The National Register. — London, England, 1811-03-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL. REGISTER. ItEC; CGURT Tuesday his Royal Highness the Prince Regent held his se cond Levee, at Carlton House, which was very numerously and s plendidly attended. I'here vi ere present ; Th.ir Royal Highnesses the Dukes of York, Clarence, Kent, C ; r Cambridge, 411(1 Gloucester; the Prince of Cas. ; the Archbishops of Canterbury and York ; the Lord , the Lord President of the Council; the Lord Privy Sta. , First. Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Excheci.:irr ; the Secretaries of State; the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench. f..llowing Addresses were presented to his Royal High- nessoipon his being appointed Prince Regent :-- Pro.o the County of Somerset; from Beverley ; from the Coiporation . 'of Nottingham ; from the Corporation of York ; from the Society of Ancient Britons ; from the City of Chester; and trout Portsmouth. lichides the above Presentations, there were above 1200 dis tinguished pasonages that attended the Levee. The visitants on the first Levee amounted to 1 500; on Tuesday to 1270. Thursday his Royal Highness the PRINCE REG ENT held a Court at Carlton House, the JUDGE of the ADMIRALTY made 1114 Report to his Royal Highness thr PKJNCE REGENT of the i a the English sailor convicted some time since at the Ad mir..lty Session, _ for being found on board a French ship. The RECORDER of LONDON also made his Report of the convicts capitaly convicted at the last Old Bailey Sessions. sen tences were all respited. Forster, Lowe, and Blair, fur forgery, not i „ortkid ; nor the two Portuguese, for . cutting, Convicted la.: Session. THE - ARMY. • The regulations introduced by ,the present Commander in Chief, for limiting military promotions to specific periods of service, will, doubtless, in a few years, le oduce very beneficial results in the army.-:e-Of no less importance was the intended plan, which his Royal Highness, the late Commander in Chief, is said to have contemplated, namely, to discriminate and duly :,preciate the nature and varieties of every officer's individual b...rvices, respectively—a just and wise measure,and of the great est public utility, the completion of which has been reserved as another improvement to he introduced by his industrious suc cessor. By this scheme, the real merits and pretensions of every ohicer in the army will be impartially set forth and recorded. — Thus would be distinguished the ofh;er who has toiled all his lite in actual warfare, seeking those honours in the " cannon's mouth" which injustice, of the malignity of his sters, had cruelly denied to his services; ur he who has braved the fury of the elements, and the distant and pestilential climates of the Torrid Zone, unfriended and unrewarded. Thus would be detected the many prototypes of Major Sturgeon, who, to the injury and disgrace of our regular army, still continue to infest it, ar.d „ even to work themselves into power and command ! Parade soleness, who in all their lives never experienced the want of a luxurious meal, or a feather-bed ; whose services had rarely ex tended beyond their native soil, nor their marches farther than the distance from one comfortable inn, or barrack, to another ! It is greatly to be wished that the Comniander in Chief, who Las done so much, and has ever evinced so lively an interest for the rights of the artny,stind of the deserving soldier, would place the claims of officers who had unhappily served and ruined their future health in the Torrid Zone, on a just footing compara tively with those whose services have been confined to temperate and less sickly climes, by allowing to them the same right of claim for length of servitude (if there was any claim of reward for the officer) which is granted to the pensioners of Chelsea Hospital, the rates of whose pensions depend on their length of service, namely, that 12 months service , between the tropics, should be held equivalent to a service of le months in any other part of the world. A material and certainly a very eligible alteration, has been introduced into one of the clauses of the Mutiny Bill. It was an . imperative duty formerly upon Courts-martial, to it:filet the punishment of flogging,. for certain offences By the alteration now made, it is left for the Courts-martial to inflict the punish ment of imprisoning instead of flogging, but it is discretionary with the Court whether the offenders shall be flogged or im reisoued. The following is the total return of the effective strength of Regular and Militia forces on the 25 th DecemberoBlo: Regulars, 211,150; Militia, 84,300. —Total, 295,450. • A reduction of one Major, four Captains, four Lieutenants, andtour Ensigns, is ordered t o t s ke place on the 25th instant, in several non-effective 2 d ba ns. A return of the number of d esertions from the Replier laid Army at home, from the 25th Dec. 1809, t o the OA Dec. 1810, before Parliament, states oat 2388. f iNft.. • 171 An INTRICATE GASC of CONSANGUINTIY7 MR. EDITROR, -.