The National Register.
London, England, 1817-08-11 00:00:00

14; ATMNAL REGISTER INDEX.

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LUN 1,0 :

MONDAY, AUGUST li, 1817.

Paris papers to Friday last were received yesterday
they state that the Pope was to hold a Sacred College
on the 28th ult for the purpose of concluding, the
arrangements relative to the French Chnrch. By these
arrangements, it is expected several of the ancient Sees,
Archbishoprics, and Bishoprics, will be re-established.
An article from Impruck, July 24, says that the

matters in dispute between the Courts of Vienna and
-Naples are• definitively adjusted, and that the -periods
for the withdrawing of the Austrian troops is fixed.
Vie Paris Papers received on Saturday, inform us
that by a decision of the Ministers at war, a certain
number of half-pay Officere will be attached to the
different corps d'armec, and half the commiss►ons that
become vacant will be given to them. We cannot but

applaud this measure, as ono well calculated to propi.
tiate a -eery formidable body of men, whoseleelinvs,
irritated by disappointment, would have continually
• endungerea the trauquility of the State.

TIM

rsTioNAL ft EGISTE R

The same papers contain a long article from Aladrid
detailing the proceedings of the It)yal army in South
America to the l 9th of April last, at ui I ieli time, according
to General Medlin, the insurgNit ferves had been com-
pletely disconifiactl. The capture of Betrcelona is again
mentioned, but the horrid statement is added that after,
the surrender 1,000 prisoners were put 'to the sword !
Who can wish success to a cause thus supported !
An account has been in circulation during the week,
of six persons hat ing coniTirctl to .carry oil the person
of the Crown Prince of Sweden, but it does not appear,
to rest on any substantial authority.

Our readers will find in.:mother part of our paper an
account of the first day's proccolings on the trial of
Mr. Roger O'Connor, and a brief notice Of his acquital
on the second day, after a trial Of cloven hours. The
Dubin' Papers received in town- yesterday had been
unable An give metre than the mere verdict from the
lateness of the hour at which the trial closed.

We have receind New Yoik ‘popers to the •15th
ult _ _

NFW YORK, JUIN 14 —" Sir Gregor M'Gregor,
with the Jim:es under his Llinnulmd, took possemion of.
Amelia Island, 14th June, without bloodshed.

" From Fort William we learn that the Ilon.'Wm.
NliGillerav, with the Ist brigrele of North West
Traders, had arrived safely at Fort William, is which
was found Mr. Spencer, formerly sheriff of the Red
River Colony, and three or four other individuals. We
are told they wcr immediately taken into• custody Pnd
ordered to Sandwich, where the Western I)istriet Court
is holden. It is said that Mr. Smith, Under Sheriff of
the said district, attended with others, cloathed with
magisterial authority. had gone in quest of Lord Sel-
kirk. The Commissioners had arrived at the South
St. 'Marie, and would soon proceed over. Lake Superior,
fur the celeb►ated Fort William."
The ship President, Capt. Swain, which arrived at
Nantuckey, the coast of Chili, on the Ist ult. states,
that the Insurgents, after cutting to pieces a body of
1.500 Royalists, took possession of Valparaiso, March
15th, and were marching down the coast. Several
Nantuckey ships had been boarded by a Spanish gun-
boat, from Conception, which stated that she had been
sent out for the express purpose of inviting all the
American ship to • enter that port, as an immediate at-
tack was expected from the Insurgents, one of their ar-
mies being at St. Jago, and the other daily expected at
Conception. Her Commander said that if our ships did
not come into their assistance, we•should be considered
as enemies to the, Royalists.
Pattie attention has been directed a gco I deal this
week •to the statements made by the philanthropic
Mr. Owen, on kis mode of improving the condition
of the poor. In our next number we shall advert to
this subject, so deeply interesting to every • friend to
humanity.
Dispatches have been received, overland, from the
Governor of Bombay, dated March communicating
the important intelligence of the captnre of the fortress
of Hattrass by . the British army, situate in the heart
of the Doab, on the road from Agra to Coel, about -00
miles south east of the• latter place, and supposed to
have been garrisoned by 10,000 men. The circum-
stances which led to this event were as follow :—The
Zemindar, or proprietor, of the fort had often obstruc-
ted the course of justice by giving refuge to robbers
andassas►dns who had fledfront the Company's districts;
and .he had for some time made Hattrass the resort of
all men .of bold and abandoned character, with a view
of strengthening his means of defence, or of becoming
formidable to his neighbourhood. He had also mane•
festal a spirit of encroachment towards the British ; and
by taking possession of this strong fortress, his hostile
designs • became obvious. Remonstrances and expla-
nations proving unsatisfactory, recourse was had to
snore effectual measures, by prompt and vigorous mili-
tary operations. Our army, composed of British and
native troops, took the field, under the command of
Colonel• Marshal, an officer of high military reputation.
Arrived before the place, he summoned it to surrender;
but the enemy, confiding in his strength and means of
defence, refused to capitulate. It was then determined
to carry it by storm : a heavy bombardment was com-
menced ; and the Congreve rockets were used with ter,
rible effect ; one of them, falling on the magazine, oc-
casioned a dreadful explosion, which destroyed great
numbers of the garrison. Our loss by the lire of the
enemy was incenisideralsle : Lieutenant Courtland was
the only officer wounded. The Bombay Government
had not received the official accounts; but•the above de-
tails were communicated to that Governmeiteby a
vate letter, and may theeefore, having been made the
subject of an overland dispatch, be considered authentic.
In consequence of the death of the Earl of Roscom-
mon, Thomas Dillon, Esq. Aughatligonain, in the coun-
ty of Longford, • the now representative of the Dillon
tinily, elainisthe title.and honours of that Nobleman.

