The National Register. — London, England, 1816-08-12 00:00:00

f. 12 OFFICE OF ORDNAYCE: -V August. 1816. TIIE principal Officers of 1.14 31(drsiy's Ordnance do Arre;lrge•T propolh. ~i!l# reerirrit Nair (Ike hi Pal .lVl. va or Frisby,. Uer irth Instant. franc Verb l'ersons as bill be trilling to Q.:Jeri:ay thr Stipp!), nj COPPEII HOOPS jiff 'evict ~f this D.7wermenl. Ibr a poi'd id one year. Patteres qr the :franks may he rieuvri upoN applivtinw at the Pren Star k-eper's OIY. , raer,. ; and jarthrr Partienlars, ' , strew with the terms and (la:di/fors or the Contract, may he blown 117.111 applkatnen at the Serpi try's (Nix in Yull..Noll al;oresaid, any day het:e,...N the hoes of ten and . finor, where the propoala must h.•d-li. , ered,teralnd wp, and indorsed 66 Proposals for Copper Hoops ;" twt no papaya! ran be admitted after the 'did 16th beet. at belt' "'"1"k at anon of the Altor day ; 'either will illfy trade, he Itaihed stakes the party snakimg it, or an ageNt in his helany: shall attend. By. Order of thr Board, B. IL. CREW, Secretary. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE. 17th Jay, 181 G. • The Prinripal OfFeers of his Majesty's Ordnance do swr Pmt ;hey will :Veil F.rt Psahlir Amelia* at the Town., • ,m :Morph'', the It Nell, and fhllira•ing Jan, nt Plenen, on thnk . ainS! Nanilry huts if OLD and WASERVICP.. I.l', STOII ES, consisting of -I•l3rocm, Collars. Bit Halters, Boise Trace-s, and various other arti cles of Sagely and lis-ness; Clothing, and sundry articles. of Red. Jule;; Powder 14orns. Teot.Poles and Piteei !Irmo:. Bugles, and :•k Trumpet., luct and Pi.tol.stos and Flints ; Cast and Wrought Iron Round and Itieibie.headed Shot, Cast Iron 'Pucks, and 11'nout:ht Iron Carriage York. Bushel Iron, Steel, ('upper, Pew. ier, and mixed .Metal; Tool: of all sorts, .f.pades, Shovels, B:dlows, I.:antliorns, Standing Vices. Whsvl-Barrows. empty Casks, Old Pack ing Cases, Accoutrviiients, sundry Old Building Materials, Tarpaulins and Printed Covers; Portable Forges, Handscrews, and Anvils, ~I atc ' t and Junk ; tovther w:tli a variety of ot!:es Articles. Tk. irriale of .'s may he riesrli upon appliention at Me prfiteipal, • ,Ft krep•r's Qtlier in tie Tower. and at Ile , R9y4,1 'framed at Rind. nun( the lay of nil', at places printed Lists of the Lots will be slivered to these Persons tr4u "tag apply ,fir the slam. Orntr oftic Board. R. H. CRF:Ir. See. "V Some inconvenience having been experienced by the Publir, .fixn the want of a more Centrical Office fir the Sale of THE NATIONAL ItEGISTER ; tke Pro:wietors have to announce, that the Paper will, on SUNDAY and MONDAY NEXT, and afterwards, be pub- I;shed at No. 1 13, STRAND, opposite Exeter Change; whither all Communications are reonested to be sent, . and where the. Paper may al all limes be obtained. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. LONDON: MONDAY„IUGUST 12. WE have received the Paris Papers of Wednesday last. The French Government seem to be actively employed in re-creating an army. Thirty Lieutenant-Generals and 60 Major-Generals have just been placed in active service. Among the Lieutenant-Generals are—Fournier, Lahoussayc, l'reval, Colbert, and Merlin. It appears from a paragraph, couched in general terms, inserted in the Gazette de Francois, that a Banking-house at Paris had navt d to its correspondents 15 respectable houses as being in a state of discredit. This circumstance having transpired on the Royal Exchange at London, protests, - tin want of Bills being accepted, took place against drafts drawn from Paris, thotigh the funds were provided. May not this circumstance have contributed to the depreci ation in thclunds both here and at Paris? It is rumoured, that in consequence of the French Government neglecting to pay the stipulated contribu -tions, the allied Monarchs have determined to indemnify • themselves, by retaining in sovereignty the French for tresses which they now hold in trust. This detormina rtion is certainly very just, because the fortresses were in tended by .an parties to guarantee the fulfilment of the late Treaces. According to this rumour, the Kings of Prussia, Bavaria, and the Netherlands, are each to have those fortresses which adjoin their respestive frontiers. .England is to have 'both the islands of Mauritius and .flour Lon, . instead of only ore. Russia is to have Gila . &loupe, :and all the above Allies arc to unite in paying to Austria the remainder of her proportion of the con .tributions, her finances requiring innnediate assistance. It is this circumstance which has depressed the French Funds, and has caused the French Government to apply u' those experienced Generals of the Revolution, who .have been neglected till now; for Frazee has evinced a dt•t , :rmination to resist this arrangement, and seems to confide in support both from Spain and Anictica. An article from Brussels states, that no means are neg -lected to accelerate the organization ef the French army. To accomplish this important object, Officers of all ranks, who have served under Buonaparte, and have not too greatly distinguished themselves as enemies to the pre sent Government, are called into active service. The Duke of Feltre has also resolved to give importantt:ora mands le a certain number of Generals in whom the obl •iemy had particular confidence. It is pretended that by .this measure the French army will in two months re ceive an addition of 100,000 old soldiers. It appears by accounts from Lille, and by a Circular from the Prefect of the Department, that some serious quarrels have taken place betweim the allied troops and :the inhabitants. The French Journalists arc eager to