The National Register.
London, England, 1817-01-27 00:00:00

JANUARY 27

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
FRANCE.
At a review in the Champs Elysees on Wednewlsy,
the Bth of January, a number of Englishmen were se-
duced to enter the square or open space in which the
troops were drawn up. It was full of Officers' horses and
servants, who were riding up and down, and were
Easily mistaken Cr spectators by persons ignorant of
the regulations. The English were not warned off,
but seized the instant they entered, and led up to a
place were a fine of three francs was demanded, and
paid ; and they were then suffered to depart amidst the
jeers and laughs of the polite concourse assembled to see
the evolutions..
The King's health imrrovcs daily.
In the Chamber of Deputies the Committee on the
Law for restraining the Journals of France have made
their report, which reccommends the Law without any
amendment. By the proposed enactment, the King
merely retains in his own hands for another year the
privilege of licensing the Public Journals.
The following Notice has been issued in France re-
specting English and other foreign traders :—" The
Prefect of the Department of the North has written
Letters to the different Mayors within his jurisdiction,
recommending them, in the name of his Excellency the
Minister of the Interior, not to oppose any obstacles to
the industry of fitreign merchants and licensed dealers.
Ile recalls to their recollection that excellent disposition
of the law :—‘ Every Citizen provided with a patent
may exercise his profession or industry in any part of
France.' And enjoins them not to interfere in determin.
ing either the emumune they shall reside in, or the time
of their stay ; and to give them every fluility in the
publication of their bills and adverti:Tments."
A private letter front Paris, of the 18th inst. states,
that the King, on the 16th, created six Peers of France.
Their names are, .Messrs. Jumilhac, Montealm, De
Cazes, sen. Lafitte, Rai, and Greffulhe. All these are
persons of the first consideration, in point of property,
and what is more essential to the true dignity of the
aristocracy, they have proved themselves, on trying oc-
casions, men of probity and honour. Their batons of
Nobility will, therefore, be so many additional palisadoes
around the Throne.

write from the head-quarters of Cambray, that
the Duke of Wellington is slucly expected there.—
During his stay at Paris Lord Hill connnands the Eng-
lish army. They talk of a meeting of several of the Gcr
ncrals of the Allies at Cambray.
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The French Papers notice an incident exhibiting a
praiseworthy determination, on the part of the Law
Officer of the Crown. The case alluded to is that of a
monster who stabbed his wife and daughter in u com-
pound lit of brutal rage and incestuous lust. The Jury
who tried the cause returned a verdict of—" Guilty of
stabbing; but not with intent to kill." And yet the
medical practitioners who examined the wounds stated,
upon oath, that the knife had entered three inches into
the right breast of the daughter !
The Court, upon such a verdict, could only award
five years imprisonment to the offinider. The Public
Prosecutor, however, availing hiubelf of the privilege
allowed him by the French laws, has moved tin. a new
trial.
A Royal Ordinance of France appoints Paspier,
President of the Deputies, to the office of Keeper of
the Seals, which office is therefore taken away from the
President of the Chamber of Peers. We might in this
case take an useful example from France, and separate
the functions of Lord Chancellor and. Speaker of the
House of Lords.

The King has fixed the mode, in which the Chamber
of Deputies shall be renewed. The eighty six depart-
ments of the kingdom are to be divided into five series,
and each series is to be renewed, in any order to be de-
termined by lot, during the present Session.
A Law upon Hills of Exchange, and out 'firr fish*
the allowance to be made to prisoners fin• debt by tit( it
creditors, chiefly occupied the Chamber of Deputies, on
Monday.
The Paris Papers of Monday and Tuesday contain
nothing of importance, except the melancholy details
of the exhumation of the Royal dead, and of the pre-
parations which are announced to be making for the
celebration of the anniversary of the murder of the on-•
timtunate Louis XVI. Tha French funds have suffered
;1 slight depression, having declined from Got. 9.0 e. (the
:ast quotation,) to .19f. 50c., at which they left (Arun
M enday.

The German Papers inform us, that the Swedes and
the Algerincs arc augmenting their respective navies.—
Of the increase of the Swedish navy, no European.
Power is likely to complain ; but the Dey of Algiers
ought to be asked, what he means to do with the new
fry of armed vessels now fitting out in his haiblurs.
MIL %v, Just. 6.—The Princess of Wales is to pass
the Carnival in our city. It is understowl that her
Royal Highness will reside ut the surerb Palace of Bel-
giososo. Part of the ancient npagnitieent furniture is
to be put in the best condition.

