The National Register.
London, England, 1817-11-30 00:00:00

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EXTRACT OF A LATTER faun T. THOMAS, OCT. 20.
General Alorillo, to whom the least exaggerated accetuate
give 5,000 Milt, is preparing to open the campaieu Oil the hide
of Calaboso, wham he II:04 ?I:itiOito•tt his troops: it is i.ot pre.
bable that he wiuild trice much success, tite Independent
chiefs were united among tnemselves--but the At.e is far
otherwise: it is even said, that Bolivar has directed troops
to smirch againht Marino. Their misunderstandiag w 4.1 g moat
service to Murillo, echo lost his men, and partiessteriy his
titan, at llitargaretta, which he could not take. His quarrel
with General Slum), who was a man of merit, :rod esteemed
by With part y+ s, and a honk he forced Cu abanduu his govern.
I nit .it of Cat accas, and to go to Porto- Bieu, has lout bida
greatly. The Independents bare not made in the °romans
such rich p:iaes as w as thought.
The victims sacrificed at Margaretta have been so wed
avenged in the t/ronoko' that it is said that not three Eu-
ropean 'span Hrtls nave been left alive. 'flits miserable 'll4r
must terminate by the death of Ali the ulides, and the tea
umpli of the Negroes; and what lisacirartans are those Ne-
groes!
I add a more detailed accoaut, which has been published
bete:—
The *potations of the Ineependent Army appear to be par:dried
by the taking of Old Guayana. From the 3d of Atigtlet to tar s:t,th
of September, Bolivar remained with his troops in that city. This
delay was caused by the disagreement which arose between teat Chef
and General Piar: the result of which has beta the ahanderilut of
die arny by the latter. and his repairing to ;Gin the of
nno in Cumana, together with the secession of both from their sub-
mission to Bolivar. They have formed decent small parties, and
occupy the whole of the country firm Cultic to Matarin. Bolivar,
aneording to the last accounts, had caused a Intony mirth
zatrainst Marino, and ha.- now 'sired a civil war ia Venesucla, as
did two years ago in ('arthegena. General Bolivar having refused M
acknowledge the provincial government established in the Ca.:etas
there is nos:prone at.thority existing to put an end to eielidisorders•
and it is probable, that the brilliant triumihs wid6l have eras/Niel
the arms of thiee patriots easy be buried in the ceoilision produied
by such strange conduct.
By a vcas:•l that lately .urieeil from the Oronolto we learn, that that
army had began to depart en the stub. The Mvi.ion of Bermudez
repassed the river on tl:e ;ill, and took a direction towards Cala-
has°. Part of the troops marched open St. Fernando, and after tab.
ing that city, intended to unite with General Pier, and to cantina*
advancing with that division. The provinces of Cuomo& and Barce-
lona remain in clans quo—that is, the Spanish garrison of Gana.
Cumana, and Baicelmia, remained in the same positiens without be-
ing molested; the troops under the command of Marino not being
wrong enough to stunbiou or take a.iy of three three Feints, whisk
are protected, at least, while they have a good understanding with say
patty in Goyana.—Nlargaretta views in tranquillity the scandalous
conduct of the neighbouung continent, holding out, to it an 'trample
of the union and valour which have always characterised the parse.
ve:im, operations of its inhabitants. They saw the %holt: fore* of
mor,ll,,„,tchaeged urou them—they condemned the aft th sat pardo*
and nolivion which were offered them by the chief—they despised his
direato, sad ft,;h..ing wjta that gallantry and valour which are kr nwa
to belong to than, they aucces‘ied is detratisis tut seamy, shin drio.

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if past. ati a:4 of ::cut r, tamed to t.icir 010
pa. t, th.inturaUg only such force as the state of the neighbouring
continent requires. •
had not left Carax.as on the 6th of October. He had
there le% icd a contribution of too.ooo dollars, the payment of which
he rigorously enforced. No exc.:se or pretext for :-.un payment aas
admitted in the contributors. All the troops that came with him.
and all those in the smell garrisons scattered over various points of
the province, have marched to Calaboso, and compote an army of
I.ixe.) men. By the plan which the two caste: ding armies are fol.
lotting. it is believed that a general action must be fought b..xween
Calaboso and Valencia, and on its issue will depend the fate of Ca-
meas.

