The National Register.
London, England, 1818-11-30 00:00:00

TILE NATIONAL RVGISTER.

ATTORNEYS.-At a meeting of the Noblemen,
Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of Pembrokeshire,
held at the Guildhall, Huverfordwest, oa the 3d inst.
the Right lionn.ord Cawdor in the chair, the fhllow-
ing, among other resolutions, were agreed to :-Ist.
That we have obaerved, with considerable alarm, the
increase of litigation, destructive of the public tranquil-
lity, anti highly injurious to the prosperity of the
country. 2d. That not only have the legal charges been
of late greatly increased, but repeated and cruel instan-
ces have come to our knowledge. of sue; being carried
on in the most expensive manner thai legal ingehuity
could suggest, fir recovery of the smallest debtl.: or in
obtaining redress thr the most trifling injuries ; thereby
making the law of the land the instrument of the
grossest oppression.
The nautical instruments used by Captain Ross, in
his late voyage to Baffin's Hay, were un Wednesday
landed at Whitehall Stairs, tai'd conveyed to the Ad-
miralty 011 ice. The Isabella and the Alexander are
oniered to be paid off at Deptford. Captain Ross has
brought home a dog and a bitch belonging to the
newly discovered inhabitants of the regions he has
visited.

. Madame Mara, who was for several years the prima
Donna of the Italian Opera, at the Court of St. Pe-
tersburgh, has now retired front the exercise of her pro-
fession as a public singer, and resides at Revel. She is
.said to have realized a handsome tintune.

Advices are said to have been received from St. Do-
mingo, confirming the accounts recently received by
way of America, of the Governor of the city of St. Do-
nringo hiving been carried off by the crew of a Patriot
privateer, and compelled to pay .SUOO dollars for his
ransom.

Late on Saturday night or early yesterday morning,
the stables of Viscount Melville, on the parade in St.
James's Park, near the Egyptian great gun, were
broken oven, and robbed of the livery clothes belonging
to the servants, &c. Yesterday Townsend and Bishop,
the officers, attended on the premises, and are of opinion
the robbery was perpetrated by experienced thieves.
In consequence of the much lamented death of the
Right lion. Wm, Elliott, one of the members for the
city of Peterborough, an active canvass was commenced
on Monday last by Mr. Scarlett, the King's Counsel,
who, we are informed, did m 4 meet with a single
refasal : but his election cannot of course take place
until after the meeting of Parliament.

A correspondent suggests the propriety of every Stage
coach master ordering A ha of the penalties consequent
on the misconduct of drivers to be attached to some
conspicuous part of the coach, as an equal protection to
coach owners and to the public.
Mr. Brabant, in consequence of the most brilliant
offers made him, will, in the course of the next spring,
visit Petershurgh, Vienna, and Paris; after which he
will proceed to Italy, when he will make the tour of
the principal theatres. Mr. Braham's last engagement
iii Italy was at Venice, in the year 1800. Mr. Bra-
ham, it is said, has just refused an offer of a very liberal
engnaement ut Drnry.,Lane Theatre.
OBSERVANCE OF THE SABIIATIIATI inhabitant of
Mornington-place, llampstead-road. and his son, lately
appeared to summonses to answer the complaint of a
neighbour, for a proflutation of the Lord's day, corn-
manly called Sunday. The particular act of which
the informer complained was their working in a garden
and planting gooseberry bushes, and he also complained
generally of their working in their garden on Sundays,
planting cabbages, &c. The Magistrate inquired what
business they were of, to ascertain if they were gar-
deners by trade. The fatlwr replied, he was not in any
business, but lived upon the produce of his property.
The son replied, he was a licensed victualer in London.
The Magistrate held, that the defendants' conduct did
not come within the meaning of the Act of Parliament
passed fire the better observance of the Lord's Day,
which was for the prevention of persons fhllowing their
trades, callings, or professions, on Sunday's for gain,
and held that a man would be us much liable fim writ-
ing a letter to a friend as fir amusing himself in his
own gardco, and dismissed the charge.
A poor labouring man, who 'has a wife and large
family, and was in the employment of J. B. Brice, Esq.
of Lanwanne, in North Wales, was lately left. a few
hundred p.mnils by an Inuit.. Immediately On the ac.
cession of this little fortune, he went to the Overseer;
of the poor ot.theparish, to ascertain fronnt the books, the
amount of the sums he had received for relief, and in-
stantly returned the whole.
The King of Prussia has made an agreement with
Messrs. l lope and Baring. by virtue of which these
bankers ielvance the Prussian coatributi,in, before the
period specified in the lauly of the ',ale convention be-
tween France and the Allied Powers.
Wednesday a Court of Ditectors was held itt the
East India House, when the taowing Captains were
sworn into the command of their respective ships,
viz. :—Capt. It. Alager, Waterloo, and Capt. T. Ha-
viside, fin. Bengal and China.
Incledon has been playing successfully, since his
return from America, at Manchester, Liverpool, sad
siielficld, and is now arrived in !Amnon. I lis return
%%as hastened by :lie alarming illness of Mrs. Incledia.

NOV. 30

The Government of Swc:fen has ,Icrised n new system of
tnuitim, winch seems to embrace every object in which a tax
II posAil)l be affixed : the most remarkstfle irsovisions 41
the !an. are tio•se

6` ::very mut who hal completed his 15th year shall pay till his
tbtli year inclusive, nn anon dim :tint of 325. inhank. When he has
acconi;lislied it is 1901 year, he shall pay ore six dollar.
6* Every iiniale who hits completed her 15th year, shall pay till her
16th your inclusive, an annual impost of lfis. ; and having com-
pleted It r s'u'it year, shall pay 245. a yervi. This impost shall con-
tinue until their ckld year, when it shall cease, unless they have a net
revenue of .50 rix dollars, arising lions property or industry.
" An income tax is imposed itt•on every class of society, payable
at severs' rates. according to their rsnk, and from which not even
the actors, actresses, musicians. singers, and dancers are exempt.
These assists are divided into four classes, of w;lielt the first shall pay
25, and the last b per cent; th.ty are also to pay a line on thAr 2p-
rointimnts. Additional taxes are linposed upon bachelors and wi-
dowers."
A French hare was a few days since turn.:6d out of a bag, on Ilrlglitcn-
Race Course, before some harriers ; but, instend of attemptirg to eh.
cape, she sought refuge tinder the petticoats of several elegant
dressed females, who had assembled to witness the sport C,icht
caused them to cut rorne curious figures ; and on their refusing the
sought fur protection, poor puss !minium a victim to its canine ad-
versaries.

BIRTHS.
At Tlri&non, Mrs. 11. Cootie. of a son.—At Fetham, Mithlleccx.
the lady of Lieutenant Colonel Quentin, of the 10th Ilussan., of a
SOLI.