The National Register. — London, England, 1815-12-17 00:00:00

Patience and surrender. The ship is iaow at lined casks, Etc. are to be seen. A Mas t onic Lodge, conshting of some English and Austrians, was lately held in Romc. and led, in all probability, to popular disturbances ; as it was found necessary to send a strong detach ment of the Supreme Pontiff's army to preserve the profane and biretical members from the fury of the pious, moral. and en lightened populace of the capital of the Christian World. His Holiness has dispatched two of the sacred Auditory to remon strate against the toleration given to the reformed religion by the opening of churches at Venice for the bigoted followers of that persuasion. Count Gottorp, the cillerant king of Sweden, has arrived at Trieste with a suite of fourteen persons, among whom is only, one woman—is she going on a pilgrimage too ? A ministerial paper states, that, according to the account of those who affect to be well informed of the treaty under which the lonian Islands are surrendered to the protection of Great Britain, secret articles are introduced, by which this Govern ment is forbidden to interfere in any war which may be con ducted by the Courts of Vienna and St. Petersburgh against the Sublime Porte. It is asserted, that the lonian islands are the price of the compliance of England with this condition. The Little Council of the canton of Zurich has published a very benevolent regulation, on occasion of the abuse of the practice of employingyoung childrett in the manufactories and spinning machines. ty this regulation, no children are to be so employed till they have passed the 9th year of their age. They are to continue to visit the schools regularly, and cannot, its any case, be kept to work more than 14 hours in a day. With respect to their wages, they are placed under their pa rents; or, in case these are dead, or of bad character, under their guardians, or the administration of the parish. The pro prietors and inspectors of such establishments have certain duties prescribed to them for guarding the morals of the chil dren ; and the parochial magistrates are authorized to see that they are fulfilled: " because," says the regulation, " it k the duty of every paternal government to provide that the igno rance, carelessness. or self-interest of the parenta' may not place young children in a situation which may endanger`their - bodily strength and health, and their morals, deprive them of that degree of cultivation of the mind and heart necessary to every member of civil society, and of the Christian church, and prevent their acquiring the ability of gaining an honest liveli hood when they are grown up, and of fulfilling fn a proper manner their domestic and social duties." FERNCR PROTESTANTS. — The example of "The Protest ant .Society for the Protaqion of Religious Liberty," and of the Dissenting Ministers o f the Metropolis, expressing their as tonishment and indignation at the persecution of the French Protestants, has been followed by the Court of Common Coun cil of the City of London. Unanimity on this occasion per vaded an assembly where diversity of opinion bn all other sub jects ordinarily exists. All political party feeling was buried; and there arose only a noble declaration, in the form of an Ad dress to the Prince Regent, " representing the feelings of that Court at the information received of the cord and inhuman persecution and suffering of our Protestant Brethren in France; whereby their places of worship have been dosed, their property pillaged and destroyed, and the lives of innocent and uu (Mending individuals have been sacrificed to the merciless rage of infuriated bigotry and superstition; and humbly praying his Royal Highness to adopt such pm ompt and etlicatious mea sures as may best tend to suppress these enormous evils." This address, we are persuaded, will be favourably received; and we canuot doubt that assurances will be returned of the disposition of the British Government to support their ap plication ; because, from the resolutit ris of " The Protestant 'society," we at informed, " that it has been the invariable object of the Mich Government, and of their Allies, to sans :art s and on every suitable occasion to assert , the pi ine i ples of Jteligious Toleration and Libel ty ; and that in their recent cm omnications with the Government of France, they have brought foi ward these priciples as the' foundation of their policy. and of then just enectatioos ; amid that they are dat:lime iAsingalicit DEC., 17 of evils which they most deep. The existence of the evils it is now impossible to doubt. 'The communications of Government, the Proclamations of the Prefect of the department of Garde, and the Ordonnanee of the King of France, demonstrate, that for several months a re ligious outrageous persecution of Protestants has continued to destroy individual happiness and public Peace. We are indeed assured, that the Government of France discoontenance enor mities so horrible ; and the Duke of Wellington is said to have announced to the Secretaries of the' Protestant Society, "That the Government of France is resolved to employ all the means in its power to terminate the ev Is in the South of France, and to take under their protection all the subjects of the King, con formable to the promise which he had made in his Ronal Char ter, and to support them in the exercise of their religious duties whatever might be their pursuasion ; and iu the enjoyment of their civil privileges whatever might be their religious senti ments ; and also, that no discontinaance of the salaries of the Protestant Ministers had taken place." Yet this tyranny of superstitious Priests and fanatical devo tees is unsuppressed, and the dreadful consequences yet con tinue. Some additional energy is therefore required for its suppression. Public opinion, universally expressed, will inspire and stimulate that energy. Our own Government will he there -17 rendered more active and determinate—the Government of trance more prompt, circumspect, and vigorous; and all Europe, the world, and posterity, will be taught, that the age of persecution may not. recur, and that the value of religious freedom is correctly understood, sincerely fel t, a nd suitabl y maintained. From the expressions of opinion in which Whigs and Torrics, and British Protestants and Catholics concur, we expect that universal toleration will in France be certainly and speedily restored. Yet, to insure that event, we recommend that, according to the Resolutions of "The Protestant Society," public vigilance should not abate until the Pi otestants of that country :ball be allowed practically, perfectly, and permanent in to exercise that libel ty of conscience, and those rights of worship, which they and every man throughout the world are, p entitlnd.to enjoy." PROtEftTY ti,x-d—TheCommissioners throughout England, arc to receive immediate instructions to assess lauded propet tv according to its present actual valae, under the recent reduc tion of rents. From a late official calculation, the following . principal landed estates of England, are nearly thus estimated : I Duke of Northumberland - - £125,000 per annum. Duke of Devonshire - - - 115,000 t Duke of Rutland - - - 107,000 Duke of Bedford - • - v 5,000 Duke of Marlborough - - - 90,000 Duke of Beceleugh - - - 90,000 Earl Grosvenor 84000 Duke of Portland - - - 80,000 Marquis of Cholinondeley - - 78,000 Marcrig of Hertford - - - 77,000 Earl of Bute - .. - - 76,000 Furl of Lonsdale - - 7,1,000 Earl Fitzwilliam - - - 70,000 ' Duke of Norfolk - - - AB,OOO Earl of Darlington - - . 65,000 Duke of Beaufort - . - 60,000 Earl of Harewood 60,000 Earl Spencer • - - - 5f4,000 ~ Mr. Coke - - - - - 5Y,000 Earl of Egremont - - - 50,000 Col. Hughes . ~ 6- - 49,000 Sir W. Manner - - - 43,000 ANCIENT P10T14./N5 OF LZGITIMACY.—WIkett Richard the Third was slain at Bosworth, and with him John Howard, Duke of Norfolke, King Henry tbe Seaventh demanded of Thomas [lowa; d Earle of Surrey, the Duke's sonne and beire,. ' then taken Prisoiter, how lie dust heart acmes in the behalf 0: that Tyrant Richard ;—" He was my crowned king ; and it t he Pal liamentaty authority of England set the Crawne upon a I stoetie, l will fight for that stocke ; and as I fought then for him I will tight for won when you aro established by the said i; i authority ;"--and he did for his swine King Heury the Eights ' at Iludiion-401.—Camdcn . 6 16.maills. THE NATIONAL REGISTER, Kiel, where the 11 best efforts to arrest the. progress 11 ly d!plore : " , z At._ L • • • • • 3 1 a _ _