The National Register.
London, England, 1811-10-20 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL

beantiful Arab horses, and six goats, which produce
the fine shawl wool, belong,ing to Sir Harford Jones,
h it w.ls found impossible to save.
The projected exned.;tion agaiast Batavia, the
emp rinm of the Dutch ccenmene in the East,
gives a degree of interest to the mere recent ac-
counts with regard to it. The popuheien ef Ba-
tavia. includiwr the subarbs, is estimated at 160,000
souls. T'•e torce by which it is defended amounts,.
it is said. to 4540 men ; the greater part of who're;
however, are native troops. The forts on the side
towards the sea are numerous, and of considerable
strength ; and, on the land side, besides several
well-built baarions, there are wet ditches of consi-
derable width, by which the city is inclosed.
It «mild seem that the advanced season of the
year has induced our Government to 'relinquish :he
blockade of Flashing. His Maj,'sty's ships Chris-
tian the Seventh, Admiral Young, aed Captains
Griffith and Nl.Ketizie ; Incons.:ant frigate, Com-
modore E. W. C. R. Owen ; and Cretan sloop of
war, Capt. Payne, arrived in the-lit wns on Wed-
nesday, lom their station off that port. The first
divi,ion of the Flushing squadron, consisting of the
Marlborough, St. Domingo, Bellerophon, Valiaut,
Defiance, Armada, Egmont, Elephant, Edinburgh,
Bellona, Theseos, Norge, and Nymphen, were off
the North _Foreland, and expected to arrive in the
Downs on Wednesday night.
Every arrival from the coast of Africa brings an
accession of intelligence respecting the unextin-
guished existence of the Slave-trade. We are
happy, however, to find, that the far greater part
of the recent captures appear to have been, Gonna
fide, American property, and that there have been
but few which lay under the suspicion of teil_g of
British origin. The practical effects of Mr.
BROUGHAM'S Act are already discernihle in the check
which has been g;ven to the employne!nt of British
capital in this criminal and illegal traffic. It might
not be difficult to induce the American Goeer-nment
to livour the adoption of some legislative measure,
formed upon the same principle. We are glad
however to find, that the measures ]ate?: reso; ted
to by our own Government, have been calculated
to promote the true intereqs of the settlements on
the coast of Africa, as well as to exterminate, as
far as the law of nations will admit, the stvarm of
illicit dealers in human life and flash, who
hover amphibionsly near its shores. We trust that
further salutary proceedings will be aaopted, by
attending to the suggestions of the intelligent and
respectable persons who have at present the direction
in the colony of Sierra Leone.
Letters from the French coast, of the 12th inst.
confirm the previous intelligence received from
thence, that the French Government had granted
licenses to export raw silk.
The Right Hon. Charles Hope, at present Lord
Justice Clerk, is to be appointed President of the
Court of Session in Scotland, in the room of the
late Mr. Blair. The present Chief Baron of the
Exchequer in that country will succeed Mr. Hope,
it is said, as Justice Clerk ; and Mr. Adam will be
appointed Chief Baron.
The infantry soldiers serving in Portugal are in
future to wear gray cloth pantaloons, with short
gaiters of the same colour.

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