The National Register. — London, England, 1819-11-14 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Unbolt. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER lc A Dutch Mail has just arrived, with Papers from Brussels to the 10th inst. On the 28th October, fresh tlisturbi:nces broke out at Copenhagen, and the windows of several houses were broken, but the mi litary soon restored order, and the regulations for bidding servants, children, artisans, sailors, &c. to appear in the streets after eight in the evening, were again put in force. The German Papers that have arrived, with other matters, notice the amount of the disposable military force of Prussia. The regulars of the Prussian Mo narchy amount to 157;570 men of all arms, while the landwehr consists of not less than 438,537 men. An amazing military power, if we consider the ex tent of the territories under the Crown of Prussia, tl:c comparative paucity of their population, and the heterogeneous materials of which the Monarchy is eom posed t An article from Rome, dated the 7th of October, states, that the Regencies on the coast of Africa have given unsatisfactory answers to the demands or' Admiral Fremantle and Admiral Juriett, who went with a combined English and French squadron to insist on the renunciation of piracy. The plague had ceased at Algiers, but still raged at Tunis, where it has carried cff 6J,000 persons. A marriage is spoken of between n daughter of Duke Alexander of Wirtembcrg and the Crown Prince of Austria. The Emperor of Austria con sents to the marriage, however, on condi!ion that the King of Wirtemberg will engage to concur with. Austria in the measures proposed fur suppressing the rising spirit of liberty in ,Germany. The King is said to have refused td accede to such conditions.' The King of Spain has distinguished his marriage by publishing a general amnesty to all prisoners now in the prisons of Spain, who have not commit ted high treason, human or divine, the sourder of ecclesiastics, forgery, arson, blasphemy, and some other offences. The pardon also will extend to all the fugitive criminals. absent or in rebellion, who, in the space of six months, if in Spain, or of twelve months, if in a foreign country, shall present them selves before a judicial authority, and claim pub licly the benefit of this decree. This decree embraces only such persons as may have committed crimes before the publication of it, and not subsequent W it.. We have received the Paris Journals of Tuesday and Wednesday last ; their cogtents arc uMniport ant. The King continues to hear mass in his apartments; on the former day he was visited by the Archbishop of Paris. The Journal des Debate,, states, that " the Princess of Wales arrived at Mont_ pelier on the 2Rth ult., and received the visits of the Gencral of the Division, the Pref.:et, and the Mayor." Intelligence dated Manheitn, the 3d inst. announces, that the Hereditary IYnce of Hesse Homburg, and his wife, the Princess Elizabeth, are at Brussels, on a visit to the Dowager Margravine of Baden. Accounts from Rome, (lilted the 27th oh , statr, that the French Ambassador, Count de Bla.,:as, has ►ustained an irreparable loss. A part of Ida valua ble library, his paintings, engravings, and various objects of art, have-been destroyed, in consequence of the vessel in which they were embarked having taken fire. The celebrated painter, Sir Thomas Lawrence; has recently quitted Lime. Mr. Turner, the eminent THE NATIONAL REGISTER. landsespeladtiler, hoatauseyoded him. He is ems played to take views of Rome from quattets What it -appears to the must striking effect, and of th e surrounding scenery, for the l'rince Regent. Fat NCH FUNDS.--Nov. B.—Five per Cents. 69f. 70c.—Bonk Stock, 1480 f. Nov. 9.—Five per Cents. 60f. 80c.