The National Register.
London, England, 1817-09-22 00:00:00

THE QUEEN OF WESTPHALIA.

The following letter, written after the battle of
Waterloo, by the Queen of Westphalia, to her father
the Kir.g of Wurtemberg, is extracted from Sir Robert
Wilson's " Sketch of the Military and Political Strength
of the Russian Empire: '—

" SIRE AND FATHER,—Yooir Majesty requested me to de.
scend into you' apartment. For the first time in my life I
decliued the happiness of being in your presence; I knew
the subject of the interview; and fearing that my mind might
not be sufficiently collected, I hare dated to take the liberty
of di- •cloping the motives of nay conduct, and making an ap-
peal to your paternal affections.
" Your Majesty knows the whole tenth. Yes, Sire, the
Prince Jerome, your eon-in-law, my husband awl the father
°limy child, is with me! Yes, Sire! I have withdrawn an in-
stant from the palace of my King, to succour the husband to
whom my life is attached. My thoughts have accompanied
him to war—my care has preserved him ia a long and painful
journey, where his existence was often menaeed. My arms
have embraced him in his misfortune with more tenderness
than even in the time *dour preeyerity!
" The Prince Jerome is not the husband of my own choice.
I received him fi nun your hand, when his I louse tide/led over
great kingdoms—when his In-ad wore a crown. "Seem the
sentiments of my heart cherished and confirmed the bonds
hich your policy haul commanded.
" Mai riage and nature impose duties which arc not subject
to the vicissitmles of tortime; I know their extensive obliga-
tions, and I know also how to fulfil them. I was a Queen ; I
am still a wife and a mother! The change of policy among
Princes, in overthrowing the French empire, has also de-
stroyed the throne on which your goodne.s, and the Prince
lav ousimud, had seated me. We were obliged to submit o
tlie force of circumstances! The august Maria Louisa af-
forded me a great example of resignation; but our situation
18 C11881114113E. Public interests may command sactifiees of
permanent duration, or a hich may cease when the interests
tufa new policy render other changes inn itable.
" Attliongui chance has elevated us above the generality of
mankind, we ale nitwit more to he pitied. A %ariable will
controls oar destiny; butt there its power ceases—it is impo.
tent Against the obligations Providence imposes en mu.
'• The husband whom God and yourself gave me—the child
whom I have borne ia my bosom, comprise my existence.
have shared a throne with this husband, I will partake with
him exile and mistOrtinie : violence alone shall separate me
from Min. Bat, omy King! 0 my father I I know your
heart, your justice, and the excellence of your priuciples : I
know what these principles have been at all times on the sub-
ject of those domestic duties which shuuld be respected Ly
the princes of your house.
" I do not eel. your Majesty, Trout affeetion for nie, to
make any change in that system of contioct winch has been
adopted is conformity with the determination of the most
powerful pi niers uit Europe., butt I throw myself at your feet
to implore permission that my husband and myself may re-
-111.1,11 eear your person: but, 0 my father! if that must not
let us at least be restored to your I'AVDIII before we re-
move to s lot vigil soil. It is only After having received some
proof of your patelll4l love that I can feel strenCilt to Appear
before you. If we tgo this very evening, let its depart
with the assurance of y our affection And plot. et ion in a hap-
pier time. Oar misfortunes must have a period, policy
will not always command, in respect tons, that which is hu-
miliating, nor delight in the ruin and degradation Milo many
princes, acknowledged ill fiiroter treaties, and who have
heels shied to the most ancient and ills-trious 'louses of 1.11
rope. 18 not their blood mingled anti outs? Pardon me,
ma Father and my Sovereign! for having tints espressed my-
self; but coudesceud, try a single word, to let ma know that
it bag wet been tectived with di.qleseure.',

BANK PROPRIETORS.

A General Court of the Proprietors of Bank Stock
was on held Thursday, for the purpose of declaring a
dividend for the half-year ending the 10th of October
next.
next.
The Chairman, (Jeremiah Harman, Esq.) having
stated, that this was one of the quarterly Courts held
according to Charter, and also a half-yearly Court, as-
sembled for the purpose of considering a dividend, ob.
served, that the Court of Directors had taken the state
of the Bank a counts into consideration, and were of
opinion, if the Proprietors thought fit, that a dividend
should be made of five pounds per cent. interest and
profit, for the half-year ending the 10th of October
next.

