The National Register.
London, England, 1817-09-01 00:00:00

TITI' NATIONIT. T►FGIgTTft.

An American paper contain the following para-
graph :—" he Freud' em igrants towboat a quantity of
land has °cell allotted by the AmericainVongreas, in the
new pupcbase, for the cultivation of the vine and
olive,' arc now on the way up their Tombigbee, and in-
tend selecting a situation on the Black Warrior."

Fxtraet of a letter from :be agent fin. Lloyd's at
Malta, dated the 15th July :—" Information Iris been
received her,, that several vessels have sailed from
Alexandria, laden with grain and pulse, having the
plague on board. 'One vessel entered this via:intim
harbour the ..;11ult which had lost her supercargo, and
the master was il.. She was ordered out instantly, and
sailed for Leghorn, Venico, or Alexandria, as the wind
might otTer "
AVe extract the following article from the e'en'
lurk Commercial ;No rliser, of the ::oth July.—
" Latest from liavannah.—By the arrival at this port,
on Sunday last, of the Sehooner, Fair American, six
days from the Ilavannah, we learn that the armament
reported as haying sailed from that place to the relief
of St. AngLsiin, was nothing more or less than a
large number of Goineamen, which sailed on the
11th ult. under convoy, tar the coast of Africa—The
now. of the capture or Amelia Island had not re.ched
Ilavanna!l un the (loth ioA."

Extract of a Jetter from the agent to Lloyd's at
Christiansand, dated the Isth ult. :—" By accounts
front I:Lawsuit& of die IGt h 1:: St. a three masted sehoo.
no., supposed to be a Turk, captured a boy off the
coast oa the 11th, i7t the aftermym ; she was coming
fh.tti the westward, steering east. The cruiser fired
a gun, and shortly after took possession of the mer-
e!nitutnen. and atered .west. A great many vessels
are lying wind-hound in various harbours on this coast,
the weather having been tempestuous this lust fortnigt
from the west and south."

A Mail from Flanders arrived at a late hour last
night. The Brussels Papers reachel us to the 30th ult.
but contain nothing of importance.
' FRANKFORT At'o. ^R.—Baron flunitolat, Prlls-
- !:ni.:ter of State, and Minister Plenipotentiary to
the Coart of Lo!:don, is arrived here. We have hero
also Collrl. 1h Ar-
riswahl."

" Bnossrts, ArCi 27.—Meml.Eastri!. and Gelatin,
Ministers from the linitcol States of America, are ar-
rived at the lingue.
" Hi; Grape the Duke of Argyle, ant: a great many
rnglish Offl-rrs of rank, lx.th of the army and navy,
have arri-el Hcre, mostlyfrom Paris and Canabray. All
Minister.; Power::_ till Court of the Nether-
lands w. e:eceviVely leave Pro:N.:is for the Hague in
the Cour:c "f ncx; Ali our :71111/SZeTiai bureau
exeet orlon to j...?part eta: of Scpremter. The
Ittiiaat of Spain, l),n Fra:.eis Patti, w:to, during his
abode in thL City, hat recri'..e(l from their sLtjesties and
the Prin rs et. tl:c Royal Famiiy the most flattering and
mu: t r.ores of friendship and regard, was honoured
by the King en his la,t ‘isit with the Grand Cross of
the Belgio Lion, ward: his Maietay W 45 pleased to de-
liver to hint with his own hands. The Prince aopenred
very sensible to this new proof of the Royal kindm.ss,
and expresa to his Majesty the warmest gratitude."
At,o. 04.—The Duke of Weilington is expected
shout the end of this week at his hca:l-quarters at Cant:
bray. It is affirmed, that the King of Prussia will
arrive there in a tiny days after."
AUG seems certain that the Spe-
cial Tribunal at Brussels, will be very shortly engaged
with an action against a person Of distinction, who
xvill be judged, in default of appearing to answer the
accusations against hint. It is affirmed that the Go-
vernor of the province of Antwerp lets received orders
to prepare the Archiepiscopal Palace at Malines for the
reception of the Count de Mean, whom his holiness has
nominated to that See. This worthy Prelate will
quit his floA, for a time itt October, to sit in the first
Chamber of the States-General at the I

