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London, England, 1812-05-03

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LLOYD'S LIST.

MAAKETS, kc.

MAY 3

CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, MAY i.

Wheat, with some remainders of the late North Country supply►
continues fully to support Monday's prices.—Beans, of the two kinds,
were dearer this morning; and Oats likewise much higher; the ri•e
on the former 2s. and 3s. pe•r quarter; and on Oats (owing to the pre-
sent scarcity) Is. per quarter.

g.
Poland ()IPA b 3 a 56
12()tatne ditto 57 a
P ine FP‘ur 1 (15 a 11.)
Second dn. 1M) al, 5
}tape Seed 711 1:G

Scotland.
s. d.
-- f 1

M. H.
28 after 6
25 7
33 8
43 9
52 10
....... 12
81 12
London, England, 1812-05-03

ROMAN CATHOLICS.

It is said that a determination has, been formed by Mi-
nisters to offer to the Catholic body the three following
important concessions :
Ist. The removal of every existing impediment to their promotion to
the highest ranks in the army.
2d. A similar extension of the opportunity of acquiring promotion
with respect to the navy.
3d. The same advantages in the.profession of the law.
We give no credit to this rurnotir, as it would involve
the removal of the Test Oath, and occasion a material
change in our Con3ti ution, without•satisfying the ravings
of Catholic ambition.
•

Earl -WELLINGTON and PHILIPPON, late Governor of
Badajoz, are :said to have been educated at the same
school, near Paris. •• • •

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London, England, 1812-05-03

N° 2.27.

POLIAIC AI, DISQUISMON.

Na. 213.

NEGOTIATIONti WITH FRANCE.

• A few hours may sometimes decide the fate of :
Em-
pires for the crisis of events which have been silently
prepared through a long course of years, like the ex-
plosion of a mine laboriously formed, frequently occupies
hut a few moments. A short time ago the idea of enter-
ing into negotiations with a man who, at the call of in-
terest or ambitioo, had broken the most solemn treaties,
Ivoulci have been rejected with general scorn. How
fickle is popular opinion ! Tumults, chiefly excited by
the agents and bri')es of our most inveterate enemy, sud-
denly burst ont in some of our counties. They arc in-
stantly and artfully followed by overtures from France,
and the popular mind, blind to the intent that gave them
birth, and to the consequences that are expected to follow
from their non-rejection, hails them as pledges of return-
ing prosperity ! The funds, that unerring measure of
cur hopes and our fears, rise at the repeated arrival of
flags of truce from the opposite coast ; and rumour, ever
thirsty and lavish of pretended information, unable to
live into the secrets of the State, assumes a variety of
shapes in order to gain from the Public a portion of cre.
dit, to which it is in no wise entitled !

It is really amusing to consider, the numeTous reports
that have sprung. frnm the single fact of a renewed inter-
mrse with the French. Government. We shalt enume-
rue the most prominent, and conclude by some observa—
tiong on the probable intent of BUONArARTF. in making
;!ny sort of overtures to this country. Probability is, of
course, kept in view by the authors of the rumours in
question, but we Irive authority to declare, that none of
them rest on the disclosure of any part of the proposals
that have formed the subject of discussion between the
two countries.

The citizens, whose appetite is almost as keen after
news, as after turtle feasts, have, if not created, at least en-
couraged the growth of these rumours. We find, in conse-
quence, that it has been most positively asserted in the
city, that BLSONAPARTE had proposed to open the whole of
his ports, from MorLii v. to Rouen, for the admission of ves-
sels of all nations, including Great Britain : the cargoes of
such vessel:, to consist of certain articles, to be afterwards
agreed on,

,Another political sect supposes a difftlent opinion.—
Tney assert with great simplicity, not to say creduli,y, that
NAPOLEON, who owes many of his brilliant successes to
Ills artful concealment of the inadequaci of his means, ha
owned to our Government that he is unable to xn.aiataill
voi. F. No. XVAL
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ORDERS IN COUNCIL.

Lord STANLEY spoke at considerable length upon the subject of the
Orders lu Council. The arguments he used a,;aiest the system have
arleady been offered to the House upon a former c!iscussion, but the
chief point to which he directed kis observations was the presentment
of the numerous Petitions from the matnitactAring counties of England
After leaving urged in the strongest terms, the necessity of yiel lit:g to
the prayers of the great mass of the British merchants and manufac-
turers, he moved for the appointment of a Committee to examine the
Petitions against the Orders in Council.
Mr. Rose insisted upon the expediency of the measures that had
been just condemned, and objected to the appoint:ll:tit as unnecessary
and injurious.
The motion for a Committee on the Orders in Council was ordered,
and appointed for to-morrow.
Mr. PuisrsoNur and \lr. WurrskrAn Ira questions relative to the
late Message of the President of the thiitel/4! States.
Lord CASTLER EA cm (on the part of Government) liselaimed all pre-
vious knowledge of the instructions given by Sir J. Craig to
Henry, or of any intention to bring about a separation of the American
Stmts.
London, England, 1812-05-03

BETTING ON THE DERBY AND OAKS.

DERBY.-9 to 2 agst Comus. sto I agst Manuella. 6to 1 agst Mr.
I.adbroke. 7to 1 agst Whitburn. Bto 1 agst Gelden. Bto 1 agst the
Amazon colt.
OAKS.-3 to 1 agst the Duke of Rutland. Sto 1 agst Manuella.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, SATURDAY, MAY 2.

THE KING V. JOAN RADNIORE.

