The National Register. — London, England, 1814-10-16 00:00:00

wv,p-s• - 666 m0mi................ . . , . ___ The Pali, Papeis received On Tuesday contain accounts of I tie solemn entry of the Emperor of Ru , sia and King of Prussia into Vienna, accompanied by the Emperor of Aus tria, who went out to meet and receive th e m with distill- [ g.aished hononrs. No less than one thousand cannon were tired on the ocea , ion, and the whole ceremony was grand and ; imp! essive in the extreme. The French Papers have entirely i changed their tone with respect to the Congress at Vienna, and the probal,lt reitdrs. They lately abounded with para. graphs itintratiag doubts and difficulties, existing jealousies and suspici(ois of the views oldie Alned Powers, and pointing i unt some of than individually, a , actuated by views ()lambi- tion av 4 a7grandi , einent. The Journal des Debats of the 7th, bas published a long article calculated to do away any unfa- vnurable impres,ion whirl) such paragraphs may have pro ';need. It states that the happiest results may be expected from the Congiess of Vienna, and that those hopes may be indulged without anxiety or mistrust. It pays a compliment to each of the Allied Sovereigns, including the Pi ince Re gent of England, and their Ministers, adding, that " every thing proves that !leaven did not take at random the deposi eoties of its gt eat destgns."—The long-contested Decree on the liberty of the Press has at length passed both the Ftench I.vgi,lative Bodies, b u t under circumstances which clearly !nark it to be, as it one;ht to be, of temporal duration. The 'preamble so much objected to in the Chamber of Deputies, as implying that. the law was to be permanent, has been • sand; out by the Peers, and in this state the law will no doubt re' rive the Royal sanction.--Several booksellers ar- re.;ted in Paris, charged with selliog anarchical and seditious libels, have been transfer - I ed to the pris - on 1.. a Force, for the • put pose of Hein;; I.tight to justice. The particulars of the charge against them are .not stated, but it appears there are :natty tuibulent spirits still in Fiance, who ate anxious for a change, and are secretly aspersing and calumniating the Go %eminent, at the same time that they ratter the Marshals, and are anxious to conciliate the military. In the Chamber of Deputies, on the 4th inst. a peti•ion was presented from several of the booksellers above alluded to, complaining that they were atbitrari'y arrested, which was referred to. 'the committee -of Petitions. Marshal Macdonald, one of the Chamber of Peers, has been among the most strenuous .kidvocates for the liberty of the press. . . By the accounts in the French Papers from Madrid, we learn, that Ferdinand has ordered all property, styled Na iional, whether belonging to private persons or the Clergy, to be re,lored to the former proprietors, without any indem nity to the persons who had purchased it. The Government is in want of money.—The troops which have been order id to South America, have refused to embark. The arrest :of the brave General Alava, and the resignation of Sir 'Thomas flyer, are mat ked incidents tending to shew the state of politic opinion in Spain. Several even of the public ]Ministers appear to have retired from their appointments. The re-e,tablishment of the Inquisition turns out to be by no means a measure .of mere form. Not less than ninety arrests arc said to have taken place in one night : and the prisons are .lint large enough to contain the state prisoners. This state of cannot continue long, especially if, as is asserted, the Gus-em um:lnt is in want of money to pay its troops. The system of severity spreads such dismay, that persons are emi grating as fast as possible into France. Evers account from Spain strengthens the apprehension .of a speedy civil war in that country. The province of Cata lonia has sent a deputmion to Madrid to claim the liberation Of those of its Deputies, Members of the Cortes, who have been arreSled and thrown into priSon. In Madrid itself new arrests have taken place, and the two enterprising Guerilla -TIIE NATIONAL REGISTER. OCT. Iti Chiefs, the Minas; are in insurrection againat the Govetn mem, on the side of Navarre, in which they are said to have a great many followers. Thus,. in the North, in the East, in the South, and even in the heart of the kingdom, in the capital, all is fear and distrust on the part of the Govern ment, and discontent and resistance on the part of the peo. plc. It is stated in private letters from Paris of the B:.h, that the Minas had become .so strong as to have collected a force of 18,000 men, and so daring as !o attempt to' surprise St. Se bastian, 'on the 25th ult. in which they failed, from the. trea chery of some of their officers; but it is not noticed in the Paris Papers of the loth instant, or in private letters from Bilboa of the 29th last. According to other accounts, the attack was made, not upon St. Sebastian but on Pampeluna. They add, that the professed object of the Minas was to re store and establish the constitutional monarchy of Spain, as recognised by the British Government, and other no °peat' Powers. prior to the unfortunate measures resolved on last spring at Valencia. Fut ther Paris Papers to the 10th inst. arrived on Wednes day.' The Chamber of Deputies pursues its labours with little intermission. The law on the exportation of co' n is still under discussion. The principle of flee trade in this esential article seems to meet with few advocates. Au import duty is proposed by some ; hut the principal point on which they differ is on the price above which exportation shall be pro hibited. This price, it is intended, shall be different in differ ent departments. The Goverm»ent has presented the plan of a law for the better observance of Sundays and festivals. The petition of the printers and booksellers arrested on the charge of distributing; seditious libels, was dismissed on the report of the Committee, statiog that they were d:tained according .to law, and that the cases were to be adjudged by the regular Tribunals. The amendments made by the Chamber of Peers in a projet relative to the press were agreed to on a division. The libel for the circulation of which these persons are pro secuted, was entitled " An Extract from the Monitenr." Two other booksellers have since been taken up fox - vending a " Memoir by the celebrated Carnot." Carnot says, in his own defence, that the publication was against his wishes; but be does not deny - having written and addressed it to the King in July last. Carnot is a strict republican ;he was one among the fcw who refused to take the oath to Buonaparte as Emperor; and the work now referred to was intended to prove, not only that the murder of Louis XVI. was just and reasonable, but that those faithful subjects - who bore arms in his cause were the real regicides ; including, of course, in his abuse, the Monarch he addressed, and the surviving members of the Royal Family. Frankfort and Brussels papers arrived on Tuesday. • They contain four Decrees from the Prince Sovereign of Holland, for the regulation of the Belgic Provinces. The first restores the strict observation of Sundays and holidays, which, uncle:. the French, had been almost entirely neglected. The second interdicts the use of the Trench language in official docu ments, which are to be drawn up in Flemish. The third opens a credit of 200,000 franks, for the relief of the inferior Clergy ; and the fourth provides for the Government of Bel gium during his Royal Ilighttess's abscn e, probably to at tend the Congress. The Cantons of Schweitz and Lower Onderwalden still refuse to accede to the new Swiss Federal Union; at Tessimo and Lugano the pc:lsantry have commit ted open acts of hostility, and various skiimishes have been fought with the soldiers. Murat, King of Naples, is sai4 to have amassed a treasure, by • the dexterous management of his revenue, to the amount of about four millions ster ling. lie has long been solicitous to promote an intimate commercial intercouse with the British nation. I