The National Register.
London, England, 1823-03-17 00:00:00

TILE FUNDS. SATUtIiD4Y.

HALF-PAST Two oTtocx.
We have one express from Paris this morning,
but'it brings no intelligence to street our market—
Consols 73i. They continued steady at that price
till two o'clock, when they went up to 734, and
more business has been done since that hour,
than had been transacted during the early part of
the day.
It is said that 30 French officers of the Legion of
Honour, who served under Buonapartc, and who
were in this country, have left within these few
days for Spain—in whose army they are to have
respective commands..
It is also said that some further contracts have
been entered into by government for the navy.
Feamex.—This being settling day in Foreign
business, has been confined principally to winding
up accounts. As very little is now dune in Foroign,
but for money, nothing has occurred beyond the
ordinary routine of business.

Bonds which have been done so low as 21, and
as high as 284, are now 281.,
Scrip, on which there has been another payment
made this day, has been at 38i —now 58 dis.

New York papers to the 16th ult. have arrived,
but supply no intelligence ufimportanoe. The new
tariff bill is in progress through the legislature, and
though it has led to stormy debates in the House of
Representatives, appears likely at least to pass that
house. The bill to regulate the commercial inter-
course between the United States and the British
colonial ports was read in the Senate for the third
time, and passel on the huh ult. Prince Paul of
Wurtmnberg had arrived ut New Orleans, on an
intended tour through the United States. A re-
port from the Secretary of the Treasury states the
imports of the Union last year at 80 milli'ons, and
the exports at millions; leaving a balance of
trade apinst the United States of eight millions of
dollars.

Letters, dated the 28th ult., have been received
from Barcelona. The highest enthusiasm, it ap-
pears, was excited there by the speeches of Lord
Liverpool and Mr. Canning on the opening of the
session, which had been translated into Spanish, and
circulated among the inhabitants. They interpreted
them not only into an approbation of the constitu-
tional cause, but into a promise of interferciu:e on
their behalf; or support if attacked. The feeling
that England was about to become the ally of Spain
became so general, that the of&ers and men of the
Army of the Faith were daily coming into Barcelona
to claim the benefit of the amnesty published by the
Cortes.
Fine IN THE EAST Itentes.—lntelligenre was
received on Thursday by the Berwickshire East In-
diaman, which left Canton on the 13th of November,
of a most destructive fire in that city. It broke
out on the night of the let, at the city wall, near
the back of the European factories, and did not cease
in its destructive career till it had levelled them
with the ground, together with a space of nearly
two miles square of the dwellings and manufactories
of the Chinese. The number of houses destroyed
is estimated at 13,700, according to the English
account, but the Chinese make it amount to 16,000.
Five hundred Chinese are said to have lost their
lives during the conflagration. A strong gale of
wind which blew at the time assisted the fury of
the element, and as the natives would not permit
their houses to be pulled down, all the efforts of
the Europeans to stop its progress were unavailing.
The fire continued to burn till five o'clock en the
morning of the 3d. The seamen belouging to the
Company's ships exerted themselves to save the fac-
tories, but could not prevent the destruction or the
Whole of the warehouses. It was equally impossible
to save the greater part of the goods within them,
and the loss to the Company has consequently been
extremely great. The statements vary as to its ex-
tent,
some describing it as 500,0001. and others as
high as 1,000,0001. sterling. Woollens, raw ail:,
nankeens, and 30,000 chests of green tea are the
principal articles said to have been destroyed. The
Company's treasure was saved, and had been sent
on board their own ships. The actual loss of British
private property is said to have been extremely
small, except what may be hereafter sustained by
the failure of the Hong or security merchants, to
make good their engagements. These, as might be
expected, were among the principal suflrers ; and
three of them, whose names arc Mouqua, Chinquu,
and Paunthequa, are said to have sustained losses to
the amount of 300,0001. sterling. By this fire,
forty thousand of the Chinese are said to have been
-deprived of their habitations, which is probably be-
low the truth, in so dense a topnlation as that of
Canton. It was estimated that the cost of restoring
the buildings destroyed would e:iceed 13,000,000 of
dollars; and that some years must elapse before
Canton can recover its limner situation.
A few days since the Hon. Mr. S. Lenox left town
with despatches fur the lonian Islands.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

7HE DISTRESSED GREEKS.

