The National Register.
London, England, 1818-08-17 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL Itr.6ISTEK

tier Majesty has experiened sl much relief from
the united taleutii of her physicians and Mr. Kea% the
surgeon, u to be able to resume her occutoined exer.
cise iti her garden chair, with mt its producing any re-
ccrretice of tht.rrp spamatklic uffeetioas which li.tve here-
tofere caused such alarming erect euring shout the
slightest motion. Every precaution, iodeed, is taken
to avoid any material alteration of her Maj:sty's posi-
tion, Li her removal from her chamber to her clriir ;
and the horse is led in the gentlest and must careful
rnannm., so as to make the motion almost imperceptible.
fler NI ujesty's appetite also continues unimpaired ; but,
notwithstanding all these favourable circumstances, it
is no;; probable that she will speedily be removed from
Kew.—lt is generally believed that her Majesty has
undergone on operation, by which the water in her
chest has Item withdrawn.

Her Majesty's health, we are extremely happy to
say, continues to improve. On Thursday evening at
six o'clock, her Majesty left Kew Palace and rode out
in her garden chair in the delightful pleasure wounds
attachd to the Palace, drawn by her pony, guided by
her coachman. The Duchess of Gloucester walked by
the side of her beloved mother ' • Princess Augusta ful-
lowed. leaning on the arm of Sir Francis Milman.—
They were fialoweil by- two footmen. Her Majesty
continued her ride for upwards of an hour ; she ap-
peared very cheerful and much refreshed. On Thurs-
day morning the Countess of Cardigan visited her
Majesty. At the same time the Duchess of Gloucester
and Princely; Augusta rode out in an open carriage.—
The account yesterday was, that " her Majesty had had
a goad night and continued much the same."
Wednesday being the Prince Regent's birth-day, it
was observed in a private manner, the public celebration
by a Court and other rejoicings having taken place on
St. George's day. The Dukes of York and Cambridge,
and Prince Leopold, paid their personal respects to the
Prince Regent, ut Carlton-house, upon the anniversary
of his birth. The *Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers,
with a numerous assemblage of nobility, thronged Carl-
ton-house, to pay their congratalatory respects. The
company was occasionally so numerous that the great
gates of Carlton-house were thrown open.
The Duke of Clarence has declared, says the Morn-
ing Chronicle, that it is his intent:on to return with the
Duchess to England in the course of a few months, as
he has the well-grounded prospect of her Royal High-
ness bringing him a Prince or Princess, audit is their
mutual wish that the birth should take place in Eng-
land. The same paper, which is in luck with its inte-
resting secret::, ves on to state that the pregnancy of
the Luchess of _Cambridge is also announced; but it
laments to learn that her Royal Highness is to be con-
fined in Hanover. This, it continues, cannot be
acceptable to England, unless it could be supposed that
there i,s a design of separatin7 the kingdom of Hanover
from the Crown of Great Britain ; and that the future
Sovereign of the nation should be born within it.
The Duchess of Cambridge has expressed much
solicitude to return to the Continent, anC the Duke has
therefore signified his intention of praceeding to Laver
to-morrow, to embark for Calais.
About seven miles east from Grantham. by the
Bridge End turnpike road, on the side of a Lill, coin-
'minding a view of the coast at Boston Ilaven, were
lately discovered very considerable remains of ancient
buildings, tesselated pavements, and other indications
of a fixed Roman military station; and further search,
in digging and removing the earth, &c. continues to
be made by order of Sir William Earl Wclby and Lord
Brownlow, the proprietors of the parish of Staceby,
wherein these discoveries were made. The first subject
was found by some labourers widening the road; it
consists at present of three distinct apartments, the I
middle one t 6 feet by 22, the others are not vet ascer-
tained ; the floors are paved with red and white small
stones three quarters of an inch square each, and form
different patterns; the first by the road, in squares; the
middle one octagons; and of the third, only part. of a
border inscribed with circles, remains. 'these floors
appear to be formed of a bed of compact tempered blue-
clay, 20 inches thick, covered with a strong cement of
lime, &c. about two inches thick, in which the tessam
are paved and set fast. The walls are of stone, firmly
laid in strong coarse lime mortar; the outer ones
are five feet thicks-the inner ones, beta een the rooms,
three feet only : not any of these walls remain higher
than the floors. No idea can be formed of them as an
habitation, further than to guess from fragments dug
up, which clearly showed that the roof was covered •
with coarse blue slate, and the walls lined on the in-
side with different coloured figured tiles, not any two
alike, and in some parts by tine cement, like stone,
painted in various ;admits. Of the windows, only a
very few pieces of glass were found, and not of a size
sufficient to chew any thing, except in one place, which
was staineal thmrgh of a beautiful fine colour, Of
timber nothing was met with but soot and black char-
' coal, like embers, which produced a conjecture that
the fabric was partly destroyed by fire.
It is stated in the Pis ladeliihia FroaCin Gazette
that the thermometer in that city lately stood ut 102,
average 100 ; and that four or five persons died by im-
prudently drinking cold water, notwithstanding the ,
frequent warnings that arses Lien. given.

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