The National Register. — London, England, 1811-02-17 00:00:00

THHE• NATIONAL 11F,GISTER. which we are threatened, both at home, and abroad, we con fess, that feeling as we do the most unbounded gratitude to your Royal Highness for undertaking theie arduous duties at " moment of such peril, and muter such circumstances we can discover no cause for congratulation ; on the contrary, we should be filled with dismay, and the most alarming apprehensions, were k not for the known patriotism and amiable qualities %thick your Royal Highness possesses, and the resource which sae trust your Royal Highness. will find iu the zeal, ardour, affection, and loyalty, of a free and united people. Numerous other grievances we fotbear even to mention, but there is one so prominent in the odiousness of its nature as well as in the magnitude of its mischievous consequences, that we are unable to refrain for marking it out as a particular object of cur complaint and of your Royal Highness's virtuous abhor t ence. The present Representation in the Commons House of Parliament, a ready instrument in the hands of the Minister for the time being, whether for the purposes of nullifying the just Prerogatives of the Crown or of insulting and oppressing the people, and a Reform in which representation is therefore absolutely necessary for the safety of the Crown, the happi ness of the people, and the peace and independence of the country. Reposing the fullest confidence in your Royal Highness's benefie-ent . views and intentions, we can only deplore the pre sent unfortunate state of things; fully relying that under cir aumstances so novel and embarrassing, every measure which depends personally upon your Royal Highness will be adopteu towards extricating us from our present difficulties, and for promoting the peace, happiness, and security of the Country. Thus to mingle our expressions of confidence and atfec- Con with the voice of complaint, is grievous to our hearts; but 'placing as we do implicit reliance on the constitutional princi ples of your Royal Highness, we are cheered with the hope that tniCh'ithange of system will talc- place as will henceforward, for a serier of happy years, prevent your Royal Highness from being greeted hy the faithful and loyal City of London in any vditt.tOthit nicentent and gratitude. • -. I Signed, by order of Court, HENRY WOODTHORPE. To which his iitny4 Highness made the following Reply : Gym ri,Em EN, • I thank you for the assurances of your attachment and of your confidence in the sincerity of my endeavours to promote the welfare and security of his Majesty's dominions, by the faithful adminisration of those powers with which I am en trusted, during the lamented indiposition of the King. In the arduous situation in which I am placed, I can as ore you, that it will be the happiest moment of my life, when by the blessing of Providence I shall be called upon to resign the powers now delegated to me, into the hands of my beloved and revered Father and sovereign. My own disposition, no less than the example of my Royal Father, will make me at all timts ready to listen to the com plaints of those who may think them- , elves aggrieved, and will determine me on all occasions to regulate my conduct upon the established principles of that ancient and excellent Constitution under which the people of this Country have hitherto enjoyed a state of unrivalled prosperity and happiness. The Lord Mayor and Citizens had afterwards the honour to kiss his Royal Highness's hand. His Royal Itigliness t'i en held a Council to receive the Recorder of London's Report of the convicts under sentence of death at the July and September Sessions, when his Royal Highness was pleased to order George 'Powers, for robbing his master, Mr. Bryant, in Manchester street, Manchester-striate ; and William Cane, for a highway robbery, connected with circumstances of a most detestable nature, for execution on Wednesday next. SHERIFFS FOR 1811. • Kent.--qir John Courtney Honeywood, of Evington, Bart. Leicestershire.— Richard Norman, of Melton Mowbray, i n enlnsizi re.—Sir John Trollope, of Casewick , Bart. Mwno uthd, ire.—llugh Powell, of I.lanvihangel, Esq. Norfa.—"liarles Lucas, of Filby, Esq. Northamptonskire.—Walter Strickland, of Brickworth Hall, Esq. No, thumberland.—Wlllim Burrell, of Broome Park, Esq. Nullirtgltunishire—l';),tponed. art;)rdshire.—Sir John Reade, of Mlipstone' Bart. Ruttandshire.—The Honourable George Watson, of Rock ingham Castle. hr . opshire .—George Brooke, of Houghton, F.sq. Solnersetshire.—John Leigh, of Coml,hy, EA. Stndrurtish;re.