The National Register. — London, England, 1809-11-19 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. now I e,ond• the Rhine. His reputation has sulreredsmore by termination of the late contest, than frbin any he b I;een ever be ore engaged in. He has not fulfilled a AL isle menace he had hurled against the Emperor FRANCIS; waif t.that Sovereign retains the very means which pre ventcd their execution. Under circinusLi.ces so propiti ous, we appeal to every dispassionate man, if it would be po!itic in our Government to relax their efforts in . favour of the Peninsul a ? I s it con , ; i s t eu t w ith f orme .. professions, witty the enterprising character, and the generous policy of this country, to abandon to French rapacity tie resources of Spain and Portugal. We cannot abandon that country, without abandoning a system coeval with our history since the congnest ; and which since the reign of Queen Eliza beth, grajually raised us to our present greatness. Prince Stahremberq, it is said, has received orders from his Government to break oil' all further communkation with this country, 10 compliance with the 161 h article of the treaty of Vienna and to return to Austria. On Buonaparte's arrival at Angsburgh, in October last, he desired a mass to be celebrated. No preparations hil7- ing been made for that purpose, it fell to the tot of a poor priest, y: . 10 happened to be in the way, to officiate on the occasion, and received, elated wit:l joy, a diamond ring of considerable value for his trouble. The Lord 1-Ugh Chancellor holds his Sittings out of Term ia Lincoln's Inn Hall—his insignia of office accom pany him ; former Loft] ifgh (:leuicellors never went with less than two coaches; about five years ago one coach was gwietig dropped, .The lest Lord High Chancel lor (though far from ostentatious) restored, with general satistactioa, the good old custom of two coaches; the hint,. however, has not been taken—Chancellor, Seal, Mace, Secretaries, &c. all bundle again in one coach—bAt this is not all ! Passing some days ago by Lincoln's 11111 when theiCourt rose, there was a most dirt', common hael,:icy coach driving furiously through the Inn up to the Ir door of the Hall—no carriage or servant in waiting lo his Lordship. What could be the matter? On a sod tit n the door opened—the Great Seal, the Mace, &c. poo• pod into this filthy vehicle—doer slammed—coachman drunk, with a crown of hay-bands on his head —" Where to, your honour ;" and away it drove, God knows where ! perhaps singing Longo Lee. We eon rhided they were stolen, a h; we expected to hear of a reward for the offender, whom we considered equal in enormity to Blood, the Crown stea ler. tut no—some how or other they have been reco ver Pd. and arc now lying in Westminster Hall as if nothing had happened. Mr. Hill, who died on Thursday se'imight, has left pro perty to the enormous amount of 800,000% To Mr. Fish, Crevillc-street, Hatton-garden, and to another Genii:man, he has left 260,000/. each ; to the Rev. Mr. Taylor, his nearest relative, Who was offered 100,000/. some time ago, for the chance of his legacy, he has bequeathed 36,000/. — Ire has ?cf . ! nothing to his relatives in Somersetshirc, whom had placed on a valuable estate in that county, which he ;a id. boie,-ht for 75,0001. and xvhich he assured them ra, , y soeu d iuberit. Mr. Hill, the testator, was originally a toiler at Brentford ; and the person who succeeded him in that business still carries on the trade in that town. It was by the poWder-mills at Whitton that Mr. Hill realized his vast fortune. He enjoyed the complete supply of 'Dicke) is ponder, whence he imported hack tl:c produce. of the Levant, and with it carried on the business of a Turkey merchant. Third and fso:t Grand City Lotter) of Preelanl.l ITontacc.laarTed of Land Ta), tiptS•atlig i,f,-. 1 :100,04)0 in Capital Prizes. 'Po he drawl in ;ti; 411:all, in p rmr Dap:, 5000 Tiel.teVa earl' thy. No fisc(l Prize. Schen - ie. I Prize a I- I h.:µo, I al9 r nitol. I of4•stiul. I of 6,900 1 . 1 of 4.10ft1. L of %omit. 1 of 3,4101. I r.r of ?Awl. 3 of 3.10111. :a 9..0)01. 3 of 3,0 4 101. i- 9,001. 1 of.Micol.l of '2OOOl. I of e,GOOI. 1 of '2,3(0. 1 of 1,9001.1 of :,sOOl. 1 of 10001. 