The National Register.
London, England, 1811-02-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

appoint the hopes of those men who till then
had volunteered in his service, because they
thought it would lead them to honours and fortune.
These political Titans although totally overthrown,
have not even the satisfaction, like the giants of
old, of venting their rage in groans that would shake
the land. Interest, not respect, restrains them.
They fancy that his ROYAL HIGHNESS will one day
be won over by their affected resignation. They
try to impress him with the conviction that the only
spring of his conduct has been personal reverence
to the wishes of his afflicted Father. They praise
his filial loVe, and with a degree of inconsis-
tency which proves the servility of their ambition ;
do not charge the Regent with having sacrificed
the interest of the country, by keeping the present
administration in power, although as long as the
same ministers held their authority from His Ma-
jesty himself, they denounced them as the enemies
of freedom and the constitution, and forbode the
speedy and unavoidable ruin of this once flourishing
empire, unless they were quickly removed from
their

,osts.

Ministers, it is said, have laid before the PRINCE
the arrangement for which they propose to apply
to Parliament, as a Household for his Royal High-
ness during the period of the Restrictions.
On Tuesday the pu`3lic mourning ceased for the
death of the much-lamented Princess AMELIA.

It will be recollected, that some weeks past, a
n•lst melancholy history of a dreadful massacre in
Constantinople; appeared before the Public, in the
shape of a Turkish Bulletin, said to have been found
in a German Paper. The account first appeared in
a Sunday Paper • the disturbances were there stated r'
to have taken place on the second of December.
Letters of the 7th of the same month were on
Friday received in town, which do not even hint at
such an occurrence, and it is now very reasonably
presumed, that the whole was a fabrication. It is
also remarkable, that no notice of the event ever
found its way into the French Journals, although, if
true, it was calculated to produce more than com-
mon sensation in that country.
The great scarcity of change that has prevailed
for some time past, has proved a very serious in-
convenience. to the mercantile part of the town.
To Bankers in particular it has operated with the
most disagreeable consequences ; many of them
have had recourse to requesting their customers
not to draw for fractional sums ; others, from a
desire to oblige and accommodate them, by paying
odd sums in their drafts, have been induced to
give a premium of two or three per cent. for silver
and small gold..—This latter expedient, however,
must be considered as the most likely method to
in Tease rather' than diminish the evil ; and Bank-
ers, it is hoped, will not fail to perceive the great
ing a practice, which, in its
to produce the most mis-
consequences to the Public

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

PORTUGAL.

LISBON, FEN. 3.—" We have nothing ihiportant to communi-
cate relative to our armies. Daily accounts are received from
head-quarters, which mention that all remains quiet; but as the
spring is now rapidly approaching, active operations will nu
doubt soon be resumed.
" Deserters from the enemy mention that they are to receive
large' reinforcements early in this month, and that in the middle
of this month a grand attack is to be made onus. How far this
is correct we shall soon know, but await the appointed period
wlth perfect confidence. The death of the Marquis De La Ro-
mana is greatly to be lamented, as is the fall of Olivenza and
Tortosa. The enemy is now besieging Badajoz ; should they
carry this also, it is probable they will enter Portugal through
Alentejo. The lines on the other side are daily strengthening,
and we trust they will be the means of keeping the enemy at
bay, so as to prevent their coining so far as the opposite side of
the city."

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