The National Register. — London, England, 1809-12-03 00:00:00

Trzu. ~. :ROYAL CRIJI. co! TYE HEREDIT:4RI'. PRINCESS OF DENMARK. COPY OF A LETTER FROM COPENHAGEN, NOV. 4. , g Since my lastletter to you, an intrigue of a curious nature has been disco .red. The Hei editary Prince of Denmark, who is married to a clanguter of the Dtit.e of vleckleliburgh, seas calk& from - horn , ' by military duties. H e had scarcely been gone three days, w hen it was discovered that. a French maa, Est the name of D"puis, svhO MIS the [Salle,- Mazi',er, and who 'had also been ctio4en to instruct the PriliCesS in singing, had been perceked go - mg to her 'nparonent3 at a late hour in the nlght. A g'iard placed to watch his retoun, : , .nd at four :a the morning- lie as se,en leaving the J. 1.• ;tic ::ss's bed ea imined el) dispatched ,1 - 0 the Prince, to make hint ..z.ctliiaii.ted the mann -st;?..ce ; and on exa.trihlin , i ,•:. the elide, 34. she confessed tier I,!sfantly sent under an escor t to ',a -t, ~evf!‘• to to Denmark, under pain of death ; ' " s'mce bee:: sent '0 Altoila. - Ittfssengers to'all quarters. to apprise her relations of iuld a divorce is expected to take place. ' ',is same Otipitiswis some years ago in the Swedish ser vice; but his conduct was so infamous, that - he was banish ed from the country. The latest intellize,ice from Loinbay., do not afford the least intdligence re.tnecting'2.he seen missing India ships; on board otie'of wine!) General M'Powall was a passenger. It is stated in letters from Arnerica, that the President has rei - us.:d to recognise or receive the 'Minister who had arrived Ciere 'from Spain, as the Reprec•ntative of King Ve:d;nand. It was intimated to h!tn, on the part of Mr. Madison, that he would no+ besec.eived. It is said, that he had :?mternnineu, notwithstanding, to remain in ♦me ric a Iltii 11 Cilngrrss suet, and to take the sense of that Body on this egtraordinary s4cp of the head of the Government. It is that three persons, holding highly lucrative situations in thc Irish Post Office, have received notice of dismissal. The iniputed offence consists in their having made untrue returns of the income of their situations, and thereby enabled themselves to receive a supposed annual deficiency. A fourth, not in the secret, made a true re turn ilf 12501. income, anti thus the detection of the others was nrciisioned. SEDUCTION.--A very unpleasant misunderstanding exists betwixt two respectable families in the neighbonrhood of fit. Jaines's•Palace, in consequence of a married man, with five children, having seduced .tim daughter of his intimate friend.—The young lady is not more than 18, and her se ducer is turned of 50. The criminal intimacy commenced at a sea- port, and they were discovered at a bagnio. It !pp:rued by a motion made on Tuesday, in the Court of Exchequer, for referring the coots attending the execu tion of a Writ of Inquiry to the Master, that the costs at tending the recovery of the small sum of 5/. and a frac tion, amounted to no less than 1:211.. lu the Court of Common Pleas yesterday, Clifford v. Brandon, Mr. Serjeant Shepherd, on the part of the De fendant, moved that this trial which was fixed fvr Wed nesday, sltould be postponed for one day, but Sir James Mansfield thought as it had been fixed on, it should be tried at the time appointed. In consequence of the_ immense number of forged notes in circulation,' of the Devonshire Banks, Mr. Kay, Solici tor to the Bank Of England, was lately sent into that county. foi the purpose of tracimg the authors. After much arduous enquiry, he at length succeeded, on Monday last, in discovering the whole of the plan. The proofs of the forgeries are brought hiaMe to, some French prisoners of war, particularly to two of that description, cAifined on board the Genereux. The signature of' Mr Marshal!, oue of the Proprietors of the Plymouth Dock Bank, was so eorractly imitated, that when the note was presented, he declared it was his signature. ; 1 1 IiE NATIONAL REGIST _, MR. CANNING'S STATEMENT. II / TO THE EARL CAMDEN, &e. &r. Gloucester Lodge, .N . ov. 14, 1809. MY Loan--I had written to your Lordship immediately after the publication of your Lordship's Statement ; but I de layed sending my letter, in the hope of being able previously to submit it to the perusal of the Duke of Portland. In this hope I nave been disappointed by that fatal event