The National Register. — London, England, 1811-01-27 00:00:00

54 Thy F N . MISCiiLLANIES. I 'Thursday morning, at half past eight o'clock, the Lord Chan cellor and Mr. Perceval left town for Windsor, for the puropse of ieciug the. King, where they arrived about eleven o'clock.— The Lord Chancellor and Mr. Perceval remained in the Castle tell afloat half past one o'clock, and then set off on their return to London. Thursday the sew furniture for the King's private apartments at the Queen's Palace was taken in, to be in readiness in case ids Majesty should remove from Windsor there. The Queen's apartments have been ready for sometime pair. There have been several decrees r e vised within the last few mullahs by Buonaparte, which slits.' on his part the greatest pos. sible al prehension and alat.A., The decree w;:ereby every ser vant is obliged to be registered at the Office ot Police in purls, stewed his fear, And Is a system Of espdatiage we believe 'unpre cedented in the annals of tyranny. It places every housekeeper at the mercy of sezvants, bind renders hint a very slave in his own mansion. But this is not enough • even convivial meetings or clubs, which certainly stleloni troAle thethielves with dis cussing dry subjects of politics are restricted to tztraty ; but this is only the prolude to put them down altogether. Yet, not withstandiw,p such measures, which must be abhorrent to the feelings of Englishmen, still there are those who defend his con duci and approve his measures, who ninitecily pronounce them selves the advocates of iiith , pciidcuce anti the lovers of llbeitg. Wednesday accounts were received from France, which state' that all the American property sei-zcd in that country prior to the Ist of Novembkr, has been formally demanded ; hut that all which has since that period been detained will mercly re main utyler sequestration until the di ff erences with the United tetra shall be finally adjusted. I et • - r3 were tut Tuesday received from Dantzic to the 11th merchants in that, and the Prit,;sian towns in the having failed to pay the duty of 40 per cent. imposed on colnnial produce, the French dont/niers have adopted an extra ordinary mode of liquidating this impost. 'i hey seize such a proportion of property of this kind in their estimate, will cover the duty, and send it oil to Paris. Every week immense quantities of good,: are taken out of the merchants' warehouses, forwarded to the French capital, amidst the hisses, groans, aild execrations of the populace. An earthquake occurred at Cuba in October last, the effects of which were dreadful. The waves rose to the height of forty feet, and swept away the pier, the church, and sixty buildings. At St. ii.go de Cuba, the hurricane and earthquake were simul tanei•us i;i their operations. On the morning of the 28th, the griater part of the town, which had. escaped the fury of preced i:ig sho,:ks, was swallowed up, and a ciwsm eighty feet broad, remained the only vestige of this frightful ruin. The river ..AqUadore,near which St. Sago was situated, was for some time ai , itated like the waves of the sea; but though raised. in the ckntre many feet. above its ordinary level did nut overflow its banks. Letters received at Kingston, in Jamaica, on the Ist of Dee. are said to announce that a Revolution haft been commenced at Cubs, ane that the Governor of the HJand and all the Itidges.had bea;:n arrested and thrown into prison, al.d their lives threat ened.. There exists in the town of Arquenes, in the arrondisement of St. Gaudan's department of the I Lau to Garonne, a man named Sean Boe, born the Sth of April, 169 a, arid who consequently will compleat his 112th year in the month of April. next. This of man enjoys excellent health. Among the gallant exploits recorded in the last Spanish Tont mils, the most conspicuous is tile report of an incursion by Co lonel Roviro into the French territory. This Officer, at the head of liit'Kr men, under favour of a diversion nude by the narquis de Campoverde, at Pnigerda, ascendtqi the IT Pyrenees, and penvtrated into Rousillott. The ...irrison of.Villafranche and Perpignan, enfeehleciand irresolute, wereutn.ble to impede his march. 