If the independents, instead of spending their time in Guayana in
personal disputes and invidious biekerings. had marzhed immediately
on the province of Caraccas, Nlorillo would not have had time to re-
cruit himself from his fatigues, or to collect fresh troops. and conse-
quently would not have been able to oppose to them the numerous
army which he has now under his command; on the contrary, Ins
forces. dispirited as they were with their catastrophe et Margaretta,
would have fallen au easy prey to their conquerors; but by the time
that has been given them, the soldiers have recovered their morn!,
and are prepared to tight, and there is tie dub; that the campaign
which is about to open will be bloody. Such arc the consequences of
Meat of combirattion and disorder.

The squadrons of both names appear to have made a convention
not to encounter each other. That °Fate intlepentli.nts does not ten.
tore beyond the Oronoko, and the Spanish ships are laid up in Porto
Cabello without making the least movement. The rich poses which
we were assured had been made on the. e% acuation of Guyana by the
Spaniards, have not turned out so important as they were described.
since it is evident that the independents at this moment are in want
of money, ono have only mules, cattle, and some cutton. This ought
not, however, to excite our surprise, as exaggeration is the order of
the day.

It has been stated, that the body of the Princess Charlotte
has been embalmed, and the public have heard of the sur-
prise and sorrow which Prince Leopold testified on ;he oc.
cation. It may be questioned, indeed, whether this proct-
dare, more especially as the corpse is to remain entombed,
ought not to have been avoided. The method of conducting
the process, by incissiont and other anatomical operations,
could not fail to excite the most painful emotions. Moderns
Sieulus informs no, that, among the Egyptians, the inventors-
of this art, the person who performed this part of the act,
tied as soon as he had discharged his office; and all who were
present pursued him with stone.i, as one who hail homied the
public malediction : for they regarded with horror every one
who bad offered any violence to a human body. Burt the an-
cient manner of embalming bodies, and of preserving them
for irony ages, is absolutely lost. Forty days were spent by
the Egyptians in completing this operation, suit the moderns
bare not been able to discover the ingredients of which their
illumine/1 were composed. What Heredottis relates of cer-
tain procedures in this act, its; been proved impracticable
in the memoirs of the 4codony of hiseripiions. In these latter
days, uowever, dead bodies have been preserved for a con•
siderable length of time. Brydone describes a convent of Ca-
puchins near Palermo, in which there is a vast subtertanemis
apartment, divided into large commodious gallehics, the walls
on each side of which arc hollowed into a vaiiety of niches,
as if intended for a great collection of statues: these niches,
instead of statues, are all filled with dead bodies, set upright
upon their legs, and fixed by the back to the inside of the filch,
their number is about IMO ; they arc all dressed in the clothes
they usually wore, and form a most respectable and venera-
ble assembly. nie skin and muscles by a cereals prepai a-
lion become as dry and as hard as a piece of stockfish ; and
although many of them have been here upwards of 250 years,
yet none are reduced to skeletons, the muscles, indeed, in
some appear to be a good deal more shrunk than iu others,
probably because these persons had been more extenuated
at the time of their death. Here the people of Palermo pay
daily visits to their deceased friends, and recal with pleasure
and reget the scenes of their past life ; here they familiarize
themselves with their future stale, and choose the company
they world wish to keep in the other world. It is a common
thing to make choice of their niche, and to try if the it body
its It, that no alterations may be necessary after they arc
dead: and sometimes, by way of a voluntary penance, they
accustom themselves to stand for hours In these niches. We
ourselves, three years ago, saw in the Protestant church of
St. Thomas, at Strasburg, the bodies of two noble persons, a
father and his daughter, which have been preserved upwards
of SOO years; they were babited in the dresses which they
wore immediatey previous to their deaths, not a hair or an
eye-brow was wanting; the eyes were open, and they appear.
ed to be still alive. The minister informed us, that the cases
in which they were inclosed were concealed during the period
of the Revolution, for, as each of them had valuable rings on
the fingers, they would in alt probability have been mutilated
or destroyed.—Times.
BRIGHTON, Nov. 23,—At lialtdast 10 o'clock on Friday
evening, His Royal Highness, accompanied by the Rev. F.
W. Blomberg. arrived at the Pavilion. Sir William Kep.
pal and Col. Thornton where the only persons who had pre-
viously arrived to receive and join the society of their illus-
trious and and afflicted visitor. Nothing of particular im-
port transpired at the Pavillion on Saturday, and the only
exertion of his Royal Highness was confined to the stables
and riding school. This afternoon Divine Service was per-
formed by the Rev. W. Blomberg, before his Royal Highness
the Prince Regent and his honsehoid, at the Pavilion. After
the observance of religious duties, his Royal Highness was
prevailed npon to enjoy a retired recreation along the eastern
cliffs, on the road leading to Rotingde-an. lu the respectful
salutation of the spectators, there was an intermixture of
mournful expression that eeenied to oppress him, for lie could
learcely notice the sad scene as he passed. His Royal High-
ness appeared to be completely overpowered by his feelings,
and, from the low attitnue in which lie rode on horseback, to
he absorbed in silent meditation. Prince Castelcieala ar-
rived this:eveninand dined with a small party with,his Royal
Highness.
HOPIS has received the following official communications
that he is immediately to be brought to trial upon the several
informations filed against bias by his Majesty's ATTORNEY
GENERAL
:
In the Kiag's-bench.
THE RINI, AGAINST WILLIAM HONE.
(For the Sinceirrist's Creed.)