LAUSANNE, JAN. B.—Naples is still in a painful amt.
icty r,:srceting its tiiiticultics with the Uuited Statcs..

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JANUARY 27.

It seems that Mr. Pininey departed b...T9re any thing.
was settled.

GuENT, JAN. IS.—When we announced as a public
report, that the King, in order to restore activity to one
of our finest manufactories of cotton, had granted the
sum of 150,000 florins, this distinguished benefit was
already realized. At this moment a great number of
....-orknicn are restored to labour, and snatched from the
m tst frightful distress.
The progressive increase of the price of corn is alarm-
ing ; wheat hes been sold at '29 and a half florins, or
even 30, as is said ; rye aLuvelB. Unless a barrier is
raised aguinA this torrent of cupirity, and of external
policy, the most fatal presentiments will be realised.
There is a power which exerts itself to corrupt the pub-
lie mind.

SAN A\', J. is hoped now, that the ar-
rangements of the line of demarkation between Prussia
and Saxony will soon be brought to a conclusion; Baron
Von Gaertner, the Austrian Commissioner, has deliver-
ed a note, in which he expresses the earnest desire of
his Court that the arrangement may be completed by
Easter. The Prussian Cabinet has given a note in
reply, which consists in an Address to the Government
at Memburg. Probably further demands will now be
given up.
The marriage of the Duke of Saxe Cobnurg with the
Princess of Saxe Gotha has caused great joy through-
out all Sammy, because this marriage had been lung
wished.

Provisions still remain dear ; however, supplies of
corn are still received by the Elbe.
LEIPSIC, J.N. B.—The new year's fitir turns out much
worse than could have been expected.
FRANKronT, JAIV. 15.—The Diet resumed its sit-
tings on the 13th.
The Grand Sultan has sent the Dcy of Algiers six
corvettes and flair gun-boats, as a present.
The King of Sweden has found it necessary to give
relief to the principle merchants of Sweden by a mea-
sure precisely resembling the issue of Exchequer Hills
in thin country, and which has been more than once
adopttgi by our Government with the most salutary
•fleets. the document which announces this fact dis-
closes inauspicious,state.of financial aflitirs in Sweden,
resulting front the falling otf in trade. It will thus be
ken, that every country in Europe is suffering from the
same cause ; and the common ..distress calls loudly for
the convoking of some convention of negociators to frame
Commercial Treaties, suited to the reciprocal wants and
resources of the respective European States.—The heal-
in:, influence of commerce, upon enlightened principles,
is alone wanting to confer on the great family of Europe,
the prosperity which Peace has always brought in her
twin, but which seems unhappily and unaccountably to
have been, for the first time, frightened away.
Bit EstAu, JAN. 7.—His Highness Prince Midler
departed this morning early, in the best health, from
this city for Berlin.

111.toino, :2.—The Portuguese Cc.nsnl at Ali-
cant having communicated, on the 7th of December,
that the plague had brolcu out at Tripoli, and that
several per3ons lauding from a vessel from Smyrna had
fallen victims, the Junta of Health at Lisbon, by an
edict of the 21th of the same month, ordered such pre-
cautionary measures as circumstances require.
IMPORTANT FROM SOCTII M'Far-
lon, who came possengvr in the Hightlyer, intinns, that
the fort of Montlanc, whieh commands the King's
-road near the Orizam and Cardova, was captured on
the I.sth of November, by a force of '2,500 Sponish
Royalists. Several attacks were repulsed by the fort,

but two companies of 'loyalists, throwing down their
arms, anti rushing into the fort and Under pretence of
joining the patriots, having anus put into their hands
by the latter, in the night rase upon them, and, in Pant_
junction with the troops without, subdued the garrison.
Gencral Vittoria, the Insurgent Commander of the pro-
vincc, was, in his turn, besieging the Royalist :.
. Pap.rs and letters from Jamaica to the:a December,
have been received. On Tuesday the 13th of Novem-
ber, Mr. Stewart gave notice that he would, on that
day weak, take up that part of his (;rove the Governor's
mesKagc of the ;;Irt, which related to a more strict oh-
, sernmce of the abolition laws : and that he should on
that occasion move two resolutions, one fa- the appoint-
ment of a Committee to bring in a Bill for the preven-
tion ofa clandestine importation of slaves into the island,
and the other to bring in a Bill fur a more correct cen-
sure of the slaves in Jataaica.
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On the question that the Bill do pass, it was deeithidin
the alfirmativeby majority of 11. The House of Assem-
bly also passed on the 19th of November three resolu-
tions, in answer to a Petition of sundry free persons of
;fain praying to be pl.teed•on the same footing with
the white ixiptilation. Tile first. resolution determines
that the Assembly granted to the free people of colour
ample privileges in as 13, and that they have no claim
whatever to political power, so as to to interfere in the
alminisiration of the Government. The second states,
that the Assembly expected that such a grunt would
have been received with gratitude. The third resolution
fbrtnerly rejects the Petition and expresses the decided
disappratration of the House of Assembly to their
prayer.

