The National Register.
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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

order to unite the Spains of both hemispheres in
one happy family." These observations are rather
vague. Nothing short, we believe, of the acknow.
ledgment of their complete independence will satisfy
the Patriots of South America. They have f►ught
and conquered, and have tasted the sweets of liberty,
and will not easily submit to the domination of the
Mother Country, though revolutionized, and pre-
senting that lofty situation among the nations of
Europe that it ought. After the reading of the
Address the Minister of Pardon and Justice an-
nounced, that the King had deemed it necessary to
secure the persons of sixty-nine individuals who
had sired the Address to King Ferdinand against
the Constitutional System of 1814, and that they
were confined in various Convents.

All political feeling in England is centered in
the subject of the Queen. The Houses of Parlia-
ment have adjourned till the preparations for the
investigation are completed. On the I 7th of August
it will commence—she will be put on her trial in
entire ignorance of her crime, her accusers, the
time, ;lad the :4_ctie of her guilt—yet this must be
just, tbr the Loci's %%ill have it so; and " they are
all—all Honourable Men !" We have been told
that the law is the same in England fur the King
and the Beggar."—for Ili, being more likely to
belong to the latter than to the tlirmcr class, we are
inclin-xl to rejoice that it is not so.

We have received the Paris Papers of Wednesday
last. They have been at length admitted by the
Censors of the Press to notice the Revolution in
Naples. The Members of the Junta are already
nominated, and chiefly consist of persons who filled
official situations under King Murat. A private
letter from Naples, of the 10th instant, says, that
the Revolution was undertaken, execnted, and ter-
minated wi:hoat the people being able to guess what
was in agitation. lied it been otherwise, the whole
population would have been in motion to forward-a
change so necessary to their future comfort and hap-
. piness. The delay of eight days granted to the
I King in the first instance, for preparing and pa's.
Halting the fundamental articles of the Constitution,
was considered too long by the prime movers of the
Revolution, and they demanded that the Constitu-
tion. and the Cartes (as in Spain) should be pro-
claimed in twenty-four hours. In this they were
perfectly right, to prevent intrigues, and their pa-
triotic objects from. being frustrated. The King,
making a virtue of necessity, yielded up the reins
of government, even to au abdication of the Kingly
power, for a time, to his son the Duke of Calabria,
who without hesitation granted instantly all that
was demanded. To prevent foul play, however, the
King was obliged to affix his own signature, which
certainly would have been more gracious had it been
done in the first instance, to prevent the Royal sin-
cerity front being doubted. The Provisional Junta
is composed of fifteen Members, LeFors; whom his
Majesty, according to his decree, and all the Princes
of the blond, are to take the oath to the new Con-
stitution of the Monarchy, which oath is to be re-
iterated. before the National Parliament when duly
convoked. The King has taken for Minister of the
Interior, M. Zurlo ; for Minider of Finance, M.
Macedonio ; fur Minister of Justice, M. Ricciardi :
for Minister of War, M. Cabascosa ; for Minister
of Foreign M. Campochiari ; for Amba,sa-
dor at Paris, M. Piguatelli ; nll these individuals
formed part of Murat's Government.—These are
all men of tideat, in whom the people have confi-
dence, and who will take care and Le well prepared
against any re-action, if any such should be contem-
plated by the enemies of the Liberties and Inde-
pendence of the Country. There arc aeanints from
Madrid to the I:3th of July in the Paris Papers.—
The meeting of the Cortes having put the Consd.
tational System in full operation, the Suptvine
Provisional Junta has been dissolved. The Mem-
-I,crs have addressed, in the occasion, it fircwell Pr!,

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clamation to the People. full of the proudest antici-
pations of the future. Madrid is crowded with
strangers of all nations particularly English.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CH A NCERY. LINCOLN'iI INN. —1
fiaTURD•Ys JULY 29.
The Lord Chaueellut cane 'situ Cuue t Eli halli past ten
tic heck.

COLN IN THC MATTIM OT CObC AND G•LPIN, -
81LO8KVITT6.

Mr. Hart stated • this was the Petition of Mr. Cole; the
circtnu•tances of the case he was sure were all his Lordship's
recollection. The Petitioner haul been a stationer iu Fleet-
Street, and retired from busbies with a !aro fortune, but
unfortunately allowed his name to remain in the husiiieirs with
that of the bankrupt Galpiii. who had accepted Hills in the
11:11/le of the firm to a large amount, which were disposed of
by a person ut the name of K homer, for a usurious consider-
ation, and a commission of bankruptcy Issued against Mr.
Cole on account of their bills, he not having nay kelowledge
of the transaction. His Lordship hail allowed Mr. Cole to
enter into posse,idin eel his estate in Hampshire. on his paying
a sumnf 11111Iley ill/tt Ow ccoinitant-General's °dice mita-
Ciellt In cover the debts 01 the firm; since which several
actions had beets tried, sad the bills accepted by tialisita
declared ID be invalid. What the petition sought was, that
Nit.. Cole might be at liberty to draw the money he had de-
posited us the At.couotant.Cicuerttl's 011 ices theft being
ills claim on it.
The Lord Chancellor—" Let it be so."
11l titian granted.

