The National Register. — London, England, 1817-10-13 00:00:00

. . :!% V • br. •, "i;l: Ai) ;atonal t, • tgit Ilk . l•^ # tV+ Our fling, Coniftitutten anb itatni. No. 5505 —VOL. X. MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1817. Puts ,D4d, POLITICAL DISQUISITION. OBSERVATIONS ON THE CITY ELECTIONS. THE Election in the City which closed on Monday, has been the most remarkable within our remembrance, in as much as it has afforded a most unequivocal proof of the soundness of principle in the great body of the Li very. Twelve months ago, Mr. Wood was not only the favourite of the populace, but the choice of the Livery also. At that time, Alderman Smith was de clared an [a for the high office to which he aspired, and the disheartening minority in which he found himself was an unquestionable proof that such was the sentiment of a large proportion of the electors, or at least that they considered either of his opponents much fitter. At that time the successful candidates were known lathe City as advocates of what are called Whig prin ciples: they wore indeed reformers, but they were re formers as rational men, 'not as anarchists. Tlit con gest was therethre, at that time, between the two poli tical parties which have always divided the city, and which we shall always wish to sec fairly balancing amch other. We have no reason to believe that any change has been wrought in the minds of the Livery respecting Mr. Smith. Those who voted against him last year and for hint this, are not to be charged with inconsistency; tin- the candidates who were last year opposed to him, at that time stood upon the broad ground of their individual merits; this year they hams depended for success upon the efforts of mea, who, whatever be their talents, arc advocates of principles which no chief Magistrate of the City of London will he ready to avow. The Livery felt this as honest men should feel it ; they felt that last year when they vot ed for Woad and 0)n - the, they voted for mien, who, if. they acted up to their professions, would in a fair constitutional way stand up between the people and the government, guardians of the rights of the one, against any unjust eacroachments of the other. But in the pre smt instance, they found that the very 'rump of the vilest party in the country—the frarnmts of a S,)a- L..% mob, were thrusting themselves forward to direct their choice, and obtain for themselves some little po pularity ~ by trumpeting forth the praises of those men whom their own sober sense had led them but twelve months batlere to patronize. This is the sole muse of tam Oiling minority in which Messrs. Wood and Good bdiere found themselves on .Monday last. A different colour is indeed attempted to be given to it ley Mr. Wooler, in the last number of his " Blaek Dwarf" To the want of exertion on their part, and to the activity cf their adversaries, he attributes their ill success, and yet almost in the same breath he tells us that ' last year a proposition accidently made on the hustings was tarried by acclamation, and the nest in rotation was eccludel from an office he was deemed itroompetent to foil.' fhe present majority of Alderman Salith too, he describes to have been created by" the Livery col lected from those depositaries of the Ministerial influ ence, the Bank, tit: India llouse, the Customs, Excise, and sonic minor depots of tit soldiers for such an occa sion;" forgetting altogether, that the Government had these Mine depots equally at its command last year, and yet Alderman Smith could then only obtain 1053 votes, not one half the number which was polled fir Messrs. Wood and Combe ; and Alderman Atkins, who, on this occasion, has polled 15/45, could then only muster Ten ! Disgoise the filet how they will, it is iveitlent that the Livery wure Ir.rtke.md to a sense of their danger when they `saw their Lint Mayor co:mating to accept the sapp,nl patronage of such a ra,ta as Wookr, and not tnerely to a.Tept his support, bat to depend koky upon him for that sort of aid, ‘rhichthe oratory of the hustings is supposed to give. They saw dis tinctly enough that the outcry about rotation was made to answer the same purpose as the outcry about reform ;—to conceal the real intentions of those who cared not one straw about Wood., or Goodbehere, or Smith, but who only seized on the occasion to excite a popular ferment and give them the means of breath ing forth their pestiferous doctrines, under the protect ing shield of a legally convened meeting. In pity to the unsuccessful candidates, we will not enter into an examination of their dtlenee in the Court of Aldermen ; they are sensible of the ridiculous situation in which they are placed by their own folly, and we trust the lesson they have learned, will have a good effect upon them as long as they live, They have learned that the Livery can think for themselves, and that when Magistrates so far lose sight of their own dignity as to become puppets iu the hands of factious and designing men, they cu not command, and ought not to expect the support or good wishes of their fellow-citizens. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. A private letter from Mailer details some enrions pat-tics. lars respecting the trial and conduct of the prisoners who have been condemned fur the assassination of rualtles. It was eight o'clock in the evening when their sentence was pro nounced. A sentiment of shame had removed from the Court a member of well•dressed females, who es ery day during the trial bad been present. Forty rens tearoom with sabres drawn, sserronettled the prisoners; a great limber of functionaries 1/11•41 the hall within and without; GO torn attended in case of need. Won many precautions could not be employed, comi dewing the great number t,f Bastille's rehttions, and the in ttneu.ce he elm eised in the country The prisoners, over whelmed with the evidence adduced against diem heard their sentence with much intlitleretwe. ou r ly, con cealing his face with his hand, said, "<lh I sty Out, my Clod r When the halt was cleared, the caviSiets remained for a• hour at the liar. Itastiile esolaiined, Alt, INN poor little fortune which it cost me soanuch to amass!" He possesse s more than 20 NOO fe A 11(.4 of income. He ilittrell 110 COlnillaini j and, in passing the door of his flintier prison, he saluted the daughter of the gaoler with a smile. Madame Manton, who fisea the general attent . Oll her inexplicable conduct, is lir from being handsome. Her arrest has given her more plea sure than; pain.- -" I might," said she," to Nse been arrested three months ago. All would then have been known as at present." slue often said, during the trial, " Do you think they will arrest me% They will not lure to do it ; butt it would be heme if they did. d'erhaps, in that ease, those for whom I suffer would have Sae delicacy to declare themselves."— Every thing tends to prose, that all the criminals are not dis covered, SPAIN. The Madrid Gazettes last received contain a very extensive list of persons upon whom the King has conferred new titles and honours, on occasion of the safe delivery of the Queen, and birth of the Infanta Donna 310-ein - Isabel Luisa. The claims of Spanish merehants and others upon the Cl eneb Government continue to be liquidated by the com missioners resident at Paris; the last act:omit is made up to the 6th of August. Sonic of the items are rather curious, —`• tUr the, cargo of the Spanish ship Minerva ' captured by tin English oris taper, and re-taken by the F rench squadron under Villeneuve, who applied the cargo to the use of his ships, with a promise of payment in 1505.--For articles of clothing sold to the 15th squadron of Fiend) Bens d'arines in Burgos, in ISIS ; for materials ftumished for the fort of San Vicente, at salamanca, in 1812, &c. &c. The s one Papers also rontain addresses to the King, from the Society of Arragon, the town of ()swum, and other pails Qt . iliv kingdom, on the subject of the royal decree ofthe 30th of ?Why last, t 4 the establishment or the new finance system; they are replete with expresAimis of loyally, and the greatest admiration of the wis I uu of the new meanire, from which they :vigor the most glorious results fur Ow Mg/rests of the kingdom, and fur healing the wounds occasioned to the State by lie hat* %%dm * A I..ti cc enter date nf 7M, front the naval rontritand. alit of the province nt Alitielia, to the Secretary for that (lc partuti-nt, routines il scat , ieirett respecting a moat atrocious art euntinitted by some sessel lid the Portal Malaga. Au 111141111.41 Spiti.isli brigantine ampot, called the Venus, was found at sea. platted lilt GI alt her stores and pi ovisions ; and there is every Yasuo to believe, that her Catplaiit, Ms wife. Child, dote the greater part if not the whole of the Crew wer a isms dei eli and thrown uveruoard. It al Id now seem front the above letter that a large Feloceis privateer, frosts the month of the Cattoi ro, hearing All Lit:lila! 11.1 g, , s mi te navicaled nv Genoese, it suspected of having committed this piracy. The reltiecu anchored in the harbour of Malaga on the isi;;ltt of Ilse, bits of Ali gust; nut the Govei itiortrettlet int; her In he detained, she heaped un the ills, wtiltutp *ming virtu:ilk it, with a crew of :d1 mew; Punt eirrilaii4iiier of the brie , m tine bring entirely I .leierl of her lorovasions, it is ettoyec 14areil that the privateer had toilet. in with her off the poll do the 9th, and them c 0000 milted the iohhery /m.llllll. firr. Tbt rr are, however, retwoua tor thinking that atm at Is ist of the crew had inn vivo it, and escaped 141 1111111 ft! IY a bow ; if us, tlit real rit , uts , tAnte3 of the cue oil!, iv all plotisbilk, coat to ' OER M4N Y. About forty thonsuld strangers are competed to have vi sited the last Frankfort Feb% This number is larger than of late years, although not so consialerableua that which . 