The National Register. — London, England, 1812-12-20 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. 96 subsequent discomfiture and diast‘ous flight ; panegyrising his subjects,"and expressing gratitude for their past, and confidence in the it future exertions. We a' e sorry to announce the loss of the Alban, King's cutter, and all her clew, except one man : ALnsoßoecn, Dec. 11— I have to communicate the melan choly loss of his Majesty's cutter Alban, commanded by Lieut. Key. She was driven limn her station, on the Dutch coast, by . the present very heavy gales, and forced •on shore here this morning, and is a complete wreck. lam extremAy sorry to say. th:q of a crew consisting of men, three women, and two children, only ore wo man, servant to Mrs. Key, and a young seaman of the n nu.: of . l'i'mes Newton. are say d. The Surgeon, Mr. !aims Thompson, chute on shore with sonic life in him, but he d'ed immediately afterwar;s. in the House of Commons yesterday, the amended Insol vent Debtors' Bill Was read a third time and passed. Mr. LustaINGTON brought up the ir port of the grant of 200,0001 to Russia, which was agreed to. A conversation took place between Mr. WH A R TON and the SPEAKER relative to a proposal to make the grant of 200,0001. free of all official expence. Mr, Luc Ktt ART gave notice that, on the 25th of February next, he would bring into consideration the claims of Ameri can merchants. In the House of Lords several Bills, and, among time rest, the Gold Coin Bill, were read a third tune and passed. The last Russian Messenger, who brought dispatches to the Russian Ambassador here, left Petersburgh after the Bri tish Mosenger DANIELS ; and overtook him on the road to Stockholm. Ile reports, that just before he left Petersburgh, a Teldt Yager bad arrived, with the account of the death of NrY, and the surrender of the remains of BEALTHARNOIS'S grmy. he baying been made pi ironer himself. We have received the American account of the late de feat of their army in Canada, given by General Van RENS- SEI A ER. It exhibits Gn admirable specimen of tl:e of an !American army. 'The troops first insist upon directing the General. They tell him they will either figkt or go borne. He therefoie determines to send them across a rapid Tiver, and as soon as part of them are landed and engaged, the others begin to show a disinclination to embark. Then commences the usual course of blunders and disputes, corn won on such occasions. All the oars arc put into one boat, and that one is carried away from the . detachment. The ardour of the unengaged troops unexpectedly subsides, in the very moment of danger; and the Commander sn Chief dispatches a no.'e to the second in command, " leaving the course to be pursued much to his own judgment." DEC'. n When the Erni cror Alexander received the last Report!, he 0, to tit:. illustrious Kutetsow the q)propriate ti:le o f t h e NiFc;: .„; Smolensk°, and made him a Knight of the Order of Sr. Geor4.. of tit, first class—an honour se'dom conterrcd, and only upon NNI dials who have defeated Field Marshals —Adrn.TsLhicliJOl' s %sac the last officer who received this lymour. The follovaing extiaerdinary eiri umstance took place on the entr a i tc , of the French into Moscow : The A rchhishop, who was to ativih,d age, whose character was held in the highest veneratbn, tied : v i m had composed a prayer which was much atlnired, was in ilie act of ho ill:ea.co t: i performing Divine Savice, whist he was meiratel tia:• ;M.: eitet t ... • kid entered the city , . He paut.e..l for a ni.iny.:nt, erJssz s t t o ~ , • and immediately expired. ' Thursday, a meeting of the inhabitants of the City of We,t m l, ta was held At Willis's Rooms, St. James's, for the perpo,:e a ter in;ig a Society to be called the Westmnister Auxiliary Britt ,h ;nal Fer L . ; i Bible Society, under the patronage of the Duk .s of York, f;, : ir . Cumberland, Sussex, Cambridge, and Belford, and a tui l iiar odt i e rn r, sons of distinction.—Lord T m eignouth, who presided, itated the 0 1. jet's of the Society, and Lord Castlereagh awl Mr. xlii,)t ro.ied and seconded the resolutions —•lhc meeting was artend..:l te.