1 efL , •O:. -'! hz• above not-bold Property has been recently valued by reeptctable Sur ye c.c. , at vp%•,:rtii, of 1.1),c01. aAd Tickets aro nu,. seiLlig at 411 the Lievused NOV. 0. ExTRaoRDLLARY AP . AL CQATIL4C.C. There is a merit in Consisfeney even in urrmsg, which tempts us sometimes to give the name of fortitude to what is merely obstinacy ; on the other hand, we are disposed to excuse a relaxation, even from a just principle, when this relaxation is productive either of individual or of geueral good ; but whea we Fee a set of men, in direct opposition to their own recorded pled , ,2;es, venture oa measures, which even their own venal scriaes and diurnal partisans have not dared to sappose their auta;fonist.; capable of, we feel our duty to pull of the mask from official duiTlicity, which Junes like can with doubly n;ce, cooly and deliber ately, contemplate measures of the most opposite nature. Our Headers will readily perceive that we allude to the job, though even that is too mild a word, which has lately been developed in the Milford Haven business; a in which our very liberal late Ministry, as e cannot he said to have once pre:?ent, enfrusted one of the most important parts of our national defence to a Catholic and a FonEtuNER, • that foreigner a Fa ENcu mIN ! With respect to the Catholic part of the business our sentinwnts on that subject are al ready recorded, indeed we have no doubt, as the saifilent Editor of " The Fun" observes," 66 that the ship a Catholic builds will swim as well, her seams will be caulked as tight, her bread room will smell as sweet, as if she had been built by an orthodox Protestant," it this, therefore, was the only ground of complaint, we should feel a want of consistency in ourselves to make it a sub!ect of animadver sion ; but when we see Foreig - iiers, nay Frenchmen admitted into the arcana of our public departments, and tilling; these situations whose duties are paid by the produce of British industry, and the fulfillment of which duties ought to bc both the stimulus and reward of British genius, we . cannot restrain our better execrations against those men' who could advise, or even permit, such a dereliction of public dui..., and of real 'patriotism. To sum up the whole of the char 4e and defence in a few words, we will briefly notice, that as far back as the tear 1796, the Navy Board contracted with JAcons, the builder at Milford ilaTep, for • the supply of a line of ;aide ship and frigate, (the Milford and Lavinia) at the rate of '2O!. per ton for the one, and of 131. los. for the other, a difference produced by the differ. ei:ce of value in the relative scantlings of the necessary timbers, and from the consideration that the double contra:q would enable him to work up for the one, what in some measure was the waste of the other. At this rate of calculation, the Milford alone would have cost the sum of 42,338/. 11s. a sum certainly not above the then current price ; the bankruptcy of 31r. Jacobs, however, soon after the framing- of the ships, ren dered it necessary that Government should nominate some person to complete the Contract on the public account, in addition to the Inspectors always employed at the private • yards. To this important Office then, was IL BarraWer appointed, with his son under him as'assistant, two emi grant Frenchmen from Toulon,. but who had never been employed there as naval Shipwrights, the father in fact having been literally a Stone-Mason or /1 rchitect, fled with the high sounding Frenchifled title eef" Eng-rtiPier de Pierre." These ships certainly took a long time in seasoning, the frigate being launched in hiG7, and the line of battle ship; not till last Spring ; but doubtless theM. M. BLIMILLIER. fOlUld that they thems:Aves required a little seasoning, and were, therefore, not willing to part with their job, till their business was completed ; besides, as the French builders on the other side of the water, were very active in supplying the British Navy with new ships only for the trouble of taking them, it was the less necessary for the French builders on this side, to he in a hurry with theirs, and Ilins launch themselres, anti their ships to the wide world. It has been brought forward as-an excuse for.. the employment of Foreigners, that they work cheaper than Englishmen ; of this . rheapne7s, however, our Headers :41ay furs some idea, when they are told that three years 740 T