The National Register.
London, England, 1822-12-30 00:00:00

THE /CADS, SATURD.IY.

HALF-PAST Two O.CLOCC.
Six expresses from Paris arrived in the course of
last night—and three more by ten this morning.—
A rumour of the French Cabinet having finally de-
cided fin. peace with Spain, immediately operated,
and Consols, which opened at 81, very shortly
reached 81a. On minute empiry, it appeared th:3
in the communications received by three of the
presses, there was no mention of the reported deci-
sion of the French Clinet—nor is the fact. an-
nounced in any of the French papers. The mark. t
subsequently slackened to 81, at which price consols
remain—with Sellers. The French Fiver come 88!:
35c. Spanish opened 571 Ilonds-74 Scrip. Very
little business cluing.

On Monday last, about 12 o'clock, the Duke of
Wellington arrived in town from France. About
half past two o'clock his Grace proceeded to the
Foreign Office, Downing-street, for the purpose of
having an interview with Mr. Cunning, in which
the noble Duke was disappointed, as tic' Right Hon.
Gentleman was ut Brighton on a visit to the King,
having left Combe-wond on Alonday morning for
that purpose, where he had dined on Sunday with
the Earl of Liverpool, and took a bed there. The
Duke of Wellington proceetkd from Downing-street
to the Office of Ordnance in Pull-mall, where his
Grace remained a considerable time. It is expected
that a Council will be held forthwith, when the
Duke will explain the details and success of his ne-
gotiations at Verona and Paris.
Accounts ;from Vera Cruz, dated Nov. 11, state
that the Imperial troops which were sent to Gua-
temala had been completely routed, and that in
consequence another army composed of 2000 men,
under the command of Gen. Itcucon, was to march
in that direction. It was, however, thought they
would experience the same fate, as the Guatama-
leans appeared determined not to be imperialists, but
r:Friblicans.
The central prison at Ghent, which the illustrious
Howard in his work on prisons speaks of as a model,
and of which only five eighths were finished, is to be
completed by order of the Government in the foam
of next year.
Canova, the celebrated sculptor at Rome, has left
behind him a fortune of 7,000,000 of francs, a sum
not fur short of 300,0001. sterling.
On Saturday last, a large monument to the me-
mory of the late Mr. Pereecal, was opened in West-
minster Abbey. It represents him falling at the
moment of assassination. Bellingham, his assassin,
is introdue:d. Nothing can be in worse taste.
The censorship of Lausanne Las ordered that the
proprietors of reading rooms in that city shall sot
lend out the works of Sir Walter Scott.

A great sensation has been excitcd in the east of Fie,
by the discovery of the exhumation of a corpse from the
churchyard of Crail. The grave of an elderly w ttttt
who was *lntel red the week before last, having been no-
ticed to be somewhat disordered, it was deemed neces-
sary the grave should be opened, when it was lound that
its tenant was gone. Two men and a woman who were
seen loitering about the town for some days, and who
afterwards quitted it precipitately. are soap coed as the
perpetrators of the detestable act. 'l he husband of the
deceased iiiiinediate:y set out for Edinburgh ; but he was
Doable to discover any trace of the supposed delinquents.
Tite magistrates have adopted the precaution of watch-
ill; the chincityaril.

IRELAND.

[From the Dublin Evening Pont of Tuesday.)

ADDRESS OF TIIE NOBILITY, GENTRY, AND CITIZENS.
This day, at half past two o'clock, one of the
most splendid and numerous deputations of citizens
that ever assembled in Dublin, waited on his Ex-
cellency the Lord Lieutenant with an address of con•
gratulation on his providential escape from the re-
cent Orange outrage at the Theatre.
Saint Patrick's Hall was fitted up fix the occasion.
We have not, at thislate hour, time to describe the
scene. It was one of the most imposing we ever
witnessed.
To the address, which was very emphatical pro-
nounced by the Lord Mayor, his Excellency the
Lord Lieutenant delivered the following reply:—

