The National Register.
London, England, 1813-03-07 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

The Hotspur, 36 guns, Hon. Captain PERCY, arrived on
Tuesday evening at Portsmouth, from Lisbon, with a fleet
of transports. She has brought an account of the lamented
and melancholy end of Lieutenant-General Sir W. EasKINE,
Commander in Chief of the cavalry under the orders of Sir
ROWLAND HILL. In a fit of delirium, Sir WILLIAM threw
himself out of the upper window of a house where he was
quartered, and was killed on the spot. The dejection of
spirits, and unhappy disposition to suicide, first a!)?eared in
Sir Wt Ltd AM after his return from Walcheren, and it is said
to have been occasioned by witnessing the miseries to which
Lis countrymen were subjected in that wretched expedition.
On Tuesday evening,soon after the SPEAKER of the house
of Commons had read the Princess of WALES'S Letter in
the House of Commons, letters were sent oft by the Lord
CHANCELLOR and the Earl of LivEaPooL, to her Royal
Highness at Blackheath. The Princess answered the Lord
CHANCELLOR'S letter the same night, but we did not under-
stand that the Earl of LIVERPOOL received any answer to
his letter. On Wednesday, at one o'clock, a Cabinet Coun-
cil was summoned by the Lord CHANCELLOR, to take the
letter he had received from the Princess into consideration.
The Cabinet met at one o'clock, at the Foreign Office, and
continued sitting till three.
A copy of the Letter sent by the Princess of WALES to
the SPEAKER of the House of Commons was likewise trans-
mitted to the Lord CHANCELLOR, but his Lordship did not
lay it before the House of Peers, having, as is said, considered
that his duty prevented him.
Since the Letter to the Prince REGENT was made public,
the Princess of \V AL ES has not been allowed to see the
Princess CHARLOTTE at all.

Mr. JOSEPH GROVE, late Manager of the Windsor Thea-
tre, with Mr. SYDNEY, has again taken the Brighton con-
cern, and it is expected that his exertions will be even more
fortunate than they were last season, which was more pro-
ductive than it had been for many years.
Marshal Jourdan has been recalled from Spain. It is
stated that on his arrival at Paris, he was confronted with
another Marshal in a manner unexpected by him, when a
disclosure took place, which terminated in his arrest.
Several vessels have arrived from Holland, and by one of
them a letter from Rotterdam has been received, which states
positively that Dantzic bad fallen. Another from Amster-
dam mentions, that the Russians had entered Berlin.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRENCH PAPERS.

P ARTS, FEB. `26.
EXPOSE OF THE SITUATION OF THL EMPIRE, PRESENTED TO THE
LEGISLATIVE BODY, IN THE SITTING OF THE `2STH OF FEBRU-
ARY, BY HIS EXCELLENCY COUNT DE MONTALIVET, MINISTER
OF THE. INTERIOR.

Gent Linen,—His Majesty has ordered me to inform you the situation
of the Empire in the years IS I i and 1:302. You will see with satisfac-
tion, that notwithstanding the great atin;es, which the state of the
mirititne and continential war obliges Its to keep on toot, the population
continues t.er ir.erease ; that our industry has made new progress ; that
the lands have never been better cultivated, n':r the manufactorien
more fiouriihing ; that never at my epoch of our history, have riches
been mere spread among the tlit-Frent classes of society.
The simple cultivator at this till 1,! kilt)o/...; enjoyments to which h'
wic form:rty a stranger ; he put-citases at a Ingher price such lands as
suit him best ; his cloth a:. is b •t!er, his foot Is tiwre ab.indant , and
more substantial ; Ir butl.is his hiu...;es, and ulaki:s then more com-
modious and s üb,ta luta'

New inventiuns in agriculture, in industry, and in the useful arts,
are wit rvjected, merely because of their being new. Every where
trial.; are made, and such as experience • proves to be prderable, are
usetclly substituted for the old iinitiiws. The artificial she.p-walks
are multiplied, the of f;,ll.owing is disc:A:tit'. tied, inckwuros less
extensiv.:, IICW ALlbar.:ll: tlb iirciduix of our lands

