The National Register.
London, England, 1815-12-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REG!,

DES'. 17.'

Plymouth. Si; Woolwich, 24; with one company of Ai ti
lery to each. A great number have been placed on the retired
list. • .
An arrangement with respect to the Ordinary at the difrerent
ports is in contemplation. l'he ships in a state of ordinary have
hitherto been w..tched by the Warrant Officers, who kept guard
alternately. Their services it is said, will shortly be dispensed
with; a Lieutenant being about to be appointed to each ship,
who is to have the sole charge, having under him the usual
number of men and boys. There will also be an increase of
superintending Masters. The measure will employ a great
number of Lieutenants.

The revenues of Great Britain were in 1813 to 1815, by the
Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement, varied from 47 to 51
millions ; the revenues increasing in the latter years (this state-
ment is exclusive of the property-tax, which is estimated to
yield from 13 to 14 millions annually). In the public declara-
tion of the state of the finances in February, before the return
of l3uonaparte from Elba, ani hefore the last appearance of a
war, Mr Vansittai t stated the proper peace establishment at 18
or 19 millions annually, and might iv .!,ably, in a few years, be
reduced to 13 millions. The revenue for the last quarter is re-
po. ted to exceed any former three months by two millions of
money.
It appears from the returns made to Parliament, that the sums
annually raised by the poor-rates, amount to five millions ster-
ling, which is about 13,6991. per day.
The trial of Sir G. Prevost is fixed for the 15th of January,
and to take place at Chelsea barracks.
The Gicetee of Tuesday contains a Proclamation offering a hun-
dred pounds reward, &c. for the apprehension of the persons con-
cerned in forcibly taking away a barge loaded with loaf sugar in
hogsheads, from alongside a ship at Hermitage-stairs; and after
confining the watchman, taken through bridge and plundered of
loaf sugar to the value oisome hundred* of pounds.
Thursday, a Court of Comm n Council was held at Guild •
hall ; when an interesting discussion took place on the subject
of the persecutions and assassination of the • Protestants in the'
South of France. Mr. Waithman opened the business in an
excellent speech ; in which he developed the atrocious progress
of fanaticism at Nismes, the assassination of no fewer than six-
hundred Protestants, and the hunting of those that survived.
like wild beasts, into the mountains, whither they tied for se.
curity from a sanguinary multitude of infuriate bigots. Mr.
Waithman moved, that an address be presented by. the Court
to the Prince Regent humbly praying his Royal Highness forth-
with to adopt such prom and efficacious means as were best cal-
culated to put an end to such enormous evils.—The motion
was supported by Messrs. Oldham, Favell, Alderman Heygate,
and others, and the address carried unanimously.
'1 he Conanittee of Dissenting Ministers has received a letter.
from a Cori espcndent, upon whom it relies, contradicting the
account of the death of the Rev. Mr, Desinund, President of the
Consistory of N sme,.

A wor.hy NlaAistrate, wit many inges from Bungav, who is
notorious for lett.n4 his estates " on th:• peace establishment,"
lately calle.i u!.on a tenant, who is a widow; when she began to
" the 1% 0 L'S of these wonder till times;" and; after hearing
her iale, the I:6(11-rd iequested she would send hint a sack of
apples; ou Ih. delivery of which, he was pleased to return her
a clii.ck on his hanker fol 501,
The B istoi Pede,t;i4n.---"aturdav morning, Mr. Stokes start-
ed at 48 ininu.es thice ~econds past six, *and accomplished his
a,duoils uncle; taking at 55 minutes use seconds pact six o'clock
in the even.ng ; having waled Woo miles iu 20 successive daNg,
and having. accomplished his daily task with the same appal cut
ease with which be commenced the undertaking.
The Dublin sav, that a fatal and dreadful fever is now
raging, with melancholy consequenct.s in that city.
It is a latm•ntable fact, that the insurgent spirit in Ireland w
too strong and too desperate to be tamed, even by the extraor-
dinary measures of the Police Preservation Bill and the Insur-
rection Bid, resorted to for that purpose. Both have proved
ineffectual ; and the Magistrates oldie county of Tipperary
that measures of still greater decision arc bes:oine expedient.
The ato (Aerate and lenient policy pursued by the GOVelifillellt