Take noose, that the issue joined in this prosecution will be tried
at the stink,. of Nbri Prints, to he holden after this Term, . and fur
the city ,a( Lyndon, by adjotunment.—Dated this 22d day of MIWCIII•
ber, 1817, A. C. LITCHFIELD.
To the a jrs aimed defendant.
Sol. for the Pruacetition.
The like the late John Wilkes's Catechism of a Ministe-
rial Member.)
The like, lotiee (for the Political Litany.)
auks for nominating Juries to try the lanes with the appointment
of the Crown-effue on each, for Domini tips on Tucatlay tvoniug, at
hyd-past 7 o'clock, war Wiewic mooed.

NATTnNAT, nrovTrr.

From tiw UIVI, UN 0.1'4E7'11, as,aricy, :Yoh

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tANARUPTS.

Piracy F. New-farm, Oxford, farmer, Nov. 19, Dee. 6, Jan.:6, at
GuildhalL Att. Mr. Beckett. Noble-atrect.
LATHAM J. RlHRity, Hampshire. brewer, Dec. 11, le, JAR. 6, at
Romsey. Au. Mr. Nettleford, Norfolk.irtreet, Strand.
PARSONS.J. Harwich, Luting-smack-ONIIRT, Nov. 29, Dcc.6, Jan.
6. at Guildhall. Attv. Saunders and Co. Upper•Thamee atreet.
PRESTON D. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, porter.mercbant, Dec. 9, Jan.
3. 6, at Nem castlt..upon-Tyne. Atts. Bell and Co. Cheapaide.
REAY T. South Shieklg, merchant, Dec. 6, 16. Jan. 6, at New-
castle-upon-Time. Atte. BtU and Co Cheapekle.
Coienaor W. Nlanchesur. printer, Dec. 15. Ili, Jan. 6, at Man.
chester. Atts. Hull) and Co. Inner Teniplc.
ELLISON E. Torbook, Lancashire, flour-dealer. Dee. 11, 12, Jan.

6, at Liverpool. Atts. A ungton and Co.ll4affold-row. -
11Ea row NI. FLEFIKING. anu M. DYsorr, Alnondbury, York,
woollen-manufacturers, Der. 9, 10, Jart.ls, at Huddersfield. Ans.

Stocker. and Co. Furnivars-inn.
FUTIIERC:II.II. G. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ship-owner, I)ec. 1. 16,
Jan. ti. at Ncwcastle-ulon•tyne. Atts. Atkinson and Co. Chan-
cery-lane.
MAWSRAM W. Angel-court, Thmgroorton.street, broker, I 2,
13, Jan, 6, at Guildhall. Att. Mr. Hubbersty, Austinfriars.
BELDON C. Keighley, York, irenfounder, Dec. to.t. 23. Jan. 6, at
Halifax. Att. Mr. Nettletortt. Norfolk-street. Strand.
ATIITHSIOX H. Nottingham, dyer, Dec. 9, 10, Jan. 6, at Not-
tingham. Acts. Enfield and Co. Nottingham.

