The National Register.
London, England, 1822-11-24 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

dieting the interference of the " Holy Alliance"
with the internal affairs of Spain--he has now to

add to that, by a

against the gross out-

rage committed against the English nation, by the
unjust confinement of one of its subjects—and in
that remonstrance, if he do his duty, he will insist

upon reparation for the past, and security for the
future—under a threat of such a kind as would
male the French Government tremble—inasmuch
as its annihilation must follow a rupture with
E 'gland, we heartily and sincerely hope, though
distinctly and decidedly opposed to his general po-
litics, that in this instance Mr. Canning will so
vindicate the insulted dignity el the English cha-
racter, as to enforce such an amende as is due to it
in the present flagrant case.

The advantage or propriety of prosecution for the
publication of works impugning the established Re-
ligion has been doubted—we have already stated our
opinion that in some instances it may be necessary,
to prevent the uninformed being misled by plausible
illusions, they may not be competent to detect; but
we were not prepared to suppose, that under the mild
and tolerant Government of George the Fourth the
powers of the Inquisition could have been exercised
—the powers of that Institution, the destruction of
which is the brightest trait of all the others in the
character of the late glorious Spanish Revolution—
yet such, we find, has been the case in Edinburgh,
where a meeting, held for the purpose of con-
stituting a Society of Free-thinkers, was interrupted
by the Sheriff, attended by the police, the leaders
taken into custody, and the audience dispersed, after
giving their names and addresses. We wait for fur-
ther particulars—but from what we yet know, it
seems to us that the Sheriff has passed the bounds
of his duty—we believe that no law of the United
Kingdom will justify such interference—nor do ae
think there ought to exist any power in this world
which might dictate to a man by which road he
should seek happiness in the next !
Upon the sentence of Bridle, the ruffianly gaoler
of Ilchester, we say nothing, fur nothing is needed—
the virtue and political impartiality of the Judges at
present composing the Court of King's Bench, can-
not be placed in a stronger light than will be re-
flected upon their memories, by a contrast between
the sentence passed upon Henry Hunt (30 months'
imprisonment and heavy sureties for three years) and
that upon the miscreant who tortured the prisoner
who was committed to his custody, a fine of fifty
pounds, and no sureties at all !!!

Private letters from Verona, of the 10th instant,
mention, that Congress is proceeding with dispatch
in the discussions and arrangements for which the
Diplomatists hove assembled. The conferences have
been frequent and long, which have given rise to a
variety of rumours, but, as resting on a slender
foundation, they should be received with due cau-
tion. These have produced so much agitation and
stock jobbing speculation, that, to put an end to the
alarm, it is the intention, it is said, of Congress to
close its business as soon as possible. The best
founded reports are favourable to the maintenance
of peace, and the utmost cordiality exists among the
Allied Sovereigns, on whom depends, if nut the
destiny, at least the tranquillity, of Europe. So
long, however, as Congress continues sitting, many
circumstances may arise to disturb its harmony, as
there are many conflicting interests to consult in its
arrangements. The settlement of matters relating
to Turkey, it is believed, arc on the point of being
adjusted; but we doubt much if they will give sate•
faction to the Christian community of Europe, who
have taken so lively an interest in the affairs of the
persecuted Greeks. France, the letters affirm, has
yielded to the general necessity and desire of peace,
which has been strenuously urged by the united re•
presentations of Austria, Russia, Prussia, and Great
Britain, which accounts for the raving and anger of
the French Ultra Journals. It is expected that
Congress will not sit beyond the second week in

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December, when a solemn Declaration, we are as•
accred, will be published by all the Allied Powers,
calculated to settle and satisfy the different nations
of Europe with respect to all their views and objects.
We confess we are sceptical on this point, and are
anxious to know the arrangements, particularly with
respect to Turkey, Greece, and Naples.

An Ordinance has been issued by the King cf
the Netherlands, directing that as Flemish is the
language of the arrondissements of Brussels and
Louvain, all public functionaries who, by the Ist of
January, 1823. are not musters of that language,
shall be displaced ; that all public pleadings, arrests
of Government, civil contracts, and acts, shall, from
the time above specified, be drawn np in Flemish.
We believe that this ordinance will be agreeable to
the great mass of the inhabitants of the countries
specified; but as it is fatal to the numerous French
who are employed in the courts, bureaus, and offices
of Brussels, it is of course most clamorously decried
by them and their adherents; and a hot paper war
has commenced on the subject.