—James beach, of the Shaw, Esq. Sulak..-itoger eettiwar4 , l, of linlaorOtib Esq. County Of Sualtkzinpton.—Sir Robert Kingsmilis of Sidinontxct s Bart. Surrey.—George Tritton, of West Hill, Wandsworth , Esq. .Dearling, of Donnington, IfrNriviekshi re .—Francia Newdigate, of Arbury, lVilisliirc.—Harry Biggs. of Stockton, Esq. groreestershire.—Thornas Hawkes, of Du' Ivy, Esq. 2iArle.4ltice.—Rielcard %Vall i of Bishop Burton, Esq. NEIW COME AGAIN! " Towards the end of the third, and towards the beginning of fourth century (A. D.), an opinion prevailed in the Christian Church," observe the authors of the Universal History, " that Ncro was to 4.ppear again, at the end of the world; and either to be liimself the Antichrist, or to reign in the West and re establish idolatry there." Now it appears somewhat extraorkli• ninary i conceding that any thing can now seem extraordinery. that a Bust of Nero " is placed on the chimney-piece of the bed chamber at Nlalmaison" (Mansion of Evil), for the contempla tion of Bonaparte, who, they say, " wishes in every respect to imitate Nero! !" Admitting, therefore, the ancient doctrine on the sub!ect of spiritual transmigration, the earl?• Christians seemed to have entertained some premonition of the last tinits; and it is not impossPde hot that the soul of Nero may now in habit the form of Bonaparte. The fact will them s;.and th4Lll. Nero was NapOleon—Napoleon is Nero. MISCELLANIES. Wednesday her Majesty held her first Council under the Re gency Act •I he Physicians were examined on the occasion. It is understood that the Prince, from a motive of delicacy, does not intend to dispose of any of the vacant Ribbons of either Order, but to wait the Kine'a recovery, to lay them at his Ma jesty's feet. "1 he Isle of France was First discovered by the Dumb in 159 C., who gave it the name of Mauritius, in honour of the Prince of Orange. It has a sate port, capable of containing 50 large ves sels, and may be as commodiously visited by our outward .boteell ships for Judie as St. Helena on then return. In 1710 the Dteeta abandoned the island, and it was in a few years attei occupletell• by the French, in whose hands it has remained es the perseat time. It will be a considerable acquisition, particularly fer the East India Company, as the trade to the Ea. t Indies can be car ried on without daneer and wehout convoy. We hope, bete ever, that the East India Company will de:ray the tateeitee the Government, and that it will not become a burthen on this co•lntry. King Jerome Buonaparte has imposed a poll-tax upon all his subjects abave ten years of age. A remission of the citttes ittt leeed by the late commercial decrees ot the Emperol , ; a:, Lawn pogo at Naples and Dantzic. The merchants in ihe eenver place have, as a mark of their gratitiele, presented Murat with a sum of money, to be laid out in building a ship ot 74 +►' aus. The punishment inflicted on a Clergym .n for rebuking a Lad yin church, reminds us of the more rudent C Orlduct a ore of his brethren, who had many squabbles p with the Squire of the parish :::,out iletoper behaviour, and at last told phis, that 111... though ie. was forbid r. buking hint openly, yet if he die not mend his manners he would pruiiJer him in the face of the who:* congreeatioa. On Monday a hoax was practised upon several gentlemen, b,. orderine gomes to be sent to Ws. Mayer's boardine-sehoolat Fulham. Mr. Beaumont and Mr. Gardiner, booksellers, in Mary-le-hone, had orders to send 201. worth of schsel-boate Mr. Churton, hosier, of Oxford-street, to send twenty • pair of young ladies' stockings; a pastry-cook was to send ten lulling cakes, and 'en five shilling cakes. The only tradsnien who Screen not up to the hoax were a perfumer of W arwick-street, Men square, who sent twelve pounds of Windsor-soap, and a painter from et. Mary le-bone, who sent a man with two pots ot paint, one of green and the other of white, to paint two 'oors. Up ward, of one hundred respectable tradesn Len left tcwn tor Mrs. Meyer's house to inquire whether the orders were c•nrect. • Our Readers wilt feel equally gratified with ourselveron he ! . tug Informed that the crew of the Cumberland,'who t , i) gallantly beat off faur French privateers, at stated in a former paper (ln,- sides receiving protection from the impress service,) have been handsomely rewarded by the underwriters and owners ,ti tt at ship, and were on frilay paid the following rewards, via. the Captain, lOW. First Mate, 601. Second Mate, 401. seamen, ‘2.01. each, boys, 1 rd. each, and 501. to the mother of the earentice that was killed in the action. I