W eteasit:V,
" The splendid appearance of this numerous and illustrious
assembly, the cordiality and ardour of your congratulations,
and your generous and affectionate attachment (only person and
government, constitutes such an addition to my honour and my
Leppinese, and would adorn the olose of a long and active life
with such lasting glory, that, if the assassin be not vet dis-
armed, my personal interest would he, that lie should. strike
sow ; but my duty to my God, to my King. and to my Cbuntry,
forbias such a wish; and here, in your presence, with the most
unfeigned sincerity, I join my humble hope with your fervent
prayers that niv life may he spared for the service of Ireland,
adding, with the genie earnestness, that if ever it ithould prose
injurious or useless to her interests and wetfure, it will no
loa_er be valuable to me.
" No exertions of which any public servant can he capable
(however endowed with genius and seal, or mewed by rape-
rienee) could keep pace with the paternal solicitude of our be-
loved Sovereign, for the tranquillity and prosperity of this in-
teresting portion of his dominions. 'Were 1 possessed of all
the qualifications which you are pleased to ascribe to me, I
assure yon, in the most solemn manner, that I could scarcely
render justice to die spirit of benevolence towards Ireland ,
which animates his Majesty's Royal heart, and which is the
unanimous, active, and ardent sentiment of all his counsels.
" Whatever may have been the success of my government,
my anxious endeavour has been to towline the course of his
Majesty's intentions and councils by an impartial exercise of
tl e executive power, by a just and merciful administralico of
the law, and by a regular system of mitigating and allaying
every cause of irritation, and every incentive to discord dud
division.
" In relieving the distress of the last dreadful season, I was
greatly assisted by many now present : receiving from you this
honourable tribute of your approbation, I desire to extend
anion to our countrymen and fellow-citirens.
" The indignation which the recent outrage has excited in
your breasts is natural and honourabk ; let me not be euppnsed
to reprove so just a feeling when 1 declare, that having placed
the consideration of that transaction in the hands of the law";
leave it to the sas:red light of legal justice to discover the origin,
progress, and object of that disastrous attempt.
" So far, however, is my disposition averse from casting
upon the nation the crime of individuals, that I consider this
•vent to bars called heal the true character of my country in
the most amiable and vivid colours, and this assembly attests
the justice of my opinion.
pas the otlwr hand, neither the dangers with which my life
has been encompassed, uor any which may still impend over
me, can disturb the even termer of my course of governineut.
Sensible of the value of yir:r confidence in nu firmness, I trust
that Providence will never deprive me of the fortitude required
to meet the deities of my station.
" The great and valuable lesson, however, inculcated on my
min I, as it is upon yours, is the necessity of labouring to turn
this evil to the public }paid. Here I claim your most assidu-
ous and active exertions for the peace and honour of our coun-
try. Towards this useful, but difficult work. I tender you, in
true sincerity of heart, the aid of every faculty, and of all the
means which I possess tar can acquire ; and, recommending to
your deliberate and united wisdom and zeal, the calm and dis-
passionate consideration of the most effectual plan for removing
from your society the destructive incentive of division and
discord, I implore the God who has saved my life to enable
me to employ whatever days may lie allotted to me in establish-
ing the tranquillity, freedom, and happiness of Ireland."
Among the deputation we obst rveil his Grace. the
Duke of Leinster, the Earl of Meath, Lord Ardee.
Otonor 1)on, and several of our most distinguished
fellow-citizens. IVe ob,erveil also, and we were

happy to see them, the Most Rev. the Catholic
Archbishop of Dublin, Dr. Troy. and Dr. Murray,
the Coadjutor Prelate. These venerable men were
in full canonicals, and wore their crosses.
We never witnessed a scene which affected us so
deeply ; we never saw a meeting su moved, as the
very distinguished company who were present in
St. Patrick's I fall , and, certainly, there never was
a reply so emphatic, so full of feeling! so pregnant
with the fire of youth, and the wisdom of mature
age.
Immediately after the reception of the address of
the inhubitantsof the city of Dublin, this day, by
the Lord Lieutenant, his Excellency held a Levee.
There were present among others, his Grace the
Duke of Leinster, the Archbishop of Dublin, Lord
Meath, the Hon. and Rev. Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. Wal-
lace, Milliken, the Sheriffs, Aldermen Harty and
Kenny, Colonel Morris, &c. &c.
His Excellency's private secretary, in the first
instance, introduced Mr. Milliken, and from the
marked attention with which his Excellency honored
him, we have every reason to believe that his ser-
vices have been duly appreciated.
Prisoners charged with conspiring against the life
of the Lord Lieutenant.-1 he Handwiches, we be-
lieve are carpenters ; George Graham is a shoe-
maker ; Wiiliam is a printer, and a person of better
condition in MC. Forbes is the person who applied
to the magistrates at College-street, on the morning
after the riot, and just after lie had been reprimand-
ed for his own conduct, to know whether the pri-

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Boners could be bailed. His connexions are very
respectable. Brownlow is cf a rank superior to all
the other persons who have been arrested. His
family are in very independent circumstance.

