The National Register. — London, England, 1817-08-25 00:00:00

to acconot for its publication at thiA time. Not only as no 41 ii . rrellee of °Pinion has arisenamong the Ceurioksiotie I sof the toot on/Plies nutter the 9th Article of the Treaty of Ghent, -to which the above stairoteest evidently refer-, hot it iv no possible there shoot , ' be any rlissocr smut fur some time to .comr. The sus veyors are 4/11;4'ectlitIg at prvsvnt upon their ablates in order to &section' the hichiands upon which ally •:-tim coo be founded. Certainly the American agents ;toil Cm \loners have neither advanced nor intimated a new oiany description, relative to toe British tees itory, and id present Moe not ever, toliehetl open the orpiment un the .anbject of the boond.u•v line. 'l•he Quebec paragraph may . Love been intended a• an idT , et to the idea, whir-h, if well founded, would cot ntf a largo part of I. in the dis trict of Maine from the territories of the United States." SIVEDLN. An ex,' aordionry lkiet 1111.4 been convoked to meet in Sep .teo‘Oee at Chi klintia, NT lie n the Pi inee 1:0)i,t1 of Sweden will declare the Prince of Sndvronsniit Viceroy of the ktngdunt of Norv4.sy. SWITZERLAND. ...... _ Areortlint.. to let•ers from Basle, Zlirich, and Schaffitaamen, Ate harve.t for rye and barley is already over, and in the mine w•arly districts wheat reaped. Tip latter k more abundant than the rye. The vines in the rautinof Zurich look wed and promise better than via% everted. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Tuaday„Tug. 19. BANKRCPTCY ENLARGED. PORSZT M. COOPER 11. IlowAnn E. Lower 'Thames.iitreet, gun powder-imenfactitrers, from Aug. Y(, to Sept.,l7. at GuildlialL Cox G. M. Edgware.road, toymati, from Aug. 50 w Seri. 20, at PAW24/2 J. Entwisle, Ironmonger-lane, commission.:lgent, from Aug. :13 to Sept. 10, at Guildhall. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. CooPER 11. Portant. printscllcr. BANKRUPTS. MERERETRER W. Arborfied. Becks, timber-merchant, Aug. 28, 29, Sept. 30, at Berks. Att. Mt. Phillips, Size-lane. REASELL A Downham, Cambridge. victualler, Aug. 22. 23, Sept. 30, at Cambridg e . Atts. Messrs. Smith, Hatton.ganlem Dastam T. TI. ington, farmer. Aug. 1/i, 29, Ses 23 at Guildhall. Att. Mr. 'lase, Percy-street, Bedford-square. BE/IT. J. Birmingham, po,:ket-book maker, Stan 6, 8, 30, at Bit mingh:un. Alta. Mtzirs. Egerton and Co. Gray's Inn-square. Tom mins J. Atherstone, Warwick, linen-draper, Sept. 6, 3. 30, at Birmingham. Atts. Mews. Swain and Co. Ohl Jewry. AsumEAD T. Bristol, haberdasher, Aug. 28, 29,Sept. 30, at Bristol. Atts. Messrs. Addington and Co. Betlford-row. FRY E. Houndsditch upholsterer. Aug, 23. Nti., Sept. 30, at Guild. halL An. Mr. Wilke, Finsbury.place. TAYLER 6,Lasport, pawnbroker. Aug. 28, 29 , Sept. 30, at Cow port- Att. Mr. Hardy, ISueldesbury. WEALE W. Birmingham. Brazier. Sept. 17,18,30, at Birmingham. Atts. Messrs. Clarke and Co. Chancery-lane. Bras G. King's arnis-chambets, au,rehant, Aug. 26, Sept 9, 30, at Guildhall. At t. Mr. Hull, Staple Inn. 111ANIEINE D. Camden Town, and W I r.son J. Sydney -street. met chants, Aug. 26, Sept. 9, 30, at Guildhall. Atte. Messrs. Robinson and Co. Au tin-friars. VEAMCIS J. !lunation, Hertford, comfactor,Aug. es, 30, Sept 30, at (Guildhall. Atts. Messrs Parnther and Co. London-strest. DIVIDENDS. W. Paterson, Lea-gill, Westmoreland, seedsman. Sept. IS. A. Slater, Gaw►werth Chester, cheese-factor, Rept. 11. W. Stephenson, Preston. Lancaster, linen-draper, Sept. te. B. Shout, Bagnigge-welle, brewer, Sept. 9. .1. Webb, Wolverhotnpton, mercer, Sept. 9. B. Atkinson. Doncaster, millwright, Sept. is. W. Higgins, Newpert, stocking-manufacturer, Sept. 9. J. Rose North Basn, Norfolk, fanner Sept. 4. J. Raise. Jagnigge•wclls, brewer, Sept. 9. R. Hall.'Liverpool, grocer, Sept. IS. M. Wright, Derby, mercer, Sept. I?. J. Harvard. Chimell-street, chmaman, Sept. 16. W. Lucas. Cheapside, warehouseman, Sept. to. J. Earl sea. Westmoreland-place, City-road, and J, Earl jut* Pres, ton. Hertford, beast salesmen. Sept. to. J. Pugh, Red Lion-street, Holborn, ironmonger, Sept. 10. H, Standen, Dover, Enen-draper Sept. 11. F. Leggin. Aylesbury, Buckingham, druggist, Sept. In. A. Samuel, Middlesea-street, Altigate, confectiocer, Sept. 11. "F. Simpson, 'Globe-street St. George. cabinet-maker, Sept. lg. C. M•Carthy, Long-lane, Bermondsey, skinner, Sept. IA .1. Russel, Strafe, wine-merchant, Sept.ll. CERTIFICATES, SEPT. 9. B. Ilassel, lleethten, Chester, miller J. Wilkinson jun. New sinistle.upon-tyne. ship-owner—T. Winship. Gateshead, Dnrham, unerehant—J. Tushimkam, Chester, bookseller—S. Neville, Leeds, morn and oil Merchant, Maidstone, carpenter—R. Ifiths. Pool, banker—W. Savage, Corporation-row, Clarkenwell, wasch-makes. `~~~ ROWING -WATCH.