The National Register. — London, England, 1820-12-31 00:00:00

-"r TEMPERANCE OF BUONAPARTE. The Emperor was never more than twenty mi nutes at table; he ate and drank but very sparingly ; he had time however, to partake after his soup, of two or three dishes and some desert. He required to be served promptly ; for not wishing to lose any time, and as there was never only one dish at his table after his soup, he was to be helped very expe. ditiously to those dishes which he fancied ; otherwise he took an almond or some other trifling► thing from off the desert. When he rose from table, every one present did the same: he then went into the saloon, where he took a small cup of coffee. It may be well supposed that every person whom lie invited to dinner made a good breakfast before they came, or returned to their own houses to finish their dinner. Those who took their meals with him for the first time, and who were not accustomed to his method, were actually starved; it was impossible for them to say that they had made a kingly repast, although his table was well covered; but no circumstance whatever could induce him to remain at table more than a quarter of an hour; this used to incommode Josephine greatly, who was often hungry, and (amid not find time to satisfy her appetite. At the time of Prince Eugene's marriage at Munich, which took place at eight in the evening, all the nobility in the country were invited. Ihe supper was ordered at nine o'clock; tables were laid out for 200 persons, who were all seated in a long gallery, the entrance of which was wide enough to allow the Imperial ban quetting table, composed of the two families, to have a complete view of the gallery. The Emperor's table was in the form of a horse-shoe, and was elevated above the 200 persons. The whole was magnificent from the splendour of the diamonds and the lustres. Every person was ordered to seat them selves at table during the marriage ceremony. When it was over the Emperor immediately sat down to table; in consequence of the broad day light, he remained (which perhaps had never happened befbre) a full quarter of an hour with his guests ; he then went into Josephine's room, and gave orders for every one to withdraw. This order arrived actually before the whole of the table was helped; the napkins were scarcely unfolded. The poor Germans could not recover from their surprise, they expected to make a splendid repast, and they were obliged to go home to their supper. FROM TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. BANK [LOFTS. H. Fell, Walbrook, merchant. Solicitors, Messrs. Clarke and Co. Little St. Thomas Apoetle. W. H. Harrison. Famagield, Nottinghamshire, victualler. Sol. Mr. Stevenson, Lincoln's Inn. B. Offer, Bathwick, Somersetshire. Plasterer. Sol.. Messes. Nethersole and Ration, Essex Street, Strand. T. Edwards. Alton, Southampton, ironmonger. Sol. Mr. Dyne. Lincoln's lan Fields. W. Kidd. Newcastle upon Tyne, linen drapes. Sols. Messrs. Bell and Brodrick, Bow Church Yard. T. Courtney, Oxford Coffee House, Strand, victualler. Sols. Mews. Denneu and Co. King'. Arms Yard. Coleman Street. M. Holt, Stoke, Coventry, watchmaker. Sul. Mr. Edmunds, Lincoln's Inn. DIVIDENDS. Jan. e 7, W. Longhurst, Tunbridge, Kent. ironmonger —Q 3. J. Collyer, Gosport, painter-16, J. Bettye and T. Pilgrim, Lawrence Pountney Hill, brokers-0, J. Gibson and J. Pcn. cock, Ball Alley, Lombard Street, merchants-.id, T. Clarke and C. Gray, Keswick, Cumberland, nurserymen—id. E. Cane, Battle, Sussex. saddler—ld, .1. and J. Silver, Sire Lane, tner• chants-4S, W. Blackburn, Blackburn, Lancashire, shopkeeper S. Authurst. Market Street, Westminster. copper menu. tileturer...xu, J. Haidwick, ?lilt Street, Lambeth. British iron foundry-6. C. A. Ansell, Carshaltun, Suney, paper maker... 16, W. Atticek, Berwick upon Tweed, grocer-0, IL Cohens, Maidstone, seedstitan-0, L. ‘Yilliams. Nicholas Lane, Lorn bord Street. merchact..-go, IV. Hancock, Ilury St. Edmunds, cabinet maker—l I,C ey nolds. N tow ich , woollen draper--'47,W. Davies, Birmingham, brass timntler.--1/7, I'. Warwick, liitchin, Herta, draper. CERTIFICATES to be granted Jan. Id. 11. Lincoln, St. James's Street, IVestioMster, hatter—T. Sudden. Rochester, grocer—J. Batters, Soutloimptan, grocer-- J. Bird, jam. Kingston upon Hull, cora factor. Ersomint SPIRIT.—At Newark a party gave um brage to the " powers that be," by the means in which they celebrated the triumph of the Queen, and throe were committed to prison. On Tuesday last these men were liberated, and while passing through the yard were pointed out by the keeper to several gentlemen, as the Queen's men. One of the gentlemen, addressing them, said, " Well, my men, you will be the King's men now, and sing God amore the King." To this one of them nobly and sensibly replied---" Sir, if I were confined for 14 years, in stead of 14 days, it would nut alter my principles; and a prison is the wrong place for rofitrm—it makes good men bad, and bad men worse! " On gaining the outside of the prison wall, they gave three huz sus, and shouted " God save the Queen." A Marseilles paper, (The Carlucre) announces that a wealthy Englishman, a Colonel in the 13rtish army, who resided ut Hieres, has lust his bib in a most melancholy manner. He was passionately fond of shooting, and was usually accompunictl by a faithful gamekeeper, who, in tiring at some game, missed his mark, and struck his unthrtunate muster, who had come suddenly from behind a hedge without being perceived. The Colonel died instantly. THE NATIONAL REGISTER Westaainsicr Hall.