Mr. Serjeant Lens moved the Judgment of the Court against the
defendant, who was convicted at the last Assizes at Exeter before Mr.
Justice CHAMBHE, of assaulting Mr. Charles Pugh. The parties had
a former quarrel, in the course of which the prosecutor thrashed dig
defendant; and in the month of July last, the prosecutor was passing
with some friends through a field belonging to the' defendant, in his
way to a neighbouring river to ilsh ; where the defendant, who was
superintending his hay-makers, demanded of him what right he had
to go that way, it not being a tt Kioughfare ; words arose between
them, and the defendant pointed ay-fork at the prosecutor, which
constituted the assualt.
Mr. Serjeant Pell was heard, in mitigation of punishineut on be-
half of the defendant ; when
Mr. Serjeant Lens said, his only object in bringing him up for judg-
ment was to insure his personal security against future violence.
Lord ELLENBOROUGU observed, that in a moment of irritation he
had raised the fork, and prudence induced him to let it fall again, aid
no harm was done. He thought the justice of the case would be folly
answered by a nominal penalty.
The defendant was accordingly fined ls.; and entered into his own
re.:ognizance to keep the peace, in 501. for two years, and was then
discharged.

Pow-
London, England, 1812-05-03

LANES' DRESSES.

Hest MAJE‘TY.—A superb dress of white and jiver, tl:e petticolt
composed of satin, epibroidered and covered with draperies ct striped
sliver tissue, tzsteailly disposed and ornamented on the outside with a
bi oad net fringe in dead and bright silver, forming a very striking and
elegant drapery, looped together in different directions with bunches of
cords and tassels ; smaller draperies richly ornamented to correspond,
completed this elegant dress. Robe, blue and silver tissue, with a
stomacher of diamonds, and trimmed with point lace.
. Tun PIINCtiB OF WALES.--A superb rich silver tissue .'curt train
and petticoat,trimmed round the petticoat and train with a magnificent
silver net fringe, with Convex spangles and rich silver drop tassels. The
petticoat covered with a rich silver lace net drapery, beautifully em-
brOidered in chenille, forming• rosus jonquils, hyacinths, and other
fancy flowers; body, sleeves, and pocket-holes, elegantly embroidered
and trimmed to correspond; the d:apery fancifully looped up with
diamonds, enter:ads, and topazes, and other costly strmes, with a superb
festoon drain of magnificent diamonds, forming wreaths, stars, and
rosettes.
Pzit.ctss AcourrA.—A dress of bine crape and silver, the bottom
of the dress a bwder of Vandykrs, i:. silver toil, embroide rid with
sliver with buit:lirs of flowt•rs ira songks, upon: it
:spotted \vitµ oval spatrbies anti rings, large draperies embroid,reri AVitti
wreaths of passion flowers, interniised with wheat rats and Large foil
leaves, had an elegant and striking effect; small square draperies on
the left side, with appropriate borders, and finished with cords and
tassels. Robe, blue and silver tissue.

PRlNctss MARY.—A dress of pale pink twilled sarsnet, erngrotstered
with silver in wreaths and bunches of passion flowers, and ornamented
with draperies of beautiful Wild lace, relieved by smaller draperies in
festoons of pink sarsnet, embroidered with wreaths of large passion
sowers in dead and bright foil, and ornamented with superb bunches
of fringed tassels. This dress was peculiarly beautiful, from the deli-
cacy of the colours, and the intermixture of the blond lace . ' silver
flowers. Robe, pink and silver, trimmed with blond and
diamonds.

Tuesday, I)is Royal Highness the Prince Regent held a Levee at
Carlton House, width was but thistly attended.
Wednesday, her Majesty held a C. on in her Drawing-room, when
Count Ferdinand De Nunez, the new Spanish Ambassador, watt intro-
diced to her by the Duke Del Infantado, and Earl Morton, the Queen's
Chamberlain, and Cal. Desbrowe, her Vice-Chamberlain, conducted by
Mr. Chester, the Assistant Master of the Ceremonies. Ills Excellency
delivered his credentials, and was most graciously received. Lady
Mary Poulet and Miss Onslow were introduced to her Majesty by the
Countess of Macclesfield, the Lady in Waiting, as Ladies in Waiting► to
the Princesses, in the rooM of Lady Cranky and Lady Ely, redigued.
London, England, 1812-05-03

'LDNPSDAY, APRIL 29.

The Call of the House, which stood for this day, was put off till this
day month.
Mr. PeKCEVAL obtained leave to being in a Bill for stippresshg the
publication of certain printed papers twarin3 the resernb,ance of Bank
of Englttid notes. The present penalty for frauilulent.y putting off
such papers was only six months imprisonment. He proposed that the
Jul should increase it to 12 months imprisonment for the first offence,
.and Oat the offender should find security for his good behaviour for
two, years. For the second offence, he had to propose transportation
for seven years. Fur the more (Altana' prevention of the counter-
feiting of 13..nk Tokens, he proposed, that the offence Should he made
an:import rile felony for 14 years.
Th,: Charitable Donation Registry Bill, atter a division, 92 against
11, was read a third time, and paised.
The House went into a Committee, and examined w: nesse* on the
e&cts of the Orders in Council.—Mr. Atwood d..p05,..1 to the sr.lgoa-
tirin of trade in Birmingham; he stated th ,t one third of the work-
men must be dismissed, and the rest employed at half wages.—At the
conclusion of the examination the House resumed, and the Committee
adjourned till to-morrow.

'TURSDAY, APRIL 30.
Mr. Notlonaat, after some pretaratory remarks, moved for the re
turns of tpe oLficial experts, British; sylogiial, and I orrig:;; distinguishing

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those ,ent to Spain and Portugal, thobe icily i.ud i'.l.llta, and those to
the Baltic, for the last ten years.
Mr. Rost objected to the motion, contending that it would be mis-
chievous to iofor►n the enemy what we did, at.d v. hat we were about ti
do, especially in the Baltic.
Mr. BARING thought that there would be danger in acceding to the
motion.
Mr. PRactvAL aereed with Mr. Baring. The !notion was, atle!lgth,
a!rr.c•.l to in a modified staw --The House went iuto a Cvinti.i..te,to
the Orizkr, in Couticii, and examined wit.n sea, whici beit.
an adjournment took place.

