The National Register. — London, England, 1816-04-07 00:00:00

by his suns, :k iadame followin; in an open calash. These military spectacles can•only remind them of the national humiliation and their Shriner military glory, which has ben extinguished by the victorious enemies of the late Usurper. An ordinance has been issued regulatilg anew the Legion of Honour, which is henceforth to be called the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour, and is to hold its annual festival on the 13th of July, the day of St. Henry An anecdote, generally accredited, is current in Paris: .—The King has been long in treaty with the Pope, to tmgage him to repeal the Concordat. On the compliance of his Witless, all the Constitutional Bishops, Cainba •eures, Sre. would be ejected, and the numerous vacancies be filled up by' the less obnoxious Prelates of the Court. Alter a thousand obstacles, the Pope signified his con sent, but on condition that the Order of Jesuits should be re-established in France. The King has complied, and it is mutually agreed that the hitter part of the con vention is to be executed in 1618, as by that time it is probable the public mind will be well indodrined to re ceive the order. _ The Moseiteur of the 28th contains a Report of the Minister of the Interior on the State of Commerce, and making every allowance for exaggeration, it bears with it a convincing proof, that the tranquillity of France re quires only to be firmly established, to create an alarming competition with this country in every department of trades and manufactures. The silk and cotton manu factures of France present at this time an animated spec tacle. The former at Avignon have experienced the most important improvement. The number of silk looms in activity during the 4th quarter of 1813, surpassed by more than WO, that of the preeMing quarter. The spun cottons of Rouen have been much in demand, and of vel veteens an increased sale has taken place of 2,100 pieces. The last letters from Spain announce an interesting piece of information,•—the detection of a conspiracy against Ferdinand Vt.!. Government suspecting that some plan was in agitation dangerous to the peace of the city, ascertained the names of the conspirators, immedi ately had them arrested, and had the torture inflicted upou them, according to the former custom of Spain, in order to extort from them the object of the conspiracy. From the declaration of some of the conspirators, it was ascertained that the conspiracy had in view the extinc tion of the present King of Spain, and their Royal High losses his brothers, &c. Dear-Admiral Sir Pultney Malcolm is appointed to succeed Sir George Cockburn in the command at St. Helena, the Cape of Good Hope, and the Mauritius.— Sir Pultney arrived at Portsmouth on Thursday morning, dud hoisted his flap• in the Newcastle, 50, Captain Mey sten. He kill sail f o r the command in about ten days. Charleston and Virginia papers state, that an epidemical disease, very destnictivc in its effects, has again made its Ispix....lrence in Virginia► and North Carolina. The mor tality among the inhabitants of the adjoining counties to !Cork°lk has exceeded the ravages of the fatal Epedemia in the winter of 1814-15. It is stated in the Brussels papers, under the head of Vienna, that the person who lately made his appcamucc at Warsaw, as an Asiatic Prince, awl son of the Emperor df the 13ramins, is an impostor. This discovery is stated to have been made at Bucharest, where he was met some time ago by Major Stewart, Aid-de-Camp to the Earl of Moira, assisted by the English Consul, resident in that city. The last accounts•from Corfu are not quite so favoura ble, the plague having broken out in another village. The Widow of Gen. \Vashington has consented to the removal of her husbantrs remains to a spot on which it is proposed to erect a national monument to his memory. In her answer to the President of the United States on the subject, she says—" Taught by the great example which I have so long had betinv me, never to oppose my private wishes to the public will, I must consent to the request made by Congress, which you have had the goo& ness to transmit to me; and in doing this, I need nut, I cannot say, what a sacrifice of individual feeling I make to a sense of public duty." It was reported yesterday in the Court of Chancery, that Mr. Leach is going to Ireland as Lord Chancellor. The Earl of Gosford has ordered every man Monging to the Armagh regiment of militia to be presented with Bible on his discharge. The number ordered is three lay:demi and twenty. COMIION COUNCIL. Thnrsday, a Court of Common Council was held at Guildhall, which was numerously otteaded.