The following particulars of the late fracas be-
tween the American Consuls at Algiers and the
Government of that place are given in a letter from
an American officer, dated from Gibraltar ;—" The
late disagreeable afair at Algiers has occasioned
some uneasiness to our merchants, and various stories
have been afloat respecting it. However, the real
state of the affair is as —Our Consul, Mr.
Shelter, being away, had left his nephew, the Vice
Consul, to act in his place, who, when, out hunt-
ing, met sonic Turks, who told him he was tres-
passing on their fields, and desired him to go off.—
He refused, and they in consequence attempted to
use force, upon which he presented his gun at diem,
which so irritated the Turks, that they immediately
disarmed him, and beat him with the butt-end.—
The Vice Consul immediately complained to the
Dey, and demanded satisfaction : but the Dey told
him he could give none, adding, I allow you suf-
ficient protection by appointing you a dragoman.'—
This officer is a man sacred-among the 'forks, every
Consul being allowed one as a protection. If a
Turk insults any one under their protection he
loses his head. Our Vice Consul had omitted to
take his dragoman with hint, therefore he was re-
fused satisfaction. Ile, however, told the Dey if
he did nut punish those men in 24 hours, he would
cut down the American flag staff—to which the Dey
replied lie was perfectly at liberty so to do. The
flag-staff was accordingly cut down, and a vessel
chartered to bring the Consul to Port Mahon, and
Dr. Swift is left in his place. This has occasioned
great alarm among our merchants, to whom the idea
of an Algerine war is by no means palatable, as it
would do so much injury to our commercial inte-
rests, which are not in the most flourishing situa-
tion now, although we are in the midst of peace.
The Vice Consul's conduct has met with some ani-
madvenion from several of our mercantile people,
who consider him in a great measure the aggres-
stir."

ADMIRALTY.—It appears by a eOpy Of a letter
from Mr. Secretary Croker, to Mr. Buckle, late
Chairman of the Committee of the Society of Ship
Owners, dated 2341 inst , that the Board of Admi-
ralty had just done what we believe the present ad-
ministration never did before—take into considers.
tion, that in consequence of a prevalence of north
and north easterly winds, the merchant vessels
coming in the contrary direction may be in want of
water and provisions, and Mr. Buckle is intUrsied
that their Lordships had therefore directed the Ad-
mirals commanding at Portsmouth, Plymouth, and
Cork, to use their discretion in sending out ships
with supplies, and to cruise till the wind changed.
This is certainly a very prompt measure, as it was
only on the 10th inst. that the wind changed, after
blowing very strong for about six weeks from the
south west, and at this season such a precaution is
not very necessary, as but few ships are expected
from the south-ward and westward. We are, how-
ever, very happy to find that the trade of the coun-
try engrosses some of the attention of the Admiralty
Board ; but it is probably owing to the approach of
the meeting of Parliament, when the subject of the
want of protection in the West Indian seas, and the
late depredations of pirates there„ will, we are
assured, he brought before the House by several
commercial members.

The Society fiir promoting Christian Knowledge,
at a special meeting held in London on Monday last,
(the Lord Bishop of London in the Chair), resolved
to erect a morument to the memory of the late Dr.
Middleton, Lord Bishop of Calcutta, in St. Paul's
cathedral; and the members of the society arc every
where invited to contribute to it, nut exceeding
their annual subscriptions.
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The bodies of the seamen belonging to the sloop
Lord Nelson, which was wrecked near tlayle,
llc-
vonshire, on the lfith instant, have been picked up
anti interred in the churchyard of Phillack. Some
of the cables and anchors of the vessel have been
recovered and lodged in a place of safety. The dis-
position to plunder, too often manifested by the
people along the coast in eases of shipwreck, appear-
ed but in a very partial degree on this melancholy
occasion ; the inhabitants of the neighbourhood
generally exerting themselves to save the property
and place it in a secure situation.
Extract of a letter from the agents to Lloyd's at
Smyrna, dated the 31st of October:—" The situ-
ation of this place continues prfectly tranquil, and
more satisfactory for future prospects, in consequence
et very vigorous measures being at length adopted
by the governor of the city, to repress the turbulent
populace; and many of the ringleaders in the late
disorders have been publicly executed. From the
quarters of hostilities no intelligence of any interest
has lately been received."

