The National Register.
London, England, 1821-11-25 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER

Tuesday, at a quarter ,past one, his Majesty
left Carlton Palace in his private travelling car-
riage, accompanied by Sir B. Bloomfield, and escort-
ed by a party of Lancers, fbr the Pavilion at Brigh-
ton. The carriage left by the Park entrance. The
King will, it is said, be met on his entrance into
Brighton by a Deputation of the town, with a loyal
congratulatory Address on his return to England,
and particularly on his arrival at this his favourite
residence, the Pavilion.
Lavine Fenton (afterwards Duchess of Bolton)
was tempted by Rich from the Hay-market to Lin-
coln's-inn-fields, in the year 1728, by a salary of 15s.
per week: on the success of the Beggars' Opera, to
secure this valuable actress, he raised it to SOs. ! and
such was the rage of the town respecting her, that
she was obliged to be guarded home every night by
a considerable party of her confidential friends, to
prevent her being run away with.
In a letter from Lord Blaney to his Grace the
Lord Primate of Leland, which has been published
along with certain documents, it is observed, " that
the notorious disregard paid to the earnest entreaties
of the Protestant parishioners of that country, fur a
resident clergyman, favours the progresss of discon-
tent, and gives rise to various popular predictions
unfavourable to the stability of the established reli-
gion, and is peculiarly mortifying to all who have
its interest at heart?'

Family Antiquity—The celebrated Lord Chester-
field had a relation, a Mr. Stanhope, who was ex-
tremely vain of his pcdi >Tee, which he pretended
to trace to a most ridiculous antiquity. His Lord-
ship one day, in his walk through an obscure street
in London, saw at a Broker's shop a miserable daub
of Adam and Eve in Paradise. He purchased it,
and having written on the top of it, " Adam de
Stanhope of Men and Eve his wife," sent it to his
relative as a present of a very valuable old family
picture.
Changes in the Times.—ln the year 167.2,at which
period throughout the kingdom there were only six
stage coaches continually running, a pamphlet was
written and published by Mr. John Cresset, of the
Charter-house, urging their suppression, and amongst
the grave reasons given against their continuance,
the author says---" These stage coaches make
gentlemen come to London on every small occa-
sion, which otherwise they would not do but upon
urgent necessity : nay, the convenience of the pas•
sage makes their wives often come up, who, rather
than come such long journeys on horseback, would
stay at home. Here, when they come to town, they
must presently be in the mode, get fine clothes, go
to plays and treats, and by these means get such a
habit of idleness, and love of pleasure, as make them
uneasy ever after."—What would poor John Cresset
say if he were now alive?
Admiral Sir James Saumarez is appointed Vice-
Admiral of England in the room of the late Sir
Wm. Young; and the Earl of Noithask, the third
in command in the action off Tratidgar, and the
only survivor, is appointed Rear•Adwiral of Eng-
land, in the room of Sir J. Saumares.

A Russian captain, lately returned from Persia,
mentioned to a friend in Astracan, that when he
was in that country he happened one day to go into
the house of a native, where he was surprised to
find twenty or thirty Persians assembled, and list-
ening with attention to one who was reading a book.
They no sooner noticed the stranger than the book
was laid aside and concealed, and it was with some
difficulty that he could prevail on them to tell him
what the book wns. At last they intin•med him that
it was the New Testament, and said the reason why
they endeavoured to conceal it was, that they were
not permitted to read it publicly.
The ladies of the township of Sandal, near Wake-
field, have entered into a subsa•iption for purchas-
ing wain clothing for the poor of that township,
and have already distributed a quantity of appro-
priate articles for the approaching winter, to the
most necessitous of their neigh bouts.
Mr. NVontner is in a fair way of recovery, and i•
is hoped he will be still enabled to perform the du
tics of City Marshal after he recovers.
Rear,ldmiral Burnry.—On Saturday last died
suddenly, of apoplexy, at his house in James-street,
Buckini;hain-gate, hear-Athniral Burney, F. 11.5. in
his 72,1 year, eldest son of the learned and elegant
Historian of Music, and brother to two very di,tin-
guishca persons of the present age, Madam D'A rblay,
the justly celebrated novelist, and the late Doctor
Charles Burney, a member of that triumvirate of
profound scholars which had adorned our own im-
mediate times.

Singular proof of the efficacy of S'o9l in the pre-
sercatam of Animal Alattcr.—A few days ago, on
the re.noval of a bdard in the interim. of a chimney,
in a gentleman's drawing,room, in York, a pigeon
was found that had been missing nearly five months.
Its body bad become quite hard, and the feathers so
firmly attached to it, that with the addition of a pair
of glass eyes, it would have equalled anima any
preservation in the finest collection of the feathered
tribe.

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