The National Register. — London, England, 1818-07-13 00:00:00

d 47, .. i.u.'l).t 4j,_, No. 514.—V0L. NI. . SPAIN ANP.AMEIIICA. ' • • is not a doubt, that the North AmMleans. have invaded the Floridax . , - in open defiance off/is:tin. This step mw lead to more serious and injurious ecquenecs than the American government seems • to have contemplated. If the :;overnment of Spain: active and resolute in its retributive measures, the capture of the trading vessels of America may he enormous, and afford an equivalent for the loss of the . Floritlas, as well as draw upon the government of the United States the wrath and resentment of their coin inertial communities, vhwc interest is exposed ta suinent risk. The fact of the irruption into the Flan. das Was l‘nown ia this metrojadis u.weet a,,*rta.; and for.. I warded to Spain without any loss - or titne It does not appear from Madrid that any ehAnge of' administration ikeapected. Don Jose Pizarro will C015.... 1 thine Prime Minister. The king. of Spain takes a very active part in the political affairs of his kingdom Curiosity is on tip-toe to ascertain the -course Which his Majesty will pursue towards North America. There must be a wrifice.of territory, or of national honour. The old Castilian blood would never succumb to a national insult ; but Spain is feeble, an the Spanish character much altered. Fortin rly it was us notorious For its generosity as for its valour, for enthusiasm and heroism. An amalgamation with revolutionizes! France unhappily introduced poverty and frivolity among them... The liberality, honour, and pride of a Spaniard were for ages proverbial ; these have been succeeded by apathy and parsimony. This the Americans are aware . of; but the sleeping lion may be roused, and dormant virtues revived. " The race is not allays to the swift,., nor the battle to,the strong." Spain possesses the means of making American commerce expiate the in. suit offered. A war even with the Republic cf Mar garetta would be injurious to the American trade for a time at least. What may be the result of a war with Spain cannot be foreseen. Spain has no commerce to lose. The Americans would have great difficulty in preserving their communication with the rest of the world. Their enemy may prove more powerful than they imagine, and it may reiluire many years 'to re cover from the effects of a maritime war even of cis months. RCPORT ON THE COPYRIGHT Acr....-Tie Select - Committee appointed to examine the Acts respectiho7 . copyright of books, have resolved-1. Thal, it Is, desirable thatso much of the Copyright Act aaeretptires the grutui!ous delivery of eleven copies, 111011141 , the repealed, except in so tar as relates to the British Mu. set:in ; and that a fixed allowance shonhl be granted' in lieu thereof, to such of the other public libraries as may be thought expedieut.—t2. That if it should n:r be thought expedient by the I louse to comply with :Lt above rceammendation, it is desirable that the moiler of libraries mailed to claim such delivery should he restricted to the British Museum, and t!.e libraries Of Oxiiird, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Dublin Univcr sit:cs.--3. That all books of prints, wherein the letter press shall not exceed a certain very small proportion to each plate, shall be exempted from delivery, ex+ alit to the Museum, with an exception of all books mathetuatics.-4 That all buoksin respect . 9f whiclt claim to copyright shall be expressly uml effectually abandoned, M. also excaupted,-.5.. That the aiigutiim imposed on printers to retain- one copy of each work . printed by theta shall cease, and the copy of the . Museum be made e‘ideime in . lieu of it. . . A Muil front Flanders contains some gratifying ac counts relative . to the harvest.—New barley had been sold in the market of 8ri1N:40.4, and wagers were laid that new tve would be brought to tf►e next market. The fields from which she barley had been carried were agsdn ploughed, and mom of them alreadyislanted with potatoes. The fields of French Flanders,. Picardy. and A►tois, have not for IMIIIV years agordeil the prospect of so rids a harvest, and the vineyards of Champagne and Burgundy premise wines equal in quelity to those of 1802. and exe:.edisig in quautisy'thi• in:uducc Of two conuuun yams. ~~~ Atiollat Altaititm Our Attila, Conititution anti iLitivd. MONDAY, JULY IS, INS. .SIR F. BfIRDETTS CHAIRING. A kind of program .of the intended procession . fin. the eirVring of