The National Register.
London, England, 1819-08-01 00:00:00

SUNDAY, AUGUST .1, 1819.

of our manufacturing population at the present mo.
ment. Five and twenty years ago, or the case is
still stronger if we go a little further back, to the
inventions of Watts and Arkwright, Agriculture
was the great employment of our peoPlei at least ,
our husbandmen constituted two third* of the lower
classes. Now, b; the returns of 1811, it appeared-
that Agriculture was the calling of but one out of
three, which, if Mr. Owen's calculation be correct,
the power of the machinery introduced .and applied
to manufactures is •equal to the additional labour of.,
200 millions. For the almost endless quantity of
goods,thus wrought an adequate demand can now
be no longer 'found. A revulsion most necessarily
follow. Our 'Government has long been actively
employed in miserable and wretched oxpeidients, in
bolstering up.a state of society which is every day
becoming more manifestly rotten, whilst the solid
property of the land hum been loaded with imposts,
and its produce depreciated by the continued depre-
ciation of money, 'All in times of pressure the infe•
riot soils can be no longer cultivated at all. Mr.
Owen's remedy is to make all those employed
under him hue:sandmen, as well as artisans and ma-
nufacturers. fie" would have a large tract of land
attached to every establishment upon his new Sys-
tem, to be..cultivated by the spade only, and. en-
tirely 'kept in order. and all the welt performed by
those who are -one part of the day *pinning or
weaving, or employed in some epecitss ef manufac-
ture. This may be very plausible, but it directly vio-
lates the doctrines of every former able writer on
political economy, w:to have all hold the division of
labour to' be the peat and leading principle of so-
cial union, the best read us perfection in the works
of art, and without which very little progress•conhl
be looked fin. indeed, -we cannot help thinking
that Mr. Owen would find his- cotton spinners, for
he has not yet tried it, to he very moderate farmers,
and his farmers very bad spinners of .otottot twist.
With respect to Educatiou, upon which 'Mr.
Owen lays so touch strew., we should entirely
agree with him, that it is both a'thibt and a
boon of inestimable value•to the rising generation.
But we do not exactly see how nutty of its noblest
advantages are not lost by the syneua to which Mr.
Owenavould apply it. It' they rentaimmembers of his
community it may benefit the possessors for private
ulificittior, it may give a tone to their manners and
elevate nod expand thsir minds. But the very
greatest objection we have to Mr. Owen's whole
scheme is, that it renders those antler its infinence
torpid to all those passions of the soul which are the
pureats of whatever is great cod dignified and noble
in the intercourse of life. There is no field fbr '
emulation, there is Ito spirit of independence ; it
may give the poor man much, but it takes much
front hint ; it rubs him even of the comforts et' his,!
own fire-side. He is no longer his own houses
keeper, and his wife is equally excluded from. the
important diseharge of mast domestic duties. is
to be fed at a common table, to bestholtzl from a
common stock, to be the creature of treatta:nt in •
every habit and every motion of his life. z V.'e can.
not therefore help thinking that: if ltir Owen's
theory was fully tried, whialc it is aot at • New- I at-
nark, as we must again remind our readers, both he
and his protegees would 'find themselves greatly
disappointed, an, I that those:of outman poor who have
been ItCrttstuultal to taltrt,LVvtliat tmg cares nod
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anxieties with Ate little (domestic joys of their own
cottage, wettliliiigit,under such a regime, and like
the country mouse in the fable say, "give me back
my quiet narrow hole, with freedom, though I may
base nothing to nibble but a little oaten straw."—
Lastly, Mr. Owen's 191161..t° us quite inap-
t44lB
plicabld to any other situattlim, than Where a large
cotton or wool:A.1i manufacture can be advantageously
connected with it, and these we certainly think
have already spread quite tar enough. A steam
engine would be neither useful, wholesome, or or-
namental .to by far the largest portions of oar
English parishes. Of the good Mr. Owen has dune
at home .nobody can Lear or rend without feeling
grateful to him for snels a spirit of benevolax,
that his system may du good in many other place
there can be no doubt ; it is as a general eyslon only
that we speak of it, it iG as e.g,eneral system only
that we must withhold front it our approval.
At a time so critical, and important, we should
gladly have.offered to oar readers a few observations
on the Meetings of the Reformers, awl on the mea-
sures adopted lately by the Government respecting
them. But we ple.lged ourselves last week to-devote
our comments to Mr. Owen's Plan, and felt it right
to discharge that obligation. •Yet we cannot help
even here just adding, that we are informed front
every quarter that nothing caw exceed the grief and
disappointment of the self-calledcriends.of our hap-.
py establishments at the complete failure of their
ai-
tempts to turn.these meetintfrinto • riot. The se•
zure of Harrison at the very 'height of popular feel-
ing, and the perfect -onlet with which he was
suffered to be earned a ciroumstance which
every one will and must contemplate, as speaking
more in praise of the spirit of the Mob, and
if they continue to act as they did,at Smithfield, the
appellation will hardly be them, than it does
'for those who would have .loaded there to acts
which might lone again furnished u plea fur sub-
verting our liberties ; but inure of this next week.

