The National Register.
London, England, 1816-11-18 00:00:00

NovEM TIER la.

manufactures, the augmentation of prices in foreign
countries must have extended their purchases of our
goods, and diminished the sales of their own. No such
thing has happened. No credit existed in any part of
Europe but in England, since the breaking out of the
French Revolution—no money was raised but by direct
robliCrv. The contributions levied by Buonaparte were
not in bonds, or exchequer bills, or stocks, bearing in.
terest : but they were levied in cash, or in kind. The
French armies carried oft- what they tbtoill: in the yet&
1810 they bore away the pitch/cc of the year 1810 ;
they did not, as we boast of doing, anticipate that of the
year Iseo. The consequence was, that the sort of
poverty which consists In sinall revenues, scarcity of
money, low prices, spread over the Continent ; but
that, as no public debt was then contracted nor mass of
taxation imposed, its inhabitants escaped that species
of poverty which is produced by the accumulation 'of
loans and taxes, eating up a nominally large revenue.
Such a state of things is much more independent of
foreign contingencies, than is the condition to which
Great Britain has reduced herself. Reproduction was
checked; but revulsion was avoided. The state of con.
tinental Europe, where prices have risen very moderately,
if at all, has been favourable to the growth of conti-
nental manufactures, and in the same proportion ad-
verse to those of Kngland, where price has more than
doubled. When, theretbre, we would address a cheer-
ing reflection to our countrymen, we must not choose
for our theme of consolation the indigence of those to
whom we look for the consumption of our goods.
But it scents we are to be regenerated by raising the
price of provisions, that the fanner may be enabltal to
enrich the manutinurer in return.

We will suppose a short dialogue between these two
persons :
" Friend,' says the manufacturer, " your custom is
not worth a straw, compared with what it has been any
time these tire years past."
" My good friend," quoth the fernier, " that is not
my fault. If you have it not in my cash, you hate it
in my ern. This time two years the miller paid me
51. 10s. for my quarter of wheat. For the last twelve
months he never offered me more than 80s. My rent
remains the same ; my taxes nearly so. You see lam
short of the 25 or 30s. that my wife used formerly to
spend in your shop. Pay the miller the old price fur his
flour; he can then afford me, as he used to do, the 51. s
10s. for which I sold my wheat ; and I promise to L*
you have your share of the bargain in the sale of your
cotton or broad cloth as before."
" But, my dear friend," replies the man of skill,
" our last ventures to the Baltic, and to Newburgh
and Ostend, have nearly mined our business. Unless
the foreign market should mend greatly, the quertern
loaf must fall still lower here; or we must run away to
Germany, rather than stay at home and famish."
Now, between these two doctors, who shall settle the
dispute? 'Fhe farmer excuses himself to the mtumfor-
hirer, because his wheat has fallen : the manuthentrer
pleads his own mhfortune, inasmuch as the price of
goods has fallen. Government contracts, 22 yows ago,
gave the first stimulus to the provision market—the re.
sistless ascendancy of the British fleets, combined with
the new prosperity of the farmer, found a cure for the
paralysis of the British exports' which, under out ac-
tual circumstances, it would be fully to anticipate, and
on which, in our measures, it would be madness to
rely.

The Petite: if(liches ta French advertising paper)
frequently publishes curious articles. •In that of the
2 th of September last, they advertise fix sale a ferns
with a large table of pine, without ornament and Ovithart
dcliTts, though preserved in the family not less than
300 years. It has been examined, they Say, by
Buffon, and many other eelebrattxl naturalists, who
suspect that it formerly belonged to
,Seneca the pato:
soldier ! The purchaser may ask with the man in the
force—" Pnty, Sir, was this Seneca a native of Paris?"
The table in question will fetch an extravagant price.
A few years since, 'an amateur paid no less than 50
louis for an old cane, supposed to have belonged
to Voltaire. It is undersLood that they intend
to put up to sale shortly the fork used by
tellies the epicure--all the 'dainty folks wish to obtain
it. The fork will, doubtless, produce a ridicukma
price.—French paper.

