The National Register. — London, England, 1821-02-12 00:00:00

5~-~, tA itittrw+- . Our Ring, Congtitution, anti Eatini. No 1,298.—V0L. XIV.] FRENCH PAPERS. The Moniterer of Friday. contains the following statement:— " The investigation undertaken to discover the authors of the outrage which took place in the Palace of Thuilleries, having excited suspicion against an individual called Neva', a warrant was issued against hint by the Judge of Instruction.— He was met yesterday, about two o'clock, in one of the streets of Paris, in a cabriolet, and conducted to the Prefecture of Police, before the Commissary ap pointed to draw up the process verbal of the arrest, and to proceed to the s•crsification and seizure of the papers and other objects, which he might have about him, to be sent immediately b:.•thre the Judge of Instruction. " At the moment when, escorted by the peace officer and two iuspecturs, this person was going to enter into the office of the aforesaid Commissary, and was passing into the narrow corridor which leads to it, he cut his throat with a razor, which he had concealed about his clothes, and by a movement so quick that it was impossible to stop him. He ex pired immediately," In the Monitestr of Saturday the following addi tional particulars relative to the above event are given, together with an account of some mysterious attempts to produce a sudden depreciation in the French funds : " This person had been an old merchant: he was afterwards a broker, and has since been a bankrupt. He is said to have bought twelve pounds of gun powder on the day of the explosion, at different places, and in different disguises. Several small packets, containing a whitish powder, which is sup posed to be poison, have been found upon him ; and belt, which contained a considerable sum in gold. He has concealed his lodging very carefully, and there is reason to believe he has lived for some Jays past with women of the town. He is a native of Rheims. " Some days ago several exchange brokers re. ceivetl anonymous letters, requiring them, with the most dreadful menaces, to sell the rentes, so as to produce a fall in the course of exchange, before the first of February. It is unnecessary to say that these commands did not produce the effect desired by the writers of them. They then had recourse to more effic.tcious means: this morning, Alessrs. Per. ronet, Beaumont, and Fillet, exchange brokers, received letters from the houses of Wesselt and lougemont, requiring them to sell rentes to a large amount. This appeared very extraordinary, and one of the brokers thought fit to apply to the person t.i. , b ning the letter, who d ec l are d th a t hi s s i gna t ure had been so adroitly forged as to render it impossible to be detected at the first glance. The other firm has made a similar statement. " From the particulars collected as to Neves, who killed himself yesterday, it seeing that ho has been for several days concealing himself from the search of the Police, :t has been ascertained that several gunsmiths and venders of powder have declared that man, hoe person they describe, Inal come to their shops, whero he bought about Iti pounds of tne powder, and that at two of the shops he had ordered the box containing the powder to be C,s- Wiled in a small barrel, and sealed, it being intended as be said, to be sent into the country In conse. 'pence of this infbrmation, the dwelling of the purchaser, who was known to be Neveu. was dis covered. At the first furnished house where inquiry was made, it was tnund that be did not come there regularly, and with some it sans learned that he frequented another hotel in the Faubourg Poisson- Mere. An Officer of Police on going there could get no further information ; when, as chance would have it, /Vim happened to enter the hotel at the moment the Officer was asking for him for the 3 , 1 or 4th time. As he •had passed for u tradesman from the country, the Officer put some questions to ium, which he answered vaguely and with tnubar. russncnt, after which the Officer quitted him, but remained upon thi.!wateh ; a few minutes after he saw him go out, and get into a cabriolet. 11e then went to him and acquainted him be had n warrant tor his arrest. He appeared quite confininded, and offered him money but the officer took him into custody, and carried him, without having been learc:ted, to th c4lce of the Prefect of 1 1, :lict:. It MONDAY, FEBItUAIIY 19, 1821 is said that 1,500 francs in gold, two razors, and a packet of poison were found on his person. Pants, Fret. 6.