The National Register.
London, England, 1808-05-15 00:00:00

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rogiand is on tie lietnit sitßesteuetion. Impeadlag ruin ha'
Wen held out as a probe* *toil, saw dare mobs hal Mrs to.
listen, and orators had taupe, to &deign : the country is a..
'wined yet, but * people still (lodide is their declaimers ; and
such men as Sir Francis Belden continue to present a 4teploru.
hie reverse of Cateaattra's fate. She saw destruction approach-
Mg, but was cursed olds nnbelieving hearers: the modern
prt,ll,:hers net no evils except in their own imaginations. but
the country is cursed with hearers that believe them. it Is not,
it catmint be to the honour or the advantage of Englishmen, to
sack, ladiscrimitately, all the futile prophecy of approaching
danger, all the unjust accusation of past mismanagement, which
Fir Frain* Burdett, and that mouth-piece of his dogmas, The
nirependent Whig, may think St to vomit forth. The Paper
abounds with dlasertattaeson the prosecutions for a Libel that
tisreatvit the Bettors; sad we are inclined to congratulate the
country on an eve* that seems likely to staunch the last remain-
ing ulcer that the dims* of Jacobinism has left behind it.
On the merits of The fadspeadesti Whig's other hero, Botta-
parte, it is unarceesity ta dilate at this time of day. Borns-
parte is constantly held up'by the Gadsden of this Paper into
example of greatness to be copied by oar Ministers; mad yet
when our Ministers, in hatable imitation of Bonaparte, attempt
such a measure as the attack at Copeabagea, they are not only
reproached by these scribblers with all the Indignalisa that a j
sense ufjugice can awaken, bat vilified with all the Anse that
the vocabulary of Billingsgate CRS furnish.
When our Ministers shall have taken the advice of l'As lade-
pendent Whig, and imitated Bonaparte in other achievements,
we shall expect to see the country really reduced to that *state
in which the Editors of this l'aper delight to repreansi it. The
attack on Copenhagen already has wounded our heessur; a (IMP•
(her pursuit of the system which dictated that plan. will ter-
ranty de‘troy it. When these factions people, who misguide
tile
_people by their periodical newerewor, have petvetidallallitel

body of men that the country is ruined, perhaps the mist of the
country will not in reality be very far distant. A turbideat mob
will then begin to rectify abuses, and the Proprietors a The
Independent Whig may " ride in the whirlwind, aM Aimed'.
4• storm." Nahi:ily will deny that the Executive Power of
The Independent Whig will be well matched with die legisla
tive genius of porter drinkers, for the Editor may be, indeed,
as Pope has expre‘sed it,
" A decent Priest, where monkeyg are the Cods !"

FROM THR PRRNCR, DeTCU, GOTTRNAURGH,

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

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MOW, pu Jai children into irons nod send them to
lahn r.—The Consul of America had not yet received Mikis!
alit of the fuct of which tile Des had complaittedoind thought
that e could not, without the artier of his (40yeettatent, pair the
DOM piastres.-s•The Dry answered him, that unless he should
pay the sum within four days, he •sliould east him in iron. or
he must deliver to him nine Americans, whom he would I;am.
up at ate rile of Bab Azouw.—Mr. Ulrich, Consul of Den-
mark, making a represeatatiou of the state of his country, ••aid,
!hat the vessel which contained his presents; bad been seized by
he English and confiscated, and that the English Ageaft at Al-
iefs hitisself would testify this : the Consul solicited time of the
;Overnruent.; but the licy paying no respect to the character Of
an Agent, speaking in the name of his master, caused hint to be
seised by the Officers of Justice in the mido of the Palate, and
taken to prison instantly, amidst the shouts of a barbarous o-
pulace. Those who could enter into this horrid prison, saw' this
worthy man among the slaves, in his official dress, and loaded
with a chain of sixty pounds weight, which Mr. Ulrich bore
with fortitude and courage : he merely recommended to his
friends the care of his wife and five children.—At length the
Dry resolved, on the earnest entreaties of all the Europen
•Ctetstils, to set the Danish Consul at liberty ; and while he was
occupied working with all the slaves, they came and took off
his chain.--What security is there against the renewal of these
sets of violence ~--All the slaves here are treated with the most
horrid cruelty: 4M) Portuguese are shut up in prison. The
Coen of Lisbon delayed sending the tribute. The (;overoment
bestot sent them any relief, and they ere.in extreme wretched-
ness.. The Officers, as well as sailors, are condemned to labour,
said leaded with igimminy.—A great number of Neapolitans,
Ma staves, are not in a less pitiable situation : and the Dey.
who expects to conquer Tunis in the first campaign, hopes to
mate a booty or 3,000 more European slaves, whose ransom he
will lit very high. Since he has been forced to give up all the
doves, who) were subjects of the Emperor Napoleon. it seems
that be is_ resolved to make his system of robbery press harder
ipso the other foreigners."
PARTS, MAY 4.—The developement of the events in Spain,
Which have drawn the attention of all Europe upon that king-
la Approaching ; sad ma, veinier—that the termination of
this great cause is not. left to either of the contending parties,
hat, on the contrary, to a Monarch, whose integrity, sagarity.
smidpower, render every evil purpose, error, and 'opposition,
tineftemihke. It is with joy that yestprday the public herame
• with the. following documents, through the Official
Papers—
Itapastisr fag IMpetial Righhess-the Grand Dnl:e of Berg, Lieu-
Mutat of-the Emperor, Commander of his Purees in Spain.
46 MOIIIIEIGNEVIi!-.-A04:en4ly to the commands of your
iniperial Highness, I repaired with the letter of your Highness
to the Queen of Etruria, at Aranjttez. It was eight o'clolc in
be Owning ; the Queen was still in bed ; she rose immediately,
mad balk me enter. 1 delivered your, ll,tter to her. She beL,-
and use to wait'alittle, and said she would go and read it w ills
the King and Queen. Half an hour afterwards. I saw tiAt
'Quetta of Etruria enter with the King and Queen of Spain.
" Ilis Majesty §:kid, that be thanked your imperial Highness
*for the share you had taken in his •alliiction, which was the
greater as his own son-sins the author of it. The King said,
that the revolution hail been erected by forgery aiu corruption,
and that the principal actors were his son and U. Cabellero,
Minister of Justice; that he had been compelled to abdicate the
'throne, in order to save the lives of himself nnd his Queen; that
he knows that but for this, they would have been murdered in
-the course of the night ; that the conduct of the Prince of Astu-
rias was more shnckimr, seeing that himself (the King) having
perceived his desire to reisn, and being himself near 60 years of
age, had agreed to surreirier the crown to him, on his marriage
liking place with a French Princess, which the King ardeody
desired.
" The King added to this, that the Prince of the Asturias
test desirous that he and the Queen 31101110 repair to Badnjoz,
0:1 the frontiers of Portrigat : that he bad found mears to inform
him that the climate of thus country slid no, suit him; that he
begged him to permit his choosing another place; that he sought
to obtain permission of the Emperor to purchase an estate in
France, where he might cod his days. The Queen told me she
bad begged of her son to postpone their journey to Pt:dojos ;
that she had not procured this, and that thc journey was to
take place on the ensuing :llouday.
" At the moment I was departing from their Majesties, the
-gine said to. me, I have *ritten to the Entperos. in whose
hand I moose toy fate.'