The National Register.
London, England, 1819-12-26 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

offices of that-country from ministers and courriera.troot
that crowd of idle and corrupt sycophants who maintain
their luxury by the industry or the toil of retry virtuous
sod honourable citiaen. Such, Spottiestis, it cleasly apr
pears, are the hase motives of the despotism. as aim-
national as anti-colonial. ,s
Like iireful chili/rest, then, of an Rheostats rare, the
people of the preivincesof Veneruela are anxious to ad-
vance the real prosperity of the mother countey. Tiles
pursue a system not more honourable tethemselvet than
it must he finally beneficial w Strain. Boasting one
origin. and speaking one langagge.tt is impossible they
should nor, if unimpeded by despots, eternally seek one
common, benefit. navvy the mother c 00000 'try which
abandoning an infanticide policy, as absurdly froolish as
frighscully disgusting, seeks only te outrun its colony to
an illustrious career of rival good, amia rival glory._
Thus assoredly may Spain prolong a more honourable
existence. The fate of states, however, is in general
like that of the individuals of which they are composed.
Nlens alas r can scarcely be said to pass more readily front
the vigour of manhood to senility, decrepitude, and
death, than nations 110411 democracy to oligarchy,.despos
tism, and political entiarction- Few, too, are the nations
which have ever a second time enjoyed political life. To
Italy alone belongs the glory of having twice cultivated
hernias; and the arts, and of now &spiting to independ-
ence. which, strange as it may seem, she *meld long ere
now have enjoyed, had it not been for one of the maid fidd
crimes of your Government. An infamous compact
made Spain for ages a mere depetuletwe on France, and
to compensate this and the division and weakness of
Germany,. the nations of die north have bound Italy
hand and foot, and made her a dependence of A:owl I.
To the same cause is owing the Itsaiutersatice of two dis-
(foci kingdoms in your peninsulas Thus does she 'poli-
tical ignorance, the political weakne-vi or the political
crime of one nation, ruin the witolestructure of society.
Italy, however, aspires to independence ; and Germany
to freedom'. Been Greece has visions of micieut glory.
Mal Spain precede them in all!'
o prolong then a snore honourable existence,. or to
renovate tba signor of the mother country, is the zealous
wish of the colimists. In this sacred task, nobles anti
people of Spain, they reckon on your aid. Though (lose
trentemlousesiergies- which enabled sots to drive a, foreigo
invader loon your fields, as the welt is driven heroic the
tempests of heaven, now slumbers Me peaer, pet is vows
only that awful calm which precedes- the-storm 'Toe
day of reciu 'kis, at huts& for that thstnenie tyrant.
who. in one breath. fan ours and iltAtroyi the noble, while
it is biaglory WICOIII soil crush the people ;.whose crinws
render it sitter to be a minister of Turkey shaft of Spain—
better to be a slave of the-Sultan than of lie Bourts,,ii
Nero. But the hour of tett% unbars "sprat Las. Ttivri
will those indolgenews he snatcheit away with wit: ir
artful hiaotry pampers ••risial sensor:toy. 'risen win. that
trembling coward, who ot. vs resienta sett w.in
hasuuil
Lure, 1111. &xi of IlltifeS Stitt his orayers, seat
tit long scroll of his motes. 'l' ten still lite Rolle{ owl it.
in: on the wall ie. "Keno tidier toe blest ante Pains. s."
laJt iloof as soon it shall...
yonager teeth'', o (-moo on your orriwisto..
Patriot Gai:rillaarifsi,,,its— ms It it, 11.1 sire who have
scorned to crouch the fret ni .. 11%1.1.0 —the free coin.
nists of the IMOVrorsu•la have sworn to aid
yon in emir holy cause. Un;te, th‘ it, swim those vim
rime s ots, is noon anti in con-ut t. 1.•
si,i,tilltoo .5 I.:slots every Ittedi.S of
reabatii-.. no& rottener rtirdo.o. lefoif re is ar
t.ie .acne; fur site interests of humanity are .hr same
a:ol, perhaps, grant and bail mitt tit, not titliir trusts ear.
other more essentially, than in the know ledge of
13,1Cti of this great out's. Tiw ba,l trek to proisiott
their interests at the expence of nibs a; the amid, by 11,.
benefit of all : and. those assuredly catimmeodimustimite
benefits who do nut first ptemess them
Better do the people of the pros is.Ces or Yetiertiela
sea to promote tine real grioa of Spain, as well as Ili it
own; and' they rt quite of yon only a reciprocal feeling.
The instant, therefore,. that she memoir, aareeit on are
realiard. your's are astir arusaments and their munition-
of war. Their. Nears already emceed those of Spain i.i
rdlective energy, it not in number ; they hover on them.'
onions of !oul coast whew they are destined to aid you ;
they will in est way deceive your expeetations..or balk
Your dependence on them. May the friends-of liberty
then rise in a hundred cities! Nfay Madrid no longer
be polluter, Ly the presence of a despot ! May the base
agents of inquisitorial tyrutiny be offered, as a holocost
to the mane s of the heroes of liberty !
Soldiers and seamen of the expedition !—ya who have
dreamt the dream atid seeo the vision of military slimy,
say, was it ever yet realia:tl wh •he treat of; a,tlespot ? lu
the barman isiwgislation can there be sentiilliellis halt so
abhorrent of each other as to those of ho and
slan ery ? Or can Spanish prole, like that of the liveried
menials find, in tile U11111'1111), insults it may bestow on
the suppliant, a noble compensation for tine creeping
baseness with which it t approach, or the coaard
tear tyitll which it trembles before, 3 vulgar tyrant T The
brave Well, ill whose name I now adorers you, •
and will not believe this. Tlit! pride, the scow of ho-
nour, the lute of glory, whiela you cherish, forbid
• them. . .

