The National Register. — London, England, 1822-11-24 00:00:00

THE COURT. On Friday last, at half put twelve o'clock, his Majesty held a Court at his Palace, in Pall-mall, which was numerously attended. The King after wards held a Chapter of the most noble Order of the Garter. After the King and the Knights and Officers of the Order had proceeded into the Chapter Room with the usual ceremonies, and had taken their res pective seats and places to form the Chapter, the Bishop of Salisbury, the Chancellor of the Order, signifid the Sovereign's command for filling the va cant stall in the Royal Chapel of St. George, Wind sor, vacant by the decease of the late Marquess of Londonderry: The Chancellor then proceeded to collect the suffrages from the Knights assembled, and then presented them to the Sovereign, when the Chancellor, by command of the King, declared the must noble the Marquis of Hertford to be duly elected. The Marquis of Anglesea and Earl Bathurst, the two junior Knights present, then introduced the Marquis of Hertford with the usual ceremony, and his Majesty conferred the honour of the Order in the usual forms in putting on the Garter. The Chancellor of the Order then pronounced the usual admonitions to the Marquis upon his election. After the Chapter, Mina Mahomined Saleli, the Persian ambassador, was introduced to his Majesty by the Right Honourable George Canning, his Ma jesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Af fairs. The King held a Privy Council upon state busi ness, after which the Recorder of London was introduced to his Majesty in Council, and made his report of the convicts capitally convicted at Justice ball, in the Old Bailey, at the Last September aad October sessions. _ The Court closed at half-past six o'clock. THE EItPERORL—WhiIe the Emperor of Austria was passing through the Tyrol, an incident occurred which proves that, in one respect at least, he is ca. pable of achieving more than his puissant brother of the Nurth, whenever they both •im at the same object. The practice of firing at a mark is a na tional amusement among the Tyrolese, and some military officers at Inspinck got up a fete of this description in honour of their Sovereign. A target, painted with circular lines of black and white, was provided fur the purpose; and a great concourse of spectators being assembled, several officers entered the lists as marksmen. Many of them distinguished themselves as good shots, and others were less suc cessful. The Emperor of Russia was much pleased with the amusements, and resolved to try whether he bad not a keener eye and more steady hand than any of those who had already made their essay.--. Never was any attempt more luckless—never was chagrin more visible. His Imperial Majesty fired several shots, but wihout once touching the target; and at last, to use a homely phraze, he gave it up as a bad job, evidently embarrassed at having eome off with so little eclat. The Emperor Francis, tempted by the example of his august ally, next stood forth to make a trial. His success was complete. His first shot struck within an inch of the inner circle bis second within less than half an inch--and at the third shot he lodged his ball in the very centre of the mark. William Tell, who deprived his Impe rial ancestor of Switzerland, could not have done more. The Empress on being informed of the ex ploit, could not restrain her conjugal emotion.— Flying to his Imperial Majesty, she twined her arms round his neck, and kissed bins several times, while be in vain endeavoured, by a gentle movement of his hand, to repel her ardent embraces, at the same time chiding his illustrious consort for thus giving way to her feelings " Nay, don't do so !" he cried, " there is nothing to cause it. What I have done any person here may do twenty times a day." AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.-•--AD affair of an ex traordinary nature occurred a few days back in the county of Wicklow, which is likely to furnish matter fur discussion in one of the Irish Law Courts. The parties are exceedingly respectable, and the occur. rence Las plunged two families in inexpressible affliction. Two marriages took place—the two brides were escorted by their admiring grooms on the wedding-day to a hotel not flu. from Dublin; they dined, took tea, supped, and then the ladies retired. The gentlemen unfortunately sacrificed a little too freely to the jolly God, and on retiring to bed, each entered the wrong aparitnent!—(ly. To what god had the ladies been sacrificing that they did not perceive the mistake ? Within these last few years, a most astonishing increase has taken place in the intercourse between Glasgow and Paisley. There are now no less than nine conveyances daily between the two places, all of which return to Paisley the same day. They run at reduced prices, and the number of passengers has increased considerably since the reduction took place. THE NATIONAL REGISTER .NEW SOUTH WALES. Gazette: from Hobart's Town to the 30th of June have been received at the New England Coffee house. They furnish little et importance, beyond the direct and striking evidence they contain of the improvement of that colony, particularly in the manufacturd, growth, or discovery of the articles most essential to its own wants, and for which the colony - has been principally indebted to Europe.