The National Register.
London, England, 1817-07-21 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

House, they have been stigmatised as the cause of
much of our sufferings, and so deeply impressed was
my Lord Cochrane with this opinion, that on the very
first day of the late session, he gave notice that on
an early day he would move for leave to bring in a
Bill fur their abolition. This proposed measure of
his Turtlahip's was never matured, but the Ministry,
feeling the voice of the people, was decidedly against
the longer continuance of sinecures, yielded their
consent to a Bill to abolish them, which had its birth
with the neutral party, and which, With trifling oppo-
sition passed into a law. Thus then, was done away
that evil, which had so long been cause of bitter
complaint. Not a petition fur reform, not a speech at a
public meeting, but was larded with execrations of
that severest curse of Englishmen ; yet the moment
it is abolished, the boon is esteemed as nothing, and we
are told that Parliament has done lughing fir the
people.
The cruelty of excluding men of birth and talent
from the higher posts in the army and navy, merely
because they held a different faith from ourselves, has
been an another ground of complaint.—A Bill passes
to permit their ascent to the highest rank ; still
nothing has been done.
By the uneeasingefforts of the Government, the expen-
diture of the country has been reduced to 18,000,000,
being almost 1,000,000 lower than the most rigid
economistliad last yaar calculated upon ; yet we are told
the dkaresses of the people have never been thought
on, and that nothing has deep done.
Totave advanced one million and a half sterling, fur
the employment of the poor, may surely be accounted
something done for their benefit; and to have withdrawn
a very debased currency, and supplied its place with a
good one, without causing any individual loss, is a
measure which certainly should be viewed at least
with complacency.
To the state of -the poor laws, the most unremitting
attention has been paid
.in a Committee, and if no
practical benefit has vet resulted from its labours, we
may confidently look forward to the adoption of some
legislative measure early in the next sesaion.

These arc a few of the useful labours of the

House during its late sitting, and though we may la-
ment the necessity which culled for the suspension of
the Habeas Corpus Act, yet there arc many of opinion
that no other measure was so well calculated to restore
tranquili,y to the country.

'We have to apologize to some (lon,. arlocrtisingliiendsf)r the omis-
sion of their favours this wt,k, truing to a preu qf matter, in our
estimation important.

THE NATIONAL. REGISTER.

LONDON :

MONDAY, JULY 21, 1817.

THE accounts received from the most .considerable
manufacturing districts all concur in describing the re-
vival of trade as most rapid. At Nottingham, the lace
trade is in full activity, and an advance has been made
in the men's wages. In Leeds, the demand for work-
men is so great, that it is believed nut a man who is
willing to work need be out of employment. At Man-
chester the demand fir cotton goods is greatly increased;
it is said the quantity on band is less by one fourth than
it was a few years since. At Worcester the glove trade
has so much improved that the applications for relief on
the House of Industry had greatly diminished. Added
to this, the reduction in the price of grain, and the
prospect of an abundant harvest has greatly contributed
to allay the fears of the timid, and crush the hopes of
the disaffecteiL So rapidly•indeed is public credit reviv-
ing, that. on Friday, although settling day at the Stock
Exchange the Funds suffered no depression.

By the Paris Papers just arrived, we learn, that the
Duchess de Berri's aceouthement took place on Sunday
morning last, when she was delivered of a Princess,
but the infant, we are sort• to say, died on Monday night.
The Salique Law, which unfortunately for France is
almost the only part of its ancient constitution now ex-
isting, renders this event of much less importance, po-
spealing, than the birth of a Prince would have
been. We should have seen with joy, that a new pledge
bed been presented for the succession to the throne, in
the reigning branch ; and the present occurrence leads
us to hope, that that prospect is only deferred. The
Duchess of Berry is yt:ung, and =Oyu give birth to
many Princes ; nor will we abandon the hope that the
f.chess of Ang-,acmc, the interesting and heroic

JULY el.