This proposition was seconded by the Deputy Chair.
man.
The Hon. Mr. Bouverie then rose and moved the
following Amendment :

" That, by the 12th By-Law of this Corporation, this', Court In
called on ,to consider the acute and condition ithereof, previou3 to a
declaration of a dividend. _ _ _

•6 That this Court has no means afforded them to pay obedience .o
the enactment, although several demands have been continuaiN
made, on similar occasions, without such necessary information.
" That this Court is induced, solely by the reliance it has on tl.s
full responsibility ofeach and every of the Directors, for any and' At
withholding of the same, to order, as it does hereby order, that a divi-
dend be made of 5 per cent. interest and profits for the half-year rat:,
ing the loth of October next."

Sir Thomas Turton seconded the amendment, whirl:,
on a shew of hands, was negatived by a great majority,
and the original motion agreed to.

INDIA Hooss.—Wednesday a very important Rowe
lution of the Court of Directors of the East India Com-
pany, the effect of which is to reduce the interest ups
their Bonds after the last day of March next, to 4 pee
cent. was communicated upon the Stock Exchange by
Mr. Cobb, of the India House, about three o'clock.—
The 3 per cent. Consols immediately rose in conee-
quence about per cent. ; but the more visible effen
of the measure was, of course, to be seen in the rapid
depression of the India Bonds. It was first surroisst}
about a week ago, that the East India Company in-
tended to reduce the interest on its Bonds by at lea* /
per cent.; whereupon the premium upon the India
House paper fell suddenly from about 110 s. to 353.
As this rumour died away, however, the Bonds gra-
dually recovered their value ; so that when Mr. Cobb
reached the Stock Exchange, on Wednesday the pre-
mium had again risen to 103 s. His communicaticht
instantly sunk it to 50, and between 50 and 60 it left
off. One cannot help remarking upon the peculiarity
here stated, that the mere rumour of a reduction of r
per cent. interest, lowered the premium upon the
Bonds to 335. while the positive notice of the rcduo4ion
did not sink it below 50. Such is the effect of a first
impression. In the interval also, the holders have had
the means, we suppose, to contemplate the difficulty a
lodging their money to greater advantage elsewhere.—
The Company, also, in allowing above six months be-
fore the reduction actually takes place, have wanted
sufficient time to the holders. There is strong reason
for believing, that it is in the contemplatiun of Govern-
ment to reduce the interest upon the next issue of Ex-
chequer Bills to 2d. per day ; and the merollants look
with coatidence in the Bank's beginning to diseouut
good bills at the rate of 4 per cent.

A letter has been received within the last week from
Mr. Bmwortlr, late master of the Boston Public School,
who, it will be remembered, was sent by the British
and Foreign School Society to the Island of St. Do-
wingo, for the purpose of establishing schools in that
part of it under the Presidency of Petion. He arrived
at Port au Prince on the 24th of June, afier a pisswge
of 30 days from New York, where he had been in-
4ectitv, the schools formed on the British system of
education. On the 25th he was introduced to Petion,
who appears to enter into the object of the mission with
great spirit, declaring that Le will have schools erected
in every place, for that it is his wish to have ail (-3
,:ated in his dominions; and he will give every faciiity
to forward the undertaking.

By advises recently received from. Cintra, we !earl
that the Portuguese, unlike Cie rest of the people in
Europe, have such a dread of erni,grution, that an.
order being lately issued by the Regency for the em-
barkation of 3000 traders for Rio Janeiro, a spirit if
tlic utmost discont,ut was instantly manifested. Goo
regiment fled into the interior, carrying with it its ha.
gage, arms &c. and another is said to have declared to
its officers on parade, that they would not betransported
without having committed any offence. Marshall
Beresford at length succeed in quieting the tumult,
by pledging; his word, that all who embarked should
be permitted to take their wives and children with
them, and be at liberty to return in three years.
The Pension recantation system in the Army end
Navy reminds us of the following story :—As the
Guards were .marching through London for the North,
in the year 174% a citizen exclaimed—" There go
the pillars of the State !"—" Aye," observed a soldier
in the ranks, " and when we come back you will 'ay,
the caterpillars."

