The National Register.
London, England, 1822-10-14 00:00:00

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

The East Indiamen. w►ll in future occasionally
touch at Plymouth. Some gentlemen in the service
of the East India Company have been inspecting
the store-houses at Turn-chapel, Catwat'r, prepa-
ratory to tbe establishment of a depot there for
stores, is for the use of the Company's ships which
may be put into the harbour.
kIEDUCTION OF INTLREST.—TWO banks in Pres-
ton has given notice, that the highest rate of inte-
rest they will in future allow, will be 4 per cent.,
and that they shall discount bills of exchange after
the same rate.

Despatches have been receired from the Duke of
Wellington, who arrived at Vienna on the 30th ult.
His health was rather improved by the journey,
though he had been bled since his arrival.
Letters dated the 15th of August, were received
from Port-au-Prince. The deputies to the Legisla-
tive Assembly for the Spanish part of the island,
lately added to the dominions of President Buyer,
had all been elected. It is stated as a curious fact,
that these deputies, though so recently the subjects
of a Government sufficiently despotic, entertained
principles so liberal, or rather so democratical, that
they meditated the introduction ofsome law for mo-
difying the power of the President. Gea. Romaine
who had been detained as State prisoner at Leogane
on parole, it is said has been shot by secret orders
from the Government. It was supposed he had
been detected in earning on secret cortespondem.e
with the north, with a view to revolutionize that
quarter.
'I he Second Report of the Selett Committee of
the !louse of Commons upon our Foreign Trade has
been printed. The Committee have selected, as the
first objects of their investigation, the Light Dues,
Trinity Dues, Ballastage, Surplus Pilotage, and the
Ittmsgate and Dover Harbour Dues, which appear
to be burdens pressing heavily upon the navigation
and commer:e of the country.
Nlr. Lushington and suite embarked at ohan on
the 2I St tilt. on board his Majesty's revenue cruiser
.Sregl, Captain 11. Dundas Watson, fur the purpose
of making a survey on the Custom-houses in the
north of Scotland.

We underatand that a contract fitr a loan to the
new Goverrment of Peru has just been concluded
by a London mercantile house with the deputies
recently atrivcd fiom Lima. It was offered io the
first instance ►o the contractors of the Columbian
loan, and the negotiation was nearly terminated
when, from some eatse yet unknown, the ratifica-
tion was withheld, and a new treaty entered into
by the house which has taken the contract. The
amount of the loan, and the terms on which it has
been taken, have nut hitherto transpired it is Un-
derstood, however, that they are 16;411, considering
that the presence of a very pttwerful Spanish army
in Peru siill forms u serious obstacle to the-cstab-
lishment of its independence, and consequently to
the existence of the present Government. Under
the first treaty, the price was to have been 75 for a
stock bearing 5 per rent. interest, but it is supposed
thJ te:ms of the present contract much exceed that
price. No portion of the luau has yet been brought
into circt.lation.

NW/Jowl, OCT. 8 —lt has blown a very heavy
gale since Sunday lust. Early on Monday morning
a brig was discovered by the people at St. Aan's
lighthouse, at the entrance of this harbour, in dis-
tress, drifting to leeward, unmanageable ; and be-
tween 11 and 12 o'clock she came on shore with a
tremendous crash, midway between the lighthouse
and West Dale. Six poor fellows, being the mas-
ter and crew, were seen sin deck, and heard crying
bitterly tier help, but none could be aflimled them,
and by the first great wave they were immersed in
the deep, and in instant sunk to rise no more.—
About 30 casks of butter have been picked up;
the letters have Britain—painted thereon ; the
the casks of butter picked up are branded-11.. Lucas,
Cork. It is conjectured here, that she tvas called
the Britannia, of Bristol, an old vessel employed
fur many yeats between that port aad IVaterford.
CoLLEf6 or SURGEONS.—From and atier Ist of
January, 18:23, not any canditlate fitr the diploma,
who have not regularly attended three or more
courses of Anatomical L..etures in London, Dublin,
Edinburgh, or Glasgow, will be admitted to exa-
mination.

