The National Register. — London, England, 1820-08-27 00:00:00

-+-- ra FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE, Pants, Auo. 20.—For some time past Govern ment has been in possession of information that machinations were employed to induce the troops to revolt. They were satisfied that the good spirit which animates the French soldiers would bait: the projects formed by certain in,at, ulways ready to sacrifice their own honour and the repose of their country to their pride and cupidity. The Govern ment watched all their proceedings. These madmen believed that they were sufficiently powerful to overturn the throne, and the protecting institutions that France owes to the Kin g . A certain number of odleers and non commissione d officers of the corps in garrison at Paris had been seduced. There were some even of the Royal Guard who had suffered themselves to be drawn into the plot. Yesterday evening these officers agreed among themselves to meet at the barracks, to assemble the soldiers, to march against the palace of our Kings, and to proclaim as sovereign some member of the Buonapartean• family; but many of those whom they had attempted to seduce by their pertideous pro posals, di 1 not hesitate to repair immediately to their chiefs, and discover the plot which was about to explocle. Government could delay no longer.— Those who had taken part in this criminal conspiracy were arrested by the gems d'armerie. It appears that one part of the plan of the eonspi rators was to seize on the castle of Vincennes. A fire, that was soon extinguished, broke out at three o'clock in the afternoon. It is reasonable to suppose that this was intended to create disorder, and favour an attack. France has a right to expect that such an attempt will be punished in a manner that shall intimidate all those who, forgetting their duty and their oaths, would turn against social order those arms which have been confided to them for its defence. Nothing ought to be neglected that may secure the authors and accomplices of a conspiracy, which, directed against the Throne and the Charter, attacked at the same time every member of the state in his dearest. sentiments and best rights. The most elevated tribunal, that which the Char ter with a salutary foresight to repress attempts against the safety of the State, will no doubt be called upon to sit in judgr;Nit on the greatest crime that the law can have to punish. Sheltered from all influence, above all sinister suggestions, that august tribunal, bettter than any other, will recognize innocence, and dismiss ill founded suspicions, while it detects the guilty, who ever they may be. The city of Paris enjoys the mast perfect tranquil lily. The citizens have learnt, in the same moment as existence of the plot and the arrest of its authors. VIENNA, Avo. 6.—Tbe Court Gazette of to-day ecntains the following article :—" We have been requested by the Embassy of his Majesty the King of Great Britain and to the Imperial Court to insert in our paper the following declaration, viz.: that the statements which are contained in an article dated Vienna, in No. 215 of the Allgemeine Zeitaspig, of August 2, this year, respecting several witnesses on the trial of the Queen of England, in reference to the British Embassy, are mere fictions and lies." HANOVER, AUGUST 2.—Several witnesses have through this city, who are to give evidence E:fore the House of Lords respecting the conduct of the Queen of England, during her last visit to Ger many. Letters received by the English here from their friends at home, do not speak with the same confidence as formerly of the peaceable issue of this famous trial. The decision in the Upper House, %hey say, does not seem doubtful, but its reception in England, and the execution of any sentence are not so certain ; the prudent and collected conduct of the Queen since her return gains her, they say, im portant suffrages, and the women in particular es pouse her cause. The principal inhabitants arc now gone to the watering places, but the labouring classes are employed in the itoyal Palacvs, as the Duke of Cambridge is expected this summer, and we have not given up the hope of seeing the King. VIENNA, Autiusz 9.—There is much talk here of a confidential circular of a powerful Monarch in the North, addressed to all the Sovereigns who signed the Holy Alliance, to induce them to pre pare their contingents of troops, fbr the purpose of opposing the revolutionary measures of demagogues in the South of Europe. AUGUST 12.—From one of our correspondents at Leghorn we have received the following particu lars of the dreadful events at Palermo, as related by an eye-witness who lett that city on the 19th. — When this traveller departed, the military, after three days' massacre, hail been entirely overpower ed; several hundreds lay dead on the streets, the rest were imprisoned in the dungeon of the galley slaves, before which the same sentinels kept guard who had been confined there only a few days before. Cannon, loaded with grape shot, are planted be fore the prima to fire oa the imprisoned soldiers at THE NATIONAL REMSTETt. the first signal. Three or four thousand inhabitants of Palermo likewise lay dead in the streets. The government, if such it can be called, was in the hands of the various directors of trade, who commanded the