The National Register. — London, England, 1821-01-01 00:00:00

TEMPERANCE OF BUONAPARTE. The Emperor was never more than twenty mi. mites at table; he ate and drank but very sparingly ; he had time however, to partake after his soup, of two or three dishes and some desert. He required to be served promptly ; for not wishing to lose ally time, and as there was never wily one dish ut his table alter his soup, he was to be helped very exile. ditiously to those dishes which he fancied ; otherwise be took an altnotid or some other trilling thing from off the desert. When he rose from table, every one present did the same: he then went into the saloon, where he took a small cup of coffee. It may be well supposed that every peron whom ho invited to dinner made a good breakfast befiire they came, or returned to their own houses to finish their dinner. Those who took their weals with him for the first time, and who were not accustomed to his method, were actually starved; it was impossible for them to say that they had made a kingly repast, although his table was well covered; but no circumstance whatever could induce him to remain at table more than a quarter of an hour ; this used to ineniumode Josephine greatly, who was often hungry, and could not find time to satisfy her appetite. At the time of Prince Eugene's marriage ut Munich, which took place at eight in the evening, all the nobility in the country were invited. Ihe supper was ordered at nine o'clock ; tables were laid out Ca. 200 persons, who were all seated in a long gallery, the entrance of which was wide enough to allow the Imperial bun. queuing table, composed of the two f a milies, to have a complete view of the gallery. The Emperor's table was in the than of a horse-shoe, and was elevated above the 200 persona. The whole was magnificent from the splendour of the &Ananias and the lustres. Every person was ordered to seat them selves at table during the marriage ceremony. When it was over the Emperor immediately sat 'down to table; in consequence of the broad day light, he remained (which perhaps hail never happened before) a full (platter of an hour with his guests; he then went into Josephine's Dann, and gave orders for every one to withdraw. This order arrived actually before the whole of the table was belped ; the napkins were scarcely unfolded, The poor Germans could not recover front their surprise, they expected to make a splendid repast, and they were obliged to go home to their supper. FllO3l TUIZ,VD,IY NIGHT'S (Liz Ern. a A U PTS, ....... H. Fill, Welhrook, merchant. Solicitors, Messrs, Clarke and Co. Little St. Thomas Apostle. W. 11. Harrison Earnstield, Nottinghamshire, victriAler. Sol. Mr. StevensonAincoln's Inn. R. Mier, Bathwiek, Foniersershire. plasterer. Soh. 31estis, lc eau:nolo and Barium Eu X Street, Strand. T. Edwards, Alton, Southampton, ironmonger. Sol. Mr. Dyne, Lincoln's Inn W. Kidd, Newcastle upon Tyne, linen draper. Solt Messrs. Sell and 11rodrick. Bow Church Yard. T. Courtney, Oxionl Coiße House, Strand, victualler, Sols. Messrs. Dermot and Co. King's Anns Yard, Coleman Street. M. Bolt. Stoke, country, watchmaker. Sul. Mr. Edmunds, Lincoln's Inn. I)IVIDFNDS. • Jan. 27, W. Longhurst, Tunbiidge, Kent, Ironmonger-2g, J. Coßyer ' Gobnort, }w inter - 16 , Brittye and T. Pilgrim, Lawrence Poutuney Il ill, brokers...l3, J. Gibson and J. Pea -04, Ball Alley, Lombard Stm•r, merchants...o, T. Clarke and C. Dray, liebwick, Cumberland, titirscrytmn-16, E. Cane, Battle, Sussex, Kindler-In, J. and J. Silver, Stae Lune, mer• chums,.-18, W. Blackburn, Blackburn, Lancashire, shopkeeper 6. Amhurkt, Market. Street, IVcatminmer, copper natnu facturcr...V, J. liaidarck, Mill Street, ',wished', British iron foundry-b. C. A• ct n ell, Ctireligltun, Surrey. vaper maker... 16, W. Atileck, Bcrwick upon 'Faced, grocer - 13. It. Wine, Maidstooc, 4:ttismun..-i3, I. Willitrm, Nicholas Lam Loot tianceek, bury St. Ltlinutla, cabinet In sker-- I; .0 eynoltlS, NOFI4 C! WWI I n ritper-t27,W. J)nvies, Binninplarit, bros. founder.-27, T. lA'ntwitit, Botts, simper. CERTII•'IC4tTES to be grunted Jan. 10. B. Lincoln, St. Juvie?.'s Street, 1% eNtininster, hatter-T. Fiusklen. Rochester. g:over--.1. Hama's. South;tuipton, grocer.