TRIDAv, MAY I.
RIOT ACT.

The CHANCELLOR of the i ICHEQUEII gave notice, that he would,
on Niunday, move for leuvo tv bring in a Bill to extend certati provi-
sion% of tire Riot Act, which at rresent rcg:lrded the es:trance house,
by rioters, to rnantif.:cnerits, &tr.% .Bcc. He deciared the mea-
sure to be one of the utmost 17ip..ttance, having ben rendered in-
dispensably necessary by what had rec:•ntly occurred.—( Hear, hear ! )
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!‘i AY 3.

ought to be remembered, that he did not load himself w“.O oiliccurcs
as the price of his services—that he had no 15001. a-year bestowed
upon him—that he never gut places abolished while others poserssed
them, and afterward; had these placed re-established for the purpose of
filling then' himself. it ought to he remembered, that he did none of
these things; but he knew a Secretary of Ireland w:lo was not altoge •
the so scrupulous—a Secretary who—
Mr. P.. WARD h-re called the Han. General to order, and insisted,
that he was departbig from the motion bg fs)re House.
:;en. Mainew acknowledged he had bee:: a little out of order.
All he had to say farther, and indeed it was fur that he ruse was,
that he c ,nsidered the motion did not go far enough. nil opinions
were those of the gallant Admiral.

Tbe mutiAn was then put, and agreed to unanimously.
The Thanks of the House were then voted to Lieutenant General
Picton, Nl...in--Generals Walker, Kernpt, Leith, and Colvlle, and the
several other Generals serving under Lord Wellington, at the taking of
Badajoz.
Also to the Officers belonging to the Royal Engineers and Portuguese
Artillery.
Alpo to the Officers of British and Portuguese corps.
Also that the House highly a cknowl: dged the bravery, zeal, numw-
miry, and discipline of the non corntnissioned offi,:ers and privates, so
eminently displayed in the taking Badajuz.—AdjJurned. •

TUZSDAY, APRIL 28.
A Petition was presented from the County of Somers-t, agatnat the
Order. in Cotaicil. _ _

A Petition was presented from the County of r!::7fx, praying fir the
measure of a Ref inn in Parliament.--t 4,1ere,.1 to lie on the Table.

person from the privy Co:Inc:1 pre..ented the Memorial of Captain
King, which was olden:Ll to be printed.
Mr. I.Y.r rt.r. roN presented a Petition from Killerolinarcr, in Wor—
cester, against the Orders in Council and the Last India rvlotioply.—
Ordereu to lie on the Table.
London, England, 1812-05-03

CITY ADDRESS.

This chfprceuvre of civic patriotism was presented
last Tuesday to the PRINCE REGENT at the Levee. The
Citizens have, indeed, obtained an answer ; but we are
mistaken or they will feel but little exultation at the suc•
cess of their importunities ; for the reply betrays no hesi-
tation or embarrassment on the part of the PRINCE. It
contains a plain and manly avowal of his sentiments, a
direct refusal to pay attention to unfounded complaints,
and an intimation that. zeal and loyalty, on the part of
the people, can alone extricate us from our difficulties.
London, England, 1812-05-03

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

MAY a

Handicap Plate of 501. by Subscription, being the third of the three 501.
plates for three four, five, six-year olds and aged horses. Across
the Flat.
Mr. t'ierce's gr. f. Albuera, 4 yrs, 7st. 61b. . .
Mr. Shakespear's Hydaspes, 5 yrs, sst. sib. .
Duke of Grafton's b. f. sister to Pope, 3 yrs, 63t. 31b. .
Seven started, the Judge could place but three.
10 to 1 agst Albuera.
SsN'eepstakes of 200 gs each h. ft. Across the flat.
Lord G. H. Cavendish's Iklerry-go
paid -round,
eit 7st. 131 b. .
Three forf.
WEDNESDAY.
The Jockey Club Plate of 50gs to he sun for by horses the property of
members of the Jockey Club, 4 yrs old carrying Ist. 21b. S-year olds
Sit. 311). 6-year olds SA. Mb. and aged Bst. 111 b. B. C.
Duke of Rutland's b. c. Gramalkin, 4 yrs .
Lord Darlington's b. h. Troplionius, 5 yrs •• '4
Duke of Rutland's Grimalkin, 7st. 121 b. beat Lord G. H. Cavendish's
Eccleston, SA. 121 b. Ab. M. 9.00g5.
Mr. 111ellish's Bodkin, brother to Dimity, 8•• t. 71b. beat Mr. Wilson's f.
by Alexander the Great, Ist. Ab. M. 50gs.
Mr. Mellish's Maria, Bst 21b. beat Lord Darlington's c. by Sancho,
Bst. 7:b. T. Y. C. 50gs.

rec.
London, England, 1812-05-03

BIRTH.

•
On Friday last, the wife of Wm. Satchwell, button-turner, of Walmer-
Jane, Birmingham, of four children (three of them alive). The poor
woman and two of the children, have every appearance of doing well.
DIED. • _ _ _

In Norfoik-crescent, Bath, the Right Hon. the Countess of Erroll,
wife of the Right Hon. the Earl of Erroll; of Slane. Castle, Aber-
deenshire.
At her house in Charles-street, Berkeley square, the Right Hon. Lora,
Viscountess Doane.
At his house in Sackville-street, Piccadilly, at the advanced age of 89,
the Rev. S, Glasse, D. D. F. R. S Rector of IV:instead, Essex, Preben-
dary of Wells and St. Paul's Cathedral, and cule of the Chaplains in Or-
di' ary to his Majesty.
On the 6th inst. at the storming of Badaiox, by a inusket shot through
hie head Lieut. W. Ailix, of the 85th (Rill.) Regiment, third son of the
late J. Allix, Esq. of Swaffham House. Cambridgeshire, aget-,8,
At Kismalty-bouse, in Forfarshire, the R ght Honourable David
Earl -Airly.
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SUNDAY, MAY 3, I cq2.