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h rs done them great honour in tlr, estimation of every fair ;
and Lord Whitworth's great len,tv, a, well a, the calm awl fir:a
vigour with which he kis ende.ivoured to •stoo the pio .reis of
insurrection, have 13.. en ackno.vleged even by those wh,
not the supporters of his administration, b rt who arc oppose:l
to the general policy of himself and his colleagues in the mi-
nistry.
The new play at Covent-Garden is undoubteily a legi iinate
piece; it being the joint production of man w,;e.--Alr and
Mrs. CHARLES KEMBLE.
A man in Paris ha. printed an account of the decay and dis- .
grace of the British Navy, with this epigraph, " Dclewla evt
Carthqgo ;" which is dedicated with authority to the Duke of
Angouleme.

On Sunday night lasi-, at theTheatre at Calais, some drunken •
Frenchmen insulted several Englishmen; and on • French:nal.,
presuming on his great stature and stren:rth, was particularly
active ; he at length fixed his arms across the shoulders of Col.
M'Cloud, who having desired him to move them away, whizb
was not complied with, struck the Frenchman, and a b ittle en-
sued; when the latter got two black eves, and was severely
beaten. M. Bernard, the Mayor of Calais, ordered the French
aggressor to be committed to prison, and gave orders that he
should not in future be admitted to tic Theatre.

A curious suit, to annul a divorce, forms at present a subject •
of conversation at Paris. One Reve, a pensioned Captain; was
married in 1807) to Maddle. La Plaigne, a girl without to. tune.
This La Plaigne had been at the boarding-school of Madame
Campan, whom Bonaparte patronised, and with whom the Ex_
Queoo Hortensia, and other Ladies of her ae,e, had been edu.
cated Shortly after the marriage of Revel, he was unexpect-
edly seized at night by a warrant ft, out the Emperor. and thrown
into prison. His wife was then placed as a teacher in the house
of Madame Murat; and Bonaparte, having thus opportunities
of seeing her, took her under his own imperial protection, and
the husband was not restored to liberty till he consented to a
divorce. She had a dad it is said, by Bonaparte, lived for some
years in the rue Victoire, under the name of Madame St.
Lament, and was afterwards married to a foreigner; so that she
now bears the name of the Countess of Lutterburg. Revel now
claims the setting asiite of the divorce. This canse came on
trial on Friday last, and presents this additional singularity, that.
for the claim of the annulment of the divorce on the ground of
its illegality, the husband joins another claim, that of a divorce
for a specific cause.
A dreadful instance of parricide has taken place near Ver..
sailles. The culprit conceived the horrid design in conse-
quence of being excluded from a bequest in his father's will. •
He fist designed to erect his horrid puzpose by poisoning: but
having dropped some expressions w4uch excited suspicion, a
warning was given to the unfortdate‘eparent, who, however,
contented himself with reproaching, and remonstrating with
the wi etch. This had only the effect of inducing a more
cautious system of proceeding in the guilty purpose.—The son
pretended to ►enwvc his residem:e to St. Lcu, at some distance
from his fathei's house, in the vale of Montmorency ;. but he
came in the night, and• perpetrated the lion id deed by plunging
a knife in his father's bosom, as he lay asleep. He returned
the next day, visited the dreadful scene, and went thence to
make a declaration before the majstrate, as if wholly innocent
and unconscious. But strong circumgtaaces appearing to cri.
initiate him, he was seized, brought to trial, and tally convict-
ed. His conduct during the trial, and on receiving the de•
claration of his wilt, and the consequent sentetr2e, was harden-
ed and unfeeiing.
A merchantman arrived lately at Kid, which was intended
to convey Napoleon to rlmetic•a. A French captain who had
married the daughter of a miller in Holstein, and, after Napo-
leon's r eturn, served under Clause! at Bordeaux, resolvi.d :o
save Boonaoat to On board this vcnsei, svhite was at Rache-
fot t. For this purpose he hail casks lined wit mattresses, its
order to conceal Napoleon, Savary and' Bertrand in case of
need. lie had every thing necessary on board. The ship was
to sail as soon as it ha i }got into the onen sea, to New York,
ustead of tliCl ; but the Oats was bathed by Buoaaparte's 'nu