A French Payer rays :—"At the period of the Rm.
lotion, when such destruction was exercised on the va-
rious Colleges in France, roue sullered more the ven-
geatwe of the Demagogues than that of the Scotch
College at .Donay, in Flanders. Nct an atom was saved
except the line full-length original painting of 'Mary,
Queen of Scot, its founder, which was lately discover.
eel in a chimney, where it had brew hit Yen. It has
!wen hroeOtt to Paris, and is now in thelieotse
This painting, with the prayer-book which the Queen
used at the period of her decapitation at Fetheringay
(;!.tie, and a table-dock, were byoupobe.) by her to
t..:cots and are meteioned in tl,t2 Corege titles.
immediately after the event they were Lret'ght to
Amoy by Miss Flizsbeth Curl, -one of' the A'ait!s otc
Honour, who attende l her on the seaffill TI (lock
one of the first ms'e at t:tat togeiher wills the
book were lost at the Revataioa."

Novrkinzn

Monday arrived Paris papers of Thursday last. The
two Chambers met on Wednesday, The Chamber of
Peers elected their Secretaries : Count Mole am. tit,
Duke of Ragusa are the new So retsries. The other
two, Pastoret and the Duke de ('hoiseul, were Secreta-
ries in the lee Chamber. A Committee, consisting of
M. de Fontana, Lally Tollendal, th.: Bishop of St.
Maloe, Count Gamier, and the Marquis de Tal.. •
were appointed to draw up the Address to the King.
The Chamber then adjourned to Saturday,—The Chan .
ber of I)eputies appointed nine Bureaux to verify the
powers of the Deputies. This verifiention would not
occupy more than twn• days. The Presidents of the
Bureaux, whose names have, transpired, are, M. Beugnot,
Voysin de Gardempe, Simeon, Ronald, the, I)ulte of
Treviso (Mortier), Longncve, Bit:lquart Baileul. The
Secretaries are, M. de Seas, Camille Jordan, Roy; Tal-
leyrand, I.abastide, and Villele. Conmodore Ch:e cey
has quitted Messina with his squadron. A letter from
Palermo adds, that there were ( very day sa ley., nary
quarrels between the English and Americans.

A private letter from Pori', speaking of the opening
of the Session, says—" According to the French Paper.
all was exultation ; but the King, on the contrary,
looked more than dejected. He looked unhappy, anti
even the spectators present seemed to share his feelings!
I heard it observed by people about me, alluding to tl e
desponding state of the King—" I/ a (Ida /4 repentir
dans le cwur." Talleytand attended the ceremony, a, d
was constantly near the person of the King. He h. d
by no means the air of a di:graced Minister. Bolt
Peers and Deputies pushed round him in order to I e
saluted or spoken to by him. He s almost the of ly
Frenchman I have ever seen in any prominent sat a-
tion without displaying any personal vanity. Dig,n;ty
he does not possess. He also attended the King Lis
Notre I)ame on Sunday sennight. Chateaubriand wfs
the l' attended the

among .'eery , mass. The ceie.
molly woe very magnificent, but rather theatrical, frt m
the mixture of priests and soldiers, in rich and varied
dresses, together with alternate successions of military
and church music."
Canada Papers to the 11th tilt. have been received.
The Quebec Gazette of the 10th states, that the harvest
in the Upper Provinces had been got in, the quality of
the wheat good, the crop abundant. The parishes be-
low Quebec had suffered from the weather, the crops
deficient in quality, having been taken in while green.
The weather had set in very cold, with snow.

At length we have authentic accounts sedating to
the expedition of Lord Selkirk. The Canadian Cou-
rant puts it in a very clear point of view :—Mr. Robert
Semple, the Governor fur the Hudson's Bay Company,
towards the close of the year 1815, took possession of
two establishments belonging to the North West Com-
pany, which had obtruded themselves on the territory
of the Hudson's Bay Company. The North West tra-
ders then altered their route, going into the Upper
Country by circuitous ways, by which much delay took
place; awl in order to try Mr. Semple, they sent two
eart-loads of provisions by the former tract in June last,
with a pard of fifty men : the advance, 220 f the num-
ber, fell in with one of the natives, whom they took
forward with them to prevent discovery. The rear-
guard passed within four miles of the settlement: they
were perceived by the Governor, and were attacked by
• party from the garrison, consisting of about thirty
soldiers; an engagement took place on the 19th ofJune.
Mr. Semple and twenty-one of his men were killed;
his forces defeated : it is on this account that the expe-
dition of Lord Selkirk was undertaken. The manner
of Lord Selkirk's conducting the expedition we do not
justiff ; it is, however, but justic.e to say, that the Hed.
eon's Bay Company haveirights, and are ,a chartered
Company; the North West Traders, though a moss
respectable body, are only an Association of Merchants.
It appears by the Halifax papers, that a destructive
fie took place there on the 9th of' October : its ravages
'were only stopped by taking down two or three houses
before the flames had reached theut. The property
destroyed is stated at 30,0001. • The Governor had
issued aproclamation, stating, that notwithstanding the
activity of the garrison, there had been much plunder,
and if any goods of the distressed inhabitants could be
traced into the hands of the robbers, they should he
deemed felons, awl suffer death. The time allowed for
restoration was two days from the date of the proela-