PRICE 9k?.

.800 d order amongst hissW)iects, on acc.)unt of the sly: rt-
aess of grain. They wisely aF .:rt that he has, in conse-
quence, applied to us, to give him the means of represshlg
s.-dition amongst the millions of slaves who groan under
his rule, by allowing the importation of grain into France,
and offered to take an equal quantity of colonial produce
and manufactured articles in return.

A third class, still more credulous, gravely maintain
that NAPOLEON has thrown himself on the generosity of
this country. • That he ha; informed us of serious dis-
turbances having broken out in his own capital, and of
an attempt having been male on his life ; and has con•
descamded to request we would assist in quelling them ;
not by sending troops into France, but by refraining
from hostilities. He is made to have acknowledged that
the • people had risen in behalf of the BOURBONS ; that
M.ASSENA had placed himself at their head, but had sub-
sequently been taken prisoner, and s-2nt to. Vicennes, to
be tried in the same summary manner as the Duke
cI'ENOuIEN ; and that. unless we should accede to his
wishes, the magnificent fabrick of the French empire,
cemented by the blood of so many nations, must speedily
fall into ruins.

. A fourth sect ground their opinion, not on wild conjec-
ture alone, but on.observation. They tell us that gleams
of information have burst from official quarters, which
have been unnoticed by the Public, and caught by them•
selves alone. They mention, as an instance, the state-
ment lately given in a Government print, that the Duke
del INFANTADO had delayed his departure for Spain, in
order to wait for NAnoLLos's reply to" the dispatches sent
from this country in answer to his first communication.
They infer from this, that BUONAPARTE has not oaly
made proposals of peace, but has included the reninsula
in them. This great point once settled to their satisfac-
tion, they proceed to describe the conditions on which he
is willing to treat of peace. They assert, that he is ready
to replace FERDINAND VII. on the Throne, provided all
the territory lying beiween the present frontiers of France
and the Ebro be ceded to him, and our armies withdrawn
from the rest of the Peninsula. They add, that he has
urged the magnitude of his preparations against Russia,
as an argument why we should make peace,- as the sole
means .of snatching that empire from destruCtion. They
make him bring forward Holland as in instance of the
consequences occasioned by our refusal to treat with him,
and a pied-ge of the state of dependence and.national an-
nihilation to which, with the aid of Prtl;-.4and Austria,
he interris to reduce Russia, should we not avert the
storm collected against her, by a prompt compliance with
his wishes.

thich are the chief rumours that aitato the political
London, England, 1812-03-08

PROVINCIALS.

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Several of the Nail Ironmongers in Dudley and its vicinity having
Ltely lowered the wags s, the Nailors assembled in a riotous manner at
. Dudley on Tuesday last; but by the activity of Mr. flawke,4, a Nlagis-
tratc, mho called out the Volunteers, tranquillity was si;on restored.
Three of Most active in the riot were lodged in the workhouse.
Monday nidutiing, on the ariv:,l of one of the ratli coaches at
cliippenham, two men, outside passenger;,, were f3itticl dead, and a
4 “ilclier, sca,s taken off the coach, with sore faint signs of ani-
plaeion left, but be expired the foibiwi.)g morning. During the night
it hall reined butts violently and incessantly, and to the cold, added to
the 4pm-heti state of tlit;: gamy:tits, the fatal 3;;Oleut rnliy avubtleivi

MARCH R.

be attributed. The bodies were decently interred, and attended to the
grave by nearly the whole of the inhabitants of Chippenham.
The City of Oxford has voted 501. in aid of the National Church of
England Education Society.
A meeting of the merckants, ship-owners, and inhabitants of Ply.
mouth, was held on Monday last, at which it was resolved, " That a
Petition he prepared and presented to the Honourable House of Com-
mons, praying that the Charter granted to the East India Company
may not be renewed ; but that, if Parliament should in its wisdom
I think fit to renew the Charter, that the liberty of trading to the East
1 Indies may be extended to the port of Plymouth."
1 At a gentleman's garden, within a few miles of Norwich, on Thurs-
\day last, were taken from a pond at one haul, forty brace of perch,
which averaged three pounds each fish, and twelve brace of pike, the
smallest weighing six pounds. - l'he pheasants feed close to the widows,
• and after dinner nets being placed round the garden, thirty-two brace
and a half of hares were caught and then liberated.
Mr. Merle, of Brighton, has a cat with three kittens, to each of
which Nature, in a frolicksome mood, gave two heads • and what is
equally extraordinary. these double-headed animals are all living.
Monday last, at Herne, Kent, Quick, a labouring man, sold his
wife and two children to Tunsley, another labourer, for a gallon of beer
1 and two 11. no tes.
Lately, a poor woman, in returning to Ct,tterstock, near Oundle,
was met by a sailor on crutches, who demanded her money, and as-
saulted and robbed her of nine pence. On the woman calling murger,
a shepherd ran to her assistance, when the sailor threw down his
crutches and ran away. On examining the crutches, two 11. notes
were found concealed in one of them. •
A family of swindlers, consisting of a woman • calling herself Mrs.
Mills, two marriageable daughters, a son thirteen years old, (all of
genteel manners) and a female servant, have been committed to gaol
at Hull, on charges of swindling a number of tradesmen, at Leeds,
and other towns in Yorkshire, of goods to a considerable amount.
London, England, 1812-03-08

BIRTHS.

On Monday last, in Upper Seymour-street, the Right Hon. Lady
Frances Wedderburn Webster, of a daughter.
At his Lordship's house, in Portman-square, the Cady of the Right
Honourable Earl Grey, of her seventh son and twelfth child.
At Rockley House, Wilts, the Hon. Mrs. I'. St. John, wife of the
Hon. Lieut.- Gen. St. John, of a son.

