The National Register.
London, England, 1816-08-11 00:00:00

PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS

FOR TILE E►:eUIYG WEEK.

Attu Chum Etorat, .;Aptioo 'Opera Nust.
Monday—The Village Trick—Frederick the Great—Twenty Years
Ago.
Tuesday—Turn Out —Artaxerires—l s he Jealous ?
Wednestlay—t o'clock ; or. The Knight and the Wood Damson—
The Bee Hive.
Thursday—(FirFt time at this Theatre) Love in a Village.
Friday—A latourite Ora.
Saturday—The Beggars Opera.

tai Mr. T. DIBDIN, grateful for the most liberal and unprecedented
Patronage the Surrey Theatre has experienced, respectfully hopes
he shall have the gratification of seeing it hull more crowded than
heretothre, or, Friday Next. the 16th Instant, when the Profits of
the Evening will be dedicated to the Fund,'Ur thc Relief of the Ma-
nufacturing anti Lahouring Pour.
Grand additional Perthrmances of the Flyin., Sorcerer, on the Slack-
Wire and Cordc Warne.
.nctv !floral eirrua ants ti urrer trOtstre.
TO-MORROW, (Monday), and thllowing Evenings,
the Performances will commence with (by particular desire) the very
favourite comic Ballet Ilivertiseinent, called TIIE HOUSE WARM-
ING; or, PEASA NTS' PIE-NIC.---Mr. NITERS, the BRITISH
VOLTWEItit, will perform many new and wonderful Feat,: of Ba-
lancing in Equilibrium, on the Sla:•k-Wire.—To which wit be added
(•t;tth time) the highly popular ar..l attractive piece of NV Iltrt:
THF. MURDERER ?.—After which, the Flying Sorcerer, in addi-
tion to his other astonishing perfomiances on the Conte Volante, will
assaine the appearance of a Globe of Fire.—The whole to conclude
with (17th tune) a new 5i ladle, called SLAVES IN BARBARY ;
or, BRITISH VENGEANCE.—In the course of the Piece will IN:
introduced an English parody on the celebrated duet of • 04 Paseator
dell'onda,' by Mr. Leonard and Miss Digrano i ' When Britain on tit.
!naming main,' by Mr. Lee ; • The Sailor Boy capering a Snore,' by
Miss Bence; A Naval Irish parody on • Paddy Carey,' by Mr. Fits-
william.

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THE NATIONAL REGISTER..

LosnoN :
SUNDAY, AUGUST 11.

WE have received the Paris Papers of Wednesday
last. _ _

The French Government seem to be actively employed
in re-creating an army. Thirty Lieutenant-Generals
and 60 Major-Generals have just been placed in active
service. Among the Lieutenant-Generals are—Fournier,
Lahoussaye, Preval, Colbert, and Merlin. It appears
from a paragraph, couched in general terms, inserted in
the Gazette de Francois, that a Banking-house at Paris
had named to its correspondents 15 respectable houses as
being in a state of discredit. This circumstance having
transpire& on the Royal Exchange at London, protests,
fur want of Bills being accepted, took place against drafts
drawn from Paris, though the funds were provided. May
not this circumstance have contributed to the depreci-
ation in the funds both here and at Paris ?

It. is rumoured, that in consequence of the French'
Government neglecting to pay the stipulated contribu-
tions, the allied Monarchs have determined to indemnify
themselves, by retaining in sovereignty the French for-
tresses which they now hold in trust. This determina-
tion is certainly very just, because the fortresses were in-
tended by all parties to guarantee the fulfilment of the
late Treaties. According to this rumour, the Kings of
Prussia, Bavaria, and the Netherlands, arc each to have
those ficraes.ses which adjoin their respestive frontiers.
England is to have both the islands of Mauritius and
Bourbon, instead of only one. Russia is to have Gua-
deloupe, and all the above Allies arc to unite in paying
to Austria the remainder of her proportion of the con-
tributions, her finances requiring immediate assistance.
It is this circumstance which has depressed the French
Funds, and has caused the French Government to apply
to those experienced Generals of the Revolution, who
have been neglected till now ; for France has evinced a
determination to resist this arrangement, and seems to
canticle in support both from Spain and America.
An article from Brussels states, that no means arc neg-
lected to accelerate the organization cf the French army.
To accomplish this important object, Officers of all ranks,
who have served under Buonupartc, and have not too
greatly distinguished themselves as enemies to the pre-
sent Government, are called into active service. The
Duke of Feltre has also resolved to give important com-
mands to a certain number of Generals in whom the old
army had particular confidence. It is pretended that by
this measure the French army will in two months re-
ceive an addition of 100,000 old soldiers._ _

It appears by accounts from Lille, and by a Circular
frhm the Prefect of the Department, that some serious
quarrels have taken place between the allied troops and
the inhabitants.

