The National Register. — London, England, 1817-11-17 00:00:00

Mt , NOV. 7 .1. POETRY. THE SWISS GUIDE.—By ROBERT SOUTHEY, Esq. By my troth, this John Roth is au excellent guide ; A jobtr, a smoker, and a sarund beside; A ceologician, a Meldtillysician, Who searches how cruses proceed A system inventor, an expel imentur, Who raises potatoes from seed ! Each forest and fill, hr knoweth full well, The chatlrts and dwells ry theiein ; Tim mountains. the Hmulaills, the ices, the prices, Ev'ry town, ev'ry village, antrinn; Take him for your guide, he has often been tried, And will always he useful when needed ; In Mir or foul weather, you'll be merry together, Awl shake hawk at parting ns we did. On Mr. Southey's guide quitting him, he asked him for a charac. tor, when the poet gave him the preceding; in COMlNtle.lee of which john Roth has become the most popular guide in Switzerland, and is inquir,sl fur by all travellers, one of whom he permitted to take a copy of Ids poetical character. O'CONNOR AND SIR FRANCIS BC/IDETT.—It is ge nerally reported that Sir Francis Barlett has written a letter to Mr. Roger O'Connor, in which he intimates a wish that the intercourse between them should cease. We know not what credit is due to this rumour, and we give it just as we heard it, without wishing to be considered as in manner pledged fm its accuracy.— ( Freeman's Jaz:runt) The following is front the Dublin Evening Pest of Tuesday last :—" A paragraph has appeared in some of the Dublin papers, stating that O'Connor had received a letter from Sir Francis Burdett, desiring all inter course should cease between them. A . forgery to that effect may have been put in circulation ; but we are authorised most confidently to aasert, no such letter front Sir Francis Bsrdett has been received by O'Con nor. A very erroneous estimate must the public have formed of the mind and character of Sir Francis Bur dett, could such an assertion be credited by any but those who delight in the abuse of public men, and ni sowing dissension amongst friends. Gimeec.—The civilization of Greece is making a regular progress. The municipal authorities of many Grecian cities have established, fr the instruction of youth, Lyceums, where they teach the Greek, Latin, modern languages, rhetoric, mathematics, &c. The 1 , pupils when completed in their education, proceed to finish their studies in different capitals of Europe, un less prevented by filling some office at home. There they connect themselves with learned men, and become i their assistants, especially in superintendinc , editions of the Greek classics. Often they find, in their country men, who are scattered over different countries, en lightened patrons; among whom may be named, the brothers Zosimades in Russia, who distinguished them selves by defraying the expense of many tine editions af the ancient authors. _ _ _ - _ Mr. J. Poeiell, of Cross-street, Islington, has ordered the Church cf St. Mary to be hung with black cloth, at his own expencc, as a mark of respect to the departed Princess. WtyrsirEßFUL CAIASE.—CAMEtt AT, Nov. 4.—The hound; of Isis Grace the Duke of 1t ellington, on the 30th of last mouth, discovered a most enormous boar iu the forest of Wallincom t. The animal, on being disturtird, pa .std ra pidly into the forest of Arrlipart, which he completely tea versed; being thee hard seemed by the dogs, he took to the plaits, where he was vicoussinsly pursued by hounds and sportsmen, end ere he could reeds another wood, was brought to bay. The animal then became ferocious, and destroyed all the dogs that approached him, when one of his Grace's Aides-de-Camp pinuged his spear into his This only rendered the beast mole savage, when his Grace Lisnsell, seeing Isis dogs would be destroyed, rode np, and with his spear gave the crew de grace , the animal made a desperate effort to wound his Grace's horse, and fell in the attempt.-- The peasants say lie is the largest boar that has been seen for some years. 01 the numerous field that started in the pur suit., only five, besides Isis Grace, readied the end. Maw, SEPT. b.—liesterday evening, about ten minutes after six o'clock, as the Belfast day mail-coach, on its way to Dublin, arrived at Liftmen-hall, a short distance beyond Swords, the coachman found Isis way obstructed by two carts being pieced across the road. Soon afterwards a body of armed Inca about ten or twelve in number, appeared. The front horses were matted, and ahont th. same time the ban. slitti fired three shots, one of which passed through the hat of one of the gnarls(Luke Redford), and miles tunately took effect is. the bark part of Isis bead, but, we trust, will not pro. duct any very serious result. The passengers, a levels its hum. her, seven outside and four inside, many of them female's were then rated in the most brutal manner of all the valueble effects and property about them.. While the robbers were s'llested in lilisedering the passengers, a post coach came up io which were the Marquis of Donegal, his sou, (Lord Bel. last e, and another gentleman, well aimed ; an attempt was made to stop the post coach, but by the exertions of the coach man. its Uhipping the horses over a barge trank, they most fertanately escaped. They had not proceeded far when they n:et a pasty of Isterse panel, who immediately went in quest of the rubbers. A foot patrol had already been sent in that direct ism, in consequence of a robbery having been commit. ted the night previous, at the house of Mr. Ilannev. We have the pleasure to state, that none of the passengers in the Bel fast coach have malt red any personal injury, and also that the entire of the mail bags have been fortunately preserved. As soon as information of the robbery arrived in tone, a very strong detachment of the police was sent out to se' sir the to entry its every direct sin. Monday last four persona were found dead in a poor cottage, at a place called Dean-house, in the town: , hip of Stairda nd -Joseph 'r weed, les wire. and two of their children. It appears they have lasn ill some time of e. very bad fryer, hcviug bnrried a dittrAhter three weeks agent* this complaint ; since ;he death of this your,{ woman, t nvighborirs were Wand isf going into the house to give them any assistance. The overseers of Dean-head, to which place the pour cceatures helongsd, neglected to give them the necessary relief re fluired, or send any one to look after them, and shocking to Heise, it is generally believed they all perished thneigh want. We trust thia matter will be investissited.