The National Register.
London, England, 1822-04-15 00:00:00

TILE NATIONAL ItEGI6TEIt

The remaining one-third of the tax which is paid
to Government -by the other classes of society is
200,0901. gross, fi,r which they of course pay in the
same proportioa as the betiwe mentioned classes, that
is, 531,4001. Can any tax be compared with this ?
And is it extraordinary that the leather trade con-
tinues to decline, as shown by the lust account of
the produce of the leather-tax, for tcn years bolore
the last additional tax was impose', and the able
years since that time, which were laid before Parlia-
ment, starch 15, 1822, and that the trade should
repeatedly complain, though leather is deemed a
necessary of life, that, owing to the leather taxes
and restrictions, leather goods are so high in price as
greatly to lessen their consumption, and to under-
mine one of the most important staple manufactures
of the country.

CANTON, Nov. 20.—The following extract of a
letter flora China will show that the new disease so
fatal in India, which has been called chAdera, but
which in tact is a spasmodic disease, with symptoms
very different from those usually Intendant on the
cholera morlias of other climates, has spreiul its ra-
vages in the East:-
64 The ceoiera nimbus has not yet visited China epide.
mically, hut has, as far as I call learn, appeared in several
provinces in a dr sithory 111:11111Vr, and curried off many of
the Chinese. It has over; MI Java, Sumatra, and several
islaiiits is; the Indian Archipelago, and matte dreadful
ravages amongst the Malays. About Batavia and settee.
hays it was particularly destructive.—The state of the
markets in China has been very unthvouraule to tho site.
crilaturs from Eugland. The absurd policy of Great Bri-
tain, which 'shoos the Americans to take from England
every kind of goods,rnol w hick prohibits Englishmen from
doing so, and also from sending their capital back to Esi.
rope by other ;worts than those of London, is every day
more and more a ppm. ut. Trade here is verse than bad.
Articles of import ere scarcely saleable, with the excep-
tion of pepper, and a few erodes of Straits produce; and
(Arnow pa-mince is so extravagantly high, that wet e it
not that people must speculate to get home theta fuuds, as
Use Company's treasure is shut (tor bills on Lergland), I do
not beli..ve that a pound of any thing but l's would he
invested f-rr England. The Company must have lost very
considerably this year on their mato.' and woollen cloths;
the fur no r us sn very low, and the Americans having GUM.
pletely overileue the trade in the latter."
VALENCIA, MARCH 27.—Our troubles do not
cease. The day before yesterday a troop of students,
seduced by the favourers of anarchy, appeared before
a post of artillery, insulted it, and had of a
quarrel with ether individuals of the same arm, at
the gates of the University. The Alculde of the
nearest barrier, who endeavoured to restore tran-
quillity, was pelted with stones, as tvell us four
soldier.; of the regiment of Zamora, whom he had
called to his assistance. In these circurustanees,
thirty soldiers with an officer appeared to check this
tumult, and the students being confined for u momeitt
within the University, offered to the Political Chief,
who immediately arrived, to be quiet, and not utter
any more cries ; but scarcely did the Political Chief,
trusting on this assurance, cause the soldiers to
retire, when they again began to throw stones, with
cries of " Iliego for ever !" to which they added the
alarming expression, " the country is in danger !"
and others of the same kind. The Commandant
General, the Political Chief, and the soldiers at
whose head they walked, were pelted with *testes
amidst cries of " Ringo fin. ever !"
The next day the Akade, who had so honourably
done his duty was dismissed by the Municipality
from his employment in the Secretary's Office,
which he had filled for many years. This deserving
individual has been deprived of his livelihood, as a
recompense, we suppose, for his general adherence
to the cause of the public.
MADRID, MARSH 27.—A duel has taken place
this day between General Quiorga and ex-Deputy
Moreno Guerra. It appears that the latter bad
insulted the general, in several letters which lie
addressed to him. Only one of the pistols was
loaded : ondraeing lo a, chance put Tutu the hand.:of Quiroga, who diseharged it ill the air..

Aussovurs, Manor' 30.—We have received news
from Constantinople, announcing that M. de Tutnur
Alaubourg, the French Ambassador, has received a
vet bal promise or the satistation which he had de-
:minded with much dignity and energy, for the in-
sults oared to the French consular agents by the
Turkish Commander-in-Chief in Syria and Cyprus,
as well us fir the excesses and cruelties counnitted
toward:: Christians of the countries of the west, who
are under the protection td' France; but his Fleet-
Lacy demands a promise in writing. The suleiects
are, however, treated with much respect, as well at
Constantinople as in the other parts of Turkey.—
There is even reason to hope that the losses which
the French merchants hay,: sustained fur some years
past in the Levant wiil be made good.
NtllikaUltJno, MAucrt 31.--(Estraelfreata pri-
vate correspundence4—lt is asserted that the Court
of Vienna will notify to the great Powers, that in
consequence of the little success of the negotiations
which it had carried un at Constantemae, it had
ceased to be mediator in the ditleren,:es b...tevecit
ltassia and Tetley, rem r‘ing to iescir the Mcalty
of taking such sue.ssures cis eireumAauce,i way
rolurre.