which has deprived this country of one of its most upright and disintere,ted patriots; the King, of one of his most faithfal, devoted, and affectionate subjects ; and the world, of one of the most hlameless and ir4t nable-minded men. Thus situated, 1 have tkaught it right to retire what 1 had written, utd scrupulously to expunge every reference to the ant horit v of the Dnke Ur Poriland, w hich would now stand upon my sole to timmty ; re.aining such only as are supported, either by written documeats which 1 shall be hattpy to commuuirate to your Lordship. or by facts w hick are well known to your Lordship, or to your colle.,gues, and is which, Tor the most part, your Lordship is yourself concerned. Neither, however, can I content myself with this precaution, hut must protest, at the same time, in the most earnest manner, against any possible miscoustructinu, by w Rich any thing is the following letter can he strained to a meanly , " u nf avourable to the motives which actuated the Duke of Port land's conduct. It is impossible, indeed, not to regret the policy, however well ioten tinned, which dictated the reserve practised towards Lord Cas tlereagh, in the beginning of this transaction; or that practised towards myself in its conclusion. It is to be regretted, that the Duke of Portland should have imposed, and that your Lordship should have accepted, the condition of silence, in the first com munications between you. It is also to be regretted, that I should not have learnt in July, that your Lordship was not party to the assurances then given to we on behalf of Lord Cas tlereagh's friends in gereral ; and that another Member of the Cabinet, comprehended in that description, had, as I hive since heard, refused to concur in them. Dad I been made acquainted with these circumstances, I should them haw resigned; and my resignation would, at that time, have taken place w ithout, in convenience or embarrassment, and without stirring those ques tions (no way connected with my retirement), or SUbjectinx me to those misinterpretations of my conduct and motives, which have been produced by the coincidence of my resignation m ith that of the Duke of Portland. But, iniwever, this reserve may be to he regretted, it is impossible to attribute the adoption tir it, on the part of the Duke of Portland, to any oh lwr motives than to that gentleness of nature which eminently distiogn:shelf him ; and which led him to endeavour (above all things) to pre vent political. differences from growing into personal dis•en•ioa,; and to aim at executing whatever arrangement might t o ' ex:a... client for improving or strengthening the Administration, w the concurrence (if possible) of all its exist ing member:. And no man who knows the affectionate respect and attachment, which the manly and generous qualities of the Duke of Port -1 land's mind were calculated to command, and which I. invariably bore to him, will suspect me of being w illiug to establish my own vindication, at the expellee of the slightest disrespect to his memory, or prejudice to his fame. I have the honaur to be, my Lord, Your Lordship's most obedient humble! Servant, GEORGI; CANNING. TO THE EARL CAMDEN, &c. Mll Lon.b.- 7 -The statement, whirls has been published in the. newspapers in your Lordship's name, - has decide.' a questioa tia which t had before been hositating, as to the necessity of an au thentic detail of the transactions (so far as I am coin-env:a in them, or am acquainted with them) to which that sta:eineat re fers. For that purpose, I think a direct address to your I.orii. ship more decorous, bath towards your Lordship and for my- AEU,, than an anonymous paragraph in a newspaper. It is the most painful reluctance that I recur to a subject, w hick, so far as it concerns Lord Castlereagh and myself, had been settled in a manner which is usually, I believe, considered as final s Discussions of the causes of dispute more commonly precede,. than follow, the extreme appeal, to which Lord Castlereagh re carted : and when, after mature confideration, his Lordship toad determined to resort to that appeal in the first instance, 'tumid have thought that Seek a choice deliberately made, would have been felt by his friends to be equally conclusive upon them as upon himself. Bet ToOr Lordship needs nqt to be inforuked s , how asSiduousli my Character has beau amiltuf by writers , in • T I