The National Register.
London, England, 1823-04-06 00:00:00

FRO4II LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE..

• —wasa—
At the Conti at Brightao, the id of April, 1823; present, the
King's Most Excellent Majesty in Councile—
lits Majesty in Council was this day pleasrd to appoint the
High. Hon. Charles Grant, President of the Committee eCeur.,
cil appointed for the consideration of all matters Mating to trade
and foreign pladtations, in the absence of the Hight H. n Wm.
Huskisson, of of the President of the said Committee f.t the
time being.
Vio HITEHALL, Await. 4.
The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be pained
t-nder tae Great Seal or the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland. granting to Col. Sir tl. Hasdinge. K.C.B. the office
of Clerk of the Ordnance of the said United Kingdom.

CROWN OFFICE, Amu. 5.
MEMBER returned to serve in this present PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Lymington.—Walter Boyd, Erg. of Plaistow
Lodge, in the county of Kent, in the room of Sir Harry Burrard
Neale, Bart. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds.

BAN KRUPTS.
r. Cout and W. Haigh, Leeds, dyers. Solicitors, Meters.
Few and Co. Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.
J. Barker. Crane Court, Fleet. Street, shoe factor. Sul. Mr.
Dunconibe, Lyon's Inn.
S. Dickinson. Great Driffield. Tnekshire, money scrivener.
Sol. Mr. Chilton, Chancery Lane.
J. K. Alderson, Norwich, plumber. Sol. Mr. Tilbur Fal-
y,
cm Street, Alderegate.
B. Hilt. Bath, furniture broker. Sole. Messrs. Netheriole
and Co. Essex Street, Strand.
DIVIDENDS.
April St, S. Bourne, Leek, Staffordshire, ironmonger-30, J.
Holmes. Portsmouth, coal Meichiutt.-40, R. N. Atkins.. Port.
sea, grocer-26,W. T. Slw win, Paternoster Row, bookseller-
-26, H. J. Powell. Uxbridge, builder-26, B. Troughton, Gen.,
and J. Troughtee, Wood Street, silkmen-29, J. Camberlege,
George Yard, Lombard Street. merchant-26, C. Marten,
Biahopegate Street, merchant—Y6, 0. Mills, Warwick, wine
merchant-99, J. Knock, Birmingham, brushmakcr-26, W.
ILinisden, Leeds. victualler-29. b. HeselLine. Kingston upon
Hull, merchant—May S. B. Martindale awl E. Filth, St.James's
tAreet+ wine merchants-7. J. Butcher, Alpham.tone, Essex,
ndism.
CHRTIFICATES to be granted April 26.
J. Pailes, Upwell, Norfolk, farmer—G. B. Whatley. Basing.
hall Street. woollen draper...J. Bury. Manchester, anu J. Bury,
Pendlehill.Laneashire, calico printers—J. Warwick, New Bs.
singhall Street. wine merchant—A. Barnaschina. Gravesend,
Kent. hardwarensan—J.Bowman, Salford, Lancashire, dyer—
M. Noble. Battersea, Surrey, engineer.

cODIISE OF RM.
Amsterdam, IX 9 C. F.
Ditto,atsight, Is 6
Rotterdam, It 9
Antwerp, It 9
Hamborgli, 1,
Alton*, 38 11 -
Paris, 3 days'aight MI 80
Ditto, 96 10
Rourdeitim, 98 19•
VratikfortontheMaine,lZ9
Petersborgli, U.
Vietwait,Ef. Flo. 10 40
Trieste, E.f. Flo. 11l 40
Madrid, 04—Cadiz, 381
13ilbon,314—Barcelona,30k

:HANGE, Aram 4. i
Seviille, 35i—tiiirralier,30t
Leglsoro,4o-oenoa, 421
Matta,43—Venire,YM 10
Naplez,lBl—Lisbotr..ll
Oporto, 51/,-11108iesS0
ft io J41111.1r0, 44
Itelerino, 114.
Dublin, ni per cent,.
Cu', iq, per cent.
Foreign gold in bare,3l.. 17r.
lid. per oz.
New Doubluons,ll. 168.03.
iNew ((allars, 48. 9d.
Silver iu Iniremandard Or.
Md.

PRICE OF STOCKS..
Bunk Stork (Minium 0.
S per Cent. Red. *lint I Imp. 3 per Cent. 74
3 per Cent.t7onsole 741' Ittrtitt Bonds 24
3§ per Cent. India stock
4 per Cent. abut Exchequer Bale 104. prow
New roues. 94. Cons. fur Ac. 74i
1..• u; Ann. lei Lottery Tickets 423 rm..

THE NATIONAL REGISTER..

LONDON, SUNDAY, APRIL G.

