The National Register. — London, England, 1815-10-15 00:00:00

OCT. 15. Ti' EMIGRANTS TO AMERICA. --Intelligence has been re ceived by late arrivals from Canada, of the entire dispersion of the Colony founded by Lord Selkirk, in conjunction with the Hudson's Bay Company, on the river Assiniboia, in the interior of the North-west Continent of America. Disputes with the Metiffs of the country, a race of people between Canadians and Indians, inflamed the natural jealousy which the latter have always felt relative to agricultural encroach ments on their hunting grounds in the interior, and, it is said, compelled his Lordship's Governor to abandon the establish ment which had been made. About 140 settlers were eon• veyed by the Canadian traders to Lake Superior, on their way to Canada, and the remainder are supposed to have gone to Hudson's Bay, with a view of finding a passage to Great Britain. The Governor, Mr. M.Donnell, and a Sheriff, also appointed by Lord Selkirk, Mr. Spencer, were brought down prisoners to Montieal, the one for having granted, the other for having executed a warrant, under the authority of which, provisions, the property of Canadian traders, were seized during the" preceding winter for the maintenance of the Co lonists, and these Gentlemen were admitted to bail in the Courts of Lower Canada, to take their trials for this alleged offence. We have lately seen a paragraph in most of the London and provincial prints, 'respecting a French mechanic at Neuf chatel, having discovered the perpetuum mobile, (perpetual motion) consisting of a wheel, on the periphery of which w two small pipes, half filled with quicksilver, and which have a centrifugal direction. We do not doubt the truth of the state ment : but we are assured the object cannot in this way be attained. In a provincial paper, of May 1802, appeared a paragraph, that a gentleman had really discovered perpetual motion ; and we have no doubt, from a communication which we have received from the said person (who now resides within the limits of this paper) that he is actually, and for tunately, in possession of this grand secret. He laughs at the idea of quicksilver being introduced. The true perpe tual motion cannot be impeded with, or in any way interfered with, by elementary changes—his has been buried in the earth, immersed beneath water. placed in a hot oven, ex posed to cold, in which quicksilver would have frozen, and has never varied; in all kinds of machinery it is capable of effecting every thing that power and motion can possibly ac complish. When there is a certainty of his receiving the proffered remuneration, then, and not till then, he will make the discovery to the world at large. We are authorised to as sert that this gentleman will answer all proper inquiries which may be made by any person who feels an interest in this highly important discovery.—Alfred Exeter Paptr. The report of projected hostilities between Russia and the Porte seems to gain strength. An article from Hanover in a Hamhurgh Mail which arri ved on Friday, states that the cession of East Friesland to that kingdom has been definitively agreed upon; and that Hanoverian troops are under orders to take possession of the province. Thus a point of communication with the Conti nent upon territory belonging to the Sovereign of Great Bri tain has at length been obtained; a concession, which will be of immense political and military benefit; many commercial ones will doubtless be also derived from the access it will give us to the German rivers. The Meuse, it is said, is to form the boundary between tbe Kingdom of the Netherlands and the dominions of Prussia. By the Vienna Papers, intelligence is received of a revolu tion having taken place afSmyrna, the . Object of which is to' place upon the thronenf.the Pty, a Regency of the Gran dees ° l ithe country, the members of which are to be chosen: by the people, Very ;lide blood was shed. The foreign L R:1 667 Consuls quitted the city. Many families, the heads of which were in the service of the Dry, have fled. It is stated that the Regency has placed itself under the protection of his Bri tannic Majesty; but when the Commander of the English cruiser asked to be allowed to land troops for the purpose of maintaining tranquillity, permission was refused. CONNUBIAL PERPLEXIT V.—A man, who some years ago was sentenced to transportation for seven years, but who ser ved his time on board the hulks, a few weeks since at the ex piration of his sentence, returned to Maidstone for the pur pose of claiming his wife, who during his absence in durance vile, had joined herself in the holy bands of matrimony with ,a knight of the thimblP. Much distress ensued: the second husband was attached to the lady, but the fit st possec:or was inexorable and bore her away in triumph But the fait one being equally attached to the tailor, and he expressing him self determined to go through stitch with the business, and prevent the thread of connection being cut, the first iushand was, by proper reasons, induced to give up his rib On Mon 'da'y, the parties all met at a public-house in Maidstone, and before certain grave and proper witnesses, a deed of transfer was duly drawn up and signed by the. several parties, and the tailor on paying 71. to the first husband, received his lost wifo to his and her infinite joy and satisfaction. We understand there was some dispute about the stamp that was necessary, as the new schedule has no provision for such sort of documents. • When the Duke of A ngouleme was compelled to leave France and withdrew into Spain, he still continued upon the frontier for the purpose of encouraging the spirit, which was known to prevail in the southern provinces in favour of the House of Bourbon ; in furtherance of this object, his Royal highness applied fur pecuniary as. sistance from England, which was granted. lie was em powered to draw upon the Treasury for thirty thousand pounds, and in order to remove any difficulties he might experience in raising money, he was likewise furnished with letters of credit upon commercial houses at Barce lona, at Toulouse, and at Marseilles. The manner of employing this money, when once placed in his hands, was necessarily left, in a great measure, to his Royal Highness's discretion ; but he considered it as a sacred deposit entrusted to him by the British Government, to he applied solely to the objects of the war. The Duke of Angouleme, after having had in his possession, for a period of three months, the order upon the Treasury, and the letters of credit with which he had been fur &shed, returned them to the British Government, stat ing, that he had fortunately not had occasion to make use of them. BUO4APARTE.—There has been a curious coincidence in the Occurence ofsome of the principle events of the life of Buonaparte in the month of March. In Mare'n, ► 796, he was named General in Chief of the army of I taiy. In March 180'4 he concluded the peace of Amiens. In March, 1804, he destroyed the Duke D'Eughien. In March, 1805 1 he accepted the sovereignty of Italy. In March, 1808, he commenced war sgainst Spain. I n March. 1800, he undertook the last war against Austria. In March, 1810, he received in France the Archduchess Maria Louisa. In March, 1811, he announced the birth of his son, the King of Rome. In March, 1812, he comma menced war against Russia. In March, 1813, he re-united the new forces in Germany against all Europe. -in March, 1814, he was deprived of his throne. In March, 'lBl5, he returned master of Faris. t I I~V