456 Treaty between the Netherlands and Spain. chambers of his intention to maintain the charter inviolate, and recommended unanimity and mutual confidence to the different branches of the legislature. The sentiments expressed in this speech were re-echoed by each of the chambers in its address to his Majesty upon the occasion. In the sitting of the Chamber of Depaties, of which Baron Pasquier, minister of justice, has been appointed president, on the 14th November, Count Corvetto, minister of finance brought forward the budget for 1817. Notwithstanding the surprize and admiration which he affected in his introductory speech to feel at the prosperous state of the revenue, it is obvious that a considerable defalcation has occurred in the receipts of the present year, which together with the false estimates of 1815, renders it necessary to make the budget of 1817 exceed the last by nearly 300 millions of francs. Some new taxes are proposed, with a loan of 30 millions to meet the deficit, so that the whole annual expenditure including the charges of the foreign army and contributions will amount to 1,088,294,957 francs, or about 45,346,000l. sterling. On the 16th, the projet of a law was submitted to the Chamber of Peers, for authorizing ecclesiastical establishments to receive by way of donation, with the permission of the King, or to purchase landed property, moveables and rents, the same not to be alienable without the royal licence. General Ameilh has been tried par contumace, by the first permanent council of war, and found guilty of treason for having appeared in arms against his Majesty, at the return of Buonaparte. It is rumoured that the French government is once more turning its attention to the recovery of St. Domingo, nay, it is even asserted that 4,000 men are on their way for that island, where Petion is reported to be disposed to submit to the royal authority. These statements however are so vague, that we consider them to be thrown out with a view to excite disunion among the Haytian chiefs, or perhaps to sound the scutiments of Britain in regard to such a project, rather than as being founded on facts. [Dec. 1, and his Majesty the King of Spain and the Indies, animated with an equal desire to put a check upon the piracies of the Barbary Regencies, and to procure to the trade and navigation of the Mediterranean all possible security, desiring to cement their alliance by a solemn treaty, and to fix the extent and the means thereof, have given their full powers for this purpose, viz. his Majesty the King of the Netherlands, to Mr. Hugues Zuylen de Nyevelt, Knight of the order of the Belgie Lion, and his Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his Catholic Majesty, and his Majesty the King of Spain and the Indies, to Sieur Pedro Cevallos y Guerra. Counsellor of State, Knight of the order of the Golden Fleece, &c. First Minister of State, &c. who, after having exchanged their full powers, have agreed on the following articles : Art. 1. This alliance is purely defensive, and its object is to protect the commerce of the powers who are parties to it. 2. This alliance shall subsist so long as the Regencies of Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli do not renounce their offensive system towards the property of the subjects of the contracting powers. 3. If one of these shonld be injured by any corsair of the three regencies, it shall be the duty of the consuls of the allied powers to claim reparation of the government of the offending party by legal means, and if justice should not be done, the allied powers shall agree, if necessary, to proceed to reprisals, to an amount answerable to the offence coinmitted. 4. It shall be considered as an offence against the allied powers, if one of the regencies takes justice into its own hands, by seizing the property of the subjects of the contracting parties, without having previously tried other means, or established proceedings to obtain justice and satisfaction. 5. As an offence committed against the allied powers shall be considered the arrest of the consuls for debts of private persons, or of their respective sovereigus, since the regencies ought to employ for the purpose of claiming them the methods adopted by civilized nations. 6. The allied powers will also consider themselves offended if any present is demanded from them as obligatory, even though founded on custom. 7. When one of the powers shall be attacked by the Barbary States, without having provoked the attack by any hostile act, then the alliance shall have effect. 