MARRIED.
At St. George's, Hanover-square, George Henry Elliott, Esq. of Bin-
field, Berhs, Lieutenant in the 20th Regiment of Light Dragoons, to
Mary, eldest daughter of Major-General Hay, commanding the Kent
District.
London, England, 1812-03-08

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

THURSDAY, MARCH 5.

The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the Sugar Bounty
Drawback Bill, the Exchequer Bills Funding Bill, and four private Bills.
The Nottingham Frame-breaker's Bill, after some further opposition
manifested by the Earls Carlisle and Moira, was read a third tulle and
passel—The Watch and Ward Bill went through a Committee.
The House b,ing iq a Committee on the Bill for granting an annuity
of 20001. prr annum tO Lord Wellington,
Earl GROSVENOR thought the House would act more consistent with
their own dignity, and with the intrinsic merit of the Noble Person who
was the subject of it, if, instead of an annuity of 20001. they granted at
once to his Lorddlip the sum of 40,0001. or 50,0001. No answer, how-
ever, was made, and the Bill passed through the Committee; the report
to be received to-morrow.—Adjourned.
London, England, 1812-03-08

N° 219.

1101 lIICAL DISQUI.SI lION.

No. 205.

ORDERS IN COUNCIL.

When evils press upon us, it is natural, in order to re-
pel them, that we should endeavour to look into their
causes. But, in such a case, it is impossible we should
decide with impartiality. Our feelings blind our judg-
m.nt. Our imagination becomes our guide ; and trust-
ing to appearances, we do not dive deeper than the sur-
face, to ascertain whether our opinion be well or ill
founded. A man stunned lip a blow from an unknown
asailant, looks around him, and often selects as the of-
fender, the very person who would have yielded him pro-
tection. Such has been the conduct of the largest por-
tion of our community, respecting the Orders in Coun-
cil. Or. glancing around them, they descried nume-
rous symptoms of commercial distress. They beheld
some of our manufacturing counties a prey to riot and
disorder. They saw workmen seduced from their du:y,
mid collected to destroy the property of those from whom
they had hitherto received their bread. They perceived,
7.s in a time of seditious insurrection, the military neces-
.sanly called out, and yet unable by their presence to re-
strain the audacity of the rioters. Sedition, for it would
be vain to call it by another name, become organized—
opposition systematic. The frame4reakers elected chiefs,
formed regulations, instituted punishments, and in all
their operations moved with so much precaution and se•
crccy, that, to this day, their retreats remain undisco-
Vered, and their plans are too cautiously and too deeply
laid to be frustrated. From the seat of the disturbances
they cast their eyes on the proceedings of the Legislature,
nd some laws were proposed to repress the popular ef-
!ervescence, and, by the force of terrifying example, to
:4we the disturbers of the public peace into forbearance.
They found that a crime hitherto punishable with trans-
portation only, would, in future, be visited with the
utmost rigour of the law, and that death would be
the dreadful penalty inflicted for frame breaking ; an
offence certainly of the first magnitude, as it is an in-
frillement of one of the laws which form the foundation
ad the security of human society, the protection of in-
dividual property. These considerations heightened in
their estimation, • both the criminality of the acts of vio-
lence of which the misguided workmen had been guilty,
tand the dangers which were likely to accrue from them
eoithe State. Alarmed at their contemplation, they wish-
co ascertain their causes, and adopted those as the
true reasons which they found pointed out by party spirit.
P it ice nF •11r. to I‘;hi 01 the mornentom
London, England, 1812-03-08

MR. MUGNIE.

Having now satisfactorily established the claims of this gentleman to
be considered an English national composer of the first eminence, I shall
resume the review of his productions in the order in which they origin.
ally appeared. Encouraged by the reception which his .Marche des Roy-
daisies had met, and the encrease of patronage with which he was re-
warded, Mr. Mugnie next published a Grand Sonata, with accompani-
ments for a full band. In this piece he maintained his reputation. He
not only displayed originality and effect, but deep science ; which, in-
deed, marks all his compositions and renders them as pleasing to the
mind of the learned connoisseur, as they are to the public ear. Some
parts of his music are in consequence found difficult by the indolent,
who affect to despise beauties which it would cause them some exer-
tion to reach. But that difficulty is not real ;it exists chiefly in the
mind of the player, and proceeds from some deficiency in its percep-
tions. For as EXPRESSION is the soul and life of Mr. Mugnie's compo-
sitions, the ear that cannot find that harmonious management of sounds,
which produces all the effects of sudden or progressive nearness and
dying distant falls, and the hand that runs with monotonous rapidity
over the keys of an instrument, will fail to awake his brightest beauties.
His music is like our language; wielded by ignorance, it grows coarse
though still powerful, but dropping from the lips of taste and genius, it
breathes refined elegance, extatic rapture. There are stutterers in har-
mony, as well as in speech. The Polacca movement in this Sonata is
remarkably happy, and the accompaniments skilfully composed, and
particularly well adapted to render the whole a strikingly grand instance

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In this Tragedy, as well as in Coriolanas, the Roman " rabblement"
appear too thin and too scanty for the occ. sion ; their fluctuations, their
running to and fro are merely ridiculous, and instead of adding to,
detract from, the dignity of the scene. We doubt not but this-Drama
will be often repeated, and rid, for sometime, il.e Thespian boards, of
decrepid puns, stale j.•kes, musty sentimentality, and all such customers,
which toe often intrude themselves upon the patience of the Public.

