The National Register.
London, England, 1819-11-07 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

lie direct to those who assert that the feelings of the
[louse of Commons are at variance with those of
the nation at large.
For ourselves we shall unreservedly subscribe to
this position, if the Hcuse of Commons do not im-
peach all the parties that may appear to be impli-
cated on the investigation, which Ministers cannot
prevent by the closest union of the most infamous
and contemptible means.

Acceunte have been received of the fugitive chief
Magregor, who had reached Jamaica, and was en-
deavouring to raise supplies fur a new expedition :
for this purpose, he had published proposals for open-
ing a communication with the Pacific at the isthmus
of 'Darien : the subscribers to this plan ware to
possess the exclurive privilege to the navigation for
20. years. The proceedings concerning the new re-
public said to be forming in Texas, are involved in
much confusion and it is even insinuated its some of
the Journals of the United Stilt,* that trte whole is
nothing better than a scheme to allure adventurers,
and to delude them into parting with their looney
for the purchase of lands, of which they can never
receive possession. From Norfolk (Virginia) the
Constellation frigate WAS about to sail on a secret
expedition. it ship of war for some time building
at the port, is nearly completud. Captain Bass, of
the armed schooner Constantin, which has been
Cruising under the flag of Artigas, has been appre-
hended at Ne* York, and a true bill of indictment
fur piracy has been famd•ugaiust him by the Grand
Jury. lis trial will take place in April next..

The Paris Papers of Saturday last contain% •no
domestic intelligence of any interest. The accounts
from Spain arc more distressing than any previously
received, for they clearly sliew that the yellow fever
rages with increasing violence in Cadiz, and the
other places afflicted by this dreadful malady., The
appose!' of the cold weather is looked to by the peo-
ple with .great anxiety, as from it alone d©. they
expect any relief from their present sufferings.
Advises from Spain received in town yesterday
state, that the Spanish Governmeot, observing
there was little pr..s,ect of an abatement of the ma-
lady had removed the restriatictqa on trade prevent-
ing vessels from entering anti departing • from the
port of Cadiz, as. this regulation had produced con-
siderable distrees. They farther add*. that two
British vessels, with Spanish•ficences had arrived at
Cadiz, and several Spanish vessels had taken their
departure f'or South America, but without convoy.
so that it is apprehended that some of them will fall
into the hands of Patriot privateers. This intel-
ligence is not mentioned in the Paris papers.
• The French Five per Cents. are 70C 95c,—Bank
Actions, 1,490 f.

An article in the German mail, dated Hanover,
23d ult., states, that the Prince regent has, 14 in
conseci.leace of the resolutions passed by the German
diet on the 20th of September," issued an ordinance,
enforcing an old edict. of Geo. I , which was after-
wards renewed by Geo. 11., stadecting every publi-
cation throughout the thiminion•of Hanover, anti if
the publisher be an Hanoverian subject, every work
m be published beyond those dominiens; to a preli-
minary censorship. These are further restraints
imposed on republications of works printed in other
parts of Germany, and on.newspapersend periodical
journals.. Thus the years 1703 and 1731 arc
searched for as precedents, applicable to the state of
letters and of liberty in the present age.—Some per-
sons deride the idea of eur having a Constitution in
Englaudi if we had not, what would prevent similar
proclamations here at this moment.
The conferences at Vienna,. says a Frankfort
paragraph, will commence on the 20th instant, and
are likely to end in-such modifLations of the tribu-
nal about to be established at Nlsmts, at, may render
it less offensive to public opinion, and to the spirit of
representative Governments. According to the
6,;zeztc of Mu:ticA, the King of Bavaria hag, by an

ordinance, enjoinntl his subjects so to act towards
the commission at Mentz, as not to lose sight of the
sovereignty which belongs to his Majesty: the plain
meaning of which appears to be, that the Bavarian
people are not to take notice of, or obey in any
nstance, the authority of the said tribunal.
A letter from Cadiz mentions the following cir-
cumstance :—" The dead-cart, which every evening
conveys to the graves the victims of the malady, met
in its way a porter, stretched at length, and seem-
ingly dead, at the extremity of a street. :Jo dna ht
wiet entertained that this was a vomit° negro, and he
was thrown into the eartamong the dead bodies. In
the mean time the fellow was only drunk, and the
motion of the cart restoring his senses at the very
moment when it arrived as its destitiatitm, terr;rp..l
at the horrible company in which he found hi,u,c!t;,
he threw himself out of the cart, and ran away with
the utmost speed. several days have since elapsed,
anti no change has taken place in the porter's health.
It is therefore concluded, that srong liquors arc a
preventive against the yellow fever. A physi iat
proposes to publish a dissertation on this esil4eet,
which will shortly appear."
Among the new measures called for by the pre-
sent crisis on the-meeting of Parliament, we under-
stand Ministers mean to kmpose a stamp duty upon
the cheap minor publications.. • They have long
complained of them as the advocates of infidelity,
treason, and sedition, the• public may therefore
ask, why their circulation has been so long encou-
raged by a dispensation in their avonr from the tar
imposed upon the higher orders of Ole public press?