8. The obligation of the allies to defend the offended party shall subsist till just reparation has been obtained for the damage caused by the offence, and also an indemnity for the expenses of the war. 9. Neither of the allies can enter into a negociation with the common enemy without the consent of the other. 1816.] Treaty between the Netherlands and Spain. 10. The contracting parties engage to employ a sufficient force to defend and protect their commerce against the piracies of the Barbary powers. 11. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, shall furnish in consequence a ship of the line, and six frigates, and his Catholic Majesty a ship of the line, two frigates, a brig, and 16 gun-boats. 12. The chief command shall belong to the senior officer of the same rank. 13. Each power shall bear the expense of maintaining its respective forces, and all shall be stationed in the ports of Spain, the best situated and defended to fulfil the object of the alliance. 14. The maritime forces of the Netherlands shall be supplied at a reasonable price in the ports of his Catholic Majesty, with all articles of urgent necessity, as well for the repairs as a munition and provisions, on payment in bills of exchange, at sight, on the government of the Netherlands. 15. The convoys from one port of the Mediterranean to another, shall be fixed at certain periods, and the merchantmen belonging to the subjects of the contracting powers, shall be equally protected and convoyed. 16. A cruising squadron shall be stationed before Algiers, to hinder the corsairs from going out, or to intercept them on their re turn. 17. Another squadron shall be stationed before Tunis, in case of war. 18. Tripoli having hardly any maritime force, it will be easy for the above-mentioned cruising squadrons to keep it in check. 19. When war shall be declared against one of the Barbary powers of Algiers, Tunis, or Tripoli, the vessels which shall fall into the power of the cruising squadrons shall be immediately burnt or destroyed. 20. The powers engage to pay the value of them to the captors, and this sum shall be divided according to the existing regulations of the power whose men of war shall have made the capture. 21. If vessels of war of different nations have made the capture, these powers shall pay the value according to the number of the respective crews: each power shall pay this premium to its crews. 22. The prisoners of war shall be divided in the same proportion. 23. The present treaty shall be communicated to the courts of Portugal, Turin, and Naples, by his Catholic Majesty, who shall invite them to accede to it. His Majesty the King of the Netherlands, shall make the same communication and invitation to the Courts of Petersburgh, Stockholm, and Copenhagen. 24. The present treaty shall be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at Madrid, within six weeks, or sooner if possible. In testimony whereof, we, the plenipotentiaries undersigned, by virtue of our respec NEW MONTHLY MAC.-No, 35. 456 tive full powers, have signed the present arms. Done at Alcala de Henares, Aug. 10, 1816. (L. S.) H. DE ZUYLEN DE NYRVELT. ADDITIONAL ARTICLES. 1. His Catholic Majesty, not being actually in a state of war with the Dey of Algiers, the commander of the Spanish naval forces shall repair with the maritime forces of the King of the Netherlands, before Algiers, and by virtue of the 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th articles of the treaty of this day, shall demand from the Algerine government, reparation for the offences committed against both the contracting powers, declaring at the same time, that the intention of the powers is scrupu lously to observe towards the Barbary powers the laws of nations as established in Europe. 2. If the Algerine government refuses to listen to the voice of justice, and will not give the reparation required, the casus fœderis of the present shall be recognized as having taken place, and the respective forces of the contracting powers shall act according to the stipulation of articles 7, 8, 9, 19, 20, 21. GERMANY. The Diet of the Germanic states con voked for the purpose of forming a federative constitution embracing the whole The first of those states, was opened at Frankfort on the 5th of November. meeting was occupied by mere formali ties, and the ambassadors were to re-assemble on the 11th. The Prince Regent has appointed his brother, the Duke of Cambridge, gover nor-general of the kingdom of Hanover, avowedly on account of the particular attachment of his Royal Highness to that country. The marriage of the Emperor of Austria with the Princess Charlotte of Ba varia, was solemnized at Munich, on the 29th of October. The King