The National Register. — London, England, 1817-09-08 00:00:00

TIIE•' ARMY. -.- The enthusiasm excited by the result of the battle of Waterloo, is fresh in the recollection of the public. On that occasion an order was hastily issued, that the pen sion granted to a Military Officer for a wound should ravance with his elevation ; so that if he had been wounded when an Ensign, and should live to become a General, he would receive the pension of the higher rank. If this arrangement were just to the wounded Ensign, it must be unjust to the wounded General.— Their merits are not on the same level. The stripling Ensign, who, receiving his wound on the very first day he unfurled his colours, and retiring from the service grows old in idleness at his tire-side, has not equal claims to the gratitude of his country with him who, at the close of a long lite spent in her service, has risen to the rank of a General, and received his wound in his come mantl at the head of hisfrmy. The enormous expence which this arrangement would necessary entail upon the country was strongly urged by the Opposition in the House of Commons ; and the boon was partly re voked, by an order that no Officer wounded after a given dale should receive any pension but that of the rank in which he received his wound. This remedy, however, was not found satisfactory, and another order has just been issued, stating, that all future augmentations of pensions shall cease ; thus farther restraining the order issued after the battle of Waterloo, granting advance of pension with advance of rank. CIRCULAR, No. 573. War Office, Aug. 2.5, 1517. 4, Sin—Referring to my Circular I.etter, No. 362, dated the 30th of June, 1517, I have the honour to acquaint you. that his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, having taken into his further consider ation the Regulations concerning Pension granted for wounds, has been phased, in the name and behalf of his Mine:ly, to order that, from and after this date, no such Pension shall increase to any higher rate, in conszquence of any future promotion of the Officer by wham it i 3n ceired,-1 have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient hum ble servant, PALMERSTON." The Officer commanding the Regiment•" SOUTH AMERICAN ADVENTURERS.—The opinion of his Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, ou certain recent applications for leave of absence by several British officers, has given rise to a very great misconception on the part of a number of officers on ball pay. In the instances to which we allnde, leave of absence for a considerable time from the country, was requested by a number of officers on half pay ; the answer to which, as we understand, was, that a leave of absence for three years would be given to any officer on halt pay, but only to the Continent of Europe, the West Indies, Of North America. The silence which was observed in this answer with regard to South America, (none having directly solicited fur leave to go thither), was the cause of the general ini.take—that his Royal Highness had nut directly prohibited any officers from going thither and joining the Independent Standard. This mistake is paw rectified. An officer, a Captain of Engineers, made application, a short time back, it the office of the Commander in Chief, for leave to join the south American army for a limited (line. The answer con. tained—what we hope will set this question with respect to our officers at rest—not only a direct refusal, but also an ex pression of his Royal Highness the Commander in Chiefs ttcme surprise and displeasure that any British officer should have made such a proposal, and intimation, that should such a request be repeated, the individual would do it at his own peril. The Prince Regent has presented to the Duke of Wellington the colossal statue of Buonapartc, which was lately sent from France to his Royal Highness. The statue was executed by the celebrated sculptor Canova, and intended to adorn some of the great pub lic works in progress in Paris, when the Ex-Emperor was driven from the throne.. The Roman sculptor bad b,:en munificently patronized by the Napoleon Fa mily ; and it is said, used the greatest exertions to snake the work worthy of his own and his Patron's fame. The statue, after the pare taste of the antique, is but slightly draped, and is intended to convey tot expression of great dignity and majesty. The attempt is said to have been too during fitr the sculptor, who excels beyond any other living artist in the expression surYdelicate touches of poetical beauty, hut who is • thought to have been unsuccessful in this hazardous eight to rival the most exalted glories of Grecian art. The work was not liked in Paris, and was hardly un packed ; it was even the subject of sharp criticisms in Panne at the time of its execution. It has been just vim Ned to Apsley Howe, Hyde Park-corner, the resi. donee of the Duke of Wellington. ERVPTION OF VESUVIUS.