The National Register. — London, England, 1819-04-12 00:00:00

116 I: 7.110 CW. Omninin 0. 1.11;t. 3 per Cent. India 11..satis luuia S:uck Exchequer 3'. di,. Cows. fur Ar. 5 Lowery• Tickets 251. 181 t. rllO.ll SATURDAY NIGH7"S GAZETTE. BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED. A. Kent. Deptford, baker, front April 13 to April 17. J. Thick. Lombard Street. broker, from April to to April Si. W. R. Vigers, Austin Friars, merchant, front April 13 to April 24. BANKRUPTS J. Bartlett. Frame Selwood. Semeeet, clothier. M. J. Crosland. Whitby, York, porter merchant. C. Bemis., Stroud, Glocestershire, mercer. S. B.mtlry. Dorton, Yorkshire. worsted mnnufaeturer. J. Kipiy, York. common brew..r. R. Hoy.; id. junior. Woolwic ,, , Kent, brewer. M., .1.. a.I R. Griffiths. Bristol. masons. J. Coq . r. lotherhain. York. slate merchant. G. Dave Tenby, Pembrokeshire. merchant. T. Croat . . Chatham. Kent. brewer. .1..1. Watt. Ratcliffe highway, surgeon. H. Buckle: , Adlemoth, York. innkeeper. S. llu.nll. Mitiories, corn dealer. E. Wood, Bolton. Lancashire. brazier. M. Jackson, Bolton. Lancashire, cotton nu. 'afacturer. S. Peaky, l'endleton, Lancashire. wine merchant. DIVIDES DS. April 21, F. Wright, Budge Row, merchant—May 1. M. I ianly, Mitre Court, Fleet Street, tavern keeper-1, J. Welch and T. Carter. Great St. Thomas Apostle. cmhossers-4. S. Copestiek, Stafford, coal dealer-3, R. Leigh and P. Amastrong. Liverpool. Inerehrents-4, R. Sowter. Kingston upon Hull. and T. H. Payne, Cullum Street. merchants—ts, T. Palagreve. Reopen Street. Blackeners Road, insurance broker-4, M. ♦Whit., Lowdliam. Nottingham, bleacher—t, S. S. Allen. Little Yarmouth. Suffolk. corn merchant-4. G. Hose. A►hford, Dobv, Age dresser-4, J. Reid, Newcast:e upon Tyne, saddler —7, W. Morris, Donew.ter. York, weld dealer—l I, A. Bendy. cower Street,Redtbrd Square. builder—ii. .1. l.ee, .1. S. Niter. tinean, and J. Wilkinson. nreul Sttcet.factors—tl. S. Core, Biehopsgate Street, haberdasher-5, J. Briggs, Scut:Dates, York, grocer. CERTIFICATES to be granted May 1. T. Pidgeon, E. Getky. and It. Lomas, Birmingham, mer e:lnnis—J. Chambers. Coventry . , draper—l. Hill. Bradwell, De:Ly. baker—.l. Ferrell, Birminghani. printer—C. Bruford, Galway Scree', St. Luke's. cabinet maker—J. Wright, Rosemary Lane, baker—S. Harvey, Windsor, draper—C. Halsted and J. Mottershead, !leaky Wood. Lar.cit-ter, cotton spinners. !Plitt Batik Stock 3 per Cent. per Cent Coss. 71j SI per Cent. 4 per Cent. b per Cent. Navy 104 Lung 4.. n. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. Lon Don. MONDAY, APRIL 12, 1919. We suppose it is about 12 months since the Bank ei England published a notice in the Gazete, s' : 2;ned according to the Act of Restriction, by the linker of the House of Commons, announcing that t . .ey would pay in cash all their notes dated prior to the year 1817. The Chancellor of the Exchequer scanted a great deal upon the subject, quoted it as a proof of our increasing prosperity, and deduced from it that the deep, croaking, unpatriotic doubts of the solvency of the Bank were totally confuted. On Tuesday a Bill for restricting the Bank of England from paying their notes, issued before 1817, in cash, received the Royal Assent, and became a law. Leave to bring in the Bill was given in the House of Commons only the night before, the standing or le.rs were suspended in both Houses to facilitate its rassing, and within 24 hours it became effective. If Ministers believe the Bank to be insolvent, we think they have acted wisely—if not, they have done an incalculable injury to the country, by making every one else of an opinion which they do not hold on so important a question. Bank notes, in conse •quence of the partial resumption of cash payments, were recovering from the great doubt with which they }IAA long been received on the Continent ; we have ourselves repeatedly purchased them for 8 guilders rts3 a half, though a guinea was at the same time wo th 12 guilders and a half; they were, however, like the bills of a house which having stopped payment, whose bankruptcy has been expected, but which re- commences in a proportion its payments, so were the Bank of England notes restored in some degree to foreign