The National Register. — London, England, 1820-05-01 00:00:00

FOREIGA 1 ATELLIGENCE. ACCOUNTS 1 , 11074 SPAIN. We have remarked with surprise an art; in the cionel , in which thc Chief of the Venezue lan Patriots, Simon Bolivar, is warmly attacked. It is said, that at Santa-re de Bogota he put to &fah 250 ecclesiastics, monks, and rich persons ; and that, not content with these murders, he en riched himself by exactions ; that General Morales has assembled a body of 3,000 men, well organized, who are the terror of the Patriots. It is also an nounced, that General Morello has obtained an ad vantage over the Patriot Pacz. It is true, that these articles are extracted from a paper of Carac has, but the Constiluciund adopts them without adding any reflections. The present composition of the Ministry com prises the most influential members of the Corte3 of Cadiz. This circumstance renders them ineligible _ . as Deputies. The Government is in this respect in the same situation as that of Louis XN'I. would have been, it; as had been proposed in 1790, the King had talon Mirabcau anti his friends as Mi- misters. The Junta of Madrid is occupied seriously in putting in activity a regular system Of itostom du ties. They will be immediately applied to the eN• tretne fconticrs of the kingdom, and those which exist in the interior, from province to province, will be suppressed. Some anxiety has been felt at Madrid respecting General Cruz de Mourgeon. On the 31st of March he entered Xeres with half of the division under his command, that is, 3,000 meti, who had arrived there by forced marches front Utrera : it is not yet known tor what object. On the 30th General O'Dompu ordered the Queen's battalion and that of America to march out of Cadiz, and to station themselves between the land-gate and the Cortadura. It was said that they purposed to circa a counter-revolu tion ; but we have received a proclamation addressed by this General to his troops. He prays his soldiers to believe that " his Nesty swore to the Constitu tion without the least constraint, and by a move ment of his own magnanimous heart Soldiers, listen not to Use rumours, our holy religion is not outraged. The person of the King is sacred and inviolable." This proclamation proves that there bad been some fermentation among the troops. MADRID, AVAIL 10.—Yesterday the Members of the Constitutional Municipality were chosen, and the elections have met with general approbation. Among theta are merchants, laud proprietors, gran dees, &c. The unfortunate aflitir at Cadiz is the only blemish our revolution has experienced, and it is lucky it was, not worse, for a counter-revolution was plotted, and was to have been carried into effect on Maundy Thursday, the SOth, but it was discovered by a sedeant of one of the regiments, who had received :2 , 0 0 dollars to distribute among his people. Some arrests have followed, and among those sent to prison are three Members of the Junta de Reemplazos. In the place where they were in the habit of assembling, 10,000 dollars were found, and it appears that a few friars and curates were the persons who had formed the underhand project of suborning the troops. Fortunately these mad and nelitrious projects arc of no avail, and will only serve to ruin a few embitions individuals in the opinions of their fellow-citizens. The troops in La Isla will not quit their positions till the Cortes assemble. In the Provinces the militia are arming. CADIZ, APRIL 4.-1 was just going to dine, when I heard that the valiant Quiroga was about to make Iris entrance into the town, and that every prepara tion was making to receive him. I hastily finisoed my repast, and on reaching the street of San Fran cisco, I saw descending, front the square of San Antonio, the battalion of Arragon, 800 men, be longing to the La Isla party, whence they had just arrived, having first gone to the square of the Con stitution to salute with their colours the obelisk r.dsed there in honour of our national code. It wculd be impossible to explain the enthusiasm of Cie troeps belonging to this corps, and