The National Register. — London, England, 1820-12-10 00:00:00

X 94 4314411 CAN PAPERS. NEO "mtley rdne St. Domingo.— Purt-nu-Prince, Oct. 10.—A few days since we received the news of the death of Christophe, and the revolt of the troops at St. Marc, and a strong forttess in its vicinity, both belonging to that Mo. varque. I'arties of soldiers have come in from those places, bringing the heads of the Governor of St. Marc's, and of the Colonel commanding the latter. In be half of their comrades, these men have claimed the protection of this government (under Boyer), which has in consequence sent off a considerable body of troops to take possession of those places, to be fol lowed by all the disposable force now in the south, making altogether from 15 to 20,000 men. It is generally believed here that the mass of the population, under the successor of the late King Henry, is desirous of coming under that of the Re public. Should that be the fact, there is little doubt of President Boyer ere long visiting the Cape with his army. Captain Mason, of the Weymouth, in twenty-two days from Port-au-Prince, has furnished some par ticulars of the disasters by the gale at that place, on the 29th September; tbree American vessels were entirely lost outside the harbour, and great damage was dune to the coffee plantations in the neigh bourhood He also informs us, that the Emperor Christophe died on the sth July last, end that the circumstance had been kept secret till this time by his family, with a view, it is said, of placing his son on the throne. A revolt, however, had taken place among the troops, and the secret was let out. A body of 6,000 troops, at St. Marc's, had sent a deputation to Port-au-Prince, asking protection of the President (Boyer), who was astonished at the intelligence, and would not believe it till he had sent one of his Aides to ascertain the fact. The Officer returned with a full confirmation of the news, and Boyer immediately set off, put himself at the head of the revolted troops, and entered St. Marc's ut the head of 18,000 men, in triumph. Active measures were taken to fit out all th armed vessels at Port-au-Prince, and it was be lieved the President would subjugate the territory of his old enemy without any difficulty. liavrtmotte, November 6.—Henri the First of Ilayti.—Christophe committed suicide about ten days before the sailing of the Barracoa.— He had been stricken with a paralytic affection in July. The army took the advantage of his incapa city to act, and revolted, first at St. Marc's, where they killed the governor. Five regiments at the Capes were then ordered by Christophe to - march against the insurgents. When assembled, they refused, and turned their arms against him. New Yona, Oct 25.—From Angoetura.—Capt. Vandine, who arrived yerterday in twenty-nine days from Angostura, and fifteen from St. Eustatia, informs that news reached the former place a few days before he sailed, of the surrenper of Curdle gena to the l'striots. A Spanish fleet of three three-deckers, two frigates, and twenty transports, have been seen off St. Eustatia. supposed bound for the Havannah. Executive or Legislative Measures which would render ; Geoll4ll THR FOURTH the ,Rost popular SOVERRIGN that ever sal on the BRITISH Tanya u. BY SIR RICHARD PHILLIP/. le To acknowledge that his confidence has been abused by tale-bearers and evil counsellors, and seek a public reconciliation with his Queen. 2. To dismiss his present ministers, and appoint a new ministry of men of honour, principle and character. S. To receive in person, according to the usage of all great Sovereigns the petitions of his subjects, attend to their prayers. and afford all practicable redress. 4. 'l o modify the charters of all close corporations, so as to empower the inhabitants of all cities and boroughs to elect their own magistracy. 5. To call a new Parliament elected by the householders of the several places represented. 0. To allow Napoleon Is Grand freely to prosecute his ♦oyagc to Nurtle America, which be was meditating when he magnanimously went on board the Bellerophon. 'l. To separate himself from the Alliance with foreign despots, and interfere in no other way with the affairs of other nations, except in support of their independence against foreign interference. 8. To set at liberty all persons confined for political offences, and indemnify them for their sufferings accord log to the verdict of a Jury. 9. To dismiss the magistrates concerned in the outrages on the people arManehester, and prosecute the criminal authors of those enormities. 10. To appoint a commission to enquire into the moral reformation of criminals suffering under sen(euces of the law, at home and abroad; and to mitigate the punishments in every ease meriting relief. 11. To appoint commissions to visit a il the en e m i e s, an d enquire into the condition of the people, and the sidutinis- Ireton' of their several gust ritmesits. 12. To restore to the comities :lie right of choosing Oleic Gs( a sheriffs. IS. Tu direct that juries may be summoned in exact rotation, and not picked or Setae led, as at present, by the returning ()Ulcers. 14. Tu cause u sufficient number of houses to be built on farms ut 10, 20, 30, and 4u acres; and to assess in double, treble, quad' uple, and quintrople rates, all land lords and tenant of farms consistiug of above 240, ;tic►, and 400 acres, respectively. THE NATIONAL REGISTER 15. To prohibit the anderletting of land fur agricultural pnrposeu and permit no proprietor to let excepro oc etipier, nor occupier to pay real, except to bona fide pru prietor. • - lb. To limit parochial relief of the poor to childhood, old age, infirmity and sickness; and to cause the appoint. meat in every aft tish of an agent to support the just claims of poverty, while the overseers continue to act for the interests of the parish. 