Letters from Bahia, dated August 3, represent
that place as in a must unsettled state—every shop
closed, all busineas suspended, end the place turned
into a complete camp. The militia hail been placed
tiard duty, and every Waillien disarmed and pro-
hibited Irma leaving the walls. The Prince Regent
had declared open war against all the European
troops is the provinces, and every Mea were adopt-
ing to repel the expected attack from his threes.
The tr.,nsact' in the Fotei,4n Stock market
have been Litely immense, Imo the fluctinv ions al.
most unexampled, owing, chitfly, to the new im-
pulse given to speculation ly the members of the
Stock Exchange, who now act in common with the
threign brokers, and, from their superiuz boldeabs
and enterprise, on a much larger scale.

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Ministers, have determined to make the Blue
Ribbon, vacant by the death of the late Lord Lon..
douderry, a peace-offering to the Marquis of Hert-
ford. The present Marquis, it will be recollected,
was not permitted to succeed, his late father in the
Lord Lieutenancy of Warwickshire, which was im-
mediately on his death transferred to the Earl of
Warwick.

A letter from Rouen states, that the damage donut •
to the cathedral by fire is not so extensite as was at
first imagined. The greater part of the church has
not suffered at all ; and though the pyramid is de.
destroyed, w:iielt it will require a long time sir
rebuild, there is no other injury which way nut be
speedily repaired.
Extract ofa letter from Calais, dated October B.
" CALAIS, TUESDAY, OCT. B.—t have scarcely time to is-
form you that Mr. Bowring (a merchant of Isondon),.citure from
Paris on Saturday, and was abet to step into the Dover packet
about noon on &today, when the commireary of police conducted
him and his portinauteau to the Dote! de Ville. Here arigoroair •
examination took place ; and several letters and papers being
taken out were sealed, and kept by the Mayor, Mr. Renard,
who told Mr. B. he must wait till the pleasure of Goverment •
was kuown, taking care to withdraw his passport, The answer
of Government, sent itetwo by telegraph this morning is. that
Nlr. B. should be arrested and sent down to Boulogne, to be
placed at the disposal of the Procuremr du Roi, and all the
papers Cent to Paris. As a preliminary step, Mr. 8.-bas been •
thrust into a damp cell, and after having reposed twelve hours
on a filthy floor, will be transferred to the dungeons of Bou-
logne tomorrow.
•• I shall scud you a copy of his letter to Sir C. Stewart, de-
tailing some of the previous facts. At preseot it will be suffi-
cient to impress your mind with the leading facts:—lets, a
Britisii subject is arrested by an agent of the French police-
2d, his trunk seized, ransacked, and various paper* takerreut-
3d, amongst those papers • despatch from the Pottogneso
Minister in Paris to the Portuguese Minister in London-4th,
the Bet ish subject, after a detention *1 two duys, Orman into
a loathsome prison--and sth, thc papers, including the said •
diplomatic despatch, sent back to Paris.
1 have, I trust said enough to awaken the public attention ;
if government dues not take it up I MU much mistaken—at all
events, surely the nation
We understand that Rear Admiral,Sir Benjainin
is about shortly to proeeed oa a cruise is
the G love ,tec , i 4, which has been constructed on the plan of
Sir 8010. Srpliings, of the Navy Boxrd, with a round stern.—
Her complement will be increased to 410 men, by taking the
crew of the guard-ships, and by marines from bead quarters.
The object of the Lords of the Admiralty, in sending-the Cao
crater to sea at this season oldie year, is to stem brio, in smite
weather, what advantages are to be derived from the peculiar
manner of building shills on this principle.
It is conjectured that the destination -of the SC-
rhizapulans. alfariisr, and Grecian.- is •colinected -with die
present saute of affairs w South America, where, from rife etm-
tending state of parties, the British interests may require prow.
