The National Register. — London, England, 1809-11-26 00:00:00

NOV. 26. Parliament, it is finally determined, is to meet, for the dispatch of business, on Tuesday, the •23d of January : the Gazette of last night contains a Proclamation to that effect. _ _ _ ------- All the men of war at Plymouth arc ordered to he fitted for sea, with all possible dispatch ; and even the slips in ordinary are to be surveyed ►mmediately, and those dec:f►ed worthy of being fitted for service, to be reported accord. ingly. Naval preparations are accordingly going on with great vigour. Licences were granted on Friday for Dutch Zealand, comprehending Walcheren and all the adjacent islands. These licences, we understand, are of no utility, on account of the rigorous system adopted on the coast of Holland. At the same time, we are informed, they arc refused to the traders of the River Ems, where there is a consider- able relaxation of that severity, and an extensive inter course is, in consequence, capable of being maintained with a large portion of the North of Germany. Extract of a leWr from Riga, dated 21st October :—" I see by the English Papers, which, notwithstanding the vigilance of Romanzow, still reach us, that you are very ill Informed, in London, of what is passing in Petersburgh. I quitted that capital the 2d of this month, after passing a whole year there.—The Russiau nation is injured, if it is supposed that it is degraded enough to adopt the politics of his Master and his Vizier. Any Englishman of cha racter, travelling in any part of Russia. will acknowledge, that at no period were Englishmen better received in Rus sia than they have been since Alexander has become so subservient to the will of Buonaparte. The Emperor has lost all his popularity. Romanzow is at once an object of hatred and contempt. It is not true that Caulincourt is admitted into all houses in Petersburgh ; 1 defy any one to name above three into which he is admitted. Not only he is not admitted into others, but in others he has been for mally refused, notwithstanding the remonstrances of the Emperor. Even the person to whom the Emperor is most attached., the celebrated Madame N—, refused to receive him, although the Emperor requested her to do so ; and at that time she was inviting the Prince de Schwartlen bnrg, the Austrian Ambassador, to dinner four limes a week. The horror against this. Caulincourt is so great, that the Princess D—, having publicly spoken against him, in the strongest language, he complained to the Emperor, who contented himself with merely requesting the Prin cess not to meddle vi iih politics, There is not a Russian who does not foresee the restoration of the kingdom of Poland, and the ruin of Russia, if this lasts. But in spite of all this Caulincourt is master of the palace of Alex ander, and Romanzow is his active accomplice.—Credit is very low here. The rouble, which is worth seventeen pence, loses almost two third.—The Emperor lately en deavoured to raise a loan, at eight per cent, but the - loan, throughout the whole empire, did not produce 10,000 roubles. At no period of our history was there known such stores of wine, brandy, hemp, tallow, timber, &c. as now crowd our docks, quays, and warehouses. It is said, that the quantity of pipes, butt's, puncheons, and hogsheads of wine and spirits now under bond, and lying on detnurrage, ex clusive of the quantity in the merchant's cellars, in London, would, if placed endways, exceed one hundred miles in • length. There is not, we are happy to state, any foundation for the report of the loss of the sloop of war, 'Little Belt, off Jamaica. She arrived at Halifax on the tech of September, after having seen a convoy for Barbadoes, and a vessel with provisions' for Honduras, to their respective destina tions. The Earl of Rosse has been appointed Post-Master Cie- Bend of Ireland, in the room of Lord Clancarty. The Election for Chancellor at Oxford, will commence at nine o'clock of the 13th December, and, by the statutes of the University, must finish on that day. 4t is said that the Duke of Northumberland wag selicited 753 to permit the iiisertaun 01 Lord rerc)'s name in the List of Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, but that the Noble Duke refused. Lord Francis Spencer a son of the Duke of Marlborough, was afterwards gazelled as one of the Com minim:era for the A f fairs of India. His Lordship hod never heard of the intention to nominate him to the office, and instantly insisted on the revocation of the appointn7eut A new County Jail, costing 20,0001. and a Bridewell, costing 15,000/. have lately been built in Devoashire, which since their completion have been discovered to be within the district of Exeter, which is a city and county of itself so that until au Act of Parliament can be ob tained on the subject of these prisons, all comtuitments thither from the county of De•on, are understood to be illegal. For some time past, various persons have made it their business to attend all the markets in London ai:d its envi rons, to purchase guineas, hail guineas, and seven pieces, which no doubt, a' e: sent to a foreign matket in neu tral ships. A letter from Konigsberg, dated the 26th ultimo. ::ays— " A most singular and curious circumstance took rice is his City a few days ago. A poor bricklayer, at a •,ery ad vanced age, who was on his death- bed, sent to ltiie of our Ministers to come to him, intimalit g that he had a great secret: to divulge before he breathed his last, which.woeld tend to the welfare of his country. Our - Minister com plied with his request, and went to the poor man, who in formed him, that during the seven years war, old Frederick had employed him, and two of his compamoiai, to bury in tale of the churches in Konigshurg, a vast treasure of gold, silver and diamonds, at the same time causing them to take a solemn oath that the secret should never he divulges', until the last of them was going to die, or that a great scarcity prevailed in Konitrsburg. The Governor of the City immediately received orders to have the cave opened, when they found the hidden tremuire." William Jones, a native of Coact - , in Glamorganshire, quitted that part of the country about 50 years ago, to avoid the grasp of the parish officers. He came to London, and afterwards embarked in the wine and spirit trade, which he carried on with so much success, as to ac cumulate a fortune of upwards of half a million. He died a few months since, leaving his four executors 2,0001. each; he bequeathed all his freeaold property to several parishes in the vicinity of the intitropas ; gave leg - acies of 50001. and 10,0001. to a number of friends; and directed that such relations as might apply to the executors, within twelve months after his decease, should be pa id , one shilling each ! ! ! A young lady* aged 18, the daughter of a wealthy distil ler, in the vicinity of St. Martin's-lane, eloped on Sunday last, with a private soldier, who, on account of this affair of gallantry, has been returned absent without leave. The parties were traced to Camberwell, where the son of Mars threw of his military attire and purchased a suit of cloaths. The lady took with her about 1-00/. and embraced the opportunity to go off when she was supposed to have gone to tea to a married sister's in the neighbourhood. Ann Harvey, and L. F. Pellman and a third person, were brought up to the Court of King's Bench, yesterday, to receive judgment of the Court for a conspiracy, with ,iutent to receiveloool. by pretending to obtain for a per son of the name of Hesse, the place of coast waiter in the Custom House. Mrs. Harvey was sentenced to three months imprisonment, and the other defendants to two months each. Two men of the name of Harvey, father and son, were also'brought up to receive judgment of the Court, for a violent and cowardly assault upon• Peter . C. Shaughnessy, Esq. They were severally sentenced to three months imprisonment in• the goal of Gloucester. A writ of Habeas Corpus was ordered, directed to the gaoler of Hereford, to bring up a man of the name of Priestly, in order that he shonld be discharged. He was committed on suspicion of stealing a Queen Anne sixpence, in the fair of Hereford, when he was searched uo such ar ticle was found in his poosession. A THE NATIONAL REGISTER..