The National Register. — London, England, 1816-02-11 00:00:00

- THE NATIONAL REGISTER. INGO E TAX. The Common Council of the City of London•on Thnrsday unanimously voted a Petition to Parliament against the coith nnance of the Property or Income:Fax. Mr. Waithman, in his opening'speech, ably set forth the many objections which •exist to the measure, and particularly dwelt upon thehardship to gencially complained of by those who pay to this tax ; we mean, that which arises out of the circumstance of casual .inconic being taxed in the s -me proportion as permanent pro-- pertv. In this he was cordially supported by every member of the Cmu t who thought proper to speak on the, question ; and the re•ult was, an unanimous vote in favour'of the lesolutkas against the tax. On Friday the Liverymen of London also .assembled at pursuant to a requisition, to consider of a Petitioß to Parliament az,aitiAt the continuance of the above tax ; wben various resolutions %Nere unanimously assented to against the . said tax. ORIGINAL POETRY. THERE is a Power whose potent 'pal If a 9 r ei g :l'd from earliest day, ETC Adam from his Elm fell, Or Eve was led astray. It reigns from north to southern polo, Despotic rule it holds; O'er seas' cxpame it hol ds control, And to earth's deepest folds: rEB. ii. ._ And to yon distant.rolling sphere() hitt:olds its rapid way, Whmie circles w^ should count in years Etc they-h,eo'niark'd.a (*.ay. • •• Awl-farther ytt it-takes its flight, And.tinds new worlds to sway, Far streteh'd I)4unit all human sight,. Or reach of solar ray. It . 10;ringuiti course through highest Ain% • • 'And *tile* very licavn; There to the sacred throne it plies; Bliss ne to mortal given. , It'gujtlett p t ?; _ Power, • . ''And•foye its golden sway; ' Mtird"fifttite than' the • - :Aisl'"pleasautcr than May., • It etreigs-my patlt'w . ith daisies fair, And wa-ds all , etnnia4 *: - It blunts the sharperid points of care, And smilct and beckons still. It wafts me through the ambient air Sirifter than arrow's flight, To where my b?st all!ctiens are, objects of delight: It paints the scene with burnitli'd gold; l'is Fairy land to view, Whero ceaseless Springs their influence hold, With verdure ever new. What Talismani pow'r. you ask, Can yield such store of bliss % I'll tell you then,—a pleasing task,— 'Tie FANCY does all this. We understand tint a Message will be brought down to the' House of Commons in a few days, announcing the intended marriage of the Princess Charlotte, and calling on Parliament for a suitable establishment for her Royal flightless. The Moniteur of the Ist instant appears in its new shape, di vided into an official part and a non-official part; the former, however, contains nothing but matters of mere form. By a Flanders Mail we are informed, that the differences be tween Austria and Bavaria, respecting S.iltihurgh and the Inn viertal, assume from dal today a more menancing appearance. It appears from the 'I reaties of Subsidy with the minor States, that Great Britain had in her pay, and actually brought into the field, exclnsivelv of her own troops, a force .exceeding 200,000 men. The different bowers thus subsidized received 11/. 2s. per man per annum. It also appears from the Convention with Portugal, that we have not been sparing of pecuniary sacrifices for the abolition of the Slave Trade. No less a sum than 3 00 ,0001. is paid as a compensation fur Portuguese slave-ships detained by our crui- ZerS. A Mclanchol . y Occurrenre.—About a fortnight ago two pohr shoemakers, and a woman (the wife of a shoemaker,, went from Elgin to Granton mar ket, Scotland, a distance of 33 miles, with a few shoes in wallets on their backs. I laving sold their goods, on their return by the Mannocti-road, they were overtaken on that dreary and desolate hill by the terrible snow of Wednesday evening the 17th ult. : exhausted by fatigue they ciowded to gether in a hollow place on the road side, and sat down be ' numbed with cold: here they were overpowered by sleep, and Ideath came to close the terrible scene l A countryman passing along the road the next morning, observed a hand eind foot pointing through the snow, and obtained assistance to dig the three unfortunates from their dreadful graves. Most commendable Obits are making to establish markets in carious inland towns, for supplying the poor with fish. ESCAPE OF LAVALETTE. A Letter from Paris dated Jan. 19 says, "the particulars of -the escape of LAVALETTE arc now known, and are as lows : "Captain Iftrrentxsox, being in company, heard the Wife Of the prisoner highly rerommended, both on account of her under.' standing and heart ; snd expressed his opinion that there were :11.611 means to save him, and that he would not object to contri hnte to it. The next day the Captain received an anonymous letter, the writer of which appealed to his generous sentiments, and to the manner in which he had expressed them, and told him that it' he were seriously disposed to help, he would find his scan at a certain place. With this man he settled and arranged every thing that could save the prisoner ; so that he took LAVA- ItairrE into his house when he escaped from prison. •` Ile remained there whole days in the Captain's apartments, •and was then conveyed out of Paris and over the frontiers in his carnage. LA VAL ETT F. had no passport; for which reason the Captain accompanied him his Aid-de-camp, having made him put on the uniform of an English General, Wherever it was likely that their passports would he asked for, LAVAL ETTE feigned to he asleep and indisposed : it was not allowed to wake him, and the Aid-de-camp answered the questions that were put. "It is stud to be very dfflcult to draw any information from - -Madam LAVAL ETTE ; her understanding and prudence baffle the dexterity of the interrogating Judges, and her answers entirely disconcert them. THE WEATHER.—Mach has been said of the mutability of our climate; but perhaps the truth of the charge was never so obvious as at present. Friday sennight was clear hard frost; ska ting on every river and pond: Saturday, though thaw, up to trees in mud in every street and road; Sunday rain all day : Monday, a dense mist, and slight fi ost in the morning• ; 'Ems day rain with hail, from morning till night; Wednesday half a foot deep in snow, and succeeded by a frost of unusual severity, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday ; but of what permanence time must slier. Monday se'nnight the first trial by Jury in Civil Causes in Scotland, took place at Edinburgh. The Right lion. W. Adam Lopresided as Chief Commissioner, and L or d M ea d ow b an k an d rd l'itmilly as assistant Judges. The Lord Chief Commis sioner, before proceeding in the business before the Court, made a suitable address, in which he expatiated on the advan tage of the trial by Jury. The first cause related to a steam engine erected for grinding flour at Stockbridge, near Edin burgh, which the neit.hbours complained of as a nuisance.. The Jury returned a verdict, that the engin e was useful, and nut offensive." It appears from a paragraph in one of the French papers, that the actors at Pat is have a custom of demanding treble prices for admission on the night of their retiring from the stage. This mode of taxing the curiosity or the affectionate regret of the public, meets, it scenic, with its proper recompense ; for the actors who have lately made the indelicate ex periment have bad the mortification to play t o half-empty benches. ■