The National Register.
London, England, 1817-06-02 00:00:00

'TIDE NATIONAL REGISTER.

To him, the House of Commons is indebted for a
number of valuable rel,ntlations in the conduct of its
business public and private.
But if we were to select an instance still more strik-
ing than any other, of the peculiar grace with which
Mr. Abbot discharged the important duties of his eleva-
ted station, it would be the eloquent and dignined, the
animated and animating manner in which he returned
the thanks of the House to those of our ..;allant heroes,
during the late war, to whom that high reward of their
services was voted, and who were Members of the House
of Commons. On the f4her lvmd, his reprimand of such
persons us ht..:l incurred the di:ileasure of the Ilouse,
were as remarlable tier their wholesome and ciiiveted
severity.

Mr. Abbot has unit ,d in his favour the suffrages of
men of all rucks and parties. He will serve as a perfect
model to all who may succeed him in the Chair on
which his conduct 11US shed an additional lustre, and he
will carry with him the aubuiratiou, the respect, and
the gratitude of the Empire.
The late Speaker of the House of Commons has
been called to the Upper House, by the title of Baron
Colchester, of Colchester, in the county of Essex,
with remainder to his heirs male.

A Circular was issued curly on Saturday, on the
Part of Ministers, recommending Mr. Manntrs Sutton
to their friends as the successor of Mr. Abbot (now
Lord Colchester) in the Chair of the House of Com-
mans. The numerous friends of Mr. C. Wynn are
equally active in his interest. Mr. Sutton certainly
possesses many personal qualifications for the office, but
Public opinion has lung been decidedly pronounced is
favour of Mr. Wynn, as the fittest man in England
fur the situation, on the ground of intelligence, inde-
pendence, gentletuanly demeanour, and every other
requisite qualification for the place.
The l'aris Papers of the 28th and 29th May arrived
last night. The trial of the Bourdeaux Plot has been
brought to a close. Several of the prisoners have been
found guilty.

On Tuesday last a female dressed in black, with a
cross of white wood in her hand, was apprehended in
the Rue de Busse, crying out—" Repent ! woe to the
city of Paris and to France !" Being conducted to the
Commissary of the quarter, and questioned concerning
the motives of this act of insanity, she replied as tidlows:
—" I came to Paris from Besancon about two months
ago, and have been lodged out of humanity at Made-
moiselle Baron's, Rue Servandoui. The object of my
coming to Paris was to support the revelations of the
Archangel Raphael; tending to the reti►nn of religion
and morals in France. I have already acquainted the
iniste: of the General Police in writing, with the
means to Le employed for improving the state of
France, that he !night communicate them to his Majes-
ty ; but as he returned no answer, I thought it my duty
to take this day a public step to enforce his attention. '
As this woman seemed to be affected with mental de-
rangement, she was placed at the disposal of the Prefect
of Police.

The Five per Cent Consols were, on the 28th, 67
1-6th fr.—Bank Actions, 1, :;63.
Lneien Buonaparte has lately requested passports for
himself and son, whom he states that he is desirous of
conducting to the United States. Such a request na-
turally created suspicion. It is not to the United States
that he could wish to send him for instruction. For
what other purpose ?—The Miusters of the Courts of
Austria, Great Britain, France, Russia, and Prussia,
with the Duke of Wellington, held two conferences at
Paris on the subject—one on the 2d of March last, and
the otberon the 13th. At the second, three questions
or positions were laid down by the Austrian Minister,
enforcing the danger of Lucien's presence in the United
States, which had been made the receptacle of so many
malcontents and refugees—the probability that the
demand of passports tar the son was only a pretext to
conceal the designs of the father—the certainty of Lu-
cien's intrigues and dangerous relations in Italy, and
the necessity of refusing hint the passports demanded,
and assigning hint another place of residence than Rome,
fmm whence he might still escape. All the other
Ministers present agreed in opinion with the Austrian
Minister. A protocol was accordingly drawn up to be
sent to their respective Courts, in order that the neces-
sary measures might be taken.

Yesterday, at three o'clock, the Prince Regent, ac-
companied by the Marquis of Stafford uud the Right
I louourable Charles Long, honoured the Exhibition at
Somerset House with his presence, where he was re-
ceived by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Mr. 'West, Cud
Pima, who &inducted his Royal Highness through the
different rooms, containing the numerous works of
art so Lighly cre6table to the talents of the British
/tests, the pertirmaileas of whit!' his Royal Hig: .
ness was pleased to express hims:lf to the tli:;:inguishutt
Artists attending him extremely delighted with. The
Prince Regent remainel till .I.bout a quarter past fear,
when he returued to Carlton Renee.

JUNE 2.