—Certain Journals for the last month repeat every morning, that the l)uke de Gallo, littister for Foreign Affairs of Naples, who fidlowed King Ferdinand to Laybach, had ret eived an order to stop on the way : that he had been in terdicted from passing the frontiers of the Austrian territories ; anti, finally, that it had been intimated to him he must not appear at Laybach. All these assertions are alike contrary to truth. It is true that the Austrian officer who commands at Mantua prevented the Duke tie Gallo from continuing on his route ; but upon the complaint addressed to Lay bach by the latter, a courier extraordinary carried back to the Commandant at Mantua an order to suffer the Neapolitan Minister to pass. At Goritz the same difficulties presented themselves. They were removed in the same manner. Thus the Duke de Gallo is now with the Kinikof Naples at the Congress of Laybach. Prince Ruff° has not resumed the portefeuille, as the same journals have stated. In the Chamber of Deputies a petition wss pre sented from M. Simon Larieres, chief of battalion at Paris, who complained of being discharged with.. out allowance, and of being struck off from the list of the army. He prayed that the Chamber might take steps to have him restored to his rank, or put him on his trial. He had been put on half-pay at the disbanding of the army at the Loire. Fourteen years of active service, and 13 years of campaigns, a step in rank gained on the field of battle in 18 i 4, gave him, lie said, an incontestible right to the al lowance which was then given him. He had re ceived a letter from the minister of war, dated Sept. 16, 1820, in which his Excellency gave him notice—" that according to a representation made to the King of his repeehenxible conduct, and of the principles in opposition to government which he professed, his Majesty had pronounced his discharge without allowances, and struck him off from the rolls of the officers of the army." All his efforts to be reinstated in his rank had proved abortive, and he now applied to the Chamber for redress. The petitioner added—" My principles are my own pro perty, and as long as I do not express them in ex ternal acts, nobody has a righr to be offended with them, even although they may be in opposition to those of the government. Opposition sentiments ' belong to the essence of a representative govern ment." A long debate ensued on this petition, in which the ultras on both sides took part. The speech of M. Etienne, against ministers in this affair, was in general lively and spirited, and in some passages highly striking and eloquent. He argued that such treatment as this officer had been subjected te, was to render the disbanded troops dangerous. " Will you, ' said he, " permit him to wear epaulets of honour, or the rags of poverty ?" The order of the day was passed on this petition. The French Five per Cents. 83f. 20c.—Bank Stock, 1,497 f. 50e. GERMAN PAPERS. ---.•- VIENNA, J.N. 26.--The Austrian Obteruer has again a long article under the head of" The King dom of the Two Sicilies," dated Nutile•, Jan. IS, the general spirit of which may be seen by the fol lowing ihisseges;— " Even belure the invitation of the Sovereigns to the there was only one opinion oil the imptirszbility ot maintain:fig the pit:hent order of things. tlOlOllll all who had any oceans of yatliting of the situation and the Wants of the comm . ', whatever their elowc in other respects might be. • * •* • When the parliament of the of Decenther was to decide upon the 11,9111 message, not 211 titeintiers—perhaps not Io—would have voted for ietaihilitt the Spanish constitution, loud they nut brew terrified by ilia threats nf the Cu, boutiri awl of a small number of desperate ilciii•tg tight ca. One Ihh.l have been Ohe sun l 11,,‘ e b. 1 .41 to the 'went! 10 the lotnt any utlegiii.te idea in' the the einiustra%marlit, the shame of all those en, tome covinidit r, supported a to.;:a.ssir y Melo alb injurious, sud eve.' Ins. soale. 81111:r 0141114) the state ul aflaits 100 b, cffit , e lllol.l draperalo,,‘l.ll of talent, %%b.., rottitorr N4ll rever rAii,•atlerable.ktv Item: reitteve.l t, ..ht public bustite•ti. or bor vuliiistitilly withdrawn. and military d'ina"`""li"" (if Vrii May speak of adnaini.Uauuu it, Wen 1141 t. or 104 rfeet itineti)) 1,, in the l‘attd. ul Ilto most in.eouipotoot men, who know not how it, lull) nienisehes (tom flay to day, and do not enjoy the cutitiJetice an.t.: , ‘ then o.o*Matteis. fienvrat 1 1 71 ., ‘, itaJ twee . Pere 9ict other desperate Republicans who surround and direct him, are masters of the co untry, end their poster is founded on terror alone. 'lite iiittings of the parliament. which feels its iinpoteuee and madmen 114,8 re inteedad merely to hold up to the people the ►hadow of governs uteut, whi, li, in tact no where reliefs: and to supply the jun/foals from time to time with some patriotic asset,. rationa, whirls the speakers utter mechanically, and the sndie•uce hears with indifference; • • * • e • " Di epondency bas leached its height, since the yol4'- 1'464/11 of she letter of the King of FrilllCP. urging 'be King of Naples to accede to the invitation of the Suss.