The National Register. — London, England, 1820-09-10 00:00:00

MILAN COMMISSION COURIER. The following letter is from the most respectable quarter. Its important contents require no cont. went. lhey relate to a 'person *hose none re pt:au:4lly oecurs in the examinations in the House of Lords:— " PARIS, SEPT. I. "Inclignaut at the unjust and ridiculous trial of which your excellent Queen is the obitrt, I thought that it might not be unacceptable to yon to arm yourself with an ad dltional ilWalls of demonstrating how stateless your Go vernment has been of the moral conduct to the men whom it his employed to frweif:l its inquiries, and to conduct tile Loam IiaJMICS whit It it has lollowed iu Italy. " Among the miter individuals attached to the Milan cot 11111 l ssom there was one called Crouse. lie. held the title of Courier for the British Cabinet, but, as it would appear, executed function s not dibli net iy marked by his ostensible occupation. Sometimes he received an order to go it) search of discarded servants, for the purpose of collecting their es idence ; sometime* he commenced his operations in the central spot of toe exa mi nations of these sal 4 ant eye witnesses, and sometimes he was despatched from Milan to London, carrying the result of these infa n processlings. Ott this journey he usually ra:sed tormign Paris. Not satisfied with the considerable pay witted he received, what did this tricky knave do ? Why lit: took advatitage of some days stay at Paris to atter jiwged Bunk of England notes. One of my friends, who was tile vivito of his knavety, fur a large sum, de. nouni:ed him to justice. Mr. Crouse Was arrested and thrown into pritun at Paris, In the examination of his papers proof was found of cis crime. Many fitrged notes ismular to time he had sold, wet e found upon hon. lie had the address to destroy a coositterable quantity of them before his arrest. The agents whom he employed to dispose of those forged notes declared that they .111 w large packets of them in his possession. ln fine, taken )14/porde dclic'o, he would infallibly have tmdergone the punishment denounced against forgery, if his ambassador, whose protection he claimed, had not employed all his diplomatic authority to snatch him front the hands of. justice. When interrogated as to his forged notes, Crouse declared that he had received them at Tilts wore the air of truth, as it was always CM his return from Milan that Crouse was the bearer of these nogeries.— Thus Milli' at once became the den of conspirators and the refuge of forgers. The English ambassadi r promised in the justice of France to procure the punishment of Crouse at London. The assurances, however, were not fulfilled. Mr. Crouse remained in the service of his government. People sofficieutly clever to compromise imprudently the honour of their Sovereign, and to increase their means by forgery, would appear by this to deserve the special protection of your government. As the name of this indtvidual may perhaps be frequently mentioned on the trial of the Queen, it may not be without its use to make known to you his morality. 1 will engage to fu - nisi' you with all the proofs of the facts which 1 have now brought to your notice, and to guarantee their correctness. " Up to this time my friend has not been indemnified for the forged notes which Mr. Crouse circulated here. "P. S. M. Crouse, or Kraus, was arrested in the month of November, Idl9. The Renommee, which published several articles at the time on the incident have mentioned, may have erred in the orthography of the name; but it is the same individual who was ar rested for forgery that was engaged in hunting out and collecting witnesses in Italy. " Enclosed you will find the articles of the Renommee which I have alluded to. The person who interfered in favour of Crouse is the Secretary, and an employe of the English embassy." ((From the Renommee.] "Sir W. Temple was once on the point of leaving the embassy of Holland, because the local authorities at the Hague refused to give up one of his suite accused of a grave ullenee.,, It would appear that this protection, whirls goes the length of sectirinr, inipnnily to the antral• tern agents of an embassy, nutlet; a part of the instructions of the Cabinet of St. James. At least we are furred to draw this hilt re nee 1 tom the pulsing and reiterated in stances of the English es bass in favour of a man accused of trailing in forgo 11 notes of the Bank of England. The following are she tarts to which we abide, as stated to us by one of the iujneeu pai ties:— " A nioney•chancer iii the Valais Royal had bought of an itierie i dual to Lilly Bank -notes, w Idyls being