The National Register. — London, England, 1819-02-07 00:00:00

? 6AZIIITE, Saturday, Fcs. d. 11 K PTCI SUP:F.II3EI3ED. U. Sargeant, altrigaten-teranattanse4, Carpenter. ...'i :y(o:l, P.Tt v 04.1 vrishin Caeca, cotton spinner. ‘‘ . (tanaberlayne,Letceitar. hosier. g. yryct , lute of Liverpool, baker. - BAN KRiirTs. C. Jarkynis, Upper Thrznrs Stree. au -tar factor. Atts. Smith and o. (gum sl,reet, Goodtneris J. 11. %Yitheittn. true of 1)ock 11.101, distiller. Ans. Martin arta Bon, Upper 'Ciisines Street. •Vdile, Casucory I.ane, printer and booko:ler. Att. Mr. Arund.:ll, Chancery Lar•e. G. rowel(, I.ittle Lane, 1,; lee 17,ithe, baker. Au. Mr. Great lone. Street, itedisrd R aw . Sayer, Bath, odor. Mts. A.dlitti,tou and Co. Bedford- Row. V. (•awnont, OW Prowl Street, merchant. Arts. Blurt and Co. PrINV.I Sue et Buildings. It. Myth, Kinston upon !lull. con merchant. Mt. Mr. Ellis, Chancery I".. Morgan and W. Matthews, Newport, Mole:south, brewers. Att. Mr. not. tZevt Boswell Count. F . cwap hat, dlary-le•brne Street, Golden Scinaw, wine merchant. Att. Mr. Newcomb:3. Viitc Street. F. smell, of Saint Ntutin's Court, Czae:-rile:. Atts. Mayhew ald Co. l:'.lanyery Lane. Nlarclumt, l'u;lar, coX keeper. Att. Mr. Hawzil, Symond'. R. Healey, Lowerpbre. I.toantater, woollen msnufac aunt% Att. Mr. Citi,lpen tale, Crane Cturt../P/ect Street. Itethwell, Mort Fiel.l, Lancaster, *unite:. Att. Mr. Meadow efolt. Gr.tv's Inn. 'fibbaton Hereford, farmer. Att. Mr. Petetriss, Gray's !nn, A. Wiwi, Wapping Stivat, Irleaor smith. Att. Mr. 0:1311, Stcpney Miami) Van!. L. Levy, Great Pre ectt Street, merchant. Att. Mr. Lewis, C F riar. Dividends anti Ceruficatts in our nerat.l FUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. wok TUE ENSUING WEEI• COVENT GARDEN. Vontlls---Jane Shore—Pantoinitne Tacaday—Rob Roy—rantani ne. W.-iinesdny—Evioinc; or the St ut —Who's the Dupe ? oaridey—Beggar's Opera*Tbe Place Hunters. THE ATIONAL REGISTER. LONDON: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY, 7, 1819. WI: have jest received the Paris PapersofT4sesday and Wednesday last. The French Funds continue to rise. In the course cf Tuesday the Five per Cents. were as li;r;h as 71f; and they left off on t.,at day, at 70f. 90c. On Sunday a emmittee of the Chamber of Peers presented to the Kin; the Resolution relative to the en tire abolition of the Droit d' dukinc,* adopted by the Chamber in its Sittings of the 30th ult. In the Moniker of the 31 there is a Report address ed to the King, by M. de Cues, as Minister of the In *erior, having for it; object the general impruvcinent of Agriculture throughout France. To this Report is subjoined a Royal Ordinance, giving effect to the measures recommended in it. A Council of Agriculture is to be established, under the superintendence of the Minister of the Interior, consisting of ten Members NVith this Council, a corresponding Member for each .I.•partmcnt is to communicate, upon all subjects con nected with agricultural improvement. The names of the persons composing the Council are also given in the Monileur.—Among, them are she Duke de la Rochefoucault, Count Chaptal, and Baron Ramona. The maj aity of them are Members of the French Institute. The following are eziracts from these papers : CHAMBER OF PEERS, JAN 30. •° The Marquis of Demotes, on presenting the pro cct of Law, relative to the assignment of a National itecompence to the Duke de RICHELIEU, addressed the ihaniber u follows: " GENTLEBlEN,—Conformably to the orders of the :No, we now present to you the projet of a Law, which has been adopted by the Chamber of Deputies, relative to the National ltecompence to be assigned to the Duke de Richelieu, to .the amendments of which his Majesty las consented. " It appears to ne, Gentlemen, useless to offer further illustrations in support of this proposition. The facts upcn which it is founded are public and incontestable ; the possibility of the evacuation of our territory, at the eApinttion of three years, was doubtless anticipated by treaties ; but, however binding might be the friendship which unites the foreign Sovereigns to our Monarch, confidence in the state of our country, and in the dispo idtion of its government, was necessary to our liberation. Jt was this confidence that the Duke de Richelieu knew • By which the property of Alice deceased is PO WS Critiltatt to the Frcuch TIM NATIONAL RtGISTEU how to inspire. In his negociations he displayed the influence of his acknowledged integrity ; and he then reaped the fruits of the profound esteem which he Lei ac quire?. When he spoke in the name of the King of Fr once, his sentiments were regarded as unequivocal ; his personal character was considered as a political gaurantee. Examples of this moral credit are rare; and certainly, Gentlemen, they have never been put to a test so solemn, or obtained resalts so important. This is a homage reedered by public gratitude, not only to a great