Lstraet•of. a Letter, dated Rio de Jancrio, 2.stit
Nlay:—

•• 'lke delay itt the sailing of the packet affords me the
opportunity ler hew-ming 'nu, that a yeshel from Buena
Ayres, in !II da)s. passage, has bioatht aGrzette.euntailiii:
an othci:ll repent of the Covernor df Connintho, dated 9-a
of April, siddri•hhet to the Sops me threetoe of Chili. i• •
aidniaore it, to the following efect Tnat the night before a
whaling-ship had al rived at the poet of Coquiontni, and Iltit
the Captain had communicated what he had observed pee-
trims to his sailing from Ctillao °lithe Fitt of Minch, ns lot-
ions —That nn the `Mil Feltruary,ithe .hip Sao Martin hod
the frigate O'llirgins, under cowl nfa thick foe. stood into
Caillts, and ty etc not perceived until the moment a hen they
opened their tire ne I bedishe Spumes frigates I, iag under the
batteries.; they rk••bired a tii,•itnihh gun-moat, argil aft. r
and itninterritfOrd tire of too bon the Chili sh•ps
male hail for thel•danit of San Lois, nz:s.

'• The Sonnist. !skips sidlered st•sesety in their hulls, rig%
ging..awd own i the Postriol. hail three tnr•n killed, and the
Captain of the tf II %lightly Kituudt•d ; they received
very fittit44winstge, which u :Li repaired immediately, nod on
Ibr YSthvr Willie( torbi nary , the „eht an
again, to recoono4ne. M I too 40 to 341 Onus, eery tired at he,r,
hat wi!l t rile, I ; 'hr did two fire a 011, and afte► havit.,;
woonitiplitthed her ohj.,rt, she rejiitue.i the San fitartio„
si.the island of Sao Lorenzo, wh:re both remained, block-
aakag rattail.
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•• The Lauttiro and Chricvloico had keen despatched. to
intercept a convoy from Piinams, rip sisting of five laden
merchantmen wider ....Ivor of an armed ship. The Spanish
ship Viclwia. laden alto timber, coming from Chloe and
td beta captio..l Lord Cueii ;ate; the
offered to ransom her for 12.000 ir,, but the Vier-
Admiral would not listen to the propnval.
"On the 21st inst. arrived heti., tor Mass shop of war.
from Liw.y and I alcalivano, bavtn, oar eil from the
littler putt opt the gth of April. doe hits ma hoard 'l,3oo,lllilit
dot urv, of %hurls tae gariiter pert was tr issitipped into tier
from fa, Andromache fri4ste, tl e tuile is believe:l to ki•
Sp•itisn piopeit retnJveil is consequence id the alarm
v. hick prevail, iii Li no. The Itiossoin will shoisly sail for
;n.41 Commodore 11,pw..ra, w tar Crenle fugale,
will psocr• d t.• the Piicific in nhout ver %seem.'

