The National Register. — London, England, 1811-10-13 00:00:00

GAELIC SOCIETY. On trlday the London Gaelic Society dined together at the Osee of their weekly meetings, namely, the Castle avern, ortu g al-street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, to commemorate the An niversary of the Institution, where a number of most loyal and appropriate toasts were given, accompanied by many national and patriotic songs in the Gaelic language. That day happen ing, most apropos, to he also the Anniversary of the Glorious Victory of Camperdown, WWI by their noble countrvntin, Lord Duncan, Mr. B'own, the Prince Repent's Ilighlarid (=e nealogist, presented the Society with a well-designed and finish ed Transparency, representing Admiral 1)e Winter surrender ing his sword to Lird Duncan, on ship board, on the 11th of October, 1797, with the following Gaelic inscription Do 'd Chuine o IVflior'ear Mhic Donachie, 'S itxtoid Torn Chaidh thu that is, 'S ceansich thu na Dudchich bha falsail, 'S thug thu an Camlilich g'ar Cladach. Which may be translated thus— Brave Duncan, this day to thy memory is dear, Thou traversed the main, its enemies to clear; The false Dutch you conquer'd, with a tremendous blow, And brought their fleet to Britain's proud shore. MYSTERIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE. The inmates of a detached enrage at Old Brompton (Mr. Roy bard's), were thrown into the utmost alarm on Thursday night, by the moans of some person in distress; supposed to pro ceed from some unfortunate passenger, who had been robbed and 111 treated in one of the lanes near his dwelling, and with prompt humanity (having procured a lamberts) he followed the sound, and at len B th perceived, at some distance, ail object in white, which seemed to walk with great quickness. Resolved to ascer tain the cause of so extraordinary an appearance, he rushed for ward, and a few seconds overtook the object of his solicitude, who, almost at the same moment, dropped senseless in his arms. roils the trepidation excited in his breast, by so unexpected an incid nt, his light dropped froin his hand and was extinguished. Determined, however, to lend every necessary assistance to his apparently lifeless burthen, he carried her- back to his house, whereAhe was received by the anxious family with every possible Vudisess, and by she application of restoratives soon appeared sensible of her situation, although she did not utter a syllable. 'rom her dress and demeanour, Mr. Reynard concluded her to be a woman of respectability • and, actuated by the natural feel fogs of his heart, he desired she might be conveyed to bed, in the hope, that after she had obtained a night's rest, he should be able to gain some insight into so mysterious an attair ; and, in order that she might receive every possible attention, he ordt red Ms seevant to sit up with her, and he retired to rest ; but was awoke by his servant, about seven o'clock, who told him the strange lady, on pretence of taking the air, had gone into the garden, from thence into the road, and, on getting to some distance, had run off with great speed. Mr. R, immediately rose, but could discover no trace of the stranger. On examining the bed, how ever, he discovered the leaf of a pocket-book, with the following words written with a pencil : " The gratitude of a distressed and erring wife is due to you. I thank you most sincerely fur your humanity, and crave your pardon for a hasty departure, which cruel circumstances force me to make !" This weei all the clue that could be gained. Mr. R. describes the Lady as being of a middle size and age, of an agreeable countenance, dark hair, and without a cap; she was dressed in white, and from her general costume, seemed to have left her house in great haste. An account of the horrible massacre in Egypt has been trans mitted to England by a young Gentleman of Hull, wlra was lately travelling in Egypt. lie was at Alexandria when the slaughter commenced on the Ist of March ; and in his passage tip the Nile, he met the heads in pickJ', of :24 Beys, going as a rresettt to the Grand Seignior at Constantinople. On his arrival at Grand Cairo, he saw the hails of the ordinary Mamelukes rani,ed before the doors and windows of the Mosques, to he owned by the relations of the deceased. The massacre conti nued for several days. Many heads were brought in from va rious parts of the country, and many hundreds were cut off in XYpper E4ypt. The Pacha of Egypt had received orders from the Porte to send 12 or 1.6,000 men again at Mecca and Medina, and it was said that as soon as this force had marched, the Beys intended to have attacked the Paella, and that he vindicates the a g u isi .acre as necessary for his own safety. The youtv , Gentleman So whom we have alluded, was too, t courteously received by tbe Paths, and had the 'honour to sit, converse, and ride out him ; and white he remained in Grand Cairo. and during ltis 011*.