The National Register. — London, England, 1816-09-09 00:00:00

'V The (lice for this Paper is now reutoved to No. 113, • STRAND, opposite alder 'Change,arst more convenient and central situation; where all Communications (post paid) are repiested to be forwarded. To the MEMBERS of the SOCIETY for tie ENCOURAGEMENT of ARTS, MANUFACTURFS, and COM EKE. MY LOTIDS AND GENTLI:MEN, WHEN originally solicited by a very large body of your truly respectable and us .fill Society, to offer myself a Candidate for the situation of SEC R E'r A RY, although greatly flattered by the proposal, I declined, both frou the high veneration in which I held Dr. Charles Taylor, then living, and sippo.,:tig myself incompetent, from not having exclusively devoted nay lit'_ to literary pursuits, or to the cultivation of abstract science. My objections were answered, and in fact conquered, by the urgency of my Mends to recommend a Per son of active commercial pursuits ; and one who would act as the de voted Servant of the Committees, capable of receiving and transmitting their orders, and of conducting a correspondence with activity and per spicuity. These then, my Lords and Gentlemen, arc my pretensions 4,0 your patronage ; with a perfect knowledge of the French, a general knowledge of other modern languages, and having conducted an ex tensive cornspondence, both foreign and domestic, allow me to solicit the honour of your Vote and Interest. My canvass has been hitherto limited, compared with those who have possessed more ample means of ascertaining the precise state of the Doctor's health; yet I sun very proud to say, the succors I ham met with exceeds my most sanguine 'hopes.. Should I obtain the object of my wishes, rely on it the most unremitting attention shall be paid to the interests of the Society, having resolved to devote all the energies of my mind, and every hour of nay time, to the faithful discharge of the duties of the Office. I have tie liumur to remain, My Lords and Gentlemen, with the greatest respect, Your devote] and very humble Servant. GEORGE WILLIAM DOWNING. Na 5, King's-row, Walwarth. MY LOIUMI AND GENTLEMEN, We have great pleasure in recommending Mr. George Wm. Down . ing, to succeed in the Office of SECRETARY to your truly respectable and useful Institution. both from his ability, intelligence, and activity as a Correspondem—'n, general knowledge of commerce, and of lan guagee—his misfortunes, and the consideration of his having a large farmily of young ellikben. who are totally unprovided for, and look to him alone for support.—Asa Committee for the furtherance of his Election. we intend sitting at the City of London Tavern, Bishops. gatootreet, daily, from One to Throe o'clock, where communications will be thankfully received. With the greatest consideration, we have the honour so remain, My Lotds and Gentlemen, Your obliged humble Servants, H. Smith. Amelia-square. R. H. Marten. Ditto. IlobinaottWim. Took, , Austin friars. Charles Robinton, Ditto IL Sandi. F.R.S. & F.A.S. Ditto. John Wild. St. Martin's-larie. ,John Idle. Strand. Jacob Warner, Rood-Line. Leh. Saadason, Mark-lane Rich. Thornton, Borough. Tho. Coates, Queen-square. Chas. Druce..BiLiter-square. William Tinuon, Mark-lane. Thomas Piper, Eastchom. J. Theepliaus DAM us, Broad-sc. G. Condi, America-square. Francis Pr.eiing, General rag Office. G. M. Simpson, Tower-street. WHITE, COCHRANE, AND CO. ALL Persons having Claims on the Estate of WHITE, COCHRANE, AND CO. lbooksellers, for Goods left on Commission, ft otherwise; are requested to send ter the =mem Mr. W. Treppass, 41110 the Premises, No. 63, Fleet-street, on or before the 45th Septem ber, or they will be told to defray the expense of Warchouse-romn. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. LONDON : MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 9. .-.11.- THERE were no later official accounts from Lord now nth when our paper went to press, then those we I, have already published. A Mail from Hamburgb arrived last night. An ar- Stele from Vienna of the 21st of last month, states that since the arrival of a Courier the day before at the Eng lish Amtassador's, it was reported that Lord Exmouth had received the mast positive instructions, which had Is.,en long and ardently desired to suppress the excesses of the Corsairs, and that he was to demand from the Govern ment of Algiers, besides the entire abolition of slavery, the delivery of the whole marine, and repayarnSt of all sums received for the ransom of Christain Maws since the last Treaty concluded on that subject; and in case Hof refund so employ force. A Swedish ship, with presents of powder, iron, a.ad planks, to the Dey or Algiers, sailed from Stockholm about the 20th of last (month. It is not likely that it will reach its destination; and we trust that it will be the last vessel that will ever sail upon such a mission. It is at length annooseed as certain that the King mf Denfark had weeded ib the German Confedera tion. Paris Papers to the fah bat. have arrived since our last. It •s announced, that as soon as the harvest has been got REGISTER. in, the Austrian troops on the left bunk of the Rhine will be formed into three encampments. Probably there is some error in this statement. E•; , ampntents at so late a season of the year, in time of peace, are certainly very unusual. The Duke of Richmond, who is u Peer of France as well as of England, has taken possession of his estates at Aubigny, where he was joyously and cordially