The National Register. — London, England, 1821-08-05 00:00:00

MS MAJESTY'S JOUR:VEY TO IRELAND. On Tuesday morning last, nt half past eleven o'clock, his Ma. jet y left his palace in fall-mall on his way to Ireland. 1"ORT511011111, Juts 3' I.—llis Majesty arrived here this afternoon, at half past live in his travelling carriage, accompanied by Lord Gnaws, and Mr. Watson his Majesty's private seere• tary. escorted by a party of the loth Hussars; every prepare. Con had been previously made to receive his Majeaty in this garrison with all the parade possible ; the street; were lined with troops, and the naval and military officers in their dress uniforms and regimentals waited his arrival. On his reaching the outer barrier, a salute was fired front the bastions, and Lieutenant General Sir George Cooke, K.C.B. attended by all his staff, ple sented the keys of the garrison, which were graciously accepted and returned. His Majesty rode slowly down the streets to the water side. through the lines of soldiers. who presented arms ; on his reaching the point of embarkation, be alighted, and was • received by Admiral Sir J. Hawkins Whitshed. K.C.B. and the Captains of the squadron ; the lion. Sir C. Paget handed his Majesty into the royal barge, and on the standard being hoisted the squadron fired a royal salute as well as the platlitrin ; in a few minutes he reached the Roma George yacht, which had, for his better convenience, been brought into the harbour. On the yacht's hoisting the standard, a second salute was fired by the squadron, and the captains comtnanding ships in the port were severally presented, and his Majesty then retired to dress for dinner. At half past eight o'clock the King sat down to dinner on board the RolpilGeawe. at which Lord Graves, Sir llilgrove Turner, Sir Edmund Nagle, Colonel Thornton. and Sir Charles Paget had the honour to be present. The fiteility of reaching the yacht, from the circumstance of her being moored so near the shore, otb:red an inducement to many who were anxious to obtain a sight of the K ing, which great numbers availed themselves. Soon after his Majesty arrived on board, a number of boats, in which were rich diessed females, repaired to the yacht, and continued around her until ten o'clock. luring his klajc,ay's dinner, the individuals in the boats were afforded an opporninity of being gratified by a sight of their Sovereign throtigh the windows of the cabin, and after dinner, at intervals, with that gracious condescension which distinguishes him, the King shored himself on the deck, and acknowledged by bowing, to those around, the enthusiastic greetings which awaited him at each appearance. His Majesty quitted the deck, and retires' to rest at ten O'ClOdc. PORTSmo writ, Are. I.—This morning the yacht got under weigh, and proceeded out of the harbour at halt' past eight o'clock. In her progress to Spithead she was saluted by the guns of the Plattorm Battery and Fiat Moncton, and by the ships in the harbour, and at Spitbead, decorated in their colours and with the yards manned. As aeon as the Royal Oeurgc passed through Spitheatl, the signal was given fsr the squadnia appointed to attend the King to follow, when tic whole got under weigh at the MOW time, and proceeded with the yacht to ('owes. It i. circlet - sloe:I the King will anchor at ('owes this evening, and if the wind be favourable, will proceed to-morrow morning tot Ireland. Our naval and military Commanders in Chief dine with the King at Cowes to-day. The King will return here front Ireland. WEST COWES. AUG. Majesty arrived here last night, about half past six. and dined on board his yacht. A large party dined with his Majesty. This morning, at half past two, the signal was made, and the royal squadion got under weigh for Ireland. It was accompanied by an immense number of yachts. The whole was soon out of sight, Lord Craven's yacht, the Louisa, is the only yacht remaining here. His Lord. c hip dined on board the royal yacht. ENCHIRIDION; OR, A HAND FOR THE ONE-HANDED. ..........