The National Register.
London, England, 1819-03-21 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

the Deputies, and assert that Ministers have now
a majority in the Chamber of Peers. It is the in-
tion.. it is said, of his Majesty to create thirty addi-
tional new Peers, to secure France against a Coun-
ter Revolution, which would inevitably have taken
place, had not the Ultra-Riyalists failed in their
late attempt. Ministers now consider themselves
PO secure, that there is not any intention to dissolve
the Chambers. The Law of Elections vests the
choke of the Deputies in the Majority of the Nation,
where it ought to remain. The object of the Ultras
was to transfer the cliciee to a plurality of suffrages
in the Electoral Colleges, that is, to a Minority
which is anxious to annihilate the Rights emanating
from the Revolution. Had they succeeded, what
dreadful scenes must have ensued ; and yet the King
of France and his Ministers are censured in the Mi-
nisterial Journals in this country for having had re-
course to a prompt and bold measure, that has pre-
vented, in our opinion, France from being again
deluged with human blood. The intrigues which
occasioned the extraordinary opposition in the House
of Peers, it is said, are developing themselves daily
in Paris. Prince Talleyrand was not, it is affirmed,
an idle spectator of the passing events. It is more
than probable he held the master-key of the whole
machinery, and directed the movements of his pup-
pets in both the Chambers. They have, however,
tiii:ed in overthrowing the Ministry, and M. de
Tall.yrand has obtained leave to return to his
country estate. General Grouchy, it is said, has
obtained leave to return to France. The Queen of
Sweden, who has been for a considerable time re-
siding in. the French Capital, is preparing to take
her departure for Stockholm.

The Paris Papers to Wednesday reacted town on
Friday. The Chamber of Deputies on Monday
formed itself into a Secret Committee, and received
u Message from the Peers, relative to the Law of
Elections, which was read by the President. The
printing, distribution, and reference of the Message
to the Committees, were declared conformably to
the regulations of the Chambers. The proposition
to modify the Law of Elections has produced con-
siderable agitation at Nismes, On Sunday, the
7th inst. a crowd of persons assembled in front of
the Theatre, where menacing language was used,
and the disposition to riot was such, that the effirts
of the authorities to disperse the populace were in-
effectual. The putroles sent to restore order were
insulted and assail.:d with showers of stones, and it
was not until Lieutenant• General thiche, arrived,
with five hundred of the military, that tramluil-
lity was re-established. The Journal des Drbals is
not sufficiently explicit on the subject. It merely
states the bare fact without comment, lca-..ieg its
readers to conjecture, with respect to the party with
whom the disturbances originated. The produce of
the Customs of France, estimated fur last year at
eighty millions of francs, appears, by a return of
the Minister of Finance, to have exe.:eded ninety
mibioes. The King of Naples has conferred on
Prince Metternich the title of Duke. of Poste
The pl:igue has not re-appeared in Constantinople I
but many fires have broken out in the suburbs of
t'era, and the house of an Armenian banker has
been burnt down. There has been a disturbance
among some convalescent Russian soldiers and the
inhub tests of %Veissensee. The quarrel originated
by the Russian surgeon striking the Magistrate in
whose house he was quartered, because he would not
submit to his extravagant demands. The Russians

Were put to flight, and seven!' were wounded on
both biles.—Fre,A five per eenis.—Shut price,
631. 20c.—Monday cx. div. 6fif. 40e. •

- The clurse of Exchange with the Continent eon-
:u iznprove, and it is believed will shortly

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'reach par, a circurastame that cannot Ctil to brim,
back the precious metalr again into
On the Royal Exchange on Ihursday, there were a
great many drawers of Bills on Paris, ituuburgh,
&c. but very few takers.