the people who were seen hailing and embracing them on all s id e s. Th e balconies were hung with silks, and crowded with spectators, and the inhabitants walked before the troops, with palms in their hands. The Im:talion moved off to their quarters, and I went on to see Quirogit's entry, but Low can I convey to you an idea of this pleasing and tender sight ? Scarcely was his tainting know n, and the whole of the ground from the Cortadura to tire square of San Juan de Dir s, was thronged with people; balconies, tops of t..e 'houses, all tided, even the city walls and to..vers, 7ai anxious was every body to sec this brave and d:;l:tguished man to whom his country is so much indei,ted, and who little more than three months ago was an imitate of one of our prisons.—The party La Isla reached the Cortadura, and was re eeived with discharges of artillery and every other demonstration of joy. The people Ihreed Quiroga tLcse who accompanied hint to taiglit front thew THE NATIONAL P.EGISIT,R. horses, and they ascended a liJaatiful triumphal car, prepared fhr the occasion, in which sat Quiroga, Iliego, Lopez Banos, our new Governor, Don Cur unto Valdes and O'Don.ijno, drawn by the people. Parties of soldiers preceded them, and an immense concourse of the most distinguished inhabitants on horseback. Gmerals Ferras and Cisneros attended in coaches. On reachin g ; the square of San Juan de Dios, Quiroga alighted at the Governor's house, but the people demanded I.e should shew himself at the balcony. There the Governor placed on his head a crown of laurel and roses which had been prepared fur him. The scene was too much for Quiroga, he was so greatly affected that he burst into tears, and they were obliged to take him in. A more interesting spectacle was never witnessed ; it filled me with a thousand recollections. Would to God those could have been present who think we are incapable of apprecicting the advantages we have just attained. In short, we are all happy, with the excepiion of a very few, too servile and too merce nary to prize the blessings their fellow-citizens enjoy, but this is only a dark spot in the general scene, and they will be left to the remorse of their own consciences. Pants, April ^2.—Yesterday, after mass, the King transacted business with the Duke de Riche lieu and the Minister of War. A pamphlet, entitled Apercus Ilisloriques, has been scizedly authority, at the Constitutional Li brary of Brissot-Thivars. M. Chevalier, one of the Editors of the Habil°. thew Historique was arrested yesterday. The cause is not known. The Journal de Paris says—" We can inform certain propagators of disastrous reports, that their efforts are useless ; no one believes either their af fected good intentions or their bad news. What ever they may do or think, France enjoys in every quarter the most perfect tranquillity." It is said, that the Cabinet of St. James has re plied to the official notitical of the changes recently produced in the government of Spain, that it sees with pleasure the adoption of a system which Eng land had long considered useful, and even necessary, fur the welfare of the Spanish nation. CORFU, APRIL B.—Sir Thomas Maitland. the Lord High Commissioner, has just opened the third session of the Legislature of the lonian Isles. His Excellency commenced his speech on the occasion by congratulating them upon the tranquillity of the United Isles. That tranquillity, be observed, had been last year momentarily interrupted by the tumult at Santa Maura; but the instigators had been detected ; four of them had paid the fOrfeit of their lives, and the property of the fugitives from justice had been confiscated. That event hail been preceded by the most heinous calumnies against the executive power, and against Great Britain ; his Excellency therefore recommended, that a committee of the legislative corps should be immediately ap pointed to investigate and record upon it. He was determined to exercise the const.tutional power intrusted to him with firmness, but at the same time with that moderation and mildness which became the subject of