The National Register. — London, England, 1819-02-28 00:00:00

Irvin the LO-VDON GAZE:I'7'E, Saturday, Feb. 27 ............. RANK RUM'S. J. Chorcher. Blistol, hair preparer. Att. Mr. W. R. King, Ser **nett Inn. Fleet Street. R. Fairclougn, Settrington. I.anmater. tanner. luck, Serjeant's Inn, Vire' Str...ct. J. Watley, Liverpool, vise nig porter met. :mot. Arts. Leigh aro Co. Ncw Ilrid;e Street. S. Leigh, Strand, bookseller. Atts. I.angham and Co. !Wilde. J. Kidd.C.,ade Coombe, Wilts, butcher. A Its. LI la and Co. Doubt Att. Mr. Blitke- - . Sued. A. Stewart. Liverpool, tna,ter. mariner. Ilurd and Co. King' liaoc:i Walk. 'reinple. .1. Bates, Stockport, locator, dealer. Mt. Mr. Nieddaweroll, Gray' I:.n. C Loft, Wowlbritlge, SufRA, corn merchant. Ewes Court, Temple. C. ;J.:Wm./ELM, Wilts, dealer. H rgburn. E. W Kelvedon, Ez , sex, shop:cc:A:pa. • Att. Mc. Mae. Att.. Fitha arel C Att. Mr. Cleinotats Inn. J. Hamer, Brackb,,:tom, I.atiuster, W. llor=r, I.irerpool, and J Horne:, linen inanufactu:ees. Au. Mr. BiakoWL s.:rjeant's Ina, Fle,:t B. Manley, :Voalw:,-N, Kent, cern dealer. Street, City Row. Bank mach:ult. Atts. Blunt and Co. Brow stiset. Bit Win. Sayer, Bristol, c4rnfaetor. Att. ( lark! and Co. Oa:wary Att. Mr. Chinn, Charle Lane." .3. Paul, Circa., Minwies, razrcltant. Att3. Sweet and Cu. Basin, hall Street. S. Alarm.. an IJ. J. Wattleworth, S.affard, factors. Att Price and Co. I,inrnim's Inn. J. toting, Lone Ac e, chkys,entong:r. Att. Mr. Ross, Red Li, Squ.tre. J. 11.1rtoot, Street. Strati& f.uley stationer. At.t Patter o 4 and Co. 01d dioad Stmt. J• lt:iss, C3.,t10 tau Woodford, Essex, victual:T. Att. Mr. Hoble: Wallirook. G. tarry, Ht amerstnith, carpenter. Att. Mr. Popkin, Deal Street Sol a.. . J. Davies, Maidstone, Kent, dealer. Att. Mr. No:ton, CJIII menial Mothers. Alinories. J. Tina, Islington, broker. Att. Mr. Beckett, Noble Street. T. licalord„ John Street, Stepney, dealer. Att. Mr. tio.ufielki Bouverie Street, Fioet Street ',Dividends and Certificates in our next.] TIIE NATIC ) Al. REGISTER," A POPULAR SUNDAY NEWSOAVEIt. MR. SAUNncns two to inform the Public tinu, in a few tip he Mull Fu!st fnt SPiLL by PUBLIC Al C:ION. uue übav Popular Sunday Pap T• together with the Pam Trwo r and other MATuutaLs regulate Sic carrying .o tll ism '. rod's Gallery, No. 59, Fle t-itreet.97th Peb. 1819. PUBLIC AMUSEMENT 3 VOK Tilk ENALING WEEK THEATRE ROYAL COVENT GARD Monday.—Evadne.—aad ti:c New l'ant9uUtLe. EN, Tuesday.—Rob Roy Mact,;:roe. Tatustay,—Evadne. Friday.—Saered Musick. Saturday,—The /damage of Figaro. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. LON DON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY, 28,1819. TILE Paris Papers of Tuesday and Weeneslay las Lave been received. The Moniker gives the speech of the Marquis de Lally Toleendal upon the proporsition of M. Barthelemy for altering the existing Election Law; and that is all. No opinions of any kind are put forth upon the subject. Bat the minor jonruals are not so silent. All of them contain paragraphs, which are o f course written in the spirit of the political parties whose rrinciples they respetively support. According to one side, the greatest alarm has already taken place, in con sequence of the proposition, awl still greater is predict ; according to the other, no fears are felt, end it is as serted, that the public voice calls for soar.: modification of the Law as it is now framed. Meanwhile, great ac tivity is displayed by the writers of pamphlets, and M. de Constant, who is-perhaps the most diligent pamphle teer in Burye, had already issued one from the press. The Funls fluctuated consileraWy in the course of Monday, the Five per Cents. begin at one time as low as Of. sZe.—On Tuesday they recovered a little, and left off at 69t. ioe. The speech of the Marquis de Lally Toßenda] was short, but vigorous. Ile complained, chiefly, that the Marquis Barthelemy had submitted no spacial, precise or defined modification of any particular article of the Law. " If he had, " said the Marquis, " I should tat among the first to range myself on his side, For ex ample, if it be true (and I request upon this point some iafarination from Ministers) that in some of the Electo ral Colleges, pretended voters exerciietl the right of ci ction, who, instead of payiug 300 francs of direct Lne . ; sF the law requires, payed only 75, and even 25 .; Anulti not only support., but would my- TIM NATIONAL REGISTER. :elf propose a modification, not to alter, but to enforee :he exalting law by preventing abuses of it." He con- Andel with the following. words ;—" Either withdraw /our proposition, or make it clear and intelligible. Let he