The National Register.
London, England, 1817-02-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

An ordinance of con siderableitnporttuice in the French
journals, prohibits, under pain of confiscation, all vessels
from importing slaves into the West-India islands
of his must Christian Majesty. The pnblic knows what
the situation of France has been with respect to this
unnatural traffic. By the treaty of Vienna she was al-
lotted five years for its gradual extinction. Buonaparte,
on his return, for the sake of obtaining favour with
England, to whom her humanity has always made the
aboliti.m of the Slave Trade so dear an object, declared
it absolutely prohibited. This ordinance he would most
likely have enforced, as he did his other obligations. !
An article arlditiotadel to the treaty of November, 1815,
stipulated, " that the high contracting parties should
concert, without loss of time, by their Ministers at Lon-
don and Paris, measures the must efficacious, for the
entire and abolition of a commerce as odious, as it was
strictly thrbidden by the laws of religion and of nature."
The ordinance is the result of this article in the treaty.
We learn front Rouen, that the market thr cotton
stuffs and spun cotton, which took place on the 17th,
was much Tarr,-er than it hail been thr a considerable
time before. There were sold at it 4,450 pieces of cotton
stuffs.
The Dutch Papers mention a more than usual number
of great men being indisposed. The Field M trshal
Prince Schwartzcnberg, dangerously ; the Archduke
Charles, the old Duke Albert of Saxe Tcsehen, and the
Archbishop of Vienna, are all very ill. •
The last letters from Naples, received in London,
confirm the news of the cession of the isle of Lampedosa
by the Court of Naples to the United States.—Moniteur.
We learn front Pampeluna, that the C de Espe-
leta, Governor of Navarre, ha suaallionetl, in the ?awe

of King Ferdinand, a meeting of the Cortes of the.
three kingdoms of Navarre. The object assigned for
their meeting is to make extraordinary pecuniary sacri-
fices, now rendered absolutely necessary by the want of
supplies from America. The proclamation is dattxl the
fld of January.
According to private letters to the Ist ult. from New
York, a meeting has been held at Washington of several
wealthy and philanthropic individuals, upon the subject
of forming a colony of free Blacks ; for which, until they
should be able to maintain their own independence, the
protection of the United States should be solicited. No-
thing positive had transpired as to the intended site of
the colony, but it was supposed that it would be on some
part of the African cost.
Accounts from Cadiz state, that the Spanish army
destined for South America was on the part of departure:
the English furnish the shiptintended for its conveyance!
They were mometarily expected, and the troops were
concentrated for embarkation.—Morseilles Journal.

The same papers state, that there are now at Mar-
seille two tine silver urns destined by that city as pre-
sents to Lord Exmouth and Sir Hudson Lowe, in grate-
ful acknowledgement of the security which they have
procured for Marseilles commerce.
The English Government lately solicited that a field
in the neighbourhood of Tarragona, in which 300
English soldiers and some officers, who fell groiously de-
fending that fortress, should not be cultivated or other-
wise disturbed, offering to purchase it; but the city of
Tarragona, emulating the feeling of our Government,
nobly made a present of the ground for the purpose.
The members of the Royal Court of Besancon have
given up a thirtieth of their salaries to the relief of the
poor.