—( York Herald.) '5 THE NATIONAL REGISTER. REIIEW OF LITERATURE. A Letter respectfully addressed to both Houses of Par liament ; on the Importance of Legislative Intel:le renee, to present the possible 'Succession of the Family nuonaparte to the Crown ("these Realms. 1.1% AN ATTORNEY OF 1115 MAJF.3TVA CillatT OF KING 3 B, cu. A very small proportion, we believe, of the inhabi tants of these realms were aware, until the lamented demise of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte agitated the question, that any member of the Buona parte family was related to our venerable Sovereign and his illustrious offspring; such, however, is the fiict ; tur it was a part of the system of this late French ruler, nut merely to sabdue to his power every potentate with in his reach, but, what must have, to many of them and their &mines, been ten-fold more terrible, to force their daughters to aceept the hands of himself and his brothers, thus ennobling his own blood, and connect ing his family with the chief ancient and royal houses of Europe. One of these unions was that of .Terome Buonaparte with the Princess Cat i berine, youngest daughter of the late King of Wirtenberg, and grand daughter of the Duke of Brunsinia, by Augusta, eldest sister of his present Majesty George 111. to whom she is, of course, great-niece. The fruit of this unioi is, at present, one son, Jerome Buonaparte. This circum stance has induced the writer of the Letter we now notice, to address the two Houses of Parliament upon the expediency of providing• against Use passibility of this youth ever succeeding to the crown of these realms. He is no doubt actuated by the best of motives, loyalty to the present reigning family, and an anxious wish to see his country secured from falling under the sway of a degenerate race of princes, while the language in which he expresses himself proves how deeply he feels, in common with every friend and admirer.of virtue and rare accomplishments, the irreparable loss which the royal family, and the country have sustained. To use his own words :- 4. The lamented death of Ifer Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales, whether considered as a notional or a fa intly bereavement ; is perhaps without parallel one of the most serious that time ever rec 'Viewing it in a national sense, the pi ivation is momentous to the highest degree. The writer would not tresspass on the hallowed feelings of her fa may by attempting to describe the chasm, the awful chasm, • in the social circle her early death has produced ; the ima gination would fail to pourtray it, and language, the stupen• duns vehicle of idea, would not be sufficiently comprehensive to bear her hiLibatul and her parent's sorrow to the bosoms of a condoling nation; to her royal relatives, however, it must be a source of infinite satisfaction, under this afflicting stroke of Providence, to mark the universal sympathy of all tanks of sof teiy." It is only to this point, however, that we entirely coincide with the writer of this Letter. In what re lates to the probable succession of Jerome Buonaparte, we cannot view the matter in the light he does : if it were worth the trouble, in this place, to enter into any argument upon the subject, we should say, that as Great Britain never recognised any of the royal digni ties conferred by Buonaparte on his brothers, this cir cumstance of itself invalidates every claim which the descendants of Jerome could set up ; indeed, any legis lative interference, on this head, by the Parliament, would imply a right, which certainly does not exist.— As to the danger to be apprehended from any prince, or party advocating the Buonaparte cause, it seems idle speculation ; Jerome has now sunk back into his former state of insignificance, honoured, indeed by the prin cess to whom he is allied; and there is but a faint pro bability of his offspring ever having the good fortune of their parent, in being united to Princesses ; they are far more likely to mix with a race in which the blood of the house of Brunswick wia hardly be traced.—Bnt the writer of the Letter has made an important omis sion, and thereby brought the Princess Catherine much nearer to the succession than she actually is ; this omis sion is Paul, Prince of Virtemberg, her brother, who is married, and has two sons and two daughters, all of whom, and their descendants, should they have any, would precede the descendants of the Princess Cathe rine. 'l'o put the matter in a clearer point of view, we shall here give the more immediate successors, in right of their descent from Frederick Prince of Wales, by his eldest daughter Augusta, married to the Duke of Brunswick ; this is in the possible event of all his present Majesty's children dying without leaving issue. 1. The Duke of Brunswick, a minor. 1. Ilk !limber, a minor. 3. [The King of Winemberg..iteapacitated by his marsiage with a Itomna Cranolic Pi-inc.css) 4. Prince Paul of Wirumherg. 