The National Register.
London, England, 1821-04-09 00:00:00

TILE NATIONAL REGISTER.

L onDon.
MONDAY, APRIL 9.

Ittrosmorr EVENT .--Letters have been received
from Corfu, stating that an insurrection had broken
out in the Greek Islands of a most formidable kind,
amp for which secret preparations had been making
for a long time. It is understood that the Insur-
gents have been supplied from Odessa with warlike
stores of every description, that numbers of officers
have received Russian passports to pass over to the
Islands, and that considerable treasure has been
amassed to forward the attempt. There is no doubt
but that the Greeks uct in concert with Russia, and
that what was foreseen by every able statesman will
speedily be realised. The Emperor Alexander will
make the emancipation or the Greeks the pretext fitr
an attack upon Cunstantiliople ; and it is most pro.

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liable that this was to be his equivalent for acqui-
escing in the subjugation of Italy by Austria. -Here
then, if this news, which is communicated to us by
letters of high authority, we have the commence-
ment of a wad• in which we cannot fail to be
involved, unless we arc willing to submit to the
unbridled ambition of these Despots, and quietly see
the Turkish dominions, the lonian Islands, Malta,
Italy, and Sicily, delivered over to them.

TILE Catholic Bill (the two having been incorpo-
rated into one) has passed the Mouse of Commons,
and been introduced to the Lords by Sir John
Newport, who (in the regretted absence of Mr.
Plunkett, by whom it was brought iii) has gained
credit withall parties by the efficient and gentlemanly
manner in which he has conducted its progress.—
As we anticipated last week, the Lord Chancellor
and Lord Liverpool each discharged his artillery
of opposition to this Biil, and we have no doubt
will redeem the promise they gave of opposing
it in every stage, and however it may be modified
—but is the House of Lords—the inherent branch
of our legislature—to be ruled by the dictum
of intolerance, pronounced by two men, in opposition
to justice, honour, hoaes:v, and gratitude. We do not
mean to impugn the motives of these lords—we
doubt not they act from the most conscientious feel-
ing, but we do know that the view they take of the
measure is founded in bigotry and narrowness, and
we trust,fervently trust we shall see them defeated—
we arc not yet without hope of seeing that time,
when a man may be allowed to serve his country,
without any stipulations whatever on the score of
his religious creed—whoth,:r he address his hymn
of gratitude to the east or to the west, and we
would impress upon our readers, and the country at
large the applicability on this subject of the divine
interrogatory—" Who has made thee a judge between
him and toe ?" Lord Castlereagh appears determin-
ed not to be too popular—his honest endeavours on
the Catholic Bills gave rise, perhaps, to a fear that
he might be esteemed by the country (a fear we
sincerely believe to be entirely unfounded), and he
therefore mustered all his forces to oppose the repeal
of the New Malt Tax, tin the abolition of which a
majority of the IL use had declared a necessity, and
for the continuance of which not one honest reason
can be assigned. Nevertheless, and we. speak it
with deference to the House of Commons, that
honourable House, acting, cu Girouclic, threw out
the Bill on its second reading, which they had
declared desirable, necessary, and just, on a prior
evening—how long the House may remain as it is
we know not, but while its votes are opposed
to the ardent wishes of the People, it certainly
appears to us an anomaly to call its Members the
" IRepresentatives of the Commons of England."—
To allude to any wic speech in support of the
Bill may seem partial, but its excellence demands
that we call our readers attention to the second
speech of Mr. COKE upon the subject.
The Game Laws have given rise to an animated
debate in the House of Commons—the aristocratical
part of the community laud these di.-graces to our
statute-book, because they " draw a line of distinc-
tion between the upper and lower classes," as if a
merchant, with an income of ten or twenty thousands
per aIIIIUIII, had not as good a relish, and as good a
claim to a hare, a partridge, or a pheasant, as a man
possessed of land enough, not to keep, but to starve,
his family upon. The motion for the repeal of the
Agricultural Horse 'fax, it will be seen, has been
withdrawn, on an understanding that the recom-
,nendatioa of the Agricultural Committee, now
sitting, if it go to that point, shall be acceded to.