convince the world, that English manufactures are every where reject rd. The King of Naples, they tell us, prefers French to iiiit;sh cloth tier his troops. it is painful to see with what industry the Bourbons Are .reoiying the old superstitious rites. A..processiou of DIME NATIONAL IMGISTEIC eighty youn7 latUtts 'arnica the streets of Paris, with lighted tapers in their hands, on 'Thursday last, to implore the patron Saint of Paris fiir tour weather ! It is well known that the Parisians are, beve all others, lax in their notions of religion, anA that these,pricessions excite their most poignant ridicule. An exception to the substance of a late Royal Ordi nance has been published in flivour of 11=4104 Oudinot. The Ordinance states, that no person shall bear a tom mission in the Army and National Guard at the same time. Ondinot is dispensed from this condition, and is culled in the French Papers a second Hqurd! The official part of the Monitemr contains a Royal Or dinance, by which the King has ordered all private per sons liossessing weapons of war to deliver than up to the Mayors of their districts within a month's time. Private letters limn Paris state, that the deficit in the French finances is three millions sterling. In consequence of this deficit, it is said, that as in us the Legislative Bodice meet, in October, some Address will be moved' to the King, to intercede with the Allied Powers to with draw or diminish the number of foreign troops, and to prolong the period of paying the tribute. We shall not be surprised ut such a manoeuvre ; on the contrary, we have been, during lime tr.ae, prepared for it. It will be in the style of French conduct towards all the world ; and it will correspond but too much with the conduct of the greater part of the world towards England. But the continuance of the allied troops in France is rendered necessary by the condition of that country. The military establishments of probably every Power—certainly those of England—are the greater for the habits of aggressimi so long cherished by the French. Let them, therefore, pay the expence of the vigilance which they render necessary. According to a pamphlet published in defence of the late French Minister of Finance, M. Louis, it seems, that the Allies, by a private engagement, received mo ney, viz. 25,000,000 of francs, from Ftance in the year 1814. The Paris Papers say, that " M. Loisseau pleaded the cause of Caroline Leruth, with much talent, before the Court of Cassation ; but the insufficient grounds of hrr application were demonstr►ted by M. Lebau, Advocat,.- Genenil, and the Court rejected her appeal. Thus the sentence of the Court of Assize, which condemned this woman to 10 years•solitary confinement and the pillory, for having assisted the Sieur —, Adjunct to the Mayor of Monttlidier, in his atten:pt to , commit suicide, is con firmed." Time and security, which soften the vengeance of the law under other Governments, appear to sharpen it in France. Fourtesm persons who mauitisted their dislike to his Majesty on the 26th of June, 1815, at Montpellier, have been tried and found guilty. Of these, live have been condemned to death, end suffered punishment. According to a German Paper, one of the resources of the French Government to raise money consists in grant ing privileges to games of chance. Persons had been ap pointed to collect this soun:e of revenue in the places oc cupied by the Allies ; but it is stated, that the Duke of Wellington sent them all back. Is it the religious Go vernment of France that resorts to such means? The pillory seems a favourite mode of punishment in the French code of jurisprudence. Hardly a week passes in Paris without an exhibition of this kind. On Friday se'nnight four females, none of whose uges exceeded 18, were pilloried at the Ciniciergeric. An article in the Paris Papers from Civita Vecchia, dated the 19th ult. mentions a new and most atrocious outrage, committed off the heights of Cagliari, on the crew of an English vessel by two Algerine ships, one of them commanded by a nephew of the Dcy. The Eng lish vessel, which is called the Kent, was captured after an obstinate resistance. The Captain, on seeing his ship sink, used some reproaches to the pirate ; which the Bar barians resented by putting two of the crew to death, and exercising upon the remainder every insult and out rage which his fury could suggest. If this account be true, there can be only one opinion entertained in this country on the subject ; and, if our financial difficulties were infinitely greater than they are, yet it would be mean and impolitic to pass over such au act of vio lence. Extract of a Letter from Paris, dated July 29: " The execution of the three wretches, Pleignier, Tol leron, and Carbonneno, whi , ..h took place on Saturday, was as horrible a scene as could be witnessed. It was not till between eight and nine in the evening that the convicts were brought to the plate of execution. At length the cortege appeared cowing along the bridge from the Palace de Justice: shouts of I be le Rol were rAloubled on its appearance ; but this spirit was carried to the most shocking extreme; it was with difficulty that the guts dames could prevent a furious rubble, who kept pace with them on each side, from going up to the wretches who, appeared half dead upon the carts, for the purpose of shouting in their ears t heircrime and their actual condition. At length they arrived at the placeofexecutimi. I saw the hand of the first persm cut off: he took off his coat, waistcoat, cravat, and hat, without any violence on the ixtrt or the executioner, who occasionally assisted him; the convict then present:A ho arm bared, and, after a kw seconds, put it into the fluid machine—the axe de scended, and in an no:tat - A the hand was cut off nt the wrist: This was rollow4xl by terrific shouts Awn the crowd AUGUAI . tt A ,:liort time was allowed to elapse-, and the wretch Iva% decapitated. 