The National Register.
London, England, 1817-10-13 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONDON:

MONDAY, OCTOBER 1:1,1817.

WE have great pleasure in informing our Readers
that it appears by the statement of the produce of the
Revenue for the quarter which ended on Friday, that
there is an encrease as compared with the same quarter
inlBl6, of nearly 100,0001., that is, after deducting the
amount of the War duty on Malt and the Property Tax,
both of which operated to make the receipts of 1816
larger, but which are no longer in existence. It appears
also by the statement of the Receipt of, and charges
upon the quarter's revenue under the head of Consoli-
dated Fund, that the income or receipt of taxes to be
classed under that head, amount this quarter t 0273,3111.
beyond.the corresponding quarter of last year. The sur-
plus revenue, after defraying the charges upon the
Consolidated Fund was in the quarter just expired
400,0001. being an excess beyond the quarter of List
car of 113,2671.
The Paris Papers of Wednesday last arrived yes-
terday. The following is the only article of im-
portance which they contain :
" MADRID, Seel.. 25.—1 t appears certain that a
Conrier has set off from here to Paris, carrying the
aahcsion of our Government to the article in the
Treaty of Vienna, relative to the Abolition of the
Slave Trade. This Abolition is to commence from the
year 1820."

By the French journals of Tuesday, we learn that
Grimaldi, the Police spy, of Black Pin memory, leas
ad.lressed a circular letter to the Editors of the Paris
vii.;,cts, wherein be complains that his honour Las been

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attacked ; and threatens to publish a. memorial, by
which the said honour shall be vindicated.

A change is announced in the Home Department
of the Russian Ministry. The Chevalier De Tros-
chensky, Minister of Justice, retires upon a pension,
and is succeeded by Prince Lobanoff Kostoffsly, Gene-
r.►l of Infantry. Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, who
was rumoured to have lost his senses in America, has ar-
rived at Aix-la-Chapelle, supposed to be on his private
affairs. • '

The Paris papers of Wednesday last, contain an ac-
count of the judgment en the appeal of Mersars.
Comte and Dunoyer, against the sentence of the Court
of Correctional Police, for the publication of " the Ma-
nuscript from St. Helena." M. Hua, the Advocate-
General, prayed the confirmation of the original sent-
ence ; but the Court, taking into consideration the con-
finement which the parties had already sustained, re-
daced the period of their imprisonment from one year
to three months, and the fine to. 1,000 francs. The
Court also relieved them from the further penalty of
five years' interdiction of their civil rights, which had
been pronounced against them. This was a consider-
able mitigation, of the sentence of the inferior Court.
It appears, however, that Messrs. Comte and Dunoyer
are by no means satisfied with the result of the.procced-
ings; and it is said they have resolved to carry their
cause by a new appeal before the Court of Ca.ssation.
Last night we received by the Hamburgh mail Ger-
man papers, from which we extract the following
letter :

" ST. PETERSBURaII, SEPT. 9.o.—The principals
of a proper administration of the finances, which arc
steadily pursued by the Minister of Finance, M. Von
Gurzcw daily give evidence of their utility. The
public are already infiirmed that his plan for ex-
tinguishing the debts of the Empire and diminishing
the paper currency by means of a loan, the amount of
which is to be burnt in Bank-notes, and thus the mass
of paper notes to be reduced, has not only been received
with approbation by the Council of the Empire, but
also declared by this highest department to be the
surest means of attaining this end. The loan makes
considerable progress. In the first month since it was
opened eight millions and a half have been received
which proves the confidence of the public in this mea-
sure, and also that both parties must find their account
in it. It is indeed true that 71 per cent. is an interest
with which any monied man may be satisfied,
particularly when we consider that the securitiy of
the loan is guarinteed by all the collective domains of'
the Crown. If we consider the immense extent
and value of the land which belong in Russia to the
domains of the Crown, we shall find this confidence
very natural : for they includenot only the numerous,
extensive, and for the most part well-peopled and
frnitful lands of the Crown, with the forests in almost
all the Ckvernments of the Empire, but also the great
uncultivated districts in the southern provinces, which,
by the increase of the population, are gradually con-
verted into fertile plains, and the intrinsic value of
which therefore increases annually. If we add the
judicious restrictions on the importation of articles
which the national industry can furnish, we may ex-
pect the must favourable result for the finances of the
Empire.
"The Emperor arrived on the 27th August, 0. 8.
in the evening at Mohilow, where he was received by
Field Marshal Prince Barclay de Tolly, with the
generals, the civil governor, and the nobility ; and in
the church by the Archbishop Daniel and the clergy.
The next day (St. Alexander's day) his Majesty was
pleased, after divine service, to receive the dewy and
the civil authorities ; he dined with the field-marshal ;
and in the evening honoured with his presence the ball
given by the Prince.
"On the 18th of September, 0. S their Imperial
Highnesses the Archduke Nicholas, the Archduchess
Alexandra, and Prince William of Prussia, set out for
Moscow; on the 23d the Empress Elizabeth ; and on
the 25th the. Empress Maria. From the town of Elia,
80 wersts on this side of Moscow, the august travellers
will proceed to Moscow in company. At each of the
three last stages 500 horses are ordered.

