The National Register.
London, England, 1816-08-26 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

The Moniteur of the 16th inst. (printed on kg a
sheet) was the only Paris Paper publistted on that day.
All the minor .I,atroals had previously announced that
they would not publish on the 16th, on account of the
preceding day being the Feast of the Assumption, and
the consequent ceremony of the Vow of Louis XIII.
taking place on the occasion.
FROM TIM MONITEUR OF AtGAST 16.
The cereinoily of the procession took place y esterday at the
church of Notre Dame. Monsieur, Madame, the Duke and
Duchess of Berri assisted. The Deputations from the Court
of Cassation—the Court of Accounts—the Cintrts Royal and
Municipal, assemble) conformably to the intentions of his Ma-
jesty. The interior of the Church was guarded by the House-
hold Guard, the National, and the Royal Guard. Vespers be-
ing said ; the procession left the Church, by the Court, as fol-
lows : through the new street of Notre Dame, towards St.
Michael's—the streets of Barillene, to Pontan Change-4110
Qnay of Pieties, thence to the extremity of the city, and re-
entered the porch of the church. The line was protected by
the National Guard. The people were eager to fujoy the hap-
piness of seeing their Pewees.
.tfter mass, the King, 3lonsietir, Madame, and the Duke and
Duchess of Berri, appeared at a balcony of the Thuilleries.
They were saluted by an immense crowd with the most lively
acclamations.
Rios proce,sion was originally imtitutcd to commemorate a
vow of 1,01115 XIII. one of the weakest Princes that ever go-
verned France, and who was childless at the time he made the
vow iii question. The birth of Louis XIV. accomplished the
wishes of the royal flinatic ; and this despot, whose reign was
as brilliant, as it was Illisekl4-‘olls—who was the enlightened
patron if literatuie, the arts, and niamithetures, cancelled
every claim, which these qualities gave him, to the admiration
of inankiad, by the tong, wanton, and bloody wars which he
waved. But the most odious feature in the politics of that
sovereign, and which entitles him to unqualied abhorrence,
was-the continued effort lie made, either by open s iolenee, or
secret fraud, to overturn the freedom which FAO:end and Hol-
land enjoyed at the time. His revocation ur the Edict of
Nantes, and the horrors which followed, slieweil that this vain
and voluptuous Prince was cap :tim of coolly planning and
executing the greatest atrocities that ever disgraced the ex-
ercise of supreme power. 'the sevival of a procession to Cc.
kbillte the birth of such a tyrant is entirely in unison with the
otior acts by which the Government of regenerated France is
distinguished at this moment ; though it cannot be grateful to
Bins, who said that Kings ousts& to be the shepherds of their
people.]
It is said, that the French Ministry lately applied to
the Court of Berlin to obtain the removal of a part of the
Prussian con: indent of the army of occupation, and a pro-
longation cf the time fixed for the payment of the con-
tributions. The considerations set forth in support of this
application are, the overwhelming distress of the country',
which renders the two-fold mode of relief indispensable
for the continuance of payment ; the punctuality with
which the contributions have hitherto been paid under
very trying circumstances, as affording a plecle of the
future good faith of France in this point ; the expediency
of promoting, by such relief, the disposition to tranquillity
in the people, and giving thereby additional security to
the established order of things ; and, as a main consider-
ation, that of the happy results already eff,cted by the
Royal Government, the blending of parties, the universal
submission, the popularity of. the restored and the
increasing stability of the legitimate thrum.; all of Which
are represented as lessening the necessity of foreign pm-
tection, and guaranteeing, with the aid of time mad due
relief, exact performance of the engagements entered into
with the Allies. The answer to this application, very re-
cently communicated to M. de Richelieu, bears in sub-
stance, that the Court of Berlin is less surptized at the
application itself, titan the prit..ciples on which it is chiefly
grounded ; that that Court dues not deceiveltself to the.
present state of France, that its views with regret its
actual penury and declining resources but that ; without
pretending to censure the acts of Government, or to
unfold causes, it establishes as a fact, the the disvisition
of the public mind, both towimls the Allies and towards
the reigning Family, is not such as to warrant diminu t ion
in the army of occupation; but, on the contrary, as such as
to justify an increase of thut armee protectric denrceillatite;
that us to protracting tar a period of five years beyond
the term fixed upon by the Treaty, the payment of the
contributions, such a proposition could only. be acceded
to on the condition of prolotglin fit' that..eitne period.
the occupation by the Alli forces ;or that for the
amount of the remainingsontributions, an imeription•
upon the grad berg( token not .1411Pel
to 1/sc
.fluctuutitos qf thelsinds, that is, that thett-should
be no dilierem e between their real and nominal value.
Three days Idler receiving this answer from the Prussian
Government, M. de Richelieu received a note flrow 1-•p:20:
di Borgho, purporting that he Naa • tuttinrised to 'tate,.
that his 6,:cniaimat adhered in all 0.1;81;4 ski tho'cortaitte

Pale; 9)d.

of the answer made by the Court 4 Berlin to the
cation in question.