The Pmgnostiertiof t have this %leek met with most
serious disappointments, bat they have been so long used
to sec their prophecies belied, that they have ceased to
feel ashamed of their folly or falschtxxl, call it which
you win. Day ;the; day have tlic " independent" jour-
mils alarmed their readers with fearfal news front Carls-
bad, Where a coagre.•s of all the " despots" was about to
be 'hell, and where, no doubt, a duelly 1,!ow would be
given to the little remaining lilx;rty of Earopc. The
course of Prince NlL•ttemicii has been watched with as
tremulous an anxiety as the progress of a comet,

" Nat the I rn;th of Ophlirtti hale
In th' rvidc foky, and from hi. horrid liLir
Simko pti,t dente antl war:--"
Ana poor Mr. Lamb, whose intentions we dare swear
arc as harmless as the animal whose name he bears, has
been (logged at the heels with the most malicious
tirio..ity. Thew two personaz.s we were told were
a• Carlsbad, reaily to prove...a in their are:Oft:l work of
ois..re4sion. Now it turn:. tlha

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has never been there 1 and Mr. Lamb has gone to 15a.
den. Prince Schwartzenberg, also, who was to play
high part in this state tragedy, it appears is gone to
the baths of Toeplitz, and Count Carp° d'lstria, the
Russian weapon ‘of opprezion, is gone to Franzenbruna,
thence to proceed to St. Petersburgh. Thus hits this
portentous congress vanished into air, afilmding the good
people of England one more proof of the wisdom of the
Morning Chronicle.

We have received New Purl; papers to the Ist inst.
The folowing are extrects
"Nrw Yong, JI'LY adVices from Amelia
Eland conic down as late as the 9th instant ; at that
time the incliv;drals who had loft the Island previoL:s
to the arrival of the Patriots, had mmtly returned, and
appeared quite contented with the new order of things.
Genera; Affiregor was busily engaged in sending off
o tro!., to St. ,holm'', which place he was expected to
reacl: on the I th instant. St Augustin was stlictly
blockaded by a Patriot brig and the true Blooded
Yantee sloop of war, more than a match fir any
naval force which Spain has in the Western lletni4-
there.
"General Vandamme iz arrived at Philadelphia."
Extract of a letter from St. Salvador, dated 10th
June, to a gentleman in this city :
" The Pernan:buco revolution ended very shame-
fully to the Patriots (as they styled themselves', and
most of the head men will be shot. I saw Martins
and two others shot the day before we sailed.'
American papers to a late date have arrived. It is
said that the United States frigate the Congress, has
been seat to Port-au-Prince, to demand satisfaction of
President Potion fur having ordered the execution sof an
American seaman.

A very important State Parer, as it respects the tran-
quility of France, has been promulgatetlthis week. It
is the Convention or Concordat entered into between the
Pope and the King of France ; the-Bth article of which
stipulates that there shall be secured to all the existing
Sees, as well as to those which shall be created afresl.,
a suitable provision in landed property en rentes sm. I. Eta t
as far .as circumstances will permit, and in the mea3
time a sufficient revenue shall be awarded to the pastors
to ameliorate their condition. Endowments sh:1! at the
same time be rovided for the Chapters, the benefices
and the seminario aswell for those already iu existeacc,
es fur those about to be e,tablished."

The following paragraph appeared i i tl:e Ntr:rin
Chronicle of Saturday, as a letter fun:: aport.cf Spain,
i:ttlt of Jo' y, but received last from Trinadtul: ani
from the prominent bit;:ation wtich it oceopied in that
paper, we may sulpc be the kidiux attached some im-
portance to it :
" The Royalists arc running away fr,mt Angwlturs,
the capital of Guayana, an-1 they say it cannot 1::,w
hold out any longer, as the garrison, and the fcw it ':a-
bitants left, were compelled to live on bides, al, eh
was actually their thud at the very time thee peop:e
came away, and they are completely blockaded both by
sea and land. In a word, the Spm,iards arc dished ut
Venezuela :Ind New Gnmada."

The geographical knowt...'ge of the Morning Ciao-
nide, lads long Leon prov.Lrhial, and he is determined
still to l;cep up his naive.—Angostura is not the cßpi.
tal of Guayana, is not even in (inay:ut, nor within
coni.lcrable distance of the rC t ; 101 w it cool.] he Wel.-
OA by sea., therel;ire, the learned h:tlitoc shonhi have
told us : or Lew the Royalists could run away whoa
" completely Llookadecl by tea and land," wt: are tota:ly
at a loss to conceive.

