The National Register.
London, England, 1819-01-25 00:00:00

Tlll-; NATIONAL RECNTVrt.

" The tuned (may we not say notorious ?) Gener.'
ti'zi..eliu.ms, who had beca banished from France by the
decree of July V.:h, is, through liiF Nliijosty's bound-
less intidgence, 110 W 11C11111%te.i to veturn.
A Madrid article mentions, tir►t the body of •tic late
Qicen, after lying in st.ate iiir three days in the Hull
of the Ambascitior.,, had been conveyed with itil the
:wens oracti pomp to the Monastery of .St. Lawrence
(at the E.:earial). there 'to IT interred amongst the
Kings and Queens of Spain. King Ferdinand was
every day transacting business with his Minister..
" The death of the lamented Qtrcen of Wurteutherg
is thus accounted Cu. ia the Stattgard prints. Her
A.lajesty had been seized With a rhemnatie fever,
which was seemly irtied by an erysipe'as of the free.
This malady on the 9th instant 1e:1 upon Cie brain,
and produced a stroke of apoplexy, which carried of
the I'riuce•s in the course of a few hours.

" A grand ball was given at Paris on the 15th inst.
by the British Ambassatlor, in compliment to his Royal
Highness the Duke of Glnueester, which was attended
by tile Princes of the Royal Family, and by all the
most distinguished personages of the French capital.

" On the 16th inst. the Duke of Gloucester dined
with the Xing and ,loyal Family : on the 15th
Eclat Highness, accompanied by two English person*
ages of his suite, visited the prison La Conciorrie ;
he conversed a shalt time with General Sartain.

" fhe Qiic,n Maria Theresa, Consort of Charles
IV. and Mother of Ferdinand VII. King of Spain,
died at Rome on the !..'nd inst. of a pulmonary com-
plaint., which lasted five days. She was born at Parma
on the gth Ike. 1751.

A Flandtrallail arrived yesterday, %tinging. Brussels
Papers to the ?Ist inst. The/ging of the Netherlands,
it appears, wishing to " eternise," the Battle of Water-
lot), has ordered M. Visquin, the chief Enginoer, to
present to him a plan of a monument, which is to be
erected on the spot where time victory was decided.
We extract the folfmwing articles, because they possess
more than ordinary interest, tram the state of our re-
Ls ions with the Dutch authorities in the Indian Archi-
pelago. as exemplified in the protest of Sir T. S.
Raffles, which we recently publish. d.
BRUSSELS, JAN. 17.-.." The Voltaire, from Batavia,
has arrived in the Tesel, after a passage of 100 days.
It arrives very seasonably to contradict the news of an
insurrection at Samarang, which had been circulated on
the authorit at .the _English papers. All the letters
from Java, up, to the Ist October, 1818, agree in
stating that the Colony enjoyed the most perfect tran-
quillity. .Produce was a' a very high price, and there
were 70 vessels in the :;Dads at Batavia, a nuruper which
proves the increasing activity of commerce.

- The news reeeiveci from the Moluccas was so favour-
able, and good order and tranquility so well established
in 'those islands, that the Llointaissione. 2-General have
resolved to recal Gertentl De Kock, that he may resume
his military !unctions; and to nominate for Governor
of the Moluccas, M. Tilenius Krinthroff, now Governor
of.Macassar, where he is succeeded by M. Servatius,
resident at Cheribtot,

" A most.friendly alliance has lately been concluded
by M. Boecholt, Commissioner of the Netherlands.
with the Sultan of• Pun thine, on the east coast of Borneo.
who has long desired it. This alliance seems to have
been promoted by the assistance abided by Atajor
Minting. against some powerful neighbours, his tribu-
taries. After a short combat, in which•on4 the •ittr-
geoo, Verbruggen, was wounded, be ended the •
affair in his &your. The Sultan expressed his entire
satisfaction to the Major, and desired to tessify his
sincere gratitude to the Government of the Netherlands
This Prince is a polished and well informed man, who
governs with -mildness,
" Accounts from Batavia of Sept 26, 1818, way-
-4 In the course of the year tblB, the troops of the Ne-
therlands wore going to resume possession of the settle-
ment of the Netherlands at .Padang, on the west coast
of Samatra; but difficulties were snade by the British
Government at -Ben:Atoka, which obliged the troops to
return $o Java.'

" The authority of the Netherlands has been recog-
nized tor thtsc two yeass past on the east coast of the
empire of I itienthang, opposite Banca"

Tut: Qt•tux's Ptcrunes.—There nre a great num-
* of valuable cabinet pictures and miniatures in Buck-
ingham kionse, which were the private property of the
Queen, though they aro not mentioned in her Majesty's
will.; Anil the hail and staircase display some of the
finest works of the elegant artist•Canaletti, :painted
when he was. •in England. These will probably now'
he added to the Prinne itegenes collection The cele-
brated cartoons of itiphael Were thrmerly placed in
Buckingham •Hoiuie; and it will scarcely be believed,
swot of diem niece actually absidged to tit the panneir.!
—They have since been removed to Hampton Court,
they now rennin.