STOCK EXCHANGE, THREE o'CLoca.--In the
earlier part of the morning little business was doing,
and Coast:ls were 814 to 81a. Soon after it was
known that an express bad arrived from Paris, it
was reported that Government had received one
from Verona ;—the operations immediately com-
menced in the above market.—An eminent broker
sold about 50,000 Cunie.ls at Bla and °tiered more
at 814. but he could nut find any person to take
them. Various reports were in circulation ;—that
the King of France was dangerously indisposed ;
and that the French troops on the Spanish frontiers
are in motion, and the funds have fallen. The
market left off at 80i j.
CHRISTIAN SLAVERY —The following is an ex..
tract of a letter from Tunis, dated October 21.
" On the 17th inst. arrived here the Sardinian brig
Geacio, Capt. Antonia Luisa Niale. from Smyrna,
in 20 days, with soldiers; also the Maltese brig Use
Cugini, Capt. Chiassuro, from Constantinople and
Smyrna, from the latter place in 20 days, with siia
manufactures, &c. Both these vessels bring a num-
ber of unfortunate Greek slaves! princpally young
girls, destined us presents to the Bardo, and boys,
all under 10 years of age, who have been circam-
eised. %%list appears most extraordinary is, that
I this nefarious traffic, in Christian blood is not only
carried on under the flags of the holy alliance, but
the two vessels in question were actually escorted
from Smyrna to Cape Passer° by an Austrian ship
of war. On the sth inst. the Bey of Tunis laid an
embargo on all shipping in this Itegeney until his
two new frigates, the Massura and Husania (built
at Marseilles), and a large aciamLecco, should be
ready fir sea; those vessels sailed on the 16th inst.
for the Levant ; the frigates having each 44 guns,
and 400 men ; the sciambecco, 6 guns and 125
men. P.S. A large Swedish brig has just come
in from Sweden, with presents to this Govern.
ment.
The statement which lately appeared in the jour.
nals, that the Archduchess Maria Louisa had made
her appearance at Verona, has no doubt been noticod
by most of our readers We have heard that she
appears there to claim from the Allies the execution
of the testamentary dispositions of Napoleon in favour
of her son, and that this claim has occasioned very
great embarrassment to the French Ministers there.
The Duchess of Wellington received the intelli-
gence of the entire restoration to health of her hus-
band early in the week, through a letter received by
the Dukes sister, Lady Anne Culling Smith, writ-
ten ahont the 9th instant. In this letter his Grace
says—" I expect to leave this (Verona) on the 14th
inst. for England." The Duchess of Wellington is
with her family at Strathfieldsay.
QUICK TRAVELLING, OR A VERT LATE DINNER.
—According to the Court news, about five o'clock
on Sunday afternoon, the Duke of Cambridge tonic
leave of the King at Brighton, and set off fir Lon-
don. Another account states, that on Sunday even-
ing the Duke of Cambridge arrived in town horn
Brighton, and dined with Sir Thomas Hislop. in
Bulton.street.

SHREWSBURY ELECTlON.—Thursday last the
no-
mination of a candidate for the vacant seat in the
representation of the county of Salop, took place at
Shrewsbury. J. C. Pelham, Esq. Was then put in
nomination by the Hon. and Rev. Richard Hill,
Mr. Whitmore proposed William Lacon Child°,
Both the candidates addressed the meeting at con-
siderable length. The High Sheriff requested a
show of hands, which was greatly in favour of Mr.
Childe's partisans who were very roughly treated by
the mob.

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THE COURT.
On Friday last, at half put twelve o'clock, his
Majesty held a Court at his Palace, in Pall-mall,
which was numerously attended. The King after-
wards held a Chapter of the most noble Order of the
Garter.
After the King and the Knights and Officers of
the Order had proceeded into the Chapter Room
with the usual ceremonies, and had taken their res-
pective seats and places to form the Chapter, the
Bishop of Salisbury, the Chancellor of the Order,
signifid the Sovereign's command for filling the va-
cant stall in the Royal Chapel of St. George, Wind-
sor, vacant by the decease of the late Marquess of
Londonderry: The Chancellor then proceeded to
collect the suffrages from the Knights assembled,
and then presented them to the Sovereign, when the
Chancellor, by command of the King, declared the
must noble the Marquis of Hertford to be duly
elected.
The Marquis of Anglesea and Earl Bathurst, the
two junior Knights present, then introduced the
Marquis of Hertford with the usual ceremony, and
his Majesty conferred the honour of the Order in the
usual forms in putting on the Garter.
The Chancellor of the Order then pronounced the
usual admonitions to the Marquis upon his election.
After the Chapter, Mina Mahomined Saleli, the
Persian ambassador, was introduced to his Majesty
by the Right Honourable George Canning, his Ma-
jesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Af-
fairs.
The King held a Privy Council upon state busi-
ness, after which the Recorder of London was
introduced to his Majesty in Council, and made his
report of the convicts capitally convicted at Justice-
ball, in the Old Bailey, at the Last September aad
October sessions. _

The Court closed at half-past six o'clock.

