The National Register.
London, England, 1817-10-13 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE.

A private letter from Mailer details some enrions pat-tics.
lars respecting the trial and conduct of the prisoners who have
been condemned fur the assassination of rualtles. It was
eight o'clock in the evening when their sentence was pro-
nounced. A sentiment of shame had removed from the Court
a member of well•dressed females, who es ery day during the
trial bad been present. Forty rens tearoom with sabres drawn,
sserronettled the prisoners; a great limber of functionaries
1/11•41 the hall within and without; GO torn attended in case of
need. Won many precautions could not be employed, comi-
dewing the great number t,f Bastille's rehttions, and the in-
ttneu.ce he elm eised in the country The prisoners, over-
whelmed with the evidence adduced against diem heard
their sentence with much intlitleretwe. ourly, con-
cealing his face with his hand, said, "<lh I sty Out, my
Clod r When the halt was cleared, the caviSiets remained for
a• hour at the liar. Itastiile esolaiined, Alt, INN poor little
fortune which it cost me soanuch to amass!" He possesses
more than 20 NOO fe A 11(.4 of income. He ilittrell 110 COlnillaini j
and, in passing the door of his flintier prison, he saluted the
daughter of the gaoler with a smile. Madame Manton, who
fisea the general attent. Oll her inexplicable conduct, is lir
from being handsome. Her arrest has given her more plea-
sure than; pain.- -" I might," said she," to Nse been arrested
three months ago. All would then have been known as at
present." slue often said, during the trial, " Do you think
they will arrest me% They will not lure to do it ; butt it would
be heme if they did. d'erhaps, in that ease, those for whom
I suffer would have Sae delicacy to declare themselves."—
Every thing tends to prose, that all the criminals are not dis-
covered,

SPAIN.
The Madrid Gazettes last received contain a very extensive
list of persons upon whom the King has conferred new titles
and honours, on occasion of the safe delivery of the Queen,
and birth of the Infanta Donna 310-ein -Isabel Luisa.
The claims of Spanish merehants and others upon the
Cl eneb Government continue to be liquidated by the com-
missioners resident at Paris; the last act:omit is made up to
the 6th of August. Sonic of the items are rather curious,
—`• tUr the, cargo of the Spanish ship Minerva' captured by tin
English oris taper, and re-taken by the French squadron
under Villeneuve, who applied the cargo to the use of his
ships, with a promise of payment in 1505.--For articles of
clothing sold to the 15th squadron of Fiend) Bens d'arines in
Burgos, in ISIS ; for materials ftumished for the fort of San
Vicente, at salamanca, in 1812, &c. &c.
The s one Papers also rontain addresses to the King, from
the Society of Arragon, the town of ()swum, and other pails
Qt.iliv kingdom, on the subject of the royal decree ofthe 30th
of ?Why last, t 4 the establishment or the new finance system;
they are replete with expresAimis of loyally, and the greatest
admiration of the wis I uu of the new meanire, from which
they :vigor the most glorious results fur Ow Mg/rests of the
kingdom, and fur healing the wounds occasioned to the State
by lie hat* %%dm

*A
I..ti cc enter date nf 7M, front the naval rontritand.
alit of the province nt Alitielia, to the Secretary for that (lc-
partuti-nt, routines il scat, ieirett respecting a moat atrocious
art euntinitted by some sessel lid the Portal Malaga. Au
111141111.41 Spiti.isli brigantine ampot, called the Venus, was
found at sea. platted lilt GI alt her stores and pi ovisions ; and
there is every Yasuo to believe, that her Catplaiit, Ms wife.
Child, dote the greater part if not the whole of the Crew wera
isms dei eli and thrown uveruoard. It al Id now seem front
the above letter that a large Feloceis privateer, frosts the
month of the Cattoi ro, hearing All Lit:lila! 11.1 g, ,smite navicaled
nv Genoese, it suspected of having committed this piracy.
The reltiecu anchored in the harbour of Malaga on the isi;;ltt
of Ilse, bits of Ali gust; nut the Govei itiortrettlet int; her In he
detained, she heaped un the ills, wtiltutp *ming virtu:ilk it,
with a crew of :d1 mew; Punt eirrilaii4iiier of the brie,m
tine bring entirely I .leierl of her lorovasions, it is ettoyec-
14areil that the privateer had toilet. in with her off the poll do
the 9th, and them c 0000 milted the iohhery /m.llllll. firr. Tbt rr
are, however, retwoua tor thinking that atm at Is ist of the crew
had inn vivo it, and escaped 141 1111111 ft! IY a bow ; if us, tlit real
rit,uts,tAnte3 of the cue oil!, iv all plotisbilk, coat to

' OERM4N Y.
About forty thonsuld strangers are competed to have vi-
sited the last Frankfort Feb% This number is larger than of
late years, although not so consialerableua that which. 116E440
mutt to it formerly. The country about the Rhine wins to
have recovered from the effects, at least the visible effects of
the war, but the inhabitants still suffer from the faillfog of in
the last year's harvest. The complaints with which the Ger-
man papers abound. of the intim' of English goods, naturally
produce some effect on the minds of the people in general. -
On this point they are dissatisfied, without murk understand-
ing the merits of the subject. A great deal is owing to the
political jargon of the ilnunaparteua system, which they have
not yet learned to shake off. Manchester goods sold at Frank-
fort lair in large quantities, but at low prices. Souse of the
prints went as low as 811. per yard. The German mannfae-
ers cannot meet this price, and the natives will have it •
that the English are ruining themselves as well as the Ueruiau
establishments.

DENMARK.
By an order of the King, the exportation and importation
of arms and ammunition, to and from the Danish West India
possessions, a strictly prohibited.
•

RUSSIA.
The Emperor set out from St. Petersburgh on the 6th of
September. lie proceeded to Mohrlen in the first instance,
and thence lie would go to Moscow, where he was expected
to arrive in the whittle of this month.
A Deputation of the Nobility of Courland have brought the
resolution respecting the abolition of the Vassalage of the pea-
sants in Courland, amid Legged its etnifirniatioii, The Nobility
of the province of Estliouia gave the first example last year
of abolishing the vassalage of the peasants.
liv an Ukase of the 11th of August thire Is to be no rPerat.
ing tur the *nay this 'ear. The regiments will far completed
to their complement from the reserve of the first corps.