KING know what is requircl of bins, . and let us .now what it is we are to ask. All mystery, all uncer :ainty is inadmissible. Tile farslarnental law, and the 'aw of regulation reject it; patriotism suffers from it ; nndence is alarraod—tud, for Heaven's sake, let us at least listen to the voice of prudence." " (Com:nunicated Artiee) —The Joann z! (lc Cam tierce is suspended. The cause of its suspension is said -o be the insertion ofa stpide.neatary note on the last sitting ia the Cisanabs2 of Pezi•>, containiog soma in iceurate details, and several expressions which appeared ajurious toward a Noble Peer. The publicity of the atings of that Chamber are marely the result ofsimple taderance ; journalists ought to coafiae thcassalva to the ;:port of the proemeerbause. "Atnoogat the Peers or France, who visited against he proposition of M. de Barthelemy oo the 20th inst. xere Counts Dastut, de Tract and Lemercier. French furry, Feb. 22. Five pzr Cents. 69E—Bank Stock. 1500 f. Feb. 25r—Five per Cents.- 69L 10c.— Bank stock, 1500 f. We have Baltimore Papers to the 3d. instant ; and they enable a to lay before oar readers an imprtan t public document, the Convention which has been con cluded between this Conntry and the United States o America. The ratifications were duly exchanged at Washington between the two Governments, on the 30th alt., and officially proclaimed by the President, a lay or two afterwards. The chief imints which arc arranged by this Treaty relate to the right of fishing on the coasts of North America and Newfoundlani, the line of demarcation between the British possessions and the territories of the United States, and the extension of .he existing Commercial Convention for ten years further. It does not Coach upon any of those questions connected with the great commercial principles of our asaratitne laws, which have incidentally been brought into discussion by the Navigation Acts of the last Con ;ress These, iudee I, as was mentioned by the Presi. lent in his Message, to Csrtgresi, are to be the matter of future negotiation ; and it was in consequence of the protracted coaferrences to which their Lo:nplexity was Likely to lead, that the subsisting Convention was prolonged, The procecilugs in Congress are broueit down, to the Ist inst. They were chiefly occupied with the affairs of the Bank, and the Seminole war. lipan the former tubject, Mr. SPLNCER inaved the following Resol u. tion :-... " That the Secretary of the Treasury shall cause all the public deposits iu the Bank of the United State• s and as several offices of discount and deposit, to be withdrawn on the first day of Jaly next ; that after the said day, the bills or notes of the said Corpoia-Lot shall no longer be receivable in any payment to the United States; 'and the Attorney-General of the United States shall oa that day, or as soon thereafter as may be, cause a mire fasias to be sued do in con formity to the provisions of the ' Act to. incorporate the subscribers to the Bank of the United States,' call. ing upon the said Corporation to show cause why its Charter shall, by a legal Act to be delivered ta, and appruved by the Attorney-General, and to be by 'aim transmitted to Congress at the nezt Se::sion there yf, declare its asents to the following propositions, on or befooe the Buhl Ist day of July next." The provisions are t..velve in number, and have fa their object, to place the Bank entirely under the con irol of Congress in all its transactions After a slight discussion, in which there seemed no disposition on the part of the speal:ers to soften the proceedings, the reso lution was ordered to lie on the table. In the Committee of Congress upon the S:rniuole war ; several Members spoke for and against the censure propoxl by the Military Corumitte.. The question v•as then a,ljourned. Wednesday the first Annual Meeting of the fcridicity Society was held ut the Loudon Tavern, the Duke of Northturberland in the Chair. The Report was real. Since March last, 2676 cases had been referred to the Society, which had atfbrded food to the applic.ints, and to 677 children ; .561 , impostors were detected, and or. dere.l to be prosecuted. The Report was ordered to be printed ; and some alterations to be made in the re-sti la, ions. REVIEW OF LITERATURE. Meditations of a Neophyte. PEI; !;t3 These Meditations arc dedicated to a very larg e class of Frsonages in the present day ; for they are dedicated to the PROFESS/NO WORLD of every Chris. lion demohliaation. Ntie would rather it had lincit to the preclisiog world of every Christian precept ; bet, assuredly, if the author's ohjeet was to address hini,er to a numerous triloe of roaders, he has chosen the 1, , r,,;er, though it does not follow that it should be ‘• the better part.'' The me litations themselves are very szrio; s , ani very well-meaning ; but very dull a».l vc:y b 4 poetry. A: a specimen of it, we quote a ruzage at rindom, though we acknowledge that we have not found another worse; perhaps, because we had net looked for it. .