The National Register. — London, England, 1815-12-17 00:00:00

c ! 1 1 i 1 i i 1 4 THE NATIONAL REG!, DES'. 17.' Plymouth. Si; Woolwich, 24; with one company of Ai ti lery to each. A great number have been placed on the retired list. • . An arrangement with respect to the Ordinary at the difrerent ports is in contemplation. l'he ships in a state of ordinary have hitherto been w..tched by the Warrant Officers, who kept guard alternately. Their services it is said, will shortly be dispensed with; a Lieutenant being about to be appointed to each ship, who is to have the sole charge, having under him the usual number of men and boys. There will also be an increase of superintending Masters. The measure will employ a great number of Lieutenants. The revenues of Great Britain were in 1813 to 1815, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer's statement, varied from 47 to 51 millions ; the revenues increasing in the latter years (this state ment is exclusive of the property-tax, which is estimated to yield from 13 to 14 millions annually). In the public declara tion of the state of the finances in February, before the return of l3uonaparte from Elba, ani hefore the last appearance of a war, Mr Vansittai t stated the proper peace establishment at 18 or 19 millions annually, and might iv .!,ably, in a few years, be reduced to 13 millions. The revenue for the last quarter is re po. ted to exceed any former three months by two millions of money. It appears from the returns made to Parliament, that the sums annually raised by the poor -rates, amount to five millions ster ling, which is about 13,6991. per day. The trial of Sir G. Prevost is fixed for the 15th of January, and to take place at Chelsea barracks. The Gicetee of Tuesday contains a Proclamation offering a hun dred pounds reward, &c. for the apprehension of the persons con cerned in forcibly taking away a barge loaded with loaf sugar in hogsheads, from alongsid e a s hip a t Hermitage -stairs; and after confining the watchman, taken through bridge and plundered o f loaf sugar to the value oisome hundred* of pounds. Thursday, a Court of Comm n Council was held at Guild • hall ; when an interesting discussion took place on the subject of the persecutions and assassination of the • Protestants in the' South of France. Mr. Waithman opened the business in an excellent speech ; in which he developed the atrocious progress of fanaticism at Nismes, the assassination of no fewer than six hundred Protestants, and the hunting of those that survived. like wild beasts, into the mountains, whither they tied for se. curity from a sanguinary multitude of infuriate bigots. Mr. Waithman moved, that an address be presented by. the Court to the Prince Regent humbly praying his Royal Highness forth with to adopt such prom and efficacious means as were best cal culated to put an end to such enormous evils.—The motion was supported by Messrs. Oldham, Favell, Alderman Heygate, and others, and the address carried unanimously. '1 he Conanittee of Diss e nting Ministers h as received a letter. from a Cori espcndent, upon whom it relies, contradicting the account of the death of the Rev. Mr, Desinund, President of the Consistory of N sme,. A wor.hy NlaAistrate, wit many inges from Bungav, who is notorious for lett.n4 his estates " on th:• peace establishment," lately calle.i u ! .on a tenant, who is a widow; when she began to " the 1% 0 L'S of these wonder till times;" and; after hearing her iale, the I:6(11-rd iequested she would send hint a sack of apples; ou Ih. delivery of which, he was pleased to return her a clii.ck on his hanker fol 501, The B istoi Pede,t;i4n.---"aturdav morning, Mr. Stokes start ed at 48 ininu.es thice ~ econds past six, *and accomplished his a , duoils uncle; taking at 55 minutes use seconds pact six o'clock in the even.ng ; having waled Woo miles iu 20 successive daNg, and having. accomplished his daily task with the same appal cut ease with which be commenced the undertaking. The Dublin sav, that a fatal and dreadful fever is now raging, with melancholy consequenct.s in that city. It is a latm•ntable fact, that the insurgent spirit in Ireland w too strong and too desperate to be tamed, even by the extraor dinary measures of the Police Preservation Bill and the Insur rection Bid, resorted to for that purpose. Both have proved ineffectual ; and the Magistrates oldie county of Tipperary that measures of still greater decision arc bes:oine expedient. The ato (Aerate and lenient policy pursued by the GOVelifillellt ,R 1 803 h rs done them great honour in tlr, estimation of every fair ; and Lord Whitworth's great len , tv, a, well a, the calm awl fir:a vigour with which he kis ende.ivoured to •stoo the pio .reis of insurrection, have 13.. en ackno.vleged even by those wh , not the supporters of his administration, b rt who arc oppose:l to the general policy of himself and his colleagues in the mi nistry. The new play at Covent-Garden is undoubteily a legi iinate piece; it being the joint production of man w,;e.