The National Register.
London, England, 1817-07-28 00:00:00

CERTIFICATES, AVG. 1(3.

W. Piper, Hammersmith, barge-builder-li. 'lVihhetley„ Liver •
pool, hosier—J. Grant. Gracecharth-street. umbrella-maker--J. Job,
Ivy-lane, mere!tant—T. Fiintoft, New MaLon, York, clrn.factor
R. Pcploe, K enn i ngton-cro coach-maa er —T. Thwaites, 'lett
Mill, Durham, tairer-maker—T. 0-Itoilly, late of Lawrence
Powitney-hil!, merchant—G. Young, late of Lawrence Puuntnev-
•hill, merchant—G. Winterbottom, late of Lawrence Pountney-h:11,
merchant—J. Bash. BiJme Stortford, liertford, money.scrivencr—
IL Strong, ‘Yhitehaven. Inn.ccr—J. It. Tripp, lute of Cungresbury,
.Sonwrset, miller—R. Tripp, Bristol, draper—G. Benkhauseu, Aus-
tin-friars, merchant.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

,LONDON :

MONDAY, JULY 28, 1817.

THE foreign papers received in the course of the
week, contain no intelligence of importance. Partial
disturbances still occur in some parts of France ; those
which result froth a dearness of provisions must
shortly terminate, as the harvest has begun ; those
which are occasioned through the machinations of dis-
affected men, will, it is to be hoped, be entirely sup-
.pressed through the vigilance of the executive go-
vernment.

The disasters which have befallen the royalist armies
in South America, are again stimulating the parent
-state to fresh exertions ; a force composed of drafts
.from every regiment in Spain is to he dispatched forth-
with.

The advises from the Brazils bring the pleasing in-
formation that the insurrection at Pernambuco is entire-
ly suppressed, and the royal authorities restored.

It should seem by ktters received from India, that
hostilities are tarrying on against some of the native.
aids ; and that a new war is apprehended from the
protection affuaal by Seiudiah to the hostile Pin-
rdarries.

In another part of our paper, it will be .seen that
..the charges preferred against NI‘K inlay for a conspiracy
•at Glagcw, have not been proven. This has given
much cause of triumph to those, who can see nothing•
in the precautionary measures of government but op-
pression: how thr this man was a participator in the
-alleged crimes, .we may judge from the address of the
Lord Jestice Clerk; and we seriously recominend the
admonitions contained in that address, to those per-
sons who may have tunguardeilly lent themselves to
the views of discontented or designing men.
Math kosincss has been done during the week on
the Stock Exchange, and the funds left off on Saturday
lower than they have been. Without indulging in
conjectures on the probable causes of the extensive
sales which have taken place, we would fain • attribute
them, not to " specalations in foreign countries," but to
a revival of trade at home offering opportunities of em-
ploying capital more advantageously : the accounts of
the prospects of an übubtlant harvest, and of the increas-
ing activity. in the manala?turing diqricts, are favour-
able to this supposition.

