The National Register.
London, England, 1816-01-07 00:00:00

THE NAATIONAL REMSTER.

lAN. 7.

a
thereond it is to England alone that the whole world must
look for truth and justice.

The message of the President Madison, to the Congress
on the sth ult, is arrived at Washington. He congratulates
the Congress on the happy termination which had been put
to all the wars in which the United States had been engaged,
particularly in that with the Barbary powers. He men-
tions the amicable and commercial relations established with
Great Britain, and the happy effects of a continuance of
such connections. The National Debt he estimates at 120
millions of dollars, which he describes as small, in compa-
rison to the resources of the nation, and he concludes with
congratulating the Congress on the flourishing condition of
the States.

Madame Lavalette not only remains in the Conciergerie,
but she is in close confinement. A letter from Paris says,
" She is not permitted to see any one, nor even to have her
femme de chambre about her ; and she is only known to be
in existence by the permission given to her cook to send her
her dinner throngh the gaolor. If her confinement continue
much longer, in the state of health she is in, it is probable
she must sink undei it, and thus fall a victim to conjugal de_
votion.

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"Her daughter afforded a great proof of sensibility and pre-
sence of mind, in that agonizing moment when the last gate
of the prison was being opened to her father. She remarked
that one of the turnkeys looked at them rather steadfastly ;
upon which she said in a low tone, but loud enough to be
heard, Mamma do not weep so ; we shall see papa again to-
morrow, for he told you so. Among the numeroes visits
made by the Police in search of Lavallette, one is said to
have been to the hotel inhabited by Lord Combermere.
The attempt to escape is always productive of severity to
prisoners, and is, therefore, never to be commended. We
hold it better, as it is nobler, to die even in a good cause
than give occasion to the hardening of the hearts of gaolers
from necessity.

The military Orders which the King of France is going to con-
fer upon the British army, it is said, will be numerous, and are
to be distributed amongst those officers who were at the battle of
Waterloo, and who held military situations in Paris, as under,
viz.—General Officers of Divisions and Brigades; Staff of the
Adjutant-General's Department, of the Rank of I. ield Officers;
Staff of the Quarter.Master-General's Department, of the Rank
of Field Officers; Field Officers who commanded Brigades and
Regiments ; Commandants of Arrondissements of Paris ; Staff
of the Army of the Rank of Field Officers, &c. Sze.
A few days ago there was brought before a Commissary of Po-
lice at Paris, a man of the lower orders, accused of having uttered
seditious language. A woman, who deposed against hint, re-
lated that he said, " I love neither the Hog nor the Sheep ; I
love only the Lamb." " Very well," said the Commissary, .• I
see nothing reprehensible in this; every one has his taste."—
'' What!" replied the woman, " are you then ignorant that
among the lower orders the Hog (Coe4on) means the King,
the Sheep (Mouton) the Duke of Berry, and the Lamb the
king of Rome ?"—A fter this explanation, it is said, the man was
committed.
There was distributed on the 29th ult. to the Members of the
clamber of Deputies, a Reclamation of the Sovereign Order of

St. John of Jerusalem, demanding back the poi Liu n o f its pro
perty in France yet unsold.
A circumstance is mentionedin the French Papers, which will
serve to exercise the ingenuity of political enquirers. It is said,
that both Russia and Prussia have declined to send Commission..
ers to St. Helena ; but not a hint is given which could lead us
to a discovery of the cause.
It is said, that a new Minister is to be sent out to the Court of
Dresden ; and that Fouche has been forbidden to enter France
under the most severe penalties.
A German house, (Roschild and Co.) it is said, has under-
taken to pay the contributions for the French, and ofler to pay
50 millions immediately, the rest in a stated time; France to
repay the sums so advanced in 10 or 12 years with interest. This
same house, it is added, had also taken upon it to pay the Ens,
iglish subsides to the Allied Powers, for one per cent profit.
The Princess of Wales, according to the French Papers, Is,
arrived at Palermo from Genoa.
The Paris papers contain a paragraph, which confirms the.
account of the condemnation of the Spanish Patriots by an
arbitrary decision of their Soveteign.
The Liberalts jug condemned by Ferdinand, as Grand Jude,
have been in prison one year and a half ; which time is not de-
ducted from the periods for which they arc condemned.
Extract of a letter, dated Madrid, December 4:—" whist
the King was lately at the royal retreat of Aranjuez, walking
in one of the garden,, a shut was fired in the direction of his
royal person, of which a Bard-dweorps, who stood near, was the
victim. In consequence of this event, a variety of persons
have been arrested."
According to a letter from Madrid, the marriage of Ferdinand
VII, is no longer an object of speculation ; the Princess is ex-
pected at Cadiz; and the Royal Guards, destined to serve as an
escort, have already set out for that city. The king is 32 years
old, and the Princess he is about to marry, is in her W,d year.
She is the oldest of five daughters of the Prince Regent, and it
called Maria Theresa. It is already rumoured at Madrid, that
a second Princess, who is in ber 19th year, and who is named
Maria Isabella, is to marry another Prince of the august House
of Bourbon, (the Duke de Berri). The last news from Rome
concur with this report. The choice also which the King of
France has made of one of the greatest Lords of his Court—the
Doke of Luxemburg)), as Ambassador to the Court of the Bra-
zils, gives the highest probability to the rumours circulated in
the Spanish capital.
A letter from Naples, dated Dec. 5, says,—A scene ensued
last week at Pizzo, in Calabria, which would disgrace the most
uncivilized hordes of savages. The inhabitants of Pizzo, the
place where Murat was tried and shot, determined to dig again
from the grave the mutilated remains of their former King, for
the purpose of burning them.—The Syndic of the town expos-
tulated with them : exasperated at even an attempt to dissuade
them, they murdered the unforunate Syndic, and dragging the
body of Murat from the grave, they committed it to the flame*
with that of the ill-fated Syndic.—The present Court treats
Englishmen with less attention than ever ; and the disgust:
excited by the treatment received by Lord Beutinck, has caused
many families to winter in Rome and Florence, who intended to
come bete.
An article in the Hamburgh Papers repeats the opinion, that
the Prince of Portugal does not intend to return from the
Brazils to Europe.
Extract of a letter from an Officer on board the United, States
brig Enterprize :—" We remained at Malaga about two, days, -
and then returned to Gibraltar ; here we were joined by all:
Commodore Decatur's sqadron, excepting his own ship. Our.
fleet now consisted of the Independence, Macedonian, United
States, Constellation, Congress, Ontario, Erie, Enterprise,
Chippewa, Saranac, Boxer, Firefly, Flambeau, Torch, Spark,
and Lynx. It was a proud sight for an American to see in a
British port, just at the close of a war with her, which the En-
glish thought would have been the destruction of our navy at
the commencement.—At Malaga the Governor waited on
Commodore Bainbridge on board his ship, an honour which he
never deigned to pay any Admiral before. On our arrival at
Gibraltar, the Commodore fired a salute of seventeen guns,
whi.b was retained with fificca Commodore Bainbridge

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