The National Register.
London, England, 1816-06-10 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTEII.

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

LONI,ON :
MOND.II; JUNE 10.

THE French Papers, which have been received to the
7th instant, contain accounts of another trial, arising out
of the rebellion of last year. It may be rcmbcretl, that
soon after the battle of WaterLo, a Colonel Gordon, in
the service of the King of France, was sent to the garrison
of Conde, then in a state of revolt, to mu:intim it to sur-
render. A General Bonnaire, who commanded in the
place, not only refused to recognise the orders of his Sove-
reign, but caused Colonel Gordon to be put to death.
For this atrocious violation of the laws of war, as well
its the laws of humanity, lionnaire is now bmop,ht to trial.
The trial is expected to last fimr days. Bonnairc
that Colonel Cordon did not take proper precautions;
that he did not arrive attended by a trumpeter; that,
consequently, his character, as bearer of a flag of truce,
could not be recognised ; but that nevertheless, he ( Bon-
naire) did not give positive orders for the execution of
Colonel Gordon, whose death was occasioned by mistake.
We shall be somewhat surprised if excuses of this kind
should be accepted in justification of such a deed of itorinr:
we must however allow, that the French criminal proceed-
ings have presented such anomalies in point of law and
of general reasoning, that it is not easy to say what may
or may not be considered ass adequate proof a guilt.
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The disclosures made Inr Didier the chief leader of
the rebellion at Grenoble, have implicated, it is said, se-
veral other agents in that conspiracy.
A letter from Paris, says, tke Prefects, in their Report
to the Minister of the Finance, state, that the people will
be unable to pay the imposts ; and that, therefore, the
Government must be incapable of discharging the con-
tingent to the Allied powers.
The meeting of the Diet at Frankfort is postponed,
difficulties in the final adjustment of the affairs of Ger-
many being visible.
The Emperors of Austria and Russia, and the King of
Prussia, meet at Toplitz on the 15th of July.
The King of Bavaria has rejected the advice of his
Ministers to reduce his army ; on the contrary, he in-
tends to augment it to 100,000 men,
Our private letters of the sth from Paris say, "The
maintenance of this formidable military force is entirely
owing to the Councils of Eugene Beauharnois and Prince
NVrede. Bavaria leans more to the side of Austria than
to that of the Northern Powers." The Paris news con-
sists chiefly of accounts of religions ceremonies, and par-
ticulars respecting the marriage of the Duke of Berry.
which will take place on the t 7th.

Extract of a Private Letter from Paris, dated
June 5 :

"The letters from Grenoble are fir from hieing satisfaetory :
even the Qa' !Whose of this morning announces that the dis-
affected do not cease misleading the peasantry of the Com-
munes, by the old tales of tithes, the return of the feudal
system, 6:e. Some of the evil-disposed inhabitants of Greno-
ble tired on the Chief of the Etat 3lajor of that city, and
wounded hint slightly. An alert was shortly after ordered by
General Donadien. The account of this has appeared in sonic
papers, and is suppressed in ethers.'"

Private accounts would have us believe that differences
of an irreconcilable nature subsist between the Courts
of France and Sweden—that the Swedish Minister at
Paris has left that capital ; and that the cause of this
dispute is the illegitimacy of Bernadotte's title.
All private accounts represent the South of France as
being in a state. of great perturbation. At an inconsi-
derable town of the name of Milhaud, situated between
Lhodes and Thoulouse, and containing many Protestant
inhabitants, overt acts of a violent nature have taken place.
Dreadful affrays have also occurred at 'moire, a town in
Auvergne.. The whole of the Cevennes is stated to be
in grefit ferment. I.yous continues to be in a state of
apparent tranquillity, owing to the strong and vigilant
repression maintained by the hand of power. At Dijon
and its vicinity 84 persons of consequence were arrested
(fa the occasion of the late insurrection at Grenoble, and
:trong symptoms of a similar event manifested themselves
in the capital of Burgundy. These insurrectionary move-
ments occur in an opposite direction from that in which
they have hitherto appeared in Franey. The cmnmotit ins no
longer descend from the capital to the provinces, but they
proceed from he peasantry to the in 7.. ibitunts ofsmall towns,
from them to those of greater, until at length they must
reach the capital; thus pervading the whole kingdom.
We learn from the Dutch Papers, that a plan of law
was lately presented by the King to the second Chamber
of the States General, prohibiting the negtxdation in
Holland of loans to foreign governments or private indi-
viduals, without the previous consent of the crown. This
phut of law was discussed in a sitting of the Chamber on
the 28th ult. and adopted by a majority of 68 to five
voices.

The Dutch Papers state, that at Faster Leipsic Fair
English cottons sold so low, as to defy all competition by
the native manufacturers.

