The National Register. — London, England, 1811-10-06 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGIS' I ke e very other independent people, that we are five, and de termined to hold no dept dent on any potentate, power, or go vernment, than we ourielves establish ; and that we now take among the sovereign nations of the earth the rank which the Su preme Being and nature have assigned to us,and to which we have been cane , ' by the wiceession of human events, and by a regard for.our own happiness. Although we foresee the difficulties which may attend our new situation, and the obligations which we contract by the rank which we are about to occupy in the political order of the worl.l; and above all, the powerful influence of ancient forms and habits, by which.. (to our regret) we have been hitherto af fected ; ?et we also know, that a shameful submission to them, when it is in our power to shake them off, would prove more ig nominious to ourselves, and more fatal to posterity, than our long and painful servitude. It therefore becomes our indispen sible duty to provide for our security, liberty, and happiness, by an entire and essential subversion and reform of our ancient esta. blishments Wherefore, believing, for all these reasons, that we have com plied with the respect which we owe to the opinions of mankind, and to the dignity of other nations, with whom we are about to rank, and of whose friendly intercourse we assure ourselves— We, the Representatives of the Confederated Provinces of Venezuela, invoking the Most High to witness the justice of ottr cause, and the rectitude of our intentions, imploring his divine assistance to ratify. z:t the epoch of our political birth, the dig nity to which his Providence has restored us, the ardent desire to live and die free, and in the belief and the defence of the holy Catholic and Apostolic Religion of Jesus Christ, as the first of our dutle, We, therefore, in the name, by the will, and under the autho rity which we hold for the virtuous people of Venezuela, do so lemnly declare to the world, • hat these united provinces are, and ought to be, fvotn this day forth, in fact and of right, free, sove reign, ard independent states; that they are absolved from all alle , Aance and dependence on the Crown of Spain, and of those who now call or may hereafter call themselves its representatives or agents; and that, as free, sovereign, and independent states, we hold full power to adopt whatever form of government may be deemed suitable to the general will of its inhabitants ; to de clare war, make peace, form alliance, establish commercial tres tles, define boundaries, and regulate navigation ; and to propose and execute all other acts, usually made and executed by free and italcp...ndent nations ; and for the due fulfilment, validity, and stab lity of this, our solemn declaration, we mutually and reciprocally pledge and bind the provinces to each other, our lives, fortune-, and the honour of the nation. Done at the Federal Palace of the Caraccas, signed with our nar!, and scaled wiah the Great Seal of the Provincial Con federwhn, and countersigned by the Secretary to the Con gress assembled, on the sth day of July, in the year 1811, and in the first of our independence. n , r ii.,116.. hereby given, that any person detected in the commission of such an offence, will be prosecuted, not as an ordinary thief, but as a traitor to his country. Given at Head-quarters, Government House, Guernsey, September 20, 1811. " By command of his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor. " P. PREDTHAPET, Secretary.' ISLAND OF GUEI?NSEY. PROCLAMATION By his F.xcellency Lieutenant-General Sir John Doyle. Bart and K.C. Lieutenant-Governor of Guernsey, and Command_ ing his Majesty's Forces in Guernsey and Alderney:-- " 'Whereas certain intelligence has been received of an intend ed attack of the enemy upon this Island, Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Doyle, feeling the most perfect reliance upon the zeal and courage of the loyal inhabitants in the defence of every thing that is dear to them, and upon the gallantry and discipline of the troops, can have no doubts as to the issue of the contest. But in order to prevent the confusion incident to an invasion, .by individuals un attached to corps not knowing their exact point of rendezvous, it is hereby directed, that all strangers, as well subjects of his Ma jesty as foreigners, who are not enrolled in any regiment or corps of militia, do forthwith send in their names, and places of resi dence, to the office of Colonel Sir Thomas Saurnarez, the Inspec tor of Militia, in order that, in the event of an alarm, their ser vices may be made available to the general cause. " The alarm-post of persons of this description will be the Exeri , i,ing-gr ou n,l a t F ort G eorge . I lie con.italnes are earnestly requested to enforce the or dinances of the P.o.yal Court, respecting