The National Register. — London, England, 1821-03-11 00:00:00

LOP 011 • SUNDAY, NIAILCII 11. The Neapolitans, we rejoice to say, arc preparing to repel and punish the aggression of Tut: HOLY ALLIANCE with a spirit consonant to the determined feeling of liberty by which they are actuated ; and most fervently du we hope that they may snake so signal examples, even to the total destruction of their oppressors, as may serve to curb the infamous and villanous principles laid down by the triumvi rate, which, assuming most preisnely the title of THE HOLY ALLIANCE, ought properly to bear the appellation of TH E Infernal;: ALLIANCE. The bridges and roads have been destroyed, and every precaution taken to rent r their ingress difficult — may their egress never need to be provided for. These tyrants have a great share of liberality, whenever it can be supported at the expence of others—thus while either the dishonesty of the Emperor refuses, or his poverty is unable to pay the immense debt contracted by Austria to this country, the Magnanimous Emperor promises those of bib troops, who are the destined means of his iniquities on the present occasion, that they shall receive dou ble rations, and an additional allowance fbr clothing —not at his cost, but that they will be charged upon the country which has so peculiarly become the object of his paternal anxiety. " They offer you their protection— Yes—such protection as vultures give 'l'o lambs—covering and devouring them. They call on you to barter all of good You have inherited and proved !'or the desperate chance of something better— hich they promise—be your plain answer this— The laws we honour are the people's choice— We seek no change, and least of :dl Such change as ye would bring Us." Our own Government fearlessly and successfully resists every• motion which might lead to a redo lion of expence, or a detection of oppression or mai vorsation. This we regret, because a pertinacious adherence to such a principle must lead to a destruc tion of all that a good Englishman venerates—the country may be awed lilt a time by muskets, bay onets, and sabres, but " desperation will make e'en cowards bold"—and whenever the weight of tax ation prevents a man's supporting himself by his labour, the period of desperation is film approaching. A committee has been appointed to inquire into Agricultural Distress—in this committees we find many of those whose interest must be at variance with their duty...—Can Lord Castlereagh consistently declare, that the distress of all classes may be traced to the profligate expenditure of the Government, or will any man, connected with the Cabinet, ascribe to its measures, the extreme of poverty which none can deny?—We fear we shall tire our re•tders with the repetition of a fact that cannot too constantly be before them—that great retrenchment, and great retrenchment only, can save us from total ruin. Mr. Vansittart may plume himself on saving one million per annum, but he may rest assured many millions must be saved to give stability to the 60.. 'ferment, or satisfaction to the people. I'IIICE OF STOCKS. Bank Stork (Minium 0. 3 per Cent. Red. I !nip. 3 per Cent. 3 per Cent. Consols 7? India Bonds 4:i Si per Cent. I ' Muck 4 per Cent. Exeinvier Itiils 3s. dis. 6 per Cent. Navy Inl'l Cotts. for Ar. 731 Loot( Ann. IS 16-16 Lottery Tickets .1:27 I Ss. COURSE OF EXCI Amsterdam, 12 9 C. F. Ditto, at sight, 12 n Rotterdam, It 10 Antwerp, 12 10 Hamburgh, 314 2 Alton*, :A 3 Paris, 3 days' sigh►, 25 60 Ditto. 10 lluttrilraux, :20 10 Franklin t on the alaine,lMl Peter.litirgh, 91, 3 IT. Vienna, li'. Flo. 10 15 Ttivstr, FS. Flu. 10 15 Madrid, 30—Cadiz, 3.4 Bilboa, 33.—Bareelmia, 53 lANGE, MARCH 9. Seville, i.:—litbraltar, 30i Leghorn, .1:11 Malta,ls—Veniee, 97 CO Naples, :Ini—Li.bott, .191 Oporto, 491—Bahia, 55 Rio Janeiro, .191 Palermo, 113 Dublin, 74 per cent. Cork, 7i per cent. Foreign gol.i in hats, 31. 17g. - 10,11. per 01. New I)o,tibtouilk, 11.1 Is. 641. New Duihrs, Si riu both, stAtitlard, 4s. att. TUE NATIONAL REGISTER. e 77 About the year 1812, some experiments were made on the probability of preserving provisions without salt, under all trials of climate and time.