17. To cause disputes between masters and journeymen to be referred to arbitrators named by each, and to pro secute associations of masters, as rigorously as conspira cies of journeymen. Id. Tu limit enlistmeats and re-enlistments in the naval and military service to periods of seven years. 19. To limit prosecutions by hitormations cs eijicio to public crimes of magistrates and peers. 20. To repeal the corporation and test acts, and allow no civil disqualifications to be consequent on variety of religious opinions or practice. 21. To establish a general law for the equitable commu tation of tythes. 22. To enact a general enclosure bill, with due respect to the rights and interests of the pour. 23. To liberate all crown debtors, and place them iu future, on the legal footing of private debtor*. 21. To enable all insolvent or embarrassed debtors to arrange their affairs, v.vith the consent and participation of two-thirds or three-fourths of their creditors. 25. To defend every point of the empire by local mi litia, officeted by educated military; to send no British regiments on West India or other foreign service • and to pay all men employed by government as well , at least, as they would be paid in private employments. 26. To cause cottages tOr road labourers, with one or two roods of attached land, to be built on or near the site of every mile stone on all turnpike roads. 27. To refer all claims ou government to the arbitration of respectable and independent persons, nominated by the opposed interests. 28. 'Co require the receivers of dividends from the funds to pay a proportion of the taxes equal to what is paid by incomes derived from other properly. 29. To diminish the national debt, by assessing all rentals and dividends three shillings in the pound, re deemable in stock at the average price of the last six months ; and after seven years to repeat the operation its such rate as may then be necessary to extinguish the whole debt. 30. To transfer all taxes which interfere with indivi dual liberty, commercial enterprile, and domestic inde pendence to assessnmatts on real property and stock divi dends. 31. To adopt effectual measures for putting an end to the trausport of slaves from Africa to the American colonies. 32. To ameliorate the criminal laws, and proportion punishuieuts to the aggravated character and repetition of offences. The adoption of which measures, or of the greater part of them, would not only remove most of the causes of discontent, and be the means of substituting happiness and comfort in place of misery and distress, but would raise the sovereigu to a pitch of popularity and pinnacle of true glory, without parallel , while they would violate no principle of the constitution, and affect no privileges, rights of property, or assumptions of authority worthy of respect. A rrALr BY THE SEA SIDE. -mew [From " Me Dijeuni.) Ocean! flove to view thy dark blue face, To hear thee ripliog on the shelvy shore. To me, thy form has greatness, grandeur, grace s To use, there's more than music in thy roar.—Arrort. Though inland landscapes are not without their attractions, vet they sink into insignificance, when com pared with the everlasting ocean, as viewed from its shores. The apparent absence of all boundary, the deep blue sky, which in the dimly defined distance seems bending in reverence to the wave, strike on the mind with a sentiment of eternity, an expression of holy grandeur, deep, wild, and unearthly. Though the Creator has on all things stamped the plastic hand of his divinity, though by the dark forests, the mountain glens, the roaring cataracts, he is seen, as if he wes bodily present, yet it is over the boundless expanse of ocean that he delights to throw the expression of his mightiness, the proofs at once of his benevolence and his vengeance. When in the creeping tranquillity of twilight, we wander along the shores, and see at a dis tance the sun eneanopied in his pavilion of clouds, throwing the hues of glory over every object that he tints. when we see the waves reflecting back his last lingering looks of softness, and then murmuring calmly to the coast, as if afraid to break the stillness that reigns around we are hushed in the repose of gentleness. and partakii. in our thoughts of the silence we adore in nature, thin of the Deity only as the emblem of meekness and bene volence. But, when the winds are high, and the storm howls across the ocean—when blasts that " will be raging at all hours," lash the sea into a white mass of 0:111I, and hurl it with violence to the skies, it is then that we feel in unison with the restless spirit of the hour, and taking our tone of action from the horror we behold, bend with mute reverence before the footstool of an avenging Deity. Perhaps in the whole range of external nature, there is no scene that so wholly absorbs 'he soul as a walk by the sea shore. The boundless magnificence of the land scape, the wonderful extent of sight, the receding or ap proaching tides, look us. as It were, in the face, and au dibly pronounce that they are glorious scntillations of a light that burns from above. every faculty of the soul may here find the moat exquisite gratification. The lover of the wild and the sublime, while he roims along the sea coast, when nature, like a bashful beauty, clothes herself in the veil of twilight, and hears the hol low, sounding waters welcoming the approach of evening, and the wild Jowl screening around the star-beaten crags, may be filled with transport even to satiety. '['he admirer of the picturesque and beautiful, may find oh jects of adoration in every step that he advances.