The National Register. — London, England, 1815-12-10 00:00:00

7gS ti*; and Mr. Napper, whose estates was lately set. Ws, air. solicitation on the.part of his tenants, reduced his 7ouol. per annum Last sear he rebuilt the town of at expen. eof from 10 to k?,0001.; and is also erect fartahle, and, in some instances, elegant houses for his tenants. The Duke of Norfolk, who has been indisposed some time, is become 'so very weak, that he can sit up but for a 'short time: his plit.sar'anientertaiii very little hopes of his recovery. Aldermen Contbe, we are happy to state, was putficiently well on Wedi.esday to transact business with the Aldermen who met (or that day at Guildhall. In April last, a Gentleman planted in his garden, near Dun. fries, 14 grains of seed taken frompotatoe plums, which did . not weigh half a grain av3irdupois, to procure new potatoes.; Whet) du up, a few days ago, ho found 14 distinct sorts, containing si7eable potatoes, fit for planting next year, several Of which weighed a ounces. and the whole 17 pounds 4 drams, beim.; a produce of 'i00,060 times the weight planted. account Th e of Mr. Tomb, of Monmouth, being engaged a walking-match, turns out to be one of those fabrications itf which malteni•y attempts to disguise itself under the mask of, honour, ca' led a hoax. The hoaxer in this instance is likely be discovered. Mr. Col)h(qt, Me Arno , s politician and agriculturist, has lately turned critic, and published a letter to prove his title to the latter distinction. He calls Milton's divine poem of ‘ , `P a ... rudi.te L.,st," and the works of Shakespeare, " bm•bareas trash ;" and . uea..e/y pro Mises, in the same letter to prove potatoes to be " worse than a useless root!" Of all the cants that art cantzd in this canting world, though the cant of Avpocritcs may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting." Mr. Lidwell, Counsellor O'Connors friend in the late dispute with Mr. Peel, having been' released from the remptizances imposed by the Court of King's Bench, proceeded to Calais last week, followed by Sir Charles Saxton, the friend of Mr Peel: The parties there had a meeting; when Sir Charles fired at Lidwell without effect, the latter declined returning tht five; and thus the matter ended. The walking mania appears about to assume the character of] ofan e;ridemical disease. From Blackheath and Rochester it has at length extended to the populous village of Lambeth. A publican, not One hundred milesfivm Carlisle-lane, made a Wager. f,l- a bit of holloTO and punch, to walk a one-mile heat with a Laker, ;it the sameneighbourhood. This match excited coo sideral)le interest, and the competitors were warmly bieked . by • their respective fi iends. A poulterer in the vicinity was'ap pointed umpire. The ?!fader qf the Rolls and this 'Hera of flitn Stu use the Newmarket phrase) started at score. The tirt halt mile they were pearl . ) neck end nick. " Charge, charge!—on it-.-Aley on !" from • resounded a quarters. Thus they continued but 0 vain boast, • Who can eoutivul his fate! within a single vard of the goal, the "'knot' Doawh broke down ! and mine liust If* the Garter was' declared Vietbi ions by the Turk, ev Men +, nt. According to letters from Nisrnes, General Lagarde is likely to get the better of his wound; the ball and the splinters having been extracted fiont the shoulder. The villain Who made this- , airy on the life of his General is known to have beeti one of the National Guards, whose duty it was to hale suppressed dia. on-bailees. The Duke d'A tigouleme left Niqnes on the 20th ult. after having on the 19th diverted the publication of an Order of the Day, addressed to the National Guards, in Which the atrocious outrages committed upon the Protestants are blivhtiv alluded to in general terrm, and dismissed in a few words. The of Naples has lately given a diamond necklace and. seine Mu t at's jewels to the Virgin Mary By the last acivices froin t ilambuigh we are apprized of the' approaching departure attic Commisioners appoined on the' part of Himmel . and Prussia. ru- the purpo:e of ceding East I''r,_(.land to the former kingdom. This cession, besides its political advantages, which are very considerable, will secure rat coroulereial facilitiet; not only to Hanover but to this conatiy. '1 Lc Pi us::isin Atlministration of this province was t c, 1o• ; mid in this.respect the inhabitants will ;hatige ; they will be immediately placed in political benefits which advantageously . lams every other state in Germany 