The French Government appears afraid. of
striking the first blow in their aggressive War
against Spain and Liberty—and we should not be
sutprised to see them, after attempting to bully the
Spaniards out of their right, slink away under some
contemptible subterfuge—but

" They bare gone tut ru
That should they wade no more,
Returning were aa bad as to go o'er"--
the fact is, that they already meet the execrations
of all good men, and if they ►tow recede, the im-
putation of cowardice (an almost constant charac-
teristic of a bully) will attach to them, and excite
the contempt of every one.—At hone, during the
recess of Parliament, we have nothing of importance
to notice—our manufactories. are flourishing, and

the improvement in the markets has suspended the
agricultural grumblings.

Letters dated the 21st alt. were received yester-
city from St. Sebastian. All hope of avoiding war
bad long ceased, and the isthabitants of this place
were preparing to meet it with firmness. This
being the nearest fortified town to Bayonne, there
was reason to expect that one of the earliest opera-
tions of the French would be to make themselves
masters of it, and preparations were therefore making
to sustain a siege. All the women and children had
been removed to Paysages, a small village in dip

neighbourhood, on the sea coast. Businese was fur
the most part suspended in St. Sebastian, most of

ME NATIONAL REGISTER

the merchants and their clerks having entered their
names as volunteers to join the force embodied for
the defence of the province of Biscay against the
French. Many had set out for the different stations
at whieltdetachments of troops were placed. The
military force in Biscay was estimated altogether at
about 1.5,000 men. Generally speaking, there ex-
isted in the province a vetylligh constitutional spi-
rit, but not without some exceptions,as a few young
men of family, alarmed at the rigour of the military
service that awaited them, had attached themselves
to•the Army of the Faith or Royalist party.. The
number of these ►degenerate persons was, however,
wholly insignificant ; nor was their cowardly pur-
pose likely to be attained,, as the avowed intention
of the• French Generals was to place them in the
van, and expose them to the brunt-of the first attack
upon their own countrymen.

CITY, SATURDAY, Two oCLocK.

Accounts% have been received this morning from
Mexico, bearing, date as late as the 20th February,
the contents of which are important. By these we
learn that all the northern provinces had declared
against Iturbide, and all his Generals had abandoned
him—the &mous General Guerero had raised the
standard against him; Colonel Sanchez; a great fa-
vourite of the Emperor, marched against him, hut
Guerero, at his-approach, shot him with a pistol.—
Guerero, with 4,000 men, was in Jalapa, and Gal.
Bravo had revolutionised Oaxaco. General Guada-
louple Victoria was in the Puente del Rey. General
Nepente had also abandoned the party of Iturbide—
this commander had gone to Baxio with 30 officers,
attended also lipEchevarre -and • Corozar, and Lo-
bate, another Republican chief, had takes possession
of the City of Puebla. Private letters also repre-
sent the cause of Iturbide as desperate, and state
that the inhabitants of the capital were far from
being favourable to. his sway, which, by its military
severity and force& contributions, had caused great
discontent even in that city..
In the Money Market there is nothing of particu.
lar moment doing, and the Funds are steady. Con-
sols for Account, opened at 7411, and hate since
scarcely varied a fraction. Spanish Bonds opened at
about 291 i, and coatinne steady at that price.

Several of the Spanish Government Bills have
arrived in town this morning, drawn on M. Ber-
nales, to which the answer returned on presentation
was, " to be presented' when due f' and although
in ease of need a most respectable merchant of Spain
had refbrred these b:lls to one of the London Bank-
ers, yet such are the apprehensions entertained of
the Madrid merchants having given value for the
Government Bills, and thereby that they will be

subsequently involved in its difficulties, that they
were likewise refused acceptance by the Banking
firm.

Extract of a:letter from Rome, dated' March 10 :
I have been here abate two months, and never saw such
weather in England as we have had here durina that time ; we
have occaaionally • fine day, and then the sun is hot beyond
bearing ; about tear o'clock the dew, or whit is commonly
called the yellow fog, falls anScient to make all the streets
quite wet and uncomfortable ; without great Cr.,., it is sue to
give cold and inttimm•tion. We have bad six or seven days
constant rain, then • Goa day, then constant rain again for •
week or more. Moat of the English have been very unhealthy,
and a number have died ;. among the number we have to regret
the late Mr. Portman, M.P. for Dorsetshire, who never had a
day's illness in his life till he arrived in Rome. Meat of the
English, if not actually unwell, appear frosts ten to twenty
years alder than when they arrived in this eternal city ," and
I am very much afraid that most of the youngladies will repent
baring made an excursion this side the Alps) as it clews not
add any thing to their natural beauty ; but, on the contrary,
that healthy, tine English complexion is, in the course of a
very few months, turned into the Italian cream-coloor, with
sulphuric tint, and no small share of wrinkles, &c. hoc. The
climate of Italy must hare changed very much in the course of
the last twenty years, and certainly not for the better. Now,
whenever any one is taken ill there, and is fortunate enough to
be convalescent, the English medical men, one and all, re-
commend immediate returning to England. You have no idea
of the number of English resideuts in Italy that were 'Disked
with the liver complaint last muster. lam acquainted with
one family of six persona, three of *Web were obliged to leave
fur England last autumn by reason of that complaint. We
have also here very often the Sirocco, or south east wind,
which brings in its train from Africa all sorts of d' and
requires from strangers the greatest care as to Clothing, exer-
eine, and living."

