The National Register. — London, England, 1821-08-06 00:00:00

NIS MAJESTY'S' JOURNEY TO IRELAND. On Tuesday morning last, at half past eleven o'clock, his Ma jesty left his palsce in Pall-mall 011111 s way to Ireland. PORTSMOUTH, JUL: 31.—His Majesty arrived here this afternoon, at half past five in his travelling es riage, accompanied by Lord Cream:, and Mr. Wat-on his Majesty's private secre• tary, escorted by a party of the loth Hussars; every prepara tion had been previously made to receive his Majesty in this garrison with all the parade ossible; the streets were lined with troops, and the naval and mi litary officers in their dress uniforms and regimentals waited his arrival. On his reaching die outer barrier, a salute was fired front the bastions, and Lieutenant General Sir George Cooke, K.C.B. attended by all his staff, pre sented the keys of the garrison. which were graciously accepe.d and returned. His Majesty rode slowly down the streets to the water side, through the lines of soldiers, who presented amts ; on his reaching tine point of embarkation, he alighted, and was received by Admiral Sir J. Hawkins Whitshed, K.C.B. and the Captains of the squadron ; the lion. Sir C. Puget handed his Majesty into the royal barge, and on the standard being hoisted the squadron fired a royal salute as well as the 'platform ; in u few minutes he reached the Royal George yacht, which had, for his better convenience, been brought into the harbour. On the yacht's hoisting the standard, a second salute was fired by the squadron, and the captains commanding ships in the port were severally presented, and his Majesty then retired to dress for cinner. At half pest eight o'clock the King sat down to dinner on board the Raya/Geoegs, at which Lord Graves, Sir Hilgrove Turner, Sir Etimund Nagle, Colonel Thornton. and Sir Charles Paget had the honour to be present. The fiwihty of reaching the yacht, from the circumstance of her being moored so near the shore, offered an inducement to many who were anxious to obtain a sight of the King, of which great numbers availed themselves. Soon after his Majesty arrived on board, u number of boats, in which were rich dtessed females, repaired to the yacht, and continued around her until ten o'clock. During his Majesty's dinner, the individuals in the boats were afforded an opportunity of being gratified by a sight of their Sovereign through the windows of the cabin, and after dinner, at intervals, with that gracious condescension which distinguishes him, the King showed himself on the deck, and acknowledged by bowing, to those around, the enthusiastic greetings which awaited him at each appearance. His Majesty quitted the deck, and retired to twit at ten o'clock. PORTSMOUTH, A co. I.—This morning the yacht got under weigh, and proceeded out of the harbour at halt' pa ft eight o'clock. In her progress to Spithead she was saluted by the guns of the Platform flattery and Fort Moncton, and by the ships in the harbour, and at Spithead, decorated in their colours and with the yards manned. As soon as the Royal Ocorge pieced through Spithead, the si!-tial was given fsr the squadron appointed to attend the King to follow, when the whole got under weigh at the same time, and proeeeded with the yacht to Cowes. It is understood the King will anchor at Cowes this evening, and if the wind be favourable, will proceed to-morrow morning for Ireland. Our naval and military Confounders in Chief dim• with the King at Cowes today. The King will return here hum Ireland. Wise COWES, Auo. Majesty arrived here last night, about half past six, and dined on board his yacht. A large party dined with hi; Majtzty. This morning, at half past two, the signal was made, and the royal squadion got under weigh fiir Ireland. It was accompanied by an immense number of yachts. The whole was soon out of sight, Lord Craven's yacht. the Louisa, is the only yacht remaining here. His Lord. ,tap dined on board the royal yacht. ENCHIRIDION; OR, A HAND FOR THE ONE-HANDED. " Magistcr artis ingenique largitor venter." " It has bet n justly observed that the teal worth of any thing is seldom known to the party ssho may be in actual possession o f it. • • • • • " Those who have the natural use of both their hands never pause amidst the various avocations of the day to reflect with gratitude on the services they derive from those members, by which man has so decided au advantage over the brute creation ; but the moment that disease or accident may tender one hand useless, the