The following letter is from a family of Greek
fugitives from Scio, and is one instance, among
thousands, of the Turkish atrocities in that island.
It is fir objects of this nature that the subscription
instituted by the benevolent Society of Friends has
been principally set on foot:—
" TaILSTE. Diht. 48.
Dear Brother,—After having visiting several of the lonian
Islands, where nobody would receive us, we are at last at Trieste,
where we have been about a month, thanks to the obliging care
and compassion which we received from the captain of the ship
in which we railed. After having escaped front the knife of the
executioner, we find oursselves on the point of dying, for want,
perhaps, of the means of existence. We have, alas !no one to
recommend ourselves to; and although we are unwilling to
wound your feelings, knowing your sensibility, by informing
you of our situation, particularly as you have been at the expense
of the Gymnastic of Seto to prosecute your studies is France, and
that you may find yourself in the same unfortunate situation
with ourselves ; yet we have recourse to your brotherly love, and
beg you to join yourself to your unfortunate sister, arid to try to
send them some relief. Out of the numerous family of Gennades,
our neighbours. the mother only has been saved, six of her chil-
dren arc slaves—Alexandre, 3larie, Anstelique, George, Lucy,
and Nicolas. Stephen is happily here with his mother : he de-
sires me to say, that if you know of any one wno will buy his
brothers and tasters, lie will fuel himself bound to repay the
amount.

"LOULA, ERENA. AND NICOLAS
FOURAIANAKY."

Extract of a letter from Paris, .dated March 8:
" Lieutenant C— B—, of the British Hussars,
residing in Paris, nit a few weeks since at a gaming
table a ith a young man named J—n—n, who, nut
long ago, was kicked nut of one of the hells at the
west end of London, tin. tendering a forged 501. note
in payment of his losses. Mr. B—, who is a man of
fortune, indignant at the. impudence of J—n, in
thrusting himself forward as a gentleman, Cautioned
the company against him, and stated what he had
heard of him in England. J--n, foiled in his en-
deavours to raise contributions upon the credulous
English who frequent the gaming-tables in Paris,
with difficulty smo►hered his resentment for a time
until he could break with effect against the person
who had ruined his expectation of a brilliant har-
vest. Alew days after this occurrence, Lieut. 13—
was advised to be upon his guard against an Italian
teacher named who, it seems, had undertaken,
upon condition of being lire d'enitgrras (relieved
from pecuniary embarrassment), to assassinate
by stabbing him in the back as he should get into
Ins cabriolet. B— arrested M— in the street, and
conveyed him to the Prefecture of Police in the
charge of gens-d'armes. The Italian confessed his
crime, and avowed that J—n was his employer.
The affair rested here for nearly a week, being
placed under the surveillance of the police. Yester-
day Mr. Bergner was summoned before the Judge
d'lnstruction to make fresh depositions, And it is
expected the matter will be brought betbre the tri-
bunal. J—n, who has not yet been called upon,
will of course persist in denying all piirticipation in
the intended crime, which not having been consum-
mated, will probably only expose M— to be sent
out of the country."
Lisbon Papers to the Ist inst. have arrived. In
an extraordinary sitting of the Cortes on the 27th ult.
a communication was made lions the Mill,. through
the Portugese Minister, that a serious insurrection,
headed by the Conde d'Amarante, had broken out
in part of the province of Minh°. The avowed ob-
ject of this adventurer, with his deluded followers,
was to overthrow the Constitution, to which the in-
habitants of Oporto and the rest of the coun try were
perfectly devoted. General Luez de liego having
arrived,it was expected that an immediate end-would
be put to the insurrection, whicu it is supposed was
excited by the Agents if France and the Holy Al-
liance, supported by some intriguing and restless
Ecclesiastics.

DOVER, MARC■ 10.—His Majesty's steam-packet
Arrow, the Sovereign steamlucht, and I.' Henri
Quatre French steam-packet, arrived this morning,
bringing near two hundred passengers, principally
opulent English families, who have been residing in
Paris, and have now quitted in consequence of the
unsettled state of affairs in France. Among the ar-
rivals are his Giuce the Duke of Devonshire and the
Marquis of Sligo. The Marquis freighted the So-
vereign for his family, consisting of upwards of O.
Twelve or fourteen carriages have arrived in the
different vessels. Families are expected by every
vessel, as upwards of fifty have obtained their pass-
ports to quit Paris only within the last few days.—
There has been no arrival from Boulogne to-day,
but many of the numerous English families who
have been residing there fur some time are on the
move. Two or three express boats from Calais have
been in sight of this port, but have, in consequence
of a strong adverse wind, been obliged to run to the
westward, and will probably land at Folkestone.
The two English vesseln on shore near Calais are
perfect wrecks. An Engli. b 300-ton ship is on
shore at Boulogne. Th,:. French coast is completely
covered with snow to u considerable depth. The
weather on this side of the Channel has been very
stormy, with snow, which is fast disappearing.