Tuesday se'nnight a New Musical Piece, or Farce, bearing on its
forehead the unauspicious name of Frost and Than', was represented tor
the first time. The Scene lies in Sweden, and the Plot is made up of
the distresses of two lovers, Christiana and Adolphus; • who, although
separated by seas, find means to meet, and, unmindful of the severity
of the Northern nights, sing duets and sigh madrigals, as comfortably
as if they were on the genial shores of the Adriatic, or under the per-
fumed shade of orange-trees and rose-bushes, in the neighbourhood of
Naples or Palermo. Count Stokai found in the buffoonry of Mr. Lis-
TON, a considerable support ; and the absurdities of that character, en-
riched by the laughable drollery Gf the actor, threatened, at times, to
melt the Frost that seemed to have congealed the hands of the audience,
and to Thaw into laughter the long and ennui-struck faces of the specta-
tors; but it would not do.—The talents of Mrs. BISIIOP, the sweet
warblings of SINCLAIR, and the comic spirit which flutters about the
pleasing form of the vocal muse, and renders Miss FEitorr so interesting,
could not warm the theatrical atmosphere. It was Frost indeed—but at
last the whole was Thawed into loud, obstinate, and unrelenting hisses,
till the curtain dropt, in the middle of every possible mark of disap-
probation.

The Music is by Mr. T. CooKE of Dublin, and the piece is ascribed
to the pen of Mr. IioLmAN. Some of the Songs wt.re favourably re-
ceived, and the following verses in particular, did nut want effect upoti
the hearers :

Sorc-4doi Thus.
If not with her I'm blest,
In vain I twine the bower;
If not to deck her breast,
In vain I rear the flower.

Such seenes as these no joy can prove
On earth no joy without my love.
Awaken'd by the genial year,
The warblers trill their lay ;
The verdant fields bedeck'd appear
With all the sweets of May.
After the second representation, this After-piece was withdrawn,
and condemned to merited oblivion.

PRISON MEMOIRS OF LIVING GENIUS.

No. V.

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CERTIECATES.-MARCH 28.

George Buckley, of Tame Water, Saddleworth, York, manufacturer.
—Francis Delemore Stockton, of Fulham, carpenter.—John Ring, ~f
Brick-lane, Spitalfields, taylor.—James Collet, jun. late of Halesworth,
Suffolk, taylor.—Frederick William NVistinghausen, of Lawrenci -
Pountney-Hill,merchant.—John Hartley, late of Aldermanbury, ware-
houseman.—David Thomas, of Newcastle Edblyn, I.`armartheli, slit .p-
-keeper.—Edward Melling and Thomas Hall Hlgginson, of Liv,14,0.•1
merchants.—William King, late of Brewer-otreet, Goldt.n-square.
stationer.—John Pett, of Deal, carpenter.--Jamea Brooks, of
street, Clfeapsidc, wine-suerchar.t.—Samuel Cooper, jun. of Liverpo,4
whaslwright.

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

'The Nobility and Families of this Metropolis, also Town and Country
rapers, ere respectfully apprized, that the entire STOCK in TRADE
of the MANCHESTER, SCOTCH, and IRISH FAC [ORS, No. 6,
Pickett-street, Temple-har, opposite St. Clement's Church, is now on
Sale, the whole of which, amounting tt, 17,5(X)1. must be immediately
cleared off, in consequence of the death of Mr. Stephen Perkins, one of
the Proprietors, amongst which the following articles will he found
particularly worthy attention, viz. a large quantity of grass-bleached
Irish linens of known celebrity, Russia and Lancashire sheedngs,
dowlasses, and Suffolk hemps, 1500 pieces of India and British jacco-
cots, mulls and cambrics for gentlemen's cravats and ladies' dresses,
so° pieces of India nankeens, 2000 silk, imitation, and wove-in shawls,
1.50 pieces of rich printed bed-furnitures, counterpanes, quilts, blankets,
table-linen, &c. with an assortment of printed cambric. and calicoes.
No. 6, Pickett-street, Temple-bar, the large corner Shop, with a
Golden Unicorn in front. Assistants wanted.
N. B. the above extensive Premises to be disposed of.

Just Published, price Is. 6d.
The CRISIS; or, The DELICATE INVESTIGATION.
44 Come forward, my laord E—e—, is this your Caledonian bequest
to a Nation distinguished by magnanimity ?—lt needs not the evils of
Pandora's box !—ln the name, then, of that Nation, I return you the
obnoxious casket?'
By ANDREW MARVEL, Redivivns.
sold by Richmond and Son, 123, Jermyn-street,
London, England, 1812-03-08

IRIDAY, MARCH 6.

Their Lordships met at half past three o'clock, and proceeded further
in the hearing of Counsel in the Appeal Cause of the Earl of Elgin v.
Allan 1k l'Cleane, Esq.—Judgment deferred.
The Watch and Ward Bill was reported, and ordered to be read a
third time on Monday next.
London, England, 1812-03-08

DIED.

On Saturday last, in Argyll-street, the Countess of Aberdeen.
G. Goodwin, Esq. of Studharn Lodge, Herts, aged 71.
In St. Martin's-lane, aged 80, Dr. M. Garthshore, F. R. S. &C.
At Islington, aged 37, J. T. Althigh:tin, Esq. author of the Marriage
Promise, and several other dramatic productions.
At Melton Constable, Norfolk, the seat of Sir Jacob Astley, Bart.
Member for the County, the Hon. Lady Stanhope, eldest sister of the
late Lord Delaval, and sister-in•law to the late Earl of Chesterfield. She
has bequeathed the whole of her property, which is very considerable, to
her nephew, Sir Jacob Astley, and her jointure of a thousand a year de-
volves to the present Earl of Chesterfield.
On the 24th ult. in the forest of Birse, James Brown, aged 103; also,
lately, in the same place, C. Catanah, aged 91. These persons had lived
many years in the Forest, and retained their faculties to the last.
Aged 61, the Rev. Mr. Washington, Rector of Chilcomb, thins, and
Curate of St. Faith's, Winchester. Mr. IVashington was going to St.
Cross to perform the morning duty, and was in conversation with a Scil.
tleman when he fell down and suddenly expired. intrda
At Fulham, the Hon. Frances Shirley, wife of the Hon. Wash
Shirley; and first cousin to .1..0rd Viscount Dudley and Ward.