—The work upon the Old Palace-yard front of Westminster Hall, increases daily,and the public stay soon expect to see it ma k e th e original appearance. The men work from the old plans, which have been found deposited in one of the Government offices. The South Tower is far advanced. The gothic angular orna ments produce a fine architectural effect. The armorial bearings of Edward the Confessor, the Founder of West minster, with the arms of Richard the Second, will re-appear in a perfect state, wliere the mutilated heraldry of those Kings was so lately visible. Nothing can pre sent a stronger memorial of the devouring appetite of time than this ancient building. The stone figures, the remains of which are now seen on the left of the pirtal, seen; to say, the ne,enuity and art of man have but short duration. We have, however, seen a black Egyptian stone, which, according to tradition, has remained un injured more than •:000 years. We allude to a figure of Isis now in the British Museum. The figures placed in the niches of Westminster Hall are common free-stone. Many of our readers may remember the front of this Hall when the aspect was less pacific. After the Resto ration the beads of Cromwell, Bradshaw, and another, were placed on pikes upon tie top, and they remained there about forty years ago. The head of Cromwell was then removed in the following way :—The mother of a dramatic performer, now justly celebrated fur talent, lived se:vant with one of the people called round heads, whose occupation was that of a market gardener. It was his custom to pass front the ferry, in Old Palace Yard to Lambeth where he had gardens. Returning one ought to Westminster, he found one of the heads which suoil on the top of the hall, lying on the ground. A violent gale of wind had broken the pike staff which upheld it, and the 'eke remained affixed to the head.— The gardener well knew the situation in which Cron well's head stool upon the hall,; rid looking up he found it was gone. lie had then no doubt that the head of the protector was in Iris iaissession, and having in com mon with all the round heads much regard and vene ration fur Cromwell, he c irriA it home to his house, and kept it with pious care mail the day of his death.— The another of the performer beliire alluded to, who had been much respected by her master, received at his death all the household property, and among other things the head of Cromwell. She very soon after mar ried, and the head got into the possession of her has band, who was a player. In his way to country theatres, he occasioniy exhibited the head, and obtained money. On one occasion being reduced to great poverty with his family, in his lodgings, near Clare-market, a friend offered to procure him a purchaser for the head. A Mr. Coxe being applied to, advanced twenty guineas upon it, having first received the opinion of the late Mr. West, the painter, and other respectable authorities, that it was the head of Oliver. Independent of the circumstances attending the finding it, a black lock of hair, which distinguished Cromwell, was then to be traced. The owner becoming more prosperous some time after, re deemed the head, and it was finally taken to America by a purchaser of curiosities. 'What became of the other heads the writer has not been able to learn. GALVANIC Macramsfa.--Sir Humphrey Davy, laiely read a most interesting paper, at the Royal Sucietv, ' On the Magnetising Influence of GJI vaitism, in which various new and curious experiments on this subject were detailed, which clearly establish the fact, that the Galvanic fluid, directed in a proper manner. is capable of communicating magnetic properties .o bars of steel. If steel bars or rods be exposed to Galvanic current, placed in the direction of the magnetic axis. DO effect follows; but if they be placed parallel with the magnetic equator, they become magnetic—the end placed to the west be coming the north pole of the Crew magnet, and !hat to wards the east becoming the south pole. And so great is the galvanic influence in producing . this effect, that it exerts its power at a distance of some inches (even ten ur twelve), so that if the steel bar be moved in a circle round the course of the galvanic current, hut always kept parallel to the magnetic equator, it beetaton magneti c .— Ihese experiments were made in the laboratory of the Royal Institution, and also at the Laudon lostnntion.— They will he understood from the followiug desvoiption: When an electrical or a voltaric battery ot considerable quantify is charged, the compensating or discharging wire becotties magnetic upon the completion of the dis charge. Common needles, or small bars of steel, placed transversely on the wire, or under it, or on its sides, become permanent magnets on the discharge. Ifelectric fluid he very plentiful, contact with the wire is nut requisite. A few days since, us a vessel was steering for the Downs, nearly opposite St. Margaret's Bay, while two gentlemen on board were amusing themselves with their guns at a piece of board floating on the water, they saw a bird coming towards them (which afterward.; proved to be a carrier pigeon), apparently from the French coast: when it came near enough to observe so many sailors standing on the beach, it made a sudden tack, as if intendud to take another course ; when it came near the ship, ono of the gen tlemen shot at and killed it ! the boat was sent and the poor bird brought on board, when on examining it, to the utter astonishment of all present, was discovered between the feathers, chiefly on the neck, six French gold rings, of the most grand and inge