The National Register. — London, England, 1817-11-30 00:00:00

• r.. jet:ha:ll T if past. ati a:4 of ::cut r , tamed to t.icir 010 pa . t, th.inturaUg only such force as the state of the neighbouring continent requires. • had not left Carax.as on the 6th of October. He had there le% icd a contribution of too.ooo dollars, the payment of which he rigorously enforced. No exc.:se or pretext for :-.un payment aas admitted in the contributors. All the troops that came with him. and all those in the smell garrisons scattered over various points of the province, have marched to Calaboso, and compote an army of I.ixe.) men. By the plan which the two caste: ding armies are fol. lotting. it is believed that a general action must be fought b..xween Calaboso and Valencia, and on its issue will depend the fate of Ca meas. If the independents, instead of spending their time in Guayana in personal disputes and invidious biekerings. had marzhed immediately on the province of Caraccas, Nlorillo would not have had time to re cruit himself from his fatigues, or to collect fresh troops. and conse quently would not have been able to oppose to them the numerous army which he has now under his command; on the contrary, Ins forces. dispirited as they were with their catastrophe et Margaretta, would have fallen au easy prey to their conquerors; but by the time that has been given them, the soldiers have recovered their morn!, and are prepared to tight, and there is tie dub; that the campaign which is about to open will be bloody. Such arc the consequences of Meat of combirattion and disorder. The squadrons of both names appear to have made a convention not to encounter each other. That °Fate intlepentli.nts does not ten. tore beyond the Oronoko, and the Spanish ships are laid up in Porto Cabello without making the least movement. The rich poses which we were assured had been made on the. e% acuation of Guyana by the Spaniards, have not turned out so important as they were described. since it is evident that the independents at this moment are in want of money, ono have only mules, cattle, and some cutton. This ought not, however, to excite our surprise, as exaggeration is the order of the day. It has been stated, that the body of the Princess Charlotte has been embalmed, and the public have heard of the sur prise and sorrow which Prince Leopold testified on ;he oc. cation. It may be questioned, indeed, whether this proct dare, more especially as the cor pse is to remain entombed, ought not to have been avoided. The method of conducting the process, by incissiont and other anatomical operations, could not fail to excite the most painful emotions. Moderns Sieulus informs no, that, among the Egyptians, the inventors of this art, the person who performed this part of the act, tied as soon as he had discharged his office; and all who were present pursued him with stone.i, as one who hail homied the public malediction : for they regarded with horror every one who bad offered any violence to a human body. Burt the an cient manner of embalming bodies, and of preserving them for irony ages, is absolutely lost. Forty days were spent by the Egyptians in completing this operation, suit the moderns bare not been able to discover the ingredients of which their illumine/1 were composed. What Heredottis relates of cer tain procedures in this act, its; been proved impracticable in the memoirs of the 4codony of hiseripiions. In these latter days, uowever, dead bodies have been preserved for a con• siderable length of time. Brydone describes a convent of Ca puchins near Palermo, in which there is a vast subtertanemis apartment, divided into large commodious gallehics, the walls on each side of which arc hollowed into a vaiiety of niches, as if intended for a great collection of statues: these niches, instead of statues, are all filled with dead bodies, set upright upon their legs, and fixed by the back to the inside of the filch, their number is about IMO ; they arc all dressed in the clothes they usually wore, and form a most respectable and venera ble assembly. nie skin and muscles by a cereals prepai a lion become as dry and as hard as a piece of stockfish ; and although many of them have been here upwards of 250 years, yet none are reduced to skeletons, the muscles, indeed, in some appear to be a good deal more