The National Register.
London, England, 1814-11-13 00:00:00

THE NATIONAL REGISTER.

NOV. 13.

and Weser to the Kingdom of Hanover, arid that Ham-
burgh and the Elbe were to be the equivalents.

COLONEL QUENTIN.

the 10th regiment of Hussars had, we believe, for
years
attracted that kind of attention from the public, which men
of talent and character in it would have been glad to have
dispensed with ; till at last its indiscretions have led to the
official proceedings, of which we now announce the result.
The 'country has viewed these things with regret, but not
with sum ise. We should in truth have been more sur-
prised, if, under all the circumstances of corruption to
which that regiment has been exposed, it had conducted

itself whh more steadiness and proPtiety. The proceeding
consequent upon the sentence, if it be enforced in the dis-
tlibutiou (of the officers, as we have no doubt it will be,
with honest impartiality, seems to he reasonable and almost
necessary ;fc r is difficult to conceive, that Colonel Quin-
t: n and his accusers could continue in the same regiment
with advantage to the public service. He, therefore, is
reprimanded, and they arc to join other ,regiments. In
these, it is to be hoped, that the characteristic activity which
they have already evinced, (s6le of them, perhaps, prema-
turely), in pursuing the derelictions of others, will display
itself in steady endeavours to imptove their own military
seiettee, and inure elisciplin-e in their professional habits.
The genetal issue of this trial will, there is no question, be
suhject to much debate in the at my. Our opinion of that
part of it which afisccts the great body of officers is given
:Wove: and with respect to the sentence upon Colonel Quin-
t:n Limself, the puh:ie will, certainly, he better satisfied
Faith the awaid of the Court-tearthd, than with the crude
and ifl-formed judgment of the aecusers ; some of whom,
as the Genetzl Order must properly notices, " had never
bf en with the regiment during the period in question;
others had tweet' joined any militzny body beyond the
depot
.of their corps." With its late officets the loth
regiment of hussars will also, we trust, get rid of all those
fooleries which have pampeted them to such a state of insub-
ordination; and so rise to the plain and simple level of an
English regiment of bore soldiers, rather than a regiment
of dancing masters or merry andrews, as it has hitherto ap-
peared; from which, as we hinted above, the country never
expected any good, and therefore has not been disappointed.

A raper bas been plii)!i::11«1 in the Go7rtie plc Trcnee,
purporting to he a sort, of vow• on the part of Louis ) I. to
restore the (lunch to its former rate. We are at a loss to
divine the cause-, of this paper making its appearance at this
instant.

By the exert:ons of Governor-General Macquarrie, at New
South Wales, a passage has been effected across the chain of
mountains which inclose the settlements contiguous to Port
Jackson, and which had been deemed impassable. The ac-
counts of the country in the interior are highly gratifying,
and the discovery extensive and luxuriant pastures, with
a river of magnitude, can hardly fail to be most beneficial
to the settlement. The great difficulty under which it at
present labours, is the establishment of an export, to make
returns to the mother country. Eiverpr4ing individuals
have, for some Years, carried on a trade in oit, seak,kins,
sandal-wood, and latteily in pearls, and the peal oyster-shell,
which are. all found in the neighlmuring seas and Hands.
The leading object, however, is the wool, which has been
found to be equal in quality to the fleeces of Spain and
Saxony.- With a view to this, the discoyei yof the immense
tracks of pasture land in the interior must be highly adyan-
tazeous, as it will afford the colonists themeans of increasing

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their flocks to an shuns: unlimited extent.. The number of
settlers who arrive from England, every year, is stated to be
very great. These persons generally receive grants of land,
and turn their attention to agricultural pursuits.—From
October, 1816, to October, 1313, 55 vessels, from 100, to
700 tons, arrived in the port of Sydney alone ; and, exclu-
sive of these, there were, in 1813 S'') vessels employed in
the colonial trade. The price of Leef was 7:1. per lb.
By letters from Botany 13ny, information has been re-
ceived that there has prevailed at that place a continued
drought, with scarcely two hours of rain, for nearly ten
months. Five thousand sheep, and 3000 horned cattle
'were starved to death, and besides tl&, there were not On co
bushels of wheat to an ;me all over the settlement.

