The National Register. — London, England, 1813-03-07 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. The Hotspur, 36 guns, Hon. Captain PERCY, arrived on Tuesday evening at Portsmouth, from Lisbon, with a fleet of transports. She has brought an account of the lamented and melancholy end of Lieutenant-General Sir W. EasKINE, Commander in Chief of the cavalry under the orders of Sir ROWLAND HILL. In a fit of delirium, Sir WILLIAM threw himself out of the upper window of a house where he was quartered, and was killed on the spot. The dejection of spirits, and unhappy disposition to suicide, first a!)?eared in Sir Wt Ltd AM after his return from Walcheren, and it is said to have been occasioned by witnessing the miseries to which Lis countrymen were subjected in that wretched expedition. On Tuesday evening,soon after the SPEAKER of the house of Commons had read the Princess of WALES'S Letter in the House of Commons, letters were sent oft by the Lord CHANCELLOR and the Earl of LivEaPooL, to her Royal Highness at Blackheath. The Princess answered the Lord CHANCELLOR'S letter the same night, but we did not under stand that the Earl of LIVERPOOL received any answer to his letter. On Wednesday, at one o'clock, a Cabinet Coun cil was summoned by the Lord CHANCELLOR, to take the letter he had received from the Princess into consideration. The Cabinet met at one o'clock, at the Foreign Office, and continued sitting till three. A copy of the Letter sent by the Princess of WALES to the SPEAKER of the House of Commons was likewise trans mitted to the Lord CHANCELLOR, but his Lordship did not lay it before the House of Peers, having, as is said, considered that his duty prevented him. Since the Letter to the Prince REGENT was made public, the Princess of \V AL ES has not been allowed to see the Princess CHARLOTTE at all. Mr. JOSEPH GROVE, late Manager of the Windsor Thea tre, with Mr. SYDNEY, has again taken the Brighton con cern, and it is expected that his exertions will be even more fortunate than they were last season, which was more pro ductive than it had been for many years. Marshal Jourdan has been recalled from Spain. It is stated that on his arrival at Paris, he was confronted with another Marshal in a manner unexpected by him, when a disclosure took place, which terminated in his arrest. Several vessels have arrived from Holland, and by one of them a letter from Rotterdam has been received, which states positively that Dantzic bad fallen. Another from Amster dam mentions, that the Russians had entered Berlin. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. P ARTS, FEB. `26. EXPOSE OF THE SITUATION OF THL EMPIRE, PRESENTED TO THE LEGISLATIVE BODY, IN THE SITTING OF THE `2STH OF FEBRU ARY, BY HIS EXCELLENCY COUNT DE MONTALIVET, MINISTER OF THE. INTERIOR. Gent Linen,—His Majesty has ordered me to inform you the situation of the Empire in the years IS I i and 1:302. You will see with satisfac tion, that notwithstanding the great atin;es, which the state of the mirititne and continential war obliges Its to keep on toot, the population continues t.er ir.erease ; that our industry has made new progress ; that the lands have never been better cultivated, n':r the manufactorien more fiouriihing ; that never at my epoch of our history, have riches been mere spread among the tlit - Frent classes of society. The simple cultivator at this till 1 ,! kilt)o/...; enjoyments to which h' wic form:rty a stranger ; he put - citases at a Ingher price such lands as suit him best ; his cloth a:. is b •t!er, his foot Is tiwre ab.indant , and more substantial ; Ir butl.is his hiu...;es, and ulaki:s then more com modious and s üb,ta luta' New inventiuns in agriculture, in industry, and in the useful arts, are wit rvjected, merely because of their being new. Every where trial.; are made, and such as experience • proves to be prderable, are usetclly substituted for the old iinitiiws. The artificial she.p-walks are multiplied, the of f;,l l .owing is disc:A:tit'. tied, inckwuros less extensiv.:, IICW ALlbar.:ll: tlb iirciduix of our lands M Reit the cattle multiply, and their breed is arreliorated ; the lowest far mers have acquired the means of obtaining, at high prices, the rams of the Spanish breed, and the stallions of our be t kinds of horses. Become enlightened to their true interests, they do not hesitate making these useful purchases; thus the wants of our manufactures, our agriculture, mid our armies, become evei y day More asiiurcel of relict; This degree of prosperity is Owmg to the l'beral laws by which this great empire is governed; to the suppression of the feudal System, the tithes, the Mains onortes, the Monastic Orders; a suppression which has constituted or rendered free, that greet number of private estates, neer become the free petrimony of a multitude of fimilies hither:a of the lowest class : it is owing to the equality of