- J, Rini, jun. itinsiaon upon Hull, Qom firtor. ENotasti 6rtarr.--.--At Newark a party gave um brage to the " powers that be," by the means in which they celebrated the triumph of the Quccii, and three were committed to prison. On Tuesday last these men were liberated, alai while passing through the yard were pointed out by the keeper to several gentlemen, as the Queen's men. Orte of the gentlemen, addressing them, said, " Well, my men, you will he the King's men now, end sing Gad sac she KittB." To this one of them nobly and sensibly replied...." Sir, it' I were confined for 14 years, in !Lead of 11, days, it would not alter my principles; and a pre'ttn is the wrong place for reforru—it makes good men bad, and bad men worse: " On gaining the outside of the prisoa wall, they gave tlocc la us, and shouted " God save the Queen." A Marseilles paper, (The Cauca) announces that it wealthy Englishman, a Colonel in the finish army, who resided at Items, has lust his life in most melancholy manner. He was passionately food of shooting, ma was usually accompanied by a gontekener, who, in firing at some game, scossed his mark, and struck his unfortunate master, who had come suddenly from behind a bodge without being vercei-7ed. The Colonel died instantly. • THE NATIONAL REGISTER Halt —The work upon the Old Palace-yard front of IVestinnmer I lad, increases datiy,and the public may ;Orin expect to see it it the original appearance. Tile me n nook mitt the old plans, which hate beim lotion deposited in one of I lie CloVerhihent. olives. The South TOWN' is C.a. i1,;,,,,ced. Th..• gothic anutilar aria p.'o,loce a hoe a rellitecita .1 eileet. Tile anitr - rial heariliA. of Edward the C• nt'. ssor, ii. 1- ouster minister, with the arms of Riatiard the Sveollll, will re-appear In a perfect slate, wlere the mutilated heraldry of those Kings was so lately t isib;e. Kt .thing can pre sent a stemeler memorial of the devouring appetite of time than this ancient uoiltlintc. The unite figurer., the remains of which are now seen on the left of the portal stem to say, the Mat-unity and art of Mall have but short duration. We have, however, seen a black Egyptian moor, which, accordiing to tradition, has remained rsn iojured more than 20111) vears. We anode to a figure in Isis now in the British The figures placed in the niches of 11•esturitister H tII are cut 00000 Oil lure-stole. Many of our re .dirt may remember the runt of any Hall when the aspect was less pacific. After the Resin- Tattoo the beads of Cromwell, Bradshaw, and another, Were placed nil pikes mani the utp, and they rem: dried there about Piny years am. The head or crow.ell was then removed in the following ways—The her of a drainaiic performer, now justly celebrated for talent, lived sett alit with one of the people called round heads, whose occultation was that of a market gardener. It was his custom to pass from the ferry, in Old Palace 1; to Liu , , t ul wit - re tie rt.til gardellg. Itetornitig to Westniioster, he Mond one of the heads which stool oil the nip of the hall, lying on the F round. A t iolent gale of wind had broken the p;ltc stall which upheld it, and the pike remained affixed to the head.— The gardener well knew the situation in which Crom well's head stood limo.. the hall, and looking up lie 101hhi it was gone. lie had Lieu no doubt that v.ie head vf the protector slat in his possession, and liar lug in coin moto with all the labium heads much regard and vene ration for Cromwell, he cirried it home to his house, and kept it with pions care *l the day of his death.— The mother of the performer before alluded to, who had been 4l respected by her muter, received at his death all the household property, and among other thittzs the head of Cromwsll, She very soon after mar ried, and the head got lido the possession of her her bind, wino was a player. In hi* way to country theatres, he occasinitiy exitibited the head, and olitataed monev. Oo one occasion bring reduced to great poverty with his family, in his Itall.tiogs, near Clare-market, a friend oliertal to procure hilts a purchaser for the head. A Mr. Cuxe 11: . hig applied to, advanced twenty guineas isplui it, tiacine. first riven eu the minima of the late 