armed populace, and formed a kind of Senate, whose despotic orders were summarily executed by the mob under its influence, The ge neral cry was, " Independence, and eternal separa- tion from Naples ! " but those who first set up this cry bud alreauy disappeared from the stage, or, it' any one of them sheaved himself; he was immediately the victim of popular fury. The heads of the Princes Cattolica and Villa Franca (the last Minister during the Sicilian Parliament, and both the most searous revolutionists in the country) were fixed upon poles in the middle of the city, and their bodies quartered and exposed in four different streets. Many other persons, among whom are mentioned the Commander of the Port, und, us some affirm, Prince Palermo and Prince Couto have likewise been murdered ; the victims of private revenge are innumerable. For the mere attempt to conceal three or four officers, a man was shot, anzl his body nailed to the door of his own house. A great many houses were plundered, or the furniture thrown into the street and burnt. To increase these horrors, provisions were becoming scarce, as nothing was brought to market in the general contusion, while thousands of armed peasants kept pouring into the city on all sides. It was generally believed, that in case of famine, the soldiers in the prisons would be left to starve. As far as was known, the rest of the island was tranquil, but the wish for independence and separa tion from Naples was general. Messina alone seemed inclined to adopt the Constitution, if the seat of Go vernment were removed from Palermo to Messina. Accounts from Palermo of the 20th are more con solatory. The Archbishop proceeded through the street with the Cross, and exhorted the people to humanity and tranquillity. It was hoped that the latter would be gradually restored. 51 Arturo, Ave. 10 —A very interesting discus sion occupied the Cones during three consecutive sittings. The Marquis de Castellar, Captain of the Guards, had arrested M. Aguilera, an officer of the Guards, who had published a writing against his , superior officers, an act which is forbidden by the mi litary ordinances which the Cones have put in force. M. Aguilera addressed a complaint to the Cortes, and the Committee who were appointed to examine it, proposed that the Marquis de Castellar should be prosecuted before the Tribunals as t. violator of the Constitution and of the Liberty of the Press. Upon this question the discussion wok place, and it was at length carried in the affirmative, by 104 votes against 47—the Cortes thus declaring that the soldiers might henceforth publish what they pleased respecting their Chiefs. THE QUEEN. The following communication is from a most re spectable clergyman, who has performed divine ser vice in her Majesty's household since her return to England : At a time when the press teems with observations on the conduct of the Queen, it is remarkable that not o:ie has attempted to portray her Nlejesty's most wada ble and strikingly serious and devout deportment it reli gious worship. Few have been so far privileged as to be present on the occasion. It, however, has fallen to the lot of the writer to have had the very high honour of officiating before her Majesty, on the third Sunday after her arrival in England ; and he conceives it a paramount duty to offer to the public his unsolicited testimony of the Queen's most exemplary and devout deportment during the whole of our chino) service; and he wishes to do so at this particular tulle, because, front the prox . yof the proceedings in the House of Lords, the unsolicited testimony of a 'Moister of the Church of England in her Majesty s favour will, doubtless, have its weight with that noble House, and with every well regulated mind throughout tile empire. He, therefore, does not hesitate to say, that a stricter attention to di vine worship could not be evinced by any pers.sn, high or low, titan was manifested by our must excellent Queen, throughout the entire performance. All the responses, as well as the alternate verse Olin the Psalms, were delis ertd by her Majesty with the utmost pathos and propriety. It wail impossible not to catch the feel ing of devotion front the Illustrious Personage. On evety oecasiod whet' our venerable Rubric directed htleeling, the Queen, conscious of the more immediate presence of the Deity, iii.driably fell low on her knees on the flour. not seeking, and not having, any prop to lean on, but most diligently intent on use awful and solefon es.ercise in which her whole heart appeared to he engaged; nor, after the etniclusion, tiid her Majesty rise itittil site tuad oared up a secret prayer to the Must High fur acceptance in nis sight. lf, then, il nation is titgoly favoured white the girat and the illustrious are maniples of piety and virtue, Britain is truly blessed in its present ',uteri. And, as to judge of a tree by its Gust is the only certain method of forming a right judgment, so it will be admitted that s behaviour so strikingly exemplary cannot but emenate from a heart which is the seat of purity 414c1 idaocience, boaour religion,. FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTN.. TM] Gazette notifies the appointment of H. B. Glaister. of Bed&le, York, Gent. to be a Mager Extraordinary in the Court of