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

One of the German Papers rezeived in the begin-
ing Of the week contained a furious tirade (copied from
the Ghent Journal) against what it is pleased to call
the overwhelming preponderance A Great Britain not
merely on the Continent but over the whole world ; by
her fleets, her colonies, her fortified stations, she is re-
presented as controlling and watching every shore, the
coasts of the Channel, those of the North Seas, of the
Mediterranean, the West India Islands, South Ameri-
ca, Asia, in short the whole world ; that her power is
stronger and more inaccessible than that of armies ; that
She went to war to enrich 'herself with the spoils of
other countries ; that she only has reaped all the advan-
togas resulting from the battle of NVaterloo, the glory
of which may, it is added, be contended with her ;--
and that through her power and influence the manufae-
tories of the Continent are rapidly going to decay and
ruin.—This article is given at length in the Morning
Chronicle of Tuesday last, as evincing " the intense
spirit of hostility against England tvhich prevails on
the Continent."—We are however somewhat sur-
prised that no observation or comment was made
upon it ; because its statements are in direct opposition
to those advanced by Mr. Brougham in his luckless
speech at the close of the session : he designated Great
Britain as a little military state in one corner of Eu-
rope; possessing no influence upon the Continent, from
which, through the imbecility °lke- Ministers our ma-
nufactures were every were excluded ; that our marine
was sinking, and that we were in fine falling from a
first to u third or fourth rate power in the political
scale of Europe. We will not attempt to reconcile the
Ghent Journalist with Mr. Brougham ; but we will
take leave to led the Morning Chronicle editors, that
to cite the article in question as uffirding a proof of an
" intense spirit of hostility" towards this country, is
something worse than folly : it is precisely that kind of
proof which the remarks in the columns of the Morn-
ing Chronicle present, when copied into a foreign jour-
nal, of the spirit of public opinion in England on the
conduct of Ministers, the Suspension of the Habeas
Cerpas Act, or any other public meetsure. The fact is,
that this article, like many similar ones which appear
in the foreign papers, emanates from the same sources
as those which marked the days of Buonapurte's fiercest
hostility against us ; it is the production of proscribed
Frenchmen, of characters whose hatred of this country
is unceasing, and never to be allayed ; they cannot think
of her even without perturbation, and when they write
of her it is with a pen dipped in poison, and in all that
bitterness and anguish of heart with which they view
their own fallen condition, and the destruction of that
system they incessantly laboured to perpetuate. But
what relation have such men as these with Europe
at large, that their ravintne against England are to be
adduced as a proof of the feelings of the Continent to-
wards her? Their wish is to recover the power they
have lost ; theyform part of a system the object of which
is to keep alive in France that hostility towanis Great
Britain, which formed so prominent a feature in all
Baonaparte's plans. We deny thatetuking " the Conti-
nent" in its largest sense, there is that spirit of hostility
towards this country of which we are perpetually told.
Every state, we admit, is anxious to import as few of cur
manufactures as possible; and if they can dispenne with
the use of them, or thereby encourage greater industry
11 amongst their own people, or keep the little specie left
them, to repair the havoc which the war occasioned in
their towns and villages, are they to be blamed for it ?
is this patriotic feeling to be branded with the name of
hostility to this or any other country? surely not.—
Whatever disappointed or factiot.s men may-say to the
contrary, we know that Europe feels, and gratefully
acknowiedges all that Great Britain has done to work
out her salvation ; and ages will pass away, ere her ge-
ner-ous example, her noble disinterestedness, or the un-
parallelled aehievements of her fleets and armies shall
cease to" be remembered, applauded, and admired.

By the Duke of Kent packet, arrived at Falmouth,
we hive accounts of Tunisian pirate, of 9.0 guns, hav-
ing captured a Ilussian brig, off Lisbon, and taken out
(excepting four men) all the crew, and ordered her fir
some Barbary port. The finer men left on board watch..
ed an opportunity, and threw the pirates overboard ;
they then carried the vessel safe into Lisbon. A Por-
tuguese frigate has also captured a private ship, of 18
guns, and carried her into Lisbon. It is said that she
had fallen in with a Soauish ship, and killed the crew.
The King of Portugal has prohibited Spanish' vessels
fitted out in Portuguese or Brazilian ports from carry-
ing on the slave trade, in ports lying within that impor-
tant tract •of territory between the Equator and the
10th degree of Northern latitude.
A contract of 400 sacks of buiscuit meal has been
made at the Victualling Office, at sixty live shillings
per bag—at the rate of 151. per load for wheat. The
termer contract was 05s. Thus there is, by the change
of the times, a present saving to Covenimenl, upon the
same quantity, of 3001.
-We are authorised to contradict the statement of- an
important mineral . discovery on Lord Crosvcnor's
F'lintshire estates, to recent discovery. of this nature
having been made —Liverpool Paper.
Mr. White, from the Sliadwell Police Office, has
he;:n appointed to succeed Mr. Plestow, as one of the
Magistrates at Queen .square.

JULY SS.

Py a letter from an Officer, serving with the British
Army in India, dated Setapore, Oude, Feb. 14, 1817,
it appears that vigorous military operations arc carrying
on in India against one of the Native Chiefs, and that
according to the opinion of the writer of if, there is a
probability of another Mahratta war, in consequence of
the facilities afforded by Scindealf to the incursions of
the Piudarries on the British territories.

