The National Register. — London, England, 1821-10-14 00:00:00

vbe JUJU:mat lt _ -+ , e . - rt fOirr4 -, / Our thug, Consititutiont anti gabuc. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1821. No. 1,337.—V0L. XIV.] Puler. 94d. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Pants, Ocr. B.—During the sojourn of his Ma jesty the King of England at Lille, many persons solicited the honour of being admitted into his pre sence. Letters from Perpignan, distal the 29th ultimo, gives the following accounts The fever continues to make great ravages, both at Barcelona and Tortosa, where it is impossible to take an account of the number of Cie dead. The infection has penetrated to Fraga and Mequinenza. —Advices from Palma, in the island of Majorca, dated the 14th, state that the contagion had been introduced into that island. It is known that it :as° exists at Xeres tie la Frontera, and at Port St. Mary's in Andalusia. The bulletins published at Barcelona report that from the 19th to the 25th of' September inclusive, there were at Deaths. New Cases. Bareeloaetta.. .Yl-1 1139 Ilareeloua .113 304 It is now discovered that the malady is an epide- . naic contagion, of uncommonly malignant character, it resists all the remedies of art, and the number of victims augments daily. On the 21st, three Spanish vessels, bound to Marseilles, were driven by stress of weather to take shelter at Port Vendre. One of them came from Seville, a second from Alicant, and the third from Barcelona. The hitter hail on board six seamen of the French ship la Josephine, nearly the whole of the crew lrad died of the fever in the port of Bar celona. The inhabitants of Barcelonetta, who were first attacked with the contagion, combined about three weeks ago, and forced the military post. It was this outrage which was one of the principal causes of introducing the fever into Barcelona. A similar attempt was renewed on the 26th ult. but the mi litia of Barcelona, more alive to the fluid result of such proceedings, repulsed them, on which occasion five men were killed and eight wounded. HANOVER, SEPT 29.—His Majesty, our Sove reign, who will arrive here on the 6th of October, will quit his incognito upon entering our territory. —On account of a misunderstanding between the Duke of Cambridge and the Elector of Hesse Cassel, his Majesty is expected to come by the Osnuburgh road, which, in the present unfavourable state of the weather, is none of the best. The necessary orders are given for his reception in that city. OCT. s.—By the accounts received yesterday from Aix-la-Chapelle, we have learnt that his Majesty having stayed a day longer at Brussels, %voi,' not be at Aix-la-Chapelle till the 2d. By the accounts received this morning from Munster (where General Blomefield had already arrived), we find that his Majesty intended to stop a (lay at Dusseldorff, and consequently would not enter into the German dominions till to-morrow. Between Munster and Osnaburglt his Majesty will not take the way first proposed, by Lingeuch, but that by Glandorfil All along the road preparations are making, us well as the shortness of time will permit, to express the joy of the people at seeing his Majesty in this part of his dominions. All the tray front the frontiers triumphal arches are erected. At Osnaburgli a nu merous guard of honour, both horse and foot, has been formed, and the same at Nieuburgh. For the conveyance of the immediate attendants of his Ma jesty, orders are given at every stage to have relays in readiness—(besides the horses for the King's car riage), horses for two berlins with six horses, a bug. gage %%Ligon with six horses. Besides these, four carriages and thirteen horses are required for the Marquis of Londonderry and General Blomefield, who were to arrive at Osnaburgh yestenlay, and crane here before his Majt.sty. The Dukes of Brunswick arrived here yesterday, and occupy the apartments prepared thr them at Montt:rill:mt. Her Royal Highness the Laudgravioe of Hesee Hum bu.urg is exp e cted about th e middle of this month.