The National Register. — London, England, 1820-11-19 00:00:00

. ,~ . :~ Parrivignwr 370 • FRENCH I'd L'ERS. PARIS, Nov. 11.—Yestcrday the King heard mass in his apartments, and transacted business with the Duke of Richelieu and the Minister of the In terior. M. Emile d'Espinc, a gentleman in ordinary of the King's chamber, arrived front Naples some days Ago, and had a private audience of the Duchess of Berry on the 9th inst. . The king has signified his intention to remit the capital punishment to which Gravier and Baotou were condemned by the Court of Assizes, for dis charging a petard under the windows of the Duchess of Berry. According to all the letters from Vienna and Ve nice, great events are expected immediately in Italy. The Austrian advanced guard is concentrating at Terrona. There is a report of the sailing of a Russian squadron for the Mediterranean. Mr. Canning regularly attends the important trials in the Court of Assizes. Private letters lions Madrid state that the Pope's Nuncio had obtained passports, and was preparing to depart. A letter from Bourdeaux says—" A few days ago were discovered among the ruins of the Castle of Castleman, in Medoc, several silver coins or demi gnus, of Aquitaine, which exhibit on one side the effigy of the Prince of Wales in a ducal attire, armed with a sword, standing under a Gothic canopy; and on the reverse flaws de lyt and two leopards, sym metrically separated by a full cross, marked with six points, indicative of the value of the coin Round the portrait of the Prince is the legend—ED. Po. GNS. REG. Am. B. (Eduardus pri "'agendas regis Anglia, IL); and on the reverse—Aerr. Pitiveys. ( .Iquitauce Princeps.) VIENNA Oct. 30.—We have this instant received intelligence from Troppau that couriers extraordi. nary have set out for Italy, where important events are to take place. Romig, Oct. 28 —The Austrian regiments recently arrived at Treviso continue their march to take up the positions assigned to them. These troops are concentrating in great numbers on the frontier of the march of Anima. The g overnment of the Holy See continues much occupied, and its relations with foreign cabinets are very active. Every thing announce% that we are on the eve of great events. PALsano, Oct. 19.—We now begin to breathe after five weeki of tumult and torment of all sorts. Our town owes its existence to the wisdom and mo deration of General Florestan Pepe, and to the firmness of the Prince de Paterno, a respectable octogenaire, who has fearlessly exposed himself to the greatest dangers in order to calm, divide, and disconcert a populace thirsting for bl ed and plun der. In effect, all our alarms arise from this class of people, whom we monot make to understand that the conventions granted by General Pepe, which guarantee the independence of Sicily, fulfil all that Sicilians can desire. LISBON * Oct. 20.—Different letters of change payable before the end of the year, and making a total of about 2,500,000 francs (about 100,0001. sterling), were sent by the Court of Rio Janeiro to the Regency of Portugal, to provide for tie current expellees of the service; the 30,0001. sent by the English ship Le Vengeur is not included in this . . colonel Cabriera, appointed to the military nom ' \al the Province of Algarve!, has informed the it e ement that the meeting of the two Juntas th e \tilt greatest satisfaction in that province; e g i a .L I FOIV , W by public rejoicings. This refutes the e f' r ea le province of A . lgarves did not .I ves,kingdom in the great work M ae fella n p 1 , 1 : ,_" ) . 0 OW. 3)- th e B .7••wrow l d I. • 'Nitenant-ral Wimp. sy ue c o - . wa r cartel Jutting G lens services of SON' hating' the' im.) . , of Spain during the th e "country :lt nl the na me of his comrades and w ee met no n of a they wi t. org an i ze . en, that -lit be included in sad j e aslde, h y ie prese n t ann . . This demand thoeki n a IVa/y ed ,ftsing to or % 'er of the day be fle • to _ tna. • - . 3 regiments senr o tt ...e tit:" ' An ' 'le must ho -.art fur their sertirts in ti. 1111101111CIL _ ming the Tie Cortes hare also deternalkea Mot,. it with Bay Guark Ivaviain; the *mg*llurs „r at h e line. s the troops eturrn ien , te ' sn t ....._ ymen i t b e e made in the ► u.m y , Severn ot h er n corps with the view of amalgamating priv ileged with the national troops. O M Morena Guerra hasp roposed cri t oo th o e o cAltei puttital : d wend amnesty for all political 6 b e tween May, 1808, and 9th.tofw:slarexchpecastetd. to one .. op p o ied atist before the and assembly again ittee of Legislation, before the in the regu lar I wa y y pe of the thetheCCealortes, which it is supposed ledl,take place before the Sth of Not . entbet The Minister at the Mantle has obtained, without ditti, u i t y, t h e so milli.= of cc: il5 wl.f lh lie required ' _ . -• lIR:AVLRY OF A SAILOR. ~ e• . ,• .4 I t " . . • sc . . -). PM - Ni ts. .... 