received by the inhabitants. These papers contain further details of what they very justly term the extraortliwny mission of Mr. Pinckney the American Ambassador, to Naples. While Murat acted us Prefect to Buonaparte In the kingdom of Naples, he, by directions from his master, seized on many Ame rican ships and cargoes in the Neapolitan ports. This circumstance took place in 1810 and 1811 ; and it was accompanied with a iier,ree of cringing meanness and submission on the part of the diplomatic agents of the United States then at Naples, which very singu larly contrasts with the high tone the American Go vernment is understood to have recently taken on the subject. We have seen the correspondence which was carried on for several months between the American agen•s and the ministers of Murat, which is marked with equal servility on the one- part, and insolence on the other. The property was kept some time under seques tration, and finally sold, and applied to the prosecution of Buonaparte's schemes upon Sicily. It is well known in what light the Usurper, and all who depended on him, were at that time viewed by the American President; and as the French Journalist observes, " it is rather remarka ble that the Government of the United States never claim ed an indemnity, at least ostensibly, for these vessels while Murat occupied the throne of Naples." Now on a sud den the demand is brought forward, and against whom ? Against Caroline Murat, or the other members of the Buonaparte family, who ale still wallowing in wealth procured by all kinds of robbery ? No: against the King of Naples, toward whose intended destruction this very property was employed ! The American Government would not prosecute the actual wrong-doers : and now, after a lapse of six years, it sets up a demand against a third party, totally unconnected with the offence ! It seems that the answer of the King of Naples should be very short. He might say, " I have rather to demand satisfaction of you for furnishing my enemy with weapon s against me. By submitting so readily to his spoliations. you made yourselves parties to the attack on me which those spoliations were intended to promote. Other Paris Papers to Wednesday have been received. It is rather extraordinary they do not contain one dis heartening article relative to our Expedition. If there had been time for any accounts to have reached Paris of our operations against Algiers, we should almost have sup posed that the abstinence of the Papers from their usual tone and language bad been produced by some favourable intelligence relative to the Expedition, which, however, they did not chit= to publish. M. de Talleyrand has returned to his seat at Valencay. This is considered by acmes, a banishment, to which the Prince has been condemned by the King.—But by what power can the Ring order it? The Constitutional Char ter. allows of no such acts. The French Funds are ratherhetser, as well as the ex change upon this courtry ; the latter is 25£ 30c. at 30 days ; 25f. 10c. at three months. . •- . By Paris Papers of Sunday last, the Duke of Welling ton appears to have left Pori. for Cambray ; but the day of his departure is differently stated : the minor Papers saying, that he set out on Friday evening; whereas, so cording to the Moniteur, his Grace was not to commence his journey before Sunday. In the mean time a stop has been put to the recruiting system in France : but whe ther it has been produced through the remonstrances of the Duke, or not, we are not able to decide from any in.. formation contained in these Papers. They mention merely the fart. After reviewing the different corps of Occupation, his Grace is expected to return next month to the French capital. The Duke of Wellington has given orders to the troops to assist the French formers in getting in the harvest. The trial of Gen. Vann ami Ms fellow-prisoners has lately been retarded at Dijon by the circumstance of one of the Jurymen being mien ill during its progress.—The Court directed that another Juryman should be drawn by lot to supply his place; and the consequence was, that all the proceedings were to re-commence a 6 initio. •-.- On Thursday intelligence was received through the medium of Lloyd's agent at Gibraltar, that Lord Ea. mouth's expedition sailed from that port on the 14th ult. since which the following letter has been received from an intelligent Officer on board the fleet, which we lay before our readers. " GIURALTAR, AUG. 13.—0 n the 9th we arrived at the Rock. mad on the 14th (to-morrow) we shall sail, Lord Ex mouth considers the attack will be a very severe one for both parties. During our passa.te, anal even now, the ships daily exercise great guns. &c. and tire at marks. At Plymouth we were joined by the Impregnable anal some frigates and sloops. anal the Devil's Prime Minister, lielzebub. All the bombs and smell vessels are desired to be well disciplined at small arms, and to repel boarding, as it is thought the Algerines will at tempt to hoard us from their flotilla, which is numerous, ;anal of boarding they are very food and expert. lam about to give you a description of their mode of attack as I am halal), therefore open your Chart of Algiers. All the ships are how perfectly clear for action ; every Malk-Lead, spare stores, &e. have been lands the large ships have landed a tier of casks in order to make room. The ships have taken on board spare hawsers, &c. and the frigates top-chain- for their cables. All the launches are