The National Register.
London, England, 1820-03-19 00:00:00

FRO3t LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

BANKRUPTCIES ENLARGED.
T. Gregson, Ormskirk, Lancashire, vintner, from March 2.5
to April 12.
S. Dye, Norwich. grocer. from March 21 to April 3.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
J. Cheatham,. Stockport, Cheshire, cotton spinner.
BANKItUI'TS.
A. Pollard, Poole, Dorset, *grocer. Sols. Mean. Alexinder
' and Holme, New Inn.
T. Griffin, jun. Trentham, Stafford, dealer. Sol. Mr. Barbor,
Fetter Lane.
W. Birmingham, Manchester, manufacturer. Sols. Messrs.
Hurd and Johnson, Temple.
J. Makeen, Liverpool, livery stable keeper. Sol. Mr. Chester.
Staple Inn.
W. Peters, Brecknock, vintner. Sols. Messrs. Clarke, Ri-
chards, am! Nictlealf. Chancery Lane.
G. G. Percival, Walsot, Somerset, common brewer. SoL Mr.
Potts. Serjeants' Inn.
J. Birch, Nlanchester, cotton spinner. Sol. Mr. Kaye, Man-
chester.
A. Parkinson, 4. Duckett, and S. Alsop, Manchester, calico
printers. Sol. MT. Ellis, Chancery Lane.
E. Blyth, Dyer's Buildings, Holborn, dealer. Sols. Messrs.
Clarke, Richards, and Medcalf. Chancery La.te.
Dickens,4lacciesBeld, Gheshire, victualler. Soja. Messrs.
Hurl and Johnseill; Temple.
E. Foulkes and J. Damson, Manchester; upholsterers. Sol.
Mr. Ellis, Chancery Lane.
J. T. Clark, Totnill Street, Westminster, victualler. Sol. Mr.
Williams, Blackman Street, Borough.
W. Edwards, Dartford, Kent, grocer. Sols. Messrs. Richard-
son, Walbrook.
W. Roantree. Princes Street, Westminster, coach builder,.
Sol. Mr. Doughty, Tetople.
D. T. Clarke, Gerrard Street, Soho, laceman. Bois, Messrs.
Pownall and Fairthome, Old Jewry.
S. flould, Lav :onstone, Essex. butcher. Sols. Mesas. Powell
N' Lane,

and Partridge. Nicholas Lane.
S. Cleave, Warrington, Lancashire, shopkeeper. Sols. Messrs.
Mason and Housman, New Bridge Street.
A. H. Mathewson, Gateshead, Durham, grocer. Sol. Mr.
Hartly. New Bridge Street.
J. Holliday, Stockport. Cheshire, victualler. Sol. Mr. Wilson,.
Greville Street, Hatton Garden.
J. Tebbits, Birmingham, victualler. Sols. Messrs. Hicks and
Braikenridge. Bartlett's Buildings.
M. Atkinson. Newcastle upon Tyne, broker. Sols. Messrs.
Willis, Clarke, and Watsoo. Warnford Cou.t.
DIVIDENDS..
April 15. J. Cornet, and J Wood. Paddingtoth coach makers
a—IL J. Amos, and C. Sutherland, St. Helen's Place, merchants
IL Bound. Supley, Southampton. miller—a. J. sandsac4
Woolwich, currier-15. S. Stocks.AldeNg ite Street. salesman-
-15, B. Gibson, Cheltenham. wine nierchant—t t, J. Kirkman
Gower Street, Bedford Square, builder-15. It.. C. Searle, Salto;
Waldron. Essex, upholsterer-15, J. Hawkins, Penny Fields,
and T. Morris, and W. Constable, Regent Street, Blackwall,
builders-8, W. Maclean, Upper Mary-le-bone. cabinet maker—
n, It. Fincl., Cooper's Row, Crotched Friars, wine merchant—
s. It. E. Hoolboom, Chum Court, Broad Street, merchant-
8, R. Wilcox, Strand, woollen diaptr-8. W. Coombe, Scots
Yard, Cannon Street, merchant-8, I). Jackson. Castle Court,
Birchin Lane, merchant-15, G. Oakley and J. Evans, Old
Bond St; ect. tipholsterers—s, F. Fertiars, Bell Court, Walbrook,
merchant-B,J. Dunsioure and 1. Gardner, Broad Street, mer.
chants-25, M. F. and J. Court, and J. L. niggles, Savage
Garden, merchants.