Our letter from Dover, dated March 15, savs,
" His Excellency Marquis D'Osinonl, with the
Marchioness and suite. embarked this morning, it,.
La Desiree French packet, for Calais."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Mirami.
chi to hits friend in Dumfries, dated Nov. 10,1818 :
" In Nova Scotia, both religion and literature are io
a very flourishing condition. Our friends in Pietrei
have had a grammar-school fur some time, and this:
year they obtained a college. Three new minister.
have some to them this season. We have been dis-
appointed of one for this province : but I have sent
home for one, and it ought to be generally known,
Captain Duncannon, of the brig Prince George of
Allea, has generously offered a free passage to a Mis-
sionary Presbyterian• Minister, going out to the pro-
vioce of New Brunswick. It is hoped that the tinic
is now come, when the ship of Tarshish and tl.c
Isles shall vie with nee another in carrying th,
Ambassadors of the Prince of Peace to distant re-
gions of the globe."
Dumfries, March 9.—During the last six or seven
days the weather bus been uncommonly fine, and els
though the air is still a little chill, every other ap-
pearance of the earth and sky seems to indicate the
connnenecnsent of spring. Field 'about of every de-
scription has ~eldom been farther advaoccd at the
same season of' the year, and in a few days we hope
to see the husbandman committing the seed to the
grateful earth, under circumstances that will go far
to ensure an early and abundant harvest. The pro-
gress of vegetation, which in many instances was
scarcely ever checked, can already be traced in nu-
merous buds and blossoms, and although the earth
is still bare, the wood-lark, the blackbird, and the
thrush, not to mention a crowd of inferior songtiten,
are every where heard in full chorus.
Mr. Cameron'• balloon ascended on Thursday
se'nnight, in grand style, at two o'cioek, from Mr.
IVPAuslin's Liquor %Vorks, west end of Tradcston ;
but: the short previous notice given, and the great
disappointment felt last week, rendered the sight
less interesting. She alighted at Burnbroom, on
the estate of Mount Vernon, six miles east of Glas-
gow. When she fill, a crowd of colliers tore her
to pieces, every one eager to have a small part of her. •
the remnant the prop.ietor has brought to town...:
Glasgom Chronicle.
The friends of Mr. Hobhouse dined on Tuesday,
to the number of 400, at the Crown amt Anchor
tavern, to celebrate their exertions at the late elec.
lion. Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Holdouts°
wore present, and Mr. Thomas Clark took the chair.
All three gentlemen made somewhat long speeches,
but the only remarkable incidents of the evening
were, first, that the chairman strongly deprecated
that unqualified abuse of the Whigs which his party
have lately indulged in; and, secondly, that Mr.
Ritcher declared: that n petition was in preparation
against Mr. Lumbg. which would be forthwith pre.
tented to the House of Commons.

Some of the Electors in the parish of St. James's,
in the interest of Sir Francis Burdett, had a meeting
last week, when it was agreed to open a subscription
in the City of Westminster, to purchase a piece of
plate, fan the- purpose of being presented to the
worthy Baronet..
The Chimney Sweepers' Bill was thrown out in
the•Llowse of Peers on Monday night by a majority
of 7: The Lad of Lauderdale spoke against the
Bill, and mentioned a circumstance which we neecr
beil,re heard,. that chinuties in Ireland are swept by
means of a goose being let down the aperture, with
a string tied- round its, neck. The
,joke created a
laugh, but the wonder was, where the poor people
could get the gene, to perform the operation.
The r.ew Game Bill makes wild auks, woodcock,-,
and snipes game !"This is sontrary to BlackAom
What right ran a landholder in this country assume,
in point at property, in birds of pas age ? It would
be just as consistent OP if turbots caught on the
Dutch were denominated I.:Ai:lid: game.

The issues of silver from the Bank of Enttland to
the London battLer-., re-enturneoeid on Wc:!nesday.
Each house, we arc inkrowl, may now rec,ive
a liberal supply, ptinally beneficial to their own
concerns, and essential to the general accommoda-
tion of the public. It is probable, too, that the
i'.aws of gold may also, in a short time, be increased
with safety, as sovcreigos, which lately bore a pre-
mium thr exportation of 10d. each, will now produce.
only sd. above the ntitninr.l value.

