The National Register.
London, England, 1816-12-09 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

SELECTIONS FROM THE FRENCH PAPERS.
STUTOARO, NOY. 21.—The yourfi Princess was
solemnly .baptized on the 18th, in the presence of the
Members of the Royal Family, who are here, of the
President of the States, of the Members of the Privy
Council, of the Great Officers, and of Count Gollowkin,
the Russian Minister at our Voub. The young Princess
was baptized by the nameof Maria Frederica Charlotte.
The King'of Wlirtemberg has again pardoned, either
wholly or in part, 166 persons, and remitted the pe-
nalties of those who had been condemned for having
arms concealed.

The King continues to proceed in his plan of reform
,• in all branches of the Administration : the last reduction
'which he made was in the Royal Guanl ; the corps of
the Royal Horse Guards and of the Hulana will be sup-
pressed : each of these corps was composed of four squa-
drons ; they will be replased by a new flu.su Guin•d,
composed of one squadron only, and a squadron of Chas.
sours. His Majesty iso=o sell the Royal stud by
public auction. A new tioa of the Court Officers
will be decreed. A great number of prisoners state
.of
have bemuset at liberty ; anumg-them Col. Wolff', form-
erly Commandant of the iiirtress of Hohentwiel, detained
in prison since 1800, for having given up the fort to
the French troops under Gen. blormu, who had invest-
ed it.
Acemints from St. Domingo represent the two Chiefs
of that island as sworn enemies, and entirely opposed in
character and interests. fetion displays a great deal of
affability, and tries ,every art to attract strangers.—
However he refused to receive the notorious Blilawl-
Varennes, who offered to conduct the Gazette of Port-.
au-Prince.- Cluistophe, the &rein] of Petite, is univer-
sally detested for his superstition and fenseity. is issaid,
that having dreamed one night, that his physician wish.-
ed to poison him, he ordered him to appaar next day,
when be was immediately executed in his presence, not-
withstanding the proferwil protestations of she unfor.
tanaso man. He afienveds caused hin to be' interred
in the most sumptuous manner, Arid fbllowed the re-
main as chief mourner. Christophz distributes his dig-
nities in the most profuse manner ; he has lately caused
his son to be proclaimed King of the part at' the Mimi
occupied by Petion.

The following article affords a singular siveinten, of
the polity which prevails under the government of Fer
diaitird
MADRID, Nov. e4.—The King jias granted to
the
.C.ouununity of Dominieian Monks of our Lady of
Atoolia, the privilege of selling for their own profit four
Castillian titlw (of Marquis or Count) two of which
shall be free in perpetuity from the taxes •-
drini-akfitile : the produce of this sale is '
in the restoration of the Chapel of the
pious concession is not new in Spain,
been grunted the some way on various
the reign of Philip V. The Exchequer .
ed of ready money, the King permits the
ternity which wishes to aid, to sell a
producli of wlti,.ll would I a -e otherwiss
dirol/4tly int 3 thc oehmir.r."

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