The National Register.
London, England, 1815-09-24 00:00:00

I LIE NATIONAL REGISTER.

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Brussels Papers, states, that a convention was' concluded
between the Allied Powers, on the 4th July, by which the
lonian Isles will be formed into an independent republic, un.
der the protection of G reat Britain. The Dalmatian or Itagusart
Islands of Lissa, Meleda, &c. in the Adriatic, lately occupied
by the English, have been incorporated with Dalmatia, and
taken possession of by the Austrians.—The Brussels Papers
further inform us that English troops are about to occupy the
citadel and forts of Dunkirk, in the same manner as they have
done those of Calais.

It is reported that a Convention has beets agreed upon.
under which ti►e fortresses of Alsace are to be occupied by
the Austrian troops. There is tto indication whatever of
any of the Allied troops quitting France, except the Russians.
The Prussians, on the contrary, are marching in fresh sol-
diers ; and a proclamation issued at Rennes, by Count Tau-
enzein, the Commandant of the Gth corps of the Prussian
army, states, that that corps occupied the departments of La
Loire Inferieure, d'ille et Vilaine, Morbihan, the Cotes du
Nord, and La Manche, under a Convention agreed upon
between the Ring of Prussia and Louis XVIII.
" It is already decided," says a letter from Paris, " that
the King's speech, on the opening of the Chambers, shall be
drawn up in the spirit of the constitutional party, and that
the reply of the Chancellor President of the Peers shall have
the same character. This information may be relied on, as
I derive it from the best authority."
The Allied Sovereigns at Paris have strongly remonstrated
with Ferdinand VII. respecting his past conduct to the Mem-
hers of the Cortes, and those other of his deserving subjects
mho aided so much in the liberation of Spain. The last per-
, sons condemned by the inquisitorial Ti ibirnal of Ferdinand
for being Liberates, have, in consequence, been lighter
dealt with than any of those before condemned.
The Rhenish Mercury states, that Prussia insists neon the
cession of Alsace and Lorraine as a sine qua non in the nego-
. eiations at Paris.

The retention of Fonehe in the Fren:7ll Ministry is attrl.
hoed to the influence of the Duke of Wellington.
Lozds XVIII. has consented to the total Abolition of the
S!ave Trade on the past of France.

Brussels impels to the 15th inst. and Frankfort Gazettes to
the lith, came to hand on Monday. It see.ns certain that
a matrimonial union is finally arranged between the Prince
of Orange and the Archduchess of Russia. The town of
Givet has surrendered to the Prussians, after a shoat bom-
bardment. The affairs of Switzerland appear to be at length
settled, by the le-admission of the Canton of Lower Under-
wald into the Confederation. An immense Turkish army is
assembling on the frontiers of Turnkey, and apprehensions
seem to he entertained that some design is forming by the
Porte, against Ilungarv.
By the Hamhurgh Papers which arrived Tuesday, it ap-
pears that a notification has been made to the Senate of that
city, stating that England will exert itself to procure front
France the restitwion of those funds, which the rubber Da-
voust stole from the Bank of llainhurgh. Jerome Buona-
parte is permitted to reside with his wife at the Castle of
Elwangen, in the Duchy of Wirtep-therg. Ile is said to have
saved property to the amount of seven millions !
A Morning Paper states, " that the march of the Spanish
troops into Fiance was in consequence of a subsidy from this
country, the condition of which was that it should not com-
mence till the Spaniards actually commenced operations on
the soil of France. This they complied with, and then
marched hack again. Bills for the amount of this subsidy
have actually beet' drawn from Spain by the British COITIEMS•
and thcac bills arc now in circulasiun iu Loudon.9

THE NA'

E‘tra, tof a 1,-to• Burn Paris, Sept. 18.—" The Chambers
are to weer in eight dais. Already the heads are at work.
Suniv wetend that the Throne does not belong to
NV 111 that the Salic Law never existed in France as a
vrittett law, and that consequently the Throne belongs to the
(laughter or. Louis NVI. The Ministry are very much
li-arrned, aod in dread of a catastrophe. This I know from a
vc•rson who saw Fou, he this morning. Rumour says that hi-
hr, to he King has been wavering between the parties—that
if the Chambers declate themselves openly for the Connie:-
lotion, he will entirely abandon the Ministry, and unite
‘...ith the Chambers to crush it. Fnucht.! dues not know what
to do All his friends advise him to give in his resignation
and to kave 'his place, more especially as a plan has been
forwed by several persons to carry him off: The proofs of
this WI to given him the day before yesteiday by a person
whom 1 kni.w. I, seems to me that this political situation is
jute' rsting and cut kits enough, and that a crisis or denoue-
ment may be expected in about three weeks from the present

Clue."