AUGUST il.

BRITISH ,INITIRISH EMIGRANTS.

(FROM THY: MoNIItE‘L ADVEIVTIsER.]

We are truly gratified to learn, that Mews. John
!Tolson and Sons, proprietors of the first sttam-gents
used in the St. Lawrence, have upon the application
of his Majesty's Consul tin. New York, liberally agreed
to afford accommodation to such settlers as may in fu-
ture arrive at Quebec, transport oil the most easy terms
to Montreal, with a view to proceed to Upper Canada.
We understand that each settler will be allowed to take
nearly :200Ibs. baggage, instead of only 60Ibs. allowed
to travellers ; and that the whole expense for each
grown settler will be SOs. from Quebec to Kingston,
; and is..3d. more to York'; children half price. We
1 further learn that #lessrs. Berthelet and Norton have
made equally generous offers on behalf of settlers, whu
may beataseinutodated by •them with excellent provisi.
ons in small quantities, at the wholesale prices, upon
making application, and testifying that they will set-
tle in Lower or Upper Canada. While we rejoice in
•these beneficial regulations, we are not without hope
that their Meet will be of permanent utility to the set-
Alers,-and consequently to these fine,provinces. Whilst
we arc thus indulging in ardent expectations, we can.
not but reprobate a fatal delusion that is too often sue-
cessfully practised by skip owners and masters in the
British and Irish ports, to fleece the unsuspecting emi-
grant of his money,
In Irish and Scotch papers we see vessels advertised
for the islands in the Gulph of St. Lawrence, Nova
Scotia, and I'Ldlitiix ; these advertisements state to pen-
ple wishing to emigrate to Caneda, that the ports, such
vessels are bound for, are on the high road to the place
they wish to.arrive at ; whiie every informed mail,
knows, that to come from Hallifax, St—lohn's, Piston,
Prince Edward Island, &e. to Quebec, will cost as much,
as to come from Britain or Ireland direct. lt.is wani-stly
to be hoped that these filets may be generally known
by all -ranks in -the mother country, that the people
may not be led astray by the chicane of AraLTican
agents, and the cupidity of the British-masters and
owners.

EMIGRATION TO GARAI/A.—Tile followinr i• a st,ttem(ont
of the number of liiitsh subjects, who, het reti Ilse loth of
March, 1816, and the lOtit of March, 1817, base landed at
New York, and obtained passports, to entitle them to grants
of land in Canada, from his Majesty's Consul, at New Vail ;
Farmers 87
Labourers 37
Manufacturers 37
Mechanics lB6-347
.Women IRS
Children 458
Total-901.