—An article from Na ples, dated July 20, says—" The int.sent eruptions of Vesuvius arc astonishing_ Copper, iron, alkaline acid, sulphur, sulphuric acid, chalk, and sometimes ammoniac, form salts that are sometimes in a mass, and sometimes divided. It is observed that copper is very much mixed with volcanic matter ; quantities of it are found among the different kinds of lava. Vesuvius, which since the year 1813, has been more or less in a state of commotion, has entirely covered its former crater with a thick crust, over which the new eruptions have thrown two little mountains, from which come smoke, ashes, and vitrified stones. The earth is covered with bits of transparent glass. This Crll7t is so considerahh , , that if not propped up, the sinking of etc matter composing it will produce. nn . effect like that of the eruption which took place in the time of Titus." Tilt NATIONAL REGISTER ADMIRAL DUCKWORTH. We feel great concern at announcing the death of one of ' our most distingutshed Naval Commanders, Sir John Thomas Duckworth, Baronet, Knight brand Cross of the Bath, Ad miral of the White, and Commander in Chief on the Plymouth ; station. Up to the very hour of his dissolution, which hap pened, in the night of Saturday last, he persisted in transacting the affairs of his public duty in person, although his signature to hi. last dispatches were scarcely legible.— His zeal, however, was unabated, and the gallant veteran may very justly be said to have fallen at his post. He was in the 70th year of his age. Sir John Duckworth was one of the five sons of the Rev. Henry Duckworth, Rector of Etilmer,in the county of Bucks. He was horn at Leatherhead in Surrey,2Sth February, 1747-8, I and entered the Navy in February 17:i9, in which he rose to the rank of Lieutenant in June 1770, and to that of Command. er ou the 16th July, 1779. He was created a Post Captain on kith June, 1780 ; a Coimuodore, serving at St. Domingo, in July, 1796.(and as such commanded in chief at the taking of Minorca, in November, 1798;) and a Rear-Admiral of tier White, 11th February. 1799. lie was C ander in Chief at the Leeward Islands front May, 1800, to January, 1802, from which station he was removed to the chief command at Ja maii a, where he served till May 1805 ; having been in the mean time nominated a Knight of the Bath, in July, 1801. Soon after his return from Jamaica he was appointed second in command, under the late Lord Collingwood, in the Mediter 'nman, by whom he was detached to the West Indies in pur suit of the French fleet, which he defeated in the memorable engagement off St. Domingo, on the 6th February, 1806. Early in the following year he was again detached to Con stantinople, and passed the Dardanelles, with the result and circumstances of which the public are well acquainted. From thence forward, till the middle of 1800, the Admiral bore a command in the Channel fleet. In January, 1810, he was ap pointed Governor aod Commander in Chief of Newfoundland, where he served till 1813, in which year he was created a Ba ronet of Great Britain. Finally, on 16th January, 1815, lie was appointed to the chief command of Plymouth, where he has closed his long and honourable career of service. In July, 1776 he. married Anne, only child and heir ofJohn Wallis, of Camelford, in Cornwall, Lsq. by whom he had is sue George, his only smi, who, at all early period, entered the army ; and was killed in one of the engagements under the Duke of Wellington, in Spain, and an only daughter, the La dy of the present Rear Admit al Sir Richard Kiug, Bart. Com mender in Chief on the East India station. FILES IRWIN, Esq. On Tuesday the 13111 nit. died at Clifton in the 70th year of his age, Eyles Irwin Esq. formerly of the East India Com pany's civil establishment at Madras, and for many rars one of its distinguished ornaments. Tbis Gen tleman, approved in every station, and in the foltilment of every duty confided to him, was selected by the late Earl Vlacartney, at a crisis of popular exigency, as a Nlember of the Con ;;;; ittee instituted by hi, Lordship for the manage ment of the territory and revenues of the Carnatic, and was afterwards intrusted with the care and administration of the important provinces of Tiunivelly, and Madurith, and the arduous task of negoeiating with, and conciliating thePoligar chiefs. 'lbis refractory tribe nurtured in arms, and, by the oppressive exactions of the Nabob's managers, habituated to the use of them, had been accustomed to yield only to military coercion, until Mr. Irwin, by a just and lenient sys tem of conduct, which sought its object only in the plain and simple path of integrity and candour. so completely won their confidence, that (to use the words of the Committee in their official report to Lord Marartneyl " no force was re- I (mired in the district to overawe the Poligars ; and their con. fitletice in the company's justice was such, that a single message drew the most powerful of them from their woods to pay their tribute, or give any proof of obedience that was demanded; they protected the property of the Government and of the husbandman, paid the stipulated tribute with the greater' will of their fixed balances, and in less than two years the Company had received nearly half the into of the Sabots's collection in eighteen." To Heuer who ate act-laint . e.I with the made and roily prejudices of this race of men, the following fo•ts will be equal to it volume in proof of the esteem and respect with Vikick Mr. Irwin had inspired them. 