• A deltr,e of iniquity o'er prowl the land ; . 1. Impiety Ali protlig tay, open vice. • One [awl of sinner,! Hot a lead, 1 , /703.0 blood Sal on the heads of thoxe who went before ; .. Woo in unrigh.eoustie.s held the truth, And made it utliotni to the people's eyes." It is the state of the nation in the time of Charitz the second that is. hero descended; but we must take the liberty of teliing the auLhor, that hail its enemies been e :hotted with more vigour and eloquence than these line contains it would have still been in the cla. dition he here reprobates; rntl we advise him, the LAt time he addresses the Professing World, to lay and the restraint of measnred lines, as they may increase the difficulty of composing his Meditations to himself, certainly do not enable him to present them to his readers in t:ie shape of any thing like poetry, t zzepting, indeed, as each line begins with a capital letter. "The Co hers of Carrick, a Love Talc, and Clandcstine Marriage the thirteenth centary.—" " Capabilities„—it has capabilities," was the fa. vorite expression of Brown the landscape gardener ; who sometimes applied it to objects where few capabi lities of any thing excellent would have been discerned by any excepting those who, like him, had improved a natural lover of the beautiful by an earnest and habi tnal search after it. %%len we say, therefore, that this poem shows capabilities for better things amidst the inaccuracies, the feeblenesties and the absurdities with which it alatends, we are perhaps, with Mr. Brawn, in our mind's eye, complimenting ourselves as remelt as the author. Tha truth is, where we see a pae•ical tnaginations, and a rectitude of feeling, we are very ready to excuse-errors of composition ; and parti calarly when they occur, as we suspect is the case in the work before us in the productions of those who have defended us duriag the dangers of war, and only clause the innocent pastime of courting the muses during the week, "piping time of peace," which de prives them of any more profitabM (elevation. The author of this little poem has dedicated it to Lady Frances Vane Tempest in a more prolix manner than fashion, has of late allowed to dedications ; but the style of his is natural and animated that the length will rot be decrne l. impertinent, we hope, by the fair lady herself; who cannot take it amiss that any one, who has an opportunity of addressing hituself to her, th )ugh even only on paper, should. endeavour to pro long us dis.sourse at much as rosdble. Tile heroine of V.e tale is very loving, and more candid in confe:sinr.,- lizrseif to- le so than modTne young ladies generally are ; in speech, at least; but as she, though tatherles, and . an heiress, is nut a ward in Chan• cry, she c natives to marry the men if her choice, without any other inconvenience than a little temporary exile on the sea sl,o-e: not so very severe a punisment in a honey moon, and fine weather. Wishing that all young ladies in the like situations may be equally tintun,:e, we fake our leave of the Bard Caroline; advising him nut to be idle; fur his voice will improve by singing. Goltvonin's Recollection of Japan. Captain Golwonin's Narrative of his " three years captivity in Japan," was sufficiently interesting to mate t . :c.ie recollections desirable. They are given in the timue unaffAted style with his narrative ; and have the same great m'Jfit, of never attempting to sti! , ply by conjectur,: wimt he was prevented from his own obrer vations, or by information from those OR whose veracity he could depend. In addition to Captain Golwonin's remark, tha tnr has given us a general introduction to them, cum prising the accounts of most writers of any note re specting the Empire of Japan ; and emiehed them with notes, which altogether form a compendious body of in• thrination respecting a country , o f w hi r l ', notwith standing our termer intimacy with it, little more is at present known to us than the situation and name ; which with proper management, might be rendered an object of much importance to our commerce and mar:- time warfare. At the end of the work will he titer d an interesting, though short account of Licutenants Chwostoff and Dawidoff, whose names are tbinently mentioned with sonic asperity by Co i n.!in :n