oration. -

Sir ROBERT HALL arrived at Quebec on the 4th of

September, to take the naval command at Kingston.
Gen. WIDDIUNOTON is arrived, and stationed at Mon.
tr 1 ; and Gen. WILSON takes the military command
et Kingston. This Gentleman lea England the end of
last year, being appointed Cominander-in-Chief in Ca-
nada; which situation he filled a short time, when he
was superseded by Sir J. SHEItUItOOKE, the present
. Chief Governor. Sir JOHN and Lady SHEIHIROOKrp
o arrived at Quebec on the It2th of July, went in
August on a tour to the Upper Province, and to visit
the hills of Niagara; their • return to Quebec was ex-
pected early in October.
The running of the boundary lines between the Bri-
tish an.l Amer.. an settlern,:nts continues: the Americans
claim all the islands itt l'a..ssainatioaddy BT-r, as well us

THE NATIONAL

'ISTVX

Grand Nlanan. Thu Cominissio nett are to meet finally
to adjust the claims, at Boston, in May next
The following paragraph from Jamaica contains a
notice of the effect of the hurricane felt in the West In-
dies in the beginning of September:—" A severe gale
of wind took place on the 4th instant, along the south
side of St. Domingo, which did considerable damage :
two American brigs and two sloops, who were taking
in cargoes a little to leeward of the city, were entirely
lost, with several of their crews."
Madrid papers have arrived to th6lBth ult., they are
filled with the cere:nonies which tools place on the late
marriages, felicitations, &c. An intmen.se number of
officers have had rank granted to that:lllin this occasion;
among whom are Count ESPELATA (present Viceroy of
Navarre), the Marquis CasTEttAit,and ARAiCAL, Mar-
quis de la CoNCORDIA (present Viceroy of Lima).
These three have been made Captain-generals, a rank
corresponding to Field-Marshal.
THE GRAVES OF LAREDOVERE AND Nev.—ln the
cemetery of Mount Louis Labedoyire and Ney are
buried. The grave of the former is enelos.id with
stales, nearly as rough as when cut from th. hedge.
Roses and mignionette grow profuse];. in the °orders ;
and in the middle of a little grass-plot i a 111 Ttle in
full blossom, placed there, no doubt, b his disconso-
late widow, us an emblem of her uainded 1 rm. A
wooden cross, painted black, stands wi.11;71 th • ~nelol-
ure, and a garland of flowers hung over i . It is shaded
by a weeping willow. No monument oi stone marks
the spot, but some one has scratched upoi. the woo.len
cross—" Honor star braves."—North-eass of this, at

the farthest extremity from the entrance, is th • tomF
of the gallant Ney. It is a small elegant cenotiph c f
white stone standing in a souare ure, surro
by a neat wooden railing, painted olive green; a weep-
ing willow hangs over it, and roses are planted within
the space. The inscription is simple, but enough ficr
every purpose of a miniument—" Ci-git k Marechal
Nei, Duc d'Elrleingen, Prince de la Aluskrea."

The Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold employ
a number of labouring men in improvinc, their grounds
at Claremont. In this laudable object of taste the il-
lustrious couple take great delight, expending their'
money among those to whom it is most necessary, and
gratifying their minds, at onm, by the good done to
others, and by the embellishment of their noble do-
main. They are out of doors the greater part of every
morning, either in these grounds, or in rides round the
neighbourhood.

LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, Nov. 11.

Orders for the Court's going into mourning on Thursday
the 14th instant, fur the late King of Wirtembergh, via.
The Ladies to wear black silk, plain muslin or long lawn.
crape or love hoods, black silk shoes, black glazed gloves,
and black paper fans. Undress--Black or dark grey un
watered tabbies.

The Gentlemen to wear black cloth,.without buttons on
the sleeves or pockets, plain muslin or long lawn cravats and
weeper, black swords and buckles. Undress—dark grey
frocks.
The Court to change the mourning on Thursday, the 12th
of December next.

