The National Register.
London, England, 1809-12-03 00:00:00

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TYE HEREDIT:4RI'. PRINCESS OF DENMARK.

COPY OF A LETTER FROM COPENHAGEN, NOV. 4.
, g Since my lastletter to you, an intrigue of a curious nature
has been disco .red. The Hei editary Prince of Denmark,
who is married to a clanguter of the Dtit.e of vleckleliburgh,
seas calk& from -horn,' by military duties. He had scarcely
been gone three days, when it was discovered that. a French-
maa, Est the name of D"puis, svhO MIS the [Salle,- Mazi',er,
and who 'had also been ctio4en to instruct the PriliCesS in
singing, had been perceked go-mg to her 'nparonent3 at a
late hour in the nlght. A g'iard placed to watch his
retoun, :,.nd at four :a the morning- lie as se,en leaving the
J. 1.• ;tic ::ss's bed ea imined el) dispatched
,1-0 the Prince, to make hint ..z.ctliiaii.ted the mann-
-st;?..ce ; and on exa.trihlin,i,•:. the elide, 34. she confessed tier
I,!sfantly sent under an escort to ',a-
-t, ~evf!‘• to to Denmark, under pain of death ;
' " s'mce bee:: sent '0 Altoila. -Ittfssengers
to'all quarters. to apprise her relations of
iuld a divorce is expected to take place.
' ',is same Otipitiswis some years ago in the Swedish ser-
vice; but his conduct was so infamous, that-he was banish-
ed from the country.

The latest intellize,ice from Loinbay., do not afford the
least intdligence re.tnecting'2.he seen missing India ships;
on board otie'of wine!) General M'Powall was a passenger.
It is stated in letters from Arnerica, that the President
has rei-us.:d to recognise or receive the 'Minister who had
arrived Ciere 'from Spain, as the Reprec•ntative of King
Ve:d;nand. It was intimated to h!tn, on the part of Mr.
Madison, that he would no+ besec.eived. It is said, that he
had :?mternnineu, notwithstanding, to remain in ♦me ric a
Iltii 11 Cilngrrss suet, and to take the sense of that Body on
this egtraordinary s4cp of the head of the Government.
It is that three persons, holding highly lucrative
situations in thc Irish Post Office, have received notice
of dismissal. The iniputed offence consists in their having
made untrue returns of the income of their situations, and
thereby enabled themselves to receive a supposed annual
deficiency. A fourth, not in the secret, made a true re-
turn ilf 12501. income, anti thus the detection of the others
was nrciisioned.

SEDUCTION.--A very unpleasant misunderstanding exists
betwixt two respectable families in the neighbonrhood of
fit. Jaines's•Palace, in consequence of a married man, with
five children, having seduced .tim daughter of his intimate
friend.—The young lady is not more than 18, and her se-
ducer is turned of 50. The criminal intimacy commenced
at a sea- port, and they were discovered at a bagnio.
It !pp:rued by a motion made on Tuesday, in the Court
of Exchequer, for referring the coots attending the execu-
tion of a Writ of Inquiry to the Master, that the costs at-
tending the recovery of the small sum of 5/. and a frac-
tion, amounted to no less than 1:211..
lu the Court of Common Pleas yesterday, Clifford v.
Brandon, Mr. Serjeant Shepherd, on the part of the De-
fendant, moved that this trial which was fixed fvr Wed-
nesday, sltould be postponed for one day, but Sir James
Mansfield thought as it had been fixed on, it should be
tried at the time appointed.
In consequence of the_ immense number of forged notes
in circulation,' of the Devonshire Banks, Mr. Kay, Solici-
tor to the Bank Of England, was lately sent into that
county. foi the purpose of tracimg the authors. After
much arduous enquiry, he at length succeeded, on Monday
last, in discovering the whole of the plan. The proofs of
the forgeries are brought hiaMe to, some French prisoners
of war, particularly to two of that description, cAifined on
board the Genereux. The signature of' Mr Marshal!, oue
of the Proprietors of the Plymouth Dock Bank, was so
eorractly imitated, that when the note was presented, he
declared it was his signature.

;11IiE NATIONAL REGIST
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MR. CANNING'S STATEMENT.