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N4?-7yoti have hitherto. wanted only she power of
declaring yourselves. Tn accelerate this, we repeat ihr
assurance, Mat all• the hopes held fait io you in our pro•
ci iillalloll of the Vof Nlarch shall bet 'waltzed all the.
promises of reward and pros orr oat soil, as well is
of rink arid enioliument, fulfilled ; your comrades who
lately joined us in iwace, instead of recsuitintr the rooks
fa a despot. anxiously aNait your arrival. The tessels
which bear you to shores happier far than those of Spain
are already ULM, as their brave crews are our allies.—
Soon will both complete the emancipation ui the New
World. That of Spain will be ..cliievell, perhaps, to
you have rejoined your new comrades in arms.
Given and signed at the Palace of Government, in
Anaosttua, this 2rl day of April, 1819.
(Signed) Sistog BOLIVAR.

DEC. K.

faolll LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
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BANIRUPTCHIS ENLARGED.
W. Fandington, Wozniak Square, cabinet maker, from Dos.
23 to Jan. R.
J. Taylor, Fore Street, Cripplegate, draper, from Jan. t, to
Jon. IS.
J. Bryan, Oxford Street. silk mercer, from Dec. 26 to Jan. A-
M. Jacebsorharke Street, Soh., Square, glair merchant, flunk
Dec. 2S to Jan. a.

S. Walker, Birmingham, merchant.
A. Milligan. Wolverhampton. Stafford, tea dealer.-
B. J. Tennent, I.iverpool. merchant.
BANKRUPTS.
T. F. Hunt, St. Slartin, in the Field., builder. Solicitors,
Messrs. Richardson, Walbrook.
_ . _

.1. Green, BraunCowell, Lincoln, merchant. Sol. Mt. Hum-
phreys, London Bridge Foot.
B. Sidney, Newman Street,Oaford Boyd, picture dealer. Sol.
Mr. Cook, Clerken well.
_

