The National Register.
London, England, 1820-09-03 00:00:00

this week, for we ore obliged by it. to give but an
abstract of one of the best speeches we ever re: d,
which was delivered by Mr. Brougham in the Lords
on Monday. The superficial, flippant Solicitor.
General, Sir J. Copley, received such a dressing as
may perhaps be useful to him; at all events he will•
not forget it, for such was the elegant strain of irony
it adopted, that the House was absolutely convulsed:
with laughter.

. The French Papers of Tuesday last arrived on
Friday. On Monday Prince Taleyrand was among
the Grand Dignitaries who paid their Court to the
King. The Wonileur contains the Royal Onion-
nance for disembodying the Royal Guards at Brest
in consequence of their refusing to obey the orders
of the Magistrates, and to assist in suppressing the
riots on the night of the 17th of hist month,
when the life of M. Bellart his Majesty's Attorney
General, was menaced and in jeopardy. Seve-
ral of the corps, it also appears, took part in
these tumultuous scenes. The same official jounial
announces, that the Mayor of Brest has given in his
resignation, which has been accepted by the king.
The trial of the Abbe Pradt, and his bookseller,
Becket, came on for hearing before the Assize Court
of Paris on. Monday. The charges were for hiving
written, printed, and publi.;.hetl, a work, intitled,
" Of the Affair of the Election Law," tending to
excite disobedience to the laws; to attack formally the
constitutional authority of the King and the Cham-
bers; and to stir up a civil war in the kingdom.—
After a long trial the Jury acquitted the accused of
all the charges, and they were discharged. The
intolerable severity of the sentences in the French
Courts, in cascs;of conviction fur libel, have awakened
the feelings of Jurors, who do not now implicitly
obey the dictation of the Judge or the King's Advo-
cates. It is mentioned as a proof that the late Con-
spiracy had its ramifications, and was not an isolated
crime, that the moment when the Telegraph an-
nounced at Cambray that the plot was discovered at
Paris, and that the authors of it were in prison,
six offieers.of the Legion of La Seine fled to Bel-
gium, but two were arrested on the frontiers and
sent to Paris.

There has been as ~.reat variety among the jour-
nalists, in regard to theP Queen's exclamation, as to
the gesture which accompanied it, and the impres-
sion ; but no one has yet given the identical words,
or even their meaning, which the Queen made use •
of on the memorable occasion of her recognizing
Majocci. The word was " Tradidore !" (traitor !)
not Theodore, which should be interpreted into
astonishment that the man whom she had cherished
for his fidelity should appear in the foremost ranks
of her accusers; perhaps, too, a man on whom the
Queen herself relied for contrary testimony. We
do not say that this was so, but that such might
turn out to be so.
A handsome country box, Said to be for the tem-
porary residence of his Majesty, is now fitting up in
a superb manner at Kew. The kitchen is on a most
extensive scale, and may be said to be of royal
dimensions. Ninety workmen are employed on the
building, and it is expected to be finished in the
Autumn.
The inhabitants of the Ward Of Ahlersgate arc to
haven meeting next week, for the purpose of voting
an Address to the Queen.
The Italian witnesses in Cotton-yard were last
Sunday engaged in dancing and singing, with the
additional exhilaration of music. The movements
of some of them were so grotesque that it was iiincied
they had got their old companion Mahomet once
more among them, whose pranks furnished such
grave matter for the Attorney-Generals speech.
Who supplied the music flu. these Italian observers
of the Sabbath?
• The Emperor and Empress of Austria visited the
Imperial Manufactory of Porcelain, on the 3d inst.
where they examined the magnificent desert service
made by their order fbr his (irace the Deke of Wel-
lington. They expressed to the directors, anti to
all the artists of the manufactory, their satistitetion
with the design andexecution of this masterpiece.
An article front Brussels, dated the '24th instant,
says that en English messenger front Italy, passed
through it the day teibrc on his wily to Holland,
with thor alio, it was presumed, were to
bite evidence en the trial of the Queen.