11 ilte•hire Elret:n.7.—State of t:,c Poll at the clay:
of the 10th do.: Mr. iLauet, Astley,
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FROM TUESDAY .VICDIT'S GAZETTE.

BANKRUPTS.
J. Egiaton, Flandsworth. Station), wine merchant.
W. Attila. Kirby Stephen, Westinorciand, white leather
manufaet trier.
J Bathe. Piccadilly. wine inert Kant.
G. Forster, Berwick upon Trawl. tnerchar.t.
J. Pollock. jun. Newcastle upon Tyne, couptr.
T. and J. liribetti. Kingston upon Hull, merchants.
G. Evans, Aberdare, Glattiolp7.ncLite, grocer.
C. :llartin, Great Yarmouth, lint n draper.
DIVIDENDS.

July 31, E. Ehrenttrom„l:enCort, Per:chinch Street, mer-
ell:int.-31, G. Anseil, Cordialton, Surrey, calko printer—Jl. C.
Car, Bridre Street, Westminster, jeweller—August 21, J. Ed-
wards, Winchester Street, City, merchant-2 t, R. Norton. jun.
Charlotte Street. Rrithbone Place, paper hanger-21. E. Belford,
Brook's Mews. Hanover Square, irackneyman-19, J. Pearson,
l'ortsmouth, draper-20, T. Moran, Holyhead. innkeeper-21.
J. INattson, Gravesend, coachmester—l7, C. Bishop, High
Street. Borough, linen draper-17, S. Singer, High Street, Yen.
:.ington, haberdasher-21, H. Wright, New Street, Brunswick
Square, merchant-27, J. M. Collins, Newton Abbott. Devon,
maltster-17, T. Gibson and J. Johnson, Lawrence Lane,
bankers-17. A. Warner, St. Catherine Street, Tower. victualler
—Sept. 11. R. Wolcott, Strand, woollen draper-11, G.Williams.
Church Row, Limehouse, dealer-26, W. Elworthy, Wakot,
Somerset, carpenter.
CERTIFICATES to be ranted Aug. 17.
P. and J. Statham, Ardwiek, Lancashire, dyers—T. Brown,
Newport. Salop. grocer—T. S. Coldwell, Norwich, coach mas-
ter—H. B. Evans. Bath, bookseller—R. Swan, Gainsborough,
merchant—D. Davis, New Bond Street. jeweller—T. Pinkerton,
Nuneaton, merchant—J. Hatton, Warrington, butcher.

FOREIGN lATELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.
TRIAL (W GENERAL SARRAZIN.

Oa the 231 instant, a great crowd of persn.w attendtd at
them Court of A 4iZef, in Paris, for the vurpute of beating the
Ilia! of Gearrai Sarrazin, for bigamy. . .

The ace used, nitwit vi nerabre f. rwores were shadowed by
a quantity of bushy grey hair, mind etiormete: whiskers of
the same Collllll, Mille the itiii:Orm of Grllrfill ()dicer, /411(1
Lad under his am a Imge portfolio. The President having
demanded his name, his surname, &C. be answered—

• sly name IS Jra' n Sarraz a, .itgc.l.l9, formerly a Profes-
sor in the Military School of Sum reze. I was a General °f-
acer for 25 years. The Duke of Feltre foor years hack
deprived use of that post. Though, accni ding to the Caar.
ter, I retain my ratik,o»d the Cross of the Legion of Hanna, ;
the 001111 perceives that, through et sptct for his dlaj.vty, I
wear Ileitill I' epaulettes nu, det us atiun. I was born and re-
sided i i St. Sylvestre."
Mis 4 Citawfiisna Hutchinson, the General's second wife,
whose appearance was quite unexpected by many present,
sat awing several. other ladies, holding no her knee a tine
girl, shout wren years old, the fruit of her ituion with the
Genet al.