M. Tailor, Long Lane, cotton dealer. Sole. Messrs. Robin-
son and Hine, Ckkrterho•.ue Square.
E. Blackley, Wood Street,. Cheapside. werolteusernan.
Mr. klitywanl. Touk's Court. Chancery Lane.
T. Burden, Rochester, Kent, groe.er. Se/. Mr. 1-I.tyward,.
T.etuple.
W. Heath, Lower Street,lslington, butcher. Sol. Mr. Older.
slum, Islington.
T. Clusturc, Aylesbury, Rucks. grocer. Sol. Mr. Gregory,
F'reemaa's Court, Cernhill,

A. Scott, John Street. Commercial Road, dealer. Sol. Mr..
Cnatry, Chancery Lane.
1). H. Laketnan,. Liverpool, merchant; Sol. Mr. TAylur,
albroula.

J. M. de Quires, Size Lane, merchant. Sol. Mr. Chester,
Staple Inn.
W. Roberts Chowbent.. Lancashire, innkeeper. Sol. Mr..
Wheeler, Castle Street. Holborn.

DIVIDENDS.
Jan. 15, 1. Spence, Providence Row, Hackney, merchant-
-41, E. O'Neil. Liverpool, cooper-15, J. Cordingley and. H.
Brown, waiehousemen-15, J. Dawson, New Windsor, Bucks..
cheese tietur-25. 11. W. Rumford, Bartholomew Lane, stock
broker-18. J. JeWary, Tunbridge, shopkeeper--t 6, 11. Ner,
not, Thames Inn, money scrivener—lS. E. Brahand, Manche,.
ter. dealer—10. E. Hall, Holbrook, Derby, grocer-18, J.
Davie,. Plymouth Hack, mercer—Y 5, J. Badelifte, Swansea,
grocer-21, S. Adams, Walsall. merchant—Vs, G. Baylifre.
IVakelield, draper—Yu, G. Huaham, Black Hall, Devon,
sontstuan-15, R. Day, Doncaster, York, innkeeper-1, J. O.
Tootal, Slinorics torn tisctur-15, W. Danl.:is, BMW. Stam-
ford, Ilertioui malt factor—Sl, J. Wealthily. elYmovilll Dock.
brewen.—Feb. 24. W. Gilpin,. Villiers Street, Strand,
army clothier.
CERTIFICATES to be granted Jan. 15.
B. 11. Brewman..llolywell Scrort, Strand, bilk mercer—lL
Terry..liolourn Bridge, Imberdasher—J. 11.11, Chatham.. talky
...E..Sa.age,Upper :shah Place, Gray's Inn Lane,. grocer—M.
a..d W. 'A:lmams, Great Storey Street, linen drapers—T. Palmer,
kyrnstrey, Ilsraturd, malster—C. Crisp. Bristol. curdwainer—
r. Quark street, merchant—J. Saunders. Ridgeway
Cross dereto.d, iem.eis—D. anti J. Glover. Lewis, York,
tuer..l..suts..

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1.0:1. 2/4
1.... ...VIII. Keil. U. j lopp..i.per Gest. 14t
S pr. 1411•4146 M. 0.& Si. dia.
Ji per Ceti,. 7 4 11s.Hr steel
4 1., tri.t. b. j !Cachet! it 114E4 b.. di..
N•. 11V7}' 'Goole. for Ar. •7
L..eir %nu. 17i losiery Tleket.-

A• 110 NAL iteX4lo rER.

SUNDAY. DWI:MUER W.