shrunk than iu others, probably because these persons had been more extenuated at the time of their death. Here the people of Palermo pay daily visits to their deceased friends, and recal with pleasure and reget the scenes of their past life ; here they familiarize themselves with their future stale, and choose the company they world wish to keep in the other world. It is a common thing to make choice of their niche, and to try if the it body its It, that no alterations may be necessary after they arc dead: and sometimes, by way of a voluntary penance, they accustom themselves to stand for hours In these niches. We ourselves, three years ago, saw in the Protestant church of St. Thomas, at Strasburg, the bodies of two noble persons, a father and his daughter, which have been preserved upwards of SOO years; they were babited in the dresses which they wore immediatey previous to their deaths, not a hair or an eye-brow was wanting; the eyes were open, and they appear. ed to be still alive. The minister informed us, that the cases in which they were inclosed were concealed during the period of the Revolution, for, as each of them had valuable rings on the fingers, they would in alt probability have been mutilated or destroyed.— Times. BRIGHTON, Nov. 23,—At lialtdast 10 o'clock on Friday evening, His Royal Highness, accompanied by the Rev. F. W. Blomberg. arrived at the Pavilion. Sir William Kep. pal and Col. Thornton where the only persons who had pre viously arrived to receive and join the society of their illus trious and and afflicted visitor. Nothing of particular im port transpired at the Pavillion on Saturday, and the only exertion of his Royal Highness was confined to the stables and riding school. This afternoon Divine Service was per formed by the Rev. W. Blomberg, before his Royal Highness the Prince Regent and his honsehoid, at the Pavilion. After the observance of religious duties, his Royal Highness was prevailed npon to enjoy a retired recreation along the eastern cliffs, on the road leading to Rotingde-an. lu the respectful salutation of the spectators, there was an intermixture of mournful expression that eeenied to oppress him, for lie could learcely notice the sad scene as he passed. His Royal High ness appeared to be completely overpowered by his feelings, and, from the low attitnue in which lie rode on horseback, to he absorbed in silent meditation. Prince Castelcieala ar rived this:eveninand dined with a small party with,his Royal Highness. HOPIS has received the following official communications that he is immediately to be brought to trial upon the several informations filed against bias by his Majesty's ATTORNEY GENERAL : In the Kiag's-bench. THE RINI, AGAINST WILLIAM HONE. (For the Sinceirrist's Creed.) Take noose, that the issue joined in this prosecution will be tried at the stin k ,. of Nbri Prints, to he holden after this Term, . and fur the city , a ( Lyndon, by adjotunment.—Dated this 22d day of MIWCIII• ber, 1817, A. C. LITCHFIELD. To the a jrs aimed defendant. Sol. for the Pruacetition. The like the late John Wilkes's Catechism of a Ministe rial Member.) The like, lotiee (for the Political Litany.) auks for nominating Juries to try the lanes with the appointment of the Crown-effue on each, for Domini tips on Tucatlay tvoniug, at hyd-past 7 o'clock, war Wiewic mooed. NATTnNAT, nrovTrr. From tiw UIVI, UN 0.1'4E7'11, as,aricy, :Yoh --0- tANARUPTS. Piracy F. New-farm, Oxford, farmer, Nov. 19, Dee. 6, Jan.:6, at GuildhalL Att. Mr. Beckett. Noble-atrect. LATHAM J. RlHRity, Hampshire. brewer, Dec. 11, le, JAR. 6, at Romsey. Au. Mr. Nettleford, Norfolk.irtreet, Strand. PARSONS.J. Harwich, Luting-smack-ONIIRT, Nov. 29, Dcc.6, Jan. 6. at Guildhall. Attv. Saunders and Co. Upper•Thamee atreet. PRESTON D. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, porter.mercbant, Dec. 9, Jan. 3. 6, at Nem castlt..upon-Tyne. Atts. Bell and Co. Cheapaide. REAY T. South Shieklg, merchant, Dec. 6, 16. Jan. 6, at New castle-upon-Time. Atte. BtU and Co Cheapekle. Coienaor W. Nlanchesur. printer, Dec. 15. Ili, Jan. 6, at Man. chester. Atts. Hull) and Co. Inner Teniplc. ELLISON E. Torbook, Lancashire, flour-dealer. Dee. 11, 12, Jan. 6, at Liverpool. Atts. A ungton and Co.ll4affold-row. - 11Ea row NI. FLEFIKING. anu M. DYsorr, Alnondbury, York, woollen-manufacturers, Der. 9, 10, Jart.ls, at Huddersfield. Ans. Stocker. and Co. Furnivars-inn. FUTIIERC:II.II. G. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ship-owner, I)ec. 1. 16, Jan. ti. at Ncwcastle-ulon•tyne. Atts. Atkinson and Co. Chan cery-lane. MAWSRAM W. Angel-court, Thmgroorton.street, broker, I 2, 13, Jan, 6, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Hubbersty, Austinfriars. BELDON C. Keighley, York, irenfounder, Dec. to.t. 23. Jan. 6, at Halifax. Att. Mr. Nettletortt. Norfolk-street. Strand. ATIITHSIOX H. Nottingham, dyer, Dec. 9, 10, Jan. 6, at Not tingham. Acts. Enfield and Co. Nottingham. DIVIDENDS. R. Ager, Leigh -street, Burton-crescent, paper-hanger. Dee. 11. J. P. 'rlionipson, Great Newport-street, engraver, 1/cc. 16. W. Browning, St. Mary-a' e, wine-merchant, Jan. 10. T. Blanchard, Great St. Helens, broker, flee. to. J. Varlet?. Manchester, drysalter, Dec. ta. C. Hansom. Salford, Lancashire, vine -merchant, Dec. 24. .1. Smith. Tabernacle-walk, merchant, Dec. 10. J. Moody. Portsea, grocer, Dec. 23. lt. Gyde, Painswick, Glucester, clothier, Jan. 8. F. Haralaxl, Liverpool, merchant, Dec. to. N. Ginbec, Denton, Kent, coal-merchant, Dec.l6. H. and G. Alalthy, Old Jewry, merchants, Der. 16: J. Barlow, and J. Gregory, Sheffield, irun-founders. Dec. 18. J. ‘Vorsdale, Donnington, Lincirt, dealer. Dec. 16. D. Fowler. and A. Atone, Graceelturch-street, merchants, Jan. 10. D. Pitt, Fenchurch-street, hosier, Jan. 24. H. M. and W.Wakeley, , Bridgewater, Somersctshire, hardwarenicn, Dec. 9. W. Weightman„ Birmingham, mercer, Nov. 47. S. Ilalerow, Trafalgar-square, Stepney, mariner, Dec. 40. T. l'eirson, Star-court, liread-street, factor, Feb. 7. T. Oakdin, Manchester, draper, Ike. 19. J. Garnett, Oldham, Lancashire, machine maker, Dec. IS. W. Thompson, jun. Wakefield, York, grocer, Dec. V. It. ('rogey, Falmouth merchant, Dee. 13. E. Barber, Yamitattli, Norfolk, dealer in perfumery, Dv . ..16. E. A. Van Vourst, Bishorgate-street. merchant, Dec. 16. J. I /tan, Clairton, linen-draper, Dec. 6. J. Nesbitt, Ben. Aldermanbury. merchant, Dec. 16. W. Eastertieltl, Fleet-market, stationer, nyc. 20. J. and C. Coles, Tower street, broketi, DN. 16. IL Plant, Sandford, Berkshire, cattle-dealer, Dec. to. W. and S. Turner, Bromley, Middlesex, Homan vitriol.mataufactu rer, Dec. 16. S. Best, Norwich, upholsterer, Dee. 16. CEIIIIFICATES—Dxc. 16. E. Waggstafre. Bridpor . t, llorsetshire. linendraper.—G. Alsop, Manchester, dealer in twist and weft.—J. and J. Lamb, Stockport, Cheshire, cottou-spinners.—T. Nicholls, Bridgeport'', grocer. [FROM SATURDAY'S GAZETTE, NOV. 22.] . DIVIDENDS. T. Pglington, Newgate-street, woollen-draper, Dec. 16. J. Tyerman, Bri,,tol, silk-mercer, Dec. 16. J. Gray. Bishopsgate-street, linen-draper, Dec. 16. A. WI-ahlan and J. Galt, Great St. Helens, factors, Dec.l6. A. DuLau, Soho-square, bookseller. Dec• 16. J. Field, Gresham, Norfolk, carpenter, Dec. 17. A. Taylor, North-shields, sail maker, Dec. lb. M. Jackson, Santo'', Cumberland, tailor, Dcc. 20. J. Howard, Manchester, wire-worker, Dec. 18. P. Young, and J. 11. S. Brockhurst,Wapping, rope-makers, NOY. 15. B. Jamb, Bartholosnew-close, merchant, Dec- 16. W. Jackson. Clement's lane, merchant, Nor. 29. J. Smith, Great Marlow, Buckingham, stone-mason, Dec. 18. J. Matthias and T. I}owen, Haverfo'dwert, bankers, Dec.l9. J. ♦rmetts, Salisbury, linen-draper, Nov. 29. G. Syrue, Vine -street, Minories, merchant, Dec. 9. C.l/. Leader, Coleman -street, painter, Dec. 13. J. Cartwright, Saltford, Somcrsetshire, victualler, Dec. IS. J. Robinson, Dorking, baker, Dec. 13. H. Downing, Stockport, Cheshire, inn-keeper, Dec.so. J. Headlam, Skinner street, warehouseman. Dec. lb. J. and J. Smith, Bristol, cabinet-makers, Me. 9. J. Jordan, Houndediteh, dealer in spiritous liquors, Der.'27. W. and J. Shirley, Shelton, potters, Dcc. 17. CERTIFICATES—DEc.I3. J. Hill, Reading, timber.dealer.--G. Moorsom, Westhoe, Dur ham, ship-owner.—R. lienry, Jamaica, merchant.—W. G. Nadler, Stratford, chymibt.—G. D4r,gles, Newman street, scrivener.--. 1. Gapp, Norwich, dyer.—G. Snripson, Oftper Grosvenor -street, dea ler.—N. Mudford, jun. Strand, umbrella-manufacturer.—T.White. Emsworth, Southampton, timber-merchant---. 1. W. Coffin, Ply mouth-dock, merchant. —T. Irwin, Chatham, merchant.—B. Brun, Stockport, roller-maker.—W. 