DIVIDENDS.
R. Ager, Leigh-street, Burton-crescent, paper-hanger. Dee. 11.
J. P. 'rlionipson, Great Newport-street, engraver, 1/cc. 16.
W. Browning, St. Mary-a' e, wine-merchant, Jan. 10.
T. Blanchard, Great St. Helens, broker, flee. to.
J. Varlet?. Manchester, drysalter, Dec. ta.
C. Hansom. Salford, Lancashire, vine-merchant, Dec. 24.
.1. Smith. Tabernacle-walk, merchant, Dec. 10.
J. Moody. Portsea, grocer, Dec. 23.
lt. Gyde, Painswick, Glucester, clothier, Jan. 8.
F. Haralaxl, Liverpool, merchant, Dec. to.
N. Ginbec, Denton, Kent, coal-merchant, Dec.l6.
H. and G. Alalthy, Old Jewry, merchants, Der. 16:
J. Barlow, and J. Gregory, Sheffield, irun-founders. Dec. 18.
J. ‘Vorsdale, Donnington, Lincirt, dealer. Dec. 16.
D. Fowler. and A. Atone, Graceelturch-street, merchants, Jan. 10.
D. Pitt, Fenchurch-street, hosier, Jan. 24.
H. M. and W.Wakeley, , Bridgewater, Somersctshire, hardwarenicn,
Dec. 9.
W. Weightman„ Birmingham, mercer, Nov. 47.
S. Ilalerow, Trafalgar-square, Stepney, mariner, Dec. 40.
T. l'eirson, Star-court, liread-street, factor, Feb. 7.
T. Oakdin, Manchester, draper, Ike. 19.
J. Garnett, Oldham, Lancashire, machine maker, Dec. IS.
W. Thompson, jun. Wakefield, York, grocer, Dec. V.
It. ('rogey, Falmouth merchant, Dee. 13.
E. Barber, Yamitattli, Norfolk, dealer in perfumery, Dv...16.
E. A. Van Vourst, Bishorgate-street. merchant, Dec. 16.
J. I /tan, Clairton, linen-draper, Dec. 6.
J. Nesbitt, Ben. Aldermanbury. merchant, Dec. 16.
W. Eastertieltl, Fleet-market, stationer, nyc. 20.
J. and C. Coles, Tower street, broketi, DN. 16.
IL Plant, Sandford, Berkshire, cattle-dealer, Dec. to.
W. and S. Turner, Bromley, Middlesex, Homan vitriol.mataufactu-
rer, Dec. 16.
S. Best, Norwich, upholsterer, Dee. 16.
CEIIIIFICATES—Dxc. 16.
E. Waggstafre. Bridpor.t, llorsetshire. linendraper.—G. Alsop,
Manchester, dealer in twist and weft.—J. and J. Lamb, Stockport,
Cheshire, cottou-spinners.—T. Nicholls, Bridgeport'', grocer.

[FROM SATURDAY'S GAZETTE, NOV. 22.]
. DIVIDENDS.
T. Pglington, Newgate-street, woollen-draper, Dec. 16.
J. Tyerman, Bri,,tol, silk-mercer, Dec. 16.
J. Gray. Bishopsgate-street, linen-draper, Dec. 16.
A. WI-ahlan and J. Galt, Great St. Helens, factors, Dec.l6.
A. DuLau, Soho-square, bookseller. Dec• 16.
J. Field, Gresham, Norfolk, carpenter, Dec. 17.
A. Taylor, North-shields, sail maker, Dec. lb.
M. Jackson, Santo'', Cumberland, tailor, Dcc. 20.
J. Howard, Manchester, wire-worker, Dec. 18.
P. Young, and J. 11. S. Brockhurst,Wapping, rope-makers, NOY. 15.
B. Jamb, Bartholosnew-close, merchant, Dec- 16.
W. Jackson. Clement's lane, merchant, Nor. 29.
J. Smith, Great Marlow, Buckingham, stone-mason, Dec. 18.
J. Matthias and T. I}owen, Haverfo'dwert, bankers, Dec.l9.
J. ♦rmetts, Salisbury, linen-draper, Nov. 29.
G. Syrue, Vine-street, Minories, merchant, Dec. 9.
C.l/. Leader, Coleman-street, painter, Dec. 13.
J. Cartwright, Saltford, Somcrsetshire, victualler, Dec. IS.
J. Robinson, Dorking, baker, Dec. 13.
H. Downing, Stockport, Cheshire, inn-keeper, Dec.so.
J. Headlam, Skinner street, warehouseman. Dec. lb.
J. and J. Smith, Bristol, cabinet-makers, Me. 9.
J. Jordan, Houndediteh, dealer in spiritous liquors, Der.'27.
W. and J. Shirley, Shelton, potters, Dcc. 17.

CERTIFICATES—DEc.I3.
J. Hill, Reading, timber.dealer.--G. Moorsom, Westhoe, Dur-
ham, ship-owner.—R. lienry, Jamaica, merchant.—W. G. Nadler,
Stratford, chymibt.—G. D4r,gles, Newman street, scrivener.--. 1.
Gapp, Norwich, dyer.—G. Snripson, Oftper Grosvenor-street, dea-
ler.—N. Mudford, jun. Strand, umbrella-manufacturer.—T.White.
Emsworth, Southampton, timber-merchant---. 1. W. Coffin, Ply-
mouth-dock, merchant. —T. Irwin, Chatham, merchant.—B. Brun,
Stockport, roller-maker.—W. 'queer, Walton le-dale, Lancashire
dealer.

