The National Register. — London, England, 1818-10-05 00:00:00

rib ip No. 556.—V0L. XL AIX - LA-CHAPELLE. This place, so soon to become the scene of a Itilliant rc-uno;s, if not of important conferences, lies about ZO miles east of Meese from Maesiricht, and was be fore the French Revolution a free imperial city, in cluded in the circle of Westphalia, and subject to the bishoprick of Liege. It is celebrated in history for having been the birth-plate, the northern capital, and favourite residence of Charlemagne; for having been the place where be died, and where his ashes are deposited ; Per having been solected as the seat of many councils and synods; fur haring witnessed the coronation of 36 Emperors of Germany, and for being fixed upon by the Golden Bull as the spot where the Emperors were always to be crown ed. This privilege, however, it has lost for nearly three centuries, Ferdinand the First, the brother of Charles V. being the last Emperor who received his mown in the capital of Charlemagne. Though for- used) , more populous than at present, its importance for centuries has depended on its antiquity, the privileges which it claimed rather titan exercised, the sacred relies which it contained, and the attractions it held out to the visits of strangers by its beautiful 'situation and the salubrious qualities of its mineral springs.. The city is situated in a delightful basin, surround ed on all sides at less or greater distances with moun tains or rising grounds, of the most picturerve variety, and covered with the mast luxuriant vegetation. A great part of its ancient wall, flanked by Raman turrets, still remains. The fosses are now filling up, and the ground which they occupied will sup Its converted in:o a beautiful promenade, extending all round the city. The interior of the town has nothi.ig striking or inter esting either for ancient fame or inodern magnificence:, but the cathedral church, the Hotel tie Ville, and son::: of the houses in the new street of Compeshad. The cathedral, or church of Notre Dame, was founded by Charlemagne in 785, and consecrated by Leo. 111. in 804. It was endowed with a chapter of 32 canons, of which the imperial thunder became one. The consecra tion is said to have taken place in the pretence of Jti.s" bishops and arch:ishops, and cardinals, two of whom, Saints !iintilphits and Golulphus, are said. to have walked front their graves expressly fir the purpose of b;:ing proscnt at the ceremony, which it was resolved should be attended by as many of these dignified pertains as there were days in the year. If, according to Shakspcare, " All the world's a stage," Aix-ht•Chapelle seems now a stage for all the world. The principal actors are to make their entrances with great pomp The subordinate perfiirmers have already done so with less ceremony, and the spectators are assembling from all parts to. witness the scene.— There will be Emperors Kings, Princes, Ant' , us , :adors, Diplomatists of ts 3 kinds, ,Marshals, Governors. Gene ral', Grand Crosses, Chevaliers of all orders down to Oust 4 industry, parasites, buffoons, and boxers. They , lave already restaurateurs from Paris, and haberdash ers from Constantinople, aeronauts (coin Paris and Dresden, bankers from 'London and Vienna, and gam- Iders from all the world. 1 Dispatches from Clcneral Murillo, similar to those Pent to Lord Comberwerc, had beta forwarded to the Governor of Dcmerara, but there is a remarkable varia tion in thcm. In the (lisp:itch signed Ores, ill the Barbadoes papers, it is that the " ticws of the 4testla of Bolivar may Le relied upon." The saute disputeli, as published hi the Rosa! Dentryttra (wattle, says, that the death of lhaivar was " again ri.ported " A paragraph in a Demerara paper states, that Joseph Buornurte had sent not less than livcen thonsand invitations individually to Fretiehnw n residing in France to join hint in America. Admitting this to he true, the reply of Pottpur to Vendower may very luirly be applied to his invitatious--" Will they come, when you do send fot them ?", /2' 7 •-• ce alianalf Aiticititvr+ 4!)IIt ItQ,. eon Litt' In anri U idyl. MONDAY, °GTO. it 5, 1818. FROM THE DUTCH. PAPERS. GIIPNT, SEPT. 27.