'lp• -' / ••. .. - -1 . , . • r . . • ~. • . . . ..._— ' V ' : l '" ' • TfIE NATICNAL REGISTER for tl:e construction of 20 middle-sized vessels of war, to protect the coasts and commerce of Spain in the two worlds; but on this condition; that every thing for the construction and outfitting of these vessels is to be taken from tho forests and amends of the nation. . _ _ An active correspondence is carried on between our cabinet and that of Naples. It is not thought that the king will - remain at the Escurial longer than the 18th of November. The Courier de Brest, of :Sc Ist of this month, cots- , wins the followinx act of courage • . On the it#24l of October, about noon, the eiriatl-leatse Saint Frangnis, Captain Fruneati, ran in the Reach of Wieland, flea: Qiiiberon, where she was carried by the sea and a heavy gale of wind towards a chant of rucks stretching out front Tiviec, upon which she must ine vitably hare been dashed to pieces; in that state of danger an enormous sea laid her upon her quarter withiu a quarter of league from the coast. The tempeat was then raging with the utmost force, and, to avoid certain death, the Captain "case to a resolution to get out his Twat. lie had then on board, as passengers, a lady and ha daughter, an infant six years of age. The poor woman, shut up in her cabin, expected every instant, with her child in her arms, that death would terminate her agonies. Having heard the sailors preparing to quit the vessel, she with the utmost exertion got her head up the hatchway to look for the Captain, who said to her coolly, " Madame recommend your soul to God—you and >our child are lost beyond all hope of human as sistance." He then lett her, and joined use seamen, who, with another passenger aged thirteen or fourteen, were ready to leave the vessel. They abandoned the unfortunate mother, wno was deprived of her last hope. She had always expected they would have saved either herself or the Odd. Wben they gut ashore they were received by a crowd of persons whom the event had drawn together. They ansunisly inquired if all were removed from the wreck'? The men said there was still a woman and a child on board. limiest indignation wa • ediately felt against the wretches who had thus abandoned the suderers.-- , At that moment one of the spectators, named Kerhero, a sailor belonging td Kerostein, in Quiberon, launched his boat, and obeying the impulse of true courage, pulled out to sea. having braved a thousand dangers, he reached the wreck. " Give me your daughter," said the brave and generous sailor to the lady, " and be assured if I succeed in saving the child, I will return liar you very soon." His aims were crowned with happyrasecess. The infant was carried safe to shore. and faithful to hiso 1111 l ise, Kerhero again ventured on the fwuhing waves. Ile got to the vessel, and Wi l dly landed the soother. He was received with all the applause his generous and perilous devotion ao justly demanded. CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. The danger of convicting on circumstantial evi dence may be seen from the following ti~ct►:— A farmer was tried at the assizes for the murder of a neighbour, under the thllowing circumstances : —The evidence went to prove that the deceased was found recently murdered; and by his side lay a pitchfork, evidently the sort of instrument by which the wounds appeared to have been inflicted. nu: person finding him discovered upon the fork the initials of the prisoner, to whom he, with otherf, immediately repaired, to ascertain whether he had any knowledge of the circumstance. The prisoner appeared confused, but positively denied any know- ledge about it; but not being able to account, how ever, for his fork getting into the possession of, or being found near, the deceased, further inquiries were made, and the prisoner's house searched, when under his bedding were discovered some clothes which he usually wore (and had been seen in that very morning) covered with blood, and the deceased's fork behind the bedstatd. -The prisoner, being called on for his defence, de clared his innocence, mid called God to witness that he was not the murderer. The truth, he said, was this, although he had at first denied all knowledge of the affair, that he was walking in one of his neighbour's grounds that morning, with his fork in hand (it being hay-time), and that he found the de ceased weltering in h is blood. That he immediately rendered him what assistance he could, by raising hint up, and that the man died iii his arms. Finding life gone, and observing the bloody condition his own clothes were in, and fearing he might therefore be suspected, he hurried home, ant‘ by sonic mistake ow l took up the deceased's fork instead of his own. The judge (Mr. Justice Blackstone) and jury, except men, immediately concluded the prisoner guilty. This juryman, fortunately for the prisoner, knew that circumstances were not always to be relied on, and could not be brought to reconcile his mind to find him guilty. The judge, who was ready to move cif to the next assize town, considering this man a most obstinate fellow, desired to know what could.; . lead him to a supposition of the prisoner's innocence, % •hen the circumstantial evidence of his guilt was pe rhaps the strongest ever known. . '.The juryman obtained an interview with the . p,idxe, from whom he exacted a promise that his .I . 