individual who sustains the lost, is made sensible, in a thousand painful instances of daily and inevitable occurrence, of the full use he had for two." The above are extracts from the most ingenious little work we have seen for a long time, containing engravings of an entire apparatus to render indepen dent of a constant attendant any gentleman who may have been deprived, by war or paralysis, of a hand. The accompanying directions are simple in the extreme, and the instruments themselves (with a sight of which we have been favoured) precisely accord with the directions for using them. NVe are confident that every one who has had the misfortune to lose a hand will feel highly indebted to the in ventor (Capt. G. W. De Renzy, who lost his right arm from the socket at the battle of Vittoria), for promulgating for the general benefit, inventions ginating in his own individual necessities. By :iis ingenious instruments lie is enabled, unassisted, to strop his razor, wash his hand, pare and clean his nails, cut his meat, cat an egg, play a rubber at whist, and in short to supersede the heretofore con stant necessity of a man so situated of either being a continual trouble to some one in a party, or of having always a valet present to supply the defect under which he laboured. THE DUKE IYENGiII/.l 4 l.—(From a I'aris paper.) Louis XVIII. learned at the same moment the ash of the Duke d'Enghien and that the Order of the Golden Fleece had been conferred upon Buena pane. His Majesty instantly returned his decors. tion of the Order, the investure of which he had received, being a Frotch Prince, to Charter IV., with the following letter:— " Sire, Sir, and dear Conine—lt is with egret that I return youthe insignia of the order of the Gulden I. ince, which his Ma jesty your father, of glorious memory, confided to mei there can exist nothing in common between me and the great criminal whom audacity 41111 fortune have placed upon my throne, which he lias had the barbarity to stain with the pun: blood of a liour• bon, the Duke d'knglnen- " Religion teaches ice to pardon an assassin; but the tyrant of Dv subjects ought always to be my enemy. " Providence from inscrutable mouses, any ordain thnt "'lend nay days in exile ; but neither my contemporariet nor posterity 0 , 411 ever, even to my la t breath, tay, Ow so the lowa of adversity I showed myself unworthy ut oteupyir g the lltrine of my ancestors." THE NATIONAL. ItEGISTER. ACT or GnAcr.—The following is a copy of a letter to the several revenue boards inEngl and' Ireland, and Scotland : Treasury Chambers, eGth July c a2l. GENTLEMEN.-1 ant commanded by the Lords ommis sinners of his Majesty's Treasury, to acquaint you that, in con• sequence of his Majesty 'a Coronation, my I.orils are pleased to sanction the release of all prisoners confined fin penalties fur of the laws of the revenue under your management, who may have been confined for any period exixedingsix months; and I ion to desire that you will forthwith take the necessary measures for that purpose, unless there should be any special case of impro per conduct in jail, or of very dagrant character, when my Lords desire the same may be submitted for their consideration and directions. " My Lords are also pleased to extend this Act of Grace, under the same exceptions,to all pr;soners who have not yet been in confinement six months, when they shall have completed this term of imprisonmantt and they desire, that instructions be given in their smeral case., so that they may be released on the day on which the six months shall expire. " I am further to acraint you, that my Lords arc in like manner pleased to sanction the release Mall prisoners confined for debts, due to the revenne under your management, less in amount than tool. who have been confined, or when they shall have been confined, three months; and they are pleased to authorise you to discharge the books of your department front the amount due from such persons, and desire you will take measures accordingly, unless there should be special circunts , ances attending any pain • whir ease, as before-mentioned, when my Lords &situ: you will lose no time in submitting the same for further directions. " I sin, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, (Signed) S. It. LUSIIINUTON." The following tragi-comic paragraph appears in a Paris paper of Sunday ,—" On Thursday some boatmen took a man out of the Seine, who had ' thrown himself from the Punt-au-Change. On con ve3 ing him to the Corps de Garde, they succeeded in recovering him. He was no sooner restored than he assured the Commissary of Police very seriously, that us soon as he was free be should take the first opportunity of drowning himself. The Commissary proposed to him to sign a declaration of his intention to destroy himself,' and to which the man readily agreed. At this juncture a female arrived, loudly screaming 3ly husband, I will ace my husband.