The National Register.
London, England, 1817-09-22 00:00:00

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PRICE 90.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.
Charnay who duped several people about Bourg and.
Macon, in the pretended character of the Ex-F.:nperor has
been sentenced to five years imprisonment, a fine of 50 francs,
five years surveil/once, and the deprivation of his civil rights
for 10 years.
A dreadful Ere broke nut on the night of the 6th in, t. at
the village of Beanquesne, Moult six leagues from Arnie's,
which destroyed no less than forty-five houses. A great van-
tity of new wheat was unfortunately constmed.
'Flie Minister for the Interior has addr, seed a circular m
the various Prefects ordering them to 'Timis an exited sta..>
went of the number of prisoners in confinement in their de-
partments, up to the Ist of September, with a specification of
the offence of each criminal. These returns are in future to
be transmitted every three months.
An Ordinance of the King dated the 12th inst. runs
follows—

" Having accepted the resignation which has been tea.
tiered to us by our cousin, the Marshal Duke of nitre, we
have nominated, and do hereby notiiinate our cousin the
Marshal Gouvion St. Cyr, Minister Secretary of State of the
War department."
Count Mole, Peer of France, is appointed Minister Se..
cretary of State for the department of Mt.sine.
M. Pichou, Judge of Requests, is charged with a mission
to the French Antilles ; and will immediately set out for them,
accompanied by Lientenant-General Henzelot, who has re.
emit ly been appointed Governor of Martinique.
On the 14th instant, the Court of Assizes acquitted an
English officer of the name of Orlando Lock iers, (Locker, vac
suppose) accused of forgery. This stranger is at Paris.
where, being without money, he gave his tailor a bill of ex.
change for 30 livres, or 700 francs, on Mr. Scppings, inspec-
tor of the Navy at London. Mr. Soppings's purported ac-
ceptallee was discovered to be a forged one ; but it appeared
On investigation that Mr. Lockiers had relied on his brother-
in-law's honouring the bill. Having by other means intim.
nified the plaintiff in this case, Mr. Lockiers was acquitted,
GERMANY.

The " Austrian observer," of Sept. 5, has another article
relative to the pretended protest of of the Ex-Empress Maria
Louisa, in answer to The Antigallican Monitor," of the
Intlt of August, la Welt rails oil " The Contler" to declare by
whom its Editor is authorised to declare the protest a for-
gery ; " Without being answerable for the entire anthentirity
of this protest, 'The Anti-gsllieuie assures us that he knows
for certain, that the Archduchess Maria Louisa did deposit
a protest in the Wails of a confidential mail at Pails, in the
stmeaer if 1814, and another to the Congress at
Vienna iii 1815. 'The Anti-gallican' addoe•es as woofs o
the truth of those assertions, two authorities that are doubt-
less infallible, being articles from the correspondence of
' The A titi•gallieate ef the 19th of Felit nary, mid the
13ril of April,lBlsl Notwithstanding so rtsvctable uu
authority, we again declare, and positively, with the addi.
lion, that we are authorised to make this declaration, not only
that the p.etended Protest of the 19th of February- is a Ma-
ItriallS invention of some Corypimits of the party, which
thinks every means good that con mislead the public mind,
but, also, that the At cluluelless Maria Louisa did never de.
liver any protest, either in the year 1814 at Paris, or in the
year Ibls at Vienna."

DENMARK AND SWEDEN. -
The last aceottuts from Copenhagen and Stockholm are by
no means satisfictory. The West India trade of Drinnark
has proved most unprofitable, and the exchange has been ma-
te' ially affected by the results. In Sweden the pi ()Teel ofa
productive harvest has been &midget by several necks bad
weather, and the population will again, as in former years,
b. compelled to hoport conaiderable quantities of foreign
corn fur subsistence. This will be the more severely felt, es
their means of obtaining snppli..s must be straitened in pro-
portion to the injurious operation of the late prohibitory
regulations so rigidly entbreed by the shallow policy of Ber-
nadotte.

The health of the King of Sweden, it is said, becomes
daily more I:mei:lions, and his increasing weakness to
obliges him to tale less share in this gwicerns of Govern-
ment.

SWITZERLAND.

Letters frcm Lausanne state, that the ever non ing of the
Rhine has desolated the entire tract of countr'y from Ra;nata
to the Lake of Constance. This river, don Mg the night he.
t wren the 27th and 2Stli of Aognst, rose &those all its bacs,
and destroying the greater part, cashed at 01141, into the
piains, and 'Anneal one of the &nest harvests in the memory of
man. Several tarts of Werdenhurg and the Rhintlial arc star
verged. The v,lleys from the middle to near Remaly,: form
an immense lake ; and boats are eritplii ed in eat mg away
various kinds of proterty. Commissiunees of GoAremnant
have re7aired to the Rhinthal, and all the communes vie wall
each other in assisting the sufferers.
SOUTH AMERICA.

Extract of a letter from an officer or the Fire-brand (lately
from Vera Criv), doted Maize, July : - It seems the pa-
triots no longer annoy the royalists beta een the city of Alex•
iro and Vela Cruz. 'File last convoy, a hiilt at rived on the
Lith of June, consisting of 3000 111111(1, atilt six millions of
hard money, was only guarded by fifty nun. This looks like
a' want of force on the part of the patriots. They have
ruined the 1.111/I!llerce, thrown the country a center back,
and rendered every foreisii and domestic product exorbi-
tantly di ar. They have done more—they bitvc broken
the spirit of the people, and rendered them indifferent as
to is ha t Go‘i•ronieeit they may come under."
At ‘11.14R V ARMY OF PERU.—Bulletin No. 21 gives a
narrative of proceedings front May Ist. to the 11th. A petty