CARR ROCK BKACON.—It is with much concern we inform our
readers of the sad cataatrophe that has befallen the stone beacon,
which, for some years past, has been erecting upon the Carr Rock,
situate at the entrance of the Frith of Forth, and lying two miles off
Fitt:nese. The building was visited by theisuperintendant on the
loth instant, and reported to be in good order. On the evening
of the 14th a very heavy swell of sea came ashore, and on the 16th
instant the ground swell still continued ; but the weather aas so
thick and foggy that the rock could not be seen till the afternoon,
when the sea was observed to break upon it with much violence,
but a great part of the building was gone. The Carr (lock
6irms the tcmunating point to seaward of a moat dangerous sunken
reef, extending about two miles born the shore. The numerous
shipwrecks which, notwithstanding all the improvements on the
coasf, still happens in this neighbourhood, had rendered the Carr
Hock Beacon a work of very considerable interest, and its completion
had been looked forward to with much anxiety. The Beacon Hock
measures about 'l2 feet in length ; its greatest breadth is sz feet, and
at high water of spring tides die site of the building was at least lb
Evet tinder the surface or level of the sea. The building, of which we
now lament the loss, is understood to have cost in the erection be-
tween 2 and 3,0001. and bade fair to posses.s all the advantages of an
excellent landmark. It has been pursued for no less than live suc-
cessive seasons. The loss of this important imp, °venom on the
coast will be severely felt by the shipping interest, particularly of the
Friths of Forth and Tay; but a. se Lam from good authority that
several courses of the masonry remain untivred, and these the must
difficult and expensive in their erection, havin; required more tow
three of die five seasons, we may yet hope chat . solid and permanent
beacon of stone may be placed on this fatal t. ~ which would doubt-
-1
I less prove highly useful, though not poraftset. :AU the advantage. of
proposed tide atitchiac.—(4clintnirekyarr.

NOV. SO.

ItLifiEW UP LI TIeIi.CCURE.

Spanish America.—Olvervatiose of an American upon
the Worhs M. De I'radt, on the actual State of

Among the twiny who have come forward as sturdy
advocates of the cause of the Spanish Insurgents, oar
readers are no doubt aware that M. de Pradt has ob.
tuincd particular notices This man was one of Bua
naparte's train at Bayonne, in 1808, and contributed
his mite towards the getting up of that state drama,
which deluged Spain with blood, and ended so fatally
for his Master's interests. To add insult to injury is
strictly M. de Prudt's maxim. His aggressions against
the royal fin:lily of Spain, by the part he had taken its
kidnapping them, was quite sufficient to make him
their determined enemy on all future occasions, and
when events occurred, as unexpet•tod by him and his
master, as they were tidal to their interests, and almost
to their existence, he seems to have thought that be
could not do better than keep up that hostility with the
pen, which the angel whom he still had served,"
had begun with the sword. Thniug,li her colonies,
therefore, he endeavoured to stab the Mother Country,
and it' at this tune they are not lost to her fur ever, it
is as little owing to the frienaly disposition of M. de
Pradt, as to another friend of the human race, the
Editor of a pope lax. Journal in this country. With
those peculiar 'alins which first recommended M. de
Pradt to the notice of Buonaparte, be has laboured to
produce a total separation of the Colonies from Spain,
and this by a series of misrepresentations so gross that
we can hardly excuse them even on the score of ignorance.
'l'o neutralize the poison which M. de l'radt had dis.
sentinated, the tract now under consideration appeared,
and whatever may be the defects of its style, it has
one important advantage over the writings of the
Grand A linunee—that the author writes from per.
sonal observation.

