The National Register. — London, England, 1819-04-25 00:00:00

APRIL 25. M the berthens you complain of." Fortunately, or un fortunately, this argument never admitted ors more'reey r decisive answer than at the present moment. Lly the accounts just presented to Parliament of the amounts of the exports and imports of the last year, it appears that the whole balance of trade in our favour is but about r:gltt millions. Now in this very 'tame yearwe have paid to millions and a half for foreign corn, and consequently so notch evital a n d expendittne has been carried from home to impoverish us, and to enrich Ibreigners ; and all this too Waiter, a period when wheat has but just ;.ant ahnve the importation prices, awl when the barley horne, during part of the year, a high price,• yet wirer mure•lhan tie deficiency of the crop, arising from an unfavourable season most folly justified as a fair retnu a.•r,tlinn.. If this otiose of t 'MIAs is suo•cred to go on, • fart•wcli to National Prosperity, farewell alike to AO-- ealittre and 10 Commerce, tur they can only live and :Just die together. _ The conclusions then to which these premises conduct •.is are briefly these—that the.lincrests of our own Agri c;.l ore cannot citlt•r prudently or safely be neglected—. that the request nittdc,for protecting dimes not only ion ii:ies nothilitt more than what it w•a:. the intetitir.ir of Parliament to have beriire granted, but that by tile adop tion of welt measure the lit cove might he aided to th e repel from o: her Taxes, the home market, Fy /ar the most iniportind. be improved for every article of com ❑terce, the demand for labour and the rite of wage be so4lnelited to the poor, a state of much less Ihictisation an uncertainty ot trade he seeist , . , l to the Artsan and Nlautifacturer, 3ltd, i❑ short, that we should then . Set Prosperity, like Charity, begin, where it always I,ivontd tiv s el hone. The following are extracts from the French .... 1 4pers PA II IN Artist fo.—lt appears that the Works which e're rn he executed at the Castle of tit. 1-lood Aral not Me I ertni r:..t-d before. the 10th of Jane. In •consequence, It is not prAcilde that his Majesty will leave the Coils:ries before :!:51 period: I•he Persian Ambassador left Paris this tannin for Lamina. A shocking event occurred recently in the tcrwtrof Rouen, - isich is (11:11 eclat;; In one of she journals of that place : .• Tao animated each akitinsr the other by an inveterate hatred, repaired to the boulevard. lit.• near the burner de It'Octroi. They were ; it is ihtid, out witnesses : (could they have found any ?) Their swords are era-rd —bulls are already wounded—one of them %hiked to stop the hat—the other refoses--the sword; Roe again crossed. lle whociiiplayed this brutal obstinacy faßs dead °tithe spot. 11e are unwilling to mention the statue of these :nctividuals ; use can hardly add that.--they were brothers." Nit LAN , Aral!. I I.—Thejnornals and letters from Rome sneak of nothing but the magnificent reception of his Ma jc,ty the hdiaperor of Austria in the capital of the Chi Wiwi' . world. I not enabled to add to these accounts minor 'parti cular eirutostanccs a hich you might be !rleased to learn.— Tor Pope did not permit the Emperor to kiss his hand, but embraced him the allotment :ins Monarch was ptegiring to show him this mark of respect. Ile then conducted his Majesty to the apartments prepared for him, and reasisioed 'with this Prince half an I . There is no political object disguised under Ilia tour of his Majesty. It is natural that, 'hetri,g bora in Tonnittly, he should wish to see the place of his nod. The religions hismt m cc which the Emperor and Em press are resolved t• show to the Head of the Church will prove to Italy the ompect entertained by this great Suer , ?men for tile See of P a nic. The mr ethers of the Buonapnrte family now in Rome hare not been prebented to the emperor. • The Prince Regent continues to improve in health ; anti his gout seems to subsiue most favour. ahly. The rarriages and some of the luggage belonging to the Duke and Duchess of Kent arrived at Ken. sington-palace on Thursday. lintuirruN, April 90.