The National Register.
London, England, 1816-05-13 00:00:00

TRIal, OF AN O.

The Court opened nt u quarter past eleven. The Reporter
(Captain Von) rend the documents:—The first we.* depllSl.
Lion tootle by th., Duke Fitsjunies, Peer of France. The Duke
received a letter from General Bei tr ud, dated Fontainebleau,
the Dull of 'April, ISI Flux letter contained the submission
and oath of fidelity which Bertrand too► to Louis XVIII. It
was na follows:

" The Emperor having abdicated, I ant free from every MAN
gation. lu accompanying. him, I pay the debt of gratinniv and
hon:mr. I remain a subject (White King, air& I shun be a faithful
flubject. I ant persuaded, that the Emperor has renounced in
his heart every idea of returning to France ; bat what I can
pledge myself for is, that I shall never meddle with political
affairs; I was never a man of revolution or intrigue, and I shall
die as I have Us ed, an honest man, and a man of tumour. If
you have et ar any oceasi )))) to speak of me, you may, without
tear of being afterwards euntrathrted, affirm that 1 shall never
wonder, whatever es-cutaway occur, frian the line which I have
traced out for myself, which i.. that 01111 duty."
The Reporter then, after stating the treasons or General Ref.
traud, and commenting upon the abut c letter, titmaaded a sen-
tence of death against inn).
Here M..loasselin Delasclie, eous;n to General Hertel:nil,
demanded a &lour three mouths, to enable I to notify to
the general the procedure intended against him.
This request was opposed by the Keporter ; and the Court
having dethircrated, at live o'clock it was declared unanimously
that Lett cal Bertrand was guilty of the CI inns imputed to him
he was conwtpiently condemned to sutler death, and to pay
the expencet at the process. The demand :fur delay was tri.
cuinse rejected.

Satiu•dac, the 2d, a court-martbv: will try Ceo. Lefebvre
Demieuetten, an outlaw.

Lord Borghersb, the English Ambassador at the Catirt or
Flu re nee, has received, says the Gazette of tli.it city, the im-
portant intelligence, that, iti the treaty concluded by-Lord Ex-
mouth with the.lley of Tunis, on the 17th of April, there is tie!
follow tug stipulation:—" '1 hat power engages, should war
break ont betw Pt II it and any state whatever of Europe, nut to
consider the jUlllot Ideals who shall fall into its power as sluvo,
but to treat them as prisoners of war, contot utably to the magi.*
of Em ope:"

Marslial Pdasseas is at present very dangerously ill.

RISE IN THE 1'121(E OF WHEAT.

The late extraordinary rise of Wheat,'bcing about 18s.
per quarter in three weeks, neasiy one-third of its pre-
vious value, is a subject of the higiest.kaportance. Wo
take the Gaulle price as a criterion of its lute great deprev-
sion; the aggregate average of Wlirut per quarter (Eng
land and Wales) was so low as 525.1 id.; the week ending
the 27th of April it was 635. Bd. ; a great proportion of
these returns was made previous to the late great advance;
we may therefore calculate that the aggregate average
in the course of two weeks will bring the average to
nearly 80s. the price at which importation will be allowed.
It is a high medium rate, proved by the evidence before
the House of Commons, and by the enactment of the
Corn Bill; Parliament fixing 80s. as the rate at whit.%
the agriculturist was fully remunerated, that the other
classes of society should receive the benefit of importing
Forci!rn Corn, to guard against too extravagant prices.
The present unprecedented rise has becu, in a great
measure, produced by the scarcity in France, and the
consequent opening of the French ports to importation.
In consequence of this increased price, the labouring
classes in agriculture may think that they should.have
un immediate advance in their wages from the farmer.
But they will recollect, that in nine cases out of ten the
farmer is not benefited by the rise, having sold his grain
befbre the rise took place. To feel or to execute any ill•
will, therefore, against him for not giving this advance,
would be equally unjust and useless.

lAnother considerable rise in wheat has taken Owe at
the Corn Exchange. It is said, the farmers will not be-
nefit by the advance, as they havelong ago parted with
their stock.—lVe know not whether the growers or this
dealers be the gainers, but the Poor will soon know by
woeful experience who are the losers.

It is said, that the Duke of Wellington will shortly
arrive at Paris.

The new coinage, which is proceeding at the Mint,
is said to include both silver and gold. The gold pieces
are of 20 shillings, which is certainly a great convenience
to trad..% The silver includes what has lung bc:n much
wanted—a bhilling of a new die.

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