The National Register.
London, England, 1816-08-12 00:00:00

DIME NATIONAL IMGISTEIC

eighty youn7 latUtts 'arnica the streets of Paris, with
lighted tapers in their hands, on 'Thursday last, to implore
the patron Saint of Paris fiir tour weather ! It is well
known that the Parisians are, beve all others, lax in
their notions of religion, anA that these,pricessions excite
their most poignant ridicule.
An exception to the substance of a late Royal Ordi-
nance has been published in flivour of 11=4104 Oudinot.
The Ordinance states, that no person shall bear a tom-
mission in the Army and National Guard at the same
time. Ondinot is dispensed from this condition, and is
culled in the French Papers a second Hqurd!
The official part of the Monitemr contains a Royal Or-
dinance, by which the King has ordered all private per-
sons liossessing weapons of war to deliver than up to the
Mayors of their districts within a month's time.

Private letters limn Paris state, that the deficit in the
French finances is three millions sterling. In consequence
of this deficit, it is said, that as in us the Legislative
Bodice meet, in October, some Address will be moved'
to the King, to intercede with the Allied Powers to with-
draw or diminish the number of foreign troops, and to
prolong the period of paying the tribute.
We shall not be surprised ut such a manoeuvre ; on
the contrary, we have been, during lime tr.ae, prepared
for it. It will be in the style of French conduct towards
all the world ; and it will correspond but too much with
the conduct of the greater part of the world towards
England. But the continuance of the allied troops in
France is rendered necessary by the condition of that
country. The military establishments of probably every
Power—certainly those of England—are the greater for
the habits of aggressimi so long cherished by the French.
Let them, therefore, pay the expence of the vigilance
which they render necessary.

According to a pamphlet published in defence of the
late French Minister of Finance, M. Louis, it seems,
that the Allies, by a private engagement, received mo-
ney, viz. 25,000,000 of francs, from Ftance in the year
1814.

The Paris Papers say, that " M. Loisseau pleaded the
cause of Caroline Leruth, with much talent, before the
Court of Cassation ; but the insufficient grounds of hrr
application were demonstr►ted by M. Lebau, Advocat,.-
Genenil, and the Court rejected her appeal. Thus the
sentence of the Court of Assize, which condemned this
woman to 10 years•solitary confinement and the pillory,
for having assisted the Sieur —, Adjunct to the Mayor
of Monttlidier, in his atten:pt to,commit suicide, is con-
firmed."

Time and security, which soften the vengeance of the
law under other Governments, appear to sharpen it in
France. Fourtesm persons who mauitisted their dislike to
his Majesty on the 26th of June, 1815, at Montpellier,
have been tried and found guilty. Of these, live have
been condemned to death, end suffered punishment.
According to a German Paper, one of the resources of
the French Government to raise money consists in grant-
ing privileges to games of chance. Persons had been ap-
pointed to collect this soun:e of revenue in the places oc-
cupied by the Allies ; but it is stated, that the Duke of
Wellington sent them all back. Is it the religious Go-
vernment of France that resorts to such means?

The pillory seems a favourite mode of punishment in
the French code of jurisprudence. Hardly a week
passes in Paris without an exhibition of this kind. On
Friday se'nnight four females, none of whose uges exceeded
18, were pilloried at the Ciniciergeric.
An article in the Paris Papers from Civita Vecchia,
dated the 19th ult. mentions a new and most atrocious
outrage, committed off the heights of Cagliari, on the
crew of an English vessel by two Algerine ships, one of
them commanded by a nephew of the Dcy. The Eng-
lish vessel, which is called the Kent, was captured after
an obstinate resistance. The Captain, on seeing his ship
sink, used some reproaches to the pirate ; which the Bar-
barians resented by putting two of the crew to death,
and exercising upon the remainder every insult and out-
rage which his fury could suggest. If this account be
true, there can be only one opinion entertained in this
country on the subject ; and, if our financial difficulties
were infinitely greater than they are, yet it would
be mean and impolitic to pass over such au act of vio-
lence.

Extract of a Letter from Paris, dated July 29:
" The execution of the three wretches, Pleignier, Tol-
leron, and Carbonneno, whi,..h took place on Saturday,
was as horrible a scene as could be witnessed. It was
not till between eight and nine in the evening that the
convicts were brought to the plate of execution. At
length the cortege appeared cowing along the bridge
from the Palace de Justice: shouts of I be le Rol were
rAloubled on its appearance ; but this spirit was carried
to the most shocking extreme; it was with difficulty
that the guts dames could prevent a furious rubble, who
kept pace with them on each side, from going up to the
wretches who, appeared half dead upon the carts, for the
purpose of shouting in their ears t heircrime and their actual
condition. At length they arrived at the placeofexecutimi.
I saw the hand of the first persm cut off: he took off
his coat, waistcoat, cravat, and hat, without any violence
on the ixtrt or the executioner, who occasionally assisted
him; the convict then present:A ho arm bared, and, after
a kw seconds, put it into the fluid machine—the axe de-
scended, and in an no:tat-A the hand was cut off nt the
wrist: This was rollow4xl by terrific shouts Awn the crowd

AUGUAI. tt

A ,:liort time was allowed to elapse-, and the wretch Iva%
decapitated. 'f he other two suffered precisely in the same
way. Pleignicr, it is said, made some feet)]. strstggler.
I continued ott the spat, bat was s., horror-Ans~l! by the
first scene that'l us unable to look at what followed..?