THE EItPERORL—WhiIe the Emperor of Austria
was passing through the Tyrol, an incident occurred
which proves that, in one respect at least, he is ca.
pable of achieving more than his puissant brother of
the Nurth, whenever they both •im at the same
object. The practice of firing at a mark is a na-
tional amusement among the Tyrolese, and some

military officers at Inspinck got up a fete of this
description in honour of their Sovereign. A target,
painted with circular lines of black and white, was
provided fur the purpose; and a great concourse of
spectators being assembled, several officers entered
the lists as marksmen. Many of them distinguished
themselves as good shots, and others were less suc-
cessful. The Emperor of Russia was much pleased
with the amusements, and resolved to try whether
he bad not a keener eye and more steady hand than
any of those who had already made their essay.--.
Never was any attempt more luckless—never was
chagrin more visible. His Imperial Majesty fired
several shots, but wihout once touching the target;
and at last, to use a homely phraze, he gave it up as
a bad job, evidently embarrassed at having eome off
with so little eclat. The Emperor Francis, tempted
by the example of his august ally, next stood forth
to make a trial. His success was complete. His
first shot struck within an inch of the inner circle
bis second within less than half an inch--and at the
third shot he lodged his ball in the very centre of
the mark. William Tell, who deprived his Impe-
rial ancestor of Switzerland, could not have done
more. The Empress on being informed of the ex-
ploit, could not restrain her conjugal emotion.—
Flying to his Imperial Majesty, she twined her arms
round his neck, and kissed bins several times, while
be in vain endeavoured, by a gentle movement of
his hand, to repel her ardent embraces, at the same
time chiding his illustrious consort for thus giving
way to her feelings " Nay, don't do so !" he
cried, " there is nothing to cause it. What I have
done any person here may do twenty times a
day."

AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.-•--AD affair of an ex-
traordinary nature occurred a few days back in the
county of Wicklow, which is likely to furnish matter
fur discussion in one of the Irish Law Courts. The
parties are exceedingly respectable, and the occur.
rence Las plunged two families in inexpressible
affliction. Two marriages took place—the two
brides were escorted by their admiring grooms on
the wedding-day to a hotel not flu. from Dublin;
they dined, took tea, supped, and then the ladies
retired. The gentlemen unfortunately sacrificed a
little too freely to the jolly God, and on retiring to
bed, each entered the wrong aparitnent!—(ly. To
what god had the ladies been sacrificing that they
did not perceive the mistake ?
Within these last few years, a most astonishing
increase has taken place in the intercourse between
Glasgow and Paisley. There are now no less than
nine conveyances daily between the two places, all
of which return to Paisley the same day. They
run at reduced prices, and the number of passengers
has increased considerably since the reduction took
place.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