—Bonk Stock, 1480 f. A Hamburgh mail arrived Feld:ly morning with papers from thence to the Gth inst. ; their contents are wholly uninteresting. The Emperor of Ilus►ia is said to have exgressed his approbation of the anti piratical institution established in that city. [TROM THE COURIER.] The Radicals, it appears, no lonAer conceal their pos session of fire arms, or their sanguinary disposition to use them. We learned on Friday, from Manchester, that two most respectable iiitlividuals who .tad given their evidence as witnesses at the Oldli tm itiqiiest, had pistol shuts fi:cd into their houses, and even Into thetr bed rooms. Yesterday morning, also, we received ads ices Lunt the same place, velvet mention Ohl} Nadi°, tha merlon tints and %igilaist police officer ,Of Manchester, was shot at, .pith a horse-pistol, while in the discharge of his duty, between the hours of eleven and twelve on Wednesday night last. The shot penetrated the crown of his hat, a little above the head. Happily, no injure has been sustained Ly any of the individuals thus marked out as the objects of radical ven6eance. We received on Saturday inuruinB the fopuwing hitch Fgenire from Chesrer:— •' As a measure *,(:)lpratlent precaution, strong gates are ina!ziiG for the different outer entrances to our Castio. " 'sVithin the last few days, upward or 20 pieces 0. cannon, 9 and 12 powders, have been lodged, in our G.i , ile, collected frmn some of the gentlemen's seats in tie neighbourhood of the disturbed districts of this county, and sent here for protection and iiifety. We have heard there has lately been a cuwiderahle movement among the military, who are concentrating around Manchester, Stockport and the other populous manufacturing towns. The raason is not assigned, but it admits, we have little doubt, of easy explanation. " Th' arms, ammunittou, and accoutrements, for warded from Chester '2asde some ten or twelve weeks ago, for the use of the Manchester Armed Associatioh, have been returned to our arsenal. We have heard that the alarm prevalent among the ‘v ell-chspoled clo ses of the people of Manchester was so great, and the intimidation held out so featful, that it was tieemed prudent not to distribute them ; and they we:e accord ia6ly lodged in the Cavalry barracks, near Hulme, tili their return to tiiis depot. We give this merely as a rumour, without pledging ourselves for its authenticity.' We quote " the Courier" as our authority for' the above, and have only to add, by way of comment, that the arrangements for another " Green Lag" appear to be approaching towartl4 matur:ty• We may be allowed to cxpre.q; our hope, . that whether it be produced as tt deep TRAGEDY, or like the last (inconclusion) as a contemptible FARCE, the politi• cal Managers of the Entertainment will avoid such a blundering ludf-begutten exhibition as was allowed to disgrace their late exertions,. and prove to the wondering world that " Experience makes Fools wise." On Friday a meeting of Freeholders of the county of Middlesex was held at the Mermaid Tavern, in Hackney To consider of tile unfortunate events which occurred at Manchester on the I tith August was the object of the meeting, but it was not attended by the numerous body of Noblemen and Gentlemen who had signed the Requisition to the SheritTs, on the ground, we presume, that the object proposed by the Requisition had been already at tained by the Prince Regent's reclamation for convening Parliament. Mr.. Byng, one of the Members fur the county, appeared at the meeting, where he avowed this opinion, and we have much pleasure in adding, that his manly, temperate, and judicious speech, although opposed to the purport of the Resolutions moved by those who convened the assembly, was heard with respect and attention.- The Honourable Member lamented the occurrences at Manchester, as we sincerely believe do the Ministers themselves, and every honest man in the country. He also admitted the necessity of a full and im partial inquiry into the circumstances connected with those unhappy proceedings, for- hitherto no El 1 justification has been made . pu IGe . by the Ma. gietrates nr the Ministera, and that the tem. perate portion of the public require is, to learn the motives that could have induced the Magi. strates to disperse a meeting of the ,people with circumstances of extreme violence, at a moment when there appeared no intention on the part of the assembled multitude to disturb the general peace.