-1 iii.....-- Will you have the kindness to allow the following intricate case of Consanguinity to• be proposed, through the medium of your interesting paper, to the Lawyers of the Inner Temple, tor solution, as I am afraid it would puzzle most of your other readers too much to yield them any satisfaction. _ _ Thelate professor Anderson of the university,of Glasgow, bad a full uncle, whose brother was not the prolesor's lode. \Viol relation then did he bear to him ? This question once perplexs.•d the Vatican, and before it is solved will embroil our Unlver- Yours, &c. SCUI U 4. COMMEI?CIAL CREDIT. The Report of the Select Committee on the State Of 011114. mercial Credit has her', printed ; and its principal heads are— That the Committee find, that the statements of the Cotton Manufacturers in Glasgovi and Paisley, complaining of distress, are founded in fact—that the principal part of this dicitress arisen from excessive speculation at the opening of the South American markets—that there was no want of disposition in the Scotch Banks to afford accommodation —that great -distress was also felt among the Importers of produce from the West Indies and South America, the returns from the former of which came home,in great part,in sugars and coffee, not imme diately convertible into money. The great extent to which the system of warehousing the goods of foreigners had arisen, is also assigned by the Committee as another cause of the distress. o relieve this, the Committee recommend an issue of Exchequer Bills, as in 1793 ; the amount not to exceed six millions, an to be repaid in four‘instalnients-7thF first in January ne:tt, and the rest at three, six, and nine months. . - • PRISONERS IN FRANCE. The French papers contain a long decree for regulating the employment of prisoners of War in the works of the forti:...ations. and of bridges and causeways, and to turn to the advantage of the prisoners the produce of their labour. they art• to be or ganised into SO battalions, 15 of which are to he employed an the works of the fortifications, and 15 on bridges and catls,fways. 'The prisoners are to be paid by the day or by the job,. at the same rate as the workrnenot the countr .- but stoppages are ao be kept back, to defray the expence of ir food, clothing, ( . utti,, lodging, and treatment, in case of ill health. The remainder of their wages, if any, is to be at their own disposal. Perhaps the practice of the French in regard to these prisoners deserves the. attention dour own Government The French have the ad vantage over us in this respect, that they eau employ the prir boners in fortified towns, where there is no danger of escape. SLAVE TRADE. •,,,;. . The Bill in the -House of Commons, broeFbt in by Mr. Brougham, renders the carrying•on the Slave 1 rude, after the first of May next, felony, rendering the parties liable to be transported for a term, not exceeding fourteen years, or impri soned, and kept to hard labour, for a term not exceeding five years, nor less than three. Persons employed• in any vessel eu aged in the trade, or und erwritin g an y p olicy of assurance net any , such vessel, to be guilty of a misdemeanor, and to be punished by imps lsonmcnt, for .a term not exceeding two years. Act not to extend to prevent the removing from one British Settlement to another, or transferring •Slaves,uor to things done in Africa, west of the Cape of Good Hope, or in the West lii dies, or America, east of Cape Horn, before (lie lst of Auguit next, or in the East Indies, Madagascar, Abioa,. east. of tke Cape of Good Hope, Mauritius and Bourbon, apil. Islaippls in the East Indian Seas , b efore the Ist of January next, or in NiNir Holland, Islands in the South. Seas•Of coast of .47ierica, west of Cape Horn, before the ,Ist May, 181(2, nclr for 'any thing done at sea on • board a n y *este) waling from (kik( Briihin 4ar Ireland, before the Ist of May next, from an l othee . pert i,n E uro pe, before the Ist of July, or from .an of 'the places above-mentioned before the periods' above r eceiveltspeei fied. Act not to, repeal i for pr Aets reafecting forfeitures. Persons employed on board , g els -i s ragdct in 'the Slave l'ilide, and giving information wltitin i tteee rnoetki.igler .the ; arrival.ot the vessel in any port of 141 Majesty not tote liable to punish - _ _ went. hrtri wtrf 2W9IA 011 w "di le =