The National Register.
London, England, 1818-10-19 00:00:00

TIIE NAT/ONAI. REGISTER

Private letters from the Continent state, that seve-
ral commercial houses at I'aris have been informed by
their correspondents, " that the United States of' Ame-
rica have ctlered a sum of j0.000.000f, to the King of
the Two Siciliea ibr the cession of the port of Syracuse
This proposition was rejected. It is well known that
Americans use every efl,,rt to procure an establishment
in the Mediterranean, and that they have successively
directed their attention on Porto Furrajo and on Mahon.
In the fear of injuring the commerce of Leghorn, the
Grand Duke of Tuscany has refused them the Isle of
Elba fur which they offered fourteen millions."
The American papers ring the changes on- the old
subjects of the Indians, the Floridas, &c : to this has
been lately added a third—namely the capture of Ame-
rican fishing vessels, fi►r intruding upon the fishing
grounds of the English colonies.
Montreal papers have arrived to the 12th of Sep-
tember. The new Governor of Upper Canada, Sir
Peregrine Maitland, has already begun the grata') ing
work of redress.

It appears from the most recent letters from Constan-
tinople, that the agitation among the Janissaries is not
yet wholly allayed The Divan have held several coun-
cils to deliberate upon the note which should be re-
turned to the Russian Ambassador, in reply to the one
which he presented to the Divan.
A part of the wines destined fur his Majesty the
Emperor of Russia have been seized by the officer of
customs of the Low Countries, for a false declaration of
their prices.—Paris Paper.
A letter, purporting to be written by the French
General Gourgaud to the Ex-Empress Maria Louisa,
has appeared in most of the daily papers. No one
vouches for i's authenticity ; but, considering the efforts
so visibly made for the liberation of Buonaparte, or for
a relaxation of vigilance, which would have the same
effect, we see no reason for questioning the authenticity
of the letter ; though, perhaps, the writer might be
more anxious about its publication in England, than
its delivery at Parma. The internal evidence is also
very strong in its favour. None but a real adherent
of Buonaparte, and an imitator of his effrontery, could
speak of a man as "dying in the most dreadful torments
and in the most prolonged agony," because ,he is re-
stricted to a space of several leagues, in an island which
has long been voluntarily inhabited, and because he
rethses to take exorcise there in the presence of a British
Officer. He is well known to be attended by a very
expensive suite; yet the first paragraph of this letter
represents him to be " without frtend4, without rela-
tions, without intelligence of his wife, or of his son,
without consolation." May we not add—without a
France to tyrannize over, without a Europe to ravage,
without a D'hinghien or a Palm to. execute publicly,
or a Wright or a Toussaint to murder in a dungeon, or
a body of Magistrates to shoot (as at Milan) for defend-
ing their city ; or any consolatory hope of a return to
the other practices in which nearly 20 years of his life
were passed, except front the liberality of an English
public ?
THC FUNDS.—The final settlement of the Army of
Occupation quitting the Frenvil territories was expect-
ed to have had a considerable efl'ect upon the British
Funds, and accordingly speculations to an immense
amount were made by monied men ; but when the ac-
count was communicated, stock varied very little. The
depression which took place on Thursday, is attributed
to a different cause. ' . on that day there was an unex-
pected issue of New Exchequer Bills to the amount of
100,0601. The surprise and astonishment which this
influx of paper in the market created is scarcely credi-
ble, as it was generally understood that no fresh issue
of Exchequer Bills would take place this year. Con-
sols were then at 764, but immediately fell to 75k. At
the time of the issue, the old bills were from Us. to
255. premium ; but the new ones being issued at 20s.
caused a reduction of old and new to I 9s. premium,
and on Saturday they were as low as 17s. ; the issue
taking place on the eve of paying the dividends, gave
rise to a report that it was in consequence of the scar-
city of cash in the Treasury. There is ut present a very
great scarcity of cash, and good bills, which were a
short time since eagerly sought after to be discounted
at 4 per cent. find a difficulty in being done at 5 per
cent which is attributed to a determination on the part
of the Bank of England to limit the qUantity of dis-
count. The London Bankers are said to have issued
circulars to their country connexions, informing them
that in future their discounts must also be limited :
and thus a check is put to the immense quantity of pa-
per which has been in circulation.
The tumults of the manufacturing districts seem
almost to be dying of old age ; at least they ore now
but little attended to The partisans of confusion
seem to be aware of this; and are said to send repre-
sentations to London in letters dated from Manchester
and Stockport, descriptive of tumults present and fu-
ture, which have no existence, and are likely to have
none. _ _ _
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.•The Asa which has taken place in the standard of
copper ore is considerable The advance, on Thursday
week, at Poole, was 91. a ton ; making an increase
of 211. within the last five weeks ; or from 126 L to
1471, a lam