The National Register.
London, England, 1816-12-23 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONDON :
MONDAY, DECEMBER 23.

This day being appointed for the farther examina-
tion of the persons confined on the charge of riotous
and illegal proceeding on the day of the meeting in
Spa-fields, it is expected, in consequence of what was
stated by the Chief Magistrate on Wednesday, that the
greater number of them will be fully committed for
trial.

It will be observed, from our report, that on Satur-
day, in the Ward of Farringdon Without, Mr. Thomp-
son, one of the city declaimers, reprobated the conduct
of the Lord Mayor fur " wasting so much time in the
perusal of the hoaxes respecting young Watson." What-
ever may be our notion of tie political sentiments of
Mr. Alderman Wood, we did suppose that there would
be but one opinion, and especially among his professed
adherents, on the patience, industry, and fortitude with
which he has exercised his magisterial functions under
the late difficult and delicate circumstances; and we

know no motive why these should be impugned by the
oratorical gentlemen; unless it be that their jealousies
have been excited, and their indignation awakened, by
the approbation expressed of the deportment of our prin-
cipal municipal officer, by the noble Secretary for the
Home Department. These humble opponents of the
Court, existing in public notoriety only by the resist-
ance they give to the measures of government, sicken
with vexation and disappointment whenever it happens
that any concurrence can be produced between their
old friends and the advisers of the Crown : their lan-
guage is the same as that which has been ascribed to
the self-constituted patriots in a neighbouring kingdom,

" Perisse la patrie,;' &c.—" Perish the country, if we
and our comrades have no share in, its controul."

The Galen, after a rapid passage of nineteen days
from Boston, has brought very recent intelligence from
the new world. The republican ship Prometheus, Capt.
Wadsworth, had arrived from Cronstadt with fresh dis-
patches for the government at Washington relative to
the late differences with the Russian Court. It was
expected that the Consul of Alexander, with whose al-
lodged misconduct the dispute originated, would be re-
called, and that the amicable relations of the two states
would be perfectly re-established. The truth is, that
there is nothing in Vattel, or his precursors Grotios and
Putfendorf, the text writers on the law of nations, that
can, in any way, justify the Russian Amloassador or his
master in the resentment that has been expressed on ac-
count of the juridical proceedings that have been com-
menced (and abandoned) under the criminal charges
exhibited against the commercial agent of the Em-
peror.

Accounts have been received from Constantinople
which state, that the strong measure of the new capi-
tation tax has been carried into effect under nn onion-
nance from the Grand Seignor. The form of this in-
strument is the shortest that can be contrived—
• sle tole, sic jubee, stet pro retie's.. volurhaq."
The mandate has been read, not only in the Armenian
and Greek churches, but in the Jewish synubti;ues,

• all the campaigns of his uncle for the last ten years; ."'""P' Pm"' "" " eie• vs.tt. .1 here I.n'airraity ',pea nee:twin
and Ii• il.noirnitv to the British who fell into his hands, The mandate has been read, not only in the Armenian loped!. ,o, Gn noi,ic, anJ, accord:Jg to ttt aprearaner, aol
11•4 prisoners, in the Peninsula, was very conspicuous. • and Greek churches, but in the Jewish syntipi;ues, the lot time."

IER 23.

The French papers contain one most singular piece
of information. They state, that the English Govern-
ment intends to employ the sums which they receive
from the war contribution in buying into the French
funds ! This, we suppose, is an ingenious mode adopt-
ed by the French journalists to hint what they wish.
Doubtless the French Government would be very glad
to procure buyers; but that the English Government,
when it has so much need of its money to fill up the
deficit of its own revenue, should throw it away upon
so wild a speculation, would betray something more
than common insanity.

Saturday, we received Boston and New York papers
to a very late date, to the 30th of last mouth. Congress
were to meet on the 2d inst.

We lately stated that the French Minister in America
had taken great offence at a toast given at a public
dinner at Baltimore by Mr. Skinner, the Postmaster.
He requested of the Government of the United States
to dismiss him. The obnoxious toast is thus given, and
a most offensive one it is :—" The Generals of France
in exile, the glory of their native land, not to be dis—
honoured by the denunciation of an imbecile tyrant."

" BOSTON, NOV. 26;

" The misunderstanding between Russia and the
united States, which was at first said to be of a tempo.
my or trivial nature, is now declared to have assumed
e most serious appearance, giving rise to long negocia-
tions, and connected with the appointment of Pielney,
as Ambassador to the Russian Court.

" BOSTON, NOV. 27.

"RUSSIA AND AItENICA.—The last European ad-
vices mentioned, that the Emperor Alexander was in
Warsaw in September List. This place is short of 700
miles distance from Petersburgh ; and of course com-
munications between them would not consume the time
of a fortnight. As nearly a month intervened between
the arrival of Mr. Coles, at St. l'etersberg, and the de-
parture of the Promethus, and no such communication
had taken place, the public may conclude, either that
the explanations made were not considered of importance
authcient to require immediate attention, or that the
Emperor, notwithstanding all his pacific principles, is
not unwilling to quarrel with the United States.
" A Gentlemen in Abington, Virginia, has received
letter from his friend in N atchery Fenn, dated the
17th ult. giving the import intelligence, that a dmft
was then making of a body of Militia, to go against
the Spaniards."
We collect from the National Intellig,encer that the
following is the exact state of relations between the two
Powers, as far as was known in America when the last
advices came away :

" Mr. Weir, Consul of the United States at Riga, is
arrived at the seat of Government, with dispatches from
Mr. Harris, Charge des Affaires of the United States at
the Court of Russia. So much had transpired, that the
arrest and confinement of Mr. Kasloff, the Russian Con-
aul.general at Philadelphia, on a charge for an imputed
criminal offence, had, under the influence of Mr. Misch-
koff 's representations, created some dissatisfaction.in the
Imperial Government, which manifested itself in the
temporary prohibition of Mr. Harris from attending the.
Russian Court, and in the orders which, it is already
understood, have. terminated Mr. Daschkofrs mission in
America. So soon as the Government of the United
States became acquainted with the displeasure of the
Emperor in the affair, no small alarm was evident at
Washington ; and the late Secretary of the President
was sent in the Prometheus with dispatches, containing
friendly assurances of the iendly disposition of the
American Government towards Russia, and proposals
which it was fondly hoped would be entirely satisfactory
to the offended Monarch."
It is stated in the American letters, that a squadron,
under Capt. Morris, is about to sail for the Graph of
Mexico, to protect the trade of the United States there
from the depredations both of Spanish and.. piratical
cruisers.

Accountsfrom Leghorn, dated the sth ult. brought
by a Flanders mail, state, that the plague had appeared
in the lazaretto at Tripoli ; that five persons had al-
ready died, and seven others were infected with the
disease.

The Ghenl Journal contains the following para-
graph :—" The prohibition of the export of grain ap-
pears to exist in thet. We ]curt from Antwerp, that
the permits granted to several vessels which were loaded
and ready to sail at Antwerp have been withdrawn."

General Bernard, lute a Lieutenant-General' in the
French army, is now at Washington, and we understand
has accepted en appointment in the Engineer Depart-
ment of the American at•my.