provided with carronades or howitzers. There is .1 Dutch Vice-Admiral here with sax frigates ; it is said they will accompany us to assist. At Algiers we shall be joined by Admiral Penrose and his squadron. It appears that since Loa was at Algiers, the batteries have been greatly in creased; there are mortars and red hot shot aaitin, for us; and many French Officers have joined the Dry, who has above 20,000 troops, and says lie is qt ite. reedy for the English, and dares them to attack. We understand that Lord Exmontb lass orders to propose terms to the Dry, but that they are so hard it is impossible they can be accepted ; for prior to any impels. Lion all the vessels must be put Into our hands. It is said the terms are to this purport:—Demolition of the batteries; for this business a party of engineers, sappers, and iiiiners,are on board the Queen Charlotte: manumission of all captives; a solemn treaty to abstain from any predatory warfare on the Christian States, tee. We are told that he will expose all the captives to war tires, and that he has sent the Consul into the country. It is a matter of doubt, whether, if any offs& fail into the hands of the Algcrines, they will treat us as captives or prisoners from policy, or w h ether a price will be given for our heads; if they board us. there certainly will be no quarter; but I do not apprehend they will have the temerity to do that, nor that our guard-boats and gun-boats will give them an op portunity. To provide against accidents, we are all small-arm men. I believe I could save my head if I fall Into their hands, by turning Muliotnedan. fam very sanguine, for our force is great, and our attack will be a very fierce and determined one. There are a very great number of petty officers in the squadron on promotion, all expecting a sanguinary business.— Our squadron here consists of two three-deckers, with Admi ral Exmouth, three 74's, four large frigates, six sloops, four bombs, gumboats ' launches, rocket-boats, ate. I believe Admiral Penrose has four frigates. The Satellite has just arrived with dispatches from him. Ail the Algerine vessels are within the Mole, and secured to the shore. Onr frigates are to go close to the Mole in succession, and fire their broad sides in order to enfilade the battery. Whilst this is doing, the large ships are to anchor within pistol shot of the batteries. fur the anchorage is good. In this situation the squadron will be surrounded by heavy batteries, one of which has three tiers of gains. The four bombs having two mortars each (13 and 10 inch) will anchor MO yards from the town, and bombard it. The rocket boats to be staticmed sander the bows of the ships, to throw rockets into the Molc; and the launches and gun boats will engage the Algerine flotilla. We are waiting for • fire-ship and another frigate, and expect further news." We have received Italian Papers to the 22d Aug. inclusive. One article relates to the visit of the Arch duchess Maria Louisa to the Grand Duke of Tuscany. The plague has entirely ceased at Corfu. The following is the only communication in these Papers relative to the Barbary Powers. BASTIA (CORSICA), AVG. 2. Accounts front Africa state, that the Barbary Powers chew no disposition to anima. The Dey of Algiers has made arrangements for a retreat, and is determined to enter Into no negociation whatever. At first great efforts were made to extend and strengthen the fortifi cations, and the people flocked in crowds to assist in the works ; but it now seems as if the plan of defending the city were abandoned ; that there is to he only a garrison left in the citadel ; and that the remaining troops will fight or fall back, according to the amount of the force which may appear before Algiers." American Papers to the 29th July inclusive arrived on Saturday.—lt appears that the American Vice-Consul at Cadiz has been arrested and thrown into prison. The imprisonment of Mr. Meade is represented in the American Papers as an affair of national importance and of a warlike nature.—Every circumstance is seised upon to raise an outcry in the United States against Spain ; but we understand the imprisonment of theiracting Con sul is thus explained :—Mr. Meade was a very extensive contractor during the time of the Cortes in Spain, and extensive accounts were unsettled at the time of the re storation of Ferdinand; he had made repeated applications to the present Government, which were or perhaps could not be complied with : the consequence was, Mr. Meade published mi attack upon the Government of Ferdinand, and for that he has been imprisoned: Lis family are, how ever, at large, and his ownenercial business carried on as usual ; at least such are the explanations of this affair in the City. The French and Swedish Ambassadors so the United States have received orders tonegociatecommercial treaties with America upon the basis of our treaty with her. MEDITERRANEAN PMATES.—The following is an ex tract of a letter, dated Malta, the 22d of July, from Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Penrose to J. W. Croler, Esq. Secretory to the Board of Admiralty : -•-•• Every ship which bait saibtt ender my orders has been in structed respecting pirates. Several reported acts of piracy I know to have been wholly unfounded. Lit sane eases evens of •mall vessels have left them, declaring them to have been tulsmt by pirates. Captain Preston. of the Fophmtes, has olden to Applif t• for and act against any pirates to the .e seta." inn