This now Perda:nu de Pinto, this :mut of the
Morning Chronicle, is the strangest feilo‘v! His loatx
ab.mt the Carl.l4yl congress being exploded, clad his
falsehood or folly having been made evident, one w 0.11.1
have thought he would have been content far a wl.ile
to have confined himself to plain matter of fact ; hat
no !—laughing in his sleeve at the manlier in wh:ch he
had hoaxed his readers, he whips me round, and with
a serious face tells us, that he can assure us on fiasatho-
rity of the first respectability, that a Treaty has berm
carried into effect, under the powerful mediation :f
it ussia, binding Great Britain, and other Maritime
Powers, to etket in concert the submission and pa. i-
flea:ion of the Spanish Colonies." • We should be asham-
ed to devote a single line in our columns, to refute 5,.,•11
worthless tra It as this, did we not know that r ••; of

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the Sunday papers pin their faiths uixm this journal,
and that till the lies and nonsense which it manufac-
tures during the week, arc retailed out by them at se-
c tad hand on the Sunday. All that we think it ne-
cessary to observe on the paragraph in question, is, that
it is nol (rue ; and the Editor, who published it, must
have seen that it bore internal evidence of Llsehuud.

After all tl:e hottle,ing which the friends of reform
given my Lord Cochrane, they appear resolved to
a!)andon hint at last. The Merning Chronicle, the
organ of the " Independent Electors of Westminster,"
informed us on Friday, that, "it is now understood,
that in consequence of the noble lA,rd's present views,
he is not likely to return to this coantry for some time,
at least during the existence of the present parliament,
t Trefore his Lordship is expected to apply for the
Chiltern I lundreds." This is what his Lordship ought
to have hone long ago, or rnther the Electors of West-
insteronght long ego, (when they had it in their power)
'to have freed themselves of a mpresentntive, Whose eon-
ducthas for some time beet: the very reverse of ss hat we
expect in an intelligent being. But there is something
behind this announcement, which will not a little
amuse our rca ers. Lest the good people of West-
minster should take this retreat of hit Lordship too
ranch to heart, the Chronicle kindly consoles them
with the information, " that in the event of Lord C's
'going out, Roger OTonnor, Esq. will be proposed
as his successor !" This is finding " in the lowest
deep, a lower still", with a vengeance I Mr. Hunt,
and those friends of his who want to make clam work
of a reform in the "Com Mons House," have told us that
properly is not a necessary qualification for a Member
of Parliament, and that Mr. Hunt, therefore, is a fit
person to be a representative: it will now appear that
some other qualifications hitherto esteemed necessary,
can be dispensed ‘..itle and that Roger O'Connor, of
I)angan, in the county of Meath, may safely be
trusted with the libraries of the most populous city in
the united. kingtlotn !

A disianch which has been sent by the Austrian Com-
mandant of Semlin, to the Vice-President of the Aulic
Cottucil at Vienna, gives an account of the death of the
famous ('zernev Get,r-rm, s, Chief of the Servians, some-
what diffcrent from that with which the hist Paris Papors
supplied us. It al-Tears that Georges had gone to Se-
mendria under a titlse 11111ile, and concealed himself there
411 the house of a friend ; and that the object of this ha-
=ions step was to recover a treasure of 50,000 ducats,
which he had hid before quitting Servia, and with which
he now designed to retire into Russia. The friend, how-
ever, in whom be trusted, was either weak or wicked
enough to denounce him to the Pacha of Belgrade, who
iunnediatvly came to Setuendria with an escort of Janis-
saries, arrested Georges, and also a Greek who accom-
pauied him, caused them to be beheaded, and sent their
beads to Constantinople.