— Among these may be mentioned coarse cloth, glue, parchment, and leather; printers' ink, mill-stunes, equal in every respect to the French burrs, tobacco, beer, hops, &c.; coals and slate are also found, with timber fit for ship-building, and other valuable pur poses. Free settlers continued to arrive, and were composed generally of persons in a more respectable rank in life. The number of persons arriving •in Van Division's Land, for the 12 months preceding, who at their departure from Englund had received grants of land, consisted of 500, of whinn one-third were accompanied by their families, and had also brought out servants. The following account of the state of New Zealand, and the missions there, is extracted from the Sidney Gazette of May 31 : By the Wood/ark, a letter has been received from the Rev. Mr. Williams, of the London Missionary Society, stating the safe arrival of the brig Queen CAarlate, Captain Henry, at the Bay of Islands, on her way to the Society Islands. The reverend gen tleman says, that the vessel narrowly escaped being cut off at the North Cape; the natives in that vici nity being very unfriendly and barbarous. By another channel we learn, that missionary efforts are rendered fruitless, and suspended pro lempore, owing to the state of confusion and warfare into which the whole island by this time may be plunged. Shun ghee, that aspiring and enlightened chief, who has lately returned from England, dreams and talks of nothing less than the total subjugation of the whole island to his sway. All his views are directed to that one object ; and he has actually issued a man date to sense of the gentlemen of the Missionary body, prohibiting their departure from the present place of residence on pain of the consequences, being determined to class the friend with the foe who shall dare to impede or obstruct his measures ; and he will give no passport of safe conduct, therefore the Christian arms are, in this instance, for a time unavoidably grounded. This Chief has profited considerably by his visit to England, having thence obtained a vast expansion of mind, and imbibed in calculable knowledge. His observation upon Euro• peens, and their customs, has been so particularly close, that there is us much distinction, in point of mental endowment, between the other Chiefs and he that now contends for the New Zealand cruveii, us exists, comparatively speaking, between the Christian and the infidel. His quickness of percep tion is none of the least of his acquired qualities, which, joined to unusual strength of mind, and a determination to conquer, renders him very formida ble. As to ability to erect the intended enslave ment, when the 'Vaud/ark left, he had one of the best armies that New Zealand ever witnessed ; it consisted of 2,000 picked men, and those were daily being joined by others, who seemed to wish Mr. Satingliee to be their King. This force, headed by Shungliee in person, was on the eve of setting out for the river Thames, intending to exterminate all the refractory in that vicinity, and thus strike terror into the hearts of all. It is thought that he will accomplish his vast undertaking; but how his New Zealand Majesty will be able to retain his blood bought dignity, and suppress the envy of the nume rous Chiefs who govern the mighty tribes, is a problem which time alone can solve. At all events, King Shunghee will be renowned in the annals of his country. Nu other information comes by this opportunity that is further important; at least, no thing that we can venture to report upon, without further and the most unequivocal testimony. , NAPOLEON'S MelllEft.This lady died lately at Rome—her chief heir is her grandson, the young Napoleon, who, it is said, will ultimutdy receive an immense fortune. To her eight children now to wit, Joseph Buonaparte, Lucien, Lewis, Jerome, Pauline, Curtiline, and Hortensia, she be queaths to each and every one the suns of 150,000 sendi (37,0001) making in the whole 300,0001. The four daughters of Lucien are to have each a marriage portion of 25,000 seudi; and to her bro ther, Cardinal Fesch, who already rolls in wealth, she bequeaths a superb palace, fillet with the most splendid furniture and rarities of every sort. DOVER, NOV. 19.—This morning, at half past ten o'clock, their Royal Highnesses the Princess Au gusta Sophia, and the Duke of Cambridge, arrived at Wright's Hotel, under a salute from the guns on the Redoubt Battery. The carriages were embarked on board his Majesty's steam-packet the Dasher, and it was the intention of their Royal Highnesses to embark at two o'clock this afternoon; but in conse quence of the wind blowing hard, and a heavy sea rolling in front of the harbour, it was recommended to defer their departure until to-morrow. Tr.,m ; -7" ~. Y _ . ors ANACREON Moonc.—This sweetest of Bards re cently quitted Paris—his countrymen gave him a farewell dinner on the occasion, and after acknow ledgments for the toast " Prosperity to Ireland," he proposed " Prosperity to England" in the following terms:— " As the noble Chairman has, in compliment to the land of my birth, given the ever-wekome toast of • Prosperity tot Ire land: I beg to suggest a similar tribute to that other country. to which we all belong, and I. whose real greatness and sold glory —all Irishman as I am. and with my political and historical recollections flesh about me-1 am sett re.dy to bear testimony and homage before die world. Yes, Galtlemeo. there snaN be, arid there are (for God forbid that 1 should circumscribe muss within any particular latitude). there may be. sad there en, high minds, warm karts, Mg brave arms, every where; but he that genuine high mindedness. which bas hammy fisr its basis+ the only sure foundation upon which soy Wag 1.11.