The National Register.
London, England, 1820-11-12 00:00:00

Liar OP' PEERS

WHO ♦OTLD NOR AND AGAINST TM: Szcoxn READIN•
OF TILE DEGRADATION AND DIVORCE BILL.

CONTENTS.
Holm—York, Clarence, Beanfort, Newcastle, North
timberland, We!Noon, Athol, and Montrose.
MA 11QU isses.—Conygliam, Aug!erica, Cambdcn, North-
ampton, Exeter, lleadfort, o iriallis, Bucking-
ham, Lothian, Queensberry, and W it,, hewer.
F.encs.—Harcourt, Biooke and Warwick, Portsmouth,
Pomfret, Marel.sfield, A:vleidoril, 'Sidearms, Hume, Co-
ventry, Rockford, Abingdon, Shaftesbury, Cardigan, W
iu-
ehelsea, Stamford, Bridgewater, Huntingdon, IVertmoreland,
lincron by, St. Germaios, Brownlow, Whit% nrth, Verulam,
Cathcart, Alulgrave, Lun.tlale, oinnyt, !Hoovers, Missy,
N el-on, Pon is, Limerick, Donougliniore, Belmore, May
Longford, Mount•Gishel, Kingston, Liverpool, Dighy,
Alount-EdAcombe, A bergavenny, AilsbuQ , Bathurst, and
Chltli•on.

V IRCOU NTlL—Exmouth, Lake, Sidmouth, Melville, Cur-
can, S) dney , F.,ltuouth, and !let-elm d
BAR() NlL—Somers, Rodney, Middleton, Napier, Colville,
Gray, Sultottn, Forbes, Prudhoe, Mari., HMS (or Glasgow)
aleldrum, !fill, Combetmere, I lodetoun, 6.mibter, Manners,
Atlsa, Landerdule,Slieflield, Redesdale, St. Helens, North-
wick, Bolton, Eldon, Ilayning, Carrington, De Dunstanville,
Hoses, Stewart of Garltes, Stewart of Castle Stewart,
Dougl.t. (Morton), Sulfield, Montagu, Garden (Huntley),
Sultersford and
Aucitutstroes.—Canterhury and Tunm.
Iltsoors.—London, St. Asaph, N orcester, St. Th.vid's
Ely, Chester, Petcsborough, Llandur, Cork nod Rome,
and Glocebter.

NON-CONTENTS.
DOK Cs —ClOtebter,Soinerset,Hautitlion, Aron, Leimitcr,
Grafton, Portland, Drvonshirc, Bedford, Richmond, (St.
A absetat from illness.)
Sturird, nod imusdown.
I.tuti s.—Allicinarle, De Lawarr, I Iche4l r, Darlington,
iot-Atitt.ins, Statithope, CON per, Dartmouth, Oxford,
it rrt , Jersey, LAI rmout, Plymouth, Essex, Titiinct,
I:tVo•t;;!., l'eattLroke, Derby, Illettsiticton, Morley,
AlOllO, 11 al en'ollll, (ire), Chaim!, Romney, Keithly'', Cole.
don, Flott-k Wareham, C:111 aek, Carnartoo,
VorteActie, tirtliat our, 111.1shorou.tit ( litrnuts of Du osltit e.)
V tec,tc N Tlirrigtg-
ton. 80l mght
11.titoss.—Ashburton, Rapti, Wnlshighittn, Dynevor,
Foley, I lua Le, Durk, Holland, Grantli tni, ling, Belhaven,
Ch""'" (DarllleY), Say and Sae. Hawn' d or Loilighain, De
1,1 Clinton, I) tere, Andley, De Clilll,rd, Breudul-
bane, Erskine, Arden, Elleuhorough, Alvattley, Loftus (SI,
.1,1)), I'itz,4tbbou,Callhotpe, Duo ivy, Vitt borough, Dm.-
dits, tickets, Mem, tp, Auckland, Gace, Ilvherwick (M.
DoneAoll), Arnhem, heti) to, Sherburor, and Berwick.
Amcmaisuur.—Xtni.

L 01/0011,
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12.

We have received papers from New York to the
14th, and from Boston to the 15th ultimo. The
attention of the community of merchants in the
United States is directed towards the new tariff of
increased duty on the importation of manufactured
articles, which was introduced into the House of
Representatives, and passed in that portion of the
legislature, during tic last Session of Congress. Thi
object of the merchants is to procure the presentation
of petitions to Congress against the revival of the
bill in the session which is about to commence. In
one of the reports of a meeting of merchants, held at
Portsmouth (New Hampshire) on the 11th ultimo,
they declare that they believe the passing of such
an act to be unjust in principle, partial in operation,
and repugnant to the free institutions of the United
States; that its avowed object, that of protection and