daughter of Louis XVI, may yet see a son of her own
ascend the throne of her murdered father. It is of great
importance to the tranquility of Europe, that the right
of lanful succession to the throae should be firmly re-
established in France, where its glaring and wanton
violation produced and is still producing so much mis-
ery to the civilised world. When we speak of IGwful
succession, our Readers know that we do not speak of
indefeasible right : we know not that any human rights
can be called indefeasible ; but we speak of a right, most
important to civil society, because most conducive t 0
its peace and permanence. The true admirer of the
English Constitution will admit that there arc imagi-
nable cases of necessity which may suspersede even
that first and highest of our constitutional laws, the
hereditary succession ; but he will hold that those are
cases scarcely to be contemplated even in imagination,
cases of a necessity extreme, overwhelming, irresistible ;
and that those who would substitute for that lament-
able necessity, an arbitrary caprice of any number of
the subjects of the realm, are the most ignorant of po-
liticians or the worst of Traitors. Mr. Coke of Norfolk,
or any other Gentleman or Nobleman in Fn land has
no better right to his Estate, than Louis XVIII. has
to his crown each has the right which the law gives
him, and the law which for the public good protects a
country 'Squire in his estate, must for the pobiic good
protect the King on his throne : otherwise ne throne,
no estate, no law—and by consequence nothing but
anarchy, barbarism, immorality, irreligion ; such a
scene in short as miserable France possessed under the
pretence of liberty, and reign of terror.

The celebrated Machune-de Stael I:ied at Paris on
Tuesday night, in the 50th year of her age, after a
long illness—she was the daughter of the no less cele-
brated M. Neckar, and haves a son and daughter ; the
latter is married to the Duke de Broglio, a Peer of
France.

A Hamburgh Mail is arrived, bringing an abstract
of a Report drawn up by a Commission of the Diet of
Frankfort, to inquire into the means of stopping the
depredations of the Barbary pirates. The Commission-
ers recommend that the greet Powers of Austria and
Prussiadlould intercede with England, to establish it
as a principle, that when the Barbary pirates appear
beyond the Mediterranean they should be pursued and
treated as such.

There is something not merely absurd, bat abr.a
lutely farcical, in the petty Princes of the Continent
thus applying, through the medium of the Diet, for the
protection of their flags at the expence of Great Bri-
tain. Did we not lately protect their flags against tEe
pirate Buonaparte, and at last expel their tormentor
from Europe? And what has been their gratitudes
With the exception of the King of the Netherlands,
there is not a Continental Sovereign who has net un-
blushingly put his name to a decree prohibiting the
importation of British produce. Ar.d yet our navy is
to be kept afloat to protect their flags fbrsouth ! We
trust that no British Minister will be such a trawl- to
the interests of his country as to expend a single ounce
of gunpowder for such a purpose. No nation has a
right to " ships, colonies, and commerce," until she
can protect them with her own resources. _ _

The Tunisian cruiser which was chaccd out of the
British Channel by one of our frigates a month or two
ago, has made her appearance at Gibrdtar, enquiring
filr her consort and their prizes. The fulminations of
the Diet of Frankfert, and the naval armament cf the
Crown Prince of Sweden, are no doubt laughed to
scorn by these gentry, who in all likelihood will tale
the Irish Channel on their next trip, and thus get into
the North Sea once more. They seem to have heard of
the rich " argcsies' being at sea, which Bernadotte
expects home with the - cut tons and sugar, by which
means he is to cut off all intercourse with Great Bri-
tain.

ry the Anna Maria, from Lisbon, we are.nssured in
a very positive manner, that Pernambuco had been ac-
tually restored to its former Sovere:gn. The above
vessel eft Urban on the t!tl instant, anti has out-sailed
the packet, which is said to have on beard the details
of the counter-revolution. A passenger by the Anna
Muria maintains, that on the roill of June an Indio-
man appeared coming up the Tagus, .decorated with a
variety of colours. It soon transpired that the was the
bearer of dispatches from Brazil, purporting that, on
the 2lst of May, the Royalists, in prosecution of a
plan ior a long time meditated, had risen on the insur.
gents at Pernambuco, and had succeeded in overthrow-
ing the democratic government. Francisco Martinez,
younger brother of the Chief, lost his life, rays the
narrative, in the affray which took place on this occa-
sion.

Official advi.,:ca of the return of Pernambuco to its
allegiance base been received. This event occurred en
the 20th of May. Domingo Martinez. the ringleader of
the rebellion, had marched out of that city on the pre-
ceding cloy, to give battle to the royal troops, who
were. advancing against it. In his absence the inhabit-
ants •roe ; and as,isted by the,sailors of the blockading
gilt:Aron, restored the royal authority in the town,
and hoisted the Pirtuguesa a andards on the forts.—
Therebel forces, in the meanwhile, met ate King's
army, about seven leagues from Pernambuco ; a battle
ensued, which was warmly contested, but which ended

JULY 24.