111 r. %Vest, the painter, and other respectable Luthorities, that it Was the head of Oliver. Independent of the circumstances atten..iiig the ti• Ming it, a black lock of hair, which distinginslied Cromwell, was then hi be tiaced. Tl:c (Mae( hec nu,ing inure prosperous SUM! lithe afte r, re deem :Al the bead, and it was finally taken to America by a purchaser of curiosities. What became of the other heads tit.: writer has not beers able to learn. G At.e M sTts Humphrey Davy, lately read a 111015 1115111:1:111,4 paper, at the Royal Society, ' On the Magnetising Intim-awe whiell Various new and en shuts experiments On this subjeci were detailed, which clearly establish the fact, that the Galvanic final, directed ite a proper maimer, is capaule of communicating magnetic properties o liars of steel. II steel bars or roils be exposed us Galvanic cinreat pieced in the direction of the magnetic axis. im effrct follows; hut if they he placed parallel with the magnetic equator, they Leconte magnetic—the end placed to the west be coining the north pole of the new magnet, and that to wants the east bee qi the south pole. And so great i 9 the galvanic influence in Kadin-Mg this effect, that it eXCIIi 41 power at a distance of POMP inches (even ten ur 'write), so 111;11 if she- sts'el bar be sed in a circle round the. Cl` l lfie of tit,. gab aMc cur, em, hot always kept p.tr.idel to the magnetic equator, it breouismi magnetic.-- Isliese experiments were mad^ iti the laboratory of the Royal Institution, and also at the Loudon bisttiuttim.— •Diey will be understood from the following description : Witfll 311 VlNCllieal ur a voltanc battery us cwisiderable vaunt) , is charged, the coinpensating or discharging wt:e 14comes uptaitetic 111,011 the aumplvtimi 01 the charge, • Corditt.m needles, err small bars of steel, placed transversely nit the wire, or tinder 11, Of 011 11S sides, licculoe perutahei.l magnet. 011 the discharge. Ifelectric tlnid he very plentiful, contact with the wire is out retentite, A few days sinue, us a vessel was steering fur the Downs, nearly opposite St. Nlargaret's flay, while two gentlemen on board were amusing themselves with their guns as u pic•ce of board floating oil the water, they saw a bird coining towards them (which afterwards Proved to be a currier pigeon), upparently from the French coast; when it came near enough to obacrve so thany sttilors standing on the beach, it made a sudden titek, us if intended to take ate.4l4r course; when it came hear the ship, one of t;le gen denten shot at and killed it the boat was scut and the poor bi•fl brought on hoard, when on examining it, to the utter astonishm e nt of all present. was discovered between the feathers, chiefly on the neck, six French gold rings, of the most grand and ingc nions workmanship. Thursday evening. about five o'clock, a fire brae out in the extensive fingar.house of ale. 11h0d0.4 iu Hooper-square, Whitcchapel. oti.ginated in the second floor, in sonic tow which blazed for sonic 'into, but fortnnately several 1;116/111:1 60501 11/15VC1.1, which being plentifully supplied with water, soon put out tile tiro, and prevented it front doing any material damage. Thu. Duchess of Clarence stud the italic Primes* ere going on extremely well. 419 The worknum of Mr. Stevens, Surveyor of LIT St. Edmund's whilst raising gravel in the hil', n er the Priory, have discovered ut a small depth from the surface of the earth, the skeletons of tweir.y. flinr human bodies, of rather gigantic size, but in every respect perfect. Numerous persons have b:en to view them, and it is supposed they are a part of the bodies slain in the bloody battle fought on that spot during the reign of Henry 11. and wheu the diffintences existed between that Monarch and his son, when to aid the latter the Earl of Leicester was marching through Farnham, from Framlingham with an immense army of Flemings (particularly artificers and weavers), but were attacked by the King's troops. who dispersed them in an instant, and put ten thousand of them to the sword, and took their Commander prisoner. This engagement took place in the year 1174, upwards of 600 years since, and the teeth in these skeletons were found extremely white and