The National Register. — London, England, 1823-03-17 00:00:00

TILE FUNDS. SATUtIiD4Y. HALF-PAST Two oTtocx. We have one express from Paris this morning, but'it brings no intelligence to street our market— Consols 73i. They continued steady at that price till two o'clock, when they went up to 734, and more business has been done since that hour, than had been transacted during the early part of the day. It is said that 30 French officers of the Legion of Honour, who served under Buonapartc, and who were in this country, have left within these few days for Spain—in whose army they are to have respective commands.. It is also said that some further contracts have been entered into by government for the navy. Feamex.—This being settling day in Foreign business, has been confined principally to winding up accounts. As very little is now dune in Foroign, but for money, nothing has occurred beyond the ordinary routine of business. Bonds which have been done so low as 21, and as high as 284, are now 281. , Scrip, on which there has been another payment made this day, has been at 38i —now 58 dis. New York papers to the 16th ult. have arrived, but supply no intelligence ufimportanoe. The new tariff bill is in progress through the legislature, and though it has led to stormy debates in the House of Representatives, appears likely at least to pass that house. The bill to regulate the commercial inter course between the United States and the British colonial ports was read in the Senate for the third time, and passel on the huh ult. Prince Paul of Wurtmnberg had arrived ut New Orleans, on an intended tour through the United States. A re port from the Secretary of the Treasury states the imports of the Union last year at 80 milli'ons, and the exports at millions; leaving a balance of trade apinst the United States of eight millions of dollars. Letters, dated the 28th ult., have been received from Barcelona. The highest enthusiasm, it ap pears, was excited there by the speeches of Lord Liverpool and Mr. Canning on the opening of the session, which had been translated into Spanish, and circulated among the inhabitants. They interpreted them not only into an approbation of the constitu tional cause, but into a promise of interferciu:e on their behalf; or support if attacked. The feeling that England was about to become the ally of Spain became so general, that the of&ers and men of the Army of the Faith were daily coming into Barcelona to claim the benefit of the amnesty published by the Cortes. Fine IN THE EAST Itentes.—lntelligenre was received on Thursday by the Berwickshire East In diaman, which left Canton on the 13th of November, of a most destructive fire in that city. It broke out on the night of the let, at the city wall, near the back of the European factories, and did not cease in its destructive career till it had levelled them with the ground, together with a space of nearly two miles square of the dwellings and manufactories of the Chinese. The number of houses destroyed is estimated at 13,700, according to the English account, but the Chinese make it amount to 16,000. Five hundred Chinese are said to have lost their lives during the conflagration. A strong gale of wind which blew at the time assisted the fury of the element, and as the natives would not permit their houses to be pulled down, all the efforts of the Europeans to stop its progress were unavailing. The fire continued to burn till five o'clock en the morning of the 3d. The seamen belouging to the Company's ships exerted themselves to save the fac tories, but could not prevent the destruction or the Whole of the warehouses. It was equally impossible to save the greater part of the goods within them, and the loss to the Company has consequently been extremely great. The statements vary as to its ex tent, some describing it as 500,0001. and others as high as 1,000,0001. sterling. Woollens, raw ail:, nankeens, and 30,000 chests of green tea are the principal articles said to have been destroyed. The Company's treasure was saved, and had been sent on board their own ships. The actual loss of British private property is said to have been extremely small, except what may be hereafter sustained by the failure of the Hong or security merchants, to make good their engagements. These, as might be expected, were among the principal suflrers ; and three of them, whose names arc Mouqua, Chinquu, and Paunthequa, are said to have sustained losses to the amount of 300,0001. sterling. By this fire, forty thousand of the Chinese are said to have been -deprived of their habitations, which is probably be low the truth, in so dense a topnlation as that of Canton. It was estimated that the cost of restoring the buildings destroyed would e:iceed 13,000,000 of dollars; and that some years must elapse before Canton can recover its limner situation. A few days since the Hon. Mr. S. Lenox left town with despatches fur the lonian Islands. THE NATIONAL REGISTER 7HE DISTRESSED GREEKS. The following letter is from a family of Greek fugitives from Scio, and is one instance, among thousands, of the Turkish atrocities in that island. It is fir objects of this nature that the subscription instituted by the benevolent Society of Friends has been principally set on foot:— " TaILSTE. Diht. 48. Dear Brother,—After having visiting several of the lonian Islands, where nobody would receive us, we are at last at Trieste, where we have been about a month, thanks