- " Magister artis ingenique largitor venter." " It has been justly observed that the real worth of any thing is seldom known to the party who may be in actual possession o f it. • • • • • " Those who have the natural use of both their hands never pause amidst the various avocations of the day to reftoct with gratitude on the services they derive front those members, by which man has so decialt‘l ma advantage over the brute creation ; but the moment that disease or accident may lender one laud useless, the individual who sustains the loss is made sensible, in a thousand painful instances of daily and inevitable occurrence, of the full use he had for two." The above are extracts from the most ingenious little work we have seen for a long time, containing engravings of an entire apparatus to tender indepen dent of a constant atterdant any gentleman who may have been deprived, by war or paralysis, of a hand. The accompanying directions arc simple in the extreme, and the instruments themselves (with a sight of which we have been favoured) precisely accord with the directions for using them. We are confident that every one who has had the misfortune to lose a hand will feel highly indebted to the in ventor (Capt. G. W. De Itenzy, who lost his right arm from the socket at the battle of Vittoria), fin promulgating fur the general benefit, inventions ori ginating in his own individual necessities. By his ingenious instruments he is enabled, unassisted, to strop his razor, wash Isis hand. pare and clean his nails, cut his meat, cat an egg, play a rubber at whist, and in short to supersede the heretofore con stant necessity of a man so situated of either being a continual trouble to some one in a party, or of having always a valet present to supply the defect under which he laboured. IRTHE DUKE D'ENantsw.---(From a Paris paper.) Louis XVIII. learned at the same moment the dealt of the Duke d'Enghien and that the Order of the Golden Fleece had been conferred upon Mona parte. His Majesty instantly returned his decora tion of the Order, the invcsture of which he had received, being u French Prince, to Charler IV., with the following letter:— •' Sire, Sir, and dear Cot:sine—lt is with regret that I return you the insignia of the order of the Golden Fleece. shah bi. Majesty your hither, of glorious memory, confkled to me: flute can exist nothing in conatiun between me and the great criminal whom audacity and fortune have placed upon my throne, which I.e has had the barbarity to stain with the pure blood of a Bour bon, the Duke d'Etighien. `. Religion teaches me to pardon an assassin ; but the tyrant of my subjects ought always to be toy enemy. " Providence from insoutablc motives, may ordt.in that I shall end my days in exile ; but neither my cotttempontries nor posterity shall ever. even to my LA breath, say. that to the lame of adversity I showed to yselt nomad') ut occupying the throne of my aticestors." THE NATIONAL REGISTER " ACT OF GRACE......The following is a copy of a letter to the several revenue boards inEngl and. Ireland, and Scotland:- 6. Treasury Chambers, 26th July c ll2l. "GENTLEMEN,--1 ant commanded by the Lords ommis shiners otitis Majesty's Treasury - , to acquaint you that, in con sequence of his Majesty's Coronation, my Lords are pleased to sanction the relcue of all prisoners confined for penalties for of the laws of the revenue under your management, who may have been confined for any period exceedingbix months; and I ant to de,ire that you will forthwith take the necessary measures for that purpose, unless there should be any special ca.se of immo. per conduct in jail, or of very flagrant character, when toy Lords desire the same may be submitted for their consideration and directions. " My Lords are sl,o pleased to extend this Act of Grace, under the same exccptions,to all prisoners who have not yet been in confinement six months, when they shall have completed this term of impriionmantt and they desire, that instructions be given in their several cases, so that they may be released on the day on which the bit; months shall expire. 1 um further to acquaint you, that my Lords arc in like manner pleased to sanction the release of all prisoners confined for debts, due to the revenne under your management, less in amount than 1001. who have been confined, or when they shall have been confined, three months; and they arc pleascsl to authorize you to discharge the books of your department front the amount due from bnch persons, and desire you will take measures accordingly, unless there should be special circumstances attending any limit • cular case, as before-mentioned, when my Lords desiae you will lose Ito time in submitting the same fur further directions. " I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, (Signed) 0 S. lt. Lesittsuros." The following tragi-comic paragraph appears in a Paris paper of Sunday :—" On Thursday some boatmen took a man out of the Seine, who had thrown himself from the Punt-au-Change. On con