A Stroppiente-nttn:u Gev.tte was published on Monday, con-
taining the official pattienlats of the surrender of Guada-
loupe; the pr.in ip ,1 article of the capitulation is, that the
Cevf r nor, Admit al Count Linois, the second in command,
(;meta' Royer, and all the troops of the line, shall be sent to
France as pl is..nets f war, to be at the disposal of the Duke
ef Thi: service was performed with very in-
• on:ellet alt/e kiss on the !rat of his Majesty's forces; the ship-
neat to the shot e, that the troops were enabled to
land under their cover, without loss; and in the attack only
16 men wet e kil!ed, and Captain Lynch, 63d foot, severely,
1 ient. Reickard:, 96th foot, slight!v, and 47 men, wounded.
emir, 1' i'ti about 200 killed and wounded, but no offi-
cer of di:tinction wa: among the number.
A Bta:til mail brings advises from the River Plate to the
f June, and Gout Rio Janeiro to the 19th July. The
..111S1 l.ad subsided of the approach of the Spanish arma-
nxitt, at din consequence trade was reviving, and confidence
in the continuance 01 tranquility was so far restated, that the
eectils which had been prepared for shipment were now sent
t 1., interior for sale, and in considerable quantities, by
British met chants. Under this favourable change,
debts were reduced, a great number of vessels were in the
river, and among them 27 English ships.
Extract of a Ittter from George Foy, Esq. his Majesty's
Cifitsul at Stockholm, dated the Ist instant:—" This Go-
% L.tinneet has just come to the decision to allow the ex-
po," of timtier and deals at the same duties by foreign as by
Swci:sh :hips, so that the trade in those articles is on the
awe f oting as during the years 1%307 to 1814."
'72he Duke of Orleans set off on Thursday for Paris.

The fojow log seven ships arrived on Monday front St.
IleLena ; s tiled from thence the 29th Jnly; spoke a Spanish
frigate and a French merchantman, who informed them of
the fate otßuonapaite ; viz. Coldstream and Larkins, from
Bengal; Ann, ft out Bencnolen ; Lady Castleteigh, from
Machas and penal; Surrey, Cambridge, and Isaac Todd,
flout China and Botany Bay. No ships at St. lieletta.
American agents are actively employed in endeavouring to
indoce the seamen raid oft at the out-ports, to enter into the
naval service of the United States, with the temptation of a
free pas.“ige and dontde pay. number of fine young men,
the Hower of Plymouth-y:11d, who volunteered their services
to British North America, have emigrated to the enemy; in
consequence, although more artisans are wanted, none are
permitted to go theme who will not previoukly givC 4001. se-
cutity.to return to Lngknd.

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A letter from Rio de Janeiro, dated the 24th of July,
states that all French ships in the ports of the Brazils have
been put under embargo ; and that a Decree of Govern-
ment had been passed to confiscate all French property,
and to declare every Frenchman residing in the country a
prisoner of war. This measure has been taken, it seems,
in consequence of certain information having been com-
municated to that Government, that a number of French
emissaries from the party of Bonaparte had lately arrived
in that country, under mercantile pretensions.
American p pens to the 13th ult. were received on Tues-
day. The battle of Waterloo, the abdication of Buonaparte,
and the capture of Paris, wine all known in America.
Many of the papers seem sullen. and will not offer a single
comment upon these events: one. indeed, is loud in praise
of Buonaparte, whom it compares to Epaminondas and Re-
gulus. Mr. Bayard. one of the Commissioners that treated
for *peace at Ghent, is dead : he was a gentleman of excel-
lent abilities, as pure in his public, as virtuous in his private
character.

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The Earl of Moira, it is reported at the India House, will
immediately be recalled from the Chief Government of the
East, and be succeeded there by Lord Viscount Melville;
this will give an opening to the long-intended re-introduction
of Mr. Canning to a seat in the Cabinet, as First Lord of
the Admiralty.
TUE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—The appellation of the
Saviour of Europe has mole than once been applied to our
illustrious hero from the highest authorities ; our readers
will not be displeased to learn, perhaps, that an humble in-
dividual, and that individual an honest British 'far, has like-
wise a claim to a share in this dignified title. In the year
1806. the Duke of Wellington (then Sir Arthur Wellesley>
after totally routing the Indian Chief, Holkar, on the plains
of Laswaree, took his passage for England on board the Com-
pany's ship Lady Jane Dundas. When the anchor was
dropped at St. Helena, two boats put off from the ship, as
usual, crowded with passengers desirous of viewing the
island. The bolt which conveyed the illustrious Wellington,
when about an hundred yards from the shore, was upset by
one of those sudden squalls blowing from the values, which
are quite "constuon at St. Helena. Two men and a
boy were instantly drowned; the rest, among whom
was our hero, kept struggling with the waves. The
moment the accident happened, the boat in companr
made towards the scene of distress; Sir Arthur Wel-
lesley, unable to swim, had been once or twice under
water, a seaman immediately leaped into the sea and swam
towards the sinking hero, whom he bore in triumph to the
shore on his left arm and shoulder. The generous tar was
totally ignorant at this time of the rank of the person whom
he thus saved, but merely selected him from the rest of the
sufferers. because he thought his danger the most imminent:
the others, with the exception of the two men and the boy
above mentioned, were picked up by the other boat. On
landing his exhausted charge, Jack was rewarded by a cor-
dial shake of the hand from the illustrious hero, six bottles
of rum, and a warm invitation to come and see him in Eng-
land—a visit which the honest tar was too modest and un-
assuming to pay. The Duke's deliverer has now retired
from a seafaring life, anti is settled in Rotherhithe. His
II lends banter him with the appellation of " the Saviour of
Europe," which he takes in good part, but he never boasts
of his atthievemcnt : indeed it is very rarely that he can be
induced to tell his own story; and when it is wrung from
him, it is adorned with all the graces of truth and modesty.
In this respect he is Corporal Trim himself.

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