— When, however, she found him alive, she was im mediately silent. The boatmen approached her, to ask fOr some reward for having saved her husband, when she angrily repulsed them by saying, Why did not you let him drown himself? What business had you to meddle with hint V—These words had the aka of curing the husband of his folly, and he swore that he would not again attempt to drown himself." AEROSTATION.—Mr. Green, the person who went up with the balloon on the day of his Majesty's co ronation, ascended again on Wednesday last from the ground adjoining the Belvidere-tavern, Penton vile, soon afier three o'clock. It was put forth in an advertisement, that he would commence inflating the balloon at eleven o'clock, which occasioned au immense number of persons to assemble at un early hour, who began to grow very impatient towards two o'clock. file neighbourhood became for some time alarmed, in consequence of the outrages of the mob about two years ago at the same place, when a disappointment occurred in consequence of a balloon belonging to another person not having ascended pursuant to promise. On the present occasion, however, the aeronaut ascended with much effect, and was equally successful as when he ascended from the Green Park, The balloon rose majestically to the height of about seven hundred feet, when Mr. Green ihrew out some ballast, and it rose con siderably, taking an easterly direction, and having seemingly met with another current of air, it moved with much velocity. It was distinctly seen from Woolwich and Greenwich, and after u voyage o about a quarter of an hour the aeronaut descended in perfect safety at Barking in Essex, and returned in a post chaise early enough to preside at a supper given the same evening at the Belvidere tavern. WASHINUTON'S MoN tiscNT.--TheUnited States' sloop Peacock sailed from Civita Vecchia April 13, whither she was sent by Commodore Bainbridge, to receive from Rome the Monument to Washington, for the State of North Carolina; it was brought in the Peacock to Algesiras, where Commodore Bain bridge received it on board the Columbus, it being so large that it could not be got down the hatches of the Peacock, but was lashed on deck : in this si tuation it was nut deemed safe to trust it across the Atlantic: it is put up in two packages, each weigh ing nearly four tons. The Russian frigate Voilack, Capt. Bellinghausen, and a corvette, have put into Lisbon from a voyage of discoveries in the Pacific Ocean, bound to St. Pe tersburgh. These ships proceeded nearly in the truck of our great circumnavigator Cook, but got u far u 70. S. having ascertained (which is the principal thing discovered) that the land discovered by Cook in the North Pacific, and called by him Sandwich Land, is an island, or islands. The report of the committee of magistrates who attended the investigation of the charges preferred by Mr. Hunt against the keeper of Ilche.tcr jail, has closed, uud will of must iu duo time be offici ally published. Mr. Hunt bus rendered an essential service to the public in promoting- the investigation, of which the magistrate!: no doubt will be.n . to.tl many, and cautz such abuses as ex►st u► th.: [MOO to be temedied. p:w;e . 243 LOVE AND Jr.aLousy. —The Glnette de I rone contains an account of one of those acts of dispensa tion to which the leader pa•a;on, as it is called, sometimes excites the weak heads and ill-regulated feelings of certain of its votaries. A young man, about 21 years of age, who cultivated a considerable farm in the arrondissement of Aix, being despe rately in love with a young lady of that town, de manded her hand in marriage, but met with a rofusal Determined, it seems, not to abandon his pursuit, he visited Aix on the 21st ult. and unfor tunately encountered the object of his passion walk ing with his successful rival. This raised the fury of the rejected suitor to the highest pitch, and the next morning he repaired to the street in which the house his mistress inhabited was situated, and at the curly hour of seven succeeded in gaining admit tance. Having ascended to the second fluor, he