sent ni 1.011111011 for mem, were returned as forgeries. Tile result Of Iliis Iran-m.lnm 011iOlig till ' money changers, and rendered them distrustful in their open:moos. Alva Mk, notes we c utfee 101 to another ! money •elimiger, hu asked twenty-four 11011111 to iuslaile into the address of the seller. The address was given • it was Illal of a Itritirli Cabinet Coln ier. 11w money-dealer event next day to the Nol.lllllol place. aceutopohiod with two °lima peisolos, who hint bleu the dopes of the filet transaction. They found the hailer in notes of the day he e, who was much einharras-I,d at their presence. They found with him new notes, which they considered as fun gel. The proceeded immediately to inform the an lino tiles of the circumstance. Au iii-peetor of police ordered the 111 test of the accused, whose pa peia were or dered to be Sealed. The affair Was 4110111 totube 11111 in a train tOr a judicial Moon y when tile action of jiistiee was all at one paralysed. The inikvidual arrested applied to hi , ambassador, who evonced an extraordinary zeal iU Bans the operation of jiistire 4 !..übject of his Sovereign. His Excellency wrote Inc nuo.4 let ters to level al of the 31inistei3 and to mire r lle representr d that, the Milividual being a Cat/11111 e-m -rim., the pithiie set rive might 61111'1 , 111 has deteut,:ni. l in line, lie reneged in his tasmir atifoi of 21 hums, '1 he, last allegation satisth d j ii,tree, and Btu accu,ol was it:- leased." In the Itenommee of the 111th of JJtllrary , 551 find 11,e. folio wing deb. nee 01 . K.Ealla art op by on ..,y0b,;.05t ter hs,, writing melee' the signature of J. Y. The Ei nide (:unite, K raw., bought at ',Pm , :x Mink of Ellgldiail notes (there of then a mi d ii, r , v yr 1 ut • yetsou nami.d Cruluinbu, which Culua.h. Lad • L • THE NATIONAL REGISTER purchased of a shopkeeper called Albertclli. 01111110 w would not at first sell them for less than .!4 byres per pound sterling ; but Ichlll4 itftcrw•nrd Ulti.111114:11 illt.llll at 2 • a pike below the ra!e, of exchange at the time. !laving at lived at "•iris, Knits wished to 111,111 to inouev-dealers of the l'alals Royal, and at their request left with them his name and address. Colombo is at pre sent before the tribunals of The lietwatmee,atte t . inserting this letter, gives a history of the transacion, with the 'tunics of inwiey-eliangers concerned in it. !t is tail that Kraus was agitated when lie saw then—that be was arrested--and that he was libe rated without a trial, to the injury of those who had taken the firged notes. It is aftei Wit rd, said that he must have known lie was uttct in, flit gel ie., for that he was proceed ing to London, and had with hint inure than 500 fr.slies, ' whirls rendered the change of his notes utineeessAly ill lie reached his destination, where the notes, if g would be of morn• service than French coin, NEft 10 1 ALDERSCATE ADDRESS TO THE QUERN. Her Majesty having signified that she would re ceivc the Address voted to her by the inhabitants of the Ward of Aldcrsgate un Friday afternoon, at Brandenburgh-house, a Committee was appointed to arrange the business of the procession. Those who had signified their intention to accompany the Address in procession assembled at the Cominittce room of the Ward, ;nil by eleven o'clock the worthy Alderman of the Ward, Robert Albion Cox, Esq. arrived in his own chariot, attended by his own servants. _ _ The procession then moved forward, preceded by the Ward Beadles and Officers with the Mace, and other insignia of office. The procession then regularly drew up in front of Brandenburgh-house, and about the same time her Majesty arrived from London. The party was re gularly ushered into the presence-room, where the Queen received the Leputation in the most hand some manner. Mr. Alderman Cox stated, that he had been di rected by the Ward of which he was Alderman, to communicate to her Majesty their affectionate Address. Her Majesty graciously bowed, and desired that it might be read. Mr. C. Corbould hereupon read the Address. The Queen returned her answer, begging at the same time, that Mr. Alderman Wood would be so good as to read it. It was to the following effect " 11 have recently received the most unequivocal proofs of af fectionate attachment on the part of the Citizens of London.