After• having shewn, in opposition to the calumnies
of M. de Prtult, that the attention of Spain to the inte.
rests and comforts of her Colonies, was not exceeded by
that of any other natioa, the writer of the " Observa•
tion proceeds to detail at some length the actual situa.
tion of Monte Video and Buenos Ayres, offering the
reverse of the picture drawn by M. (le Pratt.
"When the Portuguese (leered Monte Video, (says the an.
thor.) they met with nu iesistance. 1 Khali not enter here
into the motives which induced them to abandon this easy
conque►t ; but it is certain that they were not forced by th.
extraordinary efforts of the insut gents to evacuate the piaccu
The subject will not be rendered less interesting by the state.
Meta of real facts.
" As soon as General Lecor had landed with the troops he
commanded, he advanced upon Maldonado, and took pos-
session of it. The sanguinary despotism, anti daily atroci.
ties committed by Artigas, induced the inhabitants of Monte
Video to solicit the entrance of the Portuguese within their
walls. They were not engaged to take this step through any
attachment tote that nation, but, worn down by the odious yoke
with which they were oppressed, they sought to break. it, and
only conceived the hopes of doing it by imploring the succour
of those, whom, tinder any other circumstances, they would
have looked upon as their enemies. Artigas was not at that
time in Monte Video ; he had placed himself at the head of
a few troops, whom he uselessly harrassed by the pursuit-of
an enemy which it was impossible for him to overtake ; lie
raged the countries through which lie passed, and retideied
his name odious wherever be appeared. On his withdraw..
ing from Monte Video, lie had trusted the command of the
place to his lieuttuant Baneiron, a presumptuous and inex-
perienced young mee, and destitfite of those talents requsite
to resist the attack of rrgnlar troops. At the moment that
General Lecur presented himself before Monte Video, Ar-
tigas entered the town with three or four of his most trusty
followers.