INcultitErriti%,%rty PLUT IN FR ANC E.—French Papers
to the a4th instant, Minim us, that nit ennit at instirrec.
%Inch they represent as very trifling., was made on the
!tilt, at St. jean-l'xil—tle-I'm t , in the South of France, Dot
the night ail the insignia of royaity were torn from the church,
and the Imperial anus sabstitutrd in their stead. The ti I-
coloured Bag was hoisted at the top of Ike steeple Imo cad of
the %kite thinner. The 4ayur of the town assembled the
gend'armerie and the officers of the garrison at ;in eat ly hour,
and after haviti; removed the colour. of rebt:11,111 to Ett•lto e
those of 103..11y, succeeded in ari,ttina t%U of Ito consiiir..
tors. They confessed that part of their pl.. ti was to set tit e
to several houses, and wire given user tOr trial to the Pl
vestal Court.

Saturday the Prince Regent held a Court and Privy
Council at Carlton House, when the Recorder made his
report of the convicts capitally convicted at the
Old Bailey, during the last April Sussions ;
Royal Highness was pleased to reprieve them all during
pleasure.
In another part of our paper, we have given some
account of the schism between Mr. Canning and the
Pitt Club; in which the latter still assert that Mr. Pitt
was a firm friend to " Protestant Ascendancy," whiie
Mr. Canning, on the other hand, believes that he was
not ! Who shall determine the point ?
The Clergyman of Waterloo, a very respectable ec-
clesiastic, hu.s been presented to the Duke of Welling.
ton, who gave him a most cordial reception, and spoke
with him in the kindest manner.

Serjeant Best, Mr. Win Metall, and Mr. Spankie, are re
tabled AS Coonstl on behalf of the State pri‘onein, on their
aliproachinit trial. Their frends propexe to ee lain a fourth
Counsel, who will probably be Mr. Alley. Mr. Brougham,
we noilersiatol, leas been applied to, but ua~ de a lined.

According to a Government Print of Friday last, it
is intended to send out one or two ships of war to the
Brazils, for the purpose of affording due accommoda-
tion to the Royal Family, in the event of their being
necessitated to depart from thence to Europe.
A liambur 0.11 Paper, recently received, says The
,?
Princess of %Vales has most unexpectedly requested of
the Grand Duke of Baden, permission to pass a part of
this summer in the Castle of Rastadt ; her request has
been granted, and she is expected to arrive there from
Italy with her suit, on the Ist of July."
The Leipsic Gazette publishes a notice from the
Saxon Government, purporting, that the bodies of in-
dividuals eommitting suicide through despair, shall be
delivered to the theatres of anatomy.
The design fixed upon for the superb national mon-
ument, to commemorate the victory of Waterloo, is
that of Mr. Wilkins, of Caius College, Cambridge,
author of the Grecian Antiquities. The sum voted by
Parliament for the completion of this work is two hun-
dred thousand pounds.
The Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold visited
the Prince Regem at Carlton.
_house for about three
hours on Wednesday last.
Prince Paul, of Wirtemberg, is likely to prove as
troublesome to the present as he had been to the late
King. He has written a letter to the Privy Council,
condemning the conduct of Government with respect
to the new Constitution proposed fbr the States of that
kingdom, to which the Privy Council has sent an an.
swer in very strong terms of disapprobation.
The marriage of her Imperial Highness the Arch-
duchess Leopoldine of Austria, with the Prince Royal
of the United Kingdom of Portugal, the Brazils and the
Algarves, was celebrated on the 13th instant at Vienna.
His Imperial Highness the Archduke Charles repre-
sented the Prince. After the ceremony there was a
splendid Court, like that of a New Year's Day, or the
Emperor's Birth-day, followed by a splendid entertain.
went.

A Tunisian corsair has been brought into the Downs,
with two foreign vessels her prizes. She was taken by
the Stork and another revenue cutter, and was seen to
capture one of the prizes from the heights of Dover.
As a matter of courtesy, we understand, the two
prizes recaptured by the Alert have been released and
«ent on their voyage. The pirate captain himself has
been also sent about his business with his vessel, and
a dispatch given fin his master, the Bey of Tunis, to
inform him, that his' cruisers must not come with hos-
tile intent within sight of the English coast. They
will therefore keep the high seas as heretothre. It is
a curious historical filet, that the only Power in Eu-
rope which is bound to keep the seas clear of pirates is
Denmark. This is one of her pretests fur exacting the
Sound dues; and it is another evidence in fitvour of
the principle laid down by the law of nations, that there
must be a consideration given fur our services, if we
are to award protection to fbreign vessels.
The French Papers contain an article, the interest
of which would he trilling, but for the revolution which
has broken out in the Brazils. It is therein stated,
that accounts had been received at Vienna, that these
regions, upon enquiry, were found not quite so attrac-
tive as had Leen represented; and that smite Austrians
of distinction, who had intended to accompany the
Princess Leopoldine to the Brazils, had stopped short
at Trieste. --We presume the Princess herself' will now
pause hefbre she setts out.
PE HEST!, IA s:11. —Accounts op to irrhtay-nieht, state,
that Raker laid ;occomplished 1103 miles and a hall; and
Eaton 1099 miles anti a quarter.
Marl, arcl are at this !hue so plentiful on the coast of 1),..
vars:iir that they sold in Plymouth naalket, al Salusuny
halt at fain teen for a shilhug,

JUNE 2.,