The National Register.
London, England, 1816-10-07 00:00:00

BARBARY POWERS.

One of the Journals alludes to certain plans form-
ed by Buonaparte for the effectual eradication of piracy
on the Mediterancan coast of Barbary ; and from an ofli•
cial source we arc enabled to add some further particu-
lars on the subject. In the time of Louis XIV. two
projects were deposited in the public archives, one fin.
the seizure and colonization of Egypt ; and the other
for doing the same with that long stripe of coast con-
tiguous to the sea, and extending from Sallee to Tunis.
These projects were found during the time of the Con-
vention ; and it is well remembered that the first was at-
tempted, and failed through the valour of our naval and
military Commanders.
When Napoleon found France deprived of Colonies,
he turned his attention to the execution of the second
project ; and concerted the means whereby he might
obtain possession of the above mentioned range of coun-
try, capable of growing all colonial productions, and by
many pronounced congenial to the species of the East
Indies.--Spain had agreed to co-operate, and to give up
Ceuta ; the troops under Junot, which afterwards went
to Portugal, were understood to be destined fly the enter-
prize ; and, in fact, they first took the routs to Cadiz, and
one of the General's Aid-de-Camps arrived there to make
preparations. The basis of this plan was, to give freedom
to the Arabian and Moorish inhabitants, allow them to

choose their own form of government, expel the Turks,
hold the commanding points, encourage colonization,
and lay a basis of industry, which would change the pur-
suits of the inhabitants, and eventually redound to the
benefit of France by supplying her with colonial produce
that she could only obtain from the growth of her ene-
mies.

From the time of Selim Eutenal, the last Arabian►

Prince, the Government of Algiers has been usurped and
transferred to the Ottoman Porte, merely to give strength
to this usurpation. The pursuits of the inhabitants are
agriculture, and the care of flocks ; piracy is exclusively
in the hands of the Turks. The chief inhabitants of this
place are Jews, Moors or Coulolis ; to them the greatest
part of the houses and shops belong.—The barracks, ar-
senals, Dey's Palace, and dwellings of the chief Officers,
are nearly all the Turks possess, within the walls ; their
greatest wealth is in country villas.—No sooner is the
town threatened by an enemy, than they send their riches
into the interior, and the Christian slaves, chained two
and two, go with them.—There they remain till the dan-
ger has subsided.
But even the State reaps profit from a bombardment,
if it be attended with no other consequences.—All the
houses demolished belonging to Jews or Moors, it' not re-
built within a year, are sold, by law, fin. the benefit of
the Regency.--The bombardment of the French twice
produced a new Dey, but still the piratical system was
unchanged.
A party of Tunisians is said to have appeared lately
on the Roman Coast, and carried off two vessels with
their Crews. The robbers, however, are supposed to
have perished on the coast of Elba.—Thus the elements
inflicted that punishment, which the Italians should have
done.—lt is the cowardice and indifliTence of these
Powers which has rendered the Pirates so audacious ; but
if they had beet as careful of the persons and property of
their subjects, as they have been negligent, the contemp-
tible flotillas of the southern shores of the Mcditeraneun
would not have insulted their coasts, ;tin' bearded them
in their own creeks and harburs. These things were
arranged hater in Buonaparte's time ; and Lord Ex-
mouth has just given a lesson to the Barbarians, which
they will not forget for some years. It is our fate to bleed
and conquer for Governments who have not the courage
to defend themselves ; and who have then the ingratitude
to accuse of not having done emage. in revenging /heir
quarrel. There is not a people, or a Government on the
Continent, who do not te;:at our services in this manner ;
who do not even strain ingenuity to discredit our motives;
and tvlio do not pay us in commercial restrictions for the
110.0 am:l tr..:v.,.,rft we have rrofuseiy sh‘d in their

TILE NATIONAL REGISTER.

THE PORT-FOLIO.

No. I.

Fifteen Historical Pictures hare been ordered by
the French Minister of the Interior of the same num-
ber of artists. The choice of the subjects is left to the
artists ; but the whole must be finished for the Exhibi-
tion of 1817.

The Academy of Fine Arts, at Paris, have adjudged
the prize of Architecture to a young naii, aged 91 ; and
that of Musical Composition to aoother, aged 23.

Most of the bronze statues occupying the first apart-
ment of the ltegj Studj at Naples, were taken from
the ruins of Herculaneum. They arc not only free
from injury, but their surface is so exquisitely restored,
that they appear to have but recently issued from the
mould. Among these statues are, larger than life,
Augustus, Mammius, Maximus, Caracalla, Annius,
N'erus, Drusus, Nero, and a Pietas. The drapery is
beautiful ; and on that account, being in bronze, they
are unique.
A religious Monument Is about to be erected at
Bmtteaux, to the memory of the Victims of the Siege
of Lyons.

The excavations of Pompcia are suspended for the
present. The paintings of the Amphitheatre, lately
discovered, have been effaced by the action of the air:
fortunately some eminent artists had previously taken
drawings of them.
A superb monument, executed in Italy, is now on
its way to this country, to be erected in the beautiful
new church at Weymouth, to the memory of the late
Sir James l'ulteney.
M. Schmidt, piano-maker, in the Rue des Bons-
Enfans, has invented a nautical machine of the greatest
simplicity, by means of which, in the most stormy wea-
ther and in the midst of the most violent tempest, any
person may contend against the waves and be preserved
from shipwreck. He calls it the Parapantic Chair.