in a victory on the part of the Royalists, and in the
_flight of Martinez into the interior.
We are happy to find the accounts, from all parts of
the kingdom, still concurring in• the prospects, which
they hold out, of a favourable harvest Fur this, if the
lope should be realized, we shall owe to Providence
the warmest gratitude, if it should be frustrated, the
meat implicit submision. By frequently and earnestly
impressing these sentiments on their flocks, the Minis-
ters of religion will discharge an important duty to so-
ciety ; and without taking part in disputes foreign to
their sacred function, will lay the foundations of gene-
ral tranquillity. From political writers, something more
is to be expected. They do right, in endeavouring, to
the best of their ability, to develope the means, by which
the dispensations of Providence, whether in time of
plenty or of scarcity, may be rendered available to the
good of all classes, and more especially of the poor.
The pressure of general distress occasioned by the
scarcity and high price of provisio::s on the Continent,
is almost entirely removed. This amelioration is not
confined to the people of France and the Netherlands,
but is felt all over Germany, in Saxony, Upper and
Lower Austria, in Wirtemburg, and the Prussian pro-
vinces. So very abundant has the harvest proved in
Sicily, that the exportation, which had been strictly
prohibited, is now freely allowed.
The surpression of the Paris Journal Le Constittf-
Lionel is officially announced.

The French Funds have had no material
The Princess of Wales continues to maintain her ce-
lebrity. Among those who were in the train of his
Holiness the Pope on his recent return to Rome, after
recovering from his illness, her Royal Highness made
a conspicuous figure.

Letiers from Jamaica have arrived to the 21 of June.
They state, that a Spanish schooner had come in from
the Spanish Main, with accounts that the Patriots had
obtained fresh successes. Caraccas, with other places
of importance, was in their bands The merchants of
King✓ton appeared to think that new channels of trade
would ►nnnediateiv open with South America, and had
made consid rable shipments of goods in consequence.
A letter has been received from an English gentle-
man at. Florence, which states, that an assay has been
made at Gdnoa by the Mint there, of the new English
silver coinage, by which a debasement of the metal has
been discovered to the extent of 11 in 42, viz that
whereas 20 (old) English countervailed 42
Italian peals; 20 shillings of the new coinage counter-
vail only 401. The excange at Florence had, in eon-
segnence, ficllea from 41q to 434.

It is stated that there 'are bat slender hopes of the
restoration of the health of the Pope.
On the 2d of June tl.e ceremony-peculiar to the East,
took place at Constantinople, of shaving, for the firs:
time, the hair of the head of the Cro.vn Prince &loch-
rade Abdul:tan:lid, who is four years of age, after
which he was invested with a turban. A part of the
hair was sent as an offering to the Kiaabe, the holy
hnuse at Mecca.

The celebrated 'Mame de Lavalettc has patted
town for Paris. Her stay in this country was about a
fortnight, and the oWect of her visit was to sell out of
our public funds. Sac preserved a strict incogito; and
bath her arrival and departure were known to very
few persons. _ _

Gazette of last night announces the grant of
the dignity of u Baronet of the .United Kingdom to
the Right lion. John M‘Nlalion, and his heirs male,
with a remainder to his brother Col. Thos. M'Mahon,
Adjutant-General to his Majesty's ibrees Ia India.
The remord, by the French Gqvcminent, of a Colo-
lonial Governor, for connivance at the Slave Trade,
alluded to by Mr. Wilberforce on his motion on that
subject, tool: place in the Isle of Bourbon. The atten-
tion of the.public was long called to the commission of
that abominable piracy, by an unprincipled set of ad-
venturersin that crummy.
Captain C. Moore, late of the Royal Sovereign yacht,
lu.s been presented with a valuable ring, by the French
.Ainbassador's Lady, f.r his gallantry .in saving the
lives of two French seamen off' Calais.

The Catholic Board met on Saturday, in Dublin.
A letter, by Dr. Dromgoole, from Rome, complaining
of the ill treatment received by Albin/yes, the Catho-
lic l)cputy at Rome, by the Papal Government, was
the subject of discussi,m. An article from Rome, of
the 11th of June, represents Mr. Hayes as a madman,
and states, that the physicians have advised he should
be sent to the Lunatic Hospital.
Four field-pieces (light six-pounders), two ammuni-
tion waggons, 84. men, and 82 horses, arrived in Stam-
ford, on Thursday, .from Woolwich, on their route to
Pontrefact.

By the new Extent.in A.lil 11i11, debtor: to the Crown
may obtain their liberty on surrendering all their
property, which will release many miserable captives.
T hrce.hundred and thirty-seven ships with carg,res
hare cleared at the Custom-honse, Newcastle, for fJ-
reign ports, in the quarter• 'ending the sth inst. being
above one hundred ships un.re than cleared out in the
same quarter in any of the three preceding years ; and
another gratifying circumstance LI, that most of these
cargoes have been shipped in consequence of orders from
abroad,. not on vaculatian.

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