83

SUGAR TRADE.

On Wednesday last, a most numerous and respectable
meeting of Planters, Merchants, Agents,. and where-
interested in the Colonial Sugar Trade, took place at the
City of London Tavern, in order to petition against a pro•
position now before the Home of Commons, praying for
au equalization of the dittoes on sugar and coffee.
CHARLES ELLIS, Eaq. M. P. in the Chair.
The Chairman stated to the meettug, that he had
called them together for die purpose of submitting to
their consideration a petithm to the House of Commolie
against a proposition, of which notice hail been given,
for the equalization of the duties on East and %Vest India
sugar. measnre he had had adopted by the three.
tiuit of the committee, who had drawn.up the 'trillion
now 111 be submitted for approbation and signattares.—,
The proposition, against which it was their duty to make
a stand, had for its avowed object the total destructioa
of the sugar trade in the West lOdia Colonies, and the
transfer of it to the East India Company. By the return.
of the East India sugar imported in the years-1813, and.
1821, the injuries likely to arise to the Colonial Trade
in the British market might be partly estimated. lo the
former year 13,000 cwt. of sugarwaa the extent of the.
importation, while that of the latter year was increased
to 114,000 cwt. Sugar which hail undergone the pro.
cess similar to that applied to the clayed sugar of the
%Vest Indies, hail-also been imported; and sugars trout
Java and China hail been introduced into our market,
• upon all of which air additional ditty had been imposed
for the protection of the colonial produces • All this was -
inadequate protection, notwithstaii :big which it was
against this state of the law that the East India traders
made their present attempts. It was untseeessely in
mention to the meeting the fatal consequences •whichr
must result f such a measure.—These observations
met with much applause.
The Chairman then read the petition to Parliament : •
—lt stated that the equalization of the duties on sugar,
prayed fur by the list India Company, would be a
tattoo of the personal prolecliolt to colonial trade, us
which the sum of 100,000,00(d. had beets embarked by
nubs Moat* of this country ; that those interested in Co.
I lonia' prosperity were labouring tinder great distress, .
which would be aggravated to their total destruction,
should the plan of equalization take place; that the Bri.
tish colonies were adequate to supply this country, and
Si Id be permitted to do so, and that such certain'
coininetee and resources should not he sacrificed to any •
uncertaio speculation.
Mr. Musser moved that the petition should be It might not, he olnerved. stand the test o‘
minute criticisms out contain all the arguments upon
the very important subject; for the more the question
was considered, the more titioneroits were the arguments,
in its (drifts. Ile however thought that the sneering
nvcmld not wisely in passing over the minor objects in
consideration of the principle, and in at once signing
the petition. In- Parliament the arg' his might be
more strongly urged, and the pledges of government
made to appear still more binding.—(Applause.)
!Me. CHARRINGTON, in seconding the motion, de-
dared, that the subject was one of more importance
j than any that had beet' ander discussion since the aboli-
tttt oil the slave trade.
The petition was then unanimously agreed to, and
thanks were voted to the chairman for his indefatigable
,tile chair. The fleeting then separated.

PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 1 I.—This mornin: orden.".
were received here for the immediate equipment of
the Queen Charlotte, 120 guns ; litnnillies, 74 guns
and the Albion, 74 guns, the three guard abips.'
For a considerable time past these ships have had •
masts of inferior rates on board, without any saiLsp..i.
they are now to receive their proper mots, with-' ,
bent sails, &c: and a complement of 300 then each;
their present number of men is little better than 100.
Information was received ut the Admiralty on
Friday morning of the death of Earl SC. Vincent,
G.C.8., in his 89th year, at his seat st Roeltetts,
near Brentwood. information was also received on
the same morning of the death of Admiral Lord •
Keith, G.C.8., near Kincardine, North Britain.
There are many who are acquainted with the
abontinable trash that is sold ,in many little shops
fur tea, but may be ignorant of the immense extent
to which the system of adulteration of this now al..
most necessary article of life is carried. A botanical
correspondent informs us, that he examined a por-
tion of tea purchased at Wiglaton, which he found •
composed of a mixture of leaves, scarcely half o do.
zen of which agreed in their botanical description to
those of the tea shrub.
WILTSHIRE ASSIELE.—.SALISIIDEY. liflarcb 12.--
The court n.as crowded intensely at 411 early hour, in
expectation that the persons who stood charged with
the minder of two of the townspeople of Ciiippenliam,
in the drunk which- was made upon the inhabitants by
a party of the inhabitants of Langley, would be tried ;t•
bin it appeared th d, either from the number ul
items, or otherwise, the grand jolty met with much dif. • •
fietilly in the case. It was not nonl theralendar was,
cleared, and all the other Crown business hail been con..
eluded, that the grand jury, after having had reiscaterrj
conferences with the learned Judge (llurrougli)
the case, came into Court and delivered in a true bill
whist George Thomas and Thomas Pearce, for the
der of James Iteyitolilm, at Chippenham, on the 7th
of September last. The Imlls against Knight and Mat-
thews, and the other iithatinants for the
murder of Hall and Reynolds, wore ignored; but true
Lolls were found against thew all far riot. 'l' Ise two pri-
soners, Thomas. aged 11, and Pearce, .seed 40, were
pot to the bar, and arraigned on the charge of having
murdered James Reyno!t.s, and 311cr a trial of Same
length were acquittLd.