the free nation to which he belonged. Alluding to the cession of Varga, he observed, that it took place by virtue of treaties to which England had been ever faithful—she had indemnified the Parganiotc. and granted them the rights of citizen ship in the lonian Isles. Ilis Excellency next pro ceeded to review time financial resources, and congratulated them upon their satisfactory state. He assured them, that the administration wme actively occupied in measures for the promotion of interaal prosperity, which would promptly be laid before them; the health laws particularly would be ren dered .ess burdened, by new regulations. Lard Guildford, he observed, had been charged to organixe a plan of public education. After tlevelopin7, at length, these points of political economy, his Excel lency thus concluded;—" l am so fully convinced of the advantages which the Constitution of 1817 will produce in these isles, that I frankly avow to you I am not at all disposed to make the slightest changes in concession to the titcoreti;aal opinions of any one. Should experience demonstrate the Mm perfection or inadequacy Of existing enactments, I shall be always ready to concur in such measures as may promote the prosperity of the United States of the lonian Isles." STUTGARD, April I.s.—The marrimge of his Ma jesty the King ►yith her Seiene Higness the Princess Pattlina of \V urtewherg. daughter of his Highness tl►e late Da ke Louis of Wunemberg, was solemnized to day in the Royal Palace. The ceremony was perforawl at twelve o'clock, in the Great Gallery, by the Chief Court Chaplain, Prelate d'Artd, in presence of the members of the Royal Family who are now here, of the whole Court, as well as of the officers of the Household of his Majesty, the Queen Dowager, and of those of the members of the Royal Family present, the Diplomatic Body, the Staff-officers of this and the neighbouring garrisons, the Royal Ministers, a de putation from both the Chambers of the States and of the University of Tubingen, and the Magistrates of this city. After the ceremony their Majesties went to the Presence Chamber, to receive the congratulations of the Court, the Diplomatic Body, &c. after which there was a grand entertainment, and in the even ing a bull. FROM SATUIWAY NIG!IT•S GAZETTE. This Gazate notifies the appointment of Thomas Brooke, of Stafford, Gehl.. to be a Master Extivortlitatry in the Conn of Chancery. PANKRUPTCY I,NLARGED. J. A Wilkes, Birmingham, glass toy maker, from May 15, to July 1. !RANK RUPTCY SUPERSEDED.. J. and I'. Gundry, Goldsithney. Cornwall, merchants. BA N ii RI! 1"I's. W. Biggar, Manchester. brazier. Solicitors, Messrs. Milne and Parry, Temple. J. Kinder, Alancliester, cotton spinner. Sol. Mr. Bay, Man cliester. W. jun. Rochdale. Lancashire, woollen manufacturer. Sol. Mr. Chit - mind:lle, Crane Court. Fleet Street. G. Bate. Bristol, victualler. Sol. Mr. Meredith, Lincoln's Inn New Square. W. Burton. Oxford Street, upholsterer. Sol. Mr. Hill, Wel beck Strict, Cavendish Square. J. F. Machin imil .1. S. Gill, Gloucester Street, Queen Square, surgical instrument makers. Sol. Mr. Hayward, 'l•emple. .1. Smith, Folliain, plumber Sol. Mr. Lung. Fcnchurch St. J. and .1. Bower, Bradford, Yorkshire, woolstaplers. Sol. Mr. Makinson, Temple. M. and K. Edwards, Nen .ort, Monmouth, linen drapers. Sols. Messrs. Jenkins, Janie', and Abbott, New Inn. .1. Newim4ton. Tunbridge, Kent, farmer. Sols. Messrs. Giegson and Fonnereati, Angel Court, Tliroginorton Street. T. II Pa,k,r. King ton, Surrey, wine merchant. Sol. Mr. Hannan]. Piazza Clhoilbers, Covent Garden. NI. Cope, Ikrby, ironmonger. Sol. Mr. Walston, Holborn Omit, Gray's Inn. DIVIDENDS. May 20. J. E. IloolbooM, Union Court, Broad Street, mer chant-20, W. Sensiott, Bowling Green Lane, Clerkenwell, scavenger-20, IL Farrcr, Bread Street, Cheapside, warehouse • min-13, It. H. Plaw, Riches Court, Lime Street, merchant -20, .1. Graham, Birmingham, linen draper-20, J. Wilkinson, W. Horne, and J. Wilkins m, Friday Street, warehousemen -20, I. B. Belcher, II:Miele! Broak, Essex, linen draper-20, G. Kerdiaw, Romford, Essex, shopkeeper-2r , , C. Hensley, Stroud, Gloucestershire, mercer-24, J. Ingham, Haiifax, York, and S. Haley, Bradford, woolstaplers—•ls. It. Bramwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, hatter-3u, 'l'. Parkinson, Fen. Stawby, Lincoln, T. Yarkin•on, jun. Kingston upon Bull, and .1. Lilley, Soul comes, York, ruff merchants-51, W. Bowies, T. Ogden, and G. IVynelham, New Sarum, arid J. Barrow, Shaftesbury. ba , kers-24, J. Woodward, Banbury, Oxon, upholsterer-20, .1. Davidson, Beer Lane, 'lower Street, merchant.