—Lord and Latly Frances Stewart have paid a bride's visit to the Prince-11e gent. The noble pair took their leave of his Royal iligliness yestettLy, previous to their departure tbr a northern tour, aial afterwards to Vienna. Lord and Lady Castlereagh loft the Pavilion this morn ing,* fir their seat North Cr. , v. Prince Esterhazy, and the Marquis and Marchioness of l!ertfurJ, ar rived here 01 Saturday, and still continue as visitern at the Pay.lion. • As soon as her Royal Highness the Duchsr- of Cart:ace's health is re-esta , •lishe(l, tho family will leave 1-hiaover for WLirtentberg, on a visit to the Qdeen Dowager (ri-de' Piincess Royal of Eng land.) From .„hence they will visit the Prince and Prlacess of Hesse lion,boarg, and thence set out for whence tley are expected in about three tumid's. The late Harvey Chti;tian Conibe, El. left widow add ten cnildren, four sons and six daugh tPrs. To Mrs. Combo he lei 30001. a-} ear for her life, issuing out of his lainieci estates, and to revert on her tb!zeaie t 3 his eldest sod : to the other sons, 20,0001. each; and to the six daughters, 10,0001. each. of '.:aturday, Mr. St uarrand Mr: Alsop were re -1 for the buruogh of Camelfortl. Nlonthly ev4ning, the following persons; des for the s' vice of Bonaparte in St. Helena. I in Lonion :—The ALbe Bonavito, au aged DOViCti rig rrchlect - . A 1.... 1 On'i; turned l l tined f. arrived • r • • : _ THE NATIONAL REGISTER: with a Maitre d'lriotel and Cook ; and, 'notwith standing the insinuations to the contrary contained in an evening paper of Monday night, it. happens that a Minister of Religion was demanded by Ber traPd upwards of 12 months back. The Prince Regent's yacht, commanded by the Hon. Charles Paget, we understand, will be reedy for the reception of his Royal Highness about the middle of next month. It is confidently expected that the Regent swill honour Cowes with a visit this SCRUM, it being.tbe head-quarters of the yacht Club, of which his Royal Highness's patron. With the deepest regret se learn, that sormy heavy I:inures have taken place in-Manchester, which, it is supposed, will materially affect Liverpool. On Friday theGuards' made a brilliant muster, on the parade at the Herse Guards, in honour of so. George's Day. The 'weather was unfavourable, or the display would have been more interesting. The Duke of Wellitigton came on the ground with several Oflicar of high rank. The. guard on duty at Carlton-house, and St. James's, were mounted in white gaiters, and the military arnmgements were generally suitable on the occasion. Flags went hoisred upon St. Martin's steeple and the tower of I.xutbeth church, and the bells rang many merry rals during the day. At one o'clock the guns fired. SAVANNAH, MARGIT 18, 1819..—:Last night, about nine o'clock, the citizens were alarmed by the cry of fire. It commenced in a small grodery store of J. M Carter (above the Exchange), which was set on fire by a candle, tarelesily left on the counter. The store houses of Gray and Pindm, Nichols, Dobson and Hills, Hall and Hoyt, Rea and Butler, E. S. Kemp,ton, A. G. Semmes, J B. Cremor, H. S. Slocum, J. R. Gifford, T. C. Hayward and Co. and IVatson, and David Hilt and Co. were destroyed. Thus the labour of many men for many years is consumed in a moment, The einoihnt .out must be at iedst 400,000 dollars. Havasneau, Feb.l7.—Coffee is 24 cents. and look ing up. An agent from Messrs. Baring's of London, is buying up to the amount of half a million sterling. Lzs,s, APRIL 20, 18 19 —The unemployed work ,people separated tlientselses yesterday without any mis chief, and we were hopeful the peace of this town would not be threatened but it is now known, that hetore separating, they had agreed to meet agsin to-rnar: row, for the purpose of paratlin,g through the streets of this teram,—a a !et:instance which has, as might be ex pected, produced snore alarm. The Magistrates, how ever, are on thc.r guard, and the Detachment of the Sth . Dragoon Guards : ::ow here, have orders to keep them selves in reaihness to act as emergency may require. The situation of the manufacturing districts was never more distressing to the labourers and mechanics, or more per plexing 'to those who •watch over the public peace. When own are agitated and inflamed by feelings of distress, a little spark may excite cornhitstiun, and those who bad nn rlesiim to commit mischief may be inciters by the mere turbulent to aces calculated to endanger pro /wily and the !vsiblic peace. New designs oc esniaration, and by people 11143 who are not in suffering circum stances, traitspi , e almost daily. A firmer of property, a 'eur miles from this place, is now preparing to set off with his faittly and IY.Utlul. fir the Coned Staten. Ile had been refused a tenewal of hit lease, but at an ad % aneed rent. 