The National Register. — London, England, 1819-08-29 00:00:00

# •4 - • , • .. ' .4 71/" . " t~ 4m' ationaT Mitt fOttr• rot II 4 -4 Our Ling, Contitutionaubilaivii. No. 21 I —Vol,. XII.] SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 1819. [Puce Did. VOlitical NtetrOpert. - thenelves, are associated, and we call upon those who are represented to unite, not to omen Rational Reform, nor to promote Universal Suffrage and Annual Parliaments, but to tall meetings all over the kingdom, to address his Royal Highness to banish from his Councils for ever" those . lllinisters who, by their total disregard and contempt of the complaints, wishes, wants, "end sufferings of the people, have produced such an irritation in the pub lic mind, as nothing ese can sllay. Let, then, no time be lost—it is not yet - too lute, and whenever the Cabinet shall consist of men in whom a well founded reliance fur their sympathy towards the feelings of the people may be placed, the demo gngses who have lately agitated the public mind will sink into their native obscurity, into the contempt they merit. SUPPLEMENT l'O TUE LON DON • G AZI:T TE, OF TUEIDAY, THE !Int OF AUtiViT. N. Our observations last week on the lamentable occurrences at Manchester were written while in dignation was boiling in the bh.a, • and we might 'have been pardoned if our expressions had 'been stronger than our coeler refection would justify ; the very reverse, however, is the case. Every time we revert to the sulject, our feJings of horror are increased ; every fact we learn respecting the meet ing itself adds bitterns: s to the conviction, that those Who have perished have fallen victims to the most wanton exercise of power placed in the hands of ignorance and cowardice that ever disgraced the .ppge of I listcry. We rejoived last weel, amid all our griefs, that Government was not at all identified with these transactions, and we anticipated the ri)a sibility of those with whom they had originated txpiating their crime on the scaffold. The letter of I,ord Sidmouth to the Earl of Derby has removed this source of gratulation, for by that letter Govern• inert has become the espousers of tin, .acts which we hoped would have beep left to their own justill cation—acts which are anathemas:zed by every ho nest man, acts that are &dared on all hands to have PKIDA , T, Al.tilJ9•l' y 7. 1819. ludic-Board, Aug. 27. Dispatches have been received at the East India House from the Governor in Council at Bombs:, respectively, dated the 6tll, 20th, and Slit ce March, and 2 ttlt April, 1819, of which disputclic , ., and of their Melo:tures, the following are extracts and copies Exn..et trout a TY.apatOi f.ron the G9vernor in Conned 1 iltrobay In 11:e rrr,tt (7 , n.mitt. e, Ilarclt f. 011 P. We have the honour to acquaint ynur ilononr able Committee, that the inititeryinoerations, under M.,jor-General Sir William Grant-Keir, in Sawnnt warree, have been marked with such a degree of promptitude, ener"v, and vigour, on the part of the klujor.General, and the Officers and men em ployed under his command, as to merit, the highest commor.dation ; and we have much satisfaction its transmitting, for tha inforrltifyn of your Honour able Committee, the copy of a dispatch from the Major-General to tie Adjutant-General of the Army, reporting the details of the capture, by as sank, of the outworks of Itairee, on the 13th of lukt month, the effect of which was attended by the stir render of that Ihrtress on the following morning, the greater part of the garrison having evacuated Jr. during the night. The short, but brilliant, operations of the fore° employed snider Sir William Grant Keir,-oectipied only a period of seventeen days from the time our t °opt passed she frontier, until the conclusion tit' the treaty. V ` --, ) 1 • , V :i FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. orvicTAL ARTICLE. MADRID, Ann. !C.—The King has addressed to the different Councils, through the Ministry of G race and Justice, the following Decree:— " The supremerribunalsof the capital, the De puties of my kingdom, the different municipalities, s:•veral religious communities, and many other cor porate bodies, have represented to me how advan tageous and necessary it wouldlm to the well-being of the nation in general, and to all Christendom, to preserve by means of a new nurial union the legi timate succession of the throne upon which Divine Providence has placed me. I Dim listened with fa vour to the just desires with sillich all these bodies areanimated, and have yielded to their ardent wish es ; and considering the high ility of the Saxon blood, and of elle most Serene 'new; who compose that august family, the allian ancient as well as recent, that adorn it, the parti r attachment that his Majesty sing Fretle-Ack ustus has always entertamed tbr the Crown of 'n, and above all. the rare and sublime qualities; which Heaven has granted to the most Serene l'rintess Maria Josephine Amelia, his niece, daughter or the most high and most puissant Prince Maximilian. and of the most Serene Princess Caroline Maria Theresa, of glorious memory ; I have chosen Don Ferdinand de Aguilar y Contcr" Marquis of Cerralbo, that he shoeld go and propose to that Monarch bey hand and my throne for the said Princess. flaring then imparted to his Majesty and her Highness my !sovereign in. t enticing. they have testified wi ‘ th proibund veneni lion how agreeublesoch an unioerwould he to them, as also to all Saxony. I now inform the Cotricil thereof, that it may be apprised et it, and share the satisfaction which this new union creates in nie, from which I trust will ensue consequences the most favourable to the Catholic religion and my subjects." DRESDEN, Ann. 15.