The National Register. — London, England, 1819-05-30 00:00:00

MAY 30. FOREIGN ENLISTMENT BAL. We have received a Letter from the Committee appointed at a public meeting recently held at the George and Vulture Tavern, fur the purpose of op posing the Attorney General's " Foreign Enlist ment Bill." Our decided opposition to the principles on which the Bill is introduced has been repeatedly declared, and to the Bill itself we have pointed out several insuperable objections. The statement sent to us by tbisCommittee contains, however, so much valuable idea, and is expressca with much perspi cuity, that we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of renewing the subject by the following extracts from it:— This measure, it is submitted, is quite uncalled for by the existing stale of circtimNiaitces; mid not only in its i (mediate operation, but hi its ultimate consequences, may prove highly detrimental to that mole enlarged coma pierces' intercourse, which, Gum past experience, may be reasonably looked for with Spanish Ames ica, to an extent perhaps uot easy to be calculated; and capable, probably, of beneficially occupying that large capital, now driven by the rotate of political events, from other The first consideration that appears to present it.elf is, whether the state or political relations beta ern Great 811. lain and npain, impersiti kr-1y calls for snail a sacrifice nn the part of this country, In the apprehencian of th e ;.: om . Injure, no inch demand can justly be made upon the Bri tish dovernment ; and they trust to be able to chew to conviction, that the preservation of the good faith and integrity oldie country is perfectly compatible with the utaintenanc r of the valuable inlet ests which they consider to heat stake in this question,' It is highly important, iu order to obtain a tight view of the quest • ,to trace, from the commencement, the line of con duct altichGreat &titian has adopted towards Spanish America. Whilst the inhabitants of these countries were still sub- Jewell to the yoke of Spain, and she hers( If, under the control of France, was 'envied against England, every cruet was made, under the authot illy of the British Govern ment; to foster the discontents which prevailed,anti to call forth, into open resistance against the mother country, all the energies of that people. To encourage them to attain their independence, by the most vigorous exertions, anti by the endurance of the greatest sufferings and privations, the Governors of the West India Islands issued Proclama tions, assuring them of support and protection ; and all the British authorities in that quarter of the globe, whe ther civil or military, openly espoused the cause of resist. one. to Spain, as the following Proclamation, issued by the Governor of Trinidad, and addressed to the other Go vet nors of the West India Islands, will ihnnolantly testify. s• By virtue of an official paper, which 1, the Governor of thoi Island of Ttinidad, have received from the Bight Honourable Henry Gonda', Minister of his Britannic M 4• jemiy fur Foreign affairs, dated 7.11 April, 1797, which I het e publish in obedience to orders, anti fur the use which 3 oar Excellencies may draw from its publication, in order that yen may communicate its tenor, whirls is literally as follows : The object which at present 1 desire most particularly to recointneud to your attention, is the means that might be best adapted to liberate the people of the continent near to the bland of 'Trinidad, front the op. preasive and tyrannic system which supports, with so much rigour, the monopoly of commerce, miller the title of exclusive registers, which their government licences demand ; also to draw the greatest advantages and which the local sitnaticn of the Island presents. by opening a direct and free communication with the oilier parts of the world, withont prejudice to the commerce of the British station. In order to fulfil this Intention with greater facility, it will be prudent for your Excellency to animate the inhabitants of Trinidad in keeping tip the consmoutication which they hid with those of Terra Fir ma, previous to the reduction of thatlsland ; tinder the assnrance, that they w ill find there an mfrepnt, or general magaziue of every sort of goods whatever. To this end, his Britannic Majesty has determined in council to grant freedom to the ports of Trinidad, with a direct trade to Great Britain. " With regard to the hopes yon entertain of raising the• spirits