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From the LONDON GAZETTE, S'aturday,- Sept. 20.

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BANKRUPTCY ENLARGRD.
*Su.tw S. London, manhunt. from S‘iiir. to Oct. 7. at Guildhall.

BANKRUPTS.

Traitor! LI J. and E. .IWiY:sr.,ivale, merchants, Sept. 27, Oct.
t, Nor. 1, at G iildball. Atts. llonrclellon and Co. lit;eatl-street.
Cot Fix W. J. Pt, mouth Dock. merchant, Oct. 9, 10, Nov. 1, at
Plymouth 1.1.4 x. Att. Mr. Makinson, Temple.
Nivxm 11.1ete of Failstvorth, LancaAcr,calico.printcr. Oct. 10, 11,
Nov. 1, at Manchester. Atts. Willis and Co. W aniford-cowt.
CART WRIGHT G. Birmingham, dealer, Oct. 6,7, Nov. 1, at Bir-
mingham. Atts. Clarke and Co. Chancery-lane.
An t 01. D G. Abergivenny, Monmouth. grocer, Sept. 27, 29. Nov. 1.
at Bristol. Atts. Jenkins and Co. New Inn.
ToWELI. It. Leeds, York, surgeon, Oct. 1,2, Nov. 1, at Leeds. Att.
Mr. Sangster, Leeds.
CASSO:: .1. Broadhalgh,ll. Ashworth, Midghali, and J. Ashworth,
Bmadhalgh, Lancaster, flannel-manufacturers, Oct. 6,7, Nor. 1,
ac Manchester. Atts. Hurd and Co. 'Temple.
DICKENSON J. bewesbury, York, linen-draper, Oct. 6,7, Nov. 1,
at Manchester. Att. Mr. Ellis, Chancery-lane.
W ATE LIAVORTII .1. Manchester. dealer, Oct. 6,7, Nov. 1, at Man-
chester. Atts. Adlington and Co. Bcdfonl-row.
Coo ELT. W. jun. Wigan, Lanca,ter, butcher, Oct. 20, 21, Nov. 1,
at Wigan. Att. Mt. Ellis, Chancery-lane.
GEnatura S. C. late of Broad-street-buildin_,t.s, merchant, Sept. 27,
Oct. it, Nov. 1, at Guildhall. Atts. Nind and Co. Throginorton-
street.
nowNtnEn W. Newcastle•upon-Tyne. miller, Sept, 22, Oct. 11,
Nov. 1, at Newcaitle-upon-Tyne. Atts. Bell and Co. Cheapside.
DIVIDENDS.
T. Orton. Liverpool, 'hosier. Oct. 11.
J. Hnivett, Saint Martin's-lane, bui'.l::r, Oct. 11.
H. Tuesly, High-street, Southwark, iron-merchant, Oct. 7.
N. Nowell, Charles-street, St. James's-NIL-ire, tailor, Oct, 11.
R. 'Turner, Faversham, Kent, miller, Oct. 28.
T. Jones, late of Exeter, builder, Oct. tB.
J. 'Tripp and J. Dyer, Bristol, wine-merchant;, Oct. 13.
T. Herbert, Hanwav-street, Oxford-street, haberdasher, Sept. 30.
N. Gilbee, Demon, Kent, coal-merchant. Ott. 7.
B. Sergeant. Kingston-won-Thames, carpenter, Nov. 11.
1-1. Evans, Fishguard, Pembroke, shopkeeper, Oct. 14.
J. Phillips, Longtown, Cumberland, butter-factor, Oct. 16.
C E la! VIC ATES, OCT. 11.
_ .

J. renkins, Birmingham, builder-J. Barton, West Cowes, Isle of
igbt, brewer—J. Weldon, Castle-court, Budge-row, warehouse-
' lar.—A.Sandmark, Mark-lane, merchant—J. Biddle, Birmingham,
fv:or—P. and I. Blackburn, Turnchapel-dock, Plymouth, ship-
-1 aildess—G. 11. Marsher, Chester, carpenter—F. Martin, Throgr-
r..o!ton-street, stock-broker—E. Taylor, Sandal Magna, York, corn-
aat East Hanny, Beats, mealman.

