The National Register.
London, England, 1820-04-03 00:00:00

THE QUEEN.

Letters have been received in town from her
Majesty the Queen of England, dated Rome, the
16th ultimo. Her Majesty complains of not having I
received any messenger from Government, announc-
ing the demise of our late lamented Sovereign. Her
Majesty states, that the Hanoverian Minister and
British Consul, and all persons connected with the
British Government, treat her with great indignity ;
they continue to call her Princess Caroline of Bruns-
wick. Her Majesty also expresses dissatisfaction at
the conduct of the Roman Government ; she had
always a guard allowed her as Princess of Wales,
but that has been refused her since she became
Queen, because the British Government has not
acknowledged her under that title. Her Majesty
expresses a great wish to have Buckingham-house
for her palace; she desires that the servants of the
late Duke of Kent, or those in tl►e service of his
Royal Highness the Prince Leopold, may be em-
ployed for her in preference to any others; and her
Nlajesty'also desires, in the event of the refusal of
Government to find her a palace, that a house may
be taken for her near Dover. Her Majesty was to
leave Rome on Monday, to proceed from thence to
Pesaro, and from Pesaro to England, without delay.
Her Majesty may be expected to arrive in a month
or five weeks.
Copy of a letter from the Secretary of State's
office in Rome, to the Queen of England's Cham

" Feh-nstry the 24th, 1820.
" The Cardinal Secretary of State leceiv.d yesterday evening
the request. to eaose &guard to be ',limed tt the door of the men-
tioned palace, and likewise was nit.de known to hint that a
cattegorica/ answer wad expected upon this subject.
"' The observations which the ahote sal I Cardinal made yes-
terday morning, verbally. when you. by o den, you had received.
called :.t his apariatteutz, not hat .ng pc, netted hint to answer
directly to the royal personage whit i id hi •I the honour to write
to hint, is tinder tile necessity of re..uestin , you to lay betare the
ante the
I i is I holiness s government aunt g ant the guard to my
Lady the Countess tlldi. No gu rd is gt ,e to private persons ;
and witer• even royal Princes travel incog tt n, under a private
name, they do rot receive this eLs:inetton. There is actually at
Home ill instance of this. The Papal G ivettiment did not fail
in p.-;ing this honour to the Printers of Waks, during her stay
in this capital on u former occasit n. The royal perton, however.
who Itai row come to Runic. is not amottoced as the Prince:is of
Woles, but as die Queen of Eng?: nd, :utd for Lida the guard is
qtit,te.l.
But as no eommun'eation 1.3 s h x] made in his Holiness's
Government. by the rid of Ins Alaj.:,ty ilie King of
Engh.rol and II:./atIVCT, Vl-11 Sh Imo. that has taken ilace,
nor upon the rank of the said lteyal Perron, the Papal Gotott-
went sloes not know that the En4Lisa is in itcnie, and
111 conm queue,: cannot I,t ant a get.rd to tate same:
•• Whenever the Goverionetit of hs liohnes, finny rcceito front
th...t of his litjesty the King or England and Hanover the usual
notification upon the change t att h takto place A 101 toe Royal
Person in question. lie t+ill 10 Alec.. it imio•riotts duty to pay
to the Queen of England all tae he-treirs due to tier.
(Slimed) " C I. (ONSAEVI."

In an article on the recent alarms, the Edinburgh
Review has an article containing useful information
respecting the plots, and ably examining the evi-
dence adduced at the several periods, and it observes,
" If we shall ever live to see the country cuted of
its truly mortifying, we may Pay, humiliating, pro•
pensity to be the easy dupes of such panics, as often
as any tottering Government finds its account in
raising them, this salutary change can only be
wrought by soberly reflecting on the past, recalling
to mind the stories told, and examining these at a
season when the panic having subsided; reason may
be allowed to operate, and demonstrate their false-
hood ; or, at least, by showing that the event has
disproved them. Nothing can be further from our
intention than to deny that a general discontent has
for some years prevailed through the country ; that
it has been on the increase of late; that it especially
nfects populous districts, like those where manufac-
hirers are spread ; that it is ready to be turned by
factious and unprincipled demagogues to dangerous
purposes; that when distress prevails, it is always
most to be dreaded; and that to secure the peace of
the State against its effects demands the vigilant
care of the Executive Government. Whatever be
the more remote origin of this spirit, we conceive
flee load of taxation under which the community
labours, to be the chief proximate cause of its in-
creased diffusion, to which we may add, the gene-
rally prevailing distrust of the Government. That
the old law of the land was amply sufficient to cope
with the disaffected, had it been administered by
steady hands, and accompanied with the spirit of
conciliation, we hold to be equally manifest ; and if
the York trials of 1812—those of Derby—that of
Cashman, &c. did not establish the sufficiency of the
OLD LAW to meet conspirators, rebels, and libellers,
will not the recent events at Leicester and at York
carry conviction home to the minds of all, even to
Ultra Loyalists?—Where, therefore, was the neces-
sity for the new laws, and can they, will they con-
ciliate discontent?"

Letters from Dole state, that a horrible crime,
attended with peculiar circumstances, has been com-
mitted at the village of Ougney. A woman, who
was travelling with a considerable sum of money
about her, stopped at an inn, and asked to remain
there for the night. The mistress of the inn and
her two sons immediately formed a plot to rob and
murder her, and fixed upon the middle of the night
to execute their crime. Their guest in the mean-
time became suspicious, either on account of the sum
of money which she had, or by being struek with the
badness of the physiognomy of her hosts, and could
not conceal her apprehensions. In order to enenu.
rage her, the mistress of the house promised to sleep
with ber, telling her at the same time, that she
would sleep inside. Midnight arrived, the two
sons entered the room without a light, crept up
softly to the bed-side, ascertained with their hands
the position of the two women, andplunged a couple
of daggers into the breast of the nearest of them.—
The woman who was inside shrieked out, and the
brothers started back with horror, perceiving that
they had murdered their mother. It happened that
she had fallen asleep, during which, the traveller,
at the first noise she heard, sprung from the place
she had occupied to the inside of the bed. The cul-
prits are in the hands of justice.

FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
This Gazette notifies, that the King has been pleased to direct
letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for granting the dignity
of u Baronet of the said United Kingdom to Walter Scott, of
♦bbotsford,Esq.in the county ofßoxburgh,and to the heirs male
of his body lawfully begotten..

BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED.
J. Brooks. Great Windmill Street, Westminster, butcher,
from April 4, to 8.
BANKRUPTS.
G. C. Wright and J. Graham, Crooked Lane, upholsterers.
Solicitor, Mr. Pope. Old Beth
J. South, Kingston noon Hull. merchant. Sole. Messrs.
Longdih and Butterfield, Gray's Inn Square.
.1. Farmer, Walsall. Stafford, plater. Sols. Messrs. Turner
and Holmes. Blootnsbury Square.
W. Walker,llamsgatc, butcher. Sul. Mr. Bigg, Southan p
ton Buildings, Chancery Lane.
J. Platte, Clicllaston. Derby, wheelwright. Sols. Messrs.
Long and Austen, Gray's Inn.
T. Harris, Hereford, grocer. Sols. Messrs. Savon and IT'oper.
Temr'

nplc.
T. Dif ton, Tewkesbury. Glocestershite, corn dealer. Sot.
Mr. Windus. Bartlett's Buildings.
J. Donaldson, W. Ace, and S. Mayston, Friday Street,
vn..ehousemen. Sol. Mr. Duke, Old Fish Street.
J. A. Wilkes and T. E. Ilananond, Birmingham, glass toy
rnAlicrA. Sols. Messrs. Tooke and Can, (,r y':. Inn.
.1. '.Voile. Birmingham, mercer. Sol. Mr. Edmunds, I.in
cols's Inn.
G. England. Exeter, blucher. Sols. Messrs. Duke and Co.,
Itul Lion Square.
B. Pater, Halifax. Yorksbin., linen draper. Sols. Me,,r!-.
Wiglesworth and C:o.ley. Cmy', inn.
W. IL !loud, Limehriuse Hole, rope maker. Sol. Mr.
Youi.ger..lol.n Street, .lic.ories.
.1. M'at,on, Huddersfield, York, 11y:rebut. Sul. Mr. Farrcn,
Threa.ii.eedle Street.

ntv;DEN DS.
April S. W. Lewis, and .1. A.llchtle,son, Litt.* Tower Sire et.
wine oxicl.ant.--29, .1. Gib- an t.tal K. ForAer, Doctoie
hice clealerh—T!, S. Youegc, Shdfielol, ruercer-22.
Queenh.the, warehoustinan--..172, T. Dunn, Durhan•.
merchant-22. S. Townslicncl. Cough Sgr•.are, jeweller—i9.
11..Siountenc, high Street, Southwark, statit,uta— 0, A. Heady,

Paris Papers of Tuesday have arrived, which state
that the King of France has been seriously indis-
posed with an attack of the gout in his stomach.
The spasms were so violent on Friday as almost to
prevent respiration. During the night his Majesty.
became worse, and on Saturday he had much fevess,-
the spasms still continuing ; but they at length
yielded to medicine, and on Sunday he was better.
The Moniteur asserts, that the King's indisposition
is slight, and not likely to be attended with any ill
consequences. His health is, however, in a very
precarious state, and every attack occasions in-
creased alarm, as there is no knowing the conse-
quences that would arise from his Majesty's death.
The news from Spain continues satisfactory. The
Constitution goes on well.—Ferdinand seems quite
. enamoured with the new order of things ; hia politi-
cal principles are infinitely more pliable than those of
one of his late Monarchial adherents,General Arizaga,
who has thought fit to die of grief, at St. Sebastian,
in consequence of the triumph of the Cortes ! The
Provisional Junta have represented to the King that
he ought to remove from his service the seventy
persons who, in 1814, signed an Address to the
King, for the subversion of the Cortes. In Valentin
Clete has been a considerable degree of agitation.
General Elid had managed to keep that province in
subjection uutil the moment of the King's orders for
the adoption of the Constitution arriving ; and had
so irritated the populace by his conduct, that he was
obliged to take refuge in the citadel from the fury
of the people. Ile remains there protected by the
honour of his successor. Cadiz had declared for
the Constitution before an account of the events in
Madrid had reached that City. The seal of the in-
habitants, no longer capable of restraint, overpower-
ed every obstacle that opposed their wishes. They
e tcountered some resistance from the garrison, and
received the fire of the troops, by which it is said
about sixteen people were killed ; but the friends of
the Constitution were eventually successful, and on
the 9th of March the Constitution was proclaimed
in Cadiz, in the presence of Generals Freyre and
Villa Vicencio, and the other Generals and Admi-
rals of the army and marine united. In the ex-
cesses which unfortunately either preceded or
accompanied this event, some houses were pillaged,
atul lives were sacrificed to the inflamed fury of the
populace. Among the victims are mentioned the
names of Generals Cumpana and Valdez. On
the 10th General Freyre caused the Constitution
to be proclaimed ut Seville. Madrid continues
to enjoy the most perfect tranquillity. All the
members of the late abominable Inquisition have
received orders to quit the capital, and Fcvcral
persons, who exercised an undue ascendancy over
the King, have been itl,o removed irom ItLout his
person. So soon us the intentions of the Provinces
arc known, it is meant to convoke the Cortes, wl,o
arc expected to meet about the Ist of May.