--Alr and Mrs. CHARLES KEMBLE. A man in Paris ha. printed an account of the decay and dis- . grace of the British Navy, with this epigraph, " Dclewla evt Carthqgo ;" which is dedicated with authority to the Duke of Angouleme. On Sunday night lasi - , at theTheatre at Calais, some drunken • Frenchmen insulted several Englishmen; and on • French:nal., presuming on his great stature and stren : rth, was particularly active ; he at length fixed his arms across the shoulders of Col. M'Cloud, who having desired him to move them away, whizb was not complied with, struck the Frenchman, and a b ittle en sued; when the latter got two black eves, and was severely beaten. M. Bernard, the Mayor of Calais, ordered the French aggressor to be committed to prison, and gave orders that he should not in future be admitted to tic Theatre. A curious suit, to annul a divorce, forms at present a subject • of conversation at Paris. One Reve, a pensioned Captain; was married in 1807) to Maddle. La Plaigne, a girl without to. tune. This La Plaigne had been at the boarding-school of Madame Campan, whom Bonaparte patronised, and with whom the Ex_ Queoo Hortensia, and other Ladies of her ae,e, had been edu. cated Shortly after the marriage of Revel, he was unexpect edly seized at night by a warrant ft, out the Emperor. and thrown into prison. His wife was then placed as a teacher in the house of Madame Murat; and Bonaparte, having thus opportunities of seeing her, took her under his own imperial protection, and the husband was not restored to liberty till he consented to a divorce. She had a dad it is said, by Bonaparte, lived for some years in the rue Victoire, under the name of Madame St. Lament, and was afterwards married to a foreigner; so that she now bears the name of the Countess of Lutterburg. Revel now claims the setting asiite of the divorce. This canse came on trial on Friday last, and presents this additional singularity, that. for the claim of the annulment of the divorce on the ground of its illegality, the husband joins another claim, that of a divorce for a specific cause. A dreadful instance of parricide has taken place near Ver.. sailles. The culprit conceived the horrid design in conse quence of being excluded from a bequest in his father's will. • He fist designed to erect his horrid puzpose by poisoning: but having dropped some expressions w4uch excited suspicion, a warning was given to the unfortdate‘ e parent, who, however, contented himself with reproaching, and remonstrating with the wi etch. This had only the effect of inducing a more cautious system of proceeding in the guilty purpose.—The son pretended to ►enwvc his residem:e to St. Lcu, at some distance from his fathei's house, in the vale of Montmorency ;. but he came in the night, and• perpetrated the lion id deed by plunging a knife in his father's bosom, as he lay asleep. He returned the next day, visited the dreadful scene, and went thence to make a declaration before the majstrate, as if wholly innocent and unconscious. But strong circumgtaaces appearing to cri. initiate him, he was seized, brought to trial, and tally convict ed. His conduct during the trial, and on receiving the de• claration of his wilt, and the consequent sentetr2e, was harden ed and unfeeiing. A merchantman arrived lately at Kid, which was intended to convey Napoleon to rlmetic•a. A French captain who had married the daughter of a miller in Holstein, and, after Napo leon's r eturn, served under Clause! at Bordeaux, resolvi.d :o save Boonaoat to On board this vcnsei, svhite was at Rache fot t. For this purpose he hail casks lined wit mattresses, its order to conceal Napoleon, Savary and' Bertrand in case of need. lie had every thing necessary on board. The ship was to sail as soon as it ha i }got into the onen sea, to New York, ustead of tliCl ; but the Oats was bathed by Buoaaparte's 'nu