The National Register. — London, England, 1811-03-24 00:00:00

Count Gottorp had on Tuesday a long interview with Mr. Yorke, at the Admiralty. It is salt! that this illustrious person will accompany Sir James Saumarez, with the ships uuder his command, to the Baltic. An Order in Council was agreed aaon at the Prrnee Regent's Courtsheld on Thursday, for filling up the vacancies in the seve ral reginrentsof Militia by a fresh The 10th Light Dragooes have received permision to assume the epithet of " Royal • —their facings, which were yellow, will Dow be changed to red. • Official orders are given for assembling the Local Militia in •- Great Britain for fourteen days, training and exercising, exclu , sive of the day of marching. All the men who have not been trained in any preceding year, are to be assembled for seven ex tra days preceding the asse nbly of the rest of the corps. No corps to be pernitted to assemble before the first of April, or •'s subsequent to the first of October. It is confid • ntly said, that a promotion of Admirals will shortly take place, which will include Capt. H. M. Scott. A letter from Falmouth, states, that the Express packet, Cap tain Bullock, has arrived at that port with mails from Jamaica , after a passage of forty-five days, and has brought over 5C0,000 dollars on freights There will be a gain on these of 14,0001. in consequence of the packet having arrived a day after the Bank advertisement was issued. The Lady Pellew packet sailed from Jamaica the 31st of December, and is not yet arrived, and fears are entertained for her safety. She has on board 35,000 dollars on freight. The French Emperor has decreed, that the knowledge of the dead languages is not necessary for holding any public situation, or taking any degree in the national institutions of Fi ance. All public proceedings are to be conducted and registered in the French language, and the prescriptions of physicians are like wise to be written in that tongue, It appears by recent letters from Holland, that the offensive rigour of the Conscription Law has been relaxed, by the adop tion of the principle on which men were some few years ago raised in this country for the navy. A certain number of men are required from each district, leaving the people to raise them in such manlier as shall heleast inconvenient to tl he price offered for substitutes has been so tempting, that there has been no difficulty in producing the contingents required. A fruit ship, arrived on bunday, at Plymouth, after a very short passage from Lisbon. 'When • sue came away the ar mies in the vicinity of that city remained in their former posi tions, nor was there any account of the enemy having obtained furthct'advantages on the side of Spanish Estremadura or An dafusia. - We are happy to state that our troops never were in better health or spirits. Those in hospital did not exceed tnclu4ngtonvalesOnts. A fetter received from Gibraltar ' dated the 9.3 d of last Month, states, that General Graham landed at Algeciras with a considerable 'force, ih excellent health, andimpatient t meet the enemy besieging Cadla. • ' The accounts from Neve South Wales are extremely flattering. A considerable quantity of ground has been cleared, and land ten miles from the town, though the road is bad leading thereto, lets for one guinea and a half per acre. Several oificers, who have returned home, are gone out again to bedome tarmers. she state of society improves daily; a great number of the convicts are reformed, and are now usetul and industrious inembyr, of society, and the air is so salubrious and fine, that few who have enjoyed the climate wish to remove to any other. By the provisions of a Bill now in progress through the House of Lords, no person is to be arrested for a sum which did not a originally amount to 201. exclusive of costs, charges , and ex- Fences incurred in suing for the same, except on Bills of Ex change, or Promissory Notes. . . . The parishioners of Harrow-on-the-Hill, dissatisfied with the decree against their claim, declared by the Master of the Rolls, are determined to collect as many parishioners sons as possible, and present them for education , after the Easter recess, free of expence, pursuant to the will of Mr. Lyon, the ancient Founder of that hilarity. • It is reported, that to defray the interest of the Exchequer Bills now funding, and the ensuing loan, an increase of the Pro perty-tax will be proposal. •• • ' The tickets for the State Lottery are now delivering at the Bank of England.