— The day i s not fi xe d for the ;Aetna public entry of Ins Majesty into this city. HAMDUhOII, SEPT• 2!) —lt is asserted, on the faith of letters from Berlin, that the Court of St. l'etersburgh has caused a circular to be transmitted to the Sovereigns, in which communication is made of the contents of a despatch front the Graui Vi zier to Count Nesselrode, with the observation that his answer in no way satisfies the equituule views of the Emperor Alexander, and that, in consequence, his Majesty proposes to convoke an European Con gress to consider of the affair, to which a Turkish diplomatic will be admitted. VALENCL%, SEPT. 19.—A proclamation was is sued yesterday, stating that a contagious fever had manifested itself in t* island of Majorca, against the spreading of which the usual precaution had been adopted, but that it was confined to persons who were in constant axtendance on the sick : that it was not more contagious than an ordinary putrid te.ver, and had not a great analogy with the yellow fever. The Junta announces with regret that the ma lady has been introduced by the ruinous practices of smuggling. The Junta, painting in strong colours the dreadful situation of such places afflicted with such a scourge, calls on the citizcns of Valencia to subscribe for the relief the inhabitants of Majorca and Tortosa. MALAGA. SE rr. 18.—The inhabitants of this city enjoy the best health; those persons who are ill in the hospitals and in the cities have only ordinary disorders.--Madrid, Sept. 26. Lis ON, SEPT. 27.—1 n the sitting of the Cortes on the 22? d, M. Riberio Tellers, as reporter of the Committee of Finance, asked and obtained leave to read a proposition which he thooght of consequence, the committee considering the bases of the altera tions to he made in the custom had reduced them to the three following points Thut all the productions of the country which shall be conveyed from one part to ano' her, or to diderent places in the kingdom, shall be favoured. 2. That such foreign productions as are similar to those produced in the kingdom, shall be subjected to heavy duties or wholly prohibited ;.and that fo reign productions which supply the raw materials indispensable to the national manufactures shall be favoured. 3. With respect to the colonial productions, they shall remain us they are, till the deputies from the colonies being arrived, general measures may be adopted to regulate the future commerce of the pro vinces, proposing to lessen the duties on the produce of the Portuguese dominions, and to augment them on the similar productions of foreign colonies. EAST FRI ESLA ND, SEPT. 22.—We learn that the maritime tolls and transmit duties at the mouth of the Rhine and the Meuse in the Netherlands are to be wholly abolished, which will be a most fortunate event fur the trale of Germany and its manufacto ries on the Rhine and in Westphalia, which have become so considerable within the last ten years.— When the Upper Ems shall, in a few years be made navigable and connected with the Lippe, there is reason to hope that the trade and manufactures of Germany will pt-.),per as the fetters which have hit licito impeded them shall be broken, and a direct zuul free communication also opened with South America and the West Indies. ~z BRITISH AMERICA. ‘Lir.‘x, SEFT. 17.—The conflagration this morning was one of the most awful and destructive ev.r witut:sseil in Halifax. It originated in Sack ville-street, in the bakery occupied by Shay and Milany, and before it was discovered, had gained an alarming height. It was near two o'clock when the bells were rung. Tie troops. seamen of his Nlajes ty's shins, and inhabitants soon assembled ; the en gines weve judiciously placed, lines formed to dif. term. teservoirs of water, and every exertion nit le to extinguish the fire; but we regret to state that before any check could be given to it, the whole, block of buildings, with the exception of a lions.: situate at the corner of Sackville and Blowers'-strcet, occupied by Mr. H. Croskill, the houses occupied by Mrs. Neilson and Mr. T. Muirhead, in Barring ton-street, and a stable belonging to J. W. Johnston, Esq. in Granville-street, were consumed. For some time great apprehensions were enter. rained that the fire would extend to the houses on the opposite sides of the street, but fortunately it did nut. Some buildings were scorched, and nearly every pane of glass in the front of the residence of S