The National Register.
London, England, 1808-01-17 00:00:00

TfrE NATIbNAL REGISTER.

_ it will be pmper in this meeting, at this
important and momentous crisis, when the unbounded ambition
of our enemy calls forth all the energies of his government and
of his people, to address his Majesty, and to assure him of our
Srm determination to support, at all times, and by every means
in our power, his just rights, and the interests of thy: British
Empire. And to state to him, at the same time, that, although
we must be supposed to feel the ell'ects of his adversary's exer-
tions against the commerce and manufactures of the country, yet
we hose no interests but what are identified with the dignity of
his crown, and the independence of the►e kingdoms; and fur-
ther, that we are fully satisfied it is only by persevering in
prompt, vise, and vigorous measures, that we are to hope for
the attainment of our wishes, a safe, honourable, and lasting
pence."
An address, drawn up, agreeably to the tenor of this resolu-
tion, was agreed to with equal unanimity, and transmitted to
the Secretary for the Home Department, to be presented to his
Majesty.
This address, though so general in its terms, that all the na-
tion might suhscribe it, has given great joy to our ministerial
papers, who have eagerly contrasted it with the meetings of the
Yorkshire weavers, held for the purpose of petition►ng for
peace. On the other hand, it has been greatly ridiculed by the
opposition papers, who tell sonic curious stories about the man-
ner in which it was procured, and the circumstances which pre-
vented its terms from being made more decisively painted in
favour of the present ministers. These latter statements, how-
ever, ►est merely on anonymous letter:, and therefore &seise no
credit.

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corded :—Mr. P. carrying Lord Kensington, who weighs 17
stone, ran 50 vards against Mr. W. 11. Scoratield, who was to
hart ran an 1.00 yards for a considerable wager, which Mr. P.
won with case, to the astonishment of the spectators. Mr. I'.
is about 5 feet 6 inches high and remarkably slender.
CURE FOIL .1 RESTIVE HORSE, as prescribed by a writer On
military tactics In the time of Charles 1. recommended to it:ex-
perienced riders.—•' Moreover if your horse he w rest';, su a, be
cannot be put forwards: then let one take a cat tvcd by the task
to a long pole, and when he goes backward; thrust the cat be-
tween his legs, where she may claw him, and forget not to threaten
your horse with a terrible noyse: or• hems izse take a hedge_
nog, and tye him sit-eight by one of his feete to the inside of the
Itorse's tale, so that lie may squeake and pricke him."

. .
In the chnrch-yard at Dunstable, Bedfordshite, is an epitaph
on a woman w ho had 19 children at live births, in the following
manner :—at the three first births, three each time ; and at the
two next, five each birth.

Some days ago a shocking affitir occurred at the Old Anti Mit],
near Bull boy about 1S yell-.• of age, deaf and dumh,son to
Mr. Bailey, the miller, had by some accident suffered his hand
to get entangled between the cogs, it, ronsetmence of which, hi;
arm st as drawn in among the works. In this dreadful situation
he is supposed to have remained uear half an hour, when, owing
to the friction occasioned by this accident, and the lightness of
the winds, the mill stopped. On the miller running up to the
height of eight stories to ascertain the cause, the poor boy wal-,
found in a shocking condition, and IN as extricated as soon as pos-
sible, having two or three ribs, Iri• collar bone, and both the
bones of one arm fractured, and the arm dreadfully lacerated in
several places.—Surgical assistance was immediately procured,
and the arm amputated below the elbow .

TUESDAY'S LONDON GAZETTE.

Cnowv-OF•ricL, JAN. SO4.

Member returned to cove in the prel•ent Parliament.-13o-
rough of lleatimataice--Sir Edward Pryee Lloyd, of Peng-
‘‘ yen, in the County of flint, Bart. in the room of the Right
Hon. Thomas Lord Neuborough, deceased.