-20, T. Law trird and S. Grins dick, St. Mary Axe, say factors-30, F. W. Rutledge, Commercial Road, corn dealer—Su, W. Barton, Corn hill, auctioneer. CERTIFICATES to be granted May 20. B. Tonnes, Burr Street, East Smithfield. merchant—J. hams, Crowland, Lincoln, grocer—J. It. Forster and C. Dobson, Norwich, manufacturers—W. Dickinson, Scalb):, York, coo: rnerchant—%s . Tomlinson. Hincklev. Lereaaaer, 'nuke( per—J. Keates, Leek, Stafford, innkeeper—W. Biter, Greenwich, butcher —D. Aguilar, Devonshire Square, wine merchant—T. Rogers, Worcester. hay salesnran•W. Goddard. Lowestoft, Suffolk, 1 miller. We have been favoured with the following letter dated GLAESOW, ArBlL24, 1820. " You h.tve no doubt heard a mat in al about tiler It itIICAIS in this 1:11.1.111:1 —It Is exaggerated to a great de -1.011 100,1 tat liekt•A e a word about Illandactur -1,1.: of pikes on nightly drilling. You need not wonder o the necessities of tile lower classes, when pm think .1 1,11% tar fo.ty thousand of weavers and t ,,,ir rem ... clog on au, average not mole than is. lied. to is 61. per day. How can you be surprised al .t.eur gritiohdrig? . re begllllllg 10 ellligrJte, such s can, in great mambos; and it is ploposed to apply to Got eminent for a grllll, u 1 enable OW most destitute ot.' mem to go to ; fur althou g h the money is no more than titre...guineas from this to Q..ehec, that is a stint beyond the reach of the bulk of ;lie starved rood: iron, as they have to provide their MCllle.ll be sides forthc voyage. in sheil a Stale 01 things tin uunder otat trade is so bail, thy lower classes c-oa with the et cutest difficulty keep soul and life together, and there inr: there is no mono , to lay ()tit in Ica and sugar, or tier superfluities. Unless the Got er .iiient do some thnig this Parliament, either by commercial treaties or O.IIeI*WPW, 10 11C11) the manneactining interests of this country, the &sailection and distress must increase, and the number or wreiched lutes sacnli, eil to the aws oldie coritury, increase also—tor Government need not fear al ways having the victory; for so tar lioni their heing ally e use for alarm, 1 am persuaded that a tcw, s.iv a tenth part of the force they now have, st (101(1 be sufficient to keep all toe Radicals 11l the country in awe. I was in Greenock a few days aster the affair there: had the scvile of slaughter been in Elect dud, it won't] Iliac made twice the noise even of the ceielirated .Nlanches ter hit-itiess; but in this country the authorities are so corrupt, and toe Id:races of the subj. ct so much less than in Eti6land, awl those few they have, so disre garded, mat the tlitng is not staled in half 119 real char ..ei r in the newspapers, and every means is taken to hush tip them tiler there are no Coroner's I inpicsts in Scotland—no nab, as Corpus act, for people are taken tip Mulice sligntest suspicion, and liberated when tint Niagistrates pleas-, so as the tittle dors Sot exceed thirty (lays confinement , there is no opportunity as with you, to bring au action for false inspri-onitient. 1 .iii proud to think you manage those popular disturbances le. tier in London Wail any where, dud had tire same mode ration been exercised at Greenock, as the Horse Guards displayed at Picaddlv, those test lads throwing stones might hare liven F. ptikcil without the loss of the Ines of so in lily inimeein peoide. I Co ILA eia.ht bul let holcs in two atljoming panes of glass in a window at Greenock ! !—What a pity these uproars are not lea to the regular cavalry to quell, who so perfectly ttu erbtautl it." 140