The National Register.
London, England, 1814-04-10 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGTSTER.

`snows"-
Monsieur entered Nancy on the 19ih, and was. received !
with the- loudest acclamations of 46 Vive le Roi " Vive
Monsieur'!"
Spanish papers were received on Thursday to the 26th
ult. They afford the'interesting news thrt King Ferdinand
was to set. out from Valency on the 13th of that month.
On the 9th he bad received from Buonaparte a certain num-
ber of blank passports. On the 10th he wrote a letter to the
Regency, announcing his intended journey by the way of
Perpignan and Catalonia. The intelligence was received ;
with enthusiasm by the Cortes, but an incidental expres-
sion in the letter sra.,:illos, subjects, nr yassala) gave room to
some remarks of ilk-approbation, obich sufficiently prove
the watchfulness of :7;panish representatives_to preserve
their constitution:4 liberty. Wc are happy to find by
these rapers that Gerona, Olot, and Puy Ccrda are all deli-
vered from the occupation of the enemy. •
The return of Lord and Lady Castlereagh is expected in
the course of next week.
The Grand Duchess of Oldenberg visited the Parka and
Westminster Abbey, on Sunday, and during the week she
has been to the British Museum, the Tower, St. Paul's
Cathedral, Guildl!all, the Mansion House, 'and the Bank.
At the latter place she expressed herself highly gratified
with its magnificence. On the Governor of the Batik ex-
piessinghis thanks for the honour she had done them by
her visit, her Highness replied, " sir, thank England, whose
political consistency for the last- 22 years has been the salva-
tion of Europe." The Duchess has several of the Prince
Regent's carriages and state attendants at ber command,
and is treated altogether with a degree of attention and
sremlour due to the Sitter of our magnanimous Ally the
Emperor of Russia. Thursday her Highness viewed the
liititaryAsylum, at Chelsea,she was received on her arrival by
the Prince Regent, the Dukes of York, Clarence, Kent, and
Gloucester, &c. After going over every part of these '
splendid establishments, the party partook of a sumptuous
cold collation. On the return of her Imperial highness to
Pultney Hotel, she received the visits of several distinguish-
ed characters, and after that she visited the Duchess D'An-
goaleme and Madame Moreau.
A most unmeroes and respectable 'meeting of the male and female
friends of the West London Lancasterian Institution was held Mon-
day at Freemason's Hall, Sir James M'lntnsh in the chair.—The
report of the Committee appointed at a Gown' Meeting to carry
into effect the objects of the Association was read, winch stated
that there were 3) 000 children in the City of Westminster without
the means of obtaining education. A member of resolutions were
then voted by Mr. Whitbread, Sir F. liordett, the Duke of Sussex,
the Rev. Rowland Hill, Lord Cochrane, Earl -Stanhope, Mr. Bur-
goyne, and others; nlao made eloquent appeals to the feelings of
the company on the necessity of liberally subscribing to support so
praiseworthy an institution. Subscriptions to a large amount were
received, amo'ig NOrwli were, Mr. Rrnnuham' 5"l.; Samuel Whit-
bread. Esq. 501.; t ve guineas annually ;. Lady Elizabeth Whitbread,
ten guineas, two unineas annually; Earl Stanhope, thirty guineas;
J. Wedgwood,. Dig. thirty guineas; Sir Franck Burdett, lOW.
three p r cent. stock ; Lord Cochrane, the sum due to his Lordship.
for.the destruction or the enemy's ships in Basque Roads, in April
1809, amountiug to between four and seven hundred pounds.---The
meeting then broke up.
An act was committed at Plymouth on Satnrdly evening, whirls
slims sack early depravity as rs shocking to limnatiity :—A boy,
scarcely fourteen, was beating some of his little brothers end sis-
ters in a moat savage manner, when his mother inlerfering. and
endeavouring to save tlicnefrom his brutality,. he suddenly stabbed
Ler in the abdomen with „a knife he hod itilds hand. Medical ad-
vice was iwmedi.'tely obtained, when the wound was found to be
so large, 1114 the bowels were actna'ly obtruding, and great feats
are entertaineA of her recovery. She is the wife of a labourer at
the Vitualling Mice, and has seven children, besides the yorme
numoet who einnmitted this parricidal act, who is tniterally such
a desperado, that a short time since be stabbed a knife into his awn
Ile is, of course, committed to prison..

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1,1tY.",;r11 ACCOUNI Ot.l-1E BATLI ES • OF THE 19Th u,
AND SOTH ULT.

The following is the French Bulletin cif the Battles of the 29t1i
anuh. ft was scut ii: matui•eiipt, and it nitikt be ec totes •d to
be Ccutal in point of remelt!' to any Bulletin eta pithliAleil by
Buoiiiiparte.