Patience and surrender. The ship is iaow at
lined casks, Etc. are to be seen.
A Mastonic Lodge, conshting of some English and Austrians,
was lately held in Romc. and led, in all probability, to popular
disturbances ; as it was found necessary to send a strong detach-
ment of the Supreme Pontiff's army to preserve the profane and
biretical members from the fury of the pious, moral. and en-
lightened populace of the capital of the Christian World. His
Holiness has dispatched two of the sacred Auditory to remon-
strate against the toleration given to the reformed religion by
the opening of churches at Venice for the bigoted followers of
that persuasion.
Count Gottorp, the cillerant king of Sweden, has arrived at
Trieste with a suite of fourteen persons, among whom is only,
one woman—is she going on a pilgrimage too ?
A ministerial paper states, that, according to the account of
those who affect to be well informed of the treaty under which
the lonian Islands are surrendered to the protection of Great
Britain, secret articles are introduced, by which this Govern-
ment is forbidden to interfere in any war which may be con-
ducted by the Courts of Vienna and St. Petersburgh against
the Sublime Porte. It is asserted, that the lonian islands are
the price of the compliance of England with this condition.
The Little Council of the canton of Zurich has published a
very benevolent regulation, on occasion of the abuse of the
practice of employingyoung childrett in the manufactories and
spinning machines. ty this regulation, no children are to be
so employed till they have passed the 9th year of their age.
They are to continue to visit the schools regularly, and cannot,
its any case, be kept to work more than 14 hours in a day.
With respect to their wages, they are placed under their pa-
rents; or, in case these are dead, or of bad character, under
their guardians, or the administration of the parish. The pro-
prietors and inspectors of such establishments have certain
duties prescribed to them for guarding the morals of the chil-
dren ; and the parochial magistrates are authorized to see that
they are fulfilled: " because," says the regulation, " it k the
duty of every paternal government to provide that the igno-
rance, carelessness. or self-interest of the parenta' may not
place young children in a situation which may endanger`their
- bodily strength and health, and their morals, deprive them of
that degree of cultivation of the mind and heart necessary to
every member of civil society, and of the Christian church, and
prevent their acquiring the ability of gaining an honest liveli-
hood when they are grown up, and of fulfilling fn a proper
manner their domestic and social duties."
FERNCR PROTESTANTS.—The example of "The Protest-
ant .Society for the Protaqion of Religious Liberty," and of
the Dissenting Ministers of the Metropolis, expressing their as-
tonishment and indignation at the persecution of the French
Protestants, has been followed by the Court of Common Coun-
cil of the City of London. Unanimity on this occasion per-
vaded an assembly where diversity of opinion bn all other sub-
jects ordinarily exists. All political party feeling was buried;
and there arose only a noble declaration, in the form of an Ad-
dress to the Prince Regent, " representing the feelings of that
Court at the information received of the cord and inhuman
persecution and suffering of our Protestant Brethren in France;
whereby their places of worship have been dosed, their property
pillaged and destroyed, and the lives of innocent and uu-
(Mending individuals have been sacrificed to the merciless
rage of infuriated bigotry and superstition; and humbly praying
his Royal Highness to adopt such pm ompt and etlicatious mea-
sures as may best tend to suppress these enormous evils."
This address, we are persuaded, will be favourably received;
and we canuot doubt that assurances will be returned of the
disposition of the British Government to support their ap-
plication ; because, from the resolutit ris of " The Protestant
'society," we at informed, " that it has been the invariable
object of the Mich Government, and of their Allies, to sans
:arts and on every suitable occasion to assert, the pi ineiples of
Jteligious Toleration and Libel ty ; and that in their recent cm-
omnications with the Government of France, they have brought
foi ward these priciples as the' foundation of their policy. and of
then just enectatioos ; amid that they are dat:lime iAsingalicit

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of evils which they most deep.

