The National Register.
London, England, 1818-12-27 00:00:00

BRIGHTON.

DEC. es.—This afteraoun, the rervice of prayers
adapted for Christmas day, were perfbrmed by the
Bishop of Exeter, assisted by the Rev. Mr. Blomberg,
before the Regen' and the Nobility of the Royal House.
kohl. A fterwarls, the Sacrament was administered

The Prince Regent's dinner party this evening, is
confined to the selce: circle of Nobility at the Pavilion.
No additional arrivals have taken place to-day.
The customary hospitalities of the season are kept
up at the Pavillion in the usual style of English les..
tivities. All the servants attached to the Royal House-
hold, were regaled with a liberal fare of rout beet;
plumb-puddings, and good ale.
This morniag the 90th regiment of foot marched to
the cavalry barracks, where the service of the day was
performed by the Rev. 1)r. Toinkins, of this town.

The first business which will occupy the attention of
the new Parliament will be the appointment of a pro-
per personage to succeed the late Queen in the care of
the person of our venerable and afflicted Sovereign. The
judgment of l'arliament in this case may be considered
as already anticipated, or rather pre-determined, by the
universal sentiments of the nation, which concur in
pointing out that the choice of a successor to her Ma-
jesty in this important trust can fitll on no member of
the Royal Family with so much propriety as on tis
Royal i Ugliness the Duke of York•. Among both the
Nlinisterial and Courtly Circles this is an appointment
which bus been some time considered as fixed ; and it is
also assertcd, that it is one which had the approbation
of her late Majesty. Sunie doubts are en:ertained,
whether in the event of the Dale of York being
!wed to this high trust, it will be considered compa.
tible with good policy, that his Royal Highness should
he continued at the same tune in the chief command of
the army. The prevailing opinion seems to be. that
the separation of the two duties will take place and
that, in such case, the command of the army will be
transferred to his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent.
The Morning Post says, " We have heard hints that
there is an idea of removing our Sovereign to Kew, not
only fir the convenience of medical attendance, but for
the purrose of permitting the -Royal Sufli•rer to have
the benefit of the air in those famous gardens, in which
his Majesty was wont to be so much delighted. That
such a wish has been repeatedly expressed by the Kin t,
in his lucid intervals, we have no doubt. Hence the
rumour of erecting high walls round the demesne
Shoidd this arrati4ement be carried into etrect, the
Prince Regent will reside at Windsor Castle instead of
Kew."

The Mastership of St. Catherine's, near the Tower,
is in the girt of the Queen, whenever there is one.—
That establishment having been founded by Eleanor,
wife of Edward I. the wirts of reigning Sovereigns
have always been permitted to nominate the Muster.—
If Colonel Disbrowe, the late Master, had died befitre
the late Queen, there can be no doubt that Major
General Taylor, to whom the Prince Regent has given
the office, would have received it front her Majesty,
the General having so long filled what was, perhaps,
the most confidential office about the King, and having
been also Secretary to herself Tiro Mastership has
been uniformly conferred upon persons of some distinc-
tion. It was held in 1710 by the Earl of Feversham.
The Royal Court of Paris is engaged in a suit which
excites the highest interest, both on account of the
distinguished personages who are parties in it, and the
importance of the point awaiting its decision. The
question is, whether a young man born of a marriage
which lasted sixteen years, but which has been declared
void by a subsequent divorce upon which the second
marriage was contracted, may claim front his parents
the rights of' legitimacy. The son is supported in his
appeal by his mother, and resisted by his father, who is
endeavouring to prove him an adulterinc. The oppos-
ingparties in this suit are designated ; the Duke de—,
and the Marquis de—. The latter is father to the
young man whose legitimacy is litigated, and the former
father to the Marquis. The mother was formerly the
wife of a Polish senator, from whom she had been di.
vorced, by virtue of the decision of the Minister of the
French Republic, and was married to the Manlius de
-- (then a General) in 1801, which eivoree was
subsequently nullified, and on these grounds the
pretensions of her sun, by this second marriage, are
disputed.
American papers contain an official account, by the
Governor of Georgia, of the escape of Captain Wright,
from trial, on account of the horrible barbarities inflict-
ed by him-and the troops under him on the Chchaw
town, belonging to the Seminole Indians. The Go-
vernor publishes his statement in order to justify him•
self, and evidently also to palliate the atrocities of
Wright. We think that the effect will be the direct
contrary of that which he intended; fur to us it appears
hardly possib!c to read the narrative without suspecting
Wright's escape to have been connived at ; mid it is in
the first instance a suspicious circumstance, that the
Governor is more intent upon describing the in (Avoca-
tion given by the Indians, than in stating the horrid
vengeance inflicted on them, though the latter should
have been more peculiarly the subject of his counnu.
n ication.

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