LI.

Letters from Constantinople say that the Gran I
Vizier will immediately go to Adrianople, there t
act as Generalissimo of the Ottoman EaTire.
A report (which needs confirmation) was in cir-
culation yesterday, that sonic warns skirmishes had
already taken place on the Pruth, between The Rus.
shin and the Ottoman corps. More certain intim.
oration is impatiently expected.
We learn from Warsaw, that a considerable corps
of Polish cavalry is to march to Lithuania. The
Commander-in-Chief of these troops will have his
head-quarters at %Vilna.
A report is current that the Russian agent at
Teheran has succeeded in concluding an offensive
and defensive alliance with Persia ; and it is even
affirmed that a secret article of the treaty assures to
the Schuh the possession of Armenia, as soon as the
Turks shall be expelled from it. If this important
news is confirmed, it is supposed that the English
resident, who has employed all his efliirts to coun-
teract the negociations of the Russian agent, will
quit Teheran, where his presence would hence-
terward be of nu advantage to the interest of his
Government.

COPENHAGEN, Mancs 9.—lt is universally af•
firmed here, that a close union has been concluded
between Denmark and England, and that the final
ratification and subscription will be brought buck by
Mr. Foster, whose return is immediately expected.
During one of the late gales, the *French pilot
Subtle, in taking the Chutersild Southampton
packet (Capt. S. Wood) into Havre Roads, fell over-
board. Mr. J. Wood (son or the captain) instantly
threw himself into the sea, and after a severe strug-
gle sticeceded in reaching and supporting him until
a boat from the windward picked them both up.—
The King of France, to distinguish this generotoi
act, has presented Mr. J. Wood with a rich silver •
taedul, accompanied wiflt a most flattering certificate
from the French Minister of Marine.

On the 10th of March a mutiny broke out among
the Turkish garrison ut Jassy, on which occasion
the unfortunate city was plundered and set on fire. •
According to preceding news, massacres had taken
place at Bucharest on the 15th and .17th February;
and in Jassy it was reported that the Turks intended
to celebrate the 7th of March as the anniversary of
the murder of their brethren by fire and sword in.
that city ; it should seem, therefore, that they bavu
kept their word.
It is estimated in the Hamburgh parrs, that the
number of lives lost by shipwreck on the coast of
Jutland, in the recent storms, is not less than 1,500.

The Omen Glendower frigate, Captain the Hun.
Robert Cavendish Spencer, is to take the Hon. 'l'.
Foster, minister, to Copenhagen, with Sir George
Nayler, to invest the King of Denmark with the
Order of the Garter; that utter the return of the
Owen Glendower, she will be commissioned by Capt.
the Hon. Henry Duncan (Ilan. Captain Spencer's
period of service will have expired), and fitted to
take the Right lion. George Canning to the go-
vernment of India; and the service being performed,
she will proceed thence to South America, where
Capt.Dunem is to command in the rootn of Commo-
dore Sir Thos. Hardy, whose three years arc nearly
expired. The Active frigate Capt. Andrew King,
it is said, is to take Sir T. Tyrwhitt to Lisbon, to
invest the King of Portugal with the Order of the -
Garter.

The Paris papers mention the seizure of another
secret depot of arms on the Sth inst. There were
found 27 chests, containing 500 muskets, a great
number of bayonets, 300 pistols, and LOU sabres.
On Monday last, about twelve o'clock, the Lord
Mayor proceeded in state from the Alanslon-house to
Christchurch, Newgate-strect, according to annual
custom, to hear the Spinal Sermon, which was
preached be the Bishop of Llawldf. The prayers
were read by the 11,,v. Samuel Crowder, M.A. Vicar
of Christchurch. The hymn was sung by the Fho -
'Ars—the music by Mr. B. Glenn. A statement of
the City Ilospitals was read. at the service being
ended, the proce,sion returned to the Mansion-house,
where a splendid entertainment was provided. In
the evening there was a grand ball in the Egyptian
Hal, which was tastefully ornamented. Among
the company were the Spanish, Portuguese, and
Swedish Ambassadors, several of the nobility, Mem-
bers of Parliament, &e &e.
The collector of eustomg, at Plymouth, in obedience
to an order of Purliament, has set ed. fur London, to
attend an inquiry into dn. Eddystone Light does,
which, from their heavy amount, are alleged to be
injurious to shipping, masters preferring to remain at
act in dangerous weat her, t han submit to the payment
of their dues, and so exclude themselves front the
security which that excellent harbour in such eases
provides.

The ft:flowing singular advertisement appeared in
the Evaugdical Wanted a naive at
thr the female 6rauch of a rising and r'erlera!►le
charity; she most not be less than 23, and not
noire than 50 years at aau ; unmarried and wiliest
cisi4'd, tn."