Vricv

I; tul Stock
3 pe-r Cent. Ile(i. 691
i per t.ent.
ij per Colt. 771
4 per Cent. :tti
5 per Cent. N..% y 104
Lour Ants.

Omniniu 4.
Imp..; per Cctit.
India Ifttuds 143. dis.
' 'mita Stuck
l'Acitettitter Bills 26. dis.
Cons. tut' At. GSt
Lottery Tte..ets £23 2s.

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Lonoon,
SUNDAY, MARCH

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The City of London los disgraced itself by reject•
ing two honest representatives, who bad, during the
last Parliament, voted in every instance as English-
men ought/ to.vwand as their constituents wished
they would vote ; and in lieu of these honest men,
whom has the City eleeted?. IVhy—Sir William
Curtis and the Lord Mayor!!! Of the latter we
can only say, that be has yet to emerge from politi-
' cal nonentity ;—he is entirely unknown, and has
not even di clarcd 1% hat his principles •ire. Of
the forme:, in justice we are bound to declare,
that every vote he has given, to our knowledge,
during a long series of years, has Len such as t(:
form a bar in the estimation of every politically
honest man to his entrance in the l louse of Com-
m( ns, and so it would if that flouse were really,
and to the full extent, what it professes to be, "the
Branch of Parliament which &fouls the right, and

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privr.ges of the people, and echoes their wishes."
If re
• itt speak truly, howeVer, Sir William, or his
partner,. will pay dearly for this disgrace of the
Livery. U. '.q not allude to any allowance the
House may ma for post privilege, nor to the
money that has een expended in keeping open
Committees in Li •rpool, and other very distant
towns, for the purps c of sending up out-voters.
These are expenses they but we
allude to the situation of their " DrscouNt
LEDGER," which, it is reported,, has been open to
almost any thing, provided the party requesting the
negociation were on the right side, and we really
fear that the generality of those who may figure
away in the Gazette for some time to come, will
have the honour of numbering their banker among
their creditors. In Sir William Curtis there is only
one thing we admire, and that is, his consistency;
he is consistent—he totally avows his determination
to support every administration, and
'Tis fit
" Wbo :rust in CURTIS should be so re 4 aftithl."

Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Hobhouse are yet
far before Mr. Lamb on the poll for Westminster,
yet so confident of his return arc the friends of
the latter gentleman, that bets of two to one have
been freely offered that the two late members are
returned in the present election. Sir Francis
Burdett will come in without doubt, and our reli-
ance on Mr. Lamb's ret-..ra is strengthened by the
knowledge that the Chairman, of his Committee,
Mr. Macdonald, after carrying his own election for
Caine, has returned to town, and is now strenuously
at his post ; a more acivc or more able promoter of
an electian,,by every means that a Gentleman ought
to use we .are confident does pot exist.

• The light of Liberty inlSpain increases its bril-
liancy every day. What we at first only hoped
Haight alleviate the sufferings of an •oppressed and
priest-ridden people, promises to end in their com-
plete emancipation, and if this can be effected I
without shedding royal blood, Ferdinand VII. may
demand from the fathers of the Spanish Church (as
a boon of gratitude), the appointment to the sitna- I
tion, if he be competent to it, of foreman of the
mticoat Manufitctury to the Virgin Mary. We
have received letters from Corunna dated the 26th,
containing some details of the revolution there, which
deserve to be recorded, were it only as a specimen
of the caution, calmness, and determination, with
which the Constitutionalists proceed, even if the
event itself did not possess so powerful an interest.
Vanegas, the commander of the troops at Corunna,
by whom he was greatly beloved, after an absence of
a few days, returned to tho town on the evening
of the 20th. He was visited on the following
morning by the whole of the officers composing his
Staff, professedly on a visit of ceremony to congra-
tulate him on resisting his cominanti. After the
usual compliments had been interchanged, they
entered on their real object, which was to inform
him of their determination to follow the example of
their brethren in the South in establishing a Consti-
tutional Government. Out of respect to their
Commander they submitt,xl Otis resolution to bim in
the first instance, and requested to know Wile had
any advice to offer, or any observation to make on
the subject. Vanegas then asked, what would be
-the consequence of his refusal to sanction a pro•
ceeoing of that nature; and was answered, that
they should in that case be under the necessity of
placing his Excellency under arrest. Vanegss re-
plied, that the step was wholly incompatible with
his allegiance to the King, and his duty as an officer,
and was immediately, without the least personal
injury or insult, committed to sate custody. The
officers immediately repaired into the strivts of
Corunna, and proclaimed the constitution. Another
remarkable fimture of the revolution at Coranna is,
. that it affords the first distinct evidence of a decided
part being taken by the people at large against the
. existing government. la other parts of Spain the

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whole change, beheld by the people with supineness '
or indifference, has been effected by the military,
The new junta, or patriotic government, formed at
Corunna, is of itself a specimen of the general par-
ticipation of the community ; its members being
taken from the upper class of the inhabitants, and
comprising the civil as well as the military profes-
sions, merchants, and even nobility.
The lower classes have participated in the same
feeling as appears from the fact,that nearly 2,000 of
t 1 inhabitants of,Corunna have formed themselves
into a &kr, called the National Grenadiers, and
perform military duty alternately with the regular
troops. The iitternal security and confitlerxe pro-
duced by this arrangement had enabled Acevedo to
detach a battalion of light infantry, with seine pieces
of flying artillery, from Corunns towards the front
tiers of Castile. The purpose of this movement is
not, however, distinctly ascertained. Such is the
rapidity with which the example of Corunna has
been followed in the neighbouring districts, that
along the whole coast from St. Antler, in Asturias,
to Vigo, on the confines of Portugal, there is scarcely
a town of any consequence that has net proclaimed
the canstitution ; and it' the accounts from Biscay
of the prevalence of a similar spirit are to be credited,
the line of coast will be completed tiil it touches
the Pyrenees. The proceedings of General Espos y
Mina in Navarre are not known, but letters have
been received from hitrotolf direct, stating that affairs
were going on as favourably as he could have wished.
The state of Arragon, Valentia, and Catalonia,
touching actual operations, is still less known ;
but the tone of the letters front Barcelona, the ca-
pital of the latter province, indicates an approaching
change. The cause of the Constitutionalists was
hourly gaining proselytes, and the fermentation
spreading. Amidst all the doubts, however expres-
sed, -concerning the wants of the morrow, no appre-
hension was entertained of an interruption to the
general tranquillity. As we pass into the interior
of Spain—where, from the presence of the royal
troops, the cause of Ferdinand appears to find the
best support—we are far from finding it triumphant
Two of his best regiments, those of Navarre and of
Valencia, have, it:is said, joined the Patriots. The
letters from Malaga, which failed during the occu-
pation of that city by Riego, new arrive regularly.
They distinctly state, that this chief received no
material injury on his march from the troops of
O'Donnell, that he was wrll received by the inha-
bitants, and that no disorder was committed by his
detachment whilst it remained at Malaga. They
left the city cn the 22d, announcing that another
detachment from the Isle de Lem, might he expected
or..the 25th, to garrison it ; but this had net arrived
An express has Leen received atMadrid of the defeat
of Riego„ in an ate:npt to enter !'IC town of Bootle.
This occurred on the 20th, and the troops opposed
to hi:rt a,. c those under the command of Brigadier
(.general [lore. Piego left behind him 31 wounded,
and retired to a place wiled Grazaliema, at a short
distance front Ronda, where he established his head-
quarters, ;,nd collected all his troops together. The
letters fiLtn Cadis are truly melancholy. About
the 20th alt., by order of the Governor, several of
the prinei,•.l merchants were arrested at the same
tine, and were immediately placed on board a ship
of war in the harbour, which sailed, as was supposed,
for Cueta ; but the weather proving tempestuous,
the ship put back into port, in which interval the
Governor appears to have: reflected on the boldness
of the step he had taken, considering the rank of
the parties, and to have retracted it, in some degree,
as he ordered the prisoners to be brought on shore
and placed in confinement within the city.

We have received Paris Papers of Thursday last.
TLc 13111 for suspending; the laws for the pro-
tection of public liberty in France, ha► given rise to
much &bate in the Chamber of Deputies. The
Minister of the Interior, in a speech of considers-