• THE NATIONAL REGISTEIt.

Bow snamr.

j A most distressing invedigation took place before Mr.
Ificks, the Sitting Alagistrat,•, of t lads, brothers, 11441
a°nlotlet• 1$ years of age, for forgery. The arisimers it
appeared, went on Tuesday eveniug last to the shop of Mr.
Carder, a grocer, in Broadatreet, Bloomsbury, and purchas-
ed a quarter of a pound of Its. tea 41111 at 00111111 Or su4./r, lids
Which the eldest tendered a piece of paper, purporting to be
a 11. Bank of Ell Gland note. Mr. Collier liaviug suffered
lately from forged notea, interrogated the lad as to how he
became possessed of the mite, Sc. Ile admitted the writing
at the hack of it to be Ulf, and said his name was Joseph
Foilet, and lie resided iu fork tValivorth. Mr. Coe.
der, not being satisfied with the Lid's account, sent for a
constable, and on the following morning he underwent a
private e vaininatioo belOrt: Mr. Hicks; when Mr. Glover,
the inspertor of Baulk of Eugland notes, attended, and
proved the note to be forged. The prisoner, being called
upon for his defence, spoke with soil' a degree of confidence
411(1 firmness as to give it all appearance of correctness; :stat-
ing, that ha hail toirchased a goose and two fowls of a calla-
-111:1 11, in a street near Covent-garden, whom lie di,l not know,
and gate him a 21. Bank-note in payment, and to change he
gave him the If. note in question.: this, however, was lint
satisfactory to 11Ir. Westwood, the So!icitor to the Batik, to-
gether with the prisonee being an engraver by trade, and he
was ordered still to be detained, and Vickery, the officer,
was dispatched to make inquiriea into the conduct, coeliac-
tions, ace. of the prisoner; the couseguence has belai, that
Iris younger brother was taken into custody fir a similar
offesice, and was eXatililll:11 with him t when J. Senior of
Drury--lane, stated, that on the Ilth instant, about nine
o'clock in the evening, both the prisoners, Joseph and
Charles, came to his shop awl asked for a quart er of a pound
of I 2 s. tea and a quarter of a pound of chocolate, which
eame to 44. 911. and Joseph Fillet gave him a li. Bank-note,
anti gave Ilk name Joseph Pollett, of Nu.holy V 1 ell-street,
lie took the note, and gave the change. The prisoners were
committed for trial. Mr. Westwood, the Solicitor to the
Bank, attended to conduct the prosecution.
A 1111111 of genteel appearance was brought to the office,
charged with representiog himself to be the Him. .Irthair St.
Leger, for the purpose of defratidiug Col. T. .11rock, of
Chelsea. The Colonel stated, that the prisoner called on
him at Ins house in a familiar manner, as a brother officer in
the East India service, and a Colonel in the Madras Esta-
blishment, and that his flame was St. Leger; but having no
recollectiou of hint, and suspecting him to be AO impostor, he
made several inquiries, to ascertain whether lie was the man
he represented himself to be, which he could not answer.
Col. Alcock had no doubt of his being the man who hail
lately defrauded his friend Major (kit. tiarstou, of Nlatiches-
ter-square, of a sum of money, by representing himaelf to be
Gen. St. Leger, and boldly charged hint with it. The prisoner
acknowledged his guilt, and begged for mercy; the Colonel,
however, had him secured and brought to the office, where
he gave the name of Thomas Seagcr. After undergoing au
es ainination before the Magistrate, he was committed' fur
further investigation.
Sarah Perry (calling herself a married woman), a cook in
the employ of Mrs. King. iu Nlancliester-strect, 'Manchester-
square, was brought to the office on a charge of murdering
her new-born infant. The circumstances of the ease were
such as to excite suspicion, and yet there is no positive proof
that slie been delivered, or bail ever been pregnant. No
trace appears of the chile( supposed to have been murdered.
Still, oil account of some strange behaviour on the part of
the prisoner, the magistrate remanded her fur further exa-
mination.
Two fellows, named Castle and Dignum, anpposed to be-
long to the Epping gang of firotpads, were brought to the
office and committed fur further eaamination.
WORSHIP S friEET.
A poor man, by trade a blacksmith, residing in Moorfields,
applied for relief; lie stated, that hianselland four small chid
deco and his wife were literally starving. 'their pride was
SI/ great, that whilst they possessed the value of at penny,
they would not apply for pat ochial relief. but being over-
come by hunger, at last they were compelled, and all they
had to subsist upon during the week was 4s. tie could not
bear to see lilt children starve and must resort to some im-
proper way of procuring, it, unless lie got saute relief, as they
might be dead before the parish would make it convenient
to take his ease into consideration. Mr. Mainwaring gave
him some money out of his own pocking awl tottered nu offi-
cer to accompany him to the overseer, and represent his
situation.
Si,an of the sailors. who have no parish or settlement, and
who had before applied to the Lord Mayor for relief, made
application under similar circumstances. The woreliy ma-
gistrate could only grant sainintniaes for the attendance of
the parish officers, in hope that some arrangement !might be
made for their relief; at the same time observing, that all the
work-houses are overflowing with paupers: and to those who
cannot b I admitted; if the allowance is Inn. so trifling it
amounts to a considerable sum, the applicants being so ,cry
numerous.
M % LBOROU GH sTR Err.
W. Knight, a youth of all interesting appearance, was
brought to this office by his father, who complained of his
son's enormous extravagance, she means of siipplying which
he conlil not conceive how he ca,use by. lie was in the
habit or ilriviug his gig, and friapieiring oringatiasier's
balls, %% lien he had been only a de. kto a navy agent at r-
ing-e ass, at a moderate salary, whose service lie had hastily
quitted without assigning any reason, but some pecuniary
deficiencies were discovered after his departare. His mili-
tia.. however, did not think 6t to prosecute hint; and the dis-
racied parent thought it his duty to signet; his soil, it possi-
ble, friall the gill pit Of ruin into which he was ',longing head-
long, and thigethre brought him before the \l., „gales. A
Mr. I litelicock, a tailor, complained of the prisoner procur-
ing a suit of clothes from hint minder false pretences; he,
liuwr.ver, did not wish to press tlie mat:Lc against him, as
Uc
kileW him. it' lie thought that his abstaining from a proseen-
tiro' would have any etti:et ill l'Cl'istloniii4 hiss. The prisoner
was reams ailed for further examination.