ASSIZ 2 INTEL LIGEVCE.,

ESSEX.

Cutimsrinn, MAnc:i 11.—The Aseises for this county
cummenced here to-day, before the In/rd Chief Deron on the
Crown side, snit Mr..lLircm Gretimn nn tlin Civil side. In
As‘tili Court.. the business is very li4l:t compered with the for-
steer assist a. -there brio.: only T./ eases in the gaol calendar,
.-aad 13 entries in the entitle paper.
CIVII. SIDE.

lIEDUCTION.—RoYCE V. POLLEY.
This was an acdon against die defendaut for seducing the
•itlancitra datighter. whereby be lost her services.
The case was, that re plaintiff was a miller, at Great Tot-
-Imm, in this county, and elan kept a public bout°. The de-
fumlaut, a man upwards of .10 years of age, area also a mi ler
In the name vil age, and was in the habit of drinking at plain-
titre house, in which Was Lucy Royce, a young woman or 17,
asaiated her father at a servant, and attended in the bar.
About two yearn since the defendant became acquainted %%lib
.r..!isa Royer. In order to effect big bane purposes hr prevailed
-upon her to visit him at the cottage of a woman, named Smith,
a tenant or his. The halt Ir, it war amid, hod lent herself to
the rain or the girl, by going out of the way, leaving the par-
lors together. About 3lichaelmas, 11421, the defendant ac-
ctooplished the ruin of the unhappy girl at this cottage; the
erwraequence was, that at Michaelmas following she became
the nimbi-rot' an infant. Vor the loss of services thus occa-
sioned to thu plaintiff, and the C%I.(11C1-1, during the Mutes of
the young woman, this action was hrought.
-Miss Lacy Royce, a uirl of interesting appeatanee and con-
-844nd,', beauty, deposed, that she became acquainted with
the defendant iii.onstquence of his corning to her father's
pub is house to drink. The defendant lived about a quarter of
a mile from her father's dwelling. A w moan, named Smith,
occupied a cottage or the slefenitat. Witness used to go fre-
quently of an evening to visit her sister, who married a Mr.
...,entry. In Pier way home she hail to call at Mrs.. Smith-2
cottage, where she often met the defendant. Mrs. Smith used
to leave them alone when the defendant came M. An intimacy
was formed, and al t Michaelmas, ISLA, the defendant ef-
fected tier ruin. She continued to meet Lim at Mra. Smith's
from that time till June last year, during which time the illl-
prnorr iminmey was continued. lit September le•t she be-
.-ealla • a toothier. _ _

mr. Blown, t farmer at Great Tatham, proved that the de-
nilant was a man upwards of forty. He owned a mill, and

v,nA in pretty good tircunnitance4.
wall the cue (or the pininlifr.
_ _

The defence was, tt. it there laid been no aedu-tion on the
pert of the defendant ; that it wan even a doubtful matter
whether he wan the father of the child, inasmuch an the young
lady had been familiar with other men before the connection
wan formed with Iht defendant. _ _

Mr. TrdJ~ rep!ietl, on lie pnrt of the psintifr, ttul urged

, . .
that the defence set up was wholly improbable, and that the
stotement of Mr. Iltnjainin Gentry was so infamous as to be
totally unworthy of credit. 113 in isted that the conduct of
the defendant in thus attempting to attack the character of the
young woman. whose ruin he had effected, was a considerable
aggravation of damages.
.4s. Baron Crisham summed op the case for the Jury.
The Jury found their ',infect for the plaintiff—Damages 100 j