The National Register. — London, England, 1815-12-03 00:00:00

- .4 has not forgotten the essential services which England has rendered her. It is her interest to maintain n good under standi.:g with that Power, but she is desirous that nothing should appear to attack her independence. The lonian Islands, which have been ceded to us by the present Conventions, are not only a political object of the greatest importance to this country, but a commercial one also, Let our readers look at their position, and they will s e e that one of them, Corfu, is the key to the Adriatic, whilst another, Cerigo, is the key to the Archipelago. They open to us an easy communication with the Motea cad with the Grecian Islands, and give us vast and exclu s:ve advantages in our Levant trade, When Vec i ice held the first rank in point of commerce, !T posession of these Islands was one of the sources of her superiority. -She lost them during the French Revolution, hi:11 deprived her of that independent station which she had held fur so many centuries. Russia took the. from t!a? Fri nch in 1809, and formed them into an aristocratic ro.public—which the Treaty of Amiens recognised. Their destiny is now decided ; and while the United States (tithe lonian islands increase the power and the con s equence of their guardian and prodector, Great Britain, they will de iije from that protection ) security, prosperity, and peace. All Coe transports both at Hainsgate and Dover are tinder or s d s •is to proceed to Ostend and Antwerp, to receive the troop s which arc to return home, in censequinice of the arrangement of Sir Ilettry 'Turrets. Accounts have been received by the Mail from Flanders, from f'onstaminople, of the beginning of November. Our Ainhas ador in the Turkish Com t bad taken his departure to return to this conntry : he had inoceeded on board a merchant vessel for 'Penedos, where he proposed embaikin4 on board a British fri gate stationed in veadiness to receive him. itte French bassador, M. Joulsert, was preparing to return to France, as the One appointed by Louis XVIII; was tinnily expected, It is said the Lord Nlayor visited, from five Isi nine o'cinek, roar mornings in this last week, every watch house in the City, (consisting of 39), the number of watchmen he saw, were nearly 700, he examined every man as to his age, how long he iiad been a watchman, and the manner in which the duty was performed, their pay, .s4;c.; he found in several wards very old men, some of whom had been in tfie army many years, and had endured great fatigues, but still healthy and strong, making gaftd watchmen, being mem that can be depended upon, and not slumbering on their duty. Ont of the 'mintier CNainkwd, the Imid Mayor does not think more than tirty Might to be superseded. Alany of the wards have very stout men, with but ;ow exceeding the a ge of form Sou TitwA It K BRI DOE —This undertaking proceeds with i7e . cat activity, a.tn ;nay be expected to he completed in about t else months from this time. (lite of the piers is finished to nigh -water mai k, the works of tho other commenced, the font]. Jation of the liankside abutment finished, and several courses ► of the masonry (aid. The centre arch of 40 feet span is cast, and erected kite° tempore) at Ltotherham, in orkshire, where it attracts particular notice for its beauty and solidity of struc tut e. T 'Poo of the three grebes of which this bridge i s to con sist, will be delivered early in the Spring. Another tOi`gery has been discovered on the Commissioners :or victualling tiw Navy, %%Ilia, it steins, was eftected near two years since. 'The perpetrator has hitherto eluded detection. Letters of Cth instant, frora'Madrid, mention, that the late G,lerilia Chief, Empeci:.ado, has been sent to the castle of Monzon in Aragon, and Itallasteros to Pamplona. A meeting of the Magistrates awl Gentlemen resident within the Hundreds (?t Ungar and Hallow, and the Half Hotbed of W alth4rn, in Essex, was held Monday se'nnight, to take 'into (Onsideration the great disiiroporti between the price of wheat and Hour. RewlutiOus NVCFC into to !:9rrect the evil; • THE NATieIikTAL REGISTiM 1 . 1 1 . . Dr.C., 2, =~ +~ .......P...5• Id. .. ._,, . 