'f he other two suffered precisely in the same way. Pleignicr, it is said, made some feet)]. strstggler. I continued ott the spat, bat was s., horror-Ans~l! by the first scene that'l us unable to look at what followed..? In the Florence Gazelle we find a paragraph or two respecting a Princess Maria Louisa) who once occupied a large space in the public eye. It gives an account of Iler Imperial Ilighttess's journey ; but adds, that she will certainly return to 'Permit by the I.sth of August—" memorable day with her Majesty," adds the Gazelle—" it is Buonaparte's birth-day."—The last Papers from Aus tria complain openly sad bitterly "of the little cereniony with which Kuria Louisa was treated during the trial or the conspirators at Paris—of her never being entitled her Majesty—and of the essal omission of her name in the Gaul Calendar. They consider the silence which the Parisian Editors are charged to observe concerning this Princess, equally ridiculous and offensive." Recent letters from Madrid, from undoubted authority, state, that highly important changes arc on the eve of taking place in that capital ; but of the nature of the changes alluded to no explanation is given. An order had been issued by the Government for a levy, by ballot, of 60,000 men, to be embodied as a militia. In the opinion of sonic persons, this measure is adopted with the view of leaving the regular troops at the disposal of Government, fiar the purpose of sending them to South America and to Mexico, where their services are much wanted. Others talk of an expedition being intended tin. %Vest Florida, in the contemplation of a rupture with the United States. The American Ambassador, it is said, has proposed to abandon the claims of his Govern ment for seizures made under the Berlin and Milan De crees, on condition of West Florida being ceded by Spain; but Ferdinand s Ministers declined all negotiation on the subject. We regret to learn, that the Spanish Govern ment, whilst it continues to impose every species of re striction on the trade with this country, affords every facility and encouragement to the introduction of French produce and manufactures. Large purchases have, in consequence, been made by Spanish merchants at the late fairs in the South of France. The King of Spain still continues at the watering place of Sacrum, accompanied by the lutlinte Don An tonio Pasqua. The Infinite Don Carlos, who has been left as Regent in Madrid, has already been to give signs of that inquisitorial and monastic spirit which has lately so much distinguished the annals of Spain ; and the Inquisition, under such auspices, has again com menced the reign of terror. Senor Quicpo, late 131. 1 1. , p of Mechochan, in the kingdom of Mexico, and Mi nister of Justice for a few hours, has been arrested by the Holy Office, as it is supposed, because he used certain language in a pastoral letter by no means favourable to the immunities of the Clergy—a subject of great deli mey in Spain. Some other arrests have a:so been performed, awl among them Dr. Herrera, late De puty in the Cortes for Estremadura. King Ferdinand appears lately to have entertained a distrust of his Guards, and has caused a column of provincial grenadiers to march up to Madrid, who had been reviewed in the Prado. fly letters from the United States we learn, that the Congress of Mexico having assumed a regular form, the Executive had named l)on Jose Toledo, late Deputy in the Cortes of Spain for the Spanish part of St Domingo, to proceed to England as Envoy from the Mexican Patriots. Letters from New York, dated the n of ,July, state, that the Ex-King of Spain, Joseph Buonaparte, was at Philadelphia, and bad been joined there by u great num ber of French Officers. It is strongly suspected by well informed persons at New York, acquainted with the above panics, that some great object is in view with re gard to Spain. Our Readers 1611 recollect that Joseph was crowned King of Spain and the Indies ; and it is said, be has it in contemplation to try his tiirtune with the Mexican Insurgents ; he is expected to join them with as many experienced French Officers as he can collect, and hoist the Independent Flag in South America, where his presence would be a rallying point to the friends of Liberty. The laMt advices from Halifax expressed some surprise that our Government were not making corresponding ex ertions with the Americans to be prepared for war; fir in every dock and place, where u ship could be built, were they carrying on ship building; and although it may be some time befbre the United States may pur— posely seek a quarrel with England, their principal mili tary and naval officers make no secret in stating, that as soon as they arc properly prepared for war, they will not hesitate to declare it. It is said, that one of the last ships from Boston is naviicated by at least one half British &sullen, natural ised. While the German Papers continue to speak with the utmost confidenc e of a meeting of Sovereigns at Carlsbad, in Bohemia, the French Journals employ v,reat industry in contradicting it. From this it is obvious, that the French Government would look with a suspicious eye at such u meeting, lest these august personages might pre some to legislate tin. France again. The duchy of Laueuburg has been formally surren dered by Prussia to Denmark, as part of the indemnity fur Pouierm