'the piincipal Poligar Chief, having informed himself of the hoar fixed on for Its departure front the district, met him on the road, and pot several bags of money into his palankeen, int eating him. now that he was no longer in Lidice to accept of them as a mark of his esteem. Disappointed of his par ' pose by Mr. It win's positive refusal, and yielding to the im mediate impulse of giltittide, the Poligar after taking an affectionate farewell, placed his own shoulder tinder time bam boo of the palatikeen. and for a short distance assisted in carrying it. Soon after the restoration of the country to the Nabob, Mr. Irwin ret aimed to Europe for a second time, and a narrative of his first voyage up the Red Sea to Suez, and of his journey trier the Deserts, was published by hint in Ii S 7, in a series of letters, containing a g I eat deal of interesting in forination r...veting the countries through whir It he hail travelled,given in an elegant and perspicuous style. In 1795, he published "An Enquiry into the Supposed Expedition of Ittionapartc to the East," in which he showed the litter im possibility of accomplishing that event, which► at the time so genually apprehended. On Tuesday last a large Spanish brig, captured off the Azores by an Insurgent South American privateer, was brought into the harbourof liingle—she was Ixnond . fin. Buenos Ayres with a cargo of brandy. The prize master who brought her in is s Mr. O'Connor, who, it appears, is a native of Dingle. The validity of her cap ture will, no doubt, become a diseussiuniu the Admiral ty Courts.—(Enni.s. Chronicle.) A Correspondent states, that by attending to the following hints, forged, shillings may be discovered at a glance :—On the head side of the lbrgery, in the motto, the 111. and the 1). G. are closer than on the genuine ; at the end of the motto, on the forgery, two points thus : arc wanting. On the reverse side, the centre of the arms is big-heron the forgery than on the genuine ; and at the joining of the garter, at the bottom, the three imitatios holes arc raised instead of sunk on the forgery. SETT. S. ON THE EMPLOYMENT OF THE SABBATH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE N/1710NAL, REGISTER. SlR.—Koowiug the extensive circulation of your Register, I have taken the liberty of sending you the following short enquiry, concerning one ot the most sacred duties of a Chris tian.—How do we employ our time on the Sabbath? That the commandment of Go l is known to all, I doubt not. But do we " Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy r" We do certainly remember to have the shops shut on that day; at least the mote respectable ones; and places of public amusements closed. Business is also suspended at all public others. Ss far we may be said to observe it. But let us ex amine a little closer, and view the internal arrangements of even what are termed " regular people." The morning is ushered in with the assembling together of the family to break. fast, the conversation consists of any thing but Religion. The 1 decorations of the body " in taste" take up so hug. 'tis utter. ly impossible to get to church time enough for the commence ment ut the service ; it' by the first or second lesson 'tis very well, but alas! how often later: I will not here snake any mention of a set el beings called "Sermon Hunters," whose folly (to say no more of it) speaks for itself. When the service is over, the next amusement must be, to promenade the Park the Lounge, an excursion on the water, or in fact any thing that can contribute to make them forget that this is the Lord's day ; and that he bath 'blessed it and hallowed it. Thus is the afternoon spent ; evening comes at last, and the day is finished in a way, as bad, oftentimes worse, than it is began Some meet to celebrate the Sabbath of their Lord sod in the walks of the green Park, or to speak more correctly, they meet to obliterate all impressions of Religion which they may have received in the former part of the day, in that pla^e of noise and bustle, of irregularity and I mnst add, of obscenity. Others freqnent the Taverns, Tea-Gardens, or Public-houses, for the :cline good purposes. Night closes in upon them and they retire to rest, fatigued with the follies of the day, or languid and tired of a Sunday's Is this a Sabbath unto the Lord ?—are these the religious exercises of the day ?