ChAncery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. M. Garland, M. Magmas, and B. Benjamin, Bunhill Row, merchants. BANKRUPTS. W. Jones, liolywell, Flintshire, tobacconist. Solicitor, Mr. Chester. Staple Inn. T. Summerland, Bristol, iron founder. Sol. Mr. Hoeßs, Staple Inn. G. Hutton. Birmingham, picture dealer. Sol. Mr. James, Ely Place. Holborn. C. W. Corfield, Norwich, currier. Sol. Mr. Taylor, Feather. stone Buildings Holborn. Al. Garland. :NI. Magnus, and 11. Benjamin, Btmhill Row, merchants. Sots- Messrs. Evict and Bison, Haydou Square. Al inories. T. AtwAy. Tctherington, Gloucestershire, fanner. Sole. Messrs Adbngton and Gregory, Bedford Row. J. Hair, Suu Street, tobacconist. SuL Mr. Gellibrand, Aus tinfriars. G. Weaver. Abchurch Lane, merchant. Sol. Mr. Edye, Serjeant's Inn. T, Birch, Braeley, Salop, iron master. Sol. Mr. Luckett, Wibson Street, Finsbury Square E. Tollervey, Westboume, Sussex, miller. Sol. Mr. Kirk man, Cloak Lane. _ _ D. Reid, Princes Street. Spits Melds, silk manufacturer. Solt. Messrs. Barrow and Vincent, Basinghall Street. R. A. Jones. Totten Court Road, linen draper. Sol. Mr. Nelson, Barnard's lan. DIVIDENDS. Sept. 16, T. Thackrayand It. Bottrell, Greenwich, Kent. linen draper—l 6, J. W. A. Snuggs, Lithe Street, spirit merchant —l6, J. Pugh. Red Lion Street, Holborn, ironmonger -16. W. P. Weise. 'fooley Street. hat manufacturer-16. T. Warwick. Hitchin. Herts. draper-16, J. Lewis. Mincing Lane, merchant —l5, T. Symmon, Orange Court, Leicester Square. brass founder-23. W. Miller, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, merchant -16, S. Cockburn. High Street, Marylebone, merchant-16, J. Croft, Ratclitf Highway, wine merchant-16, T. Si.sell, Jewin Street. tailor -19, J. Fitton, Preston, Lancashire, conch maker—. 18, T. Baker, York, linen uraper-21, A. Phillips, Kirklintoo, Cumberland. bacon factor--1, R. Prickett, Lancaster. nierchant —l6, J. Barker. Stratford, Essex, brewer-16, .1. Ziunner, Walbeck Street. Cavendish Square, merchant. CERTIFICATIiS to be granted Sept. 16. A. Rae and W. Earle, Proprietors of the East London Theatre —J. and J. Silver. and A. Boyson. Size Lane. merchsins—J. Martin. Liverpool, merchant— T. Lynn. Jerusalem Coffee House, Cornhiil, merchant—T. and J. Perry, Reading, iron founderl-4. Pigot. Portsea, linen draper—R. C. Cinden. Gravesend, slepseller—J. Sibley, Abchurcli Lane.. drysalter—J. Bailey, Watling Street, merchant—C. Edwards, Gough Square, furrier. Letters from Berlin of the 13th inst. state, that the Prussian Government has entered into a contrast for a new loan, to the amount of thirty millions of dollars. The contractors are said to be the mercan tile horses of Rothschild, Beneche, and-Schickler, who receive, as security, a deposit of treasury note, to the amount of fifty millions of dollars. The plan of this loan is to be the same as that recently concluded at Vienna for the Austrian Government, and will be wholly negotiated on the Continent. In reference to. the deposition of Theodore Ma jocci respecting the gittoco, or dance, pertinqued by Slahomet in presence of the Queen, and which was so strongly reprobated by the Attorney-General, we wish to cull the attention of the public to the description given of it in many books of Travels, both in British India and in Turkish countries, where it is so familiar as to be always performed at the marriages and festivals of the Mahomedans, both high an low. In India it is called " Nautch." In Egypt, Savary calls the performance the " Alme." Must of the English ladies as well as gentlemen in India must have seen it, as matter of curiosity. Forbes' Oriental Memoirs, Miss Maria Graham's Work, the Asiatic Researches, and many other books may be referred to, in proof that the usage is com mon in the east; and this explanation to the British public may render innoxious the severe strictures on this charge of the Attorney-General. We are greatly deceived if the discovery of Me weci having been a resident in England, and the joay in which he then spoke of the Queen, be the only unexpected fact that will soon be established by evidence. We have just learn a most interesting facts respecting the rumours engendered in Milan— that hot-bed of calumny and slander! During the residence of the Princess of Wales in that neigh bourhood, persons were regularly stationed in the different collee-houses frequented by English travel lers, for the purpose of impressing strangers, espe cially the English, with strong ideas of the miscon duct of her Royal Highness. The waiter of one particular coffee-house mentioned to a traveller— pointing to two men sitting in the room—that these men were always there, and seemed to have no other business or occupation but to give currency to slanders of the foulest description against the Prin. cess of Wales. Cass IN PoiNT.—An eminent Barrister had some years ago a ease seat to him for an opinion. The case stated was the most preposterous and improba ble that ever occurred to the mind of man, and con cluded by asking, whethe , under such circumstances, an action would lie? He took his pen and wrote, " Yes, if the WITNESSES Will LIE Wo, but not uthei. wise." An article from the Maine, of the 6th August, says—" The reported reconciliation of the Porte with Ali Pachs is greatly doubted. The whole report, appears to have been circa:ated by a certain mercantile house.