By the private letters from Holland, we learn
that commerce, which has so long languished, begins
to discover signs of improvement. The Dutch mer-
chants, g.merally speaking, have suffered less than
In any other part of the continent. A system pre-
vails among them of giving little or no credit, to
which they in great measure, have owed their se-
curity.
A steam boat has been built at Trinidad to ply
between Port s;pain and San Fernando, touching at
Point a Pierre ; she has three cabins, for the white,
coloured, and slave pessengurs, and was to have
commenced her trip on the 2lst of December.
His Majesty's ship Spy arrived at Malagt on the
20th of February from Algiers and Mahon, with an
Algerine Envoy on board, having presents fur hi.
Royal Highness the Prince Regent.
A Domestic Scene.—Extract from the report of
the trial of the Trimlestown cause, lately decided in
Dublin in favour of Lord Triinlestown Mr.
Dillon's depositions were then proved and *read,' as
well as those of the Abbe O'Dsvire; they mentioned
a particular circumstance that occurred at tho late
Lord Tritide-town's house, one eveniag when Mr.
Dillon was there. Amongst the company present
was a handsome young nobleman; Lord Herbert
Stewart, who was engaged in a political argument
with Lord Trimlestown, which became so warm,
that Lord Herbert !stewort stood up in a violent pas-
sion, and swore he would instantly quit the house,
and never enter it again ; but Lady Trimh•stown
went before him, and with bended knee supplicated
hint to go : on seeing this, Mr. Dillon could not
refrain from telling Lord Triinlestolvn, that he-
ought to be master in his own house ; upon which
the storm of Lady Trimlestown's rage immediately
fell upon Mr. Di lon, whom she loaded with abuse.,
until .by the happy intervention of the venerable
&duel of Rhodes, then Chaplain to Lord Trimles-
town, harmony was restored. Lord Trinilestown
sat down to a card table ; Lady Trimlestuwn awl
Lord Herbert Stewart went over and seated them-
selves on a sofa, .where they-kept up a whispering
conversation for the run of this evening.
In the course of the Trimkatown cause, just fin-
ished in Dublin; one of the Counsel asked a very.
respectable witness, whether he had ever been a
Catholic priest, apparently.for the purpose of Thtow-
ing discredit. on his testimony. Lord Norburv, in
his char.,e to the jdry, observed upon it: He could
not avoid expressing his disgust at Counsel's asking
such a question; he was astonished beyond measure
that any advocate in the world should suppose it pas
sible that inch a jury could be influenced by such a
motive. " If," added the noble and learned judge,
" this country did. become so intolerant, I would
become an emigrant myself: nay ! I did not care
fitly head were struck of!.''
The Asia, from Havre to New Orleans, was at
Bona-Vista on 3il December, having been plundered,
and the passengers tabbed of their clothes, &c. by au
Insurgeitt privateer.
Parreamests.—Dr. March is to be translated
from the See of Llandaff to that of Peterborough ;
and is to be succeeded at Llandatt by De.Vandilmert,
the Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford, and
Preacher at Lincoln's Inn.

The I-fon. and light Rev. the Bishop of Durham
has entered cn the 50th yeas of his Episcopate; on
which occasion a congratulatory address has been
presented to his Lordship by the Clergy of the
Diocese
Letters have been'reeeived to the 23d ult. from •
Gibraluirrby which it appears that the plagtte on
the coast of Africa,. instead of diminishieg with the
cold weather, was increasing to-an alarming extent.
The only inthrtteition with regard to- the -ravages
committed by it, eta.; brought to the British fortress
by the vessel appointed by the Governor to sail at
stated periods, ns no private trading ships were
allowed to have any communication with the Bar-
bary coast According .to t':e latest advises, one or
two hundred persons diet' daily of- the disease.
The Secretary of the Admiralty, ttr. Crokcr,
has been returned to serve in Parliament for the
Borough of Newpirt, in the Isle of Wight:
On Thursday the Prime Regent lieM a Levee at
Carlton house, which was numerously attended.
'The usual arrangements were Maid to preserve
order, and the I,vouruble weather induced numbers
of persons to assenele in Pull Mall and Waterloo-
place, to see the company enter Carlton House.
Aniong those who attended the Levee• were the
Duke of York, his Majesty's 111inisters, several
Dignitaries of the Church, a great number of the
Nobi ity, the Speaker of the Ilotise of Commons.
several Members of Parliament, the 1)uleof Wel-
lington, and a numerous train of Wintry and Naval
Officers. There were a great number of Proenta.
-lions, and all the Foreign Ambamidors in Town
were at the Levee. After it broLc up the Prince

Regent held a Council, and in the evening his Royal
Highness had a select party to dinner.
The celebrated Madame de Staci conversing in
English one day, said the greatest difficulty she
fouud in the language, was in those words which
were pronounced from " the sky (roof) -if the
mouth."

