The National Register.
London, England, 1816-04-29 00:00:00

THIRD DAY.—WsDNESDAY, APRIL 24.

M. DVPIN, the Advocate of Sir RonsitT WILsoN and his
friends, made a speech intuit admired and of considerable Mae-
nuity, hot turning principally on points of French law, which
would afford little entirtaittment to our readers. On the facts
charged against the accused, after their frank avowals, coral-
borated by the fullest proof docunicutory and parole' no possi-
ble &Oat could remain : and about half-past five on Uedneklay
afternoon the jury (12 in number, drawn by lot, and mostly men
connected with ...he law) delivered their verdict into court. It
was read by their foreman, and contained an acquittal of all
the Fr:iichnieti exeunt the turnkey EIiFAILE, who, as uell As
Sir Rol:F:1:T W/LSON, Mr. Bitt:CF:, and Mr. HUTCH iNsoN, was
found quilts. The President, M. de Suss, then proceeded to
read the !nail, of the penal rode spplivable l 0 the convich•4
Ve41011:4 £j utj.i was scutctiuedto tau )*:4l•3' WUlulaunlaent.

APRIL .

The a i iele applicable to our countryman WAS No. 211, which
pr. set doll imprisonment for a term not exceed.ng t o years.
nor less than three months, nt the discretion of the judge : and
the President, without hesitation, pronounced fur tile shortest
allots able period, three mouths.
Stu Ittint.iir and Mr. HaLCE had both previonAy heideeaged
the court in long speeches, explanarlry of their motives for a
conduct which they did nut deny. INSERT obtelVed, that
those who blamed what he had done, would pruoanly have cen-
sured hint for 'Mittman; ty, hied tic refused to assist in snatching
a ti flow-creature from destruction. Mr. BRICE avowed him-
self a fiend to liberty, and to the constitution of bis c. try. as
nettled by the glorious revolution of Inuti; but he deckled his
detestoi.ou of that fictitious revolutionary liberty which bud de.
',dated Europe. Both these speeches were listened to with
great attention by the c tort, which thrunghout the proceedings
showed a marke.l degree of respect to our uttrsmen, as r
as their relative situation would permit. Oa a diaput. which
arose as to Cie official translation clone of Sir Itourtur's letters,
the Advocate-General allowed the prisoners the benefit of the
inttrprctation wh.cli was most favourable to them. The curt
Was hiller on the third day than on the second, but less so than
at the opening of the trial. Madame LAVALL'ITI: was among
Slur auditors.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONDON :
MONDAY, APRIL 29.

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WE this day lay before our Readers the three days
proceedings in the trial of Sir Robert Wi:son, and Messrs.
Hutchinson and Bruce, for aiding the escape: of Lavalette.
The trial concluded on the third day (Wednesday last).
The Jury pronounced a verdict of Guilty against them ;
and the Judge passed the lightest sentence which the
law allows in such eases—Three Monthss Imprisonment.
The severest sentence allowed by the law would have
been Two Years; to which the turnkey (Eberle) has
been adjudged.

