The National Register.
London, England, 1811-10-27 00:00:00

MISCELL AN lES.

In a work recently published in Germany, under the title of
44 Memoranda of the Prussian Army," we read, that that army,
at the opening of the unfortunate campaign in 1806, was com-
posed of 277,000 infantry, 40,000 cavalry, and 13,500 artillery
and engineers: greed total, 338,000 men.
The Pads Papers inform us, that the new French coinage,
upon the decimal system, goes on with great activity. On the
Ist of April last, it amounting to 709,498,539 francs; of which,
to the amount of 250,599,480 francs was in gold. In the five
months preceding the Ist of April, the recoinage was to the
amount of 86,628,979 francs.
The village of Wungen, Duchy of Luneburg, was on the
night of the 13th entirely swept away, by the sudden overflow
of the Elbe. Of 250 peasants, its inhabitants, scarcely a dozen
escaped, and they owed their preservation to going to the upper
stories of their cottages. Many of the buildings nearly entire,
with some dead bodies, were floating and picked up at a dis-
tance of forty miles from the spot where the place stood.
MRS. CLARKS.—.This lady, of darling notoriety, has once
more made her appearance in the public prints. It is stated
that a Lieutenant Armstrong had been tempted to introduce
his wife to Mrs, Clarke, in order to give her the countenance
of female society. upon the promise that she would procure him
a good appointment. The Lieutenant, in a letter which he has
published, states, that he has performed his part of the contract,
and that it now remains for her to fulfil her stipulation. It is
hardly necessary for us to comment upon the absurdity of con-
ceiving that Mrs. Clarke can have any possible influence in the
dis ,oral of any public situations.
While the Duke of York was viewing the new engine built
for Chelsea College, on Wednesdaymorning in St. James's Park,
a fellow was detected with his hand in the pocket of his Royal
Highness. He was secured. His Royal Highness said he did not
know whether he had left his gold snuff-box at home, or who•
ther he had lost any thing or not.
Wednesday, John Miller was committed for trial from Bow-
street, for picking the pocket of NI r. Brown, of a valuable silk
pocket handkerchief, in St. James's Park, at the time the power
of some engines were being tried before the Dukes of York,
Kent, and Cumberland. The prisoner was seen taking the
handkerchief out of the prosecutor's pocket by one of the patrole
belonging to the office; he' immediately took him into
custody.
The circumstances which lately took place at the Crown inn,
Portsmouth, have been the cause of a very severe afflictien in
the person of Mr. Bradbury, the Clown, who was in the morn
when Lieutenant Crofton attempted to deprive himself of
life. The horror-striking sight Mr. C. so momentarily pre-
sented—with a razor in his hand lacerating his throat, the blood
from tvhich flowed out upon Mr. Bradbury's arm, had such
an effect upon Mr. Bradbury's mind and imagination, ad to
have since deprived him of all reason, and he is now in close
confinement.
The person of the name of Crofton, who has committed
such atrocities at Portsmouth, is not of the rank of Honour-
able, nor Is he known to any of the family of the Baroness
Crofton.
Three Clergymen, of the diocese of St. David's, have lately
been censured and reprimanded by the Bishop, for having signed
the Testimonium of a Candidate for Orders, contrary to their
knowledge of the facts therein alledged; and were cautioned
against a repetition of the same offence, on pain of supension
from their Ecclesiastical functions.