The National Register. — London, England, 1820-07-30 00:00:00

FREACH PAPERS. ~~ Pain, JULY 25.—The Genoese papers only notice the Revolution of Naples, by saying that the latest adviccs from Naples mention that a change has taken place in the ministry, and that the whole political system of the kingdom is on the eve of re generation. Letters from Majorca of the 9th instant import that the plague continued its ravages at San Serve, Arta, and Cape de Peru, but it had not made much prowess at San Lorenzo. The rest of the island is in good health. The report at Palms, on the 2d of July, stated the deaths at 44, recovered 3, sick 150: _ _ The four infected villages contained, previously to the visitation, 7,564 inhabitants, viz. San Servera, 1,684 ; Arta, 3626 ; Sun Lorenzo, 1,075 ; and Cape de Peru, 1,179; of this number 1;250 per sons had died from the commencement of the malady to the 2d of July inclusively. The province of Catalonia had sent up, to the 9th inst. to the Board of Health at Majorca, a dona tion of 183,00 francs. This sum was distributed among the unfortunate inhabitants, who were in want of common necessaries, and the troops who form the line of demarcation. The service of the military is of great importance, as it may be the means of preserving the continent from the dreadful scourge with which it is threatened. A private letter front Toulouse says, that a Swiss regiment (Steigner's) marched from the garrison of that city on the 20th July, to reinforce the cordon on the frontier. This reinforcement is rendered ne cessary, it is reported, from the cordon of health on the island of Majorca having been forced. The Momiteur contains a royal ordinance, dated the 19th instant, appointing several new prefects, and authorizing an interchange of jurisdiction be tween others ; two have been susperseded and called to fill the functions of Masters of Requests ; three have been superseded without any motives being as signed , and the resignation of one has been ac cePted• On Sunday it was reported that M. Hyde de Neu vale was appointed ambassador at the Court of the Bruns, and that the Marquis de Riviere would give up the embassy at Constantinople to succeed the deceased Count de Puysegur in quality of Cap tain of the Guards of his Royal Highness Mon. ions. In the sitting of the Cortes on the 11th, a pro ject of law, which had been submitted to that Sia. nimbly in 1814, was again brought before them.— It relates to inalienable property (eieculadimsec.)— The deputies Ledenna and Giraloo having observed that before discussing this important question it would be useful to have the instructions of the Grandees of Spain on the restriction of their entails (esqforaes), it was answered that the Committee were empowered to obtain whatever was necessary for giving them information on the subject with which they were charged. The Deputy Isturis then nada a proposition, the object of which was that the Cortes should declare every species of pro perty alienable. The Minister of Justice, in his report to the Cor tes respecting his department, stated, that the King had dupla of some prebendaries, to recompense rewpersecuted as partisans of the constitution. arded, that his Majesty had taken means to pre vent the convents of the Jesuits from being increased in number. Finally, his Majesty bad determined that the Jesuists should not, in future, interfere with public education. Several canons have been arrested at Seville, for being concerned in the late attempts there to subvert the constitution. One of the ex-Deputies arrested in that city, Ostolassa, was confessor to Ferdinand during his captivity at Valencay, and has since been rendered notorious by a politico-moral sermon, reached at Cadiz, and profusely circulated through out the whole of Spain. Accounts from Galicia say that a conspiracy has been discovered at St. !ago de Compostello ; in con sequence of which several persons of distinction have been arrested. Riego, who sucmeded Quiroga as commander of the army in the Isla de Leon, arrived at Cadiz on the sth instant. The Duke of Gordon was last week married, at the kirk of Fochabers, to Mrs. Christie, a person about 40 years of age, and with whom the Noble Duke has been intimately acquainted for many years. Mrs Christie has one son and three daughters. If she now should have a son, he would succeed to the Dukedom on the failure of issue-male by the Marquis of Huntley. On Thursday, the wife of a g►entleman's servant was safely delivered of three fine boys, at the British Lying-in Hospital, in Brownlow• street, who, with the mother, arc likely to do well. The widow of Arthur Thistiewood has returned to hes friends at Horneastle, and is accompanied by the illegitimate son of her late husband. THE NATIONAL REGISTER? THE PRESENT CHARGES AGAINST THE QUEEN. The enormity of the present charges against the Queen has made many converts to the opinion of her guilt—to such we beg to say, that the precision, time, place, and respectability of the parties bring ing thrward the charges against her fourteen years ago were much more appalling ; and to convince theta we are right in our assertion, we extract the following from a biographical sketch of her, which appeared in the last number of The London Alva zirie, premising that all the routine of . anonymous letters, and every other infamous practice, had been first resorted to, to injure this widowed wife:— " These having entirety failed in producing may unpleasant consequence.