veying hint to the Corps de Garde, they succeeded in recovering him. lie was no sooner restored than lie assured the Commissary of Police very seriously, that as soon as he was free be should take the first opportunity of drowning himself. The Cotumissary proposed to him to sign a declaration of his intention to destroy himself, and to which the man readily agreed. At this juncture a female arrived, loudly screaming My husband, I will see my husband. When, however, she fbund him alive, she was im mediately silent. The boatmen approached her, to ask for some reward for having saved her husband, when she angrily repulsed theta by saying, Why did not you lel hint drown himself' What business had you to meddle with hint ?—Tlicse words had the effect of curing the husband of his folly, and he swore that lie would not again attempt to drown himself." A E ROST T lON r. Green, the person who went up with the balloon on the day of his Majesty's co ronation, ascended again on Wednesday last from the ground adjoining the Belvidere-tavern, Penton vile, soon after three o'clock. It was put forth in an advertisement, that he would commence inflating the balloon at eleven o'clock, which occasioned an immense number of persons to assemble at an early hour, who began to grow very impatient towards two o'clock. The neighbourhood became for some time alarmed, in consequence of the outrages of the mob about two years ago at the same place, whin a disappointment occurred in consequence of a balloon belonging to another person not having ascended pursuant to promise. On the present occasion, however, the aeronaut ascended with much effect, and was equally successful as when he ascended from the Green Park. The balloon rose majestically The report of the committee of magistrates who attended the investigation of the charges preferred by Mr. Hunt against the keeper of llchester jail, has closed, and will of course in due time be °Hid. ally published. Mr. Hunt has rendered an essential service to the public in promoting the investigation, of which the magistrates no doubt will bear testi mony, and cause such abuses us exist in the prison to be remedied. to the height of about seven hundred feet, when Mr. Green threw out some ballast, and it rose con siderably, taking an easterly direction, and having seemingly met with another current of air, it moved with much velocity. It was distinctly seen from Voultvich and Greenwich, and after a voyage o about a quatter of an hour the aeronaut descended in perfect satay at Barking in Essex, and returned in a post chaise curly enough to preside at a supper given the same evening at the Belvidere tavern. WASHINGTON'S MONUMENT.—VICUIthed States' sloop Peacock sailed from Civita Vecchia April whither she was sent by Commodore Bainbridge, to receive from Rome the Monument to Washington, fir the State of North Carolina; it was Lrought in the Peacock to Algesiras, where Commodore Bain bridge received it on board the Columbus, it being so large that it could not be got down the hatches of the Peacock, but was lashed on deck in this si tuation it was not deemed safe to trust it across the Atlantic: it is put up in two packages, eack weigh ing nearly four tons. The Russian frigate Voslack, Capt. Bellinghuusen, and 41 corvette, have put into Lisbon front a voyage of discoveries in the Pacific Ocean, bound to St. Pc tersburgh. These ships proceeded nearly in the track of our great circumnavigator Cook, but got as far as 70. S. having ascertained (which is the principal thing discovered) that the land discovered by Conk in the North Pacific, and called by him Simdwhlt Laud, is au Wand, or ialauiL. Love AND JEALOUySY.—Thc Gazette de haat. contains an account of one of those acts of dispensa tion to which the lender pa lion, as it is called, sometimes caches the weal: heads and ill-regulated feelings of certain of its votaries. A young man, about 21 years of age, who cultivated a considerable farm in the arrondissement of Aix, being despe rately in love with a young lady of that town, de manded her hand in marriage, but met with a refusal. Determined, it seems, not to abandon his pursuit, he visited Aix on the 21st ult. and union. tunately encountered the object of his passion walk ing with his successful rival. This raised the fury of the rejected suitor to the highest pitch, and the next morning he repaired to the street in which the house his mistress inhabited was situated, and at the early hour of seven succeeded in gaining admit tance. Having ascended to