GREAT PIDESTILIAN PERIPORMANSR.—A nthonv
Fearon, the Hampshire Postman, who was backed,
after the sport at Molesey- Hurst on Tuesday, to
perform 15 miles in an hoer and thirty live minutes,
started on Thursday morning 041 a piece of turf
on the Forest, six miles from Bag-shot, to do the
u:atch for 1:;0 guineas. Betting was 6to 4 against
him, and the ground over which he ran was one
mile, tr;reeable to articles. He did the miles as
follow :
Mlles. Min. Seam&

1 ...... 5
?
3
4
5
6
7
8 - 6

Mike. Miler Seconds.
9
In
11
12
13
14
15

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Th. match was won by seventeen seconds.
Mails have been received front Holland and Ham-
burgh.• It is mentioned in a letter from Vienna,
that the Archduke Charleshas completed his• Ella.
tory of. the celebrated Campaign of 1798, in the
writing of'which his Imperial Highness was engago
ed far many years.
Extract of a letter from St. Petersburgh, dated
February 16 :—" The new regulations for the pay-
ment of the duties of Custom,. value the silver rouble
at 360 copecks fur this year, which is a redaction on
the duties of import of 10 per cent. Rum is admit-
ted. Four frontier ctr:tora-hones are opened for all
permitted goods, at the duties of e tariff. A new
tariff will certainly be established next year ; and it
is expected the import .duties will be lowered, and
no prohibitions;—a wise m'asure ssrely, when Wt.
tined and carried, into practice, which must prove its
tendencies and b. nefit. Trade is dull this winter.
Exchange still under one shilling."
Extract of a Letter from a pmettaer on board 'he .'lip
Ham!et Cfilltc, to theowners in Glasgow, (lama Lt.
fat LoCh. March 6 :
_ _

"'lt is with pain I haves° isforns you, that voarrshia
Hamlet, Captain Clarkiii.rintek ow a rock called the
Pled ins, otherwise named the Patel-ground yesterdav
morning at half-past roar o'clock, abotd a mile anti a
h sit from the New-light. Shortly after she struck, a
siznal-atio- was fi-erl.as every person on hoard was of
opinesta she would break 'up; or fall off the rock into
sleep water. About six o'clock, shortly stier
appeared, we observed immense multitudes of •laoala
C 1111 l off 14:3-trur assistance ; however, no more were
allowed to come on board than were thought sufficient
to g've the Captain itatbrinstion in regard to the ground,
that es et v exertion migio lie pot in force to drag her on.
IVe Ann; found, that all our force could
off the -hip's deck until we hail recosorse to threats anti
lire-arms ; and they at last bast led out !tom their boat,,
they would see in tile space of two hours what was
a [etas d of the Atop.- From these threats it was conceived
that dory were detentaintsd•or take command ofolve ves-
sel ; 1 therefisrc went on sltore,• the •latstl•- being- theee
miles from the ship, and rode to Purloiner, to consult
.vitts the agent for about the strfeti of the ship.
e. :11111 try,
.if possible to secure a Revenue cruiser lo
keep off the natives. Unt% rny cos ll ill back to the ship
again, 1 furend his tiestrs cruiser Wickham, PC/FS,
had coma to tnealrip`s a-saw:slice. As soon as the Cap-
tain went on board, wish port of Isis crew, he bundled
all the frith:nen int r their boats, and cotnenenced light-
eatio4 the vessel, by starting the water and throwing •
great deal•of ballast over board ; tee same time, loading
the cutters with light goods, toge.her with the twists of
the.cutter Harwick, Captain Mutely, who had likewise
come to our assistance, and by six o'clock at login had
di!.charged shoot 300 packages of dry stools, chiefly
trunks they cuethl trot convey heavy patArg-a irony the
sod; and the cutters could not apprtraeb her from the
reefs , althnergh the ship feed bet n lightened considria.
she northl nor float ; order's were given to work all
night with the shit.'s crew, aid a mate and a initialer of
men liom each•of theintters, by throwing ballast MT/.
seed-by immense Wrote for 24 hours; they-sue-
erected in getting her off at Fitt o.ot)Ck this ITTIOTIIMF.—
The Centaliv of the Wickham orshicd his slip toin•o-
teed to Inch, cutters keeping company in- cast of
any accident, in erossecynt rice of her making water. 11
is tint ascertained wnat damage she ha. antlered in her
boti 1111 l , I think it must her considerable, for the ship
struck bard frequently, and beton. she call proceed, het.
buttons 111110 b. lookantat ; and's"( course before this can
lie effected, tile greatest part if her cargo must come out
bentre she can go up to town for the gravitt.,.-do k.