service, but farther, to means of success the most honourable and pure. ' We venture to hope, Gentlemen, that the Chamber of Peers, in unison with that of the Deputies, will equally acknowledge its propriety and justice.' • •• On the 2d instant the above pro e leet was adopted in the Chamber of Pccrs, by a majority of 127 against 83. " The Chamlter of Deputies assembled on the 2d inst• and was exclusively occupied in receiving the reports of the Cammisaion on numerous Petitions. — Among these was one from General Serrazin, a pri soner in La Force, detained on an accusation of bigamy, requiring that the sentence of death passed upon him per co:atom:cc, in the time of the preceding Government, might he annulled. The Chamber de clared its incompetence to entertein this petition, hies much as it was a question for the decision of the Ju dieial Courts. " Peels, Fee. S.—The Duke de Richelieu arrived at Bourdeaux on the filth ult. The King of Prussia has conferred upon his Excellency the Order of the Black Eagle. " Some symptoms of disorder having again been manifested among the pupils of the College Louis-le- Grand, the Commission of Public Instruction has pro visienally confided the direction to M. Malleval, one of the prothssors, who was installed by the University on the tit inst. " Letter& from Vienna state, that the Emperor of Austria is zealoitly interesting himself in furtherance of the re-establishment of the Order of Malta ; and that he has made proposals on this subject to the Emperor Alexander, anti several o'.her Monarchs. It is confi dently said, that an important island in the Mediter ranean, or Adriatic, will be granted to this illustri ous Geler, which may accomplish a political view, by protecting thane seas from the predatory cruisers of the Barbery Powers." FIUi.NCD FUNDS, Fen. I.—Five per Cents. 70f. 30c.—Bank Stink, 1500 f. Fee. 2.—Five per Cents. 701. 90c.—Bank Stock, 15151. JAN. 23.—Agreeably to a Cabinet Order of the 11th, several important changes have taken place in the Ministry. The Ministry of Police is sup pressed, and that Department united with the Ministry of the Interior." " Names, Frs. 12.—A Sicilian vessel was wrecked on this coast on the 23d Dec. She came front Tunis, and brought the news that the plague carried off iu that town front two to three hundred persons daily." The Exchange at Hatuhurgh upon London was on the 29th ult. at 33. Extract of a letter from Rome :—" His Holiness Pius VII. becomes more infirm every day. It is feared that the Holy Week ' will kill him ; he never can go terough the fatigues of the ceremonial: this wi l be in March. All are looking up to the Rising Sun,' Cardinal Gonsalvi. Every thing is gay and lively here. The Princess Borghese (Pauline) takes the lead at the fashionable assemblies; her conversaziones are constantly well attended. I have seen The Three Graces,' executed by the incomparable chisel of Canova; they exceed description. lam certain the Prince Regent will he deiighted with their matchless qualities. The ' Venus de eledicis,' for the Marquis of Lansciown, is very fine. We are still much infested with banditti in this vicinity." Letters have been received from Cadis to the 15th and front Madrid to the 23d ult. A considerable im pression has been made at the former place, by the receipt at the Custom-house of an order from the Government immediately to increase the import duties on all goods to double the firmer rates. A meeting of the merchants, we understand, was immediately held, to consider the best means to he .a.lopted, in cone sequence of this unexpeeted step of the Government. The subject was referred to the Coustilada ; the mem bers of which were to present a Memorial, setting forth the losses which would he sustained by the mer chants. A letter of the 12th Jan. from Cadiz, men tions, with respect to the Expedition, that 20,000 men were already in that city and its neighbourhood, pre paring fur their departure to South Ametica. Three ships of the line and five frigates were folly equipped. A Mail from Holland has suppliet us with Dutch Papers to the Sti inst. The unhappy Chief of the Wechataes (we learn by an article in these Peptic, dated Constantinople, December 24). tegethei with his Treasurer and linen, were brought by land to Con stantinople en the 16th of that month, the ship in which they had been sent haviug been detained by con trary winds in the Dardanelles ; and the Porte being , eager to glut the savage eyes of its population with the spectacle of the mangled bodies of these unfortunate VEIL 7 persons, they were first le3 in chains through the street• ; then taken to a dungeon and put to the torture; and the &lineable morning brought before the Grand Scignor, who ordered them to be decapitated; which sentence was put in execution the time evening, in the Sultan's pre►ence ; their bodies exposed during three days, and finally delivered up, to be torn in pieces by the populace. New York Papers to the 9th ult. have arrired—The National Intellioncer gives a !