.NEW SOUTH WALES.
Gazette: from Hobart's Town to the 30th of June
have been received at the New England Coffee-
house. They furnish little et importance, beyond
the direct and striking evidence they contain of the
improvement of that colony, particularly in the
manufacturd, growth, or discovery of the articles
most essential to its own wants, and for which the
colony-has been principally indebted to Europe.—
Among these may be mentioned coarse cloth, glue,
parchment, and leather; printers' ink, mill-stunes,
equal in every respect to the French burrs, tobacco,
beer, hops, &c.; coals and slate are also found, with
timber fit for ship-building, and other valuable pur-
poses. Free settlers continued to arrive, and were
composed generally of persons in a more respectable
rank in life. The number of persons arriving •in
Van Division's Land, for the 12 months preceding,
who at their departure from Englund had received
grants of land, consisted of 500, of whinn one-third
were accompanied by their families, and had also
brought out servants. The following account of
the state of New Zealand, and the missions there, is
extracted from the Sidney Gazette of May 31 :
By the Wood/ark, a letter has been received from
the Rev. Mr. Williams, of the London Missionary
Society, stating the safe arrival of the brig Queen
CAarlate, Captain Henry, at the Bay of Islands, on
her way to the Society Islands. The reverend gen-
tleman says, that the vessel narrowly escaped being
cut off at the North Cape; the natives in that vici-
nity being very unfriendly and barbarous. By
another channel we learn, that missionary efforts are
rendered fruitless, and suspended pro lempore, owing
to the state of confusion and warfare into which the
whole island by this time may be plunged. Shun-
ghee, that aspiring and enlightened chief, who has
lately returned from England, dreams and talks of
nothing less than the total subjugation of the whole
island to his sway. All his views are directed to
that one object ; and he has actually issued a man-
date to sense of the gentlemen of the Missionary
body, prohibiting their departure from the present
place of residence on pain of the consequences, being
determined to class the friend with the foe who
shall dare to impede or obstruct his measures ; and
he will give no passport of safe conduct, therefore
the Christian arms are, in this instance, for a time
unavoidably grounded. This Chief has profited
considerably by his visit to England, having thence
obtained a vast expansion of mind, and imbibed in-
calculable knowledge. His observation upon Euro•
peens, and their customs, has been so particularly
close, that there is us much distinction, in point of
mental endowment, between the other Chiefs and
he that now contends for the New Zealand cruveii,
us exists, comparatively speaking, between the
Christian and the infidel. His quickness of percep-
tion is none of the least of his acquired qualities,
which, joined to unusual strength of mind, and a
determination to conquer, renders him very formida-
ble. As to ability to erect the intended enslave-
ment, when the 'Vaud/ark left, he had one of the
best armies that New Zealand ever witnessed ; it
consisted of 2,000 picked men, and those were daily
being joined by others, who seemed to wish Mr.
Satingliee to be their King. This force, headed by
Shungliee in person, was on the eve of setting out
for the river Thames, intending to exterminate all
the refractory in that vicinity, and thus strike terror
into the hearts of all. It is thought that he will
accomplish his vast undertaking; but how his New
Zealand Majesty will be able to retain his blood-
bought dignity, and suppress the envy of the nume-
rous Chiefs who govern the mighty tribes, is a
problem which time alone can solve. At all events,
King Shunghee will be renowned in the annals of
his country. Nu other information comes by this
opportunity that is further important; at least, no-
thing that we can venture to report upon, without
further and the most unequivocal testimony.

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NAPOLEON'S MelllEft.This lady died lately at
Rome—her chief heir is her grandson, the young
Napoleon, who, it is said, will ultimutdy receive an
immense fortune. To her eight children now
to wit, Joseph Buonaparte, Lucien, Lewis, Jerome,
Pauline, Curtiline, and Hortensia, she be-
queaths to each and every one the suns of 150,000
sendi (37,0001) making in the whole 300,0001.
The four daughters of Lucien are to have each a
marriage portion of 25,000 seudi; and to her bro-
ther, Cardinal Fesch, who already rolls in wealth,
she bequeaths a superb palace, fillet with the most
splendid furniture and rarities of every sort.
DOVER, NOV. 19.—This morning, at half past
ten o'clock, their Royal Highnesses the Princess Au-
gusta Sophia, and the Duke of Cambridge, arrived
at Wright's Hotel, under a salute from the guns on
the Redoubt Battery. The carriages were embarked
on board his Majesty's steam-packet the Dasher, and
it was the intention of their Royal Highnesses to
embark at two o'clock this afternoon; but in conse-
quence of the wind blowing hard, and a heavy sea
rolling in front of the harbour, it was recommended
to defer their departure until to-morrow.