The French Journalists are eager to convince the
world, that English manutitetures arc every where reject-
ed. The King of Naples, they tell us, prefers French to
British cloth tin. his troops.
It is painful to see with what industry the Bourbons
are reviving the old superstitious rites. A precession of

AUGUST 11.

eighty young ladies paraded the streets of Paris, with
lighted tapers in their hands, on Thursday last, to implore
the patron Saint of Paris for finer weather ! It is well
known that the Parisians are, above all others, lax in

their notions of religion, and that these processions excite
their most poignant ridicule.
An exception to the substance of a late Royal Ordi-
nance has been published in flivour of Marshal Oudinot.
The Ordinance states, that no person shall bear a Com-
mission in the Army and National Guard at the same
time. Oudinot is dispensed from this condition, and is
called in the French Papers a second Bayard !
The official part of the Moni:eur contains a Royal Or-
dinance, by which the King has ordered all private per-
sons possessing AV etirons of war to deliver them up to the
Mayors of their districts within a month's time.
Private letters from Paris state, that the deficit in the
French finances is three millions sterling. In consequence
of this deficit, it is said, that as soon as the Legislative
Bodies meet, in October, some Address will be moved
to the King, to intercede with the Allied Powers to with-
draw or diminish the number of fiereign troops, and to
prolong the period of paying the tribute.
We shall not be surprised at such a manoeuvre; on
the contrary, we have been, during some time, prepared
for it. It will be in the style of French conduct towards
all the world ; and it will correspond but too much with
the conduct of the greater part of the world towards
England. But the continuance of the allied troops in
France is rendered necessary by the condition of that
country. The military establishments of probably every
Power—certainly those of England—are the greater for
the habits of aggression so long cherished by the French.
Let them, thereffire, pay the expense of the vigilance
which they render necessary.
The Paris Papers say, that " M. Loisseau pleaded the
cause or CarAine Leruth, with much talent, before the
Court of Cessation ; but the insufficient grounds of her
application were demonstratet by M. Lebau, Advocate-
General, and the Court reje-ted her appeal. Thus the
sentence of the Court of Assize, which condemned this
woman to 10 years solitary confinement aid
for having assisted the Sieur —, Adjunct to the :Mayor
of Montdidier, in his attempt to commit suicide, is con-
firmed."
Time and security, which soften the vengeance of the
law under other Governments, appear to sharpen it in
France. Fourteen persons who manifested their dislike to
his Majesty on the 26th of June, 1815, at Montpellier,
have been tried and lima, guilty. Of these, five have
been condemned to death, and suffered punishment.
According to a German Paper, one of the resources of
the French Government to raise money consists in grant-
ing privileges to games of chance. Persons had been up..
pointed to collect this source of revenue in the places oc-
cupied by the Allies ; but it is stated, that the Duke of
Wellington sent them all back. Is it the religious Go.
vernment of France that resorts to such means?
While the German Papers continue to speak with the
utmost confidence of a meeting of Sovereigns at Carlsbad,
in Bohemia, the French Journals employ great industry
in contradicting it. From this it is obvilus, that the
French Government would look with a suspicious eye at
such a meeting, lest these august personages might pre-
sume to legislate fin. France again.
The pillory seems a favourite mode of punishment in
the French code of jurisprudence. Hardly a week
passes in Paris without an exhibition of this kind. On
Friday se'nnight four females, none of whose ages exceeded
18, were pilloried at the Conciergerie.
An article in the Paris Papers from Civita Vecchia,
dated the 19th ult. mentions a new and most atrocious
outrage, committed off the heights of Cagliari, on the
crew of an English vessel by two Algerine ships, one of
them commanded by a nephew of the Dey. The Eng-
lish vessel, which is called the Kent, was captured after
an obstinate resistance. The Captain, on seeing his ship
sink, used some reproaches to the pirate ; which the Bar-
, barians resented by putting two of the crew to death,
and exercising upon the remainder every insult maid out-
rage which his fury could suggest. If this account be
true, there can be only one opinion entertained in this
country on the subject and, if our financial difficulties
were infinitely greater than they are, yet it would
be mean and impolitic to pass over such en act of vio-
lence.

Recent letters from Madrid, from undoubted authority,
state, that highly important changes are on the eve of
taking place in that capital ; but of the nature of the
changes alluded to no explanation is given. An order
had been issued by the Government for a levy, by ballot,
of 60,000 men, to be embodied as a militia. In the
opinion of some persons, this measure is adopted with
the view of leaving the regular tmops at the disposal of
Government, fir the purpose of sending them to &nth
America and to Mexico, where their services are much
wanted. Others talk of an expedition being intended
for West Florida, in the contemplation of a rupture with
the United Sta:es. The American Ambassador, it is
said, has pro reed to abandon the claims of his Govern-
ment for seizures made under the Berlin and Milan De-
crees, on condition of West Florida being ceded by Spain;
but Ferdinand's Ministers declined all negoeiation cm the
subject We regret to learn, that the Spanish Govern-
ment, whilst it continues to impose every mieties of re-
striction on the tilde with this country, afibrds ever/

AUGUST 11.

facility and encouragement to the introduction of French
produce and manufactures. Large purchases have, in
consequence, been made by Spanish merchants at the 'at.2
fairs in the South of France.