--Tuesday Astley's 29th prize wherry was rowed for by the following Watermen, each of whom Lad won one of this Gentleman's former Prise Wherries 544. 1. Robot Tlemingtors, Hork.kydrowt4 Scarlet S. Henry Lewis. Ditto, Blue s. William Collins, Ditto, Green 4. Edward Birch. Pepper-alley. Yellow S. Jahn Maynard, Lanibeth, Brower srs. Aiwa Wattlowl. Temple. Purple And A. Lock, of Westminster, and R. Barrow, of Rlaboit. friars, were eatra men, in case of the absence of any of the abase. About four o'clock thaw started with the tide from Westminster-bridge, and rowed tbrougli the third arch on th e ___ ... Sarre . side of ViruXhall-bridge, retnioed on the S urrey - s id e , rowed round the beacon off Hnogerford, and returned ithrongh the centre arch of Westminster-bridge. At five isinutes after Ewe o'clock Watford, Maynard, and Birch, re turned through Westminsteraridge close asters of each other. The three entitled to row for the grand heat, after retiring to have some refreshment, started precisely at six o'clock, when Maynard took the lead ; but Birch shortly got Define him, and kept as far as Vauxhall-bridge; but on their return, Maynard shot-ahead, and canoe in Snit, at half•past 'six. Birch was second, and Watford last. The Victor jumped into the Prize Wherry, in whichae was carried iii triumph oa waternrans' shoulders into Astley's Theatre, where the prize wasrle*cred to him in due form on the cage. The second reorioed two guineas, and the third one. A private letter from Calais of the 15th inst. says:—" On Monday last an Englishman, who bad been an officer in the 11501 dragoons, •ftod Aideale-Camp to th e I)iike of Cumber land,oras triedat Bologue, and sentenced to the galleys. Ho is to be marched ,from thence in a chain, with many others, to Paris, where he 'will be again tried on charges of robbery and swindling. Hc-appears to have no friend, but a beauti ful you Breach woman, who, it i s sa id, attends hint as his .servitat male attire,. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. REVIEW OF LITUUTURE. SOU TM AMERIC N DISAFFECTION. A?Crllt'A ESPANOLA, &C.—Sixtaish America, orobserv at;cms on L's presew stw e o f Ottni.vit .4oterica, and on the mist clti,:acious me Ins col terminating the pre ..ent disturbances there.—By a Spaniard, the lover of his country. This, we believe, is !hr first tract that has appeared in this country front the pen of a Spaniard, respecting Spain and her Colonies, and we notice it with the more pleasure, front the dispassionate view which the writer seems to take of his subject. He sets out with denying that the object for whit.* the revolted dis tricts are contending, is a freedom of commerce ; and that were Spain even to offer this as the boon of reconciliation, it would be refitsed with disdain by the insurgent leaders. From the total want of permanent and settled government in these provinces, even where independence has made the greatest progress, he deems it utterly impossible far the mother country to enter into any sort of negotiation tin the pacification of her colonies. NVith respect to foreign mediation, he seems to consider it as a useless experiment, because the resti tution of the present independent districts to Spain must be insisted on, and were this to be done, even at the price of throwing open the commerce of the country so all nations, yet so inveterate arc the hatred and opposition of the leaders of the independent party, not only against the government of Spain, but against the whole nation, that there is no likelihood whatever of their fulfilling the terms of any treaty which had restitution for its basis. The writer nest enters upon the question of the right which Spain, in common with every other state possessing coloni s es, has, of reserving to herself the entire trade therewith ; and insists, that were the ports of South America, thrown open, that country, instead of being an advantage to the parent state, would, in her actual situation, be a positive bar then, because she possesses scarcely any of thos'.: arti cles, which are objects of need with the colonists. On the important question of the advantages which the maritime States of Europe would derive from a free trade with South America, he denies that they would be at all equal to what many persons conceive, because, though Spain held