The National Register.
London, England, 1822-04-15 00:00:00

It— is a manitiett error in nttributing the retire-
ment of Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, from the office of
Secretary to his Majesty, to certain secret influence.
The King's ministers protested against the continu-
ance of an office, in which was vested all the state'.
secrets, without one atom of responsibility. His 1
Majesty very reluctantly yielded to the remon-
strance of his ministers.
Mr. T. Hooa.—The report of the Commissioners I.
of Colonial Audit, upon the case of Mr. Theodore
ims been printed. It states that the defi-
ciency of that gentleman, in his office of treasurer
of the Isle of France, amounts to 1'2,8551. 14s.—
The commissioners thus conclude their report, "We
feel ourselves imperiously called upon to declare,
that no ciretunstances have come to our knowledge
that could excuse us for recommending that Mr.
Hooke should be relieved from any part of the sum
for which he now stands accountable." An extent
has accordingly been issued on the part of the crown
against his person and property. Mr. Hook has
published a defence, in which he states himself to
be grossly imposed upon by a person in whom he
confided, and eaters into a long vindication of his
own conduct.
A letter from Bayonne, dated the Gdi, says—
" Order is completely restored at Pampluna, where
the militia had been armed; but their arms have
been restored to them, on the responsibility of
their officers."
By order of the Lord Chamberlain, the winter
theatres are in future to close at the end of June,
and not to open until time 15th of October. The
little theatre in the Ilaymarket is to open about the
end of flay, or beginning of June, and to cease
performances by the 15th of October. All the re-
strictions upon performers at Drury-lane and Co•
vent-garden, preventing them from playing at the
Haymarket, arc to be taken off. All the minor
theatres are to- be brought strictly back to their
original rules, end their licenses confined to the
exhibition of spectacle, and to recitative iu dia-
logue.
On Wednesday the Lord Mayor held a Special
Court of Aldermen at Guildhall, for the purpose of
electing a Recorder, in the room of the late Sir J.
Silvester, Bart, which was fully attended. The
thanks of the Court were unanimously voted to the
Lord Bishop of Llandaff and the Rev. Di. God.
(lard, for their excellent sermons preached at Christ
Church, Newgate.street, before the Lord Mayor,
Aldermen, and Governors of the several Royal Hos-
pitals un Monday and Tuesday lust. Mr. Lucas,
Birch, and Mr. Jerrane were sworn and admitted
Coal-meters in trust for the city. The Coert then
proceeded to the special business of the day, whoa'
Newman Knowlys, Esq. Common Sergeant, was
nuanimously elected, and, being sent for, attended
and took the oath of office. The Lord Mayor de-
clared &vacancy of Steward of Southwark, in the
room of Sir J. Silvester, and the next Court was
appointed to fill up the same.
A letter from Toulouse, dated the sth of April,
states, that the most perfect tranquility reigns in
that city. About a dozen persons, arrested during
the late disturbances, belong to the law. The Judge
of Instruction has examined them. A number of
students have quitted Toulouse.
A writer in the• Philadelphia Advertiser recom-
mends the membrane or inner skin of the common
hen's egg to be applied to recent contusions or bruises
on the face, who arc perpetually liable to them front
fiat, running against furniture, &c. If allowed to
remain on a few hours, it will restore the part to a
healthy state, preventing the extravasatiun of blood,
which otherwise will remain unsightly fur a lung
time.
Two fields, in the parish of Marshalstown, near
the borders of the county of Limerick, were lately
entered by a party of miscreants, who dug up the
ground in different parts, leaving it unlit fOr the
purpose of pasture, us intended by the owner. On
the following Sunday, the parish priest of Nlitchels-
town, near which Marsbalstown lies, addressed the
congregation on the circumstance with such effect,
that, to prove they had no participation in it, they
unanimously resolved to go to the field and repair,
as far as possible, the damage done; and they also
promised to use their utmost diligence for the dis-
covery of those who had committed it.
On Sunray forenoon, as Mrs. Milieret, was sitting
near the fire in a buck parlour of her nephew's, Mr.
Macklin, of Stanhope-street, Clare-market, mid sup.
posed to have fallen abler), her shawl by sortie accident
cauaht fire. Screams alarmed Mr. Macklin, who was
in the kitchen, and ou running op stairs, he perccivtd-
her clothes in Names, and ran to leer assistance with one
of the lodgers, and ettingnished them, but site W3S bO
tench injured, that site expired on the same evening.
A robust fellow entered the premise) of Mr. Pount.
ney, woollen-draper, Gerrard-street, Soho, ou Friday
eteniuq, between the hours of six and seven, and find-
ing the persons having the charge of the slot') in - the
counting-douse, he stole a piece of cloth front the coun-
ter, and sum- (led wilt his booty as fat as opnesite the
di. or of Iliv.li., inra3 I::;lwards, of the same wet:, when
a 4eaterJl " Sa,t, mist" cawed the letlitw to drui,
I,..ecu. b,o, tilliultutiately, he but:tei:ded• is wattieg
geed his teca pc: r-
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