1-1 i:; little force cros4ed the river disperre4n. body of troops iippkortt . d•by the peasa:•try. c:!tered the towns of Candies, St. Patff; Zonchart, and' Vertries, and , after laying their inhabitants, as well as ten villages, under contribution, and , col- • lecting in money and v.altrables near 18 OM dollars, evaded, by a skilful and rapid mart::, t its three collected to intercept him, r e-a4:ere.d,Cat aloe) triunThh. The anniversary of the rtft of the lamented statesman and ya.i riot, Mr. Fox, was cerebrated on •1 hiirstla7 last, at the Bri tish Cofee-frouse, by' a select party of his friends, the Right lIOn. Lord St. John in the Chair. Government is under6toutt in !rive come to the reso!utinn of stonping all the vessels iitithe Pritir,h ports.which cnturt , Ltheia under the flags of Hatnburer, F.uheck, anti. Brexuli, in conße coettee-of these places tliiN ir,g CUIIA: an .:.;..it:zrAL•iakt QL the Frcnclf EnTire. An order has been. issued from Whitehall, that no French women shall he permitted to land in this country, who might have left France to see their husbands. The reason to be assigned to then for such refusal is, that the French Government would not permit Lady Lavie and family to land in France, to join Sir Thomas, who is a prisoner at Verdun. A Dover letter relates the following atrocious deed :—A Gentleman passenger who was washed on-shore near Dun kirk out of the Elizabeth Indiamau, lashed to a. piece of tho wreck, was conveyed to a little hovel by a Frenchman who had found him along shore, to whom he save 50 guineas, having saved .500 ; the Frenchman promised to come at night and take him to a place of safety; at night, he went with two others, each having , a shovel, when they beat his brains out with their shovels, plueered thehody, then dug a hole and buried it in the 'sand; three or four days after width, the principal being trou bled in his conscience, went and confesSed what he had done to a Magistrate, when his two abcC4nplices were taken up, and the dead body dug up greatly mangled ; the three melt have been committed to Dunkirk gaol, to take their trial for murder. Mr. Peter Finnerty', and Mr. John Xing ' have received notice to atteed the Court of King's Bench To-morrow, to receive jedgment. It appears from the Investigation ofthe affairs of the late Mr, William Lewis, the Comedian, that be died woith upwards of sixty thousand pounds. He has left behind hied at the'rate of about 10001. for every year %illicit- hilhred. '• 7 i -.‘ : ••.: , of tiff :iirr.dit , fa The utmost activity prevails at present At ,4;11 1 . forcing Lord WELLINGTON. Sir JOIIN 41V,4%.1AT has been ordered to Fend a still larger part .of his force to Portugal, and orders have been sent to Cork, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, to the Admirals and Generals in command at those ports, to expc. dite the embarking and sailing of the troops by all the means in their power. At Plymouth, that {ir'e and complete regiment, the 11th Dragoons, com rrianded by Lieutenant-Colonel CuArrso ; detach ments for most of the other cavalry regiments in Portugal, and sortie artillery and waggon train. At Portsmouth, some more artillery and waggon train ; a detachment of the Foat Guard ; the 2d or Queen's - Regiment ; `-6th Regiment ; 51st Regi ment ; 52d, or Sir T. Moor:'s Regiment, 2d. Bat talion ; 68th Light Infantry Regiment ; , 85th' ditto t, Ist Light Battalion of the King's German Legioni SI ditto ; detachtnents of the . 99th, 92d (or G ot . don Highlanders), and several other regiments, to. the amount of 6000 men. The first detachment of •the reinforcements was expected 'to sail from 'Ply mouth yesterday.- From the anny. in Sicily, Ireland,. and this country, Lord WELLIrb EON will receive reinforcement of not Tess than 13,000. The only General 011icers that we hear of as going out, are Brigadier-General BArtigus, Wand Colonel Fur,- t.u.a, of the Guards, who will act as a Colonel on the Staff. Seve ral. Captains, Commissaries, 'Paymasters,: and Doctors, are going out with thi s reinforcement.. Among the Medical Gentlemen are Drs: HUME, STRACHAIr t BRUFrp'.MAINYIVER, ScC7_ Mit...'Ettrerow. ,Pwe . understan;:i, is to be •at the head of the Harmarket Theatre this season. is tiv be principal performer and.. stage manager. • Mrs . . Gt.tivta, tliat excellent and general actress,. has beeri engaged since last .reasom Mr. MA.t.utt.- soy, from Bath, -is - engaged to' fill Mr. MATHEW'' parts? •• • • - • The DragOn, 6f74:trirtrs, tirrived'at Barbadoes on the Ist of December.- A)* the: :lst of November.• she picked up a vessel, Vvatti-logged, with- seireal men. on the point of-death,. TherlAti betirr4fieielc without victuals, and could:not. ha4r,strvilred.aao - day. . • • . • • • ATIONA L REGISTER. "