The National Register.
London, England, 1820-01-24 00:00:00

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LONDON, MONDAY, JA 1!5.`:::11Y 24.
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DRtITH OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE

OF KENT.

This morning General lgoore, arrived at eight
o'clock at Carlton House, in a post chaise and
font, bringing the melancholy tidings of the death
of his Royal Hight-less the Duke of Kent yesterday
inorttinE at 10 o'clock at his cottage, Sidtnouth.

We have received the French Papers of Wed-
, nesday.and-Thursday, and private letters from Paris
written on Tuesday. The latter state, that the Mi-
nisters, Count Decazes and De Serres, arc still
indisposed, and unable to attend to public business.
Tile Cabinet of the Thuilleries are dismayed at the
resistance
,given to their favourite project for altering
t hal,aw of Elections, and are afraid to bring forward
.-the business again until they make some concessions
calculated to insure success in the Chamber of De-
puties, when the question at a future. period comes
under discussion. - For this purpose it is to be de-.
lerred until next June, when the Ministers hope to
,find the Chamber more pliant, should there not in
cthe. interim be a change in Administration, which is
very likely, as Ministers cannot retain their places
with only a paltry majority office. The Paris Jour.
nals are cautiouain commenting on the state ofaffairs
- in Spain, but they admit enough to shew that there
is much insubordination in the army intended to
have been.embarktsLat Cadiz for the subjugation
of the Patriots in the Spanish Colonies. -It is pos-
sible this mutinous disposition
.proceeds from two
. causes, a dislike to the service, and arrears of pay,
...vhich cannot be discharged in the present exhausted
state of the Treasury. The mutiny has been very
sarious, and the country is likely to swarm with
..Guerillas, whose numbers will increase until they.
.become seriously formidable to the Government.
The l'russian Edict against the introduction or
transmission of certain foreign newspapers has been
klt in Germany, none of the Netherland Journals
having reached Frankfort since the 14th. We re-
/juice to find that France is in a most enviable state
of tranquillity, because in that kingdom the freedom
, of the press has nut been assailed, and the people have
the benefit of free and liberal discussion. The Mi-
.nisters of Congress at Vienna continue their confe-
rences; but whether fur the benefit of the Continent
or not, will hereafter appear,
It is reported in the Paris papers, that the Kings
of Spain and Portugal have chosen fbe King of
France as arbitrator to adjust their differences.

THE KING -It is with deep regret•we state,
,that reports were yesterday in circulation at Winds
•sur, that his Majesty was seriously indisposed. It
is more than probable that the present severe
mealier may have produced alarming effects on a
coastitutiou which must be gradually yielding to
the infirmities of great age. The Duke of York on
Tlursday arrived at Windsur, and in the evening
went to Outlands. •On Saturday his Royal High-
MSS returned again to the Castle, where he alt pt.
This continued attendance of the Duke on his Royal
atid venerable Parent has, probably, given rise to
the rumours to which we have alluded.
It islaseertained by tho Leila at the Custom-
louse Meat in the year ending the sth of Iniuury
last the enormous quantity of 26,799,3U9 bushels of
foreign corn and grain were imported duty-tree.
The King of Sweden has issued an ordinance,
prol.ileting the Jews Irons exercising, within his
dominions, any who:mile or retail trade, without
having served an apprenticeship fur the time pre-
et:6l,W, by law.
An article from Stockholm of .the 28th ult.
atates, Oat Lord Sirangford had presented a note
to the Swedish Court, relative tu the commercial
relations of Greut Brilain with Norway ; and to
certain seizures recently made in that cuuniry
of
merchandise claimed by English suljeata.
Persons who have friends in India may be glad to
learn, that, by a recent regulation, newspapers can
be sent to the East 'tidier, upon the previous pay-
ment of one penny for each i to be tilled and
meted as newspapers for the Englih posts.