that trade enolusively in her own . hands, yet she purchased almost all the articles of which it consisted of England and other European countries. We, however, think this the weakest part of his reason ing. There is more truth in what he says respecting North America ; he can easily conceive why the Inde pendents meet with so many partizans in England, notwithstanding the strict neutrality which the go vernment has observed ; but he is utterly at a loss to account for the aid which is afforded them by the North Americans, since, were they to succeed in establishing their independence, it would be attended with the most injurious consequences to that republic, as there is nothing produced in it which is not to be found in greater abundance in South America, and which, from the comparitive cheapness of labour in the latter, might be furnished to Europe at vastly lower prices, grain and flower in particular. We never have considered the accounts received in this country 'respecting the successes of the Independ ents, as deserving of implicit credit; and we are therefore the more willin e ,o to attach confidence to what this writer states on the subject. If, he .observes, a spirit of' independence had been general in South America, it must long ere this have been lost to the mother country; but the contrary is the fact; the independent govern ment of the provinces of Rio de la Plata is the only one in the whole peninsula that possesses any thing like stability, allt he others being formed of the most discor dant materials. The whole of the Northern Provinces from Panama to California are completely tranquil ; in the parts contiguous to the United States, the coasts particular, there are parties, which under the mask of independence disturb the public tranquility ; but these are composed, for the most part, of foreign adventurers, acting without concert, dependent on no government whatever, and guided solely by their own personal views' and advantages ; owing their existence and support in great measure to the numerous privateers, or more pro perly pirates, which swarm upon the coasts ; on the in.! tenor they have no influence; every thing there is tran quil ; in proof of which he mentions that in September 1816, a person travelled more than 360 miles without acing a single insurgent. The great dependence of Spain against the Insurgents, according to our author, are the Creoles, or native Colonists; they are devoted to her cause, and in more than one province have united and defeat sl the Insurgents. To them therefore she ought to look for the salvation of htr colonies, and all that is wanted to give full effect to their loyalty is skilful officers to train and lead them ; these it, is proposed should be, sent from Spain without delay. The next object of at tention, must be the destruction of the privateers which • swarm in those seas ; we fully agree with this writer' that the other maratime powers of Europe are almost. as much interested as Spain in crushing this species; of force, which in many respects is little better than a system of piracy ; and we have no doubt will become completely such, if vtorous measures be not adopted AUGUST U. against it. According to this writer, Spain is not in a. condition at present to maintain a naval snaperiurity in that quarter, she must therefbrc prevail upon some Eu ropean state to aid her—the only foreign aid which can be of any avail to her. The destruction of these priva teers he considers as a certain means of bringing ruin upon the insurgent bands which infest the coast and' provinces ; because it is from them that these bands twelve succour of every kind, and a refuge in defeat till they can again gather strength sufficient to make ano thrn. descent ; this was- the case with the expedition of Bolivar, which, butt kir these privateers, never could have quitted St. Domingo. The tinal measure proposed is judicious, and completely in the power of the parent state to adopt ; this is to nominate persons to till the offices of governor, ore ther high situation, who possess real abilities, moderate principles, and who aro evely way disposed to execute the duties intrusted to them with mildness and integrity ; while the parent govern ment must bury in oblivion all that has occurred, and instead of attempting to inflict punishinent, seek only by kindness and au equitable system of government to tic the doubtful, and to bring back the lisalfected to their allegiance. MIRLNER'S ACCOUNI UI THE TONGA ISLANDS. The duster of island's in the South Pacific Ocean, to which the natives give the name of " Tonga," is the same as that to which Captain Cook gave the epithet " Friendly.' The interesting work now before us has been produced in nearly the same manner as Adams's Narrative of his residence in A Inca; being a compilation from the communications of William Mariner, who re sided several years on those islands, by Dr Jolla Martin. 