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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

order to unite the Slitting of both hemispheres in

one happy family." These observations arc rather.
vague. Nothing short, we believe, of the acknow-
ledgment of their complete independence-will satisfy
the Patriots of South America. They have fought
and conquered, and have tasted the sweets of liberty,
and will not cagily submit to the domination of the
Mother Country, though revolutionized, and pre-
senting that lofty situation among the nations of
Europe that it ought. After the reading of the
Address the Minister of Pardon and Justice an-
nounced, that the King had deemed it necessary to
secure the persons of sixty-nine individuals who
had signed the Address to King Ferdinand against
the Constitutional System of 1814, and that they
were confined in various Convents.

All political feeling in England is centered in
the subject of the Queen. The Houses of Parlia-
ment have adjourned till the preparations for the
investigation are cotnplevd. On the 17th of August
it will commence—she will be put on her trial in
entire ignorance of her crime, her accusers, the
time, and the scene of her guilt—yet this must be
just, for the Loans will have it so ; and " they are
all—all Honourable Men .1" We have been told
that the law is the same in England for the King
and the Beggar."—for us, being more likely to
belong to the latter than to the former class, we are
inclined to rejoice that it is not so.

We have received the Paris Papers of Wednesday
last. They have been at length admitted by the
Censors of the Press to notice the Revolution in
Naples. The Members of the Junta are already
nominated, and chiefly consist of persons who filled
official situations under King Murat. A private
letter from Naples, of the 10th instant, says, that
the Revolution was undertaken, executed, and ter-
minated wi:hout the people being able to guess what
was in agitation. Had it been otherwise, the whole
population would have been in motion to forward a
change so necessary to their future comfort and hap-
piness. The delay of eight days granted to the
King in the first instance, fur preparing 41 id pub-
lishing the fundamental articles of the Coustitutiun,
was considered too long by the prime movers of the
Revolution, and they demanded that the Constitu-
tion and the Cortes (as in Spain) should be pro-
claimed in twenty-four hours. In this they were
perfectly right, to prevent intrigues, and their pa-
triotic objects from being frustrated. The king,
making a virtue of necessity, yielded up the reins
of government, even to an abdication of the Kingly
power, for a time, to his son the Duke of Calabria,
who without hesitation granted instantly all that
was demanded. To prevent foul play, however, the
King was obliged to affix his own signature, which
certainly would have been more gracious had it been
done in the first instance, to prevent the Royal sin.
eerily /rum being doubted. The Provisional Junta
is composed of fifteen Members, before whom his
Majesty, according to his decree, and all the Princes
of the blood, are to take the oath to the new Con-
stitution of the Monarchy, which oath is to be re-
iterated before the National Parliament when duly
convoked. The King has taken for Minister of the
Interior, M. Zurlo ; for Minister of Finance, M.
Macedonio ; for Minister of Justice, M. Ricciardi :
for Minister of War, M. Culaascosa ; for Minister
of Foreign Affairs, M. Campochiari ; fur Ambussa.
dor at Paris, M. Pignatelli ; all these individuals
formed part of Murat's Government.—These are
all men of talent, in whom the people have confi-
dence, and who will take care and be well prepared
against any re-action; if any such should be contem-
plated by the enemies of the Liberties and Inde-
pendence of the Country. There are accounts from
Madrid to the 13th of July in the Paris Papers.—
The meeting of the Cortes having put the Consti-
tutional System in full operation, the Supreme
Provisional Junta hiss been dissolved. The Mem-
bers have addressed, on the occasion, a farovel I Pro-

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clarnation to the People, full of the proudest antici-
ptions of the future. Madrid is crowded with
strangers of all nations particularly English.

L.IW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY. Lincoui's INN.

OATUAUAY, JULY 29.
The Lord Chancellor come into Court at half put ten-
o'cicek.

COLE IN THE MATTER OP COLE AEU GALPIN,
BANKRUPTS.

Mr. Hurt stated this was the Petition of Mr. Cole t the
circumstances of the case he was sure were in his Lordship's
recollection. 'the Petitioner had been nslatioocr in Fleet. •
Street, and retired fr busines with a large fortune, but •
unfortunately allowed his name to remain in the business wi It
that of the bankrupt Galpin. who had accepted Bills in the
name of the firm to a large 11111011111, which were disposed of
by a person of the name of Kinuear, for a usurious consider-
ation, and a commissi 111 l of bankruptcy issued wised M...
Cole toi account of their bills, be not hitting any knowledge
of the transaction. His Lordship had allowed Mr. Cole to
enter into piovisiiin of horstate in Hampshire, on his paying
a sumer money into the Accountant-General's Office
cient to cover the debts of the firm; since which several
actions had been tried, and the bills accepted by. Galpin
declared to be invalid. What the petition sought was, that
Mr. Cole might be at liberty to draw the money he had de-
limited in the Aceountant-General's °thee, there being now
111/ claim on it.