• was saw built—which can distinguish lostessa seal sebstaelid= and that false, inflated glory of the niemseit, whose like that of the balloons, owing to its emptiness, or if est to its emptiness, at least to the levity of its freight ; for that good faith. that punctuality in engegentrute,- which is the soul et all commercial as well as of all mend reladez n it =I, while it co gives to business the n fidence satiosil ' of friend. ship, introduces into friendship the Ilegularily matter-d-fac steadiness of business; for that spirit of tainses mid liberality among public men, which aeaasss the Ares of passolity eat of , party seal. and exhibits so Ass itemealles, late) die touching spectacle of the oast sturdy pas pouring out at the grave of their Ma Onkel magpairs sash tributes, not alone of justice. but of assiliel deka % M sham bog free from all private rancour was the headily dot sspant!ed then; and, lastly, (as I tenet I may say. not soli without in fringing, but in strict reseesdance with that wise bet. which excludes party politics from a usein ri ti y ike the groat ). for that true and well-understood km. of which , through alt changes of chance and time. ha kept . fsid vessel of the Con stitution seaworthy—wnich. in spurred seerens from without, and mumen ary dissensions between the crew within, still saalies bet to ride, the admiration of the world; tad tenll. 1 tear Is 004 never suffer her to founder ; flu all these sad many, many more , equally lofty, and equally' valuable. ow widely travelled Englishman may proudly say, as b* ssia hii foot once more on the chalky cliff's, • This is my own, tiarsiths land, and I have seen nothing that can. in the 'onside of with it.' Gentlemen. I cuukl not help. in that of heart. which they alone can feel towards England else bare been doomed to live for some time out, paying this MI6 tribute to that mat noble country. nor can 1 doubt the esidiality with which you will drink—' Prosperity. a long proeperity. to Oitt • Engine.'" Extract of a letter from the gentleman who took the charge of the emigrants to Upper Canada, dated Lanark, in Canada, Sept. 5, 1832.---" I am glad to be able to state, that the Lanarkshire emigrants have surmounted the greatest difficulties; there has been an abundant crop in the settlement, and plenty prevails with all who are able to work and exert . themselves ; be assured they are happy and con tented. Upon the whole, considering the descripe Lion of people who came out, the experiment has succeeded better than could have been expected; fOr many of them from age, infirmities, and former habits, are very unfit fbr such an undertaking.— Segue appear to have entered the societies solely for the purpuse of getting to the States ; they aban doned us after getting the first and second instal ment. There is u large manufactory of coarse wool lens and cottons, and cotton yarn spinning, carried on in many parts of the State of New York. Last summer many of the settlers of the year 1820 went to those places, one and two hundred miles distant. to obtain work, as the means of supporting their families in the interval between planting and reap ing; it was only necessity that forted them; they prise their lands to high is relinquish them. Extract of a private letter from Lisbon, dated Oct. 80:—" A commencement has been made in the consolidation of a part of our public debt, by of fering 5 per cent. interest, but the vouchers are not yet given to the public. When they appear, the price of the new paper will doubtless settle between 65 and SO per cent. It is also intended to consoli date the rest of the debt of the State ; but it is sup posed that this operation will be accomplished. at 4 per cent. When this is dune, the system of public credit will take root in Portual. It was a great erg ror not to have thought on th us measure sooner." FONTHRILL ABBEY. Mr. Farquhar having, through kis agent Mr. Henry Phillips, completed• the purchase of that magnificent seat for 330,0001. which cost upwards of a million, he is now down there, with the son of the auctioneer, making out a catalogue of the varieties preparatory to a sale by auction. We hear that it is the intention of Mr. Fuarquhar to sell the estate, and that there are three bidders in the market ; indeed, we may add a fourth—nawely, the Duke of Wellington, Earl Grosvenor, Mrs.Coutts, and the Marquis of Hert ford. The latter nobleman, when he saw it, said— " The King ought to occupy this place, fur nu sub ject could live in it;' On the 15th inst. Sir James Mackintosh, M. P. was elected Lord Rector of the University of Glas gow, fur the ensuing year. Mr Jeffrey appeared in his place as lute Lord Rector, and made a speech, in which he gave his reasons for voting for Sir James Mackintosh in preference to Sir Walter Scott, how had also been put in nomination. Sunday evening lust, an old man who has been many piers sweeping the crossing facing the Mother Red Cap, at Camden -town, was run over by a post chaise which was driving furiously to town, the pole of which struck him in the head, and fractured his skull so dreadfully, that he expired gorily after. '"" 1 1