—is this the manner in which we improve oursilves in the knowledge of the Lo►d ? But hold vain man; nor let thy mad career, as an impettiouir stream, drive thee headlong down the dark abyss; but stay whilst yet thou canst, and returning, back to light and life, lay hold on the first great load to Christian happiness, and " remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." To do which, (and nothing can be plea. santer) let us, in the bosom of our own families, begin the day with holy devotion, and with a mind intent on good works.— Let us assemble in the 'temple of God betimes, and with fer vour, perform our devotions therein; and let us not enter that sacred place fur the purpose of gazing about us. What we hear there, let it be our endeavour to understand; let us make it the subject of our conversation ; for thereby we gain knowledge. In our circles of family and friends, let us read the Bible with a determined resolution to mark, learn, and inwardly digest it ; and with the close of the day, we shall fed that we arc better Christians, happier men, and more at peace with God and with ourselves. R. H. JEALOUSY AND REVENGE. [FROM TUE NEW ENGLAND PALLADD , M.] Three gentlemen who (saute in the brig Telegraph, from Charleston, have just called to request me to give the follow. ing extraordinary facts, for the purpose of having them com municated to the public, that every man in the community may unite with the officers of justice in hunting up a Humb ler, too savage to be tolerated in society : A French lady, remarkable for her great beauty of connte. mince and relined manners, took passage in the same vessel, in Search of her husband, understood to he in New York. Oa the voyage her manners charmed every one, and created an uncommon interest in her fate. The next day after their ar rival, having learned that she was at a French boarding house in the. upper part of the city, the gentlemen called to inquire after her. Indigent* their distress and astonishment, to find her very ill of a horrible wound, which had deprived her face of one of its pi inviple features. They learnt that her husband who k an Italian, by time name of Atige Pienovi, being scut for on her arrival, c•amc to the house, but after she had retired to her room, to take a little repose after her fatigue•. when, being admitted to her apart ment, lie seized the occasion of her tieing asleep to roveuge an old jealousy: Sew at her, and nillt his teeth bit her nose en tirely oil. lie then IV ft the house, immediately tied, and has hitherto eluded the officers of justice, Mho ha v e been in pur suit of him since v seunight. It is hoped all per will aid in ferreting this 4 ti - oeious ruffian out of his coureal. went. This iv revenge without a parallel, except the ea , e mention ed by Littleton, where an Italian carried aqint-Int tis in a sy riuge for six months together, which, at length, he squirted into the eyes of his supposed rival, and deprived him of sighs for ever, The Vigilant entter, Lieutenant Miller, on the Dartmouth station, lately made a seizure off the Berry Head, of a huge smuggling lugger, having on board t;tti kegs of contralotort spirits, beside, chocolate, kc. and carried her into Dartmouth. This is the largest seizure ever recollected to have arri‘ed there; and makes the twelfth that Lieutenant Miller has made in seven months. The cargo was attempted to he passe/ off for oysters, a quantity of which concealed the real contents, until a most rerutinons examination was made. SArI:T LAM P.—Sir Humphrey Davy has made a further dis covery in regard to combustion. which will prove avery great imptove inent to his safety lamp. He thus des:ribes it in a let ter-to the Rever end J. Hodgson of Ileworth i--•` I have succeeded in producing light perfectly safe and ta•onoinical, which is most brilliant in .tunos- Owns in which the shame of the rafety lamp is extinguished, and which burns , in every mixture or earburctted hydrogen gas that is re spirable. It consist.; of a slender, metallic tissue of plattinum, which is hung in the top of the interior of the common lamp of wiregaure. or in that of the twilled lamp. It costs from CA. to ts. ; anti is im perishable. This tissue, when the common lamp is introduced irto an explosive atmosphere, becomes red hot, and continues to burn the gas in contact with it as long as the air is respirable ; when the atmos phere again becomes explosive, the flame is re-lighted. 1 can now burn any inflammable vapour either with or without flame at pleatmr• and matte the wire consume it either with red or white he: t. I was led to this result by discovering slow combustions without flame, and at last I found a metal which made these bunnies combustions visi ble." A melancholy accident took place on Tuesday, occasioned by the practice of watering and washing post horses at night in the Severn. Two chaise-drivers named Brayne and Oliver, belonging to the Lion Inn, S%rews,hitry, on their return front Elles mcre , rode upon the bar of a chaise (one. of the men having a pair of horses loose). and throve it into the river at Bagley Bridge. where the depth and rapidity of the stream carried the horses off their fete, and the result was, that dos men, as well as the horses, were all drowned. 4