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IRELAND.

Dus mat, MA aen S.—lnformation has been sworn before Mr.
Sandeys, Magistrate of the county of Kildare, by several Protestant
Gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of Maynooth, in that county,
that on the night of the 28th ult, their houses were broken open by a
numerous banditti, and robbed of arms only. On one of those Gentle-
men, Mr. Nugent, observing, that from the careless manner in which
they threw about charged pistols, he supposed they were not used to
fire-arms, they ordered him to come out and he should see the con-
trary ; he did so, and saw from 25 to 30 men in jackets, armed with
tirelocks, drawn up in rank, who, at the word of command, went
through the manual and platoon exercise.
About midway between Cork and Kinsale, two strongly garrisonett
towns, and not more than twelve miles asunder, near a place called
Brown's Mill, the Board of First Fruits have thought it necessary to
build a Protestant Church; but so violent is the opposition to this mea-
sure, that the Government have been obliged, at the expense of 7001. to
build a barrack, and place two companies of the 6th foot therein fur the
protection of the Church.
Yesterday, after a furious struggle on the part of the Catholics, to ex-
pel Mr. HutldNston from the Dublin Library Society, that GentlemAs
was confirmed fit his seat by a majority of eight.

MPERIAL PARLIAMENT•

HOUSE OF LORDS.

MONDAY, MARCH 2.
On the Order of the Day being read for going into a Committee on thehe
Nottingham Frame—breaking Bill, Earls Grosvenor and Carlisle,
Marquis of Douglas, and Lord Grenville, again repeated their ()hyenas
to it, from a conviction that it was both cruel and inefficient.
Lord Gitosv Esi OR proposed as an amendment, that the attempt to de-
stroy should not be declared felony, but a misdemeanor, which Was
aceded ; several other amendments were made, after which the
lcouse resumed, and ordered the report to be brought up to-inorrow.—.
Adjourned.

TUESDAY, MARCH 3.
The House, in a Committee of Privileges, heard evidence, and ct•
ed a variety of witnesses, in relation to the claim of Sir George
Jeanngham to the Stafford Peerage. Farther proceedings Thursday
se 'might.
The Report of the Frame-breaking Prevention Bill was taken jilt°
consideration. Agreed to, and the third reading ordered for friday
next.
The Nottingham' atch anti Ward Bill, the Clink Liberty (5011t,..b"
work) Paving Bill, and several Private Bills were brought up from
Commune, and mad a first times—Adjourned.
London, England, 1812-03-08

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.

BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
John Roberts and Richard Roberts, of Wood-street, Spital-fields,
silk-manufacturers.

BANKRUPTS.
Charles Fairbone, of New-street, Fetter-lane, mathematical instru-
mem-maker, optician, to surrender, March 7, 12, and April 14, at
eleven, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Stott, Gray's-Inn-square.
Joseph Cliff, of Aston, Cheshire, linen-draper March 9, at five,
10, and April 14, at ten, at the George Inn, Leek, Stafford. Attor-
nies, Messrs. Kilimister and Challinor, Leek, Satlisrdshire ; and Messrs.
Dewberry and Haslewood, Conduit street, Hanover-square.
Hattill Arnold, of Cateaton-street, warehouseman, March 7, 14,
and April 14, at ten, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Hurd, King's Bench-
walks, Temple.
Edward O'Neill, of Liverpool, cooper, March 17, 18, and April 14,
at one, at the Star and Garter tavern, Liverpool. Attorney, Mr. Avison,
Hanover-street, Liverpool.
Frank!and Coates and John Willher, of Cheetham, Lancashire,
common brewers, March 16, 18, and April Pl, at two, at the White
Bear Inn, Manchester. Attornies, IVlessrz. Sliephard, Adlington, and
Gregory, Bedford-row, London ; and Mr. Law, Spring-gardens, Man-
chester.
Samuel Williams, of Greenwich, tobacconist, March 7, 14, and
April 14, at ten, at Guildhall. Attorney, Mr. Dixon, Nassau-street,
Soho.
Matthew Stothard, of St. James's, Gloucestershire, merchant, March
19. 20, and April 14, at twelve, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol.
Attornies, xi!. Stephens, Bristol ; and Messrs. Sweet and Stokes, Ba-
singhall-street, London.
Martha Nash, of Harlington, Bedford, grocer, March 9,
14, and
April 14, at twelve, at Guildhall, London. Atturnies, Mr. Townshend,
Staple Inn, London; and Mr. Lade, of Hitchen, Herts.
Ralph Broadbent, of Manchester, victualler, March 16,
20, and
Alain 14, at eleven, at the Mosley Arms Inn, Manchester. Atrornies,
i Mr. Ellis, Chancery-lane, London; and Mr. Morgan, Back Mosley-
street, Manchester. mer-
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Thomas Coed, late of Northumberland-street, Charing-cross,
chant, March 7, 28, and April 14, at ten, at Guildhall. Attonal-,
Mr. Charsley, Mark-lane, Fenchurch-street.
Sarah Baines and John Gale Baines, of Bradford, Wilts, haker,
March 16, at five, 17, and April 14, at twelve at the King's Arms Inn,
Melksham, Wilts. Attornies Messrs. Frowd and 'Co. Serle-street,
Lincoln's Inn, London; and Messrs. G. and F. Moule, Nlelkshain,
Wiltst
John Buckley, of Halifax, linen-draper, March 19, (20, and April
I`.lt:
14, at eleven, at the hite Swan Inn, Halifax. Attoworth and
rnies,
Wiglesworth Grays Inn,W London ; and Messrs. Wigles
Thompson, iialifax. Isi and
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Samuel Kettle, of Liverpool, timber-merchant, March 17,
April 14, at eleven, at the Globe Tavern, Liverpool. AttOrDie^, :\.,r.
T. Windle, John-street,' Bedford-row, London ;and Messrs. Grifli.a
and Hinde Fenwick-street, Liverpool. luxber;
I • Ricllard '(...'00k) of Bolborough, Bishop's-Cunnings, Wilts, p
London, England, 1812-03-08

