The National Register. — London, England, 1812-02-23 00:00:00

En, 243. The dignity of an - Eatt of the United Kingdorn unto the Right Hon. ARTHUR ViSCOUIIt WELLINGTON, K. B.' was officially announced in last night's Gazette ; Also the s ppOiritllleiltS of Lieut.-Generals GRAHAM and HiLi. 7 and M a jor-Gen . Sir J. AUCIIMUTY , to be Knights of the Bath. This Gazette likewise contains the following appoint- rents Major-Gen. W*k.t to be Governor of Martinique. Major. Gen. MEADE, to be Lieutenant=Goveritor of the Cape of Good Hope. Lieut.-Col. NArtza to be Lieut.-Governot• of the Virgin Islands. Li e ut.-Col. DAVEY to be Lieut.-Governor of Dienien's Land, New South Wales. R. est yrs, Esq. to be His Majesty's Consul at the port of Maran hao, and the adjoining provinces of Para and Stara. On Tuesday, the restrictions. imposed on the PRINCE REGENT, by Parliament, expired ; and the first use his Reim.L HIGIINES made of his authority was to confer the title of Earl on Lord WELLINGTON, and to recommend to Parliament v.) grant his Lordship a pension of 2 ) 0001. a year. We are happy to announce the safety of the Snrveil. lante, reported to have been driven under the guns of St. Sebastian s. taken by the enemy. She arrived safe at Ply mouth on Thursday : PLvxtotrru, Fez. 20, I lye P. M.—We arc happy, through the channel of your intelligent Vairer, to annx)unce l that abuut ten minutes rime, La c• A rveillaute, of 56 guns, Captain Sir G. CoLcir a, Bart. said, by the iNitgente,.arrived from Corinna, to have been forcedinto St. Sebastian's, and lost, has just passed I'enlee Point, and is now about anchoring in the 3otand. She made her number to I'Vlaker Tower, which repeated to the Leonidas, of 36 gulls, guardshi,: for tl.e day, and again repeated to.tbe Admiral's ship, which has telegraphed the Admi ralty. 'fire Republicans of South America have derived very considerable assistance, both in men and arms, from the United. States. A . picket is arrived from Malta and Gibraltar, the latter of which pl -ices it left on the 9th inst. The intelli gence from Sicily mentions, that the KING was .engaged in forming a new Administtati .n. His MAJESTY is said to have published an Edict, forbidding the communication of his subjects with those persons who had been deprived of their ascendancy in tiwOoviernment. The Malta letters state, that traisports were sending from:thence on & the 12th ult. • with dish troops to garrison the city of. Palermo. A mail from Anholt arrived on Tuesday, with Letters and Papers to the Bth instant. 7 —The French have seized. the Isle of Rugen, and all the ships there. The seizure rrf this place may have been with a view to the nime rigid enforcement of BONAPA RTE'S continental system ; but it is not so regarded on the Continent. The report of a war between France and Russia is repeated with increased confidence, in which Prussia, it is said, will be forced to fight under the banners of the former. In addition to the troops already said to be in motion, the garrison of Frank fort is stated to have received orders to march to Dantzic. Walsh was certainly liberated from Newgate on Friday night last, but not by a pardon from the PRINCE REGENT. By a letter received from Nottingham yesterday, we learn that the riots still continue, in defiance of the mili. tiny and police. A man of the name of Melling, who formerly kept a public .house in Wigan, hut who lately removed to Liverpool, being o n his death-bed, last week, sent for a clergyman, and .told him he could not die till he canfessed a murder committed by his sou (since dead) and himself, on two recruits quartered in his house, one night, bout s ten year, ago, when his son returned from robbing a mail. Fear ing they might lead to a disc very ? they determined to murder them, Which they did, and buried them in the garden. Thi s confession was sent to the Magistrates of Wigan, who, on Monday, caused a search t! ) be made, and on 'Tuesday the remains were found near the place UoUribed by the murderer. THE NATIONAL REGISTER. MISCELLAhVIES. tit Cohsiderat;le alartri was excited at Cork on the 13th instant, by • letter from the Chief Magistrate of Kinsale to the :.1 aver of C irk, stating, that he had received a :communication from Maior-G.:ere Thoma 3 Mahon, who bad received an'txpress preceding evening% reporting that a signal 'had been made at Sevens Head 'Cower (to the Westwaid), intimating that an enemy's 5m..11 enlists was riff, t. ' etch. was shortly after followed by another, signifying that an enemy' , . t:ett of I:ne of battle ships was in sight. A similar report had been cenittitt‘ • ideated by telegraph to Admiral Thornborotigh, at Cove; but ht. well of opinion that the fleet in question vras not hostile. He had, liowev...r., dispatched a fr.ote to the Westward to ascertain the fact. It appear* since there was no reoZ foundati,n whatever fur the alarm. The total amount of the National Debt redeemed on the Ist of Febru ary, 1812, was M 1,254,6171. The sum to be expended in the ensuing quarter is 2,962,9551. ss. 81d. A message was delivered from the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the Stock Exchange, on Wednesday morning, stating that the time for re. ceiving Exchequer Bills to be funded, will be from the 22d to the tgth instant inclusive. Orders have been issued to ballOt for the Local Militia for the coti:cy of Middlesex. 