perfect. On Tuesday last, a meeting for the purpose of addressing the Queen was held at Warwick, in consequence of a requisition signed by above a hun dred of the most respectable inhabitants of the town. Dr. Parr, the Rev. Wm. Field, the Rev. Male, Aldermen Edwards and Collins, Messrs. Greathead, Jones, Russel, and Goodman, moved and seconded the various resolutions, which were pro pounded in speeches of great ability and spirit. It had been ;titende.d at first to disturb this meeting by a party of mockloyalists, with a reverend gentleman at their head; but an inspection of the enemy's fume convinc,d them of the futility of any attempt, and they contented themselves, like the snug loy alists of London, by retiring to a corni?r, where they huddled up an address to his Majesty in favour of those enlightened ministers who have shown such adsairahte skill in conciliating parties, and in maintaining tranquillity and content throughout the empire. An exciseman was taken into custody on Satur day, fisr stealing three pounds and a half-weight if candles from a tailow-ehandler's in Mary-le-bone, where he att.'znded in performance of his duty. Private letters from Dublin, received in town, state, that a very desperate action took place in the beginning; of last week on the western coast of Ire land, between his Majesty's smuggling preventive brio., stationed o ff Sligo, and a smuggling vessel. Th'e latter opposed a desperate resistance, and was assisted by the people on the coast, but the brig succeeded in effecting her capture, and made good the seizure. In this rencontre, we regret to say, the brig had several of her crew wounded. There were several killed and wounded on the part of her opponents. This system, which has been adopted within these few years for the prevention of smug. gling, has proved very efficient. The vessels are under the orders of the treasury; they carry up wards of 10 guns, are well manned and appointed, and commanded by u licutent of the royal navy.— The excise cutters employed in this service, were seldom able to encounter the ainuaers with suc cess, the latter being generally of larger size and superior strength in men and guns. These smug gling; preventive vessels are stationed at given tits. tances round the coast of 'rebind and Scotland. FEMALE COURAGE.Two young ladies were left by their father and mother in care of a country house, a few miles Irons Abingdon, together with two maid servants, and a • foot-boy. They were roused in the night by boys telling them the huuso was an fire: they instantly rose, called the maids, and gut buckets. T'•• fire being inacceasibla to the water, one of the Steers tell to work with a pick axe to batter down the wall of the drawing-room to put it out ; the other threw a pelisse over her night clothes, went into the stable, saddled a cart-horse, took the foot-boy behind her, and provided with a laige dinner-hell, rode otrin i ,ing and screaming for assistance at the public-house, parsonage, &c. till sin) roused all the neighbours, who carne with buckets. &et and extinguisited the fire, which had been pre vented from extemiing through the exertions of her sister. The drawing-room furniture only was destroyed, aml the premises were insured.— The Insurance Mice were flti pleased with the astonishing csmduct of these young ladies, that t'iey replaced every thing is the handsomest manner, even to the pelisse. They are (Litt:ate accomplisned girls of eighteen and twenty. Requisitions are signing for a Common Council, for a meeting of the Livery of . London, and 'else of 1 , ~ toe ',purity of Nliddlesex, to.coosider the propriety of petitioning l'arlhanent fur the restoration of her Majesty's name to the Litera, and lin the resti.. tuttou of all her other rights and die,inties, .We have no doubt that this example will in- speePily•foilowed bi every county, city, town, and palish in the United kingdom ; for we believe that all , -:tics concur in thinking tb't hair Majesty's nine ought never to havo bean omitted in the. Liturgy. 'file tur. John Humphreys, it oar of *Gre , at Duo 114m, 4 1 Ins late audit, very liberally (kilts:tett LS pet cent. en his Titiv,s, in coutequee" of the deurcssi.d state at Ail tioturs. , Z: • jert“.