Rumour has been very active in the City during the
past week, and has gained her usual ascendant in the
Stock Exchange.—That England designs to preserve a
rigid neutrality, in the dispute between Spain and the
insurgents in South America—that Spain has applied
to Russia for assistance, and that the Cabinet of St.
Petersburgh has stipulated, in case of acceding to this
request, for the cession of the two Caliafornius and Mi-
norca, as a small remuneration for her assistance.—qhat
Russia. will thereby procure a strong footing in the Me-
diteranean, which will aflord . her great security and
convenience in her views against the Ottoman Porte,
whose destruction will open a way by the Dardanelles
into Persia, and that the will thug be enabled to inter-
upt,' in case of enmity arising, our trade in the
Mediterranean. To these reports, as rapidly formed us
they declined, the politicians of Capel Court also su-
peradded doubtful hints, as to the continuance of peace :
something-lad been seen, they thought, in the ministe-
rial journals, tending to lead the public mind to specu-
late on the ambition and extent of Russian aggrand-
isement, adding that Spain had, on the the ground of
an. ally, demanded of England, .men, ships, and money,
• to prevent hor. losing.her American settlements, whiCti
request had neither -been relished or answered by St.
James's. • We have not traced these deep laid schemes far-
ther than the Stock Exchange, and we rejoice they have
created scarcely a moment's solicitude ; we lock forwaid
to the firmness of British Councils, to preserve the
peace so deafly bought, notwithstanding the many
conflicting interests which combine so frequently to en-
danger it ; and with this confidence, we can be well con-
tent to let the politicians of the Stock Exchange gull
each other with the most improbable lies, at the
expense of each others pockets and of common
sense.

Bernadotte has been rustling another facture to his
beloved son, Oscar, on the art of governing, in the
shape of a•Epeeeh, on Lis introduction to the Council of
State ..There is so mush• of the flippancy of a true
Frenchman •in this man's speeches, that we begin to be
somewhat tired of them. . There is one passage in it,
however, whit. is• sensible enough, though it looks
like an ungrateful fling on Lis late master—" Consider
(says lie) that. the Crown which a free people gives, is
always insecure on . a head which is puffed up with
pride and selt: conceit, and that we. must prepare our-
selves for it by an innate conviction of the duties of
Kings and the Rights of Nations "
The Elector of Hesse Cassel has re-established the
Funds fin the Widows and Orphans which had been
suppressud iu IS I I by the Prince Primate.

Y.-~ --

AUGUST n.

TILE D 1111.11.1.

M A RIK ET.•011 TULA ay, Garrick's C►rce of
Bun Tun was revived, in our opinion, much to the d►s..
credit of the Manager, for every thing in it is obsolete
but its indecency, and that unfortunately is the growth
id' every age as well as every clime.
%VV. UN EtiDA V.—The saute observations will apply to
another revival on Wednesday evening. 'The Flitch
of Bacon, with all the chariais of • its simple music has
so little chastity about it, that we, could be well content
to see it, with a hundred more of the last age, consigned
au total oblivion.

COVENT-GrAROFN THEATItE.—It is the intention
of the Managers, on the ensuing Season, to exclude all
the wax lights hung round the house, in lieu of which
an immense chandelier will be suspended in the mid-
dle of the Theatre with gas. The e‘perimeat has been
tried, and it produces a brilliant effect -upon all parts
of the house.
Tuesday evening the Edinburgh Theatre re-opened
with the Opera of Love in a when Mr. SlN-
ci.vin and Miss Sri PUENS made their appearance in

the characters of Young Meadows and Rosetta.
Mr. R.%YMOND is now actively employed in making
arrangements for the opening of Drury-Lone Theatre,
the ensuing month, with much novelty both of pieces

end performers.
Field Marshal Prince BLUCHER is daily expected in
.the grand Duchy of Mecklenburg. tie intends to use
the baths of Dobbcrau, and afterwards to pass some