—Letters from-Germany affirm, that Her Majesty Maria Louisa has prev•iiled on her august father to support the proposals which are to be made at Aix-la-Chapelle, to remove Napoleon to a cli mate more suited to his health, and where he may fol low his usual habits. It is added. that Count Las Casa' has drawn up a memorial to this effect, End that be has written on the subject to the Duke of Richelista ; it is possible that this Minister, who is sllowsd to have elevated views, may see that it is politic to deprive liummparte or the interest attached to great misfortunes. Napoleon, in fctter3 and resigned in the midst of suf- Lrings, excites admiration and pity. Happy, and wish out apparent restraint, he would not be less greet, but less dangerous, in the s:!nse of the void. All the journals, both national nni which are written without passion and meanness, have expressed these same sentiments of justice and generosity which nature has implanted in souls that are not depraved by hatred and self interest.—Ghent Journal, Sept. 27. The Brig an Mercury, which does honour to our. literature, expresses itself thus " Several English journals have repeated what one of them had announced on the subject of the sufferings and privations to which Napoleon is reduced, by the useless and cruel rigours of the Governor of St. Helena —a recital which tends to confirm a work lately pub lished, the authenticity of whiah nothing authorises us to suspect. If it be true, that a cold and petty tyranny thus oppresses a defenceless captive, to whom is at least doe that regard which no generous mind can withhold from fallen greatness ; if those, whom a noble devoted ness attached to his person, have, contrary to their been separated from him ; if, finally, the man ap pointed to watch over his. health, and whose character and talents obtained his confidence, has been rudely withdrawn by a refinement of barbarity worthy of the Governor of the. Bastilo, the maledictions of humanity are due to Kin who takes pleasure in this l,txury of vengeance, and the administration that tcilerates it ought to share in the opprobrium. _ _ he commercial genius of England continues to excite our admiration. It is no longer confined to oak hark, flax, or rags for paper, and other articles of that sort. It is not merely the productions of Ceres that the aspiring pomp of the speculators of Great Britain daily carry off from us. The interest they take in the articles which are the growth of our soil extendscven to onions. and apples. This has furnished to some journals a sub ject for pleasantries more or less gay. But let us beware of that total levity which mightlead us to smile at our inisf,rtunes I However fertile the soil of Belgium may be, it is nut inexhaustible, and our gratitude for the beneits which England has conferred upon us ought not to be carried so far as to starve ourselves for her profit. " It is not, however, without some. hositation. that we hazard this remark. A speech lately pronounced in one of our public ceremonies, in a town which par ticularly feels the extent ofour relations with our friends over the water, has induced ur to entertain con3iderable scruples on this subject. By that speech we arc taught, anumg other usefol truths, " that it does not become u 5 to exannue to what extent the raw materials for our in:lnaba:tun:s may or ought to be preserved, to mtirinur against the indirect taxes, or to criticise the measures adopted by the Government." But why does nut this become 1:5 P Precisely " because as we receive kings from God, and Ministers and Governors from the hands of Kings," (a descending progression which the orator might have carried much thrtherd " they must know what is most advantageous for their people : our duty is to obey and be content." The Quotidiestne said nearly the same thing in 1815, but less frankly and plainly. Unfortunately, hake suj orationes.— These sage reflections arrive about 100 years too late, and are instances of some good seed thrown awa y.TM . SEPTEMDER 28.—0 n the very opening of the Caw , gross at Aix4a-Chapelle, as well as every *here • else, there is nothing to be heard but On din--(It is said). his said that the Congress of Vienna, having been merely employed in endeavouring to satisfy the appe. the of six or eight guests, that of Aix-la-Chapeile will taLe upon itself the entertaining of persons who were nit admitted to the former feast. It is set& that Castlereagh will react to the Congress a Mil of Indemnity passed by the lintibh Yarhawent, and foamed ott the model of the ProclamatiOn of Quin ties at the Isthmien games of Corinth, and whicia will I'r " ~.,....