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The Journal des Debate, after quoting the convey
sation between Mr. Canning► ant Lord John Russel
on the 25th of March, proceeds thus:.—" The four
Allied Sovereigns (of Austria, England, Prussia,
and Russia), then have declared in the most formal.
manner, their resolution to take requisite measures
against any revolution whatsoever which could the-
nace the legitimate order established in France, of
which the dynasty of the Bjurbons is the basis. As
France has seceded to this grand alliance, the gua-
rantees have become reciprocal. The five Powers
are invariably leagued against every attempt to re-
volutionise the states of any one amongst them. The
obligation of this mutual guarantee against revolu-
bons has never been contested, and England agrees
isv its principles as frankly as any of the other allied'
courts. The question of what was to be done with
respect to Spain was foreign to these stipulations, as
Spain is not one of the allied powers. England was
in a situation to take a different view of this parti-
cular question frotn the other powers, without,
however, giving the right to any person-to conclude
from her conduct that she withdraws from the obli-
gations conrracted with her allies to oppose all revo-
lutionary attempts made against any one of them.—
Although neuter in relation to the Spanish revolu-
tion, England. still continues a party to the defen-
sive alliance against revolutionists in France.—Such
is the sense of the treaty recapitulated by Mr. Can-
ning ; such is assuredly the intention with which he
refused to enter into the reasonings broached by
Lord John Russell; for in all his speeches and,
actions Mr. Canning has given proofii that he is one
of those who entertain the utmost abhorrence to the
revolutionary spirit, because. he is one of those who
know it best. We may addi that this application
has no object but. to save the Revolutionists them-
selves from the pernicious illusions which they may
have cherished, by entertaining doubts of. the obli-
gations of the five Powers to preserve each other
against revolution. Every Frenchman worthy of
that none, is well. aware that the repose of France

is nuw.altogether independent of all foreign gnaw
rantce. A nation, of which an overwhelming ma.
jority is collected around the altar and-legitimacy,
can feel no necessity• forany means but her owir,
to maintain her laws, ,her intentions, her Thtone,
and her Kings."

The Freeholders of the county of Suffolk mem-
bled at Stowmarket on Friday last, to consider of a
petition to the House of Commons, praying for a
reform in that Honourable House. The High She-
riff Henry Usborne, Esq. took the chair soon after
one o'clock, and laving opened the business of the
day, laid before the meeting two letters, the one
from the Duke of Norfolk, the other from the Duke _
of Grafton, apologising for their absence. Sir Henry
Bunbury, in a sensible and constitutional speech,
proposed a petition, in which the necessity for Par-
liamentary ;reform was ably asserted. Sir W. Parker
seconded the petition. Mr. Gooch (one of the
county Members) expressed his conviction that the
reform proposed would not benefit the people. Mr.
James Macdonald, in an animated speech, replied to
Mr. Gooch. Sir W. Rowley (the other county
Member) concurred in the sentiments set forth in
the petition, which was carried almost unanimously,
there being but three hands held up against it.—
'The meeting was both numerous and respectable;
the rain fell in torrents while the business was in
progress, but the love of Parliamentary reform
seemed to have absorbed every other feeling; and,
spite of the storm, not a freeholder quitted his post.

Dutck Journals to the 30th ult. have arrived, one
of which contains au extract from the Prussian.
Stage Gazette, dated Berlin,- the 11th ult., which
says —" There is no foundation for the reports pub.
'fished in the Brussels papery, that considerable ma-
Igaxines are forming at Treves for a Prussian Army
of Observation. The op tractors for the supply of the
troops have, however, made the usual purchases, and,
this has given rise to the report."
Extract of a letter dated Rio Janeiro, Jan.
"The decree of this Government for fitting out
.privateers to cruise against the Portuguese flag, is of
course a declaration of war. Letters of marque
were adme months ago sent to North America, bat
with instructions that they should not be issued till
the SOth of December. There is little doubt, there-
fore, that by this time a swarm of privateers have
sailed from the United States. To-day an order has
been sent down to the Custom-house, that all red.
wines shall in future pay 12 milreas per cent. duty,
which is the same rate paid by the I'ortugueze on
port wines, and 24 milreas for white wines. For-
merly- all nveign wines paid six milreas duty: and
the order further adds, that all articles manufactured

in Portugal shall pay 24 per cent. ea tmtloremk
which is the same as paid by all foreigners with the
exception of the'English. As yet no alteration hae
taken place in the 15. per. cent. paid by the English ;
but should England refuse to recognise the Empe-
ror, there is no doubt but we shall be obligel to pay
the same duties as other foreigners.",

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