The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-30 00:00:00

DLTIAICATION.

" New that the pacification of Europe is accomplished, by
the resolution of witlidrawio the Foreign troops Irmo the
French territory; and now that there is an end of those me....
sides of precaution which deplorable Events had 'centered
necessary, the Ministers and Plenipotentiaries of their :%1:1-
jesties the • Emperor of Atistiia, the King of France, the
King of Great Bs rain, the King of Prusiit, and the Emperor
ul all the Russians, have recessed orders num their Sove-
reigns, to make known to all the Cowls ot Europe, the result;
of their meeting at Aix-la •Chapelle, mid %skit that view to
publish the fallowing declaration :
" 'lite convention of the 9th of October, which definitively
regulated the execution of the engagements agreed to in the
treaty of peace of November 20, 1815, is consider .d be Ili,
Sovereigns who concurred therein, as the aceompli,listit ut an
the woi k of peace, and as the completion of the politie.il
system destined to insure its solidity.
'• The intimate union established among the Monarch-,
who are joint parties to this system, by their own prinendt ,
110 less than by the interests of their people, Okra to Ellt ape
the must sacred pledge of its Intone tranquillity.
"'the object ofstliis notion is as simple as it is great awl
salutary. It does not Lend to any new polilical Cuninotaltno
—to any change in the selationssanctioiteil by t.xisting treativ,.
Cann and consistent in its proceedings, it has no other onject
Iltan the mailitainaoee of peace, and lite ty of Muse
dansactious 0/A which the peace was ft/Midi-1 and eussolt-
dated.

"The Sovereigns, in forming this august union, ha►e
girded as its fundamental mrsi, their invaii tl,ie m 14011010,1
uever to depart, either among themselves or in their relations

• The moue of the Powers arc put alphabetically.

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with other States, from the strictest observation of the right
of nations; piinciples in their application to a s'ate
of peace, can alone et-lee:natty goarantlV the milepelidence
uf ,arch government and the stability of the general assut ia-
tion.
Faitiffiil to these principles, the Sovereigns will maintain
thein equally in those meetings at which they may be pet illll-
- present, or in those which shall take place among their
Ministers ; whether it shall be their object to discuss in rim,.
mon their own interests, or whether they take cognia Illet.
et
questions in which other governments shall toi maliy claim
their interference. The same spirit which will direct nit it
Councils, and reign in their diplomatic coiniiimiieations, shall
preside also at these meetings; and the repose of the world
shall be constantly (Inds motive and their cad.
" It is with such sentiments that the Soveriigiis have eon-
militated the stork to which they were e called. 'they will not
cease to labour ft.ll• its confirmation and perfection. They
solemnly acknowledge, that their ditties towards (jail and the
iteopte whom they govern, make it peremptory on them to
give to the world, as tar as in their power, an example of
justice, of Concord, of moderation ; happy in their power of
consecrating, limn henceforth, theil• efforts to the prutetion
of the acts of peace, to 'lle i•acitase of the internal prove, ii)
of their slaws, and to the a a akeniiig of those sentiments of
religion and morality, whose empire lies been but too much
enfeebled by theiiiisf ,rtinie of the times.

" Aix-la-Chapelle. Nov. 15. 1815.
(Signed) " NIETTEHNICII. " 11AILDENBERG.
" RICHELIF.U. " lIERNSTORFF.
CASTLERE4GH. •'NESELIIODE.
•'WELLINGTON. " CAPO D'ISTRIA."
This document bears the signature of M. Ciente, the Secre-
tary to the Congress.