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TUE MARRIAGC ACT.A grant deal —_
been Raid and written with respect to this celebrated•
act, but many of our readers probably have Ytot a
clear idea of the circumstances which led to its in-
troduction. They are as follow :—The Nlarchionent
of Donegal was Miss May, and was the natural
daughter of a gentleman celebrated for assisting
persons of fashion with loans of money. Being
married to the Marquis, she became the mother of
seven children, the Earl of Belfast being the eldest
son of the Marquia-and herself, and heir of the title
and estates. The Earl of Belfast being arrived at
manhood, was retoned to be on the eve of marriage
with the daughter of another nobleman. At this
juncture, the Hon. Arthur Chichester, younger
brother of the Marquis of Donegal, and heir of the
title and estates should his brother die without law-
ful issue, came forward, and intimated his intention
to dispute the validity of the marriage of his bro-
ther with Miss May; he contended that the lady
called and calling herself Marchioness of Donegal,
was still Miss May, or at least not lawfully married
to his brother ; and, consequently, that the Earl of
Belfast and the other children were illegitimate,
and that, as far as they were concerned, he was
the actual heir presumptive. In this manner at an
advanced age, the Marquis and•lslarehioness found
their marriage questioned, and their children de-
scribed us illegitimate. The ground of the conduct
on the part of Mr. ArthurChichester was the mar-
riage of the Marquis and • Marchioness by license,
without the consent of any person authorised by the
act of 1745. It will be observed that, had the
marriage taken place by bans, the objection could
not have been raised. One of the consequences of
Mr. Arthur Chichester's intima ion was, the post-
ponement of the marriage of the Earl of Belfast ;
and, in the mean time, the Marquis and Marchi-
ness commenced such proteeedings in the Spiritual
Court as afforded the best chance of establishing the
validity of their marriage—though their chance in
the course of law, under the act 1745, appears•to
have been small. The course of proceeding, then,
in the Donegal case, was this, and in all similar
cases it is equally needful.—The Marquis and the
Marchioness discontinued to live together, while
the Marquis commenced a suit against the Marchio-
nem, in tile nature of an amicable suit in Chancery. •
for what, in the language of the Spiritual Courts,
is called " Jatitation" or assumption of marriage;
thereby requiring the Marchioness to show upon.
what pretence she called herself his wife, and why•
she should not be forbidden so to do; and therefive •
atfirtling to the Marchioness an opportunity to
establish, if possilile, the validity of the marriage
j by legal evidence, which evidence would then be-
come waiter of record for posterity, and demonstrate •
the legitimacy of the children. This, it appears,
'could not be accomplished; and the act was intro-
duced, in order that its retrospective classes might-
succeed where u straightforward course had failed.
The marriage of the Earl of BelfXst, with Lady
Harriet Butler, daughter of the Earl GlenL.l, has
very recently taken place.
At a Common Hall of the Corporation of Lei-
cester, on Wednesday last, it was resolved forth-
with, to make several hundredsof honorary freemen,
principally nun-residents, as the means of counter-
acting, it possible, the ascendancy which liberal
opinion is evidently obtaining over corporation in- -
fluence.
There have been three hundred and sixty eases of
cancer in the city of Canterbury alone, since the
fashion of women wearing steel busks in their stays
firs: commenced. These, by pressing on the blsuiti,
the physicians are of opinion, have occasioned many
cancers, and numerous distressingund fatal eases.
You —Friday morning, at six o'clock, an alarming Er
broke out in the coach-house and stabling 'of Mr. Byron!
situate at the back of that Gentleman's house, hCh ytie-tvw
Chelsea, which at first threatened most serious destruction ; a
great supply of water being obtained, the horses were tak-J
out in solely, but the carriage sustained considerable injury.
Tile liaises were considerably subdued at ten o'clock, and the
engines shortly alter quitted the place.
On the 11th of November, a farmer's wife. at Wilkischken,
in Pi ussia, poisoned with arsenic her daughter, a girl Id years
of age, fur fear she should wake it known that her mother
stole same geese. After the crime wits discovered she coo:
leased that two
,% ago she dispatched her father-in-law in
the same manner, to inherit his property sooner ; and five
months ago the husband of her eldest daughter, iu order to
marry tier to a richer nun.
NEtisats,l4 EUNAOKUINARY.—One of the carriers of a
New York paper, culled The Advocate, hating heroine indis-
posed, his son took his pleas ; but not knowing the subseri es
lie was to supply, he took for his guide a dog which had
usually attended his father. The animal trotted on a head ot
the boy, and stopped at every door where the paper was in
use to be left, without making a single omission or mistak.a
SHOCKING ACCIDF.NT —Between eight and nine
o'clock on Friday night, a fatal accident occurred at Soinerse:-
house :—John finis, an aaist sit porter is the Navy Pay ,
in a state of inebriety, got on the iron railing, for the purpose
of raising the sash to obtain admittance into the ball, and 1,1
into the area, a depth of 40 feet. The utifortunate man was im-
mediately picked up, and carried into RD apartment in the
utlice, and a surgeon was sent for. Mr. Kenny assistant to
Mr. Stanton, in the Strand, atten.led ; but from the nature ,•/
the injury he received, his skull being fractured in scveiat
places, be could render no assistance. lie was about 30 yeas
old, and has left a widow and two children tu deplore 1:;*
lons.

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