4 and ;their connexion with England will give such an impulse to their industry, that they are likely to become in a short period .. v."l AVell-governed and prOsperous a people US , tiny on the Continent. Pm. own Coinniercial and political relations will also feel thb leflect of this cession ; at, it will consolidate our influence in that part of Qerrnarty: 'and, by Securiftg the navigation of the Eths, open the readiest channel for our commerce into the heart or Westphalia.. An article train Vienna insinuates, that the papers of a Dr. 4siffiths, -who was lately stated to have been arrested as an ac- Complift of Madarse Murat, have discoveml a correspondence between that lady and the Princess of Wales ; and that the Doctor bad beet) entrusted by the former with a large sum of Money. It is further iriSinuated. that he was 'a kind of political agent; but this:seer:la to . bt Mere suspieion, resting on a very I light basis of neohability. Sereeal forekh ,animals have &hided of late to the exiec:nce of a conspiracy in Sweden against the Crown Prince. This :report is positively contradicted inthe Ilimburgh.rapers; and it qp.pear's to have been fnerelv the revival of another remou to the 'saint, effect,. that prevailed in June last, - his, however stated, that a party ocists in Sweden hostile to the PrinCe ' - and that this hostility emanates from some of the great families in ttat country, sVho are Offended at seeing a Man, who in their patraseorOgy, is called an upstart, raised 'above their beads by the force of talent. On the 15th of Nvernber allthe Civil 'Authorities of Warsaw were presented to the- Etnpertar, eft Demo was celebrated itt all the Church's. the.gm.petor is everyinorning,at.ten o'clock, On the parade, in the Sa - kini Square, in polish 'uniform. Prince ConEtastitic is alwts's strith MM. Wherever his Majesty payed in hk journey through the kinylOin of Poland, he Was receiv f ed by the nobility algid the inhabitants of the toSsens and villages With the greatest 'enthusiasm, and cries of "Long live Alex ander, our King!" The towns 'an the road Wererliuminafed, and the triumphal arches erected. At N•ieclerow,. nfnal'eagtics from this city, his Majesty . viras received bY the ratite and Kill ces fladzeville. The day . before yeaerday was- the blal.a. the three dayi illumination. On the trinniplial arch there was on One side the ,follawitsg hascription,- 0 Expectate. Sa•-. Oiisque tibi co.mmendat Troja Paginates ;" and on the-other side s " Elie ames, dici Pater atque Princeps." This triumphal arch which •hasbeen built in fourteen days, from, tbe design of Mr. nbidti, the government architect, ti declared by:cOnnoissesus to be a master-piece. in '..the Cracow Suburb the Temple of Oratitude.Was ornamented with the following inscription., undei the Polish artitS—".."Seinper iboblitit repaintua nunera mode.' A goddess, representing Poland,. kneeling before the altar, on which are plated the royal insignia,. wit in a transparent paint ing, in inns smoking wi th grateful incense on each side... Two lions reposed before the temple. Prince Constantine always 'appears, Since the arrival of the Einperor, in the uniform of 'a Polish general. The Einperor is extremely stable and - comic seending to every body, and gains the hearts of *fill Polish subjects. There seems to beva good deal of agitatiOn throughout the United States of Anterice, prodUced both by external and in ternal causes. They 'appear to think, that, having no Euro ropean foe tb contend with, the whole of oar gigantic means 'will be directed against the United States. • They represent us having actually &snatched ieveral ofliters to make observations and surveys with hostile intentions • that a large, battering train has been brought tio the River St. Lawrence, and that a great military force will be sent from the mother country early in the Spring.—Such arc the foreignapprehensions of the Americans. :1 heir internal agitation proceeds from. the depressed state of their finances and commerce. 'Prom. One part of their appre hensions we can relieve them. If-they • tir; animated with the same desire to preserve th e peat*, in the real spirit of peace, with 'which thiwountry is, they may baiiish all their apprehen sions of an approaching- war. . .. . . . NATION'At _ .______Rt4ftrt'R. ... ....-.,••-- ..,...,..—..4......:....,-, c ,........_:,....... ri is, without atwais,ntili4and liberal is tent-roll losc nothing by the dm Oldcastie, the enjqpneut of the p cling Bout-, distinguish Hanover fri