The National Register. — London, England, 1816-10-07 00:00:00

OCTOBER 7. a certain number of lashes on her bare back, apportion ate to 200, the number she was sentenced to receive; what rendered the punishment still more disgraceful, the. persyns who inflicted it was a large negro, who, when her long beautiful hair in some degree defended her delicate skin, with one hand removed it, that the lashes inflicted with the other might cause inure acute pain. The poor sufferer was blindfilled, and bore the inhuman treatment with as much thrtitude as perhaps was ever exhibited on a similar occasion ; her cries were feeble; but I saw, notwithstanding the handkerchief that concealed her face, tears trickling down and filling on her breast. I saw but one dozen lashes inflicted; but sonic of my crew who were on shore, had the cu riosity to see the whole-sentence put in execution ; my kelings were too much hurt to let curiosity overcome them. I made particular inquiries respecting the un fortnnate girl, two days after,and was informed that she refused un - intati..at uid and food ; and a few days after lvards I was informed that Aio was dead, being, from her exquisite feelings, unable to survive the disgrace and pain she had suffered." BARBARY POWERS. One of the Journals alludes to certain plans form ed by Buonaparte for the effectual eradication of piracy on the Mediterancan coast of Barbary ; and from an ofli• cial source we arc enabled to add some further particu lars on the subject. In the time of Louis XIV. two projects were deposited in the public archives, one fin. the seizure and colonization of Egypt ; and the other for doing the same with that long stripe of coast con tiguous to the sea, and extending from Sallee to Tunis. These projects were found during the time of the Con vention ; and it is well remembered that the first was at tempted, and failed through the valour of our naval and military Commanders. When Napoleon found France deprived of Colonies, he turned his attention to the execution of the second project ; and concerted the means whereby he might obtain possession of the above mentioned range of coun try, capable of growing all colonial productions, and by many pronounced congenial to the species of the East Indies.--Spain had agreed to co-operate, and to give up Ceuta ; the troops under Junot, which afterwards went to Portugal, were understood to be destined fly the enter prize ; and, in fact, they first took the routs to Cadiz, and one of the General's Aid-de-Camps arrived there to make preparations. The basis of this plan was, to give freedom to the Arabian and Moorish inhabitants, allow them to choose their own form of government, expel the Turks, hold the commanding points, encourage colonization, and lay a basis of industry, which would change the pur suits of the inhabitants, and eventually redound to the benefit of France by supplying her with colonial produce that she could only obtain from the growth of her ene mies. From the time of Selim Eutenal, the last Arabian► Prince, the Government of Algiers has been usurped and transferred to the Ottoman Porte, merely to give strength to this usurpation. The pursuits of the inhabitants are agriculture, and the care of flocks ; piracy is exclusively in the hands of the Turks. The chief inhabitants of this place are Jews, Moors or Coulolis ; to them the greatest part of the houses and shops belong.—The barracks, ar senals, Dey's Palace, and dwellings of the chief Officers, are nearly all the Turks possess, within the walls ; their greatest wealth is in country villas.—No sooner is the town threatened by an enemy, than they send their riches into the interior, and the Christian slaves, chained two and two, go with them.—There they remain till the dan ger has subsided. But even the State reaps profit from a bombardment, if it be attended with no other consequences.