The National Register.
London, England, 1814-08-21 00:00:00

THE NAVONAL REG/STER.

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laud !--The King of France paid a visit to Vcrsaille on
Thursday last.
An article from Vienna states, that Lord Castleteagh, and
the Ministers from Russia, Austria, and Pruss;a, are to meet
in that capital on the toth of next nn for the purpose of
settling the bases of the intended arrangemen's ; that on the
27th, the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia are ex-
pected there, who having, conjointly with the Emperor of
Austria, ratified the bases, the Congress will he opened on
the Ist of October, to which the Ministers of all the states
of Europe, interested in the general pacification, will be
admitted.

These Papers also state that his Holiness the Pope has
demanded the restoration of the three legations of Bololoin,
Ferrera, and Romagna, and the re-establishment of the Pa-
triarchate of Venice, proposals which have becu hot little
realised by the Austrian Court. The Pontiff has also de-
sired the evacution, by the king of Naples (Murat) of the
Nlargoi:sate of Ancona and the Duchy of Urbino. His llo-
liness appears thinly determined to asset t what lie considers
to be his rights, but it will of course depend upon the Con-
gress of Vienna, as to how noteli is be granted him.-----The
A logs of Bavaria and Wuttemburgh, the Grand Dukes of
Baden and Darmstadt, and several. other German •!:ove-
reigns weir preparing to set ow for vicuna to attend the

Como ess.
article in the French Papers, states, that in order to
bring the Island of Domingo into a proper btafe of culti-
vation, tel thousand nine hundred and seventy-one negroe6
roust be imoorted during every year of the ensuing five
veil's, allowed by the Ticaty of Peace for the continuance
of that abominable traffic !

Our feeble ctlorts in the eauF.e of Poland have [wen bo-
roured with the approbation of those who feel and appre •
ciate her injuries. But we fear her fate is inevitable. It
would he folly to suppose that our -good A Ifics would take any
steps that hal not the concurrence of England. Fatal filet !
that developer all tint we have to apprehend, and all that we
can suffer. Xi cal; wen are the too!' of crafty ones, and the
way to t... tansy is through the .gilded apartments of apparent
insensibility. But if the negociators of England be unjust,
the people are not blinded, and we call upon them to inter-
Let them meet and petition, or their triumphs are in
vain. That, after so much blood and treasure are we to
tolerate the (Jinns of c.'atherke—of Leopold and Frederick
William. It matters not if crime be perpetrated by one ge-
neration and enjo:,cd by another, the atrocity is still the
same, only ag.,;ravated by 9.-ofesions and in defiance of a
period ton etilkz!,.:ened, we hope, for an unjust, cruel, and
vindictive policy.

Gazettes both from the Eastern and Western coast of
South America, have brought some intelligence of import-
ance. Thtv came in the George Canning, awl it is remark-
able that W in. Brown, who sign, the dispatches, was formerly
In :star of that vessel, although he now figures in the charac-
ter of Admiral of the Independent Navy in the river. Plate.
The private accoun:s arc to the 14th June, and they mention
that Monte Video was almost destitute of provisions, that it
vas blockaded both by si.a and land, and chat its surrender
was daily expected. The land forces of the Revolutionists
before the pl;:ce had been considerably strengthened by the
arrival of fre,h troops. It will be obvious that the treaty
between the Viceroy of Lima and Chili was entered into in
the confidence that the Constitution of the Cortes was ac-
knowledged in the mother country; and it i, not iwprobable

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that the whole will be rendered nugatory 1)) tll counter-
revolution in that ldngdom. It would appe.o. by the private
communications, that the t:.ale with Chili is now open to
evcry state at peace with Spain. ;et nothing in the treaty
will admit of -such a construction.

We have learnt an awful lesson by the War which is just
terminated in Europe, how we engage in such contests
Of all the belligerents, we, who had no busness iu the fray,
have sult'ered the most by it. This may be regarded as a pa.
radox by those who have not contemplated the matter with
impartial eves. But it is capable of an easy solution. The
countries that were the seat of hostilities, and where the
wort rapine and desolation took place, had but a temporary
suffering. Crops were destroyed, and towns and v'llages
were burn`; but crops will be reproduced on the .same land,
and ah eady we are told of new towns and villages rising out cf
the old, to which, as a nation, eve have libet ally contributed.
But tire. reitilt of our interference is a burden that will des-
cend to our pos!erity—an evil that halt a century of peace
cannot cure, and which has put us in a situati
paratiyely with our nei,ghhours, ne...y and most
They who have attentively re:.cl the abstract of ti
of the 4,:orn Commi!tee, will see that a new era
upon us. The pioduce of the soil cannot be (lt,
Lela at an ex pence triple of what was when this
gall! By giving security and encouragement to t'
to grow cm n at tins expellee, the manufacturers, t,
and say they cannot enter into competition with J.(
in the market abroad. while by allowing the impo;
foreign corn below a certain rate, the manufacturer
be deprived of the home market, in all countiies
for where the land was suffered to lie waste time w
no buyers of manufactures. It is a question in pore
nomy which requii P>i only to he considered with COO
be rendered dear to all common iudwment.
What then, in such a state, ought to be the polic.
British Government Certainly to examine if the'
resources within ourselves by which we may coup
evils which the war has brought upon us. Retrench.
economy in every department of the state may d
thin. Relief both to the farmer and manufacture;
ob!ained. Their interest ale inseparable. The f;
as necessary to the manufacturer, at tist, and artisan,
are to him; and we sWpect that the period is arriv
we must recur to the original plan of the Sinki'
which was, that when it should reach four millions
that sum should continue to be applied to the lie
of the National Debt, and all, the surplus go to the
the people in regard to taxes. Tine that the coons'
cumulation of debt occasioned a departure from this
but our very existence, as a nation at peace, dema
turn to it. This at least is a dernier resource.
tion it as our own individual opinion. The Sink
now amounts to about sixteen millions per annum
millions of it at least go towards our annual expcnce
residue to the gradual liquidation of debt.

We have inserted in another part of our paper t
ments relative to the negneiation between the An-
missioners in Norway and Prince Christian. The
contain are already known, but the mode of condt
negociation, and the style of the impels, reader the
interesting.
The Sovereign Prince of the Netherlands hol
levees at Brussels, au does all ilr his power to con
new stiljects.

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