encouragement of domestic manufactures, is, in ef-
fect, granting exclusive privileges to one class of the
community at the expense of the others; that it
tends to produce cenfusiun and embarrassment in
other departments of national industry, and to ex-
haust other important sources of national wealth;
that it is uncongenial with the habits, and ruinous
to the interests, of a people who have been taught
to seek their means of subsistence in the pursuits of
sericulture, commerce, and the mechanic arts; and
0
that, finally, among other evil effects of such a mea-
sure, it would occasion frequent violations of law,
inducements to smuggling, disregard of oaths, anil
eventual diminution of the public revenue. The
embarrassments in the finances of the United States
arise, it is said, from the deficiency of the revenue
for the first six months of 1820, compared with the
same period for 1819; so that either a loan, or an
appropriation from the sinking fund, is considered
indispensable. The city of Savannah, in addition to
its sufferings from fever, which still contineed, has
been visited by a dreadful storm, which did immense
damage to the buildings, and wrecked a great num-
ber of vessels in the harbour. The storm is supposed
to have been still more fatal further to the southward.
In a letter from New Orleans it is stated that the
fever raging there has assumed a character as de-
structive as the plague in the Barbary States, and
that not more than one in ten of the new comers,
who bad the temerity to remain during the sickly
season, have escaped. Further details had reached
New York of the destructive fire in Nova S,:otia,
which is stated to have spread its ravages file near
100 miles in extent in the most iCrtile portion oh
the north and western parts, from the neighbourhood
of Yarmouth to the county of Annapolis. The fire
continued burning for three days ; and such was its
intensity, that the very potatoes (s:,ys the New York
paper) were burnt in the earth: houses, barns, fences,
fields of grain, stock of all kinds, whole villages and
settlements, fell a prey to the flames. The project
of the American government, for restoring the ne-
groes to their native country, according to the last
advices received at Washington from the African
coast, was in danger of tiiilure. on account of the
mortality with the climate had caused amain; those
persons appointed to superintend it. The intelli-
gence flout the Seanish Aloha contained in these
papas is not of Etter d;lte Cwi has been received
oirect in this country. It is staged Celt the Spanish
Cortes, who have abandoned the d,:siga of sending
out a forte front Europe for the subjugation of the
colonies, have given instructions to the Governors of
Havanna!' and of Vera Cruz to supply their adhe-
rents in the province of Venezuela with 100,000
dollars per month, to enable them to continue the
contest. This statement, however, does not uppear
to be entitied to credit.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

The Ministerial Papers having industriously cir-
culated malicious reports among the enemies of her
Majesty, with regard to the several denominations of
the officers of the Queen's household, we think it
right to state, fbr the infnmation of those who may
wish to know the truth, that, according to established
usage, no person under the rank of Right Honoura-
ble can enjoy the title of her Majesty's Chamber-
lain. It is in consequence of this that all persons
so employed, below that rank, are styled Vice-Cham-
berlains in this country, though, that title being
unknown on the Continent, it is usual to employ
the word Chamberlain alone.—The customary form
used either for invitations or on business, in her Ma-
jesty's family, has invariably been, either that "Lady
—, the Lady in Waiting," c.r, "—, Vice-Cham-
berlain to the Queen, is commanded to invite," Sc.
&c. &c.; and this has never been &paha from,
unless, as in the case of an advertisement which
appeared a fbw days ago, the Vice-Chamberlains
happened not to have been present in person at the
writing of the paragraph. The same system of
etiquette, without any change, has constantly regu-
hated all such communications from her Majesty, both
since her return to England, and previous to her
departure for the Continent.

The French papers of Monday we have received'
The Electoral Colleges of the fburth series were to
proceed on Monday to vote fi,r the deputies of the
Arrondissement. The Departmental Colleges will
meet on the 13th. Unusual importance is attaclicel
to the forthcoming elections, and much intrigue it
is supposed is used, to ensure a return of the de-
puticN in the ministerial interest. The Duchess of
li;rri laid, with her own hands, the first stone of'
the chapel at I.osny, dedicated to the memory of
her late ;consort, and intended thr the reception of
his heart. Her int:mt, the young Duke of Bor-
deaux, has been vaccinated. , Accounts front Vienna
state, that the contracts for the support of the troops
in Italy have been further suspended till the month
of December. A letter from Bordeaux, dated the
Ist inst. announces the important fact, that Don
Manuel de Banos, attached to the Spanish legation
to the United States, arrived at the Spanish consu-
l:at: on the night of the 30th of October, in quality
of courier extraordinary. He is the bearer of the
decision of the Ciwtcs, which secures to the United
States of North America the important possession
of the Floridas. lie is to embark immediately on
board the Rapid for Philadelphia.
A circumstance has recently eccurred in Paris,
which shows that there are some busy and mis-
chievous spirits at work in that capital. A paper
has recently been published, artfully purporting to
Le under the sanction of the Duke of Orleans, in
which it; is stated that a royal infinit, considered by
the Bourbons the hopes of France, is of doulafhl
birth, and insinuating that it is an imposition on the
French people, e:id that the duchess was not prep.
nant since the death of tile duke. In the first in-
statue tile Duke of Orleans, it is well known, is
neither an ambitious nor meddling character, and
his nanh. is unwarrantably connected with a pub-
lication totally without his knowlego or concurrence.
A copy of this paper has been transmitted to each
of the Foreign Ambassadors at different Foreign
Courts, and appears to have einenated from the
Buonapartists hi Paris, and is time nucleus of some
plot, which is very likely to involve its contrivers in
ruin.

THE PREVNT LORD MAYOR.—This worthy and
constitutional Chief Magistrate learning that the
Horse Guards had been turned loose to scour the
streets, on Friday evening, issued his peremptory
order to prevent their entrance into the City. The
rates at i emple-bar were accordingly shut, and by
this wise interposition of his Lordship the peace of
the City was unbroken, the lives of the Citizens
were nut :•aerifieed.

The pockets of a great number of persons were
picked during tLc progress of the Lord Mayor's
procession, un Thursday, and daring the Lire in
Drury-lane. The gangs of pickpockets are more
numerous than ever was remembered. The• assem-
ble in gangs, consisting generally of throe: and five,
and arc seen at all hours in the principal streets of
London and Westminster, and though known, are
suffered to perambulate the public highway with
impmiity, and to ihrcaten those who ii Lice them in
the most audacious manner imaginable. In the
neighbourhood of Drury-lane there is a gang of
young thieves, consisting of from fifteen to twenty,
who are the dread and annoyance of inhabitants.
Tltcy aro pickpockets iu olio day tiaic, and assist
beasebicaLers at night.