— It was obvious that a discovery of this kind must be of singular importance to the sea service, where fresh provisions arc, on many occa.iions, a necessary of life. The success of the. experiments resulted in a patent taken out by Messrs Dunkin, MI, and Gamble; and a well brodivre of authorities, dis plays the sanction of a crowd of imposing names — the victualling board, officers commanding squall dross and fin.c4,nt stations, and ship captains—in various climates, all giving their witness to the excellence and completeness of the invention. he first use of the discovery is to obviate alto gether the necessity of having live stock on board. The cost of this article is enormous, independently of its inconvenience. Taking its attendant expenses, loss by death, &e. into account, it is front t.s. 6d. to ss. a pound on voyages of average length. But coking, and the separation of the bone, diminish this weight by one-half; thus the general cost is about ss, by the pound. The average price of the patent provisions is under 3s. the pound. These provisions are every kind of meat fit to be eaten • cold—a matter of great importance in bad weather, •or to be heated in a few minutes. To those the patentees have added concentrated soups and milk. There arc testimonials from Culling Smith, Esq. the Duke of Kent by his Secretary, Sir Alexander Cochrane, Sir Harry Neale, Astley Cooper, Sir F. Laforey, Sir Home Popham, Commodore Evans, Sir • Joseph Banks, the Governor and Council of St. He. lena, Rear-Admiral Burlton, Dr. !Lillie, &c. and they establish, in the most satisfactory manner, the great points of salubrity, of perfect preservation, and of comparative cheapness. The letter of one of the East India Captains mentions the travels of 60170* -- eanistcrs of those meats, which were opened in Lon don in good condition. They had gone from London to Batavia, thence to Sourabava, then to Batavia - again, to Calcutta, to Batavia, and thence toLondon —above 33,000 mileS in the warmest climates ! But perhaps the most interesting testimony, from all the circumstances, is the latest—that subjoined front the Discovery Ships. Front these, therefore, we make extracts, to-confirin the importance of this invaluable process. Fittlll CAPI. PAI(kY• •' N. 411. S. Beau. 9th Dec. 18?0.' h alt. "Gentlemen,—ln reply to your letter of the Xtit I beg leave to you, that 1 felt it impossible to speak too highly of the presei veil meats and soups, ;im paled by Ale•sra. Dunkin, 11411, and Gamble, and sup plied to H. I. Ship% (/:seta on,l tit lime, employed ler my orders, on the late espedit ion for the discovery of a nui th-we•t passage. .• the very large supply we obtaino.l, not a single Insrnnce occurred M . ripening a bail canister or met; four ur live bottles of vegetable soup, and two or three of the concenti 11111gnavy :mop, were found unlit fur lase.* With Huse iew exceptions they were excellent, and proved a most invaluable aequisil t.r 113 i, in the abseuce of all fresh supplies. " I have the honour to enclose the opinions. a the snr geons of the /leek aid Griper, and atia,o,:c." 111 r. Edwards says,—; " I beg leave to state to you, that I consider them 4o have been acquisitions of the highest loin.- to the prowl , . siotral stores for that service, and I cannot hesitate in sayilig, that 1 believe the substitistiuti or those articles, for a considerable portion of the salt meat iisnally allowed its the service, 1511, one or the principal causes of the ge neral good state lit healtis which prevailed among the. crews or both vessels during the voyage." And Mr. Beverley also writes thus strongly : " 1 have the lumina to state to rin, that idler the trial afforded by the laie vovage, of the beneficial egrets at tending 11112 11•0 iii Dunkiit's preserved meats and sumps, I have no hesitation in pronomicing lily opinion, that to thu judicious employ merit of these articles is its be attri buted in n great ineamre the preserva alit or the getter it health of the °dicers and crew of 11. M. brg Griper; and to the some means it to be ascribed the reeiiv. ey or the individual atm( Iced by the scurvy. The soups 1 consider pvcoultarly excellent, as I have every reason to nelteve hat the untiscortnitic quality or the vegetable is not M imed in the preparadloll." We understand, that an order for about 6,0011. worth of the preserved provisions for the next voya6e has consequently been given. by • A rccnrn•nee of this is on*. sir, understAnd,wholl) p,vroAA tha• soups Mug p, epar A :a fin ca.steis, Ihr 1114111 e al 111.: 111.11$• The Contractors for the Lottery having sold every Ticket and every Share befpre the 23d of February, had not any Co sale but those returned, consequently the Public had all the Capitals ; but many having been returned wens:void again, and many persons wish to know the places they were returned from, but the Contractors have requested the various OtH:c-keepers vot to publish any such account, as they were in hopes the persons who re turned them took no account of the Numbers, and they are very unwilling to tantalize them by re minding them of the loss they have sustained by such return ; hut they do wish to remind every one, that Next xaturday, St. Palfick's Day, the Lonely entirely /rushes, and the Three remaining .C-2 .000, Prizes and every otheiCapital, and every other Prize