confidence. We wait to learn from our different foreign correspondents what will be the effect of the present measure, but if it be not de structive of all reliance of common prudence in our National Bank, we shall be a•tonished. The rapidity of passing the Bill proves either the most imminent and immediate danger, or that the credit of the THE NATIONAL REGISTER. country has been wantonly and needlcsaly trifled with by Ministers. The London Gazette of Tuesday contains extracts of despatches from Mr. hose, British Ambassador at the Court of Berlin, announcing the safe delivery of the Duchess of Cambridge, who gave birth to a Prince at Cambridge house, in the city of Hanover, at 10 minutes past 2, in the morning of Friday the 26th ult. Her Royal Highness and the child, we are happy to learn, were doing as well as possible when the accounts came away. The Duke of Clarence, Earl Mayo, and Mr. Rose attended her Royal High ness's accouchement, and signed a formal declaration of the above auspicious circumstance. The day fol lowing, viz. Saturday, March 27, produced another, though transient addition, to the members of the House of Brunswick. The Duchess of Clarence was brought to bed of a daughter, at a few minutes past 7 o'clock in the morning ; but after being bap tised by the names of Charlotte-Augusta-Louisa, according to the rites of the Church of England, the infant expired at one in the afternoon; all which events were duly testified by his Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence, Lord Mayo, and Mr. Rose, as in the former instance. We have inserted further particulars of these events in another part. The King of France, according to the Paris jour nals, is to transfer his residence to St. Cloud, about the beginning of next month. It is supposed that his Majesty will remain at that beautiful spot until the month of August. Las Cases is reported to live in retirement ut Offenbach, and to have declined the good offices of his friends, who had used some exertions to procure for him the liberty of returning to France. We have no doubt that M. Las Cases is well instructed as to those obstacles which the vigi lance of the French police might oppose to the exe cuti in or advancement of his St. Helena projects. Any neighbouring country would, in that point of view, afford this querulous and politic gentleman more elbow-room for his secret machinations, and he has pitched his tent accordingly. The debate on the monopoly of tobacco was adjourned in the Cham ber of Deputies from the Stli to the Gth instant. After which, the attention of the Chamber was somewhat curiously occupied by the report on a pe tition from a man who claimed the continuance of a pension, originally granted to him for saving the life of Buonaparte. The Frankfort paragraphs go on with the subject of M. Kotzebue's murder ; but nothing worth notice has been added to our former communication. The Brussels intelligence, by the attch mail, re lates to circilmstances connected with the approach ing trial of the persons who were accused in last November of a conspiracy for carrying off' the Em pror Alexander. One man, of the name of Buchoz, a Frenchman, now in business at Brussels, has ad dressed a memorial exculpatory of himself, to the members of the High Court of Justice of South Bra bant. By this document he hopes to prove that he had no share in the above conspiracy, and details some particulars not previously published, as to the manner in which it came within his knowledge. Under the head of Calcutta papers we insert an abstract of sundry small but gallant operations car ried on by subordinate officers in India, against the remnant of the beaten followers of the fugitive Nag poor Rajah. It was chiefly the Gounds and Ara; s who formed for the British detachments this petty warfare. The dominions of the late Peishwa, it would appear, are not yet entirely tranquillized. On Saturday mcrning we received the Paris papers of Wednesday last, from which we have extracted -the following:— ,APRIL 12. " On Monday last, at two o'clock, Lord Whitworth had a prhate audience of his Alajesty. This has caused a great deal of conversation in certain circles; and }es. terday his Lordship, accompanied by the ):.o6l'ol Ambassador, was received at an audience, when 11le rat of the Foreign Ambassadors were present. " Yesterday the Persian Ambassador paid a visa z ,, the English Ambassador. It is now understood t• .it the former will positively leave Paris imusetliateiy Easter. " Prince Maurice de Lichtenstein, Field-Marshal :it the Austrian service, died lately at Vicuna, aged 41, after a severe illness. " The Chambers of Peers and Deputies are wbully son' of the least intt rest." The following important news we extract front the Gazelle tle France of the above date:— " Last night a messenger arrived from Italy, bringioq information that a plot had neen formed at Nlantua to poison an • August Personage.' The Emperor of Austria is now travelling in that country, and that this was only discovered about half an hour before the act was intended to be put into execution. There are several persons arrested in consequence thereof. " French funds CIO f. gOe." The infant son of the Duke of Cambridge Tanis high in the Irish Pecrage. Ile is Earl of Tipperary, that being the second title of hie Royal Father. Jerome Bonaparte has obtained permission to re. side occasionally in Berlin. Gold rose 15d. per ounce in consequence of the new Restriction Act. The Rev. John Sandford, Chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge, departed on Tuesday ibr Hanover, to perform the s.:.'red duty of baptizing the Royal Infant, by the appointment of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent. Letters from Port-au-Prince, dated the 25th of February, state, that the season had been unusually unhealthy, and that the crews of the merchant Vt. : F.. sels visiting the place had greatly suffered in conse quence, The Captains of the Medusa, an Eng .ship, and of the Alexander, a French trader, both died during the stay of those vessels in the harbour of Port .au-Prince. An Asiatic Prince, who is said to be nearly related to the iate Sultan Tippoo Saib, is arrived in London. He embarked at Madras i;r England, and report gives him an important mission from some of the Native Powers to the East India Company and Board of Control. Several of the Highland chapels in Perthshire (which were falling into ruins) have been ordered to he repaired, and sevq.ral schools for the education of children in the Gaelic language to be established, by a gentleman connected with that part of the country, who has lately returned home limn a 40 yews' resi dence abroad. The Troon harbour, on the coast ofAyrshire,which was begun by the Duke of Portland some yearsago, has been some time completed. The Duke is said , o have expended '200,000/. on this undertaking, the object of which i 3 to athird a shipping for the coals off the extensive mines belonging to the Duke of Portland in that district. An elegant furnish , d house has lately been talon in Charles street, Berkeley-square, fiir the Persian Ambassador. A suit of servants are likewise en gaged, with every other preparation necessary fir his reception. His Excellency is expected to arrite in the course of the ensuing week, from Paris. The Royal Sovereign yacht is ordered to sail im mediately fur Calais, in order to receive his Royal Highness Prince Leopold, now on his return to England. Extract of a letter from Dorn, dated April 7 His Excellency the Marquis de Latour Maubourg, French Ambassador, landed this aftermon from I: Antigone French packet, Captain Margollet, un der a salute from the Citadel and a guard of honour ; the A: archioness and two other ladies accompanied the Marquis."—His Excellency arrived in town on Thursday night. .tttlire.tiy the Duke of York held a in , eting of his Council. which was attended by most of the mem bers appointed by the Act of Parliament (we beliete all but two), upon the state of the King. The meeting was involved in much mystery, as it was unexpected ; nothing transpired, however, as to any direct change in the state of the King After the breaking up of the Council, the Duke of York waited upon the Prince Regent, at Carlton House. It was surmised that the meeting related to the re moval of his Majesty from Windsor to Kew, in con sequence of the improvements and alterations that are to take place at Windsor Castle.