— The present address from the inhabitants of the Ward of Alders gate, is an addition to the many claims which the first metropolis in the world has upon my gratitude. " Great as have been my affliction, and many as have been my wrongs. they have both experienced no small degree of alleviation from the general expression of public sympathy that has been so widely manifested since my return. " The sentiment of indignation which the proceedings of my enemies has excited, has not been limited in its extent, or restricted in its operation. It has been diffused over the whole country, every heart has vibrated with the feeling, and it has strewed the potency of its influence in every circle olsociety. " It is not a me; party feeling, and therefore is not likely to be fugitive and evanescent. It is a feeling which attaches itself to a question of universal interest, for it involves the interest of National l.ibcrty. " If it were merely my own rights that were affected by . the pond. ing Bill of Pains and Penal ties, I should feel more indifferent than Ido about the present piocedure in the House of Lords; but as the rights of every Englishumn must be impaired by such violation of Constitutional Liberty, I am more impressed by the tremendous consequences with which it threatens the public welfare, than by any loss or privation which it may bring upon myself. " If my rights as Queen Consort should be transferred to another, that transfer would be against the fundamental laws of the mini, and wanitag the highest of all sanction, the general consent of the nation, would receive no other obedience than that which force might impose. "In the enlightened times, whatever the panders to the arbitrary will of *overeigns may pretend. no throne earl be secured that is not established in the affection of the people. No other power can possess any thing like permanency or solidity. All besides this it mere gaudy paguintry or umubstantial show. It may remain for a time, but it will suddenly disappear like the vision at a night." The Queen bowed, and her Mzjesty afterwards evinced her readings: to receive other Addresses Si: It. NVilson presented an Address from Derby, signed by near live thousand persons; and after having read it, the gallant General observe 1, that tuough it might nut be perfectly regular, he begged, in his own name, to congratulate her Majesty on the facts which had transpired to discomfit her enemies. Mr. Hobliouse, M. I'. then prescntal an Address frotu'about 9,000 females of Sheffield. Some other Addresses were afterwards notified to her Majesty, from Halifax (the Queen enquired whether it was Halifax in Yorkshire on in North America?) and other places ; but owing to the fatigue that had already been undergone, it was suggested that the reading of the Addresses should be postponed, when her .Nlajesty was gnu:jaw:lf pleased to signify that Answers should be duly returned. Some ladies who were present evinced their an xiety to pay their dutiful attentions to her Majesty ; and she instantaneously, and in the must urbane and w,reeable mummer, paid and received the most res pectiid attentions. Sir 11 . Wilson and Mr. Hobliouse arrived in se parate carriages, the former bearing an Address lima the ladies of Sheffield, and the latter one from a portion of the inhabitant householders of Dorby. 44 no: Address from Whitechapel was presented by Mr. V. iHiamson, the senior Churahwarden, and Chairman of the meeting at which it was voted. II A BY- L E-BONE D D On Monday morning the neighbourhood of Wel. beck-street was thronged to excess by an immense multitude of persons of respectable appearance, col lected together fur the purpose of witnessing the departure of the procession of the Married Ladies of Mary-le-bone with their Address to the Queen.— The principal scene of attraction was the Committee. room, front whence the procession was to move. Here several carriages and four, with the horses and post boys gaily attired, were collected to receive the Committee, while all the adjoining streets, the whole of Cavendish-square, Holles-street, and fir a VIII. siderable distance down Oxford-street, wet- filled with vehicles of the same description, amounting in all to not less than 500; many of them had, six and seven inmates, Ladies and Gentlemen. At halt-past eleven the cavalcade set out. It was preceded by a carriage drawn by six horses. On the box a banner was displayed, bearing this in. scription—" Queen Caroline ;" " Justice and the Laws;' " No Conspirators;" "No False Witnesses;" "No Spies." This was surmounted by sprigs Of laurel and white ribbons. The horses' heads Were all decorated with white ribbons ; and the ladies, as well as gentlemen, wore favours of the like descrip. tion The next carriage contained Sir Gerard Noel, Bart., Chairman of the Meeting. Then came Mr. and M to. Haydon, the tbrmer Chairman of the Cone. mittee, and the latter the Lady appointed to read the Address to her Majesty. These were fidlowed by five carriages and four, drawn by