- --ac;- Piu i J' d. cause to be repeated throughout Eumpe these wonlr, which admiration, and joy heretofore dictated to assem bled Greece :—" There is than on the earth one nation which, at its own expense and tirl, exposes itself to all the fatigues of war, to secure to ethers the inestimable. benefitsof liberty, without being instigated thereto by the interests of neighbourhood, or by to ties which unite people of th e sam e con ti nen t ; whirl crosses seas to banish despotism from every part of the world, and to establish every where rho reign of joatice and the laws ! The mere Sties of such a plan manifests the. elevation abet- sentiments, and its execution proves her couraige and her greatness." - It is said, however, that this bill is only a laerat r verie, that Castlereagh has no mission except to strengthcn the Dictatorship of England, already too well off with her commerce to think of preferring this vain Roasan glory to it. His object above all is to ex cite a fear of even the very shadow of France, and to.. proceed until that country be so reduced as to become an object of pity ; success in this object promising him the empire of Europe. it is sad, that the English East India Company, having succeden in accomplishing in Asia what neither Alexander nor Timur were ever able to execute, has now projected the conquest of the empire of the Birmans, in order to prepare a woad to that of China, where she is already lighting up the flame of revolutions. IE it said, that England, full of admiration of the Government and conduct of her India Company, is. preparing, in imitation of it, o European Company, which having its factories scattered through all maritime and manufitetering towns, antra general system of ccn tralization uniting all the springs of the operations fro:a north to south of London, and thus subjecting the wholt> industry of the continent of Great Britain, the profits of which would be sufficient to maintain this state cf de pendence. It is even believed that Castlereagh, and Baring, the banker, are in petio destined to have scats among the Directors of this 'European company. Information has been receivedfrom :Madrid of a sud den tuni total change in the Spanish Ministry, and the exile of its leading members ; M. Pizzarru having been banished to Valencia, M. Garrey to Saragossa, and M. Figarott to Andalusia. The causes of this event are unknown, but conjecture ascribes it to the predilection shown by the fallen Ministers towards America, and their decided prektrenee of Russian interests. Th.; time new Ministers, who are to succeed, those dis placed, are the Marquis de Cassairujo, as Prime Minister ; Counsellor of State . Himas, as Minister of Finances ; the Lieutenant General Cienetos, as Minister of Marine. The three disgraced Ministers arc said to have been arrested and t a k en ou t o f th e i r beds, without knowing at first how they were to be disposed ot: Of the character of the new Ministers, it is said they are men likely to recommend and pursue, so far as their power is commensurate with their will, a high and despotic course. " Manam, 16.—This metropolis was sur. prised on the morning of yesterday,. to find, that during the preceding night there had been . a sudden change of three lending !Ministers :—M. M. Piatunos Garrey, and the Secretary of Marine ; and that their Excellencies bad been all sent out of the capital at an hour's notice. The Marquis of Castelineo ; who married an American Lady, is Prime Minister, ad extern's; and the portfohot of the two others are also held pro Import , . " M. Pizarro was supposed to have held great influ ence over the King, who consigned him to such sudden diagra;:c. Ile bas left Madrid witir much money, anti they say his lady has Malty diamonds " Conjecture, amktbore especially scandal, that rawer fails to attenkpotier into exile, ascribe many causes for his..doweall :—Au overweening predilection tin- Ametiefil—the. corrupt cession of the Floridas—a tided preference fbr Russian interests, &e. However,. this is certain, that his last festive appearance was at , ttio Russian Ambassador's, en the tlav of St. Alexander, when he and his Lady were much earreAetl, and ap. parcntly without any apprehension that their sun would so stalder i lly set. " The King has appeared at the usual drive on thia. I'rado, and at Madrid no wonder lasts twelve how's,' '• • We understand that the appointment of a Ftlt•crrr to Sir Evan Nt pean in the government of Bombay is in agitation at the India Ilouse. Sir J. Malcolm, Gestert,l Q.4 . C1;1" Mourn, and Mr. Elphinstone, have been iicommend.tt • to the Court of Directors, for theta to chaise as:.-.4 • Ai ~'~ ••V‘,lt • rwir. • -