the irregular delivery of Newspaper in Ireland, the folloAcing Orders were issued on the 24th ult. from the Genet.ld Post Office in I)ublin,ivhich Wit respectfully recommend to the imitation of the Post master Gencral in London : lat. Thu. where a Postmaster. oft opening his Mail, shall find that any Paper which 1w thinks shoul,l have reached his ()kice, has not arrived, he will oy letter, acciiaiini the Seemtary with the enema • stance, Will :he name of the subscriber, whose Paper truly appear ba No paper is to be deivered hut to the Subscriber, Or to his Iles_eneer or Servant Isr,own tab.: such. TlAtt under no pretence, either w iAa or without the consent of a Sul,seriber, shall at deputy open and tend a newsi•aptr,. previous to it awing (tells end to its Owner, mat of ooursc from mailer his official care. If Subscribers ate willing that P. sttaastcts should have the benefit of raiding their l'apeis, it must by atter, not while they have official custody of them.