—The Niteig:ttion Committee reported on their proceedings oil the Petition in the House of Lords on the Southwark Bridge Bill, whereby the Company hail entered into an agreement for making temporary 'fairs et Three Cranes. during the time the tatter sttirs should be stopped up by their works.—The Committee for General Purposes report. ed, that no person should be allowed to become a candidate fur the office of Marshal, who slanald be under 30, or exceeding 40 cars of age ; also 1 . .. r an 41111Wallee to Mr. Bolilswiti th, who tely resigned the office of Marshal, was read rind agreed to.— Mr. t'eancis Nattier offered his resignation of his office of Mar shal, which was accepted. A reward of 1901. is offered in Saturday's thzetle for the dis covery of the pieties supposed to have set lire. in the night of the 18th ult. to two stacks of wheat belonging to Mr. ti Palmer, of St. Leonard's Kent; with a promise of free pardon to aiiy me fresuplice ending such discovet y, TIU NATIONAL ittaISTEIL_ NATIONAL RETItgATIDIENT. tly the Returns to nn Order of the House of Com mons, relative to the salaries, &e. of the offices of the Se cretaries of State, it appears, that in the War Depart ment, the office of Uader Secretary of State, with a salary of 20001. per annum, ceases this week, and that three extra clerks, at salarieS of 1361. 17s. 6d. per annum each arc slso suppressed. In the Colonial Department the reductions arc, one Clerk at a salary of ;;501. a year, one ut a 1301. one at 1201, one at 801. one at n 1361. 17s. titl. and one at 1031. 15s. The office of Precis Writcr, with a salary of 3001. a year, is also supprcesed. 137 the return made to the House of Commons, it ap pears that the IVaggon Train cost for the year 1815 no less than 157,3071. 17s. pd. A considerable reduction, we understand, is about to take place in most of the public offices under Government. particularly in the Home Department. It has been al ready notified to several gentlemen attached to the Secre tary of State's Office, that their further services will be dispensed with after this week. Orders have been sent out for the breaking up of the establishment called the Audit Office at Lisbon, which has already cost the public 160,0001. The whole of this de partment, together with all the officers of the commis sariat remaining in Portugal, have been ordered to repair to England. The difference between the first Army Estimaies and those now produced is 52,5641. a year in favour of the public ; that between the first Ordnance Estimates and the reduced ones is 176,0001. a year, on the same side ; making two hundred and twenty-eight thousand pounds a year saved to the public. The telegraphs to all the sea-ports were put down on the 23d ult .; the shutters have all been taken down, and the houses delivered over into the charge of the lieutenant and two men, and it may be calculated that tho discon tinuance of this department, in wages, stores, repairs, &c. will cause a saving to government of between 11 and 12,0001. per annum. The Inspector of Telegraphs will also be discontinued, and retire on a pension. Two troops snore are to he forthwith reduced in all the regiments of the cavalry. FUNDED DEBT, AS IT swop IST FFD. 18UI, r nom OFFICIAL nocumerrs. T0t...1 Public Debt. as ori- ......._... ginanv funded - - £1,112,413,432 • 9i Ilea redeemed and stand• in in the name of Coin missioners for the Ite demption of the Debt X 44094510 0 0 lleht transferred to the Commissioners for Life Annuities, payable at the Hank - 5,397,3.51 0 0 Delitcancelltsl by !lectern's tion of Land-tax - 25,155,0% 19 Debt cancelled, and the Fends thereof charged with new Loans, us per Arts 55 and .s Geo. 111. c. Y 5, a. 3. 2.51,733,ft5R fl 0 _ _ 3'20,:184,393 19 I Debt unmlremed and due to the Public eteditor, on the Ist Feb. 1815 £792,:m.426 In 6 Interest on debt unredeemed. 27,253.995 L 14s !!;d.