Don Juan Boit de Apodaca, Viceroy of New Spain,
has pub:ished a Proclamation, addressed to the inha-
bitants of those provinces, calculated to produce the
happiest effects. The tone is at once firm and coneili.
atory ; and expresses the confidence of the King, that
the fidelity of the people will co-operate with his en.
deavours to produce a total pacification "If however,
adds the Viceroy, " their obstinacy compels me to forego
my natural disposition, 1 shall punish those whom no.
thing else can reclaim. But I hope this will not hap.
pen ; for I mu firmly persu ided every one will hasten to
share the benefits which this clemency of the King so
generously offers to dispense to them."
Paris Papers of Wednesday last arrived on Saturday
morning, but their contents are quite unimportant.
The reaping of wheat in the environs of Paris, is ao.
tively carrying on.
The Marseilles Journal states, that according to the
latest news from Algiers, the plague is at this moment
committing its ravages in that city.
Saturday morning we received American Papers to
the .25th—Canada Gazettes to the 20 ult., from which
we extract the following :
" General .Carrera has been denounced by the Go.
vernment of Buenos Ayres, aeaused of intending to give
to the United States the exclusive trade of Chili, to the
disadvantage of Buenos Ayres.
There is an account in the Salem Gazette, of June
21, stating, that the Royal Army, 2000 strong, under
Morales, had been totally defeated by the Insurgents at
a place called the Miasiona, 100 miles below Augustura.
A proclamation bus been issued by the King of Pros.
sia, dated ,Berlin, June 17, which chews the benevo.
lent attention of his Majesty to the wants of his sub.
jects. it appears that two millions of crowns were as-
signed by the King to purchase grain for the inhabit.
ants of the provinces of the Rhine, and in Westphalia,
in contemplation of an approaching scarcity, before the
harvest could laird any relief: The humane intent ons
of the King were, however, so tardily executed, that
much misery ensued in consequence, and his Majesty
ordered an immediate inquiry to be made into the eaeses
of the delay, and threatened the " most severe punish-
ment where it shall appear that either negligence or
cupi ity has prevailed." An immediate aiel taithful
report upon the subject is to be made to his Majesty.
The threats contained in the remonstratue of the
Portuguese Minister to the Government of the United
States. appear on the authority of a private letter
front Lisbon, to have been enforced. A ortuguese
frigate is said to I aye captured two armed vessels, in
the service of the South American Spaniards, and to
have condemned the crew of one of them to expiate
their piracies by death. It is not stated whether these
ships formed 4atrt ef that force which had been equip.
ped in Baltimore and other ports of the United Stater,
fr the service of Buenos Ayres, previous•to the Act
ofNeutrality passed in the last Scssian of the Con.
.grass.
• The Barbary Powers, as if unable to endure the
peace to which England has reduced them, seem resol-
ved to wage war against etieli other. The Regencies
of Algiers and Tunis are the first to shew their rest.
lessnes; ; and hostilities, though not actually corn.
menced, are said to have been denounced by each
against the other. There is an anecdote mentioned
of the punishment of a corsair by tlus Bey of Tripoli,
in consequence of his capturing, by mistake, an En-
glish vessel, which chews the salutary influence on the
Barbary *coast, of the late chastisement inflicted on
Algiers by the British squadrons. •
We are not inclined, upon reflection, to accord fully
with a recent letter from Florence, that British credit
would buffer in consequence of the assay of our silver
coin at Genoa. It is probable that the assay was cor-
rect. Most natural aad proper it certainly WC-8 that
some such operation should take place. Every mint,
and especially that of a State, whore so rainy foreign
coins are current, as at Genoa. ought to ascertain and
make public the intrinsic value of them all. It is un
erroneous idea that exchanges between commercial
countries arc in all cases regulated by the intrinsic
value of the precious metals in circulation among them ;
and it was a particular error of the Florentine bauker,
that the value of our silver currency furnished that
standard in the present instance; for ifso, tlir exchange
must have risen in consequence of the issue of the new
coinage, which, though inferior .to the old sterling
silver which had disappeared, was in . a greater pro-
portion more than the current money that in circula-
tion. If tither metal were to be resorted to at fixing
the proper par of exchange, -it must uraloubteilly be
gold which is our legal standard of currency, and at
the same tune is, from its intrinsic value, the .must
exchangeable commodity.
It is a curious fitet, that none of the info-it:l.lm
Courts pay so trell to the Law
.y as as, the Insolvent
Court.

JULY 29.