of Wirtemberg died after a short illness on the 30th of October. His successor who so highly distinguished himself in the campaigns of 1813, and 1814, against France, and who since married the amiable Duchess of Oldenburg, was presented by her with a prin cess about an hour before the decease of his father. The queen-dowager, the eldest daughter of bis Britannic Majesty is expected to return to her native country as soon as her health which is very precarious, will permit. Another German prince, closely connected with the royal family of Great Britain, the Grand-duke of Mecklenburg3 N VOL, VI. 458 Incidents, &c. in London and Middlesex. Strelitz died still more suddenly, of apoplexy, on the 6th of November, in his 75th year. He was brother to her Majesty, and the father of the Duchess of Cumberland, and the late Queen of Prussia. NAPLES. Mr. Pinckney, whose mission to Naples lately excited considerable attention, has left that city for Petersburgh, [Dec. 1, where he is to reside as ambassador extraordinary from the United States to the court of Russia. It is asserted that all differences between the Neapolitan and American governments are adjusted, and that a commercial treaty is about to be concluded between the two countries, by which the Americans will obtain certain privileges in the ports of Sicily. INCIDENTS, PROMOTIONS, BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, &e. IN LONDON AND MIDDLESEX. With Biographical Accounts of Distinguished Characters. Bulletin of the King's Health. Windsor Castle, Nov. 2. "His Majesty was rather less composed than usual during the former part of the last month, but his Majesty has since resumed his tranquillity, and is in good bodily health." About six o'clock in the evening of Oct. 22, a fire broke out in the premises of Mr. Henderson, Bow Church-yard, Cheapside, and spread to the adjoining houses, particularly those in the court at the back of the church. Though the flames were extinguished in about two hours and a half, yet the damage sustained is estimated at 40,000l. A meeting, convened by public advertisement, for the professed purpose of taking into consideration the distresses of the lower orders, took place on the 15th of November, in Spa-Fields. Its object, however, like that of all other meetings summoned by our self-styled patriots, was strictly political. The principal orator was Mr. Hunt, who came to the place of meeting in a hackney chariot, from the box of which was displayed a tricoloured flag, adorned with various inscriptions, ad captandum vulgus. A pole with a cap of liberty was borne before them. In a speech of some hours, delivered from the window of a public-house, he enforced all the arguments which he has been in the habit of repeating on similar occasions for some years past. He abused both Whigs and Tories, advised the people to petition, and if that method should fail, to relinquish the application of moral force, and resort to physical force, in which case he should be proud to take the lead in their ranks. A petition to the Prince Regent that Parliament may be immediately assembled, was agreed to, and Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Hunt were appointed to present it. As it grew dark, the assembly began to disperse, but a mob of some hundreds paraded the streets with lighted torches, and loaves of bread stuck upon poles, breaking the windows of various shops, particularly those of bakers and butchers. In committing these outages, one man was apprehended by the Bow-street patrole. About nine o'clock the whole had dispersed without doing any fur ther mischief. Promotions and Appointments.] FREDE RICK LINDEMAN, esq. to be consul-general in Sicily. ADOLPHUS PALMEDO, esq. to be consul in Corsica, J. C. HERRIES, esq. to be auditor of the civil list. The Right Hon. ROBERT LISTON, his Majesty's ambassador to the Ottoman Porte, to be a Knight Grand Cross of the order of the Bath. Member returned to Parliament.] JAMES, Lord Viscount Fitzharris, for Wilton, vice the Hon. Chas. Herbert, deceased. Ecclesiastical Preferments.] Rev. W, AINGER, to the perpetual curacy of St. Bees, Cumberland. Rev. D. ANDERSON, to the mastership of the grammar school, Swansea. Rev. R. BLACKMORE, to the rectory of Donhead St. Mary, Wilts. Rev. F. W. BOWLE, to the rectory of Allington. Hon. and Rev. T. H. COVENTRY, to the consolidated living of Pirton and Croome. Rev. CLEMENT CHEVALLIER, to the rectory of Badingham, Suffolk. Rev. W. CREWE, to the rectory of Warmingham. Rev. T. G. DICKINSON, to the rectory of Appleton, Suffolk. Rev. SAMUEL COLBY, to the rectory of Thelnetham, Suffolk. Rev. F. ELWIN, to the vicarage of Temple, Bristol. Hon. and Rev. E. GREY, to the rectory of Whickham. Rev. W. H. HAWKINS, to be master of the free grammar school, Cheltenham. Rev. JOHN JONES, to the vicarage of Llangunnor, Carmarthen. Rev. W. KEARY, to the vicarage of Bilton, York. Rev. W. KNIGHT, to the rectory of St Michael, Bristol. Rev. R. Lewis, the rectory of Uplime, Devon. 