nious workmanship. Thursday evening, about five o'clock, a fire broke out in the extensive sugar-house of Mr. Rhodes, in Hooper-square, Whitechepel. It originated in the second floor, in some tow which blazed ter sotne time, but tertunately several engines soon arrived, which being plentifully supplied - with water, soon put out the fire, and prevented it front doing any material damage, The Duchess of Clarence and the lufsnt Princets are going WI extremely well. The workmen of Mr. Stevens, Surveyor of Bury St. Edmund's whilst raising gravel in the hill, near the Priory, have discovered at a small depth from the surface of the earth, the skeletons of twenty four human bodies, of rather gigantic size, but in every respect perfect. Numerous persons have been to view them, and it is supposed they are a part of the bodies slain in the bloody battle fought on that spot during the reign of Henry 11. and wheu the differences existed between that Monarch and his son, when to aid the latter the Earl of Leicester was marching through Fornham, from Frarnlingliam with an immense army of Flemings (particularly artificers and weavers), but were attacked by the King's troops, who dispersei them in an instant, and put ten thousand of them to the sword, and took their Commander prisoner. This engagement took place in the year 1174, upwards of 600 years since, and the teeth in these skeletons were found extremely white and perfect. On Tuesday lust, a meeting for the purpose of addressing the Queen was held at Warwick, in consequence of a requisition signed by above a hun dred of the most respectable inhabitants of the town. Dr. Parr, the Rev. oat. Field, the Rev. Wade, Aldermen Edwards and Collins, Messrs. Greathead, Jones, Collins, Russel, and Goodman, moved and seconded the various resolutions, which were pro pounded in speeches of great ability and spirit. Is had been intended at first to disturb this meeting by a party of mock-loyalists, with a reverend gentleman at their head; but an inspection of the enemy' force convinced them of the futility of any attempt, and they contented themselves, like the snug loy alists of London, by retiring to a corner, where they huddled up an address to his Majesty in favour of those enlightened ministers who have shown such admirable skill in conciliating parties, and in maintaining tranquillity and content throughout the empire. An exciseman was taken into custody on Satur day, for stealing three pounds and a half-weight of candles from a tallow-chandler's in Mary-le-bone, where he attended in performance of his duty. Private letters from Dublin, received in town, state, that a very desperate action took place in the beginning of last week on the western coast of Ire land, between his Majesty's smuggling preventive brig, stationed off Sligp and a smuggling vase]. The latter opposed a uesperate resistance, and was assisted by the people on the coast, but the brig succeeded in effecting her capture, and made good the seizure. In this reneontre, we regret to say, the brig had beveral of her crew wounded. There were several killed and wounded on the part of her opponents. This system, which has been adopted within these few years for the prevention of smug gling, has proved very efficient. The vessels are under the orders of the treasury; they carry up wards of 10 guns, are well manned and appointed, and commanded by a lieutent of the royal navy.— The excise cutters employed in this service, went seldom able to encounter the smugglers with suc cess, the latter being generally of larger size and superior strength in men and guns. These smug gling preventive vessels arc stationed at given dis tances round the coast of Ireland and Scotland. FEMALE COURAGE.—Two young ladies were left by their father and mother in carp of a country house, a few miles from Abingdon, together with two maid servants, and a foot-boy. They were roused in the night by boys telling them the house was on lire : they instantly rose, culled the maids, and got buckets. The fire being inaccessible to the water, one of the sisters fell to work with u pick. axe to batter down the wall of the drawing-room to put it out ; the other threw a pelisse over her night clothes, went into the stable, saddled a cart-horse, took the foot-boy behind her, and provided with a huge dinner-bell, rode off ringing and screaming for assistance at the public-house, parsonage, Ste. till she roused all the neighbours, who came with buckets, Ike: and extinguished the fire, which had been pre vented from extending through the exertions of her sister. The drawing-room furniture only was destroyed, and the premises were insured.— The Insurance Office were so pleased with the astonishing conduct of thew young ladies, that they replaced every thing in the handsomest manlier, evi,a to the pelisse. They are delicate accomplished girls of eighteen and twen.y. Requisitions are signing for a Common Council, for a meeting,- of the Livery of London, and also of the Contity of Middlesex, to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the restoration of her Nlajesiy's immune to the Liturgy, and for the resti tution ()fall her other rights and dignities. We have no doubt that this example will be speedily followed by every county, city, town, and parish in the United Kingdom ; tOr we believe that all wiles concur in thinking that her Majesty's name ought never to have been omitted in the. Liturgy. 'fin: Rev. John Humphreys, eior of Great Dan ham, at his late audit, very liberally deducted per ceut, on his Tithes, in consequence of the tleidwaaLd 4:•Ile of Agriculture. •