The National Register.
London, England, 1816-07-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

•• 117 e fatly hoped to hate been able to «inttmeitee our ...cries of the
Memoirs of the present exalted LEGAL CHARACTERS of our Coun-
try in this Week's Paper; but a varirty of interesting matter fio,
that article hating reached us, and expectations of further aid
having been held out to us by a taluabk Correspondent, we art egoist
rilitctantlyobligcd to delay the M,,noir of the present Loan CHIEF
JUFFICLI and trust our X, aifirs will be the more gratified, on its
appearance, by the increased interest of its contents.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONDON :
SUNDAY, JULY ,s.

WE have received the Paris Papers of Thursday. Gen.
Mouton Duvernet has been found guilty of treason, and
sentenced to death. His wife implored the King's cle-
mency ; but the King replied, that he could not grant
her request, much as he pitied her situation.
These papers mention the liberation of Messrs. Wilson,
Hutchinson, and Bruce ; adding, that Captain Hutchin-
son set off immediately to join his regiment ; and that Sir
Robert Wilson and Mr. Bruce were to quit Paris for Eng-
land in a week.
Another horrible case has been taken cognizance of by
the Court of Assizes at Nismes. On the 3d ofJuly, 1815,
uhe town of Uses had hoisted the Bourbon standard. Se-
veral of the neighbouring Communes immediately rose to
punish it for its loyalty. A Gentleman of Uses, of the
name of Nicholas, with somekend'ku-mes whom he had or-
ganized, was deputed to the rebels to induce them to re-
turn to their homes. At the bridge of Arpaillargues he
came up with them, and, getting off his horse, assured
them he came in perfect peace. One of the rebels bade
him cry out, Vice ampereur !--" Never," exclaimed the
gallant Royalists, " the Bourbons, or death !" A sabre
blow was immediately aimed at him. He warded it off:-
A coward rebel from behind immediately discharged his
musket at him, and he fell dead. The rebels pillaged
him, and seized a fine sabre, which the Sub-Prefect at
Uzes declared should be the reward of him who should be
proved to have been the assassin. Two actually contend-
ed fin. the Prize ! The assassins had hitherto remained
unmolested. Three of them, however, were at length
apprehended and brought to trial. One was condemned
to death, and another acquitted by the Judges, seven of
the Jury finding him guilty, and five not guilty. Two-
thirds of the Jury, we believe, must pronounce a person
to be guilty before the Judges can sentence him to punish-
ment.
The trial of Gen. Mounton Duvernet terminated on
the 19th. He was found guilty ; sentence—Death. His
wife arrived on Monday in Paris to solicit the clemency of
the King ; and appeared the same day in the Saloon of
the Marshals, at the Thuilleries, accompanied by her
daughter. She threw herself at his Majesty's feet, who is
stated to have been extremely affected by their grief, but
rejected the appeal to his clemency.—At this distance of
time from th.; offence, and after the power of the Govern-
ment has been so fully shewn, we can see no utility in
this or similar trials. The sacrifices already made, and the
length of time, might safely admit some relaxation in the
course of vindictive justice.
The famous Billaud de Varennes, who was transported
to Cayenne soon after the fall of Rabspierre, and supposed
to he *dead, arrived at New York on the 15th of May from
Cayenne.
The French Functionaries have been forcing the Pub-
lic, who contributed to the loan of 100 millions, to make
a rolunlary renunciation of their claims.—The Minister
of Finance has been obliged to reprimand these zealous
agents of Government.
Fouche, it is said, is going to Carlsbad, where the re-
ported Congress of Kings who signed the Holy Alliance
is to be held. The pretext of this journey is the indis-
position of his wife, who had been advised by her Phy-
sicians to proceed to that celebrated watering-place ; but
those who are acquainted with the active part which
Follette had taken in the great events of our time will
probably ascribe it to some object connected with this
royal meeting.
The Moniteur contains a long official article, respecting
the organization of the National Guard of the kingdom.
By this new Ordinance every Frenchman, between the
ages of twenty and sixty, is bound to serve. However,
those who puss the age of fifty are only liable to serve in
the sedentary guard. The Officers are chosen by the
King for five years, on the recommendation of the Civil
Power; and the whole of this great national armament
is placed undur the constitutional controul of the Minister
of the Interior.