THE NORTIOVEST EXPEDITIOIt.—The following addiii •
011:11 particulars upon ibis subject are from a Hull paper s—
•' The Isabella and Alexander, discovery ships, arrived in the
Humber on Saturday week ; and after taking pilots on board,
sailed for the Thames the folio% mg da'.. Capt. Sir Joint
Ross, of the Alexander, reached this town on Saturday after.
nowt, and set off shout two hums aftery arils in a chaise sae
London. The following particulars respecting the newly
discos wed rare of Esquimaux were communicated by Slid.
Ross. Ine di•corery ships had been lying adjoining the land,
between lat. 7th. and 77. fastened 110 an iceberg, for two or
three stay and had just shoved off, when to their great sm.
prise they saw some persons coming down trust the interior,
towards the shore, in sledges drawn by dogs. Our country-
men immediately put back ; but on landing, the natives tied
towards the inter ion. In order. it possible, to open a emit_
munication witbthem, the Esquimau a, on hoard the expedi-
tion, set off after them; about three miles over the ice:
sacceeded in this object ; when he toned lie was able to male
himself imperfectly understood by them, and also to compre-
hend their meaning. On the first introilitetton taking place,
the natives inquired whether their visitors came from the
Son or the Moon? The I.:squint:sox told diem neither; but
from a large eoubtry a great distance from the South. They
said this was impossible, as they said there was wilting to the
Southward but uninhabitable is e. It was with great diffirithy
that they mild be convinced of their error, or led to regard
our countrymen in any other light than as beings from some
other planet. On being taken on board the vessels, they
manifested the utmost surprise at every tiling they saw. They
could not fur some time be persuaded that the ships were
not animals, and possessed the power of speaking; and when
told that they were of the nature of houses, intimated dint
(could nut he, since the former went Wei:wards and forwards,
while,honses were stationary. They repeatedly handled the
clothes of the crews, and could not conceive what sort of
Skins they were made of; their own eorering being wholly of
that description. Of bread or grain they knew not the nse ;
and on being induced to put some of the former into their
mouths, after masticating it for some time, spat it out strain as
tasteless. Their own food, it appears, was chiefly fish and
blubber. They had never seen any timber, and were quite
ignorant of its properties; so that one of them on going
*hoard, and seeing a mast jai.' upon the deck, attempted to
take it np in his bands, as if he conceived it to be devoid of
weight. Another of them, on hieing taken into the cabin and
shown Isis image in a mirror, started 114.41 with sun wise, and
could not, until after repeated assurance and experiments,
be convinced that there was not some person behind the
mirror. They appeared to have no idea of a Gail, or of a
future state ; nor do they seem, from what %%e eau learn, to
have any enemies, but supposed themselves sole muslin CIO Of

the universe."
In the coarse of last week, a yonng bullock, belonging to
Mr. Moses, of Looetowit Nieto y, near Plythouth,.bring ill of
waster in the brain, or what is provincially termed mazeness, he .
resolved on the extraordinat y opesation of cutting open the
immedititely between the eyes and Intros; in effecting
chick a bag ot consider able seas found , suspended within
between the helots. This bang di :inn out through the aper-
tnre with A (*looked instrument, contained 1110 Cl! 01411 a pint
of water, titled with antinalcolie. The skull was then closed,
and the wonoil covered with a pitch plai*ter ; after which the
bullock was *et at liberty, evidently much relieved by the
operation. It i* now quite well, acid promises to thrive as a
tioritil and healthy bullock.
The folow ing additional partictilars ;dative to the suicide
of .1. and L. Ytonightishind, are copied float toe .Art tea/Atte
Chronicie : fltcy %vele at Al11111:0t minket on the preceilint.:
bath, day, trant-at flag lonsitit ss iii their ordinary way, and a!
chinch un the Sunday as 11,11:11. Atlrl itis trot :haisvortil
remark, as showing that their !Mal vesidution could not have
been long taken, that a ves y short time ago, one of them wish-
ed the landlord to build him a house at I leekley, that lie
might he nem er his brother. They were buried at half past
cue o'clock, on the mei pin of Sunday the in a footpath
leading from Ilailitfgau, to Walkergatv, Alm% irk, and within
the Chareli yard. 'Nis not being considered a sufficient com-
pliance with the terms of the sialtde, an order was given by
the Magistrates that the lIINVVIIICC of the law situuld be cat, kit
511 ii tly into execution. The bodies were aeon dingly taken
up on Monday afternoon, and buried wil,a•it
called Hinding lane, not far from tl.e spot wheie they rum.
milted the fatal act.
SA AcTors yig. bred by Mr. Moore. of Asp Fann, at
C
couch Wraxall, ‘Viltthire, shout forte months old. was driven a
fi w days ago to Ibith, and purebased by Mr. Erin, brewer, at bath-
wick, to which place it it as konvi•) A in a sack, and secured in a well
fenced stye, In in which it scutchow contrived .o effect its escape. A
tea days after, Mr Evill it as t.urptised tolees.r that the puttr
bad lintittl its way io its o.d Itahitation, to Ito %.t.teli it niust has swain
the riv. r Anon. It has since been provt. :.slat it was pow. •
Lathe; stun, Itence it aho contrived to eater, and t.. 0, as oaewe
blow the same tray.
A pro:;ect is in esti:talon to commence aline of canal from Petite, in
t no wall, which, in it., ro..tress, is s;.id to oken a calm! unict.tion by
xaiti between the Drifted Channel, Exeter, and l'lyotot.th.