—Any favourite numbert may be secured by bespeaking them at. either of the lottery offices. The scheme Contains to capital prizes, and the lottery will. be drawn on the Wares bisth-tlay, the 4t otJuge. • The contest for the office of Chancellor of this University, is likely to be altogether as animated as that which lately took - place for the b.OTIC (Enmity at Oxford. it appears too, from the tenor of some of the articles sent forth to influence the minds of the public, in favour of the Duke of Rutland, that the i t No I . Tery-men" dread a similar termination. We hope ti.at the example of Oxford will not be lost upon Cambridge. It is fit that the Universities should always be attached would should support the established religion and the rights of the Church, and Oxford has not lost sight of that duty in making choice of Lord Grenville; but their honour demands at the same time that those chief seats of learning and philosophy should not be any longer marked but by the odious distioctioa of being the chief remaining fountains of the big yof the dark ages; the chief places of retreat and refuge for the spite of antiquated pr judice, and uncharitable persecution, which the rest of the enlightened world has exploded and banished If Cambridge shall acquit herself as Oxford has done, it will be no small addition to the triumph, to which it is at present an honourable indteirent, that the leader and rallying point of the cause of liberality is a Prince of the blood royal of Gre. t Britain. The Duke of Gloucester and the Duke of Rutland, both Members ef Trinity College, are the Candidates for the Chan cellorship ; the honourable Jahn Smyth, M. A. of Trinity College, 'grandson of the hate Duke of Grafton ; and the Right Hon. Lord Paln.erstou M. A. of St. John':.College, Secretary at 'War, are candidates for the Representation of the Univer sity. Strong contests are expected on both occasions.—The Duke of Rutland, in his letter to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, announcing himsel a candidate for the Chancellorship, says—" I will not, because I cannot, look for fou:sdation to my pretensions in any ila'.;vidual meths of my own ; but I ask permission to state, as a circumstanc s of no trivial importance and gratification to me, my bekef that his Majesty has hem graciously pleased to express him self favourable to my cause ; and I have the additional pleattue of receiving the wannest as!krances of support from the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Pereeval."—The . Duke of Glou cester, on the other hand, thus introduces his claim grou:ul not my pretensions on the influence ()lan mud, however exalted his rank or character. I ground my pretensions upon my exclu sive and unalterable attachment to the place of my cducatiun ; being the sittly one of the Rayal Family who has studied ha au English University. I shall take particular pride in promoting the interests of that Body to which I haveothe honour to b horn.; and I trust that the unvaried deference to your laws and casu.,. line, which I paid (luring my residence at Cambridge, will be au earnest of my endeavours to maintain these privileges, if eat trusted to me as your Chancellor." 187 • TILE BANK. A Quarterly Meeting of Bank Proprietors was held on Thurs day, at the Bank, at which the Governor (Mr. Pearse) pre sided. The dividend, which will be due to the Proprietors on the sth of April next, wAs declared to be five per cent. for the half year—the l 3 tt.h paying the income tax thereon, the Gover nor begged to state, that very improper reports bad gone abroad, reflecting on the Directors for the incautious and slovenly man ner in which the bills to be discounted were admitted into the Bank. He assured the Meeting, that every pru&nt and neces sary precaution was diligently observed by the Directors; and that during the whole of last year, and down to the present hour, the uup.u,l !,ills did not exceed 400,0001.; for the ultimate pay ment of the Directors still had many goad securities by indorseme!its aid otherwise, which would go far to diminish tint gru3b amouat.—llie Court then adjourned. ANNIV r s.titY of Sr. PAT RI .—Monday , the Anniversary Festival of the Benevolent Society of St. Patrick was celebrated at the London 'raven'. It was near six o'clock before the com pany sat down to dinner, among whom were ~ e veral Noblemen and Gentlemen of di:tinction. The children of the charity were ititroduced after the cloth was removed, a• had a very interest ing appearance, and a liberal subscription was made. •The Prince sent his annual donation of 101 guineas, and among the other liberal conttibutions were the Duke of Leinster, the Marquis of l)ownshire, the Marquis of Lansdowne , Earl Moira, Lord Eirdley, Lord Hawke, &c. Stc.—The day was distinguish ed by hilarity and good humour. Sevenal vessels, biz - ger-rigged, are preparing, by order of tle. Admiralty, to cruire in the Channel, to prtvect the depreda tions of the ekieray'a pay-await-J. THE NATIONAUREGISTER. • • MISCELLANIES. 11 CAMBRIDGE ELECTIO. • „ • Is