The National Register.
London, England, 1819-06-28 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

ROYAL Clint& CILKIIIIO.—ThIIIII4I.Iy being the ivy op.
poiuted lot the privatectinstening of dyeing:ant Princess,
the child of tiieDuke and Dachess of Kent, preparations
Were made for the ceremony at Kerisiwaton•palace ; the
royal foat was removed I the Tower of Loodun. and
was fitted up int the grand saloon with crimson velvet
coverings. trout the Chapel.roal, St. James's-palace,
under the direction of Mr. Mash, of the Lord Chandler-
Lio's office. The members of the Royal family, and
others invited to the ceremony. assentided at the palace
soot) after three o'clock. Tae Prlace ltzgent, anemic.'
by Sir Benjamin Bloomfield, was received by the Duke
of Kent, who eimultteted hint into the grand saloon; anti
immediately after the arrival of the Regent the etrelliOny
commenced. which was performed by the Archbishop
of Canterbury. assisted by the Bishop of London. The
infant Princess was named Alexandrista Victoria. The
sponsors were His Royal Highness the Prover Regent,
I lis Imperial Algjesty the Emperor Alexander of all the
Russias, who was represented, as His Imperial Majesty's
Prosy. by the Doke of York; the Queen Dowager of
Win temberg, who was represented, as 11cr Majesty's
proxy, by the Ptiliceiss Augusta; and Her Serrate Hip-
' ticss the Ditches. Dawaaer of Coburg. who
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wood, as her proxy, by the Diacheaii of Glocvster. At
the close of the kJI 1 the Bishop of London recorded
the Igoe, cilia* io the It:ulster-bank •bf the Chapel
Royal, St. Janies's-p dam. witnesses to the pro-
, crediatg, besides the Prince Regent, were, the Duke or
' lurk, the Duke tad Duchess of Kent, the Princess
Augusta, the Duchess of York. the Duchess of Gloves*
ter, the Princess Sonltia Mat Ida (of Glocester), Hi-
Itctal Highness the Prime Leopold, Her Serene l ligh-
nese Princess Feodur of Leittingen, Sir B. Bloomfield,
Lady Mary Taylor, Lieut.-General Weatherall. Major•
Get. Moore, Captain (*.many, 1):. IVi!tion, and three
ladies of the Household, were also present. After the
ceremony, the company partook of Artie refreshments in
the north vtstibule.—Lit the evening the Duke and
Duchess had a numerous ar.J•iirlendid party to (bagger,
to celebrate the joyful event. Among the pan)
were, the Princess Augusta, the Duchess of York, the
Duke of Sussex. the Prince Leopold, Count Lieven, the
Russian Ambassador, Baron de Just, the Saxon !Marie
ter, the Bishop of Salisbury, Baron Hardenbrocke, Mr
Addentooke, Sir It. Gardener. Lieut.-G. ti. !feathers!!.
.Major-Gen. Moore, CaptaitiC. y, sod Dr. 11'llson.

the Princess Augusta left Kensington palace on
Thursday night, after the celebration of the christen-
iirg of the I)iikc and Duchess of Kent's infant
Princess. for Winda►r-palace
The Duke and Duchess of Cumberland return to
r. ugland the ensuing spring.
On Thursday the Persian Ambassador gave a
grand dinner at his residence, in Charles-street,
Berkeley-square. Among the company invited
there were pre+ent, Prince Esterhazy, the Duke of
Wellington, Count and Countess Lieven, the Duke
and Duchess of San Carlos, Marquis and Marchi-
oness de Is Tour Slagbourg, Baron Fogel, Count
Munster, Baron Hochlow, Sir Gore and Lady Ouse-
ley, Mr. Moricr, &c. In the evening his Excel-
lency gave a concert, which was honoured with the
presence of the Prince Regent, Prince Leopold, and
the Duchess of York.

Lord Le Despencer has divided his Estates in
Kent into small farms, which his Lordship is letting
to industrious tenants, upon long leases.
We learn that Rear-Admiral Plampin has been
removed from the command of the squadron at St.
Helena, and that Rear Admiral Edward Lcveson
Gower has been appointed to succeed him.
On Monday forenoon Earl Fitzwilliant received
an express from Yorkshire, requesting his immediate
prerctice there ; it is supposed respecting the dis-
turbed state of the weavers and other manufactu-
rers in that part ef' the country. His Lonlship paid
every attention to the request of the express
received, and left town immediately for his seat in
Yorkshire. _

Accounts from Rome state, that a violent shock
of an earthquake was felt at Corneto on the 26th
ult, which considerably damaged several edifices,
but happily no lives were lost. The celebrated Cu.
polasil Castello, remarkable tOr its antiquity and its
gothic architecture, was thrown down and the
church of the Minor Friars, of which it formed part,
was so melt damaged that Divine Service cannot be
performed in it. The shock is stated to have been
telt along the whole coast of the Mediterranean.
'On the 14th of May, a fire broke out in the town
of Bath, in Huni,ntry, the property of Prince Ester-
hazy, which consumed 107 houses, 20 barns, 14
grape cellars ; and the next day the fire buret forth
again, and consume I .55 houses more, and a ('atho-
tic church. A similar misfortune befel the village
of Kuchel, also in Hungary, which destroyed on the
22nd ult. houses, 52 barns, a number of cattle,
and several human beini,m. On the 27th ult. the
town of Gnesen, in Poland, was visited by a like
calamity, which destroyed, in all, 235 houses, prin-
cipally in the quarter occupied by the Jews.
A singular instance of the diversities that occur
in the history of the Mlle family in revolutionary
times, will be found in that of M. de Serre, the
French Minister of Justice. We understand that a
brother of this gentleman (who himself bore arms
in the service of Louis XVI.) was brought as a pri-
soner of war to this country, holding a commission
in the army of Le Clerc, in St. Domingo ; that he
has since married and settled in Leicestershire, and
becuate tv strously attached to the religious priaei-

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plea of some of our dissenting sects, as occasionally
to I rcac!► ill notigst them. He is now offieitting at
the Baptist Chapel, in Duke.strcct, Blackfrinis-
read.