TIII' NATIONAL REGISTER.

NE IV SOUTH WALES.

By the David Shaw, arrived laid week from Port Jackson direct,
(touching only at the Cap_,) we have received letters from Sydney, to
the •?otti of May, at which time the colony was in health and tran-
quillity. The David Shaw it entirely frcit„hted by the principal
mercantile house in the settlement, and brings a valuable cargo of oil,
fur, seal skins, and wools, the produce of the territory mid its adja•
cent shores.
inch had been the mistaken eatferneas to ship merchandise to the
settlement. from Europe, Bengai and China, that the markets con •
titac completely glutted ; many articles of British imumfacture are
selling at prime cost ; and in proof of the overflow of Asiatic produce,
this vessel brings Si) tons of sugar, for exportution.to the continent,
to relkve the overladen stores of Sydney. The Calcutta market has
been for some time also so improvidently suopliedwith English goods,
that Large quantities have been actually sent from thence to Nov
South Wales, in Dupes of sale; aad hoc porter, costing in London
61. Gs. per hogshead, has, after this second long and expensive transit,
been sold at !!! The Master of the !hike of Wellington,
private trader from London, unable to dispose of his investment, had
lett it, drvided between Port Jackson and Van Dieman's Land, and
plas•eeded to the Isle of France with u to rgii.of fine horned cattle ; •
thus, an exportation of live stock has already etg 1111 l timed from our
enterprising brethren of the Antipodes.
The autumnal rains of March and April hate this season caused
only a partial overflow of the South Creek. The price paid by Go-
vernment fit the supply of their stores with fine fresh meat, way Gd.
per lb., and lob. per bushel for wheat; a hoe milch cow could he
purchased for 101,
'llw annual nmster, concluded at the date of 1517. gave the fol..
lowing results ;
Total number of souls in New South Wales 17,165
Ditto in Van Dietuan's Land 3414

Population of the territory 20,579
There were 14,500 acres of wheat in cultivation in New South
%Vales, 1,230 acres of potatoes, barley, and oats, and 1t.700 acres of
maize. 'rite following arc the quantities of stock exchnively in New
South Wales, viz.
Horses Y,430 Sheep, 66,700
Horned, cattle 33,630 Pigs 11,400
Of the above 20,379 souls there were 4,10” male convicts ; 1,3 to
women prisoners, and 830 of their children ; and since the period
this census was concluded, this portion of the population will have
been nearly doubled ; upwards of 4,000 men and about 500 women
having In en forwarded thither, truth this country and Ireland, since
June of the last yenr Thus, including the settlers who have since
gone out, the entire population of the territo;.( may now he estimat-
ed at 25,000 souls. In IRIY, the total number of inhabitants
were only 12,471, by which it will appear they have been doubled in
six years !
The colony was consequently considered to he seriously in want of
a considerable reinforcement of military strength, there being only
600 oldie 4stli regiment in the whole territory, who have to garrison
the two principal settlements in Van Dienian's Land, to provide a
sompany for the establishment at the Col Ruw, as well as to furnish
parties fort c various outposts of the now unavoidably extended lines
surrounding Port Jackson, which permits very few firelocks to remain
at head quarters.
Much anxiety on this salkject has been kiwi' felt by all the station.
ary inhabitants, as well as that a King's sess..l should be again sta •
tioned in the harbour, as a protection against the easy possibility of
outwald assault, and to frustrate the 1111111eT041i combinations of the
prisoners, who are ever homing plans, and ellen too successfully, to
carry away the colonial craft. to the certain destruction of their own
and the crews' lives, an I the ruin of the owners. When Governor
Macquarie took the command, in 1810, although theta was not half
the above stated population, a sloop of war was stationed at l'ort
Jackson, and the military force was also much superior to its present
strength. From the same causes strong hopes arc entertained, that