By the Isom ship I will send you a detailed account
of Lord Coe:tense's capture! of Valdivia, seinen in my
(Timm', equals, if it does 1110 exceed, any exploit of the
kind ever liehne periurined. At present I have only time
to say, that in the hawk of our people it is impregnable.
Valdis is is delended by no less than 1.5 forts, so placed
in recpect to one another, than r.o ship could remain half
an hour in the bay, much It-s: caitild• any one lie at &In-
dio& there. These torts mount upwards of 100 pieces
of caution, moat of them 2-1-pounders, and most of them
having furnaces to heat shot. The communication of
flue tort with another is in many places only a very nar-
row defile, composed of large rough stones, and tortuous
paths of great declivny. A couple of pieces of cannon
would render ally one of them utterly iturracticalile to
any number of men. A handful amen might oreveot
the landing of thy number of men, even if boats were
Illt/Wed to approach the shore ; but no boat could ad-
vance witliin estitinll-..hot without being subjected to a
• cross fire, and nisi:only sunk. The heath is beset to th,v.
very water's edge with hushes and shrubbery, by means •
of which, even when a landing was :fleeted, a small
number of Melt iii ht securely remain, and cut oft the
invader.: on tie! beach. Spite of all these obstacles Lord
Cochrane boldly entered die harbour with a brig and a
schooner, on boar.' of which he had crammed 320 men.
With this force, at night-fall, he attacked one of the
forts, landed his men, heating the Spanisrds before hint, !
and carried the small fort, the enemy in the other torts
!resting the attack with contempt tin account of 11;s
Lordship's small force. But such was the impetuosity
of the Chilinos, and the very few Euglishmen who were •
with them, that they drove the Spaniards through the
fort, mixed with them, carried another fort, and struck
such terror into the Spaniards, who had but the moment
before despised them, that in a panic they abandoned!
their post, and fort after fort fell min the hands of Load
Cochrane. In the morning the Spaniards were lost irs
astonishment at what had happened, but it was then toga
late, the whole of the forts as well as the town were in-
possession of Lord Cochrane, and nothing remained but
quiet submission. Toe Governor, with about 500 men
had tied into the interior, leaving behind him the mili-
tary standards, the military chest el the Spanish army of
the South, arid the whole of the stoles and.ammunition.
About ton men, with their Colonel, were. taken pri-
soners : and in the bay a large line ship, deeply laden. .
called the Dolores, was captured. Lord Cochtene,liay.
Mg planted the Chilian flag in the great soilage sum.
mooed the people to meet and chose their own Governor.-
All private property was sti icily respected, and the :in.
haleurits, delighted as well w.iii the sudden amid onex-
peeled change, as with the utiospected forbearance of
their conquerors, expressed their attacnininit to the new
Government by every demonstration in their power.
Thins has the only place-which the Spaniards psosaessed
North of Chili been ematicipated, and the few man they
Lave in this-provinecnust speedily submit."

Report says, that Sir John Leach, fi,r kis recent
services (not in the Chancery Court), is to be cre-
ated a Peer, under the title of Prospero, Dalec of
Milan. I lis cats-paw in the dirty work is to h.: ho-
noured by the title of Lord Co!Main. NVe have no
doubt but that tim feelings of compunction in a once
honourable mind may have already fulfilled the
threat of '' filling all his bones with aches."
Attempt to Assassinote the. Duke of .Ith3l.—Otl
Tuesday, the 18th instant, an attempt was made by
a man, named James Murray, to assassinate his
Grace the Duke of Athol. Mtirray, ender a pre-
tence of important busincs, luel i•rocured an audi-
ence of his Grace, ut cue of the lodges leading to
WA:chi-house, where he banded his (=me.: a letter,
containing sinus unreasonable demands, and which
tart:ler stated, that, unless his Grace complied with
them in a tew minutes, he would shoot him with a
pistol. The Duke,
.tvith singular fortitude, and
great presence of mind, seized the pistol as Murray
drew it from his pocket, and, ailing on some of his
attendants, Murray was immodiately t.. red and
brought to•:11. 61,1 :it