DRAMATIC DISINTERESTEDNESS.—.. Mr. Kean, a
few weeks ago on his way to Liverpool, performed one
night at the Buxton theatre. The prices were raised,
applications showered in thr seats, an overflow took
place, and Mr. Kean was to be remunerated by one
half of the receipts. It so happened, that the honest
manager had a large family, and fortune had long
dealt hardly with him; this coming to the ears of our
modern Roscius made a suitable impression ; and on
the following morning, when the conductor of the
Thespian corps tendered the cash as by agreement, "
have none our says Kean ; " and my reason is this,
you have nine children, and I have only one."

BRITISH COMPETITION IN GERMANY.

The following sensible article on a subject which
has for some time excited considerable intereit in this
as well as other countries, is extracted from the Ger-
man papers last received. It sets in a strong point of
view the fully of those writers who FARM to take a plea-
sure in predicting the ruin of British manufactories by
the increasing ability of continentalartizans:--
.

" The attempts and exertions of the proprietors •of
our German manufactories to get rid of the trouble-
some competition witli the English• manufactures in
the German markets still continue, and frequently give
rise to the most singular assertions.
" The tcniency to exclude foreign competitors, and
thus to be able to prescribe laws to the consumers, and
to sell to them inferior goods at a high price with less
trouble than could be done without this exclusion of:
foreigners, is, we know, general in all countries where
manufactories exist. It animates shoemaker: a'
tailors in the smallest country town, as well as the pro-
prietor of the greatest manatiwtory.
" Nobody ever yet doubted but that this exclusion
of foreigners was advantageous and' desirable for• tier
manufacturer and artisan ;•and that it is the interest of
manuflicturers to persuade us that their interest is the
interest of the State. The arguments which.
are commonly employed by them produce this con-
viction, such as the independence of the State—
upon foreign countries, the keeping at !tune all
the money which goes abroad for foreign produc-
tions, the support of' the inhabitants, by employing
them in the manufactories of the country,. have been
repeated often enough and are heard every where; but.
that the consumer of the msnutitctures longs for the
exclusion of foreign articles from the market, that he
may pay a higher price for whet he wants, this asset..
Lion is new

" We find it expressed in plain words► in an article
from Elberfeld, in No. `...!ti,t of the Algemei7e Ztitung.
The writer, endeavouring to controvert the assertion of
the I:nglish papers, that a prohibition of the English,
manufactures in Germany cannot lx! thought of or exe-
cuted, because it would be inconsistent with the inter-
est of the German peasantry and of the Governments,
says, " Twenty-five millions of men, (including Prus-•
sin) look up to their Governments for protection and
deliverance in this respect," (namely, the exclusion of
English manufactures from the German markets.)
" Ace-orating to this, 25,000,000 of Germans require of.
their Governments to be protected against the liberty of.
buying better goods at a lower price ; or, in other
words, present petitions to their Governments to pay
a general tax on consumption for the benefit of some-
German manufacturing towns, and proprietors of ma-
nufactories.