*Irill3lide. the Puha appointed a guard to attend NATIONAL REGISTER. - MISCELLANIES, • • Ito The Census Act is to undergo a modification in the ensuirg Session of Parliament. The population of Ireland is, as it ought to be, to be compreher.ded in the el:unierkvion ; as Asa his Majesty's subjects serving in the navy, the army, the tra.r. chants service, and on boaru small craft of every description. Without a regulation of this kind, the returns mast be .;efficient, the object of the Legislature frustrated, and the physical strength of the Empire remain unascertained. Mr. Colman has presented a pe! Rion to the Prince R, gent, praying, that, by the interposition of his Royal Highness, either the Winter Theatres may be limited to their usu&il time of closing, viz. the 4th of June, or that he may be allowed to extend his time of performing to eight months annually, to compensate for the loss which the Haymarket Theatre sustains by that of Co. vent-Garden being now kept open till August, and re-opening early in September following. The name of the drama which is forthcoming at Covent. Garden Theatre, from the pen of Mr. C. Kemble, is to be Kamschatka. It is understood to be, in the general outline, de rived from a play of Kotzebue, and is to be accompanied by songs and music. The place of action affords scope for bold and picturesque-scenery, but it is cold and barren! A Court-martial is ordered to be assembled at Chelmsford, at the instance of Lieutenant-General Ackland, to try the Major, two Captains, the Adjutant and. Paymaster .o: the 2d Surrey Militia, upon charges of a kind the most serious, as they affect the confidence which the soldier ought to have in the honour of his Officers. The Maidstone frigate will be launched at Deptford on Friday; the 18th inst ; the tide will serve about nue o'clock. It is the intention of Government to lay down immediately upon the slip of the La Hogue, a 50-gun ship, to be called the Salishury. She will he built upon the plan of the Danish ship Christian 1111. This vessel seems to he a great favour ite among the Officers wh• have sailed in her. Her stern and afterpart beak a striking re semblance to the pink-sterned ships built in the early part of the last century, and consequently enable the men to bring a greater number of guns to bear, in case of her being raked ur cha'ed by an enemy. We have seldom heard a more distressing circumstance than the death of the Pilot, Anderson, of Deal, which happened about a week since, on hoard a vessel in Margate Routs, in a hoary tale of wind, his head being actually severed from his body by one of the ropes, .at the morneut of striking against another vecsel in the same perilous situation. He has left a wife and ten helpless children to lament his loss. The following is an extract of a letter, dated Caernarvon, Oct. 6 :—" A ship of about MO tons buithen - Las been off this bar for three days, bottom up. Eighteen dead bodies, sup posed to be part of the crew, have been driven on shore." Wednesday a Lieutenant of a frigate in Hamoaze, in a fit of desperation, fired a pistol into his mouth, and actually blew off the roof of his mouth. He was conveyed to the Royal Naval Hrsspital with little hopes of recovery. The ball could not be found; but on Thursday morning he was taken with a fit of coughing, and actually brought off the ball from his stomach., Disappointment in love is said to be the cause of this' rash action Til E CO M FT.—The Comet having passed very near to . the star at the end of the Great Bear's tail, it will not page near any bright star for some time to come; but towards the middle of Novemb , r, it seems likely to pass below the second brightest star in the heavens, in the Constellation Lyre, at the distance of about 14 degrees, nearly west, in. the early part of the even.- ing, with an altitude of about 50 degrees. As the Comet is racy moving nearly right acro-,4 the view of the earth, and will bb nearest to it about the 231 instant, it will afterward be eeereas ing its distance From u!:, and we both then shall be moving con trary wrp, the Comet to the hit, -..nd the. Earth to the right:, so that on this account, and also o❑ account of the Comet's en creasing distance from the Sun, v e n:ay expect it to be lets' brilliant by the Middle of November, and not long afterwards to lose it entirely from our sight. THEORY or COME I S.—That every particle of matter in* the universe, acts and re acts on each other, is adMittecl'hy all Emend philosophers, and is the very essence of gravity: This accounts tor the extraordinary appearance of the present Comet, in mo ving at one time forward and at another time backward, and any person conversant in spheric trigonometry can prove, it will be stationary over London with brilliant i fluence on Tuesday, the 22d of this month. Astrologers have always considered Comets as being portentous of great events, and this is probably the rea iton that the Contractors with Government have fixed the draw ing of tire present Lottery on the ahovs day, as the Comet may greatly imprcve the fortunes of adventurers who are now ut .vited to participate in its benign influence ) by purchasing a Ticket or a Share.