The existence of the evils it is now impossible to doubt.
'The communications of Government, the Proclamations of the
Prefect of the department of Garde, and the Ordonnanee of
the King of France, demonstrate, that for several months a re-
ligious outrageous persecution of Protestants has continued to
destroy individual happiness and public Peace. We are indeed
assured, that the Government of France discoontenance enor-
mities so horrible ; and the Duke of Wellington is said to have
announced to the Secretaries of the' Protestant Society, "That
the Government of France is resolved to employ all the means
in its power to terminate the ev Is in the South of France, and
to take under their protection all the subjects of the King, con-
formable to the promise which he had made in his Ronal Char-
ter, and to support them in the exercise of their religious duties
whatever might be their pursuasion ; and iu the enjoyment of
their civil privileges whatever might be their religious senti-
ments ; and also, that no discontinaance of the salaries of the
Protestant Ministers had taken place."
Yet this tyranny of superstitious Priests and fanatical devo-
tees is unsuppressed, and the dreadful consequences yet con-
tinue. Some additional energy is therefore required for its
suppression. Public opinion, universally expressed, will inspire
and stimulate that energy. Our own Government will he there-
-17 rendered more active and determinate—the Government of
trance more prompt, circumspect, and vigorous; and all
Europe, the world, and posterity, will be taught, that the age
of persecution may not. recur, and that the value of religious
freedom is correctly understood, sincerely felt, and suitably
maintained. From the expressions of opinion in which Whigs
and Torrics, and British Protestants and Catholics concur, we
expect that universal toleration will in France be certainly and
speedily restored. Yet, to insure that event, we recommend
that, according to the Resolutions of "The Protestant Society,"
public vigilance should not abate until the Pi otestants of that
country :ball be allowed practically, perfectly, and permanent-
in to exercise that libel ty of conscience, and those rights of
worship, which they and every man throughout the world are,
p entitlnd.to enjoy."
PROtEftTY ti,x-d—TheCommissioners throughout England,
arc to receive immediate instructions to assess lauded propet tv
according to its present actual valae, under the recent reduc-
tion of rents. From a late official calculation, the following
. principal landed estates of England, are nearly thus estimated :
I Duke of Northumberland - - £125,000 per annum.
Duke of Devonshire - - - 115,000
t Duke of Rutland - - - 107,000
Duke of Bedford - • - v 5,000
Duke of Marlborough - - - 90,000
Duke of Beceleugh - - - 90,000
Earl Grosvenor 84000
Duke of Portland - - - 80,000
Marquis of Cholinondeley - - 78,000
Marcrig of Hertford - - - 77,000
Earl of Bute - .. - - 76,000
Furl of Lonsdale - - 7,1,000
Earl Fitzwilliam - - - 70,000
' Duke of Norfolk - - - AB,OOO
Earl of Darlington - - . 65,000
Duke of Beaufort - . - 60,000
Earl of Harewood 60,000
Earl Spencer • - - - 5f4,000 ~
Mr. Coke - - - - - 5Y,000
Earl of Egremont - - - 50,000
Col. Hughes . ~ 6- - 49,000
Sir W. Manner - - - 43,000
ANCIENT P10T14./N5 OF LZGITIMACY.—WIkett Richard the
Third was slain at Bosworth, and with him John Howard,
Duke of Norfolke, King Henry tbe Seaventh demanded of
Thomas [lowa; d Earle of Surrey, the Duke's sonne and beire,.
' then taken Prisoiter, how lie dust heart acmes in the behalf 0:
that Tyrant Richard ;—" He was my crowned king ; and it the
Pal liamentaty authority of England set the Crawne upon a
I stoetie, l will fight for that stocke ; and as I fought then for
him I will tight for won when you aro established by the said
i;
i authority ;"--and he did for his swine King Heury the Eights
' at Iludiion-401.—Camdcn.6 16.maills.

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