grey horses, containing the Gentlemen of the Committee. I'. Moore, Esq.; J. Hume, Esq.; S. Whitbread, Esq. and several other public characters followed. The head of the procession reached Brandcnburgh House soon after one, but upwards of an hour elapsed before the whole of the company wasset down. The road all the way to Hammersmith was thronged, and the scene was altogether most grati fying. The Address having been read, Mr. Alderman Wood read the following answer : " I feel a cordial sataaction in accepting this unfeignedly affectionate Address from the Married Females resident in the parish of St. Mary le-bone. " Many of the most estimable characteristics of our sex borrow no sma:l degree of lustre from adversity. It is then that flame gentle virtues are most conspicuous by which we arc most adorned: and when even loveliness itself is increased by uncom plaining patience and humble resignation. In us it is true heroism to be meek in sorrow and not querulous in suffering. " If the spirits of those who are no more with us be at all conscious of what is passing in the scene they have left, I trust that the spirit of my . beloved daughter will contemplate with complacency the serenity I have endeavoured to acquire, and the fortitude I have endeavoured to exercise in trials, of which it is difficult to appreciate the severity; and indeed to which few foliates have ever been exposed. " My departure for the Continent in 1814 was, at that mo. ment, like an exile flout all that I held dear. I left a child, who was my mind's best hope, and my heart's last stay, expecting hereafter to see her in happier days. But, alas ! I was to see her no more. When we parted, we parted never to meet again. ••I was hardly married before my circumstances became more desolate than those of widowhood ; and I scented to have become a mother, only to be tortured by the privation of that intercourse with my child, which was hardly ever denim to any mothcr but myself. Thus the pie-eminence of my station because only a pre eminence in misery. " If I have had any enjoyment in the changes and chances of my chequered life, it has been principally produced by the habits of bencfieence which I have had an opportunity of culti• voting. I claim no praise for this; for I found the practice to be agreeable to my nature; and, if I had reflected on the subject. my resolution would only have derived additional support front the balance of pleasure rind the calculations of interest.-11cle request you to :mite with me in adniiritig that wise constitution of the moral world, which makes the most exquisite sati,fac. tints and the roost permanent happiness to arise out attic addition which use make to the gratifications of others, anti to the general stuck of huniiin felicity." The whole of the numerous afrieniblage theft had the honour of kissing her Nlujesty's hand. The following is the letter of Al. Niarietti to his son, delivered by Mr. Brougha►u to the Earl of Liverpool : " Milan, Atipsigl, 1 3W. " Ait Sos.—The nltleet of this my leiter is only to inform tau that it has been *alit tell to Col. lb ow it, here, I Wit you behased y 031,4.11 itl telative to 11w thim.ts wheels liners& he Royal t .itiet and t h e Princess u. %%ales ; for si nch reason you hate becn sititeiwil to such a degree, that a has been in agital hat tt command, called the Alien should be signified to you to leave the country t unit chilly for tlw piess 11.11`.011, that y ou have bought ill dis cover fr this Alr. Sucesini, a Milanase, what he And deposed ajmii:,.l the Royal Pella - ebb. I intimated to the Colonel the nitorobalithly of your suuddlint; iu such as much oat :It count of contrary Indium' as of your in u dent and holiourahle mode of thinkii.g. I also imagined that that must arise faun some jettlowl of your IS wildship with ; and as 1 catinut doubt, in the least that you should have departed a moment ft pair wise system, 1 advise you to conduct 3 outs& If is such a manner, with res.. pert to these royal differences, that no one may have it in hit potvcr even to imagine any thing rep; urn halite as y our part, a heist yat have out lost bight of the .vlidatiese lle who serves at court dies ots straw. . _ . hodea% our, rather, that we may he paid what the the above Itti al Po ince , owe.: u for her commission of Turkhh articleu paid for by us, and ma reiaMor,ed ito U 6. Walt your MOM er on t hat i•ubje• t, such as may be ek hib:ted to the above-named Colonel, &t. &c. " Your atlectionate Father." Accounts from Viennti say, that they daily see troops going to Italy pass through that city ; and that their superb order, and excellent discipline is generally reinarked. r. 9