The Paris papers of Sunday announce the arrival of
the Duke d'Angoulerne at Paris, and meution a ludicrous
circumstance which occurred during his journey. On
his passing through Lens le Saulnier, one of the Public
Functionaries, who went out to meet him, called out
" Yae I'Enipercur !" Recollecting himsM, he said,
" Mum Dien, what have I done !" and immediately cried,
" Viue le Rui !" A striking exemplification this of the
versatility with which the French have passed from one
shout to the other, as it suited the purpose of the mo-
ment.

On the morning after the condemnation of Gen. Mou-
ton Duvernet at Lyons, the following words were found
stuck upon his door :—" Si ants lee: noire MWIOII, nous
luerons volre Csc/wn."—" If you kill our Sheep, we will
kill your Hog"( a nickname for the King).
Marshal Sachet is not, as has been said, the son of a
hair-dresser, but of a rich manufacturer at Lyons, who
was also a Member of the Chamber of Commerce. He
was not at Paris during the last usurpation of Buonaparte;
consequently did not sit amongst the mock Peers, nor
sign the Acte Additionel.
According to letters from Lisle, the French Govern-
ment is resorting to every practicable expedient to restore
its military establishment ; and a project is stated
by which the Army is to be increased to e.00,0(0
men.

The Manitcrir contains a new proof of the efforts
making by the Government to conciliate the army, and
render it more efli:ctive. An Ordinance of the King
appoints, in several departmental legions, a number of
non-commissioned Officers to the rank of Lieutenants.
It also contains an official return of the quantity of
goods sold at the great fair of Beaucaire. The total va.
lue is estimated at more than 23 millions of franes.—The
sales, it is said, this year, exceeded' those of the last by
about 300,0001.
We find in the Paris Papers an article from Teneriffl.,
in which a most absurd and ridiculous hint is given of
Ferdinand of Spain to convey his precious person across
the Atlantic to his South American possessions. That.
Spain would flourish during his absence very little
doubt can be entertained ; but that South America would
be improved by his " beloved" presence, the sad ex-
perience of his conduct compels us unequivocally to
deny.
One of the Paris Papers records the acc.th of the dog
of the Ministry of War ; stating, that in 1808, the dog,
on the first night of his reception there, saved the chest
of the Ministry, which was attempted to be stolen by
: as a reco:npence for whizli service,' the them
Minister grarited to the thig a pension of 150 franca (61.
35.) per annum. His successes, the Count-D.j. Cessac,
who introduiccd economy into all the branches of the
service, amongst other things placed the 'dog tiPoii fief
By letters f:om Spain We lecrn,.thid anottei rifest dap.
ing and arbitrary act has taken place, which CeitainlY has
no parallel since the time of Phillip II: 'The Klneom er
'Mai-erre-is that portion of the Spanish Monaithy which
had retained its ancient rights and prtinitios lit the teed
;pe'rftict state; the encroachments eethe'Crii'ivtc 'and its
31butiters having beep felt there .less than In'eny ether
quarter.—A permaneht body of ntraitis frdm time btu-
meniotlat has existed, to whinnthegutardiitnifilis of these
rights and privileges was confided, and'whl itt(s'e always
been in it to watch over' then:l4'RA a jeatotts care.—
. NOtwithstanding the general dcuuntisttrof Die Throne,
th6e*ancient Charters have been.lield sacred; mud fin la,r
or royal order ha.i been ptornulgated in ItlaVarre, ieithout
having previciuSly subtnittel to this' Dirt. to
receive its sanetion.—'lliislxkly had the right to decinre,
Ivhettet any measure emanhting from the lib& was op.
posed to the Constitution of the province; and there the
King also' governed through the medium td. a Viceroy,
the only one knoWti:iii the whole Peninsula.; Ourletters
say, that an Ordei stas lately sent doWri linen Court 1;1r
promulgation in .fCtivarre ; and being tam before the De-
puties, thel'r Saul:Alan was refaseit It is added, tir:t in
consequenee of thi4, the Viceroy (Fspeteta) artest:.‘i the
;whole of &chi in their beds, and put them unto
This wet the last little shatitiw of 'civil' freedottif ttat rea
,mained in had Surficed the :lestruction o!. the
Constitntion of Arragon, and was be nril), partial rem-
,nant of that political liberty whi:•lueist*.labed the 'eu;-ly
atmils Of Spanish history. It hal :thin:et-b., een an eye-v•-e
lb tile Monerelis, but still thit Hactiot 'vetitared
rt
to over-turn it.
An article lions Carfa meatkns anot,bier efr-rt ckt