JUNE 10,

lh•ussels Papers of roceet date have arrived. A letter
front Liege, dated May :ioth, states, " that the issue
of the trial of the Editor of the Mercury Surveil/ante,
for calumny on the Emperor of Russia, King of Prus-
sia, and King of France, was misrepresented in the
account which has already betas extracted from that Pa-
per. After a heating of fbur days, the Editor was sen-
tenced :o one month's imprisonment ; to pay 100 franca
fine, and the expences of the trial ; and to be deprived
for five years of his civil rights, for the article which he
published relative to the Holy Alliance.", On the
charge for calumniating the King of France, the Editor
was acquited.
A letter from Madrid, dated May 6, says—" Yester-
day were hung a Commissary and a Surgeon, accused of
attempts against the life of the King. The Commissary's
head and right hand hnve been cut off and nailed upon
the gate of Alcala. After the proceedings hail been in-
stituted against him, the Judge reported to his Majesty,
that he had not found him geiity of the crime imputed
to him; when it appears that instructions were given
to the Judge to inflict the torture upon him, because it
was said " the rack would bring out the truth." It is
confidently ascertained, that under the anguish of the
torture he confessed nothing, but he was nevertheless
hung. The same fide, it is said, is likewise to befall
many other-prisoners aveesed of time same crime. The
latter are numerous, and every day they increase. Yes-
terday they arrested a cabinet costlier and two other per-
sons. Nothing is talked of but attempts against the
royal person ; by which the poor King is so terribly
frightened, that he dares neither cat, &ink, nor go out.
Orders have been sent to the convents of aims and friars,
to posy for the health and life of the best if Kings."
The late conspiracy organized at Madrid against the
King has transpired beyond the capital only in a vague
manner. By the last Mail it was rumoured, that snore
than a dozen leading personages involved in it were
likely to suffer death on the accusation ; which excites
the more sympathy, as they comprise several names which
the nation had learnt to esteem fir thrmer acts of prowess
in its cause, and us nothing in the shape ofdemonstration
appeals to stamp on them the decided character of guilt.
From German Papers, we find, that the Princes and
Nobles united to the States of the King of Wirtemberg,
and the Grand Duke of Baden, by the Act of the Con-
gress of' Vienna, complain loutUy of the invasion of their
privileges by these respective Sovereigns. They have
accordingly appealed to the Great Powers of Lurope to
protect them in their rights assigned by Congress ; and
the King of Wirtemberg, and the Duke of Baden, on
their part, protest against such appeal to foreign States,
as contrary to the law of nations.
As a proof of the flourishing state of the Slave Trade,
on the authority of commercial letters just received from
the Havannah, we ere enabled to state, that in the.
months of November end December last upwards of 50'
vessels cleared out from the island of Cuba for the coast
of Africa, in wird* of cargoes of' human flesh ; and that
since that period, on an average, six or seven snore per
month have gone to the same destination. Calculating.
200 slaves per ship, Cuba may therefore expect an annual
importation of 24,000 slaves ! ! !—lt is a fair question.
to ask, whether all this enterprise can have originated it
the heads and pockets of Spaniards?
The war in South America wears of late an aspect of
added horror. The Spaniards and Patriots are fighting
through an extent of country of more than a thousand
leagues, with a degree of ferocity that would be incredi-
ble, were it not attested by eve-witnesses of undoubted
veracity. That revolution which, in 1810, was confined
within the limits of a few provinces, is now become ge-
neral. How this contest will end, cannot vet he foreseen.
The war will probably be long ; but success may eventu-
ally rest with those who are struggling for that liberty
so justly dear to man.—Nearry all the provinces north of
the city of' Mexico are in the power of the Patriots. The
Royalists are in possession of the South of Mexico, and
principally of chief towns of the South. Their exact
strength is not known, but they received last year from
the peninsula a reinforcement of nearly 3000 troops of
the line.—From the province of Chou, in the gulph of
Darien, as far us Quito, the country is in a complete state
of insurrection.

The distress in the finances of the United States is
great, fitr beyond that in any' European nation. The
House of Representatives has authorized the issue of ten
millions of dollars of Treasury notes, to be loaned to the
State Banks at 6 per cent. receivable in all payments of
revenue, &c. One third of these notes are to be with-
drawn from circulation annually ; and these may be re-
issued as flea as they shall be paid into the Treasury.
We are much concerned to announce the loss of the
Dominique schooner ; she has been missing a long time,
and all hopes are at an end. She was commanded by
Lieut. Richard Crawford.

There is a report, of the accuracy of which we do not
pretend to judge, that measures have been taken to in-
duce many of our artisans to go to Russia. Certainly
the Russians have recently had extraordinary opportunities
of obtaining inhumation respecting every- thing particular,
in the machinery, &c. of British manufactures.
An article dated Vienna, the 20th ult. says—" The
report Avitich prevailed some time ago, that orders had
been given fur the Russian army still to contiime on the
war footing, arrears again to acquire some cousistency.7