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TO THE EARL CAMDEN, &e. &r.
Gloucester Lodge, .N.ov. 14, 1809.
MY Loan--I had written to your Lordship immediately
after the publication of your Lordship's Statement ; but I de-
layed sending my letter, in the hope of being able previously to
submit it to the perusal of the Duke of Portland. In this hope
I nave been disappointed by that fatal event which has deprived
this country of one of its most upright and disintere,ted patriots;
the King, of one of his most faithfal, devoted, and affectionate
subjects ; and the world, of one of the most hlameless and ir4t
nable-minded men. Thus situated, 1 have tkaught it right to
retire what 1 had written, utd scrupulously to expunge every
reference to the ant horit v of the Dnke Ur Poriland, w hich would
now stand upon my sole to timmty ; re.aining such only as are
supported, either by written documeats which 1 shall be hattpy
to commuuirate to your Lordship. or by facts w hick are
well known to your Lordship, or to your colle.,gues, and is
which, Tor the most part, your Lordship is yourself concerned.
Neither, however, can I content myself with this precaution,
hut must protest, at the same time, in the most earnest manner,
against any possible miscoustructinu, by w Rich any thing is the
following letter can he strained to a meanly," unfavourable to the
motives which actuated the Duke of Portland's conduct. It is
impossible, indeed, not to regret the policy, however well ioten-
tinned, which dictated the reserve practised towards Lord Cas-
tlereagh, in the beginning of this transaction; or that practised
towards myself in its conclusion. It is to be regretted, that the
Duke of Portland should have imposed, and that your Lordship
should have accepted, the condition of silence, in the first com-
munications between you. It is also to be regretted, that I
should not have learnt in July, that your Lordship was not
party to the assurances then given to we on behalf of Lord Cas-
tlereagh's friends in gereral ; and that another Member of the
Cabinet, comprehended in that description, had, as I hive since
heard, refused to concur in them. Dad I been made acquainted
with these circumstances, I should them haw resigned; and my
resignation would, at that time, have taken place w ithout, in-
convenience or embarrassment, and without stirring those ques-
tions (no way connected with my retirement), or SUbjectinx me
to those misinterpretations of my conduct and motives, which
have been produced by the coincidence of my resignation m ith
that of the Duke of Portland. But, iniwever, this reserve may
be to he regretted, it is impossible to attribute the adoption tir
it, on the part of the Duke of Portland, to any oh lwr motives-
than to that gentleness of nature which eminently distiogn:shelf
him ; and which led him to endeavour (above all things) to pre-
vent political. differences from growing into personal dis•en•ioa,;
and to aim at executing whatever arrangement might to' ex:a...
client for improving or strengthening the Administration, w
the concurrence (if possible) of all its existing member:. And
no man who knows the affectionate respect and attachment,
which the manly and generous qualities of the Duke of Port-
-1 land's mind were calculated to command, and which I. invariably
bore to him, will suspect me of being w illiug to establish my
own vindication, at the expellee of the slightest disrespect to his
memory, or prejudice to his fame.
I have the honaur to be, my Lord,
Your Lordship's most obedient humble! Servant,
GEORGI; CANNING.

TO THE EARL CAMDEN, &c.
Mll Lon.b.-7-The statement, whirls has been published in the.
newspapers in your Lordship's name, -has decide.' a questioa tia
which t had before been hositating, as to the necessity of an au-
thentic detail of the transactions (so far as I am coin-env:a in
them, or am acquainted with them) to which that sta:eineat re-
fers. For that purpose, I think a direct address to your I.orii.
ship more decorous, bath towards your Lordship and for my-
AEU,, than an anonymous paragraph in a newspaper. It is
the most painful reluctance that I recur to a subject, w hick, so
far as it concerns Lord Castlereagh and myself, had been settled
in a manner which is usually, I believe, considered as finals
Discussions of the causes of dispute more commonly precede,.
than follow, the extreme appeal, to which Lord Castlereagh re
carted : and when, after mature confideration, his Lordship toad
determined to resort to that appeal in the first instance, 'tumid
have thought that Seek a choice deliberately made, would have
been felt by his friends to be equally conclusive upon them as
upon himself. Bet ToOr Lordship needs nqt to be inforukeds,
how asSiduousli my Character has beau amiltuf by writers, in •