The Ladies to wear black silk, fringed or plain linen, white
gloves, neck-laces and ear-rings, black or ►►hite shoes, taus
and tippits. Undress—white or grey lustrings, tabbies or
damasks.
The Gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or
plain linen, black swords and buckles. Undress--Grey frock,.
The Court to change the mourning farther on Thursday,
the 26th of December next, viz The Ladies to wear black
silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippits, or plain
white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, vith
black ribbons.
The Gentlemen to wear black coats, add black or plain
white, or white and gold, or white and elithestaff waistcoats,
full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles. And on Thurs-
day, the 9th of January next, the Court to go tint amounting

ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAOR UIN A RY.—A yonng Gentleman,
travelling in the county of Armagh, amend himself by read-
ing the numerous notice& affixed to a pump in a central part
au respectable country! town : among them he found the
following, which he cowed as a curiosity
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
To enable me to leave the House which I have fo the last
five years inhabited, is the same plight and condition in
which I found it,
SOO Lire Rote,
For which I will gladly pay tit sum of SI. sterling.; and as I
cannot leave the Form attached thereto, in the same order in
%Inch I Sot it, without at least
Fire Millions it, Decks, or Dockings(oreede),
I do hereby promise a further sum of SI. scrbug, for said
number of Dock ins. (Signed)
Dated Slot Oct. IMO.
N.B. the Hats must BE ECM GROWN, aid *0 Crippler. .

The Campbelton packet, Itmrietta, Wallace, Master, in
going from Carapbelion to the Isle of Sanda, to receive Sir
W. Cunningham on board, for the
,purpostc of lauding bum
at Timm, was mile. tanately lost, with xlit ee men (tile crew),
Sir W. servant, end another manta passenger).
which hat we are sorry to add esiimin Wallace, who was
well known as a steady marl, ant one who was MIMI) in rea-
d. ring assistance to shippina perilously situated, even at the
haa.i dof his life On the ti) lowing day part of the wreck of
the packet wa, discovered on shore: at sheep Isle, Sanda.

Thulclalf se'nnight a very melancholy strident happene.t
at the I',O' of L ith, to Mr. )I.l.ean, kt_apar of an inuct u•
Peaircs-st.otet, who was viewing a vea;al conttag into the
harbour. The wissl hying fresh, a hawser, WAS' carried from
her to the eaprtasloo the Pier, in order, her TelioellYi
which, as som.• aveitlent. caught fire oil hoard the Ves,•el. ablt
ut:tli such force, that the part of It Albirli WAS on shore
eta off 'llk geollellten'• leg, 'be sasue ;Is If it had been anipu-
tato& We are happy to horn: hone% tr, (hot L. is is a 1,.r
way of recovery.

nit

BETHNAL GREEN POOR.
TO THE EDITOR.

4ra,—ln the present period of national distress, every an.
gestion and every attempt to relieve the miseries of the poor
is entitled to consideration. The Benevolent Society, and
other similar societies in this neighbourhood, are, therefore,
warmly encouraged. The Artisan is oftentimes known to lay
down part of his earnings, and the widow to offer np Lev mils
in aid of their suffering fellows. But it is in vain that the coin-
psissiun of the humane is excited, that their feelings are has
and their money drawl' from them, unless care be
when that the alms thus raised reach their proper dead.
nabob.

In the Police Committee's Report, published by order of
the House of Commons, is clearly proved in evidence, and
admitted that WU. of the poor-rate Bind of the parish of
Bethnal Green, of with+ Mr. Mereeron, the Justice, was
treasurer, had been applied by hint to the discharge of bit .
lawyer's bills for deleittling him against certain prosecee -
hens. Now, Sir, the money raised for the relief of the
pour is a sacred fund. The law declares, that it should not
be touched fur any other purpose than for the aid and
comforting of the poor. It turned to scorn any attempt
of a party at the vestry to vote it away as food for the ava•
'idiots, or for any other than its right purpose. The above
application of the Poets' Fund, by Mr. Merceron, is, here.
fore, clearly illegal. He moat always have well 'Liam:, that
it was illegal ; and now that the transaction is laid open to
the face of day, he no doubt would restore the mon* direct:lp
if demanded. I need scarcely then point out to the humane
and benevolent in the parish of Bethnal Green, the neeessiW
of their nut delaviag to reclaim from Mr. Mermen, a ma
so impo.tant and completely the property of the poor.
The 12,01W1. fund entrusted to the thatribudon of Mr. MON
rerun in a time of great distress in the parish, awl owl' it
appears by the Police Report, is not satisfactorily accounted
for, may, perhaps be more difficult to recover; but the object
may be worth attempting. In this, unlike many cases of de-
falcation, the receiver has money. Report says, be has got
together a vast deal. Surely, then, such great sums belong-
ing to the poor ought not to be abandoned to the grasp of guy
i . Iu tdual, particulrady while thousands in the parish have
.-eart•ely bread to eat; and when respectable tradesmen,
sinking beneath the pressure of the times, and linable to pay
!heir taxes, are distrained upon, and have their beds taken
Croat under them to supply the deficiencies of a few shillings
cons rimitionship to the peers' rate.
Whitechapel. A. B.
A Correspondent of a Morning Paper, calling him-
self " A Hertfordshire Clergyman," make's the follow.
ing suggestiou.s towards accomplishing the desirable
end of restricting the increase of Public-Routes, so in.
jurious to the health and morals of the lower orders.