'lnn other entire families have wine from this neighbourhood fur Liverpool, .m their way to Ame rica, talsung is ith them about • FOREST- Rosmens.—Ceveral robberies have been committed within the last feAv days by a gang, who, according to information, frequent the western-part of Wihtlsor forest. The first attack was made on a geutleruau in the neighlmurhood of White Waltham,- by two fellows armed with bludgeons, who rubbed bin of a valuable gold watch and appendages, and his money. file next morning a M:. Wise, was rubbed by three fellow- armed in a similar manner,. at the verge of Nlaidenhead Thicket ; bet hand-bills of these rohhcrics having been circulated through !leading, Maidenhead, &c. the rubbers transferred their deptedr.tions more to the eastward, and Mr. Honey - wood, of Thorpe, was stopped it: his chaise by three fellows armed with I:lutists:as, on the Oak ' inghartt4oad, near Ascot I:nee-course, on Monday •.venirg at dusk. Tho robbers gut 371. in notes andmoney, tied Mr. H—'s hands.; let tie horse loose, and made off' towards llatchett :atm. These are the men answering the description of these who committed the other two rcbhcr;es ; and a fourth was committed betvveen.Cimbham anti Chertsey; un Wednesday night, 921 a gentleman t r the name. of George, who having no more than a tripe of silver about him, they threw Lira down and ill used There were. fear concerned in this last rubbery.— Two of them it is supposed had rented a hovel lately oil • the furest, and kept a horse and cart, which they deserted last week. Power o/'II e Screw.—The Admiralty yacht, lately under repair its hii Majesty's dock-Yard, Woolwich, was on the'l2th inst. raised frcm her bearings, suf. ficieatly high to have the bat= of her keel cep- 16d. ;. pored, by the application of . a single ppemar of mews, under the direction of Mr: William Huokoy, assist• ant-builder. The vessel is ono of I2o , tuns, having on board 30 tont of ballast, with all the etageing, &c. attached. The Whole operation. was-performel by eight men, in five minutes. SUSPICION OP MURDCIL—A 'etntsiderable sense,: earn has been eseitsd at and in the neighbourhood of Sunbury-green, near Harrow, in consequence of a circumstance having transpired, • by whi h a female of respectability is charged With having been pri vately delivered, and murdering her of&prin... A young woman, about i 7 years of age, named At Smith, residing at Sunbury, who had been suspected fur seine time to be in a state of pregnancy, swan within- these few days so altered in her shape and appearance as gave rise to a report that she had been delivered, and had destroyed the child : and what strengthened the suspicion was, that the body of a new-born child was discovered in a ditch. The body was taken up and carried to the Mitre public house, and information was given to the parish officers, who, from the invirtigation of the case, sought out the young woman on wb n m previous suspicion had fallen; and she immediately acknow ledged that she had been delivered of a child • and a cousin of the young acknoJrledge d that the child, soon after tt was' born, was thrown into some water, and coutealed in a ditch. - The parish surgeon was called to examine the body, and imme diately 'afterwards notice of the circumstance was sent to Mr. Sterling, the coroner, who appointed to hold an inquisition at-eight o'olock on Friday night. An extraordinary case of abduction occurred at= the Cork Assizes, which occupied the Court some time, and ended in the instant astuittalvt the par ties accused. The