The National Register.
London, England, 1820-07-31 00:00:00

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R E cu PAPERS.

PARIS, 3(11X Genoese papers only
notice the Revolution or Naples, by saying that the
latest ndyices front Naples metal= that a change
has taken place in the ministry, and that the whole
political system of the kingdom is on the cve of re-

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generation. ,
Letters from Majorca of the 9th instant import
that the plague continued its ravngcs at San Serra,
Arta, and Cape de Pera, but it had not male much
prop css nt San Lorenzo. lie rest of the island is
in good health. The report at Palma, on the 2d
of July, stated the deaths at 44., recovered 3, sick

2.50,.
The four infected villages contained, previously to
the visitation, 7,564 inhabitants, viz. San Servera,
1,684 ; Arta, 3626 ; San Lorenzo, 1,075 ; and
Cape de Pert, 1,179; of this number 1;250 per-
rolls had died from the commencement of the malady

to the 2d of July inclusively.
The province of Catalonia had sent up, to the
9th inst. to the Board of Ifealth at Majorca, a dona-
tion of 183,00 francs. This sum was distributed
among the unfortunate inhabitants, who were in
want of cmnmon necessaries, and the troops who
form the line of demarcation. The service of the
military is of great importance, as it may be the
means of preservins• the continent from the dreadful
scourge with which it ;s threatened.
A private letter from Toulouse says, that a Swiss
regiment (Steigner's) marched from the garrison of
that city on the '2oth July, to reinthree the cordon
on the frontier. This reinforcement is rendered ne-
cessary, it is reported, from the cordon of health on
the island of Majorca having been forced.
The Monikur contains a royal ordinance, dated
the 19th instant, appointing several new prefects,
and authorizing an interchange of jurisdiction be-
tween others ; two have been susperseded and called
to fill the functions of Masters of Requests ; three
have been superseded without any motives being as-
signed , and the resignation of one has been ac-
cepted.
On Sunday it was reported that M. Hyde de Neu-
ville was appointed ambassador at the Court of the
Brazils, and that the Marquis de Riviere would
give up the embassy at Constantinople to succeed
the deceased Count de Puysegur in quality of Cap-
tain of the Guards of his Royal Highness Mon-
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aieur.
In the siting of the Cortes on the 11th, a pro-
ject of law, which had been submitted to that as-
sembly in 151 4, was again breeght before them.—
It relates to inalienable property (vinculcdioner.)—
The deputies Ledesma and Giralon having observed
that betbre eistis,;ing this important question it
would be useful to have the instructions of the
Grandees of Spain on the restriction of their entails
(majorats), it was answered that the Committee
were empowered to obtain whatever was necessary
fier giving them information on the subject with
which they were charged. The Deputy Isturiz then
niade a proposition, the object of' which was
that the Cortes should declare every species of pro-
perty alienable.
The Minister of Justice, in his report to the Cor-
tes respecting his department, stated, that the King
bad disposed of some prebendaries, to recompense
persons persecuted as partisans of the constitution.
He added, that his Majesty had taken means to pre-
Vent the convents of the Jesuits from being increased
in number. Finally, his Majesty had determined
that the Jesuists should not, in future, inta.fi:re
with public education.
Several canons have been arrested at Seville, for
being concerned in the late attempts there to subvert
the constitution. One of the ex-Deputies arrested
in that city, Ostulazza, was confessor to Ferdinand
(luring his captivity at Valencey, and has since been
rendered notorious by a politico-moral sermon,
preached at Cadiz. and profase:y circulated through-
out the winde of Spain.
Accounts from Galicia say that a conspiracy has
been discovered at St. lago de Compustello ; iu can-
sequence of which several persons of distinction
have been arrested.

Ritz°, who succ!.:edcd Quiroga as commander of
the army in the Isla de Lcon, artivc.l at Cadiz on
the sth iipstant.

The Duke of Gurdun was lust week married, at
the kirk of Fochaheas, to Mrs. Christie, a person
about 40 years of awl with v.lioin tha Noble
Duke has been intimately acquainted for many
year. Mrs Christie has one son aiat three daughters.
IF she now elioall have a son, he would succeed to
the Dukedom on the failure of issue-mule by the
JAarquis of Huutley.
On Thursday, the wife cf a gentleman's servant
was safely delivered of three far: boys, at
the British Lying-in Hospital, in Brownlow-street,
who, with the mother, are likely to do well.
The widow of Arthur T ig Inv nod has returned
to her friends at Horncastic, accomponitd.by
t'Le iNitirnate son of her late husband.

