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THE NATIO NAL REGISTER.

MIN 1)ON :

SUND.IY, AUGUST 9, isis.

I r is with much pleasure that we are enabled to an-
,nettitec the continued state of improvement in the
Queen's health. Her Majesty has found herfelf, for
*cote days past, better than during the whole of the
preceding three weeks. We understand, that when
she remains quite tranquil, and is not labouring under
:tll immediate paroxysm or spasm, she does not expe-
rience much pain. Her appetite has fortunately not
failed her throughout her illness. Madame and Miss
Beckendorf are the constant and only ottendants of her
Majesty, and they have been in waiting alternately
adoring the whole period of residence at Kew
The report received yesterday morning from Kew,
was, that " her Majesty has Lad a good might, and
remains much the saute."

We have received the Paris Papers of Wednesday
last, from which we have made the following extracts.
The French Funds still continue to rise, the Five
per Cents. on Tuesday being as high as 78f. 36c.
It' the Emperor of Austria intend being present at
the approaching Congress, and if any reliance may be
placed upon an article from Vienna, it is certain that
Congress will not commence its sittings for some tilte
,yet. It is there stated, that -the Emperor and Empress
et Austria will decidedly set out for Munich about the
middle of this month, and it is intimated they wife
return to Vienna again, -Leon his Imperial Majesty
proceeds to Aix-la-Chapac. We -observe, also, that
the latest advices from Petersburgh, are entirely silent
as to the time when the Emperor of Russia will quit
-his capital fur the same destination. The King of
Prassia, too, is still the guest of Alexander.—From all
these circumstances, we think it caremely improbable
that the Congress will open its sittings in the course of
the present month.
Intelligence from Francfort mentions, that •the terri-
torial arrangements between Bavaria and the Duchy .of
Baden will lie settled there, and not at Aix-la-Chapelle.

One of the Minor Paris Papers censures the Foreign
Journals for the articles which they have published
relative to the recent conspiracy, and particulary for
tile insinuations thrown out with regard to certain
\lcn►bers of the 'loyal Family. The affair of ('eneral
Cannel came on before the Tribunal of Correctional
Y lice on Saturday week. An immense crowd took
pus-session of the Hall the instant the doors were opened.
(fin the cause being called, M. Couture, Advot ate Ge-
mini, and Counsel fi►r the General, said, that in spite
of all the dispositions they had made to open the plead-
ings on that day, the progress of events had rendered
it impossible to profit by that audience. Celt. Cantlel
was arrested at six u'auck in tie evening of the of

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July. From that moment he bad been kept in dose
ehntinement, and his Counsel had been unable to com-
!mini:ate with hime The Court must recollect, be seid,
that the General het?, on the 21st, expresicd a wish to
be relieved front the extraordinary rigours which pre-
vented him from seeing his friend', in order that he'
might prepare his attack and defence against the action
of Messrs. &weed° and Fabvier. Sunset-vent to that
public declaration U. Cannel submitted to a very long
interrogetory. He ought to know why his liberty bad
been torn from him ; and it was necessary for his advo-
cates to see his, in order tc know his actual resolution, .
Besides, M. Camel was, in truth, the principal plain-
titi; although be bad become incidentully a defendant.
He hal susuntomal witnesses from Lyons, and through-
out all the elepartment of the Rhone; his presence at
their examination was therefore of the greatest impor-
tance. Whatever study his Counsel might apply to his
cause, it would be impossible for them to know nil its
innumerable details like him. The Court had decided
on the t! st ult. that it would hear the parties and their
Counsel ; its wish, therefore, no doubt, was, that the
parties should personally appear before it. He con-
cluded by praying that the cause should be put off for
a fortnight i • that the situation of tee General should
be ameliorated; and that his Cohnsel should have liber-
ty to confer with him, and to ta'.:e his instructions as to
the tapers which have been restored to him. M. Dupin,
the Counsel for M. Senneville, said, he had only op-
posed the postponement of the trial at the last Sitting,
because M. Canuel was free, and present, and no ob-
stuck intervened to hinder him from entering on his
attack and defence. Now circumstances were no longer
the same. The General was in close confinement, and
they cheerfully consented to the delay, but wished it
to be for a month, as he (Dupin) was to be employed
in an important cause to come on before the Court of
Assizes. Mr. Couture, on the part of General Cannel,
opposed any lonizer delay than that of a fortnight. M.
Marchangy, the tiing t Advocate, was of opinion that
the humanity of the Tribunal could not retite a delay,
since it. was at present impossible fin. M. Cannel to ap-
pear before it. The infigmation, hmvever, against the
General anti kis associates was going on rapidly, and
probably the close confinement would he tal:en oil. next
der. The Court deliberated for a qu:eu.r of an hour,
and the President declared the cause put °nail the 1 Bth
of August peremptorily. M. Depin said, it would be
impossible fur the Counsel of Messrs. Senneville and
Fabvier to be prepared in so short a time. They knew.
that General Canuel had cited those two Gentlemen
for calumny; but they knew no more. After some
further conversation, the Court put off the cause till
Saturday the 7th of November.