partitions ; to the clearness and simplicity of Cie laws on property, and on secu rities ; to the promptitude with which law-suits, which are every clay decreasing ; are decided ; it is to these same causes, and to the influence of vaccination, that the increase of the population should he attributed. And why should we not acknowledge to ourselves, that even the conscription itself, which every year causes the choice of our youth to range themselves tinder its banners, has contributed to this encrease, by multiplying the number of marriages, in favouring them, by for ever fixing tho fate of young Frenchmen, who have ouce obeyed the law. [Here follows a long detailed account of the state of population, agriculture, manufactures, commerce, public-works, interior adotie nistration and marine, occupying nearly the whole of the leloniteur, and two supplementary sheets,] to which the President of the Legis lative Body replisel as follows EN r trst EN—The Expose of the situation of the Empire, which we never hear u ithout fresh interest, cannot freed more enlightened judges, nor receive more sincere aoplauses, than in the bosom of the Legislative Corps. Who amone us is ignorant of the progress of this interior circulation, which enlivens every kind of industry, and has caused its effects to reach even that laborious class which had for so long a time been ignorant of its enjoyments ! It is by the remembrance of those days, not tar removed from us, and not by the regret of those who cannot hope for them again, that we love to judge of the works of Government, and of their success. France, always tributary to foreigners for the greater part of its wants, without circulation among the interior towns, without certain emelt yinent to the inhabitants of the country, and without giving them proportionate wages, saw her commerce and her fortune concentered in a few maritime cities, whose splendour we for the moment regret, but the influence of which was but little felt in the distant provinces. At present a more skilful agriculture yields a more considerable produce; great inalufacturess bring into every district foreign arts ; more abundant and better- paid labour makes the people forget their privations. But nevertheless, tar from us be the idea of any injustice towards those anterior times ; ionch was then done, hut we have surpassed the hopes of our fore fathers, and far front misconceieing these benefits, we love to place. the glory of them to their author. How can we forbear admiring these generous efforts which no interests could. relax ? In this very year, when unexpected leases appear to leave no other care than that of repairing them, immens- sums are consecrated equally to interior industry, to retaiii:ng wket has already been achieved, and to the ex ecution of what is not yet' performed. May our enemies at length acknowledge the infinite resources of this Empire, and judge of her greatness by this noble emulation of genero sity between the Sovereign and the people, and thence foresee its des my, which is in the hands of a genius equally capable of inspiring his enemies with terror, and his people with confidence.—Moniteat of Feb. V. LAW INTELLIGENCEIn COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FRIDAY, MARCH 5. SLPORI LORD ELLZNSOROUGH AND A SPACIAL JURY. THZ KING V. WHIT• This was an information filed by the Attorney General against Henry White, the youuger, fur a Libel, cf a false, scandalous, malicious. awl calumnious nature, published by him in a weekly paper, called The independent hig, of the 30th August and 17th September last, against his Royal Highness the Puke of Clamber ot and concern ing the Duke, and also ot and concerning one Joseph Sellls The paper constituting the first part of the libel is a letter under the signa ture of Philo. Junius," addressed to the Duke of C (Stated in the inuendo to mean eDt! ke t.f Cumbeil3 d), inserted in The Independent Whig of Sunday t: . e 3dtli ugn , t last .—I n this letter the writer beAins by stating, that hr is informed there is preoared for his Royal Fligrincss a dien.fied retreat, and that he is probably then solacing himself with !he anticipation of being a spi ndid t 'tile. The writer, ' who states him-elf to he a per,.on will has tong earnestly attended to the eircunist.inces at frtiding, the case of Sellis, the servant of the Duke of Ciii:l'v:riaud, dri.lares, that at first he bad been impressed equally ' with IcAings of commisseration and sorrow for his Royal Highness, who was stated to have been so vilely assaulted, within the privity of his own apartments, by a confidential servant cif his own, entrusted with the care of sleeping next room to him ; and, with . indignation against the wretch who would so vilely betray his trust, and direct his arm against his master and henclatai —More recent circumstances, 153 ' . : fl- ! , . 1 - I ) , ~-1 t I'o ~. 1 . . ,:!, )