116E4 4 0 m utt to it formerly. The country about the Rhine wins to have recovered from the effects, at least the visible effects of t h e war, but the inhabitants still suffer from the faillfog of in the last year's harvest. The complaints with which the Ger man papers abound. of the intim' of English goods, naturally produce some effect on the minds of the people in general. - On this point they are dissatisfied, without murk understand ing the merits of the subject. A great deal is owing to the political jargon of the ilnunaparteua system, which they have not yet learned to shake off. Manchester goods sold at Frank fort lair in large quantities, but at low prices. Souse of the prints went as low as 811. per yard. The German mannfae ers cannot meet this price, and the natives will have it • that the English are ruining themselves as well as the Ueruiau establishments. DENMARK. By an order of the King, the exportation and importation of arms and ammunition, to and from the Danish West India possessions, a strictly prohibited. • RUSSIA. The Emperor set out from St. Petersburgh on the 6th of September. lie proceeded to Mohrlen in the first instance, and thence lie would go to Moscow, where he was expected to arrive in the whittle of this month. A Deputation of the Nobility of Courland have brought the resolution respecting the abolition of the Vassalage of the pea sants in Courland, amid Legged its etnifirniatioii, The Nobility of the province of Estliouia gave the first example last year of abolishing the vassalage of the peasants. liv an Ukase of the 11th of August thire Is to be no rPerat. ing tur the *nay this 'ear. The regiments will far completed to their complement from the reserve of the first corps. TURKE V. During the latter part of August, the plague spread in a most disastrous manner in the capital. and at Pera and Be jnkslers. The affrighted inhabitants precipitately abandistied their houses. The 'forks themselves begot' In feel the attacks or this scourge. Ten persons died in the suite of the Oosiel Virier. The Intendant of the Depot of Slits es, who bad tem porarily received a young man attacked by the plague, lifter wards tied from the house. Atter the death of the younger son of the Anstrisu Internuncio, who tilt a victim to this cur -1 Wight.), the whole legation retired to Us:igrade, a (dace situate a league to the north of rvrri) STATES OP AMERICA. On 'Tuesday, Notional laelgrencers reached us from Irrith ingtoo, to the lath or Amtost. This paper, which is the gran of the Government, reprehends the moaner in %silk's some of the Loglish prints have spoken of the reeent exer tiitits of the United States to increase their navy. These jo,lr. 'Mists are charged with fabricating and distorting factN, sod with perverting or discolouring the views of American pu licy. 4 Shiuthl," says the Editor, " the authors of these works succeed in transfusing into the British public, tltr passions and the principles which they have laboured with assets acri monious zeal to inculcate, or if they have persuaded the Bd. fish Nlinistry to adopt the line of policy in respect to this cunutry which they recommend, we do not hesitate to say, that it becomes the bounden duty of every American states. man to redouble the vigilance with which he observes the movements of the British Cabinet ; and of this Government to baster., upon the most enlarged and liberal scale, prepasa -ions for a conflict witls such passions, such principles, and such policy, (Assiut fail to accelerate." We are glad to observe that the same paper adds, that hap pily the British Government had so tar evinced bust little of the temper which the English writers had attempted to breathe auto its councils. SOUTH AMERICA. The first armed vessel fitted out by M'Grcgor at Amelia Island, has met with ill success in her undertaking. Being abundantly supplied with fire.arms, her crew, 13 in nimbi r, were sent on apl lering expedition against the inhabitants of Mosquito. Ills Excellency the Governor oiTlorida, being apprized of their movements, dispatched at force to meet them. The Royalists met the party in open field, killed tin of them, and took three prisons., who begged fur (platter. The armed vessel, Mliregor's flag, and papers, were also taken. .A brii.t. formerly the Lerwick, of Uharle%tou, was fitting out at Amelia for the purpose of privateering. Mr. Thomas Cook, Aclutiralo.y I%fid!..hipman of the Rochefort, has invented a life-buoy, for the preser . a. Lion of the lives of seamen who may happen to fa:l overboard at sea the night. It is so constructed as to contain a quantity of unextinguishable matter, which, on letting go the buoy from the stern of the ship, is set fire to, and continues to burn for a consi. derable time above the sortie* of the water, thereby pointing out to the person overboard a place of safety until further imistance can be sent to him. Trial has been made of it alongside the Rochefort, in the pre. sense of Admiral Sir Edward Thortibrough, K. C. B. Captains Sir A chib Id Dickson, Carteret, Boger, and Falcon, when it is 'presented to have answered the purpose int nded• remedy well. NVe uni•trstand out the I )tike de San Carlos intc ads to put his sin, a y.'utu la bhtlt ten years out, and hearing the title of C.,,int, to the .ksuite Col:ege of in Lancaslairs. 14 ‘44