The National Register.
London, England, 1815-12-31 00:00:00

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The ±rsignei transmitting
communication to his Court, and he ventures in the mean time to
assures his Highness, that She. King could not have taken any de-
termination more personally grateful to the Prince Regent and the
British nation. The undersigned, &c.
(Signed) CASTLEREAGH.
His Highness the Prince Talleyrand, &c. &c.

It is reported, that CARNOT has been appointed a Lieu-
tenant General in the service of Russia, Counsellor of State,
and Director-General of Military Establishments.
A General Bill of all the Christnings and Burials from Di.
ceniber 13, 1814, to December 12, 1815 :
Christned in the 97 Perishes within the Walls, 990—Buried, 1095
Christned in the 17 Parishes without the Walls, 4990—Buried, 3854
Christned in the 23 Out-Parishes in Middlesex and Surrey, 12,/10—.
Buiied, 9385
Christned in the 10 parishes in the City and Liberties of West..
milliner, 5224—Buried, 3226 •
Christened Buried
Males 12281
In all 23414 Males 968211 n all 19560
Females 11133 S Females 9673
Whereof have died,
Under two years of age 6200 Sixty and seventy
.1691
Between two and five 1916 Seventy andeighty 1221:
Five and ten 870 Eighty and ninety 674
Ten and twenty 677 Ninety and a hundred 167
Twenty and thirty 1425 A hundred 2
Thirty and forty 1824 A hundred and one 1
Forty and fifty 9075 I A hundred and three
Fifty and sixty 1880
Decreased in the Burials this year, 223.
SINCUL AR DREA M.—The very beautiful wife of a Nobleman
who died lately, dreamed, it appears, in her late illness, that she
should die and be laid in state in a particular room, of which
she took very accurate notice. As her health was visibly declining,
and her state too weak to bear the open air, her physicians ad-
vised that a very large room in the house should be fitted up
as a bed-chamber, which her Lord had prepared for her with a
very fine bed, and with every possible comfort. As soon as it
was finished, by way of surprising her with the preparations he-
had made, he led her into the apartment. At the moment.
however, she surveyed the bed, she started, and seemed mud)
confuseci but was then ashamed to confess her dream. Before
her death,' however, she mentioned the circumstance, and said
the bed was the exact pattern of that in which she dreamt this
should die, and in which she expired!
IMPROVED GRATE.—An economical discovery, which will
relieve great cities from the intolerable nuisance of coal smoke,
has been recently made public. It is a grate constructed op
principles, by which the combustion of the coal is perfeq,
and no distillation of the materials of the coal, not any sublima-
tion of the smoke into soot, can take place. The invention
consists chiefly in feeding the combustion from beneath, and
keeping up a perfect combustion at the top of the fire, by
draft of air which rushes from the room to a flue at the back of
the chimney, and which flue is level with the top of the fire. In-
stead of feeding the fire by throwing coals on it, the coals are
wound up by a suitable apparatus, so as to keep them level with
the surface, and feed the fire from beneath. This is eficted by
means of a square box, which is filled with coals, the bottom of
which is wound up by a small apparatus of rack work. The
fire is kindled at top, and burns at the top only with a red and
very intense heat. The draft of air renders the combustion so
complete, that neither smoke, nor ashes, nor dust of any kind.
remain. The mass of coals consumed in a grate of cquai di- •
mensions is not above half the usual quantity, while the heat is
at least quadrupled. The Bank of England, to remedy a smoky
chimney, lately had one of these stoves, and we understand it
perfectly succeeds.
THE MICE AND THE C ATHOL ICS.••••••A ceremony, which per-
haps might have been very good in the 15th century, but which
one is astonished to find in our enlightened age, has been perform.
ed this week in the Catholic districts about Basle. A solemn male-
diction and excommunication has been pronounced against the
ulice guilty of comtnittinz depredations in the field.


,EGTSTER. 331
Most Christian Majesty finally to abolish the Slave Trade
ghout the French dominions.
e undersigned will not lose a moment in transmitting this