of those persons, with whom you aie in eorrespon dence, towards encouraging the inhabitauts to resist the oppressive authority of their government, I have little' more to say, than tlist they may be certain, that whenever they are in dirt disposition, they may receive at yonr hands all the snecours to be expected from his Britannic Majesty, be it with forces, or with arms and ammuni•ion, to any extent; with the asstirtmee. that the views of his Britannic Majesty go so further than to secure to them their independenceos idiom pretentliag to any sovereignty over their country, nor even to interfere hi the privileges of the people, cur in their political, civil, or reltions rights, Titoism PICTON, &C. Oir." " Puerto (It pram?, 26th June', OW. Nor did the revo'ut Matt of Old Spain, cause a change in a policy so congenial to the feelings of the ItritliA public. mid so beneficial to the interests of a great commercial nation. It does rot appear, that up to the year laid, the procla mations before issued were revoled by any lawful authority emanating from the British Gucentimnt, or the promises of support p-evicusly a,.d solemnly made, publicly and legi timately retracted. Upon the restoration of Ferdinand to the thrnre of Spain. a Treaty wits made with that Kingdom ; and by the addi • moral Article, bearing dale %Sib of Aui,tbt, it was stipulated at 1.111.1 a " His Britannic :Slnjesty. being anxious that the troubles and diatuthances • loch uhfintunat. ly ', K a k i' in the ( r um '. stuns Of his Catholic 3110jty, in Amen' a. should entirely retw, had the subjects of thaw. IN i si. ces should Worn to the r oltedieore to their lass ful Sioree6ov engages to like the most ; llectunl ifleastlVll far preventing his sultje; is from furnishing at nv, asunntition, or uuy rah, r oar .le article, to the revolted ht America." Hue suels a Trtr.ty was reconcilable !o the prey lops enuagemeons tit Urea. Britain towards the South Arne, icon Colonies; how car it w.oi compatible with good faith to abandon W. cause of a people eucculsgkd iu resistance THE NATIONAL REGISTER and hostility Isy British promises; how far a repetition of the colonial eschisirio, certain to arise from the reinstatement of Spanish dominion In South Aiiieties, ronll accoi.l with the commercial interest• of Great Iliitain, it is not for the Cunuoitsee to decide, eithin ir, 111 it does not appear that this Treaty has ee, , e pet been diwassed in Pal or receisTd its sanction and ap . pr,,h Ater reciting the statutes for which the present Bill is intended as a substitute, and shewing that a repeal of those Laws is all that is necessary or ought to be done either with a view to our interest or real neutrality, the Committee say— . . . - Is this ihrn the tine, it may he confidently and solemnly asked, when the commercial, manufacturing, and shipping inter t, Are contending, v. ill, auvirming difficulties, nnil %rhea the complaints of the agricultural classes are heard nn every sole, to excite the rum ty of a great rind enterprising 'mollies to harrass and impel•• :t profitable and increasing brilneh of trade, rind de-tray al: expectation of ultimately finding the most permanent and extea,ise-mart for liritish commodities, and emphs ment for Hr Wish shipping? this the lime too, when every year seems to incrru•e the power fat means of Great mnft farinidahle rival, to hicur the risk of adding, to her influence Vie all lance of a pets;sle who may have reason to condole, if the proposed measure should he carried, tfurt it is in America alone they cu, ex peel to find a just recngaition of their rights? The Committee have thus -endeavoured to set forth the ex treme policy of risking the good underamiding nt pre•eut subsisting with Sueth America, awl the injurie. which cou segosntly threaten the mercvntile and Asipp ng inferevts. Ilut it is nut ou this pound alone that the subj. ct claims thew' seelivn of all classes. It is a Heir sight to beheld in a newel between the op. pressor and the oppressed, Great lit Prein take the lead 'lithe natimis of Europe, in ranging herself on the bide of Caen. For eentiories ha. Ole Colonial Government of Spain been a standing libel on civilized Erinyes ; and every En estimate remembers with pride the conduct his +mentors pursued in Milieu the United Provinces to throw ..ff her in sappoi table yoke. Can any reasoss be found why the vivo coils of Britain should now be eutled by other pi ins Spies, or ehs the cause of Spain nowt,' now be espoused agairwt