there found the grandmother of the young lady, who begged . hint to retire. He replied, that be knew her granddaughter was about to be married. but that she should first perish by his hand, as well as her brother and his own. The madman then violently repulsed the old lady, who received a wound on the eye front the pummel of the pistol which he held in his hand; and having caught sight of his mistress in her chamber, he fired at her, front a very short distance, a pistol loaded with slugs, by which happily, she was only slightly wounded on the right arm and shoulder. At the same time he shot himself under the jaw with a second pistol, also loaded with slugs, which shatte-ed the lower part of his Else. It remained uncertain whether his wound was mortal. He was speechless, but was able to describe with difficulty sonic half firmed but legible characters. He stated that it was for himself' only he intended the two pistols. Hues. pressed his desire to make his will, and be indulged with the succours of religion. May he have pro fited by them, whatever has been his fate ! Perseverance Illusgraled.—king Robert Bruce, the Restorer of the Scottish Alonarchy, being out one day reconnoitering the enemy, lay at night in a barn belonging to a loyal cottager. In the morn ing, still reeltiang his head on the pillow of straw, he beheld a spider climbing up a beam in the roof. The insect fell to the ground, but immediately made a second essay to ascend. This attracted the notice of the hero, who, with regret, saw the spider fall a second time from the same eminence. It made a third unsuccessful attempt. Not without a mixture of concern and curiosity, the Monate!' twelve times beheld the insect bullied in its aim ; but the thir teenth essay was crowned with success; it gained the summit of the barn, when the King, starting from his couch, exclaimed, " this despicable insect has taught me perseverance; I will follow its ex ample. Have I not been twelves defeated by the enemy's superior force? On one fight more hangs the independence of my country." In a few days his anticipations were fully realized, by the glorious result to Scotland of the battle of Bannockburn. STRERT PREACHING.— A singular trial took place on the .'2311 ult. at the Salford Sessions, before a bench of Lancashire magistrates, the Rev. Mr. Hay, the well-known Vicar of Rochdale, being chairman. The facts of' the case appear to be these: —Mr. Waller, a•pteacher of a sect of dissenters. chose to preach from the steps of a house in the street of Ashton, by which, of course, a crowd of hearers was collected in the street. On account of the crowd so collected, he was indicted for a mis demeanour. The indictment charged, that lie, the said Samuel Waller, on or about the 17th of dime last, in a certain public street and Kirvos highway, in the parish of Ashtun.under-Lyne, did un. lawfully and injuriously cause and procure u great number of persons to the number of goo or more, to assemble together, and did, for a long time, obstruct the said pub , ie street, to the great damage and common nuisance of the liege subjects of our Lind the King, unit against Me peace, disc. The second count charges defendant, with divers other persons, with making a great noise. riot tumult, and disturbanee. The third count cli3iged the like riot, Sm. tube by shouting and singing, and wholly cll.:iking rah anu obstructing the street and highway. On the first count of this indictment Mr Waller was found guilty, and sentenced to three mouths' imprisonment in the house of correction! ! ! The first two nights after his conviction, Mr. Waller was put into a double bedded cell, with two convicted misdemeanants, who (wu mention it to their ho nour) voluntarily slept together, that lie might h ave a bed to himself. On Wednesday, thmugh . the interposition of some of his friends, Mr. Waller's situation was ameliorated ; but on Friday afternoon he canti:tued ill in bed, from anxiety and suffering caused by his previous confinement. &lenitive Itogeq.---A most important discovery has been made lately tele; ive to an extensive forgery on a foreign bank, through the instrumentality of some persons in the metropolis, who have been Nidereil rcpti:ohle , up to this time. Several gentle. men connected with trio bank alluded to have ar. Tivoli in Louthal, 'and every c !fort Las been put in tiwee to dircover the 1m Wiian to it. tartlei4 catent. Two indiviLlinila are in cii.tody for the uffence, the inventor and priutet,iiiil au examination lito taken