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the cattle multiply, and their breed is arreliorated ; the lowest far-
mers have acquired the means of obtaining, at high prices, the rams
of the Spanish breed, and the stallions of our be t kinds of horses.
Become enlightened to their true interests, they do not hesitate making
these useful purchases; thus the wants of our manufactures, our
agriculture, mid our armies, become evei y day More asiiurcel of relict;
This degree of prosperity is Owmg to the l'beral laws by which this
great empire is governed; to the suppression of the feudal System,
the tithes, the Mains onortes, the Monastic Orders; a suppression
which has constituted or rendered free, that greet number of private
estates, neer become the free petrimony of a multitude of fimilies
hither:a of the lowest class : it is owing to the equality of partitions;
to the clearness and simplicity of Cie laws on property, and on secu-
rities ; to the promptitude with which law-suits, which are every
clay decreasing ; are decided ; it is to these same causes, and to the
influence of vaccination, that the increase of the population should
he attributed. And why should we not acknowledge to ourselves, that
even the conscription itself, which every year causes the choice of
our youth to range themselves tinder its banners, has contributed to
this encrease, by multiplying the number of marriages, in favouring
them, by for ever fixing tho fate of young Frenchmen, who have ouce
obeyed the law.
[Here follows a long detailed account of the state of population,
agriculture, manufactures, commerce, public-works, interior adotie
nistration and marine, occupying nearly the whole of the leloniteur,
and two supplementary sheets,] to which the President of the Legis-
lative Body replisel as follows
EN r trst EN—The Expose of the situation of the Empire, which
we never hear u ithout fresh interest, cannot freed more enlightened
judges, nor receive more sincere aoplauses, than in the bosom of the
Legislative Corps. Who amone us is ignorant of the progress of this
interior circulation, which enlivens every kind of industry, and has
caused its effects to reach even that laborious class which had for so
long a time been ignorant of its enjoyments ! It is by the remembrance
of those days, not tar removed from us, and not by the regret of those
who cannot hope for them again, that we love to judge of the works
of Government, and of their success. France, always tributary to
foreigners for the greater part of its wants, without circulation among
the interior towns, without certain emelt yinent to the inhabitants of
the country, and without giving them proportionate wages, saw her
commerce and her fortune concentered in a few maritime cities, whose
splendour we for the moment regret, but the influence of which was
but little felt in the distant provinces. At present a more skilful
agriculture yields a more considerable produce; great inalufacturess
bring into every district foreign arts ; more abundant and better- paid
labour makes the people forget their privations. But nevertheless,
tar from us be the idea of any injustice towards those anterior times ;
ionch was then done, hut we have surpassed the hopes of our fore-
fathers, and far front misconceieing these benefits, we love to place.
the glory of them to their author. How can we forbear admiring
these generous efforts which no interests could. relax ? In this very
year, when unexpected leases appear to leave no other care than that
of repairing them, immens- sums are consecrated equally to interior
industry, to retaiii:ng wket has already been achieved, and to the ex-
ecution of what is not yet' performed.
May our enemies at length acknowledge the infinite resources of this
Empire, and judge of her greatness by this noble emulation of genero-
sity between the Sovereign and the people, and thence foresee its des-
my, which is in the hands of a genius equally capable of inspiring
his enemies with terror, and his people with confidence.—Moniteat
of Feb. V.

LAW INTELLIGENCEIn

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FRIDAY, MARCH 5.
SLPORI LORD ELLZNSOROUGH AND A SPACIAL JURY.
THZ KING V. WHIT•

This was an information filed by the Attorney General against Henry
White, the youuger, fur a Libel, cf a false, scandalous, malicious.
awl calumnious nature, published by him in a weekly paper, called
The independent hig, of the 30th August and 17th September last,
against his Royal Highness the Puke of Clamber ot and concern-
ing the Duke, and also ot and concerning one Joseph Sellls The
paper constituting the first part of the libel is a letter under the signa-
ture of Philo. Junius," addressed to the Duke of C (Stated in the
inuendo to mean eDt! ke t.f Cumbeil3 d), inserted in The Independent
Whig of Sunday t:.e 3dtli ugn,t last .—I n this letter the writer
beAins by stating, that hr is informed there is preoared for his Royal
Fligrincss a dien.fied retreat, and that he is probably then solacing
himself with !he anticipation of being a spi ndid t 'tile. The writer,
' who states him-elf to he a per,.on will has tong earnestly attended to
the eircunist.inces at frtiding, the case of Sellis, the servant of the Duke
of Ciii:l'v:riaud, dri.lares, that at first he bad been impressed equally
' with IcAings of commisseration and sorrow for his Royal Highness,
who was stated to have been so vilely assaulted, within the privity of
his own apartments, by a confidential servant cif his own, entrusted
with the care of sleeping next room to him ; and, with. indignation
against the wretch who would so vilely betray his trust, and direct
his arm against his master and henclatai —More recent circumstances,