B. Roble, Esq. was destroyed by the excessive heut of the fire. Of the property burnt only about 1,5001. were ensured, mid the calamity has mostly laden where it will long be severely felt—upon wi dows and ' , Than ehildren—upon industrious trades. •44• t. men, whose whole stock of wordly wealth was in vested in the tenements they occupied. To the troops and the seamen of the ships of wur the town is, as usual, greatly indebted for the exer tions made by them ; among the most active on this distressing occasion, we noticed his excellency the Lieutenant Governor cm:on:meagre! exciting, by • his influence and example, the ern ts of every per son within his view. Sir Robert Le Puce Trench, Colonel of the 74th regiment, who arrived here on Friday from New Brunswick; Colonel Mackie, the commandant of the garrison; Colonel Gatintlett ; Lieutenant Colonels Arnold. Xiinine., ut %%rater house, Major Crawford, and indeed every officer of the garrison and military departments were distills guished for their activity and exertions. To Captains Fanshawe, Bouchier, Collier and Napier, and the officers of the ships, every praise is due. They directed the efforts of the seamen in the most advantageous manner. We must here parti cularly notice the intrepid conduct of Capt. Napier, We observed him on the roof of one of the houses, direetinrind working with a party of axe-inen, and rendering very important services. We cannot help, however, observing ttat we witnessed an extraordinary apathy on the part of the inhabitants; they stood in crowds, and appeared to view the progress of the devouring element with perfect indifference; some of these persons possess real estates in the town, and may, before the lapse of a week, need the assistance of their more meri torious townsmen, to protect them from a calamity similar to that which many experienced this morn ing. Such people as are not inclined to render as sistance at fires had better remain at their homes; they only clog the streets, and impede the exertions of the active and humane. Twenty.one houses were• consumed, with other valuable property. MINISTERIAL STATEMENT OF THE QUAR TER'S REVENUE. Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Qaarters ending on the 16th October, in the following year:, vie. 1819. 1820 1821 Taxes belonging to the Con. X aolidated Fund 9,332,287 10.938,169 11,339.007 Temporary Excise 588,276 386,264 1.39,377 Annual Tars 1,334,233 1,613.332 1,562,409 1 1,434.796 13,192,965 Ito .41,74 i October quarter. 1820 Improvement us compared with the October quarter, 1820 October quarter, 1821 Oc tuber quarter, 1819 Improvement as compared with the October quarter, 1814, betbre the additional duties of three millions were in full collection tr:585.997 0111110 E. Total Income of Consolidated Fund in the quarter ended loth Oct. 8*.!0 11.125.349 . Charge 9,W3,09t Excess of Incon.e 1,305,296 Total Income of Consolidated Fund in the quarter ended loth Oct. 1 haou Charge estimated a. 10,0110,0W Excess of Income 1,650,1Y3 Fro•ti the above is'achlry statement, it appears that the improvemcot itt thr re%entie, of tile quarleit just coded, as compared with lite corresomiling quarter lest yelr, is 8•10,8:181. ; as compared with the saute quarter m 1819, lint as the additional 3 millions of dimes were not in full eAlection then, but have been it lull tmllechoit since, i: is proper that one titiarter of the three utiltinni , 750,0001. should be tledueted ;rout the improvement to Lilt Quarter, 1819 Deduct Too,ouo £1,535107 • Hei ce. then. the improvement in the Ociotavr quartvr Insl end.:(l, as comop.,rerl with the same quarter in Id 19, is nu Irs than 1,835.9'41. The improvement, as we bare before stated. in the • quarter just ended, as compared wait the quarter in is above 840,00u1. This lmpruvcwrut :s—in the ems loins. above I 50,t)001. , in the sianius, Atom 56,6tM . . ; bitt the greatest is in the excise, which may i siatt4 s L. frimi 6 111 700,0001. rt dr 7 •,,f • -; 7. A society has been fimmetl at Paris, fir the e 1 s• n..ement of Gcography, by the printing of 5(4.: • •.1 memoirs, the 'm5;41444)11 of charts, the distrii4l t,f prizes, and &denying the expcnees of tr 4 Lueio user.ll and ittip ittant objects in riety.•! • ' •• 3 0 .4 .0:1 • , a