►tied eatline of the dis putes baween Spain and Lhc United States. In the first Article it is mentioned, that the United States deeply regret the violation of the Spanish territory by the A.meric►n forces wider General Jackson, and that it was without the authority of the Government. The second Article refers to the cession of the Florlias to the United States. The third and fourth Articles give a brief outline of the limits es to territory ; the fifth load sixth Tegulate the navi;.natien of the two countries ; and the old Treaty is referred to, where it was agreed that the flag should protect the cargo; but Qom of future wars, if any Belligerent should not acknow ledge this principle, then the Treaty on this sabjeet to be considered void. The last ar idle states, that the ees.sion of the Floritles shall be considered in fall payment for all claims of America upon Spain; Kai us a great proportion of these claims have arisen from the confiscation of American property by French officers while in the territory of Spain. theis ataounts to be specified by the Uuitel States, that the total may be claituel from the Government of France. . _ _ _ _ _ The intelligence from South America is of the most extraordinary description. An American of Monte Video (of eminence, it is stated) boa trans. mitted to the United States the unexpected intelligence, that the Government of Buenos Ayres, in conjunction with Chili, have resolved on sending an offer to a European Foreigner, of " the Crown of Sontlt Ameri. ca." The Envoy was to proceed to France. An expedition, consisting of 3000 men, had been dispatched to Santa Fe. A large expedition agai►►st Lima was preparing at Valparaiso. The Message of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent was taken into consideration en Friday night in the House of Lords, upon the motion of the bawl of Liverpool. His Lordship stated one or two important facts, in addition to what had been mentioned by Lord Castlereagh the preceding evening. In the first place, it was clearly established, that his Royal High. ness possessed by law the right of appropriating the 58,0001. lapsed by the Queen's death, to the general purposes of the Civil Lint. The surrendering of it, therefore, to the disposal of Parliament was only another proof on the part of his Royal Highness's advise , s, of their disposition to adapt on every occasion real awl practicable economy. The Marquis of Lansdowne expressed some doubts as to the principle thus laid down in the Message, and consideree it Le be totally inconsisteet, at least with the spirit, if not with the letter, of the Act fur regulating the Civil List, which waa passed two or three years agn. In answer to these doubts, the Earl of Liverpool replied, that the principle was supported by legal opinions taken en the subject; ann that there was a great difference be tween the sum granted to the Queen, which was granted out of the Civil List, and the sums granted to the junior branches of the Royal Family, which the Noble Marquis had considered as precisely similar. The latter had hcen granted out of the Consolidated Fund, with the express understanding that they should revert to the plata: on the decease of the illustrious persons by whom they were now enjoyed. With respect to the pensions to be pail to the ser vant+ of her late Majesty, his Royal Highness was precluded from bestowing them out of the 58,0001. in consequence of the limitation, of the Pension List, as now fixed by law, at 90,0001. Had it not been for this limitation, his Royal Highness would, of cour.e, have adopted the example of his predecessors, instead of making a specific application to Parliament The justice of the arrangeralut no one has ventured to question. In the House of Commons, several new writs were moved for; and among them, one for Westminster, is the room of the lute Sir Samuel Romilly, by Mr. Brougham; who confined hinsclf, contrary to the general expectation, to the simple customary motion. The Chancellor of the Exchever stated, in reply to some observations from Sir M. W. Ridley, that it was not in the contemplation of Government at present to submit any new measure to the Bank Ili:uric:lea Committee, respecting the Country Banks. It has been asserted in a Morning Paper of !Peter. day, •• that the Bank have totally stopped their Dis counts." Such a piece of intelligence having naturally excited surprise and alarm, we have thought it our duty to make the necessary inquiries ; and are able, at coasevense, to state, in Lie m 9.4 pos.tive manner, that there is nut the sligi:test foundatiun fur the asscrtiGl The Hank do now, as Lacy have always done, exercise a discretion with regard to Discounts ; but they have never entertained the idea cif a total stn cape, which they are aware would be productive of the greatest mischief.