The National Register. — London, England, 1811-12-01 00:00:00

A requisition has been presented to the LORD MAYOR, signed by Mr. Alderman Woon and fifty Common Councilmen, praying him to assemble a Court of Common Council to consider of an Ad dress to the PRINCE REGENT, praying his Royal Highness to suspend, by Proclamation, the distil lers' of malt spirit, during the present dearth and high price of bread corn. • ths-rieLATIoN EltaNl GRAIN.—The Meeting which took place at 'the Treasury Chambers on Thursday, between some-of .his Majesty's Ministers and the Distillers, was adjourned from that day to Fri day, when a second Meeting• took place, and con-. tinned for several hours ; the result of which, we understand, was, that the distillation from Grain is to be permitted, until the stock on band shall be exhausted, the Distillers undertaking that they will not in the mean time, make any further purchases, or in any manner whatever, make any addition to their stock now on hand. • By an Order issued frost the Horse Guards, and dated on the Bth instant, Chaplains in the Army, doing duty in Garrisons, are to be entitled to the . pay and allowances of Majors in the Army. We are informed, that within the last few days six or seven vessels, from the coast of Holland, have been seized in the River, by an Admiralty order, on information having been regularly given, that such vessels had violated the condition of their licenses, by sailing from ports that are declared in a garb of blockade by the British Orders in Council. A frigate, arrived in the Downs, spoke on the morning of the 21st inst. a Dutch fisherman, who gave the following intelligence :—That the enemy's ships, consisting of 1 , 1 , sail of the line, two frigates, and the schooners and guts-boats, lying off Kam makins, expected to be ordered to Antwerp for the winter about the fith of next month. The line of , battle ships have from six to . 800 men. Flushing basin is m very good order. At Antwerp, eight sail of the line are building. A frigate and a brig are lying at Dunki' k. Estract of a letter from Captain T. C. Mason, of his Majo , tv's pack t Prince of Wales :—e‘ On our passage to Anhi,lt, Friday, November 1, in lat. 57.02. N. long. 55 miles E. we fell in with a large Danish ship, sunk, with her fore-mast and main mast gone, with fourteen men on the wreck, and one dead, who had been in that situation four days itnd nights, without any sustenance whatever, the ship being totally filled with water. On our ap proaching the ship, the shrieks and cries of the poor fillows were truly lamentable. Although a very high sea, the packer being under storm sails, our men volunteers si to save them in the boat, at the risk of their lives. The boat was therefore immediately hoisted out, and by throwing a line on board the used:, the poor fellows made themselves fast singly, and jumped into the sea, and am happy to say, we succeeded in saving every one of them from their truly perilous situation. The ship proved to be the Just ita, of Frederickhall, Captain Ulbrick Baarsen, ban with deals, consigned to Messrs. Sewell and Neck, of London." Letters are said to have been received in town from Martinique, stating the condemnation and et ecution of . several persons proved to have been con cerned in the conspiracy lately mentioned to have been discovered in that island. C. A. MACKENZIE) Esq. is about to be employed by Government on a private mission to Sicily. The election for the State of New Jersey had ended in the complete disappointment of the Fede ral or lii itish Party, the votes in one instance being three to one, and in another ten to three in favour of the Democrats. A Letter has been received from Mentz, the contents of which are by no means favourable to the idea of a rupture between France and Russia, on which the letters from other parts of the Con tinent have so strongly insisted. It is dated the ht u lt. and contains the following particulars The great number of troops which have been collecting in the neighbourhood of this city fur some time past, amounting to 70 ; 000 men, have at length taken their departure, and moved to the Southward. The prevailing opinion is, that they are destined for Spain ; atilt the accounts from the French capital state, that the French Emperor is determined to reinforce his armies in the Peninsula with 150,000 men, At present, there is not the least symptom of the peace of the Contient being disturbed. With respect to Prussia, I can assure you, that her whole force does not exceed 40,009 regulars, and 19,000 volun teers. Another proof that there will be ,no war is that the Emperor of Austria has ordered the reduction of his militia, and the seclusion from it of all foreigners of every description. The States of Hungary have agreed to charge themselves with 80 millions of the new paper money, and the States of Tran sylvania will take 20 millions. The rest is to be charged upon the Hereditary Provinces. These measures wil, certainly place the Finances of Austria in a much better state; but with re spect.to commerce I cannot say much, except that every thing is exceedingly dull. It is, however, really astonishing to see to what perfection the Germans have succeeded in manufacturing cotton goods, and some of their workmanship cannot be dis tinguished from goods of British origin." NoierzNGlrAm.--=We learn with great regret, that the proceedings at Nottingham and its vicinity have become more outrageous than ever. Letters re ceived recently mention some serious acts com mitted in the neighbourhood of Mansfield. It was reported at Nottingham that some lives had been lost on Tuesday evening last ; but we are rather of opinion, from-the various accounts we have seen, that this statement is overcharge-d. It is true that the practice of frame-breaking is not only continued, but increased at Nottingham, and at other places at some distance in the country. Arrests are daily made, but they do not deter others from acting in a similar outrageous manner. In one instance a cart-load of frames was overturned by women and men, while under the protection of the military. 'Three prisoners were brought into town by the mi litary at eleven on Monday night. Two others were likewise seized the same evening by the Po lice Officers of the town for being concerned in breaking several frames in York-street, that had just been brought from the country. • Ore frame was likewise broken the same night in Mount East, and cast into a pool of water just by. One 'WAS also brol:ert on Saturday Light at Ilkeston, a vil lage eight miles hence. Mr. Peter Cow, Master of the Chatham naval transport, has had a severe brush with a large lugger privateer, full of men, which bore down upon her off Dungeness, and commenced a furious attack on his larboard quarter ; it was returned in a spi rited manner by the crew of the Chatham; who, after a severe action of a quarter of an hour, oblig e d the foe to sheer off in a sadly crippled state. The gallant conduct of Captain Cow, and his handful of men in this affair, reflects on them the highest c redit. We regret to state, that he bad two men killed, and nine wounded ; he is himself wounded in two places ; one shot entered his mouth, and, alter demolishing several teeth, passed out under his right ear ; another shot passed through his hand ; escape was alm:) s t miraculous, as his Chief Mate and buy were rite, shot through by his bide. left 760 TUE NATIONAL REGISTER . ~~ ro,we -7; ~.