tion ; and also with the pitaciescomnritieti now our commerce in
the American and West Indian seas, particularly at Cuba.
where, it has been charged upon the Administration, our com-
merce has been abandoned to the ruinous depredations of pirates,
or the huinnia ing protection of the French and American navies.
The delicacy towards Spain, in whose ports throe marauders Imr-
boor, which has been stated in extenuation, cannot be any longer
listened to; but these glaring ()Mmes. the existence of winch
brings an opprob,iurn on the administration and the country,
must he put down. It is understood tho above ships go decd :e
Bahia.
'lite magistrates of Glasgow have erertedj 13
munps in different parts of die town, over the wells that had
'men *'lowed to go into disuse. The funds arose from ground
let for temporary purposes in the neighbourhood of the gaol.
File new pumps are handsome; they ate cast iron, painted
while, trod have the city arms in front, above the spout. During
the hot weather, line cool water will be got front these pumps,
and die citizens sill at all times be secured against a scarcity. •
where the water-pipes burst, as they frequently de in hard trust, -
or should any accident bcfal the machinery.
Sales of farming stock under executions continue •
numerous in Dorset, and oar correspondents Is VIITMOS parts
of Devonshire and Somerset state Minder evidences of the die •
cultic' of the tittles. At a sale of Ibis description in the neigh-
bourhood of '1%00104 last week, prime ewes sold at I3s. Gd. per
bead, and other stock at similar dep d prices. Near Stal-
bridge, • few daysseir e, the stock of a farmer about to quit the
premises could •iiot hind purclumere even at the present priors.
A very soperiur cow, put up at 51. met no advance *bore that
eon ; and alter offering sheep and stock equally low, the ale-
' daacer adjourned the sale sithout disposing of •aiogle lot.
LAUD %DIM CLI,SIENCV.-At the adjourned Leeds
assizes, in September, 1520. a number of persons frc.i.rellis
soighbourliood of Barnsley and Rudd. rsGeld were induced by
as expectation of mercy to plead guilty to the charge of high
treason, and that some of theta were subsequently sentenced'
to 11 years' transportation, and others to tranoportation r
lite. During the lest seek, all the persons wises: 'emirates
were ted to 14 years' transportation returned to their
respectise families sod friends, to the it/expressible joy of the •
parties. and each man received 31.45. towards his hassling
expenses from ‘Vooloicli, with a certificate of their lisvisig
been pardoned on account of their uniform good conduct. The
Mmes of the men who have thus been liberated are J. Hobson,
George Burkenshao, Julio Fat rianaod, the younger. George
Bryce, Abraham Ingham, and Wm. llalland, front Barnaley ;
end \%. tawdry, Natloodel Buckley, sod Geo. Peacock, hem
Medderslield. John Vsllrnee and James Flowers, it will lie
nementhered, were pardoned • short time after they reached
(be bulks. The older Farrimand remains, at Sheerness ; and
the other prison rs who were transported for life were swot
to Van Dineen./ Land, and such of their wives sod families as
chose to share their fortunes have been removed there at this
expeuse of government.
Henry Armstrong, Esq. (of Shrewsbury) while
on a sporting excursion or' Salorilay last, at the Pal k
near Oswestiy, met with 4 fatal arcilerrt. About (bur
in the afternoon, having discharged cue barrel cal a dou-
ble banel gun, be- was in the act of reloading it, s twit
has hoer hating nulls tamstel) touched tit trigger,. Ills
to hes bitb.ittrl scot htf, and lodged the coutesite in Ills
bend, and caused hit tioll4ht death. The deceased 1111,1
I.lllest t,n Ititt.tOt lvt: Ore 4101 lug the ktegiiumii.tr ware,
stud pith .et'titetl •et t
The 6c.78 of the Calk-dial and other churches in
I).trhatii :e ruing on Tucson) las.. to celebrate the nuptials of
Col. Browne (of Milan notoriety). and one of the daughter. GE
Dr. Dray, who were attested at litshoprearmituth that monde}

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