n Increase to the metlicel establishment will take place proportione
to the rapid advenee of claims on their attention.
No advices had been received from l.teut. King, who sailed in De-
cember last, in the Mermaid cutter, to complete the survey of such
part of the west coast of New Holland as was left unexplored by
Captain Flinders.
Mr. Oxley, the Surveyor General, had just again left head quar-
ters with a party, to prosecute the intention of the Government, in
exploring the interior of New Holland, to the westward of the Blue
Mountains.
The shearing of the last season had furnished a much larger sup-
ply of line wool than at any former period ; affording well grounded
honk*. that a few years will render the exportation of this valuable
article of much moment to the inhabitants, as the pasture and climate
of the colony for the Spanish sheep are probably not surpassed in the
world.
The Bank lately established at Sydney promises much ultim etc
advantages to the territory.
By the last advice, received from Otaheite, the island was in tran-
quillity. " The Missionaries." says a Sydney Gazette, " were in the
full enjoyment of their health, and every wished-for success is at-
tending their labours, all the islanders being converted to Christiani-
ty !" Speaking again of these islands. another Gazette says,—" A
great majority of the natives can read, and delight in perusing the
various tracts printed fur them in their own &aka furnished by
nature with subsistence from the most trifling labour, they bestow
much of their time in reading, and even in writing, corresponding
with each other on the leaf of the plantain and banana. There are
very few ftmilies without one Or more readers." An attempt to make
sugar from the luxurious eane growing in the country has every
probability of succeeding.
The Church Missionary Society have also, through the personally
indefatigable exertions of the Rev. Me. Maralen, formed un esta-
blishment on the north island of New Zealand ; mid it is an interest-
ing proof of reciprocal services commencing between ourselves and
the tine race of men inhabiting the above islands, that an advertise-
ment of departure in the Sadaem Gee V.. of March 9, specifies the
names of twelve New Zealanders and sec Oraheitans, who earnest.
part of the crews of two colonial br gs, then oa the eve of tbr
the .txxist risitories.
From the long indiscriminate destruction of the whole tribe of
seals, these valuable animel, have become as rare on die shore: of
New Holland and its adjacent islands, as they have lately proved in
all other parts of the world.
We are happy to learn, that after an claps? of many years, and
the failure of repeated attznipts from this country and Reined, a
medical eentleman of the Isle of France has succeeded in car-
rying the vaccine virus to Port Jackson in rat unimpaired state;
and -the children of the colony arc receiving the benefits of that in-
valuable blessing.
As may be naturally expected, the inhabitants of this increas-
ingly in el eating territory look with regret to the eagerness with
which such numhers of deluded purple etnignite to America,
without taming their vices towards their countrymen in the lux-
uriant and dire climates of New South %Vales and Van Diemati's
land.

-
J. Atkinson, El. the new Alai or of Salisbury, was to hate
xi. en his gf.sti.l inangtot ation din,.o on %V hot
ii % as peapoar.l ill Iht death ut tier Nhti,est,,
itittl Cite s taut stow -^.pr•.ridrd for COO per,otn., udh, uy 11.3
dirt mon, • Ow poor.
An oil rp, • . ili,,;overea near Duck Crtek, Ohio.
tro.o 1, *:• .of cxcellent nil nas been procured in
l'iLl 7. 't
s • •.:tally, like the boiling of .t large F4lilll
• 41111 burn w

ket
insthntl:, .1,,
and more t,
higient try

ase.-rtaiti whether the oil wout. _
irrbtaryl to that. which was floating or the Crttki
I"..2nB•Piff eok- ic. upwards of INN, tLtt ill lICLAIt,
. • .41,1 (low], t!. Creek, dourling wally of %Ito
• • •: ''y i f—iinter;,?ait Payer.

379

From Me LONDON GAZETTE, Tuoday, Nov. 01..

BANKRUPTCY FraII.ARGED.