must be drawn that day. THE NATIONAL REGISTER The New York papers state, on the authority of the Bermuda Gazette of the I 3th of January, that the patriots of Chili, under the command of the gallant Lord Cochrane, have struck a blow in South America, and that his lordship had captured the city of Lima, after a tremendous resistance, during which four of his lordship's vessels were sunk. The same account was received some weeks ago direct from Jamaica, and afterwards contradicted, but subsequent intelligence stated, that the patriots were in possession of Lima, which had induced the people of Panama to declare fir independence, and the kingdom of Quito to shak.2. oir the Spanish yoke. Captain Affleck, of the Striver merchantman, arrival off Dartmouth from Surinam, .brings the afflicting account of the almost total destruction of the town of Paramaribo by fire on the 21st of Ja nuary last. Three hundred and ninety-two houses, including the stores and oilier outhouse>, about 1000 in all, have been reduced to ashes. Their estimated value is about twenty millions of guilders, Surinam currency. The number of houses before he fire was about 1400, chiefly built of timbor.— lite conflagration left a deplorable chasm. Tim streets were all perfectly straight, and lined with orange, lemon, shado.k, and tamarind trees. The Strew, lying near the wharf, was twice on fire before they could warp her into the middle of the stream. Several other vessels were also in danger, having caught fire, but they succeeded in putting out the flames and pushing off from the shore. The loss will be severely felt in Holland; and we are sorry to say several Dutch hoi.s,:s in the city wil also be considerable sufferers. Lisbon papers to the Ist of March have arrived. The report of the Committee of the Cortes to inquire into the services and claims of British officers in the Portuguese army was read in the 25th sitting, and ordered to be printed. It seems to have been dic tated by amicable and honourable feelings towards this country. I n the subsequent s:tttings the seve ral articles of the constitution not before considered, were disposed of. There was an animated debate as to whether the Kim , should have an absolute Veto on the laws passed by the Cortes, which was decided in the negative; but a proposition to give hint a suspensive Veio was carried. The spectators in the gallery may be said to have taken a share in the debate. The initiative of the law is also left with the Cortes. It was resoivcd, on account of the expected arrival of the Prince Royal in l'ortugal, to hasten the discussion on the prtject for applying the crown-lands to the national service, and with that view, that extraordinary sittings should be held:— In the sitting of the Cortes of Feb. 24th, it was resolved — !.1. — . neat the °the rs a ho, by the dectmrition of Aug. '26 IS4O, wf ttw provhithool jowls of the ,tyretne go vet atnein or the ktngtl iiiii retired from the t-ry we of the Pot Its, , ,tiew army, be diSlol . l6,eli Kith buuwur, and with the tiowk , of the 11:010/1, ~ u lely from the iwees,ty of giving as two or.;awA.ttiost to :Ite tett tonal 1 , 1 ;II sou). 2d. Flint Iker nth( ere sattald eow wise ur weeive the tety of their root OINsIOII% fur n, litany )e..tv as they served to the %%or in the :11'11%. 3t d. 'Find those who did not serve io the ear should con tinue to receive their puy her sue year, it being understood that their ;Julia, Wimp. were personal 4th. Stint the Broodiers should receive ilie fa vour of COMOlalideiS (..0113111111113) of the thder u 1:1.• Tower and s *to d, ems the Colonels and Lieutenant Co- I iiiiiiii the ite4,..,taht of the same order (Cordes or..c ,a do ARTS AND SCIENCES. PAT P Hoyt stoNs.---The various applications of science to matters of common comfort and utility, are undoubtedly among the characteristic and most valuable katures of the age. Steam, that " noble drudge," us it has been called, is now turned into almost a new clement; it. has become one of the prime movers of the mechanical world; it already makes almost every thing, from a pin to a ship; it digs our mines, tills our fields, uml threshes our corn ; it brews and bakes for us; it is our tailor and our shoemaker ; it prints our newspapers, and it dresses our dinners. All this is very extraordinary —and to a man who a hundred, or even fifty years ago, saw our clumsy and circuitous efforts to accost. plish the thousand things that we now leave to the • mercy of cylinders and pistons, would have been incredible. But it is nevertheless the fact—and the use of which we are about to speak is, it' not the most curious, perhaps among the most valuable of the wonders of this mighty Magician, generated of the discordant families of fire and water. .~ 1 t_