— The Resolutions voted at the Hackney meeting differ in style and character from every set of Reso lutions that have hitherto been published on this subject. They are evidently the offspring of the old Major's pen, and are as mystically abstract as his usual compositions. From this conception of his own fancy he deduces his unsocial theory of un alterable laws, and concludes that a society, no mat ter what may be its wants or its wishes, must abide by the usage or practice first established, no matter how rude or inartificial. But what ate the lave now existing which the Legislature cannot alter? Magna Cbarta, the Bill of Rights, and the Act of Habeas Corpus, have all been enacted by the power of Parliament, and if Parliament had the power of enacting, it undoubtedly has the power of repeal. ing. But if one law cannot be repealed, why shall another be esteemed less sacred ? All our laws must, on the same principle, be equally immutable; besides, who is to judge of the propriety or irapn,.. priety of repealing, altering, or suspending an ex. isting law ? Not Major Cartwright, certainly, nor any other subject in the country, however re. spectable ; and to think of collecting the individual sense of every man, woman, and child in the em pire, upon the merits of every law, would be the extreme of political absurdity. A Dutch Mail has brought Papers to the 3a instl The following is an extract : NUNICM, OCT. 22. By a I) of his Majesty of the 14th September; the festival of the Reforn.ation is to be celebrate) every year in all the Proiesiant ehnrche•s in the kingdom of Bavaria. • Sunday, the 31st October, is fi%eill toi this solenwity, of hieh written notice has been given to all the Protestant clergy. An article from Brussels states, that the French• Government seems to attach great importance to the present state of things in England; for it has given orders at Calais to transmit immediately to Paris, by telegraphic bulletins, any important news which may arrive from this country. It was feared that the great Moctings of Reform; announced fir the lit of November, might lead to fatal consequences. The Paris Papers communicate no intelligence respecting the progress of disease in the South of • Spain; but in announcing the ceremonies which were observed on the entrance of the Queen into Madrid,they prove the liveliness of the apprehensions entertained in the capital with regard to the virulence of the contagion. The authorities of the city, fearing lest some persons from the infected places might introduce themselves amidst• the concourse of peo ple collected by curiosity. to switness - the Queen's entrance, issued an edict, imposing a tine of 40" duets upon any individual entering Madrid without a passport; but should the indi►•idual so entering without a passport be from any part of Andalusia not infected by the disease, he should pay a fine of 100 ducats, and be exiled from Madrid fur two • years; but should he come from any place actually infected, the edict declares that he should suffix DEATH. COURT OF KINGI BENCH, SATURDAY, Nov. i 7 The Attorney-General moved for the juil,onent of the Coen on qtr Nana-sell Lopez and others, who were convicted at the last I)etonshire Assizes, of bribery and corruption, iii procuriiit the returns of AI etnhers to par liament. The readily of the evidence, liy Mr. J us:ice liolroyd anti \l t. Justice Best, on the different indict ments occupied much time. HALF-H IiST TWO O'CLOCK. Mr..Ttistiee Bayley, after an eloquent and impressive address, pronounced the sentence. For the offence in Cornwall, a fine of B,oooi. and• imprisonment for vt calendar months in Exet r jail ; and for that in Dc. voushire, a fine of ft,001.0., and further imprisonment in the same jail for there calendar n malts. Thomas DetuttAtire, who began to take the bribery oath was sentenced to six mouths imprison un•nt. in Itallitin jail ; and the other • eighteen indit 'duals to three mouth's nuptisonntent each, in the same jail. NI r: Swan was in attendance to receive judgment for a r offence. Airs. Cathie was present also, to chew caose against the rue that had been obtained against her for a nal inform:Alton ; std Mr. Sheriff Hit hwell in hear ", e :ipplication to the Court rezarihic tlik. 14.4 ttv.,Z.... I ~, gov. U. . Voice of erotic • Biwa' Stock 216 f ' 0001ttm.21. • 3 pet Cent. Red. 67 Imp. 3 per Cent. 3 per Cent. Cont.. C7l I India Bonds Is. ME 31 per Cray. IS India Snick 4 per Lent. 83} E‘cliequer Bina 24. die. !, per Cent. Nal , % Inn Cons. for At. CS L.tne Amu. 17 7-16th. Lottery Tiet.ets .119 111..