VIE REGISTER.

T.LIE PRE-VINT CiIARGBS AGAIYST
THE QUEEN•

The enormity of the present charges aLr,...inst the
Queen has made many converts to the uptnion of
her guilt--to we be to say, that the precision,
time, place, and respectability of the parties bring-
ing ferward the charges against her fourteen years
ago were much more appalling ; and to convince
them we are right in our as.:ertidn, we extract the
fidlowing from a biographical sketch of her, which
upttearsti in the last number of The Loudon Maga-
zine, premising that all the routine of anonymous
letters, and every other infamous practice, had been
first resorted to, to injure this widowed wife:—
" 'fitese having entireiy fail( il in ;audacity, any utipleasatit
consequences to the Princess, John matte a foren.,l decla-
ration Oa the third of the ellbti I Decouti. a agaiu•t tier, ion
matters of Still greater import, and a Melt was materially
count eyed tt ith her honour and lire. This was submiited.by
the Prince to the late Lord Thurlow, who said, that its the
Urn al PliVecsiiiiia might he affected by the alkged facts if
Iran. it a as the duty of his !loyal Hic newts to lay the whole
case before tlrt King. 'fins ans done siccordiatgly, after
some fresh depositions writ oliciined ; raid on tie t 9.11 of
clay, tathi, toe and (Steatitics Krieg then its ad-
atin.sttat Mit, his Sate Alajesty issued u ronuuissiuo, directing
Lord Erskihe, the then Chau...liar), E Spencer, (oiie of
the Seerelaries Of Stale), Lai il euville, Sthe first
limier of t lie l'rearairy Land Lot d ustice I:lleilbui tough,
to itiquire, into the troth of till the written declutatithis
touching the conduct of the Princess of Wales. These Noble-
elicit proceeded immediately to execute their commis ton.—
The deposition tit Charlotte, Lady Douglas, wits nby
them of toe Ist I//' Julie. the third day after Slier appoint-
ment. Toe substance of her blitteilielit was--.ilat, while
residing on Blackheath. she hist lee came acquainted with the
Princess in A, liV. 1601 ; lies' lt,liiiliighaess, attended by A
lady, having walked tae snow, passed by her
window several cams, for the purpose of being asked in:
that after this, she and S r Juiw were frequently invited to
dine at Alontague House; that in May or J tom, ISO/, I lie
PrinCeSstii6t Old the &lament she was pregnant, and %could
give the Prince of %Vales the rerdit of being lite father of
tile child, as she had slept tan nights at Carlton House
a the year. That the pregnancy of the l'rin, ess ap-
peared to demur ist to be very visible; hut that her dress
was contrived to cauceal it; tats was in the cod of October
ISO/: that to December fiction ing deponent went to Clem-
tershire, and staid there a month; that a lieu She returned
in Jan. 1.-OJ, and called at Al oatague-house, she sON a child
with the Princess, which her Royal highness described, as
i'eponent uaderstood, to be the child of which site heiself
had been delivered. Time di puneut positively sit ore the
Princess was pregnant iti It:02 ; and that her litt3'ul ll'gh-
ness had frequently made gross awl indelicate declaratiotrs
to her.
Tile deprisit ion of Sir John Douglas was very short. The
(tali material alle_ation in it W:O3 that be swore the Princes.
ap,lCaft.ti to him to be pregnant
" Tile eVidellee of tilebe tun parties was littcznilded to he
sasta.- ail ay that of meeeral peismis w Ito had lived :is ier-
vanta with the Princess, :ruin th.• tmie sit, nail resided at
Carlton House : most M. their soil 4311,"111S, however, Were
hostile to those of Sir Jolla and Lady Dicaglas. Charlotte
Sailer, a German feithih., who attended on the Princess as
he r dresser, ',we're that the chill alluded to by Lily Dote: Jae:,
wits brought to the Princess by ii o mono mooed Austia,
whose Iwsh;u,d corked in (he doek•v aril tit Deptford.—
' The Princess,' said she, was not ill or indisposed in the
Autumn of I is'o4. She could not be ill or indisposed wit limit
may know ing it. lam sures lie was not contioed to het room,
it to her bed in that Antonin; there sit,s not tie toy kilo w-
ledge! any other child in the house; it aas possib:e
there could have been rally (once rut lit thew wilhoal my
iug it. I into no recollection that the Princess had
grown bigger in the year le(,/, Vital usual. I am sari, that
the Princess aas not pregita,t ; being her Messer, I must
hive situ it if she was. I solemnly alai posit ivei y swear,
have no [raison to know or believe that( the I'tini•tssof Wales
has been at :my iliac pregnant during the time that I have
lived with her at Ai mitague llous.-. I never heard tiny body
say any thing about the Princess being ;argil .lit till agate
hot e tu.day. I n. vor had any reason to sai,plise that the
Princess received the visits of any gentlenitoi at improper
hours.'
" Fiances Lloyd, another servant, bore testimony to the
child having been Intim:lit to Alontaglic-litaise by its
mother, abuse mane was Austin, and who cried at part.
ing with il, and said slit could not milord to heti, it. A
similar evidence was give:a lay Mary Ann W ikon, who
declared site never noticed the shape of the Princess in
ISO to be dillereut room what it had !wen before. Thos.
t.tikenian, a page to the Plaices., gave an account of the
eiiiid tarring been brought by its mother, Mrs. A omits,
and of the Princess never having; the appeatanee of preg-
nancy. The same thing aas !Stilted hy Mr. gicard, tier
stew ard, tool other with' sser ; and, its short, a III:1,S of
evidi..cee Welit etc...fly to pt eve that ml the statements of
Lady Othighis were it;ro-s talselionds. The ertivery ul
Sophia Austin of her mule child r 1 ilhain, in Brow 'duct
Stieet Hospital, was poured by h, r ultra Mid either rVllleitCe,
its NCI as the regiso y of its baptism ; and also its Ming tai.en
under the protection tit the There remained
nothing lima to he disproved except the statements made by
some of the witurs...s. of the Princes* has lug hcru :ern
taking improper faindintitics anti Capt. Alaiihy anti sir
Sidney Smith. Mrs. Fitzgerald. a cuitiptattion of the
pasitive ly cootrialieitel tate asstotioet made lay I.lldys
Douglas, and dec hired an oath, that Capt. Alaitby had never
tweii Ineatmiiany with the Princess at improper hours.—
Various exculpatory statements were also emote by the
medical gentlemen who attended Ibe Princess. A most able
reral satisfactory dr fence was a ritteit for the Pi hires, ; and
the Connicisswiteis, at making thine report to rite King,
declared their decided conviettoil that her Royal llighisess
was intaocent oi all the charges puttee-led against her.
" 'There was no lalige r any obsolete to receiving the
Pri et scat Court ; mind accordingly on the Vlst of April Ilbo7,
tiiiuules were la d before the King, as a prelude to that step,
in it Cue cuuncil declared iss fulloa.:-
1 After ttee most deliberate consideration of the evidence
which Inns hero brought before the taiminissienters, and of
the plevious examinations, as melt as the iiiiswer and ol..ser-
vntiehis which have been buOuoitud w your Mair sty upon
them, they, t. be calmly!) feed it twee ssary
,to declase thew
ch.eided whew ience lu the circa and U11:1114110U) opalino of
the Ccnnmi(:,ionr rs, runt. amen b., that of ali your Majesty's
late cu.:Meath/I -4ervouts, that tun t ivy neon c harps ;stifled