It cannot be denied, that, if the inhabitints of Monte Vi-
deo, threw themselves into the arms of the Portuguese Ge-
neral, after having implored his :ssistance, they would have
done the same, had any Spanish troops presented themselves
before their gates. It was not a spud of ►evolt against
Spam which induced them to ph,ce themselves under the
dutuittion ut Portugal, but that generous sentiment which en-
gages all nations to break the letters with which they are
loaded. 'They who condemn the Spanish administration are
not informed of the abundance and fetid ty of the province of
:‘lotite Video. Whatever wonders the poets may have eclat-
eel, they are far beneath their teethty here. A pet petual
' apt togs still reigns here ; but those miniberlesslierds no lunges
covet those beautiful plains,enanuilled with flowers and trues.
Flor►s of birds were every where to be met with, and the
taint was enriched with all those gilts necessary fur the sub-
sistence of man. The piece of a cow was but three livres„
and no tax or duty was levied. Ere au was exceedingly cheep;
the cuuseription was not established, and the enthuse) service
of the iplink/S wits 11111k1110WU. At present all these vexations
weigh upon these maul windy people; ilb11;1811104i1Ull is some•
tune% blamed, but never plinislied. It even Intuits a part of
the code established by Artigas ; his tyranny is atrocious; it
overwhelms Europeans as well as Americans; probity and
lichee are wrongs in tits eyes, and lie basely peisteutes all
those who possess them. Each stroke of his chat art., depicts
.us fe. ()city , and the occupations of his youth. At hist lie was
ay rubber; lie afterwards lose up upon his accom-
plices, and, having placed himself at the head of a consider-
ithie panty, caused himself to be proclaimed genet al, or king,
of the northern bank oldie river Mate.
" Artigas has in ven.ed or employed the must cruel 101 tnres-
hen the civil wars towel foi th, it a prisoner of lank in the
pat ty of Buenos Ayres tell into his hands, he test II to eilnee
lit us to be bound by the bands:mil met to font- posts, and thus
mit but exposed to the piei ring rays ot the sou, slid the
Mails sapiens of the night ; nor was ,m• te,ea,ed tin alter a
rtlitto pt lit 41 ot time, and almost z.,5% ay. uepttsa o of life.
it other 11111. ts, he would CiIIISC his 11111,01 lb isoi.ei to.be
mru,sn,!uu a leathern sack steeped In wait I , lu.us, I xposed
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the most acute pains upon the unfortunate victim within It.
My pen refuses its office in describing such horrors.
" H may easily be conceived, that under such a government,
an good faith could exist ; and, indeed, on every occasion, it
was violated, and foreigners have as much reason to complain
of it as the inhabitauts. It is bat a short time ago that Com-
modore Bowles, who commanded a small Euglish squadron
cruising in those seas, sent an English cutter to Monte Video,
in order to reclaim a considerable sum of money confiscated
under the most frivolous pretexts, as well as a brig belonging
to an English captain. The vessel was restored ; but he
*sold only obtain a part of the money claimed. Under this
new government, every thing was subjected to arbitrary
power. Whenever there was a want of arms or money, Ar-
togas would take possession of the warehouses of hides and
tallow belonging to individuals ; but he never engaged to in-
demnify them, since lie never had the intention of doing it.
Iu this respect only his sincerity was manifest. Such is the
code of this new republic ; such are its morals and adminis-
tration. Wherever the culunies are in insurrection, they bate
adopted the same principles, and ditli:r only among themselves
upon a new immateual points.
" I am inclined to believe, that they who have extolled the
anthurs of so many evils, were ignorant of the crimes with
which they are stained; that they have substituted their own
wishes and the dreams of their imagination in the place of
facts which they were ignorant of. It is thus only that I can
excuse the elogiums they have lavished upon them, and the
pompous predictions they have published.
" Were they better informed they would sigh over the
prospect of Anita ica being thus a prey to such like horrors ;
they would rise up with warmth against the wretches who
thus desolate it ; they would perceive its commerce to be
paralyzed mu its source, civilisation roarded, and would con_
Tess that vices are multiplied in the midst of anarchy.
.•:-overed from their mot, they still reflect honor mutton
themselves, by owning that their eyes are at last opened, and
by rendering homage to teeth.
" I seek not to diminish the glory which the town of
Buenos Ayres acquired at that epoch , but 1 must observe
that the English were equally repulsed from before eartha-
gena, as well as hoot sec eral of the Amities, and front all the
Spanish possessious before winch they presented the mselves.
Does M. de Pradt pretend to be ignorant that, on the con•
trary, ander the present government, the brave Enders Was
condemned to death by a decree of the insurgents, and that
Abraga, that Spanish tuerchant, who had excited his fellow
citizens to arms in order drive out the English, was delivered
over to the executioner by a 'lar decreer 1
" I boldly assert, that were Spain to send out an expedi-
tion for the delivery of Buenus Ayres, far from experiencing
the misfortune they dare to predict, it would Inert with the
greatest success. 'llie Spaniards and heir partizans would
receive with open arms the succours sent to them by the
mother country. They wuti.d itistant;y rally tinder the ban.
veers erected oti their walls, draw closer the bands by which
they were formerly united, and prove, by their Aileiity
their attachment to the Spanish government, and their aver-
ohm to those be about time are oppressed. Ought any re-
liance to M. placed upon conjectures formed at the distance of
two thousand le igues, and upon en °newts accounts?
" I shall likewise point out another error in which the j
author of the %%milk upon the Colonies has fallen. He sup- ,
poses time- retielliotts parts of the Viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres
to coutain a population of eleveu hundred thousand itinaui-
t..uts. It scam cdy surpasses seven hundred thousand, adding
to it the part of Paraguay In insurrection, Cor.
Bova in Tucuman, Salta, Meud•iza, auJ !toenail Ayres, the
opulatiou of which consists of fifty thousand souls. As tar
Monte Video, its population is above twenty thousand; the
other towns contain about ten thousand inhabitants, and
Santa-Fe scarcely time thousand. Adinittist; the state of
:be population to be as I have represented it, these different
rooms would contaiii a hundred and thirty titm.sawil
inlcehi-
tans.. Now, is it iikely that mere were five hundred and
seventy thousand tithatettints in the plains, Wl.telt indeed at e
iveinense, I.IIS almost der, rt, and but rarely peopled, except
is the parts bordering omit, the towns I have mentioned.
" Since the affair of Sipe:ripe, in which tleneral Perucla
rooted the forces of the insurgents, comm totted by a director
of Rummies Ayres, called Roudeau, the parts of Peru which
depelided cm the Viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres, has returned
tinder the Spanish dot 1111 l ion. It is far better peopled than
the ptn.inees loirdering upon the Plate. The population of
Potosi, is intuit more umin rou• than all the whites together.
Ly this we way judge of the Silllitlioll of the independents.
" The moral state of Bimini. Ayres dues nut otter a very
satisfactory picture. The desire of übtaming employment,
in order to exercise vexations, and oftei wards abaudusi Wens-
sets es to disorder, and the most shameful passions, is the chief
incitement of all the ambitious. Minority games of hazard
were forbidden; the director, Alvarez, has atitintrized them,
and they are publicly played. He iouglit thus tinetation
would increase his party, amid cared little tin the evils that
might result front it. Torre are utmost assuredly virtuous per-
sons in Buenos .lyres; but it is well icemen that when trou-
bles break forth, they weep over ilium, and expect its ileuce
the momeut of t, eir deliverance.
" I will always maintain, that religion has never been an
obstacle to eivilic ii.,a, and that it must be confounded with
superstition, which tyranny has known how to avail then at..
How could those principles of morality that spring from the
C..tholic religion, retard the progress of knowlcd e:
On tile contrary, the sciences, letters, and arts, have mad.-
the most rapid progress in those very countries of Europe tit
which it has been the most anciently professed.
‘• It is impossible to meet with any fixed general opinion
on the actual state of Buenos Ayres. I think however that
the Spthish patty is the strongest. Those who compose it
tire coliehtenel, enjoy the advantages nf fortune, and are chit
most respectaine of the town. Toe women have constautiy
thewn themselves attached to the house or Boat Isom lit
vain have the patriots eudeavotired to stole their seuttineuts.
There eN.IstS a Purtugtoese party, which has made overuses
to the Court of Br at; but I must declare that these pro
posals lever tweii tevourabiy received. I think it use.
less ti. t mei into Writhes details in this respect. Besides it is
veldt sit this party is formed of hose who have lost tile
indolence the:. Mrinerly enjoyed, and which they regret;
and of hot-headed patriots, who are fearful of he Mg again
brought under tow Spanish dominion; and who might pet-
cease io the exchange of dominion the double advantage of
withdrawing themselves from the vengeance of Spain, and
of manatatiiing the places they twee .y."