prosecutrix, who, it• appeared from the evidence of -Mr. Lee, Curate of se. Atts'e. Shandon, was married by biro oaths 19th of March last, stated the circulottawei• of her hating been carried off from the neighbourhood of 'Mallow, but .! asserted that she had nut the most dist Ant stoiltri.; lion e the alleged marriage I ARTISTS' Ban via Liar So et ITIK—A meeting of the . •. friends to this laudable institution celebrated its Wash auoieersary on Tuesday'by a slimmer at the Freentasoo's .Tavern. fhe object of the society is minute . relief so artivs, or so the widows and orvliatis of anists.who usay :timid in need of its aid ; and its *importers are all th e lilreral and humane, who, while they admire the wales of the artist, ale hut' fotetful of those wants mid horst- - ships to which, by the accidents of human life.twers his • homily may be exposed. Of such characters wait en posed a great -proportion of the company that 'Met ail , Tuesday to celebrate tine asuirtratry of thd and subscribe to its funds. Upwards 'of two Wedged,. gentler:len were assembled by Hob. tinnse look the chair, and conducted the bossiness./ the • %went% with great seal, propriety, and Arm. The honorary secretary, Me Balmianno, read a muss polity ing report; and, iu consequence' of the information at communicated. .ma- the recominetidatti of the chair mall, the sohicriptioos were extremely liberal; that less timo 400:. being munitioned as the collection of tith evening, front the preseht and absent friendi of the society. It was graillying in a meeting for she relief ni iii:ttent artists to see so many :taints of tha4rst enn- • atenee attending, to countenance the of frets, and to in crease the fowls of the in-mention. There were presrmi, among others, Mr. Stothard, Ir. Mee; Mr. Soarer, Mr. Jackson, Mr. C deon, Mr. Cooper, and Mr. Jihrilky, all 'newts( r, oft he Royal Academy. It was no less - phasing tliin uncommon to hear at sepublic dinner such toasts as linova and she Artists Of Italy ;" and "The Memory of Raphael Angelo." ily the associa.tion of such rem,— leetions, with the presence of such pmfesional eutitterma to promote the ;::'crests or so litahable an isimitittio,,,, 01. a -entertainment EA' the evening na: greater and 'o w e cordial than that gem:rally dent et{ from pubic paints. The ei•,..itog passed away in the utmost hor mone, and the greatest regularity at.d order distrii• guished every pan of the inners dings. re:artt.--An Inquisitioo was taken yriitcrilit;. l•trAtt Thonia. Stirling, 1 7 ,-.1. at the King'w Head, Middleton-street, Ft. l'ancris. or. t!ie viaiy of Mr. IYittiaan Hater— 00- ft appeiirri that he emu, home on W.:lra-All everitit and complained < f beirig unwell ; he took spill on going to bed and oTtyingi lit; l in he requests:: his wife would not disturb him, as he Wad &pr., ti to eecti ; the next trimming she gia op quietly and after deo.- ainz liirself she laid ;;r hands on his fuer. and feting it stat e coW. Venlict.—•• I)i - by the ViWtt.ildh uY Gtal." COROVER*3 INWIEST.—An inquisition trio held yeaterday. Wert Thumas ('limner, at tio•Ttiitroph....tiLltaiti_t. Peinbroka Mews.lharveitur rioie, on the Italy of !fathani:l Palmer. egau about 35 ye::, Tie body lay in one of the large • exults under St. Ge'iqe s hospital, his fia.te assrl Clietki - were eaten and di-figured by the rats. Mr. John K itching. Ileuee Surgrnh,depo , ol, that three week. no the dere..ted v. brought to a conch to St. Genrge's hiataa...l WVltlrtiertfoily wangled. and s,:vvr.! of :as rile rrisa: troken: but be eras in nts reriCit cruses at the time."--ile 1.61 he was fervytt to Nu ! , Vao,el of Coclspur-stia._t.-he wan sent for a hack.. - .y mach to ' carry her limit..., the he a coach ntf the mat +tutu: :1..1 rt. on the box with the ..n..e:itnan, Wl:lld,Dve On ..e"vi when one of the fure-whiels fail off. that he .vas pitched *obi Wire boa, and 'be horays zemg oil, the ..vb,:els 0.0. tr tint heal aid brew. lo gritaivis's opini4o ilia tlesth wssritesst f-rr Ws..-.too of rtitt 'man, se soasecpteme of the solar , Se recrivrti t v she wtovts of the soss:llgotog over {ex. Yeeict....A.:z.acetat tkerh. • . • • r ~ Mir ~_ . ~~ - ;4 1 '