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against her Itnyal Highness, of prc:thoicy and delivery, are
tompletel.y ilivf4ll%leti t and ilwy further ►uburit 10 your
Maienl), their that all the other part'.
euLirs ill conduct brou4lit hi acemation against bar Kuyal
It ig.hsse,s, to ti Web the character of etimiscility C.lll be
nscrined, are either siti•fActor;ly em:trattietv,l, 01• rested
upon t•tidence ti tuelt a witty e, said ahieh was given under
such circuinst_lnees, its reieler it. iu the judgment of ,our
maj0.1).,, emaidentiall:wriants.iiieleteeving of credit. Your
Majesty 's ros,h.lesitial serttintl, therefore, essucarrin4 in that
part of the of your Lite serviiimi, as ►fated in their
minute of the `:sth of January, that there is iso longer oily
urct•sity fit ) our Alajesty Ming, 01111'04J 10 det1110.1l10:11111%
the 111.,01ite, filtit )1101 royal presence, humbly submit to
your Alajemy, ti.:ll it is 1'0,411011111y liceesstry, to ju,tire to
her It 1)111 lii4hoess, and fur the honour 71101 iuterett of )our
Al.ijesty's Blasts ious henstly, I.Lit her Royal Ili hash, the
Priocet.s of Wales should be admitted, with as litilc delay as
ros-iisle, into your Majesty's Koyiti uresem e ; and that she
►hould he• received in a wanner due to hi r rank and station
in your Al:jest)'s coos! and family.'
(Signed) " ELIMN.
" CANIDUsI.
1•:51'N101{.1. AN It.
ItA'l'llUlt3l'.
I. CASI'LEREAtiII
" LI i ILA VL.
CANNING."