By letters front the United States we learn, that the
Congress of Mexico having assumed a regular form, the
Executive had named Don Jose Toledo, late Deputy in
the Cortes of Spain for the Spanish part of St Domingo,
to proceed to England as Envoy from the Mexican
Patriots.

Letters from New York, dated the 2d of July, state,
that the Ex-King of Spain, Joseph Buonaparte, was at
Philadelphia, and had been joined there by a great num-
ber of French Officers. It is strongly suspected by well-
informed persons at New York, acquainted with the
above parties, that some great oilject is in view with re-
gard to Spain. Our Readers will recollect that Joseph
was crowned Ring of Spain and the Indies; and it is
said, he has it in contemplation to try his fortune with
the Mexican Insurgents ; he is expected to join them with
as many experienced French Officer► as be can collect,
and hoist the Independent Flag in South America,
where his presence would be a rallying point to the friends
of Liberty. _ _ _

The last adv;ces from Halifax ex-pressed some surprise
that our Government were not making corresponding ex-
ertions with the Americans to be prepared for tear; for
in every dock and place, where a ship could be built,
were they carrying on ship building ; and although it
may be some time before the United States may pur-
posely seek a quarrel with England, their principal mili-
tary and naval officers make no secret in stating, that as
goon as they are properly prepared for war, they will not
hesitate to declare it.

It is said, that one of the List ships foam Boston is
navigated by at least one half British Seamen, natural-
ized.

The Hamburgh papers contain an article from an un- •
usual quarter—Mortocco. A decree of his Highness,
the Et:iaeror, commences with a pretence of its being is-
sued, in t. 'incipience of information, which had reached
his Imperial ears, that some of his subjects, seders in Euro-
pean countries, had denominated themselves his ambassa-
dors, or relatives, and moreover had been guilty of vari-
ous excesses! It, therefore, forbids ltis Mahometau sub-
jects on pain of Death from leaving his territories, with-
out express permission fromliOnself; and even the Jews
may not go, unless they give security, that they will
carry on in Europe a. !avid trade ! Such is his High-
mess's anxiety for the purity of every one belonging to
him, be they where they may ! Who can imagine, after
this, that he would encourage piracy Stine intelligence
follows the decree to prevent every suspicion of this sort !
A Tunisian vessel having seized a Neapolitan ship, the
prize has been released by his .orders, the Captain of the
piratical vessel imprisoned for fourteen days, and notice
has been given, that, whoever shall in future practice
piracy, iu the Emperor's ports, shall suffer Death. We
did not before know, that the three ports of Tunis, Tri-
poli, and Algiers, are all included in his dominions ; and,
although he new claims them, it is probable, that the
D. ys acknowledge his Sovereignty only pro hay vice,
inkrvling this decree to be the answer of the whole fra-
ternity ta Lord Exmouth. It will be observed, that no-
thing is said of remonstrances, or claims, from the Nea-
politan Court ; his Morocco Majesty acts upon his own
spontaneous abborence of piracy, as if he had now, for
the first time, heard of the practice ! And this he thinks
will send back the British squadron. We always knew,
that he would premise any thing, as soon as it should
approach him, but did not expect .so much stratagem for
anticipating it. His Jewish subjects in Europe may, it
seems, send him any communications, which shall be for
his good. I lave they obtained the honour, in consequence
Of their furnishing him with this piece of counterfeit
morality, and telling him what to say, when he shall be
'brought before the police of Europe ?
In an article film Morocco we find the following re-
markable statement .

His Exec:limey Ihr ;Minister Sedy M.thamct Salevy hail, on
the tali of Atir-lt, this year (according to the Christian date),
au -erenieg audio :ee of his Majesty the Emperor of Morocco.
The next ruin !, the report of his sudden death spas spread,
which made a great sensation. The properly he has left is very
11r4e, ar.d Nu, to the Imperial Treasury. In his room his
hiNeellency Alba,. Abn Maltamaini H-efts is appointed Vi-
ceroy and Governor of ail the islands troin Tetuan to Ra-
ha lit."

Rear Admiral Sir G. Cockburn has been employed
precisely one year in conveying Buonaparte to St. He-
lena, and prroutueutly establishing a system of regula-
tions for his safe custody there during the term of his
future life—it was on Thursday, August :3, last year,
that Sir George sailed from St. Helen's in the North-
atmberland. Sir P. Malcolm arrived at St. Helena, with
the Newcastle and Orontes, on the 17th of June, and
sneeeeded Sir George in the command of the squadron,
employed at St, Helera, Ascension. the Cape of Good
}lope, and the Mauritius. Sir George sailed from St.
Helena on the 19th ult. with the Northumberland and
Ilucephalus ; the lctter came in on Wednesday. The
Zephyr and Icarus were speedily to leave the station.—
When the Northumberland left St. Helena Riumaparte
was in good health. He had lately been seldom visited
by our Officers. The sitVe etiquette which is kept np at
his resider e (the observance of •which must precede all
interviews) not only p rev cuts ohm aye visitors, but shuts
;out 1111 who have no taste fur such burdensome forms.