777 'fife Tea Fos: The late October Meetings were hut thinly at, tended, %%Inch may in some measure be accounted for by the absence of many Noblemen and Gentlemen connected with the • Turf, who are at preach( abroad. On a review of the raeirtg at the late Meetings, and judging upon the principles of public running, it may he fairly inferted that Sir Joshua would havo won the Derby Stakes this vear, bad he not fallen amiss at that s time, he having beat Raphael (who ought to have won those, stakes) in the Craven Meeting. With respect ns quinola wo o . ning the Newmarket St. Leger, it is to be attributed to the Skill of rider (Buckle), Who availed himself of the oppurtunite . offered by low or five horses waiting upon each other between ' the Dukes, stand and ending, and won the race by a slip. Sir Joshua afterwards beating Quitiola, his match, two y ear o ld f , course. a race for speed, and then giving Whisker four politica* across the fla t decidedly prove him the best three-year old in the South. • Mi lo da Puta is allowed to be the best horse in the North, hating won all the races he has started f er, and heat horses of all ages both two and fotsr miles; it must be confessed that in winning the Doncaster St. Leger, the horses he bad to, contend with mere, with the exception of the Orville colt. very had. If in the ensuing match at Newmarket Craven Afeetin ,, „ 'he beats S:r Joshua, giving him se.:eii pounds, it swill certainly rank him the best Boise that has appeared fur many years; ou 'the other hand, if he loses the match, it will no doubt lead to another engagement, in which the merits of these rixals of the turf will he fairly. measured. Sir Joshua is at Rresent the td vourite, 6 to 4 4 p.p. M. Vavalette, condemned to death at Paris, is I's-kited. to tha t Bonaparte. tamily, having in 1802 married a niece of the press Josephine. Lavalette is the son of a coffee-house keeper at Nancy, eorolled. himself in the National Guard of that city at the burstitKont t$ the revolution, attained the rank of gene ral at the time of Robespierre, served as ab4-de camp to Bona-. carte in his Italian campaign*, partook of his fortunes its Egypt, and continued to serve utiAer him?, till the peace of nevilk, iu tem, wh e n he was appoiuted Counse.se of Sta and Director-General of the Posts, 'w ,*icls place , he occupied till the restoration of the Boarbops in A scale of Pensions for the Navy, similar to, tint which was recently granted to the Officers of the Army, has been finally agieed upon ; by which the pensions increases, %Kith the pro gressi %e. rank of the wounded sufferer. So greatly ire several othee r s of the Navy benefited by it, that they will te in the receipt of ioool. per annum. for the loss of a limb, instead, of as heretofore, aboutaool. EX T ENSI VI:RIVER PIP AC? .---Friday Se J. Ridgway, a li as Taylor, 1. Hastings, W. GAtess Jos. Brown , and "I" "H .: inage, were brought to the Thames Police Office, and untler. - , went a final examination, charged with s.tealiug a quantity of cambric:l:s, shawls, handkerchiefs, and other articles, to an immense amount, the property of Messrs Jacklyn. 1V illiain ,' and Burton, of Water-lane, Cower-street, on the 30th of Ocki: her last. —Three other persons were concerned iu the robbery. viz. John Flygar, John Mackreli, awl Samuel Spendlove. The . former was in the service of the prosecutots, had confessed ,wilt, and become an evidence. The two latter had absconded. Flvgar, it appeared had been ordered to convey three trunks, containing the goods, on board a vessel bound to Surinam, in doiug, which he contrived, with the assistance of the other pri soner{ to plunder them of the chief part of their valuable eon tents.:—The.parties were committed for One of the students belonging to the East India College of Haileyburv, llerts, was last week communed to Hertford gaol, for in assault on Mr. Neale, the Steward 4 •and Mr. Limes, In spector of the College, on the 6th of November. lie was th e next day admitted to hail We understand that the circum stance which gave rise to'the assault, was a prohibition against Lenin.. off fireworks.—The, • Directors have come to the resolu tion a expelling seven la the most retractor;y front the College for ever, and seven others, less guilty, fur a stated period, in the hope that the examples thus made, will prove sufficient to deter others frOku, engaging in such lil‘N lebS it 114 41 uutrageuu proceedings. - • ••• •ny - ~. 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