* .),.* We hare again to apologi.:e to "an Elector" for
non-qppearance of his Second Letter, but it shall
certainly appear in our next.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONDON :

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1817•

THE most remarkable continental intelligence of
tha week, is the change which has taken place in the
French Ministry. The Due de Feltre (Clarke) has
resigned his situation of Minister at War, the same
which he held during the " hundred days," and is
succeeded by Gouvion St. Cyr, We cannot but feel
something like pity for the king, on being deprived of
the service of Due de Feltre whose faithful attachment
to him in his flight to Ghent must have rendered him
dear to him. Count Mole, another of Bnonapartc's
servants has been added to the Ministry, and so active
his M. de Caze been in crushing the ultra party, that
the Due de Richelieu is now the only one of the
the king's old friends who holds authority under
-him.

The Paris papers which have reached us to Friday,
supply no intelligence of importance. The vacant sces
of France, have been filled up, with the single excep-
tion of the Bishopric) of Castres. The Funds remain
mearly stationary. During the last ten days, they have
not undergone the variation of 25 cents.
A Mail from Flanders arrived last night. The fol-
lowing are extracts :

BRUSSELS, SEPT. 17.—An event which has taken place at
Lille, though very insignificant, will probably give occasion to
'enme long columns in certain English Journals, under the
title of Pritute Corresponth.to., in which reflections and cen-
jectores will not be spared, meantime, the fact is as follows :
'• Some ) ming officers, lately seine out of the Theatre, wii
tbeir heads rather warm, uml glian elicit in the street with
tome of the citizens alto were quit tly returnine home. The
affair was going to become serious, when an officer of rank
-passing accidently that way, came up to the officers and in-
quired the subject of the quarrel. One of the latter pushed
him violently, using abusive language, then Lieutenant
General the Marquis de Jiimilliac (for it was himself) took
the sworffollthis rash young man, and broke it to pieces. At
1:115 moment, a patrole of the National Guards appearing,
Lieutenant General Juniilliac called them, and ordered the
to take to prison this officer who was confounded at such an
adventure. It seems that die affair will be brought before a
Court Martial.

FRANKFORT, SEPT. IS.—The destination of the young
Prince of Painel to the church seems to be confirmed ; he
hill be created Archbishop Primate of Itatishon, and Arch
Chancellor of the Germanic Empire, as soon as he shad have
attained the age requisite for filling these effiets, and have
entered into holy Hiders. In Wirtembeerg, the affair of the
11WW Constitution employs the minds of the public. The DP..
pities of Si utgard, named by the citizens to support their
mte •have refused to take the
oat, sell them they have
/ function. On the other
nt to niaintaile the rights
The day whet: all opinions
/antiviral fete.

TIM NATIONAL REGIgTEIt.

By the Paris papers received yesterday, we .earn that
the Emperor of Russia has et out upon his tour
through a part of his extensive dominions.

Our domestic intelligence continues to be of the most
favourable kind. Letters received in town from the
manufacturing districts of Ymkshire and Lancashire,
represent the orders for the different goods to be so ex-
tensive that they cannot be executed with the dispatch
which the merchants require. At Bristol the iron-trade
is so brisk that orders frequently wait a month before
they can be executed.

An article from Berlin announces the existence of a
Society in that city, wise and honourable men of course,
who have associated together for the purpose of ob-
taining au absolute and unti:ttered Liberty of the Press.
This they consider as one of the " sacred rights of man."
although how it was acquired, before society was insti-
tuted and printing discovered, we must leave to those
sages to unfold. They have commenced their proceed-
ings in the true spirit of those who substitute licenti-
ousness for liberty. They intend to afford all the aid
in their power to a libeller of the name of Malliukroit,
who is now under yosecution for two atrocious calum-
nies against Gcn. Thielman and the army- he commands.
This does not surprise us. In our country we find
the most vehement declamations upon the freedom of
speaking and writing, emanate precisely from those
who are most anxious to circulate abuse and falsehood.