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Russian Party in the lonia; Isles, in the shape of an Ode,
in which the Finperor Aler.ander is invokes! as the sole
-rusnwer of their indepeurlyace. This, it is said, gave much
itineasiness to the Govtgnment ; and on the part of the
English Comtnissione!: endeavours were mode to suppress
"the Ode; whit-h ho ever, the people took a pleasure in
chanting tvhenevvr they had an opportunitv.—This dr-
eurnstance, how vcr trifling in itself, is evidently part of
tlaot 9,44N1V1K ilia, as we some time since observed, has
forits object to render paramount the influence of Russia
in 'ale -lifaiutt Isles, and which appears to be in constant
said increasing operation.
A Flatalers 4Glail has brought the following article,
Viuieh lu.,trays a spirit of hostility to England more viru-
lent and - otiensive than any thing experienced in the
reign of Buonaparte, because uggraeated by ingrati-
tude

Ut+Onr, AEG I.l.—An Englbilt Journal complains of the
whi,-11 are connuittet in this city agaiir4 the English
CoBllllllPree ; and alleges, in proof of its•charge, the little scene
•tif bun souti.lothil,kerchiers, and our article upon the shoes
'made 'lie a machine, %%Well are sold at Antwerp for IS sous
hostility, says the journal, resembles the mud sys-
Arm offThionaparte.
11.ettis . he allowed to answer it w words :
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'The English boast of-having alone dared to resist when the
VW-cis of Napoleon seemed not to be shaken. Their motives
iteratiy diminish the merit-of their resistance : more interest
od less danger. More interest than any other people to de-
Way the From% preponderance ; because the question was 're-
duced nearly to this—which of the two powers, France or Eng-
land, she,/.1 stile in Europe: less danger, because its position
:aerircd it from it. We do not mean to contest here the claims
NI bid, the English have to the ;:ratituile of the world, but to
tinder people front going in their favour beyond the truth, and
attributing to their zeal for the good of all, what is merely the
Tesnit of their regard for themselves.
Egotism is the true characteristic (rerhetl of this nation,
winch is admirable in so many other respects; this vice is that
of the age, and It is the result of the extreme. civilization of
which we are so vain. Unhappily all reasoning fails against a
passion so vile, and egotism cannot be combated except by
egotism. The example is given us by the nation which now
bolds the sceptre of the world ; and it is this domination which
destroys all the genet osity of its policy, which obliges Its to re.
prises that are 4tecome sacred and obligatory ripon all
'mations.
The mercantile patriotism of the English is e:ichisive and in-
ilifirrant4 it is passionate, because it is deeply interested. It
vois die rigour of their prohibitory laws that caused the inde-
pendence of the United States. It was (which must he re-
peated without ceasing) the evident opposition of its interests
4o time of Europe which created that mad continental system,
which would have sneeeeded and delivered all uations, bad its
author made it the sole objeCt of his policy. It is this same
Mad system which all nations will one day resnine it they are
reasonable.

,'.The Emperor of Russia is very attentive to his Navy.
A new 74 gun-ship was launcht:ll mi the 27th of June.
This is the-second new ship of the line launched within
S•few months. _

The ;lama Gavite ?elates a ewe instance of longevity:—
' Died on the 3d of July 6,3, in Kapottas-tivsnie, iu linugury,
a person named Michael 4.rattss, at the esti? of He nits
horn in tirgt, and has consiviently seen three centuries. Ho
was niair.ed three times—the last at the Pee of 114. The nnni-
beref his children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, up

