The National Register.
London, England, 1818-01-19 00:00:00

TTIF. N.VVIONAT.

Loai‘-., of troops arc rassing to the southward. though
fir what pi:rpose is not distinctly stated. Amelia is-
land is to.• insignitleant oi,j.•.t to engage the atten-
tion of biLch a toree. In tile i louse of lt.presentatives
on the Itith Dec. Mr. I larrison's motion for continuing
the pensions to the v. P.ows ;mil orphans of those who
wore killed or woundedin the late war, was carried with-
out a division.

No French Pap:!rs arrived on Saturday. There are
now three days' due. The boisterous weather which
has prevailed during the greater part of this week, has
prevented the toival arrivals from other parts of the
Continent.

The French papers present, at considerable length,
the trial of M. Schear, befbre the tribunal of Correc-
tional Police, tier a publication, entitled, " The State of
Liberty in France." The Government, considering
the temper of the work which it prosecutes, does not
appear to he actuated on this occasion by a very vin-
dictive spirit. The counsel Ibr the Crown was contented
with paying against the accused, three months' im-
prisonment, and a tine of two guineas."
The Gazelle uf 7%.4:1)1A', of the kith of December,
contains a decree of the Kim; of the two Sirilirs, crea-
ting Prince Talleyrand, l)uke of Dino, with re:nail:der
to his brother's heirs. This dignity may, perhaps, be
designed as a compensation for the Neapolitan princi-
pality of Benevento, conferred upon hint by 'Nona-
parte, which M. de Tallevrand thought it right to re-
linquish soon after he -became a servant of Louis
XVIII.

In another part of our paper, eve have given, on the
authority of the Mexican Gazette, the account of the
capture of Miva, with t 25 of his followers, and the
dispersion of his party, above ,400 strong. The fife
of men taken with arms in their hands against the
existing Government is not doubtful. But though we
do not positively hear of Mina's execution, information
of an official nature has been received, " that the foreign
adventurers engaged in the insurrection in Mexico who
had been taken with Mina, had all been shot as incen-
diaries, traitors, invaders of the public tranquillity of
the province, and mercenary eiders and Ibmenters of
rebellion against the Sovereign of Spain and the Au-
thorities of Mexico." This will surprise none: and it
is from motives of humanity that we give the intelli-
gence the readiest circulation. British adventurers
must be aware that, when once embarked in an enter-
prise of this nature, their Government can lend them
no aid. We may csteetn their courage, and may pity
the difficulties in which peace at home has involved
them, but it is a desperate hazard, in a cause not their
own, to which they expose their lives.
Lonn SEFTON'S LETTEIL—The following letter
from Lord Sefton to Mr. Waithman, the chairman of
Mr. Hone's Committee, was accompanied by 100 gui-
neas towards the subscription now going on for that
gentleman. We have before stated our opinion of Mr.
one's conduct in suppressing the parodies ; we think
he did wisely; but we cannot fall in with the opinion
of a Morning Paper, that Mr. Hone had shewn his
disapprobation of parodies. He did, indeed, express his
determination, after the trial, not to write any more,
and distinctly stated, that he would not again publish
what he had written except as a part of his trial.
Many have taken this as a good sign of Mr. Hone's
returning sense of propriety ; for our parts we cannot
help regarding it as a very skilful and effectual mode
of advertising his trials, and we are rather disposed to
believe, that that consideration, more than an abhor-
rence of parodies, dictated the proceeding. We would
be sorry to impute any improver ti:eling on this sub-
jest to the noble Lord, whose letter we give below ;
a bed of sicknees is usually a bed of repentance, and
probably his Lordship chose to adopt this mode of expi-
ating some trifling errors which the calm of his cham-
ber gave him time to recollect. In doing so he has
served a distressed fellow-creature, but we think it
would have been quite as well, had he done it less os-
tentatiously, and without giving the world reason to
suspect, that an mitrage upon religion, was agreeable to
the feelings of a dying man

Croatellt Hall, near Liverpool, Jan. 17, 1817.
St R—l address you from a sick bed, from nine!, I may per-
haps never rise, and take Alt% akitage: ot an intelvnl from pain
to send von a draft for Inn guineas, to be applied to the suu-
sc•riptiott for 31r. Ilune, of which pm arc• Tlutl‘llll*Cr.
I am happy, whates er may he the issue it my dines, to be
able tumark my althorn nee of the tyi aiiiiical,
and pet scenting spirit whien was m.inite•ted on the late
trials,—my contempt for the spiteful imbecility which urged
a cuntinnaitee of them, after the to lore of the lirst, and my
ailintralion of the intrepidity and Ability of the individual who
so triumphantly defeated the oteatest and must dani,cloils
cow-piracy of the year 1817.
I fear my letter will be hardly legible, as I have some dilfi-
cultv in even holding my pea. I ant, Sir, )our obedient hum-
ble servant, SEFTON.
To It. Waithrnan, Esq.

An official abstract of the slave population of the
island of Barbadoes satisfactorily proves, that a due at-
tention has been paid to the increase of that class, by
the only lawful means ot adding. to its numbers. It ap-
rears that 'wady one third of the ptpulation are trout
11.) years downwards, and more than one half front 2t.)
rears downwards. It is remarkable also, how small is
the total number of Africans, compared with the whole
of the inhabitants of Barbadoes ; the fort= attiounting
to only 5,41,16; Ca:latter to 71,4j2.