5. I Ilia two Sons and two Daughters.. ti: 'J• IPrincessCatherineof Wirtembe7g, inearaiteted by herunion with Mom. Buotwarte.l In. Der Royal IL hors the l'r.ncess of Wales. Failing all these, and their issue, the next line is that of the prescait King of Denmar:;, (the son of the young est daughter of Frederick Prince of Wales, and sister of his present Majesty) and his children. On the failure of this family also, the succession falls into the present King of the Netherlands and his family, beyond which it is unnecessary to rtultte the Lubjcct. as But, in any case, it is impossible to view the pres.mt state of the succeszien to the crown of thew kingdoms, and think upon the sad event which has led to it, with out the most painful solicitude and feelings of the deep. est sorrow and regret. In that very moment, when every eye was bent upon a Princess who seemed destined to be a blessing to the nation over which she wan in all human prebability to reign, and when every heart was palpitating with anxious and fond hope to hear that a Prince was bern of her; at that very mo ment to learn that both the parent and her offipring were two Mess bodies, was something so awful and overwhelming, that the mind is lost in the conteui. elation of it ; it shows us the utter nothingness of our nature, awl the fixilishness of human calculatins. Let us not however, arraign the dispensations of Heaven ; for whether this, apparently heavy visitation upon the nation, be that of punishment, or of nll,seeing Provi dcw!e against greater calamities, it is our duty to sub mit with incekw:s and resignation, and to beseech Hint to whom all things are known, to dispose the affairs of this realm as may be best for the happiness of them that are, and they which are to come. LADY MORGAN FRANCE. Our paper, we believe, contained the first general character of this Lady's book entitled France. We then spoke of it us we felt it deserved; and the more we have read it since that p e riod, the mor e are we conlinned in our opinion that a more wicked and worth. less publication never issued from the press of this country. It was then our purpose to give extacts from it, to shew the principles, religious and political, in which. it was written ; but in this we were anti , cipated by the number of• the Quarterly Review, which appeared just at the time. We coincide in every syllable in this Review, and had it been more severe than it is, such severity was demanded by the nature of the work under consideration. Some of those who think and write, and believe as Lady Mor gan does, have been sorely scandalized by the critique; but while they have indulged in a strain of abuse against the reviewers, they have unfortunately, both for themselves and their heroine, been unable to dis prove, or to invalidate any one of the most serious changes brought against her book. , One gentleman, in the Examiner of Sunday week,. most probably the Examiner himself, took up the gauntlet in behalf of the Lady, though he confesses he never read her book. This candid confession is beyond all praise, and enables us to decide at once on this eonmpetency to judge be tween her, and her reviewers. But the simple truth is, that Lady Morgan is in that instance made a sort of masked battery, from behind which, the writer dis charges his pop-guns at the Quarterly Reviewers. We need net go far, however, to seek for the true origin of this •article in the Examiler ; in the same number of the Quarterly Review, which contains the critique on Lady Morgan, is to be fbund in review of the Round Table, little flattering to either of the writers' of that notable work hinc illce lacrynkr. Another champion for Lady Morgan has since appeared in the Morning Chronicle signing himself B. His epistle is only worthy to be laughed at, but he mentions one circumstance which gave us much plea sure, and we should be glad to hear of the example lx•cotaing general, this was, that a gentleman, meeting with a copy of the France on the table of a friend whom he visited, he immediately thrust it into the fire.—lf every copy were consigned to the same fate, public morals, religion, and loyalty would be a con siderable gainer, by the conflagration. The Duke of Wellington embarked at Dover on Sunday last at nine o'clock in the Lord Duncan packet, Capt. Hamilton, for Calais. His Grace arrived at Do. ver, the preceding evening, and dined at the Castla with Lady Castlereagh ; but, the weather being very boisterous and. wind untiirourable, vistp une d until the morning's tide. The Duke viewed Saraittiel4 saye during his stay in England, and it is said to have highly approved °Cit. The Duke of Devonshire arrived at his house on Wednesday, from his Continental tour. DISCOVERIES IN AFRICA.---COUIIt Camillo Borgia, nephew of the last Cardinal of that name, obtained, through the friendship of the Governor- of Tunis, leave to penetrate into the interior of the country, so as to be enabled to make researches after ancient monuments, and to take drawings of them. These privileges had previously been denied to all travellers. Regardless of oxpence and iiitigue of every description, he has devote ed two years to the prosecution of this undertaking...-. During that period he has visited the ruins t' more than two hundred ancient towns or skett4- ed nearly four hundred temples, porticoes, theatres, baths. and statues, which had net as fez be,ni aced —The Count has had it in his pow , from the time he has lived amongst the Moors and Arabs, to study their nuumers and customs, and to make biro elf acquainted with the present state of the country. He 'bus had access to the Arab manuscripts in the liimiry of the Prince ; and in sonic of them lie has flaunt s o me new and importiuit fact relative to' the history of Tunis.