The National Register.
London, England, 1823-03-03 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONDON, MONDAY, MARLS S.
We this day give at full length the speech of M.
de Villele in the Chamber of Deputies, in justifica-
tion of the projected aggression of France and Spain,
and we do so because we are convinced that nothing
we could say in condemnation would go so far in
the exposure of the views of the French Govern-
ment, as the absence of solid grounds of excuse,
which will be found in the speech of the Minister in
viestion.—ln almost every point, what he asserts as
fact is falsehood—from one end to the other he

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We have received United States papers to the
Ist inst. The 'National badlisencer of the 29th
contaias the appnintment of Ministers to the new
Government of Spanish America. Gen. Atilrew
Jackson has the mission to Mexico, With the titles
of Envoy'Extraordinary and Minister Plenipaen-
tiary ; the rest have only the latter designaton.—
The news of the meditated aggression on Split) by
France had reached Washington, where, and in the
United States generally, a lively interest is taken
in the question. " The European news," sus the
official paper, " is of such a diameter as to leave
us little room to doubt that the alternatives of war
or disgraceful submission have been presented to the
Spanish nation. Should this news be covfirmed,
and Spain prove tree to herself, she will have on
her side the best wishes of the people of thiscountry,
to u hose feelings nothing can he more revolting than
the interposition of fitreign bayonets in the domes-
tic dissensions of any people, particularly when the
avowed olject is .to compel them to change their
form of government."
THE N cw.Jutue.—Mr. Sergeant Hulloek wagon
Saturday last sworn in as a Judge—this ceremony
has been deferred, in consequence of the learned
Sergeant's name having been included in a Com-
missioner under the late inquiry respecting Lord
Portsmouth.—The promotion of Mr. Sergeant Hul-
lock to the Bench makes, necessarily, a certain
vacancy in the lead on the Northern Circuit, which
would instantly be filled up by SOIAC barrister of
equal standing, unless Mr. Brougham wefts, on the
spot to take his chance of the advantage to Which
his talents fairly entitle him. Mr. Brougham is
thus compelled, in justice to himself, and in the
duty of securing, by his exertions, his independence
of character, to leave the I louse of Commons, at a
.moment when his eloquence is. tabling fresh dignity
and force to the cause of civil liberty—and he is
thus compelled to be absent, because the Lord
Chancellor does not choose to give the due rank to
a man who disdains to harter his principles for any
personal advantage. The profession, of which Mr.
Brougham is so distinguished an ornament, ought to
• feel the slight put-upon him an an injury to their
entire laxly. •
PlltiCar OFF ST. DOMINGO•ExtraCt of a letter
from Aux Cayes, dated Jan. I :—" Yesterday 1
arrived from Jame': the day before we sailed, the
master and crew of the brig I'm° &eaters, of New-
berry Port, ur.ivcd in their long boat, their vessel
having been captured the day previous, uut above
12 miles from the harbour. The mode of capture
is rather novel, and should be made known, as,
should the pirates be driven away front Cuba, this
neighbourhood offers great shelter as well us phut-
der :—The vessel was a schooner of 80 tons burden ;
bhe sent her boat with four men to the brig, stating
they were in want of water, and as a matter of
course they were supplied, during which they re-
connoitred sufficiently to satisfy themselves that the
brig %would be an easy capture. The boat soon re-
turned, and the brig was again boarded by arimal
men, who drove the crew below, and fastened down
the hatches; and the poor fellows were kept in this
situation twelve hours. The'inaster was then or-
dered 'on deck, and was desired to deliver all his
money, or they would hang him. He gave them
500 dollars, saying he had no inure ; they were nut
satisfied ; but being anxious to get oil into some
bay or other, they ordered the master and crew off
in their boat,. with only the clothes they had on."
A public dinner is to be given next week to their
Excellencies the Ministers Plenipotentiary from
Spain and Portugal, and to the Duke of San Lo-
renzo; the Itigrit Hon. Lord William Bentinck,
Lieutenant-General, M.P., ace. in the chair. The
object of the intended dinner, it is understoml, is to
demonstrate on the part of the British public their
participation in the sympathy expressed by both
Houses of Parliament in the fate of the Spanish
Peninsula.
A requisition to the High Sheriff of Essex, to
convene a meeting of the county, to take into con-
sideration the distressed state of agriculture, is in
the course of signature. Various resolutions have
been framed by the authors of it, together with the
rough draft of a petition to Parliament. The re-
quisitionists complain, that fier some years the receipts
of a farm have been, and still are, wholly inadequate
to the expences; so much so, as to cause the utter
ruin of thousands of farmers, and rapidly exhaust
the capital of the moat opulent and industrious. The
petition urges the House to take their case into im-
mediate consideration, and the chief' object of their
prayer is the total repeal of the malt duty.
A cstavoy of Indlion. front Cadiz arrived at Madrid
en the Bth ult. It was conveyed in 21 wagznus.