—1 t appears, that the com mission appointed at Berlin by order of the Prince de ilardenberg, to examine with the greatest care all the papers nixed, and other written documents obtained by the Ministry, have made a detailed re port to the Prince, and that this examination has produced the most consoling result., th ere b e i ng He man of influence implicated. c , ~` ;k u N., Leen unsupported by even the ncre.t.yky or the case; acts that are at variance with every thing that we are taughtto respect as the laws of our country, are boldly approved - 1;' an administration whose incon sistency is glatingly displayed by their allowing a similar meeting to take place the very same day as this voluble letter is published, in the heart of the metropolis, which meeting separated in perfect peace and order, and just as that at Manchester, doubtless, would have done, but that the Magistrates deter mined to prevent such a conclusion. To have pre served their consistency, Ministers should have imitated the Lancashire Magistrates—they Amid have ordered the City Light Horse to have charged and sabred the unoffeauliag, unarmed, peaceable, though misguided men. This letter of approval really appears to us to be the most uncalled for and eratuitous net of gross folly that has ever signalized the present Ministers—el c'est heaticoty a dire. Be s Lies, let us look at the situation in which the exe cutive may yet he placed by this ridiculous document —suppose that a Jury of honest men be found in Lancashire, who, in conformity to their oaths, on hearing the evieence, should pronounce a verdict of Wilful Murder, and this is by no means a hyperbo lical supposition ; why, in such case the executive would be obliged either to sign a death warrant for an act it had approved, or extend the Royal cle mency to a crime which aver ought to be par doned. We tremble when we look at the effect that might be produced on the public mind by the exten sion of mercy under such circumstances. Moreover, imbecility itself might have remembered that the statements Ministers have hitherto received have teen entirely ex parte, and furnished by those who probably, feeling they had crone too tar, have, under the united inluence of remorse and far, suppressed the worst features of the business, and substituted in 4.l.eir place those of a very different complexion. • Our readers will perceive that Ministers were determined the approbation to be expressed should be pure and unmixed. The intrusion of the slightest expression of regret that so many Englishmen had 'been killed or mutilated, was not to be tole:iced. The " Nun•rcpresentcd People," as they call A Dutch mail hos arrived with papers to the 25th inst. Intelligence from Brussels, dated the 21st, accounts for the r .cent arrests at Ghent. It appears, that various foreign hali . -psy silicon; having' hard that military delwgutes were ist.that city enlisting troops fix the Insurgents of N. Granada, had pro ceeded thither for the purpose of obtaining commis sions from them. Tile magistestes deemed it expe dient to interfere, and several, whose passports were found to be irregular, were taken into custody. Must of them were ordered to quit Flanders. Two subscriptions hale been proposed among the inhubitantb and visiters of Brighton ; ono tor the relief of the humble victims of the late events at Manchester, and the other to enable the parties ag grieve:l to bring the trieNtion of right an.: °Name gcs before it Jury at" otalinulf. • Me. tolloos the General Order of theG meat of Bombay, complimentiag l- leer. Wilt/ 110111 , 4 on flits occaoonj Copy 01 4 Report from Major-General Sir Willimq Giant Krir to the Adjutant-Ceetteral, dated Camp Rairee. lith Frlnuamy, 18t9. Stn,—l had the honour yesterday evening to for ward a brief report of the success of the attack on the enemy's lines before Ilatree, and have new the pleasure.to ainuaii,t you that the flirt was this morning takeu posse ion of by a detachment front my di camp. The fficulties experienced in the disembarkstiovt of the ordnance and stores retarded our operations in a considesable degree, but on the night of the lush instant we succeeded in erecting our butteries, and opened on the tort at day-break the next morn with four battering guns and us many eight uuh which were served with such vigour and precision us to dismantle the whole of the guns to the outer works in the course of an hour, whca our tire was directed against the general defence t.f the place: about three ailock a breach was elfecte.t in a curtain of the advanced outworks, and a po7t . • of 350 grenadiers famed for the assault under 6.: command of Lienteuant-Colonel Clifford, of his Nlajt.sty's 39th regiment. The troops moved to the attack about four o'clock, and passed the breacii without ditficulty, driving the enemy in consider able numbers towards the second lilies, which were immediately carried, and. a lodgment effected within half-musket shot of the upper fort, to which the enemy were pursued, and many bayonetted at the lower gate, which was for a short time in our pto session. The spirit and rapidity of the attack, added to the advantagaints position which wasgained by the advents: of our weepsistruck the enemy with such terror, that nearly the whole of the garrison evacuated the fort during the night. This morning Sautbajee Sawunt proposed to sw render, and was permitted to march out with about fifty adherents, the small remnant at' a garrison, whieli is said to have oonbisted of near twelve hun dred men at the commencemnt of the siege. I beg leave to. inclose a more detaile.l rep orot of the attack, transmitted by Lieut.-Colonel Cliffind whose couiluet on the occasion is deserving of the highest applause. I pace likewise tie . pleasure to forward a copy of the Field Orders, conveying my sentiments on the behaviour of the troops, ttce:her with a list of killed and woundisl. march toward Warree in order to accele rate the treaty with that Gov-rninent, which will I trust , b e si,cedtly brought to a hivoarablc conclusion. I have tue hunaur to be, &e.. V.". G. latit, Major-General. mere follows Ilse F.. 1,1 o..t c r p Y hajor Gtnet,.l sriNlsin thcit Krir, K. M.T., comot,..,:ntiu vat Uf troops, e.•:,) 0 i I r .=; , ---- p •!‘; A ..,,- r,. (.0 , . r i, ~.,,, ,t , . -, ,