Notwithstanding all that has been said of the
active genius of Polonllo—in spite of the mighty
anu wonderful prep6iraiions at Cad's. with the
additional obstacle thrown in the way of the Jude-
dent cause in South America by the Foreign
Enlistment Act in this country, still the banners
of the Venesulean Patriots are waving triumphant
ut ',ante Marta. and a decisive victory has been
gained over the Royal, Army in Canthara, which
has sustained a loss of 1000 men, besides the capture
of its :unmunition and baggage. Accounts from
Augustan, of the 1.3. th. of October,. confidently
anticipate the immediate freedom of New Greneda
with the exception of Ca/thaw:no, and that in it 4
turn will soon succomb, as it was blockaded, and
probably has since been besieged. The royal
scpiudron has disappeared from. Margarita and from
Santa Fe. The Independents have received con-
siderable treasure in bars of gold, which will be

employed its the purchase of muskets. The pro•
crastination in sending out reinforcements from
Cadiz must add. to the dismay of the Royalist
Commanders, and; befixe the luckless expedition
sails there is every reason. to hope that the whole of
the western hemisphere will be free.

Two Hamburgh Mails have arrived'. bringing
Papers to the 10thinst. An article from Brunswick
states, that on the Qd, a fire broke out in the Chan.
eery Butldiirgs of that town, at night, which burnt
with such resistless rapidity, that all the papers•werc
consumed, and some lives were iinfoitunately lost.
The Grand Saloon, called the Throne Hall, which
was formerly fitted up at considerable expellee by
Jerome Bonaparte, was entirely destroyed. The fire,
it is supposed, was occasioned by the pipes laid under

DEC. Qe

'the floor to heat the apartments. The Elbe has been
(men as far as Altona since the Bth inst. in cane-
'pence &which the navigation has been so inter-
rupted, that above 30 ships, bound to Hamburgh,
are detained at Cuxhaven.

The Jamaica papers just received contain on in-
tereseing but painful document, being a narrative of
another expedition by M'Gregor, which failed no
less disgracefully than that of Porto.Bello, as must
be t!e fate of every enterprise in which that pusil-
lanimous adventurer may have art enough to engage
his gallant but unthinking followers. The present
relation is signed by a few of the surviving victims
of a stupid attack upon Rio de la Hache, a town of
Nen Granada, to the westward of the Gulf of Mara-
caybo• With 200 men, the remnant of more than
l„100 brave English soldiers, who had mostly perish-
ed through hunger or disease, Al• Gregor sailed from
Aux Cayes for the above-mentioned Spanish town.
The place was gained, though with the loss of nearly
one-third of our unfortunate countrymen, and lost
after a very few days, when hardly one of them
escaped the edge of the sword. The Commander-
in-Chief remained on beard his ship until after the
first action entlial, and betook himself again to sea
before the second began, never having seen blood
drawn, nor heard a shot fired throughout the whole
expedition. Eight officer', including Colonel' Nor-
mit, who had hitherto bravely headed the troops,
abandoned their unworthy leader at Rio de la Hach.,
and pnblislied the stateluent to which. we • aw refer,
as a protest against the conduct of M'Gregor, and
an exposure of his character and pretensions to the
world.

Thursday the Elections of Cotrmon Councilmen
in the ditti!rent contested Wards of the City of
London, finally closed. Mr Harper. vim repre-
sented F,aringdon Without for thirty years, watt
epposeti, on the grontelA of his, i.aititent atepp
Ministers, by Mr. Radler•%, ut the oppatitioil in-
terest, owl ty4 eat► civerini. In lie l'otvcr
Mr. S:il 5..:1 ;:i UteCt iOn : by

twee; voies, having been opiyised by au, v
slitt.te, Mr David Laing. In The course of sui,-
,sequetat proceeding.; r division was called tor, on a
sesolut• which had been proposed. wl,e,) the pre-
siding Alderman, Sir William f;urtit, ;1,1•in...1 all
those who were not housekeepers and electors of the
Ward to a ::hdraw, observiag, that the Seditlous
Meetings Bill had messed, and that it they re.
mained, it would he iv. their peril, and contrary to
law. The worthy &armlet most have for,coiten
that the Meetings' Bab :uml noi yet re-
ceived the Loyal A.tsent, add mua of counie Gnow,
that stash ihe case it was nol then a law 1.
wool.: have bcen r-thcr an aukward circumstance ir
he had (mounted •iny person who refused to with-
draw, on the authority of an Act that did Jot at the
time exist.