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Sunday the7M.--1 sin extremely sorry to add, list
Captain Clarke was in a state of derangement ever since
she snip struck, and this mornin,i, aboott three &clock
got tip, went to the medicine chest, and swallowed all
the laudanum Mat a honk contained • the. S!rward (di
served him, and snatched the bottle immediately ; how.
ever, 1 ant I,rilry to say, was rather too Lite, the deed W::11
done. Strong emetics were made tip, Ilut without elf
'Leery exertion was trade to make him fetch, hut ti
proved abortive.—Nine o'clock; p. nt. t!:e Capia.sa is
dead."

Fief 1.11 TUESIMY iG II7"S
BANICAUVTCY SU rERSEDF.D.
J. Gann, Eton, Bucking hamatare, coach maker.
BANKRUPTS.

C. g. Jones, Bedford. bookseller.
H. U. Whitman!), Winr.,•hans. Ktr.r. mobster.
J. F. liortgluon. Fetter Lane. builder.
G. Chaster, Comma] ; J. Chaster, Knottingiey ; and T
Chaster, Dewsbury:Yorksiiire, eon duller...
T. A. Grkscdge, Woolpit, Sunhat.; mcredans.
W. Lea, Birmingham, viettioller.
Ny. Poresionn. Worcester, bop merchant.
e. on. Leigh. Lancer, sire, provision dealer.
‘V. P. Cook. Plymouth, mere ant.
B. Verner, F.,ehurch Street ch.,mbers. flour factor.
H. Newton, Marshal +met, St. Gorge's in the Fields, tailor.
DIVMENGS.
March tn, F. Real and T. Ba'ker, Great Russell Street,
Bloomsbury, linen drapers.-26. T. Mos A. Bath. linen draper-
-, M. Hadinghani. King Street. West hotness
lilliter-April 6, H. Settee, John Street. Holborn. moneyteri-
VelKt—fig J. Wingfield, Long Lege, West Smirii tield, arreNsm.-
6, S. Singer, Ilsgh Street, Ler:sing:on, haber asher-1!. W.
Rigg, Liverpool, merchant-10, Vi".7.kivy. Norwich, gun maker
—t,, J. Mathias and T. Bowen, :Lv.ifcrdwest, hankers—l 4,
T. Walker and H. P. Parr', Bristol, furnishing ironmongers.
CERTIFICATES to be Oantad'April G.
T. i/rirley, &Atari in As' Moors, Lancashire, warehnusemen
—.W. Culbard, St. John Sheet, Welk Smehßeld, brass Kitinthr
—J. Knot*: Birinieghstn% brush taker—C. Perkins, Great
Peter Street, Wesrmineter. victualler—J. Roofed. Harp Lone,
dealer—S. Brocklebank. Liverpool, merchant—N. B. Aubset,
.llarleyford, Kennington, insurance broker—C. Dalgairns, Li-
verpool, merchant-4'. Halstead, Healey Wood, L..ncaslare,
cotton spinner: