The National Register.
London, England, 1817-03-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL RT,GISTEM

pore: When the letters ernie away, the Viceroy was
inflexible in repelling all :aterconse with the British ;
but at length the General Hewitt was permitted to
laud, on condition of waiting Lord Amherst's return,
and of bringing home the rejected presents. Prier to
the attack on the Alceste by the forts in the Bogue, she
had been fired at by those at Chum Pee, which were
immediately silenced. The action at the Bogue lasted
forty minutes.

By the Foreign Papers arrived this week, it appears
the, French Chamber of Thputics have at •lengiti final-
ly agreed to ths,Biuk,et, by T majority of 47 ; the total
expenditure of that custntry ia fixed at about 45 mil-
lions sterling. The Chambers are expected to close
the Session very slimily, and re-assemble in October
next.—The Duchess of Berri is declared to be in a
state of convaleseenci from the rneasles.—The States
of Wirtemburg were veiled on the 3d inst. at Stitt-
guard by the King inperson, when the project of the
new Constitution was 'Resented to that Body. It con-
sists of 337 Articles/ and his highly favourable to the
liberty of the subject. The son of the Prince of
Orange is to take the title of Duke of Brabant; A
prifited• paper has beet circulated in Belgium, stating,
that Great Britain, it consequence of a Revolution,
had been. laid waste ly fire and sword.; and that tt.e
Duke of Wellington, vith his whole army, was going
to quit France to support the Royal cause. The story
originated at Brussels
Three thousand of the troops expected from France,
are ordered to proceed direct from Calais to Leith, in
Scotland. They are aflerwards to proceed westward, to
the Glagow district. They will be conveyed. to Leith
from Calais m the smacks employed in the trade between
Leith and London.

Within a few weeks large cargoes of corn have ar-
rived in the French' ports, principally from the Baltic,
but a part from North America. This corn is sent partly
to the army of occupation and partly to Piemdy, where
the scarcity is the most severe, but above all to Paris,
where the Government is collecting large quantities.
Recent accounts from Calcutta state, that the season
has been unusually dry, and that the rice lands suffer from
tho want of rain. The produce of the indigo crop was
nat expected to exceed 80,0(X) maunds.
Saturday we received the Paris Ptpers of Wednes-
day : they are barren of itnportant intelligence.
Letters from Tripoli speak of commotions in that. Re-
gency, in which the Day had the headsof five persons
cut off..

Paris papers to Friday were received yesterday. The
following are extracts :
PARIS, MARCH 13.—Letters from Cambray state,
that the Duke of Wellington will continue at Paris
until all the troops, forming the total of the. draught
from the Army of Occupation, have left France. The
journey of Count Woronzow• to Paris seems to have
for its object to make, if possible, arrangements for em-
barking 6,000 Russian troops at. Dunkirk, in.order to
return to their country.
French Funds 60f Isc. ex div.

The Prince Regent and the Queen of England are
godfather and godmother to the young Prince, son of
the Prince of Orange.
Lord Clancarty, English Ambiuksador to the Court of
'Brussels, arrived at Paris on the toth from London.

The illness of MAdame De Stael is not removed, as
was reported. Hor friends do nut yet consider her out of
danger.

m.tlynirr, Ft.a. 27.

(OFFICIAL. ♦RTICLE.) PALACE, FEn. 24.!
The multiplicity of decrees relative to the Spanish
refugees in France, on account of their adherence to the
government of.the iatrudcr, and on different interpre-
tations which•have been given to the said decrees, re•
quired that there should be one clear and positive, by
Which the classification of each of these individuals
• should be positively fixed. 1 have (wawa my Royal
Council to propose what may appear proper to be done
in this respect, in contbrmity with the •Royal resolution
of the 30th of May, 1814, and others of posterior dates.
Me.anv.-kile, my supreme will is, .that until a general
rule be•establishcd, the execution of my cedule of the
28th of June of the last year, issued on the report of.
my Council of Finances, be suspended.
Signed by the King's hand.
To Don Juan Ectevan Lozano de Torres;

The cedule of the 28th of June referred to, audio-
Tires the refuges to appeir before the tribungls, for their
reinstatement in their pilitical rights.
Wo are aLsured that the army is about to undergo
some reduction, :both in infantry and cavalry. It is be-
lieved that our military establishment ►will be reduced
0,04:10 mcn.

Fivc mails arrived. On Saturday from namburgh.—
The pauen by flit+ conveyance acne; that the Danish •
Government has.oflicialLy contradicted a report, that it
was intender to stop•the exportation of corn. Sweden
is abundantly supidied with corn for the present veer,.
in Norway large granaries have been established, and
distillation from grain is prohibited. The Russian Go.
vernsuent,has notified, that Members of the.l);piontatic
liutly,.4bovo.Laszrank elo •.
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MARCH 17.

lowed to import without any examination, whatever
foreign' articles, whether prohibited, or not, they may
want tuir ten months from-the day of their arrival at'
St. lletersburejr. Upon all permitted articles there is
'to be made, once foi all, counting from the day of their
arrival, a remission of the import duties in the follow-
ing proportions :-Ist, To an Ambassador, Legate, or
Nuncio, 3,000 roubles in silver: 2(1,, To Ministers,
Envoys, and others accredited to his Majesty, 9,000.
roubles; 3d, To Charg'e d'Affiiirs, or Residents were..
dited to the Minister foreign Aflitirs, 1.000 roubles.—
But if; after the expiration of ten months, they desire
to hare prohibited articles, they must male a special.
appliCation.

Some apprehensions are entertained of an. interrup-
tion in the tea trade, in consequence of the failure of
the Embassy to China and attack on the Alceste frigate
the tea annually imported amounts to from 20 to 30'
millions of lbs.; the profit on it is the chief revenue of
the India Company, and Government also get three
millions by the duty : the .operations of the Chinese war
boats against the Alceste was by orders from the Chi-.
nese Government.

In America the greatest alarm prevals respecting
the imports of cotton from the East India possessions.
It is stated, that owing to the immense extent of the
private trade, above It O extra vessel; -being sent out,.
*bout 400 tons each, that at a merlemte calculation they
would bring two hundred ann. 'forty thousand bales,
weighing 60,000,0001b5. and that the prices w<mlil be
thin all Americans shipping cotton to England would
so low in consequence be ruined. Tim-cis noquestion that •
the East India cottons can be brought to England at a•
much cheaper rate than the American : they are import-
ed •
latcly to an extent unprecedented, and every day
more extensively used in tha-manufactures.of the coun.-
try.-

A letter from Brussels contains the following speci-
men of the malignant spirit which is still prevalent in
various parts of France Though the energy of the
French Government represses.morc and more the efforts
of malevolence, yet the enemies of order still show,
from time to .time, how ready they arc to. seize every,
opportunity to agitate the public mind.
Adviccs from Hanover state, that Atnbassadors are
in thture to reside there, and that several of the Poten—
tates of Germany have already nominated their Minis.
tors to that effect. It is expected that their example will
be followed by other States. Foreign Ministers will be
received by the Duke of Cambridge as Governor Gene-
ral of Hanover, to whom they will present their cre•
dentials.

Upon the fullest consideration of the applications for
stopping the distillation of spirits from grain in Ireland,
his Majesty's Ministers have detormined to refrain from
that measure, heing satisfied that it would create a very
trifling saving of grain used .by the lawful•distiller, his
stock being nearly complete, but that it would afford the