The National Register.
London, England, 1820-01-23 00:00:00

P.11‘.15 PAPERS.

P•rds, JAY. 12. —Sir Charles Stuart, the Eng
Amblssador, gave a grand entertainment
)cstertlay evening. Several M his Majesty's Minis.
tors and the Ambaseadors of foreign Powers were
resent.
Count De Cases is indisposed, bat his Excellency,
who has not desisted from transacting business for a
single day, is muclv better, and is no longer confined
io his bed.

It is said that M Nlestadier will propose to the
t•hamber of Deputies to pass to the order of the day,
an the petitions of 19,600 Frenchmen.
.We have now another Minister taken by the
vl•roat. M. l'asquier, in leaving the Nuncio yes-
(-relay, vas seized with such a cold that he was
endered unable to speak. Thus all our oratorical
Ministers, and all our ministerial orators, are con-
fined to bed. The Ministry are thus seized like the
river, which is this morning frozen. The thaw
must soon arrive.

NI. Arnault, the father, has sent to the Theatre
Francois a tragedy, entitled the Guelphs and the

The direct contributions, as nearly as can be
ascertained, produced during the year just ended,
187,000,000 francs. In 1618 they produced,
Stecording to the estimates laid before the Chambers,
175,418,9 t 2 francs. This exhibits an increase of
more than 11,500,000 francs : nevertheless La
Ileaomnuy announced the other day, a deficiency of
receipts to the amount of 10,000,000 francs.—Thus
its L.alculation only displays an error of 21.,500,000
francs.

Last night the thermometer of the Engineer
Chevalier. good at 10 below 0, and remained so un-
/". seven o'clock,. when its maximum was at 11
I.loth, and at noon at 8. The Seine is frozen over.

FUNERAL Ur TIIE COUNTESS TALBOT.
On Saturdarse'neight the remains ofohis !amen-
tei Lady were conveyed from, Dublin. Castle to the
water side, in solemn procession, for interment in
ngland. When the procession had arrived at the
nearest approach to the Pigion.House Wall-, all the
carriages, except those that carried the mourners,
and those persons immediately connected, retired,
and a party of the Scotch Greys closed in the rear,
until they arrived at the hurrier, where they halted
and prevented the obtrusion of the crowd. From
the above place to the point where the Uxbridge
packet-lay in readiness, was lined by the military,
and when the hearse had arrived near the vessel,
the body was carried from the hearse to the water

side • ,
Captain Stevens.was in attendance, and had every
nccesswy arrangement made,. which the solemn
ozcasion required ; an inclined plane was placed from
the side of the wall to the packet, along which. the
coffin ivas gently moved to the deck, from•which.it
was lowered into the state cabin, which had been
previously hung with black: all the vessels iti the
River and Bay had their. colours flying half-mast
Ligh. Minute Inns continual to.fire during, the
entire of the ceremony, until the packet got under
weigh, which was soon after two o'clock, but the
wind not being favourable, she was shortly obliged
w come to anchor. _ _ _

Wednesday morning the remains•of 'her Excel-
lency were conveyed through the town of Liverpool,
wl.cre they h;.l arrived on Mumlay, in a hearse,
drawo by six hors, and adorned with twlttcheons,
on their road to Ingestrie, Staffordshire,. to be
interred in the family vault at that place. They
were preceded by a part of the 71st Regiment of
Foot, and followed by two mourning coaches.