Sir Francis Burdett .11811 trim publish ed. ' Places of meeting were 'sis'silitcl/ to the el'ectursth each 'parish, whence they proceeded; at 10 o'clock ..tkis morning, to tlutt.neighboo.riwod of Hyde [park. Different itiations.avcre pointed out for the pit- Itestrians, the leirseittenfamf 'the' cirri: :s that were to juke, part in tho eccitionf - ; The:wovnients a ;he pmc,ession were regulated.. by signals nude by .iis l'elkurving rockets and. displaying flags:. • its course was yifonrriceadilly, down the Haymarket; Ann; Cock= opyr-1 4 fradt, round the statue 4.t • Citaft t )g 7 -eioss into the ! Strand, •up 11cdford-strect, alM)g. .a titiotta-street,, Tounil Covent-garden, tlow:: Southampton-street, and along the Strand - to the Crown awl Anchor Tavern. The following is a correct copy a the order of the procession : Iligh Constable on h,srseback. . Assistants. four and four. Three small dark blue Flags, used during the elxtratt. Band of Ntusic, three and three. Large white Flag. carried on horseback. motto tt Purity of Election." Band of Nittiie, three and. three. Mintier of St. l'aut. Covem-garili ti—Pick. Electors. four and four, korire , a dark blue flag, inscription " Sir Frunris'lturdett." Banner of St. Ann'a l'arish—Grecu. ' Electors. four .au.l four, bearing a Luge dark blue fla; mottos. " Burdett and Indupendenee." and `• lturdeit and Ptifity of Election." Rand of 111uNie„ three and three • Banner of St. Plen►ant !Junes. and St. Mary-le-Strand—White. Electors, four and lour, bearing a dark blue 11.4. *mu(' •Trial by Jury." Rand of 31usie, three and three. Banner •f st. Martin-in-the-Selds--)'urple. Electors, tour and tour. bt-iiring a dark blue flag, inetTilition • Sir l'rar•.eis llurdat." Band of Musk, three and three. Banner of St. damns--Crintion. Electors, four and Sun. bearing a dark blue flag, motto. •• Burdett and Reform.•" • ... Band of Music, three and three. Banner of St. Gcorge—Sky-blue. Elsotais. four and four. bearing . a dark blue Bag, inscription, •• Sir Francis Burdett. • " Band bf Brisk; three and duet. Banner of St Morgatet iind St. John--" Yellow. Electors, four and tore, bearing a dark blue flag, motto. • Magna Charts." Dark blue Flag. money; ' 6 Burdett and Reform," And • • Purity of clegion." COVIMITTEE. three and three. Large dark blue Banner. motto. 6 •llAirditt. the of the l'eople." Fight High Connable? aNiibratitt , , fogr and film. Six Trumpeter... with silver Trumpets. three and three. Sir FRANCIS !wimp:l"r IN A TRII/Ml'll,tl. drawn by Six llorws. l.ong dark blue Banner, carried on hor.ebaek ; mutt:). .6 Radical ltetonn." Twenty Gentlemen on Horseback. four and four, to bring up the rear of the Proceision, arranged by the Conouittc.:. Horsemen, four and four; and Carriages to follow. • • GENERAL ELECTION. • • ••MEMBERS RETURNED. otk—Mrlinteinisson and Mr. Lossotield. Perth (Motite)—Mr. Jmiles DIUIIIII/Utill. ittPOPlllgallilt . - 10 4ir A. Duia. blnne bk. Got dots. TrAlee—E. Dtnft., Esq. 9, rt,--Su Bal. Clare )-V. Fit, eralsl, Esq. and Sir E. O'Brien. s Hot.. J. Stewart sod W.Sil`Wilfl. 0144r11 and E. S. Cooper, Erqrs. 1., ain (Comity)—tiil L. Cole alit! Geo. Arelidall. Latin •lt.i ise £all of File. STATE OF THE POLLS IN THE COUNTRY. Berlsa—% I 'io2-I.rososa.. 1112 i tlal,l tt, Oil. Coons) et A risiags, —Bo u*slio, 14n15-1i1c1141•Ison, 1 403 tr. I. Cantu) 61 Csasossy—J. Daly 625—N1.4,1in, 327--D. IL Daly 302. Cootaty W....c.rd —Carew, 1656 —Colcluligh, 1623—Stop food, 1410 - ,Ivolut, 1.07. Cousoly of Ltitaiut. Jo.ty t,—Laloaclie, 1119—C:envois, 1017 —Whitt, 749. Conotyof Lmscriek—Fila4ibboa,l7l2—Quin,ll39-o'Grady, 091. Cm) 1.1 Lionel irk ---Veseker, 13t —Riee, 130. Cer er Cork. July 6-11utchntson, 360—Celtharst, 236* Lonntielol, YY4. Town ul Gilnay—lilake, 210—Pendergast 71. A Ministetial Eveuing Paper mentions s rumour that the Lord Chancellor and Lord Ellenistwough are to retire from the bench ; that the firmer is to be !tic ceeiled by Sir Samuel lh willy , awl the latter by the Vice-Chancellor ; and that *Mr. IVetherell will be the successor to Sir Jr liii Leach. 1 has part of the maw', however. which mates to Sir Samuel Hominy, the Editor discredits, tai the ground of his being an advo cate fur lielLrui aid short l'alituuctits, PRICE 90. COUNTY OF DOWN ELECTION. rile two late Members, Viscount Castlereagh, and Lard Arthur Ilili, were re-elected for this county with out opposition.