QUEEN SQVA RE.
A Gentleman who said lie NIA Lieliti•nant Colonel of the
tied loot. stated, that passing :dung a street in We tmilister,
called Brewer's-green, lie saw some oranges ill it shop win-
dow, of which lie wished to have a ih171.11; nit he: teal
no silver, lie Told the woman %alio keeps it, !hat if llr could
elianife him a 11. note he would purchase a dozen. She an-
she w uuid, Mid e,illllllllg Mit neverol
but he stooped her. saying lie did not like then., and desired
to tuuvc his note again ; bat she retitseil to ye either the
note or the change. The Magistrate then asked Ir.r why qv!
ttatued the gentleman's note? s.'flic woman Vaea, with much

confidence, told the Magistrate. that be did not Cone boo
her shop to he oranges, but to hr rude to her; that be 1)14
baud into her neckerchief, and lef: the cote there, tts 4
bribe to overcome her scruples. He was proceeding to fake
further liberties with her, but she repulsed him with iodic-
nation ; and wlem lie wanted to have th.. note back 11.411i/l,
she refused to give it. Mr. Plaistow told her lie had heard
her story with patience, and would give her the, choice,
either to deliver the note or go to Ilridewell. He was obliged
to repeat his threat throe tine's before she delivered itmp ;
when, as soon as she had dune so, the Ahigistrate said, that
having dune the gentleman justice, he was ready to do the
same towards her; and ifshe wool!' lodge a complaint against
him. for an assault, he would hear it, ;mild give her the pro-
tection of the law. They went out of the Court together;
and in eiont ten minutes the gentleman came into C'oii tby
and told the ikLacistrate he was a Lieutenant Colonel
of the 62.1, but did not mention his 1131111'. We find ton
Lieutenant Cohniels to that regiment, and alimain from the
name, lest we should fix on the vs roug one. the woman, on
being asked her name, in order• to make out a SUIIIIIIOII4, r.lll
out of the office, mid never returns d.
Captain Tolson, of the Lift' Guards, came to this Why.,
with an affidavit, the contents of which stated, that he had
not hail any criminal connexion with the servant girl who
in tile ilic late serious charge against Win. Sir W. Parsons
rejected his application to swear him mm it; and the Captain
left the office with evident marks of surprise.