• a great number of genteel fem.:lei, and the 7.:!:11 , x rcis..d in such a',:,04 cause was highly respectable. The trweting did not break up till ace six o'clock. King-street .was filled with eartiages waiting fur the comp.lny. An Officer of Raid., and long s.Tvi:es, re:loved to extreme tliqri , by misfortune, and bereft of every me :ms of support, but that of t!, , , scanty pittance of his half pay, in the maintelmuee t,c • 1 ‘elf e a .,d 6 1: : t children, most resp-clfully solicits (while he is compelled to t a i: l k , t i. s sacrifice of his feelikts) the attention of the Humane awl Be, veMile, towards al'eviating, the sufferings of his family.—References to 11 , -•:. I todsol and Stirlinkr, Batiker, Strand ; and the Hon. Simon Fr .ser, Perring, Shaw. lhaber, and Co. No. 72, Cot nhill, will be satisfact .ri.; attended to, and the smal!est donatiotis must thaoklully rceeivtai Lt t Lem. MISCELLANIES. Friday, at three o'clock, the Prince Regent held a Court at Carlton 'llouse. The C-Aint De Liewcti, Lieutenant-General and Aide-de li-amp to the Emperor of all the Russias, and Ambassador Extraor dinary and Plenipotentiary to his Britannic Majesty, was introduced ..to his Royal Ili !mess by Viseotmt Castlereagh, as Secretary of State :r Foreign A and conducted by Mr. Chester, Assistant Master col the Ceremonies; when his Excellency delivered his credentials, and w incht graciously received. Monday his Royal Highness the Prince Regent held his first Levee this season, at Carlton-House. which was attended by the Duk of York, Clareixe, Kent, Cumberland, Sussex, Cambridge, Gi. ucPster, and BrunsWick, and a great number of the nobility, &c. &c. The presentations to his Royal Highness were very numerous, and the Court was altogether splem.lid and bri I li I a um-a cl..t-nce of the glorious news of Wed: esday, the funds had a TiSc of one and one- fourth per cent. Omnium was done at 10 per cent. premium, by which bets of 150,0001. were decided at Lloyd's Colße house. Among the anecdotes which have been mentioned in private letters from Russia, is the following :—A Russian peasant, who had been made prisoner, had the word " Napoleon" marked on his left arm by the French with gunpowder ; they then told him, that he must now consider himself as a subject of Napoleon, upon which he irnmedi . ately 501;0 a hatchet, and chopped With: arm. 11011 - ..4 RD. 11'e have been favoured with the perusal, in manuscript, of a rrtliase of poems, written by FERDINAND FUI.I.ERWN WFS'ION, E-q. ni now in the press, and have extracted the folhreing hues on out cert.!. lent HowA RD, from The Pleusurci of Pity," as a just !rital/ to tIA: memory of departed immunity and_benevolence, and a grateful otTerin; to the lovers of genuine poetry. The whole of this p Tat, iilit , l) is partly imitated from Iht.ct.eles " _Malheur et Pole," w ongly minds us of the flowing style, eleicant simplicity, and unalicctr,l stints meat of CGWPLR, Oyer wlikh it possesses the advantai;e of grater variety. Let other Hum En's sine the errant course Of fain'd ULYSSES, seeking to regain For ten b ng years his native Ithaca, With end more noble, with more dauntless heart, O'er rugged mounts, and o'er the stormy waves, In burning sends, and near he frigid poles, Where Nature sickens at Creation's bounds-- And in those lands where Initialed Mussulnien Adore the Crescent's sacrileisions laws— And on those shores where the uplifted Cross Has triumph'd over proud impiety— Wherever tears and wretchedness ate known, Drawn by the impulse of his feeling soul, Through thirty climates the great ll.sws uo loaned. Say, was it glory, or the love of gold, That led thy foAsteps to those foreiol lands ? Alls! in prisms, sisters of the tomb, hand supports the fainting sons of woe ; His voice the dungeon charms, whose dreadful gloom Ne'cr echoed yet but lamentation's sounds.-- Forgetful of the world, its laughing scenes, Ile winds his course, surrounded by the clank Of chains, of traps and bolt', of iron bars, Through whirls the voice of pity ne'er had past. Down hundred spiral steps, beneath damp vaults, He plunges deep into the firth! cells • • Inhabited by death, and paved with bones, Ot secret murders fatal monuments. He carries there a pardon —sometimes justice, And by a speedy blow he ends at once A length of torment, and a liegeting death. In tears he listens to their talcs of grief. And if he cannot break their galling chains At least he lightens them of half their weight. Such Howe an was ! Alas, that he should dte ! But let us trust that his exanTle i i PT .: Alp) the four J i;C alic2 Care t:.cl~ l,~;ll~ i::11) pue Yon the