In the Florence Gazelle we find a paragraph or two
respecting a Princess Maria Louisa) who once occupied
a large space in the public eye. It gives an account of
Iler Imperial Ilighttess's journey ; but adds, that she will
certainly return to 'Permit by the I.sth of August—"
memorable day with her Majesty," adds the Gazelle—" it
is Buonaparte's birth-day."—The last Papers from Aus-
tria complain openly sad bitterly "of the little cereniony
with which Kuria Louisa was treated during the trial or
the conspirators at Paris—of her never being entitled her
Majesty—and of the essal omission of her name in the
Gaul Calendar. They consider the silence which the
Parisian Editors are charged to observe concerning this
Princess, equally ridiculous and offensive."
Recent letters from Madrid, from undoubted authority,
state, that highly important changes arc on the eve of
taking place in that capital ; but of the nature of the
changes alluded to no explanation is given. An order
had been issued by the Government for a levy, by ballot,
of 60,000 men, to be embodied as a militia. In the
opinion of sonic persons, this measure is adopted with
the view of leaving the regular troops at the disposal of
Government, fiar the purpose of sending them to South
America and to Mexico, where their services are much
wanted. Others talk of an expedition being intended
tin. %Vest Florida, in the contemplation of a rupture with
the United States. The American Ambassador, it is
said, has proposed to abandon the claims of his Govern-
ment for seizures made under the Berlin and Milan De-
crees, on condition of West Florida being ceded by Spain;
but Ferdinand s Ministers declined all negotiation on the
subject. We regret to learn, that the Spanish Govern-
ment, whilst it continues to impose every species of re-
striction on the trade with this country, affords every
facility and encouragement to the introduction of French
produce and manufactures. Large purchases have, in
consequence, been made by Spanish merchants at the late
fairs in the South of France.

The King of Spain still continues at the watering-
place of Sacrum, accompanied by the lutlinte Don An-
tonio Pasqua. The Infinite Don Carlos, who has been
left as Regent in Madrid, has already been to give
signs of that inquisitorial and monastic spirit which has
lately so much distinguished the annals of Spain ; and
the Inquisition, under such auspices, has again com-
menced the reign of terror. Senor Quicpo, late 131.11. ,p
of Mechochan, in the kingdom of Mexico, and Mi-
nister of Justice for a few hours, has been arrested by the
Holy Office, as it is supposed, because he used certain
language in a pastoral letter by no means favourable to
the immunities of the Clergy—a subject of great deli-
mey in Spain. Some other arrests have a:so been
performed, awl among them Dr. Herrera, late De-
puty in the Cortes for Estremadura. King Ferdinand
appears lately to have entertained a distrust of his
Guards, and has caused a column of provincial grenadiers
to march up to Madrid, who had been reviewed in the
Prado.

fly letters from the United States we learn, that the
Congress of Mexico having assumed a regular form, the
Executive had named l)on Jose Toledo, late Deputy in
the Cortes of Spain for the Spanish part of St Domingo,
to proceed to England as Envoy from the Mexican
Patriots.

Letters from New York, dated the n of ,July, state,
that the Ex-King of Spain, Joseph Buonaparte, was at
Philadelphia, and bad been joined there by u great num-
ber of French Officers. It is strongly suspected by well-
informed persons at New York, acquainted with the
above panics, that some great object is in view with re-
gard to Spain. Our Readers 1611 recollect that Joseph
was crowned King of Spain and the Indies ; and it is
said, be has it in contemplation to try his tiirtune with
the Mexican Insurgents ; he is expected to join them with
as many experienced French Officers as he can collect,
and hoist the Independent Flag in South America,
where his presence would be a rallying point to the friends
of Liberty.

The laMt advices from Halifax expressed some surprise
that our Government were not making corresponding ex-
ertions with the Americans to be prepared for war; fir
in every dock and place, where u ship could be built,
were they carrying on ship building; and although it
may be some time befbre the United States may pur—
posely seek a quarrel with England, their principal mili-
tary and naval officers make no secret in stating, that as
soon as they arc properly prepared for war, they will not
hesitate to declare it.

It is said, that one of the last ships from Boston is
naviicated by at least one half British &sullen, natural-
ised.

While the German Papers continue to speak with the
utmost confidence of a meeting of Sovereigns at Carlsbad,
in Bohemia, the French Journals employ v,reat industry
in contradicting it. From this it is obvious, that the
French Government would look with a suspicious eye at
such u meeting, lest these august personages might pre-
some to legislate tin. France again.
The duchy of Laueuburg has been formally surren-
dered by Prussia to Denmark, as part of the indemnity
fur Pouierm