The National Register.
London, England, 1814-11-20 00:00:00

.TIONAL REcisTrit.

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Faris, it is said, have been lately more than usually vigilant,
and some new measures ifith respect to the French Post Of-
fice, are understood to have been adopted within the last
month. There is considerable ferment, though not a word
of this, or of the arrest of the above-mentioned persons, is
mentioned in the Paris papers.
PARIS. Nov. 14 —The tour regiments of Swiss guards, amount•
ing, if complete, to 4,800 met?, have receded, within this week, a
sudden order to leave their barracks at Conrbevoye and elsewhere,
and to repair to Paris, where they have since been quartered. They
are expressly commanded to take orders through their own Officers,
and only from. the King in person. NOw this measure will be c on-
strued differently, according to the degree of candour we bring to
the consideration of it. We should be altogether insane to imagine
that, at the close of 25 years revolution, a return to perfect peace
and older can take place at once. • Too many ;elfish interests have
been wounded ; too many base and furious passions have beea mor-
tified; too many minor criminals have fallen with the tyrant who sup•
ported then. It would not be magnanimity nor prudence, theietore
—it would be childishness in the extreme to shut one's eyes or eats
to the deep murmurs and menacing movements natural to such a Ise
r od. Long after such a period, vigilance in the Government I-
but another mine thy wisdom : the safety of the Government will
be nearly in exact proportion itg ; and suspicion ought
to exist where the grounds tim suspicion nre natural and inevitable.
%Schen we hear that great (though exagi4erated) agitation prevails,
—that many •mischievous (though very foolish) plans are on laot,—
that some persons, of little personal consequence indeet4 have been
at rested, and that others more considerable have fallen under the
turd displeasure, we are compelled to ask what measures of active
precaution have been adopted, to give that displeasure its due
weight, and to render the jealousy thus directed against the views of
the evil-nrinded, useful and etl'ectual to defeat them. Hence, in-
stead of alarming, it quiets and eucourages every rati,mal man to
find the King employing all the means that political tbresight can
suggest, to disappoiat those dangers which the time itself has pro-
dtleed, and which his own benevolent and lenient spirit has aggra-
vated rather than diminished.

The Cent Suisses form a separate and superior body, composed
almost entirely of independent Gentlemen, natives of Switzerland,
with the brave and loyal remnants of the old &h. utters of Louis
XVI. intermixed. This corps takes place of the garde de Corps
itself, an does duty exclusively in the private apartments of his Ma-
jeqy. The enthusiasm of the Swiss for the House of Bourbon is
Geyond any thing I ever witnessed.

Orders have been issued to our fleet on the American

coast, to detroy every vessel that the capturing Commanders
may not deem of sufficient value to send into port.

The Property Ta having occasioned a comidet able degree
of discussion, we cannot avoid stating, that our opinion on
the subject remains the same; and that in our next paper
we shall avail ourselves of such assistance as can he' derived
from a Pamphlet. cn the subjec►, now on the eve cif publica-
tion, and with the perusal of the manuscript of which- we
have been favoured.

' Ministers appear to anticipate warm opposition to many
of their Talliamentary Measures. During the past week,
fresh circulars from the Treasury, cc: ached •in cc.i.i/ rasing
terms, have been dispatched, requiring the immediate at-
tendance of their friends 'in town. Some of these circulars
have been' sent express, others through the Post Office.
Many of them are addressed to Members now on the Con!i-
;tent. The postponement of important measures of finance
until after Christmas, is, we understand, occasioned by-the
absence of many of their reputed friends:—Chronicie..
The Prince Regent arrived at Brighton, on Ft iday, where
he •intends remaining until Christmas,- but occasionally
visiting town on public business, when necessary.
A man, named Wm. Ogilvie, and who also assumes the
title of the Earl of Findlater, is now confined as a delifor in
a gaol at Eainbtirgh,'at, the instance of G. Canning,.: Esq.
M. P. for the recovery of 50001. 'advanced to Ogilvie, Who
• had-engaged 'to procure the "return of Mr. Canning lort a
scots berouEb, but which he failed to accomplish. •

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THE' KING.