the second floor, he there found the grandmother of the young lady, who begged him to retire. He replied, that he knew her granddaughter was about to be married, but that she should first perish by his hand, as well as her brother and his own. The madman then violently repulsed the old lady, who received a wound on the eye from the pummel of the pistol which he held in his hand; and having caught sight of his mistress in her chamber, he fired at her, from a very short distance, a pistol loaded with slugs, by which happily, she was only slightly wounded on the right arm and shoulder. At the same time he shot himself under the jaw with a second pistol, also loaded with slugs, which shatte-ed the lower part of his face. It remailed uncertain whether his wound was mortal. He was speechless, but was able to describe with difficulty some halt' termed but legible characters. He stated that it was for himself only he intended the two pistols. Heex pressed his desire to make his will, and be indulged with the succours of religion. May he have pro fited by them, whatever has been his fate ! . Perseverance Illustrated.—King Robert Bruce, the Restorer of the Scottish Monarchy, being out one day reconnoitering the enemy, lay at night its a burn belonging to a loyal cottager. In the morn. Mg, still reclining his head on the pillow of straw, he beheld a spider climbing up a beam in the roof. The insect fell to the ground, but immediately made a second essay to ascend. This attracted the notice of the hero, who, with regret, saw the spider fall a second time from the same eminence. It made a third unsuccessful attempt. Nut without a mixture of concern and curiosity, the Monarch twelve times beheld the insect bafli.xl in its aim ; but the thir teenth essay was crowned with success; it gained the summit of the barn, when the King, starting from his couch, exclaimed, " this despicable insect has taught me perseverance; I will follow its ex. ample. Have 1 not been twelves defeated larthe enemy's superior force? On one fight more hangs the independence of my country." In a few days his anticipations were tnlly realiztxl, by the glorious result to Scotland of the battle of Bannockburn. STREET PREACHING. A singular trial took place on the 23d ult. at the Salford Sessions, bcfimre a bench of Lancashire magistrates, the Rev. Mr. Hay, the well-known Vicar of Rochdale, being chairman. The filets of the case appear to be these; —Mr. Waller, a preacher of a sect of dissenters, chose to preach from the steps of a house in the street of Ashton, by which, of course, a crowd of hearers was collected in the street. Ott account of the crowd so collected, he was indicted for a mis demeanour. The indictment charged, that he, the said Samuel Waller, on or about the 17th of June last, in a certain public street and King'b highway, in the parish of Ashtomunder-Lyne, did un lawfully and injuriously cause and procure a great numbet of persons to the number of '2OO or more, to assemble together, and did, for a long time, obstruct the said public street, to the !grew damage and common nuisance of the liege subjects of our 'And the King, and against t h e pea c, The second count charges defendant, with divers other pci sons, with making a great noise, riot tumult, and disturbance. The third count charged the like riot, &c. tube by shouting and singing, and wholly choaking uv and obstructing the street and highway. On the first count of this indictment Mr. Waller was found guilty, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the house of correction! !! The fir: . two nights after his conviction, Mr. Waller was put into a double bedded cell, with two convicted misdemeanants, who (we mention it to their ho nour) voluntarily slept together, that he might have a bed to himself. On IVedneskty, throtOt the interposition of some of his friends, Mr. Waller's situation was ameliorated; but on Friday afternoon he continued ill iu bed, from anxiety and sulLring caused by his previous confinement. Erlensive orgesy.—A most important. discovery has been made lately relative to an extensive forgery on u foreign bank, through the instrumentality of some persons in the metropolis, who have h_en mu sidert.d reputable up to this time. Several gentle. men connected with the bank alluded to have ar rived in Loudon, and every efliirt bus been put in force to discover the imposition to its farthest extent. Two indivianals are in en: v.dy fur the offenee, the inventor and prizlta, a.ul an e::autination has taken place.