The Lord Chaneellor—" Lti it hot 30."
Alloticogranted.

" By the next ship 1 will send you a detailed account
of laird Cochrane's capture of Valdivia, which in my •
opinion, ecpials, if it does not exceed, any exploit of the
kind ever lielore performed. At present 1 have only dine
to say, that in the hands of our people it is•itnpregnable. ,
Valdivia is defended by no less than IS forts, soplaced
in respect to one another,' that no ship could remain half
an hour in the bay, much less could ally one lie at an- •
chor there. These forts mount upwards of !Du pieces
of cannon, most of them 24-pounders, and most of them
having furnaces to heat shot. The contimuneation
one fort with another is iu many places only a very-nar-
row defile, composed of large rough stones, and tortuous.'
paths of greakdeclivity. A couple of pieces of cannon
would render any one of them utterly impracticable to'
any number of men. A handful of men might prevent.
the landing of any number of men, even if boats were'
allowed to approach the shore ;.but no boat could ad-
vance within cannon-shot without being subjected to a•
cross fire, and instantly sunk. The beach is beset to the •
very water's edge with hushes and shrubbery, by meats'
of which, even when a landing was effected, a small •
number of men might securely remain, and cut oft the-
invaders on the beach. Spite of all these obstacles Lord-
Cochrane boldly entered the harbour with a brig and a•
schooner, on board of which he had crammed 320-men.
With this force, at night-fall, he attacked one of the
forts, landed his 1111t11, heating the Spaniards before him,
and carried the small fort, the enemy in the other torts
the sitsek with contempt on account of hiss
Lordship's small force. But such was the impetuosity
of the Chilinos, and the very few Englishmen who were
with them, that they drove the Spaniards through the
fort, mixed with them, carried another forte and -struck,
such terror into the Spaniards, who had but the momaut
before despised them that in a panic they abandoned'
their post, and fort after fort fell into the hands of Lord
Cochrane. In the morning the Spaniards were lost his
astonishment at what had happened, bet it was then too
late, the whole of the forts as well as the town were its

possession of Lord Cochrane, and nothing remained but
quiet submission. Tne Governor, with about 500 men
had fled into the interior, leaving behind hint the mili-
tary standards, the military chest of the Spanish army of
the South, and the whole of the stores and ammunition.
About lOU men, with their Colonel, were taken
loners: and in the bay a large fine ship, deeply ladeu,
called the Dolores, was captured. Lord Cochtame, hay..
log planted the Chilian flag it, the great spuare sum.
moiled the people to meet and chose their own Governor.
All private property was strictly respected, and the in-
habitants, delighted as well with •the sudden anti
pr4_ted change, as with the unexpected forbearance ut
their conquerors, expressed their attachment to tile new
GOVerffillellt by every des tonstratimt in their power
Thus has the only place wntelt the Spaniards possessed
North of Chili been emancipated, and the few melt (bey
have in this province must speedily submit."

Report says, that Sir John Leach, for his recent
services (not in the Chancery Court), is to be cre-
ated a Peer, under the title of Prospero, Duke of
Milan. His cuts-paw in the dirty work is to be ho- -
noured by the title of Lord Conban. We have no
doubt but that the feelings of compunction in a once
honourable mind may have already fulfilled the
threat of " filling all his bones with aches:'

Attempt to Asset:lmage the Duke of Athol.—On
Tuesday, the 18th instant, an attempt was made by
a man, named, James Murray, to assassinate his
Grace the Duke of Athol. Murray, under a pre-
tence of important business, had procured an midi. •
ence of his Grace, at one of the lodges leading to
Dunkeld-house, where he handed his Grace a letter,
containing some unreasonable demands, and which
firther stated, that, unless his Grace complied with
them in a few minutes, he would shoot him with a
pistol. The Dole, with sing,,Alar fortitude, and
great presence of tzin,l, seized the as Murray
drew it fPom his pocket, and, calling on some of his
attendants, Murray was inimukstely snunz.:l a►.a
brow; tt to the poi at Perth.