THE NATIONAL REGISTER. which doubts way hang ; and for the sake of the sublime character of imparti , il Justice, whose object, in all criminal prosectilion, should be rather to discover and protect in. nocenT e, than to listen on guilt, we are sorry thit hia counsel met with any interruption in his defence. The freedom of the bar is the palladium of justice, and the right, I' VI'!I of the guilty. In new cases new argnments mos , u ,ed ; and we wish that Nu had not been afforded the pretext of an appral to posterity, and to posterity alone, to say with itepartia!ity, whether he, who had bar gained for lii . e.and procured a pardon for all po!itical errors from Wellington and Blucher in the convention of Paris, was amenable for his past offences to the authority of a kinl, who by their arms alone was restored, and of whom it ma) b.. said, if his power is front God, they are the angels, who, w ith flawing swords, have replaced and still guard him in his paradise. The situation was novel ; the weaker party assert thatthey are deceived, the makers of the treaty disclaim all connection with the Ling, and all in terest for those whom they have vanquished. In any court of Europe it might be difficult to argue the question without some bias of fear or of h ffecf ion ; and to posterity or to calmer times we must refer all appeal on this head from the verdict of the Peers of France. SIN CE our last have arrived Paris Papers to the 11th Inst The Chamber of Peers was quite unanimous as to the guilt of Nev, though there was some difference of opinion whether he shomd be shot or banished. Ihe number of Peers who voted f his death amounted to 1.42, while those who desired a unishnient amounted only to 1:2. It is said, that Due de Bro4lio and the Comte Lanjuinais voted for perpetual se- A n.irdinance was coin nunicated to the chamber of Deputies, on the da. that Mar,hal Ney was executed, which enforces the ordnance (Idle th • • last July By it, sixteen rebels more aic politica out . viz. Lanernand, Drouct D'F,i lon, Lefebvre DeAnwettes, Amt•il • Mouton Duvei net, Grouchy, Clau sel, Lloortie, Debeile. Drool, Canbrone, Lavidettee, and 11,.%.1 4 0 'l'w e, Be; trand and Rovigo, as our ieaders know, are under the protection of o , o• Go\ e.oment—that hum tie al. t per;ec; G.,veininent tor it is by comparison that we ale to app. eciate its admirable character. By a second a , ticie of the sant - ..otlinance, the following list. contain ing the names of tho ty-a 411! persons, eomprizes such as ae to be banished for life, Alix, Exeolmans, Bassani), NUE l.ot, Felix Lerelletier. B , uiay, (de la Nleurthe), Mehee, Fressi-. net, Tki)audeatt. Carnot. Vandamme, l i amarque (General), Leban, Havel, Pire, i . 'arrere. A rnault, Ite ; m:tud (de St. Jean d'At4,elev Arrighi, (of Padua), Dejean, jun. Gan au, 'teal, Bouvier-Dunaoulard, Merlin (of Damara)), back, Uivat, Defermoni. liory Saint Vincent, Felix Deiportes, Garnier-de-Saintes, Atellinet, Hultiu, Cinys, Courtin, Forbin Janson (the eldest son), and Le Lot que Dideville. By another decree, every person connected by birth or marriage, with Buonaparte, is tit) lea o France in the Course of a month. Then follows a titcree of ge:ie•al aninekty. The pre& mi naJ . y process against Generals Di one t and Debelle, the two next foi 4 tm the list of conspirators, has commance4 and will for some time occupy the public attention. A subscription of the French merchants for the assistance of the State is talked of. The Garotte Ofie:ieile of the sth inst. contains an ordinance of the King, appointing tba roars)* LPOsthond, Peer 'trance an 4 fctrgterlrAmbassador at Tut;:ii to in antb4ssador to Great DEC. 17 Britain. By another ordinance his Majesty has created the Count De la Chatre, a Duke, as a special mark of his approba tion, for his unbounded devotion to his Majesty's service, par ticularly during his embassy at the Court of London. A letter from Paris, inserted in the Brussels Papers, says, that " six Lieut.. Generals and 18 Marechaux de Camp have been sent to the Abbaye. Papers have been found in the house of General Belliard, which throw a great light upon rebellious plans which have bet n lately formed. It is affirmed, that many enemies of tranquillity will probably be shortly banished for ever. " Now that France has such large sums to pay, the voice of the public begins to be louder, that the property of those may be confiscated who for 15 years past have enriched themselves at the expence of foreign countries, and plunged, France into misfortunes." --- In another part of our Paper wifl be found the Declaration of the Allied Sovereigns, as to the power with which the Duke of WELLINGTON is invested, as Commander in Chief of all the Allied troops to be left in Fiance. He has almost unlimited, authority as to the manner in which he is to employ those troops in case of any public disturbance. The French funds nave risen 6f. 23 c.; they are now 58 f. 30 c. The Adjutant Commandant Pilet t the author of the kite gross libel on the English people), absconded in violation of his pa , rele from Bishop Waltham, on the 24t1rof March, 1810, was recaptured at Hastings. and sent to Norman-cross prison on the 1 15th of April, 1810: he was afterwards re-admitted to parol at Ashbourn. On the sth of March, 1811, he a second time vio la ted . his parole. and was apprehended, and sent into confine ' went at Chatham. ' A Flanders Mail has brought a statement from Rome, which is likewise in the French Journals, that the Powers of Europe have at length formed a league to put an cud to the piracy of the Barbary States. It is n►elancholy to observe, that the idea of a revival of hos tilities between us and the United States of America, is enter tained in both countries. The 2aebee Ga:t'tte of the 9th ult. mentions, that great un easiness seems to be spreading throughout the American States, flow New York to Georgia, on account of the depreciation of the American bank paper. To the South of New York it is as certained, In bills on London and other foreign countries, that the average depreciation is 'lo per cent. ; in the Northern pro vinces about 16. The Congress was to commence its session on the 4th inst. ; and the Boston paper asserts, that " the first subject which will occupy the attention of the Senate will be the new Commercial Treaty between the United States and Great Britain. An American paper mentions the arrival of the Young Constitution from Porto Rico, which she left on the 12th October : spoke the sloop Collector, Hall, from Curacoa for New York, who informed the ma-ter of the Capture of Carthagena by the Royalists, after three days hard fighting and great slaughter. The day the Young Con. ststution left St. John's, there was a grand salute fired, said to be ou account of the fall of Carthagena. • }intim*vs AT JAMAICA." We are sorry to announce, that ;dreadful hurricane has done great damage at Jamaica. A IPtter front Cowes, dated last night, states " that the Enole, Captain Daniels, arrived there from Hayti in 35 (lays' pass4se. 'Ht ; 'reports, that many estates have been uestroyi-d ni the north 'part of the Island of Japaica by a dreadful gale. He'further states, that many lives here lost, and that considerable damage had, been dune to the shipping. , The 4 6risi:44 .Nca‘,l7ol, $ '4% its oue of the ships 9,p . 5 - liore,”: * ~---