'queer, Walton le-dale, Lancashire dealer. CARR ROCK BKACON.—It is with much concern we inform our readers of the sad cataatrophe that has befallen the stone beacon, which, for some years past, has been erecting upon the Carr Rock, situate at the entrance of the Frith of Forth, and lying two miles off Fitt:nese. The building was visited by theisuperintendant on the loth instant, and reported to be in good order. On the evening of the 14th a very heavy swell of sea came ashore, and on the 16th instant the ground swell still continued ; but the weather aas so thick and foggy that the rock could not be seen till the afternoon, when the sea was observed to break upon it with much violence, but a great part of the building was gone. The Carr (lock 6irms the tcmunating point to seaward of a moat dangerous sunken reef, extending about two miles born the shore. The numerous shipwrecks which, notwithstanding all the improvements on the coasf, still happens in this neighbourhood, had rendered the Carr Hock Beacon a work of very considerable interest, and its completion had been looked forward to with much anxiety. The Beacon Hock measures about 'l2 feet in length ; its greatest breadth is sz feet, and at high water of spring tides die site of th e b u ildi ng was at l east lb Evet tinder the surface or level of the sea. The building, of which we now lament the loss, is understood to have cost in the erection be tween 2 and 3,0001. and bade fair to posses.s all the advantages of an excellent landmark. It has been pursued for no less than live suc cessive seasons. The loss of this important imp, °venom on the coast will be severely felt by the shipping interest, particularly of the Friths of Forth and Tay; but a. se Lam from good authority that several courses of the masonry remain untivred, and these the must difficult and expensive in their erection, havin; required more tow three of die five seasons, we may yet hope chat . solid and permanent beacon of stone may b e pl ace d on t hi s fatal t. ~ which would doubt -1 I less prove highly useful, though not poraftset. : A U the advantage. of proposed tide atitchiac.—(4clintnirekyarr. NOV . SO. ItLifiEW UP LI TIeIi.CCURE. Spanish America.—Olvervatiose of an American upon the Worhs M. De I'radt, on the actual State of Among the twiny who have come forward as sturdy advocates of the cause of the Spanish Insurgents, oar readers are no doubt aware that M. de Pradt has ob. tuincd particular notices This man was one of Bua naparte's train at Bayonne, in 1808, and contributed his mite towards the getting up of that state drama, which deluged Spain with blood, and ended so fatally for his Master's interests. To add insult to injury is strictly M. de Prudt's maxim. His aggressions against the royal fin:lily of Spain, by the part he had taken its kidnapping them, was quite sufficient to make him their determined enemy on all future occasions, and when events occurred, as unexpet•tod by him and his master, as they were tidal to their interests, and almost to their existence, he seems to have thought that be could not do better than keep up that hostility with the pen, which the angel whom he still had served," had begun with the sword. Thniug,li her colonies, therefore, he endeavoured to stab the Mother Country, and it' at this tune they are not lost to her fur ever, it is as little owing to the frienaly disposition of M. de Pradt, as to another friend of the human race, the Editor of a pope lax. Journal in this country. With those peculiar 'alins which first recommended M. de Pradt to the notice of Buonaparte, be has laboured to produce a total separation of the Colonies from Spain, and this by a series of misrepresentations so gross that we can hardly excuse them even on the score of ignorance. 'l'o neutralize the poison which M. de l'radt had dis. sentinated, the tract now under consideration appeared, and whatever may be the defects of its style, it has one important advantage over the writings of the Grand A linunee—that the author writes from per. sonal observation. After• having shewn, in opposition to the calumnies of M. de Prtult, that the attention of Spain to the inte. rests and comforts of her Colonies, was not exceeded by that of any other natioa, the writer of the " Observa• tion proceeds to detail at some length the actual situa. tion of Monte Video and Buenos Ayres, offering the reverse of the picture drawn by M. (le Pratt. "When the Portuguese (leered Monte Video, (says the an. thor.) they met with nu iesistance. 