time at Hamburg.
Several meetings of the Alien merchants have been -
held, in consequence of an intimation -that the .Cor-
• poni.lon of London are adopting measures for ensuring
the bona. fideoullection of -the duties accruing to the
City Chamber, upon gxiols entered outwards or in-
wards, within the port of London, being the property
of Aliens not naturalized. The complaint adduced on
t:te part of the City is, that this branch of its revenue
has considerably &Von oil' during the last '2O years,
owing to the practice of entering such merehandize in,
the names .of British subjects. It is urged, in a me-
morial presented to the Corporation by the Alien Tra-
ders, that the collection of such a tax may tend to di-
vert the capital of Aliens front the metropolis w the
outports.
The facility of many of the London Editors in
beneving all the untininded assertions of the riotous
and disaffected, relative to the late unhappy events, is
not less disgraceful to their understanding, titan to
their character as Englishman. A contemptible
wretch, one Ilcoisham, has with most barefaced im-
pudence, accused some of the most respectable gentle-
men in the county of York, with having endeavoured
t t suborn him to give false evidence against the Hud-
derstield rioters ; and this wretch's statement finds in-
stant belief, even with the -Times, a paper, which on
most occasions, displays something like common sense.
The Leeds Intellig,encer, however, u paper to which
the well disposed part of society is under many °Mi.
ft.:lions, has given .a complete refutation of the lies
which this fellow had fabricated, for the purpose of
gaining the confidence of his old comp•anions in iniquity,
%whose safety he had compromised, by the alacrity with
which he came forward to give evidence against,
them.
The conclusion •of the article alluded to in the
Leeds Intelligencer, is so strong a refutation of those
sweeping assertions which have for some time -been
impudently made by the Murring Chronicle, that the
disturbances in various parts of the country were oc-
casioned by what the Editors of that paper call the
instigations of " spies" and " informers," that we trust
our readers will be gratitied by its insertion.
•• It is with the utmost solemnity we call the publi.: attention to these
.roncluding observatioas, and that we pledge ourselves fir their truth,
the plan and hope M toe insurgrnts was to have marched in
silence, into Hudderstiekl, after they have been joined by the numer-
ous other parties of rioters, who ;tad not yet come up to the bridge,
when the yeomanry tell in with them, and to have entle.nvoured to
surprise the military, and the civil authorities, in which event they
would have been strong touug!i. before morning, to have kept pos.
se=sion. of Iltatileritield tor at least sonic days, and to have cum-
toeneed their spenittons of rapine and murder on an extensive
scale.
These, we repeat, arc facts. They did not come out on the recent
trials, because the prisunersswere arraigned unlytor the burglary at
Dyson's, and for the actual outrage at the bridge ; and any eircsno-
. trance;, not directly raiding to eiiiiviet them of these isolated crimes,
could nut, of course, be brought under the cognizance of the Jury.
.When the trials of the indivuals charged with high trewon, how-
ever, come on. the ultimate object of taw conspirators riq be proved.
Those eircunistances, which we have stated, and many more of deeper
import, will come ti,t in evidence oral the public will have it de.
Inuastratethe them, that the massacre of individual:, as well as the
overthrow of mopetty and of the laws, was determined upon. We
can even nemtiou the moues of sonic of th-• highly respectable and
public spirited gentleman, who were to have beer. amongst the tirst
victims to the revolutionary frenzy of these patriots—viz. Sir Joseph
Radcliff. Bart. ; the Rev. Ha 11111 l ond 'Robertson. of ti s I laU ;
Thomas Atkinson Esq. of Roble Bridge; Mr. Cartwright, the
coots:4:mi; &fender of Itawfuld's Nill, &e. dec. ! and thew were to
be put to deatit.i.l a manner. which we will neither outrage: the feel-
ings of our mulcts by &tiding, nor disgrace national character by

ri
It is fir the prevention, 'aril, thank Gel,. for the li:therto sue-
prcrentiom of these horrible iitrot.tie, that CrOvotiment, and
all who advocate the cawie of true freedom, f.ound morality, and the
NW3' are daily calumniated and reviled by those who daringly stand
opposed to all these, and with whom the pros:iv:akin of tranquility
is a curse."
The herring fishery has eornmencd on the Whitz-
hiaven coast the fish taken are rkmarkably tine, and
sold at 7s. (id, L hundred,

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

POETRY.

Tll C RUSE.

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'rendre fruit de, pleura de lAttrore,
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Heine de l'Ettipire de Fiore,
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Que dei•jer kela%! ditlere encore.
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L•in!laut yui dolt to fake eelore,
Eat celu, tllll doit It

Sweet offspring of Aurora's tear.,
.11111)11, to whom young Zephyr ,ioss,
F4ll t:SI Fil)Wer that 1:14114 rears,
Uufuld thy beauties to mine e: es.
Yet stay, —for in that fatal hula
'Dion sprettirstiliy bosom to the flay,
That hour thou diet —thou, lovely Fluw'or
Cil•tt Let Illy beauties yet away.

