The National Register.
London, England, 1820-08-21 00:00:00

Tp.. 04ATIONAL REGISTER.

—We have received Paris Papers of Tuesday last.
The latest accounts from Palermo, in these Papers,
are to the 21st ult. A small number of soldiers,
who escaped the slaughter of the 17th, 7ucceeded
in seizing the fort of Castellamare. In this post
they defended themselves until the 19th, at night;
but, their ammunition and provisions having failed
them, they were obliged to surrender. The people
shut them up in dungeons, where they are guarded
by the galley slaves, who were liberated at the ino•
mcnt of the revolution. These, to the number of
5000. joined to several hundred of peasants, gave
the law to the whole city. Nevertheless, the Arch.
bishop of Palermo and the Provisional Junta had
obtained so much influence over the people as to
prevent the father effusion of blood, though not to
cause all disorder to cease. It is said that the
commander Acato was the principal author of the

insurrection. The Prince Catolica was on the same
day said to be at the head of the insurgents; but,
tbinking at one time that the constitutional party
would get the upperhand, he quitted the ranks of
the people to join the garrison, and he survived that
defection only one hour. His head was exposed by
the infuriated populace. The news from Messina
is still satisfactory. The Constitution of the King.
dom of the Two Sicilies ha 3 been proclai med there,
in the midst of the acclamations of the inhabitants,
and the enthusiasm of the troops of the garrison.—
The Gazette de France mentions a rumour, that a
meeting of Sovereigns is to take place this autumn at
Pest. The report of an action between the Dutch
squadron, in the Mediterranean, and the Algerines,
is contradicted.

Before her Majesty entered the House on Thurs-
day, the cloudy state of the morning yielded but a
dim light. As soon as her Majesty had taken her
scat, there was a sudden but evanescent exhibition
of the full light of the sun. The attention of her
Majesty remained exclusively fixed upon the pro-
ceedings in which their Lordships were occupied.
Once er twice she put her hand upon her check, but
she did not much vary the position of her head, un-
less when Lord Liverpool first rose. She glanced at
his Lordship with a singularly powerful, and, we
thought, an indignant eye. But, afier that, her
Majesty remained entirely occupied in attending to
the debate which arose, and seemed to evince no
feeling either of agreement or dissent with any of
the arguments or assertions which were stated on
either side.

'roe following arc the names of witnesses mmvr (I for
to he summoned on behalf of the 9,teett :—The
of Guildloid, Clare, and Lland.af; the Lords of
Glenbert ic, Somerset, Montane ; the Honourable
Win. Burrell, and Cain. King: wholly 13111:er St.
Leger, F.-1. E,gr.; Sir Wiljain Cell, H.
Holland, M. D. and tire Hon. K Craven—the Ladies
Charlotte Lindsay, Elizabeth Forbes, Charlotte. Hay,
and Benlinek.

Itlr. H. C. Sturt will shortly lead to the altar
Lady Charlotte Brudenell, youngest daughter of
the Earl of Cardigan.

SINKING OF A MOUNTAIN.--A high ridge of'
mountains on the Moselle, called the Sieben Uhren
Berg, has been observed for some years past to have
in it very large clefts, which fin- the last five years
measured abuve a fOot in breadth ; thus exciting in
the inhabitants of the adjacent banks no unreason-
able apprehension of an al•proaching full of part of
the mountain. This has now tr.ken place. On the
7th of July, in the evening, earth and stones were
seen rolling down from the summit, which continued
increasing in company till four o'clock in the morn-
ing, when a whole mass of rock came loose, and fell
with such violence into the Moselle. that it faced
the water out of its channel, overflowed the opposite
bank to some distance, and'drifted away the vessels
lying at Bruttig. The damage done is incalculable ;
it appears that about 40 vineyards have been pre-
cipitated with the rock into the river. The moun-
tain on the opposite side, called the Kessel, likewise
threatens to fall. As this mountain is rent and
torn with frightful clefts, as well at the top as in
the middle and lower parts, and the frant part had
sunk three feet on the morning of the Lli, and lart•se
masses continually rolled down. It is to be feared
that the whole enormous body will fall into the
Moselle, and fill up the greater part of the channel,
which would make the river ovealaw its banks, and
cause the most dreadful ravages.
The United Incorporations of Mary's Chapel,
Edinburgh, at their general quarterly meeting, held
on Monday se'nnight, unanimously resolved to pre-
sent an Address to her Majesty.