'lle Editor infiirms us in his intrAuction, that in the year 1805, William Mariner, then little more than 13 years of age, embarked on bthuil the Port au Prince, private ship of war, commanded by Captain Duck, a friend of his fittlier. This vessel had a two-fold com mission, if not successful in her cruize for prizes within certain latitudes, she was to double Cape Horn, and procieeed into the Pacific Ocean in search of whales. To this ulterior destination, Captain Durk found it necessary to proceed. The first forty pages of the work are occupied by a journal of proceedings until the arrival of the Port an Prince off Lefooga, one of the Hapai islands, the same place where Captain Cook had formerly anchored. But previous to this Captain Duck had died, and a mutinous spirit had manifested itself among the crew, which was increased by the inju dicious management of Mr. Brown, on whom the com mand had devolved. In the midst of Mr. Brown's bickerings with his crew, the ship was surprised by the natives, and all on board butchered except Mariner and the cooper, who had saved themselves in the gun room until thecarnagc had ceased. Mariner was sent on shore, w here he indu red manyinkmities, until he was sent for by Finow, the King, who bad taken a fancy for him, having seen him on board the vessel. After being wash ed and oiled and refreshed by a night's sleep, Finow took him on board again, where to his surprise he foun several of the crew. These had been saved by being on shore at the time of the massacre, and were now brought on board by order of the King, to work the ship in shore. When this was effected she was plundered by the na tives, and then set fire to for the purpose of more easily obtaining the iron which was in her. By the direc tion of Finow, Mariner's situation was now made as comfortable as it could be in such a state of society, and during the four years which he resided amongst them, he, as well as some of the other Englishinea who had been saved, rendered themselves highly useful, in the wars which Finow carried on against his neighbours.— We shall give the account of Mr. Mariner's escape in in the words of the Narrative, and in our succeet'ing number we shall give extracts of such portions of it as may serve to make our readers acquainted with the mailers of a people hitherto but little known. In time of peace, when he had nothing in which to employ himself, but objects of recreation and amuaerneut. sometimes with Finow, or other chiefs, and sometimes by himself, among several amusements, be would frequently gu out for three days together, among the neighbouring small islands, on a fishing excursion : as he was one evening re turning homeward in his canoe, after having becu out three days, lie espied a sail iu the westward horrizon just as the inn had descended below it ; this heart-cheering sight n• sooner caught his attention than he pointed it out to the three men hi the Canoe with him (his servants that worked on his plantation), and desired them to paddle nu board. holding out to them what an advantageous opportunity now odered itself to enrich themselves with beads, axes, looking glasses, &e.; an opport tttt ity which they might never again meet with : to this they replied, that they had seen her be. fore, hut that their fear of his wishing to go on board pre vented them from pending her out to trim, for they had often heard their chiefs say., that they never meant to let him go if they could help it ; and hence they were apprehensive that their brains would be knocked out, if they suffered him to escape. Mr. Mariner then condescended to entreat them to pull towards the vessel, promising them very 'it'll rewards. Alter conversing together, and muttering something betwet themselves, they told Mr. Mariner, tint notwithstanding the esteem and respect they had for him., they owed it as a duty to ;heir chiefs to refuse his request ; and upon this, they began to paddle towards the nearest shore. Mr. Mariner instantly demanded in an elevated tone of voice, why they talked about the fear of chiefs ; were they not his servants. and !Mite not a right to act with them tulle pleastil? lie