The National Register.
London, England, 1822-11-18 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18.

The rumours of'a rupture between France and
Spain have subsided, and of course their effect
upon the Funds has ceased—the depression was
great, Consols having been done at 79—but they
appear likely to regain progressively the height
they had before attained, which was about 83.
Foreign Stocks also went down, and indeed in a
much greater proportion under the panic, but they
have been improving since—nothing but a degree
of fear as to the stability of the Governments could
keep the market of Foreign Stock so low as it is,
while it will nct from 6 to 7; per Ct. at the same
time that in no English Stock can you make four
per Cent.
The Congress still sits, and the Duke of Wel-
lington is still unnecessarily with it—we do hope
that some independent Member will notice this sub-
ject in the House of Commons—if the expence were
the only consideration, it would be important, but
when the dignity of the empire is compromised, it
becomes doubly so.
Little Waddington has been sent for IR months
to Coldbath Fields, for selling one of Carlile's
works—the perseverance of these people, without
entering i•ito the right or wrong of the thing, ap-
pears to be almost madness, forasmuch as they must
know that the arm of the law will ultimately be too
strong for them, and for ourselves we cannot at all

Lvasider it desirable to place in the hands of the ig-

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Durant and uninformed plausible fallacies, by which
they may be deprived of an all-comfortable hope with-
out the powers of mind competent to the comprehen-
sion of arguments which thus defraud them—a poor
female maniac, who was brought up fur judgment
under a similar conviction, is to appear again on
the fourth day of next Term—this foolish woman,
forsaking her proper functions,

• I To stickle fools,"
" And chronicle small-beer,"
must enter into the labyrinth of Political and The-
ological controversy—we cannot but think that a
confinement in Bedlam would be more appropriate
than in any of his Majesty's Gaols.

The following is an extract of a letter, dated
Senegal, Sept 27 :—" The camp of Aucar, the
Moorish Chief in the British interest, has been sur-
prised during the night. The loss of tents, rattle,
and nearly the whole of his party, his two sons
having been killed. and 274 muskets taken, is the
result of this enterprise." Another part ot' the let-
ter refers to dissensions which appear again to have
broken out between the natives and the Europeans.
Extracts of letters from Gibraltar :—" Oct. 12,
There has been a considerable stir in trade here
lately. The export to Spain of British manufacture
is very great. Several officers of the defeated Spa-
nish Guards and carabineers are occasionally drop-
ping in here in disguise, and proceed to Marseilles,
where it is reported they are provided with funds to
take them to the Army of the Faith."—Oct. 28 :
" The Sardinian squadron has at length taken its
departure—some say for Genoa, but that is not be-
lieved to be its destination. -Officers of King Fer-
dinand's party ore continually coming in here in
disguise, and they proceed to sea by way of Mar-
seilles to join the Army of the Faith. One of
considerable consequence is now here, I mean Lieut.
General the Count of Casa Saria, a gentleman of
the King's bedchamber. He was one of the depu-
ties who came here in 1808, on the first breaking
out of the revolution in Spain against France, and
made the first treaty signed with Sir Hugh Dal-
rymple."
Letters from Naples state, that the Princess Par-
taw, wife to. the King of Naples, had nearly lost
her life from an accident which occurred soon after
his Majesty's departure on the '22,1 ult. for Verona.
The Princess had ascended to her beautiful villa, the
Ploridiana (once the country house of the sungui-
nary and treacherous Salieetti), which is situate on
the hill of the Yomero, neat Naples; and she was
returning by the steep paved road to the city, in a
' carriage and four, when the horses took fright, and
set off at full gallop down the hili The coachman
was thrown from his seat and severely hurt ; but
after running some distance, one of the horses
fell and the carriage was stopped. The danger in-
deed was very great, for, besides the road being
extremely steep, it is in several places over consider-
able hollows. The Princess had sufficiently reco-
vered from her alarm to set off on the 24th for
Verona. M. de Serra, the French ambassador at
Naples, left the capital for Verona on the 22d of
October.

A letter has been received from Mr. Salt, dated
at Cairo in August last, with the following infor-
mation :—" A roll of Papyrus, measuring about
eleven inches in length and five in circumference,
has been discovered in the island of Elephantina,
and purchased fi,r Mr. W. Baukes. It is finind to
contain a portion of the latter part of the Iliad,
very fairly written in large capitals, such as were in
use during the time of the PotolNuics, and under
the earlier Roman Emperors. The lines are num-
bered, and there are Scotia in the margin. A copy
is to be made from this valuable MS at Cairo, that
it may serve as a duplicate, in case of any accident
on its voyage to England. The person who pro-
cured this treasure tin- Mr. Bankes is a young man
who has been in his employ for sorne-years, to ex-
plore such part of the antiquities and geography of
the Fast as were left unascertained by Mr. Wakes
himself."

A Brazil packet has just arrived, with letters from
Rio Janeiro to the 14th September, but they men-
tion no news. The Prince was daily expected bad
from the Province of St. Paul's, where all the dif-
ferences with the Junta had been settled. Trade is
represented as being in a very dull state, owing to
the circumstance of most of the shopkeepers being on
militia duty, and, mercantile letters acid, they buy
little beyond their actual wants, in consequence of
the unsettled state of the country. The Conway
had arrived at Rio, from Sun Bias on the coast of
Mexico, with specie on board, and without touching
in any pert of Peru. No later udvices had been re.
ceived limn Lima ut Rio than the I.2th of June,
which date is not neatly so recent as that of the
ue-
cnunts we have previously received from the sante
quarter, by the way of Panama amid New York.