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ANACREON Moonc.—This sweetest of Bards re
cently quitted Paris—his countrymen gave him a
farewell dinner on the occasion, and after acknow-
ledgments for the toast " Prosperity to Ireland," he
proposed " Prosperity to England" in the following
terms:—
" As the noble Chairman has, in compliment to the land of
my birth, given the ever-wekome toast of • Prosperity tot Ire-
land: I beg to suggest a similar tribute to that other country. to
which we all belong, and I. whose real greatness and sold glory
—all Irishman as I am. and with my political and historical
recollections flesh about me-1 am sett re.dy to bear testimony
and homage before die world. Yes, Galtlemeo. there snaN be,
arid there are (for God forbid that 1 should circumscribe muss
within any particular latitude). there may be. sad there en,
high minds, warm karts, Mg brave arms, every where; but he
that genuine high mindedness. which bas hammy fisr its basis+
the only sure foundation upon which soy Wag 1.11.• was saw
built—which can distinguish lostessa seal sebstaelid=
and that false, inflated glory of the niemseit, whose
like that of the balloons, owing to its emptiness, or if est to
its emptiness, at least to the levity of its freight ; for that good
faith. that punctuality in engegentrute,- which is the soul et all
commercial as well as of all mend reladeznit =I, while it
co gives to business the n fidence satiosil ' of friend.
ship, introduces into friendship the Ilegularily matter-d-fac-
steadiness of business; for that spirit of tainses mid liberality
among public men, which aeaasss the Ares of passolity eat of ,
party seal. and exhibits so Ass itemealles,
late) die touching spectacle of the oast sturdy pas
pouring out at the grave of their Ma Onkel magpairs sash
tributes, not alone of justice. but of assiliel deka% M sham bog
free from all private rancour was the headily dot sspant!ed
then; and, lastly, (as I tenet I may say. not soli without in-
fringing, but in strict reseesdance with that wise bet. which
excludes party politics from a useinritiyike the groat). for that
true and well-understood km. of which, through alt
changes of chance and time. ha kept .fsid vessel of the Con-
stitution seaworthy—wnich. in spurred seerens from without, and
mumen ary dissensions between the crew within, still saalies bet
to ride, the admiration of the world; tad tenll. 1 tear Is 004
never suffer her to founder ; flu all these sad many,
many more, equally lofty, and equally' valuable. ow widely
travelled Englishman may proudly say, as b* ssia hii foot once
more on the chalky cliff's, • This is my own, tiarsiths land, and
I have seen nothing that can. in the 'onside
of
with it.' Gentlemen. I cuukl not help. in that of heart.
which they alone can feel towards England else bare been
doomed to live for some time out, paying this MI6 tribute to
that mat noble country. nor can 1 doubt the esidiality with
which you will drink—' Prosperity. a long proeperity. to Oitt •
Engine.'"
Extract of a letter from the gentleman who took
the charge of the emigrants to Upper Canada, dated
Lanark, in Canada, Sept. 5, 1832.---" I am glad-
to be able to state, that the Lanarkshire emigrants
have surmounted the greatest difficulties; there has
been an abundant crop in the settlement, and plenty
prevails with all who are able to work and exert.
themselves ; be assured they are happy and con-
tented. Upon the whole, considering the descripe
Lion of people who came out, the experiment has
succeeded better than could have been expected;
fOr many of them from age, infirmities, and former
habits, are very unfit fbr such an undertaking.—
Segue appear to have entered the societies solely for
the purpuse of getting to the States ; they aban-
doned us after getting the first and second instal-
ment. There is u large manufactory of coarse wool-
lens and cottons, and cotton yarn spinning, carried
on in many parts of the State of New York. Last
summer many of the settlers of the year 1820 went
to those places, one and two hundred miles distant.
to obtain work, as the means of supporting their
families in the interval between planting and reap-
ing; it was only necessity that forted them; they
prise their lands to high is relinquish them.
Extract of a private letter from Lisbon, dated
Oct. 80:—" A commencement has been made in
the consolidation of a part of our public debt, by of-
fering 5 per cent. interest, but the vouchers are not
yet given to the public. When they appear, the
price of the new paper will doubtless settle between
65 and SO per cent. It is also intended to consoli-
date the rest of the debt of the State ; but it is sup-
posed that this operation will be accomplished. at 4
per cent. When this is dune, the system of public
credit will take root in Portual. It was a great erg
ror not to have thought on thus measure sooner."
FONTHRILL ABBEY. Mr. Farquhar having,
through kis agent Mr. Henry Phillips, completed•
the purchase of that magnificent seat for 330,0001.
which cost upwards of a million, he is now down
there, with the son of the auctioneer, making out
a catalogue of the varieties preparatory to a sale by
auction. We hear that it is the intention of Mr.
Fuarquhar to sell the estate, and that there are
three bidders in the market ; indeed, we may add a
fourth—nawely, the Duke of Wellington, Earl
Grosvenor, Mrs.Coutts, and the Marquis of Hert-
ford. The latter nobleman, when he saw it, said—
" The King ought to occupy this place, fur nu sub-
ject could live in it;'
On the 15th inst. Sir James Mackintosh, M. P.
was elected Lord Rector of the University of Glas-
gow, fur the ensuing year. Mr Jeffrey appeared in
his place as lute Lord Rector, and made a speech, in
which he gave his reasons for voting for Sir James
Mackintosh in preference to Sir Walter Scott, how
had also been put in nomination.
Sunday evening lust, an old man who has been
many piers sweeping the crossing facing the Mother
Red Cap, at Camden-town, was run over by a post-
chaise which was driving furiously to town, the
pole of which struck him in the head, and fractured
his skull so dreadfully, that he expired gorily
after.