1 Khali not enter here into the motives which induced them to abandon this easy conque►t ; but it is certain that they were not forced by th. extraordinary efforts of the insut gents to evacuate the piaccu The subject will not be rendered less interesting by the state. Meta of real facts. " As soon as General Lecor had landed with the troops he commanded, he advanced upon Maldonado, and took pos session of it. The sanguinary despotism, anti daily atr o ci. ties committed by Artigas, induced the inhabitants of Monte Video to solicit the entrance of the Portuguese within their walls. They were not engaged to take this step through any attachment tote that nation, but, worn down by the odious yoke with which they were oppressed, they sought to break. it, and only conceived the hopes of doing it by imploring the succour of those, whom, tinder any other circumstances, they would have looked upon as their enemies. Artigas was not at that time in Monte Video ; he had placed himself at the head of a few troops, whom he uselessly harrassed by the pursuit-of an enemy which it was impossible for him to overtake ; lie raged the countries through which lie passed, and retideied his name odious wherever be appeared. On his withdraw.. ing from Monte Video, lie had trusted the command of the place to his lieutt u ant Baneiron, a presumptuous and inex perienced young mee, and destitfite of those talents requsite to resist the attack of rrgnlar troops. At the moment that General Lecur presented himself before Monte Video, Ar tigas entered the town with three or four of his most trusty followers. It cannot be denied, that, if the inhabitints of Monte Vi deo, threw themselves into the arms of the Portuguese Ge neral, after having implored his :ssistance, they would have done the same, had any Spanish troops presented themselves before their gates. It was not a spud of ►evolt against Spam which induced them to ph,ce themselves under the dutuittion ut Portugal, but that generous sentiment which en gages all nations to break the letters with which they are loaded. 'They who condemn the Spanish administration are not informed of the abundance and fetid ty of the province of :‘lotite Video. Whatever wonders the poets may have eclat eel, they are far beneath their teethty here. A pet petual ' apt togs still reigns here ; but those miniberlesslierds no lunges covet those beautiful plains,enanuilled with flowers and trues. Flor►s of birds were every where to be met with, and the taint was enriched with all those gilts necessary fur the sub sistence of man. The piece of a cow was but three livres„ and no tax or duty was levied. Ere au was exceedingly cheep; the cuuseription was not established, and the enthuse) service of the iplink/S wits 11111k1110WU. At present all these vexations weigh upon these maul windy people; ilb11;1811104i1Ull is some• tune% blamed, but never plinislied. It even Intuits a part of the code established by Artigas ; his tyranny is atrocious; it overwhelms Europeans as well as Americans; probity and lichee are wrongs in tits eyes, and lie basely peisteutes all those who possess them. Each stroke of his chat art., depicts .us fe. ()city , and the occupations of his youth. At hist lie was ay rubber; lie afterwards lose up upon his accom plices, and, having placed himself at the head of a consider ithie panty, caused himself to be proclaimed genet al, or king, of the northern bank oldie river Mate. " Artigas has in ven.ed or employed the must cruel 101 tnres hen the civil wars towel foi th, it a prisoner of lank in the pat ty of Buenos Ayres tell into his hands, he test II to eilnee lit us to be bound by the bands:mil met to font- posts, and thus mit but exposed to the piei ring rays ot the sou , slid the Mails sapiens of the night ; nor was , m• te , ea , ed tin alter a rtlitto pt lit 41 ot time, and almost z.,5% ay. uepttsa o of life. it other 11111. ts, he would CiIIISC his 11111,01 lb isoi.ei to.be mru,sn , !uu a leathern sack steeped In wait I , lu.us , I xposed tea ai.vtr.hing sun, the leather Loy contracting would tufliet I or! tLe g was of it mod crui in of and to Nu urn pow tiga tall( den t cod trat ado tips