to the obliging care and compassion which we received from the captain of the ship in which we railed. After having escaped front the knife of the executioner, we find oursselves on the point of dying, for w a nt, perhaps, of the means of existence . We have, alas !no one to recommend ourselves to; and although we are unwilling to wound your feelings, knowing your sensibility, by informing you of our situation, particularly as you have been at the expense of the Gymnastic of Seto to prosecute your studies is France, and that you may find yourself in the same unfortunate situation with ourselves ; yet we have recourse to your brotherly love, and beg you to join yourself to your unfortunate sister, arid to try to send them some relief. Out of the numerous family of Gennades, our neighbours. the mother only has been saved, six of her chil dren arc slaves—Alexandre, 3larie, Anstelique, George, Lucy, and Nicolas. Stephen is happily here with his mother : he de sires me to say, that if you know of any one wno will buy his brothers and tasters, lie will fuel himself bound to repay the amount. "LOULA, ERENA. AND NICOLAS FOURAIANAKY." Extract of a letter from Paris, .dated March 8: " Lieutenant C— B—, of the British Hussars, residing in Paris, nit a few weeks since at a gaming table a ith a young man named J—n —n, who, nut long ago, was kicked nut of one of the hells at the west end of London, tin. tendering a forged 501. note in payment of his losses. Mr. B—, who is a man of fortune, indignant at the. impudence of J—n, in thrusting himself forward as a gentleman, Cautioned the company against him, and stated what he had heard of him in England. J--n, foiled in his en deavours to raise contributions upon the credulous English who frequent the gaming-tables in Paris, with difficulty smo►hered his resentment for a time until he could break with effect against the person who had ruined his expectation of a brilliant har vest. Alew days after this occurrence, Lieut. 13— was advised to be upon his guard against an Italian teacher named who, it seems, had undertaken, upon condition of being lire d'enitgrras (relieved from pecuniary embarrassment), to assassinate by stabbing him in the back as he should get into Ins cabriolet. B— arrested M— in the street, and conveyed him to the Prefecture of Police in the charge of gens-d'armes. The Italian confessed his crime, and avowed that J—n was his employer. The affair rested here for nearly a week, being placed under the surveillance of the police. Yester day Mr. Bergner was summoned before the Judge d'lnstruction to make fresh depositions, And it is expected the matter will be brought betbre the tri bunal. J —n, who has not yet been called upon, will of course persist in denying all piirticipation in the intended crime, which not having been consum mated, will probably only expose M— to be sent out of the country." Lisbon Papers to the Ist inst. have arrived. In an extraordinary sitting of the Cortes on the 27th ult. a communication was made lions the Mil l ,. through the Portugese Minister, that a serious insurrection, headed by the Conde d'Amarante, had broken out in part of the province of Minh°. The avowed ob ject of this adventurer, with his deluded followers, was to overthrow the Constitution, to which the in habitants of Oporto and the rest of the coun try were perfectly devoted. General Luez de liego having arrived,it was expected that an immediate end-would be put to the insurrection, whicu it is supposed was excited by the Agents if France and the Holy Al liance, supported by some intriguing and restless Ecclesiastics. DOVER, MARC■ 10.—His Majesty's steam-packet Arrow, the Sovereign steamlucht, and I.' Henri Quatre French steam-packet, arrived this morning, bringing near two hundred passengers, principally opulent English families, who have been residing in Paris, and have now quitted in consequence of the unsettled state of affairs in France. Among the ar rivals are his Giuce the Duke of Devonshire and the Marquis of Sligo. The Marquis freighted the So vereign for his family, consisting of upwards of O. Twelve or fourteen carriages have arrived in the different vessels. Families are expected by every vessel, as upwards of fifty have obtained their pass ports to quit Paris only within the last few days.— There has been no arrival from Boulogne to-day, but many of the numerous English families who have been residing there fur some time are on the move. Two or three express boats from Calais have been in sight of this port, but have, in consequence of a strong adverse wind, been obliged to run to the westward, and will probably land at Folkestone. The two English vesseln on shore near Calais are perfect wrecks. An Engli. b 300-ton ship is on shore at Boulogne. Th,:. French coast is completely covered with snow to u considerable depth. The weather on this side of the Channel has been very stormy, with snow, which is fast disappearing. 83 SUGAR TRADE. On Wednesday last, a most numerous and respectable meeting of Planters, Merchants, Agents,. and where interested in the Colonial Sugar Trade, took place at the City of London Tavern, in order to petition against a pro• position now before the Home of Commons, praying for au equalization of the dittoes on sugar and coffee. CHARLES ELLIS, Eaq. M. P. in the Chair. The Chairman stated to the meettug, that he had called them together for die purpose of submitting to their consideration a petithm to the House of Commolie against a proposition, of which notice hail been given, for the equalization of the duties on East and %Vest India sugar. measnre he had had adopted by the three. tiuit of the committee, who had drawn.up the 'trillion now 111 be submitted for approbation and signattares.