The adoption of the Budget has improved the French
finds. It appears from the Budget, as passed by the
Chamber, that the ordinary expences of the Government
are estimated at 548,252,520 f.; and the ordinary re-
ceipts at 570,454,940 f.; leaving a balance of more than
u:..! millions. The extraordinary expences, arising from
war contributions, and the maintaining of 1.50,000 fo-
reign troops, &c. are rated at 290,800,000 f.; and the
extraordinary receipts, derived from new taxes, at
f..!91.243,141 f., leaving a balance of mare than half a
million. The whole of the expenditure, therefore,
amounts to 839,052,520 f., or about 36 millions sterling,
and the receipts to about 87 English money. Our
Readers are aware that this heavy system of taxation is to
continue only five years—the period of occupation I,y
the foreign armies; at the end of which, France will be
relieved from a yearl; burthen of 12 millions sterling;
leaving a sum of 24 millions sterling to be provided for
annually by a country so populous, and so richly favoured
in respect to soil and climate, as France is known to be.
A French Paper, published at Brussels, contains on
article from Toulouse, dated the 7th instant, stating
that M. Boyer Fontrida, an inhabitant of the city for 12
years, who first established the cotton-manufacture there,
brother of the Girondist of that name, was arrested and
thrown into prison, on the second return of :he Bourbons;
and, notwithstanding three different orders of the Minis-
ters of Police to release him, be was unable to obtain his
liberty; the answer unifirrinly that the prisoner
was detained by the Agents of the Print:et. At length,
on the 7th of this month, Le was released, on condition
of quitting his country, and retiring to a foreign land.
A New Journal has been published at Ghent, which
treats with some humour the present political situation
of France. The following may serve as a specimen :
Panr., APR ir. 9.--The French Ayadetny will henceforth
hold two sittings p,.r. work. This resolution has In en come to '
in consequence of the necessity of correcting thy Dictionary of
the lastitste, in which the words .Imicity, Clemency, Courage,
I. , Propt-rta, Ghana! menu. .ke. are to receive new acyclic:-
lions. M. M. Hs de de Scoville. Castel de }Nat., Bellart and
Co. are to correct the pan's. The Grand Prevot, the Mar-
Alois de Messey, has demanded of these Gentlemen a new word
'to substitute for the word silitions; thinking that according,
to his own obse:vation the number of seditious iu Trance may
be considered as the majority."
They are occupied at Paris with a Medallic History
of the Reign of a great Sovereign. Our Zephyr has
blown us the following; specimens of this beautiful work :
1. Medal—the head of a Monarch; a strong rrsemblanre.
On the reverse a foot of a king, with these words—Nita Ar-
rays,.

Y. A Genii (a clove, also tic City of Ghent), with these worth
—Drportoice for the Chmagel.
3. A Coamack, carrying behind him the Gud Sitenus, with tht
words--Serand Return.

4. A soldier 'toiler arms, with the words— innesiy—Partion.
6. A Bottle and o Hain, ornamented with laurels, with the
words--/ drank—l ate-1 comptcred.
8. A I'ot lin the Fire, with the words—Saroolt of the Belvidere
Apnifes.- - !The remainder by the first fair wind.]
The New York Parer of the 16th ult. mentions a re-
port, to which it attaches credit, of Lavalette having ar-
rived in the Eugene, from Ilavre, on Tuesday evening,
the Uth ult.

Congre,:s has been chiefly employed upon the question
of establishing a National Bank. The necessity of one
has been aukno,.vletiged ; and New York has been fixed
upon as the spot.
An a:tempt has been made to excite an insurrection
among the Negroes in part of the Unitci States. Sc-
moral NLsgraes have bcmezecuted.

TIIE NATIONAL REGLIT.Tt.

We have received Madrid Gaxettes up to the beginning
of April, containing General Morillu's dispatch relating
to the capture of Carthagena. These details fill the mind
with horror; the traces of no war were ever before more
unfeeling and unnatural—neeer more bloody and revenge-
ful. if the victims of Carthagena have been less than at
Ismail, the traits of atrocity are of as 'deep a dye as when
the latter place MIS abandoned to the fury of the Russian
soldiery. Murillo, however, confesses, that &trine the
whole time he was intrenchel before the place, he had
been unable to make the smallest impression, either on
the outposts er clay walls; that he had been repelled in
every attack, and his best troops had already been sacri-
ficed. His only hope was to take the place by starvation.
He confesses that " women and children dying with
hunger came forth, and when the Spaniards entered the
city it presented the most horrid spectacle. The streets
were filled with dead bodies infecting the air, and the
greatest part of the inhabitants were dying with hunger."
The whole garrison, alter spiking the guns, had evacuated
in the teeth of the Spaniards.
The privations Carthagena endured, certainly deserve
to be compared with those of Leyden, Wien opposing the
Duke of Alva. Tie country round had equally been
devastated; and if they could also have inundated it, the
result would have. been similar. The scenes of horror and
calamity which succeeded time entry of the Spaniards into
this unhappy city, cannot be described. The official dis-
patch states, that in the castle of San Fernando, 60 sol-
tilers, and two ()dicers of the Independents had been
found; they def.:laded themselves till the last moment;
they were pet to the sword, but the last words each pro-
nounced, were, "May America be free."
Another descent was made by the Barbary pirates in
Sardinia en the Gth instant, where they committed the
most horrible atroeiiies, and carried oil' 88 individuals,
men and women.—A Treaty of Peace has since been
concluded between the King of Sardinia and the Dey of
Algiers, through the interference of Great Britain.
It seems not a little humiliating, to hear of the gr eat
Powers of Europe attempting to negociate with the Bar-
bary States, to induce them to respect the flags of those
Powers. It seems like a negotiation opened by our Police
to oblige footpads to respect the pockets Of passengers on
the highway. Surely it is in the power of the smallest
navy in Europe to annihilate the mischief at once.