—All the houses demolished belonging to Jews or Moors, it' not re built within a year, are sold, by law, fin. the benefit of the Regency.- - The bombardment of the French twice produced a new Dey, but still the piratical system was unchanged. A party of Tunisians is said to have appeared lately on the Roman Coast, and carried off two vessels with their Crews. The robbers, however, are supposed to have perished on the coast of Elba.—Thus the elements inflicted that punishment, which the Italians should have done.—lt is the cowardice and indifliTence of these Powers which has rendered the Pirates so audacious ; but if they had beet as careful of the persons and property of their subjects, as they have been negligent, the contemp tible flotillas of the southern shores of the Mcditeraneun would not have insulted their coasts, ;tin' bearded them in their own creeks and harburs. These things were arranged hater in Buonaparte's time ; and Lord Ex mouth has just given a lesson to the Barbarians, which they will not forget for some years. It is our fate to bleed and conquer for Governments who have not the courage to defend themselves ; and who have then the ingratitude to accuse of not having done emage. in revenging /heir quarrel. There is not a people, or a Government on the Continent, who do not te;:at our services in this manner ; who do not even strain ingenuity to discredit our motives; and tvlio do not pay us in commercial restrictions for the 110.0 am:l tr..:v. , . , rft we have rrofuseiy sh‘d in their TILE NATIONAL REGISTER. THE PORT-FOLIO. No. I. Fifteen Historical Pictures hare been ordered by the French Minister of the Interior of the same num ber of artists. The choice of the subjects is left to the artists ; but the whole must be finished for the Exhibi tion of 1817. The Academy of Fine Arts, at Paris, have adjudged the prize of Architecture to a young naii, aged 91 ; and that of Musical Composition to aoother, aged 23. Most of the bronze statues occupying the first apart ment of the ltegj Studj at Naples, were taken from the ruins of Herculaneum. They arc not only free from injury, but their surface is so exquisitely restored, that they appear to have but recently issued from the mould. Among these statues are, larger than life, Augustus, Mammius, Maximus, Caracalla, Annius, N'erus, Drusus, Nero, and a Pietas. The drapery is beautiful ; and on that account, being in bronze, they are unique. A religious Monument Is about to be erected at Bmtteaux, to the memory of the Victims of the Siege of Lyons. The excavations of Pompcia are suspended for the present. The paintings of the Amphitheatre, lately discovered, have been effaced by the action of the air: fortunately some eminent artists had previously taken drawings of them. A superb monument, executed in Italy, is now on its way to this country, to be erected in the beautiful new church at Weymouth, to the memory of the late Sir James l'ulteney. M. Schmidt, piano -maker, in the Rue des Bons- Enfans, has invented a nautical machine of the greatest simplicity, by means of which, in the most stormy wea ther and in the midst of the most violent tempest, any person may contend against the waves and be preserved from shipwreck. He calls it the Parapantic Chair. MM. Geyser, canton of Berne, Switzerland,' re siding at La Chaux-de-Fonds, have exhibited to the Genevese Society for the advancement of the arts, a wheel which seems to turn of itself, and of which the most skilful artists cannot discover the moving prin ciple, which the artists keep a secret. The Society admire the execution of the machine, and acknowledge that the effect is very striking. Probably it is on a principle, which applies, as a moving power, the elasti city of the atmospheric air to an exhausted cavity which Is made to turn out of the centre of the mass by uniform pressure, According to a late Exposition of the present state of French Literature, nearly ready for publication, it ap pears that the number of Authors, now living at