- reit; ; fur, lie lei e this, is general hope seems to Isaac been entertained thet Fsaure *amid nut act with the oils. r Kissel., best rather oppose them. " A greet deal is *puke'', written, decreed, and pro claimed, shunt measures of defence, bat in fact little or nothing is done. A few (leys ago it was affirmed that PI,OOO own should he assembled at several points of Am-liars ; but, besides the garrisons of l'escara, Civitella. amid sonic smell fortresses, there are not perhaps 2,000 Men cone: 44 any where. Great dependence is placed en the militia and volunteers, but there ale neither arms nor money to put them in motion; and the patriotic zeal is much too lukewarm to mippiy their waists. Geo Pepe hail reckoned on 30,0d0 men in Abram, but when he arrived there he did not find 3,000. The Abnizzus de eler.il they did nut wish to expose their hires fur the Spenisli constitution. •• Even weir there means to raise an army, it would be impossible, under present circoinmances, to restore order and discipliiie. The best Generals—Caraticosa, Filen. wet i, dec.—have retired most of the good officers have followed their exemple, and Pepe is nut the man to create su army 0551 of diseonteut, all paid, and disorganised troops. 'Mistrust and siispicluil prevails among the officers and soldiers, and even between the ufficei s, 'milker knowing what side the other would take in ease of actual humilities ; and accounts of troops sontinying against their officers were daily received. may be imagined whist impression all this make► on Sicily, amid how ardently the people beg to be delivered front alsoureful a yoke. " •• Well-meaning people, but who ore not qualified to form a t ight judgment of great even a, ass ' the Foreign Powers bail better remain tranquil ; the it Iliac is ripe fur de-true. lion without thein.' It is here that the present edifice mutt shortly full iota runts, whether the Fmeign Powers interfere or Hot ; but it is by no usearw naliderent how and under what circumitance it falls. If Naples is left to itself, no thing is more certain than that, in some form or other, the whole power will fail into the hands of a small number of the most furious ilemago4ues. wbuwillcnowe their insi ru mentt not from the great body of toe Carbon:lm, hut (loin the select body of the sect • • • ; the kingdom could, theirfore, Ise fur a time under the d so a troop of banditti. With such prospects, a Isis would in prefer, hoc. ever hard and Ituinitialtne the rostuominit of order b ) foreign interference ini ‘ ht appeal to him, the small evil to one tae calculably greater. Notwithstanding the late arrests in Spain, and that another apostolical junta had been formed, after the suppression of the first, all is tranquil, and so determined is the Constitutional Government to fulfil its pecuniary engagements, that the promised interest on the old debt of Holland and negotiated here, has been punctually paid. This circumstance, so honourable to the national character, has been productive of the best possible effect on public credit, and will no doubt greatly serve to consolidate the new system. It is much to be deplored that there should be so little cordiality between the two parties of ministerialists and afrws :esudos. But we cannot expect the politicians of Spain to be exempt from the weakness of their contemporaries in the rest of Europe. The following is an extract of a letter fromOporto, dated the 14th ult,—" The freshes were never known to be so strung here before, as they are at present. Seven vessels have gone over the hat - z one of them is a brig front Dublin, bound to London, with tour men on board. A great deal of damage has been done. About 15 miles up the river, a great number of houses, and a small village, have been washed away, and 76 people drowned. At the bottom of the river a great number of bodies have been washed on shore, which came down with Cie fle.si. It is stated in a newspaper published hero, which I have just seen, that 15 miles up the river the water has extended 140 feet, and that a mountain has burst in two places, from one o f which an immense body of water has issued, and from the other sand and smoke. The it jury dune along the ,river tuu.•t be very great." The Southmulton address to the Queen was signed in eight days by 971 men, all volunteers i had it. been dela_yod, signatures would have been more numerous. The Kin b os address tUr turning out the ministers wils4tigneilby 979. The address to the House of Commons was signed by 973 per-, suns, all above Is ' , ears of age. i. .' ~~~; P.' _ ~ ~ (1% Pc - A -.7 `,