SUNDAY, MARCH s,

test in which we are eng,iged, and the wide-exteiideu
fluence of the enemy had given birth, they sought for the
root of the evils which we experienced, in our own land.
The policy which had directed the conduct of our ad-
ministration, in opposing and counteracting the decrees of
France, had been represented by a few party writers,' as
one of the sources of our commercial distresses : the insin.:
nation was adopted and enlarged into an actual head of
accusation, and our Orders in Council were donounced as
the obnoxious measure from which alone so many evils
and perils sprung. How justly this opinion was formed,
and on what untenable grounds it was supported, we shall
endeavour to demonstrate in the following plain statement
of the real effects which they have produced on our trade.
It will then, we trust, be found that the losses which we
have experienced are to be attributed to other causes, and
that we could not relinquish our Orders, without sa.
crificin the honour of the Country, and the real interests
of the State.

The Orders in Council have been in operation now four
yearz, during which they have been two years guiltless of
injury to trade, which, on the contrary, flourished beyond
example pending these years ; proved in the first year at
worst but indifierent ; and in the last year are said to haye
been extremely prejudicial to commerce, and consequently
in a great measure the cause of all the distresses of our
mar nfacturing interests. Taking, however, the first yeat
as deciday bad, we ;Ilan have one-half the time of their
operation 'unfavourable, the other half prosperous in an
unpralleled degree. 1.113 as the two prosper:ifs years
succeedcd to one of the unfavourable years, unless some
cause external to and independent c;f the Orders in Coun-
cil.. could be assigned for that unexampled pr,,sperity,
this circumstance in itself is enough to show, OA the
Orders in Council, which did not impute the pregrea,
commerc.; in the two intermediate years, cr.uld pot
have been necessarily the source of the falling off of trade
in the first and the last years. If the adversaries of the
Orders in Council cannot trace the flourishing state of trade,
during two ye:lrs of their operaLiort, to some extrinsicsourcek
they must admit, that they are not inimical to the interests
of commerce. If, cn the oilier hand, the supporters of
the Orders in Council can point out a separate an4';dis7
tinct cause of the distresses that we at present feel, and may
have existed in the first year,.they are authorized to Con.:
tend, with confidence, that these distresSes have not arisen
out of the operation of the Orders in Council.
The enormous losses sustained by the failur,l. of the in-
cautious speculations to South America, were the specific
cause in the former instance, and the seizure of BritiAl
property in the ports of the Baltic by the French in the

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SWEDEN.

The mail from Anholt, which arrived on Friday last-,
contains the Report addressed by the Governor of Swe-
dish Pomerania,- General PEYRON, to his 'te'veanos, on
the occupation of filet country by the :French. ' We do
not th'nk that our 'Readers could .derive much gratifica-
tion from the details of one of these unprincipled attacks
which form the 'leading characteristics of the Tyrant's po-
licy. The treaty, by which he had guafanteed.to Sweden
,the integrity of her present possessions, was the last he has
signed, and this must prove ominous to those, who, re-
gardless of their country's •safety, extol the blind abuse Of
superior force, as the emanation of a superior genius ;
exalt. the unprincipled Ruffian into ,a Hero, and Wish
for pekq! wit him on any terms. This attack, in-
deed, ha 4 lAien long Foreseen, but the Swedish O G
vernrnent and the ;Governor of Pomerania -were
under the influence .t)f the same infatuation, which,
1 since 'the be,,inning of the French Revolution, has be-
numbed all tlie faculties of turopean Cabinets, with the
exception of that of 'Great Britain. They still dreamed.,
I good souls, of the. Law of Nations, and accordingly the,
Governor expected, that the French, .coming " ás friends,'
should pay for whatever they.wanted. But, g, they ma•
nage 'those matters better in-s. France," and the French
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General Wormed. linis list "it -;was their custollll iFibeTC•
London, England, 1812-03-08

ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES.

On Friday week, as Lcrd St. Vincent was sitting by himself in his
room, and haoing occasion to reach forward, he unfortunately fell
upon the grate. His head coming in contact with one of the spikes
which were placed on the top of the grate for the security of the wood,
he was with some difficulty able to force himself back from the fire,
before he sustained any injury by the heat, though his servants, on
entering found him covered with blood, from severe laceration, occa-
siyned by the spike. His lordship is, however, nearly recovered from
the effects of this untoward accident.

A mat daring robbery was committed at Reading, on Monday last
The Judges entered the town for the purpose of holding the Assize.
.Mr. Serjeant Marshall officiated as Judge for Mr. Justice Lawrence.
Coming out of church in grand procession, the Serjeant Judge in his
,robes, was hustled and robbed of his gold watch and seals.

Bow-STaavr.—On the night of the 23d ult. or early in the morning,
Abe house of Mr. West, the celebrated painter, in Newman-street,
was broke open and robbed of considerable property. A very large
chissel was left behind by the robbers. Pearkes and Salmon, belong-
ing to this Office, were applied to, and they assertained that the house
was broke open with the ohissel, and that the robbers entered by the
back prunisses. The chissel the officers traced to belong to a man who
worked at a trunk-maker's, at the back of the premisses, and who
proved to be a soldier in the guards. Thursday the man was brought
to this Office, before Mr. NARES, but he proved sati3factoriil that he
was on duty in the Tower on the night of the robbery; and also that
evols were stolen from his workshop on the night of the robbery.—
No was Userefore, of course, discharged.