The National Register. — London, England, 1811-06-23 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER. A GAELIC FRAGMENT. The following is a Highland Bard's opinion of the qualities, which the woman he would choose for his wife should possess, so as to ensure conjugal happiness, domestic subordinati o n, and a prudent demeanour with -respect to others, lately repeated at a party of tlaelic friends in London. Mar thri nithe bu than learn Bean mhath, Mar Mhac-talla, 's n t-seileachag nach caraich an Cath, ' J mar na tri niche so fhkiti cha 'n iarruin bean rnhath, Bhi bcarr-theangach, gloehd-ardach, iom-narach gun Rath. Mar Sheileachaig 's ceart do Bhean ro choir a bhlth, An comhnui fuireach le deagh thoil a stigh ; Ach mar an t-seileachag cha iarramid i bhith, (;u cuid a thoirt daonnan air a druiingun deagh. 'S coir do Bhean bhi ealamh, mar mhac-taa na ban, 'Nuair labharar ria gun teagamh, freagradh thoirt san am; Ach air seal tile, mar Mhachd • talla cha choir dhi, Am facil mu dheireadh a bhi aic an comhnui. Mar Chlag-buile 's coir do Bhean bhi glic, Riagliailteach' a Teaglach le mor iocbd; Acts mar Chlag-baile, cha choir dhi bhi air chinnt Co labhair s' gun cluinn am Baile gloir a chin. An English translation in verse is requested. . 1 SIGNS OF THE TIMES .1' (Coonsunicated exclusively for the National Register.) God save the KING !—and he that won't say so, Burton and Graham's blessings with him go. MOORE'S ALMANACK fur 1811. ............--.. EARLY in the present year, the attention of the readers of the NATIONAL REGISTER was particularly directed to the then portentous Aspect of Affairs ; and, while it is the design of this paper once more to point out to their notice some of those 4 Signs of the Times,' which may now be seen and felt, it will be owned by such as duly reflect on what is passing in the world, that these are things which we are called upon to mark, learn, and inwardly digest.' Little, however, remains here to be done—except to confirm, from another source, the main antici patory observations which were formerly addressed to the public. Turning over the leaves of the renowned Almanack whence my motto is cited, the Mr Stellarum of Moore, I find, as far as the year is gone on, that he generally coincides with the nature of those anticipatory observations antecedently communicated through the present paper to the country. We know what is past ; but, what is to come ? " The aspects of" last month, May, were predicted as to be " very violent and rugged ;" while those of this month, June, are described as equally unfavoura ble to the happiness of the world. Look now at the state of things. Confess we must, unless wilfully blinded, that the pre sent state of affairs does most exactly and unfortunately corres pond with those " malevolent configurations of the planets" of Which we were advised, with " aspects violent and rugged."— At home, —have we not narrowly t scaped the direful effects of a complete Want of Specie ; and the lamentable consequences that would have attended the adoption of Lord Sidmouth's Bill respecting Protestant Dissenters ? Abroad,—have not our vic tories, however valorous, been in some instances as destructive as defeats ? Such seems the past. What " chance" is likely to " turn up ?" Moore himself Ushers in this month, June, with a " Methinks I hear the voice Of the curs'd murmuring Crew !" He Is right. If, by this " murmuring Crew," we are to un derstand the tribe of political reformists,—and who else are meant I—do not we perceive, even within London City itself, (though Moo: e prayeth that " the Guardian Angel of the City of London. may ever protect the same !") at this precise period of time, some fearftli symptoms of" discontents, depressions, and impediments in public affairs," which seem likely to be speedily occasioned by " the voice," or noise, ,of.• a ltbq curs'd murmur ing crew ?" True, I grant, " the rest," the loyal few, ere stated, nevertheless, to " rejoice ;" but if the cursed murmuring crew will still keep up the wonted style of murmuring, and these murmurs produce " commotion amongst the common people," together with "pestilent sedition'," and that, added to these evils, there should be found " a wilful and obstinate party, in high stations of life amongst us," which " will do more preju dice to the interests of this nation than our most public enemies,"—if, I say, these things be so, of what avail will it prove that " the rest rejoice ?" But one hope seems left. " Let us," as Francis Moore exhorts us, " prevent and, frustrate she designs of our enemies, by an union and steady perseverance is our duty to his most gracious Majesty"—George the Third, whom God keep !—" The only just Defender of our Religion, Rights, and Privileges." Amen ! Referring to my former communication, I find that, in the outset of this, I have made an error which might appear to mi litate against myself, as far as It regards priority of prediction; since it was at the close of the Autumn of 1810, instead of early in 1811, that my second series of anticipatory admonitions were really promulgated. Those will be found in all respects to ac- Cord with what I must yet urge. Never did it satisfy my mind that the sanguinary war in the Peninsula would by some " chance" terminate in good results ! Moore informs us, under the month October, that "in Spain will be tumults, intestine hatred, and breach if treaties (Britons, beware!) by means of which nothing but confusion follows;' and, speaking of the Spring quarter, he adds—" as sure as the empires of the Assy rians, the Medea, and the Persians, the imperious one of the Greeks, and the mast powerful one of the Romans, have been altered and rendutionised, so sure will Spain and Portugal, &c and the Turkish em, ire, be revolutionised and altered also."— Having long seen grounds to think so, independently of Moore's prognostics, I still think in the same manner. I have long thought this, because I have been long convinced that the False Prophet and the Beast must be annihilated ; and I still think so, because, ahhough " the Pope and Roman Clergy ace much bridird," I feel assured that" great tribulations are still to come upon the Church of Rome," and, indeed, upon all those coun tries and persons who still adhere to, and support die Roman Catholic and Mahomedan superstitions, errors, and erimes.--. Time will shortly disclose these things.—Most devoutly do " wish my native land was," adopting the plain language of its astrologer, " free frorrewar, contention and strife r " But the end is not yet !—Alas! of this there seems no pros pect. What can effect this end ? " Assassinate the 'cause' of ail your woes, Napoleon Bonaparte," says one, " and you end your calamitics.? Let us disdain the thought. Man of war as he is; and of blood, fir. who made him can, (I repeat it) when his work is done, make xis ssvoite to approach unto him. Know we not where it is written that those who live by the sword shall one day fall by the sword ? BONAPARTE'S course must one day determine. Leave him to his fate. Let us look more at home, and act snore like wise men. Impressed with this view of things, " let us," finally, " beseech the wise Disrosee or ALL EVENTS to pro tect this Church and Nation ; and as patron thereof, our most Gracious Sovereign, King George, from all insults, whether of public or private enemies, showering down upon him, and his posterity, the choicest blessings even to the latest generations r This is the part we shall do well to act. London, June 1 , 181 1 . PRO Mg.THEUS. A boat on a novel construction, to sail, when complete, against wind and tide, forty-eight feet long by eight wide, wa s launched a few days since, at Mr. Manse ll ' s Marsh, Bristol. yard, Cannon ' s