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The Salisbury packet has reached the et.tprt front
the Leeward islands. the briu4s aty:-mnts from S.
Thomas's on the 2.10 ult. with ilteltigruce from lit:
krent parts of the Spanish Main. "they assert a well
as those bi pltriaus arrivals, that Lord °throne had
reeebed the West !talks' and was at TestuAos
with two 74's, two frigate's, A kttcr from Admiral
Brion, of the 16 Dec. does not, however, cmilirm thia
statement, and tve are still ine4ined to doubt its min.
rectness. Admiral Brim observes, that he hopes as the
rainy swims was over, some decisive blow would LO
strucy, and titter the Royalists %scold Ix obliged to c.a.
cunte that part of South America. It does not appear,
however, that any fresh victories had been obtained c;..
ther by one party or the ot, et up to the middle of
Novvintvr. folloviug are extracts front the letters ;
MARGAUITTA Nov. 16.—" The c‘pedition is row
in a state of great forwardness ; and news tarived
yester day that Lord ochrane had reached Testi;,:,,
Island, close to this place, with two 7411 tin ships, two
Notes, &c. What his real three is scents dottlultd,
but that he is there, we have every reason to beliecr is
the tact. This is a very favourable eircutustatxe, and
we have no doubt will cod the contest.

" ST. THOM:tS 1) 1.4.7. 21.-It is asserted positively
that Lord Cochrane has reached Testiges with several
ships of the line. Two of them, we understated are
French ships. It is understood fUrther, that this,Bri-
4ish Officer is meditating an immediate attack on some
part ef the Spauish Main, occupied by the Royalists."
The last letters from Boathay bring afflicting int.
counts of the mortality arising front the cholera mor.
bus, which raged in the Dccon, during the months of
July and August, and had not heen entirely overcome,
though greatly decreased in September It has ttecn
chiefly mortal among the natives ; fcw Europeans have
suffer, d About 2;000 of the natives died at a religious
place called Punderporc.
TI.: Uombay Courier of the i2tb of S'cptember, esst-
tains only the fu. lowing article of interest Wet
understand that Dhurmajec Partub Row and his bro-
ther, who wore taken by the party of reformed horse
under the command of the gallant Lieutenant Stither-
Lend, have been executed at Aurunguhad, by order of
the Nisam'a Government. We cannot ascertain with
any certainty the truth of the report, that it was by omik_
orders of Dhurmajee that Captain Vaughan and his
brother were so titsely put to death at Iniiigaum ; but
however this may be, the crimes of this wretch and his
brother were sufficiently ample to justify the severe
measures adopted against them.
The administration of justice throughout the timid-
nioas of Nuplus has been lately reformed, and on prin..
siples quite new within dint Kingdom' The se gnorial
and local jurisdictions have all been suppressed, and
tioyal (torts establishes] in place of them ; a whop
swarm of vexatious and tyrannical abuses basing thus
been swept away at one blow.
By the. successful attack upon Daajeli, which put
the Turk's in possession of Ardallah Ben Sund, the head
of the sect of Wechabit es, and several minor chieflt, it
is stated, that no less than eO,OOO of his followers were
slelts., The captured Chief had all his teeth drawn by
the Turks previous to being sent to Constantinople.
The streets of Liverpocl present at this moment a
most gratifying appearance; not a single mendicunt• or
beggar is to be seen is any of them, The Incas:ire'
pursued by their Chief Magistrate, for-the suppression
of these characters, has been attent'ed with the most
complete success. A whipping and a pass to their re-
spectivedegal places of settlement are the principal me-
thods which have been adopted some of the t iverpuol
vagrants, it would seam, have found their way to this
city, as within these few days our strectc swarm whit
beggars whose faces were not beforp known in the me-
tropolis.
Adolphus and Augustus Fitzclarenee, the two
youngest sons of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cla-
rence, have left roan for Eortsmoeth, from whc-tee
they will sail in the Rochefort, Cap'cin Green, to juht
Admiral Fremantle in the Mediteicancan.

Letters from Jamaica announce the arrival there of
the Coniiance sloop of vsar, captain Montgomery, nod
of the Ontario, of 18 ruts, t aptain Gustling, from
England. The fears which had been entertained
the merohants, fur want of a sufficient umber of shirt;
of war on that station, had been greatly removed by
these arrivals. _ _

_
Wednesday was settling asy at the Stock •E%ehange.:
there was one defsniter, a broker lately silt/lived into
the house, of cioiuned by two of his printipals, treli
known on the Royal Exehatig, leavin him tocray
their ditli-ren:•es to a consitlenible ato:.unt.

We learn that Nlinisters have i• in contemplation
to repeal all ti:e present existing acts ,:f parliament af-
fecting the Cu:mints and Excise, fttr .the purpose of
consolidating them into one general act. 'llls plan
has-been suggested by the greet loss and injury our.
taioetl in the commercial world, frosts thu dot.i,ts. arid.
difficulties arising from comma tory t .atAbes in Ahe
several amended Acts upon the serious arlreles in theta
two great branches of the public revenue. The plat,
when carried into effect, will Aiwa I.;ruai relief to.tlia
men:hams.

We are.happy to find that Lord Er lime is cenaidetad
out ofdar•,gcr.

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