* to the Princess, sir John made a formal decla ratiuri on the third of the ensuing December against her, on matters of still greater import, rind %hick was materially conui•cted with her 1 and life. This wits submitted by the Prince to the late Lord Thurlow, aho said, that us the Royal succession might be affected by the alleged facts if true. It was the duty of his Royal 1 - lignites& to lay the a hole ease before the King. This teas dune accordingly, after some fresh depositions were obtained ; and on the Yfith 4if May, ISM, the Whigs and Grenvilles tieing then in ad ministration, his late Majesty issued a commission, directing Lord Enkine(t he then Chancellor), Earl Spencer, (one of the Secretaries of State), Lord (Renville, (the first Commis sioner of the Treasury band Lord ChiefJ menet Ellsiborough, to inquire Into the truth of all the written declarations touching the conduct of the Princess of Wales. These Noble men proceeded immediately to execute their commis nnn.— The deposition of Charlotte, I.4dy Douglas, was taken by them on the Ist of June, the third day sifter their appoint ment. The substance of her statement was—that, while residing on Blackheath, she fist became acquainted with the Princess in Nov. ISM ; her Royal Highness. attended by a 1.441 y, having walked through the snow, and passed by her oiadow several times, for the purpose of being asked in: that after this, she and Sir Julio were frequently invited to dine at Montague House; that in May or June, 1801, the Princess first told the deponent she was pregnant, and would give the Prince of Wales the credit of being the father of the child, as she bad slept two nights at Carlton Home within the year. That the pregnancy of the Primes* ap peared to deponent to be very visible; but that her dress was contrived to conceal it; this was in the end of October : that in December follow ing depoueut went to Glow tershire, and staid there a mouth; that when she returned in Jan. ItOJ, and called in Montague-house, abeam a child with the Princess which her Royal Highness described, as deponent underst ood, to be the child of which the herself had been delivered. The deponent positively swore the Princess was pregnant its 1002; and that leer Royal High ness had frequently made gluts nod indelicate declarations to her. The deposition of Sir John Douglas was very short. The only material allegation in it was, that he swore the Priocou appeared to him to be pregnant iu 1802. " The evidence of these two parties was attempted to be sustained by that of several persons who had lived as ser vants with the Princess, from the time she had resided at Carlton House : most of their statements, however, were hostile to those of Sir Jobe and Lady Douglas. Charlotte Sander, a German female, who attended on the Princess as her dresser, swore that the child alluded to by Lad) Douglas, was brought to the Primess by a woman mimed Austin, whose husband worked io the dock-yard at Deptford.— • The Princess,' said she, s was sot 111 or indisposed in the Algoma *llBO2. She could not be ill or indisposed without my Lapwing it. IGO sure she was ask confined to her room, or to bee bed in that Autumn there was not to my know ledge any other child in the house; it was hardly possible there could base been any other child there without my knowing it. I have ao reenllectioa that the Prioress had grown bigger In the year 1802, than usual. lam sere that the Princess was not pregnant I being her dresser, I mast have sees it if she was. 1 solemnly and positively swear, I have no reason to know or believe that the Princess of Wales has been at any time pregnant during the time that I have lived with her at Montague Howe. I never beard any body say any thing about the Princess being pregasut till I came here to-day. I never bad any reasons to suppose that the Princess received the visits of any gentleman at improper boars.' " Frances Lloyd, another servant, bore testimony to the child having been brought to Mentagne-bonne by its mother, whose name was Austin, and who cried at part ing with it, and said she could not talked to keep it. A similar evidence was given by Mary Ann Wilson, who declared she never noticed the shape of the Princess in 1802 to be different from what it had been before. Thos. Stikeman, a page to the Princes., gave an account of the child having been brought by its mother, Mrs. Austin, and of the Princeu never having the appearance of preg nancy. The same thing was stated by Mr. Sieard. her steward, and other witnesses; and, in short, a mass of evidence west clearly to prove that all the statements of Lady Douglas were gross fahehoods. The delivery of Sophia Austin of her male child William, in Brownlow Street Hospital. was proved by her own and other evidence, as asll as the registry of its baptism; and also its being taken under the protection of the Princes.. There remained nothing then to be disproved except the statements made by some of the witnesses, of the Princes. having been seen taking improper familiarities with Capt. Mosby awl Sir Sidney B.uith. Mrs. Fitzgerald, a companion of the Prin cess positively contradicted une ussertien ma d e by L a dy Douglas,i and declared on oath, that Capt. Manby had never been in company with the Princess at improper hours.