MM. Geyser, canton of Berne, Switzerland,' re-
siding at La Chaux-de-Fonds, have exhibited to the
Genevese Society for the advancement of the arts, a
wheel which seems to turn of itself, and of which the
most skilful artists cannot discover the moving prin-
ciple, which the artists keep a secret. The Society
admire the execution of the machine, and acknowledge
that the effect is very striking. Probably it is on a
principle, which applies, as a moving power, the elasti-
city of the atmospheric air to an exhausted cavity
which Is made to turn out of the centre of the mass by
uniform pressure,

According to a late Exposition of the present state of
French Literature, nearly ready for publication, it ap-
pears that the number of Authors, now living at Pans,
is 4997. Many English authors have been tempted to
offer their works to the b(xAsellers in Paris ; the book-
sellers in London being unwilling or unable to purchase
copy-rights.

On the 20th ult. a young German, aged 17, received,
front the University of Heidelberg the degree of Doctor
of Laws, having studied that science ten years, and
having gone through his examination with the greatest
honour. At the age of thirteen he was a Doctor in
Philosophy, and at fourteen a Member of the learned
Society at Wattereau.
Messrs. Parrot and Englehanit (Germans) have de-
termined, with great accuracy, the respective levels of
the Black and Caspian Seas, anti it appears that the lat-
ter has sunk 200 feet, and has lost :10,0(X) square leagues
of its surface. The Mediterranean was determined by
the French to be 27 feet lower than the Red Sea; and
the Pacific Ocean is known to be 23 feet higher than
the Gulph of Mexico.
They write from. Naples, that a Neapolitan Physician
has lately found out a native opium, more efficacious
than that of the Last Indies, fwhich Europe pays
such large sums.
A valuable horse died n few-days ago, at Workington.
Hall, in Cumberland, the property of I'. C. Curwen,
Esq. The animal having shown no signs of previous
illness, its body was opened, when a large stone, which
weighed five pounds six ounces was taken from the in-
testines.

On Sunday se'nnight a considerable quantity of sil-
ver coin, amounting to upwards of one hundred pieces,
of the reigns of Marv, Elizabeth, and James I. were
found in an inelosure from Nike C'ommon, near Mad-
ford, in the allotment belonging to Mr. George Eddi-
son, of Holbeck. These pieces are of:different sizes, of
the intrinsic value from three-pence to eighteen-
pence, and were turned up by the plough in a loose and
detached state. The rumour of the dit:eovery of hidden
treasure, attracted a vast number of people to the place,
but the fortunate adventurers were principally a num-
ber of children who were playing in the field, and who
first made the discovery. One of the pieces which we
have seen, indeed the . only. one, is a thin light silver
coin of the cireum.;•rrnce .!;-• half'-q-erown. On the ob-

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--ELIZABETH J : : ANG FR. ET 111.
beth, by the grace df God Queen of England, France
and Ireland ;—and on the reverse the arms of England
surrounded by the motto—rosy' °Ey : ADVITOREM
MEV —I have made God my helper.

The arranging the paintings of the French School
in the three first saloons of the long gallery of the
Museum having been finished last numth, the Flemish
School has also been put in order in the three saloons
that thllow the first. The paintings of this school offer
such a variety as was never before seen in this sanctuary
of the arts, with the sole exception of some few paint-
ings of the first musters, so that we think the meet
difficult connoisseur will have little to regret. The
famous Gallery of Iteubens, comprising twenty-four
paintings of a large size, may be considered as the
foundation of this new edifice, or we should rather say,
they form the principal ornament ; and whilst this col-
lection forms in itself a particular collection, it by no
means diminishes the beauty of the paintings that sur-
round it.

Amongst the grand compositions of the same School,
two denn-colossal paintings of Reubens, are remarkable,
us they have been seen in France but very lately. The
one represents the Triumph of Religion,—the other a
Hermit in the Desert, assisted by an Angel—Saint
Charles Barromeus, by Van Oost. The two subjects of
the History of Saint Gervais and Saint Protheus, by
Philip de Campaigns ; Christ on the Cross, and Dio-
genes, both by Reubens ; the Sellers driven by Christ
out of the Temple, the Twelfth Cake, and the King
drinks, by J. Jordaens; some paintings by Gaspard de
Grayer, the rival of Reubens, and often his equal ; the
fine paintings by Vandyke, and several others too long
to be here detailed, will form this part of the precious
collection.

There arc some others by Gerard now, Carlo, Du
Jardin, Teniers, Ostade, Ruys4ael, Wouvermacns,
Puil Potter, Van Huysum, Berghcm, Winants, Van
de Velde, Cuyp Vander Werf, Rembrandt, and Bank-
nvsen, who have so finely excelled in the beauty of the
colouring, that to mention their works merely would be
doing them great injustice.

From the LONDON G.IZETTE, Tueslay, Oct. 1.

Foreign Oiler, 01.1.

The Prince Regent has been pleased to approve of Mr. George
Setniri, as Consul at MaLa for the sublime Ottoman Porte.
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From SA TUIIDA I'S LONDON GAZETTE, Oct. 3.

(This Gazette notices the wnvnlucti n to the Prince Re-
gent or Mons. de Frit re, as Minister from Poi rural. Also that
the Prince Regent has appointed Rear I,,ia,tral Sir I)asii:
Milne to be a Knight Commander of the Bata. Also Baron
Van de. Capelien, Vicc-Ailmiral of the Hatch Fleet, to be an
Honorary Knight Commander of the Bath ; and Captain Bris-
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Aqmero. in consideration of the distinguished services °llium
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