" As far as our knowledge extends, the general:
voice of 25 millions of people in Germany has not yet
expressed itself to this effect. We hear, indeed, now:
and then complaints of too heavy direct and indirect
taxes in Germany, and many persons may look up to•
their Governments for protection and deliverance in
this respect ; but the eyes of the people of Germany.
have not yet been turned towards their Governments,

as the writer of the letter from Elberfeld affirms, with
a petition to pay a new indirect tax for the advantage
of our manufacturers."—Frankfort German Gazette,
Oct. 2, stated to be quoted from a Rhenish paper.

RUSSIAN BIBLE SoctETv.—lt appears from the Re-
port of the Rnssian Bible Society, dated the 18th of
June last, that the Committee of the Society had en-
tered into engagements to circulate 43,000 copies of
the Holy Scriptures in 17 different languages, milling
a total of 196,000 copies. The Committee completed
in the course of 1816, an edition of 10,000 Sclavonian•
Bibles, 10,000 ditto New Testaments, 5,000 Finlandic,
5,000 French, 5,000 of the New Testament in Sa-
moyede. They were occupied, at the date of the Re-
port, with the printing of the following editions, to be
completed in the present year :

20.000 Selavonian Bibles ; 5,000 Ditto New Testaments
5000 Armenian Bibles; 3000 Ditto New Testaments ; 2000
Tartar Ditto; 3000 Greek Bibles; 5000 Ditto New Testa.
ments ; 2000 Georgian Ditto; 5000 Moldavian Bibles 2000
Ditto separate copies of the Gospel of Saint Lnke; 2006
Ditto Psalms; 5000 Ditto New Testaments ; 5000 Bibles for
German Catholics ; 5000 New Testa items in Latin; 5000 Ea-
thoniati Bibles ; 2000 Cal Gospel of Saint Matthew.

The number of copies of the Bible and Testament
distributed in 1316 was 19,43 1 . Arrangements were
making for an edition of the Holy scriptures in sterec-
type plates, in five different languages. Transla-
tions were also making of the Bible into the Russian
vulgar tongue, the Tartar and t7arlesim languages;
and arrangements were likewise making to obtain trans-
lations into the Turkish-Armenian and Burat Mongul
languages.
Madame Mnrat, it is said, bas purchased, for nine
hundred thousand florins, the lordship of Ort, between
Vienna and Preaburg, belonging to the banker, Count
Fries. The Count has just returned from Prague,
where he is reported to have concluded with Fouche,
in conjunction with the banker of Prague, M. Von La.
mel, the sale of his estate near Paris.

1R" F.

OLD BAILEY.

MOS DAV.

3. Axam, O. Williams, L. French, and R. Roberts, were
indicted for stealing 320 ewt. of the property ofJ.
Atkins. J. Jaokson„ W. Rock, J. J. Allen, Sir K. Wigram,
Bart., W. Taylor, and W. Sims.
It appeared that the ruble belonged to tlic I)os•er Castle
I•:.tst Indianian. Tlie prisoner Asa in, was ship keeper to that
•essel, whirl, tens eie property of Alderman Atkins and Co.
:Ina in. employed Williams and Roberts, two black men, to
convey the piece of cable before meat. .41, in a boat in
which French, a boy, went to get a sail. They were detected
by some of the officers of tile Thames Pollee Office. 'fbe
facts in suoport of the indictment against
and Roberts being satisfactorily proved, the Jury brought in
a verdict against those prisoners of Guilty, but acquitted
French.

_ .•
J. Goodwin and C. Fynness, were convicted of stealing a
bowsprit, the property of Messrs. Kay and Co.
The prisoners were observed by some 'petite Officers of the
Thames Police towing the bowsprit near Biscktriar,s-bridge,
tin,l on being questioned, they said it had broke adrift. 'flue
Officers not believing the story, took them into custody, and
it was afterwards discovered that it bad been cut away from
the yard of a Mr. Bond, a mast maker, at Blackwall.—Ver-
dirt —Guilty.
The Common Serjeant told the pi isoners that they inigla
expect to leave the country, as the robbelics on the Thames
were too frequent not to call for exemplary punishment.
The following were also convicted of felony,
oak Lee, for stealing a cloth pelisse; W. Kelly, *Or -stealing a
watch ; W. Cirittnett, fur stealing a watch ; W. Holford, for
stealing a watch; Catherine Caton, fur stealing a haunch of
venison ; J. tliekey, for stealing ss. in copper money; and
J. Whitcomb, tor stealing lelbs. of lead.