REES n. channin,draper. from Nov. 28, to Jan. IG.

BAN KIIIIPTS.
BOND W. Dover, brewer, Dec. 3,4, Jan. 5, at Canterbury. Att
Lodington and Co. Templ,..
Mansti.tt.t. J. North-hall, Yorkshire, clothier. Dec. I, N. Jan. 5, at
Guildhall. 5, It. Air. comes, l'anl Street, Finsbury Square.
Sitt.a T. and !knoll 11. Liverpool, me:chants. Dec. 9, Lt.
Jan. 5, at I.irerpord. Atts. A.vison and Co. Castle Street, Hol-
born.
A1.1.1,N G. Greenwich, stationer, PVC. 5. le, Jam 3, at Guildhall.
Acts. Lane avid Co. Lawrence Pountney.bill.
GI tins J. Ruxtead, Russet, INV.11e:11(7, We. 1, R,jan. 5, at Guill-
hall. Att. NI r. Lindsay. St. Thomas's Street, Sandia ark.
'ltter: W. Elsing, Northlk, miller, Dee. 7,8, Jan. 3, at Norwich,
Att. Mr. Barber, Fetter-lane.
Pu I,t,Ert C. A. Leeis. merchant, Dec. 011, 22..1an. 5, at Let..d,,,
Atta. Ashmore and Co. Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.
CHAMBER 1. V NEW, l.eirestea hosier, Dec. I, .I.m. 5, at Hinck-
ley. AU. Mr. Beckett. Noble Street, Falcon Square.
GREAVLS P. Miteclestield, irmunonger, Dec. 9, to, Jai. 5, at stuck.
pott. Att. Mr. Sherwin, Gre.a James Street.. BetlthrO !tow.
I Far mt. %V. Cromwell, Notting'minshire, miller, Doc. ii, ix, .11n.
Ix, at Newark.upon-Treot. Att.& Long and Co. Holbora Couct.,
Gray's Inn.
TAYLOR 'l'. ltingley Bridge, I.ancaiiro, butcher, Dec. 4,12, Jan.
5. at Manchester. Acts. Milne and Co. Temple.
Sr ulllit.tY4 W. York Street, Southwark, gun.rnak..r. Dec. 1,3, Jai,.
5, at Guildhall. AM. Mr. Richardson, Clemenes-lane, Loinbare-
Street.
BASSAI: n .1. Upper Thames Street, sugar-miner, Dee. 1,5, Jan. 5,
at Guildhall,. Atta. Sherwood and Sun, Canterbury ague,.
Southwark.
DIVIDENDS.
.1. Freeman, Birmingham, victualler, Dec. 51.
.1. Millar, I verpool, merchant, Dec. 17.
G. P. Becher and .1. Barker, Broad Street, merchants, Jae. *5.
W. Oldroyd, Blackman Street, bookse.ler, Nov. 15.
W. Smith, Oxford Street, inninionget, Dec. 1.
J. Bewley, Kingsland lined, salesmen, Dec. 15.
It. Cole, King Street, I lolborn. coacli.maker, Dec. 19.
H. Stanley, and T. Weston, Lower Thames Street, irownonsers,
Dec. t.
C. Lore, Old Bond Street, jeweller. Dec. 19.
E. Alec kavoy, King Street, Greenwich, victualer, Dee, 15.
W. Holmes, North Shields, master mariner, Dec. 18.
G. James, Liverpool, merchant, Dec. 16.
J. Clark, Clifton Glotteectershire, innkeeper, Dec. 17..
J. Mann, jun. Temple Soo erby, Westmoreland. tanner, Ilex. 171
J. J. F. and T. Bell, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchants, Dec. 17.
CERTIFICATES--DEe. 15.
'l'. 0. Warwick, and .1. Aldred. Rotherham, Yorkshire, eh mists,
R. More. Craven I'laec, Bayswater, stone-ma.son--.1. Lockwood.
Stephen Street, St. Paticrai, chair-maker—W. Wallace,Workingtor ,
Cumberland. sliiratrpenter—E. Godwin, Tottenham-court-row ,
cheesenionger—T. Lowe, Bcckbury, Shropshire,
Walduck, Homer Street, St. Marylebone, cheeseinonger.