—Sums applicable to the reduction of the National rein, 12.1 , N,2251. lls annual charge of debt, 42,149,11501. Ils nnkount of all monies lead into the Exchequer between the Stli of January, 1815, and the sth of January, 1106, was I v 7,1174421. lie. ro:;d. ; of which for loans was paid, 32,421.9591. 25.; and the payments by the Covennnent of Ireland. on account of 2-17ths of the annual ex penditure of the United Kingdom to be defrayed by Ireland, anno 1813 and 1814,6,107,2401 12s. sd. FINANCIAL RESOURCES OF In ETAND. In 1815, the capital of the funded debt of Ireland wes r27,8135.0nr1 —lnterest payable on it, s.l.,::2X(sni.—And the net revenue only 5,419,00(1—in 1816, the interest of the debt is 6,823,0001 and the net revenue, 5,543,0001 being a deficiency of 9Fo.cxxol. Almoot every tax has been doubled—Aw-e4 , med Tuxes nearly ttipletl. In 17w, the exports of Irish line:ai amounted to about 49,into,uvo of vards, almost entirely to Englz.nd. In 1815 ditto, about 59,060,860 of yards, owing to the want of capi tal in this country, and Silesian linens meeting them in the market. Export of esvollens from tmarinel into Ireland materially A phrenomenon ocenrred on Saturday, the 21d ult. between 10 and 11 O'clock, at Lambourn, Berks. .1 medical geatlemau and his servant wt-re retarniog home, and were startled by a sod den and brilliant light, which rapidly crossed the heavens, from south to north, and appeared to lose itself in the north, but not to decline towards the earth. When the light disappeared, a violent rumbling noise was heard from the north, and appca►ell to diverge to the cast and west: the last sound of it was heard in the west. like the bursting of a large canon. The noise exceeded th ler, and continued nearly five initiates. The h;•avens were beautifially clear and stardight. funk Ird'ore and after thiA occuirrenee.—The pha•nonnvon Has also witnessed by several persons in Bath. Its appearance from thence v.as that of all immense ball of fire. The sale of lirenses taken nut by persons occupying wands in tin different Bazaars in town, has already produred to the revenue upwards of 10001. On the ult. an impteqr wig taken by James Manlier, P.sq. one of the coroners for Derbyshire, at Ladyshaw-hint tom, in the parish of Olossops, on the bodies of Mary, Daniel, Eli zabeth, and Rachel ;Wintry ; the eldest aged 13, I)aitiel and Elizabeth (twins) 11, and Rachel 11 , the children of l'eter Bradbary, of Latlyshaw-bottom, labourer, Mho, at eight o'clock on the aith silt. gave to each of his children a strong dose of white arsenic, thinking it was eream of tartar; the 3 youngest died about noon the same day, and the eldest at midnight fol lowing, after every elle' lion half been used, but in vain, to counteract the foal etiects of the poison, alien the discovt•ry was made : the Colo r had also taken a unautdy of the poison himself aloe; atilt the children, but is expected to recover. APRIL 7. Zi.ttnrai Q eniter. NUMBER VIII. SALW rorvu SUI.II£3IA ZST •-••■•••-- tin; I siVl.l.lll ILIEDICALII.III HEI:BIS.-01 ID. THE cold easterly winds which we have experience during the preceding week, have produced their usual. influence on the human constitution, and have not filled to aggravate the state of disease, more especially of those in which the lungs are at all affected. Of' these, one of the most distressing and fittal, and one, perhaps, the least under the controul of medical treatment, is pulmonary consumption. The month of March is a trying season for those who are the subjects of this complaint. It' the dis ease be already formed, although the symptoms of it may have yet been scarcely noticed, its existence is rendered more evident, and its progress considerably hestened by the sharp winds which usually prevail at this period; 'whilst upon those, predisposed only to the disease, and in, whom it has not vet actually commenced, the same earl able season operates as a powerful exciting cause, and brings into action, the lurking seeds of this insidious and consuming malady. The bills of mortality afford a melancholy proof of the extensive ravages of this disease. No less than 'bur thousand !fro hundred and Ira indivi duals died of consumption within the limits of the metro polls, during the last year, forming considerably more than one eh of the whole number of deaths. The victims