1. Let the bishops require from every clergyman in their
•esper five dioreses, a detailed answer to certain queries
• ransmitted to biro for that purpose. Let an abstract of these
inswers, with the remeilief suggested for the evil, be- pub.
.shed like the lute Report of the Board of Agricultere. Tbe
inquiry will enlighten the public mind previous to a podia-
.iieutary discussion, and much practical good will be th•
result.
2. Let the number of pnblie-houses be proportioned to 0 •
population of every district; one public- souse sufficing gem.
rally for a population of SOO inhabitants.
3. Let brewers be disqualified from acting at all as =nip-
trades; or at least let the lord-lieutenants of counties be in-
,tructed to nominate no brewer in future to that important
situation.

4. Let brewers be dispossessed of their property in pidle-
ilolideS. Were they obliged to sell the public-houses arready
in their hands, they would still fetch their value as public-
houses, and the brewer would not lose by the transfer. Be-
sides, public-houses as they are at present condneted. aro
public nuisances; and a person who embarks his property in
a nuisance does it subject to the law °You/sauces; be beat
any time liable to have it suppressed)._
5. Let every resident clergyman in comb"' perishes be
empowered to enforce the penal statutes against public-
houses and drunk cones* equally with is magistrate. Local
grievances ought in many cases to be met by local remedies.
The facility which such an enactment would give to the pre.
station, detection, and. punishment of offences, would pro-
duce immediate and Incalculable benefit; and ppWer so
"lodged would lent to no abuse but what might be malty rec.
'titled before a bench ofraiagistristes.
6. Let public houses be shut up at nine o'clock in ensnmer,
and at seven o'clock in winter, and proper persons be ap-
pointed to see the laws enforced.
7. But as the great object of legislative enactments is to
prevent the commission of crime, I would- recommend the
institution of parish brew.heases under official lirection.
' The malt and hops shonid be betted by the parish, breweut
once a minth in summer, and once in two months in winter,
at the expense of the preish, and retailed in table and'stroog
beer, to he carried home 011 CC or twice a day at stated honre
of the day, and with no mote- profit upon it thin will defray-
the
expense of brewing asul atteuJanee. The farmer norild
soon experience the comfort and advantage of such an in-
stitution. The rates—the pernicious, the overwhelm ng rates,
wound be sensibly reduced throughout the country —its poor
could save, or spend in the bosom of their families, that
money Much now goes to enrich the brewer and the dis-
' tiller—we should soon recover, what we are wow rapidly
losing, a resident gentry, surronlided by a thriving yeo-
manry ; and a peasantry, frugal, manly, honest, and content-
ed, the story of their country iu prosperity, and its hope and-
! suppit in adversity.

SOLAR Eoxiesc.—The Eclipse of the San', .4)0 Tocsin,
morning next, will be the greatest whiclthas hapuened in this
country for tifiy-two yea's. At York, ten digits,. or tcu parts
out of twelve of the sun will Da eclipsed It Scarborough and
d'hithe, the Eelipse will be somewhat greater • and in a part
• f the holtic, and coital ries to the nortn,etat of us, the Eclipse
ill be central and tutu. To the SowthttentlVestit swill be
iess than oitb ta. At Londe,' ni:ar digits gad- Bros will be
eelipsvl.--Tht. Moon makes tbe-tiras isuptresskin an the righs
of tht• Sue's upper limb.
The. City of Londonderry has followed the example.
of &lanit presented.a ervratulatory Address to Lordi
Castlereagh, and invited his Lonlahip to a grand en-
tertainment. His Lordshir, hoverer, km' rmaasity.„ .
tiorlined the invitation.