4 ,mous s fur such con4uct sa . uuld not be named by his .. , • ' -- -11.,... . .., , --; - ••• • • - 1.4 L; ~ ;• t lordship until after his, the juryman's . death. He then said to his lordship, " I am (if I can be so called) the murderer, and not the prisoner; but the 4 fact is, it was purely accidental. The deceased was our titheman, a man of a quarrelsome disposition. we differed about his setting out the tithe of my hay. From words we got to blows, and- in a scuffle we both All, and in the fall the fork penetratet his side. Considering the wound mortal, after a few minutes I left him, and the prisoner mune up soon afterwards; and his• statement, perfectly true, al though circumstances would have hanged him, brit that Providence placed ma upon this jury." The prisoner was in cons equ ence acquitted, and the above facts were, after the death of this juryman, ittfitutured by the same judge in his charge to the grand jury Upon a subsequent circuit, by way or caution ageinst admittinn , in all cases, however strong, circumstantial evidence alone. Among the innumerable benefits the Portuguese• have derived from their political regeneration and. the overthrow of a government that would have dis. Lraced either Asia or Turkey, the exercise of th e iberty of the Press stands pre-eminent, and is al. ready working wonders. With the other blessings. the Lusitunian nation had inherited from their an cestors, founded on institutions free and liberal like those f Spain, previous to the destruction of . the Cortes, the liberty of the press had been lost in Por tugal, and excepting a few spiritual books, treatises. on abstract science, and a paltry gazette, little or nothing was printed in the country that had pro duced a Camoens. Thus the greatest excesses were committed by men in power and court favourites,. without the dread of reproach, and abject sycophancy and blind submission had become the only means of preferment. Gradually ti at daring spirit which manifested itself in the remotest corners of the globe was extinguished among the Portuguese ; .the truly patriotic and enlightened withdrew to their chain— hers to weep over the degradation by which they were surrounded, or so pursue their studies in soli tude, while the busy part of the community up. peered sunk in all the vileness of servitude. l'Oßr OF SAYANILLA, JULY 15.—(Extract of letter) :—" Oir troops have formed a junction with. the division of Gen. Cordova, who came down with 600 men by the way of Ceuta on the 14th of June. Mompax was taken without resistance ; from thence he went down to Teneriffe,• when we met 400. men, royalists, escorting some cannon, whom he attacked, defeated, and made prisoners. Colonel Montella, with the combined armies, was at Cartha gena. Gen. Urdnetta is in the environs of St. Martha, and will soon be master of it, having de feated the Spanish forces at Chereguna. The Pre sident, Bolivar, is in Augula with 3000 men,. and Gen. Valdes is in the invirtais of Popyan, and com munication wit►► the kingdom is entirely open . — Daily quarrels take place between the Spanish Chiefs; imprisonment and arrests occur daily. - • - - BURNING OV A GREIN Guisborough,. county of York, on the .sth of November, the usual political ceremonies of that day were postponed till Monday, when notice was given to the inhabitants of Guisk3rough and its neighbourhot 1, that a large fire would be made in the evening in the mar}et place, and tbat a green b g, " filled with rubbish and combustibles," would then be cotnmitted to the flames. Th . ; me le of expro:sing public detestation of the Green 134 g Allston (g',llis:;lteriel notoriey was accordingly ("atlas' into effect between eight and nine o'cloa. A large fire was made, and the peo ple being assembled, there was a numerous proces sion, preceded with persons bearing flambeaux--a a 14,,,0e green LI inscribed on one side—" Perjury and Conspiracy !" and on the other—" Pains and Penalties ! was carried at the top of a long fork. by a veleren and the band of music belong ing to the third North York Local Militia enlivened the numerous concourse by martial music. In this manner they paraded the streets, and on their return to the market-place the bag was formaily set on fire and burnt to ashes—the bond playing the national air of " Rule Britannia, " and the people, to the amount of several hundreds, hailing the destruction of the bag and its contents by loud and continued beers. Exeract of a letter from St. Thomas, dated Sept. I.—" The war on the Main hos commenced with new fury, but I believe both parties will respect humanity. The Spaniards have spread the news . that they soon expect a reinforcement of 4000 troops front Europe, but we do not credit this re port here. Many privateers arc cruixing hereabout; they captured three vessels out of a convoy front Havanhali bound to Spain, with 3500 boxes of sugar, and 30,000 dollars. A vessel is just arrived from the Main, from which we learn the total defeat of 1.4 Torre's division of Royalists." It is unaerstcxxxl that her Majesty will spend the Christmas holidays with Earl Fitzwilliaim .UGC .• 1 it 0 . 1 .r