—Ht mtay•see the upraising sun-beam stealing from the em brace of Thetis, and then mouming his chariot of the sky, the deep blue ocean whispering as it were the tale of lover's bliss; The clear cloudless firmament, pure as the earliest smile of infant innocence, feeding the beauty of the I. smell its sunshine: the white-sails of the ham r - ik 'easels maim kirily onward :—the richly It ted shells glistening upon the sands, and a thousand other objects of infinite grace, that may ex haust even the language of adoration and of reverence. This subject is sugtresttal by the ramble that we have. at present cnosen. Far removed front every haunt of man, on the desolate shores of ocean, which is now gaining imperceptibly on our home-returning steps. makes us feel, deeply feel, the silent awe of the moment. We are here alone, with nothing to interrupt the medi. tations of the hour, or break the tranquillity of the pros pect, but the sullen scream of the cormorant, as he wheels his tight among the beetling crags that tower to an awful distance above us. But hark ! a sound comes pealing on our ear, it is the voice of the evening breeze,. as it wakes the shimberin? , music of the tides, and rouses the full chorus of ce lestial harmony. From the darkened hills of the West the sea-log is raising in his in,tiesty, and hastens to spread the dull path of death over the living linaments of nature. At distance, on the very verge of the horizon, where heaven embraces. earth, anti mingles with it the sweet .influencings of his spirit, the Needle rocks are discovered : and when the fog accumulates on his sterile sides, and conceals them from the view, woe to the adventurous mariner who approaches them with his little barque.— But while thus enrapt in contemplation, the increasing shades of twilight remind us that we are yet far from home; the last footsteps of departing day are now hovering on the dark abyss of night—a moment longer, and they will be no more seem, they will be num bered with the things that once were, and when the imagination is awake, you shall hear the dying voice of the day . that has just gone,by, and see its visionary form as it shivers like a night-ghost on the dim shores of eternity. COUST Of coarmoN couNcuo. On Thursday a Court of Common Council was held , for the dispatch of a variety of important business, which. was numerously attended. LITTER FROM THE QUEEN. The Lord Mayor then stated that he had received a letter limn her Majesty, which was read to the Court. The letter is as follows : _ _ ileandenbur gh Muse, Monciasi t Dce, 4. MY LOILIV—I. um commanded by the Queen io say, that her Majesty would feei herself deficient in gratitude if she omitted to testify her obligations to yourself and the Corp ration of the City of London, fur the extraordinary atten tion which you paid to her Majesty on her late attendance to Divine Service, at St. Paul's Cathedral. The Queen was inthe highest degree gratified by the gond order which was every observed, although amongst at greater collection of persons than her Majesry ever before beheld,. or than any other City in Europe can exhibit. Her Majesty is more particularly obliged so your Lord ship for your refusal to comply with the suggestions of the timid, or to yield to the alarms of the weak, as she is cou •ioced that the people are too sober in their conduct, and. too enlightened iu their sentiments to need the aid of mili tary interference to enforce that obedience which is due to , constituted authority and lawful power. I remain your Lordship's must obedient Seruant, It. X. CRAVEN. It was moved and carried unanimously, that the let ter should be entered on the journals. ♦UDBIU7 TO 1111 E AING. Mr. Ewell to;;;;;id saiCl:tiiaCheWts now ready to bring up the Report of the Address and Petition to hit Majesty to dismiss his Ministers. Au amendment was proposed upon the Address and Petition, when a lopg debate took place. Ihe original motion was carried by a considerable majority. von Or TOO riligOOM Of VIZ Stsv so sus struates contour.. Mr. Oldham rose for the purpose of moving that the Freedom of the City should be presented toMr.Brougham,. Mt. Denman, and Dr. Lushingion, for the integrity, the flint and unshaken talent which they had displayed in defending the Queen. The talent that had been dis played on that occasion was so well known, that he would not waste the time of the Cintrt by describing it. After they recollected that these gentlemen had had to oppose nut only the Attorney and Solicitor-General, but also the Doke of Clarence, Lurd Lauderdale, and other Noble Lords, they might think it extraordinary that the case had been so well rebutted as it had been, notwith standing tits time, labour, talent, and money, which had been employed in getting it up. It might be es peeled that he would say something of Mr. Williams and Mr.Tindal, whose great talents needed nu continent but tile Court would, no doubt, feel that it was iiiipor sible to go to the same extent with them as with the senior Counsel. After some further observations the Speaker cuucluded by moving, " That the Freedom of the City be presented, in a box of heart of oak, 10 Messrs. Brougham, Dentuan, and Dr. Lushington, her Majesty's Counsel." The motion was seconded by Mr. Brown in a neat speech. Mr. J. Grilliths, Mr. Southgate, and Mr. J tipp, also supported the motion, which was carried, three or four hands only being held up against it. Several roports front different Comuitttees were pre. seined and agreed to. Troppau. the seat of the present Congress of So. vereigns, is a city of Silesia, and capital of the prin cipality of the same name. It is situated on the river Oppa, being walled, and containing an ancient Palace of the Princes, with three parochial churches, a college, three convents of monks ' a nunnery, and a command:try of the order of St. John. It is also the scat of the Regency for the Bohemian part of Silesia. In 1758 the greatest part of this town was destroyed by lire. It belongs to Austria, and is be miles S.S.L. of Breslau. _4- '____ It,. ■ gr. -