the feelings. inclinations, and interests of the w link empire If in the Emir of James the First, and moiler circumstances extern , similar, th • application of the Court of Spain for al enactment against the United Provinces, similar to the one now proposed, was rejected by that arbitrary monarch, ran any cause he nesizn d for the British Government now yield ing to nut h a requisition ? • For the result of the contest, there is room indeed to feel but little ann. is ; the visit of iational fleettoon - will ulti. mutely triumph over all it. enemies; but who can %ernes. without honor the prolongation of a warfare sanguinary be yond description, producing only an useless effusion of blond, and witting the resources which might ot Lensisr be appliedi in cultivating the arts of peace, and promoting a widely et.tentled coutmeice to the Iranians ss °velment of lha most fertile countries in the utisene, and she great and per 'airmenl advantage of all the civilized nations of the florid 1 Great Britain now stands first in the aliections of South America. '1'1) her, from inclination and fume her capabili ties, would fall the largest share of Benefit By obt,yi.ig the diciater of Spain she may he deprjvni of the goal null of South America. ant all there fair plover to of advaiitage be hot; hut Spain will mover more re (-starfish her stay user her oppressed anti long-injure:l Coloni•es. Ibe chant which hound South Auserien,vtretclied too fro ribly by the hand of yrauny. has given way, and nu eat thly power can again unite the link* We regret that our limits compel us to give only IXTRACTS from this excellent and interesting do. current. Soriely for Prorao7iWg giorvi;dge.—The An nual' Mutter of ibis Society was held on Wednesday evenine; ut Freemasons' 1101. At five o'clock, the com pany, .200 in number, eonsistiim of the timid eminent divines, sat down to dinner. the 'Bishop of Worcester in the Chair. Ott the cloth being remoyrd, and the usual loyal toasts given, the health of the Bishop of Worcester was drink with great applause; out which his Lordship, in a few words, returned thanks. On the health of the- Treasurer beim( drank. he stated, that the receipts of the last year amounted to 65,9391 Ps. Pd. and that the expenditure but cleared that sum. Out the health of the Secretary, Gcorze Gaskin, D. D. being drank, he returned thanks, and stated that the number of Bibles, Testaments, Prayer and other Books, Tracts, &c. were 1,427,808!-=The company broke up at an early hour, blot a considefauleroliection was made. CURIOUS WAORR.—.Thursday a man undertook for a wager of twenty guineas, that ho would in a boat row under the eight fi►llowing bridges, and alto walk over them in the short space at' two hours.— He started from London-bridge, and walked over it. as he did the Iron-bridge at Southwark, Black friars, Waterloo, Westminster, Vauxhall, liattersea, and Putney Bridges. Ile performed this extraor dinary task with the most comparative ease, in 11 minutes less than the given time. The odds were 6 and 7 to 4 against-him. The above feat has been pronounced by the watermen.upon the Thames as 2 very clever exploit. On Friday, the Albion, 71,. Capta'n Coode, .C. B. lately returned from the Mediterranean, was paid off The row received three years' wages, in the whole about 15,0001. A body of then►, more pro., vident than the rest, instantly remitted •about 3,0001. to their friends, and set off soon afterward o►n their return home. We rsg►et to hear that two of the crew were killed, by accident, whilst employed in unrigging the ship, and several were severely bruised. The Albion was recommissioned on Sa turday by Capt. Raggett, as the third guard-ship at Portsmouth. OLD BAILEY, Sio - traDav• MAY INN 17:3 Nathaniel Crude was indicted for stealing 101 in Bank notes out of a pocket book, the propel tv of his master, Admiral Diiiiglas, in Cavendish Squire, on use 15th of April. The Admiral, nn the night peer. ding the riMhery, on his Cuing to bed, left his pantaloons in his sleeping ronm,and the fiillowin4 morning he missed the book containing the notes at the liniment ht: had no suspicion of the prisoner, lint went in enquire at the i•ankircrhous, if he had left it there, and Ilisalissc he hail 11111, suspicion 111611 fell 1111 the pr s.iner. tie 111 . 