In the fourth aener,atitsu, wi; serenig' ."
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A 'private letter from bbnerica states, that an intended
'insurrection of the Negroes has been discovered in South
Carolina.
At a place called Mackey's Saline, sacs an American
letter, the Indians took away two valuable negroes, the
,property'of an American, and committed other robberies
in the neighbourhood. They then escaped towards the
M ississippi, and passing through the Fl urricane Settlemen ire
committed fresh depredations. Major Cooper, with a
fatty of 50 or 60 men, pursued saa4 routed them near the
head of tlik Charetteau, 60 or- 70. miles distant. This affair
has excited considerable alann in Ainetica; becaUse the
Indians, when decided on woo, generally commerce hos-
tilitiesin this manner.
Mr. 11 Heath has lately invented in America a ma-
chine which entirely prevents Ovidosion.vin steani-boats.
Letters to the 24.1 of June crave reached town frOm
Buenos Ayres; by which it appears, that en official ac-
count had been received by the Govr,rnment, of Admiral
Brown having been made prisoner by the Royalists of
Liana. On the 9th of February, Brown appeared off
.Guayaquil with a squadron of ships, and commenced an
taut upon the place. hi order that his guns might act
with greater effect, he ran his vessel close in shore; when
the wind failing him he could not get her oft The
Royalists, perceiving his dilemma, sent down troops to
board her ; and, after a smart contest, the vessel was car-
ried, and Commodore Brown, with many others, made
prisoners. Twenty men escaped in the Commodore's
boat, .tad nearly as many Avert! killed and wounded.—
The second in command made application to the Spanish
tovernor to give up Brown in exchange for the several
prisoners he had on board the squadron : the propomil was
however rejected, unless Brown's successor would give
tin, besides all the prisoners taken on their cruise, the
whole of the squadron, except one vessel to return home
in, and pay a large sum in dollars. To this the new
commander would not agree, and next day fired on the
town. Ultimately, Brown was sent on board, on condi-
tion of giving up the prisoners, and also four vessels
which Brown had captured from the Royalists. The
Buenos Ayres Admiral was, besides, obliged to pay a
'handsome sum in dollars.

Monday the Dute of hunt wirl suite left his house ,at
Castlebar-hill, for Brussels, where his Royal Highuess
has takes house La ihx c Tsars.

THE NATIONAL IEGISTER.

hISTRESS OF TILE NATIOIN,

COMMON HALL, AUG. 21.

The Lord eveonatiended to the 3leetiog to treat with
iiilirtialie" all w ho should utFcr te vesak au the utiestiou about
t.o Le brought into diseussion--ou the Distressed State of the
Natiott.

