The National Register. — London, England, 1811-03-10 00:00:00

:nit .N . AttrlN'A I, 817, ._:: create in Ire/and a perpetual Catholic Parliament, qs.surniug the right of inquiring into the real or, sup portt.tt grievances of their fellow subjects. Ifisuch state of things the Irish Government have acted with jilitice, prudence, and lenity. They have overlooked for a considerable time the hasty ebulitions of irascible minds ; and, when after mature deli teration, they. have found themselves bound in duty to stop the further spreading of mis chief they, have preserved . a due regard for the original motives which had called the Roman Cithotic Committee together ; they left them at full Iberty to petition. and have only taken from them ifie power to legislate, and to urge their claims by unlawful means. We are happy to find that the tondixt of the Irish Government has had the ap probation of the most respectable, the most loyal, and, at the . same time. the most ardent Roman Ca tholics of &land. • Friday the CHANCELLOR of the ExcIIEQUER made a cortammication to the Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank . of England, for the informa tion of the public, which was afterwaids. read by Mr. HASH to the Gentlemen of the Stock Exchange, to tLe following purport : That it was the intention of Mr. PER CF.VA Lto submit to Parliauie t nt, early in Ilext week, a proposition for wilding Ex ef.equer data', between the Ist of April, 1810, and the ltith eay of IWarch, 1811,both inclusive, to a certilin amount, not ex ceeding in the whole the sum of (w lie millions—the terms as foiluw:—For every hundred pounds principal money of Bids so sahscrihed, the subscriber is to receive one hundred and three tiCurnes fourteen sa Wings in Navy five per cent. Annuities, the tntere4t thereon to commence from the .sth day of January last, and the interest on the Exchequer Bills subscribed to be funded, is intended to be paid on the 9th day of April next inclusive. To the event of the above stnn of twelve nt,lliyitts being's') sub 'scribed, Mr. PcacrvAL engages nut to propose any ethct addi tion to the five pei . tent. fuucis in the present Session of Parlia ment. On the 'contrary, should I.:::•:cliequer Bills to the, full amount not be subscribed, then he rewrves to himself the plower of crratins five per, ceat. annuities to the amount of sucS ecEciency by the loan tube raised for the service of tlle pr;!sent year." Friday night the CHAxCFT.LOR, of the rACITEQUER brought forward his plan for regulating the Distil lation eft Spirits from corn as well as from sugar--- eath paying a proportionate rate of duty. The roeasure being a new one,-and in some degree expe rimental, it is proposed that the duration of the Act sh.:11I be limited in the first instance to two years. The rates of duty to be so high in both cases as to . operate to a certain extent, as a discouragement to the excessive consumption of spirituous liquors. The Gazette of last night contains a notice from the Lord Chamberlain's Office, announcing that his Royal Highness the PmNer P EGENT will hold a Levee on Tuesday, the 12th inst. It is otherwise destitute of interest, 4 VI: 7 I.LION.—The quilntity of - cnin or byllion im . „ported Majesty's packets, in the year ending 44h, January, IS! 1., from Jurnaic:t,the Bvazils, the Leeward•l4lands, .aytcl wai.as tollows : IPiljirs 424,86) p,.40,ubi0014-17,8`42., stet Ha in coin !Niko.)7l. gq l 4(l 9f4•Oz. plit-reas 1e:11;115es 317, Patina E01b...1.!;d 1 , : , u is 'd. , rs 10. • * 0 SIT! )7w It appears from letters to the sth inst. which were received on 'Friday frOin the French coast, that the recent - determinations of our Government respecting vessels under the- Hamburgh and Bremen flags, has not as yet produced the raising of the embargo in the ports of France, nor was there any expectation that it would be speedily removed. Bankruptcies, and those among houses of the first consideration, were daily multiplying to a frightful extent. . It is said, that Ministers have received informa tion of a proposal having been made by the. Em peror NAPOLEON to the United States of America, that he would lend them twenty-five ships of the hoe, and ten frigates; if their discussions with England should end in a rupture. On the other hand it is said, as a thing likely to happen, that if a war should take place between Great Britain and America, there would soon be a separation betweeft the Southern and the Northern States of the Federation. .The Viceroy. VENEGAS, who, after having distin guished himself by his talents and military skill in the present struggle in the Peninsula, has prevented by his wise and decisive measures a revolution in Mexico, planned by, or at least promoting the plans of BUONAPARTE, is a native of the same pro vince, and or a town very near to that which gave birth to the celebrated HERMAN Conws, the origi nal conquer of the Spanish colonies. ,COR'rEs and VENLGJA were both of Estremadura ; and Me dellin, the birth-place of the former, is only a short distance from Zafra, where the latreitkvas born There are no less than 150 vesseli, full of troops, for the Tagus, wind-bound in different ports of Eng land. The Message from the PRINCE- RECENT to Parlia ment, relative to the Portuguese troops in our pay, was not sent down on Friday, as was expected ; it is, however, delayed only for a day or two, Friday was the last day of the redemption of Omnium, when 40 per cent. was paid on the sum advanced by the Bank. The Jamaica packet due, Ms been met at sea dismasted. An Act was passed in England the day on which Oliver Cromwell was inaugurated Protector (the 26th of June, 1657), which was so well founded in policy, and so judiciously framed, not so mach to punish criminals, as to prevent the commission of crimes, that it would tend to do much good were it now to be renewed. Its title was—" An Act for Punishing such persons as live at high rates, and have no vzsible estate, profession, or calling anstuera, ble thereto." When we daily have but too good . reason to know that there are many men in this town who live at " high rates," without having any*cg vi sible estate, pr(fession, or calling answerable thereto," would not such Act be now beneficial to the people at large ?.DoLubtless it would ; and then we should not see so many da'sLiqg photons in our fashionable streets, which it is notorious run upon the, four aces. . ONE PLANT NOTES.-I t W 415 on the Oth of March, 1797, that One Pound Notes were first used, in stead of guineas, by the Bank ; so . that it is exactly; fourteen . years, this, day, since one most memorable ianov;ttipp took place I Habit reconciles us to won derful clranges.. 1.~