—On the Sherift tkc:aring the uusni. *tutus voice of the freeholders in tiwir favour, • Lord Castlereagh resit and addressed the free holders. Ite begged leave to return his most gratetitt thanks to the freeholders for the honour they bad co w . furred on him. lie said he could assure them, that he entertained u deep sense of their thvour ; and was well aware of the arduous responsibility of the trust which they haul 'again reposed in him. It was peculiarly grateful to his feelings, that, after h,tvh served them'. for 21 years, he had obtained this unanimous testimony'. at their amirebation. He begged leave to remark, that' there was nnineOrisistentiy in returning his Iltmobrable Friend - (Lord Arthur and himserf—although they might differ in political opinions., the' aim of both was the public good. It was only hr the -honest eon fliet of opinions that truth was eliciesi. It woeld'ho: ' impossible for the most enlightened cabinet..to .govern a nation without an honest conflict of opinions. He hoped they would give him 'credit tier having acted al. • I ways from honest motives,' and he should rever shrink I from responsibility. llis Lordship, in a most eloquent , ana appropriate manner, contrasted the time when he last visited this country, with the present. The COMP.' try, he observed, was then in the utmost di tress owing • to the recurrence from a state of war to that of peace —fir we had been engaged in a contest for our very existence as a nation ; and in that contest Great Britain ' had triumphed, and crowned herself with glory. pro vidcnee, however, then, in order to cheek our exulta tion, haul visited us with a most inclement season—he recollected, in a penicilliar manner, that. the wheat oft* farm which was occupied by his father, was then eV vered with snow. Now the contrast was most gratethl t and it was his hope that prosperity would again visit the land ; nothing could exceed the beautitid verdure of this happy country, and he could assure them, it was not confined to this country, tbr it was general. Arts and manufactures also were again flourishing, and a ll was one active scene of employment. Linen had again found a good market, and, he felt confident that their abundant harvest would find a market in Great Britain. !Ifs Lordship further ebservisl, that every human insti tution was liable to defects, but every person must be convinced that under no constitution did the people en joy a greater share of civil and religious liberty than in - Great Britain ; and as lung as freedom of discussion in both [louses of Parliament existed; and as :wig as we were in possession, of a free press, no real abuse would be brought forward without its correction or a ; remedy being finale.. Changes or !Reforms must ta k e place deliberately, for all changes made abruptly or I hastily came to no good. His Lordship again expressel his acknowledgements for the honour they had done him, and said that not only in Parliament, butt to the latest hour of his exist( nee. he should entertain the must gratetid recollection of their kindnes. Lord Hill then rose and shortly returned thanks to the freeholders, mid said, he should always endeavour to deserve their confidence, In a particular manner he acknowledged his gratitude to the gentlemen who ha I moved and seconded his nomination. Otte of these g entlemen, he said, had alluded to his public services in the army—lie should only observe, that when his country required his services. he would be rotund suing his duty. Immediately after the election, the \Linbers were chaired in the usual ti,rin, aecionipaiiiva lry the pla.:dits of the surrouttiling . . _ It is with .;!rcat pleasure we give the following ex. tract from a 4,-:rve is:tiesl from the Royal t ouneil of Almiraltv at Genoa, by or.ler of his Majesty the King of :—" It is hcreby ()Mewl, that none of our sul t ;Lcts, el* whatever clues or con•lition soe.er, direalt• or indirectly, take any part in the Slave Trade, under penalty of heavy punishment, and forfeiture of all protec:i - io from our Govenunent. It is also Itirther or d, re d, t h a t any vessel• bearing our flag, which shall enter into the above abominable traffic, shall IK sulject to eapittre, if.ntta by any of our ships of war, and to immo ii mt ,• sc isore and conlikation on ent t riog may port in our tlosuinionA. In furtherance of the above Order, we have issue•l our commands to our Cl/11141111 modem in Forei„,a In the hate 1% , stinorlAntl hl.mtion, it is Paied that not fewer than 101 ciergytum voted far the Lowthus. G'` tl / . - (.) Z.• • - •:I!►ti %4•••