1816.] Marriages and Deaths in London and Middlesex. Rev. H. MANN, to the rectory of Mawgan and Martin, Cornwall. Rev. T. P. MATTHEWS, to the vicarage of Ambrosden, Oxon. Rev. H. H. NORRIS, to a prebend in Lan daff Cathedral. Rev. W. ROWLANDS, to the perpetual curacies of Longtown and Llanveino, Hereford. Rev. J. TAYLOR, to the vicarage of Llanarthney, Carmarthen. Rev. J. TIMBRILL, to the vicarage of Bretforton, Worcester. Rev. W. TYSON, to the livings of Rum-, burgh and St. Michael's, Suffolk. Rev. J. WICKENS, to the rectory of Swyre, Dorset. 459 At Sunbury, Mr. C. Perkins, of Mark-lane, At Hampstead, Baron Frederick William At Islington, Mr. W. Morris, of Peasmarsh, At Fulham, N, A. Groves, esq. of Ply- At Shoreditch, J. Dimock, esq. of Stonehouse, to Emma, eldest daughter of Jas. Parkinson, esq. of Hoxton-square. At Bethnal Green, Edw. Ball, esq. to Ann, daughter of Salisbury Dunn, esq. of Bur Rev. CHARLES NOURSE WODEHOUSE, to well. the rectory of Geldeston, Norfolk. Died.] In Lamb's Conduit-street, John Births.] The lady of Thos. Knox, esq. Freeman, esq. M.P. of a son and heir. Lady Oglivy, of a son. The lady of Colonel Hughes, M. P. of a daughter. Married.] G. Robinson, esq. to Anne, daughter of the late Rev. Mr. Reece, rector of Colwall, Hereford. Geo. Swiney, esq. captain in the Bengal Artillery, to Julia, only daughter of the Rev. H. Ussher, of Templeoran. Henry Meux, esq. of Great Russell-street, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of T. Smith, esq. of Bolton-street, Piccadilly. R. G. Waller, esq. of the War-Office, to Miss Susannah Ellis, of Diss, Norfolk. Thos. Hudson, esq. of the Inner Temple, barrister at law, to Ann, only daughter of the late John Evans, esq. of Norwood. Philip Western Wood, esq. of Russellsquare, to Anna, daughter of John Cowley, esq. of Upper Guildford-street. Geo. Hoar, esq. of Twyford Lodge, Hants, to Miss Clerk, of Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square. R. D. Brady, esq. of Dublin, to Miss Blen nerhassett, daughter of Thos, B. esq. of the county of Kerry. Chas, Mottley, esq, of Portsmouth, to Miss Shorter, daughter of the late Steph. S. esq. of Barnes Common. Saml. Wood Inglefield, esq. to Priscilla, eldest daughter of the late Vice-Admiral Ot way. Matt. Whiting, esq. of St. Helen's Place, to Elizabeth, daughter of N. C. Collison, esq. of Woodbridge. G. S. Ford, esq. to Hannah, only daughter of the late Jos. Bramah, esq. of Pimlico. Edw. Knight, M.D. to Elizabeth, second daughter of Mr. John Horton, of Stafford. Edw. Thos. Tronson, esq. to Mary, daughter of Col. Scott, of Pentonville. At Newington, Jas. Baylis, esq. to Miss Mary Clark, of Maidenhead. At Islington, Jas. Day, esq, of Homerton, to Sarah, only daughter of the late Counsellor Gould. In Serle-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, Mr. Rich. Tallmach, solicitor. At Crutched Friars, C. H. Martens, esq. Austrian consul-general, 66. In Great Prescott-street, Peter Bertram, esq. 72. In Hatton Garden, Mrs. Charlotte Woolley, relict of T. W. esq. 77. In Fleet-street, G. J. Robinson, esq. of Great Coram-street, 46. In Dean-street, Soho, Mrs. Bridget Foot, 98. In Harley-street, Mary, widow of Sir Rob. D'Arcy Hildyard, bart. In the New Road, Tavistock-square, Gen. Bell. Jos. Ledsam, esq. of Edgbaston. Miss Dennistoun, daughter of the late Rob. D. esq. of Glasgow. In Dorset-street, Portman-square, Robert Lukin, esq. brother to the late Dr. L. Dean of Wells, and half-brother to the late Rt. Hon. Wm. Windham. In Fore-street, Cripplegate, Mr. J. W, Browne. In Orchard-street, Portman-square, Mrs. Mordaunt, wife of the Rev. Chas. M. and daughter of the late Sir P. Musgrave, bart. In York-street, Portman-square, George Wroughton, esq. of Newington House, Oxfordshire. In Wigmore-street, Cavendish-square, Mrs. Mulso, relict of the late Rev. John M. of Twywell, Northamptonshire. Rev. Alex. Mackenzie, A. M. chaplain tó the Earl of Eglintoun, and 28 years minister of St. Paul's Church, Sheffield, 61. In Tavistock-street, Bedford-square, Mrs. Marg, May, 75. In Baker-street, Miss Eliz. Snow, niece of the late John Raymond, esq. of Bedford square. In Norton-street, Portland-place, Catherine Augusta, youngest daughter of W. Dickenson, esq. the death of whose sister we noticed in a late number. Thus have two |