The Public have, for some time, had the consolation of knowing
that his Majesty's disoriler hag assumed a tranquil character. We can
state, (says a 1110rIlillg Print,) that there is in this tranquil), nothing
of melailtholy, notaimr t,:•r, of dein eJsiori. His peryerson:of under-
derstandi. ~ is not that v•alch is caused by the prevalence of any
passion u‘.. the reason. On the colitraly, his Majesty's c nclnct
exhibits no passion whatsoever. Ir, ttu his present conditiots
affords less hope of remedy than that of ..iany others afflicted with
mental disease, it is also less deplorable. It is, in short, a mete
misapprehension of present circumstances, and a loss of connected,
memory ; his remembrance of events not ineluding the relations
between them. The King's bodily health i., excellent, and his disp.
position uniformly elieei fill. It will be griltif) big to the- Public to
know, that his Majesty. in his present seclusion, is not without
exercise or even amusement He walks in a suite of ventilated
apartments, and has, in his sitting-room, his favourite harpsicord• at
which he passes several hours daily.

BANKRUPTCJES OF BAIVICERS.

On Wednesday morning the Bank inz House of Messrs Whitehead
and Co: Si(.(:.l payment. It is said that this is tilting to specula-
tions in ()lithium.

The City was thrown into consternation en Thursday evening by
another Banking House having stopped payment in Cornl►iil,
Mainwairing, Sun and Co. What renders this stoppage remark-
able, is that the flanking Howe received their customers' check., lilt
tour o'clock, hut refused to pay. In consequence of which, atliie
Clearing Hone, the other bankers came to a resolution not to pay,
through the clearing, any thing to the Banking House that ban stop-
pet).

A plan will he laid before Ministers in a few days, to act as a
guarantre to the public against indigent Itank(rs. We arc not in
full possession °Hite plan, hot it is said that Bahl:cr. will 4e required
to take out licences, ;111(1 to lodge in the Bank of England a certain
sum of Consols or other Stock, for which they will receive interest
Ina it will remain (not liable to be diverted to any other plirpo4)
whilst they remain Bankers, to answer any detichapey, Fhplati they
through gambling, or from any other improper means, becoma
insolvent. A part of the plan is also calculated to prevent that no.
b4ninded issue of the Country Banker's notes, by making them-,
(whenever called on) to state upon oath the °Aroma of each sort 4,r,
notes they have out, in tile same manner as the Bank of England
does. This, it is supposed, will prevent so wide and so destructive an
issue as is customary at present ; for when the Country Banker's
neighbours see what an amasing issue there is of his paper, they will he
cautious in trusting him with such unlimited confidence al they do.

While Mr. and Mrs. Canning, in the Leviathan, were
detained in Portland Road, the Princess Charlotte of Wales
paid them a visit, and was received with the most distin-
guished marks of attention.

A house has been taken for the Princess of. Wales, at
Florence, where she means to reside for some time. Her

Royal Highness has been received through all her tour with
all the honours and distinctions due to her exalted rank and
station. At Cassel, she was visited by the Elector and Eke-
tress ; at Strasburg, by the Duke of Vat my ; at Berne, by
the Grand Duchess Anna l'etrowna, her cousin, averwile
of the Grand Duke Constantine; at Geneva, 4:the learned
men 'and literati of that Republic ; from Milan, Marshal
Count Bellegarde ten! an escort to the frontier to receive
her; and her Royal Highness saw at Mi'an the Grand Duch-
ess of linden, her cousin, and many of the literati of the
cburitry. 'Her loyal Highness proceeds to Rome.
Colonel Quentin is snid to have been originally a riding
ma.stt.T•in a dragoon re4iment, from whence he rase,'-step !)jt
step, until he obtained the Colonelty of the ioth

11. Ira,. "Mary 'Anne ('larke, aftei• nine months confi;iemont
in the King's Bench, arrived on'Saturday at Brighton, on
her way to Dieppe. It waslull time that she should incline
toward: the o)4in:wt.' • '

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