the notice required to be given by all the owners of hotels, lodgings, and public houses, of the lodgers who may be resident with them. " Persons hay ina on hand any quantity of flour and provisions for sale, will he pleased to give in a return of the quality and quan tity, in order that the same may be purchased by the Deputy Commissary General, should circumstances render it neces sary. -And whereas, it appears, that fuel has been frequently stolen from the furnaces for heating shot around the coast; notice is PROVINCIALS. AGRICULTURAL REPORT. The state of the wheat crop seems now to be ascertained with probable accuracy, throughout the island, as somewhat below an average quantity, and far inferior . to that of last year, in point of quality. Reckoning both quantity and quality, per sons of the most general information, decide upon a deficiency of a full third. There will be a considerable quantity of black wheat, and in many parts of the north the barley is strongly smutted. As has been before stated in these reports, a gradual mildew prevailed throughout the summer, and, most unfor tunately, about blooming time of the wheat ; in consequence, neither the ear nor kernel have sufficiently tilled ; and, as the state of the weather Foducing the disease was universal, so has been the disease itself, with the fortunate exception of favourable soils and situations, which have produced fine crops of corn. Although the mildew, taking it generally, was slight and mild, its effects upon some unfortunate exposures were so consi derable, that half a crop of wheat was not obtained, and that in quality extremely meagre, and in part sn . *.ted. In various parts of Scotland, much wheat was broken and lodged by highlwinds, from the weakness of the straw, and great complaints are made from thence, of tillage-lands over-run with weeds, particularly knot-grass, the consequence of trusting to a fallow for cleaning land. From the N. W. of England, great complaints of the gravels scalding last summer. Spring wheats are said to have succeeded generally better than the Autumnal. There is much indifferent corn of every species this year. For tl.c above most satisfactory reasons, and from the vast rents and accumulated taxes paid by the farmer, wheat continues at a high price, and is likely so to continue, when it is considered, that, on the most accurate calculation which can be made, a full average crop is required for the annual support of our vastly in creased population, without reckoning the extra waste of war, and supply of our allies. In the mean time, the usual ideotic cry against monopolizers and forestallers is bursting from many of our public prints—raised by persons who ought to confine their speculations to astronomy, or rather astrology, and the comet.— These seers always complain when corn rises, taking upon them selves exclusively to tell the fortune of markets; as though the terms f a market could possibly he any other person's business than of the buyer rnd seller themselves—as though, in a free country, the disposal and management of a man's property could be taken from him—as though the buyer, or any body else but himself, ought to fix a price upon the seller's goods, and as though attempted regulations of this kind had ever yet answered any good purpose. This popular cry, in order to be reconciled to common sense, ought instantly to be directed from the middle men or corn-dealers, one of the most useful and beneficial classes of society, to the opposers of a GENERAL ENCLOSORE BILL, our natural, legitimate, and only effectual remedy. Little wheat seed can yet have been put into the ground, from the long drought, but the present rains will make the land work well, and which have come, it is to be hoped, in time for the turnips, a crop that must otherwise have been soon irre coverably injured; at any rate the supply of green , eed must be much reduced, and the late crops of hay arc extremely light. A considerable quantity of flax has this year been grown in the North, and almost intirely from home-grown seed ; the crop very good. Orchards in Scotland and Wales have not been so fruitful as in England. Wool, universally a drug, affected in a considerable degree by the discouraging speculators on our dis pute with America, which serves equally to depress manufac ture and raise the price of corn. The Merino improvement at present is under a cloud. Croydon Fair conimmenced on Wednesday, and kept up its celebrity for frolick and fun of all sorts. The theatri• call were displayed in grand state. The walnuts were abun dant, and the roasted geese provoked the appetites of all the visitors. Wednesday evening, as eight men and a woman, who had been at Croydon Fair, in a cart, were returning home, the axletree broke near Brixton Causeway, when they were all precipitated into the road, by which the woman, who was pregnant 3 bad an arm broken ) and two others were very much hurk