Oa Friday the Officers of the Rifle Brigade, at
Gosport, gave a grand dinner, in cinnmemarat ian cf
the distinguished part borne by that corps in the
ever-tnemonible bottle of Waterloo, to which a great
number of the other alcers in the garrison, with
several gentlemen of the town and neighboarhood
were invited. The whole brigade were decorated
with laurel, and those soldiers who were present on
the glorious occasion were excused from guards and
other duty during, the day.—:n commemoration of
the day a number of prizes were given tin wrestling
and single-stick playing, at Winterslow but : the
first, for wrestling, to the men of Lavington ; and.
for single-stick, after much manly play, to Dowse,
of Lavington, and Smith of Aidtley.—At Edin-
burgh, the Union flag was hoisted on the C7aole,,
and St. Georges standard upon Lord Nelson's Nlo-
nument.

lbron A. de Rothschild, of Fratilsfort, and flran
S. do Rothschiid, of Paris, arrived yoltenkty in•
London.

It is reported, that the British North .Amerienn
colonists in the provinces of Canaan, Nova Scotia,
and New Brunswick, have determined to petition
his Majesty's Government on the injurious effect of
the late treaty with the United States on their trade
and fisheries; and to state,. that unless adequate
protection and encouragement be given to them by,
the mother country, they must abandon the fisheries
altogether. The representation from Nova Scotia.
was, it is said, received by the last packet.
The Roxburgh Club, at their last anniversary
meeting, resolved to erect a. monument, with a
black letter inscription, to their favourite Caxton
There is a report that the celebrated 13oecacio is
destined for the library of the King of Bavaria.

It is now seated, that the remagsion of the ton-
nage duty, and the duties on exports to and im.
ports from Newfoundland, and the bounties to be
given on rbil brought from that, settlement, are not
to be extended to the sinter colonies of New Bruns
wick, Nova Scotia, and Canada. _ _

Whilst the 7th Hussars lately passed by the Mar-
quis of Anglesea's seat near Litchfield, on their
route to Manchester, they were entertained by the
Marquis nt his mansion with good old English
cheer. While the soldiers were parading on the
lawn in front of the house, immediately before their
departure, a somewhat singular appearance present.
ed itself in the persons of the Nlarquis, his brother
(a Captain in the Navy), Lord Uxbridge (the Mar.
ipais's son), and the daughter of the Marquis. The
first wanted a leg, which he lost at Waterloo; the
Captain an arm; the Noble Lord Uxbridge was on
crutches, being wounded in the knee and the fair
Lady was minus her right hand, which she lost whilst
attending her husband at one of the battles h
Spain.
I'varixturrous A cto —This acid is said to preserve
animal food for any length of time. The whole carcase
of a sheep being immersed in it. was found upon exa-
mination malty months afterwards, to he perfectly free
from anv appearance of putrefaction. A leg of mutton
declared utisaleable by the butchers, being immersed itt
the pyrolignous acid a twelseitionth ago, instated to be at
this tune pet frctly sweet, and likely, front its appearance.
to continue so rimy years.
We are glad to see that the Earl of Lauderdale has
called the attention of the House of Lords to the in..
portent Bill fur extending the power of banishment
forth of Scotland to transportation beyond seas. The
provisions of this Bill would subject persons
convicted of very trifling offences to the penalty of
transportation; and this power is to be given to.
Sheriffs and Stewards Depute or Substitute of
Counties, who are not to be bound as heretofore to
reduce all the evidence into writing, but their own
notes are to be held as sufficient evidence of the
full and true import of the testimony given in the
case, Surely a Bill making so essential a change in
the criminal law of Scotland against the subject,
ought not to glide through the two [louses without
examination.

PATRIOTS.Iis South America it isnot only
the men who are conspicuous for their energetic earl ‘lOll3
in defence of their liberties; the women are animated
u lib a republican devotion in the canoe of ii.depen.
deuce, the sole guarantee of private happiness; the wife
of Gail. Padilla accompanies hint to the held, and has
been nominated a Lieutenant Colonel, for taking with
her own hands a Spanish colour. The women nicoha-
'so were stationed to defend a post, on the attack on
that town, and ull Iserlohn'. In Upper Peru. it is now
Cll•ltiMalry to enquire, at every roll•call, if the women
of Cohabautho have presented themselves / :Ind the
answer regularly given, to perpetuate the exi.loit, is,
" Nu, they hart all perished to the defence of their
country r _ _ . _

WES [MINSTER HA LE.—..011 Monday afternoon one
of the large stoner of the tool near the entrance.
having given way, fell ,%ith a most tremendous crash
int rally interior of the hall ; several versons triere passing
at the time, but fortunately no (me was hurt. Its
consequence of the above circumstance, the eastern
entrance is closed, and the usual passage to the Gust of
Exchequer shut.