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FROM THI•. JAMAICA PAPERS..

Ilaraudieig hi•Grior againAt Rio dc la

ligclie, Bud in.:: Ace
OCT. 18 —The Lively Ann, the schooner Samuel,.
and s:oop Alesta, with .200 troops, under the wan.-
mand of M'(.regor, sailed from Aux Cayes,. 27th,
ult. and on the 94 hi insult reached 11:o de la Haehe,
where they came :0 anchor and landed the troops
that night;. M'Gregor did not disembark. The
troops finding their Chief did not head them,. ad-
vanced towards the town, attacked the Royalists in
the woods, and after a dreadful tire of grape shot
front the Royalistsl. during which many of the
British officers and men were killed, they gained
possession of the town,- The Royalists,. about 600
men, retreated, mid no attempt was made by them
till the 11th instant. when they augmented their
forces, attacked the Garrison. blew up the tiirt, and
eoropened the enemy to abandon their conquest and
fty in all directions.
OCT. `'3.—Accounts of further proceedings, on
the part of M'Gregor, against the defenceless inha-
bitants of Minezenclo de Cuba, have been brought
by a schooner from St. Jago. He appeared ow the
coast of that island with two schooners, and was
joined the same Jay by three other piratical ves-
sels,. when he stolid into the port, and sent in a
demand by a Spanish Gentleman, that it eighty
thousand dollars were nut immediately sent off us a
Limon., the town would Ik plundend, and if re-
sistance uas made would be set on tire. No answer
having Leen returned, the boats belonging to the
marauding squadron were sent ou slion with a
party, and a general pillage commenced, and lusted
fur four hours, during which time a considerable

NA rroNAL RtGISTEIt.

booty wow gained, and way afterwards divided, and
the vessels stood out of the pun, for some other des-
tination.

Other accounts state this to have happened on
the Stli inst. which throws 'some doubt on the cor-
rectness of M'Gregor havinf been concerned in this
affair, as he did nut quit Rio de la Hache until the
11h inst. it is, however, certain that such an act
hae been committed, if not by him.
By the Two Sisters, we learn that Aury was still
at Old Providence, busily fitting out a ship, to mount
20 guns; and, with the brig Mars, and another of
18 guns, two schooners, and a felucca, web to pro-
ceed on a cruise in the Gulph Passage, in order to
intercept a fleet of Spanish merchantmen that wcre
expected at-the Havannah, from Spain.

TO THE ELECTORS OF WESTMINSTER. AMEN-
BLED AT THE CROWN AND ANCHOR Da. 16.

New/gate, Dee. 17.
Gentlemenr—The letter arkiressed to toe by the Elec-
tors of Westminster assembled at the Crown and
Anchor Tavern, and which Sir F. Burdett, with the
denotation from your meeting, has done ate the honour
to Oresont so tne in this prison, will more than connien-
arc for ally inconvenience which I may sustain in con-
-74---iience of the late vote of the House of Commons. In
times like these every man is called upon feattosly to.do
his ditty to the public; and if my conduct has met the
approbation of so enlightened a body as the electors of
Wet:111111/Stet, it is not to be wondered ass that 1 shostla
have incorred the displeasure of the upholders of is cor-
rupt and despotic -ystem.
The same assembly. that dooms all their felkov-coun-
tryinen toperpettial Sett illiilee.lll teilVe hula cmuntanction
in sentencing an individual to temporary restraint; and
since those who hate setts me to this place look 'for the
justilicat of theia conduct, not •in the old English
laws, nor iii the vinyl:4les of common joiner, but to
ctnant.extratagant pretensions kit: their • nrcdecessors,
which they are pleased to term pr fedetits, I slunold per-
haps raise their forbearalice, winch has fomented itself
wan supple imprisonment,- instead of following the
iiir.re atrocious cxanyriea that are 10 be found in the re-
earth of Parliament

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