11C111ed 11 lino-street officer, ash, went wish h in to his residence, and ins sears hint the room allot rd in ills pris finer, the pocket hook was found. wi h;i quantity of sillier notes in it, moots lie h.d also got the preceding d.as at Bennis Coot!, and Co. hul the notes sfatediii the indictment wen gone. Ilse pr.siiner in his defence stated that he had found the book aa oh the unites in Ihr Area, mot left th • r inai oder of his e.e.e to 11111(00114 I TileiU y returned their serdict— guilty of stealing, hut and Com iii master. PROsCrUTIOI%S. l'h."11:1, Port e r was convicted of h/ I Vll l ,r, is nis wage• line forged I res-mblingi Blimp issued by the Governor and Clllllp;tity of the Bank of England. as ithii....aat a 1.410P1U1 6%1 me. 11:dasitril '.Millis, aged s.O, W.t• capitally conairted far li"sig, sin lin - 191 h of April, a forged II note, pas porting lu bra vinous, 1111 e, of 1.... (inventor and ( pony of•tiiii Bank of England, a ills Miro /Osiris:VW Mr. Fos, a gyucer, in Chat loltv-sirei t. Citsro, Square. Several insurrectionary movements are said to have taken piece in Sicily, the inhabitants of which are descried as discontented with their new system of Government. Several regiments, have, in ewe. sequence, been despatched thither from Naples. The Sprightly schooner, Baker, master, arrived, at Portsmouth on Wednesday from Lisbon, bring ing the corpse of the late Duke of Bueeieus which was landed early on Saturday morning at the Dock-yard, and immediately set out for Boughton— hmise, near Kettering, Northamptonshire The cavalcade consisted of a hearse and two mourning coaches, etch with six horses, followed by the pri vate carriage of his Grace. We are again assured, itays the Bremen Minns' of May the I Bth. that Sandt is yet alive. Accord ing to report, a proposal had actually been made to put him to the torture, but w s rejected with itulig_ nation by the Grand Duke. Letters have also reached London stating, that the Grand Duke of Baden had been so enraged at the proposal, that he discharged the Commission tOr investigating the affair. A letter from Stockholm, dated the 14th inst• says, " The departure of the Crown Prince to the camp at Selionen has been positively fixed for the 22d. The King, whose horses were sent forward some days before, will follow on. the Stl of June. Complaints have a second time been bronAht for ward befbre his Majesty by the regency of Norway, against M. Gram, the consul-general at (open. hagen, for having, in the passports delivered to them, designated Norwegian sailors as Swedish tubjecls. Count Schwerin, grandson of the Field-marshal of that name, and the first speaker in the Swedish Diet, has, to the general regret of all Sweden, been deprived of his sight by a cataract. Every one who has attentively watched the proceedings of the Swedish diet since 1809, must know with what in. trepidity and • acuteness he attacked the ministers whenever he deemed them in the wrong, and how ardently he sought to establish the same principles attritional representation here as in England. Find ing himself defeated in all his attempts, he with drew himself from the last diet a few months be fore the termination of its sittings, expressing hi determination never again to assist at its delibera tions." As a proof of the great facility of commtmica. tion at present with the United States of America, we record the following fact :—A respectable house in this town addressed their correspondents in New York, on the 3 , 1 April, by the Triton, Capt. Hol. comb, for Boston, w hich vessel made an estraordi nary passage of 111 days to that port, from whence the letters went by the moil to New York, mil the reply, dated the 25th April, was delivered in Liver pool on the 14th May, after a passage of ls days. The whole being thus accomplished in the unpre ce,lentedlv short period of forty-one days, the total distance being 6,160 tails.—Lircrpool ntrier. . I'rom the mode in which the House of Comthonv is at present ventilated, the sudden transitions front cold to heat must ty.: very rrejuJieial to the human constitution. If some improvement does not take place, there need shortly be no Stevranishi?s of the Chiltern Hundreds. fur the accommodation of th members. Snot:auto Arettms bout ten o'clack .on Friday night, as Mts. Sweeting, a widow Lids. &I :teats of air, r..- siding nest dour 0 eh& Bag ef Nur., Pioll:eft, wurt e'n.+ up slain hi g..) to bed, she made n fake stip mid was oft-de,' be:01„„g dnwa tu, o ',tor of vial s, wit! her 15••.t.l en ttiag •ith krcot force az,aiust the wad, her skull um fractured. lir. (*talk. IN hr. resides in the siellihniu hood, sta.. scut for , Nit silo after his arr %As 1' -- 1