To this declaration, it will be seen, are appended
the signatures of seven members of the then Cabinct,
and those seven by a fortunate association of circum.
stances hn. the Queen (however fatal to their coun-
try's interests) are still of the administration. In
that instance, the accusers were ENGLISH, and of a
rank of life that might have shielded thew from sus-
picion : in the present instance, they are ITALIA:4s,
and of that rank of life that is moat open to subor-
nation, and therefore most liable to 4 tspicion.

PROVIDENT Lirx 0141CCM6ETING.—The
se-
cond septennial Meeting of this Institution took
place on Tuesday last at the Society's house in Re-
gent-street, Piccadilly, which was very numerously
attended. The Hon. W. Shirley in the Chair.—
The Report of the Direct: rs gave a most flattering
view of the progress of the Institution, and declared
a bonus of ‘261. cent. The dividend, together
with a former one, at the end of the first septennial
meeting, amounted to 40 per cent. upon the contri-
butions of all the members, at: well those who insure
fbr life, a; the original subscribers. The Managing
Director, in adverting to the extraordinary profit of
the last seven years, took occasion to make known a
fact which reflects very high honour on the Society,
viz. that among the means used to produce such.
, profit, niggardliness or evasion it. the settlement of
claims were not of the number, for during the severe
years, of 123 claims that had been preferred, not one
hid been denied payment, had been disputed, or
delayed an hour Mier they became due. It was also
a flattering circumstance, that two respectable Life
In:air:mut Offices had broken up to join this Institu-
' Con, viz. the Birmingham, and the London Com-
mercial Life Association, being convinced, after
many years trial, that under the present reduced,
terms of insurance, not only a good plan and good
I management were indispensable, but that a very
extensive Association of Lives was also necessary to
render a Life Insurance Society profitable, or even
safe. These three Societies were now conducted
tv Wyatt any addition to the expellees of one of them.
The Chairman observed, that be was led to believe,
front what lie saw, that the influx of new Members
to the Provident Lifc Office now exceed that of any
other similar Institution. Nothing could exceed
the satisfactory manner in which the business pro-
cceded. A very handsome eulogium was then voted
to the Managing Director, accompanied by a prcavet
of plate, and the meeting adjourned.
The recovery of the King from the attack of the
gout in his left hand is advancing daily. Ills Ma-
jcsty's bodily health is in'the same good state as fi)r
some thne past.
The latest accounts from Majorca represent the
plague as still raging in the parts of the island where
it first areared. The pet:cautions adopted by the
authorities have latunately prevented it hitherto
from extending its ravages beyond the cordon.
Ills Grace the Archbishop of Tuam has formed
in his Diocese a Memthly Clerical Association, at
which ohs& religious at .!)ieets are to be discussed
his Grace has Mei formed a fund for the relief' of
Clergymen's widows.
Mr. Grattan's picture has been restored since his
death to the place it formerly occupied in the hail
of Trinity College, Dublin, from which it welt
removed in the year 1798.
It is rumound that the King will proceed to
Portsmouth in the course of the ensuing week, to
etaisuk in the Royal George yacht. lie will Le
atteuded by the Royal Sovereign and Prince Regent
yachts, which latter are fitted out for a splendiit
retinue, who are to attend his Majesty. A squa-
dron of ships have also been ordered to reudezvons
at Portsmouth, and hold themselves in readiness to
escort his Majesty.
A letter from Copenhagen of the fish July, as-
nounces the fidlure of the old established bank of
Conniuck and Co. hitherto of unimpeachable credh,
but which has been unable to resist the pressure of
the times, and has declared itself in a state of
lu-
;rlvencz, though the naminal amount of their cre-
dits is said to exceed that of then (lats.

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