The Regiske of the Coast baring Mated the charge, the
eserirral rose with cnu►iderahle horry,mnd read a Laity de-
fence, in a liras tone of voice. Has denied the validity of
his In:image with bliss. Hutchinson, and contienrind, thet tire
Com l hail nn jurisdiction in the present case, as the alleged
crime of bigamy was. committed in a fist-kip couctry.
The Advocate-Hearth' Miring refuted these arguments,
the accused then replied, and nirlti)ged himself in various
attacks upon the character of Miss Hutchinson.
The President requested tint he would ahstain Rom per_
sminlities, which were at the muse that installing unit super-
gni in, _

" I have," said the accused, it been ten months in eon-
fiiverueut. My pretended wife has just published a Memoir,
to winch she brads me with the must atrocious charges. I
may, therefore, he permitted to express myself rather
warmly. t ask pardon, howevt r, and it shall not occur
tooin.4—Tbe General Own contended, that at the time of
ltia marriage with Mina Hutchinson he was a Suede, not a
Frenchman; that Mist Ilutchiason could not therefore have
heroin,. a Frenchwoman in consequence of the marriace,
at.id, of course, could obtain nu redress in a French Court of
Jou ice.

•1•hi• argument, after '2O ininates Szliberation, W 43 rejected
by the Court.
The objection haying failed, the acciw^,l next argued, that
he was 'sever married to 'Mademoiselle Schwartz. He
merely promised to marry her under a foefeit of 60,000 f.
.1 be marriage never NIA place. and lie paid the ha frit. tie
contended, that the contract of marriage with Miss- Hut-
chinson, in which he settles ICOI. on hoe, was mforf,ery, for
which be intended to prosecute her as an accomplice.
M. Cufd•nrres latrine, consulted the various arguments of-
fered in favour of the accused, the Court asked the Ceveral
whetbir he meant to hilay In a postponement of the Ilia!,
and he ansaered in the negative The Court then ordered
the business to proceed.
M. Chid:lli tic, not a y, produced a minute uf tke General's
marriage with Modriciti•elle Schwartz.
General 4Jrrazin—" I In out rrc..gnize this document. I
never touched a sow of the 2,+,r0,11C0 francs mentioned in it,
and said to have been given n.e as a fortune."
Q. Yon iced a chi db) klapleowiselle Schwart2.l
—'that child was born while I was at Brest, and after an
absence of eigkteen numtlis.

was read, edit( n in 1817, by the accused to
the Clutecellur of France, in which he sidled that he mar.
rued Mademoiselle Srlsearti,and Alias Hutt:1111130u met tly
acrording to the tort of trot.
Gen. Sarrasitr„—l was in an encir)*B country, and when
I wrote that letter, In 11.17,1 was ignorant of the laws. I
studied them Deily suns my inintisuinstetii, for I do noi
like lawanitr,

Q. After yone desertion from the Punch warty, yon
*cut to England. Nut being well 11.4 et% I(I by the Eng-
lis!i, yon fought Amite Gleans of Istspiting m with cur&
dunce, and for that purpose monied Aliss Hutchisison,
and solemnly shjiteeil the Ronan Catholic reNgiou. Its Iv
is il,e certificate given by' the Protestant Miut4o•rs.—
!Miss Mitchinson says that 1, at the period nitotirmed, set
tzy fuot %titbits a Protestant Church. I deny it. As to my
.losertion and abjuration. they base re connection %oh
the eborge of bigamy. soil I request. M. Po emlatit, I kat
s %ill not mention them.
Is it not title that yon monied Miss Hutchinson
'ng oho Hoot 4:IN troop...rade, to deceive the public.
With regaid to Mits Mitchinson, she had conducted lit r
telt its an infamous 'tonight r. I paid 30d hones for lic-
debts. I decked her out in tied clothes ; and one thy
ain took the opportunity of robbing me of all toy wore:.
, even to my skirts and itandkurt.iefs. 11. st Fitt has
Lest me 40100 francs, *hid' is lbaylog clear *Dough for a