The National Register. — London, England, 1813-08-01 00:00:00

THE IqkTIONAL REGISTER. 490 The Earl of AitrapteN has arrived in town from Scot land, whence - he was summoned by express by his Majesty' Ministers, for the purpose, as is reported, of procef ding on a special mission to the Emperor of AUSTRIA. His Lord ship will leave town early next week, and it is expected will assist at the approaching Congress' on the part of this country. The Earl of ABERDEEN is accompanied in this important mission by his brother the Hon. Mr. GORDON, and by the Honourable FREDERICK LAMB, Secretary of Legation.— (Courier.) It is rumoured that the English Ambassador, said in one of the Paris Papers to have pa , scd through Neuss, in the De partment of the Moselle, on his way to the Congress, is Mr. CHARLES STUART —(Courier . ) We understand that all political connection between Mr CANNING and the Marquis WELLESLEY is at an end.— (Courier.) Thursday, the ships bound to St. Andero, Portugal, and the Mediterranean, sailed fi om Portsmouth, with a fine breeze, under convoy of his Majesty's ships Venerable. President, lloratio, Beagle, and Echo. On board the shi r rs bound to St. Andero, was an immense quantity of stores of every description, a considerable quantity of specie, and upwards of 3,000 troops, for Marshal Wellington's army. In consequence of the 7th Hussars being ordered for foreign service, the 2d dragoons (or Crevs) hare been ordered ft= Warwick to Hyde Park barracks, for the London duty. A Matta mail arrived on Tuesday. The plague, we are sorry to say, up to the tlst ult. continued to make great ravages. It was confined to the lowest order;- and no Eng!ishmen, either merchant or soldier,had up to that period, been affected. From . the 22d of May to the 15th of June, the average of deaths was thirty allay; from the 15th of June to the 20th, they did not exceed twenty. The greatest precautions were taken to prevent the spreading of the infection; an expec tation was entertaked, that as the heat of summer became mlre intense, the disea , e would be gradually extinguished. SuA, at least, is the usual effect of the ardent summer beats at Alexandria and other !;laces of the Levant, where the plague is an anniral visitant. The Court of Stockholm has recently published a Docu ment, whir h is considered as a great advance towards con ciliating Denmark. It proposes that Sweden shall abandon her pretensions to Norway, and even to Drontheim, until they shall leave bern appreciated and determined by the farther, that the force of Denmark, which may be craplocd in the common cause, shall not be placed at the clisposal of the Crown PRINCE, but shall be under the com mand of their own Sovereign, and that the claim of in demnity for the numerous captures the Danish privateers have made in a time of profound peace, shall he postponed, if not ultimately resigned, by the 'Court of Stockholm. JQSEPH BCONAPARTE is at Bayonne, endeavouring to raise the peasantry in the South of France, to resist their iavaders. The enemy's force at Bayonne is estimated at 20,000 reg Lars and 10,000 armed peasants, badly clothed, and di stitu:e, in a !vent degree, of the necessary instruments of war. Geneial CoPoNs, it is said, has summoned the South of Catalonia to arms; so that SUCHET may be consi derably annn)ed in his advance into that province, especi al:, if igorously pressed by the Valencian armies. Sir J. B. WARREN has declared the whole coast of Ame rica to be in a state of blockade. • As soon as the account of the fate of the late 3/Ir. THOM SON BONA It reached St. Petershurgh, the Exchange was or -4 Ted to be-shut, and no busing 's wa transacted among the commercial body on that day. AUGUST 7 The estate attached to the Dukedom ofAlbufera, which was given by BUONA P A RTE to SUCH ET, has been assigned by the Spanish Cortes to Marquis WEL L I NGTON. The revenues arc estimated at 15,0001. sterling per annum. Tuesday, the PRINCE REGENT held a Chapter of the Order of the Garter, at Carlton House, for the express pur. pus .. of electing the Emperor of Russ' A a Member. Soe l after three his Royal Highness entered his closet in the full robes of the Order, when Garter King of Arms proceeded to call over the names of the Members resent, and walked in procession through the State Rooms, in their full robes. The procession having arrived in the Throne-room, and the Prince having taken his seat in a superb chair opposite the Throne, the Knights and Officers made their reverence, when the former took their seats on each side of the Prince, according to seniority, and the latter took their appointed stations. Count LIEV EN, the Russian Ambassador, was then introduced, and placed on the left of the Prince, when the Chancellor of the.ader said, he had it in command from the PRI NC E REGENT to recite the last statute of the Order, which directed that, besides the Sovereign, it should consist of 23 Knights, all the descendants of King GEORGE U. exclusive of the Prince of AVALES; but it was now re commended to the Chapter to pass a new statute, for the purpose of electing his Imperial Majesty, the Emperor of all the Russtas, a Member of the Order : and after having taken the opinions of the Knights in writing, declared his Impel ial Majesty duly elected a Member. Garter King of Arms then introduced F. TowNsH END, Esq. and, in conse quence of his indisposition preventing him from under. taking a voyage to Russia, proposed Mr. T. should go in his place ; which being agreed to, Mr. T. was sworn in Garter King at Arms for this special purpo s e. The oath was then administered in Latin by the Registrar, and the Chapter closed. The M'ssion to the Emperor of Russia, in order to invest him with the insignia of the Most Noble Order of the Gar ter, will be composed of Francis Townsend, Esq. Windsor Herald, Deputy Garter ; Sir Thomas Tyrwhytt, Black Rod ; George Frederick Bette, Esq. Secretary to the Commission; Stephenson, Esq. Herald Extraordinary ; James Putman, Esq. Secretary to Sir Thomas Tyrwhytt ; two of the King's Messengers, and a few other persons attached to the com m's3ion.—The Cygnet frigate is preparing at Sheerness for their immediate embarkation. The following is the form of prayer to be read in all churches and chapels for the victory of Vittoria :—" U Lord God of Hosts, who chiefly declatest thy Almighty power, by protecting the oppressed, and who, smiting to the ground the proud oppressor, and who, in the defence of injured nations, teachest thy servants to war, and girdest them with strength for battle, we yield Thee praise and thanksgiving for the con tinued successes in Spain, with which Thou bast been pleased to crown the conduct of our General, and the valour of our soldiers ; but more especially for the signal and decisive vic tory with which, under the same Commander, Thou bast re cently vouchsafed to the allied armies in the battle of Vitto ria. Continue, we pray Thee, thy blessing upon the coun sels of our General ; maintain and support the couraoe and strength of the allied armies ; sanctify the cause in which they are united ; and as it bath pleased Thee to put back, with confusion of face, the proud invader of Spain and Por tugal, let the allied armies and the allied kingdoms prostrate themselves with one consent befine Thee, and acknowledge . with humility of heart the victory to be thine. These pray ers and thanksgivinzs we humbly offer to thy Divine Majesty, in the name and through the mediation of our Lord and Sal vicar Jesus Christ. Amen." 1 1 ,