of this disease are not usually those who have already per formed their part on the theatre of life, and have arrived at an age, when they know their dismissal from this busy scene, cannot, in the course of nature, be .very far dis-' wit; but it commonly infixes its harpy claws upon. those just ripening into manhood, and for whose welfare we had felt the most anxious solicitude, and of whose success in life we had formed the most pleasinis and well grounded expectations. There are few families in this island front whom has not been torn some beloved member by this insidious and cruel foe. A subject of deeper con sideration can scarcely, therefiire, be proposed, thins whether there exists a possibility of opposing the ranges of this destructive disease, and what are the means to be adopted fbr lessening the number of its victims. The ultimate effects of this disease, it is well known, are thee partial or complete destruction of the structure of the lungs, an organ so important to life, that its functions cannot be supplied by any resource within the powers ef the animal system. In many other ease, if en organ is injured or destroyed, nature accommodates herself to that deprivation, or supplies its functions by some other con trivance. No such thing takes place here; the lungs arc so essential to life, that an affection of them, to a certain extent is necessarily fatal. Our enquiries, then, should be directed to the earliest period of the disease, our en deavours, indeed; should be pe •entive rather than cura tive. Let us first turn our attention to the predispcsition; this may be either hereditary or acquired, may he the result of bodily formation, or purely accidental. The hereditary predirpesitien consists in the transmission, from parent to child, of a certain contaminated state of the blood or humours ", among the chief of which is a scrophulous diathesis ; so that, according to circum stances, not necessary here to enter into, this state of the ' constitution :Id' either show itself in affections of' the skin or joints, at an early stage cf life, or in consumption of the lungs at a later period. The acquired predisp sition is the result of mismanagement during childhcod, or the consequence of irregularities during early youth, whereby such a permanent state of debility in the whole system, and the lungs in. particular, is produced, as ren ders then, cusceptible of being acted upon by the slight est causes of disease. The predisposition of confinum tion consists in the shape and arrangement of the luny structure of the human frame, whereby the lungs are impeded in their growth and expansion, and arc prevent ed from acquiring that state of form and strength which coustitutes perfect health. The accidental , as predispositionleuris; is produced by former diseases o f th e ho gs and asthma, which 1)y some change of structure, such as the fommtion of tubercles, consequent cre inflammation, or by the healing of small abscesses in the substance of that organ, render them more liable to future attacks of disease. Although sufficiently distinct in their nature, two or more of these s - des of predisposition may he combined in the sante subject, and the danger of such a person must of course be proportionate to the intensity of the cause of disease. An infimt, deriving a contami nated state of the fluids from one or I'oth parents, may in the present fashionable maternal indifference for their offspring, in consequent% of the neglect ur mismanage. ment of some hireling nure, superudd the acquired predisposition to the hereditary one, and thus kuve its chance of suviving to manhood, small indeed. To coun teract the operation of these various predispesitions, single or combined; is •an arduous task, and requires both resolution and perseverance ; of the methods Lest adapted to attain so desirable an object, and of the means to be pursued by those who are really desirous to edict it, the MONITOR will, perhaps, speuk at a future cpportunity. 6. • It 15 the fashion now in the medical world to rid role the homonti ratholt :it i• 1 . 4 r easier tt. I. • then to comic ) . sett the troths of be ductrme. It is unquestionahlt however. that al4 edtspost.t oro elinmi.. . ..• trot matt d hum parent to c h itd,iu whatert r way we suppose this Wilt 1:1:11:il:d.