Pans, is 4997. Many English authors have been tempted to offer their works to the b(xAsellers in Paris ; the book sellers in London being unwilling or unable to purchase copy-rights. On the 20th ult. a young German, aged 17, received, front the University of Heidelberg the degree of Doctor of Laws, having studied that science ten years, and having gone through his examination with the greatest honour. At the age of thirteen he was a Doctor in Philosophy, and at fourteen a Member of the learned Society at Wattereau. Messrs. Parrot and Englehanit (Germans) have de termined, with great accuracy, the respective levels of the Black and Caspian Seas, anti it appears that the lat ter has sunk 200 feet, and has lost :10,0(X) square leagues of its surface. The Mediterranean was determined by the French to be 27 feet lower than the Red Sea; and the Pacific Ocean is known to be 23 feet higher than the Gulph of Mexico. They write from. Naples, that a Neapolitan Physician has lately found out a native opium, more efficacious than that of the Last Indies, fwhich Europe pays such large sums. A valuable horse died n few - days ago, at Workington. Hall, in Cumberland, the property of I'. C. Curwen, Esq. The animal having shown no signs of previous illness, its body was opened, when a large stone, which weighed five pounds six ounces was taken from the in testines. On Sunday se'nnight a considerable quantity of sil ver coin, amounting to upwards of one hundred pieces, of the reigns of Marv, Elizabeth, and James I. were found in an inelosure from Nike C'ommon, near Mad ford, in the allotment belonging to Mr. George Eddi son, of Holbeck. These pieces are of:different sizes, of the intrinsic value from three-pence to eighteen pence, and were turned up by the plough in a loose and detached state. The rumour of the dit:eovery of hidden treasure, attracted a vast number of people to the place, but the fortunate adventurers were principally a num ber of children who were playing in the field, and who first made the discovery. One of the pieces which we have seen, indeed the . only. one, is a thin light silver coin of the cireum.;•rrnce .!;-• half'-q-erown. On the ob- . 1 275 --ELIZABETH J : : ANG FR. ET 111. beth, by the grace df God Queen of England, France and Ireland ;—and on the reverse the arms of England surrounded by the motto—rosy' °Ey : ADVITOREM MEV —I have made God my helper. The arranging the paintings of the French School in the three first saloons of the long gallery of the Museum having been finished last numth, the Flemish School has also been put in order in the three saloons that thllow the first. The paintings of this school offer such a variety as was never before seen in this sanctuary of the arts, with the sole exception of some few paint ings of the first musters, so that we think the meet difficult connoisseur will have little to regret. The famous Gallery of Iteubens, comprising twenty-four paintings of a large size, may be considered as the foundation of this new edifice, or we should rather say, they form the principal ornament ; and whilst this col lection forms in itself a particular collection, it by no means diminishes the beauty of the paintings that sur round it. Amongst the grand compositions of the same School, two denn-colossal paintings of Reubens, are remarkable, us they have been seen in France but very lately. The one represents the Triumph of Religion,—the other a Hermit in the Desert, assisted by an Angel—Saint Charles Barromeus, by Van Oost. The two subjects of the History of Saint Gervais and Saint Protheus, by Philip de Campaigns ; Christ on the Cross, and Dio genes, both by Reubens ; the Sellers driven by Christ out of the Temple, the Twelfth Cake, and the King drinks, by J. Jordaens; some paintings by Gaspard de Grayer, the rival of Reubens, and often his equal ; the fine paintings by Vandyke, and several others too long to be here detailed, will form this part of the precious collection. There arc some others by Gerard now, Carlo, Du Jardin, Teniers, Ostade, Ruys4ael, Wouvermacns, Puil Potter, Van Huysum, Berghcm, Winants, Van de Velde, Cuyp Vander Werf, Rembrandt, and Bank nvsen, who have so finely excelled in the beauty of the colouring, that to mention their works merely would be doing them great injustice. From the LONDON G.IZETTE, Tueslay, Oct. 1. Foreign Oiler, 01.1. The Prince Regent has been pleased to approve of Mr. George Setniri, as Consul at MaLa for the sublime Ottoman Porte. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. P. NORMS and D. SVDEDOVIIAm, of Liverpool, merchants, front Oct. n w Nov. '26, at tits George Inn, LiverpooL BANKRUPTCY SUPERS W. JONES, of Bristol, builder, BANKRUPTS. J. VAILEs, of New North-street, lied Lionoiquare, tailor, Oct, 5, 19, Nov. IY, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Abbott. Mark-lune. T. Bm.i..tstr, of Bristol, wool-factor. Oct. 11, 19, Nov. 19, at Bris tol. Atts. Price and Co. Lincoln's-inn. J.TuISTALL,of Liverpool, butcher, (lct. 21, 26, Nov. 19, at Messrs. Gkdah and Co's. Liverpool. Arts. Adlington and Co. Belford-rut. D. 1)/..tnr, of Liverpool, printer, Oct. 91, 2l;, Nov. 19, at Alma*. Gkdali and Co's. Atts. /4.illingtun and Co. Bellfowl-row. T. LEwts, Almely, Herefordshire, wool-dealer, Oct.lB, 19, N0v.12, at Hereford. Att. Mr. Platt, New Boswell -court, lineohi's-inn. J. Wicao, of New Sarum, Wilts. victualler, Oct. 8, 9, Nov. 19, at New Sarum. Att. Mr. Popkin, Dean-street, Soho. W. 11OLDIiWORT11, of Bradley, and J. flohnsw onyx, of Morley, Haley, Yorkshire, watchmakers Oct. 11, Is, Nov. is, at Leta, Att. Mr. Bettye, Chancery-lane. ILW {1,1611 T. at New-strut, Brunswick-square, merchant, Oct. 1, 96, Nov. 19, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Hackett, Ncw-co. Swithin's-lanc. W. LAOEMAN N, of Tower-hill, merchant, Oct. 5, 111, Nov. 12, at Guildhall. Att. Mitchell and Co. Foicke's-buildings,Great'rower- D. Rix, of Ilindolyestonc. Norfolk. fanner, Oct. 17, 19, N0v.12, at Nonkieli. Au. li'rvalr.nd and Co. F)runsw•ick-syuarc. DIVIDEND AT GUILDEIALL. Oct. 11. 11. Downer, Flit-stroll, ironmonger. DIVIDENI)S IN THE COUNTRY. Oct. 5. R. Milani, jun. of I.eckhanistead, Berkshire, farmer, at Newbury. Oct. 21. NN Aspinall, of I .iverpool, grocer, at Liverpool Oct. 23. H. B. Raines, of Liverpool, merchant, at Lis erpool. Oct. 10. G. Coltman, of Stourbndge,Worcestershire, grocer, ut Stour bridge. Ott. lb. R. Pratt, late of Coventry, bookseller, at Covsntry. Oct. 1 t. J. Ritchie and T. 'Aloititt, of I.iverpool, merchant, at Liver ol. Ovt. 0 2. J. Ryder, Robert-street, Christchurch, Surrey, liat-rnanufac ttirer, at Itobeit.strert. Oct, tY. 1). Ward and S. Smith, of Liverpool, earthenware and por ter dealers, at Liverpool RT IF IC AT Es. Ot-r. ‘24.—W. A Pon; of South 'Milford, Yorks shire, corn-tlealcr.—T. Wheildon, of I kr))y, itun•tbtwiler—W. royd, el Illackimui-start, Sur rev, booksclier--.l.F.Sbore. of 'Change alley, Cornhill, collie ntan—T. D.ut, of t'a, lisle. iiraper—T. lti. chartbion, of Newcastle-upon-Tyno, Saves. ter, Newport, Sinop:4l4u, printer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. E. ►lobby, C. Franks, and C. Starkey, of Church -street, Spital-fielc!t, T. I kakin, W. NN ibuLur t, and J. R. Haynes, Et. ,14. --street, stun grate-rnanathrturers. S. M•Creery and S. Goodyear, of Princes-street, Ilancrer-sTotare, - . dress-niallens. T. Benson, and W. Sherpervon, of Nottilighav, Ar sere. J. Baiphow. jun. and G. Scid,:. increbano. J. and T. l'ontal, and J. Sivallor., Waiccliad. Yurksh. corn. tacwrs. J. and 11. l'ound,bcry, of llristol, coanici - clanta. H. gr.nt and A. Nlidfatt. of Cheai , ,ide, it.sraht4tricno.n. W. Little, NI. Wotherapoon....iiii C. Imi-dun:ton, Lire , rooL J. Wilson, jun. and A. Wil.on, of Wocd-scrtoc, Clit.rplui.:, ribbon. --- manufacturvrs. P. era 'l'. Browne. Wellington, Sontersetshire, 'F. w.vso.. P. Kitzu.,-. .I.Y V:1 1 ...Lc.. --