— Various exculpatory statements were also made by the medical gentlemen who attended the Princes.. A most able and satisfactory defence was written for the Princess; and the Commissismen, in making their report to the King, declared their decided conviction that her Royal Highness was innocent of all the charges preferred against her. " There wal l no longer any obstacle to receiving the Princessat Court; and accordingly on the 21st of April 1807, minutes were laid before the King, as a prelude to that step, in which the council declared as follows: ' After the most deliberate cuiroderation of the evidence which bits been brought before the Commissioners, and of Cie previous examinntium, as adl as the answer and obser vations which have heti, submitted to your Majesty upon them, they, (the cabint 1) feel it necessary I to declare their decided concurrence in the clear and unanimous opinion of the Commissioners, eonaimed by that of all your Majesty's lute coutillential servants, that the two main claws alleged against her Royal Highness, of pregnancy and delivery, are completely disproved ; and they further submit to your Majesty, their unanimous opinion, that all the other parti culars of conduct brought in accusation against her Royal Highness, to which the character of criminality can be ascribed, are chiser satisfactorily contradicted, or rested upon evidence of such a name. awl which was given under such circumstances, as render it, in the judgment of your Majesty's confidential servants, utidesei slag of credit. You► Majesty confidential servants, therefme, concurring in that part of the opinion of your late servants, as slated ill their minute of the •.Stb of January, that there is no longer any necessity for your Majesty being advised to decline receiving the Princess into your royal presence, humbly submit to your Majesty, that it is essentially necessary, In justice to he r Highliebs, and for the honour nod interest of your Majesty's Illustrious Family, that her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales should be admitted, with as little delay as possible, into your Majesty's Royal presence; and that she should he received in a manner due to her rank and station in your Majesty's court and family.' (Signed) " ELDON. •• CAMDEN. • W ESTMORL AN D. •• BATIIURST. •• CASTLEREAGHj • MULGRAVE, • G. CANNING." To this declaration, it will be seen, are appended the signatures of seven members of the then Cabinet, and those six by a fortunate association of circum stances for the Queen (however fatal to their coun try's interests) are still of the administration. In that instance, the accusers were ENGLISH, and of a rank of life that might have shielded thew from sat,- picion : in the present instance, they are ITALIAN., and of that rank of life that is most open to subor nation, and therefore most liable to tspicion, The follovring are extracts from Jamaica papers:— " Kneorrori, MAY 20 —Previously to the Waling of the Swift from Chagres, as noticed in oar ship news, Royalists had arrived there from Santa Martha, who ri. ported, that before they leR that place a battle had been fought in its vicinity between the Independents and Roy alists, which terminated in favour of the former; and it was supposed that the immediately proceeded to take possession of Santa Martha. " Max 31.—None of the posts bad reached this city when we pat our paper to prefs last night ; but we learn bye negro, who Caine to town yesterday from St. Ann's, throngh the monntaia road from St. Thomas in the Vale, that considerable mischief bad been done by the late heavy falls of rain; that the large bridge at Bog Walk is standing, bat the other lately erected bridges are entirely swept away. He also states that s I lives were lost by persons imprudently attempting to cross the different savers. " In St. Andrew, a negro belonging to Mount Athos plantation, in crossing one of the galleys near Halfway. tree, on Sunday afternoon, was carried away by the rapi dity of the stream, and drowned. On Tuesday a referable negro belonging to Mr. M'Olaslion was also drowned iu crossing a river, on his property, where the rest of the gang had crossed a few minutes before, in perfect safety. " We have heard of several other lives baying been lost In that parish, but the particulars have not reached us. " In the windward district too, we hear that persons hiss lost their lives in atteaspring to cross the Yallahs river. " We understand accounts have reached this city, that Admit., Brion is blockading Santa Martha and Cartba geau." Her Majesty has concluded her treaty for Bran denburgh house. She has taken it for six months certain, together with the beautiful and extensive grounds attached to it. Major Roper conducted the negotiation on the part of the Margravine of Ans pach. The mansion was formerly the residence of the celebrated Bubb Doddington. The recovery of the King from the attack of the gout in his left hand is advancing daily. His Ma jesty's bodily health is in the same good state as for some time put. The latest =ants from Majorca represent the plague u still raging in the parts of the island where it first appeared. The precautions adopted by the authorities have fortunately prevented it hitherto from extending its ravages beyond the cordon. His Grace the Archbishop of Tuam has formed in his Diocese a Monthly Clerical Association, at which alone religious subjects are to be discussed ; his Grace has alio formed a fund for the relief of Clergymen's widows. Mr. Grattan's picture has been restored since his death to the place it formerly occupied in the hall of Trinity College, Dublin, from which it was removed in the year 1798. It is rumoured that the King will proceed to Portsmouth in the course of the ensuing week, to embark in the Royal George yacht. He will be attended by the Royal Sovereign and Prince Regent yachts, which latter are fitted out for a splendid retinue, who are to attend his Majesty. A squa dron of ships have also been ordered to rendesvous at Portsmouth, and hold themselves in readiness to escort his Majesty. A letter from Copenhagen of the 6th July, an nounces the failure of the old established bank of Conninek and Co. hitherto of unimpeachable credit, but which has been unable to resist the pressure lof the times, and has declared itself in a state ofin solvency, though the nominal amount of their cre dits is said to exceed that of their debts.