The National Register.
London, England, 1820-05-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

all other measures mere delusions. This is
the substance of what Mr Coke said on Thursday
night in Parliament, and ha' brought him to a con-
clusion, that he will not consent to irritate the manu-
facturer against the farmer, by measures of doubtful
utility at least, and which only lead to a quarrel
betwoen the different classes of society, and hinder
them front joining heart and hand in those only
great remedial measures of a constitutional nature
which can be of any service.

Letters from Dover, received tbs morning, state,
that a considerable number of smugglers from
Folkestone and the neighbourhood (supposed to be
upwards of 200), assembled in the front of the gaol
of that town,and forced an entrance, for the avowed
purpose of setting at liberty several ether smugglers
confined therein, which they effected, and afterwards
made their escape. It is r.uppo•;cd that ere long
some of the gang will be in custedr, as they arc well
known to the police. The accounts do not state
whether any persc n was injured in Cie confusion,
nor how many prisoners got off, but it is thought
none but the smugglers have escar:2d.

Carlisle Eket;on.—State of the roll the first clay,
May 24th.—Mr. James, 50—Sir P. Musgrave, 'kb.

We have received the Paris Papers of Thursday
last. The King it still confined to his apartmen:s,
but transacts business daily with his Ministers.
The Gracile tie France repeats the idle rumour that
her Majesty the Queen of England is arrived in
Paris. M. Bastard d'Estang concluded his Report
in the case of Louvel, the assassin, on Wednesday,
in the Chamber of Peers. It was expected that
the interrogatories would be finished the day fbi.
lowing. It appears that Louvel acted entirely from
himself without any accomplice. He made a soli.
tary visit to Elba when Buonaparte was in that
Island, and conceived at Cherbourg the horrid
intention of assassinating the King. The Moniteur
officially announces that the Duchess of Berri is in
the fifth month of her pregnancy, and enjoys good
health.—The Paris Journals are almost wholly filled
with the debates on the Prcoet of the Election Law,
which meets with much opposition, though consi-
derably modified since its first introduction. M. dc
Bolland spoke in favour of the proposed alterations.
" You fear"' said he, " to introduce the Aristocracy
in the Chamber of Deputies, and you refer to Eng-
land. You forget the English Constitution is
is maintained rather by the Aristocracy of the House
of Commons titan of the House of Lords. The
(louse of Commons is chiefly composed of the sous
and nephews of the Nobility, and it is against this
state of things that the designs of the Radicals are
directed." After some further remarks, the orator
voted tin. the Proje!, because the present law is
both anti-monarchical and anti-social. M. Dinnefylet
spoke against the proposition of Ministers. Some
other Deputies afterwards addressed the Chamber
on both sides of the question. It adjourned the
decision at six o'clock to the following morning.

The Government of St. Petersburgh has issued a
new ukase, extremely beneficial to the temporary
interest of the calico-printers of Russia, but calcu-
lated materially to injure the interests of foreign
merchants trading with that country. All printed
goods when printed and brought to market by a
Russian printer, will be entitled to a drawback of
S7i ropers silver to the pound, which is the amount
ofduty on the white goods when imparted. These
373 copecs, in addition to the duty of one rouble
40 copecs. laid on tbreign prints, give to the Russian
printer an advantage of one rouble 771. copees
silver, or ss. 4d. the pound, Russian weight (about
14 oz.) over those printed goods imported from
abroad. This ukase expressly adds, however, that
the said drawback will be granted to those primers
only who have actually ordered the white goods
from abroad, and entered them in their own names
at the custom-house; the drawback cannot be
claimed when the goods in the imprinted state have
been purchased ofmerchunts in the market, who will
consequently be driven out of commercial transac-
tions, of which they have hitherto formed the chief
medium.