The requisition was then tend,
Mr. Flower said, the (hot ess which pervaded the nation was
so generally known. that he did nut thick it necessary for hint
to eularee on the subject. The distress which reflected the
Agricultural Masses had been acknowledged by every Member
in the House of Commons. This was so great, it appeared,
that landlords were unable to get any rent ; that tenants were
constantly throwing up their leases and tly Mg their country;
and, that in Many plaits there were few, if any, left to pay the
poor rates. Every Gazette served but to prove the.exteut of
the calamity which had fallen ott the country ; and those he ad-
dressed, who, like hint, were among the middling classes, must
feel, that if the prese ut system wet e persisted iu, they, front
being independent of any great stile, must Pink lower
even than they were already, till they were at last compelled
to do that, than which they would rather die—ask alms. ellw
distress which now pervaded the country was so great, that it
was tilt by all classes—cv placetnen felt it. It' the distress
was meat here, he should wish to ask wind was the state of
things in Ireland ? He had to isitOrm the Meeting, that teem a
letter in his possession fium the Sister Country, it appeared,
" that, hoe ever great the calamity which iv a had to deplore, it
fell infinitely short of that which was at present endurA by
Ireland. 'There the distress was so great, that in the city of
Cork alone, s,OOO of the people were, of necessity, relieved
from the soup•shops. In Ireland, however, the uressiire
the times had been borne with such patience, that even the out-
rages wilier' had been committed, it had been thought right to
treat with lenity, and Ministers had singled out but a few to
suffer for them ; thus proving, not that any thing could excuse
what had taken place, but admitting that the unfortunate men
coucenved in them heel almost been arisen by uecessity int,
those course's which had ultimately exposed them to the ven-
geance of their country's lows. it had been said by that dis-
tirignished statesman and sinecurist, Mr. Hose, (laughter) that
it was most desirable to give to the poor the blessed comforts of
religion; he (Mr. Flower) was, however, of opinion, that those
who had any sense of religion, would not want the opinion of
a statesman and sinecurist like. Mr Hose on the subject. lint
how, he would ask, were the blessed comthrta of religion af-
forded to many of our fellow-creatures at the present moment ?
He would assert, that they acre debarred even from them
through the want of a gown and decent garments to cover
themselves with, to attend a place of worship. It was neces-
sary to look to the cause- of this distress ; as when the nation
laboured nuder such a disorder, mere palliatives were useless,
and in fact worse than uuthieg. The cause Of them was the
war which we had waged for twenty years, bi which we hod
spout a thoosaud millions of mimey (he did not say that we had
added so much to the national debt, but this it had cost in tVar
Taxes and In various ways), being.a, larger sum than had beep
spent by the nation in all the Wars of the two preceding cen-
turies. Within dip period lie had mentioned, the debts and
the public burdeasbort been increased at least fourfold. The
remit of-thee expenditnre of one thottsand millions was now
seen laud hr blessed God that it was), and the itoosequences of
war were becoming known to the nation. He hoped he should
not lie supposed to he fanatical, when he "Minded the meet-
ing that if had been said, " Righteousness was the support of
a notion; but sin, and war, if persevered in, would bring down
ruin on any..country." One item of our expenditure .was so
enormous, that he could *tot but advert to it ; the sums paid as
subsidies to foreign nations. He spoke within compass, when
he asserted these to amount to tar,000,6001. Reflecting on this,
he could hardly think the language of Mr. Serjeant Hill too
violent, though he had formerly thought it was ; when he (Mr.
Sergeant Hill), its speaking against foreign subsidies and wars,
said, he earnestly, wished that. two loaded pistols were regularly
oil the table of the House of Conimons; and that it should
be a standing
-under of the House, that when any Member dared
to propatte a subsidy to any foreign power, he- should only be
answered by the Speaker's blowing out his brains.—(Laughtor
fond applause.l—For the glory which we were said to has e gain-
ed the late War, he won'd contend, that it consisted but in
our-having stffivertad in other countries those principles which
had ever Cowen Adored by Englishmen. In France, it was seen,
we had imposed a Govermuent (notwithstanding the most so.
holm promises had been made on our part to the contrary) on
the nation, in opposition to the wishes of its iohahitants. P
had done thiS, though we had repeatedly assured the French
we wanted hot -to impose on them a Goveriatneot—that we
wanted nut to take from them any part of their territory—that
we %sauted only the removal of one man; and even this de-
mand was not made till tile very close of the contest. Prance
fiat been told to choose her own Government by the Allies ;
but when abaft to do so, she had been informed by the Duke
of Wellington, that the Confederates were resolved to restore
Louis X‘lll. Tido, he couteuded, was at once subverting
the rights of '45,0011;000 of men ; aud what, he would ask, would
our ancestors have said If such a course of proceeding had
f. gen imposed upon them, after they had thought proper
to cashier the Stuart Family In considering the remedies
to he applied to the existing, evils, he thought there was
one resource to which they might all look with confidence ;
that furnished by the Sinecure-holders and Pensioners. He'
begged to read a paragraph or two from a book which
he held in his hand, to chew what had transpired on the
examination of some of these "Nothing-to-do Men" (us they
were called in the bock he was about to read), by a Com-
mittee of the House of Commons. From this, it appeared, that
Mr. Rose had stated himself to kohl the office of Clerk of Par-
liament, by .t resersion granted before the death of his prede-
cessor in the Office, the ditties of which were now executed by
the Assistant Clerk in the House of Lords, under his (Mr.
Rose's) appointment. When asked, Welty inconvenience would
result from the abolition of his office, the Right Hon. Gentle-
man was stated to have said, '• he had some difficolty in an-
swering that qoestion," though he receir cal 9,0001, per ammo
for performing the duties of it. The examination of Mr. Steel.
he said, had proved that certain sinecures with which he was
connected might be abolished without inconvenience to the
Public; and the evidence given by the Clerks to wiintn the
Committee had been referred by " that Prince of Sineenvists
that great Pauper," Lord Arden, had beeti to the same effect ;
and it appeared, that the Noble Lord, doing nothing himself,
bid generally money in his hands to the amount of 2011,0M11..
(Applause and hisses.)—Such places ought to be done away and
the most rigid economy iutroduced. He referred to thet.m-
guage formerly held by Sir Fletcher Norton to the King; and,
pointing to the Statutes of Lord Chatham and Mr. Pitt, con.
melded on the priurirles which they oad severally maintained;
and reminded the Meetiug.that the warning voice of the forme r
had long since declared, " toot if the !louse of Outline/11a did
nut reform it4elf Au time withiu, it would Mate day be reformed