From Madrid we learn that two expeditions arc pre-
paring to sail from Cadiz for South America. One of
them is destined to assist the Royalists in Peru, the
other is to be applied according as the circumstances of
the war may require. An important declaration is ad-
ded to this intelligence, namely, that the rumours of a
foreign auxiliary force to be employed in reducing
the Colonies to submission, is wholly without founda-
tion.

Letters from Gibraltar mention, that the garrison
and town were perfectly healthy. The intercourse with
the Barbary shore was strictly prohibited, and much
inconvenience had been in consequence experienced, as
the supplies of provisions and live stock were almost en-
tirely from the opposite coast. No farther intelligence
respecting the plague raging at Algiers, had been re-
ceived since the arrival of the Satellite brig of war ; the
officers of which reported the deaths at about 70 daily.
One of the letters was written by a person who had
been formerly in Barbary during the plague. Ile
states, that the horrors attending it were indiscribable.
Tice religion of the natives forbidding them to take any
remedy to prevent infection or stop its progress, the
miserable wretches were seen expiring in the hovels
and in the streets, eaten up with disease and vermin.
A Morning Paper states, " that there is at this mo-
ment lying in the River, a ship of nearly 500 tons bur-
den, regularly chartered to convey a body of disciplined
mops, actually enlisted to fight under the banners
of the Independents. On board of the vessel there
are at present about three hundred men, commissioned
officers, non-commissioned officer's, and privates, of
whom the greater part have been in t e actual service,
and are the subjects of Great Britain. They form
what in military language is called a skeleton of a bat-
talion which is to be definitively recruited to the num-
ber of eight hundred, and its officers are nearly all ap-
pointed and on beard. There also about 30 more offi-
cers. who are to take their passage in the same
ship, and receive their appointment in other corps
on their arrival at the place of destination. The Com-
mander of the battalion is a Colonel C—, who is pro-
vided with every necessary for the immediate execution
of military operations against the Spanish Government.
The ship sails in the first instance to St. Thomas's,
from whence she will proceed to such part of the Spa-
nish American Continent as may require the active ser-
vice of the troops."
This is so extraordinary a statement, that we can
hardly bring ourselves to believe it true. If it is true,
upon what principle can this government withhold its
interference in an affair which cannot fail to endanger
that harmony which at present exists between us and'
Spain. It is greatly the fashion to decry the present
King of Spain and represent him as every thing that
is debased and bad, but allowing all that is said of '
him to be true, are we prepared to plung ourselves into
a war, to please the vagarant inclinations of a ship load
of half-pay officers ?or after having so I); tterly reproach-
ed Lurop9 for interfering when we were engaged with
a rebellioits colony, shall we follow the example vvhieh
we so severely condemned, and feed a rebellion, the
prime actors in which, conduct themselves not like
soldiers, but 'pirates and assassins.
Great efforts, it is said, are exerting to allure offi-
cers and to raise men in this country, fOr South Ame-
rica; and we believe the report to be true. Without
entering at present into the propriety of this measure,
we would caution those more particularly who are cam-
missinaed to act here for the King of Spain and the
Royal party, to be careful whom they truet with their
money : we see some—one man in particular—who
appears to be very zealous and bustling for their service,
who, we suspect, will be apt to deceive them.—
Timeso

FErT. 22

.1110Itli BUON APA riTIA NA.

In the noning Chronicle of Friday, the public
were treated with tin " interesting communication from
St. Helena," in the shape of a " Memorandum of ob-
servations made by Buonaparte in a conversation with
soma Gentlemen who had lately touched at St. Helena,
in their way to England." " It has been transmitted to
us fimn that Island," says the Editor, " and AVe have
the most positive assurances given to us of the narra-
tive being accurate." It should seem then, that the
Gentlemen had left their " memorandum" behind
them, to be transmitted by sonic other hand, but, as
they only touched at Stilelena on their way toEngland,
why did they not bring it with them ?—However, to be
plain, this is another of the Illorning Chronicle's " po-
litical pleasantries."—lt is a collection of scraps from
the speeches of Mr. Brougham and the other oplxasi
tionists, in the House of Commons, and opinions
arising out of the perusal of Sir Robert Wilson's-
pamphlet, tacked together by passa:,es from its own
columns.—No matter, it keeps up Buonapurte's name,
and it aTards a vehicle for abusing the English minis-
try, and Lord Castlereagh in particular, then lare it is
worthy of a place in the Alarming Chrolicle!