Tuesday and Wednesday the lst Somer,et Militia, lately
returned from Ireland, marched throuv,h in two divi-
sions for their station at Dartmoor Prison. The America!'
prisoners of war are far from orderly and quiet ; they are
continually laying plans of escape, not occupying themselves
as their predecessors, the French, did, in different works
and amusements to wile away their time; and it has been
found necessary to have an efficient militia force there.
Thursday another meeting of merchants Teas held at the,
City of London Tavern, when a report of the C ," omtni!te
was read which detailed their proceedings, and the unsuc-
cessful termination of their efforts to induce Miniqers trip
recall the Order for the payment of the thtties on bonded
goods. The Meetingunanimotrily reso!ved to ptcsent another
Memor'al to the Lords of the Treasury, re stating the
glicvances complaircd of, and earnestly entreating their
Lordships to re consider their resolution, and grant the
petitioners further indule.enee on the payment of the duties.
Every d ty the Scheme of the pi cent I..o;tery rises in the
public estimation, and clearly sliews how very popular the
present merle of drawing i;, which in one day, (the 30:h of
this month,) will distribute among the purchasers 'Phirty-tWes.
Capital Pt iz‘.!s, besides a nuincrOus list of lluudreds,
&c. &C.

The Co\IIIERCI,%L HAT. L \VINE CO M .1 NV respect-
fully invite their numerous Customers, the Nol»lity, Gentry.
and Buyers of Wines and spirits in general, to their Con-
cerns in SKINNER STREET and OXFORD STREET.—int
Skinner Street they will have the Opportunity of viewing-
and *acting the LARGEST STOCI: of the FINEST INES'
in the kingdom; in Oxford .;11-eet, S:unnles only arc kept.
tor Particulars of the Company's Articles and Prices, sce
the Advertisement, la,t Page.
Fit-31 tr r. nil toß.—The interesting fernr.le whom we mentictrri
last me k as havinu iouLtht in the grAtid c.dt•e of Euto,•e, on 't i.O s
wai.cd on the German Conin.iitee )0 BA krr's Coffet-house,
many persons of reTectabdity, ratite(! I,t curiosltt, attended to see
her. 'the heroine is troll-looking wom3n, t_"." e:irs of a gen-
teel ;Ippear,nce, mid c' e states her name ti• I.t P"terson, a•/d tha sl:e
was bolo ut ErOttild ; lu r moth< r was the diAiLlner rf ;; Mr A•Ticor,
a merchant and -hip owner, who re-ided ahem 16 or 13 ar• ego in
the vicinity of Watling-street. Her father, mho was a Swede, left.
his
na.ive mollify to serve it) the Pritish novv. Ile sailed some years'utt-
der the orders (:according to her statement) of Arlinital Lovett, and
tit.ring the, period became 'oh her tio.thur When -1:e was
about (our years old, her father want with his tc Sweden, and
hrv. wiqo the t town Prlnce joined
excliatled the nova! for a military
the e'lue of the A!lies neainst France. lie ‘v: Cdpl.tio ul Hussars,-
ill
which ret,i:lent he In)d el,o two ,q/11.5 ; his I,:dV daogller, he poison
in gliesto.o) infilenced by ft(' gre;,l affection she bore liar father
hir'h"rs, r.e w-dl sit eate devotion to the cawa• of het country,
was to folio., the !minces Of her family. ft vv.. in vdpt they
"mlenvoorod to persintde her to the e,ntrary. She joined th,.)leginteitt,
and did the duty nt soi:fier, tlaiio,; in i.ll the t;atig,os and fatigues of
all active mint Sile %Ins t‘k :re %minded, Ibe I -' time in her
br'a't, and wilt. curcd at Le;psie. She lirii;•:s4 r ire r
vales of her ser%iees tram Ilawbor2h ; and her taidn .bn.t t to c unlig
to iGndon is ittsptire alter ker srandiet.:cr, ‘f whom .it pvc:tit silt"
can learn no