In the American-Papers, we :)bserve, that the ac-
counts from the Havannalt mention the arrival there,
in the short space of 1:t days, of no less than 13 slave-
vessels bringing Zi2oo human beings as articles of mer-
chandise!

A letter dated Nuremberg, .laly 22, says—" The
amicable and close connection which subsists between
Russia and England is proved by the order for English
cloths to clothe the Russian army. The manufactories
at Leeds have taken into employ many hundreds of
workmen who were without work and Jibed. The or-
der is not, in • itself, of any great importance, but it
has afforded to the English agents an opportunity ihr
introducing other woollen mauufactures and to submit
other propositions."
The friends al' Mr. Wookr, lately tried for libel,
dined together on Thursday, at the Eagle Tavern,
City Road, to celebrate as it was termed, his triumph
on that occasion. A Mr. Elliott was in the chair, and
arming the towns given was " The King and the Save.
reignity of the People."—" Mr. Wooler and his un-
daunted •spirit."—" Mt. Pearsan," the solicitor who
was professionally employed on Mr. Woehr's trial—
" Mr. Hone."—" Major Cartwright"—" Sir F. Bur-
dett." What a community ! The next toast was,
" May skins be turned into parchment, and the rights
of men be written thereon." A proposition was made
to constitute the present= annual meeting, but it was
opposed by Mr. Wooler and withdrawn. The speeches
• delivered were, as might be supposed chiefly in con-
'
detonation of the Miuisteral systems of politics, and in
praise of the trial by Jury.
With a view to the improvement of the harbours of
Dover and Folkstone, the Commissioners for the issue
of the Exchequer Bills, &c. have resolved to grant
10,0001 to the former and 12,0001. to the latter, un-
der the conditions and securities specified by the Act
passed last Sessions. The assistance of Government is
also promised tbr the contemplated erection of a bride
across the Swale, .to consider of which a Meeting of
the Inhabitants of the Isle of Sheppy.and its vicinity is
to be held at Sheerness, on Thuraday, the 21st inst.
Gown ESS or lt EASON !—The l'aris Papers of the Ist.
inst. announce that " the famous •Theroigne de .llcri-
court, the Goddess of Reason, and the most remarka-
able of .the heroines of the Revolution, died. within
these few days in the Hospital for Pauper Lunatics of
Salpetriere, where she had lived unpitied and unknown
for many years. She repented sincerely of her horrible
crimcs,.and imposed upon herself the dreadful penance
of pouring a bucket of eald water uponlitr bed of straw
every night. Nothing but' the most robust health
could have enabled her to endure this punishineut. She
died at the itge of 57. Elie luttlbut liar lucid intervals,
and those were filled up by the most. heart-rending la-
mentations."
This was i the unfortunate woman, who •was seated
upon a:throne by Fouche and Cana, in the Champ
de Mars, and hailed alternately as the Goddess of lea-
den and of Liberty. There was something, remarkable
in the history "f the latter days of this poor creature,
and her lith is not without its moral. She, who was
taught publicly to blaspheme her Creator, and to dis-
honour her :it• (fin she appealed in public nearly naked),
was for the last 20 years of her misentble Mb sub-
ject to the greatest of human calamities—the depriva-
tion of reason ! This is another awful warning to the
living Atheists and Regieides, whose doctrine brought.
this unhappy woman to her miserable end. Their lives.
have been spared by the clemency of their earthly So-
vereign ; but they may rest assured, that the eye of Pro-
vidence is constantly directed towards them. AR of
them have already experienced that
There is no sere fotmdritien set in blooi
No certain good uttsin'd by others' ruin !
And posterity, we.hope, will derive-some useful lessons
from the history tit the lust moments of these self-eim-
vieted criminals. They will thus in some measure
atone for the evils they have inflict/ea on mankind ; and,
they will convince.'future..generations,. that -Arkzu the
High Priests of •the Goddess of Reason expunged the
Commandment " Thou shalt do no murder," they Lad.
Ithe foundation of misery and disgrace for themselves,
awl of perpetual infamy lux akar name and posterity !