A letter from Ceylon states, that afars throughout
that island are in a state of more alarming confusion
than at uny former period. Martial law was proclaim-
ed on the 2d of March throughout the whole interior
of the country.; a general order having been previously
issued, directing that neither money nor ammunition
should be removed from certain posts therein particular-
ized, without an escort of 20 men. The Governor was
obliged to concentrate his force in the neighbourhood
of Candy, where his various detachments had been
threatened by the natives. 'The Dassawe of Ourab
occupied part of our troops in Lower Ourah ; while
the Pretender, as he is called, or some of his adherents,
Lung upon our communications between Candy and
Columbo. The natives are represented to have got
together both ammunition and arms. The most me-
lancholy prospects seem to haunt the minds of oer
countrymen, whose interests are involved in those of
the British settlement at Ceylon,; and strong wishes are
expressed that its local administration should be placed
immediately under the direct control of the Governor
General of India.

The American papers describe, in a way which de-
mands some &lions notice, the trial and Lxecation,
with the alleged oil aces, of Messrs. Armbrister and
Arbuthnot, both acknowledged to he RdCs% sabjects,
and accused of et-itacs against the United Statcs. As
tiir the crimes in qaestion, ei.. 1. The supplying the
Indians " with munitions of war," it scenes to have
been done in the way of traffic ; Messrs. Arbuthnot,
&e. having supplied the 'lndians with dried goods anti.
a small portion of powder, wit:lola which they could
not carry on their business of hunting—in return fur
which they received skins and corn to the amount of
4,0001. General Jackson's soldiers destroyed this pro-
perty. 2. Messrs. Arbuthnot, &c. were said to have
been spies upon the Americans. Now they were taken
in a neutral garrison, when it was attacked by the
American force ; how, therefore, could they be pu-
nished as spies upon the Amcricstns? The fact is re-
presented to bc, that these Ezsglish subjects were
merchants trading with the Indians, .and much re-
spected by them; and that Mr. Arbuthnot -ntwasionally
wrote letters for tho unfortunate people to the diritish
Ambassador, complaining of the depredations and rob-
beries committed upon them by the virtuous Georgians;
—these, we are told, were their crimes. We think
that the British Government is bound to make a strict
and resolute, though temperate, inquiry into the fair-
ness of their trial, and the justice of their execution :
fi:r, certainly, nothing yet appears to prove that they
had fuzilitcd the protection ef their native country.

i.te. 9

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The Parlinaltht wsts Pug prorogued & Commission nv
Tucidny, but by writ; consequently there were I,u
Coy inilsioners,

The form of proceeding was as follows:—.
The Commons being et the door of the House, were
admitted on the Chnuocllor's taking his seat, and went
up to the bar ; when the Lord Chancellor stated, that
the Prince Regent, in the name and on the behalf of
his Nlajesty, had (ans.:a a Writ to to issued under the
Great Seal, for prorog►:i►g the Parliament: and the
sum being read by the ('!irk, the Commons withdrew.
The Deputy Clerk of the Crown delivered in at the
table the Return of the 16 Peers chosen for Scotland.

The Loll:: present were, the Chamaur, Earl Purvis,
and Lord St. I ; and the Parliament is prorogued
to the &1 of October.

The Clerks find other inferior servants of the House
of Commons represented the Lower House: the Speaker
attends on ordinary occasions of prorogation, but as no
Speaker yet viists fur the new Parliament, that form
was of necessity dispensed with.

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