Admiral Lord Exmouth, with the whole of his squa-
dron, passed Portland on the evening of the 26th, with a
fine breeze from the N. W. which continued sufficient
time for his Lordship to char the Channel, The expe-
pedition is admirably fitted out in all respects; and, we
predict, will effectually fulfil the objects o its mission.
Algiers, though strong, is more exposed to a British
squadron halt Tunis. It contains about ICO,OOO inha-
bitants. Tunis, though by no means so populous, is
stronger, its fortifications being three miles in eircum-
timenee, and standing nearly six miles from the sea, but
communicates with it by means of a lar;,,e lake, navigable
for bouts. It is commanded, however, by the surround-

JULY RA.

ing hills; and though large sums have lately been laid
out upon its works, yet the Citadel, begun by Charles
V. is but weak, and is exposed to batteries from a rising
ground :war it. The first place of attack would, indeed,
be the Port, or Goletta, which is strongly fortified against
a naval assault, and openly exposed to bombardment
from a hill close by the ruins of ancient Carthage; but
if this place is destreyed, it will be many years before
their piratical shipping can be secured from an enemy.

We understand from the Paris I'apers, that the Alge-
tines, afraid of a bombardment, have sent into the inte-
rior their most valuable effects.

It is reported, that Ministers, yielding to the neces.
shies of the country, have resolved upon a reduction of
the army to the amount of 10,000 men.
It is stated, that the health of the Right Hon. Geo.
Rose is very seriously affected.
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The Board of Excise have directed, that informations
be laid against all persons selling beer or spirituous li.
quors without licences, at fairs, &t••

As a proof of the defalcation in the Revenue in the
article of Wine, we understand, that the Orphan Tax
alone (received by the Corporation of the City of London)
on that article, for the last half-year, which used to ave-
rage 22001. did not exceed 7001.
By an Act of Parliament passed at the close of the
Session, the Receiver-General is authorised to receive the
half-year's Property-tax now clue, by two instalments, ex-
tending the last payment to the sth of January, 1 8 17,
provided the first moiety be now paid. By a similar Act;
the tidlowig reduced rates of duty have been granted iOr
two years on huslraadry horses, in lieu of the present as.
sessment of 17s. fid. each horse :
A farm under £7O per attn. Ss. each horse.
Do. £7O and der £lOO as.
1)o. £lOO and under £l5O Ts.
Do. £l3O and under £•200 los. Oh

And the above persons are allowed oe,casionally to ride
a husbandry horse without paying the ritling-horse duty.
A tenant quitting his farm, at or after Midsummer, will,
on appeal, be relieved from one moiety of the annual as-
sessment.

It is with great pleasure we state, that Government
discountenances the demands mule on the Merchants for
arrears of duty alleged to have accrued several years ago.
COPY OF A LITTER FROM %kr It ETA y UV THL 11; EISIL UV.

Gentlemen,—}{acing laid be for• the Lords Commis-ioneis
of his Majesty's 'lreasory your Memorial respecting a Ili tuat.d
made opal' pet for thit:cs on au increase in the .4 eight of barilla
afti r importation, I an. commanded by my lords tip acquaint
you, that they have directed that all demands for arrears of
duty said I u be dire for barilla out of the charge of the officers of
the cu,lonkx at the when the rtemuad seus
.fir.t made, snail ins.
nietliat ely cease• ; and that hereafter ditties shall only be de-
manded far the quantities of barilla as they may be delivered
out of charge, agreeable to the warehousing act, 43 Geo. 111 I.
c. 13L. see. 13.

I am, Gentlemen, your most obedient servant,
Truantry Chambers, July 18, 1810. R. LUSIIINGTON.
To Messrs. NI- and others concerned
in the hardta trade.
A Head of the Marquis of Anglesey, engraved from a
bust by Chantrcv, will be one of the National Modals;
and we understand, that all the Generals who distinguish.
ed themselves during the late war will be included in the
series.

By the death of the Earl of Mountnorris, a vacancy
occurs iu the Irish Representative Peerat,or.
Thursday the new Vauxhall iron bridge was opened
for carriages with much ceremony, in the presence of• the
Treasurer and Commitee of Proprietors, and a number of
persons of respectability. The water was covered with
boats and spectators.
A Society is forming at Deal, to be called " The Fish-
erman's Friend," for the purpose of curing herrings, ac-
cording to the Dutch methotl, for home and foreign
consumption. It is intended to put up 12000 barrels in
the approaching season, and thus give employment to a
large portion of the starving poor.
The remains of the late venerable Bishop of Lambe
were interred in the parish church of Bowness, on the
banks of %Vindermere. His Lordship's tenants preceded
the hearse ; and the pmcession wits closed by the car-
riages of a number of families of the first respectability.
Sir W. Burroughs, we hear, has discovered a new and
easy mode of finding the longitude at sea and land, from
an observed altitude of the moon's enlightened limb, taken
about three or four hours before or atter her passing the
meridian. He practised it, we understand, during his
late voyage from India with the utmost success.
An elopement from Tunbridge Wells took place last
week; the parties, Miss Eliza Ann Puttle. only child of
a deceased servant of the East India Company, and a
young gentleman named Wakefield, about 19, nephew
of the Chancery Barrister of that name. The young
lady is possessed of a fortune of 50,0001. and is a Ward
of. Chancery; where the affair is to be investigated, at
the instance of the young lady's mother.