We received a I lamburgh mail on Saturday mon:
ing, from which the linbiwing are extracts :
CAsset., March Y4,—Wc know here no founda-
tion whatever for the report which we find in the
Hamhures Currespndenten, of territorial acquisiti-
ons, likely to be made by the Kingdom of Hanover,
in the County of Schaumburg, in consequence of
thedeath of the late Elector of

STOCKUDLM, March 20 —A rcasonaUe Pibposal
having been made to alter the mode hitherto adopted,
tir calculating the amount of the import duty on
f4eign wool, his Majesty has decided that the duties
shall hencefinward be estimated according to the
value of the article.

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Bygger still refuses to confirm his statements by
evidence.

By the latest accounts from the town of Gcfle,
the province of Geflulland, we learn that the
wolves have devoured several children in the neigh.
lwitirhood. A girl nineteen years of age has also
been a victim to these ravenous creatures.

The King has given 8,000 dollars from his privy
purse, for the sufferers by the fire at %Vimmerby.
It is positively affirmed that the application made
by the Ex King of Sweden to the Norwegian diet,
to obtain the rights of a citizen in Norway, is to be
considered as having never existed.
COPENHAGEN, %fell 27.—The shares of the
Asiatic company 4,800 in number, arc for 400 dol.
lars specie each

In.the general meeting, on the 15th January,
the directors were also authorised by the proprietors
to take suitable steps lot. the recovery of 500,000
dollars, which sum was lost by the occupation of
Serauspore by the English, in 1808. The recovery
of this last sum is considered as in some measure
uncertain, notwithstanding the solemn declaration
of Lord Minto that all private property should be
respected.
Three persons lately deceased, have left in the
whole a capital of about two millions, which, if
the amount of Bank-notes in circulation is taken at
twenty-five millions, makes one-twelfth of the whole
circulating medium of the kingdom.
By recent Jettters from France we learn, that
a squadron is assembled at Toulon, composed of
French, Neapolitan, Netherland, and Russian ves-
sels. Two Russian frigates have already arrived, .
time Am: and Commerce de Paris; they are put
under the orders of the French commander.
The funds it seems mm to he pretty well ascer-
tained that it is a Bull account at time Stock Ex-
change, and the funds arc consequently heavy.—
Consols for money having declined to 71i, and for
the account to 72, The efforts of the Jews to rally
have proved unsuccessful ; and the sanguine ex-
pectations that consols for account would reach 741,
have not been realized as yet, nor is there any good
reason to suppose they will remelt that quotation
This month. At the present the consols are 71j for
money and 72 for the account.

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Chatham Dock-yard :•••••
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Etna, bomb
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Micalisk, Revenue Cutter I
A tew evenings back George's Isleworth short
coach was overturned at Hammersmith, in conses
quence of one of the wheels coming off, owing it is
supposed, to the linch-pin having been taken out.
Mrs. Turner, of Isleworth, one of the passengers,
was unhappily killed on the spot; her husband had
his collar bone dislocated; two other passengers
were severely wounded, and the coachman had bis
jaw beaten in, and was otherwise much hurt.
A Flanders mail brings a report, that the French
Goveinment means to form an army of observation,
of 30,000 or 40,0110 men men, in the South of
France.—The revolution of Piedmont, and the
simultaneous disturbances in Grenoble and Lyons,
are assigned us the cause• Marshal Victor, Duke
of Belluno, is to have the command, with very ex-
tensive powers. It is probable, however, that the
change which has taken place in Piedmont, together
with the success of the Austrians in Naples, will
render the thrmation of-so large a force unnecessary.
The mail brings no other news.

The greatSletple Chace.—The sporting match
between Captain Manton and Mr. Mulpas, for 'lob
guineas, took place on. Thursday morning from
Mount Sorrel "louse, Surrey, to Finley Cover, a dis-
tance of 11 miles of difficult country.. To make the
nearest way there were many perilous leaps which
the horses cleared with their riders in fine style, and
left the greater part of a field of sportsmen who ac-
companied them. The competitors kept together to
the Maley ('over, when they separated and skirted
it at of posite angles, and at the ridge of hills, three
miles from Frintley, the race become interesting.
It was neck or nothing down the hills, with leaps
nearly six feet. But the most interesting part was
the leap at a rivulet of 14 feet, which might have
been avoided by taking a route of a quarter of a
mile Both horses cleared it in gallant style, and
the race came to the speed of the horses up the hil ,
to the Cover, and Capt.tiu Mantua wou it by 2uo
yards in 8/ minutes.