The Government Gazette Extraordinary of Fort
William contains a perspicuous account of the origin
and nature of the late hostile measures pursued by
T'llakoor Dyaram, which led to the investment of the
fort of Hattrass, occupied by that Chieftain. Dyaram
was, in fact, a subject of the British Government, pos-
sessing the fortress in question within the territories
ceded to the East. Italia Company by Seindialt in 803 ;
but his f:nner habits and prejudices, as a Chieftain of
considerable eminence, led him to retain like our Barons
of old, a number of armed independents, and to reside
in the fortified castle which was probably his ancestral
seat. So long as he made no injurious use of these
appendages of his firmer state, the successive Governors
General, with a laudable d gree of attention to his
feelings, forbore to place him under those restraints,
to which, as a British subject, he was justly liable ;
but when he grossly abused his powers, protected and
encouraged his dependents in the commission of rob-
beries, murders, and other outrageous crimes, defied
justice and the laws, and became alike a terror to the
surrounding country, and a Rebel against the authority
to which he owes allegiance, the Marquis of Hastings
felt it due to the dignity of the British Government to
show that it equally possessed the power and the will
to curb such contumacy andoutrage. Still the first de-
mand and submission was accompanied with offers so
liberal, that Dyaram felt, or pretended to feel a willing.
• ness to accede to all that was required of him : but
with the usual instability and treachery of a native
Chieftain, in countries corrupted by so many ages of
barbarous despotism, he recoiled from his engagements ;
and thinking, perhaps) that " his Castle's strength
would laugh u siege to scorn," placed our farces under
the necessity of dragging this Cacus from his den.

Letters from Halifax (Nova Scotia) mention a circum-
stance of considerable importance to our unfortunate
countrymen, who were deluded to emigrate to Ame-
rica. A Committee was formed for *the register of
every person arriving, his age, qualifications, &c. ; and
it was requested that even• person in the colony would
transmit what servants, agriculturists, &c. he wanted,
that the emigrants might be provided for on their land-
ing ; a list was also kept of grounds which might be
occupied for a length 41f time for the clearing and for
commencing the cultivation ; very beneficial results
were expected from these arrangements ; it was ex.
pected to be followed immediately in Canada and the
adjacent provinces.

Translation of a letter from his Majesty the King of
Prussia, to the Directors of the Waterloo Subscription,
forwarded by Prince Blucher to G. 11. lose, his Bri.
tannic Majesty's Minister, and by him transmitted to
the Directors:—
" The interest which the Honourably Waterloo Association
has manifested towards the soldiers of my army- who were
wounded, alt well as the widows awl orphans of those who
fell in th.• campaign of Ibis, by remitting to Field Marshal
Pi ince Blocher a further sum of 10,0001. sterling, in addition
to tile important one of 200,0u0 rix il-Alars previously give■
for the support of those who bud lost their protectors in that
memorable war, has caused we the most lively pleasure, inert-
much as that gift will not only siliev late the sinterings of those
for shorn it is intruded, but will also prove to inv u pleasing
remembrance of the esteem in which the English nation holds
die glory acquired by our united armies. This makes me sic-
Firm's of expressing to the noble Association my unfeigned
thanks for their benevolent sentiments, leaving Prince 131u-
cher to make them acquainted, in due time, with the appli-
cation of their chat liable donation.

(Signed) "FREDERIC& WILHEIL4I.*
" tier Jane 13, 1817.
To the Watt ;Zoo Committee, London."

Baron Wood gave a delicate but severe relnile to the
Gentlemen of the Bar at the Lancaster Assizes, when
he observed, that if actions for defamation against
Counsel were to be encouraged, the Court " during
one As:ire could do nothing but try actions brought
for words used by Counsel at the limner Assize."—
This was a tolerably broad hint that his Lordship
thought the Gentlemen of the Bcr somewhat too free
in !Teeth.

Interest atrainst the Magistrates, •h:
-oath.preseribed by the government,
teen proilibAed Irons exercising suy
Priate Paul has sent au agent
pretensionsof the Agnates. TI
! uc :uncil.atoil will be* truly nu