11w number required fur the county is tea . thr•ustaa, between the ages of 16 and 30. • At a very 'early hour on Thursday morning, a hot pre!,s :oat place o'h the River Thtmes. The River Fetrcibles were called rut :o assist 'Et oppress servi"e. About two hundred :lien were taken on board the tender in consequent.:. Au alligator was shot through' he head at Ghazetrore by an Offiter the 6, th regiment. which wr 29 feet it •Ing.h seven in ercu.ofees. ence. In the stomach ever;, ft. ..I -.;veral lovnan MAN, the heads of two chihl: -, .1, and tool. than CO stones—probably sWal 1, lowed in order to a d;gest stnch, on e. ialencia, displ3vel perfidy— Although it was stipulated, by the tins el •!e capit.•• •:ion, thi.i na inqairy should he trade in•a the conduct t _hose who had taken •A i v.! part in the v -t all the Chiefs of the insurgr.::ts. , nd thiaat who had been paid con:•ee,ed wiqi the Brii7,ia Can ,, G, Mr. Tur, per, were or ,tired to be Lunged, and 155:0 Mrinks, who had disin guislied themselv sby their zeal, wt •• • off • ners to France. • A malatrcholy accident happened at .'oit..ay. /ft consequence if the heavy rains, an error tnoub stone was detached . Frorft • 4 .te ntntain, and faliing upon sdme buildings, crushed forty-oine - penk sons to •deatla Mrs. Loberty (daughter of .Mr. 1711::‘ter, of 1 1 / 4 /..ansfit'd-s:reet). .4iot herself in Devonshire-street, a f'ew rilt.ilings since, Out •t so effectually .eis to cause 11‘.:-4.:ear.b. Aar. Hugh Doherty, ber hus band, obtained e'atreages a few years ago against Mr. P. Wyatt, for eritis. . can. with this Lady. We are sorry . to record the followiog 'accU:ent at 13roadstair, r—OA F'rfday last, during a bevy gale, a sloop off chat i.lace m•:de a s: gal .for assistance, when three boats put off fens. . Broaastal.rs pier; two df them had got to the vessel, and put sonic hands on board, when Jut At the moment they had done so, and were laying alonpit'.: tar sloop, tremendous sea struck one of the boats, threw up a eonsideratilE , height, upset her, and she fell into the other boat, and sunk her al:3; the third boat being near, saved the lives of several ; but, unf two men were drowned; one of their naine.l -ark.obe father and brother, we are told, experienced the same fate a ft w years ago, very near the same place; the other sufferer was named Job. This dZeict , lnt happetr_d so near the shore, mat the friends al most of tht boat's crew witnessed this dreadful scene; there were fifteen or sixteen men floating about, and when the two boats sank, the c , .es on shore were truly distressing, The gardener and footman of John Winder, Esq. of Vaynor Park, Montgomeryshire, have been committed far trial on charges of r,ybbing their masters cellar.—These honest and trusty servants having access 1 0 a ro-'m over the cellar, had cut a trap (loot large enough to en trance. and brad for the last eighteen months been acting /lids LIP , Reduce Stairs after the family retired to rest.—Two hundred aid [Jr; y bottles of wine, besides rum and brandy, are ascertained to be missing ; a dozen of old sherry was fo.ind buried in the gard,:o. All SON'S ORIGINAL CURLING FLUID is re-on - rneih:ed as the most clog ant article ever inventen tires •ing the 1-lair; it in:- parts a reviving grateful fragrance, conve - is tile most bed:i:id gIJ. s the Hair imaginable, and gives the " tout (*wale,' that casein: - r-; attraCtion which can be obtained by no other at ans whatever, alas. is presumed that its peculiar property of inakiag the Hair curl, ar u keeping it in form in camp weather, is a convincing proof of its infra sic merit. It stands without competii ian for nourishing the Hair, is w, r ranted innocent, and the money returned if not approved; keeps t.L hair in curl, and makes it appear natural. Sold wholesale and retail by James Atkinson, perfumer, 9 , , , High , street, Bloomsbury; by Bayley and ble w, Cocksliar-sua et; ut uer, 75, Overton, 47, New. Bond-street; Bacon, 150, Crance, 115. Ox ford-street; Barber, Titchtield street ; Finch , likhorgate-srreet ; Ri f le, Cheapside ; Bolton, Royal Exchange; ,;,s,•11 and 59, and Mattraia, 116, Fleets street ; Berry, 17, Greek stree! : and all I;rincipal l'erfum-rs, at 3:8. 64. or exactly double, Gs. rbe i att. 1t ale 6 to particularly obicrve thi genuine is signed Lime .~ ~. ~. __ . " ) 111.11 41111 4 4i