— , The proposition, against which it was their duty to make a stand, had for its avowed object the total destructioa of the sugar trade in the West lOdia Colonies, and the transfer of it to the East India Company. By the return. of the East India sugar imported in the years -1813, and. 1821, the injuries likely to arise to the Colonial Trade in the British market might be partly estimated. lo the former year 13,000 cwt. of sugarwaa the extent of the. importation, while that of the latter year was increased to 114,000 cwt. Sugar which hail undergone the pro. cess similar to that applied to the clayed sugar of the %Vest Indies, hail-also been imported; and sugars trout Java and China hail been introduced into our market, • upon all of which air additional ditty had been imposed for the protection of the colonial produces • All this was - inadequate protection, notwithstaii :big which it was against this state of the law that the East India traders made their present attempts. It was untseeessely in mention to the meeting the fatal consequences •whichr must result f such a measure.—These observations met with much applause. The Chairman then read the petition to Parliament : • —lt stated that the equalization of the duties on sugar, prayed fur by the list India Company, would be a tattoo of the personal prolecliolt to colonial trade, us which the sum of 100,000,00(d. had beets embarked by nubs Moat* of this country ; that those interested in Co. I lonia' prosperity were labouring tinder great distress, . which would be aggravated to their total destruction , should the plan of equalization take place; that the Bri. tish colonies were adequate to supply this country, and Si Id be permitted to do so, and that such certain' coininetee and resources should not he sacrificed to any • uncertaio speculation. Mr. Musser moved that the petition should be It might not, he olnerved. stand the test o‘ minute criticisms o u t contain all the arguments upon the very important subject; for the more the question was considered, the more titioneroits were the arguments, in its (drifts. Ile however thought that the sneering nvcmld not wisely in passing over the minor objects in consideration of the principle, and in at once signing the petition. In- Parliament the arg' his might be more strongly urged, and the pledges of government made to appear still more binding.—(Applause.) !Me. CHARRINGTON, in seconding the motion, de dared, that the subject was one of more importance j than any that had beet' ander discussion since the aboli tttt oil the slave trade. The petition was then unanimously agreed to, and thanks were voted to the chairman for his indefatigable ,tile chair. The fleeting then separated. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 1 I.—This mornin: orden.". were received here for the immediate equipment of the Queen Charlotte, 120 guns ; litnnillies, 74 guns and the Albion, 74 guns, the three guard abips.' For a considerable time past these ships have had • masts of inferior rates on board, without any saiLsp..i. they are now to receive their proper mots, with-' , bent sails, &c: and a complement of 300 then each; their present number of men is little better than 100. Information was received ut the Admiralty on Friday morning of the death of Earl SC. Vincent, G.C.8., in his 89th year, at his seat st Roeltetts, near Brentwood. information was also received on the same morning of the death of Admiral Lord • Keith, G.C.8., near Kincardine, North Britain. There are many who are acquainted with the abontinable trash that is sold ,in many little shops fur tea, but may be ignorant of the immense extent to which the system of adulteration of this now al.. most necessary article of life is carried. A botanical correspondent informs us, that he examined a por tion of tea purchased at Wiglaton, which he found • composed of a mixture of leaves, scarcely half o do. zen of which agreed in their botanical description to those of the tea shrub. WILTSHIRE ASSIELE.—.SALISIIDEY. liflarcb 12.-- The court n.as crowded intensely at 411 early hour, in expectation that the persons who stood charged with the minder of two of the townspeople of Ciiippenliam, in the drunk which- was made upon the inhabitants by a party of the inhabitants of Langley, would be tried ;t• bin it appeared th d, either from the number ul items, or otherwise, the grand jolty met with much dif. • • fietilly in the case. It was not nonl theralendar was , cleared, and all the other Crown business hail been con.. eluded, that the grand jury, after having had reiscaterrj conferences with the learned Judge (llurrougli) the case, came into Court and delivered in a true bill whist George Thomas and Thomas Pearce, for the der of James Iteyitolilm, at Chippenham, on the 7th of September last. The Imlls against Knight and Mat thews, and the other iithatinants for the murder of Hall and Reynolds, wore ignored; but true Lolls were found against thew all far riot. 'l' Ise two pri soners, Thomas. aged 11 , and Pearce, .seed 40, were pot to the bar, and arraigned on the charge of having murdered James Reyno!t.s, and 311cr a trial of Same length were acquittLd.