The National Register.
London, England, 1819-02-01 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

consideration. The seignoraga of six per cent. which
was taken, may certainly be enti;elerel us a sufficient
security fur all ordinary cries, and with respect to the
prescn• slight excess beyond the price provided• for by
that. etignorage, there is, we understand, good reason
to believe, it will soon cease. Should it happen other-
wise, however, and any great or permanent rise in the
price of bullion should take place, then, as Mr. W.
POLE justly observed, it will become the duty of Parlia-
ment to counteract the evil by some legislative ia attire.
The actual increase of the standard, above the Mint,
price of silver bullion is not only extremely recent, but
certainly too trifling to cause any serious apprehension
with respect to the disappearance of our silver currency.
We have received New Orleans papers to the 30th
November. They contain no intelligence of the last
interest; but private letterafivm the same quarter state,
that tke Crisp d'A.sle had been broken up, and that the
United States Government vessels had received instruc-
tions to capture the privateers which those free bootcrs
had detached to cruise in the Goloh. Th•• Firebrand
had fallen in with liar of them, which she had cap-
tured and sent to New Orleans.
The accounts from the Ilarannah mention that there
had been severul severe gales. Seventeen vessels which
sailed from Cadiz early in Nov. with 1200 troops for
Cuba, had not arrived on the 19th Ike. These troops
were reported to be destined for the Floridas. The
transports which conveyed the 6urrison of Pensacola to
the Havat:ieit, were ready to return with the Spanish
forces to take possession of the Floridas in the name of
FRRDINAND ; but the island was so infested with
f Insurgent privateers, that their sailing had been
I postponed. .

We have received this morning the Paris Papers of
ednestlay last. The only intelligence of any interest
whicfi they contain relates to the Funds, which are
progressively improving. On Tuesday the 5 per cents.
opened at 69f. and left off at 69f 20e. ; but we under-
stand an express has reached the City, with the prints
of Wednesday, on which day they were 69f. 70c.
Paris papers of Sunday arrived at a late hour on
Wednesday night. They are singularly destitute of
interrest scarcely offeriug a paragraph that de-
serves to be extracted. An article dated Constanti-
nople, of the 10th ult., describes an *Wray between the
crew of a Russian vessel and a number of Turkish bott-
men, in which the former, after seeing the Russian flag,
which tJtey had hoisted fir their protection, taken down
and torn to pieces by their enraged antagonists, were
obliged to seek safety in flight and cencealaient among
the other vessels in the harbour. The Russian Minis-
ter complained tithe insult to the Turkish authorities,
(engaging, that if his countrymen should he found to
be the aggressors, they should be sent in chains to
Odessa) ; and the Turks, on theirnside, caused the ring-
leader of the rioters to be arrested. The affair termi-
nated, as usual at the Porte, in the impurity
of the guilty, and the banishment on the Aga
of the Janissaries, who was made responsible for acts
which lie could nos prevent. —The French funds on
Saturday were: Five per Cents." 68f. 60e, ; Bank
Stock, 1,5000 f.
Accounts from Washington to the 30th ult. state,
that the Senate had been sitting for the last two days
with closed doers. It was understood that the new
commercial treaty between great Britain and the United
states bad been taken into consideration.
The Porte has just launched two new 74's. The
Sultan, with all his Ministers was present on the
occasion. M. A. Pisani, second interpreter of the
English Embassy. permitted his children to go and
see the ship launched Two days after, the son, whq
was 14 years of age, was seized with the plague, and
died in 48 hours.
Dutch 'lepers to the 23d, and three Hamburgh
mails, bringing papers to the 19th inst. arrived on
Tuesday morning. An article dated Brussels, Jan. 18,
states, that-acconling to i• accounts from Paris, the
King, at the proposal of the Minister for Foreign
Adana, had given permission to some more of those
persons wise were banished from France by the
Royal ordinance, to return to their country. Among
those persons, it is slid, is a well-known General.
who, at the time of the King's flight to Lisle, put
himself at the head of some cavalry to pursue his
Majesty." It is also asserted, " that Marshal Soult,
M. Arnaud, and some others, arc not yet included in
this measure ; but people who pretend to be well
in:Untied, are convinced that upon the occasion of
the King s coronation, all the exiled persons wit be
recalled. '
Oa Tuesday there was a nomerous assemblage of
t'eers at Fife-house, the residence of the Earl of
Livsr pal.
Tues.'ay, three men, who have been brought to
England tisan the Isle of France, underwent en laves-
ilgatiatt at the Secretary ty:' States office for the Home
Department. charged wish efri;eco under the Slave
Trade art.