A Mail from Holland communicates the arrival of
the Dille of Wellington at the Hague, where lie was
received with the most enthusiastic ma.rks of public
esteem and gratitude.

Gen. Drouot, on being liberated after his trial, waited
upon his Majesty by desire of the Minister of War.—
" You have been acquitted, General," said the King to
him, "and that event gives me much satisfaction; but
you must allow que yore aver donne dan. le travers."
" My conscience is free from reproach," replied the Ge-
neral.—Upon which his Majesty turned his hack upon
him, and left hint to withdraw. Shortly after, he re-
ceived an order from M. Lespenois to quit Paris in :24.
hours.

In debating the French Budget, a Vendean Deputy,
a flaming Ultra Royalist, took occasion to utter a tirade
against Angltm ania. Flc related, at the saute time, an
anecdote respecting the rigour of our laws with respect to
prohibited merchaudize. A Lady, he said, who was tra-
velling in England, quitted her carriage, and made part
of the journey a-foot, fitr fear the carriage should be seized,
as she wore a pair of French gloves! The Lady might
have spared herself this inconvenience, had she thrown
the gloves out of the window, and purchased another
pair in the first village. The story, no doubt, is a rank
fabrication, and invented by M. Puymanrin, to have an
opportunity of expectorating his bile against this country.
By order of the Council of State of Fribourg, the works
of Rousseau, found in the library of a celebrated Agricul-
turist lately deceased, were committed to the fixates, on
the ground of their being immoral and dangerous.

The statues of Mirabeau, and some other rerFonagcs
who rendered themselves celebrated during the Revolution,
have been withdrawn from the Palace of the Luxembourg..
Lord Byron sailed from Dover, fir Ostend, on Wed-
nesday evening.
Thursday, a Court of Common. Council was held at
Guildhall.—Mr. Favell moved an address to tilt Prince
Regent, requesting his Royal Highness to become a party
to the linty Treaty (as it is called), concluded between
Russia, Austria, and Prussia.; but the motion, being op-
oosed, was in the end withdrawn.—The freedom of the
City, in boxes of oak, value 100,;s. each, was voted to the '
Dukes of Kent and Sussex, in compliment to their bene-
volent exertions, iu promoting the religious education,
and relieving the wants of the poor.
The books and pictures which the late Lord Fitz-
william left to the University of Cambridge hare been
strangely over-rated in the Papers. Instead of 24.0001.
the books were valued only at 10,0001.; and the pictures
fir
are a very miscellaneous collection od and indifferent.
The Empress of Anstria, tl.c.;s: we n.: Ic;:d in
our last, died on the 7th of this nunith, at Ve:ooa. She
was of the illustrious family of Este, an I sister to the
Archduke Ferdinand, who made Cue finnous retreat with
his division when Mack surrendered at Ulm. She died
in her twenty-eighth year, and was the .second wife of
the Emperor Frauds.