TUE VUENCII AcarfEnv.—The Members of the
French Academy, under the Preskieney of the Duke de
Levis, ossembled ou the festival of St. Louis about mid-
day in the Royal church of St. Germain Auxerrois.—
Among the Academicians were the Duke of Richelieu
and a untidier of the Peers of Franee. After ntass, Abbe
•Frayssinons ascon!ed the pulpit and delivered a dis-
course on the irreligious spirit of modern times, the de-
sign of which was to prove that no social order am sub-
sist under the evil doctrines disseminated by the false
-philosophy of the hat h:eentli Century, and that there
is no safety forVranee but in a return to that Christian-
ism under which it flouris'ied for so many ages. Allud-
ing to that common MUYi n of the day—that we must
follow the progress of the age—" Yes," said the Abbe,
"let us go along with the zige in all that is not incom-
patible with the maintenance of puldic ith
the peace of families, with the existence of society : let
tis ptih lilting with the age in the progress (t. the arts, in
the discoveries of science—in such new institutions as
stay result from the new relations which time has fmm-
til among the different classes of men : but let Its not
go along with the age in its evil manners, or in its evil
principles fir evil manners mid evil principles would
eni in destroying soviety itself, and all the brilliant ad-
vantages which it procures us."
It is reported that the young Prince of Portugal is
to come to Europe with his Austrian Princes immedi-
ately after their marriage, and that the royal couple are
to take up their residence and hold a Court at Lisbon,
while the King, his father, continues in the Brazils.—
Mr. Thorn on's mission is expressly to compliment the
Prince and Princess on their marriage, and, it isbelievetl,
'to accompany them to Europe.
Saturday's Gazette notices the permission of the
Prince Regent, fin. 11,:ar Arnim! Sir David Milne to
mrtaia armorial distinctions descriptions of the
11Cfe::.1::14 tote L,AV:I and port of Algiers. -

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE.

A singularly interesting case came on to be argued
before the Lord Chitticellor last Friday week, in the
course of which a disclosure of knavery was made that
must shock every mat who has any sense of honour or
honesty. In the year 1814, Benjamin Crosby, an eini-

vent bookseller, became insane, while his son Richard,
who was also his partner, had absconded to the Conti-
nent Mr. Miles, the successor of Mr. Joseph Johnson,
bookseller, being a creditor of Crosby's, took upon him-
self, the management of his affairs, and sold his stock,
copyrights, &c. thr a considerable amount. The largest
purchasers were Messrs. Balwin, Cradock and Joy, who
bought to theamount of 60,000' of which sum, 20,0001.
were paid by- a bond to become payable at the expiration
of seven years, by inotahnents of 1,0001. per quarter,
bearing interest payable half-yearly. This bond, Miles
sold or pretended to sell to Mr. ('hater, a stationer on
Cunha' (who is his fatherinlaw) for the sum of 9,5001.
though valued by competent judges to be worth the
full value of :10,0001. This he did without the con-
seat or knowledge of any of the other creditors of
Crosby.

After these transactions Richard Crosby returned
from the Continent, and from him and his father, Miles
obtained a release front all his engagement:;, and an in-
demnity for whatever he had done. Benjamin, the fa-
ther, died soon after this, and Richard, finding he could
not meet the demands coming against him, consented to
arrangements being made with Mr. Kitcat, a book-
binder, to whom be was indebted, for striking a docket
against him. This was done, and assignees appointed,
through whose industry the fradulent sale by Miles was
discovered, and an action commenced to recover the
bond. On this, it turned out that Kitcat, the petition-
ing creditor, tvhohad sworn to a Lbt of 1641. Ss. 81. had
made a wrotrg summation of 1001. in his account, conse-
quently his debt was not snlikient to enable him to be
a petitioning creditor, from which circumstance the
commission could not hold good, nor any action be sus-
tained under it. The business now came before the
Chancellor in the shape of two Petitions, the first front
Richard Crosby, praying that the commission might be
superseded at the expense of Kitent and the second
from the A*•:ignets, pr:l ing, that, Kitcat had failed
to,prove a debt of stab eient emaini;sion
might be superseded, and a new one is.sue,l ; under
which they might be able to act tin• the recovery of
the bond. This prayer the Chancellor granted, or-
dering the Assignies of/ their charges, payable by
Kitcat.

It was stated by Sir Samuel Romilly, that in the
examinutituis of ('hater, befinv the Commissioners, he
confessed, that Miles had given him the money to pur-
chase the bond, and that Le made the purehx,e nominally
for himself, but actually for Miles, althot:gb he at first
stated, as instructed by Miles, that he had purchased
the Bond on his own account !

We consider this case iu every point of view, so
important, and as exposing such an unprecedented
scene of villany, that we shall enter into the subject
at smite length in our next number.