Ex'xi mu. g Jatues Johnson dull Joait
who w,re cimvsEteil at litteer about three ave..,
since, tor tatetitta fu.geti cotes 01 Ilir Margate Rank, ktutu-
tug theta to ut to g. d. ,s, re e xecuted at Dover, putmiat
their sentence. The 'nib.' innate wen act e very accontrltauea,
And spoke and wt one sLbel ill to reign language..

THE NATIONAL ItEGISTEIE

EMIGRATION TO AMERICA.

" It will lbe recollected (says the Leeds feleilivweew ), that a
large party of ".formers left Leeds last Spring, with the famous
Harry Speight at their head, to taste the bliosings of Transatlantic
liberty. There have been seven,' letters from them ; but the con-
tents have been carefully COW( Their fate, however, it is now
ascertained has been not less deplorable than that of their co-patriots
from Chard. After an unpleasant voyage, in which Speight distin-
guished himself by much quarrelling and fighting, they were landed
in one of the British settlements. Poor Harry is now the inmate of
an hospital at Montreal, where he is obliged to labour hard, for little
reward ; and where, enveloped by poverty, he is compelled to remain,
unable either to return to his own country, or to push his fortune in
the land of his adoption. Several of the emigrants, among whom
was a young man named Senton, a cabinet-maker, traversed the
country to a great extent, in a fruitless search after employment.
Some of them, after much toil and suffering, at length reached their
old friend Cobbett, when they fondly flattered themselves their
nti-
series would be at an end. The base author of their ruin told them
he could give them employ on a large farm he had taken; but
(taking advantage of their forlorn and deststitute condition) the only
remuneration must be their tarot ! No wages—no cloathing !
These wretched dupes of Jacobinism are of course involved in ca-
lamity and despair ; and have no consolation but that of execrating
Cobbett and his advice, which they do as loudly, as they were once
vehement in his praise. We have not been able to obtain a sight of
the communication from Senton ; but the preceding particulars are
correct, we believe, as far a; they go.
The Muddrr! field Correspondent says, " A report having been
circulated that Dawson, who was second in command on the 14th of
June, at Engine Bridge, had died c actual want in America. I
have made severalranquirier, and hi liere it to be the case ; he was a
listing-maker by trade, and was getting a very good livelihood in
Huddersfield: earning, I am told, from three to four pounds
weekly."
We extract the following article from the Exeter Paper
.
A person, late of Chard; Somerset, who has emigrated from Eng-
land to America with his family, writes from Boston, under date of
the 4th of August, that on landing there they could not get a home
to sleep in, and no employment but splitting wood, at which, with
hard work, he could earn 4s. per day, which, he says is not equal
to the outgoings, bread being nearly es. the loaf, beef Is. per lb.
butter Is. 6d. per lb. cheese Is. per lb. tea 91. 44. per lb. loaf sugar
Is. 6d. per lb. milk ed. per pint, wood Is. 3d. per cord, and other
articles in proportion. Ile recommended staying in England, ex-
eept a person hasplenty of money : the inhabitants of Boston ar-
by no means praised for their politene:s or hospitality to the Eng-
lish, whom they " curse in the streets." Being a tanner, the wri—
ter intended travelling about 1000 miles inland, in zearch of a suita-
ble situation."