The National Register. — London, England, 1812-03-22 00:00:00

- ror RCH 22. forgotten.-1757, Robert Damiens, a native of Arras, was executed at Paris. for having 'stabbed Louis XV. of Fiance with a knife.— 1801. 1) ath of Sir Ra:ph Abercrombie, in Egipt.-1802. Dr. Colliers; of Bremen, discovers the planet Pallas. The Sun rises at 5 h. 41 min. sets at 6 h. 19 min. The days increase 4 hours 55 minutes. • PRICE OF STOC YESTERDAY. $ per Ce::t. Cousols 59; 9 $ Exchequer Bills (3d.).... 2s 19. pm. 3 per feat. Nary Ann. S9l Ditto (3(ti.) . $ disipm. Inds.. Bawls 3 pui pr. 5 pm. Cobs. for April 69 11 I TO CORRESPONDENTS. The LETTER of J. C. has been received, and will be attended to in our next. The Number In of the PULPIT will appear in our next. ERRATUM IN OUR LAST. Page 173, inside column, 17 lines from the bottom, instead of So un fortunate to meet," real ".So fortunate as to.rneet." THE NATIONAL REGIS PER. iLonbon. SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1812. THE KING. Our dispatch from . Windsor last night, states, that the Royal Family live very retired. Very little variation has taken place in the KING'S malady' during the last week. His bodily health continues extremely well ; he is allowed to order his dinners, &cc: of Which he eats very heartily. He frequently amuses ':Anself with touching the keys of a harpsichord, although not scientifically, as was reported some time since. NORTHERN POWERS. In the total want of intelligence from the South of Europe, the almost undivided attention of the Public is turned towards the North, where an unsuspected change of politics seem to have taken place. We formerly no ticed the occupation of Swedish Pomerania . by the French troops under the usual pretences, which, with few alter ations, have been used by all the revolutionary leaders of I that country. In such cases the :old Governments of the continent have uniformly proCeeded by remon-, strances accompanied by tardy preparations for. resistance. But BERNADOTTE, the CroWn Prince.Of 'Sweden, has been. educated in the School of Jacobinism, he' has now other . interests to. defend, and is well aware tbat prayers and treaties are unavaili ng a g ain s t hi si f or the r . associates. He t knows that there is no interval benveen scOmproirnise an 4; unqualified submission, anitalthoiiih- the ancieut of Europe, from. the. baseness inherent •to inert -prtideli have stooped to every kind of . huthiliation before their up;:l start interiore, he resists every' concession to his former equals. This is one of those unforeseen changes„which;. in these eventful times, have so often baffled all calctila T : trots, • It.may, however, enable us to form a pretty c0r... ! :ect idea of the opinion entertained by BUONAPARTEIS Ge; nerals, and even by his own immediate connexions IiADOTTE is brother-in-law to the pretended King of Spaini . JOUPH) . of his inordinate ambition. In the mea n time; t he measures a d opte d b y B ERNADOTTE , i n arming t h ey 'whole population of Sweden, and carefully 'preventing the ! entrance of any erichinan into that country, poin. . 183 out to the. Powers who still wish to preserve their indepen dence, the only Way which a man brought up in the school of the French Revolution, thinks likely to prevent the spreading of that destructive scourge. Yesterday a courier, we believe an Officer, arrived from Sweden, with dispatches for Government. The contents, of course, have not transpired ; but, it was stated, that he had brought the plan of a treaty for an offensive znd de fensive alliance between England, Sweden, and Russia. It should seem, therefore, that IVEMPEROR ALEXANDER, Who coalesced with France to despoil, and ultimately dethrone his own brother-in-law, GUSTAVUS, is . now willing to join BERNADOTPE, brOther-ill-law to JOSEPH BUONAPARTE, to resist the increased pretensions of France. We are sorry to announce another considerable failure. A respectable house in the Sugar line stopped payment yesterday to a large amount. The account of the Noftingham frame-breakers' trials, inserted in our paper, will be read with interest ; and it will be seen with pledsure, although without astonishment, that the JUDGE, no doubt, fiom the instructions he had re ceived from Government, gave the unfortunate convicts hopes of forgiveness, should they sincerely repent their ervors, and shoulatheir associates return to habits of order. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. RIOTS AT MANCHESTER. We learn with equal pain and grief, that the disposition to riot, and the spirit of insubordination has broken out among the lower class of artizans at Manchester. • A con• siderable body of troops are understood to have been or dered to this new scene of riot, by Government ; and this is, we believe, all that was known at a late hour last night on the subject. When we consider the means taken, how ever unintentionally, to inflame the worst passions of the people, .by an exaggeration of public difficulties, and amiss representation of their causes, we do not rind it diffict4ei t o trace such disturbances to their proper source...lt would be weak and 'wicked to impute to any public mina with; excite his countrymen to insurrection, or to reduce country to a state of anarchy. _But yet, without their entertaining the most distant •Idea of such an effect, il k its • still possible that the strong expressions used in the warmth of discussion, opei-ating upon the inflamed passions of the 'Multitude, may, if not generate, at least exasperate, the disposition to tumult and disorder. ESCAPE OF A FRENCH SQUADRON. We had for some time suspected that the warlike de. niiiilstFationsin the north, were intended to mislead and to 4ceive Us. We thought it possible that the rumours of an approaching contest between Russia and France might be created by the latter; and that whilst she seemed bent upon forcing Sweden, as well as Russia, into a war, her real aim was to collect a large force at no great distance frorn her Coasts, without exciting in us any. apprehension of a naval attempt on her part. It now appear, that we were partly, ‘ if not totally, right in our conjectures, and for Lfear they . shoufdßrove correct to their full extent, we trust a - Casioeiable be st a tioned to observe that in the Scheldt; ,wbicli; if it o;ice.cduld r illge the waves, would be ,too.powertui not to be able in the present. scattere.l state Of our cruizeri 'to inflict s ,me iPjury .. I:ipoLi , the ten itory..of Our 'altiei; or even on some part of .our distant dominions. . . I