Mr. Serjealit Onslow wu sworn in a King's Serjeant on Tries
day morning in the Court of Chancery, Lincoln s Inn; and Mr.
Murryatt end Mr. Gurney as King's Counsel. The tNo latter
Gentlemen took their seats within the Bar of the Court sf king's
litneh.

PREFERRED.
The Rev. Thomas Thurlow, brother of the present. and nephew of
the law, Lord Thorlow, to the Rectory of lioxlind,

;TUYI, 18.

DR,I ti.iTIC REGISTER.

HA YMARKET.

On Monday night, a new Comely was produced,
called Exit by Illimake, said to be from the pen of Mr.
;Jamieson. It is an excellent little piece, in which we
ran recollect tit Ailing at all for ill nature to snarl at, unless
it be a too gr eat liberality in the quantity of puns. The
interest of 'Ale scene is preserved throughout ; the cha-
racters are. strongly marked ; the language is pointed and
elegant; and there arc, here and there, some very success-
ful hits, at the follies of the day. The following will
give -,e3ine slight notion of the plot of the piece.

AI r. Rs:Assisi (Ti:ital") realizes a 'erg.: fortune in India, and is elis•
Po'cd to return and enjoy it in the land of his nativity. The person
Wino has the managenicat of his affairs abroad is a quaker, who scuds
along with his fortune the will of Mr. ltarland to Mr. Strum, (MI AT..
atsrsos), who is appointed executor, and, at the wane time, apprises
Mr. Straw of the circumstance of Mr. Rawland's return, in language
which givoa rise to the bustle of the piece. The quaker talks of Mr.
Rawlind having departed on the Bth of May, and hill other equivocal
expressions, which, taken together, address themselves to Mr. Straw
as a communication of the Ikatli of his friend Mr. Itow,a4d. Upon
the arrival therefore of the property, he proceeds to the distribution of
it, as executor, and had actually paid over ono half of it to Mrs. Iral.
siairliasi (Mrs. DAVE rollT), a widow, and her daughter Harriet
(MIS TAY Lon) ; when a letter from Portsmouth, very much to his
as-
toni,hutent. apprises him not only that Mr. It 'stand as still alive, but
that lie will be in town instantly. Mrs. If was in the bus.
tie of new arrangements. new establishments, and new equipages, when
the mistake is communicated to her, and she faints of codese. Reco-
vering, at length. from the shock, the executor and the widow lay their
heads tosfether ; and it is agreed, that Mr. Itawkiwt shall be tempted to
take up his abode at the house of Mrs. liralsingliara, where he might
pmbably fall in love with Harriet, and thus obviate the difficulty of
re-paying the money, part of which had been actually expended. Mr.
Rowland arrives at an ma, and so does a Mr. Rattletrap (RUSSELL).
Bain the Baltimore Theatre, who is mistaken by Straw, when he waits
upon him at the inn, fur Mr. Rowland. 11,.• is treated accordingly,
and, imagining that all this attention is laid to him front the reports of
his professional talents, he feels flattered, closes with time invitation to
Mrs. !raking/limes, and has almost succeeded in obtaining she blush
ling consent of the widow herself; when Mi aim from a va-
I-ley of circumstances imagines that a plot is laid to talk about his death
and rub him of his prowrty. eventually 'Mikes hinisnr known. An
arlaircissement takes p4.e, the mistakes are rectitkd. and Ilarriat is
'married to a nephew of Mr. Rowland, au artist, who was smitten by
her as she was sitting to Min fur her portrait. lox ES has a rattling
character, very slitable to him, as a legatee, and is v.:ry hard to be con.
v dead. that Mr. Rowland is not really s:4i Nirs. 'Glens plays the
bar maid at the tavern very effelively ; the land:onl of which tavern
says, if it does not succeed, !s can " trim it into a Bazaar."—Mr. /two-
land, who is rather an sax nous old gentleman, calls the bar-maid a
rogue and she says " she's at the Bar!" " She takes compliatents
and gives change. and receives a good deal of French coin both ways."
TOEZLT plays Mr. R servant, who is distressed upon his re-
turn to England to find the streets whetted, a relation grown rich, and
a variety of other alt..rations taken place.

What with the gay awl easy flow of the dialogue, set
off by the admirable acting, this little piece was given
out for repetition with universal applause, and we have
'no doubt will bring a plentiful harvest to the Theatre.